skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one way, I hope it works for you. There are other ways to get to our correct number.

What I am asking is, why so negative for one persons way, offered freely. We all have a different path. Mine could still not lead me where I think it will. But it's more likely to get me close if I am methodical (boring but fun in its own way) and consistent (repetitive like refactoring that annoying method and throwing a unit test onto it for good measure) in checking the roths -and 401k's twice a year, buying and selling my house when it make sense to and not panicking when the market takes a shit.

For all the naysayers about the articles specifics are you really not planning for later on, when thing change as the inevitably do? Instead if tearing down what kinda sorta worked for the random old person - why not discuss other, more relevant strategies for your place and times. What works for one person surely will not work for another but if you don't explore all the options and how will you learn what works for you? How will you learn from the past? Are you willing to repeat it just to tear someone down who is not perfect?
One that not many people seem to know about but which interests me significantly is http://www.instacompute.com/.

It's run by Tata, which is pretty massive plus according to http://cloudharmony.com/ it's got pretty good performance, especially considering the price.

I guess problem for most of you (it seems pretty US centered around here) may be that they don't have a presence in the United States (they're good in Europe, Asia and India though).

Anyone have any experiences with them?
What I said about Google applies to other SV tech firms (or the SV offices of tech firms not based in SV).
Thanks for the overview, midway through Learn You a Haskell and it's clear I need to sit down and write some code as reading about Haskell is entirely different than reading about Java, Scala, etc. ;-)

In other words, a simple web project is in order. Snap looks like a good call, along with Yesod's Persistent. PDF, email, etc. can come later, just trying to explore the language.

Thanks again.
what's the tech behind Twitch.tv? how do you build a service like that
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-poised-exe...
Also find out if any of your friends has a cable internet carrier that's part of that deal. (Almost certainly yes.) Then beg or bribe them to create a sub-account for you under their cable account. (At least with Comcast this is easy, for some small number of accounts.)
6px does handle large batch processing. The API accepts a JSON document (where a lot of the competitors on the market use the URL to define these things) that allows you to have multiple inputs and multiple outputs.
yourmagicnoncrappypassword -> 101010101110101111...
Actually, you just showed me why I DO need jQuery. Thanks. :)
Uhhh, I have an Puyopuyo clone in the pipeline which I wanted to release soon (denied because of jagged graphics). This calls for CandyCandy, amirite?!?
Apart from size and many functions that translate 1:1, where it really doesn't make sense to use Jquery (time to learn ?) there are two extra factors:
1. the extra http call to load a library, that can be optimized
2. licensing, some company cares about that and avoid the the hassle of having yet another license to understand and manage, there are costs involved

I've seen thousands of js snippets using jquery just because the developer doesn't the pure js syntax, or because he is used to start from adding jquery.

very good page indeed, thanks for spreading the knowledge.
Git-draw draws nearly the full content of a tiny git repository as a graph
There are definitely competitors in the space. Do you think there is room for another assuming that speed, flexibility and pricing are the differentiators? What could make it the best on your opinion?
C++ Garbage Collection
You think that a page that loads jQuery but doesn't use most of it incurs a performance penalty? I'll grant there are a few initializations and dom checks that jQuery does, but it probably blocks for all of 20ms.
+1 for libsass. I started using Gulp instead of Grunt for a project, and gulp-sass uses libsass. My compilation times are now sometimes sub-millisecond (albeit with only 500 lines of scss spread across 4-5 files).
Ideally, a KDF should use as many resources as practical.

The NIST competition process of favoring performant algorithms is not always in the interests of users because it means it's cheaper to bruteforce/crack.
I meant that the livery is evergreen, and isn't "Good luck at Super Bowl XLVIII!" They can fly it for years and it won't be dated.

> Plain white, and weathered

Maybe it needed a paint job anyway.
At the first sign of this I tend to leave a company. I just can't, in good faith, participate in treating people like this.

I managed to learn a few things (no particular order):

1. work for an engineer ceo
2. work on a product that requires engineers (not just sales)
3. work for yourself

maybe I'll add these to http://truth.techendo.co/
SF's Ed Lee talks technology, inequality, and those divisive Google buses
OK, so that's a great explanation made on some assumptions; let me give you some actual experience though which is what gives me my bias:

I worked for a company that was already established as a design consultancy... so all the above that you lay out was already calc'd in their overhead...

They went after a contract for a large project and they didn't have the expertise in house to land the project.

They poached me to be able to gain the contract. They made several million on this contract, which they would have been incapable of getting without me joining and actually doing the work.

