skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has built and scaled a dsp for retargeting, I wish you luck! You are in for a hell of a ride...
I agree. The main problem there was that the streets with retail businesses were surrounded by residential streets, and the residential streets were unmetered residential parking only. So there were literally not enough metered spots available.
I started with a Z80 too, in the TI-86.
It seems like vehicles will have to go through an "unsafe valley"[0] where there's a huge gulf between "does a couple of things really well" and "go to sleep and you'll arrive safely at your destination".

[0] Not the same, but it's a bit analogous to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
In case you haven't seen it, here's the long-running Random Hall bathroom server: http://bathroom.mit.edu/
It's disingenuous but he assumed it because he wouldn't be able to cram it into a statistical model as easily otherwise
Excerpt:

A troubling and also kind of odd story came out of Denmark this weekend. In a court proceeding, a microbiologist has disclosed that three residents of the country who had no known connection to farming died of MRSA infections caused by ST398, the livestock-associated strain of drug-resistant staph that first appeared among pig farmers in the Netherlands in 2004 and has since moved through Europe, Canada and the United States.

This is related to a recent FPP about the Dutch significantly reducing use of antibiotics in livestock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907442
View source, the original developer tool, is why the Web is so generative and has been for two decades, IMO. Today's developer tools are just an extension of that ancient view source capability.

The web is not like other platforms where there's a hard line between people who make it and people who use it. Many people, like myself, thought of themselves as users until the web's view source made it possible for us to become content producers with no significant additional tooling.

Today, the Web is a lot more complex a platform than it was in the early 90s and so our view source and JS consoles have evolved into more capable developer tools as a result.
Ah sorry, that was whois based. Anyway, my feedback on the site is: no idea who's behind it and no word about the team or the organisation/company behind it. Landing pages convert better, if this is clear.

Other than that, the offering looks great.

Edit: If I google your company, it's currently incorparated in Paris, France.
I don't get it. None of your points tell us why we would not charge for parking spots. But you seem to have realized that "cars.. are a bit meaningless in a city", that's the first step.

Right now, "free parking" is a tax on everyone actually living in the city. They pay more for living because prime space is given away for free to store heaps of steel on it. Moreover, building regulations require new projects to provide parking spots proportional to the number of units, even when many city dwellers no longer own a car. That drastically increases development costs in cities that are starved for housing.
"Languages should be free, period, not free for trial."
Why?
Could you explain why you believe this and why it applies to languages but not other tools? I don't have a strong opinion either way, but to me it seems fair that people should be compensated for the innovative work they do.
I'm assuming there will be some sort of 3d construct that you can manipulate with the mouse. The 3d effect isn't like the Nintendo 3ds, it's more like Apple's parallax effect on their homescreen.
I've seen fliers posted in San Francisco. They are obviously operating here in some fashion.
Hadn't seen that before, very cool. What do the "*"s mean next to the bathrooms.
I think there is a sort of "enterprise light" market where this could work. Let the outsourced staff handle most sales, and hand off to the company for the more complex sales.
The Rasperberry PI contains a "free, period" release of the language: http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

But no, the language is not open source, and that is unlikely to change in the future.
My first computer was really "BASIC Computer Games" by Creative Computing. I spent a lot of time poring over those programs and hunt-and-pecking them on a TRS-80 at the local Radio Shack. Eventually my dad bought me a TRS-80 Model I from a old guy with a one-eyed cat. The Model I's poor RF shielding interfered with my dad's ham radio reception. He was a real good sport about it, though, and it was probably a factor in him getting me a Commodore 64 when that came out.
If view source had been a developer plug-in in the 90's, I'll bet there would be a lot fewer web developers today.
Good call.

My bots have always been @reply bots, hence my confusion.

In particular, I was doing stuff like this:
"For example, sending automated @replies based on keyword searches is not permitted."
Oh I'm an idiot, they are just a easier way to see occupied.
This is addressed in the article, but I think it's worth expanding on, because the article is (I admit) unclear and imprecise.

NFL gameplay has a state variable (field position) that strongly affects score probability. This state variable accumulates over long periods of time in the game, and is thus influenced by skill.

On the other hand (the claim goes), scoring potential in soccer is mostly affected by possession of the ball, which changes frequently, and there isn't a persistent state.

The effect is that, with each possession, there is a small chance of Team A scoring. The ball passes to Team B, and then back to Team A. Team A then has another shot at scoring, which (due to lack of persistent state) is largely independent of its earlier chance.

To be more definite, the final score of Team A is:

S = C1 + C2 + ... + CN

where the Ci's are almost statistically independent, 0/1 random variables, with P(Ci = 1) rather low. Each Ci indicates a score on a given ball possession. This is a situation where the Poisson limit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_limit_theorem) is applicable.

