skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a really important step is missing between steps 2 and 3: open an issue about the changes you'd like to make, and get feedback from the project maintainers. Unless you are just fixing an extremely obvious and simple bug, it is a really bad idea to just write up a pull request without getting an "I'd consider merging that" from a maintainer.

There are plenty of reasons that a pull request might get rejected. Perhaps a maintainer has already written some similar code and just hasn't merged it into a public branch. Maybe the approach you took isn't in line with the maintainer's vision. Maybe they just simply don't want to add the feature you want.

Randomly sending pull requests out of the blue is a good way to waste time and become frustrated. It's not very fun to write a bunch of code and have the maintainer just drop it on the floor.
I mean that they have a fall back in the sense that they can always just defer their acceptance or re-enroll (if they dropped out) if their plans don't pan out. Colleges are generally pretty forgiving about things like that.
Huh? This is gross oversimplification of both APIs and the role of business development. The author somehow conflates deals with API integration. Not all deals (and not all deals are term sheets, whatever) result in APIs integration. Not all API integration coincides with business development activity.
The fact that it wasn't a "press release" is precisely my point.

Enjoy the last word.
No, I think it's critical. I worked on one of the first services to ever use Spanner when I was an intern. Lock-free read transactions is a game changer. Short answer -- if your database system can't do lock-free reads, your database is broken. That one feature allows one to do some incredible performance optimizations.
Agreed, it's really a Know Your Market situation. I think most business start-ups (that aren't mobile oriented) can reasonably assume that their customers won't be using those kind of devices, and don't need to design with that in mind. No reason to waste money designing for a market you're not planning on competing in.
> So i maintain that Apple would have needed Samsung to enable them to use an A15.

I would guess if Apple is capable of designing their own Microarchitectures they would be perfectly capable of compiling a bunch of HDL code they can get straight from ARM. [1]

> but i still don't think they would want to give apple a CPU platform that was undoubtedly better than their flagship phone so soon after releasing it

Samsung also acts as a foundry, they manufacture designs of other people in the same sense a printing shop prints books written by other people. I don't think this involves Samsung "giving Apple a CPU platform", at least not any more.

[1] Yes, in reality thats quite a bit more complicated.
Thanks for this! Very useful!
What exactly is already known that this visualization is bringing to light?
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I am not clear, why would someone who owns a working windows running steam, install a linux distro from scratch to play exactly the same stuff he already does?
Often the ad networks for non-Western countries are different, so you really need to look to domain-specific partners.

For example, AdMob may be a great choice for your app in the US and Europe, but a terrible choice for distributing an app in China.

Expect to see more Western ad networks acquiring or partnering region-specific ad providers (I speak from experience, my employer owns both a popular EU/US mobile ad network and one of the larger Chinese networks).
Great point. I don't speak for the guys that made the decision to append the timestamp to the query, but I assume our concern is in intermediate network caches that don't honor low TTLs. Though I don't know how founded that is, we won't ever have to deal with the issue if we take control of it with the url string.

It'd be interesting to see how wide the key space is due to clock skew. I suppose we could specify some number and consider it a global counter that is incremented every second, then when someone comes in for the first time they can by synced in with the global incrementing counter. That counter is used to ensure a fresh cloudfront hit.

I think at end of the day, these issues haven't been a huge concern for a one month emergency project, but they are good points.
Officially, side by side is the way to go. Unofficially, you can sometimes merge the actual SDK bundles into the most recent Xcode directory.
Absolutely. And the distinction between "growth equity" and "private equity" gets ever more blurry over time.
APIs definitely won't replace bizdev, but you have to admit, for a lot of industries, it's making the process a lot more efficient.

Look at all the companies that are opening up APIs. The New York Times just opened up an API to their entire catalog of articles, definitely wasn't expecting that. These APIs are making the cost of doing business a lot lower.
It's not GNOME, I haven't run GNOME on a day-to-day basis in over 7 years. Actually, I think it's probably Firefox that screws me as much as anything else.
Show HN: usefulping, will alert you if your webapp is down
That's all a total smokescreen for the pay and benefits increases they want which you've conveniently left out.
why?

