skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The front page should not have a page number.

Please place a header on each page. On the even pages, the header should be on the left, on the odd pages, the header should be on the right. On the bottom-center of each page, place the page number, except for the front page, as specified above.

The above is probably a bit much, but it is, as far as I know, absolutely impossible to do in Libre Office, or it is not, it is extremely difficult to do, but this sort of formatting is absolutely trivial in MS.

If the above sounds to complex, then try creating a working TOC in Libre Office.

... on the other hand, those are all trivial thing to do in LaTex. Maybe the problem is people using Libre Office for things which Libre Office is not designed to do?
(And I'm reposting my reply to the original.)

This wraps up the 'real' situation perfectly. Well put, sir. As a Turkish citizen, thank you for speaking the truth!
Yeah, how dare Mozilla not instantly implement the constant stream of random UI modifications Apple makes on a whim that require every developer to overhaul their UI and potentially make the UX worse?

From my perspective, not making that nonsense priority #1 demonstrates Mozilla's focus on features that actually matter.

Also, patches welcome, write an extension, etc etc etc.
I have a feeling this is a contributing factor, but the real reason is because historically it is what worked. Red pigment would be cheap, apparently has anti-fungal properties, but it was what their parents and grand parents used; perhaps because it was cheap, or the wood lasted longer without rotting.
Bitmessage Twitter service (BitTwit) source code released
Work on Electrolysis is underway again.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes
What games are the Oculus Rift guys making?
much better than what? some other phone? because the 2 shown are nearly identical. grandma wouldn't know which was which except for the word "samsung" on it (from any distance).
And hence the need for deep pockets, and patience. Both of which Amazon has, in spades.
Apple added a hardware back button??? I need to upgrade!
I don't mind the mortgage tax deduction, but it's only fair to add a similar deduction for renters.

It should be a "shelter is a basic human need" deduction.
Unfortunately the current crop of "social" games preferred social/psychological gimmicks, over having fun. But in the end, the need for fun always wins.

Spamming your friends, buying FB gold, visiting your friend's stupid farm, these are not fun activities, these are just actives required to advance in a stupid game that involves incrementing counters.

When I'm thinking of what social should be, I'm thinking of chess, or strategy games, or Monopoly, or whatever that involves playing against other users, instead of a computer. It doesn't even have to be synchronous multiplayer. Chess doesn't have to be synchronous. You can have turn-based strategies or RPGs (as in Heroes of Might and Magic, which used to be pretty fun). You can have games where the users themselves establish what the game is.

But companies like Zynga went the other way around, focusing on the virality aspects, instead of those aspects being a side-effects or an add-on to a fun game. These games are broken by design.
What I get from your comment is that option types work well in Haskell and Scala. This doesn't surprise me, as both languages places a strong emphasis on the type system, and so they are easily supported.

For option types to work well in Go you would need to add more support to the type system. But we don't want a more complex type system. That's a tradeoff we made.

Again, I'm not really sure why people keep getting bent out of shape about this. Haskell, Scala, and Rust exist for people who want to write that kind of code. I prefer to write Go code.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819959
okay, I must say.. I have seen quite horrible coding, and I knew data mining was possible, with not just ICSE/ISC but also with CBSE. Though I differ on the issue, that people should be able to see marks of their friends who are travelling, and have no immediate internet access to quench there anxiety.

I pretty much know the grace/speed marking of overburdened Indian teachers, so I'm not as much surprised as you to see the missing numbers.
So "right" Go code ignores checking references that can be null so that it can blow up at run time? That can't be safe.
It pays for tuition for private school for people who otherwise could only afford public school.

The private school has both religious and secular education.

It also provides family support for children with troubled backgrounds, or other issues.
Not to mention that they can just be shipped to another market and sold there.
Ask HN: How to incorporate in US to sell apps in Play Store and App Store?
We are a startup from Venezuela. Our goverment make it really hard for us to make a profit from our activity. We've been looking for options to incorporate in the US and we've end up with the following: form a LLC single owned by a BVI. Our accountant said this way we didn't have to pay any taxes in the US since we wouldn't be provinding a service in the US; we would just be collecting payments from the stores and transferring all of it to the owning company. Our software is made outside the US and the selling part is conducted by Play Store or App Store. This sounded really good for us, anyone out there is using this kind of structure? any advise?
After a beat of bafflement on seeing the title, I actually figured this out, and clicked through to discover I was correct. I credit the Zelazny short story "Dismal Light"...
Software Development Approaches (a desk perspective) [webcomic]
Save lives without thinking about it (using Simple.com)
A lot of it is just actually due to legacy.

It may be hard to understand here but tech in education takes a back seat in most standard schools. There are not a lot of (if any) resources in most schools available for tech support, upgrades, hardware, etc.

