skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of comment can only be excused by lack of experience.

Try "making time" when, for example, you've got a job where you can't bring your food with you (and would have nowhere to heat it up even if you were permitted to bring it), a long commute and a family to spend time with.

And I'm talking about a middle-class example. Now add being poor on top of that.
A person in security told me that a big fear they have is car bombs. You would now be able to send groups of cars to a location without risking human life. That us good enough reason to not want self driving cars. I still think some of the functionality can be used for accident prevention.
My thought exactly too haha
Ummmm, this seems like mental master-BEEP(watch your mouth shaft)

Core redesign of GitHub's product from hosted source control repository to Open Source social construct. This seems like a completely different product from GitHubs core.
But since it's lean, presumably the other 9 failures don't cost much and lead to success on the 10th try...
My point is that it is very easy to misinterpret these questions and/or the scale 1-4. ‘Criticising yourself’ is to me an absolutely normal action, and this whole quantify-yourself-and-your-actions idea is basically about criticising and improving yourself.

Similarly for ‘worrying’ – does it mean ‘anxious’ or merely ‘concerned’? Taken to an extreme, I worry about my health when crossing the road. ‘Loss of interest in work or other activities’ also matches nearly everyone, given that people will lose interest in specific activities over time.

Certainly, such a questionnaire with a standardised interpretation and scale will be helpful, but you will need a professional to do such an assessment. To me, it looks as if it will over-diagnose people as unhappy/depressed.

Loss of sex drive is also something that can happen for a multitude of reasons – satisfaction found in work, for example, or other sources of stress.
Sorry are you saying you know me better than me, when you have not even met me!

This hospital in the uk I was and did, I have no need to lie about it. I know what I was eating and the volumes and I know what I eat when I'm not in hospital, so sorry if I completely and utterly disagree with your random asertion. There again I have been known to eat 3 full plated roast dinners in a day, we are all different, just accept it that I know myself better and I know I am not exagerating and not all hospitals are the same, let alone hospitals in different countries.

Though you have proven my concerns fully, sadly enough :(
Indeed! Don't let that stop them from having fun, though.

For the book, you can still download 1.4:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4_download

And all the games should still work in the new 2.0 interface too; it's an overhaul of the development environment, with backwards compatibility. (I'm updating the book now for 2.0, I edited it.)
NYPD Chief Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg prefer their privacy over yours
So what's the legality of distributing just the magnet link hash? That's just a 40 char string. If somebody would publish that string in this place here, is that illegal as well? It's a lot of steps removed from a crime:

1- crime where a shot is fired

2- gun

3- gun creation

4- gun 3d file

5- somebody supplying you this file

6- the magnet directory giving you a link to the file supplier

7- the link hash giving you a link to the magnet directory

Can a 40 char string be illegal?
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Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a full stack engineer
Hey HN,
We're looking for social hackers to join our engineering team.

Who are we?

We're a tiny team working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we've built out matching algorithms, customer service AI, and a real-time collaborative email client that's better than Gmail.

Last week we shipped an iOS app that’s like Uber for your night out.

Who are you?

You're a world-class developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You're comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You're a fearless explorer - If there's something you don't know how to do, you'll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

I'd love to chat, just email me at tom@joingrouper.com

You can learn more at http://joingrouper.com/jobs

Cheers,
-Tom
Have you considered that muscle atrophy might be part of your weight less as well? It sounds like you were bound to a hospital bed.
Actually, if somebody else is paying for me, that's inequitable. I like to pay my way.

That something is subjective doesn't mean that it's unknowable. Justice is subjective, but that doesn't mean we should abolish the courts and the police. Those institutions will never be perfect, but we can nonetheless always work toward perfection.
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You really, really need to let me pay you for this. I'd pay $10/month for this, easily.

Do you allow custom domains?
It's clearly "both", especially when you consider that the line between "sustaining" innovation and "disruptive" innovation is fuzzy and subjective anyway. Hell, whether or not something is innovative at all is pretty subjective.

Anyway, even if you start with the outcome in mind:

"This factory needs to churn out widgets faster without increasing costs"

you could generate innovations among a spectrum from trivial to world-changing, that would support that outcome. I suppose if you make the outcome more specific, you might be able to skew the process to favor one portion of the spectrum over another. It's an interesting question.
No, I got scared away by Simple example and Real example from the docs :) Do you maybe have some hints/links for cffi?
I prefer the Michael Ford proposed syntax and would gladly port the implementation if possible.
Having to specify either an ordinal number like in BASIC of 1980 or have to specify symbols as strings looks dodgy to me.
Start using it in places you absolutely have to. Retirement communities where the elderly have lost their ability to drive, etc.
Slide 14 & 15 were instructive, brilliant way of connecting the dots.

