skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you mean NFIB? Asking small businesses doesn't really address the point, since the discussion appears to be about potential businesses that fail to find funding.
I like the design of wagtail admin very much. Can I extract it & use it in other django app? (I'm asking for permission)
Background on the ICANN audit program that this refers to.

http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/audits
I wouldn't go as far back as 1995. I remember using Netscape those days and IE was considered the "hip & modern browser" just like we do now for Chrome. It was the best viewed in IE days and since there were no real standards or committee back then, everyone wrote their own feature set including MS. It did sure give us the annoying <blink> and <marquee> tags but remember it also gave us Ajax. The shit only really blew when Firefox came into scene with a faster, secure and more progressive browser than IE.

Although, I personally feel if firefox doesn't catchup with the webkit browsers, we will soon be taking a full circle.
while you are at it, the link to stacktracejs.com is invalid. For some reason they don't serve the www. version of their domain

and the heading and menus on your page overlap on Chrome under Windows when the browser is sufficiently narrow
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Perhaps we will. I strongly doubt any of those will be even a slight success, unless released by the Atom team (which the copyleft license wouldn't affect).
Does this work at all in Safari? Is Safari's crappy performance of native->js ever going to catch up to FF and Chrome?
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It might be a regional dialect. Growing up in the west coast, I have never heard "her-bal tea", but rather always heard "er-bull tea". Hearing the "h" sound in "herb" (as I do whenever I hear British (and Australian?) speakers speak) was always very jarring, until I realized that it was just that they pronounce that class of words differently than we do.

It's possible that in the eastern or southern US, they say the H in "herb".
And therein lies a possible problem with using Arabic as a programming language: it is normally written without explicit voweling, which can lead to ambiguity of meaning. That might not be desirable in a programming language.
There's this particular style of writing blog articles that assumes that the reader knows all about the context of the topic (here: Microsoft has patched something, have they?) and the relevance to something (what, really?). It's a 5 minute brain dump for the author himself.
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Open sourcing is never the end of a good product.
Due process is a concept that applies (or is supposed to apply) to governments. It does not apply to private financial services companies. Politicians have realised this and are now aggressively and vigorously violating it by stepping outside the regular judicial system and simply scaring banks/card companies into stopping business with anyone said politicians don't like.

It wasn't Russia that started this trend. It was America.
Population density is still a red-herring in this discussion though. Internet connections in Manhattan are worse than those in small cities in Romania, yet Manhattan is 3-12 times more dense than Timișoara and Bucharest.
The Visa and MasterCard named in the article must be Russian-based Visa and the Russian-based MasterCard. They operate under the Russian laws, pay Russian taxes, otherwise wouldn't be able to operate there. They made themselves unreliable by, per article:

"cutting services to Russian clients (...) in response to U.S. sanctions in March."

So it's the opposite of your claim 1). The answer to your claim 2) is that the given money amounts "equivalent to the value of two days of (their) transactions processed in Russia."

Your claim 3) is confusing. Visa and MasterCard are already de-facto standard: they "together service about 90 percent of payments in Russia."

(all quotes from the article)
Why not? It's just Unicode. At the risk of being downvoted for negativity, the calligraphy is nothing out of the ordinary. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic for example.
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I paid for Sublime Text, and there were enough rough edges and bits I didn't like about both vim and Emacs that I felt justified in paying for it, but nevertheless seeing development slow to an absolute crawl on a product I paid for makes me nervous.
thanks for the suggestion i shall look it up!
As opposed to the stagnant duopoly VISA/MasterCard, who routinely manage to find ways to stiff their merchants with fines, fees and who are deeply in bed with US politicians? As opposed to PayPal that routinely seizes funds for no reason at all?

What kind of corruption are you afraid of, that the world doesn't already have to deal with?
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Shameless plug: I wrote a small JSON database the supports JSON Pointer and JSON Patch: https://bitbucket.org/robertodealmeida/jsonstore
This 'ownership semantics' of pointers in Rust is just the wrong kind of abstraction. At least for a language nascent in 2014 AD.
The thing I found most interesting about the 2048 was the sudden assortment of variations that immediately followed. It was a perfect example of how the thing we call "culture" works: people recursively sharing their interest in something, often without even trying ("hey, that looks cool. What are you playing?").

