skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure of the audience for this. If you understand SQL you'd already know most of it... The rest use Excel because that's what they understand.

In this case you have someone that understands SQL and Python, but still wants to use a spreadsheet. Applying the predicates at the start, this person should dump Excel entirely - they can get much better integrity using SQL and Python alone.
Do you know how money really works?
I can sympathize with this notion, except that there are plenty of similar protocols that implement proprietary stuff on top of XMPP. Cisco UC, for example.
F# has been successfully used by some of the most advanced machine learning teams in the world, including the Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Applied Games groups at Microsoft Research

These may be some top-notch groups... but, it's a red flag (to me) that they didn't include anyone without a vested interest in the language as part of this list. This just says that the company that developed the language also uses it.
Here's a thought: what constitutes a very smart person? How often do those occur in the global population? Now, how many people are there on the planet and how big is the company?

The Earth may not be big enough for that to work out. This is before you remove people who aren't in this industry, people who are too young or too old to work there, people who don't want to work there, people who DID work there and left, and so on.

It might explain a lot, particularly when they go on a hiring bender. Where are all of these new people coming from?
Why does unlimited prevent honest comparisons?

I'd argue that unlimited makes "honest" comparisons more convenient: compare the bandwidths and you're done!

The alternative is to compare bandwidth x1 and limit y1 against bandwidth x2 and limit y2, which I find more difficult.
I read this thread maybe a day ago here. Just FYI
Incidentally, if you want to see a bit of text most viewers of that comic probably haven't, look for <div id="transcript" in the source.
Sorry if that sounds too harsh. I shouldn't shit on you too hard for trying to do something good. I've never written any software that does anything even remotely as good for the human race as this, so maybe I should just keep my mouth shut.

I really did have a strong "oh wow this is kind of messed up" reaction to Karmabox, though, and I suspect I'm not the only one who will. Maybe it would be worthwhile to offer an alternative interface that would be less jarring to people like me?
Hmm, where have I heard that idea before?

Oh, yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
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Pandora's Plan To Annoy Users Into Becoming Paid Subscribers
They didn't change the pictures of the two tablets at the top. It is also misleading.
I have 38 private repos on Bitbucket.

None benefit me by being public.
It's from the book Fast Food Nation. McDonalds was said to spend millions on satelite imagery and computer time to figure out the best places to put franchises. Burger King and subway just followed them around.
I think you meant http://codetry.org/

some of them are pretty cute
True, my bad!
It was instantaneous for me.
Anyone else reading this comment: http://craphound.com/makers/donate/ (download the book for free, donate a copy to a school)
But for most of the API's and protocols we are talking about here, 5-10 years later, developers always want something different, regardless of whether you designed it right or wrong. That's just the nature of the speed of our industry.

I'm, of course, not suggesting that you should never try to design something that will last 5-10 years, but in most cases, you can only standardize what people want to use now, and hopefully design a way of extending the protocol to be able to standardize what people want to do in the future as well.

As you say, otherwise you have to try to remain compatible with something someone thought was a good idea 10 years ago.
That usually means it wasn't a good idea 10 years ago, it was something that 10 years ago, they thought would be good in the future, and they predicted wrong.

Past that, sometimes you have to just accept that the useful design life span of some protocols is not going to be as long as some customers would like.
Truly Wireless, Fieldwire, and Boxbee look pretty interesting. Boxbee's name might be slightly confusing (Boxee is a video appliance), but they're in pretty separate fields.

I'm kind of confused why DroneDeploy is specifically non-military; it seems like there is just as much ITAR compliance either way, and even if they don't market to military, I don't see much difference between selling to the Army Corps of Engineers for a civil engineering project in the Gulf/Mississippi/etc. vs. selling to an NGO operating in a warzone.
This doesn't appear to have been a collapse due to unsound infrastructure, but rather a collapse due a truck with an oversize load taking out one or more supporting beams.
Right, try Chromoji https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for...

Btw I'm on Windows 7 x64 SP1, I installed KB2729094 but no effects on IE idk why
Can anyone point me to real world AngularJS project with a healthy amount of unit and end-to-end tests? I've read the tutorials from official site and elsewhere on the web but they seem to stop after showing how create a controller with mock $http. As a relatively novice JavaScript developer, I'd like to see more comprehensive examples with mock services etc.
I recently pushed a group into using GitHub for configuration files and documentation for a project that delivered an OpenStack compute cluster.

