skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone else did as well, and so would you if the Feds threatened to shut down your business if you didn't comply.

There are many ways to fix the law and govt, protesting and voting are a couple. Thinking you are above them and can do what you want, however, is not.
It's innovation because Uber is significantly better at driving other people around in cars.
I'll put my hand up for that one.

Old fashioned non-automatic electric kettles had such a device that handily pushed out the kettle lead thus disconnecting the mains. I was saved from some embarrasment and redectoration by this a third of a century ago.

PS: how could you detect the presence of water? Photocell? Ultrasound? Conductivity between two small contacts 20% of the way up the jug?
If long-term investors are basing investment decisions on what their friends are investing in, they need to rethink their entire investing philosophy and strategy. Heck, Buffet's trades are public - if you had to choose between the two, would you rather mimic Buffet's trades or would you rather mimic your friends? Or 5 of your favorite investors instead of 5 of your friends?
Implementing Hypermedia
Great article, and great idea.

I'm not a journalist but I do a lot of writing, and I actually use a program called Devonthink Pro in the manner described here by Steven Berlin Johnson: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2005/02/devonthink_cont.h... . It's surprisingly close to the tools Lindenberg is describing.
While the conclusion is in accordance with what I would expect, I think the study suffers a lot from not having a control group. From these results, there is no telling if participants screwed up in replay, or if they were all just guessing anyway or whatever. This should be redone with at least one sample pair where one of the samples is deliberately reduced in quality is delivered to a subset of the participants.
> I am a moral absolutist. I believe only action can have moral value (good or evil). This moral value is intrinsic and independent of context, intent or consequences. Killing for vengeance, killing in self defence and killing to save thousands of lives are all evil. Because killing is evil.

Why do you believe this?
Get me a linux email client – Seriously?
NodeDump – CFDump comes to Node.js
"Result" is a pretty opaque name: any value or type can be called a "Result", really. "Either" at least hints to the fact that it is either-this-or-that.

"Either" is IMO a nice counterpart to tuple types: one is a generic sum, the other is a generic product. People could complain that a tuple of ints are less descriptive than just using a constructor with a more descriptive name - like "Pair" or "Coordinate", depending on its intended application.

Having a specialized type for error handling makes sense, though.
Apply at http://www.toptal.com and please say I referred you!

You'll have some challenges to solve in order to enter but IMO it's worth it
Ask HN: “[warn]”
I occasionally see "[warn]" appended to HN link titles. Is this something submitters use, like nsfw on reddit, or is it system initiated? A recent article that I saw the "[warn]" appendage was "[flagkilled]", so it might be part of this system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8730476
I type "LOL" at a lot of things without actually laughing out loud, but I can't put into words how hysterical this sentence is:

"Step 5: Attacker closes the Keurig, and is able to brew coffee using the non-genuine K-Cup."

THE ATTACKER IS BREWING COFFEE.
On a side note, why does the following always get disclosed as a downside?

>Besides the psychoticlike effects, ketamine can raise blood pressure and heart rate.

Doesn't exercise or even caffeine do the same? Is it even worth mentioning this side effect unless it's for an abnormally long period?
What is the point of changes like [] to List, mod to %, . to << and >>?
Is it just aesthetics?

When I looked at Elm it was really similar to Haskell. After I learned a bit of Elm I dove into Haskell. Now that I'm coming back to Elm I'm having problems because I confuse this different syntaxes many times.

I hoped they could maintain the language more similar to it to make the switch between them easier.
Sorry, I didn't catch that this data is for small establishments and you specifically said big. I can't immediately find this data from the BIS so disregard it if you like.
It doesn't have to be, but going for a more correct/portable code (than absolutely necessary minimum) helps avoid such problems. In this case binary file was opened - if the "rb" mode was added anyway, the exception mentioned above wouldn't happen.

Edit: Actually python doesn't even mention windows. It's simply "Add a 'b' to the mode for binary files." (in python 2.7 documentation) According to the docs it should be specified regardless.
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My future is not artifically limited through the means of technology. I use my trusty moka pot for decent coffee and instant when I'm on the run (I have no shame).

Seriously: analogue for analogue things folks.
I love me some PG. :)

There are a number of databases which are using unique storage models to achieve great numbers in circumstances for which their optimized (duh) DeepDB is an interesting one that is getting great throughput while running complex queries on incoming data. I believe they're using LSM Trees under the hood.

