skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use both "insure" and "ensure" on the site

"https://mysocialcloud.com/aboutus
In addition, our site utilizes advanced encryption to ensure your information is always secure"
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In Europe, set theory is taught early on. In the US where it is not, the average person seems challenged to quickly visualize the relative significance of sets and subsets of numbers from a table.

In any case, I think the correctly drawn rectangular chart conveys the significance in a single holistic glance, while the table above requires quite a few "memory registers" for comparing the sets and their parts.
I agree. But as an aside, if your water heater's closet floorspace was counted in your square footage I believe you were ripped off. Square-footage figures aren't supposed to include that. I would love to be corrected if I'm wrong.
There was something similar to this in New Zealand called Living Space. It had roughly the same floor plan for the apartments and incorporated many common areas. They had two TV rooms, library, communal kitchen, billiards room, and a roof garden for the residents. This worked great and the place was always at capacity. It was like a combined dorm and co-working space. It was a renovated historic structure with a great location in Christchurch.

I think this concept would be great for SF. Just be sure to add the common areas.
"Reason 2 - It was thought to make code reuse easier. I see no evidence of 1 and 2."

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I can use IntelliJ for anything from Python to Ruby to Java to Go to Haskell.

Sure it takes a little longer to start up than a no-plugin Emacs or Sublime Text, but it also does a lot more and I don't have to fiddle with it to make it work.
Not everyone is coding Java. Not to mention, we're talking about a general-use text editor for all sorts of text files.
But then syntax highlighting is off until you close and reload it, which is annoying. I usually have a terminal open to the project anyway so I just use 'touch' to create the file I want.
When we actually do this, it does not necessarily convince publishers to fix things. For example: for several months Mozilla has been testing one tiny reduction to the User-Agent string in Firefox Nightly builds (replacing "Gecko/20100101" with "Gecko/16.0"). Zillow.com is the highest-profile site that is broken by this change, and after five months they still haven't even responded to any of our attempts to contact them: http://bugzil.la/754680

It's much better to resist adding things to the UA in the first place, since removing anything later on is a huge pain and inevitably breaks things for users. Mozilla has managed to keep the UA relatively minimal (and successfully reduced it a bit in Firefox 4): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_user_agent_string_ref...
> Side-by-side comparisons, in videos posted on YouTube, give the upstart from Google the advantage.

I'm not sure why people think Google Voice Search is the "upstart" here; it's been available on Android far longer than Siri's been on iOS. It just doesn't have a cute little persona and marketing team behind it.

Google's been doing voice recognition and search for a number of years now (Google Voice anyone?), and are market leaders in search with good reason. It's neither news nor surprising that Google's offering trumps Apple's.

What this really demonstrates is the power of the Apple marketing machine. They have people believing that they practically invented the mobile voice search, and have firmly associated in peoples' heads it with an anthropomorphized character, which makes the experience more relatable and easier to write about. Now that people are discovering that it's not all the marketers cracked it up to be, they're discovering that companies who actually have this technology as a core competency do it faster and better, but Siri has served its purpose - it sold iPhones, and gave iPhone owners a jolt of that Apple experience that keeps them coming back for more.
Ask HN: Where does HN sell websites these days?
I've looked at sites like http://flippa.com but to be honest it looks a little full of dubious users and slightly more dubious sites for sale. If I was looking to sell successful projects of mine.

By projects I mean sites that are going concerns that to be honest dont interest me that much anymore, that is not to say that they aren't good or growing, just that I've moved on.

Where's the best place to do that? or is there even one?
Florian Mueller has proved himself an unreliable source too many times. I'd prefer to wait until someone else picks this story up.
> Or how about the ScrumMaster that empirically determines
> current velocity and then tells the team how many stories
> they can do for the upcoming sprint?

Honest question: how should a team manage what will be done in the next sprint without basing on its velocity?

edit: formatting
Students want to get out of dorms and into an apartment typically because dorms cost about the same thing as an apartment, but with far less space/amenities.

If dorms weren't overpriced, more students would probably want to stay in them.
I sent you an email and this is just me being impatient but.. unavailable in the android market for Chinese users?
The challenges of moving a new employee and how Maslow's Hierarchy can help
"Andersen Consulting" -> "Accenture"
having started my programming career with web stuff, i just cant stand the full blown IDEs because of their slowness and bloatedness.
sublime text feels like having my cake and eating it too. it has most of the required features but its still amazingly fast and extendable.
You're welcome. I agree that it can't be done purely algorithmically and I have an umpteen-thousand word essay on why coming down the pipe one of these days. I seem to be getting nigh-Yeggesque these days.
> I've downsized a few times over the years. 1080 > 920 > 720 > 660. How much have I missed having a bigger space? None.

