skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with what the author is saying, although I would argue that it has nothing to do specifically with programmers. Our entire culture is risk-averse, preferring a "safe" job to the potential reward of starting a business.

Here is one (anecdotal) example. I have been working on a business idea, and everyone tells me it is a good idea. I even have a working prototype. But the conversation always turns into a discussion about getting a job. I ask for a few hundred dollars to help with the business, they say no. Then later in the discussion they offer (without me even asking) a few hundred dollars to help support me while I find a job. Either way it is a few hundred bucks, but the job is acceptable, the business is not. This happens even for other investments where I show them numbers and we have a high probability of making money. Even then, no.

Even outside the world of business, people are afraid of risk. Even something as simple as trying a new food is too risky for some people. Our culture is so risk-averse that it is frightening.
I run the circ fan all the time as well, but the bearings on the motor do have a limited lifetime. Ask me how I know this.

A new motor will cost hundreds of dollars, more so if the blower and fan cage are a single assembly. You'll need to amortize that cost into your comfort level.

It will also quit at the least convenient time, following a combination of Tuttle's and Murphy's Laws. Again, ask me how I know this.
That's true, and people should be very wary of plugging in USBs. I, for one, would like the option to sandbox usbs: when it gets plugged in, ask my goddamn permission before granting it driver privileges. I'd probably be ok with a keyboard one, but write-only. But that doesn't mean USB is an inherent security risk, like something with DMA might be. One huge benefit of the serial bus is that by serializing the operations, you don't have to grant it access to bypass the cpu.
I meant preserve the character :/
In what world is a page full of nothing but advertisements considered "unintrusive" and deserving of whitelisting?
> I can't believe [average speed detector is] not implanted at least in all interstate freeways.

They are very common in Australia. It takes a photo of your license plate, then another 10km (or whatever) down the freeway. If the two photos are less than x seconds apart, you get a speeding ticket.
That would be cool to add the talks topic in the videos' title and/or description. I care more about the subject than the speaker's name when deciding which video might be interesting to watch.
Harnessing your superpower with DRY
Are you from the UK? I live in the Suburbs of northern Kentucky, actually right on the cusp of rural and suburban, but there are still a lot of roads but with no or almost no sidewalks and more than enough traffic to be dangerous. Because of how the streets are laid out with culs-de-sac, it takes 30-40 minutes to walk to the nearest grocery story. There are no real places for 'country walks' since everything is private property.
Mobile App Development Will Soon Grow More Enterprise-Focused
Unfortunately, because police departments are often (mostly?) funded by things like tickets[1], they actually have an incentive to care less about traffic safety in this case. If the goal was truly to get people to stop speeding the municipalities could increase fines to a level that actually serves as a deterrent.

1: I only have second-hand/anecdotal knowledge that these departments are funded by fines. Still, I believe my point remains.
If by "lifestyle business" you mean "something I stuck in a private Github repository, set up a web page for, tinkered with Google Adwords a bit, and hoped for the best", you are absolutely right.

Patrick's businesses aren't viable because he got lucky with the right lines of code and the right blog posts. He's viable for approximately the same reasons that a decent local bookkeeping firm are. It just happens that he generate value with small amounts of Ruby code instead of accounting services.
No, altough the wording might have been misleading—I was refering to the second paragraph, while you seem to have applied it to the first. I hope this clarifies the situation a bit:

For any category, the product A * B of two objects A, B (if it exists) is unique only up to isomorphism (this follows from the universal mapping property).

In general, products A * B and C * D need not be isomorphic (and seldomly are), and neither do products from different categories. Many of the commonly-used products actually arise from a product in a suitable category, the cartesian product, for example, is a product in the category of sets.
For climate data, the U.S. NOAA is probably the go-to stop:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/

I know lots of other data sources, but don't feel it's worth your while for me to list them...just because data exists somewhere doesn't mean that it's easy to understand and/or easy to publish...but I can point you to a couple of places where you can talk to others and get advice on it:

The OpenData StackExchange: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/

And the datasets subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/datasets

And of course, there is the visualization subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful
Think the Developer Tool Market Is Annoying? Just Wait…
The UK registrar decides how subdomains of .uk are allocated. They might well declare that .co.uk is an administrative division like .uk, but mycompany.co.uk is property that can be bought and sold. I don't see any particular issue with this, and it would match how they're used in practice (modulo some weirdness like police.uk).
Where can I read more about how/why this is impossible? Isn't it just the reverse of a solar sail to send out the photons yourself rather than catching them? 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?
This has been written about so much there is really no point in repeating it here. Just Google Pat Flynn. He has a whole blog about it.
Massive, undetectable security flaw found in USB
I'm a bit disappointed there are no tests. I've always wondered how Google handles testing on internal Android projects (especially since it's a bit of a sore spot for Android [1]). It would've been great to see a "real world", official example.

