skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First impression:

- There is no demo, i can only guess that this is a "browser-based skype". I hate when i can't try it but it's free.

- Open-source, but no git repo?

Btw I had the same idea before (I posted it to an Idea Sunday thread) but I dropped the idea because i realized that no one needs this level of security, NSA is not interested in your chat with family and friends...
You just need to hunt for it a bit, https://library.linode.com/prepaid-billing

Edit: I don't know who downvoted me, moderators fix please?
Build your property (partially) underground? Like this http://www.trendir.com/house-design/grass-roofed-home-built-... or similar. You'd need to deal with waste heat somehow for the infrared signature not to look suspicious. And ground-penetrating RADAR would pick you up as well, I expect.
They don't mention this on the page, but this is an icon font (like FontAwesome). The zip includes CSS/SCSS referencing the ttf, svg, woff and eot files.

Released under MIT + Open Font License
We use hamlc and Backbone.js in our stack. This lib looks like it will simplify a lot of that.

I have a few questions:

1. Its interesting to see JS events specified in the template (e.g. `%a(onclick=@doSomething)`). Is there a way to specify that in the JS/model?

2. Does "Observable" mean that the value is updated when the model changes, when the DOM changes, or both? Could all of the attributes of the object passed into the template be observable by default or would that incur a significant performance penalty?
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That is some interesting stuff. I had to shut off Dropbox sync when it literally filled my hard drive. It sounds like Steem just caches virtual files that link to remote data. I'm curious to see it in action.
Under the same law, it's illegal to put your brew in the freezer to remove the water (freezing point of water is higher than that of ethanol). No chance of harm in that process, yet still severely punished.
When has the law ever been able to prevent the use of technology?
Ask HN: What are your best tips for deciphering code in an inherited project?
I've recently been tasked with restoring an old software toolkit to working order.

Unfortunately, the original project maintainer is no longer available, and the code is about as tangled as a plate of spaghetti. There are lots of outdated dependencies, and documentation is (of course) practically non-existant.
We've all been there, right?

SO: What are your best suggestions for auditing/editing an inherited project, especially one that seems to fight you the whole way?
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Prime factors of 42 at DuckDuckGo
Debit cards are the same as credit cards, but without the credit, the protections, or the reward points. As long as you can maintain financial discipline, there's really no reason to be using a debit card.
Microsoft Unveils Machine Learning Service for Prediction
We get delivery groceries from Stop & Shop (in NYC) and it's great - much cheaper than going to any of the stores around here. The website doesn't look too fancy, but functionally it's totally fine. I think Fairway and Freshdirect also serve the area, but Stop & Shop seemed the cheapest.
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Time to update your account (or it will be disabled)
The Pentagon is trying to make the Internet more anonymous
Alternatively, computing disrupts language: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/10/11/the-mother-of-all-disru...
Get the government out of these areas. You can't have regulatory capture without government regulation.
Seattle Pays $47.5k to Improve Google Search Results of City Administrator
This game is quite confusing even if you speak French.

Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.
I was actually wondering the other day if this sort of thing was bound to show up sometime soon, although I'm not qualified to think through the logistical implications. I had been reflecting on my savings account claiming to be "compounded daily!" despite only showing me the result of that compounding on a monthly basis, and wondering whether it was a technical, legal, or some other reason that they couldn't show me a daily update. That got me thinking about the almost "instant" nature of Bitcoin and wondering if someone would come up with interest on Bitcoin and give you daily, or for that matter, instantaneous, updates on your interest amount. I can see no mathematical reason why it should not be possible in either currency, although I suppose it might simply be more "fun" than useful or necessary in either case.
Great looking site but what makes this "The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever"? There seem to be dozens of bike registries. It would be nice to see some sort of data sharing between them.
Avoiding system call overhead and the GPL. I suspect most of the performance improvement has nothing to do with being in userspace, but people use that term as a shorthand to refer to a whole collection of techniques like polling, batching, not performing routing/filtering, etc.
IE6 has already happened. It is called Native Client in Google Chrome.
I don't agree with that sentiment. I think your pattern detector is only taking in account on how grocery shopping is currently done. When you introduce something new into the system, it may not adhere to the same rules. There are many cases when convenience will trump price. Say you need to buy items from 10 different stores. I would rather use a service that goes to 10 different stores for me, than have myself drive to each store to hunt down each item.

