skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had better luck googling "colonial pact". I think the worry is African's money deposited into French reserve bank is used to invest in African infrastructure, and part of the profits kept by the French (and the shareholders of the named company) themselves and the other part remain forever unavailable to the member countries themsevles.
It's a lot easier with a 5 year window for PostgreSQL: Kernel developers have to support all kinds of weird semi-buggy hardware that they can't buy in their country, they have to make the kernel work with badly written GPU drivers , and they have to deal with interrupt-level code which is notoriously difficult to debug.
Here, you'll enjoy this, on me. Apogee's old catalogs and all their mailing materials :
https://www.scribd.com/doc/134559074/Apogee-Catalog

There's a bunch of other id and Carmack related docs up there too if you look including the "Book of id" from the id Anthology and a few GameDevMag articles.
A recession for Australia?
They would have to get all their pieces from you, breaking protocol. They'd also have to be doing this on a large scale. They'd also either be breaking whatever laws you might be breaking, or they are providing you an implicit license.
This was a good read. I had no idea any of this was going on. Though I still don't understand why the ex French colonies just don't say no. It's not like France would send in the army. I'm guessing France would confiscate 85% of their reserves and that is enough of a deterrent?
I tried the other languages as well. All the same authors, same pieces rehashed. Nothing like a source to base your opinion on, imho. I'd even trust Krugman at this point ;) I don't read French easily, but even Google Scholar seems to hold the same coloured content.

On the contents: a central bank scheme indeed. And in normal circumstances your central banks profits fill the coffers of your state. In this case the problem is the profits are not divided among stakeholders, only to the shareholder (the French).

Well the solution is 'simple': start your own currency. My impression is that those countries greatly benefit from a more stable currency (haven't looked it up at Bloomberg), since there is an implicit guarantee from the French state (is there?). We need a more total picture (costs and benefits) in order to be able to form somewhat of an opinion.
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November 2014 China smartphone marketshares: Vivo 6%, Apple 5%

Vivo don't do low-end models either.
I made python version
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyfolders/
As I already stated, the primary rebuke against the Turing Test was the Chinese room. It was a proper response to a horrible idea.

Then what did philosophers do? Well they applied the Chinese Room argument to all of conciseness, a blunder even worse than the Turing Test.
Here is a good quora question. http://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-14-African-countries-ar...

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/26503/do-african...
Microsoft just outright pays companies to use it.

"Here, if we give you 10 million USD for free, can you just get your devs to use this untested pile of DRM?"

Really.
> Though I still don't understand why the ex French colonies just don't say no.

Economic & political pressure. If they break "agreements" they might find themselves with sanctions. Now they can't sell the cocoa or the oil. Or France would play one country against each -- "start a conflict with your neighbor in exchange for ... something"
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I am not a cold war historian. Let's take something more recent, like the 2003 invasion of Iraq. There was a great deal of killing in that war, and all of it under false pretenses in the service of the neocon idea that overthrowing Saddam would have a domino effect in the region, and create a democratic, liberal middle east free of it's oppressive dictatorships.

It was wrong, it was stupid; but the goal was right. The various Arab Springs proved that. Governments in the middle-east are terrible and oppressive. And sure, these sick states exist because of historical western imperialism and the aftermath of WWI, and are more recently maintained by oil revenue. Fine. The fact remains that democracy is better and ideally there would be democracy (and yes, capitalism) in the middle east.

Maybe I'm totally wrong. But my personal experience here was good, and it doesn't seem evil to give other people the same benefits I got. My parents were poor high school graduates who created a small business that put me through college and made them wealthy. Western capitalism gave them that opportunity. It also gave them the ability to worship how they wanted, and encouraged them to tolerate, and appreciate, people of other races, creeds and religions. If there's a nation or a system of government that gives those benefits without any of the drawbacks, then I'm all ears, programmarchy! The incompetent and frankly evil ways in which we've tried to protect and spread that system are shameful, but it doesn't undermine the value of the system.

(This assumes, of course, that our goal is to spread our way of life throughout the world, and not just consolidate control of natural resources for the Fatherland's inordinate consumption, a la Rome).
But also no love for places near Atlanta like Decatur, Avondale Estates, College Park. They're just gonna go for the core + rich northern suburbs. It's a business decision and I get it, but hopefully they'll expand out to those areas soon. To many of those communities in the southern unincorporated areas of fulton/dekalb and southern near-suburbs, free "high speed" internet will be a HUGE boon to the younger generations.
At some point, the author of the video has to take some responsibility for editing. This is like asking "Is there a super easy way to eliminate spelling errors on arbitrary web pages? Sometimes the author has no idea how to spell."

