skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FirefoxOS launched itself on a platform of third world tech-gap closing. At Payward, we are looking at leveraging digital currencies and mobile devices. I am often based in the third world (well, not really: the Yunnan corner of China's a special case). I got excited. Unfortunately, after buying two FirefoxOS devices (ZTE Open and Alcatel OneTouch), spending days over weeks on the IRC channel idling, and submitting many issues ... most prominently this one https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047 ... I am basically giving up.

I can't get a hold of anyone who cares, and right now basic workflow like flashing device is impossible. Coming from a background including embedded Linux device development and very globally prominent mobile projects, this is extremely disappointing, since if it's not working for me it's not working for many others.

My advice to FirefoX OS project is have someone actually handle resolving issues for people who want to develop against your platform. Make them your customers. Don't ignore them.
Viewpoint: Is macho culture causing young men to take their own lives?
Why I was Wrong to be Afraid of Angular.js, Part 2
Shall we remove all there distribution centres then? Since they can just have a global warehouse in Luxembourg? Since they don't need them.
Revive the LLC, pay the $800. This is cheaper than losing your bank money.

Talk to your California Dept of corporations about how to revive the LLC.

Present the certificate of good standing from the Californis Secretary of State's corporations division, and then demand the account funds from the bank.

Alternatively, sign the back of the check over to another payee, and deposit the check in the payee's account. Endorse as "____ LLC, pay to the order of _____".
But significantly greater operational costs. Those comparisons are with light rail not heavy rail like the new york subway.
If you take the concept of business and profit out of medical services and try instead to have a culture of medicine as public service, then ideas such as confidentiality and care become more commonplace.

I am not meaning this as a particularly anti-capitalist view, but I think there are areas of human existence where profit making should be excluded. For certain things, like fire departments, that battle was won long ago, and thankfully we are not in the days of ancient Rome where you would have to argue prices with Marcus Crassus before your house fire was put out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Rome
Google Flu Trends gets it wrong three years running
My thought process on pricing like this inevitably follows the same pattern. First, 1 TB for $9.99? Cool! Then, 10 TB for $99.99? Why are you trying to jack me for 9 cents?

I know it's nothing in the long run, but part of me really wishes I had a reason to need 10 TB so I could try to ask for 10 separate 1 TB plans with the space added together, just to force them to face this silliness head on.
Read more than just the paragraph. The entire article is written in a "fun", joking style.

> The revelation could result in a rippling shockwave that knocks you off your seat and may have troubling, unpredictable consequences for the time-space continuum. Possibly.

> You’ve probably downloaded our iOS, Android, Kindle, and/or Windows 8 apps, and are saying to yourself, “These are very well polished apps which I have rated or will rate favorably in their respective app stores

> The Trello API is well-written, has no bugs, and is totally rock solid. Or at least it doesn’t change very often. [Goes on to only reference the fact that it doesn't change very often]
What do you want there? More results? Ads? Something else slowing down page load times?

Google wants to deliver relevant results, and fast. Anything else is just slowing them down.
American public schools are so awful and America's hatred for teachers so strong that many politicians who run on being pro-education immediately try to lengthen the school day without raising teacher pay. It's an act that says both that you're not afraid to attack unions, and that nobody has to pay to improve education, just kick those lazy, stupid teachers into working harder (because more is better, right?)

Anecdotally, I don't remember any school starting before 8:45 or so when I was a kid 30 years ago.
Show HN: Open Review – Scientific peer review is broken. We want to fix it
No, Wallet isn't the same thing. Checkout was a merchant solution (not a user solution) which wallet doesn't fill.
Looking back on “Look Back” videos
No! Please keep a copyleft license!
It will never lobby for laws that impose severe penalties for non-violent crimes. It will never sue and bankrupt individuals and small businesses to grow, protect and solidify its market position. It will lobby for laws that literally steal trillions of dollars of value from the public domain. It won't influence international policy. It won't fight against legal reform in a country that rivals the most horrific, repressive regimes for incarceration.

If the government is misguided, it's because powerful corporations are leading it by the nose.

God, I sound paranoid conspiracy theorist.
How do they do that? they add event listener to windows.onerror?
I often wonder if the less emotionally developed among us ever ask themselves: "Could I be the one with the problem?"

Sure, it's definitely tough growing up but if we could hack emotional development so we could gain a decade or two of experience, we'd all be a little better off. This quote comes to mind.

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

― Muhammad Ali
Actually if you read the research it disagrees with you.

Younger kids naturally rise earlier than teenagers. You can talk as much as you want about "they should do this" and "understand that", but you can't fight their basic biology.
Thanks for the write-up. This is very informational.

