skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were fortunate to have good people who shared your position. It doesn't sound like OP has this, so I'd still suggest consulting with an attorney before doing anything. That doesn't mean he has to get the attorney involved in direct conversations, or even mention he has one.
The good old hawala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala) :)
Joe Abercrombie's books (the First Law trilogy and three semi-sequels) hit some of the same notes. If anything, even grimmer in outlook, and with a substantial dose of dark "British humour". Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains is alright, dude tries a little too hard though.

In general - you didn't do too bad just by asking on here... Find places where relevant people (in this case, let's be honest, nerds) congregate and pipe up. People love to talk about their favourite books, bands, etc. You can normally skim some pages on Amazon to see if the prose style's going to be gratingly irritating to you or something.
There is at least one lawsuit going on with relation to kickstarter. There is some kind of contract involved/assumed and you can expect "good faith" attempt to produce result. If they just take your money and run away, they are as liable as any other fraud.
I wrote that (the article, rather than the software), incidentally.. The most interesting thing that happened was that it prompted a Disqus flame-war where I was inundated with comments on that post, and a whole bunch of others from G-WAN employees (and their friends - I presume) taking pot-shots.

I realise that my writing style can sometimes be seen as abrasive, but I still don't think that I've done a very good job of explaining my surprise that a) GWAN exists at all, or b) people are actually using it..

I spent a whole weekend trying to get my head inside it, and eventually gave up, after wondering what on earth I was doing.
I think I addressed this in the post itself.

>So to say I’m entirely non-technical may be unfair. It just depends on the context. Neighborhood barbecue? Technical. Startup Weekend? Non-technical.

Where does the HN crowd fit on that spectrum? My guess is most people here would still consider me non-technical, even with what I've built so far.
Yes, you were incorrect. He underestimated how much revision his books would require and how long it would take, but that doesn't mean he owes you.
they did: python -m pdb my_code.py
Who gets to make decisions?
When are we going to move away from mechanical fans for cooling? They seem to be the weakest link in every board that has a fan on it and die a horrible noisy death at some point way before you expect and they're noisy even when they're new. Surely they can design better?
Favorite bit that I constantly struggle to explain to people who are biding for my time:

“But what if he wanted to paint his house?”

Great find :)
The problem with being a startup founder
> Does anyone have any suggestions other than browsing Amazon or strolling through a Barnes and Noble?

Go back in time. Read classics. Re-read the stuff you glossed over in college because you didn't have the time.
And there's a song about this: http://scifisongs.blogspot.com/2009/08/sci-fi-song-20-george....
App Makers Cashing in on Gaza Conflict
I'll agree with that. I had to really dig through the user group to find answers to a lot of things. e.g. @SingleValueResult if you want to return an Optional<Item> from a query.

I didn't know about @CreateSqlObject, thanks!
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback, will be sure to forward this to our design team. For the moment please accept a link to our Press Packet that includes screenshots of the app https://s3.amazonaws.com/stacker_assets/press.zip
What was the old font?
Ask HN: Paradigmatic Programming Languages
What would you say are the languages that best represent their respective paradigms?

I ask this knowing full well that "programming paradigm" is a bit fuzzy (the classic list, according to Wikipedia, is "imperative, declarative, functional, object-oriented, logic and symbolic," but perhaps we can bend that a bit).

I'm hoping to find languages, even if not in common use, that really exemplify the main approaches to programming and software design.
Creative writing is, much like software development, one of those jobs where you need to enter a different kind of mental state to be really productive. And that state cannot be maintained indefinitely.

George R.R. Martin writes big, fat books that are highly multithreaded, as part of a series that is already complex enough that it makes real life seem simple. If it were a software project, there would already be four or five more developers working on it. But he's trying to punch it out solo.

I don't expect him to finish, really. He's probably burned out for the second or third time, at least, and is getting too much fan pressure resulting from the television adaptation bump to focus on regenerating the artistic mojo.

