skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad I'm not completely misremembering things.

I think this is one of those cases where he got so overwhelmed with the support he decided to do something completely different and better than what he was originally asking for backing to do, and it looks like it's turning into a full-fledged company. I'm pleased--I just want my programmable flashlight. :)
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We still have to publish the full spec for the Domain API and we'll be making some improvements based on feedback. But it's been in beta for about a year with no major issues.

Feel free to send an email to support@ if you want more info on the specs.
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I wonder how this data compares to real contract projects in the Government and private sector? My hypothesis that the numbers are fairly similar because frankly; no one really knows what they are doing :).
It did seem a bit odd/counter to best-practices that the validation code would be wrapped in a string.
Standard attention seeking behaviour that can be expected from 37signals. No doubt in my mind they chose to publish under that title to walk the line of offensive behaviour while hiding behind sheepish innocence.
C.S. Lewis wrote about unconditional love in The Four Loves.

“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14816053-the-four-loves
Michael from Firebase here. By using declarative rules instead of arbitrary code to enforce Security, we can do lots of optimization and guarantee predictable execution time (arbitrary code can take an arbitrarily long time to execute). It also lets us do various static analysis on your rules to catch common mistakes.

Having rule expressions attached directly to data locations also ends up being much more concise (which means less boilerplate code and less opportunities for mistakes), which we think is important for a security API.
Frankly I wasn't expecting the future to look like a French provincial postal delivery vehicle from 1947.
From a quick look, this will not only allow you to copy backups across regions, but will also allow you to effectively copy EBS backed AMIs across regions.

AWS does it again :).
Water retention is also a warning sign that something's wrong (like a hormone imbalance, one of the biggest causes for water retention) and you should probably take it easy. Fat people retain a lot of water. When people start a high-fat diet the first 5 pounds or so are from all the water loss (or even more).

> It's similar to limiting your how much water you drink

Not at all. In fact when dieting it's good to drink a lot of water, precisely to stop your body from retaining it. Odd, isn't it?
From the outside it seems that people in USA will soon have worse Internet connection than people in (large cities of) developing world.

The situation doesn't make sense if you ask me.
I'm so confused. Some diagramming app no one has heard of has to scale to 'exponential' growth and figure out:

* [not] loading a lot of session data on every request

* storing data across shards

* parallel processing

* a services approach

Wow, I think something is over-architected.

Curious: does exponential growth mean 2 concurrent users to 4? If they have more than 100 concurrent users, I would be highly skeptical.

And, if they can't solve that problem with any language, I would also be highly skeptical.
I primarily use BitBucket with AppHarbor but that's for. net applications.

Does Beanstalks support free private repose for 1 to 5 collaborators?
"Safety features of nuclear plants seem to dominate the cost. There are many claims about the inherent safety features of thorium Molten Salt Reactors. But those claims have yet to be proven in working prototypes." Actually, yes they have. The three main safety features have all been demonstrated.

First, the working fluid is non-volatile, no pressure nor chemical reactivity to drive dispersion of trapped gaseous fission products like Xenon and Iodine. Those were the two significant dispersed radionuclides in Fukushima.

Second, those same kind of radionuclides are removed from the salt continuously so there is not a store of them to BE dispersed.

Third, any loss of power to the reactor will passively result in a dump of the salt into a non-reactive tank where it will be passively cooled. It will be "walk away safe"!
Excellent. I may have to read more of this man's work. What works best for humans seems to frequently be given short shrift and the importance of it undervalued or missed entirely.

Thanks.
Yeah. That bugs us too. :-) We might support a non-JSON format for easier authoring at some point, but we thought JSON was the right starting point since people are familiar with it and it has a lot of good tooling and interoperability advantages.
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At 25mph, it would fill the same sort of niche that golf carts fill in some retirement communities. Although, there are compelling arguments for reorganizing large parts of metropolitan areas with 25mph streets. Apparently, traffic fatalities go down and pedestrian traffic goes up.

> I don't love it because it is not a bicycle replacement, it is a car replacement with short range and little space.

It is not a replacement for car or bicycle. It's an attempt at an intermediate niche.
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There are several ways to do "game gravity right" and not just one answer.

For example some games have entirely reproducible game states which depends on only two things: the seed given to the PRNG and the inputs made the player (and the time at which they happened).

There are a lot of games (probably most of them) which have gravity but which aren't "real" physics simulation and/or which do definitely not need a "real" physics simulation to be, well, fun games.

