skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless things have changed recently, Berlin still has fairly low rents and low living costs going for it -- giving people a fair amount of marginal space: http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html

Alexander Young (of Soundcloud) speaking about Berlin: "The atmosphere and culture in Berlin is very unique. Since the costs for living are still low, people can afford to only work a few hours per week, and do the stuff they want the rest of the time."
http://blog.twingly.com/2010/05/18/from-stockholm-to-berlin-...

That can't be said about Stockholm nor Helsinki.
10 grand is a bit cheap when I think of all the advertisement done for mega's security?
I'm involved in the startup scene in Norway, and it seems to me that there are mainly two sources of real money; oil (gas/offshore/etc) and fish, considering both private and public funding. It doesn't look to me like unrelated tech startups gain any special advantages by being in Norway.

I think we are still fighting the unfortunate culture of the Law of Jante: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
It didn't recognize the capital letter A, only variations on the letter A and other unknown characters. I'm sure that the letter A is an unicode character!
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Ok, just do it.
I believe that it has no comments because this tutorial is around for years and almost everyone who knows LLVM have already read it.
My personal maven moment was when I did a "mvn clean" on a train ride - and it failed, because it had to lazy-load 'mvn-clean-plugin' (5kb).
If a pc can't find it, perhaps drawing things is going to be the new captcha!
It doesn't look great that's for sure, but you can still tell what the icons are i.e. it's good enough.

If you're designing things such that a missing icon causes the UI to be incomprehensible, you're probably designing it badly
Already posted 3 times before to HN this year:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016848

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5014218

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5020893

NB. Only the first post has comments.
Tried to draw an alpha but it didn't get it.

So far I haven't tried Shapecatcher a lot but I think that http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html works much better. Detexify is of course only for LaTeX symbols and doesn't do unicode.

To be useful Shapecatcher needs to become better at recognition.
But those little squares with hex digits are just AWESOME.
>Therefore, if your password policy as any more restrictive than [\x20-\xFE]{8,64}, I'm going to assume that you store my passwords in a plain-text VARCHAR field without proper escaping.

Alternative interpretation: the Website is neither UTF8-safe (or whatever charset you prefer) nor are prepared statements used. Otherwise VARCHAR is fine even without any escaping.
It's possible the server will let you set the password to something longer than 12 characters but nott allow you to log-in with it. It's apparently happened on sites before.
Trying to draw U+1F4A9 (Pile of Poo). After several attempts, no luck.

I have learnt that Unicode contains even more weirdness than I thought before though, including 'Alchemical symbol for borax-3' (U+1f744), and 'doughnut' (U+1f369).
Readyforce Acquires Umeqo – The MIT Campus Recruiting Event Management Platform
First, instead of fixing their stupid browser so it works like all the others, they provide "tools" to ask that you make your sites compliant with their stuff

Second, my site uses jQuery UI 1.10 and they suggest I update to 1.9.

Regarding web browsers, Microsoft is still sucking balls, year after year.
I'm still looking for one where I can share with specific people (who can then update), and sublists. Closest thing I can find is Workflowy, possibly Cotton, but neither say what each person did, or even what's new.
Is the source available anywhere?

1.5M locally or over a network? What is the size of each message?
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Reskell: A hacker news clone in Haskell
Worked really well for me, found a smiley face and a few accented characters. Awesome idea and implementation.
Eucalyptus are rather notoriously bad about that, moreso than many other trees. I've witnessed them make a widow, or widower, in this case.
Can someone tell me why 'Cat with a wry smile' is in Unicode? Presumably at some point someone thought that it would be useful to somebody else, hence it's inclusion. It would be very interesting to hear the back-story behind such seemingly useless glyphs.
don't take it lightly of the fact that javascript could theoretically become the most popular language for decades, mainly due to browser support.
You're forgetting one very important thing: Shirley Hornstein is female and Bill Gates isn't.
Damn that looks good, it worked for me for ② and u with umlauts.

Get the Japanese support in there and it will be amazing. What about using MS Mincho or MS Gothic for that? (It is free as in beer, but is the licensing off?)
Darn, those aliens have so many PhDs, no wonder they fly them saucers so well. UFO = Untyped+Functional+Objective
There is an ongoing debate in France about children's school weeks between a 4-day week (full days) and a 5-day week (either a day off in the middle of the week, or only mornings on Wednesdays and Saturdays). I invite you to look for different opinions on this debate if you're interested in this article's subject.
I understand children pace is barely comparable with grown-ups', however the arguments would be similar.
Question is, when are our so-called modern societies going to achieve the transition between human-based and robot-based mass production, leaving people freed from Maslow's hierarchy of needs' lower levels, and (therefore?) from the tyranny of performing something all day long without any benefit for the mind...
"I have found NumPy impossible to install."

