skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this any different from a large corporation? Having been on both sides, I'd argue that Amazon's mean time to response/resolution is as good as or better than what is generally seen in silo'd enterprise shops (provided you pay for AWS support- strongly recommended for those with mission-critical cloud infrastructure).
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"Unfortunately, I've been unable to find the study in question again; so take the above with a grain of salt, as my memory is certainly fallible."

That's OK, it's late in the week.
How would Unity integrate with Facebook, and send SMS messages?
Oh, more bad news: robots can already do that, and it will only be a few more years before the cleaning company we outsource to figures out how to exploit that differential profitably.

This is really a key point, I think. Automation is the means by which high-skill workers apply their productivity multipliers to what would otherwise be low-skill work.

The technology already exists to automate large swathes of low-skill work; the only reason it's not already done is that, for the most part, low-skill workers are still cheaper, mostly due to the implicit coercion of things like "needing money to buy food".

What happens when technology progresses to the point where robots are cheaper than paying someone minimum wage is a tricky question--and it's going to happen, probably in Japan first (thanks to both a high level of technological sophistication and an aversion to cheap immigrant labor).
There are not 37 million people collecting welfare. Go look at some budget graphics, welfare and human services are a tiny, tiny slice of our budget. It's a small dividend that they're getting.

(FYI: For things regarding welfare, do not read heritage unless you're applying a skeptical eye. Everyone has an agenda, but their entire purpose of being is an agenda.)
Look, I'd love to discuss this further with you but this format is getting too annoying. Feel free to ping me at AIM:shalmanese@gmail.com MSN:hanghangz@hotmail.com if you want to continue this.
I disagree. Regardless of your target audience, bad grammar and bad spelling are going to make your site look less professional; even teenagers will notice that.

Also, teenagers' bad grammar follows a certain pattern that is quite different than the "I don't speak the language fluently" pattern.
I need $1300/month for rent, and $700/month for expenses like groceries and incidentals. That means I need to be making $445/week. I freelance whenever I feel like working. I'm currently working a charity gig at $42/hr, which means I need to work 11h/week.
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I may be wrong, but I think that the parent of your post had a more limited idea of 'anonymous' here.

Your ISP knows all the things you say they do, but so far as I know, no ISP does the kind of social/networking stuff with your information that Facebook, Yahoo, Google and company do. A government agency can get information from your ISP, but your ISP doesn't "share" anything through default-to-yes things like Buzz. (I may be wrong about this. Some ISPs may do this too.)
There are times when someone else is making e.g. the design decisions, the schedule decisions, etc. Let's take schedule: They want to know when I'll be done with something. But I have 5, 8, however many dependencies, half of whom are not responding to my queries for information and several of whom are outside of my team and immediate reporting structure.

What do I need? Responses so that I can determine my own schedule. What do I get? "Just tell me when you'll be done."

Well, Mr/Ms project manager, what do you really need to be doing? Getting answers from the dependencies who are refusing to answer me. But that's difficult and frustrating and time consuming. So you just lean on me, because I'm on your team and at hand.

More frustrating than schedules are specifications. I'll do some QA work. In order to have some idea of the effort, I need to know the specifications. But those are still in (major) flux (despite being 2/3 of the way through the budgeted schedule). I attempt to explain this. I start describing detail because the person I'm talking to has no idea of the scope of impact this lack of definition creates, or perhaps even that there is still a lack of definition and what that is. But they just want a date, and/or a number of hours.

I'm delving into detail because they haven't done their job. But they don't want to understand the impact of their lapse. They just want "the solution".

Not that I don't make mistakes, myself, and sometimes fail to deliver. But I try not to blow people off because they are finding what they are tackling to be complex.

I guess my comment has ended up being very work focused. Similar things happen in personal life. I started to describe an example, but I think I've written enough.
For loop in c problem
here's the code.can someone tell me what's the problem with this?
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int a;
for (a=0,a<=100; a = a + 10;printf("%4d degrees F = %4d degrees C\n",
a,(a - 32) * 5/9));
}
Your mother is so fat, CS style
Design Frameworks that Function Without You in the Loop
I used to really enjoy such posts - ones that celebrated the weirdness and unpredictability of software. The Zen of the argument Jeff Atwood presents is appealing for some reason. However, reading such articles now I cannot help but think they contain too little substance.

As I understand the reasoning it is this: I'm a relatively good programmer and yet I'm incompetent => The world is full of bad programmers => Most software is badly written => I hate software. Perhaps that currently holds. However, to imply that it will always hold is intellectually crippling. To demonstrate this, all we need to do is look at our premise (axiom?) and rephrase it slightly: "Any good programmer is still incompetent". I personally don't see any reason why this should be self-evident and every reason to find ways to change it.
> PayPal's issue with Indian accounts was due to your local banking regulations.

