skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it was a man who did something to help make a few millions people lives more free, especially in the areas of privacy that you know, hacker people care about.

I know, it's not some minor Node.js release.
PV is the same as FPTP. IRV is very nearly as bad, and perhaps worse due to monotonicity. See http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
Did this site really deserve its own domain? We (as the internet) really ended up misusing the domain system and the only one benefiting from it are those selling domains.
Why You Shouldn't Trust App Store Reviews (and What to Trust Instead)
They may be catering to professors who prefer that their videos are not able to be played at a higher speed.

If the professor cared, they would just use YouTube, so if anything they are listening to their users, that is, their content creators, and not to their content consumers. That, or they don't even have a dog in the race and just don't want to add more features that aren't essential for the majority.
So what happens to the other products?
American bureaucracy doesn't have the ability to deliver state level websites/applications. It will take several iterations for such a huge federal website with so many competing interests to take shape. /naive but hopeful
I like this on an instinctive level, so I'd like to try to take it apart.

1. Would you still have a police commissioner at the top?

2. Does this kind of thing already exist in any form?

...okay, I am bad at coming up with these. Help?
We just finished moving or old CRM to Highrise. I hope that someone acquires and keep updating the product.
Disclaimer: Co-founder of FiftyThree

Please see my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7181910
Kiev is in flames and I don't care
OpenCL is a quite a lot of abstraction and is meant to be used on lots different products. A rewrite of existing code into openCL would be a massive undertaking (probably better for the long run though).

This seems to be an intel only, lets make existing code run fast on the Phi and other cpus, with minimal changes to code or existing concepts.

edit: accidental paste.
I think it's commendable to take this approach. They are doing a few things very right. 1.) Not shutting down existing products and leaving users without a service, 2.) Not wanting to just sell it to the highest bidder but actually are concerned about their users, 3.) Having the guts to just put everything on the table and changing major things up. I feel like a lot of companies feel like, 'Well we have these products we have to either keep them going and scale or kill them.' Their solution here is a wise one that is certainly putting users before dollars and ease.

While everyone may not be happy with it, it's certainly better than a lot of shut downs and other moves startups have made that have pissed a lot of people off.
The venue issue is already present: http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-03/why-extreme-nature-soc... .

The main issue illustrated by this story is that the warm weather in Sochi is causing many of the venues to be built sloppily or incorrectly. In this case the slopestyle venue was difficult to build because of poor snow quality and the jumps are all massively overbuilt to try to compensate for high expected melting rates over the coming week.
>This is incorrect. The CEO of PayPal David Marcus has already denied these claims

It might very well be incorrect, but "the CEO denied these claims" is very low proof in my book.
You obviously have no concept of what the windows source looks like. Putting it on github would be a massive technical challenge alone.
Big news! We've been big fans of 37signals for a decade or so and in many ways they have inspired us in building Close.io. I love that they are able to make the hard decision to focus on one thing.

We want to take great care of any Highrise customers looking for a new home: http://close.io/highrise

Check out http://close.io/ - mention that you were a Highrise customer and I can make sure you'll get a special discount.

Close.io is a next-gen sales communication tracking tool with an easy 1-click migration from Highrise, as well as automatic 2-way email syncing, call tracking, etc. See what our customers say at https://www.quora.com/Reviews-of-Close-io
From the blog post it seems they were transitioned into a 'maintenance' mode a couple years ago.
I'd say that sounds a little paranoid too, but then it turns out that his door gets busted down by a bunch of people with guns, so all the sudden it's not that paranoid. Just happened in this case to be the police, and not some other aggressor.

Not like it's any of your business what he does in his home anyway.
Zukerberg, ["[W]hy were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it."]

Enterprises are large, lumbering behemoths. Not necessarily the dinosaurs that disappear collectively, mysteriously but dinosaurs all the same.

Focus is not their strength. Keeping multiple balls in the air simultaneously, that's the strength of the Enterprise.
Inside Scoop: Why Microsoft named Satya Nadella CEO
Right, whereas your home is a prison from which there is no escape...?
It's definitely possible but I wonder what Githubs strategy long term is and how it would fit into that. While I'm sure there are lot of people that use Campfire at GH (or maybe not), it may not be right for them to take care of and expand.
Further down in the comments of this article is a comic from xkcd that just about sums up app store reviews:

https://xkcd.com/937/

;)

enjoy!
Also, there was that "V" miniseries.
Like http://www.parallels.com/eu/products/parallels-containers-wi... ?
Another 4D game: 4D rubik's cube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aonf34s0Bqg
Q: If you're going all in on Basecamp, what happens to Campfire and Highrise?

In the short term, everything stays the same. Business as usual. No interruption in service, no changes that affect our customers.

