skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorted from most greedy to least, wow, look at Florida:

State	Amount
FL	$252,801,365.49
AL	$117,321,970.75
TX	$93,960,116.66
CA	$92,199,594.55
TN	$88,036,810.05
GA	$74,258,127.54
IL	$63,856,929.46
SC	$49,446,894.25
MI	$43,557,552.29
IN	$43,153,872.84
OH	$41,066,993.83
KY	$38,672,666.63
PR	$37,712,132.94
AZ	$37,173,754.35
OK	$26,113,459.50
NM	$25,077,905.94
NY	$24,920,353.44
VA	$24,257,646.82
NJ	$24,075,459.47
WA	$23,543,976.61
AR	$21,806,380.46
DC	$21,741,478.09
LA	$20,327,539.50
CO	$17,701,285.74
MO	$17,481,149.80
NC	$17,296,016.90
DE	$12,483,178.35
ME	$12,048,389.87
MA	$11,878,711.88
WI	$10,122,693.61
WV	$8,970,650.95
MT	$8,943,135.43
NH	$8,806,115.87
MN	$8,580,400.72
CT	$7,920,540.33
IA	$7,493,026.26
ID	$7,491,468.74
MD	$7,049,130.61
OR	$6,891,336.22
PA	$5,942,289.17
NV	$5,836,317.88
GU	$5,466,524.59
NE	$5,430,787.55
RI	$4,812,144.16
WY	$4,575,149.39
KS	$4,009,658.36
ND	$3,871,164.59
UT	$2,264,747.07
MS	$1,791,294.53
SD	$1,771,105.98
VT	$1,609,630.11
AK	$706,554.76
HI	$521,054.41
VI	$228,504.00
Big up to myappconverter, There is documentation for your app
The left lane is supposed to be a passing lane. If you are one of those people that set the cruise control and doesn't move over when people are behind you, then you are an asshole- jurisdiction or not.
I am the only who is thinking that we most be near the end of a cycle when the business ideas become more and more blantly illegal? I mean: Backpack - tax evasion. Unwind Me - the world's oldest profession.

Here are two new ideas for the next round at ycombinator:

Wind me up - natural herbs and mushrooms for expanding your mind brought to you in an anonymous brown package at the confort of your home. Not sure where you are? Don't worry - our iPhone app is location aware.

Smackpack - having trouble with your neighbours? We send two guys to talk with them about the noise they made last night or collect any debt they may have incurred. Use our welldesigned iPhone app with in-app purchases and referral programmes.
That's a good idea - and sounds a lot like ... Documentation. Or possibly "Literate Profiles"

I don't mean that crassly, just I think that Sphinx is close to that, and could just get tipped over the edge if we try hard.

I like the idea and it should be doable with a few tweaks to something like Sphinx.
Now this is just abusive. I understand that as an individual I have to live with this, but collectively, it looks like we should rise up.
Basic rule of thumb: If your startup's profit model is based off completely screwing over the governments around the world, then even in the ever so small chance it's not illegal everywhere yet, it will be very soon.
The Life of the Traveling Inventor
Why We Yawn
Pure CSS 3D Progress Bar
Upgrade Ubuntu 12.04 now PHP 5.3 is officially End-Of-Life
Relatedly, 'The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger' is a great little book. I don't see sense in retreading existing reviews, but I think it would offer something of interest for many in this crowd.
If Amazon were to make a driverless car, I'd worry.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp
I don't propose any terms. The analysis reads like it was written by a competitor for the same seed money who wants to cast doubt on their business model.
The law is not always in touch with reality. Regardless of where you drive, if there are people behind you in the left lane, you should move over to let them pass.

Don't piss people off unnecessarily for no reason other than to prove a point.

Move to the right.
i assume this is a panamax ship? is the suez canal wider than the panama canal?
Maybe this will be the push needed for Uber to take Lyft out of the competition.
Besides the point already made about "avoiding taxes" the other big problem is that this service is perfect for... drug traffickers; so yeah, I don't give it more than 3 months before they pivot.

