skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently you make much more money (in a restaurant setting at least) if you omit the currency, use round numbers and no decimals.

Rabbit with oyster and samphire - 7

Rabbit with oyster and samphire - £7.00
"If PHP developers are made to feel terrible, they will leave and there will be less and less great developers working with PHP."

I don't quite see how this might be a problem. Does the author think those people would be less great in another environment? Does PHP own these people?

"Often times, people are just complaining about PHP because it’s a popular thing to do."

No. We do not complain about PHP because it's popular. We complain about PHP because it sucks and we are forced to use it.
5 Tips to Build the Next Big Messaging App
Silk Road founder's parents speak out
Talk about an abusive family.
Three months in, Android Lollipop finally grabs 1.6% adoption
The article doesn't even properly explain the mistake. Though it's easy enough to look it up in a dictionary and see that the "of" is superfluous.
We got taught lots of basic stuff in GCSE. I remember high level stuff about computer parrts, peripherals, etc. Not much about networking. All very 'fluffy'.

A-level started more programming. We learnt Turbo Pascal (6 maybe?). I wrote my own DOS based windowing app for a sailing (racing) management tool.
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Virus is just the software, it requires a living cell to reproduce (run it).

Bacteria or algae is your best bet.
Yeah, agreed. It's functional, but technically weak.

This might be a place to introduce functional pipelines like Haskell's Pipes, Machines, Conduits. They solve the effectfull iteration and streaming problem, but the mechanism is heavily transformer based.
To show how silly the "right wing" vs "left wing" split can be, the UK under the government of Mrs Thatcher ("right wing") gave military assistance to the Khmer Rouge ("left wing") - presumably as the latter were the enemies of the Vietnamese ("left wing").
>> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

Thomas Jefferson. Yeah... that Thomas Jefferson... not just some random dude with a common name.

There is a propaganda campaign to convince people that americans were united as hard core puritan evang neocon christians continuously from the earliest days until a very recent fall like when the Beatles arrived, but that fantasy has nothing to do with reality, of course.
How Brazil is feeling now?
Because it alludes to problems many people have experienced with this product. All verbal communication is indirect to a degree. This is no exception.
PeerJ announces new journal: Computer Science
On the opposite side of the fence, whenever I am in Canada I will repeatedly be caught off guard by the actual price not being what's on the label. Even little things, like handing over a dollar at the dollar store to a look of disdain from the clerk. Or buying a bunch of books, doing the maths in my head, and handing over too little cash without paying attention to the cashier.
Ill take the Viet Cong over a government code base any day :)
The US government is a very large entity. Be careful in personifying it and condemning the whole based on some high profile actions of a portion of it. Many portions of it do good work that are invaluable to our society. A broader view is required.
> Longevity might be a problem, but it's reducible to an investment decision

Vehicles are not "investments" as they diminish in value rapidly after the initial purchase. A 6 month old vehicle is not worth what a brand new one is. The reason we have so many older vehicles on the road (>10-15+ years of age) is simply because majority of citizens cannot afford new vehicles.

Replacing parts in modern-day "dumb" cars is incredibly expensive. If you radio goes out, you're looking at close to $1,000 just in parts and labor. There's few repairs that eat less than $500.

Most vehicle owners neglect their current "dumb" car, let alone a rolling piece of computer equipment.

Vehicles will last fewer years. They will be more expensive (in both initial cost and maintenance). Aged vehicles won't be reliable nor safe to operate.

These are the realities driverless vehicle proponents are simply not considering.
We're really happy with MongoDB too. Can't wait to see how these improvements will work out for us.
+97% in Kreuzberg is so sick :/
> You all have slightly different workflows: workflows that enable you to do your thing in the best way possible.

> You could force everyone to track their time and their progress in exactly the same way, even if it doesn't fit their workflow

These lines briefly made me hopeful that this was some clever layer in front of all the various project management systems that would allow them to talk to each other.

I would value this because I vastly prefer the seemingly uncommon terminal-based workflow, and such a layer would presumably be able to talk to Emacs org-mode or whatever, just as it talks to Jira.

As it is, this is just another project management system that doesn't fit my workflow.
And hope they don't discover the [Zeroth Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#Zeroth_...)
Although, in the UK some big chains moved away [0] from the .99 prices because everybody knows that it's just a marketing trick and having round numbers seems more 'honest'.

That was a few years ago, maybe they've gone back to it since...

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8159072.stm
I definitely want it, but they aren't shipping to México yet, that's bad news for me.
Your Mac’s built-in screen recorder
Just because we like a company's products doesn't mean it makes financial sense for society to allow it to externalize many of its costs such as transportation of employees, roads, social welfare, and health care.
Not wholly. Poor government intervention caused the problem as well.
Aren't we seeing it? I thought Qt does support WP8+: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/winrt-support.html
Can you elaborate on these limitations?
How to Control Your Computer from Your iOS Device
What do you pay 10 people in a month? Probably somewhere between $60,000 and $100,000? Is the $90 vs $20 really that big of a difference? Especially if it's a good tool that helps your team be slightly more productive.

