skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the Federal Reserver produces a paper currency, the dollar, and gold has historically been a competitor of paper currencies. So it makes sense that the Fed would not want competition in currencies, and would attempt to both disparage and devalue it.

The Federal Reserve is also intimately bound up in fractionally reserved expansion of the paper currency, so it is reasonable to assume that they might use the same basic technique with gold. And that, in fact, is the historical origin of banking, in the modern, leveraged sense: gold assayers began loaning out gold on a fractionally reserved basis, allowing them to collect interest beyond their core assets. Worked great until people ran on them.

So I assert that it is less irrational to believe that there is a possibility that central banks engage in manipulation of gold prices than it is to believe that there is a dinosaur living in the subway under manhattan.

YMMV.
You mean the Mac app? Where? I just logged into the developer site but I don't see it anywhere.

EDIT: Ah I see, you need the beta of the next version of the whole OS.
I abandoned x86 a few years back, because I'm far less concerned about China knowing my secrets than I am with the Five Eyes countries violating my privacy. The likelihood of the nsa or gchq tampering with an allwinner or freescale chip en route is much lower than with Intel or AMD. And far more resources would be involved than would be financially reasonable to tailor an operation for a small-potatoes corporation running an all-ARM setup like mine.

So I'm seeing it as a decrease in attack surface, overall.
OP I don't know of the startup or company that is doing it as business. If you find out, please share.

Sometime I represent companies in IT infrastructure and related industries at Seattle area events. Majority of such requests come to me via my professional network. I will be interested in finding more companies looking for representation at local events.
> "DRM... [is] like toxic waste."

Yes! The depleted plutonium of technical debt.
Agreed. That is a good one.

I was thinking of more complex board, with non-standard finish and soldermask.

Even Pentalogix in Oregon offers 2-4 layer boards for about $25-$40 in two or three day turns.
There are several mechanisms at play in honey: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/
Tennis score web animations
Found you. Added to the list.
There can be more than one bad guy. If your maintenance guy left the door unlocked, and a burglar walked in and stole all your shit, then both of them are responsible.
This technology exists? If it does I'm super interested.

If you have a link to a source that explains how this works that would be awesome.

Edit: I misinterpreted the definition of fabless. This comment makes no sense.
I worked on a farm in high school in the 90s... They were a dairy and hay operation. The "new" tractor that ran the bakers and equipment was a 1950s Ford. They had serial ancient Farmalls from the 1930s that hauled wagons and pulled rakes. I don't recall ever having a serious breakdown.
NOTE: I am the founder of REX Computing (check my submission & comment history for more info), and thus a bit biased for this.

The standard thing I have heard from VC's that don't know anything about semiconductors (Or have not been involved in it in this century):
"It will cost $100 million and take 3 years to have your first silicon. You have a 50% chance of even making it that far, and even then you only have a 10% chance of success (e.g. making any sales)"

So basically, the VC assumption is that it is a minimum $100 million and 3 years to see ANYTHING come out of it... and even if you get to silicon, there is only a 10% chance you'll be able to sell it. This is ridiculously pessimistic if you actually have a real design innovation.

Some of the new developments:
New tools: High Level Synthesis an "Hardware construction languages" (such as Chisel... http://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu) radically bring RTL development time down. My team (consisting of just two of us) were able to complete the RTL of our new processor core in under 4 months (working on the weekends)... and that includes a lot of redesign and working on things other than the RTL itself. Chisel also brings the testing/verification time down significantly, as it can auto-generate Verilog optimized for either VLSI or FPGAs, and a high speed cycle accurate C++ simulator of the chip that is ~10x faster than the industry standard Verilog C Simulator. Even though Chisel really is this amazing, virtually no one outside of UC Berkeley knows about it.

2. FPGAs have gotten a lot better... I can say the synthesis tools still suck, but in terms of speed and testing ablility, you can test your chip on very cheap (Ours is $300) FPGAs these days.

