skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "advanced" can be taken as relative to what you expect from any language's standard math library.
Thank you so much for the feedback. Have you received your feedback yet?
I went to Stanford, but picked Atlanta as the place for my startup. All the cons are true--less capital, difficult to find rockstar talent (particularly technical talent), but so are the pros (cheap, healthier business environment, etc). For me, I'm trying to build a values-based organization, and I think it'd be tough (or impossible) to do so effectively in the Bay Area.
You're kinda unclear as to what the LTS stands for, aren't you?
I took the liberty of extracting the interesting bits of this into a reusable class, and tossed it up on GitHub:

https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/ColorArt

If I have the time this afternoon, I'll port it over to iOS, too. Or, if someone feels inclined to do so, I welcome pull requests :)

Edit: and I transferred the repo over to Panic. I'm maintaining a fork so the link above doesn't go dead.
Amazon wins patent for airbag system designed to protect portable devices
Hah, yes, it's a bad example. I couldn't remember how to grab a larger size, but now I remember. Here's a 150px example:

http://i.imgur.com/fjehG.jpg
This kind of rationalizing doesn't sound really serious. Does that not imply that women deceit their partners and are thus genetically predisposed liars?

Also, if she has chosen a partner it means he (and his sperm) are better genetically. If anything, she should be avoiding others' (inferior) sperm.
Happy to see, Gist has been lagging behind for a while now. And my Gist usage has exploded since installing this Vim plugin:

https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim
Is it different from this: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tutorial ?
I think "Secret Gist" is just a renaming of "Private Gist" which has existed for a while: only people with the url will see it. It's a better and more accurate name, for sure.

I do wish there was a true "private" gist, though, for easily preventing people I don't specify from seeing it. I'd love to be able to use it to trade code examples for work, but there's nothing to prevent someone from accidentally pasting the url into the wrong irc window and showing the world our internals.
The "MPGe" thing seems very silly, particularly since if I were using this car 99% of it's power could be coming from hydro/nuclear/wind. Surely there must be a better way of comparing efficiency and environmental friendliness.
Heh. Ask anyone that's ever edited maps for games, edited video, rendered, or used Photoshop if they want the ability to use more than 4GB of memory for a single process.

There are many games now with multi-gigabyte files; the ability to map that entire file into memory is invaluable if the system has enough memory to support it.

There's also a difference between "required" and "desirable". Many applications will happily run with less than 4GB of memory available to them, but many will also run much better when they can access more.

Don't fall into the same trap that so many did with 32-bit processes, etc. Look forward a few years and see where the industry is eventually headed anyway and just assume that it should be there now.
1. JavaScript is a server side language too.

2. Canvas and WebGL pave the way for lots of cool graphical JS applications. Linear algebra and calculus are particularly useful for graphics.
can anyone take a guess as to how this works? i have not a clue.
Devices on planes - enforce or change rules
This reminds me of the evolutions of Mac OS X from Snow Leopard to Lion, and I think it's absolutely ridiculous.

Social networks, shopping, etc. are all features that should NEVER be part of the core of the computer operating system. These are things that should be opt-in experiences to the user and are unwanted bloat for many.

The only reason Canonical, in my book, can get away with this and Apple can't is that Ubuntu is provided free of charge so there must be some sort of revenue stream, whereas OS X already costs me money and therefore I shouldn't have to put up with anything I don't want.
Are you maybe using 'standard library' and 'available libraries' interchangeably? Ruby and Java and C-iods for example have very limited standard libraries, but their respective ecosystems provide a great number of additional libraries. Python is the odd one because it basically comes with loads of additional libraries preinstalled. Lua on the other hand has a tiny standard library and a relatively small number of available libraries for it.

I would say that CLs or Schemes standard libraries are actually quite comprehensive, but they don't have that many available libraries.
We use Windows Server for three things:

1. Directory services/DC

2. Windows file shares

3. Exchange

I have to buy user CALs for #1 and #2. One CAL gives me the right to connect that user to any of our file shares and to AD. IIRC, that cost when we last purchased was around $50/user.

We also have to buy a separate CAL for Exchange.

I would love to replace AD and our Windows file shares with Samba 4, provided that it was a stable, viable replacement which didn't add a lot of overhead for our admins. Exchange is a separate issue, and one we're currently exploring Zimbra as a possibility. It's early days yet there.

Almost everything else in our environment is Linux.
I wonder where people like you draw the line at such behavior. Why is music any different than TV Shows? Or Movies? Or eBooks? Would you feel comfortable "pirating" all those as well? Hell, why not go all the way and pirate software as well

A lot of people do all these things- I thought that was relatively well known. Not that I am condoning it, but if we're talking about drawing the line... it's very far away from where you're discussing it. I suspect it lies somewhere near "is a real physical item".
Per-window Private Browsing in Firefox 20
Looks great, but your apps look a lot like the equivalent Simplenote and Notational Velocity apps with some skeumorphism slapped on.

