skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may do more damage than good. [Franchise] Online titles tend to be met with suspicion and disinterest from gamers who traditionally enjoyed the franchise.
A weather app for people to check in the morning that tells them the weather for the upcoming day in an easy to understand sentence, compared to the previous days weather.

EG: Good morning! It's going to be a bit colder than yesterday and if you're going to be out around 2pm we would suggest an umbrella.

So instead of trying to figure out, hey ok it's going to be 35 degrees with a wind speed of 15 MPH you could just think about what it was like yesterday and dress/plan accordingly

Really would love to try to build this myself haha unfortunately lacking the dev abilities (app academy application....fingers crossed!)
Sure, it's Now Foods Mood Support. Be careful, IANA doctor.
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Saw the title. Immediately thought of something I saw today at work. Not too different from yours. 'if ('True' == 'True')'. I should note that this is javascript generated by a template file.
Consider it? Definitely. But semver doesn't make a distinction, either, so it's a hard problem.

If you don't mind, we'd love to get your thoughts more via email--don't want to hijack this thread too much.
I think this depends a lot on the team you’ve got. If you don’t have a technical co-founder or CTO type that’s in charge of overseeing the technical side of your business, then you’ll be well served to familiarize yourself with some of this stuff. Having insight into the technical side of things can help you to better understand the state of your business. You’ll also gain an understanding and appreciation for what your tech guys are dealing with, which can use to better manage them.

Keeping an eye on your code repository (reading commit messages) is a worthwhile exercise. Some of it might be over your head if you aren’t a developer, but perusing a bit will help you understand the state of your application. You shouldn’t need to learn git to do this - GitHub or whichever service you’re using will have a web-based interface for you to browse.

Echoing what others have said, business analytics is a big one. Understanding how to make the most of things like Google Analytics, MixPanel, etc can be very worthwhile. Integrating these into your application is a job that will fall on your developers, but deciding what to track and interpreting the results is something you can/should handle.

Should you learn vi or go digging through logs? It’s probably not the best use of your time, but if you’re truly curious then I say go for it.
Great idea... makes me think how that method could be used for a lot of things.
What a wonderful description of the new theory behind Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, which used to be known as cold fusion.

Essentially ...

"We start by processing nickel so that it can hold hydrogen the way a sponge holds water. The hydrogen is ionized, meaning that each hydrogen atom has its electron stripped away, leaving only a proton. Electrons in the metal are made to oscillate together in such a way that the electromagnetic energy stored in tens of thousands of them is transferred to a relative few, giving them enough energy to merge with nearby protons (the hydrogen ions) and form slow-moving neutrons. Those neutrons, as we noted, are immediately captured by nuclei of the metal atoms, setting in motion a chain of events which turns the nickel into copper and releases useful energy."

When Widom-Larsen Weak Interaction LENR Theory is better understood ...

"One percent of the nickel mined each year could meet the world's energy requirements at around a quarter of the cost of coal."

Hopefully, renewable energy costs will be even lower, but LENR is far, far better than fossil fuels regarding climate change, and space exploration - which is why NASA is sponsoring the research.
Are you saying that soon, there will be monsters which will try to catch me in the street ?
I'm not sure what rules more about this:

- The G4 cube enclosure

- The painstaking mechanical and electrical engineering know-how

- The creative use of the Raspberry Pi

- The tongue-in-cheek extolling the potential of other 'smart' appliances

Whenever I see things like refrigerators or washing machines with some Android tablet glued to it I think about what a cynical waste of technology it is. The YOSVape cements my belief that true innovation in the smart appliance world is going to come for talented, creative individuals.
I am surprised that so many people are "disappointed" in Elon Musk. So he overemphasized some parts and underemphasized other parts of NYT's response (which admitted that there were some inaccuracies in the contested article). But so what? Elon Musk and Tesla have done an amazing job with the Model S, and its quality does not change because of the misrepresentation. If this is enough to get disappointed in Elon Musk, then you should awfully disappointed with a whole lot of people.
The original article is much more entertaining than the NYTimes summary: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130129/NEWS/701299893/1734
I wish the post had gone into depth on _why_ Redshift was significantly faster, but I'm betting it uses in-memory joins whereas (hence the size limitations it mentions) whereas Hive joins are just MapReduce jobs that keep only minimal subsets of data in memory at a given point. The upshot is the Hive/MapReduce strategy isn't limited by physical memory.

