skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we were 8 my mom would drive us to the UIUC computer lab and drop us off. We would just hang out until the computer operators sat us down at a terminal with spacewar or something.

Just do it. Go up to the university, find out where the CS professors and grad students work. Stand in doorways and eavesdrop. Tell them you're 15 but you really really love programming and want to meet some experts in computer science. Ask if there's anywhere you can hang out and quietly soak up the atmosphere.

It will make their day.

Also: are you on Twitter? Tweet me @marshray and I'll ask my followers if there's anyone in Denver.
In such a situation, if you've chosen to use an electronic cryptocurrency dependent on things like robust network and electrical infrastructure to function as your primary value store, you're going to have a bad time.

Yes, clearly, it's better in all cases to use paper fiat currency dependent on things like a robust, modern, well-defended, and rationally-operated government infrastructure to function as your primary value store.
"Simple sound-bites, strong opinions ... are what's worst about HN."

Says the poster who singularly fails to address any of the points made by the OP, choosing instead to engage in ad hominem attacks.

Stop posturing and heed your own advice.
I'm not sure what you were taught in school, but there are massive differences between physical property and intellectual property. The very notion of intellectual property, the assignment of rights and their enforcement by governments is quite new:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
Great times ;)
I think it really depends on what the project is.

If it's relatively simple and you don't really want to deal with user registration/databases I'd say definitely go with Flask. Django does a pretty good job of those two but until it "clicks" you end up being confused.
Bitcoin infographic - How a Bitcoin transaction works
The difficulty level adjusts to the mining power. And only transactions that were double-spent will be reversed, since nodes will re-broadcast transactions from the short chain onto the long chain, and those that weren't double spent will be accepted.
nice summary, sent to a colleague who is starting with django.
by which metric is nyc barely average?
Go to Roberta's Pizza, dude.
Still, deep learning has done nothing more than classification right now. What about predictive distributions, regression of complicated outputs...

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/pub/12deepai/ has predictive distributions from deep learning, passed on to time-series smoothing for articulatory inversion. It's a previous neural net approach made deep, and working better as a result.

(I agree that like any machine learning framework, neural networks have their strengths and weaknesses, and open challenges.)
You opened yourself up here but I'm going to leave it as an exercise to the reader as to what the last three moves look like. I'll give a hint. The second of the three doesn't matter.
How is it "not extremely strong"? If there were no correlation, you would expect the top 1% of income earners to hold 1% of net worth, because there's no expected relationship between being high in income and high in net worth. If there were a correlation but a weak one, you might expect them to own a few times the uncorrelated amount. Maybe they'd own 2% of U.S. assets (twice the otherwise expected amount), maybe even 5% (five times the expected amount). Either of those would be enough to establish a clear relationship, but a weak one.

But they actually own 26% of American assets, twenty-six times the amount you'd expect in the uncorrelated case! The top 1% of Americans by income own a full quarter of all the country's assets— stocks, bonds, real-estate, etc. That seems like a pretty strong relationship.
> That artists will keep their tools at the latest version at all times - they don't. Often, they're still using a version of Photoshop three upgrades old. At that point, Creative Cloud is a lot more expensive.

Not true:

Amazon list price for CS6 Photoshop today: £631. CC price for 3 years: £632. With no upfront outlay.

> That they get paid in advance.

Surely if they have a problem with cash flow, it is advantageous to not have to outlay capital? So "pay as you go" makes much more sense. This is why start-ups use the cloud.

> That all artists are really good with money and financial planning.

This is true - but part of making a living by being an artist is also having a decent head for business.
The original purpose of IP laws are an agreement with society that the author would get a temporary monopoly (including legal protection) in exchange donating it society after a reasonable amount of time. The alternative is keeping it a trade secret, which can restrict what you can do with your idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
> That's mighty bad luck. I signed up for a site called Hacker News, and I don't get any spam from them at all.

That's disingenuous. He signed up for HN 2 years ago. That's not "these days".
There are many things that you can download for free off the Internet. That doesn't mean that they aren't protected by copyright.
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Just wait for the "foreign transaction fee" on the credit cards to become federally mandated 15% instead of 3%. Then you'll see.
Glad to have helped. If he/she has any questions you can have them reach out to me. I'm definitely not an expert but can offer some suggestions. dangoldin gmail is the email.
It's really key to do your own inbound marketing. Like I said, I spend about half my day doing it. I know other people who went at it full time. There's a direct correlation between the amount of outreach/content marketing you do with pledges.
I am not the OP, but I recently posted a hobby project of mine to the Mac App Store and went through a similar experience. The app was waiting for review for about 9 days (7 business days) then got rejected because the reviewer found a small (but legitimate) issue with some menuitem text. I fixed it and then it sat in the queue for another 8 days or so.

