skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the market we choose to be in. Selling cheaply requires more customer service as you generate volume. Just because you can sell something cheaply doesn't mean you want to sell it cheaply. It's just a different business model. Nothing wrong with the other business model but not what we do. (Same as Rackspace doesn't compete really with Digital Ocean).
Starbucks is involved with a surprising number of big SV players.
Here ya go: http://shortdomainsearch.net/
My computer's power button is on the other side of the room.

Don't break useful, common functionality because you think it's not important.
I found them quite helpful when I sent my N7 for RMA, too. Seems like they get it right for paying public consumers - I guess that's the demo that's critical to your reputation. Everybody expects corporate clients and free public users to get crapped on, but once you're paying for a physical widget you expect the warranty signed in blood.
Don't write code first
Yes, Linux is already supported, but the desktop platforms are a little behind Firefox OS and Android with some niche features. They will catch up in the near future.
I cannot believe they bought this tech for 15m.

Think about it : 15m.

I have said this many times before but I really need to get off my ass and just do something. Looks like anything sells these days. Especially a spectacle. Just do something that attracts attention. Sell it. Retire. This is not about tech.

/grumpy me
That said, Jack Dorsey is a co-founder of both Square and Twitter, and Starbucks already has a relationship with the former.
I installed 2.1 via homebrew and now, every time I open a new terminal window, I get:

bind: Key with name 'dc' does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name 'ppage' does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name 'npage' does not have any mapping

Does anybody have any idea what causes this / how to fix it?
I feel like its worth mentioning phonegap / cordova for a good start on the ability to run open web apps on ios.

I love this functionality, was very surprised when I seen some open web apps I had made install on mac with breeze a few months ago.
Microsoft is beginning to do this with SkyDrive.
Linux support for unprivileged apps is already shipping; Linux support for privileged apps should be in Firefox Nightly by the of the year
Note that @ is on its way out, the cons list should really be using ~. On master I believe @ is behind a feature flag...
Agree that in certain cases that is fine. But most people reading HN (I'm guessing) are doing a product or service where having a country specific TLD would limit their market.
I have biked and walked in a t-shirt in -17 Celsius. Cold temperature t-shirt tolerance varies a lot with people.

I just really hate wearing jackets in the city and prefer to endure than to wear one.
You can't stop the Lexus factory (robots). You mean the Toyota factory? (andon cord!)
The AppleCare might explain things. They want people to pay for Apple's high-quality care and get the great Apple experience that way, not get low-quality crappy free support from a forum. So the forum is only operated out of necessity - if Apple didn't run one, somebody else would - and it can't be a support avenue because Apple must always control the quality of the experience and you have to pay Apple for that.

It's actually consistent and reasonable when you look at Apple's obsession with quality.
I don't believe that Windows 95 have protected memory or preemptive multitasking. That came in with the NT versions of Windows. I switched to Windows in 97 when NT 4 came out. The Mac OS was definitely lagging behind NT around that time period.
Sure. Linguists consider grammar to basically be what a person knows in order to say they are a fluent speaker of their language, which includes understanding words in that language. More narrowly speaking, lexical information is tied to syntactic information because certain syntactic constraints are imposed by our lexicons.
Cassandra user in production here. Could you elaborate a little bit on what was messed up (size, false positives etc.) and which version this was? Did you have trouble with Cassandra itself that you tracked down to the bloom filters or trying to re-use the bloom filters in another project?
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Dataset
On the plus side, this makes it very pleasant to travel to Argentina if you're from the US. Just don't forget cash.
Unfortunately there is actually no such thing as "simultaneously", because these are not discrete events; for every buyer, there will be 1-n sellers, all of whom are involved in other trades of their own. You have to impose an order on trade execution, and each trade will take some finite amount of time to process.
The idea is that you are billed a nominal value, whose rate is fixed when you contract the service. Since the rate is always agreed to at the beginning of the trip, the time of payment has an impact on its value.

This joke is essentially the opposite of debt deflation (theory of recessions), as described by Irving Fisher;[1] the theory states that the debtor loses money during deflation, causing repayment problems. In the bus/taxi joke, the rider is a debtor, and the taxi driver is a creditor, with the length of the ride being the term of the loan. The inflation is essentially devaluing the loan.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_deflation
You're not wrong. Not at all.
https://github.com/echelon/laser-testbed

You can also find more stuff that he's done at his website, http://brand.io/
Why self help will actually make us worse
If the Air had a retina screen I'd buy one tomorrow.
"completely eclipsed by the 8-hour workday"

