skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should see what Samsung is like in South Korea. It's not unusual to get in your Samsung car and drive down a road built and serviced by Samsung construction to the Samsung mall where you arrive at the Samsung grocery store and fill your cart with Samsung products. It works really well for them and has for years.
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A broken clock is always unreliable.
>> You're presupposing that there's such a thing as a "right" outside of a given social framework.

I absolutely am. I'm with the framers of the US Constitution in saying that government and society do not create rights, they merely recognize them. I have a right not to be murdered, for example, even if I happen to live in a society where murdering people like me is allowed.

But I base that statement on my theology, not my economics.

>> You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.

It's equally true that "the rest of us" drive around on roads that the factory owner paid for - possibly more true, assuming he/she pays proportionally. Why does this matter?
For completeness sake, you should probably have posted her followup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSaGfsWamw

Turns out she was completely wrong about having lost her data, the UI was just confusing in such a way that she thought she had. Don't get me wrong, that kind of confusing UI is very much Google's Problem, but "confusing UI" and "lost all my videos" are _very_ different in magnitude.
ooh plenty

resizing images i'd receive from clients for their websites to a standard size. it just runs through the folder and resizes.

image manipulation to add borders

automating a continuous integration environment, built a website where developers could enter ticket details and a front end component they require delivered to the lab, which then kicks off the build, makes the components and uploads to the client's server and sends mail

db2 package creation by looking up files on a unix filesystem and providing them to the dba's packaging tool

and everything i install i typically have a bash script for.
That's only half correct. The problem is that they reinitialized memory.
Yes, same, I think a lot of people would be interested.
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> Really? Well, then you should understand that the feedback loop I described alone is enough to make BI unsustainable, and thus not worth pursuing.

This was probably unclear, but I meant that people understand that goverment gets its money from the taxpayers.

> There's another feedback loop too: the more people are just sitting at home, the more will want to join them, and so on.

Perhaps, but I personally believe that this feedback loop is negligable.

> Do you think it's wrong for a mafia to extort money from you? -Yes? Well then, do you think it's wrong for the government to do the exact same thing?

It's definitely not the exact same thing, one of the differences is that it's what the society democratically decided. You can always move to a different country or convince people that they should vote for abandoning taxes.

> "Higher aggregate utility", "aggregate demand"? -Well there's Keynes again.

Higher aggregate utility is a term I created by myself (and I'm apparently not alone), it has nothing to do with Keynes.

> What makes zero redistribution of stolen loot "not optimal"? I'd say it's actually precisely the optimum.

1. Decreasing marginal utility of money.
2. Low income jobs are usually harder, less respected and less enjoyable.
3. Progressive taxes decrease inequality. This has many positive effects on society.
I won't argue with you there, but it is a trend which was the subject of the parent.
I study software processes for a living. Most of the organizations I've looked at are large enough and have mature enough processes that some of your list doesn't apply.

In a recent project, we sent a request to an industry luminary (one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto), on what metric(s) would be ideal for improving the quality output of agile teams. He responded back that the only metric he thought worth considering was the number of interruptions developers encountered daily.

The company we were studying at the time made two distinct changes: 1) re-working their automated build failure notification email (better recipient targeting, clearer error highlighting) resulting in faster fix commits. 2) An organizational push to trim their unit test suite (by about half) which decreased time needed for hardening and freed resources for new development.
The Onion was in print??
Yes, but I don't see how you'd think any of that would apply here. Right from that page: "you should never festoon your website with a company's logo".

The fact that you are engaged in commentary or criticism does not automatically protect you from claims of infringement. If this had just been an entry on a blog, that would be one thing, but instead it was a standalone website where the only branding was the name "Fix Ubuntu" and the Ubuntu logo, and no attempt was made to disclaim the association. Surely you can see why Canonical might be concerned.

