skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The maker vision is where it's at! Did you ever get one of their make-a-radio kits? I wrapped my own shortwave coils!

Look at this parts list: who's going to fill this void?

http://antiqueradio.org/econoceanic.htm
It's not really a generic tool like Pants is, but it's something. Thanks for sharing!
Don't forget: Uber and Uber's drivers have been responsible for children's deaths, interfering with the normal course of competitor's business, stuffing blind persons' service dogs in the trunk, price gouging during states of emergencies. All on top of a proprietary, unpublished 'surge pricing' algorithm.

I know you think taxis are the devil, but Uber's behavior as a parent company has been downright heinous.

Personally, I avoid supporting them, whenever possible, and go with better-acting players in the market like Lyft and Sidecar.
The victims Violent Crime may have decreased but the victims of non-violent (white-collar) crimes may have actually increased.

How many people were "victimized" in the recent Financial crisis? How about the spate of people in asset forfeiture by the police just for being in the wrong place? How many victims of recent Credit card breaches?

These stats might accurately reflect that the US is moving from an industrial to a post-industrial information & services economy - the criminals are correspondingly adapting to where the real money is.
If multisig applies to a future product and not the one that was released then it sounds like he was being factual with you. Not sure what you expect - for him to be non-factual?

As for high risk cancellations, do you expect them to approve transactions that they expect will actively damage them? Of course the cancellation serves Coinbase - nothing else is reasonable. (It's also funny how you only hear about complaints of that when the price is going up - when the price is declining and they cancel due to high risk, nobody complains because Coinbase ended up saving them money.)

It's funny how everybody who didn't get a job there comes out of the woodwork to post critical comments on something completely unrelated.
Well, feel free to buy a core and let me know how long it takes before you're up and running. Having been on the inside during 3 of their deployments, and on the outside of 2 more, I can definitely say 90 days is wildly optimistic.

edit never mind, after reviewing your comment history, it looks like you probably work for Palantir. You should probably disclose that. I stand by my comments about deployment times.
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It's not only not a major plus, it's a minus.

Traditional taxi companies are forced by regulators to provide less profitable accessible transport in exchange for being given a monopoly on taxi services. Part of the way that Uber is undercutting the taxi companies is by not providing services to the disabled (or at least not without added cost).
> a testament to the software engineering back then.

Oh, don't worry. Hardware acceleration is coming, soon all the web apps will run just fine on your i7. But you might have to buy a new GPU and more RAM, because in five years, anyone would be crazy to have less than 32GB. Gaming might be a long way off still... ;-)

And then you'll have to wait for your GPU drivers to mature if you're not on the mainstream OS.
Ya. I mean exactly as in the term Homoiconicity. Not Javascript itself. However..

You can use an approach to programming in JavaScript that allows java-script to be Homoiconicit. It is also possible to do the same thing in C#.

Here is an example:

// This code is a data structure
// that can be traversed, persisted,
// etc.
// Write to the console ( 3 + -1 ) + -1
Con({
text: Add({
left: Add({
left: Num(3),
right: Num(-1)
}),
right: Num(-1)
}),
}).go;

// Add defined

var AddF = function() {};
AddF.prototype = {
get go() { return this.asNum; },
get asNum() { return this.d.left.asNum +
this.d.right.asNum; },
get asStr() { return "(" + this.d.left.asStr
+ " + " + this.d.right.asStr + ")"; }
};
function Add(d) {
var f = new AddF();
f.d = d;
return f;
};

// Num Defined

var NumF = function() {};
NumF.prototype = {
get val() { return this.d; },
get go() { return this.d; },
get asNum() { return this.d; },
get asArr() { return [this.d]; },
get asStr() { return this.d.toString(); }
};
function Num(d) {
var f = new NumF();
f.d = d;
return f;
};

var ConF = function() {};

ConF.prototype = {
get go() {
console.log(this.d.text.go);
return unknown;
}
}
function Con(d) {
var f = new ConF();
f.d = d;
return f;
};
> Ah well, they won, and Atari / Amiga / Commodore lost; better doesn't mean you win.

This being said, Atari and Commodore had several YEARS of opportunities to launch new machines and "kill" the PC (or at least become something that would last longer than a generation), and did not do anything. The Amiga 1200 and Falcon were both very late to the party and underpowered when PCs started to be cheap enough and way more powerful than these machines.

PC gaming also benefited from the fantastic works of Origin (before they were acquired by EA) with a bunch of exclusives (Wing Commander 1 was a revolution in 1991, and convinced many people the PC could also be a gaming platform).

