skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Future of Simvla - An open letter to the community
Simvla is something I personally feel has a lot of potential for growth, which is why I decided to take over the project from the creator.

Yes I know it looks like Svblte, and that is the first thing I'm going to change. Give it a distinct and minimalist approach.
Is there a list of supported games somewhere?
Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
I want my framework to do the boring stuff I don't want to do myself. That doesn't imply I want it running off and doing other things I don't even know about.
> First off, they did provide notice.

I have two blogs using Disqus and, as the admin, I did not receive notifications for either one, so, they did not provide notice to everybody.
Is it possible to put a link to this post on Python news page?

http://python.org/news/

I'm going to forward this to some people working with Python in Europe, and I guess a link to the homepage might look more credible that to a blog.
Interestingly, someone recently posted on HN that they're trying to integrate Python into Excel: https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/2/12/future/

Not ideal, but it's a step up from VBA.
Those are the Supercharger stations. The Norwich one, that Tesla directed him to, wasn't a Supercharger. It took an hour to do 19->32.
Don't forget college radio. My local station is AdFree and Awesome. http://kfjc.org/
> The lobbyists are going to be the death of the United States.

I can't blame the lobbyists either, they're just looking out for themselves the same as the rest of us do.

I can blame the legislators. They're the ones with a monopoly on force wielded against us for their own gain.
I have a geo-balanced CDN with 10Gbit connections in Florida and Amsterdam, with routing optimized to perform well in Australia and East Asia as well. Traffic isn't unusually high today, so performance should be excellent. If you're sure it's not your local connection, can you contact me (james at letscodejavascript) so I can troubleshoot the issue?
Really, the main problem is that Excel (which has data types) is trying to support CSV (which has no data types) as a pseudo-native format. If Excel forced CSV files through the import wizard, and you could override a data type for each column, it would solve most of the issues. Instead, each column is implicitly treated as Auto and that fails in a lot of cases.
I think we agree on all points. People with less experience with Rails see "magic" where people with more experience see abstractions with all the trade-offs implied, and importantly, know how to dig into those abstractions to understand what is really going on. But that digging in process tends to be spurred by surprising behavior, rather than security consciousness.

I like your analogy to toys and children, except that the danger of these toys is not immediately apparent to adults either. But the toy company has been very prompt and transparent in finding ways for people to avoid the danger once it becomes apparent.
No, that is not the point of a framework at all. I am absolutely shocked that you would present it as though the options are "blindly do stuff automagically" vs "write everything from scratch". A framework is more useful if I control it, not less useful. If you want to give me the ability to parse yaml from GET params, then give me a

parse_yaml_from_get_params_with_a_really_long_rails_function_name()

function to do it with. Don't just do it all the time in case I might want it. You don't need to automatically run a feature in order for the feature to exist, be used, and be useful.
There is no 'free' in that sentence.
Deeply impressed by the product, but I hate it when pricing is hidden behind "contact our sales team". That usually equals "let's first see how deep your pockets are".

Also a tactic often used by companies that keep you paying the original rates while their actual pricing for new clients have dropped considerably.
My developer tools (Mobile)
This is my list of tools as mobile dev, what's yours ?
Let's get real, most homemakers are simply indulging their bourgeois fantasies. Not that I blame them, I'd do the same thing if I thought I could get away with it, but I'd probably get served divorce papers.
Probably in the "pearls before swine" sense. Long-time natives just don't appreciate how much the influx of tech folks is improving things, nor how few cities would love to have such a "problem".
Happy valentines day! You can either search a #tag or a twitter @username and it will pull in all the associated vines. Let me know if you have any feedback.

I plan on showing popular search terms and usernames on the homepage.

Remember to click the videos from the search pages if you want to play. Also, if you see another #tag in text beside a video you can click it and it will execute a new search.
14 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy from Quora
But in a city that lionizes entrepreneurs who sacrifice everything to create the next big thing, there is something admirable about the street kids’ total embrace of drugs, freedom, and a lifestyle that society scorns.

This. In an isolated society of highways and McMansions where it's taboo to converse with random strangers, what the world needs now is not the next big social iPhone app, but a stronger sense of community, which we could learn a thing or two from these 'kids'.
Steam is also throwing a sale for the release of Steam for Linux: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/; ends February 21st, 18:00 GMT. Highly acclaimed "Team Fortress 2" is free to play: http://store.steampowered.com/app/440
Google doesn't exactly have an "IRC on crack" product though? Also, I find GTalk's routing to be spotty when it comes to multiple devices - it's quite common for me to receive messages from coworkers at night and have them route to my work machine instead of one that's active on the GTalk account at home.

