skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. School's great for finding the unknown unknowns - a useful tool even if you're going to teach yourself everything outside of school regardless.
I'm curious as well. Did anyone have problems with the new timezone thing that came with 1.4?
Oh, I've not even heard of Durandal, I'll have to check that out! (Strangely enough, the word "Durandal" has an historic importance at our company, so it'll be humorous to present this to them if it turns out to be useful for us. ;) )

Indeed, my solution for (2) is to say "hey, let's make a real set of ViewModel objects". I have an internal-only project that I built myself, which was basically a fairly complex experiment in using Knockout - and making the ViewModel objects myself really made a difference in how the whole application felt, it felt great. But it was a hard sell - one that I lost - when I tried to sell them on it in general.

And indeed, I don't know if I'll ever find a solution around (5). I feel like it's a small price to pay for the benefits personally, but it is a price to be paid. :(
In almost every European country, shoes are outselling bikes!
I updated to Pages 5.0 and still have Pages '09. I can use both.
The 3rd world doesn't have a 5th world to exploit, so looking to us as a model is not a viable option.

They should be looking to us with a very critical and suspicious eye.
Smaller countries / cities with better public transit make it viable to own bike instead of car. Not the case in most of US.
Sorry, forgot the link. It's what I used to export the interactive ipynb file to html for preview on GitHub, for example: https://rawgithub.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd...
Maybe they should sell "track day" versions of their apps as an in-app purchase?
Why? I mean, Python 3 is already up for years, and using Python 2x for me personally feels like shooting myself in the foot due to the horrible unicode handling, for example. Why can't we finaly draw the line and abandon Python 2 forever?
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Of course, it's only correlation. Causality is unclear, the correlation isn't, and correlation is enough to render incorrect the inference that athletes perform worse academically than non-athletes.

Here's a review of the topic: http://library.la84.org/3ce/HighSchoolSportsParticipation.pd...

Notably, it starts out with "... research has time and again demonstrated a strong and positive correlation between high school sports participation and academic achievement. This basic, baseline finding holds for a wide variety of measures and on a whole range of data sets, methodological approaches, and social conditions."

"The crucial point for a general audience is that periodic updates, reviews, reappraisals and re-evaluations (Braddock 1981; Picou et al. 1985; Holland and Thomas 1987; and Marsh 1992) have, over the years, consistently and invariably yielded evidence concluding that there is a significant baseline correlation between high school sports participation and higher rates of
academic achievement and aspiration for individual students... Even research that is critical of the sports/education nexus or that seeks to complicate and unpack this statistical association begins from this basic assumption and understanding."
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I understand what you are saying. Convincing people about new styles that are alien to their traditional style is difficult.

Consistency and maintainability of a codebase is a big factor for me. If I have a large project with knockout I can nearly guarantee a fairly similar style across the codebase.
Time spent being the owner of a large project convinces me that a framework like knockout is important.
So for the life time of the project it gives new developers coming onboard a good idea what to expect from the outset.
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It's a great headline for TC, but looking at the numbers from a slightly different perspective it wouldn't be hard to make a negative case either. Airbnb+Dropbox probably account for at least $8 billion, perhaps more. Figure that another 10 companies probably have Heroku-sized valuations and you're close to $11 billion. Now you're down to $2.7 billion spread among 500 or so companies. In any case, YC is in great shape, but don't be surprised if you see headlines equating YC founders to share croppers if YC is ever perceived to stumble.
That's true but the platform has come a long way since inception and you get instant integration into the CRM data and SFDC customers. It's obviously not the platform of choice from the developer preference side, but there can be business logic that demands it (I've seen some fairly successful startups build native SFDC apps, even contributed some code).
> "Origami Owl just appears to be a straightforward direct sales model akin to Tupperware or various cosmetics parties (e.g. Avon in UK). The reps buy stock, arrange the parties and sell it. That seems to be entirely legit."

"Multi-level marketing" is looked down upon as little better than pyramid schemes/cons, even though people are aware they aren't, strictly speaking, those things.

Quite a bit of the structure is heavily anti-consumer and even anti-'consultant'. Incentives often flow up, from each particular direct salesperson, to the people that recruited them, in a web of perverse incentives that leave customers and reps alike with a bad taste. To say nothing of the heavy leveraging of peer/social pressure to incent purchases by a captive/low-information audience, beyond what they would likely buy on their own.

> "Tupperware call their reps "consultants""

Most of these kinds of companies call their reps "consultants", because of liability problems, should they go around presenting themselves as employees or direct representatives of the companies whose goods they're selling. And these consultants are repeatedly, explicitly admonished against presenting themselves this way. The admonishments often try to pretty up the arrangement, like you did, by making "consultant" seem like a desirable title, regardless of the particulars of the relationship.

