skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great idea in general. As an aside, when I first discovered Project Gutenberg I thought it was really exciting, but as I've grown up my perspective has changed: it feels like a desperate attempt to scrape together something like what used to be recognizable as culture from cast-off bits of art that capitalism can no longer commodify.

Same with FLOSS and Creative Commons. They are at the same time wonderful, and yet seem to be the products of a reality in which every relevant part of our so-called cultural identity is owned by a corporation.

I have an idea that the "creative commons" used to exist and that sometime in the 20th century it became hopelessly barren.
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> project genesis

It was a big company: I pretty much saw the entire scale of formal defn to skunk project.
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This article hits close to home. Two points:

* On copycats: When I release something on HN I get a couple tweets or private emails where the sender basically tells me "hey, I'm going to copy your idea/site/layout/whatever. Just thought you should know." Which is fine because I don't think anything I've done is uniquely original. It is a little weird though to get a heads-up each time.

* I am incredibly candid in my communications about my projects ("startups"). I enjoy the transparency. It makes for a good learning experience, both for others and myself. Lately I've been extra-transparent, though I'm starting to get a feel for when it's time to reel it in.

So, thanks for this -- it really made me sit and think about how I should take care not to divulge something that is key, even if it seems obvious to me. Others might not have found it so obvious or would not have pursued it if they hadn't been handed the answers.
This is a fantastic idea! I am working with high-school students for the First Robotics Competition and would love to introduce them to 3D modeling and printers, which I know would be a great motivation for them (they already know how to use many hand tools). Two big handicaps, though: (i) knowledge about using 3D printers are not common (myself included) and (ii) although they're relatively cheap, it's hard to justify buying them because one cannot easily point to a concrete project that can be done, i.e. see (i).

Therefore, it would be great if students have access to such tools, but more importantly knowledgeable people who would introduce them to doable projects.
Crikey, a downvote for wanting to make the world a better place? Is that really justified?
My issue with that approach is that it's hard to know whether you're actually using monads if you don't really understand what they are.
We wrote a Naive Bayes Classifier for http://linktamer.com/ that learns what news articles you find interesting. It's in C and uses a cdb for the database of frequencies, so it's pretty darn fast. Maybe we'll throw it up on github one of these days.

Some resources and other reference implementations that were useful in building it:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-spam-filter.html - Siebel's "Practical Common Lisp" book has a very readable implementation

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html - pg's essay that revived interest in using NBC for spam classification

http://spambayes.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/spambayes/trunk/... - a Python implementation that's been out there in the real world for about 10 years

https://github.com/WinnowTag/winnow/blob/master/src/classifi... - a C implementation used in another news classifier
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You might want to take a look at my implementation. I use the content of the linked sites via viewtext.org. This is probably more reliable.
It would be REALLY interesting to flip this model.

In other words, AT&T redistributes a portion of their subscription revenue to app makers based on the bandwidth they get people to use.

Then, app makers would have a direct financial incentive to drive usage, without all the hassles of explicit billing.
Amazon probably either explicitly hedges already or does so implicitly by "purchasing" a forward contract for shipping rates from UPS. The risk of varying fuel costs exists no matter who takes ownership of it.
The collapse of Megavideo added attracted an additional 200 gbps to their network alone.

OVH is expanding into Canada too. Makes me quiet scared. They are like the walmart of the data industry.

Shame free's online.net is not competing outside of France.
And if you're a startup-owner then you obey a bunch of people called "customers". There is nobody who is free of all relationships.
There's also the money you save but not stepping foot in a store. That is, you don't throw extra items in your cart out of temptation.
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Bret's talk has the potential to transform lives.

But anyone has any idea how to do something like that on iOS/Xcode?
Ask HN: alternatives to Balsamiq Mockups?
I've been using Balsamiq Mockups for two years now but lately I've found myself becing increainsgly disatisfied with the product. The reason is that I lack certain interactivity features that would make life so such easier, e.g. having widgets you can actually interact with when in preview mode or be able to design a carousel in one single mockup file and not having to create one mockup for each content pane.

These types of interactivity aren't eye candy or "fun" things to have, but rather pretty crucial when rapidly creating prototypes and their nonexistence makes me groan each time I launch Mockups.

So I'm looking for alternatives to Balsamiq Mockups that has the same look and feel (lo-fi, faux paper prototyping) but embraces the things I've mentioned (Balsamiq seems to have taken a stand against this).
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But more bandwidth usage is exactly what AT&T doesn't want.
So you're intelligent if you don't demand an NDA?
I wouldn't think that the whole of PG would be a single repository. What came to mind when I read the article was that each book would be in its own repository, and that seems to me to be well within Git's capabilities.
This is really cool. One problem I've noticed with real time evaluation is infinite loops. I've played with an realtime javascript editor/evaluator and I inadvertently locked the browser (and the editor) when writing code. Imagine writing a "while (true)" loop and it evaluates before you've finished the break condition.
I had the exact opposite experience with sonic.net service and customer service. I got unbearably slow speeds with disconnects more than once per hour, no help from customer support (they tried, just nothing helped anything), it was a pain to cancel, and I had my credit card charged even after canceling.

