skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this whole thing -- which first I read about here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3941230 and in which that blog entry itself had said "A year ago we put Sortfolio up for sale..." -- is turning into an extremely instructive example of how not to flip a web service (or maybe anything). Looking at all the comments, it's obvious that you can't even get pocket change for a mature site with paying customers, by saying what 37signals is saying about sortfolio.
Are the copies of the files on your computer in your Dropbox folder not defacto backups?
Depth of field is controlled by aperture, focal length, and distance to subject. The degree to which the subject is actually isolated from the background is also very important. This simulator manages to bury one aspect of this information and ignore the rest.

All else being equal, to increase subject isolation:

* Get closer to the subject

* Increase focal length ("zoom in")

* Increase aperture operning (smaller aperture number)

* Increase separation between subject and background

Each of these things is equally important. (But all else is not equal, so if you're determined to stand in one spot and not change your composition, just increasing aperture size is your only option.)
So at the top of any nowjs app you're going to have some kind of HTTP stuff to serve files and something about listening on a port. You might also have some Express stuff with routes.

If there's logic there that you need, Joint isn't going to work out. If you can get by with the limitation of just serving static files, Joint will take care of that setup and encourage you not to reach for HTTP when you add a feature, nothing personal.
I was going to submit this same story. I really appreciate you changing the title of the story, though. The Bloomberg headline makes it sound like he is no longer a billionaire. He is still super rich, just not in the top 40.
Using push state and using non-hash banged urls is the right move. Twitter is pretty much unusable without javascript, and it doesn't look like they ever got around to implementing a non-js fallback for the site. Best solution is to have both (JSON and static) representations or use something like pjax https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax.
only thing i would add is to highlight the changes in the files maybe list how many changed lines there are
Some people are claiming (based on leaked Stratfor emails) that there is a sealed indictment for him in the US, and that the moment he goes to Sweden he will be whisked away for a secret trial at the hands of the Americans.

The issue is not so much the Swedish charges, but the difference in attitudes about extradition to the US between Sweden and the UK.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...

As there is no rule of law in America (secret trials, secret laws, solitary confinement without trial, etc etc etc), this is the worst possible outcome.
Really? Well, I must be imagining things then. I'll ask the doctor for some special pills and see if the hallucinations go away.
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I suspect we can generate pros and cons for anywhere you might choose to live ... and within the U.S., there's a huge variation in things like violent crime and gun violence from city to city (or in the rural areas).

I'm in the U.S. and I can tell you that I don't like the direction our government is heading. And after typing that, I'm not expecting the police to show up (though I am expecting the comment to appear on HN).

I'm happy to hear that the Chinese are so happy (and safe, etc) living in China ... everyone should get a chance at happiness.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Getting the first image removed ASAP. Agreed it is copyrighted. But we didn't strip the (r) symbol, we probably reused it from somewhere else. An oversight on our part.

Regarding attribution, I always make sure I link them back to original source. But I agree with you that text attribution would be much better way to properly do the citation.
It's not sentencing that's the problem with the response to the riots. It's people being punished (e.g. losing council houses) who were not convicted of anything.
Common among companies, although the extent to which it is implemented varies - typically exists for new recruits with less than a certain number of years in experience.

While it seems like a rather defensive & oppressive move, the companies might offer a different justification, maybe on the following lines:
1. Largely service driven IT industry
2. Projects running into several months - planning, estimation, allocation nightmares
3. The recruited talent has to generally be trained from scratch for the skills required for these projects. This is probably the most important point - as even the article above says, there is good talent but by a large sourcing good talent is way beyond trivial.

As such companies would want to protect their investments.

This is not meant to be a justification for such activities of course :) The point I'm trying to make is there are multiple variables in this. As the industry matures I expect things will change for the better.
I think I've posted this before on an older thread, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Markup_Language
Good point! Thanks for the tip and for all your great and inspiring modules.

Edit: I just switched it to use version numbers.
If you learn to use the P setting on modern cameras it's actually all there, only more convenient (the control dial in P mode trades shutter speed for aperture). I happen to live in A mode most of the time, mostly because I'm forgetful.

There's an even better mode one Pentax DSLRs where one dial acts as a P dial and the other controls ISO.
Indeed.

I believe we totally agree him and me on the main point: neither China nor the US have a clean record and they're more or less each as dirty as the other.
One thing that people overlook when trying to improve their work ergonomics is where they are resting their hands and elbows. You can subtly pinch the nerves in both your hands and elbows leading to restricted blood flow and eventually pain or numbness.

