skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't run into this folklore very often but it does happen on occasion - I'll file this little tidbit away until its useful in the future. It is funny to think this number hasn't been adjusted since the mid 1970's.
And this is why microsats make a ton of sense. Google did the right thing in buying Skybox. Instead of 3-4 beastly (and expensive) sats, send up a dozen much smaller ones and have them use software smarts to talk to eachother. I think that is a much more viable approach longer term for anything such as this in space.
And in the case of FDIC, evidence of gross malfeasance on the part of the bank would likely result in a seizure of the bank and its assets. The FDIC then becomes the "receiver"[1], entrusted with ensuring as many of remaining funds can be returned, and any covered and outstanding amount paid by the insurance.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/about/strategic/strategic/receivership....
> It's hard to imagine heavy popular frameworks like AngularJS falling to the same fate, it would need something far superior with a lot of traction to displace it. But it's still a risk...

To emphasize the "still a risk" part: Angular is only four years old, and its popularity is arguably only two years old. People are just barely starting to get a feel for the advantages and disadvantages of building the Angular way. There's some significant things to like about it, but there's absolutely no guarantee those things won't be subsumed into something else or devs won't decide some other way is better, either on the merits of careful thinking or enthusiasm for a fashion of the moment.

(If someone had told me 10 years ago, for example, that relational databases were soon to fall out of vogue for hierarchical/document databases or key-value stores, I would have said history seemed to be against them, but here we are.)

This is software, ephemeral foundations and vicissitudes are pretty much a given.
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To move through archives just add the date to the overall url...example for Aug 21st -> http://knowabout.it/08-21-2014
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo and other tech giants looking to court Cyanogen Inc
I use XML/XSLT to transform data into multiple output formats (currently XHTML and ConTeXT/PDF):

https://recipefiddle.com/recipe/15316/truffles (web page)

http://i.imgur.com/T71WhDJ.png (editor)

https://recipefiddle.com/book/examples/recipefiddle_sweet_tr... (printable ebook)

https://recipefiddle.com/book/examples/recipefiddle_sweet_tr... (recipe cards)

Each recipe was created from the same XML recipe data, transformed using two different templates. To my knowledge, JSON cannot be directly transformed into *TeX, but XML can.

To achieve the similar results with JSON, you'd have to first transform it to YAML, then Pandoc, then LaTeX, then finally PDF. Then you'd have to use a different infrastructure to render JSON as XHTML.

Architecturally, in this case, XML/XSLT is the simpler solution. If you only care about mobile apps, and don't need to create beautiful ebooks, then XML/XSLT is not a good choice.
I think that electrical cables have pretty low current. The fiber optic ones need to power amplifiers, so they have quite a bit of power going through.
It would fight my ingrained emacs muscle memory habits, especially when not using tmux. But, I really should just change my habit to use the home key instead of using C-a at all. I had a narrative in my head about home & end keys not always working over ssh, but now I think they work everywhere I need; That story might have been burned into my head decades ago.

C-j does make a nice tmux prefix though; give it a whirl and see. Part of it for me is the two-hand chord versus one-hand chord. C-j feels easier for me to hit than either C-a or C-b.

In any case, I forgot to compliment you on the project - your tmux modeline does look awesome!
When someone invest 200M at a 1B valuation (for 10% ownership), remember that only the $200M are real at the moment. The rest, $800M, is "confidence in the team + hope in the market." This is especially true when the company makes no revenue.

So in the event the company sells for $300M, the investor get first get his $200M out. Then get 20% of the remainder. He won.
That would be awesome if everyone had one!
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You seem to be postulating a landlord that owns all the property. If you don't want to rent to me I can always find someone else.

So, you pay off all the utility bills at the old property. You maybe get some of the deposit back. You maybe get some rent back if you were paying in advance; or you have a debt if you were paying late.

You then need to pay a month's rent in advance, and a deposit on the new property. Some utilities (at least, in England) want advance payments.

There's a disturbing number of people who would not be able to pay all that. Including people with full time reasonably (for the not IT sector) paying jobs.
For me, I've been spending more time at StackExchange because the QA format reduces the number of statements which provoke a comment relative to those which I might answer or from which I might learn something.

Spending time there makes me more aware of those times when I am about to start arguing on HN.
Nothing about a term sheet is realistically very binding. That goes both ways. If you break the terms, there's generally little recourse for the other side.
> spend time with your gf...

