skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a few months since I messed with it so it might not be as bad now, but the main problem for me was that Clojure on Android is slooowwww. This is mainly in terms of startup. You have to include the Clojure runtime with any programs you write with it and this is a substantial overhead on Android. Your binaries will be larger as a result as well. This is because, Clojure as a Lisp, expects the entire language to present all the time. This usually is the killer feature (it's a large part of what makes macros and the dynamic coding associated with Lisp possible) but it's a pain when you have limited resources.

The other issue I ran into was that there were issues in getting Clojure to interact with Android properly. Android requires that you compile your code into classes which means you will have to use :genclass in Clojure and implement a lot of interfaces. This in itself isn't that much of a problem (it will make you code less Lispy but oh well) but when I tried it there were bugs in Clojure which made it impossible for me to do some things on Android that I would have liked. That part of the language runtime is a little immature in my experience.

I wouldn't give up based on my words though. It may have improved since I last tried. If you want to look someplace for info on how to get started, I found that this fellow has a lot to offer: http://www.deepbluelambda.org/programming/clojure/creating-a...
Internet Providers to Help Thwart Online Piracy
Apple chose a name with that ambiguity when they gave it the generic-sounding 'App Store' instead of a more brandable alternative. (Quick test on the name: What is the App Store? It's a store for apps.) The quote of Steve Jobs himself using "app stores" in a generic manner really highlighted this point and effective killed Apple's chance of success in this case.
Oddly I have a irrational reaction to him using the abbreviation ©AA as being like M$. I know it's not, but mixing symbols and letters just feels wrong.
Dang, ok, I'll be the dissenter. I like Godaddy.

Despite their slimy personna, their one saving grace is that when I am setting anything up that requires a DNS configuration (example: Heroku-hosted site), there is ALWAYS a Godaddy-specific tutorial available to help me get through it. For that reason alone, I bailed on Namecheap (et. al) and embraced Godaddy as a registrar.

Now, because the brand is so horribly raunchy, I rarely mention this to anyone... as it embarasses me personally.
I used to sell computers at Best Buy in an area that was predominantly elderly, and let me say it is quite a difficult procedure to walk someone through using a computer. Every day someone would come in that said they wanted a computer but had never used one before. I would spend hours showing people how to do things, writing up lists on how each task is performed, etc. It can be very challenging.

I found the best way to help these people is just to put them in front of a computer and walk them through the basics. Also metaphors are huge. It is always easier to understand something when you can relate to it. For example: My documents is like your filing cabinet. Everything is organized into folders so you can find where it is.

The most interesting thing was when the ipad came out. We were seeing people who barely knew what the internet was trying to buy and use one of these things. Try explaining 3G to someone who doesn't have a cell phone. Almost impossible. I remember one man who was so frustrated that he couldn't set up email that he announced that he would give $20 to the person who would do it for him.
So they're trying to equate communism with cheating?
It's not an either / or deal.

Automation is good for rote tasks. People are good at improvising.

During the mission to correct Hubble's lens problem, the supplied tools and procedure failed. The mission specialist utilized scissors and a plastic cover from a log book to correct the problem.

Without that improvisation, the mission to fix Hubble's lens would have been a loss.

What we gain from having people in space depends on what you want to _do_ in space.

If it's all just drones mapping planets and space telescopes then investing in automation makes sense.

If it's manufacturing, settlement, getting some of our eggs out of this basket, then we need people out there, learning how to live off-planet.

The expense in either case, might possibly be the same.

