skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all fairness they weren't really a hardware company. Their "hardware" was off the shelf. They sold the service, not the hardware.
Actually yes. During college;a friend of mine and I would purchase broken-used-sports-cars on craigslist, repair them in a garage we rented and resell them.

I owned some sweet cars for as little as weeks at a time, made some loot(a little) and I learned a shit ton about fixing cars.
Rulog – logic programming system for ruby
I probably should've thrown in combinatorics, which certainly existed before calculus or linear algebra, and certainly plays a role in applied math.

I would say graph theory is part of combinatorics, and set theory is part of logic.

Category theory was born out of trying to abstract the relationships between different objects in abstract algebra, so is kind of the child of abstract algebra and logic. I think it's fair to say the parents of abstract algebra are combinatorics and linear algebra.

Number theory at an elementary level is combinatorics, but at higher levels branches into analytic number theory (Calculus) and algebraic number theory ((Linear) Algebra).
I wonder if this is novel way to tax tho? I.e. taxes come from people who spend their money recreationally only.
What Exchange server are you using?
Show HN: Screenbeacon – Easy to use web design monitoring
I don't see how this is lock-in, unless they have somehow crippled the exporting feature. It seems like the only thing preventing you from moving that 70GB of photos is a lack of motivation.
Also says $75 here https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/84
Cities like NYC and SF are a bit of an exception in the US - they're very desirable cities, and their housing stock is more or less filled. Getting a place to live, even with sufficient income, is a bit of a chore.

In other markets, there are houses that sit vacant. Bringing the minimum income up helps narrow the gap between the price floor on these properties, and the amount people are able to pay. That is, a basic income would help more efficiently distribute housing in less desirable areas.

If someone on basic income wants to move to NYC, they'll still need to work hard, and get enough money to compete with all the other people who want to live in NYC.
I think the goal is to have FastBoot use your existing client-side javascript app, the idea being that one codebase in one language is simpler and better.
Sounds convincing.

I'm not clear on the "million tricks" though. Suppose you embed some machine language in a string javascript, and use your r1/r2 trick - how can you compute the address of the machine language you want to execute?

Or are you saying there are existing chunks of machine language in the OS or apps that would be useful to remote execute, with no arguments?
In what profession do people not stand on the shoulders of others?
What problems in particular were you having that makes this is a great solution?
This was me a few years ago. While I could have bought used, the premium for a known history of the car was worth it since I knew I would keep it for 10+ years. You pay more to reduce some risk over the lifetime of the car.
Shorting means borrowing the asset from someone else and selling it, not buying then selling.

I'd guess shorting isn't allowed but could be wrong. It certainly should be allowed.
You likely have dangerously worn out wheel bearings for the wheel to have that much play in it.

I don't use that word lightly, the wheel is going to eventually detach from the vehicle, quite possibly when travelling quickly or making a turn.
I'm reminded of a (possibly apocryphal) study of Warcraft III and/or Starcraft cheaters, specifically ones that hacked the fog of war on the map. They found that the cheaters actually lost more, on average, because they spent so much time watching their opponents' moves that they neglected their own side.
Have a look at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/#Object.definePrope...

I'm currently working on a data persistence module with database backend in Node.js using Object.defineProperty that define get and set.
The Seven Layer Model Is Dead
Gamer raided by Swat team in front of 60,000 viewers
You can't mill any serious PCBs. Not for prototype and certainly not for production.

What about vias, or soldermasks?!

That machine is great for CNCing plastics and metals however.
> Nothing is in place to stop basic income from causing housing prices to raise, and is one of the reasons we have food stamps and medicare instead of basic income.

Aside from any concerns about your basic premise, I think you've confused Medicare (the old-age/disability medical insurance system funded by payroll taxes) with Medicaid (the medical insurance system for the poor funded by general funds).
Can't reply to neckro23, and I don't know why. But he made a comment that the problem with the article is they bought a used luxury car not designed for repair. My question: Are ANY new cars designed to be easy to repair? while my old Bronco isn't the easiest to work on, it is much more "mechanical" in nature, with lots of room in the engine compartment and under the body to do work. I wonder what it's like to do non-trivial repairs on a 2015 F-150.
I'm not sure what it read when you wrote this comment, but it currently reads "to own a cheap car." Used is implied, certainly, but I don't think "barely used" is part of it.

Basically, a two-year-old Toyota with 20k miles doesn't qualify.
With the JVM of the near future [0] running JavaScript natively, that could change again. Long before you know it, you'd be running java-scala-clojure-javascript code inside of the same jvm on the server, and on the client...

