skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but no.

I've been in discussions recently with a French company whose development team is based in Dublin (Ireland for the geo-illiterate). Most of the tech staff in Dublin were East European, and the company's HR department was in Romania - a non-EU country.

This EU centric perception is a media perception, and bears no relationship to the reality on the ground in Europe.

Company in question was owned by a a UK multi-national, and builds software for banks all over the world. The 'Western EU' leaning is pure fantasy. I understand why Americans like it - it's simple and straight forward, and appeals to people from what is basically a simply and straight forward country - but it's just not the reality on the ground.

!+": Romania: !+": Wasn't even aware of its EU status. Why? Because when you think EU, it simply doesn't pop up. Which points vividly to the diversity of the EU. Romania, even now, is no one's idea of a Western country. It simply ain't. It ain't western; it ain't even that European. Tarring all of Europe with some kind of EU white wash is simply foolish.
Rails allows you to choose your own testing framework [1][2][3] and plugins[4][5][6], templating engine[7][8][9], and ORM[10]. It's my understanding that before Rails 3, swapping out many default Rails was a bit hacky, but it's pretty standard now.

[1]: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails
[2]: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-rails
[3]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda
[4]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl
[5]: https://github.com/nulldb/nulldb
[6]: https://github.com/notahat/machinist
[7]: https://github.com/haml/haml
[8]: https://github.com/josh/mustache-rails
[9]: https://github.com/stonean/slim
[10]: https://github.com/brasten/sequel-rails
[11]: https://github.com/datamapper/dm-rails
[12]: http://mongomapper.com/documentation/getting-started/rails.h...
I think the site was http://pleaserobme.com/

It was a perfect example of TMI on the internet, but the difference I think was that people intentionally posted this information, whereas everyone listed by the paper had no choice.
Windows RT has been ported to the HTC HD2
Awesome. I'm very excited about the OUYA, both as a user and seeing how well it does in the market. I think they have several things going for them

- It should be very easy to "port" games. Since you can already hook up controllers to Android and many phones come with D-pads, many games would probably already work as they are. Although touch is essential to many games (Angry Birds) many other games suffer by having touch controls (racing games, shooter games etc).

- It should be possible to use a tablet or phone to provide touch if you need it.

- It'll run Android apps - Netflix, YouTube, Al Jazeera etc. It'll make it easy to get a huge amount of content you want from the get-go.

- Write and distribute apps easily. If something's missing from your console, just go ahead and write it. Hopefully they follow Google's model here - low registration fee, no reviews.

- unlike traditional consoles, they should be able to follow a model closer to tablets and phones - yearly hardware upgrades, keep the price low, but still sell it at a profit.
Are you paying any money to the original author?
A strong command of my native tongue and a mathematical mindset.
Maybe it's just something to link to when people complain to him about coffeescript (or any other Rails default) for the umpteenth time.
IWatch? Apple working on an iOS smartwatch
Yes, but frameworks are supposed to solve issues like UTF8 encoding by setting up sane defaults automatically. If I wanted to deal with solved problems myself, I wouldn't be using a framework.

Also, YC's crappy HTML doesn't make the site less useful for visitors. This blog's poor unicode support does.
What about situations where you need to be SEO friendly, but you have enough in-page interaction and reused components that mere jQuery starts to become unwieldy?
> Romania - a non-EU country.

Romania is in the European Union. It is not in the Euro area monetary union, though.
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Why is it such a big deal? It's not like you can't add a line to gitignore?
> I know virtually nothing about ebook formats so this would be quite a learning curve for me.

