skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are there so many sketch companies in the language space? L+H is the ultimate I think.
Mac mini works fantastic.
I won't hold it against them because it's already happened and inevitable, but part of me mourns the fact that most of what I'll see across social media will increasingly be A/B tested manipulative marketing crap. I have no problem with the particular touching video; I just resent the blockbuster mentality.

Imagine that everyone on HN were actively optimizing what they say according to what gets voted up. Sound good?
All the charts were created using the built in rickshaw library. Most of the widgets are in house at the moment but I'm working to open-source as much of it as possible.
You've posted 7 github URLs in the past 45 minutes with no content. Please don't spam here... and Three20 has been on Hacker News dozens of times
If I can't properly develop and support them, they go to that big hard drive in the sky. I take the approach of failing as fast as possible. If code is in this state, it is now failing. It's time to move on to bigger and better things and not waste mental cycles (even minimal) or resources maintaining.
He deserves a lot of credit - it's doubtful it would have got anywhere near the same publicity if he hadn't quit, and that probably put the issue over the edge in terms of forcing Qualcomm to come to the party sooner.
My suggestion is crunchbang ;) try and you will understand ;)
http://www.crunchbang.org/
Yeah, that is half of why I dropped out of MIT (the other half was chance to do an ecash startup, but I was financially screwed for this reason otherwise; the alternative was ROTC)
Wearing a computer on you head isn't normal... but on METH^HA it is. :P
personally I use HEAD quite often in the form of `curl -I` if I want to check the size or mime type of a particular resource.
| Well, maybe it shouldn't have been "techno dad to the rescue", but rather "dad spending a moment with his kids showing them how to setup a raspberry pi/their xbox/etc.".

Tell that to my brother - every single time I try to explain as carefully as possible, going step by step, making him repeat the steps to make sure he knows how to do it.
Aaand two weeks later he's got the same problem and is calling me to fix it... Some people just don't want to understand...
Ask HN: Looking for a developer to collaborate with
Hey,

Any developers out there would like to collaborate on developing HTML5 and WP themes?

Let's talk further.

Email me: dylancole101@gmail.com
Do you have any particular criticism to make?
Bloomberg terminals may be unfamiliar to many in this community, but this is a Big Deal(tm). Those things are not cheap to lease, but you can be sure as hell there is a reason serious traders shell out for them.
99.99% of the mathematics of motion consists of continuous functions with continuous derivatives of all orders. Infinitesimals are just fine for that.

There were logical contradictions even in Newtons and Leibniz works, far before anyone considered continuous functions without derivatives etc., they were basically making decisions about when a given operation or transformation can be applied based on intuition alone and not any logical deductions, and it wasn't rare they arrived at incorrect conclusions. Also, Newton himself did epsilon-delta reasonings, he just did not notice their generality:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086000...

Again, you are confusing the work of Cauchy and Weierstrass and the epsilon-delta stuff with all the latter even more formal approaches to treat more complicated functions, which by the way were developed in response to Fourier examining heat transfer and trying to describe it mathematically (so it's actually rooted in physics).

People were saying the same things you are just saying about limits about the geometry of Euclid, in fact Newton at one time was of the opinion all the formal development of geometry is useless. He reconsidered after obtaining nonsense geometrical results a few times...

The formalization of the calculus, in contrast, was a step backwards in creative terms. Although necessary, it is of interest mostly to pure mathematicians.

I wish you luck doing quantum mechanics with Newton-style calculus.
His point was that at minimum you still need a GET and POST for read and write. So comparing the numbers against bike-shed implementations is moot. Of course the number of reads will be significantly higher.
Hi. Are you me? :)

That's exactly how I learned this stuff. The damn game wouldn't play, so I had to make a boot disk.

Then I learned to make a bootdisk with a menu system called from the autoexec.bat - cos I realized that several games had the same emm386 requirements. And now I program things.

Ahh good times... good times.
Need to download a bunch of files from a remote host, process them, and write them to disk?

cat urls.txt | while read -r url; do
base="$(basename "$url")"
wget "$url" -O - -o "$base.log" | process > "$base" &
done
wait

For ad-hoc scripting, I tend to prefer bash, with anything remotely corresponding to heavy lifting assigned to the language with the best library / performance / whatever critical factor for it. Fork-join parallelism in bash is very easy.
I live in an area where you rarely need air conditioning. Many homes around me do not even have them. However we do need heating from about November to about April, but it rarely does get below freezing. With that said my power bill is about 50/month for gas and electricity. I really didn't need a Nest, but it is certainly a fun tech toy to have. Being able to remotely turn on my heat or AC remotely is pretty nice when you want you're on your way home. So even if I don't make back the $249 that I spent, I still feel that it is worth the money.
On the contrary, the TL;DR encouraged me to read the article to the bottom.
I don't get it why anyone (except the ones mentioned in this tl;dr) would be offended by this.
I'm doing quite well already, actually, but thanks!

