skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's not impossible to compete with natural monopolies (after all, there are upstart airlines), the amount of competition in a market with high barriers to entry is much lower than in a market with no barriers to entry. Imagine how many more choices you would have if companies didn't have to lay wires to your door in order to get your business.
Good article but trying to write code like in the examples seems very cumbersome compared to writing it in Swift. The Java language syntax is partly to blame.
I can't taste a damn thing. I think I am an undertaster. So, all the sushis are all good to me.

People whine and bitch about terrible food. I just eat it up like a happy camper.
Ah, another of those "let's throw more money at the problem, and maybe that'll fix it" people.

Firstly: the City has no shortage of money. The City's budget this year is a whopping $8.6 Billion dollars. For a city of 850,000 people, that's quite a lot.

Secondly: the City already spends a lot on homelessness; the direct spending per homeless person exceeds $12,000/year. There are task forces galore on this problem, and nothing makes a dent.

Thirdly: SFPD is already among the highest paid in the country. Rookie officers can make more than $100K/year with overtime. There is no accountability; and they'd rather shoot than treat a mentally ill person properly: http://www.vice.com/read/most-of-the-people-killed-by-the-sa...

And finally: this "throw more money without accountability" approach is a part of the problem. It provides an economic incentive to do a shitty job, because hey, doing a bad job gets more money!!
Doesn't this music cater to the "I'm going to judge music partly based on how the artists decide to distribute it" crowd? That has nothing to do with musicianship or sound.

It might be a psychological hack to cause more people to become superfans by drawing out the obsessive compulsive desire to collect rare artifacts (which happen to be music CDs in this case).
The Pierre Omidyar Insurgency
I've been using my own `rustup` script, but this is much nicer!
The releases have varied over the years from less than a year, to almost two years between "releases". For some historical context:

0.93 was released April 16, 2010.

0.94 was released September 18, 2010 (+5 months).

0.95 was released August 16, 2012 (+23 months, 2500 commits).

0.96 was released April 20, 2013 (+9 months, 1100 commits).

0.97 was released November 1, 2014 (+19 months, 1400 commits).

The core developers (I am one) generally use the latest development version which, except for some changes to the build farm a few months ago, is made available as tested nightly builds from our build farm.

A partial reason for the delayed release was waiting for sufficient changes to "justify" a release (a bit of a soft qualitative delay, especially as we kept working on some new features). Going to a time-based release schedule might be nice, something to think about anyway.
I half expected him to throw in something like "Just a hobby, won't be anything big and professional like Linux."
I wish companies would follow the car company approach and fully separate their consumer-crap and quality corporate brands into to completely-different brand names. I tend to think that their consumer-end completely sabotages their high-end name. Everybody has a foul memory of a mid-range dell/hp/asus device and that feeds consumers into the "screw it, I'll just buy Apple" response. Make a brand that consumers can trust.
Factor has always been developed by a relatively small team, which makes their achievements even more remarkable. The language's creator, Slava Pestov, was a very important driving force in its development until around 2011, when he stepped down from leading the project to focus on a new job at Google.

John Benediktsson has been leading the project since then, and as the post mentions, there are and have been many other contributors, but I think it's fair to say that the project lost a lot of momentum when Slava stepped down.

Joe Groff, who was another important early contributor, and who is now part of the Swift team at Apple, gave a talk that included an interesting critical retrospective on the factor project (or at least one chapter of it). I'm sure there was a better formatted version of it at some point, but this is all I could find:

https://github.com/jckarter/zissou/blob/master/talk-notes.tx...

See "bad parts" for the criticisms.

Incidentally, these notes were the first place that I learned of the Julia language.
> The study you linked to didn't even mention the word "sugar"...

http://www.rti.org/newsroom/news.cfm?obj=5C84B2F7-5056-B100-...

> The study, published online in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, found that a half-cent per ounce increase in sugar-sweetened beverage prices, which adds up to about ten cents on a typical 20-ounce bottle of soda, could reduce total calories from the 23 foods and beverages examined under the study.