The main driver was not my own experience/preference for GitHub, but that they have Windows & Mac GUI clients. I had no expectation that the other group members were going to learn Git (most are Windows users with no understanding of VCS), and therefore getting them using these clients made things a lot simpler.

I did, however, recommend that the University look at using Atlassian's JIRA + Bitbucket together for future semesters, mostly because JIRA has educational licensing and integrates nicely with Bitbucket.

As an aside: the more software-orientated projects struggled (and have struggled in previous years) with organising & distributing workload. Students aren't formally introduced to (D)VCS systems nor any project management software, and alongside figuring out their project scope & getting something working, things tend to fall apart in a bad way. Some good web-based PM software and a DVCS could hopefully go a long way into structuring their projects, and would also give their project supervisor better auditing capability to keep tabs on any "dead wood" members.
I'm just here to say that Ramit, the author of the course he mentioned is legitimate.

His New York Times best selling book "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" is one of the best personal finance books I've read. It is especially useful for young people with a high income potential like many of us on Hacker News.

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Teach-You-Be-Rich/dp/0761147489
Collecting funds is quite prohibited (or heavily regulated, I should say) in China, otherwise I absolutely would.
Exactly. Roll your private repos on bitbucket and public repos on GitHub for the exposure.
Ask HN: Considering open sourcing our landing page.  Any interest?
I have had the unfortunate pleasure of having to integrate SQL and Excel for my start up. A provider's tool that we need only works in Excel, so I have to bring data from SQL into Excel, process it and then put it back into the DB. Then all of our real data processing is built with python. So far I have just used VBA/ODBC to handle everything, but for obvious reasons, I hate it.

I'll definitely give this plugin a try.
I must inform you that there is a user who uses sed over all other text editors: me. I do use vi but I could easily survive without it; I have countless custom utilities that rely on sed. Surviving without sed would be difficult. Imagine a system that has pipes but where you cannot "write to disk"; where you do not have a TMPDIR for ed to use. With sed, this poses no problem.
For the same reason we trap on integer division by zero.

> It is _trivial_ to detect integer overflow

I think if we counted the number of + operations in a typical C program and multiplied that by the instruction(s) needed to implement a conditional branch path (often never taken dead code), it would be nontrivial. This overhead should be easily measurable on benchmarks.

> Furthermore, there are many cases where integer overflow is actually desired.

I'm not arguing against the ability to do that, but I think those cases are far less common.

> My question is would be why would a cpu trap be a better solution than what we already have?

To allow compilers (not just C) to emit safer code by default by removing the small but measurable instruction penalty.
And now it is down...
> Just like IBM, MS, and all the old tech giants.

You missed one. I smell a fanboy
I live in WA and was delayed in traffic for a good deal of time several weeks ago when a truck hit a overpass near Gig Harbor.

Both incidents may be outliers, but I'm beginning to wonder if there is a problem with the current resources devoted to logistics planning for oversize highway equipment traveling at high rates of speed.
Could you link to your site? I'm interested to see what your site/pitch looks like.
Thank god XMPP is disgusting.
Pocketbook Seeks Up To $700k Ahead Of Sibos 2013 In Dubai
Nobody appears to have been hurt, though three people have been hospitalized: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_I_5_BRIDGE_COLLAPS...
One man's "not delivering a large part of the app's value" is another's "not pestering me outside of the hour in the evening I want to use it".

Anecdotally, there is not one single app that I have which I would like to give me push notifications, although a few I use daily would like to. You would force me and others like me to delete them? I'd switch to Android immediately.

There's already a solution for the problem. It's to inform users that your app has more functionality with push notifications on. Not asking Apple to impose policy on their users that restricts their already limited freedom with the device. What we are discussing is a UI failure on your part, not an iOS failure.

"Educating developers to be conservative" is not going to happen. You're thinking of your own app delivering value but forgetting sociopathic actors like Path who feel free to send your entire contacts list to themselves.
Rooftoop solar is good for a mere 8 Watts / sqft [1] [2] when the sun's shining, and it's not a constant 8 Watts output over the day even if the weather is clear all day.

So repurposing a Sears building's rooftop area for solar power would not cover even the minimum requirements you cite (300-400 W/sqft -- x 24hrs/day) as necessary for a datacenter re-purpose.

But then there is that big, unused parking lot. If it's got, say, 30x the rooftop's area and can be fenced in, maybe then a ground-mounted solar system might supply some significant fraction of daytime energy.

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[1] http://www.ehvacdesign.com/solar_system_design.htm

[2] http://www.solar-estimate.org/?page=solar-calculations
This doesn't appear to have been a collapse due to unsound infrastructure, but rather a collapse due a truck with an oversize load taking out one or more supporting beams.