(Again, none of this is meant to constitute legal advice — I'm just explaining why I don't think Canonical was being unreasonable.)
> One share is still worth more than 4 times ORCL's share... so I guess that's something.

It's actually nothing. From my bloomberg terminal I can see ORCL US Equity has a Mkt Cap of $156,024.6M and TSLA US Equity has a Mkt Cap of 16,945.9M

So Oracle is about 9.2 times bigger than Tesla.
Trekking to the other side of the world to hatch a startup
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Travis CI (for now) is stuck on iOS 6, so you're out of luck if you're targeting 7. They expect to resolve this soon. You must also subscribe to a paid plan if you want Travis to build your private repo. That said, I use Travis for all of my iOS 6-compatible public cocoapods on Github.

Xcode 5's built-in Xcode bots require OS X Mavericks Server ($20) and, in my experience, has a very brittle setup if you're using Cocoapods. It's probably fine for simpler projects.

I've personally been running Jenkins locally. My build script:

- Downloads provisioning profiles from Apple's dev center using Cupertino[0]
- Builds and codesigns my app using Xctool[1]
- Archives the app with xcrun
- Builds my app again with the Testflight library, then uploads the result to TF

[0] https://github.com/nomad/cupertino

[1] https://github.com/facebook/xctool -- the only Facebook product I use!

Edit: Jenkins has an Xcode plugin, though I don't use it (I use xctool instead). I do use Jenkins' Testflight plugin, which makes it very easy to upload your build to testflight and include the build's changelog in your release notes.
They can't. OTOH, limitations on exclusive rights in trademarks (or any other form of IP) vary a lot by jurisdiction, and within a jurisdiction over time; its fairly common for organizations to state policies where the domain of things for which permission is stated to be required overlaps the area of limitations on the right in question; to the extent those overlap, the stated policy has no effect, it only has effect in the intersection of the area where the company asserts a restriction and the area where local law gives the company control.
Those are only the two he mentioned off the top of his head.
Been using for the past 4 months and i can say that is fast, easy, out of the way, no bugs so far, boots in a blink, and the design although is a rip off of OSX, is very pleasant to the eye.

On the "bad" side, several packages are outdated (since is base in Ubuntu 12.04) and not too many tools for customization. Is almost perfect. If just want something that just works and not to worry about in the future, use eOS.
Why IBM Will Win the War With Amazon Web Services
Maybe they just enjoy working from a ship? The food, drink, sports and international travel are all attractive.
1. type in the large box what you want to block. The box says, "What do you want to block?"

2. We're rolling out that feature soon.
Tesla's battery is engineered to prevent cascade failures. That system worked OK in the first fire, and the short duration of the latest fire probably means it worked there, too.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. I can't figure it out. It seems like it might be terrible. I'm half enjoying it and half sort of hypnotized like a chicken by it.
Once you have kids you will know.
I thought MATE was the Gnome 2 fork, and Cinnamon was based on GTK3?

Disclaimer: don't use either, I use CentOS on the serious work machine and Debian (non-free) on the playpad.
If startup technology people didn't believe they were superior to everyone else they probably wouldn't be in a startup.

I am under no illusions of my superiority; I am a developer at an investment bank.
Could it be converted into a ZIM?

http://www.openzim.org/wiki/Main_Page
NSA do spying for economic gain. Economic power is very much political.

They did it with boeing and airbus http://www.economist.com/node/1842124 and who knows how many other companies.

And who knows what boeing did in return to gain the favor of NSA...
The C standard defines NULL as 0:

"An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void * , is called a null pointer constant. If a null pointer constant is converted to a pointer type, the resulting pointer, called a null pointer, is guaranteed to compare unequal to a pointer to any object or function."

(Edit: the asterisk.)
Then how was Facebook able to force the extension FacebookFixer to rename itself to FFixer?
Depends on the chemistry. Notice a lack of any Leaf or Volt fires, despite many more being on the road? Li-manganese and li-phosphate go into thermal runaway at 2.5C and 3.4C respectively (C being the rate at which a battery would be depleted in one hour). The Tesla batteries do it at about 300C. Tesla gets a cheaper and much more energy dense battery in exchange for that risk, but they also have to deal with PR events like this.

As an aside, I'd totally drive a Tesla if I could afford it. I'm not trying to say the car is unsafe. They use a riskier chemistry, but they've also gone to extraordinary lengths to manage that risk with really aggressive thermal management, barriers, etc. There have yet to be any injuries.
What a horror story, I've been at a company with red flags, and left due to that fact, but have not seen anything to this extent. I will keep it in mind as a warning. Sounds like the PM has a psychological disorder.
Pretty cool. I hope all goes well for the author.

But I can't help feeling that generating normal maps from full 3D models would be more robust overall.

For instance you could easily make things like a walking animation or calculate ambient occlusion (pretty standard 3ds max work.) Render it into a sprite sheet and you have the pipeline to dramatically reduce the amount of work artists would have to do.

I guess Sprite Lamp would be best geared toward indies/studios without 3D modelers and can't invest in the aforementioned tech.

This is cool nonetheless.
+1 No market depth

I expect the Chinese to expand support of cryptocurrencies to strengthen their geo-political position through a peaceful strategy like this. All other financial strategies involve interfacing with legacy financial warehouses and inventory systems which limit their leverage.
If the campaign receives $100, then let's assume Kickstarter takes $5, and $95 goes to the campaign.

If the campaign receives a $100 chargeback, then the campaign should get charged $95 and Kickstarter should give back their $5. This is the proper way to do it. I don't know how Kickstarter does it, but if they don't give back the portion of fees that they charge, that would be strange to me.

However, usually chargebacks come with fees, around $15. I see no problems with the campaign having to pay these chargeback fees. I believe it's the cost of doing business for any campaign that accepts anonymous donations from the internet.
In a way this is too bad, in the 90's I'd always pick a copy when I visited friends in Madison, WI.

But it also isn't very surprising. Free print publications are entirely reliant on print ads, which have have been having significant downward treads.
I did that with harry potter. Wanted to do the same with eragon but they never made any more movies :(
There's a big difference between a launch and a pivot/relaunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/social-network-at-the-pool-... The title as-is implies that this is a completely new app.

Again, there needs to be a clear guideline for how to use Show HN in submissions: should it be used to showcase a cool project, or should it be used as a form of Hacker News-friendly SEO for veiled product announcements?
"Google is chasing facebook when they should be chasing HBO, and amazon, and the discovery channel. It's like they live in a giant mansion with a huge lawn where a bunch of super talented people have been camping out for a while, trying to figure out how to make the next generation of video work. And everyday google gets out of bed, looks out over that scene, grunts, scratches its ass, thinks maybe they should just call the cops to get rid of the hooligans, then goes off to watch Judge Judy."

I really like the way you put that.

This is a result of perhaps super success at an early age (the founders), not enough hunger (to much money), hiring what you think are the best and the brightest (surprise - all those tests don't really work as our high achievers who designed them thought they would) and not recognizing the role of luck in your previous success. Used to be known in the past as becoming "fat and lazy" - I think that was the saying.
This is why the world needs something like SEMAT http://semat.org/

More and more of our environment is controlled by software and when it breaks, it doesn't just shut down somebody's store but it does real damage to real objects in the real world. Esepcially electrical engineers should be following rigorous processes in building and testing software.
What kind of stuff do you work on where you need to pull gems so frequently? Why do people need so many external libraries?
Great post. Being new in my entrepreneurial career I'm just learning the pleasures of working from anywhere.

I live in San Diego, but a few weeks ago I drove up to NorCal to visit the parents. While there I attended Startup School in the bay area. The next week I flew to Boston and stayed with a friend in Cambridge and attended WordCamp Boston. I attended the Business of Software conference next and stayed at the Seaport Hotel. At the end of the conference I took the short ride to Cape Cod and stayed there for a week or so with some family. It was a little chilly this time of year, but with everyone gone during the day and the tourist season over I could really enjoy the beauty and eat at all of the great restaurants. It's incredibly peaceful. I even spent some time at the Chatham Bars Inn and worked from there...absolutely incredible.

By staying with friends and family and managing costs the whole few weeks probably cost around $1,000 including plane tickets. The most expensive thing was the three nights at the Seaport Hotel, which cost around $500 even though I split the room with someone. It would have been a lot more if my wife was with me since we would have wanted to do more.

So now I'm back in NorCal staying with my parents. I'll probably stay here through Thanksgiving then head back home to San Diego for the winter.

This lifestyle really is incredible. It'll be interesting to see how it works out when my wife and I have kids, I assume it'll be a pain in the ass. I can't believe I had a 'real' job for so long. Sure I work about 2x as much, but I love it. Besides, it's really only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
I'm not ignoring those people. I'm just assuming they trade net mending, fire, water, etc for fish, rather than taking them by force. Indeed, what's the point of catching lots of fish unless he can trade some for other things? He can't eat them all.

"We'll mend your nets for 5 fish" is far different from "you have fish and we want them, so hand them over."
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Having been of a few cruises, I'd like to point out a few things:

1) Listed prices generally DO NOT include gratuities. Low level cruise employees like the cleaning crew, cabin stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. are paid ridiculously low wages, because cruise ships are registered to countries like Panama and the companies do not need to adhere to U.S. standards. I don't recall offhand, but for a 7-day cruise the "automatic" gratuity is, I believe, around $100 or so per person, so take that into consideration. You can remove the charge if you want to, but you'd have to be a pretty big asshole to do that :) Also, prices are based on double-occupancy, so if you go by yourself, double the fares.

2) Internet is expensive, slow, and charges by the minute). However, if you do this a lot, some cruise loyalty programs will give you free internet. I know Princess does this. Also, you're cell phone my work in certain locations. I'm a U.S. AT&T subscriber and I have full service in U.S. ports like San Juan and the U.S. Virgin Islands. If you can tether your phone, you'll get much faster and cheaper service that way than on the boat internet.

3) Don't get sick / injured. My wife stepped on broken glass while wearing open-toed shoes and got cut up pretty bad. The doctor on board used strips instead of stitches, and the cut reopened in two days, by which time we were already off the ship. The crew handled the incident terribly. The problem with the glass was not resolved quickly, my wife had to wait a fair amount of time for someone to show up with a wheelchair to take her to the doctor and the crew went into "don't get sued" mode really quickly. They gave us pushback when we refused to sign a liability waiver before getting treatment and we had some security guy who kept insisting to come into our room to photograph the shoes my wife was wearing at the time. When we complained the next day about the process, a nice woman sat down with us to hear out our complaint, but never really did anything. We were adamant about NOT paying for the care and it never showed up on our bill, so we let well enough alone. Three months later, they sent us a bill for $300 for the care. After we sent their HQ a letter in response, they ended up waiving the fee and giving us $100 credit towards our next cruise. Nice, but it was ridiculous in the first place since.

4) In regards to the above, had something worse happened, or they had refused to waive the fee, good luck fighting the cruise company in court. You're not only bound by typical consumer-crushing stuff like forced arbitration, but you're also getting into international legal difficulties. For big cases like the cruise that tipped over, it's worth the hassle, but for smaller claims, you're pretty limited in what you can realistically do.

