skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CheapAir.com is releasing their first figures so there is no way to say if they are consistent growing or shrinking other than him saying expedia hasn't lead to shrinking sales.

Overstock has definitely not said they have seen consistent sales. Their sales have been shrinking since they started.

Jan 10 - 130K[1]

Jan 11-29 - $26K/day average [1] (600,000-130,000)/18

Next 36 days to March 4th they do $400K [2] - $11K/day average

Next 83 days to May 27th they do $600K [3] - $7200/day average

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[1] http://onbitcoin.com/2014/01/31/bitcoin-executives-testify-i...

[2] http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-million-bitcoin-sales-futu...

[3] http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-ceo-patrick-byrne-1-6m-bit...

Amagi Metals reported very strong growth up last year. Literally reporting every milestone they hit($50K, $175k, $220k, $750k) then in April of last year they just stopped. Then a year later after someone else reports selling $10m worth of stuff they suddenly appear again saying "Oh ya we passed $10m already".

Please keep coming up with them though. It would be good to see some winners. The only one I've seen so far is a bar in Florida that hosts weekly bitcoin meetups.
So, the Scribd treatment, then? (Scribd links were encouraged despite constant complaints about the difficulty of use relative to PDFs.)
It works outside of git repositories and is faster than grep or awk.
I agree, but it's good marketing. It associates the act of searching with the hostname 'algolia', which seems to be in their interest (being that their tagline is "Hosted cloud search as a service | AlgoliaSearch").
You can also use it from the terminal with the `say` command, e.g. `say -f myfile.txt`
Well, he has a point. From your description, it seems tenuous to classify what you do as 'web programming'. So why don't you describe how your bioinfo work relates to the web part, because all I can think of is that you have software for which you simply have a web frontend.
And then, of course, we'll effectively be back to leaking hostnames, since there will be a 1:1 mapping between IPs and hostnames...
It not specific on hardware, it's general about all things not about programing and new products. Also it's not about new posts, at the new section I keep finding them. It's that they hit the front page less frequently and when they make it the fall to the second or third page in a mater of one hour, compared to the framework or product posts that stay very high with relatively less points.
Maybe it's not the case, maybe it's just the habituation to HN contents after three years of daily reading. If it happens I don't know if it's due to the new curation team (for example now I find that conversations are not growing so much into long rants about small details as before) or to more people flaging non "programmer" stuff more than before.
Thanks, both help. If anyone has more insight into it, I'd appreciate it.

Anyone with experience building similar advertorial sites let me know, as I'm looking for someone to build it out as well.
If I need to take something with me out of the house that I don't normally take (i.e. NOT my laptop bag, keys, etc), I leave it on the floor beside the door out of my apartment. Which means I can't help but look at it when walking out the door.
A common one, but undeniably useful: find a type of sock you like, buy a bunch of them, then throw out or donate your old ones. Then never sort those socks again.
Cool, but if you really want to do this sort of stuff (and don't mind being tied to the concept of some sort of arbitrator or route server) then you should be looking at circuit switched networks like Infiniband, Myrinet, DolphinLink, NUMALink etc.

HPC has been doing this stuff for decades, it's a fairly well understood problem how to achieve "zero queuing".

It's worth mentioning that Infiniband is incredibly affordable for datacenter networking and has excellent tooling on both Linux and Windows these days.
Resealable sandwich bags. I use them to portion food, either raw or cooked, and freeze. It means even if I'm working 50+ hours this week I can cook a couple of meals on Sunday and be sorted for the week. It also means that, since I live communally but cook by myself, I don't have to eat the same meal for four days in a row.
Related to #7, I use a shell alias to open vim with three splits:

alias wl="vim -o $HOME/worklog/{todo,progress,done}"

