skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also using it with my last.fm data, to send me an email when an artist I already scrobbled releases a new record.

It also triggers an email when I have new artist recommendation based on my scrobbling history.
My wife works for Agriculture Extension in our state, so she is a bit in the know here. She says Greek Yogurt is the only growth dairy has seen in over 20 years. Because of that, everyone is going to (or already has) start making it. As far as being New York centric, I would venture to guess it would be because a lot of the research this is based on, is coming out of Cornell, which is the Land Grant institution in New York (Land Grants run extension).
I'll take that over the wasted hours spent blacklisting idiots, looking up ASNs for ISPs that don't give a shit, filling in abuse forms, maintaining and testing DKIM & ADSP policies, etc. etc. If I want you to have my email address I'll give it to you.
Jealously is always an ugly thing.

The technology sphere is one of the few in the US economy that is still fully functional, dynamic, often fast growing, highly innovative, and wildly profitable. It's also one of the few in which you can still get very wealthy starting from very little, and do it fairly quickly.

The parts of the country mired in perpetual erosion, from Detroit to Baltimore etc, are extremely envious of Silicon Valley. The truth is, Silicon Valley has separated itself off from the collapse that the rest of America has experienced, and it has been able to do so because so much of tech is still a free market. That free market has produced bountiful wealth, and outsized influence that goes with it, while much of the rest of the country has stopped producing new wealth.

There simply are no other fields in which I can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business (AWS, or a dedicated server, and off you go). I need no permission. I need no lawyers. I need no zoning permits. I need no environmental studies. I need no retail space or warehouse. I need no tv spot, newspaper ad, or yellow pages placement. I need no consultants. I need no incorporation to get started. I don't need an army of workers. I don't even need to buy any software. I'm limited only by ... me. Oh and I need a $150 Windows XP machine with notepad and a free copy of WSFTP from 1997 that would run equally well on Windows 95, with a shitty $50 17" LCD monitor - and most of that hardware you can pick up for free from lots of sources.
It's also very easy to look up the user's rough location by asking a server and doing a geoip lookup for the client ip. Much less precise (city-level accuracy), but more privacy-friendly and usually good enough to base location-aware functionality on. Works well as a fallback - which as a dev you need anyway as GPS is often not available, even with the player's permission.
Pull requests are always welcome :)
Why Your leads are costing more in Google adwords than your competitors?
OT: There was a time Zone Defense was called "Illegal Defense"; but even in America it is possible to progress in thinking.
They're in the process of reorganizing the store to do exactly that. Preview is available on Dev/Canary channels: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/05/preview-new-chrome-packaged...
Introduction to HTML5 Canvas
This stuff seems like an excellent reason to go back to Firefox.
I know you think Africa is still largely a charity case but everyone else knows that its the next big growth market that will be easily plundered due to weak political systems and fragmentation.
This is also the overall impression I got from the piece. I found the piece littered with shortcuts and empty, populist statements and arguments.

To me, the article just seemed to like a cheap jab at Silicon Valley and tech firms in general, just to get back at one of their representatives making an unfavourable statement about The Economist.
I'm not sure you can really do this kind of math when it comes to knowledge/creative work. One could argue that the 600 foot round-trip walk (vs a 60 ft walk), which is almost an eighth mile, contributes positively to your health and ability to concentrate by getting the blood flowing and boosting your seratonin and dopamine levels. I.e. the result of taking extra 3 minutes translates into higher $ productivity for the rest of the day.
He might have just bought it from someone.
A modern L'Hopital, if you will.

(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Bernoulli#L.27H.C3.B4pit...)
What!?

People used QR codes?

I'm very surprised (seriously)
The cynic in me says that unless Haskell has a magical "do the right thing in every situation, with automatic full knowledge of your application's business requirements" operator, if there's no specific logic in the code that responds to errors, they're just ignoring them (or else they're building a very bare bones app - any nontrivial piece of software will have potential error conditions out of its control that it has to react to in very specific ways that depend on the app itself).

In which case I could produce an equally "robust" Java program by wrapping everything in a try/catch and not logging anything. Except that in Java, or just about any other language, with a single method call I could obtain that elusive stack trace that OP is sorely missing. Which, in real applications (which, to be fair, I've never been masochistic enough to write in Haskell), I always do, and it significantly improves our ability to track down the remaining unanticipated conditions that our error handling logic hasn't already handled in well defined ways. And that sort of work should consume most of anyone's time spent developing, because the happy path is the easiest piece of the puzzle - engineers handle all code paths, hackers handle the most important ones, and hacks only handle the best case scenarios.

I'm not really getting what Haskell has helped here, apart from making the article more upvote-able.

