skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Bill. I've only been a customer for a few years, but I've been super impressed with the level of customer service. If I have an API question or a problem, I always get a real, human, thoughtful answer - not a copy/paste from the documentation that I've already read.

So while I understand the necessity of the linked blog post, it doesn't really address my concern - which is that PayPal has notoriously awful customer service, and the thing I value most about your company is your customer service. And despite all of your best intentions, the culture of very large companies inevitably affects (or replaces) the culture of the companies they acquire. I've been acquired before. I know how it goes.

At the end of the day, all I care about is that I continue to get the same level of customer service from your company. The moment that changes, I'll go somewhere else (probably Stripe).
For me, GMail reached an optimum in terms of user experience some three or four years ago. Then it was a mixture of changes that were nice but of minor significance (the look of the main interface is prettier now than those few years ago) and of "reverse improvements" of usability like very confusing and ugly icons, hiding core functionalities, all the "social" crap etc. I guess this might partially be the result of UI people coming and going to the GMail team, new people arriving always want to prove they can do better and do things their own way, and if things are already good, they can only get worse this way.
Incessant? I suppose it is, the language is in real need of it.
Startup Founders Are Well-Versed in How to Promote Their Services
Well yeah, efficiency wasn't the aim.
It's as efficient as you can possibly get with PHP .. how is that ugly? Ugly because it doesn't remind you of Python, Ruby or whichever language you prefer?
So your code is 45.7 times slower.

HAHAHAHA.
STM's patent for LENR power generator
Of course that only has teeth if Congress actually wants to hear the truth. If Congress is actively sticking their collective fingers in their ears singing "la la I can't/wont hear you" it doesn't matter a jot.

Speaking truth to power is an extraordinarily difficult past time.
A) Well if he's smoking weed or drinking alcohol, he'll probably just won't answer your call or tell you to f* off. Kids, and teenagers especially will outright lie to you when confronted.

B) Taking a ride with a friend? Have the friend's parent phone you. Missed a bus ? Take the next one. Parent's shouldn't worry about a kid being reasonably late. In any case, there are probably plenty of strangers willing to lend their phone for a quick call. (I'm assuming daytime and a non-dangerous situation here)

This is exactly how I did when I was in high school.

C) Well, again it's about responsibility from parents. You should know where your kid is. If you know your kid is going out for the night without adult supervision, just lend him a feature phone for that night, and take it back when he won't need it (for example, in school, where he is supposed to be under adult supervision).

> As far as phones and school, it just sounds like cellphones are the new scourge being blamed for things the previous generation doesn't like or understand, just like music, RPGs, TV, and video games were.

The difference is that I didn't play video games or watch TV while I was in class. I simply couldn't. But when you give children a screen that's available 24/24 and that they can bring with them anywhere, that's where (imho) the limit is crossed.

> Especially when parents/adults are some of the heaviest users of social media.

Well, the biggest consumers of porn are adults as well, but it doesn't mean that children should have access to it either.
OK, if I never need to write insanely slow object oriented code for no good reason, I will download your "library".
Mostly because some other person who happens to be a man and is in a relation with a person that happens to be a woman may feel like teaching her some basic programming and a title that ports this situation to a possible reader elicits a stronger connection. That and "How a humam should teach another human partner how to program" would be very daft. I don't see anywhere in there, where it is stated that a girlfriend needs to be taught. Would it be ok if it was "teach your boyfriend" ? Where are you going with this ? You think that title is sexist because he says he has a girfriend that he will be teaching ?
Yeah, mostly. Also because its how it should have been done. PHP Internals should strive to clean up PHP to conform to my work ;)
Why I Moved Away From Microsoft ASP.NET
An interesting direction for Tesco, I wonder how they'll do.

I'm certainly not going to buy one, not after the fiasco with their password security (http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-...).
Very cool project, but sadly it's not able to plot graphs.
Oracle's SPARC M6 - Oracle Unveils Big Memory Machines
Hey dude why not post the link clickable directly through the feed?

Ps. Cool stuff
There's actually a chap on the mailing list who is from heroku and helping to make changes to allow it to run as in a worker. Not sure whether it's working yet, but the blocker was that shiny required root, but the devs have released a patch which fixes this.
I've been using PHP for over 12years now. I even attempted what you are doing once, but via an extension, but quickly realised I was simply complicating things in some misguided attempt to fix which wasn't broken.
Using the Basic HTML version also helps a bit. :)
In the 1990′s, the Swedish government subsidized the cost of computers for every family, allowing any Swedish family to buy a personal computer. This must’ve had a great impact – allowing a generation of Swedish kids to mess around with computers, coding and technology.

