skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I alluded to this in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865350 , but want to respond to your comment about reading "making you think."

I had a major breakthrough in my creative (programming, music) life when I realized that my most intensely creative periods were fueled by reading.

What would happen is that I would work tirelessly drafting ideas, hacking or making music until I burned out and got very depressed. I stayed like this and, through some accident, started reading as a way to pass time. Before I got through more than one or two books, I'd have forgotten the depression and be back to creating stuff again.

Now, I try to make time for reading daily (instead of binging/purging). It helps me avoid burnout on creative projects and gives me new ideas all the time.

For the past two years I've been reading a handful of authors and will recommend them instead of specific books: HP Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Murakami, Philip K Dick, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Franz Kafka.

I also very much enjoyed a book called Science and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries that I picked up at a college library booksale. I don't recall the author, unfortunately.
Just finished CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold, probably the last in her Miles Vorkosigan series. Any of her works are excellent, but she's (rightfully) best-known for her Miles books.
I bounce back and forth between the Matz book and _Why's. The Matz book is comprehensive, but _Why's makes sense.
First, I erred on one point. Lifetime appointment is almost, but not quite true. Senators must retire at age 75.

A big portion of it is the demographic of the Senate. As senate seats are typically honourary appointments, rather than partisan decisions (though there are exceptions), there is typically little reason or desire to rise up and exert their power. Senators include former career politicians, but also public personas of various origin - athletes, entertainers, and others of non-political origin.

I would speculate that is almost out of a "gentleman's agreement" of sorts that senators respect and recognize their role and place in Canadian politics. Another is attendance - only 15 senators out of 105 are required to make quorum, and many senators are almost never found in their seats.

I shouldn't make it seem as though the Canadian senate is merely an automatic stamp of approval; there have been past examples of dissent, discussion, debate, reform, and rejection of bills arriving in the Senate. However, it is generally understood among the public that the Senate acts primarily in a nearly ceremonial capacity, rather than one of actual weight and importance.
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
I think the rap quotes are the best part of Ben's posts.
The statement "A minimum wage increases unemployment among young and unskilled workers." is probably true, but if maximizing employment is the only goal, then just pay them peanuts and abolish overheads like health and safety.

I'd say that maximizing employment is not the only goal.
Regarding Built to Last make sure to check out how visionary the companies profiled later turned to be.
I Is A strange Loop ;)
Here in Ireland we have what is called Transition Year which is in the 4th year of secondary school. This year is a lot freer in terms of the curriculum and is mostly spent by the students doing work experiences, internships and going abroad. Most parents here denounce it and call it crazy that kids aren't doing "structured" work for a year but I think it's brilliant, I certainly got an awful lot out of mine. Not exactly what you are suggesting but similar idea.
Google has been accused by free software luminaries that, while it respects the letter of the GPL, it does not respect the spirit of the license, as it does not share its optimized versions of the Linux kernel, Apache server, and many other GPL software. Of course, as it's GPL, not AGPL, they are not legally in the wrong. This nice piece of infrastructure is a step forward, let's hope they release more of their custom infrastructure.
[pdf] $50,000 prize: Darpa Announces the DMACE Challenge
‘Where’ and ‘what’ in the whisker sensorimotor system

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/ahissar/new_page...
disclaimer I work for enthought

I did my whole phd in matlab.

EPD is much cheaper and is free for academics

even if it weren't free, I would use it anyways.

but it really isn't why is EPD better than matlab, it's why python is better than matlab. matlab is a domain specific application with a domain specific language. It doesn't work well with things outside of its domain.

python is a general purpose language (And as such, has good general purpose constructs) but it happens to have excellent scientific and mathematical libraries. This is useful when you actually have to apply your research and build an application.

numpy is also better for large data, because slicing arrays does not create copies of them (you can make it do so if you want to, but it doesn't by default) in matlab, slicing large arrays can cause you to run out of memory.

Cython makes it really easy to start out with python, and then optimize your code down into C.

with python you can run your calculations over a massive compute grid. Use messaging libraries like PyZMQ to distribute your data and result, and build real time GUIs to consume the final results.

- a matlab cluster is quite expensive

- chacko - another enthought python library which is free and open source is great for real time datavisualization, matlab does not have anything equivalent.

- python has a large number of messaging libraries, with matlab I think you're stuck with MPI.

Matlab always made me feel limited. I would work on a problem, and then reach a point where Matlab could not do what I needed to do.

