skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think of it as a placement agency, i.e. contractor, who works for you, then yes that extra % may seem like a problem. But then do you manage sick/vacation time? A company who manages the schedule would usually try to have a backup cleaner during those times or provide a new cleaner in the event the current one leaves. They might also follow up to maintain work standards. They might(should) provide insurance coverage on your belongings in case of an accident.
On the cleaner side, finding "part-time" work is often a challenge and they enjoy the benefit of having the job handed to them and don't have to worry about where the next job is coming from.

It's interesting, there seems to be a few here on HN that have a problem with people building businesses and making money. Is it implausible that the cleaner you have had for months/years could end up with more work than they can handle and begin to bring in help to do the jobs they won? That's often how small businesses are created.
I would argue that it's dependent on what you're trying to accomplish. Sure, you learn a ton, but it still comes back to the issue of how well you can perform when you're trying to juggle a side project, a day job or whatever else you're working on.

Personally, I've found that when I do multiple large projects at once, I sacrifice performance on each. There is a tradeoff in what you learn, but I'm not sure it's an equal tradeoff.
Why not try freelancing? Take on only enough work to support your living costs, which should be far less than a full time job if you are a developer (I'm betting you could get by on 5-10 hours per week if you are careful with your money), and leave the rest of your time free to do whatever you want.

You are not going to get rich doing it that way, but wealth doesn't seem to be a concern of yours anyway.
There are a couple of (related) reasons. The first thing to recognize is that systems such as this one are designed for parallel workloads where all processes are running in lockstep, communicating via MPI with frequent barriers. This is very different from MapReduce and other asynchronous or "embarrassingly parallel" workloads where GFS, HDFS, etc. tend to be used. Distributed filesystems used in high-performance computing (such as Lustre, IBM's GPFS, etc.) also have to be able to handle both reads and writes with high throughput, whereas GFS is mostly optimized for reads and appends.

Why not just install disks in the compute nodes and run Lustre there? Since all the nodes are working together in lockstep, system jitter is a major problem. Imagine that you have a job running across 10,000 nodes and 160,000 cores, and a process on one of those cores get preempted for a millisecond while a disk I/O request is being serviced. Everyone waits, and you've suddenly wasted 160 core-seconds. Now, if this happens only 1000 times per second across the whole machine, it's clear that you're not going to make much forward progress, and the whole system is going to run at very low efficiency. For this reason, Crays and similar large machines run a very minimal OS on the compute nodes (a linux-based "compute node kernel" in the case of Cray). Introducing local disks would go against the whole philosophy.

There's also the issue of network contention. The network is typically the bottleneck, and you want to minimize the extent to which file I/O competes with your MPI traffic.

As someone else mentioned, the solution is to have a dedicated storage system (often Lustre running on a semi-segregated cluster). This approach is used almost universally by the 500 systems on the Top 500 list (http://top500.org), for example. It's not just inertia :-).
The promotion is only available to "eligible merchants", but it is not clear what qualifies one as eligible.

Anyone from Braintree willing to clarify?
As with most promotions aimed at user acquisition, you're unfortunately out of luck.
I don't know if this makes it fit your definition of "framework" any better, but to create the CSS provided by Bootstrap a "compiler processes some custom language" (they use http://lesscss.org/) and you can tweak variables to get different CSS output.

You can also "override previously defined styles" but I don't really understand why you would think you couldn't.
Just curious, why would you draw such a horribly flawed inference?

I read the article closely, and I was also struck by the similarity of what he was trying to what Malcolm Gladwell does. And the end of the article the parallel is made very clearly.
Yes, for some an option, but usually cloud doesn't fly here (I live in the mountains) and the languages are usually not the problem, the environment is. I like my tools :)

On my Pandora I do scala/clojure/java (yep, Swing) coding (the new JVM for ARM by Oracle is really good, I never thought I would say that, but it's an amazing piece of work for such 'small' memory and performance footprint as the OpenPandora), Haskell works well, the whole linux build chain works well, LAMP stack works well, I can run Rails, Django, Apache, Node.js. And amazing batterylife with the option to swap out batteries on the go. Only, the screen is way too small and doesn't work under anything more than almost darkness :)

The iPad 3 works fine everywhere, but I cannot do much work on it and I haven't found an Android pad which works well enough for fulltime coding nor have I found a good enough case to work with for any of those. Most cases are really bad chinese things which have a broken power supply (batteries or anything in between loading and the batteries) after a few weeks usage. Anyone? :)

If the Nexus 10 sells anywhere near the amount the Nexus 7 does, there might finally be some good accessories. I would almost do a Kickstarter to make different form factor clamshell keyboard/battery/connection docks for android phones and pads. Almost...
It's a fair question, as channel stuffing is not unheard of. The HP TouchPad, for instance, shipped far more units than were sold to customers. At one point Best Buy sat on over 200 000 unsold TouchPads that were returned to HP and eventually priced at just $99 each to get rid of the inventory.

