skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My WP homescreen has several Nokia HERE apps: Drive, Commute, Transit, Maps, City Lens. You'll have a hard time finding anything that good on iOS or Android.

Then there are clone apps for allmost all the apps you mention (Instagram, Vine, Youtube, Dropbox, Starbucks, Hangouts). Probably not as good [1], but they work and often there's a native way to accomplish the same thing, making an app redundant (i.e. install Filters and share from the Pictures Hub instead of using Instagram).

[1] http://pocketnow.com/2013/08/14/missing-apps-on-windows-phon...
Clearly Apple subscribes to this terminology, and I don't think it has much of an interest in putting forward the impression that Windows is the only option on PCs and concealing the existence of Linux.
Why, you think Africans won't be interested in answers to those?
U.S. government shutdown begins after Congress fails to break impasse
Government shutdown begins: Congress fails to agree on spending bill - CBS News
Who are "foreigners" for you? That's a bad term on internet forums because people from all over the world use sites like HN, making "foreigners" somewhat meaningless/confusing.
Douglas Rushkoff on new forms of economy and democracy
I wasn't sure what IntroJS was, I think this is what the book is about http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/, but do we really need a book to explain it?
AWAZZA - Reverse Proxy as a Service to accelerate mobile browsing
Gathering question answer pairs for training their answering algorithm in google search.
Explosion at UC Berkeley injures 4 - latimes.com
Zuckerburg got lucky as well. I has signed up to a few similar apps before facebook, but the timing was right to get a critical mass.
I liked the concept but I have a few niggling issues:

> The link opens to the presentation. I'd rather it open at the /engine/ and have a link to the presentation.

> Copy all the points of the presentation into a page and keep that handy for accessibility. Will probably help tone down the entitled, asshole-y comments a bit.

> Explain clearly where the data is being stored. Where does the bookmarks file that I exported actually go? Where is this database that you mention? On your server? On my local machine?

> Can you convert the independent page/tab so that it opens in a modal window instead? Will help me remember the context of the page. YMMV, of course.

> Convert the menu into a sidebar and delete the link/tab/button entirely.

Just a few thoughts/ideas/suggestions/opinions. YMMV. I like it but not sure how I can effectively to use it yet. Good luck!
It sucks because what the OP is describing isn't software engineering, its web development...
> What is the meaning of stonehenge?

That's probably a joke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg
Hum, once again you go too technical. (no offense)

How does it work? With a cracked version of Office and a USB key that is passed from hands to hands.
The email client? A web based interface.

For gendarmerie based stuff that requires special software (taking depositions for example), of course it is handled on Ubuntu because they have no choice.

But a lot of their paperwark time is spent filling word documents and excel spreadsheets, something that can be done on any computer.

Gendarmerie IT dept, lawl? They changed the computer and gave them one phone number for support, of a guy that is located 200 km away :).
My thoughts on procrastination and activation by fire. "Prompts affect thought" yes, but the context was social.

I wouldn't give a rat's ass when faced with a disconnected prompt forcing me to acknownledge the fact that I was browsing funny cat videos for the last two hours. Maybe that little "see, you're doing it again!" bump works for someone, but not for me. If those activities were to be made public. Well, that would probably have a totally different effect on me. After all, who want's to be seen as lazy?

* Fear of letting others know that I was actually doing: nothing.
* The feeling when receiving recognition from things accomplished.

Peer pressure + x would be my recipe. I'd like to know x, though. Maybe build an app that somehow connects what you /really/ did, every day, to your social circles. Be it online or wherever. Let the other's light a fire under your tail :)

-pro. c.
He should play Eve-Online.. He'd have so much fun!
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Really? My last web developer position in Australia was in an office full of Macs. My web developer position previous to that was in New Zealand was in an office full of Macs. My current position here in the UK is in an office full of Macs. Every web development house I've ever worked for, contracted with or freelanced with has been in an office full of Macs.
Is it because Quora's questions are behind the walled gardens?
Lots of insurance plans people had are being cancelled since they don't provide coverage mandated by ACA.
The 4S lacks the seam at the top.
I posted that more because I found it interesting, not because I think it would be very realistic to adopt such a pattern in "modern days".

