skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of competitors for the large customers. Few consumers have ever heard of them, though, because they only do large accounts.

Plus, Sam's Club has been on a major push over the past several years to attract small and medium business customers. They will be a serious competitor for Staples Depot Max in that segment.
Google wants to teach you how to say place names like a local
try the product. Speak after.
> 1) Math is fun!

This has been my biggest realization as I started learning more math. What before seemed very arbitrary and unrelated becomes much more interesting and exciting once you have a bit of background. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to get people to see the fun in math until they already know quite a lot of it... this was my experience at least, and seems to be pretty common among people who didn't gravitate towards math immediately.
Time zones in databases
Nah. Some times you want it to crash too.
An electric-assist bakfiets (dutch-style cargo bike) costs around €1600 - way less than this thing; and it works when out of juice. The scooter is probably a bit faster, but with the speed of city traffic and 30km/h / 20mph zones popping up all over, I don't see much of an advantage there.

Of course, the market has room for many variations on a theme. But it also makes me wonder if the motivation for variation sometimes isn't like the design of the Strida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strida). According to an interview Mark Sanders (the designer) gave on TV in the 80s, that was originally designed with an X frame and looked more like a normal bike, but then they did a patent search and discovered a folding bike with that design in Asia. So Mark redesigned it to the A frame you see today not because it was better from an engineering/design standpoint, but to make a protectable design. I'd be surprised if this company didn't have a sheaf of patents in its pocket.
What's the tiny, irrelevant, but useful SaaS app?

Great username, by the way.
Reminder: New Hampshire Porcupine Festival is one of the best technology events of the year in the USA. Tech talks, hackathons, firing guns w/ 3D-printed magazines, homeschooling, mesh networking, all sorts of drones / FPV vehicles, and on and on. And you can buy just about anything with cryptocurrency, from organic vegetables to an AR-15.

If you haven't been, it's really a must-see phenomenon.

http://porcfest.com/
Big fan of supplementation...growing up as a couch potato that medical professionals said should never, ever lift weights due to a physical handicap, I had a lot of body image issues. The fact I really enjoyed comic books didn't help my perception either. Just take a look for yourself and the way the Super Hero bodytype looks like. Straight up juiced[1].

Then, I started natural using a book from the library. Weightlifting actually helped manage a lot of my physical handicap - by being stronger, I was reducing the wear and tear on my body. Well, because I still wanted to break through to another level, I started researching supplements. Using the mind to grow the body.

Protein, Glutamine, BCAAs, Tribulus, ZMA - all of them are natural ways to increase physical strength and also grow into a lean, muscular person. They were good, and eventually I found my way to some PH products. If 19-Norandro was good enough for Mark McGwire (it wasn't he was on the real stuff, that was just a cover story), then I was game to try it! Worked great, enjoyed it but also knew that doing so over a long period of time would have side effects. Eventually 19-Norandro got banned. There are chemists doing great work in the field (I've got my eye on one vendor in particular), and they'll always be 1 step ahead of the law, IMO.

I did a couple more different products but never stacked to the point where I'd need PCT. Honestly, I think budget and liver damage fears were my driving motives. Just look at Arnold - he had to have heart surgery, and I'd bet a lot of money it's related to the muscle being exposed to years of heavy steroid doses[2].

These days I avoid PH or the juice outright. As I age, I might get back into the scene, but it's a crap shoot. There are far, far too many placebo type products out there, and the really good stuff has side effects that must be planned for, otherwise the whole quality of life part goes down, and where's the fun in that?

Overall, I'd say TRT/PH/Juice are definitely not for everybody, but they're not inherently evil. Sort of like alcohol. Not everybody can knock back a dozen beers during a weekend marathon session at home and still be productive / nice / etc, but it's possible depending on the individual.

[1] Freshman year of University the next door neighbor was a Pre-Med, about 5'2" and 205 lbs. We became pals and he let me in on the steroid secrets (cycling, GHB for sleep, etc). We did have a good laugh talking about how comic book characters reflected different steroids: Want to be Captain America? Deca. Wolverine? Winstrol. Sabretooth? Deca + Winstrol! It was a joke in a lot of ways, but kind of not...

