skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your post. As you might guess, you are not the first one telling me this.

However, I got feedback from keyboardists who have absolutely no problem with this price as long as the app does what they really need when doing their job. Maybe there are many other people who would buy the app, if it was cheaper. But including that market would make professional users unhappy by the time since the further development of the app would have to take the feedback of all those people into account - and could not focus on what professionals need. The needs of keyboardists playing musicals or other live gigs are different to those playing keyboard at home. E.g. I will soon support multiple input keyboards and more complex controller routings.

Btw., the lite version runs forever as long as it is in the foreground. Only the background time is limited to 30 minutes. Select "Never turn off display" and you can use the app the full day and night in your studio.

All those alternatives you mentioned would be more expensive than this app, at least if one already have an iPad. Or they would require lots of time of configuration. Master keyboards with that kind of functions are very expensive - however, with this app you can buy a cheap one, or one which focuses more on great hammer action than complex midi functions.

Apps like AniMoog and iMS-20 are from big companies which use their apps to just be presented in the app store. Lots of the knowledge which was necessary for developing these synths was already in the company and only had to be ported to the iOS system. Don't expect that synths like these would pay of for that price; you really have to see it in the company's context.

However, I know that some customers don't care about that and feel uneasy to pay so much for an app. But I hope that I find the users who see this as a niche solution for their exact problem.
I disagree.

Take a military analogy - if you're not doing something "shippable" (ex: fighting), you are training to maintain or raise your potential for when you will have to get in action - or at least to maintain discipline.

I'm not into physics, but if I had to place my bets between a team of physicists who loves to redo the world with the help of beers during long lunch hours, and a team of physicist who is into laser cutting a table from an aluminum sheet, I'd place my bet on the latter.

You may not be "shipping" physics at the moment, but you are maintaining your knowledge, training doing something that might seem pointless but will help you keep your skills or even develop new ones (ain't there a place for physics to decide how to best laser cut aluminum? Can you write an equation for the precise minimal laser power required to cut, depending on the metal and its depth?)
Same. My LTE tests at 8mbps down in residential areas of Manhattan. In Texas I was regularly getting 28mbit down.
This is the implication only if you're looking to shove vitriol into everything.
The person who wrote the line of code is not necessarily the same as the person who owns the git repository.

You can trust "Person A", the owner of the repository, while not trusting "Person B", who wrote the "git clone (Person A's repository)" on their site.
I don't agree with you or Kevin Kelly. A hammer might be designed for hammering nails, but you can beat someone to death with a hammer or use it to build a house. A drone that is used to kill people can easily be turned to other purposes; consider the fact that satellite photography was once used primarily for espionage and military target identification, but has since become an invaluable tool for everything from mapping services to environmental observation. We wouldn't have been able to properly observe things like deforestation in the Amazon, the ozone hole, or shifting temperature gradients without this military-originated technology.

Kelly has interesting points to make about path-dependency, but I don't share his teleological viewpoint, though having said that I've only read extracts and essays by him rather than the full book.
Funny how I got downvoted for this.
I think this is hardcoded into the DB as a boolean. That's generally a bad idea.
:D
It's not that you don't trust opscode, it's that it's possible that someone could hack opscode's installer script...
But there were plenty of magazine and book listings that had very little in the way of machine code and that were mostly regular program code.

Don't forget that DATA statements just contain comma separated constants, and they were useful for a lot of stuff, not just POKEing a byte into memory. Manipulating these constants gave some people their first taste of 'reverse-engineering' level data. :-)

And the fact that people were typing in machine code, to directly manipulate the hardware, is pretty impressive. It's even more impressive if they went on to learn more about assembler in order to modify the code somehow. Instruction manuals for the machines included information about machine language programming.
When a currency is experiencing deflation it makes sense not to spend it. In that world, keeping my money under my mattress is the soundest investment strategy.

Why would I buy anything with my bitcoins if a week from now they're going to be work X% more? I'd just wait until then.
He's not the first to "discover" that.
Perhaps the real problem here is that, as noted by Ted Nelson back when the concept started to gain popularity, "[the computer clipboard is] just like a regular clipboard, except (a) you can't see it, (b) it holds only one object, (c) whatever you put there destroys the previous contents." The presented vulnerability hinges on (a), and, Glipper [1] notwithstanding, (a)-(c) is still the default behavior in every GUI I use.

[1] https://launchpad.net/glipper
Google complies with 88% of government data requests. Where's the outrage?
Heyzap adds option to pay game developers with Bitcoin
Meant to get someone to see the value of their $15,000 6 week course. But this is a great collection. I had no idea the amount of courses out there.
perl -pe is my usual replacement for stuff where I want a sed-like filter but PCRE syntax.
> having side effects and having lazy evaluation are distinct features though

Fair enough, but lazyness also plays nicer with things like `if` and `&&` that comput things lazily. (Without lazyness you need to add lots of wrapper anonymous functions).

