skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We run our own internal PyPi server. Makes it super easy to install our own packages over Pip, as well as ensure that dependancies are nice and clean.
This only makes the $20K to Mercurial seem weirder, don't you think? It underscores my point that it's hard for large organizations to keep their official positions on things straight.
"Just stay within the law"

And what law would that be? Clearly I would guess that you mean "US law", but isn't this an important piece of information to anyone hoping to fund a potentially large sum of money through your platform?
If you write medical device or flight-control software, you have to have traceability all the way from requirements to the delivered binaries. With a central server & build system, that's much easier to do & also explain to federal inspectors.
How about this:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/01/...

"The results showed that early fans of different types of rock (eg, rock, heavy metal, gothic, punk), African American music (rhythm and blues, hip-hop), and electronic dance music (trance, techno/hardhouse) showed elevated minor delinquency concurrently and longitudinally. Preferring conventional pop (chart pop) or highbrow music (classic music, jazz), in contrast, was not related to or was negatively related to minor delinquency."

Though the study isn't so great at the whole causation-correlation thing.
Why are they selling them? Surely the manufacturers would be better just to corner a large proportion of the mining capability for themselves.
The problem is that large swathes of the Git community have been treating the whole DVCS scene almost in Hunger Games terms -- there can be only one winner, and all the others must die.

For what it's worth, I've heard quite a lot of anecdotal evidence that Git is pretty contentious among many teams that adopt it. Git adoption is often driven by an aggressive few, against the wishes of their colleagues who can be quite unhappy about it. Case in point: Git has more "hates" on amplicate.com than Subversion and TFS put together -- and "hates" outnumber "loves" by something in the region of four to one. (http://amplicate.com/hate/git)

(For reference, Git and TFS have roughly similar market share in the enterprise at the moment, and Subversion is about twice as widely used as either of them. Source: itjobswatch.co.uk)
66 GH/s... damn...
300 at 100 a day is $30k/day. If they're selling them for $1.3k, let's assume a 50% markup; it would only take about 6 days to make back their investment. 12 days if they're selling them at cost.

I don't really follow the maths here.
I've never heard it called illegal before, can you expand on that,
I see where you're coming from, it's a shame that so many bugs are available in Rails.
I hate to make this place more like Reddit, but that photo, combined with your comment was the funniest thing I've seen today!

On a more serious note, I think it illustrates the absurdity of the Apple vs. Samsung spectacle.
The Show
The GIL is not really a problem. There are far more pressing issues with MRI, and many core developers are working hard to solve these.
My parents were never around I played ultra violent games all the time, would watch porn with my friends (stole his dads porn cache), would watch ultra violent movies and listened to gg allin and any other extreme bands like the mentors plus a healthy dose of gangster rap and I've never killed anybody nor did I end up some crazed sexual deviant. None of my friends from back then have murdered anybody either.

These people do this because they are certifiable fruitcakes. Their brains don't work and if Batman doesn't exist it would be something else like religion or catcher in the rye. Crazy people are crazy.

Every spree shooter is exactly the same a flaming narcissistic nutjob. Except those 2 colombine kids they were sort of the combo breakers then it was back to monotone speaking, thousand yard staring wackos like Cho/vtech
PEGI is a European thing, and game ratings have no legal significance in the US.
He posted the same comment earlier on the App.net File announcement
"Open" is dead on consumer platforms. In 4-5 years, a phone/tablet OS that doesn't ship tightly integrated with specific hardware will seem like a programming language does today that doesn't ship with "batteries included."
If they had enough to build one, they could bootstrap themselves up from that. (It takes about 6 days for an ASIC to generate enough money to make a new one.)
Like others, I'd love to hear more about your experiences with it.
Hashing Trick Explained, for machine learning
How to Solve Human Evolution’s Greatest Hoax
"The plural of anecdote is not data."
That was the straw man I was thinking I saw in the post.

Why not use rails to load the page (no BYO framework involved) and then use javascript/backbone/etc on the client-side; as opposed to bringing the client-side technologies server-side to accomplish the same thing?

I'm thinking specifically of the search page example that was represented as a screenshot in this blog.
YES. Seriously why isn't anyone recognising this ?

The exact same violent video games and movies available in the US exist in many Western countries (New Zealand, Australia, UK, Singapore, Ireland, Scotland, France). But there is no where near the same issues.

