skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's far from "a hidden fee." You simply have to know the rules.

In some states, there is sales tax. In others, none. Sales tax may or may not be applied to clothing depending on state. Sales tax may or may not be applied to food, or only some kinds of food (e.g., alcohol always taxed), or only to food above a certain threshold.

All in all there's nothing hidden about sales tax. It shouldn't be a surprise that people are expected to know how the sales tax system in their state works when they are interacting with it every day.
Summing up -

"Rather than worry about 'detoxing,' people would be better off thinking about eating nutritious, health-promoting foods on a daily basis. Think leafy greens, beans, whole fruit, nuts, and seeds. The idea that six months of unhealthy eating can somehow be remedied by drinking nothing but green juice for 72 hours is erroneous."
I've had a first-class upgrade be only $15 more than the checked bag fee. One should always check the price and compare it to the fees they are expecting to pay anyway.
Hrm.... Really makes me uncomfortable to say "I love Coq" conversationally.
You can play around with the altitude the visualisation is showing winds for. I'm assuming a lot of wind is slowed down by topographical features at lower altitudes. At 9000m and above there seems to be little difference between land and sea in the visualisation.
Washington takes on Uber with its own taxi app
"They're really pushing the bounds of what we can do with Coq further and further."

Said the actress to the bishop.
What percentage of people passed the Marshmellow experiment?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmellow_test
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How to measure the real performance of mobile game
The new Inbox has "Top Hits", which is a more relevance-based search for email. It seems to work quite nicely, for me. I like that it gives you a couple highly-relevant emails, and the rest are still time-sorted for combing through all results.
Admittedly, I thought of the sexual double-entendre. Muff can make a nice scarf...

But I digress.
if "next generation processes" is really the best you can come up with...

Those people are working on EUV at ASML. Those are the next generation processes. What you're suggesting is they have some super science quantum-tunneling barrier that the world has never heard of nor seen nor thought could exist.
> ADHD testing because 100% of the time the result was "positive" and they were medicated.

They actually have a qEEG test that does a very good job highlighting differences between the ADD brain and a neurotypical brain. This is at least 10 year old research, so i have no idea where it is today.
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That was my impression when I took a course in C++ as a grad student. The course emphasized C++11, so I assume it represented (at the time, early 2013) modern usage. But 80% of every lecture consisted of presenting some example code, and explaining how what you think this code should do (if indeed it's obvious at all) is probably wrong. So many gotchas. It made me terrified to think of trying to write/test/debug a large and sophisticated C++ code base.
You're using the Hacker News Search API from Algolia (which is great),
but you'll probably want to read about the main HN API:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422599

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Obviously this is just one more anecdote, but this exact same thing happened to me on the Iberia website about two years ago, while looking for flights from Europe to South America.

I kept track of my searches in a spreadsheet, so I know for a fact that the price went up slightly (I think it was by 20€), and went back down immediately when I switched to a different browser.

Again, this was unfortunately too long ago for me to have reasonable proof, and it hasn't happened since (perhaps because I now tend to avoid Iberia anyway; they're pretty crappy in other ways as well).
Europe has a stronger copyright which has actually proven a bit more sane than our software patent woes; both granting more protection than copyright but less than an algorithm patent.
What can HN readers do about that? Off the top of my head, you could contact the reporter, and make a website (in Spanish) with the good farms, and the bad ones, so at least a few farmers could avoid the bad ones. Or let the farmers post reviews and ratings.

Excellent strategy. BTW there's a name for the practice of avoiding produce from farms with consistently bad ratings. It's called "boycotting."
Yep, so he DESERVED TO DIE, right?
> If these companies, whether it's Microsoft, Google, or others, encrypted as much of their services as possible, end-to-end, without them having the ability to decrypt that data, this wouldn't be such an issue, because the US gov can't legally force the companies to decrypt what they can't decrypt.

That's possible for some, but not for all services. For example you can have a personal online storage that's encrypted, but you can't have an online store that's encrypted where you can easily share files with somebody else who can see the files in a web browser. Or collaborative document editing. You can't easily and without end-user involvement have an end-to-end encrypted mail service etc.
Google Recommends Android Developers to Switch from Eclipse to Android Studio
Even with priority check-in/boarding and TSA pre-check, it's still a good idea to show up at the airport ~2 hours before an international flight. You can probably cut it closer but, personally, the last thing I want before an international flight is to be stressed about cutting things close.
Cashless Payments for Black Cabs in London
The x86tso file mentioned there is from this project: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/

They have some interesting material there on building models of processors' memory-concurrency behavior. Unfortunately, reading the vendors' own manuals is not a good way to find out about that, even if you excuse the verbosity. Memory-consistency behavior is often very vaguely or indirectly specified in the architecture manuals, and worse, behavior of the actual parts does not always reliably agree with the manuals. A good paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/cacm.pdf
Or do the sane thing most other people do: back up an imperfect but effective algorithm with competent human review.
User canvia posted information about this in another tree [0][1]. I think a good summary would be decreasing prices up until about 2003, when they seem to level out around the high $300's, with an apparently exceptional drop in years 2009-2010.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8752643
[1] http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/airfares/programs/economics_and_...
Fwiw, congestion tax is already a thing: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
Overcoming Your Startups Marketing Obstacles
Ask HN: What problem am I solving?
Hey there,

So I am sure I'm not the first engineer to build a technology without solving a specific problem, but when you have something you're excited about, it's hard to block that out.

