skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point it will happen. Probably as FOSS because, as you say, the economic incentives are low. While the economic incentives are low mainstream implementation will probably also be low.

Also, the security consequences of such scenario could be an issue. Organisations with huge resources have a hard time with security, how's the average person going to compete with an organised adversary.

We move now into the realm of speculation.
I don't think it's hyperbolic; many of the dispensaries (the larger ones, yes) in Seattle, not even SF/BC, have well near 100+ strains.

While I certainly can echo your concern about "success means your customers leave you" there's certainly a draw to variety, and similar services (get random fruit delivered to your door each month) have managed to find a market segment, so I look forward to seeing if this pans out.
Determining an Algorithm's Complexity: The Basics
I missed this, thank you. Though I read through the OP I still assumed it was through the postal service.
It may be worth considering putting the Goldstar menu on your site so users know what options are available to them. Could even include Leafly reviews so people can have a bit more info on what they're getting each month.
Great project! It's interesting they use vibration motors for motion. And vibration motors are not touching the floor directly. How do they transfer the movement to the floor? Also, is it possible to go backwards?
Well that's certainly a concern. We hope that everything about the experience will make people want to stick with it. Even if you are educated about marijuana strains its a better customer experience than going to a dispensary or using traditional delivery.
You need a way to turn the Bitcoins into spending money.
Most Heavy Drinkers Are Not Alcoholics
There's also Adanaxis (http://www.mushware.com/) which is a 5-d space shooter (4 spatial, one time dimension)
"Manually enter them into a computer? No thanks. Take out your phone to take a picture of it? Well we're back at taking a phone out of our pocket again."

The cardboard lets you defer "taking a phone out of your pocket" until you're no longer engaged in the face-to-face interaction.
Random data point: I have a hierarchal authentication system under MySQL (no recursive query support). My schema does the most obvious thing of having user.parent as a user_id (adjacency model).

My most common query is to find whether user X is a child of user Y.

My solution was to use application-level triggers to maintain a separate lookup table, so i can simply do `user_id IN (SELECT child_id FROM lookup_table WHERE parent_id = Y)` as an additional search clause. With appropriate indexes it's very fast to query, and i can do partial updates to maintain the lookup table.

If my most common tree query was something else (e.g. enumerate children in sorted order) then i'd need some other data structure.
Data munging may be time consuming, but it is hardly difficult. The real challenge in ml is still the algorithms and theory.
North Korea is close to Orwell's vision, but misses the utter humiliation of "airstrip 1". In the England of 1984 defeat has been total - in the way defeat was total in Germany in 1948.

Newspeak is another element of the vision that has not quite been realised in reality. An interesting reference/contrast is Marian in Iain M. Banks' novels, a language designed by machines to free the mind! Note, the last part of 1984 is a deconstruction of Newspeak that must have been written by a scholar in a liberated future, this is referenced powerfully (for me) by Margaret Atwood in "The Handmaiden's Tale"

There is hope.
Following this premise, I guess it's time to assess massive trade tariffs on all vehicles manufactured by German companies, either domestically, or imported. Their dominance in the luxury category is really just too much, it needs to be significantly regulated or reduced.

For Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Porsche the US is their largest market. Between 20% and 25% of all sales typically come from the US for those automakers.

Jobs will be lost? Nah, auto supply will shift to domestics and or Asian manufacturers. The Germans will simply lose a big fat market, and it's unlikely all of Europe will agree to strike back against US automakers.

Economic war is the only thing that is likely to come out of the EU trying to split Google.
The bill was enacted less than seven weeks after Google was founded, at a time when users couldn't sign in to Google at all. (The Senate had approved it less than a month after Google was founded.) It's somewhat hard to believe that they had a lobbyist working on the issue in the company's first month of existence.
Price determination is always hard in business, but I'd like to think its a bit easier with software or SaaS products, as you have zero marginal cost (besides server time).
The '2nd Edition' is misleading in the title, this edition has been out for around three years.

Amazon reviews are quite scathing for this book, people complain about poor explanations and lots of mistakes. Apparently there's a long errata, but even in 2012 people were moaning.

