skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes sense to me. Revenues scale with deposits, but many expenses scale with number of customers. Below a certain balance, the bank actually loses money on each additional checking account - better for them if you just go somewhere else. Also, the less money you have in your account, the less certain they can be of the maturity of the loan you've made them. Given they can basically borrow from the fed for free, why would they want your money?
Really doubted between a 11 and a 13. Went for the 13 and loving it. But as you state, it's a little bit too big for the legs. Maybe one day...
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I'm an avid python user and a big problem I have is that you can't finish a line with '.' and continue on the next line. For instance:

some_object.
do_something(..).
do_something_else(..).

Doesn't work. It needs to be written:

some_object.\
do_something().\
do_something_else()

or

some_object\
.do_something()\
.do_something_else()

It's ok to write \ a couple of time, but I feel like it makes chain-able functional methods really ugly to use because of that.
It's a shame, because they had a great service, but it's very hard for them to generate buzz nowadays as they have been very much overshadowed by github.
It's anti-spam - otherwise we get spambots hitting us from fake openID accounts.
You've just quoted the reason why: it won't be the last crazy idea they may have.

That's pretty much an absolute certainty. Even if you can convince them with reasonable arguments to accept a few point less uptime, you're going to be having the same kind of discussion many times after on different subjects.

You have to be really, really sure you want and need this kind of client. Most of the time (around 100%...) they are more trouble than they are worth.
If it uses a JIT internally, it will produce x86 machine code, which is meaningless to us since we aren't emulating the whole machine. If it doesn't, then emscripting it should work.
Though not targeted at code reviews you may find the skills exchange site weekendhacker.net useful down the line, the blurb states

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Find help for your (very) small projects
Trade your skills with others, earn "I owe you's"
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Makes 2 of us. Just finished integrating with Auth.Net. Yep, bad timing IF this is as easy and secure as everybody says.
> Innovator's Dilemma is more about the strategy of building a product the right way to transform the market

Clayton Christensen gave a talk at Bell Labs not too long after his book hit the charts. The biggest take away of the talk was a bit different: Eat your own lunch before somebody else does. (He used the disk-drive industry as an example.)
This sounds great indeed. Would love to watch the video of this talk.
Why does it matter to you if people set their editors that way? What is your point here?
I am aware of the distinction windows makes there. But it's artificial to make such a thing binary. If it cached but only for a fraction of a second, with queue reordering to speed things up, it would still be safe to unplug right after a copy completes.
agreed with op. Lambda is not at all obvious.
While most of the people are discussing what each browser 'stands for' or its main goals, we should not forget about simple practical aspects.

Apart from deals between mozilla and google, I much prefer to support the mozilla foundations than google. And when on linux I actually use chromium instead of chrome. Furthermore I even think the whole firefox concept focused more on real features rather targeting the dumbest possible user as chrome does.

But even considering all these aspects, I use chrome mostly because it has had a clutter-free UI for a while, fires up much faster and has a proper implementation of incognito mode.
Like many people, I use a browser all day, I cannot afford not to be pragmatic in here. If firefox catches up on these important aspects, I will for sure move back. It does look like they got finally they're act together and started to make major improvements. Let's wait and see.
There is scientific research supporting the claim that psychedelics have a positive and meaningful influence on quality of life.

Perhaps you would like to read some of these papers, and then come back with your assertions?

There is AFAIK no research that shows that crack, heroin or motor oil have similar positive effects.
It's really nice having separate users in production for a server. That way, you log sudo and know who issued an admin command. But in a larger system, you don't worry about setting them up on each server; instead, you rely on LDAP.

Unix is the LISP of server operating systems. It's a multiplier. In return, it demands much more from the operator. This is not ideal for a desktop system. It's amazing when you have an admin who knows his shit.
Whatever happened to the iPad rivals of 2010? (Warning: Not pretty.)
>Classrooms, all through grade school to College voraciously decry sources like wikipedia or... well any free media as possibly bad sourcing.

The problem isn't that Wikipedia is free. The problem is that Wikipedia is, by definition, a secondary(where it links to a primary source) or tertiary source(where it links to another link that links to the primary source). If you're doing the proper research, you should be using primary sources as much as possible. That means you should be directly citing the paper that Wikipedia is using, not Wikipedia itself.
Non-experience is not the only "failure mode" possible in meditation. Most practitioners find that, as with many spiritual or psychological practices, things get more difficult before they improve. Having partial insight into the nature of reality, without the non-identification that comes with awakening, can make one's suffering a lot more apparent and "real" feeling.

For more in depth discussion of the kind of insights I'm referring to, consider the Theravada tradition's map of the progress of insight, specifically stages 5-9.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/mahasi/progress.h...

