skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I've never understood about this is I have that freedom with an Apple device. If I find that I'm being constrained in ways I don't like, I simply sell it and buy something else.

Absolute worst case (which is massively unlikely) I'm a few hundred dollars down (which I can afford). Realistically any unpleasant constraints would come in gradually and I'd just buy a non-Apple phone at the point I would have upgraded my iPhone and I'm not even financially down.

How am I constrained in any real, meaningful sense?
Already on the front page --- discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725872
Yeah, good point. The other thought that we had was to help the audience connect through some form of matchmaking. The e-commerce angle was also evaluated, to create a market for start-ups to promote and sell their products. This could also include a market for discounted startup event tickets and offers.

We have some other thoughts as well, but need to value and compare all the currently available options.
"The Ethiopian government (a dictatorship) loves this project, because it is actively trying to exterminate local languages and culture."

yeah, because local languages and culture is more important than big languages and big cultures.

The fact that someone in a village says "hello", and in another they say "haello" because they are isolated is super super important. It is so much better that they can't travel out of their village so we can preserve their culture even when they don't want to.
not everyone is good at writing and expressing themselves in written language. quite a lot of good engineers actually struggle with this. definitely no need to be "annoyed", may be try helping him out?
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Show HN: Web App to create your own infographic 
Web app to create your own infographic.
Just because the definition of the word sort of describes what the product is doesn't mean it's the best domain name. moot is the name of someone that developed an extremely popular site that also facilitates re-imagined forums and commenting.
Bitcoin is a relatively stable asset and currency as far as I can tell.

Bitcoin's value in relation to the dollar is a product of demand and supply, like any other currency. However, given that supply is "hard coded" in the algorithm, supply is more or less a constant variable. That leaves demand.

Demand is there as long as Bitcoin has transactional value (how many people accept it as a form of payment) and asset value (how attractive it is as a store of value). Bitcoin has price floors as long as it is useful in transactions (for example, as long as online black markets like Silk Road flourish) and as long as Bitcoin "enthusiasts" accept it as an asset.

Barring some way for the government to thwart the TOR + Bitcoin combo for making anonymous online transactions, I would think that any volatility in the BTC-USD exchange rate would come from volatility in the value of the dollar over that of BTC.
Perhaps 'it might once have become' would make more sense there, in that it was a development the author thought could have happened in the past but did not?
Keeping customers inside the site is a priority for some (vs. pushing some discussions to say zendesk) and this fits in perfectly.

btw, may be make the 'try live demo' link a bit prominent and have a hint about how to close the fullscreen carousel on the homepage? had me confused there for a moment.
Let People Work for You
I don't mean literary style or PR magic or anything, just using the words right so what comes out is exactly what you mean, not something that means something different but you have to use the context to understand what he probably thought about when writing that... If one can express his thought in a programming language, one can also use basic grammar like tenses and modes to say what he means... all this "words don't matter" attitude is what eventually ends up spreading and making wonderful pieces of software engineering unusable because of broken docs...
And one without syntax errors.
I'm in the UK and did a degree in software engineering which was pretty light on comp sci theory, but still had the similar pain of sitting through basic programming structure lectures for almost 2 years before hitting any kind of complicated software problems.
I listed a few points on this comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726735

The closest competitors for us are (or how we see this) are

- discuss (for commenting)
- google groups (for forums)

And we think the biggest advantage is indeed on the integration. Moot sits so nicely to any website and it can be further tweaked.
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Kicked my course off today - grep101.com - with lessons starting Monday. I think I've got the pricing right to attract a good class of keen learners for this first run through...
Thanks for the comment!

We optimised the price in a way that we are able to sell out. It was also the maximum in revenue we could have reached so I think we did well in that sense.

The key here, in running a media business, is how do you go about building enough products that will keep you running through out the year - when there are no events (which for us where the biggest source of revenue).

I think this question will also remain a question to answer for the future, no matter how ArcticStartup will run.
Someone's provisioning nightmare is someone else's business opportunity ;-)
Any mass-scale business that is required to hold customers on their premises for hours at a time in a space-confined area is always going to be challenged with customer service. Combined with the modern consumer who is taught they're always right, and it's a recipe for dissatisfaction.
I travel a ton for work and have learned to let things roll off my back. Yet when I travel with friends and family, they will always find something dissatisfying, even if it's on a car trip. Nasty bathrooms at a rest stop, a missed exit, etc. are no different than a flight. When 99% of things go right and you travel at 800mph for hundreds of miles for less than a hundred bucks, people let inferior coffee ruin the entire trip for them. God forbid the complexity added by doing it with a few hundred other people.
For some reason that is currently unknown to me (did not investigated) this instances are much better with Redis since they are able to fork using more or less 1/20th of the time needed before. (4.4 GB process forked into 44ms instead of 1 second).

