skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure whether you had the chance to look at the video but we address this point in it. The video is available here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0LC54QaMf4
I'm throwing in:

Frameless - http://framelessgrid.com/ and

OpenDAWS - http://wail.es/opendaws/ (disclosure - mine)

Different way of thinking about grids
Its the same issue as neilson scores for TV. Statistically questionable, but highly respected.

Any competitor has less appeal.
Pages like "price-to-fly-from-<city 1>-to-<city 2>.html" is the main reason for organic traffic decline of many of our e-commerce SEO clients.

These pages don't add value as you can simply have a form and enter both cities and get results. Panda refreshes usually smash these sort of pages hard.
Interesting thoughts. Thanks Josh, good to see someone commenting who has extensive experience in that area.

Quick question: Do you have any suggestions for websites/forums/communities for non-fiction authors? It seems that the process of writing a (somewhat) successful book is quite a tricky endeavor and as you mentioned topic, positioning, title, cover, and content play such decisive roles.

Also I am quite curious on your experiences so far, so let me ask a few more questions: How does your current revenue break down in percentage, e.g. speaking, book royalties, (+ online courses, ...), meaning are book royalties still playing a role or are they just a promotional vehicle for the other revenue streams? It seems that you are working with a traditional publishing house. Would love to know where you see the benefits in comparison with self-publishing?
I assume http://inuitcss.com/. At least that's the first hit when I search for "inuit.css."
Nice job iCracked team. Great service that everyone needs.
I'm pretty sure that's not merely nonsensical, but actually illegal.
UPS is union, actually, and not horrible. I think some of the elements of FedEx are as well (FedEx Ground is basically RPS via an acquisition, and their employees have universally sucked in my experience, but they're not union -- there's a push to unionize. I do believe FedEx pilots and maybe some other parts of the air operations are union.)

I don't think USPS is that inefficient for some of its operations.

FedEx (Air/Express) is the gold standard for premium delivery.
1) There are people working on that.

2) How would that change anything whatsoever?
Having to maintain a never-ending facade of success and happiness really is draining.

Learning to be able to confidently say "I'm very concerned our company might die if we don't do X by Y because of Z" was one of the hardest and the most rewarding things I learned how to do.

I found that skillfully expressing my real feelings leads to much better results than not expressing them at all. If you pay careful attention to how politicians speak, they often utter phrases like "I'm very concerned about..." It sounds odd at first, almost fake, but when done genuinely it can be a source of great strength. You don't need to fake things in a time of crisis. You can share your darkest fears with people while maintaining a confident demeanor, and it does wonders for how people perceive you.

Of course this is harder to do than to say. I'm still learning, but a while ago I resolved not to hide my feelings from people anymore.
The first thing that I think of when I see this is bitcoin mining! Maybe could give the Jalapeño / Butterfly Labs guys a run for their ... satoshis.
He also said that there was "no 'up a directory' button", which suggested to me an unfamiliarity with the Windows UI for navigating up the directory path. Or maybe he was using a version of Windows older than Windows 7.
Are you focusing on a specific location, to start off?
How Erlang On Xen can be used in real world?
Holy wowsers. I didn't know you frequent HN. I loved the Personal MBA.

Thanks for writing it with a view to making it useful rather than hitting a list.
I don't know about the rest, but the increased consumption of fake beer is a pretty classic example of an inferior good. The good that people resort to skimping on would shift from country to country (measured by indifference curves), but it's expected that as income drops spending on inferior goods would rise.
Aaronsw: Senator Cornyn's prosecutorial conduct inquiry. Update?
On January 17, 2013, Senator Cornyn wrote an open letter to the Attorney General Eric Holder asking seven questions regarding prosecutorial conduct in Aaron Swartz's case.
Did Eric Holder ever respond to Senator Cornyn?

As far as I can tell, it appears that the Senator's questions were never actually addressed by Eric Holder's office or the DOJ. What does it say about our democracy today, if even our elected representatives, senators even, are ignored by our public servants?
Only suckers fall for PR trickery.

Now I'm going to check out this Tony Hsieh book and website. Seems interesting.
What's amazing is how few copies it takes to get onto the list.
Why would that be a disease though? I thought he'd maybe edited his reply and said something else. Maybe I'm just tangled up in the misuse of a word though!

Side note, does the theory of juggling have a mathematical underpinning?
I am on the flip side, I can hold a similar schedule until summer approaches as I find it near impossible to sleep while it lights out.

Gone the route of lined curtains that do a great job of blocking the light. Could never get used to any sort of mask/etc.

I would prefer to drive home in sunlight than drive in, but that may be because I love convertible cars
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Or you could re-instate the line veto?
Because of the 1JS principle, ES6 will be a strict superset of ES5. CoffeeScript can maintain its existing semantics, produce the same JS output that it does now, and nothing will break. But then it's not really targeting ES6, is it? It's targeting ES5 and benefitting, as all Javascript code does, from ES6's backward compatibility with ES5.

