skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tips for avoiding fencing contractor scammers    
There's a surprising amount of fencing scammers out there who want your money. Some fence companies are all about trying to come across as legitimate fencing contractors, only to do shoddy work and make off with your cash. So how can you avoid them? Never pay up front for all the work, ask for credentials, references, and proof of insurance, and don't automatically go for the fencing contractors that are willing to charge you the least. They know the tactics that seem appealing. While you're at it, buy your own materials if possible. Most contractors will have no problem with you doing so.
That's an excellent point but I would just temper it with the fact EVs should have lower long term maintenance issues for all non-battery parts. As an aside, I wonder if in 5 years you will be able to upgrade into a more powerful battery.
Microsoft adds Office Online to the Chrome Web Store
Ask HN: How do I buy a house with my stock options as collateral?
Situation summary:
- late twenties, married with kids, Canada
- first employee at a startup
- been working there four years, well below market for most of it, last bonuses for engineering staff were Christmas 2011
- company recently raised money, but with no secondary, nor was I offered a bonus

I'd like to consider purchasing a house, but it's been impossible to save significantly while also supporting a family on a below-market salary. Now that I'm at market, it would be likely a further ~24 months of saving before we could seriously consider buying.

Of course, I'm sitting on a pile of vested stock options which have just been valued (by the financing round) at $xxx,xxx. But I can't use my stock option plan as collateral for a loan, at least at a regular bank.

So my question is, is there some way to finance a mortgage which would recognize my most significant asset?

Alternatively, are there some simple steps my company could take to enable a regular bank to work with my situation?

Thanks for any thoughts or advice.
Golden age of developers is nightmare for Ops
That's orthogonal to the pricing model. Same issue with pay-to-upgarade.
The comic uses 11 bits per 'common word' to get to 44 (there are 11 little boxes by each word in the comic).

Underestimating that value isn't a bad thing.
Carpenter who cut off his fingers makes ‘Robohand’ with 3-D printer
Brilliant idea and nice website.
Ask HN: Looking for programming mentor and/or coding buddy in SF Bay Area
I'm at the very beginning stages of learning to program and would love to connect with someone locally (maybe a few times a week) who is also starting out and want to learn together (or even someone with experience who doesn't mind connecting).

Alternatively, if anyone with experience is willing to find time to help/mentor me, I will be eternally grateful.

I'm also open to suggestions on any of the above. Feel free to message me directly at popcorntimer@gmail.com
XKPasswd – Secure Memorable Passwords
There is a class of people who regard humans (including themselves) as highly advanced and complex robots which slot neatly into worker roles in society, defined by their objective utility. Such a view basically means things that you don't need to function are frivolties and spending resources towards guaranteeing the personal joy of people is an anathema. It kind of seriously makes me consider the "philosophical zombie" hypothesis.
I'm happy to look at what you're doing, since I've spent a lot of time recreating this wheel. Unfortunately I don't see the email address in your profile.
Yeah this is a strange fascination and yeah I can see why they want to add diversity to a show that would naturally not have much.

I must admit Richard is rather frustrating at times. I know I should root for him but man as a leader I hope he really grows. Although I suppose you could see that a little as the episode ended.

The idea of having Big Head on the inside also seems an interesting plot line to me.
Just in case you haven't seen it, http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/whats-new/
>> I also find automated testing, logging, a module system like commonjs, and linters to be useful when programming in javascript

Except when I use JSLint. Talk about bringing you back to Earth when you think you've done something remarkable with JS.
For a non professional who has no business need for the tool, yes.

Then again, those are not the target market.
Having built entire products with a wall of index cards, I firmly believe that fancy project management tools are generally an expensive distraction, especially for startups.

Here's an uber-board that my cofounder and I built:

https://www.quora.com/Startups/Which-is-the-best-To-Do-List-...

In retrospect, it may have been a little excessive; I don't think the backlog needed to be that large. But there wasn't a lot of harm having it, and it made everybody feel better to know that their nice ideas were all in the backlog somewhere.
You're not looking at accurate data. Try again.

