skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a billion dollar enterprise with Hadoop
Do you have any idea of what set we should use to replace them with? The rational numbers can do a lot, but we have discovered that there are numbers worth talking about (and which can be described) that are not rational. Whatever replacement you propose must be usable where ever we would use real numbers, and must be at least as simple to use.
If I understand this correctly, this is running periodically on someone's Macbook; people are complaining that's a terrible platform for a benchmark.

It should be possible (if you care enough) to re-run this from the source control history on platforms of your choosing, across whatever date ranges you wish. Anyone really, really care enough?
It's technically illegal here, we just choose, as a society, not to enforce it. It's called "gedoogbeleid", which google translates as "tolerance".
Youtube-dl - Supported sites
The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKIcaejkpD4
A thousand times this. When did it become wrong to bring up issues with the persons involved? This is one of the things I have noticed as a growing personality traits largely in the younger generation, where all conflict is avoided through passing all responsibility up to whichever higher authority is around. So we have given the authorities the power to create systems like this and still haven't realized that sometimes, when that person who you have an issue with, is prone to violence, lies, and numerous other skullduggeries, you have to walk into that confrontation either armed yourself or with some visible external backing. I would venture to say our police state national security apparatus is quickly falling under this category.
The Economist sure are not too concerned about proper SEO (and probably don't need to be) - for an article titled "The Economist’s country of the year", the URL is "resilient-ireland-booming-south-sudan-tumultuous-turkey-our-country-year-earths-got".
I like a solid 60fps. Any time I see a dropped frames, or lagginess in a big scene, I pop into the graphics options and start cutting away fidelity until I get back to smoothness.

This is where Nvidia G-Sync technology will come in handily. It will allow a game to run at a variable frame rate without the graphics card being forced to send repeated frames so that the monitor can maintain 60hz. Instead, every frame rendered will be sent to the monitor as soon as it's available and the monitor will display it right away.

This will be doubly crucial for 4K displays, as otherwise it'll require far too much performance to maintain 60hz.
Amazon’s holiday success and UPS’ holiday fail
I'm a card-carrying member of the National Motorists Association so I totally get the idea of maintaining a free-flowing thoroughfare but this seems ridiculous. The law should be amended thusly:

- if (person.isCrossingWithoutSignal) officer.cite(person, fine=$197.00);
+ if (person.isCrossingWithoutSignal && nearbyTraffic.isImpededBy(person)) officer.cite(person, fine=$30.00);
Patents and copyrights are more different than similar. Copyrights provide immediate protection with almost no up-front cost, and apply almost invariably to cases where people have deliberately and overtly derived value from your work.

A small business attempting to make use of the patent system can expect to spend many tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of waiting 5-7 years for the issuance of a document that entitles them to wait 2-5 years for the privilege of a hearing in court which only has a chance of being remunerative if the counterparty is a gigantic tech company that can afford to bury you in legal costs.

Aside from all this, flip a coin: heads you're in the "right" and have a "case", tails your patent claims are insufficient to keep anyone from realizing value from the idea underlying your patent: you lose, and we all breathe a sigh of relief.

Patents make sense for some industries, where inventions are clear (or at least justiciable) and product lifecycles are measured in half-decades. But they are decidedly unuseful for software entrepreneurs.

Patents are a pox on the software industry.

(I have a few, from earlier in my career; I've never been the one paying for them).
So then you need to write a virus to infect people's machines with this useful software. Plausible deniability for the end users.
Then why not better train, screen, and pay the parole officers?

Think about the candidate pool. Who would be willing to go and take that kind of job? I would expect a certain bias towards what the parent posting has described. Independent observation and openness, in my opinion, would be much more effective.
Interesting project. Still, if you end up with a document that is this rich - wouldn't the smalltalk/self approach be better? As I understand it, if you work in the "lamdu" realm, you've already departed the notion of programs as text files that are "lifted" into code and data (objects) by the compiler/interpreter system - and you still don't have real interaction with your smart data (you cant drag the scales of a graph, or have a live preview of animation to see what framerate would be best etc - saving the changes back into your vm image/document)?
Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff: Microsoft's Next CEO?
Ask HN: Should I use Wordpress to power the front end of my Rails web app?
My webapp (a loyalty app for ecommerce) is being built in Rails. Currently the marketing site/frontend is also built in rails. My partner who is a marketing expert, is suggesting that we move the frontend to wordpress since WP has a bunch of marketing plugins.

However, moving the frontend away from rails is going to require integrations between wordpress and the rails backend, which is creating a layer of complexity and management overhead.

Im interested in learning what others have done with their webapp's frontend/marketing site?

