skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can buy pneumatic submersible pumps. I could see having a compressor on the upper levels of the building drive the pump in the basement.

http://www.atlascopco.us/usus/products/navigationbyproduct/p...

Of course, if the diesel has water in it it's no good anyway. And the submersible pumps are mainly sludge or slurry pumps and (I suspect) not rated to handle fuel.
I'm going to have to partially disagree with this.

I agree there is definitely information asymmetry going on. However, usually a movement in a stocks price is lead by institutional money. This is for the most part what every hedge fund competes on, a competitive advantage.

If you think that your observation has escaped institutional investors eyes then I'd disagree with you. I'm completely biased as I'm in the industry but I think most people would be very surprised by just how much the average hedge funder knows about the companies they have positions in.

There were rumors circulating a couple days before the announcement that this was coming.
I think this comparison is completely misplaced. A language like C++11 simply doesn't even aim at being succinct like Python.
No, they are most used browsers, but they are not "most browsers" as they are 2 out of 5 "standard" major browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome)
Thanks for the link! It had exactly what I was hoping for from the actual article / OP.
That's the thing, you don't have to schedule each tweet individually. You just top up your buffer and have posts tweeted automatically.
Somewhere, a CoffeeScript Village is Missing Its Idiot
list is mutable while str is not. So reverse() should return a new copy, but it would duplicate the functionality of s[::-1] (which is quite idiomatic, although a bit obscure)
I thought this was an article from The Onion.
You should just give it a go. It might work well for you.

It was a total failure for me because I found I needed the psychological aspect of going to an office and sitting at a desk to shift into "work mode." (The anecdotal 'proof' being a 2x jump in income between these two settings.) But we're all different.. luckily :-)
You know the saying - once is bad luck, twice is a coincidence, thrice is usually an enemy action.

I see the google news strongarm with france and germany, the tax issues with other european countries, the reports about the stock lows in the french press, anger against youtube allowing the diffusion of anti-religion movies - with protests in the uk and continental politicians explaining it is hurting sensibilities - it just seems more than pure randomness to me.

I make a judgement call. Call that conspiracy theory if you prefer.

Maybe google is just a very large entity, but it's a) profitable, b) non european and c) advocating free speech, which makes it a good target for populist european politicians.
Why are the backup generators on the 17th floor and not the 3rd floor? Assuming there is a very good reason for that,

Why wasn't there an additional pumping room on the 3rd floor, pre-built, with a legal amount of diesel in reserve, and a additional pumps to take over from the basement pumps when those fail, thus saving your bucket brigade 14 floors of climbing?

Why are you carrying diesel in the open in 5 gallon buckets and not in fuel containers that were purchased years ago?

All in all seems somewhat half-assed.
The goal is allow businesses to operate between member states as easily as within them, which includes preventing double taxation. The Double Irish thing is exploiting a loophole created by the combination of such EU regulations and peculiarities of the Durch and Irish tax codes, to effectively avoid taxation entirely, which may not be against the letter of the law, but certainly against its spirit.

It's quite possible for such things to be retroactively declared invalid, such as in the case of Hoolywood's "stupid German money": http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/media/2003-08-11-hollyw...
Please, let's not talk about it again – what do you think about the app itself?
What was the old domain when it was still tampon?
This is a great example of CSS becoming programming.

With preprocessors (mentioned at the end of the article), prototyping can finish with an element like

<form class="content-box last mid-bg corner-box border-box bevel-box-light pad-box">
...
</form>

then turn back to your application.less, throw in:

.username-form {
.content-box;
.last;
.mid-bg;
.corner-box;
.border-box;
.bevel-box-light;
.pad-box;
}

and we're suddenly working with higher-level concepts in CSS, specifically not the basics of the style attributes.

Working this way gives you room to play with in-browser prototyping in a strong way, using just the inspector and classes on elements to build up your visuals.
There was a piece of DOS software in the late 80's called HyperPad which had tiles and used them to display status and launch applications. I can't find a single screenshot of it though unfortunately.

I'm sure that is probably slightly "more prior" art.
I'm 100% with you on the nonsense of "self-plagiarizing". But I think making up quotes wholesale in a non-fiction piece ought to be enough by itself to get you drummed out of journalism.
My experience has been the opposite in some cases, mainly due to C++ being statically typed, and having fewer implicit happenings.

Yesterday I spent a chunk of my day debugging why my Python script reported that zero computers on the network were using DHCP. Apparently the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration property DHCPEnabled returns 'True' or 'False' in Python (those are strings, not bools). In C++ that's a compile time error. The Microsoft documentation says DHCPEnabled is a bool. So between implicit functionality (evaluating strings as bools) and dynamic typing, this isn't screaming scalability to me.