EDIT: it's just hardware virtualized mode (HVM).
Please keep us posted with whether you're successful, superuser2! The essay is fairly transparent but points to an interesting tradeoff between counselor and professor when it comes to the question of whether it is accepted.
I’m creating a new forum CMS in Django for fun basically, if anyone wants to kick the tires of it and try something newer than the usual CMSes: http://pygm.us/nPrOiHJo. I don’t know which Greek letter you’d use for its progress, but it is not in any way close to a beta. It can be deployed to dotCloud in a handful of steps, though.

Disregard the Travis CI build failure; I think it was just a time-out on their end.

It’s funny, because I don’t really think it’s imperative to reimagine forums; they are perfectly fine, but it is next to impossible to build a business model around them, which leaves us with some very unsatisfactory and ancient CMSes to use.

I see so many awful CMSes, and it bothers me that we don’t have anything better to use. I’m delighted to see moot.it take a crack at it. I honestly can’t recall anyone else who tried to make an interesting business around forums ... ever? At least outside China.

So regardless of how moot.it looks and works at the moment, they should really be commended for just trying where others have given up without even bothering. As someone who has worked on a forum CMS, I can attest that there are so many small things in forums you need to implement and get right, that you end up with a road map light years long.

What I am saying is that I commend moot.it for just trying. Some of the comments here suggest that there are dozens of great forum CMSes to choose from, which I don’t find to be the case. Better to help them polish the software, because the alternatives are few and often unsatisfactory.
I could probably retire with 18% of one Netflix EC2 monthly bill...
OT: RescueTime looks interesting, I wouldn't mind giving it a go, but the two week trial seems a bit short to be able to properly see whether it is working. I wouldn't mind paying for a few months at only $6, but payment is done manually, so I don't have that option.
No, no, no. I refuse to invest any hope in a forum that is not interested in doing properly nested comments. How are your comments systems any better than Disqus or (the superior in appearance and functionality) Livefyre?
I just wanted to say thank you - arcticstartup has been a great source for my work on documenting new startups in europe and you've made my job a lot easier. I wish you guys the best.
This is correct. "Table" is a datatype which copies the values into the table, while "Dict" is a data type that holds references to the objects. The same semantics hold for "Array" and "List".

Although not perfect this was probably the best way I could have designed such structures. There is some info in the header files as to how to use them.
Still, how much you spend inventing something is not related to how useful (or obvious) your invention is. If you spent US$ 10 million developing something obvious, you still don't deserve a patent on it.
Samsung Chromebook (XE303) Review: Testing ARM's Cortex A15
Thank you, very much appreciated! And as said - we're looking for ways to continue it as a community driven thing, so I'm sure it's going to be around in some form. Lots of people reaching out to us currently.
Looking at things from my comfortable vantage point a million miles away, I've always had a somewhat skeptical view of OLPC & similar efforts.

(a) They built in the high risk, high capital cost aspect of developing pretty complicated devices. Big things like inventing their own laptop for radically different conditions & making a radical flavor of Linux when none of the existing flavors have had much success with nontechnical users. (b) They planned to go through Governments, the UN & other giant organizations.

Simple & revolutionary technology coming about this way always seemed unlikely.

This on the other hand is interesting. It may seem almost cruel, giving away scores of tablets at a price that could have built and staffed a school. OTOH, it's still not a huge amount of money (in the context of the OLPC budget), you can do it right now and it might work.

If it works, then they can find ways to make it cheaper, cooperative with schools. etc.
Robert Rodriguez et Frank Miller tournent enfin la suite de Sin City 
Cela fait sept longues années que les cinéphiles attendent cet évènement, la suite de Sin City est enfin en tournage. Les réalisateurs Robert Rodriguez et Frank Miller sont d’ores et déjà au travail.
Rich Hickey - Writing Datomic in Clojure
Wow, Pivory is clean and well done, no threading though, a shame.
Because many feel the system to be broke and with little real chance of fixing it. However if you look through the history of the United States many of the very wealthy contributed to education.

Current age issues is that for having existed nearly forty years the Department of Education has presided over an eleven time increase in the number of public school employees while enrollment over the same time increased only a little over eight percent. Yet test score improvements are nearly flat. The joke in the city nearest me is, if you want to know if someone works for the school just look to see if they have relatives in political office. Its as bad as people getting jobs at the airport.

