skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're completely missing the point here. Have you read the article?

"The law on a national payment system, which seeks to guarantee uninterrupted service of payments in Russia by foreign payment systems and prevent them from cutting services to Russian clients, as Visa and MasterCard did in response to U.S. sanctions in March."

Visa and MasterCard cut their local intra-Russian services "because of the U.S: sanctions"(!) Note that both these named Visa and MasterCard aren't "American Visa and MasterCard." The ones operating in Russia had to be registered as Russian companies to provide the services at all. So it's Russian companies (they are daughter companies, but legally independent except for brand, initial investments, connecting to the international infrastructure etc) cutting their own services to Russians because of the external political influences.

It's totally reasonable to adjust the laws to make it harder for such Russian companies to do such things in Russia.
It always makes me chuckle when I see companies trying to ship a product (free or not) and realize a few months later that it's not picking up adoption. Then they decide to open source it in an effort to make it popular but of course, they can't admit that, so they always come up with excuses like "We want the community to benefit from it" or "We really believe in open source", etc...

In the end, for most of these products, open sourcing is usually just the last step before the product dies.
Not blowing up when one part of the chain goes "undefined"
It's basically an attempt to bring the user interface of Mathematica or MATLAB (the "notebook") to the Python world. You can get an idea of what this is like in Mathematic by watching Wolfram's demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik
yeah, I too thought the EU was the land of (regulation) milk and honey yet in Germany you have Deutsche Telekom and those that resell Deutsche Telekom with non-performance related value adds.

funny how the blau.de "3.5G" connection is wildly faster and less latent than the cable modem connection. actually it's kinda sad: 5GB for €10/month?
>A small company can grow 100x in a couple of years and it doesn't seem weird, whereas a large company growing even 2x would be remarkable.

You cant compare a company going through that first big growth. If you have a million dollar a year company grow by 100x to 100 million in a year or more is that really providing more growth than the company I work for which grew by ~101 million over Q1 last year. Which is helping the economy more?

What happens to the employees when the small company is bought out or fails to grow the next year. Conversely what happens next year if my company shrinks by that same 101 million in Q1 2015? We probably wouldn't start laying people off but would the small company?

This is also interesting it provides a little insight into why small companies may be struggling whereas larger ones are seeing growth:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianshepherdson/2013/09/10/small-...
> All of their customers will still have to go through middlemen.

Not if they're watching Netflix. As I read the deal, Comcast and Netflix will be directly connected, so if you're a Comcast customer watching Netflix, your packets only traverse Comcast's and Netflix's networks; no third parties are involved.
Thanks for that, must have missed them... fixing now!
It has promise, but it irks me that trouble was went to to include the iconography, but they aren't interactive - only the labels are.
I get 157K/sec in the terminal and 309K/sec in Chrome.

As the article says, Chrome's performance shows wide variation, even after JIT warmup. It's ranging from 50K/sec to 320K/sec. Bizarre.
Lots of people use Python for tasks that are not CPU-bound. Scalable web-whatever and scientific computing aren't the whole world.
Seems to be a bug in the MIT License that it doesn't refer to its own name within its text. By contrast the GNU GPL is more easily recognizable.
If other countries serve as an example, it could mean Putin remains in power for a very long time. War more or less likely? I don't know.
How Putin Is Reinventing Warfare
Failure semantics are the obvious ones. At the very least you'll need some flavor of

try {
user.them.public_keys.primary.bundle
} rescue {
OhDamn
}

Less obvious is the potential for multiple targets. JWalk probably doesn't do this, but it could. For more ideas for how this could work take a look at

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/77415/theessenceofdataacc...
I wasn't aware this would be predicted by Austrian economics, but I don't know enough of it/my study of it was back in the '80s. Could you be more specific?

However, what I generally understand is happening, or rather is not happening, is called "pushing on a string". No matter how low the rates or availability of loans (not so sure that was true in Japan in the '90s), nothing can get a business to borrow money if they don't think they'll be able to pay it back.

I'd also suspect that's somewhere in the priority list of central banks below preventing widespread bank failures (note what happened after it was decided to throw Lehman Brothers to the dogs, albeit we'd better be past that point in the US), and very possibly making it very cheap for the government to borrow money. "Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see" don't hurt so much when interest rates are so low....
Mruby 1.0.0 was released
Also, how about a RHEL package ?
FYI for those searching for this on Android: (1) it isn't on Amazon yet (or at least I couldn't find it), and (2) to find it on Google Play, you have to search for Gabriele Cirulli if you want to find the actual game he's talking about. He links to the app in his post but, because I had a bit of trouble finding it, here it is:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gabrieleci...
I'm curious, how do you mean painful? I work in an office cube farm, and it's often noisy/chatty enough that I find it hard to concentrate without headphones or something. But I find most earbuds and cheap headphones uncomfortable to wear for more than half an hour or so, so I bought a big set of over-the-ear Bluetooth headphones that are great to wear all day long. Might be worth a try if that's your problem.
Fulfill protection treaties. Either put "boots on the ground" or don't promise to in the first place.