Those familiar with Christian mysticism will see the parallels with St John of the Cross's "dark night of the soul."

Personally, I believe that issues I mention above apply to psychedelic use as well, i.e., it's possible to stumble into early stages of insight via drug use. This can be even trickier than when it happens via meditation, because typically drug users are not equipped with a framework to make sense of what's happening.

Does meditation on its own ever lead to things like psychosis? Well, I've practiced at a number of meditation centers in the U.S. and Asia, and I've certainly heard plenty of stories of what happens when psychologically unstable people come to do an intense period of practice...
For anyone interested in making an iPhone game, I highly recommend Cocos2d-iPhone as a framework. I used it to make Twiddle (find in app store) a couple of years ago really quickly and had a very good experience with it. It has come a long way since then.
So the solution is to simplify the boundaries between the parts. Perhaps, if the behavior of the parts were fully encapsulated, then they would be crazy easy to use. Just tell the part to "do whatever it is you do" and leave it at that. No compromises.

I don't think Ryan Dahl is at all naive for wanting something like this. I also think something like this is totally possible.
Just read this and thought of your comment...

http://blog.bonardo.net/2011/09/30/is-your-firefor-freezing-...
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Awesome company, we're at Mailgun have been using them for a long time and couldn't be happier.
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I really agree with this.

There are better abstraction mechanisms.
It's just someone spamming.

Flag it and move on.
Do most hiring managers believe that? I'd be fine with it but I'm not the one looking at whether they want a career path that isn't going to fit at our company, just whether I think they're capable of the work.
same error here as well, also behind a corporate firewall, it's usually fairly well behaved but if it doesn't understand something it's sometimes prone to petulance.
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I have not yet found a circumstance when its more economical to re-purpose an old desktop rather than buy a $200 netbook at walmart. Electricity is cheap here, but it still works out to more than a buck a watt-year.

I'm even to the point where I cast a suspicious eye on 20 watt IDE drives vs just buying a new 3 watt laptop drive and an adapter and tossing the old drive.

A netbook with a pair of 1TB shirt-pocket USB drives that acts as my server here uses just 18 watts when the drives are spinning, 11 when they spin down.

Even if the old dell desktop is free, buying the netbook is cheaper for a single year of use. Sometimes, you can't afford stuff thats free.
Saying that automation "reduces institutional knowledge" seems a bit misleading in that the knowledge is still kept by the institution but is somewhat inaccessible because the information is held by only a few employees. Perhaps saying that automation "records institutional knowledge" would be more accurate.
The sad reality is that a modern app like Chrome does look a lot like malware. It does a bunch of crazy things you might not expect a regular piece of software to do - manipulating file permissions and spawning large groups of processes, installing into a rather obscure part of the user's appdata folder instead of into program files, downloading arbitrary payloads from the internet and then using those payloads to modify executables on the user's machine...

It's always unpleasant when you get flagged by a virus scanner. Antivirus vendors basically ignore you unless enough of your customers complain to get their signature database updated. Hopefully in this case, since it's a high-profile application (Chrome), Microsoft will address the problem quickly.
Tell HN: Apps for Communities (FCC+Knight) Deadline Monday
The FCC's Apps for Communities contest deadline is on Monday. With $100,000 at stake, and the top winner potentially earning $60,000, it's an opportunity to spend this weekend earning a great return on investment.

And it's also a great chance to get your work in front of some phenomenal people: Cory Booker, Mark Andreesen, Brad Feld, Charles Best, Tom Lee, and Jennifer Pahlka are all judges.

All you need to do is build an open source app that relates to connecting local communities together, or to effective government services. Full details here here:

http://appsforcommunities.challenge.gov/
Ask HN: any light after quitting career at big software companies?
I've been trying many years to be fulfilled at big companies. Had the opportunity of working in cloud computing orgs at Amazon, Google and Microsoft, among other companies, and came to realization that I cannot be happy in such environments for a number of reasons: 1. lack of autonomy, 2. being told what to do and how to do (particularly bad when these people don't know what they are talking about), 3. not being able to be proud of what I accomplished, 4. dealing with politics; among other reasons. I feel just like another cog in the machine and plan to quit my job at one of the big companies listed above next week.

Now I am trying to figure out what to do next. I've realized that the problem is not computer science - I find it extremely beautiful to see good engineering being applied, and love to learn new things and see how my experience over the years can be applied and valuable to the business. But I need an environment that nurtures creativity, where excellence is actually valued and engineers can exercise their creativity, being autonomous. I want to deliver a solution, and be able to decide how to tackle it, not being micromanaged and having my creativity killed as the manager thinks that another solution is more in line with his experience and taste.

