skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rabbit is good food, though a bit on the expensive side. We're sometimes giving it to kids, as it's supposed to be healthier for very young kids than, say, beef with all the antibiotics and stuff.

And regarding cuteness - around here in farmers markets they are sold with the furry feet attached; It's a tradition so that people know that they're not getting cheated and getting a cat instead, but if cuteness matters then the sight might be a bit harsh :)
Wow, even Lispers hate Lisp
Are you certain of this fact? I know the Roadster was made by Lotus out of extruded & epoxied aluminum, but what about the sedan?
> the incompetency of many in government finally reaching and affecting the American public

There may be more, less, or the same amount of incompetence in government employees as there is in every other human endeavor. I can't speculate.

But let's be clear: the shutdown has nothing to do with that. It is a political move orchestrated by a relatively small number of power brokers in the Congress. No more, no less.
The evidence is the testimony that Cuban was told by the CEO about the offering. The jury needed to believe it beyond reasonable doubt, but we don't need to because as individuals, our tolerance for coincidence is much lower than it is for juries.
Oh, man. Oh man.

I'm sorry that this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, HN.

But I laughed very, very hard at that.
Space-Time Curvature Simulated On Microchip For First Time Ever
Those expressing the views described in this article seem to be painfully ignorant of the Federally financed origins of Silicon Valley:

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
I'm not quite sure why you're skeptical on my understanding of marketing. Before I worked for myself, I worked for marketing firms, I'm not concerned that there is some base confusion there, I'm just saying

a) I don't have a working budget for design work, branding, or sales staff

b) Some folks around here have been there before too, and found a way over the bootstrapping hump, I'm curious how.

My question is poorly-worded. It was written at a moment when I was frustrated, but I was hoping for a good story from someone about how they got past the stage where you don't have the capital to commit to scaling the business up but you have good tools ready.
I thought this was going to be an argument for simplicity but then it started talking about complex things. Git and SASS and Python and whatnot are great, but if you just want to build a website, like in the Good Old Days, surely https://neocities.org/ does the trick. Put HTML files in your 10MB of space.

This sounds like a friendlier Heroku and may well turn out to be brilliant, but it is still a lot more than just building a website.
Of course they aren't, they can't, because way too many people still use XP (and a couple of other obsolete OSs, like Android 2.X).
Funny how the progress of time moves seemingly extreme positions into mainstream acceptance.

If you told me 13 years ago that the US would elect a black president twice, I'd have laughed at you.
Unfortunately we have a lot of school administrators using our app with their Dept of Ed issued computers. The same DOE that actively encourages everyone to use IE and disallows software upgrades without IT help. Trust me, we try to get them to switch to Chrome/FF but it's an uphill battle.
What about libraries? What if you have to start trying to understand what's going on in Slick? I had two friends who were pairing and were trying to figure out how to get something done. They are both strong java developers and both had scala experience. However, they started diving in and got lost in even understanding what was going on.

I believe it was Dijkstra that said (paraphrasing) source code is meant to communicate to humans first and only incidentally machines.
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All I get is:

Oops...something went wrong.
Short term fix: if you zoom out you can see the full menu.
Agreed, my attitude did smack of defeat.

My plan however is to get on some focused groups, for example, LinkedIn SAP groups and try to find some system integrators to talk to there.
I think you're making a mistake in assuming librarians aren't comparable to STEM work. That's a reasonable position for someone with a masters degree who's studied a lot of information theory, subject area expertise, and in many cases non-trivial technical skills to help process, remediate, etc. data on a large scale.

At a research library – and if, as it appears, this is http://www.nal.usda.gov/ it's one of a small number of major national libraries – it's common for librarians to provide expert advice. It's not “Get me [ISBN]” so much as “I'm looking for information on a topic. Can you find good sources?”
Wait what, this guy is 55?
That got an audible laugh, thanks :D
> A simple schedule for Philips Hue, so you can f.lux your house

You can pair your Philips Hue bulbs with f.lux! This is awesome! This kind of thing is very helpful for people who sleep odd hours or just have trouble going to sleep and waking up. Has anyone tried this or knows how it works?
I am building an actual service using technology like this (but we wrote our own, not TogetherJS). It's cool, but don't forget that this is really a "utility" and it's the mix of factors and features that you build on top of this that make an actual product out of it. I'm currently compiling a (somewhat biased) feature-by-feature comparison on creative realtime collaboration tools. Feel free to comment and suggest more products to compare! https://docs.google.com/a/mnt.mn/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AunvDU...
I agree with setting high prices.

Back when i was selling realtime data backup software I was wondering how come the highest priced package pulled the biggest total number of sales. Today I realize i should of set price 10x more and I'd probably sell more.

