skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm a skeptic, but I don't think people are going to keep funneling money because of who he is. His fanbase can only allocate so much or deal with so many outreaches and I would wager they only did this one because it was hot off the heels of a very successful campaign. When you know the project is going to succeed because of auto-generated hype and press, it's a lot easier to press submit.

Something space-related, while Curiosity is still fresh in people's minds, might work, but I don't think he can keep getting these numbers regularly. I'd like to be wrong, though.
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? What's wrong with express?
I think Reddit might have been more of a PR win than a major investment win. You might argue that it could have been the latter if the team had turned down the Conde Naste acquisition offer, but that might be the point. Without strong revenues it might not have been easy to turn down such an offer. I'm just speculating so please correct me if any of this is incorrect.
"can readily turn operations"

Which operations, specifically? We have the product tags example to work from, so it would help to be more concrete.

"into O(M*N) rather than O(N)"

I assume here that your target is "scalability to higher numbers of tags for a given product"? If so, please state that explicitly. Again, M and N aren't necessary, because we have an example to work from.

Are the operations still susceptible to worse scalability on this axis if you employ a GIN index?

"PgSQL documentation suggests cases that will hurt you."

Please elaborate.

"I would suggest that the relational model is maintained"

I don't see how your solution is relational and the other one is not. Can you please explain? How is using an array different from using, say, a string, which is essentially an array of characters? How is it different from using a date, the components of which you can access (e.g. grouping by the month)?

"the optimiser is likely to come up with a better solution."

Please elaborate.
I use Discover and AMEX almost exclusively for cashback/rewards points.
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my $file_text = do { local $/ = undef; open my $fh, '<', 'data.txt'; <$fh> };

I have absolutely no idea what this line does. local? undef? '<'?, <$fh>? This is how you read a file in Perl?
Currently experimenting with logstash and Kibana on internal systems and very happy so far, no complaints with it.

Be warned though that logstash is not mature software, get on the mailing list and read the github page.

Now if only the rails logging system wasn't so tightly integrated and string-happy.
I was speaking specifically of the F2P users.

Pirates are neither users not customers.
Zappa[0] is a cool Coffeescript wrapper around Express. Unfortunately, Maurice Machado[1] dropped off the radar last October so some other people stepped in to maintain it at https://github.com/zappajs/zappajs.

Maurice also wrote Coffeekup[2] (a Coffeescript Jade) which has also been taken over by the community as a project called Coffeecup[3].

(Sincerely hope Maurice is ok. He was real active and put a lot of effort into his projects up until his disappearance.)

[0]: http://zappajs.org/docs/crashcourse/
[1]: http://twitter.com/mauricemach
[2]: http://coffeekup.org/ && https://github.com/mauricemach/coffeekup
[3]: https://github.com/gradus/coffeecup
That's an interesting perspective that I hadn't thought of before.

The usual approach to a 3D gestural interface is the kind of thing that's shown in the video for Leap—writing in the air, using mimed actions in space to represent manipulation of objects on a 2D screen, et cetera.

Gestures as an abstraction, like sign language or even the everyday hand gestures we use like flipping the bird, the "A-OK" sign, and such make a lot more sense. If you move away from the idea of using hand waving as a stand-in for direct manipulation of objects, and look at gestures as a form of communication, it's a whole different ball game.

Thanks for that. I still look at the demo video for Leap with fear and loathing, but using that same hardware for a communicative gesture system like you suggest is exciting indeed. Now I'm going to be distracted all day thinking about ways to incorporate hand signs into a UI.
Hi atlassic, you are right on that point. Perhaps I have poorly articulated my request.

Plunker is different from those sites in one key respect (and several other smaller ways):

Each plunk is run as a first class web citizen

This means that XHR requests against files within the same plunk just work. Anything that would work as if the files were statically hosted on github pages would also work on this, making it an excellent and non-artificial testing ground for web snippets.
the Angkor temples demonstrate how religion can offer an authentic personal encounter with the unknown

I think "the unknown" is a euphemism for God in this article.

In any case i would never discriminate against my deist brothers.
glad to see this is still around.. enjoyed it a lot, i thought it was gone after the 3 month hiatus.
I would consider The God Delusion a science book.

(It's really good btw. I would recommend it to any theist.)
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The problem is that "gamers" are not a monolithic group. People say contradictory things not because of cognitive dissonance, but because they disagree. As with most issues, there are more than two sides to this one.
The key is the question mark. The regexp also adds a slash if none is present initially.
FBI says pirated Android apps a "top priority"
Out of curiosity, how do I sign up for goodfil.ms without a Facebook or Twitter account?
And 4: they also fade.

