skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: Nova Albion is named after Britain because it was claimed by the English privateer Francis Drake during his circumnavigation of the world.

Another fun fact: Drake's circumnavigation was only the second one on record, after the Magellan expedition. Nobody had done it in the intervening 55 years.
That's a phone not a pocket calculator. This is a pocket calculator: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c...
Are there companies in the US that will buy a house you pick and rent it to you?
Guess again. All that storage represents a virtually limitless crypto-space within which intellectual property rights holders can create one-time-pads, and disenfranchise future consumers with.

When combined with ubiquitous 4G coverage, all they'll ever need to stream are the limitless persistent auth tokens, as locking and unlocking assets as frequently as bandwidth will allow, while remaining profitable.

I bet some of the greediest and most tyrranical IP controllers will have 1:1 authentication ratios, with each and every text character, audio sample and pixel per video frame, such that they'll never reduce bandwidth, and even create backlogs of access history, for billing purposes, when network connectivity returns.

Yes, because you accessed five seconds of full motion video, and witnessed content in which Lady Gaga's eyes moved five pixels to the left, while she pronounced a fricative syllable in the third verse of her top 40 hit single, you now owe Viacom 1/20th of one cent. NOTE: Costs do not include third-party fees covering closed-captioning for the hearing impared.
The people you mention who got hired into successful businesses as non-founders and got rich (by my definition) were not hired as individual contributors.

It's entirely possible (likely, even) to get rich, even by my definition, if hired as a CEO into most unsuccessful large corporations, let alone successful ones.
The hot-standby approach, using VRRP to manage a floating address between the two boxes does work and fails over quickly ( unnoticeably to most clients ) but getting it set up correctly is a project.
You explained it better than me: "Science is great. It's the best thing we've got for finding out the truth about nature. But sometimes science gets arrogant and ignores anecdotal evidence even when it is so widespread that some of it almost certainly is from reliable observers."
Correct me if I'm wrong but looks like a marketing stunt, there is nothing "realtime" about it, check the network log. While it's all nice and flashy with nice transitions, there is no way you can follow what's going on. The only information that is readable are country statistics.

Galncing at the source it seems that all the "updates" are just startup number + random value.
Not so much for single family detached houses, but built-to-rent apartment buildings are becoming a fairly popular investment class. Real estate has generally used different capital structures for tax reasons (REITs) and to access the artificially subsidized by the federal government individual mortgage market, but there are now funds which buy distressed or underpriced real estate and convert it en masse into rentals, and companies building various kinds of multifamily dwellings-to-let.
GRE score disparities, and their negative effect on diversity in engineering
How does the "Taxi and Limousine Commission" have the jurisdiction to seize someone's car?
I'd play that. Maybe put up a "coming soon" and collect my email in the meantime? :)
>Zero employees that I know have over $1 million in assets

You don't know anyone who has been at google / apple / facebook / amazon / microsoft / etc for more than a couple years, had a few notable accomplishments, and been promoted once or twice?
The "share-icon war". The new browser-war that will haunt us for years. We'll be cross-device share icon compatibility experts.
The Real Math Explanation of Silicon Valley's Dick Joke
There's also the great David Rumsey collection, viewable online: http://www.davidrumsey.com
That's not how the system works anymore. FFEL which was the government guaranteed but bank issued student loans was ended in 2010. Now almost all student loans are made directly by the government (Stafford, PLUS, & Perkins), with a small rump private student loan industry. Those loans are non-dischargeable but not government guaranteed.

If this had been an actual article rather than a puff piece for SoFi, presumably that would have been made that a lot clearer.
You don't have a chance. Eye-tracking has been an integrated part of VR headsets for years, since the 80's, and is well and truly sealed up with patent protection. That there are no consumer-ready, plug and play products on the market today is actually a reflection of this fact, not a consequence of omission. The people with these patents are using them in industrial/medical/military/marketing applications - but the consumer version of this tech is well and truly on its way.

Once the glasses-computing wheels start to turn for consumers, expect to see integrated eye-tracking become a stock standard.
Oculus Game "Lucky’s Tale" Will Blow Your Mind
Yes. Lua, JavaScript, Ruby (http://www.rubymotion.com), Java, C#, and pretty much any language that can talk to C (that's almost all of them) and embed and disable JIT (harder for some).

It doesn't mean it's easy to write an app though because you need to make a bridge to C and Obj-C. The languages above, people have already done so through varying techniques.
The development has been glacial bordering on non-existent since launch on digg reader. The betaworks team that created it was able to do so in a matter of weeks– after re-writing and launching the new digg on a similar timeframe – which makes me think the current lack of progress is because they've moved on to other things (Instapaper, for one).