Actually, come to think of it, both are good ideas.
Just watch "Sneakers" instead of that drivel of a movie.
PostgreSQL can be schemaless if you want it to be. It obviously does joins, so that leaves only the awesome query language.
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Way to go Enterprise, you are going to successfully destroy the most valuable and useful service of your business. I'm guessing suits at the top of Enterprise, without much technology insight pushed for this.

Zimride is huge, especially with college kids. Simply just take 10% of the transactions, or charge a flat fee per ride. I've used Zimride 5 or 6 times, and honestly it was amazing and a great community.
You really don't know what you're talking about. There is no evidence that the parachute entices pilots to take greater risks (if I'm wrong, by all means cite some), any more than car seat belts entice drivers to take more risks. Furthermore, "As of 25 January 2015 there have been 51 saves with 104 survivors in aircraft equipped with the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS)." (https://www.cirruspilots.org/copa/safety_programs/w/safety_p...)

Source: Pilot, skydiver, Cirrus owner.
Here's a Blomberg article in the matter which suggests the rationale of a more stable currency.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-04-17/african-mone...
> I'll play only €208 per month for my flat in Bremen, including heating, waste removal and water. I only pay €100 for my yacht per year, including boats house in winter and mooring in summer.

Sheesh that's cheap. I can't think of anywhere in the UK where I could get either for that price.
I am a father of 2 year old. I did not experience being a parent before iPad arrived but I suspect it changed the parenthood completely. These days I see all kids of all ages interacting with tablets. My son started using one before he was 1 year old, now he is experienced user, able to start, launch games he likes and videos he wants to see on youtube. Its so powerful as it is scary. Everyone from parents is scared what it will do to kids. Parents are split on this, I embrace it (because its so easy to have a break from hyperactive son) but some fight it furiously and swear by it. How many parents are there in the world, how many kids are there? Is there a way for Apple to serve this market better?
What most people call talent is just the byproduct of motivation and hard work.
It would be awesome if you could disable the sending of any data to your cloud. I wish more products were self contained and wouldn't need to use a server side component. If there is sufficient storage in the mattress, a mobile phone could do the calculations when the user wants it, without anyone else knowing.

You are not Google! Use that advantage!
It's crazy how out of whack people's expectations for Apple have become.

I mean after the string of iMac => iPod => iTunes => iPhone, people were just expecting iPad to split the earth in half or I don't know what. Not that the article's reasoning is wrong about the ultimate utility of an iPad, but I find it really hard to describe it as a "meh" product. Remember tablets before the iPad? There were a lot of them but you probably don't remember any because none got any market traction whatsoever.
You can only be avant-garde for so long before you're just garde. But it's still a fine tablet, and the iPad really opened up the tablet market for the first time.
Two things come to mind that a potential acquirer might be interested in:

1. The sheer volume of traffic, available pretty cheaply. While their sites are largely in decline and the focus is still all over the map, I could see their sites carved up among parties interested in a unique views bump (however temporary) -- point news.yahoo.com to Huffington Post, sports.yahoo.com to ESPN, etc.

The brand and site content itself is probably of no real value at this point, with a few notable exceptions like Flickr and Tumblr (and other missing-e sites).

2. All of the user data waiting to be mined. Yahoo Mail has a ton of e-mails sitting around, maybe you'd like to do something with those? Yahoo has been mostly benevolent when it comes to their trove of information, but as an acquisition target this becomes an asset to be exploited. Anyone buying Yahoo isn't buying them to run it as an on-going concern for another 20 years.
Uninstalled Flash Player with an evil laugh on my home iMac only to reinstall it when my kid's games needed it. What is the alternative to flash for games that run on PBS Kids, etc. ?
I'm working on an open source firebase-like database that puts realtime/sync/replication/master-master/p2p at its core, rather than an after thought which a lot of other databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.) do. The RethinkDB guys are smart and I'm glad they are pushing in this direction, it is important. My project is at http://github.com/amark/gun if anybody is interested.
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40% is nothing, the last time I tested jquery.each vs a for loop, the for loop was at least 50x faster.
I'm using "YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD" with Greasemonkey (there's an alternative to this on Chrome) and I guess it should work, also it's not bloated, just the stuff you need.
How do you keep studying when you're not in school?
I am spending my last semester in school, and I have some courses (Numerical Analysis, Knowledge Representation, Combinatorics, etc...) I wish I took before graduation but couldn't due to time constraint.

I want to be studying even when I am working as a software engineer, but I found it hard to keep motivated enough to study after work when I was working full-time as an intern. Even when the work load was moderate at where I did my internship.

