skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. The problem is getting paid.

The client can agree to a ridiculous rate, but actually collecting is a whole different story. My gut says clients with red flags like this will be exceptionally difficult to collect from.
Glad to see this point at the end:

"16. Have I 'got around' or 'beaten' the CAP theorem?

No. You might have designed a system that is not heavily affected by it. That's good."

Our thoughts on CAP and how we've dealt with it while building a distributed truly ACID database might also be interesting to some: http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/
Only one complaint from me: error messages. I realize this is probably a complicated problem, but on the other hand, can alienate beginners.

For example, on the first exercise, you're asked to write NSLog(@"Name"); When I did it, I first missed the semicolon, and got an error "expected ‘;’ after expression". Okay, fine and good, that makes sense. I added the semicolon and got "‘extern’ variable has an initializer" because I called NSLOG instead of NSLog. Even for a programmer, that's not a helpful error message...
Once it is on the internet it is going to hard for any government to stop it. There are too many links to sever.
The thing about the brain disassembling itself was meant literally. Cells actually degrade and die during depression, and have to be grown back later as you get better.
Using Python to see how the New York Times writes about men and women
A Year of MongoDB
There was great discussion of this in Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It's sci-fi book, has story etc, but I mostly liked it because of such discussions between characters presented with invented terminology (so you don't skip over them out of familiarity).
Time lapse video with NASA and Google
Japanese Man Creates Amazing Art Using Excel
I think that it is normal to have bouts that mimic depression and it's very fortunate that these bouts are recoverable. The real problem is when these bouts ended up plateauing and interfere long-term with how things happen internally and externally.

In my case I found that there were certain life events that definitely didn't help with me digging out of my hole (death, disputes, etc), but I'd want to avoid blaming any single cause. With that said, it took me a while to speak out because a part of me didn't want to come off as an attention seeker during the worst of this all.

I don't think there is a "root" cause in the end but I do feel that certain life events influence you into falling into that horrid rut.
Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?
Flattr, etc
I think this could be a great opt-in feature.
Actually, there is at least one web-standards-based playback engine - http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Sb2.js

Although the content-creation tool sadly remains in Flash.
Strings – Dive Into Python 3
Facebook's approach[one of many] to  productivity
It runs pretty well, too.
This is a 90 second anaerobic sprint where cycling is an aerobic activity. Thus building up lactic acid in the upper body lets you extract more energy where the lungs can't support the extra load in aerobic cycling.
APIs Are The Doors To Web Services - And They Need Locks
You can buy those same cheap frying pans in restaurant supply stores without a lot of markup. They're shitty pans (very light) and restaurants go through a lot of them.

Edit: Here's an example, but at your local store in a sketchy area they'll be even cheaper: http://www.instawares.com/winco-gladiator-fry-pan.wdi-afp7xc...
There are two sides to this: a problem and a suggested solution.

People abandoning projects are a real problem. One way to go about it is to give all the people watching it a notice when the repo owner hasn't interacted with the repo in, let's just say, three months.

They could just leave it at that, or they could add a post mortem note with the most popular forks, or call for a vote for the unofficial official replacement repo.

The problem is real, but like you, I don't like the suggested solution all that much.
I suspect they are having a busy day right now, tomorrow will be the bad day :).
The latest iteration of the code (I fixed the bug you pointed out, and another one that I spotted myself) reports 1 death per 0.66 years, which is close to 2 per year. The remaining difference, as you said, could be due to the mortality rate in my model not accelerating fast enough past 100 years old. I'll have a play and let you know.
His point is that while the government can write into law what they believe the definition of healthy to be, that doesn't necessarily make it biologically accurate.

I see your point, though, you're not going to get drawn into a debate on that definition since your project isn't about the "true definition" of healthy but rather it assumes that the nutrition guide is adequate.
How does this make money? Giving my information to a free service like this one makes me uneasy. The UI is downright beautiful.
>a two year required warranty //

Excellent.
Very cool. I had been thinking for a while I wanted something like this. You are <= $2.99 richer now ;)

Thanks.
I don't roll my eyes at new tech, but I do roll my eyes at the idea that new tech can fundamentally solve problems, because the hard problems aren't language problems. I do, however, roll my eyes at using crufty old tech for new projects when better tech is available. I dayjob in the enterprise Java world, but I'm working on a startup at home. I'm still not quite settled on all my tools for the startup code, but I'm definitely settled on the 12 Factor App approach (http://www.12factor.net), and it's led me to the conclusion that mainstream enterprise middleware as expressed in J2EE is fundamentally wrong. Application servers are an inherently bad idea.

