skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that pluggable USB is no different from installable software. So why not just the same sort of sandbox + permissions model that iOS/Android apps live in?

Discussed in other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115002
This looks like it's bound to result in a messy spiral of infinite second guessing. Curious what the winning strategy will be!
OK, but not so close to the highway, nobody should have to live there it will be loud and highly polluted.
Lot of great speakers to learn from! Thanks for putting this together.
Was wondering what was going to come following the post on Bitcoin as an IP layer. This is great stuff - looking forward to seeing how it evolves.
How to turn the job you have today into your dream job
No stripe.com URL boost = you'll have to work the hard way.
My account password recovery "token" was sent via email. I thought that was a no-no wrt security.

Edit: This was the text below the token:

Keep this code SAFE. Anyone with this code and your username can gain access to your account. If you lose both your password and your recovery code, you will lose access to your funds so be safe!
>>Nope, I am saying that Chinese science is not reliable

Why not?
I know him as the guy who advocated the even wider use of factories...
We visited Serenbe recently. It was lovely. But we wondered--what is the employment base for the homeowners? Do people live there year round?
So how do you explain suburban sprawl in Canada and Australia?
> It seems like shining a flashlight in one direction should produce thrust in the other. Is that not true or is it something different at work here?

Yes, there does seem to be something else. Classical mechanics cannot explain thrust from shining a flashlight inside your spaceship. But "the EmDrive converts electric power into thrust ... by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container"
Venter Hires Google Translate Leader at Human Longevity Startup
Yeah I think I just misunderstood your statement: I agree with this extension upon it completely.
No mining, instant confirmations, inflation rather than deflation? Interesting.
Interesting, this looks like a fork of Ripple (and is by an original creator of Ripple).
The way I was envisioning it, there needn't be any down-casting at the language level. Particularly if you want to close the sum type (which you need anyway if you want exhaustiveness checks):

public static void test(MaybeFoo mf) {
switch(mf.type) {
case MaybeFoo.NOTHING:
/* ... */
break;
case MaybeFoo.JUST:
Foo f = mf.getFoo();

/* ... */
break;
}
}

Still has exhaustiveness checking and no downcasts. Still can throw if you use the wrong get* under one of those branches, so I'm certainly not saying it's ideal, but I think it legitimately expresses a sum type and can be implemented in most any language with small adjustments.
It does. But the propulsion is really, really tiny.
>I lived in Minnesota and had only electric heat.

Did you live in town, or in the country?
I feel sorry for USAian authors whose writing is forced to look weird to many readers...
Additionaly, the hedge funds weren't among the original creditors. They bought the defaulted bonds on the cheap, just to pursue legal battle.
There are other creditors holding defaulted bonds, but these funds are the only ones that got a favorable ruling.
Facebook PR has the analytics benefit of a big database of human emotions. Much opportunity for fine tuning of messages :(
Surely this approach has gotta get some serious uptake soon/finally? For your average CRUD app, coding in iOS and Android (and web) makes little sense. Titanium was promising before it made the big shift to Alloy. Jquery Mobile is oddly "meh". Ionic looks quite nice so far.

I see 37 Signals is making this approach work, too (albeit with different tools): http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3766-hybrid-how-we-took-baseca...
Why Does PHP Suck?
Wow. If he was able to cash out even half of that amount, he walked away with tens of millions of dollars.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111214233110A...
Ok, I didn't know that. Still, it works another way around than it does in countries like Poland - you have to have your own insurance,to drive somebody else's car. While in Poland you only buy insurance for the car,and anyone with a valid drivers licence is automatically covered by the insurance purchased for that car(unless they are doing it without the permission of the owner, in which case the insurance is invalid).
I was thinking about starting an open source project like Wordpress, Ghost.io, etc.. Then create a market for templates. There used to be more "production ready" open source projects back in the day.. Not as much anymore.

Some open source project ideas:

- subscription commerce (open source birchbox model)

- location based platform for mobile apps (open source Uber/Lyft model)

- host your own airbnb page (open source airbnb)

etc..

essentially, any type of successful business model that can be replicated in other industries, open source it, then monetize on templates.
> We are currently using Facebook as a verification method to avoid spam but hope to add other methods soon. We will not post on your Facebook.

Mandatory connect to Facebook? No, thanks.
Really? In an old building in Manhattan, and not only can I hear my neighbors walking around, flushing the toilet, yawning, but I can hear people in other buildings sneezing, nevermind when they decide to have a party.
I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. But today is our first day saying hello to the world; we do plan on adding more methods soon. Thanks.
It's logarithmic. But your time as a consultant is worth more than some number of 9's of people on the planet (99.99% for instance). You've got one business that runs itself, and another one ticking along pretty well. Maybe you haven't made all the money you want to make, but you're well on your way to financial freedom, appear to be doing something that makes you happy, and have a family (congrats!), friends, and seem to be fairly happy with the world.

