skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why ever would they play a game that's rigged for them to lose? Who can afford to go into deals knowing they'll lose money? How will they explain that to their investors?
I am at a loss to understand what on earth you're on about. It seems like some random "oh poor Android" rant.

The reason carriers need the iPhone has nothing to do with Android's market share or Apple's profits. It's about carrier's profits. And the fact that much of it comes from users who call a lot, text a lot and use a tonne of data. Which just happens to correlate with the iPhone demographics.
Do you expect your government to make its tech decisions by reading TechCrunch then? CEOs are involved in closing big deals, there is nothing sinister about a CEO meeting a government leader about a potentially big investment.
Now reporting as resolved... Except that my database is still down. Sigh. And it's not just me -- a few others have tweeted at @herokustatus.
Presumably you didn't read your link. It just passes through the analyst report which has been debunked: https://mobile.twitter.com/asymco/status/362256388342284292/...

Samsung PCs tablets, dumbphones, and smartphones all combined are about the same size as the iPhone alone.

Feel free to continue basing your position on wrong information though.
Also, most people can;t afford to buy quality stuff in every domain. The lucky few who can buy good furniture or a good house will rarely have money remaining to buy good computing devices. A lot of us tech-savvy people but these before the rest because we have a passion for technology and/or make money out of it, but we're the exception in that regard.

And let's not forget how many people like their devices to be entirely controlled, because they're afraid of entering the wrong commands. This stuff requires not only money but also time, and most people have neither to sacrifice for technology.
I don't know anything about systems languages, but it seems that there is a lot of effort getting put into C/C++ alternatives, and many bold efforts at that. But maybe that is just a historical bias, because so few remembers the failed (popularity vice) systems languages efforts of yesteryear?
Try Costa Coffee, The poor serving staff are so used to "do you have your loyalty card?", its like a tape playing.

Sadly I am loyal, like a heroin addict is loyal to his dealer.
The vocabulary choice in this article is misleading. It mirrors terminology LOVEINT given to the reporter by his source at the NSA, suggesting this practice is a harmless or even positive activity controlled by warm and fuzzy motivations of caring, sharing, "love" and romance.

But it is not about these things at all. It is about creepers with power over their prey and a position of authority who are stalking women they are obsessed with. In many cases they are likely using that knowledge to manipulate and control the targets of their obsession.

Stalking is not about romance, caring, sharing, nor love. Stalking is about obsession, dysfunction, and control. When done by government agents with power, control, and access to ubiquitous systems of global surveillance, it is anything but harmless. It is predatory. The perpetrators of these acts should be unmasked to the public by name, and held accountable for their actions. In some cases that will mean registration as a sex offender so that the public can be aware when there is a predator living among them.
Hi, we usually track individual database issues via outbound support tickets opened on your account. The exception is for widespread outages, but this one was actually fairly small in scope.

If you didn't receive a support notification, please contact support@heroku.com so we can figure out why.
What the GP comment meant that the robots won't deviate from the parameters.

Contrast this with a human operator, who are instructed to drive at specific speeds at each road section. Perhaps due to fatigue , overconfidence (e.g. I drove on this road 1000's times before, I know what I am doing), or other factors, the driver did not slow down enough and subsequently accidents occur.
"old American tradition"? Bryan's speech is a continuation of a tradition which is far older than the US. In the Bible, Jesus cast out the moneylenders from the temple, and thus for centuries usury - loaning money at any interest - was prohibited in Christendom, upon torment of one's immortal soul. A similar prohibition exists in many parts of the Islamic world today.

Can you point out where the article mentions that it's "flatly unconstitutional?" The only reference I could find to constitutionality (mentioned also in the photo caption) is:

"first-in-the-nation plan to use the government's constitutional power of eminent domain to ..."

The article does mention that "The banks have filed two lawsuits alleging that the plan is an illegal abuse of eminent domain", but every legal opposition to eminent domain seizure makes that claim.
Define 'large'. Up to 80T can be done in one box these days with up to 32 cores right next to it. Not cheap but fairly reliable. You'll still need to replicate off-site.
Same for FF 23.0.1 on Windows something or other.
Disclaimer: The following isn't accusatory in any way. "Genuinely curious", as some are apt to say.

Can you explain why Chattanooga is more expensive? [This](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+chattano...) says otherwise. I'm considering both (and a number of other cities), so I'd really like to know.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/MetaHDBC

Does exactly that. Runs your SQL against the database at compile time to get type information, which it injects into the program AST.
The iOS SDK was always going to be released, but only for the (then-unannounced) iPad. That's how they were able to change their tune so quickly when users demanded more than web apps.
And it's still alive now and still a fucking arse pain. We have to import statements from various large financial companies and they still even after 20-odd years haven't worked out how to make parseable CSVs and don't even get me started on encoding which usually consists of concatenated bits of crap in multiple encodings. Oh and some of it even arrives via modem (at 9600bps no less!). If we're lucky we get SFTP and UTF8 XML without a broken schema. Some of the XML is actually just made by concatenating unescaped strings which explodes when someone puts a double quote in a text field.

