skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's special about representing rationals in finite memory? By definition they can be represented by two finite integers. There are many ways of describing irrational numbers in finite memory if you allow this kind of generalization, e.g. make a datatype to represent equations and numbers as solution to the equations.
I take it the in-house 'Razor' mentioned in the article has nothing to do with Vipul's Razor (http://razor.sourceforge.net/).

It'd be great if mailgun did a blog post dedicated to what their Razor does and how they built it.
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This looks really promising. Will you ever add support for email?
And there's also the federal tax... which means you are paying about 50+% taxes.
Accessing email through SMS is already widely popular. This is meant to scale for any kind of general data.

However, we are adding a service that will email all of your queries to you at the end of the day.
What was the state of globalisation with respect to arranging businesses to minimise tax at the time of that comment? (Genuine question.)

Would sentiment among the public or pros have changed with the times?
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Same here. We can discuss details over email. Mine is present in my profile.
A few months back a preliminary injunction sought by some dealers in Massachusetts was denied. Sure there'll be a fight, but I think Tesla is going to end up on top.

http://www.teslamotors.com/it_CH/forum/forums/massachusetts-...
I use something similar that I created all the time. Mine connects to the DuckDuckGo API to pull the Zero-click info which is sourced from Wikipedia, Crunchbase, and a bunch of others. I never thought to open source it, but maybe I'll take a few minutes to do that soon.
I was on highway 84. Amazingly, we can do things like this:

http://goo.gl/maps/vC1Cu

The car stopped roughly where the men are standing.

I am always very thankful for people with EMT training. When I climbed Mt. St. Helens last year a man had a medical complication and passed away on the mountain. There were about 20 of us who spent about 45 minutes helping him out until the helicopter arrived.

That experience really solidified for me the importance that we all get some basic medical training. Even something as simple as CPR certification can really save someone's life.

I get a little bit nervous for you cyclists. On the motorbike at least you have thick leather protecting you from road rash. I can imagine that that part can't have been fun.
I do most of my daily productivity work in Windows 7 but I use a couple Linux VMs for all browsing (one more trusted than the other) and for some tools that are just "easier" on Linux
Agreed if he were an average employee, but, (A) he was doing pretty much all the heavy lifting early on - to some degree tumblr v.1 was the creation of Marco, (B) he made it clear he took less money because he could "use whatever keyboard he wanted, and had more than 3' of desk space" and (C) It's not that generous when there are only two people working on a project.

Also - he's a talented developer, and tends to get shit done (as demonstrated via Instapaper, ATP, The Magazine) - and those people command a higher return.

Also - David Karp wasn't a well known entrepreneur back in the day, and Marco came in at the genesis.

5% would have been generous if it had been after a round of funding, but pre Series A/Angel Round, it's what any top level developer should ask for when going into the same situation as Marco. Tumblr might not have existed where it not for him.
Yahoo on the road.
Laziness is not a virtue. If a lazy person could be productive by building smarter tools, imagine what a dedicated, focussed person could do with those same tools. And no, you don't have to be 'lazy' to recognize the value of those tools.

Personal anecdote: I used to be the sort of programmer who would waste all my time surfing the net, and maybe banging out a script once in a blue moon, while congratulating myself on working 'smart'. The end result: a massive backlog of unfinished tasks, and a whole lot of wasted years.

Thing is, working hard and working smart - they aren't mutually exclusive. I found out all too late that when we say 'laziness is a virtue', we actually mean 'efficiency is a virtue'. It's the desire to be efficient at our job that leads to DRY and building productivity-multipliers. Laziness - that just leads to thumb-twiddling.
Is there a link to this kids Ted talk video anywhere?
A few year ago a group called home team worked with the largest home builders and installed tubes in the walls. The idea was that since your home already was built with the tubes you would automatically sign up with home team for your pest control. Even though the tubes weren't as effective as advertised it did create quite a stir in the business. They did eventually sell but not before going from nothing to 100 mega per year in revenue.

