skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard somewhere that when you stop living in a certain state (say California in mid 2014) you should still file state tax in California in 2016 to show that you made no income in 2015 in California. This is supposedly a recommended way to end your 'relationship' with the state.

Can anyone confirm this please?
If you read onward, to according to chess historians Gerhard Josten and Isaak Linder, "the early beginnings" of chess can be traced [still further] back to the Kushan Empire in Ancient Afghanistan, circa 50 BCE–200 CE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empire

The Kushan were a possibly Iranian or Tocharian, Indo-European nomadic people who had migrated from the Tarim Basin and settled in ancient Bactria. These are the same people as the famous tartan-wearing Tarim Mummies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies (text) and https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tarim%20mummi... (images)

Note the grid layout of the tartan. I wonder if there are any art history papers on hypothesized sacred geometries of early, pre-Islamic Central Asia? (We know that, for example, by 2600 BC, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (present-day Pakistan), were built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets.)

(Edit in response to below: Read onward, ie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess#Origin ... nobody is disputing chaturanga, the above refers to the pre-chaturanga origins of chess-like games.)
Serious question .. How does one define orchestration? Openstack heat is an example of an orchestration system as is fig. But I don't think I can define the term clearly.
Sounds great. Should be easy to demonstrate? (especially in a 30 minute intro tutorial)
Could you provide some information on your pipeline? Specifically, I'm wondering if you are using a kmer based approach.
Does this work for you: http://www.usbtypewriter.com/pages/faq

It requires a desktop, Raspherry Pi or Android phone/tablet that supports USB OTG, http://www.corsair.com/en-us/landing/otg-compatibility-list

Maybe you could use a USB powered hub + hardware keylogger to record the keystrokes from the typewriter?
Given that ten IP values will cover 99% of routers, could as easily cycle through them all...
They killed peasants and mercenaries instead. The knights they took hostage for ransom.
Damn paywall. NSA, could you please open this up for me.

Signed,
Your humble tax paying slave.
The point isn't to decide whether they are good people or not; it's about the protections in place that should make that irrelevant. I buy all sorts of stuff from some surely shady characters, but I do so through amazon who I'm confident will make things right when they go wrong.

Coinbase is promising that if something goes wrong, they can make as much as 2% of it right. Let's hope that when something goes wrong, it's with that 2%.
Congratulations, first -- that's a good thing to run out of!

But it's a bit infuriating that the problem seems to be completely fake; that is, of course Apple has no limitations to how many review copies and/or tokens they can generate; they could trivially give you a button to request more.

In cases like yours, that would have been the more profitable choice for them... but they're operating at immense scale, which generally means removing choice as much as possible -- and there must be some loophole they're closing (though I admit I don't see it yet). They can't pay someone to check every possibly dodgy request for more copies/tokens, and so they can't check any.

/rant -- this is certainly a tangent to the article! I just found it startling. I've sold my own software and online subscriptions for more than a decade (though nothing ever likely to become big) and naturally if I feel like giving away copies, they're mine to give.
If there's a staff-made course for it on Memrise, I'd recommend that. I'm using the Chinese one, and it's perfect for small chunks and avoiding being overloaded. The charity aspect is probably better dealt with by simply donating directly, ads make essentially no money in comparison to consulting or even minimum wage.
I know that choline supplementation via lecithin pills (turns into choline + inositol) certainly helps my ability to focus.
Chess is widely believed and acknowledged by many to have orignated in India ("Chaturanga").
Does anyone know if any open source alternatives exist, hosted or self-hosted? We were planning on moving away from Subversion for tracking changes to design related PDFs and PSDs and this seemed appealing due to the extra metadata that could be displayed with revisions but now we're back to square one.
It is a lot of fun, it tastes amazing and it gets quicker and less messy the more you do it.

Recently I decided I would start getting a lot more use out of an Imperia I bought years ago, with the specific goal of getting good/fast enough to not make a huge mess and be able to (literally) crank out a few helpings quick enough for dunner. Practice makes perfect...