> However, researchers found, the reduction in sugary beverages due to a soda tax would likely lead consumers to substitute for those beverage calories by increasing their calorie, salt and fat intake from untaxed foods and beverages.

> “Instituting a sugary beverage tax may be an appealing public policy option to curb obesity, but it’s not as easy to use taxes to curb obesity as it is with smoking,” said Chen Zhen, Ph.D., a research economist at RTI, and the paper’s lead author. “Consumers can simply substitute an untaxed high calorie food for a taxed one. And as we know, reducing calories is just one of many ways to promoting healthy eating and reducing nutrition-related chronic disease.”

http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/28/ajae...

Study name: Predicting the Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Food and Beverage Demand in a Large Demand System

Study publication date: July 29, 2013

> I'm not going to read...

At this point I think it's fair to say that is precisely your problem.
http://www.smitecamp.com/

A really simple Rails CRUD app where 90% of the time was spent inputting data and making it look nice. We average about 500 daily uniques and pay for it purely by advertising revenue (lol - "revenue"). It pays for itself and is a nice resume-booster.
Property tax in King County is no joke; both percentage-wise and absolute costs. Real estate prices are very high here and taxes are not friendly, either (lack of state income tax is shifted elsewhere).

Spending two gazillion dollars on a stupid tunnel that is already going to cost 2x estimates is just another fine feature of this idiotic bureaucracy in my area.
I love workflowy, but it's definitely not a "small" web app.
> Are naming guidelines and predictable, coherent choices just not hip enough in 2014?

It has been rather ad-hoc for some time now, but we have some great things that are currently landing that will clean tons of this stuff up. Mozilla employee Aaron Turon has been doing a ton of great work shepherding our libraries to a far more polished state. 1.0 is gonna be great!

For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2kvssl/collections_ref...
You're thinking of MPTP[1]. It shows up in fiction a decent amount. Not many have been harmed by it; maybe seven cases total.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP#Discovery_in_users_of_illi...
and smoking!
It could also be an exercise in open computing, hailing back to an era before legal attacks and ubiquitous surveillance.

Being released in 1976, the Z80 architecture is well known and unencumbered by patents. It's also simple with fixed instruction timing, meaning it can be well tested, leaving few places for a back door to hide. The original hardware probably predates any surveillance programs (edit: and the silicon is being publicly reverse engineered by enthusiasts). There's a satisfying feeling of control, when in charge of a computer that is simple enough to understand in its entirety.

A Z80 won't be the fastest computer, but it might be useful for some tasks. Updates to the Z80, starting with FPGA cores, will be faster than the original, and might form a basis for enthusiasts to develop further. Let's face it, ARM's roots are in Z80 era processors.
OK. So now the question is "What can we do to help, given that there's already lots of money sloshing around"?

Rather than lecture on what not to do, what do you propose as steps towards resolving these problems?
In a thinly traded market this is basically what happens. Domain names provide a good comparison if you've followed that market at all in the past 15 years. The art market as well. In some cases blatent manipulation. You may be able to expirment yourself, identify a very rare set of collectibles, may be a comic book which rarely shows up for sale on eBay. Buy it every time. Hunt down all available copies of it. Eventually you will own all copies and the price history. Liquidating it all at a profit is a whole other event.

The danger zone for these valuations is what if the company doesn't really have something thats going to last? We assumed that with Facebook, because of all the social networks that came before. So far we are wrong. We assumed this would be the case with Zynga and so far were right. What if some of these software startups end up being more like games and less like things that stick around a long time?

Complicated subject. Lots of exceptions. Certainly the role of the network effect is playing a huge role in these valuations. The scary thing is that in order to justify these valuations founders will have to become more aggressive in pricing and billing practices. We are greatly benefiting from dirt cheap software right now, the assumption being its more important to grow the network and reach that critical mass before the competiton. What happens when all of these SaaS companies decide its time to cash in and raise their prices? (and by raise prices, more like do tricky things to maximize how much you are spending, vetern marketers know all about how to pull that one off.)
no, but I think they had an idea of how it could eventually become profitable.

