skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Latin for "with." It's usually used with hyphens to describe something with dual purpose, so it would be more appropriate to spell it "shoe-cum-charger." It's also used in purely Latin phrases like magna cum laude.
the wont get paid by Visa if there is a chargeback, indeed they will owe some percentage extra as a processing fee.
How To See Where Your Lost Opportunities Went
Telephone – Minimalist open source SIP client for OS X
Announcing New Bindings for EmberJS
"Even as Washington grapples with the diplomatic and political fallout of Mr. Snowden’s leaks ..."

That statement is a perfect example of the real problem with the US government and many journalists. They don't see the actual spying as the cause of all the backlash - it's all Snowden's fault for telling the world.
Personally I've been using fewer Google and other hosted services simply because they make me feel 'icky'. More and more I use startpage for general searches and tor for anything personal like medical information that I don't want in my permanent record.
"That vision mechanism comes at a price — bees’ eyes have extremely low resolution, so their vision is very blurred. Nilsson calls this design “the most stupid way of using the space available for an eye.”"

The article forgets that the compound eye allows bees to have a much higher "frame rate" per "pixel" than a human eye ever could have.
Hi Dan, thanks for the reply!.

Back in 2006 I ended up starting an LLC (nieve young man that I was), but didn't end up getting my business taxes done by an accountant until 2008, and I ended up shuttering the LLC aspect of the business shortly thereafter because of the automatic $800/yr that California charges in taxes for that privilege.

In mid-2010 I started the software business (first time I had gone that route, prior to this with the LLC it was mainly work creating websites for other local businesses which never amounted to much since our area just isn't very tech savvy and I didn't market myself online). This I can say was my first real success (in that I was able to create a mini-business that actually resulted in some profit at the end of the year) and I've been maintaining that ever since, but it hasn't really grown much over the past few years (though updates have been put out, I haven't developed as many of the new products I had ideas for, primarily because the day job eats up so much of my energy and pays the bills).

My goal though is to eventually build up that mini-business enough where I could provide a few local development jobs and maybe start building up that sort of industry locally, since our location doesn't really matter when we can market to the world at large :-). (Our county has the highest unemployment in California at about 25%).

As far as the lawyer/labor laws stuff, I do believe you're right there, though I was hoping a new service like Zen Payroll would allow me to not have to worry about those sorts of things and just worry about getting money to/from the employees.

You're also right that $200-$300/mo doesn't really justify paid help, to a degree, but since I have my day job and can't put a lot of energy into the software business, getting some help to build out those ideas for new products wouldn't be a bad idea.

Right now he's volunteering to gain experience, but as I've decided to do a few small contracting development jobs recently (mainly to earn some extra money for the business so I can give him something) I'm giving him some of that extra money and paying for the lunches we're having together as an additional thank you. So far I haven't given him enough to justify making him an independent contractor and doing any W-9 stuff, but I'd definitely like to do more for him if I can, I'm just looking to see what the best options might be.
Thanks, I'll definitely add that, maybe put this on pypi asap. For now you can clone the repo and then run

pip install -r requirements.txt

to install required dependencies.
I've been using this for some time now and while I only need SIP occasionally, every time I start Telephone, I'm pleased with its no-bullshit design (and the fact that it just works). This exactly how much UI a SIP client needs.
I'm a little surprised this wasn't emphasized in the article. It doesn't matter where the equipment is: the us government can still secretly force you to backdoor it and lie to your customers and the press about it.
I love this show that's been put together, so I thought I'd share it on here with the rest of the community!
Helping People and Expecting Nothing in Return
Only clone of 2048 I really enjoyed , colours are soothing to eyes
Long con.
I got my first job in 2003 and it involved PHP development. I remember well the state of affairs then. Yes, PHP was the most pragmatic option for getting things out the door in those days. Beginners getting started today don't know how lucky they are in terms of tools, languages, libraries, communities and documentation available.
By far my favourite version of this game. I seem to be able to build up more of a 'rhythm' and, for once, it doesn't feel entirely like I'm just randomly pushing blocks around in the hope that things will work out OK. I feel like I've built up a system. Having said that, I'm still no master - I just don't think my brain is wired for this game genre.

Really weird effect: having stared at the screen intently for several minutes playing this game, then flipping to another tag, my vision seems to be 'zoomed out' ...
Why do you think our creators made the simulated universe we live in? There's an infinite-loop bug, however: each simulation tries to solve the real problem by creating a sub-simulation.
I presume the JSCore runtime bridges objects back and forth? Very cool!
Yes, an average serving time per resource request would definitely be nice :)
"Find a person who can sell me both this pen and a pen that does not yet exist"
Stark industries, Wayne industries etc
First choice would be Komodo Edit hands down! If you're willing to spend a bit more then you can go for Komodo IDE.

