skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Spotify is an amazing product, and there are research papers on how their system is implemented to give the fastest playback possible. It's incredibly snappy compared to the other alternatives. I remember trying Pandora when it was available here and it wasn't as fast as Spotify was (and still is).
And political appointees.
If only the Second Amendment was "A healthy and fit population being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to universal health-care shall not be infringed."
GNU Guile.
It was a sensational claim, I'm responding with "sensation". Since we're talking Rails I'll leave this here for you http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/15-potty-mouths
After they were told of their mistake, did they stop with the infringement or did they continue selling their devices?

Its one thing to do a mistake, but its an other to continue because its cheaper to ignore copyright law than to do a complete stop in the production and selling of a product. At that point they are doing willingly infringing copyright law.
I think this is a common misconception. Once you wrap your head around d3, building charts is just about as easy as figuring out the required configuration for a Highcharts chart (even complex charts are generally only 30 lines of code). If you really don't care how it is done, there are solutions like nvd3.js that have created prepackaged charts. Based on the extremely limited customizations available and poor performance characteristics, along with the pricing model, I don't think I can agree that Highcharts is ever the best solution.
I disagree. Daily deals can work, but only at the right scale, with the right focus on the right types of markets

What groupon, livingsocial, et al assumed was that this was an endless market and would work for every type of business. This is clearly not the case. Whether these particular companies can get to the right size and find the right market remains to be seen - but I don't believe this is a "ponzi scheme" at all.
I'm not sure what people are expecting. All the petitions guarantee is a response from the WH, not action.
What I don't get is this; how does Living Social do ~$500mm in revenue and still fail to be in the black? It's not like they have any physical merchandise. All their expenses should be personnel, servers and bandwidth right? How are they bleeding through over $500mm in a year then? All the employees are overpaid? Paying too much for servers?
"It's just that I've never even read so much as a warning about this feature"

...have you really looked? Here is a warning, in the section titled, "Reader Security:"

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap4.html
Not sure why you are getting down-voted, since what you say is unquestionably true.

I hope the whole "daily deals" fad dies soon, along with all the shitty companies (LivingSocial, GroupOn, etc.) that promote it. There is nothing more frustrating than getting consumers in the mindset of "I want to try it, but I'm going to wait until a daily deal comes along."
Great. Another Ruby vs Python article. At least there's some good, objective points in there. I do like the fact brought up about there not being any Python bootcamps.
marketing.
What's the logic there? That nations other than china shouldn't bother with (or without) new coal technology and energy policy because it is only a "small contribution?".

That argument gets pretty much everyone who isn't the USA or China off the hook. Luxembourg and Botswana should just pollute as much as they want? That's just dumb. Energy choices are important everywhere; it just happens that the only forums available for enacting this policy are in nations with diverse sizes. You still need to do it everywhere.
They count it as revenue before paying the merchant. Their true revenue is probably much lower than $500mm.
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Compatibility libraries exist for nearly every implementation detail like the one you describe. Threads and networking being incompatible was a valid concert 15 years ago.
It's reasonably obvious that the investor does not agree with your assertion that "the very core of its business model does not work". You can't state something like that as inarguable fact.

I don't doubt for a second that LivingSocial is experimenting with it's models, innovating and trying new stuff. It might not work out, but the investor clearly has enough confidence that it will to invest more cash.
I don't buy your example from chapter 3 of SICP. You could just as easily serialize Python code and eval it. That would be bad practice in Python and it would be in Lisp.

The power of "code is/as data" means that Lisp macros can manipulate code as easily as other Lisp code manipulates data. It's not really about eval.
I read the whole article and that was my first impression. It's really a nothing article.
Russian Hackers Created 3doodler Analog in 20 Minutes
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Are you sure about that? Novell / NT Domains, then subsequently Active Directory has been a big part of every large corporation I've worked at over the last 20 years. Externally the web servers might be UNIX, but internally the infrastructure is heterogenous and the office stuff (authentication, email, etc.) lives on Windows.
> What I do not understand is: what does an 'investor' expects 'injecting' 110 million dollars on a bankrupt business?

According to the PrivCo article, they got first rights on liquidation. So they'd be either getting a huge part of a miracle turnaround, or most of their money back when the company was sold off in bankruptcy.

Of course that article appears to be completely wrong, so I guess it doesn't actually matter. But there's your motivation for investing in a dying business.
Oh for chrissake: Just release the funding docs and term sheet.

