skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are non-governmental regulatory organizations whose only real enforcement power is that people care what they think. The BBB is one of them.

That said, the BBB itself is not an entirely above-board operation, to say the least. I'm no fan of Uber's business tactics - which I consider deeply unethical - but having the BBB complain about its business integrity is the pot calling the kettle black.
Ask HN: Any spare Salesforce hackathon tickets?
A couple of friends and I want to build something together but it seems that all the tickets are sold out. Anyone not going and have three spare tickets? We'd be extremely grateful! (email is in my profile)
Uber Receives an 'F' from the Better Business Bureau
Tractatus Tree
64-bit Android L developer preview
Hacking Demo Day: Deconstructing the Perfect Demo Day Pitch
From the homepage "This project is a personnal experimentation of how we can use a data-driven tools like D3.js to discover a Philosophy piece like the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung in its original name).

This book published in 1921 was written by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Its numbered propositions follows a tree structure, (1, then 1.1, 1.2 etc.) which made me think we could easily visualize it. Please note that this project is not an attempt to explain nor justify the book, I prefer to let you do that."
The BBB sells higher ratings to those businesses that will pay, and will often ignore legitimate complaints against those businesses.
Machineers teaches you programming with or without your consent
Nice!

What caused the 10-yearly spikes for 1900, 1910 & 1920 - was it some kind of construction census?
assuming 3.2 has an exact representation in binary?

It does not have an exact representation in binary.
Ask HN: Startup vs. Franchising?
Hi ,

I am 27 yrs old working in IT. I came to US when I was 10 yrs old. I work as software engineer for a medium size company.

I am wondering if anyone from HN have had experience with franchising ? I know there are high upfront costs ( $200k to $500k) but still , does it make viable business opportunity ?
I think especially food franchising business are profitable in general compare to others.
What HN think of it in terms of

1. Opportunity cost

2. Time- value cost

3. Competition cost ( cost to beat competition )

I have $40k so I am thinking about investment opportunity by taking loan.

I also came to know that there are already people lined up for franchising. Though, I am from US I have no idea about politics behind franchising and especially location preferences.

If you have had ( or still gaining ) experience by franchising what are chances to remain profitable and solvent and profitable in your opinion ?

What other folks of HN think about it ?
There should be a policy not to post stories here about laptops having less than 16GB RAM. :)
This guy's been around for years with his device and for some reason things are moving very slowly. This is probably the 3-4th round of testing in the last 4 to 5 years.
Detecting the disk inode monster
Silicon Valley’s Empathy Problem
#RichKidsofTehran on Instagram shows Iran's elite living high life
Yes. Uber flunks the BBB test by not paying up. Why is this news?
I didn't know that app analytics was such a big business. Is this because you recently acquired distimo and you are cutting the slack?

Sounds interesting, how much do you think you would be willing to sell it for? I am not sure I am really interested in buying it really. How does it compare to some of the competitors: http://www.flurry.com/ or http://www.localytics.com/ or http://www.mixpanel.com/ or http://www.upsight.com/?

"It's hard to sell it, but I think it will allow me to focus on other areas a bit better."

What do you plan to work on next?
> If the key was only ever going to be kept in a secure vault buried under Fort Knox forever, it would probably not constitute a significant vulnerability

I think that's the main point when people disagree about this kind of thing. One side says "but theoretically our fort knox vault solution would be secure" and the other side says "What I just heard you say is 'If I sprinkle magic pixie dust around this intentional vulnerability and ignore it then it would be secure' and that's ridiculous, a group of humans would not almost certainly not act securely around that vault because they never have".

Of course the "other side" is right, but people don't think that way naturally so this kind of proposal/argument keeps coming up.
>I wonder what all those reflection libraries are about....

Libraries exist for everything under the sun for C++. Doesn't mean anything. C++ always prefers static dispatch vs dynamic. It's in every single C++ book/article ever written. C++'s RTTI system is extremely gimped and pahetic, exactly for that reason - it's a "limited, rarely-to-be-used" functionality by design.