Try using one of "mega" bundles from Enthought or Continuum. Anaconda CE installs easily on Windows and Linux.
It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
The easy way: go for the high CPU instances (don't bother with the 'regular' ones, other providers offer cheaper and better machines)

The slightly harder: go for technologies that help you spread the load, so you spawn several instances that run simultaneously, run for some time and them stop, costing you maybe what would cost you for 1 instance/month but giving you the results faster

The even harder way is going for spot instances and orchestrating the sharding and reassembly of results
These are Emoji: it's a set of smileys/icons originally used by Japanese carriers. Apple included them in their iPhone, and in order to standardise them they (successfully) requested they were added to Unicode.
https://catch.com/ is really nicely done.
Waaaait. It's made by Kiip? But Kiip is a rewards network, right? (Based on their Twitter, https://twitter.com/kiip) I don't know they are into creating games too.

Oh well, will download and try it. I like their founder, Brian Wong.
Or maybe for black listing? i.e. filter out those persons who are extremely naive and/or who overestimate their abilities.
Out of interest, do you think it’d be easy to get into the startup scene with minimal Swedish? My wife is Swedish and we have in the past considered a move to Stockholm but my Swedish is absolutely not fluent (although were we to do it I’d enrol in an evening course as soon as we moved).
I can't tell about the top-10 CS programs. I can only tell you my experiences. I live in Canada and I study in another field. When I contacted my potential supervisor, she asked if I am Canadian citizen. The reason why she wanted to accept a student who is Canadian citizen is that many fellowship or grants are only given to Canadian citizens doing research in Canada. What I am saying here is that if your citizenship affects your chance of acceptance, it will be due to funding issues like this. But if the school you are applying is private school, it may not be a problem because they don't receive a lot of private funding I believe.
I think when it comes down accepting graduate students, your potential supervisor's decision is the most important. I don't know about every program and every school. But in my school, when a professor accepts a student, he/she will sign a form saying that he/she will provide this student financially for at least five years. Therefore, standing from the professor's point of view, he/she really wants to accept a very smart student who can help him/her make great progress in the research and at the same time, receive enough funding to be able to support him/herself. I hope it helps.
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Damn. I think it's not intended as a cactus. Hahaha.
I think there is some sense in having a lower limit around 6-8 chars. No matter how many special characters you use, it won't be strong if it's too short.

The upper limit of 64 chars is just something that I copy-and-pasted from an actual web app that I wrote some time ago. It works in most cases, but if I were to write the same app now, I'd probably remove the upper limit or make it very large. (By the way, bcrypt only hashes the first 72 bytes of your password [1], so make sure to do something like bcrypt(sha256(password)) if you plan on using longer passwords.)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515894
The current market is completely out of sync with the real value/costs of commercial property. The field has insulated itself from true price discovery for so long that it is starting to hemorrhage.

This isn't really about finding 'tech startups' a home, but rather that there's a chance that any new business starting up will need office space. And don't forget, current office-space tenants are going to start wondering why they're paying such inflated rates and the people across the way are paying 25-whatever% less for the same kinds of space.

Don't focus too much on new converts; think about everyone paying more for office space now than they need to.
What a playa! Haha!
Lund, Sweden, here. Currently doing a SaaS mobile project in my startup.

Malmö has a great startup scene with Foo Cafe and other gatherings. In Lund you have LTH, Ericsson, Ideon, etc so there's a lot of tech talent there as well.

Anyone, feel free to hit me up for free coffee in our Malmö office :)
Of course it's a cactus! What else would it be?
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Crafty Chinese Man With Kidney Disease Lives on Homemade Dialysis Machine
Yes, but if it was fashionable to work at RIM, they would mention that in the ads.
Web Video Will Soon Be 90% Of Online Traffic
I used it as a source for an article I wrote on my company's web site recently.

Very nifty to be able to pull up smartphone penetration in 18-29 age cohort in Sweden, for instance.
(surprisingly noone said this) Too bad it doesn't generate links to drawing results.
My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly glyphs.

http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png

the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist???

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf

Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response:

http://abstrusegoose.com/496
I get:Your device is not compatible with this version.
I have a Samsung Galaxy of previous generation.
Ask HN: When to give up on a (non-performing) partner/co-founder?
I initially started work with another person on a SaaS hosting company. This person moved to my town to work with me for 4 months, before leaving out of the country.

When they left out of the country, they hadn't contributed anything to the production version of our site, except a minimal site design, which was completed in the first month.

There was minor things checked into Github, but nothing that would represent a 50% share of the company that we had set out to build.

My question is when? When do you give up on them? When do you cut your losses, and walk away from something you believed in?
The larger purpose of bigdata
I don't see how Java's idea of type safety is particularly useful for anything, its type system is almost entirely useless.

