skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it goes both ways -- if you can plan in advance and are happy to travel at an unpopular time (middle of the day etc), you can get dirt cheap fares, much cheaper than the regular/full fare.

In Japan, by contrast, the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka costs around Y14,000 (~US$140), every day, all the time. So at unpopular times, the trains are half empty, because people fly or take highway buses or drive instead, all of which are slower and less environmentally friendly, but deregulated and thus cheaper. I find this offensive on the deepest level.
> If you turn down swappiness you end up wasting that RAM which could be better used for disk cache.

Except the downside of turning swap off is that you (possibly) don't cache your disk as aggressively, but the downside for having too much swap is that ill-behaved programs can grind your entire system to a halt for minutes/hours at a time by having too big of an active dataset. We're talking multiple seconds of latency, where you can't get anything done.

For me that's way too big of a downside for gaining a few extra MB of disk cache. I'd rather have it OOM right away.
5 bucks says he's referring to Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. http://hpmor.com/
Gimp shortcuts aren't displayed, most often. Try creating a path and draw a line on it: You'll have to use the mouse very, very often. And you'll only find the shortcuts if you search online.

That's sad because you could be much more efficient with it.
You've done brilliantly with that. I've written a few apps/games myself although they're mostly a bit crap [1], and I make about £20 total a month. I think I need to spend much more time on them like you did, particularly in the graphics / UI.

Could you give a bit more information on:

- how you recruited someone to do the graphics for you, was it odesk or similar? how did you choose someone? did you pay for graphics even though you didn't use them?

- marketing. This appears to be the most critical different thing you did compared to other people with similar stories. Could you give examples of the emails you sent out? How did you decide which sites to target? How effective do you think sending out emails was compared to social media?

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Simply+Apped
>Is it really outrageous to want to hire somebody you get along with well (more than just "being professional")?

This depends how well. I don't need to hire someone I would go out at night with. I am not hiring friends or prospective spouses. I need to hire someone who will get the job done.
These boot camps are obviously a reaction to the current demand for developers. I'm not sure if that is permeant.

That aside I like the idea here. I think 1-4 months is a greta period of time. You can maintain a great pace that way. Personally, I do better in sprints. My University years were really 5-6 2 week sprints a year spread out between long periods of procrastination (and fun). The useful work I did outside of sprints doesn't amount to much.

The idea of paying your tuition (ideally, lower than £12k), working hard for 9 weeks and expecting to meet some legitimately valuable goals at the end of it is appealing to me.

Obviously I'm getting speculative, but I can imagine something like this being a fixture of 'lifelong education. Something you can do dozens of times in a lifetime.

Zero-to-junior developer is obviously in the current market, can sustain that high tuition. But, I would like to see tuition go down to levels that can make it available for other markets.

I can imagine a lot of useful 9-week sprint courses that could be very effective, if the quality was high enough. Writing. Data mining. Accounting.
I'm not sure if it's faulty reason, but maybe I'm reading it wrong.

It seems to me he's asking the equivalent of "what value do chefs have nowadays in the area of food preparation," which is a fair question independent of whether many people cook, and independent of whether cooks have in the past been immensely useful.

One answer I can think of is that keeping the 'profession' of philosophy alive encourages non-philosophers to ask important questions too, and even if it's nothing more than that, that might be good enough.

That said, while I think the profession of philosophy is much more than just that, I would also like to hear some answers to his (or otherwise just my) question.
I deleted my original comment because it was mean and not deserved. However on not costing you anything, software is never free as in cost of ownership. Ask the folks that still suffer after Google Reader.
PayPal security protection is 'shoddy', say researchers
Well the data is from OpenStreetMap, you can know what you're getting there.
I'm sorry but that sounds just silly to me, planning ahead is a basic life skill if you ask me, but I get that people would pay for it, ignorance is bliss.

I know I'm sounding condescending, but that's not why I'm replying to this topic, this is just one of those things that right now to me seem like the wrong direction to look at when solving peoples problems, a dead end so to speak.

The whole smartphone/tablet thing is a sore point for me as well, I love the hardware but I don't like the mobile OS movement at all, I hate that there is no real push to go in the direction of something like Ubuntu for Android[1] as the devices are getting more capable.

[1]http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
My thoughts exactly. I bookmarked this as 'Speed Reading', instead.
Switched to Blink IIRC
10 Ruthless Business Lessons Learned from Gordon Ramsay
If you set your own standards based on what everyone else is doing, you'll never hit the high notes.

When you're a single programmer, you shouldn't look at what large groups of people are doing. Large groups often have no idea what they're doing, too, so that mindset is unproductive in general. Many of the reasons are political, not technical: suggesting that everyone be forced to program in Python to the exclusion of C++ denies your company the expertise of all C++ programmers. For some industries, like Renderman's or Photoshop's, that would be suicide.