It is also a powerful argument in the idea (described very nicely by Lawrence Lessig[1]) that culture and creativity are hindered by copyright. While git (via github.com) made it technologically trivial to clone the source, it's the lack of the "don't touch it - somebody will sue me" barrier that allowed a huge number of people to try their hand at a variation.

To re-use a quote used by Mr. Lessig[2], said by composer John Philip Sousa as the technology of the phonograph (and the ability to restrict the use of music through copyright) quickly became widespread:

"These talking machines are going to ruin artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy, in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day, or the old songs. Today, you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left..."

I believe talk about "profit" or "lost opportunities" misses the forest for the trees. The potential of future personal profit on a small game like this can be very hit-or-miss, but the contributions to our shared culture have already been huge. The fact that the game caused an incredible amount of attention - with multiple people sending messages about taking the idea further - is conclusive evidence of the cultural impact it had.

The reaction by the authors of "threes"[3] (linked from this article) is an interesting example from the other side. It is clearly annoyed at the loss of profits that 2048 may have caused. Their game is also proprietary, restricting the possibility of making a legal derivative work. this eliminated one of the big sources of initial "word of mouth"/"viral' attention their game received.

I'm not trying to argue for the elimination of copyright[4] or other sweeping changes. For some works - especially games and other works of art - the monopoly benefits of copyright are probably worth the loss of some popularity. I simply suggest that there are other benefits besides "profit". As this article mentions, even stuff like "lack of stress" can be a huge advantage; knowing you've been able to impact so many people is something many artists dream about and hope for their entire lives[5].

TL;DR

If you're thinking of trying to squeeze some profit from a small work like this, you may want to consider letting it spread in our shared culture and taking the fame and reputation as the author of a Cool Game/App.

--

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strang...

[2] ibid.

[3] http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/

[4] While I do believe we should eliminate most "IP" laws, that argument is for another day.

[5] said best by the comic PFSC: https://31.media.tumblr.com/2cbf666fc1881d6c0f158a6bece2bb95...
Putin could kick it up a notch, nationalize the companies assets in Russia and forgive all dept held by the companies in Russia. What kind of a hit would this cause the shareholders of these companies I wonder?

Now sure, international lenders would be more wary of Russia after that, but when you have the resources Russia does maybe credit is less important? Besides, if lenders are going to be used to destroy your economy why not behave proactively?

I doubt it will come to this level... at least immediately, but some people think only the west has the capability to cause financial chaos and pain. I don't think this is the case. This is why I believe we should be more cautious about hostility, financial or otherwise.
‘Vertical Villages’ envisioned for Italy’s abandoned bridges
I predict that some good Samaritans with iPhones will collect food with the app and redistribute it to the needy; that's a great supplement to soup kitchens which must operate at a much larger scale and are not interested in 5-10 servings of anything.

I also predict that opportunists will take advantage of the free food and resell it, a la People Behaving Badly:

http://news.kron4.com/features/people-that-act-greedy-and-ta...
Married (wife works at home, too); no kids.

(Our flat has three bedrooms ... or rather, had three bedrooms: in practice, it has one bedroom and two offices.)
HTML5 AppCache could be used to easily allow offline play.
That's a reason to support a project that puts smartphone productivity into the hands of everyone; something like FirefoxOS perhaps:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
International Day Against DRM is here
One of the primary reasons I use Firefox Mobile on Android is because of the Adblock Plus, as we all know that the Chrome team has no plan/incentive to support extension on Android in the foreseeable future :)
Very interesting conceptually -- ecommerce and p2p commerce create many opportunities for arbitrage. But it begs the question of why you wouldn't just programmatically do the buying and selling yourself.
The same way the USA has been taking control of the rest of the financial system. They say to American VISA/MC executives, "we require any transactions processed by your subsidiary to comply with US sanctions, or else we're going to tell the whole world that you're a bunch of financial terrorists and throw you in jail".

Then the US executives say, OK, then we won't process payments in Russia. And then Russia says ....
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Thanks for the reference to Kouio - I just switched to it. So far, the UI looks even better than Google Reader. Especially on Mobile.
Does atom-shell allow for 64 bit node on OS X?
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It's a pity that phonegap apps don't perform nearly as well as a natively written one, especially on older phones.
> Well, why do you suppose Satoshi created Bitcoin?

