skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll seem less readable at first, yes. I've seen a codebase transformed by currying. We were able to remove six functions from one webservice interaction service, and handfuls throughout other parts of the code, and have made debugging and maintenance easier.

The code is a little more confusing at first glance. The developers who replaced the code with curried functions didn't inform the whole team what they were doing. There were a lot of wtfs until they clarified. Now we can read it, and I know I'll be looking for places for partial applications.
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If somebody told you to mail them $13.50 and they will mail you back $10, you would think they were crazy. But in today's world this is a valid idea for a startup?
This is my first release in the JavaScript team. Here I optimized the JSON parser to work 30% faster for escaped strings. @cshung
Or basic economics. Or a bank. Or a change jar.
So is this thing open source or otherwise available?

Sounds like post written for the corporate/gov/CIO crowd, less so for HNers (NoSQL?). Which makes sense.
What amazes me is how little shudder there is while the rocket is firing.
For lots of apartments (at least in the U.S.), the rental agreement specifies that you will not use any sort of washer or dryer. I guess it's another factor on top of density. I guess it's also somewhat legitimate, as a washer is relatively easy to install poorly and leaks are bad, and properly venting a dryer isn't always straightforward.

Washers+Dryers are a weird aspect of housing. They aren't really all that different (the models found in comparable housing especially won't be all that different), but people really like to move them and they are a 'premium' feature in rentals.
You're right that the actual wordings of the statutes make them far less orthogonal. However, the way I've most frequently seen the statutes applied has been that 101 is applied broadly -- only used to exclude things like laws of nature -- whereas 102, 103 etc. have been used to judge the actual "quality" of a patent. To me, that also makes technical sense, but as you said downthread, that's more a personal aesthetic preference than anything grounded in the actual language on the books.

Edit: however, my original point regarding the opinion was, the SC did not just say this fails 101 because it's not new, but they went on to say that "long prevalent" practices (i.e. prior art) can make something "abstract". This, to me, simply makes no sense.
The plans are $15 for $10-worth of quarters, or $27 for $20-worth of quarters.
How to *properly* comment a JSON file
I've done this. Amazon prime + other orders + laziness + $2.00 premium on a $10.00 roll of quarters = a slightly wasteful decision.
> Supreme Court rulings are, of course, quite long

Interestingly, judges such as Richard Posner think recent opinions are too long.

http://www.law360.com/articles/455840/posner-says-justices-s... (Ignore the linkbait title; the article really is quite good.)
Crashed 'plane' a Google wifi balloon
What a shame. They just partnered with the Arizona State University to lower costs for their workers because they are underpaid.

Nice "contribution".
Its $10 in quarters for $14.99 (or $20 for $26.99 on the higher tier plan).
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This is exactly what the end of net neutrality looks like.

Certain "approved" services won't count towards your data plan, whereas all the others will be limited. As a result, it will be nearly impossible for startups to break into new markets, because they not only have to face the challenge of acquiring new users, but their services will be inherently inferior (from the user's perspective), as they will count towards their data caps. There will be less innovation, and more stagnation as incumbents face less and less competition: http://avc.com/2014/01/vc-pitches-in-a-year-or-two/

Notice how not all streaming services are covered - only the ones that T-Mobile has approved here.
I actually never realized that quarters were needed for laundry. All the laundry machines I've ever used have been card-operated or free. I've _seen_ coin-op laundry machines at laundromats (just from walking by) but I assumed there would be a change machine installed inside... Kinda makes me wonder what other simple problems of the general population I've been oblivious to.
>We're trying to learn how they work

Is the operation of the D-Wave an unknown? I don't know much about it.
* Argentinian workers begin organizing, get better pay, get Argentinian resources into hands of Argentinian people
* CIA and US military help organize a coup, help kill off opposition to dictatorship
* Dictatorship loads on tons of debt
* Decades later, US international powers invoked to force Argentinian people to pay off debts incurred by the dictator who the CIA and US military imposed on them

And people wonder why Saudi nationalists flew planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center...
Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.
I have. Never gotten so much as a single hit from it.
Google balloon crashes off New Zealand coast
Reminds me of the old Citywide Bank commercials from SNL:
http://www.teachertube.com/video/220488

Our business is making change.
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I'd like to see a topological (braid) quantum computer [1]. While I don't imagine it's any better than any other sort of quantum computer, I do think the fact that it could work is quite amazing in itself.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer
This is really nice, just spent some time playing the game and then I had a connection error, and I almost yelled "bob you cheater"
There seems to be a lot of confusion about why someone would want a service like this. And that's understandable. Perhaps they have a nice bank in walking distance. Perhaps they don't work from 7am to 5pm, just in time for their bank to close. Perhaps their local stores don't sell rolls for a small charge (or feel silly going to the front desk to buy quarters - go to a bank after all!)

