skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff, thanks a lot for sharing this episode. We haven't watched it yet but we'll take a look tonight when we get a chance.

Existing online shops give florists a lot of leeway in the arrangements they put together. BloomThat, however, works very closely with our partners, providing exact specifications for each arrangement.

By keeping the offering limited and holding everyone to a high standard, we're able to ensure quality across the board.
Cool, but now make one where I can compose and hear it ;)
That page is as terrible to look at as it is totally appropriate to the article. Gotta respect that at least.
C.f. congress has a <20% approval rating, but everybody likes their own congresscritter.
Apparently dozing and posting doesn't work. Here's the graphic I was talking about: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
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This is objectively not true.

Immigrants have plenty to lose. Take my own example. Living in America for a few years (first as a graduate student and then as a software developer), I have made strong connections and a social life here. I lose everything if I don't make it.

There are two big problems for immigrants:

The Green Card process takes ~10 years. Imagine staying put in one company for 10 years. The legal immigration system is so haplessly broken that if I lose my job (say, late in the GC process), I get kicked out. My wife can't work. I cannot have kids without them confusing nationalities. I cannot buy a house. Immigrants are living on a thin strand, sacrificing a lot.

Motivated immigrants, who wish to start a company, cannot do so either because there are no visas to do so easily. Until we get a Green Card, we cannot quit our jobs and go on a road trip of the US, like my colleagues do. Realize that there is an opportunity cost, a small window, in which we all are highly motivated to start something. We immigrants typically waste that window in simply waiting for the Green Card to arrive (all-the-while, hoping we don't get laid-off).

The loss of this opportunity is one of the biggest reasons why many choose to head back to their own countries to start companies.

In summary, Immigrants have A LOT to lose. Grass is not green on this side either.

Source: Me. An Immigrant working in SV who's not allowed to start a company because of the ridiculous immigration system.
What I adore about Missile Command is that some thing so, so simple can convey such profound concepts.
We're just trying to iterate on existing products and beat them on price and style. We really know nothing about running a business or getting customers.

There comes a point when you just have to decide which questions are the most important ones to ask "the community". You only have (a) so much time to ask questions, (b) so much patience from your audience/viewers/commenters, and (c) so much knowledge with which to sift/filter through the answers you get and decide what's good/bad/etc. So given that your time is a valuable resource, you can't waste it asking the most basic of questions (as you've done). There are better resources available for the low hanging fruit - you should spend your time researching how to create a great product and less asking people generic questions.

Upon reading that, I realize it sounds a bit harsh but it's the truth. I read a lot of things on HN and think, "This is what a founder should know, and if you have to ask such a basic question, you aren't 'there' yet. You need to do more fundamental work to learn what starting a company is all about." You've asked a generic question that has 10,000 answers. Let's say that 50 people respond - they will respond with 50 very different answers (b/c you've made the question so broad and basic). Which ones will be 'right'? Perhaps all 50. How will you know which one to do? How much time will you spend attempting to follow someone's advice only to find out it was a "dry hole"? Spend more time coming up with a quality question and you'll likely get quality answers.

Of course, this is HN and sometimes people surprise you with great answers that meet what you need.
+1 to Vundle. It makes managing your vim plugins so much easier when it comes to updating.
The original might be out of copyright but any whoever scanned/photographed them has a new copyright. Pretty silly.
"We're building a domestic army" -Marine Corps Colonel speaks out
Very nice! A minor bug: it seems to break once you exit fullscreen mode (pentagram goes underneath the instrument labels).
There is occasionally a need to do a full or nearly full discharge on Li-Ion batteries in order to recalibrate the state-of-charge indicator if the embedded controller gets confused, or if the battery is nearing the end of its usable life and has significantly diminished capacity.

But in general, deep discharges are bad for any electrochemical cell, and should only be done to prevent or forestall something worse.

NiMH cells shouldn't be "topped off" when they're nearly full, but that doesn't mean they should be fully drained before charging.
I like it. I have a few suggestions (full disclosure: I haven't played music since high school).

It would be nice if the key and time signature could remain onscreen as the sheet scrolls.

I think my preferred solution for scrolling would be to have the position marker move until it hits the center, then have the position stay centered while the sheet scrolls until it hits the end. I'm not sure what the correct way to handle repeats in my scenario would be--perhaps have the sheet stop scrolling when it hits a repeat.
So the big differentiator here is delivery in under 90 minutes?

Perhaps I'm jaded by my experience in the industry (parents = florists and I worked for FTD in the past), but that seems like enough to get just a handful of orders. Broadening to the entire market might be a struggle. You've got many local florists, drop shippers, and supermarkets to contend with.

