skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the business has to purchase (proprietary?) hardware to install on-premises.

Usefulness will depend on whether the location you are interested in has the required hardware.
Hi- thanks! I open sourced the code so that no one is locked into the service. You can run your own instance if you like very easily.

If it becomes very expensive for me, I'll try to just operate it at close to cost. I don't think this is a huge market, and I just made this as a weekend project because I needed something like it and thought others might find it useful.

Also, the site says you get up to 30,000 verifications for free, so that puts some cap on how expensive this could be.

Does this help you trust it?
That explains why I was almost getting knocked off my feet during my walk home in Chicago today. Very cool
The problems caused by transients are hardly limited to "disrepair". Noise and disregard for building security are also real issues, as is the degradation of trust.

I can be sure that my landlord will perform extensive background checks on any potential neighbors, and can be fairly confident that their friends and relatives are also on the up-and-up. But knowing that the standards for getting a room via Air B&B are considerably less stringent, an explosion of short-term rentals in a building means that long-term residents will find that they cannot be as trusting. To put it bluntly, hotel security exists for a reason.

In general, I think the service is a great idea, especially for properties that don't share a lot of common space with other tenants. But in cases where they do, I tend to think that opening the building to anyone doing a search on Air B&B can be a real dick move. Nobody decent should be surprised if it draws serious hostility from the neighbors.
>This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML

The '90s ended a long time ago.
All drugs should be legal.
I always sort of understood this in some form / way; however, it was never laid out for me in such a clear and easy to grok way.

Thank you. An upvote, just doesn't really cover it this time.
I've heard it said a thousand times, but it still bears repeating; terrorism is impossible to defend against.
Unless it has a switching converter or regulator. Even when running at high frequencies they'll often generate harmonics in the audible range. It can take a heck of a lot of effort to keep a circuit quiet and nonmicrophonic.
I'm likely in agreement with you on the politics of this discussion. However, I will note, pedantically, that "the only time people have been bombed in america" is not a great way of putting it, given, e.g., the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
This table indicates that PCIe v2 is 4 Gbit/s per lane (64 Gbit/s for 16 lanes) and PCIe v4 is almost 16 Gbit/s per lane (up to 252 Gbit/s total). Is this correct or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#History_and_revisio...
The main benefit is this allows rough comparison to a ton of other frameworks. Just running ab against your one server setup gives you one RPS/latency result on one hardware setup - that's good to know as an absolute metric, but tells you very little about your performance relative to other frameworks.

This project gives you RPS/latency metrics for many frameworks, on a few hardware setups. This enables a rough comparison of "how does my framework perform relative to all these other well-known or established frameworks". Naturally, the comparison is not perfect - there are a ton of reasons that measuring just requests/sec and latency doesn't allow complete comparison between two frameworks. However, once you accept that it is basically impossible to fully compare any two frameworks using just quantitative methods and these numbers should inform your choice of framework (instead of totally control your choice of framework), we can talk about why it's valuable.

Want to run a low-cost server in language X that you happen to love? This project can provide guidance about which frameworks written in language X are performing the best. Want to ensure your service can support 50k requests per second without loosing latency? This project can provide latency numbers for you to examine that let you know which frameworks appear to maintain acceptable latency even under high load.

If you wanted to, you could re-create this project by running ab against 100+ frameworks - that's the cornerstone of what is happening here. Granted, we currently use https://github.com/wg/wrk instead of ab, but the principle is the same - start up framework, run load generation, capture result data. Most of the codebase is dedicated to ensuring that these 100+ frameworks don't interfere with each other, setting up pseudo-production environments with separate server/database/load generation servers, and other concerns that have to be addressed.

Over time, this project has started collect more statistics than just requests/second and latency, which makes it more valuable than just running ab. As more metrics are added and more frameworks are added, this becomes a really valuable project for understanding how frameworks perform relative to one another.
Why one Bitcoin CEO isn't afraid of regulation
Well since we're talking about the e-minis lets assume the CME GLink... according to CME Group it would cost $12,000/mo with a one-time install of $2,000 and a minimum commitment period of 12 months. [Source: http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/files/connectivityoptions.pdf]

You then need the hardware and technical expertise to pull off the install... so lets say another $20,000 to $25,000 for hardware and I'd estimate $2,000 to $5,000 in technician charges.

So total outlay just to get the hardware set-up would be about $168k to $176k. Then there is the dev costs and I shudder to think about what is actually required here bearing in mind I think I do some pretty advanced retail trading in LISP.

