skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
altcons have no reason to exist unless they can do something bitcoin can't.

That's what will be interesting. I'm bullish on scrypt, but which one? I couldn't call it.
What do you do when someone reports a bug on a device you don't have, and you can't reproduce it on one of the devices you do have? Genuinely curious (I'm a software developer but not on Android).
We've got your cloud interoperability right here:

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd ls s3://rsynctest

Done and done.

Ask about discounts for HN readers.
No... Just no.
I would add McDonalds too. But can't figure out if NSA has to do anything with them... still thinking...
Visualising Late Antiquity: Everyday Life AD 300-650
I'd guess Express. It's in use at quite a few high profile companies, and most other frameworks are just built on top of it.
Pure coincidence. Like those random unimportant memories that get stuck with us, but we don't know why.

When you work in really large projects, which are not hobby projects, with specs you don't even understand
the reason of their existence, it is impossible.

For example I have many experiences similar to what you described, yet today I couldn't remember why I did
something in a code fragment I wrote last week.

That's why you'll see all great programmers sharing similar stories. Otherwise you'd be superhuman.

Pure coincidence my friend.
Prismatic wants to build a social network around all of your interests
How to choose the right technologies for your startup
Any decent company reacts to competitors to survive: witness iOS notifications in response to android notifications. Consumers benefit when companies are busy one-upping each other.
Sorry for being petty, but what's this creeping pattern of folk leading with "So"? It reads poorly and sounds even worse.
thats really harsh.

playing the experience card is poor form and fallacious - also it wouldn't surprise me if that commenter is speaking from extensive experience.

i don't mention my 20 years of experience or background as a AAA game dev having touched every speciality with experience in high volume web and database environments, financial data quality software, language compilers and interpreters or anything like that... its next to worthless vs. what i can do, demonstrate or explain.
Very nice little box, considering it's all COTS stuff save for the chassis, LED button and controller.

I imagine these will be available with a range of CPU's and GPU's come release day.
They also had an infamous habit of announcing vapourware alternatives to competing products, knowing that many potential customers would hold off buying if they thought a Microsoft-developed alternative was in the works (e.g. PenPoint OS vs Microsoft's Windows for Pen Computing - the latter of which had very minimal functionality when it finally came out).
I just bought one on Amazon for $45 (including shipping). It appears that price is still available, so they probably have some stock remaining.
there's a silly benchmark in the repo: https://github.com/koajs/koa#benchmarks

but there aren't any comparisons yet.
For development cost, there's no clue for it's easier(=cheaper). It's just your opinion, and common sense is Android costs more. I think you need to provide some clue or logic to claim something isn't a common sense. Or your mention will become just your own anecdote.

Also, I consider the cost to support various devices. If we don't need to support any other device except Nexus and a few of top-tier models, it can go easy to develop. But in reality, the Android majority is plenty of exotic devices from known and unknown vendors. And they all have configurations with original modifications which behaves slightly differently even from same vendor by versions. It causes compatibility problem, and must be handled case by case. I think this needs a lot more efforts on development. Experiences from coworkers and friends show Android app needs far more efforts (=cost) to be nice on major user devices. Toolchain also slows down development. Though ADT enhanced a lot, we have to stay in 2.x for compatibility. (still true even in 2013, and doesn't seem to be better anytime soon) Common opinion (around me) is - just writing an app is easier, but writing an app looks and works greatly on most device is far harder.

Of course, I am talking about native development, not a middleware/hybrid platform.

