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No, that's not why. Cities shouldn't do it because sports are not a public concern.
Yes. That repository is just the architecture documentation. Check out the GitHub organization and you'll find that it's all implemented: https://github.com/lelylan
Using predictive analytics to measure the probability of a Venezuelan default
Slack's release notes, I find, are both friendly and informative. Some samples from a recent update:

> We now show an “(edited)” label on messages that have been edited, making it clearer when things have changed. Less confusion, fewer shenanigans.

> Fixed: New users attempting to sign in from an invite email would get stuck in a sign in loop, which is not the warm welcome we would wish for those people. Sorry, people.

> Previously added, but now public: You can now feel free to not-receive all the messages you don’t want to receive, whenever you want not to don’t-not receive them, with support for our magical, long-awaited new Do Not Disturb feature (This was secretly supported in 2.65, but we didn’t want to disturb your not knowing about Do Not Disturb feature by telling you so).

I liked them.
I guess as a founder you were rewarded when it came to being acquired. I am not sure what position OP had but I think it accurately conveys feelings of any ordinary (but loyal) employee.
The problem is that there is basically no way to know calories in or calories out.
It really does explain a lot though. This is why, when down the road Facebook needs to make revenue or suffer the wrath of investors, your personal life will become their cash machine. This is already true; just wait, it can get much worse than it is now.
The ‘Netflix for planes’ offers unlimited air travel for a monthly fee
I love my HD202's. I wear them for several hours a day almost every work day. Best ~$25 I've spent... I did have to resolder the connection on both ears after a few years, but haven't had any other problems with them. I tend to play with the cord a lot when I'm thinking...
A good pair of canal-phones that fit properly should provide enough noise isolation (on the order of 25-40 dB, depending on design) that active cancellation is unnecessary in most environments. People performing in front of heavy-duty speaker stacks often use canal-phones to be able to hear what they're doing without going deaf. The caveat is you really do need to mess around with different tips to find ones that fit and shove those suckers in deep enough to get a good seal, which a lot of people hate doing. Noise cancellation is great to have in over-ear cans but would be of very limited utility in canal-phones, assuming their isolation doesn't suck. $300 will get you a very good pair of Etymotics or Shures, which you should be able to get very good isolation with. If you can afford more, custom molded canal-phones are the gold standard.

I've heard, in many places, that Bose's noise-cancelling over-ear cans are decent though.
What is beyond Hacker News?
How safe does a self-driving car have to be before it is allowed on the road?

I would say that's going to be a societal decision rather than an engineering decision.

An interesting point is that the introduction of the private automobile itself was an imposition on the social space of that time which basically was wildly unsafe with automobile accidents still being on of the leading causes of death in this country.

If it's determined that self-driving cars will be allowed, ordinary drivers will be forced to adjust to their presence and will have to learn their quirks.

Certainly, cellular phones realistically are being used by a significant fraction of drivers today and if the accident rate has gone up at worst only slightly due to that (not enough to counter-weight other safety measure), it's because non-cell users have adapted to the presence of the cell-user, however annoying that might be.
Honestly I don't know why people keep trying to do this kind of thing: reinventing email. Email works fine and nothing has been able to replace it (e.g., Google Wave, Mailbox, etc). I think the reason is that email works fine for most people. And if it isn't, a new tool to help you manage it isn't going to fix your problems. It'll probably just create new ones.

The answer to "my inbox is crazy" is to work through your inbox - if there's too much for you to work through then you need to do less. That's it.
My point was Saudi are not some victims of cartel policies. They run it (or ruin it) at their own discretion as the largest member by far. Cartel quotes were never binding them in any practical way.
It's possible, calories in > calories out and you will still gain weight. Zero carb facilitates satiation on fewer calories
This is my Alma Mater and I participated in in it (95). Birt Hansen was one of the most inspirational people in my life hands down. He convinced students that the world is conspiring in your favor, that that everything within your reach if you just want it bad enough.

When I met him I had little direction other than liking to draw and tinker with electronics (when I wasnt chasing girls). He convinced me to take a drafting class. In a few years I was doing advanced architectural drafting and learning this fancy new "AutoCad" stuff that we managed to get a grant for. With AutoCad I discovered Object Oriented methodology and scripting. Things grew from there.

Long story short, 21 years later I am enjoying a career as a software engineer doing exactly what I love and want to (they pay me for this? really?) and I have no problem giving Birt massive credit for what I've achieved.

Sorry, bit of a tangent but just wanted to say this guy was awesome.
Devil's advocate:

> but it handles concurrency quite nicely

So does Erlang/Elixir, Haskell, Clojure.

