skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having just filed my taxes, and gone through the "so how much tax free stuff did you buy online?" rigmarole this would actually make my life easier. The article calls all but eBay and Overstock.com "Mom and Pop" shops. A real local store that happens to sell stuff online will actually benefit from this law. States will benefit, since this law will actually level things. The only places that will suffer are Amazon's smaller competitors, which otherwise would just turn around and try to crush the local brick and mortar small shops.
Re-visiting the Exynos Memory Mapping Bug
Cool, that feels a lot better.
It is meaningless and I have a growing suspicion that it was coined by people who came from writing (PHP) websites from scratch.

I remember being pleasantly surprised when I wrote my first website with a framework after a couple of years building sites from practically nothing.

Compared to frameworkless PHP, Rails is magic but then so is Django or ASP.NET MVC.
Europe vs Silicon Valley
I was responding specifically to "Texas seems to be doing fine" by agreeing that yes, Texas has lots of jobs when the oil-patch is hot. But, also pointing out that it isn't necessarily worth bragging about that our economy is so dependent upon a single factor, one over which we have so little control. And, also that the definition of "fine" may not be the same for everyone here, specifically me, a resident of Texas, who certainly enjoys low taxes, but nevertheless might also like to see less blight and poverty. I made and make no comment over anything the reporter may have said, but with respect to the general statement "oil drilling creates jobs", I'd say, well, yeah so do lots of things. Does oil drilling really create the sort of prosperity that we really want?
Great job Debelov! Psyched to have Virool going strong
HipChat has the concept of a "notify" flag for every message you send via the API.

Notified messages make a ding sound in chat, flash the task bar, etc.

For my HipChat setup, build logs are silent (and don't disturb anyone), but a notification that a deployment failed has the "notify" flag set to gain everyone's attention.
>Two words. Occam's Razor. Your explanation is so tangled that an entire battalion of Viet Cong could hide in it.

Tesla's logs show that the range dropped from 90 to 30ish at mile 400.

It shows that Broden was 100% correct.
Contact Google. I'd venture that the chances of support are not low. Not only do they have the mentality, they also had Guido van Rossum, python's inventor and head developer, employed for years. And they are certainly well-known 8)
Wow. That's amazing.
I call it being a Cowgirl Coder.
One word: Gerrymandering.

The Republicans were able to control the house while losing the national congressional popular vote by being better able to redistrict their congressional seats in ways that were favorable to them.

This is why it is important which party controls State legislatures, those legislatures favor their own party when they draw the map.
That makes sense for weed, but they probably have a larger supply chain if they're dealing on a day to day basis. Also, the post mentions "flipping" LSD - they buy it for a lower price and sell it for a higher price. Someone has to sell it to them.
The best part about it is their servers probably come with Python preinstalled, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the devs/sysadmins script in python on the servers.
I thought the magic term had something to do with explicit vs implicit. Some framework just don't call that much code behind your back without explicitly calling stuff.

Rails is more oriented in a "convention over configuration" mindset, in this sense it might be more "magic" than others.
I agree - I think it's somewhat cultural. That community has a lot of good ideas, but few fleshed-out solutions, which are harder and require more technical/modeling skills. It's hardly unique to them - education researchers (for instance, as I've been noticing recently) and many administrators are equally quantitatively lacking. Part of it may also be that doing novel critical analysis requires few resources, but doing most novel science is a high-capital endeavor.
Guido moved to Dropbox recently.
That is secondary to my point which is that people like you, a founder & developer who cares about cryptography (just guessing from your profile), are not like most people ("normals").
Surely at least some part of their stack is built using Python, so couldn't you tell them that they may not use the software if they are going to proceed with this?
I'm fairly certain there's more to living on the street than sitting around and being stoned 24/7. You're being quite judgmental and haughty toward a lifestyle which you most likely know nothing about.
Excel is the non-programmer's perl, basically. Simple, gets shit done, woefully, terribly ugly at times, but it doesn't really matter. I'd love to see the non-programmer's Python.
Thanks! Don't know how I missed that. As a "Temecula" native, I didn't know it came from a song, and not from the valley.
I have to say I'm pretty blown away. I'm more or less the sole software engineer for a group of small local newspapers, and have been on the lookout for a system to replace our current flash-based e-edition reader.

Crocodoc is the first conversion service I've seen that actually properly renders our PDFs.

Sample: https://preview.crocodoc.com/view/183cbebf-8d01-4f5f-bb3a-5e...
1. No, its not an anon inner class. Anon inner class is when you implement a interface, by defining its methods inline.

