skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I adore Python and the general ethos of the community. I can be a bit of a sideliner and I usually don't have a lot of spare time - when I do I fritter it away playing with code and general programmer style procrastination. On a number of occasions I've thought it would be nice to contribute to Python in some way. I just didn't know how, if I could, or what the barrier for entry was.

This is one of the most encouraging things I've read in regards to getting my finger out and starting to give something back. You've sparked my interest and I will definitely be looking at this and seeing how I can contribute and get involved.
A quote from Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that may speak to your frustration(?).

"The result is rather typical of modern technology, an overall dullness of appearance so depressing that it must be overlaid with a veneer of "style" to make it acceptable. And that, to anyone who is sensitive to romantic Quality, just makes it all the worse. Now it's not just depressingly dull, it's also phony. Put the two together and you get a pretty accurate basic description of modern American technology: stylized cars and stylized outboard motors and stylized typewriters and stylized clothes. Stylized refrigerators filled with stylized food in stylized kitchens in stylized homes. Plastic stylized toys for stylized children, who at Christmas and birthdays are in style with their stylish parents. You have to be awfully stylish yourself not to get sick of it once in a while. It's the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit by people who, though stylish, don't know where to start because no one has ever told them there's such a thing as Quality in this world and it's real, not style. Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start."
Wow, that was a really uptight article.

When you make it easier to take photos, you'll get more shitty photos. There's nothing to be nostalgic about. I could flip his complaint on its head--old timey photos, due to the scarcity of film, were way too posed. Easy photo-taking allows me to take tons of photos, lots of them candid , unposed, and hence more authentic, and then cherry-pick the best ones.

If I have a good memory of an event, I will have it regardless of whether I took the damn photo or not. Doesn't matter if it was shared with Instagram or developed in a dark room.
The Death of a Terrorist: A Turning Point? (NY Times)
You're right, it probably adds up to less. A utility company's meter likely doesn't demand the low latency that an iPhone user does. So, it's probably not even worth $80.
I am sure the power company is far happier paying $22 per GB than $20 per month per meter.
This was bound to be Apple. They have stuck doggedly to the hardware+software model. Although difficult to begin with, it's this model that has ultimately turned them into Microsoft's butt-kickers. They're continuing to innovate and they now have a mass audience of consumers invested in their ecosystem... enough to drive continued sales of their integrated personal computing environments (iMacs, Mac minis, Macbooks) simply because it all works well together and fits logically (and it's actually good stuff).

Microsoft and Google (and others) aren't failing at this by any means, they simply aren't succeeding as well as Apple are. Perhaps this is because Apple have focused on user/developer experience rather than hardware/software features?
I disagree with your (hyperbolic?) overrun predictions, but won't international backhaul remain a problem? Then again, a more connected country might make putting proper CDN points of presence more attractive.
"but there are precious few EXAMPLES"

Have you seen http://clojuredocs.org/ - plenty of examples. Also check out http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Examples/Co...
Code for Other People
I think it is one thing for AT&T to not want to allow these apps but when Google blocks them based that I am on one network vs another is a problem.

In my case I have a N1 so not an issue as of now, but in the future rooting is the way to go...unless it is eliminated from the ASOP code.
I get it. Unless your life is on the line, fear is a very bad way to make a decision.

I would say more "exasperation and confusion". But your point is extremely well taken.
Ask HN: Should I scrap my MVP?
I've just released my MVP at gosharepad.com - contact centered email for Gmail + Google Apps (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511363)

It's been 3 hours now and I've only receieved 3 upvotes. I find it ironic that the community I've contributed to over the last 2 years (having given feedback to countless Ask HN articles) that I've only received 1 comment on my own Ask HN post that wasn't my own.

Just makes me wonder if I've done something terribly wrong here or just something so uninteresting that nobody cares - even worse IMHO.

At least technically I feel like it's an accomplishment. We essentially built a web-based mail client centered around your contacts using Membase and Flask which should scale nicely.. big deal if you can't get users though right?

And I feel like I did enough market research to determine that there was a gaping hole in the current contact management setup that Google has.

So again I ask. Should I go back to the drawing board? I just don't want to keep putting resources into an idea that is flawed in the first place.

I would really love some honest feedback on this - negative or otherwise.
I don't think the author is aware that you can post a photo without a filter.
I lived in Manhattan, one block away from central park. My only reasonable internet option was Roadrunner 10 Mbit. No FiOS. I seriously doubt that gigabit claim.
Inevitability of what? As time has passed, I think it's become less likely that we'll see any significant improvement in bandwidth availability in the US rather than more likely. ISPs are trying there hardest to implement data caps. Rollouts of fiber to the home seem to be slowing down rather than increasing.

