skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a state which does something similar to this -- the sales tax is extremely high, and property taxes are laughably low. I have never cared to investigate it, but my hunch is it protects those who are already land owners, and therefor the economic elite, and burdens renters and other lower income citizens with a disproportionate tax burden.
5 Minute Guide to Content Distribution for SEO [Infographic]
I've followed (lightly) this phenomena from the first time I read about it with the FERMI project at NASA [1]. The common attribute seems to be that given a strong enough electric field you can pull apart some particles.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/fermi-thunderst...
Why the hell do we use Ruby?
No they're literally flying an A-10 into the storm to try and measure things.
Awesome stuff, guys!
Being wrong is very different from not existing. As long as a spec is a guideline there are people doing it wrong, I guarantee you that.

There are links that do that and if google were to follow every linkt people would notice very fast.
One thought I had while reading though this is that HTTP2 really isn't just a hypertext transfer protocol anymore, it's going to be used for everything.
Wow, that was a truly terrible article. The sheer level of laziness displayed is astonishing if only because that same person has managed to type up complaints of this length.

When your number one point about Soylent is it's too difficult to make then I begin to seriously question the author's ability to actually make it through a day.

Follow up points are equally pathetic. Arguing the inflexibility of a powder by only brewing large batches, while the concept that this is a powder, able to be mixed on demand in <5 minutes, appears to have never crossed the authors mind.

The final point appears to be a complaint that not everyone shares the author's viewpoint. Admittedly at that point I had started skimming hoping to see some semblance of an actual point, I was wrong.

Overall it seems this article is trying to use hyperbole and a few mediocre attempts at humorous comparisons to hide the fact that the author comes off as so lazy and incompetent as to have issues mixing powder and water.

One can only imagine the horror that is this individual's attempts to mix coco powder with those tiny marshmallows.
Fragmented? In what way?

Most people don't know that each year one single Android device typically sells 10x more than any other one. For ex: Samsung S4 sold more than the next 2nd,3rd,4th, etc rank devices combined.

In addition, the screen sizes are almost all very similar these days. I don't know of a single Android designer or dev who has issues with that. As the UIs scale pretty gracefully. Pretty much the same way web designers adopted responsive design, mobile designers know to expect the UIs to scale/shrink.

Even Apple devices have similar size disparity: typical medium-sized phones, phablet, tablet sizes. And now a totally new watch UI.

The OS versioning disparity on Android is also becoming less of an issue on Android as devices have moved on to 4.0+. As the changes to frameworks are less drastic between 4.0 vs 5.0. Programming is much more predictable than it was say with 2.3 vs 4.0 for example.
I've taken a propeller to the face from a motor similar in strength to the consumer "drones", and it was spinning full throttle. I really don't recommend this. I got lucky it didn't hit my eye (came close). End result was some 4 scratches across the cheek on the left side but no permanent scarring.

In my case it didn't occur when I was flying the quadcopter but rather when I was bench testing the ESCs (yes, I knew abstractly I should remove the props before doing this but I got lazy after a while of testing and eventually it bit me).

Having said all of this I mostly agree with the grandparent post (though I do recognize that a 2 lbs drone could, theoretically, kill someone) in that the solution to this as a safety issue is primarily just don't fly a quadcopter over anything you wouldn't feel comfortable crashing it into (basically don't fly over people or valuable property it could potentially damage). As long as you stick by this rule of not flying over anything you're not afraid to crash it into you already have a good (if not inexpensive) failsafe, which is just cut the throttle completely.
Simultaneously disgusting and utterly unsurprising.
Interesting to see the similarities with SMS abbreviations.
I wonder if this will get fixed anytime soon. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing that will be high priority for Google Play.
The Manager Who Changed My Life
Elasticache does not support passwords http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/faqs/
The Tech Conference Proposal Guide
> Just because it's easy though, doesn't make it "right".

