skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Windows, setting up a dev environment can often be a pain in the ass, so if you're locked in for wtv reason I can see the pain point they're trying to alleviate.

Even then though, with things like chocolatey nuget[1] and cmdr [2], windows is heading towards parity.

[1] https://chocolatey.org/
[2] http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/
I own two pairs of sneaker-y leather shoes that look like Timberlands from the 1980s, both made by a cobbler back in Italy who has since retired. They are 6 and 8 years old respectively, and only needed resoling twice.
He's got more hustle than me --- I would have had the panic attack before I went out the door of my home to go the lobby.
Interestingly, just found out the Australians were at Ypres as well alongside Canadians (and, in many of the battles, along with many other colonial troops: India, New Zealand, and South Africa).

Just a random fact.
Riak Search in v1.x and Riak Search in v2.x are completely different. Riak 2.x tightly integrats Solr.

If you wanna talk about it I'm this username at all the usual online places.

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> You can serve the same number of customers for less cost.

No, upgrading the network allows you to serve more customers at higher cost (the cost of the upgrades). If you have unlimited data plans, you can only recoup those upgrade costs by recruiting more customers because existing customers pay the same regardless of the speed. Recruiting more customers is also costly and affected by many more factors than just network quality. The connection between network upgrades and increased revenue is tenuous and indirect.

In contrast, with pay-per-GB, network upgrades increase usage and thus increase revenue from existing customers as well as new ones. The connection between network upgrades and increased revenue is direct and immediate.

I agree that $10/GB is far too expensive; I'm sure Google would love for it to be cheaper but the pricing isn't their choice to make. When carriers get some competition from Project Loon and/or Elon Musk's satellite thingy, hopefully prices will go down.
I remember it well, last time it came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387545. Ingenious, with a little dig at the hackers.
> It's possible that x could point to itself.

...in a way that doesn't violate C++'s type aliasing rules, and thus invoking undefined behavior?
Anyone using Google's Android L powered phone can search for local businesses from the dialer.
http://www.phonearena.com/image.php?m=Articles.Images&f=name...

Android L can also display the name of person/business(even if it's not in your contacts) and whether the number is toll-free etc.,
It's not like there is much we can do about it :(
We now offer a strong consistency option.

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Are you sure?

As far as I know they use satellite links. So I imagine they can avoid sending signals towards earth. I also assume they use frequency hopping in a wide range so it's harder to track.
Oil sands.
Write your MPs?

How do referenda work in Canada?
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Ouch. I didn't notice that it's limited to 256k/3G.

T-Mobile offers unlimited data internationally as part of their simple choice unlimited plan. It's limited to 256k speeds (Which in my experience, I have gotten basically exactly 256k when I've used it in the Netherlands and South Africa). You have the option of buying 4G speed bandwidth for a fairly reasonable price - though still a bit higher than the Google Fi data rates.

I didn't notice the rate limiting asterisk until your comment, and this kind of kills it for me. It was much more appealing when I thought I would be charged the same for data in the US and abroad.
ocaml already has generalised algebraic datatypes as of 4.0:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-400/manual021.htm...
International rates are way too high, 12c for landline minute or 31 for cellphone in Serbia is ripoff.

They are doing Republic Wireless by Google. This is not bad and might make more competition. Maybe not many users will use it, but there will be perception of one more option.
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Is who vetoed that proposal public information?
I usually cache google maps offline when traveling to another country:
https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567?hl=en
Anybody that uses this in production before these security holes are filled deserve what they will get...
Outside of java is there even really any money to be made in development tools, always seemed like a sector where the open source free stuff is better than the commercial stuff (besides a few small niches of course).
Impressive but overkill. I have my own ambient lighting setup. It runs on a Raspberry Pi and works like this.

1) I get the video signal from the composite output of my cable box (or any video source), which outputs HDMI and composite in parallel. If that weren't the case, I could have used an HDMI splitter and HDMI2Composite converter. I prefer the composite signal, as its not encrypted, and you don't really need to waste processing on an HD resolution signal. The "resolution" of your LEDs around your display doesn't even come close to even an SD video signal.

2) The composite cables run into a USB Video Capture card, which I picked up for pretty cheap on Amazon. The USB card is plugged into a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian.

3) I got the driver for the video card working on Pi. Then wrote a driver for the LED strip, which communicates over SPI.

4) My main program, which is set to run on powerup, will make the video card sample the video signal as fast as it can. I do some image processing on the capture to average the pixel colors in each of several rectangular areas around the border of the image, each assigned to a corresponding LED. Then I send the SPI signal to drive the LED to that color. The sampling, image processing, and LED driving is plenty fast that the LED "frame rate" is well above perceptible limits.