Nowadays we use GroupMe for things that must be read in a timely manner. It'd be nice if we could use GTalk for it (this is a Google Apps GTalk account, not a public one).
We pipe everything into Campfire, scoped into the relevant room (last time I checked we had about 80 separate rooms).

The topical bit is important- a particular app's notifications get dumped into that app's room, for example. That means I only get notified if I'm in that room. Conversely, that means I don't get excessive notifications if I'm not in the room, for apps I'm not interested in.

"Spheres of interest", as you mention them, become less important as you grow the company. We've found it important to not get too sucked into every little aspect of the company- it's too broad. If someone thinks you should know something that's happening in a room you're not in, they can just ping you and you can hop in and stay up-to-date. That's been a really good solution for us.
That's the risk with any SaaS/PaaS/etc, not just ones going onto your site. Anytime you pay someone a monthly fee to offer you a service, there is a risk they will change things and force you to reconsider using that service, which will then lead to having to change whatever you doing to warrant said service.

Guess it boils down to trust and if you don't, buy something you keep locally and control.
I wouldn't be overly surprised if the title was not clear, or the text was not obvious. It like the ToS changes from your credit card company, you need to be a lawyer to decipher it!

I'm only a casual Disqus user, I've maybe commented using it a handful of times, so don't know what the email contained or said. I'm just going by what I've read on here.
Interestingly the first thing I did was re-order the tabs. Now I went back to check and I can't re-order them. Maybe that info helps the Hipchat devs out - I just trashed prefs and then you can re-order one tab. Then it stops allowing you to do this.
NEW AdWords Upgrade: Enhanced Campaigns - Contextual Advertising
I've been fortunate enough to live a comfortable life, but I was able to get some experience living on the street through a volunteer project I did in college working with the homeless in Washington DC. We spent the first 48 hours of our time in DC living on the street with no money. We slept in a church parking lot for 2 nights in snowy weather. We then donated all of our panhandling money not spent on food for those 2 days to the homelessness organization we were working with and spent the rest of the time volunteering in soup kitchens and raising awareness about an upcoming bill regarding homelessness. That certainly changed my perspective on things AND I was able to provide a net benefit for the organizations that help people on the streets.

Sure, living on the streets for 2 days isn't the same as living there for 2 years but there are ways to get perspective without being an unnecessary drain on a system already spread thin.
Introducing the Kickstarter iPhone App
Europe seems to see Python as the name of a computer langauge.

CERN uses Python.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cern+python

They developed the PythonRoot package: http://alcaraz.home.cern.ch/alcaraz/PythonRoot/

It's probably of interest that this and many other Python packages have the word "Python" in the name of the package. I would hate to have to wonder whether PythonCoolPackage was for the Python language, or for interaction with some random company who chose Python as their trademark. I know that if something says Python today it's most likely to do with the language.

The EuroPython Conference is certainly about the language. There are probably other European conferences where you can assume that Python means Python.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epc2006+python

(pdf) https://downloads.egenix.com/python/EPC2006-Developing-Unico...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+conference+europe

Airbus is hiring. They want people with Python on their resume:

http://www.airbus.com/work/experienced-candidates/opportunit...

I think Python means Python in Europe.
I would not expect rails to parse random snippets of xml fed to it just because it can.

Not even security related. If I decide to move from rails to django, now I have to wonder if somebody out there decided to talk to my app using json instead of regular get/post, and deal with migrating/breaking that client.
OK that makes sense. So this would add to the scenario where you have a compute-intensive task, to disable HT? HT's more suited as another level of latency hiding, while one thread's stalled the other can work?
Holy smokes, that intro video is almost tear jerking for some reason. Wow. I don't even know why but it tugged at my heart strings. Sheesh.
The nerve of that New York Times reporter for wanting to go through New York.
I would suggest that what the original customer did was theft. They would still be reaping the profits of their thievery had not stopped it.

Legality is the hard part, which is likely why this company went the way it did. Most people would prefer a 'This site is down due to non-payment' or a 'we are down'.

That's trying to swim upstream without a paddle, this is slippery enough without trying to on the right side.
This really looks incredible, even if it is simply fantasy.

The names are far better than the states we have now... I mean, Utah? Where's the excitement in that? Ogalalla is where it's at. Texas? Really? Big Thicket sounds way better.

Jokes aside, I think rather than abolishing the College completely or doing something as radical as splitting up states, the real solution is perhaps to count the popular vote for each state: for example, if California had 66% of the popular vote for the Blue, it could be counted as a Democratic victory. Likewise, if Texas got 12% blue, it would be a Republican victory.

First one to 26 wins.
And yet so very, very awesome.
Besides HIPAA, it is possible this software would need to comply with the VA's "6500", their internal information security handbook, as well as meeting relevant FISMA / NIST requirements (see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/fisma/index.html ).
That web designer turned a contract issue into a potential tortious interference issue -- against him.
the problem with this analysis (and the one in great grandparent) is that it considers only the behavior of readers.

