skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine for a moment a city without municipial transportation, without running water, electricity, phone service, cars[0], etc. Without your favorite restaurant chain. Heck, without those soap dispensers OP mentions. Suddenly it's no longer such a great place for hosting Games at.

Given that those items, venues, services etc. add substantially to the value of the Games and build London's value over long time, I find it strange only the direct, one-time sponsors get to display their brands.

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[0] will they tape-over brand logos on citizens' cars just as well?
Why David Rodnitzky would have rejected Instagram as a client
Entirely random question, but is the CSS used to generate the homepage completely custom, or off a preset like Bootstrap? Looks quite nice.
Why C and not C++?
I would imagine much of it is Finnish pension funds, but not sure
What would you title it?
As cool as this can be, it is not a good reason to vote for someone. That goes without saying but it goes better saying it, especially for this kind of candidate who almost only position himself as being neither one of the two "main" candidates.
I don't understand what you do, but I still think you should follow through with it. Worst case scenario, you'll fail and learn one heck of a lot. Best case scenario, it will be successful.

On the other hand, if you don't follow through, you definitely will not succeed. And, if you're really an entrepreneur, you'll spend the rest of your life asking 'what if...'.....
Chartbeat is like playing video games.

This tool is a must for every site owner and highly addictive.
i was expecting something in more detail if you want a full in depth history on the mac os x and how it evolved, i would check out "mac os x internals: a systems approach"

http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Internals-Systems-Approach/dp/0...
if the one thing this article does is take you to http://www.openflow.org/ and get you to read some things, I think it's served enough of a purpose. openflow is really neat and will let you do things with your network that you probably think should already be possible.
The apology was issued on Saturday (same day). This post on Hacker News about the apology just happened to be posted today. How is issuing an apology same day "late"?
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm using deck.js for it (for the sake of making it easy to create the "interactive" view explanation).

To the best of my knowledge, it won't Just Work™ on mobiles. So yes, read on a desktop computer.
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You should never engage a troll/netstalker. Ignoring them is the best approach, always. They feed on your engagement and get frustrated and go away looking for other targets if you ignore them.

If they become real-world stalkers, get a restraining order.
You're right about DC having a regional effect, but wrong about "cash being artificially injected," especially since deficit spending has very little impact on DC's economy (think lobbying and consulting).

I lived in DC for a few years and there's a strong work + happy hour culture for young professionals. It's pretty standard to hit the bar after work and get home at 9-10pm on any weeknight.

The result: a group of tired young professionals who have zero desire to clean up their apartments.
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Indeed, it is supposed to be done in reverse: local niche -> global generalization
A nice canonical counterexample is Amazon, starting with just books in US and now basically doing everything.
Same deal with Facebook and Craigslist.
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I never held out much hope for Diaspora. For the most part I only use Facebook to connect with people that are helplessly or willfully ignorant of the issues that led to Diaspora in the first place.
Hey! That's me! I wrote that there tutorial.

Ignore my shameful, newbie-ish coding practices in that tutorial..
The title may be a little hyperbolic, but if you read the article, the implications of what Nicira is working towards are indeed quite impressive -- and not just because "Wired says so".
It seems that the main improvement here is not anything magical about "gamification" but the idea of presenting students with progressively harder algebra problems in which they get to try out new problem solving methods gradually.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work in many classrooms because the teacher has to manage too many different students learning at different rates and can't tailor the lessons appropriately to all of them at once.
So can we all just stop talking about the Olympics altogether then? Normally I'd have a problem with restrictions on speech like this, but if it means nobody can ever mention the fucking Games ever again, I'm for it. Good riddance.
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I don't think anybody questions if this is legal in the UK. Just if this is sane. And it clearly is not. Of course, I can see why there should be a trademark for "London Olympics 2012", but why for just the city name and the year?