Another thins is that, from a hystorical point of view, the only reason Haskell managed to be so pure in the first place was the lazyness. If your language is not lazy its very tempting to add sideeffects.
I was in Peru for a month at the beginning of the year and there were similar rumors abound regarding the closing of the famous Inka Trail in a few years. Not to lessen the story but sometimes I wonder if some of these are planted to encourage people to visit these place "before they're gone".

From what I saw, these popular tourist sites are fine as the government realizes the importance of their preservation to maintain the tourist industry. Every guide I talked to about the Inca Trail rumor said it will never happen. They close the trail every February (slowest season, dangerous too with the rain) for maintenance and also limit the number of groups on the paths at anytime by issuing a limited number of permits.

This isn't required in Nazca, as you fly over on a plane, so beyond the carbon impact of flying, I can't see it getting to a point where there are "too many tourists" that would damage the lines.
If you are sure it will keep going up at this pace, why not take everything you own, sell it, and invest in (or: speculate on) Bitcoin? That's not a rhetorical question.

Personally, given its volatility, it doesn't make much sense to me to hold much in Bitcoin outside of what you plan to spend relatively immediately. It could go up or down by 50% overnight - not a great store of value, either way.
1) I think Lessig makes a fair case that we should broaden our notion of corruption. Congress folk spend 30-70% of their time raising money. Roughly half of congress goes in to lobbying after their terms end, with an average pay hike of about 14x. You think that doesn't "corrupt" their loyalties? Okay, it's not Dhaka. But I don't live in Bangladesh, I live in America, and I have different expectations for one than the other. I don't buy your claim that calling grossly perverse incentives corruption somehow lumps Washington in with Moscow.

2) Most of what the government does is not big issues, it's small ones that actually have the biggest effect on our lives. How should airlines, financial firms, telecommunications, etc., be regulated? Most people have very vague ideas about what they want, and are strongly swayed by poll wording. Organizations being regulated, however, have very strong ideas about what should and shouldn't happen. In theory, they should be one voice of many; in practice, we get regulatory capture.
Correct, but how certain are you that it will continue to deflate? It has already once lost 90% of its value in a short period after a parabolic rise. Could it not do that again?
I turned that particular phrase based on Peter Norvig's old Harlequin-era talk.

I've also heard people say that "design patterns are feature requests", or "the kindest form of feature request", but bug or feature -- what's the difference?

/be
Are business plans DEAD?
The media reflects human desire. Elections are a scandal-driven celebrity-driven mess because that's what people watch. This is not unique to our time in human history either. But, like all things these days, media so much more efficient, centralized, and responsive.
We include a builtin _continuation module, which is the foundation for greenlets and stackless. PyPy compiles just fine if you don't include that though.
My idea was that if you're pasting a single line, then at least you can review the command you pasted before hitting enter.
USA Coolest President: 100s of Obama's Cool Pictures In One Shot
I agree.

Play is incredibly important. I only wanted to point out that 'awesome' alone may be insufficient as a hiring criterion.
The Suicide Catcher
Or maybe he thought it wasn't going to last? It's one of his recurring themes(/fears?) that it's all going to end.

> “I’ve got maybe 10 years to ladle the butter into a jar for my kids and then die”

I think it started with him saying his career would be over in a year. Last year when I saw him he said "two, maybe three years tops" before people would forget about him, and now I guess he feels a little more confident that he'll be sticking around for a while.
usually you can pick but most people pin their btc prices to their own local currency for convenience.
Which is why C and C++ under most state of the art compilers support link time optimization.
>If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that's awesome!” just once.

"You have 30 days to do something awesome"? Really?

Well, how about you stuffing your job offer you know where?

Professionals, including trained Computer Science and IT professionals, demand professional respect. They are there to solve specific needs. In our case code quality code, iterate, engineer and polish programs to completion, ensure a solid architecture for your offering, and all that.

Programming is not a parlor trick, and employees are not trained dogs to do back flips at will for your amusement.

The sense of self-entitlement of those BS managers always amuses me. As if your shitty startup is the be all end all, and people should be grateful and "amaze you" for having given them work. Like some decadent Roman emperor towards his circus act: "amuse me or die".

Not to mention that amazing some exec with something "awesome", as everybody has witnessed at some point, can be miles away from shipping solid code and solving the company's real problems keeping it from sinking.
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just like they could replace a binary, backdoor the Makefile or hide something bad deep in the repo. And of course their hash of their signing key for their apt repo and any shasums are provided on the same webserver.
It may not kill them outright, some scientists think it affects their nervous systems and especially their navigation. They go out to forage for nectar but do not return.
I'm a huge fan of Watsi, but looking over their transparency document has me
worried. The funds for 47% of funded treatments haven't made it to their medical
partners. On average, the unsent funds have been waiting for 43 days, with the longest wait being 160 days (!!). I'd love if someone from Watsi could explain why it takes so long to send funds to medical partners after successful funding.

