skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsolicited feedback: The way you disagree is pretty disrespectful-- I've seen this in a few of your comments. Don't refer to people's arguments as "silly".

Civil unions or legal gay marriages are still not possible in about 2/3 of the United States.

It's not "historical revisionism" for the definition of a word (in the eyes of the law) to change or evolve. For example, marriage used to be legal with women under 16-- now it's largely not. I'd say that most proponents care more about the rights than the label.
What they could do is turn it into an autoresponder at least with a link to that inside.
Original site is not working for me.

You can find board specs on the minnowboard official website:
http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/

--update
(it's working again now, slow but working) contains a lot of useful information, the link I posted contains just the specs.
The number of Americans who pay for TV through cable, satellite or fiber services fell by more than a quarter of a million in 2013, the first full-year decline, according to research firm SNL Kagan.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-19/u-s-pay-tv-subscrip...
That's actually on purpose. We try to encourage larger projects with a higher budget, because we don't want to compete with 99designs and other similar sites at the lower end of the market.
though i think Zuckerberg would be less nazi and misguided with usability than Shutleworth.
What's wrong with elitism? Isn't that exactly what you'd want for such a site?
CodeBuddy – Developer's Friendly Assistant
I think it's more to do about branding consistency. Azure is far more than just 'Windows' now, you have: Media Services, CDN, Mobile Services, Cache, etc.
What's wrong with it? Honestly, I don't know. I know Python probably isn't a great choice for performance reasons, but anything else? It's super easy to build off and configure. Seems fine for a beginner (which I admittedly am; hence my asking).
Thank You, Croatia: All Hail Mandatory Vaccinations
http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/unofficial/why.html

DJB appears to have changed the license to public domain, but at some point in the past there was a license that prohibited distribution of binaries from modified source. There's still the request that the paths not be changed to comply with the FHS.

DJB has strong opinions about the construction and distribution of software. So do quite a lot of debian people. These views are incompatible.
The Skills Gap Myth
> What if your colleagues are in the U.S.? Do you just turn off the phone until 9am the next day?

Yes, and I do work a lot with Asia actually.

On the projects that require me not to do it, we have special agreements in place, where people are also compensated for sacrificing their private life in name of the employers profits.

> The guys in Europe sometimes are helping us until 10pm or 11pm which is not a requirement but they're just dedicated and we really appreciate it. By the same token, I'll get on a call at 6am local time, which works for them.

Not all companies have works councils, which leads to the following situations:

We have the guys fresh out of university feeling that they will improve their career by working like crazy. Only to discover a few years later that they get to be fired like everyone else on the company.

There are lots of people working as freelancer and getting paid by the hour. Obviously they are their own boss and work as much as they feel like like it.

Not all companies have a works council that actively cares about the fellow employees, in such cases many people don't report back to them unlawful situations due to fear of what their boss might do.
The way I see it, a site like this can help you get an initial selection of 10-20 "good for Dribbble" designers. It's then your job to pick the one that's also capable of making something that's easy to use, or rather that works well for your own needs.

In other words, these services may not be able to magically find the perfect match for you, but they can at least get you halfway there.
Or it's an april fools joke :)
How does this compare to a Raspberry Pi?
The λ-calculus is basically the MVP of programming languages. It allows somebody designing a language feature or part of a type system to experiment with that feature in isolation. Fast iteration for programming language designers.

It's also great as the core of a programming language. If you can express a feature just in terms of the λ-calculus, you can implement it almost for free. It's just desugaring. Most of Haskell is like this: while the surface language has become rather complex, the majority of the features boil away rather transparently into typed lambda terms. Haskell uses a variant of System F which it actually calls "Core" to underscore how core this concept is :).

Of course, as the accepted answer points out, the λ-calculus is also very useful for logic. In some sense, it is a sort of "proof essence": the basic building block of what a proof is. I really like this notion because it gives me a concrete, first-class object to represent a proof. Seeing proofs as programs really helped me come to terms (heh) with mathematical logic.

One surprising use for the λ-calculus outside of CS is in linguistics. In particular, linguists use typed λ-calculi to construct formal semantics for sentences. It's a way to build up the meaning of, well, meaning. Or at least the things we say ;). I'm not super familiar with semantics in linguistics, but I've always thought it was very cool that they also use some of the same tools as programming language theory! Wikipedia has more about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_semantics_%28linguistics...
In the example he gives, wouldn't it be more simple (if not idiomatic) to write

print(index, element)

instead of

print ('{} {}'.format(index, element)) ?

