skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do know of an AT&T tower in my state that is malfunctioning (by my standards) and refuses to release the connection once my phone had established the connection. When I'm driving down the freeway past the tower, my signal strength will get weaker and weaker and then I run into no service, even in great service areas. I have to pull the battery (my iPhone toting friends/family have to power down the phone) before it will recognize it's moved to another tower.

Obviously it's a different circumstance, but it's another point of data where cell towers aren't always 100% functional when the target is moving.
Oh, goddamnit.
Catalonian party here ;)
I'll bet you don't spend any time editing multiple languages with conflicting notions of whitespace. I split my time between C and Python, and tabs in C (per Linux kernel coding style) and spaces for Python (per PEP-8), and having that be correct is important for my sanity (as well as for the other people I work with - especially those who aren't multi-linugual).
Install the SublimeREPL plugin from Package Control. Works like a charm!
Windows 8 Is Screwed and It's About Control
Rally.org Cause Crowdfunding Platform Raises $7.9M of Its Own
I have a sneaking suspicion that the TSA's existence is based upon science, although the science in question is sociology and/or mass psychology.
The podcast app is an improvement to the old way, requiring a person to go to their computer and load up iTunes, then to sync.
i'm sorry but comparing 0MQ to these other systems is caca doodoo. i'm telling you as a developer who has on multiple occasions considered using 0MQ it lowers my trust in you as an evangelist for the platform to suggest that this is a relevant or worthwhile comparison to make.
This article is incorrect.

>Historically, machine learning has generally been supervised by humans. There are plenty of examples of computers identifying human faces (or cats) with incredible accuracy and speed — but only if human operators first tell the computer what to look for. That the Google/Stanford system starts from scratch and develops its own ability to classify objects is amazing.

Unsupervised machine learning has been around long before this feat -- which is nonetheless very impressive.
Close, but your example is missing a crucial piece. Specifically, the marginal cost of producing the product.

Let's say the MC is 20 cents at the scale produced (Q1). The second group (students) get a MB of let's say 30 cents. They will not buy at a price of 60 cents, therefore there is a deadweight loss (MC < MB to students, but they do not have the good). If the monopolist can expand their output to Q1 + Q2 (where Q2 is the student sales) while keeping their MC under 30 cents, they can reduce the DWL.
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Does anyone else find that Hacker News is unreadable in it? The comment threads have wildly variable font sizes that mean you have to zoom in and out all the time.
Thanks, but I really meant bikeshedding - that is, people who "love" coding tend to also "love" wasting time in the details instead of focusing in the big picture.
Yeah... the Constitution should have had some kind of efficacy test and timeout for all legislation.

Maybe now that we know a lot about code refactoring, we could apply the same concepts to legislation.

To connect back to another HN topic today, maybe we need a lot more articles entitled "Write Less Laws".
"Come to think of it, aren't a lot of the people who post here doing it (at least partially) to promote themselves or something they're building?"

I don't have an issue with self promotion on the part of anyone including what you have done with the [1]. (As an aside I've never charged anyone for anything mentioned in my hn profile although somehow I suspect that some people have felt that I am self promoting. (Which is not to say I won't charge I just haven't so far...)

There appears though to be an imaginary line that some HN posters cross that seems to upset people here depending on the poster. Based on a recent ryancarson post he may have crossed it. (Someone wrote sarcastically that he writes the BEST blog posts, Ryan thanked that person, then someone else basically told ryan he was a schmuck for not seeing the sarcasm (the parent was quickly deleted interestingly).

Regardless of whether someone finds Ryan annoying, pompous or not (personally I don't like the picture of him with the hat, sorry Ryan) I definitely know who Ryan is now and I think he's gained more than he will ever lose by tooting his own horn. And that can only help him. To this day people still make fun of Donald Trump. So if a hacker would rather toil in obscurity and not brag that is his choice. But there is a benefit to bragging and being pompous in achieving your goals and that should be kept in mind. Being humble only gets you so far.

As an aside, you need to get some serious lorum ipsum on your site if you are going to promote it as you've done.

http://fogbeam.com/about_us.html
Does the Unplayed Episodes list seem the wrong way round to anyone else? I generally want to start listening oldest first because newer things refer to older things.
Timely. I just cleared security where I was effectively given my choice of magnetometer, backscatter, or groping. I suppose under some reality that is more secure than assigning magnetometer to everyone. They should do it there.