5) This is all configurable with a config file that accepts parameters for LED layout, how big the area to process for each LED should be, overlapping those areas for smoother color transitions, how many frames to average the colors over (also for smoother transitions), etc.

6) The wiring is the simplest part. Power source, split off to a usb connector to power the Pi, the other line split into power and ground for the LED strip. The strip needs 2 lines for communication as part of the SPI protocol, which are just wired to appropriate GPIO pins on the Pi.

Boom. Done.
> I'd caution against referring to all such explorations as complexity. Complexity is a highly overloaded term in our field.

The difference between complex & hard, easy & simple has been put very elegantly by Rich Hickey in Simple Made Easy [1]. That doesn't mean everyone agrees with his definitions, which is why he revives the word "complected" to mean objective interleaving of concepts, and pulls out "hard" from the way people use complex to mean something one is unfamiliar with. I like his definitions, so I use them. :)

> Sometimes it refers to the number of steps a given algorithm takes to compute

This can still create ambiguity since it could be either time or memory complexity, but still easy to infer, especially if there's a big O.

> depth and breadth of a program's syntax tree

Lisp overloads the parens for difference concepts, which is complex. This could also be hard if one's not familiar with the syntax.

> tendency to branch out and create cycles

Sounds like time complexity!

> Sometimes it's mistakenly used to refer to concepts which are in reality simple but merely unfamiliar or non-intuitive.

This is the ambiguity, is he saying Haskell complex because it has a lot of interleaving with it's concepts, that other languages do not? Or is it just unfamiliar? I would think it's simpler because it forces one to think about how time interleaves the program, which could make things harder! I'm guessing this is what the grand parent means, since ML is impure. Though, either case is empty without examples.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
So you want a language with a computer algebra system (CAS) that reduces expressions such as "x - x" at compile time. This has been doable in Lisp for a long time using macros. It'd be a bit trickier to do in a C-like language due to the syntax but still reasonable.
A lot more in Canada than the US. Write to your MP, and encourage others to do the same. Relate this to C-51 or whatever that horrible security bill is that everyone's protesting.
Kind of like that, yes - though it is not so much a right as it is a practical consideration. The difficulty is that companies aren't going to willingly share information that might then be turned around to indict them. So to quell those fears the messaging is very clear: "we will not use this information to regulate or indict you".
You have to explicitly pass the monad "vtable". If 1ML also grabs up modular implicits then you'll have a sensible way of passing implicit arguments not exactly unlike that of Haskell, but modularity and global canonicity are at odds so you have a more complex reasoning task.
Eh, there's different kinds of ambition. Most of the highly ambitious people I know take living a comfortable life as a necessary starting point for real ambition, because their goals are to make things such as scientific advances, not to spend all their time just trying to make money. I wouldn't call Larry Ellison ambitious, for example. He is just a hard-headed, no-holds-barred businessman who wants to maximize his income. Copenhagen Suborbitals are much more ambitious than Oracle, in my view of ambition. Now a culture in which the likes of Oracle thrive: there is something that sounds like hell to ambitious people.
Your anecdote mostly proves my point: Elon Musk marched into the lobby; everyone else stayed at home.
I can neither confirm not deny being directly affected by his work at the time :) Needless to say once the story came out it was amazing to read about it from the "other" side. The scene got so complicated it could only be described as an arms race. It quickly moved from having modified cards and custom devices to live intercept rigs where a computer sat between the card and receiver. What, you don't have an unlooper in your drawer?
How to carve an elephant out of a large block of stone:

(Additive) Obtain a large block of stone.

(Subtractive) Remove all the parts of the stone that do not look like an elephant.
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There has been a huge amount of grousing among falconers and wildlife biologists about wind farms being allowed a certain number of raptors to be killed by turbines without penalty. This is an excellent step in the right direction.

If each individual turbine could detect and shut down when a raptor comes into its vicinity that would save birds and minimize downtime.
Yeah, I've seen that presentation. Rich's ideas were what I had in mind when I wrote my reply.

In general, use of highly overloaded words is ambiguous in these discussions.
So copyright holders enforcing their rights has any equivalence at all to mass murder? I'm going to go ahead and assert that your moral compass is more or less fucked.
Overkill is the best part of personal projects. :) There's nobody saying that technical debt has to wait or that the solution in there is "good enough". It's the chance for a developer to delve deep and solve something in an interesting way, no matter how long it takes.
If you combine this with [modular implicits](http://www.meetup.com/NYC-OCaml/events/222026251/), which are hopefully going to be added to OCaml soon, then you'll get something which is nearly as syntactically neat as type classes but more powerful.
Their machine learning to give you an optimized homepage is cool, but I wish they still gave some degree of optional manual control. For example, I wish I could force "My List" to always appear at the top of the page. I think by now they've figured out that at least half my viewing is things on my list and it seems it's usually at the top, but this can still be frustrating the times it's not.