I've heard a similar argument made for why Dundee became a hub of computer game development in the UK — access to cheap computers for working-class families. (plus Dundee also has long cold winters)

In Dundee's case it was access to Sinclair ZX Spectrums that 'accidentally' went missing from the Timex factory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair
From Engadget:
Hudl features a 7-inch (1,440 x 900 resolution) display for watching those Blinkbox titles in 720p, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, stock Android 4.2.2, a microSD slot for supplementing the 16GB of internal storage and, according to Tesco, a battery that'll last around 9 hours on a full charge. Some of the specs, such as dual WiFi antennae and stereo speakers on the rear
And then there are those of us who love the new design in iOS 7. And I know quite a few non-technical people who also think it's great.

UI changes, no matter how great, are always going to piss off someone. A lot of the time that someone probably has a very good reason to be pissed off. BUT the changes might also benefit a lot of people who aren't as vocal. We shouldn't hold back innovation because we're scared of pissing people off. Of course we also shouldn't change just for the sake of it.

[This isn't directed specifically at the parent but at the issue in general].
Get the old Gmail compose back with a free browser extension
Here's my beef with the story. I feel bad for the lady and all. But why didn't she use any of the safety nets available to her? Medicare, social security, etc? Did she have kids she could turn to? At bottom, she was a lady who decided she should be able to live independently, turning away help apparently, teaching a few French classes a year. Why is that the employer's fault? Just because she was old?

I'm all for having a social safety net, but I think it should be a last ditch remedy. People should save up for retirement, have kids who can support them, and only if all that fails should the safety net kick in. I think the government should have done something for her here, but it's not the employer's fault.

Finally, I find the implication that we should care more because she was educated. I'm much more concerned about the uneducated person who works as a day laborer and doesn't have the opportunity to pursue a career that might result in a secure retirement.
This seems like a major security issue, since some browsers (Chrome, at the very least, and probably others) can be set to automatically open a torrent client when links to .torrent files are clicked.

Is it possible someone hijacked this IP?

Edit:

1. Seems the IP belongs to a CDN (edgecast).
I believe that other than the "hosted in the US or by a US company" requirement, Outlook.com fits the bill.

It's much cleaner and snappier than gmail and yahoo.
Wow, I wonder if this effect could be scaled up? I'd love to try to build a small prototype.
Nothing wrong with that attitude at all! Especially when backed up with code. Keep up the good fight .. but I would suggest you implement this as an extension.
I found a firefox version here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/restore-your-gmail-...

Maybe if Google sees enough download on all the plugin versions they will restore it natively.

Checked out the source on the firefox version and it is as simple as can be, no code obfuscation.
Uniformed NYPD officers: Sir, I'm gonna need you to, er, upgrade to iOS 7
I saw this in the story:

“This field exists globally in the atmosphere with an average surface magnitude of 120 Volts per metre pointing downward,” says Gorham.

I never knew this. Where does it come from? Why can't it be used to generate power?
i imagine the problem is finding an area of space that's smooth enough to make the measurement accurately. the distribution of mass within would need to be very uniform and "average" (mass curves space; what you're trying to find here is the average curvature). so it would need to be a very large area (since matter in the universe is clumped into galaxies and the like - you want a region so large that those clumps are averaged out).

since the voyagers are only separated by a scale similar to the size of the solar system, and we're talking of sizes much larger than the separation of galaxies (or superclusters), the answer is no (unfortunately) (and of course, at those scales, you have the practical problem of light having a finite speed, so your experiment would take a long time!).

in fact, that's why this comes from cmb (cosmic microwave background) measurements. because those give you, in effect, measurements across the largest chunk of universe observable.

having said all that, measuring changes in curvature is an easier problem. and that's what gravitational wave detectors try to do. and i am pretty sure there have been proposals to do that with satellites (measuring (changes in) distances to each other with lasers).
Can't see how much RAM it's got anywhere.
Ghost: the UK blogging platform that won't and can't sell out to Facebook
It doesn't work when logged in to google services. (I think it's been 2 years or something since it doesn't work anymore in that case)
NumbaPro: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration
The new Gmail was the final straw for me over an already constrained relationship with how Google apps was evolving.

I jumped ship, and took all my data with me. It felt extremely liberating and honestly, just damn good.
If you use the URL https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ you can use the old interface.
Oooh I'm studying abroad in Lund right now. Which hack spaces do you go to and when? I'd love to meet some other devs and get away for a weekend to work.
I actually really like the new Gmail design and it's helped improve my workflow. However I have a relative who uses computers only for work and rarely. I took the time to teach her Gmail and she finally got the hang of it. One day she called to ask me for help attaching something. It took me a few minutes to realise I couldn't help because she was still on the old UI and I couldn't walk her through it over the phone as I was on the new design. I mistakenly got her to update to the new UI (so I could more easily support her) and now she has constant issues trying to understand basic interactions. If she has an email open in the background + the compose window does she press send on the compose window or background email? Sounds simple but you'd be amazed and how complicated this is for some people and how stupid it makes them feel.

