skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it depends on how you weight the alternatives. Rust's advantage over C++ is its memory safety. Go is similar (I'm not sure if its safety guarantees are as strong as Rust, I should read up on that...), and it's advantage over Rust is that its type system is easier to get started with, but its disadvantage is requiring garbage collection. D is closer to C++ than Rust is, but has amazing metaprogramming, and defaults to GC, though it's not mandatory.

If none of these things matter to you, then they do seem similar. But if they do matter, then the difference is much larger.
One of the reasons why I bought the SP3 before the Apple announcement this year is because I know how unlikely they are to come out with a product such as this because it would cannibalize their tablet line. Lesson learned the hard way waiting for an iPod Touch with a good camera (0.7mp...).
Google closing down the radio & tv ads business (c. 2009) was a function more of an acquisition that went badly and an industry that was loathe to change - so imho don't think there's a great corollary here.
You started by saying 5x voltage, switched to 5x power, and ended with 5x energy.

Those are not the same thing. You can have 5x voltage without changing the power or the energy.
5 full time staff, an office, flights, marketing expenses - that all ads up. Apparently we were burning a third of what a startup at our stage normally is with our team size, and I even thought that was a lot.
> In practice, forensic accounting is roughly as interesting as archaeology. It makes for some great headlines in the end, but there is an enormous amount of detail and bureaucracy you have to dig through to get there.

Perhaps accountants and archeologists would say the same about coding.
You're a good person for acknowledging this and offering her such kind words. Everyone's got biases and resentment, but you just discharged yours with genuine dignity. Please take care.
If I understand correctly, Go is the "removing things from the language" approach to fixing the fast compilation issue.
New Yorker style seems to be synch, but they're a bit idiosyncratic when it comes to these things, requiring diaereses in words like cooperation for instance.
Goal Detecting the most important World Cup moments
Some very interesting ideas in here once you mentally strip off the postmodern blather. Totally unnecessary.
For comparaison: http://i.imgur.com/8i7w27C.png

I still prefer Google Calendar or Apple Calendar interface:

https://www.apple.com/osx/apps/images/galleries/calendar_her...
I was never presented this option by any of my previous employers.
(for cases like Heroku) When infrastructure staff fuck up, people don't die. There's a massive difference between "make sure a few scripts I wrote earlier work right" and "patch up the guy who can see his guts cause some drunk driver ran a red light at 3 AM"

>What happens when the IT staff needs to get a developer on-hand to resolve an issue? Wake them up?

Yes. Have you never worked at a place with an on-call dev team?
For the most part the article was interesting. However one thing stood out to me:

To the audience of the time, the paintings carried a clear message: Mastering finance was an achievement requiring both skill and humility.

I don't know about humility. I mean having someone paint a portrait of you seems like hubris. Ensuring that the painting shows you wearing gold rings does not seem to indicate humility (modesty, humbleness).

Maybe the chosen painting is not necessary of painting from the period and the others indicated humility.
I'd absolutely love to hear your feedback on how we (Weebly) can get better! We are constantly improving the product, but there's still a long ways to go.
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Entry-Merchants-Created-Finance...
You can try SnapSearch https://snapsearch.io/ which uses Firefox to render SPA sites.
GeoFire for Obj-C and Java has been heavily requested for a while now. You may be the first to ask for a Swift version though! It's not on the schedule at the moment but we definitely hope to port the library to other languages at some point in the future.
It's not like every other popular language doesn't include huge rich sets of free libraries and algorithms - Mathematica has few good competitors (not none) in many math and science areas, but competitors are obviously much richer in most of the rest (which is important for a general purpose programming language). It's just that those libraries are usually spread among many open source libraries written by different people rather than being all centralized.

