skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know I very rarely use my phone for phone calls.

This trend bugs me to no end. I call a lot, I need a really robust, integrated phone app on my phone.

This is precisely I moved away from iPhone to Xiaomi after years of being with iOS. iOS 7 dumbed down the phone app so much, it was unusable for me. Xiaomi on the other end, is probably the most powerful phone for calling purposes that I've used, one click call recording, seamless conferencing, speed dials, auto-detection of which number I use of a particular contact most often (and the one I used last time, right with search results). It is so powerful, meanwhile iOS 7 did away with search using keypad. In iOS 7 and beyond, to make a call, I have to peep into my 2000+ contact list.

From what I know, Windows 8.0 and 8.1, too, has fantastic feature rich phone apps.
Get coffee dates with people and friends nearby
Oh! I love this - and how you can leave comments on each photo. This type of page would be perfect for posting & sharing travel photos.
Bigram frequencies for Emacs key chords
I likely miss something, but I find it intriguing that the movie isn't apparently based on her work, yet she wants the original contract being honored because the movie IS based on her work: if the movie isn't based on her work, the contract isn't in play here.

So if the movie isn't based on her work, how can it be seen as a result of the contract she signed?
"For the last six months [ RPi team has ] been working closely with Microsoft to bring the forthcoming Windows 10 to Raspberry Pi 2. Microsoft will have much more to share over the coming months. The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible version of Windows 10 will be available free of charge to makers.

Visit WindowsOnDevices.com today to join the Windows Developer Program for IoT and receive updates as they become available."

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support
Ask HN: Successful web company founder/CEO looking for experienced advice
I run a successful small web-based company around classifieds search and aggregation. (I don't refer to it as a start-up since the goal has never been to get big and exit; we're bootstrapped into comfortable profitability and I'm happy to continue organically growing the business.)

I come from a tech background, and I've picked up a number of skills along the way related to the business side - everything from interviewing to accounting - but I expect I could benefit from talking to someone who has successfully navigated all of this before.

I won't get into all the specific questions I'm pondering here, but they are things like, for example, what's the best way to hire for positions where you yourself have little knowledge? I have no difficulty hiring developers, but I find the idea of hiring a dedicated marketing or sales person rather daunting. Or how best can you grow the business without growing your own workload proportionally? I know delegating is important, and I try to do as much of that as possible, but I find that while each new hire tends to increase our work capacity, it's more likely to slightly increase my workload than decrease it. I expect that's also related to only having hired developers so far. (Although compared to some of the horror stories you read around here, I have it really easy; I've very rarely had to put in the insane hours that seem so common in the world of startup founders.)

Anyway, if you think you might have some useful input and would like to chat, let me know! I appreciate it immensely. And of course, if you're reading this and think I might be able to help you, feel free to reach out for that too.
Meh. I wasn't excited by any OS releases for a while now.

I'm normally using OSX, but I give Ubuntu a chance on every LTS release. Every time there are less and less dealbreakers, but the thing is – the downsides of switching are quite real and immediate, while the upsides are mostly idealistic.

So the operating systems ceased to be a thing on my radar. I just accept them as very basic tools that they are, and spend my energy elsewhere.
The wiki I know for telling me all the new cool stuff is junk switches to a SPA? That's ironic.

But seriously, in my eyes, a wiki is excatly what a SPA should not be used for, because of its document based nature. Trying to fix an overload problem with an SPA tackles the problem from the wrong side imho.
Can anyone actually explain what is so important in Version 2? All I can see in release-2.0 notes, is an upgrade to Qt5
Responsible countries handle this through a simple legislated idea - personal bankruptcy; this is a political populist move not inspired by any actual reasoning into effects of this on economy. Not that I think effect is of any serious impact, for anyone.

This move is exactly of the category that is crippling Croatia. We (yes, a Croat here) are in a bit of a pickle, and let me explain the core of the it...

Even excluding astonishing amount of pensioners (many from previous regime) and war-inflicted disabled persons (whose actual condition is matter to be looked upon suspiciously) and other non-working class of people, work-force segments into two distinct categories - directly or indirectly dependant on the goverment as source of income, and the good "old" private sector. The trouble here is that former is riddled with catastrophic inefficiency, corruption and evades competitive market, and the latter carries the burden of former. The issue is - in democratic elections, majority wins, and the former here is the majority.

So we keep up with this cancerous tumor of goverment-dependants who won't ever vote for someone who'll put a stop to it (hey, they're not crazy, why would they vote against their immediate interests), and violently cut it out of the system.

Maybe, and just maybe (haven't crunched the numbers), within a generation, when few factors align (war-disabled die off, unemployed numbers increase even more), the actual critical mass of value-adding work-force outweighs the tumor, brighter days await us. And even that is under assumption there will be an election choice that'll be catalyst for those changes at that point.