Imagine debugging that heap of shite.

Resolving problems with it does pay very well though, which is what I'm doing now at 23:25 on a Sunday night :)
> I am I the only one to not give a damn about this?

Sadly, no. People in my wider circle of friends and family either don't care or don't know what to say. I wish everyone would realize it wasn't that long ago the J. Edgar Hoover was keeping files on every person of interest (like MLK, John Lennon, ..it's a big list) and the capabilities of today's NSA would be his wet dream.
Slightly off-topic, Pdf and Ps are just plain outdated for today. They're unreadable on small screens and for people with bad eyesight, and no one sane prints stuff out these days Html is better, but the real thing today is tablet apps. All docs should be published as interactive 10/7/5 inch apps. Books should also disappear and be replaced by that form factor. Scientific paper authors also need to realize this and replace latex with app programming and publish their work as apps.
Ok, so basically the fundamentals aren't really being addressed to why this is even a problem in the first place, and the game can go on for another day. Fun to watch…

As an aside, I wonder if it would just be better sign yourself onto a mansion, get your neighbor to burn "your" house down (using pgp to communicate this with temporal keys), collect insurance, cover neighbors bail and skip to the some emerging market (with no extradition treaty with the US or its allies) together with your "ill" gotten earnings in ones under luggage. </joke>
I was getting ngnix 504's on their site consistently during this outage time, perhaps coincidence, but seems likely to be related.
you're adding a second variable that would be very hard to measure.

No I didn't. I had group 1, 2.a, and 2.b all along. I think that group 1 may suffer discrimination.

To elaborate the 'may', I'd stipulate that group 1 probably has a harder time getting interviews than a younger person with the same resume. I don't think it is necessarily discrimination though. I think there's a legit reason someone who's 40 who has the same resume as someone who's 20 would be less attractive.

To be succinct, the guy who's 20 may be the next Jeff Dean or Steven Wozniak. The 20 year old has 'he may be the next Jeff Dean'-option value. The 40 year old ... if he's been programming for 20 years and he's not Jeff Dean ... he's probably not turning into Dean now. No 'he may be the next Jeff Dean'-option value.
It's a new layout, though.
Isn't scrapy easier to use than this?
City of Dallas Taking Steps to Hinder Uber and Similar Services
When the reason can be literally anything, you might as well say there is no reason.
the protocol doesn't expose where you log in

To be fair, in practicality it does expose where you log in because that website has to communicate with the persona server. The website could use a proxy or something to try to obfuscate which website it is doing an authentication for, but if there is any significant volume it would surely leak out unless they did it through Tor (and were not the only site doing persona authentication through Tor either).

What the persona protocol explicitly does not leak is each login event, checking in with the persona server only happens once during account setup.
The investors who bought the bundled mortgages would be harmed. After all, if your mortgage was $300k and under this forced refinancing scheme it's now mortgaged at $200k, that $100k just didn't vanish - someone lost that money. It might have been divided up amongst 1500 small investors, or it might have been a handful of larger investors, the net result is the same -- someone is out that money.

On the larger stage, the City of Richmond is cutting their own throat by doing this. It's doubtful that I'd ever buy any of their municipal bonds after this. If I were somehow persuaded to (fat chance), it'd cost them a much higher rate - something like what Detroit is paying.
My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a privileged app
I should clarify, it's not so radical an extension of current eminent domain law, to wit Kelo as you and lisper note. But I'm judging it's enough of a radical extension from the base Constitution they won't make that leap with their current makeup.

Which is an iffy opinion, on, I suppose, Justice Kennedy's opinion, who I don't know that well, and I would not be surprised to be proven wrong.

Note this is in part due to the fact that there's a lot more than "public use" at stake, e.g. the whole profitability of the deal depends on there being a difference between the price paid to the bank and a price of the new mortgage. The losers are more sympathetic than small time landowners, and the big winner is another "banker"/eeeevil Wall Street type firm (see the Naked Capitalism posting).
Use ephemeral disks on EC2 and a good distributed database like Cassandra or Riak. These scale well as your data grows and allow you to lose individual nodes without losing data (in sane configurations).
Thanks. I've now done this and referred some others to this comment.
Of course, adding large binary blobs to a relational database is almost certainly a bad idea anyway. It’s just not meant to be. You can achieve transactionality by other means and it won’t actually make managing and backing up data easier because suddenly database backups are an awful lot larger.
Indeed, Apple is doomed.
Transparency delivered, achievements returned.
Nope. Completely different analysis from a different group. You'll notice one claimed that Samsung was now in the lead while the other had the same trend but thought Samsung was still slightly behind.
Agreed - it sounds a lot less than you would get teaching web / programming at your local community college.