Which, in and of itself, is a fairly strong "smell" that the business (and the relationship) isn't quite on the up-and-up.

EDIT: typos
I think you're misreading this. Nobody will just bolt a few thousand of these drives to a switch and call it done. That's not practical.

On the other hand it opens up a massive opportunity for people to create their own storage fabric using these drives as building blocks. That means instead of having to hit up EMC for a big drive array, you will eventually be able to get an open-source implementation of same if you want, or one built on open standards so you're not locked into a particular vendor.

For companies like Facebook, Google, Apple or Yahoo that are storing petabytes of information, a drive subsystem like this is surely a dream for their engineers. Now instead of having to attach the drives to servers that do little more than wrap S-ATA or SAS into Ethernet for merging into a larger storage cluster, the drive does that all by itself.

Plus, imagine how Backblaze might be able to re-engineer their pod (http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...) to use this.
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OS X (since Lion) includes a license to run a virtual copy (well, 2 I think). I can't say that I've run the Server app component in a VM but I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work, it's essentially just an app that runs under OS X in the first place.
The article talks about bikes outselling cars. Hence I'm referring to bikes outselling cars. I'll be happy to talk about "paper and more pencils have been sold than computers" on Reddit, but not on HN.
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nice article, thanks for the submission!
This. If I needed simply a good open source editor, I could use vim or notepad++, and they're free as well; but I pay for ST because it's more useful for me.
Have a look at this documentary-

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA

It's extremely scary. In most countries, the right to owning ammunition is not allowed. The thought that in the future, my neighbor could make a gun using a home 3d printer makes me feel very unsafe.
I'd so wish this caught on in my country, not just because of costs, I happen to find biking really enjoyful and relaxing. Unfortunately, what you end up with is being made fun of for choosing such a method of transport or even harassed, especially if you end up being a young professional or not a burly male.
Interesting to see this get coverage. One of the factors that makes for this phenomenon is simple math. Say there is a 55-45 ratio (with more women) among 30-something college-educated folks. Say, moreover, that by then 80% of the people are in relationships. That makes for 40 women paired up with 40 men, leaving 15 single women and just 5 single men.

I think a lot of this is self-inflicted, though. Professional women often still carry with them some of this 1960's mentality and refuse to "date down." As the demographics change and women being overrepresented among the college-educated, this puts them at the wrong end of a supply/demand imbalance.

On the other hand, some of the voluntary decisions are due to unfair social pressures. I think women wouldn't wait so long to get married if doing so didn't start a timer on their downshifting their career. My wife and I got married at 26/27 and had a baby shortly thereafter. My wife is a corporate lawyer and gets a lot of flak for working long hours, especially from family. Nobody ever gives me flak for working long hours. Painting in broad brush strokes, men tend to find that when they get married, society reinforces their career ambitions. Women tend to find that when they get married, society chips away at their career ambitions. Other women, particularly other moms, are the worst about it.
This is the backwards version of contract-to-hire.
Cheaper to live in Barcelona and commute than rent in London
Does this include bikes for children as well - if yes, please subtract the number of people below 16 living in each of the countries for a more useful comparison.
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In my experience it works on just about any modern browser. It's just that it's a smaller project and hasn't been rigorously tested on all of them.

I always check my web work on as many browsers as possible anyway, since quirks abound at all levels of the stack.
How big was your sampling group?

Because what you wrote is exactly what I would've written based on common typographical sense and after sticking an iPad under my wife's nose a couple of times while she was cooking. In other words what you wrote looks made up.
What is your sales cycle? If it's longer, you can try re-engaging some of the AdWords visits that did not convert but showed intent on your website with retargeting? We use AdRoll and results are pretty good.
> What kid in America doesn't want a car for their 16th birthday?

The ones who don't have money for gasoline or $1800 a year for insurance, and who know without asking that their parents will never pay for any of this.
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Whether roads are designed with bikes in mind impacts it as well. NYC is dense enough for bikes, but much more dangerous to ride one in than most northern European cities.
How often you buy a vehicle, be it a bike or a car is not that much to do with the price of it, but is more to do with how much space you have and how well the current one works, or whether you are bored of it.

Besides, you cannot accidentally spend £30 to fill up a small drawer unit with bikes, cars or computers, which you can do quite easily with paper and pens, I have found.