> And it's backed by Google so it can give a sense of safety

How is Dart doing in this department?
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Definitely a good to have service. Definitely feel that updating data is the biggest challenge. We have something similar in my hometown based of Edmonton based on linksf.

https://github.com/zendesk/linksf

http://linkyeg.ca/
I'm not really into car audio, but I'd imagine this is one place where Bose probably does pretty well because everyone is forced to use the same tiny boxes.
New Logo and Identity for Uber Done In-House
On-Campus Housing is advertised heavily by universities as contributing to greater participation and "improved likelihood of success in college and beyond".

One practical benefit is you can roll out of bed 20 minutes before class, skipping the morning commute and hour of looking for parking (oversold lots), then walk home after class. You live at school. I've never done this.

And everyone who lives around you is a student and maybe not a couple with a wailing newborn in the middle of a divorce arguing every night at 3am, a group of problem teens with working parents that hang out outside your door smoking and being obnoxious (both the kids and parents), or someone who locks their howling dogs in the bathroom for 10+ hours a day during their shifts.

If you couldn't spend your student loan on housing, you can bet rent would be lower.
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Einstein's Fridge (audio)
For most applications, you're just hosting on Heroku. You can move your application. That's not really a dependency, unlike Parse, where their SDK is deep in your application code. (Oversimplifying what you'd need to do to move, though you can keep the simple deployment story with something like Ckoud 66) It's not a perfect analogy, but Heroku is like AWS EC2, whereas Parse is like AWS Lambda.
Google's Search Guru to Step Down
I think that this is useful.

One question though. Is there a reason you can't use the Spark Window functions? https://databricks.gitbooks.io/databricks-spark-reference-ap...
The point of the app isn't to reinvent email. It's to help you get through your inbox quicker.
That's still bad design. It may be good marketing though.

Not the same thing.
I've never had a cover letter sent to me behind the scenes, but other companies may be different. Tech resumes have moved away from executive summaries.
on the 35% plan (I can't use the 70% plan because someone stole it and uploaded it elsewhere

Can you go into more detail? Why are there different plans?
Here some tips after losing weight ( 25 kg = 55 lbs in 6 months) ( healthy way).. It was 1/4th of my weight.

- Morning cardio, after a protein shake

- Eat every 3 hours ( no sugar please!)

- Men are easier at gaining "muscle" ( testosteron), i'm not a woman. But woman would have more effect with more cardio. Men have more effect with doing both

- If you eat more then 4 consecutive days too little, your body will cut on the daily energy requirements. Eat 1 cheat meal every 4 days. ( because of a hormone called leptine, it's the reason why you can survive 30 days without food)

- Eat every meal ( morning, noon, in between and evening) || 6 meals a day will make you a king

- Last (small ) meal = 2 hours before going to sleep

- Protein to be lean, drop the carbs closer the evening. In my opinion, you should have the "big meal" in the morning, so you have to whole day to digest it..

- You don't digest things in your sleep, it gets stored as fat ( you're not doing anything, so your body doesn't need it now)

- Sleep enough

- Weight exercise in the evening, if you want to do cardio. Do it afterwards.

- If you suck at running, don't try Start 2 run. Run 1 minute, stretch 20 seconds and repeat for half an hour. Next time. Run 2 minutes and stretch. I ran 10 km in a month ( and i hate running and i was pretty fat :p )

- Don't like running, try rope skipping

- Don't like rope skipping, rowing is awesome!

- If you have pain, take care and don't overdo it!

- 40% is exercise, 60% is better / healthier food

- Fish is healthier then every meat

- Poultry is the best meat

- Repeat exercising every day, except 1 day in the week ( rest day)

- Don't expect extreme results after a week, it will become more and more visible as your metabolism will improve

- Don't check your weight on a scale daily... Do it monthly or biweekly

- Change your exercises regularly, your muscles adapt / become more efficient at what you do the most. You don't want that...

- A pure protein diet as in the commercials, will ruin your metabolism... ( Eg. When you eat after the diet, like you ate before the protein diet, you will gain weight faster then you lost it)

- If you want your weight to stay off, respect your metabolism. Eat always ( preferably small portions)

- Not every fat is bad ( transfats are), not every sugar is bad ( eg. fructose and dextrose)

- Probably some controversional theory, but they always say alcohol are empty calories. I also think that alcohol lowers your metabolism

You want reading material with more information? Try Tom Ventuo with "Burn the fat, feed the muscle". ( you'll learn more about calorie cycling and much more then what i've said here)

You want another good author ( short / good articles), search for anything of Lyle McDonald. Eg. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/
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There are a heck of a lot games written in C#, which is not only interpreted, but probably has a less-tuned GC. Including heavy-processors like Kerbal Space Program.

If KSP works in C#, you can write a game in Go no problem.
> Why? It's a luxury purchase like any other. There's nothing wrong with that.

