skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There certainly are Canadian winners, but they have a habit of rapidly turning into losers. There's even a reasonably well known book about this:
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Mexicans-Dont-Drink-Molson/dp/1553...

And I don't believe RIM are in it.

There was a time around 2006 when I lived half in Montreal and half in Brixton, and at that point Arcade Fire could sell out the Brixton Academy (concert venue of about 4000 capacity), while simultaneously getting absolutely no attention in Canada at all. They aren't my taste, but it was curious that one of the great success stories of recent Canadian music was in spite of the fact they didn't secure Canadian radio play until they were popular elsewhere.

I can go on about the bad side of Canadian business, but there is a fear among the more intelligent side that unless Canada snaps out of this trap it looks a lot like a third world resource extraction economy. That this is at least discussed is a cause for some optimism.
Tinycon: A small library for manipulating the favicon
This is actually not so clear to me. The law in question [1] specifically states that it defers to the federal law [2], which clearly states in section §46.102(e):

> "Research subject to regulation," and similar terms are intended to encompass those research activities for which a federal department or agency has specific responsibility for regulating as a research activity.

Furthermore, the definition of "minimal risk" is given in part (i) of the same section,

> the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the research are not greater in and of themselves than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine...psychological examinations or tests.

The argument against Facebook and OKCupid are pretty slim here... How could you experience significantly more discomfort in daily life if OKCupid slightly changed their rating system? Any reasonable interpretation of this risk is negligible.

[1] http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0917t.pdf
[2] http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/ohrpregulations.pdf
Domain Renewal vs. Transfer
"Women were a minority of competitors (3.7%)... Gender of the entries was determined by looking up the user and their profile gender. This can only be done for some entries depending on privacy settings.... Gender could be retrieved for 65% of participants..."

Let's punch some holes in this :-)

Are women equally likely as men to set their profile gender to private? I doubt it. Obviously women were in the minority regardless, but probably not as low as 3.7%.

Now, can you take the next step and say the highest scoring women are more likely to have their profile gender set private?
Ask HN: Chat / comments widget?
Anyone know of chat or comments widget that works like producthunt? Something that I can attach to any page(s) of my site with a unique id.
Read me please...Google Profile can help me locate a thief that stole my laptop?
I had all my personal property stolen and in that property was my laptop in addition to my entire life history. I had tax transcripts and many other identifiers in my car. Anyway, I digress, the individual that stole it is unaware that he logged in on my boyfriends google profile and when searching the dashboard history came upon some data that neither one of us inputted. After some hours of investigating we found several addressing that were a result of the "MY LOCATION" TO XYZ etc. and was wondering are these fairly accurate. I believe them to be as I tested ones that I had inputted and they were exact. Secondly, I came across a facebook page that belongs to this individual. How can I dig deeper into inspect element and discover their identity?
Is it really only integer scaling? Bit of a bummer if so. I'd have hoped they'd design arbitrary scales into this or it'll be stuck behind Windows and OS X for potentially a long time (until someone fixes it and all of the 3rd party software is updated to work right at other scales).

I run my Windows computer at 1.5 scale, which gives me sharp but readable text and a whole ton of screen real estate.

Who wants to buy an expensive 28" 4K screen and either choose between huge interface with 1080p effective resolution or an unusably tiny interface at native 4K?
This is also what I do, but almost the inverse: I use Cygwin on Windows to get all the same applications (I do everything other than browse the web in my terminal) as I would on Linux, then use Dropbox to keep everything the same across machines.

Each of my machines is configured (almost) exactly the same, and all the media/projects/work is available on all my computers at the same time.

I also experience the forced "space discipline" and would add that I also have to have a better organizational structure in general. I'm constantly "re-balancing the tree" that is my directory structure, re-defining and re-grouping my media into ever finer groups in an effort to stop things from accumulating in digital "junk drawers".

