skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the scenario is:

If you don't defect
-He defects first: You may or may not go to prison
-He doesn't defect: You may or may not go to prison

And if you defect first
-He defects second: You don't go to prison
-He doesn't defect: You don't go to prison

Still seems to me that the Nash Equilibrium is to defect. Not going to prison is better than probably not going to prison. According to the article, they still don't talk to each other, so it's not like the outcome would have changed much.
The Model M is absolutely fantastic, if you've never used a proper mechanical keyboard you really should. I'm significantly more productive coding or general writing on my MX-Blues then the chiclet keyboard of my Macbook - it's a huge difference.
SAT Scores and Income Inequality: How Wealthier Kids Rank Higher
You really believe you can fit an eink display, a touch screen digitizer, a microcontroller, bluetooth and nfc on a card that thin and sell it for 155 dollars?
That's some pretty impressive analysis, nice visualizations too. Thank you for doing all that hard work!
Engineering team is only in San Francisco.
Yeah, it seems like the median should be much lower.
People with ADHD report it significantly improved their lives.

The confounding thing with stimulants of all varieties is that even people without any problem tend to report improvement.
From the enterprise perspective this is a very dangerous product as it doesn't seem to have any security mechanisms. How can I prevent others from unauthorized access to my carrot?
We might have different definitions of the word "interpret". According to Google, interpret: 1) explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions). 2) understand (an action, mood, or way of behaving) as having a particular meaning or significance.
Kinesis Advantage (split grid) keyboards. Alternatively, anything with cherry MX blue or MX brown switches, preferably without the 10 key/keypad section. Accountants are probably the only people who should actually have a 10-key built into their keyboards.
Especially when there are relatively few cars. Last December they announced selling their 400th Veyron.
What we did about expired links on HN
It was quite obviously either completely rendered, or rendered on top of an actual video. It felt like a plain commercial, with "cgi" added ontop of it for effect. I mean, no one expects little flying transparent windows to pop out the side of their card, do they? Of course not. So I don't think they were doing it surreptitiously, but merely to make a pretty "commercial" to sell their product.
Written by dang in response to a question asked here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423482
"On the flipside, groups can extend to five hundred, the acquaintance level, and to fifteen hundred, the absolute limit—the people for whom you can put a name to a face."

This is spot on. I was able to reliably recall passengers I'd had driving for lyft up to about 1000 rides, which is 1500 minus the "number of facebook friends I have".
I think it's relevant and interesting.
One reasonable and fair way to interpret this is that Bugattis are among the least desirable vehicles known to the planet, and only of interest to hyper collectors interesting in obtaining "complete sets".
Great idea. Would be useful to have a summary of the business model at the top of each article. For example #68 Overto I've got no idea what they did and I want to know before reading about why they failed.
It almost certainly doesn't get recognised enough the influence this guy has had on the world by creating a technology that has influenced the lives of hundreds of millions.

The tools developers use have a big impact on the resulting software and so it's crazy to think where we'd be if Obj-C hadn't been created and hadn't enabled the iPhone etc.
Roughly 75% of mobile app ads are just promoting other apps
Nature is Speaking: The Ocean
I'm guessing he was just being expressive rather than reporting serious findings. For one, there would be more yachts than jets.
I'm trying to attach a ChildEventListener to the "item" Firebase and I'm getting a "permission denied" error. My guess is that I am doing something wrong, but on the off chance that the adding event listeners is not (yet) enabled, it would be nice to know. Any clues to what I might be doing wrong?

I've never used the Firebase API itself before. It's very clean!

Edit: I reached the same (now obvious) conclusion as mentioned in the reply below. Now my quick hack is working perfectly. Thank you so much for this!
Amazing idea! Is it possible to export this to a PDF or Kindle format?
Ask HN: Does any one knows, how to search Facebook users
Hi does any one know how to search facebook users, without acctualy having individual users sign up for your app. Like searching the facebook graph requires the user obtained access-token. But what if u just want to search public users on facebook by like name.
New relationships are a combination of luck and hard work, regardless of your current state. I think having additional friendships just increases the luck side of the equation slightly.

If you want to develop new friendships I'd say find hobbies where you might find interesting people. Some hobbies tend to have more welcoming communities than others, climbing gyms being one of the better environments I've come across for meeting new people.
Meeting the New Indian Prime Minister – Bill Gates
I posted the guidelines, this submission contravenes them.

Back to Tumblr.