Now, my point to all of this is when I step back for a moment and ask myself would someone outlay circa $150k on what is clearly a strategy that is blatant market manipulation, it defies belief that someone smart enough to pull it off would be dumb enough to try. I would even go further that this is especially true since there are many other opportunities to make honest money from the market trading legally.
Agreed. I complained about mile-long pages over a decade ago. The current yahooo incarnation is a bit shorter, but denser than ever. I understand that the look is desired in Asian markets, but not over here.

TL;DR: Someone needs to teach Yahoo about the value of white space.
$300? That's cheap. If I recall correctly I remember my mom telling me her first microwave was $800 (1982). That is over $2,000 adjusted for inflation.

The one in my kitchen costs $30 or $40 and I bought it a decade ago.
Ask HN: How do I create a freely accessible, no login required DIY dropbox
I just want a place that is free and easy for our staff to drop files, upload files without any login. It could be a separate machine used just for this. I'll clean it out every now and then. What do you think? Can you suggest something?
Hmm. Now that you mention it, it would probably be much simpler, legally, to make something like a visa specifically granted to companies based in Detroit, to bring their workers to the US. The workers wouldn't be legally obligated to stay in Detroit... but the companies are probably going to want them to.
Visualize code coverage as you write your code
Is FidoNet archived anywhere?
RapidShare Resellers
Rapidshare refused to refund their resellers, what is your advice to them?
The thing is, most cops aren't driving around with dogs. The way I read this ruling, in the absence of probable cause, the only way for a dog sniff to legally occur is if you are pulled over by a car that happens to have 2 officers and a dog in the car. One begins the ticket writing process, while the other simultaneously runs the dog around the car. This would cause no delay in the stop, and thus wouldn't violate this ruling.

So Jay-Z only has 99 problems when he is pulled over by a K-9 patrol car with 2 cops in it. K-9 patrols are almost always clearly marked, so the moral is...drive carefully when you encounter one.
Sigh...

Someone should write up a list of ways to evaluate the plausibility of conspiracy theories that actually has a basis in game theory and the way organizations work.
Evolution is a stupid process that happened to create a species sophisticated enough that individual instances of this species are able to realize that evolution is going on.

Being instances of this cutting-edge phenomenon, we (individuals) have the opportunity to exploit what evolution inadvertently created. We can push this phenomenon even further.

We're not the most extreme phenomenon by any means; atomic blasts, neutron stars and black holes, the formation of the planets... these are all more extreme than ourselves in a number of ways. But in the "introspection" metric, we're the best that we have evidence for. Moreso, introspection is the only thing that makes us special. Examining the world seems to be the one thing that we do better than anything else.
Cringe. Funny story--The last and only time I heard that expression was in reference to the guy who had architected their search platform. Of course, several months later he quit and took a job at Microsoft.
My personal diet consists of only individual animals who claim science backs them up without actually having the slightest idea.
How to manage salespeople: round them up, pile them into a dump truck, and release them from the edge of a high cliff.
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Start_Program

It's an early childhood learning program. Nothing's perfect but it has a pretty good track record.
I disagree. That's not the problem. The issue here is not the detention, it's the dog sniff. Why didn't the cop just ask in the beginning if he minded if he did the dog sniff? Why can't a cop just call in the dog squad while he lingers going through the paperwork of a regular traffic stop? That's what is going to happen here. He's not detaining, he's just finishing up the traffic stop.

what's demoralizing here is the war on drugs is getting us nowhere except rampant crime, huge homicide rates, and over crowded prisons full of minorities.
This article seems bizarrely racist. I had to read 3/4 of the way down before I got to the offhand mention about the local governments inviting Chinese entities in on highly favorable terms, usually because of gross financial mismanagement by the local government. It seems like the author would rather blame the Chinese for daring to venture outside China than critique the governments mentioned in the article for the very weak property rights that obtain in their countries.
> He happened to be in California in 1995

This is an especially disingenuous characterization, considering he jumped through the hoops to immigrate to the US and go to California, which means he observed and realized that CA is where he should be and worked towards getting there (he's been very vocal about him coming to North America being one of the most important decisions he made and that he quite planned for it). He didn't happen to wake up one day in CA.

Yes, many people are luckier and they happen to be born in Silicon Valley to affluent parents, but the fact that most (almost all) of them have not achieved what Elon has achieved hints at a the use of a stretched definition of the word "luck."
Had the same idea a while back whenever I called a restaurant to check the wait time and it went to voice mail. App looks good, I will try it out this weekend.
https://archive.org/details/frostbyte_1980s_DOS_collection
A Diet Might Cut the Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s
No it does not. Lobsters do not die from the effects of ageing. They die due to a lack of energy to keep moulting. Straight from the text.
>Inflation and deflation were terrible when on the gold standard

Inflation and deflation cycles, compared to now, were more severe, yes, but we ALSO have far more liquidity in markets and a wider swath of the population is educated and participating in capital markets, directly or indirectly. That can contribute to stability. Comparing before/after without taking the fact that the world has completely changed in those two epochs is completely risible.
yep, but without a large pool of internal demand to buffer things, these two work against each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
How many female chiefs of police are there in the states? I was just including it to support your deeply insightful observation that Seattle (generally) tends to be "slightly ahead of the curve".
The downvotes are likely the result of not adding anything to the conversation.