Automation isn't cheap, missions that have to be redone because the automation fails are costly.
I tend to agree with this and don't buy the idea that college is necessary to give you a broad overview of a discipline.
Sure, if you learn only one method of doing something, you are not exposing yourself to other ways. But whats to stop you from finding out about these other ways.
This information is easier then ever to find. Surely the time for hand-me down curation (academia style) is approaching its end.
Hi all, thanks for the comments (writing from a train using a kindle so forgive lack of links)

google "better explained math intuition" which is an article on developing the four common definitons of e. the problem with saying "e is the function which is its own derivative" is the same as saying "a circle is the set of points where x squared plus y squared equals radius squared". i asks too much of a beginner and imo is best shown after they have an idea of the basics.

ie, here is a round shape. we call it a circle. look at this neat property where every point is the same from the middle! lets write an equation for that...

with e. what is growth? it is like interest on your bank account. why do we wait till the end of the year? month? second? intant? how can we write this as an equation? (in algebra, in calculus)

the other reason to avoid calculus definitions is that 2% of students will bother asking for clarification/more details but most high schoolers can at least follow the algebra of compounded interest.i still don't get limits/infinitesimals to the level i like despite writing about them.

anyway thanks for the comments, i love seeing what explanations work for people!
Ask HN: Is there an "AirBnB for Conference Rooms / Event Facilities"?
Sorry if this has already been asked or if this is a foolish question,but I'm in the need for conference room space for a multi-day training, and rather than do the traditional look for hotel or university space, there must be companies out there with conference facilities that they would be willing to part with for one or multiple consecutive days.

I remember the AirBnB folks saying that they were going to launch or have launched some event / venue system on their platform, but it doesn't look like that's up yet, or if it is, it's buried or not applicable to the particular city I'm looking for (Amsterdam).

Is there a service like this? Any suggestions for finding low-cost venues for things like all-day, multiple-day training sessions in cities like Amsterdam?

Thanks!
I had been using a number of companies in the past, most recently 1&1 which I HIGHLY recommend AGAINST. I ended up dishing out the $90 or whatever reseller fee to tucows and I am now my own opensrs registrar at http://urgo.shopco.com . I don't really actively try sell domains, it just gives me the power to make sure things work. Been doing this for about a year now and quite happy with it.
Show HN: Hacker News Modified chrome extension
World's first HTML5 Games conference
Agile Businesses Don’t Predict, They Respond [video]
Last week, I changed my default search in Chrome to DuckDuckGo. Today when I do a search for VLC Media Player I get the "VLC media player" Wikipedia article in the red box at top, and http://www.videolan.org/vlc as the top search result, with a nice little "Official site" label beside it.

I'm increasingly delighted by DuckDuckGo.
I'm from Canada and have used Turntable.fm without tunneling.
It's not so much a success of central planning at all. The minitel succeeded not because it was beautifully planned; it succeeded because massive gov't investment put one in every home. It allowed the network effect to apply immediately.

Otherwise service providers could not have invested because there would have been no users; and there would have been no users because there would have been no services.

Note that the investment was recovered over time; but it would never have originated from private enterprise.

Today the same kind of thing could be happening with electric cars. People won't buy them until there's plugs everywhere, and plugs won't be put everywhere until most people have electric cars. Massive gov't investment could short circuit this problem in a pinch, and end foreign oil dependency.

There's no money in it for Goldmann Sachs or Halliburton, so forget about it, though.
THey are, but remains up to question if they are paying per stream properly. I'm sure they talked to Medianet and hence its now US only.

Medianet, ironically, was a label lead initiative :)
If no copyright exists, then you can do all of the above. If no trademark exists, only the trademark one would be ok. If no patents exists, no change.

Ethically, I would say that the biggest issue is to claim money for a work you haven't done.
Experimenting with window managers using Xephyr
Ah... That 5-10 second load time is a deal-breaker. Thanks for the info!
Cryptography is fun, that's why people like to talk about it here, and why so many inexperienced developers try to roll their own (#19). Making sure you sanitized every input, authenticated every action, and capped every buffer, is slow, tedious work (although a good architecture and automated tests can help a lot here).
Facebook wants to be the Portal for you :).
EBay Buys Mobile-Payments Firm Zong for $240 Million
Consider:"Bing google engine, for all your googling needs. If you ever need to google something, use Bing!"
GPL enforcement depends on copyright law. So, all GPL enforcement goes out the window without copyright law.