So what happened was that 10-20+ years back schools slowly integrated tech and computers - Windows was really the only sensible choice for most institutions in that it allowed for everyone (non-techies) to run software that met the needs of students, teachers, admins, etc. PCs and Windows was the sensible and natural choice back then and everyone jumped on.

The problem now is that the cost to migrate hardware, software, licenses, systems, and knowledge to better platforms is significant, daunting and costly even if the new stuff is free. Its analogous to building a city around one center point for years and then realizing that you want to move the whole city 5 miles down the road with everything basically continuing to function (oh yeah and on a shoestring budget).

On the bright side the education system is filled with many who are tech savvy. They know the tech sucks... its pretty obvious when you have to use IE6 for some online lesson plan and then you go home and watch Netflix on your iPhone. So there is pressure there and things are moving but it will be slow and painful and likely whenever you send your kids to school you will gasp in horror at the tech museum they call the computer lab.

(On a side note if you are entrepreneur in edtech - the most important thing you can understand is what the tech landscape looks like to students and teachers and administrators. Very different for all 3 groups and very detached from the tech saturated environment of Silicon Valley)
Try JRebel.
"Facts," lol. I'm going to tell you something, and you should pay attention. Are you ready? Throwing out a few facts does not make a good argument. What it can do, however, is tip your hand if your argument is the same banal run-of-the-mill crap that has become the circlejerk du jour that pervades reddit these days.

What you call a good argument is, frankly, bullshit, and I'm not going to drag myself down to your level to refute it - besides, like most leftists, you almost certainly wouldn't listen anyways. If you want to argue on such a low level, you should go back to reddit.

Besides, isn't it much more fun to just insult each other? Yes, I think it is. Don't you agree, you fucking twat?
but I think its okay if this stays, since 14 hours ago and time in-between was the night in India. So not many HN users from India saw it, as it should interest them ofcourse.

Its 11 am now, this should do well.
Understanding pump.io
WebRAW: Using Emscripten and asm.js to Process RAW Images
Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless
Agreed Pivotal one is great. I've tried several others and it's the simplest and easiest.

I've been using one called GravityDev at my job and it's nice ( although my team is using it like a PMO tracker despite my best efforts... ) but Pivotal is way simpler and nicer to use.

Though I have only used it in small teams.
It's letting me post the link from USA.
For me this comes up working on collaborative projects with multiple people
What if I am? I'm smarter than you. How does it feel to be dumber than a 12 year old?
For me it's easy to deploy the code onto a server which runs the code. I am not the only administrator, but the only software developer. I want the other admins to be able to pull code from that repository (bitbucket offers "read only ssh keys")
Woah, Xiaomi is behind MIUI? I had no idea. I'm impressed, it's refreshing to see Chinese tech companies pushing innovation and quality to compete instead of half-assed clones.
Yeah I meant more like medical examination, not entrance examination. It is generally a critical hearing because the strength of a patent often boils down to the meaning of individual claims. For example, a judge might have to define what words like "program" and "execute" mean, which can have far reaching consequences.

A judge also has the power to stop a patent from going to trial if some forms of invalidity can be shown, for example if the defense turns up prior art, or if turns out the inventors failed to file within one year of first publication or sale offer.
Looks like I had my numbers a bit off. It's $10,000/KWh, putting each flywheel at about a quarter million. The cost data aren't clearly stated and I didn't find my earlier posts on this until just now:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/21sJzeSw...

Flywheels are used in cars, and the current generation of Formula One hybrids includes flywheel regenerative braking designs. While you can offset gyroscopic effects with counter-rotating flywheels, you still have the issues of loading the bearings of the individual flywheels due to vehicle vibration, movement, rotation, etc. Some of this can be mitigated by gimbal mounts, but that introduces increased volume requirements to the design, and avoiding gimbal lock requires four (rather than three) axes of rotation, one of which must be driven. It's one thing to have the flywheel last for the duration of a race, another for it to stand years of use in a private vehicle.
Of course we should, from here (http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/the..., last paragraph):

Economists are sometimes chided for disagreeing about the importance of such basic questions as the relative role of aggregate demand and aggregate supply but physicists can’t even find most of the universe and microbiologists don’t agree on whether the human genome is 80% functional or 80% junk. Is disagreement a result of knaves and fools? Sometimes, but more often disagreement is just the way the invisible hand of science works.

Those we should no trust are the journalists playing the economists.
Ads formats and factors Performance
What kind of ads formats and factors will be the most performing in 2015 WORLDWIDE not only USA?
Thanks for your summary.

The kickstarter project was targeting 15kWh which should be more than enough for a low draw residential setting. For a one-off prototype, they asked for US$50,000 funding.

Let's guestimate that with mass-manufacturing the same product could be built for US$30k, and that's going to provide a probable rated lifespan of around 20 years with zero maintenance.

