skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feature is the foundation of so much potential that I am giddy!

Being able to expand content offerings in such a distributed but definable way is going to turbo charge our efforts this year at YETi CGI.

Already today we started work testing deepviews to share opps from #points, our new ambient gamification platform. They will allow us to be so much more effective in onboarding users to immersive activity.

Thank You Branch :)
Ge to sell health care financial services ops to capital one
UBS has done some modeling on this for their clients. They believe utility-based solar will take a hit for a 2-3 years and then rebound. The Fed ITC will drop from 30% to 10%. Making up that 20% cost change will take a little over one doubling of solar scale.

Rooftop solar will probably also take 2-3 years to make up for the cost lost to the subsidy reduction. It may even be 4. So after 2016, I'd expect rooftop prices to rise before slowly dropping, and getting back to 2016 levels around 2019 or 2020.
Ask HN: What are amazing examples of UX outside of software?
Here is the first example that comes to mind, and I was wondering how many others we could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNM_T1d1as
Text-only, numbered Material Design guidelines
Yea, he pretty much lost me at "Go invest your money at 10%, you figure out how to do that!" He's assuming no variability (constant N%) so he somehow has found a consistent, risk-free 10% return! Incredible! For comparison, 1-year US Treasuries are around 0.36%, which when plugged into his chart would add up to $175K after 20 years, not $475K. Big difference.
This is definitely valuable input from someone who's clearly been in the industry a while.

Your point regarding putting your efforts into building a piece of software for someone else rather than trying to do it yourself is sound advice, but people will still disregard it even if it defies common sense. A tiny part of those will end up becoming very successful, and those are usually the people we hear of later.

It would be interesting to see numbers on failed startups (within both the gaming industry and otherwise).
Seconded. I can't live without fish, and I hear this "but what about my bash scripts?!" argument a lot. Unless you're actually sourcing the script, it has a magic "#!/bin/bash" line on top that makes it work correctly!
HOT CHILLI SAUCE CHallENGE WITH a TWIST
Hmm, weird, I thought Qt was pretty good at the native look and feel. Thanks for the info!
One of the real problem areas I haven't solved particularly well: For complex project I might have several cloned repos or branches, each forked off to solve a particular issue, develop a specific feature, or try a particular approach. There doesn't seem to be a very good or integrated way to keep track of the purpose or intention of each branch/repo. It can be very confusion when trying to switch between them. "What was I doing in THIS repo? Where was I? Where was I heading?"

I've tried keeping a file `THISBRANCH` in each with just a one or two line "what's going on here?" description. Better than nothing--but it's not well-integrated into other repo commands/actions, and is a pain when merging back toward a more upstream repo. In general, Mercurial and Git don't seem to do a very good job tracking "intent" metadata about each repo/branch.
I've been using the beta for a while and have found it to be quite nice.

Simple operations are quick and intuitive. If you need anything more advanced, a git shell for the current project is just 2 clicks away.

Having all the visual diffs readily available in the client before committing is quite convenient, as is being able to push your branch and open a pull request for it at the press of a button.

I'm hoping issues and PR management is next on the plate. You can open PRs from the client right now, but to review and merge them you'd still need to open a browser.
Some features I use: Cherry-picking commits across branches. Merging branches. Rebases for forward-porting your work onto a new upstream. Bisects for determining which commit introduced a bug. Push/pull for sharing. Format-patch for sending patches around. Submodules.
Why picking a health plan is a hell
Anybody know if something exists similar to Convox that currently works with Google Cloud? I haven't been able to find anything myself.
You're definitely not the only person using Arc in production. Hubski is written in Arc and still under active development.
so when Jupyter does the next upgrade will it be called IPython 5 or Jupyter 5.0 (or 2.0)?
I've been my entire life working on projects, where I'm from no one knows anything about startups. I didn't know anything either. I thought Google and Microsoft had been there for years and were created like any other traditional company. Couldn't imagine anything built out of a garage or a dorm room.

I got money from all my different projects but never thought about them as companies, I used them to learn and pay for my hobbies. I never thought they could turn into real companies so I worked on them at night after my normal job.

Right now I got back to a project and idea I had back in 2008 when I even registered the domain and created the landing page and sketched a logo. Finally, I want to turn it into a real thing, into a company, but I still think about it as a project.

Same happens when I have to explain to family and friends why I left a well-paid job on tech in Ireland and moved back to my parents home in Spain to work on a website while the country is still broke. By saying "I'm working on a project" seems less serious. They still ask if I can live out of that but if I try to explain I'm working on a company people just freak out and things get really difficult to justify taking the attention out of what's important. Hope one day they understand.
Cool!

There's a typo.

> RemindToRead enables seamless user expereinces from visit to return and beyond.

