skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always tough balancing features and staying out of the trap of adding features that don't provide a lot of value to your users but takes up a lot of development time.

Maybe you can talk to the rest of the team to try to drive new features toward things that take less development time but provide a lot of value to users. Focus on the large value vs. easier development. But value vs. development time/cost should be considered when mapping out features.

Your three items you mentioned (I know you're not asking for solutions but here are some thoughts):

1. some apps need a calendar . . . try to keep things simple where it provides value but doesn't try to clone more robust calendars/features by large teams.

2. If this is to help clients get in to your app it's probably worth it. At the end though you're talking about storage in xls. If users are manipulating data in xls try to move them over to working with in the app instead and definitely get all the data out of xls and in to the database.

3. For emails mandrill.com (and similar) have this solved so integrate that in to your app.

As long as your work is interesting and you guys are profitable, your job is secure don't get to bogged down in what you're working on. Maybe build the best calendar integration ever = ). But you can use your knowledge/experience to try to improve your app by trying to drive development toward big value/low dev cost items.

Good luck.
> registered agent and address on file

so somebody but not me, right?
The Coral project: build better communities around journalism
NHS England - The National Programme for IT.

It is as far as I've seen the 'greatest' fuckup in UK development history, 12.something billion down the drain, massive overspending, they basically made every mistake you could make short of setting the office on fire.
I was trying to look for patterns in these projects. Looks like most of them were outsourced and most of them were US/UK Government projects. It would be interesting to see patterns in very successful US/UK Government projects.

My personal experience has been that it almost always boils down to upper management/leadership issues, that result in hiring weak project managers which in turn leads to talent drain on the implementation side.
This is wrong. You do not have to be a C Corp to accept investments. Not sure where or how this idea got started. There are even advantages to LLCs that some savvy investors prefer as a matter of fact. It more comes down to the source of the actual money in the fund than the fund itself.

Also they are quite easy to setup. Requiring a simple Internet form and a few checks written here and there.

Additionally it is extremely dependent on the LLC in question as to whether switching will be difficult later on in any way. Sole member LLC with no additional equity holders? You can fill out a form.

EDIT: your edit is wrong too. Whether you switch it from "investments" to "VC investments" or provide a source to attempt to backup your falsehoods.

> EDIT: I should have said very unlikely to raise VC investment even though it is technically possible to raise investment with most types of businesses such as LLC. [1]

We should be careful in how we continue to spread this common misinformation. It is not helping people who are actually new to this and trying to learn. The likelihood of landing VC investment has little to nothing to do with you being an LLC or not.

VC attorneys convert LLCs in their sleep. If they want to invest in only C Corps and you're an LLC, between your legal and their legal: it'll get worked out.
I'd like to find a way to reorganize Math ∩ Programming eventually. As alfonsodev points out, it's a bit hard to find stuff for newer and less mathy readers, though there is a handful of articles aimed at them. [1,2,3,4] As other users point out, they don't like the layout. Suggestions?

[1]: http://jeremykun.com/2011/06/26/teaching-mathematics-graph-t...

[2]: http://jeremykun.com/2014/05/26/learning-to-love-complex-num...

[3]: http://jeremykun.com/2013/05/11/bezier-curves-and-picasso/

[4]: http://jeremykun.com/program-gallery/

edit: updated font size & article width. I'm considering changing the theme completely.
> something like /.+aaaaaaaaaa/. In this case, the number of states the automaton could be in grows with the length of the input, until you hit the upper bound of "all eleven states".

That's just false for the NFA algorithm. I'm not sure where your confusion lay, unfortunately. There are no pathological cases for the NFA algorithm. Zero. Zip. Nada. It's guaranteed O(mn) time. See Cox's articles. They explain.

It is true of course that certain regexes run slower than others using the NFA algorithm, but this is because of constant factors, not because of any degradation in runtime complexity. When implementing the NFA algorithm, you can allocate all of the space you need upfront and then execute a search guaranteeing no additional allocation.

Offline DFAs do, however, have pathological cases where the number of states required is exponential. For example, `0[01]{n}$`, has an exponential number of states proportional to 2^n. (I think this is isomorphic to your example, assuming `a{11}$`.)

> This adds unwarranted complexity if you're doing ahead-of-time compilation. Perhaps the best approach there is to try to convert the regex to a DFA, but bound the number of states to some multiple of the number of NFA states. If you surpass this number, consult the requirements of the situation and either reject the expression or just use the NFA that was built in the process.