With that said, I think the correlation between shipping numbers and sales for the Nexus 4 is probably close, considering the clear demand for the phone.
Clojure By Example: Beginners
You send a very short email to pg with links to your user name and comments, and asking for an unban.

Or you just create a new username.
Why Only An Idiot Would Get Rid of Verizon
Have you ever used AT&T for any service? They suck. I had AT&T DSL for years and had nothing but problems, run-around, at times they sold me faster speeds that they then couldn't deliver in my neighborhood. I've had billing issues where they charged me more than they were supposed to.

If your DSL goes out, get ready to talk to an Indian dude for about an hour, only to have the call dropped and then you have to call back and explain everything all over again, "What OS do you use?"

AT&T has worst customer service I've ever experienced.

Verizon? Awesome. No billing issues, no signal issues, I never even call them.

So if you want to switch your phone to AT&T, have fun with that =)
I think comparing 2560x1440 on 27" and 13" is not fair, the pixel density is not the same, and in my experience is actually beyond any difference we can see, and I'm yet to see a double-blind study that proves otherwise.
I'm not sure that leaving details out of the proposal is really that smart. It seems like we're doing the public a disservice by excluding them from the kind of information traditional funding sources use to make allocation decisions, because it reduces the basis for making funding decisions on all proposed research to oversimplified descriptions, while providing no insight into traditional research funding.

In other words, people can get duped into funding research that is not as well founded as this one (supposedly), and we pass over a key opportunity to teach the public how organizations like the NIH make funding decisions. Maybe if people had an idea about how rigorously funding proposals are analyzed they would be less likely to cut science funding because of inane arguments like Sarah Palin made about public funding to study fruit flies.
Uber Turns On 'Surge Pricing' In NYC Post-Sandy, Then Retreats After PR Backlash
The summary for the TechCrunch article you posted below reads to me like an outline. As long as the extractions encapsulate the main themes and ideas of a certain piece, they would be viable study tools.
iMessage sends and receives text messages. That's a pretty weak lock in - there pretty much isn't a mobile phone made that it can't interoperate with going back a decade or so.

Maps, I'm curious as to how this is a lock in, or who it is who is desperate to get Apple maps on their non-iOS device but I'm sure as this is an Apple issue you'll be able to point me at where I can get the great official Android Maps / Navigation app for my Kindle Fire then? Oh yeah, it's official licensees only.

And the version of BlackBerry messenger for iOS? Or Android?

And I can access Microsoft Windows Phone Rooms from Android can I?

Specific functionality offering competitive advantage are only ever shared by people when it's in their interest. That's not an Apple specific issue, you'll see the same with pretty much every device.

And physical hardware connectors - Micro-USB as a standard for charging is fine but the fact that they both have a Micro USB port doesn't mean that you can use Android peripherals other than a charger with a BlackBerry or Nokia Lumia.

And for chargers - kids don't need dozens of chargers, in most cases the one in the box will be fine. If not $10 on eBay will get you another one - hardly a massive issue when we're talking about phones generally costing hundreds of dollars.

The reality is that device change has always had barriers but Apple's don't seem to me to be significantly worse that anyone elses.
I think he calls it "database" because it is strongly integrated with the database syntax of the Opa language. You can declare and use this "dropbox-database" just like a Mongo one, independently of the notion of safe-ness of the database.
The exercise was more about evaluating what the tool could bring for already-optimized code than about comparing the results against what an expert programmer could achieve manually.

It is true that the application domain of the code chosen for the blog post might be a bit unfortunate in order to make a realistic case. Game engine programmers are usually very good at low level optimizations. Pareon can be used by non-experts though and additionally assist experts in during the task of finding and applying optimizations and paralellization oportunities.

Quoting the blog update [1]:

"Our Pareon tool is not aimed to replace parallelization experts. We want the tool to be useful for any programmer who is looking for paralellization opportunities in either his own code or in code that he is unfamiliar with. A domain expert (game programmer) can probably save some time because of his in-depth knowledge."

Additionally:

"The three additional cores on my four-core machine are only used during part of a rendering cycle. They are sleeping the rest of the time. If I would parallelize other pieces of code in the cycle as well, it would increase utilization and I would expect the frame rate to improve even more."

