skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That First Sales or Marketing Hire
Itch:Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies
Nonsense. Expat indicates citizenship status. An expatriate is a person temporarily residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. An immigrants on the other hand is a person in the process of changing their citizenship to their new resident country.

I've never heard a European immigrant referred to as an Expat in New York.

Here in China we are certianly not immigrants because it is made absolutely clear we are expected to eventually leave.

If anything the question is why are some people called Expats and some called Migrant Worker?
Yes, it is. When you've had recurring perianal abscess and/or a fistulotomy, you'll also want to take every care possible when it comes to Uranus.
Pi Day or Pie Day?
Their proprietary sentiment analysis product picks out 10,000 comments for crowd-sourced reviewers to label. So, the modern version of a telephone survey performed by mechanical turks. Probably context-free, so it's possible some of the tone or idiom might get lost.
Lewis Hamilton Fastest in Australian GP Practice
Huh?

This sub-thread isn't about ways to correct student behavior (Doug Lemov article). We're talking about the NARST article, which explicitly lists a process where you call on students, using a roster. There's nothing discreet about that.
his macros are truly evil. i wish he would have stayed with nicer c++ stuffs ut on compiler challenged platforms...
See also Skybox Imaging
Not for most of the world where the date format is 14/3/15.
Louis Vuitton Outlet Onine 2015 Cheap for Sale
If we're all creating giant balls of mud because the demand is for giant balls of mud done quickly, then we never learn how to craft beautiful software.

It's unfortunate, and it's sad to say I'm often part of it at some level (but I fight it dammit!).
If you're not using Spreedly, I recommend it because it's a big help in this situation because it allows you to seamlessly switch services without losing any of your customer card data.

Strongest possible +1 for this. I did a live migration from Paypal to Stripe in under 30 seconds once. Spreedly made this as easy as flipping a configuration switch. As far as I can tell, we didn't lose any business as a result of the migration.

I don't see any reason I'd ever move off Stripe (+) but it's more than worth just preserving the convenient-doesn't-require-app-rewrite option to do so.

+ Edit to add: Ooh, got one: an acquirer can dictate a move to their favored/house processor as a term of an acquisition, and "Sure, give me six weeks to do engineering work" is not something you want to have to worry about when putting that deal together.
Things that I learned from Michael Stonebraker
The best way to Jailbreak iOS 8.2 on iPhone 6
Show HN: The ultimate guide to doing things that do not scale
That's interesting. Isn't one of the common "good advice" in diet was to have a lot of multiple tiny meals throughout the day?
In our current society model we don't really have a "choice".
Basically, if the budget is put towards "doing things right" there is very little chance the project takes off, its going to be "too much long term".

Are we doomed to fail? Maybe.
> An immigrants on the other hand is a person in the process of changing their citizenship to their new resident country.

Nope. Immigrating usually implies permanent residence in the new country, not necessarily getting citizenship.
So maybe crops have to change. Surely the epicenter of science and engineering can figure out a responsible way to harness solar desalinization. A bond could be offered with a nominal return to investors.
My experience too. I wanted a fancy heated Toto with air and such but settled for a $30 one on a whim. The heated water of the Toto units is nice but in practice it isn't a big deal. I still use toilet paper to dry though so I'm not sure how much savings there is. But overall it is a much cleaner experience that I highly recommend.
YouTube releases 360 video
This, tangentally at least, reminds me of a post by JWZ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-gettin... about poor design decisions in gnome screensaver causing vulnerabilities, again and again.
Thanks, and looking forward to seeing where this goes! It's a solid fit for some recent use cases I've run into.
tl;dr: you can't.
Specific examples of normal numbers are super easy to construct. Here's one (in base 10): 0.01234567891011121314...

[I am using "normal" to mean normal in a specific base, not necessarily normal in all bases (i.e., not necessarily "absolutely normal"). But this is all that is necessary for the idea of encoding information via the digit expansion of a constant]
First direct observation of CO2 greenhouse effect at Earth's surface
The army of lawyers headed your way? How about the CFAA for 'unauthorized access' to Twitter?

When Twitter has all the money and lawyers it's sure tough to argue.
This is actually in reply to d--b, who appears to be hellbanned.

d--b, you're hellbanned for some reason. FYI.
How is 7% close to a rounding error? Especially when, in the case of landscaping, it is not a necessity and is almost completely for aesthetics[1]. If someone said they had money problems and it turns out they spend 7% of their income on makeup/barber visits/tanning salons, would you not point those out as possible expenses to reduce?

