skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, they've added so much functionality to the desktop site that you can't simply search for an address without huge overhead. google earth is cool but the typical user doesn't need to load topographical details and 3d buildings when landing on the home page for maps...
Doesn't the same problem occur with reservations?
Eckhart Tolle was a quite divisive author for me. On the other hand he had very usefull visualizations on the nature of pain that were really valuable to me in difficult times.

The painbody visualization was especially therapeutic to me and helped me to cope in better ways than I would have otherwise.

But on the other hand I find most of his philosophy just bonkers.

The book is bit like "drawing on the right side of the brain" - great exercises wrapped in non value adding chaff.
Marxist Pamphlet? What non-sense. It's a book written by an avowed defender of capitalism, worried about its excesses in the age of slowing growth. Piketty is a social-democrat from the mainstream of European politics, not a marxist in any way or shape. Bill Gates gave the book a mixed review with many positive points, and he's not particularly known for being a marxist sympathizer.
It seems like you missed the fundamental argument being made. First of all, this:

>And the answer is that bad languages can screw over a project

Proves the "languages don't matter" hypothesis wrong anyways. Second, he very clearly said that assembly simply shows how big the difference is to most people because most people are afraid of it. Yes, scala vs haskell the language does matter. Yes, C++ vs java the language does matter. Even python vs ruby the language still matters even though they are incredibly similar languages.
Using the Dropbox Objective-C API in Swift
I don't think this is actually true; regular news sites and newspapers still go on producing news, and it's only a small percentage that are parodical. I would bet that less than 10% of purported news articles on April 1st are fake.

Unless you are also claiming that most news published is garbage anyway, in which case I agree.
I want to reply to all three of you, so I'm just gonna do it like that.

sehugg kind of got a point, but I think there were really good cross-platform solutions available back then. Just not the ones used today. Marmalade has been around for a quite while and it was/is used by a lot of big studios.

The other two comments I don't agree with.

> It's not that the picked the wrong tool for the job, it's that the job changed.

If your tool can't adapt to new requirements an argument can be made that you did in fact pick the wrong tool in the first place. That's my point exactly.

> That seems like a better option than over encumbering yourself to begin with by adding in effect a bunch of additional cross platform requirements.

I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. They don't write their own engine, so the overhead for going cross-platform is really, really small — so small that I have a hard time coming up with examples right now. Not hard coding screen sizes and that kind of thing might be one, but that's about it. There's also some irony in saying that's the better option given the blog post we're talking about.
Appreciate all the pricing feedback, brought the prices down a bit and added a coupon for HN: use SHOWHN for an extra 20% off between now and the 15th!
It would likely come down to how much interest we have in the product. Because we already have everything in place for canvas, framed products, and posters, we will be starting with those as our production lines are already optimized for that. If we could make a good business case for apparel products then we would absolutely expand there, but it likely won't be for a bit.
We put that in.
>>> On the other hand, it is possible to change it with very little loss of revenue to the US because this taxation raises very little money in practice.

Are you sure? These tax laws also collect money from US Citezens working as contractors for the US military over seas not just someone who has decided they would rather live in Europe for the rest of their lives. They are often paid 6 figures salaries and there are 10's if not 100's of thousands of them around the world esp. supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think you would find a lot of support for reducing their taxes to zero.
(author here) was on purpose.

I've tried to built in several subtle jokes)
We hold it in the hopes that eventually all may hold it.
For me, the most useful book this year was Mindset by Carol Dweck. Simply amazing and mind-blowing.

http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/...
I stand corrected. Thanks for the link. I had somehow missed that AMA; it's fascinating reading. (Hinton's too).
5 books, 5 white men. sigh
Taking a hash of the binary and verifying that against a few-k signature at a known location is kind of on a different level performancewise than scanning literally the entire binary looking for various known signatures and applying heuristic analysis. (Windows does the same thing, FWIW)

I think you're spot on, but from the scope of a user who knows 90% of that stuff is BS, it's just another bullet point in the list of why I don't run AV software.
Looks pretty sweet. From TFA:

PRINCEPROCESSOR V0.10 RELEASE

Download from: https://hashcat.net/tools/princeprocessor/
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>> It's a reporting engine. There's nothing else besides the "view," and as it is a reporting engine, the view is complex.