I don't see the value proposition, now or in the future, for solar panels on the ground, not aligned to the sun, with layers of protection on top of them, where they'll often be in the shade. Like someone else said, it seems like you can validate or invalidate this idea by using mathematics without ever setting up a full-scale multi-million-currency-unit experiment.
It has already stopped in North America; I think last sunday was their last day. Their office in DC already looks vacant.
Because cracking down on drug buyers is low-priority for law enforcement.
> I edit shell scripts, config files, and a host of other non-.rb files all the time in RubyMine, for example. Many of the features, particularly the code navigation, that you demo on your site are available in JetBrains IDEs.

Is it available for shell scripts? When I write shell scripts in Emacs, press TAB and it shows me a list of available shell commands in my editing file. You can also jump around function/variable definitions in your shell scripts.

> (ps: your demos are awesome - great resource.)

Thanks :)

> That's one area where I would recommend trying emacs or vi before an IDE

Well, Emacs is also an IDE of its own language, Emacs Lisp. You have code navigation/completion, functional debugger, profiler and byte compiler all it one. Emacs is not merely an editor, it's an environment for people write programs to run in it. That's why you see IDE features in the demos I posted there. And those demos shows that Emacs also evolves itself over 30 years.

And for dynamic language, Cider for Clojure https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider can compete with any Clojure IDE. In fact, I don't see anything better.
The official docs are much better - they are under tests and you can't make a change to the compiler/libraries without updating them.

http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html
I am curious... how do sites like these make money? Youtube?
I've noticed typos in every one of his ebooks I've read. It is glaring but at the same time I can't put the books down.
When I say "the study you linked to" I am referring to the link in this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547734

Because I presume that's what you were referencing when you said, "Apparently you didn't read the study I linked to."

That study is titled "How Effective are Taxes in Reducing Tobacco Consumption?" and continues not to mention the word sugar. Probably because it is about tobacco.
I concur. I spend a lot of time in Santa Monica and there seems to be a tech presence but (as someone new to tech) it is really hard to get the signal from the noise. I am really new, I am pretty proficient in HTML/CSS/SASS, JS and becoming functional in RoR. I am trying to find people in the tech community but there are a lot of people who have "App Ideas", are wantrapreneurs, or trying to acquire talent but have no idea what talent is (mostly media/entertainment/marketing people).

I just became comfortable talking about code, because I have pretty bad imposter-syndrome but the true coders are few and far between. I have met some cool and capable people at coloft (a coworking space) but the other spacing and events I have gone too are mostly SEO/Marketing and publicists. It is tough finding serious people on meetup.com. Carbonfive meetup is pretty legit, but it is hard to really meet people and just discuss technology. I too wish the community was bigger.
Racer is looking pretty great - would be good to see it working with some IDEs: https://github.com/phildawes/racer
ok ...some I'm not nuts :)

i also use a taxi app / web page here in portland, oregon ( taxi magic ...which looks like its now called "curb" ) ..it just connects me to two local taxi companies. they haven't failed me yet.
It is going to be very interesting to see what happens with these JOBS ACT investment restrictions loosening. The novice investors will not be able to catch this stuff.
Jokes on you, Lennart just announced 8-bit systemd.
You never said this. And even if you did not stop, you answer strongly suggest that you do not use Emacs for serious development anymore, and was out of date with current state of Emacs. If you actually use it, you would know that none of my demos use Clang.
So Indian government way of doing things. Long MS Word document with fluff language and big words, but no sample API.
Are you sure the problem is the uplink MTU of your DSL(?)?

That's the only thing where your router would be responsible for telling your PC about the bottleneck (if it receives a packet from your PC that doesn't fit through the link, it should send an "ICMP6 packet too big" to the PC), and if you get any working TCP6 connections at all, that most likely is working just fine.

