skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, OP and creator here.

Motivation for this small app grew up as I became frustrated of reading music blogs in my RSS reader. I just want a stream of fresh music and bands to discover, but instead of that, Reader-ish experiences put me in front of series of individual articles where text took over music's throne, and where actually listening to music requires constant clicking and fumbling with players.

Then I discovered http://hypem.com , which is great but didn't feel right either (to my eyes: maybe too much categorization, bubbling me too much into what I already like, and a bit on the heavy side), so I built my own dumbed-down version, which doesn't try to be smart, is limited to throwing up one YouTube playlist per day, and embraces randomness (well, within the limits set by the sources choice).

I'm extremely pleased with the results, measured by the dozens of artists I've already discovered in a few weeks of usage. Because instead of being scared of 100+ unread items in my 'Music' Google Reader folder, I now just open DG and discover what chance decided would come next.

I'm posting it here hoping it will also be useful to a few HNers :)

- Feedback welcome.

- For the braves who will peek at the code: beware, this is my first GAE app, and my second Python program altogether. So please don't throw too much pointy stuff at my ugly code, but gentle suggestions and patches are very welcome.
If it was just a MtGox only issue, then bitcoins on MtGox ought to be at a premium compared to the other exchanges. But if you look at http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ it seems like MtGox is perfectly in line with the other markets - within half a dollar of Bitstamp and actually cheaper than BitBox etc.
Some sources of more information, for those interested:

Summary of the mechanisms behind hypoxia (site also includes data sets and other information): http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/Overview/

NOAA Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Watch: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/hypoxia/

Interactive map of eutropic and hypoxic zones worldwide, w/ data set from 2011: http://www.wri.org/project/eutrophication/map
We use AIM.
It's the market threatening to reject these terms. That's different from actual rejection.

What we have is a vocal minority responding clearly and unambiguously. The size of such a group, minority or otherwise, will not ever be known, since Microsoft has not sold anything to anyone yet.
I considered verbal communication as the most secure! I'm curious what would be considered more secure. The only method more secure that I can think of is sign language, but that doesn't translate electronically.
Yeah there are a lot of different ones. I'm asking for grecy's opinion. Anyway if you want my "answer", I think we shouldn't do it. Tyranny can be much more efficient than democracy but that doesn't mean it's reliable. Same with socialized healthcare. Corruption is too easy and too damaging to gamble with.
I just don't see where the correlation between sociopathy and crime comes from.
This is exactly what I need. Car Keys are now found!
> Why on earth would anyone think tying healthcare to your employer is a good idea?

No one did. Employer-provided healthcare (and other perks) came into vogue during the wage freezes during World War II as a way to attract employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United...
How do I download your app so I can read the text better?
We also use Prosody and like it. For us it's been very close to an "it just works" solution.
You gotta play the game to win but you do not necessarily have to like it.
What is "trendy" about that? I don't see a single buzzword and the meaning is very clear to me.
HTTP Archive + BigQuery = Web Performance Answers
And if you're on last-ditch antibiotics then a certain level of risk or harm will be acceptable anyway.
In the song "Subdivisions", Rush refers to suburbs -- or was it suburban high schools -- as "the mass production zone". Regardless of what they meant, I think that phrase is apt for public schools in general. Mass production works best when the raw materials and the processes are homogeneous across all units. Needless to say, talking about schools and children this way is dehumanizing. But when we look at it this way, is it any wonder that public schools stumble with accommodating children with disabilities? I have no idea what to do about it; just rambling about a possible reason why the problem exists.
I don't think incentives should be created and awarded to developers of open source work. That will only attract more of the type of coder you don't want developing open source code, causing a reduction in quality.

People work on open source projects because they are driven and motivated by the challenge of creating great software that lasts, the mastery they develop while doing it, and the fulfillment and satisfaction of making a contribution to the community of fellow hackers.
I misplace my keys all the time. This looks like it will be a perfect solution for me! Can't wait!
Kill your computer, why the luddites were right.
An independent musician who leverages the Internet to their advantage, questions the affects of technology on society - and questions whether we'd be better off without it.
It used to be pretty natural for me to use this in product announcements (along with other catchy words: 'innovative', 'game-changing', 'amazing', etc...). "Why not, I think it's beautiful, so will everybody else!!"

My manager taught me that it was far, far better for my users to discover the beauty themselves. "Under promise, over deliver." Let the user get excited about the functionality - the most beautiful or easy to use products don't need to list 'beauty' as a feature.
GPU based hair: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsfGWN
I think the story is, he got paid $37 per hour for 12 hours of work. Not bad at all. So without telling anyone, he made $440. After telling journalists, with just a small pitch as in the photo, not one journalist installed it. I believe his goal was to test the two theories. 1 was to have a "brand story" 2 was to have a short little description. 2 didn't work. He has yet to test 1.
I agree with this. 80% I think is a bit of an overestimate. Especially since the design discipline is so multi-pronged.

