skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, Mike Pall (mikemike 'round these parts) is much more than the maintainer of LuaJIT.

He's the sole author of the project, which is being actively developed.
Mike,

How far along is the Android app?
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As Facebook Loses Value So Does Instagram
> And probably good for you - it means your body is finally getting rid of some stuff it should have gotten rid of before and didn't.

That sounds like the sort of pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiated nonsense you hear all the time from New Age healer types. Do you have a source to back up your claim?
Not so much watching the news but having some kind of ambient noise that may be informative. It's the same reason I have NPR on most of the time in the background.
I stand corrected.

But I still don't think chatroulette or a chatroulette derivative is the next big idea.
For those that are using AngularJS, the frontend guys over at Duolingo gave a great talk about using browserify to perform dependency injection into angular so it feels like you are using angular as a library instead of a framework. It was some really cool stuff.
I also tend to notice an increase in my productivity and ability to focus during Ramadan. A good breakfast is essential, I usually stick to yogurt, granola and vegetable juice - say my prayers then head back to sleep for a couple hours. I can't say I'm not hungry when 820 rolls around but I don't find the month debilitating and most of the time my co-workers don't realize I'm fasting until it's almost over.
My opinion of this result changes depending on how many unique users those 32,000 plays represent.
>" bitcoin being a deflationary currency by definition means it will likely increase in value"

Why would yo want a deflationary currency? This promotes people "holding" onto the money with the hopes of getting a better deal in the future.

ie. Why buy that $50 USD item for 5 BTC, when at the current rate it might be worth 4.5 BTC by next month? This is a burden on a currency and commerce.
How about life without nonsensical ancient superstitions? I am very much not being purposefully offensive when I say that. The initial premis of needing to fast is highly flawed when looked at rationally.
Forget Hotmail, Microsoft’s Outlook.com Is The New Social Gmail
One good reason to complain about the restriction would be that it's a potential violation of the open source definition and a GPL-incompatible "additional restriction" on redistribution. And because it's just dumb.
This is revisionist nonsense. There are certain things that supermajorities are required for but the regular business of the Senate was never intended to be part of that. The current reliance on supermajorities is beyond unprecedented in US history and gets worse every decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Clo...

What did James Madison and Hamilton actually think of Polish Diet style supermajorities?

Matt Yglesias directs us to Federalist 17 (Madison with Hamilton):

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/09/28/198661/liberum-...

Ezra Klein directs us to Federalist 75 (Hamilton):

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/01/the_poli...
JS proof of concept for code signing and loading
Then I wouldn't be accounting for everything, and my estimate is most likely wrong.

I might not account for the cat tripping over my network cable.

I might not account for a server unexpectedly crashing.

I might not account for the office being too noisy to think in on Tuesday.

I might not account for Amazon having EC2 issues

I might not account for a DDoS attack on my DNS provider.

All of those things impact the time it would take, and the only way to fully account for everything that could happen would be to actually complete the project. Of course, if the project was identical to one I've done before, I could get a lot closer to an accurate estimate, with fewer real unknowns, but in 20 years of software, I've never had to create an identical solution. Because if it was an identical problem, I'd just use the previously developed software.
Apple is actively trying to fix this problem.

If you know any talented compiler gurus who want to work at Apple, you could refer them. [0][1]

.

[0] "LLVM Backend Compiler Engineer" http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.s...

[1] "LLVM Backend Compiler Engineer" http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.s...
Wes Anderson meets The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.

Actually this ad highlights a problem in how startups see their users: most people aren't millionaire jet-setters like Sean Parker. They don't have amazing stories to tell to strangers. Their stories aren't movie material. Most social interaction is small talk, and small talk over a webcam isn't something you'll want to do more than once or twice.

There's a disconnect between what startups think people do, and what people actually do.
Yeah these kids should shop around some, maybe try an Indian Credit Union.
I couldnt help LOL even though you might have asked the question sincerely.
there is a fixed number of coins available.

Not necessarily true!

There is slow growth in coins. But if it takes off then we know all of the primitives to make a second bitcoin. Establish one with a price peg to existing bitcoin. If you maintain it long and well enough, it will become accepted as equivalent. Once that happens you've done a big one-time increase in the supply.

In fact I would recommend doing this at some point. Because otherwise bitcoin has built-in deflation. That is bad economically because it discourages investment in anything else, like building businesses.
Would be fun to get in touch, if you are interested maybe share some ideas ...
Apple v Samsung Judge prohibits arguments based on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Meeting new people online is not a large problem, people aren't clamoring to do it. So a solution isn't particularly appealing to the masses, no matter how pretty or how many billionaires are behind it.
I'd be fine with requiring a 60% vote of the house, or votes representing 60% of the population. 40% of the senate represents less than 12% of the US population.