I can't imagine being commercially dependent on that kind of process.
If you end up finding that planet, and a ways to get there, feel free to let me know :)
I suppose it depends on what your goals are. If your goal is just to crank out some Python, I'd go with Flask (or my personal favorite Bottle).
The strongest recommendation is of employees of YC startups who are leaving with glowing references and support from the existing YC founder to do something new. Those people nearly always get interviews, and should. It is also a benefit for YC companies -- "I know you want to do your own thing, so stay here for 2 years, accomplish a lot, and I'd be happy to help you do your own thing, and hopefully invest." is pretty compelling vs a job at Facebook for some people.
Don't joke. Disney honestly think like that. When home video was introduced they couldn't get their heads round the fact that they wouldn't know how many people would be sitting round the tv watching a movie, and thus Disney wouldn't be able to charge all of these people. Some of them would be watching for free!

Disney have introduced things like single watch video tape (need to be sent back somewhere to be rewound); limited life DVD (special materials, sent in sealed envelope, as soon as it's opened it starts to oxidise); and they still have pretty horrible unskippable trailers and warnings and etc.
"It" being the camera? If we're talking about an SLR, you are in control, not "it". Stick that puppy in aperture priority, open it up to 1.8 and crank the ISO. My entry SLR from 6 years ago takes great shots even at ISO 800. New ones can probably quadruple that.
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How is that evidence? Considering that much of the content of the book was based on the time it was written and published in, it would not have been written in 1909.

Is my sarcasm detector off? Or are you just a really bizarre troll?
It seemed like a reasonable assumption that a 90-year-old book was in the public domain.
Are you for real? Fitzgerald did not right the Great Gatsby before 1909 because in 1909 he was 13 years old.

If you have any sources about Fitzgerald's take on copyright terms I would love to read them, but without that you have absolutely no basis with which to say that there is "strong evidence" that he required more than 50 years.
At that time, assuming that I'm correct and the relevant legislation was the Copyright act of 1909, the term was 28 years, and one could renew once for additional 28 years.

http://www.kasunic.com/1909_act.htm
Out of curiosity, how do you handle whitelisted people changing their email address? My dad recently switched from Y!Mail to Gmail, for instance.
If there isn't copyright protection on this work, no one will want to write another book again!
Shouldn't you get it adjusted then? I'd be afraid of losing the finger if it gets too tight.
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How exactly are posts like these "news"?
Ah, this is clever. I'm glad it works for you.
If you sit on a novel or other creative work worth mentioning in any short list of the Great American $foo because 40 years of protection isn't enough, then you're not an artist. As if 10 more years makes the difference between releasing and not releasing a great work of art.

I'll also point out that it's hard to write about the roaring '20s before the Copyright act of 1909.
Sharper, I suppose, but I consider being stuck at 4.0 the real handicap. And those kit lenses usually give you 4.0 as a _best_ case; 5.6 if you zoom in at all.
If you are new to Python and just want to have a working project instead of tinkering, then Django is better suited. Flask is for more advanced uses where you need to have more control or be able to integrate components you choose (like SQLAlchemy instead of Django ORM, or a NoSQL DB).
Workspace of the Future (teaser video)
I have never seen this happen.
I really like Flask but I still go with Django when I need the admin.
Someone could build the banking system for those who would like the warm fuzzies it gives them, and others could still choose not to use it, keeping their bitcoins in their own wallet in their own house. Again, just like cash. The cool thing is that, unlike cash, you can send and receive bitcoin to and from anywhere in the world electronically without that big banking system's help!
I'm not going to argue whether or not other libraries/protocols (e.g. your example of protobufs) may provide higher value. I was simply questioning your assertion "SPDY has no benefit for mobile APIs."

That said, I've got some comments on your new points:

* "Almost all APIs are transactional. Your API should be returning all the data you need to render a single screen in your mobile app, or it is inefficient." - Addressing this completely would take awhile, and there's no good point in our discussing this exhaustively. I'll simply note that while an API response may return all data necessary to render a single screen in the app, it does seem nice to allow for prioritized out of order responses like SPDY does. There does not seem to be a good reason to have head of line blocking in the responses, since the app should be able to render incrementally.

* "Pings are not the correct way to deal with hangs. I don't want to spill any secret sauce here, but it should be obvious to anyone with low level TCP experience." - I think you must be misunderstanding this, or it must not be obvious Google's TCP team, since they agree with the usage of SPDY PINGs. Perhaps you think SPDY PINGs are a keep-alive mechanism? Note that the article I linked to identifies them as a liveness detection mechanism.

* "Pipelining also uses a single connection. Opportunistic FINs are not unique to SPDY." - I don't know why you bring up pipelining again when I've pointed out that multiplexing is superior. Why put up with response head of line blocking? And I don't know what you're exactly referring to with opportunistic FINs, perhaps you can explain in further detail?

