skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the exact thing - they have the money to pay, but they have to give a proportion of that money to the holdout bondholders (the "not selective" part), and they refused to do that, despite all the negotiations.

Courts didn't rule that they can't pay, courts ruled that they can't ignore the other bondholders when paying.

[edit] A car analogy - if a court says you can't drive until you pay your parking fines, then it doesn't mean that you're maliciously completely prevented from driving, it simply means that you're compelled to pay the fine at last.
Yeah, but this is not their data, it belongs to their users. It would have been better to communicate before now.
Never heard of it before, but its homepage - http://www.fotopedia.com/reporter/magazine has lots of great pics.

And http://www.fotopedia.com/reporter/stories/CxVE4flM6pA is pretty good
Excellent presentation with considerable technical information, e.g., weaknesses in the LIDAR approach, operational realities that reduce accuracy, etc., and some legal background, e.g., limiting LIDAR to 1000' or less in some jurisdictions - but contrast with overall lack of case law.

Could be of value to anyone wishing to fight a ticket.
Ah, but look at the results! If you accept my contention that the primary distinguishing feature of the American system is the employer involvement, and the demonstrable facts that a: American health care is twice as expensive as the rest of the civilized world, and b: America fails to cover 15% of the population... well, then it seems that employer-based insurance is a significant contributor to the high cost and coverage gaps.

So if the purpose in the free market is to add value, it's pretty much a dismal failure.

The thing is, though, that employer-based insurance wasn't there for some dream of free market efficiency. Rather, it's a legacy from mid-20th century labor negotiation. Back when insurance was largely nonexistent, labor unions negotiated for it as a benefit, and it became widely accepted practice. This, along with commie-phobia, kept America from adopting a more socialist model. Today, it's a political problem, because unions are actually against eliminating employer-based insurance, as it's a powerful negotiating tool for them. So it's hard for Democrats to attack it.
> PHP seems to treat them as entirely differerent types, which leads to something like "calling a method on it" being a technical impossibility in the current architecture.

Most platforms treat scalars as entirely different types at some level and then paper over the differences. As for the PHP architecture, I've actually looked into this, and it would take only one small change to the method-call code to add methods to scalars. In fact, the design of PHP makes this surprisingly easy to add.
I'd be happy to take a risk on any of a number of startups if they'd stop expecting me to move to San Francisco.
I'm not a fan of TDD either, but I am a practitioner of what I've dubbed "Maintenance Driven Development" which I've blogged about here: http://taylodl.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/maintenance-driven-d...

Bottom line: I prefer writing as few tests as possible to ensure the quality of the code and Maintenance Driven Development is a practical method for achieving that.
Right, you have to buy and pass the test suites (TCK).

The thing with Android is they are not close passing the test suites (AFAIK Harmony was close but Android is only a fraction of Harmony).

Compare what Android implements:
http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
And what they would have to implement:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
Of course the difference is even bigger for newer Java Versions (NIO.2, Date Time API, Fork-Join, …).

In addition I believe the linking semantics in Dalvik are slightly than in Java, eg. slf4j needs a special version to not fail during dex translation.

I'm not sure whether there is actually an official Java implementation that does not have a license of the implementation from Sun/Oracle or uses OpenJDK. If not they would have to reimplement all of the classes including AWT/Swing. Azul for example does have a license for Zing. I'm not sure if IBM already builds on OpenJDK.
Are taxis as fast as rickshaws, even in heavy traffic?
We did raise some money recently , but we actually have some nice revenue already (imagine that!).

Thanks for that info. Using a new framework for a project always involves some leap of faith for me. Perhaps I'm a bit too conservative there, but I hate sinking hours into learning something new, only to find out that it's soon going to get abandoned by its creators. So real revenue is great to hear, ionic looks really nice so far :)

Good luck for your endeavor!
There are thousands (tens of thousands?) of dedicated providers, not to mention the possibility of colocating.

But here's the kicker, even if Rackspace was better than all the other ones and you were ok with paying the hefty price, in this not-so-new commodity reality, reliability and scalability is mostly a software issue, not an infrastructure issue. A lot of it comes down to getting a reliable messaging infrastructure in place (trivial) and writing software code that lives and breaths asynchronous messaging (not so trivial).

So is Rackspace the only choice? Not even by your definition. Softlayer's a clear alternative, for example. But beyond that, reliability goes way beyond the provider, it's 96% your code.
Protection against most attacks:
The first time I connect a device, the OS should show me what type it is (keyboard, mouse, etc.) and ask me if I want to use it. Only at that time it gets activated.
Bitcoin would make these problems worse. The whole reason they got into this mess in the first place was by pegging their currency to the dollar, which meant they couldn't devalue the peso when they should have done for a long time; when the eventual reckoning came it was brutal. With bitcoin it would be much much worse, because you can't ever do that decoupling, and you wouldn't even get the US government doing writedowns like QE (which at least mean that in any global financial disaster, you've got a government doing approximately the appropriate things).
Virtually all thermostat-controlled heating systems I've seen don't have different output levels, but are just on or off. So poor efficiency at high output wouldn't come into play.

