skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably. Interesting line the CFTC is taking though, since it is only able to regulate US citizen's use of commodity markets and predictions are a commodity by the definition of the law as far as I can tell [1]. The 'fiction' here is that you're actually going to by pork bellies or soy beans or oranges, when really your just buying and trading the 'right' to buy these commodities at a particular price. So "The 49'ers will win the super bowl" is a "bet" but it isn't really a commodity.

So while I could buy intrade as an unlicensed betting parlor I don't see them as a commodities trader. That said, folks don't like it when you make money that they think they should be making.

[1] http://www.cftc.gov/ConsumerProtection/EducationCenter/Futur... - "A commodity futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a particular commodity at a future date"
Ah, I can see how it could be misread. I adjusted the wording from "Nintendo overusing" to "Nintendo's overuse of" to clarify that.
Ah, fair enough, I did misunderstand what you meant.
Does anyone here use two-phase template rendering[1], or know of a good library for it?

There is phased[2], but it seemed to impart too much of a performance hit for me.

1. http://www.holovaty.com/writing/django-two-phased-rendering/

2. https://github.com/codysoyland/django-phased
I wouldn't have a major issue with a company profitting from the cure for cancer. On the other hand, I hate to seethe senior management of said company reaping handsome profits while people without the means to pay for it die without it. And I have major issue with sick people's inability to pay when the initial research was either done by or funded by taxpayer dollars. And then apply that same principle to all the middlemen who handle the drug and add little to no value to it, but still profit handsomely. . .but that's for another thread.
Correlation is not causation. Maybe people who have enough free time to garden tend to be better off in general.
That is indeed how I work (play) today. So, using these automated deployment tools have little benefit in a PAAS ecosystem?
Get funding for your clean energy and other social impact start-up
I think there are two different situations when you think about entrepreneurs who persevered for years on the same idea to try to hit success:

1) Despite a lack of hockey stick growth at first, there was a gut feeling that the team was solving the right idea and just needed to iterate long enough to get there or be at the right place at the right time.

2) Despite a lack of hockey stick growth, the team was too afraid to change course on an idea that deep down they knew wasn't working and will probably never work for them.
I did a course on object pascal in 2002 (just before that college, like many others, switched to java). A few months ago, I had a look at Ada, and found it pleasantly similar to object pascal. If you've played with pascal, but not with Ada, I recommend having a look :-) Eg:

http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2013/02/10/using-the-ada-w...
This is (in my experience) overwhelmingly the use case for the location-based features of WeChat in China. If you have 'allow me to be found based on my location' enabled, you are guaranteed at least one unsolicited proposition per night.
I am currently using Heroku for live apps, and it is indeed simple enough to use without having to do all these things, but one thing that I intend to use is to automate my VMs setup. I am currently using Vagrant to automate some system configuration such as security keys and port forwarding, but I still install all my packages manually.

I am not looking to be so proficient that I can handle a production server, but I do wish that I can automate some of my development workflow.
Between any two people there is such an enormous difference that I'm not very sympathetic to this argument.

Let's just celebrate the real differences, and not lazily use gender/sex as a shorthand for particular social roles.
I Hate Being Busy, But I Love Being Happy
10% week over week is very different to 10% on your biggest week ever.
The problem is that currently the closest thing to a prediction market is Bets of Bitcoin, and they use probably the bizarrest set of rules you have ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on. So.. not really an alternative at all except for the most wildly mispriced bets on it (where you can be sure to come out with a profit regardless of how much the rules screw you).

I see the wiki lists 2 other prediction markets, but they seem to handle sports only.
Very cool. I like some of the stuff you've done but the css conflicts with another HN extension that I enjoy (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-hackernew...)
I think their css is easier to read but I really like what you're doing in the menus.
I've often joked that the San Fernando valley is "Silicone Valley" and the Santa Clara valley is "Silicon Valley". Perhaps they meant the other one?
Why would the distribution of user skill differ across test groups? There's no reason it should. The expected time to solve the puzzle itself would be the same across both groups.
Configure a USB foot pedal (or remap any key) on Linux
Ask HN:  technical co-founder looking for startup
I am 40+ year old CTO and co-founder of a firm that I sold a couple years ago. I'm ready to get back into a start up but I don't have any ideas ( I didn't really have an idea for the first company either ). I do have 20+ years of experience developing software as everything from dev to CTO. I also have significant capital to contribute as well as lots of time as I am currently retired. Spare me the lecture about finding an itch to scratch, even if I had that I still need to find a co-founder, CEO type to move forward. My company was in the ( puts on flame retardant gear ) HFT world but I'm not interested in working in that world. Most of my hands on development is low latency C/C++ work but in 20 years I've done some of everything. Any thoughts on how I should proceed?
There is a huge gap between my disagreeing with clearly sexist based policies and saying that sexism, even so called benevolent sexism is a bad thing, and your claiming I am misogynistic or that my point of view is insane, or even idiotic.

