skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe we should use the stackoverflow flag concept? that way you could flag an item for being:

* off topic
* inappropriate/offensive
* low quality or 'noise'
* other (which would require a comment)

then down votes could be removed entirely (or at least deprecated) and if an item was flagged enough the item could be removed.
Hasn't this event just ended, or am I calculating timezones wrong?
Normalization. The problem is clarity or clipping. While users may enjoy some program to normalize the output in some significant way, a 'standard volume' would injure the craft of audio as much, I think.
This reminds me of the movie Limitless, where the protagonist devised computer algorithms that would scan forums and other social media sites to get people's sentiments of what would happen to the stock, then successfully made 40x+ returns within months.
London, UK, wants its own TLD
a "Like" or "+1" button for employee interaction?
This. Most online catalogues are awful.
Thanks. Fixing that link sounds like a tangible next step for improving my "mini-app". I think I'll take it farther just because, like making it work for a couple more stops and setting up a better time input.
you mean... a... Woman Decoder?
The rise of drones and security risks to think of
Indeed there is a race condition (if that) where you have to allow access at the default privileges before opting out of any of them. I'm sure every single application sucks in your entire graph as soon as you click that button, so the solution to limit permissions after installing the app is just so much closing of the barn door after the horses have left.
I'm sure you're still storing all of that data, whether we opt-in or not. Because why throw away such valuable data?

And that means it will be made public some day, by accident or by design.
It's a shame that the petition that gained traction was so poorly written to the point of not being understandable.
This will never stop I think.
Whenever I do a project and find out that I am really good at something in comparison to others on the team I soon read an article by Yehuda Katz about how he just released a few new libraries that were merged into rails core in his spare time.
Right idea, but wrong bottleneck. Admitting more students to medical school would enlarge the pool of applicants to Rads residency, but it would by no means force Rads programs to admit more applicants.
I'd like a trustworthy and central repository for my current billing/mailing address that all the big companies simply "subscribe to". When I move, the update should be pushed to every bank/magazine/delivery company.
At the time of my comment, it's 2:48 PM at MIT so it has a couple hours left.
Nope. I'm here now. Alex Polvi is taking Q&A now
Information leakage is much more difficult to prevent on your phone than in a browser.
The legality is not even the point; the point is to weed out as many people as easily as possible from even trying to sue.

If there's the slightest doubt as for whether you can even sue you'll be fighting on two fronts: first against the question of whether your lawsuit might be void and then the issue you're suing for itself.

Lawsuits are PITA and lawsuits for the sake of just suing are doubly so. Everybody knows it. It's just logical to try to scare people off unless you subscribe to the school that tries to minimize legal hassle by not giving too many reasons for people to sue you. But still some assholes will if you operate in litigious cultures.
This is really great!

Lots of people are saying that you can just use avr-gcc. Which is technically true, but it still requires knowledge and bitwise manipulation of AVR registers.

For example, you can't really use timers without understanding the time-related registers and interrupts, so the C code for managing that looks almost identical to the assembly. Nice to have a guide that goes through those register operations line-by-line so I can understand what is happening.

Awesome!
Thank you for that encouragement.

At my startup, our application is built in python and django. I originally wrote the function in python, but my buddy knew ruby/rails better and he could help me deploy it easier that way so I rewrote it in ruby.

I think ruby is fun and the community is very inviting. I'd like to keep doing python and ruby together as I learn, ruby because it's interesting and rails is really something. And python because it will make me a better contributor to my team and I know it has more recognition in academia (for my later pursuits).
Object retrieval. Little helicopter UAVs that can buy you a pencil or a granola bar, or pick up a flash drive or some paperwork from your house, and fly it out to you.
Facebook Privacy List for Adblock Plus
Using gerunds is winning!
That could also work. I think the advantage of a more personalized message is it's a bit more human. If I'm downvoted for something I'm more inclined to take the message to heart and not be offended if someone took the time to explain something rather than just attach a label on it. I do think what you describe has the advantage of being easier to understand though, and accomplishes many of the same goals.
I'd be quite interested to see evidence to support this assertion. Or is it just generally the case that everyone sees Osler's days as medicine's primetime, with a long slide since then?
It amazes me how many high traffic sites seemingly can't be bothered to test their sites with YSlow or Google Page Speed.

For example, The Post gets a D from Yslow, as does Techcrunch, but they aren't the worst of the pack as ReadWriteWeb gets an abysmal F.
Normalization wouldn't help as the problem is compression.
If A has a very narrow dynamic range (because it is heavily compressed) and B a rather broad one - think metal band vs orchestra - then after normalization A would still sound much louder than B.