[1] http://www.vectorfabrics.com/blog/item/accelerating_the_idte...
I imagine that spilling diesel down the stairs would be hazardous. At the very least, it's extremely viscous (slippery). In addition, that's probably one of the fire escape routes.
Yeah. Metro is resolution-independent, it can scale to 100%, 140% or 180% (or at least, those are the asset sizes suggested)
OP and co-founder here. Anenth and Sandeep hacked this up at Droidcon Bangalore Hacknight last weekend, and we polished it a bit since then. We have lots of tweaks/improvements planned for it, including:
* Auto-posting (via server) to FB/Twitter when you battery drops to 20%
* Show call-receiver's battery % when you call them
* Crowdsourced battery life data

Would love feedback & ideas here or droidjuice@ideophone.in
Not from a hardware perspective definitely. But when a kid's interest in software is piqued at say, 9 or 10, would you rather that he/she be using an open source OS that encourages tinkering or a beautiful black box?
Seeking Enlightenment (Rasterman E17 Interview)
quantum computing to store state in quarks

Atoms or electrons, but not quarks.
Was it worth it? Really?
I'd assume because there's little need for higher framerate displays. Videos are usually 30fps at the max, your cursor doesn't need to blink that fast, and games are perfectly playable at 60fps.
Currently working on playlists and expanding genres. Follow @turnchannel or add me on skype: shawnjanas to be notified! Thanks for all the great feedback!
... you're right, I misunderstood. Though frankly that's insane. The mini is 14mm wider, 2mm longer and actually slightly lighter. It's simply "the same size" to any sane observer. The attempt to argue that it's not is just Apple marketing, trying desperately to achieve market separation in a segment that doesn't really have much.
Very cool. Does anyone know why some areas are somewhat blueish. And what about the very bright stars?
"Good intentions are the opposite of good actions."

Maybe it loses something in the translation. If I had to guess, I would have said that bad intentions are the opposite of good intentions.

Anyway, given that an awful lot of good actions start with good intentions, this doesn't seem a very useful saying at all.
In the world of SaaS, social media, NoSQL and NodeJS, everything which has already been thought of and brought to maturity is suddenly new, shiny, incomplete, buggy and has a new name. It's a brave new world - enjoy your stay.
Why MDM Still Matters
Well deserved, and way overdue!
I'll go ahead and say that I feel bad for him, but he's still wrong. He shouldn't have the right to have it taken down, but it does get into the interesting area of how "free speech" is defined around the world. In theory, Google (web search) just helps you find what other people are talking about.

"What are the sites that mention 'Milorad Trkulja'?"

"well, one of the sites is this melbourne crime site..."

It's kind of interesting to consider that Google -- by finding that result and giving it to you (especially with a snippet) -- is in fact repeating the statements contained in the result. However, it seems like they should be able to argue that it's not libel, because it is a fact that some site wrote that content. If that's not upheld, search engines become useless or sued out of existence (as does, say, the news).

This is the dangerous water we're wading into with any "right to forget" focusing on search engines (because they're the big fish and can bear it financially, essentially) instead of the actual source of whatever a person wants forgotten. You can pretty easily imagine large sections of the internet that aren't allowed to be indexed based on arbitrary submissions by people, presumably unevenly applied if there's not a central clearinghouse of "statements of which we shall not speak", but instead, notices are sent to whatever search engines/major sites that the person happens to notice (DMCA takedown notices fit that bill too well already, but this would be even worse, as it's not specific links, but "don't associate my (somehow disambiguated) name with this subject").

It's hard to know exactly what to do in this case, though, because the original offending site really does appear to be "defunct" and the only links I can find to it lead to a domain registration page. The search results are also now flooded with this story, of course, so, is he only winning on past defamation? The procedure should be to get the offending site to take down the content and then have Google remove it from its cache, but that appears to be already done.
No worries :). I've been playing with stocks lately so am aware of a lot of potential misconceptions [esp. around the raw share price, vs. market cap and P/E being indicators of value].

Apple very well could depreciate in value if their earnings slip. That would put its P/E in the bottom half of the S&P 500 (historically Apple's P/E has been around 15, it's around ~14 now).
I found that if you go away from those 'core' libraries, quality drops sharply. Giving just one example may be unfair, but I do it anyways: the readline bindings (haskeline) didn't build on OS X for 2 major releases straight.

Haskeline is not bindings to readline or editline, but pure haskell. It does use libiconv, which is a chamber of horrors on OS X, and the source of your problems. But if you were using ghci you were using haskeline, so it wasn't that it couldn't be built. It is an extremely high quality library -- surprisingly, or perhaps not surprisingly, considering that it was written by a mathematician.
Location based services vs. Maslow hierarchy of needs
According to the model of Maslow's hierarchy of needs until a
lower level need is not satisfied we don't strive to fulfill any
higher level needs. Unlike the majority of internet based
services managing information related to levels 3, 4, 5
(belongingness/love, esteem, self-actualization), a location
based service (LBS) manages information strongly related to
Maslow 2nd level needs (security).