I was definitely trying to avoid doing a survey of all of the products out there and what they're using (that would be a great article, though) I more wanted to make people cognizant of the models that they might encounter and why/how they're used. It was a bit ambitious to attempt that in a single article.
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What language is php flexible compared to? If anything it seems inflexible.
Yes, gypsy cabs, jitneys and share taxis were innovative and disruptive.
The job market is absolutely terrible for PhD grads. Especially when you compare it with the fact that you are losing valuable work experience during that time frame. Going down the postdoc and tenure track is like trying to become the next Hollywood star.
Techstars is incredibly transparent with their stats. Full funding data available here: http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/

I just pulled some numbers quickly...

In the last 3 Techstars NYC batches (not including the most recent), there were 37 companies with median funding of just over $1.6 million. 28 are still active, 6 have been acquired and 3 have failed.
A 5-pack of inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, or
testosterone cartridges costs $20/pack. A 3-pack of flu
cartridges costs $30.

Pricey
I like simplicity but skeleton is missing a few essential things for me.

1) Vendor prefixing. Like "sk-columns sk-column-5".
Uikit does this, but Foundation and Bootstrap do not. I really wish they did.

2) Preprocessor support in Sass and Less. They are so similar, it is easy to support both.

The grid class naming really really needs some cleanup! No one wants to automate something that has to output integers as integer names like "five" or "six". What is wrong with "sk-col-5" or "sk-col-6"?
Who will stop you from using them, you mean? Obviously, the answer is that you will.
Watch Face API Now Available for Android Wear
Well, basically, yeah. (Short write-up on my website here - http://www.karelbilek.com/piratebay/ )

There was another effort by a guy on pirate bay named "andronikov", he did something similar, but stopped last year around november. And nobody is seeding his torrents. (They have literally 0 seeds.)
Ask HN: Drupal Developer U.S. contract rates?
Just curious to benchmark--

What are you currently getting/paying U.S. based Drupal contractors? Also, typical length and scope of your project helpful to know.
> there are people already discussing the merits of 64bit floating point over 32bit floating point

In my very humble opinion (haven't had the extremely fortunate fortune to be formally educated on DAC and in general the math involved there), I think that discussion is greatly valuable. When you are compounding information into information you can never become accurate enough. Error accumulates - that is the woe if digital composition.

I would love to accelerate all this stuff on a GPU - given workable knowledge on how to specifically turn all those crazy mathematical formulas into code; which given only a rip-off degree is practically impossible.
If you already have problems with either of those you would want to know about them being possible side effects
Clicking the buy now link is taking me to the NL site. anyone else seeing this?
I wonder if this is a problem for any cloud provider, I also wonder if ipv6 could help mitigate? Then the IP collusions would be rarer.
> If they are bad laws, then we can work to change them.

Uber and its competitors are, more than anyone else in decades as far as I can tell, working to change them.
Show HN: Deal alerts for products you want, curated from around the web
Sure, just put magnet URIs in your transactions.

That said, I'm not quite sure why this needs a blockchain... A URI is either in the system or not in the system... Why would one need a consensus algorithm to store URLs?

Blockchains are about consensus, not storage...
That's just a proxy service. Run a search, it'll fail because there is nobody home. Am I missing something?
30 seconds to launch!? Are you running it on a RaspberryPi or something? On my MBP, it launches about as fast as SublimeText3, 1-2 seconds tops.
I learned something interesting today from both you guys.
My laptop has a 256GB SSD. My media collection is 337GB. So a 100MB app doesn't just need to compete with other 100MB apps, it has to compete with my music, videos, and photos. Is a 100MB app better than my photos reminding me of my time in Sapporo, Japan? That depends on the app, but I'm more inclined to delete a 100MB app to make room for more photos than a 20MB app.
It's completely consistent with, say the details about firing Luk Van Parijs, at http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2005/misconduct . Which research data was falsified, and which papers are affected?

Quoting that 2005 news release: "Federal and MIT rules require that investigations be conducted in strict confidence to protect the integrity of the review process and to avoid unjustified damage to the reputations of individuals, including innocent colleagues and collaborators."

Why do you think they would do something different here?

Or are you proposing that the MIT and federal rules are by definition suspicious?
You didn't actually try searching with it, did you.
1. Simply, yes. Read up on Deming. US companies are not a bastion of efficiency and never have been. They innovate when there is massive competition, that's it.
> I don't know why everyone is pretending they're providing such an innovative and new service.