If you want my advice (feel free to ignore me, I'm just a random guy on the internet):

If you aren't happy with how it's going for you (big if), identify the variables you can change, and experiment with them. What worked for me doesn't have to work for you, but I wouldn't count on "them" adding hours to the day anytime soon :-) Diet and exercise had a strong effect on my energy levels and sleep patterns, beyond that I'd just be guessing. The topic turns into biochemistry very fast, and I'm not very good at that. But at the end of the day, you're a machine, and that machine can be hacked. How, is up for you to find out.
Younited - all your content 100% alive
Gendarmerie is not "national police"; they are different entities (and of course they hate one another).
Death rarely waits for a convenient moment. http://xkcd.com/791/
Still, is the expected profit from lost sales really larger than the cost of a new replacement car or two as suggested in the post above?
I'm just saying - what's the purpose of having a "local" african answer to this? Will the answer to that question by impacted by the geography of the people searching? Probably not.

There are plenty of good use cases for having a localized search answer for Africa - but many of the questions that I saw after a quick preview didn't seem to make great case studies for that purpose.
See this diagram for historical mortgage rates: http://hypotek.swedbank.se/rantor/historiska-rantor/historik... But note also that banks charge various additional fees and often doesn't allow you to borrow the whole sum for the lowest interest rate. So the effective rate is higher than advertised.

> Banks are profitable, sure. But also remember that the credit loses on mortgages in Sweden are practically zero, that contributes greatly to profitability.
> Lastly, why would it be a fair system to have to lend directly from the central bank, you would not pay REPO rate as individual borrowers are significantly more risky than huge banks...

You can't in the same breath both say that mortgages are incredibly safe in Sweden and claim that they are significantly more risky than banks. Yes it makes sense that interest rates are higher for mortgages than when you lend "in bulk." But not that much higher. TFA claims 15% in profit margin which is pretty good for just shuffling money around.

My point is that there is no magic, or uber-Swedish intelligence that makes the banks financially sound and profitable which the Economist seem to think. It is that they get away with overcharging their customers, the lenders, for the meager services they provide.
Nice place to read. I wish i can learn all and join a company like www.utradestudios.com (Utrade Studios). Great read BTW
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what now, being able to make a living makes one right?
Shahnameh in digital form
NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.
That can be a bad thing as well if those tools are chosen poorly. By diversifying you don't necessarily have the same weaknesses across all your components - and other parts of the group can copy things that work when someone tries something new out.
Keep it that way. It didn't do us any good to merge both (Belgium).
That seems more than a little dishonest.

Installing jenkins and adding a job that will work immediately is a matter of minutes and doesn't require you to touch any configuration file at all.

Definitely much quicker than figuring out the pricing and limitations of CircleCI.
How To Overcome Laziness And Give Your Business A Lift
So I tried out my ideas for type checking core.match with CinC, and it worked out wonderfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2zts1hW19k
SELinux default policies are usually written per distribution, by their maintainers. It's widely used and peer reviewed (Fedora, Red Hat) I'd trust it over any less involved attempt at emulating it.
This is not a search engine to search inside of code repositories but web pages.

The idea was there in the air, at least someone implemented it!
This is NOT the Police but the Gendarmerie, one of the four military bodies along with the navy, the army and the air force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gendarmerie

They are soldiers, not civil servants.
Unlike french public administrations, when the army has an execution plan, it get things done!
John Preskill: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
Looks like there's a market for lemons in academic papers, as well ;) Interesting that the paper's thesis applied to itself.
The Professional license is free and gives 20 active build configurations & 3 simultaneous builds. I install extra instances if I need more.
Same here. I'm self employed and my wife is stay at home. I went to anthem.com and signed up for a policy. I'm 29 and she is 27. It costs us $239/mo in Los Angeles.

