skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but is there time?

I tend to find that these are long-term projects that could take 4 to 5 years to get done. You need a different type of person - and definitely the support of management - to make this a reality.

The weak point is there tends to be little interest from management. 'Why do we need to invest in fixing that? It's working already! We need feature [1, 2, 3] first.'
Nice signup process. Very low friction.
It is not obvious. If aliens are smart enough to get here, they are also smart to observe that contacting us will cause great chaos. We are simply to primitive. We have famine, racism, wars, and overall a lot of issues that do not warrant contact at this time.
Agreed. The article also seems skeptical that aliens would be willing or capable to travel for thousands of years to reach us. For a truly advanced species who have undoubtedly extended their lifetime drastically, I doubt thousands of years would feel like a very long time.

Hell, thousands of years wouldn't even feel like a long time for human-built computers.
I assume a lot of implementers ignore that autolink syntax because it's much easier to just escape all less-than and greater-than signs to prevent any HTML.
The source for the chart is the RIAA (lower left, tiny gray print)? The data may be accurate, they may not, but I'll consider the source. The full article sounds a lot like a puff piece for the poor, beleaguered RIAA. Singles are killing the industry, except that singles drove a lot of the industry for decades. This is briefly mentioned in the article, followed by "but the music industry wised up in the '70s". And wise up they did. Slap a couple of singles on an album, populate the remainder with filler, charge more, profit.

"...musicians will have to increasingly rely on touring, merchandise sales and endorsement deals to make up for lost album sales." Yes, yes they will, just like they've always done because of how RIAA members take the large part of the profits from record sales. Again, the only ones for whom anything changes are RIAA members.

I just don't see how a shift wouldn't have happened one way or another. Blame iTunes all you want, but it's a hell of a lot better for profits than torrenting. At 99 cents I won't even bother starting the bit torrent client. At $15US for a CD that consists of the two songs I want, and the rest crap, you can bet I'll look at alternatives. And I have disposable income and am not afraid to spend it. You can forget about extracting money from the teenage market at $15US a pop, which will just torrent it when faced with the choice.

There's a buggy whip analogy here somewhere, but I'm not going to try. It's the way things are, and it's not going to change no matter how many members of congress the RIAA tries to buy.
Not every computer problem is a hardware problem, even though the software is running on some hardware. Whether the "mind" is emergent or external, it is not particularly useful to ignore it.

Brain injuries and hormonal problems are hardware.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a database problem.

Illogic and a tendency to over-simplify or rely on metaphors are software bugs. grin

Of course, the software and database are built in self-modifying firmware, so physical and mental issues do interact in interesting ways.
I completely agree. I went and looked at his hiring page to see what kind of folks he was looking for. He's not hiring in a framework/language I'm familiar with, but if he was, I might consider applying.
Dorman has lobbied his school district to provide special advanced education for his son. But Dorman said it’s unlikely Gus would receive special treatment.

“I know there’s no money for gifted programs in Illinois,” he said.

That's unfortunate, I count testing into a GT (gifted and talented) program in elementary school on the short list of the best experiences of my life.

What I don't understand is why general public education isn't structured more like the GT program I went through?
If you download the crx, then manually drag it from your downloads folder to the Extensions page, it should install.
I use Color Scheme Designer:
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Nginx switches from SVN to Mercurial
Quality matters: invisible lines of code and the real-world impact
Isn't this just a density issue - like (for lack of a better analogy) being gay in a small town?

I can understand it's difficult when you are too young to choose geographic location - but once you can - the marginalisation is quickly solved by moving somewhere with a higher density of like-minded people.

The challenge, I guess, is to advertise that these places do exist - but I see so many 'Geek Girl Dinners' type events I can't believe that is really the case any more.
Nine-year-old Emirati inventor honoured for multiple inventions
Return Value Optimization is a generally implemented optimization technique that makes most value returns equivalent to reference passing and is allowed by the standard.
There’s an easter egg of sorts in that you can run the shown code snippets in the JavaScript console, and the results in the console will match the shown diagrams. This is thanks to careful inclusion of off-screen elements.

It would be fun to make an interactive tool that generates the diagram directly from the given selection and data (and probably wouldn’t be too hard to repurpose the existing code). But the JavaScript console and element inspector are so useful on their own for learning D3 + DOM, it’s likely more fruitful to encourage people to use the console directly.
I think the point of this (terrible) question is to show the degree to which you play "the game."

Possible outcomes:

You state a real detrimental flaw -> Employer wins by not hiring you and avoiding the consequences of the flaw. You have also demonstrated an inability to think on your feet or plan ahead by prepping for gotcha questions.

You state a real flaw that is not detrimental to the job -> You have shown you are suited for the job, but not smart enough to play the game (employee but not management material).