I'm not pretending, I'm reporting empirical observations. Uber provides a service that is really nice, and significantly changed the way I transport myself around town. It is empirically an innovative and new service.
Banking API standardization considered by UK treasury
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29811499
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/25186316

Exercise extreme caution, the article doesn't even seem to acknowledge the seriousness of this at all...
WebRTC standardization is more than codecs
I believe that's the idea behind this: http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink/. I know a software engineer in the aerospace field that loves this product and describes it the way you do (except that it's more for embedded systems than for user experiences)
One can identify groups of persons more likely to befriend one another if one can identify shared interests, so to that extent Yes. But those persons must come in contact with one another, and of course not all of them will get along. There exist a lot of mechanisms for bringing together persons of shared interests: churches, schools, sports, concerts, bars, museums, for that matter workplaces.
> What Keurig is doing also doesn't prevent another manufacturer from competing with an unencumbered alternative

Not sure if this fits the definition of irony, but Keurig is the company that came up with the unencumbered 1.0 coffee pod standard. The original DRM was the idea that a scoop of ground coffee beans was incompatible with the pod brewer. 2.0 is exactly the same, but with the RFID (I'm assuming. I haven't cared to look into it) "protection". I'd imagine 3.0 will have some kind of boolean logic much like inkjet cartridges have these days that will make the thing complain that the pod has already been used.

Though, I entirely agree with you. This DRM is only present because Keurig wants to protect it's brand. It came up with the pod brewer concept, much like Apple came up with the iPhone and it's app store. Rejecting what it deems to be inferior or competitive to it's goals is it's objective. I'd wish everything was more open and available for interoperability, but it's their product up until I purchase it, so the design is out of my control.
Context is a pretty important, pervasive concept in Perl. So much so that chromatic discusses it in the very first chapter[1] of his Modern Perl book[2].

[1]: http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2014/01-perl-philosophy.html#Q29udGV4dA
[2]: This very accessible, and free, book (updated very recently for 2014) is a must-read for any Perl developer.
I have never done ketamine. But a hit of MDMA was kind of instrumental in lifting me out of twenty years of depression.
The only time I ever go downtown is for events at the Renaissance Center and Cobo Hall. There's really no reason to otherwise, unless you like to gamble. Pretty much everywhere outside of the immediate area around Cobo is really bad anyway.
Meanwhile, the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers is looking really good. 166/200 major watched projects are Python 3-compatible. https://python3wos.appspot.com
Looks like an early version of the Drake equation, only with the number of stars with planets very low and the probability that a planet has life very (like really, really) high.
[video] Paperstyle Animated Film: The Little Prince
Downtown Detroit is definitely gaining speed. If you compare it to where it was just three years ago the difference is startling.

Now having two accelerators downtown (Bizdom and TechStars) I think its going to siphon off some of the top U of M and MSU graduates that are normally going to Silicon Valley.

Best proof is that its getting impossible to find an apartment downtown, rents are jumping 30-40% and buildings have two year waiting lists. More apartments are being developed but they literally can't get them built out fast enough.
Quantopian ups its data game via Morningstar partnership
Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
Sweet! Beautiful work.

PS. https://Clara.io also has support for physically-based rendering in WebGL, just use the "Physical" material. :)
That does work, if I actually come from the google page. I'm somewhat disturbed that that's necessary... Thanks for the help though.
>as a user, I would be very suspicious of a 100MB countdown timer app

You mean as a developer. Your average 'user' does not know or care how big an app 'should' be.
While it's definitely true in some cases, what you've stated is a generalization: there are some great coders who use SublimeText or some other lightweight editor. Unfortunately, this does not mean using SublimeText makes you a good coder (or even is a sign of one). There is a lot of buy-in to the concept that using a more lightweight IDE makes you a better coder. I see a lot of entry level developers taking on this mentality.

Sometime I cringe when I watch a developer using a lightweight IDE, missing so many obvious syntax errors that they're not going to realize until they go to compile or run their code. So many wasted workflow cycles.

I work on large codebases and I know that I don't have the mental capacity to hold the entire structure (object interfaces, app structures, third party library usage) in my head. It's great that I can offload this task to my IDE and concentrate on the problem I'm solving instead of getting disrupted by having to think about code mechanics.

On a side note, I think it's funny that people like to consider vim a lightweight IDE. All the good vim coders I know of make heavy use of plugins to get the exact same features a full fledged IDE has.
Video: How to run deep-learning examples in minutes with DL4J
PlayCanvas is very nice! And nice people as well.

It is hard to compete with Unity with the same efficiency on all the non-web platforms platforms supported by Unity when it has to run in a browser/JavaScript. But for web-based games PlayCanvas beats out Unity clearly.
Continuous Integration Has Now Blurred the Lines
Weird Ruby: Rescue, Interrupt and Ensure
For professional, technical, and related employees, it looks like starting at two weeks and moving up to three or four after some time is the most common, which agrees with my experience.
I'm not sure there's anything about the X.509 standard that can be termed "correct" but yes, serve intermediates.

