skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is exactly what i said!

"It's definitely a valuable source for information, if you take it with a grain of salt."

I don't think that you should absorb any information without critical thinking of course, but just said, that especially news from RT about American Intelligence Failures you should be careful with.

And my observation:
There is more USA government critical thinking in the NY Times than on RT. So imo they are more based on ideology, while the NYT is of course too, but not that much.
A poor student here has offered something similar: you pay for the food, he'll come cook for you, if he can join you for dinner. He got thousands of requests (see http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE1778538/halvfattig-tilbyder-a... )

Someone has taken the idea and try to scale it since: http://www.facebook.com/cook4food

It's social, it's local, it's mobile, it's cooking!
One of the best technique I have ever seen as a user/customer is being able to do the entire call to action without having to log in / fill out forms.

eg: if you're going to sell me something, try to convert me into a longer time customer / account holder AFTER you've sold me a product.

It essentially means creating accounts on the fly based only on an email address.
Please read the first line of the grandparent comment about how information from other sources establishes that the three were given immunity from prosecution. In other words, they made a deal with prosecutors to testify.
Windows 8 FAQ: the real Frequently Asked Questions
Yup. ELB is great except it uses EBS. So part of our migration was to move off of ELBs.
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I'm talking about engineering staff, like me, my co-workers, and (very likely) you.
We did run a test some time ago. We weren't in a position to pay for their enterprise edition and the community edition didn't have the right feature set for us.

Differences between the two here:

http://www.infobright.org/Learn-More/ICE_IEE_Comparison/
I was developing programs for HPUX and visual studio between 1999 and 2002. I was such a pain that I have done my best (with success) to never code again in this language. By their very poor support of C++, I think that they have contributed a lot to the success of java.
Variadic templates are absolutely fantastic though as it allows you to have tuples<>, it allows you to have more type safety for printf() (An example can be found on Wikipedia), and it allows all kinds of new and exciting code to be written that uses it for fantastic purposes. (I used it to write a filter interface that at compile time allows you to add multiple filters into a chain. The amount of filters is unlimited because of variadic templates).

I write C++ code for a living, I also write in Python for that same living, and I have to say that C++ allows me to write safe reliable code just as well as Python. There is definite code-reuse, readability and security.

As for a complex language ... what programming language isn't complex, while still having full power?

As for the "obtuse warning and error messages", those are being worked on. Those didn't get solved simply by switching to a different language, that is something every single programming language is still working on... I still get errors in Python every so often with a huge stack trace and still have issues trying to figure out why it failed! Using clang and newer versions of gcc you now get error messages that are easy to read, easy to understand and in most cases the compiler will even tell you what you got wrong and suggests possible fixes.

I too love C++, I love C++11 and what it brings to the table. I am currently still targeting an older versions of the STL, mainly due to the fact that on OS X most C++ code is compiled against libstdc++, especially third party code, which is incompatible with libc++ when it comes to string handling. BUT I do get to take advantage of the language features, auto, variadic templates, iterator based for loops that are created for me, and lambda's.

The other thing with the new STL is that it allows the developer to write less code, and let the STL take care of cleaning up after itself. It is more exception safe, with shared_ptr<> and friends, and provides a native way to do threading without requiring calls into platform dependant code (it is abstracted away), atomicity and other tools that will help make C++ on multi-threaded/multi-core systems to do more work in parallel!

C++ has come a long way, C++11 is absolutely fantastic and has only made C++ even better than it has been before. It is a shame that valid C++ 11 code will not compile on VS2012 as it will mean we still have to do various hacks to get the same features on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Not exactly:

"Had Facebook debuted the Promote “option” with a more reasonable rate card that would apply to frequently updated blogs and media outlets—something akin to “book rate” at the post office—we’d have been willing to pay between $7 to $10 a post."

They're basically haggling about the price.
Clang, GCC, and Intel are all described as "mostly" supporting C99. This is unfortunate, and it would be nice to see them fully supported, but developer time is limited, and not all of C99's features are in high demand.

Unlike MSVC though, these compilers have included the extremely visible features -- things like inline variable declarations, designated initializers, and variable length arrays. I don't think Microsoft should implement C99 in full, but partial support would help students trying to learn C on Windows.
Just classic humanities vs. engineering ribbing. As a student of the former who has transitioned into the latter I enjoy both the bad writing engineer jokes and the "can't get a job" humanities jokes
Amazon automatic shipping....

