skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is feedback which, candidly, you just won't hear that often when you call up office manager Mary at Happy Teeth Dental at the landline number (distributed to several hundred thousand people) which routes to a box on Mary's desk that she is, quite literally, employed to answer. Mary can authorize purchases of thousands of dollars of software. In addition to not being offended by phone calls (Mary is quite good with cutting them short, politely, if she doesn't want to continue them -- c.f. this is her job), Mary can give you very useful and immediately actionable feedback on them, such as "We couldn't use your application because it doesn't work on the doctor's iPad and that's the only screen he can access in the back of the office." You want to hear that even if you have 0% chance of ever getting a penny from Mary.

If one hypothetically is mortally terrified of sounding like a salesman, you could preface the call with "I don't want your money since $SOFTWARE wasn't right for you, but if you have two minutes, I'd like to hear what went wrong so I can fix it and help our other customers."
While we could use STT (some of our team have backgrounds in it) we sought to use the cleanest existing signal, i.e. closed captions.

Part of the motivation for taking a statistical NLP approach is that it gives us more flexibility for processing foreign stations / languages (we don't yet do that).

I wonder could you time and geo-shift closed captions, i.e. show closed captions in two languages at once on the same TV program? That could make an interesting language learning tool and an interesting training set for machine translation.
Real time ray tracing is also my dream since 1994. I'm very glad that IQ launched ShaderToy.com recently. That inspired me to give real time ray tracing another try, and I'm really happy that you can trace 1000 mirrored spheres in real time today. Have a look here: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lds3z8
It's the next step for the ever evolving Internets. Didn't you get the memo???
I'm not sure of DeltaBlue or the Computer Language Benchmarks Game is more representative of "average programs", but they appear to give very different results in their comparisons. On the Benchmarks Game dart is crushed: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

I guess people will have to decide which results are more likely to reflect the performance of their applications. But the extreme nature of the difference is interesting in and of itself.

P.S. I have not looked at the Java code to see if it is idiomatic Java either- And this really make be want to port DeltaBlue to Go...
I would completely agree. At the core of it, customer discovery and learning what product your customers want/will pay for (and thus you should build) is the core of subscribing to being a "lean startup." Product does matter, but what matters more is building something someone would pay for
And the aggregate affect of a crowd full of people instagramming just about every moment of a concert means I basically watch live shows through the screens of other people's phones these days. Throw in a dozen crummy LED flashes going off for most of the show and the experience is pretty much killed for me.

If there's one development in concert-going over the past decade that I really loathe, more than the consolidation of ticket sellers, the subsequent rise in ticket prices, the steady increase in the cost of beer, my own age and sore back after 4 hours, everyone else's insistence that they need to photograph (or worse, VIDEO) a show has got to be the top of the list.

And while I appreciate your edge case here that Timehop provides, most of those photographs are just being uploaded to Facebook to show off how vastly interesting they are to everyone who's not there. Cultivating other people's FOMO.

Ok, enough of my old man kvetching. I genuinely do think it's cool that Timehop let's you relive those little moments as much as I genuinely regret the loss of my enjoyment of living those moments at the time they are happening.
+1 for BeagleBone Black - what a great device.

Beware: running 'opkg update ; opkg upgrade' broke my system. (disk out of space) Recovered by reloading the OS.
Looks like just what i needed. However, i couldn't find much information about it on your site. What kind of systems does it support apart from PS1 and arcade machines? SNES? NES? Megadrive? What kind of controllers? Xbox 360? How are ROMS loaded? USB?

Answers to these questions should be easily accessible to any prospective user (i don't have my Pi available to test the distro), but then again, i suspect this project only started very recently and you're already planning on updating the website.
Don't forget that Walmart tried opening their stores in Germany and then pulled out.
Important to use a dummy email account for these purposes - you didn't mention this as it might be obvious, but the last thing you want to do is use this method with the email address you actually want to use to communicate with the person in question.
Ask HN: Is asking someone where they work bad etiquette?
I notice at tech meetups and user groups, people love to talk about what they work with, and it's not uncommon for someone to mention where they work, or for speakers to be asked to mention where they work when giving talks. However, I've noticed that the question comes up much less frequently in casual conversation. As someone looking for a job right now, I'm pretty interested in what companies are using what technologies. It's unclear to me, however, if the reason people don't ask each other who they work for is because they're merely not interested (most of the people at these meetings already have jobs) or because it's considered a mild faux pas, or try-hard, to ask. Dear HN community, please teach me your ways so that I might appear that much more savvy.
Someone should invent some sort of imagemap technology. That way we can use images and coordinates. We wouldn't need any client side scripting!
Wow, now that's cool!
" ...for the same reason the idea of "standing on the shoulders of giants" is not accepted in the world of copyright today anymore - corporate