I have always grown from being a sales company. I specialize in door to door sales teams (recruiting, training, etc) this can be extremely effective (look no further than blackstone's acquisition of vivant, who built their company going door to door).. I guess what I'm really wondering is if there is something insane that could be done to get customers faster than this method.
Wrong, that isn't what this is. This isn't a nested radical to infinite terms, it's a nested radical to n terms. Thus, it cannot be simplified.
Cool service. However, it's generally bad practice to reveal your API keys.
this was precisely the comment i was going to post and you beat me to it :)
you run the very real risk of having a bunch of comments that mutually agree to the same point being up voted, while the contrarian post or a different opinion is 'shouted down'. Taking the time to distinguish a comment that you disagree with (may be even dislike ) and a comment you think is unproductive to the discussion is our responsibility. I wish we did a better job at it.
The problem with active/young people market is they are very temperamental to ads, if you don't treat your user base like the tumblr founders have, they would have easily changed to another platform with less ads. Sure if yahoo acquires tumblr they gain direct access to this marketbase but if they tarish what tumblr is now, with a bad ad revenue scheme they will very easily lose that market base to something else.
Startup aims to create mobile showers for homeless
Could you elaborate on the HPC elements of what you're doing? I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the simulation/modeling tooling ecosystem (beyond a fuzzy "mix of computational geometry, physics and numerical computing probably happens here" view point).

What are some good starting points for understanding the landscape of such tools?

Context: I'm a few months away from rolling out (from my company, Wellposed) some pretty interesting HPC grade numerical computing products/tools and it seems like the simulation/modelling ecosystem might be one segment that might find my Wellposed tools intriguing.
Wow, any reason I got downvoted for this? I'm not a wireless opponent or something (I'm probably using much more wireless devices in my home than most people), just stating my observation.
Rackspace CDN says this:

"Rackspace uses 213 of Akamai's edge locations, selected especially for our customers' typical usage patterns, and designed to cover all major areas of the globe." http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files/

Akamai has approximately 5 gazillion edge locations, so yes, it is a cut down version. It is still a lot more POPs than just about every other CDN, though this doesn't necessarily translate into performance.
It's basically anecdotal evidence, something that I personally observed with my plant and my USB stick. Is it necessary to have sources for my own observations?
I checked out your link but read something disturbing there: "...during non-work hours, they are expected to respond within 3 hours." This, I think, goes totally against my reason to seek freelance work - work on my own time. I'm sorry but Toptal just looks like another company.
Using the DuckDuckGo api sounds really interesting because Google just shut off it's SMS service. Please send link when possible.

Whit is meant for anyone to scale for access to any kind of data through sms.
The question is probably how close they are to the antennas. In my setup, the USB stick was pasically left on the plants leaves, the plant acted as a scaffold for it. And it maybe I wasn't clear enough - the whole plant didn't die, just the exact spot when the USB stick was touching the leaves.
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This is a pretty common idea, but it's because pure functional programming is, at first, all about getting you to significantly change your programming POV. It's a shift for anyone---in fact, the better you are at understanding C/Ruby/Python/Perl/Java/ObjC/Lua the harder a shift it is.

At the end of the day, you adopt a new way of thinking that is incredibly clarifying for all programming. One simple thing is that it allows you to "see" where state, re-entry, evaluation, IO, and failure are happening in a program---things that you are blind to when you're used to languages where the answer is "always".

This article isn't even meant to explain why you ought to learn Haskell. It's more like a signpost on your path to mastery, should you begin walking it.
Yes, exactly. So far it can only access functions that it can traverse directly by name when passed the name as a string as you suggested.

Local functions as in nested inside another function, or directly assigned to a local variable, or passed as a function argument the lib cannot hook into because there is no way I can address them since I am not in your lexical context and if you pass them to the library you pass only the reference to the function, not a reference to the reference.

In that case I guess it may be possible for the library to hook your code into them only if you pass them to the library and the library returns a new function for you but that is a little too cumbersome.
I find it odd that a freemium model was never considered by Tumblr. It has worked for WordPress.com, which is very similar.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/

http://vip.wordpress.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_my_radical_plan_for_s...
>There are very few things in the world of CS/programming where I can't follow along and grok what's going on, especially when laid out in a tutorial form like this.

That's probably because most of the tutorials you've followed have adopted an imperative style of programming. It is easy for you to follow along because it really isn't all that different from what you are accustomed to. Functional programming really is a different beast entirely. It's often said (though I remain skeptical) that it's actually easier to learn functional programming as a non-programmer than to un-learn your imperative programming tendencies.

>The fact that I was totally lost when reading this is not a good sign when you're trying to get people to adopt your school of thought.