They billed me out for exceedingly profitable work; I did 100% of the work, their overhead for all the shit you mention did not increase, and they piled more work onto my efforts which they billed for.

they promised me a multi-tens-of-thousands bonus based on all this work and met with me on five separate occasions to go over documented revenue/bonus projections and confirm this amount (this was with the CEO) -- then when it came time to pay; they paid me 8% of the promised, documented bonus. and made excuses that "they weren't being paid by the client" -- and later had a seperate manager (known as "the snake") come in and tell me "tough luck - the CEO's calcs were wrong"

So, While your story sounds all nice and whatever... I can guarantee that it is not true in all cases.

David Marks; if you read this - Fuck you.
Not normally a sports fan, but living in Seattle while the Seahawks go to the Superbowl is tons of fun just because of all small ways the various techie industries are coming together.

E.g. seismic monitoring of CenturyLink Stadium (which is engineered to be one of the loudest), Boeing putting on this stunt, office buildings with "12" spelled out over multiple floors, 12-cent Starbucks.

Seattle is just a fun city to live in.
Man, the front-end developers really came out of the wood-works for this one.
Layers and no shorts.

Its probably done for the people working there. Working with hot drinks probably makes you hot, while sitting around probably doesn't.
Only so many people need iPhones/iPads. People are going to need to be matched with goods/services until the death of the species.
Read my reply - your, and the GP's position is "good on paper" but there are outliers, like my situation, which completely invalidate what you state.
Is there going to be any premining or are they intending to fund the entire mission of the initial 350,000 coins donated to MarsOne?
this is why, as a Canadian i prefer to live in the USA. Why put up with little brother, and being a client state, when you can go for the real deal?
After reading the article, I feel spammed and marketed to.
Hmm, I'm wary of a test that involves another framework to test the underlying jQ v. Native DOM performance difference. I'd be much more comfortable eliminating Backbone from the equation.

Also, this is just one test - wyuenho's claim was for jQ vs. the DOM in general, which is a much broader claim than an unknown subset of functionality.

I don't doubt that native DOM methods are faster than jQ, but I like claims to be backed up by evidence.
Ask HN: Are you seeing lots of broken images in Gmail?
Ever since they announced caching of all images, I am starting to notice that almost every email I receive in my Gmail account has broken images.

Getting out of the email and back in seems to be solve the problem most of the time.

I fired up Firebug and noticed that Google's proxy server is returning a 404 on the images the first time the email is loaded but, after a few more calls to the same URL, the image is returned.

Does anyone know the cause? And if there is a fix? We send out a monthly newsletter and getting lots of reports from our users about not being able to see images.
From the announcement thread, there was a 300,000 coin premine to be donated to MarsOne.

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/3763-marscoin-mrs-informati...
That sounds like an opportunity to me. Get real cloud-based software solutions that compete with Google SaaS officeware, but tie it into desktop office in a way that synergizes without forcing people to subscribe or upgrade.

Apple is good at the monetization angle of this. There's no reason Microsoft couldn't do the same (except with software, not hardware).

Example: 90% of the time I'm on a webex/gotomeeting, I'm looking at one of three things: 1) Powerpoint, 2) Excel/Word or 3) a Browser.

Why can't Microsoft make that kind of sharing easier? My guess is that they were too arrogant to make things work for the folks not on the latest versions, or on different OS's.

It's 2014, that's not good enough. People expect your product to be sociable and flexible. And that's why it's Cisco/Citrix software that's showing the MS docs.
Critique of Kant leads to man being shot in Russian shop
And there's a lesson there for would-be entrepreneurs with a technical background - your technical abilities only play a small role in the success of your venture. The smart business move is to focus on generating revenue, like Box did.
Over-Competitiveness in Academia: A Literature Review
There are cases, but they are not the norm. CCTV has been abused too, but abuses are also not the norm for CCTV, either.
Great platform. I hope you add more languages soon. My english is not good enough but I could provide you with 2 east european languages and translate them into german.

Also payment in BC or similar would be great.
Box has a completely different customer base than Dropbox, with completely different needs. Just look at their customers page: https://www.box.com/customers/

97% of Fortune 500 companies are Box customers. "Usability" is not a primary concern when your customers are building services on top of your platform.
This is one of those The Onion headlines that are actually real and any comment one can make would be inadequate.
Wikipedia reconsiders H.264 support
I used to be a proponent of Compass, but I started using Bourbon[0] and Neat[1] and enjoy them more. They don't require a project definition, nor do they provide a utility to compile Sass, they're just a mixin library. And that suits me.

[0] http://bourbon.io

[1] http://neat.bourbon.io
It might be more efficient than full-on 64 bit programs as long as a single process is ok with <4gb ram.

