skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been using Android L. I've only been using the Dev Preview of Android L which I assume you are too.

I haven't had a single problem with it, I've been using it for months and love it.
Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
To be fair the BBB is mostly a collusive organization of businesses who pay dues to whitewash their problems while pretending to be objective.

If you want a laugh look for ratings and reviews on home warranty companies.
I'm glad someone else feels this way--I guess it's kind of ironic to name business/corporation software "Humanity". I clicked expecting some charity or NGO, I guess the 'rubs me the wrong way' comes out of this unmet expectation, like misleading marketing.
Yeah, the big sticking point here is that it's an absolute nightmare to try and figure out what is going on at the interfaces. Current theory does not do a very good job at all and is monstrously computationally expensive, especially if they are going to wave their hands and point to "wavefunction overlap". You need a 1-D electronic theory to describe singlet fission - talking about wavefunctions is meaningless when you're in a bosonic sector. You need to talk about _fields_, not a mention of which I see in these papers.

EDIT: To be less cryptic, this is what I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_quantization
Misleading with Statistics
Why aren't you mentioning your app name and details.. I personally don't think that it ll affect your user base or something...
You could list it on http://www.apptopia.com/
I feel like "Could" needs to be added as a corollary of Betteridge's law of headlines.

Maybe I missed it in the article, but it doesn't sound like they've replicated this effect on the macro scale.
Any good replacements? Anybody I can lodge complaints with and trust to rate businesses? It seems like a useful service!
Yes that's exactly what I'm arguing. The commenter to whom I replied initially was arguing against the need for other measures stating that "THE" solution was healthcare.
This is common usage. I couldn't begin to tell you if it's "correct" or not.
(1) I provided a link to two federal cases elsewhere on this thread that say otherwise[1]. Would you be kind enough to post a URL backing up your assertion.

(2) I'm not even going to bother responding to this one since you apparently couldn't be bothered to phrase your argument without an ad-hominem. If you care (which I doubt), I've already responded to a similar argument elsewhere on the thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8430501
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Citi cards had this for a while, but got rid of it. It was quite nice, but needs more organization. Also the paypal model has it right. Even though I, like many others, loath paypal, I've been using them everywhere just to save time entering my CC. This doubles as security as merchant never get your CC in the first place.

Apple pay will probably fix the organization of the random CC # generation. Final seems to be a little late in the game.
Walter Bright is indeed a really bright mind. Having worked with D recently, I really enjoyed the richness and empowerment the D language offers.

I believe the recent rising interest in functional languages is in part due to the elegant blend of expressiveness and performance. Performance is always a delicate topic nevertheless there are some aspects of functional languages which tend to make them more performant.
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Upvoted with a thousand clicks!! Probably the most gleeful project I've come across in years. On to the waiting list.

I'm of the generation where Windows 3.0 was just coming up and there was DOS and as fresh highschool kids we just didn't know what we were tinkering with. A prof used to came and blabber about internal commands and external commands without really explaining the difference because most likely she herself was a n00b. And we used to get excited if we ever got a 30-min lab session to poke around with Lotus-123, Wordpro, Foxbase or Turbo Pascal. Then in grad college we got Novell Netware and some of us figured out how to crack into classmate's home directories and play pranks. I'm missing a few pieces but there was a kind of a LAN manager and it was possible to 'poke' other users. Like a Unixish Yoapp of that time. That was my first experience of cross-computer realtime chat.

Anyway longstory short this project brings back all the nostalgia of pre y2k and early college days for me. Can't wait to get in. So so happy.

ps: Anyone from India in yet?
Most of your favorite languages have sql composition libraries that'll get you 90% of this (Arel for Ruby, SqlAlchemy for Python, etc, etc).

The remainder, the "piping" syntax, is pretty easy to implement (Takes about 30-40 lines of ruby on top of Arel, speaking from experience).

