skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like anything, I'd suggest thinking of something that is a bit past "trivial" but working on something you need. For a lot of Node.JS projects, that typically means doing something realtime-comminicatively, that typically wouldn't scale in times gone by.

NowJS is a good starting point too. http://nowjs.com/

I started by creating a "server" for quartz composer, wherein I'd connect a TCP socket to Node, then I'd tell the composition when an XML file had updated, which would trigger the composition to reload the xml.
I get the same for people with <1000 tweets, and it eventually terminates with some sort of error. It can't retrieve twitpic photos and returns a 502 for one.

Running it on Windows 7.

I wouldn't be surprised if the error is with Twitter.
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He might be Australian and seeing a 20% decrease in price because of exchange fluctuation.
You say solved, but there was nothing to solve in your example cities since they were not planned or built from whole cloth (yes there were plans - the NYC grid, the Paris hub-and-spoke - but the cities, as you point out, grew and evolved).
Sorry, when did I say anything about the average Top Gear fan being interested in practical cars? That was the old Top Gear (and in large part the reason that the old show had became utterly tedious and why Clarkson left it).

The editorial line on Top Gear (and Jeremy Clarkson's view in pretty much all media) has long been to mock environmentalists and their concerns. Maybe the viewers are all wildly interested in electric cars but it would be slightly odd as it would have them watching a show that spent a significant chunk of it's time mocking their beliefs.

Obviously were you to offer to give them a Tesla they'd bite your hand off - it's as close to a super car as most of them will get - but offer them any car of equivalent value and I suspect you'd find that the demand dropped to close to zero.
I've worked for a brief period with family before and it can quickly become a complicated situation.

A few words of wisdom from my experience:

1) Establish what your role is and what aspects of the company you control:

Just because it's your family, doesn't mean you'll suddenly get a lot of control. When I was brought on as a Operations Manager I thought I had a lot of freedom to control how things operated. However, I quickly realized that my parents and their business partners still saw me as an employee rather than a strategic partner. Making this clear up front and observe how they react when you offer strategic solutions. Do they brush you off or do they act on it?

2) What are realistic contributions you can make to the company and do they align with your goals?

Your comments about your parent's hesitancy to put additional money into the company means you'll have to fight to hire a developer and update the core product. If you lose this fight, what other opportunities do you see in the company? If you don't see any, then it's probably better to move on and find a project where you have either more control, or more options.

Hope this helps.
Especially considering the amount of viewers and sway Top Gear has and how young Tesla was as a company at the time, that press could have destroyed them and there was no truth to it.
>if someone manages to steal $1000USD from my bank account, the overwhelming odds are that I'll get it back, if for no other reason than my bank will cover it.

That all depends on how they stole it. If they skimmed your ATM card and got the pin then they have the money, and it's gone, and your bank won't give it back(you're supposed to keep the PIN secret remember), and the police can do nothing. The overwhelming odds are that your money, once gone is gone for good.

Also people don't steal bitcoins from your wallet, maybe they can steal the wallet itself but not the bitcoins from the wallet, and if that wallet is encrypted then good luck with that.
If I went the Ruby/RoR route, I would learn Ruby then Rails. As well as LPTHW, another great resource is the MIT OCW course which teaches fundamentals using Python. Thanks for the help!

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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A hybrid between what and what, exactly?

The Tesla Roadster is 100% electric, there's no hybrid technology involved.
Sure. I'm not saying I'm a good programmer. From the comments here a lot of people seem surprised that any clojure version isn't automatically faster than a python one, just by the intrinsic fastness of clojure. I just don't think clojure is the go-to language for simple raw speed, but apparently I hit a nerve saying it's not super-fast because I'm getting downvoted.

As a clojure novice I would assume that just by using pmap over map, computation would be faster, but it doesn't seem like it, I've experimented a little but never gotten very good at optimizing speed in clojure, here's a little test where I thought I could get at some multi-core goodness by using pmap, but probably the lazy structures are fooling me.

https://github.com/sunkencity/Adaptor-Reductor/blob/master/s...
Android is displacing Nokia in the phone market, claiming out the low-margin, low-price sector. It's not uncommon to find free Android phones from carriers today where you'd be getting some unbelievably wacky Nokia phone two years ago.
If I care enough to buy audio in lossless format, I'd probably spend the money on a CD and just rip it instead.
Are there indications that this is a wider spread problem beyond jacquesmattheij.com or the two individuals that have already been caught doing it with his site?

One is an anomaly, two independent occurrences is a trend?
Interesting idea - if I read it correctly: you track live events and what not and synchronize the conversations that happen during those events ABOUT those events.

