skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, Bircoin is in fact broken. The blockchain is now 14Gb, it cannot scale. I bet that the increasing value of BTC must be related to Cryptolocker.
So far for me government and medical forms have been the majority of the forms where it is asked.

Funny enough, when I was in Munich, I was denied entry to a bar because I would "cause trouble." My German friend informed me it was basically because I looked Turkish. So in that case, while not on paper, my race was questioned.
I wouldn't say that was cheating. It's not like they've got the books sat in front of them. They are simply using one of the many advantages of being a modern computer - huge and fast memory capacity.

But whilst the fact that computers are now better than humans at chess is interesting and impressive, it doesn't really matter in terms of things like the world championship.

Machines can beat humans at all manner of competitive events - plenty of vehicles, and probably some robots, could go faster than Usain Bolt for example - but that's irrelevant when it comes to discussing the Olympics.
Very nice 3D use case.
With so much opposition to Obamacare, i would be more surprised if a tool like this did NOT exist.
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I hear you! :-(
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Kano's building a computer kit for kids and beginners – Kickstarting soon, powered by Raspberry Pi.

New approach to the "skills gap" meme.
That is a bit hyperbolic. My father has had his transmission destroyed in a two year old car because of a bolt flying off of the road. Debris on the road is bad regardless of what fuels your vehicle.
Can you say for a fact that if they priced at $46 that people would have bought at $46? Markets are highly irrational.
I don't know how these things typically work.. it started out at 46, now it's below, ~45, but it says +19.66 (75.62%)? Is that because that's the highest it was today? I would expect the +/- to be against the starting amount at any time...
Yahoo! Finance is more up to date.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=twtr&ql=1
Yes, there are.

If you were able to do that, that means that VMWare and Visa both got screwed out of billions of dollars.

And of course, little guys can't get in right at the IPO price. That's reserved for big players. By systematically underpricing IPOs, the finance folks make billions of dollars for their friends at the expense of the companies they're supposed to represent.
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This is a great idea :) Already sent 3 bugs / UX problems via the UserVoice thing.
I try to avoid anything that would bring the bitcoin crowd out, or I might have an aneurysm.
Don't worry about it, it's not like features have feelings.

There's always a fight between sticking to what your ORM supports and trying to use every feature of the database.

Either can simplify your code under certain circumstances.
Computer says no:

http://twitteripo.knowsis.com
$ brew remove mongodb

Okay guys, now we're talking!
I am suggesting that it is either evidence of discrimination (men hitting on women) or evidence of nothing (recruiter spam). I'm not sure what you think I'm saying.

And it's hard to think in terms of Bayes' Law when this is anecdotal anyway.
Postgres also has stupid mode option. (unlogged)
I personally don't want to use my file system to develop applications and write code.
> Perhaps you could give an example of yield as an expression? "x = x + yield" doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

And yet it's perfectly valid. ES6 generators are (shallow) coroutines (or "extended generators" in Python-land[0]). From the outside, they provide a `send()` method as the converse to `next()`, and that method is used to inject a value back in the generator, via `yield` as an expression. And yes you can use the same yield to send a value out and retrieve one in the same "yield step".

That is how e.g. taskjs[1] works:

spawn(function*() {
var data = yield $.ajax(url);
$('#result').html(data);
var status = $('#status').html('Download complete.');
yield status.fadeIn().promise();
yield sleep(2000);
status.fadeOut();
});

the first line sends a promise to the scheduler and suspends the generator, the scheduler then resumes the generator with send() to inject the resolution of the promise back in.

> The meaning of a symbol can often be inferred from its context - it doesn't need to be a reserved word.

Not without function * . the purpose of function * is precisely to provide the context for `yield` being not-a-name.

> Yes, it would not be allowable to have an open paren after yield.

You do realize how utterly insane that reads right? You propose crippling `yield` and making it significantly less convenient and sensible to get rid function * (and the colon does not work, it conflicts with labels)

[0] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/

[1] http://taskjs.org/
I think the Google IPO was a bit unique where they kind of gave Wall Street the finger and said "we'll do it our way, thanks". They pissed off a lot of bankers but I don't think Sergey and Larry really cared.

Haven't seen a situation or company like that since.
Codio has keyboard shortcuts and they can all be customized. We are also adding a sublime like command bar and many other productivity focused features. We are adding a load of stuff for back-end development, too.

(Freddy May from Codio)
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Yes, I've thought about that exact idea probably more than it deserves, but I'm trying to err on the side of not appearing spammy while simultaneously keeping the "book now" button always in easy reach.
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> It throws a lot of false positive and false negatives; it's not actually useful for any analysis involving rigor.

