skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an offtopic question, but believe I could find an answer here.
Does anybody know a statistics equivalent book for
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Phillips Thompson [1]
Where everything is explained in layman's terms.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Made-Silvanus-Phillips-Thom...
i am very skeptical that they use air freight. having worked in large scale logistics, its like the very last choice you use when you are going to be guaranteed a lot of money because it is expensive. there are not that many planes, they are tiny and relatively expensive to run. i can imagine that apple plan ahead, and make sure that the long boat journeys are factored into their plans.

is there any evidence of what they actually do? i'd put my money on boats. iphones don't magically devalue in transit afaik and the lead time is short enough to be practical... it just makes no sense, from what i understand, to use planes unless its an emergency.
FWIW, a shameless plug for the company where I had my first programming job as a 17 year old: www.marketmaps.com. They will print and ship HUGE maps without a moment's hesitation. Choose a nice world map with a decent projection or send them a PDF and they'll overnight to you :-)
I read this a few days ago when one of our VPs sent it around and snarkily called it "BongoDB".

The article is being pedantic. The author is complaining about poor documentation, and the issue he's having has a workaround. As if MongoDB is the first software product to have poor documentation. As if its the first to have a workaround.

But yes, the engineers who made it should commit seppuku. How dare they release something that isn't perfect! Everyone should just use SQL and we should never ever move away from it.
From a timing perspective, O'Sullivan lost overnight - knocked out in the Quarter Finals of the World Championship.

"I'll go for a run in the morning and sparring in the afternoon. Life has to go on and will go on."

http://m.bbc.com/sport/snooker/32524542
"OpenStreetMap... the additional work to custom style the maps would be extraordinary"

It absolutely wouldn't. Download TileMill or its successor, Mapbox Studio. Adjust the (Carto)CSS. Done.

Though for a map of this scale I'd probably work straight from Natural Earth[1] without involving OSM, to be honest.

Looks great, anyway.

[1] http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Ask HN: Building cheap, affordable houses in earthquake-hit Nepal?
I am from Nepal.

Thousands of houses has been completely destroyed here. Any expert here who can suggest some technology which could help people to build houses fast and cheap.

I really need these info to help people rebuild there houses. We have many youths who are ready to provide help but we are not familiar with the process.
Building Docker images with Chef-Provisioning
Was development of the original dosemu stopped?
Me too. Sorely disappointed, but he does mention the issue in the footnotes. Glad he's happy with it though! It's a neat project.
With respect to your other point about the King. The American colonists adopted the position that the unrepresentative government of the King was illegitimate and needed to be abolished. The United Kingdon has since acknowledged that this was correct by granting local representative government to Canada and Australia among other places.
The component listing for most recent MIUI ROM for my Nexus 4 is pretty interesting too... http://www.bomtotal.com/#e138cde6cfa889b0e1b4bbfdf6be73da openssl 0.9.8h and 1.0.1e, anyone?
NLP stuff tends to be more data-bound, which PyPy can't really help with.

If it's worth the effort, use Cython, design your data structures carefully, and you'll get C level performance.
Or they wanted a more holistic impression of him in order to better help him. But yes, your theory is likely too.
I wish someone would have recommended him to tweak one of many available OSM styles in TileMill. He also could have exported the layer in any tile shape, projection, and resolution using mapnik. You can even render to vector trivially, which comes in very handy for any printable pdfs.

https://github.com/mapbox/osm-bright

https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/MapnikRenderers
All starter servings no main course. This is a very fluffy fluff piece and going by the rest of the links seems to be a clickbait farm. The article can be summarised as;

Speed optimization is completely neglected while building the website: Don't neglect speed optimization when building a website

Cheap web hosting service: Don't use a cheap web hosting service

Too many plugins and widgets: Don't use too many plugins and widgets

Advertisements: Don't use too many adverts

Designs with large hi-res images: Don't use too many high resolution images

Websites not optimized for mobile users: Google likes websites optimized for mobile users

