skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Founder here. While facilitating the transaction is definitely a compelling product offering and would be very fun to build, it's by no means necessary to make the selling process dramatically better.

The crux of our business is pretty straightforward to reason about: Be exceptional at valuing homes, maintain a low cost of capital, leverage operational scale, and understand our customers.
But Fortran 90 is much more readable than 77 :-p The downside is that binding fortran 90 (95, 2003) to python is much more painful...
Heck, I'm impressed all the web software they use is compatible with something other than IE<8.
I don't know anyone who doesn't read the textbooks or at least the "condensed" slides version with some 500+ slides per class. Not in STEM not anywhere else. It is simply impossible to retain that much information just from going to class, you have to re-read it all before exams. Which is when the reading happens, nobody actually does the reading every week. That's just silly.

Man, I wish I went to uni in the US. Every time I hear anything about the US college experience it just sounds like a piece of cake.
Except it isn't - you need to consider the costs of not just Windows, but all the software surrounding it. Photoshop licenses, Visual Studio licenses, Office licenses, etc. Even at business rates. Per workstation, $3000 can be an underestimate.

Meanwhile, using Gimp / Krita / LibreOffice / kdev etc and, at the scale of a city like Munich, just having a dev team to fix the localized problems the city has in the software, or having a fund to bounty bugs and features the city wants, would be cheaper in the long run, and leave the city in control of its own software infrastructure.
It looks like something I was looking for! Very nice, thank you. Are there any alternatives to Streak? I didn't test it yet, but I am just wondering.
A lot of the recent Rust syntax changes are based on applying proposed changes to the Servo codebase and analyzing the changes subjectively across the entire sample. In cases where new semantics help with inference of types or annotations, the metric becomes quite objective.
BASIC was taught in universities the year it was introduced.
They are not, unless there are Ubuntu computers available in stores. I actually know there are some German laws requiring computers be made available with varying or no OS, so it is much more likely than it is stateside to find an Ubuntu machine in store.
These options are not available on mobile devices.
It's exaggerated to make a point to people who consider a Tesla affordable.

My house cost less than two Teslas.
If (most) everyone is using LibreOffice that probably causes much fewer issues than a mixture of MS Office and LibreOffice.
The most valuable comments that I've found are documentation as to exactly why the code is doing something that looks strange or wrong, on purpose. It keeps maintainers from going in and breaking stuff later.

Yes tests. But people can 'fix' tests at the same time too.
Yes. This is the essential description of the situation.

Or, put more empirically, if the web is terrible, why did it succeed by orders of magnitude over what preceded it?

I have fantasies, like every other dev, of controlled, predictable, statically verifiable, friendly, elegant, safe systems that also reach billions of people, with instant distribution, nominal cost, and low barrier to entry. Maybe these things are not (a posteriori) compatible.

We used to call this “rich vs reach”. Still seems true, perhaps essentially so.
Microsoft didn't seize anyone's property.
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Not to mention the big kahunas, Exchange, Sharepoint, AD, SQL Server licenses.
Interesting the WSJ article doesn't mention the low potassium which was the focus of the previous press release (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803855) There are some pretty awesome automated farming things going on[1] which are going to be more impactful than this I suspect seems like not all hydroponics in California are about pot grow systems :-)

[1] http://www.viridisaquaponics.com/#about

Edit: I take it back, the WSJ does mention the Low-K angle, I just missed it on my first reading.
Oh wow. Such a nice explanation. Thanks!

Never would have thought propellant was that cheap.

Or that paperwork and engineering would be that many orders of magnitude more expensive.

Impressive.
Or Emacs Lisp, if you don't have a specific project in mind and/or aren't already heavily invested in a text editor. As a programming language in and of itself, it's not a greap lisp, but it's a great practical way to learn lisp while you're customizing your text editor.
Love the black magic!
Well thanks a lot to everyone for the explanations.

I really had no idea.

Learned something very cool today!
That's a weird sentiment to hold, that less expressive languages should be used to spark interest. If I were learning a first programming language again, I would want to learn a language that let me get going as quickly as possible. It takes a lot more to build something in C than in Python and Python can much more quickly prove to a person learning their first language that programming is worthwhile.
Are your classes available online to view?
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Ah. Much more clear now.

Thanks.
"Cleaner" is an extremely subjective concept.
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Just got here after thinking about asking the same question!

From a usability perspective, I'd rather have more than have to go to the next page, solely because of the static next links HN uses -- they confuse me with their making me refresh (usually), catch anything that newly popped onto the page, THEN click next. Would be a lot easier to simply show more.

