skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make it 50% faster by observing that replacing > is unnecessary, and only one of < or " needs replacing in any particular context.
Even though the exchange rate is just slightly up versus a year ago on this day, it is way down from the 2011 high yet ($32.40). That is more than 60% below the June 2011 high.
from what I understand, the rate will keep halving and the 21 million will never be reached, it is just a theoretical maximum
Why does this article feel like a YC ad?

"Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days". and "In many countries, setting up a phone solution is challenging and involves negotiations with carriers, hardware, and network configuration." Wouldn't that mean the startup has been working for some time to reach that scale? no offense for the startup, but the article sounds biased. I do not trust an article overly emphatic with few details.
Individual web savviness doesn't always come into it. There are those here who work within environments that mandate less than cutting edge browsers.
Well, there are a lot of drag and drop libraries that can help you with basic DnD, I suggest starting there (for example, jQuery UI). After that it's a matter of positioning and rendering elements. It's really a deep topic, perhaps do some studying of an interface builder like Glade to see how they do certain things. For component object model stuff I really like AWT and Swing.
The hell?

No, discussions which lead to more rape should not happen. This, I feel, is an unambiguous truth.

(I'm not saying that the particular reddit thread encouraged rape, though a psychologist much more well-versed than myself did -- but I don't think its a logical leap to see why victim-blaming would encourage self-rationalization of rape.)
Many languages support using a bit vector as a set of enumerated values. Loading this byte into a suitable variable and checking it in the language debugger would be clear.
Out of curiosity, do you get to directly place code on the L2 cache through the Lua VM ? Is that a module ? If so, what is this voodoo and where can I find it...
Programming is about architecting superior solutions to problems.

How then is it purely symbol manipulation? There is an intelligence required to imbue them with semantics and combine them into the right order to match the semantics of a correct solution.

Loops, variables, constants, etc. These are building blocks. One doesn't have to find them inherently interesting. The real challenge of programming comes from imbuing them with the right semantics.

The same can be said for mathematics. Sigma notation isn't interesting. It's what you use it to represent that is interesting.
if there's one thing I've learnt from bitcoin trading, and a good life lesson in general, is just before buying (or selling) I think "hey wait a minute, should I actually be selling (or buying.)"

And finding this power has helped me find myself.
I use this little helper in my underground lab:

function template(str,data){
for(var i in data){
str=str.replace(new RegExp("{("+i+")}","g"),data[i])
}
return str
}

It can be used with arrays and object literals as well:

txt = template('hello {name}!',{name:'Jen'})

txt = template('days: {0}, {1} and {2}',['mon','tue','wed'])

GPL and WTFPL just in case.

* Looks coincidentally similar to Fuchs'
Gabiax, the details are here at:
http://blog.plivo.com/post/29375534048/international-launch-...

Honestly, we are just trying to make telephony easier across the globe. Its not a YC ad :)
Defending poor behavior perpetuates it. Stop tolerating crappy behavior from users, and move to platforms where such childishness is met with disciplinary action.

Use your imagination. It's possible to have reasonable discussions on the Internet. It's just very rare, and everyone's too scared to a) not be the 'best site with all users' and b) have a reputation for 'censoring' content.
Xcode's panels aren't movable, like Visual Studio's are. There are panels that appear in certain places, and can be hidden, and their sizes adjusted. But it's not like VS where you can grab something tear it off, stick it on the other side of the window, etc.

And I haven't seen any pictures that suggest Samsung's IDE has any configuration other than one that mimics Xcode's appearance.

But it's more than just the arrangement of functional areas. It's the appearance of the functional areas. The widget palette looks just like Xcode's, with icons on the left and lengthy descriptive text. That's different from the inspector on Delphi/VS, where there's a dynamic list of attributes for the selected UI widget in the UI editor, and each attribute that is editable has a place to edit it.
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We are finishing up a web app but need some APIs setup and a few other things coded. If you are interested in helping put the final touches on a startup before launch and make some $$$ shoot me an email. The api's you'll be playing with are..
-Fb open graph
-Twitter
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-Bit.ly<p>Shoot me an email with some work you've done recently and I'll send more details about the work we need. Thanks HN!
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an OS comparison from 2009? a Linux distro comparison without even mentioning Debian? "similar aspect - KDE"?
To be a proof-of-work based cryptocurrency, it would need to make it through the phase where it is vulnerable to external attack.

Bitcoin made it through because nobody knew that a proof-of-work based cryptocurrency would ever end up being worth several hundred million dollars or more.

Now that bitcoin exists, any competitor risks getting spanked down. Even bitcoin is at risk of getting spanked due to a 51% attack, except that it will cost more than $10 million in hardware to do that.

