skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think it was apparent that was the plan when they acquired them. It just took them soo long to get it integrated. Using testflight as it was, was good but it was a little painful. This in comparison should be a lot more simplified and smooth.
Could you explain how idealism and volunteering are mutually inclusive?

I would definitely agree that Millenials are optimistic. About themselves personally. Defeatist about everyone else. That was what I was talking about in the above comment and maybe I should have clarified that more carefully.
That's a gross generalization, almost a false dichotomy.

webnrrd2k's experience mirrors my past experiences, in that many homeless simply don't have the mental faculties to take care of themselves. This includes having enough sapience to seek out existing programs for help. Many will self medicate with illegal or stolen drugs, which only exasperates their situation.

It's very easy to project ourselves into these situations and think "What would I do if I were homeless?", and assume that if you were lazy enough and taken care of you would probably stay homeless. The fact that you are even able to jump these mental hurdles and consider these situations is why you are not currently homeless.
Ask HN: Is price of one Dropcam($149) overpriced?
I made some preliminary estimates and found that drop cam bill of materials (BOM) should be less than $50 (camera sensor is about $13). Why is Dropcam $149? Are they marking up the price or am I missing something in BOM? Also, if they are recording for seven days...they must be uploading 1TB/day. Do you think that's really possible?

I believe dropcam price can be much lower but they choose to mark-it up. I would like to know from knowledgeable folks here if I am right.
Is it only for ios8?
The Bitcoin Course from Draper University Is Now Free on Udemy
Who says that you need a big project done to get a new job? It just has to LOOK like you did a lot of work.
That's offensive to me on so many levels. I know some HTML and CSS, but no...I can't code. And I have a business degree. And...oh god...look at that haircut. Run! He might have an MBA (I don't)!

Just because I'm "non-technical" doesn't make Y-Combinator irrelevant or inappropriate to me (or for anyone else).

If you look at the very LinkedIn profile you link to, you'll see that I've been a product manager at Intuit for nearly 8 years prior to founding Tiempo. I've dealt with creating software that entire time. I've learned how to build teams. I've learned how to build businesses.

YC is for people who want to build great companies. I fall firmly into that category.

Plus, my cofounders can code. Check out our app if you still don't think we belong (http://www.tiempoapp.com).
I don't think you can do a "quick pass" over 76,000 fragile, ancient manuscripts, for any sane definition of "quick."
Yes, DE-CIX is the second largest IXP, and it's an obvious SECOND choice.

What's not obvious is why Ireland was Amazon's first choice and not Amsterdam which is the premier location with AMS-IX.

In other words I was referring to Amazon's odd first choice in my first message. Sorry if that was unclear.

Logical locations for first batch of EU DCs: Amsterdam, Frankfurt.

Odd locations: Dublin, Frankfurt.

Even starting with London and LINX would have made far more sense than Dublin. Choosing Dublin as your first DC, is like putting your first US DC in some place like North Dakota.
I'd really like my cowardly downvoter to post a reply; as far as I can tell, my reasoning is sound.
>In addition, the company was hit with a $3,500 fine.

That'll show them.
This looks like a job for Tunnelbear VPN!
https://www.tunnelbear.com/

I am huge fan since I starting using it when traveling Europe. The mobile version works great as well.
Ask HN: Are you really using Docker, or just talking about it?
The recent onslaught of Docker topics (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=docker#!/story/past_week/0/docker) has been fantastic to read, as a Linux user. But:

* I know a large percentage of the HN-reading devs are Mac users

* On Linux, there's almost no performance different of interacting with Docker

* On Mac, even with the newest boot2docker, the performance is a heck of a long way from "I didn't notice I wasn't on the bare metal"

So is all the conversation about Docker just the Linux people, or are there actually HN Mac users that don't mind the awful performance?

I know this question could posted on Superuser/StackOverflow/etc, but I care more about the real coders than people going for points.
how does that work with eu trade free trade directives seems an out and out illegal protectionist measure
s/tweet/tweet using a voice-to-text software so you don't have to stop what you're doing for 5 minutes to type/g
We've been using Slack for quite a while now after trying HipChat, FlowDock, etc, and love it.

The major selling point for us is it's incoming Webhook API.

We use it to communicate deployment status, major customer events, and general fun & hilarity (/giphy).
Interesting. They're definitely ignoring it my case: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525369304456658944
Software developers are not depressed (but everyone else is)
The Appearance of Being Earnest
Ah, I had forgotten about Manufacturing Consent. That is an excellent documentary as well. I have the book but I haven't yet read it.
We made lots of progress without the systems of capitalism and patents. I dare say that the progress before the systems of capitalism & patents was more sustainable (environmentally & humanely).

