skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Down in the US, too. I'm getting a static maintenance page for java.com, but oracle.com isn't responding at all.
Spotify now available in Italy, Poland and Portugal
Netherlands mostly runs on 16A@230v wiring/breakers, coming to 3.6kW. At least for the last 20 years (kind of important for at-home lanparties :) )
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Wouldn't this be an issue any business that offers prices in more than one currency experience?
the link seems to be broken
The last puncture I had was on the rim-side of the inner tube and probably was there when I bought the bike. Before that ... I think that was years ago. Most touring bikes these days also come with tyres that have a puncture-preventing layer [1]. Racing bicycles are probably not well-suited for post-apocalyptic duty.

But as far as repair equipment goes, I think I think a bicycle repair kit (should be good for half a dozen punctures and they last years) and a multitool (for removing wheels and the like) should suffice for a lot, even if certain occasions need special tools.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kevlarreifen.jpg
Bitcoin: a currency for which capability to buy pizza is noteworthy, required custom programming, comes with a 10% novelty tax, and is incapable of maintaining a single price for 24 hours.
Still hasn't been done.
Completely inappropriate comment for HN, but the sentence:

"Because it is based on encryption, it can provide both hiding of who you are, and strong proof of who you are. But it is cool that it can also supply you with pizza."

Seriously made me laugh out loud. You just made my day :)
Main reason why FOSS people giveaway for free is the valuable contribution they get back from the community. Most of the times this knowledge sharing is far more valuable for the FOSS programmer than if he had charged it for money.

It is a good way to learn programming, to get mentored, tips and tid-bits from coding gods.

Your analogy is very random and superficial.
I would love some high resolution images of these.
I don't understand how this is a "startup" in YC/PG's sense of "growth machine".

From the article, the purpose of wevorce is to offer a new approach to divorce, where just one lawyer works for the whole family (partners + kids), instead of the usual arrangement where each partner fights the other to death.

This certainly sounds like a good idea, but isn't it just a kind of counseling business (the Accenture of divorce)?

Even if they can speed up the paperwork a little, at least one lawyer will still be needed for every "customer" (couple divorcing), so how does this scale in a startup sense?
I'm more comfortable animating with code than with a tool like flash or after effects, so I generate animations myself with custom code.

I use the RenderTargetBitmap and GifBitmapEncoder classes (plus GIMP afterwards to fix the frame delays and repeat count, and cut down the file size a bit) to translate what's showing in a WPF app into a gif.
Yeah, you can't let someone else manage everything and just expect them to be acting in your best interests. But if you just want something that's a phone and only a phone, that's both readily available and very, very cheap.
Some of those can be seen with naked eye. Others are taken with longer exposure times (and using tracers (or multiple shots) to avoid this http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos/3003666.jpg ). While we can call them fake, they are not fake in a sense that they don't capture the real thing.
There is FreeRTOS (http://www.freertos.org/).
great list there, thanks. It's in my bookmarks now :)
When looking for an R package that does something specific, I usually go to the R package list [1] and search for what I am looking for ("SQL" if I want an SQL connector or "sparse" if I want something with sparse matrix). I generally end up finding a package that does what I need.

[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by...
It's the future!
seem like a good idea, do the markup allow nesting, eg commenting on a previous addition?
BioLite CampStove
This has been available in the states for quite some time and now looks to be hitting Europe. I think it has the potential to be a revolutionary product throughout the world. Would be interested to hear opinions of those that have actually used it? Loving the work that BioLite are also doing in Africa and developing nations. It's good to see a commercial company with a conscience and sense of global responsibility. Look forward to seeing future innovations from this company.
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Good point. I think author doesn't actually care as much about classes per se as he does about interfaces and extension points. Complexity might get out of hand incredibly quickly, though.
Anyone find any interesting pages? Page f.39v has a nice drawing of what appears to be a bug?
Unlike apps for the iPhone, these virtual knobs and sliders don't benefit from a touch screen. No keybindings. No tabbing between them. Just reduced functionality and wasted screen real estate for the sake of looking ``cool'' to people with crappy taste.

I strongly disagree; where apps are emulating the sounds of particular pieces of musical hardware (which plugins frequently are) there's a distinct plus in having the same layout as the emulated device.

While there's a lot of value in providing more direct controls in this context (eg envelopes, EQ curves, and so forth), many of these are not ideal for performance (as opposed to composition) because they either constrict the performer by requiring use of a mouse, or provide insufficient tactile feedback because of the limitations of glass. Despite the limitations of abstraction, knobs, sliders, and buttons still work incredibly well for physical performance - hence the popularity of generic MIDI controllers which map to virtual controls in the software plugins.