I live in Portland, ME. Not exactly a huge city, but it has a decent population and isn't really that far from Boston. Yet I see no indication that the city will receive any sort of fiber to the home in the next decade. And if it's that bad here, I can only imagine how bad a shape more rural areas of the country can get.
While there is usually someone active on IRC, the best way to receive a quick response 24/7 is to put in a support ticket.
Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul
Neat, wish I had seen this sooner.
I think this is a good idea because it is both simple and useful. There are lots of possibilities and I like that you already have the option for private or public flashcards.

Here's the thing: you HAVE to update the design. This is very 1990s geocities and honestly plain white space with black text would be better. The logo truly hurts my eyes. And the text that randomly shakes... just no, please. Sorry if I sound harsh but I'm dead serious - I could not in good conscious send people there even if that's what they needed (at least without a disclaimer, or not even then)
I also think it unseemly; especially when the enemy is one of circumstance and in a better world...

But this guy? He killed men, women and children to make a political point. He sacrificed his own, to make his point. He sat back in his mansion, rich and pampered, paying to have people killed.

I admit to a little glorying, to an unseemly degree. Just this once.
Student discounts generally require that it be for personal use.

Edit: Added after the jrockway and tylerhowath replied, but didn't want to reply to both:

From the Apple Sales and Refund Policy… Purchases from the Apple Store for Education Individuals are not for institutional purchase or resale.

I presume the same applies to the in store discount. Apple has enough lawyers to cross that "t".
BTW, for those who do not feel up to hacking code for patches, please consider adding documentation. It's bastard child of OSS, the task often no one, even the code creator, wants to do.
Wait, i'm confused (i'm living in Europe): US carriers don't require you to sign another two year contract when you buy their new subsidized phone?
Tell me about it. My conversation was:

"Hello, could you tell me how much overage costs per MB?"

"The rates are very low, 0.10 eurocents."

"0.10 eurocents? Are you sure it's not 0.10 euros?"

"No, it's 0.10 eurocents."

"So 10 MB is one cent?"

"No, one euro."

"So it is 0.10 euro."

"No, 0.10 cents. Let's say 0.1 cents, for convenience."

"Okay, if it's 0.1 cents per MB, so 10 MB is 1 cent."

"No, 1 euro."

"But how can this be? 1 cent is already 0.01 euro, so 0.1 cents is 0.001 euro."

"Look, the rate is 0.10 eurocents. If you can't understand this, 10 MB is 1 euro."

"Okay, thanks. click"
This is a bit easier to appreciate in Readability: https://www.readability.com/articles/s62affyi
Errr, giving up after 3 hours seems a little early. If you really believe in your product it will probably take years to build it up.
I like USAA.

It's ostensibly a bank for those employed by the US armed forces (or related to someone in the service), but any American can freely open checking and savings accounts. If you qualify for a credit card and insurance, you can cash checks by taking a picture with your cellphone.

Amazing online interface (I design interfaces professionally, and theirs is one of the best I've used), iPhone/Android apps, online bill pay, no minimum balance required, free overdraft protection, and a refreshing lack of random fees like those I've encountered at Chase.

The only local USAA branch is in Texas, but they reimburse ATM fees (up to $15 a month, I think). I've been traveling around the world for an entire year and have had no problems. Customer service is fantastic.
Why do I need to install WhisperCore to use WhisperMonitor? Can I turn off this disk encryption stuff to try out the firewall by itself?
You're correct in highlighting backhaul; when talking to other Australians I point out that it would be useless to have fibre running into every home if we're still squeezing everything down 3 (soon 4) very expensive pipes.

Out of the 50 odd billion that's been budgeted for the project it might have been nice to splurge a few billion for an additional 2 or 3 pipes -- say one to Singapore, one to Guam and another on the trans-Tasman route to California.

The paucity of competition in backhaul makes traffic so expensive in Australia that I actually host all my sites in the US -- including several of Australia's most influential blogs. Dollar for dollar I can get the same RAM, CPU and disk space in Australia, but I will get only about a tenth of the traffic quota with punitive overages.
I grew up in Portland. Moved to Seattle after Portland. Finally to San Francisco after Seattle.

I will say the article is full of bullshit. Yes, cost of living is drastically lower and the quality of life and the surrounding is not bad at all in any way. But a Silicon Valley / SF? It is not.

If you're like me and you've lived in all 3 areas and grew up spending a huge chunk of your life in each of the 3, you'll quickly realize it's not even close in terms of the culture and resources the bay offers. I can understand the sentiment if you have a family (spouse and kids) and want to find affordable housing and all but lets not kid ourselves, that's not the same as arguing a tech centric hub worthy of comparison to the valley.
Netflix, of course, needs this (or some fraction of it) to be true. Meanwhile, all the current (lazy, inept, consumer-hostile, mediocre) bandwidth providers are going to try to fuck them out of the game.

