skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R has a lot of choices. I find that the Hadley Universe of libraries of ggplot2, ggvis, dplyr, tidyr, stringr, readr and others with the piping of %>% to be the easiest code for reading and getting things done. R has been transformed in the last 5 years but still gets a bad rap which I don't feel it deserves.

R is really more a functional language which most people don't recognize and when they learn the standard core of R with Lisp inspired ideas it really throws them for a loop. I ended up learning Racket (after trying to teach myself Haskell 3 times) and I can say I now "get it," but using the new libraries has really made that point mute.

I love R and am excited to see all the support from Microsoft and other large companies jumping on board.

This does look like a decent way to move to Python though. If someone was to do that I hope they use Rodeo IDE.
Having spent sometime selling a bootstrapped product, your response here all sound really good to me. A problem we had was saying "yes sir, right away sir" to too many people. By the end, our product was more a mashup of what others wanted and not what we wanted.

If immediate crazy startup growth is your desire, maybe you need to hit up businesses. Otherwise, to me it sounds like you've got good growth going, albeit not yet paying full time like everyone would want. Sounds like you ace a lot of potential to become the 5- or 10-year "overnight success."

So anyway, good work sticking to your guns, as then say. Know what you want, and bring people what you think is best. You might not have people banging the door down to give you large sacks of cash, but so what? Growth is there, and with a couple more years it sounds like you could be living pretty fine if you kept it up.

Tons of money doesn't mean success. Your personal happiness does.
Questions and answers, the circld way
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My name is Suyog Eleyadath and I am the co-founder of circld.
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What killed the infographic?
It's probably worth noting that the government which went out of their way to guarantee all deposits in Icelandic banks, even of non Icelandic citizen. When things went wrong, they then went back of that promise, paid deposits to their citizen and ignored the others all (?) resigned and many members up to and including the Prime Minster[1] were charged and convicted of offenses relating to their behavior before and during the crisis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geir_Haarde
If you're going to build via cli, you'll already be using 'nuget restore'[1] as part of a bat file or whatever in your build.

And you'd have to be pretty belligerent of VS to use a cli to create a .Net project instead of clicking 'File > New > Project...'. Although the amount of crap they add in to a asp.net project these days is phenomenal. You spend 20 minutes deleting all the junk they've added.

It just seems to be a simplification. In all honesty the article doesn't actually say anything really about why we should use it.

[1] https://docs.nuget.org/consume/command-line-reference#restor...
I'm still in my early thirties and while I already occasionally look at the early-twenties crowd with a sense of longing, I quickly snap out of that when I remember how much of a drama-filled rollercoaster it was, and how much of that drama seems so trivial now.

From my (perhaps still rather young) perspective, both the best and worst thing about getting older is that I don't care as much about things.

The good part is that I stopped caring so much about having lots of friends, doing crazy things, partying/drugs, a fight with my partner, having a partner, pleasing/angering my parents, etc. But the bad part is that if I'm not careful, I end up not caring about anything. I forget to make sure I pick enough 'things' to care about, and before I know it I spent months just 'existing'.

But even just 'existing' sometimes feels preferable to me to the extreme ups and downs of (my) youth.

I'm curious, excited and a bit anxious about finding out how things will progress as I get older though...
For a short time I had a lifetime membership option for $100 and then later at $150. It even had a few takers. But I removed it mainly because:

1. It feels strange to promise to provide an ongoing service for a one-off payment (I'm guessing Sublime Text doesn't have a server component, there's a big difference there). It sounds risky from my point of view. Am I still obliged to keep providing you the service in 20 years even though you only paid once?

2. The people willing to pay up-front are probably the ones most likely to stick around for the long term and provide a lot of recurring revenue. (Hypothesis - may not be true.)

3. More one-off payments makes my revenue graph much spiker and less predictable.

That said - perhaps you're right. If people are much more willing to pay up front I should trade some of the predictability of SaaS for the lucrative but volatile one-off payments. Something to consider when I revisit pricing.
Given the position these people take, it's easy to assume that you can solve this by taking away the right of certain people to vote.

The problem is that this concentrates the power in the hands of a few, who can be manipulated by more traditional means.
Ohh I checked again and now I see them. I don't know what I did but I got a window with a small amount of European flags and thought that was your entire offering.

Great work on supporting so many languages!
I highly recommend a Scanpan ceramic titanium frypan.

Built tough, can't be scratched or warped. Not too expensive either.

Impressive pressure cast technology goes into its construction where compressed aluminium is bonded with ceramic titanium and a non stick compound which can't be scraped away. The aluminium is completely internal, encased in the ceramic titanium so there's no danger with exposing the aluminium - chosen for its heat transfer properties.