Right? If so, would there be licensing issues with the live sporting events and television shows?
Thanks, I came to ask that question also. So is there any reason that this can't be done using OpenCL instead?
What's that quote that says something like in a gold rush you're better off selling the picks and shovels than trying to strike gold?
> is part of journalism

Part yes, but the poster said that Techcrunch was worthless because of the copyediting mistakes. That's not "part of", that's is.

There's a related idea which says that journalism is good stories and copy editing.

Both are wrong. Good storytelling and copy editing are part of good journalism, but they're not the whole story. In fact, they're not even the majority of the story, even though they're dominant skills of most journalists.
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It's a disappointing cliff-hanger ending. Without more information it's impossible to say whether this is just some malware accident or a deliberate policy by Samsung. I'm inclined to think that the former situation is more likely.
Wouldn't it be an idea to team up with other 'pool rotters' and create a product for Google? i.e. form your own team proactively, and operate like a kind of Skunk Works in Google...
> Surely he's not the only Samsung owner to run a malware scan.

On a machine he just bought, without installing anything else?

Besides, someone has to be first.
they work crazy hours in the hope of making it really big some day, even if the personal cost today is high.

When you say, "they", you're talking about entrepreneurs who have made a personal choice to make that sacrifice; or, a team of entrepreneurs who have agreed, amongst themselves, to all make that sacrifice together.

I read Patrick's argument as railing against the kind of "entrepreneurs" who are really just free-loading, glorified managers that get angry when anyone on the team starts "slacking" (i.e., working less than 80-100 hours / week) because they're relying on the hard work of other people to bring them their fortune instead of actually doing anything themselves.
Uh, what? I was talking about a $2000 cost to the job seeker. It may not be that much for professional, but it's nothing to sneeze at either (I've seen people making a multiple of 120k fret over much less than 2k).

The GP was talking about doing the 'screening test' for everybody who passed a first qualification stage. I don't know where you work, but having 15 'might qualified from a cursory glance at CV' applicants is very normal. Basically it's everybody who can use a computer and format a CV without using Comic Sans, and is smart enough to phrase his work experience or degree so that it sounds like it might have something to do with the advertised job offer.
Ok it's working again. UI looks clean and simple. I would center the layout, not left align. The AI opponent plays very badly ;)
It is straightforward, but impractical. Getting good historical market data is very, very expensive. Even recording current market data is not cheap and not without significant difficulty.
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It seems much more likely that the AV exe that he is running is infected.
I think it depends. For the class of "quick hack to get some data from a JSON API and munge it" having to model the data can be a burden. Just using a Python dict and getting the values out is initially quite a lot simpler.

However for anything more complicated than that you start having to model the data anyways, in Python or Go or any other language otherwise it will quickly devolve into unmaintainable spaghetti. In this case, I was forced to do this early on, which made me think through the structure of the program more thoroughly than I might otherwise have done.
50-60%. I'm an intern though.
I'm not very convinced. The excitement about bitcoin now is that it seems like a semi-mainstream alternative payment system. And a big part of that is that it seems legal in the first place.

Soon enough, I expect law enforcement to start to actively target bitcoin exchanges (see e-gold). Sure people can respond to this by using elaborate schemes like the one you link to ("When depositing or withdrawing from ATM's the runners/operators face must be concealed as they have cameras. The ATM's used must constantly be changed, they must essentially be random otherwise the operators can be caught"). Then the only way to obtain or sell bitcoins will then be to take part in this elaborate and blatantly illegal money-laundering scheme.

Criminals might still be willing to do that (although organized crime presumably have access to better money-laundering facilities already, so I'm not sure how many). But users of services like witcoin (bitcoin based micropayments to tip your favourite bloggers) presumably won't. Likewise, mining will become less popular if the only way to get money from it looks like it attracts the interest of the FBI. And how many will run the p2p client at all (so the entire trust network could collapse)?
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Did you listen to the interview? The CEO explicitly said that they collect no personal data, and that the only data transferred to their servers is photographs, their locations and the iPhone ID - of which they have no way of tying back to an actual person.

