skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked it out myself and you can decide for yourself which type of instance you want to deploy. The default was micro (the cheapest) and 3 nodes.

Cited from the setup page:

This interface allows you to deploy one or more MongoDB server nodes and one or more arbiter nodes as part of a single MongoDB replica set. By default the replica set will contain 2 data-bearing server nodes and 1 arbiter node.

A short-lived "Deployment Coordinator" Compute Engine instance will be created to manage instance setup.
You hoover your walls?
I don't get GAE. They release the cool kids "MEAN" stack but still are using Python 2.7 =/
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Is there any potential synergy between this project and Open Transactions? http://opentransactions.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Keyboard shortcut training for the win
How to Forecast App Downloads
1. It's been around for a long time

2. I'd like something to put my dishes away and fold my laundry. That's a much bigger step though.
The following seems to explain it - a guide on how to break into someone's AppleID.

From a site affiliated with AnonIB, where celebrity nudes first surfaced:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140904115530/http://ibstol.wor... (NSFW)
It seems heavily inspired by the recent Apple Mac Pro page redesign which is dissected here:

https://ihatetomatoes.net/apple-mac-pro-page-deconstructed/

Personally, I hate this kind of design as it breaks the scroll but it's interesting to see how it works none-the-less
Slight nitpick: the UK is a union not a remnant of the Empire. The leaders of Scotland at the time, partially due to a failed colonial expedition to Darien, agreed to the Union.

Edit: One interesting part of this story is that the Union was pretty much bought - the English bailed out Scotland and the institution that was created to handle the payments eventually evolved into the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).... famous for briefly being the largest bank in the world and one of the largest casualties of the recent financial crisis, requiring a vast bailout from UK taxpayers....
Using Chrome here, it straight up didn't work. After reading the comments, I resized my browser and there it was. Still couldn't scroll using the scroll wheel on my mouse.

Awful, awful construction of this page.
My wife was told "money isn't everything" when she asked for a dollar raise from $10 to $11 an hour...
Yeah, neat idea.
Just want to say I fully agree with you. react-router seems like a useful library, but I see utterly no reason why you should write your routes in JSX instead of as a simple JS object. Using JSX for anything other than DOM insertion or modification creates an impedance mismatch. The public API makes no real sense to me.

The point of JSX is to more easily build dynamic HTML (and perhaps other markup).
HipChat for Mac 3.0
> It might actually introduce more lag to first check for websockets, and if unavailable, fall back to long-polling.

Socket.IO works the other way around since v 1.0, thanks to Engine.IO. It starts with long polling and tries to upgrade to WebSocket or Flash sockets if possible.
Hmm, yeah, why? I haven't reflected on that, so let me do so now:

It's super light (a grown man can operate the vacuum and hold a beer with the same hand, while holding a baby with the other arm), and yet it is SUPER powerful (I just leave mine in MAX mode, which only lasts for 6 minutes between recharges -- but that's plenty).

It's extremely, unbelievably easy to clean/empty (just push one button while holding it over the trash bin) and also somehow doesn't accumulate film of disgusting 'dustbestos' like all other no-bag vacuums I've experienced... so it stays clean.

It seems to be extremely durable... having survived many combats and forced marches at the hands of my 2-year-old son.

It has an instant trigger, seems to go from of to full power in 10ms or less (I mean you can't detect it; squeeze the trigger in quick staccato bursts, and it's just all like VREEEEEEEEEEEER!!! VREER!! VREER!!)

Despite the light weight, it is extremely POWERFUL. Much better than the $600 tow-the-pod-around corded Hitachi we had before, at a fraction of the size, weight, and yet it doesn't even have a cord.

Um... I think that's all.

OH WAIT THERE'S MORE!!! I almost forgot the awesome wall mounted charger. Like an idiot, I didn't bother to screw the wall mount thing to the wall for the first few months. Finally, I did. Once you do that, any vacuum that isn't conveniently mounted on the wall is a ridiculous piece of shit. (Note that ours is mounted on the wall inside the kitchen closet; doesn't have to be shown off like some piece of very ugly art.) The wall mount makes it more convenient to access and replace than any vacuum I've had previously.