This is because only the loudest signal hits 0db then. If a signal is on average mainly quiet, it will stay quiet. And if it is pretty loud, it will stay loud.
Thanks, it seems that I was having video issues AND calculated timezone wrong.
"Its great to see this person's progression! He is obviously very talented and has a real gift. ... I just didn't have that 'gift.'"

I very much doubt that anyone looking at this guy's early drawings/paintings would say he had any kind of artistic "gift".

For me, the great lesson of looking at his progress is that it's a result of dedication, persistence, and hard work.

As an artist, it's incredibly frustrating for me to hear non-artists tell me how they "just can't draw" or "don't have the talent" and therefore won't even bother to try.

You can do it! But you have to want it enough to walk the long, difficult road.

"anyone can learn to draw and be able to reproduce what they see fairly well (it is really just techniques) but to actually create takes something beyond technical skills. You have to have a vision and courage to express it. MindCandyMan has it."

It's true that his later art especially shows a certain vision that goes beyond mere technical skill. He is fortunate to have managed to tap in to it, as not everyone does. However, I do believe that some sort of artistic vision is latently present in most everyone. But you have to strive to discover and express it over many years of hard effort. It's not something that's handed to anyone on a silver platter.
Totally, come on out! We've been growing. There were about 15 of us last night. 6 stayed until sunrise. It's been a great investment of my time.
I've been logging in to Facebook and Google+ only in a Chrome Incognito window for this reason for a while now. I recommend the practice to everyone.

However, yesterday Facebook locked my account because I was browsing "from an unknown device" (the netbook I've been using for years, on the IP address of PyCon Argentina). I unlocked it by identifying five of my Friends from 15 photos. So it's not without its drawbacks.
Heyos (I'm the Author),

I live in the Upper East Side and this usually works best with large managed apartment complexes because they have the necessary infrastructure to take care of any concerns such things breaking down and stuff getting clogged. I personally dont want to deal with this stuff.

1. I'd like to clarify. I dont pay any rent upfront. So, I only pay the deposit. Rent is not paid upfront in full in advance. I only paid 350 a month total out of pocket

2. I'm in the Upper East Side with a view of the river.

3. Finding tenants is actually not a problem because I usually have the apartment rented out in 7 days or less because i get a flood of applicants. I'm a dude and I only accept female roommates because they're generally better roommates lol.

4. I have extensive experience in real estate because ive been a landlord, went to civil court for tenancy and etc. I've been a real estate agent. So I'm pretty comfortable with the industry and i'm not risk adverse.

If you guys want I can post a follow-up to give you more details.
I agree their economic value is probably negative, but because of the broken patent laws companies currently need them. Since companies like Google and Apple have recently spent billions of dollars to buy relatively small collections of patents, the entire existing pool would probably cost a few trillion to buy. It's really not a good idea to make laws that cause companies to spend this much money, and then declare their value to be zero. It's also probably not legal.
Apache CouchDB is now hosted in Git
If people think Zuckerberg had "vision" doing this, I suppose I agree. But his vision wasn't "how can I help people have better online connections and experiences?" or anything like that. His vision was "how can I get people to share everything about their life, so Facebook can make more money?"

They are not one and the same thing, because in the latter, the priority is put on optimizing the experience for Facebook, not for the user.

Zuckerberg actually believes that there should be no privacy - at all. This is where he's leading Facebook. I believe that's a flawed vision, but he's probably sticking to it, because the less privacy you have, the more it helps the company.
That's not that surprising when you look at what grades Salon.com gets from Page Speed and YSlow (a C and E, respectively): http://gtmetrix.com/reports/salon.com/Tebabbbf
Instead of making a program a day for 9 years, you're better off adding a feature a day to an existing program for 9 years.

There's a limit to how good you can get when the scale of what you've done consists entirely of programs you can accomplish in a day. To get beyond that, you need to work on stuff that's bigger - programs that take years to build, and that take hundreds of engineers, and that explore every nook and cranny of their problem domain.

In the process, you learn about managing large codebases, and refactoring, and scaling, and minimizing complexity, and deleting code, and tons of algorithms and data structures and problem-solving approaches, and communicating with a team, and being patient, and carrying on when you're not sure what the end product you're building will look like or if it'll be any good, and all sorts of other skills. You don't get that by practicing textbook algorithms and language syntax for 10 years.
The app still has to request 'publish_actions' permissions, which requires an FBConnect dialog.

