skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, absolutely that's the sort of thing you would get satisfaction from.

But when you're relating the story to others, are you going to describe that satisfaction at seeing "the bitch" brought low? Or are you going to describe the relief from having your children back? People tend to relate portions of a story which they consider to be important; if this guy is describing to his friend the satisfied feeling of getting one up on her, then that sends some pretty heavy signals about why he broke the law and company policy to find her.
I commute by bike in city traffic daily. With a standard 13' lane a passenger vehicle can pass a bicycle riding comfortably in on the right edge of the road with 3 ft' clearance and without going over the lane line. You may need to move closer to the lane line then is typical, but you will be in your lane and have 3 ft. 100s of cars a week pass me safely and I'm not the only bike on the road.

The situations that cause problems are drivers who don't see the cyclist or who try to "make a point" by not yielding the right hand edge. It also effects large vehicles who may need to change lanes to pass a bike safely. City buses and big rig trucks are quite good at this. Super-sized SUV's and box trucks not so much.

I and everyone else knows that recreational road bikes and cars are going to continue to have trouble on narrow country roads with no solder and no passing visibility. But that problem did not just come with this law it came with poor road design.
Because he will not be able to see how many upvotes that comment got then
"it will show you ... which of your friends are most mathematically important to your life."

Interesting use of the term "mathematically" to cover the likely difference between the model and reality.

And the only purpose in participating, as far as I can tell, would be to understand how close their model can come -- by definition, I almost certainly know who my important relations are.
Fair enough. If that's true, it still means that "the first mission to carry humans into low-Earth orbit on a spacecraft built by an American private company..." is inaccurate/disappointing.
Creating a single-user operating system in the 90s was daft. I'm relieved that OS X doesn't have that burden.
While it may be difficult to do, I highly recommend anyone in tech to go visit a farm supply store and wander around.

Bags -- BAGS of antibiotics available for purchase, to be mixed into feed.

Buy local, buy sustainable, buy pastured meat.
Are you still in Berlin? It would be good to connect with a like-minded fellow. You can find my email on my about page.
Why? Taking public transit late at night would probably be a very bad idea.
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Finding space to rent is 1/1000th as hard as the rest of starting a startup. Sublets are sometimes announced on the alumni mailing list, and some companies get together to share a big house, but most just use Craigslist.
From the linked paper [1], it looks like the scores are calculated based on a concept of "dispersion", which is how closely a particular individual in your network is connected to each of the separate clusters of people you know.

Each of the clusters in the graph represents a "social foci", such as co-workers, high school classmates, college classmates, etc.

The dispersion score calculates how well someone you know is connected to these multiple disjoint clusters of people in your life, and tries to show that the person with the highest score is most likely to be your romantic partner.

This probably doesn't work so well in trying to identify friends, since it's likely that a close friend from college may not know any of your friends from work, or your high school classmates.

1 - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6753v1.pdf
> Is it me, or is the benefit of that extremely small? I can move my finger and tap the 'Instagram' icon quicker than I can say "Instagram". Never mind that the app itself is highly visual, so there's no point launching it without already looking at the screen and holding the phone to your hand.

I actually built this for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.precon.wid...

and the key insight to a good UX was making it so it always listens, and changes dynamically, but you confirm that the app should open/the recognition was correct by tapping on it like any other icon.
I had this happen to me in a promotional situation. My use of the magical HR words that mean nothing didn't help too much.

I had a complaint filed against me for age discrimination. It was ultimately deemed unfounded, it wasted a lot of time and left the candidate ee picked in limbo for a few months.
probably want your first page as a description type page with an option to start watching with friends
This is an excellent idea - you should spend at least one lifetime on it.
I am a bit surprised to see this on HN without context. This was originally an email from Jeff to our mailing list and was a pretty good overview so we dumped it into a wiki page. For those new to the problem, the page summarizes it well:

> The basic idea of temporal pooling is patterns that occur adjacent in time probably have a common underlying cause and therefore the brain forms a stable representation for a series of input patterns.

While the idea is simple, the implementation is tricky. We recently made our experimentation public here: https://github.com/numenta/nupic.research

Jeff also had a really informal discussion about the topic at one of our hackathons:
http://numenta.org/blog/2014/05/09/2014-spring-hackathon-out...
Why not make every street into its own republic? Because more voting power within a less powerful entity isn't necessarily an overall improvement. I'm unconvinced that sovereignty is infinitely divisible or effectively fungible (and I promise you that this is not for lack of exploring radically different concepts).
This just caused a rush of nostalgia from a generation of PC computing that seems like a lifetime ago.

