skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valid point, but your starting mass also increases.

Then there's also that if the measurement changes, the results can become pretty bizarre. Say, you are on a diet for one month. At the start of the month, the kilo prototype weights 1 skg and at the end 1 ekg = 0.9 skg. You measure yourself at the start of the diet, and get that you weight 100 skg. You use some very precise diet-fu to draft a program that should see you losing 5 skg during the month. And lo and behold, you manage to stick to the program and loose exactly 5 skg.

But at the end of the month, when you measure yourself against the now-lighter prototype, you get that you now weight 106 ekg. So, you actually achieved your target and lost 5 kilos, but meanwhile ended up with 6 kilos more body mass than before the diet!

(Disclaimer: real changes in the prototype mass are of course way, way smaller.)
Ah! Was surprised I hadn't seen it yet. Thanks for the heads up.
The ability to edit after you send is intriguing and something I hadn't considered. Of course assuming the first thing the recipient does isn't to download the document.
Thunderbird 3.0 was released at the end of 2009. This was before Mozilla adopted a Chrome-like versioning strategy that led to rapid number inflation for both Thunderbird and Firefox. (1.0 was released in 2004; 2.0 was released in 2007; 3.0 was released in 2009; 3.1 in 2010; 5 (there was no 4) in 2011 commencing rapid versioning. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird#... )

3.0 was a radical departure from and regression in speed, stability, and usability relative to the 1.x and 2.x series.
My apologies on the first one, it just looked like iPhone 3 (the ugly, round backside) and assumed it was. I'm no iPad specialist.

Not at all common in Estonia, Latvia or Finland.
Yes there is. It's called economics.
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This is what I think the fundamental cause of the dynamic in the article:

Women want men they can rely on to be conquerors. Lazy, jobless guys do not fit that bill. Startup guys who are making shit happen do. Even if you're not making as much money as her in this case but you are the most awesome person everyone knows and everyone respects you, she will automatically fall in line.

But wait for your first startup to fail spectacularly due to your own mistakes. That will be the true test.
Wonder if there was an older member "helping" its common practice in the UK for gangs to get under age kids to act as couriers and to hold naughty stuff as if they get caught the penalties are minimal compared to a >18 year old woudl get
Dallas, where I live now, is about as far away from this as one can imagine.

For that matter, so is the European country I'm originally from (Malta). My brother is an avid cyclist there and gets sneered at by local-redneck-equivalent motorists pretty much everywhere he goes.
Cycling in Chongqing would be a bit hard; even when China was the "bicycle" kingdom people rarely peddled in one of the world's hilliest cities.
Well looks like we're going to need to Trevor to do some investigation.
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Which type of C molecules? I think you want to say "X mol of Y. Weight measured in a vacuum, which necessitates an Y with very low evaporation."?

Since it isn't done like that, I assume it isn't easy to find an Y which is both easy to measure exactly and to keep pure. (I have a smattering of organic chemistry but no inorganic, so any more opinions from me would be without value.)

Edit: Other people here talk about Si. We can keep that clean, at least (see electronics).
That's not WGTOW, that's a bunch of angry feminists. AFAIK, MGTOW is not necessarily ignoring women, but it's about staying away from committing to women.
The (imo quite excellent) hubski.com is built on arc.
Just switched to nanoc[1] deployed to GitHub pages via Travis.

[1] http://nanoc.ws/
Almost seems utopic. Rather than look for excuses as to why it won't work in the U.S., what would it take (years, dollars, planning, infrastructure) to convert a reasonably sized (large, but not top 10) American city built for cars (say Austin, Indianapolis, Columbus, Denver), into a cycling focused city?
The coincidence of wants problem in your SaaS
I think most people hate the language itself but recognise its strength of crazy-easy-to-get-started-with.
Would anyone provide a counterargument? Or have I brought up a subject so controversial as to not be worth responding to? My mind can be changed.