In Australia I could get lost and end up at any house and be guaranteed I am not going to be killed for no reason.
The RTM update to Office on Windows RT was delivered the week before Windows RT went on sale.
Show HN: Menuish, searchable, readable menus on your iPhone
With the help of Portland-based Upstart Labs, we're launching Menuish, a restaurant search app for iOS. As part of launch Menuish is free for today only. We've been in the store since December but wanted to take some time to improve the data a bit before any real promotion.

So far the feedback has been good but I'm looking for additional feedback from the startup community. There are certainly things to improve. Right now you can search hundreds of thousands of restaurants nationwide to find the food you want. Search results contain restaurant menus, photos, ratings, and phone numbers so you can book a reservation immediately. Any feature requests for a version 2?
Believe it or not, that doesn't compile because begin and end have different types due to begin/end returning different iterator types than rbegin/rend. It could be a bug in both clang and g++.

This works, but I don't like the &strt and &endp:

std::wstring trim(std::wstring theStr) {
auto strt = std::find_if_not(theStr.begin(), theStr.end(), std::iswspace);

if (strt == theStr.end()) return L"";

auto endp = std::find_if_not(theStr.rbegin(), theStr.rend(), std::iswspace);

return std::wstring(&*strt,&*endp+1);
}

The easiest way is to use Boost's string algorithms library, though:

std::wstring trimb(std::wstring theStr) {
boost::trim(theStr);
return theStr;
}
I was speaking more about a "Marilyn Manson caused Columbine" type of thing.
Because my grandmother cares whether it's / or \ ?
It's the internet. You can't trust the labels on things, especially when it comes to piracy.
Yeah, I knew that part...I wasn't sure what the default heroku ruby buildpack did. I'm still digging into the source to see what the build process is. It's non-trivial.

UPDATE:

For others' edification, the default heroku ruby buildpack respects vendor/cache, but will purge it in the following scenarios:

* if vendor/ruby_version exists
* if vendor/heroku/buildpack_version exists, but vendor/heroku/ruby_version does not
* if the bundler cache exists, but vendor/heroku/ruby_version file specifies a different version of ruby than the one actually being used.
Ilya always writes the best performance articles. Really nicely organised page too.
I'm skeptical people have really changed their views due to a considered reasoning that, well, we were wrong about music, but the real culprit is games, because they're more immersive, etc. I think they're just serving the same cultural scapegoat position as music did. In the 1990s, people reflexively blamed KMFDM or Marilyn Manson, and today they reflexively blame videogames. I don't see much evidence that the people blaming the latter have thought it through more—and some of them are the same people. In particular, I think politicians like Lamar Alexander are just desperately grasping about for something unpopular to deflect the pressure away from guns.
In my opinion in git commit history is central and file tree is secondary. Something like GitExtensions serves me better than Git SourceControl Provider or TFS until they reallize about it.
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The current Windows, OS X, and Linux versions of RescueTime share a large portion of the code base which was developed in C++. We use Boost and libCurl for cross platform development, however the existing GUI implementations for Windows and OS X are platform specific (Objective-C/Cocoa for OS X and Windows API direct calls, no MFC or ATL). The Linux UI uses QT, and we have considered consolidating the OS X and Windows UIs to also use QT. The cross platform codebase communicates with our server side APIs, which are built in Ruby / Rails and Python / Django.

RescueTime was founded in late 2007, participated in the winter 2008 Y Combinator program, and raised a Series A round of financing lead by True Ventures in September 2008. Since funding, RescueTime has grown to profitability and continues to grow quarter after quarter. Our main office is in Seattle and we have a presence in Atlanta. Our engineers are involved in and can influence every step of building RescueTime’s offerings. This is an opportunity to learn what it takes to build a widely used successful startup product.

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There is the straw man again. If you are creating a completely client side app and you find it's better to have some work done on the server side... why not use mature existing server side technology along with client side technologies. It's not a one or the other scenario.

Why work hard to move client-side technologies to the server? javascript is not so good that I want it on the server-side. And server-side lanaguages are not hard to learn or hard to find people that know how to use them.
Uma Experiência Piloto com Micro Apartamentos Modulares
That is where I am. I work for <major defense contractor> and they pay for my phone. I can have any one I want as long as it is a BlackBerry Curve.

This is my only chance at anything even resembling a cool phone.
Yes. If a placebo has active ingredients, you have no chance to replicate the study if you can't tell what those active ingredients are. And if you can't replicate a published study from the details given in the paper, then it's not a scientific study, it's bullshit. Yes, that's right, it's bullshit. And yes most studies fall into this category. Can't be replicated, shouldn't have been accepted for publication in the first place.
This. We'll never run out of problems that take effort and frustration to solve.
"Using a quote out of context just makes you look like an idiot"
The part that gets me is that, had they (RIAA, MPAA, FBI, whoever) acted legally, they probably could have had something on him, I mean they didn't need to find a lot, only a little something somewhere. But no; they wanted to do it fast and with shock, probably to scare others and make sure megaupload went down, something that fits with the way they fight against piracy for the past decade or so.

