skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovely little game, and nicely designed, but as someone with red-green colour blindness I'm having a really frustrating time distinguishing between the green and orange squares. It'd be a lot easier if you increased the contrast/luminescence between the two colours.
You can also buy discrete bmc pci cards from a few different vendors. I believe super micro sells them, but I've always loathed any environment that uses super micro servers as they tend to be low to mediocre quality compared to the "big 3" tier 1 server vendors.
Just sourcing this, because you're right. Basic lack of visa isn't the problem here.

Source: http://www.utl.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
Shouldn't this problem be hugely mitigated by putting rubber or any non-slippery material on the shower floor?
But Europe has at one point been a united empire. Doesn't that imply that pure geography is not the cause?
If somebody is gathering data for a foreign government without the permission of the local government, that's called spying, and most (or all?) countries have laws against that.
> Is that possible anyway?

I believe so, we just have to train those who write decent code and willing to get better, and fire those who write and release their crap commercially.
I really like the "all things equal" part. Usually all other things are far from equal. You have companies having the entire culture of remote work, availability of skills that's not willing/able to relocate to wherever your company is located etc. etc.
It says at the bottom that you're hiring, but no way to discover what for.
Are you suggesting that C++11 support would be implemented as a plugin, rather than by modifying the existing C++ front end?

I'm not sure how seriously to take that.
This post kind of annoys me actually. The only actual legitimate reason on here not to pursue responsive is lack of mobile audience. The rest are problems with not knowing what the hell one is doing. OF COURSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO APPROPRIATE DESIGNS FOR YOUR MARKET, ALSO SKY IS BLUE. And while your mobile audience is low now, you sure aren't going to fix that by ignoring that audience. Now this product, perhaps that's okay. It really is okay for everything not to be responsive, but the title of this article would be more accurate if it were "we ditched responsive because we couldn't figure it out."
$("#input[type='password']").val("secret");
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alex why are you telling this "shit" which tech crunch does not want to report on
980px is annoying.

I for example use at night as my "laptop" a cheap tablet with keyboard, it is 800px wide.

Also 980px also will suck for people with VEEEERY WIIIIDE monitors.

Or apple retina (that has absurd resolution, thus resulting in their site becoming very small and unreadable).
> Or apple retina (that has absurd resolution, thus resulting in their site becoming very small and unreadable).

Websites on a HiDPI display are effectively pixel doubled, the viewing side is the same. The same happens with the iPhone 4 and later.
Very good point! In truth we are in the market for almost all skill sets but in particular design, front end dev and mobile dev. Drop us a line at hello@teddle.com if you are interested.
> What happens when office leasing momentum stops?

The US economy will implode shortly thereafter because business creation and expansion has stopped.

It's easy to get jaded and pessimistic about businesses if you sole vantage point is HN, but the idea that new businesses and growth of existing ones will completely stop (and hence the demand for office space) seems pretty naive and myopic.
Yeah I actually agree with that in theory because the needles would be mimicking the same side effect, the sensation of needle in skin, to a good effect.
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Nice idea, too bad that I tried to draw several variations of PI, and it showed me several interesting characters, but never a PI.

Seriously, it even showed some very PI-like things, but not PI itself. This is a downer.
It also sucks if you don't use a maximised browser window.
It seems reality doesn't work quite like Hollywood movies, where the FBI just walks in whatever country and starts flashing their IDs, while random local citizens soil their pants.
All the bollocks you have to deal with day-to-day. You're not a CEO, you're a founder. You have to do everything. Get on with it. Nice piece.
This might be a common myth. The tax levels in the nordic countries might be higher than the US but not by that much. We also have free health care and education (university attendance is free) and other benefits included in our taxes.

Earning $100k in Norway you'd pay around 32% tax.

Edit: We have progressive taxes. To pay over 50% taxes in Norway you'd have to have a regular salary above $551k, with no deductibles. Capital gains are taxed at 27%.
I know this is supposed to be funny, but I had to flag it.

I mean, I did found it funny, but I did not enjoyed seeing that in my work (specially because I work with kids stuff)
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tl;dr BERLIN IS AWESOME!

I just came back from Berlin (awesome couchdb conf @ co.up co-working space) and must say that the energy in a place like Kreuzberg is pretty intense.

The area around Rosenthaler Platz and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Mitte also seemed kind of interesting but more akin to what I'm used to here in Vienna (neat and tidy).

I only had five days to experience the city but I do have thought about moving there already!

