skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I immediately lost all context of key and mode trying to parse the examples. Also, the grouping symbol looks like an arrow pointing backwards in time.
license drivers, not medallions. Non-transferable right to operate. - license taxis with regular inspections - use technology to track cabs - have the city run a centralized, mostly web-and-touchtone based dispatch system

Which is exactly the model within which Uber et al operate: livery drivers and webapps.
I suspect they were trying to make the data look reasonably nice for project creators. Your (not incorrect) solution has the downside of ever-increasing numbers quickly reaching into the millions or billions, while their solution has numbers no larger than the number of backers on a project (unlikely to be more than tens of thousands).

They also save the storage cost of going to a BIGINT, but I doubt that was a major factor.
> If real markets could get 1 hour behind in transaction processing because of a spike in volume it would be the end of capitalism as we know it.

The Facebook IPO was pretty damn similar and didn't end capitalism as we know it :)
Of course not, but every good sysadmin knows to take backups periodically, right?
That's incorrect, even for reads the app can do something else at the same time while the disk read is being performed. That's what async I/O is all about.
Random thought: I would really love to see one of these with ESATA.

Also, they are saying that it will retail for $109 after the fundraising is over. For that amount of money, I'd rather have several RPi's instead.
Actually when I used the word "trust" I was thinking of countries with their own currency that have unstable governments and/or economies. So imagine country X exists in South America and you have 20 country X dollars. A week ago one country X dollar was worth 2 US dollars. But today country X decided to introduce into circulation hundreds of trillions of dollars in new currency to deal with their massive debts and it completely devalues your 20 country X dollars.

Or today there is a communist coup in country X and the new regime declares the old currency worthless.

That's what I meant by "trust."
> binary compatibility with C and C++ libraries and tools
>(they say that tail recursion doesn't let you use the C
> calling conventions that these tools and libraries expect
> you to use)

I've read variations of this comment about Rust C++ compatibility a few times, but haven't managed to find a source. Any references you could point me to?
... or forces successful devs to sell.
"Sell on news."
My first thought looking at the sample notation was that this would be hard to keep legible in hand-written music. It seems like it doesn't really do much to improve the legibility of notation while it does force the use of their software.
The 4th amendment does not restrain the government from looking at any information you don't want them to look at. It restraints them from personally harassing you to get information without a warrant. Once the information is out of your hands, you can imagine laws that will protect that information so it is used only according to your expectations, but the 4th amendment isn't the mechanism for that.
>the end of capitalism as we know it.

>I hope a more able exchange arrives soon.

I hope for both of those things!
So you're saying phone calls are only private because of a misguided adherence to tradition?
True, but couldn't you pretty easily derive the logical ID via some sort of pagination scheme? That is, when you really want to see it at all. It seems like this would be a pretty low cost query as long as you set your indices up properly, and I'm assuming for the hundred-thousand backer projects you'll never need to display every backer in order.

Another slight concern is how big this project_backers table would get, since it's a combination. Let's assume every project has an average of 10k backers and there are about 100k projects. That makes 1B relationships, with O 128 bits per row (plus whatever associated data). 16 GB. Not too bad for such an important relationship. Even with 100x growth and no garbage collection or archiving, you could fit it on (a couple of) flash disks for the foreseeable future. I don't know if MySQL supports delta encoding but that would also probably make the table cheaper to store.
What does fastcc do when there are more arguments than registers?

These cases are the reason for Pascal-convention according to Walton. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-January/001...
Top coders have had agents since at least the late 80s - an outfit called Marjaq, iirc, represented a stable of exceptional programmers in London.
A look at literally every single conventional weapon in North Korea's arsenal
You miss the point, it is a brand building piece for Kevin Scott. The three messages that piece wants you to come away with are : Kevin Scott saw a huge problem, Kevin Scott 'did what it took' to get the Company aligned on a solution, and Kevin Scott is the reason LinkedIn's corporate value doubled.

