skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See http://www.tonido.com/ . (Sidenote: tteam posted this; is tteam affiliated with Plug? Is Tonido their previous project?)

What makes it impossible on iPads and iPhones?
Cloud MBaaS and open source MBaaS: What's the difference?
That's been my experience, too. I get much more attention from colleagues and recruiter for my articles, papers and other publications than my HN or Reddit karma. If you want to get your name out there as an expert, you're much better off writing the occasional long form article, chunk of code, paper or conference talk than racking up HN karma in my opinion.
I'm perplexed by this. On HN, karma's purpose is to promote civil discussion. It attempts to do this by providing both positive and negative feedback. If you confuse those points with some universally valuable thing... well, don't.

I will note that I have had many pleasant interactions with people on HN outside of HN itself. Some of these interactions included offers to interview for a position. But this did not happen because of my karma points itself. They happened because of how I conduct myself here.
Think you also need a (map key) there to be equivalent to the C# code. At which point it's starting to look very similar to well written C# code solving the same problem.

Much as I love Clojure, it's worth pointing out that Clojure's lazy sequences (include intermediate sequences) get cached, while LINQ evaluates more like Clojure's reducers. (You can even get it to do so in parallel.)
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El nacimiento de nuevos medios digitales y redes sociales ha cambiado significativamente la manera en que los empresarios utilizan el Email Marketing
I think the article raises some interesting questions:
Can we create a better incentive system for open source software contribution? Why do the rewards have to be imaginary?
In this Q&A, Shah compares open source MBaaS to cloud MBaaS, discusses implementation barriers and shares his insights on usage trends.
This is hilarious. I get the feeling that the guy wasn't feeling it so much, judging by the commentary on the final day.

Anyway, it totally strikes me as a geeky designer thing. Two designers got together, and I think they just wanted to make a pretty website. (BTW, it's Wordpress. Does that make it better or worse?) The experiment was secondary and kind of fell flat, like when I spend six hours designing and building a custom blog platform/template and then only post one or two things on it.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the PyCall library. This provides an incredible amount of interoperability between the two languages.
As we say so often in the Python commmunity, "Try It And See." Do you use cffi and/or ctypes in your code? Have you run your tests against this newer PyPy?
Isn't it an easy solution though? Based on what you've said, companies have likely already done what they can to reduce expenses to what they consider an optimal place.

I'll try an example, although that might not be totally valid (I'm not really up on current tax laws). These are all made-up numbers and rates:
Say you sell a widget for $100, and it costs you $70 to make. Your profit on that is $30, of which let's say you pay $5 in taxes, so let's say you walk away with $25 per widget.

If the government bumps up the taxes by a percentage that makes the tax be $6. As a corporate policy, the easiest way to keep the same returns to investors is to tack on another dollar to the price and sell it for $101. Profit is $31, pay $6 in taxes, still walk away with $25/widget.

Your competitors are in the same boat as you are, regardless of what the tax rate was/is. Theoretically, if they weren't stealing your business at the lower tax rate, they won't steal it any more or less at the higher tax rate.

Sure maybe you consider some other areas to cut costs, but haven't you done that already? I know it's a silly over-simplified example, but if I own a company and I don't want to give back my profit, I raise my prices to compensate, and so do all competitors. The people that lose are the customers.
They've just started publishing:

https://twitter.com/jessicawalsh/status/354987513053585408

https://twitter.com/timothyogoodman/status/35499301902549402...
I used to use a similar method to remove risk from projects. I'd take my hourly estimate, multiple by the percentage I felt I was right, and come up with a total.
No, we actually work on top of CTMS or EDC systems. Basically, there are just so many of these types of systems, that without Comprehend companies have no way to answer questions across them. The abundance of these systems, which you allude to, is a big part of the problem that we solve.
Didn't they break OpenSSL quite significantly?
I'm pretty sure they mean that you have to manually copy and store all your files in the Dropbox folder, where with plug, any file anywhere on your PC gets synced.

I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing, but it's definitely different.
No-one can violate the 4th amendment. The government is only seen to be violating it because they've chosen to interpret it under a different meaning that somehow allows them to collect private user data en-masse.
Not that I'm advocating, but the Fair Tax Plan (US) has a similar notion in terms of a rebate to cover the basic necessities.

But anytime you have a discussion about taking by force from one group to give to another, it gets complicated and heated rather quickly. Well, maybe that's different from culture to culture.
If employees choose their employers freely, what are interviews for?
What do you know, it's my old favorite mirror for linux distros.
To me, this is really cool, since presumably it means the materials have gotten light enough for an electric helicopter to become a reality (beyond the crappy Firefly project). Imagine what it would be like if you could commute from the suburbs of NY to the downtown heliport without paying for fuel or expensive maintenance. It could transform the way people commute to work, eliminating traffic and the effect of accidents.
HIV used to treat deadly genetic diseases in children
What happens if I squander my basic income on something frivolous and I can't get a job? Wouldn't there still need to be social programs to prevent people who fuck up from just starving to death? How would a basic income coexist with current systems of debt?