So what are the cons? For one, it looks ridiculous, like a space weapon from a $300-budget high school sci-fi movie. But hmm that's about it.

Love that thing.

EDIT: some of the downstream comments seem to be talking about some other model. (I think maybe 'upright vacuum' doesn't mean what I think it means.) The one I have is either this one or a very similar model: http://www.amazon.com/Dyson-DC35-Digital-Slim-cordless/dp/B0...
As opposed to certain other countries where the state is managed indirectly by corporations.
That's not how Stripe works.
So what you're saying is that instead of selling a janky house for $2M, what's really being sold here is a plot of land for $2M, with a fire-damaged house on it that you will have to pay even more money to renovate or raze and rebuild?

Must be one heck of a school district. :)
I dont know if anyone is interested, but someone once asked me to look into the SWIFT messaging system, i'd never done anything with banking before. I made a little once page app as i learned it which breaks it down to what everything does.

It doesnt do anything except send to a validation API, which currently is down cuz i've not touched it in months, but i figured some people might find this interesting.

http://labs.tamdenholm.com/swift/
Eh, everyone does this. I see HNers do it all the time adding "with machine learning" to some otherwise mundane problem to make it sound more interesting/impressive.
Raking through the parallelism tool-shed: matrix-matrix multiplication
It's a series of images and videos is looks like. The video plays and then overlays an image (in the exact location that the video ended) on each scroll/navigation.
Your last sentence is what it's all about. If Scots have worse health, employment and life prospectives, then it's clear that the union isn't working for them. Why shouldn't they vote to leave?

These stats may not improve in an independent Scotland, but it's clear that given our history, it's unlikely things will improve in the union and actually, I'm pretty sure the feeling is the devolved government has been doing a better job since the SNP won power.

Apparently, polls suggest those who are educated are more likely to vote yes. I guess it comes down to whether those who aren't are going to fall for the fear tactics of the "better together" campaign.
Would also check out postatic.com - there are quite a few startup-related communities on it already

http://news.fwdkc.co

http://buildupnews.postatic.com

http://southstart.postatic.com

http://thenordicnews.postatic.com

http://kwstartups.postatic.com

http://lawhackers.postatic.com

http://newsfintech.postatic.com
Just like there's more to the US of A than it's bible belt; there's more to Crimea than the ethnic Russians in Sevastopol.

Here is an article of the leaked document I was referring to: http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/05/p...

The Forbes article isn't fair in that the polls indicated 55% in favor and a turnout of 30-50%, but it's to be expected that those that voted disproportionately voted in favor so the final tally of 22.5% voting in favor is probably not accurate.

It's also important to keep in mind that the current faux-referendum was not about independence but joining Russia. Independence would have gotten much more votes, also from the Tatar population.

What most people forget is that the Tatars were forcibly removed from Crimea in a mass deportation/genocide under Stalin and returned to Crimea, their original homeland, after the fall of the Soviet empire. They were understandably wary of accession to Russia, rightfully so since Russia almost immediately barred their main leader from (re-)entering Crimea, and would never have voted in favor of the referendum.
If you have to ask you can't afford it ...
Awesome, too bad supports >IE9.

Don't ge me wrong, not my decision to support IE8...
Excellent question, I'd like to know too. I don't see any prices, but I'd guess somewhere in the region of "expensive".
Please, do not praise a product which is still not able to understand is user still online or not. Even their demo page say "there're 45485 participants"; this is not true. Socket pool still has leak issues, can't anybody see this?
This is something that needs regulation, IMO.

Debit or credit? Debit is the default everywhere. Why? Because credit has a surcharge for the merchant.

