skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, keep in mind that this service was never meant to be public-facing. So, unlike Bing which was named with a Chinese interpretation in mind, Google doesn't need to care whether its internal service has a bad connotation in German colloquialism.
That is really a good news for every married man, mostly for those who think, life is more thought after marriage.
Induction App is here to stay
Thanks, that sounds like it could work really well. We both have unlimited text messaging, so the per-message costs wouldn't be a problem in our specific case.

I am having trouble finding your email... could you be a little more specific about how I can find it? Thanks!
Hello HN,

This is my second post on here, on a topic I've been mulling over in my head all year.

Broadcasting my opinion online (and actually in real life as well) is not something I've been good at in the past, so I'd welcome as much constructive criticism as you care to throw at me.

Working a graphic designer was a contributing factor in the nervous breakdown I suffered earlier in the year... and I sense that there are lot of designers out there who are similarly disillusioned/suffering with their career.

The blog post is my first step in exploring the alternatives which are out there for us graphic designers... as I feel we have a strong skill-set which is very frequently ill-used.

James
btw it fails on latest chrome and firefox on mac but works great on IE 8/9
I think the correlation is like this:

It is more older than younger entrepreneurs that have reached success and are considered successful. And we know that it is more older that are married and have children.

BTW: I am 30, happily married and with 2 children.
Technically, work on Crack became public before work on Go did. So you should be asking what Go provides that Crack doesn't. Technically.
Then Apple bans Gawker from WWDC of course: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364707,00.asp
The problem with the article is it lumps together a whole bunch of different reasons for not wanting kids as if they're all equally reasonable reasons. It also doesn't address "normal" within any objective framework.

It's an interesting question in evolutionary theory whether there is an advantage to have a split of "breeders" and "non-breeders". Non-breeders, people who don't mind being e.g. soldiers and mine-technicians, seem pretty useful to society (actually a necessity once a large enough population of violent "non-breeders" evolve to threaten the breeders).

However they don't really contribute much genetically unless perhaps the "breeder" vs. "non-breeder" flag is entirely random and therefore allows for certain individuals to randomly specialize without negatively affecting the genetic potential of a family of mutations.

Intuitively, the value of "non-breeders" would seem to be very... expendable. I doubt people who are against having kids would enjoy that label, though. I wonder what other evolutionary value non-breeders bring to a species.

Perhaps having non-breeders who divert all their energy towards science and progress produce such an important species advantage that even if they don't necessarily contribute to the genetic pool they do contribute to the overall preservation and extension of the underlying genetic code.
I think that any new programming language must specifically address at least some of the modern software development challenges. For client-side languages those will be browser and mobile-device deployment, and for server-side languages (and, actually, for client-side as well) it's concurrency.

A possible marginal improvement in productivity just won't cut it. We need languages like Clojure and Erlang that help developers write software for the modern age.
I agree that nobody should be told to have kids, but I think nobody should be told not to have kids either (what this article essentially tries to do).

Actually I will probably also become one of those obnoxious parents pestering my kid to have kids (grandchildren for me), because I wish I had had kids way earlier. Some aspects of parenthood are physically taxing and it would be easier if I were still younger... Also chances are I won't get to enjoy being a grandparent because I am so old already. If my kid has children at the same age as I did I would be almost 80...
If I May Speak Procedurally, Sir: Building The British Countryside Generator
I think the original (https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...) is preferable to a static page, since it's in a wiki format.
Show HN: HoboJacket, want to see hobos clad in your rival school's jackets?
Why do you want/need money from me to create yet another programming language?
Microsoft's Retail Gamble
Sounds like a great guy and boss! Bravo!
Judging by the rate the population is still increasing, I would hardly say the death throes are imminent.
You could easily make the argument that's the reason Congress is set up as it is.. when one party controls the senate, and another the house, and another the presidency, you know damn sure nothing is going to get done unless there is broad consensus.

