skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing progress and speed on Shippable compared to competition. Nice to see such a core part of the devops world getting improved. Whole CI/CD world only works if it is easy to test and ship. Most of the build systems have high friction and many companies don't understand how fragile these core systems are. Very worthwhile thing to outsource instead of hiring a Jenkins expert to scale it.

Looking forward to seeing more progress from this group in the months ahead.
Experience with a specific product is way overrated because a) products don't last forever, programming does b) any decent programmer can learn how to work with harp in about the same time it would take a Wordpress expert to get up to speed with your particular Wordpress setup
Which is sort of the purpose of the current structure. The studios are under contract and receive funding...

I would also imagine "on budget" will trump most quality or artistic issues in this project...
One reason it's problematic is that people can get addicted to it, they can spend all their (& their families money), and you won't know until it's too late. If one were an alcholic, there's physically a limit to how much you can drink in one day (because you'll eventually pass out), and people will know (since you'll be drunk all the time). But one could pop into a bookie at lunch time, and lose €10,000 on a horse in one bet, and no-one, like your family, will know until the bank comes to take your house.
I have to give Amazon credit. I signed up for a trial yesterday and when I saw this I figured I'd have to subscribe at the new price, but that's not the case. In a month, when my trial expires I'm eligible for the old price. My renewal the following year will be for the new price.

Looks like they're handling this really well and respecting their customers!
Thanks, I guess in the back of my mind, I knew already it wouldn't be so easy.
But any money you're giving can only be given once.
That link doesn't seem to work for me, Google's cache is also not returning anything.
yup that's my point.
Impossibly hard.
You don't need a warrant if the party consents, and as far as I know, AT&T hands that information over voluntarily or in response to valid subpoenas.
Often used?

Number of times I have used view tags: Once.
The rise in cancer incidence is mostly due to people living longer; advancing age is the biggest risk factor for most cancers.

Anyway there are many other risk factors, and evidence for corn itself being one is scant. Alcohol intake, smoking, red meat consumption, lack of dietary fibre, high salt levels in one's diet and obesity are much more concerning, given the correlative evidence.
SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured.
Reminds me of Roger's chair : http://www.arrickrobotics.com/chair/

The scorpion looking thing (http://greenstylo.blogspot.com/2013/08/emperor-1510-workstat...) is probably the ultimate one for me though. That would be pretty awesome.
That's exactly where this is going next, you watch.

We need something to do with all the guys returning from war, correct? Private security on public funds.

Perfect.
The wheel, a truly great design pattern.
I see nothing in that link about lack of care or social benefits leading to this. The most gold-plated safety net in the world cannot save someone from stage IV metastasized melanoma.

His example is irrelevant.
The one big mistake I think the Agile people made is not trademarking the term Agile and then enforcing some standards. There was discussion early on, but for some reason it never happened. For Agile it would have been hard, because Agile isn't a methodology on its own; it's an umbrella for a bunch.

Enforcing standards doesn't make it proof against being undermined, but it does make it harder. There's still a tradeoff between being popular and being great that's hard to resolve. Especially since a popular, non-great thing is more likely to get lots of money and attention.
I agree. I figured you were right, but verified just to be sure, and how about that.
This device is a bigger piece of equipment using more power, with physical interconnects to other areas on a plan. Moreover it normally not located a place where you can lift it up and throw it in a bucket of water, or rip out its battery if something should go wrong.
Cluttered, messy, ugly and how the hell can you read the screens from back there ?
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty but with a sheep! Looks cool though.
Almost at tears reading this. If I have to die today, the most painful thing will be seeing by family going away from me, and most importantly my precious daughter who is just few months old now.

I run a startup (around wishing & bucket-list) and I keep telling folks - life is short, fulfill every wish you have. Be strong bro, that is all I can say now.
How We Grew Conversions 100% by Rethinking Our Design Strategy
Txtcam – webcam for your terminal
The map of North America looks a little funny without the Great Lakes drawn in.
Pixowl found it's most engaged players on the Amazon Appstore
The problem is that even with the tax subsidies these plans are too expensive. I was looking at them with my currently uninsured brother and the plans for his family of 5 start at ~$400 / month with the subsidy. These "cheap" plans have a $12k deductible. Unless something catastrophic occurs, he is essentially paying a minimum $4800 more per year and still having to pay the deductible for all his regular doctor visits. At this point it looks cheaper for him to just pay the penalty and out of pocket medical costs. It's basically a chicken and the egg situation. The only way out I can think of resolving this is dumping the ACA completely or going to single payer.
fuck, you are dumb
Lot's of open source projects have very hierarchical or "traditional" structures and management.
Looks like you changed your domain name. Probably best to shed that "excel" name.

http://slateforexcel.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585889
Same here, and without the carrot of "free shipping" it is much easier to just place an order elsewhere now.
Small correction, but it was actually University of San Diego.