I'm sure the reason is some combination of load speed and a pseudo-designers' perspective that simpler == better. Who knows.
What is this "installed" you speak of?
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"What does `#include <stdio.h>` and `int main()` mean? Why do I have to write them?"
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Python has types, and I don't know what you mean by "without extensive research."
I believe it's been well documented by many writers that Linux on desktop (LOD) won't be a thing in the foreseeable future.

If you think about it, Android's problems with open source allowing manufacturers to have their own flavours of Android, is one of the reasons why the average user might think TouchWiz (or other skins) is Android and that's why it sucks.

Note that this is just _one_ reason I believe LOD won't be a thing, there surely are more.
Anyone going to IDEO Hacks Waste? (NYC)
It's coming up this weekend and is going to be my first hackathon.<p>Was just wondering who's going because it's a relatively short hackathon.<p>Thanks in advance.

http://www.ideo.com/hackathon/nyc/
This related question from some time ago shows experimentation with 25: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2869239
Oh, I'm working on the services to move data from the science and models to the web and mobile apps.
"The report noted many domains that the Cisco Security Team thought were abusive. We have not received any report from Cisco about any domains, or any supporting information. If Cisco wished to report abuse, they could have easily contacted our Abuse Team at abuse@no-ip.com."

It seems odd that people aren't reporting this there, or if they are reporting it there, are not documenting that.
Funny, for the classes I took (and I was often taking 50%+ more than the "average load"), taking notes and listening usually managed to allow me to retain 70+% of the material (across math, physics, chemistry, computer sci/eng classes). The only exception was O-Chem which really did require a lot of extra time outside of the class room.

Languages, lit, and polisci were less about retaining specifics and more about interpretation and discourse. But, hell, grad level Dickens class was a lot of reading.
Huh? Fedora is probably the closest you get to a bleeding edge distro without going rolling release.
Do really believe there's a global science conspiracy against the truth. Really?
If you have the time, could you please review our docker + fig instructions? These instructions are for Quill.org, a web app that provides free writing activities to middle school and high school students.

https://github.com/empirical-org/Documentation/blob/master/G...

We are a non-profit, open source community, and we recently set up our dev environment in Docker to encourage OSS contributions. We may be missing a few crucial pieces of instruction for developers unfamiliar with Docker, such as killing docker images once a developer is finished working on a project.

You can reach me at peter at quill.org
They're building a platform. They can make money by charging developers a percent of revenue made from apps built on the platform. No need to charge users for email directly.
Can you elaborate on your opinion of the x240 (x220/x230 fan here, never used am x240)
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Interesting counterpoint: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/7/5878603/taylor-swift-doesnt-unde...
If you think of these govt agencies as employment-welfare themselves, makework jobs with a false veneer of productivity, it begins to make sense. The bureaucracy is the actual welfare program.
Is full stack that bad? You're the third or fourth person I've seen complain about it in the last few days.

Unlike ninja, it actually is a descriptive term, is it not?
In proof of work cryptocurrencies, transaction fees will become increasing important.

Mines need feedback loops with users to ensure that transaction fees are high enough to avoid congestion in transaction processing.

As the blockreward drops, transaction fees will also need to high enough to sustain enough economic interest in mining to protect against 50.1% attacks on the blockchain.
Sucker's game? Because someone else may be less generous?

Then join up with your fellow and rise against the greedy wealthy.
I'm confused by your post. What makes these royalties valuable is that they are tied to the revenues generated by the sales of the same physical and digital copies of the music that you point out are technically not rare. But without the false scarcity created by copyright and the associated constellation of laws which surround it, these artifacts would not create revenue and then wouldn't the royalties also be worthless?
I've seen argument and published studies against (1) so you're not off to a good start. These are clearly not points of view that would get 97% of economists agreeing on, are they?

Also, economics is not a science.
First page of google for Jonathan Edwards produces a 17th century philosopher and a singer. Adding "Jonathan Edwards programming" produces Subtext, which has a UI straight out of 1994 and no releases. So ... He's a not terribly well known academic yawning about how programming needs to be more academic?

Honestly, I have no idea who he is.
I have loaded centos 7 onto laptop and I can't get into it its asking for localhost and password when I put it in it repeats
Your two paragraphs are logically irreconcilable. Obviously, they cannot legally or politically make a statement like "we will never get acquired." You tell them not to make that statement if they can't. But then you also tell them they should make the statement?

People need to chill. This looks like an awesome product and platform, and it doesn't seem like it will require any data lock in (you can always move your emails from place to place, and it looks like they won't necessarily even require you to store emails on their servers. Worst comes to worst, if they shut down, I imagine they would provide migration utilities.