[2] Arnold is coming! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHvWYAzIRo
Heh I only go to Office Depot to buy a bunch of what I've found are the best microfiber cloths, only sold at Office Depot: http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/328533/Ativa-Microfibe...
There's a genetic modification for that.
Developer here:
We built AccountDock because we realized how hard it was to get Stripe billing history right.

So many edge cases that we wanted to make sure were accounted for. Excited about what's next!
I finally started writing my book, "Take Control of Your Career". Put up a landing page to give away a free chapter on writing awesome business email to start gauging interest.

http://www.joshdoody.com/career/
Launched[1] first product of our startup[2] on 30th. Working on to get it going.
[1]: http://blog.dsdinfosec.com/a-great-day-for-dsdinfosec-launch...
[2]: http://dsdinfosec.com
Staples gives store credit for printer ink cartridges, even if you didn't buy them there. They also coupon heavily so walking in and buying something retail is like doing the same at Bed, Bath & Beyond.
The NYSE didn't suspend trading to limit the risk of pump and dump directly -- though that's probably among the reasons for their general policies on delisting. The NYSE suspended trading because RadioShack stated that it did not intend to present a business plan identifying how it would return to compliance with NYSE's minimum $50 million market cap requirement for listing. As is policy when that occurs, NYSE suspend trading and began the process for delisting the stock.
Tradition I'd say. In scandinavia all apartment buildings have a shared laundry in the basement for used by tenants who can't squeeze in their own machine (And yes, UK people, having the washing machine in the kitchen is crazy).
Bought a round-trip ticket to Asia which will kick off a trip spanning over 5 months. Longest trip I've ever taken, and I'm staying in Korea for 3 months, hopefully hacking a lot and working on freelance work and sideprojects when I'm not exploring and getting to know the locals! I know it's not really "achieved", but I've been building up to it for a while :)

P.S. Hit me up if you're in Seoul in July-October!
Fixed, thank you! Btw, here is how commit looks like in telegram: http://d.pr/i/an9I
Ah, yes, absolutely true... The bodega is a lot easier to retool into an 'Artisan Deli' than say a Laundromat changing over to be a high-end Dry Cleaner.
Tesora's pivot to open source and the OpenStack Trove project
It might be possible to do a double-blind study on meditation, but you would have to be incredibly strict about the procedure for achieving a meditative state, and you would have to select people who know nothing about "meditation" as a practice both to administer bouts of meditation and to participate in the study. Then your part in the study would be to teach the controls the "placebo" practice and to teach the non-controls the strictly-defined meditative practice, and to convince all of the participants that they're meditating either way.
So, what's the use case? There are a lot of proxies, and some of them are fast, and they tend to have a niche where they are strong. Why did you make it? (That's not an existential question, I'm assuming you had a use case that wasn't well served by existing tools, and knowing that would help me understand what I might use it for.)
I've seen that book a number of times before and always thought about reading it. Do you recommend it?
I started writing a chess game where rather than just two players there are two teams of an arbitrary number of players each who vote on what move to play next. Pitting yourself against a crowd of 100 other players should prove entertaining.

Fun tech too.. using chess.js (https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md), chessboard.js (chessboardjs.com) and Firebase.com at the moment.
Given the limited resources available, what are you expecting to occur? Why would they dedicate staff to back porting drivers that may literally never be used? If the person implementing the driver doesn't personally have a need to run it in an older version of the OS, they aren't going waste precious time back porting it just for the sake of back porting it.
What are the main advantages of Laravel over say Cake or Symfony?
Control your entire PC with the keyboard; helps with CTS, RSI and related ailments
Awesome news, been expecting this since a mysterious twit last week, Laravel is awesome, can't wait to check v5

thanks!
No, this is purely correlative. That's why I, with South Asian genetics, am able to speak a language with no voiceless retroflex stop natively without accent.
1. Nearly completed V1 of Cachet (https://cachethq.io) - unfortunately personal issues arose plus being a bit burnt out meant I was unable to quite reach my deadline. But we're nearing it.