I switched to Comcast and got faster-than-rated speeds at a totally reasonable price.
ClojureScript compiler being written in Clojure is a huge disadvantage. It should be written in JavaSript or ideally self-hosting. That way for this project you wouldn't need the server and when its hosted somewhere there is no need to the compile round-trip each time the code changes. Also as a plus you'd have eval!
I think you're confused. I just tried this in a few shells.

It works in Bash on Cygwin and OS X.

touch "file with spaces"
for f in *; do if [[ -f $f ]]; then echo file: $f; fi; done;

This echoes one line for "file with spaces".
The "convert file into arguments" trick is useful, but a "while read/do" loop would be better:

cat file | while read INPUT
do
command "$INPUT"
done

... which will read the entire line from 'file' into the shell variable "$INPUT", inclusive of whitespace. If you need to do further parsing, of course, you can do that within the loop.

Trap: since you're creating a subshell (at least in bash/Bourne), variables defined within the loop are NOT defined after it exits.
That should appeal the the crowd here, but we've got the data up on our service that can be exported to many other formats, including KML.

http://market.weogeo.com/?query=census&lat=37.20852&...

It is always good though to see governments try and make using their data easier. Quite a shift...
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I think the other thing that's missing from this is that Amazon's customer service is really very good. I'll spend the extra dollars buying something from Amazon than, say, one of their third-party merchants, because I know Amazon will take care of me if anything bad happens.
That's the general point of the discussion, I think: trying to get yourself into a position where you have the most personal freedom, even if there is no such thing as perfect freedom.

I agree "slave" is being a bit overdramatic in most cases, though. I'd only really apply the metaphor to desperate people who really have no choice but to work a shitty job with no alternatives or prospects of escape (the quasi-indentured-servitude 19th-century working conditions that led to the term "wage slavery" being coined, and today applying to some migrant farm laborers and similar). But I saw the post using it mostly as a half-joking counterpoint to the "quit your wage-slave job and start a startup!" sentiment that gets passed around a lot.
Congratulations to the Cove team!

--

I wonder if talented, experienced, and coveted engineers and designers in the Valley right now (read: talent frenzy) can start their own stealth companies and reasonably plan towards a relatively early stage acquisition, be it for talent, technology integration, or both. But it seems to be a growing trend that wouldn't be as possible in a downturn or when talent isn't so scarce.

If they work on a technology and business they want to be working on anyways that will integrate with several potential buyers, it seems like it hedges start up risk and offers more upside (impact, financial, and otherwise) than merely jumping from one company to a more senior role at some other company where you have a little more say in what you work on and can negotiate 10-20% more compensation, excluding equity, when you jump jobs. These sort of jumps have a completely different cost-benefit profile than starting your own company. It seems like potential benefit is uniquely outsized nowadays.

Choosing to not raise seed capital seems like an option if you plan to exit in less than a year and have the savings to do so. And by not raising capital, an acquisition this quickly seems far more aligned with everyone's interests and cannot be slowed or prevented by any investors holding out for a larger exit.
Putting together IKEA furniture is boring. Truly a first world problem if there ever was one.
This is Amazon's Whispernet tied to service instead of device, and it is certainly, "fair."

We don't expect users to pay service fees to get Kindle books delivered.
Sorry it's my fault! I found your submission on reddit and thought it deserved to be shared - it didn't come to my mind you'd rather submit here by yourself.
All is not lost, and the start-up shouldn't despair, for a couple of reasons:

1. It's not unknown for acquisition deals to get put on the back burner for a while, even a year or two. That happened to my former company when it was acquired. (This history was publicly disclosed in my company's proxy filing with the SEC [1].)

2. The Company's lawyers are likely to tell them, forcefully, to be very careful about trying to redevelop the technology, precisely because of the NDA.

Suppose that The Company didn't use completely different people (a "clean room" approach) to redevelop the technology. In that case, a jury might not believe they really did it independently.

In a somewhat-similar situation in the mid-1990s, Rockwell International got tagged by a jury for almost $58 million for breach of an NDA with a small start-up company concerning circuitry for improving data transmission rates over analog cell phones. (Disclosure: I was co-counsel for Rockwell at the trial.) [1]

(To be sure, The Company's engineers and executives might well convince themselves that they really did redevelop the technology independently, without using the start-up's confidential information. That could make it difficult to settle the case: The important decision makers might sincerely believe The Company didn't do anything wrong.)

