skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Django + NLTK webapp for counting words in txt files
Famed US hacker helps Ecuador secure its vote
Well of Course I OWN my Competiton
Cell phone tracking system reveals how traffic jams start
This assumes a linear relationship between hours worked and amount accomplished. I doubt such a relationship holds after 5 or 6 hours. I bet many programmers would get more done in a 6-hour day than an 8-hour day, due to increased energy.
this works too:
http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/kennethrap...
> which is insane

Is it really? I'd have expected an MMO to be a bigger project than an animation movie. There is script writing, animation, 3d modeling, speech and sound in both of them. While the visual quality in a movie has to be higher, there is a LOT of stuff in a modern game that has to be modeled. And then we've not even talked about the programming side. Secondly, keep in mind that very succesful games generate billions dollars of profit, so it would make sense to spend a fraction of that if that improves your chances of becoming the next megahit.
Most of the world's population is low wage workers who don't have any extra for mindless consumption. Somehow they are able to get by without these comforts, and don't even need to meditate.

The real problem here is the yuppie lifestyle. Just think if all of those wasted financial resources could actually go to fund something important, rather than mindless waste. Keeping people exhausted and feeling they are entitled contributes greatly to the problem.
I think you underestimate what they'll be willing to legislate against.

If you can't control the supply of guns, control the supply of printers making the guns.

It's illegal to do many things that are easy to do, it doesn't mean they wont pass legislation against it.
In southern Ontario, I pay 6.5 cents/kWh (off-peak, say the "charge at night" scenario I mentioned as a hypothetical.) and $4.50/gallon for gas. (the exchange rate between Canadian and American dollars is even right now). -- That's 0.15 $/mile for gas and 0.02 $/mile for electric.

... huh, so I'd be saving nearly about $850 $/yr with an electric car, even though I only drive about 6500 mi/yr (though half of that is the cross country trip to visit my folks). That said, my car only cost $5500, so it would take longer than the life of the car to pay off the difference to a Tesla.
These type of posts bother me because they play the blame game without substantiating arguments or offering useful alternatives. This paragraph in particular was annoying:

"We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing."

To start, this almost implies that there's a room full of Old Powerful White Men (let's be honest, that's what you imagine) figuring out how to raise little consumer sheep. Like it's a big conspiracy or something. Even worse, the government must be in on it, otherwise I wouldn't have to work 8 hours and feel tired all the time! Well, part of this 'conspiracy' is called 'marketing', and if you have an issue with that, then please address it with a logical argument. I think most of HN is fine with marketing, otherwise nobody would get to witness these new startups.

Regarding the 8 hour workday: this is an economics argument more than anything. Again, either address it properly or leave it be. What would be nice would be an alternative suggestion. However, I don't think travelling at large with a MBP sipping mojitos on the beach and skyping clients is something society at large can start doing. But the author probably can. (There's a bit of an interesting aside - should intelligence and technical skills afford you more freedom?)

To wrap up, what really bothers me with that paragraph, and this post in general, is this: it's being implied that personal happiness and fulfillment (so nothing "feels missing") is not a personal responsibility. What? Let's look at that last sentence again:

"We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing."

Just because consumerism isn't "filling your inner void" doesn't mean it caused it. That's not to advocate for or against consumerism, just to suggest that there are other alternatives to these problems. And it's your own responsibility to go find them.

All that being said, I found the post interesting enough to think about and reply to, so thanks for writing it.
Silverpop has it & also calls it send time optimization. Allows for optimizing the send over 24 hours or 7 days.
Next to impossible if you're looking for benefits too, such as health insurance, vacation time, and sick leave.
The 13 Pieces of Advice that Saved our Company
Completely off topic — you worked at Bronto? I did a short (like 1 or 2 day) contract to write a first pass at their Ruby client gem a couple years back. Seemed like nice guys. I get shivers thinking about Ruby and SOAP though. Eesh.
Does anyone have statistics on the breakdown of expenses for the average household, or within different income levels? I don't think we can really discuss this materially without some real stats. My hunch is that the budget of most families is dominated by food, housing, and transportation.
It is amazing, we were not expecting such an extraordinary response! Thank you to everybody is writing us with feedback, suggestions, and encouraging words, we are going to answer shortly to all of you!

