skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What, you don't usually tie a string around your knobs and pull up or down, depending on how you want it to turn?

Seriously, though, once I figured out how they work (it took a few seconds), it was just fine. I don't know what all the furore is about, it's at most a minor inconvenience.
Startups vs Patents
I also did the same for that competition (while having seen the blog): http://github.com/aerique/vbwga

My "artistic" spin was I wanted to reproduce the Victory Boogie Woogie using only circles (see vbw-example.pdf and vbw-example-2.pdf in previous link).
Ramaze.
I believe that http://nightly.webkit.org is what you want. You'll have to build it yourself, but that can be automated.
Here's ours:

- django
- nginx
- uwsgi
- postgres
- arch linux
- linode server
Superstring is a past fad that was more about circular reasoning that ever got to modelling the universe in a predictive way. So that is a bad example.
I'm going to take this discussion away from cars (which I know next to nothing about) and opine on technology designs.

There are technologies that people decide to use. Then there are technologies that people decide to make other people use. Design quality is much higher in the first category (badly-conceived ones die out) than in the second.

Most of what you encounter in a corporate software setup is in the second category. It's built to sell well to IT managers, not be productive and fun to use, because the people who will actually work with the product don't get a vote. It's not so simple as to apply this to languages (Java is the right tool for some purposes) but you get a feel for it after programming in a variety of environments. There are some tools that leave you thinking, "Wow, the people who set this place up really know what they were doing" and others that have the opposite effect.

I'd start a flamewar if I singled out specific technologies-- and, in the real world, it's not that simple-- but there's definitely an experience of "corporate programming" that is really distasteful and mediocre. Then there's the way people do things when they want to excel. They're different.
I'm mildly face blind. Generally speaking it doesn't cause any problems - occasionally I spend the first 25 minutes of films wondering who is who and what's going on, and having missed the opening of The Departed I watched most of the film thinking Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg were the same person.

However, there have also been some excruciatingly embarrassing situations where I've re-introduced myself (or ignored) people I actually know, although typically I've only met them a couple of times. Bizarrely, I'm worst with caucasian blonde women.
The coming civil war over general purpose computing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436139
Yup. Until I moved to the west coast all Indians looked like the same person to me.
Yes, but that transitional period would be short enough that people wouldn't report (as the OP did) there being a persistent, indefinitely continuing practice of mailmen reading out mail to rural villagers.
Show HN: Conjure, the easiest way to manage feedback on designs
Vintage Jet Fighter Accident in Madrid [HD]
Vintage,Jet Fighter,Accident,Madrid,Fly,Crash,Plane Accident,Community of Madrid,Spain (load item map)
This is shocking.

I'm competing in Code Jam, and it's nice to think that everyone is interested in playing fair. If you're not capable of solving the problems at this stage, you won't be capable of solving them at the later stages either, so in that respect I don't really see the point in cheating.

All it really means is that a few of the borderline-qualifying competitors missed out.

EDIT: Might be interesting to download everybody's round 1B solutions and look for similarity. I'm going to attempt to do this now.

EDIT2: Boy, Google sure don't make it easy to download everybody's solutions...
The Filter Bubble — What the Internet is Hiding From You
Read Better app: Improve readability by increasing letter spacing
Another narrative is that centrally planned economies tend to go under because once you increase market place participation via provision for basic education and industry to the same levels as everwhere else you have to increase the per-capita production and that's something that's very hard to do without the insights that come from actually working as part of the individual industries.

Which is to say that centrally planned economies have a lot of low hanging fruit for countries that aren't very advanced to start off with, when the fixes are still fairly simple, but are crippled in the long term as the complexity/fluidity of the problem goes up.
You can make it fairly difficult to tract the movement of money through different wallets. Verging on money laundering at times.
I am not only mildly face blind, I sometimes just can't recall names. I had the face test and I just realized that I had forgotten the name of lead actor of Rocky (S. Stallone), Ex- President of USA, Saturday Night Live star, Taxi Driver's Lead actor and what not.
Wow, you're not wrong.