(I'm not saying which airport. I like it this way.)
They do not undo mistakes, at least without vast efforts, up to and including bloodshed. Although I forget exactly who said it I am a reminded of a quote: "Bureaucracies never die, they just change their name."
At least as far as situational awareness concerned, a decent book is just as impairing for many people.

Actually, in that case as well as safety, I don't see much difference between a book and a Kindle. But they can't go and whitelist one device without complaints, can they? Sigh.
the only circus is the incorrect conflation of 0MQ with actual durable message queue systems.
I use Stitcher. and they've put a lot of work into it...
Thanks for the tip - I would've figured since I'm subscribed in iTunes it would have turned on this feature.
Yup. I just left a comment on the blog about this.

There's a little more context there that is probably relevant to this story. In short, the bet wasn't made quite so belligerently. It just so happened that unexpected circumstances made the situation a little more dire than we anticipated when we signed it.
> No one has attained Enlightenment through Zen nor meditation

Maybe because no one has attained "Enlightment", whatever that means. Go say the rosary.
True, but having 30.1FPS doesn't protect you from that phenomenon either. If you maintain 30.1FPS over a long period of time, it means that, yes, you generally get one out of every 2 refreshes.

The problem is that UI interaction events can take place over very short stretches -- say ~200ms. That's only a handful of frames, which reduces the quality of any metric that relies of averages (such as FPS). I don't really care if I get 1 out of every 2 refreshes as measured over 2 or 3 minutes, I care about the first 5 frames after I swipe the screen.
All that an no link to his seminal work itself, "From Dictatorship to Democracy". Free download. Or drop a dime on him.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations98ce.html
is this covered in the Coursera.org course? :P
The work that http://www.vpri.org/ has been doing around OMeta, Nile etc is really exciting.

It is detailed in the later part of this Alan Kay presentation:

https://www.tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/

( around minute 45 or so up, perhaps earlier for more background )
The Failure of Success
"I don't think I'm a celebrity."

Not a celebrity yet.

Julia Allison was roundly made fun of a few years ago for her ability to garner press on some blogs and people felt she was totally overexposed. (So was Bethenny Frankel for that matter). Both of them now have TV shows.
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> The main problem I have with it—and Textmate—is the lack of an emacs-like Follow-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol.... .

I believe this plugin does what you want: https://github.com/atbell/SublimeSynchroScroll
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Pick something, anything, it doesn't matter. Even if it's dumb, start working on it. As you get working on it, better ideas will come along. Don't be afraid to abandon your project for something better.

I'm sure you can think of _something_ - it's just that you don't think it's important enough to work on. Work on it anyway and the ideas will start flowing.
Okay so it wasn't just me.
I'm also an IntelliJ user, and this really only works when you are coding in Java or other strongly typed languages. IntelliJ's ability to do this with JavaScript and Ruby is abysmal at best.
Actually, that's my point: There is no client-side or server-side caching going on as far as I can see. As I said, the second-time-faster effect even happens when you make it give a random output.
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Yeah I guess something like that... But it even works with random output, so what does it cache/memoize?

Could you give an example?
Minesweeper First Click: Quantity or Quality
This reminds me of a story I read as a kid, not exactly a fight against brutal regimes though (don't know if it is a true story either):

When shoe factory workers went on strike in Japan, they used a very interesting method - no shouting, or blocking roads etc. They simply made just one half of a pair (just the left side, I think). Thousands of shoes produced every day, but just the left shoe. Didn't take long for the management to sit down at the table to talk.

There are many many peaceful ways to protest, I guess.
Apple releases its own Podcasts app for iOS devices
I think his point is that this rule is applied very generally. Eg, a 11" MBA is ok, and 13" MBA is not, but a 11" Netbook that happens to be extra thick is also ok.
This is the actual issue. You have caricatured people you disagree with in order to make their position sound weaker than it really is. This is not about objectivism, this is about humane work conditions.

It is better if we do not promote a fashion of 160-hour work weeks, because that is bad for human beings. If you run a company, holding people's lives in your hands, you should try to be a good person who makes a good difference in those lives. From a production perspective, productivity actually drops off as fatigue increases. From a business standpoint you should want employees who generate significant value to be happy so they will be loyal rather than leaving or melting down. And it's probably better
NOT to become known for squeezing dimes to the detriment of others' health because you thought that was a better way of making money than growing the business.