Now it's also true that one could use physical controls to manage the sort of manipulations that are hard to abstract in hardware while being relatively easy to do in software, such as additive or granular synthesis; and there have been a few applications that combine excellent sonic potential with excellent UX (such as Borderlands Granular [1] or AudioGL [2] but making the most of these requires a good deal of domain knowledge that makes them inaccessible to other musicians.

I eventually (mostly) stopped using software plugins, but not because of dissatisfaction with the UX paradigm; I just went back to using hardware. I like having ~100 physical controls, plus my deck looks like the Enterprise :-)

1. http://www.borderlands-granular.com/app/

2. https://www.audiogl.com/en/ BTW this seems like an ideal excuse for an Oculus Rift.

PS in general I hate skeumorphism and strongly prefer flat design...but I think there's much more justification for it in domains like this, not least because one is often blending a mix of old and new technology in music production; it's not unusual to combine digital aduio manipulation with analog or acoustic sources and treatments.
Interesting, this might be where one of the major issues come from. "We" like change, I suspect more casual users do not.

I'm trying to think of a good example -- I probably catch a plane every 18 months or so, and I'm glad that after a few attempts, I feel I've now masted the process of getting through my local airport. At this point, I'd be annoyed if they made any changes to the process, throwing me back into a position of knowing nothing. If in the long term it made things better I would cope, if it was just a change which might end up going back in another 10 years, I'd get really annoyed.
If you want to store up trade goods for the apocalypse, try:

1. liquor
2. cigarettes

Cigs have often been used as a substitute for money when there wasn't money.
My company created this: http://www.synapseinformation.com - and is currently used by a leading UK High Street Bank (case study at the site) - it solves the multi-user data sharing problem for Excel - as well as providing automated data integrity in Excel Spreadsheets - we are looking for more users for this - comments/feedback/questions about it would be welcome ...
Is there any currency which maintains a single price for 24 hours? (apart from those artificially connected to value of other currency)
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The use case is totally different. Say I'm a professor and I'm writing a grant proposal. I send a draft to a PhD student to proofread. Today the only practical way to do this is to use Word's "track changes" tool.

Basically, a proofreader

(i) gives you a lot of minuscule changes. A comma here, moving adverbs around there, etc. In a 10-page draft, there could be hundreds of suggestions.

(ii) only makes suggestions. I'm the one applying for the grant, so I need to explicitly approve (or reject) every single change individually. This probably won't work elegantly with `patch`.

(iii) changes individual words. Word actually records your changes as you make them. This is not the same as simply diff'ing version1 and version2. This helps me see the proofreader's point.

(iv) makes textual comments to explain changes. Or you simply need to annotate a paragraph as "I don't understand this." Maybe you need to offer different suggestions, depending on the author's meaning ("Perhaps your mean to say ...")

(v) makes different kinds of changes. "Diff" tracks changes on a line-line-basis. If you edit prose, you move around words, or lines, or even paragraphs. Basically, dealing with written language is more complicated and has more structure than source code.

(vi) does not typically have a need for a revision history. It is very rarely useful to look up when a certain sentence was introduced in a grant proposal. While it's useful to keep earlier versions as a backup (and Dropbox is enough for that), version control really is a solution looking for a problem when it comes to writing prose.
Probably not that surprising given that Ireland is a tax haven for most large U.S. corps' presence in all of Europe. If I sign up for AdWords or AdSense now, I'm dealing with Google Ltd, even though I am not in the U.K.
Well, at least your bank nor the goverment didn't know that you were buying that pizza. Unless the pizza broker service or Domino's is working with the goverment.
Good point, but it is a lot easier to get away from a power plant.
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Every currency is incapable of maintaining a single price for 24 hours.
Bitcoin is unusually volatile. The exchange rate of eg. USD to EUR is much more stable.
Right. It looks like the revenue number is basically an accounting thing. Actual dollars from UK might be different.
Didn't Wikipedia decide similar terms were just scary legal BS and download all the high resolution images of public domain scans from another museum's website anyway?

http://boingboing.net/2009/07/20/uk-national-portrait.html
In some ways, yes. Plenty of people moved to other languages because of those handicaps, and they have no good reason to come back.
No.

Websites have a lot of moving parts.

They're a hodgepodge of an alphabet soup of different technologies. You have HTML, CSS, the JS language, and the DOM. It's simply too much for a beginner to take in at once.

Teaching HTML/CSS on its own, then JS in a later quarter/semester/course, would be a better approach.

Or alternatively, teaching the fundamentals of JS with a minimal website with a console and canvas, or by running programs from the command line with Rhino.
I'm rather busy this week as well. But I will definitely e-mail you sometime soon. I need to contact some other people see if they are interested.
This is not in any meaningful sense "paying for pizza with bitcoins" anymore that hauling your TV to a pawnshop, they buying pizza with the proceed is "paying for pizza with TVs" - it seems to exchange bitcoins for USD, then it buys a pizza for you with the USD.

