skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We currently only have US tv channels. We've experimented with others but given the limited resources of a startup we haven't had the time to expand out. We're definitely interested in it though.
"$800K to make the switch. Save $240K per year."

Interesting they got that deal done. Assume for safety sake a 20% to 30% overrun and now you're at $1 million. And if for some reason your savings take a little longer than you thought to get there (don't they always?). Plus add in the opportunity cost of having to focus on this and retrain your workforce on Google vs MSFT that they all know. Then there's always the risk that any big project is the 1 in 10 that goes completely haywire. I just don't usually see enterprise deals with this long of a payback window getting done (based on $$'s alone anyway - without some other compelling reason)

Just curious on the dynamics of the deal not the Google vs MSFT component.
Great! But I want to add a history of my projects and some of them were dated prior to 2008 (and none of them are scheduled to start in the future).

Also, I'd really like to point people at my linkedin profile.
"Though the question has to be asked would all of the users in local government be OK to use Gmail from a legal perspective?"

Sufficiently large organizations don't just accept the click-through EULA. Get a contract and sue if it's breached.
The solution is to get rid of ridiculous requirements that certain pro leagues (NFL, NBA) have mandating certain years of college experience.

This deprives no one their ability to make money & also gives student athletes the ability to either get an education or hone their skills.

Most of these high paid coaches and rules violations involve football and basketball anyway...
Can I get a joke explanation at aisle 2? :p
Sounds like every conversation I've ever had on oDesk..
I bill all recurring customers through a traditional merchant account and gateway (like Braintree offers). Making this switch is not likely to solve the problem -- "card declined by issuer" is the exact reason I get for the international payments that get declined for no reason -- usually fixed as soon as the customer calls their bank.

http://i.imgur.com/Uw2Zowz.png
Just to add to this - the javascript event used to capture leaving the open page seems to be: window.onbeforeunload - it would be great if Chrome was able to disable that function entirely, but it doesn't seems possible.
Oh, because it slightly ruins designs if it is not! rather annoying i know.
Any alternatives for Mendeley? I've tried Colwiz and hope http://bohr.launchrock.com will be great.
> Hence the difference between the traditional engineers and the software folks is the traditional engineers have to fix stuff before it breaks, software engineers can afford to fix stuff after it breaks.

Absolutely. The mindset is just very different. I remember once running some software in debugger during a major tech demo, and fixing a display bug I saw was going to become a problem in the next few minutes using Edit & Continue in Visual Studio. That's the "software guy," "start up," way of doing it. That shit would never fly with "hardware guys."
I think most everyone knows people who have exhibited that behavior.
The reality is that most people who pay real money for software and computer services don't think this way. They hate cold calls from salespeople, sure, but a human call from someone who actually wants to hear what they think is so rare that you'll stand out in the opposite way you're suggesting.

I'd like to gingerly suggest that you carefully reconsider any advice you get on a message board about the propriety of directly contacting customers and prospects. Message board nerds like us are terrible at evaluating these situations, and it really holds us back.
The curse of the invisible interface
It is not about maturity - I am pretty sure first version of C# was performing better then Java back then, because C# team could learn from Java mistakes.
Power to weight ratio varies over time as well. Smaller guys are great at climbing long distances, because they can maintain a higher power-to-weight ratio for an hour or longer. Bigger guys tend to be sprinters (Chris Hoy is 205lbs) because their peak power can be much, much higher and compensate for the extra weight. For a one-minute effort, I'd suspect that a somewhat heavier sprinter profile would be an advantage over a lightweight climber profile.

Even moreso because the weight of the craft will be a smaller percentage of their overall weight. A 150lb cyclist capable of outputting 10W/kg for a minute will have an effective 6.6W/kg on a 75lb craft. A 180lb cyclist capable of the same 10W/kg would have an effective 7.0W/kg on the same craft. And a 180lb cyclist capable of 11W/kg would manage an effective 7.7W/kg.
I don't get this line of reasoning. Colleges will never be able to pay what pro teams do. They will never be able to afford to pay every athlete on every team. Certain colleges will always be able to pay more than others. This won't change anything. If anything, it will exacerbate the problem.