Could you elaborate a bit more on the "capacity" of learning models? Can it be quantified and is it some how related to the VC dimension of a particular learning problem? It would be great if you could give some example of "capacity" for the more well known models: trees, naive bayes, SVM, one hidden layer neural nets, etc.
What would you say is the precise nature of that distinction?
First time I met this 'new' design, I thought it was a rendering bug[0]. Next time I understood it was testing, and I just thought 'why' ? Google seems desperate to find things to tweak while ignoring things that I find obvious:

- right click event turns the url in a trackable monstrosity [1]
- shortened url can't be copied [2]
- no, sharing doesn't only mean 'publish on g+'
- filters could be made faster [3]
- g+ has comment notifications, gmail has nothing

[1] facebook => https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=facebook&sourc...
and

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.....

[3] instead of submenus that pops at opposite side, toggle buttons for instance year|month|week , or local|global . The old right side vertical list was better (even though lacking features).

[0] Chromium had some issues on my platform (or maybe just my distro) recently
We need services that curate how much you should actually pay attention to a given study. Science journalists have proven themselves inadequate to the task because they are after eyeballs. Large, well designed studies, with applicable samples and large effect sizes? Yes. Small studies with poor design on rats, or elderly Finnish twins with diabetes? No.

Why can't I find a list of some of the largest and most robust systematic reviews and meta anlyses ever done?
Who should get to use OSM data then? If you don't want to see Google or Apple use OSM data, then who do you think should?

At this point the only users of OSM data are creating differently-colored maps based on OSM data. No one has attempted to go above and beyond that into improving the map data because of the licensing implications.
Best threadjacking ever!

I may form a corp which would have many casual, occasional, remote (often lesser-developed country) individual contractors. The US IRS requirement to get an ITIN is a big burden on them, so I, a US citizen, am considering an overseas incorporation.

Are there any countries worth researching for low complexity and low paperwork when using overseas contactors? (I'd happily pay more in local payroll or withholding if it could free the contractors themselves from worries about faraway-country compliance issues.)
I would go one step further and say that both of them are missing critical features. I recently posted a more holistic discussion of cloud devops at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384393 but it received no comment.
Google Checkout was a paid solution which google shutdown, leaving merchants stuck looking for alternatives. The fact you're paying for a solution from google (or anyone for that matter) doesn't ensure continued survival of the solution
The adds are bigger and a lot less distinguishable as ads. The only thing distinguishing them now is the small "Ad" bubble.

At my screen resolution, about 70% of real estate is now filled with ads. I get an AltaVista deja-vu.

Google, for the record, I used to like your non-invasive, targeted ads, but I now installed AdBlock as a direct result of this change.
The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
I have to say, the little yellow "Ad" badge actually jumps out at me a lot more clearly than the colored background.

It doesn't seem like that should be the case, but I felt my eyes hitting the Ad badges and more easily filtering the ads from the search results.
> If it didn't, the NSA would not be so interested in collecting it.

I'm going to quote Schneier.

Stop calling it metadata. Call it what cryptographers and security professionals have called it since forever: traffic analysis.

Traffic analysis is a powerful tool by itself. Combined with practically unlimited access to source material, and the ability to unmask almost every communication node, you don't even NEED to care about the contents. Timing, frequency and direction of communication is more than enough.
This seems pretty cool, I'll definitely give it a go. Great to see Google offering this, and it looks like a much smaller commitment (10-15hrs) than many MOOCs.

I'm interested in which data experts created their "What is the primary goal you hope to achieve by signing up for this course?" radio options on registration though, they don't seem mutually exclusive. :)
Yep, stopped reading at "Be an E-mail Ninja."
Actually I just saw that! Their site says you can only use it in AUD, is that still the case or are USD accepted too now?
I'm curious to know if the reformatting is having to be done manually or not
There there, we don't mind, and all had excused your emotional development issues. Nurse will be around soon to help out.
I find the google search of today no more usable or intuitive than that of 10 years ago.

Do you find it any less usable, though?

We've been good at dealing with visual noise forever, before computers, before civilization.

Then we should be good at dealing with Google results without underlines too, right?
Capacity is significantly higher and stop frequency significantly lower allowing a high speed high volume route.
If it's not self-selected, then who selects it?
$800 is more than 10% of the amount. I really really hope I can avoid re-opening the LLC then jumping through the hoops of opening an account in another bank.
I wonder how big of a role artificial light at night plays in this problem. My experience tells me that the later I have to get up the longer I stay awake at night. At the moment I am experimenting with blue light blocking sun glasses that I put on after sunset:

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...
This is somewhat belated, but Chrono Cross's OST (and art in general -- the backgrounds was incredible) is superb. Definitely makes up for the game's numerous other issues.