One alternative is using scrypt instead of sha256(), and thus GPUs aren't as effective and the one crypto currency doing that has avoided attack thus far. That currency is worth under half a million dollars of valuation at the current exchange rate and there are hardly any exchanges where it is traded so there's little financial gain from attacking it sooner rather than later. But it is still very vulnerable, in comparison to bitcoin.
List is here on the blog:
http://blog.plivo.com/post/29375534048/international-launch-...

Sorry for the delay.
The amount of detail-blindness I'm seeing here is astounding.

No wonder so many UIs are terrible.
Let us do a comparison based on the amount of Bob:

Arch Linux: 0
Slackware: 1

Clearly, we have a winner.
If you think Visual Basic looks anything like Xcode, you're either detail-blind, or you've never used Xcode.
That line also struck me as odd. My immediate hunch is that she took some liberties with the quote, as I doubt a medical professional would ask a question like that.
is it me or this (and it's not the only thing in recent Google design tweaks/refreshes) is quite "[formerly-known-as] Metro" ? Flatter, less colors, more minimal... (not complaining, just wondering)
There is the notifo option on the profile page, which I've been using successfully for some time.

It also doesn't address the 'mostly want other people to be aware of it' part though.
Hi Plivo,

Can you guys work on the documentation? It's unclear after a few minutes how the SMS API works other than sending a text.
Your presuming that there is exposed access to the cable feeding the main panel, that is often not the case. I have no problem opening a mains panel or otherwise mucking around to get an inductive clamp on such a cable, but I don't think you can make the assumption about their target market. Their solution may seem 'clunky' from a technical standpoint, but it has one very important thing going for it: anyone can do it, without risk and without a knowledge of electricity, all they need is a conventional meter.

Counterpoint: the fact that they need an outlet to power the thing is bad, now the 'common Joe/Jane' doesn't need to mess with the electrical stuff but instead they need to drill a hole through the wall, near the meter, to get a wire to the sensor. I don't like the idea that the user to has a drill a hole near the mains entrance to their home, that can result in bad things.
The point no one asks is - why has a federated model such as rss been replaced with a single point of failure monopoly - twitter.
If you've ever worked with classmates on a program, you probably already have a sense of what it means to be a good programmer.
As you become more advanced and experienced, the differences between good programmers and bad programmers will change some... but not a lot.

You also may be interested in Joel Spolsky's views on what employers should be looking for in a programmer. It's at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
Exactly. A 2TB hard drive that is filled and only lasts one hour has a comparable bits/year ratio as 32KB that lasts 7000 years.
Something not mentioned here is arch's AUR helpers - like yaourt - that automate installing unsupported packages. That means that if you're a more casual user, you can install any one of those 18000 packages with a single command.
what language or framework do you use?
The psychologist you cite I myself cited. The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape.

Unless you're afraid.

If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist.

Because that's the guarantee.

That's what that meh-ish psychologist proved.

We will not forget. Because there's nothing we're not afraid to know.
The business of adding a friendly web service on top of these SMS and IVR aggregators is already commoditized: Most aggregators will give you 10s of countries in a single integration.

Then it's a question of volume to reach higher tiers / lower costs, and/or getting enough funding to sustain low margins at launch.

Twilio has both the volume and the funding.
Hopefully Plivo can differentiate through innovation.
Norvig's Python Sudoku solver ported to C++11
It's a wonderful community with a lot of different interests, and if you e-mail the admins to ask them a question they reply. Matt's built a good culture. I recommend it.
I have been using delayed job for this but I ran into an issue where it will make the phone call 5 times if there are multiple Heroku workers. Is there any huge advantage to using workers?
>Do you mean that the victim-blaming is what these people actually believe and therefore it's a form of "truth"

That's obvious to the point of uselessness. I think we're on the same page re: victim-blaming being a big problem. I don't dismiss any of the comments that talk about victim-blaming.

The only thing I'm really pushing for is: this conversation should happen. And it is, between you and me.
A bitcoin2 should be a swap currency. 21 million coins pre-issued, and sold for 1 btc each. Like when a fiat note is upgraded, the old note is eventually taken out of circulation and destroyed. But how do you trust the issuer of bitcoin2 to destroy the bitcoins they receive, and that they won't issue more bitcoin2s for themselves later secretly?

(or they can just lock the bitcoins they receive for guaranteed swap-back at any point later - the bitcoin2 issuer is a bitcoin bank too: how do you trust they can effectively lock them up with the possibility of return later?)
In theory, maybe. In practice, Pulseaudio is just horrible and gave me troubles I have never experienced with ALSA. I'm personally convinced it's one of the biggest mistakes made in the Linux world.