If you ever read bestselling authors, they're always thanking their support people in the dedication or foreword or colophon or wherever. Most of them only need a few part-time or shared employees, like their editor, agent, and publicist. Martin probably needs at least one full-time assistant just for indexing and continuity.

This is why I like books that say "third book of the Whatever Trilogy" and the other two are right there on the shelf next to it. It lets me know that the author can finish something, and I don't have to wait for it to happen.

I did read the first few books in Martin's series, but I borrowed those copies. I don't really want to get sucked in and be left hanging like those people who got into Wheel of Time. With something like this, you never really know if the bus that just pulled away was the last one on the route for the night. So if you sit on that bench, the next one may never come.
Edit: being down voted because of an opinion?

Hey, I want to middle school with Caleb!

On a more related note: It's exciting to see others realize how simple and painless Apple has made iOS dev. It still takes logical chops and a keen eye to make something worthwhile, but the bridge between non-developer and developer is getting shorter and shorter.

The new iOS 8 kits will shorten that gap even more.

Still, as a developer myself with some successful projects behind me, I'm a student of thought that the marketplace is becoming so saturated it will only be very high-caliber apps that survive. Or, I guess, developers who can stick out the rough times as well as the good ones. How new developers fit into that landscape is still uncertain.

As I haven't done any Android development, can anyone shed light on how similar the two processes are (iOS dev vs. Android)?
If you can have both US and Canadian accounts, I'd deposit the USD in your US account and use TransferWise to get CAD which should save you on fees.
I have found the best one for GBP to CAD to be:

torfx.com

When I had actual physical cash that I needed to hand in, I found the best rates withL

http://www.interchangefinancial.com/
I've used TransferWise (https://transferwise.com) several times to move money from SEK to USD, but it seems they don't support CAD yet.

Super easy to get started, and very low fees.
BFG Repo-Cleaner – like git-filter-branch, but faster
PHP 5.6.0 RC3 for EasyPHP is available for testing
For anyone interested, here is a good article on the science behind the drug: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/08/05/ebola-secr...

The antibodies are produced in tobacco plants on a farm owned by RJ Reynolds Tobacco.
It seems like the general idea for the full story was done, and "The Book" (as he called it) "existed" in a very rough draft, but with each release he's going back, re-editing and re-working them, adding bits here and there, improving the story until it's to the point that he wants it to be. It would make sense to me that, with each book, the ripple of stuff that needs fixing in the story later on needs more and more re-work.

I believe the first two books were released 4 years apart. It seems that that's the cadence for the books. And hey, Auri novella this fall! :D
The urth books (Shadow of the Torturer and following) take a lot of time to really get into. It's only by the time you get to the last book that you start to understand much of what happened in the first.

I, as you might be able to tell from my nick, am a big fan ;)
> I don't understand what are you talking about. AFAIK, you don't have to reraise the previous exception:

Correct, and also you can explicitly suppress the other traceback now (3.2+)

I just wish it was the default unless you opted in. If I catch down an exception and raise another one I do not want the old one. Only in very rare cases am I interested in what lead to it. I have lots of hacks in Jinja2 now to hide useless tracebacks that would only confuse users.

For instance a jinja context tries different dicts through a chain in __getitem__. The naive implementation on Python 3 generates two nearly equivalent tracebacks that are very confusing.
The Inbox Checkup
Or even better "blah blah you don't know about!"
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1) You could opt for a plain old wire transfer between accounts, I think the banks charge $15 for that, but its almost immediate.
2) Or you could deposit the check in your Canadian bank account. Although, in this case you'll have to wait for the banks to clear your check.
3) Or if you have a bank account in the US, you could use an online service like Xoom. https://www.xoom.com/canada/send-money
I probably am dating myself here. But with cloud infrastructure what is the point of these configuration management tools? To get the configuration of an instance just fire up a copy of instance. To install something new, have a script install it on one manchine - monitor it, then start deploying it. You have versions of instances, backups, and exact copies. If you want to push, it is 10 lines of bash with a git pull and ssh public keys. AWS has an amazing API. I have seen guys try these 9k+ lines of complex syntax Salt systems only to break things, misconfigure them, and leave the system totally dependent on the author (aka the genius). We have ran systems of 100+ machines with a few lines of bash - so I am blown away at this new complexity. PLEASE help me out.
I use a company called "XE Trade." It is an absolute nightmare to set up (due to all their anti-fraud stuff). However once you do it is pretty straight forward to utilise and they're paid via a "spread" (i.e. imperfect exchange rates) rather than a fee.