I've been self employed since getting off my parents insurance, have always had health insurance and never had trouble getting a policy.
Didn't they just move from Defense to Interior?
Well they should look for some updation on those PCs
A summary on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1nhlv9/us_governm...
Yea, I checked out CircleCI back when the demo was making the rounds. Cool looking, but I don't use GitHub so it's kind of useless for me. I keep it on my "keep an eye on it" list, and would switch in a heartbeat if it

1. Supported non-GitHub hosted repos
2. Supported more languages (Objective-C, C++, etc)
3. Supported SVN
FOSS lacks one key aspect of the traditional software industry - it's never scarce. Any business model based on artificial scarcity will fail. If game development is what you are into and you want your game to be free you may charge for the game while releasing the code and retaining copyright of all non-code assets (visuals, music, sound effects etc).
For budgetary/employment yes (back in 2009), but status-wise they remain a military force.

So they're really halfway, under both defense and interior.
They might have static xml files on server and XSLT template engine to produce html
> We should see interpreters for other languages written in JS - or is that far fetched?

there is a scheme interpreter, of course.

someone compiled cpython to javascript using llvm and posted results a few weeks ago.

too lazy to find links
Web designers are working all the time. I have a friend who works in Utrade Studios. www.utradestudios.com. And he is working all day long :P
OSX at home, Windows 7 at work (but working most of the time SSH'ed into Linux box anyway).
>A friendship worth maintaining is worth maintaining even when it's not easy or convenient.

False dichotomy. Friendships come on a continuum. If facebook shifts some of the marginal ones over the line from "not worth maintaining" to "worth maintaining", surely that's a good thing.

One day I saw on facebook that an old acquaintance was looking for company at an interesting-sounding dinner. So we went there and had a good evening. We've been in very little contact before or since, and would probably not have been in touch at all without facebook - but that was a nice evening nevertheless, and well worth having facebook for.
I think it does. From the very beginning they wanted to sell computers to people by making them think they work like home appliances. If people knew computers are actually universal machines, then they wouldn't be as willing to pay more for the same components with a different brand printed on the machine's case, or a different software running in them.

Besides, that gives them a single competitor to fight against.
Lets get this tested from www.utradestudios,com and see what they have to say..... :)
I am almost 32 years old and pay $120/month for insurance with Kaiser (I have been very happy with them, and even had surgery done under Kaiser). I don't think this is necessarily a huge expense in the startup world, where people often spend this much on cable tv, cell phone plans, etc. I would guess a fair amount of people interested in entering the startup space are younger and healthier than I am. I am a little bit dubious that such a health care system would cause a startup boom - in fact, if you look at other countries with similar health care policies, they have far fewer startups per capita. This is not to say its a bad idea (you be the judge of that) - just that I don't think it will instill dramatic change in the startup scene.
In contrast to the US, mortgages in Scandinavia are rarely fixed-rate. The default is to get a mortgage with variable interest rate. The central bank publishes the "expected" central bank rate months in advance, just like in the US.

As pathy said, you can usually change your variable-interest loan into a fixed-rate loan for 3, 5 or 10 years at a time. Few people do this, because you can expect to pay more over the lifetime of the loan, as insurance. Although the percentage has been higher now, since long-term rates were at record low levels in 2011-2013.

The big killer of homeowners is unemployment, not climbing interest rates. In Norway, you regardless can't get a loan unless you are currently able to maintain a mortgage of 5 percentage points higher interest rate than the current variable rate. So the system is quite safe.
Contraception and mental health services are basic medical needs. In a given year more than 25% of college students seek treatment for a mental health problem[1] - and given the stigma surrounding mental illness, that may be a gross underestimate. At Harvard about 40% of seniors reported seeking mental health treatment. I don't know the percentage of women who use contraception, but I'd imagine its very high. If you're going to provide health insurance, it should cover common medical problems. You should also cover things that are preventative so that people don't end up needing catastrophic coverage. Paying for someone to see a therapist and take an anti-depressant is cheaper than paying for inpatient treatment if things spiral out of control. Paying for contraception is a hell of a lot cheaper than paying for an unplanned pregnancy.

