skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because you either have to:

- convince everyone that your fork is better

- pass the obfuscated code by the project owner who is very knowledgeable of the code base he started.
On the other hand, anyone could produce a pilot and put it on the internet to demonstrate the existence of an audience.

Really the whole concept of "networks" and "broadcast television" should just go away. The technology exists for everything to be delivered on demand. The primary missing piece is for 99% of households to be able to watch internet-delivered programming on their actual television, which itself is primarily an issue of the installed base of TVs not being able to do it. And that could be solved in a hurry if that capacity was inserted into all the cable boxes.
I always thought that the physical plant / last mile should always be another company and not any way attached/owned by the content provider(s). In most areas there are at least 2 content providers who can split the physical plant costs (+ minor profit).
Presenter here. This was actually the first presentation I'd ever given in my entire life which happened here at Amsterdam (1) to
help our batch-mates who currently do the program. (Disclosure: We're also part of Rockstart Accelerator)

Without the context, some points might look like unclear, but I'll soon write a blog post including all the knowledge & practical links around the topic.

If you're interested more in the topic, please don't hesitate to contact me (2) to discuss, or ask my help for your own cases. These techniques can be adjustable for whatever project you're working on, and it's always good to start early on.

(1) Rockstart Accelerator - http://rockstart.com/accelerator/
(2) oguz@limk.com / Skype: fcbosa
> Didn't continue reading I see.

I did -- your thoughts are incongruent. If you're trying to improve health and food costs "in general", "generally applicable" ideas ought to be presented. If I said you can cut your power bill and improve your health by installing bicycle-generators in your house, it glosses over the facts

1) you're going to need a battery array

2) a collection of bicycles and the requisite generator equipment

3) ability and time to run the generator

4) can deal with the inconvenience of perhaps not having "instant-on" power

5) live in any place where this is both practical and desirable, for some definitions of "practical" and "desirable"

It's a throw-away "solution" that really doesn't practically add to the conversation.

> And yes, I've built computers from scratch

On HN this probably isn't so surprising, but in the general populace, I think this sort of thing is considered wizardry. It's not practical for most people.

> but you can buy a refurbished one complete for $190 at Best Buy

I agree enthusiastically. (though I'd personally hit up Craigslist for an old Thinkpad). I think this (and your above points) touch on something I'm passionate about too: I see what I think is a lot of entitlement and laziness in the world I live in. People want too much, and don't want to "work" for it -- not that they don't have jobs, but that they expect needs to be fulfilled by passing a credit card over the counter.

I think we may not be too different: My car is a 40 year old Volkswagen that I got for a fraction of the $$ that my friends pay for their autos. I happen to familiar with the air-cooled VW quirks and limitations and live within them. I also do my own engine work and maintenance. I feel good about keeping another car out of the landfill. The $$ cost, though, is a fraction of what I pay. Other costs include

1) Occasional valve adjustment, points/timing adjustment, etc

2) Driving in a constant state of awareness wrt the machine that I'm operating; I listen to the engine, transmission, wheel hubs, and monitor my gauges more than any typical driver I know.

3) My car is slow. My trips take longer. I have to drop to second gear on steep hills.

4) I sometime have real mechanical issues. I've repaired a fuel injector on a road trip. On another, I ran on 3 cylinders until I found a garage and then helped the mechanic work on it, scavenging parts from an old Beetle behind the garage.

I happen to be pretty happy with my automobile situation, but would I recommend Joe Commuter do it to save $$ on the up-front purchase of an automobile? Never. I think it'd be insulting. It's overwhelming for the problem, and therefore doesn't really advance anything. It doesn't help Joe Commuter. Like when people discuss the cost of food and you suggest "Here's $40 worth of seeds. With this you've got vegetables for a year -- get to work."

That said, again, I think we're appreciating the same things.
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The movie doesn't do much for me, but I can't wait for the trailer with the gravelly voiced announcer guy saying "In a universe where P==NP...", followed by 5 minutes of droning on about math. After that, it will cut to a female hacker with glasses reflecting complex equations from a bank of monitors, and it will finish up with some explosions and maybe a car flying through the air with Keanu Reeves in the driver's seat.
completely opposite experience here.

have one natural keyboard at work another at home. Space bar is flawless! i can press with any force on any part of it.

then there's the comfort desktop 5000 or 7000 or some large number that i bought just to hack the "zoom" slider in the middle to be a mouse scroll wheel simulator... i ended up trhowing it away because i simply couldn't press the space bar anywhere! also, it was louder then the old natural keyboard (which is a huge flaw for both models. since they are all membrane and should be near silent)
Would you rather have a person or a machine serve as the market maker?