Bashoto was built out based on the ideas developed in the systems used to communicate between Bing Maps streetside cars in real-time. We had the cars drive cities in small groups of 3-5 cars and mounted a tablet each of them. The cars communicated in real-time with only nearby cars to show where everyone was driving, so that roads wouldn't get driven over more than once. The cars would track the unique kilometers they drove (in real-time of course) and drivers would be compensated based on that. With Bashoto, I've generalized that technology into a simple API leveraging WebSockets, an asynchronous backend (Tornado) and some Geospatial knowhow. Cool shit, right?

Well now that I have built out the product in the form of an API (See it at https://bashoto.com), I'm not sure the specific problem I am solving and I'd love some input here. Saying that we're solving the problem of communicating locally in real-time is pretty much a cop out. Even figuring out what the problem statement for other players in the same space are would be super helpful; Pusher, Pubnub, Firebase, etc.

And of course check out Bashoto at https://bashoto.com

If you think this stuff is neat, follow us @bashotoapps

Adios!
Java 8, BYO Super Efficient Maps Quadruple Your Map Performance
I agree; real time surge pricing for congested roads would be the optimal solution. But just imagine the outcry in the population when you try to implement road charges for all inner city roads. This is another example of an economically perfectly sound concept which is in many parts of the world politically completely unfeasible (at least for the moment). On top of that, couldn't you argue that transportation is a basic human right? If so, you would have to either discriminate against the poor or adjust the rates based on income, which again makes this a politically very hot and difficult topic.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=365230.365257 and gratis copies elsewhere; required reading since 1966. Of course "off-side" is a football term, somewhat significant in England later that year.

However, Python doesn't use Landin's off-side rule; colons are required, c.f. Haskell's usual syntax. Emacs works anyhow.
Basically, I'm assuming my current environment will continue (having fast Internet, and having Dropbox exist and have high uptime). It's not like I'm screwed if one of these factors suddenly changes- all of my files are still on my computer and on my occasional hard drive backups. I would just have to find a different backup method or back up to my HDD more regularly.

> backup to an offsite file-server that you also control

This doesn't help with problems A, B, or C in your list. It's not like Dropbox uses an order of magnitude more bandwidth than an offsite fileserver. And in that case, I'm depending on my fileserver host to continue to exist.

I'd also be relying on my own ability to configure and maintain a secure fileserver and keep it up-to-date with security patches, etc. While I can certainly do that, my time is worth money to me. I'd rather pay $10/mo to people who do it full-time for a living.
The Comic Sans Machine
Nonce means mild idiot in my social circles. I wasn't implying they were a social offender. I wasn't even aware of its implications. Learn something every day.

I'd delete the comment but HN has got ridiculously militant about that now and I can't.
Why Ramda – Functional JavaScript Library
In a french accent it's more like "Cuck", that's how I say it in my head. Luckily, I don't have to say it out loud.
Playing devil's advocate, Amazon should have the liberty to choose what to sell. Obviously, they cannot abuse, bad publicity is bad for sales, but in this case -IANANES- (I'm not a native english speaker) the examples sound bad. "red-head scarf" is -to me, IANANES- a scarf made of a red head or a scarf specially designed for redheads.
I experienced this just the other day. My father was looking at a price in his computer that I couldn't get (I was getting one that was $500 extra). I erased the cookies of the AA site, refreshed (exactly the same flights, the same days, everything the same) and bam! $500 dollars cheaper.
I wrote something similar a few years ago:

http://GitHub.com/zerorm/zerorm
That's a really poor response.

When Joyce published his first novel as a nobody, people like you would've said something equally thoughtless about his grammar, followed up by a glib "the writer is no Arthur Conan Doyle."
What about Eric Chaisson's Cosmic Evolution, Goodwin's Signs of Life, Shrodinger's What is Life?, Stuart Kauffman's At Home in the Universe? All of these books I've read which argue the same damn thing as this guy, so what's new? That last book by Kauffman is probably the most simialr, and I highly recommend it to those interested.
Sounds like something that could only exist on Cydia. Has anyone checked there?
Well, that's the basic technological point, then you need the commands to make it useful for writing code at production speed, and not just a gimmick.
Feel free to contact me. My e-mail is in my profile. There are many good opportunities for devs out there.