Of course, if your data set can fit in memory, then Redshift or similar technologies probably is a better choice than Hive. But it's important to remember that the performance gains here come as the result of a tradeoff.
"Because the odds of getting Famous Joe Blow X to run a HN AMA are much, much higher than getting him to become an active HNer"

However, if Mr. Blow is not going to be active on HN anyway, what is the advantage of an AMA on HN over one on Reddit? And since the goal is to have Mr. Blow answer questions, what evidence is there that he is more likely to do so on HN than Reddit?

What makes HN great is not really fucking smart people answering fifteen questions of varying quality in 90 minutes. It's RFSP spending 90 minutes answering one really good question.
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What's the alternative to minimal viable product?
I read n article somewhere that talked about a different approach - something like a quality, polished complete product. Can't recall enough terms to Google it. Does anyone know anything about the alternative line of thinking to MVP?
Why would Posterous users move to Posthaven rather than App.net
> In the legal industry, for instance, this task is typically assigned to contract attorneys or paralegal staff.

Or junior associates :(
I wonder what the average size of an uploaded file is.

I have not successfully uploaded a file over 2 gig yet… txfr stops and goes to NaaN never to recover.
thanks for replying, and I know Chrome separates its processes.
And I just wander sometimes Firefox use the same memory when I open 4 or 8 pages. Even it uses more memory for no reason(e.g. I open 2 pages, but it will increases).
If anything I its 50/50 (overlap/strictly-HN), and I think that's being generous.
I teach at a school for js devs, and many of our students get started at Codecademy. Based on what I've seen, they're already great at getting people to square one, but they're facing real challenges if their mission is to teach people to code.

Let's start with the good stuff: it's very, very engaging, and if I tell an applicant to go through codecademy, it's pretty likely that they'll get it done. In other words, they're very good at conversion optimization. They give the user very straightforward, bite-sized goals, and people end up doing a lot of work.

However, people that pass through this system end up with a very consistent and warped skillset. It's not because they're still newbs -- I run into lots of newbs that didn't go through codecademy, and these guys are unusual.

1) They're very familiar with syntax, and can fluently type code for common tasks, but have difficulty solving problems with these tools. For instance, it's very common that I find a codecademy graduate that can easily iterate through an array and initialize/modify variables, but not sum the elements in an array.

2) They don't model the program's execution in their head. This is a really profound and strange fact, with lots of weird corollaries. For instance, they don't have ways of dealing with errors when syntax-based guess-and-check fails. The notion of code executing line-by-line is surprising to them. This is a pernicious problem that requires unlearning.

It's very easy to trace these unusual skill profiles back to the mechanism that drives codecademy's success in the first place. I don't know what I would do in their place, but I have a few ideas of things that I'd like to see in the space:

--A curated project-based curriculum that takes followers along a similarly-well thought-out path.

--A wconsole-based codecademy that makes heavy use of the debugger.
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Thanks Samsung for your contributions.

It is simply wonderful how Linux is utterly dominating the mobile platform, underneath Android and Tizen.

Are cars next?
William Shatner had an interesting comment on Reddit when asked about doing an AMA.

