skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Where I live it is normal to have furniture made of wood that is a hundred years old and it will be around for many more generations, if they decide to keep it.*

That's great if you're well-off or one of your ancestors was. If you're trying to furnish an apartment on a tight budget, you are not going to get 100-year-old handcrafted hardwood no matter where you shop. You're basically saying "cheap furniture sucks because it's not as good as expensive furniture," which is obviously true but not really a useful observation.
Ashkenazi Jews have been doing crowdfunding for books for hundreds of years. It's called Prenumeranten (פרענומעראנטען) and the standard backer's reward is the backers' names published as a thank you in the book, sometimes mentioning their hometowns too.

This link is temporarily offline, but has a ton more information once it's back up:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/infofiles/prenumeranten.ht...

Prenumeranten are a very useful resource for genealogists.
Because pretty soon you will deal with a non US currency.....

For a "datatype" as commonly needed as "money", it has always struck me as strange that a more standardized and widely agreed upon approach to dealing with them, have not emerged.
Your source that US internet is competitive is not a reliable one, as it lumps together business connectivity and residential connectivity. The average residential connection in the US is a joke compared to any other developed country, in both performance and price.
Water flows uphill? Maybe, in California drought
Birthdates (which can include times) shouldn't use them.

I don't understand why you don't want to use timezone with birthdates(with time). Can you explain this, please?
When doing a time trial on a road circuit, corner exit speed is a really good gauge at how well you've performed in a corner. Probably more crucial when you're by yourself, learning a track, or doing qualifying though. When between other cars you've got other constraints.
Ask HN: Do we have too many APIs?
In the world of web/mobile based software platforms, do we have too many APIs that are treated as black boxes by most of the developers? Is there a need to evaluate an API before using it? Most APIs are used to fetch data from a variety of web services. If a web service is down a large number of businesses have downtime. Example: If Facebook decides to shutdown API access, a lot of web applications will break. A lot of businesses are built assuming Facebook API will always function. What happens if they stop?
IKEA would blow Tokstok and the like out of the water in both quality and price.

Besides crazy import laws, what I see as the major blocker there is that Brazilians are not very fond of self-service stores and of having to carry their purchased stuff home and assemble it themselves.

Of course IKEA could try what they do in places like China, where they partner with a local company for delivery/assemble. But then maybe the price for that service would be a factor.
You can get a map on the way in. I'm not sure you can blame IKEA for your S.O. choosing to browse all day.
I live in Thailand. The selection here is somewhat limited and phones are typically more expensive than phones in the states.

I picked up a white Lenovo s820 [1][2] for ~$230 without a contract. I saw someone else mention in the thread that "they didn't know Lenovo made phones" - which was me as well before I went shopping for a new phone!

The s820 fit my criteria of thin, light, 4.7" screen and decent specs better than everything except the HTC One X. As a satisfied former Ideapad owner, I felt comfortable going out on a limb that Lenovo's notebook quality would generalize to its smartphone offerings.

So far (~4 months), it has. Apart from the somewhat disappointing camera quality, I've been really pleased.

[1] - http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_s820-5486.php

[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpnOMAp8I6M&t=1m44s
OLS is a special case of ElasticNet, Lasso, and ridge regression with the regularization parameters set to zero. (The latter two are also special cases of ElasticNet with one of the two regularization parameters set to zero.) In the presence of many predictors or multicollinearity among the predictors, OLS tends to overfit the data and regularized models usually provide better predictions, although OLS still has its place in exploratory data analysis.
Lanyon, a Markdown web server in Go
Also note that your code is for a differentiable finite approximation, unless you implement unlimited zoom.
It's signalling. An employer that refuses to negotiate is looking for employees that are easily bullied. If they have lots of candidates to choose from who allowed themselves to be bullied, they can get away with this. Do you really want to work for them? I would consider it good luck to be able to get out of a bad situation before you potentially put yourself in a situation you cannot get out of (because of leases/house purchases, loss of time and money moving for the new job, contracts, etc)
I think you can actually do that now. Although I believe it syncs everything you buy/get from any device. So it's not as selective where you can just press 'Download' and it goes to the device you choose.
It's probably worth mentioning that Blue is more than a curiosity. It really is a profoundly moving film - one of Jarman's finest. If the synopsis of it on IMDB appeals at all I'd encourage you to track it down.
> The internet companies need to lobby, sure, but they also need a "hook." And "openness" and "neutrality" which are words that resonate in Silicon Valley on their own are not ones that resonate in Washington.

What about 'unleash competition in the ISP industry'? This seems like a really easy sell--the infrastructure business is a natural monopoly, but there is no good reason to allow the infrastructure owner to control who can serve bits over it. Our current situation is like your power company getting to decide what devices you can plug into your outlets (and trying to shake down device manufacturers for permisson to use the outlets).
> Do you mean that TextSecure may send encrypted messages to contacts who don't have it?

