skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon me? I wasn't aware of any other platforms that you can use to develop for windows phone.
Weebly's traction and capital efficiency are remarkably impressive.
In the current climate what would you recommend the size of a seed round be? Clearly the answer is not "as much as you can get" right?
Can you use the Atlas tool to correct business and other E/POIs (establishment/points of interest), or is limited to roads and other base map data? How do they evaluate spam POIs (say, locksmiths, who are prolific on Maps) in comparison to other Maps RAP (Report a problems)? Do all the teams (Places Listing Editors, Map Maker Google Reviewers, Maps Editors, etc.) use the same Atlas tool, or do they all have different tools? I use MM (Map Maker) quite a bit, and I'm curious how Google's tools work in comparison. Thanks.
No idea.. I've found a reference to cd00r and the source documents various techniques quite well: https://www.phenoelit.org/stuff/cd00r.c
Permaculture & other forms of sustainable agriculture really needs to be a part of this discussion. Natural ecosystems retain water on the land and increase rainfall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

The east coast has lots of people & lots of trees. California has lots of people and not many trees.
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When the Lights Go Out (Viral Horror Movie Trailer)
I wanted to point out one of their conclusions in particular:

> 1. Small individual bias → Large collective bias.

> When someone says a culture is shapist, they're not saying the individuals in it are shapist. They're not attacking you personally.

This is a really important point that gets a lot of arguments hung up on nonproductive "not all men"-type fooforaw lately. If someone says that e.g. gamer culture is sexist, or even if they (perhaps inadvisably) use shorthand and say "gamers are sexist," they are not saying that I and every other single person who plays games is personally sexist.
Not really. You should have seen the discussion about the new Rust package manager. Putting everything top level means that good package names are taken forever by what is possibly abandonware. With namespacing everything is equal, first comers don't take over everything. Especially with the Maven/Java "use your reversed domain name" as groupId/package. Maybe it's a bit too verbose, but I'd still keep a group layer above the actual package name.
Its like gold, silver, copper in fantasy RPGs
Thanks.

Being able to provide simple easily verified command on a public forum to detect the most stealthy malware is testament to the brilliant design of unix-style systems. If someone offered a Widows utility to do the same thing on a forum, only fools would run it.
Random as a Service
>The Dead Sea was subject to drastic climate changes in the past. “It was once much lower than today,” Lazar said. Yet over the centuries, natural processes prevented the sea from drying up. “At some point, an equilibrium will be reached between natural evaporation and what little water enters the lake through groundwater springs, rain, and runoff,” he adds. “So I don’t know what people mean when they talk about saving the Dead Sea.”

I'm amused by the conservationist here adopting the arguments usually used by global warming skeptics. If you just replace the XX liters/hour of the Jordan River flow that they want restored with XX liters/hour of Red Sea water, it's hard to see how things are not made better.
as someone who uses gradle everyday I cant express my disappointment enough. I cant think of any greater dev friction th an the incredibly slow gradle builds I deal with daily - not to mention the langue. its like someone wanted to redesign javascript poorly.
City of Portland sues Uber
Ask HN: Google's early days
I remember reading about Google's early days and there was a quote by one of the founders that they were in no rush for people to find out about Google as it will be much better a YEAR later.

Can anyone point me to the source?

Thanks
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Let's Make a Bar Chart (2013)
How to set up selenium grid to test Internet Explorer from Mac or Linux
What other programming-relevant books would you recommend?
I thought the canonical Microsoft list was Windows:

1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.1.1(for workgroups), 95, 98, 98SE, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
I remember David from Weebly noting that they narrowly avoided the pinch by becoming profitable (circa 2009?) Now AFAIK they are kicking ass.
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As another poster mentioned, the latest eclipse version "Luna" is much faster and better than previous versions. It boots up faster than the beta versions of Android Studio.
So at a recent hackathon we used our framework that syncs up all devices in a room and created another/new audience engagement app. We pitched the app and immediately after a VP of X company said I have to use this at my year end board meeting. For the next week and half he was sending us resources (images and other documents) and during that time we were speaking with our advisers/lawyers creating a Beta Evaluation document. The VP was extremely eager all the way until he received the document where his excitement waned. Thereafter he sent two emails end of last week and then today said he was going in a different direction :-(

Overall this isn't our first encounter with a massive company. But our experiences and efforts thus far have not yielded any such clients.