I've yet to see compelling arguments for why it might be better in "large" projects.
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Interesting, I didn't know that. So the worst that could happen is that I'd be locked out of their horribly insecure site and forced to use something better. I don't re-use passwords, and I declined to let them store my credit card details, so when they get hax0red, I won't lose anything worth stealing.
Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks
Startup? A for-profit company providing the service? No thank you, I trust my brain more than I trust anyone else be that person or a company. Or a non-profit organzation.
Getting by in Stockholm won't be a problem: you can safely assume that people within the start-up scene are fluent in English. You'll be met with a slightly different kind of problem: as communicating in English is so effortless, you'll have few opportunities to really practice your Swedish.
UPnp vulnerability allows for remote control of millions of computers
I've used this knockout extension to great success [1]. It's intuitive, it leverages knockout's internal pubsub, and fits in with the KO ethos. It can be used to synchronise observables across models (which is awesome as it's events without overhead), or as a general purpose event system.

Ryan is one of the core contributors to knockout, by the way, so you can be assured of its quality.

[1] http://www.knockmeout.net/2012/05/using-ko-native-pubsub.htm...
This is seriously the funniest thing I've seen on HN in weeks. Made me actually laugh.
Running sql queries on HBase
LLVM seems to support 64 bit ARM, now, too:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4O...
The funny part is that they transmit fire missions through IRC instead of using a proper artillery data network. Of course you do that through plain old-fashioned radio when no data connection is available, but it you can transmit through IRC then you certainly have enough bandwidth for communicating through a better integrated system such as ATLAS (http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-C4I-Systems/ATLAS-a...)
There's one anecdote I can share from Finland: 'startup' is now an actual word used in mainstream media. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup-yritys
A/B Test Significance: Test Outcomes for Statistical Significance
Symantec: Don't blame us for New York Times hack
That's why I disable geotagging in general. I don't trust apps enough not to leak data unless absolutely necessary. On my device only Yelp and Maps have access and that's it.
I agree Berlin is ultra-cheap, but the Nordic capitals are still pretty cheap compared to other startup hubs. When I moved from the US to Copenhagen, people warned me about expensive rents, but I was actually surprised at how much cheaper it is here than in major American cities. I pay about $1400 (€1000) for a centrally located 2bd in a nice area near the metro, which is a kind of price it's totally impossible to find in SF, Boston, or NYC. Not to mention in other startup hubs like London...
Guess we just have to agree to disagree
I wish he would open source the design so others could improve on it.
I agree with Matti - doing business in Stockholm without knowing Swedish is no problem. Swedes are generally fluent in English and most often they enjoy speaking it. I know several foreigners who run startups here without bothering to learn the local language.
I grew up in a community in the North of Scotland that was dominated by fishing (more oil these days) and most boat-owning skippers were pretty much risk-seeking entrepreneurs - with pretty big rewards possible (certainly well into F-you money).

The chapter on Iceland in Boomering Michael Lewis where he describes how the risk seeking fishermen were maybe not the best choice to become investment bankers reminded me a lot of people I knew when I was younger.
Quickstart tutorial on how to deploy an API on Amazon EC2
Here are two real world issues that could arise

http://vbuterin.blogspot.ca/2011/08/password-strength-rebutt...

I think some cryptographers and security people have given rebuttals as well but I can't find them at the moment.
If you're going to use them a lot you're cheaper off using consumer grade computers with the most expensive intel processors available. What I usually do is take the Passmark CPU list, add $500 for the cost of the rest of the system and sort by score/price.
Who doesn't love 🍤?

There's lot of other strange Unicode too. There's things like '⁢' (U2062 INVISIBLE TIMES), ⓞⓓⓓ ©ⓗⓐⓡⓐ©ⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓔⓣⓢ and sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop ǝpısdn.

All of which can be used to bypass filters and generally cause browser-crashing havoc. For example, this address looks like Google, but it really links to hacker news.

‮http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth
Isiode offers M-Link, its military XMPP solution :
http://www.isode.com/solutions/military-xmpp.html - I guess there are others... Does anyone here know them ?
Live Coding an IntelliJ IDEA Plugin from Scratch (Part 2), Webinar Recording
Sadly it didn't recognize my clumsy attempt to draw the Look of Disapproval: http://i.imgur.com/0lvPFaJ.png

On the upside, I learned that there is a Panda Face unicode character.
"In fact, PC sales have been declining for the last several quarters, with market research firm Gartner recording a 4.9 percent decline in the most recent quarter ending in December. The reason for that continued decline, according to Gartner, is that consumers are increasingly using tablets to do the things they might have done with a PC even a year or two ago."

