skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news never stops with these guys. PyPy is so good that I've stopped considering myself a "Python programmer" to a "PyPy programmer" over the last few years.
Best of every world. I get my preferred language and eliminate CPU performance worries.

For me, targeting development on PyPy has taken the place of migrating to Python3. Which just moves too fast in effort to pull people over, Python is too big for that strategy. At this point, people want speed with a great language, they want PyPy! The PyPy team has pretty much enabled the perfect development stack. I use PyPy+Django+gunicorn+Nginx and no problems.

Keep up the great work.
Waterloo, the David vs. Goliath of Startup Ecosystems
Yes, this is one of those features that should be targeting the newest release, to provide a reason to upgrade, and not support lock-in to 2.7.
Four influential technologies with roots in robotics
A new generation shows up at JavaOne 2015
If you are a Java developer and find PyPy amazing, you should also look at Truffle and Graal http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2013_Onward_OneVMToRul..., http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/, https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy/src/700f88dc2a7d2011258ae...
I've seen nothing to convince me that I should pay attention to Google's idea about what makes a good workplace. The more Google reaches, the less of my engagement they've kept. At this point Google has reverted to being nothing more than a search engine for me. And a couple other services I use grudgingly or unenthusiastically.
> kids going to school in the dark in the winter

Daylight Savings Time can’t fix that in most places either.

Where I live, right now (today), sun rises around 8am, and sets around 4pm.

Kids will go to school around 7:20, and come back home around 15h.

In mid december, it’s even worse – most people never see the sun during that time.
Trademarks exist without registration, though with limited protections
Wil Wheaton: 7 Things I Did to Reboot My Life
Cyberduck (and apparently Mtn. Duck, judging by the screenshots) is equally cross-platform; which is to say, runs on recent-ish versions of OSX and Windows. Expandrive looks decent, but for my purposes fuse is good enough, and free.
while I applaud him for sticking to his convictions, thats like saying that one should walk everywhere because we didn't used to have cars/don't need them
Pumped storage is not practical for a typical home. A 1000kg mass, raised 1m off the ground, stores about as much potential energy as a single AA (LR6) battery.

The only other energy storage technology that is economically competitive with rechargeable batteries [in 2015] is compressed air. A pressure vessel approximately the same mass and volume as a lead-acid battery bank can store about the same amount of energy. It also has a longer useful lifespan and lower maintenance requirements. But the additional equipment required to connect it to your house power system is more complex and expensive.

Rather than stacking two giant swimming pools, you would likely be better off burying a giant concrete sphere wrapped in Spectra/Dyneema/UHMW-PE fiber in your yard, and using a thermo-pneumatic engine to fill or drain the energy reservoir.
Arguably 1/2 of the molecules in our bodies come from the artificial nitrogen extraction process developed during WWI. Without that, Earth's human population would have been limited to half of what it is now back in the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Haber_process
Last I checked Christianity is far from dead.

Christianity's mission statement was never being the means of explaining natural phenomena. It's telling that people who make that claim usually will defend it by mentioning Galileo or modern American creationists. They just don't have a lot of other support for their belief.
It may be distinguishing between diseases that are transmittable between humans and those that are transmitted by a 3rd party (a mosquito).
Or you can change the relative speed with which it tracks its time. Smearing is already used for additional seconds, it should be possible to be used here, too.
the original paper describing "faces" is here:

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/face_the_nation/
Loved reading the book.
On management: Goals
The most amazing service after their search engine has been Google Photos. The way their deep neural net can identify objects in images is going to be unmatched for a long time to come.
For some reason every picture I've seen of his office, he's parked in front of a Sun of some sort.
How Twitter Helps Fight Human Rights Abuse
A history of radionics and strange machines
Unicode hurts workers, families, & community! Shame on the Unicode Consortium!

If we got rid of DST and didn't change the rules too often, time zones wouldn't really be that big of a deal.
For the record, this has been fixed.
It's a pretty standard line of products at most upscale grocery stores (Whole Foods, HEB's Central Market, etc.), with the advantage of fresh ingredients and preparation. Though, to be fair, the Gobble menu looks pretty good.

I'm not sure who actually falls into the target demo of "wants to cook gourmet meals but doesn't actually know how to buy produce or cook a meal," (I want to see those user interviews and persona decks!) but they're in the Bay Area if they're anywhere at all.

