skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, goodness - I bet we could swap stories. I was Gateway tech support for a short time in 2000. I assure you - it got worse.

The "last straw" for me was when they essentially forced techs to sell hardware. Techs would lie through their teeth (oh, that BSOD is because you don't have enough RAM) and of course management blindly looked the other way.
A $99 Linux supercomputer has been built, will ship this summer
Intergraph keeps telling us, “Shut your computer down and reboot. It’ll just take a minute.

Glad I don't trust my life on such a broken system.
There's really no danger for the NSA. If a law is passed prohibiting mass surveillance, they'll just secretly reinterpret the law to say that it allows mass surveillance.
Super interesting—I did not realize that :). If you guys ever want to pass along feedback on how that went and what you did, please do! <3
Mathematics self-proves its own Consistency (contra Gödel et. al.)
I can think of two major objections to this. First, this does absolutely nothing to control for the social context in which the subjects were raised. That is, it is impossible to draw any conclusions from this study about what the breakdown would look like of men and women were raised in an equal society, where there are just as many knightesses rescuing dons in distress as vice versa, and all the other similar inequities had been cleaned away.

Second, the perfect equality hypothesis does not describe my beliefs. I guess it my describe some non-scientifically-minded liberals' beliefs, maybe even most, but that does not matter very much. What I believe is that perfectly equal opportunity ought to be available to both sexes, and that women should control their own reproductive choices. I believe that we should work to minimize any effects that would tend to accentuate the differences between the sexes. And I believe this independent of the magnitude of those differences. Fundamentally, it does not matter to me if a paper did demonstrate differences, even in a perfectly equal society. It would still be optimal under my value function to no further accentuate them.

But, to wrap it up, I think it's really far fetched to suggest that conservative social policy towards women is the way it is because it's good for women. I mean, just look at what and who women vote for. (Then again, perhaps this is a bad argument because poor people vote for conservatives all the time.)
I think that is your more advanced product development system. I don't that is the definition of Kanban or what it was devised for. It reminds me of Agile -- everyone is now Agile but no one describes it the same way. Thanks for your feedback.
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The same thing but for free.
I've been watching the NSA story closely for years and I disagree. Snowden provided documentation. Until now all the whistle-blowers who were telling the same stories were easily dismissed because they couldn't provide solid evidence. And the administration was able to confuse and mislead Congress by assuring them that they were not doing anything more than a Grand Jury could do during an investigation. The members of Congress who knew better were either complicit or they were silenced by the rules covering classified briefings (a weak excuse in my opinion.)

Granted, Snowden is an important part of the story, and he will be remembered very favorably by history. But for people who are predisposed to buying the administration's fear mongering, he has been easily dismissed and used as a distraction in the short term.
Been using it for a couple of weeks for deliveries to my Palo Alto based office. Orders made by 11am generally arrive before 2pm.

Interestingly, it has not impacted my Amazon Prime purchases.
Thanks for sharing! At the risk of sounding pedantic, your increase was actually 211%:

(0.424 - 0.136)/0.136 = 2.117 (so 212% actually)

(Increasing something by 100% is doubling it, 200% is tripling it, so on and so forth.)

But to everyone saying he's overselling, if the title had said he tripled his revenue, would you say the same thing? This is a huge accomplishment no matter how you slice it!
Why not do both then? Provide absolute and relative differences, at least let us know what the destination is: we increased our conversion rate by %300 to %.424.

BTW, the article gets this right, its the title of the blog post that leaves out the crucial information.
Is your Word formatting complicated enough that WordPress' "Paste as Word" button wouldn't take care of it?
The first one is a fork from the WIP-3 Bootstrap branch (deprecated to RC1). The second one appears last been updated 12 days ago -SCSS files- (i.e. before the BT3 RC1 release).
When Henry Ford finally made it big with his Model T, his wife Clara made him buy her a fancy car: a 1914 Detroit Electric.

Electric cars were the 'good' cars, easier to run, not as dirty or hard to start, more luxurious. But they were an expensive luxury. The Model T was cheap, easy to fix, and adaptable to many other uses (like hooking a wheel to a belt and running a saw to cut wood.) The Model T was a classic disruptive invention: less good but much, much cheaper; it created an entirely new market of car buyers.

It may be that that electric is a better option now: oil is expensive and non-renewable, and burning fuel pollutes. But neither of these reasons were very compelling a century ago.
I think that actually is exactly what Kanban was devised for and largely the context of the David Anderson quote in your article: Kanban is not for software development, it is a technique for seeing, organizing, and improving the end-to-end process of how an organization accomplishes stuff. It is not a complete software process: it says nothing about QA/testing for example. Nor is it a complete marketing process: it doesn't say anything about how you determine market values.