I love the website. I can see that perhaps having and beautiful app + trendy website might give you traction in a younger crowd, a group that purchases fewer flowers today. A focus on quality will give you a leg up over a huge percentage of local florists, for many quality just isn't there.

Are you opening locations in each locale wish to serve? That's capital intensive and leads to procurement issues.

If you gain traction, I hope you're ready for what Valentines/Mother's day bring.
This is a library that can be used to supplement any implementation.

If I'd had the option to switch us to stackless easily, and I could guarantee it was as fast, worked with all the libraries, and was as stable, I probably wouldn't have written this.
I imagine that there are a lot of people in the same boat, where switching interpreters isn't really an option.
For people that just don't care about advanced features or gotchas, fish seems fine.

For people that exploit redirection, file handle rewiring, here docs and such... consider zsh with https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Ok. That's great. Then let me try to give you some examples #:

Imagine you have setup your SaaS to run from some containers (1 container with your web app, 1 container with your worker, 1 container with your queue and a database somewhere.

Now let's walk through a scenario for a significant new release of your web app:

1) Package your new web app, Launch it for testing (on the same host, cheap) to point to a testing database.
2) Fails? Rebuild, test immediately.
3) Happy? Now relaunch your container to connect to the production database
4) Everything works completely? Now re-route your traffic to the already warmed up container. Chances of failure? < 0.1%

Some other ideas:
- Package your worker. Run it once (on the same host), more load? run it multiple times, run it on multiple servers. -- it is so much quicker and cheaper than spinning up virtual machines.
- So your developer made some changes.. He packages it and you run it. It fails. You now just save the entire container including the last state, logs and everything exactly as you crashed it. And hand that back to him.

Hope it helps.

these examples are based on intended use, because right now the whole development is still moving so fast production deployments are no yet recommended.
There is bluetooth support: bluetooth headsets and file transfer works. More profiles are being added in the next releases.
This is only news because of the absurd US copyright system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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Indeed, they're not meant to be user-serviceable, but they are very easily serviceable at the store.
That's a better explanation than mine. :) Thanks for the link.
This is possible if the language supports coroutines like python (see twisted's inline callbacks) or my port to Lua for Luvit: https://github.com/kans/luvit-inlineCallbacks.

Personally, I think raw callbacks are the right thing 95% of the time. yield/async/coroutines are needed for branching async logic where otherwise you'd be forced to make a new function for each branch and deal with the spaghetti at the end.
Thanks very much!

Yup, I can do the highlighting fairly easily, that's a good idea!

Scrolling is easily doable too, but I'm not sure that's the best way for all situations. I might provide it though, and then let the user choose depending on their situation.

About me: a wannabe classical composer / tech geek ;)

(and in the event people are actually interested in this idea becoming more than just a concept, I would be very happy to provide a more elaborate About section)
To make it less distorted, you will have to make more cuts, seriously increasing the risk that the map does not accurately show the distance between points P and Q because the shortest path between them on the globe goes through a cut on your map.

In the limit, you could get something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goode_homolosine_projection, but with infinitely many lobes. And that is a _could_: you can add branches like in Dymaxion wherever you feel like it.
Ustream open sourced Robin, a parallel test execution framework for Android
Amarok 2.8 "Return To The Origin" released
Interview w 20-year-old founder Joshua Davidson who already has 2 startups
Typo in your "CSV support" link, should be '2013/08', not '2013/18'.

http://chartio.com/blog/2013/08/csvdata
This is definitely a big concern -- we thought about this a lot (and still do).

In practice, it turns out that most people pick ReQL up very easily and don't get confused or annoyed by these issues after getting acquainted with the language. That being said, we've toyed with the idea of having a string-based implementation, so people who are uneasy about these features could use the model they're already familiar with. (We didn't do this yet, but we likely will if there's enough demand for it)
I'm confused...I thought the Robinson Projection [1] has been the standard for quite some time.

Obviously not the best for navigation, but considered the best compromise for viewing the entire Earth in two dimensions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_projection
A quote from Warren Buffet: "In addition to the ones benefitting from short-term luck, I believe it possible that a few [stock portfolio managers] will succeed—in a modest way—because of skill."

Yes, but with an appropriate degree of scientific skepticism, the "skill" assumption could actually be chance. And Occam's razor argues that chance is the more likely cause, not skill.