So then, is this just a matter of wrapping a library in a web page and calling it SAAS? Or am I just totally missing the point?
I'm interested in learning more.
This is an example where SQL can be written in multiple ways to get the same result. It doesn't matter how many lines SQL contains since its all depends on how the database engine going to execute it. Therefore, pipeSQL's main aim is to make it easier to read and understand the query after couple of days/weeks :) .
How do I prevent my turtle from collapsing under its own gravity?
What if you linked pages together in a sort of map.

In Minecraft, the world is segmented into 16x16 block "chunks". In this analogy, a chunk would be a web page.

Create a front-end application like Google Maps that allows you to navigate the map of web pages. You can submit a request for a web page at a specific location, e.g. I want the page located at (13, 37). Hyperlinks could be used to teleport users around the map.

Random thought of the day.
BBB is bullshit, agreed, but Yelp has made recent attempts to dispel the accusations of extortion, see http://www.yelp.com/advertiser_faq. This includes an independent academic study, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293164%2....

I'm not claiming this evidence is conclusive (I haven't looked at it closely enough), but it's worth being aware of before making accusations like that.
Incorporating e.g Delaware in US is below $1k. In Germany starting a GmbH in Germany requires a $25k Euro capital
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammkapital
There is still a lot more regulation in Europe when it comes to operating a business. It is also one of the reasons why I see so many European start-ups here in San Francisco trying to establish early on.
Atleast you got it..non Nexus devices can't even play with L yet :(
The BBB is basically a protection racket with excellent PR.

Get a customer complaint? BBB contacts you to pay for membership. Don't want to pay for membership? You must not care about your customers, so you get an F-. Pay for membership and the score immediately goes up to a B.

But with a name like the "Better Business Bureau", it's no wonder that people get suckered into thinking it's a legitimate organization.

More info:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_customer/2010/12/...
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110919/14221016016/criti...
Keep on moving {anti bullying  song)
I think while monetisation is incredibly important it is a differentiator of a tech product if monetisation actually adds to the product for the user rather than have the appearance of just being tacked on.

Invisible to the user monetisation is the dream to allow for a developers to 'just really make good product', but that is quite difficult without a movement behind your product or service.
Lecture 6, How to Start a Startup: Alex Schultz
A function simply annotated with pure is sometimes called "weakly pure". If its arguments are declared immutable, it is "strongly pure" which essentially matches your definition.

All languages I know (e.g. Haskell) make concessions to pragmatism. For example, even pure function can somehow create debug output. Every memory allocation does mutate global state.

The weakly pure class of functions is useful. It limits the potential side-effects to stuff reachable from mutable arguments. For example, a image filter function can be weakly pure while it mutates the image provided as an argument. It removes the need allocate a return image or wrap computations in monads and thunks.

To get really strong guarantees in D, you declare your functions pure, nothrow, and @safe. The nothrow means no exceptions are thrown and @safe means all the low-level tricks (casts,assembly,etc) to break type safety are disabled.
Quick note: as of 09-Oct-2014 at 18:20 EDT, the page http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html shows the release date of 0.12 as July 2, 2014.
Migrating animals’ pee affects ocean chemistry
Intel had been pushing hard for supporting x86 based devices running Android. Glad to see it coming thru for Android developers with L release.
I wonder what a great standard for this is. Incidentally, do TI or HP calculators give good results?
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President Obama Talks Tech Startups with Members  Cross Campus in Santa Monica
This line:

> Worst of all, there are no frequent updates (if any), no autoupdate either.

Is a little odd. Didn't you install the L developer preview by manually downloading the ROM from here: https://developer.android.com/preview/setup-sdk.html and then flashing it yourself? Then you're strangely shocked there isn't a consumer-orientated auto-updater?

I can absolutely see that criticism if the auto-updater didn't exist, wasn't working, or there were no updates upon the retail release of L. For a developer preview you personally installed knowing full well it was a developer preview that criticism is hard to take at all seriously.
I agree.. except in NYC. Cabs are literally everywhere, even in the outer boroughs (I used to live in Queens) its as easy as walking out the door to find a cab in many places.