[1] - http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Find_Support/NAMI...
Then they should play iOs new game Feed Your Bird :)
They should try upgrading the software from a website like www.utradestudios.com :)
There are more entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs that fall into the pre-existing condition bucket than you might think. It's not only people with serious chronic illnesses that would make them unlikely to start a company anyway, but anyone who has an elevated risk due to a major past health event, even someone who hasn't had an issue in 20 years and is perfectly capable of and willing to do a startup. Those people are currently chained to a BigCorp due to the need for group-plan health coverage, and are hopeful that PPACA will change that.

Even among the relatively few people I know interested in doing startups (probably 5?), one is in that category: an early-30s software engineer with a congenital heart defect. He had surgery in his early teens for it, and has not had a major issue since then. It doesn't interfere with his daily life, but obviously there is added monitoring and a significantly elevated risk of future complications, which disqualifies him from non-BigCorp health coverage.
What's wrong with Dropbox, and in which way this is an "alternative"..

Or is the fact they made a dubsteppy video of young people dressed funny performing weird contortions going to make me sign up ?

I fail to see the problem there is to solve here. It also presupposes other services aren't secure (no back-doors, etc...).
Not to everyone. I seriously thought about contracting full-time, and when I went to buy personal health insurance, I was denied based on a pre-existing condition (they wouldn't even tell me what the condition they thought I had was). So, my only choices were 1. contract and risk health bankruptcy or 2. go back to W2 work.
Teh only boom is in Internet Solutions rest all is costly.
Show HN: C Style - my favorite C programming practices
That isn't per app though
I only read through the article once, and fast, but it does seem to imply that night owl equals not enough sleep. That, and the amount of participants in the test seemed a bit too low for a true statistical overview.

I'm a night owl, always have been, even after I had kids. Go to bed at 1am-2am and wake up 7:30-8:30 depending on schedule. Weekends all bets are off. Works well for me, but that's the thing: I don't think we're all that similar. Different patterns for different people.
From reading this, it appears the only reason we had any decent 8-bit games at all was due to professional pride and heroic effort on the part of the bedroom programmers employed! He was largely left to his own devices (but given a tight deadline).

Bittersweet moment in the book - the photo of some suit accepting the "best game" award for his game. They never even bothered to tell him he had won...
I have a friend who works in Utrade Studios. www.utradestudios.com and he is always working making new changes and updating as he says i am pushing, pulling and committing the code. :)
> Never saw anything like that later on with the 'modern' programming languages..

You can always use Emacs and YASnippet. Also, Eclipse has a good couple of extremely handy word expansions.
Huh? That's the Linux kernel MPTCP project. The article is talking about Apple's use, which rely on a Cisco implementation and an Apple implementation; pretty sure neither are based on the Linux impl.
First impression: the UI is really neat, I liked it a lot. Kudos to year team, the execution is excellent!

My understanding is, the app automatically selects one of the currencies based on locality. Would it do the same when I travel?

Obviously missing is entering exact values, e.g. the values that appear on long tap might easily be editable - I intuitively expected them to be while playing with the app.

You might also explain in the guide that for going between the price of a BurgerKing burger and combined GDP of the E.U. you shouldn't scroll all the way to billions but use rounded values instead ;) Similarly for other units.

Also missing: since you have length and volume, area would be nice to have.

