skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, but "real American" serves the opposite purpose: the whip the ignorant plebes into a frenzy of tribal pride in order to justify policies that serve the elite.

Of course, the question, and the issue of where "real American" comes from is: which elite? "Real American" talk is when the capitalist class talks to the blue-collar working class and demonizes the white-collar working class, the intelligentsia, the professional working class, academia, the culture industry, and any petite bourgeoisie associated with the aforementioned.
Why would you ever think entities that provide extensively tested skinner boxes designed to provoke compulsive behavior and extract money are making decisions based on actual care for their customers?
...and how did the OP know what our proper ambitions are? Read it all as an estimation of human nature, not a deconstruction of the author.
If the world was just a little bit different, this would be upvoted instead of downvoted. It'd be nice if someone could convince Iain to be cryopreserved, and give him that small but non-zero chance of being revived and one day seeing a civilization better than his Culture.
Hang on this is a terrible list, it's very very old.
Ruby for Rails was a good book back in the day but it's for Rails 2 I would never recommend you buy it now.
The performance of the current online casino is also an important part of the equation, if it fails then going to the US probably wont be much more successful. So I think it's a gamble based on current performance and the potential of expanding to other territories.

Online gambling in the US is a much tougher nut from what I've read.
You often don't need MA/MS to get a PhD. Many PhD programs in the US grant them as a matter of course "along the way" during PhD programs, with them really not mattering so much and students obviously applying to the program without the Master's under their belts already.
From what I can find, this is the author's company: http://openfi.re/

"A crowdfunding platform for long-term, socially valuable projects."

Perhaps the author does not mean iterator in a derogatory way? Obviously, his own company is an iteration on the existing crowdfunding wave.
Is this an ad for certifications? Because they totally don't list what I thought they were going to list: actually being competent at creating something.
Wowsers.

Whereas I've sent money between accounts in all sorts of countries for next to nothing. I think whoever organised your group buy screwed up, badly. And by the sounds of it so did you.
MonoTouch binding for libspotify (github)
Not tumbling, but spiralling
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The easy way?

If it were easy, everyone would have hundreds of thousands of Youtube subscribers and more video views than One Direction.

edit: OK, so his one direction stat is nonsense. It's still not easy.
That sort of model doesn't sit well with me, sure. The problem is when you introduce real money gambling you've amped the entire thing up and it becomes a lot easier for individuals to damage themselves more, and faster.
Not true. Gibraltar companies operate under different conditions. For example, following a big gamble, UK bookmakers paid out but their Gibraltar-based counterpart did not:

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/barney-curley-be...

It took legal action to get them to eventually pay out; the circumstances were murky and did not reflect well on the Gibraltar authorities. This is why I said they weren't customer friendly!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandcon...
Of all of his books I too have a soft spot for Espedair Street - Glasgow, Weird, and that utterly wonderful opening.
I would modify Auctions to read: Online auctions still have more potential than most people realize.
Top Pixel Art Tutorials - for Beginners
shows how to create simple pixel art for games etc
I remember that good Christmas where Rage Against The Machine became no1 in 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/20/rage-against-mac... That was a good Christmas.
Speculation of course is that this is the foreshadowing the arrival of Kindle Phone.

A more intriguing possibility is that Amazon is setting stage for its next move in Platform Wars. Between his gigs at Microsoft & Amazon, Kindel was an advisor to the Buddy mobile cloud platform. (See http://www.geekwire.com/2011/exmicrosoft-mobile-exec-charlie... ) Many other startups (such as parse.com, ubran airship) are attempting to build this layer, most of them built right on top of Amazon AWS, but it is hard to imagine such a product going mass-market amongst developers without the trust of a brand such as Amazon.

Amazon is in great position for this. AWS is probably the best-regarded major cloud platform amongst developers, in contrast to Apple's trouble in wooing developers to use its cloud platform (
http://rms2.tumblr.com/post/46505165521/the-gathering-storm-... .) While Google has enormous cloud resources, they are mostly there to serve Google's own purposes, not to mention its "spring cleaning" practices which make the developers less than comfortable. This leaves nice space for a flanking campaign by Amazon: to create a universal mobile cloud services API that works well across all platforms.

If true, this could move the basis of competition away from the device and toward the cloud (and in Amazon's favor) and may lead to the establishment of a third (and thus different) mobile platform beyond iOS and Android. Note that this approach mirrors Amazon's Kindle consumer strategy: to sell their own hardware, but also to proliferate their platform on all other devices.

Interesting times to come...
Little Big Details: the 404 page is a complete example of the service
I've heard a similar story before - at least the using loans to buy assets, and using those to get more loans bit. I can't remember who, but I think it was someone who is pretty famous (and wealthy) now.