That said, I use Uber almost exclusively in Boston/Cambridge.
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If he was in NZ where its 230-240V you might get a bit more punch, but the Hz is less.
It's not difficult. You have to exclude (pass or pipe) either POST and /wp-admin OR all requests with wordpress logged in cookies. That's the basics of it. Also the resources Ruben listed are super great.

hit me on twitter @kentonjacobsen
I've been using it on my main device since July and haven't had any of the problems you've metioned :S The only problem I have is the Settings app ocasionally crashes when I try to setup a new wifi connection. But I don't do that nearly often enough to be upset about it. That said, I haven't noticed any improvements. It seems the same (speed / performance) wise as 4.4 on my N5.
The heat output measurement process detailed here [0] is deeply fishy. There are simple and accurate ways of measuring output heat, but they were prohibited by the device promoter in favor of a highly unreliable method.

The results are based on using thermal cameras to measure the temperature of the outside of the device, and calculating radiative and convective heat output based on the properties the ceramic material it's made of.

The protocol required by the device promoter was to first measure without fuel at low temperature, then measure with fuel at high temperature. This is fishy. It's possible, for instance, that an impurity in the ceramic causes a thermally insulating film to form at high temperature. There's an obvious way to avoid this error: make a third measurement without fuel at roughly the same high temperature by cranking up the electrical input power. But with such basic checks prohibited, it's impossible to have any confidence in the results.

[0] http://www.sifferkoll.se/sifferkoll/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
Which is a confusing way of putting it because being less lethal would make it kill more people.
All bare-metal, 2 basic varnish, 4 beefier web heads, 2 really, really beefy DB + NFS.

hit me on twitter @kentonjacobsen
The quoted price doesn't include the surge. Uber goes to very very great lengths to not show you how much you're paying when surge pricing is in play, abstracting it away to a multiplier always.
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I recently received a pull request on a library that I hadn't updated in about 6 months, and was astonished how few changes it needed! Very exciting times.
Unfortunately it doesn't come with support for what really matters: 64-bit ARM. Support for Intel's 64-bit chips is irrelevant.
442 lines of code for a "Hello World".

Is that a new record? The comments aren't even particularly verbose.
Stability complaints while using a beta product that that is introducing big underlying changes to the platform. Classy.
If you're looking for programming tutorials on deep learning with some theory on the side, I found these perfect: http://www.deeplearning.net/tutorial/
Yes, it was a random occurrence.
Thanks! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-www/pull/64 submitted.
Because it came months ago?
>email is in my profile

I don't see it (nor do I have tickets). Remember, the "email" field is not publicly visible--you have to put your email in the "about" field.
How will this work if you depend on a lib that uses traditional threading but want to use green threads yourself? That actually comes up a lot at my work.
Yes, and the same goes for .jar extensions.
I looked into adding one to homebrew-cask[0], but it isn't quite as easy as the rust nightly, because it doesn't use a pkg. It shouldn't be too hard though, to do it from that tar.

[0]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask
I scored 8. Must have got lucky!
Your getting a 404 from an extra " at the end.

http://www.marshbellofram.com/belgas/files/2012/05/design_ma...

http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1985-mcandroid-jon-barron-et...
It's an iPhone app. I need an iPhone to use it. Your whole differentiation section is drivel.

> We give you choices visually.

Oh because Yelp doesn't have photos.

> Our format is ideal for people on the go.

Oh because Yelp doesn't have a mobile app or mobile website...

> Our app works best for people who like to make their own decisions.

How condescending.

Sorry. I don't see how you're unique.
As a Microsoft developer who has never looked at a terminal before, I find these projects amazing.
The OP wrote a tertis clone in terminal - clever / cool

THEN its well documented!

THEN its in one file - wtf?