If a tool carries a lot of weight, has little accuracy and is only used against one's opponents - that tool has a lot in common with a bludgeon.
You go public to raise a large amount of capital. No venture investor is going to give you billions of dollars.

For instance, Twitter just raised 1.8 billion in CASH. Presumably this is for them to scale up their operations. This is why public markets exist, and this is why companies go public.
The screenshots of IDA with Delphi in it really bring me back. Ahh reverse engineering, life was so simple then.

Whoever wrote this was definitely older. Nobody under 35 knows Delphi ;)
The opening price was $26.
You get to turn pieces of paper which say "I own x% of TWTR" into pieces of paper which say "I own $y". A lot of people are happy to make that trade, especially if they don't think their ownership of the company is worth the amount of money that people are willing to pay for it.

As for the people who actually just work at Twitter, or who run Twitter? Well, you certainly get a lot more money to work with so long as your stock price doesn't collapse. You no longer have to go lobby certain individuals for money as much as you used to. Sure, you have to focus on making profits now, but that was always kind of the point, right? That doesn't mean you have to be short-sighted. Just look at a company like Amazon for an example of how a patient company can still command a high stock price and respect even when they're not pumping out huge profits.

Also, the vast majority of small businesses are abject failures. Most economic growth occurs through the activity of massive corporations (from the business side of things).

At least, that's my understanding. Feel free to point out if I'm full of shit, please.
I have no actual idea, but I saw a comment the other day to the effect that:

Choosing a good price is a) hard, because of the due diligence, and b) expensive, because if you chose wrongly, you lose money (in an auction, this is called the winner's curse.) So the cost of estimating the price before the shares are on the market needs to be priced in to the initial sale price.

Probably doesn't explain a 100% jump though, but in regard to the rich supposedly supporting free markets, I will remark that people's ability to be for things when they are applied to other people, and against them when applied to themselves, never ceases to amaze me.
That's because its pre-opening (IPO) price was $26.

So for everyone who got shares before the public trading, their stocks are way up.

(This is also why people are saying that the IPO price was set way too low; insiders make tons of money but Twitter itself raises much less money.)
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>Unlike Mongo, Postgres actually needs to write bytes to a disk

I'm now immune to MongoDB bashing now but jesus keep up with updates. This isn't true as of maybe two years ago.
Any generator guide for Python will work, the syntax is slightly different (no function/def, the generator is "created" by the presence of a `yield` keyword in the body, and `yield*` is called `yield from`)
I now little about the stock market, so I'm not sure why you're upset but it sounds important! :) Anyone care to elaborate?
Nice try.. but the Reuters article uses the forum that this HN post links to as the source for the part about Tesla talking to the driver... that forum has a post in it made by Tesla.. And no where in the part where Tesla says they talked to the driver do they say the driver said there was an accident.

In an update to that post, Tesla then linked to the Reuters article as a source for the quote from the dispatcher (and quoted the part from the article with the dispatchers comment) and says it looks like it was an accident.

You can't attribute everything to the driver simply because Tesla exchanged a couple of (unknown, unquoted) words with him/her.
Better said, since there is no compilation step, so you can push non working js through and it will look "green".

Java isn't defined by a process, that's sad most people don't seem to understand that. Look at projects like dropwizard, happily throwing away what they dont like.
Sales and of tablets and phones are growing massively while sales of PCs are dropping... if this trend continues, wouldn't most people be developing using tablets and other touch devices?
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> Markets are highly irrational.

That depends which recent Nobel Memorial Prize winner you believe.
While an increase in efficiency would definitely be nice, it's not a requirement for reducing emissions. If we manage to switch to emission-free energy (solar, nuclear, fusion, whatever), then the problem is basically solved. We could be as wasteful as we wanted without increasing CO2 emissions (though it may still have other costs of course).

And we have the technology required for this. We just lack the political will.

Of course going completely emission-free will still be hard, but if we could just get rid of all the big coal and oil burning plants, that would already make a huge difference.

(Disclaimer: I'm no fan of Uranium fission, but it's still much better than coal. While I'd prefer to switch to something better than Uranium, a switch from coal to Uranium is still a vast improvement. If that switch is easier, faster and cheaper to make than a switch to something more durable, I'm all for it.)
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Great stuff! Would also be great to have your own x-ray results in a embeddable 3D some day...Imagine going to the dentist and say:"want to have a 3D view of my mouth ? Go on www..."
Or share on Facebook a 3D version of the leg you broke after a skiing session...etc
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That's not surprising, the Atom is a proper CPU, whereas the RPi is a GPU that incidentally has a wimpy CPU attached to it. However, it's a lot easier to take a punt on a project at the RPi's price point.
"You can blame me for everything - but 40% of you are outta here, and I'm not."