If you get stuck connections with some websites, the problem most likely is with that website: Their server sends you a big-ish packet, the router at the provider's end of your DSL drops the packet and sends an "ICMP6 packet too big" back to the server, but some incompetent admin configured their firewall to drop ICMP6, so their server never learns that its packets are too big, and just keeps resending the big packet until it times out.
That has to be some of the best advertising possible for Shapeways.

Not complaining, just noticing.
Thanks for your response! Good luck.
The digital copies definitely should be cheaper when you consider the cost of producing and shipping CDs... which is why I download them from Youtube since apparently artists get paid this way (thank you youtube-dl)
> It is troubling to see that Rust still has a way to go in terms of learning it.

Have no fear! Rust 1.0 is not far off and things will become a lot better then. Just be aware that google is pretty useless with now. You are much better off with the official docs:

- http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html

- http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html

Also, be sure to use `irc.mozilla.org #rust`. We are very friendly and would be glad to help you out if you are stuck.
"The City's budget this year is a whopping $8.6 Billion dollars. For a city of 850,000 people, that's quite a lot."

Seriously!?

/me heads to the googles
Would you be able to put your `rustc -v` at the top of the page?
Well, it will also be free after the service doesn't exist. So I think "free forever" is still technically correct.
Maybe he hasn't optimized yet?
[video] Running a self-organizing and self-managing company (or team)
Thanks for the response. Sometimes it feels like in their quest to find the next unicorn, VCs are taking the short-cut and gluing horns onto horses.
Unfortunately, widespread surveillance has been around for a lot longer than the 70s though it started to become more broad in scope around then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=foundations+data+science#!/story/f...
Wow, aren't you smart.
Kitten is an exciting, actively developed, statically typed concatenative lang: http://kittenlang.org/
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mobile+eating+world#!/story/foreve...
Post-Panamax Bulk Carrier Rides Air Bubble Blanket to Reduce Emissions
Find integers a, b, c such that a^20 + b^20 = c^20. The solution turned out to be 4110^20 + 4693^20 = 4709^20. You can verify this is correct using any old calculator, for example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=4110%5E20+%2B+4693%5E20

https://www.google.com/search?q=4709%5E20
I misread the title as "Designing Steganographic Lampshades". Now that'd be cool.
Can't stand the clicking trackpad. Loved my $300 consumer grade Lenovo with buttons but my new thinkpad is so awful I've pretty much stopped using it. It never gets better, I haven't gotten used to it, and it's been six months.
Good point, the one I saw a week or so ago was definitely flagged. These may just be related to the algorithm change you mentioned, and I just noticed them because the previous one made an impression.
Given that they raised $40mm[1] earlier this year not sure they really fit in this list.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/03/imgur-the-startup-that-doe...
We make no profit whatsoever. Movieo is our side passion project.

We could make money through ads(lame, not gonna happen), donations(we could add a button somewhere, but like anyone's gonna donate), amazon etc. links(we'll add those to movie page).

Anyway I doubt we'll make any money on this. And it doesn't matter since that wasn't the point. We just wanted to make something cool that people would use.

Also, we use free stuff all the time. Programming languages are free. Frameworks are free. Sometimes it's nice to give back to community.

We'll be able to put it in our CV's I guess (nobody cares about those either).
"Writing try-catch block using setjmp and longjmp" Great! Now I can have fun with some bad, old programming ideas!
direct link to the Github project, though the parent post on G+ does have good Q&A :)

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
Are you sure those were the only restrictions on the problem? Wouldn't [1, 1, 2^(1/20)] also be a solution?
Here's an alternative viewpoint.

Power companies have the exact same problem. That being said: how do power companies solve it? They make absolutely sure they have enough extra capacity - because if they don't people complain, loudly.

So: Here is what I read "unlimited data" as: The service provider has enough capacity that a customer has access to at least their full subscribed service normally.

