skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Installed and running. It's a quick download. If you already have some sort of VM software installed, getting it running is pretty painless.

(VMware said it wasn't compatible, but gave me the option to retry import with relaxed restrictions. I had to move the second (scratch) disk from Secondary-Slave to Secondary-Master, but it came up no problem after that.)

Once it was running, it's just a simple web interface you can use to select what project you want to participate in.

All in, it was about a five minute affair.

You can track the current progress of the Posterous download at <http://tracker.archiveteam.org/posterous/>.

Currently they have 4,846,523 items done, and 1,277,126 to go. They need all the help they can get.

Thanks for letting me know about this, ddorian43. I've got a reasonably speedy connection, lots of hard-drive space, and definitely don't mind helping out.
Burbank is actually somewhat infamous for having one of the shortest runways in the US used by full sized jets.
The social implication of wearing Glass is that your network notifications take priority over your conversation. When you get a call or email or text message notification during a conversation, you can choose to ignore it and leave the phone in your pocket, or covertly switch to silent mode. When you're wearing glass, the notification interjects itself physically between you and your conversation partner, indicating to them that it takes precedence. There is no way wearing Glass could be seen as anything but a slight to the people around you.
"If you were 42 and spent the last 20 years working in Big Corp - even if you did impressive work - I'm sceptical you'd be on an even-footing with a 25 year old who spent 3 years at Zynga."

I've worked with more than a few mid-20 somethings that stepped out on their own only to immediately drive their company in to the ground because they a) didn't understand "business" (profit) and b) assumed the 'old people' around them didn't understand the new economy.

This isn't to say that there are not outstanding young business owners out there, but to assume that 20 years of work experience provides no, or little, benefit when it comes to running a start-up is short sighted at best.
I tend to target niche markets because the odds of me succeeding are much higher. It's much easier to be the best of a small niche and like the article said everything happens on a smaller scale, so less risk. Most the wealthy people I personally know made their money from owning a small niche.
Scientists also once thought the Earth was flat. All matters of health and nutrition should factor in biological anthropology (hippie bullshit, apparently).

That kid that you don't breastfeed is going to end being more expensive in the future, when his/her grades aren't as good as the kids who were breastfed, ends up getting a lower paying job, and ends up with a higher chance of getting a disease.
I once spent an entire month developing a very niche product. I figured about 100 people would be interested in it.
Turned out only 11 were. :)
I earned no money, gained no fame.
Still i am happy i did it.
It was challenging enough be fun. Sometimes challenge is all we need.

I don't think your product has a tiny market. Everybody uses regex and nobody actually understands it.
You can rent miners on the bitcoin network to use their pooled hashrate to break passwords, same with moxie's service cloudcracker.com
>Spolsky's hard-line essentially says re-building your application from scratch is bad strategy.

I don't think Spolsky's position is as "hard-line" as you think it is. I always took it as a very very strong "rule-of-thumb". Every time a rewrite is proposed, it should sound warning bells in all stakeholder. And we're talking about a clean-room rewrite, and not a sub-module rewrite. Spolsky has no problem with rewriting and re-architecturing sub-pieces of an application.

Twitter is a great example of Spolky's philosophy. They had a big architectural and technology problem with Ruby and RoR, but they didn't do a clean-room rewrite with Java. Instead they tackled one sub-component at a time, and now they have something that rocks, but still allowed them to keep the time/code investment they made originally. Just as well, it allowed them to incrementally 'upgrade' their service.
In a game like this, you need to cooperate, even with randoms. They now introduced a ping-system where you can select specific pings via a radial menu, which makes it possible to signal missing enemies to your team and warn players in specific situations. But even that system, as great as i think it is, lacks some signals. For example, how to communicate that the ping before was a mistake by using pings alone? You couldn't signal the basics needed for this game without writing.

Also, if you want to help a player with a build or talk about the bigger strategy, you normally need to talk to your team. Not being able to do that could lead to frustrations and harm the game even more than the occasional insult does right now.

