skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember World of Warcraft had a similar issue. The total amount of copper and in turn gold a player could have was the positive half of a signed 32-bit integer.
My problem is that it's not really a newer and easier approach, it's a newer and slightly different approach.

Very much this: to those who would say, "oh, you're just invested in the old technology" I would say yes, I am; but I also posit that you are overblowing minor differences in a newer approach merely because it is newer. Even if it is significantly different, that doesn't make it better; not all change is progress. When I see something that gives me a significant advantage, whether it's old or new, I'll take it. But I'm also very discerning in what I invest my limited time and brainpower in, and throwing away previous experience, sunk though that cost may be, is foolish without good reason.
The HN bubble cracks me up sometimes.

Yes, most people still have a desktop.
You're right. User will definitely benefit, but not directly. Perhaps the energy for transparancy should be directed at the insurance companies? Or would they not care as well?
Ah ok, makes sense. Good stuff!
Apple is not bad at sync. I have run nearly 100k photos through photostreams without a single glitch. I have thousands of photos in shared photostreams (dynamic albums) shared to a dozen family members without a single glitch. Set and forget, just works.

What I learned for this thread is a few people have obviously gathered that all this works great, most have not. So Apple needs a good best practices guide to cover the use cases between casual and pro.
Generating a website screenshot history
And I would also add... please give us the possibility to write plugins for iPhoto officially and give us some API for iCloud.

We love Apple products and we love the "just work" philosophy, but you should allow people to get out from the walled garden when they feel to.
> However a lot of personal analysis would happen away from the computer too. How to record real life away from PC data?

Good (and thought-provoking) point. This approach implicitly encourages a tech/gadget-heavy focus in one's life - which makes me queasy. And what would be the end-result of this analysis? More-efficient, but deeper-ingrained use of technology? If the result of the analysis were people putting down their smartphones and, instead, have face-to-face conversations with other people - or people no longer playing Candy Crush Saga and, instead, putting that time toward a cause that improves the world, I'd be all for it. But, I don't see that happening.
DSL Platform - Domain-Driven Design based MDA
We are proud to open our Invasive Software Composition platform for a public beta.
In short, it's a compiler for Model Driven Architecture based on Domain-Driven Design.
Beta is running on top of Postgres. For now we have opened up PHP, with Java and C# support coming by the end of the month.

What is it?
You write your application model in a DSL - which is meant to be easy to read.
Our DSL Platform takes your model, migrates your database and gives you back a compiled library to use (PHP for web, Java for Android, etc...)
Objects in that library will map 1:1 to DSL you have provided and will be type safe; even PHP is kind of type-safe ;).
If you are familiar with DDD you should feel right at home writing DSL; if not, our docs should help you to quickly get started.
This is really cool. It seems to me that what browsers really need in order to unlock huge amount of potential in high performance graphics is an API for hardware accelerated DSP operations like FFT.
English is handy enough to have two "scales", where these words have different meanings.

In the short scale, you'd be right, but the author probably uses the long scale.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_scale#Comparison.

It's one of those things that makes English ... interesting to learn as a foreign language. :)

EDIT: Actually no, I mis-read the table on the Wikipedia page. The author was simply mistaken, and has corrected that. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out.
Very different issues. The total amount of the transaction is preserved. For this to be analogous you'd have to retain the copper after converting to gold and I'm not an expert on WoW but I don't ever recall that happening.
This is my housemates project, glad to see it doing so well. Way to go Antony.
I haven't really tried iPhoto personally for photos taken with my phone, since I have an Android. And my girlfriend has an iPhone, but with a Windows computer, so she hasn't either. Because of that, the whole iPhoto ecosystem (and photostream) have never been an option for either of us anyway.

I had gone on the search for a similar service to what he describes, but with the added requirement that I want to own my cloud copy of my photos and not give up my photos to some unknown 3rd party (I'd have no problem letting Apple or Amazon keep a copy of my photos, but other than that, I'd be cautious).

I found the Open Photo Project (http://theopenphotoproject.org/), and it seems pretty cool so far. It's an open source app to store your photos on your own S3, Dropbox, Box.net, or DreamHost account, and give you cloud backup and access, and they have an iOS app with an Android version coming soon. And they just launched Trovebox (https://trovebox.com) which is their hosted option if you don't want to install Open Photo on your own server. Trovebox already has both an iOS and Android app, and also APIs. I'm just surprised I have seen either one mentioned here.
Five years in advance? That's nuts. My time in five years will likely be twice as valuable as it is now.

Right. So if your time is worth $75/hour now (you douched it up a couple days ago with that "narcissistic shit" comment, so I'm pricing you conservatively) then your 5-year $75-struck option is worth at least $75 (higher, actually, due to volatility) and you'd get to collect that now.

