skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually pretty good, and I have to say I was surprised. I generally expect to roll my eyes whenever I see anyone describing anything similar to sprints or iterations in the "Agile" sense.

What I like here is that instead of mindlessly sticking to your guns and cramming everything that the team may have believed they were going to deliver into the sprint they adjust continuously throughout gaining greater focus around the most important value that they can potentially deliver. It's this flexibility and adaptability I find most "Agile" teams are completely missing.

The other thing I like is that the team members have both self-determination (the ability to decide to some degree what they will deliver) and ownership. These two things are often lacking. Team managers usually have all the determination but without true ownership and accountability for the results. I find this to be a disastrous situation.

I still don't really like sprints much but this is definitely an improvement over the way typical teams seem to approach Agile.
Yeah, that'd be a superb idea. Start with a really good code example (or a few really good examples that cycle between page loads), and have an interactive thingy. Like the Go homepage: http://golang.org/
Apple is losing the war of words
"I get why Google finally killed Reader. It was essentially free infrastructure and storage for an ecosystem of apps that generated more value (both financial and intangible) than the product itself."

That's not what I see at all.

From day 1 when I switched from "feedonfeeds" which is basically a self hosted simple web based reader to using Reader many years ago, I always thought the purpose of Reader was for the mighty GOOG to associate my gmail address and web search history and all that stuff with a list of sites I follow so as to sell better advertising. And better spamming of other people with similar interests. So someone reading aaronsons quantum physics blog might get ammo spam because I (and probably many others) read both aaronsons and esr's blog.

The true meaning of the abandonment of RSS by GOOG is they're shrinking their "big data" source collection, not growing it, maybe for the first time ever. They've grown their data gathering for so many years, weird stuff like streetview vans gathering wifi SSIDs, over 100 spam emails per day for me even when I no longer use email as a major communications tool, etc. But now they're in a pruning mode, gathering less data not more. That inflection point is the "REAL" story. Maybe eventually they'll inevitably roll back to just spidering the net for search. Or they'll give up on all the "big data" stuff and pivot 100% into phones. Could happen?

Another interpretation is reader was for infovores or whatever I am. People who think learning about the world is watching Laverne and Shirly reruns on old fashioned broadcast TV are very profitable to advertise to, but they don't/didn't use Reader. And people like me use adblock. So I'm not very profitable for GOOG. For example, people who won't see our ads, do read both aaronsons blog and esrs blog which is kinda interesting, but who cares, they adblock anyway so no way to spam them. Its more profitable to track and spam the old fashioned TV watchers.
They don't taste great, but they are consistently safe and produced at a low cost. Which is much more than can be said for U.S. health care.
I'm not in any way related to this effort, but if you're going to give criticism, please at least make it constructive or give examples of what you mean. I certainly didn't find it horrible "in almost every way".
Actually - there's a decent argument that Wikipedia is the Great Wonder of the Internet.
Ah, thank you for your reply.

There was a WebGL 3D flying simulator on HN few weeks back which used the sky and light changes to great effect. Perhaps something like morning rush hour traffic against evening or rainy days againts sunny.

I'll definetely have to delve more into PostGIS. Three.js should follow when I get a better graps of D3. I think there was an example on how to generate a satellite 3D like map from GeoJSON at Mike Bostocks example site.

Very exciting stuff!
That is a historically naive assertion. Take a look at the list of countries in this article - most of them are still in pretty serious shit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...

It very rarely works out.
I am not a big fan of the nav bar either but more so because the links that currently show up there are of no use to me. I think it would get a lot more use if they allowed it to be customized or if they updated it based on your usage patterns.
Update: I take it the automatic update feature was a Windows only thing?

I've had machines using FGLRX off and on for years and never realized it had this feature. Guess that's a good thing, though, considering it evidently was never well implemented. It also seems like bad idea as you might lose compatibility between whichever specific driver/kernel pair if you aren't careful.

But I take exception to those who claim the Catalyst install process is horrendous. I think AMD's process of

./<installerName> --buildpkg <distro/version>

followed by:

<package manager install command (for example, dpkg -i)> <generated package name>

and tying in to the DKMS subsystem is much more convenient than Nvidia's approach which directly patches itself into your kernel in a way that would force you to manually reinstall it after every kernel update (unless you were using a distro packaged version, obviously). Maybe they've changed that? (Right now I'm using the distro-packaged driver on my nVidia system.)

While I'm not happy with the current AMD Linux driver mostly because it lacks video decode/render accel as nice as VDPAU, I think most of the other frequent complaints about the driver tend to be a little unfair considering how you can often have obnoxious problems with the nVidia binary as well. With things like HDMI it's been my experience that both drivers tend to have some eccentricities, for example.
Agreed. Not defending pci. Nevertheless some qsa is going to get their panties in a twist if their scanning tool goes red.
Before talking about colonizing Mars, why not colonizing other areas of Earth?