The "real" money will always be in the pros. Get the kids to the pros quicker, if they want.
The anti-depression is called mania.
Every once in awhile you call someone and they have exactly your attitude. So you politely get off the phone and move on. That's all there is to it.
Some places it is - I have friends from France who would consider "where do you work" and "what do you do" about as rude as directly asking how much money you make, and not to be done except among close friends.
Paparazzi! for OS X 10.6.8+ (http://derailer.org/paparazzi/ - older versions also available) lets you choose the dimensions of the browser (so you can take screenshots of responsive/mobile designs), allows you to take a full-size shot of the page (no fold) and allows you to create Automator actions to do bulk screengrabs or anything else you can think of. You can also interact with the page within the app to show different states/drop-downs, etc. And it's all free :)
Words mean things. Nobody in America is shocked to get an unsolicited commercial phone call.
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Diversity in Conferences
Tutorial on type-safe Markov networks in Haskell using Futurama example
Unfortunately, it's still enforced: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8393574/470339
Starting with nothing and building everything from scratch is the opposite of what Mimosa is trying to do for you. The idea with Mimosa is you are coding straight away rather than hunting down plugins/modules, or finding generators ;), and then figuring out how to configure them. All those compilers are available, but if you don't need, for instance, TypeScript compiling, then the TypeScript stuff stays out of the way. No harm having those extra things.

Mimosa lacks Bower integration, though. Bower integration is nice for managing those sorts of things.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.... , the one I'm linking to is a preprint but it was published in Obes Rev. 2012 Aug 21.

The latest review of all major trials of low carb diets show improved weight AND improvement of all major risk factors for heart disease.

There is no accepted explanation to why as of yet.

But the bottom line is that the advice on healthy food that "actual nutritional scientists" readily hands out today have very little real scientific support in clinical trials.

I think nusi has an approach that most of us will find acceptable. First we do real scientific experiments and then we base our recommendations on what is healthy food based on the data and knowledge we gather.
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WRT to those near-zero crime rates, it's also not the case that 42 states with around 2/3rd the population has de jure or de facto shall issue concealed carry regimes, along with much of rural Massachusetts (!!!) and California, and upstate New York, plus a thoroughly confused situation in Rhode Island. Nor does Illinois face a June 9th deadline to replace their no issue regime with a shall issue one, or see their law go "poof".

And it is clearly just in my imagination that I holster a M1911 almost every time I walk out the door.
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I once convinced a CEO of a company with a few hundred employees to move from Outlook to Gmail.

For a while after I was a social pariah. My expense reports would go missing (want to find a Microsoft fan? look in accounting). My calls to IT (staffed with MCWhatever certified individuals) unanswered. The controller pulled me aside and said in a menacing Brooklyn accent I didn't know he had in him, "I would appreciate it if you would make this go away."

I learned a valuable about switching costs that day.
According to now-declassified documents, the US had the capability but chose not to launch a satellite due to setting legal precedent. I.e., they wanted to launch spy satellites but were worried that if they initiated this, it could be interpreted as an act of war. If instead the USSR was first to launch a satellite and it flew over the US, then the US could do the same in turn without provoking war.

See, e.g. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/sputnik-declassified.h...

Here is some of the transcript from that:

--

> NARRATOR: What Eisenhower most wants is information about the enemy's forces. Early in 1954, he authorizes illegal military over-flights to photograph the Soviet Union.

> R. CARGILL HALL: This was a major presidential decision. These peacetime over-flights of the Soviet Union were very risky, first of all because these aircraft could not operate at altitudes above Soviet air defenses.

> NARRATOR: March, 1954: American fighters photograph Soviet air bases near Vladivostok. In April, American planes again enter Soviet airspace. But in May, Eisenhower's strategy backfires. An American bomber flies into Russia and is attacked by Soviet fighters. The damaged bomber barely makes it home.

> It is 1954, three years before Sputnik. Eisenhower is committed to surveillance of the Soviet Union. But he needs a better way.

--

> By early 1955, Eisenhower is set on creating a reconnaissance satellite. But the Killian Report has pointed out a problem: the legal status of space has not been defined.

> National boundaries extend into the atmosphere, but how far up does territorial airspace go? The answer will be critical to Eisenhower's spy satellite plan.

--

> LEE WEBSTER: When we fired that, we knew we could put a vehicle in orbit, because we had the velocity that it required. If we'd been given the go-ahead, we could have beat Sputnik by a year. We had the hardware over in Redstone, sitting in warehouses ready to go.

> RANDY CLINTON: We could have beat them. And that's the thing that grabbed us, hurt the most, is we knew, ahead of time, that we could have beat them.

--

> Just a few days after Sputnik was launched, Donald Quarles, from the Department of Defense, is in the Oval Office talking to Eisenhower. And one of the points that he makes is that he thinks that the Soviets have done us a good turn. They had established a precedent of over-flight, exactly what Eisenhower wanted to do initially, and now the Soviets had done it for us.

--

I'm not sure this is the complete story (I realize the above may come off as blindly pro-US), but it's an element that was unknown for 50 years while that information was still classified. I think the access to scientific papers is not a key part of that event (and besides, 50 years ago the traditional scientific publishing model still made sense).
Remember. If you do everything in your browser, no body cares about whether you're running Windows, OSX, ChromeOS or AmigaOS. That's the point. Get everyone on the web. Force your entrenched competitors onto the web we're they'll be vulnerable to the inevitable openness the web brings.
I've got a couple of BeagleBone Blacks, they are great devices.