If something is both easy and rewarding for those who do it, don't base your business on trusting people not to do it.

Consequentially, don't base your morality code on a notion of "people shouldn't do it". They shouldn't do it because it hurts businesses, but it only hurts businesses because they're foolish enough to make the first mistake.
BitTorrent’s Encrypted P2P Chat Service Adds iOS App, ‘Whisper’ Ephemeral Mode
Ask HN: Do you have ADD/ADHD? Do you take Adderall/Ritalin?
Are you a student, programmer or entrepreneur suffering from ADD/ADHD?

Do you take medicine like Adderall, Ritalin or Concerta? Does it work and how often do you take it?

I live in Denmark where that kind of medicine is not in as wide use as in the US so I am curios about it.

I am also curious whether that kind of medicine is used by both women and men to the same degree?
Sort of like TCP, then?
Is 'Astro Party' the Next 'Flappy Golf', Popular Thanks to Students?
Less LESS is More (also: is transpile a real word?)
Ask HN: Permantly phasing out a site – How to do it properly?
o, i have a website which i haven't updated in years and am finally planning to shut it down but at the same time want to make sure it is still there to read for the public (niche website, still has some historical information that might be relevant for some).

Since it is running on WordPress and i am not exactly keen on updating and maintaining that anymore, what would be the best way to still have it available for others to read and get rid of WordPress?

One way i could see is spider and save it with something like HTTrack and put up the static HTML-Copy. The other way i can think of is to provide a link to a web.archive.org snapshot.

However, since the web.archive.org snapshot might disappear in the case of a HDD-failure there (and IIRC they don't keep backups, what's gone is gone for good) this options isn't ideal.

I plan on keeping the domain, since the few $ for an .org domain a year are worth the inconvenience to me compared to updating all registrations and whatnot which still have that domains email somewhere in user profiles etc.

HN, how do you deal with such situations?
I haven't been able to figure out how these work. GPS alone wouldn't give the resolution and responsiveness required. It doesn't seem to be CV-based either, since there's often no line of sight of the tracking device. Perhaps the tripod has two directional signal strength sensors so it can tell if the beacon is to the left or right, and move in order to keep the beacon centered.
I don't see the problem. Pure code being automatically thread-safe is a boon. I would much rather be unable to write thread-unsafe code without noticing (and able to when I deliberately decide to).
Flink is pretty neat and it didn't feel like an "all or nothing" monolithic chunk when I played with it.

The page based inner loop makes it very predictable when it does data operations - they were doing this early last year and this mechanism made it very cpu cache friendly & didn't trigger the massive GC pauses.

I was playing with Flink a bit earlier, because Flink can be integrated into Tez, so that Tez could do DAG scheduling while Flink ran with its inner loops on turbo.

That inner loop can edge out even hand-written java code I wrote for page-rank (delta iterations are nice).
Career options for senior programmers
Of course not, where did you get that idea? I don't think drones should ever be operated in close vicinity to people, especially if those people are bystanders uninvolved in the operation of said drone. Well yes, but the slight elevation of the sidewalk isn't the sole reason drivers don't run over pedestrians. The barriers are hopefully in the discipline of the pilot.
Quadcopters can also be saved if only one motor fails using only the 3 other motors and an algo: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/new-algorithm-can-save-a...
There has got to be a really awesome AirBnB type service in here for the rich but not that rich types. All that unused property, all those traveling rich people for whom a hotel is too 'exposed'. Connect those dots people! :-)
Show HN: Twitter bot uses deep learning to “read” comics
Tax breaks made to protect the poor all too often benefit the wealthiest the most. Which causes the most harm to the group it was meant to protect. Oops.

I support equality in taxing. Alas such things are labeled regressive but it's always the poor who end up under the bus. Complicated progressive tax schemes always benefit the rich more than the poor. Always.
How much does your average TV viewer pay NBC/CBS/ABC/Fox per month?
Buy a blender bottle, the ones with the small wire ball inside which are designed for mixing protein powders and the like. They're about ~20 floz so fill 8oz with Soylent, 8+ with water and you're good. Throw in some ice, shake, and no chilling is needed.