On a different note, I disagree with the suggestion of having a "virtual filesystem" that is the entire Dropbox service. I feel that doesn't fit with what Dropbox is: a folder that syncs. I don't want to have to worry about the physical location of my files, which I most definitely would have to do based on my internet speed (which is as good as it can get right now).
I'd go even farther, although it hadn't occurred to me until you wrote this: what I'd really like is an easy-to-reach focus toggle, automatic or macro. I typically only need manual focus when I'm trying to get as close as possible to something.
I encourage people to read Section 46.102 [1] (page 4) of the federal regulations that Maryland is enforcing. It lays out the definitions of all these terms (as a mathematician, I put the highest weight on definitions), and in particular section (i) on "minimal risk" is clearly in Facebook/OKC's favor.

[1]: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/ohrpregulations.pdf
Used it before, felt like it needed a little more. Great otherwise. After being spoiled with the Windows 8 tiling system I can't seem to appreciate tiling managers on Linux as much as I should.
When research worlds collide
Stir-fry random is a miracle.
Likewise, got my wife on iOS to sign up, but shame I can't use it on Android yet. Hoping you can launch it there too soon, I really think this could be fun! Great take on picture messaging.
> Small global market share for legal uses.

How do you know? It's currently small because it's currently impossible.

> Most non-US residents can do bank transfers as fast as Bitcoin or will be able to Real Soon Now.

I disagree, most non-US residents in the world don't even have bank accounts. Not to mention, the US and Canada are a huge market with a terrible banking system that refuses to modernize.

> So like 5%?

5% is the entire federal VAT in Canada. Would you really say no to saving $100 when buying a new MacBook? Would you just not bother claiming VAT-exempt status for your business because it's a measly 5%?

A fringe here and a fringe there and pretty soon you have a whole robe.
But who are we to say where he should apply his abilities? He may be interested in something new and that is where his next best contributions lie.
> Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive

Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful piece of software, and for continually developing it.
There is a fixed timeout: iOS (both 7 and 8) will ask for the passcode if you haven’t unlocked it for 48 hours. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5949
We have no interest in providing container hosting. We acquired Orchard for the great people doing amazing things in the ecosystem so they could continue their work on Fig in the context of Docker.
dang is one of the HN mods
> Peer reviews

I've had nothing but positive experiences from years and years of peer reviews. It's not even that I've had "nice" / overly-charitable peers who don't call me out on things: I've gotten good, actionable feedback that improved my career.

It's a pain in the ass to write them but I always put in a good effort because of the benefits I've received from them.
They're the only company that has the technology to parse / analyze datasets like the ones mentioned in the article.
There are at least two problems with this approach. First, this just makes you a target when you go and retrieve your paper wallet. Secondly, even if you never actually leave the bank with your paper wallet, this means you need to physically go to the bank every time you want to transfer money. But people need to transfer money on a daily basis in order to pay bills, meaning any access to a bitcoin wallet needs to be highly available. A paper wallet stored in a vault isn't.

The counterargument to this is to store a portion of your savings in a paper wallet. That's fine, but it's not what's going to make Bitcoin mainstream, which is what the conversation is about. It needs to become consumer-friendly.
This is not about creating content for every ethnic group in Canada. This is just about creating Canadian content for Canadians. It's not about multiculturalism, it's about supporting Canada's homegrown television and film production sectors.

Also, I thought the 70s and 80s were about DE-segregating people. I thought that's what the Freedom Riders went South for.

There is already more than "a certain level of assimilation" going around in Canada, for example. Content laws are there to make sure it doesn't turn to total assimilation.
The Art of the Obituary: An Interview with Margalit Fox
Or we can just do the "downvote of denial"
1. it's healthier, cheaper, fun and usually tastier.

2. no plan, unless "to use up the X" counts.

3. food. real food begins with, and consists mostly of vegetables. meat, cheese, eggs, grains, seeds, etc are great, but are only seasonings.