However, if we're going to put the sound server in userspace, which isn't a bad idea, the kernel side should be broken down. This would be an excellent time to deprecate ALSA!
Employers are cautious, in part, because working with bad programmers sucks.

Their bugs slow down the whole project... and good programmers resent working with someone who doesn't pull their weight.

In many cases, it's better to let a position go unfilled than to fill it with the wrong person.
This is very sad and shocking news. What I find interesting is that he was already at the hospital prior to the heart attack (he went in due to a fishbone he swallowed). Was he misdiagnosed, or was it so sudden and so catastrophic that even with no transit time to the hospital he died? Anyone with experience that can shed some light on that? I always thought there was a "golden hour" for things like this.
As others have said, the resolution on the B&D is not that great. But if you are really up for some tinkering, you could build something reasonably cheaply with better resolution with A/C current sensors and an Arduino, like this guy:

http://www.flashsense.com/?cat=3
So far I counted 10 fuck/ings and one nazi calling in this discussion. Please guys, I come here for a civil discussion and not some ragefest.
I had major problems with that story as well - I used to work as a medical tech in neurology, and half our patient load were kids.

Either the story is made up, she's misreading sympathetic commiseration for astonishment, or the neuropsych is massively inexperienced. Although the bulk of kids I saw were not like that, cases like the one in the article are not rare. One kid I saw had a left hand that was like leather because biting it calmed him down. Academically interesting, but not astonishing, and certainly not something you should be eroding the parents' confidence about. The only kid I saw that was truly unsettling was one whose throat didn't work properly and constantly sounded like he was drowning in saliva. He literally could die at any time, and his mother said that you just have to get used to the sound.

The thing is, most parents with severely mentally impaired children deal with it. They kind of have to, because the choices are largely limited to "deal with it" or "let your life fall apart". Occasionally we'd get parents who would morosely define their lives around their child's problems (or even worse, munchausen-by-proxy, but that was really rare for us to see), but for the most parents it was a sense of 'life marches on'. I think the article gives a great sense of that, but the reactions of the neuropsych really disturbed me.
"Happy" is such an ambiguous word and happiness such an elusive concept. While I truly sympathize with the author, this article, like many others in similar vein, seems to offer the same kind of message as that stereotypical mom-to-spoiled-kid admonition: "Eat your food, don't you know how lucky you are? There are children starving in Africa!"

I agree that the media are trying to sell us the idea that happiness is a state to be obtained by achieving whatever is the latest definition of "success" and I agree that this is bad. But if we're trying to avoid that, let's be careful not to run into the other extreme: confusing happiness with contentment.

It is normal and natural for human beings to want more and strive for it. I think that the idea of "having enough" goes against our nature. Sure, I probably have more than I absolutely need for survival. Sure, I guess I "have enough" according to some arbitrary definition of "having enough". I most definitely "have enough" when you look at it from the point of view of someone who has less.

The point I took away from the article is that we should enjoy what good we have. That's a message I can agree with: even if you want more, don't forget to enjoy what you have now. But I can't take that one more step and settle down and say "That's enough." I still don't see why I should do that. Perhaps it'll come to me some day, but for now, all I can think of when people offer me that idea is this passage from Frank Herbert's "Children of Dune":

"[...] Tell me, Namri, are you content?"

"No." The words came out flat, spontaneous rejection.

"Then do you blaspheme?"

"Of course not!"

"But you aren't contented. You see, Gourney? Namri proves it to us. Every question, every problem doesn't have a single correct answer. [...]"
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True, but you're still talking about people who felt it was important to leave a review. I try to leave reviews of everything I buy, but I frequently forget to do so if the product performs as expected (neither exceptionally good nor bad).
Jdangu, glad you mentioned that. We already do. Our focus is not just reselling minutes. We allow you to bring your own carriers if you already relationships, and we support SIP if that matters.

Think Cloud hosting for telephony :)
Torx is a well-established standard that avoids that. By all accounts, pentalobe is worse than torx at this, and I haven't heard of any benefits.
One day you find out that your parents are still paying $100/month for a 1mbps plan that doesn't even exist anymore, while they could pay $50 for 10mbps after a 2 min phone call. That's what we hate. Not everyone knows to check every couple months to verify that they're paying current prices.

This is on SaaS, so no refunds needed, just a price/plan change for the next billing cycle.
downvote me more pls.
On the other hand, Perl programmers don't have to lose sleep worrying about whether what they're doing is sufficiently 'Perlesque', in notable contrast to similar languages I could mention.
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We are working hard on this stuff. Any specific questions would request you to shoot us a mail at support@plivo.com or live chat on the site.
"The point of discussing anything is that no discussions lead to more rape."

