skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's what I said. Being a really good instrumentalist has little to do with popular success. I deliberately chose the word "instrumentalist", not "artist". I don't understand why you start with "Yes, but [...]" when you aren't contradicting anything I wrote.

Incidentally, "cultural sensitivity, melody, restraint" are things that are harder to deliberately practice than raw instrumental skill.
I'm saying it's incorrect to suggest they can enumerate a representative example of every equivalence class simply because they have a choice function. Of course they can pick an element from any of the equivalence classes in bounded time (by the Axiom of Choice) but that says nothing about picking an element from every one of those sets in bounded time.
Isn't it incredibly naive to assume that this price is somehow driven by supply/demand driven market when the reality is banking is monopolistic and riddled with fraud?

If the cost of the transfer actually was determined in a competitive environment I'm sure it would be considerably lower. Unfortunately on such fees it's not in the banking industries interest to act competitively with one another.
I actually like my shell as it is. I like the old fashion with no mouse interaction except for scrolling. Is it just me? But I have to say the interactive search is appealing.
>Academics don't care so much about things like programming speed.

I don't know. Haskell and OccamL, for one, are much, much faster than Python and Ruby.
I was also enamored with UNIX and later on GNU/Linux as a cheapest way to get UNIX at home. After already some years experience with *-DOS, Netware, Windows and Amiga systems.

But from the point of view of technology stack, innovation seems to be standing still on the UNIX side of things.

Microsoft seems to innovate more in terms of how modern OS stack should look like, in terms of full stack, whereas UNIX clones hardly offer more than "portable" POSIX cli and daemon model APIs.
Wait: the entire point of Bayes's idea was that under very sensible and straightforward rules, "plausibilities" behave exactly like probabilities. So why multiply concepts?

What is the difference, in your proposal, between "plausibilities" and "probabilities"?
Merkel doesn't care that much and she --even though I hate to say it-- is right that we shouldn't. This spying case isn't a big deal. It doesn't hurt Germany. Also the spying on her phone last year. She didn't really care all that much. After all, USA is the biggest partner of the EU/Germany. Germany can't afford a dent in the relationship with the US. It's the US who's providing security to most of the western world. Who's supposed to protect us from Putin? The NATO?

The biggest fear for Merkel is twofold:

- Industry espionage. This would attack Germany at what they're best at and be huge problem. USA has been lucky to not be caught about that (in Germany).

- The much bigger problem for Merkel is however the growing Anti-Americanism in Germany. There has always been a good amount of it. But mostly, Germans see the US as a partner. There is in huge decline and it's a growing problem. Germans are much more serious about their privacy than Americans and the spying scandal didn't help America. Merkel also knows that she has to listen much more to the German public than for instance Obama has to listen to Americans. Germany has a very well functioning Democracy and any pressure from the public will quickly result in resignations or losing the next election. Germany has done this before: Kohl's affair got his party out. The FDP got thrown out of the parliament last year. You can quickly go from 40% to under 20% in Germany.
Due to the many US scandals in the last 2 years, Germans see America very very skeptic these days. Der Spiegel yesterday's issue has some numbers: Who should Germany work together with? USA: 56%. Russia: 53%.

If you read many of the forums in Germany you'll see the growing dissatisfaction with the US as a partner. And more and more understanding for Putin these days.

My point of this post is: What this means it that if USA continues to bully the German people, then Merkel will be forced to take action and do something that she doesn't actually want to. She knows very well that America is extremely important and without a good relationship things will get much tougher in Europe/Germany. After all Germany is benefiting from the huge security the US provides to us. But Germans don't think that far ahead and only see the bully in America these days. I hope it doesn't get this far that Merkel is forced (by the German people/media) into getting distance from America since it would hurt both, Germany and the US.
I'm very certain that Obama know that Merkel will always be his friend. But I'm not so sure if he realizes that the German people can make Merkel do something that she otherwise wouldn't do.

America: Watch out how far you take the bullying. It might just happen that the next generation of Westerners will end up hating you in 10-20 years down the road. And then, you will have no friends left but only enemies. What Obama and America's government does can be very dangerous for America in the future.
South Korea has pretty much already implemented this with the majority of its major websites requiring their SSN equivalent to register.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number
you can't have that discussion without talking about the tech stack you're working with.

Nothing beats the integration level between .Net and VS, and I don't care what tech stack you're using to compare.