Simply put, the system does not work and going through the bureaucracy to fix it isn't panning out. Toss in the fact that in many districts the union is in total control of the local politicians. Look at how much money they pour into politics, in California for example over sixty million dollars is being poured into support of Prop 32. This money is essentially transferred directly from the tax payer to the unions to fund their political agenda because teachers have no choice in how their dues are spent let alone they have no choice in paying them. We allowed a system to be constructed where we pay with tax dollars an interest who then uses those dollars to get even more.

Think of how all that money would benefit education instead. Actually we spend too much on education based on the results.

Want to fix education? First get the political money out. Forbid unions from spending money on political campaigns directly or indirectly. Second, give schools systems more freedom in assigning teachers. Currently in our area staffing is based on the employee needs and not the student needs. Third, Hold parents accountable for disruptive children. Fourth, run the school year round. Fifth, quit wasting money on schools which are merely monuments to the politicians who have them built (half billion dollar schools? hundred million dollar schools? Really?)
Ask HN: How open to be about your startup idea while doing customer interview
The first step in starting a startup is doing the customer interview,
getting to know the customers thoughts.

One thing that is concerning me and I am kind of insecure about as of
now is "Hinting the idea to so many people at the same time." As from
experience "what can be copied, will be copied" So I am slightly
concerned about it and wanted to know your thoughts.

Actually people whom I encountered 2-3 weeks ago, they wanted to speak my
mind out and I later realized their ulterior motives(probably its too
naive a question, but it happened and I am not sure how to tackle it)
thankfully I did not speak stuff out there. What are your thoughts on
it? How do I decide on how much open to be?
> What I don't enjoy in Haskell is writing small detailed algorithms in a functional style.

You can hop around this easily using the ST monad. It's less elegant than usual Haskell and often less elegant than languages where mutation is 'native', but it does its job.
HackerEngine is shutdown
Probably because right now an airline is the best way of creating a millionaire, out of a billionaire.

But I agree with the parent, and unfortunately, those who are making money are 'cattle transporters' like Ryanair

The airline model has to be rethought from the ground up: fares, service, route allocation, price segmentation. Throw everything away and start afresh.
I thought about it, even New Jersey, but it is much easier and less expensive for someone like me from abroad to go to NY, where I have friends who can supply with accomodation. Also I have lived there so I know the city which makes it much easier too. Depending on what happen, I'll definitely make sure the other areas get a part of what we raise.
Thanks
Kickstarter is philanthropy, not investment. Didn't you realise?
Indian Defence organisation DRDO website hacked
It is difficult to say this without sounding arrogant but my god did I suffer during my college years because of this.

Every class, every project, every assignment I felt damn I already know all this.

It also makes team work a torture. I didn't want to ruin other people's experience by being the know it all guy.
So I just avoided teamwork as much as I could because pretending that I'm challenged by the question/project
got even more depressing.

Having to pay thousands of dollars for it makes it even harder (I simply had to do it as I'm not a citizen).
I'd think man there's so much more that I could do with this money I'm paying for something I already know.

That's not to say I think I know a lot, in fact I think I know very little but just that the college wasn't providing anything new for me (and yes it was one of the top ones).

I'm learning more by reading books and posts on the internet, hacker news, etc... and by doing actual work in the industry.
Nested comments is something we actually decided not to implement. Look at this HN thread for example. It's very hard to follow and see what are the new ones. Sometimes I search for "minutes" to get entries that are within last hour.

If you want to branch out from a reply that's a new topic. We'll make that easier on later versions but definitely not nested comments.
"Hell, stop programming in C++ and start using Rust!" I plan to try to do that, when Rust has become more stable.
> In a year or so, there will be e-readers on the market for $20 and many decent tablets will be available for $60 and less.

In volume (lots of 100,500,1000) this is already the case.

You can find sellers dumping lots of 1000 of "outdated" tablets (mostly Android 2.2) for $5-$10 a piece.

For smaller lots of more current generation: A Freescale IMX6Q quad core based 10.1" tablet with Android Jelly Bean (4.1), 1024x600 capacitive screen, 1GB RAM, 8GB flash: $32.50 a piece in lots of 200....

Current generation reasonable spec'ed 7" tablets ordered from China in lots of 1 start around $40-$50, with free shipping to large parts of the world...
Consolidating Python Libraries Challenge
Well there should be nothing stopping you from writing lengthy, thoughtful posts – there is no 160 character limit, (in fact, there's no limit). There are line breaks, paragraph breaks, syntax highlight, black and white (vectorized) unintrusive smileys... And the text box does expand while you type (unlike the one I'm typing into now) and shows you a preview underneath it. Images/video are kind of separate from discussion and tend to draw all attention (you already mentioned signature/etc), but if it's what you need, then this is not the solution for now.
Thanks for contributing to such an awesome project.

