skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not 'as crowded', but it's actually grown quite a lot recently with decent app alternatives, so there's not as much available as there used to be, but it's still better in terms of app vs phone quantity.
70% of the time it works all the time? We haven't yet gotten the logs so we don't know what happened, but we take this stuff very seriously. At the end of the day we're a backup company, it's a serious business and even though we try to have fun and be entertaining with these blog posts and stats, our core job is to ensure folks don't lose data.
It seems like it would be difficult to extract useful algorithms from an existing codebase. And the OCD/minimalist in me wants my github to only have useful projects on them.
Hey, yeah I agree with you that as developers it matters. Sorry, my post was influenced by another discussion recently about this topic; I was looking at it from a consumer perspective.

Now there are some arguments to be made as to why consumers would care as well, but in my experience those arguments might hold true for people like us on HN but not for your average commenter on The Verge (for example).
So then show us so we can take your conclusions seriously.
You're entitled to your opinion. Not fabricating facts.

Your statements and views exhibit a gross misunderstanding of resources, potential, complexity, and systems dynamics.
It's a language designer's language--just like jazz is often musician's music :).

Haskell serves as both a vessel and a showcase for PL research. It also has very close ties to a bunch of communities, including many of the people behind Microsoft's languages (VB.NET, C# and F#).

Also, while Haskell does not have a broad presence in industry, it does have a reasonable amount of mindshare. A surprising number of people know and talk about Haskell, even if they've never used it. This also helps influence the design of other languages.
1. Their regional data centers
2. CDN (if they providing) more closer to residential customers.
3. :), preferred streaming compare to netflix

EDIT: Found spec link
http://beta.cloud.verizon.com/cloud-compute/compute-specific...
For me, Unibox is incredible. Hard to believe I ever used email any other way.
What's wrong with this? Google gave what you wanted to know, right?
Could just be me, but the animation on the Share button feels like it takes a really long time which is making my OCD cringe.
Why Verbal Tee-Ups Like 'To Be Honest' Are a Signal of Insincerity
A little "less" in "relentless"
It pays to check these things before making a big commitment. Reminds me of a girl I know who decided to change her first name by deed pole. She changed her name to Pheonix rather than Phoenix.
I think bitcoin is like any other commodity. People may indeed flock to it, but the relative stability of the current system is what makes it great -- can can predict with some level of certainty what $1 will be worth in say 10 years.

That's important because it makes longer term capitalization of things like homes possible. If the world was still using gold or BTC as currency, lending would be like it was in the gold era as well -- things like 30 year mortgages that make homes affordable would not exist.

As far as crises go, 2008 was a painful market contraction, but not a panic. Contrast an event like the Panic of 1907, when banks collapsed and many people lost life savings, mostly due to a shortage of short term cash. The nation averted disaster becuase JP Morgan happened to be in town and had enough money and clout to intervene.

In 2008, the Fed pumped money into the markets to allow banks to stay solvent. FDIC made depositors at the few failed banks whole. Thanks to the corrupt perversion of the banking regulations, the "too big to fail" banks required even more extraordinary aid. People were hurt and lost money -- but they did so because their assets lost value, not because their bank went out of business.

Our monetary system isn't perfect by far. But it's much better than the old style gold standards that BTC is reminiscent of.
Didn't think of that! Thanks.
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Hadn't really looked into Arduino until now. Thanks, this looks like it might turn into an interesting summer project for me and my son.
who's gonna pay in bitcoin when they can do it in shitty soon-to-devaluate pesos?
Silly question: while I love promises as a way of avoiding callback hell when dealing with an all-async-all-the-time language and standard library, does Node give you actual concurrency/parallelism (compare and contrast with Go, or Erlang)? Or is it just the (admittedly still very powerful and useful) async setup that matters? If so, why?
One thing his hacking did accomplish was to generate leads/dates without him having to concoct tailored messages manually. I can see how that could be too much of a burden for many. OP managed to replace that psychological barrier with numbers and algorithm (with which he was much more comfortable) and got to the same end result.

IMO that's something worth pondering. We're all good/bad at different things, while the world typically sets us up with one "standard" way of going about things. Establishing secondary, albeit less efficient routes, may be a lifesaver for many.