That jibes with this report:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Report-I-5-bridge-collapses-...
Why do you say they are specifically non-military?

I work at a company that deals with ITAR (albeit I'm an engineer and hence with limited knowledge about these regulations). We deal with this kind of technology and only a small part of it needs to be ITAR compliant, if at all. If you are working specifically for the military as a (sub)contractor, ITAR restrictions could become more important.

The main part of a drone that I think could run the risk for being controlled is a high-precision IMU. I doubt any other stuff would need to be under ITAR. And if the application is not military, you could probably get by with an off-the-shelf IMU.
I wonder if, for "if," you could just detect that your magical variable was being cast to a boolean, and run the function twice, once where it returns true, and once false, so you could exercise both branches. I guess this could get a little pathological if you had multiple conditionals and their nesting was really complicated, but I bet you could do simple conditionals...
I'll just leave this here:

http://rapgenius.com/448037/Vanilla-ice-ice-ice-baby/If-ther...
After installing the symbola font, I still see the square. Chrome on OSX doesn't support emoji. Try viewing it in safari.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41228/why-do-emoji-...
Thanks for [0] (had listened to few titles including one in your YT link but not all - will get them all) and yes I've listened to [1].

Saved on Spotify :-)

How do you manage the language, subtitles? Or you know Hindi/Urdu?
Help me - don't get it.... whats so special about this google query?
This will only be on our page for so long, but we want it to live on! If people do like this we will put in the work to open source it so others can use it.

A couple features different from LaunchRock:

-Shows how many people have already signed up ahead of you and behind you

-Allows you to jump ahead of people by sharing this on Facebook or Twitter
Yes, any reasonable test of an active account for an online account should be a recent login. But that's not the test- you have to withdraw or deposit money. I suppose we could call it 'banking theatre'.

'dance, taxpayer, dance! Jump through these arbitrary hoops or we'll take your cash!'
Another app was posted here recently: http://betaq.co

I do like the concept.
Let's say once a week someone is late and there staff is paid 20$ an hour including all overheads. For that extra 30 minutes it's going to cost them 50$ a week which is about what they do. However, if they instead only pay people when there actually late that's 40$ a week in profit * 52 weeks = ~2k/year which for a low margin business may be significant.
It may also incentivize customers to change day care.
I hope they stick to Gandhiji.
> In the past I’ve had divorce lawyers and daycares solicit me. How that is related to Beastie Boys and Bruce Springsteen is escaping me.

People that listen to that kind of music are probably male and married with kids, reminiscing of the time when they were single and childfree while commuting to their cubicle.
bewbs

EDIT: Actually maybe more like sea urchins?
Looks more like b00bs to me.
It's a pretty big insult to imply that a designer's work is run-of-the-mill, as the author has done.
It only does the popup after you try to activate them, yes? Why not allow the user to turn them on with a button and not use them until then? "Hey this app is a lot better with push notifications, tap this to turn them on. A dialog will appear, tap 'Allow' to get notices etc. etc."

You said elsewhere that ~40% of users assume your app will spam them, but you don't know it's not ~40% of users simply don't want push notifications even from "benevolent" applications.
Rubbish. Under what circumstances does a government have the right to take money after 36 months of savings with no further deposits? Why does it apply to accounts within a bank where the customer is regularly transacting in other accounts at the same bank?

The customers were given one warning and a short period of time to respond.

So why change from 7 years to 3? What is the justification?

Why would anyone be making apologies for this? Ther is nothing, nothing reasonable about this?
Can you do a blog post instead? Would help lot of developers like me who are looking into Go as the next programming language to learn.
Hmm it has to be a really thin veil because I read it like any other post to get the author's point of view then checked out the comments. I'm sure marketers are trying to innovate like everyone else but in this case I would have to say it didn't work because I still haven't gotten to the get rich quick e/book that it is supposed to promote (it wasn't in my face).

The comments sure are interesting but the only thing I checked out from reading it was the designer's site that got dissed.

Note: The post could have been edited by the time I read it.
A bit confused; the TC article says all of the startups in the current batch are B2B, but Boxbee seems to be B2C. Am I missing something?
Guy Records Call with Scammy Company Claiming Top 25 in App Store
So I downloaded yahoo's android app.

10 minutes later I was still unable to register for an account. No helpful errors, dead-end states. It was as terrible as terrible could be.