I've had mine for ages and the non-stick surface is as good as ever. I've abused the frypan, and it takes anything you throw at it. I will never go back to stainless steel frypan.
It's not just pedantics. I live in the UK, and some people who speak something between Received Pronunciation and the BBC accent also think they have no accent. People can't hear their own accents and presume they don't have any.
Nutrition is like SEO: lots of studies, lots of claims, lots of data... but all the claims/conclusions seem to be based on post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning and anecdotal evidence where the true reasons for success were either misunderstood or not known at all.

And both fields have a lot of "experts" who all somehow manage to disagree with one another.

and then there are some basic/no-brainer principles that do seem to make sense: don't eat loads of sugar, include a <title>.
> Apple is mentioned as another company with many products - but the overwhelming majority of both specific products and specific features work really well.

Really I find their software to be hazardous to my health. I am okay with people liking their hardware but their software and services makes me frustrated 90% of the time.
I always read this every time it is posted, and I always upvote it every time I see it.
What did Microsoft provide that didn't exist at its time?

Ami[1] was the first word processor for Windows, and Lotus 1-2-3 was available for Windows 3.0 (the first commercially successful version of Windows).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%AD
It seems, US legislation on customer data protection needs an upgrade and proper enforcement of ISO 27001 adoption across companies dealing with private personal data. The cheaper alternative exists. To prohibit completely storage of personal data, and only accept transactions with anonymous cryptocurrency.
That is a fantastic quote. Thanks for posting it.
The wealth creation is completely artificial. I'm not sure how having to pay a tax to Disney for a Winnie lunchbox "creates wealth" more than getting the identical thing for cheaper.

Basically your post is a more subtle version of the broken window fallacy.
I've had this feedback a few times. Others have said they paid more to support the app rather than for the extra features.

One question - do you translate many multi-word phrases? If you do then you would find the free plan restrictive. If you mainly translate single words then the free plan is probably fine.

May consider restricting the free plan a bit more in future. For now I'm happy to have a lot of free users to help spread the word and grow.
I'll second that R is really awesome! Being a computer scientist, it opens up for me a lot of statistical packages.
Mastering RegExp
A long term 'gold handcuffs' deal for new performers
http://observer.com/1999/08/snl-s-killer-contract/
Thanks. I came hoping for an answer to this exact question. If it's improved latency it could be a good choice for a personal VPN.

BTW - which other providers in Korea would you recommend?
The problem is that there often are multiple views, even if they're inequal in terms of logic. You could use this argument that two sides leads to bad things as an excuse to simply never take any other view into account. This too is bias.
I wonder if a fully automatic translator would ever be feasible. The current approach of handwriting the wrapper code for the packages I'm interested in seems to work well. I guess with a bit of community support, the recipe set can become richer.
Alternate spellings of cherry--pick used to annoy the anally retentive :-)
Java Tip of the Week #1 – Lombok
Your goals and the goals of your boss are not aligned. You need an income, you need to gain experience from people that already have that experience and you need stability. To become CTO of an unfunded start-up means that you will be the most experienced person, you will not be making any money and in the slightly longer run the company will probably fail.

'Until we get funded' translates into 'unfunded', and 'could be in May 2016 or even before that' translates into 'possibly never'.

If you don't have money in the bank and if you can't sit this out for a year or more and walk away without any scratches then I would strongly advise against taking this position, but be sure to thank them for the compliment. Join a start-up that is already funded instead, maybe not as the CTO but at least in a position where you can pick up the skills that you need.

Also, if you do take the position consider the very real possibility that you'll be ditched as soon as they can afford someone more experienced than an intern.
The NSA are according to the Snowden files extracting data from Google Facebook etc's databases. Both with and without the companies knowledge and cooperation.

I.E. They are literally the same thing in some cases.
When I first saw the article I was excited for it, because I thought Readlang had an "immersion"-type feature, where it translates every page I visit to french and un-translates on demand.

Not saying that would work better, but it's something I thought would be cool.
Why the centralization of the Internet is a bad idea
BlackBerry's dumping BB10 for Android in 2016
Oh yes. I talk greatly about that on my blog, crankylinuxuser.net

All in all, there are open standards in which IoT devices could communicate: MQTT(mosquitto), CoAP(Californium), AMQP(rabbitMQ) to name a few. Yet, none of the major vendors will touch these technology stacks, precisely because of lock-in to their special-snowflake database servers.

There are solutions, of which only 1 is palatable.

1. Don't buy. (Dumb house, but at least you control it.)

2. Only buy company offerings that support the above standards. (Good luck.)

3. Build it yourself.

I'm going down the path of "Do it yourself." I already have a gateway controller acquiring data from sensors and sending data to things like wirelessly connected Neopixels (ws2811 strands). The radio I'm using is a mesh network chip called nRF24L01+ and the Arduino library is MySensors. Things just work, and work well. I have data dumping into a MQTT Mosquitto instance and processing logic resides in Node-Red.

