skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. Here's a bug report:

If your browser window is narrow, the "Fork Me on GitHub" link overlaps the "Pause" button. (But the overlapping part of the GitHub image is transparent, so it's not immediately obvious why "Pause" doesn't work.)

The page content fits just fine, so it seems silly to make the window larger; there's just this little bug.
No. No no no no no no.

There's nothing wrong with hacks. There's nothing wrong with runtime patching. If you know what you're doing, then you know why you shouldn't do it, and thus you're well equipped to do it anyway.

There IS something wrong with bundling up hacks and runtime patches into a simple user-friendly installer that leads users to believe that they will work and are safe. When the hacks fail (and they will), it happens in ways that leave users confused, frustrated, and blaming us -- the developers of the applications that your hacks crash.

Bug reports from people who use Mobile Substrate are a massive waste of time and user goodwill. They pollute our crash reporting system, they make users think our software is broken, and they result in bad reviews in the app store.

You've just made life more ugly for every ISV that supports Android -- and our users -- after doing the same to us on iOS for years.
That Udacity is behind this initiative makes this much, much more exciting to me (I'm not big on the whole MOOC business, but Udacity is different; it's the Khan Academy of MOOCs). I've found them to hold themselves to a very high standard, and as someone who's been right in the middle of education-based experiments gone wrong, this makes me feel a lot more optimistic about this project.

Still, I'd recommend people at least let it run for a full one or two years before giving it a shot. The second mouse gets the cheese and all that.
Another reason to buy at https://localbitcoins.com/
I'm a collaborator on the project and we're tidying up all these loopholes, but thanks for the heads up. Matts response is "Oops, I’m a designer!".
Some of these could be quite useful for graphics algorithms.
For example: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,2,1,2,1,0,2,3...

Is a pretty amazing simulation of fire with wind (although rotated 90°).

And that 'Glider' one from the other post could work as water on a car wind shield while driving.
Twitter loads a huge (several megabytes of source code, last I checked) blob of JS into every single twitter.com page. Then it loads a bunch of data, including what is basically a custom layout engine for some of their UI widgetry.

So yeah, running twitter uses a ton of memory....
I think the point is that implicating MtGox in a money laundering scheme and showing the possibility of willful negligence on their part will likely be enough to tie them up in a legal process long enough to suffocate the site in terms of finances/operations.
The "handmade enough" argument can be applied to Etsy's more typical products as well. How handmade is a T-Shirt? Does the seller buy pre-made fabric or weave it themselves? Do they spin their yarn and thread or buy in in rolls? Do they forge metal buttons themselves? All of Etsy's products are in some way or another just a combination of other mass produced goods.
"I may not be able to design a car, but I still wouldn't want to have an AMC Gremlin."
Been in that situation, and now I have a solution to allow me to update the list (which I don't want to discuss here). Basically I open a very small potential hole, but plug the much larger hole of wide open ssh port.
PS Tindie will be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. Just look for us in Tindie T-shirts. We'd love to talk with you about your business.
Is there an alternative to viewing websites in a complex, general-purpose browser other than downloading "website" apps to run locally?
Dammit, who the hell changed my title? Read the article, this has a funny/ sad story of how a startup trying to use ethanol to generate electricity using New York's garbage in the 80s ended up getting caught under the light of national media attention, thwarting the entire company. Today, ethanol from trash is a billion dollar business. This article, resonates entrepreneurship. Please change the title back to include that.
Give Shopify a try instead of Esty. You'll never get this nonsense.
Russia Captures US Embassy Worker; CIA's "Dropbox" Gmail Address Revealed
The cost of a similar master's degree at a university like Georgia Tech can run $40,000.

It's not quite the same thing -- watch the video by Charles Isbell on the GT site to hear their differentiation between the "on campus" and online degrees. But it's an amazing value for people who can learn effectively in a MOOC environment and aren't focused on the path into research and academia.

The video is also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihmiLx3Xlk.

[edit: added link to video]
Nope. It's just about mapping JavaScript code back to source files. We'll need to come up with another standard for data.
It's quite possible to run a meaningful startup doing 9-5 hours, without burning yourself doing 80 hour work weeks. Sure, it won't be a billion or a million $ company but it'll be a successful business.
Steve Yegge was in the Navy before going programming, blogging, etc. as well. In fact, the same nuclear Navy where I had my start (though I was programming before I joined).
I also thought that was a very cool line.
New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More
Its worse than that. In many companies, a slick powerpoint presentation weighs far more than thoughtful analysis. I've done the experiment and presented the same recommendations based on the same logic in two ways. The concise email got a 'good idea we should think about that' - the powerpoint three weeks later (same words, nothing in the business had changed) got a 'brilliant work we need to drop everything and do that now'.

