skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently went through dealing with some standard legal agreements for a film project. I never met our lawyer in person, it was all telephone and email.

But when it came to signing documents, that had to be done on paper. And notarized, which was a simple trip to the UPS store. And the originals mailed around, which was a hassle. The parties involved don't even all live in the same hemisphere, so there were some annoying shipping times.
I think that there's too much historical data in Trac for them to ditch it. Migrating would be difficult.
This is an important point I think. People have been referring to these docs for years and got very comfortable with the layout. I'm glad they kept this part so similar.
Assuming there's need for $500K in membership revenue per year implies an awful lot of people chipping in a few dollars each. I don't think that will work out.
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I've only used jQuery once, for a client who insisted we use it, and it was the worst experience of my company's life. It only made us use bold on all our documents which proudly states, "No JQuery!".
Apple brings Russian store offline amid wild currency swings
You completely misunderstood that point. The real issue is when you focus on 1 number you tend to lump ineffective programs with effective programs and have no idea what to cut or what to focus on.

The important thing is not the $ spent it's the long term ROI on money spent. Consider we could replace some instruction time with high cost videos as it’s not like every classroom really needs a slightly different lecture on the distributive property.

If the ROI is high enough we might be better off paying for education with loans. But if it's to low that's a sure way to long term ruin.

EX: Handing out ice cream for anyone with perfect attendance for a semester. Sure there 'cheap' but pointless = wasteful. Ramp that up to handing out ice-cream every Friday for perfect attendance and you might actually make some difference. But, the cost is probably not worth it. Again, the value is not keeping under some specific number but maintaining positive ROI.
Why is that meaningless?
"Undocumented" introduces spin and is an attempt to influence perceptions in exactly the same way that you claim for "illegal".

This is a pro-life/pro-choice game. Give it a break and take it somewhere else. HN is not the place for this stuff.
This is the gist of what their mayor's office has been saying, except they've placed more importance on renewable energy and sustainability. Detroit, lacking everything, is also in a good place to compete to be the greenest.
at 17% the interest rate paid by the RUB shorts amounts to 0.046% per day, whereas just today trough to peak USDRUB moved 35%. In this environment unless you "do a Sweden/Slovakia" and ramp rates to 1000% by preventing offshore banks from funding onshore (a form of capital controls), a measly 600bps hike is meaningless.
I'd love to go back to a print magazine. The problem is that they're hugely expensive to produce, print, and mail. The economics of them are much worse than publishing online.
They can pry my stack of paper magazines from my cold, dead hands.

Seriously now, I read Abrash's stuff on Dr Dobb's, and it was that magazine (above all others) that instilled in me the idea that coding was above and beyond the drudgery we waded through in college - that it was an art form that emerged from systematic thought process and a deep understanding of how bend technology to your will.

I just hope they don't dilute the brand -- I can see someone having the bright idea of setting up a Programming 101 kind of site under that name a couple of years down the road, and really hope someone, somewhere, somewhen, will pick up the torch and make sure it stays associated with "true masters" (if there is such a thing).
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Well in the Bloomberg video (new link) the analyst says that projected "growth" for the Russian economy next year is -4% (so, not growth, but a contraction of 4%).

At 14% interest rates there's basically no way to afford capital investments. Unless you are buying a printing press to print more money.
The IRC gateway also does not. It typically wasn't an issue for me when I was using it as most of my coworkers at the time did not frequently edit messages.
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However that's not the only use case for android.permission.INTERNET - you need it for anything that does networking on the internet, such as API calls to your web application.
Also, some of the most valuable companies are not listed on any stock market, so the stock market is not necessarily any kind of full picture of the worth of the country. For example: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5de6ef96-8b95-11db-a61f-0000779e23...

Yeah, Saudi Aramco 2005 is still worth more than Apple right now.. but oil has fallen so maybe this has changed.
What percentage of the company does my offered equity stake represent?
This seems to be more "Go vs. POSIX Threads". I was expecting a discussion of Go vs. <stdatomic.h> and <threads.h> from C11.
Using Apple products is a pleasant experience. Using jQuery is to avoid learning how to code while purporting that it makes things easier cross browser. Of course, if that were the real reason, we would also have cQuery and c++Query and so on but, instead, we just learn how to code.
"This is because in the last 18 months, there has been a
marked shift in how vendors value website advertising.
They've come to realize that website ads tend to be less
effective than they once were. Given that I've never
bought a single item by clicking on an ad on a website,
this conclusion seems correct in the small."

This is an interesting trend. I for one, have stopped advertising on adwords completely, and now looking for ways to do content marketing or cold calling. I remember paying $2 for a click and thinking wow, not a single purchase after 100 clicks later just an obscure request for more information.