I can't pretend to understand this sudden spate of high-valued Series As for companies that are just everyday small businesses with a lick of startup paint, but I suppose it's a case of too much money chasing too few opportunities -- or, at least, too much money unwilling to look outside the San Francisco to San Jose loop.
I give git training at work with some frequency. I now briefly discuss this
sort of patch-based workflow, explicitly so I can tell people it's not how
git works, because in my experience, it's what most people naively expect
out of a version control system. Same problem when people try to work out
workflows for git. I hypothesize that the reason for the profusion of git
workflows is precisely that we really want a patch-based system. Or, in
other words, it's not really weird; snapshot-based systems may be weird.

I actually agree. I advocated for DVCS-based workflows for a long time, but I think it speaks volumes that I "got" Darcs within about 20 minutes of first seeing it and playing with it, but I know for a fact that, somewhere in the Freenode archives, you can find me saying "The frak is Mercurial? The frak is Git? The frak is this?" as I tried to grok what on Earth they were doing--and this after having taught myself tla!

That said, just because something is intuitive doesn't necessarily mean that something is best engineering discipline. I want a Darcs-like workflow to be the dominant one specifically because it's intuitive, but I'm very open to the fact that it might be a really, really crappy way to build a sane (forget performant) large code base.

Or it may be exactly what we've always wanted.

The simple fact is that I have no idea. This industry, for all the "science" in CS, has got to be the least results-based discipline I'm personally aware of. Pijul will at least permit anecdotal tests of how well patch-based systems scale as a workflow if it takes off, but I'm not holding my breath on someone doing a genuine A/B productivity/trade-off study.
If you ask really serious .. I dont think any serious developer gives a shit about font being used . Back in the days people used to be happy even to see a character on screen . These days js script writer using bower and other similar things and calling it automation will never understand that.
The rush or high of using sun , bare bone x11 linux , developing without any autocomplete , when your experience was your stack overflow .

So please dont talk about serious developer font , its highly offending to all the work.
Black on bright white, non-smoothed, bitmapped fonts. My eyes!
I don't know. My entire life's experience with grocery bought sliced bread is that it gets mouldy very quickly.
I loved the quiz, and would love a bump in the queue as well. Thanks!
National Cat Day: The Life of a Developer as Illustrated by Cat Memes
DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES15) Spells Innovation in the Enterprise
Time(convenience) and money? I love freshly baked bread, but I can't buy a loaf on a regular basis due to the strict schedule at work, and even if I do, I won't eat it all and it'll go stale very quickly.
Blue doesn't do any prep work though. You gotta chop those onions yourself.
I should have included a translation. Mr. Hoettges is the Deutsche Telekom CEO. Here's the key passage:

"Google and Co. can afford global data centers, to move content closer to their end customers and improve QoS that way. Small enterprises can't afford that; if they want to bring services to the market where QoS / a good connection has to be guaranteed, so it's exactly those smaller enterprises that need special services. How we [Telekom] see it, they should pay a couple of percent of their revenue, a fair contribution for using our infrastructure."

"Google und Co. können sich weltweite Serverparks leisten, damit die Inhalte näher zu den Kunden bringen und die Qualität ihrer Dienste so verbessern. Das können sich Kleine nicht leisten. Wollen sie Dienste auf den Markt bringen, bei denen eine gute Übertragungsqualität garantiert sein muss, brauchen gerade sie Spezialdienste. Nach unseren Vorstellungen bezahlen sie dafür im Rahmen einer Umsatzbeteiligung von ein paar Prozent. Das wäre ein fairer Beitrag für die Nutzung der Infrastruktur."
I am not sure what point you are trying to make or what you are asserting is being "presupposed". What is described above are the results of an experiment. That's the way physics works; that's what will happen if you do the experiment. No suppositions needed.

The situation is not totally symmetric: The yo-yo behaves differently for the spinning astronaut than it does for the stationary one. That is why the article is wrong; the two situations are measurably different, not equivalent.
CEO can't really improve a company that much. (CEOs typically don't have any part in the actual production. And very small part in sales.) But CEO can fuck up big time.

If you would hire CEO with low pay, you have to choose inexperienced CEO. So you have no track record. And the chance that you have fuck-up is relatively high.

CEO's are paid a lot to "guarantee" that they are not idiots. Because accidentally hiring an idiot would be absolutely devastating. In other words: The CEO holds the company as a hostage, and you pay him to remain insignificant.
Thanks Hanna! Is that you, Hannah? ha
Just now I checked the background settings under OS X (you got me curious), and thankfully you can set a custom color without setting a transparent PNG (see screenshot). I think it’s been this way for several major releases now, but it wasn’t always true.

http://f.cl.ly/items/1p0k2k0x403q192F1Q0s/Screen%20Shot%2020...
> See for ex. industrial revolution.