Contrast batteries, which might cost 30% of that (random figure taken from a solar site) but only last 3-6 years. Sure, they are portable, but they are horrible for the environment and a pain to replace.

I still see a huge market for these.

See also a 1979 presentation from an MIT guy: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979STIN...8010639M
Technical and economic performance analyses indicate that, contrary to general thought, a flywheel system will be competitive if not superior to more conventional systems utilizing either present day or advanced batteries. This derives from the ability of the flywheel to perform the functions of dc-to-ac inversion and optimal impedance matching between the PV arrays and the load in addition to providing energy storage.
> I've always thought Facebook was from the devil.

But you can't stop using it. Why?

I quit Facebook about two years ago, when I stopped liking it. Too many political arguments and misunderstandings. Guess what? Life goes on.
You could do all of above in Word version 4.0.

Why isn't Libre Office designed to create a report which can be printed and bound? Seems like a basic word processing task.
The new Opera (using Chrome) lacks vertical tabs unfortunately. Can't seem to find any info on whether it'll come back
"Surely if it's buried, as seems to be the general consensus for cheapest mode of safe deployment, then it doesn't shake?"

The ground occasionally shakes, depending on where you are.

The Earth also rotates on its axis. And with the speeds and energies with which grid storage flywheels operate, that's a significant engineering concern.

The real killer though is cost / KWh of energy storage. For Beacon's designs it's about $10,000/KWh capacity (not $1000/Wh as I wrote above). Which is high. Liquid metal or molten salt batteries, or simple thermal storage (again, likely salt) could likely compete with this.
Ask HN: How do I go about delivering my first sales pitch/demo?
I have been working on this project, it is sort of CRM but targeted towards a particular vertical say, "not for profits". Incidentally, I came to an organization, they allowed me a free space to work.

They asked me about what I was into, and then, I told them the stuff, they said they were going to look for SugarCRM.

I am mostly a developer, and have seldom done a sales pitch. After talking in brief for 2-3 minutes, I asked them are they willing to pay for it? They said, they would, if they find it good.

As of now, my product is in MVP stage. So the question is -

1. What are the basics that I should keep right in my first sales pitch?

2. How much should I charge them? What should be the basic pricing plan, that I should talk of?

3. What should I keep in mind, to convert the first sales of my life?

4. Any other advice, is always welcome :)

Thanks everyone!
Having tested MIUI compared to stock android on my mother in law, MIUI was much easier for her to understand and use... So, I don't think it's fair to say that Xiaomi is not innovative, it's actually one of the very few android phone maker that actually cares about the software side of things and built a really good interface.
Indie game Kingdom of Loathing is entirely supported by optional item purchases (a new unique, powerful, funny item every month).
Wow this is super duper helpful! Thanks so much. We are hoping to host a 3 hour session, and then invite anyone back on a weekly basis if they'd like to play again. I think we can have a few tables set up so a few sets of games (maybe 4-5) are ideal. Each can have 4-5 players. We'll definitely try coolstuffinc.com and miniaturemarket.com, free shipping is great as I need to buy several :-)
Deep Learning using Support Vector Machines
No, it's just that's not how it works.

For instance,

s, err := server.New()
if err != nil {
// handle error
}
s.Foo()

You're not going to check that s != nil before calling s.Foo, even though s is probably a *server.Server and could be nil. But it won't be, if the New function is correct. Yes, the compiler doesn't guarantee that New gives you a non-nil pointer, but it also doesn't guarantee a lot of things about the behavior of the program.
Estudio de salud en una vivienda en Barcelona
Thanks so much! Since we can't buy all the games, I am going to compile a list of these great games to give to our guests. It's a rich resource they'll definitely appreciate!
The UI feature I will miss most is tabs-on-bottom. I have an address bar, a bookmarks bar, and a row of tabs. Quickly scanning tab titles and switching between them with the mouse is more important than knowing the current page's URL. So the tabs should be closer to "the action", the web page my eyes and mouse are interacting with (Fitt's Law).

The "Tabs on Top" menu item has been hidden since Firefox 15. The about:config pref "browser.tabs.onTop" is the only way to toggle this feature.
How awesome if would be if Windows dominance was limited to K-12... I want to live in that world.

I'm in University and I still find myself explaining to "cyberinfrastructure" developers that their "novel idea" is really just cron + shell + GUI, of which the first two have been around since the 70's (and their "novel" GUI sucks). Combine that with the legion of Matlab programmers cranked out by engineering departments (Python? you mean this is free?!), and I think schools primarily succeed at creating more consumers of technology, rather than the producers they purport.
The factory workers feared machines because the machines could precisely replicate their efforts. If backend engineering efforts were replaceable with a one-size-fits-all API like Parse, I already would be out of work (instead, everyone is hiring). Parse looks great for a client-driven project that essentially needs storage and some transformation, but I'm no more fearful of it than a good designer is fearful of Bootstrap.
Well, it made me want to litter. I'd say it's effective.
Hacking at C Level
> Go looks like it has been designed into a corner, but it is too late to back up now.