"For example, if the in-house engineers start their workday at 11am PST, our Eastern European toptal engineers will start working at 7pm EET and work through the night."

"During work hours, they are expected to respond to any client communication within 10 minutes; during non-work hours, they are expected to respond within 3 hours."

http://www.toptal.com/developer/requirements
There's a really good scifi short story about something called calliagnosia, by Ted Chiang. (Calliagnosia is a condition in which a person can not recognize beauty in a persons face. Not sure whether it was invented for the story or not.)

Here is a crappy PDF of it: http://www.clarku.edu/welcome/placement/pdf/reading.pdf

I'd suggest picking an anthology with the story up if it interests you. I read it in "Best of Scifi 2002" or something like that.
Hi guys, Just launched the Alpha of a product we've been working on for the last 6 months.

Problem we're trying to solve is the cumbersome process of managing design feedback, whether its through email, phone or in person. We want to put the feedback where it should be, directly on the design. Think Issue tracking for designers.

You can see a quick video I put together here: http://www.conjure.io/alphademo/ to get a better understanding of what it does.

If anyone wants in the Alpha, we're looking for testers and early adopters!! Sam@conjure.io for an invite.

Let us what you think!
You're lying. Your website says within 10 minutes during work hours and within 3 hours outside work hours.

http://www.toptal.com/developer/requirements
I totally agree with that. I just think that Path's future becomes questionable if they don't have a contingency plan. It would be interesting to see how much of their new user signups come from $FB. I would imagine that it's pretty high, but I don't know. I just look at other companies that lost their $FB boost and the outcome generally isn't good.
Have you ever seen genetic algorithms at work? Any doubts I had about evolution being a reasonable explanation for the complexity of life vanished when I saw how quickly systems could converge to viable solutions to problems by mixing characteristics from the most pat members of a population.
Cadillac was designed for drug dealers? hmm..
Why on earth would I buy a Mac if I am looking for a Linux machine trying to avoid paying for something I don't use.
Does it make me a cheapskate if I don't want to pay the Windows/Apple tax?
I would have no problem spending let's say $1500 for a decent Linux latop: one with certified hardware, a penguin key (instead of a Windows key), a pre-installed Linux distro and no secure boot nonsense.
You can easily anonymize your coins, either by tumbling or by using any number of wallets that are not associated with you.
I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
I myself will boycott the evilest MS and will not buy anything associated with MS from now on.

Secure boot is evil until we can provide our own key. Even if GNU keys are permitted, it is still bad enough.
My Dad The Engineer
Learn iOS development over the summer.
yeah, "rape" was a typo. but the "ghetto" is a creation of demographic changes imposed decades ago by systematically racist housing policy, not pop music
My favorite at the time is:
Backbone.js — nginx — rails — postgres — debian — linode server
Can't Mozilla's pdf.js be used to get the same result? Great results anyway!
Deploying Sinatra to Heroku is pretty darned fast and convenient (if not particularly economical at scale). I don't use Padrino on top of Sinatra, but I'd imagine that it would be just about as smooth.
You're right, sorry. I've gotten better at this sort of release since posting this repo. I'll add some screenshots to the project.
More Tech Magic, if You Can Afford It
CEntOS should be glacial. That is the point of the EL distriubutions. If you want cutting-edge, that is what Fedora is for.

Servers should not be exciting; they should be battle-tested and rock-solid.
Yeah, but that's like saying "you can easily launder your cash by using a laundering service".
For lightweight in Python, I started on Bottle, but found Flask to be more to my liking for very small projects/web services.

Mostly Django here; if you know the framework well, most things are very quick, but I wouldn't particularly call it "streamlined." Plus that up-front time to get to know it might disqualify it, and lightweight it definitely is not.

