skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jprince, that's a nice setup. You've manually put together many of the core components Tiempo offers. It sounds like you're getting paid quickly, at low cost, and its a good experience for both you and your customers.

In fact, what you could do is use Tiempo for your time tracking and use the result to create your PDF invoice and continue with your Square Cash payment process. Compared to On the Job, Tiempo's time tracking is free and available on mobile devices. So you wouldn't have to be attached to your computer to track time.

But, what Tiempo Instant Invoices does is allow folks that aren't as technical to get all of that benefit that you've already wired together in one place. And, as I've said elsewhere in the comments, we'll add more payment options (that are lower cost) in the future.
Foursquare had great usage all over the world. I've traveled widely (more than ninety countries) and all over Latin America and Eastern Europe Foursquare is regularly used. For some reason, it got a lot of hate from the Bay Area tech crowd who felt its heyday passed -- despite the fact that SF airport was always swarming.

The pressure to keep on growing and have viral growth and turn into a destination app means that app like Foursquare with less mainstream gamifications sadly don't get the respect they maybe deserve, and are forced to try to go viral, etc. which is not a natural path for every app, and there should be a way to fund and let these apps achieve their natural success.

Foursquare location data was great (used by Uber) and it's sad they're alienating the users who provided them this value.
I think a big portion of the problems Linux has these days is how unbelievably bloated and overconvulated distributions have become. Every single function has three, four or more ways to do the same thing, often with different results. When trying to get something working I never know if I should run the /etc/init.d script, restart the service manually, edit a config file, use the command line config until or use the GUI settings option. Sometimes you edit a config file and get the thing to work, only to find out some other utility will overwrite it next reboot. Other times you get strange errors or just nothing at all, because it's a deprecated method and you should have used the brand new tool-du-jour instead. It's a mess.
Thanks for the input. Mind if I reach out via email?
The first time I used "git bisect run" I felt like I was cheating. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don't have many opportunities to use it.
This is one of the few cases in which the linkbait title actually works against the article.
Secret also runs on App Engine.
Everything can be a bomb
I doubt she hired a PR agency to promote her science fair project, I'm imagining that her Mom/Dad knew about the lionfish thing told her about it, she did a typical science fair job of things, and the media grabbed ahold of it after someone told them about it.

Science + Media = Science Fiction

Like most things science fiction, the science is there purely as a backdrop for what is a human interest story.
The US is FULL of hidden rates! In fact, you can make a huge killing exploiting these things, and a lot people do exactly that. Some areas in the US cost multiple cents per minute. There is no such such as a flat rate to the US. People sell it, but they're just hoping you call cheap places, and if you don't, they cut you off. It surprises me how few people can do that math and love paying a flat rate.

That's why so many free conference call places were in Iowa. They were exploiting the 5 cent tariffs Iowa had published in combination with people expecting all of the US to cost the same. Big carriers stopped terminating the calls, but the FCC slapped them back and insisted they had to terminate such calls.
Thanks Dave. Is there an email I could reach out to you at?
Hey guys, I just pushed a fix for this. Sorry about that! Thanks for letting us know.
If so, what's the best email to reach you at?
You could argue MtGox have a liability of quite a few bitcoins.
A Sublime Text selection primer
I find "managing geeks" to be about as offensive as an 1850 book about "managing niggers".

"geek" is a term that is used to suggest that technical people are somewhat subhuman and of course inferior to managers.
Hey there - I'm the author. Didn't expect this to make it here.

But to address your point: Yes, I for sure had a problem and the title understates it. I just wanted to write in a light hearted way for two reasons:

1) I knew my mom would read the post so didn't wanna worry her.
2) Alcoholism is a serious topic and hard to talk about, but when you tell your buds it makes life easier. And having a sense of humor makes things way easier to discuss...so that's my attempt to be humorous about a serious topic.
> In my experience, it's brilliant for prototyping and small applications.

It's one of the worst PAAS ever,there is nothing brilliant in app engine.Everything is limited, clunky,with a horrible SDK one has to download in order to use the stuff...

> learning everything I needed to know to keep an app from accidentally falling down of my own stupidity on the sysadmin side would have been a bridge too far.

I fail to see how AppEngine does replace a sysadmin more than any PAAS out there.In fact,it's the one of the most complicated plateform to deploy on.

Frankly I cant even begin to think why anyone would recommand Appengine to anybody. This is just a bad product.Just looking at its admin dashboard makes me cringe. It's expensive,limited,complicated and boy it loves vendor lockin.
Well, I consider such apps unreviewable, so I wouldn't review it.
The amount of abuse that the American consumer takes from telecos - Incoming SMS charges, incoming call charges, ridiculous post-paid rates, the colour of your iPhone tied to your carrier contract - beggars belief. You guys are still living under the delusion that the invisible hand of the free market will protect you, but what you don't realize is that the invisible hand is too busy in the pants of AT&T and Verizon to care about you.