When I use amazon prime, I'm very aware that the prices are sometimes more expensive than a generic brand, but I am willing to pay the small price difference for the 2-day shipping convenience. A study was released on amazon prime shoppers that showed prime customers are less affected by price. The convenience of getting something with 2-day shipping, but with a higher price trumped a cheaper item but longer delivery times. People don't always go for the lowest cost item.
I think the point that they miss is that an overwhelming majority of employees of these "gentrifying tech companies"(which aren't even in SF if you're google, how are they supposed to tell their employees where to live) are still "working class" i.e. "must have a job to pay for their lives." Sure there are billionaires but most engineers in SF are not part of a vast subversive ruling class.

Whatever they think about the evil tech companies, fuck people who sabotage other people's ability to make a living(like that truck driver who dealt with their shit, I'm sure HE is a plutocrat tech overlord right?)
That's blogging on a whole new level.
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Although this is a long article, it's one of the best things I've read about computer literacy, diversity, and being prepared for the future. The main point seems to be that we should teach "computational thinking", first and foremost. Not everyone needs to learn how to "code", in the sense of learning Java syntax or whatever. Even if they couldn't implement the program, it would be helpful if more people in all professions were more comfortable with generally how computers could improve a process in their government or community. Plus, it seems that if you start with that, learning to code per se will be more appealing to a broader group of people. So in that sense it's win/win.
They've developed a new compression algorithm with a Weissman score of 5.2.
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AFAIK - there's always a premium on a buy-out/purchase. I'll try to simplify as much as possible.

If 100 people (shareholders) have 100 apples (outstanding shares) and the current market rate is $10 (stock price) each, it means that when someone wants to buy all 100 apples in one go, you can jack up the price (20% premium) because all of the people (shareholders) relinquish control and therefore give up their position for a premium.

(there's way more nuances here, but basically this is what happens when supply is static and demand for totality exists)
In my country, registering your bike gives you a huge discount on the insurance. Is it common other places, and will a bike registered through this site be eligible for a similar type of discount?

I'd wish more listing sites would have mandatory fields for a bikes serial number, and that people would actually bother to check the registry when buying a bike. Unfortunately, a cheap bike makes many people blind to it probably being stolen.
Looks interesting, but where is the Eris repo? (Note: it's currently private, see Edit 2 below)

It's described as being under MIT but the only repos I find under the Project Douglas Github account are Jekyll-based websites (and forks of Ethereum projects). When I click on the link to the Eris license, I only get a 404.

Is it private now?

Edit: To be clear, I don't blame them if they've made it private. They may have feared a third-party trying to take credit for their project and going after the cash bounty. I'm just interested in looking at the source code, if it's available to the public.

Edit 2: In a reddit post about Eris, the (presumed) developer writes "Repo goes public shortly. Should have a unified method for test driving sometime this week hopefully. (Maybe as early as tomorrow)".
Testing AngularDart Applications
I would if it came with an assurance/warranty for the next 30 years from a company I didn't think would go bankrupt before then.
I've been with them for 4 years and don't see any decline, at all.
No more than dying requires getting shot in the face. But nonetheless getting shot in the face adds considerably to the likelihood of dying.
Just be grateful it's not the one about MRI showing black cab drivers have significantly enlarged hippocampi.

(for those not familiar with cerebral anatomy, the hippocampus is the part of the brain responsible for racism, swearing at cyclists, and tax evasion)
I don't think it's the case for the OP. I do, however, think it's quite common in the IT industry - moreso than the general population. For many Aspies, computers have the benefit of predictability - if the computer isn't doing what you want it to do, you know who's at fault. They might find human interactions baffling, but computers make sense. Additionally, Aspies often have above average to very high intelligence, and IT is kind of limited to smart people. I don't have stats offhand, but I would expect the Aspie percentage in IT to be much higher than the general population, enough to impact behavior within our industry.

I'm sensitive to this issue both from a lot of friends and co-workers with Aspie social problems, and from raising an Aspie child who has a very difficult time communicating.
tl;dr: Engineers think the world would be a better place if only everyone was an Engineer.
In many areas it is just like a drivers license and that regime works pretty well. It's a weird desire to arbitrary limit licenses. What's the purpose of that? Limiting the number of sellers doesn't really do much to limit buyers or consumption.

It sounds like a bad idea that's carried forward out of momentum not something that needs to be fixed. It should be replaced with the better approach.
Friends introduce you to other friends, so there's a positive feedback loop.

I have several engineer/startup buddies that I usually hangout with once a week, all about 23-30 years old. A couple of us would probably do something low key (hang at someone's house + eat) this or next weekend. If a plan does get put together, you're welcome to join! Just ping me (email in profile) and I'll send you the deets!

