skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I answered that in my comment. I realize it's not a story about Instagram or Big Data, but it's more important to every American in this community. Many of us have, or will have children and we've had a tremendous loss today.

Communities work together to solve problems. With the support of this one, we can influence a massive change.

Maybe I'm too emotional. I apologize if this link ruined your experience on HN today.
Would like to have it examine my posts / likes, etc and recommend gifts for me, just so I can see what it would tell others.
Is it possible to share a folder via the IOS app? I keep trying to do this and can't figure it out and not sure if it's just me or if it's not possible.
Although, to be fair, while Amazon doesn't need this, it kind of deserves it.
The UN’s telecom conference is finally over. Who won? Nobody knows.
Very moving. Now inverse the situation, where it's your child who dies. The pain would be at least 2x worse. And this is what happened in Connecticut today.
I read the website several times and one question that I just never found an answer to is, "Where is this service available?"

I am not from the US so one of the first things I need to know is, can I actually use this?
Yes, but they are also not as sensitive as location data and are very useful features.
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Having read too many stories like this, if I do win a lottery, I will spend no more than 0.1-1% per year for the first five or ten years, with the remainder locked in a trust account with my financial adviser, with additional safe-guards so he or his staff can't redeem or abuse the funds. In large part I could do this and feel happy doing it, because I wouldn't feel the necessity to spend my way to happiness and $100k would be more than enough for my own & my family's expenses, including foreign travel, and for "scholarships" for my closest friends' children (most not going to uni for another ten years anyway).
Wow! This is so awesome. This has been tried before, but I don't remember why it never succeeded.

I wonder if this can get the appropriate community to make it a decent alternative compared with TypeScript and CoffeeScript - or maybe I'm missing something here?
> To save you keystrokes, Vmail provides alternative key mappings for ,* , ,#, and ,!

Unfortunately, vmail doesn't seem to consider internationalization important at all. US users save a single press of the shift key when starring messages (,8 instead of ,*), but on a german keyboard, where the star is shift-3 instead of shift-8, the shift-less version of starring trashes the message instead. Not a typo I'm eager to make.

Problems like this are, sadly, way too common.
We're only up to $87 so far in my book. Pinboard and tptacek are legit; toomuchtodo has yet to show us credentials.
UX design tools and processes are definitely lagging behind right now. The annotated wireframe document created in Visio, InDesign, OmniGraffle, etc. is still the norm. The closest thing we have to a solid prototyping tool is Axure (http://www.axure.com/), but creating anything beyond the equivalent of clickable JPGs is kludgy to say the least.

Kids fresh out of HCI and interaction design school are close to useless, because they have no experience having their designs developed. Seeing them interact with (frustrated) seasoned developers can be very painful. UX designers should learn enough about programming to be dangerous for many reasons, but hand coding prototypes probably isn't ever going to be a scalable answer. I fantasize about working on a next gen UX prototyping tool all the time, but, to use the article's metaphor, I don't have a dance partner for that.
Reminds me of SCIgen: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Generate conference-ready CS papers in seconds!
Zero Downtime: Altering massive MySQL tables the smart way
http://uzbl.org/
A programmer is always capable of writing better parallel code then such a compiler but writing safe and correct parallel code is beyond the skills of many programmers. A good analogy is that a good programmer can hand write assembly that out performs compiled code but that is too hard for most programmers to achieve.

There is some interesting research into languages that explicitly control mutability and object reachability (A set of objects don't need to be immutable if we can guarantee that only one thread has access to them).

http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReportSe...
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Someone should start a similar fund, but instead of just throwing large amounts of money at the companies like PICPC, they should help introduce them to their vast network of highly engaged people... perhaps on Twitter.
BarkBox's road to 20k customers and 95% retention
How do you enforce contractual obligations against a business that no longer exists?
Well, when you use a computer to compile your source code it is still protected by copyright. You have affixed your creation to media. (There are some occurrences where you don't have to affix to media to get copyright -- yoga and dance choreography)

Copyright is supposed to protect an expression of an idea. I'm not sure how far you can bend the argument to say that computer reorganization of facts is expression.

For pixar and animations, the end result is an expression of artists' designs.

Can you have copyright without an expressive aspect? Is there any human expression in this output?
Maybe that random Amazon-buying-bot will end up getting some of these.
Repl.it has supported python on the browser for a while: http://repl.it/ (an an interpreter, not as a translator, though).

It also supports ruby, scheme, lua and others[1]

What made it impractical was the slowness. Emscripten seems to work fine for clang[2], not so much for interpreted languages. Maybe the translator path can solve this issue.