The article about Brandon Johnson and the point shaving is here:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/105453...
Which as I mentioned is a really cool sound that I would like to hear.
Why does buying and selling buildings cost money?

First of all, it can take some effort to find a buyer. This effort needs to be expended regardless, and I don't see how it's better to in-source the work to the selling government agency. They are not professional brokers, have little incentive to act quickly or efficiently, and we've already established that they don't have any magical database that makes the buyer obvious. Just let a commercial RE broker handle it like a business would.

Second, you need to settle-up the accounting so it's no longer on the seller's books, and is now on the buyer's books. That means you need to agree to a price. You can skip this because "it's all part of the federal government", but that leaves us with the mess we have now: nobody knows what buildings are being used by whom at what cost. Accounting costs are not waste; otherwise large private (not publicly-traded) companies would fire their accountants. So it seems like the best course of action is to do the same negotiation and accounting work that happens as a part of the sale.

So the buying/selling costs are not a waste, they are money well-spent. It's possible to make them more efficient in special circumstances -- maybe the costs of due diligence, fraud prevention, title insurance, etc. are little or nothing when buying from the federal government. But those special cases can be handled as special cases and there could be a cheaper, quicker path to sell if those circumstances are met.
Wait, so the goal of the ACA is to get young, 'healthy' people to buy insurance to subsidize the rest of us as we get older and less healthy. Geeks who launch startups pretty regularly end up without any income for a while, and as has been stated in other threads many times, this means you end up on Medicaid. Isn't this counterproductive? Wouldn't the ACA be better off if they get healthcare coverage but don't launch startups?
You can read about it here at Slashdot: http://www.hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/047243/Hidde...
You Won't Believe What This Guy Got Addicted To ...
I disagree. The "companies so technically incompetent they have to hire consultants" are the norm. Think Fortune 500 companies developing internal software tools here; a lot of these guys are still stuck in the "we release software every year and hope the requirements haven't changed" mindset. Meanwhile the "customer" expectations have changed: people expect faster releases because Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. update their shit every month. The business environment changes quickly too; the old development ways just aren't fast enough to keep up.

Agile helps force groups like this, who have been doing things a certain way for a long time, to re-think how they manage requirements and release schedules. Most likely, the developers at the bottom level have been screaming about this for years, but middle management doesn't hear them because they're stuck in meetings all day having to explain why all their projects are over budget because change management costs are through the roof. Along comes Agile as a solution to all of this.

This isn't a technical problem, it's a management problem. So yeah, a lot of these companies hire consultants to come in and tell them how/what to do because consultants have no skin in the game and aren't involved in the typical petty management squabbles.
Might get them to repeal some useless laws and trim down the laws they want to pass so they don't impact so much.

I don't think it would be that bad overall once they realize the quagmire their current methodology really means.
All of the fonts featured in the article are free for personal and commercial use. And yeah font piracy is a pretty big issue. I'm sure Proxima Nova is one of the most pirated fonts in the world. I see it on websites everywhere and I have a hard time believing every site actually purchased a license...
> incorporated an LLC in the States

LLC aren't incorporated, because they aren't corporations. they're companies. there's a big difference.
Good offline mode is the biggest thing missing from the current apps IMO. DuoLingo's was mediocre but on the latest update they completely broke it. Memrise lets you download a lesson but most of the mnemonics, which are the big draw, don't actually download, so it loses a lot of its functionality and just turns into flashcards.

I do most of my studying on my commutes which are all on the subways.
If it's just a simple demo app, I probably wouldn't use it as a example of good C++ practice.

Many C++ devs have a different idea on what idiomatic C++ should look like. C++11 really shakes things up as well.

There's no reason a "using namespace std;" is bad, as long as it isn't in the header. If it's in the header file, every file that includes that header will have it's namespace polluted with std declarations, and this leads to a big nasty chain of potential name conflicts (one header file includes another and so on and so forth).
Are you quite sure they aren't collecting content? The storage is feasible, and several remarks (slips?) by people in a position to know suggest that they are in fact doing this, if not to everyone, then to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

http://blog.rubbingalcoholic.com/post/52913031241/its-not-ju...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/evidence_that...
My father was in the same situation when he was 38 and somehow managed to make it to 48. I truly hope you are graced with the same luck as him.
Who are "they"?

