skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a family, perhaps. As a single person - I want a commute of 5 minutes or less, and when I get a new job - I always move. In the last 8 years I've lived in seven places - one of which was a Condo that I owned / sold.

I think the Prop13 issue explains why most home owners can no longer sell their homes.
The iPad hurt iPod touch sales alot, not really iPhone sales.
Potentially dumb question: if there are 21 million bitcoins (and therefore 21 million bitcoin addresses), would that limit bitcoin's efficiency as a medium of exchange? Ie wouldnt there be potentially billions of transaction moving through a financial system powered by bitcoin daily? (Apologies in advance for any flawed assumptions).
The "karate moves in space" was really kind of unwatchable.
He's trolling. Look at his comment history and profile.
Feels suuuper hand wavy. And that title...
Google Play Imageified Update Rolling Out
> If your lower stage needed to do a powered land which an upper stage was still accelerating into orbit, you couldn't replicate that in ksp.

.. Unless your name is Scott Manley ;-). But yes, good point about Lagrangian points [1]. I wasn't aware that KSP is only a two-body-simulation - interesting how the game can hide that with its sphere of influence implementation.

[1]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/18623-Lagrange-p...
Obama gives them jobs
The lemon law is not quite as cut and dried as the author of this article states. If you're not happy with your car you should not make this judgment for yourself. Consult an attorney.

You can be outside the 18k miles but if the problems began inside the first 18k miles, you qualify. I have personally had a car bought back a couple of months ago. After rejecting the manufacturers' initial offer of monetary compensation and sending a letter to the company on attorney letterhead, the mfr immediately folded and offered to buy it back for the full amount required by the CA lemon law.
> Tim Cook mentioned that in emerging markets iPads grow much faster and that's likely because it is their main computer.

In emerging markets, the most common "main computer" isn't a tablet, it's a smartphone, by a mile. That points directly at the iPad's huge emerging-markets weakness. A "good enough" phablet (or even just a cellular tablet since many enable phone capability outside the US) can be both more useful and cheaper than an iPad + phone (let alone smartphone) combination. That seriously limits the iPad's addressable market in a way you don't see in the developed world (where more generous budget constraints and sometimes phone subsidies change the tradeoffs).
> People are more accepting of Steam because it has other benefits (e.g. keeping drivers up to date) and most of the drawbacks are as bad or worse outside of Steam

That's why GOG has a good chance to provide a strong competition and actually change the landscape for the better. Comfort of usage with no DRM would be a clear contrast to other services and can eventually prompt them to ditch DRM as well.
I wonder if the George Takei suggestion was intelligent situational awareness ... or if everyone has him as the first suggestion because he's basically the platonic form of a Facebook celebrity?
Big Food is not the enemy
This is very cool! I just bought new glasses about a week ago, so i'm a bit late. But the next time i'm in the market i'll remember you guys.

One thing i'd like to see different. Right now the glasses shopping experience seems to be the top level, and the virtual try on is a feature almost. I'd love to spend my entire time at the virtual try on. It would be great if i could go from pair to pair really quickly. Maybe that means pre-rendering pairs (if possible) before I ask for them.
Cool. Where might one find those videos? I can't seem to locate them.
It has nothing to do with black helicopters. It has to do with your data being utterly unimportant to anybody except yourself. This is why it's only valuable in the aggregate.

Nobody cares.
I agree. I misinterpreted your initial comment.
Guided by "her father, who has a Ph.D. in fish ecology."
Very much looking forward to this book. I needed it a year back.
> 8 Rockomax 48-7S (little orange engine, stuck on with 8 small cube struts) + 1 Rockomax X200-32 Fuel Tank (the large gray tank, one size below the big orange tank) will put a capsule in orbit around Kerbin pretty easily. No such luck in real life.

