skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+ n.b. I get phone calls from people whose budget is $9 a month (me: "Oh cripes, not again.")

When I have a $9/month budget, I would rather know up front (from the web page) that the reaction on the other end will be "Oh cripes, not again." The "call me for a quote" is a very strong signal that I need not bother to call, and I generally don't. It's the old adage "if you have to ask, you cannot afford it."

On the other hand, the OP is indicating there is an underserved marketplace that may be ready for disruption by a low cost no frills service.
I am from India, and English is not my mother tongue.

Sometime I make mistakes, but I correct them often when some one points out.

I don't think its a big issue, I don't see this as a problem while coding, interaction or even while writing documentation.

Sometimes I make a mistake because of my mother tongue influence over English.
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There is probably something to be said for network resiliency, as well, but I haven't the faintest idea what.
Where I work (i.e. write code for money, to satisfy Ted Nyman's requirement that my opinion matter), our reaction was exactly the opposite--we're very much looking forward to having macros in Scala.

If this was a more esoteric language feature, I'd be inclined to agree, but macros (if done well), I think will be a huge boon to the language.

I do all sorts of hackery in Java now (external code generation, heavily using annotation processing tools (APTs) which are a very, very limited form for language-based code generation) to do semi-metaprogramming stuff and can't wait to do the real thing.

(And do it well, e.g. not to make things "even more cryptic" just for the fun of it, but to solve real problems.)
I like being in line behind those folks. Listening to someone order a "double skinny mocha latte without the espresso"* is one of life's purest joys.

* I shit you not. It happened at a Starbucks in Wisconsin.
This is your car. This is your car after a hack. Any questions?
This is completely true, something that I'd like to note is that the more hands on your are, the better trust you build with the customer.

This means they are more likely to keep buying your product (they know you and like you).

They are more likely to come to you when they have an awesome idea for a feature that they want that would make their lives easier. (And you never say no to an ambitious request, you either explain that you lack the budget, or you try to redirect it into something that would fulfill the same need, but is easier for you to do, or you can explain how to do it with the currently offered software).

This is not just enterprise stuff either. Having a bunch of enthusiastic and engaged customers pointing out the holes in your software is extremely useful.

This all assumes that you have technical people who 'get it' and are looking to help satisfy the customer. I would never let an aggressive sales staff near them, however. It would be awesome to have something like 'contact a technical person to discuss solutions.'
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That's not true on several fronts. One, doctors spend little time explaining options to patients oftentimes because they don't actually know the options. Drugs are almost always the first line of defense. Obviously, this is partially because drugs are easy. It's also because doctors don't have to worry about it since the USDA says it's fine whereas if they tell a patient to alter their diet and take supplemental iodine to treat hypothyroidism, they have no support for that treatment plan.

Secondly, many times patients do not get better. Statins are prescribed in astronomically large numbers in this country to lower cholesterol when the science behind the benefits of lower cholesterol is highly mixed. In many of the supposedly supporting studies, overall mortality is unchanged in groups taking statins.

This has nothing to do with blaming the patient. It has everything to do with the fact we have little comprehensive understanding of the long term ramifications of our increasing reliance on chemicals to help us live more healthy lives. Hopefully finding ways to identify drug interactions is a first step towards current complications but it doesn't change the fact that this will only make it easier to prescribe medications for symptoms without treating the underlying cause.
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Sure, but the communities behind all the FP languages seem to share this same weakness. For obvious reasons, they attract people much more interested in hacking on funky compiler techniques than on mundane things like I/O libraries and documentation.

In contrast, I think Python and Ruby both owe a lot of their success to the people willing to put a lot of energy and polish into this essential but less glamorous work.
Interesting experiment with paywall aggregation: a startup from Slovakia
The prices in general are quite strange.
amazon.de has it for 55€ and .co.uk wants just 33 pounds.

While Blizzard itself charges full retail prices...
Hey - thanks for taking the time to reply so thoroughly :) I definitely think 3 is the path I could take with future developments to the game, a brilliant idea I hadn't considered!

Appreciate the comment about making the graphics sharper, especially if I wanted to take this to the iPad 3 etc...

Thanks :)
It saddens me a little to see the " (Nobel Price in Computing) " in the headline.

This is HackerNews! People here are expected to know what the Turing Award is; if they don't, they can find out for themselves.
The 8hour worker is getting what they're supposed to get.

The 8 + x hours worker is getting less than they're supposed to. Often they're doing x hours for free.

There can be several problems with that. Sometimes the company gets a lot of value from the x hours, and sells lots of product for lots of money, but doesn't give any money to the worker.