I hope my study of the subject would count in case I apply to a master's degree program in Applied Math, but I cannot afford anything expensive.
Unless the playback hardware is DRM'd and encased in an impenetrable box, you don't need to capture photons and compression waves, just the output at the DAC, which can give you perfect fidelity to the original digital signal.
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first: i will not comment on the actual findings teased in this blog post, because we miss lots of information, data and context (javascript to make rendering faster, was it really the first pageview that was faster or was this aimed at the second, client side rendering actually makes rendering of the first pageview slower (please, proof me wrong))

second: this is the way SEO should be done - a systematic analytics dev. dirven approach - and they solved one of the challenges big sites regularly face SEO wise: running multiple onpage (SEO is just one aspect) tests simultaneously over chunks of their sites.

most of the time you are stuck with setting a custom variable (or virtual tracker) in google analytics of the pages you changed (and a control group)
the issue with this approach is that GA only reports a sample of data (50 000 rows a day) and for big sites this sample becomes insignificant very fast, especially if you run tests.
additionally it's not easy to compare the traffic figures of the tracked page-group with log-data like crawling, so you need a custom built solution to connect these dots.

this leads us to a serious limitation of the GA and pinterest approach: connecting their data with google serp impressions, average rankings and clicks. yeah, traffic is the goal of SEO, but it is pretty late in the funnel, crawling is pretty early in the funnel, you can optimize everything in between. for the in between we are stuck with google webmaster tools for reliable data (at least it's data directly from google and not some third party). so to get most out of such tests you must set them up in a way that they traceable via google webmaster tools.

and to make something traceable in google webmaster tools basically means you have to sice and dice them via namespaces in the URL.

simple setup

www.example.com/ -> verify in google webmaster tools
www.example.com/a/ -> verify in google webmaster tools to get data only for this segment
www.example.com/b/ -> verify in google webmaster tools, ...
...

make tests on /a/ -> if it performs better than the rest of the site, good

the issue there is that to have a control group you need basically move a comparable chunk of the site to a new namespace i.e. /z/
and site redirects are their own hassle but well on big sites most of the time are worth it. also you don't have to move millions of pages most of the time a sample on the scale of 50 000 pages is enough (p.s.: every (test) segment should of course have it's own sitemap.xml to get communicated / indexed data)

one more thing: doing positive result tests it actually quite hard - doing negative result tests is much easier. make a test group of pages slow, see how your traffic plumbles. make your titles duplicate, see your traffic plumble, ... yeah, these tests suck business wise, from an SEO and development point of view they are a lot of fun.

shameless plug: hey pinterest, check out my contacts on my profile. the goal of my company is to make all SEO agencies - including my own - redundant. we should do stuff.
Ask HN: How does web.whatsapp.com work?
It looks like a dirty hack, but works quite nicely.
However, I couldn't figure out how the webapp works:
why do I have to scan a QR code?
why does the mobile application has to be connected to the internet the whole time?
what kind of communication is happening?
is there any speculation about that?
Best decision we ever made, do minimise or eliminate debt.
I am too young to have been there for the digital vs analog debate, but I understand that things being digital was not always obvious. The reason digital won is because, very crudely, to double the precision of a digital circuit you just give it wider registers (scale horizontally), while to double the precision of an analog circuit you have to more than double the precision of every component of the system (scale vertically). Digital was/is cheaper. But, as my electronics professor put it, "every circuit is analog at some level".
While I agree that Page has more goals than pure financial gain, I don't see how those other goals really play into fiber. More bandwidth to Americans means more potential money for Google. No one else was increasing the bandwidth, so google is trying to jump start the process. But they are doing it purely for financial gain. It is just a bonus that it also benefits consumers. But isn't that how free markets are supposed to work?
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Garbage collection has a performance hit which may not be desirable. You don't really want your network stack to stall from time to time. And OS wouldn't be usable in any mission critical environment.

Array boundaries checking also has a performance hit but I am coming to think it is a necessary evil.

Dealing with strings as char arrays is just absurd. There isn't a significant performance hit to use some string datatype that reduce the opportunity for bugs.
> How can we not start looking at some of these organizations less as companies, and more as countries?

How about the reverse? Countries as companies? And why don't we look at how large, complex companies can do so much better financially than governments?
How about picking a car company for example?

Don't most car companies directly hire employees that assemble the final product (car)?
Using Slack in a medical context doesn't automatically mean that HIPAA is being violated, but you're right, without compliance, its usage will be limited when discussing individual patients in unobfuscated detail. I hope Slack makes this a priority at some point as I truly believe that this market could be gigantic for them, but I understand that they might be better off targeting other verticals in the short term that don't have this kind of roadblock
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The Aussie in me says that if someone wants you to accept and recognize that they're better than you and give deference, they will be impossible to work with and are a poison you should avoid.