Much of the paradigm of economic scarcity is a false. Economic scarcity is a tool to enforce social order so those on top can control all of the resources. Capitalism needs scarcity for the profit motive. Farmers can't make as much profit if everybody has enough to eat and can receive food in a decentralized manner.

We can have abundance. Hunger does not need to exist. We already produce enough food. We already produce enough ideas & innovation. Humans naturally create. No coercive incentive is needed.

> clean answers like "abolish patents" are probably a bad idea

It's probably a good idea to decentralize power & control. Power corrupts after all.
You have correctly identified tradeoffs. All of life has them, but having a family brings many of them into focus. Each person has to decide what works for them and their family. I'm glad that people are starting to talk about this plainly and openly.
Edited Title- You're correct, no reason to believe this is happening anywhere else (e.g. FIOS)
SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
Show HN: Room4Debate – Debate topics that matter with people you know
Brazilian 50% tax over foreign datacenters services
Zulu is regular OpenJDK.

OpenJDK is just source code. Binaries (built by various companies and orgs) comes from someplace else, and are usually called something else. E.g. RedHat calls theirs "IcedTea". Azul calls their binary distro of OpenJDK "Zulu".

When you get a binary build of OpenJDK from some place (in tar/zip form, or deb or rpm package form), some of those are well built and tested (e.g. Azul's Zulu and RedHat's IcedTead, and obviously Oracle's own JDKs). But some may not be. they may just be a random build from a random point in the source tree, using unknown tool chains and shipped with little or notesting. E.g. the Java 8 version you'd currently get on the experimental debian:sid repos is base don 8u40: a source tree that is still in flux and not planned to be released as 8u40 until March of 2015.

Many people care about running on a JDK version that was actually tested and verified. Right now Zulu is the only binary build of a Java 8 OpenJDK that meets that need. And on MacOS or Windows, it's the only one for 7 and 6 as well.
as a pageplus user, I don't know if there is a way to op out of this. actually I havenmt found a way to opt out of either.
A couple of years ago, traffic cost was still high compared to the US, but nowadays it's only a bit more.

I have many servers in Germany and I am able to offer 4 TB / month per VM at no extra cost.
I'm in the US and I see this error too
> [...] control which Bitcoin blocks and transactions are relayed to the user and can delay or discard user’s transactions and blocks.

Bear in mind that we can detect when a node does this, by monitoring it, and measuring whether blocks or transactions are withheld, kind of like in this paper: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/techreport.pdf
I was looking for a text or pdf version to read offline and didn't find one, so I compiled a pdf version here - https://cl.ly/040F1D072g08

Also, if the site's dev is reading this, your print stylesheets still show the feedback link overlayed on the copy.
What's the thinking behind the red highlight? Style choice, or does it serve another purpose?
Constructing a Dashboard with AngularJS
I assume there are similar opt-outs for AT&T, Sprint, T-Moblie, etc. Anyone maintain a page of links for how to access the opt-outs?
Tad, I realize my comment probably came off as incredibly judgemental - which was not my intention... I'm sure you are a good guy and love your family as much as anyone else.

I appreciate your positive candor - and, of course, hope all works out well for you.

With that said - My opinion is that it's REALLY important to give this balance conversation a lot of thought (I struggle with it myself bigtime...always wanting to do more, earn more, grow more, etc. "for my family and our future"...but that's my story, not necessarily yours).

Not in the "how do I pull it off effectively" kinda way (re: your article) - but in a "is this even what matters?" kinda way.
if i push on myself, that doesn't generate lift.. can someone let me know if this statement has any scientific possiblity?

"a special magnetic field which literally pushes against itself, generating the lift which levitates our board off the ground."
Let me see, you attack and bash male gamers in countless Tumblr and other social media posts. You support other people who attack and bash male gamers all over the Internet.

Then one of the people doing the attacking and bashing of male games does a video game, and sleeps with reviewers to get good reviews for a SimVille ripoff called Depression Quest.

Some anonymous trolls found all of this out, and send threats via social networks using dummy accounts.

So of course you blame all of the male gamers for this?

I'm sorry I fail to see how attacking and bashing male gamers is going to make equality happen.

You should really support gamers and say the other person on the other side of the video game screen it doesn't matter what gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc they are we are all human beings worthy of compassion and empathy to try and get equality.

If you want a certain demographic group of people to change, you clearly don't bash and attack them to the point that they have a few of them fight back with threats.

I fail to see why this is on Hacker News. it is really political in nature. Feminists bashing and attacking male gamers and then being afraid of them due to the actions of a few who negatively reacted.