See what I mean? There's not really much here at all
European tech company exits in 2014: 358 deals in total, €80.14B (disclosed)
Security releases issued for django-hijack
Today we released a security update for django-hijack that fixes a security vulnerability in the admin (HTML escaping issue).
We recommend to update your projects ASAP. You can get the latest version (1.0.7) from the Github project's release page https://github.com/arteria/django-hijack/releases/tag/v1.0.7 or from PyPI.
https://github.com/arteria/django-hijack/releases/tag/v1.0.7
It would kill me to stick pins in something that nice looking.
I thought that too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

Which map projections would you choose? A difficult decision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
The List of Companies That Can Acquire Salesforce.com Is Smaller Than You Think
Apple iPad app glitch delays American Airlines flights
There's a sneaky distinction there between lawful and unlawful. The problems in US policing seem to involve killings by police that are declared to be lawful after an inadequate process of investigation and prosecution.

Not to mention that until Loving v. Virginia inter-racial marriage was unlawful. Presumably the enforcement of that would not itself count as "unlawful tyranny"? Despite actually being a serious impairment to social freedom.

(The 2nd amendment setup is in practice very different to the model of Switzerland, and is used to justify private gun ownership for private security reasons and private fears of black crime, not public/state security)

Edit on lawfulness: man fires unregistered handgun into crowd, kills one injures one, is not convicted of anything. Guess why. http://crookedtimber.org/2015/04/28/no-justice-for-rekia-boy...
Ask HN: What cities in africa do you recommend for digital nomad?
Hi guys,

I am planning to do an african tour next summer while working so I was wondering which cities you went to in Africa as a digital nomad. What was your experience like ?
I already checked nomadlist for some info but it's not quite informative about the region and the list of cities is not quite exhaustive.

I also know that there are a bunch of tech hubs across the region, so the list of the cities to go to should be exhaustive.

What do u think
10 Actionable Ebooks every Entrepreneur must read
It was still - at the time it happened - unlawful.

(Also, rule of law and respect for authority come into direct conflict when the authorities act unlawfully, which is what you're covering for)
Hi all! I'm so glad you like it! The mountains were made by the design team to stress test our WebGL tool Goo Create.
Hi Aaboh,

My first impressions were that the site has a clean and friendly design and is easily navigable toward the shopping cart. In terms of reliability, as a consumer I would be asking questions like: "How can I evaluate the quality of your cleaning services?" or "Do I have the ability to book a specific maid, based on other customer reviews?"

Some ways of addressing these concerns for me would be:

[1] A testimonials section from reputable sources to inspire me with the confidence to use your service

and [2] A way for users of the service to give feedback on the quality of the cleaning work. If I could see that 50 users gave a particular maid 8 or 9 out of 10, I would be motivated to book that maid -- and perhaps you could charge more for her services, based on her reputation.

Just some thoughts ...
Typical grow first, monetise later. It doesn't appear they have any business model at the moment, just churning VC money and trying to grow. They charge no fees for deposits, withdrawals, sending or receiving money, and their buy/sell spread is zero, and they're not known to advertise or sell user data nor do their terms mention it.

I think it's best to think of it as someone trying to build roads all over the country in a world without cars, hoping to allow a car industry to explode. Once cars become mainstream, you can monetise the roads, sell tires especially made for those roads, offer driving schools etc.

