skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have sympathy for the idea of focusing on one platform until you've got something people actually want. You'll move faster that way.

Sounds like they never quite got there.
Nope, you'll still need to use "use strict" if you're not in a class definition or a module. It's just that classes and modules are strict mode by default (and there's no way of changing that as far as I know).
There was much discussion in these two recent threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9912034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9912863
I liked looking through my parents' photos as a kid, but there was a couple of photo books at most. I can't imagine my (hypothetical) grandkids sorting through 60 years worth of digital photos unless software has gotten a lot better.

The busy work and stress of dealing with digital photos has actually caused me to take fewer photos. I have a preservationist bent and I just don't want to deal with organizing them.
I doubt the $4m was for 100% of the company. It's unknown what the ROI would've been for the investors.

But still probably something the founders are regretting.
My idea of a percolator has always been this: http://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Express-6-Cup-Stovetop-Espres...

The water doesn't cycle, it goes through the ground coffee exactly once.

I think that the difference with drip coffee is the temperature / pressure of the water.
> The (now abandoned) Spring.NET project

It's been abandoned? (serious question) That really is too bad. It was a solid project used on several .NET projects in which I participated "back in the day."

BTW, I completely agree with your summary point. There appears to be a cultural rejection of .NET OSS projects.
How does the "live in SV for a while -> demo day" model work for a company like this? Are you doing this like most regular YC companies? Does it involve conquering the SV market or maybe working on the corresponding app or are you actually back in Sweden?
That does seem reasonable, doesn't it? If they were succeeding well enough to be known in the larger world, they probably wouldn't be shutting down!
Come on, stop your Hadoop hate speech, and simply bring SpaceCurve on the bandwagon against this patent.
While they're desperately lacking in good getting started documentation, the reference docs are some of the best in the industry. I'll grant they're not pretty, but they cover everything in detail.
Yeah, and by the mid-1990's no one was using them, which is the adoption curve that's characteristic of a fad, not an effective method of doing anything useful. Now 20 years later the fad is back, right on schedule. Expect it to last five to ten years (closer to five) then drop off as people lose interest because once the novelty wears off there is nothing to go back for.
Are Blue-Rays/M-Disc reliable for long term storage?
Having owned several German sports cars, I must say that "excessive cleverness" just might be a German trademark. When compared to the Corvette, the only American sports car I had, excessive, and largely unnecessary cleverness is very much prevalent in german designs.
Ruby on Rails VS Node.js for your next project/startup
Understanding nested list comprehensions in Python
>The last budget review came to the conclusion that it's still possible to finish the project as budgeted and scheduled.

They should open a betting market on these types of lines. I'd love to see the fair odds. I'd take out a second mortgage if I could bet "This project will go over budget" if it was even odds.
Pure Python GOST cryptographic functions library
I could care less as long as my browser loads it. I don't surf the internet with cURL though, so it doesn't really effect me.
Are we supposed to just unfairly give people the same salaries when one worked part time instead for 4 years?

We're supposed to fairly reward two people the same for doing the same job. If you have more experience then you should have more responsibilities - that is what should increase your wage, not simply "time served".
Claiming there's no difference between prediction and understanding reminds me to what philosophers of science call "instrumentalism": theories are only to be judged by how well they work in predicting facts. But imagine a world in which Newton, instead of formulating the law of universal gravitation and the laws of motion, built a complex machine that, given the relative positions of a set of planets, could work out their subsequent trajectories, with astonishing precision. Nobody would be able to explain why it works in any "deeper" way. Would that world be undistinguishable by ours? If anything, would have Einstein had the same chances of devising general relativity? And Schwarzschild of deriving from it that black holes should exist? Doesn't the fact that we care whether black holes exist, despite how little they admittedly influence the set of mundane phenomena we observe everyday, imply that this world is distinguishably different from that with the accurate, hypothetical Newton black box?
FB comments are just indicative. The actual quality of the fact checks, and the choice of topics are obviously partisan. The whole "fact checking" industry is simply a way to give a veneer of authority to those who are not willing to get outside their partisan bubble.
Yes, it does sound like we're violently agreeing. Thanks for the informed discussion; I am so used to arguing with goldbugs and nutjobs, even on HN, that I was unprepared for an informed discussion.
That would only make sense for a very small portion of their users, and confuse a great many.