I personally don't hold an optimist view. Hell, even our geographical geometric shape looks unstable and unnatural. War ended by higher powers putting a stop to it, not resolution. And as far as EU membership goes - meh, we're again at the age-old role of a border country as a proxy for keeping the region stable and keeping the muslims out. Important role, but hardly grateful.

Not to end on a completely sour note - I did notice a sentiment of unity last few years. Particulary noted during holiday sales (or the lack of excessive spending), people seem to coalesce in misery, slowly perceiving that we're in this shit together, unlike during last two decades, where they would aspire beyond means, due to many factors including prominence of war-profiteers. Like my grandma said: "It was never worse here during my lifetime. After WWII at least everyone was poor."
Same as most of people in my age - there was no internet when I was starting my adventure (roughly 20 years ago). In my particular case it was even funnier - computers were so expensive my family could not afford one until I was 17. But I have fallen in love with them since I have seen them for very first time at the age of 6. I could not play with real computer so I have been reading all available books from the library and in some point at the age of 13 I came across programming books. I loved the concept of how you can create new things out of nothing (that's how I have seen programs at that time) and also I loved the sense of full control when creating them. My friend got pentium 386 running midnight commander on it and he also got across quickbasic - we have spent couple of days writing some programs (I particularly wanted to write a 'password' program that you would not be able to continue until you issue the correct password). Great fun! Soon I have read most books available from the library about programming and even hand-copied one of them (the one about C). I did not understand half of it but found it helpful when got my first hands-on session later in the age of 17. Once I got my computer it was already feeling natural - I was participating in algorithmic competitions (with no major successes) and all the time spent was adding up to my feel of coding. Great time :-) missing it now..
Android Issue Tracker plagued by spammers
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so I am cynically going to presume a bunch of folks think you're nitpicking on the words, but you're not.

The derivation is correct, but it is not a proof of anything. Maxwell's equations aren't textbook PDEs that exist in a vacuum, devoid of any connection with the surrounding world. They are quantitative approximations of real-life phenomenae, that hold only under very specific circumstances, and break when those conditions (about e.g. distances) aren't met.

The proof that the speed of light in vacuum (which the article "helpfully" fails to mention) is constant is experimental. If the experiment would fail, Maxwell's equations would have to be modified. Any predictions they make are tested against the reality, not vice-versa.

Oh yes: I'm not nitpicking about their failure to mention it's the speed of light in vacuum. The final expression is constant only because \mu and \varepsilon are (supposed to be) constant in vacuum. Precisely the same expression predicts the (correct!) fact that the speed of light is not constant, but depends on the properties of the material it is travelling through.

Edit: this should be very obvious from the fact that the derivation is based entirely on the four laws that constitute Maxwell's equations, not on theorems. Laws are not deduced mathematically, but formulated by experiment. Their predictions cannot constitute a proof. It may be tempting to treat their predictions as such, because in mathematics any correct result obtained by derivation can constitute a proof, but this is not the way to look at a set of physical laws. Maxwell's equations also "prove" that things like squeezed light cannot exist -- despite the fact that it clearly does, since we can generate it. These incorrect predictions are not onthologically different from correct ones.
Github: https://github.com/fedwiki

Lots of Youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=federated+wiki
This can't be real.. 'PERL itself stood for "Precision Entry and Reentry Launchings"'
London - Mixlr - F/T

We are hiring an experienced backend/full-stack web developer with deep knowledge of Ruby and Rails.

Mixlr is a platform for social live audio and you will have the opportunity to design and build the next generation of streaming audio software. Experience with JavaScript and interest in Linux server provisioning would be an advantage.

For full information drop us an email with your GitHub profile to jobs <at> mixlr.com. (No recruiters, thanks.)
FACT SHEET: President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative
Each of those "everybody" should have a huge asterisks next to them.
In most European cities you really do not need a car. That does not stop a lot of people from owning cars anyway out of convenience, and because they can afford it.
There are better release notes in the download:

---

2015-01-23: Version 2.0.0

New features

* Switched to Qt 5 and updated WebKit (issue 10448)
* Implemented clearing of memory cache (issue 10357)
* Added support for HTTP header change for every request (issue 11299)

Improvements

* Fixed rendering of CJK text by always linking the codecs (issue 10249)
* Ensured onResourceReceived is still fired on an error (issue 11163)
* Fixed possible crash in handling network requests (issue 11252)
* Removed hardcoded GhostDriver launching message (issue 12681)
* Allowed disk cache more than 2 GB (issue 12303)

Examples

* Netsniff example should exit when fails to load (issue 11333)