My Ruby friends tend toward Sinatra for small projects.
No, I am saying that much of what we now think of as the "x86 market" will be taken over by ARM. Cheap desktops and laptops are not going to stick with x86 forever, but there will still be demand for desktop and laptop form factors and there will still be demand for Windows.
I think quite a few of these frameworks were tuned for this benchmark but it is not marked as stripped.

For example, Yesod has client session and logging disabled. I'm also sure that quite a few frameworks have logging disabled.

Does that not count as "stripped" since it deviates from the norm for deployment?
What's striking to me is the extent to which the past decade's innovations (ad supported web services, carrier subsidized smartphones) have shifted people's perceptions of a reasonable price for technology. Especially for early adopters, who canonically paid more, and got less, and did so willingly play around with an unevenly distributed bit of the future.

For example, the Apple 1 motherboard (to which one needed to add both effort and other parts) costed a diabolical $666.66 in 1976, at a time when the US median income was $11,308. According to a friendly internet inflation calculator, that's $2727.25 in current dollars.

Flash forward to the 80s, and one of the early important popular personal computers debuted for $595 in 1982, or $1435 in current dollars, roughly the price of the Glass prototype today. If you pre ordered it before launch, they'd throw in a cassette drive, so that you would have a place to store programs, as opposed to having to type them in. This was a $70 value.

Thanks to Moore's Law and mass market adoption the price of these innovations, as with so many others came down in price, and afforded more a more capabilities to a broader and broader audiences. This was true for almost all personal technology that succeeded from the 70s through the 90s, and is true for many technologies today--such as 3D printing.

It is however strikingly not true for a lot of the web based services that people call to mind when they think of innovation today--it was free to join Twitter, say, and as an early adopter you didn't own something with less features than later adopters--instead you potentially had a first mover advantage, the ability to achieving a critical mass of followers in a way that latecomers might find harder. You paid in attention, a pretty cheap coin, which nevertheless does little to stop the whining when a service disappears after an acquihire.

What's remarkable to someone who isn't in their 20s is that anyone would, well, remark on the fact that cutting edge technology that is actually built and manufactured in the real world would follow this path.

If wearables do become an important tech trend, and unless they rapidly follow the very unusual path that smartphones took (arguably the most rapidly adopted technology in human history), pricing could be very different from what people have come to associate with innovation.
It did get Google into Forbes ...
Using Rhinoslider with image and youtube content in JSF pages
For Scala:

. Scalatra

. Play + Akka
Left 4 Dead 2 Linux Beta is Now Available
3.4, early next year http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429
this is interesting research but describing it as "a neurochemical amplifier of entrepreneurial behavior" is both premature & absurdly reductive - the equivalent of people referring to oxytocin as "the love hormone". and I don't see a solid ADD/ADHD connection
Entrepreneurship and The Prairie Fire
Ask HN:I asked it on Quora, will HN help?
In theory, you're right. However, in reality, the sort of people who whine about paying $20 or less for a bundled copy of Windows are generally not in the market for PCs that have a viable profit margin. This is one of the things that kills would-be Linux companies (though here are others).

You're welcome to point me to the evidence for a large group of open source enthusiasts shopping for high-margin laptops.
Working Alone, Together
Go with Gorilla Mux.

I use a Rails-ish directory structure {controllers,models,helpers,server,views} and can be knocking out the first skeleton pages and APIs in minutes.

I don't think Go needs a framework to be a really good fast web app language/environment.