2. Started working on Larameet UK (https://james-brooks.uk/larameet-uk/) which will be a mini-conference/meetup for Laravel and PHP developers alike.

3. Moved back in with my parents so that more of my savings can go towards a house.

4. I reached sixteen weeks of not drinking energy drinks; Monster, Redbull, Lucozade etc and reduced my daily coffee intake to two cups max. I'd rather drink tea and water now. I don't smoke nor do I have a particularly addictive personality, but stopping myself drinking these energy drinks has been really hard and continues to be when I'm near them.

5. Finally (after five years) setup a deployment system for our consumer websites at work. This makes a massive difference and is a step in the direction I want to be doing.
Let's add Codeigniter to the list too. Need a pitch for the employer.
In 18 months we've gone from 3 major national office supply players to 1. What is driving this? Amazon?
Are the old office supply catalogs like Quill still around?
>>> articles from the web and tweet embeds.

I've been around the startup scene in my city for a while and have yet to come across a presentation where someone embedded tweets into their presentation.
I think academics would get pretty annoyed :) Most of my professors just use the exercises from the textbook for homework, usually on the assumption that you can't find the answers online.
Also: https://www.codacy.com :)
I didnt really learn math until I had to use it in my work.
For example my thesis worked used a lot of complex analysis and wave equations. I had had those in Physic and math calss, but really didnt obtain full understanding until using it.
Got to write some F# professionally.

Wrote up an article about getting F# adopted in the work place. It got ~1k views https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-to-get-pragmatists-to-...

Wrote up a very domain specific article on scheduling. It got 8 views
https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/dont-use-the-word-reschedu...
That'll make it impossible to use in scripts. This remember me the time I tried to fix my "rm -r * .o" with a CLI trash system, instead of doing proper backups.

Might be better to start reviewing EVERY command one sends to important servers, and testing them if viable. What probably is the line that vijucat took... that's the line that everybody ends up taking, the only thing that changes is the number of accidents needed.
I participated in the Global Game Jam where I met a bunch of awesome folks, managing to win "Best game made by a group of strangers" at our location! Followed that up with continued development on said game, with the goal of not breaking my personal GitHub contribution streak.
The commit status have been added :-).
Laracasts has a series of introductory screencasts on Laravel 5: https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals
Is the demo down? Looks very useful by the way.
the stm-gc can be run without the STM in a way that's thread safe and does not have the STM overhead. It's almost as good as the PyPy GC (it's missing a few optimizations and it's not incremental, but can be made to work).
Fair enough and you're right, the storage system is awful. Switching to Wiredtiger was smart by them and something like that should have been done far in advance.

The problem with updates in MonogDB is that they are inline and flushed to the filesystem that way. So if you have documents which are growing then the old ones have to be 0'd out and a new one written, which results in a ton of wasted space and an unbelievable amount of thrashing. As you saw, ridiculous amounts of IO time and even with SSD's you get pretty bad SSD wear on your disks.

There's ways around this by pre-padding documents or using buckets if you are pushing into arrays but I can see why you didn't bother. Also, the write lock back then was system level - yikes.

Around 2011 MonogDB was incredibly awful. I will say it has improved manifold since then.
Awesome. Good for you. Keep at it. Keep a journal. Share with others what you learn. Learn from others when they share it.

I'd add a few of books to your list:

Graph Theory by W. T. Tufte: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/product/9780521794...

On Numbers and Games by John H. Conway: http://www.amazon.com/On-Numbers-Games-John-Conway/dp/156881...

And for good re-introduction to geometry and it's practical application to computer graphics: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Graphics-Development-Wordware-L...

I think maths is amazing. It's a useful tool to have in one's arsenal regardless of your profession or walk in life. It's also not the sole domain of the highly educated elite. Anyone can do it.