But outside of .Net, for things like C++, javascript, etc, things get a lot murkier.
But if you are working 16 hours week, you are forfeiting 50% of your income too.
At the $3000 stretch goal he already said he would rent out a venue and invite people. Watch his Update Video https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad/... I think the guys heart is in the game.
> god forbid I ask for Fridays off, I'd be shown to the door real quick

They must be really afraid of the precedence it sets - that other employees would also start to negotiate for reduced work hours.
Are customers really held accountable for ATM fraud? I have found credit card fraud to be handled well by my bank (USAA). The primary reason I use a credit card is because I am not sure how ATM/check card fraud is handled.
This is awesome. BUT you need to add option import existing bookmarks.
There's always McDonald's, except, you are probably on camera.
We used to call them shell scripts... I mean, it's not particularly new, only now you have to ctrl+enter each individual command.
Ah, but this is a question i am pleased to say 'No' to. x
If they're just looking for something to say on the other end of the phone when you answer, isn't "Mr. Lastname" the appropriate thing to enter in that box?
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can you add a short README ? might be just me but I tend to shy away from project without documents.
> Some people on HN have accused me of working for MS just because I use their stuff.

I find it hard to believe it all happened in the couple minutes it took you to create the account and post this.

The main problem I see with developing for Windows is that the server side ecosystem outside Windows is much richer. Once you built your application on ASP.NET, you are pretty much limited to Windows servers or Mono on Linux and even that step may need some work because Mono is an incomplete subset of the Windows environment.

I would say the same for developing software that only runs on Solaris (and its descendants). Despite Solaris being an amazingly solid OS, if your app does not run neatly on other OSs, you are limiting yourself - you made many architectural decisions very early in the development process that will impact it for a very long time and, if you are not careful, limit your future decisions to whatever is available from a single vendor.

The last time I made a decision to move from Windows to Unix-likes it was a Java application running on the Orion server. It was a 15-minute job, even though we never gave much thought to porting it. I seriously doubt such thing is possible with ASP.NET and Mono.

Apart from .NET, there is little reason to go with Windows. Most of my development these days is with JavaScript, Python (with Flask or Django) and PHP. None of these would run any better on Windows.
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<center> is not HTML5? why? i love <center> & they standardised all other worst practices of the browser vendors, but this one they missed?
> That's where all the browser implementors convened when they lost faith in the W3C.

With the notable exception of Microsoft.
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So here is my take:

I'm currently working on a SaaS product built on .NET running on Windows Server, IIS, and SQL Server. We're not really a "startup" anymore, but we're still very small. I wasn't here when the first version of the product was built so I wasn't part of that decision.

If I were building this product from scratch today as a money-poor startup, I would probably go with tech stack included Java or Python and PostgreSQL. The primary motivation being cost (as in money).

Each developer is technically required to have an MSDN/VS Pro license (renews for just under $1000 per year). This is not very expensive if you're generating revenue, but if bootstrapping it is not cheap. You could cheat and just share a single license; you definitely won't get caught.

Windows Server licenses, compared to other datacenter costs, are relatively inexpensive. Windows Server has a few advantages; particularly in it's easy to administer and there are plenty of sysadmins out there than know it well.

The elephant in the room, at least for a SaaS product, is SQL Server. The features of Enterprise Edition are so compelling for SaaS (HADR, unlimited RAM, online index operations, compression, and encryption) that it's practically a requirement. But this will quickly become one of the most expensive costs in your datacenter.

But in my experience, SQL Server has some real advantages that I haven't yet discovered for PostgreSQL. The "community" around SQL Server is huge and has a ton of great people who love to help (often for free!). For instance check out http://brentozar.com or http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/.

There are programs like Bizspark which can bring the initial software license investment down to nearly $0. But if you're not generating significant revenue after three years, the licensing costs could hurt.

So like everything in world, it depends. But the bottom line is that, in my opinion, if you're bootstrapping then costs matter and Microsoft products (SQL Server in particular) are a huge cost which have real viable alternatives.
What is "this?"
So you want to be a PHP Developer
yeah - the official FIFA app is 32mb! and the local one in my country is 24mb and it loads all the data from the web everytime you open a screen. I just uninstalled it and used a laptop. Nice transitions though. ;)
Ya, where did this myth come from? I don't use resharper and feel more productive than I did in eclipse.
Given how many people are uninspired and undirected in their lives, it's a wonderful privilege to have something you know you want to do. On top of that, it's amazing to be in a position where you can make it happen.

I've got a lot of similarities with your story.

I dropped out of EE in 1997 when I was 18. A few years later, in 2003, I was about to begin studying writing and literature when I realized that my hobby-become-job, programming, was what I was truly passionate about.

At first, I tinkered with useless online courses (they were much more useless ten years ago). I finally put life plans in motion so that I could study CS at a university. I began studying CS in 2006 with the goal of becoming a security expert. I got my undergrad degree in CS when I was 30.