The most time consuming part is mixing the flour and egg, and if you don't do it well enough you're going to have a hard time rolling and particularly cutting.

It turns out that it's a perfectly acceptable 'cheat' to just use a food processor... I tried it the last time and I ended up with a decent dough in a fraction of the time it takes to hand mix. That was an encouraging development :)
Show HN: PhantomCI – Docker Based CI. Only Pay for Passing Builds
Just an update, macros have been added to Elemental's feature set.
Hydro is one of the best "green" energy sources, and we definitely need more of it.

The downside is that rivers of the size that can power a Hydro-dam are relatively rare, and ecological issues (flood zones, and whatnot) need to be taken into account.

So I'll amend my original post with Coal, Oil, Nuclear or Hydro.

Solar and Wind are absolutely terrible at "spin up" and "spin down". So other sources are needed to cover the differential.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the Persian etymology is far older (ie. Arabic [word] derives from Persian [word]) since Islam and Arabic [as a coherent linguistic and cultural force] didn't exist until many hundreds of years later.

Can any competent Persian readers consult Persian language sources to determine an Iranian take on the etymology of the word? Wiktionary at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shatranj states the following etymology for the modern English loan word: "From Arabic شطرنج (šaṭranj), from Persian شترنگ (šatrang), from Middle Persian ctlng (čatrang), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (čaturaṅga)."

(Edit: 1. Arabic does not derive from Farsi .. (Obviously) I was referring to the Arabic word in this case being a loan-word from Persian. 2. Arabic was written before farsi was An interesting tangent... it seems you are correct if limited examples of pre-standardized Arab-region languages written in pre-Arabic scripts are considered, which were allegedly circa 0CE written in Aramaic ... but {{citation-needed}} on relevance to anything at all, really.) ... TLDR; Arabic as a cultural or linguistic force appears to begin with Islam, ie. far later, whereas Persian had weight far earlier, ie. in the period under discussion.)
Extremely easy in the black market if you have the money. This is the cuban eBay: http://www.revolico.com. It is sometimes cheaper than in USA in absolute prices, but of course, this is a lot of money for most normal people.
My understanding is that in battle, there were very few knights in full plate - it was very expensive, required training, ie. tended to be nobles. So while swords were effective against the peasants, knights were usually captured alive and ransomed.
There are some interesting comments in the hackernews thread I started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859350
Counting CPU Cycles
FWIW, you can search for the headline on Google News and read the full article from there.
We changed the title to make it less misleading. Sorry we didn't see this earlier.
Ideally you'd want a business entity that is as inexpensive as possible to maintain but provides liability protection in case you're sued. Then you need to consider where you will be "registering" this business (apart from the original country) as a foreign company because that will involve expenses, tax, etc. Finally, if you're just one person, not really renting offices, not really hiring employees in the country where you are operating you need to ask yourself do you need to really register in that country as a foreign company and who would know if you didn't.

My company has been thinking of creating a sort of "world company" package for people like you: solid main entity (Wyoming LLC for example); globally accessed banking, mail scanning/forwarding, etc. I'm curious if that would appeal to you (or anybody else on HN). Email me mattknee at google's mail system if so.

Here's our general information page for international clients that might be helpful with other issues: http://www.mynewcompany.com/international.htm

Good luck!
Estate agents still add value: be it writing good ads (not everybody can describe their property), spending time with lots of potential buyers, taking care of legal and financial matters.

What should change though is the pricing structure. In a lot of countries contracts are still exclusive, payment is a provision (let's say 3-5% of the total value and thus high incentive to upsell a property), the buyer has to pay the agent fee and while one service is to pre-approve buyers there's never a guarantee or money-back if the buyer turns out bad.

In my country to become an estate agent takes 1h and 35 Euro. Of course you can get certified. That's one weekend and 1000 Euro then.

A fixed fee with maybe a fixed bonus paid by the seller would be the best model.
you can offload some of that thinking to a linting tool.
Automate yourself~!
I'm a happy Groupon user. Not sure if it is working for the companies that I buy Groupons for, but as a consumer I certainly review those emails.
> The law-enforcement scanners are different from those used to collect tolls.

