skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, what do you do with your IRC bots? I know HipChat can have bots, so I'd assume some similar functionality is possible. But Hipchat doesn't have decades of community developed bots, so IRC has a long head start.
I just switched our team to JIRA for this exact reason. We were already on Bitbucket for repos and using Sourcetree for git access, so might as well get issue tracking from the same place.

Honestly my feelings on it are mixed so far. Doing a "good" job of administering projects and issues seems to have a pretty steep learning curve if you want to use more than about 10% of JIRA's functionality.
1) This is a Legitimate problem for China, but how can we assume that the USA will be the world's superpower, when China does encounter this problem? 2050 is a long way from now. It is likely that another nation will take the role of the #1 economy.

Beyond that, how do we know the environmental impact caused by the industrialization of China will not reduce the average life expectancy (cancer, etc.)?

2) Much of the shale oil extraction has been financed through low interest rates and debt. The cost of extracting many of these oil reserves is more than the worth of the oil itself.

"Just a few of the roadblocks: Independent producers will spend $1.50 drilling this year for every dollar they get back."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/dream-of-u-s-oil-in...

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Shells-American-Woes-...

3) This is hard to argue against. I have a few concerns:
a) The profits from the R&D and IP are usually concentrated in the hands of large corporations with large patent portfolios. These corporations are global and not beholden to the USA (they can move work aboard). The profits of these corporations are increasing being moved towards the hands of the few.

b) The education system in the USA for the majority, has been far from stellar. There is an opening for another country to surpass the USA in education and academic institutions.

c) As China moves away from an export driven economy, they can take the role of R&D and IP. China is working towards this. I'm not sure if they can succeed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/business/chinas-ambitious-...
PHP / MySQL / CentOS / Googlefont

probably about the most boring stack out there
Say no more!.
I'll second FPComplete - a lot of people seem to glom really well onto their web-based IDE.
the transcoding price different and transferring price is different.. The invoice generation calculates it.
transcoding_cost = 0.003 per second
transferring_cost = 0.0003 per byte gets downloaded

Profit margin is double the expenditure.

but its flexible. need to tweak the values after production launch.
"As far as I'm concern, America is contributing less and less to the world. There is no reason for the world to give such high value to the dollar and continually send goods to America (things that have no reason to, will not continue for long)."

Unless you provide reasoning as to how you've reached this conclusion you just come off sounding a bit pompous and self important. (BTW I agree with your initial point that this suffers from unnecessary hubris)
don't know about Belize.

I checked out San Pedro, Guatemala, it was pretty cool but was hard to get consistent wifi at the cafes. Would be better if I had had an apartment. There are a few techie/entrepreneur types around there.

There seems to be a decent entrepreneurship scene brewing in Medellin, Columbia. That's my next trip
>it makes team communication easy and painless on every device our employees own

Is this sentence really that hard to understand?
Yeah bro, chill out. Not every product needs to 'work' or be 'good'.
The problem with learning via gamification
heh, funny :)
Which words are you having trouble with? That's pretty straight forward, but I'm assuming you're wanting to know more about the across devices thing... This is actually one of my favorite features. Their system keeps track of where you're logged in from and whether you're active or idle on that platform, then if you are sent 1-1 messages or mentioned in a room it will find you, delivering to a computer client first, then push notifications, then email--which is really valuable for us.
Thank you so much for responding. I don't have any more specific questions - just looking for exactly that. Hearing that from your perspective - especially the thing about not wanting to feel pitied - it'll be easier to recognize that in someone else and respond accordingly now.
Unless the laws are batshit crazy and you are fighting a noble battle to change society for the better. Of course that kind of subversive thinking is exactly what the FBI considers domestic terrorism and will go to all lengths to stop. The "electronic frontier" is the civil rights issue of our times, but any kind of civil disobedience is punishable by decades in prison, a la any authoritarian regime.

I think authoritarian-types consider snitching "adolescent" because they have lost all sense of idealism and justice that they once might have had as a youth. The only way to change society with that type of mindset is for millions of dollars to be spent on lobbying by corporations or benevolent millionaires.
Hi Nathan, I just wanted to point out that is different to try to hide something from the NSA and from Google, I didn't mean to say that is good or bad to hide things from Google when using their services.

That said, I can imagine someone who wants to use a search engine that he doesn't trust (because the results are better but wants to keep his privacy): for example a girl may want to search for pregnancy tests but she may dislike to be later targeted by ads about that.

You are right that one could simply avoid the service or at least avoid to be logged in, but most people are oblivious of these things.
My thought was that by utilizing a trial period there would be limited downside (if any at all) with tremendous upside in success.

After all, if the developer enjoyed the process and did an amazing job, why would either side want to cease working together?
Yeah definitely demotivated.