But Quora is useless to readers without the voluntary contributions of writers.
Do remember, they are in a foreign country. Have you tried to sue someone outside of your country? It's not cheap nor easy.
Citrus, Pain, and Experts
Their army is pretty strong, and can fight until they cause significant damage. And beyond all they have a huge cache all kinds biological, chemical weapons.

I don't think the Nork Army is a significant factor, really. The Western (or First World, or whatever you prefer to call it) way of war has moved on a lot since the 1950s. Communications and logistics are the key. In the first minutes of any stand-up fight, any modern military[1] would have absolute air supremacy, and from then on no Nork forces can communicate or move - it doesn't matter how many millions of men they have. They stop being an army and become just a bunch of guys in the same clothes.

The problem is what do you do with them once you've "won"? It would be Irag or Afghanistan x100.

[1] As an example, the UK defends the Falklands with just 4 modern fighters (Typhoons). That's enough for total superiority over the entire Argentine air force.
64bit version http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/steam6...
It's common for people to log channels - either directly via the server or via a bot that sits in the room and just records everything. Logs can be exposed via various web frontends, most of which are pretty limited feature-wise.

Most IRC clients do not log out of the box, so direct messages from other users are easily lost unless you go out of your way to make sure - the server does not do this logging for you.
I too enjoyed the article having volunteered at HAFMC and seeing so many on need. That was decades ago, but I've often wondered when the wandering quest winds down, what became of their experience? The article hints at the Elders but I suspect that is the minority. Would be interesting to see a Up series a la Micheal Apted
I can empathise with this a lot, but would not recommend going this far, if nothing other than for your own reputation and professionalism. Other clients could see this without fully understanding the situation, potentially losing business.

In previous cases ive been involved in, taking down the site sending in debt collectors is often the easiest and cleanest method of getting back your money.
There are lots of open IRC servers on which you can create password protected rooms. That plus Google Docs /Drive works great for small companies. For larger companies, however, I can see why something like Hipchat could be useful.
And judging from the other comments, people who have no first-hand exposure to this enviroment are simply eating the article up, believing they have the full story. I'd invite anyone who is prepared to generalize about street kid culture based on this one article alone to spend just one /evening/ walking around Haight and Stanyan. Head into the park a ways.

You don't have to go more than 50 yards. I guarantee you take back many of the things you've said on this thread.
Lync iOS app hasn't ever worked really well for me, it works in emergencies but I don't use it when I can avoid it.
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/
Pack - For people who love dogs
This money transfer, about which urbanites complain regularly and in numerous contexts, is what one would expect given well-known legislative dynamics. Rural legislators represent constituents who are mostly against expanded benefits spending (you might say that these constituents' preferences are against their interests, but that doesn't change those actual observed preferences). In order for rural legislators to support new benefits against the wishes of their constituents, they must be bribed by receiving an outsize share.

I think this redrawing of states would end that dynamic decisively, which maybe is what urban people want.
I'm responding to the comment above, not the post.
I wouldn't have downvoted except for this nice piece of well-poisoning:

> You act as if the ads are putting ugly pictures of fat people are flooding your site

Not to mention the fact that his argument had nothing to do with what was being advertised.
I think you could do that just as easily without the lifestyle tourism. Volunteering at a shelter/soup kitchen is something that comes to mind.
Thanks.

If I include computers used at work & friends then we overlap a bit more...

- Commodore 64 & Amiga (?) - both friends

- Prime minicomputer (primos)

- PDP (11?) server

- Vax/VMS server

- SCO Unix & Xenix servers (my first taste of Unix - 1994)

- SCO OpenServer (first server I setup & managed at work)

- Sparcstation (SunOS), Sun Blade & couple of Sun Ultra workstations (all running Solaris)

- Tiny bit of AS/400 & HP-UX

- Lots of Intel servers running Linux! (SuSE, Redhat & Ubuntu)
Thank you for bringing to my attention that the curators appear to have changed the link in the submission to point to the original source.
Isn't TF2 permanently free since they shifted their revenue stream over to selling hats?
Heck, make it a month. It's not like it's that uncommon to release a game with difference of months between launches for each platform. I'd see a lot of people buying Steamboxes if they made HL3, Portal 3 and the next L4D exclusive for them for a month or so.
Our main point of contention is that they are claiming that the right to be the sole source of "Python" software, servers, and services. We have reached out to them to try to reach some accommodation (they can be "Python backup services," for example) but they are not willing to take us seriously.
Command+N works to search for people everywhere (when it does work, the app does freak out occasionally).
Power, what?

The problem is when you send a dyno that has all its threads stuck on long-running computations a new request, because it won't be able to even start processing it. The power is orthogonal to the problem.