It's too bad, digg reader had a lot of promise.
That's nothing. I get tulip prices on my Bloomberg terminal.
> He's trying to deduct both his actual costs and the standard cost, which is obviously double-deducting.

What? How do you get double deducting out of this? I only see a desire to deduct 55c/mile. If the actual costs are only 30c, that's not double deducting, that's just having a deduction that's larger than raw costs. Deductions that are larger than raw costs exist all over the place. The concept isn't strange even if this particular rule disallows it.

> GP is being rewarded by saving on fuel-- his cost is only 30c/mile compared to the standard of 55c/mile.

Except he paid higher up front for that fuel saving. And he pays higher taxes without that deduction.
> In other words, a house in San Francisco may be more secure than a bank vault in, say, China, as far as wealth preservation is concerned.

But wouldn't a bank vault in America be an even better choice than a house in SF? Why aren't these wealthy Chinese people making more liquid investments once they've moved their money abroad?
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Xe.com has been doing that for at least a couple of weeks as well. I'm not sure where they're getting the numbers from though.
Springy: A force-directed graph layout algorithm in JavaScript
My favorite sentence is "biracial woman mistakenly identified as white". Racial profiling right there. There is no valid reason to even consider if someone's skin is tanned or genetically darker for purposes of taxi regulation. I would led it slide for maybe a dermatologist.
>Because your statement doesn't make much sense for the former, and is still wrong for the latter (science showed plenty of interest before the recent live-specimen discovery, though the popular media, at least briefly, became more interested when a live specimen was found.)

Thanks for correcting me.

Now tzs also has a much better example than me :-)

>When and where were you taught that?

Primary school I think.
Honestly, I'm disappointed by Apple! I've been on Yosemite since day one and I'm not happy. Colors are inconsistent, some are too bright (folders, the backward/forward arrows), some of the icons are pretty ugly (Finder). System Preferences is a mix of different style icons as well. I hope all this mess to get fixed with the next update. Just compare to, for example, elementary OS (http://elementaryos.org/). Windows 8.1 is also way more consistent. I'm really disappointed to see the once leader in UI delivering this!
I'm sitting in an office about five minutes from Arana Hills right now (in Mitchelton)!
Probably not directly, but via the police. Remember that the article indicates that some sort of legal kerfuffle took place, and it may be reasonable to assume that at some point the police got involved. This makes sense as the man was suspected of being an illegal cab driver, in which case it is easy to seize the car as "evidence" or as an asset/instrument in the alleged crime.
Hmm. So now I need a device that consumes random amounts of power to mask my TV?

On a side note, has anyone looked into the wireless protocol that these smart meters use? I'd love to be able to read my own meter…
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Yes. This article is just as much about a ridiculous misstep by the Taxi & Limousine Commission as it is about racism.
At 20 years old I think it's important to keep the cash liquid and safe. There's so much that can change in your life that the money can come in handy for, and there are so many ways that access to that money could change your life.

That said, in the US, it's also a good opportunity to max out a Roth IRA every year. There's a lot of upside to Roth IRAs and not too much downside: you can deduct your contributions anytime without any penalty or taxes. And in retirement years, the gains can be withdrawn tax free. In a Roth IRA you can hold a wide variety of assets, real estate trusts, and metals.

But overall I'd just hold onto the money as money and treat it as a rainy-day fund for the rest of your life.
I suspect if you selected 5% of the most "useful" articles you'd miss out almost nothing and be able to pack in a very small size actually.
If cold war communist Russia became the limit now, I'm sorry to say that we're screwed.
From what I can see, Postgres-XC is the original project but Postgres-XL is sort of a 'stable fork'.

Its very murky and to be honest, very frustrating. I just want a Postgres that scales and doesn't cost me $$$ like FoundationDB does. The Postgres-XC team is far too insular and dont seem to care about outside users. I hope Postgres-XL can inspire them to push ahead and then hopefully we can see a postgres 9.4 based postgresql clustering soloution for write scalability. (and no Pgpool-2 doesnt count)
Yeah. What happens is that you are giving one more party - the VPN provider - access to your data.
NSA: Our Systems Are So Complex We Can’T Stop Them From Deleting Evidence
Like the grandparent poster said, it mostly has to do with culture. It's a common thing to buy housing as a place to put money in China, which is why there are whole ghost cities that no one lives in and places where the home ownership rate is 200%, ie on average each person own two homes. They also view buying abroad in places like the US as a safe place to store wealth.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/12/20/ken-deleo...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/10/28/in-china-the...
The story is about a couple suing the taxi commission over racial profiling. Sure it doesn't matter what color skin they have but id hardly call explaining the situation, how and why the couple arein the right to be whitewashing the story. How would you propose the author should have tippy toed around the color of their skin while still explaining exactly what they are suuing over, - which by the way, is the fact that the commission mistakingly labeled her as white being part of the problem.
There are a lot of factors. I'll point out two:

1. Negative real interest rates.

2. It's easier to protect your identity/privacy. Notably, real estate agents and title insurers are exempt from having to file Suspicious Activity Reports with the Treasury Department.
Here's another one:

US Naval Research published the TorCoin protocol last week to encourage growth of the dark web. When asked how TorCoins would develop enough value to compensate the nefarious relays, one author stated that he hoped the public would speculate on it as an investment, "just like Dogecoin".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850492
Ask HN: Does a front-end JavaScript framework impact team structure / behavior?
Our team is going to start using AngularJs and I’m keen to understand what (if any) impacts these frameworks could have on the team and how best to deal with them.

I’m pretty confident there will be learning curve to deal with, but also potentially more separation of skills.

Great to understand people’s experiences and how to best organise the team and dev process to better use these frameworks.
It's not that simple. NLP has gotten good enough that there actually are systems which can answer questions like that. IBM's Watson can quickly sort through a massive number of documents for an answer. There are projects that have built massive databases of common sense knowledge like Cyc, which could possibly answer that question. And then large databases of human responses like cleverbot which probably already has been asked that at least once and can find it in it's database.
I assume they're talking about fiber optics, or something similar. An optical fiber "wire" made of silica or plastic carries photons the way copper carries electrons. Most telecom trunks use them these days.

The only thing is that I've never heard of fiber optics being used inside a machine, only to connect one machine to another. I imagine the principles are similar, though.
I would led it slide for maybe a dermatologist.

It's medically relevant far beyond dermatology; having darker skin than normal for one's racial background can be a symptom (e.g., of primary adrenal insufficiency), while knowing a patient's racial background can be important for diagnosing and treating diseases which are far more common in some racial groups than others (e.g., drepanocytosis).

But absolutely agree that it is not relevant to taxi regulation.
And I'm fifteen minutes away in the suburb of Virginia, wondering if anyone will ever steal Breaka Beach at Southbank?
A few reasons: Houses are perceived as good stores of values as prices in the Bay Area generally trend upwards. There is more trust in a house vs the stock market (or the investor has a diversified position and real estate is part of that diversification). Cash sitting in a bank is getting devalued with inflation. Real estate can also generate rent if you don't reside there.

Another angle, the house may be owned in another person's name, then the illiquidity is an advantage. The other person who you trust, may still be tempted to use tiny bits of large chunk of cash if its sitting in a bank account. Meanwhile selling a house is a pretty big deal.

The reason for not keeping the house in your name are possibly related to avoid the local government's oversight into your assets, etc.
Thanks for pointing that out. It was an odd edit, and we've reverted the title.

The article itself has been flagged by users. Rightly so, I'd say, since it doesn't report an interesting new phenomenon or offer insight.
A major problem I can see is that the more interesting a problem becomes, the more impossible to visualize. You might visualize a system of linear equations when it is 3 dimensional. But try visualizing a system with 1000 dimensions. It breaks down very easily. In the end my opinion is that one is simply going to be better off learning to think critically and in the abstract.

Again just my opinion - those who say they are better at visual problems often just need to practice more without the crutch.
How fundamental are we talking here? Is npm still going to be a couchapp?
You're not responding to the comment you think you're responding to.
Warren Buffet likes companies with strong revenues and profits, and importantly, companies that pay shareholders/owners. Nasdaq Composite is largely tech companies whose main value is growth potential and most of their profits get reinvested in the business.
Perhaps, but "feelings" are more complicated than that. Pain isn't just a little flag that gets set to TRUE. At the very least, it's rewiring your neurons to avoid that experience, initiating instincts, and affecting your entire brain.
Well, I don't know about that. Some concepts are just abstract and don't have a distinct pictorial representation. For example, "save" is a pretty simple and easily understood concept but the best icon we have is at this point comically antiquated, and it offers zero clues to the uninitiated. But we haven't found anything that more fundamentally represents the concept.

Which I think is actually kind of ok, because again not everything has a simple obvious icon. Some things might be better served with just standardizing on an abstract and distinct shape. Newcomers may not know what a floppy disk is but they will learn the association anyway. And it just becomes one of those cool bits of lore that nerds like, double win!
This is friggin hilarious.
Ok, ok, this is just hilarious.
Anecdotally, Brazilian churrasco could be mistaken for Argentinian beef jerky.
So kids that can't afford/qualify for a top school would also face much higher student loan interest rates. Humm... that doesn't seem that much different from "tax the poor" style of economics.

Perhaps schools with a lower default rate should get a higher interest rate... the banks are leaving money on the table. Students attending schools with a higher default rate should get the lowest rate and more government support (grants/bursaries/scholarships).