The letter was full of possible half-truths(eg: 'There is no "4x liquidation preference"' does not preclude 3x or 5x or any other number besides 4), so smart employees should be looking until they see the docs.
They are NOT MY EXAMPLES man... It's a screenshot from http://xamarin.com/how-it-works and YES I have TOTAL LACK of understanding of obj-c... My entire experience with it is less than 4 weeks. But so is my experience with python - which I instantly loved.
Every major corporation I've run into in the past decade is deeply invested in MS Exchange and Active Directory and all the server infrastructure that brings with it. Sure the company home page might be served off a Linux box, but inside the company Windows Servers tend to rule.
He's getting downvoted because he is commenting on the headline, and not the article. The article has absolutely nothing to do with how LivingSocial got to where they are, and everything to do with the investment that was just anounced. "What happened" is strictly referring to the details of that investment.

A cursory glance at the original article makes it obvious that his comment is irrelevant. It's just pithy snark against a company already dealing with false "news" reporting.
I thought LinkedIn was using node? Or was that only ever in their mobile app?
Erik, great feedback
Acquiring similar companies at peak value then having to write them down or off [1]. Since that problem has been taken care of, profitability is not only attainable but within short reach.

[1] http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-25/business/35501...
I actually just had a conversation at work about this (although unrelated to Django). Almost all REST frameworks I've encountered have no support for POSTing of nested objects.

I do not know of an ActiveAttr equivalent.
A low tolerance for Samsung may come from the high Apple like prices they charge for a phone like my Galaxy Note, and then no real updates for 6 months, and when one comes out, the Note 2 is released a few months later.

What I was not prepared for is Samsung is full of it when it comes to release dates for their software updates. Apple was bad in other ways, but the ability to get direct updates from the manufacturer is something I expect now because of the few years of iPhone I had.

To those who think it's simple enough to flash another rom on and get what I want -- my phone is not a toy, and my time is more valuable than constantly spending it in this way. I need the data in my phone, available and running at all times.

The fact that I'm first at Samsung's mercy, and then the carrier to get an official update while Google quietly pushes it's updates directly to it's devices has lead me to get a Nexus 4. I love my Galaxy note, but it's handicapped by not having the latest. Jellybean 4.2.1+ is for the first time an equivalent experience to iOS, and the Android 4.0.4 still has issues.

I hope that Samsung understands I appreciate and support their audacity in leading the charge into phablets, or flexible displays, but it really comes down to usability in software and it needs to be just as usable. I avoided the first two iPhones for this same reason.

Sadly, my Treo 650 still is more productive than these novelty purusing devices that provide more distractions than value. I am excited for the time our software skills move beyond creating novelty.

I hope Ubuntu's offerings become interesting enough moving forward.
Metasploit: Is it a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing?
Balanced is burying the lede on this, the final table of correlations between payment information signal failures and incidence of fraud is pretty fascinating.
So just to play devil's advocate: there's already a bunch of mined coal out there, and you'd better believe it's going to get used by someone to create energy. Extracting that energy can either release CO2 into the atmosphere and contribute to total ecosystem collapse, or not. The only other alternative is that, somehow, existing coal doesn't get used at all, and if you could concoct a scenario where that's plausible, I'd be very impressed.

When it comes to climate change we're talking about irreparable harm to the planet, mass extinction, and a serious existential threat to our species. Without minimizing the social and environmental problems created by coal mining, I think it's correct to say they are lesser problems than those posed by climate change.

I absolutely agree that in general, civilization can do better than digging shit out of the ground and burning it, and I think the long term solution is wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, and so on. Unfortunately we don't have time to wait for a perfect solution, and we have huge amounts of fossil fuel reserves that, if they're all conventionally burned, will kill us all. So what can we do?
Well, for this specific issue, it was an executive branch decision that allowed, and now doesn't allow unlocking. Laws are often just "hey, executive, do this", and the executive figures it out (see also: EPA, FTC and lots more).
LinkedIn uses a service-oriented architecture; the site consists of hundreds of individual services - that is, separate codebases, deployed on separate hardware, built on a handful of different technology stacks. This lets us iterate and scale each service separately depending on its requirements.

We've moved some services to Play already and are now gradually rolling it out for others.
Our first SaaS app. Thoughts?
That was just the mobile app. It mostly just acted as a gateway to the other backend systems.
A single user attempting purchases with many different credit cards is fraudulent 100% of the time!!
Violating terms of service is not a felony. In fact, it's not even a crime; it's a civil matter.
did u guys built the app on native iOS or html5 (phonegap, titanium framework ) - well done on the UI
I'm applying to Google right now and was sent a form with an input box called "Do you know anyone at Google who is familiar with your technical abilities?"

edit: I'm an undergrad applying for an engineering internship and have an on campus interview.
Can't compare with Sencha Touch, but the one app I built with jQuery Mobile started out okay, and seemed to be saving us time at the prototyping stage. We also hoped it might save time later by reusing the same codebase on both iOS and Android.

The reality was that though it helped while prototyping, it required workarounds to do anything more complex than the token tabs+list-view/sub-view style app, and we ended up disabling all of jQuery Mobile's transitions and effects in order to get it to be performant (BIG difference there!). In the end, I'd say the costs outweighed the benefits in our case.

