skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up, and invited all the neighbors I knew, in large part because I have an out-of-control HOA. They purposely schedule meetings on short notice, typically when they know everyone's at work (2pm on a Tuesday, for example). Then they pass all sorts of pet projects, spending resolutions, "house rules" (don't even get me started on that nonsense), and so forth. Time will tell if peer pressure and transparency are effective antidotes to the petty tyranny of my HOA. But I'm all for anything that can theoretically check their influence.

So far my neighborhood is pretty quiet. About 50-odd users. It's entertaining, though. There's this one guy who posts weird survivalist rants and doomsday scenarios about The Big One, and how we're not sufficiently prepared for it. (Probably true, I hate to say.) There's a woman breeding puppies in her apartment and offering them for sale. There's a guy using the site to promote his political blog. There's a guy playing True Detective, tracking all of the car break-ins in the neighborhood, and looking for a "pattern" and "the perp's signature" in the items left on the scenes. I kind of dig it all. Seeing the eccentricity on display adds a smidgeon of big-city atmosphere that I've always felt SF was lacking in comparison to other cities I've lived in.

I hope the network comes into its own, and that we get more people in my neighborhood on board. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the strangeness of my early adopter cohort.
Ask HN: What do you wish you could do with your iPhone?
As the founder of a team who work hard to make Apple accessories that deliver real value to our customers (see Studioproper.com) we're constantly asking this question. So, briefly, what do you wish your iPhone could do? What's the one accessory you wish was available now?
Anybody who expected him to risk $1.5M of his own money needs to re-evaluate their own expectations. He fought as hard as he could, given the resources he had available. The community didn't give him the resources to fight an open-ended battle, so he had to settle with what he could.

It is an unfortunate turn of events, but the battle is still being fought.
Welcome to the human condition. It applies not just to first generation immigrants, but also multi-generation minority communities (try being black in America, pre-Obama) and lifestyle choices at the periphery of society (e.g. being openly gay).
Not totally true. I went to school with a lot of Mexicans and they would get verbally upset when I referred to the US as "America". As a Canadian, I could care less but they were very adamant about it.
Since we're being pedantic :-) what if the original infection occurred before the motherboard left the factory? Does that still fail to meet your definition of "airgapped"?

More seriously, the "virus that jumps airgaps" was a sensationalist headline from the get-go. I just was trying to explain where the claim originated.
What about all the hedge funds that have bought 10's of thousands of houses? I heard not only are they raising the prices on the way up, but they aren't maintaining the houses and screwing up the rental markets.
It is possible to bribe the banks to let you bypass the limits. There is a huge scandal in China right now over this.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/07/13/attack-on...
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Any idea how they get your phone number's billing address?

EDIT: Doesn't seem to work with my T-Mobile cellphone, so I'm guessing they have some arrangement with like some cell carriers?
I made this game in highschool and found its still hosted on my ISP webspace
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It really is abominable how bad the standard support for Unicode is. ICU is great, though the C API is somewhat limited compared to the full C++ API. ICU's build process, OTOH, leaves something to be desired, especially if you want to build it with a cross-compiler.
Munich now considering a switch back from Linux to Windows
As I recall, DEC didn't like the idea of people formatting their own floppy disks, either, and didn't supply a FORMAT utility, even with the version of MS-DOS shipped with the Rainbow. The idea was that you were supposed to buy preformatted disks from DEC instead. A major exception was that the Heathkit H-11 (an LSI-11/23 in Heathkit form) actually could format floppies under HT-11, its variant of RT-11.

So much potential, and they blew it all on petty BS like that.
The simplest way is the "youhuitong" or "preferential exchange" service the Chinese banks offer, which is a fancy name for "bribe us and we'll circumvent the transfer limits for you."
There is an digital unedited pre-release version that available now if you pre-order:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do

I'm reading the PDF and it's quite good.
Don't underestimate the effect of information sharing in inter-personal social networks. (Of the people variety, probably facilitated by online social networks.) The Chinese ethnic communities in the Bay Area have well established networks of people with a culture of facilitating opportunities for each other.
Thank you! I'm happy it's been pleasant for you.

I think the incentive problems with commercial providers are misconstrued; the market --- at least to sophisticated buyers --- is unkind to people who sell their trustworthiness. So commercial providers in fact do have a lot to lose.

To the extent that open source has an edge over commercial software in motivation and ideology, it's cancelled out by the immaturity of the code itself. Cryptography is extraordinarily unforgiving.
Dressed up as trade account (which is freely convertible) instead of capital. You will need a business or pay someone else for the service.
Until recently, Windows has always been an OS for power users. It's incredibly configurable for a proprietary platform, perhaps even more so than some of the newer FOSS DEs. When I was younger, I used to have fun changing the text on the Start menu to "Fart" and turning the trash can into a toilet seat! The former involved editing the raw binary of explorer.exe, but there were GUI tools for doing just that. The latter was a piece of cake since I could do it with good ol' regedit.

