skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's about ego. Most people who overcome adversity tend to have a strong desire to tell everyone about it, because the subtext is "I'm awesome!" And the logical extension is, "If people aren't able to overcome adversity like I did, they aren't as awesome as me!"

You're also witnessing survivorship bias. Those who struggle against futility and don't make it through are unlikely to come to places like HN and tell their stories. Indeed, the only failure stories we see here are from entrepreneurs, and that's only because entrepreneurship as a whole is worshipped among hackers and failing at it is therefore seen as noble and applauded as another step on the way to inevitable success.
FYI, double-tapping the Home button shows you a list of recent applications.

That would be the most commonly used way of switching apps, and it's one of the first tips that is shown to a user on a "new" phone by the OS.

Four finger swiping is an optional feature that power users can turn on.

Discoverability is still a valid issue, of course.
I wouldn't write off Parse's value because one client was rough around the edges. I suspect the SDKs will become much more stable and usable now that the community can help contribute to them.

If you can find a part-time engineer that can build and maintain a backend with all of Parse's features, you should absolutely do that.
The code is surprisingly well documented. For example: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Parse-SDK-Android/blob/mast... looks like an honest effort to get contributions.
It may not be “that bad”, but it’s still enough to be daunting if you’ve been in full-swing development mode and would rather focus on your application’s key features instead of licensing and distribution.

That said, I have apps on the Mac App Store and though it’s effortless, there are absolutely points of frustration. Most notably, there’s no way to refund or interact with unhappy users or users with questions. Additionally, OS X's sandboxing implementation is still buggy in some areas (mostly involving file dialogs and persistence of user-selected file URLs) which makes writing and usage of applications that frequently work with files in arbitrary user-selected files and folders in the user’s filesystem far more frustrating and failure-prone than it needs to be.

As such, I’m looking into moving into self-managed licensing, with a setup like you’ve mentioned (Sparkle/CocoaFob/etc) but rather than using Fastspring, I’ll probably use a personally maintained branch of Potion Store that supports Stripe instead. I’ve never been a fan of in-betweens like Fastspring as a developer or as a user; as a developer, I dislike the lack of control I have and as a user encounters with Fastspring and the likes feels janky, unpolished, and unprofessional.
I wish there was a DJB Linux/Unix. DJB has clear ideas about service management, ideas about to implement those services, and licensing, but they often clash with existing widespread tools or practices. That's not a problem, but the best place for them would be their own Unix variant.
We went OTA and in 2 years have had zero issues except the occasional dropout downstairs in one channel due to it being a small indoor antenna. We live about 25 miles from the city.

We get ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS and CW and several Spanish stations if we spoke that language.

We miss Fox News and CNN but catch their clips on Roku or on the web.

For movies, Netflix, M-GO and Google Play.

We may buy some sort of DVR, not sure yet.
It says an informant tattled and then they walked a narc dog which triggered. This enabled them to get a warrant.
I know, but I prefer giving feedback whenever possible. I personally hate being downvoted with no explanation. I call it "drive-by downvoting" and in my opinion it really degrades the experience of the community as a whole.
Thread-based concurrency doesn't require shared mutable state at the application implementation level.
Firstly, thanks for helping spread the word about Overleaf, that's much appreciated! If you're still demoing with it, feel free to join our Advisors programme [1] (it comes with a free Pro+ account amongst other things!)

Be very interested to hear how you get on with your current paper -- it is one you're working on independently or do you have co-authors? If it's the latter, do you have a workflow for handling the collaboration?

Thanks also for the note about Pollen, will take a look at it in the morning!

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/advisors
The solution to these problems is simple.

1. "Joe and Bob - were they together on Sunday at 2pm?"

Joe and Bob avoid this by not authenticating using the same mechanism in the same room at the same time.

2. "John just uploaded a signature that matches our samples of 'Kill the president'".

Solution 1: John understands how the authentication works by recording ambient sound, and refrains from saying things like "kill the president" during that procedure.

Solution 2: John starts an Internet meme which encourages every user of this authentication mechanism to say "Kill the president" over and over again during the procedure. Now, millions of signatures match.
There are certainly enough languages to choose from.
I met a fellow Ingress player once (in, luckily, a public place for a brief period of time). Weirdly, obsessively creepy, the kind of person who stares fixedly at your left ear while talking. I'm sure he wasn't representative, but...

