skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(...) the cryptographic-decentralization Zeitgeist makes it an exciting time to have and use names"

Yes. Very true. For anyone interested in the above statment i'd highly recommend checking out http://twister.net.co/ - a decentralized micro-blogging spin-off of bitcoin. Unbelievable innovation is happening!
Did Knight take risk?
You can generally post on Craiglist and get offers within a day that beat a trade-in offer. People sit on car listings and offer low-ball prices that are still above how awful dealer trade-in offers are.

I don't think selling a car is really that difficult of a process, for me anyway. I don't know what California paperwork is like, but in Ohio, all you need to do is sign your title over in front of a notary. Besides that, it's just a matter of listing it on Craiglist and scheduling times to look at it.
"It is starting to seem like many progressive groups are trying to vilify an individual's freedom of speech/thought."

No. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. If you're pro-rape, you're a pariah, but it's not illegal just to have those beliefs. If you're pro-racism, you're going to have a hard time in most places. We don't have to respect those beliefs, and (if we feel strongly enough) we can choose not include those people in our lives (work for them, shop at their stores, etc)... But we do have to support their legal right to have/express those beliefs and (hopefully) treat them with respect rather than doubling down with hate.

Now take a belief like "we should increase the minimum wage". Are there many people that would grab their pitchfork and light their torches over that belief? Nope.

So the question is: How reprehensible is it to believe that same-sex marriage should not be legal? Is it a political issue, like minimum wage, or is it a human rights issue, like interracial marriage?
CS50 Guest Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University, December 7, 2005
I had to see it to believe it, but here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAroJmb6XY4
Great questions Josh,

Dealer trade-in pricing generally uses a standard called "black book". They base the pricing on the type of car the the condition of the vehilce. The discount of retail to black book varies, but can be huge (4k+). When dealers buy a car off trade-in, they have to price in the fact that they have a lot of overhead to get the car sold. Dealers also price risk into the car value, if it's not a desirable car, they will sell it at auction. They have to make sure they stay under the auction value.

Individual buyers don't have that. That spread is pretty large and we can take advantage of that.

The paperwork is actually pretty straight forward if you have a notary public available (we do). We can pull up all the paperwork necessary and generally get it done at each persons convenience. The biggest issue is actually trust between the parties and us. That's what we have to work on.
I thought the server was open source running a documented protocol? I never got to close to it other than playing with the client. I recall considering installing the server - May be misremembering though....
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Haim Bodek and Manoj Narang discuss HFT, Flash Boys, and Regulations on Reuters
Yes, the word "toxins" has been almost completely co-opted by pseudo-science. But the poster may have been referring to a recent study which theorizes that one of the functions of sleep is to remove waste-products ("toxins") from the brain. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6567966
I'd consider something like that, and probably wouldn't be scared away from the process of just buying the book.
Are those who would be against polyamorous marriage a "hate group"?
> Obviously my heuristic has a significant flaw - it assume that
> all projects have equal resources.

Indeed. Perhaps my heuristic works for open-source projects because, if a project is "important" enough, some nutcase like me will come along and either complain about or fix their webpage. If the first sentence of their webpage has an obvious typo, that's a signal that maybe there aren't enough people who care about the project.
Instead of bloviating you could always look up what the arguments in favor were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)...

And for any proposed law change, there's always some annoying folks who agree with the overall spirit of the change, but oppose because they disagree with some specific details. Like, maybe the new law doesn't go far enough, or doesn't have the right wording. Or maybe they just object to the process by which it was created or campaigned for.
Also android seems to be the bottom layer no matter what order i turn the layers on. This is idiotic.
BD == your agent, has fiduciary duty to you...etc

"When executing trade orders on behalf of a customer, the institution is said to be acting as a broker"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker-dealer
> If we continue to push one set of beliefs how different are we than North Korea, Iran, etc?

rolleyes

For starters, how about the fact that no authoritarian government forced anyone to do anything in this situation?

Mozilla got bad press because their CEO did something unpopular, and refused to apologize. As a quasi-nonprofit that relies somewhat on donations, Mozilla is more vulnerable to bad PR.

I just wish more CEOs could be held accountable for bad behavior. Bob Parsons (of GoDaddy) killing endangered elephants comes to mind...
This is really great feedback, thanks. We're going to take action on a lot of the suggestions right away. I hear what you're saying in the last paragraph, but we've done a lot of user testing and research on this and found that:

1) People don't know much toilet paper they use well enough to say "send me x rolls every y weeks"
2) Managing more than about 3 products via the "send me x every y" model becomes very difficult, very quickly. You need a consolidated view.

