skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The payments are made from the central budgetary administration to the local administrations, where the money is distributed to eligible people.

Now, those local administrations are controled by criminal groups. If they were OK with violating the country's law and constitution, why wouldn't they be OK with skimming or even taking the pensions?

I'm not saying, that this decision is fair. Nor am I saying, that the civilians in Ukraine's east are treated fairly. But it must be clear, that the fault is solely with those idiots with machine guns and heavy weaponry spounting nonsense about "Novorossia". None of the crap the Donbass people are going through was in place, when the new government formed. It is only when the Russians sponsered criminals started enforcing their own rules the shit hit the fan.

Furthermore, the article says, that the pensions will be payed on government controlled territory. You must agree, that "paying pensions in a safe environment without any fighting" and "not paying" are different things.
You can't pay face value on an acquisition of a company like Yahoo.

Try adding about 25% to 40% as a premium.

There went your calculated profit.
I didn't. I meant 'skeuomorphic' as in 'designed with cues that correspond to reality, to indicate corresponding functions and behaviour'. It's a bit more nebulous when applied to real code, since we're thinking in terms of concept and behaviour, but the same thought applies.
Minecraft as a Social Network?
It installs - but there's no DLL reference and you don't see the WindowsPreview namespace.
By then there will be new people of pension age, but they won't have actual pensions.
You don't see many people called Adolph these days. I wonder why that is.
Ah, good find! I'll give it a whirl.
The process generally seems a bit broken what with the concerns in the article and with Elsevier making everything only available to those who pay loads. You'd think you could have something like arXiv and a rating service to figure out which research was good and worth reading and should be rewarded career wise. Something for a YC start up to fix?
It has nothing to do with C++/CLI, but with marshaling, JIT and NGEN.

When calling native code outside the CLR the runtime needs to know which type of marshaling code to generate.

It also plays a role when using unsafe code blocks in .NET.
Actually i'm not targetting any specific kind of devices — the core server is extensible, you add your own sources (tcp, udp, whatever) and your encoder/decoder. The original scope of the project was GPS beacons.
Secondary offerings are not routine for any given business, even if they occur regularly in the broad market among thousands of companies.

It's rare for a company to do a secondary offering.
Hey, thanks for feedback, the ingredients are behind the HELP menu, (question mark "?"), if we made it too easy to hit the tubes, its possible to finish within minutes ;-P
> Many if not most problems ... don't really fit the functional style, and have to be made to fit

Some examples would be helpful here.
This is cool!

Around line 327, would it be better to use classSet rather than string concatenation?

http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/class-name-manipulation...
I like the concept, but the graphics is a bit off. First of all, I would suggest making the board as big as possible and lose the shades of grey.
There is the big problem now of negative results not being published, mainly because of the competition for federal (government worldwide) funding does not lend itself to proving something "otherwise".

http://eloquentscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Fanell...
Ask HN: Why do coders don't like attending meetings?
Most startups outside the US grow without VC capital. But in the US, with all the money trees around, you would be crazy to pass up the opportunity for free money.
Then what? There's nothing magical about DOIs. You need someone to store the citation metadata. And generate / deposit citation metadata. And maintain the persistence of the DOI. What precisely does the DOI represent? A codebase? A fork of it? A file? A file at a particular revision? A changeset?
Thats the big question. Tesseract is pretty good, though quite slow I must say.
"demonstrated in code snippets below". The code snippets are actually images and even worse, they're JPEGs which is the reason why the text looks horrible.
Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process
There are two issues here - (1) Irreproducible research and (2) Negative results. (1) is clearly a problem and must be dealt with by scientific community and processes. Let me talk about (2).

For negative results to be published, they too should follow basic patterns of positive results - innovative, scientifically rigorous. There are always more negative results possible than positive results. A negative result should be something which people think would intuitively work but wouldn't. For example - an apple falling from a tree and floating in thin air isn't a negative result because we all know that it's supposed to fall down to the ground via gravity.

Edit - We also have a Journal of Negative Results

http://jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr
You are expected to OCR them using the library.
Is it still possible to generate pixel correct hOCR when using SWT? Also, what is the main advantage of SWT - improving speed or accuracy?
Ask HN: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
I was a daily drinker, mainly beer, I live in Belgium.