[1] https://github.com/JakeWharton/gradle-android-test-plugin#de...
Wunderlist 3 just launched
>I just edited my comment to double down due to downvotes, but this ruling will ultimately damage the US more than Argentina. If we establish that it will be impossible to restructure debt if you issue your bonds in the US, we've established that there's no reason to issue your bonds in the US.

Every country in the world knows that it is going to be easier to restructure if you issue bonds under local law. No one selects New York law for its bonds out of some naive inertia. Argentina specifically went out of its way to select New York law and deliberately put in a pari passu clause because it had a history of defaulting on debt, and it thought it wouldn't be able to raise money, or at least not at the same rate, if it issued bonds under local law.

I can't think of any possible reason to relieve a country of obligations that were deliberately and knowingly undertaken to tie its own hands in order to make its debt more credible.

If you want collective action on restructured debt put in a collective action clause. If you want a sweetheart interpretation of your debt clauses issue it under local law. Every country that is issuing debt knows these things, they aren't rocket science. The reason they sometimes choose not to is because they want to pay a lower coupon and/or be sure that the whole issue will be purchased.
6 Raspberry Pi-like board clones and extensions
Me too. Though I would've been over the moon if he'd said he wore his "Back off man. I'm a scientist." shirt to court.
EIA has all sorts of data sets focused on energy:

http://www.eia.gov/
Sociopathic? Maybe not, but scofflaw? Most definitely. Drivers have a really hard time with really basic things. Speed limits, red lights, turn signals, proper lane etiquette, and other common courtesies.

Every single one of those things has a law attached. People either forget or think that the law doesn't apply to them.
Ask HN: My Employer is being purchased, Benefits Changing
I work for a 100ish person company and the owner has decided to sell to a 16,000 person company. I'm not worried about my job, but my vacation days are being reduced by half. I currently receive 30 a year.

Do I have any course of action? Should I try to renegotiate my salary and benefits?

Any advice would be great.
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http://datasets.reddit.com

http://opendata.reddit.com

http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-are-some-intere...

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to...

http://www.bea.gov/

http://www.data.gov/

http://academictorrents.com/

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/
How Fermilab Uses Ancient Roman Lead and TempoIQ to Find Dark Matter
The tragedy of this entire way of thinking is that being one of the top 25 in your honors physics program is perfectly fine. He was still excelling.

People get hung up on the slight variations that make the difference between first and second place, completely ignoring the fact that there are plenty of extremely high levels of achievement aside from being "the best". To think that you shouldn't practice something you love just because it's easier for the guy above you is absurd.
Intel will probably just wait until they're profitable, and then threaten patent a infringement case.
Ah, the Vimes "boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-ri...
Fork my Stopwatch app for iOS. It makes just over $5/day, and I never did much work on it.

Completely open source, no real marketing.

https://github.com/andrewljohnson/StopWatch-of-Gaia

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopwatch-+-timer-stop-watch...
This is a common myth.

The camera is not your accuser; the state is, using the camera as evidence of your violation.

It would be no different than a security camera catching you breaking into a building. The camera doesn't sue, the owner of the building does.
dropship items that cater to an unsavvy market (old people, hobbyists, memes, videogame/fanship communities). People less inclined to seek things out on amazon themselves. alternatively, work on something YOU care about and make something worthwhile. You might even make a buck
Windows Phone at under 3% share worldwide. Is it finally dead?
I've made my own audio fingerprinting software in Python under the MIT license, check it out!

https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu
Isnt that market saturated? Smart Passive Income etc?
There is no mentioned about Developer+ anywhere in the dashboard, account or billing-pages.

I would suggest that this and the time left is somewhere mentioned because I'm not exactly interested in paying a "infrastructure charge" for spinning up a few test-servers.

Second, I signed up via "International Customer" and according to the Dashboard I can't create servers in London - the only Datacenter in Europe. I'm in Europe so I would want to run my servers in Europe...

(I have opened a support ticket to confirm that I am indeed a Developer+ before I start creating anything.)
Thanks for the tip, I'll do that.
That's one of the down sides to napkin math. I posted a follow up on another comment. Including some of the efficiencies leads to a net increase of about 20% in electricity usage.
Everybody involved in the 2001 default knew this was going to happen. And it can even be said that Argentina didn’t plan to pay what they promised from the beginning, although I cannot attest to it.

One detail I want to add to the discussion is that in the past few years the global panorama changed for Argentina, they sit on top of the second largest shale gas reserve in the world, and plan to extract it. They need money to start working and suddenly felt the urge to settle this issue.

Known fact: There is the Argentinean way of doing things, not straightforward, which is why talking about the bondholders like victims sounds naïve. They saw they might get their money now, and with Argentina’s shell gas urge probably felt the call to make more.

