skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes further than that: air near the surface of the earth is doing a lot more interacting with the earth than the other air, and is getting and keeping a lot more heat and dissolved gases. That includes air at sea-level or air at a mountaintop. Thus, there is no natural analogy to a tree growing atop a 500 foot building. Even bristlecones at 10000 feet still benefit from air that has been in prolonged proximity to a surface.
Are you checking out all the branches? I mean the actual branches subdirectory? If you do that, it is going to be expensive. But you shouldn't do that. Just checkout the trunk and switch to branches as needed.
How about, you know, creating stuff and selling stuff rather than piggybacking on the guys who create and sell stuff? Advertisers on the web nowadays don’t even claim to be informative in any way whatsoever, so who would care if they went away tomorrow?
Note that in fifth place -- ahead of Coffeescript, Clojure, Python, etc., etc., -- is eC, a that's basically C plus a few OO features and a GUI library. It has, for instance, no automatic memory management (besides some rather primitive refcounting); neither dynamic typing nor type inference; no nice literal syntax for collection types; in short, whatever its merits it is not an outstandingly expressive language.

There is surely some correlation between short commits and expressiveness, but they're far enough apart that I think the title is very misleading.
I'm a guy. That all offends me, too. The difference is that as a male I'm not so likely to have trolls from all over the web threaten me (with violence, no less) for saying it's inappropriate. There's the "a little extreme" for you and that's why everyone might seem like they're overreacting. They're not.
I agree. I was also surprised by Ruby's position. I suspect the problem is related to that with JavaScript. That is to say, people including code in their commits that they didn't write.
I'm fairly certain this doesn't work with current versions of Chrome. The experimental support for the -sass-debug-info that this method uses was removed in favor of real sourcemaps landing in sass version 3.3.0.

You can try using the alpha release of sass 3.3.0 to get real sourcemaps but I haven't had any luck getting it to work with rails. It also will not work with compass 0.13.alpha, you have to downgrade to 0.12.2.
"Fractional reserve banking" with a 10% reserve does not mean that if depositors deposit $1M, the bank then lends out $10M. It means that if depositors deposit $1M, the bank retains $90,910 as a reserve and lends out $909,090. That's how the bank "loans out ten times the money it has".

Note that where before we had $1M of "money", now we have $1.91M of "money": the actual money provided to the borrowers, plus the on-demand deposits of the depositors. But the borrowers will probably deposit the borrowed $909,090 in their own bank, which can then lend 90% of it out again. If this procedure is carried out to the limit, you do eventually have 11 times as much "money" floating around the system as the "original" deposit, so the banks in aggregate have loaned out ten times the money originally deposited.

What is this about "most loans"? Generally when I've taken out a loan, the loaned money has been spent in something equivalent to cash rather quickly — generally in the form of a transfer to another bank via cashier's check, but that's equivalent from the point of view of the bank!
How about one where the AI is inadvertently malevolent? http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/index.html
Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/
It is interesting, I have heard several times the comment about svn branches being expensive. But, that is not true, they are checking out the whole branches directory!
Yeah, see my other reply. You're correct in that the 2A doesn't use the term "firearm". But in practice that seems to be the interpretation. I don't actually know why.
Well technically, it is. So any explanation is going to be fuzzy and non-technical. I think the reasoning is that Ubuntu uses less-popular packages by default. So if you learn how to do something on Ubuntu, that probably doesn't tell you how to to it on any other distro of Linux. So if you want to learn "Linux" it might be more productive to learn on a distro that uses more... normal packages, like Mint.
pdf version : http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
Once of the biggest things I had to accept when I was laid off the day after a major, money saving project was launched is this:

It's not your code, it's their code.

It's their responsibility to finish it, maintain it and extend it. If they want to bastardize it, that's on them. If they choose to not use it anymore, that's on them.

This has made voluntarily leaving companies much easier for me.

You did your job until you felt like not doing that job anymore. Pack up your stuff and do something more worthwhile.
The underlying justification/assumption is that commits are generally used to add a single conceptual piece regardless of which language it’s programmed in.

That is only true in some programming communities.

Essentially what you are selecting for is languages whose users seem to have digested some of the same software development memes that you have. Those users are going to be generally drawn to expressive languages, and will have very focused commits in those languages. So there is a correlation between expressiveness and small commits.

But it is only a correlation. For instance I've programmed in both Perl and Ruby. Of the two, Ruby is more expressive. (Universal opinion of everyone that I know who has programmed both.) However Perl is very "unhip", so people doing open source software development in Perl these days tend to be people who have been programming for some time, which means that they've absorbed a lot of good programming ideas. (Seriously, once you get past the reputation for "unmaintainable line noise", a lot of surprisingly good code is written in Perl.) Thus Perl outranks Ruby in this list.

