skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like that always remind me of this image...

http://www.picshag.com/show.php?f=pics/112010/java-c-php-rub...
So the other 99% of torrents would still be infringing.
I just checked your website. I'm in the step 5. And, yes, I now feel this post is very dangerous because I never thought of suicide. Worse. I have recently dropped of colleague and don't have any friends right now. (didn't talk with a human for something like 15-20 days). Any quick remedies? I'm feeling more anxious.
And that's fine (thought it does look like Win8 delivers better than Android) - but my argument is that Microsoft isn't ripping Android off.
I don't see the problem with that. Any job seeker should have an updated CV at hand, and he'd better have some Rail project to show off if he is a Rail developper, so dropping a standard "Hi, please find my cv enclosed, here is something I built..." is not a great deal for someone looking for a job.
Some Secrets on How to Build Your Online Credibility
Even fan is already enough of an insult. I refuse to be a fanatic about anything.
Love it. I like how every domain typed in the search box shows instantly and is saved on the right as we type new ones in.

Thanks for the credit as well!
"I wouldn't call COM/OLE "perfect integration between apps" at all."

Oh come on, it was so simple! All you had to do was set up a ProgID and/or a GUID in the registry (no! not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, silly!, HKEY_USER! Oh wait, you're right, it is HKLM...) and then implement IUnknown in your app and the register the interface when you installed your app...hopefully with Windows Installer, which makes all of this a simple 15-step process. There's only like, 25 different registry keys to keep track of and 12 layers of interfaces to implement.

It was perfect I tell you!
Wow, send him much thanks. I bought it on Steam when it released (because I'm a sucker for shooters), and it's a marvelous game. One of the finest shooters I've played in a long time. The DLC is awesome, too (Guy Fawkes ship!)
PR is your best bet and it's pretty easy. I suggest baby steps.

1) Who are your early adopters? Age, sex, location, profession, hobbies, what do they read. Survey monkey and offer a free month or something

2) Choose a segment of your 50.

3) Create a list of blogs, newspapers, magazines to pitch that the segment reads

4) Begin pitching the outlets.

5) Measure the new sign ups per article using google analytics

There's alot of small details in each step but this is the big picture
Not useless, certainly. It's routine for an app to fire up a web page or document viewer. Or if you're an app with some form of content generation you can hook the "share" intents to push to facebook/google+/etc... without the need for feedback.

Obviously feedback is an important feature, but one-way links are very useful low hanging fruit.
Show HN: The Queue - Find Content, Read It, Save it , Print It
This is awesome! My first startup was a kickstarter competitor (enjyn.com) and something like this is one of the big things I wanted to do for code!

My tentative plan was not to just make it for coders though, and to break things down, so one task is to write unit/accceptance tests for a portion of the bounty (maybe configurable, maybe 20 or 30%? dunno) and once the bounty for the tests was accepted, any code that passes those tests automatically gets the remainder of the bounty... if Gun.io can benefit from this idea, my blessings to you!
Some time ago I ran across a post saying Mono does not do true tail recursion in F#. Does anyone know if this is still the case?
You don't need to spoof a TCP connection to register a spoofed IP address on a tracker. The tracker GET request has an optional `ip` field, the contents of which is registered as the client's address, regardless of the source address of the actual request. So it's trivial to write a Bittorrent client that reports a false address to the tracker.

http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
I've done Uberman for 2 months at a time. I've found I can be highly effective in certain areas - like coding. However, the brain needs quite a bit of sleep for memories to stay longer term - so this isn't ideal for students or study. Another caveat is that your metabolism increases but you usually overcompensate consumption-wise. A lot of people that persisted with this for longer periods of time, gain quite a bit of weight - so if you're ready for that. Good luck with surviving the first two hell weeks. :)
Ok didn't expect the rate down. I ask you who did and who've replied, how does this law protect the innocent bystanders? It's still the driver who's doing something stupid, and most of the time they only get caught when things go really really bad.

Do you want roving scan vans on highways looking at every driver on the road for these infractions? Massively increase police presence on all roads (and gl getting anyone to pay for that these days)? Yes the Fed can try to make a full electronics ban, but that won't stop people from using the devices and still causing deaths that shouldn't have happened.

People are selfish by nature. They don't care about how their actions affect anyone else. Trying to put more and more laws in place to try to stop this just leads to societies that have already existed and failed under this massive weight of "there's a law covering absolutely everything you could possibly do".

So really, what is this Fed law going to stop?
Sonic Generations Update 3 - SKIDROW
A Long Walk To Land
I simply believe that we already have laws that address the poor driving habits of others. We simply disagree, and that's ok. But, keep in mind some of us live in states with less than 5M people that are quite large; I don't have a commute, and there are very few trains in the Rockies (certainly no commuter trains outside of Denver).