It is complete bullshit that the merchants put the onus on their customers and then shrug their shoulders when fraud happens. At least with credit you are insured. They get your pin and you are screwed.
Demo of free-space info transfer with orbital angular momentum radio
Plenty here: https://www.youtube.com/user/dysonteam
WebGL VR
Yes. To get cobwebs off the ceiling and walls when they inevitably appear (using the brush attachment).

I did a spot as a cleaner a couple of decades back and that was the best way of tackling the problem.
There was a recent reddit AMA by a vacuum repair guy, talking about the best brands:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd

He was not impressed with dysons:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_rep...

I have to say in my experience, having had 2 dysons - they both broke within 2 years.
"I'm just sweeping the floors, bro. Don't mind me."
I'm the main maintainer of Telescope. Great use of the app! I'm always excited to see a Telescope site make the front page of HN :)
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LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)
"you do your back in hoovering with the damn things as they weigh so much."

My Dyson is the lightest upright I've ever owned. It's also far-more maneuverable requiring less lifting since it can usually navigate around furniture.

My only complaint is the angle of the hose when using the attachments. Since the hose comes straight-up, if I'm trying to clean something low, I find the angle to be awkward for that purpose, and it sometimes interrupts the air-flow to the hose. I'd prefer the hose come out at an angle, or perhaps pivot on a swivel as its used.
I have heard multiple people to complain that Roombas are just wandering around randomly. It's worth to note that none of these complainers had a Roomba at home, so the issue might only be a perceived one. But nevertheless in marketing these things count, and who knows? Maybe Dyson tried it and found the sensored version superior in engineering terms too.

So on one hand you have people complaining about 'random movements', and you have an automated vac which doesn't do that. How do you communicate this? The feature is clearly important enough for them to put it in the name. It's not called Dyson TankTrack or Dyson DoubleBristle, it's called Dyson 360 Eye.

So they could say: "doesn't move randomly" but that's probably not true, and doesn't sound any good. Quite likely it falls back to random wandering to re-locate from a kidnaped-robot situation. Besides negative statements ought to be avoided because they focus the costumer on what you don't have, instead of what you have. (at least so it goes the marketing wisdom)

They could also just say: "does SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)" would be accurate, and would be totally cryptic for anyone who is not in the know.

Of course I haven't tested the robot, but if it does what they imply, then the consumer shouldn't feel impressed because of the complex words. They should feel impressed because this is impressive. Does it vacuum better? Who knows, we will see.
Any task that humans really hate to do, but like or need to have done.

In one giant category: cleaning. That includes dusting, cleaning walls and ceilings, cleaning showers and tubs and toilets, cleaning windows.

Cooking food. Starting initially from simple things, evolving to more elaborate combinations. Chef3000 can now cook over 500 things! Self-cleaning!

Mowing the grass. Some companies are already deep into trying to solve this of course.

A total laundry system (this is decades away from being practical, and may require the classic sci-fi robot that does everything). Give the system the clothing, it sorts and understands fabrics and colors, or can be trained to identify specific clothing, washes it, dries it, folds it.
> the best example is breeding chickens for egg laying, males are not wanted.

That applies to farming most animals, at all scales.

It seems kind of odd that feminists have http://www.caroljadams.com/spom.html, while the MRAs have missed the boat on this one as far as I know.
It cycles through images based on scroll position. My colleague built a site that uses technique and made a library to make managing it easier.

The site:
http://download.kone.com/ultrarope/index.htm

The code:
https://github.com/kontur/jquery.video-frame-animation
Java Puzzle: Can You Change One Word to Fix This Bug?
The IEX order entry delay is 350 microseconds (one way). Considerably less than even a millisecond.
Does React really need something like this? This seems to just be following the "plugin" tradition set forth by jQuery. I've written a lot of React and haven't found myself needing things like this. It's just JavaScript and markup people, you should be able to do it yourself rather easily.
OK so my understanding is pretty much the gist of that. See how you've moved by comparing features extracted from a series of images taken over time. I just don't understand the maths :)

The reason we went with a single camera is lack of space. As you can see from some of the imagery of the product, the camera stack is a huge proportion of the machine. Also when the algorithms were being developed in the early 2000's cameras were still expensive bits of kit. I seem to remember the first one being 1024x1024 resolution, pretty poor for photography, but good enough for feature mapping with SLAM.
Behind the Scenes of the Dublin Web Summit
Govmomi, Govc CLI and Kubernetes on VSphere
To be fair, those stuff ain't easy.
Parade of Nations: The Twelve Who Were Never Colonized (Ish)
God forbid someone could get javascript environment running on a server.