I'm not being snarky here, go back and re-read this piece and dissect it. As to why this piece is out there? Speculating there is fun (not really productive, but fun). The other thing I just read was the piece about engineers having their own agents [1]. If I were Kevin's agent this is the kind of press piece I would try to get published so I could walk into my next negotiation with "Hey, look at what we're talking about here, this isn't your average developer this guy moves mountains!"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5527610
that reminds me of my 5 year old little poem http://information-man.com/googles-personal_healthcare_gmail...
Pitch is encoded by location on the staff, and also by the shape of the glyph. Isn't redundancy necessarily bad in any notation?
I completely support anyone who wants to invent new notations for things. It's fun. But I'd just like to note that if logical, regular notation was necessarily better, we'd all be speaking Lojban and programming in Scheme. Also, I suspect a conventional eighth note would be easier to make out in a dim concert hall...
A vast number of major governments have made it illegal to trade in, for example, heroin. Just making something illegal doesn't necessarily stop trade.
There's also the fissile material involved, but I couldnt tell you what proportion of the energy is disappated through heat and what proportion is dissapated in light.

Everyone has seen the videos of the atomic bomb going off - that massive release of heat and energy that literally vaporizes mass that is close to the epicenter. Now imagine that reaction in space where the heat can't be disappated through atmosphere, water, or earth. All of that energy has to go somewhere, so it's all stored in whatever fissile material is left after the bomb goes off and dissapated through light and radiation.

I really wish I had some numbers for how hot that remaining material would get - even thinking about all the heat released in an atomic bomb concentrated into such a small amount of mass absolutely boggles the mind.
Divining that a price that is rising in a superexponential manner will be going down sometime soon is one of the least fooling things one can do when looking at a graph.
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because microsoft would love for that google box in the upper right to turn into a bing box.
I don't understand what C, below and above mean. Making the bass and treble clef notes the same seems like a win. Other than that the traditional notes seem pretty easy to read.
Self-driving taxis will put themselves out of business once they either a) crash, killing/injuring someone, b) are regularly used for illegal activities, or c) deliver someone into a dangerous situation.

If that doesn't happen, the existing taxi industry will surely get into the game to make one of those happen, tout-de-suite.
I've actually just spent my afternoon writing out some music for the first time in about 15 years, so this is quite interesting.

However I must say that I just don't get it. Every example I look at appears significantly more complex than the standard notation, and harder to discern at a smaller size. One place I can see it really struggling is on copies. Music tutors spend a lot of their time copying music sheets, and I suspect this would be quite difficult to read on a low quality reproduction.

Standard notation has survived for hundreds of years. I'll be the first to admit it's not exactly easy to get your head around to begin with, but once you understand the rules it becomes apparent as to why it is the way it is.
Um, no. The US dollar is backed by US law guaranteeing that it must be accepted as payment for all debts and by US law requiring taxes to be paid in USD. All of which, as the parent post points out, is dwarfed by the backing provided by all the merchants, banks, and consumers in the world who are using USD today. The corner grocery store in Pottsville, PA backs the USD by accepting it as payment for frozen pizza and toothpaste. The drug dealer in Venezuela backs the USD by accepting payment in $100 USD bills. These are the most important backing for the USD (the "Nash equilibrium" that the parent post mentioned.

And that kind of backing is what the community is TRYING to build for BTC.
sounds like you need to read the book. history will teach you many lessons. In old seafaring ventures AND in modern firms leaders undertake actions that violate shared values. in the historic cases the values are more basic (safety, food) to the human condition than they are in firms today (socialization, esteem). Mutinies on historic age of discovery ventures were extremely sophisticated and subtle and the physical environment brought it all down to basic human social dynamics. why not look at firms today? try it. (a) firms are all different from one another and you can't compare cases - the ships were suitable similar. (b) can't get reliable data - people today will lie to you because they are biased, whereas on the ships the primary account journals are richer and more objective. finally, citing the judicial system strains credulity as there is so much members can do to depose leaders with it completely under the radar.
This comment reminded me of an episode of Radiolab that I recently listened to. It's about a man named Charles Bliss who attempted to create a set of symbols that would let us think and communicate in a pure way across cultures and languages.

If you want to give it a listen:
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/dec/17/man-became-bliss/
Sorta cool. The Yahoo purchase of Summly is not much more than a PR play. The technology wasn't/isn't there. And, while this "weekend hack" is neat, the quality of summaries isn't close to that of the TLDR plug-in (http://www.tldrstuff.com/#desktop) Not only does the Stremor plug-in get "what is important with the article" the plug-in is simply on all of my browsers and works FAST. Fun discussion though, and props to little Nick.
Honestly, it's awesome man! The only thing I can think of is a "replay" button next to the instrumental, so when it's done you can start it over. I only figured out to do that by clicking in the yellow progress bar close to the beginning. I am gonna use the hell out of this though - sweet idea.
>I'm interested in the price of Bitcoin, but we don't need these daily submissions.