Not relevant, it's not his now, it belongs to the public and his intentions are no more relevant than anyone else's.

> You call yourself reasonable, but you didn't even care to learn a bit about why Bitcoin came to be so popular and why it was invented in the first place.

I know all about it, so please keep your silly baseless presumptions to yourself.
Yes sure, but you're just referencing the knows-best authoritarian thought that has gotten us into this mess in the first place. The current state of the "art" doesn't change what is right, so you're merely pointing out that Google's developers are not working to preserve users' freedom.

I'll say it to be clear - regardless of what you think your "terms" are, they're irrelevant to the functioning of my computational devices.
Mozilla launches feedback channels for developers
Matt, I can very easily gives you corpus for other artists, I'll send you an email
>>The stories about teams that were able to go down from N servers to 1 server by switching from Python to Go/Scala/node.js will hurt it in the long run.

concurrency designs and architecture play a greater role than the language , most of the times.

Bottle-necks are often in bad-sync patterns , data-structures or overall designs.

Language plays the role for semantic verification,formal models (for model-comparison...) ,type-system designs , proof systems etc .GIL is just one!

Can't compare language vs another.

After which the buck passes on to underlying implementation but cpython in our discussion is only thrown as a reference implementation and for production grade interpreters we might have to look outside like one by enthought.

However language's built-in patterns to help advertise concurrency is another question altogether.
> the side that steamrolled competition with their lower-quality software

That's not true at all, IE was the superior alternative (and the "standard-following" browser) when it steamrolled Netscape. The problem came after that and was a great demonstration of what happens when you give the keys to the kingdom to a single profit-driven entity.

I doubt anybody's learned shit though, considering how fast people jumped to a Chrome-based monoculture and started arguing for the blessing of any and all Google proprietary dropping.
I don't need another editor but this interests me because of the Atom Shell and how that works.
Kind of cool that you can view issues all the way back to the beginning:

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5

I realize this is inherent to the nature of version control, but it's neat to think about the history as a "Making-Of" Atom.
Here's a chart that 'half' backs your point;

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=z...

There's clearly a lower slope on the log-scale than there was pre-recession, but it is still increasing.

I haven't seen an update, but the Cleveland Fed wrote an article about this specific measure of commercial lending in 2011;

http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2011/0211/01banf...
Applications that will automatically keep track of these events are on the horizon. The cryptocurrency industry is still in its infancy.
> but neglects to consider the scenario with all game theoretic incentives fully.

See prior post re: the insufficiency of axiomatic systems.

This is also unresponsive to the empirical observation in the parent's post.

Theories are beholden to fact, not the other way around.
It makes a lot of sense to partner with local telcos to serve customers, but it makes it less likely that Google would be able to leverage providing this infrastructure into broader commercial advantage.

I wonder how much control Google can have over balloon routes? In the limiting case, if they had none, they would have little negotiating power, since they have the infrastructure over a country one way or another and have to deal with that country's carriers. If they have more control, they can choose how to route the balloons so they don't pay to launch balloons over countries they haven't done deals with.
People aren't upset about Russia ensuring independence from US payment networks. They are upset that Russia appears to them to be trending toward isolation from the world while expanding its territory. They worry about that combined isolationism and expansionism resulting in a new global cold war.
Apparently "shear number" is a thing, though presumably not the thing meant here:

'All beta-barrels can be classified in terms of two integer parameters: the number of strands in the beta-sheet, n, and the "shear number", S, a measure of the stagger of the strands in the beta-sheet.'
I'm surprised how much memory it takes up.
I wonder if there's a (simple syntactical) way to unlink the constness of unique pointers and their targets. It's not a huge obstruction, but seems like an unnecessary restriction not found in the near-equivalent C++ construction.
During my last job hunt, I attended an interview at a mega corp. A interviewer walked in and then the interview started. Not sure why, As it went along, the guy seemed to get angry and angrier every time I answered a question. It was weird behavior.

But from what I know, running into such people is pretty common in interviews.
The GPL does not preclude this in the least.
Yeah, MSIE was the best browser through version 4. The real reason Netscape lost the browser wars was that it became a huge bloated mess. Now it probably couldn't have beat IE regardless of how good it was because of Microsoft's monopolistic practices, but IE was the best browser for a few years in the mid-90s.

