skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually If you save your itineraries you can see daily price change graph in saved flights view (star icon). A recent feature, small but interesting.
This paper is great and contains some really interesting historical examples of backdoored crypto. For example, Lotus Notes 4 circumvented export controls by using a 64-bit key but taking the first 24 bits and encrypting them with a public key available to the NSA, thus meeting the 40-bit limit.
Google DNS down in Netherlands
I lived in parts of Mexico where solar wouldn't be a great idea because peak demand was after sundown and air conditioning was rarely wanted or used. Quite a lot of the population lives over 2000m (6200ft) elevation where the weather is cool.

But I remember even decades ago that solar was already the main power source in small towns in remote parts of Coahuila and Chihuahua I used to bicycle through.

Even today along the steamy coasts and northern deserts it gets plenty hot and electricity demand is driven by air conditioning. Solar would seem likely to pay off fast in Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Jalisco, and places like that. Even better would be the orderly and steady communities of Tabasco and the Yucatan that get so hot, receive much sun, and can sustain long term investments because the local economies have remained stable while growing.

But I don't recall ever reading about subsidies or utility companies paying solar customers for contributing back to the grid. Those are the two supports the solar industry loves in the USA. Without them, solar has to pay for itself in the most brutal way by just making electricity usage cheaper house by house.

I wonder @JGreenberger where the most exciting region is to promote household solar, whether larger collective or unidad habitacional installations are viable, and whether there is any kind of subsidy or reverse tariff arrangement to promote solar use.
> Minorities don't need my solutions. They need my support for their solutions.

This is a common but, IMO -- speaking as a member of a minority on one important axis and a non-minority on other important axes -- misguided view.

As a developer, I wouldn't say "business users don't need my solutions, they need my support for their solutions" -- though I might say "business users need me to be attentive to their interests and needs in proposing solutions".

Similarly, minorities don't need blind adherence to their demands from the majority any more than vice versa -- certainly, people who are outside of a particular minority can often have important and useful perspective on solutions to the problems faced by minorities. But a key part of that is really paying attention to the interests of people in the group at issue.

Who, usually, aren't going to be monolithic, and some of whom are going to disagree with any solution, whether its proposed by a fellow member of the minority or not. And, yes, they'll often bring lack of minority status into it if the person they disagree with is outside of the minority (but then, they'll often bring betrayal language into it if the person is a member of the minority -- that's not because either is a valid critique, its because both are convenient emotional attack vectors.)
Question -- is there any good place to post ideas for startups? Quite often, I'm looking for a company that provides X, and there is no one that I'm aware of that does X. However, I can see how X could be a profitable business for someone, even if I'm not in a position to start X myself.
Very lucid description of the technical reasons that email is a PITA.
Very good point. I taught myself web dev (now working at a pretty awesome startup) so I'm definitely familiar with that route.

I have a few cool AI ideas I'm hoping to start spending more time in the coming months, and I have heard of some great online courses to check out. I was just curious as to how important institutional credentials are for this kind of thing, seeing as it much more academic than building CRUD web apps.
I don't agree with your assertion. Code reviews are not more "reflective" than pairing.

PRs, as implemented by nearly everyone, are a failure. The only way to review a PR is to check out the branch and look at the entire context of the patch, not just the diff. For that matter, it requires the reviewer to understand the code that is being changed. The reviewer needs to more or less independently solve the problem. It is possible to do this review after the fact, or while the code is being written - in either case, the same knowledge is required.

In practice, everywhere I've ever worked, "good enough" nearly always gets merged - slightly better methods don't tend to make it back into the PRs for a million reasons. These sorts of problems do get fixed with pairing.
40 square foot apartments!? Surely you jest.
Read the Amelia Greenhall post and look at the conversation on Twitter about this. The entire "conversation" emanating from people critiquing him is a thermonuclear kafkatrap. None of it is in good faith and much of it is flagrantly abusive, in particular the accusations that he was sexually propositioning a woman by suggesting speaking in person.
Show HN: GitHub repository finder for beginners
This is a really simple Angular app that is really a glorified frontend for the Github API. The goal was to find open source projects that are still in early stages of development, so beginners could get used to the workflow of actually contributing to repositories. I know this was (and to an extent, still is) a problem for me when I first started with git; I could make and manipulate my own repos, but when it came to actually socializing/working together with other programmers via Github I had no idea where to start, and most repositories I found were dead or were too advanced for me.

The app simply takes in a keyword and a language; by default it will only search for repositories that were last updated two weeks ago (so you know it's still alive), with less than 10 stars and 3 forks (so you know that there's still some room for contributers). Of course, you can edit these parameters yourself.

Anyway, it was firstly a playground for Angular. As far as that goes, I really like it so far but I'm afraid I'll have to put it aside for now because of work/school.
YC Female founders conference wasn’t about women in tech
I consider that a weakness of iOS as a platform. There are some pretty cool and useful things you can do with an Android app that you just can't do on iOS, period.

