skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, not the best place for right out of school job, but it's heaven on earth if you are with a family and want to settle down. When I go out today, (not as often as before) we less go to a buckhead rave party, and more to each other's huge basements playing pool / watch movies in our 3D home cinemas drinking from our home made bar because of all the money saved from living in Alpharetta ;) (sorry, was mixing a bit of fantasy with reality, but I have 2 kids and I go out every week or so, it's just that things change with time, especially after getting married and having kids, at least for me...)
Scrolling among items (up/down) as demonstrated needs to be changed.
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From my experience, if you don't work through those proofs that are "left as exercise for reader" then you won't ever really come to understand the material. It's working on proofs that gives you the mastery.

It's like learning music theory without ever composing and performing. It's like being a eunuchs in a harem; knowing how it's done, seeing it done, but unable to actually do it.[0] You need to do it to gain any real understanding and/or ability.

It's like reading about programming, but never actually writing programs.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33229-critics-are-like-eunuc...
I am a bit confused, I had thought there could not be multiple isomorphisms from object A to object B. I thought an Iso was an epi and mono, doesn't that mean the arrows must all be the same? Thanks in advance if someone wants to go through all the ways I'm misunderstanding. :)
I agree with your first point. With enough automation and robotics, we should be able to provide for everyone's basic needs (not just the elderly) at little to no cost to the working population.
Besides the usual quality/depth issues of any dataset, this will likely be a constant obstacle (emphasis mine):

> These indexes, if developed and maintained properly by the agencies, will reveal a vast trove of government information to the public.

However, even just having a straight-up list of what exists is a really good start...a lot of data (and information in general) is not really kept secret, it's just obscure.

A great data anecdote comes to mind, from an investigation that found Florida police officers with severe misconduct charges were continually employed. The records of their misconduct were public record, in a SQL database, but reporters didn't previously know about it, and the agency who kept such data...well, it's not their job to monitor it:

http://ire.org/blog/on-the-road/2011/12/20/behind-story-trac...

> The misconduct database was the big thing. It had multiple tables in it. Then there was a separate employee database, which was a state-wide database. It’s basically like a glorified rolodex. (The state) is in charge of certification, which is why they keep the database. There is a form that officers have to fill out if they change jobs or departments. It is the cleanest set of data I have ever worked with. There was no big clean up with the data. Sometimes you get a data set and find out it has errors or wrong information. Everywhere we turned this data pointed us correctly.

> This was a case where the government had this wonderful, informative dataset and they weren’t using it at all except to compile the information. I remember talking to one person at an office and saying: “How could you guys not know some of this? In five minutes of (SQL) queries you know everything about these officers?” They basically said it wasn't their job. That left a huge opportunity for us.

At least with an index of datasets, you can grep it for something like "misconduct" or "inspection" or "investigation" and start from there.
I'm quite surprised at the number of people who have just said "marketing". I don't doubt that's part of it but even without it I think it's a fairly solid idea.

Kickstarter have all the right tools for selling and a proven capacity to scale well. They've sold over 4 million dollars worth to over 20 thousand people in three hours without any hassle. They're handling all the user management, accounts, live updating figures, "stock" and payments.

How much would it have cost them if right at the peak their site went down for 2 hours? Or people weren't sure if their order was accepted? Could it cost them 5% of their orders minus the amount it would have cost them to build on their own? How long would it take to have built and tested their own site to handle the load of orders (and given that they only see this peak for a short period after launch).

Plus of course marketing and the fact that a lot of people already have a kickstarter account (reducing even more the barrier between "oh cool" and clicking buy).
> but living in central London is not a human right.

I rarely swear on HN. But you are a fucking psychopath.
Thank you! That makes sense, I still think I'd rather have per-tab isolation but I was genuinely interested in why FF would be preferable in this use-case.
There are many companies that do this, from the start even. You get situations where an early employee wants to move back home and to keep him they have him start an eng office back home.
Fine watches are only limitedly used as status symbol. Look at forums.watchuseek.com for afficionados who prefer keeping their watch for them - collecting them for example. Also note that, if you are unfamiliar with watches, you might not spot people wearing expensive watches if those are no Rolex.
After a very cursory look, isn't the answer to download and use one of Citus' free, open source extensions to the free, open source postgres? (Depending on your use-case either pg-shard or cstore-fdw)

http://citusdata.com/citus-products/pg-shard
http://citusdata.com/citus-products/cstore-fdw
Wellfare 2.0 – Greek goverment calling for basic income policy
Try RequestPolicy. It blocks all requests to domains other than the host's, unless you whitelist them. It comes with optional whitelists you can use for popular sites.