(apologies for the rather abstract writeup)
It's really annoying to find out that drive went dead in few months and then it happens with the replacement drives too. Especially on laptops with only one drive. Of course backups allow you to restore key data but you'll still have to setup the system. I got series of three Seagate failures and got really tired of it. Of course all non important data wasn't backed up do it was an extra annoyance.
Google's Music Timeline
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/googles-music-timeline.html
GF is not necessarily a good marketing buzzword as most gluten-free products are more dangerous to the general population in general. For example, gluten starch is replaced with tapioca, rice, and potato starches, which have higher GI, i.e. they increase your diabetes risk.
What happens with the Argentine economy is that everybody who actually kept it afloat (not the corrupt politicians, crony CKD assemblers passing as "industry" or the masses of unskilled and unemployable public employees who can make or break an election) just plain gave up

This is very difficult to explain to people in developed countries, but what you have to understand first and foremost is that in Argentina there is no "plan" at all, is a country in a permanent state of improvisation, and because of that you have things like this which are literally implemented overnight with no warning let alone debating about it, you know like democracies are supposed to do...

Because of crap like this many Argentines give up and either live off savings or just leave. And really, with an effective tax-rate of over 60% with virtually no rebates and a VAT/sales tax in the mid 20s you reach a point where your income no matter what you do is lower than your expenses, so why keep going? you are actually acquiring DEBT in order to WORK.

The current dolar reserve crisis is being handled in such a stupid sloppy manner that is difficult to explain, because it makes no sense whatsoever. For example the government wont let you buy or sell any foreign currency, but it subsidizes every operation in foreign currency at between 40% and 50% lower than real value. The excuse is to avoid an inflationary spiral but it actually created one, and destroyed the reserves of the central bank.
Fighting fires with the help of Google Glass
That looks really cool, but maybe a little ambitious? I don't know what Apple's restrictions are for iOS apps these days, but last time I was in the iOS game, they didn't allow anything that wasn't written directly in ObjC or C.
I live in Vietnam. Windows phone is certainly popular here, but I believe (relying on my own biased observations) that iPhone is vastly more popular. While iPhones are sold by official vendors, it's far more popular to buy "hand carry" phones that are imported by individuals. Of the ~10 people I know with iPhones, all are hand carried. They are cheaper than the official vendors (and not recognized in the IDC report).
Yeah. I.... Yeah. I'm so sorry.
Have you found a decent way to use Unibox with folders and/or labels? Or do you just not use them?
Ok, I know there is a smiley at the end of that. But I also think that a lot if non-Europeans take that half serious. "In the end, nobody's happy" in Europe just isn't true. :)

http://unsdsn.org/happiness/

The report identifies the countries with the highest levels of happiness:

1.Denmark
2.Norway
3.Switzerland
4.Netherlands
5.Sweden
Add UP to that and I'm in. They've got an open API now, I believe.
This also applies to Python. For example, Python recently disabled SSLv2. Someone filed a bug and the fix was committed within 3 hours. http://bugs.python.org/issue20207
These days a cheap way to get attention seems to be to Hadoop'ize a well known but expensive operation. "Bogo-sort too slow ? no worries, we will run it on the cloud." These approaches are buzzword compatible. They keep the marketing guys happy. Managers do not get fired for embracing the cloud/Hadoop, even if it is done in a grossly inefficient way.

I realize I bring unwelcome rain, but the post really begs the question if using R here is the best use of resources: technological and human
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Well, it matters for consumers too - ecosystem familiarity and lock-in is a big deal. If I buy a bunch of apps in one ecosystem, I have a sunk cost that's going to keep me in that ecosystem. Another ecosystem gaining dominance might mean any number of things as to how I use the device.

Consider, for example, if Chile becomes dominated by the Windows Phone. All your good useful local apps - your local versions of Yelps, Zagats, OpenTables, etc - are going to go Windows Phone first. The services that matter most in the community you're in are going to go where the marketshare is - and as an iPhone user, you might be left waiting to catch up.
Elena Kagan Invites Siri Out for Coffee on Occasion
A Dominion Simulator in Haskell
Bitcoin, assuming I'd does as well as before, can help against the inflation, which hits the poor disproportionately hard.

And it allows to bypass the stupid laws and let's you do the online shopping almost anonymously.
People do not live for millennia.

Like, you do realize that no one in the history of mankind has a use for something which "stores value" for millennia right?