4. no diet, just real food. the goal of eating is to get enough veg and without much processing - anything else that happens is for fun.

5. recipes are for inspiration; there are no rules (yes, even baking). you should know how to approximate anything. get a couple good knives. also, one-piece silicone spatulas .
Would politicians care about regulatory control if the internet wasn't generating wealth?
Please excuse our ignorance. We've updated the chart to try and help you differentiate between the two.
I think if an ignorant person wishes to trade stocks, the lack of a platform like this won't stop them. Retail brokers like Etrade and Scottrade got the pennystock crowds long ago.

Mentioned in another reply, I would hope ETFs are available on a platform like this, since they trade like stocks. Hopefully that would allow more people to put small amounts of savings into index funds. That being said, Robinhood wouldn't be very innovative on that front, since many brokers offer the more popular index-based ETFs without fees anyway.
I personally like https://bitcasa.com in this regard. They have this feature that you can choose a "directory" to be a bottomless storage that is not actually on your device, it is on the cloud for you when you need it.
I'm answering you because geeks and cooking are a great combo - everyone should give it a serious try at some point.

1) I love cooking. I'm (mostly) vegan, and I get a better diversity of food by doing it myself. It's more cost effective. My food is more healthy, and I'm a far better cook than the average food you get at a cheap restaurant (and the expensive ones are just that. :). Add to that that my kid has some digestive allergies -- but I cooked when I was a single omnivore, too, but only 5 days/week instead of 6-7.

2) Half and half. Big meal components get planned on weekends so that I only have to shop once per week. Sides, veggies, salads I replan dynamically based upon what's in the fridge and what looked good at the store.

3) If you read through Veganomicon, World Vegetarian, Vegan Eats World, and some random Chinese and Indian cookbooks, plus a little bit of Julia Child, you'll have it nailed! :)

4) I'm vegan, family's not, but no - just no meat/dairy.

5) Practice. Force yourself to accept restrictions on how and what you cook with -- try cooking vegetarian, vegan, every cuisine of the world. Read the food science texts, too, because understanding why things work gives you room to experiment. Experiment. You'll f- it up. That's ok, it's still edible.

Learn to chop efficiently and get a really sharp, appropriate-weight (for you) chef's knife or santoku. You'll love yourself for it for the time it saves doing prep.

The stuff about mise en place? IT's RIGHT. Unless you're in a crazy hurry, prep first. Buy some little prep containers to hold things after you prep them. It'll cut your mistake rate in half. Have everything assembled and then start. (Note: I violate this rule at least once per week, but it's when I know what I'm doing already and am in a rush and don't mind if I skip something minor.)
I was reminded of JBoss Drools Planner when seeing this; turns out they renamed it some time ago (~March 2013!?)
But that's not a buffer overflow. You can't access uninitialized memory (well, without unsafe anyway).
Oh, err, yeah, you're right. I wasn't thinking when I posted. :/
Ask HN: What is it like to graduate from top CS school yet trapped in 9-5?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
What is it like to graduate from top CS schools ( think MIT, Stanford, Harvard, GTech, CMU, Berkley, Caltech or top 25 elite caliber schools etc etc ) and still being trapped in 9 -5 routine ?

Does any of you work in job where you know you are "one of the best" but still feel trapped in Corporate ? because

a. family reasons

b. personal reasons

c. visa ( big one ! )

I have two questions for you :

1. If you have already came out of trap how did you do it ?

2. Does any of feel trapped at current job but dont want to go entrepreneurship way rather find better job but still can't get enough response for any reason ?

Would love to hear your story.

TY and TC Mates.
I don't understand your strong negative reaction to this. The way I read it, it is pretty much a (very) dry humor piece in which anyone who has been working in software development for any amount of time is likely to recognize most of the points listed as being real things that happen (but hopefully not too many at the same job).