You name a strength -> You have demonstrated that you are willing to gloss over the truth when it is against your interests. You have demonstrated management potential!
Key condoms!
Being more advanced as a civilization doesn't mean that they would be more advanced as species. Any species capable of making computers or more intelligent machines than themselves would seem to be capable of developing unlimited technological advances given enough time. There hasn't been meaningful biological evolution in humans for thousands of years and it doesn't matter.
Can't find new talent? How about not limiting your search to people in your immediate geographical area?
> So then they have my address and keys to it?

Right, which means if your house is burgled within a reasonable timeframe after you use the service, they're prime suspects.

It's a pretty big risk for them, I should think.
I just didn't see how your comment applied. I never said that gnostic atheists were philosophically ignorant or dishonest. I just said that they would be harder to find.
Shameless plug: I've been working on pure-JS parsers for XLS and XLSX files (from old and newer versions of excel):

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For one of my apps it says that I'm not using a production ready database. I'm using Amazon RDS. How well will the DB add-ons integrate with this check?
> remarkably professionally run company

That may be true, you certainly would know better than most here, but the press about them and statements from Mr. Kalanick really don't give that impression.
I think it is a lot cheaper, especially if you consider that you are not forced to buy the tracks you don't want (which is the point of the article).

However, a lot of the cost reductions come from increased efficiency.

Apart from the fact that record companies don't have to produce and ship physical goods, which is huge in itself, we also got rid of the need for humans to search, pick and curate new artists. Artists or their managers can now publish directly in the digital stores and a ranking algorithm is all that is needed to decide if it becomes visible or not.

In the past, the human curators kind of ended up in a position of natural monopoly where they would get to pick winners and pocket most of the profits at the expense of artists who were forced to sign unfavorable contracts to get visibility.

The fact that there is less money and lower 'sales numbers' in certain parts of the industry might be a sign of success of its most innovative side, the ability to provide more music at lower prices.

What would be interesting to see is the effect on artists in all of this. When I buy music I would like to not be paying for a huge and inefficient, production, distribution, curation and marketing layer. I want the money to go as much as possible to the artist.
I beg to differ. They are definitely releasing a lot of features lately, but I feel that their core product is degrading. There has been a lot of bugs lately with Heroku.

To list a few, right when the whole debacle regarding concurrency started, they had a bug with their scheduler which wouldn't terminate processes. What ended up happening was that customers got billed for processing time they didn't use. Heroku fixed the billing issue after they were told of this issue. There was also a minor security issue where you could grant applications access to heroku via oauth, but you couldn't reject it. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to revoke apps instead of leaving them out in the limbo. I could probably name off a few more issues I've been having with Heroku, but my point is, I'd rather they spend more time fixing the current issues instead of spinning off new features.
That's a long-term adaptive effect (you almost make it sound as if caffeine is ineffective at blocking adenosine, which is obviously false). I'm interested in the immediate effect.
Illiterate Ethiopian kids hack Andriod tablets in 5 months
The force of Fiber: Google Fiber is pressuring rivals to up their game
Keep in mind that the audience often changes with each repetition.
Cloud Migration and the Gilligan's Island Scenario
Google Fiber’s Ripple Effect
I'm interested in working for a fashion company in tech, do you happen to work for one of the really great ones like Warby Parker? Any tips?
I find it hard to come up with an illegitimate reason for this service. A thief could finagle a picture of your key, send off to an online service using information that could easily be traced back to him, then use it to open your door. Or he could just pick your lock in less time than it would take him to fill out the order form.
Overestimate While Learning Something New
My biggest issue with markdown involves links. Parentheses are allowed in URLs and those confuse most markdown parsers:

http://blog.nig.gl/post/48802013022/although-parentheses-are...
It is logic like this that makes glad I now do what I do.
Out of every startup advertising jobs right now, I think 500friends gets this better than anyone else: They simply acknowledge that their best hires are likely to want to start something of their own, and actually offer to fund it: http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/10/founders-beware-500friends...
The author's central thesis - that aliens who are advanced enough to send an invasion to earth but not advanced enough to get the resources they need by other means is highly implausible - doesn't rest on the throwaway points with which you're quibbling.
I've always struggled to find what is supported in a HN text box(MD, reST or whatever markup language) and what is not and somehow that YC or HN post/official page has eluded me till now!
No, you're just hard to please. There's a difference.
Interesting how sales revenue is reportedly down so much that vinyl, which is a fraction of a percent by 2000, grows to a visible percentage point or so by today. Cassettes, alas, never had a revival
2013 world GDP map
I had a locksmith come and up my door.

Didn't ask for ID, didn't ask for _anything_ other than payment and what door I wanted to open.