If you look at things in absolute terms, rather than relative terms (someone always has more), you seem pretty successful to me in a way that not a lot of people manage. I wouldn't belittle it too much.
The fact that this solves some of the problems of cryptocurrency, and the fact that Stripe is behind it, give me a very good feeling about this. To have the clout offered by Stripe while still being open source is very powerful, and I think it is what the cryptocurrency world has needed.
What Leaders Can Learn from Narcissists, Manipulators and Psychopaths
I suck at music. But I suck 1000x more when I started. I love the enlightenment phases a non-genius like me goes through when he passes a landmark. First swing, first rubato .. Even without excellence, it's totally worth it.
Mozilla's ultra-low cost smart phone running Firefox OS with Tor integrated
Since questions on the YC application rarely change, I normally just keep a Google Doc with all the questions on it. For any idea I'm working on, I copy the doc and answer the questions. As the OP touched upon, this helps me understand and boil down my thoughts into concise statements. The document usually changes a lot, but I haven't ever really considered version controlling it until now. Maybe I'll Markdown + Git it instead.
Try pg's list of "ideas we'd like to fund". http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Ancient, but here's a blog post I wrote with some ideas: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/

And Jacques Mattheij's post that inspired me: http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are...
Ivan talks business models in this hackaday interview:

http://hackaday.com/2013/11/18/interview-new-mill-cpu-archit...

Hope this helps!
JackPair Lets You Encrypt Voice Calls Whatever Phone You’re Using
How does Snowden spend his days In limbo? Where does he live and who pays for his living expenses?
A flashlight in space would propel itself, since photons have momentum.
None of this looks small or passive to me.
As it seems, the future of Bitcoin is Ripple.
Can I suggest that you focus on ways to create outsized value with software? This puts you several steps ahead of the game. Speaking in generalities, the "passive income" crowd don't tend to actually build businesses and often don't create sustainable, defensible value in their projects. If you build a business with sustainable, defensible value, then "all" you need to do from that point is figure out the right combination of algorithms and employees such that your personal time investment is sufficiently low such that it hits your "passive" threshhold.

If you want some more concrete ideas, in lieu of copy/pasting a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5904316
The Silver Line was built to serve the single largest commuter destination in all of Virginia. At that scale, rail transit is cost effective. Rail transit wouldn't make sense for a smaller scale development like the one described in the article. At this scale, dedicated bus lanes would make more sense and would be much, much cheaper than rail.
Under GC:

> I read this as saying that when a variable dies, you must immediately clear it up. I suspect that this will make the GC a little less flexible than it has to be.

I think the key reason for this is that objects have deterministic destruction in PHP which allows for the RAII pattern. This is in contrast with garbage collection in Java or C# where finalizers aren't called immediately (or sometimes at all) and the RAII pattern is impossible.

I suspect if you could leave memory lying longer around as long as you destructed objects and resources immediately but there probably isn't any advantage to that. But changing the destruction characteristics would break code that depends on it.
Those pics are beautiful and very hi-resolution. They do have a story to tell.

SmugMug may not be directly related but they make a fortune by giving sellers the options to sell live prints of their pics, paid galleries, etc. Also AdSense on free accounts cannot hurt either. I'm sure there must be a dozen different ways like this to monetize the site (unless of course the site costs a million dollar per month to run)
100% pre-mined? No thanks.

People complain about the distribution of Bitcoin being imbalanced. This is 100x worse.
I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. Today is just day 1; we plan on adding more methods soon.

Also, anyone can create an account/wallet without even registering your email. FB auth is only for the giveaway.
Can you name one such debt-free currency? Preferably one that works in a modern economy? Don't forget: A lot of our risk-management and wealth today depends on derivatives and a well running financial market.

To say that a completely different but unproven system works better is a very tough point to defend.
False,
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=2%2C%202%20chainz%2C%...

It is the integer 2, by itself that is being googled.
Guess I’ll Go Eat Worms: Lonely people are screwed
If only there were some website where you could type these questions in and find out...

He has a job doing tech-support which I assume pays for some of his expenses, he also has people who have donated money to his support.
A City In Tennessee Has The Big Cable Companies Terrified
Speed limit laws don't exist to generate revenue. They exist to disincentivize speeding.

If speed limit laws didn't exist, can you imagine lawmakers saying, "We need more money. Hey, I know! Let's charge people money for driving over a certain speed!"
Apparently it is not the most intuitive analogy, but it is an example of one party giving custody of their property to someone else. A landlord gives custody of their house to a tenant, a customer gives custody of their email to Google. It seems reasonable that Google could give the government permission to search the email just as a tenant can give the police permission to search a house, but that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the the government's right to access those emails without Google's permission.