Debian has some work in progress on a port to x32 here: https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port

But it looks like they had the foresight to disable it for regular kernels because of security concerns: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708070#10
Here is the response King posted a couple of days ago: http://about.king.com/about/our-approach-to-ip

The last line in the above link reads "if you want to contact me directly on this, or indeed any other aspect of what we do – please feel free to drop me a line at rz@king.com I look forward to hearing from you."

So if any of you want to drop King a line, go for it. Call them out on their BS.
Lispcast, new episodes to quickly get into Clojure
Microsoft can't rely on dominating markets. They have to get back into the, and do as Apple and Google have done and invent markets.

I feel Microsoft will only have the confidence to attack the consumer market when they feel their enterprise market position is a competitive advantage.
Ask HN: Limitation of liability on a government contract
We're moving into the enterprise space and one of our clients is a federal government (non-US). There are two contracts, one which is services only (consulting & training) and another which is for the enterprise licenses. Right now both are heading towards not having limitations of liability built in. Question: Should we push to cap our liability at the value of contract? How much of a risk is it to enter into a contract without a limitation of liability?

Our legal advice has been that the actual risk is limited and most governments won't agree to limited liability, but we're a bit unsettled with the potential of unlimited liability.

So, anyone else face similar situations? Any advice?
Monsanto disagrees.
What's that? Another litecone clone that is also somehow affiliated with mars one? Is amwaycoin next?
This is usually because proponents of nuclear energy are not pushing for "traditional" reactors, but for Breeder reactors.

These were the direction we were headed in the 60s, unfortunately, we then discovered that Uranium was not as rare as we thought it was, and in our usual manner, decided to go for the conventional ones we have today.

Whilst breeder reactors produce waste, they can also reuse it, as well as being more efficient. Some proponents say they would allow us to reuse today's nuclear waste.
Additionally, the waste produced has a shorter half life than the waste produced from conventional reactors.
Is Elon Musk associated with this, because it is quite bad form to put a celebrity on your front page without an endorsement from them.
For every project and track what tasks you've done, your current task and your very next task, tasks remaining, what you are waiting on, and whether you are blocked on this task.

Every time you finish a task, return to this document (I use a text file), update all projects and pick the next task from your highest priority project.

If you need to report progress, track recently done tasks, moving them to the done list once you've reported.
Have you tried structured-haskell-mode[1]? There are video demonstrations here[2].

[1]: https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlzKKtH5TyE-R-k86na3b...
Thank you. We are planning to add Bitcoin at some, paying our translators across the world is sometimes hard.
There goes the Metro on everything train of thought. When Balmer said it I really thought they were going to figure it out. Apple kept OS X and iOS GUIs separate.

I really tried to like Metro on the desktop but 256x256 tiles just didn't make any sense. I don't think the iOS GUI is much better but I also don't spend hours looking at it. The desktop GUI is just a transfer point to what I need to do. I close Vis Studio to open Word, I close Word to open Excel, and etc.
The douchebag attorneys at the USPTO need some explanation for this madness. Given that King.com has successfully registered the "Candy" in Europe, doesn't mean it should be overlooked in America too. How can anyone actually trademark such an everyday word??
Bribe, kickback, gift, hat tip, patronage. All a matter of perspective I suppose.
As a life-long Seahawks fan and long-time season ticket holder, I'll correct some misconceptions.

First off, Browner was in the NFL prior to the incident. He actually started with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent out of college, then broke his arm in training camp and was ultimately cut. Unable to latch on with another NFL team, he started playing in Canada and was there for several years. When Pete Carroll was hired as the coach in Seattle, he inherited a lackluster roster and was looking to upgrade talent. He remembered Browner from Pac-10 (now Pac-12) college days (Browner played for Oregon State University, Pete Carroll coached USC), and gave him a try out. Browner made the team, became a starter.

After he was cut from Denver, he was reportedly broke, sleeping on friends couches and there was no reliable way to contact him (no cell phone). Once you're a member of the NFL player's union, you're obligated to take drug tests. What Browner didn't know (and most everyone, for that matter) was that unless you file your retirement papers, you're still under obligation to take the drug tests. Browner was supposed to take the drug tests, but without any way to contact him, he wasn't able to do so and didn't realize he was missing them. Missing a drug test automatically places one into "stage-3 offender" status, which basically means that if you fail any sort of drug test, you're automatically banned from the NFL (but can apply for reinstatement after a year - which is almost always granted).

So, what happened was is that he smoked weed and failed the test. Because he was placed in stage-3 due to his missed drug tests while he was in Canada, this failed drug test means he is suspended for a year and can apply for reinstatement after his suspension is up. It is devastating to him because he was on track to get a lucrative contract, as he is an above-average cornerback in the NFL. Now he will enter free-agency suspended for the better part of next year, and at the age 30 (which doesn't bode well for NFL players).

