skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your useful guide aside: why not have him use mercurial?

git has a very steep learning curve and an interface only a mother could love. Mercurial on the other hand has a clean interface very similar to svn, and has all the advantages of git that you list above. And can be straightforwardly run over apache to boot. Also the command is one letter shorter than git.
There are some strange display issues when you click "change projection" - some of the bigger circles have actually smaller amounts than the smaller circles. Looks like the circles are also using the projection, so smaller amounts at higher latitudes are actually shown as bigger.
Primarily to manage Windows accounts on Windows EC2 instances. Google Apps authentication covers websites via OAuth and OpenID, but not local user accounts on systems like Windows, Linux, and OS X.
The opposite. All there is now is shiny shiny - there has been no change in substance for a long time, in mobile terms.

Yes, the chips etc. are ridiculous, but no one has a clue what to use them for, so they're just creating fluff.
Isn't that the Nokia X line of phones?

http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phones/nokia-x/
> Programmers have also been taught that spawning processes is cheap so idiomatic Erlang code typically have tons of them.

The green threads in Haskell are just as cheap, in some cases, cheaper than Erlang's processes. Haskell programmers are similarly encouraged.

Concurrency and parallelism are pretty easy in Haskell.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/slave-thread
Just a note about the international travel described in this article : Geneva and Annemasse are twin city and share the same bus system. Thomas in this article could just get into a TPG bus from anywher in geneva and arrive in annemasse hospital less than 40 minute after. (geneva and anemasse are small cities)
WYSIWYG editors hide too much of the important information from the user. We want designers and developers to be able to see the real code and content so they aren't dealing with mysterious hidden complexity.
No more Nokia/Microsoft dumbphones? :(
5 Advantages of Using 3rd-Party Software (versus building your own)
Most insurance companies don't cover tick testing, unfortunately. We've never had any problems sending ticks through the mail though. People usually send 'em in sandwich bags inside normal envelopes, alive or dead.
"Please do not put solutions to exercises online as it is important for students to work out solutions for themselves rather than copy them from the internet."

I find crowdsourced solutions for honest autodidacts very valuable.
How does Windows Phone pale in comparison with Android? I use both daily. In my experience there's pretty good feature parity. Windows Phone wins for me because it works as before without a Microsoft account, the tiles are just... easier, and its easier to find things, and (hardware) apart from the camera, the battery lasts for longer than a day.
A Product Hacker Toolbox
Ignoring "stop energy" is a skill you have to master.
2nd poker.

I spent years devoted to it. It has endless depth, it's the best game ever invented, and one hand is one more than you need to play it well.

Geeking out in one-day fantasy might be a good alternative.
Incredible. They locked down everything so hard that they forgot the part where they allow people to do their jobs!
Aha! A bug! http://i.imgur.com/2vNiRzn.gif
(you can walk on ice if you have skates, but you can't collide with walls without being "repelled")

Also, I completely forgot about this wonderful game. Thanks for the trip on memory lane.
The "accredited investor" restriction usually only applies if you're shopping the stock around.

If the person getting the stock qualifies as a "friend or family", the restriction doesn't apply. Hence the term "Friends and Family Round".
Nokia was already in the disaster zone before Elop got there. While I agree that the current strategy hasn't been a winning one, I don't actually see that they had a ton of other options. Become another me-too Android manufacturer?
well, all these points valid for all DVCS, not just Git.
I think it's actually the other way around: The reason webcam industry has become popular, is because the internet service offers excellent speeds.
Flows, iOS app for anon offline group chats
Welcome to Oculus XXX: In-Your-Face 3D Is the Future of Porn
Show HN: Sharing economy comes to personal investing, on your iPhone
Wow. Either this is a fantastically straight-faced troll comment or you reeeeally missed the whole point of using version control tools.
Massive Black Holes May Be Able to Block New Stars from Forming
I don't think it has to do with Java in particular, but rather with testing your algorithmic and problem-solving skills in general
If you want history, Nokia was dead from the bodge of the series 60 rollout, which basically made Symbian a bit player in a market it really should have utterly dominated.
It's not whole-blood it's RBC: http://www.sanquin.nl/en/products-services/blood-products/sa...

AFAIK modern transfusions don't generally use whole-blood, and RBC are by far the most important component for rare blood types issue.
You know that this is taste, right? I got so fed up with Android's horrible UX and lack of consistency that I ditched it for windows phone, and I'm not looking back.