The other part of the Corporate "We hold your data" policy is the main reason they give: so you can control your devices from anywhere. Sounds great. Our solutions are to use things like No-IP.org , but you end up with a max 4 device limit. Not to mention, they also have a draconian ToS. So what else can you use? TOR. ..?

What? The essence is that you install TOR on your machine, and edit the /etc/tor/torrc and turn on a hidden service to SSH and HTTPS. Reconfigure Node-Red to use self-signed certs and enable authentication. Now you have access to the GUI to create flows as well as webpages within the flow. I have a nice discussion how to do everything from hardware on up here:

https://crankylinuxuser.net/2015/10/17/so-you-wanna-iot-a-ho...

https://crankylinuxuser.net/2016/01/05/so-you-wanna-iot-a-ho...

But in a nutshell, TOR isn't just for anonymizing, secure internet. It's also great for punching holes in firewalls and NATs and stuff to provide a service anyone can get to. Just be smart about it, secure the open ports down, and keep your onion site hidden as well.

I've been railed against before for my unpopular opinions regarding this topic. But things are only going to get worse with every company who decides to reinvent the wheel, so they can have your data. And not to mention pilfering your data, does the idea of "No Internet, no House automation" sound like a good idea?
I have read the comments here and I wonder how this would be different from a wiki? Apart from the UI being very unclear, at least on the web version. What are the different colors for?
Why do I think privacy advocates have a list of 'secrets' they fear will be used against them? Because most of them are intelligent people who understand how society works. Society today is full of lies, secrets, and hypocrisy. If someone knows your secrets but you don't know theirs, you're probably vulnerable.

I don't think privacy advocates, and persons such as myself, differ in opinion on the problem today. The difference of opinion is on where we're trying to get to and how we get there.

Tbh, I don't know yet how to get to the end state I'd like to see.
Evernote Problem for me: Linux - I hated it when Phil Labin would say that Evernote making its own Linux client was the anti-Linux way of doing things. That the community making clients was much better.
Just running the same code on another dataset is not research, it's production. Without minimal extra scientific efforts, such a work, while valuable, certainly does not deserve a scientific article in a peer review journal.
DHS Issues Process and Privacy Guidance on State and Local Drones
My boss is a very experienced guy, he founded many companies and he is basically wanting to "test" me. At least that is what he says, but I definitely think he has what it takes to steer the ship correctly. We are currently being incubated, and all our mentors are very successful entrepreneurs and just by asking them the same question I posted here, I already learnt a lot.

How would I survive? A loan maybe? I can survive with less than 1000 $us a month. So far I've been surviving with a part-time job, but as a CTO I would need to work full time, so that would not be an option anymore.
Savings? None.
Backup plan? Well, getting a normal software engineering job, and an average life I guess.

Yes, I would probably have to help building the product as well. I am up to the challenge, it is just a little bit scary.

Thank you very much for your answer.
The cause: "The direct cause of the 2015 split was money. The Yamaguchi-gumi levies a tax on all of its affiliated factions to the tune of 1+ million yen (~ $8,100) a month. However, not being able to bear such an expense any longer, certain factions decided to rebel and form the new “Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi” organization."

Indirectly, the article quotes shifting Japanese public opinion about "designated organized crime groups" and their place--or rather, their lack of it--in society.
This is exactly why i tend to tell people to overthing if they really want to go with Heroku or AWS. It gets super expensive very fast, and all you essentially would need is a small VPS (~$5 a month, like on digital ocean) and a SSL wildcart cert which is somewhere between $50 and $100 yearly.

Or, if that is not the only venture you plan, get a stronger box for like $20 a month. And you never have to worry about any servers for projects again until they really get popular enough to need more resources.

Also using cloudflare can help to save up on some resources as well.

I bookmarked your project btw :)
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Shortlisted for ‘Chief Obfuscation Champion Cock’
Glad you liked it.
Microsoft provided Windows.
I think you're right. Focus on the personal consumers market, its what you enjoy the most so you will do the best work.

I think the splash page need a review by a third party designer. can you get someone on a freelance site to refresh it? I think the spacing is not correct in the bunny and the button. Probably moving the bunny to the left and pushing the title off.

I think the page looks professional, but there is something about it thats not OK can't put my finger on it.

I think the contrast in the yellow bar is wrong. it stands out too much. I would move the content of the bar right bellow the title and remove the yellow background.

I read some design stuff about Content, Repetition, Alignement and Proximity and helps a bit. specially when we look on a page too long and can't see the issues anymore that are apparent to new users.

I think your pricing is wrong, you should not use 5$ its a well known marketing thing.