Ukraine gave up deterrent weapons (world's 3rd largest nuke stockpile) on promise that the USA would fill the strategic power gap accordingly. Latter didn't, Russia doesn't care about mere "sanctions" in light of empire-building goals, there's only one thing that stops such "acting out".
Developers will pay decent money for a "code" editor (an IDE), not a "text" editor.

Text editors are dime a dozen and in that space, you are competing with much more than tools that are geared just toward developers.
I hope it isn't uncouth to mention my RSS reader here: https://github.com/edavis/riverpy

It treats RSS like a newspaper instead of email. Here's a demo: http://riverpy-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

I'm biased, of course, but I think it's a pretty interesting take on what an RSS reader can be.

RSS is more active now than I ever remember it being when Google Reader was around. Really interested to see what the next few years bring.
Most Americans also don't have subscriptions to those sites. It's been stated many times that the way around paywalls is to search the article on Google and click straight from the results. That's how I get around the restrictions.
> "get out of your chair, walk over to the turntable, carefully pick up the tone arm and advance the needle to the next track. That was a lot of work "

mfw "lot of work."
Ah, ok. My bad. How does it work then?
Why is it wrong? It's exactly the reason anti-trust legislation exists in the first place.

Monopolies have more pricing power and scale, so all else being equal they are lower credit risks than smaller companies. Since they enjoy an advantage on cost of capital, they have an intrinsic synergy when buying out a smaller competitor since they can increase their ROIC simply by lowering their capital costs (and in practice almost always have operational overlap).

It makes sense for the banks, it makes sense for the large companies, and it makes sense for the small companies being acquired. The only one being harmed is the consumer.

Not that I don't understand you point on a moral basis, it's just that is not the framework used to make these decisions.
Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests
It was only until I had children that I realised just how much time they take up (this isn't meant to sound selfish, they're awesome!) It makes me wonder just what I did with all of that spare time I had when I didn't have kids.

As far as home working is concerned, I do it (along with slightly different hours) during term time to allow me to do drop-off/pick-ups. There's no-one else at home when I'm working from home.

During holidays I'm either off to look after children or I work from the office. I don't have enough space to effectively shut myself off.
Hardware for the connected home
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Guess Who Cares For Young Adults When They Move Back Home
Founder? The company in question was founded in 1986 and swallowed by a multinational in 2000. If I'm going to tilt at windmills, I'd prefer to aim my lance at those that have not yet unseated me.
What you said ain't got nothing to do with what the article is about. Read the fucking article first!
But net income isn't a good comparison, because things like spending on R&D and infrastructure are subtracted before you get to it; they don't come out of net income, they come out of gross profits. So Google does not have significantly more funds available for those things than Comcast does; it has less.
The level of acceptance of those cards, globally, is tiny compared to Visa/Mastercard.
> Combine the two and you can see their ambitions: Putin and his allies just want to get rich.

When I combine the two I see a Putin who wants freedom from the dependance on a globalized economy that is largely run by western powers. I doubt Putins end goal has anything to do with "just" getting rich.
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3D-printed ultrasound cast could save us costly surgeries
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Why Twitter Will Be Around Longer Than Facebook
I fail to see how you find someone like Level3 or Cogent more powerful than Comcast. I'd like to understand your reasoning behind such a position. Comcast is insanely powerful: somewhat because of the eyeballs they have on their network(s) and mostly because of their regulatory/political leverage and influence.
Ask HN: What are some of the best iOS app related podcasts?
Here are a few I've subscribed to,

- App Business Podcast

- App Story

- Mixergy

- Debug

- iPhreaks Show

- Mobile App Chat

- My Appventure

- NSBrief

- Developing Perspective

Would love to know some undiscovered podcasts that talks to App Entrepreneurs and their stories and inspires us to do more.
This is What it Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player
I sometimes wish more states would build state-controlled basic financial infrastructure and cut out the established financial services companies from the low end of the market -- whether that is the big card companies or the big banks or the big insurers or the big mortgage lenders. These financial services organisations make staggering amounts of money for providing services that almost everyone depends on to function in society, yet with very little real accountability and rarely serving the little guy well, and with a long track record of fighting against any state-led efforts to improve the situation on either count. I'm not generally a fan of over-centralising government and infrastructure, but in this case I suspect there are now strong arguments for providing basic state-run financial services that look much the arguments for having currency and the lender of last resort run by the state and not for private profit.

