skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not familiar with OpenFL, /u/larsiusprime posted a nice summary of how it's used:

"OpenFL is is a programming API that mirrors the Flash API, but in the Haxe language. So you take your old ActionScript code and port it over to Haxe (very similar language, but with additional features). Then you also take your Flash-vector-art SWF files, and you load it with the Haxe SWF library. OpenFL ensures you can still make all the same method calls to the Flash API, etc.

When you compile, you select one of many targets, kinda like unity: C++, JavaScript, etc. It conveniently packages those targets up into special configurations like "Android", "Windows", "HTML5", "Linux", etc.

So you can take your existing flash code and art, but get it running NATIVELY, in say, Linux desktop, with no need for the flash plugin or AIR runtime -- it's just a C++ app that does the same stuff (and much faster!)

You can also output to HTML5 so your players don't need the flash plugin anymore (the HTML5 target is still fairly new).
As an end user, there's nothing for you to really do, except to wait for flash developers to switch over to it. From your perspective, all you'll really see is that instead of Flash apps on the web, there's more HTML5 apps. And instead of AIR apps for games on the desktop, they're natively compiled for Linux. What happened in these cases is that the developers were using Flash before but switched to OpenFL."
Who are you currently for your telecom services? I'm always surprised about the amount of money businesses spend on their phone system.
I respectfully disagree. As far as I understand, it is not about Q&A/jeopardy kind of context. It's about generating a TED speech that would involve deep domain expertise but more importantly tone and speech technics to make it great to hear...
Around 300USD/month on close to 15 services.
Thanks :) Scoring is one of the criteria we are looking into. We need to be careful not to bias predictions too much towards high scoring predictors. We are now filtering profiles by country. Once we get to a healthy user base, we will introduce more filtering options.
A Plea for Lean Software – Niklaus Wirth, 1995
Suggest HN: Active user count display
It would be interesting to see the number of currently active users at the top of the page. Maybe even have sub-counts per comment thread.
For example: you are at the front page. You see "521 active users". You click on the "comments" link of a story. You see "103 users viewing".
What do you think?
Nashorn looks like it provides a very nice bridge. It looks like a solid bet if you want to interact with JavaScript without using JavaScript itself.
Simplest way to integrate with Google, LinkedIn and Xing
I agree. Did you read the article?
While I agree with you that rent-seekers have more concentrated wealth than us merely overpaid people, I don't know how to voluntarily separate those people from their money.
What about reliability? Current stable official node mongodb native driver throws away exceptions in callbacks, as acknowledged by MongoDB Inc.

There have been other 'surprises' in the past.
Context: I posted that description on the /r/linux_gaming thread to a user who initially thought that OpenFL was a plugin or something and was wondering "what they needed to do" to use it.
> They never go out of circulation.

It has happened in other places, e.g. Sweden, Norway and ("recently") Denmark with exactly 3 years grace period: https://www.nationalbanken.dk/DNUK/NotesAndCoins.nsf/side/25...
Rest.

For a while, do a lot of nothing. Long walks. Relaxed hikes. Meditation. Sitting at cafes, watching the world go by. Dawdling on park benches, tree stumps, beaches.

Why? Well, part of it is that high-stress jobs have a long-term cost. You likely need to heal. But it also sounds like you have both a learned habit of and a natural bias toward keeping busy.

That business has its benefits. But for me at least it was also a symptom of avoidance. I didn't want to think about uncomfortable things in my past, my present self, my likely future. Changing that has made an enormous difference in my life, and I wish I had done it years ago.

So book a lot of time for rest until you feel like you can sit quietly for a half hour without resorting to distraction. You could try an Unschedule [1] for that as a way to get started. Or you could just have some set working hours and let the rest of the time be. And definitely consider picking up a meditation practice. I'd suggest simple insight meditation (aka Vipassana) as an easy way to start.

[1] http://www.lifeclever.com/how-to-unschedule-your-work-and-en...
"Guy on the beach with a laptop".