I would bump it to 6.99$ to new subscribers its probably your optimal price. Or 4.99$ but i think people would pay for it all the same at close to 7$.

Your best marketing tool on the internet is a blog. This gives google a lot more to work with to index your page. You are passionate about the subject I'm sure you would write great posts that would hit front page.

The blog should be on your domain readlang.com/blog. check if ghost.org supports that otherwise go for a subdomain blog.readlang.com, and make links in both directions. Don't put publicity on the blog, it would like allow competition to advertise. Put a home made add to your own product.
Meet Amaliah: The modest Muslim fashion website that aims to inspire young women
Cool! I've been thinking of getting an Android eink tablet to try Readlang on.

I'd love to hear how it goes! If you don't mind, after giving it a whirl, let me which model you have and how well it works :-)

The word is getting out about Readlang. There's no paid advertising and I'm a n00b at marketing but slowly learning. It seems to be growing, but please lend a hand by telling your friends :-)
A poor person voting for someone who will make the poor person's economic situation worse isn't necessarily voting against their own interests. Maybe they value other policies (for example abortion, but of course there are lots and lots of policies to consider even if you remove those directly related to the economy or religion) more than how it will effect you financially. If you polled the poorest 20% of Americans saying "would you be willing to pay $20/year if in return abortion will become illegal in the entire country" I don't know how many would say yes, but I'd bet it wouldn't be none.

Another reason I've often heard suggested as helping poor people in the US vote fot politicians who won't help their financial situation is that of the "American Dream", the idea that anyone who works hard can rise up and become wealthy. People could think "sure, I'm only earning $20k now, but I don't want to raise taxes for the millionaires because it could effect me in the future".

I don't have any data (might have a google around when I have more time if I remember) but I'm pretty sure the US is fairly unique in how many of it's poorer population votes towards the right wing of the political spectrum, thanks largely, I suspect, to religious regions, and possibly the american dream idea. Here in Europe, working class people who vote towards the right are more likely to be doing it either about stuff like immigration into the country, or when far right parties make themselves sound like common sense honest people compared to typical misleading politicians. But generally speaking, you rather expect a strong corrolation between less wealthy going left and more wealthy going right.
Design for Founders – the book
regarding your stated objectives:

> I really was looking for a stable job
> just to get more experience
> save some money and
> eventually become an entrepreneur and create my own company.

the first three objectives are short term. sounds like this offer gives you 1 / 3 -- the experience, nothing else. let's assume other organisations would be interested in your abilities and enthusiasm - if you can get an offer from an established company, you'll still be able to gain experience, and that'd give you 3/3.

Either way you can still pursue your own business(es) in future.

If you're going to work for this startup for no salary, you need to ensure that the rest of the deal is fair.

i'm somewhat jaded, so i'd suggest reading this: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-y...
You touch an intersting point: Linux reliable computer maybe a stronger point than the distro.
I had a toshiba that took weeks to find the actual way to make the soundcard works... and so the ATI graphics card... and the headphone jack did just mute the sound but didn't get music from it.
On the other hand the thinkpad x200 and x220 I got need zero work to "just work" beside the trackpoint.
My Asus ROG have also work without any extra work from my side.
Maybe a good rule of right hand would be to stick to intel wireless/cpu/graphics (no nvidia, no ati).
Dell and system76 also sell linux compliant machines.
Last but not least; tangent but if you change the requirement to stable *nix machine you can get a mac.
FBI Turns 18-Year-Old with an IQ of 51 into a Terrorist
"And if Free Basics proved popular there would be little to stop India’s big media and e-commerce groups from creating rival offerings, to drive first-time surfers towards their web offerings."

And that's precisely the problem. Most advocates for Net Neutrality are afraid of exactly this: the death of the free and open internet for those who can't afford it, replaced by some fragmented collection of services offered in a bundle package like some Cable Television plan.
Why wouldn't you smalltalk when you actually get over there to get the sugar?

Also, if you're arguing these devices reduce smalltalk, I'm not so sure of that. If anything, I'm more likely to idly chat to someone on IM due to increased opportunity to do so. Plus I can even put my daily life in tweets and post that reach an even greater audience than just whoever I happen to bump into.
Could someone explain the color coding to me? I don't get it. What's the difference between the various grey shades & colour shades?
Oh? How can you tell?...
What is circld?
Circld is a question and answer platform based on places. It can be described as "Quora for places". On Quora, you post question tagged with topics, here all question can be tagged with a place, and anyone living in that place can answer that question.
From questions like, " which is the best hotel here?"to "is there a house for rent here?" Circld can get you connected to anyone from the people living in your street to the people on the other side of the world. That's circld. Circld is in beta right now and is looking for early adopters. You can become an early adopter and be the first person to check in to your location at www.circld.co.