Could this exist without VAST healthcare reform? What happens when people get (expensively) sick?

Who gets a basic income? Every citizen over 18? Every non dependent? Isn't a basic income for someone with 5 kids fundamentally different than a single person? Wouldn't a basic income even in the same state be vastly different (say Chicago vs Urbana in Illinois)?

This is certainly an interesting idea and I'm interested in people's thoughts on these and other details.
Science is actually a very ridiculously loaded term.
> Doesn't WebGL essentially use root access to your gpu?

Only in badly-designed, non-conformant user agents. :)

The WebGL security issues have, for at least a year, been FUD. The spec is essentially fixed, drivers have become a whole lot better, and browsers have become a whole lot stricter in their validation code. WebGL is not OpenGL nor OpenGL ES.

Examples: while the OpenGL ES spec is silent on buffer overflows, WebGL mandates user agents to signal errors; while OpenGL ES doesn't specify the state of freshly allocated textures, WebGL requires them to be blanked out; WebGL textures can never be from non-origin-clean canvases.
Ah, I was a bit confused. GitHub's kind of in-between being a web-UI for git and simply a storage bin for git repos. If they wanted to add the functionality to pull (fetch and merge) they'd have to implement a lot more functionality to handle conflicts. Have you tried looking at the native GitHub clients? They might provide the functionality you're looking for.
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Except its easy to build RAID enclosures that are USB mass storage devices. Plus, it replicates data across multiple Plugs in different location, and I think the Plug software also shares data on your computer (which can be RAIDed) through your private Plug network as well.
The propaganda of one country can be a useful (because different) filter on the events in another, so long as one doesn't forget that it is propaganda. Particularly useful is when one can find several different such angles and triangulate.
UK To Teach Programming Starting At Age 5
Think how many private business meetings have been conducted over Skype. Anything from board meetings, sensitive HR issues, acquisition or takeover discussions, to new product roadmaps.

Now think about all that corporate espionage material being in the hands of the government.

Think about how much private sexual activity between physically separated partners is conducted over Skype. Anything from a lonely grunt serving in the military trying to get a little private time with his wife back at home, to outright video sex between a prostitute or camgirl (or camboy) with a john (or jane).

Now think about all that blackmail material being in the hands of the government.
The first projection isn't needed, which would eliminate the creation of 10 objects.
Republicans are also openly for reducing burdens (both regulation and taxation) on the wealth producers so they can make more of it and spread it around. Taking half of earners' incomes with one hand and blocking ways to earn more with the other will NOT end well. I'm making a good buck, but at this rate of taxation I'm gonna have to resort to self-sufficiency homesteading with zero taxable income. Remember the goose & golden egg?

Totally not fair to present only the allegedly "bad" parts of a position without the good goals that necessitates it. Opening the paths to hiring more people is quite fairly coupled with telling the capable to stop sitting around collecting checks; if you're going to socialize health care payment, you'll need to stop giving companies reason to not have more than 49 employees.
That's the thing, instead of giving people a universal basic income and distorting the prices we should really keep on striving to make the essentials that people need as cheap as possible.
> If Wal-Mart can't afford to pay an actual wage that a person can live on without government assistance, then they aren't actually running a profitable enterprise.

This is the core flaw in your argument. First of all, it is obviously wrong on the surface (i.e. Wal-Mart reports profits every quarter) and even the argument you actually MEANT to make is wrong (No, it is not intrinsically better for society to have CostCo come in and hiring fewer employees and have more people needing full assistance, vs. WalMart come in and hiring more people needing partial assistance.)
They did - they just waited till the end of their experiment to begin publishing the outcome.
AeroVelo Human-Powered Helicopter Wins Sikorsky Prize
> It could transform the way people commute to work, eliminating traffic and the effect of accidents.

Hopefully, the same people who are causing the accidents in cars won't be able to directly control the helicopter.

A car wreck slowing traffic down to 10% on a freeway is preferable to death looming from the sky because someone really needs to check twitter right now.
As DefCon asks Feds to take “time-out,” Black Hat welcomes NSA chief
Where is the output wave file written? Just loading the "example.lisp" file produces nothing. FWIW, I am using SBCL on OSX Lion.

Since your software is eventually about sound, having an "example.lisp" file that actually writes out a wave file for quick listening and tweaking would make it easier for first-time users to become and remain interested in your work!
Grishin Robotics invests $300,000 in NanoSatisfi, so you too can explore space
When you go to a paintball field, is there a complicated registration process, or is it just understood that paintball is played at this particular place? Whatever legal maneuvers the paintball field's management has to do, DefCon could do.

