skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, France is insanely biased towards maths. The typical curriculum if you want a correct career in CS outside of research is to go through an engineering school and the amount of maths (and physics) you need to enter and then to graduate is mostly equivalent to a BSc. I did an engineering degree in France and an MSc in the UK, I can compare. Globally, a French student leaving high school has done slightly more maths than a UK/US first year university maths major (calculus and basic linear algebra are taught in high school). A typical CS major in France, independently of the cursus, will most likely have done the same amount of maths than someone with a maths MSc in the UK (I am talking of a 5 years curriculum which is standard for a CS degree in France). If you take a country still using the old French curriculum like Marocco, the difference is even worse. Part of the high school maths program of Marocco are only taught in advance algebra course in the UK (stuff like cyclic groups).

Everytime I read this kind of article, I can't prevent myself from thinking it's mostly a UK/US problem.
I have a project where this would be useful. I can haz? :)
I don't like innovation in filesystems. ext4 might be boring, but ext4 wrecks don't make the evening news the way wrecks with ZFS do. I worked on a system that used reiserfs in production and we were always dealing with problems caused by the weak reliability guarantees. For instance when the system crashed we'd find our filesystem was full of files full of trash data (it allocated space for the file but never wrote the data so this is what was left behind.)

Since the system would try to read the trash data, this was a problem.

I was looking at the btrfs documentation the other day and noticed that (1) it behaves worse when space runs out than ext4 does, and (2) there's no accurate way to measure free space on a btrfs volume so it's hard to avoid running out of space.

Whatever benefits btrfs has is erased if you have to deal with wrecked and full filesystems all the time.
I think you read me wrong. I'm wondering why if they bet against their clients anyone would do business with them at all anymore.
Books for Young Leaders
Bin Laden won the war on terror. They're all scared now. Even China does not monitor its own citizens like that. Soon Chinese citizens will enjoy more freedom and privacy than western citizens.
Thanks as well digeridoo! There is a Western pessimism in our economic slump, but come on (!) we live in this crazy world of internet in your pocket in the West while most of the world is getting better. Yes, there are a ton of problems, but it's at least recognize that we've got it better than ever - and it's okay to want to improve it - that's how we got here!

BTW - if you're pessimistic/angry, but you're still working on a social-mobile-gamified-deals-app - please become part of the solution [1] if you really think things are going down.

[1] Not saying you're part of the problem, just neutral.
As often happens, my excitement was short lived :

"Is Amazon Instant Video available on Apple devices outside of the United States?

No, Amazon Instant Video on Apple devices is currently available only in the 50 US states and District of Columbia."

The same goes with the different app stores by country... I understand the bureocratic hardships, but it's hard to believe that in the age of globalization we can't have such services at global level.
Thanks Dave. I appreciate the response. I'll drop you an email.
I don't care what Marissa is doing for Yahoo's stock, as a user I am over the moon that they FINALLY put together a halfway decent Flickr App.

Their mobile app efforts to date have been total crap for one of the world's largest photo sharing sites, especially considering that far and away their largest uploaders are smartphone users:

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

Definitely a positive sign.
Signup only with Facebook account. No thanks.
Show HN: Solution to cart abandonment problem
Living in Cincinnati and working closely with some of the groups from the Brandery, I have to disagree. However, I will say that the experience you likely had 5 years ago would definitely be reflected in what you've said here. The fact is, though, that things have changed monumentally in the past couple of years, and the startup scene is almost unrecognizable.

While you're right, it's definitely not Silicon Valley in terms of the kind of network that exists, you're comparing apples and oranges. The startup scene is vibrant. There are tech meetups with hundreds of monthly attendees. There are active groups for all stages of business, from ideas over beers to celebrating series A to burning through buyouts on starting new ideas.

I think you should be less frustrated at your eventual return to the Cincy area to hopeful and even excited. There are great opportunities here for all types of startups, and it's still small-ish enough that you get that midwest, hometown, half your network has a startup in some stage, feeling that you will never get in a large market.

That is, until we become a large market.
has anyone else who can never see this site worked what plugin/blocker causes it to spin forever?
Bounties might reasonably be paid for help closing a deal, but only a fool pays for an introduction. Not that there is anything wrong with separating rich fools from their money.
Looking on the Amazon Kindle store I don't see an app for Amazon Instant Videos, unless it's simply on the Fire by default (and not removable)?
Quick feedback. There is no example code nowhere on the main website. Videos are great but i usually just scan for code.

Hope that helps.
Heisenberg's Uncertain Copyright
Not really, I mean we are trying to make a startup, no one has compensation when we start at least not economic one
Microsoft needs to get back to the basics. Why must they continue to try and be apple. They are not apple. they are a software company.

