skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an organization, ISRO is political and bureaucratic. I have a good "set of friends and family" worked there or working there. There are good people and bad people (projects) there. You must be lucky to get into the right one. The pay scale is not competitive - But its not worse. The perks are really good. i.e Ultimately they get paid a little less than a private cos. The perks from the governments should not be discounted EVER. I work in a private co. which is much better than the Infosys/Wipro/etc s.w co's (also with a relatively much better pay). But I can tell you, ISRO job is better than mine. If I could opt today, I would go to ISRO.

With a little lesser pay, you also get peace of mind. This might not be important at 22s or 25s. But at 30, as a husband and a father, I can surely tell you ISRO gives much better lifestyle. i.e you can work for 2 hours or 16 hours if you enjoy that. Average employee productivity there sucks - literally. But at that non-competitive pay, government should not expect more.

You also have a "safe-job" and lesser work pressure. There are certain projects that are high-pressure jobs - but those are rare.

An important factor to keep you motivate might also be "working for your country". I have worked for large govt. projects for western countries and it give you ZERO sense of pride. It is "just another project". And I worked for a very small system for the transportation in my city. And just that feeling of watching that system being used in my country gives me a hell lot of sense of pride/achievement. I don't know if everybody feels the same way - but that is one of the biggest motivation factors for me (I don't work for ISRO / govt)
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> A lot of these mundane jobs do need to be done, but a lot of people enjoy stable mundane jobs.

It took me way too long to accept this. I always thought those people just did not know better, or something.

I will never forget the QA department at a previous company and their ~200-step excel-based manual QA procedure. For me, that is basically a nightmare made reality. I tried to talk them into automating it, but they resisted that, almost angrily. They liked stepping through that 200-step spreadsheet.

I cannot understand it, at all, but I now accept it. People are different.
I think carriers today are like the battleships of yesterday.

They look imposing but modern tech (swarms in the former case and, well, enough Fairy Swordfish biplanes in the latter) defeats them.

Submarines are what we need IMO.
Here's a nice step-by-step animation describing the launch, tracking, spacecraft separation, and solar panel and antenna deployment:

http://isro.org/launchtosolarpanel.aspx
No, he didn't ask it like that at all. You're putting words in his mouth instead of reading the sentence in the context of the two sentences that followed it, which made it a completely reasonable question.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
The infographic may be more fun to look at, but it is far less obvious where the "call to action" might go. In fact, you may be hard pressed to place one at all.

And I think this is a fundamental result of the nature of the graphic Vs text.

With text, however arranged, there is a flow, a direction, and we are used to gaps, pauses, and beats - punctuation, paragraphs, chapters....

A graphic is closed. A graphic attempts to present everything. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Achieving flow and direction in a graphic is difficult - and I'll assert, blindly and without evidence, that flow is essential to the placement of the call to action. "Ah, the end of [sentence|paragraph|story], now I [click|call|shout with joy]!"

With a graphic, a button is just another part of the picture, no?

The infographic is very interesting, intriguing. I just don't know what to do with it. Like shots from USA Today, it seems to tell me something, but I don't know what to conclude, and I move on to the narrative of the sports section.
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Run JSLint on a .js file from debugging console in chrome or Firefox
A form to enter the sha1 of your email address so they can check against a list of addresses they've already sha1ed? And a form that takes the email for people that don't give a shit or don't know wtf a sha is.

Maybe just a .txt of the hashes too, but then no ones coming to your web service I guess.
It's not an optimization: it's move semantics. And it's default behaviour for any standards-conforming compiler. Moves can be optimized away still, but by default, returning a std::vector from a function is a constant-time operation.
I literally LoL reading the 'malloc' and 'calloc'.
Those guys are all-caps NERDS...kudos to them.
Churches Are Leading the Way with Video
Why the change to an uninformative title from 'A CPU with 144 "tiny" computers, without clock and 5-bit instructions'?
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Anybody who says spreadsheets aren't coding hasn't written a bank valuation model.

Though I agree, they were my gateway drug to programming.
Surely they are rent-seeking -- I personally can't blame them. Perhaps if more people do this, it might even lead to the end of these immoral and wasteful "government-granted preferences". The fact that NYC rentals are some of the most regulated is not a good thing, nor does it prevent all kinds of horror stories with regular landlords. Is an average AirBnB customer less satisfied with his experience compared to an average NYC renter? I suspect not, particularly given the review system.

I have no problem with condo associations limiting what individual owners can or cannot do (or charging them extra for the privilege), same with landlords limiting re-rentals, but neither one calls for city involvement.
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I keep wondering what my repeatable tasks are. I suspect I just don't recognise them because I don't have documented procedure.

I don't suppose you'd elaborate on some examples of tasks you give to your VA?
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I'm not talking about what's fair/not fair or what's bad/not bad. I'm talking about attributes of successful (or not) Kickstarter campaigns. Do you know of a successful campaign with reward levels at different price points that have identical rewards/text? Do you think that increases the chances of success for this campaign?
Responding to MacKenzie Bezos's One-Star Slapdown
Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator
Ah they now have an angle to go after bitcoin.
Inspiration is not the same thing as blatantly ripping off other games and passing them off as unique creations. Comandeer Keen started out as a project to copy Super Mario Bros. 3, for example. But is Comandeer Keen just a "rip off" of SMB 3? Hardly. And Minecraft is far from a rip off of infiniminer. If anything, today infiniminer is much more well known due to minecraft's success. Infiniminer is about as similar to minecraft as pong is to breakout.
Liftware Spoon: an actively stabilized spoon
'There's an xkcd for that' may be hackneyed but really applies in this case:

https://xkcd.com/1273/
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" is quite an entertaining look at English (mainly British) grammar.
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Correct. Even if you simply changed all of your dynamic arrays to std::vectors, the code you write is now simpler, easier to reason about, and pretty much memory leak-free.
I'd love to know if it does - I can see that OneNote is pretty slick but I'd prefer something that has a nice UI (with notes, proper drawings, images and attachments) with a sane directory based storage format.

NB I have tried Evernote but couldn't quite get into it - I make do with a combination of ever expanding Google Docs documents and text files open in whatever editor I'm using that week...
Boiler plates:

"You're all very talented and deserve success" - To staff when you are making staff redundant and/or shutting the company.

"We're super excited we got acquired" - When you're shutting down your service and choosing to exit via acqui-hire to save face.

A catalogue of such boilerplates might be quite insightful to the people who are consuming them and at the same time could help startups out who are in dire need of copy for the right occasion.
I don't know, maybe the good old separation between soft and hard science can help here. On the speech side, in soft science, I think the most powerful transmission of knowledge if by pure speech, oral speech, like in podcasts. A good lecturer will branch his brain on yours and will have a very high and precise throughput, only by spoken words. That's for history, politics, philosophy, soft sciences. The best example I know of this effect is the courses of Jankelevitch (in French), it's really like a good ride on the back of an experimented motorbike driver knowing the region like the back of his hand.

On the other side, the pinnacle of hard sciences, geometry, logic, topology, are very visual and symbolic by essence. A proof is only an explanation of a truth that is already there, that some can "see in their mind". I wouldn't imagine being able to follow a math class without a black board, that would be like a piano lesson without a piano.
None of them are related to software or software bloat, or putting resources to good use.
Dutch 'order your meal online' site ThuisBezorgd.nl starts accepting Bitcoin
Looks like the landlord is really quite worried about getting authorities involved in anything, and surely he is much more worried about getting a negative review than you do (read a recent post here from a guy in LV for the landlord's perspective). You have a lot of leverage over him, use it, get a refund, move out and find a better one.

Unless of course you can't find a better one for the same money that you are paying now -- in which case you are getting what you are paying for, so relax and enjoy the savings :)
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Tabletop creator here, thanks for mentioning it! It's funny - since my target audience was journalists I never ever ever thought of describing it as "getting JSON from Google Spreadsheets." Looks like it's time to update the ol' README.
In this particular situation, it doesn't work at all. The infographic didn't teach me anything about the product.

It starts with a segmented wheel that seems to describe the "Overall time saved". But where does that come from? Time saved doing what? Time saved by whom? And 2 cells are in grey, why is that?

The graphic right below ("Future add-ons") has weird labels. What do "Good", "Great", and "Awesome" mean here? The progress bars hint at the fact that the X-axis is a quantifiable value. But they're actually arbitrary opinions. It looks like "Payment integration" is more awesome than "Advanced user search", and Referall Program and Launching Soon Page are just good. By the way, why are these two in white?

The "What happens next" section displays those progress bars again. Looking at the X-axis, I see Php, Ruby, Java... So it looks like a ranking for programming languages? Well, it also says Mailchimp, Social Login and Analytics. So what is it supposed to tell exactly?

I closed the infographic and went to the website. First thing I read: "User Management in the Cloud". Ok, I finally know what you do. These 5 words taught me more than your 3 Million pixels image.
His wife sounds like one hell of a women. I loved the "third world prison" comment.
Murray Sargent said a bit about the meetings with Knuth in several posts in his Math in Office blog, the most interesting of which is http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2006/11/15/lineservi...

The Tex-based algorithm for formula layout used from Office 2007 on is documented in http://www.ntg.nl/maps/38/03.pdf (some of those links have fallen to linkrot).
Nope, I was wrong and misunderstood the attack. (like most people) They would likely make the attack easier to accomplish, rather than less.

Unfortunately there's very little we can do to defeat this attack, other than have miners use strategies that aren't strictly economically rational in the short term for them. In practice a sufficient amount of miners may be willing to do this, but if they aren't we're going to need better countermeasures than that.
Do you hate cigarettes, people?
Someone in their design team apparently made a mistake and removed the "next generation" server pricing (non SSD). For reference, those prices are: https://web.archive.org/web/20130627213956/https://www.racks...

These "next gen" servers (now 'Standard' flavor in their API) are still available and the 'Performance' servers are currently only available at their IAD (Northern Virginia) datacenter.
The Hidden Job of the M7 processor in the iPhone 5s
Computers would probably struggle to run it though.
Ask HN: Why does Gmail still have a loading progress bar?
Why does does Gmail still have a loading progress bar ("Loading name@gmail.com") circa 2005? What with the improvements in javascript speed in recent years, I would have thought this could be dispensed with. Is Gmail no longer actively developed?
Munich: Authorities Discovered 1500 Works of Art Stolen by Nazis
A generation of idle trophy kids
> You seem to have a problem with this simple wish but perhaps you can explain what it is?

My problem is with the assumption that this miniscule amount of "aid" is somehow significant.

Do realize that when countries give "aid", it is often more for domestic reasons. This "aid" comes with all sorts of strings attached, and benefits the donor country more than the recipient.

Case in point: US military aid to Israel comes right back to the US in the form of weapons purchases from Lockheed, Grumman, Boeing, etc. In other countries, donor countries stipulate that the aid be used to purchase things from the donor country only; or expensive "consultants" are hired to manage the aid, depriving any benefit to the recipient.
What Every App Developer Needs to Know About the NTIA's Code of Conduct
In this thread: people who don't know they should be using ethercalc =)
After watching Minecraft: The Story of Mojang [1] I was left with the impression that no one at Mojang really knows how to run a business, but since the cash from Minecraft just keeps coming in, everybody at Mojang is just having a great time.

In this sense they a very much a like a startup learning to become a company, but without the financial pressure.

It will be interesting to see if Minecraft will be a one-hit wonder for Mojang or if they will be able to grow into a company with sustainable profits from multiple IPs.

[1] http://www.2playerproductions.com/projects/minecraft
I think penflip is a great idea, and if you have a usable product already you might want to consider marketing it to people attempting NaNoWriMo
The best advantage I have found with our VA is having them listen to all the podcasts I want to listen to, summarize the articles and send me the transcript. Then I can skim in 30 seconds what use to take me 45-60 minutes to listen to.

Also, I have found Odesk very helpful when our sales people ask for custom demos for clients. Instead of distracting our team I hire someone on Odesk to reskin our demo app. The best part is I know exactly how much that demo costs and like to let sales know so they can decide for their self if a demo is warranted in each situation.

As for personal tasks, I love using the concierge service attached to my credit card. Just recently I had them research all the candidates up for local election for me, find out how to return a jacket I bought on a business trip across the country, and suggest some recipes for a halloween party.

I have a running list of my favorite things I have sent to my concierge on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Concierge-Services/What-are-some-good-...

I also have a running list on my blog: http://delegnation.com/

A presentation I did at a Product Camp recently about using outsourcing to support product management: http://www.slideshare.net/russjhammond/product-camp-nashvill...
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These are not city regulations, these are buildings rules -- the owners who would like a rule like you are suggesting are surely free to propose that at condo owners association meeting.

Zoning BS is quite another matter.
I'm not trying to be dismissive. I'm saying that objectively, most men and many women free to do either choose to work instead of practice full-time homemaking. Others in this thread are arguing that the 1950's was an economic golden era because of course women would rather be homemaking, but that the modern cruel world has forced them out of the home and into the piecework shop.

That just defies economic reality: As you say, there is a lot of value produced in keeping a home and raising kids. A job has to return a solid amount of income to make up the difference, and yet women continue to go to college at a rate outpacing men, and before the recent recession, they were on a pace to have more jobs than men. There's no economic gun to their head: In fact, as the economy got worse, women chose to stay home at a greater rate.
This link paywalled for me. Here is the same story: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230393690... that did work.
> and now the OP wants to dismantle that and go back to - what? Destitute elderly? Uncertain retirement?

Op wants the system to change so only the elderly that actually need support get it. How is that creating destitute elderly?

>Essentially it says "we're all going to grow old, but I'm going to blame those currently elderly for all our problems"

More like "We're all going to grow old, and some of us will be pretty wealthy when we're old. So maybe those of us that can, should support ourselves rather than accepting state subsidies that we don't need."
I don't know too much about cryptography, but for an asynchronous communication method like email, is there such a thing as encryption overkill? For example, does it matter whether the message takes two seconds or five seconds to decrypt/encrypt (particularly if that encryption/decryption happens in the background of your mail app)? Are there other issues as you increase the number of bits on the curve?
Its open source, so all of the features can be added relatively painlessly.
I didn't say they are mutually exclusive. I said I don't care about Python 3, I need Python 2 version :)
>Since they won't crash

Yeah, software never has bugs.

/s
What is the major difference between circus and tools like supervisor?
I've implemented a Node.js app that used Google Spreadsheets as the backend for a client. They found it more cost effective for non-technical admins to deal with than building their own, so more power to them.

I wrote up some notes from the experience, as Google Spreadsheets is full of quirks and some of the APIs and other means of access are very easy to break - it is very easy to create a spreadsheet that will return broken JSON, for example, in some modes, and then cannot be fixed (ever) to return unbroken JSON.

https://www.exratione.com/2013/04/some-notes-on-csv-parsing-...
I maintain a library[1] that's pretty popular with the journalism crowd for converting Google Spreadsheets to JSON, and you're exactly right about the risk[2]. Google's been sitting on a bug for over 6 months now because API usage of Google Spreadsheets just isn't important enough to merit a fix[3].

We've sent people off into the caching world[4] to fit it on our end, but your criticism is unfortunately spot-on.

[1] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop

[2] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop#okay-wait-weve-got-a-big-p...

[3] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/...

[4] http://github.com/jsoma/flatware
I use Notational Velocity[1] + markdown + Dropbox for taking and organizing notes. You can set it to use regular files or rtf, which is nice because then I can pull up or edit my notes anywhere I have dropbox synced (like my phone)

[1] Actually the nvALT fork: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Only maybe if hosted on Dropbox public folder.
Your current home page tells a good story by simply outlining the benefits of your app. I don't have to think to "get it" when reading your existing home page.

The new infographic shows me the benefits but it is harder for me, personally, to digest. I had to strain my brain to "get it."
Since you asked specifically about the acquisition of language, Steven Pinker has written a number of books that touch on the topic, e.g. The Language Instinct. Note that there are a number of conflicting theories about language and how it's acquired so probably no single book will give you an unbiased view of the current best thinking in the space.
For a ridiculous comparison of how cheap/expensive Mangalyaan was

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28425+x+10%5E7+INR%29+...

Not that it matters, but I pay more for my city commute per-km.
$6-$10 for a high-quality level Filipino agent.

Lots of people try to skimp by by paying $2-$5 (I've tried this) but if you take into account extra time correcting, supervising & fixing their work - it simply isn't worth it. Outsourcing is supposed to make less work for you - not more!
We don't know that there isn't a way to go under the Antarctic ice mass .. there may well be large enough rivers under the ice, navigable with fancy machines.
Social Connection Makes a Better Brain
I have no problem with the landlord restricting renters from re-renting on AirBnB or the like, but how is that different from the host (first-instance renter) doing water damage himself?
Debian Trying Out Xfce Over GNOME By Default
Probably because of the changes that they made to Skitch 2 - they removed loads of features (which have been slowly added back).

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/29802-i-advise-skitch-c...
The GPL is a copyright license and does not apply to a reimplementation.
OP should read "The Ultime Tips To Write Anything About Tips: Usefullness"

the points is too general to be usefull.
For the podcasts - have you tried listening to them at 1.5x or 2x speed? I started doing that & it's saved me tons of time & I can get through way more content (doesn't sound that weird once you get used to it either).

On your credit card - is that the Amex Platinum? I have a friend that uses them as a personal assistant basically.
> Just another reason not to run your development environment on the bleeding edge

If you heavily depend on non-core tools, yes. Otherwise, though, for 99% of developers it was install-reboot-resume work — and the advantages of being able to test what your users use are significant as well.
sigh...If I could only outsource my HN reading I would be so much productive.
You obviously don’t socialize with non-programmers very much
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While they are doing a better job on this, it still crashes @ 10am daily - right around the emergency quota for the day starts. They also need daily maintenance for an hour or so.
Cool! Created a Pocket command from the bookmarklet, went really smooth:

https://gist.github.com/michielappelman/7319013
Well done by ISRO scientists. PSLV was proven vehicle in ISRO's arsenal. They yet to prove on GSLV.
Yes, they can be added. But it will be far from painless. And it will take a while. Even creating a UI for iOS that feels good and works well will take months. Especially because people have to donate time out of their busy lives to add to the project.
"Why not" rings very true and can be taken as encouragement to soldier on. Yes, it would have been great to have YC's backing, but at this point it's a bit of a lottery, isn't it? And if your project cannot succeed without YC, that is not a good sign. Once more into the breach.
it has Android support
It does, to those practicing them.