skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody unfamiliar with London but considering moving there, it would be great if instead of specifying a geographical radius for the search I could specify a commuting time radius with respect to the City. This would probably be useful even to natives, as I'm sure there are probably many areas where people overestimate commuting times and consequently avoid an area that otherwise should see greater housing demand (thereby levelling out demand and prices, in time, in other areas).

Of course I understand implementing something like this is quite complex, and you'd most likely have to precompute these things and limit it to a few common business centers as destinations, but it would be really preferable to my current strategy of "look for something that seems reasonably priced and then use another site to figure out if it falls within the 1hr commute window I'm looking for".
Flags or moderator intervention. I wouldn't call it targeted for this site.
Ruby for hipster-cred.
Fixing this stupid issue seems like such an obvious thing to do I can't imagine why it wasn't addressed ages ago. Having property notation would immediately get rid of 30% of the code in the codebase I currently work with, and that seems incredibly valuable.
The Idea Machine: 2 Methods to Find Your First Online Business
Well, reading the TC article, we come away with:

"Ditching fees has led to 80 percent of beta users being under the age of 30."

And " Engagement looks promising. Fifty percent of customers who’ve made a trade come back every day, and 90% come back every week."

But both of these are rendered meaningless by: "Robinhood is still in friends and family private beta"

That aside, if "coming back" means making additional trades... that lends support to the idea that that this kind of super-simplified trading encourages hasty trades that aren't thought out.

And of course, that's the choice of people making those trades - but it seems to me that it's going to lead to some bad publicity for robinhood not too far down the road.
Is the iPhone 6 Plus easy to bend? Video says yes
True. It probably does need a bit of an update.
Wow, it sure is. The subject is HN worthy but I'd hope a moderator would edit the submission to point at your site instead.

And send GoDaddy a DMCA takedown notice for this copycat site. It was just registered a few days ago and given that they shamelessly ripped your content off, I'd have serious reservations about trusting them with my data.
the moral of the IBMers does NOT contribute to the $20 EPS so therefore is irrelevant. Firing people... ooohhh sorry RA-ing them does.

You know you are stuffed when execs talk with euphemisms like Resource Action. They are no longer proud of what they are doing, they hide behind words.
Curious: How do you persist data with no database servers? Using an outside service to store it?
Nope. Maybe someone clicked the wrong button by accident. Or maybe they're just rude. I often find that many of the most interesting comments on this site are the most downvoted, so if I were you I'd take some pride in your downvote.
If I search for appartments to let in germany, the flyout menu only offers to filter for buying prices. See screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/BmUd4bh.png
Why did you name it Istanbul?
Yes. I haven't done anything with a log-structured FS. I have only played around with conventional filesystems.
There needs to be an @, something in front of it, and something behind it. If you've got that, try mailing to it.
> I wonder if this time they will give new pants.

No, they will automatically add the new Justin Bieber album to every iTunes user's profile.
That's not trivial with my current email provider, which is something I would like to test.
yes, but sometimes things cost money.

for a technical example think of a CDN.

sure you can go with Fast.ly and get a pretty ok CDN which is mostly automated and pretty cheap, or cloudflare which is similar. but they leverage systems controlled by other people a little too much, as such they can't be held accountable for networking fuck ups.

usually costs are human time related, good customer service means paying your helpdesk staff a living wage and retaining charismatic and talented communicators, rather than running them through a sweatshop and having a high turnover.
I regularly tested the "email regex du jour" at my previous job whenever these types of articles came up. IIRC, it was against 15+MM known good email addresses, and probably double that in known bads and nearly every one tested had its issues. [edit: we had something like 150,000 distinct active domains, and probably 1/2 that of distinct MXes (if you rolled up all the google-biz and microsoft hosted stuff)... if you think getting your email delivered by gmail is difficult, try a school district in Wyoming that appeared to have a 300baud connecting it to world running an ancient version of Groupware that rejected email according to the weather report as far as we could tell...]

Most people working on the code for that sign-up page (/what have you) neither have the regex-fu necessary nor the understanding of email to write the regex correctly... So you get a lot of shitty regexes (especially large corporations) that don't support apostrophes or dashes/plus signs in the local parts. And it doesn't matter how good your regex-fu and RFC comprehension abilities are, there are a lot of broken implementations out there and blocking a subscriber because of their broken system isn't a great business.

It took awhile, but eventually we switched our signup forms to do a couple of very effective things beyond a very simple address regex:
1) auto-suggest for common misspellings of our most common domains (gmal.com, yaho.com, etc.)
2) while the "please re-type your email" gave us enough user delay, we did a DNS lookup of the domain, then an MX lookup. If there was a problem with either, we passed an error to the user like "Please double check the domain of your email address..."
3) check for domains you know have moved. We were B2B, so if you watched your bounces closely, you'd know that asdf.com was moving to hjkl.com, so you could update your existing records, but people have serious muscle memory, and it's worth reminding them on the signup page.