In Ojb-C, it's opposite. Asking an object what methods it has at runtime, is a very common pattern. Something at which the seasoned C++ programmer screeches in horror and hides in the corner.

>I hope you never get to write Mac OS X drivers then...

Completely irrelevant. Of course drivers are written in C/C++ (a limited sub-set of C++). How many people write OS X drivers? Are you even listening to yourself? 99% of people do not write drivers, they write user-land applications, and the lingua franca for OSX/IOS is Obj-C.

You fail to prove any points. Try harder next time.
Google is an "X" company, solve for "X"

Ok lets see it's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Therefore Google is an information organization company. More than search, it's also monetizing the effort of getting all the information into proprietary databases and keeping them up to date.

Google Maps, Google Places, Google Search, etc.

Then they monetize it by advertising, as well as running their own commerce - app stores and the like. And they also give businesses Analytics, Email, Docs and other Apps that they have now unified with Google+ as well as Google Checkout for payment processing.

Now Apple, Google and Amazon compete in phone OSes, payment processing platforms etc.
I think it's a usability problem with the app - you can't easily see how much the trip is going to cost. It's actually not even completely apparent that you've booked a trip. The app should be redesigned to always show the quote before booking and a very clear button that says "Book Now". The pickup location UI could also use some work - the GPS isn't always accurate and noticing that it's wrong and changing it isn't very intuitive. But apart from the problematic app, I've found the service itself quite impressive - somehow they always manage to find me and it always ends up costing less than I think it will.
Extensions in HTTP mean jack-all. Content-types/MIME types are what actually tell you how the file should be treated.

Imgur is serving text/html in their ".gifv" files. If you tried to load a gifv in a <video> tag it would crash and burn on you because...it's serving you an HTML document with a text/html MIME type.

Imgur will happily serve you GIFs and JPEGs with incorrect extensions - for example, if you get this image with a .gif extension, it's going to serve you a JPEG, and it's going to be decoded by libjpeg. The extension doesn't provide any useful information to the client about what to do with the data.

$ wget http://i.imgur.com/hDYj7E7.gif
--2014-10-09 14:00:53-- http://i.imgur.com/hDYj7E7.gif
Resolving i.imgur.com (i.imgur.com)... 23.235.47.193
Connecting to i.imgur.com (i.imgur.com)|23.235.47.193|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 158352 (155K) [image/jpeg]
Saving to: ‘hDYj7E7.gif’

2014-10-09 14:00:53 (865 KB/s) - ‘hDYj7E7.gif’ saved [158352/158352]

$ identify hDYj7E7.gif
hDYj7E7.gif JPEG 577x1024 577x1024+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 158KB 0.000u 0:00.030
This is what I mean by ambition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition
What kind of cases do you still need to write explicit lifetimes?
No way, my old N4 had a barometer? Wish something like that would be more exploited/publicized, I'm a data nerd and would have loved to play with apps which use it. Good to know, the N6 should have one too in this case.
and only investor in Basecamp (37signals)
I would totally buy that book for my coffee table
Dra. Lisa Su Nueva Presidente Y CEO de AMD
That's a great point. Pre-order merchants regularly run over their initial production timelines. A pre-order platform like Celery https://www.trycelery.com/ solves this problem by allowing the merchant to accept a credit card without charging it until the product is ready to ship
That approach is called literate programming.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
I might be too young. But I like writing webpages on my own isolated vps :)
I can move around my own domain and even install packages! While still having the shell experience. And these days you can go as low as $10 per YEAR on a vps.
This is missing some essential information on their homepage: Are they a registrar themselves or do they rely on a third party service? What happens after one year? Do I have to transfer the domain somewhere else?
> Extensions mean jack-all

…to browsers.
Back to the original point, though, a 30-40% fatality rate is still not at the point that I would consider health care alone an effective response.
It requires more than 1100 bits to do correct argument reduction for double, actually.