For buying power, we don't need to assume it from hypothetic income level. Because we easily can find actual selling statistics from various sources. And you're right that Android buying power is getting close to iOS (in 2013). I still doubt on numbers because specific South Korean - where the insane Samsung centric country - game market is boosting the number. Anyway I would consider to revoke my claims if it really grows enough for its user-base, and can justify development cost.
We are using OrientDB to store visitor stats on meople.net behind the scenes: http://meople.net/visitor/index.jsp

Document oriented tables are used.
I like no-sql access to indexes:

OIndex<?> index = db.getMetadata().getIndexManager().
getClassIndex(klassName, indexName);
Collection<ODocument> = index.getEntriesBetween(start, end, true);

Nothing to say here: it just works.
Yeah... But we used to gossip about regulars and what they were buying (and why) all the time when I worked retail. We weren't as efficient as an algorithm of course, but we did use that knowledge (hunch) to recommend things as well. It's just weirder when a computer does it, rather than a person -- which is fair enough, and kinda interesting to think about!
OpenSSL: Flaw in Dual EC DRBG (no, not that one)
Pivotal People—Roman Shaposhnik, Founder of Apache Bigtop Joins Pivotal
How do you reconcile your view that this is a myth with this:

"But for the Google Android team, the iPhone was a kick in the stomach.

'What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,' DeSalvo said. 'It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.'"

Either the Android team already had something like the iPhone but it was so far out that it may as well not have existed or even their work on the touchscreen version was not nearly good enough to ship after the iPhone. I don't think you can read that passage and think that Google was ready with an iPhone like touchscreen design. Even their early touchscreen designs that I saw were still smallish screens with physical keyboards attached.
some comments are very useful, this is a great example
How is Strongsync different from Expandrive?
yes, stack traces work now, as long as they aren't being thrown in a different event loop: https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/117
Dave Eggers: US writers must take a stand on NSA surveillance
...more fluid-feeling. I realise that's not an exact science by any means, but it's what you'll generally hear if you give an iPhone and a <resistive touchscreen phone here> to Doe on the street. These are being sold to your average user. Being able to manipulate what's on screen smoothly without any physical/cognitive effort or a stylus is what makes capacitive screens "better".
I think there's a difference between acknowledging that Steve Jobs was justified in being angry and holding that Google shouldn't have been allowed to do what they did. I think the most certain thing is that both iOS and Android are better off because the other exists. The competition has allowed for a lot of mutual copying, just as we'd seen in the PC market before it, and in just about every other technological development since the stone age.

Steve Jobs is justified in being angry because he feels ownership of his ideas. Is anger is held impotent because we recognize that a healthy degree of copying is good for innovation. Both of those are OK.
A friend of mine who works in the embedded space recently had a very similar bug. The component would crash when he stood up from his chair. Apparently the hardware connections were so sensitive that tiny bursts of static electricity through the air were enough to disrupt the whole setup.
Indeed, it's right at the top! Oops. Thanks for pointing that out.
Frustratingly non-idiomatic Go code :(
Coinbase founder here. We'll reach out via email to discuss the details of this case with you.
I think this might be it:
http://patrickthomson.tumblr.com/post/2499755681/the-best-de...
It was amusing in the beginning... not sure if it is still.
Shoulda kept my mouth shut.

Day after writing that, the boy smashed the iPad Mini in a snit. $200 lesson for daddy.
No, a full-time sysadmin is dumb idea for first hire. Your first deployment is not going to be complex and there will be a lot of moving parts. If you dev team can't understand deployment I'm not sure what your expecting your first hire sysadmin to do.

Especially when services like heroku and take alot of the heavy lifting of the start ups hands, initially anyway.
Thanks for the clarification, Brian.
That's very reassuring.
Are you talking about analytics? Like with big data?
Apple could get away with much worse business practices than Microsoft because it didn't have a monopoly, and was therefore held to much lower standards. Oracle even more so.
Power and Responsibility: Have you ever looked someone up in a database?
if there's a project you want to maintain for him, just ask and he'll give you ownership. i help with koa and most of his more popular repos have multiple maintainers now, so don't worry.
Calling the Great Depression the result of "government intervention" is the supreme result of the famous "Do Nothing" president, Calvin Coolage. Despite seeing the signs of impending market collapse, Calvin Coolidge felt that it was not within his rights as president to do anything about it.

