skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My new venture may be of interest to you: I launched http://www.dimeideas.com to help people with drive and motivation but not as much direction.
I'd rather have them try to get back on their feet with fonts than pestering me everytime I go into the grocery store. Do you have a few dollars? No, I don't carry cash. If I did, and gave it away, I wouldn't have any because every other person is coming up to me for a hand-out.
"class Position(namedtuple('Position', 'board score wc bc ep kp')):"

Whoa. I've literally never seen this idiom before.

But I immediately like it.
An ultra-low-cost college degree
I'm disappointed that Stellar has the automatic balance transfers. I always thought that was one of the major flaws with Ripple. This breaks people expectations that the balances are like accounts and money won't move without authorization. It assumes that issuers credits are equivalent which is normally true but causes serious problems when it fails (see Mt Gox or bank runs).

If they need liquidity for the network to operate, they should allow people to provide funds for liquidity or operate as middlemen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like 388 lines of Python?

Still, very cool. I spent awhile trying to write my own and failed miserably. :)
Yes, the landing page and sign up process are a work in progress at the moment. The client app was built using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) but with significant custom development. The backend is Java/MongoDB/AWS and some other services.
Although I agree for the -webkit prefix implementation (this can cause no harm to the render of the web page), I disagree strongly with tweaking the user-agent.

There's some features that simply cannot be tested with feature detection (the HTML5 Appcache and the tel:// URI scheme to name two of them but I'm sure there's more) and tweaking the user-agent might also break some web pages.

I run a website in production where I test for the Chrome & Firefox user-agent to enable the appcache. I'm not saying that IE does not have any support on it (it's actually supported), it's just that I don't have the time to test fully the IE implementation to make sure that the user will have a web page that will be updated properly. So IE will still work but without any appcache (which is not a real issue).
If they change their user-agent and their implementation of the feature is not 100% perfect, the website might not work properly.
I didn't realize that. How annoying.
Best case scenario they get the stolen property taken off them and they are out the bitcoins. Worst case how do they prove they weren't the buyer?
I can assure you given vast experience that there's a severe underemployment problem in tech everywhere other than NYC SFO SV. Lack of talent is just not a serious issue.

The group think is there is "a" culture or political outlook for each area. The reality is its more multicultural and the difference is in the ratios. For example the LGBT community in Milwaukee is healthy, according to my friends in it, but its much smaller than SFO. If you just want to live the suburban kid raising life there's a lot more of them here, than in Manhattan, but that doesn't mean there's no flannel wearing hipsters at all LOL.
You won't use it until the code is refactored? If it works, who cares if it is a mess and was written by a "beginner".
No so glamourous modeling
This is because of the way he coded. To move a pawn you have to append with a "P".
(I think, I have not tried it yet to be sure)
With a successful exit under your belt and a large tech co name on the resume, go out and raise a $1.2M seed for the "Foursquare for time". I'll happily be user #1.

There are many people both in my professional life and personal life that I'd like to connect with more often, but not enough to warrant a pre-scheduled meeting. I wish I could "check in" to being free (say around the lunch hour), and allow that status to be seen by certain people in my "yeah, we should get together again soon" bucket. There's no need for them to say no or come up with an excuse. If they're free and nearby, we hook up and I don't eat lunch alone. If not, no worries...I needed to eat lunch anyway.

Here's your deck: https://speakerdeck.com/chadokruse/10speak-pitch-deck-the-mo.... See this thread for why we failed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931130

If you have an interest in democratizing philanthropy (similar to how AngelList democratized angel investing), always interested in meeting new co-conspirators: https://angel.co/kyn
> how do you know someone's a Texan? Don't worry, they'll tell you

I never noticed this before, but I'm a Texan, and I do this.
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It's not just present dollar amount, it's expected dollar amount, so percentages are quite important in case the has high expectations.
Seattle Men Can't Get Dates Because Amazon Doesn't Hire Women
Nice work. I'm also a fan of velocity.js (and I wrote liquid-fire to make it easier to use velocity in Ember apps).

My top use case for something like blast is applying typographic rules that aren't possible with CSS. Like adding extra letter-spacing to strings of all caps, and rendering "AM" and "PM" in small caps. I do several of these things already on an ad-hoc basis.
Way to miss my point. Well done guy. Fight that good fight for unfettered capitalism. Americans don't need no stinking commie health system, amirite?

