skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for bad README, I'll complete it asap.
Google will purchase Tesla in the next 18 months, it'd be a perfect fit.
Yes, there is a risk. Last year, I was scammed by a company in California. Not a lot of money, but it still made me angry. But I'm not worried, because it was only one out of a lot.
To clarify - they (in my recollection) didn't say anything about the appropriateness of automated monitoring of people's movements in public places. It's already ok for the cops to tail you without a warrant. But automated vehicle-tracking via drones without a warrant (for example) is still up in the air. No pun intended. It wasn't really a ruling in favor of (or against) privacy.
I don't want to be that guy, but clicking on your logo on your blog takes me back to... your blog. Super annoying.
Then why did you even comment if you are not willing to do something?

Whatever you do you must pay, with time, money, your privacy or control; I see you've made your choice.
If you as a paramedic rush to every patient, before long you're going to take a pointless injury and be unable to work. For the sake of saving one patient - the trivial amount of time saved by rushing rarely affects outcomes - getting injured means that while you recover, you can no longer attend dozens of other patients at all. Hardly 'miraculous efficiency'.
Swish looks cool and useful for finding fun new toys. Good work!
Did you read the "what is Kickstarter?" page before making this? Because Kickstarter isn't about pre-orders, its about backing projects. The "Kickstarter Is Not a Store" post on their blog is pretty clear about it all.

I'm not saying that an alternative browser for Kickstarter projects doesn't have merit. Or that a meta-directory sat on top of Kickstarter (and others) isn't a useful service. I'm just saying that your framing of it (pre-orders) is actually opposed to the ethos of the underlying service.
Out of curiosity, when was the last time they trotted out that philosophy?
I was responding generally to OP's general statement. I don't work on Gchat spam, and don't have any particular insight into their problem.
Not sure about the headline, but the tone of this message from the FSF suggests a maturing of their efforts. Notably missing is a lack of the word "evil" or strongly worded demands. It makes them far more credible, I think.
My experience is that those sites are best used understanding the languages themselves. There are other tutorials (like Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial) that walk through building an application from scratch while learning the language (or at least the framework.)

I think some of these sites can do a much better job when it comes learning how to create projects, but I don't necessarily think that is what they were targeting originally.
I'm not sure about the situation in India, but I can say that startup investments are risky and angel investors are risk averse. It's always good to see indicators that lower the perceived risk: a strong founding team, traction, revenues, profitability, etc. In Silicon Valley, great traction with customers can often lead to profitability, so traction without current revenue is still considered a good sign. It's possible that traction is not as well correlated with profitability in other locales, and so traction alone would not be a strong enough indicator in those places.
Search, which provides the majority of Google's revenue, is precarious because there are very low costs for someone to switch to another service.

To combat this problem, Google started providing all these associated services -- Finance, Reader, Blogger, etc, etc -- so that people would begin to use their Google ID as a significant component of their online identity. These services were never supposed to be profitable, they were supposed to provide a competitive "moat" for search.

If people begin to take their data out of Google services -- which is the only rational response given Google's repeated and blatant disregard toward its "customers" -- these customers might start looking toward Bing and DDG very soon. Then Google will have a problem.

Even Android could have a problem if people begin asking the question, "what happens if/when Google sunsets Play? Will I still have access to my apps?"
Samsung Will Release Tizen-Based Smartphone This Year
This is definitely a victory and kudos to the EFF, but keep this win in perspective. The Court only ruled on the gag orders attached to the NSLs.

Therefore, as of now the executive can still issue an NSL, without a gag order attached, which is still the equivalent of a warrant less search and seizure. So there is still a larger fight ahead in getting the Courts to rule the NSLs are Unconstitutional.
I'm aware, I copy pasted the link from YouTube without looking at it. Probably a bug.
Congrats Gentry and team!! If you'd like Gmail + Dropbox attachment management now, just use Attachments.me iPhone app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/attachments.me-for-gmail-ema...
> How likely is it that the same company which builds bleeding-edge machine-learning systems to track and predict our behavior online, and which uses these AI predictions constantly to maximize their ad revenue, somehow cannot find a better way to filter out spam invites?

Spam detection algorithms, even Google's, are rarely perfect. They probably came to conclusion that blocking foreign invites is a good tradeoff. We don't have enough information to evaluate if it was a good tradeoff. I think it was. I was recently getting lot of spammy chat invites (chat bots that tried to convince me to do an online payment for something), it was quite annoying.
An interesting tidbit from the abstract of the study: "Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 yrs."
A likeable TED Talk generator
My guess as to what the sticking point would be that prevents politicians from accepting Bitcoin donations - they're not known to not take anything worth money - is somehow doing so without allowing foreign donations to their campaigns, which I believe is illegal.
1) What if your company is indeed growing but not scaling at the rate that it needs? An investment would boost that ability correct? An owner would be able to hire more employees, perhaps buy more necessary technology, etc.