Unrelated: That’s uncool; you’ve just made every developer who read that, who has (or would like) a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend, feel like you think they shouldn’t belong here. And I would hope you actually don’t think that.
To be 100% fair, this is a non-official 20% project. So "Google backed" is a bit of a misnomer.
Rusts goal isn't desktop applications, its goal for better or worse is to attempt to supplant C++.
Based on Zuck's conversation, at that time in 2005 facebook was seeing itself as an online directory where you can learn a few basic things about someone and maybe message the person to get in touch. Looks like another story of a tech company whose initial idea was different/limited and then the company pivoted by introducing their two of the breakthrough features: news feed and photo-tagging that changed entire landscape of social networking.
Zynga? Whats a Zynga?
I would hazard a guess that we know Ebola to be pretty close to 100% lethal, and if you know that three out of three control animals died, then the virus is "working" and there's no need to sacrifice many more animals.
You don't experience the universe directly. You experience it through cognitive constructs and all the limitations that entails.
This is a very good initiative, but I would like to see the hole content of library books on internet, without the need to go into a library and search there. I know that there is google and wikipedia and.., but they are very poor content.
Google books is a good thing but is copyrighted and not very friendly to use.
>Japan has its own word "inemuri" for the practice of sleeping on the job, which is sometimes even faked to make it look like they're working hard.

Huh. Definitely not a part of American work culture - it's likely you'll wake up with a pink slip taped to your face.
Node.js is a platform from which tools are built, much like Ruby, Python, Bash, and C/C++. With Node.js comes `npm`, a tool for getting the tools.

bower is also a package manager, IIRC. I'd avoid it.

Isomorphic single page apps seemed to be buzzwords to me.

Grunt, Broccoli, and Gulp are all tools used to create build scripts in the Node community. You only need one, and you could pick Grunt or Gulp with a coin flip and not be worse off.

React, Backbone, Ember, Polymer, Angular...they're all client side JS frameworks. IMO, go with React if you want stability. But in any case, this is what you would use instead of YUI. And these tools work well with the rest of tools Yahoo mentioned.

Mocha is a unit testing framework. You need some testing framework, and this is a good one.

Casper...I think that's a headless web browser. Not sure, I've never used it.

Evergreen web browsers is a buzzword for the practice of Mozilla and Google of putting out updates every 6 weeks. It's a state of the environment, not a technology.

The explosion of tools in the JS environment started with Node.js. It was a critical point in the history of JS, and it means that if you want higher quality software, you have more tools to do so. Make sure you aren't choosing tools because they are trendy, but because they solve a problem you are having.
>For the vast, vast majority of people, they will be much better off letting someone else handle their wallet.

Why?
I don't know how anyone who reads your experience with facecash could come to any conclusion other than the only way to innovate in payments is to brazenly break the law and never even try to deal with the California DFI.
The amount a landlord should be willing to pay will be higher than this amount if your rent is substantially below the market rate, and lower if it’s only a little below the market rate.

...Why? I don't see how that conclusion follows from the data. The data only compared occupied vs unoccupied rent-controlled home sale prices. Nothing took into account how under-market said rents were. Unless I missed something...
Show HN: GitFrame, rapid mockups with GitHub and YAML
perhaps the deprecation of spinning disks has reduced the complexity of the issue

SSDs are much more complicated than spinning disks, so if anything the problem has gotten worse.
Mt. Gox provided a very good reason not to trust a 3rd party
As a developer, it's always interesting to learn outside your scope of knowledge. As a product manager, it's a PITA to spend X hours for technical stuff that delivers no value to the clients.
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As noted, the correct methodology would be discounted cash flows. Instead they're assuming the market has already done that analysis and that they can measure the result indirectly through sale prices. If option A sells for X and option B sells for X + Y, you should be willing to pay up to Y to take option B.

The market may not have done the cash flow valuation correctly, but the owner is selling in that market, not the ideal market, so it doesn't matter. The market prices also account for the "hassle factor" so it may even be more accurate than a spreadsheet calculation.
Third edition of the js13kGames compo for HTML5 game developers with 13kb zip limit.

I'm the creator of the compo, you can ask me any questions you have.
Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011)
The risk is more about supporting legacy applications and the inevitable bitrot, not so much developers.
> For the vast, vast majority of people, they will be much better off letting someone else handle their wallet.

Yes, and they can do that without handing over their private keys (see blockchain.info, etc.)
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It's debatable whether all Bitcoin miners are doing it for the reward, or whether some are doing it for an idea.

On the one hand, I think I'm doing it to help the network, but on the other hand I kept the pitiful few coins I've got thereby, and didn't give them away. Why do I keep Bitcoins? Not as an investment, surely; I think of Bitcoin as more of another currency that I keep some money in all the time, like £ or €, so I can buy stuff when I'm there. But my little Bitcoin mining operation is being run for the purpose of "transaction security auditing" [thanks, qnr!] for the same reason I run a tor exit node: because I want to encourage such things to exist.
All of them. Literally. All Bitcoins were created via segniorage. However many billion dollars of market cap as it exists today is the present value of payment for past work in securing the future of the blockchain. The market value [+] doesn't come from nowhere - it's a transaction fee paid by later adopters to earlier adopters for the privilege of being able to transact on their blockchain.