The problem seems to be communicating changes. Rather than the basic instructions given when a new design is introduced companies like Google should be producing detailed 30 minute walkthroughs of the new design and giving users the option to watch that.
Sarah Allen's Little Rules for Working Life
How some new $100 bills worth $1,000 or more
Metadata Equals Surveillance
Did you try fastmail.fm? It's very close to that.
Where did you jump ship to? I've wanted to do the same (and I have for personal email) but the ease of using my own domain with Google apps is unmatched anywhere I know of.
ahah, I did exactly the same =)
It's still 367,55 USD and it's too much... Maybe in a couple of years all these technologies will cost less for us to make something useful out of it.
Yes you should use them if they speed you up.

"High costs at a later stage when users multiply, vendor lock-in" -> it doesn't matter. 95% chance you won't get millions of users, so focus on that first.
Flat Earth News is the book to read on this topic. The largest press agency in the world is ... the CIA.

http://www.flatearthnews.net/
Thoughts on the future of the information security sector
I don't really understand why this is being considered technology news. This isn't Tesco entering into the technology sector.

This is just a classic case of a retailer maximising their profits in a particular sector.

It doesn't matter what it is, if it's popular and profit margins, they'll sell it. This is no different.
AIUI, if I do:

$x = new Number(-3.2);
$y = $x->absolute();

Then not only is $y equal to 3.2, $x is now 3.2 as well. Is this correct? If it is, I think it is non-intuitive.
>although I've heard that car thieves, like pick pockets, don't really steal cars anymore, just components and loose gear.

I heard that too, airbags, satnav and entertainment systems are the target...
"we can expect a new technology that we don’t even have now to get outdated before our lifetime." Very well said and so true. People must Adapt in order to cope up. Probably online education programs (MIT/Coursera etc)play vital role here in learning new domains/skills and keep us going...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming

Basically instead of specifying an algorithm you specify the constraints on the variables of the problem and then a generic solving algorithm finds solutions that match your constraints. It's a common solution for some types of problems where it's natural to think in terms of the constraints of the problem. For example to do the schedules for a school with 6 disciplines taught to 7 classes you might think in terms of constraints like:

1) There are 5 classrooms and no room can have 2 classes at once

2) The same discipline can't be taught at the same time to two classes (we only have one professor for each)

3) All classes must have 2h of each discipline

4) Classes must start after 9am and end before 6pm

Instead of designing a data structure and an algorithm to try permutations until you have a working schedule you would define your output variables and then specify these constraints as functions of those variables. In this case the variables would probably be 6*7 tuples of start time and classroom. Then you'd specify the 4 restrictions on those variables. You'd also probably have some kind of optimization function to try and not just get "a" solution but get a good solution (e.g., reduce the number of gaps in the schedule of each class).

Once you've specified both the constraints and the optimization function the generic solving algorithm does the heavy lifting and spits out solutions, sometimes even optimal solutions.
my reading of that section is that they're just trying to illustrate what statistical error is. i don't think there's any real meaning to the 1000 value.

[edit] but googling for "statistical significance planck anisotropy" turned up http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5083 which says "3 sigma" which is about 0.3% (p=0.003). so it's close.

[edit2] whoa. but you've got the right answer with the wrong maths. if you toss the same side of the coin 10 times in a row, that's p=0.001 (1/2^10 = 1/1024). getting the same side 1000 times in a row is much, much less likely.

ps since the result is basically (if i understand right) "one side of the universe is slightly different from the other" then it depends on how you choose the halves. if you divided things "at right angles" to what gives the signal, you wouldn't see anything at all. not sure if that is what you meant by partitioning (mathematically they use something like a 3d fourier transform - spherical harmonics - and this is a significant deviation from zero for the lowest frequency component).
I'd really want to see the moment when management makes these decisions. I'd like to understand their thought process, business rationale and expectations. A food retailer going into tech.
I like the idea but i don't like the actual implementation. For example:
Number::tan takes an array of flags as an argument but only one flag is ever used to determine which kind of tangent method is eventually executed. For me as a user this does not only complicate the usage but it is also potentially (microoptimizationwise) slower because of the necessary condition check.

So instead of

$number = new Number(4.2);
$number->tan(array(Number::TRIG_ARC))

why not just implementing it as a separate method?

$number->atan();
Run Node.js code quickly & securely in the browser using docker
I really appreciate it, and don't consider your comments rude at all. And that is what I wanted/needed to hear.