Hoover tried desperately to solve the problem of the Great Depression in his first (and only) term, but when the Black Friday market crash occurred only 8 months into Hoover's presidency, it is clear who deserves the blame of the famous market crash that set off the Great Depression.

Deregulation of banks, laissez-faire economics, and a complete reluctance to increase the monetary supply are all cited as reasons for the Great Depression of 1930s.

The ideas of Laissez-faire economics should have died in 1930. It is part of the Government's job to prevent such depressions from occurring ever again.
I wasn't suggesting any particular solution -- and I share your pessimism regarding top-down regulatory approaches. I was really just trying to explore how and why we might imagine the market was failing here.
"a lesser peer to me"

classy as fuck, pal
Oh nice! That's a cool feature.
Still, I think Bitcoin provides much more value than any altcoin.

true, but expect Gox to introduce ltc soon, and then probably Coinbase and BTC China. The debate will shift from is bitcoin needed/useful to are altcoins needed/useful? Interesting times ahead. The $10,000,000 per bitcoin notion will be gradually diffused into other coins, and there'll be winners and losers, and it'll get ugly as blockchains are attacked, pump and dumps, powerful people takes sides, and misinformation put out. Bitpay and the Winklevoss' have already stood by bitcoin (at least publically.)
I've been watching OrientDB from a distance for a couple years now. It remains incredibly interesting, and I want so badly to give it a real shot. Unfortunately, I don't [currently] have spare cycles to get into it.

I'm still waiting to hear about a large project with fairly significant scaling needs go on to sing the praises of OrientDb. Unfortunately I don't have the time or resources to become said project.
What is non-idiomatic about it?
That's not true because the spec for JS allows the trailing comma. IE is the only browser that doesn't follow this. So if you are doing Node dev, the trailing comma is harmless.
I didn't read it deeply but what stands out to you as particularly non-idiomatic? It looked mostly ok to me.
"Lean in" in my mind is about playing the bullshit political games. Your twenty-something male co-workers? They have the same insecurities and reservations as you do. But the system works better for them because the people at the top are more often than not men. So the only way women are going to be able to re-shape the system in a way that works better for women is to put up with the obnoxious bullshit politics for a while.

I'm not saying that I agree with her; and tech is far worse than most other industries about being male-dominated. Really, the bullshit workaholic culture at many companies is the root of the problem, but it's something that varies on a company-by-company basis.
How We Moved Our Data Center 25 Miles Without Downtime (2012)
http://superuser.com/questions/16893/do-usb-or-ps-2-keyboard...

PS/2 keyboards observationally are known to have a bit less latency. Since there are a ton of variables at play (keyboard controller, USB poll rate, PS/2 interrupt queuing, etc.) it's hard to evaluate just how much the difference will be with any given setup.
Blackberries from that era were very responsive. The web browser sucked, of course.
This reminds me of Microsoft Points et al which I find incredibly annoying. It's much friendlier to ask me to pay for things in the currency I use for everything else in my life.
>...more fluid-feeling.

I don't know what this means, and have yet to experience it. The only difference I've noticed between a capacitive iPhone and a resistive N900 is that my touches frequently don't register at all on the iPhone.
nearly 2 years old, when it was posted on HN it didn't get many votes and got 0 comments. I guess it never made it to the front page but I find it impressing, inspiring and very relevant 2 years later.
Technology is watching you
So much for "above the fold."
I really disagree with this. For your first hire, a full time sysadmin who cannot work on developing the product itself is just as useless as hiring a developer who cannot ship the code.

I think what this article is trying to get at is that your fire hire should be a full-stack engineer who can also play the DevOps role when needed.
"Steam Operations" did not have a chance to have a good Father-Son conversation with "Steam Engineering" yet.