That's a very uncharitable reading of my comment. I made no statement about you aside from the lack of nuance in your argument (the whole zomg part). I think you took issue with this:

he usually whacks people with a sanity stick when it comes to misogyny in tech

which was simply a comment on how Danilo provides people with a reality check re: the prevalence of misogyny in tech.

I raised that point b/c people on Twitter were characterizing your remarks as representative of HN as a whole, when in practice I've found that we debate this issue carefully (again, as opposed to your blanket statement calling them sexist).

I went out of my way to avoid characterizing you as misogynistic. I apologize if my comment may have implied you're misogynistic (I don't know you, though, so why would I throw that claim around?) and would appreciate it if you instead responded to my actual claims (HSchool's scholarship is an attempt to combat the presence of sexism in our industry).
Thanks for exposing a market opportunity! Sounds promising, in the right jurisdiction.
I used to love scraping with the Python, BeautifulSoup, Mechanize family and wrote a lot of scripts like the one in this post. I've been using CasperJS[1] though and I don't think I'll go back.

[1] - http://casperjs.org/
Seattle Bar That Banned Google Glasses Admits It Was a PR Stunt
Most synths don't produce that message (status 0xAx where x is the channel), but rather the more generic Channel Aftertouch message (0xDx).

(Edit: whoops, I'm bad at converting bin->hex.)
When China conducted that test, Russia's Defence Minister called the reporting of it "exaggerated and abstract." This should make things more concrete.
we're making a harmless part of videogame history a political and social justice issue

Who's "we"?

Also, I know how the three year old feels, i.e. how sad I am when I have to play role playing games or multiplayer games as male!
I built http://harlemify.com/ without knowing about this one... and I'm happy for not knowing about it because seriously If I knew, I wouldn't build a new website. :)

Anyway, I built it in 7 hours just for fun.

After testing the other site, I felt that I didn't waste my time building it for nothing, because I believe that I handled much more cases in mine than the other site :)

Such as:
- Ending the song and animation ( ending the show. )
- Share functionality at the end of the show.
- Passing the same user's browser headers when crawling requested website.
- Handling most of the webpage character encoding types (including Arabic).
- Handling gzip encoded websites ( for example, try mashable.com on both websites ).
- iOS Browser Support.

Enjoy! :)
I like Clay Christensen's model for innovation [1]. He has a top level categorization of sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.

Sustaining innovations are about making products in existing markets better and are further broken down into continuous innovation and discontinuous or radical innovations. The metrics here are about if the new innovation is improving performance within an existing market and by existing value metrics, and by how much. Continuous innovations are small improvements, radical innovations are large improvements.

Disruptive innovations are also broken down into two categories. There is the low end disruption whereby a product is competing in the same space as existing ones, but comes in from below. These are often cheaper and worse to start with, but then move up market as technology improves. There are many examples here (eg Arm coming in under x86). The other disruptive innovation is the new market innovation. In Christensen's terminology, these products compete against non-competition. There is a need, but no products fullfils that need until the disruption comes along. These products are tricky for several reasons. For one, there is no existing market and therefore traditional market research doesn't work. Instead, the execution plan needs to be focused on learning what the market is and what the customer needs are.

1] The series of books starting with the Innovator's Dilemma are a good read on innovation. The wikipedia article is a pretty good overview as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
The appeal of these articles is that they speak our unspoken thoughts.

That is exactly the problem. Nothing is less the product of systematic analysis than what you call an "unspoken thought." "Speak our unspoken thoughts" is a nicer way of saying "appeal to our unexamined prejudices."
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) - John Perry Barlow
Don't forget the little things. The other day I got a PR release with a) an obvious grammatical error in the subject line and b) 500+ other addresses in the CC field.
B-52 Design: Dayton hotel birthplace of jet-powered bomber
"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation."

and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...
you should watch the movie "Sneakers".
Algorithms Get A Human Hand In Steering Web
Something that always bothered me about Bootstrap is that the examples don't make full use of HTML5, although…

Bootstrap makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS
properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype.
Include it at the beginning of all your projects.

The two examples that immediately come to mind are NAVs[1] and progress bars[2]; HTML5 already defines these elements. Why reinvent the wheel?

[1]: http://rc.getbootstrap.com/components/#navs
[2]: http://rc.getbootstrap.com/components/#progress
This is a good book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013308504X/ref=oh_details_o...
60 FPS here, Ubuntu 64, nVidia GTX 660. Cool demo, thanks. For most people though I doubt they will have good video hardware so I think 3D in the browser is still several years of for the everyday user.
For clarification, I'm not friends with the authors and learned something new in every chapter as an intermediate Django developer.
A complete archive of all Intrade contracts
I think it’s pretty normal if you are tired of the constant portrayal of women as weak, helpless and passive in certain media.