From the narrow perspective of a BTC-miner, yes, it's relevant, but for subscribers to the lofty goals of a central-bank-independent/anonymous currency it's pointless.
See also: http://images.google.com/search?q=goblin+valley&tbm=isch
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This means that if you call up Domino's and ask them "How much does a large pizza with extra cheese cost?", and they quote you a price in USD or JPY or not-a-toy, you can reliably expect that quote to last long enough to pay for the pizza. (There is a related concern, as a pizza providing entrepreneur, that your currency should be stable enough that sales of Monday's pizzas can reliably purchase Tuesday's tomatoes without losing half their value overnight, but it actually does Bitcoin way too much credit to say that that is the main reason you can't reliably make a bitcoin-accepting pizzeria.)
Also americans just don't value Intellectuals/Education/Intelligence as much.
Would it be possible to freelance with your ecommerce skills as an aside to your day job?
No, before starting to build a product is a good time to do that.

Now is a good time to patch your code and keep building your company.

Every framework has security bugs.

Jumping ship to a framework you don't understand, possibly one that is harder to update, is a knee-jerk reactionary response to the problem.

If all these compromises worry you, invest some time in setting a HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection System), subscribing to the relevant security mailing lists, and ensuring that your deployment workflow allows you to patch production code within a few minutes.
Oracle have posted up a page saying that the Site is Unavailable and provided this link:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

That doesn't work either though. "File not found." apperently. Good work Oracle.
Even neater, the feds can now convert your transaction trail used to sell drugs into a physical address.
Having also read your comments for a while, I keep seeing your use of the term VC-istan. I can guess what you might wish to convey with that, but perhaps you could explain in your own words what you mean by that? (My apologies if I missed a previous explanation.)
That's probably why Windows ME and Vista didn't have numerical version names.
I don't understand why you think this is a point to be made. Yes, the ingredients/labor cost of a pizza from Domino's is USD-relative and the value of this new currency is volatile.
The pricing is insane. I don't need 60 testers and 1.4k$ to run a test cycle. That would only be appropriate for some major release which is not "how we do thing (tm)". This just wont work for the weekly release cycle.
I know this is techstartuplandia but I'll be pretty interested in this book because it probably has some interesting nuggets of wisdom for OpenSource projects and the like :)

I'll also be interested in application to the world of academia because I think working remotely could be more efficient in a lot of cases there as well. Granted there's office hours and lecture dates but I tend to pre-research better at home (very informal gut observation)

Edit:
Hope this is not going to be marketing for Campfire in disguise. But given the 37s background I don't think so.
Domino's artificially keep the price of their Pizza constant against the US dollar for long periods. This is common and useful.

There are a group of people who think that currencies should be connected to the value of gold.

But if you work out the price of currencies in say oil, or shares, then no currency maintains a single price for 24 hours.
> Bikes, mile per mile are more dangerous than walking, this might be because of cars etc,

It is because of cars. I went to FARS (http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS) and queried accident causes for 2011. 42% of the accident causes start with the word "motorist". Many of the other causes would also simply not exist in a world without motor vehicle traffic, e.g., "Bicyclist Ride Through - Sign Controlled Intersection" -- this means running a stop sign, and it isn't something that would kill you in a post-apocalyptic world. In fact, the only cause I can see which is clearly not related to the presence of motor vehicles are the categories "head-on: bicyclist" and "head-on: unknown". When I click on cases with causes listed as "Bicyclist Ride Out" or others like that, I see a form that lists a motor vehicle as being involved.

I think you're missing the biggest point here, and that is the fact that biking burns less calories per mile than walking does. A quick Google search:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/135430-calories-burned-bik...

http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/howcalburn.htm

These sources say if you weigh 190 pounds, you burn 47 calories per mile on bike going 10-12 miles/hour, but at least 94 calories per mile when you walk 3.5 miles/hour. You cover the same distance in 1/3 the time and burning 1/2 the calories, or you cover 2x the distance with the same amount of energy, or you cover 3x the distance in the same amount of time for only 50% more calories. (Edit: I got the math wrong earlier.)

The fact is, modern city-dwellers are simply not used to walking or biking long distances. Walking long distances sucks a lot, it's brutal on the body. Far worse, per mile, than biking. At worst, you can walk your bike and load it down with more than you could carry, or you could abandon your bike.
Gitlab dropping Gitolite in v5.0 in favor for own solution
Gitlab will drop Gitolite and replace it with its own replacement called Gitlab-Shell:

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git
Fed #1: Look, we've got all of these transaction details for people who have bought and sold marijuana. How do we chase them down, though?