Norton Commander, Jazzy the Jack Rabbit, TheDraw, the Gravis Gamepad...
Looking at the waistlines of people I am not sure this is profit :-)
Congrats mate, it's great. Bookmarked already. I'll let you know if I hit a bug.
Don't take negative comments seriously. Fail or not it's product you've made.
Pretty much the only platformer I ever really liked.
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Infrastructure includes:

Political decisions on spending (which are influenced by corporations already)

Public education (Do you really want to employ people who don't have basic literacy and numeracy? More than that, nothing drives growth like high quality free education)

Many elements of transportation, which make it possible to move people, goods, and services around reliably at reasonable cost.

Big-project blue sky research (The space program, the Internet, many of the Mk 1 computer models, and not a little aviation have all been gov-sponsored)

Enforceable law, including contract law, and justice (You really don't want to privatise these or put them up for sale)

Healthcare (in sensible countries, anyway)

Military protection

Keynesian pump-priming (and no, bank bailouts were never useful pump-priming)

Basically corps that offshore profits to avoid tax get a massive free ride on all of this, while private citizens have to contribute a share.

I don't know how 'sensible' applies to 'fee for use', because I don't know how you would calculate a realistic social value.

Most suggestions I've seen are literal-minded in a not terribly bright way ('Use a bridge - pay a toll') which is totally inadequate for quantifying or paying for the true social value they add.

The argument really comes down to people who understand gov spending can generate huge social and commercial benefit multipliers, and people who think you can reduce gov spending to a catalog of services with neat little one-to-one costs you can count like beans and stick price tags on.
This is irrelevant. To be transmitted via an airborne vector does not require Ebola to mutate into a flying virus.
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Possible, but that stuff is mostly artificial and performance-targeted. To take another example from the Mac world, Apple's hardware requirements have almost always been artificially inflated, with people having great success in applying gentle tweaks to make them run on older computers.

Anyway, you certainly could build something that really can't run on older stuff, or can't run well. My point is merely that the dilemma you propose is wrong: there are at least three options (don't support old stuff, support old stuff badly, support old stuff well), not just two.
"But your earlier argument was that the law accomodates your subjective judgement of necessity, which is incorrect."

I see how you can get that from what I said, but it was not meant to be a specific claim in any strong sense.

As I said here, though, there are better reasons than "complying with the law" to make sure your subjective assessment of safety matches reality, and given that your subjective assessment of safety matches reality the law does say what I said above.
Time Spent in Apps Up 21% Over Last Year
http://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/master/kd_main.c#L279

God, so wish I'd known this at the time.
Because most people can't see comment scores other than their own.
Finally, a modern-day build tool! I thought Facebook would open source theirs first.

(this looks a LOT like Google's and Facebook's and Amazon's internal build config as well, btw)
It's not just "by Twitter" anymore. Since about 2012, we've had some great contributions from other organizations. http://pantsbuild.github.io/announce_201409.html has some history.
I'm getting this response from facebook:

{
"error": {
"message": "(#4) Application request limit reached",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 4
}
}

Looks like they've drilled facebook a bit too hard. Any chance Christian Rudder will open source this so we can run with our own app tokens?

Shame - I was curious how this would compare to facebook's internal friend ranking (discoverable through methods such as this: http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/11/10/script-shows-faceb...)
The top spot makes sense for me but everything else makes no sense whatsoever. How can someone I have only 2 friends in common with come in second?
34 spare nodes. I tried to be true to the shape and not cut any corners.
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This is my code. If anyone has questions I'd be happy to answer them.
Can't wait for someone to add C++ (llvm and g++) support!
What really makes it "not particularly relevant" is the articles that have said it's just not that likely to hop an international flight and show up in the US.

Which is what people really care about. Is that all it takes, one infected person to get on a plane? Or is this really going to be a West African problem - a terrible one, maybe, but it still has way fewer casualties than the civil wars that are all too common in the area.

It's one thing for a doctor to say that we're losing the chance to contain this thing, if we don't commit more resources... It'd be another to have them offer a timeline where it starts to impact Europe or the Americas.
I had a query regarding C/C++ support in Pants in the near future. Is that in the road map at all ? What does Twitter use internally for building such applications ?
Thank you, I appreciate your comment :)
I think its less about the store and more about a path between product manufacturer and tracking the moment a potential customer wants to buy something but can't. Think pagerduty for offline retail. I am thinking stores are actually the problem here and this tool could help signal that there is an "ops" problem to manufacturers.
> I thought Facebook would open source theirs first.

