skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t need more data scientists — just easier-to-use data
True, and so can C call back into go code with cgo. The problem is that it still requires that the main function be in a Rust/Go binary. A program written in C can't currently call into a library written in one of these two languages since the runtimes don't work unless they control the main entry point.

From the Rust doc linked: "The primary motivation of extern functions is to create callbacks for foreign functions that expect to receive function pointers."
If you read what you linked to it says the main purpose is to provide C functions with callback arguments when called from Rust. It isn't clear from what you have written that this mechanism is available to generally access from C programs and scripting languages.
Ugh. A dive instructor friend of mine caught this in Thailand and was weak/sick for months. It's scary. If this becomes endemic in the US, going outside will be taking your health in your hands, and we'll probably end up draining a bunch of marshland, re-introducing DDT, etc. since on balance losing birds is better than losing people.
Makes one wonder whether nature is defined by mathematics, or is mathematics defined by nature?
Verizon says leaked data is not from its servers
If you have specific airports in mind, you can click the chart icon on the flights search page to display a similar price graph.
Interesting parallels to drug prohibition -- also largely promoted (initially) on overtly racist grounds (keeping blacks/mexicans/chinamen with their evil cocaine/marijuana/heroin away from white women/children). Then, additional justifications from public health or public safety grounds, which largely stand on their own as arguments today. (I'm willing to accept that many guns and many drugs might have worse consequences than if they were never invented) And leaky prohibition today, where the majority of problems are caused by the illegal drugs or illegal guns, but some problems caused by legal guns and legal drugs too.

Maybe it's just that each is a powerful technology.

Maybe the next powerful technologies will be 3d printers, drones, desktop chemical synthesis, cryptography, and the Internet.
Example of a great animated pitch. More here…
joey@j-comp:~$ locate todo.txt
/usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/todo.txt

Does that count?
The problem is that the investors mentioned in the post aren't VCs-- they are angel investors. Putting in $100k on a $10M valuation and then getting diluted down over several rounds of venture means that angels don't get compensated for the risk they are taking, even with big exits. These investors also most likely don't have the bank accounts to keep participating pro rata.

CB Insights says that 50% of seed companies will go away. And the reward that angels are given to take this risk is a 20% discount to the next priced round.

However, one of the benefits of writing smaller checks or running smaller funds is that you're less dependent on monster exits. For investors who are going smaller, valuations and terms do matter a lot more than at typical venture funds (that are very dependent on monster exits).
Ok, now I have to try this.
Flickstagram will import all your Instagram photos directly to Flickr
AFAIK the IE6 traffic from China is caused by modded IE6 versions that are very popular in China and pirated Windows Versions which do not update the browser because Windows Update is not working / disabled.
Tendulkar ends one-day cricket career
I just have a notebook on Evernote called bucket lists.
I have notes like:
Movies [movies I want to watch]
Music [...]
Books [...]
Shopping list [things to buy online or in-store]

I think the system works well enough for me. After all, the best organizational system is the one that keeps YOU organized - not one that satisfies others.
It's a pity ATS doesn't get more attention in the "Systems programming language" field. It can call into C, be called from C, provides a powerful type system, and can be used to write very low level code. I've written a few posts about how ATS can interact with C on my weblog here: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/
Thinking about this storm reminded me about how Allen wrench holes are drilled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0q2kgIVxo
We are working on the same thing, get site as lightweight as possible! Oh man, thinking that for somebody site takes 20 min to load makes me cringe!!!
What kind of down do you get? Have you ever had side effects?
There are a few ways to see this data in Google Analytics. You can view a world map of your site with page load time and server connection time color-coded.

The first, and easiest way is to go to Content > Site Speed > Overview. By default this will show you a chart of page load time over time.

First, to get enough data change the time scale to a full year. Underneath the date picker there is an icon with 16 dots in it in a 4x4 arrangement, with some dots filled in. click on that and move the slider all the way to the right. This will ensure higher precision and will capture some of the slower page loads.

At the bottom, in the 'Site Speed' section instead of 'Browser' select 'Country/Territory'. It will change the data from pages to countries. Now click on 'view full report' and you will get a world map with page load times.

It will look something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/uCxcx.png

The site I just did it on doesn't have enough data, but if you have a fairly popular site you should see a nice variation in page load times.

Google have a post about this on their Analytics blog with much better maps and more information:

http://analytics.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/global-site-speed-o...

Their maps look a lot better.

The other way of doing it is to create a custom report. I have one called 'Global Page Load'. Add 'Country/Territory' as a dimension, and 'City' as a sub-dimension. You may also drill in further by adding browser version, mobile, javascript, etc.

As metric groups, I have - in this order: DNS Lookup time, Avg Server Connection Time, Avg Server Response Time, Avg. Page Load Time.