A self-contained young lady's illustrated primer (thanks, Neal Stephenson) attempting to judge the current knowledge level of the reader with a set of preliminary questions and delivering progressively more advanced, always relevant content would be awesome.

Has anyone attempted to build it not starting at school level, but from ground up (i.e. colors, words, sentences, basic physics, maths, music), while adding content as the first participants progressed?
Yeah using $ was pretty cheeky. I use a few other GCC specific features such as nested functions, which is why I specify that the standard is GNU99 rather than C99. If you have any errors on mac please post a bug report as I don't have a machine to test on! Thanks.
Cool idea, good luck
The comment box expands as you type.
In this case it obviously doesn't matter, but in the general case it is better to be explicit on which type of cast you are doing. That way the compiler can statically stop you from doing stupid things. Read the link I gave.
Let Us Prove PG Wrong
"We'll bet a seed round you can't make something popular that we can't figure out how to make money from." - do you know of any examples that would invalidate this, even if the "we" were not YC?
My Experience with Dropbox.
Fault Modeling for Cloud Services
People in the US spend much more time working than those in almost any other developed country. Too much time. In Scandinavia overwork is socially unacceptable, while living a balanced life is desirable. For example, workers in the US get no statutory holiday, and most employers give 15 days, whereas in Scandinavia it is stautory 35-39 days depending on country.

As the vast majority of US children are not homeschooled, it's not relevant to the broader discussion. In anycase homeschooling is typically encountered in a religious setting, or remote locations.

Education is already a family matter, children whose parents provide a home environment conducive to learning will learn better, it's an inevitability. The tragedy is that such an environment is usually beyond the means of less wealthy parents, or beyond the abilities of those less-well educated. The solution of course, is good public schools (though the home learner will still be top of the class).

EDIT: I'm British, we have 28 days holiday and overwork is perfectly acceptable here. Our schools are doing poorly because of a mediocre and highly proscriptive curriculum which has reduced the job to spoon-feeding photocopied worksheets, and puts off anyone intelligent from becoming a teacher (the pay is awful too). This is compounded by a severe over-dependence on standardised testing which has further reduced the job to spoon-feeding only the photocopied worksheet required to pass the next test, and resulted in massive grade inflation for over a decade. Rote learning is the only lending, and there is little to no actual understanding anymore. But people think that the government should fix education, as it is a public endeavour, even if this means admitting that the government don't have a clue and simply using public money to fund private schools (see Charter Schools) which is the latest experiment, and so far seem to be working.
You have to deal with that sort of situation proactively. Ring them up and explain their delays have pushed the project into a period where you have other commitments. Ask how long it will take them to resolve their delays etc. and offer to reschedule the contracted time after that. If they screw you around later politely decline their work.

If you don't respond to the blame they are giving you then they will continue to heap it on you. And that is not a working relationship.
Sure, but spam is already reasonably under control here; post-spam-filter, those things could be predictive, along with other things nobody thinks of.
How to convert from BufferedImage to JavaFX 2.2 Image
http://grep101.com for lazy (or mobile) people
Looks interesting and from the video tour I was rather convinced to use it. I saw that it does not have a grid system to snap the columns and text at proportional sizes/positions. That's important for an infographic creator, otherwise I can stick to Gimp or Illustrator.
I can't tell from your user name and your comment which person you are -- can you tell me what your answer was?
Do You Wanna Touch
Cloudsigma (www.cloudsigma.com) is trying to grasp that opportunity.
Jeremy Allison on why Samba switched to GNU GPLv3
I've just noticed that Backpack - a sort of personal notes and tasks tool - has vanished from their homepage and I can't find an announcement about it. Does anyone know why this is?
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There's also another difference in that adding a laptop for a kid that is already in school without doing anything to take advantage of the laptop in the teaching is very different from making tablet available for a kid that is not only without access to school, but in a village where everyone is illiterate.
It's funny that most of the comments are about the new blog design and how people is not liking it.
As a web person looking to get "closer to the metal", this is the kind of course I'm looking for.

I also like the idea of daily bite-sized tasks assigned via email and the private mailing list for users sounds nice.

In addition to these, will there be any other feedback mechanisms in the course?
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The Cryptoparty Handbook
* Balance work hours - 7:30am to 4pm. Play with kid in beach for an hour, sleep for an hour and get back to work till 11pm.

Today is the first day in this schedule & time to go home. :)
What made you choose the 5:2 diet? Are you not worried about having no energy on those 2 days?
In other words, memes go extinct just like gene lines.