I was not aware that the industrial revolution caused unemployment that lasted for generations. Can you provide a link for further study of this?
Reverse engineering 23andMe’s proprietary insertions and deletions
Any particular reason why? London isn't exactly a third world city and the British have a free healthcare system which should be rich enough to handle the treatment.
Iceland’s Incest-Prevention App (2013)
What are the trade offs in terms of size and processing required?
You didn't really say what "patch theory" is. Can you describe or provide a link?
The fun trick is that on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, kids have to travel to school in the dark. It's probably reasonable that we defer to population though.
There is no evidence that the tests Theranos offered are inaccurate. The company has voluntarily discontinued them to allow the FDA to review them [1].

The controversy is principally about Theranos claims about technology it has yet to deploy and the company's high valuation [2].

[1] http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2...

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-bloo...
erk, that totally screwed up my code example... sorry. :)
The Real Population Problem (2013)
Pretty fun experiment. I wonder if just having the big sprite sheet in a div and positioning the image with -webkit-translate would perform as good.
Linode rebooted mine on 21st
Not to be mean, but your About Us page is extremely difficult to read. It is just words:

"we observed an urgent need of a mobile app for easy and powerful photo management and content creation."

I am amazed that you have a whole team of people working on this and nobody has the cajones to point this out.
I've always been a bit curious about the market for these services, if you consider:

- Price sensitive novices: likely realize fairly quickly that they can save quite a lot of money by shopping & chopping on their own.

- Price insensitive novices: likely find that the meals push the limits of their cooking skill, take longer and have more cleanup than they expect, and will either learn enough cooking skills to make the meal packages feel restrictive, or just go back to takeout.

- Price sensitive with cooking experience: likely realize how much cost is added for something that is not a big hassle if you have a little experience (i.e. basic knife skills and knowing where to find things quickly in the supermarket).

- Price insensitive with cooking experience: likely feel restricted by the ingredients and menus, and can get halfway there with grocery delivery.

A former roommate of mine (price insensitive novice) had a Blue Apron subscription for some time and I was always shocked at how incredibly much packaging there was, from individual foam wrappers around vegetables and tiny baggies with a glove of garlic to huge ice packs and layers of cardboard. It seemed like such a waste to me.
I wouldn't just find it astonishing, I would be deeply confused about what it could possibly mean!
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo...
Something about this argument bothers me. It allows criminals to be victims of "the system". In certain areas the economic machinery has certainly sputtered out, but this question seems loaded to imply that some fat cat banker or politician pushed a button that instantly sucked the jobs out of an otherwise flourishing area. This argument is just a way to inject a well trodden political viewpoint into what might have otherwise been an interesting discussion.
[citation needed]

because bread in the US is not like bread anywhere else I have been, all that added sugar!
Which actually means you have more choice.

In the US you generally get one Democrat and one Republican.

When you have only one party, it's as though you have no parties, you get to elect from many different candidates.
People are straight-up duped all the time. Just read the Vanity Fair link I posted. You can find countless other stories like this.

Again, investors in the U.S. are defrauded to the tune of tens of billions of dollars every year. Do you honestly believe that all the perps have stellar track records?

As it relates to Holmes and Theranos, it should first be noted that nobody really knows what's happening, so I don't think anybody can legitimately claim that Theranos is a scam at this point. But to say that Holmes has "no record" is silly. One might have good reason to question how meaningful her accomplishments are and her qualifications to run a business like Theranos, but she comes from a politically-connected family, attended an elite prep school and was a President's Scholar at Stanford. Before she ever reached the age of 20 she had access to, and could command the attention of, powerful and influential people most of us will realistically never be able to call on.
That would solve the immediate problem, but make it easy to DoS the system with $1 bids
Another thing to keep in mind when considering what makes us happy is cultures. I have had the good fortune of being born into one culture, raised in a country with a second slightly different culture, and spending my adult life in a third, very different culture.

It is quite plain to me that people are driven quite differently. There is always the background noise of attaining social approval and status through accumulation of wealth and shiny things.. but each of these cultures scores other things in a slightly different way.

To give one example, in many (perhaps most?) asian cultures, having 3 generations of a family living under one roof, is seen as a sign of (familial) success and unity. I have noticed that in general in the US, the longer you go into adulthood without moving out of your parents home it is considered a sign of failure.