It's about making all these sub-processes flow together, and identifying where the bottlenecks are.

There's a presentation from DJA on where Kanban is not appropriate here: http://www.slideshare.net/AGILEMinds/david-anderson-kanban-w...

Not an easy read. That said, it aligns to what you've been saying in your article (I think): the WHAT and WHY is irrelevant to Kanban, it can't help you there. The HOW, sure: but even there it is more of an overlay on existing process, not a catch all "one method to rule them all".

Where we get into trouble is that I think your article is saying "Kanban doesn't work, do this process instead". But the process you sketch out probably would fail too in many organizations that lack a good handle on what they're doing and why. Any process will, even goal-driven ones (which IME tend to work only in small scales with few cross-department interactions)
The whole point of women's lib was to...

You have a particularly twisted idea of what women's lib was about, and also what 'liberation' means. Women in the workplace surged after WWII not because the capitalists went "awesome!", but because it became increasingly apparent that it was not true that women couldn't do 'work'.

Besides, women's liberation in the West stretches at least as far back as the suffragette movements, which is hardly something pushed by capitalists.
Hmm yes, it is quite a contrast. Even the other pages on the website are like this (e.g. the About page content area has a white background). I thought it looked decent but thanks for the feedback. :)
Of course, paid games can screw you as hard as free games. However, in my experience, paid apps/games require less or no amount of in-app purchases than similar free games to extract the same amount of enjoyment.
Ask HN: How are venture capitalists compensated?
Does anyone have ballpark numbers for how venture capitalists are compensated? When their portfolio company gets bought/sold what percent of the venture capital firm's equity stake goes the vc himself/herself?
Having worked in devops type areas, I tried to re-brand myself as a "platform engineer" because I felt it described my work better than "operations". I've known others in similar situations going by the title "productivity engineer". Essentially, devops has become a broad buzzword with very little meaning. I have frequently heard it used to simply mean "ops,but you write code instead of just babysitting servers". I feel that productivity and platform engineering are much more descriptive and accurate.
There are definitely other programmable text editors available. I use Textadept, which is like Emacs with Lua and minimalism instead of Elisp and evrything-but-the-kitchen-sinkness. Of course it doesn't do nearly all that Emacs does but it feels as programmable to me.
So are you saying it becomes funnier if you are more ignorant about the subject?
Agree, though in fairness I've found it's necessary to get away with "black boxing" certain non- cooperative groups in the short run, and treating them as a fixed constraint.
This graph[1] is the number of children of white Americans age 44-55 by political leaning in the 2000-2010 GSS survey, which seems to suggest that there is a pattern of liberals breeding themselves into extinction. This graph[2] is the same thing over time.

[1] http://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/tfr-us-by-lib-con...

[2] http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/whos-having-the-babi...
Cmon guys, this is not a patent on making money on the internet, it's just ONE method of doing it, and to be honest it's a good idea.
Don't think it's a good idea, but I bet the 138 upvotes here aren't from readers who understood that.
Ok so at your behest I set up a notebook on one of my remote servers and you are right, it's pretty neat. Seems situational though. ipython proper seems a better choice for most stuff no?
I currently feel guilty because its so easy to just buy one thing at a time, and theres nothing stopping me from doing it, that I end up making micropurchases.

Google can absorb some losses for now as they ramp up adding even more ads on search to subsidize this service (and others) but you know where this is heading. The math has to be there, either prices have to be sky-high or /and a delivery fee. See Kozmo, Webvan...
From one of the security hawks:

>"The good news is that we were able to prevail, but that doesn't mean that it's over. If anything it's sending a message that we have to ... let the American public know that we're there to protect them and we're going to protect their civil rights and liberties," Ruppersberger added.

This argument is really starting to sound like "I'm going to beat you to death with my protection stick"
>> I am consistently amazed by the profound contempt which modern liberalism holds for the traditional role of the wife and mother. In traditional societies, motherhood is not looked down upon or held in contempt, but mothers are honored.

Only if they follow a certain line. Those lines are defined by the nature of society, and being from a country that has a middle-class which resonates between being mildly conservative to ultra-conservative, these lines can be anything, but in the end they are nothing more than a tool to control women. For mildly conservatives, they are happy if their daughter goes to a medical school, but then the same girls are put into marriages even before they complete their medical school. For the ultra-conservatives, women are supposed to be hidden behind those hideous burqas and must be married off as soon as it can be. Again under the pretense of Honor.

The only thing common between them is of course mothers and wives are honored. If only they do not challenge the status-quo, do not ask for their rights, are an honor to a family.

