skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the worst "hints" I ever encountered was: To get an idea of what's going on in a paragraph, read the first sentence and the last sentence.

This gave me the illusion that I could understand what was going on in a text by skimming. And you can't do this reliably. [It doesn't work /at all/ with mathematics or serious CS].

A very hard habit to break. I wish I'd never learned it.
Maybe the judge is looking for a confirmation from Oracle on the record, for some sort of legally reason?

(IMNAL, obviously)
If anyone wants to register `thermotink.com` or
`practucant.com`, now's your chance!

Very cool. Running in the bg right now.
How Much Is A Gold Medal Really Worth?
> I'd wager that most of us brush our teeth

Woah, woah, woah! Let's try to be realistic here!
The Wikipedia FA's aren't "random". They're a showcase of the best articles on the site, and are p a i n s t a k i n g l y vetted by the WP community. Getting your article on the front page is a very big deal. The FA process is one of the primary drivers of editorial quality on the site.
How much is a gold medal really worth?
I'm very interested in this.

Is there some reason that you'd need your Korean data center to constantly be talking to your US data centers.
I think that Google have simply done a better job of creating a self-driving car than you are willing to let yourself believe.

They have done this by attacking the problem from the 'Big Data' mindset which Google are intimately familiar with. Instead of trying to crack hard AI problems (computer vision being the most obvious) they are simply counting on being able to record and use enough information both before and during the actual driving that they simply avoid these problems.

From what I have seen this approach seems to be working. My real concern is it will not be economically viable to integrate the kind of sensor arrays they are depending on into a real car (2 radars and the laser scanner being the killers).
Apparently - and I don't have any way of confirming this myself - if you enable automatic backups to iCloud your iPhone refuses to automatically back itself up to your computer anymore. So all your eggs are basically in one iCloud-shaped basket.
Pilot Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS Class
What're you suggesting you can get for $40/hour?

You might get an "experienced developer" for $40/hr on a fulltime employed basis where that means "$80k/year". You certainly won't get the same level of talent on a contract or freelance basis at that rate.

For a freelancer, "$100/hr" is much more likely to mean $2000/week than $4000/week. Even consultants at the top consulting firms can't (legitimately) bill 100% of a 40hr week consistently.

I'm inclined to agree with other posters - if this site pitched him as a dedicated freelance web dev, I'd quite likely consider hiring him at a $100/hr rate based on the skill demonstrated in the HN Stats site. As a "please buy me some ramen and help pay my tuition" plea - I'd pass him over completely even if I needed pretty much exactly what he's demoing. Its all about perceptions and implications of trust.
Amazon make you re-enter all your credit card details every time you want to ship to a new address.
Was all-caps really necessary for the title?
Video gaming an Olympic sport?
I agree, J != I

I'm a fan of the minimalism but as high caliber as I was expecting.

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/ is one of my favorites.
There are two options and they both sound kind of cliched. 1)

1) The first is two find some way to "hack" together a product yourself. This can be as simple as a "demo" in keynote/powerpoint or something that you can show off to investors as the product initially. Or if you are in a service business, perform the service manually for a few customers (run it from a spreadsheet) and prove the need before plunging into full fledged development. Both of those will most likely also reduce the time-footprint of your development

2) A lot of accelerators seem to be accepting pre-product companies these days and I think this is the strength of a lot of the accelerators is to get you into the product stage. These could be a viable option if you have one in your area
Penny4NASA - Increase NASA funding to be 1% of U.S Budget
Ask HN: What do you use for website analytics?
Do you use client-side analytics? Server-side analytics? And which products do you use? Google Analytics? AWStats? Do you pay for services, or only use the free ones?

I'm trying to get a feel for what are the most used / well liked analytics products so that I can consider them for my own projects.
The problem I can see is that its not totally type safe as you still need to run the code to check that your entity is compatible with the underlying table at runtime. If I am wrong here please correct me. It appears fairly easy to make a mistake on the datatype (Int vs Long) and have it blow up in your face when you run it. Sure the re-factoring is simple but I don't want to wait till runtime to catch these issues.