Sounds pretty complex to me. Certainly more complex and fiddly IMO than implementing a lazy DFA. (I've done both.)
What is your point? Who better to tell us how the establishment thinks and perceives than someone inside of it?
on a side note, i heard its suggested that you don't have the audible voice if you want to achieve faster speeds at reading comprehension :)
Hiccup is wonderful, almost makes it painful to go back to jade/erb/jinja/etc after working on a project with hiccup.
> Skype keeps ignoring people who complain or are having issues with Linux client

All 234 of them!
I always like sourcetree, mainly because is the best mercurial GUI client I have used so far, and the ability to do git with the same tool is great.

I use the command-line for basic task, but the GUI is great for visualization and do stuff like diffs, conflict merge and other things.

However, lately sourcetree crash every time I open it, then re-open and it work (!). The tool is good enough to accept this so far.

But now I'm worried that this get worse...
Just three kinds of birds?

Nazca Booby, Chinstrap Penguin, Little auk.
Predicting places from names in the UK
So does every leaf come with life-time connection to the internet over cellular?

Like my Kindle keyboard 3G?
Check out their only Mexican partner.
> Doesn't seem like good timing on the government's part to publicly announce the intention to seek numerous iPhone "unlockings"

That was my immediate gut reaction, that it looks bad because Apple objections are proving true.

But now I wonder if the timing maybe works to their advantage, and the admission they want to use phone cracking everywhere is perhaps a very smart strategy. To technologists and privacy advocates, this might look like an admission of guilt. To the public at large, and the entire country, this might actually be a mountain of evidence that phone cracking is absolutely necessary, something we can't do without if otherwise phones are going to become unreadable by the "good guys".

For better or worse (and IMO it's worse) this might be a very strong argument with very good timing.
According to Wikipedia in 2015 Facebook took in ~18billion and ~3.5 was profit which means it costs 14.5 billion dollars just to maintain Facebook, for a year.
I know each Chrome window can be logged into a different account so I wonder if it just uses the last window (and therefore account) you interacted with. That seems to be the case with links I click on in general. It would be nice if they let you select a "default" account or prompted you for google-specific links.
You as an initial member can sell membership interest, but reselling that interest can be difficult or impossible for a VC. They're looking for future liquidity, and an LLC interest just doesn't have the same statutory guarantees that a C corp share has.
Why are these all in the UK or US? Better transparency?
Metro or desktop?
were in limited beta tests before, now generally activated.
It's totally a coincidence. The name aligns with the underlying library, cote.js, and is a cute analogy for microservices.
I just got them today.
But what about the products who's value isn't in their user base?
Suggestion: add an option to look at file contents and analyze cross-file dependencies (eg c/c++ #includes or java imports)
Does Consumer Reports Have It Out For The Tesla Model S?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166692
Can you do group calls on mobile yet?

That was the biggest reason I quit.
I feel like it has improved because it used to just lock up in the background with the indicator still claiming everything was fine and you're available. And then when you actually check in on it by opening the app it'd show you've been disconnected the entire time and quickly log on to be able to pretend nothing ever happened.

Nowadays while it's still occasionally disconnecting at random at least the indicator seems to be more honest about what's going on I would like to believe it locks up less frequently.
The Millionaire Machine (with Cliff Stoll)
You don't have a U.S. phone number, mailing address, etc. You only own shares in the business. Though you may also be an employee and hold other positions within the company. You aren't anymore a U.S. person by owning shares of the corporation you setup than you would be a U.S. person by owning shares in Microsoft.
At this time you will need to use an EC2 instance serving NFS over a big EBS volume.
This is really cool. Basically "Startup as a Service"
I've actually had skype deployed in multiple locations as a way to do super cheap monitoring solution.

1) old laptops from ebay(probably paid $100 for each)
2) microsoft 3000 webcam
3) linux.

Each laptop was configured with its own skype account, would start it on boot, audio out completely disabled, and set to pick up calls from friends automatically.

Why not use a regular CCTV solution?
I knew I could call that skype client from anywhere in the world, even from my phone, and I would get very good quality sound and video. I've had "networked" CCTV cameras which were $1000+ and they had choppy video and barely audible audio, plus you had to do some sort of dyndns solution to access them everywhere.
That's incredible. I feel like I'm looking at a cell slide of a living organism.
Not only that, but Larry Summers wants to abolish cash so that banks and governments get to loot us whenever they want to, and monitor all of our transactions: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/war-cash

Remember the Cyprus "bail-in"? Greece's bank holiday?
Even though it's far from perfect, OS X client is the best Skype client.

Yes, better than Windows client, at least when ran on Windows 10.
The no-fly list can have three nines of accuracy and still have more false positives than actual hits.
Interesting aside, it detects my location as "University, Salt Lake City, UT, USA", I'm on the University of Utah campus at the moment in the library so it's interesting location API's are that granular with the data.