Some of them do simply use integer-math and precomputed "gravity lookup tables" entirely consisting of integers. You then use the time elapsed to know where you should look in your table and you can of course compute a value "between two lookup indices".

The advantage of integer math (either using gravity lookup table or not), compared to floating-point math, is that your game engine can stay deterministic even if the floating-point numbers implementation vary from one platform / virtual machine to the other.
"Building an MVP and then iterating..."

If you get your feedback on iterations in writing, you will probably get fewer self-contradictory or illegal, immoral, unethical, or unimplementable demands.
Yes, they are rejecting similar apps right now. And apps that look like it only took a few days to develop.

You'll need to register to see the guidelines:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...

Also, put in now for the apple developer account, that could take weeks to get approved to publish on the app store.

And, during the holidays the app store shuts down for approving apps.
Great post. I'm definitely going to have to go back and read your archive of sales advice.
Radiangames’ revenue chart on iPhone/iPad for 2012.
Isn't that a nieve way of thinking? I don't think there is any hard evidence that virus companies fund virus creation, but it would make a lot of sense if they did. Anti-virus companies have a lot to gain by a vibrant virus ecosystem.
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I really like the idea of throwing some research dollars at developing imitation rhino horn. The kinds of people who are willing to traffic in endangered species wouldn't blush at passing along counterfeit product, as long as it was hard for the buyer to detect. Is anybody working on this? If not, it might make for a good kickstarter project :P
Apologies for not using the original title but I thought it was pretty non-descript.
In that case, it's pretty disingenuous of him to have bubble sort as analogous to Objects in his analogy.
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don't believe everything that is written in the newspapers, it's only for the super-rich :-)
I think that France is one of the best place for authors (Ireland is the best one I think) Indeed there is a specific status for authors in France and tax rate is much better that if it was a salary. So actually I'm considered as an software author in France because I sell nothing, I just give to Apple the right to sell my apps and they gave me royalties. I don't even own a company.
A recent amusing counter-example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4185665/guava-equivalent-...
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This is yet another reminder that if you're using a product and not paying for it then you are the product.
I originally trained as an electronic engineer, but have spent my entire career working in software and specifically medical image analysis. Essentially I'm a fraudulent software developer, statistician and radiologist in one! I'm also arrogant enough to think I can hold my own in any of those areas within my domain.
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Then why do type 1 diabetics only count carbs? A diabetic can eat as much protein, fat and fiber as they want, but have to match insulin levels to their carbohydrate consumption (except fiber).

I'm highly simplifying, but carbohydrates are converted to blood sugar which insulin converts to energy at a cellular level. Insulin is needed so your cells can feed off the blood sugar. The blood sugar that isn't used is stored as fat. Carbs are quickly and easily converted to fat. Other forms of food can eventually get converted to blood sugar, but not as easily and quickly as carbs. You absorb protein, minerals, vitamins, fibers, etc. very differently than pure Carbs. So a Carb rich diet will make you fat. Diabetics are only concerned with Carbs because they have the highest impact on their blood sugar level.

Further, America has proved this. Few cultures consume as much carbohydrate rich food as America, and as a result, they have the biggest issue with diabetes, obesity, etc. Carbohydrates are the cheapest food to buy (fast food and junk food are very heavy in carbohydrates), so a disproportionate number of low income people have obesity problems

Dude, its the carbs.
Ask HN: Any coding/programming regrets you have before the World ends?
Most of us believe that the World won't be coming to an end, this Friday. But if it will, then what will be your regrets as far as your coding/programming projects goes?
I hear ya. In this case, there's not much of a negotiation - it's more of a "Well, I want to support local business, but Amazon has this product for $350 cheaper. Can I work with you on price?" Then, if they don't come down in price, you buy it from Amazon.

Local stores are not all the same, of course. Some, perhaps many, local stores don't deserve to survive. They are poorly run and perfectly willing to scam people who don't know the market price of stuff. But still I'm eager to at least try to work with them to avoid living in a world of nothing but enormous, monolithic corporations. Granted retail isn't exactly my favorite industry - I'd much rather support small makers of things - but I still try.
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Congrats! That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Having said that, every time I read one of these types of success stories I'm reminded of Jacques Matthieu's "So you're making good money. STFU" post. http://jacquesmattheij.com/So+you+are+making+good+money+now+...
I really wish I had another week to flesh out my game. I spent a bunch of time developing the platform but didn't quite get enough game mechanics in there.