The database query is complex. The presentation of data should not be. Mixing these together is a design failure to a lot of people. TFA even mentions this, if you subsequently need to generate a .pdf you're going to embed a redundant copy of the logic in that display code too. If you get the logic down at the lower level where it can be shared, then you can have as many views as need be without duplicating logic that doesn't belong there anyway.
Please try harder to follow the HN guidelines.
I apologize then! There seem to be a lot of idiots with unhealthy sense of humor. They keep downvoting me like their life depends on this or that downvoting compensates for their meager existence!
Experiences building InfluxDB with #golang
Well, the earliest IBM systems were used for processing census results, so that's one possibility. Ballistic trajectories for artillery were first done with analog computers, so probably not a good match. If you look up the historical usage of log table books, there should be some very good possibilities.
Molly Sauter’s quest to make political DDoS legitimate
"So most expatriates owe no money to the I.R.S. each year — and yet many of us have to pay thousands of dollars to accountants because the rules are so hard to follow."

This is where the problem is. The rules are just so damn hard and complex. I lived in HongKong for a couple of years outside US and expat tax is nothing short of nightmare even when you know you won't owe a penny to the IRS. The tax in HongKong is as simple as it gets and Yes US is a much bigger country and all that but I fail to understand why things are so complex. I love my accountant but sometimes I wonder would she exist if I can do my own taxes in a matter of a few clicks ?

Coming back to giving up US passports point, well good for the author but like someone else mentioned, the value of US citizen or even a Permanent Residency (green card) is really high even though you have to go through so much trouble just to file the damn taxes. Unless you are tremendously successful already with tons of money and not to worry about your financial future AND can choose to live anywhere, sure giving up the US passport will be much easier. Otherwise, it will take serious guts.
Read the parent comment again...

> Attempting to suppress your mind with drugs is easier and cheaper
Apple has their name on the product, it's their responsibility to ensure it is up to par. It doesn't really matter who the fault lies with, if the data coming in isn't good enough then apple should be looking for different data sources.
Ember-admin: Admin back end for ember-cli projects
If you live in the US and your other bank becomes aware of that, they'll probably decide it's easier to close your account than deal with FATCA anyway.
Have you looked at Waze?
Except in most cases the "complicated maze" is on the USA side.
Did you intuitively understand that prior to watching the video?
I would hope that that cost covers tax preparation in general, not just the US-specific paperwork.
BigData in Education-Analyzing Student Clusters to Influence Success and Retention
I can second that.
https://www.mapbox.com is a particularly notable technology on top of OSM.
Initially I wanted to use Google maps with some customs styles but found their styling options pretty limited. Even worse it's too unreliable in China and there's no way around it. I used mapbox to easily create a nice map that incorporated our branding and then http://leafletjs.com/ to add interactivity on top of it. Very happy with it.
>I support a reduced tax bill when you are living abroad but to say Americans should pay no taxes is ridiculous.

I'm fairly sure America is the only country that taxes non-resident citizens. Why do you think America is right and every other country is wrong?
Hmm - how did they manage to backdate the issue/issue comment creation? I don't see it in the GitHub API documentation.
I'm big into FP, but I've studied Haskell only lightly. Of all the posts I've read about Haskell, this is without doubt the most intimidating.

Clearly, the OP is a quite experienced, skilled programmer, and yet he's been at Haskell for years -- taking books on type theory with him to lunch -- but still struggling with the language at some level.

I believe very strongly that programming in one paradigm can really change the way you think about another (learning Lisp changed the way I program in most languages, for the better). But it really sounds as if the payoff with Haskell just isn't that profound relative to the amount of effort required (unless your real interests lie with abstract algebra or PL research or something like that).

I hope this is not coming across as flamebait. I'm not wondering whether one can profit from studying Haskell; one can presumably profit from studying just about anything in computing. But Haskell really sounds like a very long slog for a relatively small slice of cake.
Failed body armour test by pro-Russian rebels
How you can send your logs ballistically using UDP
Bettir (YC W15) Wants to Chat with You About Your Blood Pressure
Task distribution primitives are handled by Mesos and implemented in the various apps running on Mesos (Marathon, Chronos, etc.)

It seems inaccurate to call this a feature of DCOS.

Puppet and the like can easily configure and manage Mesos and the various apps running on top, giving all the task dispatch functionality goodness.

DCOS will hopefully be a great integrated Mesos distribution. Seems to me that by supporting machine provisioning and having a per-node licensing model, it's being positioning as a direct competitor to Openstack and VMWare.
You should tell the author of the article that because he states:
"The challenges facing expat Americans abroad would disappear if the United States taxed and regulated only those who lived in America."

He is advocating taxing avoidance clear as day.

I agree the rules and regulations should be better. But he is going one huge step further.
A Few Words about Growth Hacking for Your Business
Irrespective of the public back & forth between Docker and CoreOS, that's a completely reasonable stance to take. Standards need to be proven in the real world before being adopted. That's why the ANSI and ISO standardization process takes so much time (EDIT: or at least, one of the reasons).