1. Is it in the same platform as your backend?

2. Did you move it to a different platform such as wordpress? What kind of challenges did you have?

EDIT: Here are some reasons that my mktg partner is suggesting wordpress for frontend:

1. Built in blogging

2. PLugins for Integration with email marketing

3. Plugins for Integration with sales-funnel and AB testing

4. Plugins for social media marketing
Garrett Johnson co-founded SendHub.
Unless the said invention carefully distinguishes a programming editor and a human language editor, the invention may still overlap on grounds of novelty. If the said invention does carefully distinguishes the two, the invention would still be questionable on grounds of obviousness unless it explains the key difficulties involved in migrating from programming languages to human languages and the invention claims a solution to that problem. I think the latter is unlikely.

Note: IANAL, and haven't read the claims of the said invention.
"Points on the line" is fine for
the first, second, ..., tenth cut at a
definition. Sure, completeness
is the biggie for the reals compared
with the rationals, algebraics, etc.

Still, as in the OP, mentioning Dedekind cuts
is okay since it is one way to establish
completeness, but there is much more,
e.g., as in

John C. Oxtoby,
Measure and Category.

and even that doesn't fathom all that
is special about the reals. E.g.,
for just a little more, there is
the continuum hypothesis, that little
thing!

The OP wants to say that by mentioning
Dedekind and completeness he is getting
at what the reals really are; no,
instead he is just cutting one layer
deeper of something that has
likely some infinitely many layers
available.

Yes, yes, yes, I know; I know;
the reals are the only complete,
Archimedean ordered field, okay, after
we have defined completeness,
Archimedean ordered, and field and
explained why these are important.

So, back to "points on the line" --
it's actually pretty good for a first
cut.
A RaspberryPi/PiFace-based Trivia game

https://github.com/SandyWalsh/trivia-box/tree/master/pi

https://twitter.com/TheSandyWalsh/status/415600847184465920/...
>> As several recent studies have shown, people in their 20s are turning against cars.

That is such a misleading statistic. Of course young people are moving to the city centers, but what happens when they're in their 30s and with kids? Back to suburbia again because the going rate for 2 bedrooms in NYC is insane... People as a whole aren't ditching suburbia yet.
> Startup time is slow because it needs to warm up the JIT.

Question (I'll end up simultaneously googling...): if the code doesn't change between restarts, is there a way one can preserve JIT statistics, so the JVM doesn't have to rediscover hotspots? Like an RDBMS able to load custom statistics for its plan engine.
Hmm. He makes no mention of what crime he was convicted of, and expresses no remorse, either. Although he does seem to be feeling regret (which I think is an appropriate function of prison), he sees himself as being a victim -- no other victim is referred to. It seems he's proud of his murdering, home-invading comrades.

This is certainly a testament to the failure of prisons (at least in his case). The education he needs is not in Agile, but in how to be a decent human being. He has learned nothing in that category.

What a horrible guy.
I loathed limit-based calculus in High School and College. Later I read Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html and it all came clear in a fraction of the pages. It's infuriating that most math curricula won't drop those old, bloated, overly formal calculus tomes to improve the clarity and effectiveness of the instruction method.
that's funny, because i'm a scientist and I don't like him at all; to me he seems to use science as a source of authority and power, which is antithetical to the entire philosophy of science.
I don't know of any company (mine included) that uses Oracle because they want to. I always hear talk about reducing our dependency on Oracle at the same time we're moving more and more mission-critical and high-performance applications to RAC and Solaris.
You know how that say "If you don't stand for something you`ll fall for everything"? Well, that's just how I see it myself. Inaction is an action within itself. IMO, providing indiscriminate protection is not a vote for "freedom of speech", it's a vote against basic sense of morality.
Case in point: http://www.bullyville.com/?page=articles&id=651
Protecting an under age revenge porn site that hurts young adults, scaring them for live, is not a freedom of speech issue. There should be a some balance between morality and bullheaded ideology and it's called "basic sense of decency". Social awareness begins with recognizing the suffering of the victim - not with defending the rights of the villains.
hm. I guess I'm not ready to switch to jruby.
Mountain View is pretty bike-friendly, and even won some sort of award for being so. (According to some sign I saw while biking in Mountain View.)

It's no Portland, but drivers seem pretty attentive. Of course, I bet the average Mountain View startup founder owns a car.
I'd wager that it's the TB/Undertow code running most of the time on that benchmark. On real-world benchmarks the difference is going to be a lot smaller. Not saying that you shouldn't run your JRuby apps on Torquebox - it's a great choice.
You literally don't know shit about him or his situation. I honestly feel bad for you; there's no point in being hostile about somebody's character based on a short synopsis of somebody else's jail time.
Ask HN: wishlist app idea
Hey guys,

Over the holidays my wife and I have been feeling the need to have a webapp where you could enter all the goodies you'd want for xmas/your birthday/etc from different sources (amazon, ebay, etc) and then send a link to your wish-list to your friends and family, so they could claim the gifts and buy them for you.