"On Thursday Microsoft will oppose the U.S. government at a hearing in federal court in New York, arguing that it can't force American tech companies to turn over customer emails..."
C already has product types, so it's sums that are more interesting, and indeed the destructors for sums are harder in C. The constructors

in1 : a -> Sum a b
in2 : b -> Sum a b

are no problem, but the destructor

sum : Sum a b -> (a -> c) -> (b -> c) -> c

needs first-class functions.
One might also think that such articles are underrepresented everywhere else. In fact, seeing them getting voted up is some evidence that people actually want to read them.
>What was the original intended business model of Fotopedia?

Get bought by Google, Facebook or Yahoo.
Your project doesn't seem to be related to this one.
Where are you people getting your information that they aren't available for public scrutiny? Has no one ever heard of Guys of LIDAR? http://www.guysoflidar.com/

Granted, they can't dump the firmware these devices use but they are very telling in what these detectors can pick up, can't, real world examples, and so on.
It's very much on our radar. The team have a lot of experience with capability systems, and although the Mill is not a capability based architecture, it is much finer grained than mainstream e.g. x86. There is a security talk

http://millcomputing.com/topic/security/
I don't see any grounds for what "93% who have agreed the restructured payments can sue the 7% who haven't" - what claim do you see there?

The 7% don't seem to have done anything illegal (obtaining and enforcing a court judgment usually isn't), nor they have any agreements or liabilities towards the 93%, they're not obligated to act in the interests of those 93% when negotiating - even if they'd say "ahh we just did it out of spite to screw you guys, trololol" then it's within their rights to do so.

I doubt also that S&P opinion would be ignored - there are overdue payments that aren't being paid, they're simply acknowledging that fact.
Looking forward to it, thanks for your message.

Anyways, I just did the "Set up password recovery", and instead of getting 1.000 stellars it forces me again into FB.
What the hell is Ember.K?
I am curious as to how this will work.

How does bot A simulate bot B that must simulate bot A to determine its answer? Seems like infinite trampoline recursion.

EDIT: it seems you run the simulation against a different bot implementation than the running one and attempt to determine its characteristics given the responses and the known behaviour of the other implementation.
Too bad Open Dental does not in fact accept contribution from the community. They take feature requests from paying customers and implement them, but they will not accept code from outside developers.

Source: me trying to submit code and being told that they will not accept code from outside developers.
I've wondered sometimes if it would be possible to fight erroneous speeding tickets using the repeated GPS pings your phone or nav unit makes while using them for directions.
Much ado about Buzzfeed's plagiarism
Congratulations to them! It's a pretty fantastic tool. We use it for incident management for our customer care department as well as engineering.

But why does the link go to the comments...?
Then you just change the price in bitcoins: this was 0.005 bitcoins yesterday? well, today it will be 0.007.
Agh, the Stellar client requires a Facebook login to get a share of the initial batch. :/
Unfortunately judges are people and if you have tons of people coming in with just "LIDAR is not accurate enough to prove reasonable doubt" compared to cops bringing in studies proving their accuracy it is difficult to listen to it.
I'm sure he also gets paid quite a lot for the speaking gigs he's done.
The Long Tail of the Cloud
Everything Old is New Again: Recycling Business Models
This is the time for damage-control PR that they were handed on a platter by the intelligence oversight committee. The report was supposed to be released months ago but instead the CIA was given special early access to the report to conduct massive redactions and had the released delayed, giving them plenty of time to come up with good excuses and rebuttals to questions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/world/george-tenet-ex-chie...

The only government response to hacking the oversight committee is to create an extra accountability board. Adding more layers of bureaucracy instead of holding anyone responsible doesn't create a better agency.
> Isn't it just the reverse of a solar sail to send out the photons yourself rather than catching them?

No, that'd be the case if it were open but it isn't. As I understand it, it's an entirely closed system. That's what's controversial, there's nothing coming out of this "thruster", not even photons.

There's an image on page 3: http://www.emdrive.com/yang-juan-paper-2012.pdf

(disclaimer, I only have a hazy understanding of what this is supposed to be)
I think you are just noticing them. I feel like I see more of the "I work 5 minutes a day and I'm more productive than you", "unlimited vacation is awesome", or "I don't want money, I just want to surf more"
Appreciate the the response, the Werbach paper looks interesting. My point was just that wireless communications do rely on public assets in a significant way.

Wouldn't unlicensed bands that are dedicated to cellular vastly improve coverage for customers? Rather than the auction, tax payer money could be invested into building the network infrastructure and the carriers could lease access at cost (similar to many other utilities today). I can think of a number of advantages:

* Cell providers compete more on price.
* All devices are portable to other providers.
* All hardware uses just one radio.
* Above items then result in better device battery life.