These guys are clearly pretty smart. If someone is going to build this product, they seem like a good choice.
I used to code with a macbook pro for about a year and recently switched to the asus zenbook ux301. I definitely prefer it over the macbook.

I was very disappointed with the multi-monitor support on Mac. Some apps takeover both monitors while others don't, and maximizing/docking windows left/right was just tedious. Windows nails multi-monitor support, even remembering the display configuration based on which external monitor is plugged in.

Not having Linux is annoying because cygwin is pretty terrible, but I just SSH into a remote linux server or local vm.
Can't get into cent is 7
> Linux you will often have difficulties to connect to the random WIFI setups you'll find, or to manage the external monitors

I will say that linux has amazingly improved. I haven't had a single problem with my t440s wrt wifi or displays. NetworkManager for wifi and xrandr --auto for displays.. and I'm good to go. Even my thinkpad dock has been working perfectly.

And of course, the thinkpad keyboards are damned nice.

When was the last time you used a linux laptop? Because it doesn't sound recent (within 2 years)
Granted it is an Enterprise level distro with iscsi, storage drivers, xfs as default, other relatively heavy things in it included by default. Running on smaller machines was never a goal, if it did, it was probably accidental.

I don't even know if they have an ARM port (maybe an ARM 64bit for those new hip low wattage ARM microservers).
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I'm surprised no one posted about the "2 artistic + 1 intelligence = $0" outcome yet :)
Some systems like laptops come with SSD drives only. They're typically around 256gb at the moment. 20gb is a lot of space, unless you're also lugging around an external drive.
Yeah, looks like it's a platform, a.k.a. an API around your existing email. From a business and interoperability perspective, building a platform is definitely a good move. They'll be able to create an "email App Store" for developers to publish apps built on their platform, and they can take a cut of revenue.

I imagine the play here is to 1) build the API, 2) build a pluggable skeleton of a frontend, 3) chase the enterprise for huge swaths of customers with unique email needs (hence the emphasis on Exchange servers), and 4) recruit developers with the value prop of making money building apps on the API and selling them to enterprise customers.

I suspect the final product will look more like Google apps than it will gmail. And if the API is nice, they'll get developers, who will build unique apps, which in turn will convince enterprise customers to sign on. Acquiring customers will be especially easy if it doesn't require swapping out their email backends.
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You don't seem to define exactly what type of frontend work is giving you grief.

For the layout/design thing, there now exists quite a few drag and drop tools to get a decent design. They also do code-generation, so you can modify the final thing.

As far as SPAs and frontend frameworks go, perhaps it requires a change of thinking. There's also a lot of opinions among the framework-makers as to what is "best practice", so for the frontend framework part, the only way I think you might "enjoy" it is to look for the "it's inspired by Rails/Django/x-server-side-framework" situation.
Here is the Federal Code that seems to be applicable: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1952

After reading this code it appears that the owners of myredbook need not be actually the people convicted of the illegal acts which are illegal by California state law. The owners of myredbook only need to facilitate the illegal acts of others. Since some posters / advertisers on myredbook have been convicted of prostitution this is likely the basis of using the California state prostitution laws in the myredbook owners federal indictment.

Furthermore, since the owners of myredbook used an interstate means, the Internet, and transferred funds between banks, maybe, in different states. This would be the other basis necessary to violate the above referenced federal law.

So it looks like the myredbook owners may be in pretty big trouble.
It wasn't religion dissenting with science though, was it? It was one bunch of religious people wanting to not be suppressed by another. The fact that Quakers went to the new land and started oppressing the natives is no triumph of religion over science.
Back to VBA
How about http://www.searchify.com/ ?
I seriously doubt the cheesy title has deterred anyone from applying. They pay somewhere in the region of over $65K for "customer support".

Probably 5-10 times more than what a service-person doing a very similar job in outsourced India earns.
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It's a stylistic choice.
First, while it's true that the rights I refer to are generally valued based on the strength of the royalty streams, this does not mean that buyers and sellers value these rights in a strictly formulaic manner. As with any asset, there are a variety of factors that might result in buyers paying a premium. An investor with the ability to purchase rights associated with an Elvis Presley song, for instance, would probably pay substantially more for each dollar in royalties than they would for rights associated with a song by a less famous artist.