3.Shuttle run/Multi project wafer services... a "block" (6 mm^2) on TSMC 28nm process is $90,000... and you get 100 chips back. A 16 core version of our chip is just two of these blocks.

4. Older process nodes are getting cheaper. Most fabs in the US are not going below 65nm or 45nm, and need to keep full utilization of their fabs. There are a lot of deals that can be had on these smaller fabs which are perfect for prototyping... A similar block size can be as cheap as $3 to 5k.

5. Moore's law dying is one of the best things that can happen to the industry. Instead of the ridiculous investment getting to the next process node, the fabs can invest in making the current process better and cheaper. This will bring down the cost of very good, proven processes (like 28nm, and potentially 14/16nm in ~3 to 5 years), making fabrication even cheaper and more widely available.

I'm happy to answer any questions!

EDIT/TLDR: Based on my own startup's current plan and estimates, it is possible to prototype (get 100 chips back) an entirely new processor architecture for under $2 million, and it is possible to go into mass production with that design for $10 to $15 million.
Ask HN: Why aren't people as patient as Google Search?
Ok, I admit, I ask Google Search the same question many times per day. Sometimes for years on end.

Now, if I ask Stack Overflow the exact same question multiple times per day, I'm not sure I'll make it out there alive.

Why is it acceptable to ask Google Search the exact same question but to people directly? How does that affect the future advancement of mankind? How did this phenomena affect the advancement of mankind before Google Search existed?
Discussion on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/2uwtvl/tennis_sc...), including how they were made.
Please don't do this. It was immediately obvious to me which part was the part I was supposed to read. (And I've never visited this site before today!)
If you ever come back to check up on this, please contact me at the email address in my profile. THanks.
A PC is different because there isn't much correlation between age and operating costs.

With something like a server, as long as you can deploy them quickly, you actually can reduce costs by replacing them in step with the Intel tick/tock cadence.
impala is good but it's no match for the best analytics databases out there
Git v2.3 Released
I like the design. However, save draft button is not working for me.
False - Apple has no significant history when it comes to security breaches.
This can't come soon enough. I'm helping out on a hardware 'startup' (though I guess we don't really use that term) - coming from software its an incredibly challenging realm to work in.

Simply getting a functional prototype without easy access to a 3d printer, $$$ in compiler licenses for BT stacks, freakin custom batteries, etc etc.

Our thing: https://www.fitguard.me/
What technology are you referring to, specifically? Most large semiconductor companies these days are fabless (Qualcomm, AMD, NVIDIA), or just license their designs/IP (ARM, Imagination, Rambus). Fabless is not really a new thing, it's just a lot cheaper than most people imagine.
I don't think the bank analogy holds. My bank funds are insured up to $100K (by the Canadian government) and I don't keep more than that with any one bank. Money is replaceable. Family photos are not.
FarApp - Los Angeles area - Full Time Remote

We're a small company that automates business processes (pushing product data, importing orders and exporting shipment data) to eCommerce platforms and marketplaces. We're looking for an entry-level software engineer to help on the many different projects we're working on. We're improving our service and implementing new features and also implementing customizations for customers who need them.

You can read all about the position here: http://farapp.workable.com/jobs/34228
Set up a server and put it on the internet!

I have a BRIX mini-PC,[1] on which I've got Linux then Windows Server 2008 running in a VM. My FiOS router has a setting to automatically keep a Dynamic-DNS entry up-to-date (I use dyn.org), and I bought a SSL certificate from Network Solutions so I can connect with HTTPS.

It's a little over-engineered for a home server because I wanted to be able to keep my OneNote notebooks off the cloud, but IIS also makes it super-easy to set up a WebDAV share, which iOS plays very nicely with.