Should be: RemindToRead enables seamless user experiences from visit to return and beyond.
Crack? Like fall apart? What are you doing man?! It's freaking iron!!!! I'm using my great-great grandmothers pan all the time and it's amazing despite being from the 1800's
> At the end of the day it will always be calories in vs. calories out.

This is based on the assumption that all calories are digested and metabolized.

Calorie is simply a unit of energy. There are calories in paper, charcoal and wood, so taking that to the extreme would mean that one would gain the same amount of weight consuming a bunch of shredded paper as consuming, let's say, a donut, yet digestion does not work that way.
FYI you can target the datacenter you want for S3's "standard" region and force it to always use Virginia by targeting s3-external-1.amazonaws.com
There's read after write consistency for new objects, eventual consistency for overwriting existing objects.

Historically this applied to all regions except US Standard, but now that too supports it if you go through the VA instead of global endpoint.
So step 1, don't have kids, step 2 don't get sick.

That's like saying win the lottery. Sure, it could work, but it's a lot of risk and does not scale.
no it isn't, unless you assume the person you reply to already knows about the topic and is defending it.

But if you consider the question as "I don't know what is wrong with news corp" than it's the best question you can ask.
We Were Upvoted for Posting Nazi Propaganda about Migrants in the Daily Mail
They did release, so no penalties from the government, and they filed for bankruptcy so the investors probably just lost their money. I don't know about Belgian bankruptcy laws so no idea if there are personal consequences.
bet365.
I don't know the history of Australian interest rates but the only time US interest rates were at that level was during the inflationary times of the 70's.

This link says current interest rates are 3.5%. [1]

[1] http://www.infochoice.com.au/banking/savings-account/high-in...

Long term US stock market returns seem to be something like 10% but those definitely have significant risks involved, even for index funds[2].

[2] http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2009/03/average-ann...
The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market.

Can you imagine, just imagine, how craptastic The Economist would be if it were "free" and all you had to do was endure curated advertisements?

PS I would pay extra if they would stop stapling in those cardboard subscription cards in the middle of the (print) issue.

PPS I feel the same way about the NY Times---worth paying for---although they have gone so broad recently that I'm worried they're becoming unfocused, trying to appeal to too many at once.
I already run Julia and Haskell on IPython Notebook 3.0 - does the current 4.0 make it simpler to add kernels?
I think the more nuanced version of the prevailing wisdom is "it seems like a bad idea to everyone else, because of a key set of facts that you know that very few other people know."

Knowing that secret, whatever it is, probably requires special insight into a particular area of the world, special ways of thinking that few others are using, and perhaps special methods of operating that few others are using.

That's how an idea that looks bad ends up being good.
Try `git add -p`
Would buy it! Just picking up Erlang and loving it so far. Would love to learn more on performance as well.
The Curious Case of Free Bitcoins
Depends on the city, but if you can't see the north star, you're not going to see any but the brightest meteors.

Aside: I consider it a life skill to be able to find the north star. :-)
If you're worried about a datacenter losing power, a multi-AZ strategy is fine. Hardware issues happen so often and with so little impact that we rarely hear about them. The issues that I'm primarily concerned about at this point are in software.

The S3 issue affected the entire region. A month back a BGP issue affected every one of our AZs in us-east-1. It wasn't even Amazon's fault, but a multi-AZ strategy would have done nothing for us.

It's kind of like Maslow's hierarchy of availability needs: at the bottom you deal with hardware failures, then networking failures, then regional configuration failures, and finally homogeneity issues where all of your machines fail at once because of a bug in hardware raid controllers or a leap second smear issue. It all depends on how much resilience you need and are willing to pay for.
> The best companies start out with ideas that don’t sound very good. They start out as projects, and in fact sometimes they sound so inconsequential the founders wouldn't let themselves work on them if they had to defend them as a company. Google and Yahoo started as grad students’ projects. Facebook was a project Zuckerberg built while he was a sophomore in college. Twitter was a side project that started with a single engineer inside a company doing something totally different. Airbnb was a side project to make some money to afford rent. They all became companies later.

This is hardly a list of the best companies, and a few of them don't support the argument:

1. The search/portal market was already significant when Google launched. Companies like Yahoo, Excite, Lycos were already public traded at the time, and were some of the hottest issues in the tech space. So it's no wonder Andy Bechtolsheim cut Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000 before a corporate entity even existed.

2. When Facebook launched, Friendster already had millions of users and had received a $30 million acquisition offer from Google. MySpace, which was created by people who saw Friendster's popularity, was founded by people trying to capitalize on the social networking hype that was already present in 2003.

3. Even Airbnb is hardly a post child for Sam's argument. Homeaway, VRBO and Couchsurfing were all well established when Airbnb launched.