2. Yes, it is bad that we have to write all that verbose code. Java's typechecker is useless where it could be most useful, by typechecking high level types. You have to write all this code everytime to make it happy.
Couldn't agree more. As someone who did, back in the day, dabble with the binary representation of the "composite document" format of early Word/Office files, I have to say I admire the work they've done. Even the newer, XML-based version of the document formats suck.
Also Python is one of their primary languages in-house!
Right, here's the summary he has on his profile verbatim then:

"Mr. Nelson invented Google Chrome OS while working at Google in 2006. He has 19 years of experience in cloud computing and Big Data analytics. He has written two books and many magazine articles on Java and cloud computing. He has extensive experience in search, SEO, and eCommerce industries, building highly scalable web services, and leading world class engineering teams at such companies as Google and eBay. He holds a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics."
Actually he is at Dropbox now, but contacting Google is still a solid try.
To emphasize "deliberately misrepresented by Tesla", this is Musk's relevant statement:

As the State of Charge log shows, the Model S battery never ran out of energy at any time, including when Broder called the flatbed truck.

It obliquely suggests the car wasn't dead on the road. But it clearly was (or else Musk would be loudly calling it out). It's not the responsibility of the reviewer to figure out whether his car bricked because of an empty battery, or buggy software which mimicked an empty battery (displaying zero range, automatically shutting down).
I don't want to be insensitive, but some of these individuals' behavior smacks of privilege. When I think about the fact that someone whose family "owns a major medevac company" is taking up space at a shelter or panhandling on the street, I get really frustrated. These are resources that should be used by those who are really down on their luck and have no other option, not someone/some group who wants to live out their bohemian fantasy.

If I knew I just gave five bucks to someone whose familial net worth trumps mine 100 fold, I'd be irate.
I have to wonder if you'd feel this strongly about these particular principles if you knew about approval voting or what happens in countries with a unicameral parliament.
Already actively discussed from Tesla's blog post on main page of HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5218288
Not hating, but something about that site makes me glad I haven't been 15 in a long-ass time.
He hee. I'm glad you think so.
Game Closure releases open source HTML5 game dev kit
Hack on Flying Drones at SXSW 2013
The company I work for might be applicable to write a letter in support. What email address should I use for getting help in drafting such a letter, and convincing management to get on board?

The website mentions psf-trademarks@python.org in reference to completed letters, should I contact that email address for help in drafting a letter?
The communities of kids like that that I know make circuses and free schools and are extraordinarily well-read.
Funny that you say this, my Honda Civic always attempts to unlock regardless of lock state. I guess they don't really trust the lock sensor.
Not naive. The terms are in the midst of change. Hence the "quotes" in the article title.

Now that convertible notes are the dominant form of financing seed rounds, I usually see money raised with debt as seed, and money raised by issuing stock referred to as the A round.
you can't

why would

I don't

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD TRY TO TAKE 'PYTHON' FROM PYTHON?

I want to destroy them with internet rage.
How did you connect with that crowd?
I've noticed a very high overlap between techies and hippies, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to stumble into a group of discordians short of randomly wandering the streets shouting "hail eris!".
The classic case where you need to do a cache flush is when you're a JIT writing out native code. Once you've written the instructions into memory you need to clean the data cache [ie ensure that your changes are made visible to anything 'below' you in the memory hierarchy] and invalidate the icache [ie throw away any info you have], so that when the CPU starts to execute instructions from the memory you've just written it doesn't get the stale old versions that might otherwise be in the icache. In fact you only need to clean data out to the point in the memory hierarchy where the icache and the dcache for all your cores come together, which is probably not the same as "write it all really back to system RAM" but is basically indistinguishable from such by the programmer.

NB that x86 maintains coherency between icache and dcache (unlike ARM, say), so you don't need to do this on that CPU architecture.
Hard drugs, since they can be closer to the tenderloin and mission most likely.

Its sad because peace, love & family is not the way things are handled down there and a lot of them dont make it very long once they graduate.
I know nothing about Heroku's architecture than what I just read in this post, but couldn't you alleviate this problem greatly by having the dyno's implement work stealing? Obviously the they would have to know about each other then, but perhaps that is easier to do that global intelligent routing.
There are other Chrome developers commenting on the linked post, and they deny Nelson's role.
Interesting story. It will be interesting to see if it reaches its goal, how many would you sell if you "sold" it on thingaverse ? How many musicians use this style? Etc.
If you could redesign Quora, what would you come up with?
Any disputes so subtle as to require more expense than several more replication attempts is immaterial.

Plenty of winter left. Even people who will volunteer. I think replication is very possible. Hell, I have time. I'll do one!
Those 14 Senators are some of the most conservative in the Democratic party and some of them often side with the Republicans on key issues, and/or play the middle to get more of whatever it is they want.

Remember how hard it was for Obama to pass health care reform when he had 59 Democrats and Joe Lieberman?

Thats what the Senate + the filibuster does to our politics, it grinds it to a halt.

Edit:

First line should read: Some of those 14 Senators are amongst the most conservative in the Democratic party.
> non-deterministic fashion.

