skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the contract - they agreed on 3 months.

The core of the problem is that they didn't hire him for a shorter time (test run) / weren't able to use him for the remaining time.
If you are building a commercial product and 590$ is too expensive, I feel sorry for you.

In western countries you could get at most 2-3 man days for that money, I highly doubt that even the best coder could implement Highcharts in 3 days and provide support for it afterwards.

If all you want is one or two simple charts then I agree, it is a waste of money to buy something like Highcharts, but if you really need most of what it has to offer then it is a good investment.

I have integrated Highcharts into a commercial project and it was a success.
Show HN: NodeGear – Node.js hosting on Docker
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Our goal is to simplify node.js hosting as much as possible.

- Stream logs straight to the control panel
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- SPDY support and free SSL on .ngapp.io
- Get and set up mongodb and mysql databases.
- The control panel is blazing fast, built with angular.js and socket.io
- Monitoring emails. If your app goes down, you'll know it.

In addition, deploy a custom ghost.js blog with a single click. (It only needs a name).

Sign up (its free and obligation-free) on https://nodegear.com (and https://nodegear.io).

That being said, i should mention its a Beta and that things may break. If you're interested in joining our venture, let me know!
The platform is entirely built on node.js. It utilises redis, mongodb, websockets and angular.js.
To me, being employed as a senior developer doesn't imply being able to figure out the whole system and assigning tasks by yourself from day one. I didn't bitch and complain, or twiddle my thumbs for that matter. I asked for help, told them what I thought didn't work and how we could improve it, and here we are.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (2012)
This thread claims that additional offload support is planned, but there are no recent progress reports, http://community.ubnt.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/boar...

Is this a limitation of VyOS or the closed-source offload/acceleration driver?

For Intel hardware, DPDK improves performance even in virtualized environments, http://rishidot.com/blog/cloudcomputing/intel-dpdk-and-cloud... &
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
The Prabath Siriwardena book is too expensive. Any good cheaper alternatives out there?
On the other hand, and this is really the point of the whole thing to me, maybe next time they'll think twice.
Related question: is it possible to build cylindrical reflectors (more precisely, two dimensional reflectors with a constant parabolic profile along X axis), gather the light into a linear CCD array and do the Y axis focusing in software?

Reason: this will allow us to fabricate mirrors either by bending planar materials or by using a grinding tool that has the shape of the full parabolic cross section. Theoretically this should be a lot cheaper than the grinding methods we use now.
I'm wondering if simple GeoIP check can prevent lots of intrusion attempts - if the user consistently logs in from one location and then suddenly tries to log in with the wrong password from the distant one, that's the red flag that warrants temporary account lockout at least.
The fluent API looks a lot nicer than highcharts' API. This is definitely going on my shortlist of the next project that needs charts.
Very nostalgic :-). I learnt the concept of pointers in Pascal. I think it was taught for two semesters at Mysore and Bangalore university colleges. We however quickly moved on to C as that came during the final year of graduation. Fortran -> Pascal -> C was sort of general trajectory couple of decades ago in engineering colleges in India. And in all this there was Cobol; I wonder whether it's even taught now a days!
problem #1: GeoIP isn't accurate enough
I'm all for finding stuff out by myself if the company culture embraces failure as a method of learning. Unfortunately, at Unbabel that's not the case.
I've always found this argument a bit bizarre, because in my mind any time travelling device would work via a pair of machines: a sender and a receiver. So nobody could come to the present simply because there's no receiver yet.

The reason we haven't been overrun by tourists because there's no stop in this time period.
> physically separate the baseband from the personal computer, with an IP-only interface (eg Wifi) between them

Are there any options on the market besides iPod Touch and Samsung Galaxy S WiFi?
I think with "sugar diets" he specifically refers to diets that contain a lot of Fructose, cooked potatoes contain starch, the liver and muscles convert an excess of that in glycogen and a relatively small amount of fat. Glycogen is actually really useful. Getting a rush afer having eaten an energy rich meal is what is supposed to happen. It's Fructose which is dangerous in large quantities and is linked to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Among other things it also blocks Leptin signalling to the brain, so the brain does not properly register how much energy it just gained, leading to overeating and no desire for physical activity.
Please don't label people that you possibly disagree with or that contribute to the discussion in a way that does not suit your agenda as 'trolls'.
EBay Hires Louis Perrochon from Google as VP of Engineering
C also has arrays with dimensions as part of the type. The trick is that the dimension must be determined statically. This is different than vectors in Haskell which allow the size of the vector to be determined (and even vary) dynamically, yet still guarantee memory safety statically (I.e. no runtime cost for bounds checking).