If anyone is interested in a sample app I might knock one up just so that people can clone it and get started. There wouldn't be much to it, as I'm consumed by other work, but maybe people want such an example.
Unfortunately, in market-driven cases like this the decisions are being made by the middle of the bell curve. And we know what that means:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-po...
Decent enough article, but whenever talking about Bitcoins I find it helpful to separate the various roles that money performs. That is, Bitcoin is an awesome medium of exchange, a risky store of value, and a horrible medium of account. Just use it for what it's good for and everything's fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_of_exchange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_of_value

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_account
FLask is my go-to choice as well, the one I write before the write (that was never written so far).
So, even if I hate MS and did not use their product, I still need to pay to support MS to be even more evil next time.
* You're in an interview and they don't have it.
I hope this demo doesn't send any data back to a server, or else, Hello FBI.
You know what? You're absolutely right. I went down a little wormhole of McArdle-vs-Other-People link following, watched 12(!) minutes of her and Dean Baker going at it on video about whether the fed can reasonably call asset bubbles, and lost my place; I had a different McArdle post in my other window when I wrote this.

The irony is, I was particularly poorly served by the advice I offered here, since skipping straight to Yglesias totally screwed me up.

Sorry about that.
The intro narrative is a perfect example for why humanity needs a new model on the most fundamental level. It's an issue on par with the atrocity of slavery, one human owning another, their ancestors, and their off-spring; and is actually a holdover from that dark, sadistic, and unrestrained psychotic age of humanity.

Inheritance; it needs to die and die fast and hard. The guaranteed success simply through birth is a disgusting human perversion well represented by monarchies and aristocracies of old and new all around the world.

A child born to a wealthy person is already going to be so advantaged over those who simply weren't lucky enough to have come out of the right vagina and a product of the right sperm; there is zero justification for their inheritance of anything on top of it.

If anything, those who are the offspring of the most wealthy, should be eligible for nothing, while those of the most poor should inherit from their parents tax free.

Mark these words; the economy that works out this model and implements it will surge past all others who don't. It would empower and support all that opportunity cost and monopolistic waste that comes from the current system of oppressing the masses at artificial support for the wealthy.

I realize most won't be able to comprehend the notion, and will reject it as humans so quickly do when they are faced with something that contradicts their understanding of how the world works; but what I suggest is on the scale of impact like moving from serfdom to capitalism, from slavery to equal freedom. It will be the next positive evolution in human history.
we aren't dealing with the age-old failings of human nature -- it's a simple problem some engineer could fix in a day.
For quick prototyping I always use:

- CouchDB (DB with RESTful endpoint)

- Spine.js for logic and rendering (with jade for the templating and stylus as CSS pre-processor, with Foundation 4 as CSS lib). Spine.app can generate new projects the same way django-admin.py does.

I code nearly everything in CoffeeScript. This whole workflow/stack has always me started in no time.
So I love TapBots and I have paid for all of their mobile apps. When you look at their Twitter products, the amount of software they can sell is restricted by Twitters API limit. If you look at the Tweetbot For Mac[1] post it says:

> If you’ve used the Alphas/Betas and have decided not to purchase, please do us a huge favor and Revoke access; that frees up extra tokens for potential customers.

I don't think it's good when you have an awesome development team like TapBots who makes products that are, in My opinion better than Twitter's native clients, and you're capped to 100,000 device installs "just because". I know it's not "just because"; Twitter needs to become a business and generate revenue, but the same companies that helped build the brand and popularity are now punished.

[1] http://tapbots.com/blog/news/tweetbot-mac
You can't just say VPS without mentioning http://buyvm.net/ I'd put up a referral link if I knew how to.

There's of course OVH on its Kimsufi line with full fledged dedicated boxes for as little as 9 Euro a month for good numbers.
Is this basically strikingly?
This behaviour was common in the last Facebook Hacker Cup too. Most of the announcements of rounds starting included discussion of (and in some cases links to) solutions.

I guess it's part and parcel - I think Facebook did take action against obvious plagiarisers. If not, the later rounds will weed out the cheaters in any case.
Dean Baker's Negative Take On Patents In Medicine
Rant much?

I wanted to actually learn something from your post but it reads like a madman wrote it.

