skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently it is still not sold out.

I had an order for a 16GB go through and got a receipt in my email just now. @ 2:10PMEST.

I refreshed the page repeatedly until the string "Add to Cart" was found in place of "Notify". When this happened my browser window popped up and I got a notification from OS X notification center saying it was time to fill out my order. It worked flawlessly.
I think it's been said that having an affair is expressly prohibited in his line of work (given the factors laid out by others here).

He broke a really big rule. When you're in such a high position, you don't get to break big rules and then get off scott-free; rather, you will either be dismissed in a dishonorable fashion, or you can resign and save a little bit of that honor.

If he had tried to ride it out, it would've created an even greater distraction in the news, drawing even more unwanted attention onto his office and that of his superior, and superiors don't like negative attention. After all of that, he _still_ would have been let go. Get out early and save face.
Mobile web unity
A bit of a positive note here, I found that PHP Fog was more difficult to use than AppFog. I had some higher-level issues with Apache on the PHP version of AppFog that I brought up and were quickly addressed.

It might sting now, but those that used PHPFog might like AppFog more.
Comments welcome and strongly desired!
To Hold On
I like it. If you angle it just right you could hit a goldmine with this.

I would split test the single page vs. multiple page application form.

Get those early users in, get feedback, iterate. Push your main selling points. If you can get some users using this service, you can get many. I like the name too.
Don't Learn Algebra
To be completely honest, I thought this WAS a Holden Outerwear project when I checked it out from your first post. Even the branding looks similar (Holden outwear also frequently uses a handwriting style logo).
Interesting how a startup can be a success (like loosecubes) yet still fail.

All the best to those involved.
Love Racing Rats
(though still very far off the mark of paying
employees according to the value that they produce).

That's not how capitalism works.
So racist. Got it.
I hope this isn't too OT. I used VLC to listen to several audio streams. I wish the built-in bookmarking was a bit better -- just enough to keep track of these URL's without jumping through hoops.

For local media, it would be nice if VLC would (optionally?) remember where one stopped playback, so that one could resume there without having to hunt around or to manually note the location/time.

I don't want to detract from core development (i.e. thank goodness I can view/listen to this stuff reliably and without tackling a plug-in hell). Just one user's anecdote.

P.S. I'll add that initiating recording of a stream that is already playing could be a bit easier. (On Windows, I've found I have to start a second instance of VLC and start recording without first playing the stream.) And, my sincere apology if I've described features that are available but that I've missed or missed the controls for.
> There is no reason for you as pregnant woman to wear a bellyshirt, unless you're desperately attempting to call attention to yourself.

How can you possibly post this sort of nonsense and expect to be taken seriously?
No, they don't necessarily have that information. It's not available for either first-graders, and not reliable for transfer students without knowledge of the standards employed at the previous school.

What they're trying to do, naturally, is the accounting trick of paying for lack of progress by disadvantaged kids with the inevitable progress of privileged kids.

That's a completely illogical argument. If that was their goal, it would be more sensible to ignore race and just aggregate the numbers together so that failing students would become invisible. Breaking results out by race highlights any differences in achievement over the measurement period.
Got an india-nigger psy-op who doesn't know math impersonating an MIT person.

Dirac delta function, retard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function

How about a forest of them arranged some new way that has never been seen.

God says...

C:\Text\PARADISE.TXT

matin song
Of birds on every bough; so much the more
His wonder was to find unwakened Eve
With tresses discomposed, and glowing cheek,
As through unquiet rest: He, on his side
Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamoured, and beheld
Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice
Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes,
Her hand soft touching, whispered thus. Awake,
My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,
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Crazy to consider storms as big as hurricane Sandy can cause so many problems - especially for small businesses.
There are 8600 likes on google+ for the Nexus 4.
If you are very generous you could say that would translate to 860,000 purchases.

No decent smartphone manufacture plans for sales of less than 1 million units of its flagship product.

The fact that the nexus 4 sold out in every country it was sold within one hour would only demonstrate complete operational incompetence on every level to be that far off the mark.

It's a stunt and I don't like it when companies treat people like retards.

This is all a setup and im pissed because I wanted one.

Now I have to wait and play the stupid F5 game.
Mike Pall wrote a brief summary for "Reading & Understanding Lua", which is likely a prerequisite.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/63hth/ask_reddi...
I'm a developer on Yapp.

Thought some might be interested in the tech stack:

The Editor and Dashboard are built with Ember.js, which we love.

Rails on the backend, with Postgres and Redis.

We get a little help from Pusher, Transloadit and URL2PNG. The Android and iOS apps are PhoneGap with an Ember app inside.