I think everyone is already assuming that the above practices are morally and ethically bad. The problem is how to prevent them from happening, which most likely involves using the law.
This takes a huge amount of time to do, especially when people behind VLC are doing it as a volunteer work...
Realtime image processing in Python
Usually when attempting to take a backup or download multiple pages from a site I add pauses between requests in an attempt to limit the burden I place on the servers I'm fetching from. I'm sure twitpic will have no trouble handling this rate of requests but I would council against pursuing speed with too much zeal.
And it's really hard to look at the Shuttle program and say yes.

How effective/efficient would a tax-payer supported version of Xerox PARC or the Golden Age Bell Labs be?

Something more pleasant than DARPA, for example.
Now that Facebook actually has something to worry about slightly, it's kind of cool watching Facebook and Google both scramble to win over the users with these awesome A+ features one after another.
Washington Post Job Board Hacked: 1.27 Million Job Seekers Exposed
I know what you mean its just not really the same thing here.. if every store had their own 'app store' then whats the point of an app store anyway? Again as someone who has lived through a world before app stores, as long as the app store is fair its really the way to go.
Why I Hate Ayn Rand
IPAD IN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
People generally say "time cures these problems" but I'm starting to wonder. Things change so rapidly, someone who is 60 now and is learning to use a mouse and keyboard might be utterly lost in 20-30 years with whatever advances have been made.

When I'm 60 in ~30 years maybe I'll be clinging to ancient things like notebooks and tablets because I know how to use them, and kids will point and laugh while they use the modern stuff.
How you communicate with others is more important than the message you communicate. Adept communication can create better social contracts even when the message does not have direct utility. Trust is a transaction of authority resulting foremost from the emotional control of participants in a conversation.

This has changed how I talk to people. I am an analytical person but consider it of utmost importance that my advice is given as diplomatically as possible. This means paying careful attention to the face, body language, and tone of voice of the main participants in a conversation. Any perceived discomfort signifies that a message should be recontextualised or communicated better retroactively.
Some of the LED bulb makers have taken deceptive packaging to an extreme. At Home Depot the LED chandelier bulb I was looking at said "Compare to 20 watt incandescent bulb!". So I did. It puts out 1/4 the light. I'm glad they tipped me off that it was useless except as a marker bulb, but "Comparable to a dim incandescent nightlight bulb!" would have been more honest.
Well its founder did leave Microsoft specifically to found a company that does nothing but patent trolling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures). Given the number of actual products that have come out of Microsoft Research (One the last time I counted) I'd say patenting things is its primary goal at this point
they are choosing VCs based on who can secure them top engineering talent for critical positions

I hear all this talk about top engineering talent. What is the difference between these guys and the rest of the engineers in the valley? Most startups do not do anything specially intelligent so what difference does it make?

Note:I am not being sarcastic. I am just curious.
If you're considering Java for an OpenGL-based game, I'd recommend looking at LibGDX - you can target the desktop and Android all at the same time. Even if you're only targeting Android, LibGDX speeds up the dev cycle quite a bit, since you don't need to load to the phone as often.
JVM Serializers (Benchmarks)
I just registered a domain with name.com
After years of godaddy it was really refreshing to try a registrar that didn't try to upsell you 100 different things during the check out process.
I use, and love, Joker, but they don't offer any sort of anonymous whois data which is a gap.
Example: the Save button looks like a floppy. WTF?

