skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice and simple. I'm definitely going to use this. Only suggestions I have:
- When I've sent a link to someone and go back to it later, it would be nice to see who I sent it to
- I don't understand what Saved Links are or how to save them
How to Hack Google Like NSA's Top Cyberspies
Is it just me or are all the YUI theater links broken? In order to watch D. Crockford's talk I have to copy the title into google, any direct links, even on YUI itself, just lead to the front page.
I use Notes app which comes bundled with OS X Mountain Lion, in which I keep lists of books I'd like to read.

For articles which I'd like to read later, I use Instapaper.
Think about industry conferences for large, non-software fields, particularly those underserved by technology (ie, anything targeting agriculture, manufacturing, or women). Try to find businesses with large revenues that have problems that can be solved by software, so you can frame projects in terms of dollars saved/generated and work with people who will care more about project outcome than about extracting as much from you as possible.
Many (my self included) agree it was not a war we should have fought.

But implying that the reason we went to war was primarily because "oil companies and Israeli interests" wanted us to -- that's just intellectually dishonest. The path into Iraq was so much more complicated than that and simplifying it in such a crude way makes it more likely that we will repeat those past mistakes again in the future.
Half the responses in this thread remind me of the Four Yorkshiremen skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

"Looxereh!"
Woah, that's eliza for CAD in steroids.
I thought it was great.

Could you comment on why all the radar noise in the sample image seems to be almost perfectly confined to the eastern half of the US? Is that just an artifact of the time of day (perhaps the sun was setting the in middle of the US at the time)?

I'd love to know more about the neural network too, but I have no experience with them so I'm not even sure what to ask.
Regarding data, have you looked at the API[1] they provide, also used to power Forecast.io and Dark Sky?

[1] https://developer.forecast.io/
What is it? What is it built with?

Do you offer part time? Telecommute?
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India's uID project has the biometrics and identity information of over 327 million civilians. This means they've reached about a third of their goal of creating a nation-wide identity and biometrics database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authorit...
I think that is one of the issues, I don't have too many problems, that I haven't been able to solve via existing solutions, but I may have just not ventured out of my comfort zone enough. Shoot me an email anthony@coderindustries.com, Id love to chat.
> buildings break down surprisingly quickly during periods of no occupancy

In Australia, this tactic is known as "demolition by neglect". Sometimes an "accidental" grease fire starts to speed up the process.
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Saved links are links other people sent you that you clicked "Save" on. I agree that it needs to show you who you sent it to (you can see links you sent in the "sent links" section, but it unhelpfully shows your name).

There's a small issue in doing that, but I'll work on it and hopefully have it ready soon, thanks!
Just want to add that our messaging system was built to support a service where users and businesses can discover / chat / exchange services (sell, buy, ads, etc) based on their location.

We are contemplating offering the messaging portion as its own stand-alone service and would appreciate all feedback.
None of those languages AFAIK (I don't really know C#) will allow you to call a constructor function as anything except a constructor function and constructor functions are always constructors and therefor will always return a new object.

Javascript in it's infinite wisdom will allow one to use any function as a constructor or not. So code the should be obviously wrong will not generate an error or even a warning, this is not something you want from a language. Since we can't change JS , there is merit to the argument that you should change your own code to avoid even possibly having this problem.

Arguments made on the basis of "this is a mistake I am unlikely to make" fill me with skepticism.
i don't know if you are arguing for the sake of arguing, or you really feel (re my statement) that gambling is in the same ballpark?

to respond:

1) killing yourself with cancer in 20 years isn't as insidious as loosing your families accumulated wealth.

2) betting on stocks is somewhat similar, but the barriers to entry make it a non-issue to society.

3) startups, same as 2 but moreso

more details on my position: I have 1 extended family member who lost their immediate family (9 or so people) everything (aprox 1mil usd in savings) due to gambling obsessions. i know 1 friend who was in a similar position, and 2 aquantences with similar stories.
Huge cyber bank theft spans 27 countries
Using Smart-cards for authentication is a great idea. The problem of this is that you could be forced to have a unified identity across all accounts. This has potential privacy and blacklisting implications.

David Chaum knew this all in 1980 and proposed a great solution: Allow each user to keep a database of pseudonymous identifiers such that one is associated with each organization will be automatically presented when needing to authenticate.

"Security without Identification Card Computers to make Big Brother Obsolete": http://www.chaum.com/articles/Security_Wthout_Identification...

Edit: It should also be noted that if you use multiple pseudoanymous identities no PKI is necessary which solves a major MITM and infrastructure problem. You simply link a public key to your paypal/gmail/whatever account upon creation. Only paypal/gmail/ needs to know about that mapping.
Thats a good point. I am sure at the time that the friend decided to post the video he didn't realize the ramifications, but its clear afterward that 'friend' turned into a sort of bully. I am sure it has significant affect on his life. Just my guess.
intensely cool. very useful for re-purposing icons whose backgrounds would otherwise clash with a website's color theme.
Please pardon an off topic question: is the compiled code from RubyMotion similar to Objective-C compiled code? (Within a factor of 2 or 3 in speed?) Thanks.
lol wow what a stupid comment.