I also recommend attitude "there are no problematic clients" vs "how to avoid something". Quite often in my experience the "problematic" and complaining client suddenly spent large amount of money on order.
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One can always start up multiple Python processes, though.
I don't get out much, but I only know 1 (out of > 15) web-developers that use Windows...
Videos and slides from the Linux Plumbers Conference 2013
Ok, stepping back and critiquing here, the call to action falls hard on the fact that 'website' doesn't have a common enough definition.

It is in fact trivial to build a web site, one person. My sister did it (not technical) went to WPEngine.com got the basic package, went to name.com and got a domain that wasn't taken yet, and added Google apps for the email component. Boom, "web site" and she is very non-technical, but she does know how to use a search engine.

Then there are the Geo/NeoCitites type things - also pretty trivial. And new entrant Ghost, also easy to do for one person.

Then there are the Github Pages, Dropbox pages, and Google Drive pages (and Google Sites for that matter, an unwanted love child with Jot).

If you are actually modestly technical then it gets even easier.

So that whole "its rocket science" meme doesn't really fly and that takes away from the whole 'this is hard we're here to help' theme.
Can a jury ever find a defendant "innocent"? I thought the only two options were "guilty" and "not guilty".
EFF Files Challenge With Patent Office Against Troll's Podcasting Patent
Yeah, well the big elephant in the room is the Server 2013 interface which uses the same "Tile World" desktop. Hello, it's a server! Not a tablet, not a touch screen PC... That's the one that completely floored me... and not being addressed in all this 8.1 mania.
two (male) thumbs down.
Pursuit of wealth is pretty much the only way how the rural poor can stop, well, being rural poor.
October 17, 2008 - Mark Cuban announces bailoutsleuth.com
November 17, 2008 - SEC charges announced

Connection, coincidence, or a little of both? I don't believe that Cuban is innocent per se, but I also don't believe that his prosecution wasn't politically motivated.
This looks really awesome!
Agreed, it is not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
My first thought (before even reading rest of sentence) on the tattoos over pain prone areas was that they were charms, spells, etc. to alleviate the pain. Not acupuncture. rubbing charcoal into lacerations is not how one does acupuncture.
Government Program To Control Religious Thought
Actually, since this is civil I think the bar is lower than in a criminal case. They probably only needed to prove that he's guilty based on the "preponderance of the evidence". Essentially that it's more likely he did it than he did not do it.

Just knowing the timing alone would suggest a greater than 50% chance of him being guilty to me. I'd convict him in 5 minutes.
Can you provide some links or analysis? I don't find any threats.
Arduino developers rejoice, codebender integrated in coderbits
Actually, the only thing this tells you about what you are getting out of the vector is that it can be implicitly converted to a string.

If data is a vector of, for example, pointers to const char, on each iteration this code will unnecessarily copy each item into a temporary string before printing it. Using auto would avoid this step, regardless of data's type.

Note that the typical non-range-based for loop also omits the vector item type... Is this that much less clear?:

for (int i = 0; i < data.size(); ++i) {
ofile << data[i] << std::endl;
}
Exactly. Note that Mozilla isn't being paid for this tool. It's open source though. So those who require IE support are welcome to pay someone to or add it themselves.

Everyone is happy, except those who want goodies for free. ;)
You are right that clinical trial studies would be much more time intensive and costly. The studies we will be replicating through the Reproducibility Initiative are more preclinical cancer studies, rather than later-stage clinical trials.

We felt the preclinical stage was more important to validate, as much of the research is based on academic studies with over 60% failure rate for replication (see http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...)

By clinical trials, a lot of the pharma companies have already done initial validation, so extra validation is redundant. We hope a reproducibility system to validate preclinical research can help patient groups, foundations, and industry better identify reproducible oncology targets, and hence the focus on preclinical studies (which in turn are less expensive).
> What makes some language a scripting language?

A surprisingly difficult question that I've wrestled with a lot (I did a PhD in "compilers and scripting languages" and people can be quite picky about semantics!). Here's how I think about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1281922/104021
Full Scholarship program teaching marketing to start-ups
Poor marketing is one of the leading causes for start-up failure. Marcademy Fellows (marcademy.com) is a full scholarship program for start-ups to teach and mentor on the full stack of marketing. It is founded by a group of highly successful CMO's, senior marketers and start-up founders.
With a credit card? Which site? To my knowledge this did not exist. Discount fees would cost them 2% at least.
You've changed the question from "is the invention non-obvious, in the sense that current law requires to grand a patent?" to "do you agree with current patent laws and the value of patents?"
I went to a couple of these hackathons. Clearly this skews towards the East Coast. A lot of people from Berkeley/Stanford and also Southern CA schools like UCLA/USC don't go to these because of the hassle of flying out, missing class, being exhausted (after a red-eye), etc. Even if your flight is paid for (which is what PennApps did for my ticket). Whereas you're going to see much higher numbers for East Coast schools that are near these hackathons.