It just went so horribly wrong, first the NZ judge actually respect the law instead of bowing down like it seems they expected, then the guy they fight against has the balls to match his ego and refuse to go down to bullying, and then the hydra of piracy strikes again and proves why taking megaupload down didn't really matter.

Kind of ironic how their fight against "illegal activities" fails because they refuse to use legal means.
You can't build one ASIC; you have to order a batch of thousands and you have to pay over $100K for the masks weeks before you receive the chips.
Mark Cuban: 6 books for entrepreneurs
Mega are using the file-system-api: http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/

It hasn't been widely implemented and may be due for change: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012OctDe...
Presumably they want to sell much more than 300 devices (enough that running them themselves would be less efficient than selling them) and turning on these 300 for themselves would make customers much less willing to buy more from them in the future.
Who cares how much RAM it has? RAM is dirt cheap. Phones should have 10x that much memory.
As usual, anything from extremetech is worth ignoring.
Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222524

10. Never buy swag. A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.
I also corrected my example. Thanks!
Those are utter platitudes. I understand that self-actualization is about "reaching one's highest potential," but what _is_ one's highest potential?
Show HN: gaudi, a HTML5 reddit reader especially for image subreddits
It is possible we've reached the stage, with office productivity software, that there isn't really anything you can _do_ to one except put better cup holders on it.
This is true for the Stripe one. The Mega one works (otherwise they couldn't have animated it ;))
Is it out of context? Two datapoints with a multitude of confounding factors do not actually tell us anything of value.
There's No REAL "Online Traction"?
tl;dr: Fujitsu makes an unverifiable claim because the details of the algorithm have not been made public.
I am as skeptical about laws regulating video games as you seem to be, but laws about video game violence in the United States are hardly 'strict.' After all, the agency that rates video games, the ESRB, is run by the industry itself. And I am unaware of any legal obligation to take part in the ESRB.

Finally, the U.S. doesn't use PEGI ratings, a group of nine European nations do. But you are right in saying Poland has liberal laws — game publishers do not have to have their games rated by PEGI.
People threaten people with things that they themselves would find horrible, in order to incentivize the other party, all the time. The US budget sequestration, for example: a bunch of spending cuts none of us wanted, created with the intention of making us pick spending cuts we did want instead so that it wouldn't happen.

The idea behind this statement is similar: if the FDA actually pre-commits to a policy saying "either we're going to figure out a huge set of requirements for publishing placebo composition data [huge hassle for us, honestly] or, if we haven't done that by January 2015, no more active placebos"--well, suddenly the drug companies are breathing down the FDA's neck to get those requirements drafted so they can comply with them before it's too late.
Interesting, my result's s1 e1.avi was also linking to a movie.exe

The other episodes were linking to 500+mb avi files though

There is a up-vote/down-vote system so these probably wouldn't be too problematic
"Ha ha ha, I intentionally cause huge legal problems for the Open Source world and the software world in general, hilarious, right?"

This stupid little license game of Crockford's is childish and inappropriate. The more he jokes about it the less respect I have for him. Grow up.
In what way? What things are you comparing?

All I know is that the next version of Java will have features inspired by the last version of c# http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2011-Septe...
It's been available for a while via bizspark http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx
> capable of generating $210/day

and for a limited amount of time. Bitcoins are a finite resource, once they are all mined, this hardware will be pretty much useless, as far as I understand.
oric-1 owners, represent!

(sorry, but it's rare to see a mention...)
Newell: Steam Box's biggest threat isn't consoles, it's Apple
If you take all Canadians 18-65, you'd maybe have 20 million in sales. Apple sells that many iPhones in a month.
Isn't there a name for this kind of fallacy? It's on the tip of my tongue. There was an anecdote (an example, rather) where each member of a family wants to go outdoors while assuming that everybody else will choose to remain indoors, and, out of being "considerate", everybody chooses to remain indoors. Comedy or tragedy ensues.