Yes, this is just one example, but it points to a whole class of errors that are lurking out there in production code. My guess would be, a complex C++ program written in the Lakos style would be more scalable than the equivalent Python program.
So is it a one-to-one tweet/time-slot match? I can see a usefulness of filling up the stream and letting the schedule do its work. But this must be a feature most suitable for marketers etc, no? As a casual sharing, I don't tweet a lot anyway so I guess I have no need for scheduling.
It was a good response, but I still don't agree with what he did. I don't think there is any other way to take a "tip" reminder, so like the other comment says there are better ways to communicate this.

I did not know that coffee preperation could be so intricate!

The coffee shop is in Montreal, so the same tipping confusion applies as in the USA.
Would you consider a project called DICK or COCK to be misogynistic too?

Without wanting to start an argument, your example doesn't strike me as misogynistic; it doesn't seem like it would be any more offputting to women than to men, if we're assuming the same baseline personality.
Congrats Avi. Your students are killing it.
I think that you're right, but I don't see that as a universal truth either. There are a lot of problems that you can solve even if the product looks like complete poop.

I certainly agree that design helps, and if nothing else, it helps traction. Stripe is an example of something that could suck, but works so well that it would still solve a problem. That said, it doesn't hurt that their product is gorgeous, and it certainly makes it more sticky in mindshare. I still remember how giddy I got when I noticed that their documentation uses your actual API keys instead of having the dumb old "<INSERT_YOUR_API_KEY>" you see everywhere else.

I'd have still used Stripe either way, but the fit and finish throughout made me a staunch advocate for its ease of use to everybody that's ever asked me.

In counterpoint, Dotcloud is the cloud hosting provider I generally believe to be "the best". Their homepage has come a long way, and if Solomon or any other Dotclouders are reading this, I apologize in advance, but it used to be downright ugly. On top of that, the dashboard they provided obviously had an abysmal level of fit and finish, and while some of its warts persist, it's come a long way. That their product wasn't beautiful absolutely impeded my use of it in no way whatsoever. It is easily the 'best' way to deploy code for a variety of services, whether or not it's attractive, or even 'complete'.

So long as the pain you ease is substantially greater than the pain you are introducing, the product can work.

I agree that isn't an excuse for bad design, but the notion that better design makes something better isn't necessarily a reason to always pay top dollar for it. If you can get design on the cheap (either Bootstrap or similar products), through 99 Designs, or even by just reading a book, and execute in other areas, then you'll likely come out ahead, and revisit the design when it's more easily affordable.

The point though, is that the same thing could be said for engineering. Bring in only the minimum you need to solve the problem you're trying to solve. If you don't have a rockstar engineer, but do have somebody that can mock up a proof of concept that may or may not scale, that's what you should push forward with.

Like I meant to say in my previous post, I feel like we agree more than we disagree, I was just trying to point out that the priority #1 for a bootstrapped startup should be pushing product out the door. If it's ugly, won't scale, whatever -- ship product. Would a more attractive product be better? Of course it would, but that shouldn't slow down shipping.
It probably has a hydraulic elevator, which would necessitate having all the mechanical stuff at the bottom.
Not nearly as dangerous as gasoline would be. Diesel's flash point is like 60°C.
While that device does sound nice to have around, I disagree with the notion that it seems such an obvious thing for the market to produce. It would have very little market appeal outside of the development community in my opinion.
You can get this behavior now by using Social Fixer: http://socialfixer.com/
Agreed. Trying to find a decent high-resolution screen is a real pain today. Dial back 5 years, and it wasn't such an issue! Everyone makes "HD" up until 24"... 24" HD is nasty.

I would hope for something approaching 3000 x 1500 in a 24" screen :-(
I'm happy that you changed your pricing to 2.9% + 30¢ - it did actually feel too expensive before. Thank you for supporting The Rest Of The World too! If I needed a payment gateway right now, your service would be a total no-brainer.
That is precisely how it is different. We're not talking about content that is just consumed with our eyes. It is consumed by computer programs also. And we need to convey information in a way that those programs can understand. Hiding semantic meaning in classes is bad, as is pushing presentation information into markup. A screen reader has no way to understand that a div with a class of "errormsg" is anything at all. It is just a generic meaningless item. A screen reader can understand that a paragraph tag with a role of "alert" has a specific defined meaning, this is text content indicating an error or warning message. Just as a div with a class of "navbar-fixed-top" is completely meaningless, and a nav tag conveys the specific meaning of "this is a container holding navigation items".
Weirdly, some of those projects actually predate the official availability of Kickstarter in the UK by quite a while.
what is wrong with brew solution?
Every now and then Linus says something slightly stupid, maybe even on purpose. The "shock title" effect.

