skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but you can create an event from the calendar interface prior to going into the event interface. from the calendar interface, it only gives you the option of creating a title. so i can put meet with name@email.com and create the event. that's it.

Google Calendar should TOTALLY notify you you are adding someone to the event and ask if you want to send an invite. Also, if you are in the events interface and add someone's email to the title, it should add that person to the guest list on the fly. It should do these things, but it doesn't. I think that is the root of the complaint, not the feature itself.
I don't see anything bad about that The text looks the same but those seem to be very different people and shops. The Kiva personnel look for certain types of people to lend money to in order to do economic development and sometimes copy and pasting a bit of text best explains to us from afar what they're going to do with the money.

You'd be surprised how many people need to specifically purchase "cigarettes, drinks, and soap" to expand their business.
... "industry leader" - in marketing.
I have owned a Lumia 820 and 920. The hardware was absolutely great, but I have grown to dislike Windows Phone's shortcomings:

- No separate volume control for the ringer, music, etc. I swear I've become almost deaf twice.

- No notification center. I do believe tiles are great, but they are not enough alone. I quickly want to have an overview of new messages, if possible reply inline.

- Sometimes I had random reboots (on both phones). Sometimes I couldn't turn the phone off (it would immediately start again).

- You cannot put applications on an SD card, which was annoying, given the 820's 8GB.

- There is a serious lack of applications. The applications that are there are generally of a bad quality. Even Microsoft's Facebook application is flaky compared to the iOS and Android counterparts.

I sold both phones and bought a Nexus 4, which I am very happy with, and has great battery life (not noticeably better or worse than the 920). I still like the iPhone the most (I had iPhones for 4.5 years), but the extra value of a 5s or 5c is not worth the price difference between an iPhone and a Nexus to me.
I was there in August and heard is was 30-40% less than the Bay Area/NYC salaries. The few web developers I talked to about salaries shared they were making 30-50k euros a year. That seemed pretty good.

It might not seem like a lot, but cost of living is also a lot less than NYC/SV.
> I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it seems fantastic, but there are always consequences and the reason we have capitalism is because so far it's proven itself as the best method of improving the wealth of everyone

That's not the reason we have capitalism, since we, generally, don't -- the places that had the system for which the label "capitalism" was created have all since adopted a substantial portion of the redistributive program of some of that systems most strident opponents (such as Marx and Engels) to create the modern dominant "mixed economy", for the precise reason that capitalism was an incredibly bad system and improving conditions for anyone but a very narrow class.

And when we do take steps back toward capitalism, we see that what aggregate gains there are get more narrowly concentrated, and the system gets worse at "improving the wealth of everyone".
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Nokia's Lumia smartphone sales tank -- can Windows Phone survive it?
Looks to me like there are just two women with children in Sierra Leone that run little shops that sell similar items.

I'm sure Kiva has several templates that they use to post loans - you don't think they write each one by hand, do you?
Today, they quite often deny the very legitimacy of the national government exercising its sovereign powers to manage or limit trade to maximize national prosperity. This represents a fundamental change in thinking with tremendous implications in light of the continued growth of international corporations.

And that's a good thing. We don't need governments mucking about, artificially distorting markets with their heavy-handed intervention. Look at where that's gotten us in the past.

National independence? Who cares, "nations" are an outdated idea anyway. I don't want "national prosperity", I want "everybody prosperity" with no regards for where in the world you live and work.
Since 2001 (when he arrested) NSA and surveillance technology has gone through a radical change. Society has also changed radically for the time Robert Hanssen was recruited into intelligence service, and the time Snowden started to work for the NSA. The scrutiny that existed for new employees in 1976 is nowhere similar to 2006.
While the official story is that the film stock was accidentally damaged during development, it is also known that Tarkovsky was unhappy with how those scenes were originally filmed. He wanted to reshoot them, but the budget committee turned down his request. Shortly afterwards the film was mysteriously ruined. The committee had no choice but to let Tarkovsky film the scenes again. Since they could not afford to buy more color film stock, the reshoot was done in black and white.
That intro video was pretty good although seemed a bit long. Cool idea but I'd imagine these type of sites have a big chicken and egg problem.
Are you sure that MELPA has issues? I've been running with it since it started and one thing that I can say about it is that its been a joy to use. Hats off to milkypostman & sanityinc for maintaining it.

If you do have an issue, I suggest you open it on MELPA's GitHub issue page and I'm pretty confident that you'll get a quick response.

As for tweaking Emacs' config, yea, I have to admit, I've spent time on it too and things can always improve.
I buy almost everything i buy off of amazon because of this. There customer service is simply amazing. In the past 5-6 years I can not count how many times I have had to contact them, and left with an amazing experience(all being handled in 5-10 minutes) where with other companies it would have been days and only slightly beneficial to the consumer.
For assets (data files), I recommend buying the game. Steam would work well since you'd get instant gratification and everything would already be patched - don't forget, Q2 dates back to well before automated patching in games. Admittedly, it's unlikely assets themselves got patched, but it could pop up as an issue after you compiled your own source.

