skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider that to be a minor detail....

My point is... people continue to use LSD regardless of legal status. Maybe the studies are not formal or sanctioned, but they certainly occur.
I think it is unlikely that hedge fund picking is possible for the following reasons. First, if a fund consistently produces outsized risk-adjusted returns the fund would increase their fees to capture most of those returns (Rentech, formerly Bridgewater). Second, a fund which has outsized risk adjusted returns net of fees would become very popular, receive more investment which creates a drag on returns until either the fund closes to new investors (Rentech) or returns reverted to the mean.
To put it into context, from what I've seen before -

1. The mentioned owner probably paid less then $500 per house.

2. There was no real improvement nor investment made in/to those houses.

3. This was all about squeezing rent out of dilapidated properties, that were at the same time keeping everyone else house prices down.
You named two out of the dozens of companies funded as your examples. Of the two you named you are assuming unwind.me is a cover for sexual services. Have any proof of this? No, you don't. It's quite disrespectful to people in that profession to assume doing their job will turn into offering sexual services. Come on.

And what about tax evasion? You still pay taxes on the items that are bought. The point is getting access to items not normally available in other countries for international shipping. Again, any proof of tax evasion? I don't think so.

Take your negative comments to Reddit or 4chan where you can mindlessly share mindless opinions with no merit. This isn't the place for that. If you want to have a productive discussion, offer some proof to back up your wild claims.
Yeah, I was pretty much accepting a government run amok story until this comment. If you can't get the heater or AC up and running again in 24 hours, your residence qualifies as uninhabitable, sorry.

However, as someone who grew up in a similar town, I understand that housing in these kinds of areas is a delicate balance.

While you can talk about "slumlord", the issue is that most of the people in these houses are stuck in the area, probably have fairly low fixed incomes, likely have bad credit (or possibly lost their house in the crash) and very few other choices. Most "slumlords" in such an area are not exactly raking in the dough, and, if rent goes up too much, the renters are out a home and now have to go live with someone else.

In reality, wiping out a few houses doesn't really help that much in these kinds of sparsely populated areas. In reality, the whole town needs to be wiped out or consolidated with another town to make much difference.

Unfortunately, that has its own set of issues.
No because it is a deflationary currency. Gold also had huge fluctuations. Silver too.

The counter argument (google "bitcoin deflationary") is that people won't hold Bitcoin because it is a payment system but I think that is ridiculous because the whole notion of bitcoin is that it is fungible property. Empirical reality obviously demonstrates people are hoarding bitcoins.

Bitcoins are more like the condominium market. You can make more condos but a diminishing number more a year. You can buy condos speculatively and not inhabit them (eg buy bitcoins and not spend them). Condo prices are also an unstable market. (Not to mention lots of interesting organized crime stories.)
> One of the most impressive goals on the roadmap is to implement a terminal frontend as well as a QT frontend, which I'm quite excited to see.

I'm also interested to see this. I've said before that I think Go could be a really interesting language to develop GUI software in, however the existing QML package is "alpha quality". I've considered writing GUI software in Go, but at this point I think it would be a mistake given that most, if not all, GUI bindings in Go (and please correct me if I'm wrong) are considered experimental or alpha quality. In theory this will mean the author's progress will be somewhat dependent on the go-qml project, and may involve fixing bugs upstream.

If it were me, I would probably choose another language just based on the maturity of Go's current GUI bindings.
Feel free to evaluate and use at: https://terminal.com/tiny/JFr4kJ0HZp
http://reddit.com/r/programming

2 Multi-reddits for electronics and programming:

http://reddit.com/u/Xavierxf/m/programming

http://reddit.com/u/Xavierxf/m/electronics
> Operational costs will prevent most of the MRAPs from seeing any use.

Or, alternatively, MRAPs will provide the justification for greater budget demands.
Is your library public? I'm also implementing my own right now so I am very curious about the different ways people solve this problem.
> Companies could buy into the fund, and in exchange, it potentially received legal protection from the patent portfolio.

This is like a gun company asking you to invest in them and in exchange, they guarantee their guns won't be used to attack you.

There's a word for this kind of practice: extortion.

If anything, I'm sad that the 140 people being laid off only represent 20% of that scum company.
upvoting ! I remember reading Amit's blog like 7/8 years ago as well .
Personally, I just read the Bill a bit closer, and this is right in section 2.b.1:

"The smartphone shall, during the initial device setup process, prompt an authorized user to enable the technological solution. The technological solution shall be reversible, so that if an authorized user obtains possession of the smartphone after the essential features of the smartphone have been rendered inoperable, the operation of those essential features can be restored by an authorized user."