Seriously - that BI piece really tries to make the reader feel sorry for Armstrong, but he got $12 million (in 2012) for fucking things up while the little guys got pink slips.
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Because after the second fire, everybody said it was merely a fluke and it would be long time until the third fire.
We're adding offline capability Q1 next year so you can work on and offline - best of both worlds.

(Freddy May from Codio)
What minimal characteristics shall TimeSeries DataStore have?
I'm just wondering, according to general perception... How shall a TimeSeries DataStore behave to be efficient and what minimal characteristics it shall have?

I'm mid-way working on a TimeSeries DataStore implemented in GoLang utilizing power of LevelDB at back.

Yes, I know there are awesome TSDB implementations which are out there and I should have used. I did try to read-up a lot... either they looked limited, slow or bulky. And most importantly this project let me try my idea of having a simple, fast TimeSeries DataStore specific to my requirement of it.
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ha ha ha, I totally thought the same thing. I was excited to see what city would benefit from from a kayak delivery service. I assumed venice :-)
Wonderful! I don't ship internationally very often, but I've wanted something like this every time.

I tried sorting my search results using the buttons on the upper right, but none of them worked. I suggest also making the column labels work for toggle sorting.

The option to include a screenshot with feedback is a great idea.
I don't really know these things but as far as I can tell what Google did was something really unpopular that only what Google used to be could do: they only allowed the "right" VCs to invest to their conditions, and they were not interested to the reaction of bankers and alike, and everybody wanted the Google shares. Twitter was nowhere in such a kind of predominant position given that is in a weaker situation (it is not clear if it will ever make enough money to justify even the IPO initial price).
Hi, Alina. This is not a dig on your work, but mainly a comment about the site.

Sure, I believe you did a lot of research. But then the article could have been written to maximize accuracy or to maximize virality.

I write a lot, and there's a big difference between the styles. For some topics, that can translate into a big difference in the content of an article.

Productivity is definitely prone to that. There's a whole genre known as "productivity porn", so called because some people feel compelled to look at it far beyond actual utility.

Right from the title of the article, I was put on guard. The word "unlock" indicates minor action will bring great improvement, freeing me from possibly-unsuspected constraints. Who wouldn't want that? Then we get three awesome, hard-to-reach states in a row. Next a mysterious sciencey-sounding effect named after somebody I've never heard of but who has an intriguing name. It's a perfect productivity porn title.

When I clicked through, my skepticism was increased. On my phone, the first thing I saw was a bunch of share buttons with some needy, manipulative copy to get me to click them. There's a big stock photo of a pretty woman that conveys zero actual information. There were a modest number of short, upbeat paragraphs broken up with large titles. There are what I'm sure were links to other productivity articles in the body. There's relatively little subtlety, and a concluding paragraph that dubiously hates on the 8-hour work day. Then we get a paragraph trolling for comments, which increase stickiness. And then more share buttons with the same manipulative copy.

I understand that this is a popular way to build a profitable content business these days. But I also understand that "profitable content business" and "reliable source of high-integrity, low-drama journalism" are poorly correlated. No matter how solid your writing and how true your heart, the context and the constraints of written-for-virality prose make me skeptical. Too many other people writing for similar sites and with similar structures have written excessively upbeat, low-thought articles for me to trust ones on this site without doing a lot more due diligence than I normally will for a quick morning read.
[1]: http://alexsegura.tumblr.com/post/8691920116/my-hat-is-two-s...

Think of it this way. If I told you I was keeping my savings in bitcoin, and I've saved hundreds of bitcoins for the last two years, and never converted any of them to cash, and never spent any of them in the last two years, you would probably say "Wow. You've missed at least two great opportunities to cash in on terrible market crashes. You could have had thousands without investing any more real money, you'd be filthy rich and have placed nothing at risk."

Certainly I could have done better if I had made _some_ trades. History tells me I personally will pick the wrong times to trade, and the above strategy is probably best for me, given my strong propensity to buy high and sell low (otherwise I would have those hundreds of bitcoins still.)

But if you've never made a transaction, you have never realized any of the value, and an argument can be made that your entire portfolio is at risk.

Just like buying 50-year bonds, there is a risk you won't live that long. Nobody's going to contact your next-of-kin to alert them to your bitcoin holdings if you die having kept them a secret. That's a real danger to the network, and with a cap on the total number of bitcoins, it causes real harm to everyone when those coins are lost, unaccounted.