Edit: another missing feature is jumping to the beginning of a scale somehow with one tap.
Perhaps the french version? http://www.google.com/baraza/fr/
Well, I see the same news (on Google Baraza) has been doing rounds on HN since 2010 :D. So its definitely not new software.
Nitpicking: ISIS is /FAR/ more prevalent than OSPF in the really real world of ISPs. Both run Dijkstra at their core, but ISIS handles multipath much more cleanly.

Bloat is a very interesting conversation, most providers are not doing sufficient analysis of the interface buffer size in relation to latency. It would be very neat to see Juniper/Cisco building interface level auto-queue management to reduce the latency inducing over buffering that occurs on badly tweaked backbone links.
Sadly when the submitter does that the moderators just change it to the article title anyway.
I remember reading about a study indicating that thinking about what isn't here causes unhappiness (and vice-versa, we're generally happy “in the moment”).

Remembering good things (and apparently the past tends to be seen in positive light, regardless of whether we felt happy at the moment) causes the mismatch between our memories and the reality. Possibly because we're very social species, a deceased person causes the worst pain.
Apple successfully patents Shanghai Apple Store's glass cylinder entryway
http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=6551f90c5ef62dc2&...
Personally I think bulk collection is wrong regardless of where a person is, or what passport they carry.

I agree.

But the [US] constitution only protects our right to privacy on American soil...

I know. ☹
Pilots have been using the iPads for quite awhile for preflight planning (and some other things). There are a lot of apps for that released by Boeing, Airbus etc. Windows platform doesn't have that.

Also, why would a pilot need the office suite in flight?
they could have made BBOS a fork like kindle os is.
Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators
The fact that 3 years after it was started, most of us still don't know of it means Baraza questions are clearly not ranked higher than other results :)
"Visiting a site is giving that site permission to run whatever it wants in your browser/on your computer."

No, it really isn't.
SpaceX Falcon 9 – Possible Explosion
There is another possibility. You were never really an owl.

I see that with myself, I live the owl life because

1. I love to be in bed. It actually do not matter when.
2. I hate going to bed when there is work the next day or it is a we day and I lose some of the so precious free time.

So that starts a vicious circle where I go to bed late, wake up late when I can, or be miserable when I can't. I don't know if I'm a owl or lark, the "owl" pattern in my life is artificially created.
Great news! Many thanks to Timothy Nikkel and all the other Mozilla devs. It's particularly great on Fennec, where the memory constraint is noticeable.

For people - like me - who didn't know what B2G was, it's Boot2Gecko, the OS project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/FAQ
Honest question: if the source code is compiled with the same compiler (although different computer), will it give a different binary with a different hash?
I am almost completely self taught.

In 1988 after a back injury knocked me out of construction work, I started with 16bit intel assembly language on an old XT. I was guided by listings from Byte and Dr. Dobbs magazine and the fine folks on FidoNet and RIME/Relaynet. I eventually learned C, tried qbasic and turbo pascal and eventually settled on C++.

I was initially driven by the desire to write a game similar to the first NES Zelda game, but for multiple people. I got it somewhat working so 2 computers could play with stick figures over a serial or parallel cable. My lack or art skills torpedoed it, but... It was what kept the fire burning for almost 2 years.

I eventually learned Perl (to help out a friend of a friend with his business web site), Python (again for a FoaF), Rexx, shell scripting, awk and a few others that coincided with a move to Linux in the late 90s when OS/2 died. The draw of games kept me in Windows machines from 3.0 to Win7...

If not for Joseph Carnage, Jerry Coffin, Bob Stout, Doug Azzarito and the others on the BBSs, I would not be what I am today. Almost all gave their time selflessly in helping me learn to think and function as a professional programmer.

25ish years later, I'm still doing things in Python and C++ and trying to wrap my head around Haskell along with various and sundry things that fall in my lap and need doing. :)
It's the exact opposite of the linux desktop tradition: take a seven year old dust caked laptop. Put linux on it. Get excited about how much better it is than Windows NT. Hand it over to your 17 year old niece and watch her compare it to her friend's new macbook air.