skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See this thread on issue 1, where several people comment on the quality: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394526

Specifically, this comment is pretty representative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394730
I bought issue #1, and I was moderately impressed -- it did feel like a magazine, but not quite at the professional level. Almost, though. I was quite happy with it and I am buying this one too.
Already the site has its first scoop!

Question: What little-known non-convex optimization trick has been used in most Berkeley NLP papers since 2006?

Answer: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/14/what-are-the-state-o...

I am the person that built this site. I wasn't planning on announcing the site yet, until I disseminated it more widely in academic circles, because I wanted to establish a core highly technical user-base, but I guess this is fine. The quality of the users coming from HN has been great.

What people are saying about MetaOptimize Q+A:

Ryan McDonald (Google): "A tool like this will help disseminate and archive the tricks and best practices that are common in NLP/ML, but are rarely written about at length in papers."

Aria Haghighi (Berkeley): "Both NLP and ML have a lot of folk wisdom about what works and what doesn't. A site like this is crucial for facilitating the sharing and validation of this collective knowledge."

Bob Carpenter (Alias-I): "Par for the course, it’s a mix of wildly general (non-convex optimization) and reasonably specific (testing a random number generator) questions." (http://lingpipe-blog.com/2010/06/29/training-examples-a-stac...)

I'm targetting machine learning, natural language processing, vision, AI, statistics, data mining, neuroscience, etc. and other data-driven fields. As we've learned from StackOverflow, having a broad topic means that information cross-polinates between groups that don't normally communicate. This problem is particularly acute in academia.

It's a site for scientists to share knowledge and techniques, to document our ideas in an informal online setting, and to discuss details that don't always make it into publications.

Also, I've gotten a handful of job offers through answering questions on Quora. So hopefully this will connect people with gigs they like.

Why should you sign up and post a question or answer?

* Communicate with experts

* Crosspolinate information with experts in adjacent fields

* Answer a question once publicly, instead of potentially many times over email

* Share knowledge to create additional impact beyond conference or journal publication

* Find new collaborators

* Get job offers and gigs

The site is powered by OSQA. (http://osqa.net) I think it's unfair to the core developers to call it a StackOverflow knockoff, given that StackOverflow is---like most software---itself derivative.
Apple’s App Store and Antitrust
The Curator's Note has an apostrophe that horsekicks sensible typographers in the face. The note itself also uses improper quotes (primes). The magazine seems to have some inconsistent use of quotes in general, which seems odd when it's been made in InDesign which should enforce a consistent rule.

Another typographical pet peeve are the widows and orphans going. I'm sure they can be avoided.

Other than that, the magazine looks even more interesting than the last one, and I can't wait to read it. It's a shame that MagCloud don't ship to Europe. I'm also hoping you'll check out the perfect bound binding for the magazine which MagCloud is testing out in beta at the moment.
VCs: What Tesla Means for Exits
Everything has a price. If the seller doesn't want to sell, it just means the price is too low.
Should we include programming on early education curriculums?
Because you know what could get wrong.
I thought woot was purchased by Yahoo not too long ago?
It wasn't just about content. That Joost client was not only something a) you had to install, but b) was your typical bloated, buggy, and horrid interface, and the delay going from one piece of content to another was grating.

Perhaps with all of these competing outlets for beaming and streaming content, there could be something of a "mechanical license" for rebroadcasting as they do in the music industry for song remakes. I mean, the content owners (I would think) want their work to be available on any medium willing to give them passive income and consumers obviously are willing to pay, either with money (iTunes) or time (Hulu).

Content owners obviously wouldn't like this for their current "big hits" and blockbuster content, but perhaps a clearinghouse like what Getty or istockphoto does to handle all the "back catalog" content would be something begging for a "technical solution" that a startup could do.

Use case: A person who wants to distribute/broadcast some back catalog content uses an automated system to negotiate and obtain the license for a master file (or one of several redistributable or streamable formats provided by the clearinghouse), then chooses the content. In that way, the creativity lies in the curating of content, and the content owner receives passive income on said content without pain of marketing. It's the resale of content.