Ideally you could create several named lists (one for your bday, one for xmas, etc).

Seems like it could be a fun little open source side project.

What do you guys think?
My current boss fits this mold, he has a development background, and I don't know if he can code or not, but when it comes to technical and/or architectural concerns, he 'gets' it, and he's a presenting, selling, webinar fiend. He frequently impresses the hell out of me by simplifying complex requirements down to the basics and saying 'if you guys can get me this subset, that will satisfy most of the costomers/prospects' or 'all I need is this simple subset for most of the reporting requirements'. This dude is Gold.
Apple Is Granted Hover & Heart-Rate Monitoring Patents
Same here, in Firefox the instructions disappeared on load. Had to experiment to see what it did. Cool otherwise.
I was expecting to read that a new round of lawsuits had been filed as it seems that is the only way these big companies "compete" these days. At least they are trying to compete on an actual product instead of just suing using a bunch of patents they bought for that purpose. Of course if competing fails, you can expect the lawsuits to follow...
Because the outcome can be different on the person filing a claim. I am sure that in the majority of the world a daughter of rich businessmen/politician/high ranking police officer will get a lot different treatment and have her taken seriously by the the police while reporting sexual assault than some poor girl from the ghettos or working poor background. (I really really hope that I am wrong in that assumption)
There is often a countdown timer as well, and the article implies that was so in this case. Since the timer has to be set to accommodate the slowest pedestrians, the majority of walkers will in fact be able to safely cross even when commencing after the flashing/countdown has started. A reasonable adult can certainly gauge whether the remaining time is sufficient to complete the crossing.

Note that for autos, the equivalent is the yellow lamp in a stoplight and in that case the rule is that the vehicle must have entered the intersection before the lamp turns red. So LA seems to have standards that are paradoxically more stringent for pedestrians.
- I like it. Im more interested in the design and execution.
Video of the conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8tXyfjfnB0

Really nice presentation, as always!
[cite Atwood's Law][0]

[0]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
I rather think this is an America phenomenon where they actually banned words from public media like I never seen it in other developed countries. [1] Nobody here has a problem with vile language as long as it isn't within a children's program. It would be strange in professional ambience like news or classic radio, but that's all. If there is a beeping sound, then just because they are dubbing an English movie or anonymize some names or trying to look more interesting by self-censoring their bullshit program.

Seriously, words like "shit" or "penis" aren't offensive at all these days. Other are just collegial and unprofessional. For someone from Europe this really looks like needless uptightness. It's like a kid isn't even allowed to see her naked mother.

Also, from some educative point of view, I think it's likely the worst solution to simply conceal them from your kids. As a parent you could easily explain their meaning, that it might be rude for some etc. Actually, the important point is to be reflective when learning those words. Those rather simple words are not like showing hardcode porn to children. I don't wanna say that you couldn't be verbally offensive, but that's not the point here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
Yes you are definitely "underestimating the amount of self-imposed race-based limiting factors;"...It is true for many kids not just African Americans, seeing people you can identify with even if just superficially can influence how you view certain careers/professions.
How Much Carbon Does It Take To Keep Ben Bernanke Alive?
this is kind of a nonsense, circular definition: what is a line? A set of points that can be mapped onto the reals. The more meaty answer is down below, with dedekind cuts (although "a set that fulfills the arithmetic axioms and least upper bounds" is also sufficient).
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57615107-94/ubuntu-touch-os...

It's not clear to me why they'd want to keep the manufacturer secret.
I've been using emacs for a while (after vim for 6, 7... 8 years?) and have recently been looking at evil. I can't seem to find any really comprehensive tutorials for Evil mode, though I haven't put a lot of work towards it.
Will all the talk of Lean Startup, something about it just doesn't sit right with me. Maybe it's the obsession with metrics, or maybe it's about people's obsession with the "recipe for success".

I've had this conversation with some close friends who were hellbent on build, measure, learn like it was some math formula that would make your startup work. I work on feeling. There are a lot of times the numbers don't line up right away but I know it's not time to give up. (In all honesty, I am not well versed in the art of giving up at the right time)

Bottom line is, a lot of times new theories appear to be a panacea but they're far from it. Even good ones. If startups really were that formulaic, then you could replace the people with bots at some point, which I hope won't be happening anytime soon. (or maybe there's an analytics startup there, which sends you a text message to "Pivot Now")
Microsoft Surface ad - Change?
Of course, Sun had its own Cloud offering pre-aquisition (SunGrid). Though it didn't seem to be particularly successful / popular at the time (I had a journalist reach out to me to ask if I actually knew of anyone using it at the time of the merger).