And if it's anecdotal quality you're speaking of, try again there too.

I drive a German car, I'm not an American car apologist, but there's no question that the "big 3" have stepped-up their game.

Not to mention, all the Japanese, Korean and even some European cars you mention are actually built in the US.
newtype X = X (IORef Int)
instance Num X where
fromInteger = X . unsafePerformIO . newIORef . fromInteger
instance Eq X where
(X a) == (X b) = unsafePerformIO $ do
x <- readIORef a
y <- readIORef b
writeIORef a $ x+1
return $ x == y

ghci> a <- fmap X $ newIORef 1
ghci> a == 1 && a == 2
True

Edit: formatting.
Seven JavaScript Quirks I Wish I’d Known About
Why You Should Never Read the Comments
I think you will need to make a decision as to whether you are hoping to serve as a proxy login (you log into me with twitter ; i log into them on your behalf) or to have a separate standalone service that's clearly demarcated from the host publisher.

I believe you'll find the former is challenging. It would be against the TOS of most authentication providers to do this as an arm's-length intermediary. I think you could do it as the contracted agent of the publisher (which implies a white-label approach). See, for example, the way JanRain works.

The best examples of the latter I can think of are Disqus, Echo, et al. You might want to check them out.
I can agree somewhat that episode 2 did not have that special something.

An alternative idea I have is that many of use forget what it is like to watch one episode every week instead of getting the whole season at one time. It is painful actually and you really dissect each episode more.
The roadster has a single speed transmission that connects the axels to the wheels. It would be unwise to connect a motor directly to the wheel. The axles are basically the same as with the Prius or any other car for that matter with wheel bearings and CV joints.

For all the parts that are removed there are a couple added, in the recombinant braking system, power control systems and programmable suspension.

The grease in the sealed bearings will break down at some point. A spinning motor especially one in a magnetic field has a very low tolerance for vibration and balance. There is also a great deal of heat generated at high torque. I hear the S is going to have liquid cooling. So there is another system that will need to be addressed.

I would hardly call a Tesla a simple design. Its in fact very complex.
Fireworks has been killed. Since like a year or so.

Adobe just still offers CS6, to eventually kill, and has never upgraded it to CC.

http://blogs.adobe.com/fireworks/2013/05/the-future-of-adobe...
A lot of good comments here, and I think the OP stepped in it a little bit. It should have been a wee bit more obvious that the overlap was likely to cause some concern, so chalk this one up to a professional learning experience, which as others have pointed out could have been a lot more costly.

Another factor, imo, is that regardless of how supportive of open source your employer is, human jealousy and possessiveness still comes into play. Nobody is getting as much work done as they would like, and they never will. When a manager hears about an open source project I guarantee you some little corner of his or her brain feels like they want those hours for themselves. I've seen this emotion inadvertently aired on more than one occasion. If the project in question is truly a side project and truly unrelated then the manager's best course is obviously a held tongue. But it if is potentially competitive? Now the reaction has legitimacy, and for that reason alone it's best to steer well clear of anything that might be a conflict.
I think the key phrase there is "look beyond symbol" - when you're illustrating something that has lettering, for example, one often starts writing out the letters instead of illustrating the shape of the letters.
The same thing commonly happens when drawing eyes - people learn a technique for "how to draw an eye," and when they move on to a full portrait, instead of trying to reproduce or illustrate the image they see before them, they call their internal "draw an eye" function.
The biggest advantage of scripting for me has been

1. Co-routines

Co-routines (co-operative multi-tasking?) mean you can do stuff like

while (isWalking()) {
advance();
yield();
}

This is effectively 'yield' from Python, C#, etc.. You can implement this in C++ by swapping stacks and calling setjmp but there's usually issues.

2. Iteration time

You can usually swap script code live. This project aims to fix that for C++ though I'm a little skeptical it can stay robust

https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC...
What is the value of not participating in a retrograde technological movement ?

What is the value of not having a car that looks brand new and modern with your eyes, and sounds like a chitty-chitty-bang-bang set piece with your ears ?