I don't think that's a fair assessment. You could say the same thing about starting from functional programming and switching to imperative; some people actually do this! They find the idea of mutating a variable to be completely counter-intuitive!
Whoops! Should've mentioned that. :-D
I can understand something like a phone number, where each digit is singular and stands apart from the others. If you're saying that about composite numbers (like 'two hundred and thirty nine'), you're the first person I've met claiming that word/number-color synesthesia helps them remember composites/sums.
Yes, agree 100%. Especially with the SSD optimizations (in ML it seems less pronounced, still)

Yes, the 3-finger swipe can be only done if you have an Apple trackpad, either the built-in one or you the separate one (I have one of these and it's nice, having come from a trackball)

Not sure if you can do this with the magic mouse (maybe there's a different way)
An Intuit divison- txtweb already does that.
This is fantastic, I've been wondering how DotCloud made everything work so well. Can't wait to try this for deploying a Django application I work on — hopefully it will solve my dependency headaches.

One nitpick — not a big fan of the recommended installation method (curl get.docker.io | sh -x). Is it really that hard to ask people to download and run the script themselves?
I don't think anybody is saying that there isn't some confidential stuff that you shouldn't blog about. But if most of what you are dealing with is so confidential you can't talk about it (even if you have to redact some details), I agree that that sounds a bit dodgy. Besides, what are the chances that anybody really wants to read about the mundane day to day operational stuff anyway? Unless there's some bit of salacious gossip in there... but us humans get get our fix of salacious gossip from People or Us or somewhere else.

Similarly, if you blog about how you're having problems {growing your userbase|scaling your product|etc.}, it pretty much guarantees that your investors will get scared. "Hey, you're telling the world you're encountering problem P, but your competitors aren't! [it's just because they were smarter than you about that] Why should we trust you with our dollars?"

Feh... your competitors probably are having the same problem, and being more open about things shows that you have the confidence to be open, which - to my way of thinking - inspires more confidence, not less. If people are keeping secrets, I wonder what they're hiding. If they're being open and transparent, I can see what's going on, see what progress they're making, etc.

The guys from PMRobot made a really fascinating post[1] a while back, touching on the whole transparency thing. It inspired us to do the same thing[2], and I have to say, it felt good and I think it's the right thing to do in the long run. Besides, anybody who might want to invest in us, but chooses not to because of a blog post, was an investor we didn't want to begin with (disclaimer: We have no outside investors at this time and aren't seeking any).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540545

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540986
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What would be the reason of the next bubble?
A)Tech Startups
B)Student Loan
C)Energy
D)China
J)Other?
I think what I love most about HN is that PG (and others?) take an active role in trying to steer the tone of the comments in specific directions, and don't try to make it a super democratic site like Reddit where everything about the community is allowed to just grow organically in a hands-off manner.

I see lots of complaints about supposed censorship or excessive moderation or hellbans, and I understand why those things might frustrate people. Really, I do. But it's not like this is the only place on the Internet where people can go to post comments about tech news. The fact that HN isn't trying to be all things to all people, and isn't trying to be as fair as possible to everyone at all times, is actually what I love about it.

I'm glad that there's places like Reddit where everything is community-driven and the maintainers are totally hands-off as to the content of the site, and I frequently enjoy Reddit as well. But I'm also glad that there are places like HN which are actively molded into being a specific kind of site with specific standards of discourse, even if I don't always agree with it. I wish more news sites had such specific visions for content and comments. Not necessarily the same vision, just some vision other than avoiding even the perception of censorship at all costs.
A similar idea was presented at a TED talk by a NASA engineer a while back. He was in charge of planning a nuclear reactor on the moon, and he said he got the idea from a really old book. http://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorensen_thorium_an_alternativ...
Tumblr seems to have toyed with this idea a bit in their paid/premium themes section: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/tagged/premium
Basically yes. Provide something that might be attractive, such as extra or alternative features that you think users would enjoy. Some sites that have great APIs are Flickr, Reddit, and Hacker News (although, I cannot personally recommend HN as I have not dabbled with its API myself - many others have suggested it).
Wordpress is used by people managing professional identities and business related content, Tumblr is predominantly young people wasting time on the internet.
Possibly of interest: the Frink programming language has arbitrary precision math and unit of measurement tracking, and has been around for more than a decade.

http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/index.html
I know there are many out there who has strong opinions about Jeremy Clarkson, because of his strong and politically incorrect expressions. And I'll admit, he says something genuinely disagreeable things at times (if you look beyond the act).