See the Sahara for example, or even your own deserts in US. Closer, more clement climate and no less resources.

Why colonize a far away deserts when we have enough on Earth?
I can recommend you reading this article:
http://sivers.org/15-years
And I believe it will give you some hope and you will believe that you aren't a fail.
Advice for US Entrepreneurs Who Move to Europe
I wonder how many of the people who say they are ready to go, imagine what it really is going to be. I think it won't be glorious. It might be exciting at first but if you have the chance to live there more than few months it will turn into rather lonely and hard experience. You won't have the internet or other communications. You won't have your favorite beer, or most probably any beer at all. Chances are you'd say good-bye to sex/love relationships, to your parents and friends forever, to the Earth weather and green grass... You get the idea. I know it sounds romantic and glorious when you are 20 years old or so, but I hope everyone who thinks they are ready to go, really is.
It's just another example of what's fundamentally wrong with the Euro. If you compare to the US, which is a continent sized country with a lot of diversity, you'll see some big differences. For one, the economic differences between regions in the US aren't nearly as large as in the eurozone. For another, the authority which regulates currency is also in control of taxation and government spending at a federal level, unlike the EU. Also, everyone in the US is subject to the same federal banking regulations and enjoys FDIC insured deposits. In the eurozone you have a hodgepodge with a currency system overlaid, and then when some financial crisis happens the whole system breaks down.
Another in a long line of goalposts that assert "this is intelligence". Chess fell, driving fell, machine translation is falling. Robot storytellers (which, i think would cover humor) are only a matter of time.
I think he is vastly underestimating the amount of work required to make a true Google Reader replacement. Reader was a lot more than just an RSS reader, and much more than just the front-end bits. Reading this post makes me wonder if he ever even used it or had much direct interaction with the underlying feed API and all that it offers (historical feed data, etc).

Re-read this blog post with every mention of "Google Reader" replaced with "Google Search" to get an idea of how ridiculous a notion it is that we should just shut up and make our own in a couple of months. Granted, the scale isn't quite the same. Google Reader is not as difficult to replace as Google Search would be, but it is far more difficult than he thinks.

Having said all of this, it is absolutely Google's call if it wants to keep Reader going or not, they don't owe me anything when it comes to Reader or any of their other services that I don't pay for, but OTOH shutting down Reader does mean I'm going to think twice (or four times) about adopting any future Google service. They've now established quite a pattern of killing off things I've grown to depend on, and they are free to do that, but I'm free to avoid their services for fear of being burned again.
Web app Develepmont = Dirty Socks??
Why is web development so hard?
Why is it so hard to organize?
Is angular good is angularJS useful?
Web Action Hero Toolbelt: Make the web actionable
1) It's not just engineer and scientist time, but lab equipment, prototypes, etc, and the labor costs of all of those things, which dwarf engineer time in a capital-intensive area like transportation or energy.

2) Transport and energy are areas where the low-hanging fruit has already been harvested. Incremental improvements are enormously expensive in such areas.

To put the $2 billion figure into context, Intel spends $6-10 billion a year on R&D, most of which goes to fab/semiconductor research. That's what it costs to do the research just to go from 32 nm to 28 nm to 22 nm, etc, every 18 months. This is because semi-conductor research is frighteningly expensive, and is also an area where the low hanging fruit has already been harvested.

Making fundamental breakthroughs in energy and transport isn't a $2 billion research project. It's probably not even a $20 billion research project (the cost of the Manhattan Project). It might be a $200 billion research project (the cost of the Apollo Program).
Personally, I like the navbar, I just don't like how it shortcuts services I don't use while hiding services I do use under the "More" option. For a company so bent in understanding my preferences and interests, this oversight has always puzzled me.
Hi! I am in Switzerland, Genf. Drop me a line if you are in for a coffee on the lake sometime.
In the enterprise space, I have learned that if you drop your price for one customer, your other customers will quickly learn of the new "price floor."
I'd wager human brains to a lot of stuff unrelated to solving problems at hand, like keeping the heart beating. Given that the machines don't need to do all of the underlying biological stuff, you can probably get away with fewer connections.
Simple tool for performance management
Would love to get feedback on a simple tool for performance management. Everything else out there seems clunky.
History will record that the grand collapse started with Cyprus.
Domestic Drones on Patrol
How accurate is weather forecast in your area?
Sometimes I think weather forecasts are useless for me. Rarely our previsions are confirmed. For example, yesterday they said that todays temperature would be 17º to 29º (celsius) and 90% of chance to rain. Until now, no rain and temperature was higher the 25º. This forecast is accurate for you?
Sigh. And there goes my productivity. :)
That's an interesting comparison... it actually strikes me that Google Reader is much harder for me to replace than Google search. Switching to Bing would be easy, whereas Reader was something I'd integrated into my life, and which I'd curated for myself.
I heard a quote from the actor Will Smith recently. He was talking about how, when he was 12 years old, his father made him rebuild a brick wall that seemed impossibly huge to do.