You can think of an array with a static size of 10 as being like shorthand notation for a struct with ten fields (sans padding). It really is no more complicated than that.
What am I paying my isp for then? If subscription fees don't cover bandwidth costs how have they been doing business up to this point?
So you don't run ANY intel products? That's quite an accomplishment.
You have got to be f*cking kidding me! I've studied more Esoteric literature and practiced more Yoga than most. Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you have no idea what you're talking about?
Dropbox does it for you. Plus you get a free 50GB dropbox account with many Android devices, so the incentive is there.
That's still not very bad advice. I'm guessing it would be a great improvement on the average lower class American diet. Cut out most of the fruit, fish and vegetables, increase sweets and meat and you've got the average modern lower class diet. Carbohydrates make you eat a bit more, but they're golden otherwise and they're really cheap. And if you look at the other categories it seems they use the word "serving" a bit different than you and I.
I wasn't surprised to find bad code there. I was surprised that my job didn't seem to include making it better.

Unbabel is based in SF and is unique in offering SF level compensation in Portugal. Perhaps I was naive in expecting them to honor our contract, it does seem like fucking people over is business as usual in Portugal.
I never understood all the Pascal-bashing. It's a pretty decent procedural language.
Working with Scala Futures
I'm at a loss as to what benefit I'm supposed to gain by using one. I don't reuse passwords for anything that actually needs to be secure, though I reuse a few for sites that make me create a password even though I don't care about whether those accounts are secure or not. I dpn't see why I should adopt a password manager just because other people don't practice good password security.
Looks like it was in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1979 [1].

[1] http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/ramirez-frank-r...
> you go to your stop, read the board with accurate realtime predictions, and wait for a train to show up. It doesn't matter whether the schedule has anything to do with reality, just that you don't have to wait too long.

I've never ridden CTA, but this is the attitude that I treat Boston's T subway system with. It's wonderful, and like you say, you just don't care. Go to platform, board a train. Time-to-trains are acceptably low that you can go an wait. (looking at a random T schedule, if you arrive on the platform randomly, it's ~2-5 minutes wait on average if things are on schedule.)

That's not CalTrain. Trains are not as frequent (they I transit daily from Mountain View to SF: during the morning rush from 7-9am, trains are anywhere from 7 minutes to 34 minutes apart.) Missing a train also doesn't just mean the time waiting for the next train, but also lost time due to the train itself. (For example, the 8:05 is 7 minutes behind the 7:57 in Mountain View, but 15 behind in SF.)

Exceptional delays are significant, and not that exceptional. Trains hit things, catch up to other trains and follow them at a snail's pace, break down, stop for blocked tracks, can't be boarded due to overcrowding, departed early due to being "full", or are just missing without cause.

That said, if there was good data that just told me when trains would leave and when they would arrive, that'd be nice. I don't know of such a thing, and given the article, what exists looks clunky, complicated, and incorrect.

> Why should a transportation authority move heaven and earth to satisfy some moralistic concern about keeping exactly to schedules?

Because you're wasting people's time?
Advanced WebGL – Part 1 – Codeflow
The ESO "hotel" at Paranal is itself a gorgeous building:

http://www.archello.com/en/project/eso-hotel-cerro-paranal-c...

It was used in the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace".
so elpa packages going stable?
Apparently, Stephen Hawking organized a time travel experiment in 2009. There was also the Time Traveler Convention in 2005 [1].
If people keep organizing such events, future time travellers may be at a loss as to which one to attend.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/
What algorithm would you run on this machine to yield strong AI?
Ebola outbreak: Escaped patient pursued through crowded Liberia market
Have been using highcharts now for a few years. It's easy too start with, with preset examples (but who wants default colors anyway haha). I had to write an extra layer though to render charts more easily, directly from the dom.

Took quite some work but I don't want anything else now. Just set some data attributes and I can create pie's, line charts, and bars all on the fly!

It almost never failed me to customize it, editability is good and API doc extensive.
future time travellers may be at a loss as to which one to attend

Ahem, all of them at once?
I did, and its the same template story always. We don't agree with technical decisions made by Set A people to be in best interests of the community, therefore we plan to fork Y, with intelligent Set B people.

The actual story is always about control and ego.
Atari 800: “it will never become obsolete”
The internet tells me it was in Asimov's, in the July 1979 issue, so I was way off on the time frame.
Kind of hard to tell when the entire fcking contract is in Portuguese and you depend on someone else to explain it to you. I still have no idea if the clause is in there or not.

What I can't get through my head is why you'd write a contract at all if both parties are free to do whatever the fck they want anyway...
DSM is a political tool, not a public health one. It represents the sum total of the mechanisms that the new state religion (psychology/psychiatry) can apply to its trouble-makers and problem sources. If you can call someone crazy, no matter what they are saying or how important it is to the society as a whole, you can put them away and have society ignore them completely. That it is embedded as a device for use by the medical field is just a bonus; after all, you can't control a population unless you control its health.

