skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it. You do raise some valid points, and I think this is something that I thought i would address once the website is made. But I think working on it from an early stage would be more beneficial, than working on it after I spend countless hours.
The New York Times built the current site in 2006. The Times just announced that they have are working on a new site design (and presumably completely new architecture) for the last year and should release it soon.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/prototype/
I heartily recommend http://theoldreader.com/ - lean and mean.
This is a result of the code being transpiled from their scripting language and run through Google's Closure Compiler. You'll get the same behavior on conditions if you try it out (http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home).
He was probably referring to cleaning (scrubbing, rinsing off, etc) the bottom of the plate prior to putting it on a rack that was about to be pushed through the dishwasher. The bottoms would be clean at this point, but it would be wasted time to spend extra seconds clearing visible food from the bottom of a plate.
Google Reader is the back-end/syncing platform for many desktop and mobile feed readers, so everyone who uses those apps suffers from this as well. It's especially useful for feeds that update frequently, because if you go offline for a period of time you end up missing out on content, especially if their feed only has the 15 most recent items. Google Reader is constantly downloading and storing those items, even when you're offline, and syncs them with your client when you reconnect. (Plus if you read RSS on both desktop and mobile, it keeps your read items in sync.)
do you have a blog of some sort? I am going to pursue this lifestyle as well, and any tips are extremely valuable. Hooray for traveling!
any speaking roles in SAG productions absolutely, positively must be performed by SAG guild members

Under Taft-Hartley rules they can't exclude other people from participating as long as they join up.
True, my comment was more to the fact that all of the previous record setters (e.g. Torment: Numenera, Double Fine Adventure, Ouya, and Pebble) have been open world-wide, so this has had a much more limited potential backer population and still was a roaring success.
What It Feels Like to Launch a Startup With Two Weeks of Runway
You just make the person a producer. I'msure something like this will result in a court fight, but SAG are going to look stupid trying to explain why they should be able to stop a picture being made in defiance of a willing cast and a prepaid audience.
Not enough attention given to this reply.
Adobe plans to halt boxed sales of Creative Suite software
> "but I do take offense to people mangling the language and the lingo"

What language and what lingo? Do we need to establish a canonical "this acronym means exactly and only that" definition?

It's one thing to get mad at bad grammar or poor spelling, it's quite another to get riled up over a legitimate use of a word simply because that's now how you normally use the same word.

The English language is messy, your borg-like desire for millisecond-level perfection is hard to understand, but not so objectionable until you started calling others rude for not living up to your standards.

OP wasn't spelling poorly, nor did he/she use poor grammar - you're literally complaining about someone using an acronym in a way you do not normally use it.
A email service that would make others pay to mail me. It would definitely be my default one.
don't think I would've ever read it without the word Sex in the title. Not a lot of headlines here have the word Sex in them. YC needs a sexual revolution.
I had not remembered the traditional version though, so thanks for pointing that out.

Sell is 買 with a 士 radical on top. The simplified version standardized the 買 portion, but it doesn't affect the observation.
A new Text Editor experiment in the Devtools Web Inspector
I think its better for sure, but i'm sure there will be bugs that only exist on Blackberry and those that only exist on Android. I suspect that eventually we would (will...) end up with two builds anyway.

Overhead, it would be great if Blackberry could just start making Android phones...
Well Nuuton will have that feature. Not at the alpha stage, but it will roll out.
Did you also wet your bed and have affinity for setting things on fire?
I agree that power users don't drive the business (you put it very nicely).

But what is the bottom line (how many six-figures engineers), and it troubles me to not see Google try and find a market for this product.
Brilliant timing with this blog post - that should be the biggest take-way from this to the HN crowd.
Sure, it's made $2M in it's first day. It'll likely top out at about $7-10M, because that's how Kickstarter projects which receive early publicity go in terms of growth - they receive about 1/3 of their total funding in the first 24 hours - see below.

$10M doesn't create a TV show. It certainly isn't going to create a movie with well know actors like Veronica Mars - there are definitely other parties kicking in for this.

[1] http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-vid...
[2] http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/#...
[3] http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/#chart-d...
Cellular organs are a pretty untouchable class of things for anything humans are going to do on a macro-scale. If you're proposing to achieve a big effect from say, a diet, then focusing on more then 1 bodily component is suspicious because there's a huge range of barriers you need to get through to get to it (without damaging, generally).

There are lots of drugs, for example, which are useless because although they target the right protein and have the desired effect they can't actually get to it via normal metabolism and the like.
Right, except what are the odds we can raise $150 million a year, consistently, year over year?

My point is that the price that people are willing to pay for content decreases as you create more content. People might be willing to pay $50 to revive a movie from a long-dormant property, but would they pay the same $50 for the equivalent amount (2-3 episodes?) of a regular-run show?