Just because residential usage is not the main source of the problem doesn't mean people should just not care about it at all. I'm not implying that everyone take 30 second showers. I just think it's important to be conscious of your water usage and reducing it when it makes sense. Addressing multiple sources of the problem simultaneously is possible. Also, sometimes it's possible that you're able to reduce the smaller portion more than the larger portion, so you should never focus only on the large numbers.

[1] Okay, neither are almonds, but I think you understand what I mean.
You mean like this? http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/07/national-geographic-phot...
It should be expected that a subreddit would get high ratings for bigotry and for being under siege when it is explicitly dedicated to singling out and insulting other people on the same site. So I suspect that if such a measurement were done, TwoXChromosomes would drop and ShitRedditSays would stay put.
Ask HN: I have an easily copyable killer idea with prototype.How to protect it?
You will call me crazy but please bear with me. I have a killer bitcoin idea that can spread mass adoption and would be really valuable but is easily replicable. It could be really big but is so obvious that it can be implemented at home. Yet, no one is doing it yet. How do I go about protecting it?

I don't want to patent the idea because I am against patents. Should I open source it? Start as non-profit? I am located in India.
Great article. I've rolled my own full-text search engines in the past and it's a category of problems that I love, but even I have to admit that I'm often astounded by Lucene's performance. The inverted index really lets you stretch commodity hardware into pretty huge use-cases.

If you've never used ElasticSearch, I should note that that's one of ES's many strengths -- it takes advantage of Lucene and makes deployments on commodity hardware work really well. An ES cluster on five small EC2 instances can handle a tremendous workload.

There is one thing about ES/Lucene that bugs me though... in the 3+ years I've been running it in production, I still haven't been able to solve the "every once in a while java utilizes 100% CPU until you restart the service" issue. I suspect it has to do with Lucene's index merge operation, but no amount of tinkering has solved the problem.
Hi, thanks for the comment! We're a small team of 4 people working part time. On the engineering side it took about 6 months to get to a closed beta with two devs; one web dev (me) and one contract iOS dev.

We spent a lot of time reworking pieces of the UI/UX though so it's tough for me to nail down how long the product in its current form actually took to build. It was kind of a windy road to get where we ended up. :)
While it's likely humans do have sex pheromones... there's been no study to confirm which of many pheremones act as sexual indicators in humans... or how much affect they have.
I guess it may have been too late in the end to get further funding but it they had raised something like Stripe's $100m rather than their $1.55m things could have been different. Not sure what this says about startup strategy - maybe bootstrap if you can but if you raise, raise big?
Except it's an applies-to-oranges comparison to start with. The mathematics of space-travel is very simple - it's just calculus. You need to be accurate, but it's easy to quantify and well controlled.

Which is why you can go to the moon with a decent graphics calculator, but you definitely can't have a self-driving car with much less then a modern supercomputer.
Not just photos but video as well: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/05/apple-on-the-runway-ad/
The author has confused "race" with "education".

I am a white American who lived in the South Pacific. One of the things I noticed is that the term "Expat" was used to refer to a qualified worker who goes abroad to work for an international company for a specified amount of time.

My neighbor and friend was an "Expat" Fijian working on a two year bank rotation.

"Immigrant" was used mostly for migrant workers or workers that had an undetermined timeframe.
I wasn't intending to bring more from the Colorado river.. I was meaning more from the midwest and southeast where there is flooding most years... A lot of that could be siphoned out without too much affect on those regions... we have the ability to move water much farther distances.

For that matter, look at the northern europe and scandanavian research into water purification.. we should also be working towards this effort.
Silicon Prairie: Tech Startups Find a Welcoming Home in the Midwest
I don't know if you know this but 'Tardigrades' are the only living beings that survived all the four ice ages. This any many more amazing stories around it can be seen in an amazing TV documentary series 'Cosmos: A space Odyssey' presented by by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I prefer "Book Lack in Onger".

"When I asked colleagues around the office to nominate a favourite, the one that came up most frequently was (not from the Guardian), Book lack in Ongar - on a report about a crisis in the library service in Essex. (For the benefit of English language students at the international school in Frankfurt, whose teacher asked for a glossary of headline puns, this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger)."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianr...

Or possibly "How do you solve a problem like Korea?" from the Sun: http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-...
Iraqi forces 'hope to take Tikrit from IS in a week'
>Nope. Immigrating usually implies permanent residence in the new country, not necessarily getting citizenship.

I stand corrected- but expats in the countries they are referred to as such almost never have the option of permanent residence.
I'm looking foward to it.
Confessions of an ex-banker
I typically use an ISO format (e.g. 2015-03-14), but this seems like a day to enjoy a fun, numerical, side effect of the United States' date formatting.
Related discussions:

Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4111680

In Defense of the Midwest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168608
Good question. I assume it could only scan the surface though unless you scrapped the object away layer by layer. So a complete scan would be destructive.
So let's not make this story about Balanced, but let me spin you a yarn of a totally hypothetical company named FooCorp, which has a plan to disrupt a sclerotic two-sided marketplace.

