skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+ As already mentioned, there's a bug (よ should be "yo", tool says "re")

+ I think it would be good to allow alternative transliterations. E.g., "tu" for つ, "si" for し, "ti" for ち, etc.

+ It would be good to support composite/modified characters as well, stuff like しょ ("sho"), ちゅ ("chu"), じ ("ji"), じゅ ("ju"), が ("ga"), ぱ ("pa"), etc, etc, etc.
Yeah, you need to have a .edu email address, which if I understand correctly is not something high schools or middle schools give out anymore, as the .edu domain has become exclusively for higher education (Universities, etc), still most of the tools you get from Dreamspark aren't all that important and the open sources alternatives are often better.
That would make sense, considering that music production software tends to be viciously expensive, and music producers tend to not have much money.
No it's not. The keys don't go bad. 1 Key can be used for a million installs b/c the software never contacts adobe.
I feel sorry for you, really.

I figured out that wheat is bad for me. As in, I've stopped taking in wheat (much harder than it sounds, because it's used as a filler in just about everything), upped my overall caloric intake (mostly coconut fat and butter), and lost 30 pounds in a month feeling much much better. As in, better than in years. That happened 24 months ago, and it stayed off.

My doctor, seeing it, said it was impossible - because every test HE had at his disposal said I did not have a wheat allergy (or intolerance, or whatever other variations of "bad for you" medicine has).

If you claim that losing 30 pounds in one month and it staying off for two years since is placebo, I'm going to laugh at you, and so will everyone else who actually has a brain and is not religiously following some mantras.

A friend of mine is allergic to peppers of any kind. Not deathly allergic, but excruciating-pain allergic. 20 years ago or so, it was not a standard diagnosis, and some doctors therefore suggested it was psychosomatic (because apparently, that was the only "scientific" explanation). Whatever it is she has, has since become a standard diagnosis (she's missing an enzyme, and it is a recessive genetic trait). Are you seriously claiming that she should have eaten peppers all these years because her self diagnosis was "not scientific"? I would give you the benefit of doubt that you do not, although your response indicates otherwise.

The "science" you talk about is a religion, and if you refrain from self experimenting because "it is not science", then you are a religious zealot. Physics is science; Chemistry is science; Nutrition and Medicine are religions that are controlled by politics and money, that are informed by science, but are definitely not following it.

Yes, science is a great thing. It's hardly related to modern nutrition, and missing from some areas of modern medicine.

Doctors and nutritionists have been claiming for years that salt is bad for you, and dietary cholesterol is too (to the point that you should limit e.g. eggs to no more than two a week). If you can find scientific evidence anywhere that, say, 25 eggs/day, is not healthy, then please show it. Because no one I know is aware of any. Or any evidence for calorie balance (carb=4kcal/g, fiber=0kcal/g, ...) theory for that matter. Add nutrition experts and "MDs" to your list of homeopaths and other pseudoscience peddlers - they're only better on the average because their pool of (mandated!) beliefs is culled more often -- but definitely not often enough to give it the halo of science that you assume it has.
To iterate on what you said:

Because it was simple and the rest was very complex.
In fact, only assembly language for some CPUs was as simple as basic (now, it's not really the case anymore, although asm basics are simple, stuff often gets complicated with special registers and special opcodes doing magic)

Many languages today as simple and relatively sane, like, say "python" ;-)
(now the other reason why I like python is because while you don't feel limited with it, it _forces_ people to code half readable, half decent stuff. They got a good balance)
Can you elaborate? I'm curious to hear ways in which it got in the way for you.
So what do you call it when you take a service and don't pay for the service? If you hire a lawyer but don't pay her for her time. If you hire a plumber but don't pay him for his time? A car mechanic? A doctor? A programmer? An artist?

I see that a programmer or artist is slightly different because the work the programmer or artist did can be duplicated where as the lawyer, plumber, doctor, car mechanic's work can not but they're still effectively the same. Someone worked and expects to be compensated for that work. Not compensating someone for work you received I believe is also called "theft".