Seriously, lots of time/little money is why Thailand was invented in the first place. Rock up on Tonsai beach today, just as the high season is winding down and you'll have no problem negotiating a bungalow for less than $300/month if you tell them you plan to stay a while.

They have good enough internet for casual remote work, good power, awesome rock climbing, Australian girls sipping stiff drinks out of a coconut, and all that James Bond Villain Headquarters scenery that Thailand is famous for.

And there are roughly thirty thousand equally nice beaches scattered across this world that will offer pretty much the same combination of cheap living, paradise, and wifi.

Sucks to be the rest of us. Keep us posted!
I'm in. An unbiased HN for scientists/engineers/old-time hackers would be just great. This site's format is perfect, but the scope is too narrow.
I agree that a paraphrase =/= a quote.

Are you saying my paraphrase significantly misrepresented him? If so, how?

(I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just genuinely don't understand your point.)
ELI5: What does a CEO of a large company do in a "typical" week
Aphyr did the same "Call Me Maybe" posts for other databases as well, highlighting their shortcomings. MongoDB has issues, but other databases have their rough edges as well. It all depends on how you use them.

For a group of people that know nothing but hammers, screwdrivers don't make much sense. This feels often what these "bash Mongo" arguments sound like.

There is no silver bullet. Just flippin' understand the tool you are using and how to use it.
To be fair this is an article that takes the opinions of employees of Rackspace, specifically, to deliver it's "verdict" which isn't a verdict so much as a collection of pluses and minuses. More importantly, Rackspace offers a Mongodb service (which they plug at the end of the article) so take their opinion with a grain of salt.

Kind of like a Chevrolet dealer writing an article offering a "verdict" on the Chevy Volt that consists of opinions of Chevy engineers and mechanics and ending the article with a link to their showroom selection. Not invalid but not objective and not really a verdict.
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People who don't see anything broken are going to be opposed to random experiments. It's like pivoting a successful business - no one does that.
So what I got from that is that Haxe is a statically typed javascript with actual honest-to-god macros. Married to a trivially simple 2D graphics and audio framework, that thousands of developers are already familiar with.

That's awesome!
This is my android app HN
I learned Android in 2 weeks and created simple app for a local music band, Can you software engineers look at my app and my code also https://github.com/yunyeng/Zardanadam/blob/master/src/appversion1/zardanadam/MainActivity.java

Thanks !
I took on a similar shift last year, with a similar drive to cement my grasp of a few languages. Depending on your location, I cant recommend highly enough looking for a hotdesking site if there is one nearby. This will not only break up the monotony of your house, and provide a clear "work/play" separation, but will stick you in with like minded people / freelancers who may be further along the process. This "productive socialising" hits two birds with one stone, accelerating your learning and keeping you sane!
Listen to your customers.
Small, conservative design shop, SaaS is about $60-80 per seat per month, varying by role. The bulk of that is Creative Cloud, which is at least twice as expensive as it should be.
Same thing I was thinking. Not too keen on providing all of my information without some sort of example(s).
Slower than Postgres ... ha.
How are you going to make Backbone calls without Javascript? I believe the author's goal was to allow his single page web app to be properly indexed by search engines (which don't execute javascript) without having to change any of his code.
There's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
Pretty much my sentiment too. Noise is good. I endorse a comment by reading halfway through it.

Forget about making unpopular viewpoints, no matter politeness or evidence; they're not getting past the pending comments filter.
i is a real number, it's one-fifth of v.
> OpenFL is an implementation of the Flash API written in the Haxe programming language.

Other than "Papers Please," who is using Haxe for production (i.e., making money on products built with it), and for what?
Depends a lot on the person. For me, I've divided snack foods into "things I will eat when bored" and "things I will only eat when I'm actually hungry". There are very few on that latter list, but they are the only ones I'll keep in the house.
No problem! I've thought many times how to solve this problem, but all of the data is opaque :( Wish you guys well!
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Every time I read an article about Haxe (and now, OpenFL), I get the itch to start working on a mobile game--just as a hobby project.