The rest is possible, but I'd file using expensive electricity instead of cheap electricity under the thermostat not doing a very good job, or more precisely the person setting it up not doing a good job of setting it up to run more cheaply.
Agree. Don't run production on DO. It's still shaky and evolving. For for dev work, probably one of the best values.
How do you uniquely identify a device?
>I am amazed at how many people use those excuses and yet watch 15 hours or more of T.V. per week. T.V. isn’t inherently bad, but it is a distraction. If you work a 40 hour week and then watch T.V. (or video games, etc.) for 15 hours, you might as well be working in a startup.

What the hell is wrong with you? "If you're spending your free time not working, you're distracted! You should be spending it working!" How about no? Maybe my life doesn't revolve around filling as much time of it as possible with work, ironic considering that seems to be the angle you were getting at earlier? This article contradicts itself by first telling you not to waste your life working and then telling you to take 15 more hours out of your week working.
Democrats Are Way More Obsessed With Impeachment Than Republicans
A lot of languages have ways of calling functions and methods by string names -- PHP just makes it very easy and the design is actually really clean.
If you want flexible, you can just use vanilla Cordova. There's always a trade-off between features and flexibility.
Anecdotally, I heard of an astronomer in a similar situation, who attempted to prove the radar gun used to "catch" him speeding was incapable of measuring the speed accurately enough (presenting info on the radar gun's sampling properties and on sampling theory; I forget the specifics). Supposedly the judge maintained the speeding violation but reduced the man's fine for "entertaining the court".
That's really interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
Gartner gets the 'data lake' concept all wrong
“the risk is too great” may also mean “the risk isn’t sufficiently compensated”, which is pretty common for early employee offers at startups. You’re bidding against Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, which pay large salaries for top talent and will almost surely be in business next year.

There’s nothing wrong with risk, but many people reasonably expect to be paid a premium to take it on.
In Seattle, we're tearing down a horrible ugly elevated viaduct on the waterfront and replacing it with a deep-bore underground tunnel. It's turning out to be a difficult and expensive mess, but the promise is a much more appealing human-centric waterfront/downtown core.
Can you please provide this data to Archive.org or work with them to save this data?
I understand that teams form out of convenience and necessity, but did you fellas at least consult some females as to the efficacy of a partner who is reliant on a rather weak vibrator to keep things interesting in bed? From the preview and your description, this is going to be an app for young men [12-17] and drunk college kids. Favoriting positions, keeping a 'kill' count...

Not trying to be cruel, but this is rather childish. It is geared towards males; why not make a message client where betas and virgins can share horror stories and laboriously gathered sex advice?
You can also use this link if you want to see how the countries compare side by side: http://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/argentina.uruguay...
Best talk from YC Europe event (P. Buchheit)
Can anyone tell me why speeding tickets aren't enforced with video cameras (like red-light tickets are)? It would seem to be much more accurate, much easier to enforce, and much harder to dispute.

Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of speed limit laws, I do believe that consistent and efficient enforcement can only be a good thing.
I'm in the process of migrating from Rackspace to Linode actually. The main issue is, we run a lot of average-powered machines and the prices at Rackspace were too oppressive. It's $80/mo for an 8GB server at Linode vs. $350 NextGen Standard) or $233 (NextGen Performance 1) at Rackspace. Our data size isn't that large so I value redundancy and ~$750/mo for one MongoDB replicaset is far, far too much.
In a similar position as you, only a year younger. I hear of these 16 year old interns all the time and with a 10 year difference, I am constantly worried I am too far behind the curve. I have no formal CS "schooling" but I love to learn and learning comes naturally to me, so I've picked up quite a bit. To solidify my knowledge, I am thinking of going to one of the bootcamps and make my way into the industry.

That being said, as someone below mentions, I am TERRIFIED that even though I spend most of my free time coding, it will be far less enjoyable as a full-time career. But, on the flip side, I really do enjoy creating and building things with code.

I hate testing, I rather not work with someone else's code, etc. I love building. I would just have to set myself up to work for companies that are in the building stage where I am constantly working on something new. I think that can certainly be done.

Here is what it comes down to for me and why I am heading in this direction and why it is never too late:

- I have dreams that involve technology (building things, running my own company)

- If my dreams fail, what profession is going to set my up for long-term success and is going to be sustainable for the next 30 years. And I rather do it now at ~28 than regret not doing it in another 5 years. (Engineering)

- I want to work in an industry that is moving the world forward with extremely intelligent people. (Goes back to, my job means nothing.)