Which brings up the mythological tradition that "real programmers" at "real companies" all work 60 to 80 hour death marches all the time, err, at least according to people who (edited to add: think they) make money when their employees go on death marches. Anyway even in summer I think a potential SAD suffer could theoretically spend weeks not seeing sunlight, and that might be an interesting factor in programming death marches. I'm not trying to encourage a new dotcom management fad of "deathmarches are OK as long as you install bright lights by the Foosball table" but it is interesting to contemplate.
Nimrod's templates do not work at runtime, they work at compile-time.
The users don't have to interact. If you can serve the first million people without problems, you can scale linearly to 100 million.
Weed got me through last winter.
I almost choked on my lunch laughing after re-reading that. I remember reading the original thread and actually agreeing with him, without the slightest chuckle. Im amazed at how most people still find it hard to find pictures in their filesystems on their pcs. But think about it, how many people carry .jpg, .jpeg, .png etc file associations in their heads? Hilarious.
Trivial: of little worth or importance; relating to or being the mathematically simplest case

Trivial means the simplest case. Dropbox is clearly, in this case, the simplest case when compared to other possible solutions.
This is totally self-indulgent. For example, it assumes the existence of a class of people named "Creatives". Are they certified "Creative" or is that just informal?

Also, I couldn't read half of them, due to bizarre choice of cappucino typography on taupe background.

I award it no points, and may god have mercy on its soul.
Winter in North Dakota is interesting since you typically go to work and leave work in the dark. When you do go out during the day and drive somewhere, you typically wear sunglasses because the sunshine[1] off the snow makes it hard to drive otherwise. Unless the weather is poor (less often than you think), where you don't see the sun. The wind typically means you are not going to take any leisurely walks.

1) it is fairly sunny, but since the ground is covered in white stuff you don't get the heat absorption. Cloudy days feel less cold.
I live in Poland and I have the opposite; for me winter is a stimulant. I don't know whether this is some remnant genetic call to survive hard times or a fact that it casts a kind of sterile aura that helps me to flow, but I'm objectively more productive then.
Same here. I just chatted with customer support and it's currently not supported. The guy I spoke with didn't know whether that was something they were working on.
You should try Picozu http://www.picozu.com/editor/

No Flash, great PSD support and lots of other features.
300 Teams in Two Years
Apple is shit, Google is shit, Microsoft is shit, and the list continues...

Not trying to defend anyone here, but with so many customers, products, software versions, it's no surprise problems will occur, which are sometimes inappropriately handled. This goes for any company, Apple is no exception here. I have years of anecdotal evidence of only positive experiences with Apple products and customer service, the only difference between me and the people affected by this WiFi bug is that I don't feel the need to start a blog to praise Apple for the joy I get using their products.
I agree. Article makes many good points. I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion.
Charities existed, in robust force, for a long time before the government stepped in and confiscated so much money from people they didn't have much left to care for others as they saw fit. We had charities all over the place competing for this money, and did produce far better results than the abysmal record of the state/federal social services, until the government stepped in and made it terribly difficult to provide such charity - on the grounds of closing the inevitable gaps which government still fails to close (and never will). The competition to provide charity is being destroyed by a government regulating competitors out of existence.

I leverage an opportunity to provide food to the poor. It's amazing how many places can't take bushels of bread for distribution thereto because of governmental regulations. In requiring better donations (vanishingly small improvements at prohibitive cost), nothing gets donated and the food all too often gets trashed.

Just change tax code to allow 1-1 deduction of charitable donations from tax liability (instead of taxable income), without limit, along with relaxing burdensome regulations on charities (realizing that something done poorly is better than nothing, and requiring something better leads to nothing).
Kartograph : Interactive map applications without any other mapping service.
Ugh, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Here, let me do you all a favor:

P = NP

P/P = NP/P

N = 1

Which is absurd, because N is a letter. Therefore, P != NP.

You're welcome.
When I need to use my configurations in other computers, and it's something more difficult than copying a file, I put them online so I can install then with a curl + sh command. But that has happened exactly once. Usually I just need to copy and paste one file.
Live in Newport Beach, same thing happens to me, sitting inside from sunup to sundown. The one time a month I go to the beach I'm always "How have I not been outside for this long? Why do I even live here?"
eh, it's taking a lot longer than they expected, but they've done pretty well so far.

http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/campaigns-and-initiat...

> Polio, which can cause lifelong paralysis, can be prevented with a vaccine that costs only $0.50. In the 1980s, polio paralyzed at least 1,000 children every day all over the world, but today, after international efforts to immunize every child everywhere, 5 million people are walking who would otherwise be paralyzed and the world is almost polio-free.