[0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-nashorn...
The Google Maps API Is Broken on Android 5
Really appreciate your candid reply. That's a shame. In the end I imagine people regret forsaking relationships for material gains, but greed is a powerful force.

Have you participated in startups since then? Did you take any extra precautions after this experience?
No I mean the way it was written sounded dated, 2000-ish.
If you did a tiny bit of research you'd know. But you'd rather fire off a 1 liner response.
>Predictably, it will raise less proportionately than the increase in income in that segment,

How are you predicting this?
Ask HN: Do startups follow Unix philosophy,or is 'one thing well' resource ltd.?
A lot of the development trends in utilizing app integrations, where one app does one thing very well and exchanges data with other apps, seems similar to the UNIX pipe philosophy - "make each program do one thing well" and you're able to then pipe them for an output.

macbook > bitbucket > drone.io> dploy > digital ocean etc.

I don’t know if this is a function of small startups not having the resources to go big, or a conscious effort / recoil from bloatware like Lotus Notes (no offense to IBM.) Dropbox seems to keep their functionality very concise, for example. Wanted to ask what the inside talk may be regarding this, if at all. TY.
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2) We currently support Stripe, Paypal and Coinbase -- what payment system should we add next?

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A cultural and structural change is needed when things like GPG get nothing, while viral, superficial and gimmicky work gets snapped up for millions or billions, when end users choose free products that threaten privacy and flood our world with advertising rather than pay the price of a cup of coffee for quality trustworthy products.

Even sadder is the fact that these "free" things actually cost us much, much more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
I love that. I also love that when he finally gets expensive boots, he hates them because he can't tell what street he's on in the dark anymore.
Don't know about Moxie's situation, but Werner Koch also has a young child and a wife [who's not working, according to the article] to support.
> Well, somehow engineers and architects manage to resist management pressures in favor for security

When this does happen, it's often because management's "security" request is either nonsensical--based on some puff piece they saw in an airport magazine--or they won't accept the necessary financial-costs/organizational-changes of doing it right.

It's no coincidence that the people with the most exemptions from security policy are usually the upper management.
Marie Curie actually taught her kids this way for a few years. A small group of friends (mostly college professors) each picked a subject. Marie designed hands - on experiments to teach the group physics. She and Pierre Curie did not think much of France's school system at the time. In her biography their complaints about science education sound very contemporary. "The more things change, the more they stay the same".
That was my point - Basic Income doesn't provide any additional benefits to targeted assistance, and would actually be a detriment in markets with income-elastic demand.
To be fair there are many tourists coming to Prague just to drink. And we usually drink low-alcohol beer, 10 degree beer has ~3% alcohol content. And finally hard alcohol is less popular.

Actual alcohol consumption is not that high. But yes, in pub water is often more expensive than beer.
But this applies to any javascript program (or compiled to javascript). If you have specific requirements then scala.js is not the tool. Scala is.
Are you talking about, e.g. "AirPair"?

I wouldn't be an "expert" for hire on those services, either, because the prices are all race-to-the-bottom programming/engineering-skill-is-a-commodity prices.
I disagree completely. I just sacked my favorite car of all time (2001 BMW 740i) because maintenance was becoming too much for what I was willing to pay (2k-3k a year). I had it 4 years and it had 120k miles when I sold it.

Same goes for my 1995 BMW 530i. At the time, my mechanic even told me that it was probably time for another car (and it only had 140k on it).
ROV dives deep in Antarctic waters with Linux-based cams
Ha, for a Minute I forgot that I was on HN.
I like prismatic for its design, strong engineering mindset and Bradford Cross. But I don't understand prismatic's goal. Are they trying to become feedly/newsblur? Or they they want to create this taste graphs for users?

What is the core problem they are trying to solve? Or just building out cool technology and setting themselves up for an acquisition/acquihire by a media company like Yahoo? How are they planning to make money?
Most of the people who replied to you are wrong.

Basic income could be implemented by NOT raising taxes. So it would NOT cause inflation. Eliminate current social services (and all the financial overhead associated to it: entire government departments who sole job is to administer these services, etc), and just redistribute the funds that would have gone to these services to be, instead, redistributed as basic income. There. All you are doing is shuffling money around to change its distribution while reducing financial overhead. You are not raising taxes or creating new money. Money is just better distributed and hence spent on different areas of the economy.

(I don't know why, in the article, James Manzi says tax increases would be required. Maybe he has a certain opinion that in order to be effective, basic income should be greater than a minimum level that would not be met by my description above? I think my basic income would be sufficient. The US spends $1.5 trillion per year on welfare and pensions. If you take that money, one could redistribute it as a basic income of $1070 per month per household. That's significant enough to very helpful for society IMHO.)
Give me a break.