Of course, they then proceeded to let it stagnate for the better part of a decade...
You could watch the video lectures instead of or in addition to reading the algorithms book.

I've seen quite a few of these and thought they were ok:

http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_introduction_algorithms...

This one is newer though:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I guess I would check out both and see which professors I like the best :)
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test.pystone.main()

pypyjs on ios safari gives -- 9K/s (50K/s on Python for ios)

Chrome on desktop -- 200K/s

pypy on desktop -- 2000K/s
When IE4 came out there was no comparison. Netscape Communicator was already a bloated, unstable mess. IE4 was a giant leap forward at the time with a cohesive DOM.

And IE 5 brought xmlhttprequest, which became kinda popular.
The large amount of excellent work being done on PyPy would seem to indicate that the Python community does not, in fact, pretend that performance isn't a problem.
nice, trying to install it on Ubuntu 14.04 .
Some web sites are limited by a fairly paltry network usage limit, not by throughput of the server. I don't think you can ever assume that a privately-held domain can cope with unaccustomed traffic, even if it is only 3 per second. Seems to be responding well now, anyway.
Tabletop games are also great for helping people overcome social anxieties, which are common among smart people. The "flow" state is deeply anxiolytic. Games are good for getting people, who don't know each other, together to do something that isn't drinking.

This is why I thought Google+ should have focused on putting German-style board games (using Hangouts, then an enormous technical advantage) instead of Zynga dreck in its Games product. The original G+ vision was that Hangouts would actually be something people "hang out" in, coming and going like it was a dorm room in college. That was a long-shot, an attempt to centrally direct culture, but games provided the perfect context for getting that motion going.
When you're not cherry-picking, you're distorting the numbers. For one thing, you're taking numbers starting in 2003 and ending in 2009. Is that two years? No, and 92800 is not twice 49000 either. Also, the proper comparison is not to 1000 small companies but to small companies with an aggregate head count equal to the starting 49000. If you look at the census figures[1] the biggest numbers by far are for non-employing firms (i.e. only owners) or firms with only 1-4 employees. So we're talking about more like 10000 companies at least, and yes, those are very likely to generate at least 43800 new jobs over six years even if most fail. According to the Small Business Administration[2], small businesses have accounted for 66% of net new jobs since the 1970s. Net, so that's even including those that failed. If fewer small businesses are starting, that 66% starts going down, and it doesn't take long before the net for the whole economy goes negative.

Fewer small businesses is a bad thing, to such an obviously huge degree that I'm amazed I even have to explain it - especially here. Really, all you "skeptics" need to do is educate yourselves.

[1] https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
[2] http://www.sba.gov/content/small-business-trends
If you know node backend and web front-end, there are at least two options right now:

For a self-contained, deployable desktop application use `node-webkit`. It is basically chromium + embedded node.js. From what I'm reading, atom-shell is similar to node-webkit. There are a few other `node-webkit` like projects on github.

For lighter deployments, where your audience already has chrome and node.js installed, try `node-chrome`. It's a skeleton to run a chrome packaged app locally which communicates over websockets to a node.js service you build.

Both of these are good options if your UI, notifications can be contained in HTML. Challenges arise when you want to use OS specific integrated menus, growls/notifications, tooltips, etc. Node-webkit may have addressed most of these by now.
Totally, I don't even have a cellphone let alone a smartphone. 2048 was the only version I played. It got me so interested I even made an awk version. That's what I liked the best, all the creative versions people wrote based on it. Someone on here wrote, 'the only thing more addicting than 2048 is making a 2048 clone.'
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2048 for me was about a week or two of daily play and then done.
This is really gorgeous visually.
This is the deeper insight behind the saying, "There's a sucker born every minute."
Separate interests, perfectly and fairly satisfied, rarely favor everyone involved. NATO and Russian sovereignty & protection interests involve conflicting desire to control border areas, as both are suspicious of the intentions of the other. NATO having all but abandoned Ukraine, Russia is emboldened to re-take that buffer area, putting boots on the ground where answered only by rhetoric.
Nicely broken redirection on oreilly.com:
- While searching for interesting ebooks, I open each new title in a separate tab,
- I then open a new tab to log in, then "Reload All" other tabs...
- ...and BAM, half the tabs are now displaying the same book.

Quite embarrassing for a programming books publisher.
What browser/OS?