How to sort out champion selection before the game without a chat?
Just my opinion of course, but it seems that designers who think primarily in terms of the application will prefer to use an ORM to abstract away details of the storage layer; whereas a designer who thinks primarily in terms of data will prefer to write SQL, with the application being just one of many possible applications of that data.
I pay Quoterobot for the same reasons and will be doing the same for postach.io
Yes, that's exactly I didn't include it in the migration in the example.
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I feel like this is as good a place as any to plug Gittip (https://www.gittip.com/) if you haven't heard of it.

You basically set up weekly donations to people through Twitter/GitHub. The best sell I can think of is for those well-versed in Python: how much time do you think Requests has saved you? An hour a month? How much do you value that hour? Let's be crazy conservative and say you value it $20/hr.

Kenneth Reitz saves you $20 a month. What's wrong with throwing him a little piece of that pie?

https://www.gittip.com/kennethreitz/
A site I made to make London look sunnier on Street View (Chrome only)
I'm sure Microsoft chose that name on purpose to create brand confusion.
I love niche products. The popularity of "things for everyone" (like iPhone/Galaxy) somewhat worries me.
I'm breastfeeding my first child, who is now six months. Breastfeeding is extraordinarily convenient and time efficient when I compare it to my friends using formula. I can just sit down and feed him. My friends have to bring formula, water and bottles everywhere. Then they have to mix it, and wash the bottles. And they have less hands free while doing the actual feeding. This is especially true at his 6 am wake up feeding, which I can do while sleeping.

I do work full time, and I have to pump twice a day. Which makes it less convenient. But it takes less than 15 minutes each time. I'm fortunate to have a very flexible work environment though.

It's true his father can't help with the feedings this way, but there are plenty of chores to go around.
It's only unethical if you alter your honest opinion about a product in order to promote its affiliate link. But otherwise if there's full disclosure and there's nothing deceptive about the link, then there's nothing wrong with affiliate links.

To some extent, its only natural to be a bit cautious about affiliate links because some shady "internet marketers" have used affiliate links in dishonest ways in the past - hiding the fact that they were affiliate links and not disclosing the fact that there is a paid relationship that could affect somebody's opinion.

But that doesn't imply that all or even most affiliate links are bad. On the contrary, I think more bloggers should ditch all kinds of crazy ads that track you across the internet and switch to simple affiliate links. If you run a blog about surfing or photography or whatever, you already know what types of products your readers are going to be interested in and can make money by providing quality product recommendations. Affiliate links seem like a natural fit to a lot of smaller, niche blogs as it really rewards the effort spent in creating high quality content because people will trust your recommendations more.
Checked out the debuggex tool. Impressive!
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This is unique and useful. +1 for letting me specific size and aspect ratio
If you enjoyed this article, I highly recommend checking out the book Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich (director of Lockheed's Skunkworks). It covers the development of this aircraft and several others through some pretty gripping accounts of engineering during the Cold War.
Interestingly enough, this argument seems self defeating. Let's think what he's saying:

a) Aliens who can get across space to us would be far in advance of us in all dimensions of technology.

b) They would also be far smarter than us because technological evolution would act much more than biological and therefore give them machine-brain interfaces.

c) With their great science they would be able to know what we're like (so far below them) and have no need to come here.

except as far as I can see, c) is overruled by b)

If aliens have got so far by technological evolution and use machines to augument their bodies and minds, they're not really that far in advance of us - they just have better tools. They wouldn't see us in that case as insects - rather as cripples who just need a wheelchair. If they used their science to augument our bodies and minds in the same way as they do with their own, we'd be perfectly able to have conversations with them.
people actually pay you just to make shit up?
The better areas are taken by those with money. You can move to a better area, but the police will turn up before long to move you on.
If you are very poor, even smaller expenses like a power bill that is higher than you expected, having something that you rely on break (maybe the HDD in your computer fails and you relied on using your computer for some portion of your income) or you get a hole in your only smart jacket etc can throw a spanner in the works.
Yeah, "most popular" is usually a really bad metric. Often the top listed are items that nobody dislikes, but also nobody really loves. If you surveyed the most popular food in San Francisco, you would probably just get "salad" instead of hearing about the Jewish-style fried artichoke dish at Locanda on Valencia.