Different strokes for different folks, but I look for partners, not bosses.
Go old school and use the FM radio. I mean the physical item.
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To play the devil's advocate, castling was a pretty late addition to the rule of chess compared to most other rules, so there used to be a game called "chess" which did not feature castling (nor the option to move pawns initially by two squares). Some regional variants of chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_chess did not feature castling fairly recently (and differed from mainstream chess only by a few points), and there are stories of Indian chess players who became masters in Europe (as late as the early 20th century) even though they had learned to play without castling (can't recall the name of the one I had in mind, but there are such anecdotes at least for Mir Sultan Khan).

I agree that it would be nicer if the implementation followed FIDE rules, though, and that not being able to castle significantly changes the strategy.
I've never seen a vivo in Beijing before. iPhones...plenty, but vivo?

Also, there phones look mighty affordable (none above 3K RMB):

http://search.jd.com/Search?keyword=vivo&enc=utf-8

Compare to iphones (all new models > 4K RMB):

http://search.jd.com/Search?keyword=iphone&enc=utf-8
Weird. I've never even heard of Vivo. All the wealthy Chinese people I know have an iPhone. I genuinely believe that they would be embarrassed to have anything other than an iPhone. They shake their head when I tell them how great an Android is. Even on TV, in the dramas, the rich characters always use iPhone and Macs. I've never seen anyone use a Lenovo or Vivo phone on chinese TV drama.
There is definetely some truth to the article that the IPad does not really serve any very useful purpose. I have 3 IPads lying around at home, so I just made a "family calendar" web application for IPad and put it up on the wall. The app shows the weather forecast, today's events from the Google family calendar, a notice board, and also serves as light switch for Phillips Hue scenes.
iPad and iPhone were once pretty different. But with iPad mini and iPhone biggy, they're all but the same product line now.

I'm almost certain that Apple knew a big iPhone might cannibalize some sales of the iPad mini.
Is that a joke? "We focus on the user use cases" "We use Cassandra" "here is a simple diagram, which our intern has drawn in the last 20 minutes" That's not a tech blog post!

This is how a tech blog post looks like: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/48/how-the-datastore...

We don't need to know that you record where the user left off, we want to know how you do it and why. That you store that information every non technical person can see after using Netflix the second time.
I've got a solution but it involves an old priest and a young priest
I got an iPad soon after they were released. I never really used it much, and for a few years I pretty much ignored the tablet scene.

Then I took a long overseas holiday. It was great having something bigger than my phone, but easier to transport than my laptop. I soon bought the new iPad Mini, and I've combined it with a Wacom Creative Stylus 2. Now I can draw and take notes on my iPad. It's really changed the way I work.

I would suspect market saturation has been reached though. Also there are few new features that would compel an upgrade. That's been true of a lot of tech though - my laptop is three years old and I don't intend to replace it this year.
I think people have different expectations. I use my iPad for couch surfing, checking the news, reading email, Facebook, simple stuff where I do not need a computer. It's perfect for that. I don't fool myself thinking it can be used seriously.
Do we know anything about the methodologies used inside Slack HQ? Are they agile, do they work in small teams, what's the style of management/PM?

Spotify IIRC have been transparent about this; it would be v interesting to find the same for Slack and see what can be learned from it.
To be fair, Samsung is also considered kind of high end. They won't let you into starbucks unless you have an iPhone or Samsung something (just joking, sort of).
> the old PowerBooks in the G4 era could be pretty bad. You were thrilled to upgrade because it made a big difference

While I understand and respect your position, it made me smile that since someone was selling you pretty bad things, where bits would start wearing out, you were thrilled to give them more money for other things.

Apple can really have the pie and eat it!
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The big problem is not precision in the abstract, the big problem is that analog is just about impossible to replicate reliably en masse. You could build 1000 digital circuits and they'd all come out and operate exactly identical or not at all. Your analog circuits are going to come out in a bell curve roughly between un-usable and perfect with component variation and parts count as ingredients. You can mitigate this to some extent by very careful design and pre-assembly component selection but not all the way.

The way to deal with that in the analog world is an expensive process called 'trimming' where you use adjustable components to get you where you want to be. But trimming makes the circuitry sensitive to being bounced around and makes it more sensitive to temperature changes if you use the cheap version and the expensive version (digital circuitry masquerading as trimmable analog components) puts the horse behind the cart if you wanted analog then you're no longer getting it (but some kind of quantized version of analog).

For some circuits this is all more important than for others.

Finally, digital reduces the component count and so increases reliability and decreases cost. Software is hard to make and expensive but once you have it the marginal cost of reproduction is next to zero.

Digital, once the bugs are worked out has none of these issues and so lends itself much more to economic mass production.