One thing we think about a lot is exposing less information about future shipments - that way you are less inclined to meddle with them in advance (there's really no need to worry about things > 1 month out). Then we can build a suggested shipment ~1 or so months in advance, with better data.
Keep saying "our government" and they'll keep getting away with it.
Server-Sent Events: The simplest realtime browser spec
There was some discussion around Truecar and how they pivoted in this Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-...
My assumption: No ISP wants to be the first to make the transition to using MBps. And thus, legacy metrics are used forever.
and here lies the problem...
This was great.

I didn't care much for the narration, but perhaps that's because when I travel I prefer to explore things on my own. The captions and videos were helpful though.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you didn't have to follow the green track (though you miss out on the pictures and videos). I discovered it by accident, actually. At some point in time I found out that I had become disoriented and had been going backwards for some time. Rather than go through the entire track again, I wanted to see if I could take a shortcut. It works.

You know what would be cool? Incorporating some sort of "Choose Your Own Adventure" elements into something like this. Kind of like Myst, but in real-world settings.
The question is, exactly which behaviours would you suggest we not engage in? Should we not use our right of freedom of speech to criticise others? Should we not use our right of freedom of association to choose not to associate with people and organisations which do not support our moral beliefs, and what we see to be our human rights?

The only thing I can think of is that Mozilla are to blame for firing him, except that Mozilla has a (limited) freedom to choose their employees. As far as I can tell, even in the UK, where we have rather far-reaching employment discrimination law, companies have the right to fire people for political actions, although not for pure philosophical beliefs[0] or being a member of a political party. I could be wrong there, however.

So the question is, exactly who acted in the wrong and exactly how, in a way which does not lead to a slippery slope?

[0] http://www.pureemploymentlaw.co.uk/2011/05/19/what-is-a-phil...
cliqu.es - well, I have something I want to build (https://github.com/NotBobTheBuilder/cliqu.es) but I can never find the time to commit to it.
As a Scot I might be a bit touchy about this (Scots have the highest proportion of redheads and I carry the gene even though my hair and eyes are very dark):

"A DNA study has concluded that some Neanderthals also had red hair, although the mutation responsible for this differs from that which causes red hair in modern humans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair#Origins
Template Design Pattern: Refactoring Subclass Constants in Base Class
I remember back in the day people would kill for a Google Wave invite. It felt like all the cool kids were using it and if you weren't on it, you meant zero. When you actually got on it after reading all the praising reviews and begging for invites on googlewaveinvites.org or whatever shady site you stumbled upon, it was a massive anti climax. Sure, it looked really good but it felt so... I don't know... void?

I think we all just wanted to be part of the "Google Wave croud" and the hype was more of a focus than the actual product. Thinking about it, I don't even remember what Wave actually was or why Google dismissed it.
Love it. I have two of the EFF's "Come Back With A Warrant" stickers on this laptop (a large-ish one on the top and a smaller one just to the left of the touchpad).
The moderators deleted your comments of you defending yourself? If that's true, then that's terrible.

My first inclination is to be suspicious of your claim, but that's just evidence of how thoroughly Reddit moderators have convinced people that they rarely do terrible things.
That seems to be the "loading indicator". I was confused for a second, then it just faded away. I don't think there's a browser API to actually know wether the user has headphones plugged in or not.
Donald Knuth's Computer Musings: Trees and Chordal Graphs(2012)[video]
I'm picking that it cushions the blow when his wife kicks him. On a related note, I had a friend who resorted to using duct tape over his partners mouth. Other than being rather brutal and terrifying to see in half light it worked wonders I'm told - better than the prescription tongue depressor thing.
Inverted fee structures allow the maker to value fill priority over rebate. In a maker taker structure the net price paid is higher on an inverted venue therefore implicitly allowing them a higher spot in the virtual cross-venue line (although not guaranteed).

Takers who get paid at inverted venues understand and are compensated by rebate for the information they provide to the market. Their net price is less than what they would pay elsewhere and the cost of doing so is less access to liquidity (inverted venues typically show a lot less size) and potentially more information leakage (although, it is time dependent).

Bear in mind that if you look at the markets near transition, there is often times no posted orders on the weak side of the NBBO. Makers typically don't like to stand in front of the truck as its rolling towards them. The argument that inverted venues leak as buy side sweeps is fairly weak given this reality.
Do they donate money help fund laws to remove people's rights? Thats big thing, its one thing to be against gay marriage its another thing to fund campaigns to ban it. Obama is against gay marriage, but he has never taken any action to prevent gays from getting married or recognizing gay marriages. Thats the key difference. If the former Mozilla CEO just tweeted he's against gay marriage, i am willing to bet he'd still have a job.
This is a very clean and straightforward website - no BS to wade through, no popups asking for my email, just straightforward here's-how-you-do-it. If I had seen this a couple months ago I would have definitely saved a couple thousand bucks.