That rarely happens to me with python.
Isn't the senate supposed to be the American counterpart to the House of Lords?
Thanks for the information about this American business phrase. The implication on an invitation is that who invites is trying to sell you something (there is no free lunch in business).
I think it covers diverse explanation of the same theme i.e. can consciousness be generated out of unconscious (something like that). But I found the pq system quite interesting. BTW if you are having problem with that you can skip it, Hofstadter takes his sweet time explaining what formal systems is.
The Gift of Inconsistency
Wait, are you telling me that he was retro before retro was cool?
Fooled by Randomness again

http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...
If you are not too particular about sci-fi, I would suggest Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Its fantasy, but extremely stimulating. Its a series of 10 graphic novels, but you need not necessarily read it in order. Some are better than others, but every book has a very high level of story-telling.
Ringworld
Most likely because they didn't bother to actually look at the available evidence.
I only read about 20% of it before life got in the way, but man, what an awesome biography. I think I'll return to it soon.
Quitting my job, driving South for a year - how does my site feel?
Any feedback on the site is appreciated. I've got a case of tunnel vision and would like some 3rd party feedback. I go public with it tomorrow.
I'm not saying there aren't reasons to have short lines.

But in science, we have longer and more complex expressions in general.

Our priorities are different.
My email address is in my profile - I'd email you, but I couldn't find your contact info.

I'd love to help, but I have a ton of questions about what sort of help you need exactly, and what's already in place.
You guys should stop reading and get something done already!
I don't see any reference to the OITC in that BBC article - am I missing something?
Facebook Responds to Firesheep
If you just want to do interesting work, an issue with career ladders is that little interesting work filters down to the people at the bottom of the ladder. This becomes a catch 22 for rookie employees. It becomes difficult to level up, because you're never working on anything that will wow your reviewers. In fact, the reward for excelling at boring but necessary tasks is often being stuck on those tasks forever. Thus begins the cycle of churn and lowering of hiring standards.
Nightfall and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov

My first foray into the world of sci-fi books, spurred on by my new Kindle. I have to say I'm impressed so far
Kavalier and Clay
The Stand - again. For probably the 10th or 11th time, I've lost track.
Somewhat ironically, one of the biggest slowdowns on my websites has been using Google Analytics. I only realised this after I switched completely to my own installation of Piwik - give it a try, the load times can be quite surprising.
I too am reading the Stoic Guide. Its a great book to start and I'm already putting stoic principals into my daily life to great success.
or with animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Ask HN: Honestly, what's evil about Oracle?
I've been getting an "Oracle is evil" vibe lately (duh). I've brought it up with a few people, but it's always essentially come down to being in a band-wagon, or wanting free (as in beer) software. I respect the opinions on HN, and I have to believe there are better reasons than this, I just haven't heard them.

Personally, I know several people who worked there during the acquisition, and there's an overwhelming response of relief that their company isn't being run into the ground anymore. I've always had good experiences with Oracle's products and support, and I'm not aware of any free products that are no longer available (maybe I'm wrong?) Open-source software can still be branched if people don't like the politics (like LibreOffice).

As far as I can tell, Oracle is simply not going to spend money on things that it doesn't benefit from. It's a business, and they're not breaking any contracts or laws. Granted, their lawsuit against Google looks ridiculous, but that can't be all there is to this vibe.
Wouldn't that largely depend on what the topic is?

If I want to learn a language, I'll find a basic book on it and then grab as much native audio as I possibly can.

If I want to learn about something in math, I'll go to Khan Academy.

If I want to learn about irrational decision-making in everyday life, I'll read a book.

And that all starts with the assumption that learning follows the waterfall method: pick what you want to learn, learn it, move on to something else. I find learning much more iterative: be intrigued by something, follow it, see what it leads. I never really decided to learn about systems thinking, but I came across the personal MBA reading list one day, thought it was fascinating, came back, picked a book that looked interesting (Thinking in Systems), and read it.

A couple of weeks ago, I learned a great deal about writing fiction with characters of a different gender or race than you. I never set out to, but I do NaNoWriMo each year, and one of the most active posts on their forum was about "writing the other." It fascinated me, so I followed it, and learned something for it. This, to me, is what lifelong learning looks like.
Similar to "Better to do and ask forgiveness, than to ask permission first"
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

I'm not even a fan of bios and seriously this is one of the best books I've read this year (so far, I'm halfway through).
Good and Evil in the Garden of Hackerdom
This is great, but I think EVERY tech company struggles with finding the right balance here. Where I currently work, they also fail each and every one of these.
You're right, but seems irrelevant. mod_pagespeed likely has a very different audience.
>The usage of the term "government" in commonwealth countries, following the Westminster System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system), refers more specifically to the executive branch (prime minister and cabinet) currently in power and not the state in general.