Then I tried signing in using my google account. Of course that meant that the login site would crash and would be unusable for the next 5 minutes.

So yeah, not a good first 15 minutes with flickr.
I had money seized under this change. I did not receive a letter from ASIC. All I got was an email, which I skim-read and filed as being ok. There was two months from announcement to seizure. It is NOT ok.
Oh wow, similar ideas! Thanks for posting t0
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"I'd like to be careful with the science I do, always remember to follow directions, and be aware of peer pressure." - Kiera

How uncomfortably scripted is that?! It's a really bizarre nod to the allegations that she was being reckless.
Jeff Bezos controls no small part of the internet, so it's fitting for him to work from a Bond villain HQ.
Note that Google Chrome on Windows often can't display characters even if you have an appropriate font installed.
Here, in France, it has been outlawed forever until it was finally authorized in the early 90s. As a then advertising student I can remember there was quite a fuss about it. In reality, comparative advertising is restrained by relatively clear rules and very rare in the wild. The few occurrences of side-by-side products I seem to remember actually involve large US-based international companies.

Usually, the comparison part is limited to a features table.
The highlighted instances of "kerning" have extra letter-spacing.
Which one did I miss? Oracle? Apple? I'm a fanboy of Nuuton, no one else. (:
If you don't have a package for it in your distro, grab it from the author: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Back in the 90s, most of those would have been among the more earnest, nerdy startups being funded.
I was trying not to ruin the 2009 movie for people who haven't seen it, but read Steko's response to johnny_eh. This is not some weird timeline inconsistency by the mistake of the writers... this is actually a weird timeline inconsistency by design of the in-universe plot. (If Steko's description then itself seems impossible, re-watch the TNG episode Relics.)
Conspiracy or not, Google products fit the definition of spyware.
Fun story about emoji and unicode:

I have a writing app I've developed for iOS, and a while ago received a bug report from someone saying the app crashed every time they tried to open their document. I couldn't figure out what was going on but after eventually receiving a copy of the document, I discovered that the crash was due to my incorrect handling of emoji characters.

Most string classes, including NSString in iOS, typically represent strings as sequences of 16-bit characters. With 65,536 possible combinations, this is perfectly adequate to support the characters from all major languages in use worldwide [1], plus emoji. Unicode does however allow for values outside of this range, which are represented by "surrogate" pairs of 16-bit values in the range D800-DFFF. It was these I was handling incorrectly, and had missed in my testing.

But if there's space in the 0-65,535 range to represent emoji, why would it be stored outside of this? Well, it turns out that the initial implementation of emoji in iOS used the "private use area" of this range to encode the character values [2]. NTT DoCoMo also had their own (incompatible) way of encoding emoji in the private use area [3]. When attempts were made to formally standardise on emoji in unicode, they couldn't use the private use area, and ended up going with values above 65,535.

If unicode had stuck to representing existing characters and symbols and said no to requests for stuff like emoji and klingon, string representation in modern software could have been kept a whole lot simpler.

Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation of unicode and encoding issues here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

[1] To the best of my knowledge; correct me if I'm wrong

[2] http://openradar.appspot.com/6402446

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20080216230900/http://www.nttdoco...
You understand to create a repo you issue one command, regardless of whether you use git or hg? Also, GitHub doesn't support Hg is a major drawback for a lot of people. Git has a relatively higher learning curve, although certain commands in Git are really really awesome I have to admit.
Just FYI, we have incredibly good educational prices on GitHub Enterprise and offer pretty decent discounts for the .com product for universities. Glad you found our native clients useful! :)
Absolutely! The approval just won't be as automated (i.e., might take a day or two).
I can't say for sure this never happens, but I've never seen an instance of it. A startup is composed of its people. For an acquiring company to take on people they didn't want would be the ultimate sacrifice.
Just don't give up if you don't hit your date! I edited technical books for four years and never once had an author actually hit their target date.

But do set a new target date if you miss your original one. Having a big red circle on the calendar can be an amazing motivator, even if there's no consequences for missing it.

Good luck!
yep - it also just means that right up until a bank holiday and your account is frozen, the official line will always be everything is fine, the bank is well capitalised and there is nothing to worry about...unless you are well connected in which case you will get a whisper to move your money out).

So if you aren't one of the well connected people, it pays to be a little paranoid and be first in line to withdraw your money while you can. It's kind of funny, the rational action for any individual is not to keep most of their money in a bank where it is at risk of going away with zero notice. The confidence of the banking system relies on everyone being irrational!
Android is winning. Apple is winning.