Can anyone corroborate this? There's also a camp of people that says it's one of the best books around. I've got Intro to Algorithms on my bookshelf here which is a doorstop, but not bad in a pinch if I want something other than google.
Google search competitors are not even close with the quality of Google search results. This year I started trying Bing, Yahoo and right now DuckDuckGo as an experiment and none of them has the same quality. Bing is the only one that came closer. That's why Google owns search. They may be using shady tactics, but the competitors still need to get better.
Building an AirPair Dashboard Using Apache Spark and Clojure
I don't think they sell the Lego Logo kit. I used it in early 90s :)
It's no expertsexchange. I wouldn't bother changing it.
The driver license analogy is pretty great, I'll be stealing that :-)
So going from a single command to a different single command? How much simpler could it get?
Websites can't send notifications on iOS, for one. (They can on Mavericks and Yosemite.)
Kickbox – Email Address Verification Service
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Ask HN: How long will app income last?
A friend and I had worked on a game which recently took off for us in the Android store, giving us more than $25k monthly in ad revenue on a consistent basis for more than 5 months consecutively.

This is immensely surprising and rewarding for us, of course, but we're uncertain how this income will vary over time.

Does anyone on HN have past experience with mobile game success via ad revenue? How long did the income sustain itself before the game's popularity faded?
My sons school already has a robotics program using Lego mind storms. The kids love it. He's 6, and was allowed into the program early due to being adept at lego and strong in maths.

It's a public school. In the big scheme of things, a couple of mindstorms kits are not that expensive, the trick is finding teachers who are willing to go the extra mile and run these types of program's.

Still, I think this is a great idea.
Plugins are not websites.
Outside poorest central asia and sub-saharan africa, North Korea is the poorest.

Certainly was in 90-s. Now it's getting better thanks to small business, trade with China and limited agri reforms,
Cool, and it looks like another alternative is Pi-Bot in case someone wants something that can be ordered now (more expensive though): http://pi-bot.org/

Both bots work with Arduino and the Minibloq visual programming environment: http://blog.minibloq.org/
They were all local buyers.
ok, yep let me clear that. What I mean is

-Companies should be able to own and trade their users data with other companies. This should be like a stock or ad exchange. More pull requests for certain data, higher the data connection price.

-Also blogs should be able to charge $0 or some amount for search bots to crawl them. Its demand and supply if. NYT might be able to ask for some price while Buzzfeed can say .. eh we'll set that to free.

-Now for user, Example If I pay $200 for a robot - The company can say, hey it is $10 to use it monthly(because the robot company figures that is avg cost to fetch data, lets say from Goog FB AMZN etc). But some companies can say, the data of their users is owned by them and their user so if the user want to use his/her data then its free. But if the company wants to use to for some other means without user consent then its up for sale.

Its kind of like twitter's firehose, just more universal. Will encourage companies to develop APIs since now they can charge its use.
I'd love a google now/robot to suggest me what netflix flick I should see based on my Bing search history.
It looks like it's very unlikely that Europe is the majority of Google's revenue, and I doubt all revenue globally outside the US runs through Ireland & Co (can you back that up with data?).

For the latest quarter: "Our revenues from outside of the United States totaled $9.55 billion, representing 58% of total revenues in the third quarter of 2014, compared to 58% in the second quarter of 2014 and 56% in the third quarter of 2013."

Unless the rest of the world outside of Europe only has ~8%, and or all global revenue actually does go through Ireland & Co (again, I'm skeptical it's 100%). That's possible, but it's seems unlikely.
This is fantastic. My wife and I run an after school technology club at the school where she teaches. The school/principle are very supportive of what we are doing, but we have limited funding so try to stretch every dollar as far as possible.

I've found that the students respond most enthusiastically to any kind of programming that involves making something happen outside of the computer they are working at. That could be anything from writing code to send text messages to building robots and writing code to control them.

Thus far I've kicked in some of my own money to buy some Arduinos/Beagle Bones and various motors, servos, etc. Those things don't end up costing that much, but there is quite a lot of work to be done before the students can see any results, so only the more advanced students maintain interest. I think having an inexpensive platform like this that is ready to program for is a huge win.

The one thing I'm not thrilled about is it seems like this robot is programmed via a drag and drop graphical environment. I find that the students are perfectly capable of understanding simple code instructions and obscuring the programming with graphical elements just complicates their understanding of what's really happening. From another article about this robot it seems to indicate that code is being generated in the background, so hopefully that is easily editable, or the graphical environment can be ignored completely.
I can't speak for the OP. What I think the OP is saying is that some outlets thrive on being sensational --one thrives on Hollywood sensationalism, this one may thrive on valley sensationalism --it just so happens to coincide with a social issue in this case, but that may just be coincidental --that is, do they take on all social issues whether they drive page views or not, whether they create outrage or not?

In other words, they both serve their own brand of red meat to their audiences.
No, sorry, I have no data, this is pure anecdote. :)
The responses Elon has previously written to criticisms have been very concise and convincing. This article isn't too far off the mark, but I do feel his frustration for the petty politics he deals with shows through the article.