There are many reasons Tarsnap is written in C and not C++. Colin was aware of C++, yet chose not to use it. If one of the smartest and most experienced programmers choose not to do something, it's worth understanding why. Perhaps they were avoiding pitfalls that you may be in danger of falling into.

On the other hand, if Colin were forced to program in C++, I'm sure it would be wonderful C++. So the point of C vs C++ may be moot anyway. What matters is that a programmer is experienced and competent, not necessarily what tools they're forced to use.
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Apparently Nastaʿlīq was (a) developed in Iran (which is not an Arab country), and although it was developed as a combination of Nasḫ (Naskh) and Taʿlīq scripts, (b) it was never really used in the Arab lands, but in the Persian, Turkic, and South Asian spheres of influence.

So if the people in Pakistan feel that Nastaʿlīq is "their own" writing system and Naskh symbolizes Arab imperialism, in my opinion they have all the rights to feel that way.

Really, even if the script evolved from Arabic script, that was 700 years ago, and what matters in this matter is how the people feel about their letters today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script
Go vs. Erlang for distribution
Yes, Xavi has been declining for a number of years. I think it's one of the reasons the FC Barcelone isn't as good as they were. Also, Del Bosque has made some questionable player choices.
Optimizing Trello for the 10-person Opbeat team
I doubt that a language dieing in 2014 would be completely gone from all record.

Almost all the languages that we "lost" did not have a rich literature or sometimes even an alphabet.
Something like that. I'm a part of the furry fandom. This is the first site I've even seen were LGBT is not heavily associated with sex.

I didn't mean to offend.
I use HN Watcher for HN (http://HNwatcher.com).
Nah, I cultivate Chrome tabs. After sleeping my computer for a month, playing games, running VM's, doing clojure programming, etc; I found switching to an old Chrome tab or maximizing that Clojure book I hadn't looked at in 3 weeks would cause quite the pause. This is with SSD's all the way down.
Susan Silk's Ring Theory: how not to say the wrong thing at a difficult moment
> That technique – splitting the desired result up into tiny, tiny pieces – gave me a lot of confidence, and was how I worked for the entirety of the project. If I was stuck on something it was normally because I was trying to solve one problem that was actually several smaller problems.

I'm regularly surprised† that many people have such a revelation by themselves when it's one of the most basic ways of forming knowledge and progressing towards understanding and solving problems:

> Le second [précepte], de diviser chacune des difficultés que j'examinerais, en autant de parcelles qu'il se pourrait, et qu'il serait requis pour les mieux résoudre.

> The second principle, to divide each problem I examine, in as much fragments as possible, and as required to best solve them.

— Descartes, Discours de la méthode, 1637

† "Aghast" would be a better term. My surprise is not so much aimed at people as at an education system that fails both at making people stand on the shoulders of giants and at making them able to reason on their own.
Stupid as they are, I'd still argue bureaucracies have some level of intelligence. They're still capable of storing and processing information, adapting, and making decisions, albeit slowly and painfully.
Yes, that is my opinion, it's not inconvenient to ME, that's all I said, I would love for other people to chip in with their opinions so I can get a better picture of this topic, at the moment I don't see what the fuss is all about.
A complaint about all of the examples is the use of free() directly in main(). I dislike this because it implies that the "create", or "new" used a single call to (m/c)alloc to allocate the returned pointer. While this is the case for the examples, it may not be the case where you are only given a prototype for "base_new" in a header file, and you don't know of its implementation detail.

Such example might be a jagged array where you allocate several chunks of memory, and a final chunk containing the pointers to each one. Freeing the pointer returned for the memory containing these pointers will not free the memory pointed to by each pointer.

The person who wrote the _new function should write the maching _free, since he's really the only one who knows exactly what and how the "object" was allocated and how it needs to be deallocated.

If you find yourself ever writing such _new function without the matching _free, you're doing it wrong.

Even worse is the last list example, as it not clear where, or if memory is even freed at all from the code given. Does one of those macros free up the memory?
The KFC Hoax and the Idiocy of Crowdfunding for Bullying Victims
Mysterious Earthen 'Mima' Mounds Created by Plants, Not Animals
If that is cropping then Notepad supports code formatting
If they literally stole your money, which is what the parent poster was worrying about, then there's no chance their reputation will last very long. The HN post would just be the manifestation of that. In fact, I don't think anyone has ever posted a "Show HN" with malicious intent, let alone gotten away with it.
Information Is At Its Most Vulnerable Just Before Employees Resign
For Hindi speakers who don't read Nastaliq, the sign on the wall is hilarious. Transliterated to Devanagari, it reads:

हाय मैं मर गई ऐन्ना (इतना) टेस्टी बर्गर
Ask HN: I am planning to quit my job
I am planning to quit my job because the code base I am working with, don't have unit tests. It is more mature from getting a unit test suite for it!
This has been submitted over and over again the last day or so.