For most entrepreneurs, "start out with an idea that doesn't sound very good" isn't likely to turn out very good.
I'm not sure if it's true. It depends. Some stuff, for sure, like 3d printing tiny models of ingame characters, is something you can't just go out and do at scale without experience.

But there's a lot of 'artbook' and 'wallpaper' and 'soundtrack' stuff. i.e. 100% of things that they already have. This project on its kickstarter already displayed lots of art and wallpaper material, and they launched the game obviously with a soundtrack.

In short, shipping that is going to a local printer and asking to make a booklet or a wallpaper, in color. They give you a price and you inflate it by 10x. Wallpaper and booklet costs $3 to print, add a soundtrack and $3 in shipping (average, some will be 50c, some $5), and turn it into a +$25 reward. Get 1000 backers like that and you're netting close to $20k for relatively little effort. Even some ridiculous overhead and you still net $10k for stuff you can pay a highschooler a few hundred bucks to create. That $20k can pay a 3man passionate noodle eating team that's working on this parttime for months, and that's with a thousand backers, this team had a few thousand, actually I took a look and it seems that rewards are about half their campaign. It's really scrappy but it happens and it sometimes really works out.

Definitely not something that works for every project, in fact I see it fail more often than not. But it's not a priori a bad idea, I just don't think everyone thinks it through. Some devs create games and then have a mini comic booklet as a reward that increases the price by $5, or hell just include it for free because hey, kickstarter. That requires writing, printing and shipping, the costs don't make sense at all.
Author of the post and core member of Convox here. Happy to answer any questions about this engineering strategy and all things Convox and ECS.
Please don't write shell code that you ever intend to distribute to anyone. The future will thank you.
There are several GUIs for git on Linux. GitG comes to mind. But there are several others - also with github integration.

https://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux
Germany gets roughly as much sunlight as Canada, and started installing solar when costs were 5-10x what they are today. They paved the way for future installations at lower costs, but their experience isn't directly applicable.

Energy storage is indeed going to be vital once solar exceeds 10-20% of capacity. Energy storage, fortunately, is also dropping fast in cost:http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-...

I have future posts coming with closer looks at the future of storage prices, wind prices, and possibly one on nuclear.
Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer
Speaking of their academic origins, deep learning is a subset of machine learning. It just also happens to be the most exciting and the one with the biggest publicity/results in recent years, so its often (mis)-labeled to describe the entire machine learning field.

Andrew Ng's course still contains fundamental knowledge necessary to understand the motivations and reasoning behind deep learning (along with a lot of background ML knowledge that isn't needed), though, so I think its a good resource to link.
Until the editors are part of the spin. One just needs to look at some recent largely one-sided political issues to see this problem.
My radical view on education is that everyone should work at their own pace until they have an A understanding/test scores in each topic of each class before moving on.

This completely takes the focus off the grade (its always an A) and focuses it on learning well.

It also means that nobody falls behind which is a source of a lot of stress. Slow learners get extra time and teacher attention before trying to move on to more advanced topics.

Fast learners enjoy racing through subjects at their own top speed. It is extremely rewarding to be able to skip forward as soon as you are ready. This naturally develops self-managed education habits.

I got to learn this way for one year in elementary school and it was the best experience I have ever had in education.

To do this, teachers need organized lesson plans for each class that students can follow at their own pace, and act more as self-learning mentors and a learning resource, as apposed to controlling the pace with all-class lectures. The commonality between all classes is teachers are teaching kids how to learn by their own efforts, not just topics they will forget.
A TINY, fail-fast, “naked”, simple immutable data structure library
What is more likely is that when that problem is solved it will be applied to bitcoin rather than create a new coin.
This blog and the book informed my lifestyle, my goals and how I see poverty/education/society. It's worth it for anyone to read.
But it's not about git itself. Issues, PR comments, the wiki and such things make github what is. Personally, I'd prefer a nice graphical desktop app to handle these, and either have a terminal embedded or run it alongside the gui to handle the git commands.
+1 would buy.
I don't know that there is much in the way of good debt practically available to most people, but your example is bad. If your choices are:

1. Buy a car with cash up front.

2. Buy the same car with financing at 2% APR.

Then you should exercise option #2, and take the money you don't immediately spend and invest it aiming to get 4% return on investment (which should be achievable), then pay off your loan and realize a net 2% return.
You can read all about how good activist investors are in the Economist's cover story a few months back: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642169-why-activist-...

;)
I never said anything about removing existing software (such as sublime). I was talking about there being less incentive to create a git gui for a user base that is - from my experience - happy with the current cli interface or any other already existing client (such as magit for emacs).
That stuff is just more toxicity. The non stick vaporizes at high temperatures (the Teflon website will warn against small birds in the kitchen... And that's the Teflon website!!!), and all those knicks and scratched are material coming off and into your food.