And section 2.2:

"An authorized user of a smartphone may affirmatively elect to disable or opt-out of enabling the technological solution at any time. However, the physical acts necessary to disable or opt-out of enabling the technological solution may only be performed by the authorized user or a person specifically selected by the authorized user to disable or opt-out of enabling the technological solution."

And Section 1.g:

"As a result, the technological solution should be able to withstand a hard reset or operating system downgrade, come preequipped, and the default setting of the solution shall be to prompt the consumer to enable the solution during the initial device setup. Consumers should have the option to affirmatively elect to disable this protection, but it must be clear to the consumer that the function the consumer is electing to disable is intended to prevent the unauthorized use of the device."

Personally, as long as those things are both true and implemented correctly I don't see any reason to argue. If disabling it on the phone doesn't work, everybody with those phones could sue the company making them (If they live in CA...). Outside of CA, they could legally sell phones with kill-switches inside with no disable option, but that's legal to do right now anyway so this law wouldn't change that. And, seeing as in CA it'd be illegal to sell them without the disable option, I don't see why they would spend the extra money to design a version without a disable to sell outside of CA, so it probably wouldn't change things much.
> The problem is patents:

No, patents are fine. The problem is that current patent laws enable patent trolls. If we could find a way to eradicate patent trolls while preserving patents, their intent would be served much better.

For example, you should only be able to acquire patents if you can prove you have a business pertinent to those patents. This kind of measure would instantly kill all patent trolls.
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I am a positive and cheerful person! In fact, when my brain snapped in to gear at around 4 AM, I started to outline the post in my head and went downstairs to write it before 4:30. I think that it is important to realize that there are real people inside of companies, and that we have thoughts and minds of our own.

We are a frugal company and there is definitely no free Kool-Aid. I gave up sugar on April 1 and wouldn't drink it anyway (but that's another blog post).

There are plenty of things that I could point to and say "I don't like this," or "that could be better" but that wasn't really my objective. There are a lot of different ways to organize and run a company.

I have worked at a ton of difference places in my life. Some big, some small. I have been my own boss for for a while. I have had awful colleagues and awesome ones. When all is said and done, it is a real privilege to be able to work with bright, energetic people.
As you're already on App Engine (and thus already using Google Cloud Platform), you might be interested in this: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/containers

It's early stages (and I'm not involved -- I work on Compute Engine), but some of the devs lurk around HN from time to time.

Also, closer to the existing App Engine mindset: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
That's ultimately driven by a concern in showing that: (1) you can learn quickly and (2) that you're a good enough programmer to be able to build things independently. A side projects section can show that, and so can properly framing your work experience.

Certainly it's a common perception that you must be passionate about programming and do it in your freetime, but I haven't found that to be the reality. You just need to be a good, competent worker.
Funds frequently return capital or close to new money in order to stay below their investment capacity. Funds also sometimes charge less than the maximum they can get away with for various reasons. The premise of your argument is simply wrong. Moreover, you are ignoring the very real excess profits that are made on the way to this hypothetical equilibrium. Berkshire Hathaway shares aren't going to make you rich if you buy them today, but I'm guessing the people who bought them in 1970 don't care.
There's no reason value objects need to be mutable. In fact, they shouldn't be mutable. They're just data. Why would you need to mutate them?
I didn't say there is a consistency problem, I quoted FTA.

My suggestion actually has nothing to do with the price of the object, it only has to do with the server state of the object (product) and whether or not that state was updated (price, quantity available, etc...), which is what the article was worrying about (the lost update problem).

i.e. if the underlying objects in a transaction changed between the time a client retrieved information about the object and the time where a user was interested in creating an order with the object, in a way which might invalidate the transaction, I'm highlighting a potential solution to notifying the client.

What if the order includes something that the manager
threw in for free to sweeten the deal? The price of
that product on that order is zero, but the product's
list price at any given point in time was not zero.

Well, in that case, I hope there is a system the "manager" can create a discount object to and attach it to the order.

PUT /orders/12345?discount=FREE_IPAD_YO
PUT /orders/12345;discounts [{"discount_id":"FREE_IPAD_YO"}]
whatever flavor you want, etc...

Note: I don't work in the ecommerce domain, but I do develop systems which are often transactional in nature.
Managing is definitely not my best skill; thanks for putting up with me.