And I'll throw in extra data points. Despite the fact that you don't feel like it's useful for mobile APIs, other non-Google parties clearly do:

Square (https://github.com/square/okhttp has their Android SPDY implementation)

Twitter (https://github.com/jpinner has their SPDY developer's work on Netty, which they use in their mobile APIs)
That would depend on what person B spent the $10,000 on.
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I don't get this obsession with gold. Yes it's shiny and has historically represented value and wealth, but people apply it as the unit of currency society will fall back on in times of crisis, like a civil war. If there's fighting and chaos all around and infrastructure is cut off, clean water, food, medicine, and weapons are pretty much all that will hold any value.
In theory it's the distinctive manner of expressing ideas that is protected. We know that in practice it's complicated.
Congratulations!

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663327
Eh, in the case of Disney it seems more like they are worried about copyright terms for their stuff ending imminently, not in a hundred or so years.

That's why they only threw on a few more decades (of course I expect them to go at it again when that extra time runs out) and didn't start that fight much earlier than they did. They still made that stuff after all, even during a time when copyrights were shorter, then they decided to get it raised.
You can memorize the keys to a bitcoin account and carry your wealth with you in your head until you get to a place with an internet connection. Better that than diamonds in tubes of toothpaste.
Google Maps To Get A Major Design Overhaul
Destructuring links? I'm sure Ted Nelson specified those somewhere.
Absolutely agreed here, this is just going to give an edge to companies outside the US.

Worse still, it's going to hit small businesses worse because they will simply have no choice but to pay it. The mega corps have their accounting down to an art, they'll figure out a way past it given how many gray areas are inevitable in a completely new form of tax like this.
Point being, Fitzgerald did not, and could not, do his work in a vacuum. Copyright has to be a limited bargain, or else it amounts to cultural theft.
That is AWESOME. The fact that there is so much diversity of planets and solar systems out there flabbergasts me. I don't even care about what kind or whether there's life out there -- just thinking about how there are so many different worlds with prevailing conditions that I never even dreamed of gives me the chills.

Space... space... so much space... gotta see it all...
I believe you to be using my private property without permission.
Great tool. Note that on OS X, it seems the UI drawing is buggy if you use the "ansi" terminal emulation. "xterm" works.
Another apparently obvious filter is the development of advanced nanotechnology and AI. However...

Although I'd immediately agree that those are filters hindering the spread of any humanlike civilisation, it doesn't at all stop the spread of other, technological forms - the "vile offspring", to borrow a term.

Honestly, I have no idea what might work as a future filter, at this point. I don't think the expense could be it; that's going to drop, quite abruptly once uploading (or straight-up AI) works well enough.
Sounds like taxation without representation to me.
Why should MY tax dollars be used to enforce YOUR copyright?

If you want to protect it, go hire your own police and build your own courts; stop using mine.
11010011 gets you a Simon game
This tax could make Oregonian consumers pretty popular: nothing to collect, no tax, no hassle.
My work used to start at 10 and it was hard to be there in the morning meeting by 10AM. I always used to be late.. people are getting changed in our team, so rules. I was asked to come by 9-9:15 and there is new meeting scheduled at 9:30 and I was being constantly mocked for being late.

I came across this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359041 and seems this guy is similar to me, but a more severe problem. I am a consultant and not worried about getting a new job when fired and team looks for the work I have done unlike fulltime. But I hate the feeling of subtle mocking for being late by my lead in my current job :(
Brian from Coinbase here. We're obviously very excited here to do our best in fostering Bitcoin's growth towards mass adoption.

To those who have seen our growing pains - the full intention of raising money is to address those pain points. We look forward to doing our best to eliminate each of them one by one.
That's where Bitcoin comes in :)
i dont understand what you are trying to say.

data certainly do not have preconceived notions, but i dont think that is your point.

people are not supposed to draw conclusions from data? that sounds like exactly what people are supposed to do, if they are to survive.

is your point that humans are biased towards certain results? that does not follow from your earlier two points ("Data aren't supposed to..." and "Sure, but you're not 'supposed' to...").

why do you think humans are biased towards "positive" results?
That is a very simplistic take on the issue at hand. Most people will agree that a limited-scope copyright makes sense as a way to incentivize production of creative works.

But there is nothing inherent or "rightfully" private property about things you create - it's a right granted by governments in order to promote creative behavior that is seen as good for society at large.

The 20th and 21st centuries have seen giant entertainment industries lobbying for an ever-expanding copyright term. (Some people say endless, because it has expanded faster than time has passed.) In addition, they have successfully created a cultural belief that physical property and intellectual property should be treated the same despite the fact that they are inherently different. (When I take your wallet you no longer have it, but when I take your ideas we both have them.)

