skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a good one. Think of commercial real estate. You have an old shopping center that is cash flowing. Its maintenance costs are high, and the rent is low. Once upon a time it made sense for the market and the style was perfect. Now it's out of date and the units are not exactly what people are looking for.

You could tear it down and build a fancy new one that would cash flow even more with higher rents and lower costs. It's exactly what the market needs today. Green energy, nice, open spaces, new paint. Do you break out the bulldozers?

It depends, of course.
I've found this helpful as well:
http://www.humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-h...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714304

Get out there an meet as many people as you can! Go to local events, tap into your personal networkm do whatever it takes. Its not easy, but it is possible.

Good Luck!
Far worse is their endorsement of RMT, allowing both items and gold to be sold for USD within the in-game auction house. This ruins any kind of competitive play.
We also got Three20. Not the best framework in the world, but it probably did more to enable iOS apps than any other non-Apple framework.
Does anyone make useful things with these? How come the article doesn't give the accuracy and resolution or are people just printing crude shower curtain rings really quickly?
It can be surprising how helpful most people are willing to be if you just manage to show up and not waste their time.
Thank you, from a recent founder whose volume of requests has been going up exponentially. I really love helping out people when I can, but helping them make the first step before I dig in is more practical than scheduling coffee with everybody who gets in touch.
In my experience, when you have a system that works, is creaky, and you have to spend days to understand how thing work, there is at best a significant gap between actual and specified behavior. Most of the times, there is actually no spec at all, it is mostly implementation defined. And you rarely have the same team as the one who did the previous team (people left, have to work on other projects, etc...).

That's one of the fundamental issue with complete rewritea: the systems you could most easily rewrite are often the one you don't need to.
None. It's just a cool amateur electronics project. Energy in >> energy out.

In fact, I'm assuming and hoping for the sake of his neighbours that he's not actually attempting fusion. If I recall correctly, doing actual fusion with one of these requires deuterium and tritium and produces a crapload of neutrons for which I really doubt he has adequate shielding.

I'm pretty sure the experiment which he's attempting to replicate was never done with deuterium-tritium either, for similar reasons.
I work in both industries as well, writing software for geophysical data processing for mining companies :)
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We are looking for a couple highly skilled Ruby developers to help us architect and build our application. You will be responsible for all aspects of development from bug fixing to feature development.

More info: http://www.chloeandisabel.com/colophon/work-at-chloe-and-isa...

If interested, please submit a resume with work samples to techjobs@chloeandisabel.com for consideration.
Ask HN: Good Podcasts?
I was wondering if anyone here could recommend any good podcast series. It doesn't have to be tech related. Broader science/history/culture would be great too -- but it should be informative.

A decent amount of my time is spent on the train or at the gym and I like to use it learning about new things. It's just that I unfortunately have not found too many great programs out there. I get the usual NPR stuff and enjoy Radiolab (although it's pretty infrequent) but am hoping some folks on HN will have some other suggestions.
I'm getting excited about the ideas he is putting out there.

...the endgame that I'm trying to describe, is a future in which both "full stack" and "WSGI-centric" frameworks use a common protocol to provide their features to applications.

The devil's in the details but that would be an awesome thing. The call to action at the end is great too:

So, that's the interesting question that lies ahead:

Do you have any warts in your current app, library, or framework that this might help you solve? Or a feature you think it could help you add?

Leave me a comment here, or drop me an email via the Web-SIG!
my experience from debugging is that breaking out of a loop in this way is very hit and miss - coupling that with my experience of common office software failures being hard crashes rather than hangs and i can't imagine this tool being /that/ useful. I'd much rather have a tool that does autosaving at a very regular interval - I've written many throwaway tools for that in the past mostly when dealing with old versions of excel being abused to solve database/code problems... still this is better than nothing i guess

as for the nature of the halting problem meaning this can't work??? that only displays a lack of understanding...

all in all this article and the comments reinforce my view that academia diverges too far from the practical realities of software development. sure we need academic research and education, i won't deny it, but the noise making should be reserved for after practical success has actually occurred.
The bots would have ruined the competitive play anyways (like always). No matter how many patches/updates the bots always take over and cheapen the game. I don't really care as much about what people do with their own money.
No, but I accept cash donations. ;)
While I agree, it seems a reasonable compromise would be to default to online yet also allow a player to fork into offline mode.
The case you described as having the cost imposed is literally what boyer-moore excels at, so it doesn't even have the benefit of hurting the pathological case.
Well just as with private servers for World of Warcraft, it's more than likely going to be several big private servers.