It's a really excellent smartphone OS. Fast, usable with one hand, clean, no clutter, instant overview. The only disadvantage is a smaller app ecosystem - this matters to many people but not to all by far.
Huh, interesting. Because for the longest time I've been going "I can cause the placebo effect on myself by believing that it works" whenever I feel bad, but I've never been able to find any studies that'd confirm the effectiveness. I guess that if the placebo effect sticks around when you tell people they're taking sugar pills, though, it should work with just the self-referential invocation.
Good work on this! Cool app and very easy to use, can definitely see it spreading. I think it would be awesome if you added video support since your landing page has a video and it's very popular to use background video these days. Also, dog-fooding and making building your own landing page in broadsheet seems doable and cool.
Way to run Nokia into the ground, Nokia. Along with every other handset maker pre-iPhone who did not immediately release an iPhone competitor (Microsoft, Blackberry, Palm, etc). They all failed, just some of them lasted longer than others did.
> Flows is using Bluetooth and peer-to-peer WiFi (Multipeer Connectivity Framework) to connect your device to the ones near you

Interesting. Sounds like Firechat minus the registration. Set a nickname, pick a color, start chatting.
WordPerfect is still available http://www.wordperfect.com/us/product/office-suite/
Nokia really missed the boat on adopting Android back in 2010 when Samsung did. Nokia was still bigger than Samsung then in smartphone sales. After that, Android really took off (like from 4 to 30 percent market share in one year), and Nokia started to rapidly decline.

The choice of going WP7 later on, only compounded on the initial decision of not going Android, as WP was behind in features, recognition, and of course, apps. Three years later, WP still has 2 percent market share globally. It's going nowhere fast, to say the least, even with Microsoft's billions that it has invested in it so far.
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Thanks for pointing that out. This has been fixed. You are making a positive impact! :)
Techstop guys are the best
This isn't clear on whether the specific facial cues would vary between cultures and times or whether we just compare vs other people we know.
Sure, once Apple gets the certification:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/

;)
Yes? (at least in a VM)
There are places where no such marketing occurs, but the result is predictably same.
For an example of that, HIV likely crossed into the US from Haiti via the blood trade[0][1] which acted as both amplifier and transport after haitians had to leave DRC, and some got infected in the time they spent there.

And of course thousands of haemophiliacs in the 80s got infected with HIV and HepC because of contaminated Factor VIII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_...

[0] http://www.onereads.org/spillover-david-quammen?page=0,208

[1] http://lambsbloodblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/hemo-caribbea...
Moral Panics and the Death of Fun
Ouch! I'll have to fix that. In the meantime you can skip to the next level by pressing 'n'.
Boeing and SpaceX both submitted proposals, including a proposed price. They both got what they asked for; the process allowed the selection committee to say yea or nay, but not "could you do it for less?". And this particular program (CCtCAP -- Commercial Crew Transport CAPability) issues fixed-price contracts, so "cost-plus" accounting is not at issue in this particular deal (though it certainly is in aerospace procurement generally).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development#Com...
My perspectives notaries all show the same cert in place for the past 195 days:

https://www.schulte.org/tmp/20141022/torproject27364553/torp...

Also you can see the raw XML output here: http://perspectives1.schulte.org:8080/?host=www.torproject.o...

Looks good from here.
An Inbox that works for you
It costs money to keep the lights on and pay employees, refrigeration, databases, transportation (we get blood shipped from ARC three hours away twice a day), etc. And if you're not making money, you're losing money. Money is how societies manage these costs. Most blood banks are associated with a hospital or university. Some centers are free standing, like Blood Source or American Red Cross (ARC), and they are often the ones doing the heavy lifting: managing rare units, sending 100 units of platelets to a disaster zone, etc.

On the flip side, blood banking is a small community. Each chief blood banker knows how much the products cost, often from working on both sides of the transaction at various times in their careers, and they see each other regularly. The head of our blood bank was previously the head of Blood Source. She has obligations to the university to not waste money, and she knows how much it costs to get a unit from Blood Source.
BatteryBox: Massive update – design changes, feature additions and shipping info
Man it's annoying that HN doesn't let you see context when replying.

1. Sally bought Anne a heifer, but not a dog.
3. Sally bought Anne a heifer, but it didn't produce any milk.

The other two adhere mostly to convention (I'm okay with #4).

I always favor this style because it's easier for the person you're trying to communicate with to understand you, and that's more important than really anything else.
I'm advocating tax deductions as an incentive.

If I give $350 in cash to the American Red Cross, I can take that charitable deduction from my annual filing. If I donate a unit of blood that gives ARC $350 in products, that's not deductible.

The incentive side steps the donor-with-marginal-income problem, unless I'm missing something.
Inbox is a reinvention of email from Google
But going WP7 certainly didn't help. It slowed Nokia's sales to a crawl.

Nokia could've been the Samsung of Android, today, especially when you consider its advantage in smartphone and camera engineering. All it had to do is adopt Android early "enough" (even a year after Samsung did would've been okay).