I don't think that its not achievable either. I think that LINQtoSQL and EntityFramework are the best implementation of database access that exists today. Import the database/table select over it with 95% assurance that the query will work at runtime and with the correct types. I really wish something like this existed in the Java world as I would switch in a heartbeat.

For the record I code C# mostly in my day job, but every time I move over to PHP/Java/Scala I miss LINQ. I am working with Play! at the moment and while the DB access is the best I have come across in the Java world, its still not at the same standard. I am still getting issues with simple selects where I should be using a Long rather then an Int.
If by Swiss you mean Swiss-German, there is a wikipedia for that language group (http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houptsyte), but I'm pretty sure most Swiss-German speakers use the German wikipedia instead. I don't know about the situation for Swiss-French, Swiss-Italian and Romansh speakers.
Having a full-time driver on retainer 24x7 is not cost effective, but using one a few times a year might well be.
Picplum launches Photo Printing API
I think the true rate of human accidents is higher than 1 per 250K miles - many are simply never reported to the police or DMV, especially because many states have a cost threshold ($750 in California, higher in other states) or require an injury to be reported
I bet he was. I also bet that MSL also has some Java on it since JPL is all about code reuse.
No, they can't rely on the post office. The workers there aren't paid that well, after all, and some of them would probably be quite happy to take money on the side to make a few security tokens disappear into the hands of a fraudster.
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/File:New_fractal_logo.png
Things like the Flash Crash[1] are what occur. Te scary thing in my mind is that error states are the hardest to test for and tend to be multiplicative in cascading severity. The HFT world is hiring a lot of really smart people. We have no choice but to trust that enough of that brain power is going towards addressing those error states.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
How would PayPal know what your profit is? 1099s are informational forms. They inform you and the IRS how much someone else paid you. They are not directly used in computing your taxes. The purpose of the new 1099-K is to prevent you from receiving $x in credit card sales, then claiming you only had ($x / 2) in gross sales on your tax return.
Is it possible to prevent a remote wipe by Apple? Or at least so it is only possible with knowledge of my password? If I lose both my MBA and my password, I am ok with not being able to remote wipe.

EDIT: OK, I can disable remote wipe entirely by disabling 'find my mac'.
I seem to remember something similar in Wargames from the 80's.
Here you can see video of self-driving cars handling Lombard Street, as well as dirt roads, off-road driving, pedestrians and bicyclists and other obstacles in the road, plus tons of information about how they work:

https://www.ai-class.com/course/video/videolecture/48

https://www.ai-class.com/course/video/videolecture/209

https://www.ai-class.com/course/video/videolecture/210 (Lombard Street at about 4:40)

One thing that strikes me is how much more these robots can potentially see than a human driver. Imagine how much better you could drive if you could see in all directions at once with multiple range-finding sensors and cameras, track dozens of moving objects simultaneously, never get sleepy or look away from the road at the wrong time, react to events in milliseconds, and learn from hundreds of thousands of miles of training data as your driving "experience".
I do store some sensitive stuff on Dropbox, but inside an encrypted disk image (I'm on a Mac).
Wikia's code is indeed a fork of MediaWiki's. We're working on making it a less drastic fork. And we've always tried to make concessions with respect to the UI. For instance users can choose the Monobook skin in the preferences pane.
Partially necessary. And I completely agree with you. The licenses they demand are far broader than what they need, but that goes to the imbalance inherent in the relationship: big company with lots of money for lawyers versus some person just wanting to tell his friends what he had for lunch.
Most code executed on my box comes from package managers, which often use code signing to make sure you're getting the right code. Other than that, we often have to depend on the reputation of the project, otherwise we would be stuck reading code all day, instead of getting work done.