Also, I wish I could tell Netflix "I want to watch a movie" or "I want to watch a TV show" and have it only show one or the other. I usually know which I'm in the mood for/have time for; it's a pain to scroll through row after row of movies when I only want to watch something for half an hour.
Your valuation fails the simplest fundamental, which is the share % of what the VC will get after the seed round.

In VC logic, they will be getting around 14,3% for the same amount of money than they would get by giving the same 1 million for almost half the value.

In multiple dilutions at inflated figures and the "A" round where the lead VC grabs 30% (no matter how much money they give), the seed guy stands to be the biggest loser.

From the perspective of a self-serving VC, he/she stands a greater chance of vetting a company at 14,3%, giving him the opportunity to maximize return down the line, as the dilutions will not shrink by almost half (as would under your logic through YC).

However, if that VC believes in vetting a "YC-company" over his/her own ability to pick a winner, then that VC should probably not be in the startup-investing market in the first place.
Since there is the Nexus 6 requirement acting as a throttle, it allows them to carry out a controlled experiment on a very small sample for this business model. It also gives them some visiblity for Google's future plans, as to be more prepared for them.
I meant top 5 public school.
So what will happen now ? since we no longer know how (some) catalysts work, will this start a race of scanning materials(i.e. combinatorial chemistry) to find catalysts ?
Here's a useful PDF:
https://www.preqin.com/docs/newsletters/pe/Preqin_PESL_Oct_1...

Series A rounds are typically slightly north of 5 million. It's hard to make out, but seed rounds seem to average some fraction of a million.

So the characterization of 1-3 million rounds as "seed" does seem odd.
You can easily find citations in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Bernard Shaw, and so on. It's not "customary informal usage", it's just a regular, ordinary feature of the English language.
> No, upgrading the network allows you to serve more customers at higher cost (the cost of the upgrades)

Upgrades are a one-time cost. You charge a higher rate for access to the faster network until the investment is paid off then you phase down to all customers. Then your operating cost is lower per subscriber in the long run.
Don't know if you were thinking of this with your reference, but you CAN use your hard drive as a microprocessor, even a whole new computer!

https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
Not to mention NRA not only didn't support DC v. Heller, but actively opposed it by filing a motion brief in support of the government. After all, without gun control to fear, who would buy NRA memberships?

Sometimes, an organization's need to survive outweighs or compromises their stated goals.
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Yes, if you’re motivated. Everyone has to start somewhere and there are plenty of full-time software developers who did not study CS in college.
Visual Studio Monaco is really the competitor to a product like this. It's a browser based version of Visual Studio that can be tied into other cloud services.
I can't tell if it would be distracting or awesome.
Despite my MP being a member of the party in power, they take direction from the Prime Minister's Office, not the constituents.
Well, I found your word for you. It's "actinometry" - "the measurement of the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/actinometry . See for example http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3716614/Voskuhl_R... :

> Recreating Herschel's actinometry: An essay in the historiography of experimental practice

> In the course of a four-month period of research I worked with a replica of the so-called `actinometer', an instrument to measure the intensity of solar radiation, which was invented by John Herschel in 1824

The French word "actinométrie" has its own Wikipedia entry, which seems to be more focused on the sun than used in recent English. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinom%C3%A9trie . Get your E.T.s to learn French and there's no problem.

Your insistence on "one word" is about equal to numerology in its usefulness.

Spaces are a question of orthography. In English we happen to use spaces to write "air raid shelter" instead of "airraidshelter". (Some even write 'air-raid shelters'.) In German they use "Luftschutzbunker" - "air protection bunker".

Had English gone a slightly different way some 1000 years ago, then we would write "solar radiometry" as "solarradiometry". There's no deep meaning to the space character on our psyche.

Indeed, the English compound expression "solar radiometry" is the single German word "Sonneradiometrie". Here's a paper which uses it to describe the focus of activities in the PTB laboratories - http://www.ptb.de/cms/fileadmin/internet/fachabteilungen/abt... .

It's also the Danish word "solradiometri", used in ftp://ftp.oami.europa.eu/bulletin/ctm/2012/2012_075_PDF/2012_075_DA.pdf .
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Wow, this takes me back. I wrote a USENET article downloader that utilized S-Lang as its scripting language back in 1998.
More power in terms of flexibility, but the mechanism of implicits makes it less clear which instance is in scope for a given expression.

With true typeclasses, there is no ambiguity which instance will be selected (there can only be one)

This distinction is often lost when comparing true type classes with their emulation via implicts.