Well there is Buck, Facebook's Java and Android build tool: https://facebook.github.io/buck/
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Here is the actual blog post from today announcing a bunch of Pants milestones: http://pantsbuild.github.io/announce_201409.html

This is actually a collaborative project between Twitter, Foursquare & Square. All three companies contributed a ton of work.

Here's the announcement on the Foursquare Eng Blog: http://engineering.foursquare.com/2014/09/16/introducing-pan...

And here's the one on the Square Eng blog: http://corner.squareup.com/2014/09/trying-on-pants.html

It's a fully open source project so we'd welcome contributions (or jokes) from any and all interested folks! Pants is a great build tool that we hope to grow and use for years to come.
No, mobile phones. People charged them off diesel generators, hand generators, etc. There were in fact small-scale entrepreneurs who bicycled around to everyone's house, gathered up the phones, and returned them charged for a small fee.

This works pretty well for Nokia 1100 style phones which had about a week or so of battery life which many people extend to a month by turning them off judiciously.
Another perspective http://learningtosketch.tumblr.com/post/84319786305/ity-at-m...
Let us know what else you'd like. We've gotten many requests for 1password who we hope to support soon. We get many requests for various privacy addons which are redundant with Epic and more of a privacy threat than a boon.
Just this morning I was selling tickets to an Interpol concert in Seattle and realized people on Craigslist were posting pictures of their tickets with the barcodes visible.

I'm sure it's happened before.
This is only the case when you copy the fallback image--these have alt text that give you the LaTeX representation. Wikipedia sometimes gives you equations in the browser (non-fallback) and then you get unicode text similar to what klmr experienced in the other comment.
From a technological point of view, I think Minix looks really interesting. Especially the feature of a driver being able to crash, and not crashing the entire system. Security is also an added bonus.

But, it seems to me that it's not really usable for most people, since driver support is very poor.

I would really like to know, if anyone knows the answer, how much effort it would take to create some sort of tool that converts a Linux driver to a Minix-compatible driver, or -- if that's not possible -- how many man hours it would take to rewrite ALL Linux drivers to be Minix-compatible. Anyone know?
Apple doesn't force people to upgrade. They just don't allow people to downgrade.

Android's fractured version numbers have nothing to do with forced upgrades or any inability to downgrade. They're simply a result of Android upgrades being the responsibility of individual phone manufacturers, and those manufacturers having little incentive to ship upgrades.

At this point, I'd wager that iOS would see better uptake of new versions if they allowed downgrading. As it stands, if you merely suspect that the new version will make your phone suck, you need to stay with the old version, because once you upgrade there's no going back. If they let people downgrade, then you could try the new version with no worries.
A little slice of history regarding one of the technical foundations of Commander Keen, for those that aren't aware:

"Then, the first breakthrough. John Carmack devised a smooth, scrolling routine similar to that used for the background of Nintendo games but never before possible on the PC." [1]

The technique is called, adaptive tile refresh. [2]

[1] http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_tile_refresh
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here's one. Oh wait, they're using verbal to talk about oral contracts.

http://www.contractsandagreements.co.uk/law-and-verbal-agree...

here's another. oh wait! they're doing the same.

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/young-entrepreneurs/con...

Here's one from a national UK newspaper. They're using verbal to mean oral.

Here's another UK newspaper: http://careers.theguardian.com/careers-blog/contracts-employ...

And again, they carefully use written to mean written and verbal to mean spoken.

The first two pages of my Google search failed to show anyone using "verbal contract" to mean "written contract" - and it's pretty obvious why. A written contract is just a contract, or if you really need to specify whether it's written or spoken you'd be obtuse to use the word "verbal" to describe a written contract.

Perhaps it's a US / UK thing?

EDIT: put more smilies in.
I love crickets because I have one at my house and I came to see how to take care of it i just got it so.
Quite possibly the greatest human achievement ever made.
I don't get it. At least two of you have replied as if I based my comment on the lack of any popular followup to Minecraft. What did I say that made you think that?
While internationally supported and implemented tax avoidance rules are generally the right way, I would like to see all these new rules balances with real transparency and accountability for how this (additional) tax income of countries / governments is spend.

What we have as transparency rules today is at best a good show - take the UK for example (considered as one of the best with regards to open data): DFID - the UK's development aid department publishes every £500 spent but with many 100s of millions they spend p.a. the only thing we know is that it disappeared in some opaque gov. shops in Geneva that have zero accountability, spend money on themselves as if there is no tomorrow and - when someone has a closer look - have "lost" billions or fostered corruption and organised crime globally.