But yeah living in Vienna is so damn comfortable that it really is a difficult decision to go anywhere else.

We have a lot of co-working spaces too and I often meet local devs at coffee shops by coincidence (another strength of a rather small place). So everything being so nice is both a good and a bad thing I guess.

Vienna #1 at quality of life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey

Bottom line for me though - the youthful vibes in Berlin are a very special thing and probably worth more than top comfort and beauty.
The security fuckup is a lot more simple than that - they fucked up as soon as they opened the door to this kind of complicated interaction by letting untrusted code instantiate arbitrary classes and pass strings of their choice to them. Doesn't matter that they weren't aware of any way this could be exploited, as soon as they let an attacker pass data to random classes that were never designed to accept untrusted input a security disaster was basically inevitable.
Wow this is pretty cool! I've never seen anything like this before. And I'm a fan of the Boostrap too
> doing police-work

... and allegedly doing worst things, sadly.

A lot of people are very upset with the idea of having black sites without any respect for the law in your own country.
Simple:
http://xkcd.com/327
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I don't agree with those reasons at all. It looks like they tried to build their mobile site by just downsizing their desktop site instead of going mobile-first. And yea, not everything is easy and stuff may take a bit longer, but next time and the time again you get faster and faster.

Doesn't seem like that innovative of a company with a post like that.
I don't think that pendulum has swung to the MacPorts side for many years.
Just sent an e-mail at info@teddle.com because I could not find the "We are hiring page"...

So it's there if you have deep love for Brazilian/Italian devs.

p.s: I am ticket #179

Cheers!
Yes, I tested pasting "🍤" to my OSX, and was surprised by a color rendering of a friend shrimp.

(yes, you can copy the character between "" and paste in your OSX terminal)
I don't think this is really the issue, it's more of a diplomatic snafu - these were not businessmen or tourists, they're law enforcement there on official business. You don't send law enforcement officers to other places without them being invited.
How do I accomplish that when they're a 50% partner? I'd really like not to go the legal route, but it seems this is the only actually viable option.
I signed up, but it doesn't feel real.
Another recent story, on the startup scene in Stockholm: Why tiny Stockholm has the most stunning startup ecosystem since Tel Aviv (http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/why-tiny-stockholm-has-the-...).

It was discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4813573
Back in Blackberry
> Also, for a dynamically typed language, I thought it had too many different types. It was too easy to get mixed up between bytestrings and strings, for example. It was also not obvious when you should use or expect nil vs #f. That said, the features for creating your own types (mostly structs) were very good--I found they were very lightweight but still flexible enough to be useful.

You can also used a typed dialect of Racket if that's easier - just write #lang typed/racket at the top of your file: http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
in though statically typed meant C++ or Java, and probably it does.. i never felt compelled to the way they do typing, so i gravitated towards Ruby and Python.

but to me Haskell is a different league.. Haskell-typing actually helps /me/, where i feel C++/Java-typing merely help the compiler.
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The context clues in the first paragraph should have given it away - "...their plan was interupted when Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson learned about the FBI's visit and sent them packing. The Icelandic government then issued a formal protest to United States authorities."

Do you really think that a top government official would have been notified of a market analyst arriving in the country?
It may not be the greatest, but at least it's better than JavaScript's broken type system. It does catch at least some problems prior to runtime.

The most compelling arguments regarding this matter are often in the form of personal experience working with large applications. JavaScript code bases don't scale well past around 10,000 lines of code and 2 or 3 developers at most. Languages like Java, C, C++, C# and Ada, on the other hand, can relatively easily handle software systems with millions of lines of code, worked on by hundreds or even thousands of developers spread globally.
Almost every exception a Python program ever throws is or can be made a type error (or otherwise statically caught) in Haskell and similar languages. A type error is not the same thing as a TypeError.
I haven't read all of them. But I liked "Modern Compiler Design" (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Compiler-Design-D-Grune/dp/0471...).

If you have a functional bend, Simon Peyton Jones' book (https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Paper...) is worth reading, too. His book, however, is not a complete treatment. It assumes you know e.g. how to write a parser, and concentrates on the challenges unique to lazy functional languages.
Absolutely, it is when following readability guidelines and write documentation. Using obfuscation style is a mess and will never help anybody but the developer ego who believes he is smarter than everybody. But that's a pitty to act like that cause it create pain for maintainers and even for yourself.
Are cacti considered dangerous for children in your country?
> And even with all that, it's far too high level to be of use in actually engineering a compiler (which, by the way, is a good intro book).