And that timescale is so ridiculously huge that gold, silver and everything else does inflate away. We might be a type II Kardashev civilization in 1000 years. The volume of gold available will be absurdly large by then either way.
IIRC, V8 is the fastest engine for scripting languages out there, with perhaps the exception of LuaJIT and PyPy, but I'm unsure about those two. If you just compare it to canonical scripting language implementations then yeah, it's definitely faster -- some of that is down to the really advanced JIT, some of it is down to the async-everywhere design and culture.
i'm only modestly talented when it comes to design and layout, but i feel strongly enough about this to make a suggestion: cover this thing in more ads.
It was DHS as it turns out (has been confirmed officially).
HN readers often give insight that is beyond what a simple Google search will give you. Hence the existence of "Ask HN".
Phrases that Predict Success on Kickstarter
Fair point. My thought process went that perhaps they do have junior positions but I saw an advertisement for something more senior, that said I do not have more than a few weeks experience in applying for webdev positions and evidence is better than reasoning from ignorance.
Your messages sound really stilted and like you're really nervous. They jump from one random topic to the next, without actually showing anything uniquely you.

> But, well, I own a 5 foot long remote controlled floating dolphin. I gave up on being 100% sane long ago. Technically I am sane, but I do enjoy having fun toying around with things. I also drive a bright orange car!

What this says: I own toys, you should know about them! Also, I think I'm "crazy!" And I have an awesome car, look at my success!

It makes you sound kind of like you're filling your life with things because you've been socially rejected. If that whole block of indented text was your entire first message, then it's incredibly rambly and full of similar flags.

One of my most successful stream of messages went something like this: noticing that my potential date lived in Cambridge, I asked if they had explored the area (they said they were adventurous in their profile). When they responded with "Yeah, I've found some cool stuff", I then asked if they'd found the secret staircase that led to the lair of angry geese on the river?

This establishes both that 1. I've actually read their profile, and 2. I have some knowledge they would be interested in, and that they can share in.

Here's how I'd rephrase your second message:

I noticed from your profile that you enjoy a good cup of tea. Do you make your own, or have you visited a lot of different tea houses?

You're not overwhelming the other person with information, just asking a question that, if they've shown an interest, they're generally really happy to expand on. Don't treat your messages like emails or letters, but more like instant messages. Keep them short and easy to respond to, and let the other person tell you some of their story.

Edit: Also, don't ask so many things! It's hard enough for someone to want to answer a single question you ask them. Answering 3 or more is too much effort: if they wanted to start answering your first one, but kept reading instead, you've failed to convert, and by the third one they've likely skipped on to someone else's message.
This looks really cool.

Related: When are we going to return to 2D games like Super Metroid?
Before any speculation starts, one of the team members did explain why they stopped updating:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7028850 (12 Days ago)
Hopefully tech like this will help with expansive drought, and wildfire conditions, that are prevalent in the western US [1]. Many of these areas have not seen wildfire activity in 30+ years. Fire teams will need help, via technology and otherwise.

[1] Drought Monitor mid-January 2014: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.as...
My initial reaction was, "What the @#$%??" But after seeing the "Reserved Network Performance" line in their pitch, I started wondering.

Business success is all about creating unfair advantages and keeping them (imo). With Net Neutrality dead and Verizon being the (from what I can tell) the best network provider in the US, perhaps they can leverage this "unfair advantage" into commercial success.

What applications depend on network performance above all else?
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Thanks for the feedback!

It uses a lot of `transform: translate`s so it can jitter if your GPU is taxed (or if your CPU is taxed and your browser doesn't accelerate).

The duration is supposed to be 500ms though. I agree that's a little slow. I dropped it down to 360ms: https://github.com/HubSpot/drop/commit/10d1b0b324c1538bc46ee...

Let me know what you think!
"near perfect" and "[restarting] 10 times a day" seem like incompatible notions to me.
Consumers care if one business does better than the other because of two reasons, pride and long-term self-interest.

1) Everyone prefers to be on the winning or "proven-right" side. It's hard to be happy with your otherwise decent Blackberry if your peers increasingly don't use it, know anything about it, or disparage it.

2) There is also a long-term self-interested component that seeks more than simply trying to fit in. It goes like this - the more cool your chosen device/platform/game is the more users it attracts, the more users it attracts the more money is flowing through the system, and ultimately more money means more human resources are spent on patching/re-releasing your favorite product so that it can be improved and stay reliable in the long-term. And if it's a proprietary messaging system or a multiplayer game, having more users in the system is in itself also a boon to the end-user experience.
I remember calculating an economic model with my Mum when she was doing her Masters. It was done by modelling the "world" in a large, fairly sparse matrix and performing particular transformations as per a defined algorithm. It basically collapsed the matrix into particular values to find what you were looking for.