But there are ~40 customers and I needed that invoicing system to bill them :)
The two main inputs to their model are the IR and the ISA.
Joyent us-east-1 rebooted due to operator error
Due to an operator error, all compute nodes in us-east-1 were simultaneously rebooted. Some compute nodes are already back up, but due to very high load on the control plane, this is taking some time. We are dedicating all operational and engineering resources to getting this issue resolved, and will be providing a full postmortem on this failure once every compute node and customer VM is online and operational. We will be providing frequent updates until the issue is resolved.
I think it's a clever domain name, I lold.
I wouldn't say the title is deceptive. Its just an aggregation of the HN hiring posts.
I hope you realize you are accepting full risk for all your users' money by using Helloblock. You have a team of 5, is it really too much work to run your own node?
Also "The new PHP" http://programming.oreilly.com/2014/03/the-new-php.html
They seem to approximate with recurrence relations; they cite a bunch of literature about the technique, referring to "cost relations".
There's much focus on the economic statistics here but I do think the most important component is the political one. China is a one party state run in a totalitarian manner. No totalitarian state has ever lasted for an extended period of time. So China either becomes the 1st to pull that off or has the mother of all lost decades as it transitions to a Western like democracy.
It's almost like we're trying to ignore the Streisand effect when it comes to our personal communications.

It's not a perfect parallel, but you'd think internet-savvy people should understand how hard it is to keep the cat in the damn bag!
I vaguely recall that if a circular disc with a circumference of pi (3.14 ...) is held at an angle of 22.7 degrees relative to a flat surface, it projects an ellipse that has a circumference of 3.000 Coincidence? Eh, probably. Might've also been 26.8 degrees.
Someone told me this: with Haskell you end up reading a lot more up-front than you do "playing around" up-front. The reason for this is the type system which can feel like a straight jacket at first unless you understand it well.

Don't read the monad tutorials. At all. Get a feel for the language with http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters (you don't need to read the whole thing through, but probably should).

Once you've played with the basics then you should absolutely read the http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia which gives you a very thoroughly walking through of the Type System and is essential but heavy reading to be at all productive with Haskell.

After that make sure you are using Hoogle to search for functions that already exist!!! http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/

One strategy no one really told me about: search for functions based on their type and less their "name".

Then after that, Gabriel Gonzalez writes some really great noob-intermediate friendly tutorials on Haskell in-general: http://www.haskellforall.com/ (don't start with his stuff though as you should have familiarity with Haskell basics first!!).

Once you're proficient, having Hoogle built into your command-line, using CTAGS + codex, Lambdabot + Emacs, and GHC-mod + emacs is pretty crucial to my workflow.

Hoogle in the commandline is really powerful, CTAGS + codex is basically CTAGS for haskell source files (if you don't know what ctags are look it up), and lambdabot is a powerful tool that is tough to explain but it's the omnipotent haskell bot sitting in the #haskell IRC channel (but you can install it on your machine and query it from Emacs).
Why would you not use something like modified OPLOP?

https://github.com/brettcannon/oplop

You generate lots of passwords from one secure password. This way you can replicate it across password managers, and have a back up if something catastrophically screws up. The best combo of Human friendly and hacker resistant.
Feature branches are pushed to remote, where code reviews can take place. Once the code is reviewed and approved, the submitter rebases it onto master. We run a batched continuous integration, so once it's on master, it is expected it could be pushed into production at any time (batched because somebody has to do the push manually, usually after merging the code).
3, 5, and 7 are prime, therefore 9 is prime.
Ask HN: International 3G data plans?
I currently live in the US and have an iPhone 5s with Verizon family plan. I am spending the summer in Taipei, Taiwan (70 days), and I want to use my iPhone data at a reasonable rate.

Verizon offers "global roaming" but the prices are absurd (something like $20/100mb). It looks like there are some SIM card options but I don't totally understand how that works.

If anyone has travelled internationally for multiple months, and purchased a data plan, I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks.
I wouldn't go so far as to say outrage. Let's call it confusion. You advocate deleting the history to your clients, they don't do it, so you go ahead and do it anyway. And along the way, you get bothered by what you see when going into the history pages. If I were in your situation, I'd figure that maybe the client has an unstated reason for not wanting to delete the history and consider it none of my business.
I am just amazed at all of the new cross platform toolkits and frameworks popping up nowadays. Seems to rival the number of new javascript libraries. The attempt to bring cross platform development to mobile is reaching a fever pitch. So many approaches, but there are still compromises or shortcomings from them all. One thing that I've noticed is that most of the newer frameworks are based on web tech and stacks. Which I guess is a good thing, or maybe not.
Got any invites? :)
Maybe not. But they are advertising the use of NaCl just after they spoke about "open web".