I actually found it way too low level. And not meaty enough.
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Zotero looks awesome, definitely going to check it out.
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Go to bed between 10-10:30 and wake between 5-6.
Totally true. I chose the example as I think a lot of people do it that way right now. Sure you can write pretty good code with jQuery. AngularJS just makes it a lot easier.
>> responsive designs took almost twice as long to design and implement compared to fixed-width designs. This was valuable time we could have spent improving other areas of the product.

Does this include time to implement + time to write blog post about why you did it? :)

I jest, but as screen size variation isn't resticted to mobile devices I tend to go at least "semi responsive" from 1140 to perhaps 800 (http://cssgrid.net/)
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Thanks for that. The experiences he talks about of people naturally seeking co-working spaces is something I've seen too.
It would be like the Malaysians going to America to investigate and arrest George Bush due to alleged war crimes. They wouldn't get particularly far unless they OK'd it all with the relevant local authorities.

P.s I've no idea if the story is factually correct. I'm just using it as an example.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicte...
While FBI Agents are busy flying to Iceland working on Hollywood's vision for the future of who owns the internet, data, and computers, the following is allowed to happen:

1. Guy with a court date for menacing with a weapon is allowed to keep the weapon, shoots up a bus and abducts a kid: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/us/alabama-child-hostage/index...

2. No Executive anywhere on the planet has yet to do prison time for any action, decision or behavior relating to the largest manufactured Financial Crisis since 1929. Because when prosicuting the best and brightest who use the law to subvert justice, it's like trying to nail a vapor to the wall: http://www.propublica.org/article/why-no-financial-crisis-pr...

But on the plus side, there hasn't been many terrorist attacks as have been in the middle east, so they're doing an upstanding job there. Who checks the power of a dysfunctional FBI and smacks them around when they step out of line? What's the process even if it's only possible in theory? I know the FBI has to be irreproachable enough to resist the collective action of Mafias and cults/sects, which would make it a tough system to get rid of, even if it devolves into the Ministry of life/Ministry of truth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth)
I've been around the scene about 5 years (one of the founders of ArcticStartup which was mentioned in the article).

I think the Economist is pretty accurate on the fact that there is lot of bubbling but takes time and experience to actually build something big and successful. SV has had the mindset, experience and infrastructure for decades. We are just starting now.

PandoDaily about Helsinki:

http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/welcome-to-helsinki-home-of... & http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/22/out-of-the-fire-into-the-sa...
I don't have a retina device (although my startup does have a iPad3 that we use for testing).

Also, I avoid visiting Apple site (I never liked it, I never find what I want on it).
TLDR: Running a business is hard, but can be rewarding if it's what you enjoy.

Good piece.
Oh, I can change them, for sure. And then they can change them without telling me, and share everything anyway.

Imagine my surprise at finding out that youtube was sharing my history. Along with my mostly technical interests, there was fails and a specific interest in philology!
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An Icelander here
The Reykjavik airport is quite popular for private jets since it's right in the middle of the city whereas the KEF international airport is about 1 hour drive from the city.

Security there is also almost non-existent, but customs authorities are notified and dispatched when international flights are expected.

If the agents would have used a regular scheduled flight there would probably have been much more security and scrutiny regarding their arrival.
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Plus, GM is apparently backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government. It's bulletproof. :)
House cleaning as a tax deductible expense and employment perk? That I could get behind.
Newsworthy news?
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When my wife was heavily pregnant we were stuck thinking up girls names. (No idea at this point if a boy or a girl). She suggested Ruby and I said we couldn't as this is a name for a programming language and everyone would think we named her after that (me being a programmer). So I jokingly started to list as many programming languages as I could: Perl, Haskell, Fortran, Lua, Brain Fuck, etc. She stopped me at that point because "that's a beautiful name" (no, not that one). But, because we live in Germany we must conform to naming your child a proper name, so we gave her a "normal" middle name.

We were confident the baby would be a boy, but were wrong, and in the summer of 2011 our baby daughter was born.

Most people are happy with the explanation that it's Portuguese for Moon. But I have had a couple of knowing looks from colleagues. Luckily, the German authorities were fine with her double-barrelled "normal" name.
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> perhaps I should make this heatmap an option on PM itself so that people don't have to all make their own?

That would be awesome.

The current code drawing code is probably too slow for this, though.
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Using the same logic, if you have one dollar you're better off than the US.
I was actually going through the slides to read about it but I got lost in the slides in the socialism section and couldn't find my way back.