Or sometimes the worker is doing poor quality work, but getting personal value from the x hours (perhaps seen by managers as being more productive) and the other workers have to fix the errors, but are not seen as productive.

> The expectation that one must get paid the same but do little work compared to somebody else

Quite often overtime is unpaid, or is paid at low rates.
Hey, I did initially have the blocks as the avatar image but it ended up looking a bit untidy. I do think the idea of the background changing to twit-pic's etc... would be quite interesting to play around with. Thanks for the feedback!
It's a rather bizarre argument... That would exclude about half of the celebrities that we know... "Prince", Lady Gaga, et al...
I think he misspelled 'Lua'.
Not via the App Store, but there is nothing preventing them from doing this via a direct download on their website.
Has anyone checked int __cdecl why(); ?
I'd like to see some comments on his contributions to AI. Wikipedia says his work is applicable to cognitive modelling. Anyone want to comment?
Well, he got away with it because the government was stupid enough to issue him this 'property' in the first place.
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I don't see what the problem is in helping people who don't know what it is. There's no harm in saving people from having to do a search to find out.
As much as I personally like Scala I understand why a lot of people are taking a wait & see attitude. I think it's not too unreasonable to imagine that a less ambitious Java++ like Kotlin might find the traction that has so far eluded Scala.
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WoW had some glaring bugs when it came out. Of course, the start of the game is always better, because it has received a lot more attention (it's crucial to get players hooked in) and because it has received a lot more testing (how many testers are willing to go all the way to max level? Way less than the ones who just check out the first few). Starcraft II was better in that regard.

But I'm not targeting Blizzard specifically, just MMO companies in general. All the releases from the past few years all went the same way.
If you are checking your parameter types then you haven't used python enough.
log analyzing the last month access approximately 1/3 of our web traffic is generated by crawler bots.
A script to revert back to the old Google +1 button
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Leaving videomail is worse than leaving voicemail, because you have to worry about your appearance, you have to worry about the lighting, and you have to look at the camera while you leave your message (no looking at notes).

Note that people use text based messaging even though audio messaging is available and provides an extra element of emotion.
That's been around since Blizzcon 2011.
If you don't care about uptime just replace the old binary with the new binary and then restart the server.

This is from a book called "Nginx HTTP server":

1. Replace the old Nginx binary (by default, /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx) with the new one.

2. Find the pid of the Nginx master process, for example, with ps x | grep nginx | grep master or by looking at the value found in the pid file.

3. Send a USR2 (12) signal to the master process—kill –USR2 , replacing with the pid found in step 2. This will initiate the upgrade by renaming the old .pid file and running the new binary.

4. Send a WINCH (28) signal to the old master process—kill –WINCH , replacing with the pid found in step 2. This will engage a graceful shutdown of the old worker processes.

5. Make sure that all the old worker processes are terminated, and then send a QUIT signal to the old master process—kill –QUIT , replacing with the pid found in step 2.
“The foundation of the web platform” is very confusing
A false positive costs much lower than a false negative in this instance so it should follow that FP should be more common. However, without the data it is still speculation.
WebDriver Automation tool & Exceptions
How to handle ElementNotVisibleException , StaleElementReferenceException ?

Element are present in the DOM. but, randomly WebDriver throwing these exceptions. How to solve this type of situation ? Is there any problem with WebDriver ?
Understood but Chuck admits it. His guests have been top-notch and they have gone into some nice depth so I don't think it matters all that much. I expect interviews and discussions will get stronger.
I answered "We'd like to do more testing but it's too much overhead" but it's not really true. The true answer would be "We'd like to do more testing but it's hard to convince people to really write tests."
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It's a relatively simple task if you're on a Debian derivative to take the source .deb & add a new patch to it.
Awesome. I'll look forward to future updates. One last suggestion:

Consider incorporating sharing options when you die, or when you complete a level. Having people tweet out a link to the game (and your Twitter handle) would be great for virality.

Feel free to shoot me an email anytime you'd like! I love seeing great ideas come to life, and would be happy to give feedback on future ideas.
Yes, its public.

I think the below link should have some of the data.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInforma...
"Background checks" are a major drag on the U.S. economy. I'm not only talking the TSA mess at airports. Legal immigrants typically are held up years as various agencies probe and prod and check to make sure they are not an Al-Qaeda sleeper cell or some other baddie.
I went through the exact same process 2 months ago trying to set up payroll. In general, Canadians get some pretty horrible value out of any small/medium business service.

I was going to go with Ceridian but their web app doesn't support Mac. Because we're still small enough, I actually just rigged it up myself in Xero and then just have to use the nastiest 90s era website from my bank. That at least saved me the step of massaging exported data into Xero.