It's not important to be "correct" all of the time so much as it is to be curious and willing to learn -- and willing to share.

Keep at it! There's so many cool things you can do as you learn more!
It would benefit the whole community if you documented your complaints (and suggestions for improvements) in a blog post we can all read & comment on.
Doesn't VS come with like 6GB of symbols? So you get a nice stack trace wherever in Windows libraries you crash.
Then maintain your own branch like other business users who want to have a stable branch for extended periods of time. And back port the drivers internally if you need them back ported. Literally nobody is preventing you from doing so. There are, however, people that donate extremely large sums of money to the FreeBSD foundation who do support their current release cycles.
> There's also the issue of viewing all pornography of people <18 as 'child pornography'. This is basically a legal grey zone

Let's be quite clear: it is not a legal grey zone. At all. It is illegal.

While I agree that the two examples you gave are different, they both involve adults in a position of power/authority taking advantage of impressionable children that do not yet know any better.
This discussion on using exponential smoothing is very interesting and something I've been following: http://blog.metrink.com/dynamic-alerts/
> 4) Calculus and Linear Algebra are the father and mother of applied math.

> You'll save yourself a ton of grief if you learn them first

Baby Rudin and Axler are used currently by Harvard Math 55 to teach those subjects. Rudin might not be very didactic (I would be happy to hear about alternatives), but Axler is a fantastic choice.
Other people I'm sure are letting you know as well, but it's returning a 502 now from all the HN traffic and it doesn't look like there's a cached copy anywhere
Douglas Crockford Admits Bang Operator the Only Good Part of JavaScript
Low hanging != lowest hanging - But we're splitting hairs here, no worries- just thought it was funny typical analyst speak.
That's the same argument made by conspiracy theorists claiming pharmaceutical companies suppress cancer cures, and it's just as bullshit.

My infertility treatment involved a cheapest-first approach, and that's entirely standard. We were told about charting cycles for best chances, analyses were done, some drugs were tried, and we were able to get pregnant via IUI for about $300 total. IVF is pretty much the final option, tried after everything else fails.
Laravel represents what modern PHP can do and be. Clean, organised, fully object-oriented. Kudos to what Taylor Otwell has created both from a marketing perspective and technical standpoint.
I've stayed well on top of my consulting projects, already done preparing my taxes even!

I made significant progress on my sideproject (implemented native mac, linux, and windows clients in addition to the backend!). Shameless plug: It's a filesystem-based time tracker (think dropbox filesystem monitoring + Machine Learning to automatically classify projects = no-hassle, fully automated time tracking) http://moonlighter.io

Personally, we paid off the balances on my wife's car and student loans. Now to continue tackling my own student loans. (Can't wait to only have the mortgage payment...)
"Over a hundred of Integrations" is still off. Try "More than 100 integrations" or "Over a hundred integrations" or even "Over 100 integrations".

I think the last one is snappiest.
I would argue that Symfony is well engineered, not over engineered. The fact that Laravel is already at version 5 demonstrates just how poorly engineered it was in the first place.
I just started with Laravel and can't compare it really well to the other frameworks, but this is what I like so far:

- it's well-documented

- it has an active community

- I simply enjoy working with it. It feels lightweight, although it probably isn't, if I take a good look at the "vendor" folder and the dependencies

- I get stuff done relatively quickly

Edit: So I started porting my small Laravel 4 project to 5 and to be honest, my first impression is: Laravel 5 is more like Zend Framework than the small and nice PHP framework. It lost a bit of its lightweight flair for a potentially more structured architecture, but I kind of hate to put everything in "Service Providers" and "Middleware" and whatnot.

E. g. before, you had a folder "app/controllers", now you have "app/Http/Controllers" and "app/Http/Middleware" and "app/Http/Requests". While this might make sense for bigger projects, it also loses a bit of its lightweight charm.