I love writing Go code on them:

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/go-on-the-beaglebone-black/

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/more-go-on-the-beaglebone-blac...

One caveat emptor for them vs the Pi though is that it doesn't have the GPU assisted video-decoding ability of the Pi (which, despite not being one of the main goals of the Pi ended up being an important factor in the success of the platform, IMO) and even for just basic framebuffer and 3D graphics they do not support 1920x1080 output currently (and if they do in the future it'll likely be limited to a slow refresh rate due to pixel clock limitations). For many people/projects this doesn't matter and the much better GPIO of the BeagleBone (and the presence of a couple of real-time capable microcontrollers separate from the ARM cpu) would be more important than the video limitations.
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HDMI connector on the BeagleBone Black is (unlike the Raspberry Pi) micro-HDMI.
PHP has a lot of quirks and inconsistencies in it that make many pieces of it confusing. Sometimes you have to look things up because they don't work the way you'd expect them to, and that slows you down. There's nothing that's really earth-shatteringly terrible about it, but people want things to be perfect. The truth is, no language is perfect, but perhaps PHP is less perfect than most others. (JavaScript has a ton of issues with it too, but for some reason people complain less about JS).
Mobile ads are very frustrating and the best ways brands and start-ups can improve their brand image using mobile in 2013 is through apps or "app-like" experiences. We created an infographic to illustrate this trend. What do you think? What is your marketing strategy for mobile?
I agree, I'd be interested to see what happened in negotiations.

Also, while they may save $240k per year in money they don't pay to Microsoft, I imagine anyone selling enterprise software would argue that there is money you will save from a theoretical increase in productivity from using their products, after everyone's been trained.
Since you specifically mentioned OmniFocus, it's worth noting that Omni Group stands behind all of their apps and will issue you a full refund within 30 days if you are unsatisfied--App Store sales included (they will eat Apple's 30% cut). http://www.omnigroup.com/support/store/refunds/

Most developers don't do this, of course.
It can be quantified, and it was. You are just arguing for the sake of arguing. You not liking the definition of healthy that she specified does not mean it can not be specified.
@michaelbuckbee oh you know it ;)
The Lagrange points would be an ideal area and shouldn't decay.

As for space junk, fill up each Lagrange point so its redundant. Basically hope for the best that all of them don't get hit. Even still, no guarantees.
Heh, the point was that emotional abuse ala Amy Chua isn't a necessary component of being a "tiger mom", so considering it without the abuse angle is reasonable. It's obvious that emotional abuse leads to bad outcomes, its not obvious that tiger parenting necessarily does.
That sounds great! So once you have the screen shot, you just drop into photoshop and position it over another image of a laptop to get the desired effect?

I have something called Awesome Screenshot for chrome which lets me capture parts of the screen. My issue is that it never looks quite as polished as I'd like. Perhaps I'm just lacking in design knowledge and will never get it as good as I'd like.
Well, that's anecdotally good enough for me!
No. 'Killer' bees are africanized European honeybees. These are just plain old African honeybees.
Thanks for the reply - you're probably right. I just wonder if Paypal have extra fraud prevention measures in place which exacerbates the issue. To give you a feel we see around 20% of our cancellations per day are as a direct result of declined transactions (for this very reason "card declined by issuer").

It just "feels" too high and one that we'd have assumed would affect hundreds/thousands of other SaaS UK companies who bill the bulk of their customers from the US. But there are few (if any) reports of it online.
95% of computer users aren't sysadmins, but if you use that logic to take sysadmin access away from 100% of computer users, you might regret the decision.
The issue at hand, was the General's use of reading as a way to ensure the things he is in charge of building (Marines), do not go to waste. Long in the making, quick in the breaking.

> I have to see something applied in practice, on my own, before I can really internalize something and grow.

This skill, reading, takes a while to develop. Understanding what is said and not said, and what it means in context takes practice and deliberate thought.

Learning while building works well only when your effective materials cost (as in software) is zero.
In this case, I believe it means all benefit and no disadvantage.
> I wish it was scalable because I think going to a website,posting a request

How about these:

https://reddit.com/r/scholar

https://facebook.com/groups/freepapers

https://groups.google.com/group/getarticles

https://groups.google.com/group/getarticles2

https://groups.google.com/group/slwaterflow

https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front

http://thepaperbay.com/

http://articleak.allalla.com/

http://www.pirateuniversity.org/

Also you can use (bias disclaimer) https://github.com/kanzure/paperbot

and (more bias) https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia is a good idea for preserving anonymity.
Are you speaking to a specific type of company? Plenty of companies "locally" host Exchange in full-blown data centers (some colos, some not) and use those machines to serve hundreds or thousands of users.
>I don't see why a city government migrating form one proprietary software vendor to another is considered newsworthy. I would be more impressed by something like, "City of Boston drops Microsoft for local hosting provider running free software".