One might call it hairsplitting. But we really don't need another ActiveX in the browser. We are still recuperating from that one. And I'm not even saying NaCl is bad as ActiveX, nor am saying that ActiveX is bad from technology point of view. What I am saying is that both are/were technologies that were pushed by single browser vendor and that is bad.

EDIT: fixed typo
NaCl is not "proprietary," it's BSD-licensed
I'd love to see multiple organisations also. I think the problem's only going to get worse now that HipChat is free- why wouldn't different work teams etc. adopt it?
Ah, thanks for pointing us there. That's pretty slick
Hey everyone, I'm the creator of hnhiring.me. Surprised to see it pop up now, as I haven't done much with the site in the past couple of years. It's still being updated every month with the latest "Who's Hiring?" post, though, so hopefully people have found it useful. The source is also on GitHub (http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring).

As an aside, I've been meaning for ages to do analysis of hiring trends based on the data. If anybody is interested in this, I have the past year of posts available in JSON available at http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json. The thread ids for fulltime/freelancer for each month are here: http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json.
Slack has nice native clients for OS X, Android and iOS too.
The most influential Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba) commented recently in China that his primary impression of USA was the ability of strategic thinking. Being very familiar with both countries, I have the same impression. I used to call it rational thinking. In my observation, the best strategic thinkers will win the long term races of the countries, as well as businesses.
Yahoo Plots YouTube Rival for Summer Debut After Delay
Is there room for another YouTube?
Snowden, WikiLeaks 'blacklisted' from Stockholm Internet Forum
> "Is the US moving in the right direction to keep pace with the developed world?"

Given The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in a whole bunch of measures, I would say no.
That is not different from how most of Firefox's capabilities only work as part of Firefox.
You can also make subsets with any font on Google Fonts, using the text= parameter e.g. https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Creepster&text=JAVSC...
everyone/channel is similar but not the same.

In HipChat, you can be in a room but you won't get notifications if people mention "@here" while you're idle. With Slack, this isn't possible; you would get email notifications for all of the rooms you're in every time "@channel" is mentioned. Furthermore, "@everyone" can only be used in the primary chat room, not others.
Show HN: Go beyond Google Alerts with mention
Wait… what's the "Facebook" plugin in the last row?
There are no superior alternatives. There isn't even one alternative which does the same thing.
In the US it's common to use credit report information to price insurance, definitely not forbidden in any way. I'm not sure about the rest of the world. See

(1) https://www.statefarm.com/about-us/company-overview/company-...

(2) http://www.allstate.com/about/credit.aspx
I don't disagree. The problem is that people are error prone, and excel doesn't value check. We had to build large BPM-driven processes in order to account for this. Also I don't want to imply that users got to test the system while it was being built. That would imply that there was a logical product development process in place, which for most projects, there wasn't. Users got something that had been frankensteined over the course of the project, and muckity-mucks wondered why projects and applications went stagnant because users stopped using them and went back to excel.
> That seems like a bit of an overstatement[0] considering all the categories that the US isn't #1[...]

I wrote caring about being #1. Not necessarily being nr. 1.
Humor on the web and how to stop it (2010)
I would not share this with my friends or family. Primarily because telling someone how to lose weight, is akin to telling them they are fat. If they asked for it, I might share this link.

On another note this is basically 1 page guide to the 4 hour body. Even some of your word choices are the same (force multiplier). Might want to cite that.
If Google buys Dropcam, say goodbye to privacy forever
That project doesn't seem to integrate with Fontello at all.
Taming Hardware Event Samples for FDO Compilation (2010)
We have no objective tests for psychopathy, it's such a sketchy unsupported diagnosis that even the DSM which isn't exactly a pinnacle of science, won't touch it.

We have at best a debatable set of symptoms which are entirely subjective and which are provided by criminologists let alone psychologists.

It's easy to test for and show someone has a cold in a completely objective way, either your cells are infected with a virus with a given genetic pattern or they are not. There is no disease called psychopathy and there is no objective test for it.

So since you're the expert on psychopathy and we know so much about it, what is the underlying physical process for it? Is it an infection? Are the neurons misfiring? Is a certain protein misfolded? Oh wait, you can't answer any of those because it's made up pseudo-scientific bullshit. Labeling someone a psychopath is about as real as labeling them a witch, only symptoms, no cause, no mechanism, nothing.