But I turned into a `teetotaler` for few weeks already, and I intend to stay this way for a while. I'm curious how you guys are coping with the booze or the lack of it.
Drinker
It's not a huge stretch to conflate the category armoured vehicle with its sub-category tank. Normal people aren't into browsing Wikipedia articles about weapons.
Teetotaler
The idea of declaratively describing transformations of data seems very exciting to me. I haven't experienced anything that lives up to the excitement though.

I feel a bit underwhelmed by these examples. Seems a bit to imperative, an enhancement of underscore. I want the declarations of how data representations relate to each other to be separate from the "how" in how to transform from one format to another. Probably something inspired by lenses (1). "Lenses are the XPath of _everything_." (2).

(1) - https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic...

(2) - https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/463748643141349376

edit: Relevant HN comment about using Lenses for reaching into data objects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704504
If only there were some automated way to convert those images to text.
A negative result is also interesting if a positive result has been previously reported.
As someone who lives in a suburb of London (Croydon) that has a city centre bigger than many cities, I think there's a lot of desire for reducing concentration even in parts of London. My local council in fact has kept trying to drum up support for getting city status for decades, and I think some would even like to "break free" of London entirely.

Part of the problem is that London is a bit in the same situation as the old "every road leads to Rome" saying, and amongst many types of businesses in London, anything but Zone 1 or maybe zone 2 is never even considered when deciding where to set up offices as a result.

So even a lot of London suburbs remain underdeveloped and ignored compared to what their population size would justify because we have the behemoth next door sucking everything in.

With the new-ish London rail projects that are increasingly aimed at cutting through central London, as well as the new orbital overground projects (one completed, another one further out in planning stages AFAIK) there'd be lots of opportunities to break the stranglehold of central London by making more of the smaller centres at the edges of London more attractive by making them more accessible.

I hope we'll see more projects like that - making bypassing (central) London easier both on a local level but also nationally.

I think that will actually have far greater long term impact on the UK than devolving more powers to regions (though I'm all for that as well).

The problem is that fixing this would be a long game: To get maximal effect you'd need to upgrade many routes to handle more frequent, faster trains, and increase train frequencies on many of those routes at potentially significant short term losses and commit to continue running them for a decade or more before there'd be much chance in changing peoples decisions about where to place their companies and where to live and work.
I've always thought I had a problem with reading. Whenever I read fiction, I read the text as though it is being spoken. So I've never joined a book club because I've always been afraid I'd never be able to finish a book in the same time it takes "normal people" who will typically finish the same book about 2 days earlier than me on average.
Two units per day with some days drink free and not savin units up for the weekend.

Units are a UK public health thing. units per serving is given by ABV * serving size in litres.
I think this lesson can be applied to many conflicts in the modern world. Why are EU youth joining the ISIS? They don't have any other opportunities in life. Why are Palestinians attacking Israelis? They have no other means of achieving anything meaningful in life. Why are people protesting in Occupy Wall Street? Their lives have turned to shit, and they can't improve them.

The most dangerous people are those who have nothing to lose. Give them something to lose, (their hopes, their future), and you will not only improve their lives, but also avoid revolutions.
> A larger screen... but no apps that take advantage of that yet.

I've had 30+ updates in the last couple of days that specifically mention being enhanced for the iPhone 6 screens.
I am not saying split England into different countries, but split regions into federal districts. That has nothing to do with separation of England, does the USA send states to the world cup? I don't know what you are saying there.
I don't know what you're complainating about :/

Did anyone notice where the building is located? Carbondale? Really? What's the odds?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene
I'm not sure about speed, but for accuracy, it's great. We've had terrible results with tesseract when giving it text that wasn't properly cropped with SWT.
I read that a problem the pollsters were having was simply that they didn't have any precedents. There was a referendum last century asking a different question but that wasn't that helpful. Essentially you can't make up a model without observations and opinion polls don't count
On what basis do you fear that? The EU already have several federations as member states: Germany, Austria and Belgium.
This is a good clarification. I was worried about Scheme becoming the "official" Emacs extension language, which I think is a bad idea. Getting a better/faster Elisp engine is a good goal.

I can't help but think that Emacs is a local maximum: it works well enough that people don't take on the task of implementing huge changes. People who demand a lot from Emacs learn how to do things in Elisp and just get on.