When you write "standards" without implementation, what you get is the Object Management Group, which published spec after spec that are impossible to actually implement.
Scaling email transparency
>the type system only provides a syntax which catches certain classes of errors

Yes, type errors. The problem is you have a drastically limited idea of what a type error is.

>The type system, for example, does not help you when you have five Ints and you use the wrong one for an index and the output of the procedure is thereby completely messed up at runtime.

Yes it does, you are choosing not to use the type system. If they are not five Ints but five specific things, then you should have five types, not one.
Why it's harder than ever to remain anonymous on the Web
I'm not sure what you aren't following.

- I am currently a green card holder

- I can remain in the US indefinitely, I only have to pay $500 to renew my green card every 10 years, inform them if I am abroad for over 6 months, and not commit any serious crimes.

- I can apply for US citizenship in 2-4 years. US citizenship grants me some rights and takes away from restrictions.

- If I apply/gain for US Citizenship my bank abroad might close my account due to the US government rules (see the article).

- So instead I won't apply, will remain on a green card, and will wait until the account can be closed in 7-10 years time.

- Once the account is closed I can apply for US Citizenship if I wish.
Just so you know, Green card holders and citizens have the exact same requirements when it comes to taxes and foreign account disclosures. If you are a Permanent resident/Green card holder, you still have to file taxes with IRS regardless of where you live or where your accounts are. The foreign bank account law (FATCA) also applies to permanent residents.
The Power of Now is at the top, for me.

I'll also mention Vagabonding by Rolf Potts -- a great book that's as much about travel as about life.
Apache Aurora is a Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs, originally developed by Twitter and today an open source project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Curious why you wouldn't consider Openstack to be a Datacenter OS? :-)
It's true that he probably should have mentioned the simple intuition of it, but I think the reason he went about it the way he did is because that's the way you go about proving it mathematically.
Would be great to have an API. Been passively looking for good poster printers that I could automatically send jobs to, as well as do the fulfillment. Looks slick.
What a hilarious coincidence. :)

I'm guessing you can't go giving out concrete legal advice for free, but could you point us towards languages that are fixing this? I see that Julia's stdlib uses MIT for non-external libraries,[1] and Go uses a BSD-style license that explicitly requires distributing the license with binaries,[2] so they're both in the same boat we are. AFAICT D's stdlib uses the Boost license[3] which explicitly allows one to forgo distributing the license with compiled artifacts, but I don't know if solving this issue entirely would require the entire compiler to be licensed under Boost as well. Presuming that interpreted languages can gracefully ignore this issue, I don't know which other "new" languages we could look at for inspiration.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE

[3] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master...
"Some of that can be done virtually, but in-person meetings still are much more memorable for many people."

But some don't ever do in-person meetings. There are many small companies who do business 100% online, don't need investors, local staff or anything like that. For this type of companies staying in the big city makes no sense.

(Disclaimer: I live in the woods in a small mountain town)
I think it's worth looking at this as the intersections of two contexts. One is the one that's mostly discussed below, how do you assess the criminality of someone who was arrested but not convicted. We are all, I hope, familiar with the particular complexities of rape as it's both harder to prove and often carries unusually negative consequences for the accuser, compared to an accusation that someone robber you or whatever, as well as India's particular cultural situation.

The other one though, is the context of what job you're hiring someone for; in this case, to be a sort-of taxi driver. That means the person you hire is inevitably going to come in contact with some potentially vulnerable individuals as passengers (and I bet it wouldn't be too hard to make estimates on the probability of any given journey having a single female passenger). If there's a suspicion that the person might exploit that fact, then you shouldn't hire that person as a driver. That's a bit unfair to some potential drivers, but the flipside is that you have ethical obligations to both employees and customers.

For other contexts, the calculus is different. For example, if I was Uber I would not be too worried about a previous conviction for auto theft, since drivers supply their own cars, and if the applicant has not been in trouble for a reasonable length of time then Uber doesn't really have any assets at risk. Likewise, I could perhaps be more open-minded about an arrest without a conviction for assault if I were hiring someone to do server maintenance vs. hiring them as a driver, as the probability of an offense x the number of personal encounters an employee would have in the course of normal duties would be much lower.
What if we brought back conscription? For science, not war.
KX seems to be much more focused on the financial sector use case. It's also closed source and has been around for a long time.

We're open source and want to make sure we hit use cases in DevOps, metrics, and sensor data. The financial market data use case is a nice to have for what we're building, but it's certainly not what we're optimizing for.

If we compete in the financial sector with them, it won't be for a while.
I agree, I'm planning on changing that real soon! Thanks!
Do you run OSX in production?
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing/dp/0679...

It has been a while since a book from even 10 pages in breaks my model of reality a bit.

