skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instructing founders to build products based on themselves as the initial market sounds like good advice, but it worries me slightly that if this advice were taken universally in tech circles, we would innovate in a fairly egocentric direction. Then again, I agree that people work better on problems that they're intimately familiar with, so I don't know if there's a good way around this.
The hotlinked js in question is:
http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/jquery.easing.1.3.js

That is a neat way to communicate ;)

Polymath sounds like a cool idea BTW, but probably difficult to monetize. Somebody must pay the tutors for producing/curating the content, but people have gotten so used to educational material being free...
JP Morgan: “Get rid of your pinko, anti-fascist constitutions”
The US Government cannot just "take" information from EU companies unless they are US based or a US subsidiary... whether this is legal or otherwise.

Being in the EU gives us strong privacy and security laws and they seem to be about to get tougher in light of recent events from the NSA.

There is also the perception element: The US Government cannot be trusted with data from non-US companies or citizens... this is what some of our clients have said to us and I have also read dozens of articles with hosting providers being asked the same questions from their clients.

This will run and run and I believe that, for the EU at least, US cloud providers will not be considered for future projects.

I am not sure how big this issue is in the US but in Europe it is massive and will not go away any time soon :(
True scientific revolution: radical sharing
Spiraling Into Control, by the author of The Motivation Hacker, Nick Winter
Having worked in management in a large company, I have a little perspective from the other side:

Yes, there are laws that prevent you from employing a temp for an extended period of time. It's somewhere around a year; I forget exactly, but it's a law that attempts to protect temps from indefinite temp status. It's supposed to compel the company to hire that temp if they really want them.

There are also laws that prevent you from hiring a temp back within some period of time, so the company doesn't just skirt the issue by firing-then-hiring the temp with a one week break in the middle.

The reason a good temp isn't hired has nothing to do with benefits. Benefits aren't really that expensive relative to a knowledge worker salary.

The reason is because FT headcount is one kind of expense and contractors are another. The budget for FT head is very difficult to drop (it's called layoffs) and actually grows every year because of raises. Contractors are part of slosh money (e.g., "program spend").

So departments are told: "You can have a head budget of $XX and a program budget of $YY." The implicit understanding is that $XX will hold or grow across budget planning (i.e., "We won't make you drop your head budget unless we're actually doing layoffs or moving teams out of your department") and that the $YY can fluctuate.

Departments can generally spend the $YY any way they see fit, and often times, they need workers, so... temps. And if the company is financially stable (which I assume Amazon is), $YY doesn't drop that much so you end up with a long time with enough $YY to keep temps on for a long time, but there isn't enough faith in needing the department at that larger size to increase $XX enough.

I've also seen a lot of temps hang around for a year then get let go because there were just mediocre. Good enough to be productive, not bad enough to go recruiting again, and definitely not good enough to go use a bullet on fighting for increasing $XX. I'm not saying the OP is that case, but I'm sure we've all seen the mediocre temp (or FT) worker hang on.

EDIT: I should add that I'm not at a large company any more. Co-founded a second startup. Woohoo!
> if there is a variable in an alias body, it will be evaluated once, on alias creation, and never again.

Really? That's not true in bash:

$ alias x='echo foo$A'
$ x
foo
$ A=zball
$ x
foozball
Screenshot for potential future confused HNers when Polymath realizes it and uses a real CDN: http://i.imgur.com/A8JzHtK.png
Kryptonite, an proof-of-concept, open-source, LLVM obfuscating compiler
I have heard the term secret court, for the first time only with reference the the USA. With secret courts, secret indictment, your statement of 'He isn't going to be charged with treason' only looks like a trap being laid.
"The simpler explanation is that he was just emotional and complaining about perceived unfair treatment."

I didn't get 'emotional', I thought the OA was actually quite measured and well written. The audience isn't Mr Bezos of course.

What I did get was annoyance at the lack of quality in the process. I agree that the author has not established that the lack of quality arose from the hiring policy. If the first manager had not been reassigned, would things have been better?
He went against his promises many, many times. And he still was re-elected. Which drives me to the conclusion that his voters are gullible enough to still believe in "we're going to change Washington" - even though the person promising the change is has been in charge for years and the only change was to the worse. There was absolutely nothing to indicate that Obama is not a regular politician that would promise to change everything and change nothing. So I regard people that genuinely believed that would happen as gullible. Of course, some voted for him because of certain zero-sum agenda ("he'll take money/power from them and give to us") or because he's "our guy" and not "their guy" - those are not among the gullible ones, as both do not imply you actually believe whatever the politician says, only that he would deliver the good in terms of giving the power/money. For some people, that worked splendidly, they are not gullible at all.
dribbble. Have someone do a .psd, then bring it to a xhtml chop shop for little money. Simple yet effective.
How to add a bitly short url to your website with Javascript
My Experience with OAuth.io
I should put upfront that I don't think windows in itself if not usable as a web stack, and perhaps I wouldn't mind if I was working in a 100% windows shop.