Here's some data for the skeptics:

https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/1543014
I'm one of the engineers at Openfolio focusing mainly on the iOS app. We're really excited about our launch, and we're all around to answer any questions about the app or Openfolio as a whole.
My philosophy is that when you use the command line, a) You learn the tool better, and b) wherever you are where there's git, you can use it. No need to install anything else.

I had that philosophy back when I used Subversion, and I think it served me well. It really isn't that hard to use the command line. Especially if you use the subset in my post. I also suspect that GUI tools will generally have the power to deal with staging, branching, etc, and may thus be harder for a total newbie to understand, and more intimidating, than the few commands I outlined in the post.

That's my take on it anyway. YMMV, of course!
Ebola Training Hackathon by Shift Labs
Nice summary. My only observation is that, in practice gitk --all and gitk -- <filename> have completely replaced their git log equivalents for me (and are more universally available than $RANDOM_GIT_GUI).
To be fair that's a failing of the git user interface. Giving up on the entirety of version control because one of them has a bad UI seems like overkill.
Actually, you quoted the misspelling. The shuttle's name is spelled "Endeavour" -- it's named after a British ship (Captain Cook's).
Be Afraid: We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
I used Windows Phone for several years and loved it. The app ecosystem is smaller, but the built-in features are so nice that you don't need a whole lot of apps (does the iPhone or Android have a QR reader built in yet, or built-in social networking apps?) With the amount of work and money that Microsoft puts into making sure any dev can make a Windows Phone version of their app as easily as possible, the only reason devs don't support it (especially if they have a Windows 8 app, looking at you Google) is pure apathy.
Lockheed looks for partners on its proposed fusion reactor
Show HN: Quit the job, created GTD app with Angular in 6 months
Certainly ties into the discussion about google making two of everything [0]. It's not clear how this product is meant to co-exist naturally with gmail.

[0]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...
> It is so painfully obvious and as usual, Microsoft just do not get it

Oh, they get it. They just don't want to admit a multi-billion dollar mistake, and maybe they are still hoping that project will succeed. Plus there's like one person in the company capable of making such a huge decision.
I'm definitely not the target audience for this and I really hope that Google isn't going to force me to upgrade to Inbox. Looking at you G+.
I was living in a household of ten heavy internet users on a 18Mbit/s line. The only times we had trouble was due to our service provider (outages, severe packet loss).
This included mostly games and streaming.
Not necessarily. This isn't the case in the UK (where I am) for example, where blood donations are taken by the NHS.
Climate change is pseudo-science, says Peter Thiel [video]
This looks very much like Mailbox, in particular the swipe left and right to archive/snooze a message.
oh, there's no need to skip the level. you can escape the bump by pressing forward+left/right
The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3)
They didn't show the web interface, I wonder if it will just be baked into the Gmail mobile apps?
rms is probably a bit on the autist spectrum and can be less than sensitive to others' viewpoint, but so am (probably) I and many other computer guys.

Stallman have made the world a much better place. Even without counting Emacs and gcc.
7" WVGA TFT panels are flooding out of Asia for dirt cheap now, that would be my guess as well.
I think its not directly comparable. Wizards of the Coast was never a "my big idea that will change the world!" type of company. It was a a games publishing company. They didn't even have one particular game in mind when they started up. Magic came later. Initially they were doing pretty much any board game and RPG that wanted to cut a license deal with them. In fact, they still operate this way to a certain extent, even with Magic as the flagship product.

Because Wizards was never an idea based company I don't think its fair to put them in the same bucket with the usual suspects who try to exploit naive young developers by not paying them for hard work.
It was set to 32bits but I've since upped it to 80bits.
how does a company like Google not 'Get It' when it comes to email. Google++.
Try Infragistics, you will never look back.
Microsoft entered the mobile game too late. The OS is great. It's just hard playing catch-up when you are not the cool kid.
No, it's web as well.
The latest product from Sparrow? I've been already into the refreshing UIs of Inbox.

Can't wait for the invitation.
Show HN: New Tees and Hoodies for Developers: BackboneJS-EmberJS-MeteorJS-ZeptoJS
> "Recently however, we became aware of an Apple prohibition on re-using their products - even when their devices are not altered. Because of this, we decided it wouldn’t be appropriate to continue forward with our original plan."

...What? Can someone comment on the legality of such restrictions and the pros/cons of following/ignoring them? (To me it seems like first sale doctrine would be applicable, though that certainly wouldn't prohibit Apple from trying to constrain their ability to purchase...)
In the UK I am petfectly legally able to open your unlocked door walk in, sit down and not burgle you.

You can ask me to leave but cannot have me arrested until I refuse to do so.
First, I know git, and not mercurial.

Second, I don't think there is a steep learning curve for the subset included in my post.