Not all freelancers are starving for cash (the term freelancer is just too broad IMO), my customers aren't. I also have agencies/consultancies (ie: shops with more than one head) onboard, who are not either.

People write to me with messages like "thank you for building this, since this mean I do not have to build it myself, anymore".
8GB for $3000. And I thought SSDs were expensive ...
He insulted only the lazy, "don't make me think" part of the society, I always thought that HN readers are in the better half.
India Warns Pakistan 
Amid heightened tension on the border over the killing of five Indian soldiers, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire yet again by firing 7000 rounds of heavy ammunition and mortar shells for seven hours at Indian posts along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
From what I can tell their migration path is "Move to Google+". I can't tell if that is viable, but it does make sense from Google's perspective.
Is that enough information to really label him a sociopath? Not the best person maybe, but a sociopath?
I do understand your point, but purity is one of the defining characteristics of Haskell, and one of the features that differentiates it from most other languages, so I think it should be mentioned up front when introducing Haskell.
Well desperate times require desperate measures. The simple truth is staying with windows is doom for all but 1 vendor that will catch bigger part from a shrinking pie.
It seems like a good sign that Steve Mann is involved, even if it's unlikely they'll be willing to make the same compromises that he has historically done in order to get functional tech in exchange for comfort and style.
That does occur on HN all the time. The titles of blog posts are targeting to entice people to click through. It's a psychological thing -- can I get someone to click on this before they have a second to really think about it. I agree it's very unfortunate.
My point about hyperbole was that it's "an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally". To be fair, I hadn't come across Brett's work before…but anyone writing with degree of detail about HTTP headers, referencing SPACEJUMP and PubSubHubbub has probably used curl -I and may well have worked with a REST API. My point is that the argument - we only use GET and POST - only holds water if we're talking about browsers. although I do see how people could interpret the comment differently, and we all know duty calls: http://xkcd.com/386
I'm happy for bitcoin, in general, but slightly fearful to see that now investment banks are potentially going to get involved. A group known to have the money, and experience, to game financial rules at will.
Let us help ubuntu Edge, its only 12 days left  
Hi,I think most of us would like to see Ubuntu Edge campaign to get funded successfully. You might have already backed the project, referred friends and promoted the campaign, which is great and got superb initial response.

As of now campaign grabbed $9,320,098 out of 32 million. At this point I think only major industry backing can only make this campaign success within next 12 days.

Device specs and softwares are just awesome for the tech community and probably we know this is the future, but PROBLEM is there not much of use case suggested for Ubuntu Edge in a enterprise environment.What we can do is imagine the possibilities of Ubuntu Edge in any enterprise solutions and come up with creative and innovative ideas,share them with others through social media, if possible try to convince any Enterprise customer to back ubuntu campaign. I am sure there should be lot of ideas in your mind, Please share them and let us make this phone a reality.
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I'm a dev, but I've got good design instincts and build UI prototypes often.

Many people that make suggestions with respect to design often cannot visualize/imagine what they are actually suggesting. I recall once a product person wanted to make something "pop" on a site by changing the color of a button to yellow (blue background). The person had the best intentions and even picked out the exact hex-color. I googled the hexcode, and very quickly felt it was the wrong color as soon as I saw it. Yellow works with blue, but the yellow he picked out was too bright and neonish. This was easy for me to visualize quickly and dismiss the idea.

The product person either could not envision what he was proposing, or lacked the instincts to dissuade him on the choice. Therein lies the dilemma, and the only real solution is to design both ideas and hope good taste wins out. I suggested a more orange, pastel-like color that worked out far better.

This is a simple example, but I've commonly encountered many people in web development who are unaware of their lack of design sense. If you suspect that is the case with someone you are dealing with, the only thing you can really do is visualize it for them. Quickly hack out their idea, and present it along with your own mocks/prototypes. Don't just mock their idea and then say "there, you see, it's not so good", because they may not even have the baseline taste to judge that. Steve Job's said something that I think adequately captures the situation, "people don't know what they want until you show it to them". They may realize they want what you originally gave them after all is said and done.
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I think that a better analogy would be that shops should not sell knives because one can hurt someone with it.
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Mention it, maybe, but pointing out how great it is not to have to deal with that messy "real world" is bad marketing. It makes you think "oh, so all these benefits only exist in the magical fairy land and not in the real world where I work?"
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You should disable flash and java on the untrusted browser - those two are popular channels for exploits, and that is how your installed fonts are leaking.