There are a lot of things wrong with India but the telecom industry here(at least up to around 2010) should be a showcase for regulation done right. Dirt cheap sms rates(around .001 usd), 3G rates, fixed monthly subscription charge for roaming, tower-sharing (multiple mobile operators share a cellular tower), number-porting, second-pulse billing,and around 10-11 operators to choose from.

Sure, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India probably squeezed a little to hard and the 2G and 3G corruption scandals that followed reversed some of those trends to an extent; But the situation is still much better than in the US.
Heard this argument a few times and mostly I do agree, but in certain scenarios I'm not willing to spend a whole day on some perfect code when I can do it in a hour with some comments explaining it.

My scenarios for this typically include:
* Disposable project, eg prototyping an idea for a client
* I have an impossible deadline and I'm on a fixed project rate, maybe I should have quoted more, who knows, it happens
wicd is pretty dead. It uses deprecated kernel features that will be removed at some point and with no maintainer for wicd, it will just stop working.
I've noticed that on my OSX macbook the connection time is slow, but it seems to connect before you log in if it's asleep. I think Apple uses tricks like this to make it seem much faster.
Not quite, Jud did a ecological survey in 2011 and followed-up with experimental tests of the ability of Lionfish to tolerate a range of salinity. This was published in February 2014: "Broad salinity tolerance in the invasive lionfish Pterois spp. may facilitate estuarine colonization"[1].

Arrington Snr is not an author on this later manuscript, but was presumably aware of the work.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-014-0242-y
I'd disagree a litte. I wrote that post and for some people (like me) there just is not much a middle ground. Maybe I'm just too immature, impulsive, or I don't know what, but I can't moderate myself.
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Which MBP do you have?

It's fast on Apple products because they 'cheat', and re-use the last-given DHCP address.

http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do
(and the follow up, http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_redux)
How to introspect the Freebase schema with SPARQL
It's hard to imagine a data model simpler than RDF, based on two concepts, the Node and the Triple. What is hard is getting a handle around a database that has 800 million facts and 60,000 properties. If you don't know which properties to use, the data you want can be hidden in plain site. Thus, one of the big problems in using this kind of database is understanding its contents...
I'm just here (on my laptop with speakers that have mysteriously stopped working) to second any comments relating to the sorry state of Linux audio.
Yes... until smartphone IM support finally offered competition that started to squash this particular aspect of price gouging.

Many people still "pay" for SMS. When we had outrageous per SMS charges (yes, also for incoming messages), carriers started to offer "bulk" -- e.g. 1000 messages per billing cycle -- plans and then "ulimited" SMS plans, typically for $30, $20, eventually $10 / month extra.

Now, more an more plans included "unlimited SMS". Not all, though, and total monthly bills that include such "unlimited SMS" vary widely. One also has to remain aware / beware of international SMS messages, where one's plan may still charge exorbitant per message fees.

P.S. Back in the days of high charges, just be so lucky as to end up on the receiving end of messages from some romantic interest who thinks your phone number is their interest's number. Obnoxious, perhaps crass messages, and to boot you're paying for the "privilege" of receiving them. (Fortunately, the carrier's limited blocking options sufficed to squelch those when he wouldn't believe I wasn't her.)
The Inventor of the High Five
3/16/2013 the rule "first inventor to file (FITF)" was put in place, you are out of luck and now infringing on Yahoo's patent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
I haven't had trouble with printing in years- in fact, I can basically print on everything with no configuration, and people with OS X and Windows laptops seem to have lots of problems.
Greg, thanks for the recommendation. I read a blog post you wrote on it. Is there an email I could reach out to you at?
Bitcoin has a fixed cap but it won't be reached until 2140. For the first four years it had linear growth, just like Ethereum will have. Demand increased faster than supply so the price went up.

In percentage terms, Ethereum's growth will be down to 5%/year after 20 years.
How is not drinking alcohol extremism?
> I wonder to what extent this mentality of "just want to code" is related to the (stereotypical) aversion of the developer as anti-social and introvert.

Being anti-social is not really a developer stereotype. Being a pedant is, though. ;)
I understand that happened but could be happening to a very small percentage of people that download it, and by giving it a 1 star review immediately, it may take people away from it.