Tasks flow down the splits. If you'd prefer tasks to go left-to-right, use `-O`.
What cloud based systems do you typically recommend?
The data is decrypted client side only. The server only stores an encrypted version that you send via SSL.
Yeah, those reports were wrong: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118762/false-report-23-am....
Especially helpful in emacs with projectile (which has a function projectile-ag). Create a quick binding to locate all the FIXMES and feel free to experiment. Maybe it should also open file and mark the lines in a new frame for ultimate bug squashing...
Give Planleaf a shot for (7). I use it to track everything. Just send an email to tasks@planleaf.com with a blank subject line and enter your tasks starting with a dash in the body. It will append to a personal todo list. Rinse and repeat. It sends awesome daily digests on all my tasks :)
The failure modes of the master to secondary arbiter failover process need to be analyzed a bit more. Especially if you have a packet of doom that takes out both the master and the secondary; what happens to all the network traffic when both are gone? Does it degrade to normal TCP (it didn't look like it).
And once the US Dept. of State investigated, they discovered the 23 Americans claim to be false (but later one dual-national American was found to have boarded the flight): http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118762/false-report-23-am...
At the scale of these networks, infiniband isn't "incredibly affordable".
For those using Windows, the file is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
At set up, you can either set up your goTenna ID to be your phone number (recommended, as it will then integrate with your contact list and make it easy for other people you know using goTenna to find you with goTenna) or a randomly generated string we create for you (for the crypto people out there!).
The way we ensure your (or Jason Greengrocer's!) phone number isn't spoofed is we verify your phone number through the regular telephony network when you do have connectivity. If you complete setup without connectivity and enter a telephone number as your ID, you will show up as "Unverified." We don't recommend offline setup though because then you can't download all our awesome detailed offline map packs (you'll just get the world vector map that comes with the app at download).
In france it became common to bypass the isp "Free" (not actually free) with VPN or SSH tunnel to be able to watch videos on Youtube or Download heavy apps on Google Play.
We lost our net neutrality since so long
curl_exec and curl_multi_exec ???
Dungeons and Dragons Saved My Life
I know many engineers who write more than 50 lines of Matlab code per day...
or wear a clean shirt every day.
Just sayin.
None of the networks you mention are circuit switched. They are all packet switched.

Fibre Channel is about the last example of a circuit-switched network, and it's pretty much dying.
Note that Europe pays the same market price for raw petroleum that America does, it just taxes the refined petrol and diesel (and uses far more of the latter) much higher.

This does have the effects of suppressing demand for fuel that you note, but the financial effect is that the money remains in-country and can be spent on other things.

Unless the US were to suddenly double its fuel taxes, a likelihood I estimate somewhere between nil and never, the only way US fuel prices would hit $9-$10/gallon would be for the cost of extracting oil to rise to that extent -- probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $200-300/bbl prices.

There you start running into the question of just what you're getting for your barrel of oil in terms of economic output. $GDP/BBL runs from a low of around $490 in India to nearly $2800/bbl in Sweden. It's around $1000, for most of Europe around $1500.

My thought is that there's a lot of marginal economic activity in China and India which will cease if the cost of oil doubles. Quite possibly elsewhere as well.

Price matters, but so does cost.
"Can you, at the same time, read this sentence and think about yourself reading it?"

The moments before I fall asleep is when I sometimes can get a glimpse of how the machinery of reading and thought work under the hood. It looks like a computer program that runs thousands of commands in parallel, and it's not controlled by the command-giver between your ears.

There is a shutdown process that occurs when you fall asleep, to most people it's like a switch where it goes from totally on to totally off, but I've come to see it like a janitor walking from room to room in a large building and flicking off lights in each room one after another.

And you can change the order of the shutdown procedure to keep the command-giver in your mind awake until last, and watch what happens that requires your thinking mind to go away while it brings up new processes. The most fascinating part is those 4 seconds before falling asleep. Where you get the halting of ordinary thought, and the machinery that does deep learning rumbles to life one by one, in various order.

It's hard to describe, one thing I see, it all operates in parallel. And it's like a democracy. It's not a line of execution, it's everything all at once. All experiences being dumped into modified networks to solve for objectives. If a superior model is found to map input to motor output, the new model is made dominant. We do learning during the day, but the model generation that glues it all together happens at night. And you can watch it do its work in those moments before sleep.
Starbucks app will soon let you pre-order your overpriced Frappuccino
Cloud based POS sounds like a nightmare if you had downtime...
You are right, I stated the alternate case of those who value rationality and truth as opposed to those who do not, rather than the converse. Sorry, I was being too loose with my language there.

As to what the other was arguing, I was chiming in, not posing a critique, so your point is peripheral. In discussions one is permitted to add thoughts that are related without it being some kind of intellectual sparring. If I were sparring I'd have debated the claim that those who don't value rationality and truth would dislike the book (which is a hard claim to justify), but that would have been a pointless exercise since I don't really care. I did care to point out that rational, truth-seeking people could find that the book was unbearable, since that was my experience and something I thought was worth noting. If you disagree, then please feel free to explain, I'd be interested to learn how rational people must agree that it was a well written piece of fan fiction.
I thought it was obvious, but I'll spell it out for you. A worldview that would seek to ban all employment without proposing some alternative method of partitioning the world's limited resources is nonsensical.
A victim of human trafficking is not a victim of prostitution. Nor is such victimization any sort of collateral damage, it is direct. Furthermore, the legalization of prostitution will reduce human trafficking (and therefore victimization by it) by providing a safer and higher quality alternative in any and all cases.
The way I see it, prostitution is damaging to women because it reduces the value of sex to its fair market value. It reduces women's bargaining power. A man who would like to have sex with a woman of certain parameters (say, blonde, blue eyes, hourglass figure) no longer has to engage in a long term relationship with a woman, and bear its significant financial burden. He can get a prostitute that caters to his taste, for much cheaper, and with no long term "contract".