We had some great times in Second Life. I wish we had figured out a better way to use it to our advantage.
> Values are identified by random UUIDs

Alternatively and preferably, values are identified by a cryptographic hash.
I think the recursive transition network was also meant to include 'social-first' and 'local-first', but they forgot to proofread the output before hitting publish. Rookie mistake.
My point was that him simply liking/proposing it doesn't mean much.
Sounds this is for existing installations that are not IP-enabled?
Lashing bars are the other mechanism. Big turnbuckles that hold down the first few levels.
Yup. The cemeteries are full of people who were within their rights.
Just FYI all three coins are taken.
> They are meant for investors who may cast doubt onto Microsoft's future with such a key member of the board stepping down

Any investor worth his/her portfolio can easily see through this.
After reading the article it seems they don't really know why we yawn.
Why I'm okay with Twitter going beyond the social graph
This beautiful Facebook Cards concept is inspired by Google Now
> But wait. If the article is correct and the city's population dropped by half, I would expect there to be hundreds if not thousands of legitimately vacated and abandoned properties.

In that part of the world, unlikely. An uninhabited house very quickly degrades to total uselessness through winters and summers in the Northeastern US (especially winters--pipes freeze, roofs collapse, etc.) So, the only houses that remain standing have people in them.

So, somebody is living in these houses almost by definition--quite often for a very cheap amount of money since there isn't exactly high demand and its very important to keep people in the house. And, since the money coming in is very small, repairs are kept to a minimum and a major repair requirement generally results in the house being abandoned.

This creates a pretty near perfect storm for the controversy in the article--the houses are near condemnable; the city wants them gone; the owner is making a profit but is absolutely not going to spend large amounts of money on it under any circumstance; the renters certainly don't have anywhere else to go and are happy to be there even with the house being so crappy.
no one has used the term cracker since 1990 man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege - another fascinating read (beside everything else, the fire decomposing tear gas into chemical weapon grade gases)
On the other hand, higher speed == less time on the road == less exposure to a potential accident.
One, not all criminals who steal phones know anything about using a phone, and unless there's a guarantee that the kill switch is actually disabled nobodies going to take that chance of buying it off of you. It also makes the process more time consuming and error-prone, and seeing as the kill-switch is something someone can do right after they realize their phone is stolen, it'd be on a limited time basis. It makes the entire thing less worth it.

Two, it says RIGHT IN THE BILL that the phones are required to have an opt-out and disable feature, and they have to prompt the user to enable or disable when the phone is first setup, with the option to enable or disable at any later time.

Instead of spreading FUD, read the actual bill.
> then he beat cancer

I think you're confusing him with Paul Allen on this point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Microsoft
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The use case is quite simple, I want to iterate over all values in an object (and possibly manipulate it, that is why the visitor function has access to the parent)

Array members will be visited individually.

The entire object tree will be visited in a depth first order

hope that answers your questions.
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The founders are from Bangladesh, where this is becoming a very common practice, although the practice is rather informal. Usually you'd ask your friends and family to find out if anyone they know will be traveling from US to Bangladesh and then you ask them to buy whatever you want.

In the last two years I have also seen facebook groups pop up to expand the network beyond family and friends so its incredibly smart of them to formalize the process and make it more accessible to everyone.

While it's technically breaking the law, its no more so than AirBnb and Uber/Lyft. And the demand is just as high if not more.
Ask HN: Is my nearline memory broken?
I'm 47. I have a great memory for things that have happened in the past. Whether that's 5-10 minutes ago, to events, places and things that I can recall in magnificent detail up to and beyond 35 years ago. My memory is not quite eidetic, but it does scare the hell out of my partner and friends about how much detail I can recall about events from many years ago.

One thing I always struggle with is remembering events that I'm told about that will happen in the semi-near future. For example, future meetings, family events that kind of thing. Usually these events will occur 6-7+ days in the future when I'm told but I am dreadfully bad at remembering them, and this leads to some "friction" in my relationship.

I know I could write these things down, but many of these events are trivial (dog being photographed :/ ), and there's lots of them...I could run out of diary space, or just not remember to look up the diary because I'm not really a diary person in my personal life.

Is this normal? Does the brain separate "things to remember about the future" from "things I've experienced and are in the past"? Is my brain being selective here? Or am I just lazy and uncaring?
Yet another article trending on Hacker News about loneliness, social anxiety, and community. Man, we really must be a bunch of introverted shut-ins!

Machines sure can be funner than humans, but the ammount of trending articles around this theme reveals a few uncomfortable truths about this community. Yikes!
Despite the title, that's not an "Amazon algorithm". That's two third-party sellers operating buggy software.
My experience with iTunes on Windows when I had an iPod Touch 2G was the main reason I initially purchased an Android phone when I first got a smartphone.
Does the federal government not provide funding for their operation as well?
Agreed, actions should be represented as nouns. It's just that rest tends not to encourage this and this seems to be what happened to the author. He should have a sale resource and put to it but because he doesn't he transfers the price to the client which then gets out of date. The client is being coupled to the server and the server lacks cohesion; all for the lack of thinking in terms of actions/behaviours at the interface level. Instead he is putting the behaviour in the client.

