skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A simple trick is to recognize that balance sheet accounts have signs that align with our intuitive understanding of positive and negative, whereas income statement accounts are flipped. To grok why that is gets a little more tricky

For me, what made this less tricky, was thinking in terms of flows and their accumulation. A debit entry is a flow of value into an account, a credit entry is a flow of value out of an account (a debit or credit balance is simply an accumulation of those flows.)
A Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically (2013)
They've been building out warehouses for a long time.

In the UK they have multiple local depots just to cover London alone, and their own delivery company (Amazon Logistics) as well as new deals both with a newspaper/magazine delivery business that will deliver packages to your local newsagent for pickup (~12h hour delivery times) as well as the Post Office.

Going to see those delivery times keep coming down.

In the UK they're facing increasing competition on delivery times from companies like Argos - a large retailer that operates a catalogue plus online coupled with retail presences that are basically warehouses with pickup desks. Argos bought a courier delivery company a while back, and now offers 2 hour delivery as a (relatively expensive) option for online purchases in many locations...
"You probably don't need a framework"

Care to explain? And how does babeljs fit in?
If by "get by" you mean survive, then, certainly. But are they living a good comfortable life and are able to afford good food, a second car, good health insurance, good dental care, music lessons for the children, a decent family vacation and a well maintained house? Doubt it. Every hard working educated parent deserves this and being able to put their kids though college in a civilized society that the USA claims to be.
Musk level ideas
NFG enables O(N) algorithms for character level operations.

The overhead is entirely wasted on code that does no character level operations.

For code that does do some character level operations, avoiding quadratic behavior may pay off handsomely.
You are now aware your tongue has weight and you can't find a comfortable place for it in your mouth.

I don't see how your your brain censoring unnecessary sensory information is preposterous. But once its drawn to your attention - it can be hard to stop thinking about it and get it "filtered" again.
Probably will be the same thing as pedometers in newer mobile SOCs, that don't use significant power. Snapdragon S800 (Nexus 5) and up.
Groupon’s Breadcrumb Live: monitor business in real-time
Typing this out I realize most are science fiction, but they're really good ones.

* Neutrino Overdrive — One day in the 1950s, in the desert of California where the drag racers line up facing the Christmas lights, a new challenger appears. He is tall with a large forehead and olive colored skin. He wants to race.

* Breakfast at Tiffany's — technically a novella, but reads really fast. Different than the movie and better (in my opinion)

* Flowers for Algernon — One of the classics

* Country of the Blind — in the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king

* The Last Question — this is reposted so much on HN and Reddit that if you haven't seen it, yet, just wait a week :)

* The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever — Just wow. Actually a lot of the stories in Carbide Tipped Pens are really good. It is a good collection.

* The Nostalgianauts — It is easier to find this in audio than as a short story. It is in some collection somewhere
> Why would you want constant time access to code points? What can you do with constant time access to code points that is actually correct?

Well, it makes it easier to avoid putting an ellipsis in the middle of a multi-byte character, which could crash the user's phone when something else tries to display your now-invalid string.
Google announced Weave for smart home developers
The Go project makes stable releases every 6 months. They are extensively tested and fully compatible with all previous major releases. But we do introduce new tools, libraries, and minor language features. Developers almost always want to be using the latest stable release of Go. (There's seldom a reason not to.)
Finally a solution that can makes Rails more competitive
I believe Indy has a big regional distribution center, so not that surprising to me. I would have expected Nashville on the list, as we also have some big warehouses located here. Hopefully soon.
Even better: Write in oven, store in fridge.

What does this mean about leaving a laptop in a hot car for a week?
My father was in the Finnish army (which suffered too small losses to even fit in the presentation) fighting the Soviets, and was wounded in a Russian counter-attack north of Petrozavodsk in October 1942. The battle diary of his brigade says "we suffered bad losses".

A Russian division-strength attacking force pushed a Finnish brigade-strength force back about 400 m on a fraction of the front which was about 800 m wide.

The "bad losses" were 49 men killed on the Finnish side. The Russian losses in this two-day battle were estimated about 1400 men killed. And as a result the Finnish commander remarked that "the Russians have changed; they are no longer throwing human life away completely mindlessly and they actually try some sensible military attack tactics".

A ratio of 30 Russians killed in attack to grind down 1 enemy was "sensible" compared to what the Russians had been doing before that. Of course, eventually it worked, they had the 31st soldier as well.
I'm very intrigued by this as well. I tried a variety of shapes and the only ones it recognized for me were "S shaped" and "very straight."

I did get these too though:

"Your guess was extremely accurate. Is that you, Raj Chetty?"