Pandoc can convert markdown into epub. Put it on Amazon's KDP, Barnes and Noble's PubIt, and then use Smashwords to target the other markets.
The ability to delay an emotional reaction during an emergency.
Romania is an EU country since 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un...
Hotmail/Outlook servers have serious issues about usage limits. We're working on fixes (or work-arounds, depending on your perspective).
I see you're one of those John Yoo types that think the president can do anything he wants, including torture children, without any oversight because we are in a never-ending undeclared war supposedly authorized by congress in 2002's AUMF to attack Iraq. Not only is that interpretation illogical and authoritarian, it is also immoral and is leading to the loss of faith and the unraveling of American Democracy. I believe that attitude is doing more damage to America than a terrorist ever could.
I have no idea what this has to do with lean startup.

Lean startup is not about: technical efficiency, a distributed workforce, or keeping your burn low.

"The Lean Startup relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback." (wikipedia)
That isnt quite how I would describe it, FirefoxOS is the realisation of Phonegap original vision. Phonegap was built to not exist, it patches device API's where they dont exist with the intention that when the API is supported natively phonegap just isnt needed.

Ideally FirefoxOS and Phonegap applications will be identical (in that they will all be web apps that use standard APIs) there is work being done on making that true.
A responsibility I'm not sure all (even law-abiding) adults are capable of handling.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pizza-shooter-claim...

Customer complains about Pizza taking too long. Gets in verbal altercation with armed gentleman. Result: shots fired. Thankfully no deaths.
Because the Japanese love porn?
Is CPR done on people with wounds like that? I would think the chest compressions would mostly just be pushing blood out, but I guess doing that is better than doing nothing?
I have to agree - I found the title monumentally off-putting as well (and wound up reading it on the Kindle to avoid having the book title displayed to my fellow train passengers, how sad!) but I was glad that I read it.

The book seems like it'd be "your guide to becoming a smarmy dick in 30 days!" but it really stresses sincerity and other various laudable goals. A lot of the book is obvious in hindsight but it's pretty well written and has become a classic for good reason.
Just because a link is "nofollow" does not mean you get no juice. Being linked to from wikipedia definitely helps a site's rankings...
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Not for being "information-free" but for breaking the guidelines: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."
And I think this is where this all leads - at some level all generalizations fail. All the way down to the individual level. Generalizing about my cube-mate fails: he hated Mexican food, till the new waitress started at our Mexican lunch spot. So now he hates all Mexican food minus that 1 restaurant.

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This example is actually 10 years old, it but leapt to mind.
I've always had the impression that actually being linked from wikipedia isn't necessarily a good thing SEO wise. That is I think that a long time ago google decided to penalise sites being linked from major wiki's to stop them being spammed to death.

But I'm basing that only rumour and supposition so certainly don't take it as truth.
"In USA, how many hours by car do you need to find a local that doesn't speak your language?"

Zero. The janitors and the landscapers of the company don't speak much English. The baker at the ethnic grocery down the street doesn't speak English, but his daughter does.
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Actually, now is the perfect time to rationally come up with some sound principles before the hormone storm hits. Hormones are not a good basis for decisions that affect the course of peoples' lives.
> It seems like what MS may be getting (or trying to get), at least in part, from this is a return to (or continuation of, I suppose) GNU/Linux as strictly an "enthusiast" OS. A BIOS tweak won't stop me, but it would definitely stop my mom.

Microsoft is so very far from caring about any of this. They and their hardware partners can conceivably do a lot of damage to the Linux desktop experience through indifference, but that's what it is. Indifference.
While it's pretty obvious you should live a healthy life, sadly, life will also throw things your way that no amount of lifestyle can protect you from.

Taking care of yourself is 50% lifestyle and 50% luck, and unfortunately that split shifts unfavorably with every passing year. Ailments are inevitable, no matter what you eat, or how much exercise you do.
Maybe I'm missing something, but even if there's only a 10% chance of survival I'd still want somebody to give it a shot. What is the downside -- somebody has to do it for 30 minutes until the plane lands?
Minor nitpick: Romania has been a member of the EU since 2007.
At the risk of asking a "bad" question, will there be a FireFox App Store? If so, when and what will be the Mozilla cut? If not, what will be the plan to attract the "higher end" apps?
Actually, IIRC insulin is classified as a Pharmacy-Only medicine in the UK, rather than Prescription-Only, meaning that it can be sold by a pharmacist without requiring a prescription, to address exactly this sort of situation.