EDIT: People seem to be misreading me. I said that the justice system drawing an arbitrary line at 18 years of age seems odd, considering some children are mature and some aren't. Some children know what they're doing. Some don't. Why is 18 optimal? Is it just the least bad solution to a problem that has no good solutions?
I'm not an iOS user, but doesn't it sound a bit unprofessional for them to write such post on their main blog? Won't it piss off iOS users, who are not responsible for Apple's bad practices?

I think such rants should indeed be made public, but maybe there was a better outlet for FastMail to do that.
Looks interesting. I was actually looking for something like this. Only 30 questions though? Is it more like your experience of building a community site or actionable advise in building one now? Will probably buy it anyway, but would like to know beforehand. Thanks
I don't use that syntax for control structures at all. It's like the worst take on Python ever.

JavaScript uses curly braces. Any designer who knows anything about coding is going to have to learn JavaScript. How about one syntax?
Don't use developer language.
Building a Synthesizer with the Web Audio API
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Thanks. It's kind of a range of related things. There's also another bundle of questions I'm working on as a part two. Probably a free or low cost addon to this.
Title should say "in the USA" as the paper it's self say in Europe there are plenty of left wing professionals.
You were claiming that it was a problem with my "shitty lawyers", I showed a perfect example of someone who worked on open source his entire life, who can't use GPLv3.

Childish assumptions and irrelevant reference to the argument of authority fallacy are not an argument. Talk about "arrogance"...
Gary Bernhardt is regularly guilty of these things, checkout this other talk http://www.confreaks.com/videos/615-cascadiaruby2011-the-uni...

both very interesting and very distracting, again.
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Ask HN: Create a job board for graduates?
Common job boards offer searching by keyword, function title, industry, ... which I believe most graduates are not familiar with. Why not create a job board where graduates can search by their obtained degree instead? The returned results would only contain job offers that require no previous experience as well.
There is a lot more wrong with PHP than these (anti-)features.
It's loose comparisons for instance, with gems like 0 == "php" returning true, but 0 == "1" returning false [1] [4]

Having a function like nl2br [2], which converts newlines to br tags. The only reason this function would be useful is when you want text to HTML. The problem is, this requires a lot more than just replacing newlines with br tags.

A function like intval [3], which according to the documentation when passed a string "will most likely return 0".

And just about anything on http://www.phpwtf.org/

My main point is, that PHP is not broken because of these features. PHP is broken because the language has been hacked together from the start and there is no way to guess what built in functions will do if you haven't looked up the full documentation for them first.

[1]: http://www.decontextualize.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ph...

[2]: http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[3]: http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php

[4]: http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png
Please note that if you add a small electric motor to your bike and use that as a help getting up hills, you can bike mostly anywhere, flat or not.
...yes, but these are also the features that led people to use and keep on using PHP. one man's poison is another's drug of choice ;)

(to be honest I'd love to see PHP dead and buried, but there's still no other tool that fills its niche, and I hope that when one such tool gets developed, it's actually based on a sane programming language - PHP as a language means nothing, it was just "something" that grew organically into a language to fill an empty niche, and the only other alternative for this niche back then would've been Perl).
For dieters, you're entirely correct. A lighter kilo makes the dieter have a greater mass when measured in kilograms.

> Besides, can't they recreate a "canonical kilo" with the required measurements?

This is the main point of the drive to redefine the kilogram. Right now, the IPK (the French kilogram) is the SI standard for the kilogram. Groups are working hard to redefine the kilo in terms of either Planck's constant or the Avogadro number. In order to do so, the experiments that measure one of those fundamental constants must be more reliable than the IPK.

They're very close, but absolute mass measurements of the required precision at the kilogram scale have never been done before.
Solr + Hadoop = Big Data Search
So the investors funding Snapchat at a $3.5+ billion valuation, think it will one day be worth $10 or $15 billion (at least). Yeah....