"We’re going to be honest here: Your line was pretty odd. Did you even try?"
Following Apple partnership, IBM now offering employees Macs for the first time
For me Facebook works best as a calendar. Nearly everyone I know has a Fb account (one they check every day, at that), so it makes planning group trips/parties/events easier than trying to sync large groups of people across platforms and devices. It allows me to update my event details without having to worry that one of my friends won't get they update because they synced an out of date .ics file or added the event to their work calendar by mistake.
That's a fair question. When many people make the correlation!=causation argument, they do so to express skepticism, often without any evidence or positive contribution to the discussion. However, in this case, I think the argument is warranted because there is a large body of evidence that suggests wealth does not directly affect whether kids go to college. I linked to one interesting study, but I can link to more if you'd like.

In any case, I hoped my comment and link added value to the discussion. If not, I'd be happy to remove them.
Express.js under the hood - Digging into the mysteries of Express.js
How would the curve change if the sample were cut to reflect only those students who scored in the top 1/3 on the SAT?
So people are just going to do this again? Hand over all of their photos in exchange for free storage? How far are we from a computer being able to determine what is going on in a picture, and then they can mine the things you've done.
good points, added to TODO.
Delusionary Thinking in Washington, the Plight of a Declining Superpower
Great read, thanks for sharing and best of luck with all your future endeavours!
Android M will be available in preview for Nexus 5, 6, 9 and "player".

I hope it doesn't mean that Nexus 4 is already end of life ?
Is the site really unresponsive for anyone else? It seems like I have to click a lot of things twice to get the click to register and there is always a noticeable delay after the click waiting for the next page/view to load.
5GHz WiFi support
> The key to raising university enrolment among poor students is to provide better education/development opportunities and aspiration.

I'm going to risk calling you out on this, because I think what goes unstated here is that public resources cannot compete with private ones when it comes to education. It's sad to look at Johnny Trust Fund, and see that he is born with a true educational leg up over poor children, and there's really no way around it. If Johnny's parents have the will and motivation to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year educating Johnny, they can. I'm sorry, but no country can compete with that. Even increasing per-pupil spending in public schools to that of the Phillip's Academies is arguably impossible in all but a handful of the top GDP/capita nations, let alone all the private tutoring and traveling and internships that Johnny has access to.

So, yeah, if you manage to educate poorer children as well as wealthy children, they would achieve similar university performance, but getting their educational background to parity with one-another is so far out of the realm of possibility for most nations that I don't think it should even be mentioned.
10 Principles of Good Wasteland Design
This is spot on and how it was where I grew up and was a volunteer firefighter. IIRC, the visible strobes on our equipment we referred to as "opticoms"
http://www.basscss.com/docs/base-buttons/

Perhaps shouldn't be asking here, but why does a button element get a different style than .button links and inputs?

I like the idea of this library, but that's not leaving a good taste in my mouth.
I don't want Google's servers looking over my images and analyzing them. No thank you.
Show HN: SaveURLtoDropbox – Save a file pointed by URL instantly to your Dropbox
Yeah, I was really interested too. From what I can get from playing around in the console, they (probably jashkenas and his cronies) they're using d3 to do the rendering. Since d3 has convenient map / filter / reduce chains, I assume (though have no proof), they can figure out the shape of your line by doing ye olde' rise / run calculation for each point. If your slopes gets significantly bigger at some point, you must have a S shape. They also force you draw only 1 point per x-increment, so they don't have to handle bad users drawing vertical lines.
For an ancient text dealing with the question of self-control and consciousness, look at a point before the story of the first murder in the pentateuch, where God talks to Cain about his state-of-mind before Cain murders Abel:

Then the Lord said to Cain,
“Why are you angry?
Why is your face downcast?
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right,
sin is crouching at your door;
it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

This text was composed into its current long after the mythical-or-real Cain existed, and probably written down only centuries after that. The original composition likely was before the 3K-years-ago dawn-of-consciousness that Jaynes stipulates.

The interesting thing about the passage is:

* there's still an either-real-or-self-manufactured deity involved
* Cain struggles in an apparent self-aware way with jealousy and rage
* he's explicitly aware of the need to modify his perception
* there's still a "bicameral mind" but it's integrated into consciousness

From either Cain's perspective, the author's perspective, or the ancient reader/hearer's perspective, I think this passage is fascinating.
mobile is fine, font is ok. - htc one
> My employer runs a sourceforge mirror – i am going to start some discussion if we can turn it off.

Please do. IIRC, most (all?) of their mirrors are provided by third-parties who are graciously offering their resources and SourceForge is taking advantage of them to serve up and profit from adware/malware installers.
I am a General Assembly graduate, who was able to interview another GA grad for an open position. He really sucked. I'm really surprised he made it through the course. GA needs to have more stringent qualifications for calling yourself a 'graduate' and not just someone who copied and pasted rails tutorials and called it a personal project.
But how accurate would the simulation be? Real brains have latencies as well as action potential. I don't think it's obvious how memories are stored, as well.

