skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Do you know of any good alternatives? Any way to write MapReduces in python?
Apply HN: Clash of stacks – collectible card game for web geeks
https://clashofstacks.com

Clash of Stacks is the ultimate collectible card game for web geeks — the goal of the game is to build the best web stack possible with a limited number of cards. Game rules and the stats for each card are determined by public opinionated pull requests. Each card has a public key fingerprint which helps to identify its current owner and check if the card is original or fake.

One possible way to monetize this project would be an option to order a high quality printed version of your card(s) or buy a “starter kit” with predefined number of cards.
This is absolutely incredible. From my reading in other travel diaries to North Korea, I sense that all of this is staged.
You have some type of malware or rogue extension on your device. I would look into that...
Not propaganda. I'm sure it depends on the state and/or school district.

Here's the law for Florida. The morning pledge recitation is pretty clearly spelled out. It is up to the school district to implement it or not, of course. (The district I went to chose to.)

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Tool? It all just gets thrown into one page, either chronologically (a setting FB constantly "forgets") or filtered through a totally opaque algorithm. There is no way to display things in various ways, e.g. as list (just the date, type (text/link/image/video), poster, number of likes/comments/shares). There is no way to show posts matching specific criteria, be it the date range or content. There is just the endless scrolling nonsense. Anything I ever posted on my own CMS I can find in like 10 seconds if I remember any detail about it. On Facebook, unless it was last week, why bother? The stuff effectively disappears for normal human use, and is only really remembered by the algorithms and spooks that peruse the data.

So it's not even trying to be a tool as far as I can see. It's certainly not about people posting and curating things, it's just about posting and seeing whatever random stuff some random person or group currently posted. The same for groups: the way they are, they're as bad as no forum ever was, even in the 90s. Which I would say about a lot of sites with comment functions, e.g. YouTube and Twitter, but that doesn't improve FB.
Bloomberg has really gone off the deep end of the design pool. It seemed to start with those somewhat janky, but pretty nice zero-padded headline overlays on the pics, and culminated in this: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-design/ which...well.
For the same reason that you (correctly) use to justify high taxes on high earners. No one works alone. Much of the work that people produce is actually the work of the society that surrounds and enables them.
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Archive copy, for those like me who are crap at getting around paywalls:

http://archive.is/MP459
Monitoring Kafka on Docker Cloud
>Actually it would just mean only supporting wireless bluetooth headphones from now on...

Why? USB DACs exist. I use one all the time with my apple stuff.
> We do ask this. It's the entire reason we vote in representative democracies

And you settle with a government which agrees to 'your' version of good and bad. But somehow, Google is not entitled to its opinion even if for trying to possibly make a safer internet.

> you have entirely invented here in order to make an empty, unnecessarily dismissive argument

On the contrary, I'd say you have invented your reasons for why Google is doing it (i.e., 'to exploit it for money') without any evidence. Of course, Google is here for profit, doesn't mean there's an evil motive for everything they do.

Of course, your judgement of good v/s bad is for good, and their judgement of good v/s bad is for bad. ;)
I would wait for the next generation MBP. Should be in the next few months and a 2013 MBP is very solid and capable.
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While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl.

He did what every crazy boss does, he funded a programming language.

These bits made me laugh (and feel some small amount of envy). Is it correct to presume they're referring to you here?
They're an online bookstore right?
If they hadn't positioned Glass as "a wifi webcam on your face!!" in all their marketing, you mean. What geeks wanted was AR. What we got was... not that.
I am very much not interested in the MacBook, despite wanting to like it. The weird keyboard, smaller screen, Mobile/slower Processor, 2 hours less battery life, Just a single port; other than being lighter, zero value and they are charging an extra $300 for it.

I moved from a 13" MacBook Air (Core i7, 8GB RAM) to a MacBook 12". I absolutely love it, it's much lighter, the keyboard is great once you get used to this, I prefer retina, and not having fans is great as well. Force touch is a nice gimmick, but I haven't used it much. The Core M CPU is not a problem for me in practice. Since buying the Air I have been doing more and more deep learning and anything without a CUDA GPU won't be practical anyway. So I work on a server with an nVidia Tesla card. For all may daily work and most development, the Core M holds up absolutely fine.
Segway wasn't crap technology. Just overhyped and overpriced.
I'd also add to this list Pandashells https://github.com/robdmc/pandashells - Basically use Pandas in the command line.
> in order to approach full employment

Maybe Cameron could get some ideas from good ol' Kim
I don't think I get your complaint