So sure, if we're not interested in the new features of ES6 in the first place, then I grant that ES6 compatibility is a red herring.
Wow, awesome. (I've never broken a phone or tablet, only a Kindle and an old iPod water damaged, but I can see how a $200-800 device you carry around could be at risk of damage.)
Related: A couple of days ago someone made this: http://hsmaker.com/
> The type system does quite a bit more than just describe cardinality. The single most important feature is typeclasses; you simply can't replicate some of what typeclasses can easily do without a similar type system.

In the C programming language types are mainly used to describe cardinalities. For example, char is the cardinality of the smallest addressable unit of memory of the machine (often 256). We don't need more then machine cardinalities as entire operating systems have been written in assembly and C. What advantages do type classes and GADTS have that make them worth adopting? Is there any evidence that they make programs more safe and reliable?

> My point with math is that Haskell libraries and code use mathematical abstractions (like various sorts of algebraic structures) far more than lisp; I was not taking about what people do with Haskell but rather how they do it.

I am building a computer algebra system with Lisp in my free time. There are many Lisp computer algebra systems that I have learned a lot from like Maxima, Reduce, and Axiom. One of my favorite computer algebra systems is GAP and it is written in C and not Haskell. I am not convinced that Haskell uses more mathematical abstractions and algebraic structures and I am not familiar with any well maintained computer algebra system written in Haskell.

> Having a flexible syntax that can look like math is far more important usually, and Haskell gets most of the way there without being too complicated.

Math doesn't look like anything. Mathematics is about abstract concepts (especially the natural numbers) not representations. You mean that Haskell is meant to look like math does on paper, but whats so important about using a paper syntax when we have keyboards?
But UPS isn't run by political appointees, has an equity return objective, and is disciplined by market forces without a monopoly protection.
May be. It's a bit far off (there is more low-hanging fruit), but I'd never say never.
Cool, I'll get in touch
Gitinit: Initiates an git repository with a .gitignore for the provided language
With the changed in PSN+ over the last two years and the inclusion of all the free games I'm sure in the next generation I'll just go for a PS4 and PSN+ yearly subscriptions and that will cover all my gaming needs.
booting into an IPython QT shell in full screen, with a custom help message explaining how to save hunks of code to file, would be great. Being able to Alt+Tab to a browser (even one pointing at a local copy of the python and ipython docs) would be essential, though.
I wish you'd expand into third-party onsite tech service for other products. i.e. if I were deploying hundreds of devices in the SFBA, if I could pay your techs $x to take a y hour course online (or in a lab) to get qualified to work on a new item, then pay them per onsite service dispatch.

Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, etc. do this for really high end products or large contracts. Generally it's more cost-effective to RMA items from small customers, but it would be cool to have the option of selling onsite service.
Biggest problem for this issue today is: kids don't know what a command line is, and are unfamiliar with the classic "terminal" interface.

When teaching an intro to programming, my curriculum still uses this "command shell" form. Of late, nigh unto no students have seen it, and I have to teach it as a new concept - a problem as it's more obsolete than new. Soon we'll have to give up on it as a starting point, saving it for more advanced students. GUIs rule now; beginners don't grok a text prompt.
Petit Computer (http://www.petitcomputer.com/) - BASIC on Nintendo DS

Maximite (http://geoffg.net/maximite.html) - single IC computer running BASIC with 8 colours on VGA.
You could just set up an isolated system with nothing you care about holding onto for them. Destructive commands would, at worst, require a full wipe and re-image and probably a short conversation about what the fuck just happened.
A Redis database would be a server in addition to the server you write in either case. 0MQ uses no server, it is just a library.
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Scheduling is done by any external tool like cron, a java app running quartz or control-m. However, the processor job knows the last time it was run and know which data it should process to update the time. You might also choose to run the job overriding the last time it ran, to reprocess data it you want.
Doesn't F# still perform worse than C# in various scenarios? IIRC the functional glue adds some overhead and F# uses classes instead of structs in some cases.
There seems to be some escaped HTML in your header text: http://i.imgur.com/RG5bBDp.png
Differentiating in Python
it's a feature
Using Amazon OpsWork with Puppet
I would love to use Amazon OpsWork for the next version of my product that is about to be released, but we already setup our entire development environment using Puppet, which isn't supported by Amazon OpsWork.

Do you see any downside of using a Chef Cookbook with OpsWork only to update and run my Puppet recipes?
Thanks!
This is really exciting. I do about 50% of my commercial development work in VB .NET (the other 50% in Python), and I hate hate HATE working in VB. Convincing the suits to go with Python would be near impossible -- too many processes rely on .NET -- but this seems like it could a be a great compromise. Sane, fast, modern language but with the full power of .NET libraries.

Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning F# for the .NET developer? I don't need an intro to functional programming (I have a pretty functional style in python and I've messed around with Haskell) but just a well paced intro to the syntax and standard library.
Love the continued one-liners that really never answer the questions people are posing.

Namely, the HN posts that you link completely call it: Why do you insist on tackling any problem that you encounter with exactly the same toolchain and/or mindset that you would on Linux? And then, when inevitably different approaches are required, you complain that Apple/OS X (but usually any other BSD alternative) is terrible. Well, yes, when you go into any situation expecting failure, don't be surprised when it turns out that way.

I'm looking into your radar issue, but even you note that's been fixed. Won't be able to take advantage of those type of fixes if you never upgrade OS X, there will you? Can't go down that path that even you admit "you don't want to follow".

Thanks for the background read though. I guess you're pretty popular around these parts, must have missed it. I'll now know to avoid trollbait articles that rehash tired cliches about Apple's downfall, why Linux's way is always the best way (compromise be damned), and the lazy end users.
Please, could you share the uses you thoughts for it? This is what we are most interested in. We did the platform for ourselves, and it seems powerful now, we would like to know what could interest others...
We are planning to start off in san francisco bay area for our beta testing.
Calling all Cloud Services
I am looking to build a relationship with any company providing cloud based services that are broadly useful to either businesses or home users. I have direct ties in to several medium sized regional Internet service providers, and we are looking for ways to bundle useful cloud services with our existing service offerings to add value for our customers.

The bulk of our customers are residential, and would be primarily interested in streaming Movies/TV/Music and in data backup/sync, particularly for Photos and Videos. (For Example: Pandora, Spotify, Dropbox, Hulu, Netflix) Shopping or shipping services might be of interest here as well (Such as Shoprunner or Amazon Prime)

We do have a large number of business customers as well that might have broader interests.

We are not necessarily looking for white-labeled or re-licensed services, though that would be a bonus. All we're really looking for is to resell your cloud service to our customers, we will bill them and then pay you a lump sum on a recurring basis.

So, if you have ties to any kind of paid cloud based service that might be directly useful to either residential Internet users or to a broad range of businesses, I'd love to hear from you!
The one sentence summary that explains the entire situation is: the 2006 pension funding requirement change was written and pushed by congresspeople who have taken campaign contributions by UPS and Fedex.

The reality is that most of the losses since 2006 were directly due to the overfunding requirement (they had to prepay 75 years of projected liabilities in 10 years time -- a requirement that no other agency has). They are also prohibited from cutting back service because they need congressional approval to do so (and a bunch of rural congresspeople are pushing back against it), so the USPS is in a real bind where they are being essentially forced to make changes but don't have the authority to do so.
this reminded me of something similar i did (i'm afraid my recursive decent parser is probably more opaque) - differentiating numerical expressions in python. http://www.acooke.org/cute/Differenti0.html
Thank you Bubs. The work your doing is so important and needed by our community. I've just finished Seth Godin's 'The Icarus Deception' and your post truly resembles art.
I've used F# for some little .NET school projects using Mono.

It's quite well supported as everything related to F# developed by Microsoft is open-sourced (compiler, libraries, PowerPack).

Moreover Mono fully supports F#, as the compiler is sometimes bundled in some releases.

Also, F# is really a pretty sweet language (as for an heavy Haskell user with a little C# background). French love inside.
Very cool.

Thanks for the cool post. I am not sure I got the difference between the LL and LR parser. Is what you have above an LR parser?

Also, why did you choose to represent both + and - as "ADD" tokens (and * and / as "MUL") is this to enforce evaluation priority? It would be interesting to see if you can add or ^ as an exponent for this calculator.

Maybe you intended this post strictly as as an educational post, but I think doing parsing right (and from first principles) is a really cool thing to have. Check out how khan-exercises framework uses to parse math expressions into an AST:
https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/blob/master/utils/mat...
This seems to be the bigest one: "GoZMQ does not support zero-copy."

There still seems to be some work to do to improving the Golang bindings: https://github.com/alecthomas/gozmq#caveats
You could word it like "anyone may ignore any law that doesn't conform to such and such requirements." That would be effectively binding.
No. :) I tried to parodize a bit but I guess it wasn't very succesful.
500,000 years ago: Hunters used stone-tipped spears. Fire was already discovered and was probably used to stay warm, cook food, and scare away predators.

50,000 years ago: Peak of Ice Age. Nethanderals co-exist with our ancestors who lived in caves. Cave lions, cave bears, and cave hyenas all existed in this time too.