My bet is on no, at least for now - this may change in the future.

This applies to more than just shows IMO - Chris Roberts (of Wing Commander fame) was able to raise a tremendous amount of money for his revival of the space sim genre - would he be able to raise even close to that amount if he went by, say, a yearly release?
Ninety-nine times out of one hundred, you'll be right about this. Then that one time out of 100, someone will advance the field in a way that the doubters never could.
Yes I certainly do. I have been working on it, but Koders and Ohloh are pretty established so its a long climb. I think the .de domain might be hurting a little bit too. Happy to listen to any actionable items that can address this though.
So go and grab the data you care about while it's there?

I'm trying to understand why Google suddenly gets responsibility for archiving the entire internet for incompetent websites.
And there is the next step on the road to obscurity for the major distributors. Right now, WB sees it as a way to vet market interest, which is great for them. But in a few years, as the market optimizes around this, the actual people who make the movies will see less and less value from the studios.

It is directly analogous to the writer/publisher world. It's not to say distributors won't exist, but the part they play will be significantly different.
There are several meal replacement programs sold in the dieting community. I was on one for three months where I could choose to consume zero solid food and get all my nutrition from powdered soups and shakes; the US equivalent seems to be Medifast, though that includes a single food meal daily. It was not a healthy plan, but my energy levels were great and I lost a significant amount of weight in that time (45 pounds or so). The composition was designed to induce and keep participants in ketosis, but I don't see why a little more carbohydrate couldn't be added to avoid this.
Which reader can parse the xml file google reader generates without extra work?
I'm with the commenter on the blog; looks like obfuscated domain names to me, probably controlling a botnet of some sort.

Most of the tweets end in \.[a-zA-Z]{3}, which to me says they mean .org, .com and .net. The words could be representing characters in the name, or references to a lookup table. That would explain the frequency of "unglue".
Is it because the theater is inside his house?
Well, that's a feature of Google Reader I didn't know. Blame, since I never bothered to test it.
It is a problem, in that the game is a lot less sophisticated than EA would have you believe, but does that make it huge ?

I've built agent level simulators and have run gate level simulations on fpga designs and the thing they share is amazing complexity which goes up really really quickly. Does is make SimCity less 'fun' ? Certainly. Does it rise to the level of failure? I'm not sure I agree.

I built a simple action selection mechanism based system for a predator / prey type robot setup. It was pretty simplistic (the prey ate/slept/hid/ran the predator ate/hunted/slept) assuming each of our sims has something like that I can't imagine how you would make that 'real time' unless you had like 100 machines dedicated to each city.

Cost effective web products have anywhere between 1K to 10K users per machine, not .01 user per machine. So the "real" (or real-er) thing would be pretty cost prohibitive as a game I suspect.
The diet of the Inuit was widely believed to be impossible for some time (and probably still is) because no one thought it was possible they could subsist solely on fish meat.

When put to the test by a pair of scientists who replicated the diet though, they found few ill-effects - except at one point where they were hitting a nutritional deficiency, but corrected it by putting semi-rotten fish product (which is a dish in Inuit cooking) into their diet - because it turns out that provided certain key nutrients.

The human body can handle some surprising and varied diets, a lot simply evolved by trial and error over a long period. With modern technology, we should be able to "fail fast" over a much shorter time.

Probably more importantly: anyone putting that much thought into what they eat, what the effects of it are etc. is already doing 10x the thinking of most people about their nutrition.
Grepcode also turns up frequently in results.
I sent you an email, too. Nothing yet. :(
Free in what way? I was under the impression that you were paying with your attention (displayed ads) much in the way that you do with 'free' over-the-air television.
I really appreciate "process" posts like this- always love the feeling of picking up new technologies and putting them to good side project use. Best of luck on learning!
Ask HN: Have you ever made any of your premium services free?
Currently I have a site where I am charging businesses for nutrition labels for $99. I am trying to find the right price point that businesses would pay for, but it got me wondering what would happen if a premium service all of a sudden went free.

Have any of you experimented with radically changing your pricing model to free and relied on ads or otherwise to support your product?
Speaking of breastmilk -- I don't know about this guy's particular formula, but I can chip in that my daughter was solely breastfed for 9 months or so, and it was pretty clearly extremely efficiently processed.

I wasn't eager for her to start eating solid foods, actually, because I did most of the diaper changes, and while she was still on a breastmilk-only diet (and once her digestive system was developed enough, after 6 months or so), she wasn't constipated, but would simply only poop once or twice a week (and it wasn't even unpleasant-smelling).

I haven't researched the subject, but anecdotally other parents who nursed their children for more than a few months have similar accounts.