[1] http://repl.it/#:languages

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread
exactly, I've felt more alone in an office with a bunch of morons, than at home being able to connect with people that share my interests. In the internet it's hard to be alone, there's actually a lot of distraction, working alone in real life is almost a blessing for focus.
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Would love feedback.
The startup glory equation
I think the interesting point is that he already had a lot of money, and was perfectly capable of handling it. But when the money was handed to him (rather than earned) he went off the rails.

I'm not qualified to say whether that is a known psychological reaction, but it would seem relevant to the startup world.
It does seem like cost are negligible today, but on deeper analysis theres a lot of costs beyond simply hosting.

Just from memory for my startup (Authy.com), initial costs were:

Domain: $1000+

Design: $3000

Video: $3000

Hosting: $400

Depending on your skills this initial costs will vary. An although I agree you don't need external investment to cover them, you should at least plan to invest $10,000US to cover your initial costs.
Require a license to buy a gun first or second hand, or own a gun. Require a mental health exam to get the license (in addition to the usual background/felony check). Make the license free or close to it.

Do all of that, and anyone who tries to buy a gun without a license can safely be assumed to be up to no good. You don't even need to license firearms themselves, which is unpopular.. just the owner themselves.

Most of these nutters are buying their guns legally. Hell, I bet a lot of them buy their guns not even fully realizing what they will eventually do with them.

Illegal sale/ownership of guns is just an issue for the police to handle. I don't think there is much progress to be made on that front.
While this is an awesome effort, I don't see myself using this without list comprehensions/generators/itertools/etc.
Er, not so articulate. That should say "military wife" (just in case you couldn't figure it out and for some bizarre reason actually need to know).

Best of luck.
It made me think of Sarte’s infinite library, but the reality of these books looks nothing like either.
This is amazing. I hope one day we'll have the option to use Python as a scripting language for the web.

I've messed around with Python turned on in Chrome, and I think it'd make a great alternative to JavaScript.
it's called uzbl
Not anymore, see Closure Compiler, CoffeeScript compiler, TypeScript compiler, dart2js compiler, and tons more: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

It's pretty common now to call these "compilers".
Weekend Project: Linux Distros You Never Heard Of
The context is unclear: what would cast a lie to that claim?
11/11/11 to 12/12/12: A Windows Phone journey
"The project aims to draw attention to the fact that if you have access to technical labor, the startup and operating costs for an online project in 2013 are negligible. The biggest obstacle to creating something useful is finding the time to build it and attracting an initial pool of paying customers."

Good thing that in the brave new future world of 2013 labor and marketing are completely free of all costs, opportunity and otherwise.
The line is just "50% faster"?
I have to disagree.

Although those are labeled as social community and many of us take part in them, they're nowhere close to the same as being social. They take place on our time schedule (we visit when we want to), they take place with people whom we more or less choose, and most importantly a lot of it isn't personal. Friends on Facebook may have some personal interaction, but for the large part HN, reddit, etc, are just impersonal blobs of text. I feel no personal connection to what I read here, and I don't consider it to be social interaction. The part of my social networking that will actually be social will take place later when I check updates on friends on Facebook later and say something that references some real-life connection I have with that friend.

Community-provided content isn't the same thing as social. Interacting with people itself isn't necessarily social. I consider reading HN to be about as social as calling customer support.
When I was high school I had the opportunity to work with an aspiring music producer. It was great fun and a formative experience because he had a notably kind and supportive demeanor, coupled with focus. He went on to become a superstar producer and to this day when I run into him he has exactly the same demeanor.

This leads me to think some aspects of personality and how we treat others are innate. Jerks can be talented and successful too, and just remain Jerks. It takes all kinds.
Given the quite high cost of developing and maintaining "a few thousand lines" of pretty heavily used code, I'd say your code contributions have been much more valuable than your monetary contributions. Good programmers often underestimate the value of their code.

But, my primary point was that on the Open Source projects I work on, I'd rather good coders produce great code than contribute money (if the choice must be made, perhaps brought on by having to choose between taking on more non-OSS contract work to make ends meet, for instance). Money is much easier to come by than high quality code. If you're in a position to offer both, then that's awesome. I just thought it really odd to demand the people who work on something to also fund it.
Also worthy of mention in this context: http://pyjaco.org/about and http://pyjs.org/
I am 100% with you on this. HN should not be only for Tech conversations. It is the community built by the people and we all have emotions. We are all human beings first.
Man, I can't access this as work, but this sounds exactly like what I've been working on in my free time. Props to you if it's anything like I'm envisioning.
In the video it can be seen that a fair amount of what the automated system does is versatile formatting ... in Word and Excel. But why oh why?
(Semi)-automated formatting of documents is a problem that has been solved with expert results in LaTeX.