Also, the prices are not quite as you present. Some people with not much money manage to buy old cars that cost £100 and some people with a lot of money buy new pushbikes that cost over £5000.
I use ServiceStack under Mono as an alternative to Asp.net mvc and I love it.
Thanks! Do you have any information on the type of exercises? One part of the platform is to promote certain types of content or exercises that parents can use with their kids or kids can do themselves...I am definitely interested in hearing more!
They may have the money, but we have the tools of technology
Let's be clear, the UK hasnt banned all handgun sales to civilians. Black powder is still allowed, as are small firearms in special circumstances. I suspect you are referring to "modern" handguns. In which case, subjects of the crown are not allowed to own them. Whereas, Handgun sales to the government are very common, and of course Illegal handguns are certainly sold in the UK to criminals. So there have been handgun sales in the UK since the "ban".
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Ok, you're right, it's far fetched.

Fort Knox is a huge place though. I was thinking along the lines of a guy going on a shooting spree or something. The Fort Knox child massacre, that kind of thing. Very very unlikely I guess. Or someone starts up a Fort Knox site on Tor, and in the end lots of people get scammed.

It just seems incongruous to me to have a bunker in the Swiss Alps, more or less the pinnacle of safety, and then call it after something on the other side of the world.
Is there a model or a theory for gaming strategy in time domain?
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I think it's fair to say that Knockout's philosophy is:

"Knockout is a library that binds Javascript objects to DOM nodes."

It accomplishes that task amazingly well. It essentially takes this DOM node:

<a data-bind="attr: {href: link()}, text: title()"></a>

And let's you bind a JS object like this to it:

var my_view_model = {
link: ko.observable("#foobar"),
title: ko.observable("A link")
}

Then, knockout watches the `my_view_model.link` and `my_view_model.title` attributes for changes. When it "observes" a change of their value, it updates the DOM.

That's about all you need to grok to see value out of Knockout. If you can get your data into JS objects, Knockout can do a bang-up job of keeping your DOM in sync with your data. As a "backend guy" that eliminates a whole lot of boilerplate JS I used to write whenever my data changed or I needed to keep track of state.

Knockout does more, of course, but from then on it's mainly about adopting it to your use case (Do I mix it with Django templates? Do I just go with a static-only frontend? How do I manage AJAX requests to keep my JS objects data up-to-date?)
Why 16?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_dr...
Interesting that they use the list of trackers from TrackerBlock[1]. The license provided is:

We reserve our copyright as to commercial applications but please contact us if you are interested in licensing for non-profit or educational uses.

Our source code is available to review for your assurance.

In their extension, the "trackers.json" file is dated as 8/Feb/2012, so almost 2 years old now.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackerblock/
It is to be true in Portugal when you reached a certain company level.

Now with the crisis and since I am living abroad for many years, I cannot tell if it still holds.
If you're a family of four, you might have four bikes, and one car. Even 2 cars and you've still bought more bikes than cars.
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It's true, the nice politicians on the TV told me the same thing.
Before everybody gets their panties in a bunch, it's just the same old thing as a Tuperware party, or Avon or increasingly personal sexual toys. I've even seen grilling equipment, home beer kits and other kinds of things sold this way.

Person buys a bunch of inventory from the maker, hosts parties and tries to sell the stuff at a markup to the party goers. Maker only sells to their "retailers".

It always seems kind of shady, but in practice the only ones who ever really get burned are the independent retailers. Usually the product is halfway decent, if overpriced.

There's usually some kind of pyramid style recruitment element as well, but moving inventory is typically the goal, not signing up more retailers.
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I think you mean Paul/Saul of Tarsus. There is no "Paul the Baptist." John the Baptist died before Jesus did. Paul of Tarsus was certainly one of the most influential of the very early Christians, but by all accounts, Christianity has already taken off before he joined and already had an organized leadership.
Well, here's the thing

Academia does not have a monopoly on knowledge anymore.

They are also usually not on the latest developments (some schools are better than that).

Not to mention the money-grabbing aspect of it.

Unfortunately, a "certificate by an upholding institution" has a certain value.
I finally made the switch this summer to a Macbook Pro 13" Retina and it has been an incredible change from the Dell/Lenovos I used to have. The thing is blazing fast, the screen is amazing (especially for Lightroom/Photoshop) and is much lighter. I really can't ask for anything else. I wish it had an Ethernet port though.
I'm not sure that this is of much significance.

In 2009, in the US, there were 14.9 million bicycles purchased [1] vs. just over 13 million passenger vehicles[2].

[1]: http://nbda.com/articles/industry-overview-2012-pg34.htm

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...
I think your comment is of kind intent, but if I were to summarize it, it reads to me like "Women, you should defer your careers by 20 years so you don't upset your spouse and, through his insecurity, risk divorce."

