skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go is a low level language compared to Haskell though. It's like walking back to 1982.

I was immediately dismissive of Go when I first heard of it a few years ago. I only started looking at it again a couple months ago when I ran across the 'splash' article. [1] The attention to detail with regards to the language, the standard library and the tooling really impressed me.

Yes, in many ways Go is low level. It doesn't break much new ground from a programming language design perspective. It doesn't provide a lot of features, but what it does have is well integrated. At every turn, language features were added or left out based on the larger software engineering perspective, rather than what can produce the most succinct or elegant code.

[1] http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
Planetary Resources founder: ‘Humans will migrate off Earth in the next 30 years’ http://www.geekwire.com/2013/planetary-resources/
Intel run it. AFAIK it was used to produce rad hardened and analogue stuff only. Nothing fancy.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:https://coinbase....

Phone no., names, addresses, e-mails, etc. all out. This is indeed pretty bad. A lot of people I know who use BTC use it foremost for privacy reasons, it is tremendously ironic how this has worked out.
It's just confusing what they are trying to communicate other than attractive people.

They aren't trying to communicate anything other than attractive people. The target market doesn't know or care what "htc" or "android" or "lock screen" etc are. The target market spends money to be attractive people.
Because being maximally PC is not something he wants to be, not even out of spite (and that latter option would not have done anything to improve the situation).
"...which was about $5000 a month. This is an entry level pay of a software developer (without Master or PhD) in Germany."

Where? I'm near what, as I understand it, is considered a good area for high-tech workers (Ruhr area), but I don't see many jobs paying this much (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?)
There is still something extremely valuable to be found in visiting all of these places. Indeed, the more time he spent in each place, the more he would learn--but there is a limited amount of time and the world is huge. You could equally argue that he should have visited and/or lived in every town, since every town has its own unique experience.

By your standards, what does "living" somewhere even consist of? Staying there for a month? A year? 10 years? I've been places for a year and don't feel like I "live" there, and I don't see how arguing that he should have "lived" in 193 places is a valid criticism. Nor is asserting that he's only traveling for the stamp--he refers often to what he's learned about people and the human condition, and the stamp is simply a proxy for measuring his progress in this journey, since you really can't measure "how much have I learned while traveling?" until way after, as he says.

While it's not strictly necessary to visit every single country, I think what he's down is incredibly valuable and that people should travel even more for better cultural understanding.
Software as Space-Time Continuum
The cryptocurrency company that's never heard of cryptography. Bringing you your world in plain text.
Making a Game Out of the Web
http://camelotunchained.com/en/making-a-game-out-of-the-web/

This is currently a Kickstarter project[1] from the people who were originally behind Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC)

They are talking about the in-game UI based on HTML/JS. The game engine will still run natively but they will embed a browser engine for the UI elements. The goal is to allow people to:

1) modify an addon to the UI with familiar technology (even tho LUA is cool!)
2) provide a public api that you can create webapps with.
3) Access a ton of data from the game

So you can interact with your guild mates, trading bazaars, or generate a heat map of the most deathly spots in some webapp without having to load the game at all. Your mods can work on your desktop or in the game.

As a former DAOC player and current developer, I'm in love with this idea. If this interests you, check out their kickstarter page

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained
I'm still not getting why people call it a pyramid scheme. I don't make money by getting other people involved.

Sure, by getting others involved I increase the likelihood of it succeeding, but...that's everything.
If you are using BTC for privacy, then using a third party hosted wallet is not a very good plan.
My experience is quite varied but I'd say mainly anything MS stack oriented, with some Java and C++. I've also got quite a lot.of web and mobile, which I appreciate isn't 100% applicable to the financial sector.

Perhaps more relevant is my hobbyist experience building poker bots, so I know about some complex Maths, AI and game theory but I don't have a degree so I know that a potential employer may not appreciate my skill set in those areas.

I would be willing to go cheap for maybe a year until I've got a better history in the financial sector. How cheap is cheap?
More stuff available in the same kind of flat design style on http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
GMAFB, the HN title omits the word "Literature" from the "Getting a Literature PhD" This looks a lot like the folks at slate are blogspamming.

I wish HN admins would require approval on any sites with submitted content like slate, extremetech etc. Those guys are a whole lot of noise without much signal.
Lol, I don't do Python or Ruby, but... biased much?
It is intentional. From the Archwiki [1]:

> Arch Linux targets and accommodates competent GNU/Linux users by giving them complete control and responsibility over the system.

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
If you are using mongoose, is there a similar advantage to be had or is this handled internally?
Seriously, what I need in a programming language depends on what I intend to achieve with it.