I love Browner and hope they get it sorted out. I've watched him play for years: he went to my alma mater and plays for my favorite NFL team.

Can't believe I just posted about sports on HN...
In my opinion Metro was bad. I couldn't see anything useful in this UI. It was an unbelivable waste of time every time I had to use it.

I understand that for MS it would have been great to have one OS for multiple devices but it did not work out for the PC users. Thats why it was not really an innvoation but a huge design test that has shown us: this is not the way they should go.
I'm on Mavericks running Emacs 24.3 installed through `brew`. I invoke `emacs --daemon` once when I start work and I have an alias and an Automator workflow to open files in GUI `emacsclient`s. No problems at all. What sort of issues are you seeing?
Evolution, You’re Drunk
It's considered the World's most perfect fruit. Have you guessed it already?
It's not quite this simple, but I can tell you that people have been leaving money on the table. This year I finally sat down and worked out the spreadsheets and last year my family paid nearly $12k in premiums + out of pocket and yet we had only $6k in actual costs. We are now on an HDHP that costs $1500/year and pays for hardly anything initially, but caps our annual out-of-pocket at around $12k. The upshot is that we save $5-6k in a typical/easy year and in a worst case year we pay an additional thousand or two. Seems like a pretty good trade-off to me.

The part I don't like about it is I've been raised in a world where you DO NOT ask the cost of a service when your health is on the line -- you just do what the doc says -- but now it's sensible for me to concern myself with the cost since they are coming out of my pocket directly (until I hit the cap). Doctors in the US are not typically prepared to discuss specific costs with you. This patient attitude and doctor attitude are each partially responsible for our health costs bring so out of control, in my opinion, and it is going to be a while before I can ask, "how much is this procedure for my child going to cost, and just how necessary is it?" without getting a dumbfounded stare in response and feeling like a crazy penny pincher.
Obviously this is a scammy marketing ploy, but they didn't even consider basic design elements for a Martian currency =(

> Bitcoin's confirmation delay of 10 minutes per block is too long for a young cryptocurrency on Mars - miners on Earth could interfer with their tremendous hashing speed and even if that does not pose a problem, waiting for block confirmations from distant Earth is even less desirable.

Google informs me Mars is up to 401 Gm from earth, or 22minutes at the speed of light. The block time should be longer than this communications lag so that miners on Mars and Earth can efficiently sync. Therefore, Marscoin's short confirmation time is a horrible design choice for a hyrbid Terran-Martian cryptocurrancy.
Then they patent Candy xxx saga. And begin pumping Candy Crush Saga, Candy Punch Saga, Candy Throw Saga, Candy Jump Saga. But both candy and saga should be in the game title.
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Visually, I love maps... but how are the land/water bodies arried at for shape and location, other than to earthropomorphicize the info...

A more realistic view could be to define body size based on traffic, and separation by "water" represented by index/dns-able access... so things which are not easily navigated to via the DNS-Highway would be a body of IP-Water away...

Ivory towers of secured enterprise space would be shown as well (i.e. internal corp goog stuff is in a tower -- its surrounding lands is where peasant traffic happens, and where they "tax" the fiefdoms interactions for their profit...
ZX Spectrum devs claim missing royalties from Elite Systems
Who knew that Marscoin was established in 2010?
> Microsoft’s customers don’t like change.

That is a ridiculous statement. Users don't like change when that change is for change's sake or when the change is for the worse.

Users do LOVE change when it makes the UX/UI better and they are more productive.

Shoving metro down people's gullets when metro is atrocious and is obvious to anyone who has even a rudimentary familiarity with UX is what causes the - well justified - backlash.
I wonder why this is a new topic then. Isn't it pretty established in either Lean Startup or Design Thinking that when building product, we should talk to/interview/research the people who will be using it? Especially in Design Thinking, it's required to do needfinding, which is talking to the barber in this case. And solutions in the brainstorming stage are certainly not confined within software.

We just need to be constantly reminded that our perception and reasoning about the world is subjective and often conscious. As designers, or product builders, we should be willing to understand other people's reasoning, putting aside ours.
Serious question, what is more efficient than monoculture? I know there are downsides to monoculture but I wasn't aware there was another method that was more efficient. Even without taking labor costs into account, which you really should because that can be a very large cost, more than just "undesirable" (which isn't even true as lots of crops require lots of manual labor to harvest.)

Perhaps with automation this cost can be brought down significantly though, so I really am curious what the optimal method would be.
This response is quite strange in my eyes, because the website doesn't invent anything new, it actually says to use less bloat, which is always a good thing. Why use a well tested function if you can completely get rid of it?

And yes, less code, less abstraction, and less requirements are damn good reasons not to do something.