It appears cheaper than both PayPal and my bank, however it is up to you if the savings is worth the hassle of setting it up. Once it is set up you transfer money to their local bank account (within your origin country), and then at the destination country they deliver it via bank transfer from an account there, so you need a normal bank account in both source and destination (i.e. no Western Union style use).

I believe HSBC also offer free intercountry account transfers as long as you own both accounts.
After reading those recent financial/earnings from iOS game developers on HN, I'd be very wary of dropping 4,500$ for a 12 week course.
Yes, you were incorrect. He had written a story but not edited it at all, and it changed a lot in the editing process to get the first book out.

See the article again: Patrick does not work for you.

I am also eagerly awaiting the third book but I want it to be as awesome as it can.
I'm a full time iOS dev that taught myself. I spent a ton of time working through my struggles via StackOverflow and piece working online tutorials.

Very cool to see what you were able to build in only 12 weeks.

Why did you choose this, instead of learning yourself. Didn't you still have to do all the work to learn even with the program?
I have tethering. I'm a remote employee and I work from coffee shops, other cities, etc. so I use my tethering connection for work (software) when I can't get wifi.
I've been happy with XE Trade (http://www.xe.com/xetrade/) for USD/CAD transactions.
First, it collect texts much faster. You get a blank note screen when launch the app (like Drafts), plus create notes when you copy texts from other apps (while it is in the background).
I don't want to tag anything. I want to tap the screen under two times to take a photo then have the software do everything else.

phone on -- unlock to homescreen --> tap icon --> take picture

Without OCR or any sort of integration/budgeting this is essentially a folder full of pictures of my financial information on someone else's computer. There is no value add.

Once I start tagging stuff, that's too much work. I might as well just toss the receipt and then figure it out whenever I try to balance my accounts in ynab like I do right now.
Tortoises Show Off Smarts by Mastering Touch-Screen Tech
From what I was reading about this Ebola outbreak, most of the "survivor" percentages were from those who hadn't yet had the illness long enough to die or be certain they will live. There is a lot of uncertainty about the death rate for Ebola in a given outbreak, this one included.

While trying to find a description of this, it looks like FiveThirtyEight put something together on the exact topic: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/we-still-dont-know-how-de...

As for using experimental drugs, there are certainly times when the probability of death may seem dramatically increased for one patient relative to the overall survival numbers. "Certainty" for a population is one thing, "certainty" for some patients can be more (but not entirely) clear.
I use about 2-3GB/month. Sometimes I notice that my podcasts haven't synced when I'm at the car, and make them sync for my ride.
Game of Thrones: The Sadness of a World Without Science (2013)
"Neural networks, a beautiful biologically-inspired programming paradigm which enables a computer to learn from observational data"

In the context of CS what's the difference between "learning" and optimizing?
Yeah, exactly :|

I had asked him to send the contract over, he said he'd send the contract but that they don't put the plan (e.g. "unlimited data") in the contract.

