skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a condemnation coming from 1998, when doing anything in the browser was painful and that was the only place JavaScript existed. I hated JavaScript in those days, too, but today is a very different world.
That's definitely an easy way to do it. it's got too much of a wave feeling to it, though. You can tell that it was applied globally.
If I recall correctly it was $500 for the first site and $200 for each following.
What's with the insta-downvotes whenever someone mentions Coffeescript's debugging issues? I am not an active Coffeescript developer, but I thought that debugging line-by-line was prohibitively difficult, especially in the browser. Has this changed? If not, why the animosity?
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Tim Cook’s apology was a strategic anomaly
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Not sure I agree, in-app purchases have turned so scammy recently (buy 1000 fun points for $100!) that I've taken to not even looking at games if they include IAP anymore.
The point is that it is easier to remember X digits of PI than a fraction, because the fraction will have more digits in total than X.
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Alcohol and energy drinks: a bad mix
his answers http://slashdot.org/~SteveWoz
I have always thought the concept was great, but I have struggled with how to implement it.
In the "Walkthrough: Types" example (as well as the "Classes" one), that gives me an error.
Care to share why you pivoted away from that idea?
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It's simple in typesafe languages that support generics/parametric polymorphism

That's a different thing. The function is then instantiated to that particular type. []interface{} is more akin to an array of base class pointers. Except that in Go the type is stored with the pointer to the actual data.
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never heard of iron worker...i do a similar thing with delayed_job and https://www.tropo.com/
Banned Books Week celebrates its 30th anniversary
He likely bets the person who was taught 22/7 as an approximation will not be able to do the sqrt of a sqrt of a fraction in their head or on paper. If they have a calculator they might as well use the dedicated pi key.
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I'm working on a scalable and easy-to-integrate web chat implementation (similar to Facebook chat) using Tornado non-blocking capabilities and the long polling technique.

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I think blog.wolfram.com is probably the best company blog I've seen, from a marketing perspective. A large number of the entries are basically of the form "Here is an interesting problem, and here's how I solved it with Wolfram products". They generally let the problem have the spotlight rather than focus on the Wolfram products, so it doesn't feel like you are getting pitched.

Here's a related problem, but for e: using each digit 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 at most once each, and only the operators +, -, x, /, and ^ (exponentiation), and parenthesis for grouping, how close can you get to e? Digits may not be concatenated--for instance, you cannot get a 23 by simply placing the 2 next to the 3.

My best, after about 15 minutes of fiddling, were:

(3x(4x7+1))/2^5 = 2.71875 ≈ e + 0.000468172

and

2x(9x6-1)/(3x(8+5)) = 2.717948... ≈ e - 0.000333111

but it turns out you can do FAR better.
Interesting. Does the person need you sign up through you, or just use your referral code at checkout? If it's the later, I wonder if you could target your keywords to "fab promo code" or "fab discount" to try to get people that were near the end of the purchase cycle and were just looking for a promo to complete their purchase.
Show the offers to users for free, but obfuscate the hotel names until the users pay a fee.
"The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict" for myself and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"(Chronicles of Narnia Series) for my children.
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Google started competitive security bug hunting
The point is that you should just memorize whatever precision decimal you need. There's no shortcut like 22/7 that will magically give you more accuracy and be easy to memorize.
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i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?
I'd say it is okay to be little wide in these matters, it is better to be safe than sorry.
The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem deals specifically with algebraic numbers, of which pi is not one.
After reading this I just had to check just to see if we had a copy of 52nd Street, yep - https://www.murfie.com/albums/billy-joel-52nd-street--2
Happy for the team - congrats ThomPete! :)
Do you think this will obsolete the 'hybrid suspend' functionality in pm-utils? I think that works by suspending to ram, waking up in 10 minutes then immediately suspending to disk.

Maybe a combination of these two approaches could be useful.
Why I Like Mozilla Persona
Yes! KA is looking for two types of design interns: product design interns, and visual design interns. We strongly recommend that product design interns be in (or have just completed) an HCI-like program[1] or have relevant real-world experience. Visual design interns can help with everything from making cool stuff around the office, to creating assets (like avatars) for the site, so digital art skills are a must.