Like all models the Maslow model has to have errors. My question
is possibly related to this error:

Privacy of physical location is strongly related to security.
Assuming your were to use a a genuinely useful LBS, if you _had
to prioritize_ what would your priorities be, usefulness or
privacy? Can you imagine any scenario where a higher level need
would override any security related need? If yes, can you
describe such a scenario or possibly more?
Why I love “describing in the browser” with OOCSS-Inspired Microclasses
Disk io has negligible CPU overhead. Preempted for a millisecond? A millisecond is millions of instructions. You're off by orders of magnitude. No matter where the disk is located, the disk io has to go across the network. If network capacity truly is the bottleneck, you have a different design problem and you cant exploit the CPUs.

EDIT: I still dont buy it, but I will give some thought to the synchronous/lockstep nature of the environment.
My sarcasm detector is broken, I think... :-/
Gotta ask, is there any benefit to having the server status open to public?
Zapier, 100+ Connected Services, a Year in Review
A link to the full paper:

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10...
Microsoft sued over use of Live Tiles in Windows 8 and Windows Phone
Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
A Skeezy Introduction to Cluster Analysis, Data Mining, and Community Detection
agreed. I want this to be the triple-click function on my iPhone 4.
This article ended up pretty light on details, but a lot more information about us here: https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/31/zapier-100-connected-serv... via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588
"a lack of commitment to one thing is just as productive as doing nothing at all."

If your goal is to build a finished product, yes, this is absolutely true. But if you choose ambitious projects beyond your current expertise, bringing the project anywhere beyond the planning stage will be a valuable experience for the purpose of learning.

Me and most people I know just have side projects for the fun of it. Why do we need strict metrics and goals?
You did a great job with the Title,"Discover the best Dance Music." This is a critique on your music selection and not your project. The music under your "House" label was not house at all. It was pop-dubstep. If your going to entice music lovers, you will have to get the genres right. Know your target.

Personally, I was excited, then very quickly disappointed. I am always looking for some quality house to listen while working.

*nice deep house, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpopObJysQ4
Any bets as to whether they will still be singing that common 'implementation efficiency doesn't matter, you can always scale horizontally' tune afterwards?
It throttles the CPU way down, keeps the screen off, doesn't spin up hard drives- in practice it takes almost no battery. Even so, you can turn it off, trivially.

I don't know if you think that everyone urging you to upgrade is lying to you or if you're just being obstinate. It's OK if you don't want to upgrade to Mountain Lion but stop complaining about problems that have been solved.
That was what caught my attention - I thought it was running locally in the clients browser or something. Peer-to-peer browser-based apps?!
Prospecting for beginners
Makes me think about http://xkcd.com/705/ .
Letterpress: One Week Later
you might not like the syntax of this particular boost lib, but it bears no relation to macro abuse in C. For one it is strongly typed.
Of course it is unreadable if you don't know C++ or boost range. But it is not more complex than a python map or filter with a lambda, if you don't know python.
Changing the world is hard, I need your help
Hey guys, I’m in a really bad situation right now and I need some help. Every once in a while I’ll read a story on Reddit about complete strangers uniting together to help out another complete stranger. Because of amazing stories like these, I am hopeful that maybe there is one person out there that is willing to help me out. I know it’s selfish of me to sit here and ask for help... especially when I’m a perfectly healthy 29 year old.

All I am seeking is shelter for me and my dog for 1 or 2 or 3 months or a week while I have a chance to save up enough money to get my own place. Right now I am in Athens, GA and it doesn't matter where I end up as long as it’s cost effective to get there. I will pay whatever I can for rent and utilities and will be completely self sufficient outside of the shelter allowed to me. I’d also like to gain a friend / mentor / role model / protege or whatever out of this.

My mid-term objective is to create a radically new ecommerce platform. I have been selling OpenCart templates and modules and business has been growing very quickly. I’ve built a theme using Twitter Bootstrap and this is the base that I am building from to eventually create my ecommerce platform.

I just found that my girlfriend of 4 years has been cheating on me after I gave her a second chance and I need to get away from here as soon as I can. This was definitely not expected and although I should have planned for circumstances like this, I'm not in a position to get another place on such short notice.

I want to believe that there are people out there that are willing to help out a complete stranger. And not that I deserve any help.. But simply just because I'm a good person who has made some mistakes and who is going through a really crappy time right now. I want to know that everything that I've aspired to do hasn't and won't be a waste of my life.

Full post here: goo.gl/6yM0t

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Interesting move. Too bad it's US only for now.

We're currently using FastSpring but both the recent opening of Braintree towards Europe and the price getting a clear 2.9% + $0.3 are making it pretty interesting.

Make a similar promotion for Europe and I'll probably switch.
It's the nature of a community, of a democracy. The citizens, as sovereigns, are ultimately responsible.

Don't like it? You can shirk your responsibility and accept your helping of shame. Or you can move to someplace that isn't a democracy.