skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry, I meant if they made it clear before-hand like, before joining their service. So you wouldn't be suddenly disappointed like what happened now.
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PortableApps Platform 12.0 Beta 2: New Branding, New Theme, Manual Proxy Support
I'll definitely take a look.

Likely I'll just wrote a post on my experiences as well once everything is said and done. I haven't had the time over the holiday to figure out the AWS bucket policy. But my overall plan is to have node-webkit shim that has a markdown editor for editing posts.

It should be relatively easy and would be a complete win for me blog post wise. Especially since my "drafts" would be in S3 themselves.
Maybe accumulate per-year wealth tax liability against illiquid assets which is paid at sale (with some additional interest rate?).
Raleigh, NC
"Ruby/Rails" <-Theres the problem

I know HN loves these frameworks, but seriously, the JVM is waaay faster... Too bad there wasn't a dead simple JVM or Java based blog engine.
I could have gotten the cage, but it's larger, heavier, and takes up more space. Also, it's all I need. I didn't want to buy more than I wanted or needed. I don't need a cage to squat, clean, press, and chin. I went back and forth for a while, but those are essentially the only exercises I do. I have no interest in chains, bands, etc. This is fine and works for me. It's also cheaper, easier to take apart/together, and move to a different location if needed.
I can't say that you are wrong but some of the criticism has been that the new conditions make it _possible_ for them to sell them, regardless of their "intention" as they state in the blog post.
This topic makes me think of the Jack London story "To Build a Fire", which is one of my favorites. http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html

Also timely, one of our power users at Referly just made a preparedness kit list for winter driving. I probably should have had some of this when driving alone in the Sierra Nevadas last month. http://refer.ly/winter_driving_preparedness_kit/c/789d5ae050...
Motivation, not IQ, matters most for learning new math skills
I'm not a marksman, nor do I own a gun.
Criminals should believe that I do so they will rob/rape/kill someone else instead of me.
It would be just as clear in expressing that the intent is an assignment (and more clear what is being assigned, since it avoids the coalescing-OR) though less concise to leverage the fact that Ruby's "if" is an expression not a statement:

<code>
param = if object.property then
object.property
else
default_param
end
</code>

Though, actually if you want to do what the description says (use the default if the property is unassigned, represented conventionally in Ruby by the accessor returning nil) rather than what either the good or bad code does, you probably want:

<code>
param = if not object.property.nil? then
object.property
else
default_param
end
</code>

(The difference between this and the other versions shows up if the property is assigned, and its value is false.)
As a medical student you'll appreciate that I have a 3-4" stint replacing a section of my aorta, starting about 1mm away from the aortic root.

This to repair an ascending aortic dissection that terminates in my left iliac.

I walked out of the hospital, but the recovery was a PITA.

My core temp got down to 18C (65-66F) for over an hour. (According to the surgical notes I was on the heart lung machine for over 4 hours, and without perfusion for 45 minutes.)
If you want to gauge ability to communicate then you should probably find some way to get relevant work samples, like explaining the kind of thing which will have to explained in the job (e.g.: docs or brief presentation on something), rather than relying on the totally unreliable assumption that asking someone bad things about themselves in a high-pressure situation is a close analogue to what they will be doing on a daily basis.

This is like the ancient Chinese exams which assessed applicants' suitability by their knowledge of classical poetry. Of course people who are very well prepared or smart will do better in aggregate and with certain biases, but this doesn't mean you are measuring what you claim to measure.
That is trolling. The cable problem and ease of access has been solved, my rather modest PC case (Carbide 500R) has place to accomodate everything with not a single cable showing or interfering with the airflow. And I somehow manages to put there the mighty D-14 as a cpu cooler.

Every decent case made in the last 5 years have very easy access to the CPU and very good cable management. Also we have detachable hdd cages and place for insanely huge VGA cards.

Of course building this kind of rig requires modest skills. Like being able to build anything from lego.
It's funny because cause and effect is one of the reasons he uses to call the claim "bogus".
Really? Because Twilio seems to handle it just fine. Charge card when balance falls below certain balance, and you can't get the funds back without a really good reason.

You know, just like Amazon gift card balances applied to your consumer Amazon account.
If we're on the subject of anti-patterns, should GOTO really never be used, in any situation?

I remember writing some code in C a few years ago and I needed a place in a function where cleanup is performed, and in case there were errors caught in multiple places before you get to the cleanup area, I used a goto statement to jump there after printing the error message and turning on a special error flag.

How would you solve that problem without goto?
I host a web site for my small community on S3 because it's nearly free to do so and, for such a small site with no server-side programming, it performs better and is more fault tolerant than a cheap VPS.
I live in Ireland, we dont really get taught a whole lot of grammar in school, or else I had terrible terrible teachers.

Answer: No, no one considers it correct, and if they do, they shouldn't!