That said, the presentation slides don't give me even a vague sense what the real thrust of the presentation was, so I'm probably missing the substance. I take issue with this being posted without any additional context, but I'll grant the benefit of the doubt and assume that there may actually have been something worth listening to if we didn't just have the slides to look at.
I've used QT mostly. We use it because all of our code is C++ and so is QT. Also the documentation is among the best I have seen and there are some great books on the topic.
I find it amusing that someone further up[0] believes the exact opposite - "Jobs hero-worship" is still strong here...

I'm sure it depends on the threads you read.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5754440
Why do you talk about cheap software or abandonware, like Windows XP, WSFTP etc, when there are so many truly free (in every meaning of the word) alternatives readily available?

I would argue that for company that is going to be based of of something web-related (since you mentioned AWS), a Linux based work environment would be as productive, if not more productive than Windows 95 (or XP).

I agree with the gist of your comment though, that you can get up and running extremely cheaply. But thanks to the huge efforts and progress in free software, you can even do so without compromising in most areas.
> Would be great if someday they have a system that can propel boats.

There's a company in Germany that is building power kite -style sail systems for cargo ships. They have been running some prototypes successfully.

http://www.skysails.info/english/
works nicely on Nexus 4 in chrome :)
Cash usage is mostly because people feel they are more likely to get cheated by the banks then be robbed (which is probably a pretty fair assessment of risk ;).

I remember in the past making a $6,000 bank transfers by going to the convenience store ATM taking out money and going to the bank ATM. I don't know anywhere else in the world where I would feel safe doing that.

There is also a lot of electronic money usage. Many people carry hundreds of dollars on their rail cards.

Credit cards are considered risky in Japan. My understanding is that chargebacks are not enshrined in law so its not guaranteed and whether it is or not most people presume they will have to pay if their credit card is fraudulently charged.

Convenience store payments are also popular because they are low risk and convenient.
The way I made my money was neither glamorous, or quick. If it weren't for my degrees, I would have never been extended the type of opportunity I took. All in, it took me 12 years to make that money.
What's the value of this post on the front page of HN?
DoIt - a Python task automation tool
Because it was a joke meant to amplify the point that it takes practically nothing to dive in.

Somebody with just basic computing skills (who is not going to understand Linux), able to run Windows XP, can get started right now, learning and building. They can pursue that knowledge to whatever extent they're willing to work for it.

You can literally, as a 19 year old that just knows how to surf and use Windows XP or basic computing, source a junky 2004 era machine for free, fire up notepad, teach yourself to write simple web applications (in whatever language, eg php), leveraging the web for knowledge (or even libraries for books), leverage dirt cheap hosting, and off you go. And yes, there are a lot of ways to go about this, obviously.
Shorts, the RSS reader app
>On a random side note, just picked up a Samsung Chromebook.

Which one: the one with the ARM (the Series 3) or the one with the Celeron (the Series 5)?
Embedded systems vendors are careless according to Metasploit author
I read the IFTTT in the title at first as IFFT and got really excited for a moment.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this. Wow, this guy was really lucky, I guess.

There are probably thousands of blog posts just like this for websites that didn't become popular or mainstream.
> Today, with agency pricing, the average price of an ebook is around $8. Hasn't that benefited consumers?

Thanks to the settlement, Amazon can now [again] charge what it would like and the result was an immediate drop for titles by publishers that settled. Consumers were hurt by Apple and have benefited from the DOJ's case against Apple's business practices.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80961.html

> The settlement approved Thursday requires the publishers not only to kill their contracts with Apple within a week but also to end contracts with any e-book retailers that specifically place restrictions on a retailer’s ability to set prices on e-books. And the settlement also bars the publishers from granting a retailer “most favored nation” status for five years.

And: http://www.mhpbooks.com/amazon-begins-discounting-macmillan-...
What a bizarre and wrong analogy.

Combination locks are locks and are designed to prevent access.

Web servers are online. They provide responses to web clients. There are established methods to control access to what a client can and cannot access.

If it's online, and responding to my client, and not giving a 401 or 403 or etc status code then it's hard to understand why just visiting example.com/example1.jpg example.com/example2.jpg makes someone a federal criminal at risk of years in prison.
The demo video shows the kite autonomously landing to a rig next to the ground station. It uses the engine/turbine propellers to launch and land using electrical power.

Their material says that they launch at wind speeds of 3.5 m/s, which is a light summer day breeze that is hardly noticeable.

It is a common misconception that kites need high winds to fly, the optimal wind speed for most kites is 3-6 m/s.
Doesn't work with my version of chrome (Version 26.0.1410.64 m) either.