Not really. We had years of experience with Go—and made many changes—before we stabilized the spec with Go 1. We are happy with the major decisions we have made so far, as are a lot of Go users. Of course there are minor things we would change if given the chance today, but the basics of the type system and the presence of nil pointers are not among them.

The reason generics is hard is because we want to find a way of doing it without losing the feel of the language we have right now (which we quite like, thanks).
Bitbucket should add static web-hosting (aka User/Organization/Project pages). That would be a killer!
This guy should be embarrassed. Why is he trying to copy Steve Jobs? I think down the road the Chinese will be stuck in a very hard place after decades of copying. Without innovation, it's hard to develop new ideas and technologies.

The Chinese desperately need a cultural revolution to understand that stealing is not an acceptable way to do business. Until that happens it will be hard for any Western company to take them seriously.
Then what prevents Firefox from doing it?
I've seen rms speak before, and one point he made really hit home. It is absolutely inexcusable for a school to teach using what is essentially a mystery black box. If a student wants to be able to open up the source code and see how things work, they should be able to.
*violet
The same way anybody learning anything starts out. Imitation happens every single time someone learns anything. Read the early works of any writer, look at the early work of any painter. You'll find imitation. Look at a child pretending that he's a policeman. Look at Jackson Pollock's early work and compare it to Benton's. I don't know why people look down on imitation. Everyone in the world is an imitator. You have to start somewhere. Even an entire nation has to start somewhere.
"The Chinese desperately need a cultural revolution "

Terrible choice of terms, not sure if you are intentionally trolling or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly
> This derives from the ability of the flywheel to perform the functions of dc-to-ac inversion and optimal impedance matching between the PV arrays and the load in addition to providing energy storage.

We don't need this anymore. This stuff is easy with modern power electronics, so if this is what makes it competitive, then it's not.

I also suspect the reliability is not there yet for 20 year operation.

And it's not like people haven't tried - I've read about a large number of companies that have tried, and yet they all seem to vanish.
As per my understanding, two things drive the prices in the market. One is the perceived value the thing provides to users. This is the primary factor is the cost of producing the good is much lower when compared to perceived value. If the cost of production is high, there is usually a cost+ pricing.

One way competition reduces prices when sellers start undercutting each other in the first case. That doesn't apply to books in India. No one is making astronomical margins on books which can be cut down.

The other reason prices reduce is when competition leads to reducing production cost. It can be because of expanding market, technological improvements, improving supply chains.

Amazon may be able to make some difference in establishing better supply chains. But beyond that I do not see how they can help reduce the book prices in India. There has already been enough bloodbath in the online book retailing in India, so lack of competition is hardly an issue.
Congratulations, jespern!
Granted, every School District is going to have its own way of dealing with IT, but here's how things were during my stint volunteering at a LA Unified School District elementary school between 2002-2004.

First of all there was some up front payment the school/district made to their contracted IT provider. Wehn purchasing computers, no matter what type of computer you wanted, it would cost at least $1400/unit. This was because it came as a package deal with "support". Typically this meant the choice of an e/iMac or iBook or some cheap Dell box with a cheap 15" CRT. As a result the much better equipped, teacher preferred, Macs were typically what were purchased for classrooms and the bargain basement Dells made it into admin offices. Additionally a server for At Ease for Workgroups[1] was occasionally purchased for some other ridiculous number I don't remember.

At this particular school, even if you could switch the entire campus to FOSS software, it wouldn't really affect costs because the school signed a contract to lock the price in at a certain rate. The contracting company would have just pocketed the savings.

Now, the worst part was the the price premium for "support" bought you the privlidge of having the the buck passed to Apple for Mac support (basically some sort of Applecare for Education) or shipping in a new Dell that would sit in a supply closet until they sent someone out... if they ever did. Hence why I was volunteering.

The school was pretty lucky as computer purchases tended to be an uncommon event as this school was near Universal Studios and Warner Brothers and both would regularly donate a number of their two year old "outdated" machines. A lot of what I ended up doing was replacing aging LC IIs[2] and Performa 575s[3] with the new computers.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC_500_series
Also, patent claims are, as far as I can tell, nearly indecipherable. I worked on an application for an invention with really helpful, smart, technically literate lawyers, but after it was all put in the form of claims and figures and embodiments and specifications that could be (but are not necessarily?) implemented in digital electronic circuitry, I could barely it -- and it was my own work! Pity the patent examiners who have to make heads or tails of these things!
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