Even if they've reclassified it as a POM in the 25 years since I stopped doing that stuff for a living, if you could have found a pharmacy in the UK, then under the Emergency Sale and Supply regs the pharmacist could, on their own recognizance, dispense a sufficient supply of prescription-only meds to get the patient back home.

(Caveat: I am an ex-pharmacist. Any advice I could conceivably give you is over two decades past its sell-by date and needs checking.)

Edit Current emergency sale and supply regs are described here:

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1011.aspx?CategoryID=73&SubC...
>False equivalence. Fox lies far more than any other station, finding a lie on CNN doesn't justify the "liberal media" non-sense conservatives have made up.

If it's false equivalence then the difference lands in my favor. Fox has never used obviously fake documents to try to throw an election like that. And there's reason to believe "Fox lies more than any other station", no matter how many times liberals tell each other that's the case. The lying from CNN and (of course) MSNBC has been epic over the last few weeks.

Oh, and by the way, Rathergate was CBS, not CNN. At least try to get your facts straight.

>Conservatives distrust the media because they don't like hearing things that don't jive with the belief system and reality is full of those things; it's as simple as that.

This is just projection. Leftists in the US are angry at Fox because they no longer control 100% of the narrative. The idea this has anything to do with objective reporting is just conceit on your part.

>Colbert nailed it when he said reality has a liberal bias, as did Stewart when he dubbed Fox bullshit mountain.

The reason people on the left find Colbert and Stewart funny is they tell you what you want to hear. What Colbert "nailed" was his audience, and if you had any capacity for self reflection you would realize this.
Stereotypes and generalizations are so common because they are useful, not because Americans are ignorant. Not just because no one cannot remember every detail about everything - generalizations are models, simplifications of reality, which help you make an informant decision confidently. For example: are you willing to adhere to workplace regulations? If its a low priority maybe you should skip Europe.

I'm from an EU country that in my opinion was 150 degrees (180-30) from what Martin Varsavsky described, but I still appreciated his article. I know it meant Western Europe and I learned that US entrepreneurs are a lot different. Generally.
No. I need a paper manual. I can write notes on it with grease, and not care about. It doesn't get scratched, need updates, or charging. Plus I can throw it in the trunk of my car and not worry about it.
they can at least notify the user who sent the content that a screenshot was taken, which in turn lets them know not to trust the receiver.

Why, because they are being held accountable for something they said?
I was told by a very resourceful man that undergrad is about learning to read, and he hit it. Your student can do that by taking a class in a subject that's pretty unfamiliar and getting an A. It requires reading and finding answers.

It's amazing how many problems can be solved by RTFM.
With apps like Facebook Poke or SnapChat the content you're sending is ephemeral (it won't be around forever).

My camera says otherwise.
Co-creator of PhoneGap here. This isn't much different from using phonegap and that is the point. PhoneGap was created because this is how we felt SDKs should be designed. The difference here is that Mozilla built FirefoxOS from the ground up with web technology whereas PhoneGap is a shim on top of existing SDKs. The goal is that all devices will expose this API from a web view to make cross platform development much more palatable, negating the need for tools like PhoneGap. Good on Mozilla on this one. I have high hopes for this OS.
>I read that entire comment thread, and maybe my perspective is skewed, but I saw none of the behavior that DHH described there. The discussion was generally polite, the participants were mostly experienced Ruby developers with open-source and community track records, and their objections were well-supported. I have less sympathy now for the original post than I did.

My thoughts exactly. I read the DHH post first and thought, "I totally agree. That's why I like rails."