I was on the Amiga during that period and I could see the tide coming, while Commodore and Atari stood and just watched. What a pity.
The typesetting/justification of your text looks beautiful. I know it's been a solved problem for fixed-width fonts for roughly forty years, but what tool did you use to lay out the text like that? Some emacs magic or vim plugin? (I wish HN had a private messaging system for offtopic but harmless questions like this.)
Isn't part of the general 'Retail business model' issue at present the number of people who walk in, hold it in their hands ... and then jump online with their smartphone and buy it for 10% less?

There will always be a 'need it immediately' market, as there will always be a 'I'm buying it here from a moral perspective', but I wouldn't want to build a business (let alone one the size of RadioShack) just on those target consumers.
New Downloads for Raspberry Pi
I've got the impression that there is more Common Lisp code and programmers around than guile.
The Internet of Things is poised to take off in the next couple of years. I just got into electronics and there's a whole world that's opening up right now due to miniaturization and economy of scale.

As some have mentioned, being a go-to place to pick up your Raspberry Pi, Espruino, Arduino, etc. and have literally all the modules and parts in stock so you don't have to wait 9 days to get it from China would be a huge opportunity. Robotics is probably going to start taking off too.

There's still hope if they bring in the right CEO/management team.
> had the engine light on, indicating a likely emissions problem.

Is that true? I thought the engine light could be for many things and only a few of them emissions related? (true for the European cars I've owned, anyway)

edit: actually, I guess, many of the faults are probably directly, or indirectly, likely to result in an emissions change.
FYI, "Zero to One" is an anthology of Peter Thiel's notes on startups from his CS183 class at Stanford. If you do not want to read the book right now, you can skim through the essay notes taken by Blake Masters(also co-author) here:
http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
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Indeed. For Android you have the random event:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html

And the scriptable:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkeyrunner_concept...

Both of which can run on actual devices, though you are going to be ignoring the parts which depend on actual users (touch screen latency being the main thing there).

That random event one has an amazing ability to crash almost anything.
My daughter was very underwhelmed with Build-A-Bear, it was a one time overpriced trip that we won't be repeating.

I did buy a TRASH-80 and loved it, go Zilog! Now those poor lovely old Z80 chips are stuck controlling traffic lights, which makes an old assembly programmer very unhappy indeed. I was (somewhat OT) very disheartened when I read iWoz to read how he invented the personal computer yet the TRS-80 was miles more advanced of the Apple II (and the Apple-I really didn't count as a lacked some pretty basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case etc) Tandy's saled dwarfed the Apple II too for several years. Yet reading iWoz he tried to give the impression that there was nothing else out there at the time.

Anyway, Tandy, Radio-Shack, their time has come and gone. Nobody cares anymore. CVS sell the same cables and hardware has consolidated, the days of lots of different cables has passed. Bluetooth and wifi technologies are eating into cables time. And Radioshack tried to charge me $14 for simple 1/8" m2m. So I bought it, while in the store, on Amazon using my phone for $2

RS need to liberate the real-estate and make way for something people actually need. As soon as they stopped selling radios I lost interest in their stores. The 19 year olds that work there these days most likely have never heard of SSB. Ask to test a transistor and they won't even know what npn or pnp means.

Good riddance RadioShack
Would be good to allow you to order by position on the front page as well as total number of votes on the stories. It will allow you to see that even though github is sitting at number one as the most on the front page, they might only be averaging 4th or 5th place whereas something like BBC averages top 2 on every one of their articles.
One thing to consider is that there are certain parts of NY that can be considered very safe, whereas other parts are not. The same thing probably happens in Dallas and Houston, the difference being the Texas cities are driving cities so you would just drive through/around the dangerous parts, whereas in NY you would have to walk through them.
Adding any deterrent (more, better, larger, etc.) seems to me like a "chicken or the egg" game. ATMs get stronger security, scammers develop better methods to skim. Skimmers improve, ATMs get better security. It becomes a viscous circle of who can outwit the other for a longer time and prove more successful.

Personally, I am more interested in improving security via credit card chips or contactless payment (cards or phones). Chips alone would heavily improve security due to the inherent cost (hopefully) of cracking the chip's data.
Loved that game! It was the first game that I recall where you could create your own levels.
If I was learning to swim I'd rather be taught by a great swimming coach who's taught many hundreds of swimmers before and seen the common mistakes / challenges than by another great swimmer.
Pretty good, but the technical explanations were pretty light at times. I'd really like to have the narration they had and on top of that, much more details about the technical side and how it was achieved. When you talk about literature you actually quote authors, when you talk about hackers I think it's appropriate to go back to the code and what it does, too.
This is exactly it.