Another easy option would be to ask people whom you work with to hang on weekends (hiking is an easy activity, BBQ at the park also works). Go to where most of them are (SF?) and make the hassle of arranging everything, following through with reminders, a facebook event, buying most of the needed supplies, making sure everyone has transportation, etc. Event arranging is a pain in the ass, but if you do it a few times, someone is bound to reciprocate.

If you don't work with people anywhere near your age, or you don't care to hang with them after work, then your current job is not socially fulfilling and you should leave.
You are right to caution against this advice, but I don't think that was actually written as advice that was meant to be followed. Those struck me as illustrative examples of unconventional places to initiate a conversation. Nobody is telling OP to actually do those specific things, just to consider them.
Huge instacart user, was wondering what was happening now that Amazon and Google are both moving into the space. It's awesome to see that they're winning.
A small niggle, because I see a lot of people say this: At least in the US, many banks do extend the same protections to both credit and debit cards. My wife and I both had our debit card info stolen in separate hacks over the past few years, and both times our respective banks just asked us a few questions, credited the money back to our accounts and sent a new card that automatically replaced the old card upon activation.
Unless they're using a browser extension, there's no way a user can trust this application. It's a web app. At any moment the developer or a malicious third party with unauthorized server access can remotely modify the JavaScript files to dump all data in plaintext to the NSA.
Cool idea, nice implementation!

Feature request: please implement lists either as a keyboard shortcut or as a text macro. Both ordered (numbered) and un-ordered preferred.

BTW, for anyone who didn't catch it: you can change the name of each notepad. Just double-click the name, type what you want and it'll be saved.
Dude, I'll take 1st world problems over 3rd world problems any day.
Here you go, I formatted it up to include formulas and a variety of configurations.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pw9dKHE_pKSEPqQNrNqz...
Been running on DO for a while now without any downtime:

18:39:03 up 249 days, 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.24

Moved off of Linode since we were down fairly often (to be fair it was Linode's Fremont DC) but we'd also have our dev server go down every month or 2 in Dallas.

Honestly I think it's probably hit and miss and depends a bit on luck and the server your VPS gets setup on.
For point one, it is specified in the model. @doSomething would invoke the model's doSomething function. The template just names it.

As to point two, observable provides a bi-directional binding so that changes to the value are reflected in the DOM and changes in the DOM are reflected in the model.

The observable interface is essentially a jQuery style getter/setter method that allows for observers to be notified of changes.
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>> "Taxis generate undesirable congestion..."

Jane Jacobs rolls in her grave when you say stuff like that. The overwhelming majority of transportation engineers will tell you that taxis alleviate congestion by raising asset utilization. And they also reduce the need for vast parking facilities and block-circling in search of parking (which turns out to be a large fraction of traffic in some areas). It's a triple-win.
The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) :

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.h...

and

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html
Would be extremely appealing if it borrowed more inspiration from Jade than Haml.
The example you provide is indeed a valid one. But one that only presents itself because of the nature of "public property". That's why you had a situation where a few of you were compelled to pay for the snow clearing, while others' still had usage of those roads.

In a truly free society, there would be no such thing as "public property". It would all be private, and usage of that road would have to be paid for by those that want to use it. And the owner of said private property would maintain that property such that it would provide value for all those that wish to pay for usage of it.

Did you ever consider that maybe those individuals on those houses don't use those roads? Maybe they walk, bicycle, or are plain hermits? (Odds are they aren't, but I'm sure there are a few). You want to work with absolutes, and then deny that aggression is present. Do you want to argue that taking money from someone in return for something they don't use is not aggression? How about a thief taking money from your wallet on the counter, and then handing you a sack of grain in return? Would you say that's not aggression?
We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.
Legality aside, because I don't doubt it is legal, something about the deliberate act of posting an age makes me deeply uncomfortable.

What I don't quite understand is they can turn away anyone for any [non-protected] reason already. What could be the thought process behind posting this? Especially when the establishment is unlikely to enforce it, as you noted.

As an establishment, feel free to turn away a large, intoxicated group. Similarly, it is your right and responsibility to avoid over-serving. And furthermore, you may choose to establish whatever ambiance you choose through your decor, music, lighting, and even pricing. Between these things, you can maintain the atmosphere and attract the customer base you desire.
It was just relaxed. But Digital Globe doesn't yet have a bird in the air capable of it. In the fall they will, and it will be available to everyone.
The fact that Europe doesn't have these regulations yet the sky hasn't fallen is in fact relevant to the discussion, is it not?