5,000 years ago: World human population is about 30,000,000. Height of Egypt's Old Kingdom. Agriculture, social pyramid, and a mystical cosmology are in place.

500 years ago: Roughly the time of the Renaissance which gave birth to the scientific revolution which gave birth to the industrial revolution. Together science and industry form the world as we know it today.

50 years ago: Computers are able to perform algebraic equations, the space race is in full swing, counterculture revolution is just beginning.

5 years ago: The planet's ecologic and economic systems collide. Our species is forced to re-examine our core values and start asking the big question of existence again.

What an amazing chain of events that has led to this moment in space and time. I wonder sometimes about our ultimate fate and what is our place in the cosmos, but nothing is concrete. All I know is that nature, culture, and technology must be in harmony.
I've dropped all iPhones I've ever owned. Never shattered glass yet, but it's only a matter of time.
In theory good parliamentary practice is not to allow conflicting motions and any consequentials should have been worked out beforehand.

Also any amendments should be relevant to the original motion - which if applied in the USA would stop a lot of the pork barrel amendments.
Isn't this what BlockChalk [1] and many others have attempted before? How are you going to solve the chicken & egg problem? How are you more than a GPS centric twitter?

I'm genuinely interested. I actually created and submitted this exact type of application when Android first came out and had their app contest. Of course, the market has grown a bit since then. ;) I've since moved on but it always did seem like a good idea.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/08/blockchalk-location/ (Deadpooled)
From 2007, Tim Ferris breaks down his own campaign to reach the NY Times Best Seller list:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/08/06/how-does-a-b...

He is extremely good at self-promotion, and the critics he has over the internet (well founded or not), can still dissect/use some good bits he puts out.
This is where I'm at now. I love Linux distros for servers, but I've been essentially fighting with desktop versions of Ubuntu/#!/Mint/etc for 4 years and I'm tired of it. It was fun, but it's no longer fun and I want my computer to get out of my way and let me get stuff done.
The authors I've talked to seemed to value Amazon lists and rank/ratings more than NYT -- is this accurate/rational?
This was pretty much my PhD thesis topic. The summary no one wants to hear is that all the incremental algorithms for changing graphs suffer the same problem, and no one talks about it.

They are all optimised for changes near the start of the search. The better ones are optimised for changes anywhere on or beyond the 'search perimeter' (the perimeter of the region consisting of nodes whose cost-to-goal has been calculated). They all suffer catastrophic slow down when costs change near the goal region, because the incremental update requires changing almost all the saved information. Due to the overhead of extra calculations and storage, this can be slower than throwing away all the saved state and starting again from scratch.

What to do about this is a much more interesting question, and inadequately explored in my opinion.
This is just the kernel, the OS has a filesystem, networking, graphics, GUI (both basic elements and a window manager), does multi-user multi tasking.

It is the largest project I ever worked on, but as I wrote it does not currently build so there is not much point in releasing the source in its entirety. I just posted the kernel code as proof that I did indeed write an OS.

I won't make a comparison between SparrowOS and what I put together but I think that if such a comparison where to be made I'd first have to put in a lot of time to get it serviceable again and I have other things to do.

The filesystem was a port of the Minix FS, the networking stack was a full TCP/IP stack adapted from freebsd to work as a stand-alone process. The GUI/WM were written from scratch. It relied heavily on DJGPP for the bootstrapping of the development process and at some point became self-hosting.

The one tricky part which I really have no idea on how to solve today was that for the bootstrap it used a mixed mode program written in borland C to get the initial configuration and the first few processes loaded into ram before starting up the OS proper.

All of this would have to be updated and repaired before you could get a working OS out of it.

So with all due respect I think that it was a pretty fair comparison.
we know it already http://mysteriesexplored.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/saturn-and...
Reseachers were able to model this in the lab:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-04/saturns-myster...
It is a very inspiring story! I think everyone can relate to it to some extent because everyone has down times. It saddens me very much that we live in such a society that stigmatizes depression and suicide this much. I have only realized how bad the stigmatization is until recently due to things that happened in my personal life. This article also made me want to write out my own story and share it online. Maybe one day I will do that.
I've had really good luck with the Magpul cases (which match my magazines). They finally came out with one for the iPhone 5.
The book by Don Syme (one of the F# creators) is pretty good as it gives an short, yet complete, introduction to the language to people with a functional and .NET background.

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-F-3-0-Apress/dp/1430246502/

I've started functional programming by reading the book about F# by Tomas Petricek. It was really good because it target learning functional programming to someone who have a solid OO background.

http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Functional-Programming-Toma...
Hacker News in mutt.
don't know much about how Iranian dates work so I peeked inside the code to see the actual conversion.

Line 482 -
$g_days_in_month = array(31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31);

Umm, what about leap years, you know the ones that have 29 days in February?