To me there is a larger scope, take a look at tech companies like Google and Facebook, they placed their head regional offices in Argentina. Both companies knew well in advance that the political and judicial system in Argentina is completely corrupt but still decided to direct their regional efforts from Buenos Aires. Why would anyone place offices in Argentina, when there is Chile, Perú or Colombia, countries that have greater political, social and economic stability, extremely better infrastructure, better weather and even tastier food.

I could be going paranoid but I believe it is simple; it looks like the big guys like to get in bed with the naughty ones, rather than the honest and better-behaved gals around the corner. This makes sense to me, after all, the bigger the risk the greater the possible reward.

The country is extremely wealthy, but that wealth is not getting to everyone (not that uncommon), and maybe that’s why the demonization of the international monetary funds has so much appeal locally. The certainty is that by the end of this story, it will be the Argentinean people who will be paying for this.
> Instead of innovating, they have been, essentially, polishing a turd.

In North America, yes. The rest of the automotive industry has been advancing a lot.

I love that BMW get the same power/torque from a 3.0 liter engine as Ford/GM do out of a 6+ liter engine.
I will look into this, thanks for the reply :)
Entiendo. I just want to belabor this point; sex is social communication, whether by commission or just awareness of its occurrence. A place where you can get real advice from real 'fkers' in the trenches would be invaluable.

thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I do not care about the gender make up of teams personally, but i would bet you will hear more about it if/when your app gains traction. As i am so low level in my technical capabilities, i sought to help where i could.

sexual health and open dialogue are so very important to peace and happiness. However rough around the edges you guys start, i believe you folks are trying to do a good thing.
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>>public-transport culture problem

That's just one thing. Operating a fleet of vehicles comes with its own head aches. Start with deprecating assets, poorly maintained vehicles, and thin profit margins. Doing this on scale gets very difficult.

Plus from everything I've heard. Getting parking slots, permission, permits etc requires paying out heavy bribes[Which you can't legally account for] etc etc.

Together all of this really makes it difficult to run this business on scale.
Well, we're basically the same. As for raising a family, I'll never be able to afford to do it properly here in NYC, and the QoL of your average suburban commuter here seems poor.

I think people like you and I will soon be looking to escape to suburbs that offer a mix of both worlds -- rather than being a 15-min drive to the nearest strip mall (like where I grew up), I want a ~1600-2000 sq ft detached home (it can be a townhouse) within a 15-min walk to a walkable area of shops and services, and with a train line and/or cycleway to get me to the business district. Don't really know where that is though.
So basically every company is a "monopoly" because only they can use their property. And AFAIK any company could have bought spectrum (e.g. cable companies bought spectrum).
Why fingerprint audio with Shazam when you can do it yourself?

I've made my own audio fingerprinting software in Python under the MIT license, check it out!

https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu
Why local state is a fundamental primitive in stream processing
Thanks for the reply. I've visited many of the sites that attempt to provide a fountain of ideas, but never found them to be on point. Seems like a challenging product to make.
Hitlist update positions it to challenge heavyweight travel apps like Kayak
A lot of this is common knowledge now. You can check out guys of LIDAR who research these types of guns & how accurate their findings are. This is also why cops should be taught to do several speed readings & to point at the vehicle, not the headlights. Also, depending on the paint, it can also cloak the vehicle's speed or make it take longer to get back to the gun.
British publications have been using titlecase for acronyms for a very long time, its not a recent trend.
Disappointed that I have to sign in with facebook to receive stellars.
The sign-in process creates an unfunded wallet. Facebook login is required to receive 5k free Stellars (5k is 5 x 10^-8 of the available supply).

Cool idea. The idea of a distributed exchange is interesting.
They did the same thing with Far Cry. Whenever they need money they sell off an IP.
Interesting project, I only wish I'd understand the mechanics behind it (apart from what the site tells me). Hopefully there will be layman's video explanation about it.

On another notice, this is one of the situations where it makes a lot of sense to register a simple username just in case, so I don't regret it later where the only available are longer ones :)
> Because video cameras are arguably illegal. You can't face your accuser in court, therefore it should be thrown out.

You can go to court and ask to challenge the evidence the camera has provided.
Moreover, I'd think it would be quite trivial to place the camera in the court room if any judge were to seriously consider that defense, while the camera furiously exerts its right to silence.
If you follow me on twitter (temporarily), I will send you a direct message :) Same username as here. Then I'll also explain the reason for "secrecy".
I'm living in Manhattan and I don't meet anyone new on the street. What friends I do have, I never see, everyone always seems busy and uninterested in just "hanging out," which is what we did back in my slower hometown (something has to be planned here, and it better be good). It's actually ironic that I've never been closer (in physical proximity) to my friends (everyone is within a few miles of me) yet I see them much less than when I lived in a very sprawled out area (everyone > 10 miles away).
In other words, use the same sort of sandbox + permissions model that iOS/Android apps live in. For example:

- "USB device 'Kensington 16GB' is trying to take over as your computer's keyboard. Allow?"