I would like to mention that it always seems a bit dickish when someone bothers commenting saying 'hurr durr there's supposed to be an apostrophe here', no one knows if the author has dyslexia, or if he is in fact a native speaker (Legally, our native language isn't English btw, most people are only English speakers, but there is a tiny minority who aren't).

/rant
I would be pessimistic. Most people in the Linux community aren't in the habit of paying for software.

Also, I avoid the Ubuntu Software Centre as much as I can. I find the Ubuntu desktop to be atrocious and I log in via ssh as much as I possibly can to Ubuntu machines.

If there's any market here it would be for a $500+ product that customers want bad enough to deal with the USC than it would be for $5 games; even in that case most of your marketing work is going to be outside the USC.

Why hasn't anybody come out with a Linux distribution that contains an Android personality so that you can run Android apps side to side with normal Linux apps kinda like Windows 8? It seems Linux could use this to close the usability gap with other OSes.
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Exactly. This is the poster child for "acquihires" in that it was a defensive move to get Instagram user mind share encapsulated into face books properties and an offensive move to prevent any competitors from acquiring the user base's attention.
Erlang has mutable variables (the process dictionary), it just makes you do more work to get at them instead of immutable ones and prevents them from being directly shared and causing synchronization problems.
You miss the point; AWS staff say its something they're working on. For two years. Either say you're not doing it or commit to doing it. Don't drag it out. Its a somewhat pathetic way to respond to customers.
> I want to upgrade the OS on my schedule, not theirs.

You can. But you can only install from their images. After that, you can "apt-get dist-upgrade" or whatever at your own rate.

> I want control of my own backups.

I think they give you that.

> And I really, really want snapshot capability, running / under LVM or btrfs. None of these seem possible from my interpretation of this answer (although I can't conclusively say they aren't).

Likely they can give it to you. They have really excellent chat support - just ask.

I've got 300 days of uptime on a $10/month VPS, that's working flawlessly since the second it was installed. I know from other people that they have fantastic support - but I can't vouch for it myself - I've never needed it.
I thought the Ubuntu User Software was just a graphical sugar around apt-get.
4 days left to apply for $50,000 in free seed funding in St. Louis
Move your startup to St. Louis, get $50,000 in non-equity diluting seed funding.
I'm one nerd, and I know a solid two hundred plus people in real life that asked me what the Instagram thing was all about because they had heard about some stuff and needed clarification. I won't run through what I talked to them about but I can assure you, it is not just nerds and geeks that care about this stuff. The key difference why I got 200+ people IRL asking me questions about Instagram? Because I am patient and can explain things in layman's terms. Non-technical people won't ever ask someone that assumes they don't want to know these things questions regarding these things.
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I was not referring about living good or bad, just that it is not too much revenue for the workforce involved. Tata is a global company.
I also found this to be one of the most intense things I've ever read.
Without goto, you'd either introduce a bunch of unnecessary functions or do this:

init;
do {
stuff;
if (fail) continue;
morestuff;
} while (0);
cleanup;

Which I've seen in real code released to the public. Whoever does either of those things instead of just using a goto should be flogged in the town square.

edit: Other usually-bad alternatives to goto are the pyramid-of-nested-ifs or a set of running "bad" flags/enum that disables each operation downstream of the error until the cleanup is reached.
Im going through this entire process as we speak. Let me give you some pointers that I have learned over the last two days.

I have a company, which is filed as an LLC in Delaware, that has a DUNS number just through D&B doing their work. We have been around for over a year, so they must have picked us up at some point. However, all of the information was incomplete - they didnt know we were an LLC, who owned the company, etc etc.

This meant that when I tried to apply for a Company iOS Dev license, I hit the same problem you did. Apple's background check (done through D&B/DUNS), totally failed, and I was black listed.

I called Apple, they told me to sign up as an individual, and then do my work there while I update my DUNS information, at iupdate.dnb.com. Currently, I'm waiting the 15 days after updating to re-apply for Apple's business dev account, while the databases get in sync.

You DO NOT need to pay for a DUNs number, however, they obviously want to upsell you for expedited service. I wouldn't do it. They get paid a healthy sum from Apple every year, and you are not their client, Apple is.

Try to do whatever you are doing as an individual developer, get a hold of the DUNS number/update info, and ask Apple to upgrade your account after the fact.

Best of luck

Charlie
I run this exact setup in my home office and it's great.

I've been wanting to try the Topping amps; this one with an integrated USB DAC looks interesting: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?partnumber=310-...
They don't mention that in many crowded cities (many of those in China I would imagine) a bicycle is faster than a car.
Amazing, the knowledge acquired, distilled and shared to enable this is just wanted immense. My father had a major bypass op 6 years ago and I remember him saying how he felt when he first awoke after the surgery. He mentioned feeling cold!
I do agree with you that interviewers haven't always read your resume - especially when they are a developer who just got called away from their desk to "meet you" to see if they would like to spend their days sitting next to you

I think perhaps the author is suggesting that you don't just regurgitate exactly what is written on your résumé, but rather embellish and highlight the relevant experience from each job that makes you a great candidate.