I'll also note that the most pirated software often represents a lot more work than a single lawyer, plumber, doctor, car mechanic. If you use one of their services you'll likely get a few hours of their time. If you pirate photoshop or MW3 that likely represents a few hundred man years of time.

Anyway, I'm not arguing against piracy. I'm not sure what other word their is though for taking someone's time/labor without paying them.
Do you really think an MBA is that important for operations?

I sometimes think it would be fun to get one (although, since I dropped out of MBA undergrad, the only easy way for me to get one is LSE or LBS or another UK or EU school).

I know finance to the extent of "how to read a balance sheet", run a startup, or do very basic investment analysis, but nothing really exciting. If an MBA actually would be useful for something beyond credentialing in operations/management, I might consider it more.
I suppose that's true; its also a good summary of how molecular biology has been done thus far and we've managed to learn quite a bit. Translating it into practical applications has been more of a challenge. I'm skeptical that we'll see any breakthroughs in transhumanism in our lifetime, although naysayers are always being proven wrong— I sure hope I am as well.
Meet Nigeria’s Mark Zuckerberg: Gossy Ukanwoke
Psychiatrists to make vast changes to diagnosis manual
I believe it's most directly a response to this op-ed making the rounds recently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/201...

The "[x] isn't art" op-ed seems to be that particular Guardian blogger's specialty. Last year, he caused a flurry of outraged discussion in a different set of communities for roughly similar reasons, when he wrote an op-ed on why neither cuisine nor high fashion are art: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/201...
Ask HN: Do managers / executives at your company hold internal office hours?
I think that office hours was one of the most beneficial parts of my academic college experience. I think the same practice could add a lot of value in corp America. But, I wanted to see if anyone's company already encourages this and how it plays out in the work environment.
Ask HN: QlikView free/open-source option?
"take your job seriously and yourself lightly." -herb kelleher
MoMA posted this a few days ago - they've acquired 14 games: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/11/29/video-game...

tldr:

• Pac-Man (1980)
• Tetris (1984)
• Another World (1991)
• Myst (1993)
• SimCity 2000 (1994)
• vib-ribbon (1999)
• The Sims (2000)
• Katamari Damacy (2004)
• EVE Online (2003)
• Dwarf Fortress (2006)
• Portal (2007)
• flOw (2006)
• Passage (2008)
• Canabalt (2009)
" I know that if I didn't pirate software as a kid, there is no way in hell I would be working in the web now"

There's a whole mess of us "working in the web" who never pirated software for web development.

This may be more a 'kid/adult' thing - I went through about 3 years of pirating games for my C128 back in the 80s, then pretty much just stopped pirating. So, I can't say I've never pirated. I did. I bought many games too, but copied/traded with friends at school. There was an element of social currency when trading (who had skyfox? who had bard's tale? etc). But by 12th grade, there was no attraction for me anymore.

As an adult, I've paid for almost all my software, but have primarily used open source software (desktop linux for years), learning the LAMP stack from the ground up - absolutely 0 need for piracy of any sort, and it's provided a great foundation for working in the web field.

Perhaps with fewer people justifying the means with the ends, we'd have more users/contributors on open source projects and tools, continuing to make that ecosystem even better, vs propping up the dominance of some established commercial vendors with legions of essentially free training and advertising by continued acceptance of pirated software use.
now that was an excellent article. thanks for the pointer.
The Curious Field of Metamaterials
I do a lot of freelancing work to build up my small side business. A job I recently took on was to integrate an ecommerce site into Quickbooks using the Quickbooks Web Connector.

If you've ever had to use this software, I'm sorry. It is not friendly. You essentially have to write your own SOAP server that is called by Quickbooks.

Then you have to send them XML in their QBXML format (of which, the documentation only really works in IE, kind of works in Firefox, and not at all in Chrome -- that's right, just reading the documentation requires a specific browser). Debugging is a pain.