Funded treatments: 261
Treatments waiting for funds to transfer: 124
Average wait for funds: 43 days

Data and script for calculations can be found here: https://gist.github.com/kyleconroy/5332776
There's an idea taught by marxist academics that being white means living life on "easy mode"[1]. A lot of people on hacker news believe it because there is a high level of average education on HN.

Marxist Academics believe x.
Hacker news readers are intelligent.
Being intelligent means believing in x.

I see what you did there...
TV Is Changing And It's Exciting
Does anyone have a good timeline for the release/availability of the next iteration of Intel CPU's?

"Mobile" as much or more so than "desktop/server".

At this time of year, this factor is a major point for me in making a decision about when and what to purchase.
Yeah this is really silly. But it was obvious from the get-to when the writer didn't understand the "public" is "public key"
I suspect this comment is at least partially directed at me. Did you read the paper? Excluding some O(1) operations, the goal of the second benchmark is this:

double s = 0;
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) s += pow(a[i]-b[i],2);
return s;

But they did not use this C code. The C code they used made 3 calls to the BLAS library. The end result is that the C code is doing something equivalent to this:

double x=0, y=0, z=0;
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) x += a[i]*a[i];
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) y += a[i]*b[i];
for(int i=0; i<n; i++) z += b[i]*b[i];
return x - 2*y + z;

While this does return the same result (assuming infinite precision arithmetic) it is obviously not the way anybody would do it, since it's doing 3 times the work. Even worse, because their code is calling into the BLAS library for each loop, the compiler is explicitly prevented from optimizing the three loops and memory accesses by combining them into one. Note that the Haskell code is doing the efficient single loop. So yes, it is poorly written code.
FB is in direct competition with Google. So Google has to respond. If they ban it, then everyone will fork the source and it'll be the end of Android as we know it. If FB is successful (which I have serious doubts) then, I suspect the same thing will happen. Everyone will fork and "brand" their version.

And since Android is already Google branded their only choice is to integrate Google +. Google + isn't exactly a runaway success now.

Now that FB has changed the rules.... if I was Verizon I'd be thinking "why the hell am I giving Google ad revenue"?

Google is gonna get squeezed. And the funny thing is, they did it to themselves.
Well, yes. Nobody is going to write a post titled "C beats Ruby" with reasonable implementations of both. If you make a post in the other direction, it's often the case that you did something horribly wrong.
Brilliant catch there.

And adding in a quote I heard recently supposedly from a Navy SEAL

Under pressure you don't rise to the occassion, you sink
to the level of your training.

As a rough rule bet on the girl with a large number of working github repos - she is used to shipping working code
Or Bell, CA!

Or Detroit, Chicago...

... and those are just some obvious ones.
The point, especially in a non-SSL environment, is not that you're not trusting Opscode or Homebrew. It's that a malicious attacker has a vector, because he knows people will be doing something with that URL.

If I own Opscode and I'm smart, I plant something like this on that URL:

if request.user_agent.startswith("Curl or wget or..."):
return deliver_malicious_script(request)
return deliver_everything_is_fine_script(request)

Nearly everybody's workflow for "checking" this is putting the URL in your bar, looking at it, then jumping over to terminal and running it. (Sounds suspiciously like what you just described.) I just owned that with three lines of effort.

We can do this dance all day where people point out specifics, or we can all just recognize it's a bad idea (a lot of people are saying it's a bad idea; might be worth considering it's a bad idea).
I haven't looked at this much (not much of a Python user these days) but presumably you can still multithread your Go code using Go semantics regardless of this restriction. The Go code you call from Python should be able to create goroutines as needed which then report back to the main Go thread as needed, as long as they follow the Go conventions about pointer ownership (channel receiver owns the memory sent to it).

Of course it would be nicer if the main Go thread didn't lock out the Python caller from running (which it seems to do), but there should still be lots of concurrency available on the Go side.
We plan to open source our editor but it's up to the client (who is amenable, just hasn't gone through procedure). Our editor is far more functional, 508 compliant, will be IE8 compatible (argh), and weighs in at about 800loc.

I wrote it rather than use something off the shelf because none of the popular choices have well-behaved UIs.
Yeah, I am a bit worried by the 30 days thing too, but the idea I like - I would want myself to be doing something awesome every quarter say.

Milestones matter
I don't know much data OP wants to backup, but using Paperbak you can backup 250MB to 1.5GB per ream of paper. That gets out of hand real fast.