Speculating about their future... I think a Coinbase model is quite likely, Circle is known like Coinbase as a 'universal' company. Coinbase charges a bit on deposits, they have an exchange, a vault, an API. It's quite likely at some point we'll see remittance and financial products (peer to peer loans, derivatives), merchant services (payment processing), digital assets on a public ledger (e.g. replacing notary services or contracts with private-key signed documents on a public, unforgeable ledger) etc. There's lots of angles to monetise the facilitation of many products and services.
Wrist tattoos stopping Apple Watch wrist detection working
And then what do they do with the puppies after the 15 minutes are up?
Not directly connected to VS Code launch, but rather to the New Microsoft phenomenon:
It is high time the MS offer a FUSE-like userspace filesystem for Windows (possibly, by purchasing Eldos). Along with package management (which is now addressed in Windows 10), this is one of the biggest holes in Windows armor.
Well that would be a good thing (in my opinion) but you have to have a system closer to the UK where the PM can effectively click his fingers and get a law passed - in some ways a US president has less power than a junior minister does in the UK.

And the Uk PM or Home Secretary would have sorted out the problems you have with over mighty small town police forces very quickly.
I'm not offended but I'd like to show it to my child.
Integrating the Arduino firmware with a Windows GUI app will be a lot easier if the firmware was generated from within MSVS. I could imagine automatically generated bindings to hardware functions. I can also imagine an automatic custom "device driver" generator; and then maybe an all-in-one installer roller thing. There are some pretty cool possibilities.
Some dynamic languages, notably Ruby, use duck typing. Many tag all values with types, Lisps are an example. Tagged types allows a dynamic language to be strongly typed [dynamic/static is orthogonal to strong/weak typing, C being an example of weak static typing].

Type inference is syntactic sugar in most languages that allow it, and explicit type declaration is [almost?] invariably permitted. Of course, the price of omitting type declarations in code is the potential loss of clarity that comes anytime implicit communication is used in lieu of explicit statements of intent.
Nah, a display at that size with comparable resolution will cost a fortune (if it actually is available for mortals). Also power consumption would be quite a sum.
Given his objectives specifically included high resolution enough to see details on the map up close, even a 4K projector would have fallen far short of this.
I think the situation isn't quite that dire, based on a couple factors:

First, keeping your own private fork of a GPL library isn't all that easy an option if you also expect to be able to benefit from any further work done by the project's maintainers. By going that route you're committing to spending a lot of time and money on a lot of hairy merging.

Second, for most serious companies the open source libraries they rely on are not a part of their secret sauce. You're really not maintaining a whole lot of competitive advantage by closely holding that tweak to MySQL's query optimizer that lets your social office supply reviewing site respond to requests with 1% lower latency. Unless fractionally shorter response times is really what your company has going for it, of course. In which case it's probably doomed anyway.

I think these two factors in concert mean that it's generally much better for a business to contribute back than to try and maintain an internal fork.

Of course, businesses only contribute back to projects that they've decided to use in the first place. Using GPL code for your SASS product probably won't cause any immediate problems. It can still be a huge strategic misstep, though, because it does still limit your options for how you can pivot in the future. If you're a startup that could also mean a big drop in your value in the eyes of a potential suitor.
As a long-time Pandora user, I can only say this: my F5 key is ready for the pre-order page! I can't wait for Pyra to arrive - and in the meantime, the Pandorae on my desk (I have two) are humming along, serving as always, in so many great ways ..
On Ghandi, a very different situation: http://flavorwire.com/516442/mahatma-gandhi-baltimore-and-th...
Oh I absolutely concur, I came back for WoD.

LFR, LFG, bonus loot rolls, facebook minigame of garrison management, Bind on Account for all pets, mounts and Heirlooms.. Heirlooms themselves.

It is definitely far more casual than it used to be. I'm not going to whine, I understand the game needs to play to the market and I'm not going to pretend I enjoyed having to find a group in a chat channel, run to the actual instance and then grind away about an hour for resurrecting and loot squabbles that existed before LFG and Personal Loot, some of the changes are great. I suppose I'm also older and 'wiser' now (At least busier, with a 9-5 and whatnot), so this new style of WoW suits me, I can't just stay up all night playing like I used to.
You cant be serious... What do you do a living? Doesnt that setup drive you nuts?
Yeah, we do. Competition is a good thing.
Yes. Various parts of the stdlib are intended to be used by catching Not_found or End_of_file or whichever exception happens to be relevant.