That's very interesting, I don't think Scottish, English or Welsh people use "government" it that way though FWIW. What word does one use for the government if the word government is co-opted for the Cabinet & PM?
i got this letter once. no, actually twice. once from YC and once from techstars. i keep writing code though - and going to tech meetups - and looking for a partner (in chicago)...
As far as redirection goes, this skipped the least known bit (IMHO), closing descriptors.

jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist
cat: file-that-doesnt-exist: No such file or directory
jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist 2>&-
jmhobbs@katya:~$
I am also reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

Before that I read Norweigan Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End Of The World by Murakami, as well as Godel, Escher, Bach which took forever (I read on the subway).
Free PDF book: The Lights in the Tunnel (tech and economics)
Were you using the asyncronous Analytics code?
And they say you can't get a decent education in schools anymore. Everyone in the Chess Club now has an intimate understanding of how money moves through governments.

See you in Congress Nate.
These aren't tricks. These are the things you learn on the very first day of using a *nix system. How this is being voted up I will never know.
Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Drive By Dan Pink

http://www.danpink.com/drive
www.bt.co.uk too - proves it helps to be well connected.
Any large company is going to have those same mistakes. There is really no way around it. Especially the part about only the big sexy project got recognition and not the little grungy tasks. In a company of 20,000, unless you have a 1:5 manager to employee ration at all levels you can't avoid that. If these are Google's biggest mistakes then I would happily go to work for them.
Oh, does he solve the Void trilogy with a deus ex machina too, like his other books? I've sworn off Peter F Hamilton for being too damm long for the quality of story you get.
Bounce by Matthew Syed. Highly recommended read in the same vein as Outliers without the need to find continuously interesting anecdotes every 5 pages and with some science.
It's coded in PHP/MYSQL using custom framework. New developer would probably rewrite it all because I know how hard is to work around other people's code. We made that basic version in few days so I believe rewriting that is not a problem.

ben(at)benpixel.com is my e-mail
I'm always surprised by the relative dearth of smart-ass comments on this site.
Absolutely. You should be developing a marketing plan at the same time you're developing the app. Figure out the best way to generate some positive buzz, be it through blog updates, screenshots showing your progress, etc.

Don't go overboard, but start getting people excited! And while you won't be executing a good portion of your marketing plan until the game is released, you need to know what that plan is.
As another option - you can cache GA js code locally and combine it with the rest site's js code. That's what Google Analytics module for Drupal is doing. Result - no third-party requests at all.
So once liberals get their wish list of policies, they will instantly turn into conservatives? You're being too literal. There's a big overlap between the tea party and libertarians. Both groups don't just want to roll back to Jan, 2009, they want to go back to 1900, when local governments had more power than the national government did, and people could vote with their feet.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Foundation Series about a year ago and since then have been reading many of the books found in Asimov's Foundation Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#List_of_books...). Right now I am reading "The Robots of Dawn", the third book in Asimov's Robot Series. I have gone in a kind of a strange order, first reading The Complete Robot, then the Foundation Series, the Empire Series, and now the Robot Series. I have enjoyed them all, I like Asimov's style. I also enjoyed Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and will be reading the next book in the series "Speaker for the Dead" soon.
Oh I know! The book has been sitting on my shelf for years and I finally cracked it. I looked at the company list (compiled almost 20 years ago) and thought, huh?

But I think there is still some good lessons to be learned - especially when contrast with Positioning. Knowing that Sony's first product was a rice cooker, and HP fumbled for ideas (a bowling gutter ball detector?!?) is oddly comforting.
I don't really know much about Oracle but from what I read their company culture is not the kind of culture I'd work for.

For example the way they treated Gosling.
Does it cache optimized images or regenerates them for every request?

Edit: Yes, it does:

In order to rewrite resources, mod_pagespeed must cache them on the server.
"Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307279189?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Indeed. If you don't know these "tricks", you don't know Unix. That's probably why it says "tricks you need to know".

This probably comes from learning Unix via graphical interfaces, such as GNOME on Ubuntu, OS X, etc., and blog posts by other people with the same background.

Kernighan and Pike's _The Unix Programming Environment_ is probably still the best place to learn this stuff.
Identity and Control by Harrison C. White

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_White
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
To Siberia by Per Petterson

The Millenium Series (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series) by Stieg Larrson
I was merely addressing your original title.
They transmitted images from Georgie's vision thing once.
This is pretty different. Impressionism is creating art from scratch; this is taking art that has already been created and stamping it with a cookie-cutter filter effect. It adds no creative input at all, and in fact takes away from what is already there.
Ask HN: 19, developer, burnt out, advice please
My highschool career could be summed up by one word - mediocre. I didn't do horrible, but I did minimal, except for being in the robotics club. I graduated with the minimal credits because I wanted to finish in 3 years. At the time the classroom environment felt toxic. I was 17 and landed a salaried position doing web development with a very cool company.
Fast forward and I'm almost 20, don't really know if I feel a passion for software - or at least professionally. I realized I only enjoy software if I'm building what I want to build or something that interests me. I'm wondering what HN would do in my shoes, should I just go to college, or is there a better option? I'm willing to put the work into school but I wonder if the cost is worth it. Please consider I would have to start at a community college of sorts because of my academic history. Anyways, please share thoughts and suggestions, thanks.