Basically he said he'd rather hang out and naturally interact with the audience rather than do a hit and run AMA for an hour then never come back.
Yes, so long as it includes people like:

Hal Abelson, Peter Norvig, Tim Berners-Lee, Fred Brooks, Vinton Cerf, John Cormack, Brendsn Eich, Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Daniel P. Friedman, Richard P. Gabriel, jwz, Dan Ingalls, C.A.R. Hoare, Bill Joy,

etc. etc. etc.
Automated D3 maps of any country of the world
Wow. A year ago a solution architect promised me they would catch up to mainline to get a bunch of critical bugfixes.
I find that the Sun is not up to par with more modern stars, and the features it has are archaic and not in tune with the needs of today's users.

Oh, what, you want some examples of what I mean by that? Why? Can't you just accept it when I say that it's obsolete and we really should be looking for a new solution?

(I don't think you're being pedantic, just missing my point :)
There are various HN interfaces people have written specifically for mobile. There's http://hckrn.ws/ and http://ihackernews.com/ for starters.

A quick google search reveals https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8 for iOS, which includes a "confirm votes" toggle setting. There's https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickylaish... for android as well.
Sh/couldn't an OAuth provider nullify their OAuth access tokens on a data breach (or when a user changes his password)?

1) Provider cancels access token.

2) App tries to download data using old access token and is notified that the token is now invalid.

3) App asks user to reauthenticate.

4) User logs in to provider and grants permission

At this point, everything is back to normal.
Has a better effect if you filter just for code

https://github.com/search?q=path%3A.ssh%2Fid_rsa&ref=sea...
So the bubble forms within, not outside?

Because I've heard it both ways before, and even in the article it mentions something about two bubbles that are separate from each other colliding.

In the later circumstances...

What I can't understand is how two universes that are "separated" from each other by a vacuum (no space-time fabric) could ever collide... As they are separate by a pure nothingness, they for all purposes exist inside different realms and have no chance of ever colliding as there is nothing for them to travel through to reach each other.
Musk is showing bad judgement by mis-characterising the change in attitude of The New York Times.

Broder showed poor judgement by leaving a charging station with an estimated range of half the distance he wanted to travel.

Margaret Sullivan is the one person who seems to have good judgement in this whole affair.
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Start your own company then
How else would it work? Do you trust a computer to do it? How would you handle challenges to the redaction?
Some of the best engineers I've ever worked with had no college degree. Give me someone passionate, dedicated, honest working, smart and fun to be around, degree or no degree, that person is going to be an assest to any company.
Yes, I always see "about:memory" and minimize memory usage.
My machine doesn't run out because of Firefox, but yesterday it took nearly 1G RAM.
I have 4GB RAM.
I'm not going to say he's wrong, but Musk's response is a little condescending.

Two parties are fighting over public image, I get that. It didn't have to escalate to this point, but it did. And now, when Musk has essentially emerged victorious, he makes a further blog post to grind his heel into Broder while he's down?

That's not honorable.
Import your Pandora likes into an Rdio playlist.
No, because that's not how disappointment works. You must understand that Elon Musk is considered one of the most ultimately successful technological innovators on earth by many here: he began with a startup, then proceeded to build a commercial space company, work on solar energy and electric cars. It is unsurprising that this causes many of us technically inclined people to unconsciously worship Musk - if only a little bit.

Then, when it turns out that the person you've just neatly placed upon a pedestal does something you very much disagree with, too, is when people actually become disappointed.
We need ways to do human experimentation. Without it, medical research would be dead, as would many other fields. For that matter, a chef wouldn't even be able to get others to do a taste test.

That's why we've thought long and hard about the ethics of the topic. There are supposed to be policies in place, like an institutional review board, with the goal of protecting human subjects from physical or psychological harm, ensuring privacy, and making sure that the human subjects can make an informed consent.

That's not saying the system is perfect. There's the worry that "many for-profit IRB's routinely approve the design and conduct of clinical trials for clients without adequately monitoring the safety of patients", like Coast IRB.

