skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been moving away from HN recently and this is the first article in a while to really spark my interest.

Lots more is involved here than just pop culture; comparative culture, the divide between pop and 'high art,' and the cultural effects of economic success.
That's in the video (~1m0s mark). The prototype is present, but ugly/unfinished. We could put it up publicly, but it wouldn't represent the final product anyhow.
From the Google Guava team, regarding the difficulty on the other end of people accepting random pull requests:

https://plus.google.com/113026104107031516488/posts/ZRdtjTL1...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691587
They may be charging you more per gallon in the summer. Also, rural municipalities need to charge higher fees and taxes per person to recoup their costs. This is due to the fact that they have to maintain a water system that serves a larger area but fewer people.
(Disclosure: I'm not the author of the post, but I do work at Factual)

First, thanks for your feedback (you and everyone else who commented). It's hard to figure out the right tone for a post like this (how technical do we should get, how much should we focus on general observations vs specific examples, etc.), and the clear feedback from HN is that deeper and more technical posts are better.

Re: worrying about outliers being terrible advice

I definitely agree with you that working on the one-in-a-million cases is rarely a good use of time, and the blog post should probably have talked about 3 sigma events instead of 4.5 sigma events. The spirit of the point is that when you have a lot of data, things that are "rare" still happen a lot. It's kind of like how MapReduce assumes that machine failures, while rare individually, happen pretty frequently when you're working with clusters of thousands of machines. Discounting machine failures because a single machine is unlikely to fail leads to problems. For Factual, concretely, if we make a mistake that effects just 0.1% of our data, than that's going to be 50k+ businesses that are not listed correctly in our dataset. That might be a lot of failed phone calls, or people driving to places that don't exist, or so on, and we take that seriously.
Yes, this post inspired me to install the Readability extension on Chrome. Great content but terrible readability.
Google changed their favicon a week and a half ago. That's about as visible as the main logo.
Let the market decide this. My impression is that the average VC firm doesn't deserve the carry plus expenses. The great ones do. (And it's strange they all still charge the same variant of 2/20)

So what will the market decide? I have no idea.

But if the ex-Netscape/LoudCloud types can return good money to their investors, they will be trusted with more money. And this should continue. If they don't, the funding will dry up soon enough. The invisible hand will guide this, so there is no need to intervene. If 200 funds investing X dollars is better than 20 investing 10x, the returns will show it. If the status quo is somehow a disservice to innovation, then it becomes a national R&D funding issue rather than a VC issue.
This is highly subjective. Every project and maintainer is different.

Personally, I try to be 100% positive whenever I interact with anyone who has put their time and energy into improving a project that I maintain because I am 100% grateful for their effort. If I think that their code could be better in some way, I make that suggestion to them in a positive way. If they don't want to take my advice, then I'll merge their request and make the improvements myself. Heck, even if their code breaks something I'll still merge it in-- then fix it myself while retaining the intention of their code.

Being negative towards contributors is counter-productive.
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Us 115wpm qwerty guys aren't "reasonably fast" - we're way up there - and to be sure, the only reason I have to improve my speed is because it's a sort of hobby.... it won't help me code better.
Being able to type with my left hand faster than my friends can type with both is always fun - as is constructing passwords and other shortcuts that can be done with a single hand in the blink of an eye... but that's all just fun and games.
Mr Lee - just left you a VM about the program. I'm trying to get in touch with everyone personally that signed up to give a run down of the program and give you a chance for any questions. Thanks for your interest! Ben
Oops, my mistake - thanks for pointing that out!

That said, it actually makes my case significantly stronger. With 10% EVs and 20kW chargers, you can put 2.5 GW into the grid at peak, which is over 2/3 of the instantaneous maximum demand for the year.

I'd love to see figures on how much you could save providing a grid with 1.8 GW of base load vs having to engineer it to be able to handle nearly twice that, once a year.

You'd have to go to 15-20% EVs to support that, but if you're shutting down half your traditional power stations and investing heavily in solar, it may actually make sense with today's prices. Then again, lithium prices would skyrocket going to those kinds of extremes...
Yeah. I think it's fair to say that a good deal of the previously K-Pop naive audience is going to miss out of a lot of things. After all, it's certainly difficult to pick out everything if you've NEVER seen another K-Pop music video in your life

That said, anyone who has seen a Weird-Al or Slim Shady (not Eminem...) video can probably get the vibe that he's making fun of something. And that something probably has to do with beautiful women, nice cars, and other -money- things.