Of course, you could probably rig a replenishment system using python, some hardware, and the Amazon API... An erp for your home...
Cool stuff... Andrew Ng's excellent Machine Learning course on Coursera also had a programming exercise that involved using k-means to reduce an image's palette (in Octave, though, rather than Python), so if you find this interesting you might consider signing up for his course the next time it comes around:

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
How is your support for users form continental Europe?
The grand jury was convened in march to rule on any crimes that might occur in the following months.
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> * Sandboxed VM's (VM per thread)

This will not make it into Ruby 2.0.0:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7003
If you were affected by this, I hope you got a big refund (1+ month).
Twitter is down again
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Does anybody know what the deal is with that top sliver of Texas?
Well, I'm more confident about video games than I am about ZeroMQ, I have to say. But I might imagine on balance of probabilities that this will turn out to be a case of "POSIX and pthreads" ;) - it often is with Unix stuff. (Sadly, Windows ain't POSIX, and it doesn't have pthreads. So... there you go.)

But it's certainly possible that Windows is even more bizarre than I suppose, in ways that I have yet to encounter.
> Mental illness takes another 10 - 15 years off life expectancy

"Mental illness" is a pretty broad category. Can you offer a source for this?
We like car analogies at WP Engine - if I sell you a racing car and you're only a moderately good driver then you're going to crash when you approach the corner at 200mph. There's little I can do about that other than teach you to drive, and I'm in the business of building the cars. There are plenty of folks who can help you improve your race-craft out there.

The way I see it, you are not selling the car, but providing a driver so that I don't have to worry about how it should be driven.

I should sit in the back and relax while you make sure that my car is driving safely and comfortably.

Maybe your message isn't clear enough if you think that your product is the car. From your website:

QUIT WORRYING AND LET US RUN WORDPRESS FOR YOU

I read:

QUIT WORRYING AND LET US DRIVE YOU CAR FOR YOU
Not really. You can have immunity forced on you so that the fifth amendment no longer applies. Then they can force you to testify, even against yourself, but they can't use that testimony or anything derived from it against you. The fifth amendment only protects you from being forced to incriminate yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastigar_v._United_States
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 shows the panhandle as immediately being part of Alaska.

This does not take into account the Alaska boundary dispute[1] which, although officially resolved in 1903, is still disputed by many Canadians.

(Note: I live about an hour away from the "disputed" border)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boundary_dispute
Which fees? On rare occasions some retailers try to charge a small fee at the point of sale on debit payments but I've never heard of a fee for the consumer to use debit.

I don't use cash and haven't for years. I only pay with debit.
Add inability to access AWS Console as well to the mix.
Oh man, I almost forgot we were SHEEPLE. wipes tear from eye Thanks for that.

In all seriousness, heavily encrypted, anonymous datablocks that people just 'back-up' on the net (I'm not advancing to the word cloud, sorry) is a pretty good idea. Trusting Google or anyone else to protect your raw data forever is probably not a good bet.
Let's give the man the benefit of the doubt, he is obviously sorry about this and said it was "an unfortunate mistake where I didn't know what I was responding too" (see links), let's not crucify someone on a field trial, none of us want to be in his shoes.

I'm neither justifying nor criticizing what he said, just let's be careful not to burn someone or something based on one mistake that we all can one day find repeating.

His clarification tweets:

https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/261189038696960002

https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/261188913991913472

I'm sure he'll be more careful on public tweets next time, but I think jumping to conclusions on his company etc is going too far.

He made a mistake, obviously seems he learned from it, and we all learned a nice little lesson in customer service, public relations and social web dynamics.
First state to outlaw slavery...sorta. Massachusetts de facto outlawed slavery by a court decision in 1781 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Massachus... , before peace was settled with the British in the Revolutionary War, and it was one of the original 13 states. Vermont was the first state to join the union after the original 13.

In 1777 the British controlled Manhattan and Long Island, with the Americans controlling the upper Hudson, and it stayed that way for the rest of the war. So politically New York must have been in turmoil, easing the way for Vermont's secession.
Well, leaving out the fact of an immunity deal is a huge omission. EDIT: immunity granted by the court, rather than offered by prosecutors.

And they quote one of the parties complaints about the time when the GJ was set up without mentioning whether it was set up specially or just in line with the normal calendar schedule. The jury in a trial is specially convened for that case. Grand juries typically sit for several months at a time and issue indictments on whatever happens to come before them. They're completely different from trial juries.
Most probably the criminals just bought/obtained PIN pads, modified them and replaced the ones in the stores when the cashier was not looking. Not so hard to do as the pads are usually on a cord and connected with a RJ (like a phone jack).
I'll be honest, the more I learn about languages like Haskell (those with a formally derived type system), the more I am convinced that C++ is complex needlessly.
No, but here is the difference. The people behind all of the mostly obviously care about implementing C99. Microsoft has said they are focusing on C++ and not on C for awhile now. If you want to be pissed about C99 support be pissed that it is taking the groups who are implementing it such a long time to get full compliance rather than bother those who have no interest in it.
>Having read some additional sources, the justification for forcing the three individuals to speak is that they were given immunity from prosecution by the grand jury. This supposedly prevents them from taking the fifth, because they can't incriminate themselves. That smells like an attempted end run around the constitution.