FooCorp has a team of talented product people working for it. They've got a gleam in their eye and a story on how they're going to attack a ridiculously large market. FooCorp easily sails to an angel round sized in the high six or low seven figures based on this.

FooCorp then hires, say, a half-dozen engineers to help their founders build things out. These engineers have AmaGooBookSoft pedigrees and cost $8k apiece... every two weeks.

FooCorp's product is quite beloved by early users. They accelerate hiring and marketing. Things are going swimmingly.

The founders of FooCorp, having the best of advice from mentors and friends, start trying to put together an A round, which will be millions or tens of millions of dollars raised from professional investors.

"People love us."

"How many?"

"... Well, a growing number."

"What's the monthly growth rate."

"We've got a wonderful graph."

"Kid, I'm a professional at this and have heard every possible dodge. Give me numbers. What's your marketplace volume?"

"Millions."

"NOT A RESPONSIVE ANSWER."

"... Two million."

"Per what?"

"... Total."

"Cool. OK, I think we have what we need here. Keep us apprised of your progress. We really like you and the team." which is VC for "We will not invest but if you want to give us a free no-obligation option on investing because you're new at this then we'll take it."

Seed is raised on the dream. A rounds are raised on the metrics. If you don't have the metrics, you don't raise an A round. If you've hired in the expectation of an A round, and you don't either hit profitability before your money runs out or hit metrics which justify an A round, your company unceremoniously dies. This is by far the most common outcome.

This is sort of the talk-of-town right now, generally phrased as "Series A Crunch."
"Delete it" merely moves the messages to the trash. It does not, in fact, delete the message. Not close at all.
I think that 'many small meals' is specific to calorie restricted diets, in order to avoid feeling so hungry. A time restricted diet is a different approach; although it could be combined with calorie restriction, this is not a requirement.

Human trials should give us a better idea of how effective a time restricted diet will actually be. Personally, I think that time restriction is more realistic than calorie restriction for the majority of people, so that's why I'm excited about this research.
I still don't understand why you think RE investment is morally wrong.

Would also love to know how you came up with, "real estate investment...is THE major driving force for urban cost-of-living increases on both American coasts."
Powdered alcohol may be coming to a liquor store near you
This is awesome nicely done man!
You can get down a layer two but that's about it. There is no method for capturing a full 3D model in experiment, although we can get projections from X-Ray diffraction and other scattering methods. Also there are single photon X-Ray methods being developed that will get us extremely close to complete 3D models. But that aside you also have to take into account that these materials are often not at 0K so they're vibrating or even moving at the atomic scale. This is a huge problem for example, when studying Proteins.
Firefox has "add-ons", which are just Javascript which can do cross-platform network connections and look at pages, and "plugins", which are native programs. "Plugins" are mostly video players, and you can (and should) set most of them to "Ask before running".

Add-ons come in two flavors, "old" and "new" (Jetpack). This feature is only available to "old" add-ons. The direction with Firefox has been to narrow what add-ons can do.
>GraphpostgresQL is alpha quality and has undergone neither extensive optimization nor comprehensive testing. To use it for production workloads would needlessly tempt fate.

Ah yes, definitely the Jason I know. ;)

Great work!
Until IE is cross-platform again.
1st world problems...

Edit: As a lower-middle-class American, my (budgetary) choice to be without a cell-phone has not impacted my quality of life in any noticeable way. The linked story says nothing more than "life without modern conveniences is relatively inconvenient." How is that illuminating, in any way?

But yeah... my original comment is kinda deserving of downvoting, if I'm honest.
Most of Asia believes in washing, not wiping. There's nothing easier to flush than water and no better way to clean yourself.
Being expected to wipe yourself with a thin piece of paper and consider the job done was among the bigger culture shocks when I first moved to the US.
This is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism.

When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned.

That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).
Of course I didn't tell you to accept it uncritically.
My favorite from the Chicago Tribute[1] re: the infamous chocolate factory...

"EPA not cuckoo for cocoa powder"

[1]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-04/news/051104011...
Why were you using it, BTW?
The only known protection is for the idea to fail big time! Then nobody will want to copy it.

If your idea is truly as simple and lucrative as you perceive, then no matter how much protection you apply somebody will get greedy and find ways around the most comprehensive protection measures, being illegal is never a consideration if there is big money to be made.

Even if you weren't against patents, I would advise against it unless you have a lot of money to secure international patent protection and then you will need even more money to sue the many infringers. Patents are really for the large corporates who don't even blink when paying their lawyers millions.

