skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.rizzoma.com is much better.

The founder himself stayed at my place using airbnb this summer. I'm a YC alum. He has one of the most interesting founding stories I've ever heard. He is a Siberian-Kazakhstani hacking competition winner who knows Judo and runs a series of small businesses in Russia. Bars that partake in sportsbetting-all Legal. He designed the software as a way to manage his businesses with his founders and grew it into something more.
Google Fiber will hit 89% of neighborhoods, some poor areas miss out
While they didn't build battleships out of Pykrete they did build fuel tanks out of laminated paper and plastic. (An early form of fibre glass, using paper instead of glass.)

(http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/other-mechanical-systems-te...)

(http://home.earthlink.net/~charlesfelton/id19.html)
Genesis Acquires Sun - Yamaguchi Partners.
The article indicates they already exist. "...home versions for little more than $1,000 (or half that in kit form)."
Majority of Credit Card pins LEAKED
I'm pretty much totally ignorant about Clojure in practice. One part I love about Ruby is being able to drop into an irb/pry session nearly instantly or run the Rails console and test out code and ideas interactively and being able to quickly restart the dev server if configs change. JRuby has always been appealing to me but it's kind of annoying to use for development due to the JVM startup time. I used to do Java development full time and had the same annoyance with needing the compilation/restart step to see changes.

Does Clojure address this problem or are there workarounds (like Guard/Spork for testing in Rails)? Is there anything fundamentally different from JRuby that would alleviate the slow restarts, or am I simply thinking about the problem wrong?
I had to send five "what browser are you using" e-mails just last Friday. And people never send the OS when we ask. Thank you, thank you for making this.
Proof claimed for deep connection between primes: abc conjecture proven?
He does point that out in his post.

But you are correct. I'm only aware of Venturebeat when their drama makes HN or TechCrunch.
Google Fiber: A lesson on free market failure
To be honest, it was because Google kept being a false positive whenever I ran the analysis on RSS feeds, and since Google hadn't had any large password leaks (outside of China targeting a few protestors), along with Google's emphasis on security with IP monitoring and 2-factor, I considered them immune. Still, though, I'll add it in and fix my parsing to get rid of the false positives.

I still need to do a lot of stuff for the app (SSL default, tweaking feeds and parsing), I was more just trying to show how my frustration led to an idea.
I need this kind of input I'm developing a web server REST-oriented using json for rails. every kind of resource is well appreciated this gave a useful introduction to play around with json in irb
Actually, this article by itself looks more like a rant than anything else and actually seems to defeat the purpose of an 'invite-only', 'quality-oriented' network that SVBTLE claims to be.
Show HN: Helvetitee: Custom tee. No bullshit. (Our four-day startup)
Anybody can explain the background behind this one: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/silicon-vall... ?
I believe there is, but like hbbio said it's a matter of the product. You can make the algorithm into a product by offering it through an API to other developers.
Introduction to Workflowy Part II: Agile Results
I would say that this is the fashion industry's equivalent of Engadget's old tone: snarky, playful and opinionated.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by how mild the article was, which I would say is actually a pretty good sign for Google Glass.
How long until people are buying $5000 bikes made of this stuff?
> Prediction and forecasting are two different things in regression.

"Prediction" and "forecasting" are synonymous, in both common usage and in statistics.

> Prediction and forecasting are not the same thing. That's why they had to state both.

No they said both so people who refuse to accept the fact that they're synonymous, won't feel left out in the cold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction : "A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say") or forecast is ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecasting : "Forecasting is the process of making statements about events whose actual outcomes (typically) have not yet been observed. A commonplace example might be estimation of some variable of interest at some specified future date. Prediction is a similar, but more general term."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prediction: "Synonyms: forecast, augury, prognostication, divination, projection."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forecast: "Synonyms: 1. foretell, anticipate. See predict. 3. project. 4, 7. guess, estimate. 9. forethought, prescience."

How can you go on like this about a word that literally means "to say before"?

> Predictions are a lot of the times not made in a temporal context ...

Yes, but those also represent the use of a set of observations (A) to assert a cause-effect relationship with some B. You objected that "prediction" wasn't about time, but it is. You also objected that prediction wasn't about arguing a cause-effect relationship, but it is.

> Prediction are not always made as a result of a causation.

Yes, and "literally" doesn't always mean literally -- sometimes it means "figuratively.":

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally:

"1. in the literal or strict sense: What does the word mean literally?

4. in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually."

The above is my favorite example of the perversity of arguing about word meanings, as though a word that usually means something, can be said to always mean that.

> I know your bio is impressive ...

Oh, please, let's not go there, all right? Nothing is more certain to undermine an argument than an appeal to authority -- either positive of negative (an in "I'm not an authority, but ..."). Science rejects authority -- the largest amount of eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of evidence.
Customers ask for more choice than they want - true or false?
Something I like is the idea of "forking" topics, conversations evolve and if a new comment thread becomes over a few replies there's generally a good chance it has become its own conversation which can then involve into another conversation etc etc etc.