The way I see it, this is the secret motivation of every anti-prostitution participant in this thread. They don't like the idea of men having this option.
It seems like a way to lend scientificity to his opinion. There are other ways of saying smarts>experience. Invoking y=mx+b here seems deceptive.
It's not prostitution if you're getting the product/service for free.

A whore and a slut are different things.
Apple's 1986 Clothing Collection
Nirviral-Website built over night off of the open source Telescope project
that's kinda gross! what's so hard about wearing clean clothes?
> not as it is taught anywhere between first grade and Calc III

This is the problem when most programmers talking about math. Everyone seems to think that math after Calculus is just more abstract versions of calculus, with more complicated symbols and more complicated rules for manipulating those symbols.

I once talked to an engineering student who, after founding out I'm a mathematician, boasted to me that he took both differential equations classes, so he was going to tell me some cool things about math. I was sitting with my friend who is getting her PhD in dynamical systems; the irony was rich and totally lost on him.

Anyone who says "being good at math is exactly equal to being good at manipulating symbols" is completely ignorant. I suggest you update your beliefs about mathematics, because right now you're the butt of the irony.
I wonder how that'd look like with http/2.0.

If it goes ahead with certificate"less" https by default i'd wonder if they would use that icon for https websites which dont have a certificate ;)
Fantastic talk, somewhat raw.

The presenter sounds like he's holding back the urge to scream into the sky and rock back and forth at the injustice of it all. Poor sysadmins. :(
Honestly, I'd prefer a heuristic that could determine whether https was significant on the current URL. Are there submitted values, cookies of importance, get parameters? There are a lot of reasons https is important and there are a lot of places where it's totally not important.

If you draw people's attention to something that isn't seriously important, then those times when the whole screen sends a warning you go, "oh well, I had that red warning going all along and it didn't matter, so why do I care?"

I am saying that by pushing a warning where it's not necessary, you diminish the value of any warning.
My credit card details are saved in my Gmail account because when I want to buy something online my wallet is usually in another room

I feel the risk is low, I trust google enough and there's really no risk as a cardholder anyway
that is weird. Most of my really bad service happened on the peninsula; We will get offended if you call us the suburbs of San Francisco, but in a very real sense, that is what we are. I imagine it's better in real cities.
These are often used on crawlers, bots - not necessarily of the harmful variety - and other automated retrieval, transfer and storage scripts. They're very useful, but highly specialised for those particular tasks and often not needed on traditional web applications. Of course, these are often abused for retrieving malware payloads as well so enable at your own risk.
It looks like it might be this one: https://github.com/Cue/hop
I am terrible at remembering things, so for parts of my daily routine, I will just remember the number of things I need to grab/do, rather than the things themselves.

For example, there are 9 things I need to put in my gym bag when I pack it before going to the gym/work. Remembering that there are 9 things is much easier for me than remembering that list of 9 things, so I can just count as I'm packing and know when I'm done, and the probability of something foreign getting in is very low (although I have on occasion packed two pairs of socks instead of socks + underwear - never a fun way to start the day).

Or another example - I need 4 things in my pockets before I leave for work - keys, wallet, phone, work badge. The count of 4 is way easier for me to remember than the 4 things themselves.
You'll need to clarify. If the evidence is visible when testing, then isn't the evidence visible?
If Filecoin works, the price to store, say, 4 TB of data will be bounded by the cost of a 4 TB disk and the cost of 4 TB of S3. That's a wide range, but it's not as bad as Bitcoin's 1000% fluctuations.
Uh, if membership is free, and ...

I'm sure the reason they have membership, unlike the rest of this thread, is that they need someone capable of signing a patent cross-license to keep it royalty free.
Back in '97, I was part of a team that built Piri The Explorer Ship, a Myst-like edutainment title, aimed to educate about the map...
Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrG5-1b0pgk
> A slightly higher voltage offers an excess of electrons; a slightly lower voltage means the electrode will readily accept electrons from anything willing to pass them off.

...is it just my before-coffee hangovered mind, or they got this completely backwards?! ...would be really sad since NS is one of the few layman friendly decent-quality source of science news :(
> and proving or disproving theorems based on rules, exactly like in math, example: "if my assumption about initial conditions and the function implementation is correct then 'a' ought to be 42. If it is not, either my reasoning is false or the function implementation or the initial condition is wrong. Ok so it was not 42..."

Chemistry is like this. "Cadmium would be consistent with the valence electrons required for the bond to work. If the mystery element is Cadmium, then the mass would be xxx, but it's yyy, so we can rule that out..." Of course I've forgotten the specifics, but the method is just like it is in programming.

