skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ and win32 (with a light abstraction layer above it). Qt tends to be very heavy weight and I wanted to control as much as possible so I could get near instant boot times.

A few other library dependencies:
- libclang for heavy duty parsing (I also have a "quick" parser that handles simple cases in real time).
- rapidxml for the config files
- boost for Boyer Moore on the string search (but I'm trying to move away from boost eventually).
Having watched the mental carnage caused by git's re-use of names that older VCSen used for different things afflict multiple people (myself included) I do rather see your point.

On the other hand, I really, really think that a set of englishified versions would be helpful as a newbie tool - in the same way that I often encourage early stage perl hackers to 'use English;' until the shorter names wedge themselves into their brain.

Would doing that be as simple as something like

+= if ?:

and etc. and etc. ? I think I can appreciate that once you're used to the runic versions everything is fine but, well, when I talked about urbit having a vi-like cliff-ish learning curve curtis replied talking about putting up ropes, and this seems like a pretty reasonable rope.
Manufacturers got to lengths to squeeze pennies out of the Bill of Materials (BOM) in products like these. I remember listening to some conversations and being blown away at the tiny savings here and there, and our product was over $100.
Nah, it just suggests that nobody cares.
2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881
Very inaccurate. It is listing the cookie cutter suburban neighborhood north of me as a farm, and someone's online retail store running from their home as a restaurant.
The company is burning cash like crazy, they totally threw their business plan (to only make money via membership fees) out the window within a few weeks of launching and now they've slashed their originally proposed valuation by 50% in what would seem like a desperate move to get some cash in to keep the fire burning.

All for what? To try and compete with the likes of Amazon and Wall-Mart on price and logistics!?!?! Call me pessimistic, but this looks like its going to end in an expensive train wreck.
More about "grue" in other languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_...
Functors and monads for analyzing data (2013)
I think this is largely a meaningless claim. It is true that if you had some kind of consensus, you could elect anyone to office and enact any change of policy. However, your ability to create that consensus is hampered by the electoral system.

How do you get consensus from the electorate? You need to advertise and get media coverage. But the media is owned and operated by powerful people with a stake in the status quo. Especially in the US every issue is instantly polarized by the media. That way they can maintain a 2 party system, where nobody else has a chance to get a foot in. It's "Us vs. Them" all the way down.

This means that in order to get traction, you need to convince one of the 2 parties to back your idea. Otherwise the media is just going to portray you as some kind of tin foil hat wearing moron.

Even if you have popular support for your ideas, for example if you won a presidential campaign by saying, "Yes we can!" -- words that echoed throughout the world and won you a nobel peace prize... You really can't [1]. This link is from yesterday.

I'm not American. I'm not Republican or Democrat. I don't have a say in this or any other issue. But I think you are being very naive if you think that either of the parties will sit back and allow anyone to gather enough support to do what you suggest. And even if you were able to do so, by some miracle, the odds would be seriously stacked against you.

It is true that the electorate chooses. It is also true that the people in power decide what the electorate will choose.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/guantanamo-bay-ex...
Git annex [1] is a far more capable solution for file syncing and remote backups. It comes with a built-in assistant which syncs directories making it an adequate Dropbox replacement.

Git annex automatically uses SHA256 on all files as the UUID (optionally set SHA512 in .gitattributes). You can PGP sign your git commits to add more verification.

Plus you dont have to trust a 3rd party with your data, as it can sync entirely over local networks via SSH, directly to a USB harddrive, and it supports encryption when using S3 or other cloud storage.

I managed to teach my non-technical girlfriend how to use it without much effort but getting business people to use it might be a hurdle.

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Yeah, I actually think we would have been better off without it as well. On a related note, I stopped drinking a while ago and I don't miss it at all. But I really wish it wasn't such a sin to avoid it. I'm not opposed to drinking so I'll have a token beer but I just don't find it appealing.
As an aside, there are many addons to choose from if you wish to track large files with Git:

http://blog.deveo.com/storing-large-binary-files-in-git-repo...
Possession is illegal at the Federal level. All drug commerce that does not cross state lines is also illegal. There could be no federal war on drugs at all without the interstate commerce power the supreme court has derived.

Going further, the purpose of the interstate commerce clause was to give the power to regulate tariffs (and other taxes) between the states, not make entire trades illegal because sometimes those goods are sold elsewhere.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1957938/
This prevents Expedia from being a target of pro-Prop-F propaganda.
Provide liquidity & keep the internet free?
He doesn't do ad hominems tho.
However this eliminates a company's ability to retrain workers. Though maybe a modern company should anticipate high employee mobility
The TextMate bundle has several reports built in that use R and ggplot to plot reports across time. Perhaps other editor support packages have similar features.

https://github.com/lifepillar/Ledger.tmbundle
indeed. I had a popular app that worked on 5 platforms at the time and it killed me to maintain all of them. This was back in 2000. The tools now help, but still very hard.
Do you have any friends from there?