Granted, it's not as lowest-common-denominator as php, but I personally ain't touching that stuff.
Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved for the first time
It's an HTML5 video. If you inspect the page, you'll see the following:

<video id="dyson-360-video">
<source src="/video/dyson.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="/video/dyson.ogv" type="video/ogg">
<source src="/video/dyson.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>

So your browser determines which video to play based on your browser's capabilities. And the pagination can be handled with a technique as follows:

http://www.thepetedesign.com/demos/onepage_scroll_demo.html
Sacha, awesome job on Telescope. Looking forward contributing to the project.
Yet the SNP wants to cut corporation tax in Scotland.
Former Google Exec Defends Monsanto
Its odd to talk about net neutrality as something that might "perish" as if it ever existed for more than the couple of years before the FCC's order was struck down.
Atwood could have been more of an ass and called it Vanilla Markdown.
Meldium acquired by LogMeIn, Inc
I have a Dyson DCO7 which was manufactured in 2001 (my gran bought it and I inherited it).

It is literally as good as the day I got it, I recently had to "service" it (removing two foam filters with two clips and run them under the tap is hardly servicing) and that is the only time I've had to do anything to it in over a decade.

They cost more but are worth absolutely every penny, they also prove that a focus on quality, design and longevity can command a margin that customers will happily pay if you can get that message across.

When it dies I'll by another immediately.
I don't think it's specifically paying for things, it's just developers don't like arbitrary restrictions put on something they rely on. And however you look at it, pricing and pricing structures are essentially arbitrary.
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Yes some of the largest Northern European banks.

https://trustly.com/en/
And now Ellenberg is trying to educate and contribute to the world with his writing, because he has some semi-moral push to do something more than just appreciate that sealed garden.

I find cohomology of moduli schemes thrilling too, but it is really cool when you can use a little math to solve someone's real problem, or more often, use a little math to try to dismantle something bad (see mathbabe.org for some economic applications).
How SMBs can grow bigger?
I'd imagine a large majority of all traffic tickets get paid. Knowing that, even if say the average chance of any given traffic ticket being 99% chance of payment, if the beat up car was instead 95%, or even 90%, but you can also tag on an expired tag fine, you've just made your department more money, over a number of traffic stops.
Good luck keeping your domain, as it would seems it is trademark infringing.
Sure this is a great project, but I have somehow the feeling that image carousels / sliders went out of fashion somewhere 2013.

(And I don't think that is a bad thing.)

However, the lightbox still prevails.
Had a DC07 for ~13 years never had to touch it beyond rinsing the filters once.

Of course the plural of anecdote is not data.
JVM Language Summit 2014 Videos and Slides
I have had chip and pin for a year from a US bank.
That's unfortunate. All of the links are just searching "Square, Inc" and live only. Sorry that they aren't working and I can no longer edit.
Function.apply in Java 8
He didn't get "involved", he just said get off my lawn!
>>Naively, couldn't all the craziness about HFT be resolved by enforcing a 1-second tick on the markets?

There are several arguments against it:

1)liquidity is good(1), more liquidity is better; why artificially limit liquidity, just let people provide as much as needed at as low price as market dictates;

2)Options are good(2), limiting liquidity increases prize of certain options (as issuer needs liquidity to offer options and the less liquidity there is the more expensive issuing those becomes, the effect might be small between 1s and 0s but it's still there)

3)Certain types of arbitrage would be less efficient. Arbitrage is good(3).