Also because x * 1/sqrt(x) == sqrt(x) (so on a pentium, an sqrt was 3 cycles further an inv-sqrt, pretty cheap for an sqrt)
This is cool! It reminds me of the TED talk 'Will our kids be a different species?'. We are totes getting smarter - kids have a grasp of concepts such as metacognitive thinking at a much younger age, and their frame of reference is so much broader. I've written a rant about the future of education based on this new paradigm on my personal blog if you're keen (thecreativefiles.com)
It clearly was not a <press release>. or was it?

[Na, dude. I'm happy to edit. It was a rhetorical question. Not the point. Which hasn't changed.]
to avoid paying for windows 8?
This is a terrible naive view of what unions do. Union membership, and leaders, do vote to cut pay and benefits. Take for example "Members of the Los Angeles teachers union voted overwhelmingly to approve a temporary salary reduction in exchange for sparing thousands of jobs, the union announced Saturday." and "Nine years of living with wage and benefit cuts of 25 percent and the prospect of six more years of substandard industry compensation doomed a "final best" contract offer by American Airlines to its Transport Workers Union mechanics, union officials said Tuesday." Those were not hard to find. Do you seriously think that the goal of a union airplane mechanic is to get enough money from the airline so as to put the airline out of business, leaving the mechanic jobless?

We've overwhelmingly fallen into the view that union members are greedy bastards out to soak the companies for all its worth. This is not what unions do, at least, not the definition of what unions do. As others pointed out, there are countries with high union membership. For example, "Finland has one of the highest rates of union membership in the industrialized world, with 80 per cent of employees organized in trade unions." Yet they don't seem to have the same management/union conflicts as here. And especially not the view that union's are basically a drag on the system.

Why don't we also have the view that company owners are greedy bastards out to soak the employees for all they're worth - and out to cheat the customers as much as they can get away with? (cough locksmith scammers cough). Why is it that Gordon Gecko's "Greed is Good" is admired for Wall Street but not for employees? I read that "Brokerage executives at one Wall Street firm, Jefferies Group, have threatened to leave the company if their bonuses aren't up to par with other firms" - why shouldn't teachers be able to make the same threat if their salaries don't at least keep up with inflation?
Last week one of my little toys went down. I was busy and I didn't realize till six hours has passed so I throw together this little app. It's probably a bit buggy but should work mostly OK. It supports HTTPS but doesn't check certificates. It also should support redirects.

If you see anything not working as it should or have any suggestion, I would love to hear some feedback!

EDIT:
There was a little but I already fixed in which some sites were being sent notifications even if they were up, let me know if it happens to you!
A number of very elementary things. It gives a very intuitive visualization of twin primes, as they lie before and after highly composite numbers (which are also easily visualized), as well as a visual explanation for why the prime gaps tend to increase, as larger numbers are likely to collide with a factor. You can also use it to explain prime factors, least common multiples up to N (when the first N lines come into alignment), and the cyclical nature of factors in general. This is a creative pedagogical tool, not a breakthrough in number theory.
I think a point is being lost here. It's easy to try to slice and dice FB and their app. The post is about what is needed to make mobile web apps better FOR EVERYONE. Don't discuss what FB can our could have done differently. It is obvious that they've looked at this long and hard. Their post is very valuable in bringing to the surface issues that affect the entire ecosystem, not just one app.
Hi,

datadrivenjournalism.net has a jobs section: http://jobs.datadrivenjournalism.net/

Otherwise, the data-driven-journalism mailing list from okfn has quite a large audience: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/data-driven-journalis...