Having one party control everything leads to shenanigans. Trust me, you do not want an agile and fast government.
Doesn't sound too good for MS:

...But this was before the launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft's Surface tablet, so this time I correctly assumed the Microsoft Store would have a lot more customers; I counted about 40 in the store. However, during my 45-minute people-watching span, not one person left the store with a Microsoft product. Across the way at the Apple Store, about 120 people milled around inside and 30 customers waited outside to pick up pre-ordered iPad minis and new fourth-generation iPads. I counted at least 35 people carrying Apple products out the door.
Interesting - thank you. Especially the three studies in the first paper.

The discussion on moderators on the first study is interesting since it shows that it's not a universal truth - but significantly moderated by age, marital status and sex. For example:

"Finally, age significantly moderated the link between parenthood and
life satisfaction. Simple effects analyses revealed that young parents (ages 17-25) were less
satisfied with their lives than their childless counterparts (b = -0.39, p < .001); mid-range age
parents (ages 26-62) were more satisfied than their childless peers (b = 0.42, p < .001); and older
parents (ages 63 and older) did not differ from older non-parents (b = 0.16, p = .29)."

The discussion on recall bias is interesting to - nice to see that mentioned.

US only population too. Would be interested to see how that goes across cultures.
Am I the only one who's a little skeptical of this guys plan? Looking at this from an objective standpoint, and losing focus on the idea that Smalltalk is a great language that deserves this chance, the focus of this funding is being put on an individual who requires $20,000 for 4-6 months of work? Where do you factor in 2 months of wiggle time with a budget that low? Didn't he run the numbers? I have to imagine he took a look at his month to month expenses, subtracted luxuries, kept some "just in case I need a hospital visit" money? It seems like a 30 year dev would have a little money in the bank to keep himself working on /whatever/ passion he desires for at least 4-6 months?

I just think the whole financial aspect of this is fishy. And presuming that he raises enough money to get this project to the public, what if there's another 3 months of work before we can all really use it because of some oversight? Does the community need to kick him another $10,000?

His development architecture seems relatively sound from the 90,000ft. view, but there's not enough detail here to make me think he can actually pull off a 6 month development cycle of a new JVM based Smalltalk language. I don't really see any evidence apart from being a smart guy and passionate tinkerer that he could take a project to a community, maintain and grow it collaboratively, then end up with something thoughtful and elegant. While I wish this project all the best, he's done a very poor job of convincing me to give him money and I don't think that's just my obstinate view of failed crowd-funded development projects talking.
CamanJS - (ca)vas (man)ipulation in Javascript.
Paypal/eBay - couldn't find any published figures on this, but looking at eBay's revenues vs. PayPal's revenues, it'd appear that it's a substantial but not dominant share of their revenue.

Pricing model - no, it's great, but as you grow, it becomes uneconomical.

What's stopping them? Fraud. Fraud fraud fraud. They will end up with an approval process, as if they get hit big a few times (they will), their merchant acquirers/clearers will insist on it.
Facebook uses posters to push employees to switch to Android
I think your math is off.

Imagine that you have a population of 200 humans (100 male, 100 female). Only 40% of the women want kids, which, in this case, means that 40 women want kids. They each have three kids, for a total of 120 kids produced by the population of 200 adults. I don't think that this would lead to population growth.
>* Supported by all modern browsers.*

Not quite. I've use StartSSL certs for a few things myself, and have found at least one browser that doesn't like them: IE on Windows Mobile 7.*. I've not tried IE10 on Windows Mobile 10 yet to see if they have changed the trust list in Windows Mobile 8.
Probably a parody? But anyway, I think a big issue is that a lot of parents seem to think children are something like puppets which they can mend to their liking (and that have to adore them no matter what). Of course such expectations will end in disappointment, because children are individuals with their own minds.
Why "50 Shades of Grey" Is Great Literature
He's giving away the stock, so the gains are 0. There's no tax to be deferred.
MotorVote : Anonymous Facebook Photo Voting
Minecraft is coming to Raspberry Pi
>Kickstarter should promote the trust of backers in a similar fashion to the way that Ebay promotes the trust of purchasers.