That said, does anyone know how well-suited these frameworks are for regular application development (or whether there exists alternatives)? I've been thinking about wipping up a mobile app, and while I could write the Android code, my knowledge of Objective-C is so limited at the moment that I'd like to avoid duplicating the same logic in another environment/language...
Man, I need to go break the news to our customers that are successfully inserting millions of documents per hour (and their apps running nicely ... probably an app you have used) to inform them that, in all reality, they are "failing miserably."

They'd be shocked(!) at the news. ;)
I was sick of BuzzFeed quizzes on Facebook, so I made something better.
Two servers from OVH is my only expense for side projects, total is around $30/pm

Using quite a few free services like Pingdom, Cloudflare, Analytics etc...
$80k/month, SaaS company running on AWS.
If you're going to go to a bar and socialize, get a low-priced single malt scotch, and really stretch it out. Bartenders will let you nurse a single scotch far longer than the equivalent dollar amount of beer. Also, most people's bodies recognize that scotch isn't all that good for them, so you will feel biological pressure to not drink very much at all.
What is preventing them from just playing back a pre recorded speech from a human?
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There is already a "downvote to gray-out" feature for that, that works fine for the few comments like that.
Till the whole NSA thing came out I was spending around $200-$300 for several services. After that I switched to a local server and FOSS alternatives to Dropbox, Github & co.

Now my SaaS spending is $0 or $10 depending on if you count Spotify as SaaS.
Couldn't Miku Hatsune do this now?
It always makes me happy to see my game engine mentioned here. Thank you! :)

Just to chime in, I believe that HTML5 currently is as "cross-platform" as it can get, especially for games. Two examples made with Impact:

- Olympia Rising[1] - this game recently had a successful kickstarter campaign and will be released for various desktop platforms and maybe more later.

- XType Plus[2] - my own game coming to the Nintendo Wii U, using the Nintendo Web Framework. It's a pimped up version of this XType[3], which you can play in your browser right now.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paleozoic/olympia-risin...

[2] http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/developer_interview...

[3] http://phoboslab.org/xtype/
1) Nickelodeon (using Flambe) -- web/mobile games

2) Disney (using Flambe) -- web/mobile games

3) Flambe (Haxe game engine)

4) reach3DX (next-gen 3D engine by Gamebryo)

5) Defender's Quest 2 (me) (HaxeFlixel engine)

6) Even the Ocean (Anodyne devs) (HaxeFlixel engine)

7) Rymdkapsel (Grapefrukt games)

8) Cardinal Quest II -- web/mobile (HaxeFlixel engine)

9) TiVo -- interface stuff I guess?

10) Tizen

11) Firefox OS -- just partnered with Flambe

12) Stencyl (Haxe game engine)

13) Motion-Twin (game studio that created Haxe)

14) Shiro Games (EvoLand devs)

That's just off the top of my head. So anyone using HaxeFlixel/HaxePunk/reach3dx/Flambe/OpenFL/Stencyl are all using Haxe-based game engines.
In Google’s Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women (2012)
You don't decide. The point of Basic Income is that it's unconditional and universal. If somebody can prove they're a citizen, they get the BI, no need to determine their income.

As for a $4k tax being "crippling to a good chunk of them" -- no, you misunderstand the nature of BI. If we're paying $20k worth of BI in this scenario, then the mean income should be about $40k (since a good level for BI -- in basically any economy -- is about 50% of the mean). We could then support a flat $20k/person BI with a flat 50% earned-income tax. This means that the payments and receipts, per person would look like this:

Income Tax +BI Net Effective tax rate
$0 -$0 $20k $20k N/A
$10k -$5k $20k $15k N/A
$20k -$10k $20k $10k N/A
$30k -$15k $20k $5k N/A
$40k -$20k $20k $0 N/A
$50k -$25k $20k -$5k 10%
$60k -$30k $20k -$10k 15%
...
$100k -$50k $20k -$30k 30%
...
$1,000k -$500k $20k -$490k 49%