This is pretty standard and has been for (at least) decades. The constitutional injunction is against self incrimination. You can be forced to testify against others, and a whole lot of people have been thrown in jail over the years for refusing to do so.

>Freedom of speech must include the freedom to remain silent.

Why would you think that?

>Fourth amendment protections against search and seizure should apply as well.

This is beyond weak as a constitutional argument.
C++ and Beyond 2011: Herb Sutter - Why C++? (video)
I use www.memengo.com in combination with the iOS app.

I also own and operate the site and the app.
You aren't incorrect; nonetheless interac is the number one choice of Canadians when it comes down to paying for something.

In fact in 2000, Interac Direct Payment surpassed cash as Canadians' preferred method of payment,7 and debit card payments have continued to grow.[1]

Offering credit cards only is a bad choice for a business, since Canadians will be looking to use Interac as well. The entire "debit card" market as Americans understand it doesn't exist in Canada for exactly this reason.

Re: Fees - Many banks now offer no fee debit usage. Such as my credit union - Coast Capital Savings. I haven't paid a surcharge on my debit card use since like 2001.

1. http://www.cba.ca/en/media-room/50-backgrounders-on-banking-...
Quik.io is open for signup. Stream, download and send media to iOS devices.
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Was it because epoll vs iocp differences?
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There are a few.

GCC and FreePascal are two compilers of ANSI/ISO languages for multiple OSes.

The problem is that they may not exist on the OS you care about.
I have been using auto and lambda's in my C++ code using clang since 10.6. Since 10.8 it has only improved. If you checked a few months ago you didn't check correctly.
After Buying Buddy Media, Salesforce Lays Off About 100 From Radian6
Same here, dotCloud originally used ELB and we eventually moved off, which brought immediate and huge gains in latency and overall reliability.
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It is optional and not up to date with the latest specification.

The problem with POSIX, like any other standard, is that not all systems implement the same POSIX.
Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Phillipines (after the spanish american war), Virgin Islands..
Yes, I'm American. The Philippines is great because it's English speaking and the tourist visa is good for 18 months before having to do a visa run. You still have to renew your tourist visa every two months though (quick trip to the local immigration office will take care of that.)

To be more specific on my advice, if you are mobile then you have a wide area to chose from. Thai visa is a pain? Then try Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam or the Philippines. There are so many places to see here that you don't have to worry much about where to stay. Keep your plans flexible and be open to different routes.

That said, you won't have a problem with Thailand. I haven't had to deal with the 90 day visa limit there, but I'm pretty sure that it's an easy visa run to stay on for another 90 days. Living in Asia, that's too much of a pain for me though, which is why I chose the Philippines.
They may be looking for postings from their actual friends that happened while they were offline. Boredom is't the only reason for scrolling. And if you're pushing actual friends down the page by spamming my feed, well, I'm going to think a little less of you.
Yes, but they're acting as if this is a permanent disadvantage of this device. And again, I think it's a bit harsh to judge before it's even been released. If there were like 10 apps I'd be worried, but there are around 5000 apps already, and Win 8 will be running on plenty of desktops and laptops as well as tablets, so I think this is not really a fair critique quite just yet.
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Pssst. Hey. Let's all move to Google Plus and NOT tell our crazy aunts and grandparents.
+1 ted. A feature request right here.
Not entirely. You sounded like someone that is very happy with their current lifestyle, and even proud of it. This is good. However, given how long you've had an account here, I guessed that you had probably seen the "how to live off >4 hours of sleep a day" articles, and were familiar with that perplexing (to me) style of living.
Some banks charge a "$x fee per transaction". This has gone out of style though because of competition.

The practice of charging $x to use your card (whatever it is) by smaller businesses is actually against their terms of service and you can technically report them.
Don't forget about those crazy people that use emacs instead of vim...
Ha! Yes so true - I remember reading this and thinking, "Oh, when I 'liked' something, I didn't know I was subscribing to their feed..."
If you want to know what your friends are up to, call them... maybe?
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Just install mingw, which is even better for students given their usual lack of income.

Microsoft is not forbidding anyone else to develop C compilers.
Recently I had fraudulent charges made on my Wells Fargo debit card. That card had no history (never used at ATMs or Merchants), and even the lady I talked to from Wells Fargo fraud dept was surprised.

The only place I've used it was at the local Wells Fargo branch office with their pads to take out cash out of my checking account.

