skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be seen in python with (I had to dig into the docs for this, so here are the fruits of my labor :) )

import decimal

decimal.getcontext().prec=1000
dec = decimal.Decimal(1)/decimal.Decimal(998001)

#now doctor it up to see the numbers
strdec = str(dec)[2:] #chop off the '0.'
nums = zip(strdec[::3],strdec[1::3],strdec[2::3])
print nums
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Would someone care to explain the difference between red and black text in the image to me?
We will elaborate on why we did not sell in another post - it's a good question, with an important set of reasons. Thanks for the push.
I would really love an actual example of what he is talking about. Sure I can use my imagination, but it would make the post more interesting. It's a good point he makes, but concrete details always provide an excellent analytic touchstone.

Incidentally, this is a good trait (IMO) to instill in your kids. I love arguing with mine.
One of the biggest things that can get in the way of a useful debate, however, is pride.

There are a lot of employees that love to argue and, even once it is clear they are wrong, they will still argue for their point and refuse to back down.

This emerges even more around design decision when there is no clear right and wrong and two parties are battling for their ideas. Sadly, it is often said that those two argue the longest are the winners, regardless of who is right.

I would say passion and the ability to challenge everyone's ideas is extremely important, but you must combine it with humility and the ability to back down when you know you are wrong (or at least more wrong than the other).
thank you for the clarifications. those weren't as evident in my reading of the original post.

i understand this was no easy decision, but I do feel the original post was far more about your emotional decisions behind it, and not enough about the existing paying customer perspective.

thank you again.
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I'm all for making well designed, useful products. But refusing to (at least) sell the product to another company because you weren't sure they "would do do right by our customers and the industry" just seems dumb to me.
flippa.com is basically that, sort of.
Wow, this is a great insight into the character of this guy. It would be hilarious if he meant to be satirical, but I guess he didn't (at least not entirely). Just a quick translation of the first two:

This is Kimble at the keyboard...
Send me your opinions, questions and suggestions regarding:
Should Kimble start a religion and become a god?!

(after some groaning responses)

To all who didn't get it the first time, I'm Kimble.
I turn poor, <sexually> unsatisfied, boring me-too pseudo hackers......
into rich, <sexually> successful, interesting SUPER-HACKERS.

Buy my new book "how can I become a very super hacker" <intentionally
poor grammar> or "meat loaf with potatoes"

<in english> Join DATA PROTECT now.... BUSINESS RULEZ....
feel free to call any time

Wow, as entertaining as this guy is, I think we might be spending too much time with this. And by "we" I clearly mean myself. It's just that he reminds me of those "hacking" bullshitters I used to know in high school, only he probably never grew out of it...
In my humble opinion, I think this was a genius move. There comes a point where "the internet" can simply generate things faster (and sometimes even better) then a static team of people. Good job CodeAcademy.
AT&T CEO Blasts FCC, Hints At Higher Prices & Data Restrictions
> London is a mix of inner London where public transport is very good and outer London (Zone 5+) where you are car dependent but you absolutely can get away with using car rental when you need it most of the time. The problem is public transport largely stops at midnight (apart from night buses).

Not to mention that automobile traffic strangles the bus lines. Bank (Zone 1) and Manor House (Zone 2/3) are approximately 5 miles apart. The 141 bus runs a direct route between them. On a good day, the journey takes 45 minutes. Taking the tube (Northern Line -> Piccadilly) will hardly shave any time off the journey and turn it into an unpleasant, claustrophobic experience.

The decision to cut down the congestion zone and divert a lane from an East-West artery for the Olympics is sure to make public transport just peachy.
Teens send Lego man into space with DIY balloon, take video and pics
In the not so distant future, people will pick the state they choose to live in based on Internet freedom.
Tawkify, the dating startup with more women than men
> It is probably worth making sure that nuance is communicated

We live in an entirely nuance-free culture. We have an electoral campaign where candidates are being attacked for speaking basic French. Where an electorally significant percentage of the population believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 and that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.

When the US government is unable to successfully impart basic factual knowledge, basing a political campaign on anything with the slightest element of ambiguity or nuance is madness.
I was searching for some iOS documentation and found this and it's totally ruined my productivity!

Can anyone explain why it repeats in this way, or link to a place that has an explanation?
Nah. You're growing up and getting jaded.

I'd suggest for people who are bored with coding to get a good deal more hardcore:

- move into academia (why not apply your sweet coding skills to graduate school - academia needs better coders!)

- work on seriously harder problems

- find a position that does more than glue

Me, I don't have a very exciting or glamorous job, and I've put together some programs - fairly simple ones! - which don't appear to be replicated anywhere online.