Do you mind if I ask how you and your company finally sealed your first big deal and was it with a mid to large sized company?

Really appreciate your insight. Thanks!
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Are you sure we don't know each other? I tend to be friends with people who buy me beer.
IMHO the comparison is fair. The US is the largest oil producing country in the world. It just happens to also have to import oil because consumption is so high.
If anybody is interested in exploring anything like a 'gitcoin' please message me.
It only seems to be the target market to you in your MS-centric world.
It compares very well to C#/VS.
Although I fail to see the relevance, yes, the IntelliJ IDE supports Python - https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
I think one thing that is happening here is that certain types of startups are throwing money at problems that need to be solved in order to grow enough that raising additional funds is easy and/or not required.

An example would be that the founding team isn't skilled enough to get through the product market fit stage, so they hire in order to fill those gaps. Or maybe it's a chicken & egg problem, which often requires lots of time and luck to crack.

With the high salary requirements that engineers and designers have today, especially in Silicon Valley, this means burn-rates get very high very fast, even with only a few employees.

I remember five years ago in most cases you'd take a major salary cut (which was made up for in equity) when joining a startup as a first hire. You took a big risk to be employee number one or two. These days the landscape is so competitive you not only get equity, but a great salary as well.

I wonder if this has something to do with what you're hinting at?
In the context of Spain: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f7bdd5ce-995e-11e3-91cd-00144feab7...
Interesting. For me, all but one that raised < $500k died.
Hypocrisy, though not exactly admirable, is not equal to falsehood.
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Linus and his buggy Wi-Fi drivers
If you read the base assumption naively as "white people are happier with a certain fixed percentage of black people around," then yes, it sounds silly. I think what you should be taking away as the basic assumption is: all other things being equal, an integrated society is healthier than a segregated society.
"It can't be detected using the common netstat command."

How is this possible? I thought netstat would show any program which is listening for connections on a port, regardless of whether it's actively doing anything.
No, the ones that raised <$500 were raising as much as they could. Perhaps startups that COULD raise $1m but didn't are a different case.
Barack Obama Becomes the First President to Write Code
Did they have progress when they raised again?
This presentation format was terrible, which is a shame with so much interesting data to present. Kudos to the data research, but please consider re-publishing in a sane format.
That is so spot on. Put another way, the seed round is a peek to see if you can do what you say you can do, series A is a bet you can make it profitably, and series B is the gas to grow the market. As soon as you know your cash and your profitability cross below the 'zero' line you calk your investors that week and you ask them, call it or push forward. They say no, then you just roll it up. And I know, that is much much easier to say than to do.
Bummer, data ends right before last major storms rolled in. I would like to see how this data has changed over the course of the last week.
Project Implicit: Implicit Bias Tests
Things on iOS are either really really easy or extremely difficult for really arbitrary reasons (can you left align the text in that SearchBox please?). The pain in Android is a bit more constant. Fragmentation is still horrible but getting better.

iOS is slightly more easy overall though.
I hope they're not gonna sue cockroaches
The only reason I chose `Table` was just not to reuse the word `Map`. I agree that there should be a separate abstraction for unindexed sets of tuples. I probably should have called it `IndexedTable` or something.
Because you can't type a search string into the search box in explorer on windows?
They tend to be aesthetically unpleasant and high on the signal-to-noise ratio, yes. Hitting both would be nice, but if I had to choose one, it would be the second one.
Yes Saigon is quite a bit more expensive than where I live. But there is a lot more going on there too.