Much to the chagrin of our rent-seeking overlords, whom see speed traps and red-light cameras as a means of revenue generation rather than safety measure.
What is in in the about:config for "media.peerconnection.default_iceservers"? They could have removed the default STUN server.
I find it interesting and also sobering that the connectome of the C. elegans is known since 1986 but it's still far from obvious what to do with it.
not legal advice; no endorsement of any 'illegal activities'
JUST TECHNICAL.
the problem is running an ethernet cable over the roof
of a bystander.

a.) spray open wifi all over could be a 'security risk'
b.) WIFI beamforming or point to point and a directed beam.
using also a potatato chip pringles can is a possible solution.

c,) for those engineers, for engineers are disappearing
from the USA; why bother studying technical subjects?

lightning and electrical wires on top of the roof?

d.) it does not seem to BE SECRET SECRET

e.) air gaps may be ok. every two hours fast bicycle ride
and the solid state drive. Obviously only transfer diffs
via rsync or whatever protocol.

beamforming with central nodes?
Hah. During the moment, when I realized the massive influx and that I was "out" of tokens, it was incredibly disheartening... one of those moments where the floor seems to disappear type of things.

it's just the "price" one pays for being part of this ecosystem i suppose. very thankful for it in general, but, there is always room for improvement.
Well I should qualify my statements. I think R&D and one time installation tax credits are great and work. I totally and completely disdain feed-in tariffs. Solar should be able to walk on it's own, but I think it's reasonable to give it a hand up.

I don't believe there is too much confusion in terms of what alternative energy source work or do not. There are, however, plenty of entities pushing forward their interests.

For a quick run-down on the truly viable alternative sources:

Solar power:

* Works, it's sustainable, it will only get better. It has already reached grid parity in many markets, this trend will absolutely not reverse but continue.
* Is nowhere near it's optimal efficiency, has tons of room for optimization of both cost efficiency and conversation efficiency (basically reducing the area required to reach a desired power output).
* Requires a grid that is built with solar power in mind. Requires baseload generation, of which nuclear and natural gas are the best candidates (assuming the natural gas glut continues on).

Wind Power:

* Works, proven technology. It has reach grid parity in more markets than solar.
* Is nearly at the limits of it's theoretical efficiency. There are pretty much only manufacturing cost and economy-of-scale gains to be had here, which I think really hurts wind power's future unless some sort revolutionary change happens in manufacturing process takes place.
* Also needs a grid that plays nice with, with baseload assistance.

Hyro:

* Not much to say here, it's capped, very little room to grow. Extremely economically efficient but serious ecological effects.

Geothermal:

* See hydro, but will less serious ecological effects.

Biomass:

* Total crapfest. Until such time as we can bio-engineer some plant that turns sunlight directly into petrol or the like, biomass offers a
a net gain to carbon emissions, especially in the case of corn. Sorghum/Sugar Cane is more interesting but hasn't panned out as of yet, mostly because of it being picky where it grows (it seems unwise to turn rain forest area into sorghum fields in the name of alternative renewable energy).

Nuclear:

* Massive amount of energy in a small form factor.
* Potential for very bad accidents. (see: black swan event)
* Nuclear proliferation concerns, nuclear waste to manage.
* Decent economic efficiency.
* Nuclear has a niche but can hardly be the world's power source. Would you want every country to be full of nuclear plants, including those whose governments change monthly, are prone to extreme corruption, etc. There are plenty of trade groups they are lobbying for support of "safe" nuclear technologies such as Thorium based breeder reactors, but the truth is these designs are almost entirely vaporwear, and have faults and dangers of their own.

I feel rather strongly the solar is the way forward, with nuclear in stable well-regulated countries for base load, with natural gas/hydro/wind/geothermal filling in the rest.
Inside Microsoft’s New Rendering Engine for the “Project Spartan”
If you use Chrome and a Tor SOCKS proxy, get ready for a big surprise.