edit: This would also enable for LAN parties to play without anything more than a few cross-over Ethernet cables.
> My experience has been that things built by two or three people, working as peers, are often much 'better' (meet the needs better, cover more cases, have a more consistent model) than things built by one person

I concur, but for a different reason than you seem to imply (which seems to be "being conservative with changes and goal-oriented" -- nothing wrong with that on its own though). I noticed that my own coding improved dramatically after I started working with others. This is due to several things: (1) competition and trying to be better than others, (2) once you work with several people, you take extra time to document what you are doing, which occasionally leads to you rethinking how you should be doing what you are doing in the first place, (3) don't know about you, but I am personally far more prone to taking "shortcuts" when working on my own (no one to embarrass myself in front of), (4) last but not least, when working with others, you can learn directly from others.
But if he becomes more than a very minor irritation he'll get sued or even arrested. I can't imagine what he's doing is legal, and his emails are evidence. Extortion in the flesh works a lot better because you can threaten someone and lie about it later. This guy is banking on the fact that it's just not worth the money and time to squash him like a bug.
I'm pretty sure individuals are unlikely to be able to get away with the same thing. :(
Ah okay. Whoosh, right over my head...
You're an asshole. Don't ask me to check out your website, and make me login with facebook and then send me to a beta program limited page. Deleting in FB and marking as spam. Your homepage is junk, like everyone else is saying you give no reason for anyone to use it, and if you didn't know you can click on an interest in facebook and see all the people that comment and figure it out. Sucks.

Message after login
"Thank you for your interest in Socialflavor!
Space in our beta program is limited."
Millenium Falcon. Perhaps it was hidden from George Lucas.
Federal Judge Orders Shutdown of Innovative DVD-Streaming Service Zediva
Doesn't work for me for whatever reason. Oddly, it will show the google search for "nfc east blog" from my history (www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=nfceast&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=nfc+east+blog), but it won't show the actual blog url. Maddening.
I like listening to the Adam Carolla podcast, http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/category/podcast/

You might like his brand of humor or he might rub you the wrong way.

The others that I listen to -
* Science Friday Audio Podcast - http://gpodder.net/podcast/59068
* The Naked Scientists Podcast - Stripping Down Science - http://gpodder.net/podcast/11153
Thanks, I enabled 'shortcuts' in the omnibox. We'll see if that improves my results.
they had private "realm" servers for diablo 2 too. I remember playing ones that ran mods
It is helping the developers. It is getting them a broader userbase than they would otherwise have by having it promoted front and center on the app store, and also it being free. I think it is pretty humorous people would assume they would just get free money from Amazon for this.
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Nike SB Dunk High Men is a popular SB Dunks with the top human spirit
Since the Nike SB shoes were created specially for the skateboarders by Nike in 2002. Since then, the SB Dunks has become a popular icon for the Dunk collectors. Especially the Nike SB Dunk High Men has the high human spirit in the men group. The high-top design of the Nike dunk can protect the feet better when they are playing on the court. What is more, with the last colorways, make the Nike Dunk Shoes has the charming appearance. So it becomes the first-choice shoes for most man.
The wreck files: Have scientists found a crashed flying saucer on the seabed?
I'd be dubious that they actually rewrote everything - having working stuff lying around that already worked, some of which was probably just fine, I'd hope it got copy-pasted into the new code...
My team has struggled to decide how to build a rich JS app precisely because there are so many choices. We have spent a lot of time looking at the strengths and weaknesses of each of the major ones. All that time was time spent not coding. Now, as developers working with the latest stuff, this goes with the territory. But at the same time all this choice was not zero cost for us by any means.
.NET Gadgeteer (Open Source Arduino-like devices for .NET)
"The History of Rome" is by far my favorite non-tech podcast.

http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
No, open spectrum in this case means that's its available for use by consumers (wifi, bluetooth) rather then just companies that get a license from the government (cell, radio)
Haha! I was thinking the exact same thing.
To each his own, I suppose, as I rather like the build of exposed wires, bolts, rivets, and the likes -- I'm not alone.

I'm not sure what "clunky mess" means or how device asthetics correlate to "leap[s]" (in ability?) in 3D printing.
Wait, you played C+C on your laptop while walking between wifi access points, and also somehow with your laptop closed? I'd blame your shitty C+C experience on that.
It does not mean that Perl is not active in Japan though.
Many big companies in Japan uses Perl as the language of choice for their websites but indeed,I won't say that it's not loosing some market share though.
Dan Benjamin, from 5by5 (http://5by5.tv) has several very interesting tech related podcasts.
Soon the guilty will have more rights because the innocent will have none.
Android: A Hobby or Business
Hi, I'm Lewis, a student and independent Android developer from London. I shall be using this blog as a means of monitoring and broadcasting my progress with Android. I always wanted to release an Application for Android, and I shall hopefully be displaying insightful information into how this hobby may actually become a small business with some regular income. If you are interested in Android development, be sure to check it out, for regular updates.
If that's intuitive for you already (great!) consider one step further: Rice's Theorem. Rice's Theorem in layman's term is "all nontrivial properties of a program are undecidable in the general case". "Undecidable" is the difficulty class of the halting problem (there are actually harder problems!).

