skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brubeck and Paul Desmond inspired me musically at an early age to pick up the sax and fueled my love of jazz. "Time Out" was the first CD I ever bought with my own money (my grandfather had an original vinyl copy I would listen to at his house). My nick can even be traced back to Dave's early influence in my life. I don't have many personal heroes or idols in my life, but Dave Brubeck is one of them. This is sad news.
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Do your mobile apps require an Internet connection? From what I'm seeing I imagine that's a prerequisite to use GA. It's a deal breaker for me though, I can't intentionally throw away a slice of offline usage data (iPods, iPads, etc).
Facebook Adds the Ability to Create Recurring Events
At Tealet we are building a "Bashing" page so users can leave their feedback. This is for the passionate users that know exactly why we suck.
Foldify: Draw, create, print and fold beautiful 3D figures
One of the best story tellers I ever heard.
Pandora's Royalty Costs Continue to Outgrow Revenue
Congratulations, Anil. This is great for both the Government agencies and tax payers.

-Abhi
Here is the story behind GridVid.me:

My company harnesses the unused processing power of idle computers in order to delivery a grid computing IaaS for high throughput computing. Pretty vague, eh? So we needed to find a product vertical that was well suited to our unique infrastructure.

Video encoding is great for this. The average video produced for the web is 4.5 minutes long. Online video platforms get thousands of uploads every day, and encode each into 5 different formats on average. So they end up doing thousands to tens of thousands of small compute jobs each day. Its an industry that could be as large ast $600 million each year.

We built the product as part of our company, CPUsage, but then it became hard to communicate what we do and who we are. Selling it was tough.

So I walked into our small 5 person office 2 weeks ago and said "lets start a separate company for the encoding product." We approached it with a rapid-prototyping attitude. We spent very little time on the name. We moved through things fast, and focused on creating a lean, straight forward brand for the product. We wanted our value-proposition to be loud an clear: we are the best price in the industry. So we made a price comparison and cost calculator.

The result is GridVid.me. Would love your thoughts and feedback.
Where's the "Parent mode" which stops the movie and turns on the room's lights when cuddling is detected? For the nervous parent...
> The government is not just any old company or investor, the government has guns and can compel action in a way that others cannot. As such it is very powerful to have as a investor and very dangerous to have as a competitor. Too dangerous.

I get what you're saying but I really wish people would quit bandying about the "government has guns" line. I'm one of the zillions working in the USG and I can tell you that the left hand doesn't hardly even know what the left finger is doing most of the time, let alone the right hand (and this is often by design, to avoid exactly what you're talking about).

If you want to discuss hypotheticals of gov't gone astray then that's fine but then we could also discuss those hypothetical meteors that might hit your corporate HQ (hope you've been doing your disaster recovery planning).

Or we could quit acting like starting a business in the U.S. is really just like starting a business in a country run by a junta, or that investing in civilian-run businesses that further a societal and national goal is just like establishing a command economy.
It makes sense to charge for a service like this which keeps a copy of the page. But I wonder if there are services that just rely on Google and do some form of Google custom search on your bookmarked pages.

It might be Google comes with such a service already. I was able to do a full text-search of my Google History (http://www.google.com/psearch), but it didn't work when I tried an old result from my bookmarks.
If you really want to keep NSA busy just add "USSID 18 Violation" to every email you send :P

http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm
Which is evil, because you want assessors and code reviewers to be able to quickly spot which RNG you're using.
New Google Now: the perfect travel companion for the holidays
What are the limitations regarding the location of the users or merchants, if there are any? Can I send and receive Bitcoin through Coinbase to and from anywhere? I assume the bank thing only works with US banks?

I'm not sure about the color of the button. Seems rather dull to me, and might be easily missed. You might want to A/B test that.

I like what you're doing, though. An easy to use Paypal-like service is very needed in the Bitcoin world. Wasn't Reddit a YC company, too? Maybe you can convince them to use your service instead of Bitpay, since they were thinking about using Bitcoin anyway.
Have you seen Prose? http://prose.io/about.html
Objra Provides An Easy Do It Yourself HTML 5 Platform
I honestly can't understand why people love IDEA so much. I know lots of people who swear by it, but absolutely none of them can articulate why.

Often they say Eclipse sucks, which is completely ignoring the question, and usually doesn't come with any substantial explanation of the supposed suckage. Moreover, talking about how one thing sucks and then silently comparing it to something else implies the other thing has no flaws, which is clearly unfair and stupid.

The only positive non-eclipse-hating arguments I've heard is that it's "easy to use" or "slick", both of which aren't useful to me since I'm familiar and comfortable with Eclipse's user experience. The rare time a feature is mentioned it's something Eclipse has as well.