What’s so wrong with calling out lazy storytelling based on dumb stereotypes? How can you even have a problem with that?

I also like how you just declare something harmless. Why, exactly? It’s a part of video game history that lives on and is anything but harmless.

Calling out crap is wrong – why exactly? Or is the portrayal of women as weak, helpless and passive – especially in a world where this is a popular stereotype – not crap?

Nobody wants to burn cartridges or rewrite history or ban old games. People (for the most part) don’t even demonize anyone for this or blame anyone for acting maliciously. Is pointing something out (or privately doing something about it) really such a big deal?

I really don’t get contrarians like you. Your arguments make no sense at all. (Except if you believe that women really are naturally weak, helpless and passive, i.e. hold sexist beliefs.)
> The new navbar, for example, is literally a gray DIV with rounded edges

Maybe the motivation behind this change is to make the navbar look a bit less twitter-y out of the box?
There's also https://icbit.se for actual futures.
Scientists Think They Have Found The Mythical 'Sunstone'
I'm very happy with Hiccup, I think both paradigms are better than the more common ERB style templating. Either pure Clojure (or whateverlanguage) or pure HTML rather than a mix.

I wish Clojure had a batteries included framework like this just to draw more attention to the language.
I don't think it's misleading. Reading that statement by Intrade makes the situation seem that dire.
I'd agree partially, but I'd comment that it's also security by diversity. If every site had a unique captcha solution requiring custom software for a defeat, the force multiplier effect of "write once, run everywhere" would be hugely diminished, and it would be much less cost effective to implement various types of spam. So, the particular security strategy here is indeed weak, but I would say that it might actually strike closer to the root of the problem than just making a really hard, but still universally applied, captcha technology.
Oooohhhhh - the laywers would love this, wouldn't they? If I see an ad for a book, should I expect the book to come with five paragraphs of "fine print" that explains "You aren't actually buying the rights to the book, you are just buying a copy of the book. You can't print your own copies, you can't blah blah blah." I know that books themselves have it but do you want every ad to have this as well? Silly.
When it comes to getting news on Twitter, you are who you follow?
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Well, it's worse than that. No significant company would shut down in this manner unless they were 100% certain that they did NOT have the money to pay their debts.
Get real Google glass in China now
Harness the rage
>What’s so wrong with calling out lazy storytelling based on dumb stereotypes?

What exactly do you hope to accomplish by calling out arguably "lazy storytelling" (more like a homage to King Kong if some stories are to be believed) 32 years later?

It's like complaining about racism in the early Bugs Bunny cartoons. What exactly are you hoping to accomplish other than a gripe? Damn Nintendo for using a common story trope three decades ago!

What does this teach anyone? How horrible Nintendo is? What?

>I really don’t get contrarians like you. Your arguments make no sense at all. (Except if you believe that women really are naturally weak, helpless and passive, i.e. hold sexist beliefs.)

This was utterly unnecessary. If I'm a "contrarian", you are someone who searches for things to be offended by.
Apple left App Store open to attack: Google researcher
it is not required, actually it says it right in the box that it is not required to signup to create reviews. Maybe thats a problem i need to fix, i give the idea that you are required to do so.
I'm definitely not advocating for people not understanding the problem they want solved.

That said, your post sounds empty. Can you elaborate on why your own scrapers that you write from scratch make it all better? How do you your scrapers deal with encode detection, broken html, content prioritization and so forth?

I don't like the current options we've got in pythonland, but just writing: "this sucks, so I write my own" sounds like an ego trip. Can you describe in detail what BeautifulSoup (or lxml which is usually a better option) is doing wrong at the lower level and how your scripts are making it better?
I don't know about Huawei, but backdoors were discovered in some ZTE phones:

http://www.zdnet.com/backdoor-found-in-zte-android-phones-13...
Where is the research? I want to work in it, but every company in this 'hot' industry is too enamored with cranking out disposable apps.
Uhm, you do know that the trope lives on in Mario games? You are aware of that?

Also, looking at history can be interesting and illustrative.
So, just to sum it up. The page you open is a web store in china, known for NOT selling fake things. Yesterday, Google glasses magically appeared on this site. The charge 20 000 CNY (roughly $3200) . They claim that it is real original from google and if you are not satisfied you can exchange them. They supposed to have 10000 pcs available and shipping starts after 14th of March...
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Sure, but it is a completely pointless example in this case because it is a bit of a tautology.
I like how she is collecting her stuff along the way to help out Mario.
You are aware that the particular character hasn't appeared in a game since?