The NFL situation does not decouple this way, because the Ci's are not independent, due to the field position issue. The corresponding state variables with baseball are balls-strikes and players-on-base.

If you believe in the Poisson model, then Poisson model + low counts is an unfavorable regime to determine if Team A's score-probability is less than Team B's. On the other hand, if it's high counts (i.e., S is large) then it's easy to tell. This validates a commenter nearby who says he thinks season-wide scores provide more insight than tournaments.

As you mentioned, hockey would seem to be another good parallel to soccer (I think). It was smart to notice that.

Incidentally, I don't care one way the other about any of these sports, but I think the probabilistic analysis is interesting.
Heartbleed still affects 300k servers or roughly 50% from a month ago.
Staying free – should GCC allow non-free plug ins?
Indiana State Police Launches Clandestine Meth Lab Database Online
San Francisco's attorney further stated that they believe it's illegal for anyone outside northern California to create an iPhone application or any web-based property. When asked for additional insight he responded "We've studied the situation and believe we have world-wide jurisdiction to applications running on mobile devices and computers used in our city".
Google Glass eyewear on sale in UK
props for not having a confusing front page that is very vague about what it actually does. This should be proof that you can be stylish and clear.
IIRC, you have to have an ACC (Adaptive/Active Cruise Control) enabled vehicle in order to control the speed over the standard OBD-II port. This is because the vehicle has to have the capability to control the speed already, in order for Cruise to interface with it and adjust the speed. In other words, any car that Cruise can work on, should already have ACC built-in, or at least have optional ACC in that model.

Since Cruise works on any Audi A4/S4, I'm guessing Audi uses the same base control component for all 4 series, so that even for a vehicle that does not have ACC or Auto Parking enabled, Cruise can still interface with the vehicle and adjust steering wheel and speed. This suggests that upgrading your car to support ACC might be feasible?
There's going to be a big business in self driving car retrofits -- convert non-self driving to self driving. But it's going to need to be fully automated for people to bother.
Maybe they added that feature recently. I'll look into it.
what kind of developers would you reach out to if you had the chance?
Ahhhhh...its invite only what gives?
Interesting. Google is going to directly compete with GoDaddy which is about to have IPO. Curious to see the impact on the GoDaddy's price.
Nope, it's working for me.
Thanks for the good luck! Can you ping me at cyril@hublo.co so I can get your direct experience feedback? Would be great!
He does a lot of math and fancy talk, only to conclude that when a match ends in 3:2, it's not very conclusive who the better team was? No shit sherlock, it doesn't take much of a genius to figure that out.

It would be more interesting if he'd actually take the time to do it proper and calculate what the chance is that there is a team outside the top 3 that is actually a better team (whatever that means) than the world cup winner. I'd be surprised if that number was very high.

Every soccer fan knows you need a healthy dose of luck to win a match, but every soccer fan also knows that you need a hell lot more luck when you play against a team that's known to be better than yours, and when you get lucky very often, maybe that's just a sign that your team is better than you thought it was.
If you don't hedge your statements about programming, you will invariably be wrong. There are always counter-examples.

The kind of ambiguity and side-effects I'm alluding to are ones programming languages explicitly support and encourage, like overloaded operators and overloaded methods in C++. In C, the effects of a segment of code are comparatively predictable just by looking at the code itself. In quite a large number of languages, you can't draw many conclusions about what a segment of code does without looking in multiple other places.
Heh, I think you mean exacerbating
There aren't many applications using the solution as a whole - as it was just made public recenltly, but you can check some example applications used for tests in the lotus repo: https://github.com/lotus/lotus/tree/master/test/fixtures/
And somehow being more intelligent makes them a threat? We have absolutely no evidence about any of this, it is pure fear of the unknown and instead of imagining a peaceful and cooperative future they somehow imagine that AI will treat us like we treat our various 'lesser' races. But that is just us projecting our own current and historical behavior onto a class of beings that doesn't even exist yet and who WE have to bring into being.

If you imagine that your children will be evil and kill you you have damned them before they have even been born. Not only that but the analogy sucks even more because in this case there isn't even the excuse that we don't understand how biology leads to behavior because we will have build the systems ourselves.
I think most of those are a little more capable than that, it's mostly a question of which aspects of automation their playing up.

EX: A high end Acura with adaptive cruse control will also automatically break if it detects an unavoidable collision.

Still, I think we are better off focusing on assistive driving systems like blind spot warning, stability assistance, etc than slightly better forms of cruse control.
>> However on some days I'll consume twice the amount of "recommended daily calories" for an adult my size. Yet I remain an 140lb adult male.

That's the thing - some days. People who are overweight generally do it every day.