How specifically are you segmenting out new users by Twitter follower / Klout score and then firing actions to those segments?
Would that also have been a good enough reason not to want regular cars?
Ping.it: Not Google Reader, but tool to discover emerging viral content
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The problem seems to be that projects just lapse, the owner's stop paying attention and the number of forks starts to pile up. Perhaps when the number of forks hits a certain point everyone that has a fork should receive an email asking if they'd be happy to maintain the project. People could then put themselves forwards and the original maintainer could then review the candidates and decide who should take over (or confirm that they want to maintain the project).
TL;DR: think of string as tuple of numbers. some are bytes, some are integers. if you want to transform those numbers into a particular encoding (e.g. UTF-8, CP-1252) then that's a different story.

EDIT: I know the article went all out about character abstraction, that why i said "some are bytes, some are integers"
It's cool that "Alex Knapp, a science writer at Forbes" has solved one of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics by, erm, just asserting that Platonism is false. Of course, maths is a tool, but that doesn't mean that it is just a tool, and Knapp doesn't provide any arguments for that conclusion. I can use a rock as a tool, but that doesn't mean the rock has no existence independent of my mind. In fact, the only reason the rock works as a tool is because it has an independent existence (I can hit things with it); the same might be true of maths.

Now, there are arguments for positions like Knapp's, but they're more complicated and contested than Knapp's facile post suggests. See, for instance, this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/
More handguns = more handguns, period.

Like I said before, violent crime has been falling steadily for the past 20 years despite the rise in availability of handguns. This is in direct conflict with your assertion that more handguns = more dead people.

It is a more delusional viewpoint in my opinion to think that simply reducing the availability of weapons would eliminate the criminal impulses to use them.
Yes, but what if they demanded that you do it, personally. While wearing a French maid costume.
And as the printable gun debacle mixed with the ongoing unsuccessful "War on Drugs" shows, we live in a time where it's essentially impossible to fully lock down the production of these types of things in a free society anyways.

Use the example of abstinence education: It's better to accept that guns will be made and use education and light regulation to minimize the damage than to try to squash them out completely.
Would be good to be able to give an image link, and not just upload from the computer. Really sweet tool though
"The firefox JS engine now has a fast interpreter, a quick JIT, and a more optimizing one. This means the baseline performance is better in CPython"

Huh?
Neither did waving away problems as if they didn't exist. If you can solve this, solve it. But arguments of the form "in theory there's a solution, so problem solved" aren't a step forward; they're a way to prevent others from trying.
Cubie introduces free voice calls for its 7 million users
Some general hints: don't be afraid to skip. It may happen that some books have an intersection, even though they complement each other -- usually the authors try to be self-contained.

Also, most of the books I mentioned have about 50% dedicated to core ideas in the field and 50% dedicated to some specific tools that may not be that useful to you. More often than not the second 50% is the latter part of the book, but in say Concrete Mathematics it is spread throughout the book entirely. I know it's hard to find the balance between reading fast (and then realizing you don't remember anything from the basic tools and you can't even apply them well) and reading slow (and realizing you're trying to memorize some obscure recurrence involving binomial coefficients). Reading is hard.

Now, for the tips for the CS/discrete math students among you. Feel free to add some of yours, I'm hardly the veteran educator here.

Knuth, Graham, Patashnik's Concrete Mathematics, after a few chapters, goes well with Flajolet, Sedgewick's Analytic Combinatorics. You should mix that up with some Discrete Mathematics introductory book, especially one dealing with counting objects, so you can apply the techniques almost immediately on simpler examples.

Papadimitrou, Dasgupta, Vazirani's Algorithms is one of the better books on algorithms out there, in my opinion. As for the graph theory books I read, I liked Bondy, Murty's Graph Theory style the most, so I'd probably go with that, though I haven't really read them in parallel yet.

For the discrete math students out there, after learning the basics of probablistic method (Alon, Spencer's Probabilistic Method being the seminal textbook, I think), you could continue with both some probabilistic algorithm book to apply what you've learned in CS (I did take a course in that, though, so I can't vouch for the best book out there) and you could also grab Tao, Vu's Additive Combinatorics for how to apply probability in number theory (probabilistic method is chapter one in there).
Creating the first virtual organisms: the OpenWorm digital life project
Sorry, but I don't get it..
Nokia Fails To Impress With New Nokia Lumia 928
There's no call to action. Someone (including myself) will open the email, realize there's no immediate call to action and be like, "Ya I'll get to that" and nothing will ever happen.
This is a really cool idea, and a pretty solid implementation! A tiny bit rough around the edges but you might be onto something.
Ads of you: How brands will take advantage of Instagram’s face tagging
I think almost every active user has something they want from GitHub, so I thought I'd get this off my chest in the comments:

Personally, I use Issues a lot, and if it would be great to be able to upload any file related to that issue.