It needs a different dataset, but I'd be more interested in developing a metric of how much people disagree on a movie (or any non-average). With the same food metaphor-- the flavor of a dish is not always supposed to be sugary pleasant, but it's supposed to make you feel something and surprise your palette. I actually think this method of evaluation is what sets apart the great critics of any art. They focus on experience rather than simple emotion.
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I'm not sure why, but I agree that there is sometimes a bit of a weird bias on HN against making money online - which is odd for a community of people who are ostensibly devoting a good deal of their attention to making side-projects that make money.

What bothers me the most about this is the people that brag about using ad blockers to block ads and then use the same types of crappy ads to monetize their own sites. That's sort of an aside though, and doesn't apply to everybody. It's just a bit of a weird bit of hypocrisy that I've seen in some folks that is modestly irritating.

(I don't use ad blockers. I just refuse to visit shitty sites that load up way too many low-quality ads)
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Although, note that not having a mortgage to pay is not the same as housing being free. Once my mortgage is paid off, I'll still be paying something like $5K per year in taxes and insurance. (I'm guessing taxes are higher in Massachusetts than Colorado though.) And probably add at least another $1K or two to cover upkeep/maintenance/tools to do maintenance even if he does most or all of the work himself. So a paid for house is probably still going to cost something like $500/month.
Parent is not talking about the quality of the recommendations, but the taste of the people who like those movies.

If I recommend you Fight Club, the recommendation would be of poor quality because everybody has seen/likes this particular movie already, but does that have to mean the movie itself is bad too, just because it is "common" ?
On the one hand, we're entering a world where Neal Stephenson's "gargoyles" actually exist. On the other hand, the equipment they'll be carrying around is way, way, way smaller than he envisioned.
The kernel source was not available yesterday, which is when this happened.
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Based on their "linear" pricing you'll get charged a penny every 5 requests.
If can charge less as your cache hit ratio increases...
Gosh gee.

You mean "finance discussions" from people who owed their income to the finance industry...and yet who want us to believe they are unbiased on the topic of the finance industry...this despite their well-thought out "discussion" in this thread of a criticism of the financial industry consisting not of any factual arguments, but only of completely unsupported horseshit like...wait for it... "Taibbi routinely lies..."?

I mean how could anyone even consider the idea "shill", is that what you're saying?

"Good vs evil"?

Go figure. Yeah, go fucking figure.
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Anarcho-capitalist models and their variations tend to last more because they're simple and attractive than because they have a strong foundation. They're compelling in an idealistic way because they derive from logical principles. But that strength is their weakness: because they derive from idealized premises, they often find themselves making extremely large compromises to stay viable as they approach reality.

To wit, Nozickian protective agencies as you have summarized it here capably describe statism: in other words, in walking away from the current model, you have arrived at it again... but without its good parts, like the American concept of power separation or its Bill of Rights.

There is reason that various police forces have political friction when coming into contact with other jurisdictions, after all, whether it's horizontal (police of California cooperating with the police in Nevada) or vertical (police of California cooperating with the FBI). The thing that smooths this friction is, well... the federal state. It doesn't do this mechanistically, but through its existence as an ideal: an appeal to "we're all American, after all" does wonders. The very act of cooperation becomes an affirmation of that ideal.
Will you be charging for this?
Clearly the commenter means in cities or towns, or generally inside the public transportation system.

I'm from Spain (and I have been to several other countries in Europe from the list you give.) I live in a small town (22000 inhabitants) and I don't have a car. Anything I need for day-to-day life I can find in town, for anything else I use public transport to get to Barcelona, which is just 30 minutes by train.

In most of Spain, except for the most rural places there are public buses that can get you from unheard-of-on-sea to closest-big-town without many problems, and my experience in Germany and UK is the same.

Of course Iceland and Norway are completely different, specially Iceland (I was there for 18 days) where from "big" city to the next you can count on seeing just a few farms, at best.
The bottom line is, tying data to objects seems like an elegant idea, but in practice it sucks. ORMs introduce various problems, like statefulness (when the whole point of dealing with a database is atomicity) and mismatches (your data doesn't necessarly map to one row or one object, it doesn't have to). I'll try to give two examples.

Consider how people often write update code on Django:

instance = Model.objects.get(id=some_id)
instance.foo = bar
instance.save()

This sucks a lot. It's doing two queries, and you have concurrency issues. This would be optimal, since it's atomic:

Model.objects.filter(id=some_id).update(foo=bar)

But in this case, it's not instantiating any object nor triggering any signals, so what's the point of the ORM after all? We might as well just use a sane DB API.