Yeah, yeah, it'd never work with those jealously guarded movies and TV shows. But you never can tell, really.
Just think of the new Bag of Crap possibilities. I'm sure Amazon warehouses are full of stuff they need to dispose of.
Avoid religions or any kind of dogmatic systems. I wasted most of my 20's as a fervent, fundamentalist Christian. I don't have many regrets, but the ones I do have are a result of that. Develop your own moral sense, don't let anyone dictate that to you. Keep an open, critical mind. Whatever you take as absolute, unquestioned truth will cage you.
Apparently it was just some sort of partnership deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot
I guess there's a 90% chance he's right (Tesla is overpriced) and a 10% chance Tesla will be worth 50x in a few years. But I don't have the funds to act on that assumption.
Yeah--organizations with only public repositories are completely free.
Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-tech?
No, I am not what I do. I do many things. If you (the general populace) must label me, just call me Xurinos. Better, call me the Xurinos that posts on HN. You use labels to conveniently understand me, but that is going to lead to mistakes and misunderstandings, broken expectations. Those are your chosen limitations.

My point is to discard the label/role from your thinking because it can lock you in place. Multiple roles suffer the same problem as singular roles in that the name has boundaries. It is harder to see where the lines blur (the shades of gray) because you have lines. Looking for the blur in the first place is a sign that you have accepted an arbitrary label with its connotations and are trying to climb your way out of that casting.

This is an example of where the language itself limits you. You hack, so you are a hacker. But "hacker" does not just mean "one who hacks". It might also make you think of Jolt. :)

The danger is when you start to mold your identity to fit in with the group that shares that label. Do you own a t-shirt that talks about your love of hackerdom? "10 kinds of people understand binary"? If you make it part of who you are, then you will find it more difficult to change.

There are several kinds of situations where this identity labeling makes someone feel trapped or slows them down. If you have never intimately known or been yourself suicidal (and managed to recover from it), for example, you would see that part of the problem is an inability to change, a clinging to the past, to an identity. Others and I were trying to eliminate that identity. We had to change in order to continue living. A similar problem exists for job loss.

Another way to look at this is to consider your choices. When your choices conflict with your identity, you have run into one of those labeling conflicts.
Do you think there'd be a market for a "general entrepreneurship" one? More like Inc or Fast Company, but using the "unpaid content with permission and accreditation" model that Hacker Monthly is doing? I've been thinking of doing that.
There are obviously lots of people looking for work, so I am guessing the real issue is not that there aren't competent people out there, but how to spot them...
I agree fully. I think what's magical is that even though I understand computers at all these different levels, I'll never be able to hold all the parts in my head at once, so at any given time I'm left believing that some part of the system involves magic.

In another sense, I think there's "magic" in the sense of "wonder". Even knowing how some piece of technology works, I find myself constantly in amazement and wonder that it does work.
The CEO's statement:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13390
Despite all the hate for American Express's laughably weak passwords, they make incredibly easy to dispute a charge. There's literally a button by every transaction on listed in your account, just begging for you to click it.
I would save my money and just cash checks. The cost is not worth the convenience. But this is my experience with gateways/processors:

Paypal is a nightmare to deal with if you ever need to call them. Their development stuff is awkward and buggy. I would not recommend them.

Auth.net works, but that's about all I can say for them. Support, UI, and API are all lackluster. Chargify (which is great) mitigates most of this, if you go that route, but it's probably overkill for client billing.

Braintree is awesome - great support, great API, great everything. Except price. They're significantly more expensive at low volumes and haven't been very flexible (probably because they don't have to be) on price.
At 140 bytes even, it looks a lot like an SSH RSA public key to me (RSA 1024 bit).
Ask HN:Tell Your Congressman to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
We've had several Google Blog links in the past about companies getting behind online privacy. If you live in the United States and haven't contacted your Congressman yet, you can have the ACLU find your Congressman and forward a message for you with the following link:<p>https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2442<p>From the ACLU:<p>"Today, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which should safeguard electronic communications records (like your email or chat logs) and the information you share with companies, is in serious need of an update.<p>The government should have to go to a judge and get a warrant that says it has probable cause to believe you've committed a crime before it can read your email, browse through your social networking account, or track your location."
Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot
>If it weren't for RMS and the invention of GPL-like licenses, I seriously doubt we would have a healthy open-source ecosystem.

No one can tell what would of happened if this was the case. And expressing your personal opinion doesn't change that.