I agree with the earlier poster also that talent can also play a role. However that is somewhat rare and even in that case requires experience to truly master.
HN is not open source. It may have been at one time, but that ship has long sailed. We have no idea what code may have been changed, and how things are weighted differently. Presumably, there's a reason Paul no longer wants it to be open source.
I use Goodwill for this. I take things there when I don't need them anymore, and I go there looking for things I do need. Sometimes it feels like I'm just renting from them, when I donate something there, buy it later, then donate it again when I no longer need it.
A Nation of Wimps
You say that it isn't logical, but logic isn't your argument it's an argument of basic human rights (which I tend to agree with you on).

To play the devils advocate, linking health care to your job means that productive citizens are being taken care of. This fosters a "survival of the fittest" situation.

That isn't really how it plays out, but I think that's the allure to many of us Americans. I've spoken with others who who believe that you must work to earn certain things, such as health care. It is often toted that people who are obese, smoke, do drugs, and participate in other health risks are more likely to be on government aid than those who "earn" it. They use this fear of being taken advantage of to fuel a desire a knee-jerk reaction to health care.

Yet there are valid concerns. Especially with the migration of such an entrenched system.

If the US government is going to take on Health Care that money needs to come from funds already in the budget. The US government is poised on the edge of failure, the only thing keeping us going is a mass faith in the ability of the government to pay back it's loans, and thus receive more.

Also this points to a bigger break in the system. US Agencies (I can't speak to foreign agencies) incentivise the spending of your whole budget. If you don't spend it all then obviously you don't need it all. This creates a mad spending rush at the end of the fiscal year and an atmosphere where you have not only the right but the obligation to spend your budget.

I think a lot of people are intimidated by the concept of introducing another burden to the US budget when we are already incentivising the wrong thing.

I think if we could cut back the budget in other areas, this would make it possible to introduce a true health program.

I'm only touching on a few reasons why this isn't being done immediately. I do think that our defense budget is outlandish and could be put directly towards health care, but that is a huge transition in the work force. That is soldiers to medicare specialists. That sort of transition will take time.
Speak for yourself.

I'll often read the comments briefly first before deciding if I want to read an article.
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IBM's SameTime (part of Lotus Notes).
Indeed, MtGox is trading about 5% higher than other USD exchanges right now.

There is a (small?) risk that this could be a sign of bigger trouble to come. I don't know if I'd be comfortable leaving USD funds in MtGox right now. Maybe that's a risk others are willing to take.
Thanks; I think you put it better than I did. ;)
The mythical man-month in action!
Flowdock, it's great.
If you want my answer, I think your opinion is ignorant and ignores basic fact in favour of ideology for ideology's sake. Unless of course you also support disbanding the entire US Armed Forces (you know, those guys with guns and stuff that can literally destroy anything that we've socialized?), your stance is hypocritical.

You are the epitome of the exact thing that you fear, and you don't even seem to realize it.
To abuse an old quote, "AI" doesn't exist in the same way a 747 isn't a giant mechanical eagle.

All the "AI" tasks above are hyper-localizing things that interact with the world, but they aren't entirely integratable into something coherent. (Something we now have to call AGI because the fad establishment has cooped the term AI for lesser purposes.)

I find it slightly intriguing that a gatekeeper into the World of Funding™ is directly observing a disconnect between quick burn fads and long term usefulness. Will there be new offshoot Long Game funds? Software-based long-term problems these days don't take gargantuan funding, but people need enough to quit their job and live off of while working towards the future. These Long Game problems are especially pernicious because sometimes your first payoff isn't for years down the line. In today's Fundapalooza Party Round Frat Bro Extravaganza® land, you need users, customers, and sales within the first two weeks or you're dead in the water.

I'd rather see a pie in the sky fund where, if you can convince the gate keepers you have a chance at changing the world in the next 3-7 years, your team gets $500k per person up front to pursue your goals. That may sound like a lot for up-front nothingness, but we're living in an age of cash hoarding immortal corporations. Apple could create a $20 billion fund, get 40,000 people working on change-the-fucking-world problems, and not even feel the loss of cash under their kilometer-sized tempurpedic mattress.

Are we better than buskers? Do we have to be starving artists until we make it big or should we be taken care of and coddled while we work in minimalism? The only problem stopping Them[1] from funding every person with a plausible but at-first-glance crazy idea[2] is the problem of selecting the right people, not lack of funding in the world.