I'm not saying that it will, I haven't tried it so I have no idea. I'm just surprised that people really want to shave less than $100 off of the tools they provide their team.
It's not only about the low wage they getting, or GDP per capita, there's also the working and living conditions you have to consider. They don't have holidays, can't take a vacation, don't have insurance at work, no sliding hours, no personal input whatsoever. Their whole life is determined by work, with virtually zero change of improvement within their generation. Maybe, just maybe, they can save a little for the education of one child. The next kids are toast.
Low wages are one thing, but it's even worse if you have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for it.
Can some people who have used Mongo in production elaborate on their experiences where Mongo worked well or didn't work well? I see a lot of more hate than I do love for Mongo on HN and I'm curious why.
Ask HN: Has anyone here used Axosoft for project management?
Our company is looking at switching to Axosoft for our project management. Has anyone else had any experience with using their (web) software? Was it worth it for you? Any particular problems or pain points? Anything else we should know before jumping into it?
Total agreement generally, but I wanted to mention that the Any -> X downcasting is trouble sometimes. It is difficult to do this in a type-safe way (e.g. without accidentally introducing holes) and if you have typecasing universally then you lose parametricity, one of the most powerful tools in any polymorphic type theory.
Agreed. Even if you think the tax code benefits the $interest_group_of_choice, reducing the number of automatically flagged audits, for example, due to better algorithms, is a win for everybody.
To me it is more about what do you want to do more, create and support your own blog software just so you can post once or twice a month or just use something that works so you can write. From my own experience if I have to create/support the code, I stop writing consistently and fail to post.

Wordpress is a bit of a beast, but it just works. The security concerns while not improper, are just not that worrisome for a basic blog. Wordpress can be plenty secure if you keep plugins to a minimum and follow best practices.

Ghost is a great option, and way more back to basics blogging to me. e.g. it gets rid of all the noise of trying to be everything to everyone which minimizes the security risks etc. This would be the direction I would recommend personally.
Jira is insanely configurable - if using jira is painful, that means that your jira admin has not configured it well for your workflow.

The config my company is using makes it somewhat more pleasant than stock bugzilla or trac (though not nearly as convenient as github issues was).

The amount of crap you can turn on if you like can make the interface completely unusable, of course. But that's true in anything with a lot of configurability. It's the cost of being able to build your own process onto the tool.
It's easy to forget that Apple and a number of the corporate giants of today were born in a time when there was much less competition, not just in the tech business but in life in general.

In 1977 California's population was almost one half what it is today, heck the world population was almost one half what it is today. We see the vast pool of smart educated people on the planet as normal right now, but back even 40 years ago a tiny fraction of people really fit the bill.

I'm a firm believer that most of the heroes of history would be considered average shlubs today. They just happened to be possessing the right balance of intelligence, vision and work ethic at the right time in history.
Thanks for giving Matterhorn a chance! It's really good for us to see feedback on the price point. We've been completely bootstrapped up to this point and are trying to find a price point that would be good for our users but at the same time generate what we need to keep the project going and allow us to refine and develop it's features.

Would be great to hear any feedback you have on the features, as you seem to know what you want from pm tools.
Yeah, sorry, I meant reducible to a capital allocation decision. Which businesses frequently call investment.
The Silly Reason Why Apple Needs to Keep Growing
I would suggest to look at Tuleap[1]

Open Source full featured ALM, self-hosted or SaaS[2] consistent & easy to go upgrades.

(Disclosure: I'm part of the dev team)

[1] https://tuleap.org
[2] http://mytuleap.com
This page does a very good job at explaining what this project is about. I'd like to have a comparison of features with the competition somewhere (on another page maybe?), but this is very good.

Interesting project, I'll give it a try.
This may not belong on Hacker News, but I really enjoyed it and it made me think about how Pete (the author, my printer) has truly lived this out. He can't argue with Homer - Homer's standard is what it is and it must be adhered to.
This logic is sound, but any product will be compared price-wise to its competitors if all marketing statements are taken at face value (e.g. they all offer the same benefit of allowing you to manage your projects).
I was wondering that myself. One guess- the proportions are important and they don't know what culture medium to use. The gut is a complex environment. What if they grow it in a lab and some unknown minor microbe is selected out?

On the other hand, I bet they're working on it.
This exact strategy would have backfired with Krispy Kreme, however.
I like the term MDP,

For me I have always seen getting an MVP is the "I want to make money approach" where the MDP is the "I want to change the world approach."