Edit: Ooooh, found a button that actually does something. Apparently you have to use the scrollwheel, space or the arrow keys. Just clicking on things doesn't seem to work. Hooray for modern UX design.
well done now fuck off
I really recommend Kotlin. Check out the Kotlin code on my app goo.gl/FdEPw and you will see the difference between Java and Kotlin.
I have a predisposition to RSI. My carpal tunnel was so bad by my late teens/early 20's that one doctor recommended bilateral surgery. Then I:

* Started taking large doses of B12 and B6
* Switched to Dvorak layouts on all my computer keyboards
* Got a good buckling-spring keyboard
* Gave up ballpoints, gel pens, etc. in favor of fountain pens
* Gave up writing looped cursive (the way almost all American children are taught to write in school), learning to instead use Getty-Dubay Cursive Italic hand

Now I'm 30, and have no problems with carpal tunnel despite never having had surgery.
As bad as it may sound, it's remarkable that there are medical teams out there who employ "new" techniques such as 3D printing. It may be an old hat for us, but the medical community has always been a little ...reluctant when it comes to applying new technologies.

I can't imagine the people I went to medical school with considering or even knowing about such a thing, if it hasn't already been well-established. Also, there is an amazing amount of modeling that went into this particular piece. It's not just a matter of printing out a structure, it also has to fit the patient - and in this case it was a fairly complicated shape.
IPv6 address space layout best practices
This is curious, why can it only be entered in hardware? Is it a safety precaution?
I clearly remember that somewhere in 2001 I wrote to postgres (-bugs maybe) mailing list about a problem that we had with one of our server (it's a pity I didn't find the thread on the archives). pg_xlog run out of space due to some problem with WAL files recycling mechanism. I got a reply from Tom almost immediately asking for more details. After a few hours he saved my day sending me a freshly baked patch that solved the problem. amazing. I have a deep respect for him.
The original statement is thus valid.
Someone accidentally buys a full version of Winzip.
What Steve Jobs Taught Me After I Said "No" To Him
I'm going to assume they haven't been committing securities fraud just like I assume Apple has really sold however many million iPads that they claimed.
You need control of the hardware to insure security. Think about what you could do if you run the credit card verification software in a debugger.
Yes, if the pin number is entered into the software running on the phone then that software can easily be changed to log people pin numbers.
I wrote a river of news reader called Android Rivers based on Kotlin - the github code is here http://goo.gl/FdEPw.

The app is available at Google Play http://goo.gl/kShgp (I made a new release today).

Feel free to evaluate the "start up" performance of my app.

My only problem with Kotlin so far is I haven't managed to figure out how to run ProGuard with it to reduce the APK. The Kotlin lib itself is pretty reasonable(less than 500KB).

Edit: add technical profile of Android Rivers

Using SQLite database
High performance XML parsing(RSS 1.0/2.0,ATOM and OPML)
High performance JSON parsing(RiverJs)
Media Service (custom podcast player)
Writing Android Service
Accessing Android Clipboard
Fragments
Implementing Holo theme in Android 2.2 above
Library modules
First class Outliner UI support
Asynchronous operations
Managing file system
Creating custom dialogs
Implementing Sliding Menu
Asynchronous HTTP calls
Integrating Android Java library
Implementing Arabic language support
A Look Inside Tumblr's Architecture
On both Firefox and Chrome on Mac OS X (10.6.8), the water itself flickers quite badly, despite a smooth framerate.
Yep, I'm now also very interested in a Doxie, due to your comment on the OP's article!
NYT dumps a copyright snowfall on startup referencing its work
Commandr: an automatic CLI generator for Python using inspection
Simply Yes, No? Simple questions, simple answers
The 4 Acts For Convincing and Persuading
I assumed it was a deck but couldn't find a way to advance from the first slide.
Waar moet je op letten bij het boeken van een goedkope hotelkamer?
I agree, this is more about quality control which Sony has been enforcing since PS3 as well, which funny enough was also called indie unfriendly for not having a similar system like the XBLA/XBLIG!
Well, publishers still do something - marketing and relationships mostly, I believe - but realistically they don't do anything worthy of that sort of money. It's just difficult to do things without them. I vaguely remember a story about a woman a while back who had just hired a publisher to do marketing for her though, rather than acting as a publisher and taking massive loads of money from it. So, it definitely sounds possible to get around them.

Sort of like the music market, from the sound of it - massive rip-off. But if they're the people who control the majority of the publicity....
I can get on board with a lot of the philosophy in your statements about refining or distilling "member quality". However, it needs to be said that there is a ruler-on-the-knuckles system of punishing opinions that dissent against those of this so-called "elite core" comprising HN, regardless of the correctness or quality of the dissent. And I think it happens with enough frequency and consistency that it has made the "elite core" into an "elitist exclusion zone" that ends up smoothing off the rough granularity of the kind of qualities that make someone an "elite" person. The kind of qualities that HN should be encouraging and helping to refine, if improving themselves and the community is indeed their goal.