Obviously 2560x1600 on 11" is utterly useless as it is on tablets. 1366 is equally dumb. Whatever goes in between is generally fine. I start being happy at around 1920 for 13" (and it's 4:3 friend) since, after that, i can't see pixels at all and in native mode I can't see the text too well either.
I don't think that's a personal thing.
Apple's update flow is huge, averaging over a gig a month it seems to me. Probably impractical to download it all over dial-up even if you run the updater every night.

But let me ask why you jumped into this conversation: do you or someone you know of have experience keeping OS X patched over a dial-up connection? Do you have reasons to believe it is possible?
LinkedIn shutting off Whitetruffle's API access
Umm, Apple isn't part of the Dow

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/movers/dow/
The S&P 500, at time of writing, is down 0.26%. AAPL has a coefficient of expected co-movement with the market (ß) of 1.22. Thus, the expected co-movement of AAPL to the market is -0.32%. AAPL is down 1.8%. The remainder would be attributable, given no more information, to non-systemic factors.

AAPL currently has an implied volatility of 28.93%. The odds, quick-and-dirty Gaussian [1], of today's return happening by chance is less than 1%.

>"Apple's movement over the past three months has been an exaggerated version of the NASDAQ or the Dow"

Over the past three months (60 trading days) the historic ß has been 1.26. This would make the systemic portion of today's return -0.33%. Curiously, the historic ß for the past year (250 trading days) has been 0.94.

[1] Using a non-Gaussian alpha-stable or asymmetric generalised hyperbolic distro still implies this being a significant event not attributable to market noise (though there is some shadiness happening in the markets today with system's coming online after a non-standard detachment, e.g. KNX declaring self-help)
Show HN: My first crack at d3js - Presidential debate bi-focal word cloud
I don't think most people read newspapers on a daily (or even monthly) basis, and they're not going to be able to get their news online that day.
Direct link --- http://www.cplusplus-soup.com/2012/10/value-semantics-and-po...
I used Win7 on 1920x1080 and has zero issues with the DPI handling. Oh yeah except for chrome, but, i don't use it then. On firefox i set devperpixel to 1.2. Other apps all work with the system dpi setting.
this link said nothing about providing 'tech house'
see title for 'electronic dance house' which would show your distaste for music 'popular' enough to be used in a large dance/rave setting
Ask PG: YC Talent Pool?
Was wondering if you or the folks at YC have thought of this. I know Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners both have talent pools, where they connect interested developers and designers to startups they have funded.

As someone who is transitioning from being a student to wanting to work with a small team full-time, I would personally love to be a part of a talent pool that could connect me to promising startups funded by YC that are in need of my skills.

I also know a lot of the companies funded by YC are also looking to expand their teams and may have difficulty recruiting talent; so I think it’d be something beneficial for both sides. Have you all ever thought of trying something like this?
Wow. Amazing!

Would love to see a section about what to do with your time once your business is covering all your expenses ("filling the void" type stuff)
Hacking the new Philips Hue
"there are no ads built in the OS and I never see any, period. It's just like on iOS, I don't know what on earth he's on about."

I was referring to Amazon's Kindle Fire, but the Android experience in general is filled with ads. Not only does a core app like Google Maps include sponsored links, Google pushes consumers and developers towards ad-supported apps by offering limited payment options in the Google Play store. Three quarters of all apps in the Google Play store are free, and many of those have ads supplied by Google or its daughter companies.

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applicat...
True - I'm sure many people would appreciate being given the option by default by Facebook though.
Tragedia Niedźwiadka na Wesoło
No unicode support yet (thought of that right after clicking the submit button) so that could be what you're experiencing. Also, let me know if you see the recaptcha. Some browser extensions block them out.

Otherwise, email me with whatever details you can offer [jprichter at gmail]. I'd be happy to figure this out.
But this isn't "because of X".

Anything you can write as a macro in lisp you can write as a normal function in haskell, without special gymnastics.
motivate, lead, pay.
Is Hipmunk running on GAE?
Sweet.

Can I add to the feature wishlist an option to turn off battery hungry, non-essential features at a certain battery life trigger point?
Nikola yet another static site generator; beats hyde, pelican.
There's plenty of popular science books that are written by respected scientists - Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Stephen Hawking - as well as books that are effective summaries of accepted information by laypeople, such as The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (which interweaves the history with first-person narrative of the author's interactions with Lacks's living relatives) or The Big Bang by Simon Singh.

There's also lots of blogs written by laypeople or former researchers who carefully distill and contextualize individual scientific papers, such as many of the folks at Discover Magazine blogs (Phil Plait, Ed Yong).

Moreover, there's a larger problem of lay journalists, public, and many university PR people treating every bit of research as a groundbreaking answer to a huge question, when the reality is that each paper is merely a bit of dialog in a massive conversation about the nature of our universe. This leads the public to become rightfully distrusting of the massive overstatements, and therefore tragically disinterested in the nuanced conversation behind it all.