Sorry for the confusion with coffeescript and twitter bootstrap as well: we though it would be a nice name for a tool allowing you to bootstrap your language in front of a coffee. I think this misunderstanding is probably going to be very HN specific, though! :)

We also apologize for our English inaccuracies, we are getting better everyday, but I guess we need to eat some dogfood and go out ASAP for some coffeestraps..
It still is somehow based on cookies and/or other client side data (rather than, e.g. looking at your IP address and timestamps as a heuristic).

When I hit the paywall in Chrome, I switched to Safari (which I rarely use, so no NYT cookies or local data there in the cache) from the same machine, and it worke OK.
Agreed, it shows that a person really hasn't thought through all this before. Unexamined life and all that.
http://piwik.org/ Open source alternative to Google Analytics
Even so, why not 'If you would like to use us exclusively for medicaid transactions, contact us at' or something like that?

Your wording just seems you will be keeping an eye on what I'm doing and if I screw up you will get in contact with me and not in a good way.

In any case, congratulations on the service, I hope it goes well for you guys.
I wrote every line of my OS, 139,000, over the last ten years.

I gonna kill the CIA.

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A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feel
in other words, it's disposable.

at least they aren't gouging you with proprietary screwdrivers.
Another possibility:

Want to practice a foreign language?

Meet native speakers for coffee and practice one-on-one.
The point isn't to replace X. It's to learn more about X and Y.
I contacted people at the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and even had an in person meeting with someone at the offices of Fortune.

Why not 4 Corners or Panorama? Investigative journalism might not have a capitalist business model anymore, but socialism still gets the job done. Especially for stories that will embarrass rich Americans ;-)
If I can chime in, my opinion is anecdotal but I think generally true: many programmers dream about building games and so are less driven by money; the game companies then take advantage of that. In contrast, if you are programming databases or sharepoint, you probably have less passion about the domain your working in and will want more money for your trouble.
I don't know if this one does all those things, but it's been featured here:

Show HN: An IDE for poets (http://tranquillpoet.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775886
If you eat healthy, you'll also feel better. As you get used to different foods, you'll find your tastes shift and that things you previously found unappetizing are actually really delicious. The only real downsides to improving your diet are completely temporary.
They probably didn't start out at 350 developers. Early pre production would have been a much smaller team, with more developers added as the success of the project was more apparent. Still very risky, but at least they'll ship something interesting.
Might not hurt to feed your information to the websites Bronte Capital and White Collar Fraud (http://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/).
To get back to the point of the original article: ssh does not protect your server from getting hit by drive-by ssh login attempts.

In terms of security in depth, VPN provides another layer. If someone gets your VPN credentials, all they've done is given themselves a new endpoint, not gained access to any of your stuff.

VPN also protects web surfing, which ssh does not.
Thank you. I have just started with node, so your advice is valuable. Do you know if files with '#!/bin/node' (or was it '#!/bin/env/node') work in windows when published through npm?
There are a lot of responses to it, really. After all, eating healthy doesn't just make you live longer; it improves your immediate quality of life. The hypothesis that a healthy lifestyle will make you miserable is easily disproved by simply observing people who live healthy lifestyles.
Checkpoint: A simple key/val store for python built on S3
I'm sure this article is most interesting to those that would never buy a Microsoft product. Spurious.
Thanks for linking this - Jon has an incredible legacy.
Let me add my favorite hobby horse to your point 4: LuaJIT's C FFI is a tremendous and undervalued advantage compared to any other language/implementation I've used. Its core value proposition:

0) It can parse C header files and automatically construct bindings.

1) You can write Lua code that works directly on C data types with C memory layout and is JIT compiled. It makes it very easy to achieve performance within ~2x of C while still maintaining the expressiveness and extensibility of Lua. And if you miss writing OO C++, you can easily add methods to your C structs and they will be JIT compiled. See here http://wiki.luajit.org/Allocation-Sinking-Optimization and search for "Point Class with FFI cdata Struct" and then "Point Class Benchmarks".

2) Because the memory layout matches C data types, it is trivial to swap out a Lua implementation of a core operation with a C implementation if that becomes necessary.

3) It is easy to write cross-platform systems code without conditional compilation because the native calls through FFI can all be constructed dynamically through Lua (so instead of #ifdef WIN32 all over your socket code, you just have a single line checking for ffi.os == "windows" and then if necessary call the winsock initializer as ffi.C.WSAStartup(foo,bar)).
It depends when the people in front of you get theirs.

