skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, really appreciate #1.

Agreed that quite often the hardest part is getting the data together (particularly on the web). But from our perspective, it's still true that conducting the actual analysis and visualizing the data should be a lot easier than it is. And that's particularly true if you're in our initial audience, the roughly 50% of SPSS/R/Minitab/etc. users who never use anything past the basic functionality of those programs.

I guess a simpler answer is that we think there's a need because this is a product that I badly wanted when I was an analyst/consultant, splitting time between Excel and the basic functionality of SPSS.

edit: Also, and this isn't very helpful, but we talk to a ton of people about their data analysis needs, and we hear a good chunk of them talk a lot about the pain of using highly technical solutions for relatively simple problems like analyzing a survey.
I did make a mistake on a personal note and my boss was very relaxed and fair about that. In general, people don't seem to have any problems helping each other out at all. Now that I think about it, its a great work environment, and the CEO has a very good track record too. Also judging from our funding and customers, we're going to do well! Guess that answers my questions then :p.
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Promoting from within vs. hiring from the outside
Very cool. Why should I use this instead of R/gnuplot?
Then, I would use the latter option.
Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? It's abut money and machismo.
We're not "no programming required" - we teach you how to make real native iOS games using industry standard tools.
Not really, but you have to estimate how much cash you'll need. You also run the risk of that cash being stolen.
As a frequent interviewer, I regarded it as a sign that the interviewee had read a few articles somewhere and paid it almost no attention.
When I was in high school there was a gas station on the edge of town that was very relaxed about the legal age for purchasing cigarettes. But I never blamed Camel for that. ;)
That may well be; these articles hint (without supporting evidence) that fees are part of the motivation, but I'm not sure how much credence to lend them: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153008/Visa-branded... and http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2910799/Visa-in-Ol...
Also important to not fall down the hole in a couple of years where these shared libraries are being used all over the place and changing them becomes hard. Good to always question if they should be a module or perhaps their own api.
Hey! We're pretty proud of Elemental Fury ;) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elemental-fury/id532040551?mt...

It turns out that high school and college students make games they want to play, so the quality of games in our pipeline has been quite good so far :)
All books and the information contained therein should be free because Xerox allows you to copy them?
I don't understand why we should avoid talking about services that produce significant, easily measured uplifts for US companies just because those services aren't available in Europe.

Because at this point, it isn't newsworthy, it's really just noise/advertising. It's not as if anyone reading HN who can use Stripe hasn't heard about them many times already. If they launch an actual service that anyone outside the US can sign up for, then great, let's shout from the rooftops. If there is something constructive that the rest of us can do to help them achieve that goal, by all means, let's talk about it. Otherwise, with due respect to Patrick, there isn't really very much new and interesting to discuss in this area and I would prefer that HN concentrate on things that are new and/or interesting (such as the other parts of Patrick's post).

Startups need all the help they can get.

Yes, we do. And if and when a service like Stripe starts to offer it, I'll be all for having the news on HN. But until then, yet another group hug about how wonderful Stripe is followed by yet another round of moaning that it's not available anywhere outside the US and yet another apologetic post from one of the developers saying they're working on it is a bit like reading about every new Firefox release on Slashdot.
We're not very similar to either of the two (although I'm not too familiar with Construct2). While there is some overlap, those are at the core a game engine. We are a game publisher. Our tutorials teach you to use Cocos2d (an open source game engine for iPhone, which is similar to GameSalad but in native ObjC). Our value proposition is also very different, instead of you paying us for tools to build a game, we only make money if the game does well, in which case you also make money!
Have to agree with this. Sacrificing liberty in chasing security achieves neither.
I use cloudapp with skitch. Drag from skitch to cloudapp icon, and it fills in your paste buffer with the link.
I wrote it[edit: by which, I mean the answer containing the sentence in question], and I'm not 100% sure, although there probably is a separate presentation in that year or a different year that describes their auto-generation process. I know that it was a popular topic in general at the FSW-11 conference.

Simulink is a possibility. It's a MATLAB component popular among mechanical engineers, and therefore most navigation & control engineers, and allows them to 'code' and simulate things without thinking they're coding.

Model-based programming is definitely a thing that the industry is slowly becoming aware of, but I don't know how well it's catching on at JPL or if they would have chosen to use it when the project started.

The third and most likely possibility is for the communication code. With all space systems, you need to send commands to the flight software from the ground software, and receive telemetry from the flight software and process it with the ground software. Each command/telemetry packet is a heterogeneous data structure, and is is necessary that both sides are working from the exact same packet definition, and format the packet so it is correctly formatted on the one side, and parsed on the other side. This involves getting a whole lot of things right, including data type, size, and endianness (although the latter is usually a global thing, you could have multiple processors onboard with different endianness).