It's not what I would have done.

(Mark text as code by putting it on a fresh line with two or more spaces in front. I don't think there is a way to do this inline.)
So we should protect people from every single conceivable 'bad' outcome?
what is your point? you are saying that they are not forced into it and so therefore everything is A OK?
Again I think you are overthinking this. It is perfectly fine for SEARCH to return multiple results, it is intended mostly for interactive use anyways. It won't impact dependency resolution in any way, that would continue to work as it does now, in other words each backend does its own dependency stuff without any regard of any other system.
Python Data Science
References are also very cultural, so you should be careful. Chinese references tend to be of very little value. They are full of useless praise along the lines of "He comes from an excellent family".

My wife's current boss (Professor) has an interesting technique. If he has a good postdoc, and wants them to get a faculty job, he writes a reference letter and starts it with something along the lines of "You should not hire this person, and here is why: ". If nothing else it makes sure someone reads the letter, and he has a very high rate of success this way. Roughly 75% of his postdocs get hired for faculty positions in a field where less than 15% of postdocs go on to get academic jobs.
"tech/silicon valley" is not a political force. It's the market segment that's in ascendancy. Politics has been, and continues to be about who has money. Why does anyone think that the growing political power of handful of tech brands large enough to rate on politician's radars will do good for the citizenry?

Our interests may occasionally align with those of empowered tech giants, but that's purely coincidental. Even as a business owner/employer you're SOL if the policy that's good for the big guys isn't also good for you. They're not lobbying for you, they're lobbying for themselves.
They're slowly turning into another IBM.
Yep. Depending, in turn, upon the phase of the moon.
One can simultaneously support allowing most consensual behavior such as matching buyers and sellers of services through technology while also being somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that many of the seller jobs being created are relatively low-paid contractors while the buyers are more often than not urban professionals. At some level, this is nothing new--dog walkers anyone?--but it's the focus of a lot of these new businesses. (All the while, trying to simply automate away as many of those jobs as possible.)
An Introduction to ReactiveCocoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
I remember in Vanilla as a mage you could make yourself completely immune to the damage that Air Elementals caused in the Blackrock Mountain area (I think? I don't remember specifics, this was a good 9 years ago or so), and so could farm highly sought after crafting mats in bulk. Nobody got banned AFAIK, blizz just quietly patched it and moved on. I agree that some of the most fun things in WoW were unintended (Twinking, exploration, GM Island etc), it's a shame they're so much more against it these days.
> Not sure why I'm telling this tale

Maybe to brag that you've hung out with him? That's not meant to be snarky. It's the same explanation for why people want the autograph of someone famous - to try to convince other people they know high status, powerful people, and by association they are one themselves.

We are often unaware of why we do what we do... or we tell people one reason and keep the real reason to ourselves :-)
Robinson or Winkel-tripel like National Geographic does.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/
I enjoyed reading this and I'm not bothered about tweaking the solutions into oblivion to eke out performance gains. This is a nice, simple comparison, with performance being a simple demonstration of code written by one author.

The only thing that seems to be an obvious omission is the omission of Haskell.
We're Recreating the Unix Rosetta Stone for 2015
Oddly, they don't seem to have world maps advertised online. Everything else though!
The project was started 1,5 years ago at the time of writing the article.
Suggestion: You could test multiple requests by feeding nginx a test input that consists of several concatenated HTTP requests. Since you're using HTTP/1.1 and the default response is keep-alive, the multiple requests will get pipelined together.
How much data is going to be generated from this and will it be publicly available?

Would be nice if they made a nice data API like NASA has.

https://data.nasa.gov/developer
I have been through that crossroads, I moved into a PM role and was told I was a good PM but I didn't like it because I wasn't building anything. I was a master of PowerPoint, Excel and burn-down charts. Through some re-orgs I moved into management and stopped PM'ing projects. Very different role than developer or architect, still no daily effort on building things, but managing others that do so a little more rewarding than PM. Not much difference in pay and looking upwards at middle-management makes me shudder.