Once again: universal health doesn't mean price regulation. Like any private insurer the government can negotiate for lower prices when multiple providers exist and subsidise the cost when they do not. I also see no problem with limiting monopoly control over life saving substances. That's why we have governments. To act in the best collective interest.
Point taken. We as a society should be doing way more to help these people. But then again.. when was the last time you really tried to help someone on the street?
Completely agree and will be adding the official stuff later this week. I had been procrastinating on getting this out there so I figured I'd throw it on HN and see what people thought, then go from there. If people didn't see a need for it, no use in putting all the official jargon in.

edit: my personal site and info can be found at www.will-wallace.com, just to put a face and name with the site
The paper says they used a Phantom V10. I'm not knowledgeable about such devices, but various Google results suggest such a camera might top $100,000 depending on the mounts, lenses, and accessories (e.g. data storage and transfer equipment).
> what about an all volunteer charity tech support?

Is Comcast a charity? Then why would I donate my time and expertise?

But that's what I end up doing when Comcast doesn't help my friends and family who are their customers.
Wanneer betaalt de fiscus je teveel aan betaalde belastingen terug?
Yeah I wouldn't be too bogged down in day vs. week billing. Obviously, a larger scope is preferable, but it's much better than simply billing by the hour.
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you in the least. Lawyering up may be the right thing to do, but going after a developer cloning apps for the in-app ad revenue isn't usually worth the effort. The original post had the distinct smell of chum around the edges, and thats what generated the harshess of my response, not your comment!
Is there a tool that automatically strips this? I keep finding this in Wordpress plugins and themes I download...
Preprocessors often have prefix support baked in. It's not about explicitly testing your site for backwards compatibility. It's about casting that net as far as possible with minimal effort.
Turn your handwriting into a font for free...
http://www.myscriptfont.com/
I live in Atlanta, and notice that it has many of the advantages of an inland city without being as tied to a boom/bust cycle that oil cities can have. Surely there are other US cities that have a lower cost of living that isn't tied to a single industry. I'd love to hear what experience others have.
I think animals raised in captivity lose a bit of their intelligence because they don't have to do anything to survive. If you go to Kauai you'll see wild chickens running all around, and while not brilliant, the ones that made it this far along seem pretty smart. Chickens survive fine in the wild so long as there's no snakes to eat the eggs they lay.
Just in case you don't fancy the spice girls here is a more proper introductory article

http://draganescu.github.io/raster/specs/php/2014/06/29/intr...
There is more to it than than just oil. OKC didn't go nuts like much of the country did during the real estate boom and likewise we didn't get our asses handed to us when the market dropped. We saw moderate gains followed by moderate loss. That's a big reason why OKC has maintained one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country throughout this financial crisis.

IMO this is a reflection of a culture that's a little more traditional and a lot more conservative than the rest of the country (and I don't mean crazy-right-wing-extreme-conservatism, though we have that here, too). People live, work and start businesses in OKC because they want to be here — not because they want access to VC/talent/incentives/loopholes.

I've lived in OKC for 20 years and we've stayed because it's a great place to live. My kids aren't passing through metal detectors at school, I can drive anywhere in the city in 20 minutes, the other guy always lets you go first at a 4-way stop, and when I say "hi" to a total stranger on the street they smile and reply in kind.
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I like anything that gets the homeless some help, but that zoom-on-mouseover on the photos is creepy.
DERELICTE! It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.
http://www.artlifting.com/ does something similar with art. Both companies seem incredible.
I found myself disagreeing with the premise that highway speed limits don't influence people's driving speed. I may simply be part of the 15%, but consider the following anecdata: On I-90 in upstate NY, the "speed limit" is 65. I've gone by several state troopers at 70-75 without issue or confrontation. I don't go faster, not because traffic dictates, but I'm concerned about litigious policemen. To put it in Freakonomic terms, I'm going just slow enough that I won't get caught. If the limit was 10 mph higher, I'd drive 10 faster, as would everyone who was on the road for more than one exit (or governed semi tractors).

There is very little crowding on the stretches of highway I'm most familiar with. If the speed limit was 120, I'd probably cruise around 90 or so, assuming it wasn't rush hour. I propose that there is a diminishing impulse for travel rates as they increase, but also that on well-cleared, divided, limited-access highways, we have diminishing utility for speed limits as a regulating concept. Highway driving is the easiest driving to do. There are more variables in control than anywhere else. Why not re-evaluate the roads, not based on the 85th percentile of drivers living under the threat of litigation based on arbitrary bureaucrats, but on simple road capacity and volume?
Well if all it is is a protection from imprisonment, and not some higher ideal, it's hardly worth talking about.

There's the First Amendment and then there's free speech.
I'm guessing it comes to 111 if you remove the comments.
Light Pattern: language that uses photos as source code
Try noise cancellation on it. And results may be more clear. I did a project on active noise cancellation using neural networks. It should apply here as well.
If you look at these graphs, you'll consistently see horizontal lines in front of the first bus of the day, or on busses that run an hour apart.