I just got back from Zurich where I saw brand new MY 2014 A6 and A8 cars driving around ... with TDI ... and they sounded like props from an old railroad farce.

(full disclosure - I own a gasoline powered A8 currently, so there's no hating going on here ... except against diesel)
Seems like an easier solution would be to run Tor on the VPS instead of via his home internet connection. Nice to learn about sshuttle though.
>but you can't change an existing commit - the hash would be wrong.

True - however as long as nobody ever saw that commit, nobody will know. So the only way a git log could ever constitute a proof would be that you immediately push to a tamper-proof audit system right after your commit.
What kind of person doesn't like vaginas? Except gay men, except those of them that do like vaginas in the aesthetic sense. It would be like not liking breasts or abs or butts or legs or penises. I mean, you don't need to like them sexually, it's just that, well, they're nice to look at.
Jeet – A Grid System for Humans
The new academic celebrity
Ziggy Marley a paying customer of Oakland startup (in Dutch)
They will not stand up to the abuse I will put them through.
And then you factor in that Tesla produces the majority of the motor in house from raw materials.
Distributed Learning and Multi-Objectivity in Traffic Light Control
Whenever I'm sitting around waiting for oil change/tuneup/etc for my 2 cars in the family, I am tempted to look into Tesla. Having to sacrifice a Sat/car every few months for oil change really bugs me. Of course oil change itself is quick and cheap, but it’s the time I have to spend.

EDIT: I should've clarified that I don't spend a WHOLE Sat for a car oil change. But for a 30min work on the car, you have to go there, wait to drop off car, listen to dealership clerk going on and on about expensive 'preventive' repair I should get (any my family friend mechanic tells me none needed), wait a few hours (because of other customers at same dealership), and get a ride back dealership to pick up the car. That's like 2-5hrs.

As for going to non-dealer mechanic, well it is hard to find a good mechanic you can really trust. And such mechanics are usually booked.

On my very 1st car last oil change, I got an oil change at a shop I hadn't gone to before, for lack of time. Later I learned the mechanic had jammed the cap to the bottom of the motor oil tank at an odd angle and had just jammed it on, destroying the thread on the tank. One more oil change and it would've meant having to replace the motor oil tank.
Amazon Says No to Bitcoin, Maybe to Building an Amex or Visa Competitor
11 Ways to Build on the Strengths of Your Team Members
As to your i7 costs, lets conveniently ignore the costs of the FAB, the equipment to make that small little piece of silicon is enormously expensive
Oh you've confused an insult for an argument; not surprising for one who prays to the sky. Go find some fellow delusional people in a church or something, this is Hacker News, not the Delusional Daily.
"Arbeit" is a way to free yourself, but it isn't arbitration.
Now even Facebook wants to become a payments company
I'm surprised a Prius V was not included in this matrix. It would seem to fit favorably within the range of features the OP was looking for, but also is efficient, low maintenance, and safe.

I love Tesla, but they are just not there yet on cost.
Multitasking Mayhem and How Daydreaming Can Make You Feel Less Stressed
For those who don't know, SIN = social insurance number. Similar to US SSN.
meh - it is just Javascript. No need to test it.

/s
> My experience has been that a spreadsheet containing all the tasks, issues and risks, with owners and dependencies identified is usually enough.

My experience is that it usually seems at first to be enough, and then at some point you have too much information that needs to go in one cell, and then cell-size limits bite you...

It may be that there are lots of bad project management tools out there and a simple Excel spreadsheet is better than many of those, but its still not a good tool for the use.

OTOH, I would agree that that the real meat of project management is "the actual discipline of discussing them, saying 'No' to lots of things, telling people when you're waiting on things for them, and focusing on the tasks at hand" and that often too much focus is on tools.
> This seems to have no Android equivalent.

