skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes very true.

For the major projects that 80% of Linux users actually use though, there are strict guidelines. A regular viewing of planet.gnome.org shows the sweeping interface changes taking shape.
And that's not to mention the underlying Linux dependencies that GNOME seems to be embracing due to Lennart Poettering's time at the helm. Arguments against sweeping changes appear to be trampled on, from what I can see? Unless I am misunderstanding it a bit?

Of course, WindowMaker probably doesn't have the same problem!
It's Time to Enable Two-Step Authentication on Everything. Here’s How
It's not tedious or error prone. Just use the tool.s
Would you say that ARC is a suitable alternative? I'm not "in the know" about such things.
Robocoin CEO (Jordan) has responded here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jakg4/the_great_ro...
Just share your games with us and you will get a plenty of useful feedback. It must be one of those multi-million titles - so exciting!
It's also important when you want to make any changes without tracking down everyone who ever contributed.
Seriously - could your comment be any more patronising? Just because your experience gave you the impression that this "working or entrepreneurial parent" lark isn't as hard as it's made out, doesn't mean that's the case for everyone.

I went self-employed the week after my 2nd child was born, working from home around my two children. I was profitable in my first month and every month after that until I stopped nearly 2 years later. It was one of the best learning experiences of my working life so far but it was also HARD. Really, really bloody hard.
It also results in having a huge version control repo. From what I've heard, Google can't move to git because of this... they're stuck with Perforce because it's the only VCS that can support a repo of their size.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Computational+Knowledge+and+the+Fu...
Did you try the Voxatron one?
That does sound clever but I don't understand your example; in this case, would moving the mouse either way go the intended direction?
The Space Race Will Breed a New Wave of Data Startups
Ask HN: Googlers: Invite a fellow hacker to the Googleplex?
Dear Googlers @ HN,

My startup has bin going trough a rough time lately. I live on the dutch countryside, so there aren't many tech oriented people here. I really need to get re-inspired by a company passionate about tech! As I'm visiting the bay area next week, I would love to visit the Googleplex if it's possible. It would give me back the spark that I urgently need. Though I am very curious, I promise to behave :-) Contactdetails; marijn at enlited.nl .
For what it's worth, a pristine checkout of Eucalyptus[1], that has parts written in Java, appears to be around 430k loc of java (comments and white space included).

Also, OT, didn't realize Eucalyptus had worked so much towards friendly development, and was moving towards including RiakCS as a S3 work-a-like backend[2].

[1] https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus
[2] https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus/wiki/Scalable-Walru...

[edit: yes, I realize you were probably talking about Amazon the shopping cart, not Amazon the IT infrastructure provider]
This could well be a weak backdoor in the whole attempt to gain legitimacy, though, because .. after all .. if you're describing the effects of various strains in an interview of the patient, guiding them towards a preferred result .. aren't you practicing medicine in that regard? Are dispensaries allowed to do that? (I am truly ignorant.)
Hari Seldon, is that you?
> I have the feeling that Jordan knows exactly what he's doing. The amount of $20,000 is a lot but it's not that much once you start to hire lawyers and file a suit or go into arbitration. Sounds like he's stringing them along waiting to see how much more cash they're willing to invest to recoup that $20,000.

I'd say they are just on the verge of bankruptcy and probably have similar experiences with other customers and just attempting to string them along enough that they can keep going.
I've been doing some models for live betting on ice hockey, but am now thinking of working on models for other sports as well. Would be nice to discuss about this and other ideas on sports betting and fantasy sports! My contact information is on my profile.
Well, this article is so thorough, detailed and well-written, that I don't know what to say other than "Wow, that was cool and very interesting!".

More stories like that?
OAuth – A great way to cripple your API
Oracle India faces bribery charges: MD Resigns
I'd rather port them to Rust :)
> easier to ... deploy

Ehm, really? Tree of javascript, possibly with some compiled libraries easier to deploy than a static binary?

I'm not saying node is hard to deploy, but I think maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean here?
Yes, that would be the honest thing for VCs to publicly say. "Now look, you'll want to be a guy, unless you're a woman of some means. We're not racist, as we're heavily composed of both whites and asians. Modulo certain Asian and perhaps lesser-European or -US accents. (That excludes others of course, which we hope you consider a feature and not a bug...) As for coming from a family with money and comfort, well we hardly need to list the benefits of that."
Yes. I am getting sick of these stories as well.
I like this slide based rendered as pages
sorry to follow-up with an even dumber question(?). Feel like an old fossil not playing a game in probably 25 years or so.