Second, and most importantly, not all royalties are tied to CD and digital music sales. These are mechanical royalties. There are also performance and synchronization royalties, which can be significant. It's is entirely possible, for instance, for a song that generates little in the way of mechanical royalties to generate eye-popping performance or synchronization royalties.
I understand the general discontent with in-app purchases, but stop being sensational. No one is "coerced" into buying digital goods.

definition of coerce is "persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats." Obviously there are no threats or force applied by the app developers to sell digital goods.
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OPAM is awesome, made it super easy to install "Batsh"[0], a neat compile-to-bash-or-BAT language. Makes programming in shell not painful :D

[0] https://github.com/BYVoid/Batsh
>One possibility is companies that make electronic devices for this

Thanks for the suggestion. My degree concentration is actually embedded systems, so that's interesting.
Those can be understood from a high level point of view in a few minutes time. I've sat through multiple classes that have done just that.

Java is so deeply OOP that there's just no way for somebody to grasp and understand the concept of e.g., a public method when they haven't even learned about variables or basic conditional logic yet. A total novice just plain isn't equipped to handle some of the concepts that are immediately thrown at them with a simple hello world.
When I moved from rural Gunma to Tokyo, I was surprised at how much the vegetable prices went up and the quality went down. I suppose that's why.
Seems like Japan would be a prime candidate for universal basic income. Above average unemployment + high social welfare + high productivity/automation.
You really think that science is "empty formalities like peer review, consensus and other social-engineerable groupthink mantras"
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It's offensive because it implies I'm a commodity that has nothing better to do than write about someone's shitty Swift website. It's offensive because someone is charging money to send me spam.

You want to pitch me? Do the work yourself. Chances are I won't even see your pitch because my inbox is clogged from shitty pitch emails from assholes like pressfarm. Pass.
I would love to see your Vagrantfile! I have a similar need, but can't figure it out :(
Right. And there's absolutely no difference between an actual PR person I develop a relationship with a some jackass who wants to sell my email to people who are too dumb to properly Google.

Downvote all you want. This is grotesque and insulting.
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Ask HN: Do investors prefer high growth rate, or nailed/scalable business model?
For the sake of argument, let’s say “high growth rate” = 100k new users/month for something generic and consumer web-like. Maybe a photo sharing app or social news app.

Business model nailed means bringing in 15k/month in revenue in a big market with obvious potential scale quickly.
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On August 1, 2014, the "GALANT" series will be replaced by a new series called "BEKANT". Maybe this is what is going on?

Here is the short info (in swedish):
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/departments/wor...
I mean in a way that the German citizens might think that their country is standing up against the mighty US.
The guy who wrote the Cheers sitcom TV theme song never had to work again and lives off royalties.
Before your accept this review at face value, read the book for yourself.

This review, like many, fails to note that the data in question regards first- and second-year students (i.e., the second sample is in the third semester -- only 1 1/2 years after starting college). Many of us will recall that we made our big leaps in our junior and senior years, after declaring a major. In a later study, the authors claim that similar observations can be made regarding older students. Still, I would read this book with some skepticism.

For a more subtle review, try this one from the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110...
On the contrary, if I ever get an email claiming to be from these clowns, not only will it get no preferential treatment, it will get marked as spam.

There are filters. They are called GOOD PR people (people who frequently bring us solid stuff and not junk), personal recommendations and sometimes luck. I get enough useless mail each day. Anyone who adds to my already insane inbox will get nothing but contempt.

Excuse my anger but I already have to dedicate a minimum of 90 minutes a day to email on top of my average 9 hour workday. This doesn't help. And it doesn't do anything for the entrepreneur who is trying to get coverage. I'd rather be pitched on Twitter. If you don't know me, that's the sane way to reach out if you're not established.
If I had to choose from existing companies and ones that I know of that exist, probably Google. Mainly because there are insanely smart people there I feel I could learn from. The added perks and good pay is also nice.
"Algorithmic Bayesianism" is my own. "Objective Informative Bayesianism" refers to ET Jaynes Probability Theory, which is basically a massive religious tract about Bayesianism that also happens to teach you probability theory and statistics from scratch, up, down, and sideways.
This seems like a nice layer between some data scientists that might be used to working with csv's or some subset of databases, and a dev team that happens to be using another subset of db's. Data scientists could throw some results into a csv and front end devs could quickly pull it in as a rough version of what the actual API would look like to get started on presentation of the data. First pass mockups could be done taking minimal time away from the engineering team, iterate these with stakeholders, and finally implement the final API with the fully fleshed out front end.
He was testing new material on an audience, most of those notepad jokes ended up in the polished routine. Lot's of comedians will workshop their jokes first on a small crowd, though it does leave you wide open to having them "borrowed" by other comedians before you work them into your act.
I feel for you. I was rejected from ThoughtWorks for this exactly same reason. I received a coding assignment and I implemented it. The solution worked, but it was not Object Oriented enough, nor was it easy to maintain and flexible. Thanks for asking this!