That's not a delay due to the previous bus being late.
Mmmhmm! Just be aware of some fun things to watch out for when it comes to the __init__ and __new__ functions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4071765/in-python-how-do-...
Somewhat related: the Brother Sharp craze a few years ago in China.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/brother-sharp-%E7%8A%80%E5%88%...
Or by designing roads around encouraging bicycling and pedestrian safety:

- exclusive traffic phase for pedestrians and cyclists (all automobiles receive a red light) at intersections

- protected bicycle lanes

- no right turn on red

- allow the Idaho stop

Of course, all of this is predicated on having places where people actually want to walk/bicycle.

As opposed to the typical suburban wasteland of concrete, tarmac, strip malls and exhaust fumes.

Cars kill. Sometimes even directly.
It is because you are passion driven. It's normal and you should continue to do it. In my free time I work on abstract software things that bring no money at all and still have half my brain there :)
I find this awful in the typical tone-deaf patronizing upper middle-class computer professional way - but I also really like Guillermo's handwriting and its curly flourishes.
Technology, not location. Farther-away conferences are a plus if you enjoy travel!

However, I'm never going to be an expert in PHP...
Yeah, that's the correct way.
Even a place like LA or San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Chicago, etc -- you won't believe the homes, apartments, lofts, flats, condos you can get. Absolutely stunning places, with great activities and schooling.

Agree. What prevents people from moving to those places is the scarcity of jobs out there. There are good jobs in the Midwest, but not enough per unit area to generate the competition (except, perhaps, in Chicago for finance professionals) that you need, as a worker, to get a fair shake.

Despite the perception on Hacker News that small businesses are the way forward, the data actually support conglomeration and a death of entrepreneurship. See here: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/07/aging-ameri... . Also here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-slow-death-of-americ... .

Venture capital is a feudal, connections-based oligarchy that no one should rely on, while bank loans now require personal liability and are therefore a non-starter for anything that might actually fail. Then, there's the general depletion of capital in the middle classes due to the collapse of unions, healthcare malfeasance, and the escalating costs of housing and tuition. So where are the new companies forming? The only place (or few) where they still can.

The Bay Area isn't some utopia at the vanguard. San Francisco is OK; the Valley is properly horrible. It's, for many people, the only option left in non-financial technology. It's the place least destroyed by the meltdown of corporate capitalism in the US.
Well, they are exclamation points. But for many punctuation characters, there's a hacker nickname (or more than one). I've heard of "bang" for "!", "hook" for "?", and "shriek" or "splat" for "#".

The Jargon File has more detail:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang.html
The Common Pattern To Procrastination
I like the idea of using html as its own templating language.

Have you considered using DOMDocument and DOMXpath instead of regex searches?
Óscar Toledo G. has notably written various tiny, strong and highly obfuscated chess engines in C (winning the IOCCC twice) and JavaScript (2nd place in the first JS1k). He's even written a 170 page book to serve as a reference to the 1326-byte "Nanochess" program, his strongest small chess engine.

http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html
I'm about to start using Ember, and I can't wait to dive into liquid-fire. Thank you so much for putting this together, Edward.

As for micro-typographic rules: You'll find that a simple way of accomplishing this is to use Blast's generateValueClass option.
This was posted on reddit awhile ago but taken down and reposted several times.

This bio really made me go "wtf?":

> Loraine was born in London. She was an ordinary, hardworking family person, with nothing to worry about beyond paying the rent at the end of the month or keeping the fridge full. Until in 2009 she came to Barcelona on holiday. Soon after she arrived her passport was stolen from her and she had a series of problems with the British embassy. Somebody had made illegal use of her passport. So Loraine found herself in a strange place, unable to get home. She didn’t know anyone there and her circumstances meant she couldn’t ask for help from England, either. She had to sell all her possessions and, in time, learn to speak Spanish. “Living in the street is a wonderful adventure,” she says. In the street she discovered a new city, a new country and a new culture. “There are lots of people who prefer to sleep under the stars.” She also made lots of friends who helped her in a completely unfamiliar world.

I'm not suggesting the company is involved but that story is incredibly suspect. They also seem to somewhat glamorize the "street life" in some of their bios.
Part of the idea behind the 85th percentile speed idea talked about in the article is that drivers understand the dangers around them and slow down accordingly. If there are a lot of pedestrians around, most drivers will slow down a lot. Not all of them, but that's why you ignore that last 15%.

The one thing the article doesn't mention though is a phenomena of traffic queuing at speed, which happens with average speed cameras. It supposedly increases the chances of collisions, because everyone is going at the same speed, not paying enough attention (because little is changing) and not maintaining enough stopping distance. I don't have citation for this unfortunately. Maybe someone else has a link to the study.
Yes, that is 388 lines, however, the title makes reference to the chess engine itself. The rest of the code, such as setting up the board, handling moves, and ui, are not specific to the sunfish implementation, they can be used without the engine.
The comments and empty lines amount to around 200 lines, OP is not counting those I suppose.
Python is the nicest language to read, right?
It doesn't even make any sense regarding highways. Ignoring their embarrassingly flawed standard for setting speed limits based on a percentile of speed limited traffic, there are so many other factors that go into the danger of traffic that are wholly and totally separate from speed. I would argue that the speed is exponentially less significant than the skill and training and experience of the drivers.