As I said,

1. Paypal support said it is technical, not a regulatory issue. Their blog only confirms it only personal transfers being a regulatory issue. They have stopped all transactions, including my business account, which accepted no personal transaction.

2. In spite of their saying otherwise I am willing to believe it is a regulatory issue, my major issue is with their absolute lack of transparency and willingness to commit too any timeline.

> The lesson you should take away has to be that you shouldn't treat a payment processor like a bank and hold $45,000 there. Doing business is in part about assessing risk, and holding all your money in a PayPal account should've jumped out as a major risk even without this situation.

1. Totally agree that I failed in accessing risk, however Paypal is classified as bank in a number of jurisdictions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status . I hope you would agree that this behavior should be enough grounds t revoke their bank status?

2. Its not all my money, though quite a significant percentage of it. However, I am assuming that there a quite a number of people in India whose weekly transaction is > 45K$, so holding that in a Paypal account is not really unheard of.
Neither I, nor the article, made the claim that there are 37 million people collecting welfare. Perhaps you should read sources before declaring them incorrect?

Incidentally, this article is simply an aggregations of statistics available from various government sources (e.g., census, BLS). Regardless of their agenda, their facts seem well supported.
Summary: Having 3 children with the same birthday sounds like a 1/365^3 possibility, but it's actually 1/365^2, as the first can be any date, as long as the next 2 are the same.

Add to that the amount of births per year per country, and it's not such a headline worthy story anymore.

EDIT: fixed formatting
Close parens after a+10
What if you have to serve both interactive users and automatic clients? Would you use the url structure for both or would you have a separate api structure?
shouldn't that be:

for (a = 0; a <= 100; a = a+10)

?

You have a comma after a=0.
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Fresh:

int main()
{
int a;
for (a = 0; a <= 100; a += 10)
printf(...);
}
Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many primes
are you sure? i thought in js functions are not really tied to "their" object, instead they receive an implicit this argument. wouldn't x belong to window here? that is, window doesn't have reverse, but now it has x
Stories which hit the top spot, only be killed by moderator intervention
I think it was focused more on productivity, and not focused on the unemployment rate. I think the BBC added that twist.

From the author of the report:

"So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume, and our consumption habits are squandering the earth's natural resources.

"Spending less time in paid work could help us to break this pattern. We'd have more time to be better parents, better citizens, better carers and better neighbours.

"We could even become better employees - less stressed, more in control, happier in our jobs and more productive.

"It is time to break the power of the old industrial clock, take back our lives and work for a sustainable future."

Basically, it seems the argument is that the more hours we work, the externalities of work increase sharply (you don't have time to spend raising your kids, taking care of your health, and you do have more money to spend on things you don't need).

Basically, at 21 hours, the marginal return from working another hour at your job equals the marginal return from spending an hour doing your own stuff. Beyond 21 hours the marginal return from working (minus externalities), is less than the return from focusing on your own activities.
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And to everyone who flagged it.

Really, this is not relevant to hackers, and "ATnT stoping 4Chan" is both worth a top HN spot, and relevant to hackers?
"Don't just read it; fight it"
Yay Iceland. This is good news for the world. How often does one get to say that?

I noticed an interesting reaction in myself while reading the article. My first thought was, "Wow, that's rational and a really good idea". That was immediately followed by, "Rats, that means that it will be killed by entrenched interests and lobbyists." Then I thought, "Hey wait a minute, this is Iceland. They're independent enough and intelligent enough to do this if they want to." Iceland appears to be a pissed-off nation that is actually correcting itself and doing things differently. Imagine that.
Nice, another data point:

$850/rent, $550/food,utilities, etc.

$1400/month total to live. (in San Francisco, no less)

Consult at $100/hr. Need to work ~ 4hrs/week.

However, I work more than that to raise money for our startup, and the time I'm not "working" I'm often spending reading, learning, practicing.
If you start a computer program, that runs evolutionary algorithms, you become their god, and you will be omnipotent (to them, at least). It's easy to write the story off as fiction, but in fact, it would explain a lot, I think.
I had some serious deja vu when reading the anecdote about a woman and camera software. I was in pretty much the exact same situation, except it involved my Mac... so not only was it about to be tainted with crappy software written by hardware people, but it was also likely that it was crappy software written by hardware people who were used to writing their crappy software for PCs.
The guy had it comin', I say. ;)
Are you never "out and about" by yourself?
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What is "Web 2.0 Sharing" is all about?
I found this somewhat reminiscent of Socrates' paradoxical "All I know is that I know nothing." Or, knowledge of your own incompetence is a sign of competence.
Arguably, all violence is a sort of genetic warfare. But we've yet to encounter the problem of engineered-from-scratch superviruses.
How can you go so easily from believing there is such a thing as personality traits to supporting a complex, copyrighted system that has no valid research basis and is actively sold to big business HR departments with the disclaimer that it is basically nothing more than a party game?