Can you go into more detail about how your app is different than the SimpleNote/NV combo?

Any plans for an Android client?
Probably "Level of Experience"
Ruby and JavaScript have adopted enough Lisp concepts and in a lot of organizations enjoy enough support that pushing for real Lisp is a touch quixotic.

Alternately, JS and Ruby may have served to loosen people's resistance to useful and interesting language features that are better implemented in, say, CL. Writing either makes me sad, in an "uncanny valley" sort of way.
I don't think that's necessarily fair to say. I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out for probably the same reasons as most other people - aptitude was dead simple and generally seemed to "just work". It probably also won me over initially because out of the box my audio and NIC drivers all worked. Most other features of your average linux system could be found on other distros, so these were the main drivers of me sticking with Ubuntu. Prior to Ubuntu I generally went with Slackware or FreeBSD.

I don't think that they're making any sort of direct choice to stop doing those things. I just think that their current desktop manager choices have been bad. I tried installing the latest Ubuntu on my main desktop PC this past weekend and it was a failure. I did get all my drivers working, but they didn't work out of the box anymore. Even once I had them all working, Unity seemed very unstable and in general the experience was very disappointing. It appeared to me that they were positioning themselves so that they could start throwing money making ad software and garbage onto my desktop. Now with the recent blog announcements that they might be enabling direct-from-desktop 1 click purchases and stuff, I doubt I'll ever consider installing it as a desktop, again. At least without xwindows, all of the original reasons for why Ubuntu was awesome still shine.
There is definitely room for such a company, and the market is not as niche as you'd imagine. If you could provide an environment as user friendly as OS X with top-notch security and all of the customization features of Linux, most software development companies would pursue this option for their teams. I know I'd use it every day, and I'd happily pay for a non-commercial license in the $50 range.
I absolutely agree, the traffic will definitely go down. I hope to retain some users but the idea was to get as much feedback as possible.

Yes, moderating is a bottleneck. :)

Thank you for the feedback! Greatly appreciated.
Maybe there would have been 5 years ago prior to the tablet+mobile (iOS/Android) revolution. I agree though; personally I love Debian + Solaris but neither them nor any other *NIX variant has the slick feel of OS X. Not to mention a nice development environment like ObjC+Cocoa.
"Brown and Cornell Are Second Tier"
isn't 2.55 Megabits/s for Google Fiber a bit low? I imagine Netflix throttles the bandwidth. After all, there's no point downloading the whole movie if a person decides to switch to something else after 10 minutes.

If throttling is happening, what is Netflix testing then?
Thank you for the suggestions.

(a) TBD soon.
(b) This will follow.
> but where do we draw the line?

Somewhere around "If you have to explain to people that it's art, it's not."
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it will ever be cheaper than a commuter bike. More convenient of course, but not cheaper.

On most countries/states is also competing with small cars because you can't legally lane split. Right now I've got a loaner and it's a 4 seater, a Seat Mii. It consumes just a bit more than my bike and it's very small and cheap (around 6-7K new, cars are expensive around here).
GoDaddy hires former Yahoo and Microsoft exec Blake Irving as CEO
It's probably the spam issue. I'm working on a fix. Thanks for bringing that out and for the positive feedback.
> (ps i was talking about the code on the server side; not chromium)

Oh I see.

> on the server side, it looks like the problem could have been avoided with better types - it seem that there was a confusion between status values that can include 0 and those that cannot (alternatively, perhaps better, there was no status for the case where the status was undefined?)

From what I understood, they are talking about protocol buffer types. The sync server sent message to chromium to throttle for all types say A, B, and C. Chromium didn't know about type C, some code returned 0 for unspecified type, another piece of code calculates index based on what is returned in the previous step, and then due to the 0, a negative index was accessed in the bitset leading to out of bound exception.

The issue is server sent all types to clients rather than sending only types known to the client, and the client didn't gracefully handle unknown types. I don't think a better type system would have helped the server - that looks like a logic bug, not a typing bug.
Yeah, it really sucks. Thanks for letting me know about this.
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In insurance, people who get lucky subsidize people who get unlucky. If you can test luck before getting insurance, then lucky people don't get insurance and there's nobody left to subsidize unlucky people.

> Forbidding insurance companies to discriminate based on luck does not solve this problem, because the problem is caused by customers selectively buying insurance based on their own luck.

It's a little more nuanced than that. Let's say men are more prone to car crashes than women. Either you charge men more for auto insurance, OR you charge everyone a flat rate, and the market will rapidly clear itself of all women, since that flat rate will be too high to appeal to women. In this case, you end up with a market that's exclusively men, and women are uninsured.