---
Good luck to that guy. A lot of lawsuits over movie plots seem to be frivolous and I've supported the film company more than once, but that one seems to be the exception to the rule.
ARMv7... so Ubuntu will finally run on this. No more hours of compiling software.
Yea, if there were a Go teaching site beyond Go tour http://tour.golang.org/, that would be something. Regardless of language, https://rubymonk.com is one of the nicest interactive teaching with "try out this snippet" and "solve this problem" sites out there. The issue for Go is that it probably needs a little bit more on the video explanation-side for new users (distilled from Google I/O, Gophercon) to explain features. People would probably pay to be taught backend languages (Erlang, Go, ...) and infrastructure in a https://www.codeschool.com format (irrespective of spoon-fed teaching resulting in SRE-calibre practical experience.)
Malaysia declares MH370 disappearance as an accident
Just to clarify, as you responded "I don't think so" to two questions, the language is not going to change too significantly prior to release, so yes you should bother learning Perl 6. No one I've met who has actually bother to use the language has had anything but excitement about it.
>The lawsuit was not regarding plagiarism

I didn't see the word plagiarism mentioned anywhere. That's overused, and means presenting someone else's work as your own, not ripping someone off by basing something on their work. If someone else had made the Gravity movie, then the studio took it and released it as theirs, that would be plagiarism, but not stealing plot ideas.
Microsoft Research Cambridge is looking for new software engineers
There are other examples provided by the delightfully named European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group on their "Spreadsheet Horror Stories" page: http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm
Dot and Dash programming with kids, my experiences and ideas
Yep, same. Issue noted on Github https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/12630
US Army Negotiating New AH-64 Apache Agreement with Boeing
Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2
There's been a great talk about the workflow that this enabled at React Conf that is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaymfLj5tjA
Thanks for sharing Miraj! Appreciate it.
Whats in Material design related to apple products ? I couldnt understand the connection between two.
Calacanis on valuations and getting the right angels
No we were talking about X509 certificates
Sounds like it'll be painful to use. Imagine the lag!
I'm both sad and enjoyed by the move. I'm attached to the deceiptively poor old wiki, because it contrasts with the great content quality. At the same time, they're migrating toward something off the map of current technologies, and so the spirit of the first wikiwikiweb is still alive.

ps: if someone has an archive / mirror of c2.com, I'll be happy to leech.
[arXiv] a Study of Popularity and Quality in Reddit and Hacker News
Ask HN: Are armrests actually beneficial?
For two months I own a new desk chair including (correctly adjusted) armrests that I did not have before. Since then I developed slight lower back pain. Nothing else changed, so I have just removed the armrests. Hopefully that will help.
What I found interesting is that I did not find any articles referencing scientific proof for armrest benefits. Do you know of any?
Funny. It took RPi to have four cores and 1GB of RAM to have Windows. Why would anyone want a system that uses that much of resources merely to run itself and still needs plenty of software yet to be installed to do anything useful?
Because it was designed to give undue influence to fringe parties. Real electoral reform would be proportional representation.
Raspberry Pi 2
Why Are Fax Machines Still a Thing?
I'm just talking about when the video was made/uploaded.
Looks like the E14 sales link for the new one is now live,

http://www.element14.com/community/view-product.jspa?fsku=24...
RemoteWorkHunt: job board for remote work
So when people post screenshot of a article (with marker showing what is wrong with post), does it come under fair usage policy ?
Does it support webfonts yet (making it finally useful for screenshot capture)?
So I guess windows RT will be continued? I first thought that they're going x86-only, including the phones.
> homogeneity is considered the simplest assumption you could make: you can't get simpler than a no-parameter model.

Ehm… one-parameter…
How does currying help? You still have to figure out which argument belongs to which function. GHC demands parentheses if you try to write A(B(C(D))) as A B C D, so I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Hitmeister - http://www.hitmeister.de/ - Cologne, Germany (Full Time, Local, VISA)

Web developer: full-stack, frontend, or backend. Most of us work at all levels of the web stack, but if your strength lies in just frontend or backend work, that's okay too.

We're a small team (10 people) using PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and memcached. We have a customer-facing site, a JSON API, logistics software, and an internal admin site, all of which we build and maintain internally.

Hitmeister.de is one of the largest online shopping portals in Germany, with over 2 million customers to date. We have a warehouse from which we sell items directly, but we also have a marketplace with over 2,000 sellers running their own shops. We're seeing solid growth and we're looking for more programming talent to grow and improve the site.

Speaking German is helpful, but by no means required. I'm from the US and we have 2 other non-German developers. If you aren't an EU citizen, we are glad to help with visa issues. In particular, if you have a CS degree or at least 5 years of experience you probably qualify for an EU Blue Card, and we have lots of experience with those. We don't do remote work, but we'll help you relocate.

Here's the job description in German:

http://company.hitmeister.de/jobs/webentwickler-frontend-bac...

If you have any questions, feel free to get in contact with me (info in my profile), or you can apply directly at jobs@hitmeister.de.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Paris, France - but can travel in Europe)

I’m Tommy. I help SaaS businesses make more money by optimizing their sales funnel.

