skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely see that. To be honest, I really enjoyed how tersely presented the ideas are. They make a great jumping off point for your own internal discussion and creative modification.
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A friend of mine is doing a research about this. Clustering articles through the use of neural networks. But of course, it can only cluster articles that is in their collection or corpus.
Tell HN: First we take Manhattan...
Hello, I'm a grizzled veteran of schizophrenia. In recent years I've wondered, why is my pharmacy not automated, and also, could a 'voit-kampf' machine do better psychiatry than my doctor? I see "Kill Hollywood" is one of your priorities, and it seems like someone could profit from going after psychiatry in the mode of 'turning movies into video games.' For instance, you probably face Congress when you compete with PharmD's, although a machine operated by a psychiatrist could get through. With all the facial-emotional-tonal & speech recognition software out there, something to help doctors maintain patients could profit. The US has too few doctors. Most patients see their doctors about 60mins/year, on maintenance. Diagnosis might be another ball of wax. Another upside is in the sale of modified algorithms to Hollywood (or Redwood). It's a lot to ask to make interactive movies, but it's much less to ask doctors to require patients to talk to a 'voit-kampf' for 5 minutes of our allotted 15.
I would also agree, the cost of being a mechanic is much higher than the cost to be a programmer of almost any kind.
Python's style guidelines are laid out in pep 8[1] and are not likely to change with the times. Things like indentation, using underscores in variable names, and even spacing between classes and method declarations are specified in there.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Rewind HN - See historical HN frontpages
Google: from Innovator to Average Quality Copycat?
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Rowan Atkinson Talks About Freedom of Speech
Thanks for the feedback - reason it's a bit buggy is mainly down to the implementation of the animation step-timing.

In Firefox, it works as you would expect, stepping through the spriting. In webkit, it's very inconsistent in how it renders, and doesn't look as polished because of this.

I've noticed the speed of the animation being effected by the resizing - like mentioned to others, will probably release a version which just shows the animations off separate to the window resizing as well to avoid this. The main reason for including reliance on media queries was to fit it into the mozilla dev derby criteria for this month.
I think it is more that programming has a pop culture, not that it is a pop culture. Parser combinator avoidance is a good example. The pop culture does avoid it, but not everyone is part of that. Parsec and attoparsec are very heavily used in haskell land. Just as there's people who reject or ignore pop culture in society. Society isn't pop culture, it just has a pop culture (or several pop cultures).
So who are the competitors that one should look at? Sincere question. When comparing EC2 to Linode or to Rackspace Cloude, Amazon EC2 still wins. At least when I looked. I could be missing something.
I'm sitting in a intro web development class at my university. We're learning C# and basic HTML/CSS. I didn't know when our exam was, and I showed up one day and got a 100%. Intro programming classes are a waste of time for someone who knows how to code.
Speaking as someone who does write novels, I can't agree more.

Cultivating that habit of 2,000 words a day in my first year of NaNoWriMo made all the difference in my victory. The almost half a million words of fiction written since then (2008) only came about through such day- and hour-sized persistence over a long period of time.
We dont have anything interesting to say to them.
You can run a small reserved instance for $11.71/month (with $195 prepayment for the year). That comes out to about $27.96/month, plus data transfer fees. If you prepay for 3 years, it averages out to about $17.85/month.
Nonetheless, there's no way the FAA would permit that to happen, especially not with the huge hurdles that users are having to jump through to get the FAA to permit the use of UAVs in civilian airspace.

It's already dirt-simple to track ADS-B broadcasts along with smartphone apps that display the aggregated data.
OCZ Technology Group Cuts Workforce and Restructures
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not use SVG? It's scriptable and supported on modern browsers.
If programming is a Pop Culture, Python is a Cult of Personality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
Very strange - I'm on same version here.