Renderscript?
Sorry, That Heartbleed Worst-Case Scenario Is Possible After All
Tech Leads, Managers, and the Hybrid in Between
You could get an effect similar to blur adding many small circles/ellipses around the glyphs[1], but the glyph size would increase significantly and that could be an issue for some rendering engines.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
There's a huge difference between writing open source software that benefits your company and open source software that directly competes with your company's core products. There's plenty of room to find something that wouldn't be a conflict of interest.
Selection bias much? The 500,000 C++ applications that have never blown up in somebody's face aren't discussed on Hacker News.
Nice new approach to web ads!
I think this is a dated perception. JD Power shows a fair showing of American cars in its 2013 initial quality study:

http://autos.jdpower.com/ratings/quality/cars.htm
Or better yet, deterministic public keys like is seen with bitcoin.
EBS is not good, what about ELB?
EBS has very strong performance degradation which makes it inappropriate for usage on database instances. What is next, ELB, your opinion?
Doesn't it just come down to what's in his contract? Many contracts now do include a clause assigning copyright to all employee code (even that written outside work) to the company. I would never sign such a contract, but it's a perfectly reasonable thing to put in one.

In the absence of such an explicit clause I am pretty sure that copyright automatically belongs to the author of the code.
Rest assured, soon there will be only one word, with multiple, conflicting meanings - same as the last hundred or so conflicts. That's living language for you!
Sure. Here's the first specific issue I've encountered.

I want to find out how to install a deadbolt on my door which only has a keyed knob. I'd like to install one on two of the three exterior doors. The doors are steel, and I with my zero-knowledge of home improvement, don't know how, or if I even could, drill holes through them. Because I needed to change the locks right away, I just bought some new doorknobs and changed them all out.

Of course, I didn't realize I got locks that have different keys for each of the three exterior doors. Ugh. They will only have to be temporary.

I _really_ don't want to replace the door from messing up a drilling job. I've spent 20 minutes now researching and only now I'm kind of confident that have the resources to figure out exactly what I need to do.

The best one-stop-shop site for learning I've found is doityourself.com. It has basically all the features I'm looking for - howtos, forums, user-submitted projects, but the site is bloated(just open up dev tools and watch the ocean of requests on pageload). The site is also not responsive.

I already feel overwhelmed at how much I'm going to have to learn to keep my house in good shape for my family. The lack of a good web resource is frustrating. I'm considering attacking this problem as well. Feel free to email me.
Threefish is actually a tweakable block cipher - it takes a 128-bit tweak in addition to the key and the input, so it should be well suited for disk encryption.

It's a bit disappointing that it hasn't seen more uptake since the SHA-3 competition. I think the tweakability and large block size makes it a more flexible primitive that AES, and even naive implementations should be constant-time. It's hard to compete with hardware-accelerated AES, though.
Yammer and EventBrite founders crack the code of parallel entrepreneurship
You are correct... I should have said "the product of combusted hydrocarbons"
Ask HN: 14 days off work, help me pick a project
I've got 14 days off from work and I want to build a SaaS/app to generate some income to substitute my job.

Need help/suggestions on what to build:

A)
Idea: iOS/Android app that lets you "review" Facebook friends anonymously (imagine Amazon style reviews). Reviews are private, only the recipient can read them. E.g. you smell good but your time-keeping is horrible.

Business model: Get acquired.

Issue: Difficult marketing. No income for a while until funded.

B)
Idea: Small entrepreneurs need finance ($5k-$30k to open a local coffee shop), other people have small amounts saved up ($5k-$50k) and don't know where to invest. Solution: Connect these people through a network (imagine linkedIn).

Business model: Entrepreneurs get charged to upload a business plans. Investors get charged a monthly fee to view profiles of entrepreneurs and their business plans.

Issues: Chicken and egg problem.

C)
Idea: Replicate FollowGen:

http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/twitter-should-shut-me-down

This will possibly make me some money until I get shut down, but by then I will have a proper start-up on the side (maybe A or B or other more convoluted ideas).

D)
Idea: Web based server monitoring tool (CPU, RAM, etc...) with a pretty UI, e.g.:

http://dribbble.com/shots/1023229-Ultramarine-Admin?list=searches&tag=dashboard&offset=16

http://dribbble.com/shots/1315388-Dashboard-Web-App-UI-Job-Summary/attachments/184703

Analytics could be stored on the cloud to give web access.