Even now, I think Windows 7 had the most power user-friendly DE ever to grace the Earth, and I look forward to KDE 5 since it looks like it might be a worthy replacement.
Is that really true? Seems like a legitimate use for bitcoin.
I'm very glad that virtual is not the default. Most of the classes I write are simply value classes and do not use inheritance at all. Once you start using virtual, you really have to embrace traditional inheritance idioms whole hog, and then you've got std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Foo>> instead of std::vector<Foo>.

If anything, the performance difference between std::vector<shared_ptr<Foo>> and std::vector<Foo> is even greater today than it was twenty years ago.
- Nuclear-powered electricity source

- Touted as a "battery"

- Solid state

- Can be cooled by heatpipes and ambient air

- Can use multiple fuels

- Cheap

- Small

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that they're commercializing a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (or multiple connected in a series), like the ones sitting abandoned all over the former Soviet Union (and occasionally spewing radiation when some fool disassembles them for scrap metal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...

Note that it's also touted as "Always On", probably whether you like it or not, because you can't switch radioactive decay on and off.
It's the same in Windows 7. You can also make the icons smaller and enable text labels for an authentic Windows Vista experience ;)
As I said it's better to be located outside of country where majority of your users are. If your service targets american market, you can minimize risk to majority of your users by locating service outside of US. Dissident disappearing is mostly red herring - people disappear in US too (Guantanomo).
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So in 5 years it will be possible to buy a nuclear box that can power 2,000 homes?

I bet there will be "startup cities" made from scratch using these containers that will power a small community and help people live off the grid. Sounds like something I'd be down to try out
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We're seeing similar activity in an area that we're still stuck with a house and renting out (don't buy houses in mid-07 kids, that market hadn't crashed yet).

We've been approached by a few with very low offers (via an agent). I've been tracking sales in the neighborhood and every month or so another 4-5 houses that were never on the market are sold. They are then rentals shortly thereafter. I've been pretty surprised at what things are still renting at, I thought it would plummet prices (and it still may) but they seem stable at about .6-.70 cents/sqft. It's not the Bay Area or even the nicest place in town but I find it peculiar that large investors would be interested enough to buy up 1% of the houses in an area every month or so, though the prices seem pretty good and that'd be a great rate of return.
I really think it's awesome that all the latest YC backed start ups seem like they can make this world a better place, as opposed to being some electronic variant of "Bread and Circus" (http://jolieodell.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/bread-and-circuse...)
It's good practice to check your intuition on things like this against a searchable corpus. According to http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/, "most wicked" just barely edges out "wickedest" in terms of frequency, 22 to 20.

An example that strongly goes against the rule:

simpler (3185) / more simple (153)

simplest (2191) / most simple (87)
Feature request: section to talk about startup ideas
It would be nice if there were a section dedicated to talking about startup ideas. And I think a lot of people would agree. What do you guys think?

For example: my little brother has been buying and selling things on e-commerce sites. He finds arbitrage opportunities. He sees that something is being sold on one site for less than the going rate on another site and takes advantage of the opportunity. I was thinking that there should be some sort of web crawler that finds these arbitrage opportunities. 1) Does it exist? 2) If not, why not? Is it a good idea? Is it technically feasible?

HN would be the perfect place to discuss things like this because of the strong community.

Note: I already posted this in the feature request section (https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/121), but it didn't get much attention and I think it's important, so hopefully it'll get more traction here.
You are really getting a bit desperate ...
Ask HN: When you thank people on site, do you upvote them?
I am just sort of curious how common this is: Often, when I give some kind of helpful reply to a specific person, they will then reply and sometimes seem genuinely grateful and say nice things to me but almost always they do so without upvoting my helpful comment. So I am wondering how common that is and how other folks feel about it.

Thanks.
Clearly he/she has a different opinion. I'm asking for clarification. For example, one possible valid response is "I helped write this patent because I believe it isn't actually harmful and serves my personal interests."

However, if the authors were aware of the image inlining features in other products before writing the patent, it does strike me as dishonest to then pretend to the USPTO that they didn't exist. I can't claim to know what the authors were or were not aware of, so I can't make any judgements on that issue.
Honestly I think you should coin your own term...

I, like both other commenters had the same questioning nature when I heard the word app. But when I read your original explanation to the parent post, I realized that this actually is a pretty darn good idea.

Widget on the other hand just reminds me of windows vista and the awful of widgets of a few years ago.