If I was trying to keep the system as "flat" as possible I would consider deciding on an arbitrary cut off point (total replies, or total "levels" of replies) that automatically forks a thread into a new topic and then in the original topic would display in a similar style to a comment but with "this comment has generated a new topic, 2 replies... load preview / go to topic")

not sure if that's explained well enough, but I think that would solve the problem.
I can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control).

You can think of no reason besides that one reason you gave? ;)

According to the email he received, Amazon doesn't allow you you publish material you do not own the copyright to. So this effectively kills crowdsourced material unless you have a copyright assignment clause.
Instant security breach alerts to your phone & desktop
Emma Watson is the most dangerous celebrity on the web
Yeah this would be a really nice private company chat system, a la Hipchat
Telerik Acquires Fiddler Web Debugger
Networks are a fundamental part of the Google infrastructure. Ask yourself a couple of questions and then you can answer the questions about Googles motivations.

1) Is there any switch that does only what you want? Have any of the features you didn't need interfered with your uptime?

2) In a 48 port high performance switch which is more expensive? The switch or the cables? Why?

So if you 'do the math' the obvious answer sort of pops out.

Disclaimer: I worked there and agreed not to discuss any platform technologies until such time as either Google talked about them publicly or they were disclosed by other means not related to me.
I wear contact lenses and I would buy one of these without prescription glass in them. Not to use as glasses, but for the value-add. Adding features to the outdated design of the human body is a net positive as far as I'm concerned.
DailyJS: Mastering Node Streams: Part 1
I by no means want to start any kind of religious war but I feel that Scala has kind of eclipsed Clojure. I tend to notice more Scala skills required in real life projects than Clojure.

This is just my opinion as someone that knows neither Scala nor Clojure and without any axe to grind in this debate.
When consoles die, what comes next?
I have two questions about Clojure. (1) How fast is it compared to Java and is the method for speed based on rules or tricks? (2) Compared to other lists how natural is metaprogramming?

I've recently started playing with Scheme and the feeling I get is not quite just functional programming. It feels closer to Symbolic Programming, the same feeling I get with the languages in Maxima or Axiom. There is an intersection with functional programming but the feeling I get doesn't cluster as close with Haskell, Ocaml or F#. And even if the occasion should rarely occur where the full extent of this power is needed, just knowing that code and execution and data and algorithms are basically indistinguishable results in an incredible mindshift in style. I haven't seen anything comparable till I started to wrap my mind around genetics + DNA.

So my question around all that rambling is, in clojure is the symbolic style on the counter, shelf or pantry?
Just curious why the speed of sound in interstellar medium depends on density, while in the Earth atmosphere, it does not (it is nearly same as on surface, around 10% smaller, on 100,000ft where there is hardly 2% of surface air pressure).
Why not Markdown?
You know those signs at the zoo, "Do not feed the animals". How come we all learned not to do that as kids but can't help but look at the train wreck in motion that is VB.

VB uses the same approach as sports writers, be controversial cause the fans will read even if its just to complain about you.
Beyond Good and Evil also innovated in this respect [1], but in a different way.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euquOpUmUyk
elinks (or whatever that port was called) on first xbox had something similar - and while it very well might be faster than qwerty - learning curve is HUGE and it was extremely frustrating experience.
To be honest, letters on that keyboard were on the border of screen, putting all of them together may help this, but I'm not sure.

(I would link to screenshots of said browser, but I can't find any.)

edit: Found it! It was named linksboks, here's screenshot:
http://www.tdubel.com/artikkelit/kuvat/linksboks/linksboks.j...
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
The First Day of the Rest of Your Afterlife
I don't see how Woz not falling for Scientology's "pay us money and you'll finally be happy" - scheme has anything to do with religion.

Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like the author is trying to read something into this that isn't there.
Yeah, I signed up for this, looks fun. I was a bit bummed that there is a new edition of the textbook they recommend that appears to be due out in December. Poor timing relative to this class :(
For those who don't know, when folks talk about tech companies building their own hardware, they almost never mean that literally. The manufacturing (and often some joint design work) is farmed out to third parties like Pegatron, Compal, Quanta, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI, Foxconn, etc). Even Google's Nexus Q, which they so proudly declared was designed & built in the USA, was still not built by Google themselves.
The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week
She's also succeeded in completely missing her stated demographic by charging for it. I do sense a charlatan.
It deserves a mention on the wiki: http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/
I am loathe to admit record labels providing any value, but they do this as well, helping good (and bad) artists rise above the noise floor to reach a mass audience.
Impossible Instant Lab
I'm not sure what you mean by "FP isn't meant to tie two huge, horrible systems together". Is any language or programming paradigm really designed with that usage in mind?