Android's permission-granting model does leave much to be desired, though.
Please forgive me if this sounds rude, but did you read my comment before replying to it?

First paragraph: "I don't believe for a second that had 2008 or 2012 turned out differently, commercial forces would have any less influence on those who write the laws, ratify the laws, or he who signs them. It's the nature of the beast."

Anyway, there was virtually no lesser-of-two-evils narrative in '08 or '12 from the American left, or at least as little as there's ever been in recent history. From either side, really.
I love the timing of this with the release of a new/old theory that the universe has always existed :

http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/no-big-bang-new-theory-s...

This would make the age of the this black hole less of a mystery.

I always new that there was a relationship between black holes and quasars (In/Out) but was unaware that there was an established relationship between specific events. Does anyone have links to this ?
It loaded completely for me the first time, but doesn't allow download.

A step toward open access, but they're still trying to claim copyright and control the work of others.
I came here to say this. I'm glad you beat me to it!
Android phones /do/ do this. Pretty much all the phones released in the past 3-4 years support one of the mobile monitor connection specs that'll send either a displayport or hdmi signal through the USB port. I've not personally used it much, but it's something that I do know some people use a considerable amount of the time for connecting to a larger monitor, giving presentations, etc.
I'll believe it when I see it. At this point it's just vapourware.
CTY alumnus would be a bonus dimension, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Talented_Youth
It's kind on interesting that a lot of the above companies success of those mentioned correlates with founders being smart / high IQ. Gates & Zuck got near perfect SATs, the Google guys are obviously smart, the Airbnb CTO was a Harvard CompSci. The Color guys on the other had went to second string colleges. The exception is Louis Borders at Webvan who did Math at MIT and presumably was smart but still he did ok at Borders and you can't win them all. Maybe the trick is to have smarter guys than the competition. Paul Graham himself kinds of fits - I suspect Viaweb won out against 30 or so competitors not so much because he used lisp as because he was a guy smart enough to design his own lisp.
Omg super cute! Really helpful notes. I am going to share with my cofounder who happens to be male and could not attend.
If the network is bad then your monolithic app wouldn't work either.

The problem of services being up/down has been solved with service discovery e.g. Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper.
Yes. It's a general purpose microcontroller board, programmed to provide GPIO signals via USB.

I prefer to use USB peripherals for my Pi. Peripherals that are recognized as a USB-to-serial adapter can talk to the Pi, or to any desktop PC. This lets me move my peripherals and code (mostly Python) back and forth between platforms, and do the lion's share of debugging on my PC if I want to.

My peripherals are homemade, since I also enjoy playing with microcontrollers, but something like this is nice because you can get it working and start using it without needing a bunch of esoteric development tools. Likewise with that port expander chip from Microchip.

It can be a conceptual hurdle for a beginner to master a bunch of disparate concepts, such as basic wiring, microcontroller programming, and the Raspberry Pi, just to reach "hello world" stage. Starting with a few of those things already done can be a comfort.
Based on how good the notes looked, I feel like this can be used to create infographics easier and nicer than Photoshop. I am going to give it a try.
What they mean by "the algorithm" is the learning algorithm, not the actual learned behavior. Historically in machine learning a great deal of hand tuning of learning algorithms is required for them to even be effective on a single problem, so it's impressive that a single algorithm was able to learn to play many different games effectively.

Having a single instance of an algorithm learn to perform well on many different tasks is really a separate problem than what they're dealing with here.
If you are already in litigation there is almost always a litigation hold, and you can't even wipe it as part of a routine process.
Agreed. For instance, IE (11 at least) doesn't permit <td> cells contenteditable. There are some workarounds, but then other browsers seem to have problems.
> it just doesn't take away ISPs ability, which exists in the absence of regulation, to block unlawful content, whether on their own initiative or pursuant to an order from some entity with preexisting authority to order the content blocked.

Their ability to block unlawful content on their own initiative would be restricted as a Title II common carrier. It would have to be ordered by the courts.

They can't terminate based on suspicion of unlawful use; there must be evidence:

* Shillitani v. Valentine, 53 NYS 2d 127 (1945); "a telephone company may not refuse to furnish service and facilities because of a mere suspicion or mere belief that they may be or are being used for an illegitimate end; more is required."

* Nadel v NY Tel., 170 NYS2d 95 (1957); carrier suspected caller of using the telephone for illegal gambling transactions and terminated their service. Court ruled that service should be reinstated: the telephone company "is not at all qualified, in the absence of evidence of illegal use, to withhold from the petitioner, at will an essential and public utility."