I stopped using the big container entirely since it's like 3-5$ for a bottle I just bought 2 and always have a clean one.
This was a rather obnoxious article. I wish there was a way to downvote the article itself.
On the Psychology of App Ratings
> One thought I had while reading though this is that HTTP2 really isn't just a hypertext transfer protocol anymore, it's going to be used for everything.

That's not any different from HTTP/1.1.
Meadow (YC W15) Partners with Sidecar Deliveries
Hey Henry! We had calculus BC together at Westview. Congratulations, this looks great. -Eric S.
Or people that want a binary can get it from someone sharing them, as is their right under the GPL.
F-35 fighter jet on course to becoming one of history's biggest white elephants
Skype’s futuristic real-time translator preview is now open to all
A fun idea but in an avalanche the chances of you reaching your pocket before being entombed in snow is pretty low.
Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest
Struggling to connect the lines of your reasoning. You say these are money laundering tax shelters, and that the poorest members of society pay far more than the foreign billionaires who own them and make money trading them around.

But that's all irrelevant and somehow the article is overblown FUD? Is the point that all the lawyers and construction jobs outweigh taxes? I think the fundamental argument is one of fairness, the people who benefit the most from a wonderful city should pay their share to maintain and support it.
SteamSpy – All the data and stats about Steam games
The author drops into this reddit thread to answer questions

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/31eepl/recu...
There is not such a trend, for new cars. Remember that new cars are mostly sold by dealers who have exclusive territories. That gives dealers the freedom to pick a business model that maximizes dealer profits.
I'm cool with content providers charging. What I'm not ok with is some discovery channels getting free access to that content, while others don't.

As far as Google is concerned, they're a business, not a public utility. If a content provider can choose what and whom to show to, so can Google.

The ethical approach would be to not be indexed by Google, but rather, use a pure paid ads approach (or a revenue sharing model).

To not have a universal interaction model is deceptive. (I search on Google, see an article, click, and use your nifty sharing widget, but those I share with are prompted to subscribe, and now I look bad)
MapReduce is dead Long live Cloud Dataflow
> it seems everything must be world changing these days to sell

The TV show Silicon Valley has done a good job of satirizing this religion-style promotion of products in the tech scene.
The Marvel Comics API
Just a personal gripe, but I hate it when websites don't work without the pointless www. in front of their domain.

I just text a friend to visit https://lily.camera and he'll never see it, because it doesn't exist.
> If you have admin-level malware

...you should reinstall your OS. Really, that shouldn't even be an "if" these days. Of course security doesn't matter if people can just execute random code on your machine.

Anyway, code signing is not about delivery time integrity. It's easy to check whether a given binary is code signed at any given time—without it you wouldn't be able to revoke bad certificates. The only reason you shouldn't sign is if signing has some cost (like in the Mac OS X ecosystem) or you can't trust a single root certificate anyway (at which point you might as well move to OpenBSD anyway).
> Tell me then why Go is being used to drive so many big projects?

False dichotomy. The fact that a language is being used for big projects (or used at all) doesn't mean it has great design. Think of PHP...

I also completely fail to see what Docker's funding has to do with Go's design.
So, it's functionally equivalent to a "restrict" keyword in unsafe mode? (i.e. you can alias without the compiler being able to prove it as if you weren't aliasing.)
lily.camera redirects
U.S.A Freedom Act is a mass surveillance bill in sheeps clothing
If you follow the links in the article:

> We do not know exactly how the NSA and GCHQ intercept the data, other than it happens on British territory.
I have an almost identical configuration with full disk encryption turned on and I haven't experienced this issue.
Not for 20 minutes.
Replace "understand" with "care about" and it's a double win - you're closer to the truth, and you aren't condescending in service of defending your favored corporation.
I don't think it's so different than people being killed by a mechanical failure in a plane. Sure you can put the failure back on the mechanic or engineer who designed the plane but you can do that with software too.
Railo can get forked (under LGPL)
Actually, thats not true. A broad amount of research wen tin to this (originally at least).

