skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to do Agile development, then you also have to do Agile billing - i.e., not a pre-agreed price limit for "thingamajig that does X, Y and Z", but in essence renting the team for each sprint with an understanding of what you'll get in each development (and billing) cycle.
They purchased DOS. The only thing I know of that Gates coded that Microsoft sold was a BASIC interpreter.
What about elected state employees? I know in Georgia the top two are tax commissioners. The real issue isn't their salary so much as the pensions and other retirement perks many already highly compensated public employees, elected, appointed, or otherwise, collect, and how soon they can collect. Throw in double dipping and the numbers get high quick
There seems to be a strange subconscious myth, in the US anyway, that you must have a "hot meal" every day or you are being nutritionally deprived somehow. I say subconscious because no one ever defends the point directly or explains what the benefit is.

This comes up a lot in political discussions of child hunger and school lunch programs. "X millions of children don't get even one hot meal a day!"
Has anyone ever debunked or repeated the food-coloured white wine test? I've heard this one before and it always seemed very strange to me as white and red wines have such clearly distinguishable characteristics.
"You bastard! Just you wait, in 8 hours I'll be done printing my zip-gun and THEN you'll be sorry!"
I think that idea works for programmers too.

Designer: Creates frontend to their portfolio.
Programmer: Creates backend to their portfolio.

My favorite portfolios are those where they create the backend and frontend, and host everything on Github so you can see exactly how it's made.
Tracing in ASP.NET Web API
How about filming police, or people activity participating in crime? And if you allow exceptions for that, who's to decide what constitutes crime and what happens to people who film perfectly legal acts that look suspicious?
> People abandoning projects are a real problem

This is a real problem, and I hope Github tries to address it before it becomes a desolate wasteland in 5-10 years. :-)
Customers shouldn't be forced to do what's best for companies.
it doesn't currently, but this project is only a day old. Indexing, caching, and other stuff are on my to-do.

(By the way, m/r is times slower than Aggregation Framework, especially for simple cases or cases that fit AF's common use patterns. See http://goshakkk.name/analytics-analyzing-tracked-events/ for more details.)
So the same as the $8k printer then.
Not worth the effort required to please entitled PC users when the platform is also drowning in piracy.
Is there a video somewhere of the actual talk?
And what if each of the individual parts were distributed at different sites? I am thinking of the "world's funniest joke" sketch from Monty Python, the joke so funny it was lethal.

Would any one file describing a single fashionable part be in violation also?
Thanks. I think a lot of them agree that low-carb approaches work for weight loss and some other outcomes, since that's what the science shows. But his "insulin hypothesis" is pure pseudoscience and I'm not aware of any papers about it.
Way to support your niche platform
Not to mention the annual 40,000 lives lost and even more injured due to car accidents, and the huge swaths of land that would be freed up when parking lots are no longer necessary.

Not everything is about jobs.
It's a "she" by the way. Allie Brosh. Her blog was incredibly popular a few years ago before she went mostly silent but for an ominous entry about depression. Anyone who's new to her writing should definitely go through the back catalog from brighter, funnier times.

E.G.: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/07/dog.html
From her previous post:

> "I've been working on it for the better part of a year (partly because I wanted to get it exactly right, and partly because I was still experiencing it while attempting to explain it, which made things weird), and I'm relieved and excited and scared to finally be able to post it. "

So that took about a year to make, on and off.
that's a big chunk of everything,

when you buy a pop out of the machine, what fraction of what your paying for is raw material + production cost and what percentage is so the can pay for superbowl ads so the next time you're thirsty their brand is the first the pops into your head?
I doubt they would think that way with the possibility of a 20-year felony staring them in the face.

Besides, for Iran and Cuba at least, private gun ownership isn't even uncommon.
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From your link:

Of the 119 FBS football teams, 68 (57.1 percent) finished the year in the black.

Of the 119 FBS schools playing men's basketball, 67 teams made a profit. One of those same 119 schools made money in women's basketball in 2008.

FBS football teams recorded a median net profit of $1.95 million. Men's basketball at the same schools produced a median profit of $518,000. No other sport at the FBS schools, measured by median values, showed a program in the black.

so yeah, profit centers.
Regarding the Marc Andressen quote on slide 17:

“We see Lean Startup methodology being used inappropriately as an excuse to not take sales and marketing seriously,” he said. “Founders tell us that all that matters is product, and sales and market will happen automatically. The ‘if they build it it will come,’” mantra, which he noted is not always an acceptable approach for those looking to grow.

I can't help but wonder... who are these people and what in the world made them think that being a Lean Startup in any way obviates the need for sales and marketing? If you read one of the seminal books of the Lean Startup world, @sgblank's The Four Steps To The Epiphany you see that he makes it absolutely clear that sales and marketing matter. There's a lot of material in there about demand creation, channels, pricing, and other sales and marketing topics.