They are not authorized to collect said evidence themselves; that lies with law enforcement:

* People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15, at 33, 120 P2d 946, at 965; "public utilities and common carriers are not the censors of public or private morals, nor are they authorized or required to investigate or regulate the public or private conduct of those who seek service at their hands."
It's not all necessarily to see your code & best work - it's also a tactic to gauge this person's participation in the open source community, their contributions, and passion for programming outside of the 9-5. These intangibles are generally a bigger deal to startups versus large companies, and therefore a more useful indicator.
VWAP isn't a common term around most programmers. (Don't worry, I know all to well what it means.)

Is there a site the specializes in programming/trading/finance? or do you have to be in NYC or Chicago?
I was issued a work phone too. I decided it was much more worth it to carry around two phones, with my work phone in my bag for the .01% of the time they actually needed to get in touch with me. Work only needs to know my work number, they shouldn't, nor needn't, care what I do on the 80+% of the time I'm not on their clock.
And, in fact, ISPs being classified as Title II common carriers would actively prevent the FCC (and ISPs) from censoring the internet.
3 Bitcoin Tipping Apps You Should Know
I'm interested to see responses. My guess is that most HNers are simply too pragmatic to allow blogs & articles to change their lives. Prove me wrong though!
Cosmology from quantum potential ( Ahmed Farag Ali, Saurya Das )

It was shown recently that replacing classical geodesics
with quantal (Bohmian) trajectories gives rise to a
quantum corrected Raychaudhuri equation (QRE). In this
article we derive the second order Friedmann equations
from the QRE, and show that this also contains a couple
of quantum correction terms, the first of which can be
interpreted as cosmological constant (and gives a correct
estimate of its observed value), while the second as a
radiation term in the early universe, which gets rid of
the big-bang singularity and predicts an infinite age of
our universe. [1]

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3093v3.pdf
http://www.requestsforstartups.com/
This isn't about free trade, though.

It's about raising trade barriers together to protect incumbent industries at the cost of consumers and competition. They want to lengthen copyright, invade privacy, regulate internet services while empowering gatekeepers, strengthen licensing and reporting and taxation demands on small business, expand and unify patent regimes, and the like.

Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, and Japan are already reciprocal Most Favored Nation trading partners. We're not going to be getting any more access to their markets. They're not going to be selling us anything new, either.

The contents of the deal are still an official secret, but we've had leaks. It looks like the worst kind of big cartel, Disney, telecom monopoly, NSA, surveillance state, patent troll plan to terrorize consumers and innovating businesses. In fact, it's probably exactly what you might expect powerful insiders to negotiate in secret at the expense of the public.

Free trade is something different.
This is an idea me and a friend wanted to try out.

http://idealist.tips/

We promoted it but it didn't get any up-take

(the site is using the opensource lobste.rs code from https://github.com/jcs/lobsters )

There is also a sub-reddit where people post this type of stuff (i'm unaffiliated with it)

http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
I normally give these ideas to people that I know and like and offer to talk the idea through with them if they ever decide to follow through.
OVerblown, when was the last time you heard of anything like that inside the US? Of course there's no way to make definitive statements unless and until an official draft is presented to the Senate for ratification, but the reality is that authorities are much more interested in going after obvious knockoffs of commercial property (fake DVDs, t-shirts or whatever) than obviously fan-driven projects that do not represent themselves as 'the real thing'.

If anything, the trend in US courts is towards expanding the boundaries of fair use. I think you might be interested in this recent case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariou_v._Prince
Fellow DG owner! Cool. I soldered my first computer together out of one of their kits, in 1977-78. I learned a hell of a lot building that thing.

I still have mine. Some day I'll get it running again (restoring the capacitive keyboard is pretty hairy, I understand).

Can you imagine what it was like to be the only kid in 11th grade (high school) who had a computer?

DG had a couple of pretty good BASIC implementations (MAXI-BASIC and Business-BASIC). They were not hurting there.
Make sure that straw man is well and truly dead before you stop beating him.
Google's loon balloons are ready to deliver cheap internet
"virtually no lesser-of-two-evils narrative in '08 or '12 from the American left"

Maybe not at rallies, but if you read lefty commentary or conversation sites it was nothing but lesser-of-two-evils in '08 and '12. Likewise on the right. Thoughtful people always know the score and Obama has been as hopey and changey as anyone could reasonably hope for -- specifically, he has been a little better than the one before him.
There are many reasons some kids aren't playful
Yep. A good while ago, I added T-shirts, short hair, fig newtons, beer, speeding and disorderly conduct to my list of skills. Doesn't matter.
I love this stuff - thanks for sharing. I've driven under 200 miles in the last 3 years, it's great.
was posted many times on HN: http://firespotting.com/
Standing or Sitting while you read this, hopefully the former
More importantly, it's not even really about women, at least from the presentations I saw. I.e. it's women sharing experiences and giving business advice, rather than giving business advice specifically for women. That's something a lot of similar events do, which might be useful to a limited extent, but I feel like more often than not it causes women to not get the same quality of advice that men get.
I'm not too worried about rudeness given your obviously trollish temporary username, but yes, I did read your comment.