So you don't need this service, you just need to pay a locksmith.
The RIAA has a talent for taking a good thing, billions of dollars in on-line digital music sales, and making it sound like a disaster.

You could always tape your records, but you couldn't CD your tapes, meaning a lot of re-sales of the same content. Now you can rip your CDs.

Of course, the RIAA probably expects people to re-re-repurchase content for every type of device they're using. How they charge $2 for a ringtone based on a single that sells for $0.99 is beyond me.
http://current.com/shows/upstream/93968385_gandhi-was-a-pedo... He knowingly slept with young girls as 'experiments.'

The article I posted had nothing to do with Gandhi's Pedophilia. It was an article that simply suggested the potential causes of a symptomatic rape in Indian Society.
Meet the stalkers
I like this one the most: "It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself"

There could simply be a technological ceiling. Once civilization reaches the ceiling, it hits it's head on the ceiling, and falls down the stairs either destroying itself or at very least losing most the progress.
Consecutive blockquotes also tend to break for me, leaving me to write all of them in HTML, which is pretty silly.
Agreed. When you say "all the shiny Apple products you want", you actually mean "the fixed cost of your equipment is irrelevant compared to the value you create in the long run." Say so in plain terms. The most attractive type of equipment benefit I've ever seen on a job posting said the following:

"Pick whatever will make you most productive: we'll order it overnight."

Even if there are one-time integration costs involved in adding a PC user to the team, that candidate may still be more productive in Ubuntu. Trust their judgement.
Exactly. One thing that Sean's story makes really clear is that EVE is only about playing a video game on the surface. Rather, it's about power and politics on a grand scale, if you want to play that way. Vile Rat often played, according to the article, just by chatting with other players. You don't need in-game training or money or skills to do that.

On a similar vein, almost everything in EVE is about money. If you have enough, you can fly wherever you want, and the only thing at risk is your time (which you might not value always) and the ship -- which you have insured, and which you already expect to use and therefore have a replacement ready. Gevlon at the Greedy Goblin did a series of posts on playing EVE, and how one can amass quite a bit of resources in-game simply by playing markets intelligently.

If playing PvP-style things is your bag (it's not mine), then EVE can be very rewarding (I hear) even if you've only been playing a couple of weeks. Just as in real life, there's always someone with more experience or skill than you, but you shouldn't let that be the excuse you use to prevent you from trying.
Difficult, but not really a significant part of the challenges for delivering closed source binaries across platforms.

On linux, you have to build distribution specific binaries that match the shared library versions in the package manager.

On Windows, you generally put all of your shared libraries in your application's folder, since there are plenty of bad actors who install DLLs without versions in the filename to system32. Leads to duplication on the system but its a generally accepted bad practice.

(Can't speak to shipping LGPL libs on OS X).
There is a typo on your main page. "feell free" on the developer communication image.
this is no longer the case, if you want a grizzly bear song that appears only on a warner bros soundtrack you have to buy the whole soundtrack
It's laziness. Instead of recognizing that everyone got where they are now by a different path where they learned different things and appreciating the diversity of knowledge that creates, it's so much easier to say, you should have known that.
Tracking moods app can help new moms
This is the worst part IMO, in theory it's great that everyone can have the freedom to do what they want, but the reality is most people don't have the skills, the right idea, etc... to make a successful startup and would have been better off working for someone else.

Is this a unique problem to our industry? In a housing boom do construction people start making their own construction companies instead of working for others?
As far as Node.js is concerned, Stackful.io [http://stackful.io ] provides an easy (and low-cost) way to deploy and scale your app on Digital Ocean SSD servers.

Meteor support is coming next week, and Rails will follow shortly.

(Disclaimer: I do work at Stackful.io)
What are you talking about?

Disrupted supply lines mean higher cost to deliver materials (longer routes, special equipment, etc). Higher prices encourages suppliers to expend the extra $$$ to deliver the goods. Or even new suppliers to enter the market (for example think about construction workers or tree removal companies in the wake of a large storm traveling to where the work is).

If the price can't change (legally) then suppliers will simply ignore the problem until conditions return to 'normal' thus ensuring shortages.
In addition to that you may want to look at https://github.com/loyso/LuaCSP - it is not implemented in Lua but it extends the language with CSP.
3 Paths to Happier Customers
Dyno redundancy and DNS CNAMEs to protect the rest of the platform if YOU get DDOSed looks to me like things their customers have to do to compensate for shortcomings of the platform.

That's of course totally ok. What I dislike is how it's being sold as a feature or simple precaution.

Why should I pay double because they have to restart my vm? Why can't they bring up a new one and then kill my current one? Why are they talking about isolating DDOSed customers instead of protecting them?