There is a method to this madness :)
List of previous similar products:

https://www.airdog.com

http://hexoplus.com

https://store.3drobotics.com/products/iris

http://www.airmind.co
You can manage this by composing merge and merge_with

In [1]: data = [{'a': {'b': 1}}, {'a': {'c': 2}}]

In [2]: from toolz import merge, merge_with

In [3]: merge_with(merge, data)
Out[3]: {'a': {'b': 1, 'c': 2}}

You'd have to be a bit clever to go fully recursive
Adjunct teaching: Treadmill to Oblivion
"We don't serve Jews here."
IceCube neutrinos do come in three flavours after all
The NYT has experimented but is still clinging to the past.

Yes and No. Print advertising is significantly worth more than web. Thats not "in the past' that is alive and well (but declining). Still high.
Knight-Rid(d)er?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Ridder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider
Create an interactive Apple Watch app prototype in 10 mins
IRS Seized $107,000 from Him. He’s Fighting to Get It Back
Hey, I'm getting paid for each piece of straw I look through here, add more stacks!
> With a manufacturer direct sale you don't know what a reasonable price because they would never have to tiers of pricing which could be found out and exposed as so called "invoice" and similar pricing is done with regular car dealers.

Right, but it would eliminate overhead and economics says that reduces cost because Ford isn't going for maximum profits, it is going for acceptable profits in the marketplace.

My particular issue of needing a particular model aside, the manufacturers are still competing with manufacturers. If Tesla has done nothing else, he has shown that if there is a niche that isn't being filled by the manufacturers, that startup can compete.

If the manufacturers overprice their cars, they create a niche for someone to move in on. Their current pricing model reflects this, but the dealership era is the past. They came about when car companies were going out of business all of the time and people wanted to deal with someone who had been in their town for a long time. They wanted to buy the exact something they could see and warranties were nearly useless.

Now we have the internet. If Ford screws someone over in Florida, California hears about it the same day.

Because of the competition that the internet has created, dealerships have had to move closer and closer to a 3% profit on sales or lose business. This has put many dealers out of business already. It is only a matter of time. I hope.
There's a similar story about the search engine game. Yahoo had a chance to buy better search engine technology, the only problem was it was too good.

If people quickly found what they wanted, they wouldn't spend any time on your page. Time-spent-on-page is how Yahoo measured engagement, and thus ad-revenue. Improving Yahoo's search engine would have threatened existing revenue streams, and Google would be a terrible investment for them, given the metrics in use at the time.
I don't think multirotors are used for war, except perhaps for reconnaissance.
darknets are awesome

i'm the author of a long-existing indexeddb javascript library. IDB can store all kinds of wonderful objects, including binary blobs. if you're inspired by client side data, you should check out indexeddb!
How the 3-Finger-3-Seconds-Rule to keep your project on track
One downside of BTS is that for most consumer internet connections download is much faster than upload. Once you get your file to dropbox you can download it on all your other devices at your much faster download rate.
Is an up-to-date IE11 old? Is Windows 7 already considered old?

I have seen this bug on dozens of Windows 7 PCs IE9, IE10 and IE11.

Sometimes it's only visible for a few milliseconds sometimes it is visible for 1-2 seconds.

Most probably just don't notice the quick flash of a message text.
http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0
http does. https doesn't.
Writing pure CSS is not faster than using a preprocessor like LESS or SASS. Common CSS styles that need to go into the stylesheet that need to be configurable can be simply abstracted into mixins. It is also far easier to read less or scss stylesheets due to neat nesting so you can easily see selector priority.