I bet it'd be nice living in a dense, convenient city like that. Me? I live about an hour away from Dallas (and commute there). I need $2.25 in quarters for the apartment's laundry, and the loads ain't big. And since I work in a plant, lots need washin'. So is just having a pile o' quarters worth 5 bucks a month?

I certainly feel better when I know I can do laundry without planning. Like knowing there's gas in the car when you leave the house. Or buying extra milk, just in case.
Controversial or Fraudulent Kickstarters.
> Notice how not all music streaming services are covered - only the ones that T-Mobile has approved here

They give instructions on their site for legal steaming music services to request to be added, and have said they want to cover them all.
Well, C++ has it. It is called std::placeholders::_1, std::placeholders::_2, ...
Wow, this was a bit of a culture shock when I moved to Mexico, in Europe I've never lived in a rental apartment that didn't come with a washing machine (even in my student days). I assumed it was a Mexico thing, amazed to hear it's the same in the US.
30" here too, I'm sort of ashamed to tell you the point size of my fonts, but it works out to 141x42, screen about 2' away. I sent out a tweet about your project, hope it will get you some signups.
I would totally use this service, but only if they accepted Flooz.
Reminds me of Reverend Harry Powell, an itinerant technology evangelist, con artist, and serial entrepreneur with the words "LIKE" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand and "POKE" tattooed on the other, who would explain this fact to his victims by using his hands in a sermon about the eternal struggle between doing no good and doing no evil.
I'm a huge fan of delegation, though I think the author's points are all excellent. Here's how recommend doing both: Hire someone to process and review customer complaints. Give them very specific guidance about how they're to handle customer concerns. If they can solve the problem within some predetermined short amount of time (say, 20 minutes), they should solve it. If it will take significantly longer, then they should escalate it to someone who can probably solve it faster, and can provide a more remarkable support experience.

The support screener should also summarize all the different types of tickets we get into categories for executive review.
I've been actually trying to figure out when the bonds were actually issued. Can you point me to a source? You seem confident that the bonds at issue were issued by the government under Jorge Videla, which would mean not before 1981, but I'm not sure how you figured that out.
Always easy to be generous if it's not your money. Usually I see this type of philanthropy on "American Greed".
whether it is interesting or not depends on whether the main components - lock, transaction, timestamp servers - are distributed or single-node. I mean having non-distributed lock server is just not interesting today.
Great game. I ran my MBPr out of battery playing and resorted to my iPad after posting the link in my company's slack chat. Slack is great, btw. I then resorted to my iPad which does work really well but I'm missing Bobs expressions. I'd really like to see Bob on my iPad. Excellent work though.
The behind the scenes is an amazing writeup by Cubeslam's creator: http://www.inear.se/2013/07/cube-slam-behind-the-three-scene...
Our industry is fucked.
Oh my god. I can only hope his views aren't mainstream. Quoting from the link:

"This doesn’t mean that moving forward software won’t be patentable, it just means that getting a software patent will be much more difficult than it ever has been. Software can be described by reference to a series of physical actions operating through gates. This type of micro level description of what happens is going to be required, which means getting a patent for software has just become much more expensive and time consuming."

The disconnect between how he (apparently) thinks software works and what really happens is mind-boggling. He seems to have absolutely no idea that the same program (even down to the same machine code) will create radically different "physical actions operating through gates" on processors with different micro-architectures (or with an emulator or ...). Even if you could get a patent based on a description of these "physical actions" in a specific execution context, such a patent would be practically worthless. It would be like having a patent on implementing your idea on a Pentium. Anyone could trivially get around that by choosing a Pentium Pro (or an Athlon or some random ARM core or whatever).
D-Wave's Quantum Computer Runs No Faster than a Normal One
Django and the Django Rest Framework. I develop android apps but it feels I lack skills in creating web services. Also, I'm learning how to solve problems - it's a tough one
> This is exactly what the end of net neutrality looks like.

What "end of net neutrality?" There was never a point in time where this would have been disallowed.

As a T-Mobile customer, I think this is fantastic. There are a lot of potential advantages to vertical integration of the network and the content provider. Imagine caching Spotify data right at the cell site to minimize the impact on the backhaul, or offering reduced data charges for Netflix in situations where T-Mobile can take advantage of LTE MBSFN.

Moreover, the usual justifications for regulation aren't applicable here. T-Mobile has three major competitors in every one of its markets, and more than that in some. They bought the spectrum with private capital, and built the network with private capital. They don't owe it to startups to make their VC pitches easier.
It is fairly common to not have an in-house washer/dryer in apartment complexes in the various high-population-density areas I've lived in the US; but it is also pretty common for such apartment complexes to have a shared laundry room on the premises somewhere.

These shared laundry rooms usually have a card system now where you can use a credit card to put value on a card that you insert into the washer/dryer to start it up. I haven't used quarters for laundry in a decade.