These are smart and capable people too. They're just somehow got this deep bias about only pretty powerpoint could be important.
Per capita income in Bali is under $7700, so $26k/person/year is not too shabby. (COGS on shoes are low - the major costs in most apparel retail are marketing and distribution.)

And of course, they can spread their already low fixed cost over multiple distribution channels.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indonesian_provinces_by...
I had a cat who got cancer and died within 9 months after surgery failed to remove the cancer.

As heartbreaking as it is to see your beloved pet die and leave you forever, remember that many more die each day just for occupying space in a pet shelter.

Not pressuring you to go and adopt ten dogs/cats after your dog dies, but keep in mind that cloning is a bit extreme and there are better alternatives out there for having a furry companion.
I've done a ton of studies in microbiology, you don't even need a 101 in biology to see how random and unpredictable life can be. Genetics will not guarantee you are getting the same dog back. Even if you get an exact copy, the experiences the dog gets will change its outcomes, and will make it a different dog.
There's also something called epigenetics (changes in genes throughout your life), it's another reason why twin develop differences after birth.

Losing a pet can be tragic, but don't let grief push you in the wrong direction.
The death of my old cat eventually led me to the adoption of my current cat, who is grateful that I rescued him from off of the streets.
Lego Castle Set #852293 GIANT Chess Set
>there are big corps X developing medical devices, airplanes and space vehicles, public infrastructure, or researching new, game changing technology.

Please let this always be true. I don't want to get into software if it's just gonna be webapps, not that those aren't cool, but I don't know if I like it much.
Ask HN: Have you done a programming boot camp? How'd it turn out?
I've been reading a lot about dev boot camps like http://devbootcamp.com/ and http://www.appacademy.io/ that are designed to rapidly turn you into an entry level developer. There are lots of similar ones that I've found but they all claim that it's possible to teach you enough to interview with after 3 months of intense work.

Has anyone done one of these programs and have any thoughts one way or the other? I'm considering one but it's a serious financial investment for me and I'm skeptical about the risk/reward.
The largest known prime I was refering too was what is known now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number

So given that to know with all certaintity that only upto that value three times would be the only provable maximum value, until a new know prime is found and somebody invents a formular to drop in N and get the Nth prime out without waiting more than few seconds. Currently we can not do that at all, let alone that dream of many, maybe one day in our lifetimes.

I agree, it is a fine proof. I hope to appreciete it more over the following days. Lots to go over.
Thanks. I prefer sftp for my own servers so I don't have to open up another point of access (plus for mounting things like my Android phone [it's rooted and I mount it with ssh to gain access to the live sqlite db in apps I'm working on]).
"After all, technology is social before it is technical."

That is quite possibly one of the stupidest comments I have ever read...
I'm the guy who got removed from Etsy.

I want to start by saying I think Tindie is awesome and that I've known about it for quite some time. There's a reason that I don't sell my products there and it's because I literally do put them together by hand. I don't use a pick and place machine, reflow soldering techniques, or order in batches of 10,000. I build unique instruments for unique people.

I don't mean to draw a comparison between my skills and those of the Haute couture sewers and needlework types or even suggest that we should install some kind of massive institution for overseeing what is and what isn't "hand made," but only to say there is a line and for the most part it's pretty obvious who's on what side.
The signs are telling me I should cash out my bitcoins and get an online MSCS!
Regarding the last part In the US, when it comes to banking it's really not about logic but about power. which you wanted elaboration on, the OP is essentially referring to the fact that power is king (well one of the kings anyway) and in order to have power, one of the easiest ways to do it is through controlling the debt - after all if you can control the debt you can control everything - this is highlighted perfectly when there is any form of conflict between nations as, the true value from conflicts isn't who wins or loses but rather the debt it creates.
The world is finite, so every drawing eventually loops.

However, the state space is something like k * 2^18 * n^(2^18), where k is the number of states and n the number of symbols. For the default (4, 3) this is 3.125 * 10^125080, so you could be waiting for a while :)
I recently switched from Opera to FF (beta channel) because Opera now working on webkit based browser and the current Presto-browser doesn't get any dev love beside security updates.
One thing I noticed is the really slow start up time of FF and high memory consumption. Also I have the feeling it gets worse over time because when I start a new profile (even with the same addons) FF feels suddenly much more responsive, starts faster and so on.
I hope this stuff can help them improve those issues.
[video] Commander of International Space Station makes a music video
I've been using expandrive for the past year (and just upgraded to v3) and the sftp support is the fastest that I've tried. It caches what the directory structure looks like so browsing is quick. Opening and saving files takes about 1-2 seconds on average. Sometimes directories will get stale if I create something on the server, but hitting F5 or refreshing the directory fixes it pretty quickly.