I had pain/numbness in my ring and pinky fingers a few years ago that was progressively getting worse. I switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and left-handed mouse but only saw modest improvements. It was only after nearly a year that I realized that I had been resting my elbows on my chair all day, and that was pinching my ulnar nerve and restricting blood flow. After lowering my elbow rests, I saw an dramatic improvement within weeks. Today I have zero issues.

I never saw a professional, but may have saved myself a lot of pain and worry if I had.
>You would expect the answer to be "no" since there are "more real numbers from 0 to 10 than from 0 to 1"

Well, the quotes you had to put there say it all. You might expect the answer to be "no" if you didn't understand how infinity works.
Where things come from. (Ham, Lipstick, etc)
1. Many founders in India found a "startup" just because they have money to capitalise it and nothing better to do. They have 0 tech skills and 0 management ability. The few startups that are doing well here are those founded by technical guys or people who've worked in a certain industry for a while and start a related venture.

2. Startups can't afford to train. They need programmers who'll hit the ground running.

3. Mostly because the startup scene here sucks; it's fucking comical I tell you. Join any indian startup forum and you'll know the story of how poor the quality of startups and their employees is. I leave you with an email I received recently from "OCC Bangalore" (google group for bangalore startups). Also, no offence intended to the few who really are running businesses worth running.

========================================================

Dear All,

I need some tech help.

We need to call these php functions in our jsp files. We can use javascript I hope.

I searched alot on google and I found this:
--
<script type="text/javascript">
function test(){
document.getElementById("php_code").innerHTML="<?php for($i=0; $i<10; $i++) echo $i; //maybe a function ?>";
}
</script>

<a href="#" style="display:block; color:#000033; font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12px;" onclick="test(); return false;"> test </a>
<span id="php_code"> </span>
--
But doesnot seem to be working.

Some guys have suggested using this: jqSajax

Background:
We are trying to use an existing opensource solution which provides APIs and the same can be used through java and php. We want to use the same through our jsp files. Now part of it we have been able to use through the java webservices they provide, but since they are opensource platform they have missed implementing some of the code in java which is available in php services.

Any ideas? Stuck now :(

Thanks a lot
You can see the "git diff" between two nodes if you click with the right button on a node and with the left button in another one. For example:

http://srctree.net/3S-2

Maybe I need to think of a better way to present this!
That's some good advice. Usually if the projects' price is steep, I'd suggest the client to pick for themselves and foot the bill. Even though it costs the same, it doesn't seem like it's your expense.
That would be because we don't just allow them in> when they get in they get social protection, not just the right to pay taxes.

Racism imho is one of the minor issues though, I'm far more concerned by the police state aspects of the US than the cultural details (such as everyone is fat woohooo).
You're right, it looks like you may have lifted the image from Buzzient, who have subsequently removed it:

http://www.tineye.com/search/74af78427fac53916cfb9e82fa674f4...

Kudos for doing the right thing and updating both.
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Like having your stock options to vest over a five year period?

Also, in many many fields less meritocratic than software, you typically gain privileges as you accrue seniority with little regard to experience or actual contribution.
I'm describing about a dozen separate projects above. For same-system fast IPC I often used an in-house library (with Perl bindings) which implemented a memory mapped, sharable hash table. Unfortunately it hasn't been released as open source. The closest similar project might be http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/ however it's inferior in a few important ways.
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I fully agree. For a lot of people facebook is their identity, linking their identity to paiement is a logical step.

They could first allow people to exchange any amount of money with friends for free, add it to their mobile app so that everyone has it anytime. Other apps are doing that, and that's very useful.

And they should buy Stripe, bind everything together, displace amex, visa and mastercard.

Or may be that's the plan, but it's best to be silent ?
And to be more complete, OO-style polymorphism is usually referred to as "subtype polymorphism" and the parametric polymorphism dons talked about is like C++ or Java "generics"
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Is like some anthropological form of ice-9, but constructed out of flags, money and distilled stupidity.
Well I guess you could be running a MANOVA or something to test over joint outcomes, but the AB test is over some sort of metric. I mean, when you set up an experiment, you need to have defined the dependent variable first.
Now, after you have randomly split your treatment groups you can do post hock analysis, which I think is what you are referring to. But if you are optimizing, here needs to be some metric to optimize over.
Of course at the end of the day the hypothesis test just tells you prob(data or greater| null=true) which I am not sure provides a direct path to decision making.
Whenever I shop on a site that has the option of typing in my credit card details vs pressing a "Pay with PayPal" button, I always go for the latter, since I'm lazy. Looking at the stats from my job, I'm definitely not alone.
NoSQL's a scam. Film at 11.

