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I was an avid Google Reader but then moved to Feedly when they suicided it. After I deleted my Google Account, as one of the side-affects was losing access to my Feedly account because I signed up using Google Outh, I had to look for alternatives.

I then realised that I was looking at the problem all wrong. Really, all I wanted was an RSS-to-email application. As a joke I did an "apt-cache search rss2email". I found "rss2email" and so I installed it. I've never looked back.

As a side note I had to smile when I was looking at the man page for r2e after seeing who the author was.
Not net neutral financial projections?
I'm wondering if anyone has seen or shared financial projections for how Tom Wheeler's plan would negatively impact a start-up? Or does anyone know how to estimate the impact in my financial models? I'd love to run the numbers for my business.
While this is a nice little derivation, the reason the normal distribution is important (and common) is the Central limit theorem[1].

This loosely means that if you have n samples that are independently drawn from the same distribution, their sum approaches a normal distribution for large n. The generality comes from the fact that this happens (almost) independently of distribution the samples come from.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
And what kind of reputation, do you think an Amazon seller who makes potential customers sign "no review" contracts, will get?

There's nothing magical about the medical field, that makes approaches developed elsewhere somewhat irrelevant there. It's just another fee for service arrangement. Although many Doctors do like to fancy themselves as special snowflakes.
> Such as sticking crushable cups of scalding hot liquid between your legs in a situation where your legs will not remain static

You know the car was not moving at the time, right? And that McDonalds changed the warning on the cups and changed the style of cups?
The New Zealand Government makes a lot of their datasets accessible. You can also request data too:

https://data.govt.nz
Not to be confused with
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>and for research.

That's not the same thing as "monitoring for illegal/commercial/malware activity".
Yes, 015 is 13 octal. :) Remember when a bunch of distros inflated their version numbers to catch up with each other? We decided to poke fun on that and make the GoboLinux version numbers octal, so we'd have "scheduled bumps", so yes, we went from 007 to 010, and will go from 017 straight to 020 in the future :)
I can feel the end of American economic might. Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp will not cut it. Pretty sad.
This is a genuine question; not trying to be cynical or troll: is there any chance these games actually deter children from learning to program? I personally feel it was more satisfying as a child just to open up Visual Basic and drag and drop buttons and hide windows and whatever. If I'd been introduced to programming through a game meant to introduce kids to programming, I'm not sure I would've developed the same enthusiasm.
I think "board game to teach kids programming" is a misdescription. This is a board game that teaches kids to think like programmers --- it teaches elementary logic skills and makes them familiar with programming concepts. It doesn't teach them anything about actual programming, though it makes them better potential programmers. I think this game is worthwhile as a general learning exercise, i.e. to develop structured thinking, but with regard to programming, it is a misdirection of efforts.

To elaborate: there's a certain magic moment when you write your first program. You realize that you can make the computer do things. First, you just have it print a test message. WOW. Then you have it add two numbers. It works, and you feel a surge of emotion: with this tool, anything is possible. It's an incredibly powerful and liberating feeling. It is very persuasive, and often gives rise to an immediate fascination.

The way to "teach kids programming" is to give them that experience, to let them feel that Eureka!-moment. Teaching kids about logical statements, loops, etc. is neat stuff, and will certainly make them into better thinkers, but it does not make them (significantly) likelier to open up a REPL and type in "print 'Hello World'".

And that is the critical point: if a parent wants their child to pick up programming, they'll have to get them to actually program. Playing games about conditional statements and basic logic is only very tangentially related to getting children to write and run code. (The same complaint goes for other products in this space: picture-books, games, etc. to bring children closer to programming have been released in great number recently.)

Perhaps there is some sort of general fear that actually opening up a terminal, notepad, etc. is somehow an intrinsically difficult task (likely because most parents have no idea how it works, either), so parents try to edge closer to programming with these educational toys, but the problem is that "learning to code" is not something that can be done by gradual immersion. A child can learn to swim by dipping their toes into the water and then slowly wading into the pool while moving their arms --- a couple hours of this, and they'll learn to swim. However, with coding, the process is not as gradual: at some point, the child has to open up an editor and start typing. An effective educational tool that "teaches kids programming" really must do only one thing: help them make this step.
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Non-blured:

https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-t...

Someone else shared this tip before. Note the "?share=1"
Of course there is - pushing directly to the server. Which is hosted on a third party, the third party itself is hosted on another third party, and that third party probably relies on a couple of other third parties. And if my patch brings down the service I get a bunch of emails - which are sent to my email address, which is also hosted on a third party. And that email found its way using an MX record from my DNS records, which are hosted on another third party's DNS servers.