Open source is good, but are you prepared to invest the time and effort for little not financial reward? Of course, you could become famous, but that also needs luck to be on your side.
Only if you need those modules outside of your k-means
I like the deadline time, smart!

> ...13:37pm PDT.
Hospital carpark occupancy rates is pretty useful.
20+ years I had some security discussions with a major exchange in the USA. In the same building were offices of Goldman Sachs and another bank (Morgan or Merril, don't remember). Anyway there was a single thinnet (10base2 ethernet) that connected them to the exchange. Yep, a quick sniff showed that everyone could see everyone else's traffic.

My contacts were genuinely surprised that this was even possible. But also I was told there would be no contract if I mentioned this to upper management in my report.

There was no contract.
Just to list some interesting similar companies/banks in one place:

https://standardtreasury.com/

https://seed.co/

https://plaid.com/

https://about.holvi.com/en/

https://www.openbankproject.com/

http://figo.io/
this is what i think
http://productionjava.blogspot.in/2014/12/why-is-it-difficul...
I reached this conclusion when the top two restaurants in a big city were a Mexican place and Greek food truck.
I've written this exact idiom in some parts of a very poorly structured, tightly-coupled PHP codebase I've inherited. I'm not a huge fan, because it clutters the codebase a bit (that's 4 lines of overhead per dependency), but in the absence of a true DI framework this is better than nothing. You get many of the functional benefits of DI, but not all of the niceties when it comes to cleaning up your code.
(Full disclosure - I'm an engineer that's working on multi-process Firefox).

> Add-ons come in two flavors, "old" and "new" (Jetpack). This feature is only available to "old" add-ons. The direction with Firefox has been to narrow what add-ons can do.

This is false.

SDK (Jetpack) add-ons can do everything that "old" add-ons can do. The SDK just offers nicer APIs to allow add-on authors to do common things, and adds a layer to help protect add-on authors against changes in Firefox's code-base (the SDK has very strict deprecation policies, for example). Another advantage of SDK add-ons is that, if all goes well, very few (if any) SDK-based add-ons will need to be changed in order to work in multi-process Firefox. The SDK API layer will change to accommodate multi-process, and SDK-based add-ons should "just work".

js-ctypes, which this blog post talks about, is very much accessible from SDK-based add-ons[1]. SDK-based add-ons can also get direct access to the same old-style XPCOM components that power "old" add-ons[2].

Nothing about the SDK makes those add-ons weaker - if anything, it makes them more resilient to change.

[1]: Here's a simple SDK add-on I wrote to quickly crash the selected tab in multi-process Firefox: https://github.com/mikeconley/tab-crasher It uses js-ctypes to dereference a null pointer and segfault the content process.

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_AP... - but note the "unstable" header, since the interfaces for these components are not frozen, which makes add-ons that use them more prone to incompatibility across Firefox versions.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to get all the functions of a phone onto their laptop?
I don't use my phone much and have been thinking about trying to port tasks I do on my phone to my laptop.

Has anyone ever tried this? Maybe use Twilio to set up a number that can take/make calls/sms, somehow get mobile messaging apps like WeChat and WhatsApp onto my laptop as well.
Ask HN: Open Source CRM Solutions?
Hello HN:

I've been looking for a new CRM solution for quite a while. I've tried all the major solutions and even some minor ones. A lot of them are expensive, and most of them don't have all the features I need which are actually quite minimal. Tons of features is actually something I'd rule out, since we just need a super basic solution.

Are there any good open source solutions out there? I'm not trying to get out of paying (although it'd be nice) but I would / do like to support the open source community. I'm looking for a new open source community to be active in, and I figure there would be no better software than one I will be using every day.

Also - if anyone knows of any "up and coming" CRM's you think I should know about, let me know.

Minimum requirements:

-about 5 users

-must be able to have permissions i.e Jack can't see Jill's
clients, but admin can see all

-no more than $10/user/month

-ability to keep track of open / closed deals

-ability to track emails sent

-mass export of rows would be nice
I'm wondering if the rapid decrease in the number of flights out of CVG might have also caused the security waits -- since Delta left the Cincinnati airport once the Northwest merger was approved, they keep on cutting flights back...
Satellite based temperature of global level atmosphere
I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience but would be happy to chat if you'd like. It's hard to say what exactly happened without some investigation. Bill@wepay.com
I think you might be getting something backwards somehow
WePay cofounder here. Would love to better understand why you say that so we can improve. Bill@wepay.com
Balanced really had a nice web app. Kudos to their team.
> The only restriction is that the game should be web-based

That's one hell of a restriction.
For wifi at least, it doesn't have to be connected, the radio just needs to be on.