skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both that and the somewhat cheaper cricut are into the whole walled garden thing where you get to buy the letter "H" for $1 or whatever.

Its not like owning a laserprinter where you can reasonably assume you can "just print" without having to purchase each letter in each font first.

Also my wife has a cricut and its slow. Fast enough for home craft use, but don't expect 15 ppm laser printer speeds, its more like 5 to maybe 10 minutes per page. This has scaling effect and labor cost issues for a school teacher. Theoretically you could build something as fast as a modern laser cutter, heck, you could use a modern laser cutter, but even those aren't as fast as a laser printer.

Giving the kids some fine motor practice in cutting out laserprinted outlines would be cheaper and more effective.
I worked at a startup in the late 90s called Bolt. It's hard to protect your name when it's a short, commonly-used word.
There are lots of other really good articles on that blog:
http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html
Same with Nokia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia,_Finland
Well, Tetra Pak's Tetra Brik is used A LOT, and it's definitely a cuboid.

I'm not sure if it's used more or less than cylinders, but I see more cuboids than cylinders on my local shelves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Brik

Edit: an interesting link to irregular can sizes (also plenty of cuboids)

http://www.sommecan.com/nonround/irregularcanguide.html
That’s almost exactly how the purchase of my house in the US worked. There’s definitely no requirement that a buyer use an agent.
Although they're separate entities, they seem to understand that they're all in it together, and cooperate. If this results in a drop in donations, I imagine they'll add in-app donations and pledge drive info and whatever else would be appropriate, directed towards your local station.
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Ubuntu One.

They stopped this one.
I think there are a few things that come in more-or-less cuboidal cans. Spam?
Both can. Every service that runs under the hood (recommenders, raters, story fetching, login, etc.) is an agnostic API that can be used elsewhere. Some of the auto manufacturers and TV apps were already using a scaled down version, albeit without all the features and services of NPR One
Nice to see a new blog post from OkCupid.

They haven't updated their blog since April 2011.
Except that, as has been demonstrated, the position itself carries particular requirements for the candidate's personal political opinions.
It's also hard to sympathize over confusion around a 4 letter word that's ALREADY a word.
I knew I'd seen this before. It looks like Medium's wacky URL structure is bypassing the dupe checker. If you search for the hex code at the end[1], you get the previous discussions.

From when this was first posted in March:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7478975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569454

From May:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855337

[1] like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=c62f2404f66#!/story/forever/0/c62f...
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This is terrible advice. Why tie yourself to your ISP like that? What if you want to switch ISPs, or need to switch ISPs?
No browser version?
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I'd assume it was a joke on the Apple I, their first computer.
Maybe that's why spoons have evolved with curved sides instead of right angles.
Just some random thoughts I've been working/wish I had more time to do:

I would a lot of my time just working and maintaining an app to write and categorize recipes I have at home. This would go hand in hand with just taking on more involved and elaborate cooking projects (ramen, making moles, smoked meats).

I would also just work on random ruby challenges all the time. Some cryptography stuff, some math or general programming challenges, but also just programs I can use. Something fun would be to make a really nice music player/manager using shoes, just for the fun of it. I like music programs that run natively in Linux versus just web players. Other than this just learn as much as I can by contributing to open source projects.

A BIG goal of mine would also be work towards being a polyglot. I studied linguistics and other languages in college, and every programming language I seem to come across just sees fascinating to me. I want to absorb these and just become very familiar with things like Go and Haskell, two of which of are particular interest.

Other than that, I want to work on my fitness. Jogging more, going to the gym during the day when it's not as busy, stuff like that. I also have various games I want to play, not so much projects but just for fun.
I suspect that the cavalier sentiment OKCupid has approached the discourse with will not go well for them.

Will be interesting to observe the sociological takedowns of this post.
The question remains, however. Does he or does he not support the GLBT community. It was of such consequence to Brendan Eich that he was let go. So it must be that Chris Beard does support this community. Because we all know that having no opinion on this matter cannot stand.
How is that the "hackathon" spirit?
I think we are mostly agreeing with each other. I was not saying energy and momentum conservation are no longer important. Rather, I was merely noting one should use caution when trying to intuit how energy and momentum conservation manifest themselves in non-classical systems such as was proposed in the Nature article.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/08/snowden_us_israel_st...
Yes, so you can use Moose if you feel that it is necessary, Moo if you want something more lightweight, or nothing if you want speed. Just like there are modules for parameter type checking and all sorts of other nice features. My point is that Perl OO has some alternatives available from within Perl.

