skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid not. ITU belongs to UNDG, which itself is a sub-group of ECOSOC, and the veto policies of SC don't carry over to ECOSOC.
I'd disagree. You might have a profitable hobby.

http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/Is-Your-Smal...
So, it's an alternate interface for my calendar?
"Greplin becomes Cue" so does that mean Greplin is shutting down? I thought it was really popular. This look like a totally different app. What about existing users/customers?
These are not optimized for iPad3 (retina).
I do not think she is arguing in favor of her "limitations". You are completely missing her perspective. The way you seem to value assertiveness is a typically male perspective. The female perspective often devalues assertiveness and instead values community and acceptance. Why should she have to assert herself? Maybe the burden should be on the other party to create an accepting environment.
This was one of the things that drove me away from Quora (amongst plenty of other things). It felt extremely bureaucratic and arbitrary, and the tone of the moderator replies on Quora really brought down morale - along with the downvote feature.

I will grant SO that you always know when you are being moderated; Hacker News and Quora does this more surreptitiously, which is more infuriating by an order of magnitude.
Saw a presentation by the greplin CTO last year (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Distributed-Systems-What-...) - seemed like were ready to give search a "social side". Now all these millions (billions) of documents just to display "8.02pm sunset"? I'm a little surprised.

Edit: After reading the blog post, I'm less surprised and can imagine where they are headed.
git log --name-status is useful
>When those insecure and maliciously potent Windows XP
machines are mated to high-bandwidth Internet connections,
we are going to experience an escalation of Internet
terrorism the likes of which has never been seen before.

He was right, too.

EDIT: That was an absolutely fascinating read. Thank you.
Great post. If someone is trying to sell you an idea or technique and they use their own profitability to justify this technique, then the definition of "profitable" is very relevant.

In my mind, a business that excludes the time spent by its founder from its expenses is not honestly assessing its profitability.
Personally, I doubt it. It seems to me that items like this get submitted many times, regardless. The "perfect storm" of Linus being rude, nVidia being insulted, and a specific rude word in the title and the text means it's nearly ideal for people to submit it, and most will do so without checking if it's been submitted before.
At least closed questions are visible and you can decide for yourself if you like them. Other moderators just delete your question and you will never know why. There is no trail, no warning and no one can be held accountable. Unless you have 10k reputation. With 10k you can see deleted questions and it seems you can see who deleted it.
Works for me. You have to click it and then click the "available in the app store" button on the iPhone screen.
Dan Saks did a great set of presentations called "C and C++ Gotchas" on these types of things at the 2006 Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose.

Sorry couldn't find a link that wasn't behind a paywall but here is one for reference.

http://eetimes.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/t...
I don't see anything in it that bodes badly for Stack in terms of traffic or financially either. I never said otherwise. They're dominant and given their answer base and the value of the content, they're likely to remain so.

I believe overall stagnation in the community is guaranteed however, which is what the topic rather focuses on.
I don't think the word "profitable" is the interesting part of the article--rather it's looking for inflection points in the time/utility function of your startup. It's making the point that the interesting point is not when the final figure in some parboiled accounting books is positive, but when you have enough confidence in it to use it as your primary source of income.

I'd urge you to re-read it and not fall into the trap of believing he's making an argument on semantics. There's a useful point there.
Maybe the startup world wants to invents its own metric, but to most small businessmen, whether a business is profitable enough for you to live on the profits is a separate question from whether the business is turning a profit in the first place, i.e. whether your endeavor is bringing you more income than it's producing in expenses.

Sadly, TFA even says pretty much the same thing, when he makes the distinction between profitable and sustainably profitable. It's like he admits there is a distinction, but then insists we ignore the distinction and only talk about being "sustainably profitable" when talking about being "profitable." WTF? Load of bollocks if you ask me.
It's entirely fair when it's in response to a claim like this: "It looks like something I did in high school, in one weekend."

Personally, I think the site is fine except that I'm getting some pixelation on some of the images (especially the main one, which is scaled to match the screen size). But then, I work for Microsoft.
git log -p or git log --patch
Perhaps a rather naive questions, but: were the username and pw transfered in plaintext?
Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this.

I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!) can dramatically change the look and feel to make something actually feel unique. If that is possible, I can really see this taking off.
Once you build the plant, any emissions from running it are absolutely minuscule. Gasoline maybe from the employees driving to work, maybe a bit from maintenance.
There are work arounds. What we really need is an HTML standard for including templates on a page. Can't we reuse the <link> tag for that?

<link href="mytemplate.mustache" rel="template" type="text/mustache" onload="showSnippet()" />
Seems like "Greplin team scraps Greplin, launches new calendar app" would be a more meaningful title. As a side note, did they automatically unregister their application from my facebook, gmail, twitter, whatever, or do I have to do that myself?