A couple accessible examples:

1. Constant Propagation - we know that we'll never detect all compile-time constants because of Rice.

2. Exception frequency - I can write a function that has "raise new FooException()" in the code, but the function never raises, and you won't be able to prove it never raises.
Starcraft II has thus far survived, and I have never seen a private WoW server in which all of the raid content works correctly (or indeed, even all of the raid content that's at least 2 years old).

What's important to Blizzard isn't that nobody ever breaks the security, but that they can delay that for long enough that people in the parts of the world that mostly pirated Warcraft III buy the game before anyone has working private servers.

The game itself will be made worse for everyone by this decision. Perhaps if it takes off as an esport we'll get to see BNet go down during tournaments like we have for SC2.
It's just good engineering practice to ask yourself periodically, why are we building this new component? If the answer ever ceases to be convincing, yell, scream and bitch until your team (btw, you should probably spearhead this effort) can convince you otherwise.

That's really the hardest part of working by yourself; it is very hard to strike the right balance between self-criticism and unwavering focus required to create something, be it code or a work of art.
His main point (the only one he really elaborated on in the current post) is Launchpad which is the very definition of OSX becoming more iOS like.
It would be nice if they provided just a little more information. Maybe a sense of the scale?
How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance
Troll-feeding time!

Pretend that an OOM condition is the same as a False answer. :3

Here's a program, building on the previous one, which either terminates or doesn't.

from itertools import count
for i in count(1):
if not is_collatz(i):
break
I agree. I was a huge C&C fan, (bought each game multiple times including the collection packs) but have not even looked at C&C4. I did check how easy it would be to pirate and frankly that's less effort then walking to the shops to buy it. Heck I even looked at it in bargain bins and refuse to touch it based on that DRM. It also locked out my Dad who enjoys C&C from playing as he does not have an always on internet connection nor will he.

I am not going to give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt in this, as there is no reason they couldn't allow offline mode. The player confusion thing they cite could be easily fixed with some UI prompts.
Foursquare Plans Could Stir a Privacy Problem
I think "that" guy trying more to say (and if he's not then I will) that yes, her story is extremely important, and she even mentions some of the benefits her suffering has had, however, it feels more as if she's whining for the attention. Some people don't need an arbitrary, transient number to feel good about themselves ;)
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You can rent a DVD.

You can rent a DVD player and cables.

You can't rent a DVD, a DVD player, and a TCP/IP connection.

It seems irrational to me that the length of the cables involved determines the legality of the thing.
One of the better software and systems engineers I've worked with grew up working mines in West Virginia and Western Virginia. After retiring after 25 years as a foreman, he went to school and ended up with a PhD in some area of C.S.

Wanting to get his hands dirty, he ended up building several major systems for the U.S. military. He said the parallels of operating machinery, safely, in dangerous environments struck him almost every day.
How engaged DAU"s are driving in-app purchasing.
Link to the full paper for those interested: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/ecoop11.pdf
Once you live in Brooklyn, it's possible to go days without having to enter the city. Plenty of awesome neighbourhoods in the BK (Greenpoint, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, South Slope, DUMBO). I saw a LOT of young professionals with families in DUMBO/Park Slope/Brooklyn Heights.

Certainly, if you're intent on living in the city, you'll pay a premium.
My friend fabricates bottle openers, for starters, which go for as little as USD$4-5 on etsy.com.
Senator vows to block surveillance bill over privacy concerns
I believe it's the open pit, which has been discontinued.
> How often do you build a prototype building? Or a building as a side project?

This is one of the most amazing things about rapidly growing cities in most of the world. Neighborhoods that start out as informal shanty-towns full of lean-tos with leaky roofs become, over the course of years, first neighborhoods with modest but permanent cement block buildings and tin roofs, and sprout all the typical urban amenities like power lines and sewers (often at first pirated ad-hoc from other nearby neighborhoods), have their roads paved, etc., and a few decades later look like normal neighborhoods, sometimes even surprisingly gentrified ones.
I know this article is relatively old but I was looking on information on how to organize a large javascript code base and this article is very clear and well written. If anyone could point out some other good site on javascript code organization and techniques I'd appreciate it.
lmao I thought the same thing
HBR Ideacast usually cover some interesting themes. BBC also have several good programs. Really worth checking them out!