On one hand, it's cumbersome, requiring you to whitelist some requests and reload when you visit a new webpage (most sites require a CDN at least). On the other, it's easy to use and good security.
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I dunno about smalltalk, but Scheme and Forth start off simple until a programmer writes tens of thousands of lines of code, at which point it gets harder to read and follow the code exactly.
Something like this?

http://engineeredby.hp.com/michael-bastian/index.html
Ahh, yes I see now that your website is doing parsing, and that linking up with another service to match, say, DOIs, would be a significant amount of additional work. Still, yours is a great tool!

You're probably already aware of it, but it might be worth checking out CrossRef's Simple Text Query

http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
You can quickly test without add-ons by restarting Firefox in Safe Mode from the Help menu > Restart with Add-ons Disabled.

You can also restore Firefox to its default settings with Help menu > Troubleshooting Information > Give Nightly a tune up > Refresh Firefox button. It will uninstall your add-ons but retain your bookmarks, browsing history, and saved passwords.
+1 An incredibly driven team
I found this one helpful: http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assign...
Ask HN: How much time do you spend repaying tech debt?
I work at startup, and like all tech companies we have our fair share of technical debt. However we dedicate very little time to actively improving things (maybe around 2 weeks a year).

How do you approach the problem of technical debt? How much time per day / week / month / year to you spend:

- Fixing non-critical bugs
- Improving system architecture
- Upgrading infrastructure
- Refactoring code
- Abstracting common patterns into reusable libraries

Thanks in advance!
Would anyone like to try and justify this as being a good thing? I don't mind some of Apple's business practices but they have now reached the stage where they cannot be competed against.

They own or completely control their entire supply chain and can undercut every competitor as well as invest 10x as much as anyone else to beat the competitors.

What a capitalist disaster.
I found DDG commonly does worse than Google on long natural-language questions, especially ones that are mainly made up of common words, and also seems to have more trouble than Google with automatically splitting queries into relevant noun phrases (like if a query included "vegetarian restaurant new york", I expect Google more reliably to decompose that into (vegetarian restaurant) (new york) than DDG).

But I'll keep an eye out and actually write down particular queries where I see these phenomena, and send them along.
Ask HN: Is there an alternative to SoftCover.io for non-programmers?
Hi there, Hacker News. I'm writing a short new book. I was wondering if anyone knew about a product similar to SoftCover.io that could be used by non-programmers. Does anything like this exist? I think SoftCover looks great, but I'm not a programmer. I'd love to use something like it if it does exist. Thanks very much!
> If more employers understood the value of distributed teams, this wouldn't even need to be an issue.

If something like this seems obvious to you, and obviously a lot of smart people are acting in the opposite way, maybe you should re-consider your assumptions.

In reality, online communication tools currently are a poor proxy for in-person communication in many situations. Online tools do not pick up the array of non-verbal cues humans make when talking to one another, are not stereoscopic, do not allow freedom of motion, do not permit the collaborative use of 3d space, etc. They are a piss poor real time communication medium compared to an in-person conversation in a room with whiteboards. If you can never actually have a face to face conversation with someone on your team, there's an entire dimension to communication you are completely prevented from ever experiencing with that person.
I think you're referring to an optional survey. Companies ask that so that they have metrics on what kind of people they get applications from. You can choose not to answer.
Is IR instruction representation?
As I understand it, add-ons are updated more slowly than their Chrome counterparts because Mozilla actually reviews the code of each add-on offered from their store to attempt to validate it's not doing anything naughty. Google and Apple make these types of promises, but really they approve things after a cursory glance and then respond to any user complaints that may come in.
We used to say that about Microsoft.
As I said earlier, I agree that in certain circumstances voice commands are not adequate. But in cases where they are, they are extremely efficient, handy or safe. Hence I believe selection of user interface be at user's discretion.
I'm confident that the usual wiretapping laws will be enforced in this area, just as if an ordinary citizen recorded someone's phone call.
> All we need now is the (trivial) hardware to actually open the door.

Trivial, is it? Perhaps you should be helping out Lockitron.
The "HTTP/2 and SPDY indicator" add-on adds lightning bolt icon to your address bar: blue for HTTP/2, green for SPDY:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...
I live 30 miles out of London, and spend 60-70 minutes a day commuting in.
That's from 2012, and as someone mentioned, was in response to a lot of risky hardware projects. More recently, Kickstarter changed their rules to be a lot simpler. https://www.kickstarter.com/rules

Perhaps this campaign violates what you perceive as the spirit of Kickstarter, but Kickstarter itself has never had a problem with established companies/entertainers using the platform.
This is really all I meant. Everybody wants to get all philosophical, when I was only referring to how our political system works.
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Sorry about that, should be fixed now!
Also removed it after 3 page loads now.
Ask HN: Presenting for the hearing impaired and mostly speaking disabled. How?
I've to present on the broad topic of "Design Principles", specially in relation to Web Design, Mobile App Design to an audience that -- cannot speak, cannot hear (mostly) and not very fluent in English but can understand pretty OK.