Sometimes "more power" is not what you want i.e. this is more of a tradeoff.
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I have been a long time Nitrous user (I use it with my Chromebook). Do you have any plans for migrating current users to Nitrous Pro?

Thanks
> Facebook and Twitter: both stupid ideas that now have dominant market positions.

No, they weren't. They were tasteless ideas. Pundits hate tasteless ideas (because their job is predicated on [being perceived as] having better taste than you), but regular people don't mind them.

Some of the best ideas are tasteless. The entirety of the casual games industry (a $3bn market) is built on tasteless ideas. McDonalds' food is (both literally and figuratively) tasteless. Walmart's curation is tasteless. Summer Hollywood blockbusters are tasteless. Casinos are the most tasteless places on earth.

But none of them are stupid—they all make complete sense, economically. They align with people's incentives; it's clear exactly why they make money, and it would be easy to imagine their business models working out if they were pitched to you.

A stupid idea, on the other hand, is the opposite of something like a McDonalds or a Walmart: something that might be tasteful, might sound great in some abstract/idealistic sense, but is very obviously not aligned with anyone's incentives, and so has no valid route to adoption.

Pets.com was a stupid idea. People didn't want to put in the effort to order household consumables over the internet in 1999. Ordering something over the internet in 1999 entailed an amount of effort about equal to buying it from a mail-order catalogue—and nobody was selling pet food that way, either. The logistics didn't, and couldn't, work out, without a whole lot of supply-chain scale borrowed from other lines of business, ala Amazon. And remember, pet food is perishable.

If the only things you can think to say about an idea are reasons it won't work—and you can't think of even one cynical/self-serving reason people might use it anyway—then it's a stupid idea.

If it would be great, if not for [some huge list of flaws], but there's at least one person out there in the world that none of those flaws will matter to? Then it's not stupid; it's a disruptive idea, and the next version will probably iron a lot of those flaws out and become a pretty great idea.
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The video looks like something directly out of the TV show "Silicon Valley".
This is my sentiment exactly. With all these fancy functional languages, non-imperative programming paradigms and heaps of JavaScript frameworks, there's one thing that one might forget: computers are made of silicon, not category theory.
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Programming languages are for lazy people who don't like flipping switches to code aseembly by hand.
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Even alone, I find it forces me to reconsider more.

I kinda see it as like a "whoah there sonny, you know I only have 100 movies total, why don't we look through each one of them before you give up there, eh speedy?" which while frustrating ... kinda makes sense. (if I were to verbalize their UX).
It's foolish to think ASLR only prevents stack smashes - it also prevents unlink-style attacks via heap overflows and use-after-frees, data overflows into pointers and other segments, and many other vectors.

Yes, it is a mitigation strategy that wouldn't exist in an ideal world. But we have to do best with what we have, and security takes a very pragmatic approach at this.
ARM does store the return PC in a link register, but unless you're in a leaf function, it will still be pushed into the stack and can be overwritten by overflows.
Which C++ runtime is ubiquitous? I can think of at least 3 C++ runtimes (MS, libstdc++, libc++).
I'd just like to point out that vulnerabilities in satellite TV are surfacing once more, but this time, on a much more irreparable scale.

[1]: http://colibri.bplaced.net/powervu.htm
Not really, not in the same way - most of our anti-government "media" is on the fringe. And even if we did, Fox News would glorify our PM, not criticise him - by American standards, he's a hardline Tea Party Republican, except without the same regard for civil liberties.
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Only for the noobs that pay others to play for them.

Could you imagine saying "I could never play WoW. I'll just pay someone $250/hour to play for me and hope for the best."? That's what happens every day in the legal system.

If you become a good enough player, you can win by yourself.
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You're right. And the paths that creativity follows in the unconstrained case are important. Sometimes they lead to dead ends, and sometimes to new things that never would have gotten started otherwise.

I sometimes think of a distinction between the engineering way and the hacker way. Both are good, and the two are related, but they aren't the same. If HN has a purpose in the world it surely is to champion the latter, whose mottos are "gratifying curiosity" and "just because". By "the engineering way" I mean creativity operating under economic or organizational constraints that demand justification and exclude the whimsical. You end up with different projects and products that way.

But I don't think matmann2001 was being critical—just eager to share the cool details of their own ambient lighting setup, which is an excellent thing to do and squarely on the hacker side of this distinction.
This random webpage claims that the (probably "a") satellite uplink frequency is "13.75 - 14.5 GHz". So you would have to dig up a downconverter that works in that band. Perhaps if the drone was overhead there might be enough signal that makes it to the ground to detect. If this became popular it might turn out to be worth the bother to equip drones with receivers to detect the local oscillator leakage from such early warning systems.