The difference here is that this is not some long standing and reputable project, but instead just something that was randomly thrown up github.

tl;dr - I trust the Mozilla Foundation more than I trust jtwaleson
> I honestly don't see any of these cars driving in the crazy traffic of Cairo, Istanbul, or any other metropolis from the rest of Asia or Africa.

You're wrong. Japan is also planning on introducing self-driving cars shortly.
Quick and dirty screencast http://youtu.be/DoDoOtlomsM
"Hangs itself" seems overly dramatic. Given the time-sensitive nature of many Craigslist, it's likely that most of Craigslist traffic comes from people using the Craigslist search. Others may object to Craiglist protecting their data because it stops them from creating value-add businesses on top of it, but few complain of the high cost of the Twitter firehose.

If the data has value, it's perfectly reasonable for the owner to charge for access. And Craiglist owns the data, as their T&Cs make clear.
I wonder if they get a tax credit for this kind of research?

Seems possible, and certain kinds of tax credit may as well be subsidies. All speculation on my part, though. I wonder if anyone knows?
Well done. This solves a big problem for some. Enough said.
But usually it is from trusted repositories.
I would really love to be able to highlight and bookmark snippets. Unfortunately, it would likely be a huge back end change for Wikipedia and their servers would likely melt.

It would be great if there was an external site that used content from Wikipedia and had these features.
"It's a cylon virus... I'm decrypting the firewalls and downloading to the server."
For "hiring as a dev", $40/hr seems in the right ballpark.

For freelance work, I've paid well over $100/hr to people with similar age/experience based on nothing more than portfolios similar to his and a plausible sounding phone-screen.

I've contracted students for work, and while I'm more likely to propose payment terms based on estimated hours with payment on milestone delivery rather than just hourly rates, I'll still assume a similar overall "hourly rate".

(That's in Sydney, Australia.)
I was under the impression that Basho specifically chose not to provide paid support for the OSS version. Were you speaking of other companies offering support, or is this a new thing?
I think we need the government to step in and slow down google. They return search results unfairly fast, it prevents underfunded companies from competing.
Here's the abstract to Bresenham's Algorithm from Wikipedia, if anyone wants to know a little more about it, generally:

"The Bresenham line algorithm is an algorithm which determines which points in an n-dimensional raster should be plotted in order to form a close approximation to a straight line between two given points. It is commonly used to draw lines on a computer screen, as it uses only integer addition, subtraction and bit shifting, all of which are very cheap operations in standard computer architectures. It is one of the earliest algorithms developed in the field of computer graphics. A minor extension to the original algorithm also deals with drawing circles."
The market doesn't care about your overpriced valuation (Failbook)
They could just stop hiring new truckers (forgot what it's called when you just let the current staff dwindle, instead of actively firing them) and let the current ones gradually retire. Either way, this is a problem that has been faced before countless times as new technology has appeared.
I think the reporter may be suffering from stockholm syndrome.
Has anything that has built on top of wikipedia as the primary product got much traction? I think it is something that would be hard to really get widespread without it.

Can a 3rd party even maintain a fully up to date set of wikipedia content? Not sure what their policy on scraping is?
> it's been reported that the NYPD consistently instructs people in stop-and-frisk situations to remove any drugs from their pocket and present it for inspection prior to frisking, making it publicly displayed.

That's really interesting. Are you saying that if an officer finds marijuana, instructs you to remove it, and you refuse, you can't be arrested because you didn't display it publicly?
I actually have that book in my backpack right now. It's very informative, but also very dense.
I just made an animated GIF for you:
http://d.pr/i/ZMi (3MB)
In the redesign, the body of the pyramid article starts halfway down the page. In the original, it starts 1/4 way down the page.