Also, I think it really clashes with the supposed spirit of the games. If it is not a friendly, peaceful and international battle of athletes, but just another event where McDonald's and Samsung can advertise without any distractions, why do we need it? And why should a city finance it?
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A man after my own heart. Here's another concept to dramatically improve efficiency: Code Contexts. Enable the user to select (or add) a specific set of contexts. When coding under a specific set of contexts, differentiation of code applies only under the given context set. Or, after making a code change the user could add/remove contexts to which it applies. This would resolve a lot of the complexities of OO programming. Behind the scenes, context sets can be organized into a class hierarchy. But the programmer wouldn't have to search through the damn hierarchy to find out what version of a particular method is currently in play..
I've being using this pattern since day one with Backbone.js. If you want to avoid spaghetti code you need to have a central mediator that will take care of the communication between your modules.

It's also easier to debug if all your events business happens in one place.
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Thanks. I've just added the link to the post.

Any advice on the marketing copy?
A central event emitter is common practice in client software. It is also known as the event aggregator pattern. A nice description by Martin Fowler[1]

[1] http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventAggregator.html
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Of course the UK has a constitution, what we don't have is a single "core document" that codifies the constitution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_King...
Ah, I can see why you might not have gotten a great response. That's something very specific that a person wouldn't really be interested in unless they're hiring or need a job. Its also something people would wait and see how it turns out before they would get excited about it. I say go for it. If you're really good it will be worth it.
> fewer than a million or so plot points.

If you're using an SVG renderer, you'll get significant slowdown with many fewer than 10^6 points. It's not D3's fault. SVG backends build a complete DOM for the representation (so using JS with it is trivially simple), but browsers do not appear optimized for million-node trees. In my experience, you'll see noticeable slowdowns starting with ~30k points or so.

If you're using canvas, that's an altogether different story. (But then you're stuck doing object location yourself, for example)
Can't agree more. Having once been a publicist, the first rule of dealing with the press is to realize that they have ALL the power and that anything you do must be in service of that.

The notion that everything is on the record is of particular note. You, run into a journalist at a party and mention drunkenly your product launch strategy. Consider it out of the bag because it's fair game to report now. Expect a call the next morning.

Moreover that extends to anyone with familiarity with the situation. Your dirty laundry can be aired in just such a way. Your employees offhanded comments are fair game for stories.

I will note that the one thing you can and should do is contact a reporter's editor if they've run a story about your company without calling for comment. Be totally sober about it and make sure you've run whatever you plan to say by someone with emotional distance from the situation. It's easy for it to come off as "WAH WAH WAH why didn't I get called to talk about this bad thing" and the best way for you to get your side across is to be as detached as possible.
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Very amusing :-) I imagine it was designed to and will go viral. Having no insight in to the french election, he seems like a bit of an outsider, though?

In general, it's interesting to see campaigns across the globe shifting to a more digital campaign strategy. The latest Economist issue had a note on how the Obama Campaign has spent $12m on digital, compared to $3m on TV and radio ads (http://www.economist.com/node/21552590)
Has anyone gotten their interview calls yet?
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What concerns me a lot more is that there is too much unwarranted arrogance in the Lisp community. I don't know exactly where this comes from, but some Lispers seem to believe, just because they understand some Lisp concepts, that they are much smarter than anybody else in the universe. What they are forgetting is that computer science as a discipline is very, very young. In one or two hundred years from now, Lisp concepts will be common knowledge, just like elementary algebra. There is no reason to be arrogant just because you know that the earth is round, even if most other people still believe that it is flat.

I'm not sure I've experienced this "arrogance," but I've heard so many people talk about it or try to explain it that I suppose it must exist in some shape or form.