Never forget, there is nothing at all scientific about the composition of this material. It is functionally a state religion.
The pricing policy is more obnoxious than the price itself. $390 (or $590 for "maintenance and support") gets you the ability for one single developer to do any kind of work with it. The next tier is $1,500 (or $2,250 for "maintenance and support") and gets you the ability for up to 5 developers to do any kind of work with it.

Having to pick between (A) sneaking around behind your vendor's back to violate their licensing terms by having more developers work on it than you paid for and (trivially) concealing that from them, (B) paying $1,500 instead of $590 (!) just so more people can legally work on it, and not even getting support, or (C) micromanaging your team such that literally only one human being can actually work on that part of the code base...

...makes for a real bad customer experience, which is surely to the detriment of sales.
Do you think that 10GB data is easily to manage .. what all common practices do you suggest . any examples with use case
It has little to do with logic, ideologies, or specific political or ethical beliefs. It's just really basic economics. Concentrated interests beat dispersed interests.
When the NSA claims the the Database is deleted. How are we really to know anyway?
The surprise was that my job didn't seem to include flagging problems or improving the code.
Or, instead of receiving the next iteration you end up with a piece of paper with "DON'T MESS WITH TIME" written in your own shaky handwriting.

The space of possible stable outcomes is much larger than just the ones carrying the outcome of the computation.
Very high overhead (largely because of all the XML) and the implicit requirement of a persistent connection.

There are other things, like awkward and unevenly supported voice and encryption, but those are higher level concerns.

TextSecure's protocol is probably closest to what I'd like to see as a standard.
I like email and can't see it dying at all. I have several email addresses for various purposes and it's no hassle to manage.

I have about 5 email addresses and 1 work email. It's good having a dedicated "website sign-up" email address for forums and so on, where you don't care about the spam level.

The flexibility in setting up your in-box how you want is a great thing about email. I don't understand people who constantly complain about their in-boxes. Learn to manage your in-box, I say, and stop crying about your first-world inbox clutter problem!

I'm interested in secure online collaboration tools, and it's great to see so many options emerging. These secure tools can easily coexist with email and keep everyone happy.

Email is a familiar, reliable, predictable service that everyone knows about. It doesn't get "updated" every 3 months by some agenda-driven tech giant with ideas about how we ought to be communicating.
Its JavaScript. Automatically makes it news here. (Awaits the down votes, doesn't expect any explanation of why it is news).
Why doesn't platform maker like Google, Microsoft and Apple have their Password manager and forces the usage of it?
Google Charts is nice but its major problem is that the data has to be sent to Google so it renders your chart if I get it well. But yes, there are plenty of alternatives. Some are not updated anymore but can still be useful according to your use cases.
Only available in certain countries though. Mine being one that isn't yet available (Finland).
I disagree, there really is little beyond a "he said, she said" type argument to be had here and that really doesn't benefit them (or indeed Andreas). Much of that is subjective and they're not going to publish code to prove it one way or the other so there will never really be agreement. Best case is they reply and he refutes it which puts them pretty much back where they are now.

As a company you want to shut this sort of discussion down as quickly as you can. A detailed rebuttal may appear to do that but doesn't - the more you say, the more you raise questions, invite rebuttals and encourage further debate.

Maybe this doesn't answer some claims and they suffer some very slight damage because of that, but far worse damage is often (possibly even usually) done by detailed replies which keep the story going and fuel the fire.
The whole contract was written on paper in Portuguese. I still don't know if the clause is in there or not. They certainly didn't mention it when they explained the contract to me. Naive, yes probably, but I prefer not suspecting everyone of being assholes before the fact.
So far as I know (I haven't ridden it in a few years), CalTrain doesn't have frequent enough service to make schedules irrelevant. [I don't know the generally accepted figure, but I'd say anything with headways of greater than 10 minutes or so is not suitable for just-turn-up-and-go usage.]

Obviously frequent service is good, but there's a large variety of lines and sometimes very frequent service isn't warranted (or isn't possible because of funding/politics/etc).

For a line with non-frequent service, "just look at your smartphone" isn't a good solution, as (1) not everybody has a smartphone available, so it's a bad idea to make a transit service that requires one for decent service, and (2) more importantly, in many cases with less frequent lines not being able to plan can be a significant burden, especially when you need to make transfers along the way (in which case you always have to assume the worst case, and all the required uncertainty padding quickly adds up).

So for user convenience either you want frequent service, so planning isn't needed, or you want scheduling that's at least a little accurate, so planning is possible when necessary.

