skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we've been hearing this "the old continent with its big government and socialist laws is dying" crap for generations, and so far the only major fuck-ups have been in the ideologically driven attempts to be more like the US.

The Greeks just called and asked if you could give them a loan.

I think you're right that there are multiple roads that lead to success, but not all roads do. The economic policies of quite a few European nations over the past decade or two have been unsustainable, and as we have now confirmed the hard way, that means sooner or later things break spectacularly. There's not much point comparing working conditions between Europe and the US when one of these places has widespread unemployment and there is literally rioting on the streets, as was the case not very long ago.

As 'gadders observed, there have been other economic policy decisions in (parts of) Europe that had nothing to do with emulating the US, sounded positive, but turned out to be crazy too.
Haha, touche..
My questions is:

1. Is that the lowest price you have?

2. Is there a cheaper price elsewhere? (Google search to verify)

3. Yes? See ya ...

4. No? I'll think about it.

Step 3 is a huge problem. First off, haggling requires a degree of exclusivity, either a) real: you're the only selling it, or b) imagined: you make someone believe you're the only one selling it.

If 3a is the case, awesome.

If 3b is the case, you can easily be caught lying to the customer, never a good place to be in. There are acceptable lies (called marketing) and unacceptable lies (pretty much everything else).

You don't want to get caught in the everything else.

It's an interesting idea (I can see a couple of use cases for it), but otherwise, I'd avoid haggling prices on the web.
If you play with it enough, you'll see that it won't go down to the minimum in all cases. The algorithm will insist on what it analyzes the user will pay, and will prefer to lose the sale on account of saving its credibility for the long run.

Also, this is just the beginning. It will get much wiser as we go.
I did not know that the GPUs are that different from their desktop cousins. Do you know the reason for this?
I disagree. Dynamic recompilation wouldn't help with the fact that x86 just doesn't have an equivalent of SPUs. They can be emulated, but they will be nowhere near as fast as the real thing. You can reliably emulate the PPU but that's about it. I've programmed for the PS3 and the architecture is so different to x86 that any emulation would have to somehow make up for the hardware that doesn't exist in x86. Early games for the PS3 didn't even use the SPUs, or barely used them, running mostly on the PPU, and those games should run fairly decently fairly soon. But latest games like The Last Of Us, where the SPUs have been pushed to the limit? I wouldn't count on that being emulated anytime soon.
I think that was on hn a little while back, while looking for the (hn) link I came across this old story:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confine...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796790

[edit: which is basically the same story as the main article here, but much more detailed (I guess less of a sales pitch for the book)]
Yes, 50 is actually a lot of employees for a startup. It's a weird size where you're already feeling some of the drawbacks of a larger organization, but without most of the benefits.

I'd almost go so far as to say that 50-100 employees is a kind of gauntlet you need to squeeze through fairly quickly. It's not good to get stuck at that size for too long. If you can't grow past it, then rethink and retreat back to a smaller startup size.
Not just about the currency, but the fact that you have/had a single interest rate that was basically calculated on the best performing country (Germany) while Italy and Greece and similar countries had rates at 17-19% prior to the Eurozone membership. Basically they indulged themselves in cheap credit as soon as they joined, and made their respective economies blow up in a bubble. Until they realized it was not sustainable.
Suggested alternate title:

"Nice $40M ecommerce company - call me when it scales and I can profit obscenely while strapping you with loads of debt and/or other unwanted obligations/management advice so that you end up firing half of your staff after doing the thing I made you do because I now control the board."

From the "other" Fab:

http://betashop.com/post/72547337624/betashop-quarterly-volu...

On a personal level I took some justifiable hits in 2013. That goes with the territory when you raise money at $1B and then cut headcount and operating expenses as dramatically and swiftly as I did. I freely admit, when you grow revenue 500% year over year and become a media darling overnight, it’s hard to keep perspective. No doubt, we had lost perspective at Fab. We had started to dream in billions when we should have been focused on making one day simply better than the one before it.
hmmm...only 7 paragraphs in i had to invoke Goodwin's law and stop reading his screed.
They said that for 16-bit CPUs and BIOS as well.
I'd recommend reading this post [1] by the dev of an existing Xbox emulator. It's a summary of the issues inherent to the emulation of the original Xbox, highlighting some major hurdles and technical difficulties that would have to be overcome.