IMO, anybody who says "we don't need to worry about sales and marketing because we're a Lean Startup" is clueless and probably hasn't actually done any research on the whole Lean Startup approach, beyond reading headlines on HN and maybe a blog post or two.
Lots of ideas seem really simple with the benefit of hindsight.

Here's an idea that took someone 30 years to come up with.

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94996/GLOBAL-Follow-the-fizz-...)

But it's really obvious! Why wasn't anyone doing this before?
On a completely different topic, this is a great demonstration of the usefulness of RSS. I subscribed to this blog yea verily a long time ago, and it's been silent for a long time. But this popped right up in my feed last night like it was never gone. Sure, this post ended up on HN, but in general it's great for that sort of thing.
Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in OS
When the government dictates what hours you can keep your store open, that sounds authoritarian to me.
And a CEO or Sales guy is probably the highest paid employee of a software company.
Good point. A lot of people assume that college sports programs always generate income for the school, but many of them lose money (though probably not the ones employing these particular coaches). I attended a school that was in the process of adding a football program, and the first effect of that was an extra fee for students (in addition to an existing athletics fee). I think the only way that college sports can be acceptable is if they never take money from other programs or increase the cost of education for students not participating in those sports.
Ah - just noticed Firefox doesn't display it in black and white. If you check it out in Chrome/Safari you should see it in black and white (out of interest, which version do you prefer?)
Boost Multiprecision Library
Not sure if this qualifies as 'cool', but I used Emscripten to port parts of OpenSCAD to Javascript http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad
Information wants to be free. Soon, technology will want to be free. And we will all work for free.
It wasn't just the money and the iPod, at the time, there was a huge outburst of support for him and of other people (nerds like myself) sharing their stories, it wasn't "It Gets Better" but it was pretty big at the time. I can't help but to think that his parents shielded him from all feedback (good and bad) and gave him a skewed perception of the event. Don't get me wrong, it was completely fucked up how local folks who he had to interact with on a regular basis invaded his privacy and taunted and teased him, but it's not as if his roommate recorded him having gay sex or as if he was raped and had the video shared while being called a slut.
Yes, profit centers. Notice how all but one of the coaches on that map coach Football or Basketball.

Athletic departments as a whole aren't profitable because the ridiculous amounts of profits earned by basketball and football can't subsidize the losses incurred by supporting the other sports.
Nice! Some really good new icons.

Nitpick: I would prefer the icons on the front-page - I am always pulling up the homepage to scan through the list of icons.
Seems a bit dodgy that enum values can be any value. What happens if you use mutable values and later change them to be the same?
And the highest-paid person you graduated high school with is probably a player (assuming you went to a run-of-the-mill public school)

A guy I graduated with plays in the NBA, and makes somewhere around 6 million a year, which is about the league average. He'll probably be retired in a few more years but he'll still have had a good 10-12 years of making an extremely high salary.
Good Ideas Are Not Enough
Talking about building Wedmill - wedding websites. For Everyone.
That's the point, there wasn't complete social isolation, this wasn't 1982, it was 2003, the Internet was in full swing, and it was very supportive of him, I'm not sure he was aware of that.
True, but if they managed to work this out, I don't think you want to be flying through the air using an anaerobic exercise to keep you aloft. What happens when you are exhausted after 15 squats? Making it aerobic allows for longer flight
Help me understand. What does the smoke point itself have to do with the oils being bad for you? Assuming all the oils you mentioned are unrefined, their smoke points are all over the map, so it isn't clear whether you're saying that a low smoke point is bad or that a high smoke point is bad (palm: 455°F coconut: 350°F, sunflower: 437°F, corn: 352°F)[1]

What I do know is that the more refined an oil is (and therefore less rich in flavor and nutrients), the higher its smoke point will be. The implication being that you should pick virgin/cold-pressed/unrefined versions when you don't need the high smoke point for your cooking. Is that what you were getting at?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point
Bombs can already go through metal detectors. There are knives that can go through metal detectors. There are hundreds of other things that can hurt you and go through metal detectors. Many of them aren't huge and one-time use. This thing is huge and is one-time use.

>>> The idea that we should only act when there is an "actual threat" when a threat is clearly on its way is absurd.

No, it is not absurd. Actually, for regular citizen it is the law - you can apply self-defense only when actual threat is clearly on its way. How comes the government - which is much more dangerous and prone to abuse than regular citizen, and can do much more harm if mistaken - is held to a lower standard and is allowed to violate the right of citizens on imaginary "threats" completely invented out of the blue? Where this right comes from - is it from fear or from belief government agents somehow so much more trustworthy than ordinary people and would never abuse their powers?
Some people just hate Republicans no matter what they do.
That's not an argument, that's an almost incoherent rant.
Depends, in some specie, the older you are, the less likely you are to die.
Ah, the downvote: for when the facts irritate you.