Based on an accounting of the work involved, it's reasonable to charge, but based on the options available (and the relative unprovenness of the Wolfram Language), it's also perfectly reasonable for people like the parent to insist on free languages only. It's what Wolfram's competing with, at least in the view of the world where it's not singlehandedly "redefin[ing] the process of programming"...
I'm not sure it's entirely correct to claim that the set of "things that people want" is equivalent to the set of "things that add value to people's lives".

I'm also unsure as to how arguing that such a distinction might exist could be construed as elitist, condescending, or anti-humanist. And I've no idea at all how you got the idea that it might imply that the desires, of people, for things which do not add value to their lives, are immoral.

(That is, that the desires are immoral, not the people. Crikey that last sentence is hard to parse. Sorry.)

Or socialist? WTF?
I'm pretty sure creating Yo doesn't require a team of the most "driven, focused, intelligent and inspiring individuals" of our society." Does the author really feel the people behind this (or any/every startup) could easily cure cancer or solve world hunger?
Impact of the Evolution of the Internet on Enterprise Bandwidth Management
The way to improve drivers safety is by insisting on better schooling. Compared to the kind of testing I had to go through to get a driving license in NL the American (and the Canadian, for that matter) license test is way too simple.

If you lower the bar to entry then you get more accidents, technology alone will not help with that unless you cut the driver out of the loop completely.
Just telling it like it is. I could have lied, but how does that help anyone?

I'm a firm believer that with gender issues you can either whine about it, or you can find the positives in it. If your whole startup depended on you getting a visa approved, you'd use anything at your disposal to get the job done. If that meant fake crying, then so be it. It worked.
"Private" domain registrations result in your domain being registered to the privacy service and not to you. At least, that was true for the ones I looked into.

That may not matter to some people, but it could be a problem to have that critical resource outside your organization's control.

EDIT: See the posts re Gandhi, whose privacy service apparently leaves the domain registered to you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7934145
This argument comes up from time to time, but it's first order thinking. The real question he should address is the following:

Why does the modern economy incentivize negative and/or zero sum endeavors (e.g. trivial startups, exploitative finance,etc) instead of positive sum endeavors (e.g. genetics research?)

Which leads to a very interesting discussion. In short, extant economic policies disincentivize research so strongly that it's a wonder any research occurs at all.

I think at some point, "free-market" radicals threw the baby out with the bathwater, and have forgotten that some activities, such as research, are extremely risky in the short term but produce unfathomable long term benefits (antibiotics, vaccines, etc.). At present, neither companies nor governments want to foot the short term costs of research.

As such, we are paid six figures to brainwash people to click ads, but must accept financial ruin to even attempt to contribute to research.
With not much other public spaces, where else will you go? There were a few counter-culture places in Moscow and Leningrad for the select, and kitchens for everyone else.

Still, it is impressive how viral some culture was. With nothing more than tape recorders and word-of-mouth, some soviet rock bands still had millions of listeners and could easily fill a stadium for a gig (and indeed did a bit later, when it became possible). Same for books and poetry.

This internet-level virability is no longer seen. Today you can't do much on the word-of-mouth - cultural space is too crowded.
You could make an example application called "Notes" with Lotus.
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Hardship at a lot of startups is the result of entrepreneurs not respecting the old adage, "It takes money to make money." A lot of entrepreneurs don't really know how much money they need, and young ones often start their companies before they know where it's going to come from.

The good news is that now is a great time to be selling equity in a tech startup. The bad news is that even if you're successful in trading your company's equity for capital, there's no guarantee you'll get enough capital, or that you'll be able to get more of it when you run out.
Hi Nikki, shame to see 99 dresses go down, wishing you the best post startup run.

If there were three things you would do differently, what would they be?
The reality is that there is no good time for a large-scale platform to go down. I'd speculate that 8am PDT would be worse for Heroku, as their business seems largely split between the US and Europe, so downtime then would upset everyone... but that's just speculation.