If anything, the 20th century saw a massive effort to privatize our shared public culture as it was created. You can make the argument that we are better off as a result of this privatization, but it's simply incorrect to frame this as people trying to nationalize what is inherently private property.
Holy smokes, Sha Ka Ree.
> am fucking sick of arguing about the real world with Internet "libertarians" who've not spent significant time in it.

I couldn't agree more with this statement. There's a certain blend of inexperience and privilege that pervades some discussions on HN, and it's unfortunate.
Your sarcasm detector is off.
Does anyone else feel the animations are too fast and jagged?

Running in Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8.3
California urges record $2.5 billion fine for natural gas blast
255? I assume that is per year, not per batch.
Are you saying that Network Solutions and GoDaddy should have seats in Congress?
That is a really clean and clear page to me. There is only relevant information with a small amount of irritation on it. And it works for mobile too! :)
Seeing as I never disagreed with anything the author said I'd be interested to know what the strawman argument in question here is.

I did note that I think:
1. The post seemed like marketing/self promotion for his brand using a personal issue as cover and draw attention to his businesses blog. If this was a personal blog I would have no issue.
2. Many people who do not suffer from the disorder are going to use it as justification for their behaviour.

I don't see how those concerns are trolling.
It's not the "class" of sensor that makes the difference, it's the specific sensor itself (the multitude of Nikon and Canon DSLR models with significant variance in quality should illustrate this). Also, APS-C isn't a specific size, it's a classification that different manufacturers interpret differently.

More importantly, though, I would say that "plenty" is a stretch. There might be some with large enough sensors, but those models are still the exception, not the rule, and most likely they will be at the top end of the price point for a compact anyway... I mean, the Coolpix A is $1000+. You can get an entry level DSLR or a pretty good used one for about that price. You're actually paying more for convenience than quality, at that point.
I am slightly bemused by the fact that the US - which in Europe is often seen as very lax on taxes - is doing this and it is not even being considered in Europe. That might change, sure, but Europeans tend to like taxing things. And if this haven't even made a consideration among European lawmakers, just how far from the pack have the US lawmakers gone?
Don't their CEOs get to vote in elections? Or is it bothering the OP that companies don't get to vote, despite being people (legally in the US)?
While it looks similar, it became a lot more stable and far faster.

Acquisitions have a way of rolling up technical debt.
During a war, perhaps. But once things settle down I think gold will be the go to unit of currency.

In a functional society no one wants to pay for their goods with food or water.
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Frankly, it reads like a venomous, unconstructive rant that cloaked itself in "personal responsibility" cheerleading.
I will coin two phrases now:

1. Venomsnake's law - every discussion on Hacker's news degrades to bitcoins.

2. Goldilocks apocalypse - every goldbug, bitcoin miner and similar depends on the crash of civilization in just the right way that everything will be the same but his economic decisions will put him on top with the pure strength of speculation. Whatever assets you have the federal government will be able to confiscate if the need is dire enough. Whatever protection the law gives you can be reverted.

There is no safety. To be able to claim and hold to a property you rely on massive infrastructure. If the dollar and the federal government crashes - it will vaporize too.
aaaaand we're on reddit
> HN quality of discourse (and reading comprehension) is not great nowadays.

Calling food trucks "parasites", rather than a more data-driven, less passionate, and more economically aware comment is not moving the average quality of commentary on the site in the right direction, if I may say so.
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Show HN: My idea for a new Upcoming.org
So, the recent "Death of Upcoming" post/discussion got me thinking (see http://waxy.org/2013/04/the_death_of_upcomingorg/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578841) ...

I always snap photos of event posters when I see them in coffee shops. So, why not have an event guide that is more visual and based around these posters?

So I built that real quick: http://www.eventeresting.com

Right now it just directs to my local area (san luis obispo) but it can support multiple regions.

I'm using Mailgun to receive email attachments and it puts the events in a list waiting for moderation.

Feedback welcome. If anyone wants to moderate a Bay Area list, let me know (I'm thinking of posting some gigs on Craigslist or Task Rabbit to get events up there).
I find it odd that we protect one segment of creatives and not another. Artists get these insane protections yet if you invent something it's up to 24 years and only if you want to spend the time and money getting the protection. What an insane racket.
Clickable link: http://www.eventeresting.com
Funny that I wrote that Flask is for advanced usage and you wrote that Flask is for simple usage. If the project is really simple - no database, no declarative forms etc. - then Flask will be better. But if you go to "medium complexity" Django gives you ready components which you need to integrate in Flask (SQLAlchemy, WTForms etc.). You also need to invent your own project structure, and Django already has a hardcoded one. When the project complexity is "high" then Django starts to be too limited/"hardcoded" and flexibility/minimalism of Flask starts to shine.