But the thread was perfectly civil and the people in it were experienced and well known in the Ruby world.
I'm from Denmark and grew up knowing that we and the rest of Scandinavia is part of Western Europe.
You're stuck in a room with a PC and no OS...
The historical precedent is easily adapted to digital information. Historically, international communications were not protected. The government can inspect any package you send outside the U.S. and any package you receive from outside the U.S. So why should the same not apply to electronic communications? Historically, information you gave to third parties was not protected. The government doesn't need a warrant to get Kinkos to give them the documents I printed there. Why should the government need a warrant, then, to get Google to give them the documents I have on my Google Docs account?
Not sure if Google T&Cs preclude you from using alternate advertising methods. If not, one approach may be to solicit ads from mechanics, car shops, car maintenance training schools, etc. and build in some geo-awareness so you serve up ads local to the site visitor. Could be a very high conversion/CTR and be able to charge a nice fee.
I've done this before, though admittedly, we were already off the ground when my situation changed and I got the opportunity to live overseas.

I'd advise setting up your business wherever it is easiest (tax-wise, work-visa wise, etc.) to do so, provided one of you plans to remain there for the duration.

I personally found this arrangement to be wonderful. I was able to have the first part of the day for language lessons and such, then come home and work on the business in the afternoons/evenings. However, my business partner found it tough to schedule calls and such. (He's also my brother, so it's not easy to tease out the various possible factors here.)

Anyway, the short version of all that is: don't let geography keep you from this project. That's what Skype, vonage, emails, etc. are for.
I think this advice can be extrapolated out too. Get to know yourself, and understand what motivates you, what makes you happy. Read the Happiness Hypothesis to get an idea for what contributes to a persons actual happiness.

The most successful, happy people are those who can manage themselves properly.

And as for the basics of happiness, it's very simple:

- have some autonomy over what you work on
- have a social group of friends you spend time with
- exercise
- eat well
- meditate or do cognitive therapy
- spend time in nature

I try to do something from every piece every day. Finding a balance and forcing myself to do a piece from each has helped me prevent burnout for over 9 months now, and has made me happier than ever.
Maybe you should try to learn one of them well.
1. The ability to research a topic to any depth. My high school was specially good at teaching this skill

2. As someone living in a developing country, learning to speak English opened the most doors
In Scandinavia there is a small vocal subculture talking "startup". It is however a very small subculture. The majority of employees you will encounter will not be very entrepreneurial.
If you want a more theoretically pure variation you should look at the Racket language group.

My variation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule is that Common Lisp contains a reimplementation of Scheme, with some added "features."
Looks like I chimed in 4 minutes late. Perfectly said, thank you.
Oh, look, you left a mark.
They love telling people that they're French, English, Austrian, Czech, etc. but they never claim to be European.

Uhm, which was my point exactly?
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heapq.merge assumes the passed iterators are already sorted and will sort the iterators as is, so you can expect to get different results from some inputs to the examples in #1 and #2 [0]. Of course, if you simply call sorted on the the heapq results (#1), you will get the same result as #2 [1]. As well, without a final sort of either merge-example, you will get different results [2].

[0]
> list(heapq.merge([3, 2, 1], [3], [2, 3], [4, 5], [0, 1, 2]))
[0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4, 5]
> sorted(itertools.chain([3, 2, 1], [3], [2, 3], [4, 5], [0, 1, 2]))
[0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5]

[1]
> sorted(heapq.merge([3, 2, 1], [3], [2, 3], [4, 5], [0, 1, 2]))
[0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5]

[2]
> list(itertools.chain([3, 2, 1], [3], [2, 3], [4, 5], [0, 1, 2]))
[3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 2]
> list(heapq.merge([3, 2, 1], [3], [2, 3], [4, 5], [0, 1, 2]))
[0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4, 5]
Both, actually.