But that's just the surface. You need lots of repetitive code on both sides to handle things like logging, command/telemetry validation, limit checking, and error handling. And then you can do more sophisticated things. Say you have a command to set a hardware register value, and that value is sent back in telemetry in a particular packet. You could generate ground software that monitors that telemetry point to ensure that when this register value is set, eventually the telemetry changes to reflect the change. And of course, some telemetry points are more important than others (e.g. main bus current), and are designated to come down in multiple packets, which involves extra copying on the flight side and data de-duplication on the ground side.

With all that, it's much easier (in my opinion) to write one collection of static text files (in XML, csv, or some DSL/what-have-you), run them through a perl/python script, and presto! Code!
Sr-90 is not naturally occurring because of its short half-life. Any Sr-90 found today is either from weapons testing or made in a reactor.
People are buying styli. The Kagi Stylus is popular on the train I ride to work. I saw someone using one on their ipad with Notable and I asked her where she got it (it has a clear disk on the end so it feels more precise) and she said ebay. Right from China to your mailbox. But it turns out that this type of styli is hard to come by otherwise. In my email exchanges with the vendor they claimed they were selling thousands of them, but I would not expect them to say 'hardly any' so its not solid data, Ebay's 'how many are left' on their buy it now auctions were starting at 100 and working their way down to 0 pretty quickly (a few days).

That said, one of the things I really liked about the iREX Illiad (RIP) is that it used an honest to god Wacom stylus digitizer. That can capture tilt, pressure, and doesn't require a conductive connection between your finger and the tip. I've argued for a while that blending the two would provide a really useful combination.

The Wacom only allowed single touch so using capacitive touch as 'modifier' keys would allow for combined intent+action type things.
When MasterCard sponsors an event, you get additional 10% off when you use a Mastercard.

WOW! It is totally not offensive, positive and good for MC public image. They must be some marketing wizards or something!

Either that, or Visa people are morons.

* Edit: misprint
You should check out BugHerd if this is a common use case you have: http://bugherd.com
I also work on Statwing so thanks very much for the comment.

Now that I look at it more, the front page buttons do look weird compared to all of our other buttons. We've become numb to it after looking at it so often. Most of our buttons do the design thing that you described, so we'll change that shortly! Thanks for the feedback.
http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... gives a good description.
AWS Billing Oddities
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Groan. The debate isn't whether you should be free to own these things. The debate is whether companies should be free to market them as toys in the retail channel.
Whoops! Silly trailing slash in the url!
If I wanted to promote somebody to be the lead developer for a small project, I might be satisfied with someone who knew the code for that project very well. But if I wanted to promote someone beyond that level, I'd be looking for somebody who knew different parts of the company's products and how they worked together (e.g., the UI and the back-end), and who understood the needs of the customers to some degree -- someone who could see the "big picture".
Sorry, wasn't trying to trace the actual name. I knew Monier's name from some documentary I watched and was confused if it was you to met him or were you sharing someone else's century old anecdote.
>In a world where your beliefs are supported by the courts, a creator's only
means to ensure a revenue stream from their creations is to present them only
in controlled physical environments free of digitizers.

Bullcrap. They'd just have to make their money in ways that do not depend on
distribution of non-scarce goods. And they already do.

Musicians, for example, are performers. They have a service to sell. That's
how many make their bucks. There's models like Kickstarter, where you pay
upfront - for the act of creating, not for the eventual distribution (which is
costless). Donations or patronage can be a valid source of income, too.

Your claim that we need to restrict access to a good that is inherently not
scarce (and indeed, not depletable) for artists to make a living at all is a
disingenuous lie and flies in the face of reality.
Redeye VC: Welcome FundersClub
Just do it. No one will come down on you or anything. Do a quick A/B test. For the following clients, split them in two. Given side A your current rate, and side B your new rate. Measure the difference and prepare to realize that there is none. People who will hire you will hire you. Money gravitates to those who ask for it, and not to those who "deserve" it.
Looking through the Wikipedia page on RTGs, there is a noted risk classified by the US-DOD that Beta-M RTGs could be used as dirty bombs, which is about what I expected. =/ I wonder if this risk extends to other RTGs in the wrong hands? I imagine so, but I honestly don't know.
No. It's not. It's not at all like complaining, in fact, that any given product is not for sale.

What it is like is, complaining that normally-valid and assumed-valid payment methods are suddenly not valid.

That's what it's "like".
I am building an Android app for Mayan EDMS. Mayan was recently featured in HN, and it is awesome. Check it out.
Articles like these are annoying/depressing.