Next time, I'll just use one of the more general-purpose JS frameworks and custom style the UI myself.
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From what I understand, the "unlocking" that is currently illegal is unlocking from you carrier, not unlocking a bootloader. Furthermore, these are Nexus devices (development devices) that have no extra protection or encryption on the bootloader. They are made to be unlocked.
Indeed. Scratch a working heterogenous single sign-on environment based on Linux servers and I think you'll find well-paid admin staff behind it. Interop is just not simple, although with Samba 4 it might just have got better - I've not tried in the last 6 months.
> have you really looked?

To be fair, no. I'm not a practicing Lisp programmer; I just admire the language. But I've read a fair number of Lisp tutorials, as well as SICP, and I don't recall it being mentioned. I'm glad it's out there somewhere!
I would rather see locking phones become illegal. Locked devices only serve to keep people stuck with a provider.
> our major competitor's market cap is now $3.9B

He can't say "Groupon?" Seriously?
yeah let's "make believe"
Libel (or slander) is really hard to prosecute in America, and with IMHO good reason.

IANAL, but this doesn't seem like libel per se, so damages and malice would both need to be proven by the plaintiff.
(I wrote the post)
Thanks! There are certain aspects of fraud which can be open and will definitely help the community of anti-fraudsters. This was our way of contributing something back.
Pheed Hits #1, Beats Facebook
According to a tower clock I found, this picture was taken at 1:40.

A tower clock I found shows approx. 09h10.

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=161.5165...
The problem is not that it is used.

Its used without attribution and correct licensing information, especially as the website states that all material is copyrighted(!).
It doesn't fit on that Toshiba page at all! Everything is dark and then bam white and yellow!
Monkey-patching really? You're forgetting what else Rails has in our ecosystem: Github.

1.) Fork a project on Github, say the push notification gem https://github.com/jpoz/APNS

2.) Alter behavior in your branch https://github.com/jamesdaniels/APNS

3.) Optional bit, send a pull-request with your changes

4.) Vendor it or require your fork in the Gemfile: gem 'apns', :git => 'git@github.com:jamesdaniels/APNS.git'

Tada!
Huge Click Fraud Botnet Taken Offline
A massive botnet that infected millions of PCs and redirected clicks through other websites and ad networks was discovered and taken down by Microsoft and Symantec – with help from U.S. marshals.
It's not different, but it's a pure gas and not mixed with a ton of nitrogen that air combustion exhaust would be. That makes it trivial to capture (literally just pump it through a compressor into a tank).

One important point, though, is that the sequestration problem is not actually addressed here. This just gets you conveniently-produced tanks of CO2 (or crates of dry ice, whatever). What you do with that to keep it out of the atmosphere is still an open problem.
This is to be expected from giant images like this that are assembled by automatically stitching together hundreds of smaller images. You'll see the similar artifacts or errors on sites like Google Maps, for example http://www.moillusions.com/2006/04/google-maps-haunted-road....
Did PrivCo or some related business entities have a short position in LivingSocial when the PrivCo statement was made on LivingSocial?

Well, not in any simple sense since apparently LivingSocial is not public yet. But a short position on a related company?
> You want to make a quick buck? Hammer out some freelance jobs on odesk.com, freelancer.com, etc.

Unlike the original story, "a buck" is almost literally accurate in this case.
I've actually had a very similar thought recently. I also feel like it is somewhat easier to master electronic music production (I know that it's still hard but compare how much one knows after playing piano for 6 months with learning Ableton for 6 months). I think that this is awesome since people will be able to concentrate on making interesting music as opposed to learning the instrument.
I switched from Spotify to Rdio recently. As someone that likes to hack on music projects, I'm really impressed with the Rdio API. I especially like their integration with Echonest, which gives you a deep "beat-by-beat" analysis of every track on Rdio.
Will 2013 be the 'year of the great EHR vendor switch'?
No, he says explicitly it does not get near 4x.
"There is no "4x liquidation preference." (Once again, typical of almost all venture rounds, there is a liquidation preference, but it slides up or down based on a key metric and gets nowhere near 4x.)"
It's still a layer of complication and headaches most languages just don't have.
What was your thought process behind placing the titles at the bottom of the images rather than the top when you scroll through listings? It was an interesting choice and I wondered if you have any specific reasons for it.
Internet is peer to peer. If you are a victim of packet beancounters, the onus is on you to filter your traffic and apps to conform.
Chill out, manbrodude. Just learn from your mistake. It's not like you're being crucified, just being called out for perpetuating something stupid and being misinformed. If you're concerned about your appearance, maybe pull the post, but a better thing to spend your time on would be learning how to use Obj-C so you don't write terrible code like the Xamarin folks. Live and learn, as it were.
tl;dr - Developer writes a legitimate test to prove Test Driven Development will force us to write decent code. We write code that cheats by using knowledge of the test to pass in the lamest possible way.