"If you're afraid that real discussion will cause more rape, and that the sacrifice of real understanding is worth pretending that that more rape doesn't exist."

Please qualify these statements and explain why your argument is superior to that of a psychologist?
The color of the ink usually changes much faster, so it could be a problem to try to read it later. If the information is stored digitally, probably it is still possible to read it with the right calibration. But if the information is stored analogously it is really a big problem: for example http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/savingstarwars.html
Then you'd be a British IP with a US user agent, which is probably a ton of bits. I just used User Agent Switcher & changed it to firefox 5.0 under XP.
"is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs"

Most IDEs (Delphi, Eclipse, VS, VB) look a lot like VS & VB. That seems to be the template most often.

Xcode, having roots at NeXT, has always been a bit different, UI-wise. It has similar functions, presented in different ways, sometimes significantly different.
Extensive Google Nexus 7 screenshot tour
Yes and no - the faster you can get them to the hospital, the better the chance. But complete occlusion of one of many arteries or veins will lead to sudden death, and each minute that passes means death of the heart muscle. Heart muscle death means less likelihood of being able to restart the heart. Most commonly found in inferior MIs, whereby the blood pressure will plummet.

Truth is, there's still a lot about the heart we don't know, even in the areas of preventive medicine. It's possible a preliminary screening for cholesterol and high blood pressure would've caught it. It's also possible for his cholesterol and blood pressure and other markers to be normal.
I love Kippt!

Founders: Is there anyway I can access my bookmarks on my mobile/tablet?
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Is there another IDE other than Xcode whose widget palette shows an icon and a lengthy textual description like that?
I just asked about this on Quora (ha). Apparently the full results do not show up in search results: http://www.quora.com/Quora/Why-hasnt-Google-banned-Quora-for...

(If anybody has a counterexample I'd be interested to see it, but try to make sure it's not just an old result that hasn't been re-indexed since the change.)
My condolences to the friends and family of Mr Kouri.

I don't mean to hijack this discussion, but this could be a cue for somebody to visit the culture of dealing with a loss within the developer community. I would really like to hear the thoughts of a professional on this. I have witnessed one case where people completely ignored the loss and chose to forget that the person ever was there; or at least that is what I thought was happening. Is this what happens in all workplaces? How healthy/sane is such a reaction or lack thereof?
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No, I'm just thinking that one could minimize cache misses a whole lot.
My only potential gripe with App.net is that they can't protect their users after the company is acquired. The Instagram/Sparrow problem combined with tendancy of almost every company to kowtow to the advertising industry is a valid concern for me.
oh god I hate writing arguments from authority but... oh wait.

I'm only fighting an argument from authority.

Hah. I actually don't have to say anything.

But while I'm here, .;'';.

It's a troll face.
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Ask HN: How to compensate a co-founder who leaves after shipping MVP?
I'm currently struggling with a fair compensation (equity) that would not jeopardize our chances of bringing in new technical talent/investors in the future. How much equity is reasonable considering that the product currently has zero traction (pre-launch stage), and all the sweat that will go into turning this web app into a real company is yet to begin?
I think that the idea of "having enough" goes against our nature.

Our nature as humans or our nature as European-derived societies? Plenty of indigenous peoples around the world are/were quite happy with "having enough".

Striving for more is a cultural thing, not 'human nature'.
Rocket scientists are way smarter than brain surgeons.

400 MHz clock here:

of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 51:11 Therefore the
redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion;
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain
gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man
which shall be made as grass; 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the
earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of
the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury
of the oppressor? 51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be
loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail.

51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Imagine something like this combined with Google Glasses. You could walk up to a person and get real time heart rate data as you are speaking to them.
Slackware actually has an infinite amount of BoB. Its slackfullness is beyond comprehension. Arch probably has some BoB squirreled away in hidden places, they just don't realize it.
I just got my quora account demoted to read-only for not using a real name .. wtf

Requiring login to view is their biggest problem.
Requiring real names is their second problem.

This is just making things worse.
You list Europe as country?
For a minute there I thought you were talking about me. I pay Colin $0.15 per month. :) Literally worth every penny.
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On my original install of Win7, I'm not sure what my configureation was, but I never got malware... My other computers however, every time visiting grooveshark get the redirect to sex.us and other websites and it says "VIRUSES FOUND ON YOUR COMPUTER SCAN NOW" lol (i hate those fake antivirus sites).

Grooveshark has some of the best songs not available on youtube or rhapsody (I usually record my songs from those or download them with a DL tool). But damn you grooveshark ,fix your shit or face shut down.
I'm guessing he would have preferred it if Flash didn't have more bugs than an entomology lab.