Well done!
No, but seeing someone over and over in the same place, who acts kind to you can make you "fall" for them. IE the 5-6 receptionist who always smiles at you everyday can become a 7-8.
The website says you can opt-out of the data collection they do, but they don't give you any way to actually do that. Is that an evil design pattern or what? Opt-in by default is one thing, but lying about being able to opt-out is just Comcast-level chicanery.
The more I look at programs that generate SQL, the more I think we should just learn how to write proper SQL.

Layers are just hiding things, and when you hide it, bad things happen.
Why are we sending people to work with ebola patients ?
Consider these facts:

1. Protective suits and safety protocols have limited success.
2. The WHO says the average Ebola survival rate is about 50 percent.
3. The number of recent Ebola cases are believed to exceed 8000.
4. Ebola survivors are believed to be immune to future infection.

Therefore thousands of immune people are already onsite.
Shouldn't our efforts be focused on training and supplying the survivors?
No, they use zero electronics it's a pure analog system for now.
Applying Architecture to Product Design
This pneumatic power design could improve working robots. Yes, you would still need a motor to actuate each joint, but now you can put the motor anywhere. Placing the motor in the torso removes weight from the arms, which means you need less power to control the arms and the arms have less momentum, both of which greatly increase safety.
> So, the worst it should do is fry the network-facing side of the isolation part, and b0rk your network card.

Yeah, or burn the building down.
Considering you don't know anything about it, that's pretty baseless.

That said, I do wish that more info was provided that the fact that the app is in the "business" category. Quickbooks, Appointment Reminder, and proposal generating software are all "business" apps, but very different.
I see it used in fics to denote a sing-song voice.
Apple's been supporting this for the last couple years. This year, for instance, I upgraded to iOS 8 when Beta 3 shipped. I then received OTA updates for each subsequent Beta until the final release, which I installed manually. It's unfortunate that Google doesn't offer OTA beta updates, too.
Looking through all these comments, my only response is "effing nerds..." <3
That still means the function can't be treated as referentially transparent (whereas a Haskell function with debug output still can be, for the most part).

Don't get me wrong, that's still somewhat useful - it tells me "this function doesn't do anything too crazy", but it doesn't tell me "it should be safe to refactor this without having to read the function bodies of the entire call graph below this point", which makes calling it "pure" seem a bit disingenuous.
Ubuntu was patched when this was still relatively new news.
the screenshot of alpine was a nice bit of nostalgia for me. also gopher, before the newfangled "world wide web", awkward name and all, took over.
You aren't necessarily saying differently, but it's worth noting that Android has supported x86 for quite some time (the platform, the runtime, the NDK cross-compiling, and the x86 emulator image -- all have been available for a couple of years).

And to the other comment (from a different user, though I am responding here while on the topic of x86) claiming that Intel support doesn't matter -- it very much matters. Already there are a large number of deployed x86 devices (even ones that people don't realize are x86, like the Dell Venue 7), and Broadwell will only accelerate that. Supporting multiple platforms is awesome.
you are replying to my comment out of context.

the post i just answered to asked what is so special about gifv if all they are doing is a video tag.

also, similar arguments where done when adding lazy loading etc... with the idea that "loading images progressively is better" etc... it all backfires in the end when done by those guys. now the user actually PERCEIVES the slow loading. before, images would take a long time, but if you waited you could see the whole album. now, thanks to lazy loading done bad, they will load AS YOU SCROLL... you get to witness all the wait! it is hell.
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0.12.0 is up now.
The virus can only infect more people if those infected with it are left to roam freely in the general population.

Tell that to the healthcare workers who are having to treat patients in full suits and are still getting exposed. It doesn't matter where you are, the longer you are infectious, the more chance you have of infecting someone, so strains that keep you alive longer are more likely to be passed on.