2) I don't think that is good advice. Zuckerberg had built things previous to Facebook but never anything that made money. I am not as familiar with Twitter and Pinterest's founders but I don't believe they had money-making businesses before. If a service is good and attracts people, why not build it??
Congrats Gentry and team!! If you'd like Gmail + Dropbox attachment management now, use Attachments.me
Most people on federated servers are specifically on servers like xmpp.us, jabber.org, etc that don't have associated email accounts.

This isn't perfect being the enemy of the good, it's a description of why it's not even good.
Ideas of March, by Chris Shiflett
"I'm 24, and my life is in shambles, compared to what it could be."

That you think this is one positive step toward your idea of "life...what it could be". A lot of 24 year olds do not have such aspirations. So just aspiring to something is helpful.

"I seriously struggle with motivation to do just about anything. I have a midterm tomorrow in Dynamics (a mech engr course), and I have pretty much neglected the class entirely, and I am most certainly going to fail it, and I'll have to withdraw. This isn't surprising, because I've been in this situation many, many times before."

You were discussing how you think people on HN are smart. I think people on HN are limited. Not only do I think that, I am right, people on HN are limited. Including myself. Gnothi seauton. Know your limitations. Why do even the best coders say people shouldn't put more than, say, seven objects or variables in a function? The truth is, many functions would be better with a couple of dozen variables in them. Why do the best coders not do this? Because they are limited. They can only keep seven or eight objects in their head at once, they can't keep track of two hundred objects in their head at once. So they write code that their limited brains can understand. Bad coders write long functions with hundreds of variables, to where they can't keep the whole function in their head any more, and their code fails. Good coders write functions that their tiny 1.5kg, 1 cubic decimeter brains can handle.

You said you know you're going to fail the course you mention. Did you know before you started you would? I don't know the answer, but it seems like you did, or you should have. So why take the course? Why set yourself up to fail? You talk about motivation - nothing is more DE-motivating than setting yourself up to fail like that. Or trying to get that great Apple job you're not yet qualified for.

Just like big code has to be "broken up" into small functions, you have to "break up" your big goals. Set small, realistic, achievable goals and go from step to step. If you can't achieve these new goals, then obviously they're not small, realistic and/or achievable enough, so make them smaller, more realistic and more achievale.

Nothing is more demotivating than this cycle of "going for the gold" and failing every time. Things go incremently. There are setbacks, maybe small, achievable, realistic goal #4 will have some setback. So just deal with it and go on. If you can only concentrate for five minutes, your goal should be to concentrate for five minutes and thirty seconds. And go from there. Iterative and incremental are popular philosophies here.
Ask HN: Specialize in one language or all languages
When you work as a software engineer for a while you learn a whole list of languages: Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lisp, Clojure, iOS. I have been offering weekend programming classes in the Bay Area and I have a dilemma. Is it possible to be a full-stack trainer or does the market automatically assume you have to be a Python trainer or a JavaScript trainer? Part of the issue is that it is easier to sell training as a product when it is focused on one language, than to sell training which involves all the languages that go into a real application. Thoughts?
Lawdingo, The Startup That Lets You Talk To Lawyers Instantly, Joins YC
In the email world they have a lot more signals (content of messages, for example) to work with.
It's not the same thing. When G+ killed Google Reader's "sharebro" social network, Google Reader still was the best feed reader of the market by a long shot. Just like now, there was nowhere to run. Heck, I kept using it, just like anyone complaining. I kept recommending it because it was GReader or a fucking magazine-layout shitty app.

But now they are definetely killing it, and it will affect the users in a different way. They are trashing away the app so there's no way a user can simply adapt. Before you could say "well, at least I can keep reading the feeds". Now you got nothing.

About influencers, well, there are lots of people with a good chunk of influence using GReader. They might make a dent on how people perceive Google's app reliability. Even a small one could end up in some financial loss. If it would be significant to them, only time will tell.

By the way, have you noticed that the Google+ still didn't catch up? What if it's Google Reader users fault? Think about it.
I think this boils down to having aligned interests.

Free is good when it comes to code and apps, as you say, because our interests are aligned: I want to use this, and you want me to use this.

Free is bad when you give away a scarce resource and design systems to thwart all but the least common denominator of users:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...

I've been reposting this for almost four years now and I hope that this meme can stick. It's not about dumping, per se, or about sour grapes or different competition philosophies - it's about recognizing when the interests of a provider are NOT the same as your interests.
That might make sense if they are a one to one equivalent. I think it is unlikely to be the case however. Losing a few million users of a niche product doesn't matter to Google if it wasn't a large revenue stream. Rolling out features that fit the Google+ scheme as they are ready makes more sense to me.
This isn't new, but seems worth considering in light of recent changes at Google.
It's fast and lightweight and uncluttered, which is great, but it lacks at least one bit of extremely critical functionality:

I need, 100%, to see my content in forward-chronological order (most-recent-last).