Besides, if I wanted to talk to other humans, I wouldn't be playing a computer game! I gave up on Eve for the same reason, once I ran out of early game content and realised I'd have to join a corp to progress.
You're right, but I don't really think it's too bad. The Go To Folder dialogue generally works like cd. So you can enter a relative path and it will work, you can type ~Fred/Desktop and it will work, and you can type lon[TAB]/ot[TAB] and get longfoldername/otherlongfolder. They have different strengths, I suppose.
That's two asserts, and yes you are essentially testing the same concept, which I'm comfortable with as long as it's not a regular thing. People go through all sorts of gymnastics to convince themselves "it's one thing" and I find it exhausting, especially since fixing the problem is usually easier than the rationalizing.

If multiple asserts is a regular thing, you can either start breaking down your tests, or write a custom matcher. The custom matcher gives you better diagnostics when it breaks, so is probably the way to go.

Assert.That(value, Is.Within(10, 100)); // matcher generates error message
You can get CNN, Bloomberg and Fox News, among other channels with SlingTV. It's approx $19.99/month but for us it beats the $200 we were spending.
You might be conflating cpu processor speed with, what is essentially "io" (light as an input, I'd suppose) and basically waiting for physics to happen.
The most of "standard" latex features and some packages. You can find details here: https://tex.s2cms.com/
Ember is an interesting example of when an also-ran doesn't catch up in time. It was better than Angular, but React came along. This seems to be a pattern... something cool happens and then improved versions crop up, but by the time they get traction, the paradigm has shifted.
Maybe that first one should use ordinals for scoring: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number
There's an excellent implementation of OCaml for the JVM, which is, sadly, not well advertised (its author is a bit on the shy side): http://www.ocamljava.org/
There's a startup for that!

http://pigeon.ly/

The Planet Money podcast about it is great. A former inmate who wanted to solve the phone call problem, and expanded to other prison-specific issues.
because you're shouting "kill the president" when you're logging into a website?
As someone who bootstrapped themselves to this point (it did take me 15 years and quite a few detours) I do agree that not having outside investors is very nice. Having said this it is not an easy or quick way to build a business.
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Easier solution: Turn the
TV to face the wall and
unplug it from the cable company.

Net, the OP is about a big battle
over something next to worthless.

My ISP in effect pays me to accept
their "basic* TV service -- I get Internet
access and phone with TV for less than
without TV.

Well, I hadn't watched any TV for years.
I tried a few months ago to watch the NBA
playoffs, but my basic service didn't offer
that.

But for the 2016 elections, I just signed up
for an upgrade. But, I'm not very happy
with the upgrade -- it's a waste of time
and money. Even for the elections,
I can get what I want, e.g., transcripts,
off the Internet.

So, I suspect in another week or so
I will cancel the upgrade.

Movies? Okay, DVDs or YouTube.

How anything could be as bad as
TV is a bit beyond me.
The Elderly care question said that there was no effect on 3 year mortality, which is fine and I'm sure that is accurate but it doesn't answer the question of "Did it have a net positive/negative effect on quality of life for those 3 years".

Not been a negative nelly just an observation that something as complex as social interaction problems can't always be summed up with a clear net gain/loss.

Loved the idea and implementation though.
Does anyone know if this works in the USA? The article is from a domain in Belgium. Plus, any brave Guinea Pigs? I'm reluctant to muck with my iPhone.
That's like complaining, that when you want to get apps from Windows Marketplace, you need a Live account.

Which is fine. Except that I do not want apps from Windows Marketplace, so I don't need account. I don't want websearch from start menu, I don't want Cortana. So why does it still sends the data out, when I disabled everything that was disableable?

It's like forcing you into Gmail account, even if you didn't want to install anything from the Play Store.

See the difference?
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The point of having threaded comments is to allow new discussion to happen. I'm sure other top level comments won't be a gun debate; even better if you add your own thoughts. Only downvote things if they do not contribute to discussion whatsoever.
Is this relative to the galactic core?
What's the best way to see what the most popular Mac apps are, if Apple's official Top 100 may be based on few sales ?

Are there any sites tracking the best selling Mac apps ?
That is a pretty high bar - I may have a misunderstanding of what McKinsey does, but I thought that they specialized in powerpoint presentations.
I'm not sure if you're talking about the pain of going back to testing ruby / rails after using mocha / node, but I feel that specific pain, especially on projects with old-school Rails purists who insist on Test::Unit style. Switching to rspec gives you nested describe blocks with shared setup and teardown steps, as nice as mocha. Minitest has this BDD style built in too, but somehow the way Rails ties it in makes it difficult or impossible to take advantage of.
Although this looks cool, it's a misconception. Phil Plait of "Bad Astronomy" has written about this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_m...
I personally like to mod my games, though, which is borderline-impossible on modern consoles. There are also quite a few games - like Kerbal Space Program - that aren't available for consoles and that I enjoy playing.