I have never been asked to do anything like this in a math class. Equations are sometimes called theorems, but that's the extent to with this sort of analytical thinking ever factored into a math class up through Calculus. (There was a little of this in geometry, and a really fun two weeks in propositional logic, but geometry was still mostly formula-driven - numbers of vertices and such.) I gather that's the sort of thing Analysis is about, but I'm not talking about math for math majors, I'm talking about math as most people experience it.

You memorize some formulas. You're given some formulas. You recognize the information you're given and apply the procedure you were taught to convert it to the information you're asked for. That's it. (Geometry is an exception, as you state. However, geometry is one year of many, and was extremely easy for me. I'm talking about Algebra, Algebra II/Trig, and Calculus.)

Memorizing and drilling steps is not how you become good at debugging - thinking is. Holding the program in your head, tracing it, asking yourself how you would design it and then figuring out where the problems in the logic are. This is nothing close to recognizing the situation as belonging to a particular category and then blindly cranking the computation for that category of exercise to reach the answer.
It's nice, but sure as hell there are a lot of errors on this site, still usable though
That's a common issues with testing. Is you run a test, but have little to no clue how the test is progressing during the test.

A lot of over road automotive, etc. testing is done like this. The entire field of post processing basically lives on it.

If you have a way of logging the evidence, then no problem.

:.:.:

This is a real work perspective
Nice. I am stealing this. I have the leader mapped to <Space>. And I move around splits and tabs using this.

"New horizontal split
nmap <leader>s :split<CR>

"New vertical split
nmap <leader>v :vsplit<CR>

"New tab
nmap <leader>t :tabe<CR>

"Easy close
nmap <leader>q :q<CR>

" Split navigation
nmap <leader>j <C-W>j
nmap <leader>k <C-W>k
nmap <leader>h <C-W>h
nmap <leader>l <C-W>l

"Tabs like Vimium
noremap <S-j> :tabprevious<CR>
noremap <S-k> :tabnext<CR>
There is; it's called a trademark search, and it's a matter of public record:
"The trademark examining attorney has searched the Office’s database of registered and pending marks and has found no conflicting marks that would bar registration..." (http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn86160387&docId...) ~The USPTO's response to this Jan 8, 2014 filing: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn86160387&docId...
Sounds like a Gold Rush... despite the stories of hitting it rich, there's a lot of background in the story about failure and loans. Only the toolmakers will get rich.
Never even fold socks again. Pull out two and they always match!
One of the traditional big inhibitors for laser projection in the USA is the FDA. Previously any public venue that uses laser projection requires special certification to operate which prohibits many theaters from rolling out these projectors. See: http://www.barco.com/en/News/Post/2014/4/15/US-FDA-product-v...

I am excited to see the technology progresses. Including expanded color spaces that can handle projection of higher dynamic range images with brighter highlights. Some of the new UHD standard proposes a new color space that will allow the dynamic range to increase dramatically. However lots of standards are coming out that should replace some of the existing digital standards such as BT.709 (HDTV) or perhaps even surpass BT.2020 with more dynamic range!
If you use CAN-ON it's only 12 chars. But if you already know you're in Ontario it's only 5 including the dot.

So that makes the difference between saying it to someone and having to write it down. Mapcode is massively shorter for local locations which is exactly what sat-nav is for.

The "grids" for mapcode are human-understandable - country and state.

I think a lot of HNers are thinking too much like programmers and forgetting that people need to tell each other locations and write them down. That's where mapcode is good.
I like these tips:
- Holding your wallet also helps you be sure to put the card back in your wallet and not someplace else.
- I think everyone agrees that the dotfiles one is useful
- I personally need a better shoelace know as opposed to a faster one haha, but always fan of when people are willing to do something unconventionally and better
Also related to #7, I use Todo txt(http://todotxt.com), and also create an alias to switch to my project folder

cd ~/my/project/path && todo -+@ ls +project

that will show my TODO list
To pull a bit out of the Esperanto / Springboard2Languages idea, particularly watch this linked TEDx talk about teaching Esperanto to young school children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSAkUOElsg

How it serves as a good simplified language because it's so regular, there's very little learning before you can start saying your own sentences instead of reciting pre-made ones.
Do you wash your jeans after each time you wear them?
Do my idea's weaknesses limits my opportunities?
I wanted to make my own iOS7 style homepage for my phone, so I needed weather icons, And I found the original art from @artill, and then I didn't want to make PNGs so I thought an icon would be good, that was about a year ago. It's improved a lot since then and I lot of people are using it.
Completely agree with you and Shabih. Didn't work with Qasar as long as either of you two but pleasantly surprised by this news, in all the best ways. Awesome! Lucky YC. :)
It can be measured; here's a page listing the energy efficiency of various foods: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6252. It appears it would depend on what we were giving up; if we replace meat with direct energy, we could save around 95%, for instance, but if we replaced grain with electricity we'd save much less, as grain is already fairly efficient.