The use of card payment schemes as a mechanism for sanctions in this case demonstrates external political influence. Maybe in this specific case some would agree with that, given Russia's recent track record. But just imagine the response if Russia could do the same to the US or the major economies of Western Europe. Or consider a more ethically dubious example, like the UK invoking terrorism legislation to freeze assets when Iceland was in financial difficulty not so long ago. More than the political influence, these measures demonstrate the rather arbitrary nature of the services these big companies provide, or don't provide, particularly across borders. For any first world national economy in the 21st century to remain vulnerable to some big commercial interest getting upset and taking the ball home, whatever the underlying reason, seems unwise on the part of the corresponding government.
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Introducing PaintCode 2
The US meanwhile continued to expand NATO and attempted to box Russia in. Contrary to the agreements you mention.

Who exactly is building an empire here?

Boots on the ground probably will be the answer in the end. And when people see what it produces they may finally come to their senses.
GitHub's reputation in tech circles is extremely good. Don't confuse the noise with the signal.
"Nothing" as for large values of nothing.

JCB, AMEX, Discover are virtually unusable outside NA. Yes, you might find a restaurant or two that do accept Discover, but you cannot rely on that. Just like you cannot rely on Maestro in NA, for example.

VISA and MC are the only two accepted somewhat worldwide. Even VISA has work to do, to expand their coverage (e.g. Austria and Germany; they are not as universally accepted as Maestro or local "bank cards").
> do the founders really expect that strangers are going to want to eat each others' half-eaten, saran-wrapped block of cheese?

http://nypost.com/2011/10/31/brooklyn-hipsters-go-dumpster-d...
appaloosa-store.com is a private app-ecosystem, I believe you're allowed one free app on the free plan. Super simple to setup and install. You can also hook jenkins builds up to it.
Het Prikkelbaar Darm Syndroom (PDS): het FODMAP dieet brengt de oplossing |
That doesn't seem to make sense here, as Atom was still in open beta, and they haven't released the versions for roughly half of their user base yet.[1]

1) https://github.com/blog/69-what-os-do-you-use
It doesn't have to be a full IDE. Sublime Text and Textmate before it have both been very successful while charging a respectable fee.

Maybe the slightly-snarky lesson here is "developers will pay decent money for a text editor... on OSX".
You're not too cynical! I'm in the same thinking boat. The first thing that that I thought about is either they don't want to do it anymore or the adoption rate was not what they expected.

They made it perfectly clear that it will not be open source and it will cost money. I don't think they need 10 weeks to understand the benefits of open source.
I've never had a problem opening very large files in Emacs. I would imagine Vim is much the same. I have an 80MB JSON file open in emacs right now.
Putting in place measures to avoid being screwed over by Washington's control of payments infrastructure is not "moving to turn Russia into another China". It's being smart and pragmatic.

Visa and MasterCard have been working in Russia for years, apparently unmolested judging from their joint market share. Now they are being turned into weapons by US politicians .... again. This is a huge, massive trend in US politics: seizing control of power points in the financial system and squeezing them as part of proxy wars against people, countries or classes of businesses they don't like (see Operation Choke Point).

As someone in Europe, I don't see this as Russia becoming communist. I see it as Putin standing up for his country and I wish the EU would do the same, instead of allowing SWIFT to be turned into a tool of the US Treasury.
Re: #5 - the game is incredibly popular at the local high schools in my area. I was pretty surprised how ubiquitous the game was and that all, and I mean all, of the students knew what it was and had most likely played it.

The most interesting thing was how many different algorithms the students developed to try and solve getting 2048. Unfortunately they didn't know about the web version on Github which made trying them out much faster and fun than swiping a phone for hours.
Why are you down voting an helpful critic to the programmer. Only praising comments allowed ?
Code is text last I checked. I see what you're getting at, but "text editor" encompasses that already. For everyone I talk to anyway.
OK, so I guess the big caveat here is I wasn't living in the US at the time and left university without any debt. I can see how stressing about how much money you are spending would make hanging out in college a lot less fun.
Great point. Hopefully, IRS will reconsider and treat BTC as a currency.
Stolen? Come off it. Games have a long history of being cloned and improved on.
> They have 6 peers who are using a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet port

No, they have 6 peers who have a single congested port each. It's a different port for each peer (the article says nothing about multiple peers sharing a single port), and I can't tell from the article if the single port for each peer is the only port they have with those peers. It might be, or it might not. Whether it is or not is irrelevant to the key point, which is that these peers are cooperating with Level 3 to upgrade capacity, which is not true of the 6 peers who have had permanent congestion for over a year.
Big customers like Target that would prefer to run their POS machines on Windows XP. So sad..
#1 on HN on Saturday was about 150/min sustained. That's not even 3 per second. What in WP makes this an issue, or is it just running WP on a shared instance on a wimpy server. Or is it some config in WP that you need to change?
Gatekeeper was explicitly designed to make OSX more locked down with respect to third party applications.