The Senate exists for one reason only: The slaveholding governors of Carolinas, Georgia, et. al would never have ratified the constitution if it was thought that slavery had a snowball's chance in hell of being abolished by the federal government.
Why stop at 60%? Why not require 100% of the votes?

I think it's a straw man to say anyone is saying "the Senate has to pass lots of laws to be an effective organization".
I was hoping for postgis when I saw the title . Hopefully that's coming soon.
But even assuming you do Waterfall - which has super strict requirements gathering and estimation - you still don't get a very high degree of confidence that you'll hit some arbitrary date in the future. Again, if your software has a go/no-go based on hitting some date many months in the future, you're in a no-win situation. Odds are astronomically small you'll hit it if SCOPE, TIME, and EFFORT (people, since adding people to a late) are fixed.

Again, to paraphrase DeMarco, if the project is that sensitive to time/cost, it's probably not delivering enough value.
She's amazing live if you ever have the chance to see her. A 6-foot tall woman with red dreadlocks playing the cello beautifully.
Its not that i dislike Sean Parker quite the contrary he has been at the right place many times before. To name two Napster and Facebook.

But the video does not get me excited at all. I cant connect with the theme inside and they dont tell me a compelling or fun reason to jump over the FB Wall.

Maybe something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWpbfZHHzc would be better for the range of 15-25 year old people who have to jump start this. Because no one else will.
"As others have pointed out, gridlock is a feature of the US political system, not a bug."

It's a feature of all elected governments. You wanna worse gridlock.. sit on on any EU meet.
there is no "point", but this currency is very young in immature. If we had as many bitcoins as dimes on the market and 99,9% of businesses would accept them, then you wouldnt see such a fluctuations. To me looks like Bitcoin is a huge win! Imagine if people are willing to put their dollars in it, knowingly being aware this roller coaster can run from $2 to $12 and back to $2, then imagine its popularity when we have enough coins on market and enough businesses are accepting them.

Kudos to first adopters!
We do currently have a public beta for PostGIS (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/is-postgis-available) though it is only available on certain plans and is not yet GA like the other extensions.
Now you probably wouldn't want to link to the site here but would you feel comfortable expanding on what type of site it is? Does the site update content regularly either via users or scraping? What are your visitor numbers for that kind of revenue? Is it direct sales of physical products?
>You aren't paying twice for the same thing because the normal data plan explicitly didn't allow tethering.

Which is a completely artificial and needless distinction. The phones have the necessary hardware and software and have for years. And that's where the outrage comes from - there is no difference between 5gb transferred over a tethered device and 5gb transferred over the device natively.

They're double dipping. Adding no value and expecting more money for it. And everyone knows it.

This might even be remotely acceptable if the wireless marketplace were in the least bit open. It is not. I can't possibly be the only person to notice that the major carriers plans are almost mirror images of each other.
Suddenly I'm a lot less indifferent about my ipad's inability to run torrent apps.
I was just trying to argue in good faith by addressing the spirit of your criticism, not the letter of it. As I said, go and look at the prevailing usage of defer. Closing a file is trivial most of the time.

When closing something (a file, net connection, db connection) you're really worried about, that's when you ought to think twice about using defer. That's really all I'm saying.

I'm not sure what's wrong with multiple returns, as you're no worse off than if you were using exceptions. At least return is a standard, predictable mechanism which behaves the same regardless of what codebase you're in: exit the current function. You don't have to guess what file you need to look at next; control reverts to the caller.

And, as far as the example code is concerned, it is completely orthogonal to exceptions vs. error codes. You still have to prioritize what's catastrophic enough to abort and notify the caller, and what isn't. The author decided those errors weren't important. So what's the big deal?
Hi, HN readers!

As a Christian I would like to tell you my opinion on this subject.
Very often people tend to forget that fasting differs from dieting.
Hence, there are all these advices on various "tricks" and "optimizations" :-)

What is missed here is that when you are fasting - you are not trying
to reduce your body weight or improve your mental abilities :-)
In fact, the fasting has nothing to do with you - this is done by you only
to praise The Lord, who has created you, is looking after you
and forgives your sins.

And if one finds fasting too hard and starts making a shortcuts,
it is better not to fast at all - there will be no value in this
"eating trickery" for you :-) (or anyone else).