UPDATE: Greplin still has access to my google account. http://screencast.com/t/c8mQiZMo wtf, greplin? I authorized for a specific purpose and you shut down the app; why are you still holding the keys to my google account?

To see google account app auth settings: https://accounts.google.com/IssuedAuthSubTokens
Seems totally random or broken. Whatever is on screen is completely unrelated (IMHO) and clicking on one thing takes you to something random. What's it supposed to do?
This depends on the business structure. In the US, if you have what is called an 'S' corp, then you are required to pay yourself a market rate salary. Otherwise, you are dodging social security, medicare, and other employment taxes. If you have a 'C' corp(as most startups seem to have) then you pay a separate corporate tax so you aren't really dodging taxes. Sole proprietors and LLCs pay "self-employment" tax on pass through earnings, so there is no tax dodging.
I'm curious whether you track any metrics that try to distinguish questions and answeres posted simply for the information, vs those posted mainly to gain online reputation?
Sure, but why is it stupid to value acceptance over assertiveness?

> I make remarks like the one above in part to help other women realize they do have other options.

So, the "correct" option for a woman facing discrimination is to grow some balls, man up, and be assertive? Hmm. Still does not seem very fair to her.
Go Crowdfund - Using crowdfunding to educate the masses about crowdfunding
We're researchers from the Creative Action Lab at Northwestern University, and we need your help. We've created some great materials that we're hoping to send to groups that might need help getting into the world of crowdfunding.
I'd be very curious to see what kind of custom theme you can get for a couple dollars...
This happened to a lot of people when they started out using IRC. I remember chatting with someone using mIRC and the started opening and closing my CD-ROM. I got duped into running a Sub7 client script or something.
Ask HN: H1-B visas - exempt to non-exempt transition?
I am working with a university on a cap exempt H1-B visa. Recently I got a job offer from a profit-making company for which I need a non-exempt H1-B visa (subject to an annual cap). As my current visa falls outside of the cap, I am told that my new H1-B will be subject to the cap. The cap for FY-2013 was reached last week and hence new visa applications are not being accepted now. So even though I have a job offer, it's not going to work out.

Now I have to wait until April 2013 to get a new H1-B visa for the job starting in October 2013 (FY-2014). It doesn't seem practical that any employer will wait for 6-months for a potential employee to join the company.

Are there any options available to me so that I can work for a profit-making company? Am I missing any points here? I know it's not a technical Q, but I thought someone here may have better idea about these issues. I appreciate all the help.
Alternative title: Amateur virus analyst does not take necessary precautions, gets pwned by virus author.
Hey Philip, I'm working with the WUTE group leaders to (hopefully) launch this fall an extension of the group called WUTE-VC where we can bring in VCs and entrepreneurs to talk about the fundraising process from both sides of the table. Sounds like you'll be out and about, but let me or someone with WUTE know who in CS might be interested. Thanks!
To be absolutely accurate, the program still invokes implementation-defined behaviour. From the C standard on casting integers: “if the new type is signed and the value cannot be represented in it; either the result is implementation-defined or an implementation-defined signal is raised”.

Therefore, the author's conclusion that “the behavior is well-defined and every correct compiler must emit this output” is plain wrong. A correct compiler might emit a signal instead of outputting anything.

(However, printing 1 for the last case is still wrong, because there is no possible way for ++x to yield a value greater than INT_MAX, so this cannot be consistent with any implementation-defined behaviour.)
Garbage collection performance, PHP 5.2 vs 5.3
Each card (not core) is running an embedded version of Linux. Binaries are almost all linked to busybox. You can mount NFS shares to share data.

The embedded systems need specially compiled binaries. With the Intel compiler, this is usually achieved by turning on a flag at compile time. So yes, you can install and run your own software on the nodes.
If you have an in-group or "clique", you just assume that most people aren't in it. You learn to identify fellow members of a subculture at a distance: clothes, hair, etc. The male-dominated environment of the expo caused the PR reps to mistakenly exclude women from their "gamer radar". Surely professional PR guys don't think pissing off a game reviewer is good for sales. In other words, the PR reps are also victims of the crappy environment.
Fair enough, maybe it's just that the headline is misleading. No doubt, that inflection point does matter... But I wish he'd been clearer in saying that that's what he's talking about.