Academic researchers working on humans and animals must go through the IRB process. This does help instill a strong sense of caution whenever humans subjects are involved. Here's a recent posting to show how strong that sense might be:

http://boundarylayerphysiology.com/2013/02/17/why-im-worried...
"Starting your own company" is certainly not for everyone. And even for those who will eventually have the knowledge and domain expertise to start something profitable (i.e. pays at least your own salary), it often takes time. You don't suddenly pop out of high school and have a profitable company on your hands.
NYT doesn't actually speak of errors of omission and misleading details anywhere. You can't just go making stuff up. To take what you quoted: Mr. Broder left himself open to valid criticism by taking what seem to be casual and imprecise notes along the journey <-- what this means is NOT what you are pretending it means. It simply means "this wasn't done in a laboratory, so you can hardly expect everything to be correct up to 6 sig figs. Therefore, feel free to point out if some specific details aren't quite right."
Weed affects attention. Reportedly, accidents are twice as likely while stoned. Wait a few hours please!

On the other hand, weed substitutes for alcohol. From the paper http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbs... ...

"According to authors D. Mark Anderson and Daniel I. Rees, the passage of medical marijuana laws in 16 states have also helped to reduce traffic deaths. Can that be right? Does weed really reduce the speed?

The authors base their claim on statistics assembled using the the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, or FARS, which is a database collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Across the 16 states where medical marijuana has been legalized, it was found that traffic fatalities dropped by as much as 9 percent.

The FARS statistics do not prove that medical marijuana laws are the cause of the decrease in traffic deaths (such statistics can only provide correlation), but until now no research has been conducted to explain the relationship. Anderson and Rees offer up a couple of theories.

First, they suggest that marijuana is a substitute for alcohol consumption. Basically, if medical marijuana laws create an uptick in marijuana use, then perhaps people are smoking grass rather than imbibing in the drink. This should, in turn, lead to less drunk driving, which explains the drop in traffic deaths."
KL :) Btw your profile is empty!
Requiring a degree is a way to filter resumes.

If you get 200 applications to a position and requiring a degree allows you to narrow that down to 30, why not?
Does any vim plugin support context sensitive auto-complete like Visual Studio (auto-complete only with variables that are alive in the current block of code)? I code in perl and am currently using ctags for autocomplete, but it doesnt autocomplete based on the context.
Being a web developer often times feels like I live in backwards land.

I went to UTD for 1.5 semesters. I ended up with $2,000 in student loans (paid off!). I make a stupid amount of money, work from home in my pajamas, and have great benefits. I also do contract work on the side that pushes my income even higher. To top it all off, I love what I do and can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Compare that with friends from high school that went to state college for 4 years, have $50,000 in student loan debt and ended up getting a job that pays less than $50k, with long hours and uncertain stability.

Thankfully not having a college degree has not affected me in a negative way.
I expected this to be a mailing list of very impressive/deep stack traces. Color me disappointed, but if someone made that I would be all over it.
But that's fine right. As long as no one else gets the trademark, then the PSF is happy. Or do I have it wrong?
I have been enjoying working with Django Rest Framework (http://django-rest-framework.org/) recently. It has a less magical approach than TastyPie and uses Django conventions like class-based views. My favourite feature is that the framework generates a web interface, making the API browseable (http://restframework.herokuapp.com/).
I wish that US retailers gave consumers a choice. Everywhere I go there is just Windows 8 on non-touch laptops and desktops.
Thank you, and congrats to you as well.

All the problems can be summed up with "crappy carbs". It's actually a long story about what started me down that path (dealing with health issues), but I've actually put back on some weight (around 40 pounds...it's easy to be blind to oneself :().

What I've found is that when I start eating carb-rich food, my ability to stop snacking on carb-rich foods goes to zero. So I've cycled between maintaining where I eat a low-glycemic diet and not doing that and gaining. When I spoke of "biological imperative", I mean me: when I eat carbs, I can't stop. I never get full. I'm sure I'd be a Type 2 diabetic in about 5 years if I didn't make this change.