[1] http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?...

[2] Celeritas v. Rockwell, http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/federal/judicial/fed/opinions/9...

[edited]
> Working a 8/9-5/6 job is historically an aberration

Very much so. It used to be from dawn until dusk.

When hours were first instituted, it was always compared to farm work, since that was understood to be the hardest work possible.

EDIT: I see there's a lot of academicians with opinions. Anyone here grow up on a farm? Would you like to tell us about how easy the work is?
Congrats to the folks from Cove! I am guessing their are lots of Facebook companies yet to come.
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Never having to go to Best Buy again is worth the Prime membership alone.
China netizens 'occupy' Obama's G+ page
Heh, thanks for the link, I had actually seen your site before but wasn't able to find it again.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but I should make it clear that we're not a government-affiliated entity.
Google's cloud-based machine learning tools
Not quite. It's more like: You're not intelligent if you think an NDA is worth a damn (as the article shows.)
Subtle JavaScript Date gotcha
I'm pretty sure that the author of the article didn't mean to imply that you should actually define monads explicitly in Python and start using them in your code. That would be inelegant, far from idiomatic, and mostly pointless, since Python doesn't type-check your code like Haskell does, and most of the advantages of an explicit Monad class arise from its usage in the presence of a strong type system.

The example snippet was likely just an illustrative example, using Python merely because it's a more widely understood language than Haskell. If he wrote it in Haskell, then not only would it be redundant (since monads are already defined in that language), but it would be less comprehensible to the intended audience of new and non-Haskell programmers.
self-hosting only gets you bragging rights and neat demos - it offers little advantage for real applications targeting JavaScript. That said, ClojureScript now implements most of Clojure - if someone wanted to bootstrap ClojureScript for fun it wouldn't be much work, go for it.
Yep, and I like it more than Jenkins, I think...
I've had Prime for almost a year and a half now, and I've spent well into the 5 figures on Amazon as a result. I'm not sure I've always saved money, but the fact that I can get damn near everything in no more than a day has just been great. I've bought desks, chairs, monitors, computers, etc and had them all the next day for $4. There's just no way to beat that, in my mind.
Shipping is a tough business. You need lots of trucks, ramp space at airports, and lose the ability to cherry pick what states you operate in.

Consider that despite billions in investments, both DHL before they went away and FedEx Ground today are still not as good as UPS.
Shove it on GitHub, it's edit in-browser functionality means it is accessible to non-techies. Problem solved.

All it needs is someone to pick a master format for the text and run with it. That should be someone with enough domain knowledge to choose wisely. I would say something like markdown with embedded metadata (like how you format a blog post with jekyll), but I admit I don't know anything about the requirements of the project.
The thing about the buying on Amazon vs. anywhere else, even if its more expensive:

In the vast, vast majority of cases that I've price shopped elsewhere, Amazon is almost always the cheaper option. And if they're more expensive, it's generally by only a dollar or two (also depending on how their pricing algorithm is working that day - I've had times where I've checked in the morning, then come back to buy in the afternoon and there's a whole $5 difference). This leads to the phenomenon of, if you shop on Amazon a fair bit (which Prime's obviously do, but I bet a lot of other "non-Primes" do too), you will probably reach a point where you just quit spending the extra time to price-shop and just buy the thing you're looking for. You end up saving even more that way because you now have more time for other things.

All that to say - I think just identifying Prime members with this behavior is a little narrow in focus. My guess is that there are a whole lot of other customers who fit this pattern, but don't have Prime, and I bet there would be some value in pursuing that analysis deeper!
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PJAX looks awesome; only discovered that by chance over the weekend (on HN, no less), but a bit late for the post.

Great to see so many projects encouraging adoption of this.
Gotcha, might have been a little bit of me reading more into it. Awesome stuff still!
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Is farming brain-dead chickens more ethical?
Really digging your attitude - Awesome! This could be one of the coolest implementations of the freemium model I have seen yet.
The iGrill, what's next?
Amazon Prime is wonderful -- I'll price-compare for many purchases (at least as far as googling the name, and if it's a huge purchase, eBay, although eBay is basically useless at this point and has been for several years). It also drives me to buy from Amazon.com LLC vs. Amazon marketplace sellers, or at least to stick to marketplace sellers who themselves offer Prime shipping.

The only problem with Amazon Prime is that I sometimes annoy my officemates by ordering lots of random small items (thus, the UPS/FedEx guy ends up coming every day, sometimes multiple times, and covers my desk with small boxes...) Road flares, dish detergent, whipped cream chargers, ... lots of ORM-D stuff. Plus anything electronic or kitchen appliance.
When the community discussed the need to have some app to strip websites of all the annoying visual garbage on them, wham! A bunch of different really cool sites do that now.

