skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and, for the record (as someone who's worked on modelling at various scales) I didn't for a second want to detract from this achievement - it really is incredible, and, as per usual, the discussion here shows that the HN community is more than au fait with the implicit assumptions made.

Also, and this is something I personally feel very strongly about, the paper is incredibly well written and accessible. There is no point making science difficult to understand. Science is (itself) not difficult - it's complicated, encompassing, and confusing, but nothing is actually difficult. There is a trend to use big words and complex language in scientific papers, which I worry must be incredibly off-putting for those less used to them, and are almost always totally unnecessary. This paper was just beautiful (I devoured it on my subway ride home) and certainly one I'll be recommending to friends interested in the systems biology field.
I run TechStars Cloud. Roughly complete for me. Key thing when you look at this data is to remember timing.

I've only run 1 program thus far and it only completed 3 months ago. Wouldn't expect to see much in the way of exits after 3 months ;)
It's good to see some actual followthrough on the initial concept.

I honestly like the proposed Attachments and Notifications features (I'm also not a mail client aficionado, so I don't know if these are particularly groundbreaking), but the Actionsteps thing sounds clumsy to me. If my problem is that I don't have enough time to parse, read, and respond to all of my email, I don't understand how adding another step will alleviate that.
I'd like to be able to read my e-mail address while typing it please...

$("input#email").css("color", "#333");

Otherwise, fantastic. Thanks. Ideally you just buy Sparrow and add the 2 features it was missing. We can only hope.
Having to open the app to update the weather rather defeats its utility.
It does enthrall me. But as time goes on, and the deletionist issue persists and becomes ingrained and is continuously ignored by WP and the Foundation, I can't help but think how much wasted potential is out there.
They aren't, but not all AI is aimed at mimicking human behavior. For example, if your goal is an AI system that can automatically control ship routing on the global Maersk shipping network (planning routes, rerouting to respond to contingencies, etc.), you might want "optimal" rather than "human-like" decision making.
Still this is enough for some people (like me) who just want to see the current temperature. There are plenty of sites/apps that do what you said so no need to tag this one as 'useless'.
File Upload Progress Bar with jQuery and PHP
Is Trello going to a pay model?
I feel that this is implicit in the post, that there will be this outreach/advocacy/support?

"Create opportunities for Meteor developers — for example, encourage companies to adopt Meteor, creating jobs. We want to make you famous and get you paid.

Support the Meteor community. This includes everything from publishing books and organizing conferences, to being responsive to bug reports and pull requests, to finally making some cool tshirts."
Gigantt - Infinite-Zoom Project Management
I never understood the point of a service that tells you the weather where you are.
Apple removes Safari for Windows following version 6 release
HTML5: To fork or not to fork
This is awesome. We (Weebly) give out a $50 Exec credit every month to all of our employees to help with random life tasks. It's widely used and appreciated.

Some of our employees, though, are further out from SF, and it can be harder to use that credit. The second they got the email this morning, they found a great way to use the credits!
The 1984 has now officially arrived, under a flag with five colored rings.
New York Magazine Deems Naturally Curly a Bad Investment For No Reason
"Almost"? He clearly coordinates with Apple people. He's to Apple what a surrogate is to a presidential candidate: an attack dog free to say what the candidate will only think.

(Note: I don't dislike it, I just take him for the biased source he is.)
I would also add that the study of art and design history was the key thing that liberated me from the fear of copying. Extremely valuable.
Smells like an acquisition in a year or so (and I mean that as a compliment). Congrats in advance.
Reddit startled Digg with its traffic and leaded the glory.
Sweet! Now I can run NodeJS on my server, and PHP in the browser!
First, Norvig is not rejecting Chomsky's approach - you can't rely only on stats and probabilities. Chomsky is absolutely rejecting Norvig's approach. So, you apparently agree with Norvig.