You are aware that the trope you're referring to has been subverted, inverted, and toyed with just about every way possible by the very same company?
I really like this but the hover actions make it pretty annoying to casually browse. After just a few minutes of use, I accidentally triggered the user hover actions a few times.
I don't remember the bit in 882 where they said "typing characters that will be rendered vestigial in a few decades is a victory for usability," nor would it be true if they did.

I'm not saying we should return to hosts files, but that doesn't mean we can never do better.
Both Nevada[1] and New Jersey[2] have legalized though there's still quite a bit undecided, especially re: regulations.

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57570664/nevada-legalize...

2. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/nj_moving_at_di...
Intrade shutting down? Huh, what are the odds of that?
Zombification, a fate worse than death.

Major props for separating the mission from the vision and going with the mission.

I tell myself (and whoever asks) that I'd be okay if our startup turns out not to be viable, but I'd never forgive myself leaving our potential as a big fat question mark. We finally started a beta last week so answers will come in time, I just hope that if it ever comes down to it, we also pick mission over vision.

Best of luck with the next incarnation of Referly.
I certainly am. What has that to do with the comment I made?!

Also, I am not aware of any serious attempts inside the Mario franchise to seriously subvert or invert the trope.

I see an endless history of portraying women as weak, helpless and passive. Sad, really.
My girlfriend works for one of the bigger tech blogs. I can't count the number of times I've heard her rant about startups sending her 500+ word pitches where she still has no idea what they do or what they are trying to announce by the end of the email.

First rule of thumb: Say what you do and why you are pitching between the subject line and first (short) paragraph, in the most simple way possible. If you are worried you won't get a reply after that first paragraph you should likely rethink pitching at all.

Nail the first paragraph by keeping it simple (journalists REALLY appreciate this, meaning your entire email is more likely to be read), then provide any supplemental content in the following paragraphs.

Also, don't worry about getting every detail in the initial pitch. If the journalist is interested there will be plenty of time in the follow-up.
Download linux on your computer(Mint or Ubuntu id recommend). Then look up the basic commands and use them (ls, cd ...). Then move on to making your own aliases(search up 'making bash aliases'). By this point you can now start trying some more advanced things like having aliases which start up programs and open your project folders(search up 'dotfiles bash'). Lastly learning some shell script can help you better understand and utilize the terminal(as you can write complex shell scripts for your aliases).
As a side note using vim(or emacs) as your default text editor will keep you in the terminal longer helping you get used to using it.
This is just flat-out terrible story telling. How about some detail on the design struggles? It sounds like they just drew a few lines on a napkin and called it good.
Obviously. We're, primarily customer driven though so I'm sure we will need to ship it some time in the nearish future.
Everyone should learn to write. This should not be taken as "learn to write a novel." The practice of writing develops skills in articulating opinions, clarifying purpose, supporting with facts, and raising clear questions -- skills useful even if pen is never put to paper.

Similarly, "learning to code" is not to be taken as "be a programmer." Rather, learning to code is a means to developing skills in analyzing problems, establishing goals, breaking down big tasks into small tasks, understanding cause and effect, etc -- skills that are useful far beyond software. Learning to code isn't the only way to learn these skills, but it's a fun, easy, and accessible way to do all of them at the same time.
I think she's quoting pg, but pg lists the condition of that growth to be the time a startup is in the YC class

A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can
hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. If you
can only manage 1%, it's a sign you haven't yet figured
out what you're doing.

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
As Android is going mainstream I can't imagine hackers accounting for more than a very small group. However, its probably a small group that spends a disproportionate amount of money - akin to gamers in the PC market.
Casuals are the small minority of all Android users which have access to the Play store. Emerging markets make up the huge numbers.

What I find very interesting is how you focus on those two groups that actually matter and spend no time griping that you cant reach all those emerging market users - makes perfect sense, why worry about things you can't change. Eventually systems and methods will pop into place whereby this dark matter in the Android universe can be reached. But until then - focus on people you can sell to now.
Really digging this. For those who prefer light on dark (such as myself), I made a few minor tweaks. It's not perfect, but mostly usable. You can get a copy at http://github.com/michaelmior/HackerNew. Just clone somewhere and go to chrome://extensions, click "Load unpacked extension" and select the folder you cloned to.
A real estate market separated into 60% government-owned cheap housing and 40% privately owned expensive housing strangely reminds me of NYC with its rent control/stabilization policies. Most of the current problems will not go away with government owning buildings instead of landlords. If the prevailing rate is low enough, a black rental market will soon form for government-owned units in desirable locations.

What I agree with is that somebody must build new housing. If private developers cannot/would not do it, then its a market failure and government should step in.
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