As for the future, I would love to see an Emacs implemented in Clojure (no, not ClojureScript, Clojure on the JVM). I think approaching this task with any Lisp-like language other than Clojure is misguided, because it doesn't take concurrency into account. Clojure is the only Lisp-family language which gets concurrency right. Also, I'd love to have easy access to Java libraries. But, that's just me dreaming.
Scientists twist radio beams, reach speeds of 32 gigabits per second
The Art of Benchmarking (a.k.a Fighting the .NET JIT Compiler)
We kind of think of science as an embodiment of modernity, and therefore modern. What it is though is an institution, similar to academia and fairly old. Human institutions take time to change.

In any case, I'm pretty excited that it's coming under pressure to improve. Publication is really a method of communication and the revolution in communication of the last generation is a profound step change in human history, in my opinion. To use some terms that our great predecessors would have been comfortable with, science is a way to uncover the truth using light. Experimentation, debate, publication, review: these are all ways of making light.

Bringing modern communication into science and the collaborative opportunities inherent in better communication is a potentially very bright light.

Nature, and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night.
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was Light.
-- Alexander Pope

Reproducibility and negative results are two parts of the same problem, and fundamental one in science since the beginning. A better method for solving it (using a computer (: ), is probably coming. If not now, within ten years. Maybe twenty. Soon.
What about Android micro-computers on an USB key?

http://www.laptopmag.com/android-sticks

With a little hackery you should be able to do pretty much everything within the storage / processing power budget.
Yeah, that graph - it didn't make anything clearer...
That would be irreproducible research.
Open source Jquery Gantt Editor: new version and service
Why Far-Flung Parts of the Internet Broke Today
iOS 8.0 Safari mobile Web benchmarks on iPad2
I'm a Belgian too, and the beer is always a temptation. Personally, I consider myself a drinker. Not daily, but one drink a few times per week, with heavier consumption on Saturdays.

Coping with booze for me is a matter of 'everything in moderation'. I can thoroughly enjoy a good beer or whisky, but I know that enjoyment is enhanced by spacing that out. I'm also quite frightened of dependence, but not enough to stop drinking altogether.
The YA debate strikes me as somewhat orthogonal to what Scott was writing of. I must say that while I find middle and early James very readable, I have tried and failed more than once to read any distance into The Golden Bowl or The Wings of the Dove.
Presumably he's comparing it to the existing situation of Scotland. But Scotland (and Wales) of course is a somewhat different situation in that it is considered a constituent country of the UK for historical reasons, which wouldn't be likely to be the case for regions in a federal UK.
Model of reality agrees with actual reality.
Because if there's no software made you get fired. No software gets made in meetings.
> They could live a very modest but relatively happy life with full of love (on a farm or in a small village)

Did you read the article?

This kids grew up in partially-destroyed houses, to drug-addicted, low income parents. They were probably never given good guidance about what's important in life, might have been physically abused. Their upbringing showed them that you should use violence to solve any kind of problems. No wonder they can't see the benefit of school and hard work, they can't sit still in the classroom and fight other kids in the yard. Then they fall behind, get penalized, the school system spits them out. Their only legitimate possibility for advancement is taken away from them, and they are back to their basements getting bitten by rats. No wonder they seek any kind of escape, including organized crime. Getting killed doesn't sound so bad when you have nothing to live for, no hopes for the future. The only way out is to earn enough money (via crime) and physically move away (into safer neighborhoods, better houses).

The difference between this and formerly-communist countries is that under communism, people didn't really live that bad. Sure, we didn't have the latest technologies, and we couldn't talk about certain things, but we all had a place to live and food to eat, and there were no significant social differences, no one to look up to. No wonder so many people nowadays feel nostalgic for the "good old days". (Not sure if that was also the case in Hungary, but it was in Slovenia.)
If you split England into states then it ceases to exist in any meaningful way.
The USA model is simple, you have the federal government and you have the states. Thus you send a USA team to the world cup. Under this model, we would have to send a British team to the world cup rather than an England team.

It's less of a problem for the Germans because they are comparatively more invested in europe, for example using the currency.
...and type /SCNCCX

I really believe corporates only put up with such a shitty UI because 'we spent soooo much money on it, we'd better use it'.

/Hates every minute of working with our SAP system
In England many people would say "can't do that; health amd safety."

This culture became so strong that the Health and Safety Executive started issuing rebuttals in an effort to protect the brand.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/

Here's one example:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/2014/case317-store-n...
Tl;dr: GE exposes the internal microcontrollers of certain appliances (washing machine etc.)

Imho, that is a pretty smart move - that way they can see and learn what people will build, and integrate those features in future products.
Also, network effect!
Does Google do QA?
From the bank's cut apparently although I hadn't seen the amount before.
We talk a lot about successes.