People with an interest in the science of personalities should dislike MBTI more than casual observers. It's a pop-culture perversion of the entire field.
Squeak running on Google Android
I don't know why you guys keep pushing Auber controllers, most professionals use SousVideMagic controllers and now the people at Fresh Meals Solutions have the latest 1500D with better accuracy and many safety features. Free shipping too!
Wow. I remember XP being this way, but I kinda figured it was a solved problem with Vista/Win7 by now. I haven't had to do any Windows hand-holding since I got my parents an iMac about 5 years ago.

I'm feeling something that's not quite schadenfreude, but certainly along the lines having dodged a bullet with that move. :-)
When you see a heisenbug in C, suspect your compiler’s optimizer
I'm curious...what do you find Gmail does better than Zimbra?
Thanks for sharing the story!
Here are my stats for Austin, TX for the past three years. Just sharing that life can be really good here in Austin, and that there's no magic involved in working less. There's no "hack", you just have to have a valuable skill that you are able to charge a high hourly rate for (programming, accounting, lawyer, therapist). My wife is a speech therapist and I am a programmer. So my suggestions: live in a city that costs less money, see if you can live without a fancy car or smart phone, and find a good partner.

rent - wife pays $450, I pay $450

For this amount in Texas, you get a duplex with backyard in a nice neighborhood, a coffee shop and bus stop around the corner, 2 bedrooms, a garage, and 1200 square feet.

utilities - 150

student loan - 100

monthly unlimited bus pass - $25 (used to be $10 until recently)

shared office in downtown austin - $150 (optional, but has already paid for itself many times over due to bringing in extra work)

t-mobile prepaid phone - $100 per 1000 minutes, refill this every 4 months or so.

food costs - never calculated

insurance - on my wife's
Freemium isn't a business model, it is a marketing plan. In some cases giving away a subset of your product for free will cost you less per paying customer acquired than any other method of advertising / sales.

If that isn't the case then you should stop giving away the service and spend that capital on the other more profitable methods of acquiring customers.
WTF? Where did you get 3652?

Their number is calculated as 365 x 365 x 365 = 48,627,125. But in reality, of course, it’s out by an order of magnitude: one in 50 million are the odds of someone having 3 siblings sharing one particular prespecified birth date that the editors of the Daily Express sealed in an envelope and gave to a lawyer 50 years ago. In reality there is no constraint on which day the first baby gets born on, so after that, the odds of two more babies sharing that birthday are 365×365=133,225.
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As an atheist, I find this essay truly inspiring and would say most (if not all) predictions make lots of sense. That being said, I'm afraid that the spiritual tone employed by the author might distortion the message he really wanted to pass.
If someone's going to pay that, I'd say that's a fair proxy of its value.

But point taken on the mobile front; I think there's definitely a case to be made there. Will try and track down the Nokia keynote.
He tried to write 365-squared, but whatever he did didn't actually work and the 2 that was meant to be in the exponent ended up just glommed onto the 365.
I think the real lesson to take away from this is "stay the hell away from the education market, especially primary/secondary schools." Seriously, it's a god damn nightmare, and the fact that $50 plastic remote controls are the state of the art in that market is just an indication of that.
The Monkey Island theme song gives me an adrenaline rush.
Don't forget to include SousVideMagic controller.
The new model 1500D has better precision (0.1)over the old model.
Really? Not to offend the persuasion of any attendees (I do mean that, stop reading if your rage is easily focused), but did you try the Hebrew version? I have studied it, as part of my education, along with ancient Hebrew laws and such. The writing is unclear, terrible at times, poetic at times; the language is so simple as to appear broken. And nearly all of the story, morals, message, or poetic meaning you take away is your own,– because of how broken Biblical Hebrew is. Whatever you take away will end up being a by-product of you studying it, not a direct product.

Some 10+ years since, I can still read Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, and I'm still not sure there was any direct product in there. So much so, that I call modern spoken Hebrew which is somewhat loosely based on Biblical Hebrew, – I call it Jibberish in my own mind, with a `j'. Like the one in Jihad, or "sacred struggle"; something inspired by—but completely unrelated—to the original scripture.