I think the more likely path is going to be services like their photo library, which can clearly make use of AWS, but doesn't directly expose it to customers. I could see some sort of backup service happening in the near future, and someone else mentioned Echo.
We acknowledge the fact there is no HIPAA certification. By certification, Marshal has meant that our developers need to get certification from a reputed training centre. (Although there are no Govt standards for testing). ----> https://www.truevault.com/blog/should-app-developers-get-hip...
I believe it's a licensing arrangement. Those locations often buy and license Starbucks coffee (though often not their baked goods), but are not run by Starbucks. e.g., Barnes and Nobel, Safeway.
If there are employees inside that means they are open then I would order and grab my coffee
One of the reasons I stopped using SmugMug was that all my videos were re-encoded/recompressed, and I could visibly see degradation. Is this still the case?
Yeah, wasn't implying that - basically, if the investors have a controlling stake, it's a pretty okay return for something that seemingly had no business model besides "maybe sell ads/filters?".

If the investors didn't have a controlling stake, then the founders would be pretty damn rich.
Instead of some strawmen, you could pull real reasons:

- industrial espionage

- government espionage

- wiretaps and other active investigations

- supporting military ops (like "counter-terrorism" stuff)

Throwing out those strawmen won't convince anyone of anything. The discussion of whether it's worth it is important enough to introduce nuance to what you're saying (are you against the NSA tapping, say, Kim Jong-Un's phone?)
Off topic: what did you use to create your terminal gif's?
The Infinite File Download
Good question.

Suppose I have a KDE based desktop which I gather uses qt as the widget library. Am I going to have another subset of libraries to run Firefox?
The shading is one problem. I'm also not convinced the logarithmic scaling for the coding is the best approach; it may be but I'd have to see it with a better color scheme. It probably also depends on what point you want to emphasize.
Is there any way to set tcpKeepAlive=true, ssl=true, and specify a sslrootcert (for Redshift use)?
> Nope, pretty sure it's coffee.

The stated goal of Starbucks is to provide the 'third space':

He had a vision to bring the Italian coffeehouse tradition back to the United States. A place for conversation and a sense of community. A third place between work and home.

The coffee is a mechanism for achieving that ( by making money ).

I don't use Starbucks because I don't like their coffee, but I understand what they're doing.
Create Google Deep Dream-style images in your browser
If you're going to pick up Borges, do yourself a big favor and get the Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations. They were written with Borges and remain out of print because of a copyright dispute.
If you want that sort of guarantee, it's a bad idea to use a free service without an obvious alternative business model (it's probably reasonable to use Gmail, even though you don't pay for it directly).

I haven't used the app, but it's likely that they're stored to your Camera Roll anyways, as Instagram does? In that case, they'd be backed up with the rest of your iPhone.
I feel like this is a myth that just won't go away.

If you run your 24/7 steady state load using on-demand hourly charged instances, and don't factor in the cost of managing your own hardware and data centres then yes, EC2 is hideously expensive.

If you plan your spend (much like you would in buying your own hardware and DC space) it really isn't - reserved instances considerably reduce prices, and come with bulk discounts when you buy enough of them.

It's been a while, but when costing out our migration to EC2 it came out cheaper than any other VM provider, and was in the same ballpark as leasing our own hardware.
"How do you benefit from someone else spending your money for you?"

1. Economy of scale
2. I can get 5% on my own but they can get 8%. If he invests my money for me for 1.5% then we both prosper.