While an undergrad, I got involved with research and decided to go to grad school. To give me more experience, meet more people in my field, and generally improve grad school options, I took an extra year doing research in a CS department before applying to grad programs. In that time I published a research paper with people I'd admired from before I went back to school. I got my choice of top research programs and went to grad school in 2010.

In 2012, I realized academia wasn't for me and had a startup idea I wanted to pursue. Now, two years and a huge amount of learning and new experiences later, I've got a quickly growing startup with amazing people on our team. I no longer write much code, but I love my new challenges every day.

You don't know what you'll end up doing, but if you know you want to study CS, then start as soon as you can. Life's too short to delay doing what you know you should do.
What specific conditions are you referring to?
C#'s a somewhat better language, but I'm not sure there's enough in it to justify the ecosystem deficit, and, yep, Scala is there if you want it.
This comment makes me wonder why he suddenly needs money for it now. Many huge projects started without kickstarter, even if they receive lots of contributions and donations nowadays, they never used to need it.

Hmm, and I remember some post on HN a few months ago about why open source projects should not ask for money/donations in the first place. The crux of it was that they basically become a company then: they work for money. People will expect something for that money, and A) features might be made simply because the developer feels he needs to do something in return for they money he's getting and B) people who donate a lot (i.e. have a lot of money) get a huge say in the project even if their ideas turn out to be horrible in practice.
https://github.com/jamhed/pi-redux-js

I guess I messed with links. There is.
https://github.com/jamhed/pi-redux-js/blob/master/README.md
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I don't see this anywhere in that thread. The one person who mentions being helped says they did help.
Probably because it's presentational, rather than "semantic". You're supposed to use CSS to do this.
I'm no space exploration expert, yet I find this mission to Mars and other space related news fascinating.

Is there a website that explains the details of this kind of mission? Duration of the trip, planning, payload, technology, space craft, biggest challenges, back to Earth mission, etc. I'd love to learn more about this.
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Thanks! my bad, didn't notice it was not the project root.
> There's a funny thing about its cross-platform nature: You almost never see C# apps on other platforms. Why is that? There must be thousands of useful C#/.Net applications made that other platforms could benefit from

I'm not sure that that's actually the case. C# has never caught on in a big way for consumer desktop development; the bulk of that still seems to be C++ and Win32/Win32 wrapper. It's used for _enterprise_ desktop development, of course, but people are less excited about porting that.
Devices developed by Russian intelligence and then leaked into the market?
PS is absolutely essential if you are stuck administering Windows machines (esp. large numbers of them in a server farm). It makes working with Windows (mostly) tolerable if you are using a reasonably modern Windows version (2012+).

Powershell has some nice features like native arrays and hashmaps which can be mixed together into complex objects and then converted to JSON. Combined with native web request cmdlets (Invoke-RestMethod et al) it makes interacting with web services easier than the bash equivalent, where you have to use curl/wget, string munging and jq (which isn't usually part of the standard install).
But I don't understand what NASA gains by buying bespoke hardware instead of simply buying a Dragon launch. It seems weird - a very expensive case of "Not Invented Here".

This is particularly true given Elon Musk's publicly announced ambitions for beyond-LEO missions using the Falcon stack, and his demonstrated ability to execute on his ambitions.
The Guardian has also released a secure drop platform:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/guardian-l...

https://securedrop.theguardian.com/
Not saying it is the case here, but blogs praising ms tech always raise some flags with me, as with http://www.pcworld.com/article/2365060/microsoft-caught-astr...
The problem is cost and lock-in. Microsoft has a ton of great products out there, and I use many of them at my own job at my current job. But if I were starting my own company, I don't think I'd want to build things on a Microsoft stack.
Though to be honest, Lisp has come a long way since the 50s.
This seems to be the exact same as this Chrome extension: https://dragdis.com/
I might be wrong, but there don't seem to be any real differences or improvements compared to Dragdis.
It's unlikely that an Orthodox Jew will fly an El Al plane. Possible, but unlikely.

As for the fact that El Al doesn't fly on the Sabbath: It used to, and stopped doing so thanks to a combination of coalition politics (since it was a state-owned airline) and business reasons. True, El Al would make lots of money if it also flew on the Sabbath -- but it would lose the business of many observant Jews, who fly because of its adherence to these rules.

However, El Al has a subsidiary called Sandor that does fly on Saturdays. I'm not sure about its recently launched low-cost subsidiary, called Up.