My concerns about a similar diet for adults, though, is that it's a serious tangent from the eating habits humans have evolved with.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that people switching to a liquid-only diet like this saw a jump in colon cancer, or something like that.
The famous Comic Con has first been held at Chicago in 1976. The term was probably used before that.
I like this. I live in a country where exaggerated politeness is deeply ingrained, and redundant over-explanation common. I've been here long enough that it's rubbed off on me to where the original spoof message didn't really ring any alarm bells. Your rewrite is natural English without the BS. The only change I would make if I wrote it myself would be taking out "or whatever". I blame the fashion for that word to be used on its own disrespectfully - my brain often reads it as the British "wha'ever", or the US "whatEVVVVAAAARRRR".
How would one go about doing that?
I have been working on one for the last couple of weeks, and will hopefully create it as a fully functional RSS reader:

http://nuesbyte.com/

for more information, visit me on reddit username: 7hundredand77
Looks interesting.
- How about programs that are using other gems. What is the coverage of the standard libraries?
- Does it over enough to write command line programs using fileutils, File, Dir, IO ?
- Are there samples of some large programs that compile ?
- Any benchmarks of performance ?
Learning how to predict what stuff will and will not reduce risk is a learned skill. One should not be too hard on oneself while learning it. (The laptop hinges sitting in a box under my bed right now--perfectly good laptop hinges!--are probably going to be one of those learning experiences.)

The point of both pg's and NYT's stuff article is that this prediction is a learned skill. Our instincts suck.

Whereas this article's point is that the opportunity cost of hanging on to stuff is different for rich and poor.

True. But the rich and poor are united in one thing: their stuff instincts suck.

Especially since things like Amazon and Ebay have changed the relationship to stuff. With no real effort, I have sold 57 things on Amazon since 1/1/2012. The fact that I can readily convert almost anything I own to cash, usually with only 15 minutes of actual work (listing and shipping), changes the game.

The cost of each market transaction used to be the big drag. 50% commission plus the work of finding an agent, transporting the stuff to your agent, and receiving payment from the agent when it finally sold. And then if you needed to repurchase that same item down the road, the work of finding and transporting the repurchased stuff.

Amazon and Ebay have reduced that whole process (cost of sale transaction + (cost of repurchase transaction * probability of repurchase)) to what, 25% of the price of any individual item? Depending on how much it costs to ship.

Sold a 2GB stick of DDR2 RAM today.

Received: $16.49
Amazon fee: 2.31
Shipping: 1.76
Cost of transaction: 4.07
Cost of transaction as percentage of market value of stuff: 24.7%
I agree. You make a good point (even though I will never accept that cons==conferences). Next time I will just silently downvote, and move on. I apologize to all for expressing this pedantic feeling.
Here's a start:

http://pyvideo.org/video/1601/twisted-history-of-python-pack...

Note: Speaker is one of the devs behind PyCoders Weekly
*boy/girl

fixed that for you
Being rich and spending money, while often correlated, are not necessarily equivalent. This is something that the author should perhaps keep in mind.
Racing To The Top By Michael Moritz
I loved the series and was angry when it was canceled but I am not sure I could get into a movie at this point, it's so far gone now?
Should be noted that the money was returned.
It's a funny situation, young guy in his first sales job out of school selling boss of his company's competition. But agree with other comments that it could have been anonymised.
Mechanical Turk is Not Anonymous
Abstract:

While Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) online workforce has been characterized by many people as being anonymous, we expose an aspect of AMT's system design that can be exploited to reveal a surprising amount of information about many AMT Workers, which may include personally identifying information (PII). This risk of PII exposure may surprise many Workers and Requesters today, as well as impact current institutional review board (IRB) oversight of human subjects research involving AMT Workers as participants.

We assess the potential multi-faceted impact of such PII exposure for each stakeholder group: Workers, Requesters, and AMT itself. We discuss potential remedies each group may explore, as well as the responsibility of each group with regard to privacy protection. This discussion leads us to further situate issues of crowd worker privacy amidst broader ethical, economic, and regulatory issues, and we conclude by offering a set of recommendations to each stakeholder group.
Alternatives to Google Reader
Maybe you're using an unlicensed DVD player (like most computer savvy users) that skips the previews and warnings and jumps straight to the movie. They're practically ubiquitous in the forced-viewing sections of DVDs and Blu-rays.
Wow this one hurts. They took down another Google service I loved, Google Notebook (http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html). I have no idea why I loved it. It was just so easy to make lots of quick text documents without the fluff and it was fast. I used it despite the existence of Evernote and other online documentation services. I still haven't found a suitable replacement though OneNote comes real close.

I don't know what I'm going to do about this. I guess the reality is that social won and RSS is dead. Or at least social is much more monetizable.