It does remind me of how PGP used to be exported out of the US, due to government regulations: http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/
Torment makes Kickstarter History with 4.3 million Haul
To be fair though, the games have changed in the Post-Halo world dramatically. The original Rainbow Six was actually our main LAN party game because it was so brutal, slow and tactical. We literally split up teams into different parts of the house with whiteboards to map out stuff. It was awesome.
People entering a topic are always going to have "meta" questions. One of their first efforts may be establishing a proper understanding of context.

If you want to be a friendly and encouraging community, help them out. Don't chase them off; you've just lost a potential member.

That said, better to have a very good, defining resource, rather than to be constantly re-answering (in full text, as opposed to citation) the same question.

A few iterations of Q/A on the topic should produce a sufficient answer -- "organically", form someone with the time, knowledge, and communication skills -- to subsequently serve as such. No need necessarily to force an external context for such information/resources. Not when it's so easy to "deep link" to them in situ.
Pretty decent list of links. However, I feel the importance of SQL has been completely downplayed...there are more hadoop-oriented links than there are SQL. Data retrieval and manipulation is where a data scientist will spend 95% of her time, and SQL is still more ubiquitous by far.
strictly speaking, it is not required: you can build a giant python binary with all the extensions you need, though it can be quite a bit of work to do so.

Granted, the vast majority of users use the loadable module approach.
it is almost always the merchant that 'eats' the loss.

edit: the credit card companies and merchant banks have the ability to 'reach back' for a number of months.
He said a 'different niche'.

But I think you a very valid question of if (or when) total computer game playtime will be (already is) so dominated by mobile and browser-based games that PCs and consoles are the actual niches.

If you look at all the major studios that have been wading into mobile and social, it's pretty clear the industry has been thinking about this for a long time now.
More testing:

* On Chromium 25 and Chrome 26 the first two issues do not exist.

* More playing with FF20 and it seems this is actually tied to CTRL+B, not any other shortcut. At least initially, clicking the "Bold" button also has no effect. Possible explanation: In FF CTRL+B opens the Bookmarks pane by default, in practice certain focus combinations do open this pane. This explanation would seem to require the Bold widget to be generating a keypress under the hood, though.

* The codes issue is tricky, but one way to see an example on Chrome/chromium browsers is:

1. refresh page
2. select pre-existing "Go ahead..." text
3. type "this is bold and this is not"
4. select "this is bold" and make it bold
5. place cursor at start of " and this is not"
6. type "so is this", text is bold
7. hit enter and type "but this isn't", it isn't bold

The original issue I saw was similar, but related to numbered bullet lists. To reproduce the third issue on FF follow the same steps, except a) one must first mash about on CTRL+B and/or the Bold button until they start working, then follow same steps. Result: you get the inverse, text in 6 is not bold, and text in 7 is.

Sorry, don't have domain knowledge about keybinding.
Mild overstatements aside, I completely agree with the sentiment here, and would have made almost exactly the same mild overstatements myself, had I thought of them first. :)
Check out http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
Notice that the data is from surveys or interviews.
If browsers were pure document viewers, I think it's much more likely that they would simply have only a maintainer or two, and most developers currently maintaining browsers would be doing more valuable and interesting work, like developing application platforms.

And that couple of maintainers would probably still have more important things to fix than what's essentially a curious but not really problematic bug.
http://www.gobolinux.org/

unfortunately it seems to be dead.
When some of the journals are revealed to consist of just robot editors and reviewers as well, the circle is finally closed.
already posted several times today...
As explained above, this will help only against the first line of the attack (until the first newline character). The subsequent lines will be executed.

A better solution would be to paste the text in to an editor.
Is fixing bugs awesome? Because a guy who can fix bugs for 30 days straight is the most valuable engineer in the building, but using this rubric, he'd be fired, because I don't think anyone considers fixing bugs awesome. I wouldn't want to work somewhere where everyone is rushing to impress the boss with "awesome" features, when the rest of the product isn't getting love.
If you want to get everything done, leave an introvert alone
But why would anyone buying a "FB phone" remove Home? I mean what's the point of buying a Home phone in the first place?
Exactly. Travis CI uses this to let you ssh into your build VM.
Merely because a problem can't be completely solved doesn't mean efforts to mitigate it are futile.
Let me know if you do; I'm certainly interested.
Something I was just reminded of. Now that Disney owns StarWars, I wonder what will happen to fan videos? Will they pursue them aggressively?
Sooooooooo glad EO Wilson did not get calculus at school either. Coursera would have helped with the embarrassing sitting with students bit.
Yes, there's a pretty fine intersection between stuff that is "awesome" and stuff that is actually hard, especially if you are pitching to non technical types.

Carefully design a distributed system so that it handles all of the one-in-a-million concurrency edge cases correctly , logs exceptions properly and has proper tests and documentation; hard but not "awesome".

Creating an HTML page and filling it up with jquery plugins , "totally rad dude!"
No shit, every single link there is an affiliate link.