You're absolutely correct that a software implementation may be several times faster than the legacy x87 fsin instruction, while delivering well-rounded results. There shouldn't be a need to write your own implementation, however. High-quality library implementations are pretty widely available these days.
The key to distributed database performance: scalability
The scientists who get credit for peer review
You're right. I edited my post to clarify with "in HTTP". Though I'll argue that it's not really relevant in this context of this particular subject, since ".gifv" only makes sense in a browser/HTTP context. Everywhere else it's just HTML.
Cuckoo Hashing for Undergraduates (2006) [pdf]
If the key to this company is the material, and the material was developed by (and probably licensed out by) a university, then what gives this company a sustainable competitive advantage?
It has nothing to do with analytics, I just mentioned I have all the revenue, downloads, etc. in App Annie. I have a few ideas that will hopefully make more than this. Drop me your email if you'd like more details.
You parent's argument is poorly stated if the desire is to appeal to conservatives. Indeed, many people will object for the reason you stated.

There are a few premises that must be established to make a case for BI.

1. We are approaching a post-scarcity economy.

2. In a post-scarcity economy, many people will lose the ability to support themselves\their families, as whole industries are automated.

3. In the case of massive unemployment, consumption will drop dramatically.

4. Drastic drops in consumption will devastate the economy. This will be bad for everyone. Less wealth, less progress, less investment.

5. Therefore, to maintain economic growth/stability in a post-scarcity economy, we should provide a basic income.

That's the best argument I can formulate. It really has nothing to do with having fun and not being forced to do menial work. Those are fringe benefits.
Anybody using Android L? I've been using it on my primary phone for a month and I'm not impressed. It freezes too often needing a reboot, Hangouts Dialer often cannot complete or receive calls, the screen lock is buggy requiring a workaround how to get in without having to reboot, the bright theme is a step back when a dark one is not available. Many basic apps don't work or misbehave (Swarm, Square Cash, etc.). Worst of all, there are no frequent updates (if any), no autoupdate either.
Quartz coins “Venmo Line”: the under-30 crowd lives in a different world
I'm the lead dev on Guardian Project's work on libsqlfs. Our interest in libsqlfs is as a backend to IOCipher, which is an Android framework that makes it dead simple for app developers to store files in an encrypted virtual disk.

Using libsqlfs gives us a C API to a file system (it is a FUSE API), that means IOCipher can provide a per-app encrypted filesystem on unmodified Android systems without needing root access or really any special permission at all.

https://guardianproject.info/code/iocipher/

libsqlfs could also be used as a cross-platform disk container, like OSX's .dmg files or TrueCrypt files. As long as SQLCipher is installed, then the libsqlfs container can be entirely encrypted, including metadata.
It's just "Power over Ethernet"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3_gnnz6Bkw
While I agree (I disable autoupdating on all the applications that I can, and find Firefox's insistent need to update for security patches annoying), so many people use auto-update for their local apps, and mobile devices, and external services like GMail, that you and I might be a minority.
The article points out some other big uses of original red LEDs: fibre optic networks, and CD/DVDs.
Hawk knocks drone out of the sky
This comes off as very condescending.
Our Answer to “How Much Does a Web Application Cost to Build?”
Show HN: Shorty – iOS Chat app that forces people to write meaningful messages
Except Tinder is predicated on both parties having a decision whether to connect to each other or not. Restaurants will basically take anyone.
Best documented little project ever.
I think it's the same thing that sometimes redirects hotlinked .jpgs to a gallery representation of themselves: for anything that looks like a web browser, it checks whether the referrer is the embedding page, and if not, redirects to the embedding page.
When I have to accept surge pricing, I have to jump through hoops. Was this not always the case? At least currently, people shouldn't accidentally accept unless they click Accept compulsively.
Time to buy BestBuy stock. They just became an acquisition target for Amazon.
You'll have to talk to PalmSource about that, Guardian Project inherited the LGPL license from them.
Cost to become Wal-Mart: $62,655,000,000