This is not an improvement.
J don't get it either. Jf you're going to criticize something, make it something substantial.
Nice article, William! :)
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."
Wherein the concept of ‘value creation’ is never quite defined, and the author seems blind to several thousand years of well-documented human history where individuals relentlessly pursued self-interest, sometimes resulting in common benefit and sometimes in common suffering. But no, apparently this is all a new phenomenon.
The capital "J" was pretty bad too, dropping under the baseline, for no other reason than to differentiate it from that stupid "I"
Apparently remote wipe is enabled by a little innocent-sounding checkbox labelled "Enable Find My Mac", so consumers have almost certainly enabled it without realising that it allows their data to be wiped by a poorly-secured cloud system.
was about to say exact same thing - hangs itself? cmon.

Does anyone have an idea how many people go to craiglist from search engines anyway? Aside from people using the API type/scraper sites... is it common to find jobs/furniture/apts from sites other than the site itself?
Thanks Azat!
A taxi is a car.
Um, Craigslist is a .org, not a .com.
Yeah but both Hondas and Kias can drive on almost any road. That's not the case with Discover acceptance, though I understand it's a lot higher in the U.S.

High cash back is a fair enough reason, thanks.
I use Mint (http://haveamint.com/) for most of my client work. Clients like the pretty interface and easy to read graphs. The real bonus, for me, is that it is extensible.
Design starts with constraints. If you don't understand the constraints, a redesign is just a fantasy.

Wikipedia is heavily constrained by one thing: the existing mediawiki markup. That presents a huge challenge to implementing this redesign.

Large mediawiki installs become brittle because users have a natural tendency to use the markup for presentation, not structure. Combined with the in markup template mechanisms, the tendency is toward a tangle of interdependent markup. Wikipedia's community does far better than most in fighting this with policy and consistency, but it's still an issue.

Implementing this redesign would require not just working with some of the more difficult parts of the mediawiki code base, but also a laborious effort to rewrite a sizable fraction (if not the majority) of all wiki foundation content. That just isn't going to happen.

But that doesn't mean design improvements on wikipedia are impossible, just that any attempt needs to work in alignment with the constraining forces.
I think we're using different definitions for experienced.

Junior developers are still very much more experienced than a student, and won't be making 80k/year anywhere except DC/NYC/LA.

But I find that salary comparisons quickly go downhill on HN because of the bubble that we live in here, so I'm just going to let this conversation go.
Sorry, I copied from the blog template.
Really? Down votes with now counter-argument or discussion?
Just accept the future man.

"Pyramid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A pyramid (from Greek: πυραμίς pyramis[1]) is a structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense; that is, its outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top.

Share "Pyramid" with your friends:
Twitter - Facebook - LinkedIn - Google+ - Email - Pinterest - Tumblr - Reddit - Delicious - Digg - WordPress

Follow Wikipedia on: Twitter - Facebook - Google+ - Pinterest"

(Or you could get Ghostery)
No, they say "empty your pockets," and if there is pot there, they charge you not only with possession, but display as well.
Ask HN: How much are the olympic doodles costing your company?
Everyone must've seen the Google olympic doodles. Based on average hourly rates, amount of time spent, and number of people playing, how much are these costing your company?
My advice is stop looking at him as an involved "nontechnical person", and start looking at him as a friend again, only one who is currently not helping you, and maybe even leeching off of you, to some extent; cut him loose.
I've been a fan of Chase Jarvis for years now. He's a level-headed professional guy and doesn't need to stir up anger to get page views.

This isn't "fuck the police", this is "be responsible, be respectful, be polite, know your rights"
Add an affiliate program, and then you have something.
A car that drives itself, or, even better, a car that I can cheaply rent that will drive itself to my doorsteps, then drive me wherever I want to go, and then return itself would be absolutely perfect.

We have those, they're called cabs/taxis ;) Well, I suppose they're not exactly cheap, but personally I use them so rarely that it doesn't really matter, even though I'm on a tight budget.
Yeah. This is all talking about 3taps, not "general search engines". 3taps seems to be claiming that Craigslist has cut off Google, but I think it's just that Craigslist has cut off 3taps.