When applied to health insurance, this means that, if you're forcing companies to insure everyone, they will have to insure people predisposed to expensive illnesses at incredibly high rates, because that's the expected cost of their lifetime care.

One implication of this is that the "no discrimination for pre-existing conditions" portion of the ACA is equivalent to "if you have a pre-existing condition, your coverage will be exorbitantly expensive".

There are ways of hiding this extra cost, but at the end of the day, it's like sweeping dust under the rug: it all has to sum to zero.
Ask HN: just bought my first iDevice (iPad) - essential apps?
My first iDevice since my (now unused) 1st gen iPod touch. Right now I just have fb, twitter, spotify, pandora, gmail and Dropbox. What am I missing? Also: best HN app?
sure. email's on my profile.

edit: ok.. my username at bluewin dot ch (however, i'm going to bed soon, so you may get an answer in some hours..! ;) )
I think a gap year between high school and college can do some good. Also between college and grad school.
Just to be clear, this is off topic because here the intention probably was to link to the entire blog (all of which is about the bot in the submission title), right?
Isn't it like Pepsi asking Coke for their formula? :) I don't think he/she'll share the link, but I too am curious about what the app does
I would guess they pull from the wiki commons and then use typical JPG or PNG algorithm libraries to stretch or compress the image. There's probably some AI to retrieve images that don't need to be stretched much so that it looks natural.
Yeah, I really tried to keep elements of the browser in mind. Games and graphics definitely can benefit from algebra and calculus.
Ask HN: How to set up a tracking on a wordpress membership site
I work with an LSAT prep startup, 7Sage (http://7sage.com)

We sell an online course. We use S2 Member to assign people to different categories based on which course they purchase.

We've been having trouble tracking conversions. I'm not technical myself. Something in the way S2 member handles javascript on conversion makes it difficult to pass data to analytics services such as Google Analytics or Kissmetrics.

Has anyone here set up a membership site using Wordpress and successfully integrated tracking? If so, which tools did you use?

If you don't know, where would I go to find out? Thanks.
You're absolutely right about this and I too think this would be really cool to have it. Thanks!
I like http://placekitten.com/
They have some set of categorized photos and simply crop them to the size you request after selecting a random one.
Why you shouldn't code by accident
I have used Lisp as a hobbyist but always find myself coming back to the same issue: not every data structure is a list.

http://blog.peterdonis.com/rants/why-python-not-lisp.html

Another way to put it, as I did at the end of that post, is: why should I have to reprogram my brain to fit the language?
You guys might want to change the verbiage, I thought it said per employee but you're right it says per employer. Still seems weird to say 25 per employer per month, especially when that seems to be the standard fee structure for most other services - http://wavepayroll.com/pricing/
Yes, this is a risk, I agree. Thank you for pointing that out.
Can you explain that? I mean, isn't it just scaled to how much risk someone is willing to take? And I guess...how much money they have?

I would diversify my own portfolio based on my own needs, but if I saw a successful investor picking up new stocks I would be inclined to research it I think.
I guess the question is: Why draw a line?
Angry birds.
Show HN: node-fs is an extension to the original nodejs fs library
We currently use ADP as recommended by our first CPA, so was curious to ask our new CFO what he thought about switching to such a service. His response:

"There are a few small payroll companies with similar offerings. However, I have had bad experiences with self-serve payroll services and this is one of the functions that you do not want to deal with, especially when mistakes/adjustments are made. The penalties are high for non-compliance and you want the ability to have a "live" person to deal with when problems surface. In the end, I highly recommend paying for the service as the costs are not extremely high. You can save a few dollars but it is not worth it. There are so many payroll companies out there and I'm surprised the VCs are backing this one"

Team have thoughts on this?

Regardless, congrats on the fundraising.
then you've hidden it well ^^ I don't see it.
edit: cheers.
I agree, thanks. The only issue is that there are other sites that do it pretty well. Usability testing is tricky in general.
I love these guys! Yesterday I came across an annoying bug related to embedded gists and markdown files, and this fixes it.

Related discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11456558/markdown-not-ren...
This was a temporary problem. Thank you for reporting this!
Something like 56% of college students don't complete. Also many take more than 4 years, so the first wave of value is finishing in less than 4 years. Universities may reduce costs by dropping non-essential non-major classes.
Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS
I want to be able to send a paypal links or alternate payment methods in my invoices. Like freshbooks does.
I hope we get to see Collections for gists, because I am finding them really unmanageable otherwise, and there is little incentive for people to browse through them otherwise.
A fellow SAP Consultant on HN...what a rarity! Hi!

Yes, basically this. Often what I found is that customers and vendors are extremely complex in the way they do business. "But we want to pay in 34 days, and if we pay on the 31st day at noon, we get a .005% discount relative to the current exchange rate" Try doing that in your self-made python system, that scales, has high-availability, disaster recovery, is available in 92 countries, and has an ecosystem of developers that come cheap from Asia.