That's what I meant by 'the opposite is not necessarily true'. My argument was that if something does not work in KSP, it probably won't work in real life (which was refuted by another commenter because of missing Lagrange points). IMO it still holds true for basic rocket designs and their capabilities for LEO / GEO. To my knowledge, all real world rocket designs have been replicated in-game (albeit with much lower complexity of course) and demonstrated to work.
Plus-one - constraints are absolutely vital. I'd say the absence of constraints has killed more projects as I have seen. It's difficult to determine wants v.s. need without some thinking, and constraints help with that.
Dark Branding?

http://darkpatterns.org
The kernel is open source... but you cant have a full blown Mac OS by just compiling it.. a lot of core pieces are missing..

So the OS looks pretty closed source to me..
I know, but I couldn't resist.
Quick save at stage separation, fly the upper stages to orbit. Go back in time (reload the quicksave) and fly the upper stage back to the landing site.
That wasn't GP's point. Whether Apple cares or not, if a larger iPhone hurts iPad sales, that's another reduction in the potential scope of tablet computing.
This is the not the case anymore. A lot of the early loses were necessary investments to establish the infrastructure needed to compete with google in search.
You say Overstock says they see consistent sales and I show you that their sales have been shrinking from day 1 and your response is "Well duh there isn't enough data!". Seriously?

Besides that you're comparing 2 quarters out of many with 2 quarters that are all the data we have. If those 2 quarters were their most recent then yes we could say their revenue is shrinking.

You keep pointing me to self reporting figures randomly released in press releases by companies that have been dishonest with them in the past. You keep doing that not because it makes sense but because it supports your beliefs.

Heres one for you. 5 years in there are only ~600,000 wallets with at least $50 worth of coin. Given how many people split up their coins between multiple wallets how many actual users do you think that leaves?

Anyhow I'm done with this discussion. It is clear nothing will convince you and you'd rather drag goal posts around a field than face the fact that maybe just maybe customer adoption isn't happening in Bitcoin. Good luck with your investment I hope it makes you rich because the alternative is going to be a lot of people in serious financial troubles.
Apple Sued by 20,000 workers who claim they were denied rest periods
Wikipedia Summer of Monuments
I think the map tool to identify locations that need photograph coverage is pretty cool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wsm/#4/39.91/-99.49
Revenue is actually up
Formulanimations tutorial: the principles of painting with maths
Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers
I think the real take away is that this same experience can be applied to any large open source project that seems daunting to new comers, not just for Mozilla.

I had a similar experience with emscripten (yeah I know, Mozilla too) initially. So I start working on a project with the following steps:

- Download code
- Setup environment
- Run test suite (if exists)
- Play with simple bits of code by hard coding changes and building it to see it's effect.
- ... sleep?
- Attempt baby bug first
God damn, you are dumb fucks.

Mine is divine intellect. God talks.
When dealing with any new and unfamiliar system, the best way to troubleshoot unclear features or generic errors is usually to hit up Google for those who ran into the same thing. Making your product ungooglable is a great way to ensure developers never touch it.
The flawed assumption is "and therefore 21 million Bitcoin addresses". Generate an RSA keypair, and give out the hash of the public key (encoded in a Bitcoin-specific way). Anyone can send you Bitcoins there now.
If you are not aware, Shatner doesn't like Takei.
DC is not synonymous with low voltage - voltage drop is a red herring. Problems with DC that I can think of off the top of my head:

- Utility companies need to change out pole pigs for DC-DC converters.

- When electrocuted, muscles grab and lock up, rather than a mere painful buzzing.

- Lower mechanical switch ratings (no zero crossing for arcs to self-extinguish). Check out the printed DC ratings on a listed switch some time.

- Corrosion on exposed conductors due to constant potential difference.

- Low level magnetization of things next to power conductors.

- General disruption and uncertainty that change brings. I bet you could annotate most clauses in the NEC with the incident that prompted its addition.

- Nikola Tesla may wake up and finally use that death ray.
How about very tight hypersonic atmospheric slingshot maneuvers using aerodynamic lift from the shockwave generated by a flexible waverider lifting body? I think it would have significant problems modeling that without some serious modding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveRider#Hypersonic_Sail_Waver...