So I thought a service that abstracts that would be a good idea. We would provide the Quickbooks WebConnector file to you, you install it, and then start sending your invoice information to a nice RESTful API.

We handle the rest and ensure your data gets into Quickbooks properly. If you're interested in something like this, please subscribe to the mailing list.

PS. I'm doing the same for the Google AdWords API, which is also not a joy to use -- http://metricsapi.com/tour/google-adwords-rest-api
I'm not the OP, but...

> Can you share with us how you implemented this?

1) Perform Criagslist search

2) Use his provided bookmarklet which sends the current URL to his site -- writing that bookmarklet is just a JavaScript one-liner, probably

3) Every CL search page has a link to an RSS feed, so pull that feed URL out of the search page the bookmarklet sent in

4) Have a cron job periodically fetch the feed and use MagpieRSS, which he linked to, to parse it and get a list of search results

5) Compare the results to what you saw last time the feed was fetched, and if there are new ones, use MailJet to send an alert e-mail to the user. Include LaunchBit's snippet to show ads and earn some money from these mails
Do you need help with your project? I'm a producer and programmer.
Only if whoever cracked it remembered to rip that part of the code out. I'm sure there's a few companies out there compiling lists of IP addresses.

If you are worried about your software doing shit you don't want, open source or bust.
On the other hand, Time Machine is a core feature of Macs and requires a separate hard drive, so Apple clearly doesn't believe that expansion in general is a concept only suitable for geeks. And when they charge such ridiculous markups on RAM and storage, I can't help but think that non-upgradability isn't a decision made in the interests of their customers.
Actually he's saying the opposite. A black swan event is something that is unpredictable. He's saying that all of the futurists' predictions about the future have been wrong, therefore all of the innovations of the future will be black swans, because will have all been unpredicted. If the futurists were correct in their predictions, the future wouldn't have any black swans.

A black swan event isn't necessarily a low-probability event. It is dependent on the person who experiences the event, if that person does not take into account the possibility for that event to occur, it is a black swan event for that person. For the vast majority of the people, the most recent economic crash was a black swan event, but for a small number of people, it happened like it was clockwork.
I don't know the specific characteristics of Kiji, but I know that it is not a real generational GC. A generational GC that doesn't break every C extension is impossible because Ruby passes around direct pointers, so Ruby objects can't be moved in memory.

That being said, I'm not a language or VM guy, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Needs an option for "anywhere and everywhere". That's one of the big driving factors behind static site generators. The hosting requirements are: web server. No app server, no scripting interpreter, no database, no nothing.
ANSI Escape Codes Explained
I want to launch the MVP of the product I'm working on right now and get at least ONE customer. I have no idea what I'm doing, making it all up as I go. If somebody could give me some feedback on the idea that would be great! http://folkrobots.com
It still is. $300 from Apple to go to 16GB in a Mac mini, versus $80 from Crucial.
I remember the proud moment I first accumulated 10 gigs of porn (mostly 5 minute clips at about 320x240).

I think the problem is that now it's just so easy it's not fun anymore.

I also eventually realised that I had only a finate amount of time on this planet and I don't need every discography in the world.
That's interesting, and would gain from being more well known :) I hope to have time to give it a try as well. Thanks!
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the taco would be a better investment.
Bear with me, I'm trying to play devil's advocate here.

While you might not be depriving someone of a car, you are devaluing the product. Consider in the OP's case, he learned how to do certain things with this stolen software, and now he can sell his services for what is most likely less than what those who paid for their software and training charge. This, in some way, steals work from them. His knowledge is "illegally gained." Even if they don't charge less for their work, maybe they come here on a visa. Once again, taking jobs from those that earned it through legal channels.

So simply suggest that the only ramifications are from the software company missing out on a sale ignores the entire ecosystem.
Games have exactly as much potential to be art, or to not be art, as any other medium. The only difference is how it is used.
Hey Matthias,

This is just a proof of concept.. so it's web app only right now :( .... There are a ton of great IOS apps available on the market.
I have done several sites with FMPP/Freemarker in the last 10 years and it still good. Right now I am using Brunch for a web app front end and it looks like the future to me.
>I had always assumed that ‘art’ was something for a different generation.