But even if we acknowledge that that inflection point is important, what conclusion is he asking us to draw from it? Does acknowledging or not acknowledging this point make much difference to any strategic or tactical decision a hypothetical startup founder is going to make? I mean, if the OP had made a point about "this is how you know when to go raise outside money" or "this is how you know it's time to shut down the "profitable" startup," then I'd have found this valuable.
Do you have examples for those closed subjective questions? Or have they been deleted meanwhile?
I agree with this assessment, and the reason that startups are being asked to have higher standards is just because tech startups today have such low costs vis-a-vis 90s startups or a restaurant.
Also, very difficult questions get relatively few points compared to very easy ones when they are answered.

I pride myself in answering some of the trickier questions in my domain, ie http://stackoverflow.com/q/10060242/154112

Those are easily the questions I feel the best about after answering, and really they generate the best encouragement by far. Much better than points is seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/POZmt.png

But compare the score of that tricky question to this very recent one, where both the question and answer garnered a lot of upvotes because the title was "why are my balls disappearing": http://stackoverflow.com/q/11066050/154112

Even with a bounty on the tricky question, hounding flippant questions can garner you more "reputation" far faster than giving thoughtful replies to hard questions, which can be a little disheartening.
Coming soon... http://istl.co :-)
Congratulations on getting further and further from the point, constantly drawing new straw men while accusing mebof so, and losing all arguments arguments so far.

So far you have proven that you as a iPhone-user are retarded and unable to get back basic point, have no perspective, trolling or all the above.

I'll stop wasting my time on you. You seem like the kind of person who would deem even a death sentence superior to anything as long as it comes from Apple.
Duolingo Launches
I think the reason there aren't more themes is the sheer quantity of work involved in styling all the bootstrap elements.
Yep, I remember both being sent via plaintext.
To wit: browsing the article's source code and searching for "class=" yields 1158 results
This article REALLY makes me wish I could turn on my Mac laptops built in camera and microphone.
Implementing A “Metrics for Pirates” Dashboard
Ask HN: any beautiful website generation service?
(inspired by earlier HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131847)

I am looking for a way to generate ready-made websites for small businesses.

The demand is there. I have dozens of businesses contacting me every week for building websites.

I am looking for a way to automate the creation of the sites based on basic infos (company name, some presentation text) and produce a nicely designed (such as those themes) website.

Does anybody know of a service that could help?
You need to separate contexts of war and innovation. An example, this innovation could come through a budget for space exploration, or other means of transportation. The world is based on science tech. Yes, a lot was discovered in science through military budgets, but it's not exclusive to being put into the military - which I think can easily be argued has huge wastes of resources just by looking at industrial complex structures.
There are a few things that we think set Mandrill apart from the pack. Our application is designed with responsiveness in mind, and we have mobile application on both of the major platforms so you can get access to your email stats and reputation wherever you are. We have search and analytics deeply ingrained in the application in a way that is fairly unique - letting you see your emails in context and trying to derive the context for you when we can. We also integrate deeply with the main MailChimp product. They use the same underlying delivery engine, the same templating and content personalization systems, and we have a heavy discount for users of both products.

Mandrill's still a rapidly iterating product for us, but we think we can take the same sense of usability and power that we have in MailChimp and extend it to email more broadly.
This is how I see it after working in a retail environment.

From a fortune 500 retailer point of view: They have IT staff dedicated to the POS systems and their inventory management system. They know how to make the POS systems fly. Oh and their supply chain software integrates with the inventory software, can you're product do that? No? Sorry we're going to pass. Not only that, they have tons of data warehouses of sales data going back to who knows when that the marketing people get to play with. They also may have a stringent budget and purchasing process and are most definitely led by non-technical executives. There is the old adage "You get what you pay for" and if you don't have to pay for the software then what do you get? They also have many locations (lets say 2000 for simplicity) all running the same registers. If your software doesn't support their registers, you can bet they are going to pass on you. Plus they have the advertising money to spend on AdWords campaign or paid search if need be.

Now a medium sized retailer a handful of locations. They are interested because it will allow their products to be found by those and they may be able to poach a few customers from the big box stores. Alas, but they too have existing POS software and inventory management software and would be willing to ditch them for something new. However, it may be hard for them to be the first to test out a new product since they rely on their customers and know that they could probably get the same items cheaper from a big box store. If there is any snag in their experience at their store (such as POS issues) than they could lose that customer for good. They are hesitant but would accept once it is proven and stable.

Then there are the small mom and pop stores. These may want to use the products but they don't have the infrastructure to support it. Heck, they are currently doing inventory in Excel and hate it, this would free up their time. But that free software isn't free when you need to buy new computers and registers to be able to support it.

Notice that I keep saying POS instead of just inventory management. The reason being is that those two need to integrate with one another and if you want live levels of stock at any given time, you will need to use the POS system as inventory management software is by the day (at least from what I've seen).