...(executive's salary+stock+bonuses) `inventive creation' of insatible greed are today's giant shoulders.
Ask HN: Chicago IP lawyer / firm  recommendations?
Does anyone have personal experience with a good individual or firm for IP matters (software licensing, litigation etc.) in Chicago, IL?
What I don't understand is their pricing model. It seems like they would do a lot better to have A) a "cheap crappy" option which is something like 384K internet and basic cable for an extraordinarily low price, and B) a 100Mbps+ internet service at the same profit margin they would get by selling an entire "triple play" package and then optional over the top phone and cable packages effectively for Verizon's cost, the point of offering them at all merely being to be able to supply the same overall offering as their existing competitors.

The result would be that Verizon could stop giving a crap about whether you use their TV offerings or Hulu or whatever else because that's not where they make their money, but at the same time customers wanting the "triple play" package can get it from them for a total price competitive with similarly situated ISPs and with an overall profit margin they expect from such a thing. Just admit to themselves that they're in the wire business, stop trying to be in the content business, and charge accordingly for the wire. Suddenly "cord cutters" are not a problem, especially when the competing ISP realizes the logic and does the same thing.
Hope it doesn't end up like this deployment.

http://betanews.com/2011/10/20/los-angeles-wants-refund-for-...

""Google's record with the city is nothing but broken promises and missed deadlines," the letter reads in part. "The Internet giant simply has not done what it said it would do and has tried to buy its way out of the mess it has made by covering the unbudgeted costs of the LAPD's GroupWise System that the department has been forced to continue using."

The mayor's office did not have any immediate comment as of press time."

Edit: Somewhat ironic that Google Docs and Drive are currently down. https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=google%20drive&src...

"Google Drive documents list goes empty for users "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583952-93/google-drive-do...
Two things stuck out to me:

1) How similar everyone dresses

2) How clean everything looks
In addition to what famousactress said, you also get:

>>> Color.red
<Color.red: 1>

So when you print out an enumeration, you get its name instead of just the number. This can be a big deal for debugging e.g. OpenGL code, which has a lot of enumerations. Which of the following would you prefer?

>>> gl.getError()
1286

Or would you prefer,

>>> gl.getError()
<gl.INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION: 1286>
I am on the verge of signing up for some throwaway course every semester at NYU just to get access to journals.
And will it equal 'ẞ' in a later update? http://opentype.info/blog/2013/04/22/capital-sharp-s-in-use/
>Of the deals, 23 were won by Google and 10 by Microsoft."

Nice try Google(?!)

That is a pretty bad comparison without the sizes of the user base of each deal.

"The other cities that use Google Apps are tiny: Orlando, Pittsburgh, etc ..

In public education, the big ones also use Office 365. The entire State University of New York (700,000) use MS Office.

It is true more Federal agencies that use Google Apps -- but the big ones use Office 365. For example, the Dept of Interior (80,000) uses Google Apps, but the Dept of VA (600,000) uses Office 365.

For example, Google supplies email system for tiny Orlando with 3,000 employees

You may therefore be right that "Google Apps is winning its share of government deals". You may say that Google Apps clients include Orlando and Pittsburg. But how do you compare those 2 tiny cities with New York and Chicago??"

Also, not sure why people are cheering on the migration from Office which is primary used for local files to a cloud service where your account and documents are at the complete mercy of the cloud provider.
We need an off-planet backup of all data contained on the internet in anticipation of an apocalyptic event sending humanity back into survival hunter-gatherer mode for a few decades.

Then several generations later when the intellectual education system needs to be restarted after having spent so many years in the "just stay alive education system" it will save thousands of years of scientific progress.

I'm hoping one day our species will find one of these information silos, created by humans billions of years ago, on another planet somewhere, so we can regain what was lost.
And the primary purpose of Exchange Server is transfer gobs and gobs of money from unsuspecting organizations to Microsoft.

Locally hosted Exchange is insanely wasteful. Organizations continue to believe that a $25 lock on some closet is "more secure" than a real datacenter and insist on paying 3+ intermediaries' markup on outrageously expensive software licenses and servers, racks, UPSes and other accessories. They buy servers which they barely use, and what cost savings there is gets wiped out by VMWare licensing fees if they decide to do virtualization. Then they've got to pay another company to bring technicians out to maintain the server, change the UPS batteries, etc, at a cost of $100+/hour.

All of this could be so much more cost-efficient at scale. GMail may be a privacy concern, organizations' insistence on hosting their own email is maddeningly, mind-bogglingly wasteful considering they could get the same functionality for a few hundred bucks a year.