Hope this helps,

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They won't. People have been saying it's the "year of the linux on the desktop" for everything big that comes along. All this will do is give more of those so-called and self proclaimed hardcore gamers incentive to switch, especially if nothing else is holding them back.
Woops, downvoted your post by mistake. Wasn't trying to vote; was just tapping around, trying to deselect some text.
A lot to lose, like what? At most they're out a year or two of their time, when they're young. There's nothing to stop you from going back to college at 22.
I don't believe he was trying to make the two morally equivalent, just to say that there is a similar legal principle in question.

I think his point is that the same legal principle applies. TPB is clearly "in-league" with copyright violators. I will not weigh in on whether this is right or not, but it's obvious from their past behaviors (blog posts, etc.). They are guilty of "conspiracy to commit copyright violation".
If the light rail went to the airports, then many, many more people would understand the value of it. The part of the populace that occasionally goes to the airport and would much rather not have to drive is much, much larger than the one that has to go between Downtown and the Medical Center and would much rather not have to drive.

Basically, light rail to the airports means game over to the opponents of light rail. Short of that, there's still a chance to convince a majority of people that it's only a boondoggle.
Really depends on the VC - some of them are very courteous, others downright psychopathic - but radio silence is not unusual. As much practice as most VCs have had saying no it can still be hard, particularly after lengthy discussions, so sometimes they don't say anything.
Not to be too pedantic, but this is the reciprocal of the square root. (The inverse of the square root operation would be the square operation.)
Why free ? - there's plenty of low-price SaaS CRM packages out there and the cost should be easily recouped by increased sales. And if it's not going to increase customers, why are you doing it ?
"Galaxy S III can't do like Facebook and Twitter integration, AirPlay"

What does this mean? That Android doesn't have Facebook and Twitter integration? Their apps are not baked in the OS, but Android intents take care of the rest, and you can easily add your accounts to it. Am I missing something?

It's true that it doesn't have AirPlay, but it has a lot of similar capabilities with different names, whereas the iPhone 5 doesn't have the possibility of any of the characteristics of Samsung marketing terms in the ad (like S-Beam or Smart Stay).
My favorite is when people start throwing around units like MWh/day.
Old things should go away after some time and make space for new things. Dieing is the prefered way. As long as we have limited space and resources. ;o) Otherwise there will be no real development. We will more or less stuck in where we are.
Inter-module shading can be a pretty significant problem with trackers. It's surprisingly easy to hit the point where adding more panels has no benefit outside of a few hours in the very middle of the day, and for a data center Apple would probably prefer more consistent and cost-efficient power rather than higher peak power.
Actually, Only EE is guaranteed support on their LTE network - The LTE spectrum bands up for auction for the other networks are different to those supported by the 3 announced models of the iPhone 5. [0] This means that even post-auction, EE is the only LTE operator for the iPhone 5.

As a side-note: I'm unsure about whether 3 will have their LTE supported as the article [0] is ambiguous about the 1800MHz spectrum EE sold to 3.

[0]http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/12/apples-iphone-5-will-...
There are a lot of people that say the only reason why they ever run Windows is to play games on Steam.
I would say ARM have expertise in 'designing for manufacture' which is distinct from the actual manufacturing, but lets say they have no expertise in 'production manufacturing'.

While Samsung does indeed contain a bunch of largely separate companies, both chips and phones are part of Samsung Electronics, there is one set of top management for both.
Giffgaff will most likely be increasing their £10 plan to £13 in the coming months[0].

I'm actually in the process of switching to 3's £12.90/month 1 month rolling contract[1] as they actually have the nano sims, though none of their plans have been included in the spreadsheet.

[0]http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute-Innovation-Promo...

[1]http://store.three.co.uk/view/searchTariff?deviceType=SIM_ON...
> Your intuition is correct.

No, the intuition is not correct.

> The hotel paradox is a trick of symbolic manipulation,
> and the analogy to a real hotel is an amusing deceptive
> misdirection.