Of course not. The recipient would see unreadable ciphertext. What I'm saying is that SMS carries some metadata which identifies the message as coming from TextSecure. This enables one TextSecure client to detect the presence of another without the TextSecure-Server, and offer the option of establishing a secure session. In this case key exchange is performed over SMS.

I'm not sure I understand your first bullet point. The preimage space of what? In what way do you propose to use the entropy of text messages or call logs?
The Germans will say you need to take your eyes off the road for far too long to be safe in order to operate a touch screen, compared to using a scroll wheel with tactile feedback........
should do a roomba pattern. random coverage, and guarantee to get stuck in a inverted polygon face as soon as you leave the room thinking the build will still for an hour.
I don't know, I followed the thread and it didn't seem conclusive, esp with the main criticizer stating "OTOH, it's a neat example of a fixed precision integer type"

I use it a lot, and yes, it is missing some casts but you can cast to decimal and go from there:

select '42.00'::money::decimal;

I've also used stripe, and maybe it's a javascript thing, but they represent all their money in cents. Personally, I'd rather use the money type, it is easy for me to reason about.
Keeping speed avail allows one to sanity check other variables. So if you are coming in hot, speed tells you. It also helps you guage feel--like tires or traction variances over the track--by eliminating another degree of freedom.
Honest suggestion: Change the tagline to "less than 1000 lines" or exclude the GUI or whatever, but don't just not include line breaks anywhere.

You have 7 very sensible, and indeed admirable, style guidelines and while no line breaks only clearly violates one of them (PEP8), it's not really in the spirit of the others either. I opened gui.py and immediately was overwhelmed, rather than compelled to dive in and digest your small codebase.
It's not an RRT[1] if it doesn't employ a Voronoi bias to sample within the largest Voronoi cell. Since the first paragraph describing the "RRT" implementation admits it didn't explore properly, it really wasn't an RRT. This is a pity, because a proper RRT (or better still, a PRM[2] with the monster walking every edge) would really have been a great way to handle this!

[1] Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree. Without the Voronoi bias it's not rapidly-exploring, so it's just a random tree (RT) instead.

[2] Probabilistic RoadMap. Similar to an RRT except that samples are connected to all close samples within some neighbourhood function.
The author has done nothing wrong. You can legally combine GPL-licensed code with code licensed under a GPL-compatible license. The author's code is licensed under the ISC license, which is compatible with the GPL.

(Of course, anyone distributing this project will need to comply with the terms of the GPL since it contains GPL-licensed code.)

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC
The best I can find is this:

http://www.ce.org/CorporateSite/media/Standards-Media/DTV_De...

But it's consistent with your previous comment, in that it only defines HDTV, not "High Definition" as a generic term.

But given that HDTV is what caused "HD" to enter the vernacular, you'd have to be pretty dense to call something HD Video when it doesn't meet the HDTV standard. That would be like burning an .avi to a CD-R, and calling it a Digital Video Disc because it's a disc with digital video on it.

Interestingly, the PDF above suggests that you could have a 960x720 4:3 display that shows letterboxed 16:9 at 540p, and still call it an "HDTV".
"One reader said it was simply a “buyers’ market,”"....

It still seems in poor taste and I'm glad it is public.
Obama Administration proposes massive increase in H-1B visas
Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece
Windows XP Declines To Die, Sheds Mere 1.5% Market Share In April
I'm more and more concerned that the legal and cultural environment for web scraping would make it hard for a company like Google or Yahoo to be founded today.

The internet isn't about "don't take my stuff", it's about spreading that stuff around. I'm confused by people who want to make their data public, but want to control exactly how people access it.
Used to work on Palm webOS, now on my third generation of Nokia Lumia phones. Really love the Windows Phone UI, don't want to be stuck in the iOS ecosystem. Have dabbled with Android, but now only user it in tablet form.
PHP is a fractal of bad design? Hardly.
How well does the Linux port perform?
Why would you want a car in Singapore?! how much would you pay to the occasional cab?

just checked online, if i walked from downtown to the airport it would be 2h :)
"In design terminology, ‘chrome’ refers to the non-webpage parts of the browser’s interface – the toolbars, tabs and buttons – because our design philosophy was “Content, not chrome” – putting our focus on minimizing the amount of browser UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name the browser Chrome"

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-chrome-reason-revealed
I keep seeing the uuid idea for pkeys, but have yet to see them used by any big site. Last I looked, twitter, facebook are using bigints all over the place. Also, instagram went bigint and blogged about it here http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha...