That said, my own coding is currently leaning toward Node.js for server stuff. I'm using Neo4j for data and it turns problems right on their ear - for my space (not all spaces), it's a million times better than relational and a thousand times better than document databases. So I'm looking for languages/frameworks that make my particular use of Neo4j more graceful. Started with Rails, but gave it up as the ActiveRecord ORM is kind of Neo4j-hostile in practice. I expect this is true of most ORM solutions (hence the R, for "relational"), so maybe I can make it better in a lighter-weight system.

At any rate, there are no silver bullets, but plenty of wooden ones. I lump PHP in that category. If there's an existing PHP app, then by all means maintain it, but don't use it for new projects!
Bees?!
I'm still surprised that they use only legs and arms.

Intuitively I'd expect some form of curling up into a squat and extending back out to be able to capture the most energy from a human body.
Seems this is typical. Large businesses count how many items are shipped to retail with intent to sell. For Apple, it's pretty much assured every item of inventory will sell soon. For some other companies and products, desperation to produce impressive numbers trumps and they'll announce millions of "sales" which are in fact sitting on pallets in retail warehouses, having no viable prospect for near-term purchase by end users.
I say I'm pretty sure I've suffered from bouts of depression because I've been through periods of feeling little but emptiness, sleeping nearly all the time and not wanting to interact with the world, completely unrelated to any external events that might reasonably make me feel 'down'.

I don't think it's necessarily helpful to try and exclude or segregate someone's depression as a different phenomenon to your own (they're just a bit down whereas I'm clinically depressed) based on a one-liner in a post on the internet.
Man, that's a crazy good idea. First, it's 85% effective in solving the elephant problem; second, free honey which makes the fence a profitable venture in its own right; and third, the bees will pollinate the crops they're protecting, potentially maximizing crop yield.
Do they also have Portal?

Because I never played it, and if they release it for Linux, I could be this guy:

http://xkcd.com/606/

Even the date is about right :)

(I do play modern games as well, but due to the rebooting to another OS required for that it's a commitment which I don't make for every game)
Well, you've outed me as a C programmer there I guess :)

I don't really subscribe to the idea that languages should force people onto rails. I love higher level languages for their rapid development of course, and the high level constructs. But there's something about being able to get your hands dirty, right in the guts of a problem...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686403
Ditto. I've pretty much just started telling people I'm actually from Boston. Reading the politics down there just makes me shake my head in shame.
I'm published in a highly-ranked journal that our university doesn't have access to.

Sorta funny.
Agreed. A dev with 100s of "karma points" on a certain PHP project should start at 0 on other projects (both of the same and different languages).
Backbone.js: Router
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I heard the designer of the gun on the BBC today. He said he created the design because he is a Libertarian and is trying to hasten the time when all information is freely available. He rejects government censorship of information.

He also said that the printer used to make his gun costs about $8,000 but that people were reporting making a working gun with as low as a $2,000 printer.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22478310
37Signals also sprinkle their stuff with "this works for us, we're not saying it's for everyone". They are outliers, and much as I love and am inspired by them, if what they said was so easy, why aren't we all working four day weeks from home, whilst racing multi-million pound sports cars?
Because now you're on the hook to maintain that fork forever. And because your fork, by definition, has diverged from "the mainline" because there really isn't any "mainline" anymore. You might have 2 or 3 or 10 or 100 other people who also forked just to fix one random bug or whatever, but there's no real cohesion or interaction between all these isolated forks.

Best case, one of the forks clearly emerges as "the" new primary repo and everybody shifts their focus there. But that doesn't always happen. It's a real problem with the fork-centric model that Github promotes. Of course, one could argue that this state of affairs is still better than the "old way" where forking a project was a very heavyweight process and rarely happened at all. But that doesn't mean the current model couldn't be improved further.

Is this Citizenship idea the right way? I don't know, but - at worst - it's a good discussion to have.
30 Examples of Web Design Sketches
Project Clearwater - IMS in the Cloud
It doesn't matter where he lives. It matters what he writes.
Show HN: Personal website generator, full demo with no signup
So many new services get launched every week, I love trying them out but there's always a signup form in the way.

Just wanted to share a new approach I'm trying for my own side project. (qiip.me is a personal site generator)

To try it out, just use the URL. For example:

http://qiip.me/try/github/mdo

This would fetch a github account and enable me to try different themes. You could also do:

http://qiip.me/try/github/ed-lea/dribbble/edlea

Check out the home page qiip.me for other services supported.
oDesk does one screenshot in each 10-minute period, at random. So you can be sure to have 6 screenshots per hour, but you can never know when the screenshots will be shot by oDesk software.