Making more laws that people won't follow (as noted elsewhere in this discussion) just erodes more of our freedoms, but doesn't really protect us anymore. For example, I don't wear my seatbelt.
You're missing my point so completely that it becomes a fine example of why engineers make poor businessmen.

The best business solution is the one that accomplishes the task at hand with the least resources. By that metric, PHP is far superior to Java, regardless of the technical merits at hand.

It costs less to hire an army of PHP devs and a small team to optimize PHP, than it does to hire an army of Java developers.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=PHP_Developer/Salary

and

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Java_Developer/Salar...

The difference in pay is around $20K. If you have 500 developers, that's a difference of $10 mil per year. Over the span of a decade, you're talking about over $100 million in savings.

As I said, Facebook is a business, not a pet project or an academic exercise. Decisions on which platform to use and keep are made based on dollars and cents ... not on which is more elegant or technically superior.
This is a good thing to post. It's uncomfortable to talk about, but it needs to be done, so thank you, raganwald.

That said, if I can offer just a small critique: I always found the sentiment of "Just talk to someone" to be insufficient, because even if other people might understand, sometimes you don't feel like they should have to understand. If I'm too weak to handle my circumstances myself, you'll reason, it would just make me an even worse person if I dumped that burden on somebody else. I think it's important to convey to depressed people that somebody wants to help, because that isn't necessarily obvious when even you don't like you.

(Again, I don't mean to bash on raganwald's post by any means. It's just a perspective that I think it's easy to forget when you're not in that mindset.)
Show HN: Iteration 2 of Loan Arranger, a visualization tool for mortgages
A few weeks ago, I showed HN (and reddit, and my friends and family, etc) my weekend adventure in debt visualization, "Loan Arranger." It was roundly criticized for requiring signup prior to use and needing some additional features to put the "Viable" in "Minimum Viable Product"

Based on that feedback, today I am releasing Loan Arranger, version 0.2. In addition to a Get Started Instantly feature, it also shows you the total future value of an extra dollar applied to any loan payment. In my experience, this simple calculation is very motivating.

I'd love to know your thoughts! The URL is:

http://loanarranger.heroku.com
I'm not sure I agree. Since I discovered Google Apps, I forgot about Microsoft Office.

Google Docs is always there. It may be a crappy experience on my Android, but I have access to content I wouldn't otherwise. Collaborative editing and sharing is really easy too - I don't have to ask other people to buy iPhones / iPads / Androids to get them up to task. They only have to have an email on which I send an invite. And sure you can make a better native app and I would appreciate one on my Android, however I remember how this one time I forgot my phone and borrowed the iPhone of a friend to access a really important document.

On the whole, web apps are more accessible. Native apps are a nice bonus to this experience, however if the core is not web-based, then it loses a lot of value.
What is your point? That does not chance the fact that using Php for a huge site like Facebook is a poor choice. A very poor choice indeed. They must be wasting energy on hundreds of servers because of this choice. One can hope that they are using Php only for the very basic front-end operations otherwise they are royaly screwed.
> And finally, I never realized that Louis C.K. was so mainstream. I thought his humor appealed to me and maybe three other people.

You've spotted his genius. Like 90s-era Nine Inch Nails or Metallica, he is the popular act that feels subversive.

Reddit has this vibe too[1]. It's worth a fortune.

[1] I know, you liked it before it jumped the shark, etc etc.
Yeah, you really feel like you're there, haha.
Who will care when my Google's self driving car is the norm?
New space launch startup from Burt Rutan and Paul Allen
I wonder if you could devise a series of phrases where every consecutive pair of letters in the phrase is a valid two-letter word. Then it might be possible to mentally retrieve the entire list by remembering a handful of phrases, instead of one-per-letter.

[Edit: Turns out you can get kinda close: https://gist.github.com/1474006

This is really quickly scratched together (and there may be bugs), but there don't appear to be that many valid words left completely out when using this strategy against an american dictionary of 3k words. I'll bang on it more later, or someone else feel free to do better]

[Edit: After seeing @msluyter's comment, I adjusted to look for only the American 2-letter words. Ended up with much better results. This list of words (and possibly a subset of them that I'm not checking for yet):

'MELINE', 'ESOP', 'HEMAD', 'SHERE', 'WER', 'UNENAMORED', 'MYOHEMATIN', 'REHONOR', 'HEMATOSIN', 'ANEMATOSIS', 'TORET', 'HEMATID'

Covers all but these valid words:

'AA', 'OE', 'ZA', 'QI', 'UH', 'AW', 'AY', 'BY', 'XU'
]
Colorado specifically opted out of the helmet law because the revenue generated from motorcycle tourists outweighs the federal subsidy.
This could be especially useful for any project where you don't really know much about your data set and you're just getting the lay of the land. Makes me want to throw some data from http://www.kaggle.com/ in there.
If you're saying logical thinking causes depression, you have the causation backward: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions...