I don't know enough to vouch for Perl's performance vs other scripting languages, but I do know my boss (a very experienced Perl hacker) has a favorite saying: "If you wanted performance, why did you pick Perl?" :)
That seems to be the problem right now with most iBeacon makers, too much proprietary stuff out there. I think iBeacons can really take off if there were more open standards across the board.
I love the idea. I listen to NPR a fair amount but it's always a bit hit or miss as to whether I'll catch it at an interesting moment, since my listening is basically "whenever I happen to be in the car, or possibly out for a walk where I don't want to enjoy quietude." I work around it to an extent with podcasts of shows I like, but that works poorly for anything related to news.
Apple is far from explicit about the rules. It's entirely possible to submit the same app (or almost-identical apps) twice and have one rejected and one approved. And they're no clearer about the reasons why something was rejected than Google is.
Really cool stuff. I have a couple of questions:

1) How do you model the myriad fault types that could possibly occur in distributed systems?

2) Is it possible to partially model a system? For example, in SOA, the behavior of a service can depend on and be greatly affected by the behavior of other services. Can each service be modeled in isolation with meaningful results?

3) Is the run time of model checking managable? The paper mentioned a few seconds to find bugs, but how long to exhaustively check a model without bugs?
ummm....no. It was in my original post to try to minimize pushback from those that take offense to anything that they disagree with or may find at any time offensive.
Off topic, but I'm curious, how do you dig in and find old HN postings? I see a lot of people doing it.
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It is standard practice in classified material communities to have carefully controlled variants of documents and a log of where and when the subtle variations go in order to detect and source leaks of information. When any particular area is detected as suspect, misinformation dressed up to look more valuable is then carefully spread in that direction to see who takes the bait. They are then either used to send misinformation or, if they have served their purpose or have nothing to offer, removed (fired/imprisoned or whatever is appropriate).

The Americans (TV Series) had a couple of themes based around this - it's not exactly a secret strategy and receivers of information know to verify what they get before getting too excited.

Since we're talking about government actors here, nowadays they would not be easily fooled and would have skilled engineers checking stuff no matter what, so that is not going to add any 'cost' to the operation. People in the espionage game learn pretty quickly or they don't get to play for very long.
Will you have your IDE in a box? On a Train? With a Firefox?
The #1 way to spot some 'mushy web3.0 startup' is to see if they name their fledgling product some generic, overloaded dictionary word. My perception has always been that owners choose this sort of name to market their product as 'truly the most no-nonsense utilitarian solution, for people who Get Things Done like me & u.' There have been a lot of these lately. Chosing a dull name to be cool isn't helping anyone and I hope collisons like this latest groupthink help the trend die quickly.
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Presumably he's not donated to campaigns which are not approved by the elite.
Can I ask where you are located generally and was this on mobile or desktop/laptop?
Yeah, that's my understanding too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=postol+iron+dome

"all these articles" = commentary on that one article by Postol.
Hi Chris Brunner here, from EveryoneAPI.com. I agree that this is not a ripoff of our product. As uqimu stated, we're solving the same problem, but we use very different sources. While social is a component that we utilize, it is not our primary source. hackmorris is correct that we'll be adding more datapoints from social shortly, and uqimu is correct that we don't offer all of it today.

I look forward to checking out the Contactive API, and perhaps even having a discussion with them to see if there is an opportunity for us to work together.

In the meantime, since our product was mentioned here, I'd be happy to field any questions.
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I just bought a house in the bay area, I tried multiple times to contact Redfin but never got any response. I ended up using a traditional agent but I was left wondering what is going on over there. Maybe they have more business than they can handle?
Agents usually split the commission. So, the seller will pay their agent 6%, but the buyer's agent takes half, or 3%. If you don't have an agent, and put in a bid on a hot property, the seller's agent will have a much stronger incentive to push your offer through, since they will make substantially more money. Alternatively, you might be able to get away with a slightly lower bid since the seller and seller's agent could eat some of the cost.
I was hoping for a performance related answer, but you are right. I might walk through this and see if one way is faster than the other. Thanks!
Hi there,

I'm one of the lead engineers for the FullContact Person API and there's a few inaccuracies with your feature comparison that I'd like to address.

1) True, we can optionally do callbacks. However we'll return the data immediately if we've seen it recently. This is most cases. If callbacks don't work for you, data is usually populated within 10 seconds and can be polled for.

2) We also prioritize data. All of our fields that make sense are sorted and have flags to denote preferred elements.