That isn't "sniping at hard workers" and it isn't "self-victimization." It is resisting the attempt of some employers to give everyone 160 hour work weeks and classify people who don't accept that as antisocial communist complainers. That isn't free-market capitalism, it is the company store.

Give people who bring value to your business fair conditions and fair pay. If a few people want to spend more time for some specific reason that doesn't need to be specifically encouraged and made into a fashion or a de facto requirement. This makes people miserable and it kills them early and it is wrong.
"And what's different is that MemSQL translates you SQL query into extremely efficient C++ code."

What does this mean? Does the SQL get converted into actual C++ source code, then compiled with an internal C++ compiler? That seems like a weird thing to do. Or is it translated directly into an AST? If yes, I can't imagine other db's not doing it? I don't understand the claim being made here.
Considering the history Apple has of "absorbing" the features of popular third party apps, at this point developers should almost expect it to happen sooner or later.
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my experience was that once you get used to keeping everything important in either svn or in a backup snapshot, you simply become annoyed by all of the tilde files lying around.
"why are you being a dick?"

Surprisingly the OP's profile says:

"Not a hacker whatsoever, but enthralled by the culture."

Ryan has gotten ink on HN. There is something to be learned from that. It is a part of the culture or it wouldn't get comments the way it has.
Sure, and narrowly considering the rules of the game, winning a pawn may appear to be rational ahead of being checkmated next move.
Congrats Sam as a fellow UVA alum, always like to see these stories. Wahoo-wa!
First 25 people who signup using this URL get their first domain transfer free:

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Thanks I thought it was another app not supported in Canada once again. Not the case.
Nailing the 5%-10% delta could be huge. The yield management software used by big property companies promises 2%-5% improvement and that is a billion dollar business.

Additionally, a more realistic choice facing the landlord would be picking between a "good tenant" on paper paying the rent, and a "bad tenant" on paper willing to pay an extra $250/month.
To me it all depends on your thought process. Like if i meditate with a certain intent it may help me feel happy during a given day. I dont think one even has to meditate for that kind of effect. If i think to myself about how happy i am and why i deserve fantastic things, i become increasingly optimistic
I've been passing through SFO frequently. I take some minor schadenfreude in how uncomfortable some of the agents are when groping me.

If I have to bend over and take their stupid, unconstitutional rules, I'll look them in the eye while they rifle through my pubes, no sense letting them off easy.
Aw, MAAAAN... Oh well, OK...
I think he wasn't referring to the demo itself, which obviously should show off as many nauseating effects as it has, but to future devs who might use this library.
TSA's security rules are a mix of deterrents and science. I worked on explosive detection devices for the TSA during my PhD.

The banning of liquids and pastes are logical. There are some extremely volatile liquid and plastic explosives that would take your leg off if you dropped [1][2]. Or if they were used as primary explosives to ignite a more powerful secondary explosive. That could be disastrous if TSA allowed liquids in larger quantities.

As for the detection technologies that are currently out on the market, all I have to say is that every single one of them can be confused and circumvented, which is why they have seemingly arbitrary rules. For example, xray technologies can easily confuse plastic explosives with a piece of cheese, which is why you have to take shit out of your bag. MMW wave technologies are confused by water substances, which is why you have to do a pat down if an anomaly is detected.

My own technology that I worked on was primarily developed as a low-cost surface technique, so if you had explosive residue on your hands or baggage our detector would alarm.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6fcun3kag
It is not about the cost of parsing SQL text. Think of it as intermediate bytecode for SQL that is interpreted as query is being executed. Every SQL database does some variation of it.
What is unique about MemSQL is that this bytecode is actually compiled to native code using GCC.
Perspective! Freelancers are an army of one. How you spend your time will have a large impact on your success. No one likes to take it on the chin, but sometimes you have to step back, look at how hard the hit is, and decide if you really want to get in to a brawl over the matter.

Think of this as a judgement call. IMO, it shows either lack of preparedness or poor judgement on the part of the freelancer in this case. When you run your own business, the buck stops at you. In any given scenario, you must be willing to accept your portion of the responsibility. It has been my experience that the more responsibility someone is willing to accept, the better they are at getting things done. It's a pretty good indicator of success. Those who always look to push the burden of responsibility off on others will dwindle their time looking everyone but at themselves.