Edit: Forgot to add Lonely Island to that list.
Don't discount it. Your numbers are about right, but that can definitely be enough to run an organization. Kiva has about 80 full time staff and about 3/4s of their funding comes from lender tips.
The secret to this is to use payment cards (Visa, etc.) or third party payment networks (PayPal, etc.) to pay vendors (contractors, etc.): you then don't need to send 1099-MISC, as the payment system will send a 1099-K instead, thanks to the new IRS section 6050W.
So effectively GPL imposes a dual (or multiple) license on the non-GPL part.
TechStars Boston announces startups accepted into its fall 2012 class
Okay. But I'm not sure that proves anything. Why did she delete it?

Or really, has there been a significant decrease in traffic to 'social' sites. Based on the stories I've seen, no. People are certainly leaving or just getting overwhelmed/bored, but as much as some people would like it, 'social' isn't going away.

Changing? Perhaps. But by our very nature we're social animals.
open source is fueling many great kickstarters:

http://blog.makezine.com/2011/10/20/how-open-source-hardware...

tangibot's issue(s) were not about open source at all.
You make them.

Publishing, online or in-print, is a business; writers have be trained and developed like employees at any other business. Yeah, maybe you'll be lucky enough to find the one amazing writer that will make your project a success, but it's far more likely that you'll do better business by finding six decent writers and putting them together with one or two great editors.

That's supposed to be why writers work for tips - a publisher offers them a chance to create a professional portfolio with the help of an editor. Otherwise, you've got nothing of value to pull decent writers away from paying gigs or self-publishing.
I have a Phonegap App (Flapcast Mobile) that I think works quite well; The only thing that makes it feel like its not native is because I did the art and design myself and I'm not very good at that. There are plenty of (native) apps that don't use native UI controls, its just up to you to make it look and feel good.

My advice is to stay away from the UI libraries, they don't actually look that good and are slow and clunky. Just roll your own if you can, or find a lightweight UI library. But do use a JS framework; I used Backbone.js and it runs like a charm; LinkedIn also wrote a mobile app with Backbone.js (they may have gone native recently though?) and it was beautiful.
Don't think of it as an API. It's a complete and very rich language that supports functional and procedural (and declarative, and other) programming models.

To your question, it's not so much that V6 is opening documents written in V1, it's more that V6 of the language runs V1 code. Viewed through that lens, it's not such a surprise. K&R C still compiles, after all. (In fact, certain peripheral pieces of older code won't actually work in newer versions. It's not uncommon for old notebooks to require some changes.)

The fundamental heart of Mathematica and its language is quite unusual: it is a Term Rewriting System (TRS.) There's a good set of examples here [1] but basically a TRS works by the repeated application of matching patterns to expression terms and modifying them with replacement rules. The language's flexibility comes from the clever use of those rules.

You can do amazing things with it very easily if you follow its way. It's pretty unique in the world of programming languages and a 30 day trial will be fun for anyone interested in experimenting with languages.

[1] http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csneal/SystemSpec/termrewriting.ht...
You surround yourself with people who only preach to the choir?
Plenty of feature phones have qwerty keyboards, including the one I used up until a few months ago. They're not all T9. Anecdotally, many of my friends have feature phones with qwerty keyboards...
Beautiful maps showing hurricanes since 1851
What, you don't feel your data whispering to you?
I frankly, usually, find these events fairly annoying, as they cause a large number of people to build something that is out of touch with practical concerns like marketability or even end-to-end feasibility: it is easy to come up with crazy ideas and build prototypes; what is more difficult is to come up with a plan for how to actually build a business.

Meanwhile, as everyone is broken down into little teams, very few people actually meet others; the worst case scenario of this is a lot of times people come with a few of their friends, and literally meet no one.

I thereby find myself going to events like this and purposely not joining a team and not entering the a-thon, and instead watching like a hawk waiting for the few moments when someone is taking a break (I then meet them).

On the other side, I've seen events like this work well: in specific, the 360|iDev game hack-a-thon is nearly perfect. As it is part of a larger conference, there are lots of chances to meet people, and in fact many people don't participate at all (as there is no real expectation to); of those who remain, they are clearly building "something fun", so the idea of "would this actually work" is irrelevant.
Just two things:

1. Why are you sharing information in screenshots in the first place?

2. Use appropriate microformats and tags for marking up dates, so you're free to display whatever to the user:

<time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2012-08-04T22:33:31">2 weeks, 5 days ago</time>
And how much of it will be organized through Twitter, eh?
If it was minimalism for the sake of minimalism, then maybe. But, minimalism in the case of Windows Phone and 8 serves the purpose of bringing content forward. So, I think it will have lasting appeal.
Which is what Safari does on OS X.
Ask HN: What to do about my erronious medical bill?
A year ago my wife an I went for our annual physical. It should have been free under our insurance. Mine was, but she got a bill for $214. I have called, written, emailed repeatedly both my insurance and the clinic. This is the story each tells me.