We now also have adblock proliferating so most people don't even see the ads, I myself, a huge user of this extension, in particular the adblock plus which goes even further.

Hopefully, the adwords have gotten cheaper per click, but I doubt it for some niches.

What would happen when websites can't support themselves any longer through banner ads? I think if a business that relies on ad revenues and they have no plan B then they are in trouble. This would also mean bad news for large social media companies that rely solely on sale of ads. Google has already well diversified their operations but such is not the case for twitter or facebook (whiche people use to chat with each other now, as more people would choose to unfollow a typical social media whore).
The fact that "automobile recall" is something that exists and is expected when defects occur, but "software recall" largely does not exist, was his point.
We migrated from trac to jira a couple years ago and it actually wasn't that bad. So glad that we did. Trac works fine for little tiny projects (although these days I would just use github or bitbucket issue tracking). Jira really shines on larger projects though.
Don't forget to tell Neal how much you love "The Big U"
http://www.amazon.com/Big-U-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380816032
Except that AAPL and others will almost certainly have rolling hedges and be essentially unaffacted by this move until they purchase new stock for payment after hedge horizon and/or larger than the hedge size (unlikely since demand will have contracted). This is therefore most likely simply a decision by AAPL not to want to sell product "off market" even if their margins would be safe, or a pure treasury profit directive (benefiting from their hedges directly and not using them to subsidise Russian purchasers).
It will turn a minimal profit this year, but we could find no way to project a profit for next year or the year after.
I don't run AdBlock, but I do run Disconnect. I have nothing against advertising, but I don't like being tracked around the internet.

Running Disconnect without AdBlock is an interesting experience. It shows whose ads are trying to track you, and who just wants to show you ads.
Agreed, a $100 RPM is insane! That means a few years ago, they pushed a $300 RPM.

For that kind of revenue, it sure seems like there's a viable business there...

What am I missing?
Exactly. "No one wants to write their own feature detection code" is the whole point of jQuery.
Awesome.

Do you approach them, as customers, partners or acquirers?
My favorite change lately is the one where they increased the version number on System.Web.Mvc in the GAC, thereby breaking almost all old ASP.NET MVC builds.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/10/16/microsoft-...

The comments on this article have some great vitriol.
Well, it seems that vendors have decided web advertising is not valuable even among user demographics that don't block ads. AdBlock may not be making all that much difference if the basic problem is that people ignore ads even when they see them.

That said, there must still be some value in brand recognition. I guess it's just not as much value as vendors had previously ascribed to these ads.
Seconded. It's really awful. Read Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem.
Apple Prevails in Antitrust Suit Over iPod Music
You're pointing out an IE problem, not a javascript problem that isn't present in other browsers.
Freebase is Shutting Down
Spot on. They now have two options

1) Increase the rate to something truly insane like 1000%

2) Introduce currency controls and force everyone to use Ruble

Neither of these options are good, but #2 seems much more likely.
The Start8 Windows 8 dock (in windows 8 mode) is more in place with current UI of Windows than Microsoft's Windows 10 one.
That's a good point, but (admittedly based entirely on my own anecdotal experience) I'd argue that much software is now bad in ways that are far less subtle.

While there has never been a time where I haven't constantly been running into software bugs, these days I seem to encounter a lot more situations where the bug is so obvious that it is impossible to believe the company didn't see it during development and so egregious that I can't believe they released the software anyway.
Ugh! God no. You've just depressed me even more!
This. It's a bit harsh, sometimes arrogant, filled with 'I don't like MS' kind of speak instead of focussing on facts.
The article does does state some real problems though, that cannot be denied.
However, extrapolating that to a general trend like "there is no QA anymore" (which is at least how I interpreted the article) seems just wrong.
Well, in the district where my mom is a school psychologist, she is essentially responsible for about 4-5000 students spread across 4 schools. Part of her job is to screen kids for special education. Most of her day is spent convincing teachers in various schools that Timmy doesn't have a learning disability just because he acts out occasionally, and that even if he did a Special Ed classroom may well cripple him for the rest of his life. She only has about a day per week per school to administer assessments, provide classroom seminars, and manage confused teachers.

Librarians have a similar problem. Many districts in Washington can't afford even one per school anymore. The library in those districts is either closed or at reduced capacity if the librarian is not in.