> Since the Initiative’s inception in 1988, the number of polio cases has dropped by 99 percent.
Your product doesn't work and the company refuses to support it or fix the issue. What are you supposed to do, suck it up and be happy with your $500 paperweight?
Misery and discomfort are relative. If you started complaining, then people in Siberia will start laughing. We all have our pain, and we don't have to justify it across all of humanity -- else, nobody in first world countries should ever complain.
I posted it there, too. https://medium.com/from-powazek-com/ff85e8c2b2f7
Could Xbox One and PlayStation 4 actually fail?
From what I read, I don't believe it is. In my opinion it should also never be used for this purpose.

While you could probably catch a lot of cheaters this way, there is a possibility for a large false positive rate. If this is true then I would especially advise against deploying this type of software in a traditional university since the academic dishonesty policies can often cause significant and undue harm on an innocent student.
I've used Bloom filters to implement simple breakpoints in an emulator. It makes sense since checking for membership happens every emulator step, and is essentially constant time with a bloom filter.
Reproduction of results sounds like a good area of AI and automation. Thankless toiling, not very gratifying work, largely mechanical (not creative).

It would be very cool if someone came up with a unit test framework for various fields of science. Then we could make reproduction unit tests a requirement of publishing, so anyone with the proper equipment/framework could sync and run the tests themselves.
Possibly ignorant American here. You have a limit on what you are allowed to spend on online purchases? How is it enforced and by whom?
I'm curious as to what reasons people think Adobe might buy Pixelmator other than to shut down the competition? They already have a budget image editor - albeit not as cheap as Pixelmator and is there any technology in Pixelmator that Adobe doesn't already have?
I think we're finding a pattern! Well spotted! I wonder how many others there are!?
As far as I can tell, Nimrod template does no runtime generation of code. Where did you find otherwise?
You could search Pubmed for human experiments:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%28%22vitamin+d%22...

I get 5 hits; 2 are positive results and 3 are mixed/non-significant (which is probably explained by their small sizes).
His demo is much smoother than mine, I'm jealous.
Hypervitaminosis D is incredibly rare. Taking 1000 IU per day ought to be harmless for literally everyone. Even 10,000 IU per day is WAY below toxicity.
Same story for 2011 Q1 MBP, it seems like the Graphics are defect for several models and suddenly started to fail for several customers about now... +800 posts, NO RESPONSE FROM APPLE!!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577
I've always been the type that is aggressive about filtering emails that need my attention/response and ignoring those that don't, but I never made the connection to failure to do so causing more in-person interruptions. This is very valuable advice to anyone at a large company (or who has to interact with users/customers).
Why submit a post that contains zero information?
Sweet, even phone calls would make sense in this case. Good work!
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I guess the joke is that while you're in the taxi, pesos goes down, but the cab driver didn't have the time to adjust his pricing according to the new (lower) value of the pesos. Therefore he'll charge you the old price which is lower than what it should be by the end of the ride.
If by customization you mean changing key bindings, prompts, colors, adding new functions, well, you can change that.

If by customization you mean setting what happens when you write invalid glob, how much you can store in the history, whether prompt beeps on error, whether integers starting with 0 are octal, what regular expression engine is used, and so on, feel free to use zsh - it's great, really, after you configure everything, that is - fish shell won't let you change that by design. This is not a flaw - author believes that configuration is the root of all evil (and I agree with him).
There are a ton of Apple discussion forums, including the Stack Exchange one others have posted.
I would love to know who is downvoting a comment based on facts.
counter-irritating them to actually fix the problem sounds like a good plan to me.
Why this European never wants to live in America
True! Brevity is only one part of the equation. But it's clear that being unable to explain yourself completely is one ingredient of a hot misunderstanding pie.
Awesome. I'd really love to see a JS alpha emulator so we can run OpenGenera in the browser.
Abusing foreign domains for vanity purposes is still the ugly greed I'm complaining about. Especially the geniuses who would buy domains attached to anti-enlightenment, anti-liberal cultures that can pull your product/site for any caveman reason.
I hope you write it! I also imagine an encyclopedia of many different algorithm examples, each with demonstrations and graphical explanations. Bret Victor has talked about that sort of thing, and it greatly intrigues me.
I don't know, I had to RMA my Nexus 7 twice (both due to faulty hardware, one was missing the physical buttons entirely and the other was reporting 1GB total space) and both times Google didn't want to process the RMA or wanted me to send it to Asus who would them send it to Google (while both companies placed a ~$400 lien on my card) and take 1+month.
it's bad practice : yes but the source is there on github. you can always take a look. what is there to be afraid of.
"like providing sustenance to workers." when enforced by government that is, in some countries you don't even have to pay tax.
The next Agent Orange: why is our military making its soldiers sick?
I wanna see Balmer and the CIA fight actual borg. Superior alien technology. Lemme get some popcorn.
This was a huge contributor to why I left my last job.

