skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks and I gotta say, all that competition wears me out a bit. But I think you're right, I need to look for a better niche. Maybe minimalism and cheapness can be my target audience? :-)

By the way, my email server was going crazy so I disabled it for now and activated all accounts by default, so you should be able to register fine if you were having problems earlier!
That's the best looking website for a programming tool I've ever seen.
But what's the point? If you want to read RSS in your email, it's not particularly hard, so what would be the point of coming up with new formats and adapting newsletter software?
Implementing a TODO list application in Hibernate 4.0.1
I had DDG with HTML5 voice recognition on my site for a while, but after consulting with Gabriel decided it was a data leak to Google. Can't wait for voice to be a seamless part of the real web stack. Still, a keyboard shortcut gets you to the searchbar and then you can bang on to anywhere else on the web. jkl.io if you want to try it. I will change the font in the search box soon. Keyboard shortcuts for the categories are underlined. I want to make it a suitable start page (like some kind of zen Yahoo I suppose). Feedback appreciated (although by Sunday the news thins out for Science and some others).
I really don't get this idea that Google owes people something cause they gave it away from free. Google never said it was staying around for any amount of time. The API wasn't even public. This "responsibility" is an entirely made up concept. At no point did Google say "Come one and all, build on our backend!".

If someone was leeching off my unsecured wifi and came to depend it, I'd laugh in their face if they complained when I put a password on it. I could understand people getting mad if they jacked prices after shutting out competition, but saying they have to maintain a product at their own cost for third parties who gave them nothing but more work?
Yes the website is running Django 1.5 on Python 3.3 :)
TouchCards for Android, share all your social network in one touch
6÷2(1+2)=?
Sure, but by that time, most of the citizens will have moved to a town that has shops. Only the poor and the elderly will stay, because they have nowhere to go. Sadly, they'll develop all kinds of health problems because they're forced to eat at fast food restaurants every day.
In the downloads tab "Download for Mac OSX" is the worse choice for a default. Either choose the one with the most users (Windows) or the open one (Linux)...
Yes, but aside from the word 'short', it fits perfectly. If parent can't remember any details, it's possible they misremembered the length.
You discount so many variables that go into making a place a "good" place to live that it's actually a little humorous to read these posts.

Look, EG is, I'm pretty certain, almost 90% Fang. That probably doesn't mean much to you but for Africans... tribal affinities matter. The idea that you would get rid of one government, and another would govern appreciably differently in EG is fanciful. Add to that Oil and then unexploited Gold and Zinc deposits, and anyone who is familiar with Africa, and especially EG, would laugh heartily at your assertions.

Places like the MidEast and North Africa also have more issues than can be solved by changing governments. For instance, the reality in Somalia, or indeed even Egypt, is that there are hard Bio-Physical resource constraints that are not going away. Desertification and Soil Salination are mother nature's method of breathing. And she doesn't care about governmental edicts. Egypt's population is around 80M I think... and I'm pretty sure the arable land is right around 2% and it drops every year. Somalia is what... 10 maybe 15 million? With MORE diversity (ie - tribes) and even LESS arable land.

One of the first things I learned working at Halliburton was that if a nation is importing energy AND food... it's in trouble. Nation building is much more than Civil Affairs. If the requisite people and materials aren't there ... it doesn't work. Full Stop.

"Bad" governments, for a given definition of "bad", are symptoms of problems. Not the problems themselves. The Taliban and the NA are manifestations of the lack of resources in Afghan land and the lack of trust among Afghan people. These are difficult problems to solve. And certainly simply changing the government will not make them go away.
The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) includes most of these packages including but not limited to

sklearn
pandas
numpy
scipy
matplotlib
statsmodels

and much more. It also has a 1-click installer. It has a free academic version.

http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php

PS - I am not associated with Enthought in any way whatsoever.
I agree that you can accomplish very similar results with water, but traditional sous-vide uses an oil based bath held to temperature. For some reason oil seems to hold heat more stable and transfer heat more evenly but water is certainly better than say an oven at evenly distributing heat.
How diverse is Silicon Valley?
That’s a different, and very valid, complaint. I agree with you that that feature should exist.
Here's an analogy for the current "way of things" in email-land: imagine if, instead of a web browser, you just had a database view into an HTTP cache: a list of URLs retrieved recently, each of which, when clicked, rendered as an HTTP "message." (Imagine a file-folder full of MHTML archives, basically.) At the top, there would be an address bar--but, when you entered an address into it, it would simply retrieve a new item into the cache, which you would still have to click into to look at. It wouldn't be very obvious at all how to build something like an AJAX web-app on top of this, because, although the protocol is compatible with it, the representation is too low-level.