Again, I can see these issues, but don't sell the workaround as a feature
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DTS is really bad. If you have a seriously difficult problem (and not just a preference for spending $50 instead of searching with Google) then it's extremely difficult to get a useful response. You never get to talk directly to an engineer, but rather go through a DTS intermediary. The whole process is slow and painful and almost always results in something along the lines of, "You shouldn't do that," or, "That's not possible, file a bug."

I've always had an easy time getting access to engineers. I hear a lot of people don't, so it must vary a lot depending on what topics you're after.
> throwaway points with which you're quibbling

Throwaway points as to how likely it is for advanced aliens to even exist and whether they might be willing to trade with us? He's attempting to refute all possible motivations that aliens might have to communicate with us.
Back in 2007 or so I realized that it had been many years since I'd read anything but work-related technology tomes.

I decided to start reading each of the Hugo / Nebula award winners [1].

Growing to accept and enjoy the utility of eBooks (I have reservations about the pricing and terms) has been huge for attacking my reading list.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hu...
This is true, and we often use the phrase "sport jiu-jitsu" to make this clear. I have trained BJJ for close to 9 years, and I am a purple belt. Most people who train jiu jitsu also train no-gi, though. Personally, I try to favor strategy that I think would also work in MMA or even a real fight.

However, what differentiates jiu jitsu, wrestling and boxing from a lot of "traditional" martial arts is live sparring. I think that people who practice a martial arts with an emphasis on live sparring will have an enormous advantage if a real fight because live sparring is a close simulation of the real thing. Yes, your opponent won't follow the same rules. But, you're only good at what you train. And in order to train something regularly and not get constantly injured (or worse), you need to have rules.

Chael Sonnen, an MMA fighter who will fight for the UFC light heavyweight belt, makes a great observation in this interview. His observation is, in MMA, figure out what techniques were illegal in your opponents main discipline, and do those: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BrIxAu7-M

(Yes, Sonnen does a lot of trash talking before his fights, and is full of hyperbole. Don't let that fool you. His analysis of MMA is some of the best I've heard.)
Great splash page with clear demo. I've been looking to stretch out my Foundation knowledge, this sounds like a good place to start.
Compiler knows best. Again. Thanks, I wasn't really aware of this. I'll have to make a habit of reading asm output from my compiler... something I haven't done in years.

Your math lib look nifty! Which license would you share it with? Also, why in particular std=gnu99?
Very interesting, but as a daily practitioner I am skeptical.

First, this is a lot of code! As a C++ machine learning programmer, I am impressed as I know the pain (someone explains why, see comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613797 ).

Second, it contains a version of Blas and ublas as well as LBFGS and more, much more, coded from scratch as it seems. This seems too much for an ML library, and a lot to maintain.

This makes me skeptical of performances and maintenance of the code, but it would be fairer to try it first.

Still very impressed.
TWiki's isn't horrible. [[URL][text]] (or just leave out the text part)
Whomever changed the Headline - thank you. Its much clearer than my abbreviated one (original waaay too long)
This is entirely wrong. I've always thought one of the peculiarities about the UK is that they refer to all things computer as "IT" while the rest of the english-speaking world differentiates.

I don't work in IT and I never will, it's a different job with a different skill set. I'm not tech support, a dba, or 'the network guy'. I'm a software engineer and I work in R&D.
Why I almost remained a government employee and why I did not
So the previous estimate was 5000 C, and now it's 6000C +/- 500C, and that's "far hotter"? That doesn't seem like a huge adjustment to me.
Okay. I took your statement "You will be hard pressed to find philosophically educated gnostic atheists" to imply that most people who go by that label are likely not philosophically educated, presumably because realizing that true certainty about anything is impossible invalidates the "gnostic" part. If that's not what you meant, then I apologize. I often see this line of thinking, so I patterned matched incorrectly.
The idea of a normal vs ideal probability distribution makes me think about coin flips following the normal curve. The coins flip distribution over a large sample size will form a normal curve. The "ideal curve activist" will attempt to attract evidence for and possibly find ways to undermine the conspiracy of injustice that flipped the coins after they landed to some non-random pattern making the coin flip distribution appear to correspond to the actual curve.

How are these coins flipped back becomes the topic of interest for the serious activist. Many leads are followed, the evidence and the picture is always murky so suspicions turn to those who deny or ignore the injustice of the actual distribution curve. An odd thing then happens. Denigrating and dis-empowering those who dispute or ignore the ideal curve becomes the mechanism of activism due to the activist's exhaustion of and the murkiness of the task of looking for the assumed malicious coin re-flippers. The coin re-flippers may exist but they may also possess impunity or obscurity such that the activists fail to act against them but it's usually much easier for the activists to direct their energy against assumed shills or fellow conspirators who's proof of membership is their disbelief or disinterest in the ideal curve.
I will always be afraid of legislation that continues to use the term "cyber".