From the perspective of a cellular customers and a business reliant on consistent internet connectivity, this would be a boon... From a carriers perspective, they benefit from the existing inefficiencies and besides, it would deeply cut into their monopoly profits .
Always happy to help! Keep A/B testing and you'll eventually arrive at the optimum solution. Good luck with the website!
I entirely agree with you in principle, but can't bring myself to be angry about it anymore. For the last few years I've been pessimistic about the long term viability of the unary root zone anyway.

At one point the users of the internet were collaborative enough to decide "lets just let Jon Postel run this shit." Almost half the world is online now, and depending on the Internet more and more. That kind of collaboration still works (in a more formal manner) for big things if they fly under the user's radar (like the switch to IPv6). Outside of a few flamewars, things gets done (slowly, it's a lot of work, but done nonetheless). How much of the planet relies on and has daily visible interaction with the root zone? A forth? At least?

There is already monkeying around in resolvers to add, remove or change records but those are generally isolated and/or purpose specific. Can ICANN, governments, and big ISPs all coordinate and keep their personal interests in check well enough to persevere the the root zone's position as the one and only source of authority?
Hi, I work at Stellar. The FB auth is the first of several methods to receive stellars so we will add more methods soon.

Also, mining obviously has many benefits, but it's still limited to people who are highly technical and/or who have money to spend. We wanted to provide much broader access to digital currency, and so stellars will be given away for free at the click of a button.

To encourage transparency, anyone can see how many stellars have been given away here: https://www.stellar.org/stats/
I've been using Ionic for about a month now. For the most part, it's a great tool to get something off the ground. I'm not positive if it'll hold up to our expectations of a native app yet, but I'm optimistic. I have had a few issues as well though. Most of it has to do with understanding the intended app structure. The documentation is getting better though.

For example, getting ion-side-menu to work was difficult for some reason. Looking at the documentation now, it shows that the directive is a child of ion-side-menus and a sibling of ion-side-menu-content. I'm not sure if that was always there, but I didn't notice it until now. The framework has been going through some change as well, so some of the examples out there are already outdated.

Regardless, I think Max and the guys at Drifty are doing great. And it's exciting to see a Madison getting mentioned in the development community. Nice work guys.

Edit: Ionic, not Angular
Speeding is extremely dangerous. It's ludicrous to argue otherwise. A third of crashes (including fatal crashes) involve speeding, and the faster you are driving the more likely you are to die or fatally injure another.

Also, changing the speed limits on roads have been studied and it doesn't make a humongous difference. The government usually sets the speed limit at slightly lower than the average speed people actually drive.
In practice, they're actually very good for improving traffic flow on busy roads - because almost everyone is driving at the same speed, jams just don't form in the same way. The utilitarian argument for them is very strong.
Short Vice documentary on the forest mentioned in the article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8
I would suspect safety is probably the driving force here, especially considering the capacity of these batteries.

https://suite.io/mike-dehaan/4bfn2v4
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/conferences/phev2007/PHEV20...
Idk how I would respond if I called tech support and was connected to Edward Snowden.
Don't be ridiculous, If it was about revenue there would just be more toll booths.
Feel free to send me 1000 stellar in step 4 of the signup process. Username: corey. Had to be the first to ask :) Thanks in advance!
Where do they explain the concept of what a stellar is used for? I assume you would convert other currencies to stellars but I cannot find that detailed
A Dutch engineer once told me (back before 2004 I guess ) that they once raised the speed limit on the roads in Netherlands only to find average speed decreased.

His explanation IIRC was that 1. once people broke the limit it didnt matter how much and 2. when speed limits felt more correct more people respected them.

I'd love to know if anyone has any pointers to research on this as around here speed limits are weird. (80 in places where you obviously can't even drive 80 and 80 on the highway, -four lanes)
Panasonic already has one of the largest production complexes in the world for battery production; but with the huge demand from Tesla they have had a hard time keeping up with the market. I see this as a way for them to scale up to a capacity that can handle Tesla's orders while still being able to produce 18650 cells for the rest of the electronics market. Over the past few months I (and many others) have had a very hard time getting a reliable supply of the NCR18650B cells Tesla is using in their packs.

I don't see Panasonic wanting to give up any of the control it has over this sector. The agreement is probably positioned to obligate Tesla to purchase X amount of cells a year to make the new gigafactory economically feasible for Panasonic.
I registered for this and got 5,000.999999 Stellars. Kinda curious about the 0.999999 part...
Look through some of the sites and apps for sale on Flippa.com and SideProjectors.com. You can get some ideas and maybe find an existing project to take over and build on.
Seems off that they give you 5000 "stellars" to access your Facebook friends list and photos...
That part of the spec refers to variables (which the spec calls VSlots), not objects (which the spec calls HStores).

Objects have different lifetimes, and the spec actually allows the destructors to be run anytime between the object being dead and the program ending. So it looks like there won't be any RAII here.