skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for fixing this. I personally did not assume this was necessarily censorship, but don't be surprised by the reaction of users though, I think you'll see more of these reactions for a while, after the Safe Harbor ruling.
IBM Watson Speech Services Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
Not everything is about effing obesity. Sometimes fun is just fun.

Seriously, the way people whine and whinge about them, you'd think they never did anything unless it was for some grimly healthy purpose.
Could you provide an example in stat analysis where python is clearly inferior? In the article, R seems to have an advantage of having many useful stat functions baked in vs having to import specific modules in python. im wondering if your proficiency in R is being weighed in your evaluation of R - maybe python's statistical analysis tool has many to offer, but you are more aware of R's toolsets.
That's not true. Funding is important, but once you have it you stop looking for more. I've been working in research for years, both in companies and universities, and I have always been involved in long-term projects, so I have never had to worry about funding.

Of course, other colleagues are not so lucky, and getting funding is an important part of their day-to-day jobs, specially once you reach higher positions. But it is a necessity, not an instinct.
Could you list some of these packages?
MicroFocus I presume? :)
It's more for fun than transport.
I've sat through two weddings where the pastor chose to share that passage.

One time it was without commentary, and the whole ceremony came across poorly to me (he even solicited conversions to his church at the end, as if it were a public Sunday service).

The other was a younger guy who didn't say the whole thing and tried to explain it away the best he could as more or less being about "supporting each other". I liked that wedding a lot better in general, but I still think that's a terrible passage to recite during a wedding.

So if pastors think that is the most important bit to share when performing actual marriages in public, you shouldn't be surprised that this is what people are most familiar with.
Why We Open Sourced Our Documentation
There's also some practical reasons for keeping a program on the mainframe. I currently work in mainframe development at a large company. We're in the beginning stages of "modernizing" some of our mainframe applications (moving the user interface from CICS to the web). The main workhorse processes will still be on the mainframe, and for good reason: it's a goddamn powerhouse. Should we get a high volumes, we can give the processes some extra CPU's and MIPS, and it'll chug along even faster. It's a bit more difficult to provision extra VMs for a distributed server environment in order to do such things.

Plus, for all of COBOL's faults, it's simply more efficient for "business-y" processes. All anyone cares about is manipulating data found within a file or database, and that's what COBOL excels at.
The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor
"no cars allowed is nice in theory but not workable"

I think cities existed before cars.
This may be true, but if those experts would have only been paid if the project came in under budget this surely would not have happened. Incentives matter more than expertise.
Chronic shortage of air traffic controllers a crisis
Teach Robots How to Fall with Grace
I find it sad that people often talk as if everybody who attends classical concerts of the dress-up variety is a cultural snob. Not to deny that many snobs flock to such gatherings, but I find it very unfair to have everybody painted with the same brush.

At 20 years old, I am not your typical orchestra attendee. I don't get to go often either, but when I do, I always thoroughly enjoy it. I enjoy the music (though alas, I still understand much too little of it) just as much as the atmosphere: fancy clothes, a beautiful building, the hushed silence during the performance.

I do not deny that a casual clothes performance of video game music can be fun, entertaining, good listening. I do not even say that it is necessarily worse than a classical piece (though I also agree with cicero's and mazelife's previous comments - and yes, I like more contemporary music too). What I do say is that you can't really compare the two. OK, both are music, and both can be played by an orchestra. But for one, their style is very different - one meant to be listened to with full concentration, the other as a background track to something more important. Quite aside from that, how you experience a piece of music very much depends on the atmosphere; it is precisely the fancy clothes and old buildings that build up the whole "feel" of a classical concert, just as the dancing, clapping crowd and light shows determine the atmosphere of a rock concert.

Interestingly, I find that just about everybody who talks about "all those snobbish classical concert-goers" and talks about how we should stop imposing dress codes for these visits tends not to have been to such concerts him/herself. Maybe if they did they would discover that there is a lot more to classical music than a bunch of old people putting on airs.
Sounds like pinko-commie talk to me!
This conclusion leads as straight to the Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
BeagleBoard Officially Reveals the X15 – And It’s a Beast
You can tell this to hen and pigs. You will be astonished by their answers about how few generations of artificial selection will result in successful variety.
I once spent a year working with a private zoo owner and collector. He had several species successfully bred in captivity, while the mainstream opinion was "its impossible to breed Eublepharis turcmenicus in captivity". Before 1988 there were only 40 known specimen. He alone had 20 alive and breeding. Just a matter of observation, careful experiment and some money, not much.
That hornbill is a challenge, but not impossible one. I bet you, its cheaper to establish breeding program, than spent money on poachers.

Disclaimer: Worked 6 years in nature conservation programmes.
> It's an R vs. Pandas/Numpy comparison.