Without open-sourcing the crypto, they could be just doing rot16($message) for all we know. Open-source is a requirement for being considered secure. It doesn't mean they aren't secure if they aren't open-source, but that you shouldn't consider it so, because you don't know if it is or not.
Pre-order yours at B and H Photo for $33k [lens not included]:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1244709-REG/hasselblad...
Exactly. Huge externalities such as rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, etc. etc.
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https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/streaming.html
What qualifies as "occupying"? Does a person need to live there (not viable for small asteroids) or is it enough if I attach I iPhone sized tagging device to it?
They certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png

Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401
Other front page story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526666
My favorite new (to me) tool is snakemake[0], make files with python 3 support. It allows me to both make my workflow and document it in the same place, hugely helpful for jumping around to different projects or needing to rerun a pipeline with new data. If interested, i recommend taking a look at this tutorial[1] with lots of different snakemake patterns.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/snakemake/snakemake/wiki/Home

[1] https://github.com/leipzig/SandwichesWithSnakemake
Rather than just being used for business, data can help save the planet
This surprises me. I was extremely skeptical of thee whole retina thing before I got a chance to use it. Now I can't see myself ever buying something with less pixel density.
MIT Security Bug Bounty Program in Alpha Testing
What's up with that URL? skylake-when-it-crumbles-we-will-stand-tall-face-it-all-together-at-skylake
It is possible to boot into Linux on some baytrail chromebooks, although it seems only through google's custom build of coreboot, good luck trying to compile coreboot yourself for it.

[Source](https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...)
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The video looks very cool and the opacity of the AR images was darn good.

That said Magic Leap are still awfully light on some key details like :-

- Will it be tethered or untethered.
- If it's untethered what's the FOV like (looked good in that video)
- If it's untethered what's the battery life like..

They already have competition in the untethered space (hololens) and the tethered space (Meta 2), who look to be ahead of them in terms of getting a product to market (both have actual kits in the hands of 3rd party developers)

I really hope Magic leap will be good, but I must admit a level of cynicism about the lack of solid detail on the product and technology
I keep seeing this accusation get flung around whenever someone mentions telegram but never proof. I remember telegram had a vulnerability once and then it was patched just like any other security software.

You shouldn't throw around accusations without proof.
I left FB (several times in fact), and I always end up returning. Firstly no-one cares you've gone - most of your 'friends' don't even notice you don't post or comment any more. Secondly, no-one contacts you directly either. You end up a social outcast, missing events that only get posted on Facebook. I didn't know some of my friends had had babies until several weeks after the fact, because they only announced on Facebook assuming everyone would see it, and I was on a Facebook hiatus at the time.

The most damning thing about the Facebook plague is that it's causing most of it's users to completely forget that other means of communication exists. The friction to send an email to, or god-forbid actually call, your non-Facebook friends is now simply too high that most people no longer do it. Email is now just a place where all those unread eBay and Amazon receipt notifications go.

Personally, I know I can walk away from FB any time I choose, however right now the cost of the social disconnect is too high.

Maybe the answer is to just accept we have no real friends any more, and just log out.
Supply and Demand
Right now there are 2 different articles on Hacker News front page stating the opposite (almost).

Bloomberg article (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/first-sola...) states the following: "First Solar is producing panels for as little as 40 cents a watt, or about 15 percent less than China’s Trina Solar Ltd. In 2019, First Solar’s module cost could be as low as 25 cents a watt, according to analysts’ models.".

VOX article (http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11415510/solar-power-costs-inno...) states the following: "How cheap? Sivaram and Kann argue that the industry should set a goal of pushing the installed price of solar to 25 cents per watt by 2050 — down from around $3 per watt today."
It's not about the health impact, it's about the idea that PEDs exist in every sport and are very well known and monitored for, so it's not as scandalous. Yes, it has a major health impact that trickles down to the youth participants and ruins lives, no one is debating that. The discussion is how big of a scandal it is.

Barry Bonds used steroids to hit some home runs, and he got an asterisk on his record. The 1919 Black Sox Scandal participants threw some games to make money and received lifelong suspensions from baseball and changed the history and rules of baseball forever because it made a mockery of the sport. Same thing with Pete Rose, he made a mockery of the sport. Bonds is currently a hitting coach for the Marlins, while Rose is doing commercials since he was banned for life in 1989.

Steroid and other PEDs are terrible and have awful impacts on the users health and are a bad example for kids, but their effects are still in line with the sports. What you get is a bit of a stronger cyclist, but still a cyclist. With a motor, you're making a mockery of the sport. It's not cycling anymore, it's now a motorsport. You're not participating in the sport anymore.

There are plenty of discussions that revolve around how bad PEDs are. This isn't one of them. This discussion is about how cheating using PEDs is different from cheating by removing yourself from the nature of the sport altogether.
I don't understand why you're disappointed at all. Apple has never caved to "customer demand" for things like this.

I own a 12" Macbook as a secondary machine and frequently bring it with me to travel. I have never felt the need for a second USB-C connector.