The Fed has finally done it with their hyper loose monetary policies (for the third time in 15 years). I think it's safe to assume the dotcom insanity has begun again. It's also drastically pushing up dotcom valuations in the public market as well.
See http://www.economist.com/news/business/21588393-workers-cont...
It seems people mostly use gunicorn & similar. But uWSGI provides most features.
Panem et circenses... Governments never change.

It was Juvenal that coined this system, a mechanism of influential power over the Roman mass. "Panem et Circensus", literally "bread and circuses", was the formula for the well-being of the population, and thus a political strategy. This formula offered a variety of pleasures such as: the distribution of food, public baths, gladiators, exotic animals, chariot races, sports competition, and theater representation. It was an efficient instrument in the hands of the Emperors to keep the population peaceful, and at the same time giving them the opportunity to voice themselves in these places of performance. [0]

[0]:http://www.capitolium.org/eng/imperatori/circenses.htm
There used to be a chap who commuted by unicyle through central Edinburgh - he cycled up the Mound, a hill linking the New and Old towns.

Given how hilly Edinburgh is and how popular cycling is here (and getting noticeably more popular each year) I don't think having hills is really an excuse for nobody cycling.

[Need I also point out how unpredictably miserable the weather can be here...]
One of the things I'm really excited about with self-driving is that it will tilt the economics towards car pools rather than car ownership.

Currently everyone has to buy cars that will be suitable for any journey they might have to make. This means that people commute to work in cars that can take a whole family on holiday. Self-driving would mean you could always get the most suitable car for the journey you're about to make. Perhaps you're feeling tired and want to sleep on the way to work? Maybe you want to do some work so you'd like a desk? Put your feet up in an entertainment centre?

Self-driving will become popular because it will mean the end of wasting hours of your life watching the car in front of you. Just think of the ads, what could you do with an extra 3 hours a day?
The wave of a tsunami remains under water, until it hits the coast and the water isn't as deep as the wave is high. If you are far enough away from the coast, a tsunami has no effect nor will you notice it unless you have the equipment necessary to detect it.

The worst thing a tsunami could do to a floating data center is break the internet connection, assuming a cable is used.
outlook seems to randomly decide to not set the in-reply-to header, which breaks threading every time someone changes the subject
in which case the answer to your:

> In todays development world i dont see any reason why to use python/ruby instead of php

... would probably just be that for anyone with a taste of Python and Ruby, PHP the language and dev-environment is a bitter pill to swallow, no matter how good the frameworks are now. Laravel looks pretty ace to me if I must do PHP, but I'd much rather use Python or Ruby.
When I hear "writer", I think of a screenwriter, novelist, or poet of some sort. "Github for writers" is misleading, since I think the people who would use this wouldn't be writers, but rather technical people who collaboratively write things. This is cool, given its audience is people who write blogs or possibly research papers.

I think you showed this (or the premise of this idea) on HN a month ago or so. It still has the same problems as it does then... IF your core audience is still writers as defined above.

1) Writers write in revisions, and don't like to have every word they change critiqued by their editors/producers/etc.

2) Writers don't like markdown -- they want WYSIWYG. This feature alone makes me feel like your goal was to make this tool for technical people.

3) I think a lot of meaningless changes would get jumbled up in the mix if you're writing something long. If you're writing a novel, it would be nice to go between different versions of the novel, but perhaps a bit too much if you had a commit for every punctuation mark.

This being said, I'm sort of interested what you think your audience should be. I think it could be a good tool given the right circumstances.
I'm working on an OpenFlow controller in my spare time. There's nothing too cool about it other than, it's written in Go and GPLv3 licensed. It's useable but I have a big update in the pipes. Once that update is done I should be able to port some existing OpenFlow applications to Go.
https://github.com/jonstout/ogo
@naf - as a soon-to-be graduate (though I'm not looking for a job), this sounds like an interesting idea but I would suggest measuring traction/interest by, instead of building a whole new site where employers post jobs, use existing APIs and data sources to bring in jobs and opportunities and do full text searching on jobs to discern which jobs are appropriate for which degrees.