Go kill yourself you worthless cunt.
That's right, we don't handle hair yet. See the bottom of the page.

(I'm one of the devs)
Hack Reactor. Nothing I can't learn on my own, but job prospects seem much better post boot camp. Plus the whole immersion with a sense of urgency idea just seem much more effective than a year of self-study. Not to mention the networking. I think the next best option is self study supplemented with paid resources - Codeschool, Thinkful, Udacity, General Assembly, etc.
I like the new Git course, but I still can't take the first one... maybe fix that first?
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Just sent an email from matt@
Ask HN: Do you use Facebook advertising?
Have you ever used Facebook advertising? What were the results (CPC, CTR, conversion, frequency)? How does it compare to other advertisement platforms you've used? What tips can you give me for effective low-cost campaigns?

OP starts: I used it once for a survey. I spent $100 and received 109 clicks for that money (CTR 0.008%). Those 109 clicks resulted in 13 completed surveys, so a conversion of 12%. The frequency was 7.0 with a reach of 207840.

To be honest I was really disappointed. I expected a higher CTR (more like 0.01 or 0.02%) and a lower cost/click. It cost me nearly $1/click while I counted on $0.25~0.50/click.

I'm planning to use Facebook advertising again though, the geographic targeting is pretty good. Looking for some tips. Should I go for a higher frequency (Seth Godin says that frequency > reach in his book Permission Marketing)?
I accidentally upvoted this comment and cannot see a way to undo it.
RuneScape 3 drops Java in favor of HTML5
Because it's not child abuse. Just because a group of people don't agree with it does it make it "child abuse."
I was with you till you described him as "acting like a jackass" and started being judgemental.

Downvoted.
Did they really just sign their shut-down notice with the words 'peace out'? I don't know why im surprised. Those two words sum up quite compactly the i-tell-myself-and-my-customers-i-give-a-shit-about-them-and-my-product-but-when-it-comes-down-to-it-i-honestly-could-care-less-ness that seems so prevalent in startup culture right now. What happened to genuinely giving a shit? I could actually summon a degree of respect for their decision if they had at least been real enough about it and added 'suckers' to the very end.
Those of us in the UK who voted for AV+ because we saw it as a step toward proportional representation thought that too. Then the notion that it was a half-baked solution was used as a weapon by the "No" campaign, and now voting reform is off the table entirely for the foreseeable future.
Just one nitpick for an excellent comment. GNUstep/Clang would be the only way to get support for array, dictionary and number literals, as well as ARC.

GNUstep/GCC is possible, but you lose support for all of the above, blocks, and several other recent additions to the Objective-C language.
> Because, by all accounts, it is one of the most reliable indicators that the child is going to be successful.

Happy ≠ successful. Which is more important?
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SNL Knows That Google Glass Is Going To Be A Struggle
Anecdote alert. I have a wannabe tiger mom. Unfortunately, she had to work full time+++, so full on tiger-ness could not manifest.

Just as children of many non-tiger moms DON'T learn decision making and time management skills: some do, and some do not. There are other factors at play. At a certain age, it's near impossible for a tiger mom to control 100% of someone's life.
Piece of advice: don't take pictures of yourself committing a crime.
Online image classification demo. Deep Learning over 20000 object classes on GPU
"The new keyword was added to the language partially to appease classical languages, but in reality it tends to confuse developers more than help them. Instead, there are native ways in JavaScript to declare objects and arrays and you should use those instead."

Umm... what? Ever heard of constructor functions and prototypes?

...to be fair there is a small note on this at the end of the article, but this concept in javascript is far from secondary. It deserves more than a footnote. 'new' is not something to be avoided as implied here.
Not just the web though - our entire political system is one great big popularity contest.
Planning for the World Digital Mathematical Library
Certain parents also lack a sufficient perspective to understand what kinds of activities are good for their kids' well-being and happiness.
c'mon brah his comment was hilariously stupid.

lighten up
Why? I have researched litecoin and I don't get why everyone spams this everywhere.
Another PandoDaily article criticizing the startup ecosystem. The author needs to realize not every startup will become the next Facebook, and social products that only achieve moderate success cannot turn a profit through third-party advertising networks. The only possible exit for such startups is a small exit and join a larger tech firm that can take both the ideas learned and the talent and incorporate them into their larger goal. These startups likely had high ambitions, but when growth peaked, they exited while they still had a chance.
Falsifiability is one natural landing point, but it is also somewhat controversial. What I'm advocating isn't so much a philosophy as a state of mind, one hopefully less controversial than trying to declare a "definition of science". I think of it more like a mind hack you can perform on yourself. (So much discipline boils down to figuring out how your conscious brain can fool your subconscious brain.)
Walgreens SSL certificates?
It sounds like the study reduced the definition of "tiger parenting" to simple authoritarian attitudes.