The fasting is all about God and He gives you the strength to fast -
but you need to ask Him by praying, reading The Bible, caring about
your brothers and sisters, helping other people, giving to poor.
And if you find fasting too hard - most probably you are trying to fast
for wrong reason or your dieting has nothing to do with The Lord.

Personally, when fasting four times a year, I try doing good Christian
things - helping people around me, charities, those in needs.
Trying to put my own interests even further away, making peace with enemies,
asking for forgiveness of people that I hurt somehow. Working on my project
"Read and Think: The Bible for command line people" :-)

This is what fasting is for me and these are my "special tricks" :-)

The best source to read about fasting is The Bible:

................ == THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW == ...................
=== Chapter 6, Verse 16 ===
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance:
for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in
secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Thank you,
Think standard definition television programming on a modern HDTV. It's pretty much like that.
Find a better job. The job market for tech people is booming.
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The art of small talk is not easy. Maybe they should offer lessons.
I know! 33M raised! It just HAS to be successful....hopefully as successful as Color!
Nice. Which software did you use to make this?
Nokia closes Brisbane Qt office amid sale rumours
I dont buy it just like Feds apparently dont buy it either (yet); otherwise they would be already shutting it down.

While bitcoins can be used for illegal transactions, it does not mean (and never will) that 99% of transactions will be illegal, just like Feds won't shut down knife factory because some knifes were used to kill. At the end, paying for something illegal is not illegal on its own; its the act or good you paying for illegal. So this or another way, in order to sentence someone, Feds will need more proof of a comited crime, than just blunt bitcoins transactions (how about crime itself).
If the average listener listens to 10 songs from an artist per month that only takes 3200 listeners to "make rent". 3200 listeners is a very small amount when you consider a) how little commitment there is to listening to music b) how easy it is to distribute music.

> The internet and technology in general have done some great things for music but making money is harder than ever.

I think the amount you can make per listener has decreased but the amount of listeners and reach has increased exponentially. For evidence of this check out all the independent Youtube musicians, there are quite a few securing millions of video views per month, that alone is enough to fund a good life, then if you add in sales, streams (via Spotify etc) they make excellent incomes that they couldn't have got 10 years ago.
This is exactly what Wired magazine pointed out last year: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/ And this was before the big rally that occurred around New Years.
"It makes me sad to think all of the third party people can't get their stuff together and give us an alternative to the two party system we currently have."

It hard. Because our (the US) system is *really designed for 2 parties. Granted, it sure didn't start out that way. But it's morphed into that.

Both parties protect their ground. And both parties use the courts (and local governments) to make it VERY hard for any 3rd party to gain ground.
In low-carb diets, one of the major withdrawal symptoms is actually from a lack of sodium. Your body starts emptying it's water stores when there is no carbohydrate intake to process (carbs need a lot of water to work with), and that takes tons of potassium and sodium out of your body.

Eat or drink something with lots of sodium, and it should hep with the carb withdrawal symptoms quite a bit (the 'keto flu').
Hit the nail on the head there.

Affiliate marketing is intensely competitive - the reason I can make a fair amount of money in the field is because we pursue every advantage at our disposal. The plethora of competitive intelligence tools in the field and the low barrier to entry make it extremely tough.

However, there is a high barrier to success as well.
For what its worth the license is Debian approved:

"The following restriction on distributions, which is part of OFL, has been widely accepted by open source projects when it is applied to fonts:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself."* [1]

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses/#The_Open_Font_License
The converse is that if you're not using a preprocessor, it's very easy to 'adjust' a color and miss a few instances of it.
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I'll try to respond logically, but I'm not motivated to engage in a debate with you. This will, therefore, be my last response to you after which I plan on ignoring anything you post.

My post doesn't quote anything Apple said. I am reasoning solely from their actions.

I don't use a Mac - I think they're overpriced and the latest OS versions haven't introduced anything of interest to me. I admit, their hardware is beautiful, but I am frustrated by the lack of high-resolution screens anywhere else in the industry and I intend to vote with my wallet.

In the meantime, feel free to review my comment history. I have tried to contribute links to http://coreboot.org as often as possible. I'm never going to give up the ability to compile my OS from source, which means I won't need an apple laptop. You can pry the kernel source code from my hands when I'm dead.