On the flip side, since I'm at Berkeley, I can just take a 30 min. BART ride to SF if I want to go to a hackathon. It's interesting that the collegiate hackathons tend to be on the East Coast, but lot's of startup/business related ones crop up on the West.
A bit meta, but I think it's really telling that you're using a google doc (also a great collaboration tool) to compare.
Getting Started With Ghost
That's totally intentional, we didn't want to implement a spreadsheet. Yet. ;) I made a list of use cases under the main table that clearly states Google Docs as currently the best tool for tasks like spreadsheets, Word-like document authoring and such. I'm well aware of NIH.
If the market is such as it is, then I'd say that the bootstrapping way is to become the sales staff yourself (as everything, it can be learned/improved), the growth way is to get outside funding for sales staff, and there likely isn't a third way.

And the marketing question was because it looked like that you say that the marketing part actually is okay, the product and message fits the market, but your direct sales activities (i.e., the actual closing the deals/"make them sign on the dotted line finally" activity which is probably the only part of customer relations that's not usually called marketing) are lagging.
Agreed that C++11 is better than C++Original. But no. It's still 19 non-blank lines, all of which you have to think about and maintain. Compare this to an idiomatic version written in a "real" scripting language like Python.

import fileinput, sys
for line in sorted(fileinput.input()):
sys.stdout.write(line)

Advantages over C++:

* Fewer import/using lines (5 lines in the C++ version).

* No variable declarations (4 lines in the C++ version).

* Automatic iteration over file or file-like objects is very nice. No need to build a list via getline() and the terribly-named "push_back()" function.

* No "data.begin(), data.end()" parameters to the sort function -- sane defaults, people.

* "for line in file" is so much easier to read than "for(const auto &i : data)".

* Return 0 is implicit. Explicit is better than implicit, I know, but this is a very sane default. If there's an exception, Python won't return 0.

* Better automatic error handling. What does the C++ version print if a file doesn't exist or if there's a read error?

* Thanks to Python's standard library (fileinput module), it automatically handles stdin, multiple input files, etc.
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The more pernicious senior engineer is one who can code their way out of a box in an interview, but cannot deliver working code in a production environment due to various reasons - perfectionism seems to be a common thread to not delivering in my (limited) experience.

Do you have any pointers on weeding these candidates out? Our country's employment laws make it hard to fire net negative producing programmers.
Except that in America people are innocent until proven guilty.

In the eyes of the law, he is innocent.
Not to mention a certain Fort Meade-based agency that had them apoplectic with rage.
> Can a jury ever find a defendant "innocent"? I thought the only two options were "guilty" and "not guilty".

"innocent" = "not guilty". Guilt is a binary state.

EDIT: Though, as this was a civil case, neither "guilty" nor "not guilty" were possible results.
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> the very real possibility of default

It was never a possibility. Only a matter of cutting a better deal for each involved party. Just like with the Wall Street bailout - it's "too big to fail". So the debt bubble will continue to grow and enrich the few at the expense of common folk worldwide.
Indeed, except that people who don't follow this area indeed don't know about them. A whole bunch of people have been getting upset at a DHS procurement for billions of hollow point bullets!!! ... which of course is an ID/IQ contract where the government is only obligated to buy 1,000 rounds of each type in the first year. The extreme total would only result with maximum purchases for it and the following four optional years (and the possible quantities of the various types of rounds ordered are very much not what you'd want for a civil war, but that's looking even deeper into the contract).

Ah, as a side note, annual US civilian production of ammo is 12+ billion rounds per year, with 3 or less billion being rimfire. Importation is not inconsequential (and much greater post-Newtown), so this isn't really even that large in the scheme of things.

Anyway, as you say, they're common in IT, where knowing ahead of time how much of what you'll need is not entirely possible, although this is the first I've heard of one for software or complete systems including serious amounts of custom software, or multiple vendors all in the same game.

Funny thing, I briefly worked for AMS starting just before most of it was bought by CGI. Not top tier, but I didn't get the impression they were at the bottom, where I'd e.g. place CSC, which was mentioned in the article.

(I myself was in a national security unit that got bought by CACI, which for a variety of reasons I declined to join.)

BTW there are conservative sites of high quality. The Washington Examiner is unfortunately not one of them, unless you're reading a column by Micheal Barone or one of the their other big names.
Nope. BNL is a ~30 minute drive from Islip. BNL is sandwiched between Ridge/Middle Island, Yaphank, and Shorham Wading River (10 minutes from where the aborted SWR nuclear power plant rests). BNL belongs to the township of Brookhaven.