But assuming that that is in fact the case, I wonder whether it would still be the case if we lived in a bizarro world in which FP had dominated and OOP was seen in the mainstream as an impractical oddity. I suspect that, to the extent that functional languages do not make for good "glue code", that is primarily due to the impedance mismatch between FP and the largely object-oriented systems that need tying together, rather than because of some inherent limitation of functional programming itself. If those large systems were constructed in a functional style, would functional glue be more effective?
Same impressions of Paris. Great, liveable city.
Impossible announce Impossible Instant Lab
Latest (regular desktop) Chrome on Windows 8 gets reported as Windows NT.

I mean.. Sure there's probably quite a bit of remnants from the Windows NT codebase here and there, but it's probably not very useful for reporting to support etc.
GarageGames to Release Torque3D as Open Source
Looks great. I think you could further improve navigation by adding a section menu for each page like Bootstrap docs do (on the left): http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html

For example, on http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/traversing-manipulating, you could have the top level headers in a sidebar nav that uses the affix plugin. You can get a bit lost since the pages are quite long. This would help quickly see all the sections and jump between them.
On the contrary, this may prove to be a brilliant partnership, in a evil mad scientist way.

If you understand how a trend starts, this is a perfectly logical place to attempt broader acceptance of what is, aesthetically-speaking, a bizarre fashion accessory.

There are distinct sociological strata that fashion trends progress through on their way to the mainstream and they never start at "nerdy conferences".
There aren't any with prescription glass in them. The glasses form factor is a convenient way to hide the battery in your hair.
Indeed. It could also have been manufactured for them by Elcoteq (Finnish EMS company).
Displaying Monster Animations in OpenGL on iOS using Bink and Shaders
As long as it's ascending or descending in colloquial use, it's not a problem. The mess happens when the date is listed as mm/dd/yy.

If you're doing timestamps, it should be yy/mm/dd, because that then feeds into the continuation of the descent into hh/mm/ss
I really like Notational Velocity - or, for me, ResophNotes on Windows and Simplenote on the iPhone. Before this, I tried MobileOrg on my phone, an Org Mode app - the search in NV is just much smoother and more useful.
How to promote posts into non-fan Facebook feeds (maybe)
You're right, as a discussion board it does suck.

But as a place to ask advice from other experts and get a feel for how they're inclined to think about the issue, it's absolutely fantastic. And the reason why it's such a great platform for that kind of thing is that the interface goes to such great lengths to discourage drawn-out discussion. By making it hard for argumentative people to dominate the topic, it makes it possible to get a feel for what everyone's really thinking in a way that, to my knowledge, is unprecedented.

It's true that there is one little detail, the green checkbox, that isn't a good match for this use case. At least not if you think of it as a way to pick the one Objectively True[tm] answer. But to think of it that way is absurd. Even with concrete programming issues there's often more than one way to do it, and everyone knows that in those cases and many others the green checkbox really just indicates which option the question asker liked best.

And beyond that, it's just plain wrongheaded to suggest that there shouldn't be room for opinion at a place like SE. It's tantamount to saying that there's no room for discussing the difficult, nebulous problems that real professionals have to deal with on a daily basis, and that the site's really only intended for helping people with the one case in which we can always expect a single objective answer: Homework help.
You don't bring a 3D printer to a gun fight -- yet
Smart tech beats stupid government. It's a hacker's delight.
Actually this seems to be from Guild Wars which was from 2005. IIRC when he talked about Starcraft developement the team just used pointer structs with no abstractions.
I wonder if he means socially accepted as in you've suddenly turned into a walking CCTV camera.

I'd feel uncomfortable if a friend brought these on a night out, but then again I think I'd be a minority here in the UK.

Don't take them to France though.
Why Buying A Linux Support Contract Is So Important
The only thing in here that's outright actionable (in the united states) is the trademark infringement on the IE logo. Everything else is merely unethical, not illegal.
http://pivory.com/#user/3/2498 they're easy to make.
The importance of niche markets
Company Says It, Not F.B.I, Was Hacking Victim
App Store profit for Apple is a rounding error on their balance sheet.

Selling phones (and tablets) that can do amazing and powerful tasks is what makes Apple money. That's why they have invested so much into creating the iOS SDK, to enable developers. It is a fantastic platform, elegant and powerful that leverages their hardware.

If Apple could have gotten that same quality of software with web apps, why wouldn't they have chosen that as the platform and immediately have had millions of web devs ready to build for their mobile OS?

What the HTML5 evangelists fail to admit, is that HTML5+JS+CSS is a damn mess. We've been hearing for 10+ years how web apps are the cross-platform silver bullet. It's not.
The infographics look AWESOME! Nice work on the video browse, too...
The platform you seek is the seaglider [1]. It is highly efficient and doesn't come with the risk of operating in well known shipping lanes.