The design team is much smaller than the dev team so we will likely only be taking one or two interns this year.

[1] http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/
SF has supposedly banned plastic bags for some time, however you can still be handed your loot in a plastic bag in nearly every little corner market, as well as any restaurant where you are taking something to go.

What i think SF should require, as opposed to banning plastic, is to require that instead corn/vegetable based bags should be used.

Plastic bags offer great convenience at a pretty significatant environmental cost.

For pretty much 100% of single-use, temporary applications, we should be using vegetable based materials.

Look at how much plastic is used simply as packaging for even single-use products; plastic covers on straws, most food is all wrapped in plastic.

We should be looking at reducing these types of packaging materials that simply gets thrown away.
Because writing big apps in dynamic languages sucks (I say this writing primarily Python & JS)
Did you read the article? He explains very precisely what he means and what his conclusion is. "Rational" in the context of the title means "one integer divided by another to which the first is relatively prime", and the word "useless" indicates that there is no gain in accuracy/complexity in comparison to the decimal notation for a rational number (where you express a rational number as an integer divided by an implicit power of ten).
> They had to tell quite a few lies to convince people of that.

If the government started the war, why would they have to tell lies to convince the people?
TypeScript will not abort compilation, but it will give you a warning. In the playground, that would be the red squiggly line indicating an error.
This is actually really painful for both devs and users - the main thing being that recovery of the paid upgrade will be finicky and unreliable. The UI for recovering an in-app purchase is the same as the buying UI, which leads many users to mistakenly believe they are being double-charged.

Who can blame them, the UI blows.

Since devs themselves also do not get any user-specific information when an in-app purchase is sold, it becomes pretty much impossible for your support channels to verify someone actually owns what they say they own.

Until the API improves (not holding my breath, it's been like this for, what, 3 years now?) IAP-driven upgrades will hurt both users and developers.
Ironically, their new Maps app points you to a bunch of apps on the app store when you ask for transit directions.
Sounds reasonable. Could be better timing now as well, what with server-side javascript having become popular. Good luck with the library!
Except then you would likely lose the attribute of being a superset of JavaScript.
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My experience: pair programming usually degenerates into having a human version of the annoying syntax checker prevalent in previous versions of Visual Basic, which required you to close the dialog and then fix the error before allowing you to move to another line. "Whoops, you forgot a semicolon there." "Are you going to close that open brace?" YES I'M GOING TO CLOSE IT I WAS GETTING TO THAT ASDFGHJKL;
Just want to say that not adding a "boot to desktop" option (and working to actually disable the task scheduler trick which enabled boot to desktop) was a dick move.
As a keyboard only user, Win 8 doesn't mean anything to me because i basically use it exactly like Win 7.
Congrats for finally adding proper support for multiple monitors (win+shift+arrow FTW).
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No, it really is just simple physics. Arguing this point just makes it look like you don't understand the limitations of epidemiology.

Allow me to illustrate the fallacy with this joke: A man is arrested at the airport because he has a bomb in his backpack. When questioned by police he claims he brought it for safety because "what are the odds that there would be TWO bombs on the same airplane?"

Put another way: you don't need a population study to decide whether feeding rat poison to kids is a good idea.

Now if we were talking about whether mandatory helmet laws make people safer, population statistics are essential tools of policy analysis.

But if we are talking about one single head, we know the helmet increases safety based on the simple rock test I outlined above.
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Today was National Day in China. So, this sort of attack, at the very least, functions very well as propaganda fodder.
In case somebody looked for the first version of git, here it is: http://goo.gl/mKYnR
Milling seems like a better bet (than printing) for home PCBs without the etching. It's cheaper and more accurate, like this one:

http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/imodela-milling-mach...