What would be much more informative is the ratio of lines of code/commit between languages for users that have programmed in both languages. It would take more work to do an analysis on the principles of that analysis, and you'd reveal similar trends, but the analysis would be far more informative.
Discrimination hurts the under-represented group; positive discrimination for women hurts women.
No point of keeping stomping the swamp if cleaner and greener pastures are within your sight.

Even less need to fret over it.

Give your startup a fair warning to allow them enough time to take care of replacement. Offer them to be available on a consulting basis (at your asking hourly rate, subject to change, no negotiations) indefinitely.

This should do.
Love the idea, but it seems a bit rough around the edges right now. Some thoughts:

* It's unclear from your site what your target audience is. It feels almost like it's targeted more at developers than entrepreneurs. You should make it clearer that it's aimed at nondevelopers, so they don't get scared off.

* Why can't I see the interface without signing up? There aren't even any screenshots that I can find on the site. I want to know whether it's even worth my time to sign up.

* Why isn't there a plan cheaper than $99/month? The 30-day trial is nice but sometimes it takes longer than 30 days to get an idea off the ground. Perhaps a "Bare Bones" or "In Development" tier with only 5 registered users, 1000 calls/month, forum-based support, etc.

* What are calls/month? Would a nondeveloper even know what a "call" would be (seems like their initial though would be support call or something like that...)? Perhaps make this something more easy for a nondeveloper entrepreneur to understand (pageviews)?

* There seems to be a bug on the login/signup page (Chrome 25 on Windows, if that matters). Clicking "Join Us" causes the email field to immediately try to validate - meaning I get a big red alert up there when my attention should be on the pricing/plan information below. If I click the "sign me up" link below, it's apparent I don't even need that form - so why should it be being validated?
The thing I find funny about their example is that alot of it is easily achived by storyboards anyway. I find that people choose these solutions thinking it will help them with complex requierments or ideas they have where in fact the application should or can only be used for applications for simple ideas and requierments.
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I like using both. Sometimes a screen tab just isn't enough separation.
If the advertiser is not happy with Google's service, they are free to use another service.

"no one forces you to do X" argument cuts both ways?
> clearly intended to be used as weapons

Knives are horrible, horrible weapons.

These are clearly NOT intended to be used as weapons, as they are normal, everyday lock-back knives. Knives intended to be weapons, such as those modeled after the Krambit design, are fairly rare in public, especially among people who use knives (their shape and features make them much less useful). Your outrage is misplaced - we are not having a weapon talk.

Google not allowing ads for something that is legal is bullshit. Them not allowing ads for some people, but allowing them for others, over the same product, is evil.
Please open bug reports on http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/newticket or at least explain your issues here so I know what to fix. Also check in the TODO file if it's not already listed.

I'm currently working on text reflow when resizing terminology.
Many of the state laws are written as if the author had just watched several 1960s and 70s martial arts films and mistook them for documentaries about gang culture.

I'm not kidding. Read Massachusetts GL 269S10: http://www.knifeup.com/massachusetts-knife-law/
Yes, thank you for that 9th-grade science lesson.

The commenters in this thread are writing off the data because...? They decided the measure is bad? When the measure conforms to experience, it's probably worthwhile to look into it. This doesn't mean that correlation implies causation and yada yada 9th-grade science lesson.
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I don't think this is a reasonable demand for startups or even medium sized businesses.

Libraries cost time and money to produce, and if you are relying on free volunteers, development will either be slow or buggy and likely both.

I remember when I tried to look into a MySQL library last month. The first one I tried wouldn't even compile. The 2nd one threw a connection error not when I issued the dial function, but when I tried a query on a fake IP.

If you want Go to succeed, get Google to start funding it more or get used to having it grow organically like every other language.
No. Assault rifles require a federal license to purchase.
> You should check your double standards at the door if you want to be taken seriously.

You say that as though male-male, female-female, male-female, and female-male interactions are all identical; they're not. I really don't think that she's saying she's going to indiscriminately grope people based on "whether or not she feels they're on hugging terms".

As far as a double-standard goes, it's a fact of (Western) life that a man going around offering unwanted hugs to women is seen as significantly creepier than a woman who offers an unwanted hug.