This is where a new term, one that doesn't already have strong connotations, is very valuable in my mind. Because what you're doing doesn't really fit with any term out there. It also could do wonders from a marketing perspective. If I hear, oh, there is this new app store providing client side apps, I'm not intrigued. But If I hear hey there is this new store providing client side NEW_WORD, I'm immediately intrigued. I'm going to want to learn asap what this new technology that I've not heard of is.
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> while Clojure and more recently Ceylon are already receiving a lot of attention

That's a nice bubble you seem to live in.
Which becomes even more useful over a field when you can do:

public int Foo { get; private set; }
To be fair Next door shows where people live in relation to you, which is a little better than just a disembodied bunch of facebook contacts.
Which Wine verson? 1.6.2 crashed for me.
As the article says, adjective order seems to be more or less universal. Off the top of my head, the expected order is "big red plane", "iso punainen lentokone" and "ookina akai hikouki" in English, Finnish and Japanese... although French mixes up things by putting the noun in the middle for "grand avion rouge"!
Hi soc,

I couldn't see your email in your HN profile. I'm at singlepageguru@gmail.com

thanks
>unanticipated by our stupid politicians

...how sure are you about the whole "unanticipated" thing?

http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/dead-souls-the-den...
Remember how aarowsw basically went broke (~$2mm) fighting the DA for his case? :(
It basically is this easy these days, thankfully. It is nice to have iterators, though, because it allows you some flexibility for swapping out the underlying data structures on existing algorithmic code. This has proved quite useful when I've written graph code.
This is will change for the children younger than 10; I've experienced this first hand.
In the US, there are 11 channels, and either 3 or (with cooperation and planning between neighbors) 4 non-overlapping channels. Investing in 5ghz was the only way I could get a decent signal in my high-rise apartment.
Much of the value from TripIt is also in collaborative travel planning, which google now doesn't seem to have an interest in.
Me too. RAII ftw!
He said Chinatown, not SF Chinatown, I assumed he was referring to LA's Chinatown, which definitely exists.

SF Chinatown is just a tourist trap these days. Many more Chinese live in the Richmond neighborhood and throughout the bay area. Also, many of the Cantonese speakers in the Bay Area (usually south bay) are actually from Vietnam (ethnic Chinese refuges who left during the Chinese/Vietnam war in the late 70s/early 80s). I assume that is quite similar to the situation in LA, but have no direct knowledge.

There is pre-existing immigration from british areas, but they have mostly diffused throughout the country and are probably on their 4th or 5th generations by now. If you meet someone in the states who speaks Cantonese, they are more likely to descend from Vietnam, or somewhere else in Southeast Asia, rather than Hong Kong. Though I once met a cantonese speaker who immigrated from...Belize.

But I guess you are right...over a few hundred years and many intermediate destinations they did eventually come from Guangzhou/Hong Kong :)
> The web (scala-internals, scala-users, stackoverflow) is filled with threads of people trying to run their Scala code on Android and being mystified by fatal errors from Dalvik or DEX generation simply dying on them.

No. Not even close.

There is exactly one known issue with Dalvik's limit of 64k methods, which requires running ProGuard before putting it on the app store (which is standard procedure for all apps).

This limit is hit by plenty of large apps.
So, basically keep the same course of action. It's not working great, hence the article.

Mozilla can't advertise their browser on every search query or offer better integration with Google services. If they continue to pursue being similar to Chrome they'll just keep sliding away into irrelevance.
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The context was a RDBMS, not Redis. Redis makes a perfectly suitable queue, I agree.

The problem with using a RDBMS as a queue is it results in a continuous polling loop, it's incredibly slow, guaranteeing only a single subscribers gets a message is incredibly complex (you need to employ locking mechanisms yourself), etc.

Using Redis you can just BRPOP and it's perfect.
Even status.GitHub is down :(
where's trust.github.com when you need it
Aren't vitamins pretty much useless if you don't have any deficiencies?
People have been saying this about C and C++ for decades. Not to say C++ will always be "on top", or even that it currently is, but your comment isn't really substantive or persuasive that "it's on its way out."

I'm also not convinced that Rust or Go are better or saner.
A better description may be that the Chinese system has a lot more pressure from all the competitions, while the instructions are not quite up to the standards at the college level.
What, issue a patent in under two years? Puh-leaze!

It is impressive to me that the system is simultaneously far too generous in handing out patents, yet is also so miserably slow that if you actually needed the protection afforded by a patent, the infringing business would have time to be born, infringe like mad, profit, and die again before it gets issued.

I wonder when we hit the crossover line where by the time the patent is issued, it has already expired?
Excellent! I think that's the right way to go to be honest. Become an arbitrage service, and then use the monthly service fee to "hide" the irregularity in "cost" to the market.

Once you have an overall picture of market demand (parkers), and market capacity (free garages), and can predict the supply vs. demand well, you can introduce greater amounts of liquidity to the market. This results in a win for the customer, as well as the parking facilities themselves. Removing the need for facilities to be licensed, and have all the same requirements they do now (deregulation), also results in dropping costs (slightly).