- "USB device 'Kensington 16GB' wants read access to your files. Allow?"

- "USB device 'Kensington 16GB' wants write access to your files. Allow?"

The latter two could be more specific about the source/target directories.
I'm not so good at names. Let's see if Google can help me...

People have been talking about this stuff for decades. I found a paper from 1975 right in the top of my search results: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/neum75.pdf. That eventually became PSOS.

There was also KSOS which had formal proofs both of the design and that the code conformed to the design.

There is a whole batch of TE based kernels that are descendants from Secure Ada Target/FLASK: SCOMP, LOCK, DTOS, Trusted MACH, TrustedBSD, and of course Sidewinder made a big deal about their firewalls using a provably secure kernel which was based on that work. The NSA even opensourced the Tokeneer project: http://www.adacore.com/sparkpro/tokeneer

Then there is MITRE, UCLA's DSU, AIM, etc.

I could swear there was at least once SELinux vendor that claimed it was providing the "only" provably secure kernel.

There was also HYDRA...

Anyway, there are lots.
Can you cite some parts which reflect entitlement?
I guess a related question is "why does a flashlight in space not propel itself". And I don't know the answer to that.

Edit: Ok. That makes sense. I guess it's just not a practical source of propulsion.
Here's a good spot if your looking for some US Healthcare data:

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/
Segment.io (YC S11) is hiring analytics enthusiasts for the success team
Testing Rails Service Oriented Architecture
I have yet to get into an accident, but I actively avoid walking across several streets in Seattle because of a combination of entitlement thinking (This road is mine because I'm in a car!), and pervasive speeding. I'm not the only one...I recently found out almost nobody on my side of a local road will cross the road due the same problem. The road, therefore, has become a barrier to commerce and has split a community in two.

Preventing accidents isn't the only reason to enforce traffic laws.
> In UK only people who are explicitly listed on the insurance document can drive the car

That's not entirely true, it depends on your insurance. It's an offence to drive a car without insurance, and an offence to allow someone who is uninsured to drive your car. Some insurance policies do not extend the insurance you took out to driving other peoples cars. However, some fully comprehensive policies do have third party insurance while you are driving someone else's car with their permission. In that case it's fully legal to drive.
The Stellar.org post is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114871
Lately I've been looking into having CPUs run untrusted machine code (e.g. Google's Native Client). Hope you don't mind a completely off-topic question: is it anywhere on your team's radar to have provisions for that? So far it's been essentially chance whether the architecture has useful features to make this happen (e.g. x86 segment register abuse).
Damn, my open source project was named Stellar way before!
http://stellar.evelend.com/
This is an awesome article, Paul. I really dig the layout of your site, too. I've been flying Lumenier quads for about 6 months, and just ordered their plug-and-play gimbal for my QAV400. It arrives today!

Sharing your article with friends that want a smooth entry to drone exploration.
Iliad is the parent company of Free.fr, which (as I understand it) is considered a disruptive influence in the French telecom market; Given T-Mobile USA's "uncarrier" strategy, Free seems like a good fit.
I hope this information, or the equivalent, filters into the awareness of judges. I was in traffic court in Virginia last year and, as I was waiting for my case, heard the judge explain to several defendants who were there to challenge their lidar tickets that the lidar was essentially infallible and could not be confused by other cars on the road. And this was an intelligent judge who seemed unusually sympathetic to the accused.
> The goal of speeding tickets is revenue generation not lowering speeds.

This depends on the country. In the US and Canada it certainly can be and is a cash grab, but in Switzerland, for example, it's not. Fines are in place, but they are also almost always accompanied by deterrent measures as well. Going 120 km/h through a tunnel where the limit is 80 km/h can earn you a week in prison sleepovers (that is you have to go to the prison for the night) with all earnings for that week withheld as a fine. Also, there's a lot of stationary speedguns, which you can spot at a distance. I also saw semi-portable automated speedgun that was placed in a specific spot where people tended to go over posted 60 km/h limit. It stayed in place for a week and then was removed, presumably after the average speed dropped to the limit.
It's his next pump and dump.

https://xrptalk.org/topic/2629-selling-my-xrp/
I meant controlled by the thermostat. I'm sure you can adjust it manually, but in normal operation, it's cycling between on and off, and nothing more. Output level when heating your house from 50F to 70F is the same as heating your house from 69F to 70F, it just runs longer.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this somewhere, but it doesn't seem common. Thermostats don't typically have a way to command anything besides on and off.