1- Visitor-To-Signup: get more people to try your product

2- Signup-To-Activation: define a better first experience and get more people actually using your product

3- Trial-To-Revenue: convert those free trials into paid customers, by designing your product for it

How do I do this? I help bridge the gap between marketing and engineering and do fast cycles of A/B testing to test new ways for you to make more money.

Examples:

- I write and integrate lifecycle emails into your product (I have spent years writing complex software products so you don’t have to worry about it)

- I help you find sources of churn by looking for user feedback and analyzing it

- I work on copywriting to find the best way to get a user to sign up for your product

- I help you design your free trial in order to maximize your customer success, which creates happy customers and a better business for you

I’m an engineer/marketer with 10 years experience in software and developed my own products. You can subscribe to my newsletter about SaaS conversions here: http://saasfoundry.io
Not really. It took RPi to use ARMv7 to have windows. Number of cores and RAM have nothing to do with it. Exactly the same situation with Android.
The bigest joke in China Internet now.
I understand that 1.0 was / is a priority. But I wonder what the state of discussions about HKTs in Rust is: is this addition believed to be an easy problem in the sense that it may be a lot of work, but no major roadblocks are expected? Or are there open questions that require substantial research?
Hi,
Here is what I like:
It was $95 in New Zealand.
It has a quad core processor.
It comes with Office.
Live tiles and they way you can move then and resize them is just nice.
The OS only takes up 2.2 GB
Other apps seem to need much less space, like about half the space and they can be installed on an SD card which I haven't even got because I don't need one.
I'm a C# programmer by day so there's that too.
> I'm sick of people like you.

Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News. Please be civil.
Apple on privacy, security and identity
I hope they get rid of the stupid code-signing requirement that's currently in RT which prevents all third-party apps from running in RT desktop mode! I'd love to be able run Chrome on a Windows ARM device...
Kickstarter: Django opensource improved import-export package
Hi guys! We launched a project on a kickstarter hoping for your support

Description: After analyzing existing packages (see table below), we identified 4 packages in total and only 1 of which is active and usable: django-import-export. We did not include django-tablib in our analysis, as it's a mirror of django-import-export without the admin interface. After using django-import-export in an actual production project, we came to the conclusion that its functionality and flexibility is clearly not sufficient for normal exporting and importing data especially when we have to reinvent the same thing over and over despite the fact that we have a code base and previous experience.

The aim of this project is to write a generic package for importing and exporting data, which will save you from repetitive work and will facilitate the data exchange in your project.

If you have any questions or wishes, let us know
I had no idea that Ada has regions. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention it. Maybe somebody who knows about it wants to edit the article?
Raspberry Pi 2 is way more powerful, still just $35
All pull requests will be accepted
Enermap – Building Energy Ratings
Reverse-engineering of KR580VM80A / i8080 is complete
Here's some feedback:

You're basically competing with Excel here. One of the strengths of Excel is the excellent support for keyboard. That is, easy entry of new cells and navigating between them by only using keyboard.

Your application's support for keyboard is nonexistent. If I have to enter lines of text and I have to continuously click (+), I will close the browser pretty fast.
Anonymous Surfing has never been such easy. Surf securely without footprints
I've been in and around Perl for a long time, and this line of argument feels very tired to me.

Perl 6 did not "kill" the Perl brand, the state of Perl circa-2000 "killed" the Perl brand. All the issues @perlgeek just noted, those "killed" the Perl brand. The fact that Python was simply a better option for 99% of the projects that were started around that time (even if half or more went with PHP instead) "killed" the Perl brand.

If Perl 5 as a programming language is so susceptible to "oh but this new version makes it seem that there are deficiencies in the current version", could it be because there are deficiencies in Perl 5? If hiding that fact from others is so important to the "brand of Perl", what does that actually imply?

Please stop pretending that starting a project to build a better Perl somehow killed the camel. It's obvious that this is not true even from a Perl 5 usage standpoint, but it's even more absurd from the standpoint of next year, or the year after...
I Don't Want to Spend This Much Time on Car Loans for Low Income. How About You?
It's nice to see Microsoft cares. OTOH part of the attraction of the RPi for me is that people freely share their knowledge, code and cool hacks.

Adding a humongous blob of unmodifiable software doesn't really align with any of that. In the best case people will shun this, in the worst case it could harm the culture.
13 years ago they had a fantastic camera ... What model ?

A documentary said Eastman/Kodak was a strong influence on Apple, now its successors as extremely successful company, using similar philosophy, simple and focused products + distribution scheme, albeit virtual now.
What Is a No Credit Check Car Loan
If they didn't it would defeat the sole purpose of the Raspberry Pi IMHO. (Hacking software + hardware)