And I'll also assume you're ~ 25 years old and your metabolism hasn't started slowing down yet.
Tough call. S3 is supposed to have 99.999999999 (or whatever) reliability (not uptime, just storage reliability). It's hard to justify backing up to somewhere else when they give you that figure.
My favorite part: "The next step involves complex analysis of historical bathroom visit data, to allow for statistical insight into bathroom habits. Oh, and a 💩 icon for when the bathroom has been occupied for more than 5 minutes."
Compounding the issue of irresponsibly scheduling maintenance for US zones mid-day in the US, they ALSO broke ability to scale worker processes to zero, so there was literally NO way to wind your app down and prevent worker jobs from firing off.

When the platform started getting wonky we shut off our worker dynos so the system would not fire off emails while the system is in a known-screwed-up state.

The console said workers were set to zero.

But... in our logs we watched the (supposedly off) workers continue to fire off.

Nice FUBAR all around, Heroku.
That price isn't encouraging for an announcement of a consumer release "at about the price of a smartphone" at Google I/O this week...
This would be perhaps more interesting with a contemporary angle. Has anything changed in the last 30 years?

Today, the internal ethics of accounting have receded from public view. No one publicly celebrates the virtues of balancing one’s books and of audits with great art or gripping characters. Occasionally an accounting hero emerges, bringing a billion-dollar loss to light, but few people appreciate it, as the Dutch did, as a profound moral advance in business and public affairs.

This ending is dissapointly shallow.
As far as I know, consistency in ACID just means that the database enforces any constraints that have been defined. Since redis doesn't allow constraints to be defined, doesn't that technically make it consistent, in a vacuous sort of way?

You could also view redis's data types as a form of constraint. Using a set instead of a list achieves the same purpose as using UNIQUE in SQL.
I voted twice. Don't kill me.

In second grade, my teacher wheeled in the school's only Apple II computer to show off a program she wrote at night school. It showed a text-mode picture of R2D2 and played the opening notes of the Star Wars theme. I wanted to know how to do cool things like that. It became an obsession.

I got a Commodore 64 in third grade, and learned BASIC and a little bit of assembly on it. That lasted me until my first year of high school. As you can guess from my username, I'm still a big fan.
A generous interpretation of their intent would be that they were trying to inflate their transaction volume in order to create a better user experience for the early adopters trying out their app (a challenge that every e-commerce / marketplace business faces in its early stage).

Still doesn't absolve them of the distasteful nature of their actions, of course.
OneDrive in Windows 8.1 is built into the OS - it shows up as a folder in Explorer. After reading your site, I'm still confused; how is ExpanDrive different / better than the OneDrive OS integration? Can you describe a scenario where ExpanDrive is superior to OneDrive + Windows 8.1? Also, once you've done that here, it would be great to add that to your advertising copy on your site - perhaps with a walk-through of the product to show how it's better than the built-in OS support :)
The newer Mercedes-Benz system will actually steer the car to keep it following the car in front, while in slow enough traffic (< 37 MPH).
Baseball is probably closest, where you play 19 games per season against each of the teams in your own division.

Too bad they don't use the same pitchers in every game, since that adds two more significant variables.
I feel for the author, but in reading this detailed post-mortem it's clear to see there was a combination of bad luck, poor planning, and a number of incorrect decisions. Hopefully she learned from them, will correct what she can and ride out what she can't in her next venture.
Sure, but that's only in index.xul, which is a very small part of the project. Everything else is plain old js+html (xhtml necessary for localization). Apologies, I didn't notice that when I said "there's no XUL in there".

As a meta-discussion, <vbox> is just a fancy way of saying:

div {
display: -moz-box;
-moz-box-orient: vertical;
}

...which is the old flexbox implementation. But I digress :)

edit: link to the MDN article about `display: box`: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-orient
It depends what language I'm working with. Is it one I've used for years? My questions tend to be much more abstract and structure oriented, and I rarely copy anything verbatim.

However if it is something I have less experience with, or just starting to learn, most of my queries I am concerned with the exact details and end up copying verbatim more frequently.
What Apple Swift means ( a prediction )
Your belief doesn't have any grounds on reality and/or current laws. Once notified of child pornography, Microsoft cannot keep that content stored in its network. Period. Otherwise the next request they will get from a judge is to close the service down.

I actually think that any online sync host like this or like Dropbox should not have any chance of knowing what I store with them

Cryptography is readily available to anyone who cares to use it.
Dropcam Tabs
This is really dependent on how much of the "developer" role is developing and how much is software engineering. Are the developers literally taking design documents (UML diagrams, use cases,etc) and just typing in the code or are they actually doing some analysis.

There is also the domain knowledge acquired by the developers over the course of time. I will tell you that I was part of a transition to an outside contracting company for a legacy site. The business knowledge gained and the ability to deliver solutions as a result of that enabled a much faster time to market than these guys could ever provide.
Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live – Stephen Wolfram Blog
Except that they're not just providing a language, but a back-end for cloud computing.
Maybe. If I understand you correctly, you're talking about selling the information that you're ready to leave a 100% privately owned/operated off-street parking space to someone else who is looking for such a space and is willing to pay the parking fees to the owner/operator, as well as paying you for the tip about the vacant space.