But I usually work with unix/linux production servers, and that's the configuration I'd expect for most projects.
So the pain points mostly come from reproducing a LAMP like environment on windows, with all the specific configurations and modules when needed.

There are little things, like small changes in the config files to adjust for windows, and there are the "why am I doing this" things like trying to compile additional/specific PHP modules on cygwin, with the dependency matching games and all the cygwin idiosyncrasies and limitations to learn first.

It's easier on OSX as compiling OSS projects requires minimal adjustments, the file system mostly behaves the same as other unixes/linux (except for case sensitiveness...), and all the unix tooling is available (no extra learning curve is a bonus).
A separate linux/unix VM closely matching the prod environment would still be the best option, but most of the time OSX is good enough to not bother.
The Old Reader back online
The problem boils down to that managers are rewarded by their upper-managers for doing things that make the upper-managers happy, and are rarely rewarded for doing things that make their TEAM BETTER.

Any sufficiently large organisation becomes an ecosystem.

To succeed inside that ecosystem might damage the ecosystem itself in the wider world, but that doesn't matter in the short term to those inside it. At a certain size the ecosystem seems invulnerable and everlasting, and eclipses the wider world for those inside it.

This happens not just in corporations, but in any other social grouping I've seen, including governments, politics, and academia. It's very hard to avoid when any significant number of people are involved.
1. Agree that's handy in dev. For development a container is probably a good choice - in other environments virtualization or physical hardware may make sense.

"More consistent" dev/test/prod is great, but I don't need nor want identical. My needs in dev are different from production - e.g. Everything from basic settings, URLs, networking, reloading behaviour to performance tuning. My needs for my dev DB are quite different from those in production.

2. Agree, but this isn't unique to containers (which is probably what I was aiming at).

Low footprint is somewhat irrelevant to "configure once". You can manage this on physical hardware if needs be.

Low footprint is great when you're resource constrained, somewhat irrelevant at scale. Plus a VM gives you other features/tradeoffs in return for that cost. Different circumstances will tend to favour one over the other.

I find Docker useful. Containers and Standardised Workloads are great. I see the utility in both, my argument is I see them as orthogonal. Particularly referring to the "alternatives" at the end of the deck, which seemed unnecessary distinctions for me.
Ok there is a better way to handle this than adding some html to a page to make a banner, posting to HN, and hoping for the best.

Check for referal headers and throw a 301.
Lots of services out there like browser-update.org tell you to load snippets of js over http from some random location they control. It's pretty unsafe unless you really know who's running the show over there and how secure their system is. Them being compromise could make every user site vulnerable.
Would Rosalind Franklin have won a Nobel for her work on viruses?
The last time there was widespread starvation North America was in Newfoundland during the Great Depression.
You should look into Effective Altruism, Earning to Give and 80,000 Hours.
It's 5PM on a Wednesday. You need to do the laundry because you have a client meeting tomorrow, but you decide to use Prim. They have an average return time of one day, so you end up going to the client meeting naked, since they didn't get your clothes back in time.
The stated latency for the Rift was ~16ms--the other 100ms or so came from the rest of the pipeline.

If that could be brought down--say, by an FPGA or Paralella or something, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Leap Motion – Just a toy or the future?
Just because there's a large one doesn't mean they scale linearly.
Me too Tichy, I feel just the same about it.
So, kind of like ghetto dual-paraboloid mapping?
Captology wikivs laser beams.

Both

* zomgcopter creepy

Captology

* Coined at Stanford
* Persuasion technology that's "not malevolent"
* Doesn't require neurosurgery

Laser beams

* May cause fire
* Almost completely harmless when combined with sharks capable of jumping

Adv: laser beams

PS: Yeap, the post title is inaccurate link-bait. Plz edit to be more realistic.
I keep thinking that logistics is THE issue here. I understand all the comments criticizing the idea, but the idea is awesome! Who would not say otherwise? Pick up laundry? Amazing! I want it now!

But the question is on the margins and prices. Sending a truck around is no joke and it costs money. You clearly see it because Prim drops USD 10 after the first bag. That is huge (40% discount guys).

How would I go about this? Create a scheduling service. Tell people their price drops if they find other people in the neighborhood. Tell them you make it cheaper if they schedule a day of the week. Reduce the requirement. 1 bag is big for a single person, but maybe half bag no, and what about if you say, ok, if you find another half bag 0.5 km from you we come anyway?

Look at this 2 dimensions: price and quantity. You can reduce price, you can reduce quantity (the half bag), you can reduce both. Then apply these 2 dimensions to a group purchasing model. You get benefits all over the place: incentive for customers to invite other customers, no risk in running on negative margins and better deals with the laundries.