This then gives you a pretty report where you can immediately see which visitors are getting slow responses, and you can further drill in to see what type of connections and which browsers or devices are slow. I was surprised that my light page, with compressed CSS and every static/cached was still taking ~20seconds to fully load from 30% of countries.

That is for pages that load, you need to add another tab to the report with error metrics to see who isn't getting through at all, and you would need to look at server logs to see who isn't even loading the Google Analytics javascript. All very handy, and eye opening in terms of the types of connections and the speed of connections that a lot of web users are on.

To many sites are guilty of having pages that are just far too heavy - like they only test from their 100Mbit city based connections. I am in Australia with a 1st world internet connection at 24Mbit and I avoid theverge.com desktop site because of the page load.

Edit: If anybody can work out a way to share custom reports in Google Analytics, let me know - I would be interested in sharing reports with others, for specific cases such as this.
Compatability with the C ABI I feel isn't a necesssity. On platforms built on C it is, but if you wanted to invent a new machine running a new system language with the ABI messes of C exonerated, you could. You would need to devise a translation layer in the OS executor to be able to interpret classic C ABI .so or .dll files for legacy applications and so you could compile C on these platforms, but that isn't a prohibitively hard challenge.
Let me FTFY: 3.3KBps
Not so.

The assumption of 'unlimited natural resources' is now at odds with modern economic theory.

By seeing natural resources as limitless and by extension free at source undervalues their net economic contribution.

Take the example of massive ocean trawlers that cast kilometer wide nets then bring back all the catch to sell at market. The trawler is not creating the value of the fish just facilitating an arbitrage for the cost of delivery.

Companies are now looking at ways they can put a financial value on the value of their natural resource inputs.

A failure in quantifying and pricing resources creates a mindset problem when resources turn out not to be limitless or indescuctuble.

The World Bank, in it's 2011 report 'The Changing Wealth of Nations', set the estimates for all the planets natural resources - its forests, rivers, wetlands, wild lands, farm and grazing lands, minerals, oil and coal, oceans, biodiversity of speciecs - at about $44 trillion dollars, with $29 trillion belonging to developing nations.

Ref: HBR Oct 2011, the sustainable economy
Another recent cancer story from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20795977
Mathematics is an internally consistent model. Nature is an internally consistent system. We do not understand how nature works (precise factors and their values), but we understand how mathematics works, since we designed it for a sole purpose of mimicking and modeling the laws of nature.

But know that mathematics (modeling in the broadest sense) only makes sense within its set of axioms and that there are many possible kinds of mathematics out there.
I'm working on something that I hope will turn back the tide somewhat: http://parley.co
Not sure if I believe boot strapping because of my background and location Latvia, but it seems crazy people trying to raise millions of dollars, like their lifes would depend from it!! How could possibly you need money like that to launch a successful project???

I understand in USA all the hires are much more expensive, but why not aim towards bootstrapping if you have some money, hire cheaper Philippinos to help out at starters, and then go all shiny and hustla!!
because the number you're looking at is for 24-hours cycle. Their availability is 99.4% at 30-days cycle.
One can always hope that this leads to innovation in mosquito repellents and mosquito targeted insecticides. Either would also have the added benefit of helping prevent the spread of malaria in other parts of the world.

I've been in SE Asia for around 6 months now and Dengue is one of the few things that truly frightens me.
Of course rent is not cheaper, because there is only so much land in attractive locations -- and because appartments have things that wasn't available 20 years ago.

Health-care cannot really be compared because it is not subject to free competition. If it had been, basic care would have been massively cheaper.

Energy is cheaper, you are just not seeing it because China is using so much of it.

Food is cheaper -- but you are eating larger portions of it, more meat and better cuts.

Of course electronics have gotten massively cheap, as it is not limited by government, or geography and the primary expense is the production facilities, rather than the actual product.
This is one of the reasons I stopped using Todo.txt like a year or so ago.

It needed access to EVERYthing. I understand the developers will not be accessing other files but I just can't let anyone access my personal photos, my school work, my statements, etc. There is a reason I have a password on my computer and letting a program access everything in the folder I love the most just isn't acceptable.

There has to be a way to grant access to a certain file and I will gladly start using these Dropbox apps.
His comment was point out that you wrote "Data Scrapper", which is something that scraps data - that is, throws away - rather than something that scrapes data, which is something that collects it (as you know).

His comment does contain information, but is not a clear explanation.

Hope that helps.
Indeed. In general, beware of submitting something to HN, you can get more traffic than you expect.

And now that I've seen it - very nice. I hope to have a play when I have a little time and it's a little more responsive. It's probably more responsive now, but I don't have time right now.
PG is a tiny part of the economy -- but he is also on the bleeding edge. What is true of him will be true of others in 50 years.
I don't really get why we are caring if clojure will spreand or not.
Would be cool if everybody asked to make a website in compojure and enlive instead of RoR, but I didn't learn ckojure for that.