The only "slack" I propose we give apple is to not claim they are backing Microsoft's Trusted Computing initiative without evidence. Essentially, my argument is exactly the same as yours: why should we claim something about apple that is not backed by evidence?
The guy is remarkable. A Jobs-like visionary. But Space X is fantasy at this point driven by a titan of a personality. Having worked in the space business, I'm far more impressed by Tesla, and even Paypal.
He might have edited it, but I read "spear hunted fish", not "spear hunted". That does not look dangerous on TV.
ltree looks awesome. I didn't know it was in there.
Facebook's stock: The bleeding just won't stop
He stole a kitchen appliance and his dad punished him for it. He seems genuinely sorry and is working hard to make amends in the process growing as a person both socially and financially. This is not abuse, it's a right way to raise a responsible human that takes responsibility for his actions. I think it's heartbreaking that you ignored the relative good in the story and chose to hone in on the "spanking" that a rebellious child may need a few times in his life.
I think the biometrics angle is interesting and will become more prominent in our lives as the tech gets cheaper, smaller, and easier to implement.

But biometrics doesn't pass the grandma test (you know, grandma who doesn't use cell phones, won't do online bill pay, snail mails everything, like mine).

I'm fascinated by all the ways people are trying to reduce the inconvenience of authentication.
Why do you think there's a contradiction here? Is there some rule that says all elective bodies must have the same rules?

One doesn't. And so?
After you've put soap on it, you need to rinse it before moving to the next step, right? Seems like it would take a lot of wiping (and rinsing of the sponge) to get to the same level of confidence about lack of soap as a simple rinse of whatever you're cleaning. Does the vinegar displace soap, or something?
Yup. That's why I moved to my own products and have affiliates work for me, as the stuff I create can't be replicated.
Here's a tutorial for postgres + postgis on dotCloud: http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/postgresql/
If you're an absolute beginner at cooking, I highly recommend the free Stone Soup ebook. All recipes are 5 ingredients or under, 10 minutes or under.

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/06/a-free-e-cookbook/

When I started cooking, I was intimidated by long recipes and never knowing what substitutions or omissions I could make.

This ebook really turned me on, because of its "minimal cooking approach". By stripping recipes down to their bare essentials, this book made cooking approachable. I began to understand the fundamentals, and that allowed me to feel free to experiment.

However, at this point all of my knowledge is ad-hoc. I wouldn't mind recommendations or pointers on how to improve my skill, and I agree that it's not clear where to go for this information.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you buy with them? I know of only a few things that are only acquirable via Bitcoins, or that couldn't be acquired more cheaply using dollars.
>"If you bought a billboard, would you get angry if a car drove past with a sleeping passenger?"

I can calculate, with precision, the traffic that drives by that sign every day.

>"As an advertiser, you need to do your own homework and adjust the relative effectiveness of Facebook vs. other mediums."

Yeah, I do my homework and decide that I'm not going to advertise with Facebook anymore, because I can't determine whether my ads are reaching the audience that I've balanced my spend around. That's what is happening. Right now.

You initially stated: "I don't see how this harms Facebook in any way". I'm explainly how Facebook is affected. Yes, I agree that advertisers will have to compensate. They are. But returns will be squeezed and that compensation will be downward. That hurts Facebook.
Makes me wonder: when did trapping start? 5,000 years ago? 20,000?
To return the discussion back to your main question, there is strong evidence that high frequency trading, or algorithmic trading (AT), increases liquidity: http://www.afajof.org/afa/forthcoming/6130p.pdf (See Figure 2). Increasing liquidity and reducing the bid/ask spread adds value to the system by increasing efficiency and information dissemination.

For a period after the introduction of autoquote in 2003, providers of liquidity captured most of the surplus and enjoyed larger margins on trades (See Figure 3). However, this advantage quickly dissipated as more parties implemented AT. The first-mover advantage doesn't apply in the world of equity markets; competitors quickly duplicated AT strategies and competition swiftly lowered spreads in the second half of 2003. Today, spreads on equities are much lower than pre-2003 largely thanks to AT.

As for pricing stability, let me disregard AT glitches for the moment. Algorithms can tirelessly monitor market information, whether media reporting, filings, event rumors (eg M&A), order trends, etc. Humans are are relatively constricted to a few information sources when executing trades in comparison to AT. In addition, AT reacts faster to new information sources and can adjust bid/ask near-instantly. Therefore, price volatility increases as a result of increased information efficiency.

Glitches and fast-crashes are a negative counter-example to the information efficiency argument above. I leave it to the reader to decide if liquidity benefits justify the occasional flash-crash. However, recognize that this phenomena is not exclusive to AT: many human traders have caused similar crashes of their own -- I'm looking at you London Whale.
Have been beta testing this and enjoy the little battles you can have with others over locations. In terms of design its one of the slickest out there, especially considering all the building types and levels
Support becomes an upsell. I've seen that model used in a lot of software I've bought, seems to work very well.