I'd get it if the piece were "21 Ways to Minimize Employee Retention, like my former manager John Q. Smith did at CompanyCo", but as just a list of silly shit management does, I don't know why you'd have a "no hire" level problem with it.
I was only being sort of half serious but this thing is amazing, I remember seing amature satelite spotted _photograph_ this thing in orbit on its top secret mission. Glad to know more about it.
Funnily enough the Venezuelans and Argentinians solve the infungibility of their national currencies with US dollar-denominated offshore accounts. The US dollar is also the national currency of two other Latin American countries. Call me an extremist if you like, but I think the US is more likely to regulate Bitcoin into near irrelevance (guess what, AML laws can be applied to exchanges and Silicon Valley companies accepting BTC too!) than they are to make it difficult for Banco Central del Ecuador to replenish its dollar reserves. And Russian oligarchs facing sanctions are more likely to keep their money in Russian banks than in the crypocurrency their own government intends to ban
http://rt.com/business/187440-bitcoin-ban-russia-cryptocurre...

How many people have left the informal economy to transact exclusively in Bitcoins?
Any arguments over
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airfile-cloud-manager-for/id...

+ Any plans for an iOS version?
Ah! Same kind of user (paying customer for years) and same issues (too much space on my Dropbox, not enough on my drive).

My Macbook Air is the only computer I use, both at home and at work. Its SSD is 60 GB. Last month, Dropbox upgraded my account (for free) up to 1 TB.

Selective Sync? It's not optimal. We use several shared folders at work. Some of them become rapidly heavy without me noticing, unless I sense my laptop slowing down and find the culprit folder (with Diskwave) and unselect it from my sync. Plus: any (non-empty) shared folder you join will automatically sync on all your devices. It should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Offloading massive files? I use the (very good) web interface. It's a two-step process though: upload via the browser, and then delete your file. It's usually a one-off event, but is not what Dropbox is usually about: being seamless. Remember Doug's pitch to YC? The level of abstraction where you just hit "Save" and you're done? That's what's still missing with one-way transfers to the cloud.
The goal is to have a video that can be used as evidence in court: what you're seeing actually happened. You can guarantee that the framebuffer recorded by the trusted camera is indeed an accurate recording of the photons that entered the lens.

But you still wouldn't be able to guarantee that that actually happened.. if we have enough compute and good enough algorithms, you could spoof a scene in real time on a small display strapped to the front of the trusted camera. Even though the trusted camera is recording what it sees, what it sees isn't really what is happening.

So we still don't get back to being able to use video as evidence.
Thanks for details.

In chollida's top comment:
bigger players like Citadel pay the retail brokers for their retail flow so they can trade against the "dumb" money before anyone else. I've heard that most Canadian banks sell their flow to a big US fund that has a chance to trade against it before it reaches the market.

This sounds a lot like frontrunning, but with the behaviour split between two parties. The bank sells the information but doesn't make the trade. The HFT makes the trade, but has no fiduciary duty. It would seem that if the HFT is benefitting, and if this any any way causes the banks client to pay more, it the bank is in breach of fiduciary duty.

I'd want to be a little broader about 'frontrunning' so that it includes any case where you gain knowledge about an upcoming trade before it happens, and manage to change the market in your favor so that you profit and the original buyer pays more than they otherwise would.

If this isn't frontrunning, is there a different term for that more general case?
So you believe that if there was no Cancon laws that the Canadian cultural identity wouldn't suffer? American culture has an enormous influence on Canadians as it is, and I fear that getting rid of things like Cancon would start to erode our identity further.

Americans don't need Cancon-type laws because they're the dominate culture. Smaller cultures like Canada need to be protected so that they may be allowed to develop. For example, numerous musical acts in Canada could never have existed if the government didn't fund them and give them a market to grow in.
Isn't that enough? Highly biodiverse environments like tropical rainforests are treasure troves of thousands of fascinating species that we don't know much about yet. No doubt we still have a lot to learn from these environments.
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>Snowden did it, and look what happened. Nothing. Sad truth is, the majority don't care. If they did, then it would be reflected in voting, and things would change. But no. Mean while, Snowden is a wanted man in exile.