It seems pretty cool though, I think it would be nice if events showed their price, but I imagine that's not here because it's not in the data getting scraped.
Just spent past few hours listening to OTT, thanks for recommending and +1 to them!
I like it. clean, simple useable interface. One issue I had: I couldn't tell if I was toggling something "on" or "off" in the top bar. Maybe it's just me, or the way my browser renders (FF).

Any type of rss feed available?
If you don't mind I'd like to ask what the language is about?
4 New Members Join Automotive Grade Linux to Advance Connected Car Tech
If the facts don't happen to conform to the narrative, offense is meaningless.
>I've seen people proud of having an opportunity to maintain (note: not to develop, just to maintain) big products. Such product was doing amazing things and was well-written, of course, but would you think you could take pride of maintaining somebody else's work?

Most developers wouldn't. There's a stigma against maintenance. Most developers want to be Software Architects! (Said with the pigs in space voice).
> This news prompts me to write my representative and senators and strongly urge them to support enacting this form of protective legislation.

Have they ever seemed to give a fuck about letters from any little peasant?
neato, but would be much more neato if I didn't need to hover for labels [1] - at least at the first few levels

also would be cool to color/heatmap them by recent modification dates, filesize, LOC, etc.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
Powerful crap: The quest to turn smelly sewage into sweet biodiesel
The industry studies I've seen have shown that, in addition to most enterprise projects failibg, project failure is positively correlated with project size.

My experience in enterprise software suggests that the way many large enterprises -- private and public -- wrap more layers of review, bureaucracy, and big up front design on projects the more money is involved (specifically intended as a risk management technique) is a big contributing factor to this.

So is the idea of a big software project. Almost without exceptional, large enterprise "software" projects really need to be conceived as business process reengineering efforts, where changes to automation are one of means of implementing the reengineering.
The Transparent Church
Tesla: GM wrote a bill in Indiana to stop us from selling cars in the state
That's a cool idea!

However as of right now this is a completely client-side JS app, it might take too much processing power and API requests to analyze individual files.
In the same vein, gource is pretty cool. It shows the same sort of graph, but animated as it changes over time. So you can watch the project develop, and even see who was working on which files at which time. It's great to put up on a screen during launch celebrations or whatever.

http://gource.io/
Yup, that was what came to mind at first too!
> 15. Age restricted products or services (which are the most products/services)

Wouldn't you need to be the age of majority to use Stripe at all?
Are there tax issues with Delaware llcs? I feel like I've read about people getting hit with huge deleware tax bills out of the blue?
You might be interested in Gource then, it visualizes a repo in a very similar manner, but animates along the commit timeline.

Here's a recording of the linux repo being parsed by gource.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk
I agree that we're not special, but the hard problem is explaining why subjective experience exists at all. What are the arrangements of physical matter that give rise to it? Here's another fun thought. Presumably if we built a human by artificially placing all the atoms in the right place, then they would have subjective experience. What if instead we simulated that on a computer? The simulated human would act the same as a real one, including expressing wonder about how it is that they have subjective experience. Would the simulated human have real subjective experience? No way to find out as far as I can tell. You can't even find out whether I have true subjective experience. Maybe I'm just a machine acting as if I do. So maybe it's a nonsensical question, but I have never found a satisfying explanation for why exactly it's a nonsensical question.
The US courts are really, really reluctant to ban printed material. If something is printed with ink on dead trees, it's practically sacred.

In the 1990s, PGP was published as a printed-and-bound book in a layout that was readily OCR-able, with code-friendly fonts, checksum and other features to make digital reassembly easy. The theory was that the US government would be unlikely to successfully ban an actual, physical book.

Thought experiment: Apple provides a pamphlet, free for the taking in every Apple store, that when scanned will armor your phone. Extend the thought experiment to a web page that the phone just downloads, compiles and installs (yeah, you probably want that code signed).

This would be hard to forbid in the US. The government would probably go after the plugin system on the phone (which would be an interesting battle). Places like the UK would lose no time banning such media, but it would still be readily available.
It occurs to me that I didn't really answer the question as it was being asked, I blame it being after midnight when I wrote that (and being too excited about showing off my search thing).

We do have the technical part down pretty well, but actually managing the documentation is one area that we're still lacking in. For the longest time our docs consisted mostly of just an API reference [1] and to be honest that did really cover about 90% of the needs of our customers, but that last 10% involved quite a bit of hands-on coaching with most of our customers to get them to understand the system as a whole before they could go off on their own and understand which API calls they'd need to make to do the thing they wanted to do.