Someone needs to make a real open-source competitor to Exchange so people who insist on hosting their own stuff can at least stop throwing away money that could employ people on Exchange licenses. I understand that IMAP exists, but no one actually wants to use Thunderbird.
My design industry colleague Nick Disabato uses http://www.hafeleinwhite.com
love it.

is it ok to generate traffic aimed at it?
maybe lots of traffic. (probably not,
especially at first, but maybe, so
i thought it would be polite to ask.)

-bowerbird
Google Docs Is Down
KPCB culpa tua
You more or less ignored the contents of my comment w.r.t. execution model. I am well aware of OrderedDict, and I still do not understand how this behavior is possible unless Python 3 differs from 2 in the kind of dictionary used in code block executions.
It's possible by using a __prepare__ method in the metaclass of Enum, which allows to return an essentially ordered dict for the __dict__ of enumeration classes.
These are too simple for intentional design flaws not to be obvious, especially since the parts need to be assembled.
Google just discontinued SMS search
I usually don't find them very interesting. They tend to use somewhat contrived algorithmic questions that just aren't the kind of problems I'm interested in solving.
If anyone is curious as to why there is an icon-maxcdn, I'm guessing that it is probably because they offer free CDN hosting of FontAwesome on http://www.bootstrapcdn.com
Google Drive is down for many people
Under your scenario, the rational price for the cable company is probably something like $95 for sports or $95 for movies or $100 for both.

The idea that unbundling is going to save consumers a lot of money is strange. Cable companies sell these bundles knowing you don't watch most of what you get. We'll just switch from a scenario where the sports guy subsidizes the movies guy and the movies guy subsidizes the sports guy to a situation where everybody pays full freight.
Actually, this is a bug. Unicode codepoint U+1E9E is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S and should be the result of u"ß".upper(). This is especially so because otherwise u"Maße".upper() (Maße means measures) returns "MASSE", which could be confused with u"Masse".upper() (Masse means mass). In such cases, where confusion is possible and no uppercase ß is available, the German dictionary Duden actually suggests using SZ instead. Therefore, u"Maße".upper() would have to return "MASZE". However, since the Python string processing routines can hardly carry a dictionary around just to check whether there is a similar word that would have the same uppercase spelling, this is obviously not feasible. U+1E9E would be the way to go.
<and you're no better than the software guys.>

This is a huge point that many HNers probably don't get(but they think that they get). Releasing patches/bugfixes doesn't work so well on physical stuff. If Amazon AWS goes down, a group of people can figure out what went wrong, fix the issue and "reboot" the system and all that is lost is a bit of revenue and a portion of their reputation. When pieces break on heavy iron you don't have the time to figure out what went wrong and then fix it because someone is about to crash. Hence the difference between the traditional engineers and the software folks is the traditional engineers have to fix stuff before it breaks, software engineers can afford to fix stuff after it breaks.
Engineering Internals of a RAD Framework... as a PHP Developer
Check out icomoon.io which lets you do just that (create a site specific font, not argue with the frontend guys ;-) )
There are others (such as fontello.com), but icomoon is probably the most comprehensive.
Vine’s not a rocket ship, but it’s doing well outside of Twitter
Ask HN: Scripts to record my users going through sign-up flow?
I am building a web platform in private alpha/beta w/ 1k users who are using the service and helping me kill bugs. BUT with all the variables (OS, PC, Browser, Location, other odd shit etc.) replicating bugs can be tough. It really sucks when I get an email saying they can't register for an account.

Does anyone know of a script that records beta user behavior? Maybe something like... when user clicks the invite link, the user can agree to let a screen recording happen for testing purposes. I would pay good money to watch a recorded clip of each user going through the 10 second signup/ profile settings process so I can see what's going on.

Also, looking for more "technical" people to join closed beta. I figure having more techies could help me pinpoint odd bugs. If you care to help, email is on profile.
We expect the implementation will be committed in the next few weeks, and you'll be able to give it a try using Python's tip revision ("trunk"). It will actually _ship_ with Python 3.4
What was SMS search?
> "Many people who live payday to payday will be the types of people who if they had there pay doubled would adjust into the same payday to payday model."

This is an audacious enough claim that citation is needed. It also smells a little like fundamental attribution error (i.e., assigning behavior because is is the nature of the individual, rather than situational).
Let me go on a tangent here and say that this is a fantastically written article. I'm continuously impressed with the quality of material coming out of the Priceonomics blog.
Woman Slaps Cop To Quit Smoking In Jail
Hopefully, advanced users are using features like merges, automation of data sources, templates and address validations rather than WordArt and gradients.

With minimal studying on their own, a smart office worker can be pretty efficient doing analysis with Excel Pivot Tables while avoiding a lot of red tape. I could see the switch to an office suite with reduced features getting in the way of work done by a lot of behind the scenes, unsung heroes.