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856164.... Loaded it up with 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD for surprisingly cheap. At idle, you can't hear it unless you put your ear right up to it in a quiet room. But it's a pain to install anything on it because it doesn't have any USB 2.0 ports, just USB 3.0 which a lot of installers don't support. Ubuntu 14.10 works (though holy shit did they fuck everything up since I last used it), but Fedora and CentOS don't.
Hmm, from the sounds of the article, enigmail could use some love as well. A thousand a year? Now I feel bad about complaining about the interface.
Republican Emoji Proposal
He lives in Germany, I imagine they have some form of a state retirement program.

I'm actually curious now of how many first world countries are as backwards as the US where if you retire without any personal savings you are extremely screwed.
I'm learning I know nothing
That's for the massive farms in the Midwest growing corn and wheat.
Unless I've missed something big in the past 2 years even the Debian Project Leader is still a volunteer[0]. If most/all money's going to operating costs it's hard to make the case they're holding out on somebody. They also have a record of treating their upstream quite well so I'd need some evidence to believe they're dropping the ball.

[0] - https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00095.html
The only conspiracy is the Gold Bug conspiracy.

The US did not have a Gold-backed dollar in practice. From 1933 onward, Executive Order 6102 was in effect, making it illegal for any individual to own more than 5 ounces of gold.

The majority of people living today have never lived in a time period where you could practically exchange dollars to gold. That's the true conspiracy. The Gold-standard arguably never even existed in the first place. (At least, from 1933 onwards)
But surely they can get the right people with their capital.
Twitter Confirms New Google Firehose Deal
that was added as art of rails 4.2.0
Oh, true. I mixed them up. Thanks for correcting.

They are both good for retail.
Show HN: A Game for Falling in Love (Part II) + ThanksHN
Hah...we'll put it in the "maybe" folder for now.
(disclaimer: super ultra pro-static-types person)

I really wonder whether we won't get more conversion to static types. I think the popularity of dynamic typing languages is more due to the fact that static typing used to be a major pain. But with type inference being where it is, I think most languages can start moving to static typing without any costs to the users

The biggest representation of this is all the Pythonistas moving to Go. Well there's not that many, but the fact that Go "feels" like Python shows that maybe "fast and easy to use" is not as tightly coupled to "lack of typechecks" as we once thought
I believe the breached company partners with some firm and offers one year of identity monitoring because it is what is usually offered with the new "data breach" insurance available. By paying for the (opt-in) credit monitoring they are actually limiting their own liability.
The basic recipe for software biz success is the same whether proprietary or libre. ~80% of revenue comes from ~20% of customers and features. Ship something into the market somehow anyhow so you can identify the critical 20%. Then you can commoditize (open) the remaining 80% of features to reduce costs and help the long tail to become self-supporting. Pricing and defending and growing the revenue features is then like any other business, i.e. strategic conflict with other mice who will come after your cheese.

"Open" is as much a state of mind and development practices as it is a license. JIRA shipped with full source code while remaining proprietary. This removed customer concerns about JIRA going out of business, no need for source escrow. Customers ended up making modifications to the source, which then influenced the Atlassian roadmap. Conversely, one can have an open-source license, but a dev culture that rejects external input, e.g. Calibre. If a vendor focuses on business goals first, then creates a culture to support those goals, license choices will become clearer.

There are useful history lessons among these links:

1) Free Software Business mailing list archives (1993 to early 2000s), http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?iis:0:201311#b

2) Self-publishing docs+screencasts with 90% royalties, earned railstutorial over six figures in a market where most technical books are lucky to earn $10K. Relevant to OSS biz models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7350265
& screencast toolchain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8932387

3) Bootstrapping 101, http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ & http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

4) ISV (Stardock) 2014 report,
http://www.stardock.com/press/CustomerReports/Stardock2014.p...

Resources on business models:

5) The Business Model: Theoretical Roots, Recent Developments, Future Research, 2010,
https://noppa.aalto.fi/noppa/kurssi/23e21090/luennot/23E2109...

6) Free Software and OSS Business Models, 2008, http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddoc...