What would a second USB-C connector do for you?
Yep, you'll also get H.264 served on Safari, while Chrome will get VP9 which isn't hardware decoded and will cause the fans to whirr.

There's a h264ify chrome extension that forces YouTube to serve H.264 to Chrome on OS X so it can be hardware decoded. It significantly reduces battery drain.
>Because at some point it stops being fun to watch if your race from point A to B is won by a supersonic fighter jet.

Not when the opponent pulls out a surface to air missile.
One thing that has recently helped me kick the "addiction" is by unfollowing literally everybody I know. It's taken a while, but now when I go back in it literally says something to the effect that "you need to follow friends to get news in your feed".

I'm now placing the onus on going back in and actively going to the feeds of friends and family that I care about; as opposed to the mindless thumbing through the feed.
i don't get it, countries export electricity for ages. other than money and infrastructure, what are we missing so that we all, as a united humanity, use our shared sun to export, on a daily basis, electricity from the sun lit part of the planet to the other one. why must we still wait on the genius who will revolutionize batteries, considering we already have non stop sunlight. is this lack of political will? or is such a planetary scale effort impossible?
6. OS X has done memory compression since 10.9, which gives you more than 8GB in practice.
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From the article: "Facebook does come out with great, original ideas. It reinvented the iconic 'like' button and created Facebook reactions."

I know they had to tread carefully on a heavily-used feature of the app. And it's a welcome update for sure. Still, let's not oversell it, either. They added a few more icons. I hope that's not the leading example of a great, original idea.
Would you refuse to buy headphones that have an integrated amplifier and dac and a USB connector, or would you refuse to buy a dedicated amp/dac with which you could use any headphones?
From Homeless to YC Interview in less than a year
More than 1,000 world leaders say the drug war has been a disaster
Here is a direct link to the specific incident: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/16003
That page hints at it, but they don't mention that Polynesians used one of the most sensitive wave detection instruments available: the navigator's own testicles.[1]

Besides mapping wave interference patterns as they refract around islands (note the similarities between the second stick chart and the diagrams in [2]), the Polynesians also used "the stars [also using stick charts], driftwood, clouds, seaweed, winds, birds, weather, the smell, taste and temperature of the ocean, ... and the olfactory sense of an on-board pig."[1]

The most curious method however is with "te lapa," a phosphorescent phenomenon that appears as 'underwater lightning' pointing toward islands. The phenomenon is not fully understood even to this day, but it could be related to constructive interference of seismic waves.

Their development of sophisticated navigation makes sense from a business perspective. The Polynesians maintained numerous trading routes between islands, so there was a lot of technological pressure to develop better navigation methods. If even 10% of your boats didn't come back it would be disastrous for the endeavor.

[1] http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/friends/Technology_of_Oceania.pdf

[2] http://www.coastal.udel.edu/ngs/waves.html

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23041479.pdf
Rinse raises $6M to expand its laundry pick-up and delivery service
The comparison to Amazon is about the remotely deleting part, not the why part. I have a problem with anything on my device being deleted without my consent.
That doesn't tell you about the speed of the code though.

$> python -m timeit "1 <= 4 <= 5"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0877 usec per loop

$> python -m timeit "4 in range(1,5)"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.413 usec per loop

$> python -m timeit "4 in (1,2,3,4,5)"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0776 usec per loop

Tested in python 3.5.0, Even with the improvements to the range function, the comparison is almost 5x faster.
Not much drama on my feed. Maybe the fault is in your friends and not in Facebook.
The French republican calendar was tightly related to the French revolution and the French society of that time and was probably never conceived with the purpose of being adopted by other countries.

Whereas the metric system's proponents were people like Lavoisier, Laplace, or Condorcet, who tried to base the system on the principles of logic and natural phenomena. Undoubtedly a more 'global' approach.

Sadly Jefferson was not persuasive enough at the time with his similar proposal to the congress.
I'm playing with http://herbstluftwm.org/ - it's written in C++, has an IPC command line client written in C. The configuration file is a bash script that uses the IPC client, but you can also use a script/program in your favorite language instead.
If you're looking for a more lightweight solution than Bluebird (because, say, you're writing client side code - Bluebird is a bit heavy weight):

* [promise-tools](https://github.com/benbria/node-promise-tools) is a library with a lot of the cool flow control from Bluebird, but is tiny and works with native Promises.

* [promise-breaker](https://github.com/jwalton/node-promise-breaker) is a library I wrote which is intended to make it really easy for third party libraries to support both promises and callbacks with a minimum of fuss (we also use this extensively internally as we convert our giant code base from callbacks to promises.) `callFn` and `applyFn` are also very handy for calling into existing callback based libraries from within promise based libraries.
> Doesn't a derailleur have to have a spring in it?