This is not honor. This is a vile way to justify objectification of half of the population.
Error objects have stack traces in modern engines, which is very helpful for debugging. Strings do not.
So far, none of the free games I've acquired and used beyond a brief checking-it-out period have required any amount of in-app purchase for my enjoyment. I think there is exactly one that I've spent anything on in-app purchases, and in that case its been about the same total as a fairly low-end paid game.

Sure, they tend to offer lots of in-app purchase opportunities, and sometimes push them aggressively, but so do plenty of the paid games I have. Literally the only categorical difference I've seen is that paid games have an up-front payment.
Super herky jerky on my 2013 Macbook Air. Needs a serious rafactor. Use requestAnimationFrame properly plz.
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Our tools for something like this aren't great because almost nobody needs to do 1M reads per second, and of those who do, only a tiny fraction have a working set that can fit economically in memory and is read-only, like the system in this article.
I have the impression it isn't common, though I've seen a few signs with offers like "in by 9, out by 5". https://getprim.com/FAQ#return says they commit to two days but their average return time is next day.
History is full of its little ironies. Maybe someday a group of people will arise that see through the lies and wishful thinking of both liberals and conservatives, and marry the best qualities of each group.
There are enough people to whom it keeps sounding like "We'll keep enabling you if you keep putting up with the status quo."
Breaking Bad episodes will air on Netflix UK immediately following US broadcast
When you're done with Fictions, do read the other book, "Selected Non-Fictions" http://www.amazon.com/Borges-Selected-Non-Fictions-Jorge-Lui... (not an affiliate link either)

Not only are they excellent pieces in their own right, you can catch occasional glimpses of the evolution of some of his best stories as well. The biography of Paul Valéry, for instance, foreshadows Pierre Menard.
This is great. I would love to use something like this to view client side exceptions. Is there a way to create inboxes with a predefined identifier, eg. use a unique app id as the inbox id? instead of having to create an inbox and assign it's random id to an app
Speed limit set for ultrafast electrical switch
I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.
wow, axman6, it's like you're the patent holder or something.
We absolutely must be relentless with our complaints to our elected representatives, as is our right, lest we lose them all.
Never underestimate the power of information, or Booz Allen and the rest of the Spy Industrial Complex will do whatever they can to keep the gravy train rolling.
> America is, in theory, a representative democracy ...

America was once a republic, precisely to avoid the madness we are talking about in this thread. One by one the protections against mob rule have been dismantled.
The Posse Comitatus Act was repealed.
yes they can do anything. Anything to protect their interests.
Both of the proposed solutions are against the goals of the a store so I suspect it's highly unlikely they'd ever be considered. #1 lowers the amount of downloads of a free app simply because it contains in-app purchases and #2 lowers revenue by reminding consumers how much they've spent and convincing them not to spend. Absolutely ridiculous.

Edit: I just wanted to add that I think the two proposed solutions target in-app purchases in general, rather than just hidden or dishonest in-app purchases. A good solution would be one that doesn't affect positive uses of in-app purchases but does combat negative uses.
There's a difference between putting a piece of metal in a slot and pushing a button that's vaguely connected to your bank account. I'm sure one of the recent 99% Invisible podcasts had something about the increase in revenue when slot machines were able to use credit cards, or banknotes.
The US Women's Suffrage Movement actually grew out of two things in the 19th century. Unfortuently, neither gets much recognition since historical media, reporting and education is a bit slanted to focusing on the last 60-70 years in America with bits of info mixed in about the Civil and Revolutionary Wars.

- Women had to take over many of the jobs and responsibilities of the men that went off to fight during the American Civil War. Unfortuently, it does not get recognized as having the same impact as WW2 did on women and freedom to choose one's own path in life, but it was the "catalyst" while WW2 was more of the "coup de grâce" in holding onto the outdated ideas.

- The Temperance Movement in America. Although there's much to dislike about the Temperance Movement, it was initially started by women that were fed up with alcohol tearing apart their families. Women realized that when they organized and stood up for what they believed in, that others would listen and rally behind them with many counties and states putting restrictions on alcohol long before the 18th Amendment. Many of the women, including Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony would go onto start the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States.
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> > America is, in theory, a representative democracy ...

> America was once a republic

The two are not incompatible. And it pretty unquestionably still is a republic and, in form at least, is also a representative democracy.
Interesting. I did a bit of work in that office too. I was treated quite well, but did not interact with enough of the organization to say much beyond that.
3) seems to wilfully forget PIIGS.

peace

Ah, yes. It was all America's doing. No-one else has done anything of note since the end of WWII.