In the long term, one of three things:

SCENARIO 1: We'll spin them off into separate companies where we'll retain partial ownership, but another fully-dedicated team will run the products and own the majority of the company. This would be our ideal situation as it would ensure continuity and no interruption for our customers, but we'd have to find the right entrepreneur/team with the right experience and enough financing to make it work.

SCENARIO 2: We'll sell the products outright (either separately or together). The key for us in this scenario is that the products, and our customers, are well looked after. We will not sell either of these products to a company that is planning to shut the products down. And since no one from our team goes with the sale, this is not an acqui-hire situation. We're looking to sell to a company that wants to add well-respected, well-established, profitable, growing products to their portfolio.

SCENARIO 3: If we can't find the right partner or buyer, we are committed to continuing to run the products for our existing customers forever. We won't sell the products to new customers, but existing customers can continue to use the products just as they always have. The products will shift into maintenance mode which means there will be no new development, only security updates or minor bug fixes. We did this successfully in 2012 with Ta-da List, Writeboard, and Backpack, so we know how to make it work.

If you're a company or team interested in exploring scenario 1 (spin-off) or scenario 2 (outright purchase), please get in touch. Based on current revenues, current growth rates, and a conservative multiple, Campfire will sell in the single digit millions, and Highrise will sell in the tens of millions, so serious inquires only please. Disclosure: We're currently in early discussions with a few interested parties.
Great link, thank you. It's quite disheartening to see innocent people put in jail and _sentenced to death_ for rightfully defending themselves against the intruders who do not identify themselves as police before starting their offense. Sadly it is often overlooked that the police is not held accountable by the law. The law allows them to do exactly what they want with little to no repercussions.
Getting something that costed you X% to 0% is not always prefferable. Even if you're a business.

Sometimes you go for what most of your customers already know or want, or you go for whats easier and handier, or you go for what is a known quantity and wont have legal or other problems down the line, you go for what's less volatile, etc etc.

The only reason a big company like PayPal would ever use something like Bitcoin as it is today, is not to "take advantage of what it offers", but as a "early adopter marketing ploy", to get some tons of free press and publicity (while still relegating it safely to 1/10000 of their actual businesses).
Give us a shot... http://close.io/

We've also got an easy migration tool for any existing Highrise users: http://close.io/highrise and a solid REST API http://developer.close.io/
I fail to understand how typing anything on the command line would be faster then a single shortcut (cmd + \).
Bureaucracy of an archaic system.
Totally agree here. The only way to fix it the mentality for police, IMO, is to legislate police as they will never voluntarily give up the power they have. Unfortunately, this is one of the things I doubt will ever happen.
> But people opposed to parallel construction see this process as a bridge too far; one way to look at it would be that the whole process of discovering probable cause is something that a criminal defense can challenge, and so that whole process is potentially exculpatory.

The argument against parallel construction is simpler than that: The exclusionary rule exists not because guilty defendants have a right to go free, but rather to deprive law enforcement of the benefit of an unlawful search. Allowing parallel construction would impermissibly allow law enforcement to benefit from the unlawful search.

> It's also helpful to know that parallel construction isn't a new thing. It's similar to the process that works when the FBI/DEA has a highly-placed informant in a criminal organization. They want to make cases from that CI, but they don't want to expose the CI, not least because they'll have more cases to make down the road.

The distinction is that evidence from a CI would be admissible in its own right. Further evidence that it leads to wouldn't be the fruit of the poisonous tree.

The trouble seems to be that the exclusionary rule breaks in the absence of total transparency from law enforcement. The exclusionary rule exists to remove the incentive for law enforcement to conduct unconstitutional searches. If law enforcement doesn't have to disclose all their sources, even if parallel construction from poisonous evidence was nominally prohibited, defendants wouldn't be able to prove it when it happened. It would reintroduce the incentive for law enforcement to conduct unconstitutional searches and thereby make the exclusionary rule insufficient. This is a hard problem, although maybe requiring a high level of transparency and disclosure from law enforcement would be beneficial in general.
you can also see parts of more than one post in occasions, and have a sense of "place". with the cards, you don't get that at all.

cards seem to work better as implemented by google -- cards don't really have as much in common between cards.. they're one-offs. a newsfeed is a long story board, such as it is.
Wish this had the whole title not just "War on Anonymous"
It was grossly negligent at best.

The lack of contractural provisions requiring the contractors perform to get paid displays a level of incompetence that suggests corruption.

The real issue was probably an insane deadline that required a "fast" procurement vehicle. I consider that systemically corruption.
Less sure they can survive without water.
Given the phrase cost to serve 1000 searches are you sure I was mistaken?
Can you confirm whether the russian in the "please don't flush toilet paper" is correctly translated?