The only way to make those goals happen yourself these days is to first do a fast-fad application, sell it, then use that as your base of funding. That has a long and uncertain cycle time though and you can end up overcapitalized and distracted (let's all buy teslas and $1000 jeans and $20,000 road bikes!) unless you pull a Musker[3].

Let's give crazy a chance.

[1]: You know, Them. Them people with money.

[2]: Free energy need not apply.

[3]: Pulling a Musker is very different from starting out with nothing though. You've got tons of connected, capable, and rich people in-the-know connections by then, so "losing it all" isn't as special as it seems.
Don't forget that Instagram wanted to achieve this goal by no longer permitting Twitter to display their images, only a link to their images.
Ok, now the anecdotal data score is 2 to 5.
IH;CP - I'm Hungry; Cheeseburger Please
Private Jabber/XMPP server.
Pushing moral boundaries
At Mashape, we use Flowdock
Come Code with Me
Volvo's new self parking car
Thanks for sharing this. I've been obsessing over so many new fancy effects using javascript and fancy CSS3 styling and getting held up about the technology, but you reminded me why I ever got into programming / web development in the first place. To share things with people all over the world. As a kid growing up on a tiny island that was a huge deal for me when I first started. I think some of the magic got lost over the years as I I focused more and more on the technical aspects but you've reminded me that sharing is important and the tech is just "syntactic sugar"
It's the anti qz.com.
Now fishermen will suffer so farmers can pull a profit. It's kind of the most simple form of unfairness. The kind that small children easily identify and question.
I really like this idea. I agree there's a big activation energy to getting rid of stuff. Often I have things that are for specific tasks or activities, where it wouldn't make sense to donate them to Goodwill. Having something like this would help, because you would know it would get used, but you don't have to figure out where to send it. At the receiving point, you could even coordinate with different charities - like the ones that want eyeglasses or old cell phones. So, some could get sold and some could get donated.

I didn't know about the Amazon trade-in program. That sounds great for books and games.
> created: 741 days ago

That’s one short decade!
I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.
Also, it's weird how short-term thinking has infected the government.

That's what we get for 40 years of culture war. One thing Peter thiel mentioned when I saw him a year or so ago which made a deep impression on me was that while he's a libertarian he has no desire to 'drown government in the bathtub' like ideologues such as Grover Norquist. Rather, he'd like an approach to governance that was a bit less procedural and a bit more accountable while still being capable of taking on big projects, citing the Eisenhower administration and Vannevar Bush (no relation) as his models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
Warmed-over Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen.
If you live in so cal, LA Kitchen is launching soon. It is a non profit to help the community through food. I'm sure any tech help they can get would be appreciated

http://www.lakitchen.org/

[disclosure - I'm on their volunteer list]
For some, not all, it will matter that Twitter will still not integrate this into their site/apps. Twitter owns Vine, so there is likely little or no incentive for them to also support Instagram.
Just because people say that 95% of the candidates could not solve does not mean it was actually 95%.

The other thing to consider is how many candidates have they actually interviewed to arrive at that stat?
I'm assuming you secure the image URL with HTTPS at least to minimize the chances that an ISP could intercept it on the wire?
What A Straight Forward, Non-Jargony Term Sheet From A VC Looks Like
There's still a lot of interest and development in concrete and material science for building stuff, it's just there's not a lot of big, easy, sleazy, vaporous paydays like we see in the software startup community. (How many people understand the advantages of additives or basalt rebar in certain applications?)
You can 'just leave' pseudonymous communities because their aggregated judgment doesn't follow you to the next one. But if one's real identity is flagged as "(likely) sociopath" on a Real Name service, how does one 'just leave' that determination behind?

Are search engines and archives going to all willingly 'forget' that data when you 'just leave' Facebook? Are they going to not aggregate and correlate it to any new service you join?

This is one of the huge points of criticism of Real-Name-required services: a person can never escape an unjust judgment of such communities, due the long memory of the internet.
Rising stars of New York City
This always seemed so overhyped to me. I did hundreds of interviews at Google and I never once asked anyone a question anything like the ones described. It was generally stuff like "oh hey, you're going to do deep work on our unix systems? What is the difference between kill and kill -15?" We also didn't care about GPA. This all seems like super old information if it was ever true at all.
Singapore tells residents to stay indoors – smoke from Indonesian forest fire
Exodus International shuts down. Leader apologizes.
Socialized health care might work in Canada (pop. 34.48 million) or Australia (pop. 22.32 million), but it will never work in the US (pop. 313.9 million). It's way too expensive. US federal spending for both Medicare/Medicaid is already 23% (Social Security is 22%) of the federal budget in 2012. You want to add another unfunded entitlement program that will cost tax payers $4-$6 trillion?