Hang on... who instigated that unnecessary war in the Middle East ten years ago? Oh, and who propped up a puppet regime in South East Asia before that? Hrm... where was this clarion call for peace in the Second Congo War?

The US should be proud of its achievements, but for the love of god, stop doing that all-too-American thing of taking all the credit.
There was a french company that built compressed-air vehicles, and they were supposed to be much more efficient. The comment you replied to is tongue-in-cheek though.
The main thing you need to do in order to prevent scaling issues are making sure you aren't making an absurd amount of queries per page request. I once worked on a project that was taking close to 10 seconds at scale. Turns out it was making close to 1000 DB queries per request because they were doing iterative logic and making 3-4 db calls per iteration (which was also being done in the view...) I moved it all into the controller and it was sub 1 second, and had about 80 queries left over. This is actually very common to see in Rails apps, even with some of the more prestigious consultancies out there.

If you avoid doing things that absolutely won't scale you will be fine. Rails has no issues scaling, for 99.9% of the use cases. Regardless of the framework you use you will still have plenty of scaling issues if you have Twitter/Facebook level of success. But again that is a great problem to have.
That's a pretty wild claim. Being religious is not similar at all to being abused. Growing up with a certain worldview doesn't affect that. Your body doesn't know you are learning the "wrong" worldview.

"Brainwashing" is a term too lightly used - although it can happen, the average religious person is not brainwashed. They simply just grow up with a certain cultural mindset.
It's not ridiculous if your motivations aren't purely business-driven.
I can already envision it: Google self-driving cars making deliveries.
Chinese represent half of the world's English speakers? Either I can't detect the sarcasm here or you have some odd misconception of China.
I tried to classify your comment into apple as a company or apple as a fruit and it failed. :D
What got me about in app purchases was that in many games, the moment you purchase anything, the difficulty level ramps up thus forcing you keep buying items just to keep progressing[1]. This is known as 'coercive monetization[2]' and is the reason that I recommend people never buy anything in app.

"According to article, 'once a consumer has been marked as a spender, the game difficulty ramps up massively, shifting the game from a skill game to a money game . . .'"

[1]- http://valleywag.gawker.com/there-is-no-evil-scheme-behind-i...

[2] - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949...
What are you suggesting is a higher performance platform? You may get 2-3 times faster with some other framework but you aren't going to see an order of magnitude increase and you are probably going to be sacrificing ease of development.

Rails isn't the answer to every programming problem, but I don't think that Rails has any more of a scalability issue than any other framework.
Indian has its own set of cyber security is it somewhat the problem similar to NSA and should Indians protest against it
http://www.techcrump.com/indian-national-cyber-security-poli...
Not yet but we plan to implement something like this soon. The problem with allowing users to assert their own inbox ids is the chance of collision. I suppose we could insist everyone assert UUIDs. Another idea is to allow users to reserve their own id namespace, allowing any inbox id to be created inside of it without issue.
I can't believe ISPs would fight free caching servers. I was happy when I saw traffic coming from somehost.myisp.net while loading content from YouTube.
taken from the wayback machine

Bob Mansfield
Senior Vice President, Mac Hardware Engineering

Bob Mansfield is Apple's senior vice president of Technologies, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130723083752/http://www.apple.c...
If an ISP thinks the bandwidth savings of caching servers don't outweigh the space and power that they consume, there's always peering. It sounds like major broadband ISPs are doing neither.
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The best, non-scumware script is: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Multi-line strings are non-standard.
Amateur radio can't be used since the FCC prohibits the use of encryption or otherwise obfuscating the content of messages.

Also, commercial use of amateur radio is prohibited which means using e.g. an open WiFi access point with your call sign as the SSID could be trouble if someone were to go to amazon.com... it's a gray area though.
Here in Japan it's hard to find anyone under 40 who doesn't use Line for nearly all their messages. The carriers make it extremely expensive for people to communicate with users on other networks so people just circumvent texting and calling with line. I've asked my friends why they use it and they all say because they like the stickers.The market was wide open for a while, it just took some good marketing.
Thank you! I had been using Chrome just for Youtube. Now, if only I could get Greasemonkey scripts to be saved by Firefox Sync.
"Is the argument here that it will lead to blocking of more content in the future? If so this a slippery slope fallacy."

No it's not because U.K. ISPs have revealed that the filter will censor other content, as well.

"As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course." [1]

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall

The bottom line is that if you don't want your children to be exposed to content that may be questionable, don't let them get on the Internet. Set a password on your computer. Install a filtering program which don't require any technical expertise to install whatsoever. Hell, Windows has a web filter build in now a days. Don't force your preposterous views on to me. The government has no place restricting legal content. I'm tired of these bullshit "Think of the children!" arguments.