>The problem with BSD is that it creates (or at least doesn't remove) an incentive to take whatever you can and run with it that has proven irresistible for companies.

And what is wrong with that? Developers know what they're getting into when they license their software under the BSD/MIT licenses. It's better that companies take high quality BSD/MIT licensed code instead of reinventing the wheel by creating their own crappy implementation. I don't even recall any successful high profile proprietary fork of popular BSD/MIT licensed software.
Does this have original content or is this all select content from Hacker News and reformatted for the magazine format?

Do you have to get permission from each author since you're charging for hard copies?
Flying car one step closer to FAA approval
It seems like the only meat of the article is the following:

> I think there are economies of scale that will fail to materialize for a company targeting to move 20,000 of its sedans annually in a couple of years. Drivers who may be drawn to the novelty may begin to fret over service and parts.

That is a neat opinion, but it would be more interesting to explain in detail why he believes this. Is there any evidence that this is not possible or is it just a gut feeling without any due diligence? Basically, I think Toyota's massive investment in TSLA carries a little more weight than this article and I'd like to see some actual research before "throwing it away".
Very unfair to call it a knockoff, its waaaay more than that. The OSQA project is awesome, and rick & heranin (devs) are great guys, and always looking for more help. My ex-SE site will be using osqa, or is :) , and I will soon make the final migration soon. If you're local to SF, visit SF Answers! Good job bravura - debug
Your email validation links appear to be broken -- I keep getting a 404 when I click mine.
I an rapidly reaching the conclusion that it doesn't matter what you teach the kids, as long it is taught well by somebody who understands and loves the subject.

Because what you really want to teach is the ability to learn from the best.
One step further: if you get a raise, take all of the associated money and save it. The standard of living you're used to will stay the same.
AdMob report on market share will not be as representative from July 01 when iAds goes live. Since AdMobers are now Googlers, expect to hear from them monthly that 'Android is gaining market' when many iPhone developers are expected to move their ads to iAds and out of AdMob radar. To me its meaningless data even though its common sense that Android is gaining market share due to its commodity nature with multiple vendors, and a recent version that is finally competitive. Tech blogs should publish reports from independent source with better data.
The funny thing for me about Woot's status as an impulse-purchase store is that my impulse control has always been just strong enough to allow the simple step of creating an account to stop me from ever committing to a purchase.

As completely ridiculous as it may sound, being able to log in with my Amazon account and one-click™ that amazingly cheap recertified Roomba is probably going to work on me.
I would consider Foursquare a successful "startup" but not yet a succesful "company". Twitter being the great grandpappy of startups I put in this group.

They have a loyal and relatively large user base and a lot of mind and market share. They also have a feature set that most of their competition is now trying to emulate. They seem to be headed in the right direction but their success as a "company" is still to be seen.

Also for perspective, I can't, off the top of my head, think of a mobile geolocation service that I would consider more successful then Foursquare. I could easily be missing something though.
Why use "closure"?
Useful USB Flash Drive
Woot Acquired by Amazon
I can't.
The Motley Fool is itself a contrary indicator. The real question is should anyone be buying equities right now....
Monads are easy to understand: A monad is exactly anything that satisfies the three monad laws.

If you have worked with mathematical groups and have seen how mathematicians can look at very disparate things with their group-goggles and find similarities, you will appreciate monads.

The y combinator is a nice parlour trick (if you define it in lambda calculus without using any other recursion primitives), and research vehicle. But I did not apply it once, yet. And I've tried.

If you want to get combinatorial logic (including the y combinator), read "To Mock a Mockingbird". And do all the puzzles, of course. Actually you should read it, whether you want to learn anything about combinatorial logic or not. It is such a good book.
I can predict the comments if the car wouldn't start:
"It is a design tradeoff!"
SizeUp (also by irradiatedsoftware) is like cinch but with hotkeys instead of mouse management. It handles full, split, vsplit, quarters, multi-monitor, and multi-"space". I've been using it for a while now.