I've tried to learn it a few times but since no one has been able to articulate any good reason to use it past a kind of anti-eclipse zealotry I haven't spent more than a few hours on it.

I'm not saying it's stupid to like IDEA, I'm saying that I think that preference in this case comes down to wishy washy things like 'feel', which is entirely subjective and entirely inarguable.

I will say this, I've heard plenty of IDEA users be snarky and condescending to people who use Eclipse (I've recently changed jobs and now work in a place seething with them), and I've not once seen it the other way. Anicdata I know, but that is life.
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There are legal reasons why the U.S. doesn't have true comparison sites

Yes, and I stated that in my original comment. My point is that these corporations need to get with the modern times. It's a global playing field these days, technology does not stand still in one part of the world whilst your (not personally) archaic thinking catches up. It's the same thinking model as the RIAA.
Thanks. I was sorely disappointed yesterday when I found out that Coursera classes follow a strict schedule (and that I couldn't look at the material right then) and that I wouldn't be able to try the Data Analysis with R course on their site.

I'll definitely check this out :).
I created an account and added some comments to existing designs. Noticed that I could up vote my comment, not sure if that is intentional or not. Maybe just start comments off at 1?
Ask HN: Best books (fiction?) written about *real* computers/computing.
What's the best book (fiction or otherwise) you've read about 'real' computers and/or computing (including programming, of course)?

Just to be clear: not sci-fi books about future computers, or computers in outer space, or imagined AI. But books about what it's like to use a computer at some real moment in time. Books that capture the gestalt of living inside of a screen, hacking away. Books about the isolation of computing.

There's probably some similarity to books about artists or writers (the isolation, the focus) but there's also something unique about the split between our physical bodies in meatspace, and our minds in digital space — from punchcards to touch screens. I'm looking for books that capture that dichotomy.

Ellen Ullman is one of the few non-explicitly geek-facing fiction writers that easily comes to mind (Close to the Machine [0]). As are parts of The Information [1] (Turing machine construction, for ex ...). Beautiful Code [2] is yet another, but skewing a bit too technical ...

A friend recommended grabbing computer instruction manuals and looking at the forewords — authors who have spent years writing up technical documentation start to stretch their legs and get a little philosophical there. Has anyone compiled a collection of such forewords?

Anyway — would love to hear your suggestions!

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007FU83DY/

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-ebook/dp/B004DEPHUC/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Programmers-Practice-ebook/dp/B0026OR2NG/

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I understand how that happens when you're talking to a sales person - it's their job so they want to get the best commission they can.

A comparison website is just an algorithm. The deal at the top is the one with the cheapest quoted price. The price comes directly from the insurer so the comparison website has little control in which results are shown to the user. The only control they might have would be to remove low return insurers from their result set (in which case why partner with them at all?) or more likely present a high return result as a special or premium offer in which case they have to sell that to the customer on the basis of value for money.
Assuming terrain-optimized multipedal robots, with stereoscopic vision across a broader range of the light spectrum than human vision: less time than with humans.

Such robots should be available in the same timeframe as a human-supporting infrastructure could be delivered to the Martian surface. (In fact, building that infrastructure might require similarly-advanced robotics.)
I really like this, but one big complaint is that the auto-scroll after completing a little task isn't correct. So each time after I "pass" a particular section, I have to manually scroll down with my trackpad.
I love this!! Scanned the article several times looking for this link. Nice design work! Love the twitter integration.
Yep - it's the same concept. But native support on Github would be cooler IMO :)

And I believe it has the same issue with live preview not using your own CSS
SpaceX Bests Orbital Sciences In First OSP-3 Duels
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#1 puts you in shaky legal territory at least in the united states, since cash exchange services have a huge litany of regulations.
I really appreciate this! It's easy to follow and I was looking to learn the basics of R, this seems like the simplest way.
Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
I shouldn't have to enable JavaScript to try R.
This makes no sense to me. You can't just test the soils and easy-to-reach places for microorganisms until you can also test the deep places?

And how do easy surface tests contaminate things any more than all the earth-originated equipment we've already dropped there?
> That would fall into the category of exchange going under.

Bitcoin exchanges are not like Paypal, it's a terrifically bad idea to keep your coins in a wallet controlled by a third party for any length of time.
Where's the patent for fornication detection, which allows "targeted" ads by AstroGlide and K-Y, and PSAs about abstinence?

PS This device also allows the cable company to make "best of" compilation videos for the amusement and education of CxOs.
I am getting this on my holiday list: http://www.amazon.com/A-Madman-Dreams-Turing-Machines/dp/140...
Your description of Eclipse hits the nail on the head. +1 For the comment on updating yourself into a corner. Eclipse plugins make it insanely easy to shoot yourself in the foot and get the IDE into an unusable state. Eclipse has an amazing variety of plugins, but sadly 99.9% of eclipse plugins give the other 0.1% a bad name.