7) Any good book on organized crime / unregulated business. Boundary conditions inform risk management, i.e. early recognition of failure scenarios to be avoided.
THANKS HACKERNEWS

A few weeks ago I woke up and the top story on HackerNews was a NYTimes article about a woman who fell in love after answering 36 questions from a 20 yr old research study.

I was inspired and spent the next 12 hours building a web app version and around 1am the next day posted it on HN. Then things got really wild.

1] Before sunrise it hit the front page and hovered around #3 all day and there were over 200 comments.

2] Over 200,000 people visited the site, including Mark Zuckerberg who "Liked" us on his personal facebook page in the first 36 hours.

3] hundreds shared it on twitter

4] we hit the top 3 on Product Hunt.

5] editors of very big publications reached out about (now pending) exclusives

6] we had about 3,000 double confirmed opt ins to a mailing list

7] People wrote me saying they "said I love you" to each other for the first time while playing the game

8] the original author of the study emailed me with tips on how I might improve the questions

This was all just so fun and exciting, and felt so aligned with my core beliefs around love & relationship. As a transformational coach, I believe falling in love can be the fastest path to self actualization - if done with the right context and tools.

I decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign !

I designed a deck of physical cards that could be used on a first date or with a lover; found a manufacturing partner; wrote the copy; shot the video with my macbook pro retina; figured out premier; and got it live. We are almost at 20% of the goal after the first day and a half and I have commitments from some big "relationship gurus" with list of hundreds of thousands who are going to promote it.

I would LOVE your help in spreading the word further, since it all started here on HackerNews.

I set up an inner circle share link here. If you spread the word, it would mean the world to me. >> http://PlayTheLoveGame.com/crowdfund

Also, if you back the project and mention HACKERNEWS I will include an extra special unlisted prize just for HN backers.

I am so grateful for the outpouring of support and encouragement and inspiration the web app received here and for how great this community has been in general.

- Anthony David Adams
Yes, in other countries. They are originally Dutch (The N in ING stands for Netherlands).
Just in case you were not referring to "I, Pencil"

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
The second step in the omniref story is precisely the optimization Aaron made.

It's the `s = find_by_statement_cache[key] || ..` statement.
$300 constitutes, before taxes, around $550k. This is not unheard of for senior / director level product management or engineering hires at some large tech firms. Do not believe what you read on glassdoor. There are plenty of Googlers that are making around $1M in salary in these types of roles.
> For me that desert of despair was fun and nothing could have stopped me.

> To me educational efforts for adults are misplaced.

My theory is that the difference is just that (some) young people have more spare time. If you have lots of time, then the inherent fun of learning stuff makes it fun to wander around learning stuff. But if you don't have much time, then you prioritize the things that relate to your goals, and then unexpected things in between you and the goal are stressful obstacles.

If you have tons of time, then your default state (alternative activity) is boredom, and learning anything interesting saves you from that, so you're glad you did it. But if you don't have much time, then learning something only to find that it wasn't as useful as you thought it would be (which often happens when you don't know what you don't know, but are trying to learn) is disappointing, because you know you sacrificed other important things (in retrospect, things that were more important) to spend time learning that.
Despite your downvotes, I agree with you.
This is a tough call but Walmart's IT services is a core technology they own but its not customer facing at all. Bufferbox on the other hand had this customer facing hardware. In fact that hardware was a core component of their user experience. They could royally muck it up. They didn't. Kudos to them.
Here's a house rep stating it being declared by the speaker of the house:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=YMK-Ix5Ue24

Either me and c-span are wrong, or the guys detracting me are. You decide.
Harder, or easier? It was straight up illegal to own more than 5-ounces of Gold between 1933 and 1971 in the US.
Do you have opinions on any of the current open-source programs, like Darktable [1]? Or by "I intend to develop my own solution" do you mean writing something from scratch?