Don't worry... it will come.
Requesting a refund and getting a refund closes the job as not completed, without the ability to leave feedback. The only way to leave feedback is to pay them either full amount or at least for 1 milestone.
So based on those off the self component whats the total value of the box? about 1000$?
Beyonce's latest release on iTunes sold over 1 million copies in less than a week at a very premium $15.99 a pop [1]. And there's no need to pirate it, as videos of her best songs are already heading to VEVO/YouTube now [2]. It's a win-win, and Spotify's not a huge part of that story.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101283857

[2] http://www.vevo.com/watch/beyonce/drunk-in-love-explicit/USS...
4 Ways To Get Better Sleep
PMP certifications were established in 1984[1], and while I don't think the certification itself is nearly as abused as "Certified ScrumMaster", PMI and Six-Sigma are definitely touted as panacea, especially in the enterprise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Institute
Cortex-M0 is often cheaper in volume than the 8-bit stalwarts, so why not?
I'm also going to have to disagree with this one. There are plenty of frameworks (Ruby on Rails) and companies (Engine Yard, Heroku) that take care of these issues for you on a time-share basis (ie. 20 companies use them, they hire 5 sysadmins). I would say if you're not spending 7 figures on server costs a year you absolutely do not need a personal sysadmin.
>We're set to soon see growth of physical sales eclipse the contraction of physical sales completely. Which means the graph, if expanded a bit, might look like this: It goes up a little bit!

I don't understand. To me, the change in physical sales appears to be asymptotically approaching 0. Why assume it suddenly goes positive and then use that guess to make Spotify look deceptive?

>Spotify is playing a little fast and loose here, though. A Spotify Premium user isn't the average music fan. Only 25% of Spotify's active user base pays for the Premium service. .. A fairer comparison might have been the average U.S. citizen against the average Spotify user, since both include people not really paying for music.

No, they're not. They're comparing paying Spotify customers to US paying listeners. If you think comparing nonpaying to nonpaying is reasonable, paying to paying should be reasonable too.

>In a year, Spotify makes about $14.67 per advertising-supported user [2], but those folks if considered just typical Americans would spend $25 on average [3]. That's just over $10 per year lost for each cannibalized person.

Why assume those people aren't buying music also?
I read this one a few months back & felt, like most programmers, that it was an awesome article, but I would forget all of it unless I rewrote everything from scratch all by myself :) So here's my rewrite in Scala - its not realtime, but still takes only 4 minutes on my laptop for a typical weekly dataset, so you can put it on a cron schedule & get a trending topics with a 5 min delay. Ofcourse, no storm, no hadoop etc. just a plain old scala program anybody can run on their laptop. http://bit.ly/J82szS
Bitorca: Code for bitcoin
I really feel like game development is the ideal space for Rust to carve out a name for itself, and going after GPU support is a great place to focus.
Your first hire should be the person who fills in the missing gaps in your product.

For example, good product, code is done, bad design => hire designer.
Why price gouging is rare, even though economists, libertarians and other sociopaths love it:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/29/163861383/why-econ...

tl;dr normal people with functioning empathy consider it grossly antisocial and won't put up with that shit. If Uber wants itself regulated to hell, then the CEO just needs to carry on in this style.
If you put an LED, resistor, and MOSFET in series and then attach the gate to a wire, you can often switch the LED on and off by waving your hand around the wire. If you have an oscilloscope, hook it up to the resistor and see if you can find a position of your hand that will switch the transistor at 60hz :-)
That theory never made sense since Schmidt joined the board only 3 months before the official Apple unveiling in January: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/08/29Google-CEO-Dr-Eric...
While we're swapping war stories and tall tales, here is the chronicle of my hardest bug:

http://www.evanmiller.org/winkel-tripel-warping-trouble.html
Another very interesting bug was the Case of The 500-Mile Email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Mirror: https://gist.github.com/sergiotapia/d60b5866a61fd0ae8c9c
I've seen a lot of cowboy coders get projects done. (I've probably been one for a good deal of my career.) Can you say that with a straight face about adherents of more rigorous development methodologies?

The real problem with cowboy coding is getting to version 2 (or maybe 1.1). But it should be stated that at least if you've got a successful version 1 you have most of a solid design to start with.