Second, you don't know WHY mass deforms space. You don't know why some particles have mass, and others don't. You don't know how space is deformed by mass.

You wouldn't even have that explanation, "mass deforms space," without starting from the mathematical models. The mathematical models came about by studying the observed data.

Remember, people thought that cannon balls moved in a straight line, until they ran out of energy, and then they fell straight down. That was a perfectly valid view of the universe, given the observations available at the time. It even allowed you to make predictions about how far a cannonball would go, if you gave it different amounts of energy. It was also wrong.

We then cleverly figured out that the cannon ball moves in a parabola, with gravity as a constant force, pulling the cannonball down. Also wrong.

Now we know that the gravitational force exerted on the cannonball by the Earth is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Meaning that you can put a cannonball in orbit, or you can even get it to escape Earth's gravity well.

Knowing "mass deforms space" doesn't help you make any of those predictions. How it deforms space does. And we, in fact, figured out that it deforms space, before we had any idea WHY, or by which mechanism.

Again, my problem with Chomsky is that he thinks we will come up with "mass deforms space," and Kepler's laws of planetary motion, before we even make any observations about the natural world.

Or rather, given our ability to measure huge quantities of text, it seems absurd that Chomsky would have us ignore the corpus, and go back to first principles as the exclusive and only way to gain any insight, be able to make any predictions, before we build any applications.
I've just installed OS X Mountain Lion... and gone back to Apple's Mail (no more Sparrow). I'm too tired of chasing another email/to-do client that might get acq-hired, with no future support.

Having said that, the idea behind .mail app is elegant, well thought and a step forward. Kudos.
Companies' employment practices aren't the problem, posts like this are.

When a man isn't making as much money as his peers, he's told to compete: improve his skills, negotiate harder, rack up some accomplishments. When a woman isn't making as much money as her peers, everyone starts talking about HR policies and the pay gap.

It makes women soft. Focusing on women as a class pressures us not to compete as individuals. Those of us who ignore the pay gap and "women in tech" and other distractions, instead choosing to improve ourselves, negotiate for what we want, and show off our abilities make money just fine.

Quit whining and start doing.
If I could punch just one tech blogger squarely in the face, it would without a doubt be John Grubber.

Who would you choose?

Disclaimer: This is in no way meant as threat of any kind of harm to Grubber or anyone else. It is simply a hypothetical thought experiment.
Strange, because it's working great on my 2008 unibody Macbook Pro with Core 2 Duo.
For sure it's an ideal, but come on, you should be able to click on a reviewer's name to get their other reviews, or an author's name to get their other books, or a date to find other reviews posted at the same time (with its own range functionality), as well as by-publisher, by-review-site, etc.
It's an analogy, because while it's easy to visualize how a two-dimensional surface can be curved, it's hard to visualize how a three-dimensional surface can be curved, because we think of it as a "volume".
For anyone who is confused, this is the implementation of a concept which was posted 2 weeks ago.

It's looking really good, can't wait to try it!

Link to concept post: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/
And original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223869
Is a tree without branches still a tree?
Anyone care to explain why they mentioned the Google Spreadsheet as an example?
I've already looked at Postbox, made by some of the previous Thunderbird developers. http://postbox-inc.com/ I'd have to try these to even come close to figuring out what to use.

But the idea of SSO for email is a bad one, in my opinion. Email, more than my user account on a site, defines my online identity—and therefore needs the greatest protection.
No Brazilian accelerators in the list :(

There are a few: Semente, 21212, Aceleradora, Endeavor.. though it's hard to find information on them.

ps: Bootstrap didn't fit that well there, looks a bit awkward.
Running a Markov chain model as-is to generate text produces gibberish. You correctly point out that the gibberish can be much higher quality.