I'm going to add a width counter to give more feedback on the resizing, as seems to be a bit of a bottleneck.
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For us, that's part of getting to know our client. Your question implies that you don't think it's necessary for us to check a credit report - I would be curious to learn why. Feel free to send me an email at mboeke@braintreepayments.com if you want to discuss.
Apple offers to pay Google $1 per device
Yeah, I immediately thought of the falcon patches too when I saw this. Does anyone know how they compare to these patches?
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I have an Asus Transformer Infinity. I can connect a mouse to it. I get an actual pointer, right-click and everything.
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I find parts of this comment to be unnecessarily paranoid. One of the major challenges for getting UAVs into the national airspace system is to integrate them with existing air traffic rules and systems.

Beyond that, I don't see them physically being treated much differently from traditional police helicopters. I don't really see any evidence that police are disconnecting the transponders on those either.

OTOH, I do have some concerns about the massive increase in numbers that these may bring, due to the decreased cost. It seems to open up some avenues for abuse.
As a nerd I find much of the daily news to be rather trying. Much of it is of little interest and impact on my day to day life. I send a lot of time reading about technology and developments in our industry and almost no time on regular news.

That said, as someone who likes to be well rounded, I think this is a woefully inadequate state for myself. I'd like to be aware of what is happening in the world, financially, politically, and internationally. I yearn for a concise distillation of the torrent of news that most sites provide. I don't have time for nor desire to read all of that.

Right now I've got the following in my feed reader to try and fulfill this:

http://www.themorningnews.org/ - two times daily, kind of a lot of content, no summarization just links
http://evening-edition.com/ - dialy, summaries of 4-6 of the days top news, I like this very much
http://thebrief.io/ - tech oriented top news, seems to be delivered somewhat irregularly

I'm not overly happy with this, I might like a second take from an alternate source similar to the evening edition. The brief is delivered somewhat irregularly and I find the morning news to be just generally lacking, but enjoy some of the frivolous fun that they have with it. Perhaps an evening edition that has a little fun... hmm.

Given all of this, I'm quite interested in this service.
A Rule of Software: Usabilty
I really like the multiplier vs adder differentiation. I would also acknowledge the solid global adders, as those who contribute to respectable open source projects.
I had the idea to make a floating panel that essentially acts as a touchpad for tablets. However, current tablet APIs make this pretty difficult so it isn't possible just yet.
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How FedEx countered Sandy
The Brain Trainers
"virtually all of mankind’s greatest achievements, such as science, religion and government, are based fundamentally on cooperation"

Science isn't based on cooperation at all, maybe some scientific accomplishments have been the result if cooperation, there's an awful lot of that has been done by individuals.

And listing religion as one of mankind's greatest achievements is ludicrous, and cooperation had nothing to do with it.
Do something. Even if it’s the wrong thing, just do something. It might not be as wrong as you think, and if it is, you can adjust and do better next time.

Hiring workers first as paid interns, with an option to convert to FTE later, allows the worker and the people in the organization to feel each other out and ensure a good fit of both personality and skillsets. If the worker doesn't fit in, then it saves both the group and the individual from a stressful work environment, and you can keep trying until you find the right person.

Even doing the wrong thing works out, and sometimes better than doing the right thing. More importantly, you're making space in your life, schedule, and mind, for what it is you want to do. This allows people to try something out, play with the ideas, and understand the important factors in making the decision later.

Many people share a similar philosophy when buying durable goods[1] - buy a cheaper/low-end model, and when it breaks you buy a higher-quality model. Or, if the higher-quality model isn't actually higher quality, but is simply more expensive, you know to buy the cheap one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durable_good
I'm not sure about lisp.... but that's a definite pattern.

e.g. Let's throw away these unwieldy relational databases! And then spend years adding the functionality back in, piecemeal and part-complete!
Thanks for speeding up the loading time of my rails environment!
EarlyShares launches their crowd funding platform
Why are predator drone flights on the agenda for the EFF? I thought they were about "your right's online"? Did they stop working on those issues? Problem solved, let's move on to drone flights?

