skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American citizens are ashamed of our government for all sorts of reasons, in many cases including the things they have our soldiers doing, much less whether or not they're paid to do them.

Yes, this is disgusting, but let's not pretend "American citizens" have had any real say in this kind of treatment.
Seconded. I'd pay for this today.
I just use ctrl-alt-sysrq + r, s, e, i, u, b to stop unwanted processes.
I think the point was to congratulate DDG on its success, not to say that DDG would be more resistant to the military digital complex.
It does a merge sort, and I can't see that you can opt out of it: https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/blob/master/src/sms.erl

2i doesn't use mapreduce in normal operation.
I'm no expert on wavelengths, but 'American creates a filter to fit over Google Glass's camera to block out near-infrared?'
Considering that Instacart allows you to add notes to your order, or even to an individual item, I'm sure this is something that can be easily resolved. Most shoppers at Instacart have paid attention to the notes, which has been great. I've run into situations where the item I ordered is not available, so they need to replace it with another item. Usually I add a note to my order that tells the shopper to always pick the smaller & cheaper substitution, since I live on my own and only cook 2 days out of the week. So my personal experience has been that it works well, but I can see how there might be variability in experiences amongst others.
>gets you a 11-12" laptop.

No it doesn't. No hinge & typing space is also display space under some conditions e.g. browsing.
This seems like one of the 10x productivity / mastery cases where your three minutes and creativity have produced something that would take me ages, even if you set me to the task of duplicating your design.

Are you willing to spend another 3 minutes producing a logo for an unrelated programming project? :-P
For the uninitiated:

Dota2 is a massively popular AAA game created by Valve which just came out of beta yesterday. The game is known to be difficult to play and master.

Why Linux release is important:
Valve released Steam for Linux couple of months back but apart from TF2 and other Valve titles, Steam for Linux is picking up pace very slowly. Even games like TF2 and L4D are more or less last generation titles. Dota2 on the other hand is brand new, it uses all the new features from source engine and hopefully is capable of pushing Gaming on Linux like no other title.
Tags do help. Our problem is the sheer volume of issues - 260 currently open and counting [1]. So prioritizing becomes an issue, as well as the unbarably slow web ui.

[1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues?direction=desc&sor...
While it's not _necessarily_ true, it is possibly true, and that's the bit that folks are latching on to. They're assuming that there's a "market" of investors who are both interested in and willing to diversify their investment portfolio by, in part, making smaller high risk investments. My experience with, admittedly smaller investment firms, is that this may be true. Organizations like IllinoisVENTURES (I know several of the folks there) aren't interested in big C-round investments. The bulk of their information comes from their proximity (physically and virtually) to Enterprise Works (a UIUC run incubator). I've heard partners declare, on several occasions, "I wish we knew about these guys while they were still looking for seed money." I guess in, at least one, anecdotal case, it does bear out to be true.

As for my bar, let me re-phrase, just for accuracy: We couldn't come close on our own without liquidating existing investments. It didn't make mathematical sense to do so (returns were higher on existing than expected returns on the bar). From our perspective, it was an expensive hobby, not a money making investment (for us).

On the other hand, if we could raise, let's say $50K from investment, $50K converted from other investments (our own money), and $25K from family, then cover the remaining $75K through bank loan collateralized by the building (the building is valued at $125k)... Yup, that would have been easier.
Doesn't relying on people to accurately rate themselves make their rating sort of susceptible to the Dunning–Kruger effect?
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>There was one other important aspect to the agency model that Apple established with the publishers — it included a most-favored-nation (MFN) clause. An MFN provision will frequently appear in contracts between wholesalers and retailers and it ensures that the wholesaler will provide the retailer with the best wholesale price. But Apple adopted it in the agency model to require that the publishers adjust e-book prices in the iBookstore to match the lowest price offered by any other retailer — regardless of whether the publisher controlled the pricing in that retailer.

>This meant that the iBookstore would always have the e-book at the cheapest price. It also meant that if a retailer was offering the book for a cheaper price, the publisher would have to lower the retail price to match it. If that meant the price was below what it cost to produce, the publisher would take the loss, not Apple — they would still get their 30% cut.

>The traditional purpose of MFNs are used to protect a retailer’s ability to compete, ensuring that they aren’t disadvantaged by the wholesaler giving their competitors a better deal. The DOJ contends that the way this MFN works, it was designed to “protect Apple from having to compete on price at all, while still maintaining Apple’s 30 percent margin.” Those are strong words, but there is certainly a kernel of truth to that.

http://www.macstories.net/stories/understanding-the-agency-m...
The majority of their results come from Bing so how is it a myth?
But UTF-8 is too complicated for many shells! ;)
Brennan, I respectfully disagree. He said:

"This is exactly why you might want to consider moving to weekly billing. Bill for a weeks work, as long as the deliverables come in does it matter if the week was only a few hours long?"