I'm not saying that the freelancer is 100% responsible here, but I am saying that it doesn't matter much. If your goal is to be successful, you can't be distracted by these stupid little hiccups. You have to get up, dust yourself off, and move on.
I wonder though, because you still need to download the app. I think the previous position in the Music app was much more prominent for someone who wasn't already a podcast listener. So now someone searches the store for "podcasts" and sees a free Apple app with 3 stars and a $1 third-party app with 5 stars, and that's pretty competitive.
Hackers and Biologists unite to win SPrize
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Seems to have the opposite effect on me. Regardless, this shouldn't be on hacker news.
My understanding is limited, but I thought that enlightenment was a buddhist term used to describe significant subjective perceptual changes which are more likely to occur with enough quality meditation practice. I was under the impression that there are thousands of people alive today, in various traditions like Zen, who claim to have experienced these changes in perception in various guises.

a truly enlightened being can point out things in reality exactly as they are and can tell the law of how the world works.

Is this derived from a particular definition of enlightenment? I'm not really familiar with the buddhist religious texts etc.
For my startup http://www.jackpotbuddy.com we are doing the following:

1. Creating Facebook/Twitter presence (1900 followers on both)
2. Creating blog with good content
3. Contacting other bloggers who are in same domain
4. Using Google analytic to analyze our traffic and trends
5. Sharing on HN, Digg and Reddit
6. Google Adwords
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Fragmentation and Segmentation
Code is a by-product of software development in the same sense as a blueprint is a by-product of engineering. Teaching a programming language doesn't turn someone into a software developer just as teaching technical drawing doesn't turn someone into an engineer.
Oh yeah. The Vooza volcano is about to disrupt!
Spawt is ALSO launching soon. And the challenges of a Singaporean founder.
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This is actually a fair and valid point. On all but the most delicately configured systems, the standard configuration of basically all SQL databases does not occlude committed data loss during power failure due to the hard disk's write cache. See for example http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/wal-reliability.ht...:

When the operating system sends a write request to the disk
hardware, there is little it can do to make sure the data has
arrived at a truly non-volatile storage area. Rather, it is the
administrator's responsibility to be sure that all storage
components ensure data integrity. Avoid disk controllers that have
non-battery-backed write caches. At the drive level, disable
write-back caching if the drive cannot guarantee the data will be
written before shutdown.

Which almost nobody does, because performance falls through the floor unless you're pimping a $500 RAID card (don't even mention software RAID).

The SQLite documentation goes into further detail surrounding the atomicity of writing a single 512 byte sector during a power failure (on old drives, on 4096 byte drives, and on SSDs). Few people seem to account for any of this stuff, yet sleep soundly at night regardless.
Dear web 2.0 hipsters: there are guys like Elon Musk and John Carmack actually launching rockets. This is nothing to do with that. It's just a silly little website with a toy iPhone app. Please try to pick some halfway meaningful names.

I'm looking at you too, Urban Airship.
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Coverflow got bought by Apple, but your general point stands.
More people need to do this. It seems that among adults, the most effective message you can send is "goodbye". Sad, but, in my experience, true. Even then, some people will never learn.
> (I understand it also can be "fully durable" but it is not by default due to speed concerns)

Just a little addendum: MongoDB has been "durable by default" since v1.7 I believe (current: 2.0.6).
Mozilla Sync is another great reason to use Firefox. I can easily open tabs from my desktop to the tablet when I'm home...
Man this guy's writing style is incredibly unclear and annoying.
It seems a little broken (and flickery) on Chrome in OS X. It worked great in Firefox and Safari.
What's wrong with Maxthon? It does all these, and probably yet a lot more, but being 2.18mb in size.
And did anyone ever think that there would be a sound rational basis for the operations of TSA? Good morning to scientificamerican.com, too.

The TSA is rolling on with its own mandate regardless of science and the opinions of thinkers, and they will do anything that they want and that can superficially be based on increasing "security"; that is, such claims that people are easy to persuade to believe if they're not left to think about it.

I don't know how they fit in the big picture: they represent some fears or some power that people have invited into this world. But I can be pretty sure what the true reason is that compels them to justify their own existence. Follow the money.
I agree - the question should be "What are some Internet/software startups that their technology and team flourished after being acquired?"

And you can find many examples for that.. Oingo/Applied Semantics turned into AdSense by Google would be a good example (and most of Google's successful products: DoubleClick, Analytics etc.)
Since it's impossible to completely avoid catastrophic hardware failure in the real world, obviously that can't be the threshold for durability. But losing data to anything short of hardware failure means you're non-durable. Software crashes can't lose data. Kernel panics can't lose data. Power outages can't lose data.