That URL is being used for customization of Like button, so that on some sites you can see 'Friend A, Friend B and 345 others recommended it'.
Or on their site: http://www.taskrabbit.com/
Thanks. While there was almost too many new things while being handheld through the process--writing my function to setting up rails and git, building a simple app around the function, committing it to git hub and deploying it to Heroku--I now have a sense for each of those steps, and I feel more confident to try each again on my own.
How does this compare with addons like Adblock and Noscript?
Scholarships for hackers?
Dear HN,
I'm currently a student at a local university, and am having trouble with scholarships. I'm pretty good as an academic student (graduating with an associates degree at the same time I'm getting a high school diploma at 18), but I fear going to a high ranking school will be financially impossible for me. Scholarship sites exist everywhere, but due to the massive volume of students all over applying to them, I don't think I even have a chance.
However, I am a programmer. I'm engaged in many projects, although I haven't contributed much in terms of open source. I have a code eval account, a github account, and follow all the hacker news I can take. But doing these things doesn't get me a programming job, and it doesn't seem to get me a scholarship either. I am continuing to work on code eval projects in hopes for a job, but scholarships is going to be a bigger priority here shortly.

Is there anything I can do to apply for scholarships based on code, or hacking skills?
Learning: A matrix-like api would be just great.
mp3 perhaps?
It's eminently possible to just live life without Facebook. I stopped using it a few years ago, although more because I was being drowned with useless information from other people ('hand stuck in toaster again, LOL') than out of privacy concerns.
A find() method for physical objects that'll return co-ordinates of where it's located. Very useful for locating people as well.
I tried to guess how much it would have cost to pay my friends at their properly hourly rate for the help they freely gave... Yeah, too rich for my blood :) But I gladly accept programming charity.
yeah i'm working on that one. soon enough friend.
Very very nice work. I am no twitter power user, but I really like the interface.

I have been thinking of making a similar dashboard for work (much like GeckoBoard) but I wanted to roll my own as a way to learn JQuery and CSS ...

I see from your comments that it's a JQuery impl. Great work!

Thanks for the inspiration. I need to put my head down and get cranking :)
Ask HN: What should I Ask HN about?
I have so many questions and programming is hard.
I've always found this productivity idea weak. I might set out 1 hour a day to accomplish a task, but if my heart isn't in it, it's just an hour of low-quality work--I may as well have not done it at all or waited for an optimal time.

However, I do see how this could be useful for tasks which aren't creative or need much thinking. Say for example, brushing teeth after lunch.
Interesting. Your answer has really made me think. I guess my problem is the feeling of never really finishing anything (to a satisfying level anyway). I suppose its not a big issue as everything is just for fun and not for business.
Look what else is a hit:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/formally-ac...
Please do not do this. You are not entitled to inflict your negative opinion of something on everyone else.
No - that's not how things work in *BSD systems.

On Linux distributions, all software is typically "equal" - everything is a package, and the only difference is what repository it comes from.

In BSD, the base system and ports are entirely distinct. The base system is a single coherent unit installed and upgraded as one piece (although the installer allows you to omit some portions of it).

The ports provide additional software packages installed and managed separately on top of the base system. The base system is maintained and patched by the core developers and officially supported by the organization. The ports are provided effectively as a convenience, and are not covered by the same security and maintenance procedures as the base system.
I don't understand. You're afraid that your Google searches will be published to your Facebook stream, so you want to close your FB account and move to G+, because presumably Google is less likely to publish to your G+ profile than to your Facebook profile?
Following its first month of public trading, a new Derwent fund based on Twitter reported 1.85 percent return on investment. During this same time period, the S&P 500 index fell 2.2 percent, "and the average hedge fund made only 0.76 per cent."

An algorithm that outperforms the stock market for one month is not news. If they have an algorithm that can do it consistently over decades I'll be impressed.

Many funds have been trying to mine this sort of data, and presumably we don't hear about it when the results aren't so good, so this is just cherrypicking.

I can train ten chimps to pick stocks, and the best-performing of them over the first month will no doubt outperform the market significantly. But if I try to sell you my stock-picking chimp then beware.
According to the LA Times, they're going to restore the affiliate program. But I already have one foot in Nevada, so I think it's too late.

How does California justify collecting sales tax from Amazon if Amazon has no affiliate network there, no advertising there, and no real presence?

It doesn't. Amazon avoids an expensive legal battle in exchange for collecting sales tax. It's your garden-variety extortion, writ large.
Ha, wouldn't that be a useful function. Extremely dangerous as well. I could see people using it and violating causality in ways unimaginable.
Definitely my cable box/DVR. Not only for better search (and ANY starch of OnDemand material.) It does such a horrible job of "DVR" functionality it's sad. Constantly clipping shows despite setting it to record minutes early/late.

Sure, I probably just need to get Google TV or Tivo, but you'd think it wouldn't be a Herculean task, y'know?
Create a Google+ username
Goplus.eu is a free service that offers you a vanity url to your Google Plus profile. Finally you can have a Google+ username!
I've used a Wacom for about 7 years now. An A4 Intuos 2... and I've only just realised my tablet is that old.