Why use string formatting for something so simple, especially when Python inserts spaces in between multiple items automatically?
Dissection of a bug in the Visual Studio compiler
We spend about £1500 on Azure a month. It's considerably cheaper than a quarter rack with a ton of bandwidth and all the associated license management. It's cheap but not budget.
The Expert – Being the Only Engineer in a Business Meeting
Wealth Over Work
Aimed at designers for sure. Just look at the gem of a payoff: "Stop writing code, start drawing it." Thats what we want to hear. Draw it and let the app take care of all the code with browser quirks. (Yes I know you're all dev's here, but this is how designers feel. Older designers still remember they had to write postscript). ;-)
It is illegal in most countries including Germany to use a hand-held device while driving.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safet...

Having the app switch off when the GPS calculates you are traveling faster than 30kmh would be an interesting hack.
$5 to $20 doesn't even raise itself above the noise for most people. The net gain for deployment with web deploy is enough on its own.
I got the same impression. I am sure that pushing people's buttons and trying to start fights between people is standard procedure on most reality TV shows. But it's a bit different when the contestants are professionals who are there mostly just to share their craft, and don't care at all about being a star or winning the prize.
I have an high intrest for tech, my "dream" is to be a programmer, which in italy is difficult because you can enter a real programmer school at 18 with atleast 3 year of high school ( which i did) but this school is private, and it costs so i'm trying to do everything i can to enter in it. Right know about "skills" i can do everything with a computer ( repair it, find the problem, etc etc) but this is stuff tha everyone can do, so right now i have nothing in my hands. Thanks fir the reply... It helps
Why Windows XP's Demise Is Bad for Linux and Open Source
When you have a high bounce rate it usually always means the visitor saw no value in your site, or the content they landed on wasn't what they were looking for or expected.

Without knowing what kind of website you're running, it's hard to say. In all instances where I've experienced high bounce rates it is because my content has sucked and the demographic I thought I was targeting just wasn't getting it.

Knowing what your target market wants is definitely one sure fire way to improve bounce rates. Tailor your content to the demands of your website visitors and they'll stay. It also pays to ensure your site loads fast, it is aesthetically pleasing and it is instantly apparent what your site is and does.
Apparently, the people that care about social justice give zero care toward security or the four essential freedoms of software.
IMHO what we need is not more powerful boards but more affordable ones.

At $99 it's too expensive for small projects.
> but trying to argue that it has been anything but between a man and a woman for thousands of years is just historical revisionism.

It's a good point, unfortunately the problem with that is how far back we should we go?

For example:
Same sex marriage ( not just civil union ) did occur for example in the Roman Empire, until the Christian Emperors Constantius II and Constans passed a law prohibiting same sex marriage and making it punishable by death.
Airbrb.com  #coworking
I think the first steps would be:

- make sure your design is not off-putting (bad logo, bad font, confusing layout)
- make sure you have attractive/interesting headers. usually this is your h1,h2 tag for example. it should draw the reader in or share a personal struggle, insight, or experience. for example "how i saved $10,000", or "twitter sucks; here's why"
- consider writing in a different style, what if you talk to your readers as you would talk to a friend.
- consider writing content that is similar to stuff you wrote in the past that was a success
- you might not be targeting your target audience, you want to get your ads to your customers not to other groups. consider rewriting your ads, consider a more narrow (targeted) ad-text copy, consider advertising to a more focused demographic, consider doing guest blog posts for blogs close to your target audience, consider getting a guest blog poster, consider adding a city to your adwords search terms, consider producing localised content (to a city), consider narrowing your posting topics

Hope that helps

I am also available for consulting for 25/hr with 14yrs experience, email me at jg (undrscore) work (at) kify (dot) net for a resume or to chat.
I predict the average value of fair dice thrown into the future will be 3.5.

I predict the next value thrown by a given fair die is _____.

Sometimes aggregate predictions are easier than fine-grained ones.
As a long-time MySQL user who hasn't used Postgres for over a decade, can you share (in non-documentation language) what schemas are good for and how they're useful?
Not sure of exact numbers but I'd guess several times faster in terms of computation speed. It runs Android which I think the RPi couldn't do successfully. USB 3 vs USB 2. Double the RAM.
Turtle (submersible)
Be careful though, the Galileo emulates AVR code and is orders of magnitude slower than a real Arduino. Don't expect to pick up any shield and make it work, unfortunately.
It's 115 € / month, but 150 $ / month and indeed, it's for 3 years. (i'm Bizspark myselve)

And also, the support was awesome! (needed help transfering everything to another account)
I don't want to give any information out before it's revealed to everyone, it wouldn't be fair. I'll just say that the response speed does matter, but at least in our beta tests the benefit of using one language over another was how productive the team was - so I would recommend choosing the language you're most comfortable with. Anyways, you can switch language at any point.
This seems like the ideal home server solution - powerful enough to run backup solutions / media server for couple people, small enough to fit wherever you want it to.