If future prospective adoptees believe that fee is too high, well, it can get renegotiated down in a hurry, and will be.

[+] Slight mangling of terms here, since market value is number of coins times last trade price, and that won't correspond to the sum of all dollar-denominated capital inflows into Bitcoin.
F8 Conference Apps open sourced
Awakening the potential of plasma acceleration
JavaScript: the weird parts
'Company-backed' is a very nebulous term. If Microsoft was backing Angular I would have every confidence that it would be supported at least for security fixes for the next 10 years even if microsoft had to add a whole compatibility layer on there next 3 OSs to do so. Google backing an open source project on the other hand has a whole different level of support expectations in a 3 year timeframe.
You are correct, I blew it on that one. My memory of the bid we got way back when they were the new hotness was $2,500 but presumably that was both drawers not each drawer of a two drawer unit. Looking at the Fisher Paykel site they seem to have come down a bit in price too, which is nice.

How do you like your Bosch dishwasher? I was pretty disappointed using some of their laundry products I didn't even seriously consider their dishwasher when we remodeled.
On OSS and the Individual
There is no hover on mobile, but in this context, touch/press works as an analog for hover. In other words, you want more information/detail on a particular data point, on desktop you hover, on mobile you press.
Looks like something's wrong with the routing:

> 404 Not Found: Requested route ('review-ninja-staging.cfapps.io') does not exist.

And as an ex-SAP employee, scrolling to the bottom and seeing the SAP logo came as quite the surprise (in a nice way). Excited for the direction SAP seems to be heading.
I don't see much point fretting about bit rot. That's a murky future problem and there is little to guarantee the code we're writing today will outlive the libraries we're using. Instead what I care about is productivity and my experience as an engineer and engineering manager is that the simple, small, annotated source of libraries like Backbone and Underscore will beat the monolithic uber frameworks 9 times out of 10.

The trouble is that people often use examples of what you can accomplish with a framework if you follow the common path. But we've all been there -- a 20 hour feature where you build 90% of it with heavy framework support in the first 10 hours, then spend the next 10 fighting the framework for whatever it is that you need done differently than the framework prescribes. This blunts that seemingly-huge time save that a framework appears to provide when you watch a 5 minute build-a-blog screencast. So in the end, it comes, as it usually does, to mastery. The guy who has developed mastery over his tools will outperform, and I think it's a lot easier to master these small libraries with accessible source code.
I worked at a silicon company earlier in my career ... let me tell you, those defects get more expensive the later you find them by orders of magnitudes some times. That trend is true, regardless of numbers.
While I happy for all the php coders out there, I am so sad this kind of things could help make php more important in the market place.
So ZyGL is basically the software rasterizer we all had to write in college graphics algorithms? So ZyGL is basically nothing more than Three.js, sans the option to render in SVG elements? And they want to patent this?

Sorry for the language, but seriously, fuck these guys. What complete trolls. This is completely unacceptable. Software rasterization fallback has been a thing forever. Actually, you know, longer than OpenGL of any flavor. Cuz that used to be the only way you could do graphics.

Is there any way I can help to get this patent blocked? And how do we go about shaming young developers into not joining Zynga just because it's a "game" company? This isn't the first unethical thing they've done.
Will there be an API?
The drug companies fight against any effective remedy that isn't covered by a patent. Besides marijuana, another example is the substance DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide#Medicine

If the remedy has any slightest shred of controversy attached to it, opponents can latch on to it and blow it out of proportion.
I've been playing with this idea of getting mockups online for clients quickly, so that I can get feedback sooner. So, I built this app. I'd love to hear what people think.
This is like saying "You never gave a good reason not to stab yourself in the eye".

The fact is that web wallets are available that are just as user friendly as coinbase that don't require you to do this. (trust a third party and/or stab yourself in the eye)
I don't think many landlords voluntarily committed to lifetime leases with effectively no rent increases.
Every language has quirks and issues - if you use raw char arrays like that in general purpose C++ without an extremely good reason that's not just forgetting and trivia that's a cultural issue.

Just like you wouldn't see Python code relying on mutable default values or JavaScript value relying on `with` semantics or Java code relying on `URL` comparison through DNS very often - you shouldn't find code that relies on `"foo" == "foo"`.

I'm sorry if my comments are harsh but I really do believe C++'s issues are mostly cultural.
We're fixing errors right now and the app might be down from time to time during deployment.
Can working-class families afford to live in San Mateo County?
Off topic, but why does it still take 4 days to buy bitcoins from the site?
ECMAScript 6: What's next for JavaScript? (August 2014)
Caller ID is not and never was intended to be secure.
Let's just call it what it is: abuse.