Fundamentally it is gibberish not for any simple algorithmic reason, but because generation is occurring without any respect to context or meaning beyond what randomly emerges from the graceful juxtaposition of randomly chosen words.
It is purely about the combinations of words (in that sense, syntax). This shouldn't be surprising - who ever actually expected that generating a kind of syntax model would result in coherent thoughts? At most it can generate texts like weird dreams, it shouldn't be surprising that the result is not a cogent discussion of current events.

This does not mean that the same information cannot be used in more sophisticated ways. But these wouldn't be a Markov chatbot. The Markov model would effectively be a component in a larger system that needed to use words. It isn't at all clear that the Markov model is the best possible one, but it is just groundless dogma to insist that learning can't have anything to do with real performance.
I think for that you'd be better of using something like ember.js
From: https://vanschneider.squarespace.com/mail-the-first-summary --
"Currently I'm developing a prototype and then hopefully move on to Kickstarter. But there's no plan yet if it's going to be a WebApp, MacOS or Windows app."

In other words, vaporware (so far).
Labeling (ii) as a fact was a bit of joke, but not overtly marked, which may lead to misunderstanding, so you are correct.

My gripe is not against Chomsky, the person, but against Chomsky-ism (although he does have a very aggressive, know-it-all tone when discussing many subjects, that I find at odds with scientific humility). This is common: A pioneer comes up with a new way of thinking, then it is accepted as dogma by the community. Although one may think otherwise, this is also very common in science. Scientific revolutions usually don't happen with paradigm shifts but through the demise of old age of the new theory's opponents.

What's shocking is that a field like linguistics, which some may argue is more scientifically rigorous than its sister humanities disciplines, operated on what, to me, are speculative assumptions for close to 40 years.
The Architecture of Symbolic Computers was not known to me and looks very interesting. Unfortunately, it's long out of print and the price for used copies on AbeBooks is high. If anyone has a copy in the Seattle area they'd like to donate for the general good of hackerdom, I have a paper guillotine and an industrial sheet-feed scanner at work. I've used them before to digitize parts of my personal library. If not, I might at some point buy a used copy.
It seems the "What doesn't work?" section lists several significant gaps like ForeignKeys and other constraints. Isn't South much more stable?
I don't know about you, but I don't dread interview coding questions at all -- I love them. What I dread are the squishy / soft questions. "Where do you see your career going in 5 years?" "What do you want to get out of this job?" "What is your greatest weakness?"

Coding I can handle.
A Shotgun Legal Guide to Advisors
The two more Lisp books:

Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp - I purchased a used copy from Amazon. What I like is that it is a text book and has true exercises and not just code to type in. The downside is that complex ideas are often described briefly.

Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp has been a useful supplement because it goes into some topics in greater depth (i.e. it offers a more gentle introduction). I've been using the online version [which was the subject of an HN thread recently]:

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

What is particularly nice is that it formats very legibly on my phone, making it great for reading any where (except the bathtub). The lack of exercise problems is a bit of a drawback for the way I learn.
So they are betting that enterprises are going to start using Node.js and Mongo for their applications?

I remain skeptical.
The "Cheap as an anti-theft mechanism" hypothesis has interested me in a while. I don't know how true it is though.

I see the cost/benefit argument, sure. But then again, thieves come in all stripes.
E-Publishing: A New and Lucrative Way to Publish Your Own Book
Why not put Linux on your mac?
Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, a label would be nice—otherwise, great job!
Chomsky sees a threat to a politics-based academic hegemony, so he responds politically. If he hadn't made so many broadly quantified claims (i.e. had stuck to syntax as Norvig sticks to AI and machine learning) then those claims would not be in such jeopardy from other fields. Chomsky has always been a top-class warrior and this is more of the same.
A good example of why programming is not always as simple as it seems. Postings like this are always interesting both for the insight they provide and for the tricks they demonstrate.
So you know what to expect when you walk outside.
Fairtrade tea – from £2.00
Fairtrade coffee – from £2.60

Rather expensive for a cup of hot water. Does that price include a teaspoon of fairtrade sugar and a dash of fairtrade milk or cream?