So a big part of me wonders what Netflix is working on behind the scenes to secure their future from a bandwidth perspective. This is a company that has always been so proactive – I have a hard time believing they're twiddling their thumbs and hoping that AT&T, Comcast and other telecom companies will be menschy guys.

What could they do? I know very little about large scale networking. Is there some supply-side critical path that a company like Comcast needs that Netflix could buy for leverage? On the consumer end, is it reasonable to imagine them reselling bandwidth to end-users under terms that favor their business, thus spurring competition?

Everyone who controls the consumer side of bandwidth seems to be an asshole of one flavor or another – perhaps Netflix's needs could align with consumers in such a way as to change that.
People find it fun to take and share stylized photos with friends. Someone thinks that form of expression and socializing is fundamentally flawed. Pretentious blog post ensues. Nothing gained.

Get off my lawn.
For the file issues you can just:

1) Swap in your old hard drive into the new machine

2) Copy hard drive over (dd even) and format
How many .NET programmers work on Airbus A350 flight software?!
Thanks Andrew. I agree. However if I can't even garnish more than a few votes from this community I really do want to go back to the drawing board and figure if I did something really wrong or I just need to redesign my landing page - feedback I was hoping for when posting it here in the first place.
You're comparing platforms and applications as if they were the same thing.

OpenOffice is a single application. No one is going to have any trouble using that code base.

The correct comparison is to Java. Oracle is currently suing Google over Sun's patents on Java. And people are fleeing Java in droves. And the language around Mono's licensing of patents is pretty transparently designed to give Microsoft the option of suing people building on Mono.
My name means Immortal in Sanskrit. :)

If no one ever died, the world would overpopulate even faster. Death makes life possible. Death clears the old to make way for the new. In Hinduism and Buddhism, accepting death is a part of the path to enlightenment. Personally, I believe the body can die, but consciousness cannot...so we are already immortal, we just have to re-member it.
It seems that the sentence is so harsh because she pleaded guilty to fraud (which is treated as a far more serious crime than theft).
This is an interesting experience you had and is quite applicable regardless of the money.

Despite the level of income from each job, the OP's approach is very solid. Have an excellent reputation, work closely with your client and build a solid portfolio.

That said, I can't speak for any of the marketplaces for coders because I don't code for money (marketing is my trade) but the essence is the same.
Maybe highway robbery, but pretty standard in Australia - mobile phones are expensive here. As someone pointed out in another comment, Telstra's standard price for off plan data is $2/Mb (for a consumer mobile, not a b2b contract which is presumably what the power company had). For 90Gb of data that works out at $180,000, so pretty consistent with the reported cost.
In a science experiment, your initial experimental design may yield uninterpretable results. So, prior to investing large amounts of grad student hours and resources into a particular experimental design (common rookie inclination), you do a pilot study. Just collect 5-7 data points.

Just run it and see what happens. Since you only spent a relatively small amount of time/resources on the pilot study, it's not a terrible waste if you get null/negative/inconclusive/uninterpretable results, and you could get a quick turnaround on the next iteration. If you're lucky, you might get to estimate the number of data points you need to collect based on the variability in the sample. It might tell you that this setup doesn't have a good signal to noise ratio. You may need to go back and change your design.

Or you might find something completely unexpected, and find yourself asking a different question altogether, that you need to change your overall direction. Your project proposal might have an elaborate tree of potential experiments that depend on the outcomes of each one before. And you find something so different you need to redesign everything, armed with this new information. That's a good thing. Trust me.

Entrepreneurship is like science in that experiment is the sole judge of truth.
Excerpted without comment:

It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation,"

Now I need to go and dig up my 15c
First I want to be clear that I'm no longer a Rackspace employee and while I can certainly comment on things I know of first hand in the past (i.e. the acquisition), I do not have direct knowledge of Rackspace's roadmap or plans. Consider me a very knowledgeable outsider that used to be an insider.

I wouldn't want conduct a point for point comparison of the cloud server offering to Linode. I also don't want to discourage you from trying out Linode. It's clear those guys have a solid product and a great following and if you think you fit better over there, give it a try. Rackspace wants to have the most engaged and happy customer base it possibly can, it is totally counter productive to try and 'convince' you to stay if you really are better off elsewhere. There are a handful of providers I truly would trust to use myself, and I would absolutely put Linode on that list.

Having said that, here are some things I think Rackspace can offer that Linode currently does not. I could very well be wrong about any of these, I'm not intimate with Linode's current service. In addition you may not be interested in any of these features.