So there's at least 2 ways. There are more. Yes it's more complicated, but you asked and I answered.
Ask HN: Best blogging platform or personal set up?
I would like people's advice on what they believe is either the best blogging platform or best set up to run your own personal blog.

I run my blog here currently: http://raynes.io
However I need to find a way that I can post from anywhere, perhaps with a push to GitHub or something.

Any advice would be appreciated.
New web-based watchface maker that directly create installable APK
There is one advantage to ordering online for local store pickup that is worth considering. The online price can be - from my experience - cheaper than than the in-store price. I was surprised to find this on a number of different products recently.
One thought is that we could reframe the question (as e.g., Sweden has done) and work to increasing gender equality.

If the starting point is recognizing that people have kids and it takes time to care for them, and both parents have that right and obligation.

From there, one could devise policies that encourage BOTH men and women to take parental leave and invest in high-quality childcare for when that parental leave is over.
You have clearly captured the situation. At icliniq, quality matters to us. Every doctor who registers at icliniq is stringently verified. And more than verification, we check every answer of a doctor with in an in-house moderation team. Before a doctor is allowed to answer real health queries, we give them simulated queries to know their quality. If they do not answer it well, we block them from answering any queries. Period.

You can check our quality of our answers here ---> https://www.icliniq.com/qa/medical-questions-answers
You seem to feel very strongly that businesses should optimize for pathological cases. Most people are not thieves.
When you start to look at how the fact checkers operate you'll see the same things over and over again, starting with leading questions, selective targeting of opponents, the use of selective data, selective interpretation of the data, ambiguous metrics (what does "half true" mean?) and in many cases wilful distortion of the conclusion that does not fit the agenda. Here's a couple of examples, the first being biased, and the second "Lie of the Year" being totally incorrect. There are literally hundreds of examples similar to these.

http://newslines.org/fact-checks/did-barack-obama-vote-to-de...

http://newslines.org/fact-checks/is-jeep-moving-u-s-producti...
The Fallacy of Motion
Do you have a blog? I like the way you write and would like to read more.
Yep, that's it exactly.

The calculation goes like this:

There are about 10^80 elementary particles in the known universe.

No physical process can happen faster than the Planck frequency (the frequency of light at which a single photon would have enough energy to form a black hole), about 10^43 Hz.

The universe is about 10^16 seconds old.

Multiply all those numbers together and you get 10^140 = 2^465.

Even if you allow 10^100 seconds (a conservative estimate of the time until the heat death of the universe) you still only get about 2^700 possible enumerable states.

Of course, if you want all the enumerates states to exist simultaneously then you can only encode one state per particle, and the number drops to 10^80 = 2^265, about 53 5-bit characters, not even a third of a tweet.
Float tanks rock! Note to newbies; you need about 3 sessions to really get into it and learn to let go faster.

Forget sitting meditation. Flotation therapy is the easiest way to get a brain and body massage. There are also heath benefits from the Epsom Salt used inside the tank to make you float.

I wrote a bit on this topic few years back here: http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/local-california/float... and why it's a perfect tool for engineers to let go and relax after a busy day of coding ;-)
Jeebus dude, why exactly you need 3-6 months to get your photos from a service you didn't use often enough? AWS cost real money. How long of a warning do you need to exit a service? A year?
If this happens to include nuclear warheads, esp. in the U.S., all warheads are currently sent to Pantex in Amarillo, Texas for decomm or refurb. Most of the staff are ex-US MIL, especially USN and USAF, capable of maintaining Q(S) clearance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantex_Plant
FTL Travel?
>> MVC - MVC4 is a .NET Rails clone. Named MVC as if Microsoft originated the design pattern that was used to clone another framework.

You use of the English language is rather confusing.
I wrote my own blogging engine [1] back when there weren't many (any?) to choose from (started it in 1999), and geared the workflow of posting to my preferred method: email (although it helps that I run my own server) and I'm surprised that method isn't used more often.