One of the biggest helps has been keeping everything in github. Having all the docs be markdown is great because it's just text so everyone can use the tools they want to, we're not locked into some web wysiyg editor. And since it's all in git it's trivial for anyone in the company to open an issue about something incorrect or even submit a PR for anyone that's more technical. Plus when someone does have a question that I and the other editors don't know the answer to we can just git blame it to find out who put the piece in question there and ask them to clarify what they meant.

Now that we've been able to grow so much we're getting more able to focus on polishing up the docs, which is actually officially my job now that I've moved from the support team into the (new) technical marketing team. We've started making more information that describes how the system works as a whole [2] so that we can have completely hands-off customers who just pay us money without us having to personally walk them through the system.

Of course there are other fun things that I intend to do with it like interactive demo API requests and auto generating a table of contents, but those are really just 'wizz-bang' features that are fun and helpful but are definitely not required.

These are some of the other sites that I've taken (or am planning to take) inspiration from: [3] [4] [5]

[1] http://docs.exosite.com/rpc/

[2] http://docs.exosite.com/oneplatform/

[3] http://developer.wordnik.com/docs

[4] https://www.twilio.com/docs/

[5] https://docs.particle.io/
A few places offer "Company in a box" but without the automatic bank account (e.g. search google for any "Register a company" keywords or even the more startup focused https://www.clerky.com).

The most amazing this here is obviously the automatic bank account integration. The last time I set up a SVB account I had to drive to their Santa Clara office, meet someone, convince them I'm not a hack fraud (lol, tricked them on that one), then fax over paperwork, then wait a week for things to get enabled. Just a lot of friction before even getting started on the real goal of setting up a business account for accepting iOS platform payments. (side note: let's hope the SVB web interface has gotten better since then. last I checked, it felt like a scaled up 1996 web app... kinda awful all over, but it got the job done.)

This offering does sound like it's more focused on helping non-US people to just start processing US payments easier and not expressly around startups (a la clerkly). It skips some startup-isms we all know and love (83b forms not expressly mentioned, does it allocate "startup levels" of default stock during incorporation, etc), and a big thing not mentioned: it doesn't register you as a foreign entity in a non-delaware state. You'll get a nastygram from your state tax office if you don't register as a local foreign entity (they'll scrape IRS details about you to figure out which companies exist in their state but aren't registered). Registering as a foreign entity is different for every state (more fees) and sometimes more BS ("you must notify the public of your new corporation by paying for notices in two (2) newspapers for six (6) weeks to complete this process" (that could be just for actual corporations and not foreign registrations though)).

Looks like an amazing offering overall, and it's always amusing to see how AWS throws credits all over the place. If Google could wise up to it (assuming it's not an Amazon promotional exclusivity contract), they should be throwing 4x-10x AWS-sized credits at all the same targets too.
Except the frequency there is compared to other animals not humans. The bonobo example is a little overplayed. I don't consider 'sexually greeting' each other by grabbing assess to be on the same page as sex. That's not sex. You can't impregnate a female by grabbing.

Also, having lots of sex in a 10 day period is impressive, but humans don't have a 10 day heat period. They're in heat all the time. Its not really comparable.

I think we can split hairs all day, but I don't think its controversial to say that animal mating and human mating evolved in very different ways. Obviously our closest relatives in the animal kingdom will be most like us, but even they have heat periods.
Because they may contravene, a vague overly broad software patent, that effectually locks up ideas, not implementations.
R is good for ecology now that Microsoft own it -_-'
I've run a ceph deployment for about 18 months now, it's good. ops-wise it's like anything, a few quirks to learn - but it's very solid. I played around with a couple of puppet modules and ended up on ceph-deploy as well, makes life quite easy.
> library(dplyr) # gives us the gift of pipes “%>%”

Actually, it was magrittr[0]. dplyr popularised their use.

[0] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magrittr/index.html
Wonderful! Thanks for the kind words.
You're the best kind of correct.
"Bonding" in this kind of research absolutely doesn't mean the promiscuity is excluded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

"Roughly 60% of all bonobo sexual activity occurs between two or more females."
> For most enterprise tools you're looking at paying thousands to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That seems a bit of a strawman considering we're talking about Slack as an alternative to Skype which brings the non-limited history for free.
Yes but they have unlocked phones before and they will conceivably continue to do it. It's not about the difficulty of the task, it is about the principle.

I haven't heard of the FBI asking to get apple's keys before, but that is crazy.
EE apologises for mobile data fault
In the livestream they said they are working with another region for Atlas they'll announce soon. My guess is Ireland which has better taxation than the US and the best in EU (12.5%).
Because liking a "Was diagnosed with cancer today" post is... of questionable taste.