I used to live in a 480 square foot garage apartment in Houston. I loved the place. Unfortunately, it had lots of storage space. Yes, unfortunately, because I literally accumulated a ton of stuff I didn't need. (Yes, literally = actually.)

I'm moving to the bay area tomorrow, and I'll have reduced my worldly belongings to one 7x7x8 foot POD, plus a suitcase.

> I have everything I want, nothing that wastes my time or attention, less to clean, less space to heat/cool, and a car I drive very sideways.

I'll take all but the last, unless it's on a track and I know what I'm doing.

Shelter Kit makes homes just about our size. The whole kit can be had for under $30k and includes the entire makings for the outer shell and fasteners. Two people are supposed to be able to construct one in a matter of a few weeks. I hope they're still around when I retire.

I have everything I want, nothing that wastes my time or attention, less to clean, less space to heat/cool, and a car I drive very sideways.

http://www.shelter-kit.com/kits.php?kit=barnhouse
This has been supported with Colloquy on iOS for years — even using ZNC as the bouncer with the Colloquy plugin. I'm glad there's now a solution for Android that looks like it might be approaching the same awesomeness level!

More info: http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/PushNotifications
6502 was for wimps :) LDIR, CPIR, HL and two register set exchange FTW :)
They've learned an interesting lesson from other travel sites too, in that they emailed me when I didn't complete my contest and asked why. Very nice.
As a book collector and book lover (I have a web app about books, too) I really love the idea! It is great, and, as you said, it's terribly useful when it's exactly what you need. You could add to options, "AM + ISBN", which would be what you do now, and "EB + ISBN", which would give you the first three titles in eBay and the actual price, just in case :)
(I am from Argentina so I won't be able to use it, but anyway, I would use it!)
Two reasons:

1. The numbers are right there for all to see.

2. Nielsen's business is not to make academic-grade charts. Their version is far, far better for their customers' needs.
Works fine in FF13.

Edit: Removed my comment about arrows, they work perfectly fine.
>Square-footage figures aren't supposed to include that.

Keywords: Aren't supposed to. Square footage is often a wee bit inflated in listings. Sometimes it's considerably inflated (including stairwells, outdoor balconies, closets, hallways, etc.). I don't go as far as bring a measuring tape, but when I look at a space I try to figure out of the areas I care about are as big as I need them to be. Much easier and simpler way to assess.
+1, thats old :)
This test should also add strings where the least significant byte of each character is used a byte (i.e. '\x00' = 0 up through '\xff' = 0xff). For many operations, these end up being faster than arrays of numbers.
I grew up with my sister, grandfather (for 10 years), dog, and two parents in a 960 square foot single-story ranch in a heavily subsidized subdivision (with an armed forces stipend both my grandfather and father qualified for). We did fine. A lot nicer of a result than the trailer home we would've otherwise lived in.

I had friends that lived in small tenements. I had friends that grew up in the projects. 4-5 people, less space. Did fine.
I think that's often a desire to get away from the people and culture in the dorms, not necessarily the lifestyle. A college dorm with people in their mid 20s working 9-5 jobs would be a fun experiment
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Just curious, what do you believe is the justification for laws demanding minimum apt sizes/minimum heating requirements? The ordinary arguments about externalities certainly don't seem to apply...

As an anecdote, while I was poor, I didn't turn the heat on because I couldn't afford it. Do you believe the law should have forced me to turn the heat on? If not, why not?
I honestly haven't found a great one. I clicked this link expecting to half-heartedly recommend Flippa. I had mediocre results selling a few domains on there. Very quickly, domains get washed away. But I was selling semi-interesting domains, not projects that are growing.

I think there's an opportunity to create a marketplace that isn't a total sketch-town for transferring projects and products to good, new homes
This is probably the biggest factor. So much of SF is covered very low density housing.
There's an app called "Irssi ConnectBot" that adds support for scrolling and switching windows with touch gestures.
Inspired by your story, wish you much success!
Thanks, it's nice to have something positive to start the day.
The operation itself isn't necessarily simpler. The system as a whole may become easier to understand, more productive to build and less error prone if design decisions can be justified in a rational way.

After all, the classes and functions we create become the language in which we think about the system. If there is no clear reason why a particular operation belongs to one class more than to three others, it should not belong to any class.

Adding an operation to a class has implications like method resolution and dependence on internal state. We make assumptions based on that and those assumptions should turn out to be true.

For instance, it is entirely clear why List.add(Object) is a method in the List class. It is that list and only that list that is modified. It is only the List class hiearchy along which specializations of that method should be searched for. The operation depends on the internal state of the list and not on the internal state of the Object parameter. So all our assumptions hold and we will be able to remember to which class this add method belongs.

In my property sale example it's not like that. Any and all class hierarchies could conceivably be used for method resolution. The state of any and all objects could be modified.
> The people who originally came up with OOP knew what they were doing.