Business still use windows for all applications. Excel and Word are the only things keeping them alive. They MUST come up with a new OS that is similar to XP/Vista/7 that is more useable in order for them to stay competitive in the OS market. Imagine when google releases a free OS with free excel/word.

I think Microsoft needs to focus on useability and superior UI. They just keep cluttering things up more and more and making it harder to do simple tasks.
oh damn.. i thought i first tried 2u.fm and it didn't work for me either.. anyway.. oops
Seems to be suffering from "Success Bias" wherein because he was successful in one thing, he naturally thinks he is right about all things.
That's how you're supposed to do it. Here's how it ends up on a Saturday afternoon:

You queue for 30 minutes on the A406 with 9000 people who have left Wembley Ikea bashing your head on the steering wheel, then sling your car onto Hangar Lane like a trebuchet the moment the opposing traffic lights have gone red (not yours have gone green), slide across three to five lanes randomly, swerve to avoid the Polish truck driver who can't see you because his vehicle is LHD, avoid the police car parked on the inside to protect the previously crashed vehicle, shout "fuck you" out of the window a few times at other drivers, the traffic lights which have screwed you repetitively and any pedestrian zombies trying to short cut it across the junction and possibly several people trying to clean your windows, middle finger the BMW on your left which wasn't there two seconds ago, then desperately try to force everyone out of your way honking wildly as the 2 lanes onto the A40 narrow to one...

Followed by speed up/slow down for a bit because of the Gatsos then a celebratory victory McDonalds (and to shut the kids up) at the A312 junction a few miles down the road (or American Diner on the A40 if you want to spend the entire evening on the toilet).
I'll probably get a downvote for this but:

I loled.
Very interesting, but why change the button when it's time to "Go"? You could keep the arrow and just change the background color to green.

This will also allow me if I am distract to know where to go.
Or you could, ya know, look at the road you're on, and deduce the correct direction that way. Technology is great, but why do people seem to think technology means we shouldn't have to think about or even look at our surroundings?
Very cool!

And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant:

http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm

http://www.texasradiation.org/pantex.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9320/932010.PDF
One would think another Korean, a gentleman from the south, also of boyish chubby looks, and surprisingly anti-American as well, would be a greater contender this year.
I never understood why, but on Audiogalaxy I could find more rare items that the ones available on other P2P networks. I am talking about the first Audiogalaxy (circa 2001).
So, a new layer above javascript and below the browser?
I'm keen on what I loosely refer to John Kay's theory of rent seeking. I like it because it puts the issues with market and state influence into perspective, especially the issues people tend to blame the economic theory they don't favour for. I think a lot of the benefit from coming off the gold standard is that it disrupted an established rent seeking power structure around gold.
On iOS it also shows up on a tabbar when you've got too many tabs.
Surely you would need further experimentation to prove your new hypothesis, right? It doesn't seem very rigorous to just shrug your shoulders and publish a hypothesis that fits the data.
I think the reason is because this isn't a code-based library, it's a command line client. The portion that is more code-based (the css library) is chock full of code examples, and all the commands are listed out on the front page.

After looking it over, what kinds of other code examples would you want to see?
Why not just anonymize the user data part?

There are startups selling health data this way, I don't think it would be so bad for subreddit subscription data.
There's always emscriptem

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
Sonic Notify has released its SAAS (Software-As-A-Service)
No, that's not the point. The point is that when velocity is constant, there's no indicator that your pedal manipulation is good as opposed to bad. For that to happen, you would need a period of time where you messed up with the pedal, and saw that you messed up. Then you could make an argument like: Hey, when we let hillAngle-pedalAngle [or whatever] drift away from zero, things go bad [velocity will fall].

Now it is true that you can measure collinearity between the hillAngle and the pedalAngle and show that they are correlated... but we sorta knew this already, didn't we? After all, we're setting the pedalAngle based on the hillAngle. We created that functional relationship. There's no need to empirically discover it.

Put it another way. Suppose v = w1 * hillAngle + w2 * pedalAngle + v0, and you want to find w1 and w2.

If your dataset shows pedalAngle = -hillAngle, then you have

v = w1 * (-pedalAngle) + w2 * pedalAngle + v0 = (w2 - w1) * 0 + v0

So you're dataset tells you nothing about w1 and w2.
Dell Quits Smartphone Business Globally, Drops Android
VERY NICE! Thank you!
Just to highlight it for anybody who scrolled past - Adolf Hitler was the Person of the year in 1938, for example.
I never had any real interest in music, and certainly never bought any. Shortly after discovering Audiogalaxy, I was buying CDs, going to shows, and actively collecting and exploring music that I didn't even know existed.

It was a revolutionary service, a decade ahead of its time.
As I mentioned in another comment, I've used this script and it worked well. You can also migrate your data to libre.fm.

http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/
"advanced mathematics seems completely unnecessary to existing practitioners, but only until someone figures out that a particular mathematical concept is the right way to think about the problem at hand."
"If you are a systems and network programmer like Raymond, you can do your job just fine without anything more than multiplication and an occasional modulus."