I voted for I1135 mainly because it would increase funding for classified staff again, and not because it reduced class sizes.
And then you have to trust the OS. And the machine... Unless you build you computer yourself from silicon, you're not going to get rid of trust.
It's also easy to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy and watch the network traffic an app is sending.
Hi Andrew,

I'm curious to know - have you explored other forms of revenue like sponsored content. For instance there is a great deal of paid software out there and a great number of companies create infrastructure for complex software out there like (e.g. Hadoop). Today companies more than ever are pouring their advertising budgets into marketing budgets to create content around their brands... this could perhaps let you stay on mission creating valuable content for the most difficult software while providing a revenue source. I'm throwing out there what I'm sure you have already considered, but I hate to see a good thing go!
Yeah, I couldn't stand seeing all of those content marketing advertorial blocks with the photoshopped-to-be-eyecatching/vaguely disturbing pictures anymore. I finally gave in earlier this year.
The Eurozone is a massive economic engine. Often depending on rounding, and who did the study will show a larger GDP for EU vs US.
Maybe it's me... but based on the description in the submitted title, I was thinking that this was going to be personalized suggestions for recipes, cooking or dishes, and not for restaurants. The 'Pandora' notion of recommending things based on genre/mood/flavor/style definitely cuts both ways between food and restaurants which makes this seem cool, but I have to say I wished this was for recipes/home cooking instead.
USBRUB moving 3500bps today tells us volatility is high. It does not indicate that we can expect an average move of 460 bps per day going forward. Carry trades perform horribly amidst increasing or ambiguous volatility. Their leveraged structures make sharp adverse swings game overs.
yes basically.

i worked at a firm that used mattermark, datafox, etc. the amount of inaccurate, duplicate, and missing data was very high. all of these services are like a mashup of data sources that are not very good.

there's a reason bloomberg, thomson, etc. focus on public companies.
Surely you can expand on this story. What made using jQuery so painful?
TAG Heuer starts to develop smart watch
Andrew, in fairness this is incorrect. Web advertising on content is no more, nor any less, effective than web advertising in a printed magazine. Rather than ask the question "How many of you have clicked on something and bought it." a more relevant question is "How many of you have bought something, or from someone, you have seen as an advertisement on a web page?" Digikey ads showed up on Dr. Dobbs and I've bought a ton of stuff from them. Sometimes reading an article there, will show an ad, and it will remind me of something I was supposed to get. Then I will go over there and buy it. Almost exactly as I did with the magazine version.

That said, click fraud has really burned a lot of advertisers. That is why advertising on content needs to shift to a performance based model, ads that let you know that someone went to a site after they saw the ad on your page, and bought it. That should net you a few $. As it stands, advertisers bid for 10,000 clicks at a nickel ($500 ad spend) and compare that to what they sell, and they come up poorly. If they set aside $500 to reward the first 100 people who clicked through and bought something you would find things to be very very different. Click fraud doesn't work if the value isn't in the click. But this migration is currently not happening as quickly as we would like.
The chain of trust doesn't quite stop at compiling the source, in order to be really sure that nothing unintended is going on you have to compile the compiler yourself. At the end of the day you will have to trust some bootstrapping binary compiler unless you put it together yourself in machine language.
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Those articles all say that the pre-orders will surpass the US market's equivalent pre-orders. I can't find anything making it official that on an annualized basis China has officially passed the US for iPhone sales. Last year Tim Cook was stating that it would occur soon.

Apple's US unit volume is close to 50 million per year. For 2014, Chinese consumers are expected to buy close to 300 million smart phones, and Apple has close to 15% of that market. So I'd say it's a pretty tight race currently. Apple has a big problem in China however, they're getting squeezed substantially by the domestics (Xiaomi etc). In the US that's not happening, and Apple has held on to their strong ~45% market share.

http://www.ibtimes.com/iphone-6-preorders-china-set-surpass-...

"China could soon surpass the U.S. as the biggest market for Apple Inc.'s iPhone. A report on China's Tencent Monday said Chinese consumers preordered 20 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones in the first weekend they were available for preorder.

"If those numbers turn into sales when the iPhone is released Oct. 17, China will have doubled the 10 million phones sold in the first weekend in the U.S., setting it on the path to be the world's biggest market for iPhones."
anyone know the valuation?
Here is the full interview on YouTube. Bezos is actually a very interesting person to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx92bUw7WX8
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Wow, this is the same guy that did the sound-effects for Wall-E. I mention that because I watched a documentary/interview a while back about the sounds used for that movie. Turns out, it's the same guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSf8Er2gV_Q

The nice thing about that interview is that it had a few "demonstrations" of Ben making sounds from mundane objects. E.g. a slinky making "pew pew" sounds. Or objects making sounds for some of the old Disney cartoons. It's quite amazing what they were able to accomplish with relatively small constructions/gadgets.
Sci-Fi's Neal Stephenson Joins Mystery Startup Magic Leap as ‘Chief Futurist’
It's a page and a half of mostly IE bugs. You should know your bugs and not try to cover them up but, more troubling that you don't want to know these things. Programmers I know want to write code, especially things as insignificant as these.
"that board isn't open hardware: there aren't open source layout files or open source editable schematics and the components in the bill of materials aren't readily available"

This is talking about Arduino of course, and I do wish they would stop using the word "open-source" if they don't bother to document the hardware they "open."