I understand how that could be costly, and you might not want to push such a potentially complicated feature onto your 3.4m.

So:

- Let the majority use your free (meaning no-extra-costs) storage with current limitations.

- Add a tab under the repo settings labeled 'File Storage'

- Under Repo X > Settings > File Storage, let me use my own S3 key/bucket pair for that repository's Issues files.

(Example: PSD, .zip/.rar/.tar/.bz2, etc related to the project.)

Thanks for listening.
Some oils are better than others.

Palm and coconut oil are much better than sunflower or corn oil, in part because of something called the smoke point.

And calorie count is not that important if you eat the right things.

http://nusi.org/
People who equate open source (really peer production, but they don't understand the difference) with democracy always forget that in democracy the citizens have to pay taxes.
Going + from T.O. too
Serious question: Why aren't you building a startup right now?
You have all of these theories about how a company should be run, you hate managers, you're a top .0001% programmer, etc.
It seems that being a founder is the perfect position for you.
Don't you want to validate your assumptions? If a flat, open-allocation model really is the best way to run a startup, you might be on to something huge here. You're clearly passionate about this...what's stopping you from making it happen?
Beautiful die shot of NXP BC847B
We're quickly migrating to this model. You have to be (much) better about estimating work, but switching from cost+ to value added pricing really makes better sense (and your margins increase).
You might be able to verify that a bit by looking to see if there's a
higher number of Chinese sounding names for that year.

Once again, why should I have to?

These are professional journalists writing articles with massive holes, it's embarrassing.

In any case, remove that first data point and you'll see that the trend
is much more pronounced and statistically significant.

Here's what that looks like: http://imgur.com/a/FBeAv -- Still ugly.

The one proposed by many is that the tax and enforcement changes around
2010 caused a big reaction. Can you model that piece-wise?

Why should the reader have to perform these exercises? If the author's premise relies on such a situation existing, they should absolutely perform the analysis.

The rate of US citizens who renounce citizenship in order to take on high office in
another country should be about the same, compared to those leaving for tax reasons,
so you should be subtracting some baseline for that.

Once again, someone would have to actually do some reporting to determine what that baseline should be.

With this few data points, and with a complicated underlying system, it's basically
impossible to make a valid statistical interpretation. That's why these articles end up
talking to the people who work with those who renounce their citizenship.

Precisely my problem with this type of reporting. What do you think a tax lawyer is going to say when you ask him why people are renouncing their citizenship? How does that add any value?
Yeah, we were searching for a good bit before we found the FAQ. It says that a downloadable version will come this summer
Evernote Food brings Foursquare venue ratings
Just reading Antifragile, and stumble on this seemingly immortal shitcliché: one need to eat "At least 55 grams of protein per day", "Around 50% of food energy from carbohydrate".

I do not even want to know what a carbothing is. This is plain proved horseshit. Our stomach has been prepared by Mother Evolution to handle a wide range of variation in the feed. And the risk of stomach boredom is very real.

So the real proper diet is: do not have a diet. Do know what is tasty, eat 1kg steack some days (rarely), eat stone soup other days. Don't eat things that have been invented in the last 50 years (from margarine to exctasy). Do never ever watch TV or other addicting ads carriers.

Amen.
Also, a lot of the "lost" orders during the down time will actually just be delayed. I imagine most people will just try to place their order again tomorrow
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China’s next Apple store is believed to be under construction in Beijing
I like the ingenuity of it, seems pretty counter intuitive though. I mean keeping the elephants away by bring swarms of african killer bees into close proximity with humans... not sure if the trade off is worth it. There is a reason elephants are afraid of them.

That being said I am sure the farmers understand the risks more than I do, if they are down with it seems like a good solution
I disagree. When you sue, you lose your awesomeness.
Free speech is free speech. This is how Phil Zimmerman defeated export controls in the first place with PGP. He developed the code outside of the U.S. (where it was legal), printed books containing it (one of the best-protected free speech rights), imported the book to the U.S. (so that he's not trafficking in "munitions"), scanned in the code in the U.S., and formed a PGP in the U.S.

The U.S.-based code could then be distributed within the U.S. since ITAR is an export control only. The sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing eventually helped lead to legalizing useful crypto in the U.S. I guess we'll see what happens here.
This comment and the OP have made me realize I am depressed and have been since the better part of a year. I never thought I would be one of those people who gets depressed, for a long-term, at least. And I never thought of it defined in the way this comment and the OP have. Now I'm not sure what to do from here...
Slim jims and everything.

I'm looking at an empty beer bottle and a nutrigrain wrapper.
there's a fundamental assumption in this article that I think is very doubtful. this article assumes that part of the customers 'payment' for a self-driving car will be advertising.