3) We also have an HTML endpoint, however it's a terrible idea to embed into an iframe as you'll leak your API key. For this reason we recommend that our customers proxy calls through their own server-side endpoint to ensure their API key does not leak. That being said, we do provide the HTML endpoint, mainly for internal usecases where users can be trusted or cases where users bring their own keys.
I highly recommend researching the Nissan Motors vs Nissan Computer case, as it covers many subtleties regarding names and trademarks
What don't you like? I know the author, and I'm sure he'd appreciate feedback offline
No, it wasn't. Not that there is anyway to prove that. I saw the original post. Maybe you added it right after, but no, the original did not have it.
Certain themes on any community forum will attract negative attention. Your problem is you get upset that people don't behave the way you want them to. You can expect whatever you want, but your expectations are not in line with reality. I highly recommend you accept reality and deal with it like an adult, rather than whining and moping about when things don't go your way.
The downvotes are unfair.
Id love to see more work on dmd and possibly stronger containers or chroots on Guix, for the build stages.
They have to play all sides. Replacing FM listening is like replacing oil: there's no one platform that big. Half of listening occurs in cars, and as the fleet turns over to TCP/IP listening over the next decade, NPR has to be there wherever. There will be branded apps, they will serve third-party apps and car specific apps, etc. Another audio provider (i.e. Pandora) could license NPR content and have access to the same APIs. I am not suggesting this is in the works, just a pure hypothetical argument. I haven't worked there since February but I did work on APIs and worked on this listening app a few years ago.
Not on this machine. Plain Google Chrome on Windows.
> Both that and the somewhat cheaper cricut are into the whole walled garden thing where you get to buy the letter "H" for $1 or whatever.

Both the product FAQ and the customer comments on that page disagree with you:

Q: Can you create your own illustrations / decal designs (vectors) and print them with
this - or is it only clip-art images?
A: Yes, I create my own vector designs and import them from adobe illustrator.

Seems like either you or they are wrong.
My point was that the two Bolts barely compete with each other. One is for voice calls, the other is for quick picture sharing. I can't imagine many scenarios where you could use them interchangeably.
Nothing to see here. Just an idiot with more money than sense, like many of the top execs at Google.

Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google hypocrites.
Cuboids can surely be done, he isn't arguing that. He's just observing all the ways in which cylinders are a very "elegant" solution, with a natural fit to metalworking.
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The end of the article says: "[Roscosmos] will have to wait until the satellite falls to Earth to know [what caused the communications interruption]." That sounds like they intend to de-orbit and recover the satellite to me. The real question is whether the geckos could survive re-entry. My guess is no.
Of course there is.

Any design decision, be that of a software system, an engineering project, of a product, etc., etc. is nothing more, than an opinion of the designer. And since there are literally infinite possibilities, how something can be designed, the skill of the designer is to chose the one objectively correct solution.

What you are talking about, is that there are no absolutely objective opinions, which is true, although any application of this statement would lead to trivial conclusions.

And saying, that any opinion is valid, since there are no absolutely objective opinions is wrong. Especially if the opinion is just prejudiced bashing unworthy of HN.
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First user issues aren't as relevant in trade marks as in other intellectual property rights. Potentially you could have two companies in discrete markets/territories build up goodwill in an identical name with a dispute only being triggered when some form of encroachment occurs.

A good example was the Budweiser v Budvar saga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery#Tradem...

Generally, you would hope that the parties could come to an agreement and enter what's known as a co-existence agreement where they just agreed to continue but in some cases agree not to further encroach on each other's markets for example.

The above example just ran and ran with each filing suits around the world, showing the difficulties of deciding who should have sole rights to a name when both have built up substantial goodwill over a long period of time.
Wow, the comments...

Some people seem to be really mad about some other people voicing their opinion.
Who would want to use this, other than inbound sales teams? Customer support already has it, and it is not that useful to go from phone number to profile as it is to go the other way.
I stopped reading at "So, I threw out my macs, smashed my iPhones, switched my whole family to Ubuntu and Android." (Because nobody does that, specifically the first two things.) BTW until this line I was relating strongly with the author and especially the stuff about supporting a family.

Never got to find out the meat of the story. Oh well - it was promising and I was looking forward to it, I kind of wish I didn't realize what I was reading. (i.e. a fabrication.)

Basically, I don't find the sentence credible, nor am able to read it in context as an exaggeration or metaphorical, it's presented as fact, and I lost interest.

This is written by a marketer, not a developer. i.e. it's "a paid lie" (if we are cynical), or more generously it's allegory, that I don't have time to read. None of this stuff happened, in my judgment.

Granted I didn't read the 3900 word essay so I could be wrong - I stopped at word 278. It's just my impression that this story takes you for a ride.
180/m? That's a database of over 10,000 records in an hour, and that's only if the querying party is stupid enough to not think of using multiple API keys in parallel.
It will, if its a detailed guide. This article, is an overview.
Semantics are exactly what makes this difficult.