Many of the staff and execs left shortly after -- Lew Tucker in particular, February, 2010.
The funny thing about this is that rap genius is the most user friendly site and it should be out ranking all of the other spam lyric sites.
Usually if you hit the "link" button above their comment, it will take you to a comment box.
I'm curious about this too, because once the visa is up do they have to go back? How hard is it to get a permanent or semi-permanent status? I'm assuming an H1 B or similar would not apply here since the founders would be immigrants..
Based on observations driving around my city for the last 10 years or so... yes. Occasionally you'll even run into people who don't bother stopping at stop signs if they're turning, and god help you if the light is out. You'll sometimes also run into people who think that so long as they've stopped at the sign and at least one other person has gone then they have right of way no matter if there were others already waiting when they got there.
When's the last time you took a driving test of any sort (assuming you live in the US)? I've lived in WA for 13 years. I took the "written" (scare quotes because it was computerized) test to get my WA license when I moved here, and took the eye "exam" (scare quotes because how bad would your eyes have to be to fail?). In the 13 years since, I've had my eyes tested exactly once at the DMV. No written tests since, so I could forget or misremember a lot in those 13 years.

The last time anyone has tested my abilities behind the wheel can be measured in decades. It's a wonder we're not plowing into each other more often.
I look forward to articles like this that try to dive into why certain visual design decisions were made. For next time, I think this article would have benefited from more pictures to explain what you explained in words. For example, I think all of these pieces would have been better explained by a picture instead:

> For those first few days when the context is empty, we decided the tooltip would say Chartbeat is still learning about your site.

> When a value is above or below that mean by a certain multiple of the standard deviation, we label it as good or bad.

> Now that we know what state a certain metric is in we can adapt the rest of the dashboard based on that new information. For example when a site’s average click-through rate (Chartbeat’s real-time version is called recirculation) is low we point out which articles are responsible for that.

> When you hover over the metric suggested actions will appear.

Trying to describe any of those with words only makes it very hard to figure out what the actual visual design decisions were, and instead made me just start skimming.

And then the other thing I wish this article had was more of the decisions that led to the final design. You hint at having tried a lot of different variations, but they don't get displayed at all, which is a shame because that's where the real learning process is (for you and the reader).

Anyways, cool take on displaying just enough information to convey the right message without overloading the page!
> Westside a bit chilly... Hollywood to Downtown perfect, best weather in the world

Do you exercise outdoors? Would you seriously prefer to run at Griffith Park rather than on The Strand?

When I lived in LA, everyone who preferred the weather east of the 405 didn't exercise outdoors (if at all). They would ask, "Isn't the weather beautiful today?" after walking for less than 30 seconds from their air conditioned car to our air conditioned office.

(I've long since moved from LA to the Pacific Northwest, where I can work up a comfortable sweat hiking Mount Rainier.)
- I think NewMe Accelerator will be a better option. Here is their link ~> http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/ . It is like the YC for African American people. There's alot that you'll find.
Not exactly what you are requesting, but related:

http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=110660

This is enough to make the concept of highlighting a syntactical unit a prior art (assuming the date on the said invention is not older), and the invention may now at best claim a method of solving this. The latter would barely be an invention on grounds of obviousness.

Note: IANAL, and haven't read the claims of the said invention.
imaginary numbers are also a horribly misnamed fiction. For decades, my dad was mesmerised by how if you plugged in a bigger than c value into the lorentz transformations (he had long since forgotten the form of the transformation) you would become "imaginary". To set him straight, I asked him, if instead we named them "Green" numbers, would you become "green" if you went faster than the speed of light?
Show HN: Releasy is a semver CLI tool to release versions
Oracle isn't in any trouble, clearly. Their biggest problem appears to be figuring out how to spend the $39 billion in their bank account, while they print another $11b per year.

They have the financial resources of Google, dwarfing Amazon in that regard. I don't think any of this will be decided by who has large data centers - that's a commodity that can be acquired at will when you're talking about companies with tens of billions in the bank. This will all come down to execution.
A handful of YC participants have mentioned they came on O-1 visas, which are for "extraordinary ability". But for that one, you have to prove that you are already a prominent person in your field to qualify (have published influential papers, have won major awards, have been invited to selective panels/membership bodies in your field, etc.).
> I can't imagine them having the education for any kind of gainful employment when they get out.

Has this ever been the goal of the justice system in the United States? It seems to me that the primary function is purely punitive and expends very little effort to rehabilitate anyone.
If 'backed by goods' == 'can be tracked to something that this money unit has been exchanged for' - OK, I understand that. Now, why is this definition not applicable to bitcoin? BTC also can be exchanged for goods and can be traced back to some good or service (with great precision thanks to the public block chain).

By the way, normally it is not government, but banks (private corporations) who 'push FUTURE money' into the system in a form of credit. Same can happen in BTC economy.

I still fail to see how BTC is fundamentally different from any other currency.