Who learn clojure is doing so because it will teach him a new way to think.
(Clojure will really change the way you think especially if you come from OOP)

The way in which clojure is build makes very difficult to create a single huge framework and it is not helping.
You learn Ruby on Rails to build website, not ruby. (That because a framework, for definition, let you do things in just its way).
Clojure do not have frameworks, it has a good number of libraries that you can modulate and use as you wish, there is not just one way to do something (macro...?).
(Honestly I believe that it is good, especially if you are the kind of programmer who likes to think).

Then what the 1.5 version is bringing (reducers) are pretty cool IMO, then I see the other macros cond->, cond->>, as->, more like sugar, but I have never used it so I am sure I will be surprised.
A wonderful exploration of this idea as it relates to plants by Vi Hart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0
This looks amazingly like the welfare state that so many hate no?
Source for your claim?

Right, you probably don't have any..
Wandering is a central use case for a GPS navigation device for me. It leaves me secure in the knowledge that if I get lost beyond the help of road signs, I can easily find my way back, without having to resort to five minutes of searching on the side of the road.
Serious question: is this a clone of a clone of a clone?

2013:

"Begun, this clone war has." - Yoda
Is it better than http://momondo.com/ ?
Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay
Just used Workflowy.
THANK YOU!
This is what I've been looking for. I have lists on springpad, on Tasks on Android, on IMDB, on a text file, etc.
This changes everything.
With all the hubbub about Facebook Poke - an app which enables you to do promiscuous things using your...real-world identity - which is a copy of the teen-craze Snapchat, now's the right time to showcase our FB photo messaging app, Snapix: http://snapwith.me

Snapix has a public mode where you can view snaps between friends and/or strangers, as well as a private mode where no one can see you snap.

And while we're being topical, I'll add a comparison to Instagram...Whereas Instagram helps you make your life more beautiful (than it really is), with Snapix we're trying to help people bring out the humor and absurdity in the world around us.

Hibachi!
Yeah, I had forgotten about filterM.

By the way, I like the (fmap not . doesFileExist) bit. It´s cleaner and less cluttered than (\f -> doesFileExist f >>= return . not)
Brilliant idea! I've been traveling through less developed parts of the world and it is painfully obvious when you encounter a site that wasn't tested on anything less than broadband.

Also, the Facebook app on my iPhone (pre-rewrite) would almost always cause me to lose my edge connection to the cell tower when launched in certain parts of Indonesia.
I'd be careful not to attribute unexplained aspects of our desires and behavior to biology alone. A lot of it can be a social construction. If you're used to having your privacy regularly invaded from a very young age, it's possible that you won't have any "biological sense" of privacy invasion.

Does our intuitive sense of biology come from our genes, or our cultural value of "personal space"? The fact that we have weird reactions to nudity and social norms that prevent us from sharing the most intimate details of our lives indicates that it may be a cultural thing.

Obviously, this just makes privacy invasion on a systematic level even more ominous.
Very sad. _Prime Numbers - A Computational Perspective_ (a.k.a. "Crandall and Pomerance") is a seminal book in that field and introduced me to very useful concepts such as Montgomery multiplication.
No, Snapix has actually been on the App Store for a year. v2.0 has been in development for awhile. Snapchat rose to prominence while we were about halfway through, and there are more similarities with the name than anything else.

Besides, there's no way we could "clone" Poke and get it in the App Store in less than 24 hours :-)

Better to think of it as "an idea whose time has come". That idea is "unicast- or multicast social networking", in contrast to "broadcast social networking".
Well, yes, but that itself is an example of how the theory fails - it assumes that the bar for "subsistence" never moves.

By all measures we are much better off than the average peasant in the Middle Ages, and their lifestyle is now incomprehensibly cheap. But that's not where the bar is at.

Ditto energy - the amount of energy a poor person can consume is astronomical compared to that of a poor person even 100 years ago - but that bar hasn't stayed still either. You don't take a horse-drawn buggy to work, and most people have an expectation of keeping warm in the winters without huddling around the stove.

I will agree on the food part - we have shown consistently that food cost, as a proportion of income, is at some of the lowest it's ever been, and a massive improvement over a century ago. This has been a clear win - but if you think about it, this is hardly a surprise. The bar for "eats well, not hungry" doesn't move very much over the decades.
> I find that a rather unlikely level of incompetence.

I believe government is the only place where that level of incompetence is common.

The problem with the 2% figure is that 2% of even 3,000 would only be 60 innocent people killed, but 160+ children have been killed.. so if someone is saying its only 2%, how do 5% of these deaths turn out to be children?