[1] http://www.apl.washington.edu/projects/seaglider/summary.htm...
Domino's Pizza India website hacked by Turkish groups
Not sure what you mean...Many adherents of religion do so because it fulfills them, especially in the sense of providing a community. It's not as if all the members of Scientology joined because they, deep down inside, love the idea of paying money to join a group. Maybe in this case, it was the idea of having to pay money that particularly turned Woz off. But I think it's clear he didn't feel that an external group, period, would give him (extra) happiness.
Really, really slick! Nice job. Great move having an example design ready-to-go so that new users can play around with it. Very easy to use!
I've taken to always writing the name of the month to be sure.

Apparently the US military does this as well do avoid problems when liaising with other countries (01 JAN 1970)

Also, can the huge lead of the iPhone still be true?
The author is Australian, and I'm wondering if his iphone data is national rather than international. The iphone here seems to have a bigger stranglehold than in the US, though that's merely my perception and I don't know the real numbers.
Auditing Changing Requirements for Common Classes of Errors
After 15 years of programming, how does one get out of it?
What you're saying is that the process of experiencing the maxim and internalizing its lesson is more valuable than the maxim itself. I disagree - the bible and quran's lessons for life have been shared with and digested by many millions of receptive minds. It is the sharing of knowledge and experience, accumulated over generations, that allows our species to make the incremental improvements that leads to advancement. Keeping truths to oneself may be valuable, but if you have a powerful truth, the leverage you obtain by sharing with the world is a lot more powerful.

Nevertheless, you do have a point - how do you create value for people through a maxim that they haven't experienced? I would argue that the credibility of whom the maxim originates from is very important.

For example, The Bible has tremendous credibility and respect from its believers (and many non-believers too); this significant ethos prepares people to be receptive towards the maxim. Or for a modern day example, imagine the difference between a regular joe giving you career advice on his blog (as you wonder, 'who is this guy?', vs. reading maxims from Mark Cuban's blog.

In order to solve this problem of ethos, a site would have to employ reputation or karma for each maxim, with people weighing in on how valuable / truthful each maxim has been through their personal experiences. A maxim written by an anonymous becomes more credible when Mark Cuban, PG, or other famous people publicly vouch for it.
Though I'm sure there's a lot in this presentation that was missed without the speaker but it was still a good read nonetheless.
Because they never wear weird things at fashion shows, right?
Putting words into someone's mouth, especially when they are such a profound misinterpretation of meaning, isn't the quality of discourse I have come to expect from HN. We can do better than this.
I have a single OmniOutliner file with all of my ideas and random thoughts. It is much better to have tools that support ad-hoc organization than tools that limit you to a flat space. It's so easy to create outlines in OmniOutliner, that it would be silly not to. Definitely recommend it. Before that, it was emailing ideas to myself with a tag in the subject line.
Sure thing. And thanks for calling me on that, because I was completely wrong about the Ouya for some reason.

I think of Ouya as a game streaming device because:

(a) this seems to be the direction a lot of companies are headed in;

(b) the device itself is so small[1] that it seems like it can't run a powerful game, so I just mentally jumped to the conclusion that it is a streaming device; and

(c) the pictures I keep seeing on news websites and such are of the game controller, not the device itself, so I assumed that it was similar to the OnLive service (I recall their ads only showing the game controller as well).

[1] It has the same footprint of an Apple TV or Roku box.
It's a very nice design, but I feel removing dates is a mistake. It may be that older topics lose their value as time goes on, however that's a problem that can be fixed on the community level (by encouraging people to bump old threads, instead of discouraging it -- which is a learned behavior.) I feel like you gain very little in reality by removing dates, and you otherwise lose some very valuable or interesting info.
Also Chrome on JB.
The absolute best feature of 9.2 is that you can now add \x auto to your psqlrc file and never have to suffer unreadable results again
If this is the case, maybe the problem is free speech. Perhaps we should stop valuing free speech over individual safety.
Are you asking what is the background behind the caption?

"A Steve Jobs “to-do” list made at a company brainstorming session, with a set of very difficult technical challenges remaining for his team to solve in order to complete the NeXT Computer."
I thought that was just Business Insider.

VB occasionally has a story worth reading. But usually they're just rehashing what everyone else had yesterday.
I'm sure it is a parody? Photo printers have been around for a while...
Why apple would want to change the iphone screen size
Hiding Facebook Posts on Timeline doesn't really hide them
If only there were some way to mirror submodules or other third party repos to your own servers without needing github.

Oh wait, this isn't svn.
Yes, APIs can change an algorithm into a product. This was done by Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com/) which presents different text algorithms. I love their API, and currently using it for my thesis.
In Honor Of The Teachers Strike In Chicago, What's The Dumbest...