You take the option premium, invest it in yourself now, and if you're called in, you get additional pay (the strike price of the option) for the work.

I also find "set by the market, with the seller's right to set a floor" extremely dubious. What market dictates this?

Well, that's the hard part. The reason we find "X-percent-of-future-income" deals to be tasteless and gimmicky is that there's still a stigma against publicly looking for work. It either means, to a lot of people, that you're either desperate, or sociopathic and looking for the highest bidder. That's why work and consulting especially often comes down to these medieval-era reputation economies.

Building the market would be a non-trivial undertaking, but it would improve the freelancer's life (income stability) substantially.

Further, how responsive does the freelancer have to be to their client? Do they have to drop everything at a moment's notice or risk liability for the investment?

I would say that the contract should specify a minimum and maximum hours per week, and that the initial price is repaid if the person can't meet that commitment.

This means that 5-year-window options might not be practical, because you're right that there's the priority problem. What if someone sells 2500 hours of time with a 5-year window and it's all called in in the last 4 months? I won't claim that these things are easy to structure, because they're not, but it can be done.
They dont? And shouldnt? Why not?

I've seen small business try to do taxes and accounting themselves. Even if the people were, literally, math geniuses, they couldn't do it right.

A small business should have someone come in one a month or once a quarter to go over your books and do your tax payments.

It's yet another example of "if you think a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur."
It seems more like you just discovered your "real" market value. Welcome to reality!

The reason some people make more money than others is mainly because they posses key information that others don't have and this is part of the game.

Don't fire you're recruiter because YOU didn't know your true market value. Instead, use this "new information" to negotiate yourself a substantial raise next time you sit at the negotiation table.

The recruiter's markup is not disclosed to the contractor in my industry and it's not really important to me. What matters is "are you happy with what you're making?".

Fire your recruiter if he is incompetent, not if he's doing well.
Retainer agreements are, by far, the easiest and most straightforward way for the average freelancer to create recurring revenue. Check out my other comment on this thread with the list of bullets for a blueprint.
Same. I've been working three years at a job I have to be in at 7am for and it has really only gotten worse in terms of how I feel each day. I accidentally slept in a few times the first few months I'd started, and even though it doesn't happen anymore, that doesn't detract from the fact that my body is still not okay with it and all the coffee in the world doesn't change that.
Thank you. You are correct that I should have elaborated here. There definitely seems to be some confusion on my stance to DRM from the way I stated it.
Fixed. I suck at numbers. :P (or rather, fixed, but the server is getting hammered enough that it won't let me flush the cache)

There was another screenshot which has an account balance in the trillions that Blizzard argued was fabricated. Given the ease in which this trick was performed, I wouldn't be surprised if it was authentic.
No, it's still JavaScript. The fact that it's compressed or not human-readable doesn't make it bytecode.
Points towards generative programming?
Also, basically no-one uses the long scale anymore. Which is a shame. -illiard is a fantastic suffix.
S3 is overkill for this. If its just storing images you don't need all those 9's for durability/availability that Amazon offers. Could easily do unlimited for $60 a year. There's cheaper services that do unlimited for less than half that price like imgur.
How to Go from Middle-Class to Kickass
It is beyond easy to do that online. Get a throwaway email address that's only used when you don't want to be contacted. If you end up liking the product and want to interact with the company, fill out their change of email form.

ABC simple.
Thanks! Basically the answer is that I wasn't aware of the possibility of those things and have tried to keep it as simple as possible.

I made a skeleton project for me as I couldn't find a decent guide for deploying django static's on s3. I fumbled my way through it and corrected and formalised it later so I could do it again. The https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel project looks really useful as it contains everything and more you might want to use for a django project (and more), though not yet knowing what magic's it's doing I wouldn't yet jump to use.

1. That is very neat. I hope to try and copy that.

2. Noted. I didn't realise the need, as python 2.7.4 is the default. Can see it causing headaches if this were to change however.

3. Why is it dangerous? I preferred to keep the version numbers so it would always just install latest versions without any extra effort.
No. The long scale of 420,081,335,014 would be 420 milliards, short scale being 420 billion.
How Dropshipping is Changing the E-commerce Landscape
Just think of how far we got in recent years: C++ code compiled to asm.js, JITted and running in browser running on OS running in virtual machine running on OS running on a microcoded CPU -- and GLSL shaders compiled to ARB, running on microcoded GPU.

Next thing you know, antivirus software for web browsers (sic) will become the norm.
Hi guys! A bit of a newbie here, so this is the body for that link:

We are proud to open our Invasive Software Composition platform for a public beta.
In short, it's a compiler for Model Driven Architecture based on Domain-Driven Design.

Beta is running on top of Postgres. For now we have opened up PHP, with Java and C# support coming by the end of the month.