- And most importantly, there are examples and inspirations all over the world that show why it is never to late and that you can do what you put your mind to. The human mind and body is an unbelievable specimen. It will be hard, but you just have to decide. Just decide and go do it. Don't waste time because life is pathetically short. And you can be whoever you want to be.

It is your choice to wake up with a smile on your face everyday and to put a smile on other's faces. We all have to work to live, but what you do outside of your profession and how you have fun with your profession is what it is all about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jwWYX7Jlo
19 thousand years.
Now I'm really curious. :) I have a penchant for obscure sword schools.
That's awesome. I'm such a hater of the iOS dev requirements so I really hope that the hybrid app space really takes off. Do you have any plans for mitigating JavaScript performance on mobile devices? Do you see any movement in building cross-paltform plugins?
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>> I am amazed at how many people use those excuses and yet watch 15 hours or more of T.V. per week. T.V. isn’t inherently bad, but it is a distraction. If you work a 40 hour week and then watch T.V. (or video games, etc.) for 15 hours, you might as well be working in a startup. They don’t all require 80–100 hour weeks.

TV and computer games do not require the same level of attention, involvement or energy as work does. They are wind-down activities. They are pure fun. Not that coding isn't rewarding, but it's different and it takes it out of you rather than putting in. I'm not exhausted after playing a game for a couple of hours after work, but a couple of extra hours work would shatter me and make my quality of life worse.

My risk is that I take on short term contracts. My reward is that I get paid at about the 97/98th percentile in my country. This is enough spine for me :)
user=> (doc vector?)
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clojure.core/vector?
([x])
Return true if x implements IPersistentVector
nil

So `MapEntry` implements `IPersistentVector`, but is not a vector. It does not make sense to have an empty `MapEntry`, so IMHO the behavior implemented is valid.
They can listen in the background and Shazam will do this if you enable Automatic mode, though the iOS status bar turns red while the microphone is being accessed by a backgrounded app.
And, like auto workers before them, nurses have become a big target for automation.
Yes, the TDD debate really got me thinking about why I write tests. It used to be about saving me time. Now it seems to be about satisfying other people that I know what I'm doing.

But I am a fan of code-as-documentation, blindingly obvious business logic and data validations at the interface, and I was struck by how Uncle Bob's TDD example just disregards all of that. Hence the QDD piece (which is half serious, half joking; I've left it a puzzle for the reader to figure out which half is which).
During heating season you are correct. During cooling season you end up paying twice for the extra energy consumption of incandescents. So it ends up being climate dependent. In cold countries the savings from changing out incandescents can be a fraction of the savings obtained in hot countries. Where I live you only end up getting half the benefit you would expect from the energy savings alone. If you don't have AC here then the benefit is even lower.

There is a current internet legend that the heat from incandescent bulbs does not contribute significantly to building heating. This is entirely wrong for the obvious thermodynamic reason. It's even been tested experimentally with the result that almost all the heat from the bulbs ends up as general heating:

http://www.cmhc.ca/odpub/pdf/65830.pdf
Note that I didn't say you needed to work 100 hour weeks. I don't think that you should spend all your time at the laptop, in fact I specifically mentioned helping others and family as a really important investment of time.

I just think talking yourself out of working extra hours when you waste a lot of those extra hours is just self deception.
Ah, our daily dose of condescension.

Maybe the author wants to 'inspire' but that's not what I feel after reading the article.
Ya, and there is no guarantee it would last either. A competitor might eat their lunch, etc.

Also, to be perfectly honest, I imply the issue is with me when I decline jobs [e.g. I don't think I am good enough, I do not have the stomach for risk] regardless of the real reason.

The last time I did that I asked some friends of mine if I should state what the real reason. The company in question was suing someone for making the same transition they were asking me to make, the hypocrisy of it combined with the fact it'd probably happen to me 5 years down the road when I changed jobs was the real reason I declined.

People lie when they decline jobs because they don't want to create a greater negative impression that might be caused by the truth. That is also something I don't think the OP is taking into account.

Another job interview apologized that I was not the perfect fit when I never had any intention of taking the job once I had gone in for the interview and heard more about them. The real reason they declined was I think they figured it out during the interview but we both played along until the end and stated different reasons that were as gentler than the reality to avoid a greater negative impression.
Treating Innovation like a Core Business Function
Show HN: I've released Velocity for Windows- a docset viewer like Dash for Mac
For everyone asking for metadata, I recommend the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (link: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html).