It is like going to Iran and denouncing Islam by burning a Koran in public, what do you expect would happen?
Tunnelbear does work great, except for the fact that it drains the battery in my phone like crazy.
I use SSHTunnel to route all traffic through my private server.
I used to say the same thing. I had the opportunity to work with some decently talented frontend developers and a tech lead with a strong preference for engineering over creative development.

I spend a lot more time improving my javascript skills now.
And hitting back on the browser does nothing.
Not even a million treats will get this puppy to go downstairs
Lots of parents do challenging and impactful work. They too will sometimes have to put work before family. They too will often go home to obnoxious kids after dealing with fires at work all day. They too will compartmentalize because that's what adults do.

If you're a startup CEO who raises a family, that doesn't make you unusual. But writing a blog post about it and then submitting it to HN does make you seem a bit pretentious.

EDIT: Removed language that unintentionally sounded dismissive towards Tiempo's product.
Is Venture Capital a Giffen Good?
My university has a very similar digitized collection, albeit smaller. One common denominator with these types of online collections is software that leaves much to be desired. Accessing the collection and searching through it is usually very painful. I realize they are on a tight budget, but it is disappointing nonetheless. Maybe it would be a good open source project.
I completely misjudged what your main point was going to be when I read your first paragraph. I read everything you wrote and this is one of the best posts I've seen anywhere. Very well written and thought out. Thank you for giving me a perspective I didn't know about.

My first reaction to such laws was that it was mainly upper middle class and above folks who would be the only ones supporting such bans. A NIMBY mentality gone too far. Clearly my first reaction was wrong. There are other reasons, as you elucidated, to be in favor of this ban.
There is no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax in the US, although churches are exempt from Federal income tax. When I lived in Switzerland, I was stunned that church taxes still exist there.
Yeah, I've got nothing. Maybe it's only specific IP blocks that have the 'feature' enabled yet?

http://imgur.com/mLxVTrL
Whatever you do, do not uninstall TunnelBear!

http://i.imgur.com/1YQfGRN.png
What is it? I don't have an Apple ID and have no interest in creating one.
Load data while still loading other scripts with Pegasus
JS has some kludges. They aren't disappearing in ES6. They might be marked for deprecation in ES7. They might be gone if Javascript makes it to JS8.

Most of the really truly shitty parts of js development are caused by the lack of cross-browser standards.
Tester? Seeking tester? I'm running a list to connect developers to people who want to test their apps.

All feedback appreciated.

http://sealedabstract.com/betalist
Wow.. That's pretty terrible. It seems countries import blood, I wonder what the price they pay for it is, or if there's such thing as "blood farms"..

According to this article, Australia spent $31M in a single year on blood/plasma 'products':
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/australias-blood-b...

EDIT: It appears Pfizer and Baxter are the major suppliers to Australia.
You're right. I've followed instructables on how to do it (e.g. some cds and some foil). However, I am mesmerized by the beauty of some old school variable capacitors. Wish they still made 'em.
Your solution is no solution, a continuity of the status quo. What we're doing ain't workin'.

There is no "solution to homelessness" while there are people made homeless. A society where many people are made homeless is going to be unpleasant. In ways, it should be unpleasant, the unsolved problem, that being the existence of homeless people, should be visible.

The solutions are the existence of jobs, affordable apartments (and mental-health care for those with serious mental disabilities, etc).

Talking about "a solution to homelessness" is essentially saying we need to make intolerable situation orderly - to turn some section of each city into something like an open-air prison. In that sense, "solving homelessness" while there are still homeless is undesirable.
The github notifications for slack are super verbose, compared to hipchat -- even with their compact mode option. Hard to know what was going on in the channel.

We tried it out and unanimously decided to not migrate everyone from hipchat.
I actually like 2. I wish more things used 2.

My keys are plenty strong, but when I mistype a strong key (which is plausible seeing as I can't see what I'm typing) then I'm fine with sacrificing some strength to just accept it. My key is already well beyond practical attack anyway.

That said, if you WERE to use something like 2, you'd have to be much more diligent about enforcing good passwords, also you'd have to come up with some kinda scheme that could work with "close enough" and not reveal information about the password.
Only slightly off topic, but anyone who hasn't should read Philip K Dick. Reading an anthology of his short stories is like reading the plot summary of almost every major Sci-Fi film in the last 30 years.
Is there any way to remove the captions of photos from showing up?

They appear in the middle of an article, and have nothing to do with the main story line.
I quite enjoy proxy.sh
That's true, EU Data protection law protects Data Centers IN the European Union. Germany signed this as well.
http://www.kimeralive.com/privacy
Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue
I think it could just be that Oxford specifically has not had a large CS department. The departments at Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Imperial are well known and quite large. Involvement in AI goes back quite a ways too; especially Edinburgh has been prominent in the field (especially in robotics) since the '60s. Essex is also known in robotics.
SOSVentures Takes on Y Combinator with a Pure Biotech Accelerator
"The item you tried to buy is no longer available."