I went to a high-achievement school with a lot of kids of tiger parent types, including an elite music school. That's not the whole picture. Maybe these kids ended up depressed (who knows), but worse grades? I don't think so.

The study notes "the vast majority" of parents it looked at had "relatively low educational attainment and a median income of between $30,001 and $45,000". Oddly it claims it also "controlled for socioeconomic status", but that seems suspect when the vast majority of the sample is in one particular income range.

So the study mostly looked at poorer households with low-educated parents. This is quite different from Chua, a Yale law professor, on the high end of both income and education.

There's a big difference between just yelling at someone and yelling at someone while putting them in elite schools, music lessons, explaining derivatives to them, critiquing their essays, etc. I don't doubt for a SECOND the psychological impacts of authoritarianism, high stress and poor socialization. For me the argument against tiger parenting is more than it's not worth the psychological damage it inflicts and that it kills creativity, both of which are really important in life, beyond just being a finely honed academic machine. But poorer grades, no way. This study is just using its own simplistic definition of the term.
"We have been fighting on this planet for 5000 years and we should take advantage of their experience."

Lessons in better tactics ain't the most important learning to draw from that reading, General.
Sadly, this is the kind of stuff that people will talk about. But it's factually incorrect in many places.

As for "VC's playing defense" and being afraid to back consumer startups, that's a broad mischaracterization. George and I backed two Series A companies this month and we're looking for more - heck, our whole team has plenty of capital. For backing great companies, no great firms are sitting back - it's competitive in consumer and in enterprise. If anything, VC's are playing offense.
Kid eloquently puts his teacher in her place
Exactly. Those enormous Bagel Blobs tend to occur after the sun goes down (and only in the warmer months. Two months ago, they weren't there).

The image was generated around 10:30 PM EST, so they hadn't had time to propagate further west.

Regarding neural nets, I have to admit that I didn't have much experience with them either before working on Dark Sky. They do, however, seem to be a little more forgiving than other kinds of classifiers (Support Vector Machines, and the like).

Check out the examples for the FANN C library: http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/

Or in ruby: https://github.com/tangledpath/ruby-fann
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Different browser, too. :P

On the other hand, I'm not sure how well separated I kept those, so it could have been cookies linking the accounts. (I did this way back in 2010, so my memory is fuzzy.)
A good solution to this is to use always use a debug-mode dependent macro for logging[1]:

#ifdef DEBUG

#define DLog(fmt, ...) NSLog((@"%s [Line %d] " fmt),__PRETTY_FUNCTION__, __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)

#else

# define DLog(...)

#endif

Put that in your [Project]-Prefix.pch file to make it available globally. Aside from letting you log without fear, it gives you better performance in production, and you can get extra context for your output.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/969130/how-to-print-out-t...
I re-read the article and still don't know what you're talking about.
Leadership at Cisco
Yes, or a poorly-paid cog... The point of the article was that you can better optimize your earning potential if you don't follow a passion.
Firefox Unreal Engine 3 Port Shown Off In All Its Glory
Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co

Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
Wow, three games for one bitcent!
On the mainland, the main influence is the one-child policy. So there is four grand parents and two parents for one children. The Children became the family treasure.

Another influence is the "Chines Imperial examination" where the social success is done by being the best at school (that may come from Confucius).
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing the advantage of this over the browser's native implementation: Chrome's CMD+SHIFT+I hotkey brings up a mail this page window automatically for me.

I would definitely put some effort into copywriting the main benefits into that landing page.
I don't agree. He did not want anybody to see him embarrassing himself. If you know he does not want you to see his video, but you disregard his wish and do it anyway, how can you not call yourself a bully? You disregard his wish and add yourself to the collective mass of people that caused him so much pain, and you still claim the moral high-ground?
Ask HN: Feedback on an idea - Like Craigslist, but open?
Do you think there's a market for a Craigslist-like website, but with an open API which developers can readily use?

Has it been done?

I've been mulling over this idea in the last 48 hours. I think the potential for creative reuse of data is huge (e.g. PadMapper, CarSabi).

It will be consumer-friendly, but the actual target market is developers.
This is beautifully done -- great UX, truly impressive tech. My wife loves it and is using it to repurpose some shots from our wedding for e.g. Christmas cards.
Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
> "I'm not what you want – I'm not Chinese! I don't want to be Chinese. Why can't you get that through your head? I hate the violin. I hate my life. I hate you, and I hate this family!" Her relationship with Lulu in crisis, Chua, finally, thankfully, raises the white flag."