I saw a comment from Fielding that touted this as a benefit of rest. Expose the data and the clients have freedom to use it in ways the server never imagined. Good for mashups maybe. Not so good for accounting systems.
"At least a portion of the purpose access to items that might be difficult or impossible to obtain"
I'm sure that argument can be applied to things such as drugs, firearms, dangerous animal, etc, pretty much anything restricted by export/import laws of a country.

And for your last point, no, it's not entirely legal without paying a tax in all countries. Please research your own country's custom laws before making a statement like that.
I remember being impressed with Jeff way back in those days when we all thought SOAP was a good idea. His progress at AWS has great to watch. Congrats!
I found their finances interesting. They seem to have made a very good living (including covering expensive medical conditions such as a pacemaker and travel from California to Mayo for treatment) by remodeling and reselling houses on a very part-time basis for over 30 years.
I have to say I find it a little funny for this article — with no news value — to be run this week, when the world is teeming with news. I don't subscribe to the idea that people can only attention to one thing, so don't I think there's anything wrong with that. It just seems like they'd prefer to burn off a story that is literally about yawning on a slow news day.
Have you asked your users what format would they like the user guide in? If your users are okay with PDF, then stay with it. In the end, user guide and its format is for users, and not for you. Unless, users are requesting or indicating preferences for different format, I will suggest focus on other tasks.

Personally, for user guides, I prefer PDF. It keeps the formatting and the order. I can markup the PDF with my notes and highlights. I can download and keep a copy. Wiki (information dump with no specific order of reading), FAQ (answers to most often asked questions) and knowledge base (answers to one off/unique situations) are different tools for different purposes and don't necessarily address user guides in a nice way.
Cheap way for airline to write off points liability.
Kind of eerie when you realize you're looking into the portrait of someone without any conscious or ethics.

I have little sympathy for the employees that got laid off, and am reassured that IV is finding it harder to operate. However, it's a bit disconcerting that they've claimed to "automate" their process.
Sounds like a perfect use case for libcontainer https://github.com/docker/libcontainer

Platforms like Sandstorm are exactly the reason why we opened up libcontainer: so that others can benefit from the firehose of engineering that goes into Docker, without having to buy into the entire platform. Once the C implementation is complete it should be even easier to use libcontainer in other languages.

That said, I think some of the new Docker APIs we are working on would be a good match for Sandstorm as well. But thanks to the beauty of small, loosely coupled components, we can have that conversation some other time :)
> If a self-driving car causes a crash, who's responsible? The owner or the manufacturer?

Manufacturer.

However, what's going to eventually fall out is that self-driving cars are going to be SO much safer, that insurance companies eventually won't let YOU drive.
I have no idea wrt. the concrete company. I was making a general / humorous comment.

But don't be naive about the message industry - in the big tabloid newspapers which are by numbers the biggest newspapers - the section with message advertisement is huge. It takes a big industry with plenty of money to buy those ads. While you can probably get a kosher message at some of the places - sleeze is what creates the money.

For an electronic version of these tabloid ads to be profitable and have airbnb-style growth they would have to tap into that market regardless of them starting off with a more polished front.
Also: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/doc/html/boost_units.ht...
Seconded - I could not be more excited for them (especially as a customer!). I know Chas & Frank from our days together in the Blueprint Health accelerator[0] (they were in the class before mine).

Aptible is going to allow a lot of people to enter the health-tech space when the costs would otherwise be prohibitive - it's going to be huge. Forcing every company to duplicate all that compliance work in-house makes no sense, just like having every company maintaining its own colo hardware makes no sense.

[0] http://www.blueprinthealth.org/
Ask HN: Is it typical to have a coding project for interview?
I find out that many startups are asking candidates to do 3-10 hours long coding project before even inviting them to onsite interviews.

Is that typical? And what will you do when they ask you to do that? Thanks.
Indeed, it was a fascinating article. I've read similar things from the guys at Dangerous Prototypes who shipped out there to prototype products; plenty of blog posts where they come back with a suitcase full of tactile switches or find out the best way to print onto heatshrink. Always carry a calculator seemed to be the main takeaway.

And then I read the bio and read "I bought a factory" and "For my second factory". It sounds like it's a fairly straightforward deal to do that in China (if you have the cash). I'd also be really interested to see what kind of hoops you have to go through, the regulatory process, hiring/maintenance and so on. And of course how much does it cost?
Are you sure you are not the one who is negative?