See https://hn.algolia.com/?q=domains#!/story/forever/prefix/0/d... for how people are trying to submit this....
This downvote pattern in HN is really interesting. Instead of discussing ideas people seem to downvote based on how they agree with it or not. The argument's validity usually is dismissed if it goes against someone's view. And, of course, serious replies rarely follow. Talk about bias bubble SV :)
In my original comment, I was not talking about poor service experience of domain name registrars. I was instead talking about the difficulty faced by an average SME owner in setting up DNS to point a domain to a hosted website. Visual website builders allow them to build decent websites without understanding a word of HTML. But when it comes to pointing their websites to chosen domain names, they have to get into DNS settings interfaces of their respective domain registrars and deal directly with terms like IP address, A-record, CNAME, MX, etc. While google does offer instructions for major registrars, it would be much better experience for these people if google does the domain mapping itself instead of them having to read through technical guides to do things they don't quite understand.
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer responds to critics after Cannes dinner
June and Jennifer Gibbons
I may have come on a little abruptly, and if so, I'm very sorry for that. To clarify my request: I'm not a fairweather journalist who just registered an account, looking for a scoop or a "gotcha" piece on this thread. And to whatever extent my post came across that way, I apologize. I'm a founder and reasonably longtime HN member (1330 days, evidently. I wish I could have written this comment 7 days from now!) who got involved in journalism through working with a YC company early last year.

When I say I am "inclined to be sympathetic," I mean it. I have a very simple agenda here: I think the media, overall, give too much attention to certain tropes of "success" and "failure" stories w/r/t startups. In this person's story, I am intrigued to see that he's built an economically successful business at which he feels trapped. You don't see that kind of story every day, but I suspect it's not entirely uncommon. At the very least, it's worth exploring. Maybe a story comes out of that chat, and maybe it doesn't. My goal would be to have a friendly chat, and to see where that takes us.

If he'd need to talk to me under condition of anonymity, that's totally fine. If he's willing to go on the record, also fine. And if he decides he doesn't want to talk to me at all, hey, totally cool. I would respect any of those choices out of ethical integrity, professional code of conduct, and sympathy for his predicament.

As for me: I use my real name on this account. That means both that my journalistic output is easily searchable, and that I'm holding myself openly accountable to anyone I engage with on HN.

No pressure intended, either way.
Sadly popular opinion seems to be that languages and other traditions must be preserved because, well, we can't lose them. It's certainly good to preserve them in museums so people can use them for research, etc. But there's little or no actual need for more than one language in the world, let along more than one writing system for the same language!

People don't mourn the loss of codepage 437. For many people that's a big part of their growing up. But now it's not in common use and the world is better for it. We don't see people trying to slow the adoption of UTF8 because it's making the world one big dull homogenous borg that's unable to express box drawings.

Nowadays, there's quiet revolution going on in the form of many small dialects disappearing. That's wonderful. It's giving millions the opportunities that come with being able to communicate with more other people by sharing common language. We should be celebrating the massive advantages that keep growing each time another obscure script or dialect becomes nobody's native language.
> There are arabic derived scripts at least as far east as China and the Philippines (jawi), but describing them as Middle Eastern is plain wrong

Is it, though?

I'd describe the Roman script as European (since it originated in Europe) without expecting to be corrected, even though the vast majority of people who use it live outside Europe.
Show HN: A new tool to help young people land jobs
Sure, no problem.

For the graphics I began by simple searching for 'video game 2d artist', and just browsed through portfolios. Eventually I realised that I was getting a lot of the same style of artwork, which wasn't what I was looking for, so I changed tack and started looking at 'classical' illustrator portfolios which resulted in a much more diverse set of artwork. After that I simply stumbled upon Eva Galesloot's portfolio (http://cargocollective.com/skwirrol) and knew it was an awesome fit.

For my latest game I'm working in 3D so I looked at lots of portfolios on Polycount (http://www.polycount.com/forum/).

Marketing wise, I honestly did terribly at getting any coverage on video game websites. I think my success came from targeting a very specific niche, i.e. BMXers, which led to me getting good coverage on those websites. For my next game I'll be trying again to get some traditional games coverage, but I'll be spending more effort on cycling journalists than video games journalists.
Thanks for this link. Am I reading wrong or does the article say the drone costs $15? That sounds unbelievably cheap, does anyone know how much a drone like this in America would cost?
https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ for simple and quick right-click-to-resize functionality. Works for multiple selected files too.
According to Wikipedia, the difference between Nastaʿlīq and Naskh is much more than just a different font.