I don't know which one is better, but it is interesting how society influences what makes you happy.
Will the Real Android Please Stand Up?
Evolution hasn't stopped, but it's failed to move in any direction we can call forward. We've long since hit the age of Devo [1], where the selection pressure of genetics and the things we consider progress as society are at odds. I'd be hard pressed to find anyone among even my conservative friends (and I'm fairly far freaking right as far as HN is concerned) who would consider the Quiverfull[2] movement/cults to be the preferred future of humanity, but they're growing fast. Likewise, inner-city welfare-queens are a real thing, albeit fringe.

The alternative is to actively promote reproduction of the successful... which sounds, quite rightly, like eugenics. It's a nasty paradox.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43gKl9xIME
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
SaaS is not Recurring Revenue
Sorry, I thought I edited quickly enough but I clearly didn't. Readers, I had previously omitted the wording winner so it read like I wanted entirely new bidders, disqualifying all previous bidders.
YC S13
This strikes me as tech bubble stuff.
There are already shops that sell you ingredients.
And cooking is not that hard.
In fact, part of the fun is spending time cooking, with friends.
Also - most people in the world can't afford this kind of thing.
This is just a PR stunt.

>There's a lot of room for unconscious bias to color the information. Research tells us that subtle indicators - names, clubs, addresses, school, previous employment, race, parental status, socio-economic status, etc - may unconsciously affect expectations and assessment of a candidate.

"Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd that plagues the Bay Area. That's why you're not allowed to take anything about a person into consideration before hiring them. Literally nothing. We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else. Everything is a bias and should be expunged from your evaluation process."

These companies will let the PC police ruin them.
Bottom line: everything becomes public domain after eight years. Before then, you'll be able to search/view/download up to 500 cases per day through either a web interface or API. As far as I know there's no licensing on the individual cases you download.

For academic researchers, before the eight years are up, we can also provide a full data dump -- you just have to sign an agreement not to redistribute bulk data.
They last about a month IIRC, and they're not particularly big - the equivalent of 15 or 20 party balloons, I would estimate.
About a year ago I learned how to bake a good sourdough loaf, and have been doing it about once every week.

It's not exactly dense, but it does seem to be much more substantial than mass-produced squishy bread. A single buttered slice of sourdough toast is incredibly delicious, and is often all I need for breakfast. Though it's tempting to eat half a loaf right after baking...

Oh, and the same dough makes a damn good pizza.
(http://stellaculinary.com/recipes/70-hydration-sourdough-bou...)
These are two different issues -- democracy and human rights. There's nothing wrong with having a king, for example; but there's something very wrong with state-mandated infanticide -- and it would be just as wrong if it was imposed by a democracy as by any other form of government.
Mobile user acquisition costs climb and download volumes drop in September
As someone who traditionally has not been a Windows user, W2K is by far my favorite Windows release (7 is probably second). When I was young my house had a Win98SE box that crashed constantly and loved to run ScanDisk at startup. Updating it to Windows 2000 was nothin short of a revolution — the machine suddenly became usable! And even better, it didn’t have any consumer-oriented junk clogging it up. It was what Windows should’ve been from the start.
"YouTube Red is not currently available in Brazil."

sigh
Ugh, time changes with children...suck.
RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source
Do you have an oven - making a boule is very easy and has only 5 minutes of on hand time?
Harvard Law Library and Ravel Law Announce Project to Digitize US Case Law
Just because a single entity decides to run a forum for free (and reddit/hn are all user generated content) doesn't mean content businesses are all the same.

Again you're pointing to a model when the issue is the bad actors and the poor processes. Advertising is fine, it's the industry that needs to get better at technology and enforcing rules. Part of the problem is that this is a global industry and there's little regulation.

Publishers are getting a few pennies so they can produce content and run the site which you can visit at anytime and consume. You can choose not to go to that site - but you are still going there so there MUST be value you find there and that is what the publisher is working to be compensated for.
Follow Up from Yesterday's Homejoy News – This Seems Like a Better Way
Can you name one substantial software project with more than 10 developers that you expect to be bug free?
I'd assume this is some form of iSCSI or SMB/samba?
That is direct genetic manipulation. Eugenics is, in many people's mind, limiting people's reproduction to breed them like they were pets.

One is unfocused and hard to target genetic manipulation via reproduction incentives and force, the other is a choice for very targeted and obvious things.
Less people needing welfare? I'm sorry, can't think of anything atm.
Netflix branding concept
I don't care what Zuckerberg's must-read books are.
Aq – The TLD for Antarctica