More specifically to your point, I strongly disagree. People should build systems in their favorite language if the language fits the use case. And usually, the language chosen isn't as important as being familiar enough with the language that your solution is clear and well written.

However, contradicting myself for a second, bash is probably not a great choice to build complex systems. The problem with bash is that it's easy to write something that works, but it's much harder to change it and keep it working. Bash is very powerful for one liners, but the second your program grows, you start to miss all the nice things that most general purpose languages have. And another problem I've ran into with bash is that not all *nix systems actually have bash, and even those that do have many different versions which make it hard to write a large code base that works without issue across different services. Even more so when people tend to use non-bash binaries, and then you have to write up a script to install the dependent binaries, and have to make it work for different package managers and the complications go on and on.
An app container is pared down to run a single app. That's why you need a third party process managers like runit, supervisor or a script to run multiple apps in a single app container format like Docker.

A system container is similar to a VM, you can use it more or less as a VM environment, run multiple apps, ssh, schedule jobs, cron etc.

A system container gives you a more complete OS environment within the constraints of a container. I have a post that goes into some depth comparing LXC to Docker, it's not updated to include LXD but could help.

http://www.flockport.com/lxc-vs-docker/
Let’s stop telling programming newbies to learn Vim (or Emacs) – Virtuous Code
Very nice! You've taken a big step towards blowing up the assumptions behind the canonical version [0] of the minority game.

I imagine you're already thinking about how you can enrich your dataset and provide analysis that will help people solve real problems of consequence. Parking might be a big one: there's surely money to be made directing drivers to available public parking spots or showing businesses and real-estate developers the potential to share parking among uses that are statistically complementary with respect to parking demand.

And please add Kansas City.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem
Letter to a Young Developer – Virtuous Code
Are you going to support routing rules like preferring right hand turns? If so, we should talk.
It's kind of an odd juxtaposition of thoughts but I get the impression GP was just pointing that the chief of police is female (which I'd naively imagine bucks the general trend).
How do you get around the blackouts? I've never signed up because it won't let me watch my team's games.

EDIT: well the article mentions masking your IP, was that what you were talking about?
It does if you use the Chrome browser.
Except that it wouldn't be an example of how a heavily regulated economy is the problem, because people who lived in the hypothetical future Detroit would likely be able to enjoy the unified benefits (social services, infrastructure, etc.) that come with better regulation. It's roughly equivalent to the "best of both worlds" benefit of tax havens in contrast to Western countries that tax fairly heavily. If you really wanted an example, draw a closed border around it and see what happens. I can't predict that, but it would be interesting to see.
This would work until you get some douche "Activist Investor" like Carl Ichan to buy up a bunch of shares and get all pissed because the company isn't working to maximize profit, despite it's stated goal that it wants to do something else. Because all that matters is that he can make money, and the thought that he could simply not buy shares in the company never occurred to him.
Apologies for any confusion... the recommendations were from Nanex [http://www.nanex.net/] and not my own. I quoted the recommendations directly from the Nanex report 'Analysis of the "Flash Crash"' which I will link here again for intellectual honesty http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_CompleteTex...
Another instance of Kyle's amazing research! You may want to catch him on stage with other great minds at dotScale on June 8: http://dotscale.io
I'm so glad to see the Jepsen series re-instated. Thank you so much Stripe
You're awesome Tim! You've got one more fan!
If you're serious, I'd actually do it.
Quintessential elevator music.
Humans with autism and those without are the same species.

Treating mosquitoes differently from humans is, by definition, speciesist. That's among the reasons I think the concept of speciesism is absurd.
PhalconPHP 2.0 Released
The problem is that the second you multiply by pi or e, which is fairly common, your required precision for a perfect result becomes infinite.

Even if you don't, your required precision blows up very quickly, and your performance drops.
I've been watching sites' traffic and mobile Google search rankings (just finished looking at over 100 site's Google Analtyics) and am not seeing ANY changes. Looks like it hasn't been rolled out yet, even though Google said it was going to be April 21st.

