skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but the spice of life is staring into the Abyss of Unknowing and recognizing your very self in it! The most beautiful questions of mathematics and computer science so very often start out "Does there exist..." and we are left with no answer other than, "Who knows!" The world is wide and strange and we are very small indeed. That is beautiful to me.
Is this the same FDA that saids its OK to inject infants multiple times with 500x the toxic level of mercury into babies or is this a different nanny state agency?
Ask HN: choosing your software stack. 
Assuming you and your buddies are serious about a web start up, you are the CTO type and you feel you are proficient in Lisp and a host of other languages. Assume the rest of the gang knows Java. Do you insis on Lisp, or go along with the majority? Would you worry about future hires?
Forget about what other people think: you're probably in a far more dangerous situation than you realize, with respect to your financial instability.

Get a job NOW and don't think about quitting until you have a reasonable savings buffer ($10k+, $20k far better) and a source of sustainable "ramen money" to pay the bills while you work on your dream projects.

Main thing is that we should basically never allow ourselves to be in a situation of prolonged, positive "burn rate" -- expenses to pay without income to match -- if at all possible.
The eminent physicist Freeman Dyson shares this same sentiment: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html (with a few extra, weirder, ideas, of course).
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892069
I haven't been paying attention, but has eyetracking software gotten that good?
Can you point to people or companies who are working on this, or currently available solutions?

I've been doing some usability testing stuff and it'd be nice to have eyetracking (especially paired with click/mouseover data.) and not much less helpful head/face tracking that is built into the webcam.
How long will Groupon’s boat continue to float?
Because we love it when corporations come up with their own proprietary implementations of existing open protocols with similar if not superior functionality.
Plus moo has smaller sized cards which all the cool kids are using these days.
People still care about Wired Magazine?
Who uses resumes still? They are very easy to fake and I think no one takes it serious anymore.
Selling the Wii above cost may not be standard industry practice, but it was standard practice for Nintendo. The GaneCube was the only Nintendo console that was ever sold at a loss. And it was a small loss for a very small period of time. The N64 definitely wasn't -- why do you think Nintendo used a cartridge system while everybody else was going for rotating discs?

http://www.actsofgord.com/Proclamations/chapter02.php
I like how Sequoia is doing early stage seed rounds now. It sets them up perfectly for the Series A.
Nintendo Files Trademark for "It's On Like Donkey Kong"
If I am wearing glasses it becomes much easier (3 IR LEDs, one webcam) to track where my head is turned.
I don't have much sympathy for the shameless use of breasts argument, as that's just American prudery.

Having featured only a few women for actual accomplishments could be a real problem - except that it can probably be at least somewhat explained with a few observations: How many women did you see at Startup School this year? I'd guess the number was under 5%. What percentage of successful tech entrepreneurs you know are women? How many women are in YC? Based on these number, women may be over-represented for their digital accomplishments on Wired covers.

I do hope that changes, I'm always happy to see women entrepreneurs, and Startup School attendance is by no means a valid scientific study, but it does give us some indication as to why so few women are featured.
Syntax is never really a problem. We do a lot of work in Erlang...

Erlang is based originally on Prolog, a logic programming language that was briefly hot in the 80's. Surely you've seen other languages based on Prolog, right? No? Why not? Because Prolog sucks ass for building entire applications. But that hasn't deterred Erlang from stealing it's dynamite syntax. [source: http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html What Sucks About Erlang]

In reality, syntax just fades away after ~5 minutes of real world usage. As Steve Jobs would say, it's not that big of a deal.
Because their money comes from advertisers, not subscribers.
I don't think the 3.99 price is a signal of any kind of desperation. I read recently, I wish I could remember where, that subscription and newsstand sales make a smaller portion of magazine revenue when compared to ads. Publishers would give them away for free to push up their circulation and thereby their ad rates, except advertisers discount ads placed in free publications. So publishers run all kinds of special promotions to push up circulation without appearing to cheapen their product to their advertisers.