I've been wearing the same seven solid black polyester tees for the past year or so and I'm sold on them.
> Make the game $5, I'll buy it and so will everyone.

That assumes that most people are pirating just because they think the game's too expensive.

- If someone pirates games because their parents don't want to drive them to the store and they don't have a credit card for buying games online, then dropping the price to $5 won't change anything for them.

- If someone pirates games because they've gotten so used to doing it that the idea of going to a store never even crosses their mind, then dropping the price to $5 won't change anything for them.

- If someone pirates games because they don't want to shell out for a complete unknown, then dropping the price to $5 won't change much for them.

That last one is one I'd like to unpack, too. Even assuming Ubi's 95% figure is correct, that presumably comes from just counting individuals. According to that metric, someone who pirates a game because there's no demo and plays it for ten minutes before deleting counts as just as much of a pirate as someone who steals the game and then plays it 4 hours a day for months. And someone who pirates it and plays for an hour before deciding to buy it is counted as both a legitimate buyer and a pirate.

I'd be much more interested to know what percentage of play hours are logged on pirated vs. legitimate copies of a game. I realize that's not in line with most game makers' pay models, but I suspect it would still turn out to be instructive.
That is because xckd is the same 3 jokes repeated over and over.
Application Scalability: Still elusive for Enterprises Apps
My hunch is one of the main reasons people who attend Agile events tend to be on the mature side is because they've have families so they can't (and don't want to) spend their weekends at beer-fuelled hackathons and have seen that the root of software project success & failure is in the processes rather than the tools.

That kind of stuff is pretty boring for the younger generations who are still caught up in the idea that shiny technologies and gargantuan coding sessions can save the world and make them all billionares.
I'd use this but not as a resume tool. I'd use this as a motivational tool to keep track of the todo items I have since some of them are quite long running and to motivate me into getting those personal projects finished.
Hacker is a great one to pick on due to the name of this site. I'm in information security, and when I found a site called "Hacker News", I was expecting a bit more security research, not rockstar ninja bootstrapped VC-seeking programmers talking about Rails and the newest JS framework and how they founded a new startup with an MVP trying to disrupt a larger industry. That's not what hacker means to me. Writing code isn't hacking, it's writing code. The hackers I deal with on a daily basis are either my coworkers doing pentesting or the bad guys I'm paid to keep away from our networks. This is the only time I've complained about it, though.

Point being, words are often perverted by groups trying to describe their activities. This is how language works.
I have a nexus 7 and love it. I absolutely love my netbook and this seems very similar. I dont care about GPS, G or cell connection so this seems really great for me. A lot cheaper then the Transformer too. I guess I am alone though as the rest of HN seems personally offended by it.
I'm pretty sure he's working on it fulltime as of a month ago or so.
> A] Piracy is not a problem.

Piracy is a problem without a clear-cut solution. It is a modern incarnation of the classic free rider problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem).

> B] DRM causes piracy

I have been tempted to pirate games with onerous DRM (I haven't). That said, I think that DRM is a common excuse that pirates use to justify their actions.

The point I'd like to make is that DRM and piracy rates have no correlation . The only legitimate purpose that DRM serves is to interfere with launch-day piracy. Once a product has been cracked, it only hampers legitimate customers. And there is no uncrackable DRM.

The always-on DRM that companies like Ubi love to use just rubs salt in the wound. Now I, a paying customer, have to be connected to the internet 24/7 to play your game? When pirates don't? What's next, are you going to hire a goon to monitor me and protect your precious intellectual property?

EDIT: I want Ubi to stop putting barriers between me and their products. I'd even be fine with steam DRM, but they need to cut the umbilical cord and let me play their games.
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Far more comments than upvotes. An article like this, fervent discussion is to be expected. Let me join in on the fun!

"Science is supposed to challenge this type of quasi-mystical subjective experience, to provide an antidote to it."

That is where the author lost me. Science is supposed to challenge beliefs, not personal experience. It's the difference between "I feel great today" and "four people complimented my new haircut today". Science still allows you to revel in beauty when looking at a temple, even while there may be a sound explanation for why you're having these feelings.
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> This is how you read a file in Perl?