I think it would be ok to go a little more chronological and not so much of a sales pitch like the author wrote.
Singletons are easy to implement, simple to understand and have no performance penalties. They don't need to be defended. If they work for your project, use them.
It has a python reader; then you pivot, aggregate, whatever within pandas semantics (series, dataframes, panels), and you can export it to json again.

I'm reading the pandas book right now, and there's examples of all of these things. One line to read json, one line to convert back, no pain.
Re: "they are rapidly approaching the West's level of technological sophistication"

I would disagree with that assessment. Simple electronics aside, they are severely lacking in technology. For example - they spent several decades of R&D on a jet engine, and haven't been able to design/build (or even copy) one that would work. And that's despite all the technological knowledge they borrowed from the Russians.

Disclaimer: former Jet Engine major from Russia, saw much knowledge sharing with China
I'm assuming this is for building a product, in which case the "why" is specced by market demand, and the "what" is little more than a goal of the product/feature - such as "product to allow consumers to record their taxes". The "how" is obviously more involved and includes things such as technology choices and specs on what the customer will interact with and how data will be stored.

The "what" would also often include essential features, such as "visual graphs or charts over time". These features would grow (or shrink) over time based on market feedback and testing.

You rarely want your programmers/designers/QA defining the "why" behind your product. If it's a startup, you're generally creating your business because of the "why" - you don't start a company and then use the company to find a "why". If it's an established company creating a new product, you'd have had market research and similar groups set up before the product even started to identify the "why".
You would put the cleanup code in a separate function, and call it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with using goto in such a case, though, if it makes the code more understandable.
Maybe this is a difference in implications of the word "expect".

If you don't expect something to become more valuable, investing in it is a stupid idea, no?

This is the kind of implication I was shooting for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
S3 is designed for 99.99% availability, and carries a service level agreement providing service credits if a customer’s availability falls below 99.9%. See (http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/) for more info.
Samsung Facing $15bn Fine For Attempting To Ban iPhone And iPad In Europe
For truck snow tires, many times "reasonable" MT (mud terrain) or AT (all terrain) tires are also rated for snow. I say reasonable because MTs can get pretty extreme in their tread pattern, which will really hurt your stopping distance on ice. Extreme MTs have very little rubber touching the road. On my truck I have Goodyear Wrangler SilentArmor tires, which are rated for on/off-road and extreme snow. I wouldn't recommend them as street tires, as they are loud and wear very quickly on pavement, but just as an example of truck "snow" tires, ATs and MTs often serve the same purpose as snow tires, as well as giving you a better ability to get back on the road if you've gone off in a muddy or rough area.

ATs wear quicker than all-seasons (~50,000 miles). MTs wear extremely quickly (~30,000 miles). Normal all-season tires generally wear at ~60,000 miles.

-edit- also, before buying studded tires, check to see if they're legal in your state/country, and make a note of the legality dates. Many times they're only legal from November through March (studded tires damage the road when the road is dry). Tire chains are temporary solutions, but are practically illegal in many states (can only be used if the chain never touches the road surface).
@podrivo, looks cool. The audio never syncs up on mobile Safari though
The top Wikipedia articles of 2012 are revealed
Then you're back to the same problem with a high capital gains rate, once the tax burden exceeds a certain threshold the asset becomes unsellable because the value of holding it so greatly exceeds the value of selling it less the tax to be paid. And then people don't sell and you don't get the tax revenue, but you get the economic distortion.

The way you fix the distortion is by accounting for it. If someone sells an investment asset and then uses the money to purchase another investment asset, allow them to roll over the basis into the new asset. Then there is no distortion because you can trade investment assets for one another with no change in tax liability or tax realization.

Which is actually kind of cool now that I'm thinking about it, because it's kind of like a consumption tax that only applies to investment income -- the money gets taxed when they spend it on something that isn't an investment, but poor people whose money doesn't come from investment sources don't pay the tax. Which means you can have a substantial tax rate without a lot of distortion -- or at least, the distortion would be to encourage the rich to invest rather than spend. But if we like investing then maybe that's OK.
This seems pretty dramatic itself. Is this melodrama or metadrama?

I get the feeling any sort of drama is really limited to certain subcommunties surrounding certain projects. I bet most people using Ruby don't give a shit about any alledged drama.
isn't there some controversy re MtGox? E.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/22/lulzsec-rog...
While I admit to only skimming that link, all the examples I read discussed a single company tying purchase of one of their products to one of their other products.

Apple does not sell DUNS numbers, as they are not Dun & Bradstreet.