If you want some real price transparency on payroll apps, this is pretty hard to beat : http://wavepayroll.com/pricing
There's obviously more to it than efficiency. Here in Portugal an espresso (bica) is about $0.85 and that includes an higher IVA/VAT (23%).
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[video] You're being watched.
Here's why: http://thirty-thousand.org
I'm trying to catch the exception and again doing the same work (clicking on some element) if it throws the exception.
EU, Japan, and US attack Chinese rare earth monopoly
It wasn't in the browser though. So it's a different story.
Hackanoon #4 in Munich next week
Again, it's not just Blizzard I'm talking about. Every single MMO company since a few years ago is going this way.

Network stability is mostly tested on specific moments like stress test weekends or at the end of a beta, when they let everyone in to see how far they can push their hardware.

Of couse this and general behaviour in various hardware configurations need to be tested. But it's not the ultimate point of a beta anymore, at least not in the later stages.

I can see it all the time, players just want to get into a beta to see if they like a game before they pay for it, rather than to help make it better.
All particle, whether fermions or bosons, are waves. The difference is that fermions can't pile up on top of one another like bosons can, which means they can't form macroscopic classical waves, like light or gravity. This is probably what you mean when you say that "neutrino radio" would be a misnomer. Normal "radio" consists of radio waves, which are macroscopic collections of many, many photons. In principle, you can measure these waves by watching how they tug and pull on charged macroscopic objects.

However, the sense in which neutrinos have wave characteristics is precisely the two-slit sense. (For examples, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_interferometer .) Furthermore, the distinction between fermion and boson is independent of them having mass. There are massive bosons (the W and Z) and, though none yet discovered, plenty of proposed massless fermions.
It's the same with other games and especialy dvd/Blurays. Even with extra shipping cost you normaly have to pay less than on amazon.de.
Never quite understood why, but I order a lot over uk since I know that.
> Incapsula offers a service aimed at securing small
> and medium sized businesses.

No wonder they are telling people that there is a problem. Reminds me a bit of all those anti virus and firewall software companies.
I don't think any patent lawsuit, easy win or not, is going to cost less than $80,000.

For the city, the value of a suit would be compared against the proposed settlement. For the troll, the value of the suit would be compared against the proposed settlement times the number of potential targets. In this case: every city in America.

So the city has no hope that the troll would fold. Indeed we would expect the troll to fight tooth and nail and appeal well past the point where any city would see individual benefit.

This is why Patent Trolling works. You hit small targets for payouts lower than the legal fees of fighting and once that revenue is tapped, maybe you take a few shots at the endzone by suing larger companies.

As with patent trolls targeting mobile app developers, what this underscores, is the need for some joint-defense fund against patent trolls.

But whereas small app developers have little experience working together, fewer resources and place a higher priority on short-term benefit, US cities are quite different. They have experience working together, sharing knowledge and making joint plans. They have large total budgets and secure-enough footing to make plans even if they may not bear fruit for several years. The odds of their coming together to nip this in the bud are far higher than with small app developers or even larger tech companies.

Trolls may have just shot themselves in the foot on this one.
I think you could make a convincing argument that _why would fit the legal definition of a Limited-Purpose Public Figure. http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/proving-fault-actual-...
Given a chance of being up of 40%, the chance of being up (and this is ignoring the magnitude of the win) over 3 separate trials is 6.4%.
I think I can hear the distant sound of marriage counselors rubbing their hands. It's THAT big.
This is a good way to tell old companies from startups.

IMHO startups are much more sophisticated in marketing. It's pretty common marketing knowledge that you want to reduce friction as much as possible. A phone call is a lot of friction for most technical people who want to be as efficient as possible.

No pricing model should be this complicated. If you have to make a form for the customer to fill out to calculate their cost, fine. To be honest even a live chat wouldn't be terrible.

I understand the people here who defend the enterprise sales cycle. I get it, I participated in that world as a startup for years. But you have to admit there's something fundamentally broken about the whole idea.

I think it comes down to this: if your product is good enough that people can use it and want it, you shouldn't have to hide your pricing or require time to use sales tactics to justify the price to customers.
I'll be cynical and think that many politicians won't really care since it is not their money, it is the tax payer's money. It will only matter if it threatens their reelection.
Makes sense. Do you see yourself going through that for any specific use case?
51% of zdnet.com is PR fluff churnalism.

Only 49% is legitimate banner ads.
Who said anything about unit tests?

But okay, is it really so much easier to write a test which just tests changing the time signature? It's still going to require doing OCR. And if I'm really testing it, I've got to make sure the time signature change comes at the correct point, which requires OCR on the notes around it. Also the bar lines (to makes sure the time signature change is reflected in the notes per bar and not just by writing a new time signature out and otherwise ignoring it).