Divvy has an edge with the customizable zones; the 66/33 split from the video is a good example. SizeUp has the edge by being 100% usable mouse-free OOTB.
The iApp would be nice because you wouldn't have to download them and sync manually. But in the mean time, you can get the PDFs and sync them to iBooks, or go right to the PDF in your iOS browser and open them in iBooks. It looks fantastic on the iPad.
If you have put capital into the company, and assuming you did not loan it to the company but simply provided capital, you can track that in "capital accounts" in your accounting software, and then as profits are made you can withdraw that money, without any tax consequences, up to the amount you have contributed to the company. For any amount above contributions taxes must be paid. The corporation must pay corporate tax on any of the revenue it received, with exception to any deductions that match up, etc.

If you have only provided sweat equity and are taking a draw against the income of the business, you must pay taxes on that income, in addition to the corporate tax (double taxation as you mentioned).

In most cases, startups seem to be keeping as much money in the business and taking as small of a draw as possible. This is for a variety of reasons: avoiding double taxation while the business is young, having more capital available for growing the business, having more money available for investing than would be available if you drew the cash and took the tax hit, etc.

But remember, people have to eat, and need a roof over their heads. Unhappy miserable people probably lend to lower productivity; some people would probably say the opposite, that uncomfortable unhappy situations make a person more jazzed up to "get things done" but I don't personally like that form of motivation.

It makes a lot of sense to hire an accountant, specifically one that understands startups if possible. Sure, you could figure out all the technicalities of running the books on your own, and then managing the tax filings, but it's more complicated than personal taxes, and you're risking your startup legally. Also, these guys know what they are doing and can knock it out of the park, letting you focus on what you do best -- building your startup.
Thanks StackExhange Statistical Analysis was taking too long to start, they had set unviable goal for a beta version
Ask HN: What's the best way to reinvent myself?
I'm posting this from an anonymous account because I have colleagues that read HN.

I've been working as a software engineer in the US defense industry for the last 12 years. This was my first job after graduating from college. I have learned a great number of things at this job and have had some great experiences. Now I'm ready to move on. This is due to several factors, but there are two main ones. First, I've been getting increasingly frustrated with the huge bureaucracy in this company and it's not getting any better. Second, I feel like my technical skills are stagnating. The product I work on is a large legacy codebase and it's very hard to fit in any new technologies. When my company talks about using “new” technologies, these are things that are at least 5 years old. Many times, these technologies are already obsolete.

I'd like to get a new job doing some kind of web development. I know a little about it, but I really would like to sharpen my skills in this area. I have a side business where I've built and maintain a couple of e-commerce websites using PHP/MySQL. I've also done some work with Drupal and built a small site with web2py. I'm currently learning about Django and Codeigniter, but I haven't built anything of importance with them.

I'm really having a hard time trying to figure out how to reinvent myself and my professional experience. My resume looks very good if I'm trying to get another job in the defense industry. This is the last thing I want. I can learn and pick up new things quickly. I know how to design and write quality code. I have experience in large-scale systems architecture. I know how to properly design an API. I just don't have the experience of doing these things in the web domain.

I'd like to get some pointers from the HN community about how I should reinvent myself. Hopefully somebody out there has gone through a similar situation. I appreciate any feedback you can give.

I'd also like to get people's opinion on the effectiveness of an online profile at these sites:

LinkedIn

VisualCV

Stackoverflow
1) We love and will continue to support open source.
2) It's part of the network effect that gets more people using the service.
Mutable state does not necessarily mean OOP.

For instance, in Clojure I could write a multimethod that updates refs of type Student, and Course:

(defmethod assign [Student Course]
[student course]
(alter student update-in [:courses] conj course)
(alter course update-in [:students] conj student))

There is polymorphism and mutability here, but we're not dealing with objects.

So to rephrase my question: what are the advantages of OOP when dealing with mutable state?
It's an interesting approach, and might make you more inclined to write documentation -- as it is less hassle to do so. But the end result isn't very readable, the text ends up being an API reference disguised as something else.

I prefer a "literate testing" approach, where you mix documentation with doctests. It's easier to tell a story when you show the reader what your API does, instead of its internals. And you will never have to worry about keeping the examples up-to-date with your code if you make them doctests.
Indeed. And that's the major shortcoming I see that could prevent me from using Haskell in a production environment.

The guys who wrote XMonad got around it, so it is possible. You just need to be careful, and use enough strictness annotations.
AFF is a site where people go to get laid. I don't know if it works well or not (I almost can't imagine it does) but at least I understand the impulse.
Dealing with "Information Overload" - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com
Tell HN: A watch you can reprogram from TI