Based on store counts times conservative numbers on the total cost of a new Wal-Mart. They might try building a bunch of small stores, but they're definitely not going to try to become Wal-Mart.
Feedback:

When sent a text message about the app, some Android phones (inc. S4) resolve the URL as 'http://www.eatingaround.com/download.' - with a period at the end. I 404d when I clicked it. Worth addressing before you release Android.
And much less interesting than Minecraft.
libsqlfs is a filesystem, so it stores blocks of data that are indexed. A file is then stored as references to the relevant blocks. SQL databases work fine with 8k blobs, like we use for libsqlfs in IOCipher.
Wow very cool--also check out Werner Herzog's documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams for a fantastic look at the Chauvet cave in France. It's a typical Herzog documentary that dives into the cave and the emotions it creates with people rather than going over the rote history or facts about it. It's also shot in 3D and if you have the hardware to see it in that format it is absolutely worth it! The cave drawings twist and bend around the walls so seeing it in 3D is a very rare instance where the experience is vastly improved by the technology. You can still see the normal version on Netflix streaming in the US though: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70145740?trkid=13752289
Personal experience. And ask anyone else who has experience with the BBB (other commenters on here). Just observe their "accredited business" program.

Haha, I just found this: Terror Group Gets 'A' Rating From Better Business Bureau?

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...
It's a little bit of hyperbole, sure, but I don't recall ever seeing a press article that used a patent disclosure to offer any real insight about unreleased products. I'd be happy to see a counterexample.
> Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them.

I have to say that this time around the ramp is pointed way higher. Like ~mathowie is doing wheelies right out the gate, content-wise. So I'll be heading back there and I just created a category for Tilde Club stuff in my bookmark database.
We run twemproxy over about a terabyte of data in Redis, and haven't had any problems...
For certain definitions of nonsense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QoGKj6YQM

:)
Brings back memories of learning HTML and creating my first page, a shout-out to friends on a grey background.

And webrings. Forgot about those ... I believed they died out by 2000 or so, maybe when people realized they were detrimental to PageRank and SEO.
New York City Wants US Immigration Officials to Get Lost
Are you referring to the effect of the 'Voice Feedback' always/handsfree setting? I believe you can get the "more verbose" mode by just setting it to 'always' http://drop.petec.io/151n0
Yup, exactly, it is used in IOCipher to provide encrypted virtual disks that don't need root access or special permissions to mount.
Does anyone under the age of 65 actually place any faith in the BBB?
As a former student of Booth, he has this covered.
A few years old but here is one: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_customer/2010/12/...
Hey, I'm the developer of Clementine. This is just the initial release, we'll be adding features like account login and submission at a later date. We have a free version (with ads) available here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elephants....
> “It’s not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise,”

OK, I don't have any general solutions for the problems of women in tech, but even I know that the statement above is inane bullshit. Ms. Nadella may have many fine qualifications that make her suitable to run a major corporation, but that statement ...

Actually, thats probably part of what makes her qualified to run a major corporation: the ability to believe that the above idea will work and the gall to try and sell it.

The System is built to pay you the least amount that you will accept. The System might grant you a raise once in a while as a reward, but the System is not going to pay you what you're worth if it can prevent that from happening.
Expensive Typo in Legislative History
At least specify the app category.
Third-Party Instant Messaging Client for Google Hangouts
How Purdue Researchers Are Helping App Developers with Battery Draining Apps
How Big Data Will Feed Future Population
Writing API reference documentation and developer guides
Is It Real? Artwork, Authenticity and Cognitive Science
Why not? Because is not perfect? Such is life. And still, I am sure those people that have received proper care and survived are grateful enough.