There's a large queue for Butterfly Lab's products. You most likely will not get one in the first batch.
Thanks for the post. I was about to start a project with CouchDB but was unsure why I was going to use it. I know relational databases/SQL better so I think I will stick with that.

Do you think there is benefit in using stuff like SQLAlchemy or should I write just SQL files/queries?
This is very interesting. I always thought that making an ASIC was prohibitively expensive except for the largest companies. How much does it really cost?

I would really enjoy playing with a Lisp chip. It might not be good for performance computing, but it would be great for writing GUIs. The paper suggests having a chip with a Lisp part for control and an APL part for array processing - I think the modern equivalent would be a typed-dispatching part for control and some CUDA or OpenCL cores for speed.
I sort of wish they hadn't sold on the Myth IP, because a) I loved those games and b) I really enjoyed the world (albeit thanks, Glen Cook). An update of Myth II to run on, say, iOS and Android, with good multi-player support -- well, my boss at Apple used to tell me that the company'd go broke building software for me, but c'mon, wouldn't that be awesome?
Makes sense.

Thanks for being constructive with the feedback :) just pushed the update and took your advice on wording.
Yeah, I've never understood why people automatically make this argument.

Industrial meat != meat

It's like saying that because most restaurants are unhealthy (e.g. fast food) you should zealously avoid all restaurants.
One other thing I think you should experiment with is time of day. There was another great post (not able to find the link yet, will update when I do) that talked about open rate being highest within the first few hours of sending regardless of the send time.

I've always been a fan of sending between 3-6am, although I think I just took this as a rule of thumb from someone I worked with an never questioned it much. Would love to see a similar study on send times within the optimal range of days.
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Are you serious? Your definition of a crappy car is one that doesn't last 50 years? I've heard of high standards, but really...
Identified Protein Blocks HIV, Ebola, Nipah, Other Viruses
Posted to HN four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215427
Can we finally replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?
Or on a similar note, demand better treatment of animals.
It's not that far off, there is a ton of satellite photography in Google Maps. It's the other way around, but satellites talk to cell phones and I don't fault people for not knowing it's one-way.
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Some people[1][2][3] have been doing long-form video game journalism for a while, mostly in the form of reviews that go in-depth into questions of video game design. As for long-form investigative game journalism I would recommend reading http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-g... and its companion piece http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=1076 for an example.

[1] http://insertcredit.com/

[2] http://www.actionbutton.net/

[3] http://culture.vg/

Edit: oh, and check out Ian Bogost's online writing: http://www.bogost.com/writing/.

Edit 2: there are also video series about video games that are neither reviews nor consumer-oriented funny (or "funny") news programs but rather try to provide insight into the medium. See, for example, http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/.
1. My dataset us bigger than that (100GB+).
2. Even if it would fit i currently does not make the money to afford it (Fev paying customer to my service).
So i am using vanilla MySQL 5.5.x. Gonna experiment with Postgresql in the near future.

I would love to have a "Powered by ..." logo for a license ;)
Languages change all the time. To single out one language in particular and label it as "the language" to learn is erroneous.
I would rather be out on the street busking.
If I was 13, I would be all over this. Hard to justify time investment these days.
Show HN: Scripting languages at university?
Hi everyone,<p>As part of a university course, I wrote a blog post on why scripting languages should be encouraged by the university professors for courseworks and how this will help students learn more.<p>What is your opinion on the topic?
I think additionally there is a large audience that reads reviews and other gaming news to be entertained more than to be informed.

It's fun to get hyped up and excited about some upcoming game, it's not that fun to read a review about a mediocre game.

And if you are largely going to make your purchasing decisions based on what your friends are doing anyway, or if a game isn't a super high-ticket item for you, then it's not something you really need to chase down professional reviews for.
GTA4, Red Dead Redemption, Codblops, and Battlefield 3 all cost in the $100M+ range.
Hi everyone,

As part of a university course, I wrote a blog post on why scripting languages should be encouraged by the university professors for courseworks and how this will help students learn more.

What is your opinion on the topic?
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

It seems the 'Milspec' status is:

MIL-STD-150A, dated 06 January 1998, is hereby cancelled without replacement.

With as many multi-spectral instruments we have floating about, I wonder what other shapes, compositions, or controlled temperature gradients might be in use under our noses.
Farmers feed antiobiotics to their animals because the antibiotics make them bigger. No one knows exactly why, but farmers know a more valuable pig when they see one.