Although, this obviously creates issues with investors, it seems the best companies are those that try to invent something new, as opposed to the next photo sharing app.

Unfortunately, many times this leads to the companies demise. Focusing on inventing as opposed to money can create a disconnect between company and users. That being said, I hope Ruxit can make it. I am impressed, and now that they have customers it seems the MDP strategy probably paid off!
http://jekyllrb.com is a great static site generator for blogging, and can be paired with GitHub Pages for free hosting.
> So does this mean that we need to come full circle and become worse and being better due to claiming to feel worse?

Usually when people begin kicking up a dust, the solution is to stop kicking– in this case I think that means to avoid making claims, and focus instead on doing great work!
Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel
The user's wiki page does explain what is wrong with "comprised of": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of
"it is fine to come out and talk about how to deal with these odd mental effects"

When they are sincere, sure. But increasingly they are becoming like the thin girl forever talking about how she feels fat (or, I suppose, the not thin girl declaring that anyone thinner is anorexic). The Dunning–Kruger thing is referenced so frequently on here and other technology sites that it is like the attempt at a great equalizer: People aren't better than me, and the only way they can think they are is the Dunning–Kruger effect.

It is some sort of race to the bottom / lowest common denominator equalization thing. I'm not saying that the feeling of inadequacy at times isn't real, but it is becoming a badge and measure of superiority.
I went on this crusade once, and it was completely unrewarding. I failed utterly to either stomp out the error I was targeting, or to piss anyone off.

The best way to enjoy Wikipedia is just to log out and read articles.
Filing this away in my memory for future reference. It will be interesting to see if one man can change the direction of a language, even in a small way.

Language is a fluid thing, and the phrase "comprised of" seems perfectly natural to me (and probably most people). Once something like that happens it's usually on the way to becoming grammatically correct, regardless of what the current grammar rules state.
I thought I was seeing an onion headline at first.
>I'd like a pony.

All right, have an over-worked pony and stop pretending not to know about marginal costs and prices. As long as the worker in Cambodia remains cheaper by anything over the exact cost of shipping than the one in South Carolina, rather than by orders of magnitude, his country has a comparative advantage.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/196/0/f/tired_appleja...
I never considered this with prices. Interesting.

Which is odd because I always consider this with project deadlines. Whenever I see deadlines of the 1st or the end of the month I know it is a date picked out of the air and not based on the actual work required.
The World's Fastest Pianist Pays Tribute to Michael Jackson
The mistake:

>Although “comprise” is used primarily to mean “to include,” it is also often stretched to mean “is made up of”—a meaning that some critics object to. The most cautious route is to avoid using “of” after any form of “comprise” and substitute “is composed of” in sentences like this: “Jimmy’s paper on Marxism was composed entirely of sentences copied off the Marx Brothers Home Page.”

>There’s a lot of disagreement about the proper use of “comprise,” but most authorities agree that the whole comprises the parts: “Our pets comprise one dog, two cats, and a turtle.” The whole comes first, then “comprise” followed by the parts. But there’s so much confusion surrounding the usage of this word that it may be better to avoid it altogether.

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/comprised.html
...and their most important improvement isn't even their own.

I'm not a fan of bashing any product, but after using MongoDB in several projects, in legitimate document database use cases, I just can't find any bright side.
WashPo kept it from the original story headline:

http://www.freeenterprise.com/story/the-key-to-a-stunning-me...
MongoDB seems to be a love/hate relation. I haven't used it myself, but I found this article[1] very useful. My conclusion is that MongoDB works, but you need to understand it and take some time to plan the deployment.

[1] https://blog.serverdensity.com/does-everyone-hate-mongodb/
Thanks for posting this.

Imagine what would happen to the country if, after Obama was elected, every single right-leaning person employed by the government up and left. Government services rely on continuity, particularly stuff like welfare and social security (in the US). Imagine if you had to completely retrain that workforce every four years.
Internet of Things: exciting opportunity or huge risk for car manufacturers?
This would be perfect for map quizzes in school!

You should enable custom quizzes.
Obama Wants More Money for Military Spy Satellites, Lasers, Space Fence
You'll hate me for this. "... comprised of ..." is incorrect.[1] Please forgive me. It occurred to me you might be trolling, but I concluded you weren't.

[1] http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules-and-tips/com...
'Correct' because people favor an irregular usage is a weak form of correct. I favor the effort to try and keep the language regular. Following rules makes it easier to learn and teach.
I like it. Here are a few thoughts:
1. I agree about the price point. If it were $5 I might be a buyer. I know it's insignificant, but it adds up when you have a team of people.
2. I would run this entire site on SSL. There's some good stuff to sniff here.
3. I don't like having to type in the name of a project and clicking the + to get to the form. I would rather just click + and get the form. Didn't seem intuitive to me.
4. When leaving comments on a feature, it was duplicating the comment. My username was there and then the same comment with blank user data.
5. On the "dashboard" or whatever you want to call it, tickets that I have assigned to myself for today aren't showing up. I have to go to the planner.
6. I clicked "Board" and then all of the links died. Refresh got me to the board.
7. When I move things in the Planner, they don't seem to take effect. I can't seem to get a ticket into Today.