Downside is that there's no solder resist, so SMT parts would be tricky/impossible to solder. Also the above model only handles tiny boards — something that can do a standard 160x100 mm eurocard would be nice.
Headline: Walled garden wins over PC plus Web.
Any chance of getting them deleted? I'd rather not have mine floating on your posterous account forever.
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Are you actually implying with the above example code that you can call a undefined "super" constructor on an interface and pass it the "balance" variable, which the interface's non-existent constructor would presumably match by name?
The implementation certainly differs. The US at least keeps copyright infringement civil unless significant damage or financial gain has been made from the infringement. In Japan, the police already go after infringers, irregardless of the damage. They also put a lot of resources into breaking the encryption used in the various Japanese p2p networks.
Yet another "market value defines losing/winning" article between 2 products that don't even compete.
Do you think the criticisms levied at microfinance are fair? Likewise, do you feel it's appropriate to build a for-profit business around a social mission? Is that a conflict of interests?
Great news and great piece of software.
I don't know much about this project in particular but wouldn't the ability to have a web based client instead of a desktop app like Thunderbird or Outlook be useful? The ability to see all my mail from the browser on my many devices could be good.
Not just wrong side of the street, but several hundred feet too far north!
This is unrelated to the PRQ Police Raid.

Currently The Pirate Bay is blaming it on a power-failure.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/prq-police-raid-takes-down-dozens-of...
Canada's Top 100 Startups - updated list as of October 1, 2012
E&OE is one of my favourite ways to sign off!
Yep. Google is still a one trick pony when it comes to revenue:

Advertising revenue in 2011 was 97 percent of Google's revenue!
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This looks very good enhancement on top of Javascript. Hope browsers start bundling the TypeScript compiler natively.
It's quite clear to me which is which just from the color differences. You also cut the "ads related mesothelioma (?)" at the top of the section, which should make it even more clear. And there's the fact that people who understand the difference have already learned where Google ads are on the page.
> We have not really advanced the argument or our understanding by breaking it down like that.

Breaking it down by saying:

"It's like saying that Germany didn't invade Poland in 1939 but rather a collection of humans carrying guns and some driving tanks wandered into what was called in some parts "Poland"."

Because I've never heard anyone seriously break it down like that. Rather, I hear it like so: Germany invaded Poland.

So, to contend: "We have not really advanced the argument or our understanding by breaking it down like that." ignores the very relevant fact that it's never really been broken down like that.

Regardless, that ruins the argument of breaking it down by US government and the citizens of the US (which is what you are suggesting we do).

If anything, history shows that generalizing or stereotyping people into groups (e.g. "the government" or "blacks" or "the jews" continuing from your example) has done more harm.
Don't read the Linux source code unless you have to. Read xv6's source code instead. http://www.google.com/search?q=xv6
Recent versions of Exchange strip off the plain text part as a default.

Your company's IT staff probably can't be arsed to change the default, if you can so easily change your email client instead.
But does VS run on Mac OS X or Linux? Didn't think so.
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I think the issue some people have with email is they use their email client for things it wasn't designed to do. For instance a todo list or for reminders etc
I do the same thing with Reddit AMAs, just look at the comment history of the OP. 90% of the time you can infer the question or don't need to know it.
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I usually just keep going until I understand it, this allows you to understand the intricacies instead of glossing over.
It is flamebait, but the emphasis is not totally off, since Apple store employees are reported as spending hours trying to fix the problem without success, then telling users they have to pay for another phone to fix the problem.

Problems that (1) cause companies to charge more usually don't receive the same get-it-fixed priority as (2) problems that cause companies to lose money. This is an example of (1).

With these kinds of problems, it could be said to be laziness or carelessness causing a company to make money at the expense of users. But when a company is aware of this kind of problem and doesn't sufficiently prioritize getting it fixed, or in this case where Apple is trying to force users to pay for a new phone, eventually it is a sneaky way to force money out of customers.
Tata docomo have thief my money 
take a look at twitter.com/tatadocomotheif

I have tried their service and make me loss or hundred of INR. Now I make a account on Twitter to people's show how they theft.

I am confused that why Twitter removed it from Search. I have seen that many people have same problem as me ( on Twitter, Facebook and rest of the internet).

www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/tata-docomo-thief-people-i-have-chated-a-lot-of-money-from-them-through-phone--c773497.html

Do Someone have trust on this Indian Company. In IT their is another company Exist called TCS abbreviation for TATA consultancy service.

Do they all Cheat.

Is someone (indian) would like to share their experience with this thief company.