I recently went with a mini-itx BayTrail-D solution as my BTSync / Plex server - a breath of fresh air after year of fighting with ARM board in the same role. This would have been even better, as it would allow me to maintain the same form factor, instead of making way for comparatively bulky mITX case.

The only thing I'd like to know is how would you power a SATA drive attached to this?
From what I can see, roughly as you would expect from the price difference ie, generally higher stats.
I've got 100 mbit (upstream and downstream) for $38 / month. It's a single data point of course.

I've seen broadband price comparisons across countries, but could not find one now. This one is for mobile broadband, so a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, but still: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/daily-c...
I'm a pretty big fan of anime, but I still don't see the point in randomly sprinkling internet memes or other random television screenshots in blog posts. At first, I thought it might be a refreshing change of pace, but now I just feel like it detracts from the article.
How playing “The Way Home” earns us revenue by mining Bitcoin
CERN Switches to Comic Sans
Proof? Even informed speculation?

Apple have made several aquisitions in the last few years to give them the technology they need to make these sorts of developments. Even if some of the tech had been stolen, it would require a lot of work to put it into practice.

I know I'm feeding the troll, but I couldn't help it; this is just too ridiculous.
StaGen: Static site generation framework using StringTemplate 4 and Markdown
In addition, "requested by the Department of Defense" strikes me as a big warning.
This looks neat for people that want a cheap board to hack on embedded Linux. However for serious control of signal generation, acquisition, PWM, servos, etc. you really don't want to be running a multitasking OS. Something like the Beaglebone Black, with its dedicated 200mhz programmable units in addition to embedded Linux, is much more interesting for hackers and makers IMHO.
>Newer cars are kind of a pain in the butt to see out of the back. Why? Because of the roof strength requirements.

Partly, but mainly because of what the designers like to call 'high waistline' which gives the shape 'energy and aggression'. There is no reason a Ford Focus should have a tiny rear window mounted high at 40 degrees inclination other than style.

Plus adhesive attachment of windows cuts a further ~10% of the glass area.

I saw a 1990s Volvo 740 yesterday: absolutely enormous slab windows gasket-mounted into the frame.
It's not a crime, but Allman bracing is normally used. Every official guidelines, every programming book, every open source project I know of, uses Allman for C#, so anything else stands out like a sore thumb. It's about convention, consistency and resulting readability. I'm not a fanboy of bracing style :) I think that in Rome you should do as Romans do. When I use Java or PHP, I use K&R - it's a context thing, it would just look weird and out of place otherwise. I believe it's better to embrace the "native" (common) coding style in each language, unless you only ever work on your own.
Hi itzsouloflol, i am italian and i am an entrepreneur/freelancer developer.

I have been through that situation, maybe some years ago, but i know what you are facing, at least in part.

I can't help much, but i can tell you my story and share my experience.

If you want to talk let me know how to reach you.

ps. This is not my real account.
I think it's because you're likely to change formatting as your code evolve.
This is mine:

#!/bin/bash
unlink /Library/WebServer/Documents
ln -s "$(pwd)" /Library/WebServer/Documents
echo "http://localhost/ mounted on $(pwd)"

Of course, it's only "lightweight" in as far as you already have Apache installed and running.
Where's the distance measuring ruler gone in the new maps? Pokémon is a higher priority?
Ask HN: How to style node-webkit app
How does everyone go about styling node-webkit (or similar) apps for desktop?
I'm really enjoying UI like Popcorn Time (http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/) but have no idea where to start with UI like this. Are there any templates around as a good starting point?
Those screen shots are not from 4Chan, but from some other chan using similar software.
I am a big supporter of gay rights (and am myself bisexual), but I oppose this sort of thing, for reasons explained very well by the venerable Scott Alexander:

"Constitutional freedom-of-speech is a necessary but not sufficient condition to have a “marketplace of ideas” and avoid de facto censorship. But people also have to understand that the correct response to “idea I disagree with” is “counterargument”, not “find some way to punish or financially ruin the person who expresses it.” If you respond with counterargument, then there’s a debate and eventually the people with better ideas win (as is very clearly happening right now with gay marriage). If there’s a norm of trying to punish the people with opposing views, then it doesn’t really matter whether you’re doing it with threats of political oppression, of financial ruin, or of social ostracism, the end result is the same – the group with the most money and popularity wins, any disagreeing ideas never get expressed.