Is it even necessary for him to respond to petty accusations such as the inflated claims that he's masterminding Nevada's politics? Wouldn't it benefit him more to let the nay-sayers nay say?
There are lots of jokes along those lines, but honestly, the marijuana doctors' actions seem pretty rational to me.

The thing is, marijuana is thought possibly to be beneficial for a huge swath of conditions, many of which are primarily self-reported like insomnia and migraines. A normal doctor would probably not give you the third degree you before suggesting a treatment for these conditions either. And since marijuana is largely benign even when it doesn't help, this is not really irresponsible on the marijuana doctors' part. My doctor was advocating a riskier course of treatment when he told me to take ibuprofen!
See also:

https://sendto.mozilla.org/
It's entitlement, but not entitlement to free stuff.
> My friends Len Sassaman (who committed suicide in the first few days of July), Bram Cohen, Jacob Appelbaum, and Zooko O’Whielacronx have made substantial contributions.

One of these things is not like the others. Three of these people have made significant contributions, in code. One of them has talked a lot and claimed the work of others as their own.
It will cost existing CAs a lot of business. We already had free certs from StartSSL, but they were for non-commercial purposes only.

I imagine a lot of shared hosting companies who currently resell SSL certs to their own customers will be switching to this next year.

I will certainly use them, and will only recommend them and nobody else. The only reason I'd ever look at one of the old CAs now, is for EV certs. But 99% of the time, people don't need an EV cert.
That's a direct result of people being salaried, meaning they're on a fixed budget. As a corporation, you put in something, and something comes out the other end. As a salaried individual, you put in something (more hours) and absolutely nothing comes out the other end.
Why would you say that, apart from being highly nonconstructive, don't you think anything that helps teach children programming/robotics is a good thing.
If he's talking about games and therefore mass market Intel micros, he's roughly right. 1990ish just-plain-VGA gives you 640x480x4bit or 320x200x8bit. You'd generally use the latter for games.
> Just imagine a conversation between two sorority sisters or two fraternity brothers. They can have some pretty horrible things they say about other people --it's quite disgusting; I've overheard them. Would it be fair to bring those conversations up later in life, or as they're being considered for a job? should those conversations be "wrong"?

I think it's fair to judge the conversants to the extent you think it provides information about their current character. If it was a conversation years ago, well people change. If someone can't keep themselves from maliciously gossiping a week ago, then I might be reluctant to work with them.

N.B. I'm solely responding to your hypothetical here, rather than the uber situation, for I don't think your analogy fits well.
No, I disagree.

Algorithms can be selected, it's not hard to learn which technique is suited to which situation.

What theory are you talking about? What do we have - Kearn's contributions on COLT and the descendant's there of (Michael Kearns is a great fella btw, and COLT is super - but so 1990's), or Vapnik and Structural Risk Minimisation?

It's not really physics is it?
I too don't understand such negative responses here. As far as how it looks the site seems just fine to me. Not being too familiar with this market I'm unsure of the feasibility of the business but the idea seems sound.

Is there any reason why you are cash only at the moment? You really should look into adding some kind of online payment integration (Stripe is very easy to get up and running if the allow it for this market).

Just a heads up, on Chrome/OSX your example boxes popup is created three times, one on top of the other.

Good luck!
I'm also curious as to what level of student this targets. Would this be good for brushing up on my sorts and data structures for my interviews, for example?
I generally try to avoid starting sentences like this, but here goes:

No. Just no. 10 year olds probably don't have the resources to run their own hardware, insofar as 10 year olds don't earn money, can't own property (in a legal sense), and are not wholly responsible for their own actions. Therefore, a 10 year old having an account with a 3rd party unbeknownst to the parents is a security / child protection / legal nightmare.

Saying "keeping your account on somebody else's server is mostly responsible" is disingenuous because the 10 year old has to keep their account on somebody else's server.

Edit: clarity
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Fascinating. Is this likely to be because of a smaller corpus (seems unlikely - there must be millions if not billions of pages in most European languages)

Or is it that search algorithms don't cross languages easily - or that the core developers and testers use English as a lingua Franca anyway?

Still a fascinating point - can you put some kind of example or test up?
Not initially, but possibly in a future iteration.

OK, good to know.

Ultimately, in addition to these tools, it would be great to have ACME / LE support built into web server platforms, which are already running all the time.

I see, thanks, hence the emphasis on protocol not product. Great idea, let's hope it takes off, it'd be really nice to be able to just add a config for ssl_on and let the server deal with the rest. I suppose it's early days for discussions with server providers?