Edit: owfffjaqvllmh4zi.onion reveals true IP addresses when using Chrome through Privoxy and Tor chain.
He has been doing the same thing for his other framework that has been around for much longer. I assume the note about training is directed towards those who have use his Durandal training/consulting and may be interested in doing the same for this new framework.
it could be interpreted as dishonest in a number of ways... since the blog post and/or review would no longer be an unbiased review... but rather there was now a financial transaction and thus introducing motive for a more positive review.

it now is a "sponsored" blog post instead of an impartial review.
The Man Whose Mission Is to Stop Consumer Crime Online
Here is a link that avoids the paywall:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The C64 did not use ASCII. It has upper and lower exchanged.

My operating system uses LZW compression.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Kernel/Compress.html
Dump noodles in bowl. Fill bowl with water. Walk away indefinitely. I don't care how much time that takes, because it's neither timed nor attended, unlike boiling pasta.

("Washing the soaking container?")

There's no real "timing" the pasta during cooking. "Heat noodles through". Done.

You should try it.
There was a generalisation of the eigenface technique to 3D published in Siggraph about 15 years ago.
http://gravis.cs.unibas.ch/Sigg99.html

One of the authors is still working on refining their approach, by the looks of it: http://gravis.cs.unibas.ch/projects.html
If you have a hot liquid to cook the pasta in, you don't need to bring-to-boil; you can heat rehydrated noodles through in oil, butter, bacon fat, or whatever.
Space Invaders + Comic =
3 Tips for Using Glass Stair Balustrade
Currently taking OMSCS via Georgia Tech and Udacity. Loving it so far. It will only cost ~$8k in total for a masters degree and my work (and many companies) will cover ~85% of the total cost.
Hello and thanks a lot, I always appreciate those kind of initiatives. If you have not yet been flooded with requests, here are both my web apps: https://www.printmosaic.com and https://www.everytimehq.com

Many thanks in advance!
The reproducible builds talk at 31C3 also does a nice job of explaining some of the many possible attack vectors that make reproducible builds desirable, and many of the subtleties involved in making it work:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6240_-_en_-_...
Why would you store all your pasta rehydrated? That doesn't make any sense.
Twitter cards with metamagic
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this paper-napkin math isn't entirely off-course... and my time as a developer would make much more fiscal sense if i went and did contract work... hell, i did this for a long time and made a ton of money in comparison to my "take" as an indie developer via the MAS.

But, that wasn't the point and wasn't the motive... so, i am okay with "eating" those costs so that i might be more "in control" of this product's destiny.

appreciate the support... this is what makes "indie development" worth it.
A spear or halberd were much more effective than swords.

Swords were partially ceremonial and partially "nobility" weapons. Walking around with a spear in town is tiring, because its big, heavy and awkward.

On the other hand, swords can be sheathed. They were expensive to manufacture, so they denoted wealth. And finally, they were effective weapons at the end of the day.

Pistol vs Machine Gun is the best way to compare a Swordman vs Spearman. It is said that you can train a Spearman in a week to beat even expert Swordsmen (with years of training) regularly.

Spears / Polearms were cheaper to manufacture, more effective in the battlefield, and easier to teach. Swords were more of a "city personal defense weapon", very similar to pistols today. I'm sure the HEMA players around here know how much that range advantage gives you.

A Halberd was perhaps the perfection of Medieval combat weaponry. A long spear-tip for stabbing, a strong blade for cutting, and a hook for pulling people off of horses. Halberds could definitely do a lot more than swordmen, at much cheaper costs.

I mean, what is a swordman supposed to do against a heavy-Calvary charge? Halberdiers also outrange Swordmen, and have stronger formations. The two-handed poleweapon can be swung with massive leverage that can break shields and cut through even plate with ease. While the stabbing point can be dug in to brace against calvery charges. It was an effective weapon at all stages of medieval combat.