Interestingly, most development methodologies seem to be mainly concerned with getting to version 1 and not with producing a maintainable product or getting a successful but unmaintainable version 1 and evolving it into a maintainable version 3 (say).

The obvious exception is the Software Process Maturity Model or whatever the frack it's called today, which is enormously concerned with maintainability to the point of making initial development (or indeed almost anything outside of pure engineering environments) virtually impossible.
The marketing and sales copy is horrendous.

> Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS, a truly open and distinct mobile operating system. Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user interface and load the phone with top Android™ apps.

That's pretty much it. Bland, uncompelling, and unemotional. It's a poorly positioned phone that isn't cool -- but it could be with decent marketing and a great sales pitch. Way back when, if Apple had marketed the iPhone with this pitch, there'd be no iPhone today.

There's a lesson here: prospects don't know or care about you unless you make them. I have no idea who these people are, why I should care about them, or why this product will make me feel good or alleviate some pain in some way.
Because Go pretends to be in the same space as Rust even though nobody actually uses it that way.
they didn't even open up to 3rd party developers until the release of the 3G - over a year later (Jan 2007 - Jul 2008).
All the card terminals at my Target's registers have chip slots in addition to swipe readers. Haven't seen those at any other US store I visit.
I had the same problems with my previous Motorola defy. Then I switched to BlackBerry 10 and I'm happy with that. I'll try Jolla for sure as soon as possible, but I suggest you trying the blackberry z10 (that is priced at ~250E now) if you are interested in something different and more polished.
Just my 2 cents
I remember a friend of mine that I and all our friends tried to help figuring out why two lines of c code never worked when running, but always worked when debugging.

It was a simple while loop and it took as I remember two weeks to spot the mistake, a missing = 0 in the

while (int c; c < x; c++)

The debugger initialized all memory to zero so it never failed when debugging :)
I don't think you should hire a sysadmin until you have a larger set of developers. Still, I think there's a good point here: you should think about deployment early on. Having things automated will allow your early team to spend more time writing features and less time fighting fires and hacking production configurations.
So why would you want to use it? What is the point of saying irregardless vis-a-vis irrespective or regardless?
uh... i do lots of "very high end specialized finance systems" for the EU, and their laws specifically prohibit hosting servers in the US. even if the servers are located in EU, i'm not allowed to connect to them directly from the US to set them up, so i had to go over there once to set them up, and then later i just screen shared with an admin there (barcelona) and took over the keyboard and mouse on his computer to do updates.

so either you're lying, your friend is lying, or they are breaking EU law.
I wondered what Sooner was like, closest I could find:

http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-ve...

There is also a video, pretty similar device.
When you say "bought a house", you mean "bought a historic mansion", then left it to rot while he lived somewhere else. It rotted to the point where it was eventually torn down.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Steve-Jobs-historic-Wo...
My Hardest Kick (dolflundgren.com)
The Mind of a VC (from Prophecy Sciences, YC W13)
I predict inflation will be a problem with BI because: currency units are a representation of value, forced redistribution stretches that representation to include a distinct lack of value (wasn't earned), ergo the value represented by that currency unit decreases - to wit, inflation.

Price controls are inevitable because as more people live on free money (no need to work if you just opt for frugality), basic prices will rise because demand rises against supply, causing political pressures to keep those prices down by fiat.

Try understanding someone's reasoning before insulting it.
It's not just the tight fit, it's that without knowing/remembering the proper cable routing you might not be able to get everything to fit back in the case after taking it apart.
Steve doesn't get enough credit with many HN types. He was also the spark that launched the multi-billion dollar mobile industry. Samsung, Google, etc now all aggressively compete with huge resources. Hopefully, Elon will do the same with the electric car and rockets. If Elon, is successful enough with electric cars, for example, then others will follow, and more resources will be thrown at the problem.
??? where did "f2py" come from in this list?