- Cloud Files
- Cloud LB
- Hosted mail options
- Hosted calendar
- CDN
- Windows Cloud Server instances
- Backup/image integration with Cloud Files (vps backups go into your cloud files account and can be downloaded as well as persisted when an instance is deleted)
- Managed Services
- Desktop backup and virtual drives to the cloud (jungle disk)
- Platform/application hosting
- All of the above on a single bill from a single provider and with private networking in between for free (for colocated services in the same DC)

As a slicehost customer you couldn't use any of those products, as a cloud customer you can. In addition you will have access to all of the new cloud products in development at Rackspace (whatever those may be, but use your imagination and I'm sure you can guess on likely candidates) as well as all the datacenter locations where Rackspace has active and growing footprints. To put it simply, you'll be switching into an active and growing product suite and I do believe that benefits you.

I personally would not consider it 'shutting down' Slicehost, but instead a merging of Slicehost into Cloud. It is true that the backend mechanics of the two products are essentially the same, and that's why you should not overly fear losing core functionality.

I don't think your comment comes across as rude at all and I completely understand your sentiment. All I can say (I and I think I'm repetitive to do so here again), is that I think Rackspace is doing the right thing here. From my perspective I'm breathing a sigh of relief because at least I know that all the still existing customers will finally start getting some TLC (via being on the actively developed product again).

I'm certain Rackspace wants the transition to be as painless as it can be and I'd expect quite a bit more detail to come out over the course of the year as this unfolds.
I remember reading about this some time back and being amazed. I forgot about it in the meantime. Now I see it and I am like wait that is "just" genetic programming. A month or so ago I spent about a day playing with genetic programming with F# so I decided to test it against Gelman's broken dataset in link1 with same restriction - dont use pow or sqrt. Now what I have is not as impressive or polished as theirs but for the time I spent on it (not very much) I am happy with its result.

After 5 mins it got stuck at MSE 0.1 with: x2x2/(x1 + x2) + (x - sin(2300)). To test it properly I've built another 40 points with the correct equation data and am going to leave it over night since I'm too tired to wait its full cycle which will be more than an hour.

currently (17mins in) its at MSE 0.07 with (x2 + 0.7325/x2) - 0.6839 + x (x/(x+x2)) another equivalent interesting expression it arrived at was: ((x2 + 0.7325/x2) - cos(cos(sin(x2))) + x * (x/(x+x2)). I told it to stop at 0.025, now I think it will hit it and I set the bar too low. mayb
Even if he is being payed, it is very admirable to put his talent on this.
Give SOAP a REST
That is exactly what they did do in this case. Read the preceding comment carefully and you'll see that you've inadvertently shifted the goal posts; that comment suggests Telstra should be sending a warning to the person who stole the SIM card.
The "pure" photograph is a myth. Every single aspect of taking a photograph imposes the same kind of artificiality that the author claims Instagram filters impose. From the most basic technical considerations: the aperture and shutter speed, to the most practical: what you are pointing the camera at. Even seemingly innocent choices like the kind of camera and lens you use are guilty of this.

With every one of these choices, the photographer creates a distance from the "real" world. A filter is no different. It is merely another tool available to a photographer to achieve his goals.
Why haven`t I been ever asked such questions!! Gonna start applying to SF and NY companies from now on
Mere mortals like myself cannot access that paper. Its behind a paywall. could not find on google either
Require as in "we hope you do what we ask" or require as in "you've signed a legal document"?

Considering I was a big Apple fanboi when I was in college and I've never signed a legal document in an Apple store, my guess is that it's the first one.
They want to charge you for the drop, the space in their RIB to store the drop, the maintenance effort required to keep the RIB entry configured correctly, and the ongoing support costs of people who do things with their Linode boxes that require more than one IPv6 address.
This is a terrifyingly accurate assessment.

You've drilled into the focus of the article:

1. I'm too lazy to overcome the inertia of not knowing what to do next

2. I'm too scared of rejection or looking dumb

The resulting question is: is there an onus on the community to provide additional tools to help the lazy/scared people like me push through these barriers?

My opinion is "yes, within limits", but I would also understand if someone said "no".
The problem may not be your product but the use of video. I can't quickly skim video. Needless to say I still don't even know what your product is as a result.
RPN saved my butt in chemistry class.

I was taking the final, and the professor lent me his calculator. It was an HP RPN, and he said he didn't know how to use it. I figured it out quickly enough -- as a computer guy I know how stacks work -- and went to town banging out calculations on that thing in record speed.

Since speed is an essential part of test-taking, and I was notoriously slow at doing calculations, I was at real risk of flunking the exam and the course. As it is I saved my bacon. Thank you, HP! Thank you, RPN!
Polygon triangulation algorithms
JQuery.map() in 1.6
Approximate Convex Decomposition
Idk
it could be another language maybe but this guy has been using this cypher since hes been a kid. maybe he got the idea of the cypher from a book he read, like the lost symbol by dan brown has masonic cyphers. i dont know this is very strange it could also be an anagram or numeral cypher
Thanks for the feedback. Looks like the theme I'm getting here is that my landing page and message need a lot of work.