Just like when one looks at the much maligned US gun laws: Washington State has a similar murder rate to that of British Columbia, thus the gun laws probably don't have much impact on murder rates.
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N.B. this advice does not apply in the US. If you ask a random person about football or the world cup, they'll probably be dumbfounded and think you're a weird foreigner.
The only good thing about this approach is that these idiots are making themselves out to be the enemy and eventually they will just become a joke (if they haven't already). Related: OWS
How do these registries pay the bills?
https://github.com/project-douglas
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Probably not, but I agree that it's worth mentioning.

It doesn't follow any common verbalization of the '5' character. It's also at the front of the word, so you have no clues to start you off on the right path. Even when you know how to say it you still want to say "five" when you read it. I would give the name a very low usability/accessibility score, and frankly it pushes me towards not using the product ("yeah I use this thing called filer - if you want to check it out it's actually spelled with a number five, and then 'iler' - yeah I don't get it either"). If we're going with the 5 theme I would have preferred 5note or 5notes.
That appears to be with regard to employment discrimination. I wouldn't be surprised if there were slightly different standards for serving customers, etc.
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I wouldn't think many people would consult a registry in order to assure themselves that the bike they're buying isn't stolen; rather, they'd use it to find a bike they already owned and that had subsequently been stolen, as a means to try and find it. I suppose a Pawn shop or similar would use it for a purpose as you suggest, though.
In the description of the key exchange mechanism (section 'Conversation Keys' under 'Security') it sounds like they're using one symmetric key for both directions of a two-way channel. If true, this is a pretty serious security flaw. Anyone from Subrosa care to comment?
Sounds like how it goes in Japan (including the 7-11)
Your name sounds an awful lot like MuckRack.
The internet is a psychology experiment? Well, maybe a tiny fraction of it. You know, those spammy pages where they promise something amazing if only you'll enter your email address.

I'm not sure we need more of that. Its like someone pretending to sell brushes wanting in your house, who keeps glancing around casing the joint while blathering some spiel.

As a model for qualifying internet product plans, its going to suffer from self-selection of the customers - you know, those lonely people who will talk to anybody, even a brush salesman, and will tell them anything they want to hear.
Based on your description this seems very similar to Mancur Olson's "The Rise and Decline of Nations" - he provides an economic framework to think about special interest groups and why they tend to win out in terms of politics.
[gratimax shows you how to implement car, cdr and cons in brainfuck]
I has been, what, 15 years from those court proceedings. Don't you think it is possible the MSIE has been tied to the operating system in subsequent releases: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8?
Sort of off-topic, but back when I worked in a lab, we often needed 200 proof ethanol that wasn't denatured with methanol or some other noxious substance. The company I worked for had an ATF license to purchase ethanol without the associated tax.

The cost of 1 gallon (3.79 L) of 200 proof ethanol was $8. You could dilute this with 1 part water and end up with the equivalent of vodka for $4 per gallon. It goes to show how much alcohol taxes are.

That being said, the 200 proof alcohol was pretty vile. It smelled like the cheapest vodka you could buy. I remember a few gallons going missing over the years, so somebody didn't mind the taste.
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How many hours are you productive per week and per day?
How many hours are you productive per week and per day ? And how many hours at a stretch?

For me - I have difficulty doing it more than 20-24 hours a week on an average. I'm fast at coding and problem solving - but that also means my energy wanes off faster within the first 4-5 hours and I am better off not working the rest of the time. Just in case you are wondering - I never had any problems related to productivity at my 40hr/week job except that I had to endure the additional frustrating hours.
Guesty (YC W14) raises $1.5M to expand its Airbnb management service
That's what we've been working on since we started - and why we're open source and have an open API https://bikeindex.org/documentation/api_v1
More importantly, Ethereum and some of the other "Bitcoin 2.0" protocols are tackling the technology behind distributed consensus and trust (using crypto blockchains for something other than payment), but there's the additional question of how do you make your cute technology interface with the real world's legal systems (if not for you, then for all the organizations your DAO will interact with).

The interesting thing about these guys is they're a team of both developers and lawyers... part of this project is the packaging of the technology on top of Ethereum, but part of it is figuring out the legal frameworks needed to grant legal authority to a distributed crypto consensus network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVjAo4vres&feature=youtu.be is a good 10 min background interview with Preston Byrne, one of the members.
Which merchants currently accept your key for instant confirmations?
From the bitcoin wiki:
[green addresses] are generally considered a bad idea and not advisable to implement.
Even extroverts need downtime to recharge. I've noticed this a lot in my own life. I'm very extroverted and feel a driving need to charm everyone I meet. My wife is very introverted and hates/fears interacting with new people. So we go to parties, and we can get equally worn out.

Too much interaction is actually quite hard on extroverts. It's like too much exercise, or overeating, or overworking. It can lead to burnout.