My game was octoshot, a 3d FPS: http://octoshot.jlongster.com/

I'm currently rebuilding it with missles and other types of guns, and actual levels.
Yep, we all recognize that companies actually have to cover operating expenses (and I suspect that most people here are capitalistic enough to say a company should ideally make a profit).

But if you're going to change the rules once you have millions of users, a prominent notification as opposed to inserting language into the middle of a terms of use policy would seem to make sense. I think Instagram users would be much more willing to listen if the reason and justification for this policy shift were clearly explained and users clearly notified.
How Flickr can eat Instagram’s table scraps.
My biggest concern is regarding the internal software and dosimetry controls. Could there be a fault condition that would result in unintended levels of ionizing radiation? It wouldn't be the first such accident..

http://bjr.birjournals.org/content/78/934/913.full

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1207_web.pd...
In most of EU, retailers are required by law to provide two year warranty on goods you buy as a consumer.
Lucidchart employee here. Though we don't publicly release total user stats, this recent post about 500,000 installs through the Chrome Web Store gives a hint:

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2012/10/31/500000-chrome-web...

Even with 550,000 installs there, the Chrome Web Store is just one of a number of strong channels for Lucidchart and contributes a small minority of our user base.
"After the user taps on a link from one of these SMS messages, their phone downloads an app..."

Well that counts me out.
Somehow, I totally managed to forget about these! Sad, as they would have made awesome Christmas presents for some of my geek friends.
A chef meal will be different from a home-cooked one. Chefs are known to go for things like lots of fat (which acts as a base for spice flavor), sugar, caramalizing (to improve taste) and other things that add taste but also calories.
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I wish people were a little bit more patriotic about paying taxes. Well, provided the taxes go towards good things. It's so frustrating to see businesses getting rich on the back of a country's resources and infrastructure, only to abandon it when it's time to pay back.
STFU why? I love reading success stories, they're so inspirational.
You can save one more character with an exec loop

n=1;exec"print'Fizz'*(n%3<1)+'Buzz'*(n%5<1)or n;n+=1;"*100
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> The best time to deploy is the time with the best engineers at the ready.

or to put it simple: not at 1700 on friday.
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We shouldn't regret the code we checked in but rather the code we never got around to checking in.
hi, I did a manual box2d flash to js port sometime back, I used it to build this Sim:

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if you have an interest in building sims for education, explore APPynotebook:)
This is an excellent example of why comments in code are so very useful, helpful and in my opinion, necessary.

... nobody at Microsoft ever understood how the code worked (much less still understood it), and that most of the code was completely uncommented, we simply couldn't figure out why the collision detector was not working. Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector!

To all those folks out there who keep finding reasons to try and be clever with their language, or omit comments from their code: now you can remember Pinball. It's very possible that with some minimal commenting about what functions did, or what the intentions of block of codes were, Pinball could have lived on. Heck, we could have even seen a Modern UI version of Pinball.
This is still basically wrong for general game physics. I.e. you should not blindly follow the author's suggestion to use it for all forces.

It happens to be an exact solution for one very specific situation -- the case of a constant force that is always applied. In this case, unvarying gravity with no air resistance.

This is typically one of the first things you learn in a Classical Mechanics course, because they can teach it using just Kinematics (the definitions of displacement, velocity, and acceleration) before introducing Dynamics (forces).

To prove it, you can just integrate the definition of acceleration twice and recognize that the integration constants are your initial position and velocity.

If the time-step changes or if forces are due to input, or other changing factors then this is still a pretty terrible method.

Ah ... I should clarify ... the method is not so terrible, but rather the author's explanation and rationale are. Basically, it slightly improves on one little piece of the puzzle, and completely ignores the real issues like fixed time steps, render/physics/network/game logic loop decoupling, and stiff systems.

FWIW, I shipped two hit games this year that only used Euler integration and worse hacks. It made life painful, though.
I also think Perl 6 has some really cool and innovative ideas. Far from using it to smear Perl, I think it is more interesting than previous versions.

But you are in denial if you think that this chart isn't a reasonably representative cultural artifact of the Perl community and the Perl aesthetic. Perl 5 is not exactly poor in operators, and it is the same core community which produced both.

I don't think that Perl is bad. I am saying that Perl is very strongly what it is. And while some people won't like that aesthetic, I don't see why anyone should apologize for it.
Google has an ad network. I know they are collecting data about me and using it to deliver targeted advertising to me. I also know that the information google collects on me is their competitive advantage, and it's in their best interests not to sell it to a 3rd party.