As you can see, people making the mean income or less would make nothing at all. People making moderately more than the mean income would pay a little bit, but no more than they currently pay to support benefits programs. The only people paying a lot would be the people who could afford it.
Apart from salary, is any indication provided of the volume of matching jobs/locations?
How is this different than Glassdoor.com?
good job man
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Apple may launch Spotify rival and iTunes Android app
Amen on the freelancing. Most people judge contractors the same way they judge wine: they look at the sticker price and figure it's meaningful. The more you charge, the better your clients listen to you. Which often means the better you can serve them.
Different strokes etc. I suspect that it is partially an age thing. I've always worn a watch and like being able to glance at my wrist casually and see the time--and it's just a cheap digital Timex, nothing jewelry-like. (And, in general, I hate jewelry; a watch is the only thing I wear.)
> You should also look at it from the other side: if I have a job that I work at 8-10 hours a day (and might not do if I didn't need the money), how am I "punishing" the other guy by not sharing the fruits of my labor with him for nothing in return?

The question itself is incorrect. Low-paid workers or the unemployed are not parasites on highly-paid workers; the capitalist class is a parasite on all workers, no matter the salary, and through their control over government they continually engineer a level of unemployment that can suppress wages.

(If you don't believe me about the government, look up how inflation targeting works. Central banks are supposed to target both low unemployment and low inflation, but for the past several decades, the deliberate policy choice has been to consistently sacrifice wage growth (ie: exploit workers harder) in order to maintain both low inflation and economic growth at the same time.)
Looks like Adobe are about to lose a key asset through management incompetence. The Xerox of our time?
How close are they to a "demo version"?
This is pretty cool. And it looks sweet.
> A big misconception is that tax breaks only help those who already have income exceeding the size of the credit, which is not necessarily true.

Its actually always misleading, its just which way it is misleading varies.

For non-refundable credits, a credit only helps if your tax liability (not income) is greater than zero, and only provide full value if the tax liability is at least as big as the credit.

For a refundable credit, it gives full value all the time (well, independent of tax liability -- the eligibility criteria for the credit itself matter.)
The arrow keys also do the same. And scroll is modal in that a scrolling content area gets the scroll first, but when it reaches the end, the parent then gets it (i.e. the page).
There is an excellent chapter called 'on teaching of geometry in Russia' [1] discussing how Geometry stayed important even after west moved away from euclid.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Mathematics-Education-Programs...
Looking at my Expenses Table[1] I am spending about $16.52 a week on SaaS: GitHub, Creative Cloud, IRCCloud, Private Internet Access and Last.fm. In a few weeks I’ll be adding FreshBooks to this table. I don’t host any demanding side projects - really just anything that can be hosted on GitHub Pages - so most of my expenses are to facilitate my design consultancy.

http://eswat.ca/expenses/
Don't forget one of Patio11's products is almost entirely leveraging telecom services for it's functionality: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/

So I doubt he is just talking about a generic office phone when mentioning teleco services.
Proper growth hacking is different from what he's talking about, I think. Proper growth hacking would be presenting a product in a way that makes it easy for people to share it with others. In my opinion, a good growth hacker is the one that obsesses over the tag line and works to bring popular social causes into the product while a bad growth hacker is someone who obsesses over A/B testing.
Easy. TED Talks are already ALICEbots trained on BuzzFeed articles anyway.
I'm sorry, this is absurd. You truly think that so many experienced database professionals and software developers speak out about the dangers of using it solely to be "cool"?

You really don't think it has anything to do with the numerous serious technical deficiencies it suffers from? (Read some of the other comments for this submission if you really do need more details about these problems.)