You might say "requirements for the candidate's personal political opinions", others might say "requirements for the candidate to not hold offensive, discriminatory political opinions".
Shoot me an email - address is in my HN profile.
Every corporate/large organization Web site wants me to use their app. I already have an app! It's the Web browser. It already plays video and audio.
The []int{1,2,3} method for initializing slices was missed: http://play.golang.org/p/FEXc1sxVLK
Simplistic reasoning like "the elite" (what elite?) isn't usually encouraged here.
s/spherical/cylindrical/g
A tongue-in-cheek observation is hardly ad-hominem. The remark was made to point out that you have a habit of cherry-picking arguments and refuse to see any reason behind opposing views in the same vein of the author, to state plainly. I don't actually care about who you are. At all.

And responding to a reasoned argument is hard to dignify when you have neither a response nor dignity.
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We really do not need a page of snarky asshole comments about the gay agenda.
Actually, there is a lot of respect for AWS at Microsoft. Huge partners and competitors.

Think about it as Microsoft giving you access for free to a good doc for the whole world. Also known as "don't look at the gift horse in the tooth."
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring amazing software engineers to join our family
Surely.

I work at a school district in central Pennsylvania.
All of our staff (teachers, secretaries, custodial, etc) use ownCloud as a backup and recovery solution.

We chose ownCloud because it allows us to keep confidential records on our own servers, something that Sugarsync, Dropbox, etc did not allow us to do.
I am in the southeast US, and it happened on both mobile and desktop. It got especially bad a few months ago (give or take).
I was thinking along the same line. Even worse, what if the company moved the blueprints to a different server, and they got really early prototype versions of the blueprints?

I've worked at several places who moved, changed and deleted projects on various servers on a regular basis during the course of a big project.
That's because some poor sap has to organize them every night. (Source: was once that poor sap)

Nothing exhibits the Second Law of Thermodynamics quite like grocery store shelves.
Seeing this on multiple sites which use DigiCert for SSL provider.

Github, Bitbucket, Heroku, and even DigiCert's own site.
While I didn't down vote you I would assume it's because your remark was both snide and dismissive and didn't add anything concrete to the conversation.

Edit: after rereading your comment I chose to down vote it after all. It really is the sort of comment that doesn't belong on HN.
The Amazon app store is pretty popular, and you can install it on any android device.
It has nothing to do with voicing opinion. It's the manner in which it's being done. They are making short, snide commentary, trying to be clever. They add nothing to the conversation, and indeed, are not trying to have one. They are merely trying to "make a point" or cause a stir. They have an agenda, and a civil discussion is not what they are looking for. They know exactly what they are doing.

On top of that, if they go bad and edit their posts, complaining about down votes, which should then earn them down votes regardless.

There are civil ways to hold a discussion. Many of these comments are not an example of that.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118660757/

Ok, this really irks me. Why do people keep writing and printing paper books that will become obsolete before even the first batch is sold out? Topics like this, or the latest (at the time of writing) version of jQuery or other things that have lifespan of few months? Surely this is just a waste of money and paper for everyone. I can see the value of e-books, or even print-on-demand publications, but not this. Those books end up either cluttering the local libraries or pissing off second-hand bookshop employees because no-one will buy or read them in a year. It's almost a printer-to-recycler pipeline.
i have an alias for pwd | pbcopy which basically copies my current directory into clipboard.
My example is how it would work in the absence of any trade mark registrations. I incorrectly assumed there were no registrations in place here. Having checked, yes, the presence of a registration would greatly improve Bolt's leverage in the manner you describe.
> It was of such consequence to Brendan Eich that he was let go.

Eich quit, he wasn't let go.

> Because we all know that having no opinion on this matter cannot stand.

Eich didn't have "no opinion", and didn't just have "an opinion", he had acted specifically to enshrine inequality in CA's constitution.
Exactly. Can we have a discussion about Chris Beard and Mozilla rather than a repeat of an argument about Brendan Eich?
I really enjoyed reading this.

On the flip side (as an OKC user), I've also had moderate amounts of fun trying to figure out their algorithms by trial and error.

For a while, I discovered I could figure out who scored me highly on their Quickmatch [1] feature by visiting it repeatedly - the ones who gave me a high score always came up first. This doesn't seem to work anymore.

[1]: If you haven't used OKC, the idea is: you score potential matches 1-5. You can tell if someone scored you highly (but not who) and if both of you give each other 4 or 5 you get a message "introducing" you both. If you're an A-list (paid) member, you get to see who scored you highly without scoring them.

Edit: tweaked phrasing as per comments.
The way the market works in Finland is that the seller almost always pays for a real estate agent, mainly to draft contracts, give tours of the property and so on. Negotiation is pretty simple typically, the buyer just makes an offer, I don't know what's more to it.

I can see that a real estate agent for the buyer gives value, but I wouldn't personally pay much for it. Not 3% at least, that seems like a huge waste of money to me.
Apple has paid out over $20B to developers thus far