I do, and they paint a pretty bleak picture. One of my former roommates (https://twitter.com/carlsvanberg) is from Sweden, and he is quite outspoken about the country's many problems, including a poor economy and low standard of living. There are deep-seated cultural problems that underlie the economic issues there - ask him about the Law of Jante (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante) some time!

It is very funny to watch the color run out of someone's face when they ask Carl about how great living in Sweden must have been, how America should strive to emulate them, etc., and he proceeds to tell them all about what it's really like over there.
I completely agree that a generic feel-good document does nothing.

It shuts the people up who demand a CoC. (Not disagreeing with anything you said).

If I get it correctly, the LLVM one (comparing to the Mozilla one) spells out more explicit examples of things that are not allowed, and provides a simpler/more clear resolution process.

Interestingly the LLVM CoC points out both of these as things that are required to make it effective in practice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508016
Virtually all solar and wind projects of any significant size are heavily subsidized by the federal, state, or local government. I am unaware of any exceptions to this.
Very untrue. Their PC website has direct links to their products on almost every regional version of Amazon, with local support even. I've had a few of their wall chargers permanently lose 1-2 ports, and while I'd be much happier if it didn't happen in the first place, I received a replacement the next day here in Japan.
> Almost nobody grows and processes their own weed...

Er... really? In my experience, it's quite common.
Also google doesn't give a shit about the developers that have to use the tools.
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Oh man. You'd have to be seriously high on jet fumes to throw more money into the this sinkhole. I don't see this playing out well.
Actually most stores now do price matches to Amazon (including best buy and target among others), so there is no use for Amazon for me now. I used to go to best buy just to test the equipment before buying on Amazon, now I just show them the Amazon price on my phone and they match it. No shipping fee no waiting and cheaper. I think I'm going to have to try Jet.com now that Amazon is worthless
You can downgrade iPad 2 to iOS 6.
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So you want people to e-mail you more, but don't want to seem brash by just saying so in your voicemail. Right idea!

I think the computer networking concepts of "quality of service" and "latency" are relevant: Train your callers that they'll get lower latency, and more reliable communication, by e-mailing you. A VM message like the following might do the trick, without seeming so hostile: "I'm often away from my phone, and it sometimes takes me 2-3 days to get back to voicemail. For faster service, please e-mail me at martinald@example.com. <BEEP>"
Deepart.io – Generate images styled like your favorite artist
Works fine on a surface book
Easier distribution, lower response delay, no need to worry about possible service attackers. You can choose 3 file / object store providers, stick multiple sites in the DNS and be done. Also, slightly lower cost and complexity than actually running and synchronising distributed services around the world.
I'm skeptical of the data backing the language popularity chart because there is no mention of Python. It seems unlikely that Python devs never come into the IRC support channel. Ranked by general usage rather than by number of support requests, I might guess that Python would be ranked similarly to Ruby.
The same thing happened to me as well with the 5-port version, and more recently with the more powerful 6-port version. I still buy and recommend their products thanks to their very responsive support, though.
Stripe may have a billion dollar valuation, but their support process is still very immature.

You have two choices: 1) go to IRC, where they only answer technical integration questions, or 2) firing an email into the black hole that is support@stripe.com, and crossing your fingers that someone will respond within 2-5 days.

We've been burned several times by how slow they are to fix payment problems. You send an email to support@stripe.com, and then the waiting begins.

For a service that is critical to the day-to-day functioning of a small business, their support process is unacceptable. When a critical payment issue arises, there is no phone number to call and no ticket escalation process to let you know that your issue is being worked on. We finally moved off Stripe because their support process added too much risk to our business.

I know Stripe gets a lot of love from this community. But these SV businesses need to learn that customer experience goes deeper than having a flashy UI and easy-to-read integration docs.
I wonder how they intend to hit profitability by 2020 given how razor thin Amazon's margins are, even while benefitting from economies of scale.
“The security people I know at Google are embarrassed by Android”
I started reading about Condon and found he had no Wikipedia entry, so I created one at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Condon ... also the interesting historical engineering philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_engineering
At SFO airport, it recommends I go to any of the nearby shops. That's not even close to useful.
Amazon was a pretty successful bookstore, and then they acquired CDNow and became a pretty successful music shop as well. They weren't selling things for crazy low prices, they were just convenient and had a huge catalog.