There are community-made data files, and these were called "total conversions" since all assets - models, textures, sound, maps - were original. You could go find those, but they often had original game code as well so you'd be effectively playing a different game at that point.
Fuck moving. If the area in Italy you're living in has Mediterranean weather, that beats any job.

You can now live and exist on the Internet entirely.

Start a company (register in HK or somewhere where tax isn't a bitch), hire grads like yourself. Create a community.

You may never become a billionaire with a fad product, but I personally think that bootstrapped tech firms that grow normally are the better firms (37signals and that ilk).

Besides, if its always 27 degrees and you've got some exotic location (near a beach), other Europeans will be drawn to your company and you'll end up hiring the best from Berlin and London (both of which have shitty winters).
She's certainly very good at marketing, but based on the video and Kickstarter page I wonder how educational the book will actually be. A couple of sample pages would be helpful.
According to those pages, they want more than an average year of income for a person in that area, to buy inventory. Isn't that too much inventory to buy all at once?

And yeah it looks like there was a shared template for both of these.
I'm going to take a stab here and say that "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" being set to yes is what allows you to be on the receiving end of this. Can someone try turning that setting off in the gear menu and repeating this?

It would at least stop spammers (and people on HN from inviting execs to reminders about this).
Good luck! The volume control issue has been there for years now. I don't see them fixing it anytime soon.
An insider’s story of the global attack on climate science
Maybe, but they have too much similarities (they want to buy the exact same things, work the exact same time, started their business in the same year, etc). Or maybe it's just statistically not that improbable.

Anyway, I have already asked them, waiting for a response.
A monopoly on buggy whips? Oh well.
Somewhat related:

There is a game based on Quake Arena called Urban Terror. It has a good community of modders that help others learn how to modify the game. If you do not have too much luck with Quake2, you could look into this as as well. Good luck hacking.
To be fair...

some of these could be just cops targeting suspected criminals who have nothing to do with terrorism. Also, I suspect a very large number may just be divorce cases or civil proceedings.

They don't ALL have to be tied to terrorism necessarily.
Berlin is a cheap place to live even by European standards.

Even though salaries might appear low, Berlin has a really good balance of culture + nice place to live + affordibility.
'Node.js already powers multiple sites, and will soon power most of Yahoo'
What oppressive part of the world are you living in?
I sleep with emacs regularly, yet I am seduced ...
Teens aren't interested in Facebook anymore? Doesn't matter, they have no money to spend.

Sure they do. They spend their parents' money quite well. Being only half-way facetious. It's what they spend it on. Newest gadgets. Clothes. Entertainment (iTunes or streaming music/tv shows/movies).
He says that it took him about 2 days total

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7106482
Unfortunately auto-scaling is incredibly application specific. It would be a great feature, but it seems likely to be quite difficult to make a particular solution that is useful to more than a small subset of users. You can get some sense of this from the other comments above (ie how analytics wouldn't be a good scaling metric for them).
Ask HN: how do you deal with inefficiency in your non-tech job?
(Note: not a programmer or in a coding job, but thought this crowd might be of use here.)

How do you deal with inefficiency in your office job when it's driving you up the wall?

I work in an admin-heavy job, but in a company with no systems. I've tried to get people to adopt e.g. Basecamp so people get shared task lists, can delegate efficiently, so things don't get dropped and so you don't end up spamming everyone on a project with hundreds of status update emails, but no-one's interested.

Anything financial is submitted on paper. We maintain cost trackers separate from the finance team, so the two often don't reconcile.

With no proper revision control or versioning system, managing document updates a huge pain. Remote workers don't have access to our local drives, so they have to ask someone in the office to email them the documents they need (and we office workers have to save down their documents).

The inefficiency - combined with me being lazy, if I'm honest, and demotivated at having to do so much pointless admin - is driving me mad. Any tips?
There are lots of things that could be better, and I don't mean to imply that .NET's system is perfect. But the fact that List<byte> contains an array of bytes rather than an array of much larger objects is often important in practice, and dwarfs any complaints I might have. Not being able to use System.Void in .NET generics is an occasionally frustrating quirk, not a huge problem, in my experience. Indeed, it's quite easy to create a new type with no public constructors to achieve the equivalent result (and F# does this with the unit type).
Why go to all that trouble? There's always "emacs -nw" to get pretty minimal in an xterm...
You know, it's probable that someone will invent an automatically diversified wallet that tracks the market cap of cryptocurrencies overall. Rise and fall of new cryptocurrencies would be of interest only to speculators.
I don't think you have a good understanding of the Innovator's Dilemma. The research shows very clearly that companies like Lenovo will continue to eat away at IBM's lowest margin business, whatever it is, until IBM is gone has nowhere to go.