Well, here they are, from an admittedly biased site, but from everything I can tell, they're accurate:

* Immigrants started 28% of all new U.S. businesses in 2011, despite accounting for just 12.9% of the U.S. population

* Over the last 15 years, immigrants have increased the rate by which they start businesses by more than 50 percent, while the native-born have seen their business generation rate decline by 10 percent

* Immigrants are now more than twice as likely to start a business as the native-born

* Immigrants start more than 25% of all businesses in seven of the eight sectors of the economy that the U.S. government expects to grow the fastest over the next decade. These include health care and social assistance (28.7%), construction (31.8%), retail trade (29.1%) and leisure and hospitality (23.9%), among others

http://www.renewoureconomy.org/index.php?q=open-for-business
The company agreed not to release it when they were certified to do firearms design, from what I can tell from the rest of the comments. The government is still stupid for causing the Streisand effect but if the company agreed to be bound and then broke those terms that is on them.

There are, of course, other legally-granted limits to free speech (e.g. PII, classified material, customer financial passwords, etc.) that I would like to not have to itemize just because people on HN like to beat dead horses, but merely mentioning the existance of a magnet hash seems pretty unambiguous IMO.
This is a strange sentiment to me, moreso because it's something my own father has expressed he'd like to do. But as someone who considers "getting wasted" something I'm happy leaving to other people, what's wrong with drinking a nice beer or two, or a couple of glasses of wine, in good company?
Why can't you do this now?
Stupid me, I was using enums the wrong way. I was using an enum like a constant.

I.E. If my database takes a 'Sex' parameter, with Male as 1, Female as 2, Unknown as 3, Both as 4 - I'd use an enum like so:

update person set sex=Sex.Male

Looks like I can't do that with this enum class.
Well, I suppose I'd have to do it like so:

sex = Sex.Male.value

not very sexy...
I used to spend a lot of time in the RDBMS space, and I'd hear the DBAs bitch about how NoSQL was just a bullshit excuse for not having any discipline around your data model, and I'd defend it, saying, "Well, you have to understand, certain use cases, etc. etc. etc."

And then I see an presentation like this and think, "Yes, of course, you should have put that stuff in a relational database, what were you thinking".

Of course, most of the open source databases do sharding and replication and the like equally terribly, so it's not a perfect solution....
> Not fair.

You're right, of course. I was being overly cynical. These types of "news" stories just get my hackles up.
Well, if I was to advocate among the general public for a policy change, I'd advocate for something more palatable as well. You shouldn't assume those are necessarily the end goals of the party members. It might just be a compromise.
Yep, agreed on the last slide that lean startup only works 1 out of 10 times

As opposed to?

Seriously, I'm not trying to be snarky. "Lean" is a way of thinking, a set of principles, etc. that should increase the odds of success of most startups. So if we say "using this only works 1 in 10 times" then how often do startups succeed who don't use them? And if one were to advocate for a "something else" model then what, exactly, is the "something else"?

Or I guess another way of wording what I'm asking is "Is there actually any counter-indication to doing things like getting to know your customers and understand their pains, achieving product / market fit before doing a big-bang PR launch, and waiting to try and massively scale sales and marketing until you know there is a market for what you're building"?
From what I understand, there are three stages:

- interpreted

- If run 'enough' times, the code is JIT compiled (fast compilation)

- If run 'enough' times again, it is JIT compiled with the most optimizing compiler (slow compilation)
Asking for Feedback: Twitter for Voice Recordings
I have an idea for an app: Twitter for voice recordings. Instead of tweets, you record a sound byte.

Questions:

- Would you find sound bytes from your friends (or public figures) interesting? Would you be interested in posting sound bytes yourself?

- Does anyone know why Twitter chose video (for Vine)? They must have explored the opportunity for voice.

Things I'm aware of:

- Voice is harder to consume than text, images, and soundless videos. You need to put in headphones, or wait until your alone to play it on speakers.

- There are dimensions to voice than don't come across in text: tone, inflections, pace, personality, etc.
If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough.

Some things aren't worth doing, at any price. Compromising my professional standards is one example. Working with a client who doesn't trust me to do my job properly is another. This sounds like an example of both.
You cannot extrapolate from one data point. Read her back catalog. It was all there, and better, in pre-depression years, and she served it up every week or two rather than once in two years.
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Yes you are right. I was really just qualifying the original post about her getting rich. On reflection we're all making the same point that she's getting recognition and the programme is getting financial signalling of a job well done, which is great.
Good point.