I've never bought a new car in my life and never intend to.

My current daily is a 1992 Subaru Loyale that I bought for $450. It has selectable 4x4, gets amazing mileage on the highway (>35mpg) and has lived through many Yukon winters. It starts nicely even below -40C/F. Being a wagon it's an awesome road-trip car and the roof racks often have something on them.

It has a few clunks and rattles, and when something major dies I'll ditch it, but at this point I've driven it over 50,000 kms so it owes me nothing.

Also in 2007 I bought a 7 year old Jeep Wrangler for $6,250. I then drove it 65,000kms (40k miles) from Alaska to Argentina and never had a single mechanical problem. I sold it after the drive for $5k, so it only "cost" me $1,250.
What's your point with gmail? It wasn't the first AJAX app- Building HTML/PHP websites and using file uploads to a server allowed clients to edits web sites asynchronously. This is clearly before your time.
It's interesting that they appear to have removed the Places functionality. I find it the fastest way to locate many photos - vacations, nights out, etc.

I guess most folks did not use that as much, and so it was removed.
They mention it for videos also - I hope their recommendations on how to handle videos become clearer. I used to pull my videos into iPhoto, but it felt disorganized to have them littered among my photos, and it felt clunky to pull them into iMovie. Later I changed to importing them directly into iMovie, but then iMovie had one of the worst bugs I've ever experienced on Desktop software, where over a period of months the source video of some important footage (me performing at a club) just completely disappeared, leaving only the thumbnails and audio. By the time I discovered it (reviewing year's highlights), it was gone from my time machine history as well (due to Time Machine deciding to corrupt itself and start over every eight months or so). So now I import video into Final Cut hooked up to a desktop Drobo which backs up to CrashPlan.
> There is only one way buying a used car ever makes sense.

When you have enough sense not to buy a new car!

I regret purchasing my new Mazda for $25k when I could fix my older SUV (like, major, rejuvenating fixes) for $5k.
> It's one thing to say if we build this bridge this way it will resist to an earthquake of this magnitude, and another thing to say x years ago there was a population of humanoids that did this and that.

that's not a belief.You can experiment and reproduce that experiment.Whether you get all the variables right is the issue science deals with.

You can't "experiment" god,heaven,hell or angels.These are fairy tales which are based on nothing but ignorance.Their only purpose is power and control. Religion is useless. If you crave for spirituality,then philosophy is a better alternative.
"Species" gets muddy with asexually reproducing organisms like bacteria that can also transfer genes via various mechanisms like plasmids. Bacteria are kind of like a distributed massively parallel learning algorithm in goo form. There are major types, but within these things get hard to distinguish and highly variable.
> Tavarish and his friend are both skilled mechanics. [ ... ] Privilege!

Skill is not privilege. Skill is acquired through sweat, not conferred.

Of two unequally privileged people, one may attend mechanic school, but only the ones who sweat will attain skill.
> When the library can be added by tossing a few lines into `pom.xml` and having Maven fetch it, and the API can mostly be figured out w/ javadoc and your IDE's autocomplete: how many developers will even visit the project homepage and see a "We need funding!" banner?

That's a good point.

Not sure how this can be technically addressed though
No you are not living in the stone age. I keep photos backed up on an external drive. I also use CrashPlan to keep a copy of my files (encrypted) offsite so I won't lose my photos if my house burns down or is broken into.
At 53 years old and $25,000/year, he almost certainly has not prepared for any reasonably comfortable or safe/secure retirement (not knowing anything else about his personal life). There will come a point where he simply cannot work. He must take care of himself first. Or, to put it another way, if he doesn't take care of himself, then he'll reach a point where he can no longer take care of GPG, much less any dependents.
I'm really pleased to see Apple getting away from the "events" concept that iPhoto introduced. It was a good idea in theory - all your photos would be automatically grouped into albums based on the date they were taken - but in practice requiring that every photo in your library belong to exactly one event meant that you had a bunch of awkward single-photo events. Photostream ended up making this worse with special photostream-only events that completely broke the model of how photos should be organised.
It's interesting that you say that, I've actually had it at two mechanics to get their opinion. I bought it about 400 miles from where I live, so I had to drive it back. I wanted to make sure it was safe to make the drive. Both of them said "it's the CV joint, but as long as it's not in 4WD, you're fine". When I jack it up, I can move the top of the wheel side to side like wiggling a loose tooth. So on that judgment, I drove it 400 miles clunking along.