I use it with ST2 for my editor, directly saving onto my remote dev box, and it works fairly well. My biggest hangup is actually with ST2 - I can't individually refresh project sub-directories, only the main one, and saving files in ST2 is a blocking operation -- can't do anything else, and when a save takes a couple of seconds, it can get frustrating. I've tried the SFTP plugin for ST2 and I still prefer this route.
An Interview with the World's Happiest Man
As a musician when I purchase a synthesizer, I am buying the circuit. The enclosure/build quality/etc is secondary, though obviously an important consideration.

If someone tells me I am buying a "handmade synthesizer" in addition to it being largely assembled by hand I would assume it contains a novel circuit design (as in, not an exact copy of someone else's design) unless I was explicitly told otherwise. In this case I would consider it to be "from a kit" in that he's taken a freely available plan and done the equivalent of assembling a kit for it.

Between the fact that the design is not novel, and the fact that it's not clear precisely how much of the actual assembly he is doing I think it's fair for Etsy to raise the issue.

I think you might be misunderstanding what the issue is. It's not that he's charging too much for his services or something - the amount of work he puts into it is irrelevant. I could spend quite a lot of time tracking down obscure/rare records from the past 10 years; travelling the country, digging in record shops, etc. That doesn't mean it would be appropriate to sell them on Etsy - it's not Ebay.

Personally I'm ok with such things being on Etsy. As long as it's labelled as an assembled kit or from someone else's design. I would even consider purchasing it. I don't think it's quite clear cut though and I think Etsy should be allowed leeway in deciding what they think is appropriate for their marketplace.
Haha, cool. There's another similar issue (which your team may already be aware of) that I'd be happy to point out less-publicly if you want to send me an email. Anyway, nice project!
Translation: other people thought Mexico was a high risk area from 2000 to 2009, but HSBC rated it "Standard Risk" from 2006 to 2009.

What about this strikes you as intentionally criminal activity?
Are you trying to sound like an idiot?

No, but YOU are succeeding.

And he would be correct to do so

Bingo! There you go, sounding like an idiot and proving my point.

Getting something into the shop for people to buy is deployment. Deployment is how science started. Look up Archimedes, because he was the guy who started math and physics, building siege engines to defeat the Roman navy. Oh yeah, and medicine and biology started with Imhotep and also the Sassanid hospital system.

This crap ideology you are pushing only came about relatively recently, and I don't remember anyone asking the taxpayers about it.

Something that only exists on paper is no good to anyone, especially since it hasn't been tested so it is not known what it's true costs are and whether the assumptions behind it are even valid. The only reason for pure theory to even be allowed to exist is because it might lead to application in future, but science has become so corrupt that the dominating majority of the "scientific" output is stupid theory, and actual application gets no respect at all, or as you say "is not the job of academia".

The corruption has gone even further, because there used to be a division between scientific fields and engineering fields, where engineering specifically meant application. But now you can get the same "That's not SCIENCE" bullshit from Professors even if you're in the engineering department.

I'll give you one of many concrete examples. Design for manufacture for antennas could really help improve wireless internet, if you could get handset antennas to narrowcast data instead of broadcasting it, thereby avoiding interference. Try pitching that to a Professor and you'll get shot down.

Next, try AI-based packet scheduling and collision prediction for wireless handsets. The topic is a complete fraud, because you have no idea when the other handset is going to transmit without knowing the future. But you can get lots of Greek squiggles out of that topic, so you'll get greenlighted.

and often times the top level academics

So if there's a problem with academics it's because they're not top level academics, and somehow only the tiny percentage who are top level count...
You love your No True Scotsman fallacies, don't you?
I love the optimism inherent in this reply. But when you read about this type of behavior http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary , you realize that the tech world has a long way to go. I've seen too many people who just don't seem to care about, well, other people. We have become a selfish, entitled lot, and these kinds of developments tend to result in people going to the barricades.

Twitter negotiated to pay less than its share of the employee tax in SF. More and more startups are doing the same. Yet those shuttle buses run on city streets, park at city bus stops, and pay no additional fees to do so.

Many people here won't stay, won't volunteer in the community, won't get involved with the city and fight for better Muni and safer streets. Donations at charities are way down. Newly minted millionaires aren't donating to the arts or to charity, they're throwing lavish parties and buying over priced real estate. With people like Peter Thiel insisting that Libertarianism is the way all tech people should believe, precious few actually seem to get that we are all interconnected, and that a social safety net makes the world a better, safer place.

When I made my first money in this town, and it wasn't a lot, but it was enough to change my life, I wept, because I knew at its heart it was violently unfair that I should be safe and the people on the street not. I haven't stopped feeling that way. I hope you don't, either. It was nice to see someone actually care.