I was working on tying in our bounce database (you are keeping a record of all your bounces, right?) so that automatically flagged domains would prompt the user with an error like "We've been unable to deliver to your email domain recently, if your email address is typed correctly, we recommend using a secondary email address if you have one..."
With macros you can easily implement small dsl like stuff. I'm not at my desktop so I can't show any examples, but things like what mfc uses for message maps makes for very easy and powerful expressions.
Actually, fiat money means something else. According to Wikipedia: "Fiat money is currency which derives its value from government regulation or law".[0] It doesn't mean "currency which derives its value from a collectivist agreement".

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Owners of Heatmiser WiFi thermostats warned of password leaks
Wow this is huge news. I wonder what higher resolution the DoD now has at their disposal to prompt them to release this.

For any potential consumers of the data, be aware the SRTM has significant gaps in coverage: nothing above latitude N61 or below S56, and also extensive voids in mountainous areas (typically the most interesting part!) and also in deserts.

This guy [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html] (90's web design notwithstanding) has done amazing work in filling these gaps to turn SRTM into a truly global dataset. I wonder if he's kicking himself that he's now about to sink another few years of his life upgrading everything to 1".

If anyone wants to casually peruse the (old 3") data, I found a rather nice rendering here [http://maps-for-free.com/], and was inspired to do my own take [http://mrgris.com/projects/oilslick/].
Time Travelling Debugger in Postgres
Ironically, after many years this is still being rejected as incorrect by the Google Apps admin dashboard for Groups...
Facebook and OkCupid’s psychological studies were illegal under Maryland law
Things Are More Complicated Than John Lennon: Requirements for Semantic Sensors
When a volunteer signs up at Social Coder I send them a welcome message.

Here's my confession: I will probably have sent that exact same message to someone else in the past.

At the moment I personally click on the "new message" button, fill out the name, paste in the message, double-check I'm sending it from a socialcoder email address, and then I send it.

This "welcome" process would be trivial to automate and yet I hesitate to do so.

Robots (and scripts) also have a way of blundering into situations that humans would avoid but this isn't why I'm reluctant to automate.

When it comes down to it I don't want to take the human (me) out of the loop. It would feel like I'm duping the recipient who might naturally expect a human connection rather than a recorded message.

If the volume was very much higher I might - apologetically - automate the welcome message. It might not make any difference to the volunteers signing up, but it would make a difference to me.
JSON Schema abandoned while still in draft
You may not like my comment, but I don't see what is wrong in it.
Learning Games
BlueMix is actually pretty exciting to me; I think IBM has finally stepped up as a competitor in the "cloud" ecosystem where Microsoft has really failed.
why is this popping up now? its quite an old project at this point.
Not word for word! Unlike your website, the carbon copied site is extremely careful not to reveal anything about the people behind.
Kibana https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana is an alternative.
Same for user@{ai,ax,cf,dm,gp,gt,hr,io,kh,km,lk,mq,pa,tt,ua,va,ws,bar,college,host} and probably some other TLDs I didn't bothered to check.
I did this years ago. Hired a 16 year old kid who was about to be homeless, and trained him, and then he got a good job as a programmer a year later. Felt good and will do it again.
Sorry, I really don't but our IT has pretty strict rules about what we can do with our email. I'm guessing you would have to work directly with the corporate IT departments to make sure they can audit security.
It's a bit of hysteria, as like you've pointed out they sold 10m units and so far about a dozen people have had issues with bending. There's an issue yes, but it doesn't seem to be as widespread as the news reports seem to want it to be. It's the same as when one Tesla caught fire, the news reports covered it like there was going to be a full recall and much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I've done the same strategy with spinning rust. Only a noob sets up a RAID mirror with two drives same model same mfgr and adjacent serial numbers. I say noob because you only experience this failure mode once before you'll professionally refuse to deploy that way.

I have had historical issues with corporate procurement of dell servers with this problem. There is a labor intensive strategy where you throw all the servers into one room and play switcheroo. They'll still be the same model and maybe even the same batch but at least they'll probably not be adjacent serial numbers anymore.

A coworker of mine had the strategy of buying RAID servers and then pulling and replacing one drive from all the servers after initial burnin and keeping the yanked drive as as a cold onsite spare.

I would gladly pay a little more money to dell or a competitor to put together turnkey servers with carefully intentionally mismatched raid.
Stop What You’re Doing and Start Improving the Bitcoin Community
Two US banks are ready to use Ripple for instant money transfers
My most recent encounters with idiotic email validation is that many apps don't accept anything on a recent TLD. Even f-ing AWS SNS web console didn't let me add a perfectly valid address in a notification topic.
The Cardiff Giant (1869)
Hey, don't knock Kessler syndrome - it may be the one thing that can save the planet. Sure, it's a Scylla and Charybdis type choice between boosting albedo or having viable space travel, but it may come to that.