And yet, you go right on in the next sentence to make it a Python/Pandas/Numpy vs. R/everything in CRAN comparison. Libraries count.
It isn't needed to make "more men" play chess. But for an individual, it's pretty unfair: "She's no better than me, but she is a WGM and I am nothing".
Sounds a lot like FUD.
Your Start Up's free trial is too damn long
The funny thing is all these "hoverboards" are the same exact device from China. You can get them off alibaba for $200 or spend $1,500 for some American branded version that is the same exact thing.
The pictures are blown out to make it seem more white\clean. The space likely looks a lot different in real life.
How is it derailing the conversation? Are we keeping you from having your arguments in other branches of the comment section?

Why should there be a section for people who want to talk about the aspects you want to talk about, but not a section for stuff I and others want to talk about?

I understand you might not like to click on a chess article to find something else being discussed. Well, that happens to all of us in different ways. The way I deal with it is, I simply skip the comment branches that I don't care for.
Does every language have many of its main third party packages that are heavily influenced by the work of one person? Wickham is to R as John Resig is to JavaScript, if Resig were to have also created and primarily maintained D3, moment.js, and Grunt...Wickham not only steers the libraries that define how a growing majority of R users do data manipulation (dplyr) and visualization, he's also building the tools he needs to maintain and publish them (devtools).

This isn't to say that there aren't other programmers doing brilliant work in R (also, R is just a smaller community overall), but he's devoting significant time to building out support tools and frameworks...this suggests that he is a total mensch, but also that there was a significant need that hadn't yet been addressed.
A self-destructive spiral might spur legislative action.
Great idea! Wish more developers would do that :)
It's not in some context but it is general quote.
www.goodreads.com/quotes/380769-there-comes-a-time-when-you-ought-to-start-doing
Simple webview application generator for:
android, ios, linux/mac/windows via nw.js

code:
https://github.com/mess110/glassic

Tried it out, obviously needs node.js and git in path, git clones https://github.com/mess110/glassic and builds. Nice tool, saves a lot of time. (@mess110, the icon button under advanced for the nw.js builds doesn't seem to work.)

add'l docs: https://github.com/mess110/glassic/blob/master/wiki/Home.md
Pity the Priceonomics article didn't speculate on the effect of the size of the grant. According to the article the average grant size was in the region of $50k paid in tranches contingent on low-end performance targets, which is serious funding for many types of business in a country with (non PPP) per capita GDP of around $3k.

Whilst it's heartening to see that these top businesses apparently didn't waste the cash, it's not especially surprising to see that enough free cash to pay 3 workers' entire salaries for 3 years significantly boosted the chances of the business surviving over that period.
http://www.tarsnap.com/picoUSD-why.html

There are three major reasons why Tarsnap pricing is defined in terms of picodollars per byte rather than dollars per gigabyte:

Tarsnap's author is a geek. Applying SI prefixes to non-SI units is a geeky thing to do.
If prices were listed in dollars per GB instead of picodollars per byte, it would be harder to avoid the what-is-a-GB confusion (a GB is 10^9 bytes, but some people don't understand SI prefixes). Picodollars are perfectly clear — nobody is going to think that a picodollar is 2^(-40) dollars.
Specifying prices in picodollars reinforces the point that if you have very small backups, you can pay very small amounts. Unlike some people, I don't believe in rounding up to $0.01 — the Tarsnap accounting code keeps track of everything in attodollars and when it internally converts storage prices from picodollars per month to attodollars per day it rounds the prices down.
I disagree, Poul-Henning Kamp's HTTPS/HTTP2 rant is well known, but he's not going to abandon the project. He has steered it to follow the unix ideals of doing one thing well. They (varnish) forked stud and bought it up to date as hitch [1] which covers TLS. At some point they will incorporate HTTP2 once the demand is there.

https://github.com/varnish/hitch
Movies can have amazing music tracks - "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" being my favourite there. But as you say, that music was written for a very different purpose.
The Metric Football Game (2012)
The corporation is owned by the same entities that own the mainstream media outlets, if something goes against their agenda, facebook with outright censor it or prevent others from seeing it.
"water at the melting point of ice" from an old definition
Boring Banks and Vanishing Hedge Funds
They're faster than walking or skateboards, and also incredibly fun
But going from tenure track to tenure in most research universities does require getting grants.
Exploring the data is maybe 99% of what data analysis is about. It's very much a trial and error process that can't be planned in advance, and R is in my opinion much better suited for that, with a better interactive interface, plotting system and statistical libraries.

On the other hand, if you know the exact calculations that you need to do and the results you're gonna get, then Python might be a better tool.