You can't build a company of developers selling products to developers while fleeing the working hours of developers.
I would guess the management company doesn't want to get involved in mediating spats over the shared use areas.
The people at the business may only work during business hours, but people purchase items and interact with websites 24/7 meaning that if you get a text saying your domain is down at 03:00, then by 03:02 you want to be in touch with someone figuring out why.
Looking forward to giving this a shot.
I'm afraid I must insist on specificity: no specific problem means no justification. I understand the abstract reasoning if we had to plan that we might need C++ in the future. But when you're choosing a language now, you always work on a specific problem.

So, which specific problems requires you to both optimize the hell out of your CPU and memory, and mostly work at a higher level of abstraction than C?

I'll go even further: C + <high-level language of choice> already competes on that front (abstraction + performance). On which specific problems are they not enough, and C++ is required?

I'll go even further: there has been a number of C pre-processors spouting up recently. One of them does Lisp-like macros. Another does lambdas. Yet another might address templates. I predict a modern version of "C with classes", which learned from the mistakes of the past (like trying to be compatible at the syntax level).

At that point, do you think there will be any specific problem where C++ is still the best choice?
The article then claims that these kitchens were private spaces. Doesn't that seem like a contradiction? If you can hear your neighbours then you can surely hear them playing Elvis.
It looks like Jawbone has a reasonable-looking API [1]. Alternatively, you can set up Beeminder [2] to collect the data (or for Fitbit) for free and then use Beeminder's API [3].

[1]: https://jawbone.com/up/developer
[2]: https://www.beeminder.com
[2]: https://www.beeminder.com/api
Couldn't have explained it better myself.
"* it's a U.S. bureaucracy issue*"
It's an issue everywhere, not just in the US.
PHP, MySQL, Windows, lets face it, the easiest set up wins almost every time despite in every case, having better competition.
300mm^2 * 5mm = 1.5 milliliters

24k Gold is 42$/gram, 1 gram is 0.052 milliliters.

So, 42 / .052 * 1.5 = 1,211$.

Note: The important parts are not 5mm thick etc, but gold is rather expensive by volume.
We're pushing it one step further: you can do the same with events, AJAX interactions, recency of visit, or whatever makes sense for your business. Without modifying the code further, obviously!
Smart(er) Government Through Openness
Puh, we had one NAND gate carved from wood and some delay lines crafted from buffalo guts. With some early work in quantum annealing, we calculated the name of God to 50 places.
> You are calling the new gTLDs "domain endings"?

Actually, they seem to be calling TLDs (not just the new ones, and not just gTLDs) "domain endings" and referring to the new ones as "new domain endings".

> Is that what we're supposed to call them?

People that know what "gTLD" means can continue to call them that, but in marketing to people who don't know anything about buying domains and are doing it for the first time -- a significant target of this effort, I suspect -- "domain endings" is clearer and more accessible.
Namesilo include whois privacy and email forwarding for $8.99

This seems like a 30 percent premium over other offerings currently available, no doubt the value is there for some folks.
I had a dissimilar experience. I upgraded our account to the Apps for Business trial. Although it was neat, I didn't really need it - so when the trial ended, I decided to revert to my free account.

It turns out they don't let you do that. "Free trial" means 30 days free, then it's Apps for Business or no Apps at all.

I felt (and, to some extent, still feel) extorted by that. The customer service experience was extremely dissatisfying. So, will I eventually use Google Domains? Probably. I just won't depend on it without a failsafe - which is what I should have done since the beginning.
Pangu.io (iOS 7.1.x Jailbreak)
Oops, that one got blocked for copyright (I set it to Blitzkrieg Bop). Let's try this one: http://youtu.be/giBIJW-2hro
Recommended books for Pentesters
Sequel, (and Sequel::Model) is an absolute peach. The best ORM I've ever used.