Overall, I like what you've done here. I like being able to segment by customer and the board. Simple interface that is good once you learn the workflow.
Show HN: Sonification of Income Inequality on the NYC Subway
I have been developing with MongoDB for about the past year. (Briefly, I have developed, and continue to support, an ASP.NET MVC C# Web Application that's used by a few thousand people daily. For my personal projects that use MongoDB, I develop with PHP and Python.)

Overall, I enjoy working with MongoDB, because it (generally) maps directly to your object - there is no need for an additional layer (such as an Object Relational Mapper (ORM)).

However, you have to be more careful with your data structure. For example, having sub-arrays in sub-arrays is probably not a good idea.

I will be happy to share more, so feel free to look up my profile.
>The Internet is enabling a government of the people for the first time since our population exploded in the last century.

Is that you, Obama? What is this nonsense?

>Things are bad right now, but they're getting better.

Things - socially, politically and economically - are continuing to get worse for the average person.

What world are you living on?
"Comprise" has very specific usage. If you refuse to learn it and use it anyway, it makes you look to someone who does know that usage like you're trying too hard to sound smart by using words above your pay grade. I can see why people get activated one way or another over it. "Comprise" is a line toed in the dirt, a battle over what language means and how it should be used.
If you read the link I posted upthread, I won't have to repeat my response to the claim that Obama is more zealous about the Espionage Act than his predecessors.
Should You Tell You Children How Much You Make?
Without actually proffering an opinion on the government, your argument has a problem. To the extent that streamlining some bit of the government with software frees up resources to be used elsewhere in the org chart by folks engaged in activities with which you disagree, a software developer would absolutely have enabled the offending activity.

I suppose you could counter that the abhorrent practice of intentionally wasting resources to ensure that subsequent budgets don't shrink will tend to prevent the torturers from getting the additional funds you free up with your advanced tax or road planning software, but there remains a good chance you'd free up resources for something within the department that would cause someone to be worse off than they were before. The only winning move is not to play. (OK, that was an opinion on the gov't)
Even spreading it around will work in Google's favor in this case. In this case, it seems Google's goal would be gathering transportation (and obtain tracking information). Thus they could undercut Uber prices.
I'd be interested to hear more about the creative dynamic between this new book and To Kill a Mocking Bird. It says she put this new one aside 60 years ago to write TKaMB, but it features the characters later in their lives. I wonder if she was sketching out backstory to flesh out the characters and that was more compelling, so she pivoted and wrote To Kill a Mocking Bird instead?
How to turn $200 into $100M
Epigenetics gives credence to the environment having impact across generations. It doesn't really vindicate Lamarck, there are just some quiet echos of his ideas there.
You're right, of course, but it would be nice if "comprise" didn't have to have two opposite meanings.
You are still in the honeymoon period. Wait till you scale enough to start running into issues and you will then likely change your tune.
Jira screens & workflow can be configured as simply as you would like, enabling advanced features as the team grows. If you had a bad Jira experience, it may have been due to those who came up with development policies, rather than the software which implemented those policies. Any specific issues with the software itself?
I'm not the OP, but the last fintech startup I worked at used the hosted version. It was slow (server and client side), a memory hog in the browser, every extra feature was more $$$.

It took a few weeks to get a suitable workflow set up, and in spite of my gripes it's one of the best issue trackers around. I miss working with it on other projects.

What I really want is a fast and lightweight Jira.
I think there are a couple of problems:

1 - SJS effectively 'solves' the concurrency problem, but it is not a problem that is on the top of most people's mind when they write an application. To a first approximation, the concurrency problem in JS looks "solved" to people already (promises, generators, etc), and it is only when you get down to it and look at it in detail you see that SJS is actually a substantially more complete solution to the problem.

2 - Many people see it as a 'cute' solution that doesn't scale to big applications. To counter that point we've developed a complete SJS client/server framework - https://conductance.io - and are writing big complicated apps on it (such as http://magic-angle.com/ ). It's still rough around the edges, but we're pretty confident that the upcoming release (scheduled for end March) will show
just how powerful the SJS paradigm is. There is a presentation on it here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/real-time-app-stratified-...

Disclaimer: I work on SJS!
I linked to this rather than the NYT's piece for two reasons:

1. The NYT piece has already been on HN and so most people have seen it.

2. This post has a different opinion and one I don't think many people have been exposed to.
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