Xenoblade Chronicles is the only other recent game whose music has really stood out for me, though I'm hardly well-versed in modern gaming at this point.
You are assuming that you are using your entire allowance in Google drive.
Like the disk scrubbing issue?

http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean...
This is actually a problem. If your youtube account gets suspended so does ALL your google accounts associated with the same G+ and their isn't a way to ban 1 account while keeping your other's active.

So if you do a lot of google code, or google drive, or even gmail. Your screwed.
Aren't these cost reductions more or less in line with Moore's law? I know the SSD/HDD market isn't exactly doubling storage capacity every 18 months, but seems to me like these price changes should be expected.
I agree with just about everything in the post, but:

> I think the fact that the Angular community has made real progress towards divorcing themselves from jQuery is one of the most encouraging signs for their future. The design of Angular is just different enough, and it is just compelling enough, that it has convinced a whole range of developers to build a new generation of libraries that I suspect are more likely to be suited to whatever the next iteration of the web as a platform will look like.

This part bothered me a bit. The article doesn't make the case for why jQuery needs replacing or why all that duplicate effort is a good thing. Don't get me wrong: I'm not married to jQuery and I'm open to the idea of there being a better way.

I just don't find the idea that we have to move away from jQuery that self-evident.
If term life insurance + self-invested funds nets more money than whole life insurance then it is better to buy term life insurance and self invest your funds.

The problem with whole life are the massive profit the company takes and the massive commission the salesperson takes. If:

A represents the value of a term life policy after costs

B represents the value of investing after costs

C represents value of a whole life policy after costs

In all circumstances I've evaluated but one, A+B comes out ahead of C. The only circumstance where C has a chance of coming out ahead from what I've seen is as part of an estate plan to minimize taxes.
Exactly what I'm thinking to do.... Going with ownership.

A couple of bitsynced folders, synced to a home storage (and other computers, shared with friends, etc...), that I can backup with Tarsnap.

Simple, reliable and MINE! :P
Possibly, but I don't think this is clear at all.
he should check into this. For example, my bank doesn't accept 3rd party endorsed checks.

There are check cashing services that may take a chance on doing a 3rd party check, but they will ding you a pretty penny for it. Usually 10%, IIRC. I haven't used on of these services in a number of years.
This is part 2 of this discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384937
FOIA of all Department of Defense Employee Salaries
Why not? Are people in the west somehow worth more than people in "developing nations"? (Besides their dollar value, obviously.)

If you're willing to condemn a Honduran to sweatshops, but not an American, that says something about you in more than one way.
One of the top dogs in their research division did start Udacity.
Moving to the ODBL occurred reasonably recently in OSM history. At the time, there was an amount of argument and PD had a lot of support.
More horizontal text from the search results would be nice, this would allow you to read / skim the results slightly quicker
You don't need to worry about dependency injection breaking when your code is minified. You can supply a list of the dependencies as strings, and minified code will work fine:

angular.module("whatever").controller("YourController",
["dep1", "dep2", function (dep1, dep2) {
whatever...
}]);

Even though the `dep1` and `dep2` params get minified, angular will still pass in the correct dependencies.
#20 MINI-BUSES http://www.jacana.plus.com/pattern/P20.htm
How very Kafka.
Animals Can Be So Annoying
That is a good reason to stagger school starting times. It doesn't explain the need to make HS and JHS start so early, or why on earth they would start earlier than primary school when young children tend to wake up earlier than teenagers anyway.

7:30 for primary/elementary school and 8:30 for HS and JHS would have been great (or maybe even 8 and 9 respectively), but I suppose some kids skipping class after their parents had left for work would ruin it for everyone.

EDIT: How much do you think reusing the bus fleets actually saves? Compared to have one big fleet that transports all schools at the same time, you need less buses, and probably save a little by paying less drivers for more time, but I'd expect the cost of fuel to dominate, which should be about the same regardless. Operating more busses also means that each is sustaining less wear per day as well.
A... What? So _because_ Google builds their maps at their expense they are _entitled_ to use OSM and you see no problem with them not sharing back?
Right, it makes perfect sense. Thanks for that.
I don't get how any of those are the "Node way", any more than they are the "Rails way" or the "Python way", or even the "PHP way" these days.