It also mentioned the anticompetitive nature of tying a weak/new product to a stronger one. DUNS numbers are not new or esoteric (although I do think of them as being old-fashioned and enterprisey).

So, I struggle with the notion that this could be illegal, but I'd be fascinated to learn more about it.

Sure is developer hostile and counter-productive, though.
The first paragraph read strangely to me... like bot generated content. Like the sentence:

"Python can be written as an algorithm that you can execute."
I thought Clockwork Orange worked by forcefully building strong negative associations
Do they require DUNS numbers for non-us companies too? From the article it's not really clear.
That's not really true: If you develop a nice and polished desktop application which can be better than an opesource alternative we are disposed to pay.

For example check the Humble Bundle: Linux users always pay more than average.
Although I'd not sell in the Ubuntu Software Center: As you would miss a lot of users from other distros (or people who don't use the Software Center).
It wasn't worth $1bn on the general market, but it was worth 1% of Facebook's equity (which at the time was worth $100bn)

Photos are Facebook's biggest feature by far, and Instagram is the only company that has come close to challenging it, when you look at it in those terms, 1% isn't a lot at all
If there is one guy on the planet that has absolutely deserved to rest on his laurels for a bit it is Ratan Tata. I've been reading quite a bit about him in the last few weeks and compared to most western CEOs that I'm familiar with this guy is much more ethical and a fascinating person.

He reminds me of Ray Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Anderson_%28entrepreneur%29).

They say that nice guys finish last, in a world where a saying like that gets a lot of traction it is great to see a man like Ratan Tata prove that not only can nice guys finish first, they can do so coming from a substantial disadvantage. Imagine, Tata bought out Corus steel (which in turn had bought out Hoogovens Steel), one the worlds largest steel factories.

Buying out a first world competitor is a pretty good move from a 3rd world country.

If you feel like reading some interesting stuff you could do worse than typing 'Ratan Tata' into google and digging in, definitely recommended.
You got a part where they are talking about products that are bundled together but belongs to the same company.

Like a selling a laptop with a mouse included.
Ask HN: Is there a "Stripe for ACH"?
I'm looking for an easy-to-use API to process ACH transactions. I like Dwolla, but they force both parties to sign up before they can send or receive funds. I guess I'm looking for the Stripe to their PayPal.
Precious Metals. Gold and Silver Specifically.

edit: If you're in Canada, you can use ScotiaMocatta (division of ScotiaBank) as your broker Buy. online and they will deliver the metal right to your doorstep, or keep it with them in a safety box.

https://www.scotiamocatta-estore.scotiabank.com/stores/scoti...
>Ukraine is about 99% culturally similar

That's very ignorant. It's exactly the same as saying that Germany and Austria are 99% culturally similar.
That's almost never true using 32 bit math, is increasingly less and less true for 64 bit math (e.g., if you need 5 decimal places, you're left with just 13 digits - that's only trillions!) - but most importantly, a support nightmare - a lot of software written until 2002 or so assumed 4 digits is enough - Microsoft stuff (e.g. Visual Basic, I think other stuff too) had a "money" 4-decimal-digit fixed point type.

And then the market adopts a 5th digit - and you have to essentially rewrite all the math stuff.
You weren't making a generic separation of powers argument, you were referring to the specific case of spying laws: "How much permission from Congress (and oversight by Congress) does the President need to authorize varying degrees of spying?"

I say he needs all permission in the world if congress tells him he can't do it. You seem to know of some constitutional spying power that would allow him to ignore congress. Please inform me what this constitutional clause is.
I've had pretty good results with peer-to-peer lending. Prosper is the platform I use (Lending Club is the other big player in the U.S. but not available to investors where I live). It can be a bit high maintenance as an investor as you'll need to invest in 100+ loans to be diversified (and you'll have to reinvest proceeds over time), but I find it to be manageable. If you really want to get into it, both platforms allow you to download all past loan data so you can analyze past performance and come up with your own approach.
Cracking your window open during a blizzard wouldn't be too bad. Blizzards mean snow and it typically stops snowing when it gets substantially cold, so it is very likely that the heat from your engine would over power the slight cool air coming in from the window.
What kind of drama are we talking about? Can anyone share some background information?
The official stuff is here

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curr...

but you wont find anything specific in that (our dear government is good at saying what is wrong, and demanding change but less good at saying what it actually wants - you can't be wrong then!)

The links in my original post give the flavour. There was further consultation and a couple of speeches by Gove. I'll dig those out after tea

EDIT: one proposed curriculum model

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2012/nov/13/...

This tells you where the ICT teachers are

http://www.nfer.ac.uk/about-nfer/press/programming-not-a-hig...

(the emphasis on basic computer skills probably represents the managerial response to the previous National Curriculim: skills development was ghetto-ised into ICT instead of word processing as part of English, spreadsheets in Maths &c)