No, it's a visualization to help people understand about matchings between infinite sets. It's an accurate analogy.
I'm not sure why this title was chosen, the article itself says
>So now the million dollar question - have APIs made BizDev obsolete? Definitely not.
The articles own title APIs are just BizDev 2.0 is far better.
Hang on. I know that I am just a hobby economist and that whether I am right or wrong, I have no direct experience of the internals of what was going on, beyond having some family and friends working in those areas.

Ericd on the other hand is saying that he interned as a quant/trader at Citi and has direct personal experience of what was going on and that in his professional opinion it was probably fraudulent.

Unless you can start to demonstrate some profound level of insight or experience of the situation being discussed here, I don't think you are likely to get all that far in trying to rubbish someone who was directly involved in it.

To my understanding, it was fraud, because the organisations involved were not blind to the fraud lower down the chain, and were directly profiting from this fraud by helping package it for them and then sell it on to people who were unaware.

Is like saying that a professional fence isn't responsible for the fact that the goods they sell are stolen.
Another great visualization of the primes is the famous Ulam spiral:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ulam_1.pn...
While there is a <lot> of truth in this statement, one notable exception is worth mentioning: steve jobs. who apparently quit school in part because he thought college was too much for his familiy to pay for.

But I think you are more right than wrong in your observation. There are a lot of soft social skills and such that you need for business that could be learned in school. May not be news to some depending on there background and natural talents, etc.
Hmm...

You make fair points, but what I'm trying to say is that I don't trust NYT because of stuff like this:
http://www.salon.com/2010/10/24/assange_2/

Out of all those organizations you listed, the only one I trust atm is Washing Post for reporting on the USA gov because they published this: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

I agree, reddit usually has stupid shit second-hand, is run by a publishing corporation, and has numerous terrible mods, but at least alternative opinions have a chance of influencing the claim of an article.
If the point is more nuanced (i.e., APIs simplify the bizdev cycle in some cases) why use this linkbait of a title?
> In what virtually reality does one go from "employee" to actually being entitled to own a piece of a company?

In the startup world? Legal practices?

> I have taken trips to the hospital due to the stress caused by business issues.

Same here, but as an employee. And I didn't end up owning a company in the end.

> None of my employees ever missed a paycheck or had to worry about where payroll money would come from. Every.

None of them ended up filthy rich either. I'm in my 30s and am reluctant to get married and have kids because of uncertainty over my future. My industry is flooded with labour, pay keeps going down and management keeps getting more unreasonable.

> What nonsense.

Enjoy your company's bankruptcy then.
> if you hit something or someone with your car, you were doing something wrong besides just speeding.

Only if you assume the driver has perfect knowledge of the nearby pedestrians, the road surface, what other road users are going to do before they do it, arbitrarily fast reaction speeds and flawless judgement. Oh, and brand new brakes.

Shit happens. Speeding makes it much worse when it does.
Thank you for taking the time to produce a version yourself and giving us your opinion of which image you consider to best fit your definition of having the Photoshop je ne sais quoi and which does not. That is the direct a to b comparison I had hoped for.

These images are no less impressive without a color balance provided by the editor. They are a journey through the former Russian empire and down the old Silk Road into a past made more accessible by color. Beyond any concerns of the trueness of their rendition, they are a readily comprehended document of a world long gone. These are relics in living color, their faces and fascades as ruddy as the day they were photographed. This is a far-flung agrarian empire and the ancestors of an antique world on the cusp of an upheaval.

Whatever the realities of the world represented and the facts that fill in my poor command of history, this is a world that integrates itself squarely with our everyday world precisely because it is depicted in a familiar fashion. The commonplace monochrome images of the past are colder, more analytical, and more removed than these.

So, aside from the interests of archivalists and historians who need to preserve artifacts as completely as they are found, who gives a damn if the use of Photoshop munged the color space a little and these images are dressed up a bit for eyes who've seen every color? The dressing doesn't alter the substance beneath, and if we are able to see past the process with a little help from the editor and into our imagination of this other world, all the better.