[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=48088464&postcoun...
I don't know why you think wordpress is future proof.

it has a user table, it can get hacked.

static html is waaaay more future proof than wordpress.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers
Guide on Leveraging Partnerships for Customer Acquisition
Bicycle Seatposts
I've run into this before with a large app: bootstrap + font awesome + plugins + custom css in a single blob put me well over 4096 selectors. Fortunately, bless (via grunt-bless) and a simple IE conditional comment fixed it for good. Bless is a great project.
The short answers are "yes, sometimes" and "hardly ever". Long answer is in the other message.
This algorithm is more relevant to shops where the products on sale aren't that widely distributed all over. It's more for the Shopify, BigCommerce etc speciality shops. It will never compete with Amazon (as long as amazon works on fixed prices)
And also the FemSFPL: https://github.com/Feminist-Software-Foundation/C-plus-Equal...
Make more money perhaps, no source on whether or not well designed apps drive more revenue, just a guess.
FYI - I'm getting errors when I try to go edit my profile...

From Chrome JS console:
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Refused to execute script from 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dennykwon/fullstack/profil... because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled. profile:1
Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.13/$injector/modulerr?p0=Pro...)
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i think your post does get a bit he-said she-said with the duelling benchmarks, but it's good to question things.
Only happens for connections that use FTS and only if you have configured it to use a dictionary (I believe there's no need to in case of an english body). But keep in mind that this means that you'll have to pay at least 0.5 seconds per search. If you do some google suggest style incremental searching on key press, you'll need to be faster than that.

So either use a persistent connection for full text searching (I'm connecting via pgbouncer for FTS-using connections) or, as karavelov recommended below, use http://pgxn.org/dist/shared_ispell/ which will load the dictionary once into shared memory (much less infrastructure needed for this one)
Agreed, but same currency implies same interest rate.
Right, I once calculated the tax and social payments (incl. retirement, health care and tax agent) for a 75k€ business without employee, and it was ~53k€.

You can't get rich in France. We hate rich people anyway, you'd be subjected to all kinds of verbal violence.
Code Like A Champion Today
NoScript: yes. Disconnect and Ghostery: no.

An online article, friends or family send people to Disconnect and they click the install button. After that it protects them by "disconnecting" from "tracking sites". I promise you most people have no idea how it works. Don't believe me, try it: if you see a normal person using Disconnect let them explain to you what it does, how it works and also ask what the Disconnect visualizer says about who is sending data to whom.
> changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed

> 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Those clauses do not agree.

Funny page, but I worry some people may actually use this.
> We built hash tables by converting strings to integers and then using modulus

What's wrong with that?
They are not, the problem is how you use them. For example - fetching a texture data on PS3 takes about 50 clock cycles, while on a PC it takes 1000-2000 cycles, because the request has to go through all the driver layers first. PS3 uses its own version of OpenGL(PSGL) which has a much more low level access to hardware. That level of access is simply not provided by PC hardware, so it has to be somehow emulated - and for high performance GPUs we have nowadays, it's rather difficult.
What about the safety rate? Its hard to do a job right, with somebody (everybody!) looking over your shoulder.
I don't think breadth first search would have been the right approach. The search space is actually quite huge for this. Also, the algorithm wasn't built to create a build that wins the fitness was simply how fast they could produce the army the user inputs.

What stands out is if you had asked anyone even a professional player to build this exact army composition (7 roaches) they would almost certainly not have pulled it off as fast as the method this algorithm discovered. The algorithm was able to do it by doing a few tricks that normally aren't intuitive but, work out so your resources match up perfectly to make the build happen.

Also, I can confirm as a mediocre Starcraft player the build was quite powerful.
I cam here to say this, It would also save the hassle of having to mine the stuff then bring it up to the surface to convert it into building material..
The question itself wasn't about government investigation, Schmidt himself added that. If the context around the question was about that, you should include it.
A game based on the Havel-Hakimi algorithm
It's not "just" a software problem.

The SPU's are a fundamentally different architecture to an x86 been something akin to a graphics card, heavily optimised for a very particular kind of floating point calculations (somewhat similar to SSE but much more task focused).

A more likely approach is to use something like CUDA/OpenCL but again while closer in architecture the SPU's are incredibly optimised for one thing.
Virtual reality made me believe I was someone else
They also didn't use crossover which I thought was the main advantage of genetic algorithms.

How would a breadth first search work better? The search space is huge.
Indeed microprocessors like the i7 supports AES encryption.
Nicely looking site, and fresh idea, though...

The idea does not make any sense in my head. There is actually some research happening in negotiating AI, but they all focus around as a training material. It seems pointless to trade with a computer. As pointed out by others, negotiating is not one sided "drop price", but justifying price drops or offering/receiving something in return.

I am deeply sorry for giving this negative feedback.
IMO that just leads to less reusable CSS and more stylesheet spaghetti. I see a class "clearfix" in HTML and I know what it's doing; I see ".clearfix {" and I know what it's doing; but I look at "article:after, .article:after, .group:after, col-2:after, {" and have to figure out what's going on. In terms of code, I think you should be semantic from a developer's perspective.
iOS Touch Visualizer
I chose the ISC license for both of my projects.

http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC

What would concern me about using that WTFPL license is there's no disclaimer about fitness for use/purpose, which might mean to someone "do what the fuck you want - including suing me".