What's the motivation for running a server? and how do people using the game decide which server to use and why? I'm really stuck at the basics.
Maybe that's not the right solution? Switching to qwerty and back everytime you play the game is a pain, you should only have to configure your controls once.
Just how cosy and natural this room looks like.
I don't think so, actually: in all the heated discussions I've had with people on the subject of static / dynamic typing, everybody agreed that static typing had significant benefits. What people don't agree on is whether these benefits are worth the cost.

It's hard to argue in good faith that having the compiler catch mistakes rather than finding about them at runtime is a bad thing. It's perfectly possible to argue that it's not worth the perceived development speed slowdown.
thanks, that is useful. I thought if it's a repost, then ycombinator will automatically redirect to that post.
Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users
I just drove the new Tesla, it's really nothing more than a battery, a motor, and wheels. Really nothing that couldn't have been done 100 years ago :)
The right thing to do is decouple the pricing of water from the economic justice. Let water have a market price. Send money to poor people, which they can use on water or not water (it's crucially important that it's unrestricted money). You can even fund it with the extra revenue from the water sales. All the same benefits, but with less distortion. The value of money is that it enables markets; when markets fail poor people, instead of breaking the market (free parking in urban areas, rent control, etc), it's more beneficial for everyone to just give poor people money and let them participate.
Qualcomm buys CSR for $2.5B
Minecraft is a brilliant game to run multiplayer.

You can either join a server someone else is running, or you can set up your own server.

The Minecraft software had severe limitations around things like "griefing protection" (preventing people causing havoc); charging for stuff (which is one way servers used to raise funds); or minigames.
That's a positive feedback loop. A negative feedback loop would cause people to throw more resources at the outbreak until the derivative of the number of cases approaches zero.
YC really has succeeded in building a recognized brand in the tech startup space, such that they can really define that space. I'd compare YC to Harvard or Davos (the World Economic Forum), where the challenge is to get accepted. Once you have passed the gateway, the wealthy/powerful recognize this by extending opportunities to new members.

This is true of almost any club (the Free Masons, your local BPOE, Boy Scouts, etc.). You join, you get to know people, those people help you with your interests, and in return you help them with their interests. It isn't particularly difficult to see why this success might backfire and reduce/limit actual innovation, because it creates a powerful echo chamber – in part by design, to achieve specific goals, and in part by accident, because the people accepted by the club tend to meet predefined expectations.

The problem is, as I see it, that escaping that kind of feedback loop is very difficult, once an organization is in it, because the momentum making the loop bigger is difficult to redirect into an energy to make the loop different. Harvard could announce that it will no longer accept children from powerful/wealthy families, Davos could release a statement that this year it will be hosted in conjunction with the Communist International, and YC could relocate to Uganda for a season – but that's not what these organizations do, so after a point, they aren't able to innovate outside of very specific boundaries.

The answer to that, of course, is create new organizations with different boundaries/priorities, but Christ, that reeks of effort.
From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%:

* 50% goes back to you directly

* 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc...

The website is invite-only.
You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier.
A drone flying an Albanian flag caused a riot at a football match in Belgrade
Ask HN: Beginner pointers on SAT solvers?
I just got started on writing a SAT solver (https://github.com/rjmacready/sat-solver) (this is not working ATM) and while I’ve been finding some resources, I feel like I’m missing something … does anyone have some beginner pointers on SAT solver implementation? I was looking for something like pseudocode, algorithm visualization (like this http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html, for instance), anything.

Also if anyone knows about how can they be applied in a compiler (typesystem, optimization, …), feedback is also welcomed.
CSS Only iPhone 6
If you're wondering how you should do these types of transactions without putting cash up front, the field is called trade finance.

Call your bank - most of them have a trade finance desk, or Google the term. A slightly cheaper way of doing it is to have a lawyer draft a terms of trade or supply agreement with either the funds in escrow with the firm or a bank guarantee.

Having your bank finance the trade is worthwhile as interest rates are so low at the moment. Common terms are 60, 90 or 120 day delivery with FED/LIBOR + x% (where x is the risk profile of your business - shop around to get prices) cost over the term.

The agreement would contain delivery timetables, warranties, customs clearance, liabilities, indemnities, guarantees, who pays what, etc. and you are protected legally without handing over tens of thousands of dollars or more upfront. These contracts are protected by law in almost all jurisdictions.

You don't finalize the transaction and pay for it until all conditions have been met and you have the goods in hand and have verified. The seller is trusting an international bank or a law firm escrow, and they should also have a lawyer or bank on their end (a trusted seller can receive the cash upfront for a fee with the bank picking up the risk, although I doubt any bank would finance a bitcoin atm without verified trade volume and a lower risk profile).