I know from your submission text that you didn't have the time to work on this very much, so I'm not sure if you want feedback. But if you plan to create something in the future which uses this slide effect to communicate info to the reader, you should make it more guided. I just flicked my mouse a little by accident and the whole thing was over for me.
newsworthy? who cares.

great read? funny? yes & yes.
For those wondering: that fast 'half the exponent' multiplication algorithm is not optimal in the number of matrix multiplications. For example, x^15 can be done in 5 multiplications, while 'half the exponent requires 6. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition_chain_exponentiation:

x3 = x * x * x
x6 = x3 * x3
x12 = x6 * x6
x15 = x12 * x3

vs

x2 = x * x
x4 = x2 * x2
x8 = x4 * x4
x12 = x4 * x8
x14 = x12 * x2
x15 = x14 * x
There's also 25% VAT, compared to 0%-8% sales tax in the US (varying by state).

I'm not sure why included university attendance is always thrown into the pitch in these conversations -- someone looking for a place to work probably isn't trying to pick up a philosophy degree on the side.
Realize that this is missing a key metric. Well, a lot of new teams running A/B tests do too. People focus too much on conversion statistics and forget about the actual sales numbers (as in money). Some setups will test worse (as in less total sales (in number of tickets)), but will have a higher amount of profit per sale. Making it more profitable with less sales. Some might say that then the correct test was that one. Err, no. You still need to keep testing for the conversions, but also need to pay attention to average transaction amount per test. Conversions are meaningless if you are only converting cheap customers who opt for the cheapest offering (by the way, raise your prices).
As far as I know there is no "favoritism" for goverment grants . Like any fundraising, there are those are better / more experienced with it and those who aren't.

But the real problem is that the government officials are not investors. Steve Blank said this well on his visit:

Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes, the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. It’s hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. Yet Tekes does that and is trying to act like a government-run Venture Capital firm. At Tekes, government employees (and their hired consultants) – with no equity, no risk or reward, no startup or venture capital experience – try to pick startup winners and losers.

http://steveblank.com/2011/10/07/the-helsinki-spring/
"Information can cause one of three price reactions: up, down, or flat."

Then there is no cause. Prices change somewhat randomly whether there is some information or not. The only correct predictive model is something like " there is 80pc chance that the price will be between -10 and 30 of its current value". Anything else is reading in a crystal ball.

I didn't invent any of these, read Thinking Fast and Slow if you have any doubts.
Ha, I was thinking the exact same thing. If you have a penny you're better off than the US :)
This is more of the idealistic view that I haven't seen pan out. Android may be more open, in the times when the latest version is open source. But when the carriers modify, lock down the phone it's a hassle. It's still a hassle on a perfect phone, out of reach to the vast majority. So on those 98%+ stock (including carrier mods) you have apps that aren't as jailed as on iOS and (still haven't read anything on this either way) pretty much the only online advertiser supplying you this for free.

Real world circumstances render this correct ideal view mostly or entirely not true.
I'm from Finland, from what I have heard and seen about the government funding companies is that they usually fund companies with a clear plan and with founders with a lot of experience in their field (that is have worked their whole life in the field/phds).
But GP's question was, what did the FBI actually do that pissed off Iceland? Just being there? Asking questions? Locking Icelanders in rooms and conducting interrogations? I think the question is a good one.

It sounds like the consensus of the responders here is that it is the fact that they are an arm of the US gov't. So, for example, if the FDA sent somebody to inquire about food processing, say regarding Mad Cow disease, we could also expect that the Icelandic government would be pissed if they weren't in the loop.
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I don't think tracking people in store (already quite established, as you point out) was what the article was referring to. I understood it to mean that it's difficult to see if people are walking into your store because of something they saw online, and if so, what.

Seems like Google could do this quite easily. Provide a WiFi service that customers in-store would auto-sign into, that way they can tell if a customer visiting the store has been exposed to any mention of the shop online. I imagine only Google or Apple, or maybe Facebook, could do this because of the sheer amount of information they tend to have on peoples browsing history and location tracking ability.
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> s there some kind of international convention / agreement that says that policemen don't work abroad?

I think you have got it backwards. There is no agreement saying that they can.

Staying in a foreign country is a privilege not a right. You are only permitted to do whatever your visa says you can do. In case of visa-waiver agreements, you can only do what the agreement states you can do, on top of that the government can pretty much kick you out at its own discretion citing vague reasons like national security.