Many QA engineers are ambushed by this new "edge" case. This change in browser behavior has made it easier for the problem to go undetected.
http://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html#Context
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I never said people would criticize Ruby because of the language itself. I said that it could POSSIBLY (note that this is pure speculation) get the same stigma as PHP because it draws in a lot of beginners.
Elm really is fascinating... Am I the only one who thinks FRP is just a reincarnation of dataflow programming?

I'm learning Verilog in my spare time, because I want to implement a dataflow/FRP language in hardware. (People tried to build massively parallel hardware in the past to run dataflow languages... I'm pretty sure it's a good idea.) Should be interesting!
> However, there are things that I (and I believe the population at large) value that cannot be optimized using simple market dynamics with no regulation. For example, I expect there to be taxis on the road, even if the demand is very low.

Can you explain why these things that the population values at large would not be profitable? Obviously that can be true for public goods, but individual or small group point-to-point ground transportation (taxis) is not a public good. The fact that you expect things that are extremely inefficient is not a very good reason.
Why did you stop? Surely, the 2.x vs 3.x schism didn't cause this?
Yes it matters as thats also part of the cost.
I had the complete opposite experience in DC. There are a TON of startups in DC. Far more than where I live now (Portland OR).

You should checkout über offices. They have 5-10 startups working out of all three locations (most of with funding). On top of the co-working/startup spaces you have other accelerators and funding opportunities like 1776 and Acceleprise.

The DC startup scene is definitely healthy.
Hey, I work at Hired and we are adding contract and potentially part-time work into the product. I'd love to meet up (if you are in SF) or hop on the phone. Feel free to reach me at matt.pierce@hired.com to get something scheduled.

Cheers,
DHS Plans to Delete Surveillance Data. Are We Glad or Not?
While YC is a wonderful program, I think it'd be nice to give some props and support to programs like TechStars that are actively expanding and supporting startup cities outside of the valley.
Python 2 was supposed to be dead at least 2 years ago and still 34/200 major watched projects use it.
I have said it before and I will say it again.

Detroit is the perfect place to build the robotics industry and they should call it Uncanny Vally.
> After all, requiring proper operating equipment and frequent inspections obviously doesn't benefit users... Is that what you're really forwarding?

The specific equipment requirements can certainly be chosen in a way to benefit entrenched businesses by increasing the barrier to entry.
I don't think the article is suggestion people sniff 5+ grams a day every day for long periods, which is required to get the serious bladder problems as mentioned in those articles
Excellent post! Would make an even better Nancy Drew book...
How to Measure Planck’s Constant Using Lego
Why? I ask because I switched from using Matlab to using python. I found Matlab was great for getting things done, but it was difficult to maintain/distribute larger projects--much less deal with interfaces to the web, etc. I also found (at the time) that parallelization was easier with python. I haven't experimented with Julia.
Some of these users seem to be drastically abusing the drug: "He said at the height of his addiction, he was taking it for 23 hours a day." The others don't really specify if they were taking it in large quantities.

With proper safety studies, monitoring, and dosing it seems like there would be less chance of this happening.
So the coin has two sides. I'd prefer if all parties had to follow the laws. I think taxis should be penalized for those offenses and Uber should be penalized for its offenses.
I think the biggest thing I was surprised by with this investigation was the lack of documentation about data-layer tools. At one point I was looking through the source of the 'ip' command to try to find out exactly which conditions caused a 'STALE' entry in the ARP table...
The old way in industrial automation is a float sensor, which is basically a reed switch with some buoyancy on the end. With substances that are corrosive, or where there's a cross contamination concern, you drop down to load cells or a rangefinder, both of which are more expensive and fussy. :)
A Day in the Life of an Uber / Lyft Driver
pylibmc was ported to Python 3.x in its latest release, but the wall of superpowers hasn't updated in days!
Furthering the reach of user experience: the principles of Design for Code (DFC)
How about wearing a diver's weight belt? The weight is all at your hips and is more or less equally distributed between front and back.
The 5 Best Tools for AWS Deployment
I have lots of UI toolkits under my belt since the mid-80's, been doing web development on and off since the .com days.

When compared with RAD tooling like Delphi or XAML, HTML/CSS/JS is anything but easy.
From the second link: "Where I used to live, there was nothing to do at all. "We had this mentality of really battering whatever substance we had in front of us. K [ketamine] just seemed to be the best substance we had available."

All of these horror stories you link to sound like people who have been habitually abusing ketamine, taking ever larger doses as they build up a tolerance. Pretty much ANYTHING can be abused; do we ban sleeping pills because you can swallow a whole bottle and kill yourself?