I suggest you think of things this way - can you find 3-5 (there are three below, so good marketing) people who would want to take a tutored course of say two weeks. Then you need to find a community college or similar where you can rent a room and Ethernet. The small group learning is always a better bet.

This is a pretty good idea though.
What's the target audience, are you going to filter by, say, DBAs, QA engineers and those conversant in django/java/PHP who're crossing over vs. people getting started in dev?
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I use NoScript and Ghostery to prevent tracking. There are certainly legitimate use-cases.

Your comment is difficult to comprehend, and low on information. Why should the year have any effect on whether users should use NoScript?

In the future, I would recommend going into detail rather than being dismissive.

Edit: ah, you were quoting the parent. I'm not convinced that excuses it. Sites should degrade gracefully, as users are becoming more aware of tracking technologies and taking steps to prevent it. Example: Tumblr actually fails to work with Ghostery enabled.
I've seen this a few times on my own comments recently, though I haven't been tracking them in a systematic way (because...I mean...it's just karma :) ). It used to be that I could have a mediocre comment atop a thread, above other recent comments that most likely had more upvotes, and I figured that was a result of my decent averaged-Karma comment (note: this, IMO, was not a positive effect of the algorithm and I felt guilty about making non-substantial comments if they were going to stick to the top).

But now I've noticed that many of my comments pretty much drop to the bottom of the page, no matter what my avg. karma is or the quality of ongoing discussions. I just posted a comment in a relatively new discussion that got 3-4 upvotes in a few minutes (which is pretty fast for a Sunday afternoon) and yet my comment was second-to-last, and was even below a comment that had 0 or negative karma (i.e. had been slightly grayed out).

I figured I was being penalized for something or other, and that I probably deserved it anyway.
There's an "easy" way for the city to help prevent defaults: Give homeowners money or tax breaks to make their mortgage payments. If this scheme can be reasonably shown to be a good investment for ensuring future tax revenue, go ahead and get a loan to do it.
It's still clearly a totally false comparison, combining Samsung's other businesses with their Android businesses and comparing that with just the iPhone.
Oh look, a news website reporting on a blogger for a news website and his feud with another news website. And they say Silicon Valley is self-absorbed. :)

Talking about mocking Silicon Valley though... http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com
there is a french proverb that goes like
"with if, you can put paris in bottles"

you can make anything happen in your imaginary 'if' world
in this imaginary world, steve ballmer changed apple
in my imaginary world, apple will change steve ballmer
and ... well, you know how the rest of the story goes
>It's doubtful that I'd ever buy any of their municipal bonds after this

Funny thing is, people probably own their munibonds and don't even know it.
I've been using this library and I really like it. If only it could do svg, then embedding D3 charts would be a cinch. Keep up the good work, though.
Meh that looks like some UML class diagram to me (at first glance). Just need to have a "generate code from diagram" in this case. :?
I see you edited to link to Asymco.

http://www.asymco.com/2013/08/21/amp-index-update/

His estimate puts it at 57% to 43%, but with the same trend. Could easily crossover by his method this quarter too, may have already happened.

It really all hinges on what kind of jump 10 days of sales of the new devices (in limited countries) can achieve.
The police cannot search your car simply because you've been pulled over in a traffic stop. They are required to have probable cause to effect a search or an arrest. There are whole log ACLU videos about not being bamboozled by staties who "ask" to search your car.

Additionally, I think it's important to keep in mind the specific way your protections against search bind on the state. You can always sue the state for harassment or somesuch, but the real day-to-day potency of the Fourth Amendment comes from the Exclusionary Rule, which forbids the introduction of evidence from searches that contravene the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the courts.

Point being: yes, the police can always find reasons to arrest you. For that matter, they can ignore their General Orders entirely, throw you up on your car, and search you and your bags with no cause whatsoever; if you resist that illegal search, you'll be charged (and probably convicted!) of battery. But in the system we have, there's not much point to them doing that, because if they make a bullshit arrest, the evidence they generate from the resulting search will get tossed. Getting arrested is a big deal. They can't just arrest you because you look funny.
Can you be more specific on why you think the t-test is invalid when the data is non-normal? Duration data may be non-normal, but given finite visits and a reasonable number of visits, sampling for the mean surely is.
Ask HN: If I ran a one day "CI / DevOps with Python and Salt" would you attend?
I am writing a book on SaltStack and using Python for Continuous Integration and Delivery. I want to understand how people new to Salt learn it - and it seems best to do that in a small group, learning intensely.

