skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, business logic and UI are distinct creative tasks. While one may enjoy both not everyone does, also requirements based design for business logic is a different mental processes than user story based flows for UI. One is very concrete and the other is known to be pretty mushy until the user actually touches it and sees how it responds. There are developers who do not like to iterate through fuzzy details and prefer very concrete data contracts. So they are very happy to stay on the other side of the REST contract. The good part is once they get a glimpse of the new world, they realize how much better it is for all parties involved. It's one of the few evolutions I have seen in the tech world where the grass truly is greener, on the other side, for all parties.
Ask HN: big data sets to play around with?
I want to gain some experience programming some machine learning techniques with large data sets. Something for fun like trying to predict the stock market, etc.

Does anyone know of some relatively accessible sets of large data that one could get a hold of for free? Anything like past financial history, to tweets or facebook posts, whatever.

Cheers
This is one app that is aimed at simplicity/ease of use and at same time maintain the flavor of social driven motivation. My wife and I have been using it for quite some-time. We often go out to do something motivated by seeing others doing something. I really like the simplicity of this app without losing the purpose.
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I think the idea is to replace other types of work with fewer hours of client work. Eg you can get some big wins by hiring a personal assistant and cleaning service to handle stuff on the "fixed personal commitments side", outsource some of the product work, etc.
Found a replacement for HN yet? I promise not to degrade its discourse with stupid stuff. :-)
I didn't know it, thanks!
VuongN, Thanks for taking the time to provide great feedback. We'll fix it tonight.
I'm hoping Apple is waiting for this to be ready before they update the Mac Pro hardware.
As it is right now, I have a unique email address setup for Facebook on one of my domains. If anyone sends email to it other than Facebook, it gets instantly marked as spam.... I only wonder why I'm giving Facebook a pass and not marking their emails as spam too.
Interestingly (to me), this is Technically GPL incompatible, since it adds additional restrictions beyond what the GPL requires.
This is great! I'm doing some stuff with SICP in Clojure, and this should be helpful for that.

Btw, I was wondering if Dr. Racket's style of automatic parens-closing by just repeatedly pressing ']' (regardless of '(','{','[') makes anyone else wish other editors supported that feature.
I've done something similar with an IFTTT recipe, where I can email the URL of a .torrent file and it will be automatically added to a folder in my Dropbox. Then I have my torrent client setup to watch that folder for .torrent files. This works nicely when I'm not at my computer and want to start downloading something.

Here's the recipe: http://ifttt.com/recipes/100
How creativity works
There is also a book: http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0547386079

Recommended few times in HN, but the video should be here for the first time.
Can you explain what is obviously wrong in this code?
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ is a good place to start
We have complete Java bindings (https://github.com/rescrv/HyperDex/commit/1c4e98d88517a63bf0...). Does this help for Clojure?

Our base bindings are in C. Any language which can wrap C can make bindings.
No DSL provider can do that. Speeds depend on your distance from their facilities. To their credit, they tell you your distance when you fill out the service availability form, which you can use to get a rough idea of the quality of service you can expect.

I'd say sonic offers the best DSL service of any provider. I switched from att to sonic and got much better speeds over the same lines, probably thanks to a better backend setup. This privacy policy is another example of that.
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One thing that I still find highly annoying is the auto Youtube login.
If by "useful feature" you mean "absolute abomination". If someone tries to send me an email and it goes to my notification center, I will never see it. That completely destroys the entire point of me listing my email on my profile.
That is the funniest thing I've seen all month!

"2. How do I install this?

Um... are you stupid or something? Just attackclone the grit repo pushmerge, then rubygem the lymphnode js shawarma module – and presto!"
Wow. This thread just alerted me to the existence of that 'other' mailbox. I had no clue that existed. That could have saved me some trouble; I just found this message from last July:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1792/screenshot20120625at35...
The only justification i can see is that it's facebook, and this is pretty much the sort of behaviour i expect from facebook. i have a hard time getting outraged over behaviour that is totally in character.
Box integrates with Fetchnotes = more accessible, secure notes.
Happened to me and my gf as well.. I can't make up my mind if this was meant for better privacy (by hiding our real email address).
There is no viable competitor. Google+ is such a clusterfuck, especially with how they handled Google Apps emails.
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You what this is? This is money people having too much say on the product.

I have no doubts this is so they have one more metric to impress (number of emails exchanged thru Facebook). Then they will proceed to selling paid messages for advertisers.
Microsoft is starting to pivot
Wow! 10 years of only using computers operated and actively maintained by users who can stay up-to-date on security best practices. You made it from before XP until now without ever dealing with Windows malware! You're pretty damn lucky - I sometimes use computers that belong to laypeople :-(
> not finally getting around to stop lying about security through obscurity as a positive feature because they're no longer obscure enough.