The guys who came up with it (I think they were Australians) won a Nobel(?) prize for it, but I can't remember what the technique is called. Anyone know? I might be remembering it incorrectly however.
Right. And of course you have countries like Chile, which has the highest GDP per capita of any south american country and probably the most stable economy, all after adopting free market principals from Friedman. And some of these countries have grown, but to what extent? Where would Brazil be if it dropped it's insanely regulated state and bloated beauracracy and freed up its people? These countries are all still held back by their overbearing governments.
would be more interesting if it were interactive. Right not it's barely readable.
Powershell - What is it good for?
I appreciate (admire) his ingenuity, although even at a distance I can see two or three problems with the actual relationship.
I'm glad that the worst hosting company I got in bed with was Yahoo. Maybe I'm lucky, but sometimes a little research with a little experience does a stress-level good.
No problem. But I recommend you don't take my feedback too seriously. I rarely know what I actually want, and I change my mind all the time.

Also I was glad to see that your library knows how to handle quick successive mouse-hover/unhovers. That's an easy one to neglect.

Overall, pretty cool. Glad you're doing what you can to make the software world a better place :)
Just signed up for BB :)
I was careful to ask how the bitcoin are going to get into the in-country economy.

If no one has any bitcoin then no one can work for bitcoin.

Of course, Argentinians could attempt to bootstrap their own cryptocurrency..
Giving the amount of money charged, they move in to grand larceny territory. The fact that they had to force an enrollment means this "product" they are selling may either be non existent or not match up anywhere near what they claim it is doing.
Drop.js - Facebook-style dropdowns
And if you're tired of manually dealing with AUR packages (or just lazy) you might want to look into yaourt [1]. It uses the same syntax as pacman but also searches and installs from AUR.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/yaourt
No, no, no. You can't buy non virtual stuff anonymously because "everything" is stopped by customs and you need to pick it up personally with your id.

You can buy virtual stuff like books, software, etc.

Also with bitcoins one day you will pay X and the other X/2 or 2*X.
That's the part that burns me. There could be people you have matching answers for 1000 of the 3000 questions, but the way OKC sets its system up, the system would never surface them. Considering that this is a site conceived by mathematicians, I think that they have set this system to provide people with a false sense of fine-tuning but in reality, it keeps most of the matches you could find away from you. Sounds like a scheme to keep people use your dating site rather than helping people actually find a date.
26 Things I’ve Learned at Age 26
Ask HN: I may have made a mistake taking this job. What's next?
About four months ago, I started a new position at a company that did a great job selling me on the mountains of data they have to hack on and a great salary.

While it's true that there is mountains of data and the pay is good, it turns out there was a lot of intangibles that I didn't really consider... an absurdly slow and incompetent IT department that refuses to install the tools I need to do my job, less than subpar workstation/setup, constant distractions, constantly putting out fires due to a patchwork and extremely poorly designed codebase,etc.

While I completely acknowledge that I should have taken things like this into greater consideration when I was interviewing, I'm beginning to have some real second thoughts. I've talked to my manager about some of these things, but I'm not really sure how much he can do, or if any of these things will be changing in the near future.

Has anyone experienced a similar situation somewhat early into a new position, and if so how did you handle it? I've been contacted by other companies and recruiters but was concerned about leaving so soon and how that would reflect on me, but am unsure how to proceed.
This was a hilarious read.
I've been working on implementing my first Lisp compiler and virtual machine. My last Lisp was a simple inefficient AST interpreter, so this seems like the next step up.
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My current girlfriend is Cambodian, and we met via OkCupid. I noticed that of the ~1000 Cambodian girls using the site, none of them matched above 80% with me. I disregarded this and I'm really glad I did. Personally, I was searching for someone who seemed sweet, adventurous, and spoke English well.

I think I read through just about every one of those 1000 profiles, but my girlfriend's stood out... in a way that I could not have discerned computationally. Our match percentage was around 60%, for instance. She was the first/only girl I messaged. Things are still going great!
"What applications depend on network performance above all else?"

A lot, indirectly, because that's how their storage is connected.
I believe that was implied, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned "postwar" in response to what Japan was pre-war.