I don't disagree with your reasoning, but I think your result is completely off the bat. The thing is sometimes you have to take big risks to get big rewards, and if you play it with enough of an edge you can win. Whether or not you think it is unethical or not right, in reality I think this is how a lot of businesses are actually run.
Comparing Yammer Clients for the Mac
> Notoriety and because he can? Same reasons many hackers do what they do.

The difference is: if you are building a company you must sustain it in the medium/long term. Zynga/Groupon were hits but see where they are now.

I see this as a way to act if you are a company like Color, only thinking on an acquisition.
I was thinking that as well, but it's actually the opposite. Germany experienced hyperinflation, where the value of the Mark decreased rapidly. This is the currency increasing in value, so "hyperdeflation" I guess.
What are your plans for new Macs that don't have flash?
Draggabilly, Drag & Drop everything.
There isn't nearly enough wantonly optimistic sci-fi about. Banks does it so well. This is sad. His vision of the Culture reminds us what we're all struggling for.
Stop friends' Facebook apps accessing your private info
Ok fine, fraud facilitation then. Also a lucrative segment.
How to Optimize Your Profile to POP for LinkedIn’s New Search
You would be a fool to think they're going to cost the same in 3-5 years what they cost now.
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ngTranslate - Translations in your AngularJS app
Hey everyone!

A few days ago I started developing a module for angular.js apps to translate the app content's. There are still a lot of things to do, to make this module uberspectacular, but you can already use it in your apps.

After publishing this module the first time, it turned out that there are already similar modules on the web (which I didn't know of). I took a look at them and each is following a different approach. Nevertheless, I kept developing my module since its following another approach and which currently fits to my needs.

It'd be great if some of you guys find this interesting and want to help out :) Pull requests are very welcome!

Cheers!
It's unfortunate that in 2013, we're still developing protocols and formats that have weird Unicode support. Cap'n Proto only seems to support Modified UTF-8, which doesn't include NULL bytes[1]. Though I believe support for full UTF-8 would be a trivial change, requiring no changes to code.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8
The 10X figure is true. My study is 30 years of working with a wide variety of people in startup environments. Adding some people makes a project later. Others can manage a whole project alone (if they are LEFT alone).
I think your email address points to the wrong domain? s/com/co
“What advice do you have for the OP that will help him.”

I will give him the same advice that others have suggested. Namely, apply for jobs with large enterprises and governmental agencies. Disclose your handicap before going to the first interview, don't allow for phone interviews. Ideally, your first interviews would be done over IM or email.

Don't feel you need to change anything about yourself before applying for jobs. Work on your portfolio, tidy up your Github profile, those should do the talking for you. Working on confidence in speaking and possible speech therapy are endeavors that you should want to pursue separate from your job search.

“I acknowledge that he's got a challenge ahead, but I don't think that's a very good reason to lay down and give up.”

I agree.
Add "curate" for me please.
Site seems to be down, Google cache (apparently without images, sadly) here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JzPIOfS...
I thought everyone knew that the expected value of a start-up is positive but small?
LOL content free post. It does bring up the interesting question of what is the cheapest way to transfer money internationally. Obviously my example won't set any (good) records. Neither side were willing to use paypal so that's off the table (does paypal even do business in .ch?). Silver coins in a postage envelope maybe? A fat stack of Postal IRC (international reply coupons)? I think its going to be pretty hard to transfer money cheaper than "basically free" like BTC.
SO your company must have no trouble finding local people? Because fun is your driving hiring metric?
Seems like the site is down, for privacy or some other reason. Here's a statement from Banks:

http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-fr...
He has lived a life that almost all of the centenarians could only dream of. Age is not relevant. Not everybody has the luxury to know when the time has come...
You have clearly not tried any number of tele-worker suites out there. I use/develop Teamspace and its absolutely capable of all of that.
I didn't believe this guy was for real before reading the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Day

I guess even I'm still too much of a perfectionist. Inspiring.
We've had the opposite experience.

Akamai's NetStorage is a pain in the ass to work with vs S3. Akamai's CDN replicates much slower than Cloudfront (we've seen distribution/caching complete in seconds, vs upwards of hours for Akamai).

Yes, the AWS GUI is......difficult sometimes. We don't pay them because of their GUI. We pay them because their replication of our content is quick.
Sonic Creator, create your own animated  loader.
This is actually a good idea you should also add filters (like "Only books from paul Graham on Amazon") and a search box.

And for the UI... well hackernews style I guess.
I'm guessing it's aimed more at the embedded/system programming crowd. Visual Studio is a PITA when you aren't targetting Win32. Right now we use eclipse which has pretty substandard C++ support.
>1. Six Sigma, $116,987

Sorry, I'll be in the bathroom, taking a barfing break.