Feel free to ask questions about our experience with any of the above.

Happy to share.
And with that attitude nobody ever learns anything.

To me it sounds like a bad excuse for security guys to stroke their own egos. 'Puny mortal, you are nothing. Repent your ways of sin and obey your gods.

Honestly, fuck that.
for not feeling comfortable with perscriptive posts you certainly make a lot of them
Why would you expect the socioeconomic status of all students at a school to be the same?
Also submitted yesterday, by someone else, but it got buried: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775644

I resubmitted since I'm pretty sure this is of interest to many HN readers. Examples of why it's interesting include:

1. Google's deep learning work is now being used to power Android voice search (http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2012/08/speech-recognition... ); and

2. Dean claims that "We are seeing better than human-level performance in some visual tasks," in particular, for the problem of extracting house numbers in photos taken by Google's Street View cars, a job that used to be done by a large team of people (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429442/google-puts-its-... ).
Had the same issue with the same device. I received a notification from my credit card vendor for a large purchase for the first one, but wallet service hung up and wasn't even waiting for a response anymore, and the items weren't removed my cart so I made a second purchase, which showed up immediately in my orders. Half hour later I received two receipts, and a second showed up in my orders screen.

So, heads up if anyone made a similar mistake :) It's easy enough to cancel the order if you need to.
I don't think any other popular http server support this. If there's a web server written in Erlang, you can be sure that is available (it's a core Erlang feature).

But apache can let you load a new .so without recompiling (or even restarting) the main server, which, for most intents and purposes, gives you equivalent functionality.
If you don't know how to argue with a point, maybe it's because you're not in an argument. :)

Obviously it "bothers me" that crypto is easy to get wrong. My point was that other things bother me more, and I don't think this genre of blog post (or your very typical reaction to criticism thereof) is helpful to improving security. See my other post -- are you one of those little BOfH monsters enabled by a little crypto knowledge? Are you sure?
Software is generally a winner-take-all market. Software has zero marginal cost, so the company with the most revenue can invest the most upfront into making a better product, giving it even more revenue. Furthermore, in most cases there is little incentive for customers to ever use the second best product in a segment. So when building software, you not only have to meet the customers needs, you have to meet the customer needs better than any competitor. If you produce a product that is half as good or improve the product half as quickly, you do not lose just half your revenue, you could lose all of it.

The second aspect of software development is that a developer working 40 hours a week is more productive than two developers working 20 hours a week. With the sole developer, there less communication overhead, less management overhead, and the ratio of productive time to time learning the system and understanding the interlocking parts is higher. This is the classic mythical man month problem.

The third aspect of software development is that directly measuring output and effort of an engineer is very difficult. So as a proxy, managers look for signs of passion and engagement. If you are passionate and smart, but are slow to implement some feature, management will believe the feature was simply more difficult than anticipated. If you generally are not passionate about your work, and are slow to implement some feature, management will think you are slacking and fire you. Creating an effective company requires creating a culture of passion and hardwork, and having one person only work part-time can decrease the morale of those putting in 40+ hours. Asking to only work half-time betrays a lack of passion, and could be a bad career move.

So the net result of these factors is that a company must work at maximum efficiency, and maximum efficiency comes when all developers are working 40+ hours a week. It is not in the company's interest to let you work only 20 hours a week, and it could indeed be risky if you bring the idea up with management.

I should also note that the above dynamic is not just the case in software, but in virtually all high paying jobs, from professional athlete to corporate lawyer to corporate executive. Virtually all high paying jobs have some sort of competitive, winner take all dynamic in the market at large (the winners being the ones who get paid well), and within the company, the high paid people are the ones with specialized, hard to replace skills, that have a large ramp up time to learn effectively (learning a large code base, learning a set of legal traditions, learning how to hit a curveball, etc, etc). Thus in order to earn the high pay you must work long hours, and you must work many productive hours on top of a base of ramping-up hours.
Well, thank you for having the decency to post this, and try to find another name in a peaceful manner (even though you do believe you're using the Holden name under fair use - a discussion I don't particularity want to get into). Also, thankfully they had the decency to inform you before taking action, unlike some companies...
There was this list from reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cktxy/reddit_let...

I'm currently spending a lot of time at Udacity. CS101 was the first resource for learning python that I've been able to through start to finish. (Think Python is second place for me, also very good)

The one area that I still find lacking in on-line learning is math. I can't seem to find anything that's concise, interactive and effective. (Paying is not an option.)
But again the results this article cites point in the opposite direction:

"... research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight."
I'm fairly well-versed regarding ROMs, and actually ran CM and MIUI on it for quite a while with decent results, but that's not really the point. Nexus is supposed to mean "first in line for OTA updates", not "wait for us to put it on AOSP and then build and flash it yourself, or wait for a modder to make a decent ROM".