Talk to your lawyer and talk to your bank, having expensive items delivered without risking the full cost is a solved problem as old as finance itself and trillions of dollars annually are traded in this way. The extra $1k or so you'd pay on a $25k deal are worth it for the guarantee. If you ship goods regularly the costs are amortized as you can use the same contracts and finance suppliers. Don't deal with anybody shipping $20k+ valued products that doesn't deal with a bank trade finance desk or law firm and is instead asking for a bank transfer.

This is how most high cost goods are traded - from oil and other commodity supply contracts through to companies like Boeing and Airbus supplying planes, or GE supplying turbines for a power plant. Most people without experience lead into it thinking that buying something that costs $25k, $100k or millions of dollars is just the same as purchasing something at your local store just with bigger numbers. It isn't.

Bitcoin multisig transactions, or m of n transactions are also worth investigating as they cut the costs - although there is currently a lack of escrow/intermediaries who are as trusted as major law firms or an international bank. There is a huge opportunity in cutting the costs and fees associated with trade finance with bitcoin.
Video here:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2014/oct/15/serbia...
There's lots of options, but a possible method would be to give a coupon code to individuals who ask for one. They could then apply it against the bill for their household.

It's also not too expensive to err on the safe side and give out a generous personal amount. In the quantities that an individual uses, water is pretty darn cheap.
That was a really interesting read, and very well written. I wonder if anyone can clear this up though...

I find the terminology of open and closed intervals contradictory to their meaning. Does anyone know why they are described like this?

`Closed` makes me think shut or not-including - however it includes its endpoints. `Open` makes me think inclusive - yet does not include its endpoints.
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J. G. Ballard, the Art of Fiction No. 85
Agreed; technical articles such as this can't come up often enough for my tastes.

I've never used ranlib; I hope the documentation can be cleaned up at least. On the other hand, anyone who has read A Deepness in the Sky will surely feel that it is unlikely in the long term.
I get that we are on the Internet and everyone gets a voice, but they should have let their lawyers do the talking. Both companies are run by adults I assume, but both are throwing sand in each other's faces running across the playground, in this case reddit, Twitter and HN. Either party can use this as slander I suppose.

If Robocoin is still making money, this bad PR might go against them for just a bit, but their "success" with others will pass on via word of mouth.

If acting like kids on the Internet has worked well for others in order to get their own back, someone should write up a pretty medium article outlining a proper way to do this for any company.
Yeah, it's like saying that people drive too much,so we should increase the price of fuel tenfold,so they will drive less. All is great, but if because of it they now can't afford to get to work, then you have just created a new host of problems. Increasing the price of water seems like a knee-jerk reaction to this problem.
Ruboto (JRuby on Android) 1.2.0 released
Apple, Facebook to Women Employees: Keep Working, We'll Pay to Freeze Your Eggs
The analogy I've always used is that the closed interval has what amounts to a lid or a cap on it, while the open interval does not. Another (sort of related) way of looking at it is that the closed interval has a maximum (or minimum) value, whereas the open interval, despite only missing a single value, suddenly has this feeling of continuation, because without that final value it now asymptotes to the end and you will always be able to find a larger (or smaller) value than any previous value you examine.
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Google warns: Espionage of the USA risks “breaking the internet”
This new battery charges to 70% in two minutes
Deconstructing ReactJS's Flux
I think one of the problems with the API token is that it's a lot more cumbersome for the user right now than the old password-based flow. (If you don't happen to have your token around or work with it daily)

Right now to connect an API consumer, you have to:

1) Do the things on the consumer's site until you're prompted for the token

2) Open pinboard.in (presumely in a different tab)

3) Login to pinboard

4) Go to "settings"

5) Go to "password"

6) Copy API token

7) Switch back to consumer's site

8) Paste token

Steps 4 and 5 might be more difficult than they look: If people didn't use the token before or never had to change their password, they might not know how to get to settings > password. Or they might not know where to find the token at all.

I think you could make things a lot more convenient if API consumers could put a direct link to https://pinboard.in/settings/password on their page. That way, the flow would look like this:

1) Do things on the API consumer's site until you're prompted for the token

2) Follow link to token page

3) Login to pinboard

4) Copy API token

5) Switch back to consumer's site (or click "back" twice)

6) Paste token

7) Profit!

Right now, this almost works, except that if you're not already logged into pinboard, the link will just take you back to the front page. So you'd have to change the login prompt so it remembered where you came from. That sounds like a pretty insignificant change, but I think it could make a difference.
Hmmmm that's why we have democratic governments, and in some countries we have decided that since it's a right to have access to water, the government should handle distribution of water from our taxes. So people working at the facilities are still getting paid, but the water is provided for free* for any citizen.