Regarding visas - the parent is correct. I would only add that you can also make border runs to Cambodia from Saigon - which is a few hour bus ride and quite a bit less expensive than flying some where (around $10).
From what the article says (and it's not very concise as you can see) it's not listening for connections, or at least it's not listening for connections until it's "awoken" by something external.
In the artwork "The Secret Lives of Numbers"[1] by Golan Levin, et al. from 2002, scraping AltaVista with Perl for the numbers 0 to 1,000,000 returned results for every number (otherwise I'm sure this would be mentioned in the report[2]). So at least 7 figures have been omnipresent on the web for the last 12+ years.

[1] http://flong.com/projects/slon/
[2] http://flong.com/storage/pdf/reports/webnums_report.pdf
The comments here seem universally in favor of the author, so I'm going to stick my neck way out, but...

I'm actually kind of worried about tax evasion. Especially here, because jurisdiction shopping seems uniquely available to the wealthy.

I take the author's point that not everyone caught up in this is actively trying to evade taxes, but I'm also not especially saddened by paperwork hardship stories, nor am I moved by taxes on income after the first ~ $100,000 a year.

I'd find the arguments for change far more persuasive if they were accompanied by compelling suggestions on how to prevent tax fraud from people who can afford to buy a house abroad and spend X days a year in it.

I'm serious, I'm in your corner 100% if you just meet me half way, acknowledge these laws have some purpose. There's a problem they're trying to solve, take that seriously. Present a better solution for that problem, rather than just saying we should shrug our shoulders and tear the whole thing down.
That would be the ideal case, a sort of FOSS non-profit structure. Hard to create the economic alignment however.
tl;dr Arby's sells horrible roast-beef sandwiches
Linux 3.18 released, here's what's new
Maybe this is because smaller investments = early stage, and at something like YC you can get more hands-on to help the founder succeed?
Scientific Explanation to the Parting of the Red Sea
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Not MS hardware, but you are forced to use Win 8
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Sigh. I wasn't expressing a fear of institutional oppressions of white people. All I'm saying is that in a desperate attempt to integrate white and black people, you're missing a myriad other -isms.

For my sake, your final paragraph is horribly misguided. I'm sorry you're unhappy where you live, but I can honestly say that there is an ass-load of wealth, education and age segregation where I live.

You can wish for everyone to move into a large urban conglomeration like in some shitty si-fi novel, but the reality is that as long as there is land, people will live there. As they say in real estate, they're not making any more of it.

And back before you hijacked my point to rant about how you don't like where you live and wish others didn't either, I would simply restate my original point that trying to seek out integrated neighbourhoods will most likely lead to unintended consequences as we fail to appreciate that perhaps wealth disparity is more of an issue in 2014 than simply being black or white.

And the only reason I brought up Maine was that friends of ours moved down to Portland looking for black and Hispanic people to expose their children to. What they found was a shitty neighbourhood full of fairly uneducated folks with whom they shared almost no culture touchstones and as a result they had a miserable time.

That may not be everyone's experience, but mashing together black and white people != automatic peacefulness and equality.

Is it possible that at some level humans will always segregate themselves based on what is culturally important to themselves?

Sometimes we have to look at questions in a hard, unflinching way, and prepare ourselves for the answers that come.
Dont ask someone to create an account so quickly.

I cant say for other people, but I have too many accounts and I hate creating accounts unless I have to.

Better to allow someone to upload a photo and make a purchase and convert them into an account later than up front.
Assuming the trojan has a rootkit, it can patch the kernel so that netstat does not report it.
I don't think you can eliminate the ugliness. That's okay. I think if you can somehow cluster the ugly comments together, let the ugly people have that discussion, hidden from view, everything might work out. Perhaps textual analysis is enough, grouping comments by words, clustering by k-means. Similar to how dead accounts can still post here, ugly comments should be accepted, clustered into the ugly pile, and shown only to posters who use similar .. language. If my entire post is 'what a bunch of f__ing sh__heads', it wouldn't be hard to cluster. Then the public/non-logged-in view would default to the 'civil' cluster, with showdead/showugly as options, if you're into that kind of thing.