(I suspect the main objections to indoor paintball will come from the venue. Perhaps a less messy, but still humiliating, method can be used?)
Ask Valve...
I was piecing something like this together on my own with a laptop and a pile of external hard drives, when I found my desk overrun by the little things. They were too fragile and didn't stack well. I started looking around for a shelf to hold external hard drives and do cable routing, when it hit me "oh yeah, that's called a desktop computer." So I bought a nice computer case and a relatively inexpensive motherboard/CPU combo and filled it with disks. Way sturdier, and much faster. I'm not sure at all what I was thinking before with that USB idea.

Using external hard drives as a semi-permanent storage array is not a good solution. For an appliance, Drobo/Synology has the right idea here, and I think this group is making a mistake by expecting people to build a disk array out of a hub and USB drives.
I'll count myself grateful because the vegetarians I know are so chill :-)

And I now have a scary mental image of a rabid rabbit-vegetarian chimera defending a vegi-patch with it's teeth bared. Yep - definitely grateful that I don't know anybody like that :-)
UPNP can be handled by existing Linux UPNP software.
There is a FOSS VPN that can do point to point VPN routing, but I'm forgetting the name.
FUSE works ona a surprisingly large number of operating systems now (Linux, OSX, Android-fied Linux, Windows), so building a FUSE file system can be done.
And as for data sync and replication? CEPH can probably handle this.

The software exists to do this, no one has put it together in an easy to use package. This is why I funded their effort, I want this to come to pass.
It's not "aiming" at anything.
I actually really like the idea, but the problems I would have are:

My current internet has awful upload speeds, but I've had fibre in the past and many other people do/will.

So ruling that out, my other issue is surely my main PC has to be on? 99% of my media (the only real use to me) is on it.

Wake on LAN was a given I thought. I didn't read anything and quick CTRL-F finds nothing. It was quite hard to read through the spiel but if it's 2 years in development; is WOL such a given they don't mention it or is there a reason they're not doing it?
My experience is that it's not a problem when a teacher doesn't know some particular fact from memory as long as he can say "I'll get back to you on that," and subsequently go and look it up.

I suspect the people falling into the college debt trap are by and large not doing so because they couldn't do the math. I suspect they are doing so because they didn't realize in the first place that they should make the decision with the part of their brain that does math calculations rather than the part that does social status calculations.
One thing freelancers should consider is how they present themselves to the market. I used to simply knock on doors as a sole freelancer. That would get me some work, but it was inconsistent. I would be booked for two months, then out of work for three. After reading patio11's blog, and some marketing books, I decided to stop marketing myself as a freelancer. From that point forward, I would lead a software/hardware development firm. It made a big difference. I now market more easily, and land better clients. Plus it allows for me to hire other developers and share the work between all.
It also allows for me to launch products through the firm. Which improves our market presence, and increases our workload. Its a win-win.
Where would you get the electricity from ?

Batteries are pretty heavy, Solar panels might be too.
Todd actually holds a record for cycling (The Collegiate Land Record -- 116.9km/h). So I think he might qualify as a professional cyclist :)
One Look At The United States-Canada Border Reveals Some Ridiculous Things
It's interesting to contrast our current attitude with Microsoft/Skype with similar news 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925

Oh how times change.
This reminds me that I don't miss dating.
I was talking about the totally botched launch of WP7 mostly (and I have used wp7 device). While WP8 may be amazing it was just too late.

Android have the "dominant market share" thing going on about it.

MS had very short window to make a dent in the smartphone war but because of "reasons" never really got together to create a product that could be the smartphone win 3.11/98
Don't go Steve Yegge and pretend you didn't understand that speech was at least 50% jokingly... :-)
AltaVista is dead. Here’s why it’s so hard to compete with Google.
It's one of those "you aren't the client" situations. The brokers are horrific for apartment searchers, but are more convenient for landlords than trying to show and rent units themselves.

Very large apartment complexes (e.g. Stuyvesant Town) tend to have in house sales staff. Although even there some poor schlimazels end up needlessly paying a fee.
Don't forget Hatch's "contributions" to the US run back decades.

1. The shuttle solid rocket boosters were built in Utah. Hatch is credited with bringing that pork to Utah. Otherwise, the boosters could have been built somewhere along a waterway and floated down to the vehicle assembly building, but coming from Utah they have to be built in pieces and shipped overland. Thus the need for an O-ring where the pieces fit together. Politics contributed to the Challenger disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Boo...

(I admit, all politics are debatable, and there were other contributing factors in the Challenger disaster, but shipping the SRBs from Utah is just stupid, in my opinion.)

2. Pro-bailouts, pro-debt, and extremely pro-copyright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch#Political_position...
I am so sorry if programming stopped to be fun for you but please don't extrapolate that to all of us. I would hope that for most there is fun and less work.