Thanks
My preferred method for training right now is "promiscuous pairing" http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

As for hardware setup, the best I have used is: machines with cloned monitors, two mice, and two keyboards, both side by side so the developers can talk in low tones and not bother anyone else. I do this now at work, and it is a lot of fun, and it really averages to be that we get done more than twice what we would work normally alone.
Looks very useful, but they need to update their landing page text. "Tag" is way too overloaded. As a user of Google analytics, etc. I didn't realize what this was. Something like:

"Tags are the snippets of code you've had to manually include on your website, like analytics or conversion tracking. Tag manager includes the code automatically, without any website changes."
Although I haven't had a chance to try this myself, I've been hearing lots of good things about the practice known as "Promiscuous Pairing". Arlo Belshee wrote a paper about it here: http://csis.pace.edu/~grossman/dcs/XR4-PromiscuousPairing.pd..., and I found an insightful blog post about someone else's real experiences with it here: http://www.semantikoz.com/blog/2012/03/25/promiscuous-pairin...
I think the point is that McLoone is using two different notations and measuring an artifact of this. There's nothing special about base-10 denominators.
I didn't downvote you, but I think the counterpoint might be that the 'trail' of being discouraged from taking certain career paths starts a lot earlier than you might suggest.
> I am generally a pedestrian, and in my experience when I am running on a paved path and cyclists go around me, they sometimes say "on your left" which works pretty well, but bells are great.

As a cyclist, I don't feel like it works very well. About 50% of the time the pedestrian startles and dodges when they hear you say it. In about 50% of those cases, the direction they dodge is to the left. And this is on the bike path where pedestrians are presumably accustomed to and expecting bicycle traffic.

I still do it for the sake of courtesy (and the hope that it will eventually become a common and well-understood practice), but I don't rely on it and give pedestrians as wide a berth as possible as well.
And I still can't sleep my Powerbook /w Radeon because post KMS radeon doesn't support it yet (no one ported the pre-KMS code from the X driver portion of radeon into the post-KMS radeon kernel driver).

OTOH, I can just leave KMS off and have no 2D or 3D acceleration.

/rant
Are they ranked by Alexa rank?

Maybe it should be Canada's Top 100 WEB Startups? (problem with original article)

I realize that having a successful internet presence is important to a company, but I don't think it is the end-all measure of whether something is a "top startup". Is it even a valid metric unless your business is in selling advertising impressions?

Alexa is the leading provider of free, global web metrics. Search Alexa to discover the most successful sites on the web by keyword, category, or country. Use our analytics for competitive analysis, benchmarking, market research, or business development. Use Alexa's Pro tools to optimize your company's presence on the web.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=oil+price

The cost of oil has gone through the roof, even compared to the 80's oil crisis where the middle east shut-off gas to the US.

[edit] Removed some comments that referenced a different comment that I thought was the parent to this comment.
Broken it up! Thanks :)

https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/blob/master/inuit.c...
How did the, er, extended description of the last 10 minutes of the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings go down?

Did you have a live terminal on the projector and demonstrate a few commands and then show how the output of one can be piped into another?

I'm interested in the balance between demo and explanation for this kind of audience.
>a dumb JS-enabled-dynamic-interactive fad //

They still have that, so not so much of a fad. It works but at the time it got in the way for me too and probably contributed to me jumping ship as well.

HN crowd on /. comment moderation with slimmer graphics and collapsible comment trees (like reddit) would probably be close to what I think of as ideal.
Ask HN: Please help me find an app similar to Billmonk.com
I was an avid user of Billmonk.com but lately the app has turned buggy and unusable. probably the creators have stopped maintaining it! So I was just looking to find some alternatives available on the Internet or on Android Play Store?
If you need schedulability for outgoing calls / SMSes in Twilio send me an email. I have bled all over this topic; you can avoid some of the more painful mistakes by talking to me. Without casting aspersions about people attempting to increase the community's knowledge through blog posts let me say that it goes substantially deeper than an N-line code snippet.
Every HN reader knows that. But "normal" web users do not know it (anymore?). Every so often I see some anecdotal evidence of that when I watch people doing searches.
At $500 how did this at one point hit the front page of Hacker News, seriously, not worth it.
Notice many people working at tech startup in silicon valley are either A) Rich already and went to Ivy League or could afford a good university education, or 2) Foreigners who got their education elsewhere.