Here's a little fun fact: Canada and Australia's GDP COMBINED won't be enough to pay for Obamacare.

"How Obamacare Will Further Explode the Deficit"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/06/16/how-obam...

"CBO: Obamacare to Cost $1.930 Trillion, Leave 30 Million Uninsured"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbo-obamacare-cost-1930-...
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. "The Mythical Man-Month".
Google finds brainteasers and GPA useless
Python in Excel [video]
It would be interesting to see how difficult it would be to have micro-cd drives, where a disc had a housing, just like an old floppy; but about the sized of an SD card... Super cheap, super dense, and ideally protected better than current CDs...
God says...

25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to
him to wife.

25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and
said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.

25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five
damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers
of David, and became his wife.

25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of
them his wives.

25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti
the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David
hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? 26:2
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the
wilderness of Ziph.

----

A.B.I.

Faulty

ZIP

ZIF?
Hm, interesting. I was referring to the old news.arc it seems, I didn't realize times had changed. Thanks.
First time [1] my in-laws saw "the web" they were trying to find information about vacation spots in Brazil but their travel guide was obsolete, I found a web page a student had written up about where the best places to stay and see were in Brazil.

I could almost see the dots connect when they realized that someone they didn't know, in Brazil, had written up a piece of information at some point that they were now seeing and using, and anyone could do that. It was like watching a Pachinko machine pay out a jackpot :-)

[1] It was circa Christmas 1994 since I was trying to explain to them what Java was and why I thought it might have an impact on the world.
REAL words are way stronger and natural than Marketing Buzz.
It made me look - the front page of HN is currently 7.8KB, and this is:

- 1.6% of yahoo.com size (477KB)
- 18.9% of reddit.com size (41.2 KB)
- 23.6% of stackoverflow.com size (33KB)

and

- 108.3% of gmail.com size (7.2KB)
- 520% of google.com size (1.5KB)
- 866.6% of your blog post size (908B)

so this gives some perspective.

edit: the most surprising is gmail.com for me, id have thought they load tons of js in the background. but maybe so does hn?
Spore-Spitting Slime Molds Make Great Computer Hardware
It's an existential threat because our modern society is extremely promiscuous, not insular like the world was in the past. The disappearance of antibiotics would put a serious damper on the current trends of globalisation. It's not an existential threat to the survival of mankind, but it is an existential threat to the survival of our modern society.
The average value of a box of stuff is below the cost of shipping it somewhere, unfortunately.
hah :)

I wonder whether the downvote is because of the C# line.
edited: If I were doing ideology for ideology's sake, I would support disbanding the whole US armed forces. But in capitulation to "fact" I only support getting rid of most of it. I'm not in favor of the military-industrial-congressional complex.

edit2: what does the military have to do with socialism, anyway?
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable

There you go, no need to mess around with auto updates :)
I think people are missing the point here if we're judging Instagram on the grounds of innovation alone. What's exciting about this is that Vine seems to be the only startup that got the formula of "Instagram for video" right, and now we're seeing them being surprise-attacked by a relatively unexpected competitor that has a far bigger user base and launches on Android and iOS at the same time. I don't even think there are that many people interested in crafting short video clips using these apps so I'm personally thrilled how Vine's going to thrive now that the ball's in their court. There's a lot to be learned from this developing story if you're an entrepreneur.
Silicon Valley's Hottest Matchmaker
Phones... and long, agenda-less, ad-hoc meetings.

And sometimes XMPP.
Mir's GPLv3 License Is Now Raising Concerns
Yes, IRS Harassment Blunted The Tea Party Ground Game
Tranquility, the military-grade 2,500GHZ monster that powers Eve Online
Sure, simple text is fine for a blog. But if I'm selling something like a piece of art it's all about the images: large, high-quality images from multiple angles. Pinterest wouldn't be called minimalist, but it does a damn fine job of accomplishing its goals.

Design should help accomplish business (or personal) goals. We run into trouble when we adopt some sort of "minimalism, always, ever, for everything" dogma.
You can make a little bit more money by shipping them to Fulfilled By Amazon and selling them at a higher price with Amazon Prime. It's great for things that people don't buy enough to warrant their trade-in program, and there's the risk of the occasional return, but it gets it all out of your house with really cheap shipping.
Humbug: https://humbughq.com/signup/

Still pretty new, and in closed beta. But it adds an interesting threading/topic model onto the typically chaotic stream of most group chat apps.
Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?