skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest reading:
http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2009/3t...

Mexico is a needed stop into the US. From that article, "Due to U.S. interdiction successes in the Caribbean during the 1990s, Mexico has now become the single most important way-station for cocaine and heroin produced in the Andes, and is itself a major producer of marijuana and methamphetamines. The permeability of the U.S.-Mexican border allows for easy transit into the United States, and Mexico’s share of the drug trade has grown steadily over the past 15 years."

IMO, whenever you have as much poverty as Mexico, but a very wealthy neighbor, this can be a possibility.
I'm not advocating video over HTML. I'm suggesting a cost effective way of providing video when it's needed.
It's true that I haven't used all of the apps for a long period of time. Hacker News Droid is the one I've been using the most, but sadly it hasn't stayed up to date compared with some of the competition. By the way, I just added Hacker News Android to the comparison. It is really beautiful and functional, and seems like a great choice if you're running ICS or above. It might also be slightly unstable though, and I had to log in before it would load the front page. Still, it's worth a look :)
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/desktop/

Red Hat seem to be selling a Desktop support package still, but minus the support! I assume this is a cost for the installer and updates.

I've donated the sterling equivalent of $49 to Ubuntu, and would do that on a yearly basis if it meant a cruft free system.
Wow that's a biased and skewed article. The truth is Apple do not allow GPLed software on the App Store, and hence do not allow easy install of GPL software on iOS (iPad & iPhone). Microsoft are fine with people installing GPL software on MS Windows OSs. The problem is Apple's strict rules about licencing and software installation, not a "vicious Nokia employee who just doing it because Apple & Nokia are compeditors". I assure you, there are many Free Software/Open Source developers who are ethically and morally opposed to the App Store idea.
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Google’s ‘Field Trip’ App Just Beginning Of ‘Ubiquitous Computing
Octave is open source, you can port "polyfit" to JS if you like.
Interesting collection of seemingly useful mini libraries. Though the page has a visually appealing format (colorful boxes), it would have been a lot more useful if these libraries were grouped/tagged, and if the github stats were more visible.
Compilers and assembly programmers serve two different roles.

- A compiler is expected to produce reasonably fast code in microseconds.

- An assembly programmer is expected to produce the fastest code possible in hours or days or weeks.

Given hours or days, and development work focused on such a task, compilers would be able to compete with good assembly programmers; it simply hasn't been the focus of much compiler development, because most users don't want to wait three days for their code to compile.

What's remarkable is that compilers are able to fairly consistently beat assembly programmers of average skill, while delivering results thousands of times faster.
This looks pretty good. However, is there a way you can view the New category in this?
Roughly 10 hours depending on how interesting the idea is. :)

If I really like it, endless amounts ;)

Code will be released under MIT license.
This is why Groupon isn't worth much though. There are no legal, ethical, or technical reasons for not contacting everyone who uses them and offering them a better deal.

The beautiful thing about e-coupons is that they don't cost anything to issue so there's pretty much no risk to the merchant for trying another company. The only lock-in possible in this industry is customer satisfaction through value, which Groupon is notoriously bad at.
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From what I know the issue is that the App Store adds some DRM that the GPL would require to be open-sourced. Might be wrong though, I only have a vague understanding.
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Wow thank you, this is the clearest and most straightforward explanation of the difference between the two camps in this thread.
I found an easier way to do this. For example, let's try Arrow.

1. Click the following link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/arrow-season-1/id56243...

2. Click "Buy Season Pass".

3. All the episodes will download automatically as soon as they're available!

I didn't even have to build a web app for this.
I don't think they're different from other companies at all.

They aren't. Believing they are is the quintessential feature of the fallacies of Apple partisans.
It's mostly a philosophical difference between thinking of probabilities as measures of relative frequency versus thinking of probabilities as measures about one's uncertainty about the outcome. There isn't so much a huge war between them as there used to be, but if you want to read about the history of that this was a book I enjoyed:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Theory-That-Would-Not/dp/030016969...

Being horribly biased in favor of the Bayesian interpretation ever since I learned it was a thing I'll give an example of places that frequentists can be wrong. People who disagree can give counterexamples. ;)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1gc/frequentist_statistics_are_frequ...