Either way, I thought this bit of advice was rather insightful and prudent. It doesn't just affect the Lisp community either mind you. In my experience anyone who is ignorant enough to believe they are smarter than someone else by virtue of what they already know is easily led into this sort of thinking... and it's a train of thought that is worth worrying about for those of us who are interested in fostering positive communities with valuable contributors.
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Software networking is clearly the future. It is probably long term, but complex hardware switches which do not use commodity processors and commodity software languages will definitely fall by the wayside, even if they are as big and bad as Cisco. Vyatta was a first attempt at a software router, but this is really the next step at software switches.
My blanket policy for this flies in the face of perhaps all other conventional advice, but wherever I interview, I wear the most conservative bit of clothing I'm willing to wear every day for that job.

I used to wear suits every day (and still do on occasion), so I'd invariably wear a suit to an interview. Once I outgrew the notion of wearing suits, I quit wearing them.

It sets the tone for what they can expect of me in the future, and doesn't give any false impressions. I'd rather they hire 'me' than some notion of how appropriately I ticked their boxes.

I remember interviewing for a fairly conservative defense contractor, and the interviewer commented on it -- saying something like "So, I noticed you're not wearing a tie," to which my response was "Yeah -- I didn't want to give you the impression that I was willing to ever wear a tie."

I got that job, and never wore a tie when I worked there (though I did 'dress up' in a casual suit where appropriate.)

The point, in a roundabout sense, is that if you aren't comfortable wearing a tie to work every day, don't wear one for the interview.

I'm sure this changes if you really need this job, or are willing to do anything to work for this particular company or something, but it's a decent piece of general advice.
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I know i started out that way. Then I realized that I could do a lot more with a lot less work in web programming. Games are hard and the payoff is much less compared to, say, making a web app.

Unfortunately most people don't understand that video games are one of the more difficult things to program. I know many people who start Comp Sci as a major and then quit as soon as they get past Java 101 (or some that quit before).
I've been using charbeat for a long time and all I can say is: I love it. I really do. The insights I get are priceless.

The only downside is that sometimes I spend too much time watching it instead of writing code.
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Has anyone received email saying they have been selected for interviews for S12 Batch?
I feel like shorts and sandals would be pushing it. How about a combination of jeans, a shirt, a sweater, and no-toe-revealing-shoes?
It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?
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I understand your concerns here, but I'm also wondering about the 8k figure. Isn't it closer to 3k? (1.45% medicare and 6.2% SS?)

I'd be interested in more background on the industry. My experience is that, exempting cleaners hired by large offices, most cleaners are working under the table or for small firms. The small firms seem to be doing 1099s as well, I know a friend in that situation complaining specifically about the taxes.

So, I do wonder whether this guy is just doing business as usual. Well, actually, not as normal since he (claims to be) issuing tax paperwork (1099s).

If he's misclassified them, the onus will be on him to pay the taxes he didn't pay, and they will have a good case to sue for missed benefits.

Where people typically get screwed in the 1099 scenario is when they receive their first 1099. Most people are used to getting a tax return, not a bill. But, and here's where I have no insight, if he's being honest and up front with his workers, I don't see an issue. I've been on the receiving end of the 1099 conversation several times and never felt cheated, "So you understand, you are not an employee, you are responsible to paying all your own taxes, saving for tax time, your own benefits, etc."

Edit: I also want to state, I still think there are probably ethical/moral issues here. I just don't think that FICA is the issue. I think the reality is that most people vastly underestimate the value of benefits. Most people don't save up for the week or month or more that they are sick or injured and can't earn. They don't prioritize health insurance or save for retirement. People tend to associate these things with "having a job" and I don't know that many people are well-versed in the difference between employment and contracting. (At least from my middle class suburban upbringing.)
The OpenStack project is a collection of different applications that provide the ability to run an open-source Cloud provider. Rackspace's offerings generally map to OpenStack projects. Cloud Servers is Nova[1], Cloud Files is Swift[2], Cloud Networks is Quantum[3] and Cloud Databases is Red Dwarf [4]. I'm not sure the OpenStack codename for Cloud Block Storage yet, but I'll see if I can find it.