Meanwhile, Islip is the home of McCarthur Airport, a medium sized airport that serves the east end of Long Island.
A Muzzled Chinese Artwork, Absent but Speaking Volumes
Calorie & weight awareness. It's really the simple guaranteed key to keeping weight off and losing it. More than exercise, more than ketogenic diets and a billion bits of contradictory information, being aware of how many calories you eat is really the key to not being overweight.

You can lose weight even with really busy schedules under $10/day with a combination of liquid egg whites with salsa, carrot stick snacks and subway/chipolte for example. Just eat at the -1.5lbs/week calorie level to lose weight with a calorie calculator[1]. Remember to recalculate every 5lbs or so of weight loss.

Also record your weight at least weekly with something like myfitnesspal or a wifi weight scale (like the fitbit aria) to snip weight gain trends in the bud. I once gained 30 lbs over a period of 5 months without realizing it due to not tracking my weight, stress and my exGF getting into baking. %70 of americans are overweight, your not alone.

[1] http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html
A couple of decades later this story continues to fascinate me. I wonder if there is a list of scholarly journal articles that have originated from this one discovery. It has to number in the hundreds or beyond.
Are you sure he's trying to be the best he can? To me, it seems like he's just looking for the path of least resistance to participate in the Olympics and it has nothing to do with pushing his limits or excelling at something he cares about.
The Sun newspaper mistakes Deus Ex cybernetics company for reality
All I want to do is build a Web site

www.weebly.com
I love the pikachu-like curve
It's substantially different in that some derivatives are equivalent to insurance, but the entities writing those contracts do not meet capital requirements for insurance.

The reason there are capital requirements for insurers is that, without them, you can get "free money" by selling insurance contracts that are backed by nothing. Doing that under another name is just as fraudulent.

Especially in the case of insurers writing such contracts, you don't have to take witness' word for the fact they were evading capital requirements. The contracts and available capital make the whole case.
"These kind of people" might come across as wrong to a few, which is completely fair and justified. But as you said - "getting them back to Earth" is a wrong idea. That implies that current situation is completely fine and these people are eccentrics, which is most definitely not correct. Rather than silencing a few who speak their minds and getting things back to (ab)normal; we need to find our own ideas on how things can be fixed, if not by the ideology proposed by such people.

We need to collectively work towards a solution than silencing a few.
Unfortunately that attitude just incentivizes corruption for any politicians who run against incumbents.
Without extensive government funding, it would never have become Silicon Valley.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2332168287/
SWIZECCCCCCC!!!!
Because as far as the politicians who benefit from gerrymandering are concerned, it's not broken.
Does this write know what first means?

The article mentions the Vancouver Canucks using it since 2009.
But let's not forget that while CL can be critisized, it is still the best programming language ever!
I know it's been discussed before, but I so wish Chrome Extensions for use on specific sites didn't need to ask for permissions like "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing activity." It's a usability nightmare and sounds rather scary in today's security climate.
"Best programmers" and "people who contribute effectively to a team's culture" can sometimes be exclusive sets.

One of the most intelligent and creative programmers I know is an arrogant douchebag who demoralises entire teams. He's very effective on his own, but stick him in a scrum team, and watch the culture of that team sour and watch its productivity drop.
How would one generate this equation from an image? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=snorlax+plane+curve
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter.

That doesn't sound like a better world. That sounds like a worse one. Governments tend to at least have some interest in keeping their citizens alive, healthy, and happy.

The primary purpose of a company is to make money and as history has shown time and time again companies in general are all too willing to sell people dangerous products, work their employees to death, and do other unsavory things in order to make money.

Sure the US government is seeming ineffective, and in many cases less than satisfactory. But a system in which companies have the power definitely isn't better.
For some reason non-tech people think desktop applications are always hard to create, and web sites are always simple.
First in the NBA. This article was posted to the NBA's site, not a general sporting news site.

FTA:
"In the next few days, the Dallas Mavericks will become the first team in the NBA to have their players wear black, digital wristwatches that don’t tell time."
This makes a Cost-per-Click model superior to a Cost-per-Action model in terms of affiliate marketing.
> the jury decided there is not enough evidence to indict.

I think you mean "convict," not "indict." An indictment, decided by a grand jury in the United States, is basically an accusation, and it happens before a trial. A conviction is what happens with a trial jury or petit jury.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indict#United_States
Thanks, Peter. Others have mentioned this as well. About 30 minutes ago I submitted an update that limits the extension's permissions to HN only, although it still accesses your active tab in order to place you in the right room. I'll see about a work-around for the tabs.
Buy your own drone and produce precise orthomosaics and 3D models.
As the last round of a 3-hour interview I met the engineering manager whose first question was, "Do you know Perl?" and I said no and he said "Sorry, we need someone who knows Perl" and sent me home. After 3 hours of wasting my time! Not naming names, but Screw you and burn in hell for eternity SAP!