The reason Color got funded is because, as the founder explains, this is a new kind of social graph and could easily become as huge as Facebook.
Even with this solution and well-designed code, a trader needs external infrastructure that plays on the same low-latency level. Most HFT strategies aren't as secret as you think; there are usually dozens of shops running similar trades. For that reason, something like this needs to be jacked directly into an exchange co-lo or connected through dedicated fiber. In short, the cost of this blade is just the start if you want to play with the gunslingers. Somebody else mentioned that there are prop shops that will give you the infrastructure you need for a cut of your profits. Some will even front the cash you need to trade. One such place is HTG Capital Partners of Chicago, which is where much of the HFT world is centered.
Have you seen www.betterplace.com

They have an answer for the range/recharge complaints (switching stations)
I thought the reactor was pretty much beyond saving after they flooded it with seawater. The subsequent meltdown-ish events certainly aren't helping, but the reactor was already totalled.
I'll bet there's egg on their faces right now. I'm sharing this news, and a link back here.
30%-40%
If I read it correctly he's basically saying that, no, .NET doesn't really scale. Which seems to be the opposite of what he's wanting to say?
Two programmers walk into a bar...
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The argument against bots would be that it makes it more difficult to go through the 'new' section and find quality posts to up vote if everyone did this.

If everyone wrote bots that auto-submitted feeds from authors who consistently get upvotes from HN readers? How is that a problem?

If the problem is submitting articles that HN readers don't find interesting--spam, not ham--banning bots is unlikely to help. How do you stop me from submitting every article I write?

There is a huge amount of content out there loosely relevant to HN readers. Bits overwhelming the new page are a symptom, not a disease. The disease is that the new page doesn't scale well to handle a large volume of submissions. As HN grows, the number of submission si going to grow as well, with or without bots.

Behind the scenes, there must be some changes to accomodate this, such as algorithmically showing users new stories they are most likely to find interesting, or showing users a random selection fo new stories from the last hour.

Bots merely accelerate the decline of the new page's usefulness. Banning bots that auto-submit high quality feeds isn't going to work if we allow HN to grow at its current rate.
I have done the same. I got started by installing it on my VPS and writing code.
The sticky thing about industry experience is that its hard to evaluate expectations.

on the one side, someone who hops from job to job every 6 months has a stability issue [prove to me that you can stick through this venture, long enough for it to reach critical mass].

on the other side, someone who stays at a job for many years may expect a senior role [i.e. must manage a team of coders], possibly rendering them ineffective.

as someone in finance, i can assert that most CS guys in finance fall in one of those two categories.
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The article mentions that it's related, but somewhat simpler because it's "only" backtracking, versus Prolog's full logic programming:

The embedding recalls the continuation strategies used to implement Prolog-style logic programming, but is sparer because the operator provided is much like a Scheme boolean operator, does not require special contexts for its use, and does not rely on linguistic infrastructure such as logic variables and unification.
I agree with the speaking in public, that's a bad example.

But in terms of people who self declare themselves "not by nature particularly sociable" not being extroverted, I disagree and offer myself up as an example.

I am an extrovert. Psychological testing confirms this (and I'm a strong extrovert, not just marginal and this has been tested more than once) and no-one who has ever met me or worked with me would suggest anything else.

But I am also not by nature particularly sociable. I am an only child and by default prefer my own company (or that of a small number of close, established friends). I could happily spend days on end alone and often turn down the chance to go out because I don't particularly like the experience.

Extroversion is a way of thinking. While it may correlate with sociability, being an extrovert and being anti-sociable are in no way mutually exclusive.
"The only hiring process I have found to work for developers is to sit down and work on real code together."

Yes. My favorite is to ask the candidate to go on a webpage he has been working on, show me the source, and we start discussing it together. I can ask him to explain some markup, or simple javascripts. Then the key point is when I go and criticize a part of his work. Two bad reaction: immediate yes ("sure boss! you are right boss") and immediate no ("who are you to criticize my work?"). I take the guy who really starts to think, check if I could be right, and accept to discuss the technical point of view.

Other point: I need to shake his hand, it tells me a lot!
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Two further Comodo RA accounts compromised
I'm curious how the author liked working with NoStarch. I know one of PragProg's big selling points is that they're much easier to deal with and provide much higher royalties than traditional tech publishers; I wonder if NoStarch has taken a similar approach.
Absolutely. Networking to meet potential cofounders is like going for a night out to meet potential wives.

The only people who will react favourably to this kind of approach are the ones you definitely don't want to marry or start a business with.
Gary Taubes is a journalist, not an expert in nutrition. He also has a track record of questionable academic honesty. He's an excellent writer who has been able to cash in on fad diets, but follow his advice at your own risk.

http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake
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Couldn't agree more.