They pulled it.
"So why bother?"

I'll give you an example. 15 years ago most people thought being Vegan was borderline insane outside a couple cities and college towns. There were little if any Vegan options at restaurants and if you asked they often gave a puzzled look. It looked hopeless. I can't tell you how many times I've been yelled at and made fun of. But we didn't do it because we knew it would be successful. We didn't do it to be cool. We did it because we felt it was the right thing to do. We had feelings, and we followed those feelings. We believed in something bigger than ourselves. Fast forward to today. Things look a lot different. Just think about the amount of carbon emissions that did not happen in the last 15 years for that crazy ideal? No one makes the world a better place because they know it will be successful. Or even if any of it is going to work. They do it because the care.

Pragmatism can be a dangerous thing when used as an excuse not to try.
Bitmask: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.leap.bitmas...

Zenmate: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zenmate.an...
Basically, it is intended for business to add themselves on Apple Maps aka crowd sourcing. There is also an indoor positioning for businesses that qualify certain criteria. SearchEngineLand has some screenshots of the process to add your business on Apple Maps.

http://searchengineland.com/apple-launches-maps-connect-self...
It seems a lot of the IF games are based around old engines, or at least old engine concepts. Don't get me wrong, I loved the old games back in the day, the sense of exploring a large and unknown world was awesome.

I wonder what would be possible these days with a cutting-edge natural language processing, and a game engine designed to run dozens of bots. Each bot would have its own attitude, goals, behaviors, quirks, etc.

Aside from the occasional IF game, the height of NPC interaction these days seems to be just picking a sentence off of a menu. Maybe you can blame the rise of the consoles for that, but even so I think we could do better.
They need a much better landing page.
1. Give some more information about what the site is about

2. If you are going to put a gorgeous picture as a background move the signup form to the side. Keeping it in the center takes away from the image's beauty.

3. Make page scrollable. On chrome I can't scroll down to see obstructed text below the fold.

4. If space between textboxes had been reduced on signup we wouldn't need to scroll to see the rest of it.

5. Make sure landing page is tested in all browsers before posting on HN.
In my experience Germany is far cheaper in traffic costs than the US.
I totally agree. Ironically I can't recommend LastPass to the people who most need it because they aren't tech-savvy enough to figure out and tolerate the UX issues.

I wish it were easier so I could get my parents using it.
I had thought this was already discussed given that I usually see stories on Hacker News before other sites (and thus that I'd missed the discussion of this topic).

Assuming this is a new posting; while I agree this is good from the perspectives of what IBM appears to consider it's core business and also from the viewpoint of having stronger competition among third party foundries I am curious about an aspect that was mentioned but not well discussed on those other stories.

"With IBM essentially bowing out of everything other than R&D and GlobalFoundries licensing Samsung’s 14nm process rather than licensing IBM’s or developing their own, Samsung is now the strongest member in a party of 2. How GlobalFoundries and Samsung continue this relationship – and more importantly GlobalFoundries’ role as a developer versus a customer/licensee – remains to be seen." (Ref: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8631/globalfoundries-acquires-... )

How does this reflect competition between these third party foundries used by Intel's competition on many fronts (AMD and various embedded system/mobile device chipset manufacturers) with respect to narrowing or eliminating the process node advantage?
The foreword to _Amusing Ourselves to Death_ (which I haven't read otherwise) does a fair job of comparing _Brave New World_ and _Nineteen Eighty-Four_:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny ‘failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
> you have to realize these are people just like you that ended up with a serious short stick in life

My experience volunteering with them says that it's a mix of mental illness/behavioral issues and bad luck. While the precise mix varies by individual, so there may be 100% bad luck cases, I've found some mix to be more common.

I do agree that they need support. The local shelter was just telling us one of their success stories, where a formerly-homeless person had become a manager at a local Amazon warehouse with support from them.
But since god is the one who created then god isn't perfect after all.
Legit question, no snark intended:

How well does node scale? It's running in one thread, and from my use (a very small amount of experimentation and reading), it doesn't look like it could handle more than a few hundred concurrent users without stringing together some more robust queuing outside of the node code.
Does anyone have experience yet with the timeline for the beta app review required for external testers? This is significant because I feel like I would just have internal users bring their device over, or install it themselves from Xcode. Its the external users that seem the most important with this.

My regular submissions have ranged from 7 days to 20 hours, but I would hope they will keep the beta review to the shorter end of that.
When I try to 'withdraw consent' for 'Verizon Selects Participation Status', I get this prompt http://imgur.com/sbVpMhR