I hope that everyone here can show as much faith and heart as you do and insist on voting for taxes, policies, and politicians who will work to change things, for real.
Is there a public API for change notification in Dropbox? Last time I checked there isn't one.
Jurisdiction allowing^, a bitcoin gambling website would be a fantastic way of laundering your bitcoins. Just start using your undeclared money to play at your own casino. The house always wins, so slowly but surely that dark money will become your legitimate income.

Do it right and you might actually even turn your casino into a legitimate source of income itself.

^ I'm not sure where this would be legal. Not the US clearly.
here's my contribution: the machine

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,3,3...
Show HN: How to speed up your site with ngx_pagespeed and Amazon CloudFront
Will Yahoo return to its portal roots?
One of the reasons things are probably better for you is that you take a shuttle no doubt, and are isolated from the day to day reality of life here. True? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
Good move. I'd love to see tindie get more exposure.

The last time I bought "maker" electronics from someone it involved finding a years-old forum post via Google and arranging the sale via email + paypal.
I used to manage community and email users (people that have signed up but may or may not be active) and we were very careful about emailing people. I didn't do it very frequently.

However, I don't believe it is a bad idea. People like Max fall into the group that isn't engaged and provides no value to the company. A good strategy can be: email him repeatedly until he either engages properly or unsubscribes. I don't understand why he doesn't unsubscribe if it is bothering him so much.

We didn't do it because it didn't align with our branding but I don't think it's such a bad thing.

Facebook actually emails me like crazy to add more friends on my new test accounts.
I organize projects on multiple virtual desktops -- I usually have 3-5 personal software/electronic projects going at a time, and I switch between them throughout the week depending on what I feel like focusing on. Add to that 1-2 work work projects, and I'll have between 4-7 activate project desktops at any time.

I do most of my project research and documentation lookup in the browser, which means I might have anywhere from 10-30 tabs of pertinent information corresponding to each project on each virtual desktop, across multiple browser windows.

This is just convenient for me; I never have to swap in application/desktop state, because all my information, files, IDEs, etc are right there, exactly the way that I left them.

That comes out to 210 tabs at the absolute maximum; right now I seem to have around 100 Chrome tab process running. Fortunately, RAM is cheap these days.
As an undergraduate georgia tech cs student. I wish this was for undergrad degrees also. At least I will be able to get a cheap masters degree.
The Closure Guide I Would've Wanted
Yup:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta
Go Kart: Rails style development with golang (Rake, sprockets, etc. and go)
There's no reason to assume that this is the only charitable cause to which Larry is contributing. This is just the one he's talking about.
I don't think it is. Just like I don't think it's required to give it up to protect the internet.
Show HN: NoList, a To-Do List that is not a list.
"Why do I feel this way?"

Might not be the age, but the general mystery, undiscovered value and permanent loss of human history.

I mean, yes we tear down and rebuild buildings all the time, but no one is re-building these temples. Once it's gone no one is even thinking about building such a structure again because what purpose would it have? We barely even know the original function of a lot of ancient sites.

This is why I think there's more of an emotional reaction to ancient sites being destroyed, it's an unrecoverable piece of history that possibly hasn't even been fully understood.

It's a loss that can not be restored or studied further.

At the end of the day we don't really know how much value was lost, what was overlooked when the site was first discovered, etc.

That's how I feel anyway. :P
true value from conflicts isn't who wins or loses but rather the debt it creates.

Would you expand on this (possibly with examples)?
I think that sentence is perfect as-is. Which part do you disagree with?

First of all, pre-civilized humans (and especially our pre-human ancestors) were highly dependent on intelligence for acquiring food, and staying warm and dry. The part before the comma is obviously true.

Second of all, modern humans in civilization do not usually require intelligence to eat and stay warm and dry, just like we don't require strength. Many humans do well because of inheritance, or because of familial support (this one was available to pre-civilized humans too), and some modern humans benefit from society-level support (admittedly a minority). And many many humans need only minimal intelligence to contribute to their economy enough to buy food and shelter.

The only tricky part is arguing that intelligence helps us function today. For some people it helps, for some people it seems to hurt. Was that your complaint?
Sorry to challenge your inept logical fallacy wankery, but a lack of strength does directly cause a lower quality of life. Capability and independence are vital to happiness. And yes, strength can be improved and maintained right up until death if you work at it.
Interestingly, that's quite similar to cookingrobot's.

[ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709406 ]
Which is a very valid reason.
"it's probably a lot harder to become successful and wealthy than here"

One thing that is often forgotten is that in Europe it's generally much easier (or less burdening) to become successful in something that doesn't necessarily make a lot of money in the beginning or ever. It can also be a lot easier to feel rich. If you make three times the average income on consulting, you can pretty much take half the year of and still increase your living standard quite a bit if you wanted to.
Lincoln's Axe and Making Good Software