Source: I work for an agency that does this.
Show HN: Try my self hosted alternative to Basecamp
There don't seem to be many self hosted project management systems that are both attractive and functional, so I created one. It doesn't have all of the features I would like just yet, but it's a good start. I would love feedback - good or bad...
I'd suspect not a lot. The number that gets tossed around is based on the whole year's sales divided by downtime - but that fails to account for seasonality.

The retail market in the USA can be accurately summarized as "slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle MASSIVE DELUGE OMG OMG slow trickle slow trickle..."

It would shock people how much consumer spending is shoved into the November-December time frame. Since this downtime is in the middle of May, I don't expect them to lose much money at all.
How does the media work if you can't take photos/video of the public?
Hi guys - I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback about Hoverboard. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them either here or (if you prefer) you can email me at dave@hoverboard.io.
Poll: Bitcoin Conf 2013, Who is going?
We are coming from Canada :)

This is the conf website http://www.bitcoin2013.com/
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> Can't mathematicians and theorists not agree on what areas of math are most helpful and what areas least helpful in arriving at a Unified Theory?

Not fully, and with good reason (see below).

But actually, my point was that the existence of mathematical constructs that do not correspond to any physical reality means that there will be math to do when (and if) all physics has been done.

> Isn't there a faction of math people who strive towards a defined, non-abstract direction as opposed to fostering a laissez-faire approach to mathematics scholarship that naturally creates more math so that their area of expertise gets recognition and not to mention substantial purses of money?

Yes and no. There is the branch of applied math, and I'm sure they get funding more easily.

But there are also mathematicians (cited several times in the comments here) who see math as art and want to do it for its own sake.

And it has happened quite often that these "pure" mathematicians came up with enirely new stuff that only afterwards (and without anyone foreseeing it) turned out to be useful in modelling physical processes. Even among mathematicians you sometimes find that you can prove something in one field by using constructs and theorems from an entirely different field that nobody thought was in any way related. I believe Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was like that.
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Great proofs make their theorem sound obvious after you hear them. That's not the same as:

A) Formulating the theorem in the first place

B) Coming up with the proof yourself
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We all have different goals, but interesting meals are certainly near the top of my priority list, especially since I eat with my family and meal times are more than just a way to fill a hole.
I wish there was some way for her to profit off of the idea not for the sake of getting rich but to encourage others to take a look at solving other problems. Profits as signalling rather than for the sake of profits.
Its means to create valuable content for your market, and then share the content through links. From tweeting the link, to posting on a social network, to posting to web forums, to posting as a blog comment. But always stay in context. Don't post a link to post a link.

This works very well and has a long term impact. Plus it improves your search rankings.
Useful bullets are dense. X-rays, essentially, scatter off density. Building a useful bullet that's relatively transparent to X-rays may be an impossibility.
Whilst it is nice people try and point out cheap options they ignore the following:

1) cost of running a fridge and freezer
2) calorie intake and how people are all different
3) large supermarket nearby and only you hanging around the reduced counter

With that I'm sure a very short small inactive person could live well on this amount and intake but we are not all small inactive people.

A few years ago I was in hospital, I eat breakfast, dinner, evening meal and late night snacks and had seconds on every occasion. I was not overly active and bordering on totaly inactive. I slept lots as well. In short I eat almost twice the ` so called` reccomended calorie amount. I had nothing like worms or the sort and over a 2 week period I lost over a stone in weight.
Now I'm large frame, over 6feet tall and male and a active brain yet was phsicaly inactive, eating twice the so called daily calorie intake and had no medical issues like worms or digestive issue at all and I lost weight.
In short my my personal calorie intake is over twice what the so called average is and when I read articles like this it is hard not to feel persecuted as other read them, take them as fact and then think you are wrong. Yet the facts show, as well as common sence that not everybody is the same.

The acticale on the BBC was born out of benifit cuts and was showing how somebody could eat cheaply, it totaly ignores that a even the `so called` average daily intake is 2000 for a women and 2500 for a man and that men and women are paid the same amounts, with that most of the replies and posted menu's came from small frame short people and females (no offence intended btw). With that I'm jelous I'm not a small female and able to eat less to lead the same quality of life. Sadly that is not so and that is te case for many people. We are all different and there is no cookie-cutter way to say this will sort everybody as it won't, or shoe shops would have shoes the same size and that would be it for everybody.

What I find worrying is the mentality that some people have and wil impose based upon this and what might be good for them is not good for others and they will not know any better as the `reccomended intake` gets bastardised from being average to the normal for all.

That said, not everybody has a garden to grow their own vegtables and that helps hugely, sadly I can't but we all have windows and a small window ledge herb garden can help loads.

I would also say baking your own bread helps as well on many levels.

Beyond that your down to mapping out what time what supermarkets reduce items, keeping it to yourself and playing hit and miss that others not in the same situation as you as there are only so many reduced items.