That is absolutely not the brand I thought I was buying.

Edit: Sorry, that was a ruder tone than I intended. I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with my Nexus S due to the OTA frustrations, but I do love that Android has the option for taking matters into my own hands.
Flash now ‘fully sandboxed’ in Chrome for Win, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS
Yeah, I fail that criterion hard (I've had five rejections, does that count?). Nonetheless, while the author is probably showing his (or her) biases, there's definitely a nugget of truth there. For a more coding focused candidate, an equivalent question would be questions about software you have designed, built and promoted (as that's essentially what the question is asking).
If the rate is anything like that of computers or other complex technical gear, they will need plenty of engineers. Nowhere near the number of people they are replacing on the production lines, but still not an insignificant number.
I think the most important – and only thing – you should worry about naming stuff is simply not having a terrible name. Honestly, learndot is very poor for the reasons pud articulated.

* Have the .com

* Be able to pronounce it and the url without confusion.

Got those two things? Great, now get back to shipping your product. Seriously, names are irrelevant and unless you have mega cash you're not going to get a 10x name (eg: path.com) so just make sure you're not terrible.

Here is a better name for learndot: learnduck.com you're welcome.
I think I saw some Holden Outerwear adwords ads when I googled From Holden, so I guess it makes sense there could be confusion. I'd reach out to the founder there and intro yourself, since you are so close to him geographically.
I like what these guys are doing, and we tried out their plugin for modelling.

However, you can't really do any modelling without factoring transaction costs. For the average retail investor these fees kill the profit on many otherwise theoretically profitable strategies.
The real problem is the software libraries are just as hard.

Take OpenSSL for example... it's almost easier to learn the crypto than to figure out the API. Here's a good one: an SSL read/write operation can fail with more than one error, and if you don't clear or loop through all the errors then the next operation will fail because of the previous errors -- even if it succeeded. Or just try getting it to work with non-blocking sockets, you finally believe it is working and surprise it fails only once the network gets saturated. Or hours later when it renegotiates the crypto.

And you still have to know all the crypt terms to use it. What's a PEM? A BIO? PKCS? DHparams? What's "ASCII armor"? X509? Did SSL_library_init() add weak algorithms? Why do I have to know this just to create a secure connection?

Most of blame for crypto problems belongs to the libraries not the developers using them.
The name Caulfield sounds about right.
$199 Acer C7 Chromebook
I did the sub-40 hour thing for a while at an old job. I was starting to go to grad school full time, so I asked my company if I could could move from being on salary to being an hourly employee and work about 20+ hours a week. Because it was better for them to keep me on in a limited capacity rather than spend the money hiring and training someone new they were really cooperative. The extra time flexibility was great, I got to keep my insurance with them, and got out of grad school debt free!

If you can find yourself a good non-standard situation that works well for you (and your future) take it!
A fun way to find, share, and discuss great ideas
AirBnb launches Neighborhoods
This is spot on. It's exactly what happened at HubSpot with their support team.
Pud is right. You would have been better off going to a naming company/consultant that does this as its trade, and also does the foreign language checks, trademark searches, and so forth. Most large companies outsource that sort of stuff because branding isn't their core competency. Sorry to be so blunt.
>>There's this almost cult-like obsession with measurement among the hacker crowd where everything must be measured and optimized.

Yes. One of the pioneers of business, H. James Harrington, said, "“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”
You make it sound like Amazon is put through the ringer for estimates like "2-3 weeks" or even "when more are available.". They aren't.

I think the most people are not upset they sold out, but upset that:
a) Many of them did put in the effort to get up (or stay up) and get there in time, and had to suffer checkout issues.
b) There is no Plan B, nor any other information coming out of Google. They are forced to go round the merry-go-round of refreshing the Play Store and waiting and waiting to see something change.

Most people just want to say "I want this, take my money when you can" and forget about it. It shouldn't take so much effort to give a company your money.
This is not exactly true. The best public schools (e.g. in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) will have a relationship with the admissions committees at the best colleges in the area and nationally. In these cases they really do know and care about how the grading system is applied. For good private schools, the effect can be even greater.

This insight doesn't apply to all public schools, though. If you are a standout student in a terrible off-radar public school, you will have to work harder through other channels than the reputation of your school.
Yes, I don't believe there are physically no more Nexus 4's left to be sold.

It's a PR/Marketing ploy, a good one and if I was in Google's shoes it's exactly what I would be doing too.