You really can play a lot with this once you look at the real aspect of the problem, which is logistics. I would love to hear your comments on this guys, this is an issue many similar start ups face.
> Reduced memory usage/improved performance

This is (most likely) not going to happen, at least for a (very) long time - the cause is that StarOffice was originally structured as a single giant application instead of separate ones.
what do you think the nsa has really been up to all this time?
There is of course the maintenance issue... what happens when their script is updated and breaks how you use it?
This is actually pretty amazing. The codepen links are kinda hard to see though.
Thanks for the reply. I was away so I could not say this before. Thanks.
AGPLv3. Technically open source, but not what most have in mind.
Enterprise people have already moved in on this with opaque application volumes. NDA's so don't bother asking for detail.
Existential depression in gifted children
Content Enricher implementation using Oracle Service Bus
I hope referrals will be disabled anytime soon. Firefox has AFAIK disable referrals to other domains by default.
It has the difficulty of justifying to clients who reckon they know the standard industry rates, why a feature costs so much. Having a per-feature price doesn't get round questions about why this costs so much.

Clients who have a little technical knowledge are the most dangerous. I have one with a large-agency background in the mid-'90s who quibbles every single time over the cost, whether fixed for per-hour. Because he expects it to always be a quick 5 minute/1 hour fix. So even on fixed price, he's sat there going "Well this costs $400, it isn't complex and will only take 2 hours, so they're charging... $200/hr?!!". Cue the same old justification of effort fight again, where "because there are unknowns and it could take 2 hours to debug the network issue" doesn't justify charging for it, because computers are simple, I'm the expert and I should know what I'm charging for...
Or just send the owner an email: http://www.whois.com/whois/whatispolymath.com
I love the fact of a web without ads, even these are ads which keep investments of companies to go in the web.
Ads make the web in a dead-alive state, and nobody is really trying to find an other sustainable business model for internet. You try to do it and my applauses for such courage.
As user of adblock and as believer that ads are the cancer of the web, I will try to use Perks browser (I find the perksm odel irrelevant for me personnaly but...if I have a better model I ping you ! ;) )
whoops, not sure he wanted it here too.

http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
Typical Microsoft... Why don't they focus on innovation and develop products that are game changing? Instead they put out crappy stuff hoping that their lame marketing will attract consumers.
Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25
Usually, library scripts are versioned in their filename, so won't be updated after release.
Mark What world changing startup have you built?

Its really unfair to for anyone on the sidelines to criticize the man in the arena.

Be the change you want to see in the world: if you feel they are solving the wrong problems, go solve the right ones.
> * Maintenance 24/7

A word of advice. Never, ever set yourself up for this if you're a solo freelancer, unless there's 3 of you (or at a pinch 2).

The time the client needs this will be when you're a) on an airplane b) in bed with the flu c) on holiday d) having a romantic evening/weekend with your other half.

Nice money and the client likes it, but you have signed away your entire life in exchange.
Android 4.3 source code reveals support for 4K resolution
The way we treat JSON is similar but the performance characteristics are radically different.
Yes, it is a moving target, but you can still get it to a very solid good level. In the past it's always been a few years between updates, and they have version details in the files, so you can say "Supports Word 2007 files" and not worry about Word 2016.

I've written a bunch of Perl code (that I should open source.. maybe some day. anyone here'd find that useful?) for creating and editing docx files. It's not that hard -- it's all XML!

EDIT: I was using a LibreOffice daemon before, but I did this code just because Libre had so many bugs / missing features when converting a document to docx.
Sold (along with the relevant brands) to EA. Coincidentally, Mattrick is a former 15 year high level executive at EA.
And that's a pretty mild example of what could happen if you did. Hotlinking javascript is an excellent way to allow someone else to pull all kinds of tricks with your visitors and your image. For example, redirecting all your traffic to a shocksite.

Every time you include some externally hosted javascript you open yourself and your visitors to a security risk. And on top of that, if you do it like this you're stealing bandwidth.

When including remotely hosted javascript make sure you have permission, make sure the other party is trustworthy and periodically review the linked script to make sure it does what is advertised (and that's imperfect, it could be you're seeing something else than other visitors).
PouchDB is serious. I hope Mozilla picks it up for their mobile OS.
make sure to vote for him on August 13 in the Senate primary.
I find it sad, but that is the conclusion I came to, as well.
Compared to what could have happened this is actually pretty mild.
I think there are quite a few users who need a local Office package storing files on their computer. Shonky internet connections, local distribution of templates, control over documents &c.

I agree this may be a shrinking number of people, aligned with the PC/Laptop numbers I imagine.

LaTeX is great, but the skill set required in use is high. I find sending people a document in LO/oOo is easier for them to change &c.
>> Week Eight: Quantum Logic (orthocomplemented lattices, projections, Gleason's Theorem, probability and logic).