By the time they moved to selling everything, it seemed like a stable business.
Humans of New York is catered for the "small time media" generation. People don't have attention span of a 20 minutes deep article or photo series. They want to see and read a tiny story in their Facebook feed and feel good about it. HONY serves this purpose.

John Stewart recognized this and started his new show based on this type of media consumption. [1]

[1] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-heade...
Amazon doesn't want to compete on price. They want to compete on value.
Edge should have been called "Internet" or "Web" or "Browser".

You could have started by calling it "Microsoft Web" or "Windows Browser", but ultimately dropped that just like you did with Word or Windows.

You wanna fade into vanilla background deliciousness.
Ask HN: Please recommend an affordable wifi temp adjustable light bulb
I been trying to improve my sleep and i decided to change the lighting in my house.I am looking to replace about 20 bulbs. I only know of the philips Hue lights, but they seems a bit pricey. Any affordable alternatives ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10495758
I guess you're one of the folks that would not pay a premium to simply not deal with ever having to set foot in a Best Buy. Returns? Gotta go to the store. Want a sightly different model (for instance the newer Canon Powershots are a downgrade) - wait for them to get stock. Plus the obnoxiousness of going to those stores.

It's great you like getting out, dealing with retail and advertisements. But I think you aren't representative.
I agree, but until then check them out. I just got a great deal on a new router. They are the cheapest in many categories and shipping was pretty quick too.

The only thing that could make sense is to lose money on a sale but acquire email and purchase data to resell. Or it could include building a big retargeting ad network for new product launches from CPG and electronics manufacturers. That's what I would do if I could blow money in the ecommerce space.

They could sell data to Facebook if they wanted to in order to improve their purchase based targeting. I'm sure Twitter would love to have purchase info on their users too to make them more relevant as an ad network.

Traditionally manufacturers know very little about most their customers because retailers keep that tight.

So they run coupons, rebates, other incentives and purchase data from cc processors among other things.

So an Amazon that cooperates more with manufacturers and other ad networks could be a decent play.
Wow, who downvoted you for that? Wickard v. Filburn, seriously.
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Does anyone have thoughts on the impact (positive or negative) the acquisition will on the Austin tech scene, given this is where HomeAway is headquartered?
Looking at the economics, it seems like you're just making them burn cash faster.
> 430 hours writing messages or about 11 work weeks. (Hey Stripe guys, where can I send an invoice?)

But really, someone at Stripe should cut him a check. I've always thought markin was part of the Stripe team. The IRC room is pretty much the closest thing to support that Stripe has (still no public phone number, ticket system?), and he's the lifeblood of it.
I use betterment and vanguard. Betterment allows me to set up a monthly contribution and it allocates that to a variety of domestic and internatiknal index funds as well as bonds. They also rebalance automatically. With vanguard you have to have a minimum of $3000 for most funds.

I think once you have 3k in a given fund I think it is easy to make auto deposits with vanguard too.
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You made that comment 6 hours ago and it's still at the top. I can't even figure out why it was posted in the first place. "Look, someone is writing reviews on Amazon!" Wow!
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That's a very long term bet at this point.
To do this for everything, indefinitely is obviously a problem. But to do this for a subset of products, even a very large subset, while building capabilities may be a good idea.

It lets them start winning customers by demonstrating their planned comprehensiveness, much earlier. Any entry to this retail space is going to require big risks, big capital, and a long climb. Amazon needs competitors. Succeed or fail, I applaud Jet for trying.
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I wanted to edit that headline when I submitted this story, but I knew HN would revert it back to the original so I didn't bother.
Excellent point. Amazon makes huge margins on AWS (despite the prices seeming rather low to many people). That's a giant recurring war chest of cold hard cash that they can and do use to fuel their other businesses.

If one is going to poke Amazon in the side it needs to be a niche play. Find a market where they aren't established (hard but not impossible) and then get acquired. Jet's current play of trying to beat Amazon at being Amazon is pure insanity.
... I think I just read the beginning of the best steampunk story ever.
I have also seen this 50% figure from various sources but I find it hard to believe, although I have no specific knowledge that would refute it. As far as I know, it's mostly low-grade weed that comes over the border, and while some grow operations within the US are cartel-run, I still am so surprised it would equal their profits from cocaine and methamphetamine combined.
Well, I mean, is he asking for your advice? If not, I really don't see a point in bringing it up, unless maybe you have the type of friendship where you occasionally exchange quips, you might be able to hint at the idea that you're not cool with it.