That isn't what happened. It used to be true, now it's not so they changed it. Security through obscurity was a positive feature, there is little denying it.

Just because it wasn't going to last doesn't make it positive and just because you think it's not something they should be touting doesn't make it a lie.

> OS vendors should be looking to help their users have a more secure experience

For the record, Apple has been working on OS X anti-malware since 2009 when Snow Leopard was released. It was a pretty cursory effort yes, but considering Microsoft hadn't even released MSE yet at that point it's still not bad.

Marketing and engineering are two different departments. Just because someone is writing dumb copy about security in the marketing department doesn't even begin to indicate how engineers are tackling security issues in practice.

In other words, Apple is both helping users to have a more secure experience (what do you think Gatekeeper is for?) and rolling back their boastful copy now that it's no longer true.

How is that a bad thing?
You will want to do something like:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Target Search Field" "@F"

(more info at http://lifehacker.com/5822633/add-a-search-keyboard-shortcut... and/or http://www.mactipper.com/2008/02/add-keyboard-shortcuts-from... and/or http://www.google.com/search?q=NSUserKeyEquivalents)

And aside: I do not find command-option-F that bad. I move my left thumb or middle finger to the left command, left ring finger to the left option key and press F with my left index finger.
If so, then it would justify Craigslist having a blanket "no using our data, ever" position, and shutting down competitors like padmapper much earlier.
One big thing that had a real impact on me was removal of the social features in Google Reader. I'd also argue that removing the ubiquitous "subscribe to this site via RSS" icon in the location bar was also damaging. RSS readers are a boon to the open, eclectic web, and any action that reduces their use is damaging, in my opinion.
bps/hz measurements in TFA are bullshit without noise figures. Per Shannon-Hartley theorem, spectral density depends on the Bandwidth of the channel (assume infinite for free air) and noise. So what is the noise? of course DVB-T (Digital TV) has low bps/hz, the antenna is tens of KM away and there is a lot of noise! the experiment used two antennas located 1 meter away, almost zero noise. EDIT: You might as well cite the spectral density of the voyager II spacecraft onboard antenna. Hint: It's very very low.
Since my day job involves working with composers as they record original works, I know $100 per track is very low considering the time/creativity/experience required.

However, I respect that different people are at different stages in their careers. This may be a rung on the ladder on the way to commissions or a side project while in school.

I was simply taking the current price of $5 per track and thinking that it may be unlikely for any given track to be licensed by twenty different game developers for non-exclusive use. It might yield more revenue to have one buyer at $100 per track.
Impellers probably aren't technically fans, but I agree with you.
Ever thought about using some kind of locality sensitive hashing or maybe a neural network to map your properties into the table space? Intuition is telling me your partitioning scheme would still work and similarity search could be improved?
I'm not providing advice on how that case should be argued. My rant on copyright is separate.

Also, I don't understand, what is it that you are accusing me of trying to get away with?

If you think it's unethical to pirate movies please tell me why.
It's often the product managers who actually make the product straight!! Often developers don't look at the consumability perspective of the product. Rest programming is common sense anyone with enough common sense do.
Mostly due to the security risk. Especially on Windows. Even being a software developer (read: not your average computer user) and taking extra precautions (like click-to-run for java use in browsers) I've still gotten hit by malware that takes advantage of security holes in the Java runtime.
The problem is that the assertion that Turing killed himself because of oppression is not founded on facts. We'll never know why he killed himself--we may not even be sure he did kill himself. I believe gay rights are an important issue, and certainly evil things were done to Turing. No truths need to be bent to support this cause--and no cause benefits from illusory bolstering by half-truths and semi-lies.

People should be aware of oppression, it does make them more compassionate, but usually when people find out they've been lied to, manipulated to support a cause, they react by rejecting the cause, sometimes violently. That's a lot worse for your cause than whatever benefit you might wring out of having Turing for a spokesman.
maybe. I've currently got an iPad and an Android phone, and i don't have any problems switching between two different mobile OSes. I initially bought an android tablet because i thought that syncing and app sharing consistent interfaces would be a big deal, but i sold it and bought an iPad because it's a better product. Having an iPad hasn't made me want an iPhone.
Most Startups Die Before Launching, Some Die After
It really doesn't take state of the art security, it just takes some healthy skepticism when browsing the web. If you know not to click on flashing red banners, you'll be okay. I went without antivirus for years, but now I just run MSSE in the background as it's so light. It's only alerted me to false positives so far, but they're few and far between.