I use blocks in Objective-C and "closures" in Applescript.

to lambda(aStatment)
script intern
say aStatment
end script
end lambda
set a to lambda("applescript…")
set b to lambda("knows how to …")
set c to lambda("make a closure if not a lambda…")
tell a to run
tell b to run
tell c to run
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to explain the same thing to my mom and my grandma and every other non-technical female out there and publish a post with a similar title and will never take it down. Because, this kind of feminism movement is dangerous and someone should put an end to this "blind" feminism. A technical person explaining something technical to a non-technical person isn't sexism.

I'm sure this wouldn't have been an issue if a woman had written 'How I explained cooking to my husband'.

One word - EGO. It's amazing how much it can screw up constructive processes within a community.
The title was too long and exceeded the HN limit.
Forget about ads and privacy, Facebook Home is about identity
"I like Python, but keeping both 2 and 3 alive for so long has caused problems that make it hard to justify for serious projects."

Sounds like a strawman arguement to me. People in the community are aware of the different versions of Python and know how to deal with it. This "issue" hasn't affected Google, NASA or the millions of developers/users that utilize Python to the extent that they are in crisis mode. You can run multiple versions of Python on the same system, there are utilities that make this manageable.

What other language is "your" boss going to pick that you can't find issues with? Does he actually understand the technical details and history of said language? You can find all sorts of issues with any programming language, all of them are "Hopper complete."
You are probably not an owner of a recent ATI video card, then. Or you joined a pool that showed you how to CPU mine, that's not the right way at all.

If you go with today's exchange rate, the Bitcoins I've collected mining since January are worth between 3 and 5 dollars (US) a day. I only recently shut down my BTC mining to try Litecoin, which is reported to be about 4x more profitable to mine.

http://dustcoin.com/

The profitability of mining has gone down sharply in this time, if you ignore the fact that the exchange rate over time has made up for this fact. The coins I mined in January were worth more because there were more of them (and I didn't cash them in.) Last clean 11 day sprint of mining before the LTC experiment resulted in 0.2652BTC, same as the 8 day sprints in January.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I have a video card that I bought from Best Buy about a year ago for $160. Not exactly top of the line.
Why aren't video game actors treated like stars?
25 Scintillating Facts About the Internet in China
Don't most of us think, "Duh?" to an article proclaiming that getting/being a PhD in Literature is hard and mostly pointless?

Upper level education costs a lot of money and involves years of time, don't these people think about what they want to do with their lives? Don't they do at least cursory research into what that degree will mean to their careers?

Every high school has some sort of career counselor. Colleges have many of them. These days, research on the Internet (these are pre-PhD Lit students, don't they know how to Google?) makes it simple to look up salaries, opportunities to be hired, personal stories from those in the career, etc.

Maybe this trend toward people realizing that many degrees are near useless is just a result of the economy and tougher times finally making the practicality of education paramount. It seems a shame that you need bad circumstances for people to evidence some common sense, though.
Having studied literature, I really feel, that wife in this context was a fictional character, solely for the purpose of giving an audience that is not that technically experienced something/-one to relate to.

That on the other hand just makes this case a case of misinterpreting fiction for reality.

Reminds me of a story the acclaimed author Umberto Eco once told about his book "Foucault's Pendulum":

His main character walks through a named street in Paris and sees a burning hotel ... and so on. Eco receives a letter, in which a reader accuses him of not getting the facts right, as there never was a hotel in this street.

So is Eco discriminating hotels in Paris with this book?
For an informative retitle, how about "Literature Ph.D. means no jobs and you become worse person," which is well within the HN character limit for titles? That seems adequately to summarize the article.

(I had to try this, because rewriting a title is a mere exercise for a humanities major like me who used to work as an editor.)
Read the title and subheading on the original article, not the HN parent. It was too long and exceeded the HN character limit, and had to be edited. This is about Ph.Ds in the humanities, not the Ph.D in general.
Tabula: liberate data from PDFs
The easiest way to afford it would be to work online during the trip. Then I would guess you travel by bus/train which is a lot cheaper than flights in many places. Travelling at night would cut down on the amount you would have to spend on accommodation.
From what I remember, Mongoose pretty much does the same.

The "Attach each collection to your MongoDbSingleton as MongoDbSingleton[Collection]" trick was actually taken from Mongoose (which uses MongooseSingleton[Model] instead).
No doubt that A&H is very active, but it should be noted that they participated in Groupon's 950M Series D, which is 40% of their value in that measure.
(YC S12)
Thanks for your comment, mate. I'll use your tips also :)
I think if you drilled a lot of people you'd end up with them being OK with all the financial engineering stuff, but _not_ OK with Wall Street risking _other_ people's money, not their own.
Can't it just be re-titled

"How I explained REST to My Spouse".

Anyone complaining is clear 'projecting'....
Why shouldn't you let developers near root passwords?
Design for people, not awards (video)
Here's a good test: Would the article have been just as compelling and informative if he had written it to his husband? Everything the same except replace the word "wife" with "husband".