That's one possible explanation, or it could be simple price segmentation - offering different prices through different channels to increase overall revenue.
I'm not sure I buy this argument, because Wired consistently ignores it regards to men. Like in 2005, when they put Blake Ross on the cover (issue 13.02). Or 2006, when Will Wright was on the cover (14.04). Or 2008, when they featured Ray Ozzie (16.12) and Shai Agassi (16.09). Or Craig Newmark in 2009 (17.09). None of these people is particularly well-known outside of tech circles.

I did not go back all the way in Wired's cover archive to verify Royal's claim that no woman has been on the cover "for an actual accomplishment" since Sherry Turkle in 1996. But that is that is a fairly damning data point, assuming it is true.
So what was the point of making this a story about girl being killed, if not to scare/shock?
This is sort of off-topic because it's not using Mathematica, but this[1] is another really neat intruder detection system that I've found that's surprisingly accurate.

It's based on a technology[2] created by the guy who made Palm.

And here's a guy trying to fool it and mostly failing.[3]

[1] http://vitamindinc.com/

[2] http://www.numenta.com/htm-overview/education/HTM_CorticalLe...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXtaZSHs77A
For NYC: Rockwood Music Hall and Union Hall
Oracle owns Java and can do whatever it wishes to do with its property. Sun tried a 'open' strategy to turn a profit with Java and it failed, everyone has to understand that the old ways are out and the new ways are in. Oracle has a fiducial duty to its shareholders to maximize profit. The Apache foundation doesn't have this mandate. If the Apache foundation doesn't agree with what Oracle does with its property,
it can choose not to use it and use a different technology -- or, because Oracle is a publicly traded company, they could buy enough controlling shares and force them to change their actions of the Java language. Alternatively the Apache foundation can move to a country that doesn't allow software patents and implement their own changes.
Bram Cohen on the Future of BitTorrent
Looking abroad can be a good solution in some cases, but it generally slows development time, quality, and is never as cheap as it seems. Also employees in another country will generally not be part of the culture of a company and thus are less loyal and committed. A startup needs dedicated engineers who understand the whole problem. If the founders don't qualify, there need to be major stakeholders who do.
And you can use those smaller size ones to create pretty awesome custom cards: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vadavia/3348895753/ (my personal business cards)
I get into the rhythm (the creative rhythm, I mean) by ~ 9 or 10 PM and could go on till early morning ~ 2 AM. Had to get up ~ 7 for day job. Sleep debt easily builds up over the work week and I try to catch up during the weekends and most of the time end up with a bad feel or a bad headache.
I can imagine the other kind of hand-waving might confuse Kinect.
To add to your point, a typical imager pixel can only sense one color - red, green or blue (caveat: there are now some imagers that can simultaneously sense multiple colours). The green value of a non-green pixel is interpolated from the surrounding pixels capable of sensing green. Thus, only 1/3 of your RGB image is "real" - the remaining 2/3 is interpolated.
Ask HN: What entrepreneurial advice would you give college students?
I am making having in an inaugural entrepreneurship society meeting at Emory University. But that's just an excuse to get advice from you guys.
Understanding and Selecting a Database Assessment Solution
Database Assessment is not just a security precaution, but an integral part of database operations management. Databases form the backbone of every major application within the data center, which makes their stability and security both critically important to business operations...
It's time to support Wikipedia people! Go! Now!
This is something straight out of an xkcd comic where the guy builds a bot to buy random $1 items from a website and he keeps getting things that could put him on an FBI watch list.
And the fact that their investment in YC itself is kind of a Sequoia "Ycombinator" of sorts (I am sure there's a way to derive that using lamdba calculus :-)
Keep in mind those of us still in high school. My mom is the one who collects the mail and the latest cover led to an awkward conversation.