The original post I made is at -4, yet there is not a single comment discussing the article itself. How transparent.
The parents of a one-year-old?
One of the reasons free software is free is so that you can be insulated from the actions of the developer. There used to be a thousand word processors that were all mutually incompatible, and when the company died you were SOL. Lennart could have gotten hit by a bus, and Avahi would have needed someone else to maintain it. If you want to use Avahi outside of systemd now, you'll need someone else to maintain it. Sometimes these things happen and you have to take them in stride.
Well the problem is that policy making is completely institutionalized and only serves the 1%, which is why software like Ethereum is going to be so important in the future. It will democratize policy making and put it in the hands of everyone. As well as means to articulate any other form of meetings of the minds.
Are you able to show the comment counts as well?
Are you oblivious to the amount of open source work that happens on Github?
Thank you for this - I know if didn't get much of a response from others but I really enjoyed the read. Thank you.
The point of stealth isnt that you are never spotted by radar, but to make it more difficult to target and track on meaningful timeframes. Think of a normal aircraft as an orange road cone with reflectors. Shine a bright light on it and it can be seen for miles. A stealth aircraft is a matte black speedbump just barely above the normal road height. Even with a really bright light you'll have to be extremely close to see where exactly it is on the road. Meanwhile from the speedbumps perspective they can see the guy shining the bright light clearly.

When people talk about a small RCS they arent hoping to blend in with other 600mph hummingbirds. They simply want to avoid being spotted until it is too late for the enemy to do anything.
Maybe something to be used with Node-Webkit for those who want a full blown UI powered by web technology.
These companies are selling very different things, it's Apple to oranges comparison.

Also, just because Google does have great products that benefit the consumer for this data collection doesn't mean that selling the user's profiles is worth it. (I personally think it is). I think it should be left to the user to decide, which is why Google has various opt-outs, data deletion, history removal, etc.
It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.
I suppose it would be more secure for people with good memories or who are using some centralized and secure password management tool.

For the majority of users, you've got to figure there's gonna be password re-use.
Well, they're quoting him, and people get impressed by big numbers...

Veyron is a kind of research experiment for VAG. It might be $2M for an example, but they lose something like $1.5M per car.
It's just like the Lexus LFA being a test bed for carbon fiber manufacturing techniques.
Decoupling Rails forms from persistence
Downloadable format seem to be available here: https://www.gitbook.io/book/3things/77-failed-startup-post-m...

(including Kindle & PDF)
Not quite free, but purchased using grants. It works out, that if they don't take the grants, they'll be in danger of losing funding in the future. These grants aren't just, "Here's a tank". It could be, "here's a tank, and medical equipment"

In essence, their hand is forced to take the gift. There's been backlash about this.

http://rt.com/usa/186788-police-weapons-military-grants/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/08/23/obama-orde...
First you get the money, then you get 83 cars, THEN you get the Bugatti.
I agree with your general sentiment but that's not what I got out of this article. The article doesn't say much about dynamic vs static typing, it merely says something about the arguments around dynamic vs static typing, and it's spot on in that respect. I personally believe static typing to be better than dynamic typing, but at the same time most of the arguments for static typing that I read on the internet are terrible or incredibly exaggerated.
Do-Not-Track and the Economics of Third-Party Advertising
> Accountants are probably the only people who should actually have a 10-key built into their keyboards.

Those who still play MUDs with a client might like to have them too, although whether they should be playing MUDs in 2014 is another question.
Finalizers are certainly the exception rather than the rule for objects. Deallocation to me represents some action taken for a particular object and scales with the number of objects deallocated. Semi-space copying collectors do not have this property. I think we only disagree on the semantics of "deallocation" — which is why I specified my argument in terms of how things scale. Similarly compacting collectors like Java's CMS also have this scaling property without semi-spaces.
> "Online ad delivery may take website popularity and keywords in mind, but may have little or no knowledge of audience exclusivity."

Except most online ad delivery doesn't do that anymore, most ads are bought and sold on the exchanges and are targeted based on user cookie data rather than broad demographics or keywords (most notably retargeting which has experienced hypergrowth over the last few years). Using ad delivery examples from 2011 inane as ad delivery and targeting have both changed massively since then.
Slightly off topic, how do I go about doing any meaningful GUI programming in Rust? Do Qt bindings exist for Rust? How easy or difficult is it to create such bindings? It's a great language but if it doesn't have a bridge of some sort to the existing legacy code (C++ included), then it's no good to me.
My entire company is obsessed with keyboards. [I type on my Das cherry browns - tanked but not clicky]

We have, collectively,
- Original 1983 Model M
- Unicomp Model M
- Das ultimate 3 cherry red
- Das pro 4 cherry blue
- Das pro 3 cherry brown

We're thinking of trying out the Keyboard.io butterfly split board....

Mechanical keyboards make a huge difference in typing speed, accuracy, and comfort - its worth the extra cost!