Seems to be more likely that they actually mean "paper" or "paper towels" not "toilet paper".

It is quite common to not want anything but toilet paper flushed so I'm wondering if that is what the sign actually is meaning to say.
1999 founded.

2004 first product launched.

5 years after the company and team came together.

5 years of time to hone the skills and struggle.

Oh yah, and another 10 years to grow to 43 people.

Simple reminder of the commitment to patience it can actually take to build a remarkable business.
Ask HN: What is the best way to distribute an iOS app to Kickstarter Backers?
I'm looking at launching a Kickstarter campaign in the near future partially for some extra funds to push the project through completion and partially for marketing purposes. The product we are developing is an App that will be available on both iOS and Android. My first concern is distributing the iOS app on the iTunes App Store. I don't have a problem with Apple taking their 30% commission on my Kickstarter orders, in fact, I fully understand it and would expect the same if I provided a storefront for someone to host and distribute their apps. The problem is, I don't think there is any mechanism for doing this currently. One possibility that I've considered is buying a $10.00 gift card for every backer and mailing it to them and then hoping that they use it on the app when it releases. The only major problem with this solution is I'm not sure if I can find a supplier that can sell me that many $10.00 gift cards in short order. I'm definitely looking into it though. If anyone else has any ideas of how best to accomplish this task, I would be very grateful for your thoughts!
Extending OpenStack Swift
Yea, get a mac just for that. Oh and please just forget that all present *nix based distros will have a similar, if not better, update manager.
I'm using Docker in my startup, and it's not a PaaS or IaaS.
I find it funny ow "eve is the thinking mans MMO" when I gave up Masters of Orion in the 90s because I felt as though I was playing excel....

Albeit - that was playing Excel solo vs playing Excel against many other CPAs...

I do not want to play a spreadsheet...

But, I am FARKING AMAZED about how well eve does and how amazingly in depth their eco-system is.
There are plenty of places around the world that have septic systems not designed to handle toilet paper. The sign is probably accurate.
As of "do not flush toilet paper", I have seen such signs in many places around the world (but I don't know reasons behind it), and it isn't only my experience [1]. It's intresting that it was a new for journalist who travels a lot.

[1] http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/20967/how-to-deal-...
It's probably just as good as having a window. You get the same view as you would from a window, and you can't open the windows anyway. I can think of a few advantages: first, there is no danger that your window will get smashed in a storm (probably highly unlikely, but it might be a worry for some people). Also I assume that the boat rocks less if you are in an inner stateroom, so it might be better for people who suffer from seasickness.
I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad
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Nbcnews.com goes for "metro" site redesign
Having recently traveled abroad, I can confirm that a lot of hotels in areas with bad septic won't even let you flush toilet paper.
Just went back to read it again. I must say it is quiet confusing, it says literally 'please don't throw paper in the toilet'. It doesn't specify what paper so it could be interpreted differently indeed.
Admiral Ackbar knew this better than anyone...
We're really looking forward to it :)
upvote, because this is the correct answer to the question "how does this work differently from d3," as opposed to the question, "what are the advantages/disadvantages of using this over d3."

a quick f12-for-firebug reveals that sigma indeed uses the canvas element. i haven't actually used the library, but it appears ( https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/blob/master/package.jso... ) to in fact be built directly on canvas, which is impressive in some sense but probably does duplicate a lot of work that could be avoided by using a generic-canvas-drawing-but-not-specifically-graph-drawing library.

d3 stands for "data-driven-documents" and is actually not specific to graphs. at the core, it's about (as the expanded name suggests) connecting html documents to javascript data structures. of course, lots of libraries -- angular, etc. -- may be described in such general terms, so more specifically, d3 is useful when you have both a lot of data (or a lot of structure to your data) and a lot of html elements to layout according to that data.

it just so happens that <svg> is now actually a tag in html ( : / ? i mean that, the advances in the browsers themselves, was news to me, when i looked at d3 for the first time), so yeah, d3 is most commonly used when the elements you want to lay out are a bunch of svg tags.

anyway, i really like d3 (and probably would like three.js, for that matter, if i took the time to toy around with it) b/c i think it does one fairly general thing, does it well, and has practical applications.
Most illustrative. Thanks!
We need a War on Politics.
High end SoC vendors generally don't care about you until you're buying millions of devices. If you can't find it on Digikey/Mouser/etc you're probably not going to get your hands on these parts without an in with one of the big name suppliers or the SoC vendor itself. However, in the case where you are shopping for millions of devices - say you're looking for the centerpiece of a new smartphone, its not unusual for them to fly a team of applications engineers to you to facilitate getting the part into your system.