You should only be afraid of services that have to apparent revenue model, because you've got no idea what they're doing with your data. When the use of your data is clear and well known, you can make an informed decision on whether or not to use the service.
I lost 44 lbs on a disassociated diet, which is now over and my weight is stable by abstaining from sugar, as otherwise I only try to eat healthy, but I do not count calories or whatever.

Congratulations on your 30 lbs loss. Unfortunately not many people can abstain from eating. For some people it's a source of depression.

What works for you doesn't necessarily work for somebody else - and have you noticed how some people can eat whatever they want without getting fat? Freaking bastards.
But the media, corporations, and government will tell us we're better off, so we still are.
Someone asked that in the comments, and he responded that it was licensed from a 3rd party company.
As a self-taught programmer I always had a hard time reading descriptive algorithms. Any suggestions on how to learn reading it ?
Strawman: you're reducing differences between languages to semantical differences and that's simply not correct.

Someone already mentioned immutability. Another example is sound concurrency support: a language which is using non-blocking synchronization is not going to have threads constantly blocked monitoring locks (I'm not talking about Scala particularly: but in Java the language, the "synchronized" SNAFU is really totally messed up if you've done any serious concurrent programming and it's very hard to get "right").

Then another example it's also a fact that crazy optimization can be achieved by using macro pre-processing at compile-time. Java the language doesn't offer this. It's actually so problematic in certain cases that there have been specific tools developed (e.g. by Nokia for accessing the J2ME Nokia API) that did add macro support to Java.

Another example where macro do shine: an API like trove, using primitives-backed maps/set, runs circles around, say, a normal HashMap{Integer,Long}. But Java cannot automate/duplicate the code needed to offer this for all the primites types (which, some may argue, is precisely the reason why such performant maps/sets have never been part of the stock Java APIs). So how do you do if you want to "run around circle" of these default totally lame HashMap{Long,Integer} like if you're say, the Trove author? You write your own code generator generating all the .java files needed from a template. Pretty cool (from the Trove author) but also pretty lame (from "Java the language").

With real macros this one is a no-brainer. So much for "semantics".

These are just two examples: you're belief that language differences can be resumed to semantics is incorrect.
Assuming you are not just trolling, please elaborate.
I was probably in control of all of them at some level but I either didn't think about it or didn't care enough. Sometimes I suck. Today I can start sucking a little less.
Tacoma's click! network has been giving City of Tacoma residents high speed internet for around 10 years. Seattle's about to join with their own high speed internet offering.

I'm starting to think that ISPs should be government-regulated utilities just like electricity, water, sewer, etc. Isn't that how those industries were disrupted -- through regulation?
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How to get paid doing freelancing?
I found somebody with interest into my work from the US(I live in South America) and I would like to know how I can get paid, how do they transfer money to me? Paypal? What do you guys use?

Thanks.
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And that's why there is an investigation, not a trial. There is probably some indication of wrongdoing but insufficient evidence for prosecution. A verbal offer may be difficult to prove, but far from impossible if there were witnesses or some sort of trail.

Nobody has said there is proof of anything, but the government has grounds for suspicion. That is all. Presumably an investigation is warranted.
Gun control in the US can start with control of those types of firearms most likely to be used in mass shootings: automatic and semi-automatic weapons with magazines that accommodate large numbers of rounds. The US can do what other countries have done successfully: ban sales, restrict ownership, and offer amnesty/buyback for weapons already in circulation.

The US can also mandate safe storage of weapons and ammunition in separate, locked, secure cases. That in itself would reduce the incidence of gun suicide and so-called crimes of passion by introducing a long-enough delay between decision and action that sanity prevails.
In some countries the government has split the ownership of the pipes and the providing of Internet service into separate concerns.

So one company charges ISPs for using the pipes and then ISPs pass that cost on to the consumer. This means the cost of entry is significantly lower for an ISP.
A couple of notes on the home page:

Many of the images look terrible. The worst are the ones in the (1) (2) (3) section when you mouse over them -- look at the text most of all -- but the Dwolla t-shirt, your logo, and the other logos at the bottom are also not very nice looking.

The background coming through when you mouse over (1) is not the same size as when you mouse over (2) or (3).

Looking at FAQ quickly, I see "You can see some of the past shirts [here] and subscribe to the service [here]". Why not "See some of the [past shirts] and [subscribe to Startup Threads]"?

On the signup page, the shipping section looks odd. The line breaks, plus the use of the colon as a separator for two different things makes it hard to parse.

Overall it looks like it could use some polish.
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