Also deviations in the data are recognized and highlited, but not (yet?) examined and elaborated upon. No doubt this will be possible in the near future.

So, kudos for the general approach. Can't wait for the automated reading programs for digesting these books. And that is meant only half jokingly. The data is there, the general knowledge is there and there is enough reasoning power to draw conclusions. The next step would be to make automated descisions based on the available data, so politicians could join the authors in beeing unemployed...

Well I for one welcome our new text blasting overlords.
Do you think a gun would help you survive? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjZY3WiO9s
Why did the Soviets have so much trouble with Afghanistan then? Were they concerned with what the world thought of them?
I agree that Python is a good language to learn and to teach as an introduction.

But HN isn't quite the most reflective of the job market. It's reasonably diverse, but how much interest does, say, .NET generate on here? Not much, but .NET seems to be becoming impossible to avoid in the Windows programming market.

HN also likes languages like Lisp. Do the jobs for Lisp even compare with jobs available for Ruby?

I think HN stats will give you a decent idea of powerful and/or hacker-friendly and/or elegant languages (those seem to be the favorites around here, from my perspective), which are probably good languages to use as an introduction, but not necessarily strongly correlated with market value.

Again, not that I disagree with the conclusion.
Kinda reminds of the analogy about monkeys writing on typewriters, where a million monkeys would in a thousand years come up with something as Shakespeare. I may go out on a limb here, but by the end of the next decade the most popular book of the holiday season might be one that was actually written by a computer...
Ask HN: Is crowd developing an option?
I am working on a web based service that allows people to communicate based on interests. About 100 people tested it so far and feedback looks good. However there a sooo many possibilities of further features and "add ons" and app requests. What would it take so you (HN community) would develop apps for web services or a website in general?
Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
Good luck with compiling anything without having AST trees and proper parser infrastructure. In it's current state this thing won't fly.
Funny what passes for "algorithm" these days.

Ahhhh.... a marketer "programmed" it. All cleared up now.
Thomas Bayes and Bayes' Theorem.
My uninformed advice for this improbable event: I think that's a good policy and you want to keep other people from knowing. Once you have a 10m+ lottery win, keep it out of the press as much as you can.

The interesting thing about the story is that no one knew that he was a millionaire before the lottery. He worked hard and didn't "look rich" so he could have a more normal life. Once he was a lottery winner, he got hit with a bunch of extortions. (Of course, he also did some stupid shit on his own accord.)

It doesn't sound like he "wasted it all" either. It sounds like he's still extremely rich, but that his life is completely fucked up.

One of the issues I think is that the appeal of Big Money to a lot of people is social status. That's what creates the temptations that lead these people to ruin. What most people don't realize is that the highest of the high in social status are torn down and eaten for sport because that's human nature.

Honestly, I can relate a lot of his rich/old fucked-up-ness with my smart/young fucked-up-ness that I had to deal with. When you have something "big", people fuck with you. Most people don't, because very few are that insecure and petty, but you get a disproportionate amount of creepy attention that comes from a very insecure 5% focusing on ~0.5% of the population. In his case, though, it's <0.00001%.
True, true. But the additional claims from Gruber in this is that "both acting in their own interests, Google's being 'milk you dry for information and revenue', while apparently Apple is this beatific entity, whose interest is 'sincerely caring for ... their customers'." Eye roll
"Random high-level items" is not much of an algo.
I was looking at Authy the other day.

What does it do exactly? I couldn't figure it out from the website and I churn through a lot of landing pages.
Be careful that you aren't trying to push a specific solution due to a knee-jerk reaction to today's events.

I've always been on the fence about gun control. There's good and bad parts (as with everything). However, bullet control is something I can totally agree with.

Please don't downvote the following, but let me be the jerk in the audience that adds the basest of answers to your statements:

- "Create a national commission to review our gun control laws"

Look to Canada for the national gun registry, or any American commissions that are setup to investigate Bad Things (tm) that have happened. Most of the time it seems that money is spent and nobody is better off.

- "Begin a national conversation on sensible gun control"

Sensible people don't gun down innocents. Therefore can I logically conclude that sensible gun control won't apply to insensitive people?

- "Start the process to enact Federal Gun control laws"

There are laws against making and using bombs, and yet bombs still go off. That being said, bombs don't go off everyday, and thus each bomb that explode makes the news because it is such a rare occurrence. This is actually a good thing, because if it were happening all the time, we'd be a little more desensitized to it. Bombs aren't the problem, just like guns aren't the problem. Why? Because bombs and guns don't kill people by themselves (bear with me...). You have to look towards helping people that are willing to use those bombs and guns on people, and that may be a better deterrent to mass killings than any gun control legislation can ever be.