As a user of a web browser--an abstraction over HTTP messages--you don't care about each individual HTTP response; you only care about pages. Sometimes an HTTP response will deliver you new pages; sometimes it will modify a page already loaded. Web browsers only still really use HTTP at all because the verb set (GET, PUT, POST, etc.) so closely aligns with the things people want to do on the web. It's an excellent protocol for generic RPC between machines, that also happens to be usable directly by humans to GET web-pages. Now, why doesn't anyone see that SMTP+IMAP are an excellent protocol for doing publish/subscribe between machines, where real humans happen to also be able to (and already do!) PUBLISH and SUBSCRIBE?

The advantages of making a protocol an abstraction over email are manifold:

1. the messages are stored in the receiver's email inbox--a universal resource that everyone has [and understands the purpose of!];

2. all messages can be processed using the same "utilities" we use for email (backup utilities especially);

3. the ports for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP are almost always open inside corporate firewalls, just like the ports for HTTP;

4. and all messages you send through those protocols will get passed through email infrastructure (which is big and robust and reliable, and, most important, already exists)--and, in the process, can get forwarded, multiplexed across mailing lists, thrown out as spam, and all the other convenient things riding on email infrastructure gives you for free.
I believe the decision was based on German unwillingliness to bail out Russian "hot money" , which they believe is the majority of Cypriot bank cash deposits. They grossly miscalculated the public reaction however.
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I really do think wave's only problem was it was just ahead of its time. The idea behind it was good and it worked well, yes it heavily used js resources but faster JS engines these days would cope with that.

Its a shame really, but I supposed they morphed the 'liveness' of it into Google Docs

I'm not sure Google gave it the chance it needed.
Not really. Believing a turing machine can create consciousness has implicit assumptions that may or may not be true. Is consciousness completely computational or does it piggyback on some qualitative attribute of the substrate? Can the processes of the brain be reduced to data structures and algorithms? Can simplified models be an adequate replacement for "chaotic" processes of the brain which are not computable without remainder using silicon? There are plenty of known unknowns which have implications for the possibility of such simulations. If you think the simulation of consciousness is a given then you probably have a hand-wavy understanding of the problem.
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm curious: why did you choose the lisp-like (f x) syntax for function calls?
Whose dollars? The dollars used in legislation have little to do with public good and a lot more to do with re-election funding. Lessig covers that topic really well in Republic Lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc

Any change in legislation will result in intense lobbying (ie politician funding) because so many vested interests benefit from the current structure.

As with many things in American politics, the issue isn't so much about what the objectively best thing to do is, but rather how that could happen with the current political process. There is some light at the end of the tunnel in pushing things to individual states. There is no need to come up with perfection - let 50 states do their own thing and see what works best.
I also am super impressed that it took the OP only 5 week ends to do this. For me it would probably take 1 year if I don't give up on the way...
Is anyone of any importance seriously clueless enough that they can't predict the consequences of taking money out of everyones' bank accounts? And if so, what is wrong with the system that allows morons of that magnitude to gain power?
Actually—I think you did explain properly. I must confess that I jumped into the sandbox before reading the documentation, and then I only checked the documentation when ran into behavior I didn't expect.

I do think the semicolon behavior is a bit confusing. The documentation explains that expressions aren't auto-returned if they're followed by a semicolon, but I don't think that quite covers the behavior I pointed out. I might be missing something else from the documentation, though...

Also, I found one more major issue. Your documentation uses the numeric literal "3.1415" in the explanation for named parameters. That really needs to be "3.1416". :P
They are the epitome of uncool but I agree. I kind of love my work laptop.
As I said, it gives you an idea of what an impaired user might see.
> Another interesting idea could be turning a city into a sort of MMORPG where each user has control over a smaller section of the city [...]

There are indeed a number of ways this could make for an interesting multiplayer experience. I'd particularly prefer it if it was fully P2P and networks would emerge by people offering and making connections. Oh one can dream.
Yeah sorry about that. You can just login with your credentials, I disabled confirmation for now. I was getting HNed I guess.
I was hoping you'd see the Wells item as showing how straightforward and early known is the connection between healthy human bone maintenance and gravity of earth's strength, not science fiction. Certainly the rate of bone loss will be slower in low gravity than in no gravity environments, but it will happen. It must happen to a degree just as surely as missing calcium and other nutrients would harm our bones.
California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
Hey, you're in Ha Noi? I'm half Vietnamese, might be going back soon. What's your email?
I'm a geek and a huge google fanboi and I don't see Google any differently than any other company. They just happen to (currently) have things I like a lot.
Well, reliable parsing of feeds in itself is difficult and never really solved, but other than that none of the features was difficult to duplicate. They rarely are. But that doesn't mean there weren't lots of them and that building reader is not a huge project.