Now I am at a crossroads (the other side of yours), at 40, where applying for senior developer or technical roles probably puts me somewhere in the middle of the stack of resumes. I haven't been coding as a full time gig for a while. Not trying to blather on about myself but think about 10 years from now what you would like to be doing. If you think you can be a PM or manager that is better than your current ("I'll be the PM that does it right"), understand that there are often complex constraints those roles are put under to deliver things.

Try to take a step back and look at the big picture. In a software development career there are going to be technology and process fads that come and go with entire industries associated with them (often selling to your management a box of silver bullets to ease their pain). Sure there are going to be stupid processes you have to follow - that is everywhere and probably for every career as well.

Comply with the coding standards and processes as you build stuff, you'll see they will change over time but in a way they really don't change. Daily stand-ups, weekly status reports, TDD, waterfall, Xtreme Programming, pair programming, curly-brace police, etc.

Do you love creating things with software? Focus on that and the craftsmanship of creating software and building systems that help people do stuff.

Write code, test it, and ship it won't change.
This is Madness!
I could be wrong, but when I signed up (not early but around the time it first hit the headlines) I thought it was the only way to sign up, or at least the only useful way (since you needed friends and friends-of-friends to see secrets from).
Jeff Bezos' secret spacecraft finally blasts off
Massimo was mentioned, I'll assume Arduino.cc.
I don't know the specifics of the 747 mass characteristics, but you are correct in saying that a good chunk of the mass is the plane itself. Not the cargo. But of the plane's mass, a huge amount of that is just fuel. Whenever they take on fuel, they measure it in thousands of pounds (in the US at least). So by reducing the cargo weight, you reduce the fuel weight as well because you can takeoff with less fuel.

In other words, removing a pound of cargo can reduce the total weight of the plane by several pounds. For extremely short trips this would be irrelevant, because fuel costs are dominated by takeoff, landing, and waiting for clearance for those two things.
Hi there,

Author here. If you just want to go directly to the Command Line Rosetta Stone, it's https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone.

The blog post explains the history and decision making that went into the design.

There's about 200-ish commands, and while there is still some missing bits it's already pretty useful - by opening things up we should be able to increase the coverage pretty substantially.

If you want to add or change anything, you can edit the Markdown on GitHub https://github.com/mikemaccana/rosetta-stone or just raise an issue with your suggestion.
VS has the best debugger

Yes and no :P Afaik gdb can for particular languages do everything the VS debugger can do, even more (or so I heard once), but the major and utterly important difference is the fact the VS debugger comes with the IDE and the 'I' in the word makes it so much easier to use than anything else out there that usually you can get a lot done with it in a much shorter timespan than with other debuggers. And as such gives people the right to call it the best debugger, imo.
Why not write down the characters and their lives and may be turn that into fiction? Especially if they are so interesting.
Then this obsessive day-dreaming becomes an asset rather than a liability?
I would guess that the destination wasn't important, the journey was.

But I must agree with others that the author at least seems to give the appearance that he was rather ignorant with different map projections. But if you want an Africa-sized Greenland and a huge huge Kamchatka, why not.
Oh yes, the font we are using does not include some characters. Our guys who created the experiment are aware of the problem and will probably try to come up with a fix soon.
That is rather striking: http://www.pratham.name/images/mercator.png
An Alternative-Medicine Believer's Journey Back to Science
That's misleading, MDMA itself has very little affinity for 5HT2b, but its action on the SERT dumps loads of serotonin which displays, by definition, pretty high affinity for it (Ki < 10, according to this https://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000039/Ch039.html). So even if the chemical doesn't show significant activity on 5HT2b in vitro, in vivo it actually does.