I personally just game on a Linux box (running Slackware, specifically). I don't get the best selection in the world, but most of the indie games seem to be paying attention to Linux/SteamOS, and said games tend to be the better ones anyway.
I think a lot of the problems with monads is that they're way too low level to really get a grip on what they're for --- it's like trying to explain algebra by talking about manipulating pixels on a screen.

Once I finally saw some of the things you can do with a monad rather than those useless examples based around Maybe, I had an 'aha!' moment as everything went click.

No sodding idea what a monoid is, though.
The guy who owns .xyz just made a killing
How would you pitch an AV company?
You have an AV (audiovisual) startup, and you know many companies need your services. How to you convince or pitch an AV company?
I was talking about the same line.

Apparently new is a "special" operator, or there is a bug in the compiler. I also can't get a warning with g++.

The problem seems to be that, as I said, [] takes any integer expression, it is there where the value gets truncated when operator sizeof or new is applied on it since they either return or take a size_t value.
At least one open game, Agora Nomic, has been running via listserv continuously since 1993 (arguably since 1992, when it started in a MUD/MOO environment): http://www.agoranomic.org/

Edit: hmm, that website is a bit out-of-date though the mailing list addresses are current. If you want to see what a 22-year old Nomic Ruleset looks like: http://pastebin.com/jxxCiY2Y
Please don't downvote comments like this. I found this to be a very helpful comment that contributed to the discussion, and found a neat editor in the process.

Thanks for sharing geyang, sorry for the downvoters, HN has a problem with downvoting (not the least of which is the inability to undo downvotes).
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[Edit] Thanks for the link. I have a whole bunch of comments in there to upvote. Guess my evening is planned :) [Edit]

I would also like to point out that ranges, like the one in your example, are almost always a symptom of an unstable test to begin with. I'd want to know why you're providing a range. Does the test blow up if another server is running tests at the same time? Let's fix that so the tests actually fail when there is a failure.

Now, there are lots of matchers that misbehave for corner case inputs, and an assert like "Make sure there's text, that it's a number, and that the number equals 10" may be necessary in order to prove that "10" appears, especially when you invert the test an say "Make sure the number isn't 10". And in this case I would say "write us a better matcher so that everyone can benefit from you figuring out how to do this".

This should go without saying, but I feel I have to repeat it every time there's an audience:

Green is not the end goal of testing. Red when there is an actual problem is the end goal of testing. Anything else is a very expensive way to consume resources.
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Regardless of being anti or pro-gun, they are completely right. If he had not had his gun with him it would have been impossible for him to shoot himself.

Of course if he was really determined and it wasn't just a passing feeling he would've found another way, so I agree with you that you can't blame gun ownership on this.
I think so. I don't use any calendaring application, not even for birthdays or dentist appointments and never use reminders so my work/todo flow might be unusual.

If your software could disable distractions, and that's mainly access to certain websites (like HN) or email, it's a huge plus.

With the kickstarter campaign I just like the hardware gadget and the initial prices are low enough to try. I can imagine the social sharing added to the software I saw in the screenshots will be awful.
The context menu appears, but if I click on "Save as" or "View Image", nothing happens. "Image Info" does work, though.
Vultr:

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
How to cash in on your new idea?
Here's the basic problem with your proposed model: Channels popularity follows power law[1]. If you gave choice to subscribers to pay-by-channel most of the channels will die horrible death in sort period of time. However this is not good for the cable company because lack of content means they will lose portion of subscribers who are in long tail as well as revenue that is generated by long tail. One may argue it's also not good for consumers as the available selection shrinks dramatically. So in essence cable companies are packaging low performers with high performers so that long tail survives. This is one of the situation where "let the market figure out" strategy doesn't work very well either for producers or consumers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
I've always thought OpenBSD and daemontools would be a great fit. Among other things, OpenBSD and djb share a fanatical devotion to security through simplicity.

As the systemd apocalypse approaches, those of us who strongly disagree with that maximalist approach will start looking around for alternatives. Adopting daemontools (or a derivative) into the base system, and phasing out the old SysV init scripts, would make a distro suddenly very attractive.
All too often I see children playing on the playground, and I always do my best as an adult to inform the children of their pointless immature meandering. /s
I just watched your video and I think your tool is exactly what I'm looking for! Downloading it now.

In the meantime, I was wondering if you ever compose on your iPad? What is your workflow for that?
Do you use any hardware or software with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique ? Or just your watch?
We cut the cord in 2008-- tired of paying for linear programming which consisted of 33% ads.

We switched to Netflix soon thereafter, but now even Netflix isn't delivering the type of programming I like. I prefer good quality documentaries and non-fiction programming. I'm especially fond of BBC and PBS programs stuck up on Youtube (probably without the content owner's consent). If it wasn't for my wife who likes a lot of the fiction programming on Netflix, I'd cancel it and use Youtube exclusively.
similar style musicians are often in the cycle on http://soma.fm
Only problem with that is that a silicon wafer is like $50 off the shelf individually. They are incredibly cheap.
Stuff like logins are extra work the user has to do and it increases your bounce rate -- people seeing it, and then just leaving because of it.