Personally I learned R after Python, and I use both languages, but I prefer R for anything involving statistics.
The complexity comes from stitching everything together. You choose your router, your flux library, your build tools, whether or not to use JSX, whether or not to write your CSS with Javascript, which fancy new React specific testing and mocking library you need to use, how to organize your project, what best practices you should follow, what gotchas you will encounter because of Reacts relative young age as an OOP library, etc.

You will always have to deal with complexity, it just depends on what kind of complexity you are willing to stomach. Some people prefer to deal with the complexity of stitching things together, other people prefer to have things stitched together for them and deal with the complexity of many abstractions. Both are fine choices, and we will debate endlessly with each other over which approach is the best approach. (hint: neither are).
Study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance
According to iFixIts teardown: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Chromecast+2015+Teardown/501...

It has a Marvell Avastar 88W8887 chip, which has NFC built in. http://www.marvell.com/wireless/88W8887/ as well as FM Radio.

I said this should be used for "Tap and Play"
Ask HN: How is it that a vuln. scanner (Nexpose) requires 50 GB of HD space?
I'd like to see if anyone can shed some light on this... I was installing the community version of the Nexpose vulnerability scanner and had about 40 GB of free space, when at some point the installer stops saying Nexpose requires at least 50 GB (!) of free space (or "just" 10 GB for the community edition)...

Can anyone possibly tell me what all that data is about in a vulnerabily scanner? Isn't vulnerability scanning mostly about comparing service banners to detect exploitable ones? Yeah maybe there is also some big word dictionary in the package? But 50 GB of service banners and dictionary seems just ridiculous?

Thanks.
I agree I would never launch anything if this was the standard, however, this is a good check list if it's a 'side company'.
Without a strongly-typed data exchange format, you constantly have to write code that makes assumptions you hope the sender followed. Timestamps are ISO formatted. No, timestamps are seconds since 1970. No, they're floats including milliseconds. Blobs are base64. No, hex. Money is a string. No, it's a float. No, it's an int in micros. An empty array is different than an omitted field. No, they're the same. No, multiple values are comma-delimited strings.
Thanks for the overview, I don't use them. It is more my language geek side speaking louder. :)
You need emergency services access, delivery vehicles, moving vehicles. (ambulances, fireengines, delivery vehicles to fill new houses, moving vehicles for people moving house, etc.)
"Gypsy" may also refer to Irish Travellers (Pavees), and possibly even to other insular nomadic cultures, not just Roma. I wouldn't be surprised if a travelling carnival worker had ever been called a gypsy.

The term itself is derived from Egyptian, which just goes to show how little people care about actual facts when labeling outsider groups.

And if you really want to be politically neutral as well as culturally neutral, "unofficial", "non-medallioned", "hackney", or "jitney" would be better than "unlicensed" or "illegal".
Do you mean they use Python because it's faster? yes sure. But then, just use scala. 10x faster again. With a REPL.

Perhaps I should clarify, I'm talking mainly time series and/or data which is vectorizable. Python is better if you're scraping the web. If there's a lot of if else going on. Ie imperative programming.

R's native functional aspects (all the apply family) and multilevel vector/matrix hierarchical indexing is better built from the ground up for large wrangling of multivariate datasets, in my opinion.
But then how would celebrities show off their wealth and status? Everyone has feet.
Twitter Names Ex-Google Adviser Kordestani as Executive Chairman
Even as a cyclist these designs seem myopic to the demands of civic design such as pedestrian friendliness and affordability. Perhaps a Dubai could afford retrofitting, but as these designs stand, they are only practical (and I use that loosely) for new construction.
We still have a functioning version in South Florida called "los olas" (Fort Lauderdale area)

http://www.pocockfineart.com/sitebuilder/images/1Aerial2copy...
This is a NYTimes Magazine article -- they have been printing these in long form for decades.
I heard that the vector operations were very slow though. Has this changed?
Maybe not. Marine diesel engines can run without the computers attached using mechanical throttles. There has been instances where the yacht's wheelhouse is flooded with water and all the navigation computers and electronic controls are lost. The captain and mate stationed in the engine room coordinate by controlling the manual throttles on each engine. Move one throttle more to turn.
BLE uses
Is it possible to use BLE to triangulate the position of a device without using beacons or would you need beacon access for anything you use?
"It's a prototype, something I did for fun."

The goal of your side project makes a difference I suppose. People build side projects, either as creative hobbies, or some in the hopes of turning them into startups.

Nice site btw.! :)
Yes, with appropriate access to horse, mule, wagon, river and/or seaport.
I'm aware. I was specifically talking about vehicles, but I see that I didn't include that information in my previous post. I think with present day technology the lights could be a lot smaller than searchlights no?
http://i.imgur.com/tRKbi15.png

The actual light graph looks a hell of a lot more like a comet breakup to me than a swarm of solar collectors around the star.
Not really, I know a bunch of companies that would fail lots on this list but are making millions.