For 100 stock fund managers buying and selling stocks, statistics tells us that 50 of them will do better than the market averages (and 50 will do worse). And a few of the managers will do very well indeed, but not because of skill. In fact, one can design a blind computer model that buys and sells stocks randomly, using pseudorandom numbers to make the decisions, and half the accounts will come out ahead of the averages, and a small number will do much better than the averages, just as in real life -- all because of chance.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths
No, it's using a mini SIM
4 Reasons to Launch a Company in School
Oh, and yes, I do work for dotCloud.
Great :)

Even a "right now this is just a little concept I worked on in my free time, hope you find it useful. Tweet me suggestions @..." would be enough on /about.
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Nice article. Missile command was very unique not just because of the game design but the rollerball control (rather than joystick). I remember feverishly whipping that ball around while trying to blast all the missiles.
Hit me an email to hi@bunq.com with your availability, skillset and hourly rate.
>Wasn't the "all the wood behind one arrow" motto famous for heralding the decline of Sun Microsystems?

all the wood led by deadwood behind one arrow ... this arrow ... now this arrow ... no, this arrow that has just been renamed to the name of that arrow ... of course it is an arrow, it just looks like a deadwood onshore washed tree trunk and weights like it, and flies like it, well, that of course if somebody can make it fly ...
So, it's like LINQ for Python?
How in-depth have you used these 4.7-5 inch phones? I ask because it doesn't really map to my experience at all--I have small hands (8" stretch, 6.5" length) and can reach corner of a Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, or SGS3 without any difficulty whatsoever.
Great article, and many good comments so far.

Let's take a look at the core issue - the new core issue really: lack of jobs, which was touched on in the article. If we were in a situation where jobs were truly plentiful for everyone, we would likely not be having many of these conversations (or at least we'd be doing so with less urgency.) Aside from the fact that the costs at many schools are exorbitant, the simple fact is that degree or no, you're still (and likely will continue to be) facing a job market with little on offer. Income-based repayment is a great step, but that does not help if somone remains unemployed - and even if they do get something - do these people study for 4-6 years in order to be a Barista?

About the suggestions that these people studied useless subjects: true, many of them did. What, however, would happen if they all decided to go into STEM instead? Assuming they all did amazing, we'd wind up with a glut of people with degrees in "good" subjects, which does nothing to magically create jobs (having a STEM degree does NOT mean you're going to start a company!) - it only helps where there are shortages. Once those are filled, we're back where we started (and wages may get pushed down due to a talent glut.) That's the best case scenario, too. What would be worse? What would the reality likely be? If everyone did rush into STEM, a good portion would fail out (not everyone is cut out for it. Really, some people just do not have the attitude, mindset, demeanor, worldview, interest, etc.) and be left with no degree (or they'd switch to one of those useless ones) and still be debt - right back where we started again. For some real world examples, just look through some other discussions on HN about this subject about people in countries who DO exactly this and they're stuck with unemployed and underemployed STEM grads up the wazoo.

So lowering tuition is great. Initiatives that allow income-based repayment or schemes to just make it free at the point of service and pay for it out of taxes are great, but lack of jobs as the core issue remains. For those of you who believe college should not be considered a job training program, that's wonderful; it means, however, that people going into debt for a great education that does not get them a job is a terrible idea (and we should either move to a free system or tell people to just use MOOC and books.)

Either college is a job training program with high costs and horrible returns (and degrees are first-line filtering mechanisms for jobs), or it's purely for edification and should be free. This world where we pretend it's the latter, but know it's the former continues to end for so many in nothing but tears.
There was a documentary about a guy who tries to break the high score for Missile Command. Unlike a lot of modern games, there is no ending so you can keep playing the game until you inevitably lose

One quarter. Two days. No pause button.

http://www.highscoremovie.com/

The 30-year old record for Missile Command was just broken recently:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/55-hours-81m-points-an...

It's theoretically possible to build up so many extra cities that you can actually take a 30 minute break in the game.
For anybody looking for another nuclear-apocalypse-based low-graphics game, DEFCON (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/) did a really good job of expanding into an RTS.
DaaS. A new business model or not?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201142599660581&se...
There is a lot of theory surrounding map projections. I only took an introductory GIS course in college, but it was clear that there is an incredible amount of work behind the scenes there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
My wife's day is going to get a bit better in 88 minutes, just because the process was so simple.
No chance of similar deployment in US Senate ?
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For a second I asked myself why is this at the top of HN and then I realized chartio posted it and had their employees immediately upvote it.
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

-Viktor Frankl

It's rare that something immediately changes my outlook on life, but this quote did it. I was hesitant to read "Man's Search For Meaning" thinking it to be a pithy self-help book. I was wrong. Frankl's book helped me through what I hope to be the most difficult period of my life.
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Vagrant is a little bit different - it takes the process of booting up a new VM instance (think VirtualBox/VMWare) and automates much of the process of:

1. Choosing OS / flavor / architecture (Debian 7 x64),

2. Setting up networking (private network with its own IP address),

3. Setting up SSH access ($ vagrant ssh),

4. Kicking off provisioning (Chef/Puppet/Salt/Ansible/Bash)

With Vagrant, if you're playing around in your VM and accidently screw something up and can't recover [0], you simply "$ vagrant destroy" and "$ vagrant up" and you'll have a working VM again.