I've tried so many other different RSS aggregators but kept coming back to Google Reader. It worked well, had minimal fluff, and was fast.

R.I.P. Google Reader
That's the first, and only, example I could think of. I do not know of any other.
Google Reader doesn't have ads.
Until one day, lulled into a false sense of security, you find yourself on a system without these aliases…
I think what makes me the most sad is that this method removes the joy and cultural bonds when one cooks and breaks bread with others.

Eating a meal and talking about life with others are things I consdier the most precious of them all.
| and phasing out the distribute fork as soon as
| is practical

I'm guessing there will at least be an 'end date' where it'll be officially deprecated.
I usually don't alias the command itself; that's bad form. It limits what you can do and screws you when you are using an environment without your alias when you forget it. Live and learn.
I quit my first job out of college and did a few months of part time restaurant work as I figured out what exactly I wanted to do with myself professionally. We actually scrubbed dishes and that was 2010. We had a sanitizer that heated dishes to kills germs but it didn't clean them. This was in Brooklyn and a pretty common setup.
Not sure why this paper was posted. It's the classic page rank paper upon which Google was founded. If you have not read it, you should.
open-source it?
[video] When conferences turn into large stressball fights ...
Maybe I'm misreading it, but it looks like you might have a typo in todos-router.js. See http://ahamlett.com/Backbone.localStorage/docs/todos-router...., in the call to define() -- your dependencies are 'jquery' and 'backbone', but you take in '_' and 'Backbone'. Then, you later use '$'.
An API That Scrubs Personally Identifiable Information From Other APIs
This thread is one of the best I've seen on HN. 1001 ways to screw yourself in bash. Love it. My contribution is a message from Mr. Odus himself- also a Reverend.

Don't do this unless you want a bad day: :)

`printf "\ fr- mr odus"|rev`
Prioritizing and Planning within Heroku Postgres
I might be wrong, but it wasn't returned, but that doesn't matter, all the mining ops switched to the 0.7 chain, and the transaction is now in limbo (for lack of a better term); the forked 0.8 chain.
New Relic Introduces Real-Time Performance Monitoring For Apps
Mary and the Zombies: Can Science Explain Consciousness?
It broke my back button :(
How Starcraft2 Legend TLO keeps himself organized
And the screw-up: calling the wrong backdrop on the wrong scene with an open curtain; realizing it 10 seconds later; calling it back up to drop the right one; thinking "everybody is going to notice that...I look like an idiot."

And then finding out nobody noticed or saw. Taught me an important lesson: The world is much less likely to notice my mistakes than I am, which means I can screw up more without worry as much.

Yeah, I was an uptight kid, still.
> "in that the game is a lot less sophisticated than EA would have you believe, but does that make it huge ?"

Sure. It's one thing for the game to fail to live up to the complexity the fanbase expected, it's another for the game to be broken when played the way the designers intended.

SimCity is a game, it is only a simulation insofar as simulations are entertaining. When the nature of your simulation means that players are constantly having to dodge and weave around the dynamics of your simulation in a distinctly un-fun way, you've failed at the basic task.

> " assuming each of our sims has something like that I can't imagine how you would make that 'real time' unless you had like 100 machines dedicated to each city."

Indeed, and I commented on this earlier - the choice of using agent-based simulation was IMO a disastrously wrong one. The limitations on agent population and agent complexity (due to hardware constraints) results in a simulation that is unintuitive, inaccurate, and most importantly, not fun. Previous iterations in the series had macro-level simulations which created less unintuitive emergent behavior and whose performance allowed a greater level of game complexity.

At the end of the day, the goal wasn't to create an agent-based simulation of a city, it was to create a pseudo-simulation of a city that happened to be fun to manipulate. On that front IMO SimCity 2013 is a huge failure.

Players want to come in and build cities - cities that resemble their real-life experiences to some degree. Whether they're out to create a farm town, a sleepy suburb, or a skyscraping metropolis, differs, but practically none of them are looking to study the quirks and edge cases of pathfinding implementations and model their gameplay around arbitrary rules that have no bearing in real life.

There are exceptions of course, the guy who created Magnasanti in SimCity 3000 took optimizing around the extreme parameters of the simulation to heart - he created the densest, most populous city possible given the game rules. It resembled nothing like what a real city would look like, but it functioned within the game's rules.

Players like that are also few and far between. Most people are there for the cities, not the metagame.
Right, I'm totally confused who this product is for. Is it for people who want to date, or for people who don't want to date but want to edit their friends' dating profiles?

How do I know if I have a friend who has a dating profile? Do they have to share that with me in a side channel like their newsfeed?

Don't get me wrong, Facebook should buy this "weekend project" for $10M before it gets out of hand. I'm just not sure if I'm going to regret clicking "Connect". Before we connect, how about you sell me on it.