For a side project you'd probably be better off putting much more basic things like 'does it work on mobile', 'do the email addresses listed actually work', 'is robots.txt still set to disallow google' and 'have you actually gone through a whole order yet' on there. Seriously.
They are actually coming down in price quickly. When I first read about them they cost at least $2000. Saw them in the mall the other day for $500.
One nice thing about Python is that you can make a piecewise transition from Python -> C, as it is fairly trivial to wrap C code for use in Python. On the other hand, Java's C interface system JNI is pretty much universally reviled.
Steve Jobs’ management legacy at Apple can be glimpsed in recent SEC letters
Mexico City once had many canals and it was built over a lake. Today, not much of that is left, save in street names and in Xochimilco.
You can't out-exercise a bad diet.
What does it take to make your food blog a success?
Shopify and Uber Reinvent Local Shipping
And yet you and other commenters keep getting downvoted because many old-time HN'ers with the ability to downvote seem to have a hard time coming to grips with the fact that men and women have different capabilities.

Notice how you only see the downvotes, not anyone trying to explain how is it that if men and women are equally capable, that only 1 in the top 100 chess players is a woman, and only 18 in the top 1000 are women.
It appears to be much faster. It certainly looks fun to ride.

Skateboards burn much less energy than walking too. I don't see anyone calling them obesity boards. Or calling motorized bikes obesity bikes, etc.
Like most technology tools, nextdoor.com amplifies tendencies already there. Lower cost of information exchange and actions tends to open up the extremes. The site in and of itself is not good or bad. But this is definitely an example of strengthening a bad trait.
I completely agree with you. I had noticed that on a lot of tech articles written by women - especially articles where they remark on their experiences of gender bias in the workplace - the comments are particularly brutal and offensive. But I was surprised to see that those kinds of hate comments escalate to such a frightening level.
Being Poor
Chrome kills the HTTP-HTTPS “mixed content” warning
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From the linked wikipedia article:

"There was brief interest in resurrecting a CDL on M4 Sherman design (T52) that had started in 1944 but it was recognized that four battalions could be fitted with normal searchlights for the cost of a single CDL tank."

Which sounds like a good lesson in right-sizing a task.
In the case in question, there appears to be no implementation or execution by the UW folks, certainly not one appropriated by Apple. This looks like an "idea" about instruction scheduling to me.
It would look empty, because who would choose to live there?
There's a good Radiolab episode related to this .

http://www.radiolab.org/story/kg/
I find it interesting that books written ~100 years ago are now considered out dated and in many instances plain wrong, yet hundreds of millions of people think we should follow a book written 2000 years ago to the letter.
What's cool about it? The ability to send any kind of video to your TV with very little fuss. That has historically been a pretty tricky thing to do.

Is that revolutionary? I'd argue no. It's effectively a virtual HDMI cable between your phone and your TV - more convenient, but not revolutionary.

I've long since ditched my Chromecast for a Roku, which is far easier to use in a shared environment, and (IMO, of course) having a remote is infinitely preferable to having to use my phone. That said, Chromecast comes with a bunch of interesting JS APIs that could be used to make something interesting. I just haven't seen anyone do it yet.
I still don't think I agree, sorry. You might want to make something as good as possible so people are more likely to pay for it, but all the time it's not launched nobody is paying for it at all.
Raiders of the Lost Web
Interesting... other blog posts by the same author on the same blog were not blocked, just this one particular post. I find it not a coincidence that the post mentioned Facebook quite a bit, and thus it was blocked. I am doubtful this was due to "design elements" without more details.
Oh it's just Apple?
> once they go generic, you get a great drug that only costs a fraction of the value offered

Interesting take on free market competition from someone who probably sees themselves as a firm believer in minimally regulated capitalism.
Large horse-powered vehicles to transport stuff existed before bicycles, and there aren't many cities that weren't designed to accommodate them.

Those that were tended to be built in locations where bikes aren't an option either, usually more for the strategic benefit than because people thought that carrying heavy loads up hills on their back made a pleasant change from roads clogged with horse and carts.
mbreese's point was not that that is wrong or misguided, just that it was happening.
The list is nice and thoughtful. Thank you.

You could add a total (15 points out 40 todos) to make it even more useful.

Personally I would just title it as "Website Launch". I do side projects which are for self-learning or help a few friends. They are useful for a few users but they are not meant to serve hundreds or millions of users.
I have no sympathy for Apple in this matter. Considering the worthless, prior art ridden patents they used against their competitors they deserve the blowback. And in keeping with their modus operandi they ignored the University of Wisconsin and wilfully infringed the patent.
The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain
"..this is a good check list if it's a 'side company'"

That's actually a better term! It makes a difference whether you are building the side project as a creative hobby (to develop new skills etc.) or in the hopes of turning it into a startup.