The focus that the short sighted interviewers and companies have on how fast your can solve some pointless algorithm that a CS has figured out 30 years ago, vs how you get on with the team I find mind boggling.

http://www.jeremyhutchings.com/2010/11/interviewing-dating-f...
Thinking about this some more, I think to replace model.Package with an interface. The existing struct of that name will become JsonPackage that implements it. This is because the CKAN representation of a dataset has some modelling problems (that are being addressed in parallel by the CKAN team) and it isn't clear that the existing models as represented in the JSON should overly inform the functioning of the ckand aggregator.
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Summary: http://www.destructoid.com/study-wii-isn-t-necessarily-green...
Is there not a hole in this argument? Why wouldn't he first question the store at which he bought both of these Samsung laptops? This isn't solid evidence that the source of the keylogger is from the hardware manufacturer and is borderline defamation.
But that's not really a proof of work system, that just uses your computer's idle time to work on something.
Pretty much what you'd expect from a site that is fairly obviously a poorly researched bunch of links thrown together to pay lip service to some ideal.
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Apparently,even though you have a chinese girlfriend,you don't seem to understand much about Chinese people or culture. Trust me, everyone of her family care about whether you own (or have the ability to own) an apartment or not (including their dog if they have one) though I doubt they will say it to your face.
Thanks I appreciate your help. In my area, it seemed like more than half the jobs that mentioned one of the three were for PHP, followed by Python taking a little more than half of the remainder and Ruby taking the rest. (So loosely, out of 20 it would be about: 12:5:3). However that was on the common job sites that do not focus on tech and I suspect there may be more need for Python and Ruby is the hidden market than I am seeing.

Just for reference here are some example of who uses Ruby and RoR:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/success-stories/

http://rubyonrails.org/applications
> The exploit only affected users of Internet Explorer, including the most recent versions. Other browsers, including Firefox, were not affected.

Shocker!
Having hacked a decent amount of Clojure, I've learned that Clojure can be very fast or very slow depending on which features of the language one chooses to take advantage of. A perusal of the Clojure Google group will illustrate many examples where a few small changes to a program give an order of magnitude performance boost (or penalty for that matter). This makes it somewhat difficult to write performant code in Clojure (for me at least) as a lot of experimentation is required. Additionally, a given program has to run for at least a little while before hotspot JVM optimizations kick in which make a huge difference.
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The only people who don't want cameras in their house are those with something hide.
Okay, well, as revealed in another post here on HN, the BBC has revealed that the Startup Britain website links you to a fake site stuffed with malware.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12904585

"According to Paul Baccas, a senior threat researcher at Sophos, the link featured in an article about US investor Warren Buffet and took users to a fake banking site.

""It went to a third-party site, bankling.com, where users were redirected to a fake anti-virus page given a prompt saying their computer was infected and encouraging them to download a fix," he said.

"In reality, the fix contained malware.

"The exploit only affected users of Internet Explorer, including the most recent versions. Other browsers, including Firefox, were not affected.

"The slip will be embarrassing for the government, especially as Prime Minister David Cameron had helped launch the site and the Number 10 website linked prominently to it."

A small step forward, sure ... but I don't like the direction that step has taken us so far.

HN discussion link:- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387009
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We are calorimeters. 300 calories of raw carrots is by definition the amount of carrots we would have to eat in order to extract 300 calories of energy from them.

(but Taubes is right about the fallacy of the calorie
counting-obesity connection).
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I would think that two things changed:

- There's potentially a lot more boilerplate warning of dire consequences on media nowadays
- The attitude of an industry that completely missed the boat and tries to squeeze out every last cent.

While you may argue that: "Why not, it's their product" and this is certainly true the consequences on culture are bad to dire.

Sampling and re-mixing comes to mind, or, for example trying to cash in on the ringtone of a phone in a movie, which makes it extremely hard to ensure that all rights are secured. Or in the case of a student or a hobbyist making a movie (and, for example, uploading it to Youtube) makes it outright impossible to actually produce something without falling foul of the law.

I am not condoning theft of music ,movies or software, but the copyright laws have shifted into a direction, which are outright unhealthy for a society.
Tell HN: The submitter is not always the author ...
I'm seeing a trend, and I just wanted to highlight something.

The person who submits an item is not always the author of that item.

More and more I'm seeing comments addressed to the submitter, but actually clearly intended for the author. For example:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387150

Here I get the distinct feeling that the comment is really intended for the author, but it also seems to be addressed to me.

This is only one instance of what feels like many, so it's not really a criticism, but it does feel like the commenter just hasn't paid attention.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Or am I just wrong?
Hah, I had expected this to be an announcement on discontinuing Buzz, but apparently they have a multi-year plan ready.
And yet, I can't find a way to delete my Buzz account without removing my Google account.