So perhaps the single best thing to do is become part of the conversation! Follow authors and bloggers on social media, talk to your friends in science, furrow your brow at bombastic university press releases and seek the nuance. This will lead you to the best books, articles, and science communicators out there.
I agree with this statement, but I would add a fourth:

4) What are the potential rewards?

Assuming a magical node.js script existed, the backend resources needed are immense, with no up-front profit. The http server mentioned needs to be hosted somewhere, and that somewhere has to be known by the user so he can tell his friends to go to some.domain.com:1773/instance.

Also, the overhead of the latency would negate the usefulness of running any code on the client. In those 30 ms that it takes to tell the client a request has come in, the server could already have responded. This hammers the NIC for little gain.

Sure, it's a cool idea, but it's not going to net any real profit (unless you can convince some VCs to ignore logic and give $$ based on "cool").

I'd rather see a simple node instance hoster, where you can upload code and have it run publicly:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting

If I wanted the code to run on the client, I'd also like to see a kind of folding@home that distributes data sets to clients. That idea has real potential for profit, and doesn't require nearly the resource investment of node.js running in a browser.

However, for a "cool" side-project with no intent for profit, I agree, improving 1) will drastically increase hobbyist interest. Hobbyists have their own ideas as well.
This is classic competition at work. Along comes Stripe that forces companies that are not asleep, like Braintree, to compete on price or innovation or some other axes.
its just a proof of concept and i think the devs are aiming to dump tons of content (that can be accessed within license) into the sleek and efficient usability of turnchannel.
I'm surprised to see so many building experts on HN.
Ok, where do I get the 9 Gigapixel version? :-)

P.S. Yes, I know I don't really need that much resolution, but still.
which 'genres' if you are familiar with soundcloud, would you be looking for to listen to a mix of tunes you haven't been familiarized with?
Lessons for Startups That Are Looking To Go Global
Yes, it apparently has. The largest problem I see in this new trend is portability. Certainly, if you have full control over the environment and require everything to be bleeding-edge you are fine. If not... Well, just have a look at boost source code and you will see how concise nested workarounds in #ifdefs really are.

If your environment is solely your own and you don't care about having your users build something, fine.
I don't think there are any concrete plans right now. I'm not really an insider, bubt this is my understanding of the situation:

At the moment, the JVM implementation is the primary one and that is the one Rich is mostly working on. ClojureScript is a side project that has the potential to one day turn into the primary implementation, but it's not like there's a set timeline for that happening. Basically, Clojure-in-Clojure is a "nice to have", but it's somewhat difficult to do well, so right now they're working on a project that's halfway there and they can reevaluate going the rest of the way when it's sufficiently mature.
All the details aren't out yet, so we can't be certain what is or isn't Fusion Drive. However, the speculation is that Fusion drive is more than merely a union of two disks, but with an OS level automatic tiering. (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/apple-...)
Yes, it's still connected to the outside world, and has been continuously thus far. Example of a site still being served from machines at Peer1: http://blog.squarespace.com/

(I am a Squarespace employee)
>C++ has lost momentum and credibility.

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm not a C++ guy, but I was thinking of picking it up. By what metric do you mean it has "lost credibility?"
Is Chrome OS also a "Bad Thing"? If everything runs in the browser, the browser becomes the OS, just like on Firefox OS.

I agree, however, that some things (like web servers) don't belong in a browser. Browsers can do a lot of things, but there are definitely some things they should not do.
This is probably a hallmark of any sufficiently large, complex and popular software. There will be completely divergent (or at least different enough to believe themselves so) subsets of users with different use requirements. Without careful negotiation this can lead to deadlock.

Objecting to a feature enhancement that has no negative effect on your own preferred usage is probably not the best use of anyone's time. Exceptions can and should be made for changes which might accidentally affect your core usage though, such as changing the default rendering.

That said, I imagine any change in vim is going to get enough exercise that bugs will be found fairly quickly.

As for this specific feature, I imagine it would be some text hinting similar to coloring, but it would be ignored in console use, leaving gvim to do different font rendering based on hints.
The extra syntax is not there for nothing. It's adding type information. Thus allowing error checking or dispatching by type or optimisations at compile time.
It is a cost in terms of syntax and readability but it's not for nothing.

So for correct programs the end result might be the same in terms of values. For buggy code and runtime speed that's not necessarily the case.
yeah agreed, i have an in with some of the devs on this - the volume slider was a secondary feature and is on the list last time i heard, stay tuned (haha) for the next release,
Dropbox as a database is a actually great idea. It takes away scaling problems from the developer and puts the data control back to the user.

I'm actually working on NimbusBase, a product that allows you to write clientside javascript applications where there is no server code and data is stored inside of Dropbox. It also integrates with backbone.

Shameless plug: sign up for our beta! http://nimbusbase.com