*Edit: Craigslist added nocache directives to their posts, which means that 3taps can't scrape the Google cached copies. They're not blocking anyone. Interestingly, this also reveals that 3taps was previously violating the Google TOS, which prohibits automated access of the Google cache.
Mdszy/projector: Custom templating like `bundle gem` or `rails new`
Private and Trustworthy In-Person Certiﬁcations
I expect that as the automated cars get sophisticated enough that they no longer act individually, but rather each car is in constant communication with the cars in the area so that they can coordinate maneuvers and engage in global planning, a semi-manual option might be added to the system so people can drive for fun.

They way that would work is that when you car is in semi-manual mode, it tells the others cars that a human is controlling steering and speed. The other cars will then give the human extra room (e.g., no drafting or close formation driving on the freeway, no crossing at right angles in an intersection at full speed just inches apart, or that kind of stuff that the cars will do when computers are driving all of the cars in an area).

The automated system will still be monitoring the human and can take over if the human does something bad, so the other drivers don't have to worry that a human driven car will suddenly cross the line into their lane and kill them.

This could even be turned into a game, where the automated system can score the human driver based on how well the human drove and how often the system had to intervene to keep the human from crashing.

Note that racing could also be allowed in such a system. Want to take that Aston Martin out for a race against your neighbor's Ferrari? Let the system know, and it can give you a course through the city, clear a bubble around you two, and let you go at it.
So my users have to get a Picplum account before they can print?
What do you think made Picplum go the route of the consumer needing an account?

As apposed to me just sending Picplum the customer's information, and having the hard work (printing, mailing, etc.) be handled for me.
It's hard to say what's going on with the font. Works fine on Mac 10.8 Chrome 22.0.1215.0 (http://i.imgur.com/QMfte.png), but not in Safari, Firefox or Chrome iOS (http://i.imgur.com/8FruE.png).
Photography, even before digital, has always been such a technical art form that it makes sense that a lot of hacker-types are drawn to it.

I have more computers in my house than cameras, but only barely.
There's alot of services similar to this, see
http://pinterest.com/giftingexperts/monthly-gift-box-subscri...

There's one called manpack which is for women buying a gift for their man.

http://www.manpacks.com/gifts

boink box (http://www.getboinkbox.com/) sounds like fun

http://betabeat.com/2012/07/boink-box-is-birchbox-for-sex-st...
Do some site:city.craigslist.org searches and limit to 24 hours. You'll get no results. You can't cut off 3taps without cutting off Google.
Same thoughts. I feel my users would really be confused.
Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers
How Long Before Facebook Writes Off Its $1B Purchase of Instagram?
Speaking of hindsight bias, IMHO,the HTC Touch & WinMo 5/6.5 made for a better "smartphone" than its contemporary iPhone. Despite it's attempt at touch/tap (had a stylus), it was pretty fantastic. WinMo had applications, easy syncing, file system access, an active developer/hacker community, Exchange support, etc. The exchange support alone made it far more valuable to me than the iPhone. Where it lacked was polish of its multimedia features the market expects today as well as a modern-ish browser. Tethering one on of those things w/ the EV-DO rev A network was a pretty great tinkerers capability -- well over a year before iPhone had 3G. FWIW, the Touch was a well-executed device and the xda community took the Vogue pretty far.
What sort of paid influencing do you think would happen on HN?
IMDb orders imdbAPI to shut down or else
Most of comments here are missing the big picture.

Most of the general public and individual investors do not have clear insight into how HFTs work, or if they are beneficial or not. Most are inclined to be scared of crashes and erratic behavior traced back to HFTs. Trading off liquidity for a loss of trust in capital markets is a bad deal.

When investors lose trust in the system, it all falls apart.
No need to scrape, Wikipedia has full dumps for the articles available for download: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Eng...
How would a full switch to automated cars work anyway? Would they require different roads?

If their functionality included stopping on a dime at a duck on the road, and human reaction speed isn't equivalent, it isn't safe to human drivers. But cost and manufacturing has to factor in before we can just replace every car on the road. People still drive 20 year old cars.