One thing that's really inspiring about this is that it has the potential to completely change the concept of used car sales. Just like how realtors take you around to go see houses that are for sale, a car salesman can become a person who takes you around to test drive cars for sale.

I might be wrong about your target market, but it seems like it is currently a market of wealthy individuals with high-valued cars to sell but no time to sell them. However, the quickest sales are the ones for lower valued cars - way back when I only had four figures in the bank, my only requirement for my used car was that it not make weird noises.

One lucrative direction you could go with this in the future is adding financing options, so someone could lease a used car from you and you could pass a percentage of the monthly car payments on to the car owner. Or, you could buy the car from the owner and lease it out to potential owners. I have no idea what the legal requirements are to be able to do this, but if it works you'd have a pretty stable source of recurring income.

Overall it's a great idea, I wish you the best of luck with this!
Goat and sheep lineages diverged approximately five to eight million years ago[1]. For reference, human and gorilla lines diverged roughly six to eight million years ago[2].

Also, different breeds of dogs are considered the same species (and likewise with cats).

[1] http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/89/44/91/PDF/hal-008...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolutionary_genetics#Div...
I'm 100% sure you don't know what you're talking about. Please provide sources for your statement and prove me wrong.
You have a really high bar for hateful activity.
Yes, the people have a voice. All the people. I believe strongly in free speech and if anything, I think this whole episode is an example of it working across the board.

Brendan Eich is free to support what I see as stupidly offensive positions, other people are free to speak out against what he said and/or boycott. The company he was made CEO of is free to stand by their man or cave and force him to resign.

Three different entities/groups utilized their freedom to speak and/or choose, so what's the problem?
Markets are pretty different across the US. Car buying/selling is local process. People tend to be willing to go roughly 50 miles to see a car if they're really serious about purchasing it. There are also differences in paperwork and requirements for selling a car, and how the market is made up. For example, from my experience, people in the midwest tend to finance their vehicles much more frequently than people on the west coast. It's not a huge deal, but does add additional wrinkles in the process.
A CEO is the public face of a company. Mozilla didn't just hire Eich for his technical skills, but to represent the company as a whole. Unlike many positions, the personal opinions of a CEO are relevant to their job.
Price lists are all public. Look at nasdaqtrader.com or batstrading.com.
The issue is that the protocol pretty much only let people implement feature-for-feature compatible Wave servers. It wouldn't be possible to extend it past that.
Like https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/ ? (Except the Realtime API doesn't really do anything about embedding realtime components in a compound document)
Pretty animation, but I have some reservations about the maths:

- Normal approximation, as already noticed, ain't no good. Use the Wilson score instead.

- No power calculation? Type II errors are far more important IMHO in typical web applications because switching costs are small.

- non-overlapping 95% confidence interval do not imply p < 0.05. It's actually much lower than that. 83% CI is more like p of 0.05. (Errors add in quadrature.)

There is a tension between making something simple for the lay person and providing knobs for the expert to twiddle. I can see the case for removing the knobs but the choices should at least be documented.

[It's late here so this post is a bit slim on details. If you're interested sign up to http://bandits.mynaweb.com/ as the next section covers confidence intervals.]
It really has nothing to do with Wave or a new communication protocol. Plus, there are dozens of tools with the same feature set as Slack.
"...but they aren't ALL hateful."

In fact, I would venture to say that an extremely FEW are hateful. There has been too much caricaturing on both sides. I am fairly certain that 95%+ of people on both sides of the issue are actually very caring, intelligent people (and yes, even on the pro-Prop 8 side like myself) who do not treat each other differently.
To me the real problem with namecoin for the purpose stated in the title of this post is that it doesn't emphasize delegation to near the degree necessary to achieve it. The current implementation is much more like the older name system in that it requires the list of canonical names to be distributed as widely as possible.

There is a reason the root nameservers only delegate the act of name lookup at the top level. It's just not practical for them to have a complete list, and it's not even particularly desirable for users of it to have their list of names completely public (think internal servers).

It is possible to name a delegate nameserver through namecoin, I believe, but last I looked it was a bit iffy and it doesn't require any kind of authentication of results from the delegated nameserver a-la dnscurve.
From your link:

heterosexual marriage was "an essential institution of society", that leaving the constitution unchanged would "result in public schools teaching our kids that gay marriage is okay", and that gays "do not have the right to redefine marriage for everyone else."

Apparently the prop 8 argument is basically a massive appeal to tradition fallacy?
3. That is awesome! Love that you guys understand enthusiast cars.
Not just Craigslist, but we go through a lot of traditional channels (autotrader, cars.com). Selling a car is a marketing game, especially if you want to maximize your outcome. For certain types of cars, we also list them on specific forums (e.g. Porsches would get listed on Porsche enthusiast websites etc...)
CMake is pretty awesome. If that's what they were recommending, then I apologize.