Wait, perhaps I am understanding it wrong, but if I were to consider a lock sensor as non-deterministic, wouldn't that imply that I always have to send the unlock signal, regardless of lock state, because you don't trust the sensor?
To say that Python is one of google's main languages might be a bit of an overstatement. I think that they are mainly a C++/Go/Java shop and use Python for glue code, or so I have been told by employees. This could be wrong, though.
> As a child, under the age of 18, in the US, has no rights.

I was going to mention the UN convention on the rights of children.

(http://www.unicef.org.uk/UNICEFs-Work/Our-mission/UN-Convent...)

But it seems that only 2 countries haven't formally approved it - Somalia and the US. (And Somalia doesn't have a government, so I guess they get a pass for the moment.)

Articles 3, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, etc etc would all be relevant. If you had carried on with the software this could have helped sell the product. Compare

"You are under 18. You have no rights" with

"You are under 18. You have rights. We know what they are, and we feel our product helps you enforce your rights, and carefully balances your rights with your parent's rights."
I know, I used the past tense! But I doubt they dropped support for python overnight because he left %)
Not that I like much what they're doing, but I don't think those options exist anymore. As purists, we probably love the concept of organic growth a bit too much.

There's nothing wrong with being a small successful company, there are tens and thousands of that out there. But building a big successful company at scale is rarely done without taking on external investment.

Uncompensated users are a different issue altogether. I'm sure people have various reasons to keep contributing content there even after knowing that fact.
Though I'm aware of the basics of request routing, forming a real-world analogy that's more tangible definitely helped me grok the explanation.
A Tesla S owner's winter road trip experience
Honest question, how is a free user not sold by Weebly?

It appears they have a for pay designer platform. It also appears they are funded... are they done raising rounds and/or not considering going public? The reason I ask, is because every free user is being sold then. Their usage/stat of adoption is being sold to investors and others in order to increase their value/price. I imagine someday, Weebly will find a way to place ads/marketing material in front of those free users (even if its just in periodic emails to those users).

EDIT: I could be wrong about them eventually placing ads in front of the users... but I imagine it and expect it to happen someday. If not, cheers!
Hacker News is Serious Business; we don't allow excitement in titles around here.
You could be describing Dolores Park.
> When I think about the fact that someone whose family "owns a major medevac company" is taking up space at a shelter or panhandling on the street, I get really frustrated.

Just to play the devil's advocate, given a spoiled kid of wealthy parents on the threshold of adulthood, would you prefer he stay in the ivory tower, or experience the raw life of the street, even if only as a lifestyle tourist?

As it happens, there is a long tradition among the wealthy (not all the wealthy, but some) of making their kids experience ordinary life in advance of making important decisions about the direction of their own life.
Exactly, it's silly to call this culture "anti-technology." I really like the guy he linked to (Ran Prieur). He would laugh at being called an "anti-technologist". From one of his essays:

I love technology! A fungophobe is someone who fears all mushrooms, who assumes they're all deadly poisonous and isn't interested in learning about them. A fungophile is someone who is intensely interested in mushrooms, who reads about them, samples them, and learns which ones are poisonous, which ones taste good, which ones are medicinal and for what, which ones are allied to which trees or plants or animals. This is precisely my attitude toward technology. I am a technophile!

Now, what would you call someone who runs through the woods indiscriminately eating every mushroom, because they believe "mushrooms are neutral," so there are no bad ones and it's OK to use any of them as long as it's for good uses like eating and not bad uses like conking someone over the head? You would call this person dangerously stupid. But this is almost the modern attitude toward "technology." Actually it's even worse. Because of the core values of civilization, that conquest and control and forceful transformation are good, because civilization "grows" by dominating and exploiting and killing, and by numbing its members to the perspectives of their victims, it has been choosing and developing the most poisonous technologies, and ignoring or excluding tools allied to awareness, aliveness, and equal participation in power. It's as if we're in a world where the very definition of "mushroom" has been twisted to include little other than death caps and destroying angels and deadly galerinas, and we wonder why health care is so expensive.
While this isn't a hot topic among New Yorkers I know, I did have a professor at b-school (NYU) who went on rants about the amount of money transferred by the citizens of New York City to the rest of the state of NY. If this is true, I wouldn't be surprised if most "downstate" residents wouldn't mind splitting the state in two, also. Seeing the typical political lockup between the senate and assembly in Albany, I think it would be best for all state citizens to split NYS.
As far as I can tell, this is the original source. The link below (Gary Canavan) is to an article that shows the map, but the map itself came from this submitted post.