If your idea of excitement is blitting bytes onto a screen, the embedded systems world is waiting and there are jobs in there.
Here is the site: http://coretransformation.org/. The book is very good. There are videos of the sessions on YouTube, but they are not explaining the process.
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Just what we needed! We were just planning on adding similar functionality into our Backbone app. I check Hacker News an hour later, and there it is!

Looking forward to seeing the offline sync helper you mentioned in another thread.
It's hard to say what the net effect is. It's true that such attacks give the government an effective, if fallacious, argument: "we cannot give in to blackmail". On the other hand, large-scale media coverage started only after the Anonymous hacked the government websites. Before the attacks, the Polish media were not interested in ACTA. This in turn helped mobilize politicians from opposition parties and, I think, also the protesters.
Red ones are notes, black ones are the main content.
Thanks! At first glance, it seems useful.

NOTE TO SELF: Come up with another startup idea! :(
Reusable collapsable table view for iOS
Dating your way into debt
Hey, thanks! NOT what one wants to wake up to, esp just 2 days before we planned to move to our new DB system. Amazing timing by the chaos gods!
Surely you don't think the only reason people do research and advance science is due to hope of compensation?
Have to disagree with you here. Sometimes the process is rewarding in itself. For example, someone who writes and edits on a typewriter is going to have to hone her craft and mental editing to a certain level where writing by typewriter is efficient and rewarding. She might then wonder what is lost when people switch to the powerful word processors we have today...but those people are having the excitement of focusing their mental resources on creating new types (and quantities) of writing rather than fighting against the physical constraints of their machine.

The excitement is still there, it's just at a different phase in the process.
Good we have PATCH[1] now ;) .

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514845
You are paying for the ads that support the radio station when you buy any advertised product or donate to a political campaign that buys ads. The radio station pays to play the song. You are paying artists to listen to their music on the radio.
Several bugs exist in this article, which I'd report directly if they had some means of feedback other than a Facebook page.

First, they claim that "Both iOS and Android only support MP4 video. This will remain the case for any mobile device...", but Android has supported WebM since 2.3.3, and supports streaming of WebM in 4.0 and newer.

They also continue to count Chrome as supporting MP4, despite Google announcing that they've dropped support for it, just because they haven't actually ended the transition period yet.

The table for fullscreen APIs still shows an X for Firefox, despite Firefox supporting fullscreen since Firefox 10.

The section on adaptive streaming only mentions the standard use of range requests as a footnote, otherwise implying a lack of streaming support. It also claims (incorrectly) that Android can't usefully do streaming at all.
I don't have a python shell available... what happens after 999?
Even if that means selling it or passing it on when you can't carry the torch yourself.

Isn't that what they are doing with their CampaignMonitor partnership?
The transfer overhead would only need to happen once if there's a sequence of GPU-able primitives, though. The dataflow analysis for that isn't too hard.

I'll check ispc out too, thanks. My fork* is using some SSE, via GCC-specific extensions (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html). It could be special-cased into Kona as-is, but I've found a better way to implement scalars than the elaborate preprocessor hack I did there. (Besides, tuning the reference counting would probably have a bigger impact, something like Deutsch-Bobrow at least.)

* It's not on github, yet; I don't usually post things there until they're reasonably usable end-to-end. My kona fork is mostly for pull requests; I'm talking about a completely new implementation.

Would you like to continue this discussion off HN? My contact info is in my profile.
There are tons of local maxima today. They're called niches. Find yours and you can be a hero there.
Airbnb: 5 million nights booked
They don't have much choice when their business is built on top of Google traffic :\
PKI considered harmful
The link is blocked at my workplace. I really don't understand how their filter system works.
I think the "remote sync" label is misleading. It will sync properly if the remote host is accessible. If you create something offline, it will never sync it back to the remote host when the connectivity is restored. It will stay local and might lead to problems down the road (when updating a locally created record, the remote host will not know about it)
I see a lot of great (spectacular in some cases) videos being posted on vimeo. Most of these are as you said, young people with 5Ds making short films. However, it is still a leap of imagination to think that people will switch to shorter content over films and TV.
The period is 2997, so set precision to 2997 if you want to see the repeat. Also, "998" doesn't appear 'in sequence' (it obviously appears as 97[9 98]0 981).
thats the idea right there! a startup idea generator!

http://itsthisforthat.com

oh shit :/
Ålenkå.

Yep, perfectly typable. Though I did have to look up the deadkey for ˚ as it's not a diacritic I use often (Option-K on the Mac OS X US Extended keymap; on Windows or Linux US International keymaps you can do it without a deadkey as Right-Alt W, or on the Mac US keymap as Option-A).