Seriously, there are many parallel RDBMS products out there that scale pretty well. Just none of them are open source. Why?
On the flipside, the US isn't too fond of tweets about digging up Madonna and partying in LA. ;)
Ah I see. And he does say "(real loop version)" as a subtitle.
Just to be clear, this is a report published by the government of China.

I don't have the time to read the whole article, but here's a few thoughts:

Regarding On life, property and personal security, this section is about violent crime in the U.S. Indubitably, violent crime is particularly bad in some parts of the U.S., but is this part of the 'human rights record' of the federal government? In essence, the Chinese government here is implying that the fact that the U.S. government doesn't outlaw gun ownership results in violent crime.

Throughout most of the text, it just strikes me that the notion of what constitutes "human rights" is unclear. Some people believe that human rights are about the recognition of individual liberty and freedom from government intrusion. Others believe that human rights are about achieving equality and freedom from want. The Chinese government is certainly sympathetic to the latter definition, at least in this report. While this is a point of view favoured by many, in the U.S. the former view of human rights is still strong.

Finally, some of the points made by the Chinese are simply symbolic. For example, they criticise the U.S. for not ratifying the "Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)". That is true, but the U.S.'s laws and enforcement are considered better than China with respect to CEDAW.
And Facebook already have "Like" buttons all over the web. They could steal Flattr's model in an instant and make it a huge success.
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yes, that was the design goal. intercal is supposed to be unlike any other language, brainfuck is supposed to be minimalistic, malbolge is supposed to be impossible to use.
Emotion Markup Language
I meant having bonds on employment - imagine having to pay your employer when you quit because they had no idea what they were doing or flat out lied about what the job would entail? The thought is horrific.
Sarcasm is ignored on HN because it is such a contrarian culture.
You can download Chromium OS builds [1]. There are a few differences compared to ChromeOS [2].

[1] http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
[2] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromium-os-faq#TOC-What...
When a lot of loans go bust you get deflation. The Fed's approach would seem like it's going to cause rapid inflation but in reality it's countering significant deflationary pressure the net result has vary close to zero inflation for the last few years.
Thanks Charles! Could you please try our solution and give us feedback on your experience?
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That's kind of my point, Paypal , Google and Amazon all offer quick solutions to online payments. I'm not sure there is really a need for one more.

What might make more sense would be for FB to allow linking a paypal account with a FB account which could then allow users to login to Paypal via FB.

This would mean they could use paypal's more mature backend and let them deal with the messy stuff, while facebook could still potentially get all the fun of spying on your purchases.
The Dutch are historically Calvinists. That's why there are so few shutters on windows in Amsterdam, of if there are they have been added to buildings later. The cultural belief of "having nothing to hide" runs deep.
I always thought this would be Apple's next plan as well. "Pay with your Itunes account" or something like that.
It'll be very bad at going around corners with one gone though (which is why the journalist wasn't allowed to).
If you are bored and have nothing better to do, maybe you could try my idea generator: http://www.ideaoverload.com/
This is not how you sell something on Flippa. Answer the questions. Give analytics reports, revenue proofs and how will the owner retain the current subscribed customers.

Businesses and websites relist again and again on Flippa until they get sold and every listing has a history so buyers are aware if you lied to them in the previous listing.

I have bought sites worth upto $50k on Flippa and nobody does business if you are not genuinely interested. If you are just testing waters to evaluate whether you want to keep the business or let it go then don't do it on Flippa.
For that reason, sites are not allowed to store CVV2 numbers : a user input is always needed.
The problem there isn't technology, it's the skill of your animator. Our lead artist told me that learning to animate humanoids isn't so hard, but making those animations look lifelike can be incredibly challenging.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
Agree, this is ridiculous:

> But Dinah Rose QC, for Mr Assange, said she could challenge the Supreme Court's decision because it relied on a 1969 convention relating to how treaties - such as those concerning extradition - should be implemented, and this had not been discussed during the hearing.

Watch and see. Now his lawyer will put into question the very meaning of implementing an international treaty. All in order to prevent a possible rapist, who just happens to be just a little less famous than Polanski, from being charged. Only the Chewbacca defense could make this sillier.
Some of the sentencing was also a problem, like the guy who was jailed for the crime of stealing Argos catalogues. (for those who are unaware, like the judge apparently was in that case, Argos catalogues are freely given away)
I completely agree with your first statement, but I have no idea how you get to your final statement from that. Ocaml and haskell are both on the "shoot self anywhere protection" end of the language spectrum. I used ocaml for a couple years and program in haskell for a living, and I assure you I am not in the top 5% of programmers.
I still don't understand this, though. Under the US-UK extradition treaty (signed into law in the UK in 2003, in the US in 2006, I think), all the US has to do is provide the UK with reasonable suspicion that Assange committed a crime within the US, and the British would hand him over. Is the Swedish extradition treaty vastly different?
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If you're entering a CC then it's not your money that's on the hook.
It's really quite simple. Perfect hashes exists and are hashes. Perfect hashes do not, as a matter of definition, compress. They typically aren't reversible, because it's not an useful feature for a hash, but they could be - and if nothing else, they can always be deterministically brute forced (as they have no collisions), which is a (very bad) form of reversibility.