Throwing a half-documented Eagle file over the wall doesn't count.

If they really want to open-source the design of the arduino, they'd publish an official Bill-of-Materials for the project.

Edit: They'd also include official gerber files
Yes, but with so many alternative online advertising vehicles that can be measured more precisely, or that can be attributed to purchase in a shorter and more direct cycle, website display advertising gets deprioritized in media plans.

There's a very real value to awareness campaigns, but awareness campaigns are out of fashion at the moment. It's all about attribution and measurable response right now. The pendulum has swung too far in that direction, if you ask me. But it's very hard to argue with numbers you can tool around with and impact directly, or with placements that you can buy into programmatically, and not on fixed sales cycles. Also, no one site or publication -- no matter how valuable its readership niche -- can outcompete the scale and the addressibility of the dozens and dozens of ad networks out there these days. (Or, at least, very few sites are perceived to be able to outcompete networks.)

Ad-supported publishing is in an unfortunate and precarious position, as this piece sadly but correctly identifies.
Yes, and if everybody will do like you you'll soon find nothing interesting to read, because every free content website will end like DrDobbs.
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Great acquisition by MongoDB. Addressing the shortcomings and fixing them like this is really smart. It's great that MongoDB spent the last year and a half improving the codebase and I expect to see great features in the coming years. The story has just begun with those guys I think and as they get more and more adoption in the enterprise arena (as the DB improves) it will become a standard DB across all lines of business.

I know they aren't the most popular thing around here but they are insanely popular and it's great to see the product improving.
Europe’s Internet Use Surges
Andrew, this is a remarkable (and well-deserved) outpouring of appreciation, love and fond memories of Dobb's. Thank you for the hard work and unabashed personality that you (and Deirdre, and Adrian, and so many others) have put into the publication, and given to the community, over the years.
At least it moved the situation from a no-brainer to "let's do the math before we short ruble".

I don't know if it's going to be effective at all, just trying to find the most charitable explanation for CB.ru actions.
The earliest source for English polyphonic carols
This seems more like a StackOverflow question, but I'll bite; my opinion leans toward "no." The HTML of a page should immediately reflect its presentation, as the HTML and the presentation are inextricably linked. Furthermore, the browser repaints and realigns at times that JavaScript doesn't cause such as CSS (animations or :hover states or what have you) and manually painting only when updates happen would effectively break all of those things.

Also, you'd have to keep two copies of the DOM: one that is "now" and another that is "soon-to-be." Memory usage of browsers is already horrendous, no need to exacerbate it.
Deep learning works analogously to a mathematical technique used in physics
The Mongoliad is team-written, and it shows. It's a sprawling, uneven work, with interesting parts, but also tedious one. It is in no small part a vehicle for the authors' interest in the technical aspects of fighting with medieval weaponry.
https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...
this is like that time my middle school science teacher told me, "face it, you'll never be smart."
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I used something similar until 2011 or so.

If the site's password is always a function of the master password and the site URL, what do you do when a site was breached and you need to change its password? What if the site changes URL (eg twttr.com became twitter.com)?
I'm very sorry to see it go. A nice collection of Dr. Dobb's magazines is an incredible personal resource. Any chance of donating a digital collection of the magazine to archive.org for posterity?
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But the person committed the action, so it doesn't seem unfair for the description to describe both. Much like how we use various descriptions to describe people based on their actions.
They're referring to the Raspberry Pi. The Broadcom chip on it is not open or documented.

The Arduino is from Italy.
What you call Byzantine, I call normal. Some things are harder to learn than others but you can't throw your hands up in the air and let someone else (jQuery) do the simple things for you.

Working with the DOM is what we programmers do. I've never seen so many people complain so much about programming than those who use jQuery.
I think the reach is well beyond tech now. People have figured out they can watch youtube without ads by installing adblock. For me that was a huge incentive and it effectively have made my online experience better.

For those that claim this is stealing, that would imply that there was an explicit price with click to purchase button to view the webpage. There is no entitlement to the website operator, any ad click or donation is completely up to the discretion of the visitor. To claim people are stealing by using adblock is arrogance.
I'm a native English speaker and I was born and raised in the US (specifically the Pacific Northwest), and "shame" isn't weird at all.

It's used to express disappointment – with or without blame.