I generally prefer simplicity too, but for CSS at least, working with the preprocessors far trump working without for convenience, flexibility, speed of development, and scalability.
In many if not most areas in the US assessed value and market value are two different things. The system in NYC (for homes not condos) is that the assessed value is 6% of market value. While in other place like the entire state of California (at least at time of purchase) assessed value is 100% of the market value - a more straightforward method used in some states. The percentage is know as the "assessment ratio" and varies by state and even within states such as by city or county.

However the tax rates are much higher areas using the 6% method versus the 100% method. For example in NYC the tax rate is 19.157% while in San Francisco is 1.1743%. If you do the math the tax rate on market value is about the same. 6% * 19.157% = 1.149% in NYC versus 1.1743% in SF. In most places it is around 1% but can be over 2% in place like New Jersey, Illinois or upstate New York which unlike NYC relies more on property taxes.

None of this says anything about the NYC system for condos (class 2) that the article talks about but is often a source of confusion when comparing areas that use different systems.

http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/brochures/c...

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/09/san-francisco-pro...

EDIT: Here's a good recent review of residential real estate taxes across the US (290kb pdf):

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2013/...
So basically the drone version of Lassie.
It looks like my startup beat you by a week and a half: :-)

http://www.fastcompany.com/1799193/disrupting-democracy-keya...

Apparently neither of us lasted though!
It's just another way to shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor.
The "follow me" feature of newer drones seems to encourage people to fly near themselves and presumably others.
... I'm completely dumbfounded that someone could actually complain that soylent is too much of a PITA to make. I genuinely worry for this person and their inability to do... anything.
Same for me, seriously.
...have become irrelevant

Please read this article:

"Cuomo Orders Emergency Measures to Protect Workers at Nail Salons"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/nyregion/cuomo-orders-emer...

That response by a state governor was in due to an article in The New York Times from a week ago.

Also, do not underestimate the amount of original content that these orgs churn out that other sites repackage and repurpose.

Irrelevant? Do some measure of homework.
Agreed. I also want a drone that can carry and emergency supply kit and drop it to me like Katniss if I get into trouble. If I'm running through the Grand Canyon and get bit by a snake it can drop/deliver snake anti-venom to me. Could also go over to a ranger or resupply station and bring other supplies.
Not perhaps what you're looking for but the whole style of fairly zany intro guides began with "Why's Poignant Guide" for Ruby.

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
A few points.

First, I agree 421a is ludicrous, which is why I don't see why you credit NYC for "extracting concessions like low and moderate-income housing". 421a and similar programs trade billions of dollars in tax revenue that could be spent on everyone for hundreds of thousands of dollars in rental subsidies handed out to a few lucky lottery winners. That is terrible public policy. A park or subway station improvement is a little closer call, but cash ought to be the gold standard.

Second, I'm not sure I care whether billionaires buy castle in the sky in midtown or townhouses in Greenwich Village. I wasn't going to be able to afford the townhouses anyway. It seems like the people most concerned about billionaires bidding up property are the centimillionaires being priced out. 100 units, even extremely large units, are a drop in the bucket for NYC. The knock-on effects are just not that large out in the places where the middle and lower classes live.

Finally, in terms of extracting more, I think the in-kind programs are both inefficient and a massive opportunity for corruption. I'd much rather see all the special deals -- parks, affordable housing, etc. eliminated and property taxes that reflect reality imposed, with perhaps a small pied-à-terre differential. The billions of dollars of missing tax revenue would be a lot more valuable to NYC than a few more housing lotteries or a small park, if for no other reason than you can subsidize rentals with cash but you can't fix potholes with subsidized rentals.
"Just doing my job/following orders." does not work as an excuse for their behavior. I will not do anything illegal to a sales person, but I find the only approach that safeguards yourself is to treat them as a being lacking empathy and with a distaste for anything truthful unless it benefits them.

Too many times I had to work with friends/family who were outright lied to by those desperate to close a sale.