I would certainly hope not. Get screwed by a buyer? Tough luck, deal with it, cost of doing business. Ebay is the most merchant-hostile pack of morons I've ever had the displeasure of doing business with, on par with PayPal.

Also, if they go that route (even not into full idiot mode territory like Ebay), their reason for existing will go away - make it more onerous for small startups and individuals to operate while making way for the larger, more organized companies, and Kickstarter as we know it dies.

I'm not ready to sacrifice kickstarter on the legislation altar, especially considering how many amazing things have been launched from it and how many more are still in the works. I'd say the occasional trademark kerfluffle is well worth what KS provides.
The article shortened "GPS-disciplined clock" to "GPS clock", which makes it inaccurate. The GPS clock is simply used to keep another clock accurate. (I use this setup at home; a timing GPS produces an accurate pulse-per-second, but the system clock is responsible for maintaining the time between pulses.)

(And if you're wondering, 15ns-accurate GPS clocks are $30 on eBay.)
However, Motorola is Google now.

If Google has to decide to back one OEM to compete with Samsung... from a business sense, they should back Motorola.
Lattice Engines Raises $20M For Predictive Analytics Platform To Increase Sales
30 years ago:

- Cell phones were just starting to be built, no body had them, people didn't even have pagers.

- There was no internet

- Only high end cars had power windows/power locks

- Jet engines were far less efficient. I don't know what improvements were made but someone with that knowledge will hopefully chime in.

Technology advances over the past 30 years have been insane. You can pull out a "phone" which accesses all the world's information wirelessly at high speeds. 30 years ago people would have never even thought that would ever be possible. They couldn't even imagine what "the internet" would be.
Looks like a good article but the url violates the same origin policy and as a result it render images. Readers will get a better looking page if they knock the 's' out of https until the owner can fix it
Because there's a sucker born every minute.
Are there any words in the UK that don't mean "foolish" or "stupid"?
This is awesome. I buy his grains all the time.
its not true
What's stopping an entrepreneur from building a new network now, in a single town?
I think that's part of what PommeDeTerre is asking; is there any oxygen left over for a JVM Scheme variant in a world with Scala and Clojure? (And an already-existing line of other languages trailing behind them.)

If this were just some other open source project, I'd say go nuts, but we've got a guy here who presumably could get a very good job volunteering to live on raman for 4-6 months to do this thing, so I think this question needs to be considered, even if the answer is ultimately "yes".
I'm absolutely not trying to explain away mathematics. I'm just not letting a "mathematics is superior to computer science" perspective slide in under the carpet, and I'm marshaling a variety of areas of overlap to illustrate that there is not a strict superset relationship between the two fields.

I chose number theory specifically because that's the subject of the ABC conjecture whose proof spawned this whole debate.
The Smalltalk equivalent of Clojure is Ruby.
With adMonitor, Unified Aims To Provide A Central Dashboard
One of the contributors here, we believe that one of Smalltalk's problems has been it's inability to 'play nice with the outside world'. Smalltalk was designed to be the OS, the user environment, everything. It was one thing that encompasses what we now consider to be many different things.

We are building a Smalltalk to fit into the existing jvm ecosystem. To work with eclipse, intellij, the profilers etc etc while still remaining at its core, a Smalltalk.

Are we high? Maybe. But it is our axiom and what we believe in and we are giving it a shot.
You've got a wondeful, funny product, and I hope you sell a million of them. I want to see my neighborhood filled with happy people making cloppy-clop sounds on their bicycles. If it gives the trolls apoplexy, so much the better. It's a win/win situation. Geezer.
Maybe the notion of "total motherhood" is the problem? If those mums wouldn't feel the need to "hover" above their kids every second, perhaps they would be less stressed out?