That being said, of course I would probably be pissed myself if I wanted to try an app and then it crashed as I started it.
> most likely if you are trying to solve a health/lifestyle problem by purchasing something, that is just symptomatic of yet another unhealthy aspect of your lifestyle

Tell that to the thirty pounds I've lost, over the last couple months, by dint of using a Basis band to track calories out, and logging what I eat to do the same for calories in.
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Here is one example where sloppy watch list policies like these resulted in the prolonged torture of an innocent person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
Apparently the BlueZ team only works on Android now, even though it's no longer shipped with AOSP (or even any phones?)
What is imgur's ultimate goal? Is it to become the youtube of images?
Actually, in later years the internal reasoning has been published, so we no longer need to speculate. (This following quotes are taken from the book "Energiya-Buran, the Soviet Space Shuttle" by Bart Hendrickx and Bert Vis).
And the actual reason is even more hillarious.

So, first, we now know the US space shuttle was the outcome of some bureaucratic processes in the US (NASA wants a new program to replace Apollo, the Air Force accidentally ends up in a super good negotiating position, Nixon does not want to be responsible for ending manned flight but also doesn't want to pay for a trip to Mars), so in the end it didn't end up a very sensible design. But the Soviets did _not_ known this, and assumed there must be some secret rational reason for building it:

> As TsNIIMash [Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building] director Yuriy Mozzhorin later said: "[The Space Shuttle] was introduced as a national program, aimed at 60 launches per year ... All this was very unusual: the mass they had been putting into orbit with their expendable rockets hadn't even reached 150 tons per year, and now they were planning to launch 1,770 tons per year. Nothing was being returned from space, and now they were planning to bring down 820 tons per year. This was not simple a program to develop some space system ... to lower transportation costs (they promised they would lower those costs tenfold, but the studies done at our institute showed that in actual fact there would be no cost savings at all). It clearly had a focused military goal".

So what might this secret military goal be? Apparently the Soviet speculations was that either it might be part of some nuclear fractional-orbit bombardment system, or it might be part of a plan to launch lots of laser weapons into orbit. In any case, we can't have a space shuttle gap, so:

> "[Central Committe Secretary for Defense Matters, Dmitri] Ustinov had made the following argument: if our scientists and engineers do not see and specific use of this technology now, we should not forget that the Americans are very pragmatic and very smart. Since they have invested a tremendous amount of money in such a project, they can obviously see some useful scenario which is still unseen from Soviet eyes. The Soviet Union should therefore develop such a technology so that it won't be taken by suprise in the future".

Let's build it now, and see what it is good for later! And then the Americans started speculating about what the secret military purpose of the Soviet shuttle might be! :D
Maybe it is, but I'm saying that it is healthy.
While I realize it's the modus operandi of Imgur, the .gifs were distracting and made the article harder to read.
Find a multiyear walkthrough that will take you hours to just play the game according to how a manual tells you.

Why? It's like learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl. You follow his instructions to learn more than just mechanics, but the Rails Way of doing things.

Same with Dwarf Fortress. You need to learn the DF way of doing things, the DF way of solving problems. Easiest way to learn it is to follow deep instruction for a while.

I cannot find the exact tutorial I followed a while ago (and I'm not sure it's even valid for the latest versions) but this wiki ought to help start: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_gui...

Maybe a current DF player can link you to the best multi-year walkthrough :)
Hey Tak, I'd love to talk more. Is there an email I could reach you at?
There are no royalties for Flash. Well, apart from the yearly cap that Adobe pays.

Similarly, Fluendo have been paying the cap for MP3 decoding since 2005 on their open source decoder for Linux.

(MP3 decode should now be out of patent, as should most encode tasks but "intellectual property" likes to keep its boundary lines as vague as possible so you never know if you're trespassing and just pay out of fear/habit.)

Printing has also been pretty good for a while, so much so that Apple adopted the same solution in 2002.

Are you sure your complaints are still valid?
Whether a call is a tail-call is trivially decidable; it's an entirely syntactic condition (a call to f is a tail-call just in case it's of the form "return f(...);").

It's true that it's not possible to make a Turing-complete language for which it's possible to statically determine the amount of memory arbitrary programs on arbitrary inputs will use. But typically a language has other means of supporting dynamic memory allocation than simply via frame allocation for functions; e.g., via built-in operations to manipulate lists of arbitrary length.

So, if you wanted to only allow recursion via tail-calls, you easily could, and if you wanted to furthermore go ahead and prevent all dynamic memory allocation, you could as well, but you would necessarily be giving up Turing-completeness.
This thing runs on Namecoin, though that is buried in the documentation.
We charge less for debits vs credits, rather than giving a different fee for Visa vs MasterCard.
You can probably fix your display issue with xvidtune
WinkDex Price Index Launches Developer API
No kidding -- I routinely code late into the night. Each time, I can't fall asleep if I didn't have f.lux on a fairly "yellow" setting.

I (a) wish that something like that was built into iOS and (b) feel bad for people who don't know f.lux exists (or RedShift, for Linux folks.)
> The open source method may be effective if enough people play along, but it does not make money in itself. Moreover, by definition it implies that open source projects have many more mistakes, bad code and failed efforts on their way to succeeding, compared with conventional projects.