Maybe the advice should be that men should get counseling or something if they're so insecure that they divorce their breadwinner.
I haven't installed the update yet, but I read that the old versions are kept around. Is that true? If it is, the statement about this being a baseline release to build upon seems to be correct
I pedal to many meetings these days. It's fun, healthy and social. When a stranger pedaled up to me in the bike lane a few days ago and initiated a conversation, my day was made.

You see and experience more from a bike and it clears the mental cobwebs for me. Maybe my bobble head Yoda on the handlebars helps too :)

Pedaling on in California.
Your site is missing some critical information:

What is this idea good for?

Who would use it?

Why is it needed?

Some actual uses cases are needed.

Allow me to start you off:

(1) Suppose your office has a safe. Your on-staff accountant has the combination and he supervises all access to the safe. But imagine the difficulties if the accountant fell seriously ill, or if access to the safe was needed on a holiday or weekend when the accountant couldn't be reached. Instead of giving the combination to several people as a backup--and thereby losing accountability--you can divide the combination between 4 people in which any 2 can reconstruct the key.

(2) You and your two fellow executives are flying into country X for important business meetings. The border control at country X is known to sometimes snoop on visitors laptops and smartphones, and even copying data. You and the two other travelers can split up your confidential documents such that all 3 of you must be present at the meeting to extract the confidential information. If one of you is searched at the border crossing, you can truthfully say that you don't know any password or passphrase to documents in your possession; only the assembly of 3 people can bring out the originals.

(3) Your company's long-term computer backups--made on network attached storage or to the cloud--are automatically encrypted. The decryption key can be shared between the system administrators and executives such that any 2 sysadmins or any 3 executives can recover the decryption key.
Melatonin and fish oil. Both backed by plenty of research.
I'm sure the weather has a lot to do with it as well. If it's icy/snowy a significant portion of the year, that makes it from uncomfortable to dangerous to ride during that time.
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If there's no money to be extracted from it, then it's dead in the eyes of industry.
Not to be a pedant, but not everybody pairs up 1-1. A lot of these "MRAs" or "Game-advocates" folks are so quick to disparage, have more than one woman at a time in their effectively-exclusive orbit. Granted women can have multiple men too, but in my cohort (hooray anecdata!) it's far more common for there to be 'clusters' (clutches?) of one man to many women than the reverse.
I switched to rTorrent with ruTorrent a few years ago. I haven't used uTorrent since. It's perfect if you have an old machine laying around somewhere. Just whip out your favourite flavor of Linux and you're golden.
"Sabotage proof, high-performance cooling system"

"Uninterruptible power supply"

Yhea....
I'm not a gun supporter, but the anti-gun crowd lost.

Trying to control it through violent raids will be as successful as trying to stop people printing their own books on their own printers.

Criminals who want to have guns will have them. End of story. The future has arrived.

And it's not just guns. Assault rifles, military-grade miniguns, everything will be soon available to anybody.

To the people who say "oh, anybody could do with with a few metal pipes and some machinery", it's not even close to pressing a "print" button and waiting a couple of hours.
I'm going to dump a few assertions -

.NET culture is not F/OSS culture. Different personalities and types of people in those camps. Different expectations of capability. When you are looking to hire non-Blub programmers, it's a lot easier to find it in F/OSS-land.

F/OSS tooling has a big priority on interop with each other. MS tooling has a big priority on interop with MS (and companies that MS has contracts with or has strategic EEE priorities on). Having a broader base of tools to use is a big deal.

F/OSS development progress can be monitored and input can be given (and patches can be sent in). This is in contrast to the proprietary approach where you pretty much have to take what you're given, and input is limited (depending on company). So it's easier to manage church and breakage risk in F/OSS.

Full-size enterprise MS licenses are not cheap. The numbers I've heard thrown around are big. And it seems that MS tooling is focused on vertical scaling, so your HW costs start looking very large as you stack your enterprise memory & HA storage systems into the box. This is opposed to "el cheapo" redundant pizzaboxes. So you start incurring a particular kind of expensive cost.

All of these are reasons I think F/OSS development is a better place to be, to hire from, and to want to go to. None of those reasons were given in the article, so we are left with speculation - was this just the CTO throwing his weight around? was this an attempt to move to a more mentally flexible organization? was this an attempt to cut costs?
Let me offer some perspective of NYC: most single women I know in NYC are pretty successful career-wise, and seem to prefer a man who's at least their equal or higher. Just my humble perspective.
NYC might get more snow than Copenhagen, but there is definitely snow here as well, and it doesn't heavily impact bike commuting. The solution is just to clear the bike lanes of snow, and salt to keep them from icing. They have these little machines with rotating brooms that drive down the lanes regularly: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/12/ultimate-bike-lane-snow...
Going off path can be beneficial too - exploration is great and you can make Bob Ross pleased with happy accidents in your development.