I have found you can eat cheaply, or you can eat healthy, but as a non vegan/vegatarian it is extreemly depressing.
Well, I'm not talking about the merchant writing down the credit card number. This happens through the terminal.

Do you work in banking and know about this, or are you making assumptions about how payment terminals work?
You can only see cars when you're facing in the right direction and have a direct line of sight. Sure, if we redesigned every street on the planet to have perfect visibility with no blind corners, there'd be little need to worry. This may involve demolishing a few million towns and cities though.
So you _actually_ can put 0s in all other questions and 4s in these two and 2 in another one?
In my opinion, such a person would be either misinterpreting the questions, incorrectly stating(misjudging) answers, or actually having other signs of depression. There is a chance though that such a person may exist though.

Take "Worrying about your health", I think "worrying" here means "being anxious". So while normal health-conscious person cares about her/his health(eats well, sleeps well, takes necessary prescribed medications, etc), she/he isn't anxious about it. In contrast, depressed person may worry about her or his health without taking any actual steps to improve the situation.

Or take "Criticizing yourself or blaming yourself"(note second yourself, this question in kindle book is different, maybe I need to prepare correct pdf). If you spend your whole week under pressure of self-criticism, thinking about every mistake you made and every imperfection your work have, however small or large, then this is definitely 4. "Somewhat perfectionistic" is 1 in my book. 4 is "Extremely perfectionistic".

Or "Loss of interest in sex"? Why would an exteme loss of sex drive happen to a normal person?
I'm assuming only the head is 3-D printed and then attached (glued?) to mass-produced bodies?
I shared your frustration when I first started working with neural networks, and that was part of the reason I built ersatz.

Yes, there are two things we're adding next: better ways to visualize the results of your nets and how those relate back to the data (with help from D3.js), and automatic feature detection (IE, autoencoders). So to answer your question directly, yes.
Then plan the meals, do the shopping, prepare and cook the food on weekends and stick it in the fridge/freezer for the coming week. Would reduce food preparation time to around 15 mins on a weekday.
I'm going UX/Biz
There is a subreddit on this, tagged by the CHEAP keyword
http://www.reddit.com/r/fitmeals/search?q=CHEAP&restrict...
king_jester was talking about the poor. I doubt telling poor people to want it more badly is going to have a huge positive effect.
The person who wrote the article suggested randomly trying common email formats. I like to do something similar, only to increase the reliability (and decrease the number of guesses), I like to use Google to find his/her company's press releases. Press releases always have at least one email address. This is a great way to figure out what format that particular company uses. It doesn't always work (and is particularly unreliable with extremely common names) but it is still better than random guesses!
Ask HN: Outcome-driven innovation - sustainable or disruptive?
Is "outcome driven innovation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation) about sustaining innovation or encouraging disruptive innovation? Both? Neither? Discuss!
What should happen is that is that the BDFL (aka king) should appoint a successor if they cannot give a project the attention that it deserves. I've seen this happen successfully many times, and have never seen the "wrong" person chosen.

The problem is that this doesn't happen often enough. It's a very difficult thing to do, putting your baby up for adoption.

So what GitHub should do is a little bit of social engineering to encourage inactive maintainers to bless a fork. It's more than that, of course: you have to ask somebody if they're willing to step up. It's unlikely that one of the forks is comprehensive but there are likely people that would be willing to make their fork comprehensive rather than see the project abandoned.

Handing over the reigns to a committee does not work very well, in my experience. It's better than abandonment, but that's all you can say about it.
This is what innovation actually looks like.
Python will have enums in 3.4
Some things that are "obvious" are not actually true if you look closely enough. Having a formal proof means that this is not one of those things.
Yes, portal is already on Linux: http://steamdb.info/app/400/
Allow me to add:

Have a landing page that actually says something about the product. The limk landing page is atrocious. How d you expect people to sign up to your service when the entry point to your system is this bad?
Ask HN: Why was the MeteorAtSO twitter account suspended?
http://twitter.com/MeteorAtSO really helped many of us (at least me) build SO credits, get Meteor solutions faster and kept the community going. Was it violating any Twitter guideline(s)?
I've suspected for a while now that social interaction is sometimes dangerous to a depressed person, and that finding their own path to happiness (along with the guidance of a professional) can be more rewarding.
Thanks for spreading the good news! We'll finally be sending out invites to the rest of the beta signups in the next few weeks, so you will have a chance to use it soon :-)
There is a micro-payment service called Flattr [1] which does something like this. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the pirate bay founders.

It's actually quite successfull in the German web community especially for podcasters. There are German podcasters which earn about 1000 Euro per month via Flattr.

[1] https://flattr.com