I was only trying to suggest that there was something more pragmatic than wide-eyed naiveté at work when people voted for Obama the second time. There were plenty of Democrats who were tired of Obama and were ready to jump ship if only the Republicans had met them halfway and presented a candidate who wasn't contemptible.
I posted this link and I have been studying this subject for the past decade. I transitioned to a standing work environment six years ago an never looked back. The biggest misconception is that you need to be fit to stand all day, and that is simply not true, it is simply a matter of knowing how to transition. If anyone is interested in the plan I used, let me know! I am also curious as to how many followers have successfully transitioned to full work days standing.
I used the word probably to convey that I personally have not done the research. But the TM people have done an extensive amount of scientific studies (some funded by governmental and military sources).

The reason why I wanted to share it was because of my own experience with TM results despite being a life-long an East Coast skeptic.

The mantra repetition is a very simple thing but it does actually have the ability to alter brain wave activity and I believe it has something to do with the cyclical nature of the repeated thought.

You can check out http://www.tm.org/ and other TM related sources for more on the scientific research that they have completed.

Also there are plenty of other reports from successful, creative people who have made TM a part of their daily lives, some for decades e.g. David Lynch, Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, etc.

In addition, in my personal experience there has been a "lucid dreaming" or "inner hallucination" component to my meditations which are sometimes quite visceral in nature....all from just repeating a simple phrase.

That along with its other benefits that I have experienced personally prompted my belief that a mantra based practice is worth trying.
YC or Google X ought to buy this - it's a rare opportunity.
>> I invested around £4000 (~$6000) of my time (2 weeks @ £400/day rate) into that article, I’ve written 8 of the total 16 topics I intended to, and replicated dozens of Apple logos which I made freely available on Dribbble. (terrible ROI)

that's dedication

>> So when Apple asks me if I want to help improve their Developer Documentation: I’m in.

(rofl) I have never seen anyone put in so much effort/investment for so little return. IMO his creativity and drive belongs in a start-up. pearls to pigs I guess, but sure he doesn't see it that way
That's doing less with more. New types of housing should be designed to improve quality of life/ecological footprint. Spending that much to live inside a matchbox can't be ok.
Why do you we think we'll be replaced? Why wouldn't we be 'enhanced'?
Protect your Mac password from being bypassed
The article is certainly correct that p-values and confidence intervals (or confidence sets, in multi-dimensional contexts) are widely misunderstood, not just in psychology or other social sciences, but in the hard sciences as well. The problem is even worse when you look outside of academia at common practices in more applied settings.

As suggested, a good approach is to take p-values not as conclusive or decisive, but rather as a tool that must be supplemented by other statistics. In particular, the article emphasizes Bayesian methods, which can certainly provide additional information, but this approach can also be rather limited when priors are not well-defined or are entirely unknown, which is unfortunately often the case in many problem domains.

One potential question is how to determine the nature of the distinction mentioned in the conclusion between "preliminary research" and "confirmatory research", particularly in cases where statistics provide the primary evidence, as in, e.g. psychology. Further studies in the same vein as the preliminary research can certainly provide additional supporting statistical evidence, but this doesn't escape the problem that all of the evidence is probabilistic in nature. The key issue here is that since statistical approaches can only give probabilistic evidence that a hypothesis is correct, then they strictly cannot tell you what is certainly true, so even confirmatory research is quite open to falsification. So we wouldn't want the label of "confirmatory research" to somehow suggest to the public the idea that it is certainly correct.
Do you mean Kefir the fermented yogurt drink?

I have had some, it's like sour cake batter or egg nog, it's OK but it didn't do anything for me but I didn't drink it for that purpose I was just curious what it was like.
Not the one your looking for but I've found interesting startup stories on http://www.iafrikan.com/
-Is- it well demonstrated here? I think everyone would understand what 'range' means pretty quickly, just by executing it. I can see someone saying "I don't get 'foldl'" (or even worse, foldl vs foldr), and really -meaning- it, but regardless of whether range(1, 2) gives me [1] or [1, 2], I'm pretty sure people would 'get' it just by trying a few examples in the console/shell.
Y Combinator community to improve ideas
I found YC community where people were helping each other to improve idea or proto. Does anyone remember URL?
Now's the time to take be broke, take risks, to try and pursue what you love. If you're like most people, you'll have dependents, hiring costs, new obligations before you know it. Better knowing now than kicking yourself down the road!
Not Invented Here, amirite? Implement everything yourself, -it's the only way to be sure-.
Hacking Go with Andrew and Brad: An HTTP/2 Client