I will say that if I'm suspicious of a file (say, a dll I had to go find from a shady site), I'll scan it over with a few tools before dropping it in a program folder.
Did I write only half that line, or did it get silently chopped of? Here is another attempt:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents \
-dict-add "Target Search Field" "@F"
You beat me to this issue. When I read this code I cringed, because it's so naïve it's like reading something intentionally pessimized, such as "if(new String("true").equals(new Boolean(b).toString()){...}" instead of "if(b){...}".
the population stopped growing as fast as it could. That is all.

No. Population growth has slowed, but not stopped.

Of the 7 Billion people alive today, how many of them are not better off than virtually anyone of Malthus' day 200 years ago? How many people have no access to antibiotics, running water, and a wealth of conveniences that they take for granted? Yes, there are many people that don't have these advantages. But today, much of the world is better off than virtually anyone from 2 centuries past.

So that's not all, there must be something else.

The Simon/Ehrlich wager did not involve population statistics at all. It involved changes in the prices of commodities.

In other words, Ehrlich (the Malthus disciple) lost the bet because in real life, people find substitutes for resources for which prices are increasing. Thus quantity demanded decreases, and eventually price decreases.

Our ancestors used to hunt whales into oblivion to get (amongst other things) blubber to fuel lamps. But as the whale population decreased, so did the supply of blubber, and thus prices rose. That led to people finding alternative means of lighting, and the end is that we don't hunt whales hardly at all anymore.

Thus, the fact that greater tension between resource availability and quantity demanded lead to increased prices. That causes somebody to say to himself "if people are willing to pay so much for resource X, they'd be willing to pay just a little less to me for an alternative". He figures out how, people switch, and the market for resource X declines.
I've used this library for loading horrible, third-party javascript:

https://github.com/gregersrygg/crapLoader
What's an "auto Youtube login"?
I guess this app so far cover the need for average folks like me who needs motivation to keep average health! For the kind of limited consumers who wants to build muscles, it has to be purely paid model as the market size is limited.
You drastically underestimate how difficult it was to make people think the Internet was a reasonable place to look for apartment listings in the first place.

I was one of those people in 1995 schlepping around town trying to convince companies that the Internet existed, and that they wanted a website ("yes, I guess it is kind of like a brochure...").

The entrenched competitor at the time were physical newspaper classified advertisements. There were great apartment-specific guides you could get. If you were serious about apartment-hunting, the Internet would have looked stupid.

Remember, Craigslist started in 1995, and they were an email mailing list of Craig and his friends. It wasn't until 1999 that they incorporated.

Meanwhile, while their /look/ hasn't changed, their functionality has, and it has defined entire genres of things people use it for that, as someone only 30, I'm still floored by the success of (as in "people seriously want to use a website for that?!").

There actually was competition, even among friends, and the user community seriously stuck with Craig only because he had spent years making them like him (which is hard work that does not involve code, but instead service: Craigslist actually does a lot of work behind the scenes on that community, and does to this day).

The story of bootstrapping Craigslist is actually epic: please read it. There have been some amazing write ups of the story in various publications. I recommend Gibson the longest one.
Mobile UI designs
It has a 138% larger screen area than the Galaxy Nexus (4.65") and 222% larger area than the Nexus S (4"). I don't believe calling it mildly bigger is accurate.

http://www.displaywars.com/4,65-inch-16x9-vs-7-inch-16x10
http://www.displaywars.com/4-inch-16x9-vs-7-inch-16x10
Wonderful contrast from ESR's disgusting article.
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Is that even relevant when Apple is taking home the biggest slice of the profit pie?
> That isn't what happened. It used to be true

Stop drinking the kool aid. It was never true. OS X was exploit central for years. It was only the BSD base that stopped it from being exploitable from the network. All the client side stuff Apple added for years was RCE-you-like.

Also a fundamental thing about security is the acceptance that security by obscurity is not a defensive measure. Genuine security doesn't rely on it. Smoke and mirrors might scare the wolves for a while but won't keep them away for long.

> For the record, Apple has been working on OS X anti-malware since 2009 when the sixth major release of OS X was released.

That's right, 5 major releases of the OS with no anti-malware effort, and it only became necessary for them to do it when it started to become an issue because people were getting owned.

> It was a pretty cursory effort yes, but considering Microsoft hadn't even released MSE yet at that point it's still not bad.

Don't even bother comparing it to Microsoft. The source operating system FreeBSD has been doing this for years before OSX even existed. Microsoft was doing security way before MSE. MSE was held back because it had the potential to damage industry partner relationships. If Apple releases an AV no-one cares. If MS releases a good enough AV product the AV industry jumps up and down because MS just stole their lunch.

> In other words, Apple is both helping users to have a more secure experience (what do you think Gatekeeper is for?)