Does anbody know what he is referring to? Does he simply mean instapaper, readability and the likes, or are there some other interesting solutions out there?
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I had an Amazon Mom membership which is basically free Amazon Prime for those who qualify, (think buying baby strollers, etc.) It was a great service and I did buy much more frequently. Recently they downgraded the Amazon Mom perks and as such I now think twice about purchasing from Amazon due to the shipping prices and lag time. Had they not changed their TOS I probably would end up giving them much more of my money in the long run.
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Totally agree. This is a much better approach.
The question every entrepreneur should be asking themselves here is, "How can I create the same kind of fervor that Amazon did by introducing Prime?"

Amazon generates 130% more business per subscriber just by losing a mere $11/subscriber. Those are numbers that anyone could salivate at.
This is interesting. I am surprised that amazon spends only $55 extra a year on shipping per prime user. This past month alone I've received ~30 packages, all 2 day free shipping from amazon prime. This included some very large objects like a rowing machine, and some small items like a ream of paper. Last year I had a 3'x3'x2' next day aired for 4 dollars in time for Christmas. If I were to try shipping these items the cost would be in the $300-$400 dollar range (for one month).

It's easy to think of something I need, hit amazon, select prime eligible, and buy in a matter of 3 clicks...No worry about cost or when it will be at my door.

Amazon must have a pretty good deal going with UPS (& FedEx for next day air).
I think the headline is a bit misleading.
As far as i can read this is more about googles Content ID that is to blame.
I didn't read anywhere that an actual DMCA takedown notice was filed against him.

I do agree however that Content ID is a consequence of DMCA which again just shows how obnoxious us politics has become. And unfortunately also appearing in Europe now :S
I've lived in a poor neighborhood in Texas where hearing gunshots and sirens was not unusual and where several friends were attacked by a gang in a well lit WalMart parking lot.

Some poor neighborhoods really are dangerous.
I wonder if you could change the Vignere cipher to be homophonic. Would that be harder to decrypt than a standard homophonic cipher?
Most of the verge commenters seem disappointed at the news. Most of hacker news commenters seem delighted at the news.

Seems like consumers trust Google a lot more than hackers.
"I didn't put it up on heroku because the latency kills the real-time aspect of it."

There is your advantage, if it was self-hosting then this wouldn't be an issue.
Something like Github's "forking with the edit button"[1] functionality would be perfect for this. If you want to make a correction, press a button to see the content you were looking at in a web-based editor. Make your changes, and add your email address to a notification field. Changes go into an approval queue, and you get an email if/when your change goes live. No need to expose the casual user to the perils of DVCS, though of course a "proper" git-based infrastructure would exist in parallel for people who want more control.

[1] https://github.com/blog/844-forking-with-the-edit-button
Poll: What do you think of Startup America?
Trying to gauge what the HN world thinks of this government program.

Startup America's goals are: "1. Provide valuable resources and connections to help young companies grow. 2. Support regional startup ecosystems throughout the country. 3. Recognize startups as the drivers of our economy and their founders as American heroes."
Excited and involved.
Heard about it, kind of curious.
Heard about it, not interested.
Skeptical.
No opinion yet. (Never heard of it)
This is also a classic bigger-company horror story -- when the developers who said "this isn't so hard, we can do it ourselves" start working on it and run into all the tiny little gotchas that aren't evident in due diligence.

Maybe I've just been exposed to a weird sample, but I've heard 'we can do it ourselves' at least a half-dozen times over my career and not once has anyone actually done it themselves.
I think the point is exactly that.
Given that we often double-contracted with Kroll, in two cases a Russian security firm, and in one case directly commissioned a satellite feed (European/no down graining), I can call out your claim as being categorically false within the realm of my experience.

Note that STRATFOR isn't quite as badass as it's being painted - they aren't an ersatz intelligence agency. They're a team of analysts working through existing information networks. The deep dig intelligence consultants are at other firms.
Isn't this sort of counter to open source and free software and the tools that many of us use daily? I mean half the tools we use are free and given away. Ruby, Linux, gcc, etc. What if the guys behind those projects never shared their ideas or gave things away for free? I mean it seems sort of hypocritical. I hope this doesn't come off as negative, but it just struck me that way.
My sister gave me a $25 BestBuy gift card last Christmas. I went to BestBuy, and found that for each of the 3 different things that I needed, I would spend less by buying it on Amazon, even with the gift card. Tax software, for instance, was $49.99 at BestBuy, $16.99 on Amazon.
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