Also, I think it's critical to be aware of correlation versus causation in situations like this. What is causing the "refinement of elite persons" that supposedly turns mediocre contributors into better ones on HN? We can say that people who read HN more than once a week will likely have exposure to something that helps them learn and grow, but that is not due to the nature of the other "elite" people on HN. It's due to the nature of the information presented on HN. I become a better programmer because I am exposed to quality information on HN, not because some "elite" member of HN is doing anything to make me a better programmer. This is a very important distinction, because more often than not, it seems that the "elite core" of HN is under the impression that they are improving mediocre contributors (and claiming victory) when in fact it is the content doing the improving.

There is a very interesting link here on HN called "the elves are leaving middle earth -- the soda is no longer free" (or similar) which describes the kind of "scale problem" HN is having. The management of HN itself is undergoing a very similar transition, from one of encouraging the hacker mindset to... something else.

Most importantly, I have often found that the "elite core" is sanding away the sort of rebellious je ne sais qois that makes a person "elite" -- or a "hacker". Please reference my favorite essay of pg's about "the word hacker". There is visible decay and erosion of the principles expressed in that essay in the daily happenings of HN. I have for years thrown that essay around as a cure-all explanation of why I think the way I do, and it seems an opus of irony that the "elite core" of HN would do well to read it and take stock. You should wonder why a "hacker" like myself is burning through throwaway accounts and getting hellbanned for what amounts to the expression of dissenting opinion. As pg said so eloquently so many years ago -- indeed, a different pg altogether -- a hacker "can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm".

My senses are telling me to avoid HN and its "elite core", to the point that I need to weigh the benefits of staying versus the benefits of never coming back. And that is not a good sign for HN.
Near native performance is a very good thing especially in the fields such as game development.

However, it's a pity that Mozilla doesn't address the main problem with the web platform, the lack of good platform and the set of API, something like Java or .NET provides. There are a large number of good javascript applications (Google docs, GMail, etc), which are produced by heroic efforts of the teams who created them. The same effort could have been expended on hundreds more useful software, if JavaScript was replaced by something more adequate.
This is the second coming of Flickr, a rebirth, and I couldn't be more excited. I'm not a power user of Flickr but a fan of what it once was back in the day. It was a real shame to see it be neglected after the acquisition but Marissa Mayer has arisen as it's saviour and beyond that the saviour of Yahoo. For anyone of us it was blatantly obvious how powerful Flickr was and how it could have continued to dominate the photo sharing social scene. For some reason Marissa's many predecessors failed to see this. Honestly, if utilised in the right way, Flickr is a Facebook killer. At the core of Facebook is it's photo sharing service, take that away from them and it's nothing but useless news items from people you wish you could block.
I'm looking at the 'Not Cool Dude' button.
Lane is also the former head maintainer of libjpeg, which means just about any web browser or image editor uses some derivative of his code. That's pretty impressive.
It's been relatively "tabloid" for a couple of years. In fact I go as far to say that the majority of publications (including The Times, the NYT, and other highbrow broadsheets) have gone down this route. Journalism seems to think it's voice is the only voice we should listen too, trouble is, it rarely knows what it's talking about.
My point, to summarise:

authentication != authorisation.

From which it follows:

Two-factor authentication != two-factor authorisation.

The patent does not cover authentication, on my reading.
For small values of money.
On one side there is huge incentive to be social on the web, which paramounts to sharing stuff with others.

On the other side, no one will let you share their content.

If the world were a person, he would be right on track for schizophrenia.
It depends on the style of Java code being written.

There was a period from 1995 until around 2001 or so where much Java code was developed without using IDEs. It was generally simpler, with shallower class hierarchies, and much less emphasis on design patterns. Such code could be easily written, understood and maintained without using extensive IDEs and other tools.

Things changed once Eclipse and other IDEs started to become more widespread, and some people went overboard using design patterns that are impractical to work with without the use of IDEs, or otherwise introducing complexity that just didn't arise earlier.

It's still possible to write the simpler, sensible style of Java code. It's just that most people who lean that way end up using C++, Go, Python, or some other language instead.
Google’s 3D Maps destroys Manhattan
This is exactly what companies were doing in the .com bubble of early 2000's! SMS "games" and services.
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It's not entirely Nintentdo's content though, is it?
"IF YOU'RE an engineer in Silicon Valley, you have no incentive to read The Economist,"

Wow, "unnamed tech entrepreneur", I strongly disagree.

I have yet to find a news source that competes with the Economist. Just reading a single issue cover-to-cover gives you an unparalleled snapshot of what's going on around the world. They aren't afraid to use technical jargon, and are pretty brutal about the assumed knowledge of their readership.

If I were able to touch only a single thing outside the technology "bubble"; the Economist would be my #1 choice.

Disclosure: I have no current, or prior, relationship with the Economist. I have merely benefited enormously and grown a lot as a person using the knowledge that I've gained reading it (or listening to the audio edition) over the past few years.