A good network programmer should have at least passing knowledge about graph theory (the network is a graph), queueing theory (how else are you going to size your buffers?), and also some statistics (given these numbers, how much bandwidth will be taken by resends? How much data can we send per hour? How many 9s do we get for 'probability that a messages is handled within 10 seconds'?)

Good systems programmers should have some knowledge of all of these for essentially the same reasons. They also will need some knowledge of Petri nets (for deadlock avoidance), formal languages (how else are you going to spec a language or some complex protocol?)

Also, an article on this subject that mentions neither Knuth nor Dijkstra? Weird. Is that because they do not have a blog (yes, Dijkstra does not live anymore, but I doubt he would have a blog if he did)?
cynicalkane: "He's not criticizing people for not having heard of the name"

Nick Rowe: "Google seems to tell me I'm right. I'm the first link, which is really pathetic for such an important idea."

Not to mention that googling for "Fed Thermostat" brings up a lot of references. Friedman's is in the top page, Nick's is not:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fed+thermostat
WiFi only??? wtf
I guess you are confused. Google was ready to provide those features in exchange for their branding and also ability to display ads. Apple did not agree to that, and now Google has that option as being 3rd party app, which iOS users now need to explicitly install.

No one really won here, but if I really would have to pick up a winner, it would be Google.
>Apple will NEVER reach the search domain expertise of Google, and Maps is too valuable to let turn into a complete debacle, as Apple has learned.

How can you possibly say that? How was Android 1.0 compared to what it is today? Or Windows 1.0? In your view no one should start anything if they aren't immediately good at it.

What should be questioned is Apple's dedication to Mpas. If they're not interested in creating a high-quality mapping solution then they should give up.

What Apple should do is buy a company to provide the mapping solution for them. The same goes for Nuance. Core technologies of your OS should not be left to a third party.
This looks fun. Thanks for building a tool like this.

One suggestion: After I looked over the installer script, I tried running this on my Arch machine and it didn't recognize `open`.

Depending on the platform, you may want to check for `xdg-open` as well.
Are you a non-technical person leading technical people?
It belongs in a museum!

I'm not kidding. Or at least, mostly. They should put it on display.
I get that, but what if you recently ran sudo make-me-a-sandwich in that shell session? If someone maliciously slipped a sudo command in that script they'd have everything they needed, and you might not even realize it. Obviously, I'm not suggesting the authors of these tools, but these remote shell installers seem like they'd be obvious targets for Bad Hackers.

It seems like the whole point of these remote shell installers is to make it easier for some people, but some might not be aware of this risk.
Google Maps have been vector based for a while.

At least, on Android.
Goldman Sachs: the crooks that funded Spinvox. Absolute frauds and liars.
Ha I know the ones. The worst one is coming out of the Fenstanton junction towards Cambridge. Did that in thick fog and the dark a couple of days ago.
I happen to like my routing framework, JuniorRoute (http://projects.nathanalden.com/JuniorRoute). It ditches cumbersome MVC architecture for a much simpler front controller pattern.
Glad to hear it ... definitely planning on digging into Xamarin.Mac soon :)
Well, it is a cycle you know? Microsoft in the 90's looked as impossible to beat down as IBM looked back in the 70's and IBM still exists and it is strong, but is not longer that unbeatable beast that used to be.

I wonder if, in a few years, I will be writing this statement again but comparing Apple/Google with Facebook/Twitter/Whatever-is-coming.
Pros:
1. You can pinch to zoom while during turn-by-turn navigation
2. You can select a point anywhere in the map and it instantaneously gives you the time to drive there from your current location (which is also a link to the navigation details/options.
3. Feels like a real map compared to the barren-ass land that Apple's Map shows.
4. Streetview (that is even smoother than the browser version)

Cons:
1. No integration with the address book.

Pros >>>> Cons.
Y Combinator Alters Investment Package to Avoid “Contested Divorces”
Ah thanks! I definitely should have tested more on linux. Are there any other commands you saw that might not work? I'll make that update shortly
My best results for search appear when the App Store auto suggests terms that others have entered. So "docs to..." suggests "Documents to Go(r) by DataViz" or something of the sort. I think that Apple could learn a thing or two from Google's search-intent capabilities.
I am not sure. We may be more sensitive to smaller misalignment looking down at a spinning triangle than out at the world. If I get a "go!" and it is 10 degrees off, I will still be following the correct street in the correct direction.
Programming is math, in the same way that accounting is.