You're more than welcome to try to change that! Next time you receive an unwanted hug from a woman at a tech conference, make as much of a fuss as you want about it. Report it to the conference organizers.
That would be 7x space efficiency. It was 3 times a week - not every 3 weeks.
Search 'assisted opening knives' and you won't see any ads about such knives EXCEPT for Amazon. You will also see "Shop for Assisted Opening Knives on Google" which, if you follow the link, will show you a nice assortment of about 14k assisted opening knives. This feels like an abuse of monopoly power.
That's not simple risk-aversion, that's the decreasing marginal utility of gains versus risk. If you need $1000 for something urgently, then $1000 at 100% probability is much more important than $2000 at 50%.
So is a regular (or assisted) folding knife like the ones Knife Depot sells, and they are just as fast to open with a little practice. Where do we draw the line between "convenient" and "illegal"? I don't want to see a UK-style ban on pointy objects here in the states.
Depends on how much was put in writing between you and him.
No one cares if you're poor. Once you get rich - suddenly half of the world appeared to become your "forgotten" partners claiming a pie.
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For me, tabs distract from the cleanliness of a black (or insert your own background color) terminal.
Angular Directives - The computer science of javascript
This is exactly the point I am making.
>JS is an outlier due to the fact that the language's position on the web has a lot of hacks using it.

Just like all those hacks using Fixed-format Fortran and Assembly?
Adding milk is more of a Western thing ;)

There are some Sri Lankans who do that due to the British influence and I imagine in India as well, but that's not the case with most of the tea cultures.

Also, if you're doing this for health reasons, I strongly recommend avoiding milk and switching to green tea instead:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/27/161895873/health...
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Thanks for taking a look, and for the feedback. Zipline does model transaction costs, both commissions and price impact of your own trading (slippage). The commissions and slippage models are pluggable, so you can use what is there or roll your own.

Quantopian does not have data for stock borrowing costs or availability, and Zipline's slippage/cost model does not account for them either. We'll find a way to get that data and plug the hole. The challenge has been finding a clean way to get it from the brokers, or finding an aggregator with a reasonable price (any advice?). In the meantime, we've been open about this limitation, and the zipline code is opensource, so I think/hope anyone who cares to know does probably know.

Quantopian is building our live trading environment now, so we don't yet have comparisons between the backtest results and real trading.

Regarding your point about the epoch, I'm not sure I entirely follow you. Part of the point of zipline's design is to allow easy swapping of datasources, mainly to allow the transition from backtesting to paper trading and then to real trading to be seamless. One algo code can run either historically or live. Adjustments from splits and mergers are back-projected, so that current day prices need no adjustment. Dividends are dealt with as announce, ex, and pay events, meaning we do not smooth out the over-night drops, instead we increment/decrement cash.

I'm in NYC regularly to host the NYC Algorithmic Trading meetup - it would be awesome to talk to you about these issues in person, please consider coming: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Algorithmic-Trading/
Saving a city the size of philly a million dollars doesn't sound like very much to me. How was the million saved? Is that accounting for the time and energy spent installing and maintaining these?
Sage advice. Thanks.
My point is that they aren't breaking the law- until a jury decides they are. They've entered into a consensual agreement for fee-for-work as contractor. Both agree. Both understand. Contractor has certain freedoms (work mostly from home on own schedule, etc.) and certain obligations (pay own taxes, etc).

But a jury decides that the agreement isn't right and that someone was actually an employee. And awards triple damages.

Yes, this can be abused by employers. But even when it's not- it can still give employers heartburn. Anyway, in OP's case it's moot because he was W-9.
That's too damn cool. $ 7,000,000 is surprisingly cheap since it was still in service.

I wonder if they kept the armor?
I agree with everything she wrote.

But please stop with the "Dude" this and "Dude" that.
What novel concept :P
PG investigated the same concept in more detail in this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
> not that that stops some men from gaily trampling over that line

Women don't step over the line? This is sexism.
I imagine this is going to be controversial:

> Listen, guys. You have to stop trying to pick up women at conferences. You just have to stop doing it. Again, context matters: you’re not just hanging out at a bar drinking with your buddies, chatting up the attractive woman sitting next to you. You’re at an industry function, talking to women who are your industry peers. They’re simply not there to be hit on – even in ways that might not be creepy in another setting

I think the problem here is that hitting on someone is sexual, not sexist. However, in an environment where the gender balance is so skewed, what is sexual almost unavoidably leads to a sexist atmosphere.

To put it another way, the problems of being hit on apply to gay men. It is not inextricably linked to male-over-female dynamic.

So I agree with the overall intent of the OP here. I think many reasonable guys would be defensive about acting like normal sexual creatures...however, it is important to not vilify sex, but to point out how it can lead to unintended consequences in this kind of environment.

So rather than saying that the "pickup game" is sexist, I would just say that it is inappropriate at an event where the participants are ostensibly there for professional reasons, no matter if you're male, female, gay or straight
That's why I think people should take a look at the next generation of Rebol http://www.red-lang.org/.