Yes it would have. Just because his partner is a woman this article can't be written this way. That upsets me.
Right To Know bill would allow customers to learn what companies know about them
I grew up just outside C-U and remember that very well. I think back in early 1997 he hosted a special screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Virginia Theater. One of the actors was there (Keir Dullea, maybe?) and they had a "fireside chat" about the movie and a Q&A session. It was a great experience.
Look at the size of that thing

That function is almost 1500 lines long, full of complex nested if conditions and commented out blocks. I understand how code (especially game character control code) grows to become like that, and I've probably been guilty of some similar horrors myself, but the most I can do with such code style is excuse it.
No, actually that would not be ok. The way he dealt with it was his way. And it shows how wrong the whole gender-discussion has become.

Some overreacting (or say very sensitive), but very loudly "screaming" (aka blogging/tweeting/et al) voices (female and male) have hijacked a very legit discussion for womens rights, womens equality, womens chances in this world and made a mockery out of it.

what these voices did imho, was a disservice to the just cause for equality between all genders (perceived or biological).
Redefine Episode 1: Whats this?
Nothing.... He just wanted another backlash against Google policies. But nobody cares about Google fartsy products anymore after we all gave up Google for good sine closing down Reader... right? or am I the only one that stuck to that method of protest :)))))
Amateur hour over there. I originally signed up because they were a YC backed startup. Thankfully I never got around to doing any actual transactions.
If you've ever worked in the defence industry, you will find out that you can't just ship designs to be fabbed. They are strictly information controlled and classified. That favours FPGAs as the process is externalised and the design is secure. ASICs cost at least a few million to get off the ground and you're not guaranteed your design will yield on the first run. Bringing the process in house only makes sense for very specialist hardware (think mixed mode and rad hardened) as these can't be got off the shelf.

When I worked for one of these orgs, we had a PowerPC rad hardened device which was based on a 603 and that was nearly $100k a unit in quantities of 50 and that was an off the shelf design. The one ASIC we had which was mixed mode (analogue front end and digital back end) was $25k a pop in quantities of 1000 on top of tooling and design costs of $7m.

Just doesn't add up. If its on the ground or can be bought in milspec form, it'll get used. Altera/Xilinx do this for a reasonable spend. Expect to be killed by an FPGA I programmed one day :(
Odd, I could have swore I read "a tenth" the first couple times I read it. Sorry for being nebby:-\
URLs are for People, not Computers
It's not a product. It's an undocumented API that happened to be public.
"2 x $30,000 sales sitting at a probability of 10% to close, 1 x $500 sale sitting at a probability of 75% to close", and so on.
How does one estimate these probabilities?
Might men and women actually be neurologically different? Louann Brizendine and Doreen Kimura (neuroscientists both) sure think so, and present copious evidence to that effect:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767920104
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=10

Men and women have systematically different muscle masses, lifespans, even organs. Yet it is taboo to imagine that their brains might be different too, on average. Indeed Ryan is persecuted for the indirect implication that women, on average, might be less technically inclined! If this generalization was actually untrue it would not be necessary to scream at people like Larry Summers to "disprove" it. The zeal of people invested in the denial of biology is astonishing; they seek to personally destroy anyone who even indirectly endorses anything related to gender difference.
Especially more so if people used it to buy illegal drugs and now have their checkout info available in Google..
How would someone go about compiling this? (More looking for resource/tutorial, running Ubuntu).
This will not work. If I don't have the money to mount a defense it doesn't really matter because there will not be a trial. I would have to reach a licensing agreement or close-up shop. This is yet another bullshit law with 23 different ways to circumvent it.

A better version of the law would have the troll pay for legal fees in advance. A bona Fidel estimate of fees is made and the troll has to deposit this amount with the court. If they loose, the court can pay the defendant out of that fund. Now you still have to have the money to defend yourself, but at least you know they won't be able to file bankruptcy and walk away. It also increases the immediate cost of troll operations exponentially.

The next step would be to reduce defendant fees to zero.

The next step would be for the patent office to become involved in some capacity and re-examine for invalidation.

Every time you sue someone for patent infringement you have to first PAY FOR a full expedited patent invalidation trial. In other words, you are free to use your patent to make stuff but if you want to sue somebody we will first re-examine it's validity. Tis is fair. The government granted the monopoly. Now the government is obligated to protect us from this monopoly by re-examining the grant when it is used to cause financial harm. Only if the patent passes the re-examination process is the trial allowed to take place. Every time you attack someone you face invalidation and having to make a huge deposit with the courts to cover all costs. That ought to slow them down.