The only swordmen on the medieval battlefield were the legendary "Double-paid" Zweihanders (The Doppelsöldner). But the massive swords these Doppelsoldners used were approximately the same size as a halberd.

http://i.imgur.com/KPEFFD4.jpg

But they were expensive, and the full-metal massive swords that they wielded were heavy, expensive, and required extensive training. (ie: more expensive) It was more effective in the long term to just train more Halberdiers, and the Zweihanders left the battlefield by the 1500s.

In any case, the "Longsword" is much shorter than these Zweihanders, and is at a considerable range disadvantage against spearmen. Mind you, King Author of legend killed Mordred with a Spear.

Swords were probably carried by Soldiers in case their primary weapon broke. They are excellent sidearms (like Pistols today), but I personally am much more comfortable with a pole-weapon (Spear, Pike or Halberd) than I am with a Sword. And I started with Foil Fencing mind you.
I think the parent commenter is trying to make the point that candy bars commonly melt in people's pockets by processes other than microwave radiation. Body heat, or the weather in Arizona can both cause the same effect. Microwave radiation near your crotch is, fortunately, not common at all.

Unboiling an egg seems a lot less mundane than a candy bar melting, to me.
This article isn't, but the pasta section in the Ideas In Food cookbook is.
Drats, no Unicode support! I hope it saved my page/card in its original form, or else I might have to retype it again by the time support is available.
Making everyone else become a vegan (or, at least, internalizing the externalities associated with livestock so that market forces would make that a much more common choice), but doing so yourself won't. Classic tragedy of the commons.
Same deal in the UK with the national ANPR system (Automatic Number Plate Recognition).

Ostensibly to reduce the amount of uninsured/untaxed drivers on the roads.

Don't want to sit around in databases? Well, here's a nice list of just a few of the things you can't have:

Bank account; Car/motorcycle; Mobile telephone; Internet-connected computer; Credit/debit card; Visible face (oh, we might be safe there, for a few years)

Unless of course you're a criminal, in which case you can handily avoid a lot of this!

I used to think we could escape surveillance using technology. Fool's errand. We'd need an entire culture change. It's gone.

If blanket video coverage of public areas is fine, why not blanket audio coverage? Add in facial and audio recognition. Now consider you're running about with a microphone webcam combo in your pocket, the power and battery life of which will only increase.

I hate it with every ounce of my being, but I can't see a way out here. I can't see the 'line', any more.
The New England Patriots Prevention of Fumbles Is Nearly Impossible
Except that their amateur creations end up as being used for really important stuff. With hugely disastrous results. Excel misuse seems to be rampant in the business world, from what I've seen from my customers.

Perhaps "teaching them Excel" will lead to a deep understanding. Perhaps "teaching them Excel" will just be like how I "learned" Excel back in high school- a teacher standings in front of the class just saying "press this button, now press this button."

Excel abuse was cited as a part of the reason JPMorgan lost 6 billion dollars.

I don't know...
This study might not be the final word, but as someone who has taken quite a few antihistamine pills over the years, I was certainly a little concerned upon seeing hay-fever mentioned. I'm glad to see that the medication I took is a little different from the ones in the study.

From the article:

> A study has linked commonly used medicines, including over-the-counter treatments for conditions such as insomnia and hay-fever, to dementia.

> All of the types of medication in question are drugs that have an "anticholinergic" effect.

From Wikipedia: [1]

> Cetirizine /sɛˈtɪrɨziːn/ (trade names Zyrtec, Reactine).

> Unlike many other antihistamines, Cetirizine does not exhibit anticholinergic properties.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetirizine
I can agree that it is a bit overwhelming to keep up with the new 0day hotness. But in all honesty it's also exciting. Things are changing constantly, and mostly for the better. I am particularly glad to be a front end developer and enjoy the constant strive to learn the newest thing.
seriously? You look at that thing and think it's beautiful? I haven't seen anything look that ugly since the first kindle. It in no way, shape, or form resembles any typewriter hemingway used.

It looks like a the kind of thing you'd find in a baby store. Does it honk a horn when you hit the big red button?