In a more sober assessment, all of these colors in these scenes can be constructed from the world in which we live currently, the grass, the sky, the skin tones, the wood, the stone, the dye in the clothing. The lighting conditions can be replicated for the same time of year, day and weather conditions. All of these sites exist in the world, however excavated or built up. Clothing can be sewn and dyed, models found and dressed. Only then may we know if what we've seen here isn't a very slight fabrication by the editor.

Or we may be assured that what we've seen is good enough and close enough that we had wrung out from it the last drop of evidence of the human condition, and let it rest.
It's a very beautiful visualization. I particularly enjoy seeing the period of each block correspond with the representative number. If only there were more visualizations like this for other mathematical concepts!
Some iphone 5 defects and iphone 5 problems
The nano sim is also slightly thinner than a micro sim so it will involve some light sanding as well as cutting[0].

[0]http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/you-cant-just-cut-down-your...
Not using IMDB sometimes leads to incorrect results. For "Louis de Funès", Google finds a Bacon number of 3:

Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas appeared in Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!.
Terry-Thomas and Tom Aldredge appeared in The Mouse on the Moon.
Tom Aldredge and Kevin Bacon appeared in Taking Chance.

The Oracle finds 2:
Louis de Funès
was in
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
with
Janet Brandt
was in
Queens Logic (1991)
with
Kevin Bacon
If Apple is really doing this, Intel can forget about ever putting Atom or any other of their chips inside the iPad. I know they've been hopelessly optimistic about it, but this is a clear sign it's just never going to happen.

Also, I still believe Apple will start making Macbook Air-like devices, maybe starting in 2014 with the Apple A8 (?) ARM-based chip, when ARM will have moved to the 64 bit ARMv8 architecture.
There are other crowd funding platforms.
pay and benefits increases they want which you've conveniently left out.

Read all of it, is only ten items. Increased salaries was eighth on that list.
Ubuntu created a new shell on top of Gnome 3. I'm not sure how that makes for more consistency. Unity is not widely adopted outside of Ubuntu and Gnome 3 is so unpopular that there are two projects to keep Gnome 2 around; Mate, a fork of Gnome 2 and Cinnamon, a layer on top of Gnome 3 that has a UI similar to Gnome 2.
Ask HN: Effective ways to attract visitors to your site
I know it's kinda a broad question, so let me explain it a little.

I have a site http://www.railstutors.com where I teach online Ruby on Rails courses. I think we have a great value proposition - beginners who want to learn Ruby on Rails now either reply on free tutorials (no interaction with teachers) or have to sign up on expensive classroom based training. We provide 4-week online tutored classes with a ton of interaction with students with affordable cost. Our conversion rate also proved this - a quite high percentage of visitors to our site ended up signing up for the course.

What we need to do now is to get the words out, and I'd like to hear from everyone what are the effectively ways to do that. We have done the typical - Quora, Reddit, RubyFlow.. we even tried AdWords.. but the daily traffic just doesn't seem to increase much.

What worked for you to attract traffic to your site?
Wait what? Are you saying that Gnome, KDE, and Xfce don't stand up to what OS X and Windows have to offer? You are entitled to your own opinion and it's a subjective topic but I would definitely not agree there.

> Configurability should not be paramount.

The lack of configuration does not offer anything to the end user. It's a good business strategy to lower costs whilst still guaranteeing a bug/quirk free product. It is however not a plus. Less is not more.

>Apple Computer is the existence proof. If the X-Windows partisans were right, then Steve Jobs pulled off the impossible.

It only proves that their strategies and products appeal to a small demographic of computer users. For it to prove what you are implying, every OS X and X11 user must actively choose one over the other. I'm sure most OS X users never ventured anywhere near X11. I for one despise WIMP, whether in traditional Windows format or in shiny white gray OS X format. Give me a simplistic window manager any day.