EDIT: Lotus::Model barely seems to use Sequel. Maybe I missed it...
one CAN switch the default search engine in Opera 12 (which is good, because i ain't switchin'.)

a) drop down the search bar and pick manage search.

b) pick the provider you want as default and hit edit.

c) hit the details button.

d) select the tick boxes for "use as default" and "use as speed dial".
Sound similar to why we said goodbye to Heroku as well:
http://blog.planforcloud.com/2013/03/from-paas-to-iaas-how-w...
Your points are all very valid of course. While utility theory has largely been superseded by prospect theory, like Newtonian physics, it can still be useful for back-of-the-envelop thought.

Furthermore I'll be a devil's advocate however and just make the point that one could rationally defend tobacco use as utility deriving. Just because a (in my view) sane person would see all the horrible effects of tobacco as trumping any positive attributes, someone else may disagree. Depending on one's own discount rate, tobacco use at any point in time in fact be net positive in enriching their life. Even if you argue that some of the positives are created by advertising cigarettes as cool (Joe Camel, etc.), so what? Someone spending $50,000 on a fancy watch is also making the same sort of determination. If the user derives the benefit, regardless of whether it's endogenous or exogenous to the product itself, that isn't obviously inherently bad.

Now, of course, smoking has it's own set of problems because it negatively affects others... but again, it's not so clear that one can't attribute rational decision making to even a smoker.

All that to say, your point is well taken.
This comment is completely unwarranted. Accounts like your should be banned.
Ask HN: Are people misusing flags?
For example this submission [1] is certainly provocative, but it's neither spam, trolling nor dumb and it did give rise to an interesting discussion. Yet, it apparently got lots of flags so that it's position ~105 (with 35 points in 5 hours) right now. I saw this in a couple of high to medium quality submissions lately. Is that really what flags are supposed to be used for?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933386
+1 for the E2 visa, as an option to take into account (I'm an Italian in SF with a 5y E2 visa)
Wow I am kind of jealous of getting an opportunity to fail so spectacularly. It is obviously very hard but Nikki is very young and decades ahead of her to try new ventures. I call this great learning experience a success if you haven't lost your arm or a leg and can still function as a normal human being. She is definitely a winner, its pretty obvious to me.
If you eat the right food, you don't need to count any calories and can just eat until you had enough.

I start my day by drinking a cup of coffee with 60-70 grams of grass-fed butter (Bulletproof Coffee) and it made me lose 15 kilo's over the last year. It puts your body into 'fat-burning mode' and I found out by experience it's true. Also, I drink no more soda or fruit juices, and limit my overall sugar intake to barely nothing (but still I will never say no to any offered pie/cookies/chocolate at social gatherings). Oh and I lost weight and got more energy without exercising any more than I did (which is close to nothing).

Do away with light or low fat products, especially margarine, and embrace bacon and grass-fed meat. Make about 60% of your food-intake be fat, 20% veggies and 20% protein, and limit carbs like potatoes to once a week, and you will never have to count any calories again.

For info, I advise to look up Bulletproof diet, and you don't have to buy any of the products/books offered, on the website is also explained for free what to look for if you don't feel like spending any money on his overpriced products :)
do you NEVER allow dynamically allocated memory? or am I misunderstanding you?
The size of your data and the number of processes you run have nothing to do with your available cash for hiring people.
Which is why I'm seriously tempted to add a simple template system on top of C (it has already been done, by the way), then implement containers on top of that.

With that, I get the power without the rabbit hole.
Correct, no .io support.
I said almost zero, not zero. And even the cheapest hardware comes is still orders of magnitude away from the cheapness of copying bits. Also, I never said the parties involved in copying bits shouldn't bear the cost of doing so.
Book needed: "C++ the Good Parts"
This is domain registration, not Google Apps associated with a domain. Google is moving into GoDaddy/Namecheap/Gandi space here. Once this opens up I imagine you can just transfer your domain from your current registrar and nothing will change in your Google Apps account.
> It is better to focus on rails and fixing rails

For many of us "fixing Rails" is easiest achieved by starting from scratch.

> and still offering much smaller set of functionality.