And the OECD - like most international organisations - is not exactly a light when it comes to efficient use of (tax) funding.

First governments have to demonstrate and assure that they use the funds entrusted in an efficient way that is best for their citizens and not only for special interest groups. There must be rules to hold those in Government accountable and not only £5000 fines if someone "lost" or wasted £1Billion+ funds, and afterwards (s)he is moved to another senior post or receives a large consultancy contract from where they funds have disappeared.

In the moment this looks more like trying to threaten or milk successful companies or to make them compromise e.g. on the participation in dubious spy programs on citizens.

At the same time don't forget who is "running" the biggest tax heavens on this planet - its the UK and the US plus a series of "independent" island states where dozens of trillions of dollars have found a home (including for some of the largest multinational players mentioned here).
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So, that's clearly saying that people use "verbal contract" to mean "spoken contract" - it's not an example of someone using the term "verbal contract" to mean "written contract".
Just wonder if anybody already tried to implement web2js.
Seems to me the opposite is the case.

Any idiot can get signups when they have millions of VC money to burn. Getting people to actually pay you more than you're spending on user acquisition is infinitely harder.
Comments merged into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8323989.
While GoDaddy’s LAMP hosting used to be a bit quirky, there’s since been a lot of updates (cPanel powered) that might be worth another gander. I was able to create a simple API (a lil’ side project to make a smart switch /w a friend) using Python with no trouble on the new cPanel shared accounts. My particular project used Apache, MySQL, Python, and was programmed mostly command-line through SSH, but PHP and gasp Perl are options as well. Happy to help more if you give me a shout at mendel@godaddy.com.
I think you have to just ignore what people think and do what you do. This seems to be Notch's way of doing it. More power to him, I say.

I'm sure Steve Jobs didn't care what people thought of him either. He just defaulted to "they will love what I do because I will create something great", whereas Notch seems to be more like "people are trouble, so go away." Which would probably be how I'd do it too.
Most don't combine the two things that together give Java its big advantage, though:

1) Easily-distributable "mostly-compiled" bytecode form (JAR files).

2) Wide install base for the VM needed to run said bytecode.

Without #1 you need to recompile for each new platform, even when avoiding platform-specific calls, and without #2 the advantages of #1 can't be used without requiring your users to install other stuff just to run your software.
As someone who works in the industry (but not Ticketmaster) and has spoken frequently to higher ups at TM, people should realize that the majority of the time "handling charges" are a way for performers to generate more revenue from sales while deflecting the bad PR to Ticketmaster. That's one of the services TM provides to their clients (performers/venues).

If you're a performer and you want to sell tickets for a face value of "$50", but generate revenue at the $60 or $65/ticket range, you add on some fees and let TM take the hit from the fans for "gouging" them. It's very common.
OK, but what's about Java's vert.x framework or some asynchronous web-container like undertow and CDI usage? Does that stuff are really so slow and painfull in compare with NodeJS? I don't think so.. I think that there is nothing bad with using "old" Java Enterprise Stack, as long as you are really sure what you are doing and you really know (not guess) what to use!
Every time you make a change to a binary file, git will make a copy of the entire thing and attempt to compress it (despite the fact that it may already be compressed as part of the file format and won't compress any further). And because of the distributed nature of git this means each client is going to have who-knows-how-many perhaps barely different versions of each binary asset, which could be megabytes to hundreds of megabytes in length per version and woe be unto anyone who has to clone the repository for the first time when coming into the project (be prepared to wait hours, maybe days).

There are various git methodologies and projects (eg. git-annex) aimed at working around this but by default git just wasn't designed to deal with big repos full of big files.
It looks like Crystal Caves.

ID and Apogee stole many hours of my childhood
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gawd; a tl;dr for a single paragraph. Talk about constrained for memory and flash space and a way to select which components you want to compile...
One day later: I had time to try Volt, and I really like it.
22 other states say 15 MPH is reasonable in that situation. Our Governor was not so sure and would not let the bill through with an actual number in it.
If you know you only need a small amount of stack size, you can set the stack size to be small via the task builder: http://doc.rust-lang.org/master/std/task/struct.TaskBuilder....
I'd love to find the portion of code that has Keen moon the camera if the player is inactive for a period of time
I put my shell in your shell so I can shell while you shell.
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The technical capabilities are not to blame for the political warfare of management.
I think having both systems in parallel development is really critical though. One conservative, one leading edge and riskier. Putting everything into one program just doesn't seem to pan out in the long run and you end up with capability gaps, or relying on untrusty secondary supply sources.

I'm very happy with this announcement.
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