In other words, I am challenging the preconditions of your response: I do not believe that consumer internet should be sold via lines that are contended to the point that "brownouts" (that is having bandwidth of < subscribed rate) are a normal occurrence.
He released what people considered to be the stable branch of the Linux kernel (the -ac branches). Linus was moving quickly and Alan would package up the releases that everyone would use.

I just learned, from reading that wikipedia page, about the falling out he and Linus had.
Yeah, I hope evincarofautumn keeps chugging along with it. Last I saw I liked the ideas/philosophy behind it. Nice to see that the front page has a more interesting code example than last time I checked the website out. Readable use of matrices must be one of the biggest doubts that people in general have when it comes to what concatenative languages can pull of cleanly.
Tarsnap wasn't accepting Canadian customers (despite a presumably sizable potential market)

FWIW, Canadians are about 2% of Tarsnap's customer base by revenue. This is a bit less than proportional by population, but not much; the USA is about 40% of Tarsnap's revenue, but that includes several large startups (like Stripe) and Canada is distinctly lacking in similar.

The extra 2% is probably worth doing the sales tax paperwork for... but only barely.
Had seen an app demo from a Melbourne based company who does most of this and had an Amazon link. Haven't dived deep in as it was a UX testing session.
Should I mention the name/link, not sure of the ethics of it when someone does a Show HN.
Whoops, fixed. I forgot to say that a, b, c must be integers. Thanks!
This particular solution only works on April 1st. However 0^20 + 1^20 = 1^20 works any day of the year.
Funny you would mention that. I actually got to that site from a link on wikipedia.
> Each email account costs us approximately $0.30 per year, and we currently have enough funds to support 318 more days of hosting.

Curious. What does the $0.30 figure take into account? Is it just server and IT or does it also include customer service and other administrative work?
Why would you want to do that in Java?
So if you're an admin you can do admin-y things..
DeitY - Department of Electronics and Information Technology (http://deity.gov.in/)
Working: The “How Does Stephen Colbert Work?” Edition
It's not prevented. You don't even need to go that far -- there are programs that will get the ogg files directly from Spotify. I'm not going to link to them, but I trust you'll find one with sufficient google-fu.
backend: Postgre, Unicorn, Ruby on Rails

frontend: SCSS/CoffeeScript/jQuery (no frontend frameworks were used)
No they are outside. We have only very few places that are open 24/7. So it wouldn't work otherwise.
I once read a theory that depression is an adaptive mechanism linked with neural plasticity and our bodies way to relearn how to behave under drastically changed circumstances.

Think, the most common causes for depression are serious loss. I lost one of my pets and it was crushing, even though it really wasn't a significant life, it was a pet I cared for every single day. That actually lead me to buying a house, I literally couldn't deal with the fact that in an apartment I had to garbage can something I loved and couldn't bury it in a grave.

When my childhood dog passed away, I hadn't seen it in three years as I'd moved continent. It was sad, but it didn't alter my life in any way.

> I am a monkey, living in a capitalist dream... or nightmare.

It sounds like you underwent a major paradigm shift, which could be the cause of your depression.

Personally I've found myself far less hateful. I can empathise with anyone and everything when I want to (which is a super-bonus for the writer in me). Like the shooting in Ottawa, I found myself feeling sorry for the shooter and his family as much or more than the victim. They're going to receive a lot of unfair attention and treatment, only because the guy was a convert to Islam and no one's going to pay attention to the grievous failures of the system that at every stage of failure could have potentially stopped this event ever being a possibility. Maybe instead of kicking a crack addict who didn't know how to get the right help, had been helped we wouldn't have two dead and lives torn apart.

My mind never once thought that way before I used psychedelics. I was intelligent, but my ability to project my understanding onto others was all but non-existent.
No. If you're an admin you can do root-y things, is what this exploit provides.

There's a difference.

> Normally [...] the admin can't gain root access without entering the correct password. However, rootpipe circumvents this