Hypotheses and projections are constantly refined. But in comparison to estimates on things like coal or climate, the population growth models are almost trivially simple, and while the numbers are adjusted up and down regularly to account for actual data, all data we have show the population growth consistently slowing down.

For starters, one of the things that make the population models straightforward compared to a lot of other things we might try to model, is that we can compare countries, and as it happens there are patterns that have consistently applied to countries as they develop, and that we have detailed data on: As life expectancy increases, growth rates drop to near or below maintenance rates.

Unless the remaining countries with rapid growth are somehow drastically different, it would take massive, earth-shattering changes for the population growth not to stop. It's not realistically a question of if it stops, but when and how high the peak will be, and how much the population will fall back afterwards before growth resumes (the expectation is that it will fall back because we get a "bulge" similar to what we're seeing these days due to the baby-boomer generation, and eventually the people in that bulge will start to die off).

Even many developing countries have long ago entered into the phase where it is not birth rates that is the cause of ongoing growth, but improving life expectancy, which means that their growth will eventually stop.

And with countries like China heading rapidly towards contraction as early as 2030 (with net growth now down to around 1/3 of its peak in the mid 80's, driven by a fertility rate far below maintenance), even the remaining high growth countries would have to dramaticall raise their population growth if we are to continue seeing overall growth.
interested in the technology stack behind this. How do you make an app that works inside Excel? Is there an add-in or add-on development? What about supporting older versions of Excel?
Note, if you look at the actual Vimeo page[0], this was originally posted on May 13, 2009.

[0] http://vimeo.com/4636202
It's still pretty new, but I have really enjoyed it. I have the Phantom 2 (not the Phantom 2 vision which comes with a camera) along with the gimbal and GoPro. The stability is astonishing. I have gotten a good hang of flying it, but haven't yet taken it on a trip so I just have videos of around town (in Florida, so there could be worse places to shoot in the winter).

It's still a little bit wild west in that you can tell the companies are still targeted at selling to RC hobbyists. The Phantom is good in this regard as it's ready to fly, but if you want first person view (FPV) that's still a chore (there are a ton of options and it's pretty much up to searching forums for people who have strong opinions on everything). I'd like to just toss some money at a company that provides a complete FPV solution along with up to date and easy installation instructions... Alas.
Only if you define data as "something that the NSA has".
I appreciate that they've overstepped their boundaries but this is probably taking things a bit far.

The existence of metadata doesn't imply the continued existence of the original data. Just that it has existed.
I am an international tax lawyer AMA
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Thanks for the feedback, this is something we are actually working on. Keep tuned :)
In my experience anything that Xcode promises to just work, just doesn't but yes they have at least improved provisioning.

The original point was that there are steps to go through, and creating a paid developer account is a non trivial step
If you're a cynic then the key goes from cheap (dark colored countries) to expensive (lighter colored countries) corruption.
I travelled from Tanzania to Uganda on a cargo ship.
This is a really annoying UX, I can't even tell who the top five countries are because the hover-overs overflow above the visible area of the map.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/the-ille...

But those are not hip tech entrepreneurs...
If American public transportation fans would stop fantasizing about trains and instead do what really works for most people -- buses

Trains really work for large numbers of people. A single NYC subway train can carry something like 2,400 people. A bus can carry something like 1/10 of that at best. Once you factor in the subway and local train services to New Jersey, CT, Long Island and Upstate New York you really, really don't want to think of buses as the future of mass transit in dense urban areas.
I'll echo mattlutze and say that the EB visas are a great track to come here in the US.

Also, I'm a foreigner with a non-immigrant visa, but that didn't stop me from incorporating and I know that if I hire someone or did business in another state I'll have to register or incorporate in that state (I got that by my own research, if that wasn't given to you then you received bad counsel).

Not anyone can just come to Europe and just live there, In the countries you mentioned, I'll need a job offer before I can even start the process to get a work visa (I can't even visit Europe without a Schengen visa).
Financial incentives could be set up between agencies. Say for example DOT has extra office space in one building and they can rent it out to DSNY for cheap. Then DOT gets money they wouldn't otherwise, and DSNY can pay less than they might pay to rent office space in a private building (This is just an example and I don't know if DSNY actually rents, but I know some agencies do).

This works if you can relocate teams of people together (along with their stuff). Also advances in technology help here, as you can scan paperwork into a document management system and virtualize peoples machines so that it matters less where they are actually sitting. The city is doing some of this, but they move slowly.
awesome game! very addictive!
Great stuff. Very entertaining read.

This said, I am a bit skeptical about the asessment of "game hotness". Of course games that are tied or close near the end exhibit significant agitation at that stage (and "boring 1st halves") from a betting standpoint.