A bit of an off-topic: the real WTF for me is that there is such a thing as a save button. I cannot fathom that most software requires us to perform an ancient ritual lest they throw away our hard work.
When we did need it, we -needed- it. Hubble for example.
Is Google being Monopolistic?
Another thing that I'm sure weighed in positively (at least subconciously) was seeing others do the same. On a singular device, the experience is very individual, could be experimental, and feels like shopping in a box: a tiny flat one, at that. Out in the public alongside others breeds a sense of community approval and helps reinforce the legitimacy of the method, especially as it is somewhat close to the original grocery shopping experience.
Add a Facebook Stream to Google+
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737411
The rise and fall of Internet super giants
Yeah, I realised after I posted that a combination of two generic words can be a unique name. My bad. But any combination of two generic words doesn't automatically make it a unique name, which I guess is why this got to court.
It seems that you can easily change your Google Account's e-mail to a gmail account but you can not change the Google Account's e-mail to another e-mail account or to another gmail if the Google Account's e-mail is a gmail.
Yep, I agree on the +1 part. Sometimes I hesitate to like things with FB because I know I'll be spamming my entire friend list. Liking is not the same as sharing.
Also, here is a list of hacker news folks on G+. You can add the emails into Google Contacts and we'll all appear in find and invite or you can dd people one by one.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQACCsE19tzBjRrfgmAcU25m...
I'm in the same boat as you.

Websites usually have tutorials specifically tailored for GoDaddy.

Also, whenever I call their customer support, they've always been friendly and helpful.

Man, my karma is already negative. It's gonna plummet now...

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This is not a good argument. To me, protecting a name like "App Store" would be as silly as protecting the word "Computer" before commonplace in society. Can you imagine the ads for such a company? "Don't be fooled by those other microcomputer systems! We're the real Computer^tm^!"

And yes, there are examples of this today already, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
This is really neat information, but the first three graphs are messy. It would be more interesting to me to see only the high performers/growers with clearer labels.
Makes sense. After all, Amazon do promote it as the "Amazon App Store", not "App Store". Makes sense for their brand and for legal purposes.
How would one's mom buy an app from Amazon's android store without doing it through an Android Phone?
Yeah - hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is less enjoyable and more frustratingly tantalizingly almost extremely interesting.
Ok, I see that this page exists: http://www.airbnb.com/events

But, when clicking on a city-specific link, for example:
http://www.airbnb.com/events/amsterdam, you get bedrooms, not conference rooms. Maybe they don't mean event space, but rather places to stay while attending events? Anyways, still in search for what I am looking for above.
Even though this comment is getting down voted, it told me that there is a TL;DR at the bottom. Therefore now I shall click the link and read the original article.
What are some examples of messy Python projects from Google?
...hurts the "one place to find all" mentality for consumers.

This is a good thing.

Consumers should not be in the habit of trusting a single self-interested commercial vendor to look out for their best interests.

Instead, people should get accustomed to being skeptical of vendor claims and cautious about what they install in their computers.
"So Android, like every large software product on the planet, infringes numerous Microsoft patents." while that might be true you can't tell until there is a lawsuit. Right now Microsoft is claiming this but no one wants to bet the other way.
A more technical explanation of the "formula"s can be found here: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?curr...
FaceOSC: a tool for prototyping face-based interaction
I'm from the US and don't know what it is because it uses Facebook login. Oh well.
Dear Scalasphere, why aren't we talking more about STM?
In the U.K. at least you are required to have experienced driver in the car every time you drive until you pass your test, this in effect is a lesson because they are required to pay attention and point out your mistakes.

If every new computer user was required to spend every minute they used a computer with a experienced person until they took a test, then I would agree that computers do not need to be easier to use.
I don't care about a slimy persona or raunchy brands. Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load?

Not to mention how everything is plastered with upsells that are worthless to me. GoDaddy goes out of its way to make what you're trying to do harder. This is why I don't like GoDaddy.