If you want a lighter weight editor then Sublime Text is a decent option.
In your case, intelligence does not seem to originate from the brain. Possibly from the epiglottis...
Fascinating that I did far better on this version (if the score is tallied the same) than I have on any version with the numbers. It seems that sets are much more obvious using colours than numbers and as a result I missed fewer positive moves, especially as the board filled up.

This makes a very interesting UI lesson.
It's been covered lots of times, but essentially, for all transactions whose value is an order of magnitude less than the current block reward, it is considered safe to complete the physical transaction as soon as the Bitcoin transaction arrives at the retailer's system through the Bitcoin network. This usually takes 5-15 seconds, so about the same amount of time as most credit card approvals take now.

This is considered safe because even though there are various tricks you can pull with no confirmations, the hashpower needed to do any of them is so great that you would make far more money turning that hashpower towards legitimate mining than by scamming retailers.

With Bitcoin value, block rewards, and hashrates as they are now, this means that anything less expensive then a car or a boat is okay to complete immediately. Waiting up to an hour for a couple of confirmations for a purchase of $10k or higher doesn't sound like too big of a deal.
Infographic: The Epidemic of Healthcare Cyber Attacks
Adding OAuth support in Swagger API Explorer
The analogy I give people is you lock the doors of your house, but it isn't really secure. Anyone can kick down the door or break a window, very easily and very quickly. Your real security for your house comes from the environment which makes it difficult for people to run around ransacking neighborhoods, e.g. your local police force.

With bitcoin, you actually have to use real security to secure your possessions. There is no local police force preventing a break in or a credit card company which will absorb fraudulent charges, or a bank that will flag and freeze questionable withdraws. In a crypto currency world, the wealth will have a tendency to flow not to the most business savy or politically connected but to the most secure (in some dimensions we see that the same thing happens with global wealth, both in terms of countries and currencies.)

The flip side of that is, stolen bitcoins may fall under a legal classification of stolen property and be retrievable through legal systems -- or at the least blacklisted and non spendable through sources that fall under those jurisdictions. That outcome, I think, is the most important thing to watch, above any other hypothetical bitcoin regulation or banning. If I was an active bitcoin startup I would build a system to identify and classify bitcoins as safe, stolen, unknown, or questionable.

Think of the current implementation of bitcoin as crypto currency alpha build 2 or 3. It is slightly amusing that people would risk so much of their own capital to participate in an alpha test, but also necessary in order to truly stress test the system.
Should really send them back and get a new housing made.
I loved the position-acceleration-velocity animation. I'd love to know how was that created (i.e. with what tools).
Pretty Mama sings her heart out at naptime (A capella)
Unrelated to article: I'm not sure how this post made it to the front page so fast. It's been up for ~ 5 mins and it's already #7 on my list with 7 pts. Did you people who upvoted even read the article? Doesn't look like it.
Quite clever. The white border on the circle is pixel-perfectly tuned to match the white margin between the buttons.

...sounds like hell to fix for IE. Glad I don't do css.

They also have a .call-to-action class for that green color, which is cute.
Humans "operate" using emotions and logical biases, but computers "operate" using logic. To implement the first law, you must be certain that there is always something that an agent can do or must not do in order to "save" humans. This is almost always not true (hence moral disagreements).

Also, even if you change the laws to get rid of logical inconsistencies, you still have to translate the words into logic, by strictly defining them, which is again impossible (as humans disagree what these words mean).
How we Reinvented Copy/Paste
The first of all versions that I won. For some reason I found this much easier than the number original version.
There's http://www.coasterforce.com/, and many large theme parks (or chains of theme parks) have forums created around them as well.
can someone stop posting this?
The intelligence capabilities of other nations don't come close to what the NSA can do.

This is like comparing a pee wee football to the NFL.
Numbers are important because you can plan out where to slide particular blocks to form "chains." It's difficult to predict the various levels of blocks with colors, whereas numbers are simply powers of two.
Me too :)

Nicely done, but definitely need some export/backup feature, or self hosted version.
What I found most surprising about Germany is that the people here are really insistent on Datenschutz (data protection) and hesitant to e.g. use Google services or Dropbox, while its law enforcement is among the top requesters for data:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/co...
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He explored many issues, e.g. what happens when robots misinterpret the laws, or what should very expensive robots do, or what happens if robots interpret emotional pain as "harm", but I'm not sure he investigated the obvious, yet extremely hard issue of encoding the laws from human language into computer program.
Space technology roughly covers all the other 4 aspects!
The domain where the article was posted is very important. It's a good indicator of article quality.
But the colors are just as much 'in order'
Nice job, I actually prefer this colour scheme to the original.
I liked this one, but I also found it much easier. Which makes me wonder if that was by design, I certainly hit the win condition quicker than I have on any of them.