One of the most brilliant coders I've ever met had this to say:

Dan Kubb: This is exactly what burned me out on DataMapper, ROM and other
OSS projects. ~2 years later I still haven't recovered.

https://twitter.com/dkubb/status/505433773534879744
YUI still has the best data grid around IMO. Thanks y'all.
Going through your links, btw. Thank you kind human.
Well it's no longer "Google" Web Toolkit, it's now just "GWT"; they've handed it over to a steering committee.

At the time I loved using it as it had many nice features. But sadly it's very hard to migrate from. Most importantly is the vendor lock-in with the 2 framework specific RPC mechanisms used to communicate to the server.
Right now the scenario here at Yahoo is mixed. We have teams using Ember and React, but no enforcement or recommendation to migrate any product based on YUI to any other technology.

I guess Yahoo official support for any other library is very unlikely to happen in the near future.
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People often do things they don't want to outside the confines of economic models of perfect competition. That's why contracts of adhesion are sometimes found to be unconscionable.
> close to 500 million in revenue yearly

You mean 500 Billion.
just use the contact form and they will send you a real poster for free

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I get it. It ain't making me laugh but I get it - Meatwad
correct, Wells Fargo's market cap is 267 billion, 30% bigger than Facebook. They can pretty much do whatever they want
We're using mostly git now, in fact we have GitHub enterprise too.
Key U.S. colleges see influx of international students from Asia
This time it's personal (Chrome introduces “Guest mode” in beta release)
Fiber optic wire has a very high voltage wire to power the amplifiers. (Interestingly, it's only one. The ocean water provides the return path.)
The value comes from the new "frameworks" being better than legacy. If YUI actually was better than the newer solutions, Yahoo! probably wouldn't claim that it's worse.
With WordPress still powering a _very large portion_ of the internet - the potential gain in this is huge.

According to surveys (http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all) wordpress powers over 20% of the whole internet. PHP is still going strong and is huge and a lot of websites simply need something simple that works.

If this thing can introduce even a 10% performance gain in a CMS like WordPress - that can save millions of dollars in hosting bills worldwide.

As a programmer - I'm not very excited about WordPress to say the least but as an entrepreneur who has to pay hosting bills I can see the value in this. (Plus, compilers are insanely cool to begin with!)
One difference between my experience with regulators and Coinbase's is about $31.7 million in venture capital funding. Compliance is expensive, but they can afford it.
It's interesting to me that people are working on a cure for Ebola yet no one is deeply interested in working on new antibiotics. Ebola is a scary disease yet rare (across the entire planet) so there doesn't seem to be a lot of monetary reason to invest in it. Antibiotic resistance is far more widespread. I guess I don't always understand how the pharmaceutical industry decides what to look at.
I use websec as a cron command to do that for pages I care for and implemented at some point an app in python I called NoticeThat that fell into oblivion as I had no idea how to market it.

It's nice to see someone catering to that use case who can actually execute on it.
> The collision of old and new ideals is clearest when it comes to the gnarly socioeconomics of collegiate education. The professors at the old university were, with few exceptions, white, male, trained through direct lineage, and self-selected for an interest in the Western canon. The students at the élite schools were mostly patrician, also white and male, and, owing to these and other factors, not terribly anxious about their post-graduation circumstances. Deresiewicz is right that today’s college students are more risk-averse. That’s partly because there’s much more risk to be averse to. A Yalie of the Nick Carraway generation could afford to “stand outside the world for a few years,” as Deresiewicz puts it. It cost nothing: a Wall Street job awaited.

Today's idealism is often grounded in the realities of a generation past.
Ask HN: Where to buy real SAAS business?
So we have Flippa, bizbuysell.com, bizquest.com etc. These are selling mostly low end, affiliate marketing types sites. If someone is interested in buying a real SAAS/software business, where can they look ? By real, I mean selling an actual product with paying customers.

I understand that most people do not want to list their business for sale due to fear such as competition etc. I also understand that owners do not want to sell if they are profitable but there is that small group of owners who have a profitable business but want/need to sell due to a number of reasons. May be they want to work on their next big thing? Howver, they keep quiet because they don't know where to find buyers who are genuine and real. But is there a way to find these business owners ? I am interested in exploring an opportunity to buy an existing saas/software business that has net cashflow of about 5K per month (not revenue). how to find these ? Btw, contact is in my profile if you want to talk.
There's always C-\ (I like it because it's opposite ends of the keyboard. Easy to find :)

Might steal C-n and C-P, although C-[ C-] are tempting.
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