On the other hand, some argue that certain forms of inference are invalid and that it doesn't matter if they give the correct answer or not in practice because they're invalid. Calculus was attacked on this basis early on because many mathematicians thought that taking the limit of something as it approached 0 wasn't a thing you should be able to do.
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When you are reporting, say, a p-value from your ANOVA F-test, you are making formal mathematical assumptions, such as normal marginal distribution of your dependent variable. A lot of Frequentist methods (hypothesis testing) are really just mathematical shortcuts from times when computation was more expensive. The problem is, many people tend to misuse the tests where they are not appropriate either because those give "better" answers, or simply out of ignorance.
The challenge in Europe begins on the university level. As an American who went to grad school in Europe (a technical university) - it was interesting to compare the differences.

It begins with the fact that at European universities, there's no real support for encouraging student entrepreneurship. In Sweden for example, they are making some headway with the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and other inititiatives (side bar: here's a great lecture with Niklas Zennström, off Skype and Andreas Ehn, former CTO of Spotify - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R_E4GYfZK4)

There's a long way to go though!

Second is the cultural bias. If you are European (or have European friends) you will know that failure it treated quite differently in Europe vis-a-vis the USA.

In the USA, should you try a venture and fail, people say "well at least you tried!".

Or, you write about it in your grad school applications and get in. Then you have a fresh start.

Alternatively, you have a CV building experience. Often times, companies will look at your entrepreneurial zest favorably. Or, you can specifically apply to other startups who want people with startup experience.

Now, shall we compare that to the European experience?

European companies where you get the "evil eye" - at best you are looked upon with suspicion.
At worst, you don't even get considered.

The other issue is that many private universities in the USA are funded by wealthy business alumni. So there remains a strong relationship between industry and academia. The least of this is endowment money making its way to top VC's.

The last point is about cultural bias towards profit-seeking. In the USA, many socially conscious entrepreneurs see business and profits as a way not only to get wealthy, but to make the world a better place - create jobs, fund nonprofits, etc. The unhealthy notion that still exists in Europe (business owners are greedy capitalists that need to be bled dry), just won't work.

The best engineers and business dev/sales talent in Europe still seek out working for established companies. There's no "peer push" towards starting your own company. The elusive job security (which is quickly fading) is what people seek out.

Real entrepreneurs see owning a business as the secure option. Job employment and placing your future in someone else's hands seems insanely risky to us.

Family and friends deride the European entrepreneur who has this same mentality. This can affect relationships with loved ones and the like. Hell, even getting a mortgage or other normal activities is harder as a entrepreneur in Europe.

Of course, there's probably some hidden opportunity in these challenges as well. If anyone can think of any, I'd be curious to hear them.
ARMv7 has 426 distinct instructions (counting sections in the architecture reference manual).

x86 does have somewhat more instruction names, but not dramatically more (and the blowup is largely because of differences in naming conventions; Intel, for instance uses different names for [vector|scalar][single|double]float operations, whereas they are all the same name on ARM).

What makes ARM nicer (and it is somewhat nicer, in my experience as someone who spends hundreds of hours writing assembly code for both architectures every year) is:

1. non-destructive operations (finally coming to Intel too!)

2. better orthogonality, fewer weird holes in the ISA (especially in the vector ops)

3. no piecemeal vector extensions (all the various extensions that may or may not be available on x86 are madness).

When you really get down to it, though, none of these make a huge difference; they're just niceties.
http://gobyexample.com
It's about upload, not download. Download in Iran is usually restricted to 128kbps, upload probably is significantly less.

Also, you completely missed the point of the article.
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Needs signups, knowledge abouts rss feeds, setting up, passwords, navigating to a specific site, mine has none of that :)
^Sarcasm noted. Seriously though, we know what needs to be done. Legalize marijuana and probably make cocaine available in a medical setting for people who are truly addicted, like methadone/heroine injections in Europe. But unfortunately the damage is probably already permanent just like the alcohol prohibition gave the mafia a start: there's no putting this cat back in the bag (thanks, reefer madness people).
https://github.com/manmal/hn-android/
Online Voting in U.S., Despite Risks, Should Be Developed
Great idea! The left and right arrow key functionality doesn't appear to be working for me though (FF 16, Fedora 17).
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> And my desktop distro just goes on, doing what it's supposed to do, year after year.

What distro are you using? Because not all of them are free of this sort of crap. For example, Canonical decided to pollute the universal search in Unity, starting with Ubuntu 12.10, by adding in results from Amazon.
I completely agree, but only after a good read of Effective Go and honestly the language spec. The language spec is documented and completely, completely readable. I have no doubt it's a result of the simplicity driven by the simple/fast compiler. Just seeing the examples get you in the Go states of mind and prepare you for the standard library.