edit: spelling
This looks very promising! Microsoft has similar features (although not officially supported yet) for ASP.NET: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/50869
http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/35893
I'm happy they went with Sanderson, too. His styles fits so well with Jordan's, and his Way of Kings series has started of really well.
17 Useful Htaccess Tricks and Tips
How I Prepared for My First Big Public Speaking Gig
You can give a peer bonus of $200 to any individual with their manager's approval (which is very easy to get). They encourage giving peer bonuses for when someone goes the extra mile on something, but very few engineers initiate giving a peer bonus. After tax, it's about $100, hence the "I can poop $100" bit.
My site looks like $hit any designers want to make a couple of hundred bucks
Hi Guys, my site looks like crap (www.paperhater.com) . I want a more web 2.0 feel to it. If anyone has any skills in this area and wants to make a $200.00 please contact me at ashleyreddy <at> hotmail . I'm not looking for the most unique design so if you had some css/html/js that you could legally repurpose that would work. Thanks
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I'm reading "The Living Cosmos" by Chris Impey. Found it in a bargain bin at the book store. It was worth much more than what I paid for it. The book is about astrobiology which is an interesting topic. The author is very balanced on the subject, it's a good 10,000 feet overview of the field and the author does a pretty good job at vulgarizing the subject matter.
This is not the default behaviour, and the setting is not available from within the app -- you have to exit, go to general settings, find the app in the list, and change the setting there. I would love to know how many instagram users do this, but I bet it's a tiny fraction.
Wow, why all the hate? Just stating my opinion. I loathe old time conservatives who want to control my life. At least respect the fact that most conservatives say they're for limited govt. They might be hypocrites once they get into power. cough Bush
See the wikipedia article in dansingerman's comment
Ask HN: Anyone Working on Amazon Kindle Loan Website
Does anyone know of anyone working on this?

It appears there will be some limitations, but once its clear that you can lend out a book to anyone for a 14 day period over and over again, I'd think something like this would pop up all over. I'd be willing to pay $25.00 a month to read all the books I could, with that $25.00 going to buy more and more books in kindle format.
The Fourth Way by P.D.Ouspensky
Like most Smashing Magazine articles, this is good advice overall but gets some details wrong.

They recommend using display: none on images to reduce bandwidth. Except browsers still load images which are set to display: none.
I get a callback 100% of the time I use a subdomain. Less so on the others, but still far above 75%.
This is a well-written intro to Git. But for a real Git cheatsheet, I like
http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
which is an unusual visual cheatsheet for Git.
The whole point of my article is that real nostalgia is fun. However, faked-up 1970s polaroid nostalgia is just fake. These are real photos and over time they will accumulate real nostalgia; you can't shoe-horn it in right from the beginning by using a digital filter.
The OS version and device format fragmentation is a bit of a red herring. Now admittedly, I've only developed a few simple apps for Android, but the framework really handled all of the differences between screen sizes, etc. for you.

IMHO a bigger handycap for Android is the fragmentation of the end user experience. With iOS, you can by an iPhone, and iPod touch, and an iPad and they'll all have an identical UI. And when you upgrade to the next model of any of the three, you can count on still have a consistent UI and an easy, simple upgrade.

Unfortunately with Android, moving from one Android device to another might involve significant UI changes. Compounding that is that none of the non-phone Android devices currently have access to the Android market, so you don't readily have access to all of your apps across all of your Android devices.
Print Files from any Mobile Phone using Dropbox
Adobe and Google enhancing WebKit for better typography
Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live
"The sum of money just appeared in my bank account, but was so insulting low that I felt devalued. If a manager had just talked to me about how much my work was appreciated, it would have been better than money."

This is true at a certain threshold. Appreciation is immeasurably better than an demoralizing, insultingly-sized bonus. However on the other end, if you go above and beyond normal expectations and save or earn the company millions of dollars, a "thank you" from your boss on the company newsletter is not going to cut it.
Finance before you need the money - Mashape's Voice
Its strange. Everyone seems to rave about poignant guide but I just couldn't get into it. For me Ruby for Rails by David A Black was an absolute revelation, really made things click for me.
Ask HN: Refer me to SEO ninja
If you are or know of a SEO expert who has time for a paid project please advise. Thanks.
Have they changed the restrictions? When they first announced the service, each book could only be lent once.