Is there life after working for big companies? Is there any place where autonomy is actually possible and the engineer intrinsic motivation is not being killed by the environment? Just so you know, I had a short experience with a start-up and unfortunately that wasn't much different - actually the micro-management was quite worse than experienced at big companies, so that is why I am sort of hopeless at this point.

Is consulting or starting my own company the way to go? I am currently open to change to a completely different area and leaving computer science behind me at this point, if that's the best for me.

Does this resonate with anyone? Any thoughts, suggestions, or similar experiences are very much welcome and appreciated.
It's regrettable that the HN submission about this that reached the front page for sustained discussion is based on a press release rather than on follow-up by independent journalists. Suffice it to say that this is an interesting preliminary study finding, but it needs a lot of refinement and quite a bit of replication before serving as a basis for self-medication by HN readers.

Earlier HN submissions based on journalistic reports of same study:

from yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053068

from 105 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664252

In general, press release services are just a guide to look for independent accounts of someone's newly announced study finding. The researcher will always be enthusiastic about his or her new finding, but a good journalist (a rarity, I acknowledge, when it comes to science reporting) will provide perspective and lessen the gee-whiz factor in the researcher's announcement via press release.
The menu button, back button, and search button all work with Phonegap. What version are you using?

http://docs.phonegap.com/phonegap_events_events.md.html
Hmm, I don't get your point. Nobody said drones are "nice". I guess they are as "nice" as, say, an A-Bomb, an AH-64 Apache, or an RPG. Now, are they effective? That is the question that is being discussed here.

But I think you've touched upon an important point. One should direct unhappiness about weapons technologies to the people who control those weapons and authorize their use, not to the technology itself, which can have beneficial uses. A good example is the Roomba robot, derived from iRobot's expertise in military (and police) technology.

EDIT: another interesting thought: Why do people find the general concept of autonomous drones so "horrifying" (not that we're close to that currently). Is it worse than a bunch of stressed out, afraid/angry soldiers coming to your house/compound? In a search and destroy mission, like the one that was done by SEALs on bin Laden's house, would it have mattered if he faced drones instead of SEALs?
I don't know python, so I don't know if anonymous functions have been crippled there, but in other languages anonymous functions are used to do things such as create closures (not stateless).

For example, in scheme:

> (define (foo x) (lambda (y) (+ x y)))
> (define bar (foo 10))
> (bar 5)
15

This sort of thing is of course immensely useful.
lambdas can be really nice for use with python's more functional builtins, like filter, map, and sort. As an example, suppose you have a list like this:

x = [{1: 'b', 2: 'a'}, {1:'a', 2:'b'}]

You want to sort it on the value at the "2" key. You could write a dummy function:

def extract_2(dct):
return dct[2]
x.sort(key=extract_2)

Or, you could just use a quick lambda:

x.sort(key=lambda dct: dct[2])

The latter is more terse, and to a functional programmer, more clear (YMMV, of course). Lambda is just syntactic sugar in python; it's not necessary, and a lot of places where a functional programmer uses it in python make more sense as list comprehensions, but I think it's a nice thing to have.

EDIT:

I think the biggest reason I prefer the lambda approach to the named-function approach is that I don't like seeing one-off functions defined first and then seeing them used later. If python could do this:

x.sort(key=extract_2)
def extract_2(dct):
return dct[2]

or even somehow support ruby-style blocks, it wouldn't be so ugly to my eye. Python lets functions call functions that are defined below them at the module level, but not at the function level, so the above isn't valid in the scope of a function.
It should slow right down though, it's an empty tank.
I think you think wrong. Please enlighten us.
for $125 i agree it's not worth arguing about, and also support is reassuring. but if someone does want to save some money it's worth knowing that you don't find apts at that price in unsafe areas. santiago is very divided (physically) by class.
How do these malware-signature-matching mechanisms work? What are the odds that Chrome produces the same matchable-characteristics as Zeus malware? I don't want to leap to the conclusion that something fishy is going on here.
Windows 8 antivirus currently only has 50% detection rate
It may be a good question, but asking it and then ignoring it by not throwing out ideas for discussion is almost as useless as not asking it at all. e.g. regarding volatile: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/12/04/SayonaraVola...
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I guarantee no one will waste their time creating 3 'users' on each server i.e. 3x4 = 12 'users' on that cluster.

You're just wrong. Plenty of people will do this. If one of those three people leave the company, you can disable that account without having to change the password for the other two. If you insist everyone use sudo, you get logs of all the commands run via sudo, and that includes who ran it.