Sure sounds shady and worthy of better business bureau.
We have better tech, but it's not cheap. Fans are cheap.
The SUSE engineers and community really make some fantastic tools. I was a long-time openSUSE user but I found the package repositories were not so well maintained and eventually I switched away, but tools like Zypper (the only mainstream Linux package manager that gives you fine-grained control on what to do if a package dependency cannot be fulfilled - a pet peeve of mine on Debian systems), SUSEStudio (web service for interactively building Linux appliances, Live CDs, etc) and it's back-end Kiwi, etc. - really very cool stuff.
The notion that an author has an obligation to finish writing a series is as absurd as the notion that a reader must finish reading a series.
As oil becomes more scarce, its price will rise sharply. A large increase in the price of oil would have significant negative effects on the global economy. It can be argued that money spent to reduce our dependence on oil is only "giving up" in the same sense that saving money is giving up the ability to spend it. The opportunity cost of not pursuing alternatives is _much_ higher in the long run.

Do you actually believe that alternative energy is not a good investment, or were you attempting to rationalize why one might be opposed?
Sure. But they also have the right to hangup (which is what the rep said he'd do). I believe the law is that you have to notify the other party that you are recording, otherwise it can't be used in court.
Stem cell scientist found dead in wake of research paper scandal
Are you part of the Dart team?
How the USSR Tried to Melt the Arctic
> But it's not unreasonable to think that an up-to-date Unix server should be capable of the job

You are right, an up-to-date Unix/Linux server is capable of the job (but still requires routine security maintenance to keep secure!) -- however, this home appliance is far from being up-to-date... by design.

My CentOS boxes at the office update almost every few days... how often does this appliance update? Once a year? Maybe twice if you are lucky. Then how many users are actually applying all updates? Probably very few.

I would further contend that a nas-in-a-box like this can never be secure. The vendor isn't going to update it frequently enough -- not enough users will actually update -- they are likely using old out-dated/insecure versions of various open source projects or worse, crudely hacked together proprietary projects to run the webserver, webui, ssl layer, authentication, etc. By now, the manufacturer has probably already back-burnered this device and moved onto newer models, or will be shortly -- completely abandoning all the current users who will get stuck with a swiss-cheese-in-a-box.

I'll go further and content the only safe and secure way to do this is to go with something like FreeNAS or OwnCloud. Both are current projects with massive user-bases. Both are FOSS projects, and both have a corporate backing if you need support or more enterprise features. Both stay very up-to-date with bugfixes, security fixes, and new features rolling out often. Both have upgrade paths from older versions, etc. Basically, they are much more secure and will stay that way for the life of the project.
Being an indie game developer is very different from being a contract iOS developer. I can't imagine a full-time iOS developer being paid less than a Jr. High teacher + $4,500. I'm looking for one now, albeit with a little more experience than Caleb, and could very well end up paying six figures (in Utah).
Mysterious Siberian crater attributed to methane
Of course. No one's going to learn a thing by just showing up and listening to an instructor. Whether that's an iOS Dev Bootcamp or Physiology.

I put in hundreds of hours beyond regular class time. And yes, definitely working through struggles on StackOverflow and online tutorials.

I chose this because, for me, it's a lot easier to sit back and watch TV or play around without the financial, time, and personal commitment of signing up for a class. I had somewhere to be. My wife and kids knew I had somewhere to be. So it was a full family commitment that made it work.
When you pay insane amounts for first class and they try to nickel and dime you on the electricity (which FTR has never happened to me in a decade of using laptops on planes) that is outrageous.
Microsoft's sample code for driver development is for a hypothetical toaster bus[0]. I'm guessing someone built their real driver off the samples and either forgot to find an appropriate icon or left in a UUID which is associated with that icon in Windows.

[0]http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256...
I have used ozforex.com.au for business; they have a consumer-oriented branch http://www.tranzfers.com/
Second, it treat notes somewhat like todos. We think every note has its purpose. They are meant to be keep for reference, do something, share, archive, or discard the idea(delete), etc. We made sharing and doing other actions easily.

For example, if you are a Evernote user, you can send multiple notes to Evetnote at once.
Did the study conclude these deals are a cost to the states that provide them? I guess what I mean is are these tax incentives a net negative over 20 years?
Far more useful than the OP, IMO. Awesome!