But back to the topic at hand, repair manuals are different from the manual you get included with the car.
As the post mentions, the node.js app that servers the initial HTML would be separate from the API server. The code in the API server can, as before, be implemented in whatever language you want.
What Tesla learnd from the Esdel
This is a very interesting topic - how much can we rely on the tendency of people to leak.

I notice that despite the thousands who have worked for Intel, virtually no Intel confidential material has been leaked. At least, that I'm aware of.

People value their careers and houses, and I'm sure Intel threatens employees with consequences for leaking.
If you're into physics I'd recommend solving some problems using whatever language, but especially functional languages (i.e. Lisps, Haskell, etc.) because you have some big "A-ha!" moments as to what the math really means. Like when you program an integral from scratch for a mechanics problem and you go "Oh that's why we use an integral here!" There are also many problems (i.e. n-body orbital dynamics) where brute-force computation is the only way to get to a solution. Finding the path Rosetta/Philae took to comet 67P comes to mind.

There's an older course that's a bit of a sequel to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) called Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM). I've never done it but always thought it looked like fun. (If you're into Scheme or Lisp)

course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-s...

book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
But Java and the JVM are getting value types, which are immutable structs.
Scala isn't really designed for embedding but something else might work. Perhaps a little language specifically designed for embedding. Some existing little languages include regexps and SQL, but perhaps there's room for portable pure functions.

But you do have to decide how data gets passed in and out.
That book absolutely blew me away the first time I worked through it. Great stuff!
Not to mention a $5000 Jeep Wrangler is entirely different from a $5000 Ford Mustang from a $5000 Toyota Corolla.

As to your last point, I have no reason to believe cars aren't lasting longer and longer. Engine life is determined more by use than age. (Do you have a million miles on your 40 year old car? Probably not)
But it is much more powerful than the trade deals of the previous generation. Whereas those earlier deals dealt exclusively with trade, new deals also include 'non-tariff barriers', i.e. things which are a mixture of trade and domestic policy, like regulation of food, product safety and the environment. But the mechanism for negotiating the deal remains the same as before. That is manifestly unacceptable.
... except that we cannot bifurcate history into multiple different timelines and run parallel experiments to test different assumptions. This is why "experiments" in soft sciences like economics or psychology don't necessarily mean the same thing as experiments in a hard science like physics.
Swatch to offer smart watch that does payments
I'm kind of surprised Negroni wasn't among those tested.
We’re trying to improve the file size on Android: we know many apps are downloaded on devices where every MB count and we take that seriously. Can you post more details about the crash here or on GitHub? We’d love to help.
> Always, always, check the timing belt (or chain) and oil pump on old vehicles.

How? I'm assuming you mean when evaluating a used car to buy. Do I say "I need to have my mechanic check this...", or is there some kind of car-health certification I should be lookinf for? I wouldn't even know what to look for if checking under the hood myself.
Oh Christ I'll buy you a beer if we ever meet. Preach it.
First of all, thank you for changing the license to BSD. This is a really happy news.
Reading all the discussions including Google Group, HN, and Reddit so far, to deal with the concerns of hga and others, is it possible to just move the comment part of the licence.pdf to porting.htm?
Perhaps the main motivation of the changes to BSD was to encourage shenturions and potential shenturions to use Shen at work, and we are almost there. If you do that, then nobody will claim the licence, and we can move forward. We don't want to see anymore hatred just because of the licence issue. We want to focus on developing real applications using Shen at work and see the Land of Shen to expand. Please consider if you think this is reasonable. Thanks
> Is it just pictures of people who backed into a parking spot?

It... appears to be. I don't understand how that's fancy in any way, but there it is.
Many parts stores deliver, fwiw.

I got a part in 20 minutes this past weekend for no upcharge, delivered to my house. And I didn't need it--my car was operable. Just a heater control valve.
This is a bit too black and white.

The numerous Spanish-speaking men I saw at Autozone at around 10pm on Arizona (the only place I've lived where parts stores were open until 11pm) were good counterpoints[1].

The reality is that it comes down to some combination of know-how, discipline (nobody wants to change an alternator at midnight), resourcefulness, and innumerable other factors. The example in the article -- a failing radiator -- has workarounds that would allow someone to nurse it to and from work. An overworked, single mother of three is pretty unlikely to know the workaround.

That said, by all means, buy the newest car you can afford, unless you're specifically seeking a challenge.

[1] I noticed that, somewhat ironically, the people in the poorer neighborhoods around Phoenix had the 'privilege' of more parts stores open later.
They're misusing the term "rendered". Rendering is the graphics operation of turning some non-image representation into an image. Server-side rendering would be generating each page as an image and serving that. The article is just talking about fancier template systems for generating HTML. That's what content management systems do - assemble a page out of parts on the server and deliver it to the client.