For the record, logical, analytic, probabilistically correct thinking is only a way of reaching goals. The goals themselves cannot be established by means of logic, only deconflicted/clarified/etc. To think otherwise is illogical.
The rename problem is a real ugly bug. Lots of votes on the userecho.com site, but nothing has been done with it yet.

> I've yet to figure out how to open a project directory from the GUI, too.

What's wrong with File -> Open Folder or Project -> Open Project?
Oops, you're right. You do still have to make that statement under penalty of perjury that has never, to my knowledge, been enforced, about representing the rightsholder and having a good faith belief that something is infringing.
To be fair, TM is pretty ugly, too. ST2 with the Soda theme looks much more modern than TM.
There's a very good review of what it takes to build a state-of-the-art AI Scrabble player in the following paper (appears to be open-access, apologies if not):

World-championship-caliber Scrabble, Brian Sheppard, Artificial Intelligence, 134(1–2):241–275, 2002.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370201...

There's more to it than you might think. In particular, I was initially surprised about how much of the game is about rack management. Although I know this won't be a surprise to people who've played Scrabble seriously.
that's all well and good. the key is that you can sell an app easily given a unified interface. that beats everything that is being done on the web, hands down.

We have to understand that apps make money and that this is why people will have people write more apps, which will fuel the economy and (us) entrepreneurs. That someone will switch off the web at some point is somewhat unlikely and when the time comes, probably secondary.
It depends what you mean by solve. Scrabble, as a two-player game, has a significant branching factor compounded by the fact that the tile drawing makes it both a stochastic game as well as one with hidden information. Maven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven_(Scrabble) is an AI that can play Scrabble, and it's good, but it's certainly not "solved".

On the other hand, crossword puzzles are single-player games that use natural language wordplay to create a challenge. Some AI work has been done in this field, which can use a Web search engine (like Google) to try and determine the answer to each clue based on the clue (as well as any candidate words/letters already filled in). The hard part is understanding the clue. Look to systems like IBM's Watson to see how those kinds of problems can be solved.

"Solution" in a single player game, like a crossword puzzle, is solved in exactly one way: when all the rows and columns are filled with legal words (usually -- unless the author rigged it to allow clues to have multiple solutions, like the election day crossword in the NYT in 1996). A "solution" in a two-player game is when, no matter what move you make, your opponent knows perfect play. For example, checkers is solved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_(draughts_player)
"every piece of content ever released is easily pirate-able"

Tell that to the guys trying to crack propellerheads Reason 6.
The Greek Debt Crisis?  It's Facebook's Fault.
I agree that memorizing the words rather than the mnemonics is both easier and more interesting.

But if you can only memorize two words, go for "za" and "qi" - they come in really handy to get rid of a q or z. (za is an absurd short form of pizza, and qi is Chinese life energy, same as chi.)

I also recommend the handy words qat (the stimulant leaf) and waqf (an Islamic charitable donation). After you're challenged unsuccessfully on waqf, you can get away with anything :-)
I've been previously diagnosed with clinical depression (although I think I've managed to recover from it now, touch wood) and, stuff like this is so insanely difficult to process, let alone understand.

A depressed person faces not only the pressures of their own mind distorting their own reality, of their own feelings seemingly working against them and altering their behaviour; they face the pressure of friends and family who don't or can't understand what on earth it is they're suffering.

The more people can understand this and take it seriously, the (marginally) less difficult it will be for depressed people to seek help and not feel ashamed of suffering a 'mental illness'. And I know as far as my own experiences go, I wouldn't wish depression on my worst enemy.
He was repainting the living room of the apartment he was already living in. I took it to mean that he made the best of what he had.
Yes, the goal is for Divvy to be a step in your workflow where you get a feel for your data. We make it really easy to export the clusterings, embeddings and visualizations you come up with to csv and png for additional analysis with other tools.
It might be a myth but it still happens and it still hurts - I lost someone on the 28th of December 2009.
"Allen's rocket will be launched from a massive carrier
aircraft powered by six jumbo jet engines, to be
constructed by Scaled Composites, a unit of defense
contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. The rocket itself
will be made by private space company SpaceX,
founded by Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal."
PDF: A Warrior's Guide to Raising Money in the Battleﬁelds of the Silicon Valley
I tried it out. But there is no wow-factor. When TextMate came out it was amazing. Specially because BBEdit was so much behind. Now there are (have been) many competitors that are awesome, look modern, etc. Meh.
If you call the numbers given, is there any possibility they will call the police or otherwise interfere with you without your consent? Or is it a purely voluntary interaction in which they really just talk and listen?
Agreed. You really don't have to be a savant to memorize these. Only about half of them are non-obvious. Another quarter are just spellings of letters. And the last quarter might be obscure, but just playing a few games using the list and gaining all those points and I guarantee you'll have them down.
Support the RESTORE the American Dream for the 99% Act | Rebuild the Dream
Apps allow content provides to hide their data and only share it in a highly controlled environment. It's very unweb like, but appears that controlling a scare resource is profitable.
anyone else bummed that this one didn't include desura keys?
The signup form appears to have a issue. If the passwords don't match I get an error stating "Unable to create person: Email already exists" and I'm not able to continue.
Is there anything like this for desktop?
The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
CoreBluetooth 4.0 LE
Including a Bookmarklet, Save to Instapaper button and a print feature.
I'm a huge fan of koala for Facebook integration as well
But, I thought it was the "Most wonderful time of the year"!
>Not so. The Internet copies nothing. It's the ultimate (and not centrally controlled) _distribution_ machine.