Bitcoin markets are having unprecedented volume and volatility. This is a relevant current event. You don't need to click the links if you don't want to.

>try #bitcoin-pricetalk on Freenode.

The discussion quality on IRC is almost as bad as it is here.
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The article said it pretty well.

>So, medallion holders speculated in holding a government asset and lost. Some of these people are also taxi drivers or operators of taxi dispatch companies. Like Greek bondholders, they gambled and lost big.
How to export, delete and move your Mendeley account: http://duncan.hull.name/2013/01/18/mendelete/
I would draw a parallel between this notation and guitar tablature. Unfortunately, all professional guitarists (and especially classical guitarists) that I know prefer traditional notation to tab. I personally find tab terribly hard to parse (disclaimer: I'm a classically trained musician). I think that the proponents of Hummingbird will need to somehow address and overcome this idea that "real" musicians only read "real" music. Overcoming an entrenched standard, especially one with hundreds of years of history is a terribly hard journey, even if you're only aiming at a tiny fraction of users.

I also have quite a few quibbles with the specifics and usability of this notation, but this is not the place for that.
they are mnemonics for remembering the various note icons

above: a
below: b

etc
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Agree, I don't think per developer makes sense for this charting library but might make sense for other software. Say a text editor like Textmate or Sublime Text 2. Really, we might as well call it per user licensing.
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This isn't a new notation, it's just a new font on the old notation.
Congrats on launching! We've had to build a lot of this ourselves internally, and all the time were thinking if there's value in it for others. This is a very interesting space indeed and I do believe that it's the future. The real question is - are we too early?)

What you're really are providing is a set of APIs. Perhaps calling it "backend as a service" actually scares people off, as they don't realize that they can be using custom server logic as well, and calling it via CORS from backbone. This is just a bunch of APIs that anyone can use.

I think instead of having a backend, we'll move to an app using a set of APIs provided by other companies (firebase, sendgrid, backlift, etc) and custom APIs that may be necessary.

With javascript and CORS it's finally feasible to call remote functions directly from the cilent, eliminating the need to write boilerplate code for every app.
Well, yeah, you might be a rookie ... The line "There might be security issues with this" is too good: Heck, I'll recommend it anyway in my survival guide!!
"... programming talent is valuable enough that 15% of it can actually buy a full time employee to represent the employees interests."

I doubt that finding jobs for a developer requires anything close to a full time employee. If it were, freelancing and consulting (without an agent) would not be viable ways of making a living (you'd spend 100% of your time finding work and 0% working). I'd guess that each agent represents several developers and a large fraction of that 15% fee is pocketed by the agency as profit.
The UK is the type of place where every last square inch of land has been claimed and defended several times over. Australia likely has plenty of land that no one is in a hurry to claim.
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I've also been using Backlift at Nashville Software School. We have a class that is an introduction to front-end development and as an educational tool Backlift has been great. Allows us to focus on learning how to program and build browser-based code without forcing us to teach our students a lot of details about the server-side at the same time. Big win.

Does it replace learning all of that server stuff at some point, no, of course not, but it allows us to focus on fewer issues at any given point in the course.

To the lock-in point, I've not seen that in what our students have built. There's a bit of unique code but mostly they're using standard AJAX & JSON techniques.

My own perspective is that Backlift and tools like it have real value for not just training but also for prototyping applications, rapidly evolving MVPs, etc. If something clicks and you've got to scale, great - that's when you invest in the real back-end. But there are also a lot of simple, low volume applications and websites where a back-end as a service tool could well be all that someone needs.
Falling again.

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com
I was thinking the same thing - could be quite difficult to read under anything but good circumstances.
Those who read that article to the end will learn that Tulip Mania isn't much like what they think it is (summary: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1bm9fl/the_bitcoi... ).
Hey ctide, I'm one of the founders.

To be honest, I'm a little nervous about the fluff, too, but I do sincerely believe we're doing something different with 10x.

First and foremost, our clients are the developers. (Admittedly, this nomenclature gets a little confusing sometimes, but it's important for us to constantly remind ourselves that we work for you.)