Naive question: wasn't quantum logic a somewhat failed endeavour and a thing of the past?
How many of you clicked right on over to shopinprivate.com upon reading this article? C'mon... admit it!

I, for one, was impressed with the site. It's the right mix of frankness, humour and, well, given the subject matter, titillation. Well done.
Using national averages for electricity and water, it only costs $0.76 to complete a load of laundry (washing & drying).
Well if the main criteria is that want your code to be used in whatever projects need it, then permissive licencing is most likely your best option.

If you do want to use GPL then just like belorn said, the 'or later' clause keeps GPL compability against later versions and I believe a majority of GPL projects use that. Linux is of course a notable exception.
I use it to find a list of friends in a given location like
"Friends in California" or "Friends in Oracle" and use that list to contact them for help with our startup :)
(I tend to lose track of the people on my friendlist, so it helps)
Feature-wise, Google Docs hasn't caught up with these Office applications; no doubt about that. However, there's nothing wrong with it objectively: plenty of people use it quite happily, and it has no serious deficiencies.

In short, I think your mistrust arises purely from familiarity with the desktop solution; don't let it cloud your judgement, because I really don't think these dinosaurs have a future.
Ha ha!

Actually, it's not a bug, pretty obvious he's "demonstrating a feature"... :)
There is an effort on the way to use the GPU for computation, though that's still some time off.

http://www.datamation.com/applications/libreoffice-accelerat...
Yes but what is the cost of those machines? And what is the cost of the service that uses those machines?
>It's unlikely the administration took down an entire website just to hide Obama's whistleblower promises.

No, they did it to hide ALL the promises and old texts.

>What's more likely is that that, since Hope/Change was the old slogan and "Forward" has replaced it as the new slogan, it's time to take down the old site because it's simply outdated.

Yes, clearly in the US now, hope and change are outdated. We must just go forward as things are.

Are you seriously accepting this graciously? This marketing BS is exactly the kind of thing politicians do when they are not for real, but BS marketeers and spin doctors.

>C'mon guys let's show a little critical thought and stop looking for conspiracies where they don't exist.

Emm, what conspiracy? This is what BS politicians do all the time. Retract their promises and update the websites so that people are not reminded of them.
Well, I see it as a great reminder why one shouldn't trust scripts hosted elsewhere into one's site.
There are actually some nice 2L washers, which you don't even need to install, just plug in. jmduke might prefer the laundromat, but it's not needed even if you live in a big city.
firebase has bindings for angular:

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-f...

and

https://github.com/firebase/angularFire

which make it relatively simple to wire up your angular model to firebase.
OVH is not really entering the hosting industry at this point.
Would love to talk more, what's your email?
I think many of us in the United States saw this coming when the current administration stated they would not be addressing the previous administration's law breaking.

The law is now "in your face" optional, depending on how much money and/or power is involved. Power has always had undue influence, it is just flagrant now.

From what I read, this is fairly common among many countries, so I take it as part of the "human condition."
As you can see from the earlier child posts, opinions differ!

Using yum localinstall, I installed LO4.1 and oOo4.0 on a CentOS based desktop last night along with the native LO3.4 install. At present, I'm finding oOo has scrolling issues (nvidia graphics, proprietary drivers) and the 'use hardware acceleration' option is un-ticked and greyed out on installation. LO4.1 has the option ticked and editable on installation.
>What do you think the wayback machine is?

A generic, difficult to navigate, seriously lacking in content, website?

Nothing at all like what he said, except the "archives old webpages" part.
Yes, the algorithm could probably have predicted you making this comment as well.
Scalpers do provide a benefit though: If you have more money than time, scalpers enable you to easily buy the best tickets, those which would probably have been sold out within a few hours if everyone could buy them at the artificially low prices set by the venue.

Speculation is just another word for betting, I don't think that's an inherently bad thing.
I also think it's strange. FreeBSD jails are essentially the same thing. When I describe Docker, I would call it "FreeBSD jails for Linux" rather than "lightweight virtual machine" or even "iPhone apps-style isolation".

But I do get the hype. BSD and Solaris, although they have many interesting benefits, just aren't that popular for a variety of reasons. I won't turn this into a discussion of why they aren't popular, but it's a fact that Linux is much more popular. Most people aren't going to switch even if BSD and Solaris provide more benefits. But now that an important feature has become available for Linux, I can see why people get excited.

It's like Node.js. Servers with evented I/O has exited for years, if not decades. But the fact that Node.js is Javascript made it mainstream and that's why there's hype.
$9K (cost of Prim over the length of time it takes to get your money out of a washer & dryer) is too small to meter?
I wouldn't necessarily call is scary, they're a start-up and early stage at that, probably just an oversight. Plus, they mention in the TechCrunch article that right now it's literally just the 2 of them, I'm sure they'll get one up soon!