It is the ultimate copy machine as much as distribution. Every time it distributes something it does so by making another copy.
Thank you! I am not a professional and there’s no particular reason that what I write is going to be helpful, and as others have pointed out, such appeals might sometimes be harmful.

In the end, my moral dilemna feels like the “Politician’s Fallacy:”

- Something must be done.

- This is something.

- Therefore we must do it.

But doing the wrong thing is often worse than doing nothing at all.
!! Quick and painless !!
Thanks!
Google Books: American English - 155 BILLION WORDS, 1810-2009
Google+ gets spam moderation/filtering
Twitter releases pycascading
The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file:

*.py diff=python

That should make --function-context work better on python source files.
If this is your idea of a great interface then you need help :-)

Seriously, as someone that works with sound and software synths a lot, it looks awful to me. What is it that you like about this?
Great UI with lots of polish and this leads to a great user experience. I love the way search history is displayed. A little 'clear history' option might be useful, but refreshing the page has the same effect. I'll be trying this for my next domain purchase.
This is the link to the Apps Preview. There are a limited number of slots for this preview: https://apps-preview.mozilla.org/
If you're one of the 95% of humans who live outside the US and Canada and you want to talk here is a list of numbers to call: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Would be great if I could leave comments on your site. I do see an email contact form, but I presume you don't want feedback that way.
They do numbered bundles AND special bundles. I mean, special bundles do not count towards the number of bundles. I don't know why they do this; looks confusing.
I can think of more reasons:

- app discoverability sucks ass

- apps require updates

- app development is unnecessarily tedious and must be done x number of times for x platforms

- iOS apps need to be approved by Apple, and you have to play the game by their rules if you want to charge money for them

- apps lack basic features of browsers - no universal find, no back/forward buttons, no bookmarking of pages or states, no organizing apps into tabs, etc.

Let's be honest: not counting games, the vast majority of the native apps out there would work just fine (or better) as websites. Add API's like access to the camera and there's even less reasons to develop a native app.

Apps will be relegated to games and highly sophisticated interfaces, which if I had to guess probably represents around 10% of all the apps out there (heck, most of the games out there could probably be done in the browser).
I've found that if the list is very large, using
list.par.map(...)
hits the memory limit & then simply hangs.

I process upwards of a million facilities ( a facility is the exposure on a commercial loan a bank makes to a client ), trying to forecast their expected loss over 12 future quarters.

I rewrote my code like so :

val facs:List[Facility] = ...populated via jdbc query ///

val N = 1000

facs.grouped(N).foreach( group => {

group.par.map( fac => expectedloss(fac)

})

Now the outer loop is sequential but the inner loop is parallel. It chugs along, and processes the entire million plus facilities! I get some control via the N. Currently my N is 1000 and all 8 cores running at 100% capacity, but I can slow down the workload with smaller N.
SO OVERDUE.
How have you written this? It's fast and has an interesting feel to it, but I don't recognize the JavaScript framework.

Also, how can I leave feedback from within the site?
I've being in your shoes. One of the _most_ effective thing for me was to talk to a mental health professional - it was by far the best investment I've made in myself in the last several years. After 5 sessions I was able to resolve many anxiety, guilt, worries and other issues.

My biggest mistake was postponing the decision to talk to somebody for several months out of false pride, thinking I'm able to handle it myself.
They (more precisely, individuals within the corporation) are not downloading their own material but other company's copyright material.
How large is cocaine powder?
This is one of the BEST bits I've seen him do.

"I have NEGATIVE five dollars. That means if something is free, I can't afford it!" Heheh, love his shows.
Angry birds?
I don't know if they're leaving or not (although probably plenty moved on ... many of us used to use Slashdot, digg, reddit etc) but at the least they're going to be heavily outnumbered - these days HN is a big, popular site with and a highly desirable source of traffic.
You're probably right. And you may find those who are breaking these rules are the ones entrusted (sysadmins) to uphold and enforce these rules.