Which definition of open source (method?) do they go by?
> Plus doesn't the US have hidden rates too? If I call someone on a landline and they're in the same city I pay less than if I call someone two cities over even though the two MIGHT have the same exact area code ("long distance").

Landline to landline, yes. This got me when we moved back to Georgia 14 years ago. Friends in the 229 area code that lived 50 miles away in one direction, local, 50 miles in another, long distance.

However, for cellular (now) you pay by minutes, and, as far as I can tell, unless you're hitting 900 numbers or similar, a minute is a minute, local or long distance. I have never had my own landline so I don't know the current status there, and most people I know with one only use it for security systems (so they can get away with the cheapest $10 or $20/month plan with no long distance).
I never was able to make my Ralink based card (D-Link DWA-160) to work on 802.11n band. It only works with b/g. I suspect it's a driver limitation (rt2800usb), but I never got any response from the developers about it.
Where's the bundle with the "Keep-My-5yo-Kid-Asleep-Until-My-Alarm-Goes-Off" option? Would pay for that.
Great point. Perhaps a better example might have been something like http://js1k.com/.
Ask HN: How many Dvorak keyboard layout users in the wild?
I'm wondering if a Microsoft or an Apple employee has some rough estimate of the amount of Dvorak users compared to Qwerty and other keyboard layouts?

It would be nice to have a list, I'm not even sure what would be at the top? US Qwerty?

I'm not interested in the pros and cons of the layouts, just a rough estimate of adoption.

Thanks in advance.
This is exactly what I have been looking for! I just signed up and added a couple of wallet addresses and I have to say, it looks really good. I can't wait for the iOS app, any info on an approximate release timeframe?
Here's a link to one of the blog posts: http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accident...
Yep, looks like you guys use XSRF which would make it a little more difficult I think.
I hear ya.

Gets better. I am @ 13 months. Getting regular sleep between teeth coming in and bouts of illness.

I highly recommend eventual sleep training (interval or whatever)... just make sure you have plenty of whiskey handy... can take it's toll on your nerves.
If it's a VGA monitor you probably need to hit the auto-adjust button on it. Different graphics cards and drivers produce slightly different timings for the same mode, so the monitor has to compensate, and it only adjusts its setting when you first get it or explicitly tell it to.
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If Foursquare had been bought by FB, Google, Yahoo a few years ago when it had peaked, and then a few years later numbers were down, and engagement became sparse, the parent company would have either de-invested or shut it down.

And then there would have been a slew of articles and criticism about how once again a big company has squandered an opportunity.

Instead we get to see what really happens when the founding team executes a pivot on what is already a pretty successful product and service that has not yet fulfilled the Yelp sized aspirations of its founders, investors and employees.
Coming from a guy that worked on pre-production android hardware... you wouldn't want any of those drivers. Ever.

Seriously.

They don't even properly report the cell signal levels correctly half the time (.... like returning -1 always on the error correction signal level...).
Great comment (and quote!) -- totally agreed. But my having used a mediocre example doesn't counter the gist, that constraints can and do breed elegance. (shrug)
Not your comments, just the occasional comments snarks of others (sorry, I don't actually have a specific example at hand). Your comment is actually helpful (mentions a change has been made, explains the decision, and even mentions the original URL).
Why no sugar/food after dark? Any links?
If you're saying programmer I'm assuming there is already this level of experience, but I went ahead and made my own blog set up. This was mostly really to learn Rails. Even though I am mostly doing strictly Ruby stuff at the moment, I hear of or see features I want to add to the blog so little by little I pick up more rails techniques.

For just having something already set to focus on your writing, I really like what I've seen from Jekyll, I don't have a need yet but I'm definitely keeping it in mind for future projects.
Does anyone know a good Trie implementation for C#? I've seen some on blog posts but haven't found something production ready.
Just enabled it and works as expected. Thanks for the quick fix!

Edit: Loving the gifs btw!
Essentially, they behave as if they've spent the last (however long you were offline) without sending any packets. If their lease is still valid, they should still be able to use the same IP address; i.e., they shouldn't need to re-acquire one. That's not always the case, so they also do a DHCP request along with that.
How we built our own CDN at Wingify
> It simply attaches to your pillow and invisibly tracks your sleep at night.

My pillow tends to be either outside my bed and/or occupied by my cat when I wake up. Would this device still work under those circumstances?
If desktop Linux ever became popular enough for computers to come with it preinstalled, it would immediately go down the binary blob driver path that Android is on.

For vendors, the reasons to close up their drivers would be identical whatever OS their kernel drivers would run on top.
You can play in Stonesense, though it's still early days yet and only works on the last patch.

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dwarf-fortress-3d/