In immortal words of Confucius "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"
Well I read it because I wanted to know if it was really racist or not. Unfortunately that was 16 years ago, so I am not 100% sure of my conclusion anymore. But I think ultimately I didn't think it was racist. I seem to remember they explicitly wrote about the effect of environments.

Would have been curious to get an opinion by somebody who read it recently.
Show HN: cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
I'm inclined to suggest that secret laws are themselves a symptom of an already corrupt government, and simply open the door to further corruption.
For the most part RT is just like Voice of America or France 24. It produces foreign language content almost solely for the goal of influencing opinion abroad.

It is just as fair as calling into question a story from Iran's Press TV.
We have some rate limits at our API in place, but of course it not that difficult to change an IP-address. But most important we wrote some algorithms which checks submitted URLs and domains for suspicious or accelerating behaviour. If that happens we simply suspend that domain for some time. We are also planning to publish those suspensions.

-Gerald, CTO archify/Blippex
Is there a good overview of materials improvements over, say, the past 150 years? It seems like one of the areas, along with IT and biotech, which has had huge gains even in the past 20 years, contrary to the "end of innovation" thesis of Thiel et al. You can get carbon fiber in everything now, ceramics are more used in things other than pottery, and companies like Crucible made a lot of awesome steels (including...cast stainless steels!) from the 1970s to now. Sure, the properties don't get 10x better, but a 1% improvement in strength-at-2000C for the blades makes a jet turbine a lot more efficient.
These devices sure really love the word plug don't they?
You don't think Amazon allows exactly the same thing? Because I do.
I sincerely doubt that people looking at the highest-end cost of phones will be thinking 'Why do I need [feature x]?'.
Having the vote hasn't given us any unholy powers to control the government's spending so far, so why would it? It's not even clear if any form of basic income would be voted for. We're just talking about changing from structure A to structure B in terms of how the government provides for people.
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Shoot, I do this with Plex:web off my Mac Mini all the time. Works great. Now has HTML5 video AFAIK, and scales the quality to the available bandwidth. I watch on my Android phone over 3G all the time.

In reality my "cloud storage" is just my Mac Mini with a set of drives attached, and mounted via SSHfs when I really need it. Works fine, but a nicer software package that's more akin to a self-hosted Dropbox would be pretty nice. I don't need a dongle, though it's a nice idea if you don't have a home server.
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So what are the "crappiest" jobs then? What metric would you use to measure them? Should all jobs (or most) seen on the show Dirty Jobs be outlawed? How many of those being outlawed would it take before society collapses due to no garbage being collected, maintenance being done on bridges, fishing not happening, etc. And are those jobs actually crappier than working at Wal-Mart or K-Mart? Which should be outlawed, under your scenario?
Based on the wording of the abstract, so are the study's authors. (That is, they say "we suggest" as opposed to "we hypothesized and provide supporting evidence." But, maybe they do in the full article, I don't know.)
Haha whoops!
That's fine, but we have an emergency right now and there aren't enough surgeons to go around. We need more competent crypto engineers ASAP.
From what I remember, pro cyclists are simply too expensive.

It's better to have an amateur who is 80-90% as good as a real pro, but is genuinely interested in the project and would be more dedicated than a hired pro.
It doesn't only need engineering rigour.

Good crypto needs engineering rigour, honest colective work, and time to mature.
> And who's willing to pay $299.99 with 2 year contract for it?

It's got 32GB of storage, so it matches the iPhone 5 price at that size.
> In your case I am wondering why exactly is that we can't turn people away - in aggregate it is likely to save more lives since seeing people dying would be an excellent motivating factor for others to make sure they pay their health care insurance

How exactly does this help people in emergency situations? Or those who go undiagnosed with a condition despite having a primary care physician? What about those folks with a disability that makes it difficult for them to access health care? What about people who are discouraged from getting health care because of discrimination? What about people who live in rural areas far from some kinds of medical treatment?

Bottom line is that death is not a motivator for people in the way you think it is. Even if it was, what kind of society threatens its members with death for failing to participate in your model vision of capitalism?
s.Split(' ').GroupBy(x => x).OrderByDescending(x => x.Count()).Select(x => x.Key).Take(10).ToList();

I'd say 13 characters isn't really a huge differentiator. They're both using exactly the same algorithm, almost exactly the same built-in library functions, and have exactly the same flexibility for programmers to add their own (C# is using extension methods which lets you add methods that look like they belong to the class, but are actually static methods defined elsewhere).

There's a lot of benefits to Clojure over C#, but the ability to chain functional list operators really isn't one of them.
> You'll stand on a corner and flip a signboard around in the air for 20 bucks a day only if it's worth your time, and to buy the extra 6-pack or whatever you desire, but don't need to survive.

This is key here. Plenty of people are willing to work beyond survival for luxury goods.
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