[1] http://www.darktable.org/about/features/
I'm sure you're right, but because of this "laziness" we get a slight security boost at the cost of a slight performance loss.
I guess ISPs will have to give QoS support to their customers for free, then.
when I first saw this post on HN, the donation was around 60% of the goal. Just now I see it exceeded 120000 € of the goal. I bet HN readers donated a good amount today after reading the top-trending news. Great activism!
Quantitative Finance for Python
Germany's Autobahns Say “Willkommen” to Robocars
Just for posterity, I'm talking about this nonsense:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=YMK-Ix5Ue24
I've been developing a product with Watson from within the Partner Ecosystem, some of those capabilities are pretty useful.
Others, sometimes, are kind of confusing, creating a broad overpopulated constellation of Watson-based APIs inside Bluemix.
Breathlessly panicking about vulnerabilities is worse than no PR at all. There are well-established avenues for keeping up with vulnerabilities, and anyone operating an Internet-addressable computer who is not familiar with any of them is incompetent.

Speaking of incompetence, it was Qualsys' desire for fame which caused them to retain a PR firm, which is why this vulnerability was announced as such before major vendors had patches available. If Qualsys had stuck to the normal avenues, there would not have been any need for the ridiculous panic felt by half-informed administrators.

The vast majority of people who read about security vulnerabilities primarily via press releases are almost certainly not in a position to fix them. What, then, is the motivation for presenting them with a goddamned logo?
> Besides, Dropbox has way more coverage and is offering 16 gigs.

Dropbox's advertised free tier is only 2 gigs: https://www.dropbox.com/plans. There are some referral games you can play to get more, but I doubt many people end up with 16 gigs (I'm at 4).
Derp, just got around to googling fabless semiconductor. I had assumed fabless meant a way of creating integrated circuits without expensive silicon processing facilities, clean rooms, etc...

I imagined something like 3D printing/laser cutting for silicon chips.
>if they can prove that one connection was not proxied somehow

I don't see how this is even technically possible
I'm sorry, but all of our intern slots for this summer have been filled.
A little hard to follow? Only because I've never seen it before. This is a great idea.

The publishing of code-as-narrative or code alongside narrative is something that will slip into the mainstream, maybe in our lifetimes.

Already, ruby code (and other similar languages) are nearly understandable by non-technical folks. And consider the popularity of tools like cucumber that involve tests that are readable by anyone.

Imagine a day when code is published on the New York Times homepage, alongside some Silicon Valley luminary's commentary.
> nobody would trust closed source encryption software.

ORLY? Have you read much source for BitLocker or FileVault, recently? WhatsApp? Skype? And those are just the most popular ones off the top of my head...
>And we managed all of that with my grandfather, a hired hand, and myself in the summer, and just my grandfather and the hired hand during the winter.

well, i see one more time how USSR planned collective economy sucked compare to the US farming - a USSR collective farm of 10-20K acres would contain 200-300 households with most working age people of the households employed at the farm.
Slacktivism?
Thanks for the follow-up.
Yeah, they definitely won't do well over non-compressible non-repetitive data, but they can help for situations where the data isn't compressed at rest or where data is repetitive. Like I said, for many technical people you can roll your own and get reasonably close, but not everyone or every application that deals with large amounts of data fits that mold.
text/html for this?
Sprayable Sleep
Google Code Jam Input Parser in Dart
The Hidden Problem with Lean Startup Method
But demand for gold is not just jewelry and electronics. Demand for it as an alternative to fiat money is inversely proportional to peoples' trust in fiat money. So gold can be unneeded as an alternative for decades, and then be needed. Gold can be completely written off as a relic, a dinosaur... and then suddenly it's not.
Is there an Omniref equivalent for Java?
This. Just finishing my coffee and waiting the taxi which will get me to the airport, after 1 month solo trip around SE Asia. I can't stress how much this resonates, right in the spot.
This is really great.

The UI looks like it needs some stabilization as its not really clean in my chrome / macbook pro retina 13" -- some css type issues or something.

Great idea letting people share for free as it drives referrals.

What kind of volume are you guys seeing?