Sure I could build my own (in fact, I plan to), but this is obviously completely non-realistic attitude to take for every service that can or does bugger you.

Much easier than building these new alternatives is for you to just not read the articles which bother you. Especially since in this case you mostly can know from the title if they will.
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There are Kaggle contest if you want to get into data. You can also search for social hackathons if you want to do some good for the world. You can go outside and talk to people, listen to their problems and use your programming skills to solve them. You can build tools to solve your pain points. You can try to take classes on Udacity and Cousera to see if you get any inspiration for projects. Maybe make some contributions to opens source projects. Games don't have to be beautiful, look at Minecraft. There are a lot of tutorials online about making 3D models, illustrator, etc. You only get better at things by doing them.
It sounds unbelievable enough that I really can't help but wonder if they're doing it on purpose. But assuming that were true, what have they to gain from doing so?
Mobile Fraud Ring On The Prowl in Nigeria
All the lending to commercial banks is secured lending, they have to provide collateral to the ECB. The less good quality stuff is lent by individual central banks, so governments underwrite it. There is no unsecured buying of bank debt (banks can use covered bonds as collateral but again that is secured). And the LTRO is only three years. So it is not like you suggest at all.
Both really. Whatever monetary value you would put on that marketing list is tiny compared to the reported sum. Give me a few hundred grand and I'll get you that good of a mailing list. Dropbox doesn't need to spend 10s of millions on that.
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This works in the US because there isn't actually that great a disparity between the wealthiest and poorest states in the US, whereas the disparity is much, much greater in the eurozone. More so, the "poor" states in the US are still pretty wealthy even compared to some of the wealthiest European countries, whereas the poor countries in the eurozone are quite poor on an absolute scale (Estonia and Slovakia have a per capita GDP of around 15k USD, much less than half the poorest US states). Also, the poorest eurozone countries are quite populous, there are tens of millions of people who are living at less than 3/4 of the mean per capita GDP of the eurozone, whereas in the US the same figure is around 2 million. It's a much, much harder situation to deal with and the eurozone has fewer options and tools to do so.
I'm a day or two away from "finishing" a script that will allow you to do that (well, at least as far as Google will let me) and pushing it to Github. I'm likely not the only person working on this so I expect we'll be able to save most of our data.
> @hunterwalk same number of real users.

was a funny line. While the whole "haters gonna hate" response from @dens made it sound like a hip-hop feud, the original exchange was much better:

>>>> Wow, who knew 40,000 developers use the @foursquare API...

>>> @hunterwalk same number of real users.

>> @P2chairman eh, VC has softened @rabois. Prev he would have predicted an actual date of failure ;-)

> @hunterwalk true.

Either way, this article is one step above gossip. A tiny step at that.
Same with the original post really.
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Does easy_install not install these them for some reason?
what is this nerd talking about this article has nothing to do with breakdancing
Agreed. Cyprus is often used as a tax haven for money of dubious origin.
Good article, good analysis of how the words are used in the press releases. Thus I won't agree with the intro. Google I/O is coming up and will probably bring up an update to the Android system. If this happens - the Galaxy S4 will have to wait.
> I do think the semicolon behavior is a bit confusing.

I agree.

Regarding the named params, the example is:

f
3.1415
#name:"I'm using a named param!";

where 3.1415 is an unnamed parameter, and the 3rd line contains the named part. I'm probably showing too many things at once here.

Also, there are definitely a few bugs still to iron out!
Well, most people do it only one or two times. :)
The EU is one thing, the eurozone another. Overall I don't think either has advanced the cause of European brotherhood very much and I think now the eurozone may actually be setting that goal back quite a bit (ask the Greeks or the Cypriots how they feel about their French and German European brothers).
I haven't released it yet, maybe I'll do a Show HN in the future!
>USA on the other hand is an "engineered" country, people got there relatively recently and said "Ok, that's it, let's do things this way". Of course you will see more homogeneity and agreement. And nationalism actually helps keep stuff together instead of dividing people.