They have a weekly data dump, as well as a three-year overhaul underway. Wonderful, wonderful community around it, with a deep commitment to open data. If you have any suggestions for the database's future you'd like to see, I'd be happy to say it forward or put you in touch with somebody (I interned there last semester).
Hi everyone,

This is a new product that I built in response to Bogdan from Kapeli's blog post looking for someone to bring Dash to Windows. I hope you'll find it worthwhile and feedback is most welcome. There's an announcement blog post at http://efficientbits.com/velocity-1-0/, and in there is a link to a post with some backstory if anyone wants to dig a little deeper.

Thanks!
Jamie
It probably depends on the water bottle.

I put boiling water into a fairly thin-walled rubber one, and it sprang a leak a few minutes later, so I'm more careful now.
Yeah, I hope I didn't convey the T.V. video game thing too heavy handedly. I just get tired of people complaining about missed opportunities when they waste so much of their time and don't take risks. I use wind-down activities all the time. Cheers.
You could have the OS randomly generate a token and give it to the device and require it to repeat it each time it's plugged in.

Devices without tokens or with unrecognised tokens would need user approval, those with the correct one would be trusted. That still doesn't solve the problem of deciding if a device should be trusted or not though.
Better is relative. They could have just iced the site and killed their email, which i hear is not a rare course to take.

How many days notice equates to appropriate when killing the hopes and dreams of an0n users?
Woops, you're right! I was doing some ballpark math a couple orders of magnitude higher thrust, to see what would be practical if this were scaled up.

(For context, my original post said that matching Voyager's velocity would take 19 years.)
What happens after two, five and ten years?
The photos all appear to be Copyright, All Rights Reserved by the original photographers. It's up to them to find another place to publish their photos.
So, according to the author, everyone that doesn't want to work for a startup doesn't have a spine?

Maybe the real reason guy didn't join, although compensation is "good" is not that good? Maybe he saw the writing on the wall and didn't want to go for a "good" salary only to be forced to look for another job in next few months when funding money expire? Maybe he didn't like the prospect of working 60+ hours weeks? Maybe he just doesn't like 2x startup culture?

There are a million valid reason why someone wouldn't want to join startup, even for a "competitive" salary, and it has nothing to do with having spine or not. And he's not obliged to tell a real reason to anyone, so "too risky" is as good as an excuse as anything.
if the drive is propelling something to get tens of µN, you could float strips of thin plastic film across the supposed path of reaction matter and it'd be visibly accelerated by collisions with that something, at least if my math is right.
Why is Intercom ending its Integration with Heroku?
Had an email today saying that Intercom is deprecating it's relationship with Heroku. I would have thought it would have been a good source of new users. I can only think that they're not the 'right' type of users?

Anyway, simply instructions to transition:
https://gist.github.com/patrickod/dea4a7b91c085fb766d8

"Ben from Intercom here. You're currently an admin on an app using the Intercom Heroku add-on. On August 29th, we will be ending our integration with Heroku, and Heroku will be removing the Intercom add-on from all apps.

To ensure you retain access to your account, please confirm your password. If you have not set a password on your account, you will have the opportunity to set one.

To ensure your install continues to work please follow these instructions.
There is no other action required on your part but if you have any questions whatsoever about this process, please just reply to this mail."
I don't know where you're living, but here in the UK the government only does a fraction of what ideally people would want and as time goes by it does less and less. There is indeed plenty of work to be done as you say, but typically you can't fulfil basic needs while doing those jobs which would enhance the neighbourhood. This is evidenced by the current phenomenon of the "working poor" (i.e. people who are working in the private sector but who still critically depend upon income from the state).
It's going to take Amazon being added to a list like this before the rest of the Capitalists lose their minds over this.

* Where is the documentation about the methodology for selecting what apps are available?

* Why is Accuweather, a private company, offered top billing over other global wearther forecasting services?

* Why is Google given "Internet Search" billing over Bing or DuckDuckGo? What happens if a company in Zambia wants to create their own search engine? How can they penetrate a market?

I wasn't expecting the closed Internet to ramp up this quickly, but this is absolutely terrifying to me from a consumer and business viewpoint.
What do you mean, "shopped it around to the right judge"?

Argentina agreed that any disputes would be according to the NY/USA law, and the matter went to those exact courts, appealed up to USA Supreme Court.

To what judge should the dispute have gone, in your opinion? Is there some important part of this dispute that I'm missing here?
"internal politics and policies"

Some might say that those do not amount to an acceptable excuse.

The cost only makes sense when the ultimate goal is worth more than getting 15m uninsureds onto cheap health plans. The ultimate goal might be arrogating more power over individual health to the federal government.
Air conditioning. TV/gadget increases are dwarfed by savings in fridges, lighting, washers etc.
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Sorry I didn't convey that well enough. I was mostly addressing this to programmers in my region who seem much more risk averse than many of my colleagues in other places (like SF) and yet complain about missed opportunities.