Because it's heavily subsidized and regulated. If it these were unsubsidized private transactions subject to the same bankruptcy laws as any other, I'd agree with your sentiment.
works great in Fx 44. Are you trying it in Nightly? ;)
To Hack or Not to Hack?
> In the late 1920s Einstein was working on a grand unified theory of the universe, having given us E=mc2, space-time and the fourth dimension. He was also working on a fridge.

> Perhaps motivated by a story in the Berlin newspapers about a family who died when toxic fumes leaked from their state-of the-art refrigerator, Einstein teamed up with another physicist Leo Szilard and designed a new, safer refrigerating technology. And so it was that in 1930, the man who had once famously worked in the patent office in Bern was granted a patent of his own. Number: 1, 781, 541. Title: refrigeration.

> Phillip Ball explores this little known period of Einstein's life to try and find out why he turned his extraordinary mind to making fridges safer.

BBC radio puts out some great documentaries about scientists.
Thanks for clarifying, because I also interpreted your comments as opposition. (And out of step with your comment history.)

Thanks also for "The Churn" tip. I'm enjoying syfy's version.
I'm not sure I necessarily agree. Inbox by Google (and before that Mailbox to some extent) has drastically improved my email workflow. Being able to "snooze" emails and get a notification about them when you're likely to be able to take action on them was a novel idea that moved the email space forward.

I refuse to believe that we've exhausted the list of designs we can try to continue to improve email. And considering how pervasive email is, even marginal improvements can have profound effects.
Yes, binary formats are not easily readable in a text editor. But, it is actually possible to convert ION to an XML format and back again without loss of information (we have not implemented this yet). This should make it easier to read messages during debug - especially because you don't need to know the schema for the given message to conver it to XML.

Regarding GZipped JSON, it is true that GZiped JSON is small. But, due to the CRIME and BREACH attacks it is not recommended to compress data sent over encrypted connections (TLS).

If you look at our performance benchmarks page you can see a list of serialized length comparisons. As you can see, as soon as you send a few objects in an ION table, the difference is big. More than what you normally can gain with GZip (except perhaps for String).http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/ion-performance-benchmarks.h...

Furthermore, GZip only helps with transfer time, and actually slows down parsing time. If you look at our performance benchmarks you will see that ION parsing time is a lot faster than JSON. Additionally, if you really, really want high speed you do not parse ION (or JSON) into Java objects. You process the data directly in its binary form. If you look at our read-and-use benchmark you can see just how big a speed difference that gives. ION is designed for being processed directly. JSON isn't as good for that purpose.

Finally, ION is designed for fast arbitrary hierarchical navigation. JSON is not.
Honestly, your claim is crazy.

For anything X, there will be something who consumes no X who dies of cancer, and someone who consumes huge amounts of X who dies of cancer.
Canal-phones are not for you then. Over ear noise cancelling cans or buds would be appropriate.
If your criteria for evaluating a new technology is "one of the top 25 Internet domains uses it to power their main website," you're a pretty shitty technology evaluator, because the things you are evaluating TODAY should be the things that will be powering the sites of TOMORROW.

And Elixir DOES have a shot at that, in my experience with it.
Show HN: A CPython Library for Runtime Bytecode Transformations
Looks very promising!

Any plans to expose a Python API in addition to the Scala API?
Since they covered up all the pages stating what parse is and does, can someone tell me here.
What is parse? And what is it used for?
The ingenious way one customer got Comcast to address his slow Internet
The problem with it is that figuring out 'calories in' and 'calories out' is almost impossible, and there isa huge list of things which effect them.

A statement which is true, but brings almost no information, isn't useful.
The investors (ie, the board) run Yahoo, not the other way around.
And somebody downvoted me, why? I just gave a lot of tips which i used and who are effective for other people... And i didn't wrote a book about it... :)
> relying in GC behaviour

You don't really have a choice in the matter. If you're writing high throughput or low latency applications you are dependent on the JVM's GC behavior, period.
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If you want to build _strength_ you'll do high weight/low reps. If you want primarily size, you need to have the volume (about 8 reps pre set for most exercises, and 3-5 sets), which could be pretty time consuming.
That home page is awful even by the standards of actual scam websites.

I remember the now defunct site that showed me how to bag bonuses as a student a decade ago being straightforward about your pretty modest level of expected winnings (and for blackjack bonuses, modest level of risk) and focusing mainly on the actual maths.

For anyone that wants it as a passive income project, there's some very nice potential affiliate earnings (redirected through another domain, naturally) for anyone that wants to create a less scammy looking explanation...
Would that be a smart move for those investors? Just because you need 10x returns doesn't mean there's a good way to get them.
Happy to learn that about Sanders. I stand happily corrected, thank you!
It sounds like the CIA (and the Obama administration), drawing on past experience, got wise and figured the mission would look less "dirty" if it wasn't a spook plane, but a regular government-registered plane that actually came to pick Snowden up.