Also it's interesting to see what people have done with the concept since the original, I imagine a few people are bored but how often do we get to see the community focussed around one thing?
I'm having a hard time understanding what I can use this service for. Can somebody please provide one or two concrete examples of potential use cases? Thanks very much in advance!
> Isn't it valuable to Comcast as well in the long run?

No, because Comcast offers streaming video services to which Netflix is a direct competitor. Comcast would rather Netflix not exist.
Snowden is not being treated as a traitor as they had hoped but as a hero for revealing NSA dragnet surveillance programs and sacrificing his life for his principles. He is now perceived as an expert on how to circumvent these NSA programs. Contrast this with the low public opinion of Assange or Manning neither of which required any direct comment by the NSA. They must feel they are losing the PR battle and need to respond in the case of Snowden which I thought was revealing.
Kind of relevant: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/power-lines-look-li...
Seeking inspiration
Show HN: Kyll-thrill. Jekyll+mithril = 5KB/1 HTTP request blog tool.
Let there be (intelligent) light
Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses?

On a different note... developers, please use Python 3. Several Linux distributions are now using Py3 as their main python and those scripts with an "env python" hashbang will not work.

Porting your codebase to be python 2+3 compatible is dead simple, and most of the time it is just a matter of using print("foo") instead of print "foo". So please be considerate.
We clearly need a new TLD named ".2048".
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Wow - in terms of input-mechanism support, overall look, and little flourishes, this has to be the most 'complete' version I've seen. Apart from the broken styling on the 'game over' screen, that is.
The missing middle class: technology and jobs in the 'Second Machine Age'
Swagger is the best.
Then maybe the implementation is a non-binding letter of understanding between the two companies, stating that they both believe their business areas and marks are sufficiently different to avoid confusion. Any court that does not respect trademark owners reaching their own thought-out amicable agreement is an unjust one.
Same here. I'm almost completely off Google products. If you do keep using Google products, make sure you disable location and web tracking. I deleted my Facebook account. I switched back to Firefox. I use startpage and DuckDuckGo. I switched my phone to CyanogenMod. I send everything through a VPN. I have Thunderbird, instant messaging apps go through Tor, basically anything that is asynchronous (although I don't use Tor for everday browsing -- it's just too painful). I use TextSecure for SMS. Basically the same user exerience, but I feel better.

I'm using Dropbox for now, but looking for alternatives. I wish there was a better alternative to email.
This is pretty interesting considering most conservatives want less regulations and most liberals want more.

In every example, they cite over regulated industries where the biggest players are using those regulations as a means to stifle innovation.
Actually, wouldn't it be possible to make a web app to trigger that? https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...
tlwrl; Now that pg has more time to dive into the meta-er layers, guess we'll see some progress with the Arc language.
It's sad to see that this animation http://interactive.nautil.us/inter_13/ requires 312KB of JavaScript.
Just out of curiosity, not being a salesman, is a great salesman actually expected to be able to sell anything to anyone?

Bragging aside, I would assume this is one of those cases where a huge portion of the job is differentiating likely and unlikely sales targets, and applying effort accordingly.
If we as a society tolerate large scale institutions devoted to undermining and exploiting trust, we will all be immensely poorer. Rule of law , robust institutions and trustworthy systems are the basic infrastructure of the economy. It is outrageous that nation states are attacking these foundations for short term advantage.
"People, especially highly successful people, view charity as giving money away"....that's a shame really. It's more accurately viewed as investing in the commons.
The difference in level between 2 and 8 is far more obvious than "shade of blue" and "shade of green"
They forgot Mantis Shrimp! Mantis shrimps see pretty much everything. Polarization, colors, ultraviolet, you name it.
In that case, we should probably move to a noisier (/faster/cheaper) floating point processor.
> Pull back the regulation (at the local, state, and federal levels) and watch the competition spring up

Unlikely. The monopolies that the cable and telcos used to have as infrastructure providers were granted because the eminent domain power of government was necessary to get the physical infrastructure, and it was considered a public good to have the infrastructure and better to have one infrastructure provider with "public access" rules (for cable) or "common carrier" rules (for telephone service).

Without government intervention, it would be practically impossible to get the property access necessary to compete, particularly at the last mile, with the vendors with existing infrastructure built with property rights acquired through government action, even if there were no longer protections for the incumbents.
It's telling of the environment we're in that the author has to make such a heavy disclaimer about not doing things for diversity's sake. What would be so bad about admitting one cares about diversity? I think there's room in business to pursue one's values.
I tried dragging the text to the center of the buttons
Most powerful part of Python is its repl, no IDE required.