I'm guessing my slides should have an equal amount of text + pictures! I started outlining my slides and now I'm stuck. My presentation is on 26th.
Business already has incentives to move away from the centre, commercial rents are much higher in London. The fact that they don't move clearly indicates they feel there are other benefits to staying. You could tax them more but then you risk loosing them completely rather than moving them out of the centre.

There are still quite a few things that could be done around planning, I was reading a piece in the Economist this weekend that said there are large areas on the boundaries of some boroughs that haven't been developed because they need some collaboration between the boroughs.

We should probably be prepared to replace some of the older stock as well, converting many family homes into flats doesn't really make a lot of sense.
On the other hand I read that the review process is quite slow (as in painfully slow)
PS3 controller also lasts forever. It's weird how much they regressed on that front.

But it glows!
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> Firefox has a few of these irritating UX quirks that I just can't get over.

Another one is not being able to use shift-home or shift-end to select to the beginning or end of a css property.
I've thought of using hosts file vs. plugins but have never really made the switch. I'm a bit concerned that I'll run into cases like a website is broken due to a hosts file setting, and I can't easily bypass it like I can with a plugin. Do you ever run into situations like this?
Which is ironic because Apple's relatively small amount of employees enables their profitability, which in turn enables their market cap.
Yes, in many ways Musl is a BSD style libc for Linux (even down to the license). Add pkgsrc and it is pretty BSD-like.
And your search engine query can contain your IP address, geographic information, unique browser fingerprint, and your account information if you are logged in. If Google, Apple, Microsoft, or some malicious entity with access to their data wants to identify you, it is likely trivially easy whether through voice or text data.
Size by employees misleadingly favors retail outlets and government; just like market cap unfairly favors companies with inflated stock prices. Revenue favors companies with enormous line-item purchases (like Oil companies) and profit ratios may as well say "list of largest tech companies".

At the end of the day there's no one metric that can tell you the "size" of a company, because the term is too broad.
I would like to see a experiment where the test subject are informed that the information will be sold afterward. Are people then willing to trade personally-identifiable information for a Snickers bar?

Addition parameters that would be interesting: Inform that the information is worth more/less than the Snickers bar, or inform that "the government" will have free access to the information.
I don't know much of anything about that type of technology, but I think it's far more useful to judge these types of theories based upon the political side. This means questions that go like:

If it was a conspiracy, it must have been carried out by some group. Who was that group?
What are the goals of that group?
Why did that group decide that the proposed plan was the best way to use their limited resources to achieve their goal, as opposed to some other plan?

I suppose the group here would be Putin and/or some group of Russian nationalists, and the goal would be to get the Ukrainian conflict out of the news.

Then the plan would involve a highly elaborate scheme of secretly designing sophisticated equipment, performing careful analysis, and smuggling highly-trained personnel onto a flight for the purpose of secretly diverting it to an obscure airfield. Then you'd have to execute all of the passengers who weren't in on it and dispose of their bodies and the plane somewhere where they won't be found for a long time, and make sure that none of the people who were in on it ever talk about it. And if you screw any of that up at any point, then you get the opposite of what your goal was - massive media attention of what a world-class asshole you are.

But if the goal is to disappear the flight for news coverage, why bother with all of that when 1% of the effort and even less risk would get it to crash somewhere in the Indian ocean, where it would likely never be found?

Why bother with any of it at all? Aren't there lots of much simpler ways to distract the news media? Does anybody in Russia even care that much what the Western media thinks?

Another thing - what about China? As far as I know, the US and Europe are currently unhappy at Russian interference in the Ukraine, but China don't seem to care much. There were a lot of Chinese nationals on that flight, though, and I bet China would be very unhappy indeed if it was ever discovered that they were killed by Russia in a ham-fisted attempt to distract the Western media. Possibly enough to lead to a change in the Chinese position on the conflict, including diplomatic, economic, and maybe military support for the Western position. Why would Russia take that risk, when there must be far simpler options out there?

I find that a lot of conspiracy theories fall apart under this type of analysis, without even paying much attention to the technical details. If you want me to believe that this happened, you've gotta come up with a group and set of goals that make it look like a good idea.
Forget what HN is telling you. They are complaining about your list yet they are the first ones to sign up for the next ruby/angular/whatever JS thingy is popular this week ebook mailing list.
Someone paying £280/month to live in a boat is playing in a different market from the professionals and families looking to buy though.