I have no objections to brain being modeled through a bunch of linear algebra. I'm not sure that we have all the particular interactions required for a full model yet?
It does, it'll receive security updates only as part of the new devices policy - 2 years for major updates, 3 years for security updates.[1] It is a bit sour though to deprecate a device with a quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM, while low range devices launched last year will get M.

[1]http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/23/rumor-android-m-will...
4k playback is the only thing I can think of
Then you can't put photos on the public web at all, right?
> I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

We are.

> But you can just write for each cell the index of component it belongs to. It can't belong to many, right?

Right. Each cell belongs to 1 and only 1 connected component.

However, there can be O(n) connected components overall. Think of a grid of cells all blocked off from each other, for instance.

As such, storing which connected component a cell belongs to technically requires O(log n) space, worst-case. Which means have overall you have n cells each requiring O(log n) space, or O(n log n) space overall.

In practice you can treat this as effectively O(n), however.
Having had a kid accepted to UVA, UChicago and UC Berkely this year and being a resident of VA, I can tell you that board and tuition at UVA are still over 30K even for in-state. UChicago (a private shool) was the only one that gave a (quite generous, actually) merit grant.
Mars Is the Next Step for Humanity – We Must Take It
> brief, beautiful dance of life

I suspect the mayflies might beg to differ :( We humans can romanticize anything.
As a node.js engineer the only thing this fork will do for me is require me to double check with companies I interview for to ensure they are running their Node.js on a sensible Linux platform. I'm definitely not working on the Windows ecosystem.
Well I choose what to put on the "public web". Unlimited photo storage means all your photos.
Yes, the people who currently work, but live in trailer parks, would likely be lifted out of poverty and the necessity to live in a trailer park by an additional $1000/month per adult in the household. Would it lift all of the families in trailer parks out of poverty? Of course not. But, it would be a reasonably impressive start on the problem.

It's also worth recognizing the other impacts of a basic income. People who are currently trapped in their jobs and locations would find themselves with the ability to relocate for better opportunities or lower housing costs. The more money you have, the less of the poverty traps you fall prey to on a daily basis. So, remove the check cashing scams, the expensive credit scams, the rent-to-own scams, etc. from the lives of a huge swath of the population and you free a lot of them from being stuck in poverty. There's reasonably good research on this from various studies and pilot projects that simply give money to poor people and watched the results.

More money won't cure the problems of trailer parks and slumlords but it will give more people more options. And more options means competitive pressure begins to be effective. Markets work when people have options. Right now, the very poorest people in our communities have no options, and thus have no way to vote with their dollars.
You should stop spreading rumor , this is rumor right now and no one give shit about what some crazy site says.Please be accurate as possible when answering someone.
If you don't get a CS degree you'll be at a disadvantage when you're lined up adjacent to other potential hires that do have CS degrees.
Google I/O using tholman's Elevator.js
Whoops, make that an O(log n) check, technically speaking, as the index of which CC a cell belongs to may take O(log n) space worst-case.

Though you can treat it as effectively O(1) time and O(n) space.
There are plenty of other ways to get that information. Statistics (x number sold * y average casts per user), asking streaming companies (i'm sure netflix and hulu know when you're on a chromecast and could report rough numbers to google), and i'm pretty sure there are other ways that I'm not thinking of.
> Was it an abandoned project ...

No.

> ... or was did the project just stop using Sourceforge?

Yes.
M&S is pretty reliable for clothes shopping. They deliver next day and I don't find their fit changes within the same category.
I propose a thought :
If, as the sciences would have us believe, consciousness is born out of the unique biological structuring of matter in that jelly atop your shoulders, would it not seem logical that there are varied degrees of consciousness formed among us? Magnify a blade of grass to its 'simplest' form and you'll see incongruency ? Then why not across the landscape of human consciousness formed by even more complex structuring ?

and then what....
Android Pay is coming
The people who make $500k / year feel the same way you do: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08halfmill.html. Virtually no one considers themselves "rich" because they tend to put their "minimum acceptable" level at whatever lifestyle they're currently living, so obviously they can just barely afford it. Lack of perspective (historical, global, or even just from outside of your own social circles) is a real problem.
From the page you linked, the very first note. Click that link. Here it is:

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId...

The first line is very important: "Items sold by Amazon.com that are marked on the product page and at checkout."

Emphasis mine. As an example, I ordered a Logitech Mouse. The item was listed as Prime. It was shown in stock. It showed a guaranteed delivery date within 2 days in the item page. I simply ordered and didn't pay attention to anything else.