This is the thesis of Bryan Caplan.

He has gathered a lot of evidence (mainly from twin studies) suggesting that the specific details of how you raise your kids don't matter much [1] - your kids will turn out to be the average of their parents + regression to the mean.

I.e., by age 25, the children of Amy Chua and slacker dad will turn out the same, regardless of whether Chua or slacker gets their way.

WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428950457531...

Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465028616/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

[1] Within the bounds of non-abusive middle class first-world parents. As one example, if both parents are religious, the child is likely to be religious. The only factor the parents have significant influence over is Lutheran vs Catholic.
First challenge is too easy.
Aaah, fond memories.

The first hard algorithmic coding task I worked on was to generate isoclines of UK Postcodes from point cloud address data. Fortunately I didn't have to do the entire country, only a couple of million addresses, unfortunately it had to work on a machine running Windows 3.1 with only 4MiB of RAM....
Actually it's the dictionary definition of unhappiness.
Chinterest Is Pinterest For Chins
'007' job ad for an assassin appears on official UK.gov website
Why can’t I just be a little lazy?
Yes, a lot of homes in the US use natural gas for all heating (forced air, water, cooking, clothes drying). The usage is minimal in the summer months (just cooking and hot water and some clothes), but can spike to very high amounts when the temperature drops to below freezing.

Usually a home will be built with all gas appliances or all electric, a mixture of the two is not as common.

There are cultural differences too. Americans love to air condition their entire homes with central systems and run them a lot in the summer months. They also dry their clothes with automatic dryers and rarely use clothes lines anymore.
For some reason the icons appear to be broken (appearing as the kind of squares you see when a character isn't supported) for me on this work computer using the latest stable Chrome (23, running on Windows 7 x64). They show up right in Firefox, though. Seeing as every other icon font website is working fine in Chrome here, it seems like something is amiss.
After a while the travels and parties get old... Besides, if you really wanted to, you could still do all that with kids.

It's true that you can't really rationally decide to have a kid, because you can not know beforehand what it is like.

In the same vein, why do people have pets? Seems just as irrational...

But why - why live at all? What is the point of anything?

As for the overcrowded planet, most of the overcrowding seems to be done in other countries. In my country population count is falling. Having kids seems like a pretty fundamental human right, so why should I give that up just because some other people can't control themselves (and I know it is a more complex issue)?

Are you sure that you haven't been brainwashed? Some people benefit if you believe that you shouldn't have children. Meanwhile the people owning the TV stations and newspapers probably have 20 kids with different women, who will happily take up the space you are not occupying with your own children.
I can only speak anecdotally, not across a wide sample of books. But as an author, O'Reilly's editing staff is way better than Apress.

I haven't written for the prags but I like their books.
Show HN: Tool to display Travis CI build status from terminal
I like the peer review idea - looking forward to getting an email to see what you guys are up to!
> [...] nearly 60 percent had at least one child, challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneurial workaholic with no time for a family.

Well, this has to be compared with the number of people in their 40 that are married w/ children. And I wouldn't be surprised if this number was above 60%.
as always it depends on the series or topic. myself, i read some of their blogs (esp nat torkington) but rarely read their books any more. i can get what i want elsewhere, for free. if i do pay for a tech book it's usually not a manual or anything tied to a specific version of anything but instead broad paradigms.

they did, it seems, go for "filler" instead of "killer".
"[I] design massively multiplayer games for people who like to type paragraphs to each other."

That is an amazing insight and much more interesting than power bills.
One of the biggest advantages, I thought, was the Smalltalk programming environment. Obliterating the notion of dealing with files, and interacting directly with definitions and objects. If I use the same tools today, but just with a different language, what benefit am I getting?