Either way, there are practical applications for Kessler syndrome, although in the context discussed here, of course you're right - last thing anyone wants is junk all over the shop while trying to carry out space travel.
You (the person who created this :)) should update the link to the email address to include a target for the mailto: link to a new tab: I use Gmail (for domains) and the mailto link opened in the same window, closing the page (which should stay open, it says).
Kali NetHunter turns Android device into hacker Swiss Army knife
> Having said that, if you are someone who works on this sort of invention, please take a long, hard look at what you're doing with your life and consider just how this invention is contributing to the advancement of mankind.

This is a silly point that gets repeated far too often. You can make that statement to almost every developer and designer here.

Some people are quite satisfied advancing their own lives and that of those who are close to them.
Jeff Hawkins on why his approach to AI will become the approach to AI
I got one of those and at the bottom it said "do not reply to this email." I thought that was pretty funny.
I'm not trying to compete with Google/Bing where their work
with keywords/phrases, page rank popularity, and, say, date, work well. And for a huge pile of Internet content, search, and results, they do work well.

For the searches you mention, I believe that maybe for one of them it could be possible to improve on Google/Bing, but I don't believe that real AI would be needed. For describing how to build such a search engine, that might take more than the 10,000 character limit on HN posts!
There doesn't have to be a dot in an email address. a@nl is totally legal, and might even work.
This is news? The technology is 249 years old ... :)

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton
"Dev" price:

€
6 / month

1 app instance
256MB RAM
1GB storage
Unlimited custom domains
FTP access
Free MongoDB database
Free support

If they also have a transfer limit, then just forget about it :(
My other perspective is the 'development cost perspective'. Everything takes time to build, and some really nice UX features just don't improve the experience enough to warrant making them.
Websites Are Wary of Facebook Tracking Software
FEMA alert
Being a part of the "entire internet community" I don't remember doing this.
Show HN: Check iPhone Reservation Availability via App
The Islamic State Makes Electronic Surveillance Respectable Again
The license text itself is sufficiently complicated and multiply redundant it's hard to tell what it's trying to say.

By multiply redundant I mean it tries to say the same thing 3 or more times.

The author/creator is incapable of seeing the problems this presents (let alone the terms of the license he's trying to get across); no matter how interested I might be in the language, this has turned out to be a show stopper.

And, yeah, there's a no forking clause, subjectively judged; he's also has no interest in a test suite, he says there are already enough implementations of the language.
Gadfly.jl, JuliaLang's native plotting and visualization library
>Meanwhile system software will continues to be built in C and C++ since Go addressed some real problems with system programming but created new ones.

Many new system projects at Google are using Go over C and the trend is such that more and more new projects are using it.
sample LCOA Report links is broken, http://gotwarlost.github.io/istanbul/public/coverage/std-lco...
The Health Connector Autopsy Report
It's been a very interesting month or so, considering 4chan is being blamed for the celeb photo leak and the gamergate harassment. The two of which are not the fault of the site itself, merely a rogue faction of users that don't represent the behavior of the whole. There has been a push to make 4chan "family friendly" which sounds ridiculous but go to /b/ right now and the gore, racism and porn has been curtailed.
They heard you. You can now copy-paste the e-mail adress.
You can also export your ohlife-diary and import it into 'the little memory'. I use it and I love it.
Here's the link that explains how to do it http://blog.thelittlememory.com/
Show HN: Kontrast – Fast Automated Visual QA for Your Website
Amazon reportedly developing one-button ordering devices for your smart home
1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?

For the enjoyment and challenge of making something tangible, that I can watch others enjoy. Something that is not made of bytes and pixels.

2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?

Yes, I plan my baking at the beginning of each week and and back on Monday and Wednesday.

3. What kind of things do you cook usually?

I bake. Breads, pies, bagels, croissants, cakes, etc. Occasionally I experiment with gluten-free recipes.

4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.

No but I also don't eat everything I bake. I bake so much that we give a lot of the product to friends and neighbors. My wife is "gluten lite" so she tends to only taste samples and I would gain 25 pounds if I ate everything. If I keep baking this much, I may set up a relationship with one of the local soup kitchens to drop off food there.

5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?

In baking, mise en place, for sure. But also many breads do better with steam in the oven in the first 3 minutes. Do this by pouring a cup of hot water into a heavy pan heated at the bottom of the oven (be careful!).