And the King James is even better still, having been translated to English from Greek by a German man. Particularly the Revelations is—at times—absolutely 4chan material, I find.

EDIT: ^holy\ war^sacred\ struggle
I'm not sure that people are mentally prepared for the risks that human space flight will incur under private industry.

People will die in the name of making manned space flight affordable. Is there going to be a public backlash from this? After both Space Shuttle disasters there were year long backoffs from Shuttle launches.

A commercial entity will not have the luxury of just halting its mission for multiple fiscal quarters because of fatal engineering issues.
I attend this school, it's really hard to believe something like this happened there.
It is reasonable (I think) to say that lack of Flash games will not kill the iPad or iPhone, but unreasonable to say that lack of iPad will kill Flash gaming. The two are effectively two distinct platforms, and the growth of the former is not entirely coming at the expense of the latter.

They also have a pretty clever approach to reaching users without Flash (from the article): Mobile apps are planned at some point, but Tiny Speck’s vision is not to port the entire game to the iPhone or Android devices. Rather, mobile apps would feature mini-games. Playing them would amp up your web game avatar’s abilities. Other options for mobile apps could include managing your in-game robot servants and participating in in-game auctions.

The idea (as I understand it) is to treat the game as this thing that you participate in in many different ways rather than a single distinct piece of software. Like an MMO with a dash of ARG[1], I suppose, though not really either. I think this is actually a really big idea, and the influence of Finite and Infinite Games[2] is apparent in almost every described detail.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games
Sous vide is great for braising at the exact temperature that you want. Braising is still high heat cooking and you don't have precise control over it. Sous vide allows one to braise with moisture intact and preferred "doneness".
The fact that Apple "gets" both hardware and software is pretty unique in the industry. They're the exception that proves the rule.
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Coke's 'fans first' approach in social communities
However, a lot of the stats are troubling:

- Telecommunications down, Broadcasting up: I foresee even more bandwidth headaches.

- Construction up, Mining, forestry, etc... down: It's going to get harder and harder to keep local building profitable if you have to import all of the raw materials.

- Government (all categories) up: This feels like more of exactly what we should be avoiding.

- Finance (all categories) up: Why is finance (still) growing after large economic problems? Oh right, government and "too big to fail."
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The gist: musings on the scientific methodology, curiosity, and generally mindful approach to life, work, and play.
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your web application?
What do you use to monitor

1. Requests/second

2. Average Request Time

3. Exceptions

3. Background Queues

4. Mysql/Postgres servers

5. Uptime

6. Memory usage

7. Disk usage

If you have any tips/scripts/tutorials, please share :)
Ask HN: Review my app: Wappr
Why Medical Transcription is Needed With Electronic Records
How to be a loser
If your servers go down, how will JS files on S3 will help you?
Sorry, I'm used to double asterisk from python...
Web fonts comparison
Interesting! Perhaps I missed it, but I feel that you need some way to break down the suggestions into categories.

Also, of course I don't know your long term intentions, but something like this would seem difficult to monetize.
Wappr is my lil weekend side project (and also my first app!) that provides a votable list of app requests powered by Twitter.

It's a simple app with the purpose of providing entrepreneurs/hackers/developers ideas & inspirations on what app to create, based on feedback from the public.

I would love to hear your feedback.
clicking "what is wappr" should toggle slideup slidedown, not just slideDown.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm thinking of categorizing the suggestions using hashtag (e.g #iphone, #web, #android).

There's no long term intention or any intention to monetize from this. I just started on programming and wanted something to code for (instead of just banging on the books).
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It depends how you define "work". Sitting in an office doing what is told for 40 hours is ridiculous and hellish, and it's much of why that system doesn't work. People "revolt" by showing up and working at 1/8 speed.

If we extend the definition of "work" to include self-directed projects, education and enrichment, 40-55 is about right; 40 for most people and 55 for the more ambitious.

Beyond 60 hours per week, marginal productivity is minimal.
Switching off the compiler optimizer may just "hide" the bug because memory accesses are reordered in a way that makes the bug (for instance a memory corruption or some allocation problem) less likely to trigger a segmentation fault.

To think that every time you have a bug that is suppressed switching off the optimizer you found a compiler bug is not a good idea. 99.99999% of the times the problem is in your code.

Experienced programmers usually will continue to think the bug is in their own code unless they can prove otherwise.
Mortimer Adler wrote a wonderful book about reading, "How to Read a Book", that's still in print after 70 years. It changed my life by transforming my view of reading, and, consequently, how I read. It's like a very souped up version of this blog post. Link: http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/06712...