Insurance: "We only charge because of how it was billed. You'll have to get the clinic to change the billing codes"

Clinic: We don't guarantee anything will be covered. Call your insurgence.

I've looked at the codes. They are the same. With this information I was finally able to get someone on the phone with the insurance company who knew what he was talking about. It went something like this:

"Hi this is Ted how can I help you?"

"The same codes were used for my wife and me, how come she is billed an I am not?"

"Hold on let me get my boss"

"Hi this is Tom how can I help you?"

"The same codes were used for my wife and for me. Why is she getting billed and I am not?"

"hold on let me get my boss"

"Hi this is Mike how can I help you"

"The same codes were used for my wife and for me. Why is she getting billed and I am not?"

"Let me look"

"Oh, she was billed as diagnostic, and you were billed as preventative. You'll have to get the clinic to change that"

So I call the clinic and they say of course, they will resubmit right away

Now, A month later, I get a note saying the bill is being sent to collections.

So here is the deal: Insurance refuses to do anything. The clinic always says they will take care of it but never does. From what I can tell the fault is with the clinic.

How can I make them do something. Is there some sort of formal notice I can send? Should I get a lawyer? What kind of lawyer?

Should I ask this question on some other forum? or Reddit maybe? Help my out gentlemen.
Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway
I cam here to say this. If something is going to take you more than 15 minutes to do, it's better to coordinate it with the project maintainers first. If it takes you less than 15 minutes, you didn't invest enough to be bitter if your code isn't accepted.
Microsoft created a GAME to explain to users how to use the Ribbon

Haha man what losers. That'd be like using solitaire and minesweeper to teach the mouse.
This is all true and Microsoft deserves credit where credit is due but here's the thing: just because they spurred innovation long ago doesn't mean they deserve a pass now. That's how this article kind of comes off. Like we should lay off and be thankful for what we have. And we should. But the web is all about innovation and finding better, faster, smarter ways to do things. Your girlfriend doesn't forgive you instantly now when you cheat because you were incredibly loyal in the past. Your boss shouldn't pay you when you don't show up and don't call for work because you had a perfect attendance record in the past. The fact is, IE went to hell and they deserve our scorn. If and when IE10 really does deliver on its promises them we can call be happy with them and start the process of forgiving and forgetting. Though I doubt version 10 will live up to the hype I'll be happy to give them all the praise in the world if they at least catch up to where Firefox and Safari are now. I wish they'd get on Chrome's level but that's a lot to ask right now. What the article says about IE is true but now it's 2012 and what they did in 1999-2001 just isn't enough to give them a pass.

I'd also add that though IE did innovate like crazy in their heyday, if they didn't someone else would have.
Or you can be like OpenLayers and just ignore a ticket with almost a dozen comments and two working patches and a pull request!

Sometimes people just don't want your code.
I completely agree, I always show both, keeps everyone happy.
It had good early iterations (Knuth said once that he didn't even have to submit his suggestions for documentation, they turned up in the next version [1]). Kind of the opposite of JavaScript... [2]

As a multi-paradigm language they can add new functionality without having to replace old. The global namespace has thousands of functions, being able to add to that makes fixing problems more a matter of finding good names than a matter of finding "the right way" of doing something. E.g. Block and Module [3].

These are small advantages that perhaps most API and language designers don't have.

[1] http://tex.loria.fr/historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html

[2] http://javascript.crockford.com/remedial.html

[3] http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2010/Dec/msg0070...
Wrong. Quoting from earlier post in this thread:

That's simply not true.

1) A year ago Apple rejected one of our app updates because a webview inside the app had a payment form. (They told us that they do not allow any other payment option other than Apple in app purchases)

2) Yesterday they rejected yet another update for our app because it had a form where users could enter bonus codes.
It's all speculation, but the rumor is that on Sept 9th Google does the following:
- Officially ends the first fiber rally
- Begins immediately wiring up fiberhoods, highest-demand neighborhoods first
- Announces business fiber plans

My best guess is that the highest-demand neighborhoods are fully wired by end of October.
For anyone under 26 there's always the option of staying on your parents insurance...
I'm new to this, but it sounds very interesting. Will your webinar have reference notes or a PowerPoint available for download? What you're describing sounds complex -- would love to have notes to refer to later. Thanks!
Is Kiva still growing? Haven't heard much about them recently.
Node.js driver for CUBRID Database is now available
Short term health insurance doesn't offer much protection, and most accelerators are aimed at a short term commitment.

However, I'd think it would be great if an accelerator would act as an umbrella organization, letting startups buy cheaper health insurance while small, through aggregation, even after the initial accelerator commitment is done.
Korea jury reaches split decision, Apple guilty of infringing 2 Samsung patents
Hey look, we're all here!
How about having a part time service where you accept mailed in HD's and upload their contents.