It is wholly unnecessary for a technology publication to have that cover. At the very least, they should have limited it the newsstands.
Remember risk management. It doesn't have to be proven "that massively devastating consequences to mankind and the environment will result if AGW is allowed to continue along current trends", it only has to be probable. Likewise for "curtailing CO2 emissions will prevent those consequences and is the best way of dealing with their possibility".

It's perfectly rational to curtail CO2 emissions for fear of the consequences of AGW if curtailing CO2 emissions has a high enough EV, calculating this with, of course, the EV of catastrophic consequences to AGW. It doesn't have to be proven if catastrophic enough consequences are probable enough to dominate the EV, even if that probability is less than "certainty".
Working 8 hours a day, 1 hour commute each way, and up to 4 hours on personal projects... do you manage to achieve this while maintaining a relationship and friendships? =)
It can't work the way you explained it: I just solved your CAPTCHA with 33% success rate (waaay too high for a useful CAPTCHA). Perhaps if you ask for "the three pictures of X animal out of those 9", and you had a database with which animal has which property (and you also ran some fuzz over the images so no two images would ever be the same). I'm still skeptical...
I haven't been to Yahoo in a few years, but when I registered a mail account there once, it took me at least 10 if not 15 tries to get the captcha right. I came dangerously close to blowing my stack.
A Skype Rival? Google might integrate WebM into Google Talk
Assume spammers are using botnets. The problem of locking them out is as hard as detecting them in the first place.
> Which is one of the reasons that Go is being used to develop real applications. I don't think the same thing can be said for BitC.

Until BitC author claims that it is used for real applications. Has anyone outside of the Go team mentioned any use of Go in real applications? Please correct me if I am wrong, but at the moment Go, BitC and Rust are all experimental systems programing languages.
Wired's cover browser goes back to 1993: http://www.wired.com/wired/coverbrowser/
It's crazy isn't it. Seriously, it was one of those moments where you think "hey how am I doing this". I really thought for a very short while I had some sort of untapped savantish ability to know the day for any date (I think there are people that can do this based on some form of learning|equation?). In actual fact I can barely remember the day it is today ...

The dates were being checked on this one kids graphing calc. He was the only person in the class, in the school I suspect, that had one.

Whilst the chance of guessing 1 in 7 eight times in a row is very small, a string of guesses that are correct in a larger population of guesses has no greater probability of being in any particular place in the string than any other. Provided that if I'd continued guessing a large number of times then I only achieved c. 14% correct then there is nothing wrong statistically with such a feat ...

Maybe I didn't guess at all. Maybe I had a psychic link with my classmates Casio ... ;0)
I discover many new and interesting projects on HN, but there isn't enough time to sift through all the github projects I want to see, download that cool framework to get a hello world working, or just read some long articles. It's a zero-sum game against having a day-job and maintaining meaningful meat-space relationships.

I'm not alone on this right?
Yup. Cindy here really isn't in technology. I know plenty of women who actually do work in real technology and the few that have public blogs rarely write about women's issues.
One of the most beautiful apps I've seen. Wish I had owned an ipad.
"Missile Launch" "Solved": "It was a plane"
I really disliked the redesign of thesixtyone. It was an interesting reconceptualization of what the website could be, but I still find it annoying to use in an actual browser.

Seeing Aweditorium, the direction they've taken makes all the more sense to me. The game elements in thesixtyone and the mini-map in Aweditorium trigger something really nostalgic in me. It will be interesting to watch these elements converge between the two services. I just wish I had the hardware to enjoy this.
Google fires employee who leaked memo on raises
I wonder what the reasons behind this are?

Less opportunities going around?

More competition for the same number of opportunities (from other funds or cashed up companies such as FB & Google buying out companies early)?

A reaction to the "super angels" and their successes?
Presuming this is a real question, it's a matter of economics. Magazines like Wired make most of their money from advertising. They've judged, likely correctly, that if they charge more for subscriptions, they will lose more profit than they gain.