It showed up a week later. When I called, it was pointed out to me that the "guaranteed delivery date" that matters is NOT on the item page. It's on the checkout page and those emails they send you after you order. They were correct, the email I got said a week later ... of course, I didn't pay attention, because most things come in 2 days and the item page did say it'll come within 2 days time before I ordered.

Is that false advertising? Sure. I forgive them.

I've also ordered Prime items that were listed in stock and had a guaranteed delivery date on the item page, but then mysteriously went out of stock later and simply weren't shipped at all.

I order a lot. Maybe 2-3 items every week. This has happened only a few times. With the breadth of their operations, these hiccups are understandable. I did manage to get a few 10 dollar credits once in a while, but sometimes they just refuse to own up to it and tell you to get lost.
Specific text message disables iPhones
I've had no such issues with speed. My chromecast is generally on by the time I've figured out what I want to watch and buffering is less than 15 seconds to start the video. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Stupid question: if there exists an unlimited photo storage service and it supports a lossless format, couldn't people use it as universal storage by splitting their files under the size limit and adding whatever header info is necessary to make them into PNGs?
True, but I was more focused on the fact that I earned that sum as a PhD, so one step below the seniority ladder. To earn exactly the same sum as a postdoc is just a crazy thing, and I'm glad I left to do my postdoc in the US.
We can't all live exactly where we want to live. There are plenty of places in the SF bay area where 150k is fine. There are plenty of places in the SF bay area where even $2mil/year isn't fine.

If you choose to sacrifice your childrens' college education so you can live in SF, that's your prerogative. Most families don't even have this choice. Complaining that you're minimum living wage at these amounts is hugely insulting to the vast majority of the population.
Wow, that's almost the opposite of the way I use Facebook. I keep chat turned off all the time. I hate interruptions that demand (or even imply) an immediate response, and that's what live chat/text messages/IM represent to me.

Yes, sometimes I do want real-time messages, but that's not how I want things to be most of the time. I'm perfectly okay with seeing "old friend had a baby" or "cousin graduated from high school" the next day, or whenever. It's not that I don't care about these things; I do care about them. I just don't want things that don't require a real-time response sent through a real-time communications medium.
I have a bunch of minor projects on SF, which I'm now going to look into moving, and yes, migrating the mailing list is the hard part. Project hosting on my own server is easy; mailing list hosting is not. (I used to run my own mailing lists. Never, ever, again.)

One option is to migrate away from mailing lists and towards something like a forum; but forums, while they provide very low barrier-to-entry, produce a fundamentally terrible user experience. (Yes, including HN. This text box I'm typing into is an embarrassment.)

What I'd really like, I suppose, is a service which provides an easy-to-use web forum with an SMTP gateway for those people who hate forums. And then have it all hosted via my project website so that I don't have to redirect people to some dubious third pary site. Bet I'm not going to find one, though...
Power over HDMI

edit:

- HDMI passthrough so I can use multiple devices without switching TV inputs.

- Bluetooth for things like music streaming

- Camera? (not sure how psyched I'd be about this but it could be cool)

- Microphone (for voice commands without phone)

- Native apps (Android apps?)
> Transactions are paired, complementary movements in this space -- not plus/minus movement along a single line.

Sure, transactions are pairs (or balanced sets) of entries. Entries however, are exactly plus/minus movements along a single line in a single account. Sign (+/-) reflects that much better than debit/credit labeling does.

> There's always a tendency to simplify the model and elminate the balancing interaction and check.

Using +/- in place of credit/debit does not eliminate the balancing interaction. In fact, it makes exactly what is done in the balancing interaction more explicit.

> You're making a choice to use plus/minus for credit/debit is one of the distinctions, you could just have easily use it for asset/liability or income/expense. Why favor credit/debit?

Because income, expense, asset, and liability, are all kinds of accounts, and credit and debit are not, they are descriptors of whether an entry (or balance) is a flow (or accumulation of flow) of value into (debit) or out of (credit) an account.
Yes, the SELIC exploded and the Real was devalued overnight as soon as people realized that the party currently in power had chances to win an election.

Disaster is what we are living through now. Can you get any example of hight inflation happening at the same time as hight interest rates on Brazil since the Real Plan? Or, can you get any other example of hight inflation at the same time as a decreasing GDP? Or can you get any failed coup from FHC times?

FHC surely didn't do everything right. I have plenty of complaints. But to even compare his government to any of PT's is absurd.
The one thing I like about Costco, is the lack of choice and the Kirkland Signature Private Label. Kirkland Signature is on par, if not better, than their name brand counter parts.

Because they generally carry on SKU per category, the quality is generally very high.
There is a distribution center in Houston now: http://www.hkatexas.com/2014/06/amazon-fulfillment-houston-h...
100ms to Glass with Rails 5 and Turbolinks 3