I do think that sometimes the more complex packages are aided by examples and I think the std lib could take on a few more examples. Fortunately, http://gobyexample.com someone is already doing that.
Create a web app that offers, your offer. A portal for HN devs to take on jobs, possibly in tandem, to better their skills. Hackers helping hackers.
For a very expensive, not modest, line in Iran download is restricted to 128kbps while upload is probably less than that.

But you completely missed the point the article is trying to make...
People keep saying "Stripe, come to Europe!" and "Why isn't there something like Stripe in Europe." A competent company with a track record of success finally builds a good approximation of the Stripe experience for Europe, so why should developers be cautious? Have they shut down companies when they haven't been acquired?
Thanks for sharing this list. HN is one if the few things I semi regularly read and I'm ecstatic so far that I can use my note to participate on hn and continue to keep my laptop as a workspace first.
You might want to do test this again on a tablet. I only found one or two apps that used dual panes - IMHO a key feature for reading on a tablet.
> Almost nobody "non-techie" that I know about learns git's command line.

That is fine. Those people are not Git's target market.
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I'll third that; my Darter Ultra is still running smooth as glass, although I did eventually swap out Ubuntu for plain Debian, due mostly to personal preference.
I assume that most recruiters keep a list of applicants for a given ad. Is it really asking too much to copy that list into an email client and send them a polite response? We are not talking about 5 minutes per applicant, we are talking about 5 minutes total.

All that talk about paying customers is bullshit. This kind of attitude, to only do stuff that directly results in more revenue -- paying customers are turned off by that attitude as well.
> I don't know what will happen to the Internet. SOPA, DEA, and HADOPI all conspire to break the way we share knowledge - under the benign guise of copyright protection. And yet all it takes is a dozen USB sticks, a few memory cards, and very little effort to break their embargo.

For the technically savvy, yes. But by enacting these changes, governments and other interests can dramatically alter the mainstream discourse and culture negatively. Having a difficult technical means for a few to work around the damage won't prevent the overall harm.
Good idea. Which ones looked good on tablets? I don't have an Android tablet at the moment :(
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works great. I love it.
I can think of lots of times I use defer in a block where it would be very problematic to have it execute at the end of block rather than end of function. I'm assuming there would be new syntax. That alone I think would be a strong mark against it.
DLNA is awesome. I have a DLNA server set up to share my music, films and tv shows around my home network.

All my TVs are DLNA enabled and on the network, and I just use NFS to access files from my desktop/laptop.
Here is an idea,

- Upload multiple images

- Add hot spots to them (annotations/marks, what ever you wish to call them)

- Each hot spot gets set to link to a different image of the uploaded images

It's a way to demo a UI prototype/mockup.
So what happens is, once you are done, you'll share a link with someone.

And they would click through the images as they would normally do if those weren't static images but an actual UI.

Let me know if you need more elaboration.
I think the "cult of personality" is a major reason why many people chose Python over Ruby/Rails. There are way too many strong personalities, strongly held opinions, drama and alpha geeks within the Ruby community. See http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw...
You know, I actually can't think of any. I just ended up writing things the way I did because I anticipated I would want the full request map, but that assumption hasn't born out. Passing params might be a good way to go. I need to go back and change this!
This is awesome, and really well done. The keyboard bindings are very handy. Would be great if it had older snapshots.
The big difference between Apple and Android ecosystems that everybody spoke about at the beginning was that Apple users were willing to pay for apps and Android users were (in the beginning at least) less likely to pay up.

So here's the question for MS. Are your users willing to pay? The OP put up a graph about in-app purchases with no scale on the y-axis. To me that implies that there's no real money to show us yet. But I'm happy to be disproved.
Agreed. If the US legalized the production and distribution of all drugs (a la Portugal http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-w...), a good bit of the american money funding these folks could be taxed and redirected to schools and healthcare in the US. Unfortunately, there's a large swath of americans who would see that as another Obama step towards a communist apocalypse. So it would never get through the Republican House.
Right, but the way you deal with the situation in the comic is going to end up being much fuzzier and more subjective issue of picking you reference classes.
I like Gnome Shell
-i mixes the header and the body of the response into one stream. If you want only the header it won't help.
Can it be a personal project?

My mother's been bothering me to make a website for her, I just haven't had the time...
Are there any situations where you want to use a frequentist procedure?

I've concluded that given a perfect, infinite-power MCMC simulator, I would always do a Gelman-style Bayesian analysis (with model falsification and improvement), but in practice, frequentist methods are computationally convenient.

Inference can be framed either way but means different things.

A Bayesian posterior P(H|D,M) is the probability that hypothesis H is true given data D and modelling assumptions M.