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drone...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/us-drone-stri...

The military is denying that the number of children killed is that high.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-reported-drone-strike-casua...

If our government would share their data with the organizations that did these investigations, maybe it would show they were wrong, but I doubt it.

We know the precise number of military causalities, we even know the precise number of police officers injured or killed, our government is meticulous about reporting on those, but try and find out how many U.S citizens are killed annually by police and you won't get anywhere.

If they won't accurately report how many of us are killed by police, what are the chances that they are keeping track of foreign civilian casualties any more accurately?
Also worth to mention is that on Madeira (Portugal) the biggest outbreak in Europe happened since 1920. Experts say that it will spread to the mainland soon..

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=...
What about compression? Is he talking about gzipped size or the uncompressed page?
I love hipmunk but they are resting on their laurels a little too long if you ask me, you still can't edit an individual search tab (I asked and was told to fiddle with the url values to edit the search). And you still can't move tabs around, plus Google flight actually makes it look really slow.

That being said, it is rare that I can find a better rate than what I see on Hipmunk, and their agony ui is still frickin' amazing.
Paul Graham may be right, but Chris Zacharias is righter
Thanks; looks good; love the wide range of dates you can enter.

Annoyances are inability to sort by flight length, search non-economy; or blacklist a certain airline.
I'm glad both HN and the App Store have a description like this; just presented with the site I'd have absolutely no idea what the app was trying to do.
Having been a Developer CEO, for me the best setup would be a Product Guy CEO, a Sales Guy CMO and a Developer Guy CTO. I want to focus on the tech, still have a say in the product and marketing areas but at the end of the day i want to build the thing from a technical perspective. YMMV

As the CEO there are just so many other things you have to take of, especially in small businesses. I have done it and always felt its stealing my time from coding and getting work done.
"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig. I read it this summer (as well as Der Prozess by Kafka, also recommended!) and I was constantly re-reading sections, finding new insights. The book really changed the way I look at some things in life.
Those figures by "economists" are woefully, comically limited, they only consider natural resources as determined by current limits of politics and technology, but in fact the whole solar system is rich with natural resources, just waiting for people who actually have imagination (and liberty from the punks who listen to those economists) to begin to capture.
Videolean – Start making your own explanatory videos
Red Hat Buys ManageIQ For Open Source Integration Software Stack
Indeed, with the website our aim is just to pique visitors' interest. We leave the app description and metadata to the App Store, for better or worse. If we had time (it's a side project, after all) we'd measure whether that strategy actually works to our advantage.

NWH, if you get the chance to download, please let us know what you think of the app. Just know that this is the major point release, not the proverbial sub-sub-point "bug fixes" release, so bear with us ;-)
Explaining SQL injection without technical jargon
I don't see any searches, in fact the only thing that seems to change by clicking "Include only me activity" (and what is that even meant to mean?) is the query string in the URL.

I really wish everyone would switch to Google+, it's so much better.
So, where can I get some graphite oxide? This looks easier than 3D printing.
So now we finally know why the maya calendar ends on 21 dec 2012 - they were waiting for the E17 release just like the rest of us!

End of the world speculations were just confusions with the phrase "when hell freezes over", which has also been used for E17.
You say most users will know what it means. Do the rest not deserve a readable status page?
I was able to read it just fine in a browser (IE) in which I've never logged into anything and only use for testing statements like this.
Try to search for a friend using the search bar on your newsfeed. Then go back and look again.
Ask HN: What's the best tool for browser testing on a mac?
I've moved over to a lot of CSS3, and I know my websites might look like crap on IE. What's the tool that you use to cross browser test, if you're on a mac?

I'm looking for something that integrates very seamlessly with workflow. I've looked around the options and they don't seem so different to me.
This is a great recap! A really useful addition would be the inclusion of the discussion threads of the articles.
I and about half of the people I know regularly test the limits of how many tabs they can keep open. The other half can't imagine doing so. I suspect this is a sharp bifurcation of use case that the project leads have found themselves on one side of, not a "fringe requirement."
Exactly, I wanted to try and see what it said about a flight I had planned, and I only got "Sorry, flights from Belgium are not currently supported. Sorry, flights from Germany are not currently supported.".

Strangely, it did support Greece (or so it said), but it doesn't seem to handle transfers very well, giving me no way to fly from Athens to the Newark.

I'm going to rate this tool a solid 1/10.
Totally.

I write down the three highest priority things, do them. Repeat.
IMHO I doubt that any language that is bound to some infrastructure (i.e. jvm) and isn't actively supported by the organization behind that infrastructure will ever become a "major" language. If there were a native clojure interpreter/compiler (or at least multiple implementations following a stable specification of the language & the core library), things would be different, I guess.