When it comes to databases, fooling around just isn't an option. If a given database technology has flaws, then those flaws need to be widely known. And this isn't done to be "cool". This is done because the safety and integrity of data are of the utmost importance when working with database systems, and it's absolutely critical to know about anything that may cause problems.
Glassdoor gives salary ranges based on title, company, etc. Our aim is to provide personalized salary predictions based on your education, experience and skillset.
AT&T Calls Netflix 'Arrogant' on Paying for Additional Bandwidth
Why would we want to live in a dog-eat-dog survivalist dystopia straight out of an '80s cyberpunk novel?
Darwin Toolbox
what was the point of this article other than to just plug their hosted mongodb service
What if the copy is running while I'm still alive, would I experience what the copy experiences? No, right? So what gives? Why should I expect to live on in my software copy?
I think this article is just google bait, there is nothing of any real consequence in it.
I'm going to hope this puff piece from an ISP PR firm doesn't make it very high on HN.
There are no columns in this design. The behaviour you're describing can't occur since this isn't a 2d matrix of keys. The keys are grouped such that putting voltage on an input pin will result in an output voltage on many pins depending on which keys are pressed at the time.
Did anybody else think 'I bet we could retrain the Hacker News headline generator with past TED talks?'
Thank you both! You are definitely right, it is now the first thing on our list.
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>The US has a system that rewards exceptionalism and excellence, the Canadian system generally rewards mediocrity (this is even evidence in other fields such as law and even academia).

That sounds like a Polandball-grade national stereotype, and I'd really prefer to hear some justification.
Absolute poppycock. Redis, Riak, Postgres, MSSQL drivers all work quite well.
Actually, there's something I'd like to ask you re: that. Is there any chance of Ejecta being ported to other mobile platforms, Android in particular?
That would be IaaS. It's probably too late now, but it would have been interesting had this asked about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Would you say he's a "Brazilianaire"?
While I understand the idea behind it, you may be causing more of a problem psychologically in knowing that your friends are doing more while you're just watching. A hundred trips, engagements, or raises does nothing to boost your own self esteem.[0][1]

[0]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/19/213568...

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/the-r...
Thanks, I read that article. Do you think Indian English is strictly colloquial similar to the dialects of English we have in the US? Or does it have its own accepted grammar enforced by proofreaders and copy editors?

For example African American Vernacular (aka ebonics) and Southern American English both have their own Wikipedia pages as well, but you would never find the Washington Post or New York Times using them in an article.
Which is "collateral damage", not "nuking a city", in the propaganda game.
right off the bat, I'm not so comfortable about giving the site access to my LinkedIn account. No promise that it wont spam my account somehow or post things to my Linkedin feed.
I echo your enthusiasm, but haxe is not really statically typed javascript any more than java is. It's also not really married to any framework, OpenFl just happens to be one of the most popular ones right now. Most 2d apis are trivially simple these days. OpenFL doesn't leave anything out there at least. If you're interested in more sophisticated 3d support, OpenFL provides a surprising level of functionality there, including recently announced support for stereoscopic 3d.
I'm quite disappointed that this interview doesn't mention the actual influence: Threes![1].

That said, the authors of Threes! are happy to see their ideas spread and according to wikipedia are ok with the clones[2].

As for comparing the games, Threes! is much harder than 2048 and friends. I recommend checking it out if you haven't yet.

[1] http://asherv.com/threes/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threes!#cite_ref-28
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> You truly think that so many experienced database professionals and software developers speak out about the dangers of using it solely to be "cool"?

Yes, I do, actually. I see a TON of out-of-date commentary on places like HN, or just stuff that is factually incorrectly.

I have used MongoDB in production for 3+ years, and it hasn't caused any problems.

I will say the out-of-the-box set up isn't what you want in production.
Perch CMS had paid back all costs (other than our time) 24 hours from launch.

It took almost 4 years for it to replace our entire income as a consultancy and for us to stop taking on client projects. Between launch and that point we were slowly scaling back the client work as the customer base for Perch grew.
I'm a recent graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK; If classical guitar is something that interests you music-wise, I'd be happy to help point you in the right direction. alir3142@gmail.com