Just a thought before you go out and create YAJB (yet another job board)
Your think Harold Finch was joking in person of interest when he said he invented social media to provide data for the machine
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"Schmidt says that professionals may have progressive views about distant social issues, but in the workplace - and in the work itself - professional attitudes prevail, and they are uncritical." -- from post

Is Europe really so different? All those Marxist teachers who really don't do that much differently...? I've met a few. A different standard sort of rhetoric, but really no different.

This was an interesting read. Lots of truths. Might read the book.
The 4 million message 32 bit limit of the UID field...

Maybe I don't know how mail works, but shouldn't that be 4 billion? I imagine disk space would become an issue before a 32 bit identifier became an issue.
Cheaper, but fairly ridiculous. Stay in Barcelona and telecommute.

Similarly, it would be cheaper for me to rent in Mexico City and commute to my job in Los Angeles. Yes, some global metropolises have lower rents than others.
I know an assload of people who work in the NYC area that have commutes that long or nearly that long. 3hour+ commutes aren't uncommon at all.
I think a lot of geeks have a vision of a perfect world when a detailed, unambiguous spec arrives in their email, they write the code and upload it, then the money is transferred to their accounts. There is a fundamental flaw with this concept, which is writing a spec that good is more work that just writing the code yourself. And the guy who writes that spec will need to collaborate with others enough that having everyone in the one place to do that makes sense. Videoconferencing works if you want to discuss something with which you are both familiar with someone you already know, and this admittedly is a large part of many people's jobs. But for everything else, you really do need to be there.
I've used claws in a pop environment; it beats the pants off of evolution as an e-mail client. I haven't tried its imap though. I stopped using thunderbird about 7 years ago when it deleted messages off of a Pop3 server before noticing that the disk with my mailbox on it was full, thus losing dozens of messages. People tell me it's better now, but I'm currently happy with claws.

I've recently been trying trojita as my imap client (have been using mutt otherwis). It's fairly feature simple, but blazingly fast.
Have you made similarly complex apps in Python or Ruby?
hence the quotes ;)
There's a lot of great middle ground though; consider what Python does for many of those APIs :)
Couldn't developers use the browser's local database for auto-saving? Or save drafts back to the server every so often via Ajax calls?
Because time has a direction (for some reason it doesn't seem possible to go backwards though), and a value. I can't think of similar analogies for 'thought' that makes it fit with the other 3 room dimensions.
Supposing weather wasn't a factor, yes scale matters a lot. The metro area I live and work covers something like over 10,000 square miles (>25,000 square km or about 12.5 times the area of the Amsterdam metro area or more than half of all of the area of the Netherlands) and almost 10 million people. Jobs and living locations rarely intersect for more than a year or two at a time, plus my wife has her own career and work locations. I do not live near even a top-20 U.S. city.

The job I work today has multiple work locations right now, 10.5 miles, 35 miles and 60 miles from my home. The 10.5 mile site, while possible for biking distance-wise, is also the site of my customer's management. Showing up in a sweaty suit from an 17 km ride on a bike simply won't work and it's not like there's a shower and changing area for me there.

My previous job had two locations, 5 miles and 15 miles away from my home, but in completely different directions than this one.

My next job might have completely different work locations 20 or 30 miles in any different direction. I can't simply pick up my entire family and move a reasonable bike ride away from my work site. Or the contracts I perform work on might change and my work sites will change drastically even with the current job.

My wife also works and has her own location dynamics, 12 miles, and 25 miles away. If I were to move close to one of my work sites, it would drastically increase hers.
Serves me right for acting like a know-it-all. Kinda glad I did, though, because you gave me a lot of good information. Thanks!
>> "what could you do with an extra 3 hours a day?"