As an art-loving millennial, I wonder if this a common sentiment among my generation.
> the fact is that advertising is the only way the vast majority of the Internet can exist

This is a bit of an overstatement, I think. There is certainly some good ad-supported stuff, and maybe it's the "vast majority of the Internet" if counted by sheer volume, but if weighted by information quality, I would put it closer to maybe half of the Internet. For my own browsing, probably more like 20-30% of the sites I visit regularly are supported by ad revenue, but I'll admit that's probably low. The rest are not there primarily to make direct revenue through selling ad space, though they might be connected to a profit motive in some other way.

Some in that category: Wikipedia, HN, a whole bunch of *.edu stuff, tumblr, technical blogs run by companies (MSDN Blogs, Googlers' blogs, lots of startups' blogs), Amazon, websites run by think-tanks like Cato or Hoover, arXiv. In fact I think the only ad-supported sites I visit regularly are newspaper websites, Facebook, StackExchange, and Google's properties.
I wish programmers would also follow this advice when creating their GitHub repositories and project sites because they can suffer the very same problem.

It's pretty often I hear about a library or project, hit its homepage, and I can't figure out what the heck it even is without digging around.

The magic phrase, as used in this article, is "[thing] is [describe thing]". Tell me the name of your thing and what it is. Once you've got that paragraph out of the way, you can go to town!
> With all due respect this is pretty ignorant.

Ignorant? Do you know what that word means? Let me quote dictionary.com for you: "Lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned". I don't appreciate you calling me ignorant, seeing as how I do not meet the definition in any way.

> If someone goes to the lengths required to pirate & use your creation you should be flattered.

If someone goes to the lengths/peril required to rob your bank, you should be flattered. Sorry, this argument holds no water with me. How I "should" feel about something is not up to anyone else.

If they don't have the money to afford my creation, they should talk to me about it. If I think they have a good reason for needing it, I'll give it to them for free. If I don't think they do, then it really should not be their decision to just take it anyway.
Hamilton NZ?
There's nothing here now, but happy to try and organise something if there is anyone else interested?
Bingo Dan!

btw.. checking out http://www.improvely.com now :)
Great site -- this looks like a well-designed and well executed Wreck-A-Movie [0]

Have any projects started raising money yet?

[0]http://www.wreckamovie.com/
He seems like a like cool dude. I hope he's innocent.
YC Company stealing code from another YC Company
Well, we can take as a lower bound for information/energy equivalence as the k.T.ln(2) from Landauer's principle[1], and mass-energy equivalence as e = m.c^2; there would presumably be some inefficiency in converting energy to fuck-energy (call the efficiency epsilon), so that gives us

information = epsilon . mass . c^2 / (k . T . ln 2)
=~ epsilon * 3.13e43 bits

or about 3 billion billion yobibytes assuming peak fucking-efficiency. Bear in mind that this is assuming the advice was delivered at room temperature of 300K, which is unlikely given how hot Instagram startups are at the moment, and of course no-one should work in a vacuum, so this is just an upper bound.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauers_principle
Well...all you have to do is look at the most pirated movies and the highest grossing movies. There is a strong correlation there.

Also, the same can be said about software. It seems to me that the firms that create the most pirated software (from MSFT, Adobe, Apple, et. al) are doing ok.
Test-Flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Why not just use the Intuit Anywhere platform?
That's not a bad idea, however the customer wished to use Quickbooks WebConnector because that is what their Quickbooks consulting agency recommended.
What sort of rewards other than being known in the warez scene (not even under your real name). You can't buy anything with it or boast about it in public.
I've never heard of gSchool. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what evidence is there that the instructors are world class?