I highly recommend that people use and learn the "extended" or "international" keymaps on their system, so they can learn how to type these sorts of characters easily. As more and more systems are Unicode enabled, and you interact with more people internationally who would prefer their names to be spelled properly, it's a useful skill to have (and doesn't really take much work).
Same here! For the category 'pornography'...
Terabytes is starting to be expensive to mirror, in terms of bandwidth and storage.
It's an aggregator of sorts, but with a twist. There's a game-like trading platform, which aims to be the revenue stream.

Doing it this way means that PPC or advertising is irrelevant, and therefore the businesses wanting the visibility get it without the cost.
you could hire a team and literally outsource entire project. You could easily sell it for 10x fold and score $1MM to use for you current or future projects.

Way easier said than done.
It has never been easier for a programmer to translate an idea into reality and see their work impacting the lives of others in a short period of time. It has also never been easier for a programmer to support themselves on projects of their own choosing.

There is plenty of drudgery in programming. But there is also plenty of drudgery in rock climbing, being an astronaut, or deep sea diving. If you choose experiences in any endeavor that are all drudgery and mundanity then of course you will experience an absence of excitement. It is silly to pretend that isn't a choice.
Very cool. What a great way to discover neat places.
Is there a number f(n) such that 1/f(n) yields all n-digit numbers, and is there a formula f to generate them?
You've got an extra ) on the 'nums = .....'
First, understand that I am not suggesting you or others like you are wrong, if you are happy then cool.

But... I simply cannot understand the desire to live in such close proximity to large numbers of other people. Never ever again will I subject myself to high density living. I live in a suburb and simply hate having to go downtown especially when there are big events going on. The bars are crowded, eating establishments are packed, noisy has hell. Won't do it, you can't make me!

I like the quiet, I like being able to walk into a suburban bar and not have to shoulder my way through a crowd to try to find a seat if one is even available. It's nice to simply walk in, sit down on a bar stool and actually hear the game on the TV. I like not having the noise of a city outside my window when I sleep.

The greatest freedom of all is that either of us can make the choice of what lifestyle suits us.
It repeats.

EDIT: Um... I answered the good man's question. Could someone explain why this correct answer was voted down so I may improve it? I recognize that it is short, but that's really all there is too it. It's a decimal expansion, not a border collie.
You can see it at Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F998001
Using the Vibrator
Martha Stewart didn't go to prison for insider trading. She got convicted because she talked to the Feds (the charges were obstructing justice and lying to investigators). Never talk to the Feds. In her case it was probably ego that did her in, not access to good legal advice.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/05/news/companies/martha_verdic...

"The conviction came exactly a week after U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum threw out the most serious charge against Stewart -- securities fraud -- which carried a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

The charge -- which the judge had called "novel" during the trial -- accused Stewart of using her own statements that she was innocent as a ploy to mislead investors in her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia."
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Live hard, pivot hard
Drchrono (YC W11) raises $2.8 Million for iPad Health Record Platform
> But in Hawaii, everyone rents a car, drives it the ten minutes from the airport to the hotel, parks it at the hotel, leaves it there for a week, then drives it back to the airport to get home.

When I was in Hawaii I took shuttles but my friends rented a car. One day I hitched a ride with them to a trailhead and we took a tropical hike that ended up being the absolute high point of the trip for me. It was remote and I'm pretty sure no public transportation went there.
It's called a catchy headline.
seems like an unsustainable business model to me.
Android accounted for less than 19% of Q4 smartphone sales at AT&T
Also covered on techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/drchrono-raises-2-8m-from-y...
I teach computer programming to beginners for a living, and I love the idea of a prose-like book aimed to be accessible to them. However, it's much, much harder than it sounds. You do an excellent job of addressing the programming concepts themselves in the text, but there's a lot more to it than that.

First, and foremost, I'm not sure who your target reader is. Judging by the jargon you use, I'm not sure he exists. Someone who has never programmed before is almost definitely not going to know how to "go back to [his] terminal [and] run the program with the command ruby closet.rb," or even how to "open up a new file called closet.rb in [his] text editor." If he's a Windows user, he probably don't even have Ruby installed. Further, a beginning programer probably does not understand why he cannot easily/should not use Microsoft Word as his text editor.

On the other hand, someone who knows how to do all of this probably understands the basics of programming. I'm not sure they'd want to read this chapter and wade through a few dozen paragraphs of prose to learn how to use the standard input, output, and string concatenation in Ruby. I doubt this is your target reader.