Look at the steel mills. They did the same exact thing IBM is doing now. Everyone applauded the massive steel mills the way that you are applauding IBM. And 100% of those mills are now out of business
South2: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/south2
"This is the repository for South 2, the backport of Django's migrations code into a separate installable package for Django 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6."
We're almost done putting in the final pieces of a global surveillance network and security apparatus which, once turned on, will be near impossible to dismantle peacefully. The income and wealth inequality has never been worse.

The only way this could be resolved is with the middle and lower classes doing something, and these VR things are probably going to be the most effective bread and circuses we're ever going to see.

The oppression is either there or coming, soon.
A keyboard that rises up from flat touch screens
slightly disappointing - the effect is interesting but the implementation and derivation are sloppy.

using a z buffer is a little unexciting i was expecting something raytracy or voxely - maybe even scanliney... but thats too much to explain in this comment.

also using the matrices for deriving the torus equation... its much simpler to create a rotating basis intuitively with cos and sin then apply them again to create a circle going around... then rotate the torus as a separate operation before applying the 3d projection

e.g. start with

x = R*cos(t);
y = R*sin(t);

to define the big circle - note that ( cos(t), sin(t), 0 ) is the normal to that circle and use that to create the circles winding around with a second parameter:

x = r*cos(t)*cos(u) + R*cos(t)
y = r*sin(t)*cos(u) + R*sin(t)
z = r*sin(u)

set u = n * t and then you get the torus shape with a single parameter where the spiral around the surface closes up on itself.

the 3d rotation of the whole object can be kept separate and done on a per axis basis (since using only two angle this is actually less operations as well)

you end up with the same result but no need to do any particularly challenging algebra.
Your edit is actually a great idea, and I know it seems simple, yet, in my annoyance it genuinely hadn't occurred to me. Thanks so much for the reply!
>Wikileaks released the 911 pager messages which convinced Chelsea Manning that Wikileaks was the real deal, as those messages likely came from an NSA source.

Pager messages are sent OTA in plaintext. No NSA level wizardry was needed. Just some 133/433/900mhz antennas and knowledge that could have been gleamed from 90s era 2600 'zines.
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several terrorists that could have been caught slipped by.

To what effect? Was it really that big a deal?
While it's obviously very unfortunate that all this happened, this is not the full story. The words, "Hannan told her he was going to break the agreement not to write about her personal life and reveal her transgender status without her consent," are a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened.

Also, it's a lot of misdirected anger. The reporter's job is to get the story — and in this case Hannan's editors admit they pushed him to do so.

http://grantland.com/features/the-dr-v-story-a-letter-from-t...
Same as Tesla being worth one and a half Chryslers.
What I'm more interested in are costs of employing people in Berlin, vs. costs in the Bay Area and other markets.

e.g. if salary expectations for a mid-level dev are EUR 50000 vs. USD 120k, but Germany costs another EUR 50000 in taxes/permits overhead vs. another USD 30000 to the employer in the US, it's a wash.
They bring in close to $30b in revenue each quarter and only a small portion of that is hardware. It's quite possible you do use IBM software and don't know it because you know it as another brand they bought or you work with a competing vendor and really don't have any IBM software. It's also possible you aren't in an enterprise shop.
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It really depends.
Minimum: 30k EUR
Recent graduate: 35-45k EUR
Senior: 45-60k EUR
Like everywhere, salaries are higher in larger companies and for older people.

As Berlin is quite poor, expect maybe 10-15% below German average, but take into account that cost of living is low (especially rent and food).
I run an online appointment scheduling software (http://www.appointmind.com/). The software stack is PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu. I do this alongside my my freelancer job.
I evaluated using their servers and saw nothing special at all in the market place from IBM. I see Snapchat as something special.
Does this mean that contracting the virus with the vaccine will give you HIV but not AIDS? What about being a carrier, would you still be a carrier?
Part of me believes that's awful, and part of me is just impressed at how smart that is.
Anyone know the background story on how they came back after being shut down by their parent company?
3 Million Downloads of the Groovy Programming Language in 2013
I'm not immersed in either business but I think you're making your argument too black-and-white. Snapchat is doing something valuable (I don't exactly know what) but I do not think it's better than what IBM is doing, IBM has been a powerful innovator in the computing industry for a long time and there's a lot of infrastructure powered by IBM's technology, even indirectly. I'm sure Snapchat is indirectly influenced by IBM - so writing either one off as better or worse is silly I think.