However, alumni donations are often strongly correlated to the performance of the sports teams (at universities with traditions of popular sports teams, anyway). Donations are a non-trivial part of a university's income stream.

Also, a prestigious sports team can definitely boost undergraduate enrollment. It's effective advertising, as several people have pointed out.

From an academic standpoint, I've seen the bad side of popular sports teams (_Heavy_ pressure on professors and TA's to give star players high grades despite a complete lack of attendance.). I personally feel like most (particularly in the southeast US) of the large schools with popular sports teams have absolutely awful undergraduate programs. That's partly just a function of being a large university, though.

There are certainly negatives along with the positives.
Does this profit calculation include or exclude the cost (or bond interest payments) of building up a football stadium with supporting facilities?
Also note that public figures have fewer rights to their own image than Joe J. Random. It's fine to target a politician at a demonstration, etc.

If there is public interest in a specific person, pictures of that person can be published (within the limits what's newsworthy to the public) without their consent.

Lawsuits in this area are not uncommon, since it's hard to nail down the specifics.
I think they want as little variation in energy output as possible (the normal solution, a flywheel, would not be useful here. You would want to keep it light, so you would have to spin it up to insane speed, and that during flight, as doing it before would qualify as an energy storage device).

Looking at the photos, I get the impression they try to accomplish that by having the arm stroke 180 degrees out of phase with the leg stroke. I don't think that would be easy to accomplish with added back bending and stretching.

Also, I doubt they would get much more power out of extra muscles for 90 seconds. Looking at http://www.agrc.umd.edu/gamera/gamera2/gamera2-human-power.h..., you see that adding arms barely gives extra power after two minutes, presumably because their pilot does not have the anaerobic capacity.

Finally and maybe most importantly, this may not be a matter of getting maximal pilot power output. It may be a matter of minimizing jerk at a goven power output instead. The smoother the ride that the pilot manages to make, the lighter they can make the machine.
Should this be handled by Github? Package systems like RubyGems seem like the natural point to designate an "owner" of a library.
Yes, profit centers. While most are losing money, the ones paying their coaches many millions of dollars, generally are not.
I generally agree with this principle, but in practice, it's really hard.

You only find out how difficult a client is after dealing with them. And in many cases, if you have a feeling that this client is not going to be a very generous one, firing them might be most profitable thing to do.
"Thank you, Mark Pilgrim".

(Unless you already knew it ten years ago. Back when he wrote "Everything you thought you knew about strings is wrong." it was quite true of most every programmer, and it was thanks to this piece and similar ones, by Spolsky and others, that the information got spread around.

There must be some phrase for this opposite of the "self fulfilling prophecy": the cautionary phrase that causes itself to become false in the future ;-)
Here's the "What's New" page, which actually shows the changes in question:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/whats-new/
Completely off-topic (well that's my nickname) but I'm seeing on HN more and more beautiful slide decks, from a purely esthetical point of view. This deck has beautiful fonts and a beautiful color scheme, and it is nicely designed.

My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...?
Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?
Not eating for two weeks and watching cooking programs is bordering on sadistic, though if you have a strong will then I'd call you a hero.

Sadly in the UK such volumes of rice for such prices are not available at the consumer levels. As for bread flour, thats impossible, least in the UK. But you are right that rice and bread are the cheapest form of calorie intake. And yes nutients are extreemly important, though how many people right even when they have the money is probably another area and seperate issue of concern.

I would be interested in seeing a chart of a typical food shop compared country by country price wise, certainly would be extreemly interesting. I do know when I was in America that food was easily half as cheap and twice the size than what I could get in the UK and I utterly loved it.

But I'll will say it - you are a hero for being able to go two weeks without eating AND watch cooking programs, but after the first few days I suspect it was easier to endure as your bodies metabolism adjusts. But not many people could endure what you endured as it takes some extreeme willpower and not everybody has that, or even close, there again some people have no choice. There again everybody is different - even identical twins.

So +1 from me for being able to go that long and watch cooking programs, certainly something I would not want to entertain as would many others.

[EDIT ADD] I had a look at todays prices of rice, and for the cheapest, including amazon and ignoring shipping cost aspects and I truely envy you being able to get rice so cheaply as for the amount you can get 50kg for in the UK you would just about be able to get 10kg for that price and that is using a exchange rate of 2:1 $:£ ratio.
I would be surprised if there is a public school to cover every professional athlete. A quick google returns ~27,000 public high schools in the US. Can't imagine there are that many professional athletes.
I'm interested. I think you will get a better response though if you put more information in this post. Either way, email me some more info. My contact info is in my profile.