Anyhow, these are random ideas from the vantage point of a non-lawyer engineer. I am sure they are flawed in a thousand ways. I truly don't think government is really going to fix this mess.
Flat, marriage & family – 3 reasons why less Indians are Entrepreneurs
Jesus H Christ, this is quite a fuck up. Over on /r/bitcoin there's a comment linking to a transaction involving 229BTC worth of "Avalance Spa Powder", which is one of those synthetic drugs of ambiguous legality. That's quite a violation of trust on Coinbase's part. Their reputation is nuked. (Edit: Please note that I am 100% wrong about this. Why don't I just shut the fuck up for once?).
Yeah I agree. I'm saying if you read the article and replace wife with anything else it still makes sense. So it's not sexist in anyway.
Understanding Integer Overflow in C/C++
"Lots of useful programs can be written without turing completeness."

Including Bitcoin transactions - I learned this from elsewhere on HN today.

FYI: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
Academic work year and no crazy hours? Sorry, but you clearly don't work with research.

Working all days of the week is incredibly common.

And, unfortunately, crunch time specially near major conference deadlines is almost becoming the norm. Of course, the focus on publication is another problem related to that.
> Transcribing a conversation with your wife, wherein the wife in this case is the non-technical part is not discriminating - it is a fact.

Except it was not a transcription, it was some sort of Socratic dialog with the "wife" part being written just so in order to create the optimum amount of tech ignorance for the author to fill.

> No-one would have said anything if a woman posted "How I explained REST to My Husband".

Really? I'm pretty sure there would have been a lot of remarks about the reversal of the "normal" roles.

Really, I dislike overzealous feminism but I can understand this case. The point of the title was really to convey "this is an explanation of REST for non-programmers". Since approximately none of us know the author's wife and whether she lacks technical understanding, the real title actually doesn't convey this information unless you add the stereotype that women don't understand tech.
More bloated software, yeeeey!!
1:22 PM UTC - Currently saying "It's been n days since GitHub hired someone"
5 Uncommon Tips for Managing Your Virtual Team
Or maybe with process.nextTick.
First Time iPhone Users Should Be Jealous Of Android: Facebook Home
The Merit and Promise of Facebook Home
Some of the comments in the FAQ don't make any sense.

Q: Why does Freicoin use demurrage? I'm worried that my coins will just fade away.
A: Worried? It's a good thing. If the amount of money was stable, people would prefer saving it as opposed to spending it. This would decrease the quantity of money circulated, which in turn would act against the main purpose of money - a medium of exchange. With demurrage in place, you should think about money as it's meant to be, not as a storage medium of wealth.

This is quite an assertion--generally, money is taught to be both a store of value and a medium of exchange. What are you exchanging if there's no value in it?

There are also some really odd grammatical errors:

Q: With a zero interest rate, investments will be impossible!
A: It's already possible, for example, in Islam banking...

"Islam banking"?
Git - let's make errors ( and learn how to revert them )
Show HN: Pandas, Numpy, and SciPy users can now access our over 4M datasets
Read the article carefully. This was a non-Google plug-in using a private Google API that was then shutdown when Google stopped using it. This impacted users of the plug-in. This has nothing to do with Google, really.
Agreed with one caveat. If one is interested in something obtuse, doing a PhD gives you the opportunity to work with the greatest minds/personal heroes in the subject. I got the opportunity to interact with a few Turing award level people in my career so far. It is hard to put a dollar value on that.

One other point is that resources like YC did not exist when I started my PhD. I was about to finish as YC came out and I felt finishing up my PhD was the better option. I had some friends who had just started their PhD programs and they quit to pursue startup opportunities (undoubtedly a good move for almost everyone). Timing and luck I guess.
Microsoft creative director "doesn't get" why always-on DRM upsets people
And, Google had to find a link to this content somehow, which means it's publicly accessible from some Coinbase page.
"Sometimes picking on these very tiny issues makes it very hard to identify with your cause."

This. Because you're taking an informative, factual statement describing a particular relationship (husband working with technology, wife with limited relationship to technology), and saying that it's not any good to describe this fact, because other people who want to have a different sort of relationship might feel outnumbered or something.

People who are interested in actually doing something about gender-related issues in technology should consider that at a certain point, it's less productive to whine about something and more productive to ignore it and cope so you can fight bigger battles. I think we passed that point on the way to this article, and then went on to enter the zone where people stop even respecting that you're fighting...
These are buy it now / donation pages. These are NOT checkout pages for coinbase users.
While this is bad, I do feel like anyone using a hosted wallet like Coinbase where you directly link a bank account (which I think is rare among bitcoin exchanges, etc) can't be expecting full anonymity. Coinbase is a registered company and if they have bank accounts linked then their identities are compromised anyway if the company were to get subpoenaed, I'd imagine.

If they want anonymity they should be personally holding their own wallet. Most exchanges only allow some sort of cash order deposit, for this reason exactly.