What is it?

You write your application model in a DSL - which is meant to be easy to read.
Our DSL Platform takes your model, migrates your database and gives you back a compiled library to use (PHP for web, Java for Android, etc...)
Objects in that library will map 1:1 to DSL you have provided and will be type safe; even PHP is kind of type-safe ;).

If you are familiar with DDD you should feel right at home writing DSL; if not, our docs should help you to quickly get started.
Which makes it even more stupid that they haven't put this as the source code.
Delusional thoughts from fantasy island.
Creative Cloud for the Better
"growth hackers", whatever that means
There is a certain logic to what they're saying, after all. You shared this information with Facebook or Twitter or Google. It's no longer in your private possession, because of that sharing, so if those companies feel like giving your messages to the DOJ, it's not really a "violation" of your 4th amendment rights, because you gave those up when you gave your "private" communications to those companies.

I'm not saying anything about how good or bad that is for American society, but I can absolutely see an interpretation of the 4th amendment where information you share with a third party doesn't get protected as if it were private. There may be other laws that protect your emails and tweets and whatnot, but the 4th amendment specifically may not be the best place to look for that protection.
The docroot path? That would indicate the Ubuntu devs who chose this location had little or no sysadmin experience. Files and dirs under /usr should not be mutable, that's what /var is for.

At least they didn't locate it on the root directory. Mount points should never be on root. See the sources for stat() for the main reason why not.
San Francisco gives up on cell phone warning stickers
That's not easy. I'll be honest about that. It's hard. I think that the solution is transparency. The option isn't like a regular stock option. There are a lot of things that must be included:

1. Minimum and maximum hours per week that can be called-in. A person who intends on working full-time might set 0-12. (People can work over the maximum; there just isn't an expectation of top priority.) A person who intends on being a full-time consultant might set 20-50.
2. Industries for which a person refuses to work.
3. Willingness and ability to travel.
4. How many of these contracts are outstanding. If someone wrote 5000 hours of options over the next year, that's patently ridiculous. There's no good definition of "too much", but buyers have the right to know.
5. Whether the person is working full time, and intends to continue doing so.
6. Priority resolution, as you mentioned.
No being an american, it stuck me at the end, that it was 5 Democrats to 41 Republicans, voting in favor of the NRA.

The problem with not being an American is, that I really am not able to understand the reasoning behind the arguments in disfavor of stronger gun control.

Just looking at empirical numbers (and not taking cultural heritage into account), one might see a strong correlation between number of people killed by guns and the easy with witch guns can be obtained.

I know, guns don't kill people, people kill people. But wouldn't it be better, if it people didn't find it that easy to obtain instruments, that enable them to easily kill a lot of people. If one would have to strangle or stab every intended victim it just might be a lot easier to subdue some perp.

Being an European, I really cant get my head around this. By the way - the same for me applies here in Germany, when gun-fans are in a shooting association, have their guns at home and their kids take these weapons to run amok.

OK, there are a lot less guns in private homes here, but non the less more than enough to be a potential problem. But the shooting association lobby here is just as strong, not as outgoing, but just as strong, when it comes to preventing laws they dislike.

Oftentimes with the same arguments, used by the NRA.
No hints about the excepted light output which leads me to believe that they intend only to make glowing plants that are mostly unsuitable for lighting purposes. Sure it might be neat in the same way that a lava lamp is neat, but it's still quite far from revolutionizing our lighting, which is what they'd most likely want you to believe.

Also promoting heavily the idea that "Biology is sustainable" is disingenuous at best.
The Salt Stack team also has a plugin built specifically for provisioning environments in Vagrant called Salty Vagrant:

https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant

(I haven't used it, but I have used -- and love using -- Salt Stack.)
In Polish, there's one standard: million, milliard, billion. Every time I see some article in the press that tells about "billions" and seems to be based on some foreign data, I have to stop and think whether the author cited the original value unchanged, or converted it.
Spam is more than bulk email. Spam is being followed/unfollowed on twitter to get your attention. Spam is a linked in invite from someone you've never heard of. Spam is a flyer on your car window. Spam is the door menu for the local pizza store.

Spam is someone contacting you to market a product when they have never had contact with you otherwise.
Also ALL violent crime is down 50% since 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa98FHuaU0

Fear is a powerful weapon. The media and politicians know this and selectively choose which crime stats to promote.

Emotional outrage > rational analysis when it comes to selling pageviews and building political support.