Edit: sadly, this just came over the wire and validates my point. Man slashes 22 children with a knife. Should we institute senisible knife control, or should we start looking at why people do these things? http://www.inquisitr.com/438276/man-slashes-22-children-with...
Especially with utilities such as Vagrant[0], for which there are many ready-made boxes[1] that make short work of spinning up new VMs. My main development "box" is a VM on a win host and it works wonderfully.

[0]: http://vagrantup.com/

[1]: http://www.vagrantbox.es/
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This looks neat. Looking forward to trying it out!
I assume Amazon can nuke this experiment and future clones simply by requiring a modest payment, even a dollar or the price for a single copy for listing, right?
It would be interesting to see a Python/Javascript comparison. I have a hunch that the explosion of new tools-- js frameworks, node, mongodb, etc.-- is going to lead to thousands of coders writing millions of small apps. Big potential market for those students to come into.
A little nitpick on a glitch that I immediately noticed:

The navigation bar (title bar) up on top looks pretty horrible. Opacity of the icons flickers when navigating back and forth, and "very long folder names..." are truncated differently the moment animation starts, causing them to jump around and overlay buttons for the duration of the animation.
My guess: unearned money gives one a sense of social status, and high social status (like power) corrupts. Most of the destructive things these people do are related to social status.

It doesn't sound to me like he necessarily has a money-management problem. He probably still is quite rich. It's the rest of his life that is ruined.
Youtube 500 error on Hotel Transylvania Trailer from India
Videogames did not cause the Connecticut shootings
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My joke sensors might be burnt out, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

Look at the 'periodic table' on the right. Everything has a place, and makes sense. The quarks and leptons have their pattens with increasing mass ect, and there is one Gauge boson for each basic force of nature. If there was a second Z boson... where would you put it?
If your G+ profile gets suspended it does not affect you Gmail account.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20096313-264/what-happens-...
This looks really nice! It seems like the other side of the Python-in-the-browser coin to Empythoned (https://github.com/replit/empythoned) used by repl.it (http://repl.it/).

(Ignore this...)The mime-type is wrong though, there isn't an authoritative mime-type for Python, so it should use a private subtype like text/x-python or application/x-python.
There's also the difficult task of real-world interaction (or as the article puts it, low-level sensorimotor skills), although I suppose this is what you mean by perceptual problems. Most things humans create are based on rules (e.g. games, markets, governments), and rules can be easily taught to computers as they're just abstract logical ideas. Even for probabilistic problems, you can certainly teach a neural network to perform than a naïve random selection. The problem comes back to lack of ability provide the network with enough, or in some cases, the proper inputs.

"Trying to teach a neural network to play chess is probably much harder than teaching it to recognize images (at least my very limited experiments suggest this to be true)."

That, sir, depends on your definition of "hard". The rules of chess are, after rules, so you could just set a neural network free within those constraints to play until it found a way to win, and continue to play until it reached a certain performance level.
Personally I think quite the opposite. I'd like to see a society where it was more the norm for individuals to be responsible enough to where they would carry guns. Not to be heroes, not to indulge in power fantasies, but simply to be responsible citizens who look after their own safety and the safety of those around them. To me that sort of behavior goes hand in hand with learning CPR, keeping jumper cables in my trunk, having an emergency supplies kit at home, and so forth. We've spent the last several decades destroying the idea that personal responsiblity and seriousness is important, largely as a response to the overly oppressive culture of the 1950s, but some of it has gone too far. I think people should be free to decide how they want to live as adults, and if that includes partying every week, playing videogames all night, or having a ball pit in their home that's fine by me. But if it means that everyone is going to act like children when it comes to matters of self-defense, emergency preperation, etc. then I think that is vastly dangerous to society. And I think the idea that guns are too dangerous for peaceful individuals to own is part and parcel of that abrogation of responsibility.
Yeah, a compiler is anything that translates from one programming language to another. The definition of a "high level language" is muddy these days - is C a high-level language? It's a compiler target for Scheme, Haskell, Goo, Python, and many other programming languages these days. It's also a source language for gcc, Clang, and numerous other C compilers.
It's a way to add two-factor authentication to your website or app. Instead of having people log in with just username and password, they'll also have to enter a code. They get the code from the Authy app on their phone.

(PS I'm not affiliated with Authy, just trying to be helpful.)
The confusion is mine, I assumed that your comment was a second reply by Puer.
The ability to search all the assets on my computer and from common online services is a great idea.
I have to try this. Could you code in other languages before doing this?
Two-factor auth as a service for what is likely software as a service?