Also, my point with the logic is that when looking at the differences between physics in KSP and the real world, we are dealing with overlapping, rather than nesting sets.
I can't believe anyone would put their Amazon password into a third-party site. I clicked on the link, started through the login funnel, realized what I was about to do, and stopped.

When I got the "Are you sure?" message, I started thinking that the site was specifically crafted to show how easy it is to get people to give passwords to a "reputable-looking" third party.

I expected to get some sort of congratulatory message after saying no, like "You're smart enough to not give us your password!" When I didn't get that, I came back to the HN comments, expecting to see an explanation from OP about this proof of concept.

Then I see it's supposed to be a real site. Well then.
I live in the US and I don't either.

But to answer the question - normal people, including a lot of software engineers in the US outside the bubble - send out resumes and take whatever they can get. They network, check job sites, facebook groups, want ads, whatever.
Oh yeah - I checked it out before reading the comments here. Stupidly. Sleep deprivation sucks for cognition.

Got the same exact email...
I would like to see some info on how they're counting CPUs in their pricing. 50 CPUs for $30/mo is too good to be true unless the CPU is not very powerful. Also, most apps that could actually use 50 CPUs would be hurt by only having 800 MB of memory. I think they should just price CPUs and RAM independently.
Also:
1. Better issue search
2. Saving issue queries
3. (This one is far fetched) Add Atom in Github itself so people can work on code from anywhere.
You missed out on the word large. Remittances are generally very small.

Also the cost of remittances isn't in moving the money it's in having lots of people in the destination country that your family can go to and get cash from. There is no indication that bitcoin would make that cheaper.
Now, the next problem is to make applications that can scale down on RAM dependably without having to restart.
most things involving blockchains tend to be
Fresh tulips on deck.
DriverMax Pro 7.23 With Crack, Keygen and Serial Key Free Download
I really like the idea of being able to take a snapshot of my scalable computing environment and sharing it with others. Everything looks slick - will definitely try it the next time I'm building/tweaking a ML model. Are there other solutions which enable the same ?
Am I correct in assuming this is what was pulled from Black Hat?

EDIT: According to someone on reddit, it's been patched, and the Black Hat one sounded like it hadn't been. http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2bf9fl/the_sniper_at...
It seems like a lot of big projects are switching from Ember or Angular to React, or are choosing it for new projects. I think that's a good thing.
dumb fuck

God damn you are a dumb fuck.

cannot educate a nigger.
Logs Are Streams, Not Files (2011)
Microsoft moving to one OS
How many ex-google engineers are there? Tens of thousands? They can't all be any good.
> Realistically, though, I think there is a scalable new business model emerging: make up something of no tangible value (bonus points for instead selling a promise of providing something of intangible value), slap on a price tag, add pretty design and some concept videos. Rinse and repeat until the pop.

But they already have proof of concept clients and scripting languages set up. It's not as if they're doing a crowdfunding campaign with just an idea. Would I be wary of the project if it had no code? Sure, anyone would be. But am I wary of a project that's being actively developed? Certainly not as much. The code can speak for itself.
If its going to be consumed by the public - yes.

One of my earlier database apps for an in-office app ran on FoxBase, guess what people called it? It had the fox logo and such. Good or bad other programs were assumed to be "FoxBase" too because of the ID screen and lack of a definitive name, was kinda hard presenting it without a unique name.

The revised database system using PHP, I gave it a name: WANDA (currently stands for - Web Accessible Nimble Database Architecture) A whole lot better then its development name, "the Web Database" I think having a name helped differentiate it from other programs, also picking one that is short, fun, easy to remember also helps for word of mouth adoption. The different applications within WANDA have more mundane names like WANDA Mail List, or WANDA Librarian, but with WANDA being so short it works.

I don't know about weird names, you can get too out there and people wont be able to recognize or spell it much less remember what its called ("Cuil", "Xara Extreme", "Quark Express", really?)

I think proper names are a good start if nothing else comes to mind, especially if they relate to the application's purpose, or at least are easy to remember.