You may be right, but in this incident she's is referring to specific Chinese cultural norms, not the high expectations in her upbringing.
Is preservation ever good?
It does, but its very phrase heavy and will try to match "def reverse" literally over "def" and "reverse". Where no matches are found it falls back to the latter though.

See, http://searchco.de/?q=def+reverse as an example
This is neat, though there are far better methods for doing this type of thing. Now that the Nexrads are dual-pol, you can look at the correlation between the horizontal and the vertical polarizations to filter out the vast majority of the noise.

The noise you are filtering out is primarily insect returns. If you watch it, it will get worse at some times of the day rather than others. If inversions happen, you'll also see some beam bending that can cause you to pick up powerlines/roads, etc. You can verify it is mostly bugs by looking at the differential reflectivity. The differential reflectivity(difference of horizontal and vertical returned powers) will be somewhat random for ground clutter, and higher values for bugs.

With this approach, without knowing exactly how you do it, I'd be worried that it would have the tendency to filter out initial formations of stratiform clouds, and just leave convective formations.
I can point you to some theory on how a lot of the filtering is done for research in atmos if you'd like, feel free to message me(I'm working on my Ph.D. in weather radar).
Attending an Ivy League school as an undergraduate is one of the most reliable indicators that a child is going to be successful?

Are you serious? A student of mine, who is not only exceedingly capable but also very pleasant, with many interests outside college (yes, he is a serious musician) applied to several Ivy League schools for his graduate degree but somehow none took him on. He is now going up to NYU, and he will enjoy it.

I think he will go far in life.
Not if I can help it and hopefully never again. I now have my own NDA that's fair to both sides that I will try to get them to agree to instead of whatever horrible NDA they found on the web.

But I've found that I can often rule out working with a client without ever seeing their NDA material. I've learned that the number one question I need an answer to is whether they've ever worked with subcontractors or consultants before. If they haven't, they're wasting my time.
Just a note on Rubinius: The PyPy guys seem to have done pretty well at this. I don't know how similar they are to Rubinius; PyPy reduces to a RPython as an initial step, whereas I believe Rubinius compiles to LLVM's LI.
#2 has been the biggest drawback in my experience. It often isn't realistic to compile your editor from scratch, particularly when you are working in a windows environment without administrator rights to your machine. This means that any extensions (e.g. dbext) dependent on those bindings are unavailable.

Is there a reason why there is no portable binary compiled with bindings for perl, python, lua, et cetera?
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Some more advice: http://producingoss.com
Those are just cashers... you have to be stupid to take that job.

This reminds me of a Canadian syndicate from a few years back... never caught the top guy (rumored to be British).

Any followers of the Pink Panthers out there?
Oh I see, I didn't notice it was finding projects that were using Django, rather than search the Django repository itself. It would be great if you could specify the repository name.
me too. nothing happens when I put this code in my DocumentRoot and open example.html.
Revenue vs. Value
Atlassian dresses up Stash to take on Github Enterprise
Completely agree! I actually tried it out with one of our pictures [1] from my proposal in Rome. I'm just having a bit of trouble with the small tuft of her hair that's forcing the algorithm to keep some of the background. I suppose I could probably fix this by using the full resolution picture, instead of this scaled down one.

I'll be recommending this to many people!

[1] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s130/sh/2ef070f7-252d-4e79-8e...
The slide deck we used to raise half a million dollars
I can't speak for python, but I do know that the impact of translating code for Racket's JIT (provided by GNU lightning, not LLVM) is negligable (ie. takes less time than the time you gain by JITting
No, cuz it'll be overrun by spammers within days of it getting any traction.
If they do this in an open way, it will be one of the best changes for the Internet in a long time. If it is done I. A closed way, a great force for evil. Devil is in the details for sure.

Something g which lets users delegate their security to some kind of sent, and then authenticate to it with various challenges (including biometrics), and allows a cooperative s unity policy between users and administrators (where each action has a different risk profile, so sending money to a pre approved account is low auth required vs something like changing your auth credentials...) is the solution. Not sure if this is it.
at the behest of oil companies

I know a lot of people made this claim in the lead up to the Iraq war but I find this claim pretty weak with the benefit of hindsight.

While the predictions/criticisms that it would be a protracted struggle that left the country in tatters were pretty much spot on, I think the claims that the US just wanted the oil were wrong.
Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet
Just email me.
The color scale is reduced, but that seems to be ground clutter caused by a temperature inversion. It forms after dark and usually breaks up after a few hours of daylight.

I am a meteorologist and have used radar for nearly thirty years. I have yet to see a foolproof system -- and I've looked for them.
Also I didn't see it mentioned, but are you pulling in level 2 or level 3 data?
What Twitter is, and isn’t
I really wish people would stop linking to mobile sites on aggregators... mobile users will get the mobile version anyways.