I can only really think of two patterns I see in node.js that I don't see everywhere else: eventemitter and chaining middleware together with next() calls. Hardly something it takes 5 years to learn. ;)
That's a ridiculous statement. You can easily look up what payouts are made to individuals. "Most" is lost. Give me a break.
When trying to reopen the account at another bank, did you actually tell them the LLC was closed? Or did they figure this out on their own?
I used to live off Flatbush in Lefferts Gardens, those vans were fantastic. If they could somehow take hold there are a lot of other routes that would work well.
Or install f.lux on all of the laptops. Forcing students to wear a tracking device is maybe not the best idea.
Not sure what they use, but I use: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
If I remember correctly this was a few months before the election and since Intrade would hold the money in escrow the amount you would make off of interest was fairly close to the arbitrage opportunity
On mobile devices, all videos that begin playing as they appear on the screen will have been downloaded in advance when the device was connected to WiFi — meaning this content will not consume data plans, even if you’re not connected to WiFi at the time of playback

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/Testing-a-New-Way-for...
That.

I don't get how Paraguay looks worse than us at Brazil, and Saudi Arabia looks better. I also don't get how Brazil and China can be at the same level, and how Russia can be so worse.
I am aware of them and yours is a valid point. I, however, was referring to relying on the infrastructure, expandability, customer support etc. Aside, a fair comparison in terms of security can only be made in the long run as it is natural to think that Linode has been around much longer and it is much bigger meaning it has a greater window of opportunities to be targeted by attacks.
Cloud storage is not going away. It's just getting massively cheaper and will continue to do so until the team at dropbox gets bored with running a commodity business and turn to conquer another big problem.

Creative people do not thrive in commodity businesses and their skills are in much higher demand driving massive growth as they have to this point.

Amazon will incorporate cloud storage into prime at some point and may dominate this market as they are very good at running long-term focused, commodity-based businesses.
> my Grandfather's stories of having to carve math equations out on logs with a knife so he could do his homework because post WWII paper and pencils were in very short supply...

Umm.

Did you believe him?

My grandfather used to walk 10 miles each way to get to school. With no shoes. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

[ObCulturalExplanation: above is the standard American clichéd hyperbolic of the clichéd "kids-these-days" rant delivered by ancestral males to teenagers. Maybe in the CCCP, they really did carve homework into logs and bring them into class the next day. I certainly don't know.]
Rebooting an EC2 instance never causes you to lose your data (no matter what type of storage you pick).

EC2 has two types of storage: local disk "ephemeral/instance storage" and network storage "EBS". Digital Ocean only provides local disk. In EC2 you can mix and match, but EBS is the most convenient.

If you do a stop and start on EC2 (very different to picking "reboot"). You will lose what's on local disk because stop/start is basically requested that you be moved to a different physical box. Data stored on EBS is not affected. On Digital Ocean if you "power off" you remain on the same host, but get billed at full rate whereas on EC2 you don't get billed for the time it's stopped. Rebooting on EC2 is the same as rebooting on DO.

If you use EBS for storing everything your data survives even if the hardware your instance is running on breaks. If the hardware breaks on Digital Ocean or on EC2 if you only use ephemeral (local) storage you lose your data. It's the same story on DO as it is on EC2. The only difference is that EC2 gives you the option of storage which can survive the physical box you are on dying (EBS).
TimeWarner Cable customers reject offer of cheaper service with data caps
Elsewhere in the thread, you'll see that 'sidcool is on SVN, where merging is not a fun experience — which explains his team's aversion to merges.
Four reasons why the Asus Chomebox is a deal you can't pass up
I'm consistently infuriated every time a search box in a GUI lacks regex support (which is very nearly all of the time).
Why There's Never Been A Better Time To Found A SaaS Startup
Hack Your On-Call Status with PagerDuty's API
>which isn't really possible if you're rendering html in the server.

Yes it is, that's my point. Our designers push new templates and our developers push new binaries completely independently. We literally have an API doc that the designers put "I want this" into, and the developers implement it and update the doc to reflect it being finished. People just use template systems that make this unnatural. See heist for an example of a system that makes it natural and straight forward.
Not quite, hstore doesn't support nesting.
A land line makes an actual circuit to the other party. The signaling information is used to arrange the necessary relays/switches (for old analog gear) or virtual circuit routing tables (for newer stuff).

Once this circuit is setup, there's no requirement to actually monitor the electrical signaling on the wire (physically or virtually) until the next out-of-band signal event (e.g. hang-up), just as there's no requirement for UPS to open your box while it's in their possession. Even for virtual circuits you don't need to inspect the data portion of the segment, you need only inspect enough of the header to send it on to the right endpoint.

But either way, even that argument has a bit more nuance; the call metadata was a business record retained by the business itself, not the person. And the person knew the business had these records about them, because the phone company mailed them that metadata every month along with the bill.

So (the argument went) there couldn't be a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding the phone numbers dialed and the call lengths, since the phone company made it quite clear every month that this "metadata" wasn't actually private (to the person) at all.
There is nothing in the document specific to Israel. How was that association derived?
Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation