skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Take a look at question No. 1, which shows students five pennies, under which it says “part I know,” and then a full coffee cup labeled with a “6″ and, under it, the word, “Whole.” Students are asked to find “the missing part” from a list of four numbers.

Wat.

Edit: http://roundtheinkwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-math-... ; That's the actual test, apparently. I still think "Wat" is an appropriate response though.
http://twitter.com/mcculloughsean/status/396465701239545856
D-Bus is just a low-level socket protocol(which is, by the way, really quite light); there is nothing "bloated" about it.
This is the way a business should be run. LinkedIn gets a +1 in my book
Doesn't seem to be working for me - just get message "we dispatched the elves to get your trip details, hold tight"
No. Apple created a new Market at great risk and expense, and Google entered a it with a rip-off product. On the other hand Microsoft sacrificed three years to create an original product to compete fairly. But since Google didn't incur the risk and costs of creating said market and designing an original product, Google (supported by its search monopoly profits) could undercut them by dumping on to the market Android for free. And so Apple and Microsoft responded by suing for trampling on their intellectual property rights.

But wait, there's more! It doesn't end at Apple and Microsoft! Google also ripped off Sun by co-opting, without license, the Java dev environment (that cost Sun millions of dev dollars) and more importantly, the Java work force (that cost Sun billions of marketing dollars), just so they could get more people to make apps for their mobile OS. Guess what! Sun/Oracle sued them too!

Wow, if all these companies are suing Google for ripping them off (and considering multiple patent-related injunctions issued against Android vendors), it must mean Google has been ripping them off!

See? I can spin facts to support arbitrary biases as well.

Now, let's drop the incendiary language that most posters here stoop to. Here's the (overly simplified) reality: Google took for free what they thought they could get legally away with (and their gambles have so far paid off), and their competitors responded by trying to restrict them by using other legal counter-measures. Each side is doing exactly what they can get away with legally. People just happen to side with Google because their actions agree with their personal biases.
Someone made a tool just like that and posted it on HN a while ago. I can't remember the name of it unfortunately but maybe another commenter can. I think it had CSS in the title and it was essentially a tool to customize a live site with CSS and then share your result.
The problem is that the article itself tells us that AirBnB's protection mechanism to keep bad renters out it is broken (don't leave bad reviews for fear of getting bad reviews yourself). So AirBnB is taking all the benefit from this market, without providing a working way to curb any abuses.
You're right on the money. Bay St likes resources, not startups. The company I'm currently working for was started by a couple of fresh UVic grads in 2005 and they went through 60 VCs before they found one who both had a worthwhile network, and seemed legitimately interested in funding a startup that had positive cashflow from day 1 and partnerships with tech titans.
Ok, so it's AOT.. but this is their own backend? (not the LLVM one?)

and will have no JIT at all?

If they troubled creating their own IR and are not reusing the LLVM one.. it probably means that the LLVM backend are only being used to retarget to the several architectures supported by it..

Otherwise it doesnt make much sense, since they are controlling the optimizing compiler in a custom way without the LLVM help in that matter

Also, if we remember they use renderscript targeting the LLVM and, that the output could go directly to the graphic processors instead of the cpu, it make more sense to have this sort of design..

They work directly in the ABI and voila, everything just works and talk to each other despite its different roots (java, ndk, renderscript.. + ..put something else here..)
Everyone makes mistakes. It looks like LinkedIn's team handled this in a professional manner. I can dig it.
I wish there was a good open-source POS 6 months ago! But I didn't find any that fit my startup's needs. I think it's awesome that you're doing this as it'll help retailers a lot. We can exchange notes. A basic POS is the type of thing
that should have been solved already so we can move onto newer and better things.

I'm one of the co-founders of AvidTap (http://avidtap.com). We're a mobile retail company providing additional value by bringing the latest mobile technology to help retailers engage customers and enable a better way to shop. Think mobile wallet using NFC and Bluetooth LE (iBeacon), mobile loyalty, personalized experience, etc. We want all of our partner stores to be able to say hi to their customers by name, remember what their regular orders are, and just generally make it a more personal shopping experience.

In the beginning we looked around for an open-source POS since we believe we'll be adding value on top of it, but unfortunately all the existing ones don't fit our needs or can't enable our target pricing. We ended up building one.

For a brief look at what we do, check out our HyperDrive demo day pitch here:
http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/Communitech/1/watch/3...

You're spot on in terms of the pricing. When we looked at the market, we talked to people that are still using the old fashion cash registers bought at Costco between $100 to $300. Then at the other end of the spectrum there's the really expensive POS system costing $10K per station just to start. Or nowadays you can go with Square Register and get dinged a lot more per transaction than the rate an established shop would be able to get. We've been able to convert people using all of these systems to our system.

My company's solution (http://avidregister.com) is a complete POS package that sells for $425 for the hardware. We also let our customers buy the hardware themselves if they want. After that it's $15/month subscription fee to help us add features, for support, and for the additional mobile features we provide. Some people really need the tech support and hand-holding. If you're interested, AvidRegister is downloadable on Android Play Store and has a demo mode. Note that it's only optimized for certain screen sizes. The good thing about it is that it'll still work if the Internet goes down. It was one of our requirements.

We worked hard to get our pricing to basically the cost of an old fashion cash register so that everyone can have a modern system. That way AvidTap can then bring everyone to the mobile retail age like what Starbucks is doing already.
We're using well known brands for receipt printer and cash drawer. If we use cheap no-name ones, then our hardware cost can go even lower. We also looked at potentially using Raspberry Pi but we had supply issues with that, on top of
having to find touch screen that's within our price range. We ended up developing our own POS system to run on Android tablets. It's a really nice system IMO. Android tablets can go below sub-$100 now btw.

Let's get everyone a modern system so all retailers can move onto better things. I'm happy to exchange notes should you wish to look into Android tablets too.
AirBnB + Lockitron = major win, always surprised AirBnB hasn't offered a package like getaround does.
Financial times daily. Local business newspapers are also good: http://www.bcbr.com/
It's not hard at all to become a Canadian citizen.

You can even move here to start a startup on our "start up visa program" http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/immigrate/business/start-up/ind...
Then work your way towards citizenship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkv5xOLvnA
I haven't touched it in ages. It automagically detects just about everything, and I use xrandr to wrangle multihead configurations.
And real Nokia might return to the smartphone business when the MS exclusivity expires.
A Ghost theme provider (in progress) - http://ghostcloak.com/

William Chambers' blog about Ghost development (related to above) - http://bioselemental.com/
What can I say, we had some nice chats back on rec.arts.int-fiction as well waaaaaaay back when....
Fat is a dielectric (electrical insulator). Fatty tissues contain a higher volume fraction of dielectric (fat) than do muscles, nerves, etc., which are mostly full of aqueous electrolyte solutions (Na+, K,+, Ca++) which are good electrical conductors.
It's their plan! But they don't, because they've become a mindless opposition.

There are obviously people here who both simultaneously think ACA might not be a positive public policy and are not mindless. Some of them might even be registered Republicans. Your constant repetition of the claim that voting for Mitt Romney was somehow an endorsement of a national version of Romneycare when the candidate himself explicitly campaigned on the opposite is, not to put too fine a point on it, silly. It is 100% consistent with federalist principles to believe that Romneycare might be great for the voters of MA, single payer might be great for the voters of VT, but that Obamacare is bad for the voters of the USA. It's also not inconsistent to believe that Romneycare was a horrible idea, but that Romney was still preferable to the alternative Republican candidates and/or preferable to President Obama.
Wonderful article, but one verdict turns out to be wrong:

Translating from one base to another is an utterly useless thing. If you can do it, maybe it's entertaining; if you can't do it, forget it. There's no point to it.
Minor nit: I believe 3rd Ward shut down in a sad, spectacular way :(

All your advice seems spot on. One problem I had was distinguishing between neighborhoods. While I lived in midtown east, I was oddly in a restaurant blackhole. All my favorite restaurants and hangout places were around 33'rd, st. marks, etc. There are some bad spots in Manhattan ... one should be aware of that.
I'm getting the same error message as rywalker.

In the console, I'm getting this:

The page at https://travel.meteor.com/trip/2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a00... displayed insecure content from http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=51.5112....
2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a004f8:1
insert failed: Access denied
Apple sued Samsung, the world's largest maker of Android phones in dozens of countries, with masses of garbage patents in 2011[0].

Google provided the software that Apple was attacking, but was not considered to have standing to intervene. Instead, Google used its Motorola subsidiary to sue back with its own garbage patents and restore the MAD status quo.

But Apple undoubtedly attacked first. Actually Microsoft was the First Evil, but Apple was first between Google, Google's licensed manufacturers (like Samsung and Motorola), and Apple.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni....
What if he/she dated and brought home 365 people a year? You may not like it .. but it is really your business what someone does in the privacy of their own home?
Pictures remind me of 2nd rate action movies. Probably because those movies are closer to real life than the 1st rate Hollywood action movies.
This part is interesting:

> "If better precision, directed roundings, and exception handling capabilities latent in hardware but linguistically inaccessible remain unused, their mathematically provable necessity will not save them from atrophy. The new C9X proposal before ANSI X3J11 is a fragile attempt to insinuate their support into the C and C++ language standards. It deserves the informed consideration of the programmers it tries to serve, not indifference."

And it's now 2013 and directed roundings and exception handling largely remain linguistically inaccessible. C99 did add them, but they remain fragile. And most other languages haven't added them. It seems that the programming community has largely settled on indifference.
Good points. Perhaps structuring it in a way to allow for a flat file or redis/nosql/sql might push a particular schedule module into greater favor, at least for those of us who want our apps to consist of minimal different db methods.
Robbing homes is possible and rewarding.

Saying that doing something wrong is rewarding is not sufficient.
Ströbele shares details of Snowden visit in Moscow
NSA Apologists Now Blaming Snowden for NSA’s Own Cyberdefense Failures
Well, it was written before writing things in octal or hex was common, I think, so you'll have to cut him some slack there.
Yes. We've all had to do similar things on embedded systems - you just cut code out until you narrow down the problem. And yes, you have to convince the hardware engineer that there is a problem with his board and that's always an uphill climb. Sometimes he'll fix the board, but more often you're stuck with a workaround.

Nowadays I'm working on these big distributed clusters, far from the bare metal. But you know, just now I rather miss those days on the little embedded systems.
It is to be noted that Google is often blamed for utilizing and presenting the user information that it holds. The only difference between Google and other companies like Facebook and Apple is that they also hold user information but choose not to use it in a creative way. In the end all companies are gathering information about users. I am okay with Google's decision as long as users benefit out it.
Robert Litt: Isn’t Weakening Encryption Our Job?
I suggest you visit before moving. NYC is simultaneously one of the most amazing and most frustrating cities in the world. Also, NY gives you a different experience based on where you live and the season. I moved in early winter and it was brutal! Also, be very aware of cost of living. My jaw dropped the first time I went grocery shopping. I never felt poor in the Bay area. In Manhattan, I was poor making low six figures. If you are single, straight and male, then ignore everything bad I said about NYC and just get on the first flight here.
The US needs to retire daylight savings and use only two timezones
http://instantwatcher.com/genres
good work, Meteor is the fastest framework to get things done for sure if your familiar with it
Do not mistake "tradition" for "useful", and especially in the context of a math cirriculum. It is useless to learn it in school. For that fraction of a percent that goes on to not only program computers, but also routinely dabble in bit-bashing, let them take the time to learn it (and they'll probably only learn special cases anyhow). Don't jam it down everyone's throat, and pile on one more reason on the already voluminous pile of reasons to hate math and think it's useless. (A conclusion that our school system does its level best to make the rational conclusion based on the evidence!)
How much of this is the "backmapping" of 12th grade skills to 1st grade, and how much of it is simply incompetent test and exercise authorship?
Disingenuous? Let's talk reality. Apple sells hardware, Microsoft has a licensed software business. Android is a fundamental threat to both businesses. Google doesn't make any money from Android.

Now, who has an incentive to launch patent lawsuits as an attempt to restrain competitors? The one whose business model is fundamentally threatened by open, free operating systems, or those who don't make any money from them? Which actors have an incentive to try and impose costs on open source? It is fundamentally not in Google's interest to ban iPhones, as they make money on iPhones just like they do the desktop Web. A commoditized mobile industry, or a competitive mobile industry is a net win for Google, only a monopoly monoculture is a loss for Google. Left to their own devices, Google could undermine iPhone by just shipping Android for free, no need for legal fights to undermine it.

Microsoft in particular had a plan to try and stop Linux when it started eating up the server-side market by launching or threatening patent IP issues, for much the same reason as the current attacks on Android. The reality is, the only recourse for proprietary vendors to go after something that is free is to use the force of government and the courts.

Which company has a founder/CEO who openly proclaimed in inflammatory rhetoric that he was going to "destroy" and go "thermonuclear"? Which company has threatened and asserted more patent attacks? You cite a single instance in which Google inherited a long running fight between Motorola Mobility and Apple, but completely ignore the fact that Apple has sued pretty much every Android vendor, and Microsoft has shaken down many. What do you call Microsoft's shakedown of B&N's Nook? You think that's morally equivalent to Motorola?

This is about as intellectually honest as the people who try to compare Fox News to CNN, or claim that the "extreme left" in Congress is just as bad as the "extreme right", despite the fact that none of the "socialists" in Congress have brought the government to a two week shutdown, or a debt crisis.

I don't call someone who abuses the system better at "playing the game", that suggests that this is a fun activity with no moral or ethical repercussions. I call someone who is better at abusing the legal system MORE immoral than someone who is doesn't do it as much.

In order words, it is not a game. Calling it one is a disingenuous attempt to paper over what is disgusting behavior and whitewash it enough that you can try to draw a moral equivalence by leveling it all out.

Yes, Google is pursuing what is in their self interest, but there is nothing immoral about releasing stuff as source for free or competing in the marketplace. It is not evil, despite the fact that Jobs tried to say it was.

What is immoral is gumming up the courts and using the force of the government to beat your competitors because you can't stop consumers from choosing other products.
If anyone's interested in creating HDR photos for real estate, check out my startup TurboHDR (https://www.turbohdr.com) which is a service to generate HDR photos in the cloud.

Strictly speaking it uses "exposure fusion" which isn't true HDR but the end result is similar to a tone-mapped HDR image and is generally more realistic with fewer artifacts.

FWIW it's written in Go and hosted on Google App Engine.
The comparison to war was simply a rhetoric device to imply that all is fair in love and war.

> Releasing Android was not an "attack". It was entering a market with a competitive product. The fact that Google was able to leverage new methods and resources (open source and the continued evolving of the Linux kernel) to reduce the cost of their offering (to the point of changing where revenue is generated in the product) is a normal market behavior.

That's one perspective. See my response to the sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6657912) to see another perspective. Google was not the first to think of using Linux for a mobile OS (See: Maemo). But think of where the real competitive advantage for Android came from: Now can you now think why Apple is unhappy?

>* Pooling monopolistic grants and abusing the legal system to thwart market behavior is not something I think we should condone, regardless of how much the other companies felt under attack.*

"Monopolistic grants" is just a biased way to look at the patent system that most of the other tech industry works with just fine. "Abusing the legal system"? Again, let's just keep in mind it was not Apple or Microsoft, but Google which was found by a federal jury to be doing so, and charged millions of dollars for that.

Google did whatever they thought they could get away with legally to get an advantage. These companies are simply doing the same.
The alligator couldn't let go because of the current.
Reddit: how would you sum up a film, song or TV series in a few lines of code?
he doesn't need a bug bounty. sounds like he straight up consulted them. he should get paid for contract work.
Launch a contest, some folks would probably be willing to solve the monetization problem for a percentage of the revenue. I'd love to work with you on this, that kind of traffic isn't easy to build.

I'd also spin off a separate product for marketers (based on the same engine, but without the global trend noise), make it useful (there are a few ways to do that).
I just recently got a Nokia 1020 and I love the camera so much. People keep asking "so does it REALLY have that good of a camera?" My favorite thing to do is to take a random picture while they watch, and then zoom way in on some text that's unreadable to their eyes, or zoom in on someone's skin pores.
Redefining SaaS.
>I'm not necessarily saying people shouldn't disclose first, but labeling it as responsible is grating.

Absolutely. That kind of language marginalizes people who are public whistleblowers who have no faith in the internal systems in which they reside.
It seems Susan Kare, the pioneer designer of the original icons, also designed the icons for Nautilus (the file manager). Here I was, thinking Nautilus was just some small hobby project by some guys. Anyone know how this came about? Is Susan Kare just a woman who loves contributing to FLOSS now? What's the story here?
That style of indentation is more common in Haskell libraries, and I'm not sure what you don't like about the whitespace.
Great for Firewall or Gateway...simply the best!
I just looked how much we made in Google Adsense in Oct based on the number of unique visitors we received. I calculate that we would have made roughly $42K in Oct based on your unique visitors value. This sounds nonintuitive, but its my opinion that you actually have too many ads on your site to make any money from them. My site is fotoblur.com. You can reach me through the support page if you'd like to chat. I'd love to help you if I can.
As the father of a five-year-old, two things puzzled me here:

1) "In the United States, students begin Grade 1 at the age of 5 or 6." Say what? In our part of Michigan, kids begin kindergarten at 5 or 6, leaning towards 6.

2) I see people here complaining about the math on the test, but what boggles me is the reading! Are beginning first graders really expected to be able to handle word problems? Maybe it's just been too long since I was there myself, but I thought we were just learning to read "See Spot run" at that point in school. For sure it seems like an insane amount of reading skill to ask of a five-year-old.
I have a trick I do: flip a coin to decide. You tend to make a decision before the coin lands, rather than have blind fate make the choice for you.
You are making me love my little enterprise startup.

10 years, no funding -> $750K/year.

Of course, that one company is AT&T. We help send about 1/3% of all direct mail advertising in the U.S. (Sorry about that -- we are trying to get them to switch to digital but it's a hard sell to when that's what they do for a living.)
As someone else said: The HOA representative should care about the HOA's insurance. If there's insurance covering e.g. common areas, it is problematic if the insurance does not cover short term lets and units are used for short term lets, because the expectations of damage from places e.g. rented out as party pads would be far higher than otherwise.

But this also means your insurance company should care, as depending on your policy, if your insurance company would be on the hook for damages not covered by the HOA insurance, it is very much in their interest to ensure that you are not doing anything in violation of HOA rules that might affect the HOA insurance cover.

So ask forgiveness all you want, but realise that your insurance may not be worth the paper it is written on if you break contracts that might affect insurance cover. And that's potentially a very high cost to pay for a "rebellious streak".
The fallacy is looking at Motorola as an individual company and not as a member of the Android ecosystem. This is not about Apple vs Motorola, it is Apple vs Android. As Rockstar's suit shows, it's really Apple/Microsoft vs All_Android_Vendors.

In that regard, Microsoft and Apple struck first.