But the main point is that adds to the body of circumstantial evidence that some kind of a rendition operation was being planned.
Yes, good point.

And I hate to sound like a wet blanket on a new tool/thing. Just an honest reaction to yet another email aid app. I'm sure there will be people who use this and find it useful.

I'm just trying to make the point that at some point all the lifehacks/efficiency-improvements in the world will not fix the problem of being over-burdened.
NSA merging anti-hacker team that fixes security holes with one that uses them
I've been using Atom full time for about a year and a half now. I've never noticed performance issues though, so I've always been curious about where these complaints come from.

I just ran a find over the project I've been working on full time, and the largest file, by a long shot, is 8kb, and a little under 100 lines. That's just an autogenerated enum of the HTTP status codes though, so it isn't indicative of real code.

In the vast majority of cases, all of my files are less than 4kb, and hover around 40 lines or so. Atom handles this use case just fine, and I'm hard pressed to think of a situation where I'd run into performance concerns. The entire process itself is using less than 80mb of RAM, and 0.2% of my CPU. A single tab of Chrome is worse than that.

What are people doing with their text editor that they need blazing speed?
Absolute nonsense. I don't suppose you have actual science to back up your quackery?
Parse is a backend as a service provider -- originally for mobile apps, but eventually for all kinds of applications. You could store data, manage users, target and send push notifications, gather analytics, etc., all without having to build your own backend.
> Assume good intent. Aggressively assume good intent.

I can't account for anyone else, but my experience says the exact opposite. Most of the acquisitions I've seen, are because the acquiring company wants IP/contracts/some other good that they can't build themselves. Once they have that, the employees are on the short-list.

Obviously every acquisition is different, and should be judged by it's own circumstances, but, having been on both sides of the equation, I'd recommend being skeptical of everything they do. It is hard to do that without becoming toxic, however.
Founder is so far from employee it's ridiculous you even comment.

It's sad that most founders don't care or don't understand that sometimes they managed to hire people that actually care about the business, and could have helped make it better.

When I see a founder sell his business, all I ever think is (as I'm sure most do), what a selfish asshole.
I new a guy who was super healthy, no smoking, no drinking, didn't use aspartame for everything.

He went to the doctor feeling a little under the weather one day. Several weeks later he had died of leukemia.

Don't know what caused it, but I doubt it was replacing sugar with Aspartame.

There is a reason the plural of anecdote isn't data.
How do you find Roon? Worth the money?
Also then the US still hasn't recovered from the financial crisis and it will take a few years more.
It's a line of jigsaw puzzles, an engine packaged with distinct content as separate apps. On average about one a week gets released.
Thank you for the links - we'll check them out!

The other thing we're currently concentrating on is improving / tuning the quality of the search results, when you have a large, complex data set that feeds to many applications it requires careful consideration and ongoing reevaluation to tune the results and to make sure what people are expecting to find with their queries.

We can release to production via our CI / CD pipeline as often as we need, so if any adjustments are required outside of the data itself it's trivial for us to release new code (images), on one of our other apps we were releasing to production over 40 times a day as features and fixes were developed.
(Why HN is great)
yeah, not sure why you were downvoted.
I know what is appropriate for me, the inner ear version of the noise cancelling BOSE plugs. Because they don't heat up my ears, are far more comfortable, a small inconspicuous foot print when traveling with a single 30L backpack, and they work.
Not the parent, but the JS regex engine is less powerful than what Sublime uses (PCRE?), lacking among other things atomic groups, possessive quantifiers and lookbehind.
I haven't studied the code very carefully, but I think this is mostly PR piece. Not only using Spark from Java isn't a very good idea, but the "canonical" way to do transformations like that is using dataframes or datasets (which are from Spark 1.6 and provide some improvements over dataframes).

Take it with a grain of salt.
I remember thinking years ago that Dropbox's product is the perfect example of the 90/10 rule of programming. I feel like the code Drew wrote at YC covers 90% of the usefulness of Dropbox. The rest has been really advanced and convoluted optimizations.
I quit drinking coke zero on purpose for months at a time, and come back to it, just to appreciate it again. At no time have I ever thought it tastes sickly sweet.

Of course, diet pepsi is another matter.
Stream Based Data Synchronization
Communicating with an embedded tablet over NFC or WiFi
I've used Logo as one early language when I was learning programming years ago. Enjoyed it.

Though maybe designed primarily to help teach kids programming / logic etc., Logo is actually at least moderately powerful, since it is a variant of Lisp.