And also, according to this discussion, I have also learned that Nastaʿlīq is deeply connected to feelings of origin and pride in (at least some) Urdu speakers, and these are delicate matters.

So why would you even make such an obnoxious, and totally incorrect, reduction of this matter to differences in mere font choices?
This is ludicrously wrong. Real speed-reading requires reading multiple words at a time.
Its kind of like how the Anglicans would resent being
declared Children of Catholicism. Sure, without revolting
against the Church there would not Anglicanism, but that
doesn't mean that an Anglican would like to be told, "you
came from Catholicism."

This doesn't touch your main point, but I don't think most Anglicans have trouble with the idea that it comes from Catholicism.
If humans don't have free will, why would an AI?
It's like a new pair of shoes; give it a few weeks and you won't mind the wear so much.
Thanks, and that was a good article (the link).
gThumb has been my favourite for years for quick resize/crop/rotate/white balance edits and image folder browsing. I don't know why it never was picked as default on Linux Desktops.
That's a limit in you, not in the scenarios.

Plenty of environments rule out C++ by policy imposed from above. Not all limitations are technical in nature (or even informed).

And there are plenty of technical ones as well (such as: predictability).
You're mixing up two different things. One is where you draw the line for derivative work. The other is copyright duration. I think the former should be drawn to allow inspiration. I see no reason to ever allow direct copying by allowing copyright to expire.
> what matters in this matter is how the people feel about their letters today

Sure. It's a political decision. alieteraz even states that the reason he feels strongly about font choice is politics, and observes that current Pakistanis (overall) want to Arabize more than they already have. But for some reason, the article's arguments amount to "naskh is ugly", which is completely irrelevant to the dispute. (There's also a weird idea that nastaliq presents such insurmountable technical challenges that even if Pakistanis strongly preferred it, for example if naskh was viewed as an affront to Pakistani culture, there would still be no reliable way to type in it. And also that various organizations, from Pakistani governmental departments to Microsoft, have already implemented nastaliq fonts.)

This reminds me quite strongly of Megan McArdle's observation that when an election is actually about gentrification, the attack ads focus on ineffable concepts like "respect", because it's not felt to be workable to say "we want the whites to stop moving in, and in fact we also want the ones who are already here to get out". If you want to fight for Pakistani separation from the Arab cultural sphere, say so, and point out the problems with Arab cultural affiliation. If alieteraz is a true weirdo and Pakistan's choice of font matters more to him than its cultural orientation, he still needs to make the argument for separating from the Arab world, because, as he points out himself, what's actually happening is that the people of Pakistan want to Arabize further.
#Twiplomacy study: Twitter increasingly popular among world leaders
How to Handle Incompetence?
I recommend you read the terms of service for the Google Maps API very thoroughly.
These kinds of people decrying losses of languages have existed throughout the ages. It's just that now they have a large slice of the world as their audience instead of their town square/academic halls/whatever.

I say as long as we ("we" being...fuck I don't know) make a concerted effort to translate any ancient texts not yet translated into English, then let it die gracefully. The people crying for these losses will eventually pass and...well, such is life.
I'm too stupid to use Gimp. It's like every time I want to do something I think is really simple (and in other tools it is really simple) takes me longer to do in Gimp. Sometimes I can't get it right, give up and try something else.
Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands
Or Chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net/
Except you "can't play your game library". Lets hope for some really good compat layer from valve.
I'm not optimistic at all. It cured this one type of baldness because the baldness was a symptom of the underlying autoimmunity.

If MPB were a classical autoimmunity, it would have already been "cured" (as in, an effective treatment protocol would be laid out). Instead, it seems to be some not so subtle side effect of hormonal nuclear war, and scientists have spend decades hunting down the various little side chains to the main problem.

The best hope yet for MPB seems to be PGD2 formation inhibitors or GPR44 antagonists which are still undergoing characterization. But my bet is that like DHT, PGD2 overexpression in scalps is simply yet another side effect of the greater convoluted underlying process, and that treating it directly won't be as effective as promised. (Or worse; GPR44 is implicated in some kinds of asthma as well, which means that a drug that targets the receptor might have a wider spectrum of activity -> worse side effects.)
Take up your clients' offer, who want to pay more. Cull the ones who don't want to. You'll end up with less clients but be much more profitable.
Cracow - beautiful and incredibly vibrant old town, plus it's only an hour from my folks.
Given the name, I thought it was an anti-google campaign.
> http://domains.google.com

> http://domains.google.com/

> https://domains.google.com/

> http://domains.google.com/about/

> https://domains.google.com/about/

> https://domains.google.com/about//

Seems like HN should add a few lines of code to its duplicate url check.
Why not protest at AT&T, Verizon etc. if that's what you care about?