Now, it's perfectly reasonable to have unit tests that the code correctly recognizes time signature changes in ABC format. (And it looks like I forgot to write them: I see inline key changes in the tests but not inline time signature changes.) But that's only testing half of the problem; and it's the easier half by far.
I think this is related to what I commented about, which is that you get this mostly from old-school enterprise companies. Many of their setup and configuration systems are much too complex to do it on the fly. It would be a huge internal project to even think about it.
Actually, this is from nginx documentation:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html
"How we've scaled Dropbox" by Kevin Modzelewski
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/120222.html

The video for the talk is on http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012... .
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You obviously didn't bother to read the article or it's references.
This. I will not be buying this game, because I don't want to support this model.
In both .net and java there exists excellent decompilation tools where you can easily decompile the bytecode back into java or C# or anyother language. It's not necessarily going to give you the original source code (especially missing comments) but it works incredibly well nonetheless. You could easily debug in it and edit it dynamically in browser tools as well. This is pretty much a solved problem. I wouldn't consider this a limitation worth talking about again.
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What makes someone a “public figure?"

This is one of the biggest problems of our time. Because omnipresent, eternally persistent tracking technologies threaten to make everyone and even every thing into a public figure.

Worse, while publicity has both costs and benefits, they're usually asymmetric: It's hard to derive much benefit from a wave of publicity unless you're carefully and consciously prepared to surf that wave, whereas destroying someone's happiness, career, or relationships via stalking or character assassination can be cheap and easy.
Due to how they implemented the "panels" interface, swiping left-to-right on a row will pull the entire panel, so they had to implement it as only right-to-left to expose the actions. Kinda annoying, but it was a design decision forced on them by another design decision they made.
It depends on how he expects to be taxed. If this is his only session during the year, he actually wins 60-70% of the money vs losing 80%. So he needs to either be way ahead or way behind from other gambling activity for this to work out the way you described (assuming he's a US citizen).
Perhaps I missed it, but I couldn't find the 14 device smoke-list actually enumerated.

Is it actually listed anywhere? If so, I'd love a pointer to it. If not, anyone know (or have a reasonable guess) what devices are on it?
Imagine Facebook with this rule: when a user posts content, that content is rated by popularity (number of likes/shares/comments). Every user has a popularity score. Users can opt in to being ranked on a public popularity list in, let's say, up to 3 categories like Sports, Tech, Music, Politics, etc. Any FB user can check out the "top 50" lists for topics they're interested in, and subscribe/friend/follow people that are on those lists.
Those optimizations can happen in the compiler that transforms the code into bytecode anyway.
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The precision which neutrino pulses could be detected in time (phase modulation) would determine the signal-to-noise ratio. The bandwidth of the channel is dependent upon that.

So very large, very short bursts of neutrinos at controllable times in very fast succession would be a very high-bandwidth channel. Divide up the spectrum exactly as we do today with radio.
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Here in Portugal (and also in Spain, IIRC) it's much the same, almost everyone drinks a normal espresso or a simple mix of espresso and milk (semi-skimmed, I think you'd call it).
> "The government can't just take property from someone, they have to pay for it."

US states have some special rights wrt US patents. Cities, as creatures of states, share those rights.
The source code is available from here: http://chronozoom.codeplex.com/
In real life, the financiers Lloyd Blankfein represents are not simply "defectors." I would argue that they contribute (or at least could). However, a less contraversial point, especially in light of the recent crash, is that they cause a whole lot of destruction, e.g. they function as "jokers" as well.
Chicago's still well-known for its organized crime, and it's still largely fueled by drug prohibition.

It'd be more correct to say that people in Chicago aren't brutally massacring each other over alcohol since alcohol prohibition ended.
i also noticed this in the past few weeks. google now tells you what your IP address is for "my ip", sweet!
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Mr. Thompson, I like your way of thinking and where you want to take the company. I am not in favor of the whole suing strategy!
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I just bought another N900 because my current one is a bit long in the tooth, and my fear of being N900-less is huge. Right now, all of my hopes are focused on WebOS and Tizen. The HP Touchpad is really pleasant, and would be awesome running on a GPL'd stack.

I'm really going to miss the Maemo 5 UI, though.
Ii have not used Scala but I have found the opposite to be true in Ocaml and Haskell. The type definition of a function is quite often sufficient information to infer the usage. I think this is because of the type variables. Looking at the definition of fold in Ocaml, for example, it becomes very obvious what is the input output init and the signature of your function from the type where such information generally seems to be less clear in C-like languages.
Jobs that can be done by anyone will soon be done by no one