Do you really run an operation where you have soldered together all of your servers, created a data center inside your headquarters, within which you run all of your mission critical CI/testing/deployment services? Because unless you're one of a handful of tech companies, you didn't need to do that. If you still did I'd like to know why you did that, because in an era where even the CIA relies on third parties to accomplish mission critical tasks it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

And that trauma you are talking about - it doesn't happen. Not rarely, not ever. For years. Tonight I only happened to see that GitHub was down because I was looking at HN anyway.
A Concurrent Calculus with Atomic Transactions (2007) [pdf]
You can browse category nodes too iirc
How does one depend on Github for builds if git is, um, distributed?
Yes, Scala certainly has all the latest programming language bells and whistles, but - leaving aside the many highly tuned libraries and 60 years of compiler experience on every imaginable hardware configuration - it doesn't have the single attribute that keeps Fortran on top: runs numeric codes fast.
Two things limit children from learning to program: ability and enthusiasm. Resources to teach programming to "kids" tend to optimize for fixing the former, but in my opinion it's the latter that matters so much more.
Amazon would not ban you for this. They encourage it. They have throttling on though.
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Reviews weighted by trust, seem to do quite well in most places where they are employed. From Amazon and Ebay sellers to Uber drivers to College rankings. Even yelp rankings, which are extremely unspecific, seems to provide users with waay better than random ability to pick the good from the bad. Even when it comes to doctors, as a matter of fact.

I would honestly be very, very surprised if they didn't end up working substantially better for medical doctors than for most other service providers. As, at least in my experience, very few people who decide to though the effort of becoming a doctor, do so with the express intent of scamming their way to riches, the way many Ebay and Amazon sellers do.

I am sure that in some selected cases, an aggressive tort system could be construed to have provided a better outcome, but at what systemic cost? Massive over treatment of every conceivable low probability condition, to stave off grounds for lawsuits. Doctors scared of going with their hunches, and instead of doing what they feel is the best for the patient, doing what they expect will be easiest to defend if the outcome should be less than ideal.....

Doesn't forcefully injecting an expensive and completely unconcerned outside party, into an arrangement between two parties that are outcome concerned, strike you as an inefficient use of resources? Why not, instead, try to find ways to make the two concerned parties understand each other better?
1.5 months ago. MacBook Pro running osx,win 7 and linux simultaneously.
Why Go and not Haskell?
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3.2 billion for an equalizer with deep brand recognition. AAPL must be swimming in cash.
That is absolutely mind-boggling for 1984.

I especially love the reflections. It's not even noticeable unless you look carefully, but you can see reflections of cluttered windows, a light-up sign, and a human silhouette. I'd love to rotate the camera and see what their actual out-of-frame scene looks like.
This is a legal battle waiting to happen over the Monkey Island trademarks of LucasArts.
I think the general consensus for running infrastructure in house isn't superior uptime but superior control.

Generally, you don't care if GitHub [or your inhouse equivalent] is down when no one is working. Also, if it goes down in the middle of the night and the first guy in fixes it...the difference between 1 man hour down in the morning vs. 20 man hours during the day across an entire team is significant.

There are very valid reasons for both choices.
Do they pre-warm their Chemex? I use a Chemex on a daily basis at home and I always pour ~100ml hot water (200F) through the filter into the Chemex in order to both wash any loose paper particles off the filter and warm up the Chemex itself.

My brew time is closer to 3:30 though.
Redundancy. Lots of it. A simple example would be hitting your website with a script every so often and when it stops responding then update your DNS to point to another data center that's up and ready to go.
My kids rarely play games, but I have seen too many kids doing that these days, obsessively.

one reason there are less boys in college than girls, guess what, games. I actually read this somewhere.

My piano teacher, whose two kids are still at home playing games, at their 20s.

You don't just blame drug abusers, you do also blame the drug dealers. In _most_ cases, game designers are doing the same thing as a drug dealer who sells the drug, wearing an IT hat. Parenting can not do this alone when gaming is now becoming a culture/fashion/addictive, due to our genius developers.
And as she didn't specifically ask for coffee served at a specific temperature, McDonald's had no way of knowing what temperature she preferred.

What McDonald's did have, however, was a way to estimate what temperature it's customers in general prefer their coffee served at. Roadside Coffee is, after all, a pretty competitive market. If you're too far off temperature wise, people go elsewhere.

Hence, by the standards of "the community", or whatever you wish to call them, McDonald's served coffee at the right temperature. Or at least close enough not to offend enough of them to lose measurable business.