They begin with strawmen, such as "scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I'm a machine or a beast." No, they argue that humans are animals, not beasts. The terms mean different things: "frogs are animals" is true and "frogs are beasts" is false. Further, the claim that humans are animals is true by definition. The technical definition is complex, but it should suffice for anyone versed in biology to know that humans are living organisms with nervous systems and that all such organisms belong to the kingdom Animalia, which means that humans are animals.

Then they follow the strawmen with pomposity, such as "it would take more time and space than I have here to refute these views." How would the author know how much time and space it would take to refute them? He presumes that such a refutation not only exists, but that he knows it. This presumption is preposterous because there cannot be a refutation of them. You cannot refute linguistic arguments without proving that there is a One True Definition for a given word or phrase, which would require proving that some form of Linguistic (non-mathematical) Platonism is true, and that has yet to pass the threshold of being a coherent concept.

Then they rewrite to shroud their pomposity with an excuse, such as "while [insert previous quote], I'd like to suggest..."

Ugh.
Amazon Releases First Social Game Living Classics
Dupe of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4347227
[this is obviously just my personal opinion]

When I'm hiring programmers, I don't care about thank you notes. I don't care because how good a programmer is has nothing to do with being skilled at social niceties, networking, and so on.

For a business side role, however, these things are a must, and thank you notes can be good indicators.
But this is also pretty common for them. They usually have some kind of code name for their projects that eventually gets dropped in the release version.
SPDY: Speeding Up the Web
The oddest thing for me was seeing a "Visa Customer Services" desk at an Olympic venue yesterday with two exceedingly bored looking staff. I'm not at all sure what they were meant to be doing given that all the customer service is provided by card issuers, not the network...
I've been looking for one as well. It appears as though they're still working on releasing more of the images.

The HiRISE news release[1] now contains a (currently broken) link[2] to a 540MB non-map projected "descent long view." I imagine this is the complete scan that HiRISE took of the image, and that there is distortion due to the CCD layout in the satellite (hence non-map projected). But that's purely a guess.

They say:

Descent long view[2] (Note: this file is over 540MB. It is non-map projected
but rotated so that north is approximately up. This file is not annotated,
but MSL is in the mid-to-lower right-hand side. The CCDs do not match well at
their edges due to the unique image geometry; geometrically-corrected images
would be available in a few days.)

1: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/msl-descent.php

2: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2012/details/cut/ESP_02... (WARNING: 540MB TIFF, but link is broken at time of posting)
Burning question... can a miniature version of this ever be ported to consumer electronics devices? :-/
Gmail marked it as spam for me.
Yea I ended up re-writing my commit history to fix this.
Perhaps where I'm getting tangled is in using the term "friends" instead of past recruits or former hiring managers. Regardless, I still think it's a poor practice, given that -- like rwallace said -- if everyone did it, it would just create even more emails that the OP needed to add to their laundry list.
Not having been to the olympics before, an important detail is how far this 'zone' covers. I am going to assume its a significant number of blocks, maybe even a mile, around the olympic venues that include everyday businesses that people use, olympics or not.

The not-selling-fries bit sounds hugely anti-competitive and way beyond the scope of what should be possible by this event. Payment cards go a step further. People rely on their particular card and the norm is to accept at least two kinds of cards. Creating a temporary monopoly on payment cards is again way beyond the reach of what is reasonable for a marketing agreement.
For images you can use markdown to embed the image (i.e. `![This is the error](http://i.imgur.com/something)` )

Multiple examples in this PR: https://github.com/clayallsopp/formotion/pull/24
Why would it matter if he is intelligent, respectable, or shilling? If he told you it was raining, would you look him up on Open Secrets before you grabbed your umbrella?
There is some financial trickery going on here. It's buried in Section 6.1.3 of the business plan (pp 23-24).

Any resident who invests £1500 or more can nominate a property for free connection and one year's free service. The tax authority gives a tax credit of 30% of that £1500, and the investment can be sold back in year 4 (2016?) at full value.

So, pay £1500 (or more) in 2012, get £450 in 2012 tax credit, then sell for £1500 in 2016. That's a 9.2% ROI plus free Gigabit Internet service. Of course, there's risk involved, just like any startup investment.
Copyright is not justified by it being a way to maximise producers' revenue. Such principle would set no limit to laws that restrict people in general to make money for some few. That should immediately seem awry.

Informational goods are nonrival. The right and wrong of their use is fundamentally different from that of rival goods. One does not 'take' informational goods, one copies them. Normal property is, as a first simplification/approximation, justified by the loss of taking. And that because moral rules in general are, roughly speaking, justified by how they affect other people. Since copying lacks that effect of loss it obviously cannot reasonably be treated in the same way.
It looks to me like the only major difference is that seedrs is UK based/focused.
s/Europe/??/ (Germany?)