If I cared about these issues, I would donate my money to someone else. If I care about my right's online, now I'm not sure who is supporting them because it doesn't seem to be the EFF...
RMS: Let's Limit the Effects of Software Patents, Since We Can't Eliminate Them
"Ruby Archeologists can accurately date a business application by examining its gemspec file" - seems like a fun/small project to do programmatically. How fresh is your spec?
The parent was seemingly promoting the idea of Apple personally suing the judge because they don't like his ruling. If this was possible most legal systems would crumble.
Astounding 1965 proposal to catch the Saturn 5 booster in mid-air
Tons of rails jobs here: http://rorjobs.com

- Braintree
- Adaptive Labs
- New Relic
- DZAP/Lease Labs

etc
Why is PayPal Scared Of Nigeria?
I thought that only applied to trademarks.
Global adders, I would argue, are multipliers because high-quality software makes a lot of people more effective.
I've gotten a good response from email to various companies found on Crunchbase.
This is just link bait for raganwald to sell his new coffeescript book. Why do his blog posts always make it to the top of HN?
OpenBSD 5.2 released
For more Naggum diatribes, visit http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/.
If you know of some way to swap out servers with 100% uptime, I'd like to hear it. Even Stack Exchange, which had that sort of plan in place, had to go 'static' for about a half hour.
California Threatening Developers With $2,500 Fine For Privacy Violations
It's like the difference between a group of college students electing their teacher and a kindergarten electing their teacher.
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I'd like that as well, email is broken but is not going away.

I think the solution (for now) is in the client metaphor.
While there's a whole lot of small cases of individual achievement in science, the enterprise as a whole depends heavily on cooperation.

Newton didn't work on a team. But he did share his work with others, and the ones who thought he was doing interesting things shared his insights with still more people, until his discoveries were widely disseminated. In return, he's widely recognized and credited as the founder of modern physics. And that kind of arrangement is frequently what cooperation looks like on a grand scale.
"Why do you use CamelCase in JavaScript but underscores_in_ruby?"

Uhh, because the languages' runtime libraries use that convention? For the same reason that Windows C/C++ coders typically use a different style than Unix C/C++ coders? The platform runtime libraries set it forth?
Presume you're referencing Richard O'Dwyer (tvshack.net), who a magistrate recently found was suitable for extradition to the US.
This is quite rare, there have been 99 extraditions since 2006, of which 35 were british nationals, so although extradition is reasonably rare it is not entirely uncommon.
Also, you say the UK found the alleged crime was "not worth prosecuting", which is loosely technically true, it doesn't really give the full picture: His actions were found to be legal under UK law and so hence there was no case for prosecution. His operations are, however, suspected of being illegal under US law and so hence the case for extradition was submitted.

To bring this back to the parent discussion: Few would argue that Mr O'Dwyer has been unfairly treated with respect to the current law. Some do, however, argue that it is the extradition statute itself that is unfair, with Mr O'Dwyers case being an example.
As a matter of interest, Theresa May has recently announced some changes to the extradition process following the results of the Baker Review. (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/gary-mckinnon...)
I can't find any reliable source for this claim. They range from "a friend who works in the Apple Store in Norwich"[1] to a "man who told it in the pub"[2] which makes me doubt its authenticity.

[1] http://blog.lewisking.net/post/318110435/apple-store-madness

[2] http://simonmorley.co.uk/2010/08/13/worlds-busiest-apple-sto...
Programming isn't all there is to software development though.

Be honest now, in how many of all the colossal fuck ups in development there have been, do you think the CODING was the problem?
GameWisp looks pretty interesting, I wonder if we are going to see more and more cloud services focused on supporting mobile/web games rather than applications.
'Halo 4' Review
For a majority of news articles, the first three sentences is usually more than perfect as a summarization method -- feature stories on the other hand are insane (and that's why we have things like Lexical Chains: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W97/W97-0703.pdf)
I can't find any reference to this. Could you point me at a source please?
"Eureka! Engineers aren't empathetic because they can't be
Research suggests that analytic thought is impaired by empathy, just as empathy is impaired by analytical thought. Who'd have thought?"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57542754-71/eureka-enginee...
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Hate to disagree so thoroughly with you, but...

1. "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." - Isaac Newton - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

2. "Sky Cake!" - Patton Oswalt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55h1FO8V_3w