[1] https://launchpad.net/nova/

[2] https://launchpad.net/swift/

[3] https://launchpad.net/quantum/

[4] https://launchpad.net/reddwarf/
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It's expensive because of the all the bullshit that comes along with it. Bringing in athletes from around the world and having them compete, while expensive, could be paid for with ticket sales and perhaps a sensible amount of advertisements.

The trouble is when you force the host to spend hundreds of millions on infrastructure each time, when more than adequate facilities are already available. It's expensive because they make it so, not because it has to be.

For my part I won't be watching the Olympics and I'll go out of my way to avoid its sponsors for the duration of the Games and for some time afterward.
Yes/no/sort of, I actually found this an quite enlightening discussion. My opinion went from:

1. I'm going to use three semicolons for every one Fat doesn't use, the arrogant twat! ;-)

2. Bike shed.

3. Some of these arguments actually kind of make sense... I Prefer the semicolonlessness of Python as well. But even though I know the ASI rules, I don't want to spend the mental effort to check every line for unwanted continuation.

4. And then someone linked to http://npmjs.org/doc/coding-style.html#Semicolons which is a style that has marginally more semicolons than Fat would (apparently) use, but I can use this pretty much without thinking.

I might give it a go. See how it feels. It's important to not stick to old conventions just because KIDS THESE DAYS.

If you never hear from me again, it's because I've drowned in an ocean of obscure bugs.
You are correct that the maids are employees, but since he only just started this business, it seems like a very fixable problem to convert them to employees.

I ran some numbers on a free paycheck calculator site (paycheckcity.com) and assuming the following: Washington DC, wage of $20/hr, 30 hrs/week, married (2 exemptions), the numbers come out to:

Weekly Gross Pay $600.00
Federal Withholding $29.81
Social Security $25.20
Medicare $8.70
Washington DC (ouch) $28.00
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Net Pay $508.29

So, he might need to set aside $100/employee/week.. The taxes aren't necessarily a business-killer.
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What do you think is the best solution to the lack of capital? More Europe-wide VC funding (and networking) perhaps, so we're not so reliant on local funding?
Slowing Moore's Law
Allowing government to move quickly and without restriction is not something that many would see as a good thing.

Government deadlocks are not always a bad thing, either, particularly when the issue is controversial. I'd argue that it is far better to have an issue debated and for compromises to occur, than to have one party's solution shoved quickly into place. This includes so-called emergencies, which are often excuses to go after civil liberties.
Does it have to scale to national or global size? No. The guy covers a sizeable metropolitan area with an abundant potential client base. Does he have to scale up to 500 employees? No. He can keep his business small and profitable.
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It's a press release. Here is the blog post, maybe a bit better (http://www.rackspace.com/blog/next-generation-rackspace-clou...)
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Try this - http://ihackernews.com - I only use iHackernews when on my iphone.
I think there are a lot of people that use subversion.
The same city where the olympics used a line from the national anthem as it's motto and tried to claim that it had a copyright on it?
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If you have the programming skills but the interest in learning the business side you should use that to your advantage. I think more technical people could do with understanding the business side and vice versa.
First, find out if anybody has a problem that actually needs solving.

It sounds like they had a plausible hypothesis, that cross-border commerce is a pain for both vendors and consumers. But either the problem isn't a big one or fruugo doesn't actually solve it.

If the hypothesis is still solid, then I'd start iterating on both the vendor and consumer side to find something that does solve their problems.

If the hypothesis is false, it's worth looking to see what assets there are to see if there's another hypothesis within range. But at this point the brightest staff are probably gone, they don't seem to have much in the way of vendor relationships, the platform sounds shoddy and anyway has a lot of assumptions baked in. So if there are no real assets, then I'd put it out of its misery, but encourage the staff to pitch current investors to get seed money for follow-on startups.
Is there a big performance boost for squashing when rebasing? Is it just housekeeping?

I like what Paul Stadig had to say on the topic http://paul.stadig.name/2010/12/thou-shalt-not-lie-git-rebas...
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ohdontforget looks awesome. I hadn't heard of it before now...