That seems like a very poor assumption. Personally, I assume google will make money selling a car (or the tech), just like any other business. Just because the search business is free and makes their revenue through advertising doesn't mean that the car business would have the same approach.
Then I'm no longer a contractor, and they have to hire me, put me on a payroll, etc. I doubt they want to do that.

I probably would walk away from that, but my point is that if you are a contractor, then the requirement is simply that the work be done, not that you do it personally. If they're willing to pay absurd money for something you don't want to do but other people will do, subcontract.
The biggest problem I've come across on Github is actually getting in touch with the prior maintainer. If the user disables issues on the repo, doesn't list their email nor their github username doesn't match up with something like twitter it becomes impossible to get in touch with them.

There's been 3 repos I've attempted to take over that had no one working on them for +6 months and this was exactly what happened.
How to Win Angelhack
An Explanation of Computation Theory for Lawyers
From the announcement: http://www.wumpus-cave.net/?p=12

> The current library supports basic commands, such as takeoff, pitch, roll, yaw, vert speed, and land. All the preprogrammed flight animations are also in place. Navigation data and video are not yet supported–see the ROADMAP file for future plans.
who didn't see that coming?

They'll also be the home of plans for all copyrighted StarWars and other figurines.

Be interesting to see if they can stop the spread of those plans. I doubt it though.
nah man ... they should move away from HostGator and go to Linode! I've heard real nice things about Linode
To be honest, I wish I could pay for a service like this. One that would respect my privacy. Given the needs of freelancers and consultants, I reason $50 a year is a good price. You have to understand what your product is: a lead generation tool. Those are always worth the money.
Simulating Locations with Xcode
I posted this link last night (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5684604) but thought it might be worthy to repost at a time when more users are active.
Towards a Haskell Logic Library
Zikes, let's do a simple observational experiment. Compare the rates of violent death in countries with few guns to those in countries with lots of guns. Get back to me with your next keen insight on how the number of guns in a society is a just a meaningless number that doesn't really affect anything at all.
> Nearly every start up is an example of this.

And what is the percentage of startups that "fail"?

Working really hard on a bad idea doesn't make it get any better. Garbage in, garbage out.

I suspect that the number of hours worked per week isn't a strong indicator of either success or failure.
Cool, I was aware of it, I was just thinking about making it automatic. :) Easy extension to flattr though. Excellent, thanks.
Aha, thanks for the kind words. I haven't got plans to allow custom domains just yet - but if there's enough demand (which it sounds like there might be), then I won't rule it out.
A lot of advice stories about eating cheaply often fail to achieve that goal because it is hard to do and requires a lot of effort.

This is a recurring sentiment which speaks volumes about our culture. Complaints of "hard" and "a lot of effort" belies how incredibly rich this society is, that the notion of just making pasta or growing vegetables is somehow prohibitively difficult - not because it's inherently so hard, but because we're so used to "swipe a card, get a meal" at all levels of society. Even if you're officially "poor", just be at WalMart at midnight on EBT recharge day and walk out with convenience foods. For most of humanity through most of history, what so many today belittle as "hard" was "normal" on a daily basis.

On my "A Buck A Plate" blog I've addressed various forms of this complaint. Difficulty? boil some water, open a few cans, spaghetti dinner done. Cost of cooking system (stove, gas, etc.)? grandma's ancient cast-iron frying pan over burning wood scraps in the back yard, make a nice veggies-and-shrimp stir fry. No cooking space indoors or out? $4 crock-pot and an electrical outlet. Cooking your own meals? c'mon, it's not that hard, really. Shopping for inexpensive? look at every price tag in the store (Walmart, Aldi) and discount everything over $1 per pound. Appliances? thrift shops overflow with them dirt cheap. Dried items? throw 'em in water before going to work, ready to cook when you return. Planning meals in advance? you really have an issue with this?

Sure convenience foods are popular. You also pay for that convenience: instead of doing the work yourself, you work doing other things then exchange the money earned there. Do more yourself, and there's less need to be out doing other things.

Don't confuse "you have to do something" with "hard to do and requires a lot of effort". If you watch TV at all you have no excuse.
Worse, what there is was confusing, at least to me. I signed up after reading the article and checking Twitter accounts. I thought I was signing up for a deal finding site from what text I'd seen. It's actually more of an interesting content finding site.

I haven't seen any deals but think it is referring to occasional promos or discounts or something else to incentivize users - doesn't seem to actually be about shopping or getting deals of offers or anything. Example categories were humor, and there were stories about what girls find more attractive, etc..
Before we start talking about "eat healthily", please visit http://nusi.org/ , apply critical thinking - ask for references to published research papers. Be aware of the difference between observational and clinical studies and of course, always remember correlation does not imply causation.

We, as in mankind, don't know very much about what really is healthy food.