I wouldn't mind it if El Al were to fly on the Sabbath, despite the fact that I observe Jewish law. However, I've taken El Al flights on several occasions because they were the only ones who gave me enough time to get from my house to the airport on Saturday night, after the Sabbath ended.
Just a bunch:

Doing really common things, such as "find the directory of the currently executing script" can only by done by copy-pasting a non-trivial 3-line function from Stack Overflow. In batch (of all scripting languages), it's "%~dp0". Cryptic, yes, but at least it's in there. Similarly, the internet is full of blog posts with 1000-word articles explain how "easy" it is to do something in PowerShell that should've been a one liner to begin with. Basically, the builtins just suck. Batteries included? No way.

Someone at the MS marketing department decided that, in order to make PowerShell popular, it has to be cool. As a result, the above-mentioned blog posts contain example code like `echo "I Love PowerShell"`, making it sound amazing that should-be trivial stuff is only a matter of copying five lines of code [0].

In general, writing PS scripts is a really odd mishmash of bash-isms, batch-isms and .NET-isms.

Because PS is such a weird mismash of things, the ecosystem generally consists of people who don't even try to understand what's going on, but just hack some stuff together until it kind of works. This makes online resources, well, less useful than they could be.

Writing stuff that works like native Cmdlets is weird. You can make functions, but they're not entirely the same, and if you really want Cmdlets, you have to use a .NET language. I really wonder why the hell there's such a fundamental difference between functions and Cmdlets, they could just be the same thing. I also wonder why PowerShell can't just be a real .NET language just like all the others. It's a weird half-assed-in-the-middle thing.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/06/19/get-sc...
In every case I'm familiar with, the receiving bank can convert the cash to another currency. For example, if I'm visiting Mexico and withdraw money from my own American account, then the entry is shown in US Dollars on my account records, but the ATM will dispense Pesos. There are rates for these conversions (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=international+currency+converter) for example, using today's GO currency rate, $100 US would be equal to 1296.75 Mexican Pesos. There are frequently fees for this service.
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It's all possible with HTTP statuses according to a link[1] posted above.

[1] https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Pri...
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running 30+ windows servers

Microsoft has become much better, but still not sexy. Don't ever think they can fix everything for you, find out what they do well and what suxx and then do workarounds. Still too much microsoft and too little webstandards.

They upgrade more and fix more bugs, but this also break more stuff. Asp.MVC upgrades can be a pain..

.Net Core, C#, Linq, etc.. all very cool. Can make some stuff that performs very well, but can be very tricky to scale.

Asp.net i still too slow and too heavy.. taking >1min to start a asp.mvc site? It feels like some old grandpa compared to Node.js, Go and even PHP.

Powershell is still behind

Window Server administration can be very slow, .. how can it take 30seconds to draw an Event log ? Really miss ssh or even telnet.

Windows Services and schedules can be a pain. How can "access denied let the service run forever without notification??"

The license system is crap, they make their costumers feel stupid when they cant figure out how to renew they Action Pack's, etc..

And their crappy sales ppl, trying to push Sharepoint because they hear the word software and web.

So I really regret working with microsoft, althought I like some of .Net and C#, but what does one do for a good project and a salery.

Next project will not be .net for sure..
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$10, one time payment, is very good for this service.
Would be nice to know what it actually does before installing it.
I love http://caniuse.com but I wish they had more detail. For instance, on the XHR page, I'd like to know which browsers support addEventHandler syntax and which ones require the use of onreadystatechange.
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>After all, USA is the biggest partner of the EU/Germany.

The US is not just Germanys' biggest partner - it controls Germanys' sovereignty. The German intelligence services are all run from Washington. When Merkel says 'it does not matter', its because its really not relevant that America is spying on Germany: its allowed to. Germany lost WW2, and has not had a restoration of the sovereignty of its intelligence services in its constitution. That part is still held by the occupying power.
Does it not do both?
Wired don't really understand programming, which is ironic.

D is I think something well discussed here.

For the first time in about a decade - possibly two decades - there is a renaissance in programming language design focused on approaching real-World problems. D is a piece of the puzzle, but I think Wired don't quite get yet that it is now the entire solution.
The comments here about SpaceX are totally off-base. The point of the SLS project is to re-purpose the Space Shuttle's technology to develop a launch vehicle. It uses the Space Shuttle's liquid hydrogen/oxygen main engines (SMEs) as well as the solid-fuel rocket boosters (SRBs). SpaceX has no experience working with this technology: its rockets use an RP-1 (kerosene) based design. Also, the target lift capability of the SLS is 2-3x as much as the Falcon Heavy.[1]

SpaceX is doing great things, but they have a defined mission and so far have focused their limited resources on a family of related designs with an eye towards that mission. The vast majority of the aerospace engineering talent in the U.S. does not work at SpaceX. They work at Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, etc. It will be a long time before it's reasonable to make a comment implying that NASA chose Boeing instead of SpaceX because of lobbyists.

[1] See: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/falcon-heavy-uncertain-ca....