I agree with everything you've said but the economics will be very important. If the cars are more expensive than ordinary cars getting back 3 hours a day could be enough to justify the cost. But how long you drive per day obviously depends on where you live. Most people I know (and I live in the suburbs) don't commute more than 1 hour total per day. They might not be able to justify the extra cost of a self-driving car.
Working on a distributed document database. It's cool as it integrates a search and analytics engine, distributed file system and query language like SQL. Will be the first ever and will solve all database problems for the most part.
Also, I think people tend to project their current selves onto their past selves in their memories. I even sometimes find that I have an odd sense of having known something before I learned it, because it's difficult for me to viscerally recall my previous unknowing state.
It was fairly obvious to me that this is not a serious suggestion, more an indication of how expensive it is to rent in London.
Again, you are not accounting for rape in war. Which the "unsuccessful men" on the winning side will do. Just look up conflict in Africa, rape is being used as a weapon.
I enjoyed this piece -- especially comparing the author's experience in asking a private investigator to check him out in 1999 versus a pen tester to do the same in 2013.

All the attack vectors seem fairly straightforward, but I suppose the combination used on each target changes each time, and that's where the skill comes in.
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I'm not sure it will encourage car pools. People will still want the comfort of having your own car with your personal music, temperature settings, privacy, etc.
I'm just about to write up another blog post about the advertising scam in Facebook. Seeing that this can be done with Pinterest doesn't surprise me.

What's funny, though, is the fact that people not using their tool are cave-men or at best, mediocre
Been there, done that!
I eventually got so frustrated, that i just stood up from my desk and quit the job.
Its been 3 months now and loving it.
Coding only 'Suitable for exceptionally dull weirdos'
I am more worried about pollution.

Hopefully the self driving cars will be re-used like driverless Uber cabs. That would reduce the unsightly clutter on so many American streets, colloquially known as "parked cars" and alleviate congestion on city streets, much of which comes from cars circling around the block "looking for a spot to park".

Sure, it would cut into the revenues of parking lots and car manufacturers. But IMHO no one has done more to pollute the environment than the latter. The number of people on the planet has increased and - even as Europe cuta down on its car population thanks to the high price of petrol - we US folk continue to purchase our gas guzzlers and have a car culture in many cities. Some like LA are perpetually covered in smog, so we can see the effects of this car culture.

Thankfully, after decades of polluting the environment for our individual joyrides, things are changing - the younger generation isn't into owning cars as much, and self drivi g cars are on the way. An unfortunate victim of this trend will be the venerable macho tradition of the man picking the lady up in his OWN shiny ride, which he drives. Now it will be about renting the car for the occasion, and both occupants can interact with each other while the car is in motion.

In short:

Less pollution
Less congestion
Less wasting time looking for parking
More equality between sexes in terms of driving
Less unsightly clutter on streets
Less revenues from car manufacturers from producing CARS,
so they can focus on recurring revenues (eg renting stuff
inside their fleet)

Hopefully this will lead to a more sustainable form of transportation.
Well, our professor seems to adept to this kind of students very well - he will tell us whether it will be on the exam immediately after he finished a point.
Are you suggesting that a webserver is best used as a proxy, or that gunicorn and uwsgi are not webservers?
The Dutch are relaxed about sex and drugs, but they are actually a very conservative people with deep and cherished traditions. It's only in America that "conservative" implies prudish, everywhere else it just means that people want to go on living the way they always have.
They try it, the problem is that you can compare mass better than you can count molecules. So one of the approaches is, to manufacture a Si sphere as perfect as possible and calculate the mass from the radius and the properties of Si crystals. As far as I know, this had no practical results, except cool photos of strangely rendered looking spheres.

[1] http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2011/03...
[2] http://www.ptb.de/cms/en/themenrundgaenge/hueterindereinheit...
Google is claiming to have data.
So you believe the job of an engineer is "just to sit at a computer"? You dont make other useful contributions outside of that?
If you find this aggressive then I can contact my webmaster to remove it...