I've already given $24 for a year of NewsBlur, and I am super excited about being able to share and comment again. But, I know I'm not alone in wanting correct sorting.
A professional attitude and good training doesn't counter basic biological processes. What do you gain from running? A few seconds, some of which you'll have to use up recovering from the run, and irrelevant bystanders thinking you're 'doing your job'. What do you lose by running? A lot - as described in the link, which has an excellent run-down.
I haven't used a feed reader in more than three years. I believe that fad is gone. Google has closed many more important services and they're still strong.

Nop. There is no lesson to be learnt.
Reader is getting the axe because it's getting in the way of the new protege project, G+.

They can't have anything holding Google from becoming what they think Facebook should be.

In fact, they don't just want to become/defeat Facebook, but also Apple (see Nexus/Chromebook) and Amazon (see Shopping Express), not to mention Groupon (see Offers). By trying to be all things, they will become none.

They are on the path to becoming Microsoft. I desperately hope that the Glass/Driverless-car part of the company prevails in corporate culture. I fear that will not be the case.
As someone who is not affiliated with either party, I really don't get Obama supporters. He was supposed to bring change to the white house, instead, he has expanded Bush-era secrecy and has eroded our civil liberties even further... and not a peep from his support base.

In my view, democrats are the lesser of two evils, but I'm just surprised that nothing has been done about this.
What the ops team isn't telling them (DevOps only goes so far) is that there's a cron job on each node which periodically bounces the Chronos processes (and its 50 dependencies) in order to mitigate memory leaks.
Are podcasts dead? Without RSS, Podcasts would not exist.
far more than 2% of people who enter vfib and stay there for more than "a few seconds" recover.

How many more? If it's less than, say, 60 or 70% or something, then I don't think "frequently" is terribly inapt. One-in-three is pretty damned frequent, when the one, you know, dies.
Also kind of interesting in the context that Google IO is just around the corner. Wonder if they will be announcing something that will somehow make more sense of all this change than is apparent at this stage.
Formspring Shuts Down
> It's not surprising, google has been on the road to becoming the next Microsoft for a while.

I've heard this a lot. Are there any specific anecdotes that really show a strong analogy between the two? Do I have to assume that today's "Cloud" is yesteryear's PC-Compatible?
"Yep. And it never figured out how to handle high-vol and low-vol blogs together in any meaningful way". What I always thought but was never able to articulate so well (hi again fellow twitter user).
Yeah, I agree. Things like birth control seem entirely at odds with the "insurance" model. I haven't a problem with subsidized birth control, but maybe such services should be part of a separate program?
Are you sure you are solving an actual problem? I've backed a dozen projects, and never gone to to the kickstarter.com home page looking for a project.

I'm not sure many people spend time browsing for things to back. People just hear about interesting projects via HN, twitter, reddit, facebook, etc., and then transact via Kickstarter.
I'm about as unaware of the Ruby ecosystem as anyone who regularly reads HN can be, so while I've heard of Resque I'm not really sure where it fits in.

I suppose the definition of job scheduling is dependent on what your workload entails. Is it something you expect to complete in less than a second, a minute, or a big resource intensive HPC job you expect to run for hours? What sorts of dependencies do you have between the things you want to run? Will it run in the main event loop, separate thread, separate process, or on a separate host? I think this will reflect in the tool you choose for scheduling, or cause you to write your own.

It sounds to me like the target workload for Chronos is big slow batch jobs (ETL, data analysis). HPC job schedulers take care of things like resource management (run this job on this machine because it has the lowest load) and dependency management (don't run job b until job a completes), whereas cron handles running periodic tasks and that's about it. Chronos is nice because it looks like it is combining the two and includes a nice looking web based control panel to boot.
This probably explains better than I could: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1aajw0/just_landed_t...
No need to experiment. Anthropologists and historians have taken a closer look at this and pierced through the barter economy myth.

You might want to read the relevant chapters of David Graeber's book "Debt: the first 5000 years".
Exciting. One step closer to never having to learn how to use git.
I figured the manual scrolling was to train you to navigate the site. I guess scrolling automatically implies this, but maybe the former is more effective?
Why You're Wrong About Monty Python
The depressing part is realizing that Obama is actually the lesser of two evils (two elections running), and that worse could be happening right now in terms of rights erosion and increase in security-state.