I would look for something over the holidays but continue to state your objections.
Your attempted defense of the US system is ineffective because it applies to all hidden fees. Any company ever that uses trickery to load additional fees on you could say, "well, you simply have to know the rules."
New Beatport Music Site to Offer Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Service
Deserved, no. But precipitated, yes. For police to allow thugs to take their weapon is NOT an effective policy.
So basically one needs to re-implement smart pointers in Javascript, right ?

What are the alternative to js style GC,for a language that wouldnt want to the developper to use manual memory allocation.I've heard about ARC.Are there other known architectures?
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From what I understand, Early Intervention services (not limited to autism) are available in all 50 states (funded federally through IDEA).

http://www.autismspeaks.org/family-services/tool-kits/100-da...
Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices
Sounds like the new tech leadership is taking the opportunity to scratch a technical itch (learning and building stuff on Golang) rather than giving a crap about the actual business they are helping to build and move forward.

With such an aggressive delivery date, they have already figured out they have no hope of reaching it, so they aren't going to blow their holidays on it. But they aren't telling you (and presumably the rest of the team) because they want to see what you can accomplish.

From here you have a couple options:

1) Get jazzed up about the technology and hitch your wagon to theirs. The project will likely fail spectacularly, but you might learn some skills that will come in handy for your next job.

2) Run, don't walk to your next gig.

My suggestion would be to stick things out through the holidays and start looking for a new gig in January when the job market is usually better. But don't work any more hours than you normally would.
Huh, that's interesting. Over here (Seattle), UberX feels more like Paris' UberPop (citizen drivers, their cars, however still some regulation by Uber) and UberBlack is the full on towncar service that's professionally licensed (and most of them run private car services on the side).
Firefox 34.0 on Ubuntu 14.10 is "unable to connect securely: Firefox cannot guarantee the safety of your data on fancyssl.hboeck.de because it uses SSLv3, a broken security protocol.
Advanced info: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap"
Strange error, considering you use TLS 1.2 only.
No, I don't want image display. I want to replicate Atom's inlining editing features. Did you look into that? This is one example:
https://discuss.atom.io/t/expand-css-rules-inline-html/12437
This is a great piece, definitely, but the question I have, do you - Americans - consider $500 a fair/reasonable amount of money to pay for a plane ticket? (I even had to lookup the average salary in the USA)

I'm from Europe myself, and it usually costs us anywhere from $40 to $150 to travel anywhere in Europe, though the prices do go up if you want to go to a place such as China, Thailand, or even India. But then again, that's Asia!
While there's only so much privacy you can technically expect from an operator of a web data storage service, I think being upset about an opt-out study - announced only via blog and twitter - that would benefit the operator personally and users almost not at all isn't really unreasonable.

Edit after downvote: I use Pinboard and like it, think Maciej is a fantastic guy, and don't personally have problems with this study, but come on guys. He'll be alright with some dissent.
Atlassian makes most of its money from Jira and Confluence - Bamboo, stash, bitbucket, etc, are a very small part of their portfolio.
Seconded! I've been working my way through both of those for a while. For those who like watching lectures (as I do), I would also recommend Pierce's lectures on the same material as Software Foundations, Harper's lectures on type theory, and the other associated lecture serieses, all coming from a session of the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, and available on youtube. Unfortunately there are some gaps in the software foundations lectures, but considering that it's a complement to an already detailed set of literature, it's not a major issue. Also unfortunately, the quality of the audio and video aren't always the greatest. But, beggars can't be choosers! It's still great material.
It is (though it might be an encouragement to sample the joy that is BBC Four), but the bigger sadness is that they're down to 3 lecures. I used to attend in person as a kid, back in the days when there were five hour long lectures, allowing the presenter real space to explore their subject in depth. 3 hours is still a good run, but I hanker for what once was!
Why concentrate on B2C? Aren't there other businesses that need coordination of multiple vehicles? Police, rescue workers, farmers? Some high end tractors have GPS to store which part of field they worked on.