Duplicate post? Yes. Blogspam? No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi0qUZCz6F0
When should an enterprise application become a mobile app?
Good point, by logging in you are consenting to their tracking. I must be honest though, I still think it's a fair trade off. I also suspect that making content public might make it worse - people know on HN and Reddit their comments are visible to a huge anonymous constituency and it biases the nature of responses.
Sure, I get that. But what if a deployment failed for an app that you are not interested in (because you're not working on it) and don't want notification about it?
You learn something new every day: "The second major issue with ordering we have to be aware of is a thread could write a variable and then, if it reads it shortly after, could see the value in its store buffer which may be older than the latest value in the cache sub-system."

I was skeptical hippo about this because x86 has such a strongly ordered memory model, but lo and behold: "HOWEVER. If you do the sub-word write using a regular store, you are now
invoking the _one_ non-coherent part of the x86 memory pipeline: the store buffer. Normal stores can (and will) be forwarded to subsequent loads from the store buffer, and they are not strongly ordered wrt cache coherency while they are buffered." (Linus, http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/store_buffer.html).
While I agree that routing to the emptiest dyno would be a good thing, I think it's a little melodramatic to describe giving every dyno at least three times and up to several thousand times as much power as "horrific."
>...as an undergrad I have way above average GPA

You're mastering undergraduate material, which certainly doesn't give any clues as to if you are genius, but it does say you can probably build whatever you want given enough time and effort. What else does he need to know?
Excel is essentially a functional programming environment used by hundreds of millions of people.

...as electronic graph paper, mostly.
Send robots
We're hosting a robotic exhibition during National Robotics Week and OneSpark 2013. We need a couple of more robots and or their creators to showcase.
I don't know -- the data speaks for itself, but I still find it hard to accept that SV doesn't convey advantages to resident startups. The concentration of like-minded individuals and capital has to make for an easier go of it.

This study would be more interesting if it compared US, Europe, and SV, IMHO.
I'm not arguing against whatever it is you're suggesting... but how exactly would that remove speculation over the permanence of death?
What do you mean exactly by "regular people"?
Hmm. Now I think you're as well qualified to write the article as Mr. Broder.
It's the same as when Wal Mart pushed for higher minimum wage. The target they argued for was below their own minimums, and it would only serve to decrease profits at other stores where they paid the actual current minimum wage.
Where does the post suggest Rails is the only framework with bugs like this? The article opens with: "The latest Rails security flaw is example of a common anti-pattern. ... a similar issue may also exist in Python’s YAML parser ... I am reminded of similar flaws in other frameworks and libraries." I don't think the goal here was to pick on Rails, but to highlight that its recent security woes might be a sign of a bigger common issue.
Robot electric car shows off iPad 'auto drive'
Why spend time and money finding new prime numbers?
You can contact me, van@python.org. Thanks!
True, but a broken RAF keeps Britain on the defensive.
I’m in the middle of the most ridiculous stunt I’ve ever attempted in my life, and while I can’t talk about it I can say this:

> the key here is to try anyway and learn along the process.

This is exactly right. Keep pulling on the string and see where it takes you; if you’re as determined as you say you are, that determination will be more than enough to compensate for whatever intelligence you think you don’t have.
Never came close to working? I read that it achieved Mach 3, well before the first reported Mach 3:

The first flight at faster than three times the speed of sound occurred on 27 September 1956. The aircraft was the Bell X-2 and the pilot was Captain Milburn Apt.

The Bell X-2 was launched from a specially-modified Boeing B-50 at 31,800 feet. It achieved a speed of Mach 3.196 (2,094 mph). However, the flight then encountered problems known as inertia coupling and Apt jettisoned the cockpit capsule. For some reason, he was unable to use his parachute and was killed - it was his first flight in the X-2. The aircraft itself crashed of course and was scrapped.

So, if it did achieve Mach 3, I see no reason why they would have considered scrapping it, since apparently it did better than the Bell X-2 could have done, earlier than the Bell X-2 experiment even.
(1) I don't expect them to deliver a certain service 'forever', they can shut down if they want to, I understand that

Um, I was really expecting to read: "...they can start charging me if they want to." And then your Twitter comparison too makes me think you really expect a free service, but one that cost money to operate, not to attempt to have an actual business model at some point in the future. Why would they just shut down before trying to make money?

How did you make money with the web cam thing?
It should be stressed that usage of the mark must be shown to be of more than local significance to defeat the application from the UK company. Consequently it is vital that folks from as many EU countries as possible respond to the request in the post.

I am surprised in some ways that you couldn't have attracted some pro bono assistance for this cause. This is a case that I would have loved to have drafted the opposition pleadings in relation to.

Although I would hope that the media attention that should arise as a result of this application would be sufficient to cause the applicant to withdraw their application, or at the very least narrow down the specification to hosting services.

Even if the specification was narrowed down, the likelihood of confusion is still high in my view.

This is a good read on the criteria that will have to be satisfied:

http://assets.itma.org.uk/OHIM_Oppositions_based_on_Unregist...

Finally, good luck!