Mainly what I did was decide I wanted the name to be a female name that was an acronym for something (female being friendlier and more efficient sounding), so I listed out relevant words and started testing acronym ideas. WANDA was the first that struck - (the movie A Fish Called Wanda did have some influence there, gotta go with the loosely related Monty Python reference...)
Facebook Mentions seems like an ill-conceived way of making a move against Twitter.
Great idea! I'm guessing you're checking the resale price on Amazon, and giving a price based on that?

I got frustrated with the process of listing / selling items on Amazon (I imagine a lot of it could be automated), and looked around for a service like this (and then added it to my 'side-project' idea list).

I'll give it a shot next time I get rid of stuff.
I use Ghost on ASmallOrange. I have the tiny yearly package.

I wrote my posts using Markdown and done with it. Pretty simple.

http://sergiotapia.me/
Their pricing page has a typo; it's 50% of a CPU for $30/month. And by "CPU" they may mean hyperthread.

http://www.terminal.com/faq#instanceTypes
Sledgehammer Test: iPhone 4S (Glass OBLITERATED)
Thanks for the feedback everyone! We didn't expect this. If you are in SF, we have a meetup for data scientists tomorrow evening in SoMa at ThoughtBot offices.

http://www.meetup.com/Terminal-com-Developers/events/1922628...
it doesn't have the same authors
How to Keep Windows Phone 8.1 Battery Last Longer
You are right that we don't use Docker, but we also don't use hypervisors which are too slow.

We are a lot faster than a hypervisor. Our machines start in 5 seconds. Neither can resize a machine up and down live without a reboot. None of them can do RAM snapshots.
I have given up on lawn.

It is a great resource for public spaces like parks and sports fields but maintaining it domestically seems to belong to a distant past. Domestic water has to be potable. Parks can use lower quality waste water and they can manage it better. Some people have huge rainwater storage but even then lawn has to be scaled back in a dry climate.

When I was a kid just about everyone had a quarter acre block with a house and shedding (garage, garden, tools etc) a veggie garden and a big front and back lawn.

I learnt to ride my bike on our big lawn. Played backyard cricket on it. Got stung by bees on the clover. And summer meant playing under the sprinklers running during the daytime with no thought to waste or expense. Golden age.

Drought water restrictions killed most lawns where I lived and when they were lifted most people didn't bother to reestablish them. Most of the green yards of my youth are now bark and natives, glyphosated bare earth or weeds. It sucks for kids. Kicking a ball around without lawn isn't the same. It is another of those childhood freedoms people used to take for granted that seems to have disappeared.
I feel like there needs to be a gamejam / instant runoff election of features for webworkers, so much opportunity is being squandered by what could be an elegant solution to many peoples' problems.
Norris numbers
enough with this thought terminating question!
It looks very cool. Am going to try it out.

Agree with what others are saying on the name. Terminal is spoken for.
Linus Torvalds to developers: to succeed, make it personal
Look at the power losses for 12VDC in any wire smaller than your thumb and you'll see why we use AC.
Tut! How did I manage to forget that one?
Ostensibly this is from a FB engineer, in retrospect I realize I don't know how to verify that: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53481/does-faceb...
Sublime Text Development Status
Wow - this is something Apple would have never done in the past. They're really pushing to make the point that they don't have any backdoors/participate with government agencies. Interesting turn, where Apple would have just stayed silent previously.
One thing that nobody's mentioned in the Ethereum camp is how useful good tooling is. If you think back to the past year of Bitcoin history there are a lot of high-profile sites that could have and should have made use of more sophisticated bitcoin escrow transactions. Why didn't they[0]? IMO there isn't going to be much of an abstraction layer over the underlying Bitcoin transaction language and anyone who wants to use these features will have to learn how to write directly in the transaction bytecode[1]. Ethereum will have much better tooling (they're already working hard at it!) and this is how you'll turn Ethereum's competitive feature advantages over Bitcoin into users.

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[0] Ok, let's assume good faith on the operator's part.

[1] What I'd like to see is a 'C' for bitcoin transactions instead of the current assembler. I don't think that will happen.
http://youtu.be/WTPimUSIWbI

Attorney client privilege is one of the biggest fallouts from mass surveillance. Earlier this year there was a legal hackathon at Mozilla where I tried to make a product to help that.
So for $61 I can access 3,200 CPUs for one day?