What I actually find is that the people who are making the decision to purchase the software want to make sure they have the most feature rich system so when things do change, the "TCO" isn't impacted and they can fairly easily satisfy the changing requirement. I believe half of enterprise software is just deciding what the requirement is. (which is really no shocker to those is non-enterprise tech)
So the MPG rating is based on the power plant emissions per mile's worth of energy consumed by the vehicle and comparing that with gasoline emissions?

That's great, but like most consumers I want the MPG based on miles per dollars. For example, if I can drive 100 miles on ~$3.50 worth of electricity (or whatever a gallon of gas costs these days), it would be comparable to 100 mpg. Does Tesla or anyone else put out these numbers?
From their images list:

> The provided images are for layout purposes and each image we use for this project is released under the creative commons license (CC BY-SA). For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
So, if you want to use the images for more than just layouts, you have to double check the license and ask the author. For this we will link to each photographer's flickr page. Furthermore, we assume no liability.
This broke embedding single files from gists :( That's what I get for using Gist in blog posts and websites, I guess.
Any idea where so many daily programming problems come from?
> Most of programming will be done socially [...] via
> small changes [...] from hundreds of people

This seems a little extreme. I'd venture that right now 'most of programming' is private code, or small side projects/toy code (i.e. single-developer projects).
Indeed. Singe Payer + Universal Coverage = FTW.
They have a page[1] listing all of their images (the "Images" tab at the top-right).

[1] http://lorempixel.com/images.php
Backing up and restoring a mongodb to a different database
Do you have a link or a doc? I have the latest v7 build running but so far have not found where I setup paypal or google checkout. I also did not find any modules.
Almost any picture can be used, the algorithm just needs to stretch and crop to maintain the correct image size ratio.
That is true. The best example is here in this post, i.e. the results of evaluation by <rufugee> which is posted above.

SAP suffers from the same problem too. Of course, this could be a business objective for the software producer, since, training brings in income.
You can kick political organizers out of parks. You can even arrest and injure them. But you can't kill an idea.
The surgeon is actually is an apprentice under the guide of a more senior doctor. Access to the master requires enrollment in medical school and then a residency. It is not book learning per se.
As many have already said, Github just keeps delivering quality, well-conceived and well-integrated updates. I hope they keep coming.

Now for my shameless plug:

If you use Gist as a means to share web-related snippets, you might be amazed by the Plunker editor (http://plnkr.co/edit/). It was inspired by Gist, but will let you actually 'run' your code (and will do some other cool stuff like real-time collaboration, previewing and linting). This tool has become quite popular in the AngularJS community and I hope to see more groups get on board in the future!
The Daily Routines of Famous Writers
Wouldn't that be a GitHub repository?
There is no preview mode for a gist :-(
Thank you for that link. This is the first explanation of macros I've seen that actually shows some use cases.
"To an unusual degree, someone who codes in lisp is on nearly equal footing with the implementer."

Working with good developers => kinda cool.

Working with average developers => oh my god why.
I don't think there's one answer, but over all I believe better design (not necessarily just prettier graphics) has better chances of winning. When I launched my first iOS app, I did the MVP and paid no attention to the design. It was a niche product that solved a problem and with no competitor on the App Store it did well. But, when a competitor with a better designed app launched we started loosing sales to them. It took hiring a professional graphics designer for our app to restore the lead position in the market.

Couple of lessons I learned:

- Customers won't necessarily comment on the design - but they care about it very much.
- Having sub-par design leaves a door wide open for a competitor.

Of course, there are so many things that make a product successful and just having a great design by itself may not be enough, but it's one important piece of the puzzle.
Thank you for the positive feedback. I really appreciate it.

"Add comment" is on its way out. There will be no way to post more than 1 comment, as ppl. post 1.1 comment on the average so it's just unnecessarily complicating things.

I'm keeping a backlog; good idea, posting it, thanks!
Scientists Try to Unravel the Riddle of Too Much Sleep
Microsoft building more Surfaces, adding non-Microsoft retailers
It's a mistake to infer that this means "regular" 23andMe results are similarly affected. The exome project was clearly labeled as a research one and the data was returned with no guarantees whatsoever. The "regular" 23andMe SNPs go through a multitude of comprehensive checks before they are used in reports. Not to say that occasional issues don't crop up, but it's apples and oranges.

Edit: I was the first engineer at 23andMe, so I have a decent idea about what's involved in the analysis and quality control.
Good point. It stores the info in cookies so once you clear them, your access is gone. But you should be able to refresh the browser etc.

I guess it should be pointed out (a "what does it mean" link). What do you think?
How the separation of concerns makes programming magic