This is all really useful. You don't understand why it's useful, but lots of people do understand it.
Video would be unnecessary. Keep it simple. Treat this as enterprise software.

I have IE9, there were all sorts of bugs. Test on a Windows machine running various versions of IE.

Load time = dashboard. Plus the list seems endless. So to me, who is tasked with figuering this out, it looks like an endless job.
I noticed the same thing. Well, I always took it for granted until I started using Linux and noticed it doesn't have to be.
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You don't need to escape line endings within parens:

(someobject
.do_something()
.do_something())
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I appreciate the perspective you've provided.
As if by magic, this story was just published: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_facebook_mobile_wil...
At some point, people need to decide on a standard, which was eventually documented as pep8. Since whitespace is significant within the language, two groups using different conventions may run into problems inter-operating.

In older tabbed python code, I've seen numerous patches fail to run, because the patch had the wrong indentation scheme. Worse, were patches I've found that ran, but with subtle bugs, because the change in indentation modified the logic without runtime errors.
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What if their plan is to buy the right to ship software updates to the million TouchPad owners?

On the simple end, they could port Kindle, MP3, Prime Video, etc., and make them available as part of of a firmware update.

If they really want to, though, they could even make an "official" upgrade to Amazon's fork of Android, with the Appstore and UI that the Fire has (more precisely, the one from the 10" Fire variant they're working on).

So that gets them: (1) patents they need, (2) a bunch of in-house expertise in the full tablet hardware and software stack, (3) a bunch of customers to sell their content to and convert to their ecosystem.

That pretty much puts every asset Palm has to use except for WebOS itself, and as someone posted earlier, even that might be useful as a hedge against Google's handling of Android.
I'm going to guess that this is also partially a consequence of Chrome's update strategy - presumably Microsoft has a bank of machines with commonly installed software that they regression test malware updates with - but Chrome is updating so frequently and 'transparently' (i.e. different than most commonly installed software) that Microsoft's test framework wasn't prepared to deal with it, and chrome 11 or 9 or whatever is still passing with flying colors while 14 is getting zapped in the real world.
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Some people write assuming that 8 spaces and tabs are interchangeable. I can change my habits but cant change others. And in those cases, I have to set my tab width to 8 spaces to read it properly. I'm not condoning it -- but you have to realize that oftentimes we have to interact with others' code
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And what about gamma ray bursts from nearby supernova directed to the Earth?
> Less important IMHO than Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE is the fact that we now find ourselves in a world where there are three serious competitors for browser mindshare instead of one dominant one. [..] Bravo!

I like the sentiment and agree with most of it. But we are definitely not in a good place quite yet.

It looks like Chrome will overtake Firefox this year on desktop. It will likely also overtake IE on desktop, simply because the number of people forced to use IE - in big corporations - is small compared to the number of normal users. So IE will continue to go down quite a lot more.

So Chrome will be the #1 browser on desktop. But that's just one side of things. Chrome will also be the #1 mobile browser because it will be bundled on Android, the #1 mobile OS. Combine desktop and mobile, and Chrome will get a dominating majority. (ChromeBooks might also take off, making the control even more complete - but it's hard to say if they will.)

Chrome's rise is the result of a great product and a truly massive marketing campaign. But it looks like it will succeed far too much, potentially replacing the currently open and competitive space with one dominated once again by a single player. And just like the previous dominator, this one has other products it can and will leverage with the browser (as we saw indications of in the leaked Dart memo, and as we currently see with Chrome-only features of gmail and google docs).

Yes, Chrome is mostly open source, so that by itself makes it less evil than the previous browser monopoly. But even an open source project that is controlled by one company, and used to further its own ends - which legally it must as a for-profit - can be a very bad thing. We can't blindly assume that what is good for Google will always be good for everyone else - if that ever was the case.
Same story here, I can pretty much confirm this word for word.

Especially the broad support of payment methods is crucial, and pretty much makes up for all of Adyen's shortcomings in the implementation department.
There is a reason why drugs are prohibited in many countries.

I used to think that all educated adults had read the same books about history I had, but I was surprised when I was in law school that my professor of criminal law and criminal procedure had never heard about why drug laws in east Asia and southeast Asia are very harsh. The painful experience of China after defeat in the Opium Wars means that several countries of Asia view promotion of drug use among their populace as an instrument of foreign colonialist oppression. The zero-tolerance policies (including the death penalty for possession of quite small amounts of prohibited drugs) in those countries flow directly from a historical experience in which a drugged population became easier rather than harder to oppress. On historical grounds, and on observation of the Grass Roots Party (a political party in my state supporting legalization of marijuana), I'm not at all sure that easier access to drugs makes a populace happier or more free.
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