Take a comparison of the USA with Germany (where there are even roads that don't have a posted speed limit, which foreigners misunderstand for unlimited speed allowed). The USA's per capita automobile death rate is over twice as high as Germany's, in spite of speed limits in general being lower in Germany and there being far more and more generous roads in the USA. That's even with Germany being far more populated than the USA.

So you might say, well, Americans drive more. Statistically speaking though, you would think that more driving on wider, bigger roads and in less densely populated areas would lead to less accidents and not more. And then when you look at the statistics of automobile deaths per miles driven you get a 55% higher death rate in the USA than in Germany. There seems to be rather tenuous correlation between traffic danger and speed, at best.

The problem is horrible drivers, not speed. We should have a far more rigorous system of driving qualification and recertification. But who are we kidding, speed limits and enforcement have nothing whatsoever to do with safety.

Divest the conflict of interest between governmental coffers and speeding tickets and then you can maybe start having a case that the motivations are somehow related to safety. But that's a whole different issue called unfettered government corruption and graft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
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> For example, imagine that I had $100 with Wells Fargo and $100 with Chase, and you have the same. By default, we could wake up tomorrow and find that I have $200 with Wells and you have $200 with Chase.

Does anyone want that behavior? The network benefits from it, but individual users don't. I'm assuming someone has weighed the costs and benefits of this behavior versus paying people for providing liquidity, and that'd be interesting reasoning to hear.
Hate to be that guy, but I am that guy; I would like to see RestKit renamed as it has nothing to do with REST, n.b. Hardcoded, upfront mappings. The amount of boilerplate is insane.
Yes I have. I still hover over this approach, considering I am implementing the same pattern in js now with node, so an even greater opportunity for it.

One thing I did want was for this framework to be as friendly as possible to designers and junior frontend-ers and I fear xpath is not easy to grasp ...
You do raise a good point. I know that, when I started driving, my dad taught me a neat trick: drive 8.5 mph over the speed limit, and you'll never get pulled over. That's (supposedly) because a ticket for anything less than 10mph is simply not worth it for the cops. If you go any more than 8.5mph over, though, you might accidentally cross that 10mph mark, and if a cop's around he'll get you.

And, sure enough, any ticket I've ever gotten is because I was going over 10mph faster than the speed limit.
Not just in the US, either. I just spent 3 weeks in Europe, and man, there are some very affordable and nice places to live there. If you have the 'passive' income, consider the Italian Lake district.

That said, we are leaving LA for Denver. West LA is 'gentrifying' pretty bad right now. We spec'd housing prices in Denver, and a 3 story house's mortgage can come in under our rent in LA. Yeah, there is give and take there, but the diff between LA and Denver housing is amazing. Denver, yes, does not have oceans, but otherwise is very similar to the Bay culturally.

Also, don't forget the reason that prices for homes in California are so distorted: Prop 13. The legislature needs to amend it. The longer we wait, the worse it gets.
My human brain still senses longing when he swims up to the front of the tank

Fish respond very strongly to any kind of motion or activity. Remember, many of them hunt insects.

IMO odds are you're personifying normal fish behavior.
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> Why is it better for an animal to die and feed maggots than to die and feed a human?

These aren't the only two options. We could also stop breeding animals into miserable existences in order to fatten them up and slaughter them for our consumption (which, in addition to causing suffering, causes great harm to the environment as well).

> It's doubtful that the industrialized society that enables a portion of the population to live without using animal products would ever have developed if we hadn't used animal products in the first place.

I don't disagree that this was the case. In the past, people had fewer choices (and sadly, many people today do not have the luxury of choosing which foods they eat -- if they can get enough food at all). I am lucky to have a ton of options available to me, and so I choose to not support suffering.
Would really appreciate a few minutes of your time. Reaching out on behalf of a start up down here in Orlando, FL.
lol that is the first thing that I thought as well. I just passed it off as a typical Hollywood trope, but now I'm quite delighted to see it become a reality.
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"Traffic calming" is the term used for the stuff you described that causes drivers to instinctively slow down. Curb extensions at crosswalks and narrow lanes seem to be the most effective measures, in my personal experience.
Being from OKC and with plenty of family still left that I still visit frequently, I can say I heartily endorse moving there if, and only if, you:

1) Can tolerate daily encounters with racist and homophobic statements and words like nigger and faggot being thrown around by ~everybody.
2) Think it's funny when the local paper actually uses the word "Osamacare" in print.
3) Enjoy minor earthquakes.