Out of curiosity, did McDonald's manage to poor milk into the cup, and still have it end up that hot? Maybe I have weird ideas about coffee, but for someone all too used to lukewarm coffee once milk is added, that actually sounds quite impressive for such a decidedly low rent establishment.
This is an interesting approach that seems like a good complement to Robot Turtles. Whereas Robot Turtles takes a more open-ended "create your program and go" approach, Code Monkey Planet is focused on strategic use of more complex control structures.

I'm personally on the fence about the recent movement to teach kids programming at a young age as evidenced by all of the financially successful Kickstarter projects and summer camps aiming to do so. Personally, I would rather see things that teach kids about programming and then let them decide whether they want to pursue it or not.
This is often given as the reason in the textbooks, but it actually is a sloppy argument, for there is no reason to presuppose sums of independent variables (they do not have to be drawn from the same distribution in some variants of the CLT) are so ubiquitous in nature. A more convincing reason is given by:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_entropy_probability_dis...
I'm a mathematician, and I actually hadn't seen the proof that $A = \pi r^2$ via showing that the shape formed by that particular arrangement of the slices of the circle becomes a square as the number of slices is taken to infinity. That's a very cool proof.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Lowest in 5 years is not what I would call "sky-rocketing".
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I think you'd want to build it into a kiosk that had a touch screen with a short video that worked you through using the machine.

My biggest question is whether it will convert back from Bitcoin to dollars. Even if it only put the money on a debit card it would complete the circle. Merchants accepting Bitcoin would ideally need a way to convert back until their vendors start accepting it.
Yea, it's crazy. My hunch is that they used reflection mapping for those details like the windows. It's hard to believe this was done in '84 when you look at the other graphics being rendered around then. People have redone this image, and it never looks as realistic.
Parameterized Jenkins build for rollback purposes.
There is something called "made for children" on the app store. It's an explicit flag that you can set on any app.
Texas has some of the best doctors in the world and an innovative healthcare community: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center

> The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research. Located in Greater Houston, the center contains 54 medicine-related institutions, including 21 hospitals and eight specialty institutions, eight academic and research institutions, three medical schools, six nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices. All 54 institutions are not-for-profit. The center exceeds one thousand acres (or 1.562 square mile) in size. [...] The Center is where one of the first and largest air ambulance services was created and where one of the first successful inter-institutional transplant programs was developed. More heart surgeries are performed in Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world.

(Ironically, the TMC came about through a tax dodge)
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Could you describe the visualizations you're thinking of?
Rather, tort reform, or more accurately some sort of limitations of what one can drag the civil courts system into, boils down to looking at who wrote the Bill of Rights, and making an estimate as to whether it is reasonable to believe they intended them to be used to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars for spilling coffee on oneself. Or, more pointedly, hundreds of thousands in legal fees by lawyers.

Did we really have cases like this, back when the Bills' authors were still alive? Otherwise, doesn't all this brouhaha look like it boils down to little more than someone getting paid very well to conveniently misunderstand what the Bills were intended to mean? Paid better, in fact, than if instead of harassing others, they simply went out and solved the problem they perceive exist, by selling perfect temperature coffee themselves.
> Generally, you don't care if GitHub [or your inhouse equivalent] is down when no one is working.

It is fortunate, then, that all GitHub customers are in the same timezone!
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Old white guy doesn't like electric cars, news at 11.
Yeah maybe we should switch to a distributed VCS so that we don't have this problem anymore.
In short, no, unless you think people replacing broken hardware or patching bugs in your software can be automated.

Your question is too vague. Github is up enough that I don't care. However, it's down enough I wouldn't want to not be able to deploy because it's down. Therefore, I may mirror my repo somewhere else. That's easy because git is decentralized. It's a lot cheaper than running some alternative that I guarantee is always running. You can do this by simply pushing to a mirrored remote branch.

If you're just interested in the subject, research high availability.
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Fascinating story. Lenovo's rise to prominence reminds me of Haier, especially the presence of a charismatic, ambitious leadership figure not content to settle for just the domestic market. But why are there raccoons all over the article?
If you find yourself saying, "Someone should make a ..." and research concludes that a sufficient solution doesn't already exist, then you should explore the possibility of being that someone. I haven't created one myself, but my impression is that creating a subreddit is quite simple. Give it a try, and see what happens. Good luck if you do!
The easiest way to teach kids how to program is via Lego Mindstorms. I don't know a single programmer who didn't play with Lego as a child. The Mindstorms kit is expensive, but you can do a lot with it and it also teaches the basics of sensors and robotics. Graphical languages are great ways to introduce programming without the rather inane things you need to learn like syntax.