Nope. I use Path::Class from CPAN...

use Path::Class 'file';
my $file_text = file('data.txt')->slurp;
This really just amounts to vague hand-waving that language complexity somehow impacts productivity. Do you have any evidence to back up this fear? C# seems to have done reasonably well in the enterprise, and it has much greater complexity than Java. It doesn't have all the flexibility of Scala but for common use cases I think they are actually pretty comparable. Same goes with F#, which is not tailored to everyone's needs but is there out of the box in Visual Studio (it is an ML-based language). I've never seen it be an actual issue for people who are not experienced with e.g. functional programming, to perform maintenance on a program written with a lot of FP constructs. They may need a little guidance at first but every developer I've worked with loves this kind of stuff when they first see it. Bad code can be written in any language and it usually isn't clever people pushing the boundaries who write it.
There's a difference between a "startup" and a "lifestyle business".
The problem is that people with this level of skill can make much more in the finance industry.
I'm downvoting you, not because of what you're saying, but primarily for your incendiary tone.

Content-wise, your musings on religion seemingly fail to take into account the existence of other religions outside of Christianity (or at the very least, outside of the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, & Islam). There are many non-biblical, non-revealed religions. There are many non-theistic ones as well. I don't feel the need to list them off here. Feel free to research.

Back to your tone, I kindly request that you be respectful of those who do not necessarily agree with you and do not assume you are preaching to the choir, otherwise you do nothing but hurt your own cause. If you reduce the entire concept of religion to nothing but "the ramblings of bronze age goat herders," do you honestly expect anyone who adheres to one of those religions (or to any other non-"goat herder" religion for that matter) to listen to what you have to say?

For the record, I agree with a lot of what you said, especially about awe and amazement not being exclusive to religion. Likewise about how many people (not entire religions mind you, or religion itself, but individuals) claim a monopoly on morality. Again, my issue isn't so much with your content, but more so with how you're presenting it. Just some food for thought.
I've actually traced my ancestry back to Charlemagne. It's an interesting exercise. Some of my links are not very well substantiated, but the dozen or two generations from Charlemagne forward are fairly well documented, depending on how many of your ancestors were bastard children of some horny nobleman. (Of course there are countless poor peasant farmers between now and then as well.)
If it's allowed, FreeBSD has a utility to remotely install itself on any non-shared Linux host without hosting company intervention.
Change the wording to be more affirmative. "We may, IF" -> "We will be".

A/B test the price points with a pre-registration, and do not take payment information yet.
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> If you read this far you should probably follow me on twitter

I thought this fad was dead.
A lot, and those things stack up over time. If I finish something today it frees up my mind to think about some other, possibly larger problem tomorrow. Do this enough times and it can be the difference between success and failure. I know people like to think in big black swan moments, but most of life is not like that. Life is about making lots of little decisions that add up over time. The speech from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday talks about fighting for each inch on the football field and really how it is no different than life itself. Over time those inches add up.
I really hate this trend for describing anything somewhat intellectual as 'autistic'.
whack (author of logstash) works at dreamhost now, and is indeed working on logstash full-time.

The kibana ui is, afaik, being ported to ruby atm.
Just an interesting thought; you could actually build a page like this using our product (http://interstateapp.com) and its API (just whack up a custom theme and sort the board/roadmap by date). Best of luck with this regardless.
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The sound of an iceberg cracking apart from 700 miles away
The original article hinted at the reason for your views.

Firstly, the 95% piracy rate they are reporting is worldwide, not the rate of piracy in the USA.

In the USA, piracy rates have never been all that high, but cart yourself over to China or Singapore and you find people selling pirated software/music/whatever on the street corners.
Yeah, yeah, cool and all, but... why so thick???
When Land Is History
they may have a role in selecting the CEO ;)
They sold six years ago when they were relatively tiny compared to today. There's no way they would have been a "major" win up there with the 4 huge exits webwright mentioned:

"We couldn't get them to tell us the acquisition price, but they did tell us that the company has raised just $100k (all in summer 2005) and currently has an average of 70,000 daily unique visitors and 700,000 or so page views."

http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwir...
When providing a quotation, use quotation marks.
I like the two axes idea, although "Rewatchability" would probably be better as "How much I liked it."

There are very high quality, well made movies that I don't like, and there are some really crappy ones that I do. And that's a good distinction to see in a review system.

Because sometimes you just want to watch a good shitty movie, but it's really difficult to tell the good shitty movies from the bad shitty movies when The Brady Bunch movie (brilliant) has the same rating as any Adam Sandler movie (awful).
Shouldn't US users then be using google.us, and uk users use google.co.uk and should google.com just redirect to the language of the location of the user?
The article is based on the (huge) assumption that you have an internal burning desire to change the world, and running a startup business is just the most efficient method to do that.

That doesn't apply to most small businesses, even new ones.