I remember it took about 40 minutes to get used to. Now, I use it all the time, for everything, not just design or illustration. Using a mouse for anything is painfully slow. Trackpads are better, but for speed and accuracy, nothing beats a tablet.
IS META

http://xkcd.com/917/
I can't compare to SV, but I wouldn't say there's a lack of camaraderie among NYC startups.

Apartments - check out http://padmapper.com for data. Chances are you'll be spending between $800 (in places like Astoria) up to $2400 (in nicer buildings in central Manhattan) per person, depending on your living arrangements.

Office: I think desks are usually around $1000/month, though you might find some cheaper. How many are you? I can check in with my CEO and see if we have any vacancies (we have a whole floor, most of which we sublet, at 36th and 6th). I do agree with the advice to get into a General Assembly/DogPatch/etc. if you can, though.
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I heard about a startup which was doing this a couple of years ago via the VC who had invested in it. It's no big secret.
If that were true, then flagging would not sink things to the bottom. I click the buttons that do what I want, not ones that are supposed to do what I want.
5 Things We Know About Amazon's Kindle Tablet
Principal Skinner: Here's a whole box of unsealed envelopes for the PTA!

Bart: You're making me lick envelopes?

P.S.: Oh, licking envelopes can be fun! All you have to do is make a game of it.

Bart: What kind of game?

P.S.: Well, for example, you could see how many you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record.

Bart: Sounds like a pretty crappy game to me.

P.S.: Yes, well... Get started.
What you're not understanding is that Michigan's universities are graduating thousands of very bright engineers every year. Kids who love the state and would prefer to find a job in Michigan. Promise to keep them in Michigan and your recruiters gain what is known as an unfair advantage.

Likewise there are experienced people available that would gladly work for half what they're paying in the Valley. People can't sell their houses so they are in effect trapped.

Why more Valley companies don't open Michigan offices baffles me. Easier recruiting and getting two developers for the price of one? Does Detroit's reputation handicap it that much?
Nothing is "inherently" bad. Badness is a human construct, a value judgement, and nobody is talking about a future where it is required to instantly forget everything learned.

The same information that a governmental agency would need a warrant to acquire the same information that people give up to social networks or other websites in general without a second thought

And FB is a single-source for that warrant who likely has more informal processes for satisfying some requests without warrants. This is why the Carlyle Group (CIA) invested in Friendster (and probably FB too).
If you have access to your friends, you can get water and power. It doesn't work the other way around.
I've been using ShareMeNot (http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/) for a few months now. I don't know if it's a perfect solution to go around but it's a solution nonetheless.
Prescriptivism provides the foundation for descriptivism's point of departure, and descriptivism provides for the evolution of language. They are part and parcel to each other.
I'm pretty sure pg doesn't post the criteria being marked "dead", but I thought I'd heard one time that it took ~10 flags for it to happen.

After my original post to the petition was killed, I thought I had done something wrong linking directly to the petition...as if that was some sort of spam (e.g. linking to an article about a product vs. linking to the actual product page seems to be the norm here as most direct-to-product links come off as spammy).

I'm assuming good faith about the whole thing, but think that it's an interesting gray area ripe for community discussion.
Yep. That pretty much assures it's a dead letter.
It's looking pretty great! Although it does seem to load a little slow for me... But I think I'm gonna bookmark this site for future use.
It would be nice to call someone's car.
>> The entire goal was to make a new advertising platform they could control.

That's the way it was supposed to work. But surprise! It turns out that search is not big on mobile... mainly because typing is not easy on mobile. That explains why apps dominate -- one touch and you get to where you need to go -- no fiddling with on-screen keyboards, searches or URLs.
No need to decode if you can call API methods, receiving proper replies. You start learning (reverse engineering?) the subject's behavior based on responses to methods.

OK, I'm thinking as I type. The API must represent a functional system (i.e. function calls do no have side effects, produce the same output given the same environment) for RE to work. The first million iterations of such an API would not 'feel' functional because humans tend away from rationality (insert gender-prejudiced joke here.)

I suspect that once you get down into the tiniest bits of the human system (quantum behavior in brains, if indeed that's even necessary for consciousness), you can get much more functional results. Then, that gets us into eliminating chaos (replacing it with knowledge) in complex systems.

Consider: knowing how that precise collection of molecules (that tasty roasted meat, whose chicken was raised on marigold petals but once ate a bug or three) will affect the digestive, circulatory and nervous systems of a human; initially when the odor affects the receptors in the nose and ultimately after digestion has done its job and delivered all the tiny chicken bits to cells in the human body. And between those times, how anticipation from delayed gratification ("we'll wait for Grandma to arrive before we eat") affects the effects of the food on the human. And from here, chaos theory...

I pontificate muchly and pointlessly, but it was fun.
I tried this too, but got pulled back from all the websites and apps that need Facebook logins.