Basically it would depend on whether the parking space vendor's contract with motorists sought to prohibit such arrangements as a condition of use. Of course that's a rather heavy-handed unilateral tactic, but you're not legally required to enter into a parking arrangement with them so if you don't like their terms and conditions, you don't park there in the first place. The mere inconvenience to you of having to seek other parking or transit options doesn't constitute a property interest, so you have no particular claim on the fairness of the T&C. Same logic that allows parking lot operators to disclaim liability for theft/damage to your vehicle.
Court releases memo justifying drone strikes on Americans
I have never heard of this, and I can't even begin to say how timely this is for me.

I left my startup in late 2012. I was completely burned out. Founding a startup was so hard that I had to change my self-concept to an Important Person who Never Wastes Time in order to cope. I lost the ability to do "useless" things. For example, I couldn't motivate myself to play music because I'd never be as good as real musicians. I knew this was stupid, but I still couldn't get rid of it.

I keep telling myself I will really stop worrying about work to recuperate, but I can never bring myself to do it. I had been thinking about how I could bring that older, better part of myself back, and I think you may have introduced it to me. Thanks!
Actually, at 10 miles, you're about median for distance. It's what's in between your home and your work that's abnormal.

Most employed Americans live, work, or both inside highly urbanized environments where parts of their commute involve roads that you can't reliably do 20mph on, much less 60. Crowded roads and stoplights put a real crimp on speeds, and it can take 5-10 minutes to cover a mile -- if you're lucky.
I'm surprised the IEEE editors allowed the word "Introducing" in the title. Vacuum FETs are often a target of the diamond thin-film community. (Diamond has a very interesting electronegativity: Very little energy is required to get an electron out of diamond and into the "vacuum" (usually air.))
Looks like an interesting site. Thanks
the very clear anti-sports bias and rhetoric (how very original...) prevented me from finishing the article.

however, i'll just say this: a team of amateur soccer players will lose to professionals every single time. this isn't throwing dice or drawing cards. both teams have to be VERY good at soccer to reduce the outcome of a pro match to anywhere near "random".

like in anything else, it's only when skills are evenly matched that the outcome of a game cam be influenced by small variables.
Nobody is saying your company shouldn't go out to a bar "just because somebody's religious feelings might be offended." If you want to have company outings at bars, that is totally fine, provided a) attendance at said outings is optional and not mandatory (or even de facto mandatory, i.e., employees are held in some sort of disregard for not attending); b) attendance at bars is not evaluative, i.e., you are not using the bar as an indirect test of someone's fit on a protected dimension.

Ok: You invite everyone out for drinks.

Questionable: You make someone's ability to hang at a bar an explicit or implicit criterion for hiring them.

Not ok: You determine that you are going to use the bar as a direct "test" for religious affiliation, sexual orientation, personal beliefs about alcohol, etc. (Extreme example: "I don't want to hire any Muslims or Mormons here. I'm going to ask all candidates to a bar as part of the interview process and offer them a drink, to suss out their religious affiliation.")

Obviously this isn't a binary situation. There is a spectrum of acceptable and unacceptable practices to be navigated. Some of it comes down to personal judgment, some of it comes down to common sense, and some of it comes down to the law.
Lie is a strong word. What you are seeing likely the result of lost connectivity to the bus, which NextBus compensates for with dead reckoning. Busses also deviate from planned routes to deal with construction, head to depots, or other random things.
I am surprised that after all of the years of tracking Google still hasn't realized I don't care about soccer. It seems like big brother is phoning it in.
It struck me when she glossed over how/why her two co-founders left. There's got to be a deeper story to why two "co-founders" would leave right when 1.2M is secured.

She said they decided to tell me they were leaving the company without even a hint of warning - my guess is there was no agreement in the first place or a lot of unnoticed warnings. To conclude she's just too trustful is almost certainly a flawed conclusion.

I'm sure she learned a lot from this experience, but she seems to write off the deserters as flaky. I'd be asking myself what I did or what lies I was telling myself that made me think I had co-founders when I really did not. That sort of character judgment is as important as product judgment.
> I was writing web pages with very little technical ability
Yes, a little. Similarly, I sad a degree of technical expertise. Not a lot, just a little, but enough to differentiate the creator from the consumer.

Today, even if browsers don't have "View Source", you can search Google for "how to make web sites", and a zillion results would pop up. It's not a roadblock.
I agree on the benefits of SPA, but there is a dealbreaker when it comes to forums - you want it to be searchable, and that currently means using server generated templates for SEO purposes (or a setup using PhantomJS to pre-render the pages each time, but that is even more suboptimal, especially for a potentially fast moving BB).