If anything, HFTs have made it cheaper to trade. Because of the way exchanges are setup, the man in the middle will always be making a cut of the trades. Now though that cut is measured in pennies rather than what used to be often 1/2 dollar spreads.

Sure some of the predatory algorithmic trading serves no benefit to anyone, but you will always have people gaming/attacking the system if there's arbitrage potential.
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Wow, this is really great! I really love what you've built. The mobile-friendly layout is a huge plus.

Some off-the-cuff notes for your backlog:

I might suggest overriding the default text selection (::selection) color. I say this because the active state of your fields are blue, and my default OS X highlight color is also blue, so I can't differentiate highlighted text while editing.

Also, it would be fun to quickly link this with twitter and or github to bootstrap a profile, as I found myself going there to compile the basic info about myself.

And like some others here have said ... add a simple premium play that lets me point a domain here and I'd seriously consider abandoning my blog and using this for my own personal domain. I was just thinking this morning that I'd like to redo my site to showcase some of the projects I am working on along with some basic info about myself. This would be perfect for that.

Congratulations on shipping!
> You don't get Bob's phone number on sign-up? Oh come on, that's a weak excuse. You have his name, email address, and Google. You an almost certainly locate most customers in this circumstance if you cared to.

I wouldn't mind at all if I received such communication via any means I had provided to a business, but I'd be fairly upset if Random Startup B - whose service I demoed for a month and ultimately decided against - suddenly called me on a number I never gave them after I had already decided not to do any further business with them.

An email asking for a phone number would be perfectly acceptable. It would positively affect my opinion of the company and could go some distance towards gaining me back as a customer, but calling me on a number I never gave would be a pretty significant final nail in that coffin.
The facility cost is shifted to university's balance sheet. Most calculations assume that the cost of building and maintaining a stadium and supporting infrastructure is zero.

Do you have a source on that? I couldn't figure out a way to research it myself, but it seems illogical that the cost of financing the facilities would not hit he P&L of the athletics association.

Why has no for-profit corporation stepped up to build up a stadium, hire coaches and players, license the university name and then enjoy the profits?

The same reason many Universities still own on campus housing in most cases. Likely because Universities will not let them. Also, it is likely that the NCAA would oppose it.
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Most of the gun proliferation behaviors in the US are rooted in a desire to hurt people. They're using plenty of other tools besides guns to do it, because ultimately, even a nuclear bomb is less efficient at screwing others over than denying universal healthcare.
Good stuff, but:

I really don't want SAAS companies calling me to ask why I canceled. Email is great, thanks. Maybe it's different for larger customers, but if I get a random phone call from a company I pay <$100/month, I'll probably like you less.
They are probably harder to find than other forbidden stuff, but that's because of a community effort. The Pirate Bay censors child porn as far as I know and they do it voluntarily without any external pressure.
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You could say that about a lot of things in Python. If you add a constant value as a class attribute, anyone using that class has the ability to change it, even if that would screw things up.
I get about 2x speedup on my CSV reader & processing app, which is nice.

When I tried the beta, it was crashy, but 2.0 seems pretty good so far.
> If somehow the database design requires joins, Mongo is fast enough to run two queries and then let you work with them in code.

That's definitely not true. What if you were planning on filtering after the join? You may find yourself pulling millions of records. The bandwidth alone would bring you down. I work with MongoDB, and once in awhile I really miss joins. You can't emulate joins in any reasonable amount of time in Mongo.
>Kindness, and the strength to display it in all situations, is the single most admirable quality that people can possess.

I totally agree with this. The people I admire the most are the kindest people I have ever met. I really aspire to be one of them.
I don't understand why this customer signed a contract with somebody they believe to be a crook. Surely not doing that is in hypothetical don't get yourself scammed to oblivion 101?
eh.. Mitsuhiko is known to have good eye for design. see his Flask website etc.,
Thanks. Didn't have the chance to check this morning.
I think it's totally responsible to have a shortener in a gccTLD as an adjunct to your main brand. e.g. quora.com has qr.ae as a link shortener.

I'm sort of against the whole concept of link shorteners, too, but if they're run by the site themselves, long-lived, and otherwise don't break the expectations of URLs/URIs, then they might make sense for mobile and type-in use.
Biggest hurdle for .io for novelty use.
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To expand on Yuri's comment: the standard view of databases, with mutable data, is flawed in the same way that mutable data structures are flawed in programming. Mutable state makes reasoning about program behavior more difficult than necessary. Datomic applies the same concept to databases — modifying a record no longer clobbers the previously-recorded information. This is a great safety feature, aside from its applicability to any auditing or reporting requirements.
You can definitely acquire a taste for dark liquor. People make the mistake of either 1) taking shots 2) trying to drink it straight 3) mixing it with something and drinking way too much. All of those add up to a bad association that you can smell every time you try it again in the future. You have to ease in to it. Start off drinking it on the rocks with a splash or two of water. Baby it. After a while the ice will water it down so much the taste isn't harsh at all, nor will it burn. Keep drinking it like this and eventually you'll start to acquire a taste for it and you can scale back on the amount of water you need to dilute it. Some people never like warm liquor which is fine, on the rocks is acceptable ;)
Love posts like this that find their own way of delivering a broad spectrum of advice from a unique life.