Business model: Subscription?

Issues: Super small market? Sys admins know their command line stuff, no need to buy extra crap.

E) Any other suggestions are appreciated

UX/UI: Pay a designer at the end to build a pretty UI with all the latest.js/one page/flat/parallax and other crap.

Remember I only have full 14 days and then it's evenings/weekends.
Google exec tries to evict tenants, creates a media win for anti-tech protesters
I have a VPS specifically setup for a Tor relay, as well. :) We're moving soon and will likely retire the "home" Tor relay.

Not poor yet, but on my way to being there it'd seem.
"Explicit" option is only option
see also: scanline generator device:

http://arcadeforge.net/SLG3000/Scanline-Generator-SLG3000::1...

(or a XRGB device)

... lots of retro gaming folks use these to emulate CRT artifacts on an LCD panel ...
The main issue is the quality of Google's implementation, don't generalize the language vs implementation.

Apparently they haven't done any changes since JIT was introduced in 2.3 version. Additionally we have ART without any information whatsoever about future plans.
Will this run on a standard heroku stack? The wiki says it will run on OpenShift and CloudFoundry. https://github.com/cantino/huginn/wiki
It specifically states it in the readme that Huginn is a reference to the raven.
Well, once we can solve the problem of the first things to fail, we can work on solving the problem of the next set of things that fail, etc.
That sounds like it might be a really interesting experiment. A potentially even more interesting result might be doing something like this for multiple artists and comparing results. I just need to find a corpus of decent quality photos of artwork for various artists.
In the early days of the automobile, both electric and non-electric propulsion systems were actively researched and developed - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle

So Tesla stands as the most recent and the coolest of a long line of electric cars. Just as they have refined the concept of an electric automobile, the latest diesel technology that Audi is incorporating is a refined clean-buring diesel technology without the baggage of the old smokers.

So I'm not sure which retrograde technological movement you have in mind.
We covered why we're selling in a previous post[0].

The concerns that we have at the moment revolve around the actual process of selling a property on Flippa, for example:

- How do we securely handle the transfer of the website? (it looks like we can take care of domain name transfers with Escrow but what about other parts of the business (e.g. the code, social media accounts etc)

- There seems to be a risk on Flippa that your auction will hit the reserve, you'll be obligated to sell and will be liable for Flippa's 10% success fee and then the sale could subsequently fall through from what I can see, Flippa wash their hands of the process after the auction is finished.

- What other risks are there with selling a SaaS business on Flippa / what steps are critical to a successful transfer / sale that we may not have covered?

Customer support is all dealt with directly via email. In most cases we have canned responses for a lot of the typical support requests that we can respond with.

[0] http://www.sellingstartup.com/why-we-decided-to-sell-our-sta...
The comparison is retail to retail... Not wholesale cost. I'm sure if you need a motor, because yours failed after 6 years, they aren't going to sell it to you for wholesale. And if they are marking up the cost of the car by 400% than if their motor is $5000... you'll be paying $20k
You should explore alternatives to where you get your oil change done. An oil change shouldn't take more than 15-30 minutes at a good local mechanic.
Selling to the wrong customers will kill your startup
Patent Suggests Sony Still Sees Future for Household Robots
I disagree. I think its in everyone's best interests (most especially the employee) to get outside projects approved and in writing.
- How do you service your Tesla? Do you have to go to Tesla-authorized shop or can you do it in any workshop? How does it affect repair and maintenance costs if you have no alternatives?

- What about the 'guaranteed' buyback option? I'd be afraid that a buyback will be the only option to sell your old Tesla, because they won't be re-sellable on a free market without a costly hw/sw upgrade that can be done ONLY by Tesla.

- There's no way to reduce your costs by using third party replacement parts or batteries.

- A single failure can ruin your ROI calculations because the repair costs are hard to predict.

- The market for used Teslas is limited to areas where the charging network is available