Basically, content we are lacking and working on, I am concerned about drawing peoples focus so we need to study that some more. Some of the shirts are specific to a group of people, and I don't think they will have a mass appeal, but I hear your comment.

Thanks for taking time
It looks that you don't do any checks if the object is really initialized with the value of the given type? However, if you did, then one could use this for a quick & elegant input validation and that would be extremely cool. It should check the value in the constructor and throw the exceptions if the type is wrong. And then you will also need more granular types like Integer and Float to make this more useful for everyday cases.
Can not reproduce from Germany (manually added the hosts entry)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define:something

Works fine for me.
For those of us Europeans where this doesn't work: it works on Incognito Mode in Chrome.
Also recall reading a justification that less formatting should be used in emails and that was part of the UI decision. Don't recall whether that was from Gmail team or a writer editorializing but fact is I use formatting to make my emails more clear to people. This whole new idea of having quick conversations through email feels like trying to shove a square peg in a round hole to me.
From their wiki, Replicant is really bare-bones at the moment: forget 3D or having your camera work and it will probably need proprietary drivers for the foreseeable future. Also, very few models are supported right now, fewer than Cyanogenmod on which it is based on.
Coderunner.io - JSbin for server-side languages
Why not discuss medical stuff with your girlfriend? If you don't know enough about medicine to hold a discussion with her, you can ask her to teach you.
Because it would mean a lot more work testing and fixing regressions whenever something changes, and nobody likes doing that kind of work.
Tesco is hardly just a food retailer, not only do they sell all kinds of tech they've got their own MVNO (Tesco Mobile), they've been selling rebranded tech (TVs, DVD players etc.) under their Technika brand for years, they've got a bank, credit cards, insurance and so on.
Think Huddle are going to have something to say about the name...
Alfred app (http://www.alfredapp.com/) on OS X.

define <a word>
1 + 2
open <filename>
etc.

It's "magical".
You should plan your training to prevent trauma.

It is possible and actually is easy. One such example is in Hypertrophy-Specific Training, which utilize week long rest and highly metabolic exercises after rest.

Another example is Westside Barbell Conjugate System, which utilizes rotation of exercises, metabolic exercises and actually forbids athletes going over 85% of 1RPM.
I tried the online demo. A simple x <- rnorm(1000) was VERY slow (it took a couple of seconds). Any idea why? It did not seem to be initial-class-loading one-time issues; the slowness persisted upon retrying.
I tried to sum it up in my recent blog : http://linux-devil.blogspot.in/2013/09/online-courses-for-co...
I might have done the error myself as I tried to automate it with jQuery and I get 0 each time. so no bug or bug fixed

Test the iframe url :

http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk

with this code :

javascript:(function(){var b=document.body;if(b){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://codeorigin.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.min.js');void(z.onload=function(){jQuery('.drag_container').each(function(){var elems=$(this).children('.drag_patch').remove();elems.sort(function(a,b){return parseInt(a.id.substr(8))-parseInt(b.id.substr(8));});$(this).append(elems);});});void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}})()
The Free Software Foundation offers legal consulting services. Here's part of email I got from them in 2007:

> The FSF has offered Free Software licensing support for many years, and has a recognised engineering and legal expertise in this area. As demand and expectation of our service has grown, we have required additional funds to support our work. To this end we now offer our services by paid consultation to non-free software developers.

> To answer your question as outlined, we will require 30 minutes of
consultation time, at a cost of $150.

That price may have gone up since 2007, but it likely in the same price range as you are looking for.

So my suggestion to you is to contact licensing@fsf.org with the above message.
Have you tried the new Hotmail (ie. Outlook.com). IMO it is currently the pack leader UI/speed wise.
This is the "basic" view in HTML only. It certainly has its merits.
You're welcome.

Actually, i only realized how much battery life makes it easier for you :P

But i still have 2 extra batteries in my car, for when i have no time. One of the best benefits of Android smartphones :-)

So the problem of battery life didn't really affect me much, just switch the battery and it's done... :)
As lot of other people, I moved my email to fastmail. It just feels so much lighter and cleaner and better.

I moved my contacts and calendering to a owncloud-based setup, which literally takes 5 minutes to set up. That way this data is available to all things which can work with the CardDAV and CalDAV standards.

This can easily be done on any webhost, and getting it "under your domain" a no-brainer. As a bonus, you now have your own private Dropbox-like setup as well, with clients across most major platforms.

For Google Drive/Docs, I've yet to see any replacement worth jumping on to, so I've kept that around. I've seen a few candidates mentioned, but they aren't ready/released or mature enough yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_theory_of_the_univers...