I bet they have a similar issue. Those pads are networked to their systems, all running Windows, it wouldn't take much to craft something together to pull those #s out.
Do you have a good link which explains how the grand jury operates? It's a foreign concept to me that the grand jury deals with precrime, and I'm suddenly uncomfortable with knowing so little about my country's justice system.
Welcome to statistics/data science/machine learning.

The hardest part is always getting the data into usable form. Its not as much fun as fitting models, but its definitely the majority of any role where people pay you to do this kind of stuff.

There's a lot of good research on forums (pm me if you want a bibliography i collected for a previous role), and short texts have become a bigger deal post Twitter. I completely agree with pg on the somewhat annoying nature of comments such as the GP.
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No they didn't, all three have been very upfront about their unwillingness to testify.
"Tampered PIN pads were discovered from stores in the following states: CA, CT, FL, IL, MA, NJ, NY, PA, RI. A complete list of specific stores follows."

http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/10_23_12_Imp...
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Thanks for sharing this info! Of all the points you listed I think the most important for me is "MySQL is well understood, which makes looking after it quite easy". Personally I think that our analytics requirements can be satisfied by at least half a dozen different systems out there, so management, optimisation and maintenance will be major factors. For my part, these are my thoughts on the systems we've looked at:

1. Riak: K/V stores are conceptually simple, secondary indexes look nice, and the consensus from RICON was that scaling by adding nodes pretty-much Just Works. However, no-one at RICON seemed to use MapReduce, particularly not for real-time analytics. No SQL-like querying.

2. HBase: Built on popular technologies. Amazon provides it as a service, but altogether it's very complex (a lot of components, and we're not a Java shop) and we have had trouble achieving the performance we need - although it seems from various blogs and books that it must be possible.

3. Hypertable: Still testing it, hard to find much information about it outside of the main site.

4. Postgres: Everyone knows and loves Postgres. Scaling (and performance after scaling) are concerns - we might have to go down the sharding route, and may never be able to store raw events data as it comes in.

Haven't looked at Cassandra yet, but most likely will do that soon.
Series AA terms in the UK
I recently read pg's essay on how to be an Angel investor (http://paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html), where he links to documents that can be used as a starting point for terms (http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html). I am in the UK, so I wonder if anyone can tell me how good these are for use in the UK (likely not very much?), and if there is a similar resource for UK-based start-ups.

Thanks!
Thanks to cheap database storage, it's more instructive to speak about the things which are not being monitored than the things that are.
This article is from 2009. Here is a TED talk by Sadoway from 2012, if you want a more recent look at the technology: http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_...
IPad Mini Could Cause Tablet Gaming to Explode
I think some of my fellow Canadians are being a bit harsh on Square here. You raise some good points, Starbucks is also one of the only places here in Canada that I still swipe at. Most other places insert chip.

But I think it will take a long time for those others to switch or even consider using a different platform. I'd guess that this is also what Square assumes.

But there's a big opportunity here that I enjoy dealing with in the US but hate here in Canada. I don't use cash and I travel a lot. I have to go to the airport by taxi frequently. In Canada it's a pain in the ass because they actually get out the old carbon copy machine and the drivers complain all the time. In the US the driver hands me his phone with a Square on it. So much better.
Now that's one area where Windows really differs. You can't write a high performance server for Windows without using IOCP, which couldn't be more different from what every other platform has for that kind of thing (epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, ...)

It was interesting watching node/libuv face all the same problems I did when originally trying to abstract over this.
Personally, I thought it was awesome that Hem and Haw were linking to Who Moved My Cheese? and suggesting someone else needed to read it. This seems to be a very cut-and-dry Who Moved My Cheese scenario.
Sure, and the market won't likely be kind to them.

My point is that it's illogical to "think most [small businesses] should be out of business". By their continued existence and success we can see first hand that they deserve to be in business. There are even really high end and successful places that ban cell phones and still do well. Sometimes places do well because of quirks like these. Other times not. There are many variables.

The market behaves as it does, despite what anybody thinks it should do.
I love the app, but this isn't how you win friends on the internet: http://cl.ly/image/0Y401a2D1c2R ;)
That bugs me too. I like a lot of things, but I don't want to hear or see any of them in my timeline.

I used to click "Like" on various things in Facebook, but after starting to see them in my feed I immediately un-Liked them. I'm willing to tell my friends I like Logitech keyboards, but I'm not willing to see whatever posts the Logitech PR decides to write. If I'm interested to learn about what new keyboards/mice there are in the market, I'll find it myself, thanks.

Clicking "Like" used to be a fun, whimsical thing. Now it's been turned into a marketing vehicle (I don't fault FB for doing that), so now it's more like a "Spam me please" button. It feels like more of a business exchange rather than an expression of my preferences.