What you sond to be advocating is fixed-price bidding/value-added pricing; but that's not the same as the OP.

If he'd said:
"This is exactly why you might want to consider moving to billing on value. Bill based on what it's worth to them, as long as the deliverables come in does it matter if it only took a few hours?"
I'd have had no qualms.
You seem so good about Open Source teams management that you should join...
Oh, crap, you're right. I read that as f''(x) must have the same sign as f(x).
As nice as the privacy aspect of DDG is, I cannot see it sustaining the traffic over a long period. The main issue here is Google did a lot of vertical integration which DDG did not do yet. The biggest feature lacking is directions. Searching for an address on Google automatically shows it on a map and you can immediately go to the map and get directions. The number of searches just to get information (like code search etc) should be less compared to searching for services and directions. They need to build these features in to sustain the interest and to get more regular users.
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One could also argue that Sequoia now knows the difference between a doomed-to-fail grocery delivery services and a successful one after experiencing it first-hand. :)
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> Thanks for the feedback. The portfolio wasn't meant to be solely accessed through the carousel - there's a dedicated page for it, and the carousel was just a "look at all these things I've worked on" statement. I guess I didn't clearly communicate that. You aren't really meant to navigate it, rather just to look at it's breadth and click on one if it caught you eye.

I realised that was more a showcase than for navigation. What I meant was that if one did catch your eye just as it was falling off the page - you can't bring it back. It can be argued as a pretty miner issue I'll grant you. But that was my immediate thought when I saw stuff drop off the side :)

> The width is indeed because of the carousel - I meant for it to go of the page. Is that causing weird scrolling problems? It's supposed to be overflow-x: hidden. Is that causing weird tablet scrolling issues? You're not supposed to be able to scroll horizontally.

This is was in Firefox on ArchLinux (laptop). I definitely have a scrollbar at the bottom. Sorry mate :(

> I'll have to look into the character encoding issue - thanks for that report.

I notice you don't have any meta tags for encodings. I wonder if that might be causing the issue (I should stress - I'm not an expert on these matters): http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#character-encoding
Wait, so I have to keep my computer ON (the one which has this USB device connected) and I am supposed to feel I am using Dropbox?

I could do a whole lot more if I could keep one of my computer ON 24x7x365 without using a $69 device.
I don't mean to brag, but as I was writing a story about surveillance on my home computer today, the NSA director called and said, "I really love where you're going with this."
To be fair, he said he's not a hardware guy. But he also is right, FinFet transistors are better for power consumption and that's really important in mobile devices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6019172
Blizzard is the big missing player for me. While their games work quite well in Wine, native would be nice.
This makes me so incredibly angry, and I don't even know what we can do about it at this point
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Interesting. DuckDuckGo shows news.ycombinator.com as the featured site, while Google does not show this exact link at all on the first site, neither via g! nor s!. Only the HN jobs site is in the top ten search results. Bing has it correctly again.
It's built by a team of interns at Rally. We'd love to know why you'd use it for private repos but not open source projects, hoping to help people know where they can start contributing to an open source project.
They likely mean sending an authorization to your files instead of the actual files.

Which is very, very silly as a claim.
Pulling You Out of the Lurker Mode; How Can We Make It Easier To Connect?
Both lotteries and casino gambling are heavily regulated in terms of their returns to consumers, and there are reasonable methods of recovering value if they fail to perform as promised, because the entities are generally still operating.

You can't do that with business investments -- there's no way to mandate a particular minimum return to investors, and no way to recover lost funds if the business fails to perform as promised. If I promise you safe 15% returns, and then I run the business in a high risk way and it goes under, there isn't any way for the state to really regulate that level of risk and return except in very highly regulated industries like insurance where money is being invested in rated securities (and even then, it's not great.)

The biggest problem with private investments is that there generally isn't any liquid market to provide a "real" price. It's just whatever the company can convince an investor to pay. Nobody can short or sell you their shares easily, and if you buy in it can be impossible to sell out.
To my knowledge, casino gambling has not actually crashed the entire economy. Multiple times.

I agree with you that the rules are not really about protecting ordinary people. At this point in history, it's about protecting one set of elites from another, with the side effect of (perhaps) protecting the entire economy from certain disasters.
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I was momentarily taken aback and impressed by "I" until I noticed "J" right beneath it...
OTOH, Peapod does grocery delivery around here and just uses the local Stop & Shop's prices, including their weekly specials. I like it since I trust that a major chain will have competitive prices.
It's a curious phenomenon, isn't it? As a long-time DotA player myself, I maintain a separate "DotA Persona" which I fall into when playing. It's basically an offensive response to assholes: also be an asshole.