In hindsight Mindstorms was my first exposure to programming and I didn't even notice. I just enjoyed solving the problems in the book and making the little robot do what I wanted.
Ask HN: Simple and easy solution for a Pizza place?
Hello HN.

I was a developer at some point in my life. Many things have happened since then, and today I have a gourmet pizza restaurant (not a franchise). I'm a frequent reader, but my friend recommended me to post here.

We have no real website, online ordering, apps/infrastructure. I wanted to know - what's out there? Most of the companies out there charge far more than I'm willing to pay considering the margins in the business.

I have the capability to develop and maintain, even with external help - however, I've never really gotten someone to provide me additional value beyond what I can get with a CMS, template, and maybe a basic free CRM.

What I want is a website, online order management, a coupon system, and online payment platform. It surprises me that there is no turnkey solution out there, unless there is? Happy for any information.
Thanks.
> jokers who got enough funding to make it happen

While I agree with the general gist of your comment, GitHub was entirely self-funded up until about a year ago or so. they didn't "get" funding, they made real money and reinvested it and grew.
Me too. I love it when a non-trivial concept like that can be effortlessly explained with a good diagram.
Some LaTeX incantations are required, but we do support Chinese. Here's an example of one way to set it up:

https://www.writelatex.com/examples/chinese-a-visit-to-qiant...
It does not improve my search experience of save any time.
Are you currently located in the Bay Area? Here there are things known as "Hacker Hostels" where you basically pay for room and board to be surrounded by other people in a similar situation.

I'm not too keen on what sort of projects or companies have come from staying at one, however. As for price, based on this airbnb listing it's about $1600 a month (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1836165).

There's also this website that you can look at the different rooms on as well: http://chezjj.com/
There mostly male, but often with significant female secondary sexual characteristics and sterility. This is of-course ignoring Mosaic people which have two set's of DNA so you can be XXY and XX at the same time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(genetics)
I created http://dogehold.com/ out of interest in crypto and the lack of a good escrow system for Dogecoin. However, after the first few transactions I realized I wasn't actually interested in maintaining it as a business.

One seller had an issue due to a bug in DogeAPI, and given that my reaction was "Ugh, I don't have time to deal with this nonsense", I realized I didn't have the passion for it that I thought I would.

It was a really fun project, I had a blast building it and playing with Redis, but I knew within the first week of its release that it wasn't something I wanted to sustain.
Wonderfully written post. Reminds me of Dylan's: "The times they are a-changin'". The tech industry seems to be extremely dynamic.
Are any serious websites using the new TLDs?
pirate.ceo happens to be available
A much better implementation than my own crappy.domains. I assume they are generated from a list. Would be nice to be able to pick the TLD you want to generate domains for.
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What McDonald's did have, however, was a way to estimate what temperature it's customers in general prefer their coffee served at. Roadside Coffee is, after all, a pretty competitive market. If you're too far off temperature wise, people go elsewhere.

Yes. They had 700 previous burns cases that they settled out of court (including some very serious full thickness burns). They were serving coffee that they admitted was not fit for consumption (because they knew it would burn the mouth at the temperature it was served at). They knew they were serving coffee at higher temperatures than other places selling coffee. They knew they were serving coffee at a higher temperature than people have it at home.
Whoever this guy is, he had money to throw on these names. These new GTLDs are a waste
Well, I'm talking about travel security, not border security. All the boarder security happens at the end of the journey, so doesn't effect my comment. But yes, you could do customs in transit and potentially save yourself that time, but only if space on the train isn't at a premium (which it will be). I expect the vacuum trains to have tiny interiors like airplanes because building larger tunes will be so expensive.
Whitespace is not necessarily useless.
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Can you give some pointers on how you developed this app?
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KDE4 has much improved since 4.0 regardless. much.
Fine, bootstrapping jokers are my favorite kind of jokers. No offense intended. My point is it's just a small company with no SLA, express or implied. It could have been anybody with the same great idea, and just because they had a great idea doesn't make them automatically reliable enough to pin your infrastructure on.
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Actually, I find loopd to be the most useful application of iBeacon I've personally used so far. It's been on my phone since monday and there are about 400 contacts already.

how is it going, ayhoung? are you one of developers?
Humble Bundle is basically a publisher with a web storefront. They leverage other distribution channels, and critically, have what's left of the gaming press as a very fruitful marketing channel.

They also mostly only publish things that are already hits, so in a lot of ways they are a re-user outlet.