... and that is why I prefer Sinatra to Rails.
The web development industry, and particularly the front-end side, currently seems to be obsessed with (or maybe plagued by) tools that sort of do half the job you sometimes want but feel like you have to always use anyway because everyone else is or appears to be or at least says you should on their TwitBookBlogFeed.

I wanted to do exactly what you describe yesterday -- just download the latest stable version of a one-JS-file library to include on one page of a web app where its functionality is relevant. We used to do this by downloading example-1.0.8.min.js from the obvious Download link on www.example.com.

As it turns out, the project from yesterday lives in a GitHub repository with a dozen files scattered across a root and four subdirectories. I honestly have no idea how to build it; it's written in a compiled-to-JS language, the build instructions are a one-liner that refer to a build tool I've heard of but never used, and there are at least half a dozen other files in the project that seem to be there only for some sort of compatibility with various other tools I've heard of but never used/don't use on this project/don't have installed on this workstation.

I find myself reminded almost daily of this now-infamous XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/

This is not progress. :-(
Caffeine is toxic, even though some say it can only kill humans if you drink one cup of coffee for each pound you weigh. The body evacuates this in many ways though. Some say it really doesn't have any extreme health disadvantages. Some even say it could help prevent some diseases such as cardiovascular disease. I try to only drink coffee or tea once every two days in fear of addiction, unless some project is due.
Great write up. I look forward to when she is recharged and build the next great thing.
Kinda. It would be nice to have a richer markup support. We always cite one another, provide links, and enumerate things. Supporting a subset of Markdown (or anything like it) would be very welcome.
Actually my experience growing up in the USSR was completely different- you couldn't hear your neighbors because the walls were so thick (and not just our apartment, but all apartments that I remember), that was one of the surprising things about moving the US- hearing your neighbors through the walls.
Who said our current state of affairs is optimal?
You can hear them, so what? Listening to music wasn't any crime. Possession of some samizdat surely was; but reading books is not the loudest hobby.

Loud arguing lands somewhere in between. Still, what choice would you have?
Aren't you meant to be on paternity leave? Still working?
At first glance this reminds me a lot of the reactive templating that Meteor does using handlebars like syntax. It even registers dependencies with invalidations, a lot like Meteor. I'd love to see a comparison between the two to see if there is any big difference.
<cough> http://cloud.sagemath.org </cough>
I had to move my domains from an unresponsive/dead registrar (NameTerrific). I emailed Tucows (the parent?) and they sent me a domain migration code for the domain. It was pretty simple, luckily.
I have never lived in a place with security guards in the night. I think a big part of freedom and privacy is dead when you have to have security guards. Of topic, sorry.
> For many of us "fixing Rails" is easiest achieved by starting from scratch.

See, e.g., the road to Rails 3 through Merb.
"And we’ll have to devise proper packaging methods for these 1-atmosphere, helium-filled devices."

Actually it does require helium, but no vacuum.
Investigating The Yelp Rating Algorithm: How Internet Memes Spread
Rubber looks quite interesting. Is it Rails only?
Very interesting unburial, Neruda is one of the top Spanish-writing poets of the past century, worthy companion with Borges and Machado, author of veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. I do hope that the appraisal of the quality of these newfound works in the announcement is precise, then we would be dealing here with a major cultural contribution to modern letters. Look forward to the publishing of results and take advantage of this to recommend this author to those that haven't discovered him yet.
Exploring cross-browser math equations using MathML or LaTeX with MathJax
That's probably fair. I, funny enough, used quotes, because I couldn't think of a less serious word than frightens. Concerns is maybe a better word choice.
San Francisco Tells Parking Startup to Stop Operations, Warns Two Others
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HTML + JS need a lot of boilerplate by definition

If you accept that as axiomatic, I think you've already lost.

Almost all of the boilerplate I see people assuming a new project needs is either not actually necessary at all or something widely used but needing specific customisation for each project, i.e., it's not really boilerplate in the sense that templates/generators/scaffolding tools reduce the overhead significantly.