I think it essentially comes from the nature of the game: as an individual, you're suddenly stuck with a bunch of other people you have to cooperate with. It's not like tf2 or CS. The teams are smaller and the stakes are much higher. People care about winning games in DotA a lot more than they do in most FPS games, where the journey is the destination. In DotA, the win is the destination and it's the validation of your abilities (k/d ratio doesn't cut it).

You would think having the win be so important would make it easier or better to work together, but the fact of the matter is most DotA players suck. Even people who consistently win public games still suck. Players hold everyone else to incredibly high standards and get frustrated when they feel like their team "drags them down." This is compounded by a feeling that, if you're doing badly yourself, you should scapegoat a team member in order to shift the blame.

DotA 2 is actually a lot better. I'm not sure why exactly, and it depends on your level. Maybe there's hope.
Yes, but my point was, incubators serve as a fine information channel for technology companies, but there is an entire class of small business which are not suited to incubators, such as bars. The rule change gives these small businesses a channel to inform potential investors that they're out there. Investors that they would not, otherwise, be able to reach.
tmarthal makes a good point stating that Freebase data is not complete.

Moreover, looking at the language itself, I don't see anything that reminds me of Java.

That CFML runs on the JVM doesn't imply that the Java language is an influence from a theoretical computer science point of view. CFML also runs on .NET and Google App Engine, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language
I do not believe any large company have economic interest in developing such technologies, in part because they can subvert current business models that are built on centralized identity authorities and communications monitoring, so I rely on independent efforts to see variants of these technologies that can reasonably be adopted by the people I interact with.
A common argument from police officers I know in the UK is that they don't want to carry things like firearms and heavy protection gear routinely precisely because it promotes escalation, as well as the kind of them-and-us culture mentioned elsewhere in this thread because most of us here aren't legally allowed to carry firearms.

As a counterpoint, for all the early mockery that Police Community Support Officers took, the idea seems to have worked out pretty well. If you call to report a relatively minor problem today, it's a good bet that you'll get one or two PCSOs and maybe a PC turning up. I think the fact that "real people" come to deal with the situation and maybe have a quiet word with someone who's a little out of line probably goes a long way to avoiding unnecessary confrontation. I'm pretty sure I would be far less comfortable if a small paramilitary team knocked on my door and asked to come in, even if they just wanted to ask if I'd seen anything relevant to a break-in at a neighbour's house or something.
Love it. This would definitely solve a problem for me if I could get my whole clique to use it.
"I’ve been in this business for two decades, and the only way I know to hand-debug a SOAP transaction is with a hammer and a straitjacket2. Heck, I’ll take an old-school EDI transaction over SOAP any day."

SOAP? You lucky. It's 2013 and I'm still knee deep in
RMI-IIOP sometimes. Wireshark with GIOP dissector helps, but I’ll take SOAP over CORBA any day:-).

Seriously: Your post summarized very well what I was thinking when reading the recent HTTP 2.0 posts. Full Ack.
As proof, consider that a law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies – and the Pentagon alone has never complied. It annually reports to Congress that its books are in such disarray that an audit is impossible.

What the hell? How can this acceptable? God forbid an American makes a typo in their taxes and gets audited to hell and back but if a major section of the government says "yep, we can't do that because we are so messed up that it is impossible to fix" they are given a pass?

Sickening and I'm not even American.

precise totals on the extent and cost of these mistakes are impossible to come by, and for the very reason the errors plague the military in the first place: the Defense Department’s jury-rigged network of mostly incompatible computer systems for payroll and accounting, many of them decades old, long obsolete, and unable to communicate with each other. The DFAS accounting system still uses a half-century-old computer language that is largely unable to communicate with the equally outmoded personnel management systems employed by each of the military services.

Oh, and heres a startup idea!

The department’s authorized 2013 budget, after sequester, totals $565.8 billion

And they have the cash to support it! Seriously though, who thinks "they're own books are literally unusable, let's given em a FREAKING THIRD OF CANADA'S GDP TO PLAY WITH!" and ends up not getting shot for treason?

Edit:
As I read and read it just gets worse and worse!

“At last count, there were 167 manual workarounds” for the 40-year-old pay system used by DFAS and all the services except the Marines, he says. As a result, staff often must transcribe information from one system onto paper, carry it to another office, and hand it off to other workers who then manually enter it into other systems – a process called “finger-gapping” that Wallace faults as a further source of errors.

NONONONO this is not how to run a small business let alone the largest war machine the world has ever seen

Based on a self-audit, it said, its accuracy for pay and calculation of benefits for military personnel in the nine months through July 2012 was 99.76 percent. The agency also said it had undergone partial audits for pay accuracy by the inspector general of the Defense Department and by the GAO.