Also, I tried the uuid extension once... It is not well supported, had to make a small change to a c header file to get it to compile on ubuntu, for dev on os x I think I gave up.
Not sure if it's what happened here, but - companies will sometimes "test the waters" in Canada and iron out the kinks before coming to the US. If they screw up, it's on a much smaller stage, and it can be fixed more quietly.
Very cool! Though it looks like "less than 600 lines" made you write awfully styled code :/
It would be nice if scikit-learn included an "autolearn" function based on this flow-chart.
Arduino Vs. Raspberry Pi: Which Is The Right DIY Platform For You?
I have to say I think crypto currencies is an area where the keep it simple approach is extremely beneficial. If it means fever optimizations, and leads to a greater dependency on off chain transactions, so be it. For genuinely wide spread adoption, more important than speed and transaction volumes, are an ironclad faith in the integrity of the underlying code itself.
Not true in Porsche's case, certainly.
This is the first project I've backed on kickstarter - I often miss events, mostly concerts, that come through and would love to see what other, like-minded people are doing/thinking of doing.

I also like the idea of having a development blog to follow, hopefully similar to what Chris Granger did with Light Table though perhaps with more technical posts. Are there other examples of good development blogs to follow? Ideally, I'd like blogs where the writer explained choices that s/he had to make.
I wonder how practical it would be to take Bitcoin Core and gradually reduce its # of (non-blank) lines.
I get the reasoning behind it, but I wonder how it affects hiring/retention.
Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in cities database 2014
Not in the long term obviously, but you can't make a product extremely difficult to buy and then complain that everyone is taking the easy route.
Slick, a DB access library for Scala, follows the same license pattern.

http://slick.typesafe.com/doc/2.0.1/extensions.html
Interesting that there is a supply chain for these parts, i.e. McLaren sell instrumentation goodies to their rivals. Volume levels cannot be that high, even if the margins are good. Why don't they keep things to themselves?

With the steering wheel moving it looks like digital rather than an analogue style gauge is how information gets best presented as far as speed is concerned.

Note that when Lewis Hamilton moved to Mercedes he got the engineers to strip back the 30+ knobs and buttons to be something more like what you might find on a consumer steering wheel for an F1 game. Hence I don't think the featured steering wheel is optimal or likely to be the best.
Not completely by the specification, but I think this one works as expected.

user-agent: *
disallow: /

user-agent: Googlebot
allow: /
It's always easier to negotiate downward than it is upward. I always throw out ridiculous hourly rates that always get cut in half or more, but it's still more than I would make regularly.
Is mega taken seriously? I thought there was a security hole found not long after they launched.

How about Tarsnap for online backups... http://www.tarsnap.com
This is related to how Bitcoin gambling sites can be made to be provably fair.
Leests - http://leests.com

It was created to be more than just a Craigslist clone, to improve local and eventually national listing of anything anywhere with a vision to change how people buy and sell adding trust/safety and improved communication and simplicity in the process as well as being developer friendly by being a platform to build on.
This was also posted on The Witness blog if you'd like to see more comments.

http://the-witness.net/news/2012/12/mapping-the-islands-walk...
Here's an idea: Google, Twitter, FaceBook, Amazon, etc. all slow traffic to their sites, along with a clickable notice at the top suggesting they take action to prevent future slowdowns.
Well, the alternative to using the city's eminent domain based right-of-way would be to negotiate with each property owner on an individual basis.

Cable franchise fees appear to be ~5% max (federal law), but ~3% seems to be more common (don't take that as solid -- it's based on a couple of minutes of Googling).

Figure a cable bill of ~$100/month. The city will get $3.00 of that.

It seems unlikely that property owners in general would let you run cables across their land for a measly $3.00/month. I wouldn't. And remember, that $3.00 only comes from the ones that are cable subscribers. The actual amount paid to the city is going to be somewhat less (it will vary depending on how many subscribers there are).

So, yeah, it looks like the cities are undervaluing the right-of-way access considerably.
Normally, I would immediately judge this kind of thing as fake. That is, until they decided to silently ignore[1] federated XMPP servers, turning gtalk (err, "hangouts"?) into more of a walled garden. Now, I'm not sure, because if decided to un-federate port 5269/tcp, the idea of doing it to 25/tcp is suddenly plausible.

[1] yes, "ignore" - they didn't even bother sending a NAK, so subscription requests end up looking still-pending or lost from the outside
The docs say "don't use time with time zone".

That's very different than timestamp with time zone, which you should be using unless you have a very good reason to not.
From their readme-

"The test was only set to reach up to 100 concurrent connections (each sending 1000 messages per second) - Total of 100K messages per second."

So they had only 100 concurrent connections.
Show HN: Gistrant – Anonymous, Persistent Ranting
San Fransisco is a dirty, two-fisted drinking town.