However even without the fonts the combination of screen size timezone, browser and plugins list seems to be pretty unique.
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I don't think adsense is the best option. For this industry, affiliate sales makes a better revenue model. For each interesting domain, give the user a chance to back-order/purchase the domains via a registrar of their choice. In each link embed your affiliate code. You can email me if you want any help in deep linking.

For my webapp http://www.domcop.com/ I use a two revenue stream business model. Users have to pay a recurring amount every month to avail the services and all the links to various domain auction sites bring in affiliate revenue as well.

Couple of comments to make the site better

1. Add a search option - search on domain name as well as the text between quotes for each domain

2. Maybe add some more metrics for each domains - whether the site has been banned by google, page rank and validity, data from wayback archive, metrics from companies like seomoz, majestic seo etc

3. When a user submits a domain, let them choose the category the domain belongs to. As a user I would love to go through all domains for a specific niche (eg. garderning, mobile phones etc)
You make a lot of wrong assumptions, sorry... I do not think you or anyone here is dumb. There is nothing "thinly veiled" either: it is both promotion (there is "discount" in the main text) AND a thank you.

That said I do think that there is an increasing level of negativity here and I do feel sad about it. I miss the old HN, full of Show HN.
Which app in particular are you thinking of? All the ones I've tried so far haven't been all that impressive.
Can't pretty much anyone get a keyword on a Bloomberg terminal if you pay enough? Is this a Big Deal(tm) if there's no demand for it?
People about to hate on haskell...go
That could unltimately become a good thing. Now Bitcoin suffers from low liquidity, and a single person with considerable resources can shift the price by few dollars or more. When big guys start jumping in, it will be much harder to manipulate the market, so the price will become more stable. Which is what merchants and Bitcoin accepting services want to see.
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We understand that the downtime was significant and apologize for any issues it may have caused in your app development. To help offset this disruption, we are extending the membership of all developer teams by one month. If you need any further assistance, please contact us.
JS is just the plugins. The fonts list requires flash or java.
Fair enough. Now that I think about it, the half signed contract will likely stick but its going to be one hell of a day in court.
I think it's important to emphasize that while Haskell provides purity, it also enables the definition of impure code in a clear and distinct way, the idea being to encourage a clean "separation of concerns" between logic and interaction.

It's not really that Haskell removes impurity, more that it adds purity. The "main" function of any Haskell application is an IO action, but you can define pure functions which relinquish IO and global state. And the best practices include doing that as much as possible, which is a terrific way of making your program more comprehensible and correct.
The ongoing path to be a better developer
Since my Nexus7 has upgraded is there any reason why I should bother with these?
Why do browsers for example allow so many things ?
I mean someone has to put in the god dam code to make it have those "features" ?
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

bylon took
away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: 28:4 And I will
bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the
LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the
presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that
stood in the house of the LORD, 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said,
Amen: the LORD do so: th
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing
The power of Haskell is that it acknowledges the fact that it's a messy world and deals with it with the help of Monads.

You could turn it around and say that non-haskell programs live in an ivory tower and ignore the messy world below :)
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It's a parody, of course -- but that quote isn't necessarily bad. Tomas Jefferson is attributed with a similar one: "If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

A lot of the innovative companies we know did things that defied common sense. (And of course, there's a lot of companies we'll never hear of because they ignored common sense.) So, it's a case-by-case thing.
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These would only be necessary if you wanted to restore your device to the factory firmware after installing custom software, or to update before the OTA reached you (which obviously isn't an issue now).
I understand what you're saying. It would be better to just talk about the enforced separation between pure code and code with side-effects, and explain that it's possible to structure a normal program so that it's mostly pure.
I'd say remove some of the old obscure never used words from the standard. And allow ANY custom operation for extensions and custom API (think java-script and programs).
> You can't write a kernel in Go because it has a mandatory runtime system and garbage collection.

Could you please provide a link or two on that, or give some explanation on why this is not possible?
This should be a channel on YouTube if its not already. Great job!
People should note that * are turned into italics, when text is between them. So, the original equation is 4 * 5 + 6.