Edit: I use Dreamhost for my domains. It may be a mediocre shared hosting solution but the domain registering and managing experience is fast, clean, market-priced, and they provide free whois anonymizing.
After Nortel's patent auction earlier this week, I expect Apple to get in on that game to.
US ISPs to Disrupt Internet Access of Copyright Scofflaws
Why and How Goggle+’s Interface Is Kicking Ass
yes, i need to clarify. basically, if you have a button which lets your earned interest start working for you (or your bacteria maturing and beginning to divide on their own) then e is the idea of holding down the button. new money starts earning money the instant it is made (banks do not do this and add in your earned interest, ie push the button, daily or monthly).

the speed limit is on how long you wait to add in your growth (e is the minimum possible), not the absolute rate itself. i should add this to the article.
I'm a little confused. Even Ikea sells rather good (albeit slightly expensive) LED lighting, and I'm using some in my house right now. Heck, they're the primary lighting in our kitchen.

Maybe the Bulb Form Factor is still a work in progress, but in terms of actually lighting places up, I suspect a lot of people are already using LEDs. So why is this a revolution?
Bourbon: Thoughtbot's vanilla Sass mixin framework (SCSS)
Yes, you're right. "You can't control what you can't measure" sounds more true. I guess there is an implicit "only" in my version.
Those youtube videos of a 2 year old using an iPad also..

My 2-yr old has gleefully wiped my PIN-locked iPhone several times, as it was synced to corporate Exchange (Here Daddy! sigh Thank you, dear).
Bungie's Classic Mac FPS 'Marathon' Launches for Free in the App Store
I set up some domains using Google Apps (which uses GoDaddy as a back end) but after realizing I didn't want them as my provider, I tried transferring to GoDaddy. I couldn't get it to work for the life of me even though I paid the GoDaddy transfer fee. I eventually let the domains expire.
You would think they would use another filename that wouldn't reveal Facebook Vibes.
Strange that this was posted on July 4th and is now just getting promoted / submitted.
So I've used Godaddy for years but have recently moved on to using namecheap. I've not felt the need however to move older domains over to namecheap godaddy is pretty painless now that its set up. The name host thing has become old hat so thats not a big win for me.

My biggest issue with GoDaddy has been their effing upsell process when you try to buy or renew a domain. I find it slimy how they try to stick you with all these damn add ons when you just want to purchase or renew a domain you have to go through about 3 screens of upsells with huge "Buy Me / Next" buttons and one tiny "no thanks" link at the bottom of a massive page. I would never recommend anyone to use GoDaddy because of this because there's a pretty large chance of them getting stuck with some stupid add-on they didn't need.

I'll keep my existing domains there because my understanding is that transferring is a bitch but they're not getting any new domain registrations from me.
What happened in March that made companies get spendy?
Even with the pause my phone doesn't recognize it. It might not have been too fast before, afterall.
Do I need a special QR reader to read them?
If there's an NDA, how are people talking about it?

Seems fishy to me.
I was surprised he didn't mention two-way contacts integration. I met a new person yesterday on G+ first, then in person; later that day he emailed me a doc and I was surprised to find that his name/email had not been added to my contact list from circles. This is something the facebook messages/chat integration gets right, and Google needs to figure out how to answer it sooner rather than later.
What should they know of PHP who only PHP know?
Exactly why we created http://nametoolkit.com, I've used Gandi and they're not bad, but even their interface is a bit clunky, makes you click twice (to commit the DNS change you've just submitted).
Google Books also has a lot of uses in the early 1990s of the phrases "Windows apps", "Mac apps", "DOS apps", and "Unix apps". They appear to be used in a way that's pretty similar to how the terms "iPhone apps" or "Android apps" are used today.
Restart, redo
Number five (5) is solved by this third-party Chrome extension (works well): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hcieonlgpadegedlcp...
Try as I might, I couldn't get this text from Apple's Back to School promotion to sound non-weird:

> Where can I use my Back to School Card or code?

> You can take advantage of this unique offer to purchase apps from the Mac App Store and the App Store[...]
While they are more efficient, all the waste heat is produced in the die. Incandescents on the other hand radiate infrared light.