If you're aiming for the first programmer, you probably want a dedicated programming environment to start them off. It could be as simple as a "djinn package" that installs a basic text editor with Ruby syntactical highlights and the command line tools, but a big red "run this program" button on the editor is always nice. You can wean them off of the custom editor later.

Also, you'll almost definitely want to include the most basic an intro to debugging code. A book is non-interactive, and you have to prepare for the event that nobody can say, "Oh, 'Unterminated string meets end of file' means you forgot a double quote here on line 3," to the user. Perhaps have the narrator make a mistake, the genie correct him, and talk about why the computer wants strings to have double quotes. Or something.

It's a great start, but you just need to get past a few more pitfalls.

edit: Fixed a few grammar issues. Also, I'm Math/CS teacher and currently teach 8th through 12th graders.
> Given that Microsoft is still a big enough name in the world of computing, this hate/ignorance can only be attributed to being fanboys/girls of other platforms/corporations.

That's a ridiculous claim. The only way that anyone could hate Microsoft is if they are a fanboy for a Microsoft competitor?
I'll never buy a car from GM. Does that mean I must be a fanboy for Ford, or Toyota, or some other car company?

Sometimes people have a bad experience (or bad experiences) with a company. And sometimes people just don't happen to like the same things as you.
I think their definition of "Open Source" and our definition of "Open Source" is a just a little bit different.
And if I skip the ads or if the ads never influence me to buy anything, then what?
It's time people realize who the supporters behind ACTA are. Here's one: http://www.inta.org/Press/Pages/EUsignsACTA.aspx

INTA represents amongst others our good friends Rackspace, eBay, GoDaddy (surprise!), Yahoo, Microsoft, etcetera.
I thought of this after we hired @qrush. He instantly started arguing with everyone about everything from technology choices to feature selection and I thought to myself, "that's so awesome". And then I thought that we've had a long history of hiring people like that and how well it's worked out.

And at the same time, how less than stellar it worked out elsewhere both for myself and others who fell under the spark-on-the-first-day column.
You're valuing a designer, marketer and programmer at $50K/yr each?
Very cool. I wrote something similar a while back: https://github.com/napoleond/localModel

My implementation leaves a lot to be desired with regards to re-use (there are certain project requirements which happened to be met by the project I built it for) but it does nicely manage automatic replication of the most recent version of models between server and client.

As far as I can tell, this implementation reads from the local model if it exists, otherwise it loads from the server? And writes always go to the server unless explicitly told otherwise?
That might not be the only reason for people, for companies however it would be silly to spend money without hoping to get it back somehow.
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Yep, there sure are. One rather famous individual is T. V. Raman, I believe who currently works at Google Research.

It's amazing how far screen reading and other technologies for the visually impaired have come along, more of a reason for me to consider accessibility over aesthetics when doing web development.
This has been done before. But, as we know, being early is the same as being wrong.
If by physics you mean the class, then I wouldn't exactly call it exciting. It's been years and I don't find myself doing arbitrary physics experiments just for fun. If you're talking about something else (like physics engines for a game), then you should clarify.

Legos? They didn't have any staying power. It was amusing at times to snap them together, but that was years and years ago when I was a kid. I sure don't own any now. It was fun to help a friend make some pixel art with it a couple of years ago, but all alone it would have been boring.

It seems we may have stumbled across a fundamental difference here.
I apologize if this is a bit long:

The answer can be found in the supplementary information to the article here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/nl203701g/suppl_file/n...

In short, they grew the nanotubes on a quarts crystal, transferred them with tape quite randomly to gates already made on a Si-wafer and then etched and metalized around these gates. They then tested a large amount of devices to find ones where a nanotube of the right kind (semiconducting) had placed itself in a correct alignment with the gate and metalized contacts (source and drain). Once they knew what devices were working they imaged some of the working devices with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and did a bunch of standard transistor measurements.

As was commented earlier, the specific growth of nanotubes in a well defined position is not easily achieved. There is IMO a long time until anyone can do a full chip where nanotubes grow exactly where one wants the transistors. It might even be that graphene is a more convenient technology for just this reason (since graphene can be grown somewhat more conveniently by annealing SiC wafers). A side note I guess is that growing nanotubes and pillars vertically can be done in specific spots on a wafer, but that makes manufacturing of the gate a bit problematic. And I do not know wheter carbon nanotubes can be grown selectively this way.
I actually use apt-get because I like to keep my system with the least amount of packages installed. I don't need any of the "recommended" packages, and if I do I'd install them manually.

Also, I usually use deborphan to find orphaned packages and remove them, if apt-get autoremove didn't find them.