Or perhaps the student loan "industry" should not be focused on how to make the most money from students. It should be focused on higher graduation rates, higher paying employment for graduates, and perhaps even employment in strategic fields (i.e. increase the amount of loans available for engineering, compsci, whatever fields will be important in 10 to 20 years).

And private industry (aka the banks) should not be in the business of student loans at all. It should be 100% government funded and run, with the goal of being a non-profit. It's hard for me to see any added value that private industry brings to the table for it's "share of the profits" (do they help sell a student on getting a loan? is servicing/tracking a loan so complex that the gov't couldn't easily run a loan servicing application?).

Profit is the incorrect incentive for student loans (again it should be graduation rates, higher paying employment, perhaps even employment in strategic fields).
Can't wait to compare this with Spotify.
Asset forfeiture: "Asset forfeiture is a form of confiscation of assets by the state, pursuant to law. It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instrumentalities of crime."

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture

What bothers me about this practice is that a person's assets - possibly assets like a car, that the person depends on for their livelihood - can be seized without the person having been convicted of any crime. This seems to be a blatant violation of due process.
I was under the impression they used standard cell phone networks.
Usually the optical port is an easier interface. There are python libraries around somewhere I believe. Ping me on email and I'll follow up with my contacts.
If you have the credit I'd buy $500,000 worth of rental properties. Ideally I'd get 10 x $50,000 putting down $10,000 each. You'd need a bit extra for closing costs, so you can just buy 9.

If done right, you should be earning over $15,000-$20,000 a year in rental net income. Spend that money as freely as you'd like, making sure you keep aside 3-6 months of mortgage payments in cash.

Learn how credit works, and feel comfortable buying a car with little money down at 1% interest, rather than reducing your asset value buy buying a car with all cash.

You should read more about this but that's my suggestion, best of luck.
> A lot of the buyers right now ... [are] newly minted Chinese millionaires.

Can you provide data or cite a source to substantiate that claim? I live in SF and the data I've seen suggests it's < 2% (by property count, not dollar volume)
NSA is already acting like it's "too big to comply", so it actually doesn't sound too far fetched:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/too-big-comply-n...
I don't know the meaning churrasco has in the US but it quite literally means barbecue. So you can have a churrasco, you can go to a churrascaria, etc but it has nothing to do with beef jerky.
I just wanted to make a couple of comments;
1. I think that when something is new, like Google Glass or occulus rift, we (as nerds) tend to think it's the future because it hasn't been possible before before we have quite worked out when it's most applicable. Giant displays are awesome when you're brainstorming a topic with people in the room, which is what maker spaces seem to be about.

I can see glass being good for things like surgery, where you need to concentrate your attention on something, but would like some extra data to be easily available.

VR might be a substitute for live brainstorming sessions, and it might allow you to visualise in new ways. But latency is going to be killer across remote locations, and that's a big challenge in terms of infrastructure.

2. I'd imagine as these types of techniques become commonplace, we'll have to learn more stats.

You could also apply clustering and neural nets to a lot of data sets, but yeah - maybe we'll all have to become statisticians.
For a database it would be not having a load balancer at all and performing connection pooling / failover at the client.
There are too many list, but I will name a few. If you want a thorough list, head over to the Firefox OS section on Bugzilla.

-Default applications, such as Settings, will intermittently go completely blank. If you zoom out to list all applications, it will look normal, but when you zoom back in, the screen is completely blank.

-Group messages (MMS) are barely functional. You can receive them and initiate them in an unorthodox manner, but you cannot partake in group conversations, nor are they properly displayed as a single thread.

-You cannot add import .ics files to use in the Calendar application. You cannot create recurring events. It's as basic as a calendar can get.

-The clock application doesn't display world time.

-The OS will claim that a SIM card is not inserted when you power on/reboot the phone, even though you can still make calls and send texts. You need to enable and then disable airplane mode in order for it to acknowledge the SIM card (necessary for the Usage application).

-The browser doesn't support extensions. So far, you have tabbed browsing, and you can clear your cookies and your history. That's it.

-Since I last updated my phone, it returns to 100% brightness every time I wake it up from standby. This means that I essentially use the display/brightness settings as my home screen so that I can lower the brightness every single time I want to use my phone (this might be ZTE's fault, but I didn't have this problem before the recent update).

Even my old feature phones from many years ago support some of these features, like proper group messaging. Some of these bugs and feature requests have existed for nearly 2 years on Bugzilla. Nevertheless, I'm enjoying the phone, and I love it when the Marketplace gets updated with new applications to check out. I'm really looking forward to the 2.0 update, and I hope that ZTE rolls it out to the Open C, unlike how they completely abandoned support for the original Open.