I think the most I'd ever say to a friend in such a situation is: "hey, are you sure you're comfortable with what they do?", phrasing it so that you're genuinely looking out for his best interest.
I know more pot growers than pot buyers and I'm not even in a decriminalized state.
If the app ever became popular the least frequented places would "flap" to become the most frequented places. :-) They would have to effectively load balance by displaying different location results to different users.
It's far less sophisticated than this. A route I take regularly costs ~$2700-$5000. I refuse to pay more than $3000 so I tend to book all the dates I might travel ~6 months in advance, and cancel them if I don't need them, which costs about $50.
Good wordplay!! :)
Those are still reliable for lazy fraud but miss tons of it too. Anti-Detect was designed exactly to get through fraud departments looking for these sorts of obvious signs.
https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/jGP5249NppF is his method (Not sure if you seen this). I am not sure if you can emulate this with a multimeter.
I used "Contact Host" and was still booked. Steps

1) Enter dates
2) Pick Place
3) Pick "Contact Host"
4) Host says place is as available
5) Get message from AirBnB saying I've been approved by host
6) Get message from AirBnB saying host has charged my card

At no time did I pick "Request a Booking". I thought it would stop at #5 and I'd have to then login to AirBnB to finalize the details but no, the host was able to do that without me even though I never picked "Request a Booking"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333685
not to mention intentionally ignoring errors returned by os.Open. Dear lord. Go shoves those errors in your face for a reason.
They only ship to: US, Japan, UK and Germany
Because Holiday Budget isn't a real account, and my checking one is. If money didn't leave the checking account, it would show an incorrect budget if I marked that it had.
If you can explain to me which use cases it doesn't support, I'd be interested...?
If you want those ranked higher, fine, but they're basically lying to the people that buy preferred listing. At that price level it's disgusting.
Interesting subject matter. A tech article which summarizes current research on retinal tetrachromat genotypes can be found here:

URL: http://glimpsejournal.com/index.php/Glimpse/pages/view/2.3-K...

Notice how standard test results suggest to one research group that the color processing among tetrachromats is defective while to another the same results suggest such subjects exhibit higher sensitivity and simply see things differently.

Also curious, toward the bottom of the article is the wide evenly spaced European Starling tetrachromat probability peaks chart with sensitivities well above 300 nm. Hypothetically, it would be interesting to feed output from a Starling retina into an interface with the sophisticated human occipatal lobe and learn what qualial configurations are synthesized in the conscious workspace. Maybe new color qualia would show up.
> if each took on average 1 minute to compose

This is IRC though, so I guess the average message would take more like ~seconds to compose. Not counting "research" etc.
Do you like the hiring manager? Do you know if you'll be working on an interesting (if unlikely to be cutting edge) stack? Do you find the application domain interesting? (Meaning, if it's creating HR services, for example, are you stimulated by that?)

You'll learn stuff no matter what you do at your stage of career. Working at a bank will teach you how to ship reliable software in a process-heavy, risk averse environment while learning to develop your professional persona in a buttoned-down, hierarchical environment. That's not a bad thing, but it's a radically different set of soft skills than you'd get working at a startup.

The fact that you're questioning the ethics of taking a job with the intention to leave or renege on an offer says good things about your personal integrity. Keep in mind that acting contrary to your own values is a discomfiting and stressful experience.
This isn't the expected behaviour because step 5 would mean that the host had sent you a Pre-Approval - this usually requires you to take action to confirm the booking and reach step 6.

(source: I'm both a host and traveller on Airbnb)
For me, just a master branch. Commit before/after destructive or cross-cutting changes, and "once in a while" in the course of adding regular activity. Also I use a script to mount a remote on an encrypted file system and push to it, for backup.
Sadly, you are wholeheartedly buying into the FBI's point without at all seeing the huge gaping flaw in it.

Tyranny of the majority is the problem, not "our" choice.

The protection against tyranny of the majority is not, as you seem to think, getting the majority to change "our choice."

The protection against tyranny of the majority is basic respect, among those in power in institutions like the FBI, for rights like those in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
That would have been a great idea in 94. Imagine if Internet Explorer had been called "Web" or "Net" it would have been harder for a competitor like Firefox to challenge them if their name was synonymous with their function.
Yeah, and want to guess how long you'd have to have someone on staff to hit 430 hours of IRC messaging? A lot longer than 11 weeks, that's for sure. "Research" is what takes time.

You sound like my grandparents. "What's hard about your work, you just type on the computer all day!" they say. The easy part is typing. The hard part is knowing which keys to press.
Well, yeah, on paper it's $2/month/mailbox, but there's a $10 a month minimum, so it's really at least $120 a year.

Fastmail is really $40 a year for their "Enhanced" plan and you can pay it in 5-year chunks at $160 so you just don't have to worry about it.

I've used both (and used to work for Rackspace) and I use Fastmail. YMMV.
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Most people are helpful (so long as you don't sound snarky) and don't mind answering...