Fast as C, expressive as Lisp, and more readable than Ruby...well, that's the goals at least ;)
What do you mean by "Doesn't set 256 colors properly" ?
You can use fonts provided by fontconfig. Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYfQrlXlcM
tl;dr: Yes we try to document through READMEs, wikis etc.

Documentation is hard. not because there aren't enough good tools. there are plenty actually. Problem is: how to keep them updated with frequent changes in code, enhancements, business process changes etc. At very large companies with distributed teams across the globe (I work for these kind of companies), maintaining an updated documentation/readme is the challenge. Do you want to spend the time to update the doc. on every release, every ehnahcement, every production fix, short term/long term projects etc OR you want to deliver the product on tight deadlines. Now once a project is delivered, do you want to go back and updated READMEs ? Wait, I had a piece of code that I delivered in release x.y in New YOrk and wrote a nice README. A developer in London made some changes to it 6 months later but he never updated the documentation on that specific change or perhaps did not know where my README was or perhaps did not care enough. Now my README is outdated and pretty much useless. Very tough.
After being told he could bring a woman to climax with the way he ate dinner, he used "#Pyladies?" to solicit sex to anyone following that hashtag. How is that not completely inappropriate?
Well, then your point is to say that comparing two animals on the strength of their legs is ridiculous because both animals have legs. This is just a non sequitur. No one was confused about the fact that you can make a function call in C that does more than a variable assignment in Python.

We know a single line of code can do a lot of things in both languages. The question is what does the average line do. And this is important, because the occurrence of bugs is directly correlated with lines written rather than the complexity of those lines, and the same seems to be true for programmer productivity. So if 100 lines of Python does more than 100 lines of C, this is an important fact, as in first case more will have been accomplished for the same amount of work and the same debugging effort.
While this is true, I would take away from your post an almost opposing viewpoint: That it would be better to invest in more startups, rather than fewer, because of the difficulty in identifying which companies are "good" and "bad" ahead of time.

How do you resolve the conflict between trying to only invest in good companies (almost regardless of price) versus investing in as many startups as possible (so as to increase your likelihood of investing in a good startup since they are hard to find and identify)?
Ask HN: Provisional patents - worth it for a startup?
We're an early-stage enterprise software startup. Although I despite what patent trolls have done to IP, and the hindrance they can cause to innovation... we've still been thinking about filing a couple provisional patents around our technology.

Our rationale is that it provides us some protection if we do ever get sued. We were planning on doing a provisional with a little support from patent attorneys we know, and then do a conversion when we get funding.
The real issue with these blogs is that there is no way to get to the main website easily.
The famous last words.

Of course they are overwhelmed by the taks of keeping AdWords clean, just like Apple is overwhelmed by the task of timely approving apps for App Store, despite having more money than god and the number of AdWord ads submitted to Google is several orders of magnitude greater than number of Apps submitted to Apple.

Processes that involve humans are inherently non-scalable and determining whether an ad crosses the line of acceptable usage is a human task.

And humans have different opinions so there will never be "evenly applying guidelines", not for google ads, not for App Store apps. The only time 3 people have exactly the same opinion is when 2 of them are dead.
Using the restroom is not a crime
"The real question is, who sues a student for > $75,000 for breaching an employment agreement?"

I suspect that there is more going on here than meets the eye or has been disclosed exactly for that reason. [1] Notwithstanding the parent's comment about the games people play it's really hard to make a judgement (as with anything) w/o hearing the info from both sides.

Now had the OP not been using a throwaway account you could at least infer some legitimacy (however slim) because the poster would be known at least a bit. (Or maybe more than slim if the commenter was well known to the HN community). That is not the case here. This is not to say that the employer doesn't suck and that the case is frivolous but merely to point out a possible reality.

[1] I've been doing business for a long long time and have come in contact with many nutty people obviously but in general the limiting factor as has been pointed out is the amount of effort and money it takes to file and carry through with a law suit is not trivial. Would also add at this point is that it is typical to receive the "scary lawyer letter" prior to the filing of a lawsuit and the OP doesn't mention receiving that.
Really liking the website!
FWIW, I just found this article / paper discussing the very issue of knives and the 2nd Amendment.

http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/25/knives-and-the-second-amend...

The author(s) appear to take the position that knives are protected under the 2A and that many existing laws regulating knives are probably unconstitutional. At least from the bit I've had time to read so far...
Hey! My name's Annie and am looking for a technical partner(s) to help me get my app company off the ground and to apply to Y Combinator (deadline: March 29th). Interested? I really liked the look of your projects so far!
Is it possible at all for someone to form an EU company, without residing in EU? Looking for an easy online user experience in doing it.