I don't know what the story is with that site

It's weird how old and busted CA sites are, almost without exception, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a place selling certs doesn't even use them properly, but as you point out, they've issued letsencrypt.org, and that works fine. Good to know.

So Let's Encrypt certificates should work wherever that site works

This would be a great line for your how it works, rather than browser-trusted, which could mean anything really.

Thanks again for this great idea, looking forward to trying it out.
This smells weird. There's worse monopolies in IT today - Microsoft is of course, still an easy target. Google doesn't go out of its way to rub out competition, it doesn't make proprietary standards, and there's low barriers to entry in the search market, at least. What's the story behind the story?
Imagination and reality flow in opposite directions in the brain
Is this on a UNIX? If so, yes, it's common to write to stdout/stderr there. Not in Windows, though - anything which is long-running tends to be a Windows Service and there's no point writing to System.Console from there because no-one will see it!

I haven't done much .NET on UNIX but if I was doing so, I'd probably want something a bit more UNIX-friendly than System.Console, though I know it does have the ability to deal with different streams.
It seems to work alright for "Wine of the Month" clubs.
When deers morph into elephants, SaaS nirvana is nigh
Cheers for your comment! That robot looks very cool, I'm tempted to get one now, to teach a family member. I think theres something really nice about seeing a program run on something physical like a robot.
You're in the wrong job then. Product comes out; your performance review can improve, leading to raises and bonuses.
Running ASP.NET on a Raspberry Pi with Mono and OWIN
Thanks for the encouragement!

If only we could use Stripe! Unfortunately marijuana is specifically mentioned in their list of prohibited businesses: https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses
You don't have to pick out a different strain every month (or however often you purchase). Once someone finds 2 or 3 that they like they just keep buying those. People are already faced with a huge number of choices for alcohol and numerous other consumable products, but have little difficulty identifying their favorites even if they're not not connoisseurs of any particular product.
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Creating just such a multi-person tragedy (hopefully to white people, even more hopefully to blonde white people) would be a waste of taxpayer dollars if mere fear-mongering will get the job done. Don't want the Ghost of William Proxmire on your case, eh?
Sometimes I like to spend my karma by posting crap like this. Also:
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How do I upvote myself again?
I'm going to join the chorus of people who think that her disclosure was clear enough, and that your critique of it seems be a needlessly uncharitable reading and/or mean-spirited.
Fair enough. To the extent I do, I usually share business cards at the end of a conversation so pulling out the phone isn't really an interruption.
That's a design/ideology conflict and not something that can be fixed. On OS X, you can leave a webpage open, and it must be open in order for the notifications to be sent. On iOS, you cannot (terminated whenever there is memory pressure). Push notifications are just way beyond what a website should be able to do, and scheduled ones aren't really all that useful except for a handful of apps.
The DRM use case of TPM is mostly security theater, as after all that decoding work you still need to send the bits over an interface to speakers / a display, and even if that interface is secured there's no way to determine that there's not a studio quality microphone / video camera on the other side of an airgap.
Steve Yegge (Amazon, Google) of Stevey's Blog Rants seemed to think so.

> My absolute favorite for this kind of interview preparation is Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual. More than any other book it helped me understand just how astonishingly commonplace (and important) graph problems are – they should be part of every working programmer's toolkit. The book also covers basic data structures and sorting algorithms, which is a nice bonus. But the gold mine is the second half of the book, which is a sort of encyclopedia of 1-pagers on zillions of useful problems and various ways to solve them, without too much detail. Almost every 1-pager has a simple picture, making it easy to remember. This is a great way to learn how to identify hundreds of problem types.

Source: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
Setting aside the licensing issues, and assuming it's just because I don't feel like dealing with obnoxious people, something still doesn't make sense to me. Prior to announcing the shutdown, no one had access to the source. I've made a lot of it available since then, but not all of it. Today, they still don't have access to that source. How is society any worse off?

Unless your belief is simply that all code should be open source. And that's fine, but then it doesn't really seem tied to the shutdown of the company.
I think he means no green in the color scheme.
Been there and done that.. what's a community to do in such a case?
So it gets delivered. And it is cash-only. How does that work? COD? I assume someone must be there to accept the delivery anyway (as apposed to just leaving it at the door). So I guess you just pay the person delivering it?
>Bump doesn't work because you have to both have the app and be on the same operating system.

Actually, Bump had a web client (although if you go to it at http://bu.mp you'll see that the web client as well as all of Bump is no more.)
You do realize that medical marijuana is legal in CA right?