What does a frequentist p-value mean?
Pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
"El Pozolero" worked for Tijuana & Chapo, not the Zetas.
Just because this is a search for a scapegoat doesn't mean that there is one. This project was the brainchild of at least two large dumb organizations, a political party and a campaign.
How about an update of Fidonet where people just have to take laptops into internet cafés, such that laptops pass such data to each other with no intervention from users? This wouldn't replace the USB Sticks, rather it would supplement the distribution. (For WPA protected networks, there may have to be some mediation to establish the first connection.)
a bit meta: Build an offer HN
I do not know either instruction set well enough to make any claim as to which is easier, but instruction count on its own is not the best measure. Certainly, orthogonality plays a role, too. In that respect, ancient x86 was horrendous compared to, the 68000 (yes, there is a multiply instruction, but you have to have your data in register X or Y; Z does additions, only). The 68000 had different types of registers, too, but it certainly was way easier to remember which fell in what class (D0 through D7 are data registers, A0 through A7 are address registers).

Also, there is the x86 thing (that, IIRC, ARM and Z80 have, too) to give part of a register an entirely unrelated name (upper half of register X is called A, lower half B). That is avoidable complexity, if one is willing to give up backwards compatibility of source code.
Does it support IPA or SSML[1]? I ask because AT&T's TTS API[2] does, but it kind of sucks!

For example,

<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="/ˈkreɪp/"></phoneme>

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Languag...

[2] http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
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I think it might just be implying that engineering students aren't very good at mathematics.
I really like the UX. I implemented something like this some years ago for HN and other sites, but not as granular, at http://rrrewind.com
Recycling mobile phones: Move to recycle bin
Invent a new framework. Make use of what you already know -- i.e. HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, Ruby, Python & Perl.
RaspberryPi and arduino playing together nicely
Mobile version this web page would be better IMHO.
already submitted a bug report :)

and for the record, something like http://myepisodes.com with a new look would be AWESOME (not a mobile app)
What kind of framework? Just anything random?
Invite Jacque Fresco of TVP to the White House.
This is fantastic! Thanks!
Apple and HTC resolve global lawsuits, end patent disputes
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-11/apple-htc-resolve-patent-disputes-that-threatened-shipments.html
Everyone is guilty of something is pretty much how China works, they even have contradicting laws on the book to ensure this.

A related interesting effect with respect to corruption: any official is corrupt, and can be brought down at anytime because of that. Squeaky clean officials are not trusted because the "nuclear option" won't work on them, so they aren't promoted, leading to a downward spiral in quality.

A reasonable fair legal system is very important, I feel like we take it for granted in the west that things could be much worse.
The current situation in Mexico is a quintessential example of a direct side effect of prohibition. The US's War On Drugs has been a failure, completely and all the way across the board (well, except for those who profit from the industrio-prison complex).

It's interesting how little coverage the US media gives the situation in Mexico. Then again, the US media currently gives very little coverage to its own war(s).
It's not a native app, but I've enjoyed http://ihackernews.com for some time now.
How the Romney campaign's IT System may have cost him the presidency.
Quote: Working primarily as a web developer, I had some serious questions. Things like "Has this been stress tested?", "Is there redundancy in place?" and "What steps have been taken to combat a coordinated DDOS attack or the like?", among others. These types of questions were brushed aside (truth be told, they never took one of my questions). They assured us that the system had been relentlessly tested and would be a tremendous success.
a software that help us to download all our pictures,data,comments,etc. from facebook, so we can have it for us, and then be able to delete our accounts from that evil web...
AFAIK one of the problems was that Apple disallow certain actions (like commerical usage) for software via the AppStore. You can only distribute GPL software written by someone else if you don't add any extra conditions. Apple won't distribute it via AppStore without the "no commerical usage" rules, so Apple can't carry it.

DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source licences like the GPL. You almost certainly cannot distribute other people's open source code with DRM. Other people wrote code and developed software that they'll give you the right to copy it under copyright law if you follow their rules. The AppStore does not meet those rules.
You have heard of rooting and using something like TitaniumBackup to force remove apps, right? And of course, there's always the option of going with the clean versions direct from Google.
Reminds me of the letter Babbage wrote to Tennyson, correcting his poem:

"In your otherwise beautiful poem one verse reads,

Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born

If this were true the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read:

Every moment dies a man
Every moment 1 1/16 is born

Strictly speaking the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry."

Seems jgc has written a blog about it:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/on-being-nerd.html
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Say you do build something for someone, for free, who owns the work at the end?