It took a year and a half, which must seem like an eternity for a 12 year old, but eventually him and his little brother did it.

So Will says -- "The way to do things isn't to focus on building a huge brick wall. It seems impossible. Instead, it's to lay one brick as perfectly as you can."

So, do big things. But do them by laying bricks.

Also, you don't have to go it alone. People are surprisingly scarily helpful. Reach out to people and ask smart questions. My email is in my profile if you like.

One brick at a time. Godspeed.
Extortion is always a solid business plan.
It would be pretty ironic if the Cyprus bailout of 2013 will noted in history books as the event that lead to the collapse of 21st century banking (next up bank runs). Is it probable? No. Is it possible? Maybe.
Only a relatively small fraction of the population, mostly highly intelligent, and well informed, curious individuals used Reader (and while I'm on a roll, I'm also extremely handsome LOL) That being said, aside from being an unusual subset of the population which they may or may not have advertising clients for, that sub-population also might be non-monetizable people, adblockers. If I'm an unusual person they can't find advertisers for, and I adblock, GOOG can learn all they want about me, they'll never make a penny.

Sometimes my mythtv commercial auto-skipper will miss or whatever and I'll be stuck watching TV commercials, and I'm occasionally all WTF I'm not part of this culture anymore. I mean I still live here, but advertising just gets weird if you avoid it for awhile and then jump in the deep end. Ditto if I'm stuck on a computer without adblocking. You guys in my former culture which I'm no longer part of, are just weird.
In 2007 i read a blog post similar to this.... here is an excerpt:

" It was in February this year that I decided to try and make triathlon my career. It was a leap into the unknown: I knew nothing about what it meant to be a professional athlete. Now, two months down the line, I am still climbing that steep learning curve. And believe me, it’s a long slow climb. But what made me take the plunge, give up my job and throw myself into a life of continuous physical pain and torture? It was a case of ‘now or never’. Having just turned dirty thirty, I was getting on a bit and knew that my shelf life, at least at Olympic distance racing, was limited. I had watched the elite women race at the World Champs in Lausanne last February. Could I be as good as them, if not better? Had I fulfilled my potential, or did I have more to give? Had I pushed my mind and body to the limit? If not, what were those limits? What stars was I capable of grabbing? Without giving it a shot I would never know. I never want to look back and say ‘what if’. "

So i said let me come back see how well this person does, will they be a success? Nobody knows. To find out here is the blog from the first post, http://www.chrissiewellington.org/blog/taking-the-plunge/
Or you can forget this java madness and go with Websecurify Suite (https://suite.websecurify.com). It works from the browser and it is a lot faster.
I just tried, signed out: no navbar, signed in: navbar.
I was indeed a Reader user, but by no means a power-user, so I could very well be unaware of some difficult-to-duplicate parts of Reader that are hidden under the covers. Can you let me know what I could be missing?
Well, a quick lookup would give you that: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/
or that http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/google-readers-death-is-pro... or many many many other...

Agreed on the Google+ analysis though :)
You sound like an excellent candidate to further promote and maintain U.S. interests in one of the numerous Third World countries. A person who already has much experience in destabilizing efforts to facilitate the overthrow of non-cooperative governments. As John Perkins outlined in his book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", we need people like you to further our Western economic and political interests by keeping the Third World countries in Third World conditions so we can have access to cheap labor, cheap resources, sites for our military bases (which we already have close to a thousand), and establish a pro-western crony capitalist dictatorship dressed as a democracy. Currently we have openings in NGO front organizations which are well funded to sway populaces toward our own candidates. We also need people to pose as missionaries and report on peasant activism. I can tell you are open to much sacrifice but rest assured you would be well compensated. I recommend you begin by contacting one of the many front organizations headed by the CIA.
They also bankrolled much of the AI research during that period, which is still paying dividends today (because the state of the art hasn't advanced much in that field since DARPA pulled out). Also, tremendous improvements in robotics via funding UAV projects, etc.

What DARPA has is a lot of money without a lot of oversight. Don't underestimate the power of that model. If you look at the organizations that have been extremely effective at innovation, it's organizations where research isn't subject to market pressures. Bell Labs was bankrolled by AT&T's telephone monopoly. Xerox PARC was bankrolled by Xerox's extremely lucrative copier business. Intel, IBM, Google, etc. Innovation is associated with companies that have such tremendous market power that they can be benevolently forward-looking, instead of having to pinch every penny to survive in the dog fight that is a competitive market place.

Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch" gives great insight into this aspect of the AT&T monopoly.
Riemann goes 0.2.0
I've been thinking about this a lot lately -- What's most interesting to me is the implications for urban data modeling and prediction when the end user has full control of how the data is used. Remember that article a few weeks back about the fellow who used the new SimCity to model his town's traffic problems? Imagine if you had full control over the model and can tweak the city at any level you want, not just what the game UI allows you to adjust (e.g. feeding in data from a government API)? Urban planners could potentially get a lot of useful information from gamers playing around with variables in their city.

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 (instead of the whole thing). If the user only pays attention to optimizing a small part of the city, interesting patterns could emerge in the overall model.
Here are your options: lose all of your money or lose 10% of your money. What do you choose?
I think this is an important point. The fact that you can change the href after the click is irrelevant because there are other (just as easy) ways to change where the link will be taking the user. If malicious javascript is being run on your page, THAT is your problem, not the href switch.
I choose to not believe this, and live in the delusion that someone will create a hacked version of a Google Reader-like API for the sake of saving people time. Possibly and hopefully tldr.io does.
Why worry about meaningful change, why work against the dysfunctional, towards peace and sanity, why care about reaching our true potential as intelligent beings on this planet when we can instead fantasize about going to Where no man has gone before ?
We have already measured bone loss in low gravity environments. http://weboflife.nasa.gov/currentResearch/currentResearchGen...

Gravity plays an essential role in bone maintenance. You can work this out from first principles if you know anything about biology, or read about NASA's findings.

This has been known for a long time, well before humans ever went to space. For example, HG Wells' First Men on the Moon described the very weak chests/ rib cages of the moon's citizens due to low gravity resulting in very low bone density. When the explorers from earth struck them, their chests crumpled like a beetle might on earth. Wells either learned this from other scientists or worked out the logic himself.
Thanks for the reply Andy, appreciated. We're actually talking to Ordnance Survey atm so hopefully we can work something out. Building height data for the UK (that's available outside higher education) is a pain to get hold of so I'm hoping we can work something out.

I'll definitely look into the CityGML stuff, it sounds great.

LIDAR is certainly something we're keen to explore further. If anything, it'll get us a much more accurate estimation of height, at least better than an educated guess or via SRTM (which is way to low detail and can't be relied on for buildings).

The CityEngine stuff is amazing. I've not actually played with it myself yet but I've been having a good look at it during my research. Would be cool to have a go on it at some point.
I tried to see what this was and kept getting asked to sign into Google; I saw a page that mentioned "Subscriptions" and "Google Wallet", and thought to myself, "this is probably not going to talk me out of Burp Suite".

I don't like Java applications any more than you do, but it happens that the best web testing application is built in Java; I'm not going to not use it out of pique.
I'm 53 and I hardly feel like my life is over. At 30 you are just beginning. I am still a dreamer an I've always felt like I'm a winner. You need to have confidence in yourself. Remember - the key to success is not giving up.

Consider the story of Ely Calloway. He worked his way up the company ladder at a major textile firm. When he retired, he decided to plant a vinyard and started up a winery. Calloway is a suucessful vinyard and winery in Temecula California.

After starting the winery and as an avid golfer, Ely Calloway decided to make golf clubs (Big Bertha) and founded Calloway golf. Calloway golf is obviously a very successful company. This was his third career started well into retirement.

The moral of the story is that your life is far from over. In fact, you should expect to live a longer more productive life than you can dream possible at this point.

Be persistent. Be positive. Life is good. Be a winner.
So kind of like a magic 8 ball variant of ab? You know I'm rather surprised there aren't more open source tools like Burp and that it is so expensive.
You're right, it should. But Google Voice doesn't do it.
Option 1: Make rational decisions and rely on everybody else being rational

Option 2: Panic and make rash decisions
The first result is the tutorial - the second result is the comparable API documentation, although unfortunately you need to find the right section of the page after clicking through. Like the Java doc, it has a prose introduction followed by a list of methods.

Overall, I think you're right that the Python docs aren't optimal for quick fire referencing. I think we tend to use some form of introspection to examine methods, function signatures and docstrings. For instance, I keep IPython open and use tab completion and the 'foo?' syntax to find the details I need.
I agree, you have to dislodge them out of that mindset, so they don't see you that way. You're there to help, which means honesty and seriousness. Otherwise you get the businessman bullshit for public consumption.

Having interests in common (outside business) helps.
Please use a serif font for non-Titles. Every time I read something online that is a couple of paragraphs long (eg: documentation), I always wished that they have a Times/serif font version of this document.

It would probably not be as "beautiful" compared to Non-serif fonts but it would certainl help my eyes (and I'm sure for others as well - especially if we spend hours in front of a computer screen).