Edit: Found it: Pluralistic Ignorance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance. Uncited, but interesting statement: "...Pluralistic Ignorance can be caused by the structure of the underlying social network, not cognitive dissonance."
"just what on earth has the Office team been doing?"

should read

"just what on earth has Microsoft been doing for the last 5 years?
US Senators are a bigger problem than guns and video games.
Ask HN: When (year) will GPUs probably reach 100 TFlops?
When I look back at the Top 500 for November 2004, then a top GPU from today would have been in that list back then. If that trend continues, is it then okay to expect a 100 TFlops GPU by late 2019?
It's open already: https://github.com/davertron/simpletask
They've certainly used Office as a major selling point of Surface RT. So there's at least some conflict in the message they are sending there. Is Office meant for tables or not? If yes, then why haven't they made it more touch optimized? If not, then why are they making such a big deal out of it with Surface promotion?

And don't think you're getting Office for "free" in there anyway. The hardware specs are almost identical to a $200 Nexus 7. There's little in there, hardware wise, that could justify a $300 increase. So obviously most of the difference is to pay up for the Windows and Office licenses. They are included in the price. they are not "free".
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I'm afraid I can't give you any specific recommendations, I just remember reading about one in PC Gamer magazine (UK) in 2006 or 2007.
Correct, that's the file key and you can choose between appending it to the URL or transfer it to a friend through a secure channel.
Is this a bot for HITs?
Took me ten years to learn to code by myself.

From playing around with gorillas in QBasic to pretending to know C to learning HTML visually to getting CSS and DOM to trying to remake PacMan in C++ to finally learning Python and Django and Flask and the point of OOP to finally now realizing the modern day shift towards EDP thus how powerful JavaScript really is.

Ten years of sucking. To realize I'm not meant to be a programmer because my code is not as efficient, compact, or beautiful enough like the "pros" that keep pushing to GitHub.

And that internal chasm, that lack of confidence is what kills it for me. And if I were to do it all over again I would have definitely done all this on other people's time and money instead of my own.

But I just keep hacking away because programming is art and until the day I can bring about all the crazy things I know I see in my head that will change the world I will suffer for my art.
The "assault weapons" (yeah, that term is not well defined) that get used in high profile mass shootings are, on the whole, less often used in crime or to kill people than handguns. Even if a ban was effective, it would be unlikely to produce any noticeable effect.

A corollary to this is a guess that the handful of high-profile mass shootings just aren't good proxies for violence in general. I think many people view it as the "straw the broke the camel's back", an extreme example of a general class of problems that finally got people to take the problem seriously, like the Cuyahoga River catching on fire did for water pollution. But an alternate hypothesis is that these rare events are very different (in causes and solutions) from the more common kinds of violence, so the discussion focused on these handful of anomalous data points is not very useful for figuring out how to reduce violence overall.
Great article guys.

Can I ask, why Flask and not Django? (Flask fan here btw)
When freemium ain't free: Crowdbooster (YC S10) offers a painful case study
Microservers must Specialize to Survive
FTA: "That's security in today's world. We have no choice but to trust Microsoft. Microsoft has reasons to be trustworthy, but they also have reasons to betray our trust in favor of other interests. And all we can do is ask them nicely to tell us first."

Schneier's opinion on security is generally held in high regard, however, in this instance, his fallacious reasoning is somewhat surprising.

IOW, it's highly unlikely that 'trusting Microsoft', is the only option we have.
Oliver Wyman's Scott McDonald on the Middle East's Risks and Challenges
Oh I completely agree. I'm just saying that right now video games serve as a "better scapegoat." I'm sure if virtual reality becomes popular in the next decade we will have a new "better scapegoat."
No, not worthless because of transaction fees.

Miner reward = Transaction fees + block reward
Currently the the former accounts for only 1%. This will likely change in the future (a decade or so). See here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_Commons
What is the actual time associated with the TCP protocol? I'm imagining that 30x faster is pretty much an unnoticeable difference in real-world usage.
What the heck is Yahoo OS?!
People make that argument yet men are almost always victims of the most brutal deaths in cinema, specifically without the camera looking away.
Apple trademarks its Stores to deter copycats
Actually if you are changing a dependency right at the bottom of the chain, it makes things much faster as each compilation unit (assembly) is less likely to be coupled to the changed code.

Large assemblies are the enemy of compilation time as you can't partially compile them (like you can with java individual classes).
Won't make a difference, it's possible to sign a gem with a metadata file that contains an exploit.
And here I thought it was something capable of carrying more than two passengers. I donno... like a bus?
Oh look, it has better "latancy". Flag and bag.
Gojomo's design could use windows instead of arrows, so that the toilet car's external signage can be seen from anywhere in the adjacent car's hall. At a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio, a passenger just has to look both directions and go toward the sign they see. At a 3:1 ratio, a passenger who doesn't see a toilet car out of either window could always walk to the door closest to them.