http://www.fendt.it/images/939Vario_Multifunktionsarmlehne.j...
You, youngsters. I started with fx-7200 with whooping 422 bytes of memory and it was awe-so-me.
That's true, though I blame C++ for its lack of a standard ABI more than I would blame Rust. Not that that helps if you're just trying to get work done.
I think RPN was initially adopted for electronic calculators because it is easy to implement. As numbers are entered, they are pushed onto the stack, and then the operations pop operands off of the stack and push results back on the stack. Similarly, code in an RPN language like Forth can be executed left-to-right by pushing the operands onto the stack, and then the operation manipulates the contents of the stack.
It's false confidence (confidence intervals, assuming that distributions don't change, etc) that causes real problems. Never trust a novice running a regression. :-)
If the document is shared with select people, you can still use encryption to share keys. If it's shares with anyone with a link, you have very little to stand on to say it's protected by the 4th amendment in the first place.
iSSH includes an X11 display server, and I've had reasonable success using it with clients on an assortment of architectures, including a Tru64 VM running Open Genera. I wouldn't expect it to work well with something like video playback unless you've got a very fast and uncongested wireless network (or possibly a Lightning-to-Ethernet adapter, if such things exist), but if you don't need that kind of sustained responsiveness, it's at least worth a try.
This is amazing. This took me back to the 90's when I was learning BASIC by scrounging for books in our school library. I grew up in Oman and there weren't too many programming resources. So I had to make do with random BASIC books that were often in different dialects (Apple BASIC for example).

I also reinvented the wheel many times and wrote a bunch of silly little programs. It was a great and fun experience and this story really took me back.
Most "bigger" SoCs have a secondary processor for SoC bringup/boot. (It's not uncommon to see a tiny ARM7 or something in this role). Since Broadcom succeeded in making a particularly general purpose core for their GPU (it seems that the GPU runs a full RTOS written in C), it only makes sense (well, to me at least) that it could take over that role as well to save on the transistor budget.
It could be a scarf that somehow makes you look like a redhead.
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Eureka! Why you shouldn't use ZooKeeper for service discovery
At my Uni the assumption was that you didn't need to know before you started, but the upkick in 2nd year classes was very difficult, and you'd wind up with a few "15+ hours of non-class work per week" simultaneously. So most of the top students had programmed before, but there were a couple very talented outliers who just had an aptitude for it. (Smart plus no bad habits plus work ethic)
Darwinian survival exists. It has existed as a natural phenomenon since the first relics of life ever graced the Universe.

The human question is whether we can develop a better localized system for our species. The problem is that if you're on top, Darwinian survival is a pretty sweet gig. That disincentivizes people in power from taking a long-term view.
"Kickin' APIs to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger" :)
I am both amazed and ashamed at some things I've used coq for.
Totally. Your career is yours alone. If you don't need the money immediately then why be unhappy?

Put it this way. You've spent 2 years 3mos at this company. You're a free agent and now is the time to focus on other career opportunities. Your boss won't fault you. When people ask what you're gonna do just say you are evaluating your options. If they ask why you are leaving just be very straight forward.

Be prepared for a counter offer if you are critical to the team.
Oculus just bought two very interesting VR tech companies
If you use the Pinboard bookmarklet, there is autocomplete functionality that works just fine.
I mentioned that modern science deals with the matter, and not science because science itself is an abstract term.

Here by matter or material includes even ideas and inference because they all stem from mind and mind is built of subtlest matter (as per Samkhya philosophy upon which Raja Yoga is based).

The method to experience of consciousness in Raja Yoga is not consequence free – direct experience of ones own consciousness is the best experience a man can have, and it transforms him thereafter forever. Also read Kundalini by Gopi Krishna.

The process itself is far from boaring and you'll be surprised the changes/experiences you start to observe within few weeks/months of starting the enquiry. (But beware of scammers who sell trademark techniques!)

Btw, I'm not professing any religion here. It's just that there's a method of enquiry which many people throughout the history have attempted and they have experienced something which you also can provided that you dare to. (Samkhya philosophy in fact denies existence of God as we know it but only professes idea of pure consciousness)

Swamij.com is also a good read for curious folks. I have been researching and practicing for some time. I have good number of proofs which modern science has recognized, plus my experiences of last few months. I plan to write an article on this some day. .
> burning fossil fuels release carbon dioxide and water vapour

Either I have completely misunderstood something, or fossil fuels release only CO2 and H2O under ideal conditions, which never happens. Add to the fact that any jet engine is unable to utilize any after treatment systems to remove harmful products. I am fully aware that hydrogen is rather expensive to produce, but I think it's possible that nuclear energy, or (as you mention) excess solar/wind power is several magnitudes cleaner than even the cleanest burning fossil fuel engine (including all the resources it takes to pump it up and refine it).
Sometimes a cringe-inducing name is great for visibility and marketing. See "Wii", even "iPad"...
I believe your parent is referring to storing trait objects in something like Arc<T>, which is not supported: currently, Arc<T> requires T to be sized.
TileStrata: a pluggable map tile server in Node.js
Hey, I remember this! I'm surprised it's still going.

The original author, Slava Pestov, is the main developer behind jEdit, a wonderful little editor. Slava is scary talented, but I remember thinking I was just too dumb to wrap my head around Factor in any serious way.
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http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/ gives a sense of where the standards committee is going.
I don't see how that interface is nearly as good as Pinboard's. I guess we just have different tastes.