From what I've seen many folks have started using IntelliJ due to the top-notch Scala plugin which Jetbrains provides for free.
Nice. I think you should try to make it more space-efficient so people can view it on smaller screens. The boxes can be packed closer together, even if you keep a fixed grid.

I wonder if you could also let it serve as a Wizard for people basides just a questionnaire. So it would suggest results based on a user's choices. (That could include links, but I don't it should automatically re-direct to the page.)

Depending on how simple you want to keep it, it might make sense to add a more advanced logic than just checking one boolean. For example, maybe let a later box depend on which specific choice was chosen earlier.
The open-source TEV Project
Map: The most and least corrupt countries in the world
Thank you for being responsive and honest.
OP here. Yeah, well, that's Thrift. We might add some wrappers to make the Thrift bootstrapping simpler.
I don't think it's really a chicken/egg here. If you could instantly solve the problem of having lots of entrepreneurs posting that wouldn't necessarily create any value for potential users (beyond app discovery, which there are better places to go to discover existing apps, not just potential apps).

What's in it for the user giving me feedback on my app idea?

You could pay them, but then that would make it really expensive to run and end up with people gaming the system with low-quality feedback.

The best thing I can think of (and I'm not sure it would work) is to have the developer pledge, say, 20 promo codes to you. Then if someone reviews the app idea, they get the promise of a free copy once the app was released. I would be willing to do this, but I know other developers are more reluctant than me to part with their promo codes.
thank you. strange how this is not default, considering google's own services like youtube sends out wide html-emails.
I love this idea for Github and think it would be a really exciting move for them! One thought though - could the Git protocol† for editing, correcting, guest posts etc not also work well as a more general protocol for hacker bloggers?

Something like a meta tag on the index page for the blog, pointing to the git repository‡? (be it on Github, Bitbucket, or your own server) A simple command-line tool (or browser extension) would assist in checking out the repository, and you could issue the pull request with whatever communication protocols you have in common (no need to re-invent the wheel here).

† It needn't just be for git, of course - it could work with many (any?) distributed version control systems (Mercurial and Bazar spring to mind)

‡ I realise you may not necessarily want everyone to have access (even read-only) to your repository - for example, you may have future, draft posts in un-merged branches. The beauty of distributed version control is that there's no canonical server - so there's no reason the public one has to have any branch pushed to it other than master.
You raise some really good points to think about. Thank you for that.

I got this saved for the team to look through and digest.

I also tried to find your email/contact info to personally say thanks for the feedback, but I failed at that. Hopefully this will do.
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Congress to U.N.: Don't even think about Internet regulations
But what size is the Millennium Falcon? Already for years I have this link with a very detailed explanation on the impossibilities of the internal & external dimensions in my bookmarks: http://web.archive.org/web/20010330140327/www.synicon.com.au...
Too bad that the original page is gone, not everything was captured.
There is an option to toggle the toolbar in the menu: View > Toolbar
Isn't the point to promote electric cars as "normal" though? Anything too weird might put off potential adopters.

This is a good strategy IMO, getting rid of the engine is enough of a paradigm shift for now!
There's a lot of government involvement. There's a stonking amazing overwhelmingly lot of private involvement. There's no Silicon Valley without, you know, Silicon Valley. Not the place, the people, the companies, the innovation. Government has better PR, the people have the vast, vast bulk of the actual time and wealth poured in to these innovations.
This is great. I've nearly completed a class at UC Berkeley which was almost entirely in R and I can say with certainty that it is a marvelous language. It is powerful, concise, and has an incredibly robust community. I've experimented with many programming languages, but I have not used one which allows you to experiment as rapidly as R.

I'm currently going through the Codeschool lessons to see if there is anything that I may have missed in my class. So far so good!

Edit: The most important thing that I didn't see covered in the course was RStudio. Considering that R is more of a scripting language that a programming language, I've found that RStudio is instrumental is using the language to it's full capacity. While it's certainly possible, and in some cases optimal, to use R from the command line, my experience is that the GUI features of R studio are incredibly powerful. The ability to browse data frames and have graphs show up in the context of your work has been very useful for exploring and understanding data. Otherwise, the course does a pretty decent job introducing readers to the language and it's data strcutures.
You seem to have missed the all-important download link.
Section 2.1 contains the following instruction

"Try creating a vector of numbers, like this:"

So I typed c(5, 9, 11) and got an error message.