It briefly bugged out (dumping everything as a string into a single result block) on entering a ":" or ";" after the word "Error" in a string as part of the long formula I tested it with, but since then I've changed a few minor things and it's stopped happening :S
This article doesn't add anything that the original MS blog didn't already cover.
TL;DR: Lamentably, Google has facilitated a transition to organic search results being strictly a money game for most categories, removing the joy of discovery and disproportionally impacting small businesses.

What's missing is a suggestion of how to fix it. Not an easy problem.
I hope that some who has hacking skills can help me. Please!
It's crazy to me to think that a passive $45,000 from an iOS app isn't a reason to invest $4500 on a 12 week course. But whatever you say.

Also, a senior iOS developer can make anywhere from $90-150k in even a low paying market like Utah. I don't even know what the market is in places like New York and California.

Needless to say, what you get for your $4500 is a lot more than just indie game revenue. It's a life changing experience to learn to write iOS apps.
Give Pratchett's Discworld a try. Earlier books are funnier, later books are meatier where it counts (to the point of sometimes being a bit sombre), but they're all very good reads.
Here are the three comments about ways to solve the issues:

jzwinck - "The article mentions two possible paths forward, but I can think of a third. Make the spheres large enough that swallowing is impractical. 1.75 inches seems to be a standard for this. Would giant magnetic spheres not be fun to play with?"

termain - "Why not coat them in an emetic?"

rfatnabayeff - "There's a much more safe alternative with almost same possibilities - a kinda "balls-and-magnetick-sticks". In that case, spheres are just metallic, not magnetic. Only joints, sticks, have magnetic ends capped inside the plastic. These spheres are much safer and the visualizing abilities of that toy is almost the same."
Not the first time mobile apps are profiting on other people's misery and blood. Here are a few other examples:

On the MH370 Flight Crash: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/pearl-lee/article/...

I am sure there are plenty of other examples out there.
Back when it was beginning to get difficult to buy Bitcoin in the UK (when MtGox and Intersango stopped accepting bank transfers) I used TransferWise, a p2p currency exchange, to send money to European bank accounts as an alternative. For example, BitStamp was based in Slovenia, so I'd send money directly to their European account. Without a service like TransferWise I would have to spend £25 with every Bitcoin purchase (that's how much my bank charges for an EU transfer), versus £1 with TW.

Unfortunately now you can't even deposit into European bank accounts that are related to Bitcoin... but anyway it's a really cheap way of sending money, not all currencies are available yet though (no CAD) but keep an eye out.

https://transferwise.com/
The simplest solution would be to find a Canadian bank that will accept check deposits denominated in USD. Second easiest would be to have banks in both countries, deposit into the US bank, transfer, and withdraw from the Canadian bank. In both cases, ideally you could set up direct deposit.
Thank you. Can you be specific about the weird parts?
I read all of those same posts. Definitely concerning news for indie developers.

But the reality is that even junior developers are making very good money working contract or full-time.

$4500 is less than a semester of required classes at University. And it was a good way to dive in.
I hate that too, even though I don't want a paper receipt I want to be spammed by Pottery Barn even less.

My ideal solution: a NFC thingy (transmitter?) at the register where I can just tap my phone and the receipt is beamed to me without exposing my data or forcing me into a marketing database.
I get:

Error reading setup initialization file.
We just uploaded a demo video on the website
You'd actually generate noise just the same way as I used 3D Simplex noise.

I am unsure on UV mapping though as I have not experimented with it yet when using geodesics. Instead I just escaped the problem by using a collapsed cube :)
I had a nightmare that my wife and children were murdered after reading bits of Dune one night. I haven't picked it back up since!
I've heard co-workers using interactivebrokers to do so.
I found a blog post about it here http://blog.plsoucy.com/2012/11/best-way-to-convert-usd-to-c...

The fees are essentially max($2.50, 0.01%) but there's some restrictions (min $10k deposit, $10 monthly fee)
Risk: à la Domain Driven Design, Part One