Not trying to look like a scaremonger, just a personal view.
Looks like it doesn't like our way of writing numbers.

0,01 - "You got it for $NaN"
I'm so glad Firefox still allows this as an option. I guess it's irrational, but it drives me absolutely nuts to see bare URLs without protocols.
Alt+Magic sysreq key+b
Put in a USB stick with Puppy Linux.
Boot, Root.

Or did we need to get root access to the previous running OS? Be more specific in that case ;)
Scala.js, workbench, scalatags, scala.rx
dumb...pointless...the obvious strategy is just offer $1 until you reach the price floor.
That's not all an argument for mandatory solitary confinement.

That's an argument for a better prison system.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time bargaining when I visited Ecuador. I think I would have loved it even more if I spoke Spanish :).

However I have a few qualms with this.

1. Most shoppers on the internet are using the internet for three reasons; (A) they are looking for the lowest price possible, (B) they are minimizing their shopping time, or (C) they are looking for something they can't find locally at a brick and mortar. If I were an (A) or (B) shopper, this is a huge turn-off to me. It is neither explicitly giving me the lowest price possible nor is it time efficient.

It might work with the (C) shoppers but that that would require some testing. Do you think a Fab.com or Etsy retailers would use this? [Not being snaky, an actual question]

2. The emotion of bargaining does not translate with e-commerce. To me, e-commerce has always been an emotionless experience.

Whenever I was buying something in Ecuador there was a certain rush I got when I locked horns with a merchant. We developed a certain bond when we finally came to an agreement and each party has thought they had won. That rush is missing here (for me anyway). I'd be curious to hear how merchants feel who normally do business this way.
Wanelo: The First Million Users
Boot debian install CD, reinstall Grub without password.
Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
As a designer this is exactly why.

No android phone nor interface is close to the level of what Apple is putting out - both from an experience and product standpoint. This is also the same exact same reason why I purchase all apple products.

I really don't understand the argument of "You're paying more for a lesser product when you buy Apple". Ok - so the hardware isn't as good/powerful, fine, but that's not why I'm buying an Apple product. I'm buying it because of the UX, because of the way the phone feels in my hand, because of the way the keys feel on the keyboard when I press them down, because of how great the applications look and feel when I use them.

If android came out with something that looked and felt great I would certainly consider using it. In fact, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S3 several years ago when it first came out. The phone was absolute garbage - plastic bevels still had molding pieces around the edges, the unnecessary bloatware (which would have been fine if it was remotely useful) was very poorly designed, and overall the phone felt very light and cheap.
AdTech M&A: eBuzzing to merge with Teads. Next stop, IPO.
Who needs to write code to get the lowest price? The floors are in the JS source.
Silicon Valley's Avenging Angel
Nate Silver Is Not the Only Useful Pundit
I'm interested what caused the slowdown in the first place. It must be architecture dependent, since my laptop (thinkpad) suspends fast enough that I never thought of measuring it. (2-3 seconds, I guess)
Can you really capture energy from a roller coaster?
Ask HN: If you could choose anything you want to do full time what would it be?
Whether it be a specific project or a profession that always felt out of reach, what would you do?
As moot point original meant the opposite of what people use it for today, it would be better to use "mute point" and return "moot point" to its original meaning
If enabled, you use a firewire connection. You don't even need to reboot and can connect as root to any running processes and filesystems.

http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

Yes, that is actual working technology.
So the rich and powerful should be free to make agreements to lower salaries, but the poor and weak should be prevented from making agreements to raise salaries?

Too many on the right seem to think it's bad when the government does something but have no problem when corporations do the same. But in reality a government is just a bunch of people agreeing to act in certain ways, just as a corporation is.
>Police (ordinarily) cannot throw you in jail without probable cause

LOL. Have you missed the hundreds of stories posted in forums, newspapers and websites?
The only problem with that license is when someone uses it, then I make use of their code, then they sue me for copyright violation. Or my code kills someone in a hospital and the patient sues the guy who wrote the code. And they win in court because the license doesn't satisfy the requirements of the court.

Look, I wouldn't let a lawyer tell me how to write my Java code. And I won't let a non-lawyer tell me how to write a legally binding license.