Different? Definitely. Providing value in totally different but important wasy? I'm sure. Again, I don't know either business in or out so these are more musings than battle-won opinions.
"This video is only available on WiFi" - wtf YouTube?
You're entitled to your opinion, but it's a distinctly radical rather than conservative one. And that was the point of my post: to point out the inconsistency in purporting to believe in national independence while embracing radical libertarian and globalist ideas about international markets. Conservatives don't purport to believe that "nations are outdated" and that "everybody prosperity" is more important than "American prosperity."
More than windowing systems it's a different abstraction layer using what appears to me as being dom trees with very capable yet uncoupled presentation capabilities (css) instead of emacs buffer + text-properties, font-lock etc. Hoping it will unleash ideas, just like lisp did in its days, by providing a better language for logic/code interactions.
The slow emacs startup problem can be mitigated by lazily loading custom modes as much as possible. The two big things to use here are autoload (instead of require) and eval-after-load.

On my machine, a vanilla emacs startup is ~70ms, and one with my fully-loaded .emacs is ~240ms. Still not as fast as I would like, but not terrible. (You can benchmark emacs startup from the command line with "time emacs --eval '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'").

(Of course, even a 70ms startup for vanilla emacs is arguably pretty bad -- it's way slower than the ideal of "instant"; I just checked and vanilla vim is something like 8ms, for example, which is just-shy of imperceptible.)
Assume:

- She has a bare minimum of inventory now, as she doesn't have capital to invest

- Inventory turns are 13 (the 'average' item is on the shelf for 4 weeks)

That would mean she plans her cost of sales to be 13x the average per capita income in that area. That doesn't seem unreasonable if she can get 200 customers to spend 10% of their income in her shop (assuming 50% markup).
Argentina. Spiraling down on oppression with the current government :/ (the same family is ruling as presidents and biggest party since 10 years ago).
How much do fare change by location? Is it only a US vs. Canada things or are prices dependent on the US location from which the search is being made? It would be interesting to create a price map of various fares searched from different states in the US...
So have they developed a vaccine, but they need money for trials, delivery..? How exactly would they go about and test if it works on humans? Are there people who volunteer to get infected with HIV?
I don't get it, isn't the point of investing to get the investment back in many multiples? How do you get your investment back if it's a non-profit?
Would these headers break ads that come from unpredictable sources through ad networks?
So fanstastic. I love Stripe. A lot. I use it. A lot. I will continue to use it.

A lot.

Congrats on their success. They deserve it for creating a product that beats the competition, hands down.
I read all other comments, nothing much for me to add. Except for: If you feel that you need to leave asap, to put distance between you and your home city, just so you don't feel so trapped anymore and can maybe think more clearly, then consider that there isn't such a requirement to only move after you've been hired by some great company. Go to Berlin or some other northern big city and get any job that will pay your rent while you search for a job you really want. For example a night job as a waiter while you hunt for interviews, remote programming work,freelances,etc during the day.
do you have a source for the 5% number? I mean, I agree that x86 servers are a low-margin business, but 5% is lower than I'd expect.
Let's just say I saw it up close.
Back up for now.
There wouldn't be cartel hitmen if the thing wasn't illegal and hence profitable.

I have an issue with letting them listen--especially if I'm on the other end of the phone, for example, taking their order for pizza or arranging a playdate for my kids or something. It's the few-hops-away rule that is very easily justifiable that creates surveillance states.
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This will be really neat!
We can't walk on eggshells all day because anything we say could trigger someone's traumatic memory. But use some common sense. If you're gonna talk about rape, murder, suicide, and your audience may not expect it, ... maybe give people a warning.

Also - entitlement schmitlement. Expecting a company to handle your personal information discretely is a reasonable expectation. When Google acted recklessly with peoples private information, they violated their users trust.
Evidently, by changing the title.

Personally I thought "striptease" was a much richer metaphor for what the linked article showed - the removal of "dressing", piece by piece. But then I'm not a prude with a stick up my ass.
Two things: 1) you can change the distance units, and 2) the app will pronounces the names of many commonly-named streets, but it is certainly true that its vocabulary is much smaller than some other options.
Reading code by asking questions
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I know a PHP programmer who makes about 6.5k EUR / month as a contractor but that's my only data point.

I'm considering moving to Berlin and working there as a contractor so I'd love to see some more data. Keep in mind that the overhead of an employee is huge (I bet it's over 100%) so a contract may be much better financially.
On the other hand, overhead in nothing close to 100% - more like 20%. (On top of the gross salary - The dev will only get about 55% of his salary after tax, insurance etc.). No mid-level dev expects 50k EUR after taxes.
I was there as well, it is around that range, 30-50k Euros per YEAR (edited)

Taxes and Social Security would be around 40% at the top of that range, there are some calculators around ( http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm )
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How are you in my house right now?
Yahoo! is running it?

crosses off technology worth evaluating any time soon

That place ruins tech somehow. It's like an aura.