The only mitigation is that if a dyno can handle a large number of threads, it probably won't get clogged. But if it can only handle 3 and gets new requests at random, you're in a bad place.
That's not really what he was saying though.

Python was being compared to Perl, and if excel is perl, he wants to see Python, whatever that may be.
Why this designer left the Google+ Team to join Dropbox
Dedicated creators resurrect dead MMO 'Glitch' in the real world
How does a non-coder use this? I don't know what all that is.

I'm just a Python noob thus far.

Will there be an interface for the rest of us?
A Valentine's Day Story about love, poetry & php
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/02/14/poetrycodethe-fastest-way-to-change-the-world/
I use this every night from a python script to force the charge to start after the electricity becomes cheaper. So far it is fast and reliable.
One of the things I rather like about StackOverflow is that any content submitted to the site is under CC-BY-SA, the same license as Wikipedia etc. Quora building a platform for knowledge-sharing and then locking down the content is questionably good for Quora, and not good for anyone else.
Running a heart around San Francisco
While we are on the subject of excel and bioinformatics

http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-a...

http://dontuseexcel.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/dont-use-excel-...

I like Excel for what it is supposed to be used for, and it remains the only MS product I use cause it does its job well. But it has limits, which are all too frequently abused.
This is mostly OT, but when browsing python.org for listed corporate sponsors, I noticed that some characters like ä or é are rendered as diamonds. This is because the page charset is utf-8, but the mentioned characters are encoded in iso-8859-1.

http://python.org/psf/donations/

Yeah, minor as can be, but IMO when someone donates they should've have spelled their name right. I'm reporting this here because someone who can fix this is most likely reading.

PS. IMO there is not much reason to worry. Python has so many friends. Google should buy the company and close it.
I don't do those things at all. I'm surprised you consider those critical bugs.
Squarespace enters the world of ecommerce
Thank you for this book recommendation. I have ordered it and can't wait to read it.
Can this be done easily from a different country - as this is the case here?
suddenly, I feel reminded of http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/crazy_eyes/
One day we will be big enough to need the ability to search for a person! :)

I agree on reordering tabs though - you can re-order one tab and then it locks down.
Previous discussion from when it was covered by extremetech.com:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4627177
Why are greeting cards so expensive?
I've always assumed that anyone smart enough to do such work would be smart enough to refuse to do it. But I guess I am wrong.

Smart doesn't come into it. These guys - to the extent that they think about it at all, having been raised from birth to think that the Kim dynasty are living gods - are doing it so their families can eat. And so would most of us I'll wager.
Applies To:
- Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel X for Mac

Sure, it sucks that it was there at all, but the most recent mentioned is a 9 year Mac version of the software (which is written by a different team than does the Windows Office anyways).
I'd be happier to see states allocate votes not all-to-the-same-guy, but rather in proportion to the popular vote. (Whether nationally or in your state.)

So, California might have 20 votes for X, 20 for Y, 10 for Z, and 5 for Q.

That would help ensure that your vote matters within your state, and preserves Some electoral votes for third party candidates. The goal as I see it should not be to elect the Most Popular President, but rather to most-faithfully represent the voting preferences of the constituents. The net result should be similar -- or will be if all states were to do this.

Of course I also dream on being able to vote for contingent people, so that I can vote for a 3rd party candidate, but if he's not going to win, have my vote count for a different candidate. I forget the name of this, but it's complicated yet very elegant. It allows you to vote your conscience and yet not worry about "throwing away" your vote and letting That Guy win because you didn't vote for his most-winning opponent.
Great. Now all we need to do is petition nVidia to kindly unfuck their drivers so we can get decent Optimus support (among other things).
Office 2013 license only allows one install (ever) for non-subscription
I also don't understand why all parsing of user input needs to have YAML turned on by default. All this stuff should be turned off. I think it is a fundamental design choice that has to be looked at.
What investors care about is how many people used the site last week, not how many people have accounts.
The same way that the reverse used to happen when the Democratic Party caucus had a majority in the House of Representatives in the 1980s. In those days, there was much higher turnout in Republican-leaning districts, but there were fewer of those districts, because Republican voters were concentrated into just a few congressional districts in most states by state legislatures that mostly had a Democratic majority. Now that the tables are turned, people from the other side of the aisle notice this as a problem, but always it takes "tide" elections to switch majority control of state legislatures, which then lock in place (until the next tide) advantages for the majority party in the drawing of electoral districts. This too shall pass.
Since when does "efficient" mean a net-gain in energy? Seems like Broder needs to revisit his high school Science AND English classes.
For an overview of some of the issues with current usage of spreadsheets in business - http://www.eusprig.org/basic-research.htm

They have a conference just about spreadsheet risk.