It's also good to talk about failures, both partial and more complete.

And redemption.

The road to victory is long, and I would put my back against Rand because I know this struggle has made him better.
It doesn't turn like Yahoo.

Yahoo made the super wise decision to buy part of Alibaba a few years ago, and now the whole Yahoo is worth nothing more than its share of Alibaba!
I personally think it depends on who the meeting is with.
I love having meetings with start up companies, because they get it...
But in my experience, managers in more corporate settings suck and don't understand things, that is amplified in the meetings.
This is really one of my big frustrations with Microsoft.

On one hand, they really try to push everybody to upgrade to their newest and shiniest, by making a lot of stuff (like this) only available on Windows 8+.

On the other hand, they don't even bother to put in a box with "What operating systems will this work on", so you don't have to do trial/error, research WinRT, and then be disappointed when you realize this will apparently never work on Windows 7. And maybe only in Metro apps? What is Windows Runtime and am I just supposed to know this?

I really enjoy coding C# and working in .NET. Microsoft has some really great stable techs which work well for years and years - but increasingly if you want anything new and shiny from them, you have to run the newest OS. Which if you work with anything related to enterprise, good luck only targetting Windows 8.

And honestly, despite working almost exclusively with MS tech, I just don't really trust any platform from them that doesn't have significant traction and track record as they all too often just give up and try something new - and sometimes without real replacements available.
Thanks a lot! And still interested in earlier C/C++ standards, I'm much more likely to encounter them in the wild for long time.
Open source MIT jQuery Gantt editor and service
The more powers you devolve the more risks you have. How do you deal with a situation where the EU and Welsh parliaments agree on a policy but it is blocked by the federal UK gov? If I was a cynic I might suspect that the EU would look for ways to do this on purpose.
I guess it's a matter of taste.

As someone versed in both APL and K/Kona, J's syntax puts me off as well.
This was only meant as a recommendation, not a command. Lightable, Vim, Eclipse IntelliJ and quite a few others are perfectly viable alternatives. I have just personally found that Emacs to be excellent for Clojure development.
What do you think about online conferences?
Hi i've been seeing some new conferences that happen strictly online, and others that live stream their talks, what has been your experience on this? is anybody attending this events online?
the command line alias "pstorm" is no longer present in the current version of phpstorm. I flagged this with jetbrains. I hope they bring this back.
> do you think it is a place where poor people
> can advance more easily than in the USA?

If you go to a store to buy something, do the police gun you down because of the product that you choose? That happens to black people in the USA:

http://bearingarms.com/ex-marine-swatted-black-shopper-death...

If you are walking down the street, do the police kill you because of the color of your skin? That happens in the USA:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/14/michael-bro...

If your family owns a farm, does the government steal it from you whenever a white-owned business wants your land? That happens to black people in the USA:

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/Articles/SRS%2...

If your family owns land, does the government steal your land because of the color of your skin? That happens in the USA:

http://www.castlecoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&...

If you commit a crime, does the government lower or increase the years you will spend in prison, based on the color of your skin? That happens in the USA:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/08/03/data-show-rac...

If you peacefully walk down a street, and someone decides to kill you, are they allowed to kill you based on the color of your skin? That happens in the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin

When the government builds a school, does it offer more funding if the children are white, and less funding if the children are black? That happens in the USA:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2011...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/a-rich-childs-edg...
It does not compensate all that much. It's admittedly been quite a few years since I lived in Norway so I haven't kept up with the numbers, but last I checked it, it took about 12,000 votes to win a seat in Finnmark, the lowest nationwide at that point vs. about 19,000 votes to win a seat in Oslo (the highest). Currently Finnmark has 5 seats and Oslo 17. That gave Finnmark an over-representation of 2 or so.

[for those interested, the weighting is done by assigning 1 point per person in a region, and 1.8 points per square kilometer of area and using that to redistribute the seats in parliament across the regions, and is adjusted every 8 years; the 1.8 is/was tweaked to fit political realities at the time - I don't think there's any deeper thinking behind that specific factor]
"This blog was written by Jelena Mojasevic, Program Manager at Microsoft" - I seems no one told her how to embed code snippets.
Love the idea and how it looks but, I can't follow anyone if I don't invite friends? Looks like I can only invite via mail or text, no Facebook?

We're doing the Instagram for vinyl record lovers, give it a try! We're secretly online fixing the last things before the official launch - bit.ly/needle_appstore