Also, a lot of airports ask you directly if you are carrying something as a favor for someone else; so "backpack" has to tell its users to lie about it, otherwise the item gets confiscated.
Rumors on iPod Touch Release Abound
Not to excuse it all, because I'm sure there's plenty of waste and fraud, but sometimes militaries/governments need things that are more robust than the seemingly just-as-good civilian alternatives.

Why doesn't Curiosity run on a Dell Inspiron? Why can't the President drive a used Honda Civic? Why can't the drone programs just retrofit toy helicopters?

(Hint: there are good answers to all of these questions.)

I've always found this West Wing clip interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9kH_HOUXM
To do Unicode right, you have to know what you mean by "character," which usually means never saying "character" and instead being more precise ("code point," "grapheme cluster," "byte representation"). You also have to figure out what people expect to happen when they hit backspace (does the whole grapheme cluster disappear? the most-recently-typed code point in the cluster disappear? do you have to hit backspace twice to get rid of surrogate pairs (a la Notepad on Windows)? should you have to hit backspace a variable number of times to delete code points encoded in UTF-8 (following the Notepad behavior to its logical conclusion)?).
not only is it healthier but the networking can be very useful.
Are you going the actual limit, or do you drive on the gauge? Because there is quite a big difference in many cars. Many new ones here seem to indicate 8km/h more than you're going, and with all the people that don't have cruise control this means you're doing 70 when you could be going ~85 before any traffic camera would pick it up.

Actually most people drive ~100km/h on the road I have in mind so 80 is annoying to some already, but I try to never tailgate anyone into driving faster. Only when someone does ~72 because they think that's what they are allowed to drive... such a small difference and yet so annoying.
I think the act of opening an LLC on H1B is not the issue, but if you show any income/profit on it, that's when you will run into legal issues, this will also be vitally important if and when you are applying for your Green Card as you could be in muddy waters regarding your eligibility status during the time you were operating the LLC.

Also if you have even a single founder who is a US citizen or Green Card holder, you could get a relative of yours who is not in the US to be an additional founder for the LLC. This way you (your family) retains control of the company. They will need to apply for an ITIN number in this case. I can vouch for the legality of this option as we had hired a lawyer and I got my dad (non US citizen) to be a part legal owner of the US based LLC that was formed.
Besides, the price may be different based on who's asking.
What you've pointed out is what people do, but not what they are theoretically allowed to do :)

Transporting a MacBook, Xbox, PS4, etc. from the United States back to a South East Asian country (as you suggest), is illegal. For the casual traveler there probably isn't a great risk, since they can always claim it was an accident. But for the recurrent backpacker, the risks are potentially higher.
IV outsources a lot of its trolling to shell companies so it can maintain a clean image.

Check out the "When Patents Attack" series from This American Life:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...
> There is no way a county of ~500k people could need 61 helicopters, rght?

Need has nothing to do with it.
Been waiting for ACH transfer from Coinbase since last Thursday
Do you know what's happening with Coinbase? They never had such slow service and always delivered on specified date.
Here's a lemma that helps to prove D(n) is well-defined:

LEMMA: D(pq•r) = D(p•qr):

D(pq•r) = pq D(r) + r D(pq)

= pq D(r) + rp D(q) + qr D(p)

= p (q D(r) + r D(q)) + qr D(p)

= p D(qr) + qr D(p)

= D(p•qr)

There are a number of generalizations of the notion of "derivative"; in particular, you can take the derivative of a regular expression:

https://github.com/scythe/dreg/blob/master/re-deriv.pdf

...which I've been slowly turning into a regex matcher.
Norway's Wonderloop Pulls together top Viners to promote app
Usually yes. The jQuery docs[0] go into why they refactored their .attr into separate .prop and .attr methods way back when in v1.6.

There are also cases, such as the value property, that will also update the value attribute.

[0] http://api.jquery.com/prop/
The leading case on this is Feist, a telephone book case. http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm
As an interesting note, the phone company had been introducing fake listings: "Four of these were fictitious listings that Rural had inserted into its directory to detect copying." For copyright, originality is a constitutional requirement and copyright cannot attach to a bare compilation of known facts. However, "if the compilation author clothes facts with an original collocation of words, he or she may be able to claim a copyright in this written expression."