There's few feelings as good (that can be had sitting / standing [yes - I'm at a standing desk. Coder, hipster, ceo, startup data miner] at your computer) as your fingers floating over the keys without bottoming out.
There are some interesting stories in here (check out the condom key-chain one), but it would be nice if they were broken down by industry, or at least didn't have quite so many service-offered-over-web/new-blogging-service stories. Maybe its just that there are so many of those these days? It makes me wonder if anyone reading this has some information breaking down startup failure rates by industry or sector... perhaps with average capitalization and length of operation before failure. It would make sense to me that the typical cat-video-sharing startup might have a much higher failure rate, but lower capital cost and years invested, than say, genomics startups or solar power startups. It might be good to see how gift stores, enterprise software or financial services fit in between those extremes.

Thanks for posting them here. This is great HN content.
I bought a bunch of Phillips' "alien-head" bulbs. One died after two years. Phillips replaced it even without a receipt and without having to return the broken bulb. They also replaced one which worked, but was buzzing. Their newer glass ones look nicer, so I'm very satisfied.

I'm surprised they didn't want them back for failure analysis, but perhaps they have plenty already.
Coding to beat a benchmark problem is different from producing good code in the general case.
Of course it should be slower, it's routing everything through a third-party service.
Top person would need to own ~30k cars, and rest can own just an average of 8 for combined arithmetic mean of 84.

Essentially all this number tells us that 400 people who own Buggati collectively own ~33600 cars total.[0] For example Jay Leno alone owns 886 vehicles according to his wikipedia page. [1]

[0] This has assumption that no one owns, more than 1 Buggati car which is probably incorrect, so I expect actual number of cars owned by Buggati owners to be in the ballpark of 24-26k.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leno

Source: I own an oldish budget friendly Nissan, which clearly makes me an expert.
Awesome. I've been meaning to pick up a Kinesis Advantage—the combination of MX Brown switches plus ergonomic keyboard is great. I had the Freestyle2 which was less than great. I've been typing on Apple chicklet keyboards for years and while they're actually not that bad, they're not ergonomically sound at all.
84 cars? thats dyogenes syndrome luxury version of the pathology.
Agreed, I'm typing this on a Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry MX-Blues. It's a fun keyboard that I actually look forward to using every day just for its own sake.
That was peanut money compared to the value of the invention.
Why yes, delivering water more cheaply to people is the best way.
Democratizing policy making is not a guaranteed panacea. Things like the civil rights movement don't happen as a result of democratic policy; they happen when the majority are forced to live a better way.

The founders recognized pure democracy was not an ideal government, regardless of technological issues with regard to implementing it. A republic allows decisions to be made that the majority will never agree to.
It's OT but i couldn't resist! Could you also please add some Material Design Love ? Thanks for making this awesome app opensource.

Cheers
E-Resident
Some smaller casinos in Nevada offer one or two +ev VP machines on the floor
Even for advanced queries (ok, not super advanced) SQLAlchemy can hold its own, especially if you're willing to dip into the sqlalchemy.core modules.
I buy mine from Unicomp, and have been pretty satisfied. Although admittedly I've only ever bought two, and both of them have survived years of use.
Did you obtain the permission of the authors to republish their content like this?

And if so, did you leave out stories that may be of interest? Then I'd suggest you link those on a separate list.

And if you did not obtain permission then you probably should!
Why Square’s Valuation May Be Too Low
Rust's primary intended audience is C++ programmers, and familiarity is a powerful asset. It's not the sole determinant of syntax concerns, but it's an important consideration.
I love this. Wish I had the ability to build a SNES emulator in JS!
I'd also add Everpix as well: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
>“Is the user experience improvement worth the security risk to my private information?”

Yes. I'd quote Benjamin Franklin, but probably everybody knows the quote I'm referring to.
Hm, that's a good point. A favorite saying around here is, "If you don't have time to do it right, you don't have time to do it over!" There's a big emphasis on doing something right, and if you have to go back and improve it later, that's a failure.
I actually have the list of top users by comment karma: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9M...

I also included the number of thread wins (user made comment with highest number of points in a given submission thread) to see if there was any unusual relationship. There wasn't: correlation is 0.89. I ended up not including it in the article because it's long enough as-is. :P
SpaceX launching Seattle office, recruiting squadrons of Microsoft engineers
RUI, one ring to rule them all
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rui-one-ring-to-rule-them-all/x/2069339#home

RUI(Ring Used Interface), the next generation wearable natural user interface for home automation and augmented/virtual reality.

RUI is the very first wearable device in the world that has seamlessly integrated remote control, gesture control, multi-touch control, augmented and virtual reality control into one. With the multi-touch surface, RUI has the most natural way to detect human finger gestures, hand gestures, and arm gestures, and provides a powerful control system for all the electronics around you and your house.