Apple is not helping users to have a more secure experience. It's helping users to have a more controlled experience - the controller being apple. Gatekeeper is not a security measure, it's a tool designed to lock users into the Mac App Store. Do you really think that an App in the Mac App Store has no way of being malicious? Have you not seen what can be done by an app in iOS?
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Agreed, and I think KaoruAoiShiho's original "socialist" comment was about K-12 anyway.
Because most people fail to learn from the past.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-foun...
Facebook quietly unveils 'stalking app'
It is not infinite capacity, in the same way that MIMO is not infinite capacity, IE you need phisically separated antennas for MIMO to work, and you need the same with OAM, the signal needs a specific amount of physical space to rotate. AFAIK OAM do not work in a 1-dimensional copper wire or optical fibre.
Hackathon get a 17-year old girl a Facebook job offer
Yes, it matters that Turing was gay. Yes, it matters that he committed suicide after being forced to undergo hormone treatment. Children and adults still get bullied every day for being gay, and people still feel uncomfortable coming out of the closet. Countless governments around the world, including the United States, still don't recognise the civil rights of gay humans, which broadcasts an unequivocal message to me and others like me that we are unwelcome, abnormal, and should be ashamed of ourselves. Turing was a genius, doubtless, but the tragedy of his suffering because of an oppressive government is a harrowing case study in how absolutely screwed up things can get, no matter how smart or important you are. The brilliance of Turing, and the shocking circumstances of his death, do not detract from one another. I strongly disagree with the portrayal of this as some kind of zero-sum match between the two aspects of his life.

The LGBT community has been actively fighting oppression for nearly a century. 80 years ago, the Nazi party started ostracising and killing homosexuals. 43 years ago the Stonewall riots occurred, during which LGBT Americans staged an act of civil disobedience that is still remembered in Pride and Christopher Street events around the world (and yet it was only in 2003 that ‘sodomy’ laws were ruled unconstitutional). We're looking back on decades of an AIDS crisis where gay men in first-world countries have had to fight[1] for access to life-saving experimental drugs, and looking forward to a future (which may still be a long way off) where the United States, and other governments, recognise that gay people are people too.

So you know what? I think we're allowed one measly fucking ‘hero’ figure. And if you don't want our gay voices ruining your programming idols, here's a very simple solution: stop persecuting the gay ones.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power...
Yes, I wish there were more tools to help renters. The whole process is plagued by information assymetry with regards to transparency, and the renter is at a huge disadvantage. BadNYCApartments is trying to do something about this, but as far as I can tell, its NYC only still.

For example, some things I would like to know before renting a unit:

1) what persistent problems has this specific unit had? I live in a complex that spans an entire block. I can not find such information for this unit.

2) what kinds of "fees" does this landlord add to rent? And what are those fees on average? Our landlord just recently (without anyone's approval) got Valet garbage removal. I'm amazed such a thing could exist. The dumpster is right there, but we are now being charged $35/mo for something that nobody wants. And there are more animals and bugs in the area. More people snooping around. The fees are being added when the lease is up for renewal.

3) What is the average rate increase between renewals?

4) Smoke free areas. Without getting into the debate of whether this should be regulated; I would like to know how I can find buildings which are smoke free. For a number of years, a chain smoker in the building caused problems for almost everyone, as the secondhand smoke escaped his unit and migrated to the ventilation systems of everyone else. The landlord may try to help, but often there is little that can be done (and this is, unsurprisingly, very common according to the ALA). When he moved out, a few prospective tenants changed their mind because that unit still smelled like smoke after it was turned over. I was sad to see a young lady move into said unit recently, I wonder if she would have if she knew the place was likely a toxic cesspool. It still smells like smoke even with multiple passes of ozone generators. In addition, its unlikely that unit will ever be free of contaminants.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/allergy-a...

5) What is the average amount of noise here? Noise is classified as pollution. I can guess from how close it is to a street, but there are lots of other factors.
And this is why I love HN... Nothing like showing a little support for one of our own. :-)

It's not like we're the scrappy, underdog competitor, building Open Source products that will contribute to the world whether we ever make a dime or not, while Microsoft are the original Evil Empire of Software - monopolistic, profiteering gluttons who will do anything to make a buck.

le sigh it's all right, I still love you guys anyway. :-)
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It's cool to see a Grails app even if it's only used internally by netflix.
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"Force" seems a little strong. However, I am surprised I heard nothing about it until the change was already made. That's the part that makes me uneasy.
BusyCal looked good. Until I saw it was $50. Plus another $40 to allow syncing?!?

Sorry, I find it really hard to justify nearly $100 for a calendar app.
Good to see Apple not contributing to the "Macs can't get viruses," "Macs can't get spam" misinformation any longer. Users need to learn to defend themselves, not just rely on the OS, which can't really protect users from phishing attacks. Reminds me of this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4004154
Thinkfuse team joins salesforce.com