The court held that "the names, towns, and telephone numbers copied by Feist were not original to Rural and therefore were not protected by the copyright in Rural's combined white and yellow pages directory. As a constitutional matter, copyright protects only those constituent elements of a work that possess more than a de minimis quantum of creativity."
This is true, but it's a higher hurdle. I went to bars through college, but made no progress socially.

To learn, you need to be able to try a lot, in a consistent environment, and get feedback. Bars made it difficult to try small things, and they're a complex environment where you can't repeat the same interaction so easily.

Whereas, saying "hi" to a stranger is never that different, in terms of how it goes initially.
Sure. I'd actually start by saying the information isn't the pain point - the time saved is. A lot of the information is out there - TripAdvisor, Yelp, and local guide sites offer that. The annoying part is trying to sort through and find what you personally want to do while on a trip. That's where you find the average American spending 5 hours to plan a trip.

Instead of doing that, you can find a local that has your interests, tell them you'll be in town with a friend and need a couple good bars to go to, and you're done in 5 minutes. A few hours to a couple days later, that information is in your hand, and all you needed to do was spend $5.

And that's why our site will work. We're not only proposing that you'll get great suggestions from our locals, we're also solving the endless browsing and searching that travelers currently have to do before getting to a new place.
Keep your build artifacts in the repository
I came across this lyric recently and was curious if it was a reference:

> Lyrics hear it fear it can’t get near it

> Got a sample didn’t clear it

> Point blank says "fuck 5-0!" That’s the spirit

The annotation on rapgenius referenced NWA's popular song, rather than provide any real context. A quick google search showed that Point Blank was a rap group and that they had a track with a common lyric being "fuck 5-0", it may have even been the name of the track. It's frustrating to see someone put a half-assed guess that is quickly shown to be wrong rather than providing context to an otherwise obvious reference.
More on the ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Triple_E_class
I had the privilege to work at Amazon for 6 years, and Jeff Barr was my first manager.

I convinced him to hire me through Second Life - read the full story here: http://brunozzi.com/2008/05/22/how-i-got-hired-by-amazoncom/

Jeff, congrats for this achievement! Looking forward to a 15 years anniversary soon :)
If you give money to people in exchange for innovation that encourages innovation. That said, purchasing patents only encourages innovation if those patents are the product of innovation.
grubwithus.com seems to have closed down now.
This ship is larger than Panamax [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Triple_E_class].

The biggest limitation on Panamax size is whether a ship can fit into the Canal's locks, but the Suez canal is a sea-level waterway with no locks, so the limit is a lot higher.
One of the IV execs lived in my building. He was a self-obsessed douche.
I looked at the map overlaying the US to contrast the relative size of the Roman Empire. I think it might be shown a bit bigger than it was. We vacationed in France and Rome and took a train overnight between them. That train had a ton of stops. I'm pretty sure that even without the stops, it would take longer than a night to travel by rail from approximately Montana (where France would roughly be) to the south-eastern Gulf Coast region (Italy).

Edit: Checking Google maps and more maps on the OP page I think I mis-calculated Italy's position in the purple blob, it would probably be around where Kansas is.
How Kanban Changes Software Engineering
The Mary Maersk is much wider than Panamax, at almost 200 feet wide. This ship seems designed to just barely squeak through the much wider Suez.
> The power of government can be terrifying, when it's turned against you.

If condemning and bulldozing your property terrifies you, you'll be in for a real treat when you look up cases about civil forfeiture abuse.
Many people here doesn't seem to get what the author is talking about. If I link to http://www.google.com, the content might have changed when you open it. The URL always references the state of the resource at the time of retrieval, which is not always the intention. REVAT is just a proposed way to reference a specific state of a resource.
Coming up with names for groups of data that you want to be atomic isn't that useful, though.
but here in San Diego, CA it is extremely common for the flow the traffic to be going 5-15 miles above posted speed limits

Same here in the Bay area. It would be unsafe to drive no faster than the speed limits in some conditions of traffic. (Some drivers do this, and you have to change lanes on short notice to remain at the same speed as the rest of traffic.)
Spotify: 1 year later, still no accessibility support
Couldn't Square or some other "big" player come in and implement payments via bank account and simply put Kash out of business? I know nothing of the domain, but it seems relatively straight forward to do, no? PayPal already let's me send money to any individual with an email address (and maybe a PayPal account?), so couldn't they just change their fees to 1% flat for businesses tomorrow?