Publicly, that is all that happened.

Within the NSA, I imagine there was quite a bit of upheaval. Most importantly, the entire system was redesigned so as to prevent the same thing from happening again.

If you read Julian Assange's early essays State and Terrorist Conspiracies, you'll see the inspiration for Wikileaks and the explanation of the strategic and tactical value of leaking: It breaks the bonds of trust within state organizations, preventing them from starting and executing programs their conspiracies (anything within the NSA is by definition a conspiracy; security clearances are conspiracies writ large).

Imagine the impact if the NSA became mistrustful of itself! Truly it is a vision worth leaking for.
> Finance is almost deliberately obfuscated to keep retail investors out

Is it retail investors they are worried about, or is it expecting that the market won't undo any trickery?
hidpi support doesn't matter so much if you don't have any window chrome or widgets to speak of. minimalism has always served me well in window manager choice.

I hope with systemd it doesn't / didn't become harder to use a "brand X" window manager.
With #22 I really believe that you should be careful. Introverts can easily be confused as anti-social. Now if they're a dick to everyone for no reason that's a different story.
Italy has an average connection speed of 5.2Mbps (47th in the world), the US is ranked 12th at 10.5 Mbps - about 2x Italy.

Just so you know.

http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q114.pdf
Doesn't that negate a lot of the usefulness of the data? If most Hitachis fail in the burn-in but all Seagates pass it then the expected failure of a drive would be wildly different to that suggested by the charts.

Do you have the figures for raw losses including at burn-in?

I mean, sure, you burn-in and do warranty returns so buying Hitachi would still seem better - but if one needs a drive to just work then it's key to know the overall failure rate.
Yeah ExpanDrive is a full network filesystem. Air file is like a drag and drop ftp client.

iOS version is almost done. Tried to get it out for iOS 8 launch, but didn't quite get there.
If nothing, at least IBM's radio astronomy effort should count as 'bluesky' research literally and figuratively speaking,

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37361.wss
I don't see any reason why Java usage would rapidly decline. The only thing that's likely to replace Java is Java 8, since everyone wants lambdas and there's a clear upgrade path. Even that's a big change and migration will take a while on Android.

It's unclear what the big missing feature is after lambdas. I think there will be little incentive for further change, so large companies will keep on running it.
Another trick (that really only pays off if you're using a huge amount) is to put them in a pot with a lid and shake the shit out of it. The husks get ripped right off!

I never actually do it because A) it takes a lot of shaking and B) you have to clean the pot, but I could see it being worthwhile if you were making a bunch of chili or soup or something.

http://www.thekitchn.com/smart-tip-peel-an-entire-head-of-ga...
A burden on which companies? Rogers and Bell? The companies that a making money hand-over-fist? I think that they're doing fine, even if they have to show more content from the country in which they're based.
> How do you know? It's currently small because it's currently impossible.

I think the reason for my belief about iPhones-in-Nigeria being a small market is self-evident. As for other examples: people tend to buy things locally because local businesses are generally good at recognizing local demand, organizing import if necessary, and reaping the benefits of scale (shipping a container of phones). That this arrangement allows for localization of the product which further increases local demand is just icing on the cake.

> I disagree, most non-US residents in the world don't even have bank accounts.

Yes, but they are getting bank or quasibank accounts faster than they are getting Bitcoin wallets.

> Would you really say no to saving $100 when buying a new MacBook?

No - but as a price-sensitive customer I would buy a couple-months-old, gently-used Macbook and save $200 or more. As a price-sensitive business I would buy a Dell.

> A fringe here and a fringe there and pretty soon you have a whole robe.

Sure. But a robe still much smaller than a mainstream provider like Visa.
It says that ACH is free? Why can't you just direct it to your bank account?