Indeed, a lot of them now have batteries and electric motors. I was surprised how easily electronic shifting was allowed into the sport.

So yes, many pro-racing bikes already have battery power, even though it's not directly driving the bike. It could be argued that some kind of KERS would be a natural evolution of this.
But all this realistically does is concentrate wealth further.

Now Google reaps all the rewards of the content produced.

How is this fair?
Google's Mobile Model Threatened by EU's Android Antitrust Probe
Yes, a lot of that vitriolic anger is, in fact, because he's trying to sell a book.

Thing is, I agreed with the message very strongly. It's a message that I hold dear and it's something I try to live my life by on a day to day basis. But the reason this strikes anger in me is because the message he's pushing sells himself, his potential and many others like him incredibly short. It's a flat idea that could be so much more, but it's not. And it's used to sell a book. Fuck that.
I don't think that's actually obvious to the HN crowd, most of whom are not in publishing or journalism.
I think you are misunderstanding jeena. If ejabberd were AGPL, then a fork/a instance of it like Whatsapp would be legally obliged to open up their code as well.

No idea whether the assumption is true that Whatsapp is just a branded deployment.
Deliberately? No, of course not.

They can't just ban the word "Chrome" from AdWords, though. Spammers/malware authors are very good at figuring out what's needed to slip through the automated systems.
It was hard to tell if there was any 'opacity' at all. Looks like a bright light over a dim background which seems like the only way you could physically do it, given what we know about their technology.
Source code in a few lines of Lisp: http://uptime.is/uptime.lsp
Facebook is not a blogging platform. It isn't promising a long-term store of curated searchable data. It's an endlessly scrolling feed of what's going on now, plus an events tool and photos etc. When did it ever promise anything more?
Yeah I enjoy all the stuff they have done to make the pages interesting. When I just need to focus on the text I use Speedy Readie.
plotly is a fantastic tool for plotting. It has a python API [0], but also works from R, matlab, and Julia. It also has support for pandas dataframes and jupyter notebook[1], which is by far the fastest way I've found to make attractive plots. plotlyjs[2] is a fantastic wrapper around d3. So I can go all the way from plotting something quickly from a dataframe to building a totally custom chart.

[0] https://plot.ly/python/

[1] https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/cufflinks/

[2] https://plot.ly/javascript/
im not comparing Segway to Theranos but to Magic Leap which even has a very similar founder story and may find its niche much slimmer then investors thought.
I very much doubt craigslist users desire to have their craigslist activity tied to their real life identity...
Worse thing (for me) about the retina screen is that it's optimal resolution is 1280x800 (@2x) rather than 1440x900. You can force it to scale to other resolutions, but then the "virtual" pixels no longer map nicely to the retina pixels, with blurry results.
Absent any credible options you would certainly expect to be able to sell whatever power people could get their hands on.
I hear a lot of talk about using python for data analysis. I gave up after trying to find a library to do cross tabs. Is there something to make custom tables in python other than prettytables?
Are you talking about DFA on straight Python?

In principle this is possible, but given the complex semantics of language terms, this will be quite complex. Typically DFA is run on intermediate code in the optimising part of a compiler. Intermediate code is typically RISC-like idealised machine code. Each specific instruction is very simple and hence computing its effect on global data flow can easily be worked out.
Isn't that more practiced indifference? There is no nervousness about it. It's hard to zero in on it but in this case there is an air of helplessness and despondency, with all that iconic imagery and hubris typical of totalitarian regimes. It all looks a bit too dire trivializing the people and magnifying their helplessness.

It could just be our or my own prejudice and perspective knowing what we know about North Korea and reading more into these rather unique and powerful set of images, you just want people to be free and happy if possible.

I don't know, bribe China, bribe North Korea, surely there must be a way to get those holding the strings to let go and to do it not because of nuclear weapons, strategic interests or business but to set the people free. What a moment it will be. Humanity would have truly prevailed.
What a weird implication that you need to be the best to use good gear.

The pro-style clothing isn't posing or brand snobbery. Jeans are way too hot, cotton clothes get uncomfortably sticky from sweat way too fast and let cold wind go through them. Proper bike clothes allow me to feel comfortable for a long time and won't get me sick.

As for a good bike, it's just a better experience. I've owned a bunch of different bikes, starting with a old soviet fixed-gear Školnik, and ending with my current Trek road bike with fancy gear. Everything about riding the Trek is better than any of my older bikes. The gears change in a smoother fashion, I can roll on without cycling for much longer, and the effort-to-speed ratio is much better, allowing me to reach way higher speeds than ever before.
Quick question: With ES6/ES2015 based native promises on the way (see https://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/ ), why would you still want to use something relatively proprietary like Bluebird?