What am I missing? Thoughts?
The grenade launchers are M79's, and can be used for tear gas and other non-lethal rounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_grenade_launcher#Ammunition

Now about the quantity some PD's ordered... that's a different story.
> Nest bought IV licenses to defend itself from Honeywell

lol, sounds like the mob...
Twitter timeline is more than tweets from people you follow
Is it really irrelevant?

How do you suppose one tell which hedge fund will do better and which won't beforehand? Past performance? We know that's not a good indicator. If you can tell which hedge funds will do better in the future, you probably can tell which stocks will do better, and then why not just got it yourself without giving someone else 2 and 20?

We agree that S&P500 and hedge funds have different risk factors.

The point is that S&P500 is a lot less riskier and with better returns than an average hedge fund.
Seeing the video in the article I was reminded of a corporate video they did a few years ago. I know the director second-hand, and he was basically given free reign to go wherever he wanted and spend as much money as he deemed necessary to make a video that got the size and trust of the brand across.

This is the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjD9VvhXJrE

I think he succeeded - it's one of the best brand videos I've ever seen.
That is a simplistic argument. What is the difference between a large company with several labs producing 'innovation' and a large company funding several labs to produce 'innovation'?
Italy is over Wyoming. I think you're confusing it with Egypt, which is in the lower-right of the map.
if such a thing is so staggeringly important, why in the world are you on the jvm? use c++ or something, eh? right tools yadda yadda.
If the taxi industry hired the same guy, then HN would be up in arms about how the industry is dying and that lobbying is destroying the world.

The hypocrisy is astounding.
The Government May Soon Send This Reporter to Jail
I'm new to hacker news and have not figure out this "dead" feature. What exactly is happening?
The Immunity Project pitch was truly moving. I wish they had a picture of it. I really really hope they make their goal.
I agree with you in general, but I had to pick some limits to make the piece manageable. Perhaps I'll do 40 maps on the Byzantines at some point in the future.
How To Download an Old Chrome Build
Do you find judgement and shame to be constructive communication tools for positive change?
I was really fascinated by Beep. They are basically providing the platform to turn your house into the Enterprise. :)
Turns out I'd just assumed the article I read was linking directly to research: http://blog.pickcrew.com/reading-retention/.

And here's a more detailed article that they were referencing, two steps removed (haven't read it myself): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-scre....
Sure that makes it outperform the S&P 500 over this arbitrary period, but still falls short from the other companies. It makes more sense though to look at it since he became CEO[1] in January of 2000. Now we see a huge difference with MSFT the only one in negative territory and the other companies having massive returns. Reinvesting dividends over this period would push this into positive territory, but it still wouldn't even outperform the S%P 500 (22.57% vs 34.99%).

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
Has any other corporate CEO generated more profits during his watch than Steve Ballmer? Not sure if this true but I suspect it might be.
Programming isn't coding
They lock containers together with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistlock (and probably with other mechanisms) though of course if the ship tilts enough there can still be problems.
This is grasping at straws, but I could argue that IV has brought a lot of attention to the ludicrous nature of our IP system, which might lead to increased support of IP reform, which could help innovation.
Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C
540 left to go.
YC Demo Day Session 4
Assumption: A Kill Switch will render a $500 device worthless, and thus eliminate the incentive for theft.

So, a couple of theft cases to frame:
1. People steal fake phones (shiny objects) that have NEVER worked, ie aesthetic value only.
2. Parts, such as replacement screens, are in great demand, and there are small urban retailers today that enjoy every opportunity to lower their costs, ie $5-50.