Something I've learned:

Everyone is the main character in their own story. Once you understand this, peoples' motivations make a lot more sense. Let people be their story's hero. Be your story's hero. But don't be other story's antagonist. Try to be the ally in other stories. You will end up with a lot of trusty sidekicks.
I think the big problem is that most "NoSQL" engines are naive in their approach, thinking that the people at Oracle, Sybase, IBM, etc. are stupid.

Very few people need scalability beyond what a regular RDBMS can do. So yes, RDBMS have limits, but you'll most likely never reach them.
>As for people who need higher than everage intakes for many reasons there are many examples if you can be bothered to look

Yes, reasons like running marathons. The mythological "fast metabolism" doesn't burn an extra 2000-3000kcal/day. If you want to act like your position is evidence based, then you need to supply evidence. There is no evidence of anyone in history having ever being able to burn 5000kcal/day while laying in bed. Your story is simply unbelievable. You would be a medical marvel if your story were true. Ask a doctor yourself.
>ESPN? $20/month or you can get 20 channels for $25/month.

But if you never watch ESPN then even saving $5 is worth it. There are plenty of people who pay for cable exclusively for HBO, and since HBO and ESPN don't share a parent company they're not going to want their networks to be bundled together.

And it also allows you to make sensible decisions like specifically refusing to pay for HLN because it puts Nancy Grace on the air.
(Boxfish dev here)

While the majority of TV is pre-recorded or repeated content (think of all the repeats of the Simpsons, Real Housewives of X etc). We know whether a show is recorded or live and the broad categories that a given show falls into. We also break up our trending calculations into different groups based, News, Sports etc and treat the data differently (as seen in the apps)

Also, bear in mind that while a show might be prerecorded it still may show useful data. For instance The Colbert Report and The O' Reilly Factor are usually recorded shows, however they can talk about drastically different things from show to show, and even between segments in shows.

I grant that useful trends are more difficult to extract from sitcoms and other things like that, but just because a show isn't live, doesn't that no useful trending information can be extracted.

We look at trending data over various periods of time, from minute length to longer so we can gather sentence level, show level, series level and even channel level topics.
It's basically a host-agnostic service that allows you to deploy to all kinds of hosts from a repo, if that makes any sense. One of the main appeals are simplicity and not being married to one single PaaS.

Here's the original announcement that explains it quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5213862.
My point was, sometimes you, as the the person who needs to make it work, weren't the one that chose what to use. You have a job, to use this tool for this task. Do what you can.
Yeah, I don't see why subscribing to individual channels a la carte is necessarily more fair than bundling. Someone who watches 20 shows on 2 different channels should pay 1/10 than someone who watches 20 shows on 20 different channels?

It's like going to a pizza buffet that costs $8 for all-you-(care-to-)eat with a variety of toppings and saying, "I'm only want to eat pepperoni pizza, but you're still charging me the full $8, so I'm forced to pay for all of the other pizza I don't want."
Google is killing microsoft in the government sector, since I'm helping pay for all this I can't tell you how happy I am that they're saving money. GSA went Google and is saving millions.
Plus it helps them make the case that bittorrent networks are dangerous.
Read the section on IntEnums[1]:

IntEnum values behave like integers in other ways
you'd expect:

>>> int(Shape.circle)
1
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'][Shape.circle]
'b'
>>> [i for i in range(Shape.square)]
[0, 1]

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0435/#intenum
"[EBS is] fine as a basic file store but should never be used for databases."

Doesn't Heroku use EBS for all of their postgres databases?

It may be the case that postgres works better on EBS than mongo does. Postgres has a traditional write-ahead log that minimizes (and spreads out) block writes and hides latencies. Mongo does not.
I couldn't agree more - this is a great article on a complex topic. It's hands down the best article I've read in months and I also donated. It gives me hope that quality can thrive on the internet.
You can collapse all these into one step - find an organization they are associated with (like their employer), and take the formats (Johnd@, jdoe@ etc). Stick one into the "To" field, and the remaining into the BCC field. You'll end up with about 8 email addresses total, and 7 will bounce. This works 95% of the time.