I'm old enough to remember some of the expansions they tried in the 90's (a battery store, seriously?), but not old enough to remember the cb days.

To me, going to the local RadioShack was almost always a means of last resort or a lack of patience. The store was dirty, staff was consistently rude, and the merchandise was wildly overpriced.

Slowly, the phones and other even more overpriced consumer electronics started taking over the stores and the DIY sections became nearly non-existent. Now, I shop at actual hobby DIY stores which have much better selections, pricing and customer service than RadioShack ever had and probably ever will.

RadioShack itself is dead -- management is trying to force a big box concept into a small store and just doesn't get it.
>As for high risk cancellations, do you expect them to approve transactions that they expect will actively damage them?

The point is to make clear is that Coinbase is not an exchange like Bitstamp et al. Coinbase will cancel your transaction /only when it benefits Coinbase/. Buy bitcoin and then USD/BTC crashes? Coinbase is Johnny on the spot to complete your transaction. But, when the opposite happens? Sorry: You are High-Risk.

Regardless. Olaf did not know about Vault including multi-sig. This is /after Coinbase announced publicly that Vault would include multi-sig in the near future./ To me that signifies a disconnect between those in the company.
BitGo is a good web wallet.
http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an...
What I remember reading is that kids ingest a finite amount of soil in the course of simply being outdoors. In fact lead forms some compounds that are actually tasty, and I think it was in the time of the ancient Romans that they boiled wine in lead pots to produce lead acetate, an artificial sweetener.

But inhalation would make sense too.
In many places it may not be profitable enough for transportation companies to voluntarily offer it. That would explain why the regulator was forcing some taxis to have this capability.
Radioshack was always a vendor of last resort. You'd go there because you couldn't get it somewhere else. They weren't even the best place for honbyists — if you were serious, they simply didn't have the inventory space (like Fry's for example did).

I do have fond memories of their catalogs in the 70s and early 80s.
How about this -- a billboard sized e-ink display. That would let advertisers swap out billboard ads based on time slot (prime time would be rush hours, maybe advertising Crains Business magazine in the morning, and beer in the afternoon rush hour). Or, someone could purchase a flash add that displays for 10 minutes on all billboards in the city. Things like that would be a perfect fit for e-ink.
I did some consulting work with the NYPD and heard you guys also have some deployments with them and other large police forces. Those are nice non-clearance, but cool, jobs as well.
Pretty neat. Never thought of loose version intervals as potential vulnerabilities...but here we go.
If anyone's keen into doom, check out Doom 2 the Way id Did. In particular, look for the secret level (which also has the entrance to the other secret level).
It's very hard to monetize, but it's orders of magnitude harder to get big in the first place.
Was just going to site that last one:

2/8/12

"Today 92 percent of the taxi fleet is comprised of hybrid or CNG vehicles. There are 1,318 alternative fuel vehicles out of a total of 1,432 eligible vehicles. CNG vehicles account for 89 of those and the hybrids account for 1,229."
I would LOVE if Sparkfun did some kind of a deal with Radioshack. I mean, SFun is what RadioShack should be right now, and they definitely could use some physical presence... ah, dreams... going through an online catalog of hobbyist stuff is not half as fun as discovering gadgets while getting to touch, play and feel them
Too many moving parts that can break, pinch and mutilate. Plus, given previous attempts, it would only block crooks for a fairly small amount of time before they figured out how to counteract it. The best course of action here is to get rid of the sixty year old tech and finish moving to chip and pin, where there is no magstrip to skim.
look at the word root, deci - like decimal, decimeter, etc.
In Chicago over the past 5 or 10 years it has been the case.

The number of cyclists was 2.6 times higher in 2012 than 2000. [1]

The program, whose efforts are guided by the Bike 2015 Plan, approved in June 2006, has created over 100 miles (160 km) of new bike lanes, installed 10,000 bicycle racks, and installed 165 miles (266 km) of signed bike routes in 2006. [2].