Also, when making croissants, use European butter (higher fat content) and make sure the butter and dough are the same temperature when doing your initial laminating.
As long as you have asked "does this improve the experience enough to build?" I think we are in complete agreement. That is good UX thinking, in my opinion. :)
Could someone with experience on the technical side of the industry (not marketing or astroturf) tell us if "one drive of each brand" applied to a dozen pieces of hardware is a dozen different brand stickers attached to the eventual output of the same NAND chip foundry, or is it realistic that its really a dozen foundaries? Fundamentally rewrite testing does not test the physical parameters of a brand name sticker, it tests the physical parameters of one kind of IC cell. I would not be entirely surprised to hear there are very few foundries making this exact type of IC but I can't estimate how much larger or smaller than number is relative to the much more well known number of brand name stickers.

As a message to the marketing people I excluded in the above paragraph, I would be willing to pay a modest amount extra money to have the honest foundry name on the marketing material for a drive, and lets be honest I'm only going to buy multiple quantities of your product if I can order from separate foundries so please don't lie and also please give each foundry a different UPC code or something. Somehow I get the feeling this will end up like power supplies where "everyone knows" there is one model of supply and stacks of different wattage stickers applied to the same device to maximize revenue. The market is too corrupt and unequally informed for this to happen. Still, a guy can dream.
What I was implying is that just because there were wars waged in the name of nationalism, does not mean that getting rid of it would solve anything, there is no proof for that. I might wage a war against your country in the name of nationality or whatnot, but what I really want is your lands, I'm just making the nationality part up, so that my campaign doesn't look bad.

Also if you get rid of everything that people waged wars for, not much would be left. People waged wars for freedom, you want to get rid of that?

You might also say that beliefs are the problem, let's just get rid of those, however without believes I would probably find it acceptable to just go and attack your people for your lands and riches.

As you can see there is more to it, and we are just scratching the surface.

Last time I have checked the US, Americans were pretty patriotic, and incidentally fought a war for independence and another one for freedom...
Hardly. Most of the new ruby development I see is in boring SaaS apps, web scrapers, and now mundane medical software at places like Hopkins. Hardly hipster stuff.
The point is that bitcoin holders don't need MtGox to hold their money. They would've been safer by far storing it in a 2-of-3 wallet, with one key held by a third party which does passphrase authentication (or similar) before they'll sign a transaction, one held on your computer, and a third stored somewhere hidden as a backup in case one of the other keys cannot be accessed.

Two of these already exist: BitGo[0] and GreenAddress[1]. Try doing that with physical money, and you understand why we have banks. With Bitcoin, you can have any level of security you like, and somebody only has to implement it once.

[0] https://www.bitgo.com/
[1] https://greenaddress.it/en/
Just went looking for that, is a 2 TB Soft limit

[1] http://www.evennode.com/policy/aup
Can someone please explain why IBM raised their long term debt by almost $8bn in last one year , while keeping their revenues and gross profits almost static ? I am assuming that the interest rate for that $8B is pegged at near zero rate -- what happens when the rate goes up by one percent ?
Simple way to show different content in one cell
Or, simply: If i have language X and language Y and the most straigforward and easy-to-read version of my program is 100x faster in language X and given that both languages have the same featureset, i'll chose language X and not language Y.
Someone will always say "i can make it just as fast in language Y, i just need hideous tweaks and 10 times the LOC". But that's a moot point.
Yes they don't seem to be offering anything above and beyond their competitors, particularly on price. Not even a free tier.

I'm not saying that companies should have a free tier "by rights", only that it's a good way to get you sucked in whilst you develop your app and then when you scale you're unlikely to change provider.
iPhone 6 bendgate
This is not exactly true, the magnetic fields on HDD migrate around on the disk over time and eventually become unreadable by the disk. In theory the data remains recoverable for significantly longer than that but it's not 'stable'. While historically not much of a problem it's a larger issue as HDD keep increasing in capacity.

HDD actually internally refresh data to avoid this issue so their much better as 'hot' storage. Tape is designed to avoid most of these issues and is much better for long term storage.

"Magnetic media – such as floppy disks and magnetic tapes – may experience data decay as bits lose their magnetic orientation. Periodic refreshing by rewriting the data can alleviate this problem. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
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looks like rap genius is putting up a full transcript http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-how-to-start-a-startup-lec...
How to Trace Transactions Across Every Layer of Your Distributed Software Stack
> Why the funky name?

> Since all the good ones are taken. Comes from the loose association of ideas across coverage, carpet-area coverage, the country that makes good carpets and so on...

https://github.com/gotwarlost/istanbul#why-the-funky-name
I seem to remember that the author only require that the forked Shen satisfies a number of published tests, that is to guarantee that the forked program function like the original Shen in the basis case. A forked program could extended the original one with new capabilities, libraries and ideas. I think that the author of Shen believe that free sofware should not be free as in beer, now he earn some money selling the Shen book. Only my two cents.