This proves that TDD is worthless? Really? I agree with his view that TDD has a "behaviorist" mindset if approached in the most superficial way. But, his example only shows that while you can go out of your way to perfectly cheat a unit test, if they had programmed a sensible component (that also happened to pass the unit test) they'd have some assurance that it was in good working order.

That's all that unit tests do. Create simple tests to assure basic functionality. Add more complex tests to verify more complex functionality and wider range of test cases. Rinse and repeat.
Is it really with getting Colo space for just one rack of servers? To me this seems to be well below the threshold where owning your own hardware makes sense.
People today might not be aware but Robert Fripp (of King Crimson) championed this back in the 90s and set up his record label (Discipline) to enforce it.

The notice that he put on the CDs was eloquent:

The phonographic copyright in these performances is operated by Discipline Records on behalf of the artists, with whom it resides. Discipline accepts no reason for artists to give away such copyright interests in their
work by virtue of a "common practice" which is out of tune with the time, was always questionable and is now indefensible.
What value will the company have in bankruptcy. That's a lot of Aeron chairs and used iThings to get anywhere close to $100m in value.
Good question. I have experimented with making WAR files and deploying to Tomcat, but I now use an easy alternative of using an embedded server: I have (in each project) a shell script to rsync the entire project to whatever server I am using for deploying the project. If I am running in production mode, I kill the old process on the server (I use beefy VPS's for my own stuff, AWS for customer work) and manually run:

nohup lein trampoline run prod > out.log &

Using trampoline is nice because it uses the same process for lein and your web app. This process takes me about 30 seconds of manual effort, and I really should completely automate it. I use IntelliJ with the Clojure plugin for most editing and IntelliJ has has some deployment tools that run internally in the IDE - I might settle on that, or use capistrano or something similar. That said, "devops" is such a tiny overhead for me on my own projects that my motivation is not so great to optimize my deployment process.
I would absolutely love to read a blog post going in depth about how your SOA works.
I've only been on one job interview where the hiring manager looked at my github account prior to the interview
In other news, Oracle copyrights.... the novel.

> "little respect for the creativity involved in Oracle's works"

Wasn't it just a timsort implementation? Surely Oracle didn't create that originally.

EDIT: Yea, apparently Oracle ripped it off from Python. Not suggesting copyright infringement, but there was no "creativity" involved.
They are doing it for so long and so many other companies have failed, in many other countries, that I'm starting to think that will never work.

But really, this is just a completely arguable point of view, sorry if it came out a bit despotic.
Exciting stuff. Many thanks as a user of iPython to the Sloan Foundation for funding this all the way through the end of 2014.

The main focus in the roadmap is the notebook, including interactive widgets, export options, and multi-user notebooks.
Looking for strong Web Devs w/ some Ruby on Rails
Looking for strong UI devs that know MVC and have some knowledge or experience with Ruby on Rails. Global enterprise level company that practices TDD and pairing. Very collaborative and professional environment.
It's gross revenue rather than net. Take 50% off the top for paying merchants. Then the expenses you mentioned (sales cost, software design, hosting, etc.).

My guess though is that their major cost is customer acquisition. That seems to be the norm in this space. They're buying customers for $5 and making $2.50 off them (numbers theoretical, as an example) hoping to make the rest back later when they've won the market.
true, it's definitely a different kind of experience. I don't necessarily think the dance culture will diminish. But I do think there is space for the virtuosic in EDM... or maybe I should say EM ;-)
Never mind the hardware: why didn't Sony's PS4 event have any women?
It is difficult, at best, to know anyone's position in a private company without insider knowledge.

While it might be theoretically possible to short something using a company like SecondMarket, the prevailing wisdom is that if it's not public it's probably not being shorted.
That is the $818 (now $918) million question. Even a hotdog stand is doing better than LivingSocial. Why would investors throw good money after bad?

"We are a company that does over half a billion in revenue. If we stay diligent, we hope to turn the corner to become profitable soon."
Since Microsoft bought Skype, I heard they turned off the p2p part.
Seems to use a different approach to Stripe, using encryption rather than API hooks/callbacks.
Well that's encouraging. I might need to pick me up an Abelton.
The concept reminds me of the "synthe-axe drumitar" played by Future Man from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

http://flecktones.com/page/Futuremans-Synthaxe-Drumitar
All development was done using native development tools on iOS and Android.
What did they use before Play?
Ah, yes, as I just corrected, but how 'bout being short on GroupOn?
The Little Schemer is the book that got me thinking about data structures recursively (starting with linked lists), and that was later furthered by SICP.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
@falling, i think this was a joke. or maybe not, you'll have to check - http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_18.shtml
Wow. That music is incredibly annoying.