Following 1991 crime statistics, over 2/3 of those arrested for robbery tested positive for a controlled substance. Does an addict have Free Will? Delayed gratification? What's a $100/day habit like? What is an addict willing to do for a Klondike Bar? (Answer: Anything.)
20% for 140 people. That's 700 people. Do they really need that many people to buy patents?
They appear to be widely and successfully used tools, but I don't like them.
I think that's an editorial embellishment. I don't think Google hires "data scientists" per se.
Haha, you actually made me laugh by saying Puyallup fair. It will never be the Washington state fair in my eyes!

Anyway, good point about the fair. It's a big event... much bigger than the pumpkin festival that Keene, NH got its MRAP for.

I wonder if there's a way to get that information. I'd like to see how the gear's being used. Judgements aside, I think it'd be interesting to see.

I organized Washington's results, if anybody's interested: http://www.ericlagergren.com/blog/washington-military-surplu...
The stock only increased by ~125%. Microsoft only started paying 3% dividends a few years ago. This does not add up to over 30k. It's barely 24k.

Anyway, I do agree it's not a bad return. It's only bad relative to the other tech giants.
My town is on an aggressive knock-down strategy as well. One problem they ran into was people trying to "save" houses on the chopping block after the tax sale. Since then they are clearly tagging the houses where the PROPERTY is for sale but the HOUSE is condemned.

In certain neighborhoods, the city wants the excess houses GONE. They don't want them fixed up and barely hanging on.. The city wants to collect enough empty lots that NEW BUILDING is worth while... And just sit on empty lots until then.

The problem for somebody like this owner.. When is he city happy to take your tax sale money but leave the block on their "knock-down" list.. And why isn't the list more public.. Who's getting benefits of knocking Dow YOUR HOUSE but not others?
neptune.io's seems to be providing the solution that someone didn't fix during the day whenever an alert fires.

out of disk space -> clean up your disks (e.g. logrotate)

process crash -> should be using a process supervisor

low cpu utilization -> autoscaling
To be fair, his argument against Node.js is applicable to any system with co-operative scheduling (twisted, tornado, eventmachine, Go etc), and the only way around it is pre-emptive scheduling (Erlang/Elixir, Haskell etc). Node has a lot of problems, but co-operative scheduling is not one of the more important ones.
More distinct, definitely. But the interesting bit is that they themselves would never have recognized this. Walk up to someone calling themselves "Roman" in 1 AD and you could find yourself talking to a pagan born in modern Italy who spoke Latin. Walk up to someone calling themselves "Roman" 500 years later and you could be talking to a Christian born in modern Turkey who spoke Greek, which is a very very different person. But both of them would have insisted that they were "Roman." (The idea of "Byzantium" itself as something distinct from the Roman Empire is a purely modern construction -- no Byzantine would have conceived of themselves as such.) So the idea of "Romanness" was socially constructed; it meant whatever people living in the empire at a particular time collectively decided it meant.

You can see a similar type of socially constructed identity by looking at "whiteness" in American culture. 150 years ago, a "white American" was strictly interpreted as a person of northern European ("Anglo-Saxon") descent. English, French, Germans and Scandinavians were "white people"; Spaniards, Italians, Irish, Poles, Russians and Jews were not. But fast-forward to today, and all those latter ethnicities are now commonly identified as "white" in American culture.

In other words, whiteness, like Romanness, is less a fixed identifier of a particular ethnic/religious/linguistic configuration and more a convenient way for people to divide the world into in-groups and out-groups, "us" and "them."
Apparently Walla Walla received two "mine resistant vehicles"

I organized the list here: http://www.ericlagergren.com/blog/washington-military-surplu...

(pardon the link to my own blog!)
As a resident of Arizona, I can tell you that however inefficient and/or incompetent you think the federal government's border agencies are, most of the state and county agencies in this state are far worse. I'd prefer some of them have nothing more deadly than a water pistol (especially the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office - headed by the country's most corrupt un-indicted law enforcement official). Local law enforcement officials are generally competent and savvy enough to want nothing to do with the kind of work you seem to imply they should be doing.
Yeah, my point wasn't that you can't drive deeper into the problem and come up with something more specific, but that the statement this article leads with (''Most people assume technical debt is there because of time constraints') is misleading. Of course people assume that, because most of the time it's true.