Also, there are people who have learned everything online. They are out there - thousands- heck- tens of thousands of them on the web. Granted, maybe gSchool will help educate some people who can't learn themselves. To those people the 20k will be worth it.
Well, as said, I'm not affiliated with them, but their methodology is documented (see link at the top of the page) and I doubt they have an interest to fudge numbers that can be verified by third parties.

I assume Cloudflare is having a temporary problem right now, their figures don't normally look this bad (last I checked they were in the top10 on cedexis).

However, this mirrors what we observed in our lengthy evaluation. Performance was extremely variable, up to the point of some regions becoming effectively unavailable for hours at a time. Today might be such a time...
tl;dr from OP: In the emails you send about your product, take a moment to remind the recipient what you do and what your value proposition is. Many won’t remember otherwise. Contains examples.
Start promoting the static blog service I'm almost finished building.

Finish up a couple of other side projects.

Finish up my collection of "Locke & Key" and "Powers" (comic books).

Quit smoking (ideally before the end of the year, for good measure).

Get back down to fighting weight. I'm down to my last 10 pounds.

Resume Muay Thai/MMA training (at the age of 35, this is the scariest).
What sorts of problems and modules did you have in mind? Sure some modules can spoil the learning fun of the problem, but in most cases they seem to enhance it. Implementing the sqrt function is interesting to me (and in fact it's done early on in the SICP book for college freshmen), I also think it's interesting how other math functions can be implemented, but would you want kids who may not even have a solid grasp of what a logarithm is to implement the log function? How about making a 2D game? Why wouldn't you use PyGame?
The Final Issue of Nintendo Power and the First
Yeah, the scene is where it's at. I explained the scene in detail in a comment 2.5 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636785
"If it accepts its fate as large metropolis, San Francisco could become the next New York, Hong Kong, or Paris"

There's a reason I want to eventually move to SF and it's not just because it is the center of the tech industry.
If you've been around the internet for more than 3 months, you'll realize that this is nothing more than a compliment to the designer.

The net is collaborative. And using a popular, common layout is a way to de-risk an important part of your business, the customer facing part. Also, the more familiar a page is to the user, the better. Both pages are very common, popular grid layout that are clean and relatively easy to create, using any number of libraries.

If Dieter Rams can take what apple did as a complement, so you everyone else.
Do we need to define them as moral or immoral though? They are different crimes but both crimes currently.
Despite efforts of the EU and the ITU to put the Internet genie back in her bottle, she grows louder and prouder every day. She is still in her formative days, as the old world money tries to tame her radical free spirit. Let's hope decisions made by old men in new Dubai doesn't keep her from constantly changing humanity.
Thanks so much. I will be reaching out.
In my opinion, comrade, there are some "great" leaders who neither good nor authentic.
They definitely used to have a startup culture, despite being big, not unlike Google now. A prolonged anti-trust dispute can wreck this because suddenly you get in big trouble for not doing things by the book.
I am disappointed by a severe lack of Braid in that list.

After all, Jonathan Blow is most definitely one of those stirring the (most peculiar) discussion of games & art; see an article+interview about him, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/the-most... - quite a decent (even if somewhat pretentious on several levels) read while on the topic, by the way!
Just ignore the object stuff when starting.
And later, only use when it actually helps.
I noticed Microsoft was doing this too, publishing psd templates for its smart devices.

Problem being that psd is horribly proprietary, all that matters is the geometry, right? Why not use open graphics formats?
Wouldn't the issue be that if they sold Windows for say $10 in china that westerners could just import it for $10 + shipping and then install language packs once they had it?
You could always buy a copy and then use a pirated one.
Well put. There are many services, like Mailchimp, that allow you to send a portion of your messages before sending out all your invites (basically an A/B test before unleashing ALL your email with one untested subject line). I don't think startups always think through their open rates to the extent they should.

The body copy is a whole different story, but you nailed that in your post.
well, story telling has its place and timing. If all he does is telling stories people. It becomes annoying, unless he is really good at it.
This might not be true if your goal is to develop games for windows.