I do Django development, and my workflow consists of Sublime Text + IPython.
There really is nothing to destroy on mars. You can't destroy an ecosystem where there is none.
I quickly wrote/tested in VB, then converted it to Processing (which is very cool for things like this).
Some great blog posts there - lots to read later. I'll work out a way to give you some feedback if I have any ... :)
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I think it's great for YC to improve and help women but I hope YC doesn't start accepting female funded companies just for the sake of having more female founders instead on looking at the quality of the startups.
It's the same thing really, beat this right away with the way I play 2048.
PyCharm has a free edition that is quite nice, IMO. It even plays nicely with Vagrant and IPython, if that matters.
I said "we're not doing this for diversity's sake alone." It'd be terribly unfair to the super qualified people we work with to imply that we were working with them just because we wanted diversity.
As a LEAF owner, I know exactly what they're up to. Nissan has been promising for years that they'd switch to Lithium NMC (LiNiMnCo) chemistry batteries for 175% of current density per kg at 125% cost per kg. It's taken them awhile to get the new technology to production, but it's expected to grow their margin and their sales considerably.

http://insideevs.com/nissan-ceo-carlos-ghosn-second-generati...

TLDR: New lithium ion battery chemistry may add up to 60 miles more range to the current LEAF for only about $2000 marginal cost to Nissan while adding no more weight.
It’s accelerator season
This may be unintentional, but its name is Prism.

2013 HN: Prism

2014 HN: 2048

It's like the blocks have been slid together to become one.
They don't need excuses anymore. That's the point.
They can just do it, and when Netflix says "hey, we use that legitimately" the ISP can say "and if you pay us, we'll loosen the restriction, for you, for the term of the contract"
> Really ISPs have a choice between peering with Netflix and reaching Netflix over transit. Since most broadband ISPs would have to buy transit, peering with Netflix (at any price, even free) is a better deal.

They have a third choice, which is "not reach Netflix at all". Which, for ISPs that are also selling streaming video services (e.g., pretty much all of the big ISPs, which tend also to be digital cable with "on demand" video streaming providers) with which Netflix competes, is a pretty attractive option.
It would seem, we now have another instance of, Monty Python's proof.
>I also found the random remark of "consciousness = what it feels like to have a neocortex" interesting.

So there's a way it feels to not have a neocortex? Doesn't feeling anything imply you're conscious, which means you don't need a neocortex to be conscious?
Microsoft offers Windows XP users $100 off new Windows 8 PCs
Read the article carefully; we won't. We'll accept female-founded companies because some of them will be extremely successful. Everyone is subject to the same bar (this is addressed in the middle of the post).
What makes you think that's going to happen? Why aren't you just as concerned about the opposite bias? I think time will tell.
To a first approximation, the good ideas are precisely those which can be used to create a lot of value: they're the land in Shanghai. It's not clear to me in what sense of 'intrinsic value' such land or ideas would lack it while (say) a pile of high-quality bricks would not. Conversely, if ideas are worthless only in the sense that building materials or pig-iron are worthless then in any ordinary sense they are not worthless at all.

Obviously ideas are less reliably scarce than land, because a number of people can have the same idea independently, and also because once another person hears your idea they can steal your fire without paying you, so it's difficult to trade an idea in a way that doesn't remove your ability to capture the value from it. But a high-quality and unobvious idea tends to occur to only a few people at any time, and the awkwardness of trying to do deals with them is far from rendering them valueless either. It's certainly not the case that good ideas are plentiful in the sense that if there one specific good idea to solve your problem but you don't think of or hear of it, then don't worry, there are lots of similarly good and suitable ideas lying around and one is almost certain to come to your attention soon.

A different, and notable distinction between land and ideas is that people are usually better at recognising valuable land than good ideas, as Frank Aiken observed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken . This is one reason why some ability to "finish" (in terms of external circumstances as well as internal factors like temperament and character) is such a valuable accompaniment to having a good idea: it helps to have something relatively tangible (be it only a prototype) to force down others' throats.
Wow, I thought for sure that it was an extension. Can't believe I've gone this long without using it. Thanks!
Not only are those wise words for users, enabling that
way of working, and making security an easy verifiable
default, and, is going to be the only way to heal this
problem for US tech companies. And they have been slow
to get started.

The trouble is the service providers have a significant vested interest in having access to your data. Google will never implement a system where only you have access to your data because they make a lot of money by accessing your data.

Depending on where you want to draw the line it would not be a stretch to say that an advertising company like Google would be eliminating their entire revenue stream by implementing such a system.
I've found this seems to make the game significantly easier. If you get a block stuck in a bad spot it will eventually get merged fixing the problem.