Or are you arguing that additional measures are needed both at the individual and at the social/political level to prevent the worst outcomes. There I agree 100%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau#Criticis... (there's more citations there)
Yeesh. Fixed! Thanks for the feedback.
Scientists traditionally thought that humans began creating art once they reached Europe from Africa, and that human art forms dissipated to the far reaches of the globe from there. “It’s a pretty Euro-centric view of the world,” says Aubert. “But now we can move away from that.”

The idea of modern human behavior and modern culture/art (or even language, as they're all tightly associated with each other) being connected with humankind migrating to Europe has been shaky for quite some time already. Many of the researchers have long considered Howiesons Poort (65kya) or Stillbay (70kya) as equally representative of an emergence of modernity that would significantly predate humankind's entry into Europe.
Between gdrive and dropbox I don't understand how Box continues to exist.
Hmm, first time I tried it, OneTab closed all my tabs up into a list, just like advertised. But when I clicked "restore all", it only restored one of my tabs and lost the rest.
There are a couple of things Apple seems bizarrely bad at and a lot of them seem to involve networked file manipulation (Migration Assistant, Time Machine etc.) There seem to be network operations that have latencies orders of magnitude slower than they should be which brings down the performance of the entire application.
So follow a couple simple recipes at first. You'll learn from experience about what fits your tastes, what goes into a dish, how heat interacts with food in different ways, what you prefer, which techniques work for YOU, what fit into your budget, preferences, time, diet, etc. is something you just learn from experience and it is unique to the individual.

Then after you mastered some recipes you;ll have some standby recipes (either written down or in your head) that are yours that you are comfortable with. But you'll probably keep experimenting too.

You will mess up. Probably a lot. You'll make some crappy food once in a while. You'll learn the hard way, but instead of feeling like a failure, look at what you learned from it. Try again.

I also suggest trying some stirfry first. It is extremely simple to stirfry, pretty healthy, and there is a real lot you can do with it - different flavors of sauce, different veggies, meats, etc., and you can buy the veggies frozen so there is very little prep.

I find that a lot of children don't get that kitchen experience while they are young so they grow up clueless in the kitchen about how to even start to prepare meals. I really can't understand this too much. I was in the kitchen since I was old enough to stand upright and hold a spoon helping out, standing on a chair to reach the counter or stove. As a result I'm extremely comfortable in the kitchen. I'm far from a "good cook," I'm average, but having that comfort I think is key.
Only if they're all visible at once. Unlike GIF, which has to do CPU-bound stuff to compute its next frames even if it isn't visible in order to stay synchronized, videos that are scrolled off the screen take effectively zero resources. (Well, they'd take resources to play audio if there were an audio track, but not when they're muted like GIFVs are.) You could have e.g. a Tumblr dashboard loaded with hundreds of screens worth of an infinite scroll of GIFV-containing posts, and your computer would only be worried about the one on the screen at the moment.
Well until you find a way to give samples for taste and smell to your mobile users (good luck with that), I think that the visual side is what's left of it.
Even tho I agree with lots of other folks here about the fact that choosing a restaurant might require more data than just a couple nice pictures... as far as food itself go, a picture is what describes it best (worth a thousand words they say).
Regarding the plugging mains voltage into Ethernet /specifically/....

A good ethernet-enabled device should have isolation transformers (usually referred to as "magnetics"), either in the jack or as a separate component on the board.

Long story short, it's very possible that if anything, you'd only destroy the magnetics, which while labor intensive to replace (lots of pins on a large component body!), aren't particularly expensive.
Of course. Love the concept - here's hoping for Android soon!
Love it. My first thought was "this is old, and I've seen it 10 years ago". But they have added a few things. Love the devices for "assuring" the telco that they do indeed have a problem :-)
All pages at the same exact time?
It is in the 'Business' category.
No, that would be CSON.
https://github.com/bevry/cson