This is how capitalism works. If farmers can make more money by giving antibiotics to pigs, then they are going to do it. They'll argue that they have to because the farming market is increasingly controlled by a small number of giant companies, and if one doesn't do everything possible to increase yield then all of the others will.

Of course the only bacteria left alive will be the ones that are resistant to the antibiotics. This puts all of us in more danger and over time will cause more bizarre diseases. But that tradeoff is far into the future and no farming executive is going to forgo a quarterly bonus to prevent a problem 20 years from now.

I understand the tradeoffs, too. I thinking recently about how amazing it is that we all get to eat meat every day. Just hundreds of years ago it was a rare treat. Even with that said, the idea of overusing a resource in such precious short supply as antibiotics is very disconcerting.
Do we have anything like independent verification of this story? I don't find it implausible, but a single entry purpose-built blog telling an anonymized tale, is worth the cost of entry.
It always seemed to me to be cold as hell, with a view worth a billion dollars once or twice a quarter -- how does that correlate with your experience?
I wonder if JS is perhaps a bit too high level and internally complex to be a great first programming language to be taught to people with no CS fundamentals. Fully internalizing front-end development is no trivial task, and teaching JS out-of-context just by itself might not be super helpful, even though it's probably better than jumping straight to Java, which is also quite magical internally.

On the other hand I can see someone making the same argument about a low level language like C. One could claim that without full understanding of assembly, compilers, the ISA, and hardware-level optimizations you don't really gain much insight into computing.

Reminds me of the never ending debate about whether they should teach Java or assembly as first language in a CS curriculum.

There's probably no right answer, you just got to start somewhere and you'll figure things out on the long term. The web is ever more relevant and JS won't go away for a long time.
Steven Blank seems to be keeping a pretty nice list up to date: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
I don't think what you're saying is all that different from what the article is saying. It never says there's an actual conspiracy or that any specific person designed anything. But as you yourself said there seems to be a difference between what we think we want and what makes us happy in the long term and economies will tend to grow by maximizing on the former, not necessarily the latter.
I wish this was available written instead of as low-bandwidth video.
MailChimp has a neat page where they list the average open rates for the 5.5 million mailing lists people manage using MailChimp's platform: http://mailchimp.com/resources/research/

"Most emails are sent between Monday and Friday, with the highest volume on Tuesday and Thursday. More subscribers open email, however, on Wednesday and Thursday."

"Subscribers are likely to open email after 12pm, and the most active hours are 2-5pm."

"Your newest subscribers are your best subscribers. They’re most engaged immediately after signup, and then trail off over time."

Those are averages though, your mileage may vary. For the newsletters I send out, Tuesday morning has proven to be the sweet spot.

More information: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/when-is-the-best-time-to-sen...
IMO its a little bit excessive to ask that every graph generated is color-blind safe...

Isn't there software for colorblind people to correct that? (Something that changes the palette of colors displayed...)
New EU Patent System: Will It Work?
Dibs on the Parzival handle.
I don't know why you have to shit on developers outside the games industry as you've done here (perhaps it wasn't intentional?).

I love games, and I have plenty of passion both for them and for programming in general. But the games industry is saturated with developers who got into programing solely to make games, and who only want to make games, and is famous for taking advantage of that. I'd rather not be taken advantage of, and 'passion' has nothing to do with it.
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Embezzlement is 'white collar crime' and has happened for a long time (and been the focus of movies). Cheque fraud is also 'white collar crime' and Catch Me If You Can came out in 2002. You're just associating more public scrutiny (and therefore more government focus) on banks / investing / Wall Street with a greater focus on "white collar crime."
I've read the EFF write-ups, the 2013 proposed bill text, and other sources carefully.

If after CISPA, federal agencies can receive more private data than before – in ways that were previously prevented by liability under the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communication Act, contractual obligations, and other court precedents about expectations of privacy – then that's a 'new power' for law enforcement. Even if the way the new power is created is indirect, through immunized information 'sharing'.
We are teaching basic JavaScript to beginners at http://codehs.com

We've made some simplified libraries that make everything a bit simpler to get really cool results, and kids have been loving it and learning a lot!
Thanks. You are totally right. We should all be doing these things. It's a matter of execution and whether we are doing them well enough.
>Also anticipated a male-first bias

bwahahahahahaha can't tell if troll or just retarded but nonetheless hilarious :°D
Of course, Microsoft is taking a cue from Apple- closed f&*king everything. Well, the hardware and software I choose for myself is open.