Employers: take note.
Email 101: Opens, Clicks, Conversions
I am not convinced.

How much time can I spend on customizing something to be more convenient and still save time in the long run? Can I spend half an hour to speed up a task I do daily by five minutes? Can I spend a month learning Emacs and save time in the long run? Can I spend two weeks learning how to touch-type?

The answers invariably are very much dependent on your personal work. But to me, the far more important question is:

Can I do anything that makes my life more pleasant? To me, personally, fish really improves my enjoyment of terminal usage. Productivity does not even enter this equation, but I suspect that I work faster when I am happy. I in fact do use fish, and Emacs, for the simple reason that I enjoy using them. I might be more productive with other tools, but I would not enjoy my work as much.

So yes, it is a matter of love. Do what you love, not what pays best.
I'm happy to see this pop up on HN since HFT is something I've been looking into lately. If you're interested to dig deeper into HFT and algorithmic trading, 'Inside the Black Box' will be a good read. Link: www.amazon.com/Inside-Black-Box-Quantitative-Frequency/dp/1118362411

If you want to take your reading further, there are some great recommendations on the review section. And just to get an insider look into quant traders and the effect HFT can have on the market, I also recommend these two short documentaries made by the dutch national TV:

1. Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I

2. Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU
Jeremy Edberg mentioned in his talk on scaling reddit [0] that they used a bloom filter to provide fast (negative) lookup of whether or not a story or comment had been up voted by the user. The negative case was important since it's often the case that the majority of stories or comments appearing on a page will not have been up voted by the user.

[0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-reddit
I don't see how lisp could get rid of parends with indentation. Parends are used for function calls so you would then have to indent one extra level to call a function? If there was a workaround for the function calls, then it would also require every function to be written on a separate line, there would be no concept of a one liner.
Yes! This.
> Of course nicotine is more dangerous than water, yet I can't recall a death by overdose of it.

There actually are some cases if you go looking. Nicotine oil was famously used as a poisoner's tool for a while, prompting some of the early toxicology screens, but these days, most of the cases are accidental. I recall reading about an Israeli case, IIRC, where a child drank some of the e-cig liquid its father hadn't put up high enough.
> Here is a wild concept, mandate that people take care of people. Use the government only to enforce this.

> [...]

> That is something that no government could ever accomplish.

I think there is an inconsistency in your argument. You've just suggested a mode of action by government, not something government cannot do.

As to the particular mechanism, however, it is unlikely to work. The basic idea...

> We would have charities all over the place competing for this money, competition would produce far better results than the abysmal record of the state/federal social services.

...is fundamentally flawed. The theoretical efficiency of competitive markets is intimately tied to the assumption that both the benefits and costs are known to and born by the participants in the decision making processes, aligning rational self-interest with efficient decision making. In the charities competing for money from givers to provide services to those in need, the features which make markets theoretically efficient do not apply.

> All we ever see from the media is bad news. We never see lives being turned around from welfare or other social services.

That's because bad news is good for selling media (the perception that the world is a dangerous place and you need to keep consuming the media source from which you got that impression to know where the next imminent danger is very useful to holding an audience, independently of any connection it has to real circumstances), not because lives aren't turned around by welfare and other social services.
UNFPA - http://www.unfpa.org/public/

United Nations Population Fund is doing good work to reduce obstetric fistula, and other poor outcomes from giving birth; also about FGM.
Agree completely. I stopped reading the article as soon as he claimed he worked for news organizations that were "impartial". It's amazing that they fail to see just how biased their impartiality really is.

To be completely neutral would mean you only state facts that have real meaning in the physical world, not in our heads.

For instance, the mere mention of a "nation" is a bias, because nations do not have a real physical existence, they are merely ideas created by man, and which many other man has decided to go along with, but there are a few who disagree. Our entire social structure is built around ideas, but all reporting talks about these ideas like they're real, irrefutable concepts. You can't be impartial until you're open minded enough to reject any idea and accept possible alternatives.
Or more recently, it looks like the cargo data that can be returned from OpenID. And somewhere in between, many LDAP servers allow anonymous binds that include the non-sensitive attributes of each entry.
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Weren't their lives pretty miserable anyway? Can you max out your unhappiness meter?
Suprisingly Intuitive
I don't work in a Catholic country so no federal holiday. For the operations people, Easter Sunday isn't even recognized as an official company holiday, much less Good Friday or Ash Wednesday.

There is Valentines day which if you're hetronormative and a girl must be a lot of fun, but for us guys its pretty much just an expensive stressful (or lonely?) PITA. I could do without it, happily.

Arbor day doesn't cut it either. Yo dude its Arbor Day lets go out and get drunk! Uh yeah you go do that and hug a tree for me.