Fed #2: Well, 1) we'd need to give the stoners something they love dearly. 2) that thing would need to come attached to their address.
> I'm in Scandinavia, and our standard household circuit is 10A@230V for 2.3kW.

Only 10A? That seems very low, the common "mainland" circuits seem pretty much all rated 16A (@230V). So you can't even run some electric kettles at your place?

(but I confirm you can get 3-phase for very high loads, you'll usually pay the electricity company through the nose for running it though)
I have to add this to my text editor project!
You can also easily write component-based architectures in Python, for example using zope.interface/zope.component (ie: the modules only, not the full Zope CMS). For example the Trac bug tracker/wiki works like this, and for its purpose I think it's a perfect fit. It allows re-usable and pluggable components with declared, adaptable interfaces that are not restricted by some hierarchical taxonomy the framework designer came up with.

At the end of the day there will always be different ways to build layered architectures using re-usable components, and classes are just one of them. I'm pretty sure the author of the article didn't intend it like that, but 'write more classes' doesn't sound like great advice for novice/inexperienced programmers.
Wow, the list of modules has gotten very respectable since the first time I heard about Julia.

I have one concern though: how well-tested are they? There's one really prominent contributor (John Myles White), who has written a rather large number of packages. But there are only a limited number of bug-free LOCs that a human can write in a given time-span.

So Julia might well be a better language than R, but is it standard library as reliable? And how much time will it take until it becomes as trusted as that of R?
How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
When you're young, every day is a new experience. Your brain timestamps these experiences and you can see a lot of activity in a given period of time. As you get older, you end up doing a lot of routine things and there are relatively fewer new experiences. As you look over a given period of time, you see a lot less activity. This is what I've come to believe is the basis for the universal phenomenon of the perception of accelerated time.

The solution is to break your routine. For me, the subjectively slowest passing of time is when I'm doing a lot of new stuff and haven't formed a routine around it. But if you're working a 9 to 5 kind of job you end up doing the same shit every day and every week and every month. Pretty soon you take notice and discover that another year has gone by. So do your best to avoid routine. Or if that's not practical (hey, we all need to make a living) then fill your non-work hours with new experiences and new learnings. Now that's some advice I need to take myself...
yeah, having mixed 1-indexes and 0-indexes code would be 10x worse than just getting used to 1-based, so hope people don't do that :)
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Actually, when I wrote that "it all started with the iPhone" I meant the current trend of realistic toggles, checkboxes, wood textures, etc. in mobile and web apps.

I completely agree that skeuomorphism and realism are nothing new, but I do think the iPhone gave them a newfound popularity among designers.
Neat final hop in the traceroute.

15 bigip-outage-outsourcing.oracle.com (148.87.120.10) 42.755 ms 42.604 ms 44.284 ms

Blaming someone? Nice.
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If what you write is true, then it would be in their best interest to respond so that they could maintain the "illusion." So while maybe the "White House doesn't owe you shit," that does not mean that it is not in their best interest to keep their promise.
Why must a violation of an unjust law in protest always come with acceptance of the unjust consequences? If you're an activist trying to change an unjust law, why not flout the law, and then very publicly try to avoid the unjust penalty?

For that matter, what arbitrating body is responsible for deciding what is and is not a "valid" act of protest?
Unfortunately, the regular particulate pollution and heat haze over megacities are going to wreak havoc with your seeing pretty badly even in the absence of light pollution.
Let me guess the crux of the book will be: You can work remote only if you use Basecamp®
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I don't know if Willow Garage was responsible for the early incarnations of OpenCV but that was an incredible mess suffering from high technical debt. Fortunately, the code looks a lot better nowadays.
Ok, so it's not some Martian's door handle (never thought it was).

For me that doesn't in any way detract from the "Holy crap, I'm looking at a photo of rocks on another planet" awe of the whole situation.
Thanks, but I am not doing iOS development.

Good luck with the project.
God how I wish the North Korean regime would be wiped off the face of the planet.
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While the Play backend isn't open-source, there are already at least two other competing app stores.

The differences really aren't that big.
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BitCoin itself is not anonymous, although you can attempt to make it so. But anonymity is not the main selling point of BTC.
Accepting credit cards requires custom programming, too, and I think it also comes with a fee.
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Unusable as it very often freezes for about 5-60secs. Only IDEs written in Java appear to suffer from this, and that's most of them.

I want a good IDE, but none of them are good.
Much of what you say is correct, but I see no reason not to use every tool in the toolbox. Public perception is a powerful weapon, and these petitions can be used effectively to that end.