It would probably be a weekend somewhere central, groups no more than 5 or so, priced just to cover costs.

Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6273823
Looks good, but the typesetting is a little off and I don't see any examples of paragraphs or line wrapping.

I built a PDF library for PHP many years ago and the hardest part was text, typesetting is a hard problem.

Looks good for exporting images and charts though.
Ah, okay. Then it depends on how I feel about the investors taking the hit. I imagine(incorrectly?) the investors as a group of wealthy people that won't suffer a huge decrease in quality-of-life by taking the hit but all the "regular" people in underwater mortgages would have significant gain in quality-of-life by the freed financial resources. This is me thinking that for a lot of people about 40% to 50% of their income goes to mortgage payments.
The other problem though, is that wealthy people always seem to have a way of passing the damage down to the working class.
That chart puts Apple's profit share at above 60%. So you are flat out wrong.

The AMP is an average of several metrics including units shipped, both smart and non-smart, and revenue where we know Samsung surpasses apple.
Well, yes, but you're very wrong about the example of Jesus, he chased out the moneychangers. Per Wikipedia: "A money changer is a person who exchanges the coins or currency of one country for that of another."

I won't get into the much more complicated usury argument, since that's now settled in (post)Christendom, else we wouldn't be having this argument.

For "flatly unconstitutional", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6273984
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Why inexperienced developers often side-track technical discussions
I'm not sure. I see potential benefits for everyone.

Banks - 75% of the house's market value is probably more than they would get from repossession and auction

Home buyers - they now owe what the house is worth, instead of more

City - has enough money to run, keeps citizens happy

Company - $5k (though this can be argued to be unfair and the middleman should be removed)
I think you might be confusing two different search authorizations; people make this mistake all the time.

The first common authorization for a search comes from Terry, and allows the police to conduct a cursory search of the outer layers of your clothing (not including pockets) to attempt to detect weapons. The grounding for Terry searches is exclusively officer safety. Terry searches are the basis of "stop and frisk".

The second common authorization is "incident to arrest". The police can conduct a thorough search of your person, effects, and immediate vicinity if they actually place you under arrest. The grounding for this search is both officer safety and collection of evidence. In fact, I think even Rayiner is a little wrong here; the incident to arrest authorization doesn't merely concern destruction of evidence, but is specifically concerned with collecting all the evidence that could be the fruit of an arrest, whether or not it's at risk of destruction. The meaning of search incident to arrest goes all the way back through Common Law.

The Obama DoJ is clearly referring to search incident to arrest.
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You realise all these estimates are for two months ago, right? What's happened in the last 8 weeks to change this trend?

edit: look at the dots, the line is a trailing average over the last 12 months.
So are you thinking along the lines of Hetzner?
They aren't losing money. The sales price of a home after foreclosure is usually much lower than it's valuation before foreclosure. Over the short term they will make more money. They are losing the option to make even more money in the future however, assuming that over a long enough timeline the price will go back up when the economy recovers.

I am not sure that the way that this is being done is sensible, however I do not think that it will drive business from the city, at least not in comparison to a housing crisis.
creative is not necessarily good. Even if it's "for the better" - there are several questions you have to ask: "whose benefit is it for?" Keep in mind that these sorts of urban renewal efforts (especially those backed by eminent domain) are exactly the efforts that get called "gentrification" by left-leaning individuals. Are we actually helping out the people who live there, or are we lining the pockets of developers and speculators at the expense of a slightly wealthier but less connected entity? Finally - "do the ends justify the means". Maybe you believe that the ends always justify the means. One may wonder though, if the city does this, what will it do next? How could this newfound, "creative" power be used for ill? There is a reason why, fundamentally, we should like for our governments to have defined, proscribed powers, and not "creative" powers.
Why can't they run the case in on of thus secret courts we keep hearing about? Sure they must have prosecutors and judges with the correct security clearances...
Are you emotionally invested in Samsung's success (or Apple's failure)? Because if so, Gizmodo's right over there dude. I come to HN to read insightful analysis, not to read a bunch of people Grubering about whatever imaginary tribe they think they belong to.
Common, thirty is not old at all :). I meant 40+ - exponential decline rather than linear one. Naturally 30-35 is like a sweet spot between experience and speed.

PS: being 28 myself I am more of a concerned theoretician; I know three people who are 35-40 and quite better than me.
I do not for a moment accept the principle that the Supreme Court has the final say in what's Constitutional, especially since the latter makes that crystal clear, explicitly in jurisdiction stripping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction_stripping) and implicitly in the absence of sanctions on the Executive ("John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!")

But your point about this slippery slope is well taken.
Instructions for printing it with lulu: http://www.lurklurk.org/onlisp/onlisp.html . I did this about a month ago and the copy I received was great.