I'm sure YMMV depending upon location, in older cities like in the Northeast (I grew up in Boston but haven't lived there since 1995) I suspect things are probably different.
I really don't get it. Maybe it's different in cities (where I haven't lived much).
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Thank you for telling me the content of the spam email I received today.
Since I was at Intel at the time neither one of us expected computers to get 1,000x better than they were at that moment in time

Wasn't Moore's law[1] as widespread as it is nowadays back then?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
But you can also go to your bank (or the next time you happen to be at a bank) and ask them for a bunch of quarters...
Genuine question: why not drive to the bank once every 6 months and get $50 in quarters?
Great insight in to problem solving. One thing I'm curious about is how environment plays a role whether in a high or low stress work place or social environment, etc.
How about a program that automatically finds, say, the smallest number of segments that covers all of the input words? At least then the program would do a lot of the heavy lifting for you, and you could do the last bit of cleanup manually.
I challenged a co-worker, but for some reason the game requires you to have a webcam to play another human.

Otherwise, well done.
>> Notice how not all music streaming services are covered - only the ones that T-Mobile has approved here.

"During the announcement, T-Mobile’s John Legere assured the audience that their initial picks for streaming services wasn’t any sort of competitive/business move. Rather, it was a matter of technical implementation. They’ve got to manually configure the network to whitelist each service’s myriad data sources, so they picked just eight to start. The goal, Legere says, is to include “every music streaming service” in the program; moving forward, they’ll invite customers to vote on which services get added next."

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/t-mobile-stops-counting-dat...
Scott Brown would have something to say about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkMwnsWdjc
The courts have taken a dim view of "bundling" in the past -- leveraging an incumbency in one product area to anti-competitively subsidize another area.

Sure, I have 4 cell phone networks to choose from. But how many cellphone+music networks? That is where anticompetitiveness appears.

As a Pandora user, I am not excited by T-Mobile investing its resources in Spotify.

And edge caching already exists, it doesn't need to be discriminatory.

Finally, this isn't even about edge caching or backhaul, it is about reserving radio bandwidth for preferred partners.
The only people I see using this are fraudsters emptying stolen credit cards...
Just in case you didn't notice, before you sign up for this, take a good hard look at the lack of TLS in your address bar. To be honest, though, if your card or any accounts got compromised because you paid for quarters to be shipped to you, the temptation for schadenfreude would be ... noticeable.
The ridiculous idea aside, I'm still amazed by how you managed to double-post this and get away with it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918862
S3-signer: Pre-signed S3 URLs for Haskell web apps
Sure, but then it would probably get appealed...
I've never seen a coin-op laundromat here in NYC that didn't have a change machine.
For those doting on net neutrality - this is purely the 'answer' from a Cable companies perspective. People don't need cable now. So what do you do? Buy an ISP, match up with existing partners to offer deals. It's already happened here in New Zealand. Telecom have partnered with Spotify, Vodafone has just bought a bunch of smaller ISP's. Sky, originally our version of "cable"/satellite has now bought out a lot of the bigger ISP's and is using it's network to push content via streaming services at a premium.

The funny thing is, Telecom own pretty much all of our lines. (Govt sold them in the 80's.)

The plot thickens..
Awesome to hear! For me, the world definitely got a bit darker when I heard earbits was getting shut down. So, congrats on the comeback :).
This seems crude to me compared to my experiences with jQuery Mobile. This also affirms my belief that custom Android and iPhone development is going to go the way of the dinosaur. It's all about the web.
"Yo Glass!" + "Gee, Yo Location" = "Yobiquitous Computing"
People don't learn Objective-C in school, but it has not slowed down adoption of the language for the iOS platform. If the platform is popular, and a language supports it well, programmers will learn.
Yep, shared laundry is very common in older buildings and multi-family houses, but I've never seen such a place with a card system. They all took quarters. Who's going to bother installing an electronic system when you have one set of machines and 3 apartments?

I had to deal with coin-operated in-building laundry for years (mostly in New England), and it's definitely terrible when you realize you _have_ to do laundry tonight but you're out of quarters and it's too late to go to a bank. Time to start knocking on doors or making friends with the guy at 7-11.

I definitely thought about (and searched for) a service like this, but as everyone else has said, paying a 50% premium on quarters is tough to swallow. I'd have paid 10-20%, though. (But now that I have in-unit laundry, I'll never go back to shared if I can help it.)
Despite EFF syndrome, patents are a tool, they are not evil, patent trolls are evil, patents are just tools.
Welp, I'm gonna disrupt their business model by creating a laundromat operated exclusively by bitcoins.
CARISIRT: Yet Another BMC Vulnerability (And some added extras)
The Birth of a Company
I really wish we could do away with the formalities involved when asking "what do you make?".