But when it comes to Lamborghini, Clarkson and I are two of the same mind; Lamborghini should be doing exactly things like that. And they should be giving it ridiculous names like that. I actually think The Egoist is a clever touch, it's ridiculous while taking the piss on its customers.

I don't think Lamborghini has lost its mind, it never had one; and that is why it continues to create cars like this. I am mostly pleased to see that Audi hasn't entirely infected it with sensibleness.

(However, if money were no problem, I still wouldn't own a Lamborghini. They are made to look at, not necessarily drive.)
Yes. You lose the ability to perform certain key chords (which happen to be default). Terminals do not distinguish between upper- and lower-case control keys, for example.
There are people who use "they" as singular gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun.
that'd be matlab not mathematica
I often joke that a to-do list should be filtered through the 4 "D" filters: Discard, Delegate, Delay and Do. This is exactly the same as focusing foremost on what's important and urgent (Stephen Covey's time management matrix that everybody knows about). Just flips it around for a lazy man's perspective. :D
I'll try my best. Okay, imagine a bicycle. Question: 'Where' in your mind did that happen? How was it 'oriented'?

Next, imagine a bicycle. Now imagine an orange. Now imagine a vest. Now imagine a bicycle. Question: Was there any sort of "spatial sequence" or alignment thereupon? Try that sequence again, but imagine them along some "orientation" or "position".

Now, imagine a bicycle three meters behind you.

See what I mean? This is exactly how synesthesia happens for me. Most of the time, the "sensation" is just there. Formless, positionless, orientationless, in the "cyberspace" of my consciousness. It's possible to give the synesthesia "orientation" or "position", but most of the time it occurs to me wherever its synesthetic counterpart occurs, usually with the same "position" in my internal operating "cyberspace". This is what I meant earlier when I said something like "when it's there, it's just there, but if it were on my left hand, it would be on my left hand"...

I hope this makes sense for you. If it does not, feel free to ask me whatever will help you understand, or give me directions for how to explain it like I did.
I'd like to help test and even help code this thing. Axw, do you maintain any "does not work" or todo list?
Very interesting idea!, I found this where i could build my own free service on SMS http://txtweb.com
You may also be interested to read his Wikipedia entry [1] as he's quite accomplished for his age. He's been awarded a Thiel Fellowship.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson
When I was in elementary school, it seemed "obvious" to me that nuclear fission based plants were the way that all of the world's electricity should be generated. And that entire cities should be underground, so that the surface could be one big green park/forest thing.

As I grew older, I later learned that the inability to "turn off and on" a nuclear fission power plant is a big problem for jurisdictions (like Ontario) where nuclear power is a major source of power. It's not uncommon for the price of power to turn negative in decentralized power markets during periods of low utilization. (It's easier to pay someone to shut off a coal/hydro/gas reactor than to shut down the reactor and then have it down for weeks before you can turn it back on again.)

Regarding the kid's idea, building things underground is, in and of itself, a tricky task that I'd want well-trained engineers working on. There's the risk of tunnel/shaft collapse causing death. There's also the issue of the water table and figuring out where to build it such that it doesn't contaminate the groundwater. I suspect this'll increase the cost more than he expects.

Then again, I also grew up being taught that CANDU reactors are way safer than most reactors in the US, which use carbon control rods (think giant thick rods of pencil lead that could catch fire), and that nobody in the US builds them simply because of cost reasons. I have no idea whether that reasoning is true or not, though. :/
just as secure as the containers! ;-)
Except that it is a was originally designed as a widows benefit.

It is not about getting what you put in, it is about a safety net for old poor people who have no income, whether or not you agree that we should do that, to me it is clear that is what the goal of SSI clearly is.
If you're in India, Intuit has an app ecosystem built around this idea: http://txtweb.com/
Saved the link in my favorites and there was no "The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow" in the description, in my opinion it should have.
Another good reason to do this is for example the android tag. Most of the top results are Android documentation for basic classes like ASyncTask and Activity. If I could filter out google domains I'd be left with interesting links related to Android.
I live in the East Bay, I pay rent like that. If you consider adding a 30 minute public transportation commute to your life for 6 weeks, the rest will be really easy.
Mozilla Firefox?
Sure thing. I'll probably re-do it in Flask because I looked at the code for the first time since last October and it's way more complicated than it needs to be. There are only a few lines of code, but there are a bunch of cruft files for the Perl framework I was using (Dancer). It'll only take a few minutes to port it though.