But then again I don't care.
S3 costs are internal costs within their datacenter; Cloudfront costs start to assume costs possibly outside of their control (i.e. vendors they have to pay for their edge locations).
Can't wait for another price decline in S3 (or even Glacier).
Damn, thanks for the heads up!
Continuous Integration, any of a number of source control/automated build systems that keep the code working at all times over multiple developers/sites.
I'm under the impression that an old version is an example app included with Arc.
>Net result: the sales doubled.

Doubled? How? Vague. I think he's attributing his success to the wrong things.
Good idea.

I'd be interested in the same for web apps / web services.
OTOH, it's not like iOS is a monolithic thing, and people just work on the new version of iOS as a general concept. It's hundreds of little pieces that all work together. If a few of the new ambitious parts are behind schedule, then those particular teams may need to have more people added to them. But there's probably some guy working on the updated Calculator app that think iOS 7 is going just fine from where he sits.
So you believe a company can charge $99 for a yearly service and then say "by the way, we may increase prices in 30 days if we decide to do so." So what happens to the $99 I paid?

They breached the contract by charging the additional fees. A company can't change the terms and say "whoops, that plan didn't work better start charging for small orders."
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Sure, the means are different, but the end result of printing tons of money is loss of value, same as outright theft.

Only difference is scale: theft from depositors vs. theft from all those holding the inflated currency.
According to Ian Rankin: "Typical of Iain to propose marriage to his partner Adele with the words 'Will you do me the honour of becoming my widow?"

Makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time, like so much of his work.
At the outbreak of the World War, Wittgenstein left Cambridge to serve as a soldier in the enemy's army. Attitudes were different in the late 1920's than in the immediate wake of the war.
Images don't seem to be cached indeed. They never work in a cached article, but also when trying to google for "cache:http://inertiawar.com/microcode/fig-1-1.png " it says they're not cached.

Edit: HN bug? The double-quote sign behind the URL in this post disappears when I don't put a space in between.
A new one of these shows up on hacker news once a week, but this is the best one yet.
Well, that's just it. A native-AAVE speaker will use SE when speaking to me, even if their preferred dialect at home is AAVE, so I don't get exposed to it. Think of this reporter [0].

However, I'm sure he's an intelligent men, and I'm sure when speaking informally he'll fall back to AAVE. What I'd love to see is someone at, say, PhD Math or Physics level speaking in AAVE, preferably about that subject.

I'm studying a bit of Arabic, and I see parallels. In Arabic, there's the formal register, called Modern Standard Arabic. This is the dialect used in the Quran and printed in newspapers and such. However, people don't routinely speak in this register -- they speak in their local Gulf or Levantine or Egyptian dialects, which are pretty different from each other and from MSA. The pronunciation of letters is different, the vocabulary is different, hell, in Egyptian the question word goes at the end of the sentence whereas in other dialects it goes at the beginning.

They, too, think of their local dialects as "wrong" or "beneath" MSA, even though it's the native tongue of themselves and everyone around them, and they have to study for years to be comfortable with this somewhat artificial MSA dialect.

It's not quite as regimented in English, because the dialects are more similar, and because no one natively speaks the formal register, but the principles are the same.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1dHabjH3k
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3dk6KAvQM&t=4m31s
Ah, what a good idea! Thanks.
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More power to him. He's pretty straightforward about it and probably has unique perspectives on life which the other faculty are lacking. I might have enjoyed my own PhD work more if I had been one of his graduate students instead.
IntelliJ Idea does not use more than 1/30 of my laptop memory with a huge project open. Constant freezing? This must have been a bug, because I'm using it for 2 years now, and no freezing at all, and autocomplete / navigation / find-usages are crazy fast. It gets a little sluggish only when I switch branches and it has to reindex hundred megabytes of jars. Well, but how often you do it...

BTW: Comparing it to Qt creator is very unfair, because Qt creator does not have half of the features included in IntelliJ. E.g. refactoring / inspections / full type-aware error highlighting (not just syntax checking).
Thanks for your feedback! I will look into implementing filters and search!
I would donate money to a "Cryo-freeze Iain Banks" fund - though I'm sure he has more than enough funds himself.
The whole economy has been oriented to advantage capital-gains over revenues, profits, and dividends. Sorry.
340 MB is heavy? What are you coding on? A netbook?

BTW: measuring memory usage on a Hello world project is pointless. You can't extrapolate this value to memory usage on large projects. Most of this memory is just code of the IDE and plugins, which does not depend on the project size. I work on some really huge projects in IntelliJ Idea, sometimes 3 or more at the same time and it never needed more than 512 MB of heap, which is pretty impressive result, considering how much it actually does (all the inspections / type checking / background compilation / autocomplete come at some price in memory usage; most of the C++ editors you mentioned don't support them to such extent, or sometimes at all).
I read Consider Phlebas in one go during a day off between finishing my final year project at Uni and starting revising for my finals - would have been May '88.