I don't think you should stick ratings on people, just to comments. If people have any input, Zed Shaw would have a really poor rating, let alone Lennart Poettering. There's nothing inherently wrong with their comments, of course, so they'd likely be clustered 'civil'.

I'm not too familiar with the domain-relevant quiz: that intrigues me. Could you imagine, a did you really read the article captcha? Of course the /. editors can barely fix the typos; creating reading comprehension quizzes is an enormous task. But if I'm the author of a post, I might could do it.
Argh, this page is terrible. I do not give you permission to hijack my scrolling mechanism. Stop it. Stop it now.
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I have direct experience with numerous friends, some with families and others unmarried, moving to urban areas hoping to be exposed to more racial and cultural diversity.

Sometimes they find it, sometimes they don't, but it certainly does happen.
For some definition of progress, certainly, but neither company was an obvious winner in the first couple of years.

The key is to stay very lean until you have definite product/market fit and can raise a huge growth round.
he wrote a little blurp of code that renders a square on the screen
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Links to try them out:

https://twitter.com/letpgfinish (Paul Graham)

https://twitter.com/letkanyefinish (Kanye)
I will be visiting Tokyo and Japan in January. Non obvious recommendations?
I really don't think the Spanish AVE is something to be proud of. The only purpose of building most of the lines was political. And well, because with big projects many politicians can get rich.

The total cost of the AVE has been estimated in over 50 trillion euro, and in some lines they don't even get 100 passengers a day.

Probably, public transportation doesn't need to be build taking only into account the short-term economic profit, but in Spain they just burnt a massive amount of taxpayers' money in a useless infrastructure. And Spaniards will struggle for decades to pay the dept... if they manage to pay it at all.
It makes it more useful to me when others contribute, and more useful to others when I contribute. So, yes. Quite uncomplicated.
What's the current recommendation for a better random number generator? (C please)
Absolutely. It was meant to replace the B-52 but the B-52 is likely to outlive it.

I'm not really even sure how it is an improvement on the B-52 anyways. The listed payloads on Wikipedia is higher than that of the B-52, but I'm not sure I trust those numbers.

I don't think it much matters that it is supersonic. The US enjoys air superiority in all conflicts by virtue of it being the only one with planes in the air. Perhaps it is slightly less vulnerable to SAMs due to its speed advantage? The US is pretty good at neutralizing SAM installations using missiles, long before any planes get over the battlefield.

I don't see how the B-1B can fit into a modern military.
Looks reasonably useful. What would be alternatives to this and what sucks/is great about them?
Probably not enough evidence, plus jurisdiction issues.
I think a lot of the remarks here are missing the sheer genius of the move. I've worked with some truly zany people in this space who were as close to living cartoons as anyone else I've met.

Not that I'd ever hire any of them, but they were good for sheer shock value- exactly what reality shows deliver.

As long as you cast enough of these personalities, aimed for a production value in excess of the capitalization of the startup, and weren't expecting anything but a spectacular failure in the business sense, then there's no reason this wouldn't be moderately successful as an entertainment venture.
New Open Source: “Proteus”, Static Site Starter Kits
That was great, thanks! I'd never played with ed before but as a vim user it was pretty easy to follow without having to think too much. I knew it was an ancestor but never knew it was so similar.
The DSCP field is a good candidate for that.
OSX has a larger userbase of Plan9 fans, I think, including a number who run plan9port on it (Rob Pike has said that he uses such a setup). So the bits that you can't get Plan9-ish might rankle someone. Windows isn't any better, but there aren't many people trying to make Windows feel anything like Plan9 in the first place, so nobody's too disappointed about it.
It's very similar to Eclipse in terms of general layout/workflow. Shortcuts might differ a bit, but nothing major. Many of the tasks which were somewhat awkward in Eclipse like managing libraries are simpler in IntelliJ/Android Studio. Android Studio's integration with the Android SDK is significantly better than Eclipse+ADT, and the build system seems to work much more reliably for me, when it would randomly fail for me frequently in Eclipse.

I've been using Eclipse for my day job for the past 4 years and I have no issue switching between that and Android Studio.