Say you want to disrupt credit card payments. Do you need to work on that 20 hours a day, 7 days a week? Or can credit cards be disrupted 8-5 M-F? Seems either is possible.
I would say yes and no.

The tools are there now. You can make an outstandingly impressive looking game with UnrealEngine3 right now if you ignore restraints of mainstream PC and console hardware. Look at the Nvidia and AMD tech demos for their cards to see what they can do.

But that game would be expensive, time consuming, and not worth the investment if you were planning on making money.

I would say it's better to describe it that they are waiting on tools that allow them to do more with the same time and money budgets on current or next-gen hardware. That's where things like UnrealEngine4 make it interesting because it seems that Epic is saying that PCs are under-utilized graphical work horses now and don't want to wait for the consoles to catch up. It's potentially a huge risk for them to take and it'll be fun to see how it plays out.

To me the tools thing isn't just about graphics, it's about development. Proper tools make high quality games cheaper to make in general. As an example, let's say you want to make a big open world game that has hundreds of indoor locations. You have a team of ten to create those indoor locations. If you can use tools that would allow a team of five people to do the same amount of work in the same amount of time as ten on the previous project then you have two choices. You can reduce your team to five to make the same amount of content for lower costs (and probably being better) or you can keep your ten to create more content for the same costs as before.

If you look at the UnrealEngine4 demos they are just as much about content creation tools as it is about graphics in general.
Looks like it was heavily inspired by this (from ~2010):
http://culturedcode.com/status/

And I really like the concept, but I believe that the value of a "status dashboard" is that it's a concise view of what's happening right now. I really don't think that this sort of concept is a good resume replacement it's not a good format for 20+ items.

I'd suggest making it a status dashboard for what you're working on right now, and once things are "completed" they drop off into a bulleted list at the bottom which becomes your "work log" rather than "dashboard" at that point. Make it less overwhelming and I could really see a recruiter or business partner getting some good info from it.
Would you rather go to a restaurant that has 17 reviews and 4 stars, or the next-door neighbor with 3.5 stars from 750 reviews, all other things being equal?

Yeah.

Ratings are about post-choice satisfaction, not about pre-choice decision making.
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This is not entirely so. When I visited Japan, my browser prompted "We've detected you've moved to Japan, would you like to change..."

That to me seems wrong. No one learns a language in 7 hours.
Groovy, didn't know that. When I said "not mature" I just meant in terms of number of deployments and age of the code-base.

No knock against author intended.
I agree with essentially everything you're saying here, but I don't see how something like this couldn't be useful to show work behind my results progressed. Or at least easier to consume than a traditional resume or modern blog-as-resume for that purpose.

I'm thinking of it as a simple tool for providing context and references to what I've done. The first step in making those claims of results credible.

I'm not talking about shipping a link in lieu of a CV or proper introduction to a job I'm pursuing, rather when someone reaches out to me and would like to know what I'm up to - I can show them.

Obviously, once you get to the point of sitting face to face with someone it's a totally different type conversation, but for the first exchange I see nothing wrong with this.
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I'd love to know if the HN community has any other tips to add to this list that I've jotted down.
I think you're making a big mistake by only asking resumé-builders and not employers about the pros and cons of your idea.

I love the design, though. It's a way to reinforce the idea that there is more to a desirable applicant than their diploma and grade average. Basically why LinkedIn is fundamentally broken.

EDIT: Another way to include speaking gigs would be to provide links to your Lanyrd and Speaker Deck profiles.
True. The unknown need not be God, however.
Science is not a failure because of that, for the simple reason that it was never supposed to be infallible. Imperfection is at its core, it's not a failure.

Sending a message across the galaxy with the assumption that science is perfect is a failure by the person sending the message, not science's.
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Single-window integrated development environment
Looks similar to http://graylog2.org/
At the risk of downvotes, religion used as anything other than philosophy is bad science. Even if there was/is a creator, it can't be "magic". Science doesn't allow for magic.
Ask HN: Can someone at Google please turn off the mobile interface?
Every time I search google on a mobile device it gives me the mobile interface and I click something and it parses the page and gives me what it thinks is a mobile friendly version, but it ALWAYS sucks and I always click the classic version.

If I click the classic version every time you show me the mobile version, then it's a pretty good indicator I never want to see your mobile version.

Turn it off. It's not good and I don't want to see it anymore.

The worst part is that my mobile device doesn't let me use any other search engine by default, so please stop.
Why on earth does being made with bootstrap matter for this? The headline should read "Logstash UI that doesn't suck"

What something is built with doesn't matter, that it works matters.