You might want to try comparing how many people show up vs how many people register. Then you'd know.
> I consider Erlang an obscure language but I'd bet that most people do not.

Me too, but Elixir's going to be massive and may take Erlang with it. It feels like the first year of node coming out.
> What city do you live in with over a million people? Even Seattle (proper) has a population of 600k.

Columbus, OH. Around 800k-850k if you just include the city limits and well over a million with the metro area. Third largest city in the Midwest. Lots of job growth and probably more tech jobs here than anywhere else in state. Factor that with cost of living being pretty cheap, I don't have much of a reason to leave right now.

> Do you feel like you can find another job you'd enjoy in the city where you live pretty easily?

I'm sure I could. I didn't used to think so, until I actually started looking for work after doing mostly consulting and contract work. I think companies here have more trouble finding versatile developers that can wear "many hats" versus developers finding interesting work. Most only know one language well enough to use it (mostly Java or C#) and are either bound into knowing Linux or Windows Platform development and rarely both. That's just my opinion on it though. I'm comfortable with doing most types of development in most languages, so that helps with finding jobs I like.

No interest really in working for large companies. From my experience, that's generally the reason people move West (or East) that live here. I prefer companies where people actually know who I am.
I personally use Emacs with markdown-mode. I don't need the preview, really; the whole point of Markdown is to be readable in and of itself.
I did a bit of reading and apparently it varies by sport. I.e., the NFL blackouts work as I understood them to protect the stadiums, but the MLB and NHL blackouts work differently and are designed to protect the local broadcasters. TIL.
> Based on enterprise-class calculations (staff time etc), the cost of keeping an old XP PC running is dramatically higher than replacing it. You can get a tiny desktop with 4GB and a 1TB drive for less than $300, and cut your electricity bill as well.

Have you seen how extremely short-sighted and quarterly report oriented some executives can be. You say "only" $300 but I regularly replace $30 hard drives (that I charge $80 for) and they thank me for it because I'm "saving" them $200.
I should be thanking you. The issue we have is that science-type students have no problem working with LaTeX. Our humanities students on the other hand will use MS Word which as we all know is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents with lists of tables, figures, and so on.

We've found that by importing our university branded template into Overleaf and getting to our humanities students to think about their work as a structured document we can try to transition them away from MS Word. Unfortunately I think all bar two kept their old workflow.

Do check out the video by Pollen creator and typography nerd "(fourth RacketCon): Matthew Butterick — Like a Blind Squirrel in a Ferrari" linked from http://pollenpub.com/
His argument is that LaTeX has hindered innovation because it is so good. He gives his reasons for re-inventing the wheel with a Racket DSL. In the end we may realise the errors of our ways and come crawling back to LaTeX :)
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Wow, this is really cool!
Non-mobile link for the Reuters article - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/26/us-britain-slavery...
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I'm sure there's a market there, but I don't know how big it is. This is denser than current hard drives, but total cost is probably heavily in favor of hard drives for most use cases.

I'm not an expert on this, but my impression is that a lot of organizations that need a lot of space would be much happier with larger-capacity-but-slower drives because those drives can be so much cheaper than trying to build out more space.
So you want us to pay you so you can test things?

No thanks.
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Thanks Roman, this is very nicely done. I wonder what software are you running on the back-end that copes with HN's traffic so casually?
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It just needs a little color coding and dynamic contrast, really.
> If somebody is obviously drunk and walking towards their car to leave a bar, cops need to be able to stop him before he actually starts driving.

They need to stop him, explain it is his lucky day and call him a cab.
> "not upgrading" is so incredibly common

Honestly it does not look like you wasted much time at all, you seem to have missed his point again.
Two words: Michael Hastings

If it can be done by security researchers, why could it not also be done by the shadow government which has unlimited resources?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
counter-terrorism Richard A. Clarke said that what is known about the crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack". He was quoted as saying "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on [Hastings'] car — and I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get away with it.
I imagine it's useful on its own for educators.
Bring the European working time directive regulations to the US. No person shall work more than 48 hours per week averaged over a 6 week period.

These regulations allow some crunch mode projects to occur, but not go on forever.

I'm not optimistic that we will ever see this in the US though. The US chamber of commerce would fight it tooth and nail.
is zero really the nash equlibrium? given that they seem to round decimal numbers it seems like it should be one instead.
Pentagon launches new research outpost in valley
this is kinda overdue