Anyone who thinks this is Google's coders not able to take a credit card and put you on a wait-list isn't thinking outside the box.
I guess we oughta demonstrate how unions work, then.
I was hoping to see someone mention this, because there's a great conversation that we're not having because of the lack of awareness of the extent of automation and even lights-out machining.

There was a wonderful article on lights-out machining in the States that I found thanks to HN - sorry I don't have the link - but which mentioned that manufacturing in the States grew by a third since 2000, while jobs were slashed.

That really complicates the conversation.

Lots of people seem to implicitly assume that by giving companies incentives to manufacture here, we can solve the employment problem. Um ... nowadays, there are manufacturing jobs that require knowledge of CNC machines and maybe even programming and/or metallurgy. Skilled stuff.

I want to know: now that we don't have the easy fix that 'wet robot' jobs gave us, are jobs on the whole being created or destroyed in high-tech societies? Even assuming people can be given technical skills in the numbers that they'd need, the openings for skilled technical work hardly seems sufficient for the masses of people being made redundant.

I feel like a Luddite even typing that.
Nokia to Offer Its Maps for iPhones and Android Phones
In that case, you will be forced to drop prices, because your competitor's are probably doing the same (otherwise you'll run out of employees rsn). If prices are falling across the board, people don't need to earn wages as high as before since they can reproduce themselves at the same level with less income.

I'm not sure there's any value to this kind of armchair economics.
Wow, that looks impressive, really (NaCl). However, the online doc is a bit scarce, is it not?
I really don't see how anyone (assuming intellectual, creative jobs) could work more than 10 hours a week, every week -- if we count as 'work' only the time spent to produce something useful.
I really admired the way the you spoke about the Holden Outerwear company; receiving a C&D is a hard thing, but you handled it in a respectful and classy way by casting in terms of "if this could cause a good company harm then we shouldn't move forward." I don't know if that's on advice of counsel or not, but either way, it comes across well.
> There are no market makers in options, so bear in mind that you can buy a lot of options and not be able to sell them later.

Where did you hear this? While it's true that not every market has market makers, there are many market makers for CBOE and MEOP options that are blessed by the exchanges.

On top of that there are many more funds that make their living solely on being option market makers. We do pretty well in the Canadian markets.
I think has already turned in to a PR move.
The larger screen accounts for most of the difference. A 4.7 inch screen is 40% larger than a 4 inch screen and 80% larger than a 3.5 inch screen.
Or, you know, build incompetent systems that real people will depend on that those egotistical security people will be able to break trivially.
But there are better ways of attacking fraudulent IAPs. Perhaps more effort, but certainly fewer false positives.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
Rejection Therapy is a great way to get over the fear of rejection. It actually makes getting rejected feel triumphant. Instead of it being something to dread, it becomes an awesome rush.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about: http://rejectiontherapy.com and the hardcore 30 day rejection therapy challenge: http://rejectiontherapy.com/rules/
Migrating from GNOME3 to XFCE
What did you do if you found that large numbers of your underperforming students had some factor in common?
Basically, I want to see if people can finish stuff. For software engineers, tasks tend to be easily defined and of shorter duration. At least at Bright, we have Data Scientists working on multiple simultaneous projects that take a few days to several weeks to complete. Knowing when you are done with a complicated, possibly open-ended, project is very difficult.
I had a similar run-in with my first attempt at a music player/streamer, originally called 'musicMe'.

Apparently there's a French music streaming service with the same name [1] and I promptly received an email with an informal C+D from one of the owners regarding that moniker.

I changed it to 'melodyMe', ridiculously similar, but enough to be a separate entity.

The point I make, is maybe you can circumvent without majorly changing your name to a related term, if you're linked to the area. Why not "From Venice"? A Google search shows it pretty clear for use as a startup name.

[1] http://www.musicme.com/
dnsbl.py - hello spam
Because I haven't used it myself, only saw it in action at the presentation.
Don't use OpenSSL, don't use Crypto++, don't use CommonCrypto, don't use CryptoAPI. Those are expert interfaces and you'll get them wrong.

Instead, use NACL or Keyczar. Those are high-level interfaces designed to help generalist developers not make mistakes.
This joker is selling his nexus 4 for £1200 ($1900) in the UK

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/lg-GOOGLE-NEXUS-4-8GB-UNLOCKED-BRA...
Except that one point in this article seems to be that you're still screwed even if you're using a well-respected library.
Goddamn, I wish I knew about this 3 years ago when I did the exact same thing as the OP. I ended up paying the penalty and everything. Although now, three years later we are profitable[1], have 15 employees and never taken a cent from outside investors. So no regrets here.

[1] I should mention that we're a business, not a startup by PG's definition, and were bringing in revenue from day 1.