You are confusing time-to-kill with time-to-becoming-contagious

I misworded it cos I was tired, but yes I did mean time to becoming contagious for the second point.
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I've been using it as my daily driver on my Nexus 7. It's surprisingly stable for a dev preview. I only have one app that doesn't work with it, and the major freezing bugs only happen every couple weeks. It's probably not smart to use it as a daily driver on your primary phone though. If it causes problems on my Nexus 7 I'll only lose my play device for a little while.
Piping is used to merge the tables rows. Tables can be merged in multiple ways, for example by join, left join, exists, not exists, union, minus etc.. And you can have the pipe chain up to 255 levels.
You should look at proper SQL. It looks horrible.

One benefit a layer can add is the ability to optimize post compilation. Most of the fancy pants Hadoop libraries are doing this one way or another.
Cool, thanks for confirming it. Good to know about the other variations of roti canai. Hope you find some of those items you like in other places eventually :)
Hardware decoding makes MP4 decoding lower power than decoding on the CPU. That does not make it "low power" in general, compared to simpler formats.
*smugly slap suspenders

amateurs. that is no more fun than a hammer.

what is beautiful is adding a relay triggered by data passing trhu. everything will work until one string is typed on telnet or a certain site is accessed. and more importantly, with the user in the middle of something.

that is art.
> the 5-6 receptionist who always smiles at you everyday can become a 7-8.

Becomes? Or is revealed?
404, really?
There's an undercurrent of meaning over at Nanex that says that when these unusual-looking patterns appear, they are because some bad actor is doing something naughty, like manipulating the market.

The reality is that most of these patterns fall into one of the following categories -

(a) Test patterns (e.g. checking that your orders are appearing in the market data) which are normally done at times of very low liquidity.

(b) Software bugs (this is probably the vast majority). This might not be a "bug" as such, but an edge case of an algorithm that nobody has thought much about before. Writing robust order placement algorithms is surprisingly difficult.

(c) Positive feedback loops, where you detect and react to your own orders in the market data.

(d) Unanticipated interactions between two or more algorithms.

Of these, (a) is mostly benign, (b) and (c) can be actively harmful, and (d) can go either way. None of them are generally beneficial.

Real market manipulation doesn't look "weird" like this because people doing it are taking care to make it look like they're not manipulating the market. For example, they might spoof with a large order quite deep in the book (which wouldn't change the best bid and offer at all) or layer orders at multiple levels.

It's actually quite difficult to spot this kind of behaviour in market data, even if you spend your whole day watching algorithms trading.

On the other hand, it's easy to spot unusual-looking activity in categories (a)-(d) above, which is why Nanex is full of that kind of chart.
"Pulling stuff from your gmail is a cute trick" ...

It has proven to be an incredibly powerful feature at least for me. I could repeat the list of things others have listed (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8435239 ) but why be redundant.

"Especially when you're not otherwise bought into the Google ecosystem"

Well yeah. I have to admit that at work I'm a heavy user of google calendar and email and in personal life maps, navigation, email, calendar and google search. Honestly, that's what I see most iPhone users around me use too. The point here is that if google cloud services are already in your life (as they are in 100's of millions of people's lives), Google Now on Android puts a nice face to it and brings them together in a very user-friendly and intuitive way.

"I'm in the mode of dictating things manually. And Siri shines at that"

Perhaps you didn't read the original posting that we're discussing here. It shows how far Siri has to go to catch up with Google's Now's voice search.
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Likely something else going on with your browser.. Demos have no logins whatsoever...
title should say 'emulator' or it is mostly pointless.
Right, this brings up another point: what H.264 profiles are allowed for gifv? I can't find an answer.
> Sorry. I don't see how you're unique

That's ok! Isn't it fun how different peoples' opinions can be?
From the C standard:

A floating expression may be contracted, that is, evaluated as though it were an atomic
operation, thereby omitting rounding errors implied by the source code and the
expression evaluation method. The FP_CONTRACT pragma in <math.h> provides a
way to disallow contracted expressions. Otherwise, whether and how expressions are
contracted is implementation-defined.