Confirmed with Gary Illyes from Google, it's actually starting to roll out today and could be weeks...
install wordpress and allow for a free upload https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-upload/ or use a simple ftp file system so you can upload it easily .
Even if they're not trashing the place, they still might not be conducting themselves like a normal resident of the building would. It's reasonable to expect that most people would be quiet and get in around reasonable hours on weeknights, because everyone has to go to work the next morning. However, someone on vacation is more likely than a regular tenant to get wasted and come back as a rowdy group, disturbing everyone else in the building.
Show HN: Wurstify adds beards to faces on the internet
Clasp is really nifty; its a new CL implementation that incorporates C++ natively to make it easy to FFI into C++. And it is written by a Chemistry professor.

It is also the first complete implementation I know of to leverage Cleavir, which is Robert Strandh's from-scratch implementation of lisp which is designed to be both portable, and (it seems) to explore some of the unused and under-used designspace of lisp implementions. He gave a talk at ELS on part of that.
In the 90s, $30 was $46 in today's dollars...so while the value of basic front-end code has declined...so has the value of $30.
Let the 1980-1990 viruses resurrect! :-)
Alternately, a NSFPoN (Not safe for parents of newborns) tag.
The largest known structure in the Universe is a hole 1.8B light-years
HN doesn't usually tolerate top-level joke comments, but I figured this would pass muster.
I think I got in on the tail of this trend in late 2004 when I got a free couple of 50GB hard drives from the retired SAN. I also recall seeing kids at school with retired 512K memory chips on their key chains.
Argentina's Largest Local Social Network Taringa Adds Bitcoin
A Peep into the Speed of Light
Generally, we give the hardware away for free (circumstance dependent). We'd prefer to monetize the data. We don't really want to build a company on $49.99 / mo. There are a lot of other players in that game. Here's a picture of the sensors if you're interested: http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1
This is something we will eventually support, absolutely, but our first release won't include this as a configurable option. That being said, we plan on making travel restrictions a first-class setting soon after launch. Feel free to email me directly if you wanna chat some more :)
If you are a database author and you get a bug report from Kyle, spend a long time thinking about it before closing the issue as invalid.
Fundamentally you dont. Or ive never seen an actual solution in practice. Physical hardware comes down to trusting the layer one/two domain and (usually) the mac address. With virts you trust your infrastructure to pass through some blob like a pre shared key. Which again is just punting on the actual problem. In either instance you might inject manual authn/authz by requiring a human in the process.

Hypothetically the problem of boot strapping trust is solved by tpm. However thats predicated on functional hardware attestation. And thus the hypothetical bit.
George Lucas was convinced Star Wars would be a disaster until this phone call
Can someone who has used both Rails and Volt to an extent beyond a basic web application provide a rundown comparing and contrasting the two, please?
> People should be jumping to work there and make the place better.

You don't just get to sign up to work for the CIA and make things better - you'll spend years doing damn distateful things before you're ever in a position to affect positive change, assuming you haven't been properly corrupted by then. If you refuse to toe the line, then you'll find yourself fired or pressed with criminal charges.

Selling your soul for a small chance to change the CIA seems quite the price to pay.
It's just a knee-jerk reaction, "Duh, of course the frog with no brain doesn't jump." The difference between intuition and reality is the humor here.
Are those governments doing ANY job of communicating the importance of foreign investment? If people are protesting, at least don't do it out of ignorance and/or xenophobia. Although the idea of a canal cutting through a country is horrible.
I think the disincentive to risk only exist when it's a tax on income or capital gain, you could also implement a wealth tax[0], which wouldn't have this problem.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
Good idea, but a few nitpicks:

1. the data dropdown becomes unresponsive when searching for flights

2. on modifying the time filters, the list updates only after you 'x' out of the dialog. This is not intuitive

3. if no flights are available for the time filters, it should show a message saying 'No flights available in the time window'.
I think mentally ill people are among the most likely to rip someones face off.
Bug hits dozens of WordPress plugins, websites exposed
Though I've used elevators pretty much every day for 20 years, I can't recall the last time an elevator had music playing.
I'll play too! Hawaii was a self-governing territory at the time and thus not a part of America (and they stayed that way until 1959, along with Alaska and the Aleutian islands).

But, during WW2 America was bombed (by sea plane) by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Fujita
Oh, duh. I meant mainland, but I think that I might just be wrong, I'll change it.

edit: It looks like at one point wikipedia more specifically claimed it was the only time bombs were dropped from american skys, on americans, by americans, but even that was wrong: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/lmnng/til_abo...
Dutch disease is exactly what NDP leader Thomas Mulcair called it, and for some reason the Conservatives are trying to spin it as an attack against Mulcair. Personally I find the political spectrum in Canada just baffling.
Backblaze pulls 3TB Seagate drive out of service
Lol. Can't there be buttons 1..18 for the different levels, and if multiples are picked, sound on each one, doors opening (short time to read the paragraph), then another comes.

can't wait to use it now!