It's not meaningful to study hashes as compression, since compression is by definition reversible.
Sen Wyden has been great on these issues. See also http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120523/11415519051/wyden-... Where the Obama administration would not share the contents of the TTP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement with congress or senate, while representatives of U.S. corporations are being consulted on the agreement.

Crony Capitalism at its worst.
Actually, I find myself in a position right now where they aren't on my computer. My MBP died, and I left my old job so my comp there was reformatted. I'm using a backup laptop that DB isn't installed on. So, were DB to get shuttered tomorrow, I'd lose everything.

Although yes, that's far from the average case.
That's a farce. Cameron would be locked up by now if they were being I...
could you elaborate more?
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This is absolutely gorgeous. A great addition to this would be state loading via a URL hash, kind of like Timemap.js does it.

Example:

http://timemap.googlecode.com/svn/tags/2.0.1/examples/state....
I've worked at a couple of Indian "consultancy" firms and my experiences have been far from good.

At the first one I automated some testing for them what would free up 3 people they were having to hire for that job. They didn't like it. Thats because they don't have to bear the cost associated with hiring them. It's the client who has to pay. By the person, by the hour and the company gets a (mega) huge cut from it. I'm not sure how such consultancy firms handle this conflict of interest else where but for Indian firms, I know anecdotally, this is very common. So there is no incentive to hire good programmers. Or do good programming because the server costs, etc. again are going to be borne by the client.

And the second one, I was working at another such Indian consultancy firm bit out of Singapore this time. The company was run by the sales force. My manager's manager said in one of his speeches that "as the iPad becomes dual core it will replace servers." I looked at him as my dual core iPad 2 lay in my lap and clapped because that's what you have to do. And I'm pretty sure he didn't mean a P2P future of the web. My manger on the other hand wanted a "function" done that could take in an "iDevice program" and output a BlackBerry app. He wanted it done in 3 hours. My team could have been an isolated incident and I want to believe that but it wasn't so. The only thing my team was doing different than the rest of the organization was the rest of the organization used some form of source control I had never heard of. Probably Microsoft based as that was the decision criteria in all cases. Out team was using none. Files were shared using USB flash drives. There were instances where old employees had left and we didn't have the source of their work - only the binaries. They only hiring a particular ethic group of Indians by the time I left.

Majority of jobs in India are consultancy jobs. They may not be as terrible as my last one but I would think they are half way there. Things may be changing but that's how most of "IT life" is.
I was wondering when Google would tie in their purchase of Zagat.

Now, if only they would save the Zagat brand by restructuring its criteria. When I saw a Zagat sticker on the outside of a KFC I almost threw up. They need to remove themselves from the fast food space entirely:
http://www.zagat.com/fastfood
It uses dnode which uses socket.io which uses WebSockets whenever possible and falls back on flash or xhr polling. Joint is pretty new and I provide no guarantees but I've found those libraries to be pretty dependable when it comes to telling me when someone disconnects and keeping the connection open (socket.io checks for a heartbeat).
I uploaded the mp3 of THX (Deep Note) to SoundCloud, it's from the 25 seconds original audio file registered by LucasArts:
http://soundcloud.com/rodrigo-de-almeida-siqueira/thx-deep-n...

The original file was found in the US Patent and Trademark Office:
http://tdr.uspto.gov/search.action?sn=74309951
I can draw many parallels between this and Genetic Algorithms. There is percentage of probability in choosing next choice(In GA, children), and we have highest probability for the most profitable(In GA, fittest) choices. The solutions evolve. And the most profitable solutions (Most fittest in GA) remains.

How is this different from Genetic Algorithms?
Distinguishing different data with the same underlying representation
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FYI – "motion / vote of no confidence" is the term you're looking for. Thanks for explaining.
Core network as well as many POSIX functions which other languages place in sub-modules (but still use the same names for). eg select() vs IO.select or mkdir() vs FileUtils.mkdir.

OP is clearly thinking of PHP.