That is because, for some, it's less about promoting software freedom and more about taking Microsoft down. That's why we have SJVN on the ZDNet "Open Source" blog promoting Chromebooks and Google Docs which are less "free" than Windows and MS Office because of being completely locked down and being tied to Google's Cloud.

For a even better example, see Ubuntu's Bug #1.

As usual, Linus has pithy insight.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/linus-...
I've seen lots of people complaining about not having money to pay the rent (or mortgage)/food/textbooks for kids but going on holidays (or skiing, or binge drinking) every possible moment. It's not general, there are lots of people making as best as they can with the resources they have. But there are also a lot of people who don't even try and just say they can't.
what would this look like? Any ideas?
Stop #$%&, please
wow please tell more. "for a while" means people's anger passed? or you guys switched back?
> Let's face it, if someone has hundreds of hours of footage of your work, they can find problems.

Yes but they will have to spend hundreds of their own time to do that (and if they intend to sue you to get their money back, also a lawyer's time.) I wouldn't worry - they will lose their own job long before they find enough evidence to harm your reputation.
I suspect that something like $20/month for local(ish) broadcast stations, and $10/month per additional channel will likely be the ala-cart pricing... no way they're going to lose money on this.
What Bloomberg employees can see when they snoop on customers
Not in the US from Amazon, though:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
Thanks. I emailed you a few glitches and such that I encountered.

This looks really, really nice so far, particularly for its initial release. There are a few things like discovery and analytics which obviously aren't in at this stage...but other than that, it looks much nicer than most of the similar sites that I've seen.

http://hoverboard.io/grayj
Unless I'm missing the point of your argument, it sounds like you're saying that, e.g., computational biology does not benefit from representation as immutable data structures. Although I have no experience writing software for modeling cell or biological entity behavior, I strongly suspect that reasoning about the simulation itself by representing its states through immutable data structures, or immutable databases, will lend itself to a better piece of simulation software.

If you think I'm wrong about this, I'd appreciate some examples.
"Note that Mexico's gun laws are considerably more strict than those in the US."

Mexico has one legal gun store in a country of 115 million people: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...
Hope this doesn't turn out like the last time Boston tried a significant migration away from Microsoft.

"When the state information technology chief of Massachusetts announced in 2005 that the state was going to standardize its computer document format to be more compatible with open-source software-software that isn't controlled by a company-than with Microsoft products, loud choruses of support and outrage ensued, closely followed by the announcement of an investigation into the chief's apparently perfectly legal state-funded travel for participation in open-source software conferences, followed by a new state-government announcement that it would work with Microsoft to stay compatible with the company's document formats, followed by an announcement from Microsoft that it would bring its document format closer to an open-source format."

[0]: A Perfect Mess: http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Mess-Benefits-Disorder-ebook/d...
> Any alternatives for Mendeley

http://zotero.org/

recent comments about mendelsevier vs. zotero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5525111
Bingo. APC pulled the spam trick on me years ago. I filled out one of their warranty cards and I'm pretty sure I provided no email address (not wanting any spam). At the time I was catching all email addresses on my domain in one account and I got a pile of emails from APC with various permutations of my name as an email address -- email addresses that I never would have used or given to anyone even though I would receive any emails that were sent to them. Guess what company I'll never buy from again (the fact that their UPSs fail without any warning doesn't help, either).
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I hate calling people like that (as all developers), but nice follow up call does wonders. Much more than follow up email.

Not everybody is offended (actually very rarely). Also a lot of your potential customers are probably doing their business mainly over a phone.
In the meantime I found this listing from Wbond of the ST3-compatible packages:
https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/wiki/Sublim...

I found that Bracket Highlighter is actually compatible but the Github URL has to be added as a repo to Package Control.
>want to find a Microsoft fan? look in accounting

I seriously doubt Accounting has Microsoft fans as such. They're very wedded to their tools and workflow in order to do their job because they spend their entire day on email and spreadsheets. Take away those and replace them with crippled alternatives like only Excel on the web, and they'll still hate it even if made by Microsoft.

How would a developer react if one day their vim editor was removed and replaced by EMACS or vice versa because of a mandate from the CEO?
You mean like rowing? If so, then I think you'd be surprised. Most athletes who compete in both rowing and cycling report that they see higher wattage numbers on the bike than the rowing ergometer. Biomechanics can be funny.
Indeed; it's appalling how few have learned from the fate of a quarter billion disarmed people killed by their own governments in the 20th century.
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All the gun owners I know do almost exclusively range/target shooting, a category you seem to have ignored. And you also don't seem to have at all tried to normalize for the amount of time spent using a car versus using a gun. Are you even trying to make a valid point?