A few weeks ago, I dumped the crappy carbs again. I'm back full-on low-carb and have lost about half of that[1]. This time, I'm going to learn from my mistakes. :) I'm going to follow the Atkins notion of gradually increasing carbs until you find your "critical carbohydrate level". Since I've bounced back and forth, I figure realizing that fact will be helpful in my long-term maintenance.

1. Yes, a very large percentage of this is water. I'm OK with that. :)
It's not clear to me why AMAs would necessarily reduce their participation in the community, could you elaborate on that?
Why are documents from legal proceedings worth millions of dollars? Aren't they public domain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China_an...

You are correct on the number. But the part about the Soviet Union, Im not so sure...

> History

Mao Zedong decided to begin a Chinese nuclear-weapons program during the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954-1955 over the Quemoy and Matsu Islands. While he did not expect to be able to match the large American nuclear arsenal, Mao believed that even a few bombs would increase China's diplomatic credibility. Construction of uranium enrichment plants in Baotou and Lanzhou began in 1958, and a plutonium facility in Jiuquan and the Lop Nur nuclear test site by 1960. The Soviet Union provided assistance in the early Chinese program by sending advisers to help in the facilities devoted to fissile material production, and promised to provide a prototype bomb.[12] In July 1960, however, during the Sino-Soviet split, all Soviet assistance with the Chinese nuclear program was abruptly terminated and all Soviet technicians were withdrawn from the program.[13]
That is newsless attempt at gonzo journalism.
This already happens. They're called "cops".

</sarc>
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The way I understood it, the "cost" of watching an opera on YouTube is the time and mental effort it takes, which is many times greater than the time and mental effort it takes to watch a cat video.

Like, say you may derive more enjoyment from reading novels than Hacker News comments, but when you sit down to quickly eat breakfast you peruse Hacker News, even though great many high quality novels are also one click away.
I don't think they're ruining it. Some people don't care about DRM / DLC with gaming (like myself). I just want the best possible gaming experience.
Everyone can't start one, to start one we should have focus, commitment, idea, most important part is to do the ground work.
Anyone on HN own or reserved a Model S? I'm thinking of reserving the cheaper configs.
I watched Harry and the Hendersons as a kid so I'm fairly sure his mountain cousin is a similarly misunderstood gentle giant.
I believe it is designed to affect neighboring cities, yes. And this is basically what happens in real life... and then war.
I agree with the sentiment, but I think we're unique. If you're a skilled developer, or a web designer, you can prove it with a body of work (open source or personal projects). Not all jobs have that.
Does he have an entry on how to become an insufferable blow-hard?
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Enterprise rental car company made a fortune hiring underpaid non-college-degree-holders for its counter staff.
Did this catch the attention of anyone else?

“I am over $100,000 in student loan debt right now,” said Megan Parker, who earns $37,000 as the firm’s receptionist. She graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2011 with a degree in fashion and retail management, and spent months waiting on “bridezillas” at a couture boutique, among other stores, while churning out office-job applications.

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Something is very, very wrong with the student loan program in the USA.
If Apple can't protect itself from malware, how can you trust it to protect you?
Java code

if (obj instanceof java.lang.Object)
Because the job might not benefit from an overqualified degree holder.
OK so if you're not hurting for memory, then I think it's using an appropriate amount of memory.
Isn't that the cliché of stories like this?
A successful troll is a subtle troll.
"No problem should ever have to be solved twice."

I sincerely disagree. There is rarely a problem for which there is one strictly optimal solution. And competition (friendly or otherwise) between solutions leads to progress.

As an example, take the browser wars. As opposed to accepting Mozilla/Firefox, Apple and Google's efforts have moved the bar much further than if they just decided to use Mozilla's solution

"What's not OK is artificial technical, legal, or institutional barriers (like closed-source code) that prevent a good solution from being re-used and force people to re-invent wheels."

If it weren't for LZW patent enforcement, we wouldn't have formats like PNG ... (I guess, "necessity is the mother of innovation")