I know at least a couple of European countries where debit/credit cards are prevalent.
There's definitely quite a lot that can be done by high-schoolers. I only heard about it second-hand, but UC Santa Cruz ran a 4-week residential program for high-school kids who had never programmed before, to learn programming and then immediately design/implement a videogame while doing so, and came up with some pretty good results: http://www.sokath.com/cosmos2011/doku.php?id=games
Elevator Dispatch Algorithms
Youtube Not Included in IOS 6
Equating the fact that you can only pay by Visa with the fact you can only eat McDonalds french fries is a bit disingenuous don't you think?

Paying Visa directly costs me more money (and inconvenience). It's a tax on everything.
How is this possible? Through Paypal customers can also pay with credit cards, and even more. They can use checks, or bank transfers (very important in Europe where credit cards are not as popular), etc. Why would usage of Paypal decrease conversion compared to pure credit cards?

My guess is that a lot of customers don't know what Paypal is and don't realize they can just use their credit card.
And there's also the convenience thing of not having to withdraw in advance
Tech specs show the biolite to have about a 2.5in radius and (approx) 6.5in high fuel compartment, which is about 2.1L (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+vertical+cy...). Using its design you can get about 2W continuous power at 5V.

Scaling this up, roughly, you would need about 157.5 liters of fuel space, though probably much less if your fuel was more compact (obv you don't fill up exactly 2L of space in the canister while burning twigs). The realistic output of heat/power based on space is probably much more efficient than something this large, considering they say 46 grams of fuel can boil 1 liter of water, and 46 grams is approx 0.046 liters (based on water density).

Somebody please correct my horrible assumptions, but basically, fill an oil drum up most of the way with wood and build a thermoelectric generator and you should be good to go.

(Also, if you're charging deep-cycle batteries, i'm assuming you're not going camping? Maybe solar would be simpler? http://www.mdpub.com/SolarPanel/index.html) (Edit again: I forgot your original post, no solar)

More edit: Check this page for an adaptable thermoelectric generator: http://www.tegpower.com/

And more edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUH1HA3EnZE (i'll stop posting links now!)
Some startups will be worth it (eg: Google, Facebook), but if you average them all, the risk/reward ratio is not worth it in general. There are a lot of crap startup out there, and you only have so many years.

Also, if you are a VC or a co-founder, then the risk/rewards ratio totally changes, and it's most definitely worth it. But if you are like the rest of us, then it's a big NO.
Great blogpost, very open! Keep on sharing the numbers!
What would be utterly hilarious is if the people internally at Microsoft were all using it with the "boot to desktop" setting turned on right up until RTM, ensuring they got no dogfooding of the Metro experience.

Because that's exactly what happened with Vista. Both the secure desktop switching and Aero desktop were turned off by default on both internal builds and those installed from the IT servers up until the final RTM version was released. And so they got no internal dogfood or complaints, other than from the testers...
> I don't personally, but there's lots of accounts in these comments about systems in other countries that have free or nearly free near-instant wire transfers provided bank account number and name. Charities soliciting donations include their account number in ads.

This is currently expensive with american banks because use of checks is so wide spread - that might work.

> If you don't have a bank account you can make a deposit into the account at the post office. It doesn't get much simpler.

I guess.... and yet, I prefer checks for A) having something physical to document, B) being able to give people non-cash physical money. I guess something like a cashiers check would also serve this purpose, and C) avoid using online banking software, which is atrocious. I can't use more than 10 characters per password, and my default one is 26 characters. I don't trust billion dollar companies with securing my banking information. If people want to take my money, they'll have to make an effort and go through my trash.
Like the United Kingdom, which is hosting the Olympic games...
We'd gladly skin and publish it! MakeGamesWithUs is also for kids at heart :)
On the one hand, the author makes a good point.

On the other hand, he actually uses the phrase "simple folks" as if this were a Populist meeting in the 1890s.

I'm really surprised by how much that one slip has undermined his credibility with me.
When you don't have cash on your person? Yes, it is.
I've found blogger.com a little faster than wordpress.com and the latest UI is quite good. You can also put a domain on it for no charge (unlike wordpress.)
More notes:

#3 I have to say, my first impression was that the tutorial was a little annoying, but it's actually done pretty slickily and it introduces features, such as the multiple variable analysis, that I probably would not have stumbled upon in the first place. Well done.

#4 That's my SOPA project you're referencing! :) https://www.statwing.com/demos/sopa
(though if you can edit the copy, credit should also go to the Center for Responsive Politics, from which the campaign finance data was collected)
i find that really hard to believe in this day and age of cyber criminal and so much activity in terms of stolen identities.
Is Spec Work Evil?