I do periodically need to do HTML5 apps on Android, either through PhoneGap or in a webview. I know most of what I need to in order to do that, but I'd like to improve my general facility with javascript.

iOS... I am planning to learn a bit of iOS, but mostly as an auxiliary skill. I am often tasked with porting iOS apps, so it helps to be able to read the source code and understand how they're put together. And most contracts these days want apps built for both Android and iOS. I don't think you can be a deep expert on both systems, though, so I'd rather partner with someone for the iOS work, and focus on being Really Good at Android.

I do perceive iOS as a relatively mature technology, though. Somewhere between stagnant and contracting in importance. Android, on the other hand, is still finding new uses and growing rapidly.

Web development is, I think, a good long-term investment, even if I'm using it to build Android apps right now. iOS development is more like an enabling skill, that I'm not looking to invest a lot in, and don't see myself doing much with two or three years down the line.

The viewpoint might be a bit myopic -- I do reallyreallyreally like Android. I like to think it's based on the contracts requests and trends I see, though.

The other skill I'm making an active investment in is web backend stuff. I did some CGI back in the 90's, and that needs badly to be modernized; I get asked for backend work on apps a lot. I'm studying Rails at the moment, but I will probably have to hold my nose and pick up PHP at some point.
>general research skills are lifesavers

I'd like to add one point here. Researching for a new tv model is a totally different beast as compared to researching something very technical in a field, (e.g.) the right mixture\* to optimize burn time vs thrust in a solid rocket motor in prograde to Venus.

It's fairly easy to find info about common and popular things because the target audience is the general public and they write in a very informal tone. And because of penetration, you'll find quite a lot of information and you just have to apply statistics/probabilities to what you read online to factor if you're going to buy that TV set or not.

On the other hand, specific data will be very hard to find. You may have to start searching for related topics like rockets and fuels before you try to find ratios. Even so, you may end up having to contact a professor or someone whose name you found on a related page. They may not know the answer, but they in turn will/may try to hook you up with the person who probably knows and this repeats. This takes time (atleast a few days if not weeks).

* You may need info for the fuel ratios for hobby, work, or academia.
Most British people would struggle to tell you the difference between Great Britain and the UK.
Another commenter wrote an interesting reply to you. It got censored by friendly robot overlord, so I'll reproduce it:

«Perhaps jennichen was suggesting that since the appeal has already been filed and the verdict might be overturned, the lawyers win either way. In the end CMU may get nothing out of it after having spent millions on the lawyers.»

«Quoting from the article shared:»

«"As Brian Love, a professor of patent law at Santa Clara University, pointed out, most universities end up net losers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190) in the game of "patent roulette," with their patents costing them more money than they make."»

(Thank you 'accountswu', that is an interesting find.)
Ask HN: Arguments to promote and encourage OSS in corporate environment?
Most often than not an attempt to introduce an open source product to an "enterprise" environment hits this, what I call, "blame wall". One of the typical arguments against OSS is "if it fails, who do we blame?".

What arguments do you use in these situations?
I can't wait to get my dev console. Not sure what game I'm going to build, but I'm super jazzed either way.
Nathan,

I finished v1 of my ebook from a post that did really well on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837264 I have been really looking into distribution of the eBook and this is such a timely post for me.

Did you think about publishing the book on amazon / other eBook sites? Did you ever think about making this into a real book or using kickstarter to get funding?

Thanks for this post. Seriously Awesome.
The government doesn’t charge anything for GPS: http://www.gps.gov/policy/funding/
> What do you think about Silver Peak virtual WANOP solution ?

No idea. However they aren't a small startup/open source solution like you were originally looking for! Pretty much everyone's solution is written as software that runs on Linux (sometimes BSD). That then gets packaged up on an hardware appliance, suitably tested, marked up and sold.

Consequently not much is needed to make a virtual appliance, although testing is harder as configurations are more diverse. In other words it is likely to be substantially in behaviour to hardware appliances (unless they deliberately exclude things to protect hardware appliance sales).
>It's not fear of death or injury, but fear of "other", of change, of being marginalized.

Good lord. How old are you that you haven't realize this "fear of other" stuff is just academia bullshit?