For the love of...

I can't continue reading, I might have a stroke.
> If anything, the people who benefit the most are those who _can't_ afford massive forward deployed CDN networks, large servers, and fat network pipes.

You win some, you lose some. The benefit of cutting down on some infrastructure should be weighed against the mind-boggling complexity of HTTP 2.0 and the added difficulty in debugging.
>and the people who criticize AWS aren't dumb, either

I didn't say they were. I asked them to provide an alternative rather than pretending a single dedicated server is comparable to AWS.

>Most companies

I don't care what most companies need. I am not trying to argue, I am asking the people insisting that nobody should ever use amazon to provide a reasonable alternative or stop making sweeping generalizations.

>We could easily afford two 32-core database servers within our budget, and their performance translates to a whole bunch of Amazon's fastest instances.

Did you seriously not notice how you aren't addressing anything I said, but just repeating exactly what I pointed out wasn't relevant? I don't need more cores, I need reliable storage. What is my EBS? Until we're big enough to be running our own datacenters, there's not really a reasonable alternative that I can find. I am asking for advice, not "more cores!".
A big part of the best PvPers are lone-rangers. It is possible to do it, and when you start to be one of these you are like a god in the system. I remembered a guy named Ephemeron, he had two accounts with two incredible ships. They were the Formula 1 of Eve online, costing more than a fleet of 20 pilots, each. When he entered in a system, it was like Darth Maul was here. Awesomely fitted, awesomely skilled. Everyone wanted to kill him to harvest his items and also to fight him because he was a master in PvP. But at the end everyone died every time. His main vessels had an mean of 500 ships destroyed before he lost them... Famous across a good 1/4 of Eve.

So yes it's possible and it's even one of the most fun part of Eve.
Nicely explained. And hello back at ya. (JSR $FF3A)
>You shouldn't have to use a QWERTY-like keyboard to enter text into a tablet

Why not - If I can smoothly transfer touch typing skills then thats a pretty big win.

> huge waste of space on an already small screen.

Hence my comment about slightly larger screen. I can almost touch type on a 10 inch...bit more and it could work. The capacitative aspect might even work better than a physical keyboard for "touch" typing.
"Today in the US, if you call 911 about an emergency medical condition, they will often send a fire engine along with an ambulance and a cop. It makes me wonder if firemen and firewomen are so underutilized they've ended up with mostly make-work."

One of the reasons for this is also that fire stations are often far closer to the scene of a call (fire suppression being something that benefits from being distributed vs. centralized hospitals) so the fire truck will often arrive there first, and can render aid until the ambulance arrives.
Thanks - really interesting and reassuring comment! Much appreciated.
On your point about lack of pricing transparency and inability to forecast costs with AWS, check out CloudCheckr. It helped us get much better visibility into our AWS costs. I still feel like I'm overpaying with AWS, but at least I have better visibility into where and how I'm overpaying...
I think your strategy has a huge flaw -

The Joplin, Missouri tornado, Moore, Oklahoma tornado, Hurricane Sandy and Katrina.

I don't think you should rely on someone who MERELY uses the same ISP. I think you need to be a thousand miles away from each other.
I seem to recall a Glacier discussion from a while back suggesting that the recovery fees might be covered by insurance (homeowners, loss of business, etc). If you're primarily concerned about doing a restore after a fire, theft, or natural disaster, it might be worth looking into.
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I'm amused by BLARNEY. I presume this represents cable that runs from the US to Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone

Before the safeguards were installed, the kiss was performed with real risk to life and limb, as participants were grasped by the ankles and dangled bodily from the height.

I can reliably inform you that this is indeed as scary as it sounds.
It's probably just a weather balloon. :-)
But it also gives very good results for common search tasks. Compared it myself to few other not so known search engines and it gives even better results than Google since it doesn't seem to favor corporate web pages but rather relevant results.
Google became too big and too greedy and top of it all caved into the mass surveillance scheme, behind our backs. Why use a search engine and products endorsed by hypocrites. At least yahoo did some minor fight although they are not exactly better either, but that fight did give many of us a warning about what is going on behind the curtains.
Ask HN: I'm tired of development. What should I do next?
(Edited: title changed to use the word "fuck", which is a great way to get more visibility on HN. Also I tl;dr'd it.)

What would you recommend for someone that has fully resolved to change their career from developer to X, but has no answer to the question: "What is X?"

If there are career counselors that could help, how would you suggest finding one that would give good advice? What books and/or tests would help for those that are in a similar situation, have fully decided that they are on the wrong path, and who have abandoned almost all hope?
Relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/toxicity