Doing programming all day will not make you a mathematician.
i was at the talk and yes i think he misused "network neutrality." he seemed to be talking more about regulation, and government pressure on telcos to keep prices lower than what the market could bear.
Glad to see they continue to offer more products and services. How this compares to WPEngine and such?
Fuzzing XML and JSON Pt.1
Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others.

You don't think China has this info?
> Sure, though the same can be said for drug cartels too.

Perhaps. Nils Gilman argues that increasing the risk of a transaction increases the reward, and backs it up with drug-war data.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/may/03/deviant-globalizati...

The difference is that drugs are physical goods that require nontrivial infrastructure to produce. Digital media is essentially free to reproduce, and very cheap to distribute. Instituting the death penalty for trading Metallica's songs is unlikely to drive the price of a bootleg copy of the black album into the tens of thousands of dollars.
'Apple has in the past been known to make things with the ultimate attention to detail and things that "just work"'

I don't know why people continue to believe this. Apple has released versions of the Finder with amateurish bugs that delete files[1] and versions of Mail that randomly delete messages[2]. Several versions of Mail on iPhone send hundreds of copies of a message when emailing a link from Safari[3].

The Maps fiasco is not a departure from software excellence on the part of Apple, but just more of what we should expect by now: shiny stuff that doesn't work.

[1]http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopa...
[2]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&...
[3]http://lee-phillips.org/iphoneUpgradeWarning-4-2-1/
nope, I'm technical, usually I try to show them what i've done in the project to show them that i'm working hard and get them excited
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Nah, Comcast is better off not cooperating. The cost for a consumer oriented site of being cut off from 19M customers in the US is huge, so they have a very strong bargaining position.
Looks great! I've been using yeoman for a while now and this looks like a fantastic replacement / alternative. Are you looking for contributions or just releasing this for people to use?
i wish i could believe that. in the 1950s, the U.S. produced 60 percent of global output and had no real international competition, thanks to the destruction in europe, russia, asia, etc. today it produces 18 percent and americans compete against chinese for jobs. i guess that seems like a better explanation for the plight of the middle class than saying we no longer believe in that "a rising tide lift[s] all boats."
I don't think Reddit users would go for that. Also, it's surprisingly difficult to anonymize data effectively without removing nearly all of it.
I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
If you're into this topic, there's a ready-made doc on the evolution of OSS available on Netflix called "Revolution OS": http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Revolution_OS/60025132?loc...

It's a bit old but at least includes the dotcom bubble punchline.
I can confirm it doesn't work. The login page is also broken (in that it extends past the edge)
There are a few

http://mimosajs.com/

http://brunch.io/

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On a related note, I'm currently using Grunt.JS with few plugins for Compass, CoffeeScript and Live Reload. Similar to Guards (ruby based), it's the plugin ecosystem that makes it valuable and able to suit multiple needs.

Needless to say, roots sounds interesting.
It looks like I can't use that as an example because I can't find the paper I read about it. I can't even remember when it was, and the only vague time association I have suggests that it was 15 years ago.

So here are some more examples: http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/16/adding-delay... . One is:

> One of the things they found in user testing was that when new users clicked “Create my Blog” on the last step of the setup process, they were confused at how quickly their blog was created. “That’s it? Is something wrong?” were the types of things people said. So they added an interstitial “Creating your blog…” type page that did nothing but spin a little animated gif and wait a few seconds before sending new users to the “Yay, your blog is created! page”. Users were far more satisfied with the new experience that took longer.”

Another example (in addition to the Coinstar one) is by a commenter at the bottom of the page.
The experts predict: Facebook marketing in 2013
This is a misleading title. The limits of this attack make it so that your better off fork bombing the system then trying to "hack" it with this kind of attack. The two attacks specified are making it impossible to create a specifically named file in a shared directory, and making deletes take a long time. Neither of these is a real DoS attack and Chris appears to be taking the reasonable approach of acknowledging that it can be made better and scheduling it for the next pull window.

This whole article smells of grandstanding.
I will, and thank you again for this toolset.
Oh i agree with you, i simply posed these questions to counter the claim that "Apple Maps" will catch up with Google Maps in a few years.

There is a lot to it and to make such a blanket claim with nothing to back it up is pretty weak. The questions were meant to point this out.
How many startups just said "ah fuck it!" now that Google Maps is back on iOS? Back when Apple removed Google maps I thought there would be four stages to this fiasco:

1. Apple Maps are introduced and nobody likes them. Google Maps are nixed and some bullshit reason is given for not letting them back into the ecosystem for a while.

2. A bunch of people see an opportunity to create something that Apple will buy. They drop everything and get busy.

3. 3-6 months later Google Maps are allowed back into the ecosystem. 99% of the newly minted startups go bust.

4. A year later Apple actually makes Apple Maps usable in iOS 7. The rest of the startups go bust.
Oh wow. This is big news. WP is a well-known CMS in North America. Coming up with a hosted cloud solution is big as well.