I grew up in the Bay and my family has been there 4 generations now. The tech sector is a small part of SF and SF is a small part of the Bay and California as well. There are millions of teachers, janitors, dentists and accountants that live in the Bay too. Most of these people couldn't care less about tech. They care about Prop 13. The care about the police; my town was a This American Life special [0] on corruption. They care about traditions and family; Pittsburgh is owned by old mafiosi from way back [1]. They care about stable jobs; Telegraph is nothing but burning out asians and burnt out hippies [2][3]. They care about fun and freedom; SF clears out for the Burn every year more and more [4]. Tech, though rich, is a fad and we can all see it. The impression I get is that it's a bunch of trustafarians and credit cards playing around because there still aren't any good jobs left over from 2008 and no-one knows what to do 6 years on.

SF will be who lives, works, goes to PTS meetings, runs for Geary Revitalization seats, goes to A's and Raider's games, and cleans the streets. Not doughy guys staring at screens and pretending they can make Soylent real (really, how uncool can you be?) Unless it's got bourbon in it, most people in the Bay could care less.

[0]http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/447/t...

[1]http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/San_Jose_crime_family

[2]http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data

[3]http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Council_4/Elected_Officials_and...

[4]http://blog.burningman.com/2013/09/news/black-rock-city-2013...
How many simultaneous connections are you able to achieve?
That's a cool experiment. It's always neat to see people trying new, weird ways to run a company.

That said, I would predict the following:

- As the company grows, they have trouble hiring specialists or more senior people, since they're competing with other companies for those people, but without the flexibility to offer a comparable salary. They could solve this by paying their highest-paid person what they're worth, and everyone else the same, but that could be prohibitively expensive.

- The need will develop for people who, though valuable, are plentiful (eg, a janitor, but fill in any role here that's generally near the bottom of the pay scale). The decision will be "We'd really like a janitor, but not enough to pay $X", where X is their everyone-salary (which has to be high enough to attract their most valuable people). As such, they'll be hard-pressed to hire roles that aren't really worth that much to them.

Of course, you can solve either of those by having more money than you know what to do with. So, if they're wildly profitable, it's a system that'll keep working.

That's just my prediction, though. I'd love to see a followup blog post in a few years describing how it went.
I would not ever use this personally. I prefer to always type and edit something ahead of time. That's the advantage of typing in the first place. I get to flesh out and edit my thought into a piece of writing, something that truly says what I intend, not the first thing that comes to my mind.
Amazing! I assume it works because everyone is in the same overall ballpark of skills/experience (maybe within a factor of two or something). If you were a law firm and had 60 year old gray beards as well as young interns straight out of school I could see it being a lot more difficult to pull off.
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Can anyone explain how this is not an "obvious" idea so would not be eligible for a patent.
Glenn Greenwald: Personal Gain Over Public Interest
Node.js vs. nude.js
any idea?
I'm shocked you can say these things having worked at a firm that obviously deals with fraud -- which I disagree with you -- is NOT the normal case.

If you're an officer of the court, aren't you obligated to report this? Or is it more likely you're not a lawyer and don't actually understand what's going on?

Disclosure -- I'm an L1-B. I'm paid higher than the prevailing wage. By far.
I'm a little confused why this is on HN...?
I wish you tried to make the code readable rather than making as many 1-liners as you could.
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That's unreal. I remember watching the Senna documentary and at the end of one of the races they had to pry him out of his car, starting with his fingers. His teammates were giving him pats on the back and he just screamed out not to touch him.

Insane.
I've seen one other post like this. Flagged. I assume this community knows how to use craigslist if they need to. Yes rents are expensive, but this is probably a bad deal btw.
3bn Internet users by end of this year
I'm assuming that the vast majority of the time, it's a case of an individual or small group that wants the information, not a real corporation. Usually they have no intention of paying for anything or playing by the rules.

I have absolutely no explanation regarding McAfee though, considering the billions McAfee and its parent company, Intel, makes in revenue yearly.
I think there is a great meta-question in here, about business models for digital data and software.

Here you have a great case study, about an organization that tried to do a volunteer model, and it didn't work. Then they pivoted to a commercial model, but fundamentally they still believe in a free tier. But they have to cripple that free tier pretty thoroughly, and even still people abuse it.

I have a product I'm working on, that some people are apparently willing to spend lots of money on. Ideally I would have some kind of low tier, so that people without lots of money would be able to use it too. But I can't figure out a way to segment the product so that everybody pays what they can afford without bad apples abusing the low tier and ruining it for everybody. The result is that I may end up only selling it to customers with deep pockets, even though the product is much more broadly applicable.
A clone with HTML5 dynamic SVG and Web Audio API:

https://googledrive.com/host/0Bwx2OOXEfCSgejJnZnpnei02QWs/re...
Explainer videos, Adobe style
Adobe comes up with a free app to make explainer videos. How useful are these videos? I get to the video's only if my browse of the site suggested it is what I am looking for and if I still have queries.