No matter what paradigm anyone comes up with, no matter how awesome and brilliant, we're always going to push it to its limits, then it's going to suck.

It's the same with CPU, network speeds, and highway congestion. If it's so wonderfully useful, we're going to use it.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418
I've always pressed CMD+Shift+G for that. Nice to know there's an easier way.
Some good advice, I think our most valuable lessons come from failure. One point that wasn't touched on, and that may be significant in this case, is that is can be very difficult building a business around a domain name.
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I actually linked to it but didn't write the full name, fixed.
1. The configuration time for stuff like this in ST2 is comparable with IntelliJ.

2. IntelliJ costs more.

3. IntelliJ is simply better for Java than ST2 (more significant time-saving professional features), but not necessarily so for other languages (it becomes less clear cut with languages like ruby).

4. ST2 replaces your standard text editor, IntelliJ doesn't.
But, the immutable nature of strings should slow down the whole conversion right? Correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't thought of searching other sites, but ebay seems like a no-brainer. I could add phone#'s in other countries, but it gets expensive pretty quickly (even with Twilio's low prices).
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Alpha geek matches are often about people arriving at problems that are not widely realised.
Yes, but I think many wouldn’t want to have all the other features a full-blown IDE offers.

While ST2 requires configuration to add the bare-necessities people would take for granted from an IDE, if you went with the latter you still have to do configuration to pair things down to the most minimal-environment you’re comfortable with.
In the US, it's very common to discriminate against pet owners, either by not renting to them or by requiring extra deposit against pet-induced damage -- or even worse, just demanding extra "pet rent".
CMD+Shift+P -> "JS" or "Py" or something sets the syntax highlighting.
The Go and Haskell support is better in ST2 than in IntelliJ. For Python and Ruby, it depends. IntelliJ is unquestionably better for Java, though.

Also, consider that ST2 is in its infancy and how developed its language support already is (see SublimeClang, for example). As ST2 becomes more popular, it might compete with the most developed IDEs.
Hey, I just replied to your email. Paid apps are not currently available in China, it seems. You should be able to purchase the app from the web through a VPN or proxy and have it pushed to your phone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapchatapp...
A wonderful man. I followed everything he wrote for many years. To this day, I do a double take when I see Congressman Rand Paul in the press, and then feel disappointed.
That's strange, the arrow keys work fine for me in FF13 on linux.
I've spent lots of time in Seoul, at one point crashing in the walk-in closet of a friend for a few weeks. The apartment was pretty small by American standards, the hallway between the front door and the bathroom was a little wide, with the extra space taken up by a counter, fridge, sink and two burners as the kitchen. On the other wall of the hall was the door into the closet. Down the hall next to the closet was a very sparse bathroom that was effectively a powder room (toilet + sink) with a shower hose on the wall. And at the end of the hall was a small bedroom that fit a queen size bed and a small desk and not much else.

In the U.S. I live in a fairly large house and was pretty concerned about the small living area. But it worked! Everything is kind of geared to support that kind of living arrangement. If you sleep on the floor, by rolling up your bedding in the morning you suddenly have a living room. Fold out tables and eating while sitting on the floor and you have a dining room that can fit (not a typo) 8 people reasonably comfortably. The floor of the closet had room for me and my wife. And since the floors are heated in Korea, even in the winter we were incredibly warm.

To eat you buy what you need for that day, or even that meal at the grocery next door, and your frequent trips in and out of the apartment give you plenty of time to bring out trash and other things.

Feel cooped up or want to do some kind of activity like play video games or drink and chat with your friends (but don't want to disturb the neighbors)? There's literally an entire city full of services designed for the apartment dweller, everything from cheap Internet Cafes (something like a dollar an hour), to cheap bars with private rooms for your friends at no extra cost!

Other than sleeping and a few meals, we really didn't spend much time there, instead spending almost all of our time out and about. It really is just an entirely different way of living - not better or worse, just different.
“We guided them to a completed transaction.”
Hmm, I must have a differing understanding of 'support'

Global user stats*:Support:	52.22%

Yet no version of IE supports it, that ranks support close to 0% IMO.

I'm no IE lover, but lots of users still have it as their main browser.
Old wives tale: You can't prove a negative
Was this really the main obstacle for donations involving Visa? Does forcing the Icelandic arm of Visa to accept donations mean that Americans will be able to donate to Wikileaks? It seems farfetched that an international company as large as Visa would actually follow these orders, seeing as they probably want to protect themselves from leaks involving their own interests.
We are vehemently agreeing here, seemingly in part to defend the good name of alpha geeks everywhere. Alpha-geek behavior isn't going to go away. It's such a potent force, a company better damned well harness it for its own good. Otherwise, it's like a rocket without a dependable guidance system. To neglect this is to court disaster.