Rather than thinking of it as a consulting agency, we see our job as making freelancing suck less. In the process, we're building a network of freelancers who share best practices. They even share customers... our customer development has revealed that the #1 complaint from freelancers is that it's feast-or-famine. Since each person in the 10x network brings in his/her own dealflow, one person's feast can ease another's famine. Imagine a P2P network for gigs.

Additionally, the article only briefly touched on the lifestyle design aspect, but that's really important to us. Just like managers in the music or movie industry, we're entering a long-term relationship with our clients, and strive to understand their goals and help them achieve them. For some people, that means we save them cycles that they can put towards their startups. For others, we enable them to travel more. (I started out as a client before we founded 10x, and I spent my time on music, e.g. recording albums, touring, learning the cello.)

Also, my cofounders come straight from the entertainment world. They managed John Mayer from being an unknown singer/songwriter to playing sold-out stadium shows. They bring a really unique outside perspective to our industry.

And finally, as the article mentioned, our cut is only 15%. My understanding is that consulting agencies often take 50%+.
You and nikita below are both right that having tests is much better than not having tests, and the argument isn't really about choosing design or tests - you definitely want both.

I was just trying to address the same point that HeyLaughingBoy above was addressing - tests are not a replacement for design; quality is not about tests. Tests are a tool to improve productivity in a large code base across many developers, and they're also a useful tool for a single programmer to use to focus their development. However, tests themselves are not a mark of quality, and any actual bugs that tests catch are just nice extras - and if you follow TDD, they will never catch bugs, since you will code until the test passes, bugs and all.

So my point is very simple: quality is in design and implementation. Tests are just for increasing engineering efficiency - you can have the same quality without tests as long as you have enough time (manual QA). You can't have the same quality without design, even with all the tests in the world.
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Yes, but it's considerably harder to enforce.
That calls for an interesting optimization: Using escape+liveness analysis you could probably call some of those destructors earlier.
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Everyone involved in the game is selfish; none of this has to do with altruistic goals.
Not a code freeze, a feature freeze.
Redundancy can actually be useful in notation as a sort of error-detecting code. In this case, if the pitch-symbol and pitch-position don't match up, someone must have made a mistake in transcribing it.

Whether it helps one when reading music is another matter. I remember learning to play an electric organ as a youngster with a book of sheet music that came with the organ; being aimed at beginners, each note head had the note letter written inside it. Hummingbird is basically using the same idea, just replacing the letter with a symbol. It probably does make it easier to learn. Whether it would be of any use for an experienced musician, I kind of doubt. (I certainly outgrew expecting the note head to contain the note letter, myself.)
No it doesn't if you take your profits in bitcoin you can move them freely between exchanges to a friendly local jurisdiction.
You could, but then you have multiple identifiers for the same object, and you end up having to decide "wait, which ID do I want here?", and during long nights when you're hopped up on five cans of Red Bull, the numbers start to run together, and you don't know if you're looking at a real ID or a logical ID, and even when you do know, you end up running queries directly against the database trying to convince yourself that the mapping can't possibly be correct.

Been there, done that, consumed a lifetime supply of Mountain Dew in a year, and handed in a multi-page resignation letter[1]. I'd rather use their solution, which ultimately minimizes the overall complexity of the system.

[1] OK, the resignation letter wasn't really about IDs, but the ID problems were a symptom of larger problems.
It's likely because it's all wrapped up in Twitter's web interface. To the average user, it looks like you just paid Twitter for something. If you have any sort of problem with shipping or the product itself, you're likely going to go back to where you bought it from: Twitter.

They're simply protecting themselves from a series of problems that would be completely out of Twitter's control to help in any way. Twitter would always come up the loser for any of Ribbon's mistakes. They don't even have a way to punt any support issues over to Ribbon.
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Ok, I'm not sure how to correctly dump that title, but still this is a pretty amazing gizmo. By incorporating a highly accurate clock with the other sensors you can do an "acceleration over time" approach to navigation (just like ICBMs used to do) and continuously know where you are without constant GPS fixes. Pretty cool stuff.
Called it (sort of): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5522100

Actually, I have no idea whether there's any causality, and I certainly would not have predicted the effects to be felt today, as opposed to months later when a more mature margin system came into place.
I don't think the users of bitcoin are quite as committed, though.