(If a competent lawyer reviews this license and pronounces it good, then I retract my objection. If the license gets tested in court and wins then it gets my full support.)
I have to say this is a little unfair to many many professors. Very few if any make enough from margin sales that converting to open source will hurt them meaningfully.

this is not to say there is not career advantage in writing "the standard book on", but stuffing a few hundred students each year is hardly the lottery win.
Programming Collective Intelligence is an excellent book for learning these sort of things. First chapter is a recommendation engine! :)
An essential part of the real life bargaining experience is that you're stuck with the attempts you make and, short of finding a new vendor, you can't try again with a clean slate.

How do you propose to deal with users who (eg) open multiple incognito windows in Chrome? Or will users need accounts and need to be logged in even to have a go? It seems like users will naturally want to game the system.

I felt the experience was cheapened by the fact that the 'bargain' button made it obvious that the starting price was very inflated. That is not always apparent to customers browsing in a store, and perception counts.
Approximations to AIXI are possible and have actually played pacman pretty well. However I still think solomonoff induction is too inefficient in the real world. But AIXI does bring up a lot of real problems with building any AI, like preference solipsism and the anvil problem, and designing utility functions for it.
B2B software vales profit and only profit. A cursory list:

http://directory.thesmallbusinessweb.com
Oh I know, I am French myself and decided to live abroad long ago because of that particular attitude towards "les patrons" . It's like a reminiscent lutte des classes from Communist Russia or something. No wonder so many young people leave the country.
This is the subject of an episode of Black Mirror. It's hardly an exhaustive investigation but it's certainly a good slice of Twilight-Zone-y sci-fi.
Do you think DX12 or Mantle will help with overcoming the high-level API overhead?
Feynman citing computer aided medical diagnosis as low-hanging-fruit

I think the issue is mainly related to regulations. There are a lot of health issues that an application can detect faster and more correctly than a doctor. I am not talking about Dr. House like diseases where the human brain works better.
I don't think you are adding in the full benefit package most of the managers are receiving. They easily match the private sector.
As of ver 9.4, PostgreSQL support storing data in JSON format. Which it is nothing but 'text' datatype with additional syntax check built-in. You can't do a query or do update partial/selected node inside the JSON doc. But with this new jsonb (JSON Binary) format, you can do simple query as well as update certain node (if it can reach through the query).

Think it like a very basic "MongoDB" implementation :)

Take a look at their devel doc http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/datatype-json.ht... for more details.
It seems to have continued here: http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/12/ann-hyperscope-11...

The demo might not work as I was viewing OPML. Probably wasn't served with the correct mime type to be recognised as XML. Would work locally though.
Guy freaks out over sold XBOX One
California DMV: No evidence of computer breach
Multify – Open source spotify client with face recognition
Please help me with my endless project I've been working with. I started this project in August 2013 without knowing any Python at all.

This project is a facial-recognition based stereo which grabs your Facebook friends profile pictures and play songs depending on the recognized faces mutual taste. As you can see in the code, I pretty much suck at commenting and structure. My goal was that I could make this software become a reality. I have some more code on a raspberry pi somewhere which I will try to upload if it's any use.

The pretty much TODO in my repo is the connection to make the spotify-client to search for each song, then play the next one after the other. For now I have function which actually creates this playlist.

I would like to get some feedback on my idea and also some python-nerds to help me on this whole project. It's actually pretty small project and could be easily done with one python-script.
Working 10:00am - 6:30pm or 10:30am - 7pm is an 8.5 hour day. Lets say they have a 30min lunch break and stuff around at the arcade/gaming area for an hour. That is still a solid 7 hours worth of work each day!

So 12 developers each working a solid 7 hours each day but unable to produce quality work within a reasonable time frame. That says one of a few things:

1) The team is working hard but you have a lot of crap code (aka technical debt) and so it takes a long time to make even simple changes.

2) The team has implemented more thorough processes. E.g. Previously they might have went straight from coding a fix to putting it into production but now they have proper QA and Testing phases. So now it looks to outsiders that they are "complacent" when they have really just improved processes.

I would never give a business person an estimate of anything less than a day.

3) Politics/dynamics between the dev team and the rest of the office have changed. For example if management had a serious go at the developers for a defect in production or business users have been passing the blame onto developers, or everyone got pay rises/bonuses but the devs, etc then it is likely they are operating in an extreme risk averse, document everything manner.

I know entire dev teams who have stopped being productive because business stopped listening to them.

4) Team politics. Are one or two of the developers/managers doing something that is really throwing the other developers out of joint?

5) The team is productive and business expects too much or is only looking at superficial indicators. For example you keep mentioning standard working hours as though working 8 hours is being lazy. The devs having fun at the arcade/gaming area. The rest of the company "grinding" etc. It almost looks like you care more about shared misery than results.

If you bring in a new developer and they are significantly more productive than the existing team then you could rule out 1&2&5.
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Guys! This is just a demo to show off then algorithm. Of course a real shop won't embed the config in the js!