They meant

"Type the R code to create this vector:"

I shall work through the rest in a few days, nice environment.
It is! And once created, you can push and pull to and from gists just like any git repository :)
In regard to loan value it is overly simple to only look at the value to government in getting loan repayment back. Think of the tax revenues they got from the employees, the industries built to support these companies etc. So even when Solyendra didnt pay back the loan the govt has probably seen a fair wack of money come back in other routes to offset the loan loss. And if Tesla succeeds they will see many billions flowing back in taxes from the company itself, employees and the industries that work with tesla. Much more than any amount loaned.
Well, OK, but surely the solution to that is not to use an underpowered, poorly specified/not yet standardised HTML5 gimmick, and actually use real input controls and events?
I'd love to comment on it if I could actually use it. Please developers, have pity on the Android tablet users. There's only a few million of us (if you include Kindle Fire).
A really interesting project which I feel might make web developers more comfortable with iOS development.

As an iOS developer however, I find that using Interface Builder or pure code is much more flexible and simpler to use than a CSS stylesheet.
Reminds me of Pixate (http://www.pixate.com/), but open-source, no kickstarter campaign, and available today. Granted, the Pixate people seem like they will be offering a full compliment of tools to go along with the framework, but I am very excited about this project. Thanks for sharing.
How does one log out of the iPhone app? I accidentally logged in w/ the wrong Twitter account and now I can't figure out how to switch back to my normal account...
I appreciate your passion but before you build a tower to space, you should probably make sure you're not building on shifting sands first. It's a telling arrogance you display when you say "let those other people struggle for their small gains, I have bigger fish." As if they would never be a customer down the line or that maybe you'll "get out ahead of them" and own the space... I'm not sure what your motivation is for this perspective, anyway.

The author already addresses your view though since he shared it. We already have been using PHDs like this for some time now. I think you just don't understand that communication hubs like reddit and HN are not "a waste of talent" especially when you consider portals like these get sold to Conde Naste for millions x 10^x of dollars.

Contrary, I think "reaching for the stars" here is taking ownership of the application instead and understanding the real burden of operations and the impact to your clients and what the real net benefit is (if any) in your application, not the number of 0s on your check. It's not sexy, but nothing complicated is. You're not going to do anything groundbreaking implementing what you were taught in school in the tiny scope of your contract, you're just creating tiny bubbles of technology that may or may not ever offer a benefit to anyone outside that space; contracting yourself out to another Fortune 500 to design a protocol or format to be used in some rented-out walled garden. It might be a great model for retiring, but not so much for a society, it it certainly isn't "reaching for the stars" unless you want to be alone when you get out there.
Sorry you got downvoted - wasn't me, I swear (it actually annoys me that people use downvoting to mean "I disagree".)

The problem with your comment is that you present a false choice.

I believe that there is strong - very strong - demand for real, lasting happiness. Indeed I think that is the strongest demand there is. NLP and technologies like it can be at the core of the tools that help people choose who they want to be and help (not coerce) them to act consistency with those choices.
Very nicely put. While I agree on almost all accounts, I think it's worth noting that while market forces are in general efficient allocations of capital, it may be possible to identify particular areas of research or technology that the market, for some reason or another, in not incentivized to pursue. The best historical example of this is the Manhattan project. Sure, given enough time, defense entrepreneurs would eventually research and develop the same technology, and maybe at a much lower cost. However, the time-value of obtaining the bomb first could arguably justify the enormous expenditure (something around $20 billion in today's dollars). Now, like I said, this is mostly playing devil's advocate -- as an economics student, I tend to agree with you for most investments. However, I do think that out of all potential investments, green energy has the best case for justifying spending these billions of dollars.

Put another way, if we could pay $50 billion to develop a renewable, clean energy source right now, then it would probably be worth it -- even if it would take Elon Musk only 10 years to do it and for $50 million.
Was keen on trying this out. Crashed on me on the variables bit on the first page; just span and span. Happens a lot with these online interpreter things.
Umm... You could download an R environment, but that's hardly a smaller footprint than enabling JS. How else would you do it?
The Soul of a New Machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Thanks for the bug report! Just pushed out a fix for Firefox. Live in 5 min. Thanks!
Feature your API at Hack//Meat
We're hosting Hack//Meat, a meat hackathon in NYC this weekend (Dec 7-9).

We're looking to feature APIs that provide:

- Customer feedback
- Grocery product data
- Grocery ratings
- Process optimization and/or capacity utilization
- Traceability
- Distribution
- Food labeling
- E-commerce
- Consumer engagement

Here are the challenge briefs that we'll be tackling at the hackathon: http://bit.ly/Uwuckg

Also, if you're interested in joining, RSVP: http://hackmeat.eventbrite.com

Contact: veronica@foodtechconnect.com
Piping Webhooks
The status site now supports SSL and auto-redirects regular HTTP traffic to HTTPs.
Relevant: http://www.pixate.com/
Brubeck's career benefitted MASSIVELY from being white (ish: he was of mixed ancestry), a fact he was himself quite ashamed of.
The status site now handles both HTTP and HTTPS gracefully.