(Here, I use spaces to "escape" the * . '\' doesn't work as an escape character.)
While it's true that, all things being equal, you should target a market that has the means and willingness to pay for your product, it is also true that all things are never equal, and that within large markets there are niche markets, which may be lucrative to pursue.

For example "freelancers" may call to mind teenagers doing PHP for $15 an hour, but it also includes 30-somethings with high billable rates but uncertain pipelines.

In fact, I suspect that this project was born out of the OP's own experiences, pain points, and need, thus helping to validate the offering. (I say this because to anyone who has not experienced it, the term "cashflow projection" probably evokes a response of, gee, I wish I had that problem!)
I really like what you created!
It's quite possible, here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_syste...

They only used C and assembly for interrupt handling.
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They're going to refund the people who paid a higher price than $695 - isn't that going to lower the funding amount even if it hits the target?
> Support of Three20 has been discontinued.

Nothing to see here.
You can't write a kernel completely in Go. But that's the case with every language except assembly (and, with a GCC-specific x86 extension, C). If you were to implement the core runtime in assembly, there'd be nothing to stop you from writing the higher-level functionality of a kernel in Go.
You will find these subreddits very useful

http://www.reddit.com/r/codetogether

http://www.reddit.com/r/collaboratecode
First of all, I love the annotations that explain each domain's "awesomeness." Really makes it stand apart from other similar sites.

Now, if by "quite a few visitors" you mean in the thousands or tens of thousands, you could start a newsletter perhaps. With 10k+ subscribers who regularly read a newsletter, you can get decent ad or affiliate rates.

On the page, offer to email people a weekly digest of top names. Give them the choice to choose to receive lists of names that are "funny," "awesome," or both. Then send them automatic digests, with ads and referral codes. Just a thought. Best of luck!
Apple Dev Center Finally Back Online, Accounts Extended 1 Month
Ok, sounds like you have considered this carefully.

Best of luck to our crypto heroes!
There is also the "poor man's nest" - the Filtrete 3M 50 which is $89 on Ebay and fully wifi supported with a well-documented API and fantastic Android app:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R...
> it's a messy world and deals with it with the help of Monads.

So someone has a tough problem dealing with the messy real world, and then you tell him to use Monads. Now he has two problems :-)

Ok, I'm kidding, but mbrock's answer is a lot better in terms of selling the language in that it mentions something that anyone can figure out is a good idea, without getting into the details of it.

> encourage a clean "separation of concerns" between logic and interaction.
<(blah) runs the command blah, and pipes its standard output to a file descriptor (/dev/fd/63) above. You shell replaces the <(blah) with a path to the this file descriptor, so here, echo is just printing the file descriptor name.

Since echo test prints "test" to standard out, in your second example this is piped to the file descriptor, which cat then reads from (printing "test").
Online Gaming Solutions Provider UltraPlay Ltd Enters The Bitcoin Space
The way I am reading this is that Bloomberg has decided to add it of their own violation.

Becoming boring and run of the mill is the best thing that could happen to bitcoin. I think this is signalling this transition.
Peter[1] is not a "microsofty" (actually, I'm not quite sure what that is). He's a journalist who covers MS related news for Ars, and he has done so for years. He's highly opinionated, but I wouldn't say he has a strong pro-Microsoft bias anymore (he did in some of his early writing).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DrPizza
Maybe this will cause people that value privacy to organize.
My point wasn't about proving a negative. More to the point there is no oversight so we don't know how bad it really is. I'm calling for some sort of protective measures and putting an end to this nonsense. The current administration is taking an ends justify the means attitude, not that they are probably the first to do so, but after being caught in lie after lie they aren't to be trusted either.
News: Some guy reads too much into a tweet and it spawns an internet rant?
In India this too never happens. The article is a 1000 times valid here.
Seizure of the property of a law-abiding citizen by the government without any just cause is certainly an atrocity, even more - when this property is related to the right specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights, so important it is.
It took over 3 weeks to restore everything. I hope Apple does some sort of post-mortem (at least something basic). When a security breach takes you down for this long it was either a very serious breach or your security and infrastructure was shit and your customers deserve to know how you've remedied that.
This first line is almost certainly false. I've only been paying attention to the German & Austrian news for the decade I've been living in Austria. However, for most of that time, reports that the Germans were both cooperating closely with American State Security agencies as well as running their own pervasive & intrusive espionage programs have been a recurring thing.

Even if all those reports are completely baseless, something I find wildly improbable, there's just no way to fairly describe anyone in a position of power as surprised... this has been a topic of discussion for far too long for that.
Minimizing Computations in your Rails App