PS. Here's the 'brain scan' evidence that homosexuality is a real 'mental disorder' LOL http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7456588.stm
I think this comment from that thread tells you all you need to know:

shpider might be giving you another hint about using Haskell:

(from the README):

"occupation" =: "unemployed Haskell programmer"

"location" =: "mother's house"
A Blow for Copyright Trolls
Religion is another hot topic. My wife may need (minor) brain surgery (minor as far as brain surgery goes) and her family believes they can pray it away instead. It's a whole thing here.
I don't think that the problem is that they are "not smart enough to do that". I think that the problem is that they have given up on ever being able to understand. That's a much harder problem to solve.
> Having studied at both a cheap state university and also one of the famed "top 20," I'd wholeheartedly argue that the educational opportunities at the two were similar if not the same.

Which I guess means that people living in other countries than the US may be getting a good education despite being, you know, not in the US.
Genuinely interested in why you guys decided to roll your own cloud sync service instead of using something like dropbox or the like.

I recently started using YNAB (youneedabudget.com) for OSX and iPhone, and one of the things I liked the most is how they used dropbox to sync flawlessly between devices.

It's probably hard enough doing sync right even with the help of dropbox API, but it just seems to me that rolling your own makes it two problems instead of one.

Care to share your reasoning? Thanks!
“You’d think if there was a real problem, they’d be able to talk about something other than potential.”

When the lobbyist starts talking in these terms I know they are worried. Sort of 'prove we abuse it' challenges are common in the intelligence community.

That said though, what exactly would you want to be true here?
50 examples of Start Stop Continue feedback in the workplace
Linear clock inventor on how clock design affects our perception of time
Yeah - I went to a rust-belt high school in the 80's, and remember all the excessive pessimism. On my return visit this spring, I got to see how the story unfolded.

Burned out buildings. Unpaved streets. City reverting to wildland.

Things truly fell apart. The center could not hold.
Probably the company behind it. HP dropped the tablets instead of investing in developing some software for it (you could review the whole catalog in an hour or so). WebOS itself was great (still is as Enyo framework) in my opinion. I'd really like it if Mozilla just picked up that project instead.
It's written in C#, with some of the Visual Basic support written in VB. Parts of ReSharper for C++ are written in C++ and C++/CLI.
So finally Netflix is going to have to move away from Silverlight.
No mention of canola (rape) oil? Basically lower saturated fat than olive oil and with a pretty high smoke point. I use it for general cooking and use olive oil as flavour enhance for e.g. salads.

There's rising evidence that supplements are bunk and/or unnecessary. It's almost as bad as the anti-oxidant nonsense. Recently it was discovered that fish oil is likely to be bullshit too, based on poor research and a tiny, biased subject pool. Meta analysis has implied that vitamin supplements don't do anything for people.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/17/vitamin-...

The nutrient that folks are (usually) most deficient in is calcium, it's quite hard to find in food. The only place you can get it easily in significant quantities is milk and bones. People on poor diets are typically lacking in staples like Vit B, Vit C, etc but that's usually because they don't eat enough vegetables. Just increase your intake of 'super' greens like Brocolli, Spinach and Kale and you'll smash your RDA easily.

People fail at dieting because they cheat or they're not willing to give up sugar in lieu of sweeteners. Ever look at a pack of biscuits? Each one nullifies about 20 minutes of exercise.
MIPS supporters form a Linaro-like collaboration
The Internet in Real-Time
The point is that NaCL is not browser portable at all. NPAPI is. Therefor, they are depreciating a cross browser plugin architecture for one that is Chrome-only. Which basically means no more plugins at all, unless Chrome captures a ridiculous 50%+ marketshare. Which is actually likely, because Google is doing some real seedy nonsense to get Chrome on every Windows preinstall and bundled with every other freeware program in the universe.
> Are there any stats that prove this?

Really?

You're basically looking at picture #3 from the left:
http://i0.wp.com/www.stephenblower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/...

Do you need "stats" to prove the absurdity of headers that disappear when you scroll?
There doesn't seem to be any way to export to a machine-readable format. Not even the Google Data Liberation Front seems to be of any help :/

Feeling determined and stubborn, I even tried writing a quick CasperJS script to scrape the page data but quickly ran into two-factor auth obstacles. Since Google won't let you login with an application-specific password and doesn't have any API endpoint which devs can hit to get this data, it makes things rather tricky! Getting easy, downloadable access to this search history directly from Google doesn't seem within the grasp of even a determined developer at this point.
The main reason I see is that sometimes you need to type the password out of your head (ex: logging in to your workstation). Couldn't find a better method than actually remembering the password in these cases.
HuBot and mmBot (a C#/.NET port) has an adapter for hipchat
See also: Wattch[1], a similar framework based on a similar idea. Wattch relies on simulation of the target rather than static analysis, however, but the application of instruction-level cost models seems the same.

[1] : http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~dbrooks/isca2000.pdf
From traditional UNIX shells, by way of awk. perl was originally written as a fancier version of awk (to the point that, until recently, it came with a utility "a2p" that translated awk source code to perl), so that's where it got the variables.