Magazines are closing down left and right. Wired is still in business because they have resorted to cheap tricks like "sex sells". While I applaud subscribers deciding they aren't going to put up with this any longer, I think you'd be mistaken if you think they could make more money by doing anything else.
As Dan Savage said, I'm glad to be a man because we seem less complicated (though he was commenting on genitalia). If Wired had a picture of some guy's schlong on the cover, I wouldn't, as a man, find it "unfriendly." I can't even imagine how it feels to be so intimidated by pictures of other people. Stick goatse on a magazine and it probably wouldn't stop me buying it.

But any decision to stop reading Wired seems wise to me - it has its moments but the odd issues I buy when traveling are packed with gimmicks and populist dross. Pick up magazines like Communications of the ACM instead (sadly not at airport stores) - no gimmicky covers or chesticles in sight there!
Thats the moral dilemma with government bailouts, once you receive free money from the government an organization has absolutely no incentive to be efficient and respond to the demands of the market place. The results are products that are to expensive, products that nobody wants, inefficient manufacturing and employee, distortion of the free market place, and incentive to not make a profit in hopes of getting another bailout which creates a negative feedback loop that self-destructs a company.
CPUs today are a lot less based on raw MHz/GHz and more about the technologies in which they achieve them. This can be easily seen with some single-core CPUs out-performing dual core and a few quad core CPUs. Who cares if you have a 3.2 GHz quad core CPU if this other single-core CPU at 2.8 GHz is better? While these situations aren't too common, they're prime examples of how raw speed doesn't matter.
That’s what I love about Lomborg’s argument. The Global Warming alarmists get by with weak science by saying their preliminary findings appear to be right and there’s no time to debate any further because the world will end if we don’t act now.

Lomborg essentially bypasses the science part of that argument and attacks the real issue which is the urgency claim. In doing so he takes away the reasons for politicization of the issue and puts the focus back on scientific study of the problem.
I'm familiar with the argument.

If Bangladesh and India have levels of affluence comparable to western nations, then the increased CO2 emissions will make sea levels rise faster, surely? And that's assuming that a) they'll have that level of affluence and b) that sea levels aren't going to rise more quickly. I don't think either of these things are assured at this point.

Another point to note is that he's an economist, not a climate scientist. Most of the criticism directed towards him and the Copenhagen Consensus is that they underplay the level of potential global warming while overplaying the part that economics has to play. In other words, his risk to reward ratio is well out of whack.

ps. "Economic misery" is a loaded term. IIRC, mitigating CO2 was estimated to be at most a couple of percent of GDP.
Taking the ArcWTF challenge with Ruby using a continuations based framework
Okay, how about removal mid-list with an iterator? Technically that could also be called "splice" after taking sublists, but that makes the term so broad as to be almost useless.
Apples and oranges. multipart/form-data is used for sending a set of form information, possibly including files, all together. This announcement is that S3 will now allow you to upload a file in pieces so that you don't lose everything when an upload is interrupted.
It fades away, but lags there chipping at productivity. The Ruby crowd makes a big fuss about their syntax, talk about how it revitalized their love of programming, makes programming enjoyable and so on. They might be onto something.
The worst case scenario according to James Hansen is a permanent phase change in the Earth's atmospheric composition to something more like that of Venus. A prospect which ought to worry even the most prosperous middle-class American.
Sure, but as a guru you know how to and when to use them.
Airbnb lies down with VCs, wakes up with money
Search your geo data using spatial queries from Fusion Tables
Really? That's sort of baffling. FTDI's USB chips are damn easy to work with, I'd expect dissectors for them to be out there already. I'll have to remedy that.
Here's Why Someone Would Seek Rejection for 30 Days Straight
Would a 25% tax on goods from China be good for the American economy?
I find your choice of link interesting.

Presumably you didn't write it by hand as you'd use duckgo.com then I suspect. So, why not provide the terminal page URL instead of this forwarding page?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.--.%20..%20-.%20---%20....