Then again, its not very fairtrade for coffee farmers/producers to get 60p more for their product than tea farmers/producers. Wonder how much of that excess markup the farmers actually end up seeing.
Any particular reason why? South appears to be under much more active development.
Galaxy S III Local Search Gone: Apple Patents Kill Another Android Feature
Some naivety being thrown around in this thread:

Andressen Horowitz doesn't need to see a direct return from meteor. If they think that the existence of meteor is a good thing for their other investments, then the indirect return they see from those projects is a good thing.
Ultimate search problem: finding designers
That summary was posted on July 18th, so it's not necessarily up to date.
Petition to White House to make Government-developed software open source
The business model is:

"Get acquired by somebody with a lot of money that wants to use your tech in their other projects"

which is exactly what happened.
That's just my opinion. How about a quick appeal to authority - I've been deigning and shipping websites for 8 years and am the Online Marketing Manager at my web development agency.

As a more serious attempt to back that opinion up I'd say look at the success of Apple's design in the marketplace over the last 10 years - pinning that exclusively on their love of skeuomorphism would be iffy, though.
For a "real" bike (the kind you buy for $500 US or more from a shop that basically just does bikes, or buy used): yes

For a "department store" bike aka "bicycle shaped object" (the kind you buy for $100-$300 from Walmart, Sears, Costco or another store that doesn't actually have anybody that knows how to properly assemble a bike): no.

Those department store bikes are estimated to average something like 75 miles of use in their lifetime (showroom floor to landfill) and are generally not made to be very serviceable.

So if we assume that a $60 cardboard bike is intended to compete with $100 disposable bikes, it's probably still a good step forwards.
That's the argument I'm getting at. If it takes money to get into the Olympics, the Games have already been lost.
lukeholder has perfected the HN spam complaint spam. Someone makes a blog entry that gets posted to HN and he calls it spam and gets...something. No idea what. Sorry.
Apple is fighting Steve Jobs' battle. If it weren't for Jobs and his overly bloated ego, we wouldn't have had these stupid patent wars.
No worries! Designerstalk is also an excellent place to get harsh, truthful feedback on your work as opposed to the unhelpful 'that's great' replies. That said, I haven't been on there in a while so things might have changed.

The important thing is to seek out folks who give honest, constructive critiques and aren't afraid of 'offending' you in the process. The most annoying thing when seeking out design critiques is to be told over and over, 'that's really good'.
Talk pages. If you have a problem with an article bring it up on the talk page. I don't see how else you could expect a free, user-edited, online encyclopedia to function.

For what it is, wikipedia is incredibly effective. If you don't care about wikipedia policy, how can you care about the exact content of wikipedia?
What I think is fundamentally wrong with the way the patent system is applied today is that in many instances it serves as nothing more than an artificial monopoly only benefitting the patent holder.

The idea of the patent system in itself is actually quite elegant. Government grants a temporary monopoly in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention. Everyone wins! The person issued the patent can more easily profit from their invention because they can work in the open. Society likewise benefits, no more secret guilds locking up knowledge, now everyone can see how it's done (and apply it once the monopoly expires).

As a social contract this really makes sense. The problem is that a lot of the patents being thrown around today only really satisfy half of that contract. A temporary monopoly is indeed granted, but the disclosure received in exchange is worthless information. I say it is worthless because no one actually needs to read that disclosure to figure out how to do it themselves with basically no effort.

Of the large companies, it seems to me that Apple is one of the worse offenders at exploiting the patent system in this way. Don't get me wrong, what they are doing is perfectly legal, but that doesn't make it OK. It does seem like Apple is following the legal rules and Samsung is thrashing around attempting to break them (perhaps feeling they have little alternative). But that doesn't mean that our legal system is perfect and cases like this will hopefully help us understand how it can be fixed to prevent this kind of exploitation in the future.
That is exactly the point though. Since there AREN'T enough competitors, the free market does not work. BEING a competitor means laying cable, getting right-of-ways, getting other permissions from local government, etc. It is not something where several competitors will spring up offering better service and/or better price when one bad actor decides to disallow skype on their network for instance.