Go study up on the American civil war. It was an extremely brutal conflict, and you see lingering resentment today, in the 'red states' and the 'blue states' - hell, I still make (offensive) jokes about how "we should have let them leave when we had the chance" - I mean, I don't know how it compares to the Germany vs. France thing, but even today, there is a pretty significant north/south divide in US politics (and urban/rural divide.) From my understanding of things, we (the northern, industrial states) conquered the southern, agricultural states through force of arms, (well, through force of superior production) - and we've kept them in the union since through a generous application of money. (It's seen as funny, that the "red states" generally speaking, consume more federal tax dollars than they give back, and yet those are the people who make a lot of noise about cutting the size of the federal government. The "blue states" are the opposite. The way I see it, we just figure it's cheaper to buy them bread and circuses than to fight 'em again, while they are frustrated by their powerless position. From what I read, (and culturally, I think) we think of the south as producing brave, but poorly equipped soldiers. (and often we think of the southern leadership as having more guts than brains, that, or just having generally less concern for the lives of their soldiers. The south, at least by Northerners, is perceived as having a lot more respect for it's aristocrats, and less respect for it's peasants, vs "the only color that matters is green" north, which tends to style itself as a meritocracy.) The turning point of the war is often considered to be 'Pickett's charge' - A very brave, but arguably, considering the weapons the union had in the area, the space they needed to cross, and the range and effectiveness of the Minié ball, very stupid military action.)

My point here is that being more homogeneous (and we are... there are big cultural differences, but we all mostly speak the same language) does not save you from war. Civil war can be just as bloody and brutal as wars of conquest between different countries. When you get down to it, brothers will slaughter oneanother just as readily as strangers who don't speak the same language.

Perhaps the more powerful EU countries should get used to giving handouts to the poor EU countries in order to keep things quiet; that is how I think things work here
The banks are closed and electronic transactions disabled.
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More importantly, health care has a guaranteed market and higher barrier to entry, and restaurants don't.
I understand your point of view, which is basically the one shared by many people in CS. But personally, I don't think that machines will ever develop consciousness as we have it. Because I understand how current technology works, and there is no consciousness there. I would have no qualms shutting down a machine, even if it begged me to keep it running.
If it was a year or two people would still be whining, although with that people would have a couple of time to decide where to go. Having said that I disagree the company has any responsibility, their responsibility is to follow the contract (the one people do not read and just check "I agree" before moving on the form), as far as I can tell the contract says clearly they could just stop the service today, they did not.
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Well at least it's easy to see someone's personality when they do this. Gives you more data if you want to seek these VCs out.
Bell Labs shifts focus to cloud and networking products
Thanks for pointing out. If the updates site does use some sort of certificate pinning for IE, I wonder why the browser pops up the following warning before running the Microsoft update add-on: "If you trust this website...click here..."
To be fair, I'm showing you something extremely half-baked here and I thought about the project a lot before starting to code anything.
"If someone was leeching off my unsecured wifi and came to depend it, I'd laugh in their face if they complained when I put a password on it."

If you knew that your entire town had switched from dialup to using your unsecured wifi, and they installed dozens of extenders all over town at their own expense, and you knew about that but allowed it for years, and then you suddenly pull the plug, then yes, that'd be a dick move.

"I could understand people getting mad if they jacked prices after shutting out competition"

I would've been absolutely fine with that and I think many GR users would've been happy to pay.
Like others have said, it sounds like you may be depressed. Untreated depression can lead to serious problems. Please talk to your doctor.
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I don't see why not. There is no fiduciary duty or ethical standard to not opine on the industry in which you play. FourSquare can likewise bite back and criticize Keith's more dubious investments. Either can choose to do so at their own peril. Sometimes words bite, and sometimes they bite back.
It might be more like putting hotspots with big "free wifi" signs up all around your city, waiting for the local ISPs to discontinue service and then turning your wifi off.
Really digging the 5-week project; great job, mate, looking forward to seeing more!
There's plenty of people bear a grudge for that, believe you me.
At what point will you stop behaving like an asshole?

Not everyone who complains knows about IA or should necessarily care about it. We are not all the same person with same needs and things we miss from reader may not be the same, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a true loss/problem for each that is not easy to replace (I tried and none of the alternatives come close which is why I WILL write my own).
Dear Stefan Kueng, please read "Mars" of your compatriot Fritz Zorn. Please do that. You will understand why.

All the best.
As far as I know, Keith Rabois, although he calls himself an entrepreneur, has never actually founded a startup. Doing so tends to make people a lot less likely to mock other founders.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
What is the motivation to redesign the site, other than to make it look more web 2.0?