Left a bit of an impression on me....
> The point of declarative programming is to declare what you want done. The runtime may turn it into greatness or crap, that's not really relevant.

I didn't say the quality of the runtime was relevant. The point is that the runtime is free to achieve the goal you give it in any way it feels fit. In Python, the runtime isn't; it needs to ensure specific runtime guarantees.

>> In your example, if you replace max() with a function that prints something, you'll see it's executed for each value in 'table', which is extremely inefficient.

> It's also not relevant and an implementation detail, with a known max() on a known type the implementation would be free to lift the computation out since this expression doesn't have side-effects.

No, it can't. The Python reference specifies the semantics of generator expressions, and it says "Only the outermost for-expression is evaluated immediately, the other expressions are deferred until the generator is run"[1].

A implementation that lifted the computation would not be implementing Python, but a derivative language.

Furthermore, your example didn't specify neither the type of neither 'table' nor 'max', so I still think it's deceptive.

> The runtime can know that all types and functions involved are their native side-effect-less versions and is free to optimize them if it wishes, that it does not is irrelevant.

See above. According to the language spec, it can't.

[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/#the-details
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The presentation in pdf http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2012/slides/MartinThompson... for off-line viewing.
Damn, this sounds like a Klatskin tumor, a "rare" cancer. My father hat that kind of tumor as well. He died within 8 weeks of first developing jaundice.

Let's stop trying to make people click on cheery-colored buttons and do something about this fucking disease instead.
A bunch of my enterprise clients seem to be fairly familiar and they seem to all have come through the personal use route.

If the target market is enterprise, companies like Box compete there and supposedly have more controls. That said, Box does not have filesystem integration, the last time I checked.
I would really like to know what elements made it a terrible decision? Is the whole library broken? Or just some parts of it?
Neat! I'm surprised to see no affiliate links. Seems like an obvious way to cover expenses.
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Then there's Ed Fredkin, who joined MIT as a full professor with no degree.
I guess it quite depends on the type of assets. On our bill in the largest region, requests are about 77% of the total price. Motivates me to look into combining assets at some point :). (base64 encoding images in CSS etc).
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Then you started off with the wrong email. You said "I've got a fix and a test and now I need a reviewer to mark the ticket as RFC. Please take a look if you're familiar with this area of Django."

That added nothing new, because anyone who would review it has already been informed. That's what the reply told you. They have no idea who you are, or what you know about the process, or even that you want to follow the process.

You then followed up with "How else am I supposed to find someone to review my patch? I got no response on IRC." That does give the sense that you're exasperated. That doesn't help them understand that you want to work with them.

Also, your first email has the wrong tone, in several ways.

You wrote that you "need a reviewer to mark the ticket as RFC". That is a presumptive view, because it assumes that a reviewer will mark the ticket as RFC. The reviewer might say that it needs many changes, and pass it back to you for continued development.

Second, the line "Please take a look if you're familiar with this area of Django." is not helpful to the person reading the email. How does someone know if they are familiar with that area without actually going to the bug? They have to take a look. Which means that anyone who might review it will have to take a look, no matter if they are familiar with it or not.

My belief is that if you had asked a question about the process, rather than the patch, and explained how you were trying to work within the existing process, then you would have gotten a more useful answer. For example:

"I've just contributed my first patch to Trac. Now I'm waiting for a reviewer. I asked for one on IRC but got no answer after several hours. The contribute FAQ suggests asking here as well. Can someone here review <url> for me?"

That's gentler than the email you first sent. It would have probably gotten an answer like what the FAQ says:

Remember, "it’s not personal. Django is entirely developed by volunteers (even the core devs), and sometimes folks just don’t have time."

Instead of developing a patch, what about reviewing the patches that others have submitted? Do this enough times and someone will likely reciprocate.
I cannot be the only one thinking "WTF is Litecoin?"

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin

I wonder if there is any value in seeding another XXXXXcoin based on one of these algorithms. Have 2+ instances of the same network...
The BBC article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22015175) states that he may undergo chemo once his jaundice clears up, so it doesn't seem like he's planning to just go entirely quietly, but the reality is that he has to make a tradeoff between possibly making his last months or year (or hopefully a bit more, if we're lucky) total agony to extend it by what is unlikely to be more than months, or try to be comfortable for as long as possible.

Cancer treatments is still ridiculously primitive, unfortunately, largely boiling down to doing lots of damage while trying to keep the patient alive longer than the cancer.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm newbie here. Is it OK to use affiliate links on projects like this?
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