When the market fails to provide a fix, the government should step in to keep the public from being at the mercy of greedy monopolies.
I think the value here isn't really displaying weather. I believe the author effectively demonstrates an interesting technique that non-native apps can utilize to make them feel more native.

As far as awesome and simple non-native weather apps go, check out: http://pattern.dk/sun/
What will prevent Chomsky from having an Earth-centric model of the solar system, with epicycles to explain all of those weird little ticks like dropped pronouns?

The only thing that could possibly break you out of that way of thinking is massive amounts of observational analysis to show you that your foundation is flawed.

Seeing the moons of Jupiter revolutionized physics. Chomsky says that observing the heavens is unnecessary, and a distraction from his studying of the motion of billiards balls.

He's got trigonometry down cold, but he'll never come up with calculus that way. And quantum mechanics would never fall into Chomsky's way of thinking, in my analogy.
Pick something you use and improve it. If you aren't sure about jumping into the code base, start by improving documentation, doing issue queue triage, whatever.

The project's ML, issue queue, and IRC channel(s) are great places to lurk and learn the lay of the land.
I live and bike in NYC and often carry two locks, one which cost me $80-90 and another that cost me $40-50. My commuter bike is more expensive than my locks, but not by that much.
If the images themselves are direct (png, jpg, etc) how would you set this up? Would you just change your site to use different images (and change those at the existing addresses) or is there some sort of way to get apache or whatever server to do this for you?
"Not everything is about HN."

You're not from around here, are you?
So, it happens on average every 150 years and that isn't a cycle in your book. That's fine for someone like yourself but for me I feel that we then need to redefine things like solar cycles and seasons which only happen on average as well. All in all, what the article describes sounds like a cycle to me.
I was curious how accurate this is, so I looked at our stats. The actual amount raised by the 380 YC cos before the current batch is $1,048,274,000. So the average per co is is $2.75 million.

Believe it or not I'd never calculated the total amount of funding raised. I was interested to see that it's now over a billion dollars.
The Computer Chronicles: Unix
Yes: the Chomsky hierarchy is a fundamental of computer science, one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity. And in that respect also important to AI.

Chomsky is incredibly strong on anything that does not require empirical data.

But UG has no legs and Chomsky's analysis of syntax has very limited applicability and after many many IOUs, pretty much no empirical claims have panned out in any significant way.

If you take away the application of those basic computer science concepts to language, you unfortunately take away most of what Chomsky has written regarding linguistics, psychology and AI. Because of the sheer volume of output, that leaves a number of contributions. My point is that it is necessary to be discriminating rather than making Chomsky into the Pope, as certain fields have done for some time.
IMO, absolute positioning is one of those "don't use until it you know when to use it, at which point you won't need a guide like this" things. It's good advice until you have the foundational knowledge to disregard good advice when appropriate.
I've never been compelled to use any fractional approximation of pi. Either I'm doing it in my head and pi is ~3, I'm doing it on paper and pi is ~3.14, or I'm using a calculator and pi is as many digits as I feel like.

We already have the decimal representation memorized for more digits than this approximates, so unless your diameter is given to you in 113ths, is there any practical application here?
> Trying to bully the competition with purchased patents and lawyers will only turn people off their products,

I don't really care about lawsuits, I care about the product.
I will buy Apple if they offer the best product on the market. Lawsuits won't change that.
I add to the list "actually doing stuff". I meet so many want-to-be-entrepreneurs saying they just need a tech co-founder, but other than thinking really hard, that's all they're currently doing to make the venture happen. Somehow it's almost as if they think their job is managing when there's nothing yet to manage. They don't realize that their job is making the venture real, any way they can.