Just saying "I have a body" as a separation, instead of "I /am/ body" etc.

Very interesting, fun (witty) succinct.

Its my first Alan Watts book, so that could be part of why it hit me nicely.
You're free to elaborate, if you want.
Do you also have to pay "thousands" of dollars to accountants? This particular bit seems to be an exaggeration, as I would imagine any tax software should be able to deal with foreign income. And with only federal income to report, this should be cheap too.
Just imagine dialing that 16 digits friend code to give your friend a quick call to invite them out for lunch!
Show HN: A daemon package for use with Go (golang)
Had me interested enough to look at the App store and then I saw a bunch of in-app purchases are required for full functionality. Lost interest at that point. Would rather just pay for an app and not have to worry about unlocking features.
The Worst Industrial Disaster in the History of the World
For music distribution costs swamped the costs of generating the information for even small runs of CDs. Maybe for a smaller artist, if you included an amortized A&R costs and marketing you'd be right. But including market speculator costs in this calculation makes no sense to me.

In terms of costs to the consumer, a tiny fraction of a penny went to the person generating the information anyway, if they sued to get it. Once a song was recorded they traded in it's scarcity, just like oil. And now that scarcity is completely artificial.

It makes no sense to pay 99% of the cost of purchased music to a facilitator who prints CDs, vets musicians, and markets them. The internet makes the last one easier and the first two obsolete.

First of all, getting people to create music and want to show it off is not hard, stopping them from doing so is hard. It has never been hard. What was hard was trying to get massively rich off of popular music.

Do you really think that this massively stupid and inefficient system, hated by consumers and artists must be protected just to avoid figuring out a new way to pay artists? Artists are still making a good living these days, just more from endorsements, live shows and merch than sales of music. So that's not in danger. It's easier for beginner or smaller acts to get ahead and make a living now.

Sure, some artists who would be rich under the old system won't be under another system, and vice versa. But in aggregate there is only one loser - the record company middlemen.

This seems so obvious to me. Especially now, when it's already happening and plenty of people are "creating the first copy" undeterred, right now it looks like maybe there will be more successful artists but fewer mega-rich artists due to less of hit based business but that might change as the new way of doing things grows, websites are now an extreme hit based business and didn't start out that way.
Well, it's not that surprising that a white guy likes books written by white guys. And it's possible that the advantages of being white and male contribute to being in a position to write really good books, too.
Ha, so what, is it racist and bigoted to read books simply because they were written by a white man? Who even cares about what race and gender is the author of a book? What about their religion? Hair and eye color?

Should we start vetting movie directors and screenwriters before renting a movie? Or maybe would you like for the governments to setup quotas, and federally funded programs to support minority authors?
America isn't every other country. In most cases America offers more opportunity than anywhere else.
Artificial race and gender requirements. Sigh. Note to self: If I write a seminal work on macroeconomics and WEALTH INEQUALITY I should make sure to have my pen name be a black woman to make sure it's suitable for more lists.
if parent becomes a US citizen, parent's bank account might be closed. therefore, parent 'cannot' become a citizen.
The dark side of Apple’s two-factor authentication
It's the worth of a book directly tied to the skin colour of it's author?

What a weird remark imho.
Yes. It's several steps in the right direction. The god damn achievements and items and ads are incredibly annoying. But it's a good step. It also isn't used by enough people. How many drivers have smartphones? How many of those are contributing traffic data? The answer is, respectively, a lot and almost none.
EBay featuring successfully crowdfunded hardware
At least in the UK, paying any money at all for tax preparation is unusual.
What does that fellow want from me now? He says in the article that the first 100 kUSD of foreign earnings aren't taxed, and to fix this he wants to end taxation of expatriates altogether.

It's reminiscent of Prop 13 in California. It was sold as a means to keep the elderly on fixed incomes in their homes, but it also applies to commercial real estate, and that was the purpose of the execrable thing.

Pass the bucket, I'm going to throw up.
I am an American who has lived in Norway for several years. I have to deal with this crap every year and, when the time comes to choose between passports, I am honestly not sure which choice I will make. I love US, as I spent my formative years there and those were some pretty good years, but am less a fan of US tax law.

Yep. I find the Norwegian taxation system to be considerably more manageable and equitable. You pay taxes that are not much higher than in the US and actually get things in return, like excellent health care, free tuition a social safety net, better infrastructure, and a much much higher standard of living across the board. Wellstone was right: We all do better when we all do better. It's genuinely great, but I digress...

The other awesome thing about Norwegian taxes is that the government does it for you. At the end of the year, they send you form with all of your taxes done and ask, "Is this right?" If it is, you click a button and are done. If not, then you might have to do a little work, but it is still so so so much less than managing the US taxes.