*yes, paid from the taxes, I feel like I need to point this out otherwise someone else will.
Android's Styles, Themes and Dimens = CSS?
I used to place/sell regular ATMs. This Stuff sounds pretty standard for the industry. Nobody, even the biggest companies, seem to know what they're doing.
> "Low-value crops", eh? Sure, make farmers use water more efficiently, but it seems pretty silly to value the construction of new buildings over the production of food.

Is it really that easy? Food >> Buildings? A lot of crops are grown that never end up on your plate - biofuel, exported food, stuff that in the end rots in the silos. It might really be valuable to rethink the priorities here.
I really doubt there can't be a museum who would transfer the room in a permanent installation.
It would be safest for most rand() functions to omit both zero and one, unless a user was really sure they wanted otherwise. If we were generating real numbers, we'd never see precisely zero or one. The fact that we do is an artifact of limited precision. These boundary cases cause problems in common computations like u.log(u) or (1-u).log(1-u).
Indeed. There are several hundred millions of people living in parts of Europe alone with non QWERTY layouts, based on the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
Wow, the cigarette pack still smells of tobacco after 100 years?
iDoneThis.com has essentially productized the to-do list part with the "done" list for companies.
I also wonder if the situation isn't further complicated when you consider accuracy of diagnoses. A snippet from wikipedia: "It is estimated that between 10-15 percent of physician diagnoses are erroneous" [1], which is apparently attributed to overconfidence.

This would probably have a larger effect in conjunction with treatments having a higher NNH (number needed to harm).

In any case, I suspect that the push for (a more) evidence-based medical science will only have positive effects, and thanks for your information!

[1] Berner, E.S., and M.L. Graber. "Overconfidence as a cause of diagnostic error in medicine." American Journal of Medicine 121 (2008): S2-S23.
Jordan Kelley has posted his response on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jakg4/the_great_ro...

Judging from the replies, it seems to have backfired probably because he did not acknowledge the errors on his side (shipping a lemon, unresponsive over email and not having provided a refund yet).

Worse, he doesn't seem to realise that the name-and-shame was a result of his and ultimately RoboCoin's actions.

Edit: The correct response would have been to issue a refund immediately, acknowledge and apologise for the issue, highlight the trouble area (upstream supplier issues or whatever lead to this), and commit to solving or already having solved this problem for future clients + internal review of this mishap.
Thanks saurik, I think I understand that way of thinking.

With a closed interval it eventually return a bound instead of getting smaller/larger - continuing.
Southern England, UK. Contract Web Interface Desgner. We are looking for someone (for a short contract) who can code the visualization of live data on an SQL database. In essence a visual 'traffic light system' to display the live data on a web page with drill down to detail. Possible technology to be used include pChart, PHP/SWF, amCharts or Open Flash. Interested? Then please get in touch. robbie@emmtek.co.uk
The Fortis unpowered exoskeleton let you lift heavy tools indefinitely
I mean, interesting story and a great anecdote, but it is just that: an anecdote. These are the views of one person who clearly has an anti-psychopharmalogical worldview.

I have depression and it frustrates me to no end when the clinic doctors I see to renew my prescriptions act as though I don't need them – that I would be better off without my medication. I don't really care if I'm getting better because of the placebo effect and I don't care if I'm getting better and that actually benefits a drug company. I just care that I'm getting better.
If we want to have that discussion, I think that'd be a great one to have. But that was not the author's intention.
Southern England, UK. Data Visualisation/Web Interface. We are looking for someone (for a short contract) who can code the visualization of live data on an SQL database. In essence a visual 'traffic light system' to display the live data on a web page with drill down to detail. Possible technology to be used include pChart, PHP/SWF, amCharts or Open Flash. Interested? Then please get in touch. robbie@emmtek.co.uk
Personally, I've tried five times to make small purchases with Bitcoin (this was several years ago). In all cases I was ripped off and never received product.

It's not going to be government regulations that kill Bitcoin, its the associations with illicit drugs, child pornography, and dishonesty of vendors like Robocoin.
The so-called "french notation" is interesting and — I think — clearer: a closed interval is [a, b] and an open interval is ]a, b[.
I can't decide if this is incredibly liberating or oppressing.
The whole thing exudes the great sadness of the loss of a child. War sucks, but we keep doing it.
interesting - thanks for that. looks like your the author? Any reason why you went for notation-based rather than a drawing cavnas?

I'm thinking of putting together something very flexible and user friendly which can certainly do UML but not strict and the focus would be free notation with best practice to guide.