There's no need for toxic cookware. Get high quality cast iron and you can give it to your future generations like my grandmother did for me. And if that flakes into your food, it's just iron which your body needs!
In my defense, I wrote "one of the few people" :-)
The game is released.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/281940/
No. There isn't even a 1% use case where this is useful. I'm not saying "your effort is better spent elsewhere". I'm saying "doing silly things to get better random numbers is just as likely to harm your security as to help it".
> Not eating makes you lose weight.

Exception being the cases when it doesn't http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/fasting-for-weight-loss/can...
Um. Isn't Yahoo powered by Bing anyway?
I think you are looking at the arithmetic average, which isn't very useful for the following reason:

Year 1: 100% gain
Year 2: 50% loss

The arithmetic average here is 50%, which the geometric average is 0%. The CAGR listed is going the correct metric to use but that is not 9% after inflation using the date range you provided. I get 7.42% for 1/1/95 - 12/31/14 after inflation and dividends are factored in. Not bad by any stretch of the imagination, though!
The goal is to have a potentially shippable product increment at the end of each sprint. You don't have to release it to production; but it should certainly be made available for review/feedback by stakeholders and either customers or a representative of the customer. There's no reason you can't use all agile principles (or, say, Scrum as-is) on long release cycles. You will have to break that pattern of months of development without testing and a final "stabilization" phase.
Cool, sort of like clib?

https://github.com/clibs/clib
Could you list the features that Arc pioneered?
Medicaid in Oregon ≠ universal healthcare.

Real universal healthcare is what you see in other countries: Canada, Japan, U.K., Denmark, Costa Rica, Cuba…

And you'll find enough variation among those to acknowledge that the devil is in the details still. Interesting stuff though… despite being poorer and spending far less on healthcare, Cuba and Costa Rica have the same life expectancy as the U.S.
Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages
A consistent 4% interest rate is an incredible return. A more realistic risk-free rate nowadays is 1/10th that.
Dude, you're cliqueish attitude and HN Mod bullshit is why I no longer bother with accounts. Try reading the substance of the post, don't waste time attacking 'green accounts', or is that your only thing you have to contribute?

Go read the dev mailing list, go look at pull requests, Gavin's become a marketer who appeals to reddit and private contacts with business instead of the technical community. He even got the basic math wrong when he originally proposed 20.
"The past 6 years" means you're starting in 2009, which was the depths of the recession. If you look at the past 8 years instead, your average return would be a lot less, especially if you had to take out money to live on while the index was at the bottom.

On an inflation-adjusted basis, the S&P 500 has not grown at all for the past 15 years:

http://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500

The average rate of return for the past 50 years is pretty small. You can make almost any rate of return look reasonable if you cherry-pick the right timeframe, but the long-term average doesn't look good at all.
I'm in Germany, and I'm pretty OK with our police. Most officers I've met were friendly, it just happens to be their job to have to do unpopular things at times.
A Web Content Management Veteran Opens Up About His Biggest Competitive Fear
I had never heard of this guy before, and I'm completely blown away by his work! Especially the fact that he uses more wood to create tools to be more efficient. I might have to get a bigger basement...
Twitter finally flicks the switch on 10,000 character DMs
I've not heard of a open source software license that requires you to change the name of a piece of software when you re-distribute it, but with the thousands of licenses out there

They don't, and they wouldn't. The licenses (generally) are only dealing with the code, which is something very specific, and is apart from the name of the software.
The need to change the name would simply fall out of the way trademark law works, not a requirement in the license per-se.

It's just an issue that doesn't come up very often, because most people who write OSS don't seem to get very worked up over it. But a license permitting you to redistribute code, does not automatically mean you have permission to use the associated trademark.

Times when this has come up: CentOS can't call their Linux distribution "RHEL" because RHEL is a Red Hat trademark. But they can (and do) redistribute the code.

Firefox / IceWeasel controversy - Firefox have specific guidelines concerning use of the name "Firefox" and Debian ran afoul of them at some point, and the Firefox people made an issue of it, so Debian rebranded their distribution of that code as "IceWeasel".

And so on... Now, IANAL, and I'll freely admit that it's probably an open question whether or not simply forking a Github repo represents an action which would violate a trademark. I suspect it could if the owner chose to make an issue of it, but hey, I could be wrong.
I think you misunderstood the point of "seemingly bad ideas".

This is not about ideas that seem bad to you.

This is about ideas that seem bad to others, i.e. ideas that seem okay to you, that you probably even verified in the small, but still have trouble convincing others.
(Now in the new Clickable flavor!)
Current Top Submissions on the Theme:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047721

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046226
It makes a good sandbox because it uses a chroot/pivot_root + unshares pid/net/uts/mnt/ipc namespaces, but it doesn't use user namespaces so root in the container is root on the host which is a bit scary.