Caveat - its probably a bit spammy but the folks I learned this from have to my knowledge never been banned. Use at your own peril.
A list is not a value, it is a type of object. The second to last paragraph of the section in the reference manual I linked may help:

Some objects contain references to other objects; these are called
containers. Examples of containers are tuples, lists and dictionaries. The
references are part of a container’s value. In most cases, when we talk
about the value of a container, we imply the values, not the identities of
the contained objects; however, when we talk about the mutability of a
container, only the identities of the immediately contained objects are
implied. So, if an immutable container (like a tuple) contains a reference
to a mutable object, its value changes if that mutable object is changed.

PEP-435 says enums are bound to "unique, constant values" -- not that you can bind enums to arbitrary types of objects.
... which is why any company with an "Architecture Group" has lost its way. When you have a small group that is rewarded with the job of playing around with new technologies and pushing them to the rank and file to implement, bad technical decisions will follow.

(I have a rant for the "Scrum Group", aka "the Agile Police", but I'll save it for another opportunity)
Is it really that surprising that an app called "Bang with Friends" would have a primarily male audience?
This looks really great. I just wanted to point out that the "Write a Post" feature doesn't seem to work. I wrote a test entry and clicked save, it says:

Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again.
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Doesn't the 'functional API' make up for it ? `Animal = Enum('Animal', ['ant', 'bee', 'cat', 'dog'])`
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I'm sick of near daily hearing about white people "helping" Africans and African animals. Let the Africans run Africa in their own way.
I'm no expert in adult-ism, but some of the most memorable times I've had in the past few years is when those "adults" (older & younger) in my life shed that sheen of expected behavior & professionalism and let loose. Real things happen. Nights you talk about for years happen. Sure, its not an every weekend or monthly thing, but those times are sure refreshing.

As good ol' Doc Holliday said: "In vino veritas"
As long as they are promised a timely customer service from Google, I think it is a great move in terms of savings. Although I don't see the switch to Google Docs from the Office Suite ending well. Also if they are going through such great lengths to switch everything to Google, then why not save even more by using the Chrome OS instead of Windows?
And yet, Office revenues are up 7% in the last quarter and Google's revenues from Apps/Docs/Email is still only a few percent. The government is a lot bigger than a few departments.
I changed the text in places and took out the leading sentence. Thanks for this comment.
> This will be lobbied into oblivion.

Nearly every regulatory issue in telecom (and likely most other industries, but I'll just stick with what I know) is lobbied extensively by someone. Most issues will, whatever the underlying intent, benefit certain sub-industries over others. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's virtually impossible to propose a regulation that won't affect the market. By definition, regulations are supposed to to affect the market.

To assume that "cable" will outright oppose this is false, and overly simplistic. Cable is hardly a monolith, and there are things in this proposal that different types of cable companies could conceivably support. NCTA, the larger cable trade org opposes the measure, while ACA (representing relatively smaller cable companies) supports at least many of the principles behind the proposal[1].

There's a big difference in policy goals between vertically-integrated and non-vertically-integrated cable companies. Comcast, as both a cable company and a content producer, probably does enjoy policies that allow for bundling and would oppose that certain part of the proposal. However, competing cable companies who are not vertically integrated would probably support such a measure. It's not a crazy thought that Independent Cable Co. X would like to pick and choose which channels to buy for its subscribers without being forced into a bundle. In other words, for the same reason that consumers might want this choice, many cable companies could want this as well.

The part of the bill that penalizes broadcasters who switch to pay TV is something that probably all cable companies, even the big ones like Comcast, could support. Retransmission consent fees paid by cable companies to broadcasters are increasingly high and a court-blessed Aereo would provide an avenue for cable companies to simply stop paying those fees (or at least give them a good bargaining chip in retrans fee negotiations).

Oddly enough, wireless companies (e.g. Verizon) might oppose this part of the proposal. They badly want spectrum, and if FOX and others leave the airwaves, this could help get that spectrum into their hands. As an aside, I think the threats from FOX are hollow for a number of reasons.

Anyways, getting a little bit meta here, but the telecom industry is where I've been interning (various places) and would like to work in at some point. There's no reason to expect the average HNer to know these intricacies. However, from what I've learned about telecom, I can at least have a better idea of knowing what I don't know about other policy arenas. Thankfully, this will prevent me from reaching super simple (and often flat out wrong observations) such as "[t]his will be lobbied into oblivion." Obviously lots of money will be spent opposing this, but that's true for nearly any regulatory proposal, and is far from dispositive of any outcome.

[1] http://www.fiercecable.com/story/mccain-bill-sparks-conflict...