Third, I think git has enough momentum that it makes sense for beginning programmers to focus on it. I suspect Mercurial will get a lower and lower percentage of the market place over time, because programmers will generally need to learn git at some point, and once they've done so, there is less reason for them to go against the tide on their next project by learning Mercurial. (An "increasing returns" situation.) Maybe I'm wrong about this -- it's just the sense I have. But, see this chart, which I think tends to validate it: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%2C%20svn%2C%20hg&...
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Benchmarking the Android Emulator on AWS – 16x Improvement
I forgot to add, it's actually worse, in that it's Cadence running on Linux under a VM on some Windows server, which itself is probably a VM. Remote Desktop is allowed to the host running the VM, but not into the VM itself.

We had a centralized Linux server and tape system backing up all the Linux workstations, but they fired the guy who ran that server due to stack ranking; i.e. firing 10-15% of you staff yearly, even though he was a really sharp guy.

IT rules the roost around here, even though we are an engineering company that produces physical items; not software. It's supposed to be the other way around; IT is supposed to provide a service.
This is a fantastic presentation, and if I were developing a history of software class, I'd reuse this presentation for a unit on API's and libraries, given the author's permission. I've never seen such a concise and informative presentation on the history of any aspect of software development (languages, methodologies, human interface, etc...)

Really, really well done. I still think that Oracle has a pretty strong legal leg to stand on, unfortunately. And they have the legal team to pretty much guarantee victory. API specs deserve the same copyright protections we provide for other forms of intellectual property.

The bigger problem that needs to be confronted is the ridiculous scope and corporate bias of US copyright law, which is the ultimate root of the maladies that strangle creativity and punish artists and working engineers in this country. I believe that API specs deserve the same legal protections as song lyrics, plot devices, and poetry. But I think those legal protections, buttressed by lawyers from Disney and Oracle, have gotten out of control and now penalize the people they were supposed to protect.
Yes, it's picking back up now, but for a while it languished (half of 2013 with no commits, for example).

Also, check out the number of issues, some of which are pretty significant (although there are tons of ridiculous ones there, too). But if they're catching up -- and they appear to be -- that's great. It's a great project.
GOS talked about it a few days ago before the announcement for those interested: http://googlesystem.blogspot.se/2014/10/google-inbox.html

I'm interested but I keep seeing that this sort of stuff never takes into accounts things such as mailing lists (a la mailman and such). I hope I'm wrong.
That's exactly my first thought. The only differentiating feature mentioned in the video from what I could gather was an indicator of importance that the app determines.
Yeah, in the bottom it says "name changed" so I assume the anonymity resulted in an overdose of stock photos.
I think the "docker volumes create --path ..." solves my use case just fine. Thanks for providing details - that seems quite useful.
Cool, thanks. I've found a few minor bugs, should I fill out the support form on your site to report them?
RoboBinding – Android MVVM Framework
> the only reason devs don't support it ... is pure apathy.

Plus $99 per year for the privilege of loading your proto-app onto your own phone.

Versus just picking-up an Android phone and starting to hack, I can understand the lack of interest.

There's also the problem of the intersection of mobile-oriented developers and developers familar with the MS development stack; I'd say that the majority of the latter are back-end corporate coders, not front-end app developers.
I really hope this means that if I disable this "Inbox" in Gmail clients I can get back my ASCII email...
You can request an invite by sending a E-Mail to inbox@google.com
Sanoma Pro replied saying that they do not sell books to the general public, but they have directed me to akateeminen.com. It is not possible to order overseas in the online shop, but I have contacted them to arrange delivery to Spain. Waiting for their answer.

Thanks
This looks great. It seems like the extension of what they've been doing with Now for a while - all the information you need in easily actionable cards.
I wish I could pay for google services so that they don't need to sell my information to advertiser.
One of my first clients ever as a freelancer set up an online donations site for charities. This was back in 2002-4.

I wrote the entire site from scratch for him in ASP 1.1 with VB script. ASP.net wasn't even around yet. The entire site ran on a DELL box in his office with Comcast Cable internet serving hundreds of charities and taking credit card transactions and ACH transfers online. This was all before any kind of PCI requirements. The only requirement from the bank was SSL.

The worst part of this job was that he was too cheap to have a separate dev and prod environment so all my dev and updating was done on a live site with live credit cards flying by. If I happened to hit save in the middle of a transaction, the whole processing flow might change mid swipe. I was a nervous wreck every day going home. My biggest point of pride is that out of the 2-3 years working with this client, I only lost 1 table of reference data in the DB. That was the biggest disaster I had.

The ironic part of all this was that even through he cared very little about the transactions he lost due to the prod site also being dev, he was absolutely fanatic about HTML layout and pixel perfect design. Since it was difficult to guarantee consistent cross browser look and feel back then, the just converted all text and layout to images...so each page was just an html table with images in each cell.

Oh...he also believed his firewall was slowing down his cable internet so he turned it off. Got hacked once mid sales presentation.

I swear this is all true.