Sorry, but no. If I take a look at my collegues, friends and family all of them are still using desktop computers (The majority PC's, but some macs) and the main reason they dont buy new PC's as often these days is because they just dont have to. The computer they bought three or four years ago still has enough horsepower to drive most new games at decent settings, and none of them have any problems driving the newest enterprise software.

The reason such old computers are still powerful enough is two-fold:
1. Innovation is slowing down. The processing power of a computer does not increase as fast as it used to. New software isnt as demanding of the current generation of hardware as it was a few years back. Simply put: Hardware has no reason to push the envelope anymore to the same degree as before. Software for regular folk just does not need more horsepower for now.

2. Consoles. Of the few software areas that has traditionally pushed PC hardware development it was computer games. The newest game used to be an awesome thing. You had a new-ish computer couldnt keep up with the newest and greatest. Only some could afford to upgrade their rigs enough to run the newest games at max resolution and settings. Consoles that compete with PC's effectively put a roof on that. Games being developed today nearly always are developed for release on the PC and a console. As the current generation of consoles is a few years old it is easy to see which hardware is the limiting factor. This means that even with med-budget computer hardware today you can take the latest and greatest game and play it at maximum settings without breaking a sweat because the game is primarily developed with the inferior console hardware in mind.

So simply put, PC sales are not dwindling because of the tablet. It is dwindling because the pressure to upgrade just is not there anymore.
How easy/cheap is it to get a small apartment...?
I think you mean LastPass or 1Password.

Startup idea: the email equivalent of 1Password.

You give each site a completely unique, distinct yet valid email address. They forward to your real email address and vice versa.

This way if one email is compromised you know where the spam is coming from plus it reduces email tracking and correlation.
> Javascript is fairly new

On a geological scale, maybe. It appeared in the mid-nineties, which is positively ancient in computer terms.
Reminds me of the excellent Detexify, which serves a similar purpose but for LaTeX symbols: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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Why would a LARPr use irc? Wouldn't one of them dress up like a crow to deliver messages?
Yeah I've read The Ascent of Money too, it was great. You'll enjoy Civilisation.

Although after learning of his political views(I don't live in the US), I couldn't help but wonder how much it influenced his views in Civilisation. It comes off as a bit overly biased in favour of Europeans (read: the white man) when seen in this new light. For example, he tries to argue that church attendance being down is a sign that European influence/culture is declining.
> "INVISIBLE TIMES"

Sounds like a Muse song title
This is why I use Scrivener - it's modular.

Scrivener with Track Changes and Etherpad-style collaborative editing would be perfect to the point where nobody would use anything else.
Whats the need of array with zero element in linux kernel code?
prickly.
Experiments with some common glyphs.

(!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath")

(@) -- 1st suggestion

(#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke"

($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian aboriginal language.

(%) -- 1st suggestion

(^) -- 10th suggestion, to be fair this one is impossible

(&) -- not suggested (fried shrimp lol)

(*) -- 3rd suggestion

(?) -- 1st suggestion

(∫) -- 1st suggestion

(∂) -- 4th suggestion (1st one is same thing in boldface)

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This is suggests a really easy way to greatly improve the results: weight them by a prior probability (i.e., frequency of occurrence in a letter count). The OCR itself seems pretty good. Common math symbols are more likely than silly shrimps. Glyphs from common languages are more probable than esoteric ones, and real languages more than constructed ones. Plain glyphs are more common than variants (bold/italic) -- and these should be grouped together anyway. fried shrimp horseshoe.
Ooh my word. I drew a Skrillex and it recognized it perfectly; some Chuck Tays because he's a chill bro, school because his music appeals to people in school (12-24), and the Bengali vowel sound because he plays that in his "drops".

EDIT: forgot to link screenshot: http://imgur.com/LyaXy4h
Fonts have dosens of things added: Unicode to glyph mapping, horizontal writing metrics, vertical writing metrics, kerning, hinting, bitmap fallbacks for small sizes, metadata for aligning baselines and justification, grid-fitting and scan-conversion data, glyph substitutions (e.g. ligatures, old style numbers, contextual, chained), glyph positioning (e.g. diacritics, Arabic diagonal baseline, contextual positioning).

Hinting is probably the most complex feature. TrueType implements hinting as special instructions in an impressively complex stack-based drawing language. SVG fonts are already bloated, and adding hinting may have been a step too far, or perhaps it was because at the time some of TrueType's hinting instructions were patented.
http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html
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It depends on what you mean by statically typed language. If you mean other stuff like SML/Ocaml, I agree. If you include C/C++/Java/C# in your definition "statically typed", then I beg to differ. I have considerable experience in C, Java and, to a lesser extent, C++. And all in all I consider their type systems worthless for error prevention, the flexibility of python gains you more than their type systems do.

In this sense I suspect the OP would say the same about any ML-like static type system, but not many other static type systems.