How does that work?

I didn't know there were any computers that had 3,200 CPUs?

How would I test that?
Also, Patriot was made for hitting much larger targets and a whole host of other considerations (like being mobile instead of fixed). Iron Dome doesn't even attempt to take something down until the target is over a safe region. It's just a completely different beast:

http://blog.vdcresearch.com/embedded_hw/2012/11/iron-dome-vs...
This is a name quite worthy of the Hall of Shame. Yes, I fully admit that I have an extremely negative gut reaction. Why? Certain terms (like terminal) should not be abused, mangled, appropriated, or pilfered by a private organization.

Here are some logic-based criticisms:

1. A terminal (look at the root of the word) is not a computer -- it is an "end point" through which you can access a computer.

2. I don't think you can get a trademark on the name. If I'm wrong, then someone at the USPTO got bamboozled.

3. People like me are going to express negativity about your name. (But, hey, maybe any PR is good PR? Shameful, again.)

4. Where is the creativity? For shame, people.

So, please find another name, for your sake and ours. Groan.

P.S. I put CNN's "State of the Union" in roughly the same circle of hell.
I worry for this country.
Are these remotely accessible? Can I set up SSH/STFP with a public IP?
Wow, that's sure one pricey domain name :) But this service looks very promising. I will try to update with some feedback soon.
Wikipedia tells me that both of the judges that ruled emails are unprivileged were born in 1946. The judge who ruled against the government, however, was born in 1955.

I don't think this is a coincidence. I'd be surprised if the former two judges even used email at all.
I will cry tears of joy when they send that first stage up in less than 24 hrs, return it and launch again.
This is almost certainly a direct response to this presentation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057470
If you use Web Workers, you are going to have to use message passing. There is no other way to communicate with a Worker. There are no truly shared objects between js threads.

However, it is still possible to post binary data to a worker and back again without making a copy of it, by using Transferable Objects [1].

You simply have to provide an array of the arraybuffers to move as the second paramter to postMessage(). The caveat is that the data is no longer available to the posting thread after the postMessage call (TypedArray length will be zero).

[1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/12/Transferable-Objects-L...
Iceland, Bahamas or Canary Islands?
Look at the "Intended use of renevue" page - it's basically crowdfunding. Time will show if they'll deliver on the goals (probably not? Those are some pretty big numbers.), but it seems like a useful way to address the "lottery for a small group of insiders" concern.
Unless of course you'd take some extra measures to increase your job security: https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
> Especially since he is acting as a public defender in this case — meaning the government pays him at $125 per hour — Mr. Fodeman argued that having to arrange an in-person visit or unmonitored phone call for every small question on the case was a waste of money and time.

The juncture of these two factoids struck me as odd.
Introducing Freethereum: a future fork of Ethereum with its own Genesis Block. Please note that before the release of the Freethereum Genesis Block, freether will not be usable in any way, in fact it won’t technically be created until that point in time.

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Exodus to 1MAHTNYgv6di77RVcCU7vXtA7FgYEosb8H!
How is this 'un-Apple'? Apple did it, so by definition it is very 'Apple'.
Was the event ever filmed? Would love to watch a live recording.
Scaling/optimizing a slow ruby on rails application
Do you use CPU sharing, or how do I actually get 50 CPUS?
I guess I'd like to know how fast the cpus are....
Convert to grayscale.
Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart raises $1 billion in fresh fund
Topology of decisionmaking – are you secretly managing by metric?
"Consequently, Army officials modified the software to improve the system's accuracy. However, the modified software did not reach Dhahran until February 26, 1991--the day after the Scud incident. "

That, to me, makes it doubly tragic. When they knew, they should have alerted everyone immediately, and the update should have been top priority. At least they could have known of the risk and taken precautions. Does bring up an interesting angle to the zero day / responsible disclosure question. I guess if the baddies know of a vulnerability already, delaying disclosure might cause more harm then less.