This might sound obvious, but great games are not just about the outcome. Think of something like soccer, where few points are scored in a given match. It would be very interesting to see what the data looks like for those, as there are fewer data points.
Disclaimer: I'm not the author, it's just a project that I find cool.
A bias against South America by the people who are reporting their perceptions of corruption in their own countries?
question about the screenshot here https://prismic-io.s3.amazonaws.com/wroom/6018bdb7cc0be70b68...

what do you call that facebook-esque feed story? Is there an open source template that one can use in their projects?

is it using yahoo's PureCSS?
There are steps to go through for android too. The original comment about deployment is false, and doesn't make any distinction about one time setup.

> That's also because deploying an APK on a test device (or several devices) is way easier than deploying an IPA on an iOS device.

False.

> it's easy to push the APK to my phone as part of the build process, and I don't even have to plug my device in to do so.

Also true of iOS.

If you want to make the case that enrolling in the developer program is a hassle, that's fine, but it's misleading to make it sound as though that is part of the build process.
Laws are like sediment dropping to the bottom of the lake. Eventually there is no lake.

I see no appetite for the wholesale dredging needed to fix the problem. To the contrary -- everyone is looking for government to help. See Tesla's experience in New Jersey yesterday, for instance.

For what it is worth, what I see in the tech community (in only a few situations at the moment, admittedly) is people opting out by renouncing U.S. citizenship and establishing their companies in more amenable climates. This is one solution.

The other solution is to not be part of the problem. Don't be one of those people who want Auntie Sam to help you win some sort of competitive advantage, and resist efforts by people (like the car dealers against Tesla) who attempt to screw things up.

And if Gov. Christie attempts to run for President, remember Tesla. Vote well.
Northern Irish black taxis used to use this basic idea sans the technology. You'd typically get in to a taxi, ask what direction it's going, and if it was going roughly where you wanted, you'd wait until it had filled up with other people going in the same direction.

As you'd imagine, getting from the centre of town back home was fine, but it didn't quite work the other way.

Making this process more flexible by adding technology is a great idea, though it'd depend on the demographic of people who'd want a service like this and whether they actually have smartphones.
I've used Trello & FogBugz over the years and we've even modeled some of our software after some of the practices they've written about. Amazing stuff!
My setup: http://i.imgur.com/HKhovMT.jpg

I used to sit on a normal desk chair but it felt wrong. I can sit here for longer without issue, though I still get up every half hour. As long as I ensure my head is touching the back of the chair as well as the bottom of my back (i.e., no hunch), my spine is easily straight and I have absolutely no back problems after working for a long time, which happens on occasion, believe it or not.
That's interesting. I have Thinking Fast and Slow as an audiobook I've not yet got round to listening to.

Does he talk about other theories? I wonder if there's also an element of what the person has tied up in that skill and what the consequences of being bad at it are?

Certainly it seems unlikely that anyone would want to admit to being bad at their job (kind of tantamount to admitting to be a fraud), or at something which, as with driving, can be actively dangerous if you're bad at it.
Neil Young's new "Pono" music player smashes 800k Kickstarter goal
Try out HealthSherpa[0]. It shows plans available by location instead of income.

[0] https://www.healthsherpa.com/
I like the idea, you should have a reseller accounts. a reseller could sell a single instance and the customer has their own dashboard.
Playfair Display has a very elegant and classical look. Especially set in italics for headers. It actually pairs fairly well with Georgia. Look into Alegreya as well.
He computes "hotness" for soccer (football, to me) matches too: http://www.gambletron2000.com/?sport=epl%2Cchampions

As you'd imagine, each goal brings about a massive spike in implied win/loss probability.
I did not mention gcj, it is a dead project since 2009.

I don't know, but I guess enterprises do trust Aicas, Aonix, IBM, Excelsior and quite a few others.
I've actually come to the conclusion Agile propagates poor developers and poor managers.

I've known some really good developers who go belly up in Agile systems because they can't cope with the tight deadlines, having to ship something in two weeks, or people constantly breathing down their necks.

Over the years, I feel like Agile has been used to deliver mediocre products, and in turn, turned good developers into shitty developers simply because the "business" wants to ship something a lot sooner than it should be. It's a downward spiral since all they care about is something getting built, not the inherit quality of said product.

Hence, its because of Agile there are shitty developers and shitty products being shipped, not the other way around.
A ship designed for war, not being used for war, but costing the government money, is not useful to anyone except the people receiving the money. So, I guess in that respect, if the money is going into something other than the local economy, it's really a poor form of stimulus.

So, it's a values difference, then.