On a side note, I actually have been working on something like the smalltalk environment for another popular language. I'd love to know more about how Redline deals with images (if at all) -- that is, does it snapshot memory and dump it to a file like the original smalltalk? Or is this a JVM compiler for the smalltalk language?
The Internet as a collective sub-conscious
Portraits of Soldiers Before, During, and After War
Heh, I used to think like that.

When my wife and I met we were like, "kids? no f-ing way". But then we decided we wanted one. We could have gone thru life as the two person 'family'. We could have kept building our income, buying more things, striving for that next 'personal goal'. Don't get me wrong, we still do that to a point, but having a kid - from two no kids people - is the best thing we've ever done.

It's also the most difficult thing. We're sleep deprived, irritable, spaced out, and longing for free time. But through all this, we still say it's worth it. Worth it because we are part of life. We're all someone's child and while having children isn't for everyone, I feel like becoming the teacher is the most important thing I'll ever do.

My wife's step-father just had his dad pass away this Aug - both his parents live with him on the bottom floor of his building. Now it's just him and his mom and his girlfriend. He's definitely 'paying for them' as they're on their way out. But I'm sure if you asked him if this was a problem, he would tell you absolutely not.

I don't see raising our son as missing my life - I've had my share of studying philosophy, succeeding, failing, living, etc. I'm now ready to put that into practice and help someone else learn what life's about (sure, from my pov, absolutely), to guide them. This is the best thing I can do for my child; strive to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

There are so many amazing things in life and I think it's a gift to experience it. I think it's easy to just focus on the negative or the reasons of why not to. I really do wish everyone could have an awesome life. I think that's how it's meant to be lived - as awesome as possible.

So, kids aren't for everyone. I don't feel like it's an exclusive club. But I do feel like it's a natural part of life and I'm glad I'm getting to experience it.
An interesting HTTP injection rootkit
Coffee, lots of delicious coffee and some happy music, reggae gets me grooving, or if I'm feeling silly, some Gangnam style is always good.
What I dislike about Amazon, though, is that you don't get the PDF, only "Kindle Edition".
Depends on what you want it to achieve. If you want to reach out to people with a minimum experience in coding I think it does a great job.

I was expecting some kind of code-golf mark for that challenge though. There are many ways to solve it.
Hacking servers with passion
Many of the compilers generate relatively human-readable output JS, so if you know JS, you can debug the output. This is still true for JSIL (albeit less than before... sigh) and is obviously true for languages like TypeScript where the mapping is direct.
In many states in the US, there are energy targets that must be met or the provider is subject to penalties. Opower is a startup who's entire business model (at least to start) was to work with utilities on hitting these targets. I could be wrong, but I think they were actually the first to use this peer comparison model in this space.
Looking for honest feedback?
Yes. "fag" means cigarette.
Looking forward to its launch!
First challenge is easy, indeed, but I guess there will be much more difficult ones in the real competitions.
Well, perhaps you could have different difficulty levels... and from what I see know, it looks like you are already moving in that direction
Which is why I listed spoofing in addition to jamming.
I don't really know what direction the site will take, but I think you are missing the point there.

The FizzBuzz test might be very easy, but you are assuming that these challenges will be for people of your own skill level. Probably the site will want to cater for a wider audience, from beginner to advanced, and FizzBuzz provides a good starting point for both.

And anyway, we have all read enough about FizzBuzz to know that even "experienced" "professionals" can fail spectacularly at it.
82% Of All Web Sharing Done Via Copy-And-Paste
We've tested across every major browser with no problems, but it could easily be an problem with Windows and fonts. Would you mind submitting it as an issue? https://github.com/endtwist/fontcustom/issues
A simpler and faster way to install an Amazon EC2 host from a kickstart
I had the opposite take. It seems to me he's modeling his approach on Perl Foundation grants, which pay hackers for part-time or full-time work for a specific set of deliverables.

These grants are generally deemed successful in terms of delivery (in part because they go to highly experienced developers who have already been contributing for years).