It truly enable the futuristic scene of Iron Man 2 and Minority Report. Truly enable "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them". Truly enable the "point anywhere, control from everywhere" remote control for all your home appliances.
Steve Ciarcia Buys Back Circuit Cellar Ink Magazine
The article talks about the Bugatti Veyron. According to Wikipedia only 405 were sold [1]. The owner of the largest private car collection (7000 cars) has one of them [2]. The average is a pretty uninformative number, just like the average valuation of a YC startup.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron#ref_1

[2] http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-10-bigge...
Show HN: Workboard – Team goal sharing and achievement
I'm not sure why you are getting down-voted. i was surprised when reading the article how inaccurate it was, as almost all major systems have online auctions based off cookie data.

I spoke to several CEO's and chief data scientists of these companies that run or purchase these ads. they go almost entirely off your browsing history because nothing shows intent to buy more than one's browser history. This is an important thing to think about because they have to buy the ad regardless if you buy or not, but they only collect money if you make a purchase.

I'm just going to make an example so dont get too caught up in details, but say rich people like to use cameras more than poorer people. naive logic would make one think you should know the demographics of the people visiting and then send them a camera ad if they 'have money'. however, just because a rich person 'may' like cameras, it probably doesnt mean they are about to buy one. however, jumping around to certain sites does show a lot about your intent regardless of demographics.
I'd forgotten that the original PC keyboard had CapsLock in the lower-right corner, and how perfect that seemed to me at the time.

The current placement of CapsLock is horrible. I don't know why that ever became a standard.
Very cool in concept. It would be nice if it was really easy to package up and deliver apps done this way (without end users having to jump through weird hoops to allow it to run). They can be really tiny presumably since the web server does so little (i.e. it isn't running node or anything).

One thing that seems missing is the ability to fetch files from other domains (avoiding the cross origin issue). Can it somehow magically do this just using XMLHttpRequest?
The entire page is generated on the client side, so it makes sense that it would feel a bit slower.
Good luck getting Lufthansa to accept a Passbook version of a United premier card.
Most of these, given the order, look to be from our original compilation of startup failure post-mortems. We've compiled 101 to date which you can see here.

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/

Perhaps more useful, we also sifted through and analyzed each post-mortem to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. The biggest reasons founders have cited has not been running out of money or the economy but building a solution looking for a problem.
Twitter has said they don't get many of these requests compared to e.g. Google (not surprising, since most Twitter content is public). The difference between "0" and "0-999" in a six month period is significant. Even "2" or "3" seems very low compared to what the mind assumes "0-999" means (at least 500 and perhaps closer to 1000).
>nor any specific definition widely agreed upon by any meaningful non-partisan class of speakers (e.g. "working programmers" or "published academic type theorists"

How are "academic type theorists" partisan exactly? That sounds a lot like saying "I haven't seen a definition of medicine that is widely agreed upon by both biologists and homeopaths". Of course not, but those are not equal opposite sides. One side is correct, and the other is not.
[Firebase Dev Advocate] Glad you're enjoying Firebase! Attaching a listener to the "items" Firebase is disabled. This is because it would send every item from HN to your computer. You'll need to attach a listener to the individual item instead. The "permission denied" error is coming from the security rules on the HN Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/quickstart.html). If you're trying to find out what the latest updates are, they're kept in the /updates node (https://github.com/HackerNews/API#changed-items-and-profiles).
It's in the demo

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3144fa643139adee4eb7d01e2...
In theory, yes. However the comment counts aren't part of the item's JSON, which only includes top-level comments. So I'd need to retrieve all the top-level comments, and then all of the children comments for every comment. Doable, yes, but I'd need to take a while to think about how to do it efficiently.
Twitpic is actually not dead
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6445597/twitpic-says-it-wo...
I guess another one must be owned by an airline, to get the average number of jets up to 3.
>The + operator in both languages converts types if required.

But that is what weak typing is.

>In my mind an example of a weakly typed language would look like this

Just because it is converting the other way doesn't mean it is a different thing. The fact that it one happens to convert in the direction that pleases you doesn't mean it is "strong" now. If it is converting, then it is weak.
> Most people will pick the powerful bad guy to protect their funds, advise their company and make decisions for them. We want the power, not the morality.

Considering only self-interest, how do you trust the bad guy with your money, when they've lost other people's funds? How do you trust their advice when you know they've deceived other clients? How do you know they will act in your interest, when they've acted against clients in the past?
That was probably the logic the Feds used when designing this game. Actually, kind of surprising that Nestor did not go for it, based on my assessment of his character from this article.