It just seems so ancient. I have no problem telling anybody my average income and exactly what it is I do.

It's not like the servant is asking the king how much he makes anymore. We're all pretty much the same monetarily these days.
FaiF 0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?
I'd really like to see him try. Even the most trivial operation will run to a few thousand pages of very fine print. Patent examiners will have a new use for applications: fuel.
Leveraging one line of business to subsidize another is only anti-competitive if you're a monopoly in the first line of business. But T-Mobile isn't a monopoly in cellular service.
The problem with incremental backups is that once data at the source gets corrupted, you lose it in both places.

Full backups are less efficient, but significantly safer.
I love that the justification is that places won't make change. Three foolproof steps to successfully obtaining change from a convenience store (clerks hate him!): (a) make a purchase, (b) pay with a $20, (c) ask for a roll back instead of the $10 and the clerk will drop one out of the safe for you.

When 30 seconds of your time exceeds $7 in value, implying you make $7 million per year, buy a washer.

EDIT: Before you start relying on this shit, heed the founder's subtle hint that he's not going to operate this business for very long: https://twitter.com/calebrown/status/479814086537281536
It's probably something like an FCC compliance requirement.

Does your hard drive provide pointless-something-random functionality that RSA/NSA thought up? No? Well it's not allowed to be sold legally inside the United States, then. Please return with a properly functioning product.
The website is indeed lacking SSL. The transaction is encrypted since it's using Stripe but if the host page lacks SSL, the browser shows no indication (nor should it since the majority of the page is unencrytped). This also struck me as an odd thing about Stripe... that they didn't have a redirect page you could use with its own SSL for businesses that wanted to use Stripe's in-browser checkout but didn't want to spring for an SSL certificate.

Also, I'm not really seeing the market for this. I've lived in NYC for years and I've never seen a laundromat without a change machine or someone at a desk to give you change... both with no surcharge. And my old university switched to card-operated laundry machines back in the 90s. Most new or renovated larger apartment buildings in NYC seem to operate this way now, too. And, as a fallback, you can always go to the bank and get change (there are 6 banks within 3 blocks of me... including 2 separate Chase banks across the street from each other... seriously).

Is there a large population of people somewhere outside of major cities with no access to banks and no washers and dryers in their dwelling or building but that has access to a reliable mailbox that people won't steal money out of?
So we're gonna pile on Starbucks for negotiating lower tuition fees for their employees. What the hell is wrong with you people?

Consider that if they had no program at all, they wouldn't be getting the bad press right now. This article is asking us to punish Starbucks for doing something, because it doesn't conform to some childish stereotype for the proverbial rich giving some of their infinite money to the poor.
Hexclock tells the time and the colour
And yes, I realize the sampling bias here, but it's still interesting (at least to me!) If you answer yes, please consider leaving a comment describing your experience.
The fact that a terrorism futures market was even proposed seems ridiculous to me. If even 2 seconds of thought went into that, you would see the gaping holes in that idea.
I don't live in a big city, but here in Dayton Ohio I've never seen a laundromat without a change machine. Further, those change machines don't skim off the top. The worst you're out is a $3 charge for an out-of-network ATM, and even that can be avoided with a minimal amount of forethought.

Am I missing something that makes this make sense?
"YoTor" could push innocuous "Yo" messages out over disposable one-time use IPv6 addresses, and all of the side-band message data could be transmitted in the IPv6 address. "The source address is the message."
Why could you not have existed two years ago?! This was one of the biggest pain points in my life, and now I'm finally living in an apartment with its own washing machine.

Thank you so much, this is awesome.
Odd to think that physics has found so few naturally occurring fractals.
This is actually what I do. There happens to be a branch none too far from where I live, so I just withdraw a few rolls each month.
All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines. Doing laundry, which is already a huge pain in the ass, was much worse for me because I also had to go to the bank and take out quarters.
I think http://www.reddit.com/r/brokengifs collects such things.
I've seen many and worked on one in the late 90's that could out do any HTML5 app I've seen or written. We did it with cohesive API's of the caliber of Windows API but multi-platform and web transparent. Those who wrote off applets will not be looked upon favorably by history.

I wrote a powerful database GUI as an applet, to pick up an update all the user had to do was save their work and hit the refresh button. I used Symantec Visual Cafe.
A Barely Adequate Guide to Syntax Highlighting Code in a Web Page
It's one thing to patent a specific arrangement of a spring, board, and wire to build a mouse trap it's another to patent ALL arrangements of a springs, boards, and or wire to build any device that can possibly trap a mouse. The first is an invention the second is the abstract idea of a mouse trap.

The problem is software patents have long used the second approach. Rather than patenting a process they attempt to patent the result. And this is where the fundamental difference between software and physical reality shows up. If your building something then 'optimal' solutions are great, but if your building software anything that works is probably good enough.