I can also use a web interface if I am desperate, as well as adding an entry as a file (the email interface is similar to the file mechanism---it just pulls the entry out of the body of the email).

Granted, the language I used is rather unorthodox, but it works.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
Just wait bluemix has a track history of building a free tier of every service. Happened with sendgrid i.e. That was the policy at least

Bluemix has been weird to me. Got the hardest time to get founding and that annoyed the hell out of me. Couldn't even get space for the blue tilde group running (weird thing, maybe still on w3, maybe not)
That's really interesting. Anywhere I can learn more about this?
I think that you are referring to LTCM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management ) which blew up in the late 90s. For others interested, I would strongly recommend the book "When Genius Failed" ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375758259 )
Thank you very much. :) It looks like you have gone through our site in detail. We appreciate your feedback. Coming from a person like you who has written two books, we understand how lucid a content has to be.

We shall hire a content specialist. Can you suggest anyone?
Anyone from Mozilla aware of the status of the Qt Firefox port? I remember seeing progress on Github and I was really excited for a while, but it seems to have completely disappeared.

Right now the Qt world doesn't have an acceptable browser, which is incredibly annoying for us since we're targeting Qt-based desktop environments. I'm hoping the move to GTK3 at the very least helps towards that.
About what "Lossy FLAC" you're talking about? Do you mean perhaps [1]?

If FLAC would ever gain a lossy mode, it would be a disaster, because it would be instantly (ab)used and it would be misleading to a lot of users. "FLAC is not Lossy" [2] and it will hopefully remain that way forever.

(Of course it doesn't prevent people from encoding audio into FLAC from lossy formats, but it's a completely different matter.)

[1] http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=55522
[2] https://xiph.org/flac/features.html
Malaria vaccine gets 'green light'
Did This Little NAO Robot Just Become Self-Aware? – 33rd Square
That's a pretty impressive effort and awesome all over.

As an innocent bystander, my biggest concern is what's going to happen to nrefactory and friends. Omnisharp[1] currently relies on these and mono to provide intellisense and refactoring to editors not monodevelop.

Will they have to put on an equal amount of effort into putting to Roslyn if they want to remain on a maintained codebase?

[1] https://github.com/OmniSharp/
That's way too broad a statement and I don't agree with using "innovate" to mean "hockey stick".

While I generally agree that it's harder for big companies to innovate I think the key is to segregate the company into smaller units (Gladwell's "magic number 150").
There's plenty of innovation from huge companies that don't depend on takeovers.
Bell Labs is probably the most common example.
The disc ... features 241 tokens, comprising 45 unique signs, which
were apparently made by pressing hieroglyphic "seals" into a disc of
soft clay, in a clockwise sequence spiraling toward the disc's center.

That sounds completely opposite from what I expect you to do when pressing the symbols into the clay. I gut tells me you start at the center and move outwards.
So why would you not have localized infrastructure to handle average loads and use AWS to scale to peak only when necessary? Why use AWS even for your average loads?
No, it doesn't.

"smooth scrolling" != "continuous scrolling"

and no fedora 21 didn't ship what is still a fairly experimental feature of firefox
Not really. Amazon as a whole is dial-a-yield depending on the rate of profit reinvested to grow existing/new capabilities. If Bezos wanted, he could halt expansion and return more profit in the short-term, but that would delay long-term revenue (and hence profit) generation plans (however long he's able to find other business expansion directions which avoid the perils of overexpansion and also avoid plateauing for too long).

Also, some companies like Netflix and Zynga, which are AWS'es main customers, are fine to pay AWS a premium to have most of their infrastructure better managed and on-demand. Whereas most sizable businesses deploy something like OpenStack for baseline load on real, bare metal gear they buy and use AWS for traditional uses: PoCs, disaster recovery and peaking capacity. Startups tend to use AWS at first because it's easy, popular and low-risk, but it's not a panacea because it tends to get very expensive, very quickly. (It is however, clearly, a great business in itself, which probably should be spun-off.)