People looking to rent by the room aren't necessarily worse off from the investment bubble if families are priced into the Home Counties and ordinary four-bedroom houses tend instead to be owned by absentee landlords anticipating far too much in the way of capital gains to be worried about maximizing rental yields (but not quite enough to consider leaving the properties empty)

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of ratcheting capital gains tax on properties owned by parties not tax-resident in the UK up to >90%, but the dynamics of how it'll all play out in the housing market aren't straightforward and euthanising the rentiers might actually make low-end rentals harder to come buy - social housing is really the only solution to that.
I'm sure someone at Kickstarter would be happy to immediately add a new tier for them if they max out.
And yet there is room to grow. When Microsoft peaked, they had almost achieved a monopoly-sized market share. Apple on the other hand has managed to grow this large despite their most successful product having a minority market share. It is both impressive and just a little bit scary.
PCI compliance does require this.
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I don't need fashionable watch. But this thing looks so childish.
Oh my. Missed that. My mistake.
HN meetup sounds great, count me in ;)
Intermediate representation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_language#Intermedi...
Because drip email content like this works as a marketing tool.
> They own or completely control their entire supply chain and can undercut every competitor as well as invest 10x as much as anyone else to beat the competitors.

Huh? Apple has huge margins, and they don't undercut their competitors. Lots of companies make products that are a lot cheaper than Apple's.

As for investing, doesn't Apple actually spend less money on R&D than Google or Microsoft?
So how does Apple navigate the Singularity? Google has more projects directed at it, some explicitly like Calico. Perhaps I'll walk into the Google uploader and drop off my Apple watch and phone.
I'm not a very experienced ice skater, but it seems like the flatness of a frozen canal is what makes it nice to skate on. The renderings in the article show frozen over sidewalks, which presumably have at least small slopes to them. Would that make it to challenging to skate long distances?

As a side note, I live in Washington DC where we've had a few weeks of sub-freezing temps, and was out on the frozen C&O canal last weekend. Unfortunately our canal doesn't go anywhere interesting, so it wouldn't make much of a commuter trail.
Seems a bit hyperbolic. Anti-trust laws are still in place, but I don't see anyone seriously arguing that Apple engages in widespread anti-competitive behavior, much less calling for a legal remedy.

Apple certainly is in a place that they could illegally crush competitors if they were so inclined, but the fact that they're not doing so seems to make the natural read of the situation that they've been hugely rewarded for making products that customers can't wait to spend their money on. Hardly a disaster.
Anyone know of a brief list of workarounds/schemes/optimizations that probably won't be needed (or will be less needed) with http2?

(or just add to this list)

- css sprites

- monolith js/css-files

- rotating through 'alias'-subdomains for resources

- trimming cookies / cookie-less domains (for request-headers)
Not only does Google keep the recordings they will let you listen to them if you go on search history. https://history.google.com/history/audio?
Actually, most of what you said is incorrect. As of not that long ago Samsung (Apple's biggest competitor in mobile) is still Apple's largest LCD supplier.

Furthermore, Apple has a ton of competition on both the mobile front (from the Android ecosystem) the computer front (from the Windows ecosystem) and the entertainment front (Spotify for iTunes, ChromeCast for AppleTV etc).

There is a TON of competition in the market, but Apple just crushes everyone on marketing.
Counter-anecdote: I use Firefox all day every day and usually have 100s of tabs open. I haven't had a legitimate full-browser crash in years. I've had a hang that resulted in me having to kill the process probably 3 times in the last year. I usually don't enable Flash, but when I do, it usually doesn't crash, and when it does, it just takes out all instances of Flash currently running; doesn't bring down the whole browser. I'm on Linux.

If you're getting a lot of Flash-induced crashing, you may want to check into alternate implementations of Flash, like Gnash, Lightspark, or even Mozilla's Shumway.
Apple Siri uses Nuance speech recognition technology; afaik Siri run on their server at launch.

It seems they outsourced tasks to another company to improve the speech recognition. The classification task that the Reddit user does can be used by Nuance to improve their data.

As another Reddit user mentioned that after doing the job for a while you will start recognizing speakers: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2wzmmr/everythin...
> Nuclear fission in the earth's core produces [Helium]

This is quite an interesting hypothesis for those interested ...

Deep-Earth reactor: Nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/20/11085.full
There was an article a week or so back talking about the most common jobs by state. Overwhelmingly it was truck driving, where I would guess it is common to technically be "freelance". I would imagine blue collar stuff like that is the majority of the 34%.
Sweet formatting for Inform 7 source code
While also not as good as google from a result standpoint I have been using ixquick.com for several years now and have seen a steady improvement in it's results as well.

They claim to be "the world's most private search engine:
https://ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html?