It's particularly curious because the page you give is an automated redirect and you'd have to stop the page loading to copy the link.

Just curious.
But what do you do when that person needs to pay bills, food, etc? Im will pay him very little ($400/mo), just enough to live. If he hasn't got money to pay the bills, he will have to spend time doing consulting work, and that's less money for the startup. I'm buying his time at the cheapest price possible.
Out of curiousity, have you tried doing something on your own that you were not passionate about? I know that my efforts when my heart wasn't totally "in to it" felt really... crappy. Despite all of my best efforts and intentions.

Passion is the fuel that you burn when attempting a startup. If you run out of passion, you run out of gas... and it's hard to get far when you've got no gas.

Dig?
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But the question is whether the risk of catastrophic consequences due to AGW out weighs the certainty of the economic impact. Lomborg isn't asking for certainty on AGW (which would be impossible) he's simply arguing the equation has become weighted too much to one side because of fear.
Google is going to fire the employee who leaked the firing.
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When I went to do mathematics at Chicago I figured I was the smartest person alive. There I was, facing the gargoyles of my dreams; a poor kid aspiring to a better life by shrugging off the accent I was born into and the mentality of defeat so common among the poor. But I had gone too far, became too confident and failed horribly. I was sure that the world had failed--I was too good--and that everything was bullshit. I left, walked away from a full scholarship because I had overcome the constrains of my life before and Mathematics and University were no different. I took a job at a small software shop in Portland, OR instead, enrolling part time at PSU doing computer science.

I failed at both, as you might expect. The world wasn't wrong, I was. While I could program, I had no discipline. While I had intellect, I had no ability to learn. The world was not wrong, I was. All of my anger and suffering and frustration were my fault. From the defeat of my new University and my new job I learned that my romantic notions of most things were not reality. Enrico Fermi, on whose stairway I bounded up, did not simply decide to conjure nuclear fission under what is now a library. He worked for years, a thing which I had never done.

The novice says to the master, "Coal is black." The master replies, "No, it is not."

The intermediate says to the master, "Coal is not black." The master replies, "Of course it is."

The masters say among themselves, "It is coal."

I hold no romantic notions as I held when I were a boy; I have not become a cynical man. Life is suffering and pain. Life is joy and love. I have built a business from nothing and sold it for a profit. I am now very poor. Life is life and that is beautiful. What we learn, what we truly learn, we so incorporate into our being that we cannot perceive it as unknown to all. We are the streams into which a man steps: never the same, yet always the same.

To gain mastery over the frontier of science is to gain mastery over nothing, over one's self. It is confusion and pain and truth and beauty.
If you prefer working on an iPad check out: iMockups or Keynote Wireframe Toolkit
It's a semantic web api from Reuters: http://www.opencalais.com/

Frankly, it's amazing. There's a sandbox where you can play with it here: http://viewer.opencalais.com/ Copy and past a couple paragraphs of text into the text box, and you can see some of what the api can do.
And if you can actually input data using the protocol, you can take some standard packets and tweak a byte/short/long at a time and see what changes.

Reversing USB is the same as any protocol on top of TCP is the same as any other protocol, just with different tools.

I wish there were an open source hex editor like Hex Workshop for Windows - one of the features I loved was tagging a section of bytes with comments, and being able to use those same tags across multiple data dumps.
This will be pretty damn useful for piping the output of some process generating a large file (i.e. video transcoding) and beginning the upload before the file has been fully created.

Even better: You can split a video into pieces, transcode each part on a different EC2 node, and upload the parts directly from those respective nodes.
GazeHawk (YC funded) is, but the software isn't open.

http://www.gazehawk.com/
For option 1, if you're generating pages with templates, just hand off the domain portion to a util method, so if the domain ever does change, it should be a one-line change.
I think this is why people like blue.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lighthearted/37225804/