That is nothing new. Fortunately the internet is helping to temper that imbalance.
If you live outside of a high crime area, and you aren't involved in criminal activity the chances, of being shot are drastically reduced below the average.
> impact second and third level food chains

glowing bacon? I'm in!
Others may be unaware of the shift in suicide rates by firearm:

"The sharp decline in the U.S. gun homicide rate, combined with a slower decrease in the gun suicide rate, means that gun suicides now account for six-in-ten firearms deaths, the highest share since at least 1981."
(you douched it up a couple days ago with that "narcissistic
shit" comment so I'm pricing you conservatively)

You're way off-base, and you're crazy if you expect I read a single word after that. Any comment I made was in direct reply to something you wrote, and addressing it here is entirely off-topic.
Really? I think the HN bubble would lead to thinking more people have desktops than laptops. Many casual computer users don't even have desks to put that desktop on, they just use a laptop on the couch, when they run into something they can't do on their phone or tablet.
It's sad that companies have to come up with these kinds of hacks just to get around stupid limitations imposed by Apple.

I really regret buying an iPhone last year. I had been avoiding them for the longest time but at some point I needed a new phone and gave in because everyone keep touting how awesome and convenient it is. Well, maybe for an average layman but not for a power user.

My friend bought an Android for half the price of an iPhone and his phone feels like a spaceship compared to this fancy looking but ultimately extremely limited device. Apple my ass.
I would like to see some kind of source for the claim that lighting creates as much CO2 as cars.
Alas, it is not legal in most countries to sell yourself into indentured servitude, no matter how reasonable your aims in doing so...
> ... where players volunteered to tested the patch to ensure that there were game-breaking exploits ...

Is this an error? :) Although I assume the players would very well enjoy game-breaking exploits, as long as they are to their advantage.
Execution beats patent protection?
"Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades."

So, gun crime's falling significantly slower than crime in general, which may account for the public perception.
HackerRank (YC S11) launches virtual currency
Whether or not to use your school email address for your startup?
Your point about the form was spot on, we cut it down and watched signups increase. Thanks.
$149 is definitely overpriced, especially considering there is already a free one, a bit skinnier on the features.
http://littlesparkvt.com/flatstrap/index.html
Does not work because of the digest cycle consuming too much CPU for mobile hardware, or some conflict with Froyo, or what? This is kind of an alarming statement.
Donald Trump is the face of new crowdfunding site FundAnything.com
For some people it's not about quality, that's for photographers. A lot of people just like memories and photos of the kids playing at this place and that place might not make great photos but they are still important to the people. My daughter takes photos of her pets all the time, her iPhone is full all the time. They aren't great photos and they are highly repetitive but they are important to her.
Long scale makes HIGHER numbers use LOWER terms, so you're completely backwards on this.
Digital Ocean are heroes - top notch fast customer support when they could have just shrugged their shoulders and said 'not our problem'. Bit of a blow for Cloud66 but they provide an awesome service and from my experience they are very committed to their users. Bit slow to respond with a statement but they must've been fire fighting like their lives depended on it. Some dark circles around the eyes at the Cloud66 offices today I reckon.
The mobile app I've been working on for a while called Kona (http://kona.com) is an angular.js app. It's on the Google Play store and iOS App Store.
I like it when other developers share their sales numbers, so I decided to share some of mine. I'm happy to answer any questions!
"This" when used by itself means the poster agrees with a parent poster; it's an obnoxious upvote really. "This" when used with a preceding quote means that the poster agrees with the quote in particular. Such usage is more of an upvote for select part of the comment.
If Blizzard says it's fabricated they're probably right. They're certainly in a position to know and have no motive to lie.
New design pattern: Livatars
I just build from source. Here's a sane guide from linode: http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/installation/ubu...
It's also down absolutely. Not just the rate.
Fundamental attribution error? Just because they spam doesn't make their products less trustworthy.
I don't think there are any bugs, we showed that map with bots in a booth at GDC 2013 where people could play it. Worked fine.
The postal service, UPS, DHL, FedEx, the phone company, etc. These are all 3rd party services that people use to send private things. People have an expectation of privacy when they send a message to someone via (e.g.) Facebook Chat. Some might argue that it's an unreasonable expectation of privacy if you understand the technology behind it, but I would argue that the majority of the population doesn't understand the way the technology works (which would imply that the majority of the population expects that the communications will remain private).
I don't like this, since it imposes externalities -- in the form of wasted time and an uncomfortable end to the conversation -- on the hundred random strangers you pick.
Did you check some backup solutions like Crashplan and Backblaze?
>"Violent non-fatal crime victimization

Why are you comparing violent non-fatal crime, to gun homicides?
FPS really depends on which browser you are on.

Since you mentioned Java, note that in some cases JavaScript with asm.js can be faster, for example http://j15r.com/blog/2013/04/25/Box2d_Revisited
10 Reasons for 20 Time in the Classroom
If anyone from the site reading this, didn't work on my nexus galaxy. A dumb share popover took up the whole screen and didn't scroll away.
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So how do you keep state like health points in a functional language? :)