Plus, you get to the lock in factor. Is the software going to be free if I don't keep paying for the search stuff? What if I decide that it isn't working for us, do we have to switch software or can we keep using it for free? If you allow them to keep using it for free then there goes some profits. If you don't allow them to use it for free, then you get into a situation where it becomes a super expensive test since the software doesn't cost money but it costs time to set up the new software and train everybody on it and then if they don't like it switching back.
Great post. If someone is trying to sell you an idea or technique and they use their own profitability to justify this technique, then the definition of "profitable" is very relevant.

Right, but if somebody is selling you something, you're going to do due diligence and probe this stuff. If it turns out that they are only "profitable" in the narrowest sense, but not "sustainably profitable," then that's a good thing to find out.
Hi Chad,

Just gave it a quick spin here and we got the SMTP relay working and tracking e-mails within 2 minutes. Very impressive. We'll play around with the API soon, it looks promising :)
There's a blog post briefly explaining it here:

http://blog.cueup.com/announcing-a-new-name-new-free-service...
out of topic but couldn't help noticing shorthand php tags <?= ?> these make me cringe
You went to Wash U? Cool stuff. If you're ever back it'd be great to hear Bingo Card stories at the Wash U Tech Entrepreneurs student group http://wute.wustl.edu/
For a couple dollars? Probably nothing at all. I've been outsourcing custom bootstrap themes similar to this (perhaps slightly less polished, but completely custom to the product) for around $400-500 for 4-5 different page styles and all elements (tables, forms, jquery widgets). Some are even partially responsive.
> They discover bugs by testing random programs against multiple compilers. If the result from any of the compilers disagree, then there must be a bug.

How does this make sense?

If the result differs from the specification, it is a bug.

If the result is unspecified in the specification, the different compilers can differ as much as they want without any of them being considered buggy.
Anyone know what they are using to generate their docs?
Kivy 1.3.0 is out (OpenGL multitouch UI tookit for iOS,android,linux,OSX,Win)
Does it say anywhere what "10k LOC" is supposed to mean?
The good:
1. the magnesium body is tough and very weather resistant. Similar to Nikons current camera line.
2. stand and keyboard built in make this a machine you can do very serious work on
3. 600 dpi sample rate for drawing means serious design work can be done as well.
4. Like the Xbox, Zune HD, natural keyboard, arc mouse, and their live cams: When Microsoft decides to design it usually is awesome.

the bad:
1. They said how much they believe in their partners yet only one application was shown off (lightroom). No special hardware or software partnerships.
2. No discussion on ports, actual cpu speed, ram, bus speed, or video capability.
3. no discussion of pricing.
4. The names are confusing for consumers: windows rt, surface, etc. they should have just said its all windows 8.
Windows 8 for arm and windows 8 for intel. easy.
5. It was not available the day of the anouncement.

The BIGGEST problem:
They did not show how this device is worth buying as part of your Micosoft ecosystem of experience and devices. How does it work with windows phone? they did not show it doing tricks with xbox and smartglass. They did not show how this device should be important to you.
I have the opposite impression of Quora, really, and I think their voting design is brilliant. It's designed to maximize viewer utility and poster enjoyment at the expense of transparency. I get how it's infuriating to a certain type of user, but in doing so they've removed a lot of opportunities for negative interactions.
Is there anyway to get the short git status but still get the output that says "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 6 commits."
I know what I'm going to do in Chicago! I'll buy an ad like that near one of the CTA platforms and stand around it and as people come by and try to scan it, I'll pick their wallets.
Xbox is hiring
You haven't rebutted his point at all. Jason Cohen been around the block a couple times. He saw the "type 2" startup argument coming and addressed it very early on. Specifically: you are losing money if you are not accounting for the fair market value of your time, no matter what your pro forma cash flows in Excel tell you is going on.

Also: if the only reasonable trajectory for your business is to "raise a round"...

This, it seems to me, is one of the most common mistakes people make when talking about their businesses on HN.
Dang. We were a paying customer of Greplin and loved it. What do we do now? Can I buy / whitelabel the IP?

Email address in profile.
You can also cast to long, which doesn't lose precision.
JetBrains updates .NET code coverage tool, supports VS2012 RC
If you want styled / styleable UI controls which have full accessibility (as a requirement), check out Dijit.
I've seen more problems from unsigned ints than signed ints (in particular, people doing things like comparing with n-1 in loop boundary conditions). There's a reason Java, C# etc. default to signed integers. Unsigned chars, I have no quibble (and Java, C#, use an unsigned byte here).
We're researchers from the Creative Action Lab at Northwestern University, and we need your help. We've created some great materials that we're hoping to send to groups that might need help getting into the world of crowdfunding.
An introduction to the Web Audio API
Link load balancing algorithms and its short comings vs broadband bonding