At least with someone moving them around from time to time, you will be able to know that the keys have not been erased and "those coins are still alive," you won't spuriously inflate the value of your own and your neighbors' coins on public exchanges, opening yourself to the real dangerous Satoshi attack of "rising from the dead and seizing all of the at-risk cash on everyone's trading accounts." If Satoshi ever comes back, we will likely have made him fabulously rich and all because we didn't think of it first, and people like to jump on bandwagons.

No contract! No fair. Ergo, demurrage is good.
Delphi is the standard programming language taught to many German kids in school. I have many friends in Germany (I live in Sweden) and they have horrible stories from those "lessons" :-)

Problem is not all of them are knowledgeable/interested enough to realise that what they're being taught is deprecated and not worth a lot.
This post hit home for me. I've personally implemented code review strategies which directly and immediately led to much improved code quality and generally better product. But management doesn't see code quality. They see deadlines. The insignificant time it takes for code review is the first thing that gets nixed by non-technical management even when the time required for bug fixes, last-minute changes due to their own indecisiveness, and slow development due to giving employees second-rate hardware far eclipse the marginal time it takes to make sure we're deploying halfway decent code to production. And then they bitch at the engineers that they're underpaying/overworking when shit stops working. But let's not hire more developers and improve salaries for the people we have. No, that's not what we need. What we need is more charismatic biz-dev bros with poly-sci degrees. Surely that will fix things! (/rant)
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We've worked very hard on building a system that allows you to customise your keyboard shortcuts. There's still more we can and will be doing, including quick tab switching. And if you wait a few days, you'll also have a quick-open feature just like Sublime's cmd-t.

We'd love it iof you could post your feature requests on the forum http://forum.codio.com/

cheers!
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I think it's been referred to as 'running with scissors' mode actually.
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I think what he means is this: When I'm tired from snowboarding, skateboarding, or really any of the extreme sports they sponsor; Do I feel like grabbing a Red Bull, or do I want water (and 5 minutes to catch my breath)?
Hi kd5bja, valid question. The statement you quoted is our vision for the future. We just launched with our MVP and we're working on the courier side to get as many courier services into our database as possible. At the moment we don't cover all courier services globally. We've got the courier services from Germany, UK, Sweden, Finland and Norway in our database. That's why it's only 11 couriers. I hope for your understanding and I really hope that we can reach our vision soon.
some architects surely could build a house from scratch without a blueprint, and deliver it on time, on budget, and without problems.

some architects with a blueprint could deliver garbage.
Same buttons, same navigation, same layout is a good thing. Users are already used to the design, and can navigate efficiently.

Same typeface, same graphics (mac book with graphs), same style (flat) is a bad thing. You won't stand out and everyone will forget you.
I'm not asking for whizz-bang features, just a lack of the busy, overengineered sort we tend to see.

Heck, First Direct is one of the better banks in this country, but their website popups deliberately hide browser chrome including the address bar, which is just obviously terrible for security. But that's something that must have been deliberately added.
Thanks for reporting the bugs and thanks for taking your time to help us out!!! :)
It looks like you're right. This was/is a limitation of the node.js postgres adapter I was using.
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Unlike Facebook, none of Twitters employees and VC's are selling, so no internal pressure to grab every last dollar.
I see many valid points in your argument but at the same time I find myself more and more wanting to offload the responsibility of maintaining my tools to a 3rd party. The more online/subscription services I use the happier I am because I don't have to spend time installing and upgrading tools, archiving content, etc.

Some content I don't want to own (music, books, etc), some cloud services are open source (so they can live well beyond their creators) and some other services combine local and remote access (eg. github). As much as I want full control, I also want options.
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While Franz Inc. wouldn't be considered a start-up we are very active in the "New" Graph Database, NoSQL movement. Our product AllegroGraph is written in our Lisp and we have a large number of users, some using the DB in conjunction with Lisp.

http://www.franz.com/agraph/cresources/white_papers/
http://www.franz.com/agraph/success/

We also have several new use cases for Lisp and we have been trying to update these as we are permitted.

http://www.franz.com/success/

I would also point out the Dr. Kalet has recently release a second edition of his Bio Informatics book the end of October.

http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/bioinformatics/bo...
I don't think that's really true. That's generally something that requires at least tech school/community college. It's not manual labor.
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It always shocks me how long technology hangs around. It's easy to forget how many critical systems are powered by VB3 or Cobol.
As a library, I'd have no problem selling a service that used this, with the idea that for an MVP we could launch and then switch out with a more robust library.