There is no left-wing remaining in power in this country. You only have corporatists and reactionary extremists corporatists.
I think the calamity comes when we re-define our objectives. For instance, right now the definition of 'terrorist' is fairly clear. But what if we start to consider drug lords terrorists (we probably already do)? Then what about the small dealers under them? Then what about considering the users they sell to terrorists (for funding them)? Then what about considering that drug user's spouse to be a terrorist, for harboring a terrorist? Then it could be fairly easy to imprison a great number of people. But the real danger is that instead of imprisoning everyone we pick and choose who we want to send away forever. Then when someone speaks out against the government in a way that's frowned upon, the government digs up some dirt which can categorize them as a 'terrorist' and they're locked away in a secret prison or executed.

This might sound absurd but I think it's plausible. And it's exactly this kind of worst-case-scenario preparation and fear which gave us the great documents and principles our country was founded upon.
Obama's justice department has been just as horrible, if not more-so than Bush's justice department.
Nice, I think we can manage it better if you make an issue on our Github, so I mark it as enhancement and I'll work it for next versions.
I like it. Instead of complaining, do something about it. Obviously there is a huge demand for something that's exactly like Google Reader. whoever builds this by July will have a good chance at creating a successful businesses.
Maybe you should just realize that you should pay for the shit you use. Or if you don't value your own time, grab the source and run it yourself (and pay at least $1/month for hosting it, but probably really $10-$20/month for hosting it yourself).
Don't just give them kudos. Send the EFF dollars.
The judge is an America hero. The NSL's are Orwellian. I just donated to the EFF, please do likewise.
Jason Fried on Walking Away From a Product
Buying Guide: Find the best iPad keyboard
F#'s greatest understated value might be in not being part of the Visual Studio ecosystem.

Yes, it can run on Visual Studio, but in principle it is not tainted by the "give me a job" C#/Visual Studio/.Net mentality.

As such, F# developers could consider avenues and form communities which are taken for granted in other environments (Unix, Python, Ruby, etc).
Kickstarter never intended to be a place for pre-orders. But it's hard to deny that a lot of campaigns treat the plaform that way. We think it's amazing and wonderful, but Kickstarter doesn't really want it on their platform (though they're not fighting very hard, see eg the Almond+... a story for a different day).

Both consumers and sellers want these transactions to happen, and we want to (eventually) be the best place to list. But for now, we're starting by being the best place to shop.
Great. Pull-requests are welcome.
you want me to be honest? This feels like a feature to me, not a business. Very hard to get traction with something like this.
Anyone has any feedback about the second book of Neil Fiore? "The Now Habit at Work"

Thank you for the enlightened post.
How to Get User-Generated Videos for your Company
This is exactly what's supposed to happen; the DoJ brought the dispute to the judicial branch and asked a court to resolve it, as opposed to arresting people or seizing control of the assets. They didn't seek the breakup of the company or the arrest or ruin of its officers, they asked the court to require compliance with what they believed to be a valid request in the form of the NSL. The court sided with the defendant, and the DoJ is going to have to abide by that unless they win at appeal.

This is exactly why we have a judicial branch to begin with. You should be celebrating.
Nice work! really really awesome.
Ask HN:  Anyone else seeing Gmail's "Display density: Compact" not working?
TL;DR: Gmail theme "Orcas Island" is borked. Any others?

(Maybe I should have tried harder to squeeze "theme Orcas Island" into the title...)

--

Yes, this is using HN as "Google customer support", but what other option do I have?

In Gmail's web client, I use the theme "Orcas Island" for a more pleasant experience. (Not only do I like the pictures; it also changes the background from white to a less bright gray-blue.)

Today, in that theme, "Display density: Compact" is no longer working. Whitespace galore.

I noticed some other Gmail changes, e.g. the prompt to confirm mobile phone number (for security notifications). So, maybe the same push broke this aspect of theming?

So far, I've only noticed this affecting the theme "Orcas Island". (But, I'm not going to check them all...)

Googling has revealed nothing on this.
Talk to customers! Or, in your case, talk to people in your target market! Is this something they need? Are they willing to pay you for it?
Foosball Tourney in SoMA
You're using RSS wrong
If you have a mountain of unread feeds in your RSS reader you are doing it wrong.

RSS works best if you subscribe to a large number of blogs who post rarely. Then you'll only have a few hundred posts per week, most of which will be high quality.

Then follow ~150 selected people on Twitter and you'll never miss out on an important story from one of the big blogs.
Great to see some proper Irani geeks doing good stuff.

Does this work in mobile browsers? maybe a compatibility table in the front page?
Conversely, though, is there any detraction from F# by not being a close member of that ecosystem? Mono and friends are not as mature or up to speed as the official .NET implementations, right? And CLR libraries and frameworks seem to target the Microsoft toolchain in general, as well. How easy is it to develop cross-platform F# and still take full advantage of all that?

This is an honest question, I've always been curious about the open-source CLR world. It seems like there's a much larger disconnect than there is with the JVM.
Every day they keep it on their website.
Sounds very plausible. Especially when you consider that people are using Facebook more and more for email/messaging.