I feel like the next logical conclusion is a hybrid model of Zipcar, and Vatler. In which, you allow people to check out other's vehicles during the day.
This definitely works, and I've done it a lot in the past (and still would if my requirements are simple enough), but there's a few useful things that toe_tag does that this doesn't.

First, you can pass it an array of exception names, and it will ignore ones that aren't defined. This is really useful if you need to group together exceptions from multiple libraries that may or may not be loaded (this happens a lot if you're writing an app expected to work both in MRI and JRuby).

You also don't need to know anything special about toe_tag's synthetic exception classes to use them. No splat operator needed. You can also combine exception groups into larger groups, which you couldn't do with nested arrays and splat.
"the path from idea to standardized feature" Guy Steele was asking for value types in 1998 (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf)
The convention I use in my own code is that passing a raw pointer around, or returning one, confers ownership. Mostly I do not schlep raw pointers around between functions, though. I use shared_ptr or scoped_ptr or unique_ptr or a reference. When I have to use raw pointers with some given library, then I immediately wrap their usage in my own facade types. Sticking to these oft-repeated best practices means that crashes are rare and memory leaks are rarer still.
Reminds me of this [1]. Unsettling, to be honest. Finance helped to bring about the housing bubble and the 2008 crisis, and now it's purchasing depressed housing stock.

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/behind-the-rise-in-ho...
The article gives a number, stating that Chinese nationals account for about 11% of home buyers in the US. That's a nationwide figure, and I'd guess the proportion is higher in the Bay Area than it is in the national aggregate. Up to the reader to determine whether 11% constitutes a significant or manipulative force in the market.

Followup questions I'd have: 1) Historically, what proportion of SF or nationwide housing is sold to foreign buyers? 2) Historically, what proportion of that figure is sold to Chinese buyers? Especially curious about #1. If the Chinese are just taking the place of yesterday's big foreign buyers (Russian, Japanese, or whoever), then we can put this into a typical perspective. If indeed they're raising the overall percentage, and not just their own representation within it, that's a more compelling statistic in favor of the author's thesis. Either way, I would have liked a bit more analysis in the piece.
No, no, that’s quite alright. See, it did sound wrong to me but I couldn’t come up with anything better on the spot so I left it that way. “With the bus” is the German construction, so an easy mistake to make.
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Cool article about undersea cables (instead of working on a fishing rig in Alaska it would be fun to work a specialized fiber-laying vessel like the Wave Venture mentioned in the article.)

But honestly I was expecting something more along the lines of a measurable uptick in births 9 months later. :)
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Oh, definitely. I didn't mean to diminish the cool things toe_tag does - I just tend to dislike the tendency for novices to just use gems to do things without understanding why they work, o I like to point out where solutions can be accomplished in bare Ruby. :)

toe_tag sounds like a great tool for the toolbox, but if the need is "I want to rescue multiple exceptions at once in a DRY fashion", there's no magic needed.
Anytime there's something that I like about a comment, I upvote it. It's a generic "thank you" or "yeah!" bit of karma to me.

Let's see how much this comment gets upvoted ;)
This truly is journalism at its best, as other commentators have noted. Still, I'm not sure how I feel about the subject. Especially about pedophiles who have already acted on their urges. Yes, maybe they won't do so again but once we also take the perspective of the children (which, this article does fail to do) that I think it would be better to just lock them up for life. I still can't figure out why we are locking up drug users for life but never seem to lock up pedophiles and rapists for life. I'd rather let most murderers go then pedophiles and rapists-- not serial murderers, but if they killed for a reason (economic or a crime of passion) it's probably safer to release them then a pedophile.
The article mentions that China gets 6,895 investor visas whereas a country like South Korea gets 364 visas. Given that China is 1,350 mio. people whereas South Korea is 50 mio., the ratio is really 7.3 visa pr. mio. South Korean compared to 5.1 visas pr. mio. Chinese.

In the 80es there was a huge buying spree by the Japanese in California and other places. That stopped when Japan's economy popped in the early 90es.

Today realestate in China is priced extremely high and that creates a lot for surplus capital for the Chinese to invest. The high realestate price level of China may persist for a while but not forever and this buying will probably stop as the Japanese did.
You can do that. That's part of C++11 and is supported by basically every major compiler.

The advantage of iterators is that they're incredibly flexible. You can use them for sub-ranges, reversed ranges, non-ranges like input and output iterators, etc, etc. This is vastly more powerful than something like, say, Objective C's NSFastEnumeration, which just allows for the trivial case handled by the range-based for-loop.
Hmm. 2MW/reactor means you'd need 500 of the things knocking about the country to equal one regular power station. Not that great for keeping things secure.
People worry about this in Australia too, which always strikes me as damn strange. If you think you're in a bubble, then the more stock you can sell at the high price, the better!