Here's another place where Django's ORM fails:

Model.objects.annotate(Count('foos')).filter(foos__lt=10)

This won't work. Django will complain 'foos' is not a field on the model - even though 'foos' is a column in the result set, and it's perfect valid to SELECT on it. I reported this as a bug, but because the ORM works with model definitions and the result set can contain any column, what the ORM is really supposed to do or not is murky, so it's WONTFIX. This is one instance where data doesn't map to an object and the ORM concept crumbles.

There are many other pain points with ORMs, and Django's in particular, but these are the highlights for me. For an elegant querying API, in my opinion, check out RethinkDB. It doesn't depend on schemas (therefore, ORMs) and it supports map/reduce semantics, which solves 100% of what you need to do with data.
Personally I think this great stuff. And yes the Beagle Bone black narrows the field significantly.

Tools wise there is hole here that when it gets filled will be pretty impactful, I'm talking about the Arduino concept implemented with the ARM Cortex M4. This is because the costs of the chips are low, but the tool chain support which has been part of the foundation of Arduino's success aren't there yet. Now bits and pieces do exist, if you get Atmel Studio (Makers of the ATMega and SAMx ARM chips) you will see they have a gcc toolchain for ARM that is as self contained as the toolchain for AVR (and by self contained I mean that it is a 'bare bones' tool chain and the resulting binary includes the bits normally supplied by an OS like startup, initialization, and memory management)

The part that is really cool though is that you can build computers out of these things again and they are moving into the space being left behind by Windows/Intel and Apple becoming more application delivery appliances. One risk I see though is that a lot of poor security architected embedded systems are finding their way into the routable Internet. That can be funny when port scanning software turns your lights on or off, but its a risk none the less.
Really nice! What API are you using?
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Very awesome utility API. A bit targeted (US) but I will be integrating it into 2 projects immediately.
Definitely one of the best books about hacking I've ever read. Kelly Johnson and his team were the ultimate hardware hackers.
> The trick to the author's math

That's the trouble with this article; With the dependence on buying everything in bulk (and somehow using it all up before it goes off), it appears to be more of a fun theoretical calculation than a practical weekly diet.
depends on the part of the world where you live in. In Latvia where I live, tomatoes grow in July/August. The rest of the year we can have Spanish tomatoes at 3-5$/kg or locally grown in a heated greenhouse, at $10/kg
If you go to www.wonga.com, you can fiddle with the sliders and see how much a payday loan costs in the UK. For instance, if you borrow £100 for 10 days, you're paying back £115.91, which is just over 1% per day. I can definitely imagine someone accepting that to pay for an urgent cost.

I expect that if you don't repay when you agreed, though, you're going to end up paying a lot more.
I see a lot of anger in the comments, some of them questioning the practicality of it or the actual approach you'd use if money was an issue in your household.

The BBC didn't do this in order to educate people on how to eat cheap. This is just a flashy piece intended to provoke the "oh look how easy is to make something cheap look nice and healthy" reaction.

In that sense its similar to the "deconstructed McDonalds meals" by famous chefs or the "how to substitute x by y and make your children eat y" ones. No one who has to leave on £1 a day will look here for practical advice and discussing the practicality of it is, therefore, pointless.
I've had the chance to try them a few months ago, and my only concern with them (while cool), was that they would suffer the same fate as either: bluetooth hands-free kits (aka douchebagy), or segway (aka dorky).

The only killer app I think is driving directions, that was nice.
A small widget that solves a big pain so easily. nice.
Hah! Indeed it is, I mis-spelled it while searching. Thank you.
Your claims are a little surprising, at least from an American perspective. Our various welfare programs are so generous that our poor can (and often do) eat like gluttons.

I was under the impression that UK welfare benefits are far more generous than those in the US - is that incorrect?

(Full disclosure - I've spent a grand total of 5 days of my life in the UK, most of it in zones 1-2 of London. I know virtually nothing about your situation, which is why I'm asking.)

[edit: citation on poverty and gluttony. I'm surprised that this is still a controversial fact.

http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa11/hstat/hshi/pages/210oo.html
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html
]
I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.