It sounded like they were talking about standard make though. Does plan9 use CMake?
Domain hijacking is impossible without access to the private key that controls the information written in the blockchain concerning that domain.

If somebody gets your private key, they can "steal" your website away from you, sure. Just don't let anybody access your private key.
The mob mentality leads to situations where we round up everyone who is Japanese, Jewish, Homophobic, etc. and get rid of them.

One of these things is not like the other.

Also, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of people "rounding up" donors to Prop 8. Eich was appointed to lead an organization whose values he didn't share, and represent them to the public. He was unapologetic about this. This isn't a situation your parents or pretty much anyone else would realistically find themselves in.
Server-Sent Events rock; love what these guys have done with the live debugger - it's been -massive- help debugging our events (which go through segment)!
Yes, totally agree on that part! In fact, we tend to have had bad experiences with URLs over 4KB. Fortunately most of our stats requests come in at about 1KB.

We're in the process of moving over to POSTs. The second part of this series will go into more detail as to the "whys". The primary reason we use GETs is backwards compatibility; we wanted our new team to be a success and in ensuring that we thought carefully about the battles worth fighting - the Mixpanel stats client is a good one, so we opted for being "Mixpanel Protocol"-compatible; they use base64 encoded json blobs shipped using an HTTP GET, and thusly so do we.
If you are sending over 8KB of JSON, something is fucked
There is absolutely a non-political argument to be made, you are absolutely correct. I guess what I'm saying is that this article is not making that argument. At all.
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With the job he's obligated to get up and do the work. People are counting on the delivery, whereas nobody else suffers if he sleeps in and skips the gym. (Plus gym memberships cost money where this generates money.)
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Hacker News has officially replaced Slashdot with this comment.
Its relevant as it reveals your rationale for defining "hate group" as suspect if you aren't willing to apply that same label to this hypothetical.
Unaccepting != hateful.

It's very much possible to be tolerant of something without necessarily accepting it.
Could always slap a "more" after the value.
thoughtministry.com
(not so confident there, someone here is just a doctor's appointment away from catastrophe, could be anyone, even you :-/)
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Vegetarians are 'less healthy than meat-eaters', scientists say
AI and VR will always be cool (at least until they're done right, then they'll be just as boring as an iphone); email replacement? not so much.
Videos are not loading for me at all using Safari 7.0.3
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SEO: Understanding When to Disavov Links
Clearly they have a pervasive anti-gay culture growing over there. It's not even just one guy at the top, it's throughout! I'm sure everyone who called for boycotting Mozilla will boycott Intel, too, right? I'm sure OKCupid long ago purged themselves of any vile Intel products?
"Increased earnings" ?
Awesome article!

Out of curiosity, how do you handle conflicts?

Like, say you have an important customer who wants to meet in the morning, or things have fallen behind and DEAR GOD I NEED THOSE HOURS TO MAKE IT WORK?

I'd assume lots of get-things-done-in-advance so things don't get to that stage, but if that fails and it becomes one-or-the-other, how do you handle it?
This is pretty clearly a "right to swing your fist ends at my nose" situation. If your parents aren't attempting to limit homosexuals' ability to live as equals with non-homosexual humans then, yes, they shouldn't be persecuted for their beliefs. However, if they donate to political causes that are anti-gay-marriage, or march in support of those who do, or sign petitions asking for the right to marry to be repealed...

If you're uncomfortable with associating the word "hate" with "against gay marriage", consider what opponents of gay marriage are trying to stop:

* A person easily being able to be present at the deathbed of their lifetime partner.

* Joint custody of children.

* Tax breaks.
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I keep thinking of things! There's an awesome group called Berlin-Style Ping Pong League (BSPPL): http://americantripps.com. It's a variation of ping pong designed for large groups. Even if you suck, it's a LOT of fun and a fantastic way to meet people. They have events 2-3 times per week, and there's even a league night (Monday nights) where you form teams and play. It's super fun! Check it out!
Clearly it is culturally very different. Not sure if the age distribution is very different, which could be correlated.
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Speaking purely from our deployment pipeline. This is most likely not for serving pure static pages, 'data-pages' I think you are referring to. This is just to serve the images and css from a CDN.

On our deployments we wrap up all the static pages, they get to S3 which goes to cloudfront. The link for cloudfront is generated on the fly and then injected back into wherever that asset was called.

This tutorial gets you a pretty good start and doing just that.
I had a similar experience with painting walls.
The post says that latency is an issue. In this case I would look at using Kinesis (AWS's hosted Kafka equivalent) which can barf data directly into Redshift (as I understand it; haven't used this functionality.)