(1)-the concept of liquidity is that when you have some goods you want to sell, you don't need to invest time/effort/money to sell it; that in turns frees your time to do productive stuff; the effect is obvious in situations like retail stores buying from manufacturer (so manufacturer don't need to do advertising, building stores etc. themselves so they have more resources to actually produce goods); the effect doesn't disappear magically at 1 second scale, more liquidity (faster, cheaper) is always better for overall productivity.

(2)-options allow certain ventures which normally would be too high variance (forgive the gambling term) to pursue; they are form of insurance; reducing risk is almost always good but it costs to provide; the lower the prize, the better;

(3)-arbitrage is good because the prices of goods/stocks become close to true value; we want that, we also want to pay for that as little as possible; the more effective the arbitrage the better, why stop at 1 second, when you can have cheaper/better ?

This is not the whole story but those points are clear benefits of HFT. Liquidity is cheaper today than it ever was. Spreads are the lowest as well. Some people who used to make bank charging ridiculous spreads are now not making bank - this again is great.

The arms race argument is that resources go into something counter-productive (like stockpiling nukes) instead into something productive. In case of HFT resources (at least some of the time) go into something desirable. It is a race but it is a race to improve desirable things (liquidity, arbitrage). You rarely hear argument about "arm race" in situations like that. It's usually called progress. Usually we applaud progress in situations where service provides needs to compete to offer the best/cheapest product. In case of HFT this point is often somehow overlooked.
I really liked the observation that in exchange for your deposit (investment in a note) not being liquid (secondary market notwithstanding), Lending Club is able to match the maturity of their assets and liabilities, thus eliminating this portion of risk from themselves. Theoretically, this could be one of the causes for the lower rates borrowers can obtain and the higher returns that investors get. (Obviously a portion of the higher returns come from the lack of liquidity offered by the notes)
To me that makes its death all the more untimely.
I'd be great to live in a place with such fast internet speeds. Here, 10MB/s is considered way above average, so imagine.
By fulfilling the second goal you make it easier for users to write the same kind of markdown on different sites or copy-paste between sites, thus fulfilling the first goal.
Others have commented similarly, but I just have to say that we've tried various Dysons over the years, and they always start off brilliantly. E.g., we vacuumed a nominally clean bedroom with a new Dyson upright and it was like steam-cleaning, or better, since it was dry--we pulled out a whole container's worth of dirt.

But then after 6 mo to a year, they start to fall apart, with (their many internal) joints not sealing, vacuum power dropping, motors failing eventually, etc., etc.

I don't think Dyson engineers understand nor design for long term durability.

We've switched to Miele vacuums and couldn't be happier.
For ebooks without images [10Print inspired]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/tenprintcover-p5

For ebooks with images [Gutenberg]: https://github.com/mgiraldo/tenprintcover-p5
I had a canister style dyson. The hose indeed ripped all the time.
So, the HN comments are pretty much negative. People seem to be overlooking the most important thing. A hugely successful product in this category will be the spark that launches the home robotics revolution. More players, more money invested, etc.

I'm really not sure why robots aren't already vacuuming our floors, raking the leaves and mowing our lawns by now.
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79% increase in through-traffic with Jetpack Related Posts on jetpack.me
Slightly off-topic but I first read that as LogMeIn, Inc. has acquired Medium and was very confused.
According to the DailyMail, it will cost around £750, or around $1230.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2743185/Dyson...
Windows Phone Denim update (formerly called Debian Red) coming to Lumia phones
The demos could show some common use cases, namely these:

- Previous and next slide visible

- More than one previous and next slides visible

- Half of the previous and half of the next slide visible

A simple slider of one image with different transitions is really easy to implement on pure JavaScript. I imagine this slider can do more than that, but it isn't immediately obvious from the examples.
My bad. It does say micro second on wikipedia, and I used the wrong unit abbreviation.
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I'm more concerned about stairs.
Cinematic Cuts Exploit How Your Brain Edits What You See
Ditto! Was very confused at the application of long treatises to remote acesss!
Message to the president
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