I own exactly zero bitcoins, but following the market since 2011 has proven that it is getting easier to use and more prevalent. People will be putting down bitcoin as a serious entity even after PayPal is accepting them.
"Mere exposure" effect. "Social proof". Anything long-loved and popular becomes attractive.
I use virtualenv for all projects, and frequently destroy and recreate virtualenvs. iPython takes a good while to install; doing it over and over again in fresh virtualenvs gets to be a chore, so I tend to do it only when I really need it.

I dunno, is there a better way, maybe installing iPython globally, but rewriting the shebang line to use /usr/bin/env python?
I don't remember the last time I used anything except iPython. I use EC2 a lot, and the first thing I do after firing an instance is install ipython, even if I don't intend to use the instance for python related stuff at all.
Sense of humour failure?

He didn't say he wanted a Linux machine, he said he wanted one without "windows eight preinstalled".

Otherwise, you're free to spend $1,500 on a decent Mac or Windows laptop and install your distro of choice....

Linus uses a Mac laptop, doesn't he?
This wasn't about efficiency for me. When I wrote this, I didn't know OpenGL, but I already knew how to work with UIKit.

I started with processing TMX files and Texture Packer files, just to see if I could get UIKit to load them. Once I had that working, I added virtual controls, basic dialog, and basic game state.
Aside: Why "Indian coders" and not just "Three coders"? Would this have ever been titled "white coders found cheating"? I know this isn't the point of the article, but I wonder if, on HN, we should consider clipping "gratuitous adjectives" in titles that contribute to perpetuating dominant systems.
Whoa, so the Porsche 911 (very appropriate name in the USA!) is Windows.
Blu-ray movie aspect ratio statistics - should you buy an ultra-wide TV set?
BTCFile - Sell Digital Content for Bitcoins
Rules of a Zen Programmer
It's a little late for me as I've just worked my way through the 1500 most common characters using Skritter but I do love this highly graphical approach. Reminds me a bit of the Heisig system (which I haven't actually done myself).

Some of the statements in the text are a little dubious. For example, that you only need 1,000 characters for basic literacy and that with the top 200 characters you can read forty percent of Chinese popular literature.

I've read elsewhere that 1,500 characters is considered the minimum for basic literacy (a university graduate will usually know 3,000 or more). Even if 40 percent of the words in a given book make use of the top 200 characters, that only means you might occasionally recognize the odd character here and there. The meaning of the text will certainly still be utterly incomprehensible.
I like that idea of focusing on quality--I definitely feel like that is something which is lacking on $FB. Although; maybe that's my fault since I'm not training $FB's NLP engine that I don't want to see bad content.

I think the post last week about Path spamming the guys address book[1], although I think it was user error, is not helpful to Path's cause. Like You, I'm interested to see how Path's growth works without $FB.

[1] http://www.branded3.com/blogs/the-antisocial-network-path-te...
>Scaling webhosting while keeping up good customer service is hard

Scaling anything while keeping good customer service is hard. Customer service is a function of product as close to perfect as possible and someone being there when shit hits the fan. With large customer base, the probability of someone hitting a snag/bug goes higher, while adding more customer service representatives is only a linear solution to the people problem.
Is collusion more commonly accepted in some Asian cultures?

I distinctly remember my grad school classes, where even by getting 95% I'd be dead last in the class rankings because all the Chinese/Indian students would get 98/99/100% on their assignments. I didn't really care about it, figuring that their studying habits were much more diligent than mine, until one time I arrived in the classroom 45 minutes early and found out a sizable proportion of them were merrily exchanging answers and copying off of each other. I then learned that it was something they would do pretty much every single time.

(of course, it was not all of them– a few were hard workers who went by the rules. But in all of my classes, the majority of students from those cultures would operate in such a manner).

So I'm wondering– is this purely selection bias, or is collusion just more acceptable in certain cultures? The US (and most of Europe) heavily penalizes it at all levels of education, but I wonder if it's the case everywhere in the world.
Same for me (using mobile Safari)