Edit: assuming you can do that under the UA
I can see how that's true if the car owner's continue to pay the capital costs of the battery - the part I'm taking issue with is where you say that it would likely that the car owners would have the capital cost of their battery packs paid for by taking part.
+1 for champaign il devs
Steve Jobs describes future of personal computing in 1983 speech
Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say
Insofar as the non-GPL part is specific to the GPL code, yes. If you reimplement the GPL code under a different license, you could reuse the public domain bits. I expect in most cases, it wouldn't be terribly worthwhile.
Not to stroke your ego, but this type of post belongs in a "Startups: The Business Side 101" somewhere. Excellent insight into a process that not many people see the dark side of, especially the bit about doing time at BigCorp.
When speaking about Drupal specifically, it means improving the rate of requests served 5x in some cases.

http://cyrve.com/mongodb

edit: Data stored in Drupal is way normalized, and read from a hell of a lot more than it's written to. I think in this case, when they weren't using it for general field storage, but just petitions and signatures which consist of endless names and links to user pages, the data was naturally denormalized enough. Nothing in that usecase would take more than three, maybe four joins. All it's doing in that case is just making upgrades difficult.
Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
Alexanderh, that's a really interesting criticism.
I understand where your coming from with the concern that the photogenic will absorb more funding than they should (a morally questionable advantage).
To a lesser extent I also see why the concept of having people choose, as if sitting in judgment, makes you uncomfortable.

I suspect however that you are thinking of the donation pool as a fixed one, rather than a flexible one. It seems likely that having a face, a name and a story will cause people to engage and ultimately donate more. Donor fatigue ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_fatigue ) is a very real thing, and specific interactions with specific recipients that have visible outcomes to the donor on a human scale do a lot to avoid it.

So the question really becomes:
Is it ok to let the photogenic people be more likely to get treatment if it means more people get treatment overall?
Is it ok to let folks sit in judgment if it means they will save more people as a result.

I think we all have to come to our own conclusions. I for one am blown away by what this site is doing. I'm willing to let the photogenic do better than normal if it means more personal engagement.
I also think that we all make choices about who we help live and who we leave to suffer every day. Relegating those choices to chance doesn't seem to me to be any more moral than selecting on other criteria. In fact it's something you are already forced to do because their are several different charities out their to choose between.
Or put them 4 time zones East (they will have to float in some cases) and send the electricity West.

This is a good idea, except electricity transmission costs are significant over long distances like that.
1. Regarding pricing your services PitchRemix and NamingKings (btw, love the ideas, see potential to be more), check out Joel on Software's blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... I'll certainly be taking it into account now that most of my customers are saying that my book Ice Cream Startups: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z is underpriced. See background information here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l...

2. If writing's your thing, check out http://fiverr.com/ for selling minified versions of your services. Winning projects at https://www.elance.com takes more than showcasing skills; it comes down to communication, which you're really good at, so I think you can win some bids there. Focus on the fact that English is your first language, because they're many on there that aren't fluent (and just auto-bid). Also set yourself up as a company, rather than as an individual.

3. Love your minimalistic approach (don't spin it as you're not a coder). Spin it as you've got that scrappy attitude that most hackers have. If you're looking into Python/Django, I'd start here: http://eddychan.com/post/15775730174/how-i-learnt-enough-pyt...

4. Finally, don't get a second food service job, but neither should you quit your current one. Having one job I feel gives you a network that you may not otherwise have access to, and keeps you sane in times of persisting amongst failures. Keep your second job to building your websites. It's not easy, I know - I'm a student working a day job, and on web projects as well - it tires the crap out of me - but you gotta love what you do (here's why: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29585034512/why-do-w...).
Email me if you want to bounce more ideas off. Seems like you're in the boat I was in 2 months ago (I too got one year left of school with tuition money very hard to come by). You've got a lot of options, and it's great you're taking action to figure them out. Good luck. aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca.
I'm consistently amazed at how agencies full of information security experts, who understand that security by obscurity is the bottom of the barrel of fake security, nonetheless believe that keeping information secret from citizens is the best way to keep the country safe.
I love the font they used, it's almost Helvetica, but I find it slightly more readable - that may just be the fact that it's non standard. It's got a nice density to it.

Running through Identifont, it appears to be AG Old Face BQ, is that correct?

Very similar to Basic Commercial as well, though.
Well, in the largest cities of Brazil you can get 100mb internet for US$150, rent a good house for US$1000 (or an apartment for $500), and hire great talent for ~$2-3k/month; they all have active startup and developer scenes. As a bonus you get access to a booming mobile market :)