Of course, merely procuring the part itself is just the beginning. The early revisions of a SoC (and in many cases even small microcontrollers) can have fairly extensive errata sheets (basically a list of known hardware bugs). If you aren't a first class customer (usually based on order volumes), this is a world where you can spend weeks to months wondering why your code doesn't work only to find out that it legitimately was a hardware problem in the silicon.

Trying to source displays is also a nightmare for relatively low volume (<100K) designs.
In russian it simple "paper", not "toilet paper" [1]

[1] http://translate.google.com/#ru/en/%D0%A3%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%....
it is toilet paper for certain. source: russian speaker.
I don't specifically know about Xi'an, but I remember in 2012 subways in Beijing were a flat 2 rmb (about 0.35 USD) and in Shanghai something like 2 to 4 rmb depending on distance. Nanjing was similar, but I don't remember the specifics. So assuming all Chinese cities that have subways charge the same order of magnitude, this loophole would have indeed been valuable.
It says "Please don't flush paper". Not toilet paper, not paper towels - just paper.
While I agree that Sensu could be cool, their utterly uninformative website makes me want to break the fingers of whomever was in charge of that site design.

Worst website design EVER for any monitoring system in existence.
NDAs are firmly integrated in the embedded industry. If you could get your hands on any other SoC, you would need to sign an NDA as well. For example Tegra documentation needs an NDA too.
The key here is innovation. Innovate or die. Simple as that regardless is OSS or proprietary. Is Satya up to the challenge to turn the sinking ship around? We will see in the next a few years.
Notice the key word here: "Terrorized"
What was so insane about the deadline? The site was mostly fixed in a couple of months and that included time to find someone to fix the site and dig through all the toxic code that was already written.

With the level of incompetence that was shown in the site, it's extremely unlikely the original contractor just needed a couple more months to get the project finished.

The deadline was more than realistic. There was plenty of time to create something useful, they were just too incompetent to do so.
We use Capsule + Streak. We're big fans of streak, but it's a baby CRM perfect for pipelines... we use Capsule to manage all of the other stuff. (Who talked to whom, etc.)
If you run windows and don't use Ninite yet, let me make your day:

https://ninite.com/updater/
No, it isn't. Sign says only "paper". It isn't clear what they mean, can be interpreted differently.
Agree, Sourcing may have been a better wording. Securing was used here in its other meaning.
Interesting that there are still services around that are vulnerable to syn floods.
>There are these venues called "exhibition halls." They work well enough.

Without the ability to prove that you can float the load, supply the power, deal with the legal entanglements, garner interest, weather the... weather, etc...

Screw your static non-visionary approach to testing.

If I want to test the idea of a barge based floating environ, the last thing I want to see it demo'd in is a warehouse.
"Based on current revenues, current growth rates, and a conservative multiple, Campfire will sell in the single digit millions, and Highrise will sell in the tens of millions"

Anyone care to take a guess to what Campfire and Highrise revenue? What type of multiple of revenue do they expect to get?
I mean, I don't really disagree, per se, but the inequities perpetuated on a daily basis across all levels of the United States government are vast and diverse. This really ain't one of the worst ones.
How does one get into the financial industry with software engineering skills with some day trading and financial knowledge (Econ major here). What would be a good step to break into this side of finance? It seems everything is more strict.
"Unicorns in Node" or "When does the cluster module mater?"
He's saying that it is 0.07 dollars per 100 searches instead of 0.07 cents (which would be 0.0007 dollars).
But Github is already doing what 37signals is aiming for and that is being a company focused on a single product. I'd think they want to maintain that.
How the left’s embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration
I knew they were attently watching on this thread... :)
Don't worry, he probably wrote in the report that it was for "security" purposes.
37 Signals is the reason I started learning how to make web apps. They are really the poster child of successful independent software vendors. Not focusing on burning investors cash but growing as a profitable business. One can only dream to match their level of success.
I wouldn't mind putting some of these in an office to increase my productivity. Maybe even in my home. It would be nice to always have a beautiful, sunny view even when I'm coding at 2am.
No dude, it literally says "paper". Native Russian speaker here. That said, who knows what it /means/.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070604222148AA...
Yeah, I know this is disappointing for a global sporting event, but I'm surprised experienced journos have not experienced stuff like this in other developing countries (e.g. India).
you don't use Dart or Go?

Actually, neither do I. Its funny, because when they do hit on something like Node.js (built with v8), Google ignores it. Its sort of puzzling actually.
I haven't been to Russia since the 90s, but this sounds pretty par for the course for back then: undrinkable water, crumbling new construction, Stray dogs,etc. I'm a bit surprised it's still that bad. It's a shame since it's a beautiful country with some really warm people.

Also, really surprised seasoned journalists have never been to a country where you can't flush the toilet paper?