Couple Vagrant with Puppet, and if you destroy/up you'll have your VM go through the process of installing all software and settings and everything for you, meaning your full, working environment is back up and running within minutes, just as it was before you screwed it up.

[0] I experienced this several times when my apt-get stuff would screw up and I couldn't install/remove/purge anything. Google and #debian never let me recover.
At the US, yes, and if the person holding the patent is not the same licensing the code, you can still be sued for using it. Just like proprietary software.
> Embarrassing attempts at social networks (wave, err, that other one I'm forgetting) is just one example.

Wave wasn't a social network, it was collaboration protocol with a proof-of-concept demonstration app.
Show HN: Twist.io -- like Slack but for developers
A powerful demonstration of self-documenting code. I applaud the application.
Sound almost like A. C. Clarke's CORA (http://www.e-book2u.org/sf/Clarke08/30298.html):

"THIS IS A CORA ALERT. WILL ANYONE WITHIN RANGE OF MY VOICE PLEASE COME IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A CORA ALERT. WILL ANYONE WITHIN RANGE OF MY VOICE PLEASE COME IMMEDIATELY."

Another piece of past future come true?
There wasn't actually a very large jump in traffic when Digg v4 was launched. Most of those folks were already reddit users. Traffic bumped a little bit, but not all that much.

It's important to keep in mind that reddit was already doing twice as much traffic as Digg before they launched v4.
I won't lie... I came here hoping for a link to the torrent of the entire collection...
Laptops stickers from Wordpress, Mashable, MIT Media Lab laptops
But Apple's founder didn't have an MBA. You know, the guy that came back in 1997 and brought the company from the brink of bankruptcy after it's collapse under the leadership of John Sculley, MBA.
What "size problems" are you referring to? The Peters projection really is equal-area. When you say "size" are you referring to something else, like shape?
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Segment.io is hiring Support Engineers, iOS Devs
Segment.io is an analytics app store. We simplify data collection across web, mobile and server apps, letting people send their data wherever they need it. Our goal is to make using data easy.

We’re a small team, so everyone on the team has a huge impact. With just four people, we’re already processing over 1 billion api calls every month.

You’ll feel at home here if you like being self-directed and are fearlessly logical.

Like our design, our organization is flat and minimal. You’ll be in charge of your day-to-day work, and you’ll have a lot of freedom to work as you see fit.

We <3 open sourcing our code and writing down everything we’ve learned. We want you to help us give back to the community however you can.
No. That's generally because once something gets popular and jumps to the front page, it gets a huge boost in visibility, especially from people who weren't looking at the niche subreddit it comes from.

A lot of those people aren't interested in that content, so it will suddenly get an influx of downvotes.
Fragility Frustration + Release Rage = 0 days since last “red face”
Figuring out how to market affordably (and in a defensible way) is really key to this space. A friend works for 1800 Flowers and it sounds like the entire industry competes on marketing, not on product, because the products are indistinguishable.

http://i.imgur.com/GUZRdUE.png
The second quote is the same sentiment as the Frankl quote I posted as well. It's an empowering thought. We can always choose how we approach any given situation.
I think having the key / time signature "stick" makes a lot of sense... I will work on that. The only thing to look out for is key signature / time signature changes, and make sure those get captured too and that they stick...

As for scrolling, it seems like that is a feature that some people might prefer. I will most likely add that as a feature to it.

Thanks!
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Here you go. http://www.sibelius.com
Having lived in equatorial Africa for a decade, and having spent weeks driving to cross a single given country, I always get a kick of out conversations where someone asks, "Oh, you lived in Africa--did you know So-and-so?"
Growing up during the cold war, it was dogma that a Soviet "bolt from the blue" could occur at any moment and end everything, everywhere. That gave the game deep relevance.

That threat was far less contrived than our current "war on terror" (two superpowers really did have a gazillion mega weapons) but history tells us that the most likely trigger for it happening would've been human or machine error, not some attempt at empire expansion.

Quite possibly the fall of the Soviet Union was a surprise to the powers that be, since it took ten years to develop a replacement war. Ten years during which we enjoyed one of the most prosperous and fiscally positive eras in modern US history.
Deal with it. My inbox isn't a marketer's property.
I really like this and would use it at a concert, but the page turning is very jarring. Having the time sig fixed while the sheet scrolls like some sort of symphony hero would be pleasant.

Hell, you could even color code the instruments subtly with some light shading. Maybe make that a checkbox option.
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