You could also argue that the numerous rejections of third party applications that conflict with various Apple goals are changes in the iOS ecosystem that make it more locked down.
Even scalable web-whatever is often IO-bound... of my several apps in production, there's only one where CPU is a serious concern, and I run that one on PyPy. cPython is fine for the others.
The neat thing is (to me), his rule still makes sense. If I were listening to someone who spoke a dialect of English different than mine, it would still sound natural if they chose their "a" vs "an" in the "right" way:

# yes
a hotel
an 'otel

# no
an hotel
a 'otel
Huh. I never actually did the math before, but: there's 32 symbols on my (US) keyboard. Upper+lower+number gives a baseline 62 characters. This gives us a password space for brute force attacks of

10 char alphanum: 62^10, or 8.4e17
10 char alnumsym: 94^10, or 5.4e19
11 char alphanum: 62^11, or 5.2e19

One extra character instead of needing to type symbols into my phone, with nearly identical complexity? Sounds good to me.
Yep, it's pro technology. He just wants to abstract the technology away behind interfaces that are simple to use.
That JWalk library is in Java so there won't be something you can use dynamically like that.
I don't think very many people thought RSS "died", rather the _opportunity_ for RSS to become the dominant, cross-source publishing standard has died.

There used to be a world where all things on Twitter and Facebook were published to RSS feeds, drastically lowering the barriers to entry for experimenting with content consumption ideas, or cross-content aggregation, or personalization, etc.

There used to be a world where big, public technology players like Google and Firefox were helping on-board new users, and appeared to be making a long-term commitment to the technology. When Google Reader was a thing, the rate at which non-technical users in my personal network were starting to talk about RSS was astounding. And _everybody_ was thinking about whether or not RSS was a natural fit for their product/idea/platform/drone/toaster.

There was a moment in history where RSS was poised to become as ubiquitous as e-mail. But that opportunity was taken away, because the big tech companies either couldn't or wouldn't innovate on their business models, instead they're focused on the near-zero-sum game of user acquisition and retention.

A similar thing happened in the late 1990s with the major ISPs - AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/etc actively encouraged you to only communicate in-network, e.g. how their chat clients initially worked. Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for us), their core identity system was based on the already standardized technology of e-mail. And eventually the ability of others to provide better/different experiences via e-mail (Eudora, Hotmail, Gmail, etc) changed how people viewed those networks.

This time around, the big tech companies are much more self-conscious regarding user base degradation, and the risks of having their core user experience compromised by out-of-network innovation. Consumers always lose this game.
Why so many Visa and MasterCard ass kissing here? It doesn't matter what you guys think of Russia and Putin. Visa and Mastercard ain't innocent here either. They fudged their rate and have been sued multiple time since their existence.

Personally, I don't think any country should rely on Visa or Mastercard since like the article said any countries that face U.S. sanction is basically fucked. This is equivalent of using closed source software to run your govrt.

Russia or any countries for that matter have the rights and should develop their own domestic payment transaction.
Transparency International rates perceived public-sector corruption in 175 countries. China ranks at 80, Russia 127, USA 19, Canada 9, New Zealand and Denmark tied for first place. Contrast China with Hong Kong at 15.

http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/
Namecheap notified of breach of registrar accredition by ICANN [pdf]
Huh? I think you're off by a decade. Microsoft burned a lot of reputation by letting IE stagnate between 2001 (IE6) and 2011 (IE9), but at the time IE5 and IE6 shipped, they were legitimately faster, more compliant, and all-around better browsers than the Netscape versions of the time. I don't remember IE4 to comment on that, but there was certainly a time where IE was the best browser, both to users and developers. They simply failed to keep innovating on it.
I prefer the original Threes game. But this is a cool game too.
"The world" probably doesn't care about punishing Russia. That's the sort of thing that makes Republicans hard but the average guy on the street has bigger things to worry about.

Certainly, westerners being told they can't go on holiday to Russia or buy Russian made software or other things is not going to suddenly make the people in east Ukraine decide they actually love the unelected government they got landed with.
How Google Plans To Work With Telcos On Project Loon
JSONSelect lets you do queries on JSON objects using CSS-style selectors. There's an interactive demo here:

http://jsonselect.org/

The code is on github:

https://github.com/lloyd/JSONSelect
I worked remotely for seven years, and I found the same thing. That is one of the reasons why I always went out for lunch. I just missed talking to people.
If anyone else finds it on Amazon I'd appreciate a link, my phone (Jolla) doesn't have access to the Play Store.
Sadly I agree.

Looking back Python 3 came too late, didn't offer much in terms of an incentive to justify switching to it, divided the community and in the process also left other things people worry about by the wayside -- performance, packaging, better concurrency handling (no not via Tulip or Twisted).

I think, like you point out, many before they decided to sink the time into upgrading to Python 3 to get better unicode support for example, would also take the time to evaluate and go with something else altogether -- Go for example.