Disclaimer: I was with a premier enterprise AWS external consultancy shop early on that had significant access to capabilities and expanded limitation perks beyond other shops. Interestingly, they've built limitation increase requests available to most everyone now, which were manual before and depended on how much clout a customer or vendor garnered.
Exciting to see this on HN. npdoty and I have been cataloging this and similar experiments at http://webadaptation.org along with working on some of our own. If you're interested do send me an email!
His customers are essentially baristas. I think he secretly hopes this will bring down coffee costs.

I am quite interested in how the standardization will work. Maybe it is just like the "Chinese"-food places, where every menu is almost the same.
Thank you for your concern. Well. We have taken the best of security practises to avoid being hacked and we continuously upgrade our infrastructure to HIPAA standards.
At Imtech? Aren't you confusing it with Schwarz who worked for BER? Or did I miss something in the Die Zeit article?
>we're targeting Qt-based desktop environments

What project are you working on?
This link seems to still work for exporting CSV of contacts, including email addresses: https://www.linkedin.com/addressBookExport
Then why not add a delay to showing the spinner? that way, if it ever takes longer than, say, your 500ms, you'll have an indicator...
Those strawman aren't mine, they are the reasons stated by the people that push these things on us.
iPhone photos aren't the storage problem. Heck, I have lots of RAW photos and my total photo storage is still "only" about 1TB. And, yeah, were I to spend a couple of days culling I could get rid of a few hundred GB of stored pics but that's the sort of boring housekeeping task that never pops to the top of the stack.
You would whether Firefox used GTK+2 or GTK+3.
Microsoft SQL Server is named so because it originated from `Sybase SQL Server`. Microsoft joined forces with Sybase to port it to Windows NT. The name is kept after they went on their separate ways.

ASP.NET MVC is named so to clearly differentiate from ASP.NET Web Forms (i.e. primarily for branding). Even now, sometimes when people talk about ASP.NET, they actually mean ASP.NET Web Forms.
This seems pretty stupid. Is my understanding that Bitcoin txns are no/low-cost and fast incorrect?
"founded by former Cold War code breaker James Simons"

That is a weird description. Yes, Simons did that, but a normal description would be "former mathematician".
New patent group threatens to derail 4K HEVC video streaming
>Signition is a play on words including “signal” and “recognition.”

but i could not help but think of "momentum ignition", a strategy that is a little bit more sinister than what amounts to no more than statistical methods for return and risk estimation.

edit: on further thought "sigma ignition" is a rather darkly funny way to think about it too.
You're doing that with the atom.xml already anyway.

Your approach right now doesn't seem to work with search engines very well:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnikolay.r...

https://yandex.ru/search/?lr=114311&text=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnikolay.roc...

https://se.search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnik...
Read the comments on that page for the justification.
One place to start? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sailing_frigates_of_th...

The USS Constitution is technically still in active service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution

Also the United States Naval Academy has a sailing team, but a lot of colleges on a river or shore do. I assume they do well, as a matter of pride. http://www.usna.edu/Sailing/
the ticket was filed mid-Dec. 2014 and stated that all threads leaked memory when closed. I think there was an earnest misunderstanding, since the ticket was still open when i read it, but has clearly been fixed on linux/OS X.

And i couldn't find the ticket when i looked, after the user deleted his comments. So it seemed a bit like a direct attack on the language's fitness for developemnt, but also like a misunderstanding.
Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO
Drag & drop is not precise in positioning of the elements on page. So, I developed this approach which turned out more productive.

Could you describe your development process using the tool ? It would be helpful for improving the builder for such process as you have.
> The engineer in me says that it's overwhelmingly likely that there's nothing alive there.

Our planet has life in all kinds of niches. Why would an Earth-like planet not be overwhelmingly likely to have life on it? (I am an engineer also...)