I think that when actual exposure to how people use software is largely comes from support calls, it is easy to get an inaccurate picture of bumbling and general incompetence, rather than creative solutions to often arbitrary constraints on their tool sets.
The article gives pretty terrible advice. The advice is against the AUP / ToS of many service providers. The advice is borderline legal, depending on the receiver and on the content of the message.

And it's a shame, because all this stuff about spam is very old. We don't need to learn these lessons again.

Ask people to give you their email addresses, and ask if it's okay for you to send them stuff. Confirm that email address. Include an opt out with every email.
McCain has a history of doing a lot of sensible things. The reason people think he's a nutter is that he wanted to be president, and he learned in 2000 that you have to at least pretend to be a crazy person in order to secure the Republican nomination.
Ask HN: Invest in Adam
InvestinAdam.com

Let's start a conversation--what do you guys think?
Or the logical conclusion: 20 pilots, forming the world's first flying galley!
What does "pure-white solution" mean?
Great job! I have a huge personal interest in motivation and the science behind it, its always fun to see how people try to bring it into technology. I think there's still a lot of room for motivational-tech.

That said, this reward style finds significant problems in the literature. Expected rewards act like a chemical fix (quite literally, in terms of how they work in the brain), that require larger and larger doses over time, and eventually crowd out the will to do the behavior on your own. I'd be interested to see how using something like this would work long term. I know its rather simple in its current form, but so are most of the examples researchers use in the laboratory.

Regardless of the science, great job on finishing and launching your first Rails app. My only technical note: your images are a bit pixely on my Retina display. Other than that it looks great!
> Consider this example: Suppose you're sitting in a meeting with clients, and someone asks you how long a certain digital project is slated to take. Unless you understand the fundamentals of what engineers and programmers do, unless you're familiar enough with the principles and machinations of coding to know how the back end of the business works, any answer you give is a guess and therefore probably wrong.

Even when you do understand the fundamentals of what engineers and programmers do, any answer is still usually a guess and probably wrong.
Eighteen Months of Django: Useful Packages
"The entire State University of New York (700,000) use MS Office."

This is incorrect and I wish whatever source this comes from would get corrected.

Both Google Apps and Office 365 are made available to campuses through streamlined contracts signed at the system level. It is up to each campus to pick which one they want to use.

I'm on a campus that chose the Google offering. We got rid of local storage for student files on our LAN in favor of promoting cloud storage and have outsourced all student and alumni email to Gmail. We're not the only ones in the SUNY system.
I estimate spending about 100 hours over 4.5 months (~45mins a day) learning how to program using teamtreehouse.com and railstutorial.org. It's been tough but super rewarding. Would love your feedback and happy to answer any questions!
IOS dummy app example
In my experience, corporations and most programmers love closed-source software and services. Like Amazon AWS (and everything in it like S3, DynamoDB, etc), GitHub, MacOS X, whatever. But if it's free, they'll certainly freeload on that too. There are advantages to the opensource strategy, but there's tradeoffs.

Programming languages are different; Clojure likely wouldn't have succeeded were it closed-source.

(BTW, Basho and Datastax seem to have "enterprise" products. Are these closed-source or contain hidden closed-services? And we should keep in mind that DBs like Riak and Hadoop are clones of closed-source DBs. Basho employees even mention that the authors of the Dynamo paper were probably nearly fired for releasing it.)
I think it's a little unfair to imply the academic publishing model had anything to do with the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle. Their paper was supported by the non-profit NBER who publish it in open access form (the AER version is downloadable from Rogoff's website too) and was never peer-reviewed. The authors shared the dataset with the first person to question the results.

If anything it's a reminder that people are cautious about challenging empirical work by academics of sufficient standing even if it's universally available, has significant, controversial implications and is widely cited by high-profile nonacademics. Open access alone doesn't seem to affect that.
>And the primary purpose of Exchange Server is transfer gobs and gobs of money from unsuspecting organizations to Microsoft.

Apple's and Microsoft's business transactions(except for Bing) are upfront. You pay us this much money and you get this service. Google's is a more subtle "use this free service and we'll track your behavior and try to profit off it, if not we'll kill it".

>All of this could be so much more cost-efficient at scale. GMail may be a privacy concern, organizations' insistence on hosting their own email is maddeningly, mind-bogglingly wasteful considering they could get the same functionality for a few hundred bucks a year.

There are thousands of companies that host Exchange for you. Or you have Office 365.

>Someone needs to make a real open-source competitor to Exchange so people who insist on hosting their own stuff can at least stop throwing away money that could employ people on Exchange licenses.

Why should "someone" else waste a huge amount of their time and effort on something that you think should be done and given away for free?