Atheists may one day be the group with the most money and popularity, but that day isn’t today and right now it’s neither moral nor in our self-interest to encourage using greater resources to steamroll opponents. It’s certainly not in gay people’s self-interest either. Why shouldn’t companies owned by Christians fire all gay people on the grounds that they are promoting sin? Right now it’s because we have a mutual truce in which we agree businesses should employ people based on their skills and merit rather than to reward their political allies and punish their political opponents. Once you undermine that, gay people are in a pretty precarious position.

So I would turn your own hypothetical scenario in Part 2 of your post back on you. Suppose Robertson had indeed, been a gay rights supporter – or a gay person! – who said on national news he thought everyone should stand up for gay rights. But his company was going for the fundie demographic and decided to fire him for his statement. Would you be so quick to attack everyone who was disappointed in this action, so eager to stand up for the right of companies to fire anyone they disagree with?"

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/28/a-comment-i-posted-on-w...
I know what bounce rate means, but is that measurement really meaningful ? How is it measured and how do you determine exactly the root cause of that bounce rate?
> there's no way I can thoroughly test out the app in 2 weeks

With the purpose of trials being to let people test the app, surely a longer trial (e.g. 90 days) would give people more time to get hooked and realise they couldn't live without it?

With the ease of getting pirated software the argument that people would use these long trials time after time in VMs doesn't stand up I believe, and shouldn't stop them being used.

Personally I preferred the trials that allowed "30 launches" of the program - so if I only found 5 days over 6 months to evaluate the software I was able to - and still had another 25 trial-days left to test it.
I just had too look up the Greek words:

hubris [ὕβρις] ‘outrage’; the opposite of dikē [δίκη]

dikē [δίκη], plural dikai [δίκαι] ‘judgment (short-range); justice (long-range)’; dikaios
[δίκαιος] ‘just’

atē [ἄτη], plural atai [ἆται] ‘aberration, derangement, veering off-course; disaster; punishment for disaster’

nemesis [νέμεσις] indicates the process whereby everyone gets what he or she deserves
Who's that with?
https://hackerone.com/coinbase
My impression was that they acted only after everything was screwed beyond repair. E.g., after "pretty face" question was asked to everybody with Adria offended and Zoe angry enough to swearingly walk away. He was pushing buttons trying to manufacture drama before that.

That being said, I read down that he is a big animal, important for Pepsi and influential in shows making cycles. So, show produces might have been between rock and hard place.

On the other hand, it is hard to excuse Pepsi, they seem to be happy with him. It even looks like they are "on his side" in follow up and complained about above article or something.
The .com is essentially US domain. So as, for example, .be is controlled by some Belgian organization, .com is controlled by US one. And it's not ICANN, so it doesn't aim to be international either.
The FBI is investigating high-speed traders for possible insider dealing
The importance of calculus is most easily demonstrated by applying it to physics problems. For example, if I tell you how a ball moves in time, and then ask you how fast it's moving after a certain number of seconds, then calculus will help you find the answer (take the derivative of the equation of motion and plug in the time).

What is the equivalent computer science problem that lambda calculus can help you solve? Challenge: pretend like you're Richard Feynman and avoid jargon, if at all possible.

EDIT: I find it quite curious that I got so badly down-voted (-3 and counting!) for simply asking for concrete examples of applicability to actual, concrete problems. I've always found that tools are best understood in the context of their use. Even an abstract concept is useful to speak about in this way - for example, complexity/Big O analysis helps us with capacity planning, comparing algorithms, and so on. It may be that lambda calculus helps us with, oh, decomposition of computation or something like that. But for all the digital ink I've read about it, it's always seemed like an academic form of name-dropping. Even the name is intimidating, right? Reminds me of terms like "schroedinger's equation" or "canonical ensemble" from the good old days in physics class. But behind the intimidating names is just a tool for solving problems - and I have yet to see anyone demonstrate this for lambda calculus. Granted I haven't looked very hard!

It takes self-awareness to realize that you are enthralled with something without understanding it. The litmus test for this is the umbrage taken by someone who's asked simple question about what their high-status concept is really used for. That's why I mentioned Feynman in particular, because of his wonderful reputation as having knowledge that was totally grounded in reality.
Is there any way of upgrading the RAM on this so that it can run SteamOS?
Perhaps, but the use case it usually finds is "I need a webserver, here. Now."

Python is nearly always installed, and that depends on nothing but the standard library. You can stick an alias in your dotfiles (I have, it's called "serve-this") and not have to worry about having twisted¹ getting to wherever your dotfiles get put. (I distribute my dotfiles over git/github, so it's really easy to move them around. More work to get Twisted.)

¹Or Ruby… or Go…
If you care about security then C and C++ are out of the game, specially if there is a team of different skill sets involved.

Having said this, have a look at Wt and Poco

http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

http://pocoproject.org