[There are also technical reasons for scheduling even very frequent trains in some cases, because when trains become frequent enough, the line itself can become a bottleneck, especially with complex services. For instance on many lines in Tokyo, both ordinary, express, and limited-express trains share the same tracks, with the expresses using in-station bypass tracks to overtake the non-expresses. The track network is also in many cases very non-linear, with many different lines sharing portions of tracks in some places, and different operators running onto each others' tracks. To do all this with high frequency services requires a delicate timing dance, and if you screw up the timing beyond some point, the whole thing very quickly falls apart.]
People tend to prefer an unregulated market, when they are challenging an incumbent industry. When they become the dominant one, they kick the ladder down.
BBC Radio 4 did a good, enjoyable documentary on the subject of Numbers Stations, "Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher" - though more focused on the British side of affairs.

You can listen to it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY

They play a lot of the recordings and go into a fair bit of detail. It is a good listen, highly recommend.
Others have explained why that does not work. The way you'd use backward time travel to crack a OTP is to wait until the recipient of the message decrypts it, then your steal the decrypted message, then you go back to the time where you wanted to break the code and give yourself the message.

Another use for backward time travel is data compression. To compress a file, you simply replace its contents with a note saying when you did this. When you later want the file, just pop back to that time and get it.

This also greatly simplifies backup systems.
For start just get webcam and stack images of moon .
Id rather have a less good but up to date education rather than a really good education on 10 year old obsolete technology.
According to Heritage's Economic Freedom Index, the US economy is no longer classified as "Free (market)" but now as "mostly free": http://www.heritage.org/index/country/unitedstates
Yes, Paranal provides regular tours for visitors.
I tried emailing that address and didn't get a reply.

But I think that could be a rather cool idea - something like REST over SMTP? Know a single email address, send it a blank email get back and kick off the whole HATEOS process - which actually might more sense for something like this rather than over HTTP.
Why is that? It doesn't cause general problems, and specific problems may be treated if there are any.

Mentioned Moscow rail has lots of freight traffic and high-level boarding.
I think you're being too kind.

Many of us who used MongoDB have concluded that there is no task at which it is in any way better than all other existing alternatives.
Time to start new project with it. I am thinking about Python 3 now :)
I thought it was more to do with Github is based on Rails, and MySQl is the default choice.

Yes, I really wish DHH and the Basecamp team would move to Postgre , therefore moving the community to it.
If you are working on a commercial product that you have to support its very good value for money.

Saved us all time and effort and allowed us to focus on building other stuff, without worrying about IE8 support. This is something which the other free alternatives, generally, don't do very well.
I wonder how many people learned graphics programming because of Pascal and inline asm. I wrote many a phong shader, raytracer, and other 3d graphic things back in the day using that. There was a cool Demo tutorial series by a guy called Denthor floating around on BBS's back then.
No, absolutely not. I'm saying that a "neural net" a la McCulloch doesn't accurately model how computation is performed by the brain. You can't accurately model human thinking by recording the brain's connections as a classical neural net. That's all I'm saying.
I hate this argument, not because it isn't correct as far as it goes, but because it's very often represented as much more broad than it really is.

That is, yes, we can be reasonably sure that time travel mechanisms whereby tourists definitely could and would become known in our time period will not exist (even this isn't the same as can't exist). But this is a very small sampling of time travel scenarios you could imagine, and I think it's far from the only thing described 'classically' by science fiction.
Does anyone use Lazarus and Free Pascal for anything? I only tinkered with Delphi when it used to come on PC Plus cover CDs back in the day, before using C++ Builder at work. I know that C++ Builder lost significant (!) market share after the name changes to Inprise and being bought by Embercarado, although those things weren't necessarily the real reasons for this market share loss.

I was pleasantly surprised to come across Lazarus and Free Pascal and thought it might be a way for my brother to do some programming, instead of C++ (which I use, but he doesn't know).
Good one! I like reading about interesting, but lesser known bits of history. Another book in that mold is about John Fremont:

http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.it/2013/08/pathfinder-jo...
If the intention is to avoid putting all the eggs in one basket, then one doesn't need to avoid any use of google services.
It probably depends where you're from, but where I'm from, anecdotally, the poor lack money because they're "stupid". Of course it's not really that simple, it has more to do with confidence, stereotypes and drive, but they do have themselves to blame if you consider people have any responsibility for themselves.

That said, I believe most people are just a construct of where they're from and some of us are just luckier to have been born into a culture of drive, some the opposite, and we'd live in a better socitey if we tried to tackle those differences, instead of finger pointing.
What does the Uber, Airbnb or Tinder of social care look like?