[1] http://www.bikewalklincolnpark.com/2014/05/walking-and-bikin...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_Chicago
If true, I'll be a bit disappointed. I would prefer that Apple continue having good success in the "accessible luxury" category and, if anything, go a even more accessible. It's mission should be to get it's terrific products in more hands. Not the opposite. It's outsized margins are no longer so important.
You're partly right. The 1950s were particularly safe and crime is somewhat higher now than it was then (though not uniformly; you are safer in Houston today than in 1950, surprisingly). On the other hand, it was a bit higher at the beginning of the last century, which is not too surprising as the solve rate was much lower and so were sentences (an average of 10 years for murder in 1910, whereas by 2003 it's 85). A good reference on this subject is The collapse of American Criminal Justice by William Stuntz.
I have no sympathy for the SF taxi industry. I can't count the number of times I was left stranded at 2 AM on a friday or saturday night, having to walk home in the rain. It's about time.
No doubt the most insightful essay on Apple's wrist computer/watch so far, and HN allows it to be flagged to the bottom of the 2nd page.

HN is broken.
Tons of actual photos here. Looks as good as the renders to me http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review
Where is that? Would be interesting to know how Uber is doing in that market.
Interesting. On both an aesthetic and intellectual level, I like the statement "consciousness is actually the reproductive system of the universe". Care to elaborate?
Indeed.

There are also (at least around here) vast quantities of poster-sized dynamic advertising displays in pedestrian walking areas that are used "statically" (only update maybe ever minute or so). Right now they use giant lcd monitors for this (hung on the wall like a poster), but they've got to be sucking up a lot of power...

Eink with improved contrast and color support would be very useful...
I see only one use for it: hardware/display testing. For everything else a software/gui automation tool will do the job (I use Automagic for Android and it costs 4 bucks not 10k!!!!)
I don't think he can though...not legally in the US, at least.
Rise of more sophisticated, engaging and cheap entertainment - especially movies, video games, and the internet.

Can't believe no one mentioned this - and on a tech site no less. Why commit a murder and go to jail when you can get just as much sadistic pleasure with none of the consequences by doing it in a video game or vicariously through a movie character?
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No need to apologize, a private message would mean that others do not get to benefit from you asking a question;)

I used `par` to typeset the text. It has not been updated in over a decade but I have never found a better tool for this. The documentation leaves a little to be desired but I think a lot of that is due to the flexibility of the program. For that specific quote I used `cat text | par 75j` with the man page recommended value in $PARINIT.

http://www.nicemice.net/par/
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I'm not trolling you, and for that matter I don't even own a bicycle. Driving in the Netherlands is simply not the horrid experience you seem to imagine it must be.
> Police techniques have gotten dramatically better. Everything from witness protection programs

In what ways have witness protection programs improved? More money? I can't think of any technological changes that help here and although I have no knowledge of such a think I think social networking would make Witness Protection a lot harder(not just using your old name/putting up pictures/auto face tagging but possibly something invloving your social graph)
It may not be the main reason (which is believe is the tetraethyl lead mentioned in other posts), the effect videogames has had on violence is not trivial. Probably not for "outlet for rage" reasons, but simply because they are a powerful draw on someone's time. Spending time playing video games is less time left for loitering and petty crime.

I submit as "evidence" a bit of anecdata I like to call the "doom curve":

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/erikkain/files/2012/12/videog...
Can you provide a link on the last line?
It is unfortunate but I think a lot of the people that are keeping Radio Shack alive are the people that shop there out of pity and love for what 'once was' such as myself. Very sad, I hope they make a turnaround, and gain some focus. They are truly a brand I would be loyal to pretty much no matter what they did.
Unfortunately Sierra Nevada ends up being the losers here. I'd have loved to have seen the Dream Chaser also win the competition, but my guess is NASA (or someone in Congress) felt that choosing SpaceX and SNC would have been too risky.
It seems your libffi has been used in Guile since 1.9.8, so does that mean Guile does support FFI and concurrency?
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Certain uneducated users of the language may have 'moved on'.

Doesn't mean the rest of us should encourage this misuse.

The word devastate much better suits the intent here, which would leave decimate to continue meaning something quite specific (and useful).
Why most people aren’t downloading apps anymore
If you're selling anything to a business and they've done any kind of research on you they will. And VCs definitely know. Sharing the same alma mater with a VC could make all the difference in funding.
I believe parent comment was probably alluding to compilation time. My experience with Go is that the compile times are usually close to zero seconds and this indeed makes it feel almost exactly like working with Python or JavaScript.

Parent may also have been thinking of Go's concision, which feels more like using a scripting language than using a class-based monstrosity like Java, and certain other features, such as type inference that make variable declaration as painless as weakly typed languages.
Time in app has increased by 21% over the past year
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