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My undergraduate thesis tackled static analysis in Ruby. One of the problems I attacked was "does a given method yield to its block?" I broke methods into a few classes, two of which are "Block-Required" and "Block-Optional."

I had to write software which proved a method optionally yielded, which isn't just undecidable, but unrecognizable. For non-CS folks, that means it's actually harder than the halting problem. Yet my software works on nearly all Ruby code I throw at it - it only really has difficulty on complex delegation patterns. Unsurprisingly, the code people write to create Block-Optional methods is highly structured.
I don't even know where to start here. Leaving aside that a huge chunk of Manhattan has a longer commute to Union Square than even New Jersey, 80% of the city doesn't live in Manhattan.

If you fan out to the metro area, Manhattan falls to less than 9%. Do some of those people wake up some mornings wondering "what's the point", sure, but I promise you (or more specifically: other readers who haven't lived here) most don't.
Mee to! In fact I believe everyone will want to see that. ;D
So this is a preliminary injunction... what exactly does that mean and what are the steps from here? At this point is it highly likely that it will be upheld and become permanent, or is there a pretty good chance the further litigation will change the ruling? Or is there no way to tell from here?
I sure hope they have a great legal disclaimer in the event they get it wrong!
Aww, HN takes itself so seriously...
An attempt at a viral marketing campaign for the movie Battleship?
I work for a company that provides web services for employers and job seekers, so when the Dept of Labor released their API (http://developer.dol.gov/) I quickly wrote a Python wrapper for it. (https://github.com/mattdeboard/python-usdol)

I can say that at first glance the Federal Register API is far ahead of DoL which requires API keys, shared secrets, HMAC SHA1 encryption (for _every request_) and other assorted annoyances that made writing the wrapper a pain (it works quite well and easily however). The API in the OP looks much less annoying.

(edit: I've also got a repo with avery rough Clojure wrapper for the same API. Its very rough as it was a self-teaching exercise but it does work: https://github.com/mattdeboard/clj-usdol)
Is this not similar to how some media report about an event and include a tweet that has been since deleted. This just being done on a much broader scale.
Sense of scale? It's very obvious to me, the scale shows 300 m. I would say the object is 40x40 m.
I really hope that this portends advances in other government agencies, as well. The judiciary, for example, is in massive need of an overhaul on this scale. Each of the 13 federal courts of appeals have their own methods for publishing opinions on their web site, and it's often difficult to keep track of opinions published in each. Additionally, the 94 district courts also publish opinions, so it's difficult to get access to those, without paying for an aggregation service (Lexis or Westlaw). Justia does a good job, as well, but they only provide pdfs of the opinions. We're also familiar with the PACER data mining issues surrounding Aaron Swartz, so it's almost impossible to freely access and analyze all of that data.

And then there are the state courts of last resort, intermediate appellate courts, and trial courts...each having their own way of publishing decisions. In short, it's often really difficult, if not efficiently impossible, to gain access to public records to perform high-level analyses on them. This is so unfortunate, because at our disposal right now are extremely powerful computers and amazingly robust algorithms that could perform really complex, revealing, and important analyses of litigated issues.
There's not really any way to tell from here.
I am addicted to the Stuff You Should Know podcast. Great choice if your interests are varied. They publish frequently and there's a huge back log of good topics.
It would be cool if design like this would become a basis for other gov sites. But it Will never happen because of the structure of departments (who going to pay for the continued development of the base platform? There is not to my knowledge a central IT budget for the Fed gov) but it would be cool.
Really rich individuals probably can.
The best competitive play comes in Hardcore mode in Diablo, and there is no RMT in Hardcore, so I don't see that being a concern.

I love the RMT combined with the always-online experience because it means Blizzard is absolutely serious about preventing the rampant duping and cheating that make Diablo II so unplayable for many people.

[Disclaimer: I used to work for Blizzard, but only really making graphics for websites and definitely not anywhere near decisions like this. Having been there for many years I have seen first hand what a great company Blizzard is, and how they're not afraid of making tough choices that make life better for players, even if it makes Blizzard look selfish to the outside world. Blizzard is made up of gamers, and they're honestly just doing gamers right.]
My favorite podcast is "The Tobolowsky Files": http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the...

He's a recognizable character actor (esp. from Groundhog Day), but he's also an amazing story teller.
GOOGLE+ AND CIRCLES: A FAT-FIGHTING MISSION
They rewrote the description of my app, also with mistakes. Very annoying, especially since if you try to change it it takes at least two weeks to show up! In the span of app sales that is a lifetime!