(Even better, an Alpha Geek better damned well harness it for her/his own enlightened self interest, or I won't work with them.)

(Or, did you just want me to say that Alpha Geeks are all just like saints? They often wish they were kensei.)
This also applies to the T-Hawk's question.

Velocity is the empirically-measured percentage of backlog complexity that the team can reliably deliver. It is determined (and varies over time) as the problem gets solved.

It's a measurement, not a control factor. The team has control, not some number. Look at it this way: each sprint when you look at the work, you keep getting better and better at executing: your unit tests are dialed in, the CI server is rocking, you figured out that cool thing where you cut the amount of code in half, and so on. So when you look at what you can honestly do in the next sprint, that's an important piece of business feedback that other people need. You're "recalibrating" the release plan, which you should always do because stuff changes. In Agile, when you pick what you can do at the beginning, the whole schedule slides around. Business guys know at the front of the sprint that things are out of whack. That's great. It gives them the entire sprint to figure out what to do. In other systems they don't know until the end, which sucks for everybody.

Doing it backwards provides absolutely no new information to the business. You're saying the problem hasn't changed, the team hasn't gotten any better or worse, and there are no new risks. Instead of adding your expertise to people who are looking at the big picture, all you're doing is playing some kind of game.

Combine this with other bad stuff like never re-estimating or re-stating the backlog (or having a 3,000-item backlog) and it's like taking a sports car and putting a lawn-mower engine in it. Yes, you can call it Agile, but you're really doing it in a very painful and inefficient way. That hurts. Don't do that.
Thanks Ben! Hopefully next time around you get inspired by our success :) Until then... "stay hungry, stay foolish"
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Not really, because it won't allow you to serve an MS compitable css page.
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That's debatable: a good (generic) domain could give instant recognition in a given market (think Blinds.com), make things easier for you "easy" on Google, easier to remember, and even easier opportunities for branding your service. Granted, only the domain name doesn't do the trick.
Is anyone clear how Brewster plans to monetize?
Sorry for asking such a question, but before I sign over my entire contact life to them just curious about why they plan to do with my data.
I've read the EULA and its seems pretty typical for a company who plans to sell all my data to some third party.
I gave ST2 about three months too, but I haven't found enough to keep me. I've moved back to Macvim...
"At the time I was building a reputation for myself as being a gifted graphical user interface designer."

What products has John Maeda designed that we can use or have used in the past?

Writing books is great, but its the practical application that really builds reputations.
The solution to gigantic systems are APIs, whether services or objects. Using FP you end up emulating objects, just at a different scale.
Not the same, but I have the save_on_focus_lost setting set to true, so when I switch out of ST2 – likely to Chrome with LiveReload on – everything gets saved and I see my changes immediately.
I think most people would just use either the dining table or the one by the window instead.
This is going to be the standard response until it has proven itself. Why would they shoot themselves in the foot by choosing such a name?
It's a log scale. The bottom axis should use tick marks to make it is obvious. A poorly marked log scale is certainly something to fix. It's not the same as fudging the data.

[edit: If you wish to say a log scale is inherently misleading in this context ... go for it. That's different then saying the data is manipulated.]

[Edit2: The area is not meaningful. The widths are meaningful if there is a total ordering and the scale is labeled. ... I do however agree I am probably way overestimating how obvious a [log(1+cumulative percentile),log(1)] mapped to the xaxis is. Also the chart does scream compare areas, and those are strictly meaningless unless comparing within the same OS.]
ASk HN: would you like to use Git collaboratively through Phabricator? 
My company just set up a work flow for using Git collaboratively on Phabricator. And it's freakin awesome. We really think everybody should be using this work flow. But it was unbelievably hard to set up.

It got me thinking: this is how Github started isn't it?

Git = awesome
collaborative Git = next to impossible to set up
= Github

SO

Phabricator = awesome and free
Git = awesome but hard to set up collaboratively
= new thing that makes that easier

Any of you want that?
mother nature is a bitch.
The headline is a little misleading. DataCell, Wikileaks hosting provider, actually won a case against the local company Valitor, VISA's issuer and processor in Iceland. Also in case you're wondering as I was, Wikileaks was not awarded compensatory damages but Valitor must reopen their payment gateway within 2 weeks (although they can still appeal to a higher court).
In fact, it isn't even completely true in Europe. Early Medieval serfs in Northern Europe also wore trousers, but rarely, if ever, rode. The major point, shared by your Chinese workers, is freedom of movement and aversion (in Northern Europe driven as much by climate as modesty) to nudity. Protection, as from brush, is another factor, but more an occasional one, rather than always present.
Ah I didn't realize! This would also explain a lot of other things. Thanks!
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