With Laravel 4, things seemed to be more straight forward.
I agree with you, that book is great for giving an overview of the general areas of mathematics and for providing context before going deeper into an area. I've used it to get some background in the courses I'm taking classes on before the semester starts and have found that really helpful.
Lots of green boxes in my GitHub contributions/activity table (compared to the entire last year). But honestly, most of those activity is on my own projects, I would like to contribute more to other open source projects :)
Is that why I have been seeing a Cloudflare redirect message at most sites I've visted this week?
I like famous baldy John Glenn's take on this:
"The good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them."
(I've heard several versions of the quote, so take the wording with a grain of salt.)
I agree, awesome resource which is rapidly levelling up many modern php developers.
I thought codeigniter was dead? I could have sworn they announced 2 years ago it was no longer going to be developed.
Good point. In Vietnam I witnessed a family of four riding a single scooter. Baby brother was standing on the seat between mom and big sister!
5 Effective Coffee and Tea
It would be a great addition to be able to upvote/downvote from the extension, and see an overview of who made the post (user) with karma details
We don't wear ties.
Can you provide some references? I've been prescribed T and get it via a compounding pharmacy in liposome cream form, so now I'm curious if it's actually worth it.
> we can't measure what we don't know.

I guess another interpretation of that statement is more along the lines of "We can't measure how much we are currently unaware of", which seems to make more sense.

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> But one should say: There is a regime where Newtonian mechanics breaks down and Quantum mechanics governs, which is determined by the Planck constant.

I find this completely unsatisfying. I used to think that a theory is either proven wrong or not proven wrong, and Newtonian mechanics is proven wrong. However, I got a new confidence in Newtonian mechanics when I had explained to me that Quantum mechanics yields Newtonian mechanics in a make-believe world where Plack's constant is exactly zero. So, while Newtonian mechanics is proven wrong, it is also (nearly) identical to our best current theory in many circumstances.

That is: According to Quantum mechanics, Newtonian mechanics is correct within the bounds of this exact forumla: insert super complicated formula here

In yet simpler terms: Newtonian mechanics is Quantum mechanics (except that it is always off by a miniscule, totally ignorable, amount. Except in extreme circumstances)
For LA a great place to start is http://codingthematrix.com/

For programmers with less math experience it serves as a perfect transition with which to then go into more theoretical aspects of LA.
I'd make sure you use the new storage engine, wiredtiger too if you give them another shot. The standard one works well on read heavy use cases but saturates I/O pretty quickly if you're doing a lot of updates that make documents grow if you don't take some precautions.

I also agree, having a setting of "fire and forget", although useful in some (limited!) use cases, is not a sane default.
I understand. But it's not a suitable Show HN post. Show HN is designed for something that we can try out now.
From an IT perspective, it means a lot of integration work between the two companies. So the employees have that to look forward to. I imagine many Office Depot employees will be jumping ship early to avoid the massive layoffs at the end of the year.
We are using it ourselves as both XMPP and Telegram messenger. But the truth is, we are not planning to develop a stand-alone messenger. XMPP messengers are slowly sinking and Telegram looks like a nicer alternative. Especially considering Telegram's team showing interest in our project.
Your predisposition is genetic, but like many things, it's not an on/off switch, and will land you in a gradient. Beyond that, there are lots of variables like how much of your T is albumin/SHBG bound, glucocorticoids, 5a-r, etc. Our endocrine and inflammatory responses are crazy complex.

That said, it's easily the leading causal agent, and most people will experience some form of hair loss in their life. Women experience loss at levels that might surprise you. Tellingly, the first defense for women is usually an antiandrogenic (anti-T) called Spironolactone.
US Gov retires 'clipper chip' used in NSA surveillance
Laravel changes.. er.. updates a lot more often
Extending the IoC container?? A ControllerFactory?? You never do anything like that in Symfony. The thing I appreciate most about Symfony2 is how it enforces good design patterns.
What follows is unlikely:

If the majority of taxpayers were to pay in Bitcoin, revenues would be transparent, which is a step toward a free and open public audit of budgets.