All that said, I think this is a pretty cool idea and had always thought about how cruises could be a cool little work/vacation thing.
Also reading The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't - Nate Silver

And also in progress:

Buried for Pleasure - Edmund Crispin

The Dying Trade - Peter Corris

Think Bayes - Allen B Downey
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"Most of the languages I can think of that only allocate you zeroed memory also include risks on the order of garbage collection being triggered in the middle of your algorithm depending on what your secret data is, so that makes them definitely unsuitable. "

You do realize that even a C program running on a modern kernel can be preempted? Unless you are running it as a high-priority real-time process on a real-time hardened kernel, and, OpenSSL is giving you hard-real-time guarantees.
Where are keynotes or big talks held. I did not know ships had rooms where hundreds of people could listen to a presentatio. Do cruise ships have projctors/screens?
In fact, that work has already been done:
http://stackapps.com/questions/3610/stackdump-an-offline-bro...
What do you mean by "TSLA was an awesome stock" exactly?
I was actually wondering the same exact thing for one of my clients. We are using QR codes (and their scans) to enable distribution of music for independent (unsigned) bands, while tracking who their new fans are, and how they're getting new fans. The core is a marketing/analytics tool/engine, but the front-facing product to the fan is a simple fangate.
If corporations had senses of humor, Boeing would make a public offer to help Tesla with their batteries.
(I posted this same answer in the r/Haskell crosspost, I think it may be useful here as well.)

I'm the "David" the article talks about. The backstory is this:

I spent a year abroad, but we were regularly talking over XMPP. One day, Dobi gave me a link to an online book that has a sun saying "holy shit" on the front page. It was http://learnyouahaskell.com/, and it spoke of some obscure language I had never heard of. But I found the pictures funny so I started reading the first chapter.

A month later, Dobi had long lost interest in Haskell himself, but I was hooked. Every "wow FP is awesome moment" was forcibly shared with him. I soon began to talk about ApplicativeMonoidMonadFunctor and how neat these abstractions are.

Since that one day when I received the LYAH link, it's marked "Dobi shows David Haskell day" in my calendar, this has continued: I'm learning Haskell, and everything cool is thrown at Dobi. He even made a second attempt at learning Haskell, but due to its inaccessibility (relative to Elm), he lost interest again.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, he asks me whether I knew Elm. I said yes, but as someone who now uses Haskell as his main language, I thought of Elm as a toy. Today I see how this was wrong: Elm is an excellent language, maybe not to write a scalable webserver, but it gets a few things right that Haskell doesn't:

- Elm is very accessible.

- Even simple and small programs can have cool output, and by that I don't mean conceptually cool but you-can-show-your-friends cool. Getting positive feedback is really motivating in the beginning when you're not quite sure whether the language is useful yet.

- Elm has Haskell-like syntax, and is of similar semantic structure. It has recursive lists, fold, map, Maybe and all those other Haskell Prelude things.

- No category-like abstractions (as a result of not having typeclasses, mostly). Monads are pretty abstract, and are pretty infamous among people that don't know them. This significantly lowers the barrier of entry.

The crucial thing is the similarity to Haskell: Elm is a much better gateway drug to Haskell-like languages than say XMonad (which is pretty geeky) or other nice little things. Once you can write Elm, a Monad is just another addition to a language you already know how to move in, and you can learn to include it in your programming instead of requiring it in the first place. I think instead of having a "beginner-friendly monomorphic Prelude" we should have generalized the crap out of Prelude (Foldable, Traversable, all those things go in) and recommended Elm to newcomers if they have problems with Haskell.
FWIW, China seems to be tacitly approving Bitcoin. State-controlled CCTV has been broadcasting more and more news segments about the currency that are all very favorable and positive(!)

A lot of chinese Bitcoin users have reported this stance, eg: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320260.0
This is going to sound flip, but I really don't know the answer: So what? Am I meant to get het up that advertisers will know that (in a very generous information-sharing scheme) a skinny guy five feet nine inches tall exists somewhere in America?
None Of Your Goddamn Business
Mobile programming sucked many desktop/etc capable people out of the market too

--iOS guy who came from embedded linux driver land.
I would punch this asshole through the internet if I could.