skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, unfortunately I haven't read the TFA before commenting.
Word file is both more specific and shorter than text document.

Your analogy is horrible because one way to drive implies only one kind of file. Try "I drove here." "I took a bus here." "I took a taxi here.". And if they have multiple cars it's especially reasonable to say which one they took.

I really don't understand why you have this complaint. Do you have some kind of weird overattachment to genetic terms?
I really love this idea. I had always wanted to go back to my middle school / high school and try to get the school to allow me to run a programming course on the weekends.
The way this article starts reminded me of the first chapter of "Manna" by Marshall Brain[1]. Ironically, when I read this, I really thought that the first company I would see using such a system would be Amazon.

[1]: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
If x is a fraction, x^x and x^x^x are irrational. But can x^x^x^x be rational?
I have no idea. This StackOverflow post gives a good rundown of where the data comes from:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4612221/470339

"you probably want to connect to somebody a bit more down the food chain, with a better API."

Obviously I have no idea how anyone does it, but it seems plausible that it is the data providers rather than consumer-facing sites. Look at the ITA site:

http://www.itasoftware.com/
I can't imagine how ghastly that screen will be.
This article mentions, but undersells, the lead factor. Lead exposure causes cognitive problems in children, especially related to impulse control. The drop in crime correlates very well with lead cleanup.

Kevin Drum (a left-leaning US journalist) has been making this argument: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/lead-and-crime...
A live calendar of what each astronaut is doing on the space station
Cool! If that's the case, the following part of the website should be corrected:

"While you can pipe any data into the program, the data should be uncompressed and unencrypted -- otherwise no deduplication could be performed on it."

You can use encrypted data, but only blockwise encrypted such as LUKS. Then, deduplication of ZBackup still works.

Also, this part gives a misleading security advice:

"zbackup would compress and encrypt the data itself, so there's no need to do that yourself."

Encrypting your disk is still a good idea, especially on a laptop, in case your computer is stolen. Also, a crypto block device has the advantage that encryption happens on the fly, instead of delaying the backup because all changes have to be encrypted afterwards. So the above is only advisable if you store your data unencrypted and just want to encrypt it for backup purposes.

ZBackup seems to be a nice, mature tool. So I added it to Shasplit's the list of related projects: http://vog.github.io/shasplit/#related
I once asked a colleague in the inventory department what his boss actually did, his boss managing inventory and factory floor. I knew he did scheduling and also programming security dongles (2 min job a couple of times/week). My colleague was given the scheduling to keep him interested enough to stay (inventory is dull...) and I was puzzled as to what his boss now did.

"So, apart from reprogram dongles, what does he do?" > "I don't know either"

"No, I'm not trying to be funny here, you work with him, what does he actually do?" > "I'm not being funny, I actually have no idea what he does with his time"
After CodeAcademy, Do This
I think a computer-themed after-school care program plus summer camps is a good idea. As another poster mentioned, however, you would end up with the problem of teaching a bunch of kids that are only there because their parents work and need day care. My daughter is going through this right now. She is in an electronics camp for the week. On the plus side the counselors love her because she is one of the only kids in the class that pay attention. On the downside, she is one of the only people in the class that pay attention.

Alternatively, I've heard of franchises that market to existing daycares to come in once a week to do computer classes, charging the parents a nominal fee per session.

I'm very interested in hearing other people's ideas, this is something I've looked into and would be interested in doing as well.
Though I've never worked for the large local telecom here in town I've had many friends and coworkers who have. I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard a story just like this (though smaller in scope). People have set up file sharing servers, game servers, whole warez team back ends...the works on hardware that was purchased & set up but never used. This is one of the primary reasons I've never wanted to work for Big Local Telco...
It's a great product, I'd suggest getting one when they free up their production line again.
Catering is a totally different business to a store. Retail is location, location, location.

Search google for: donut shop business plan, coffee shop business plan, catering business plan.

check out this link:
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/07/coffeebusiness/

Also look at traffic counts to get a good feel for location.

Product market fit is tricky in food. MY family has been in pizza for years. My dad's won the columbus pizza bake off for both people's choice and judges in the same year. My brothers store has won the small competition for the same recipe. We have a great pizza recipe. I opened a store and in our first full year of business I did over 450k(Jan-Dec) opened in Sept. Still couldn't make a profit. Little caesers opened up and my sales went down about 15-20% for 2 years. And my brother's shop was the same way. Why because of their recipe no because it only takes a few people(that forgot how crappy their pizza is) that usually order to stop on the way for the kids because it's "hot n ready." Product market fit is a tricky bitch.
Ask HN: Why haven't we colonised the moon?
Why? Should we, and could we?
>At some point, if I explained to someone that I would be able to pick up a small black plate filled with electrical signals (ha!) flying around it many million times per second and use it to learn the answer to any question, talk to (AND SEE) any person in the world, in real time, how far back would you have to go to hear "that's impossible," because I guarantee you, at some point, someone thought that it was, even if not 40 years ago.

As soon as we have real science (i.e. post-Descartes) anything mechanistic seems possible. There was probably a point at which we had insufficient knowledge to say one way or another, but this isn't the kind of thing that's ruled out by physical law in the way that FTL travel is.

>Hell, I remember explaining to my dad when I was a kid that someday there would be a way to watch whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, simply because that's what people wanted to exist. In my mind, it was an inevitability, and he felt it would never happen. This was only a scant 20 or so years ago.

You were lucky that time, but it's not a reliable heuristic. Plenty of people want to be immortal, but it hasn't happened yet. (OTOH, human immortality seems a lot more plausible than FTL travel - we can't see how it would work yet, but there's no law that rules it out - which puts it in the same category I think a phone would have seemed like in Newton's day).
I had a similar situation. I used the time to teach myself some new programming languages and really studied a lot of business management processes and techniques that were somewhat related to my job. That was how I got around the Internet usage policy. That and using a text only browser.

I actually learned a tremendous amount and was very thankful for the opportunity.
We actually do have a general understanding of what materials absorb/transmit/reflect radio waves, so if you said "What would this scene look like if you moved the visible light spectrum to where WiFi is" you could actually create a meaningful and even potentially useful picture.
Making an App Promo Video on a Budget
Will be? You can buy it now. It doesn't seem too bad. Look at the amazon reviews.

" The scaling is perfect at it's default settings and everything is very crisp & clear. Just don't expect to read anything from the couch unless you increase the DPI scaling and/or font/text size within your OS. The text is quite small!"

I was responding to the guy above me. He wanted a reasonably priced 4k display and I showed him one.
> most OO languages allow two objects that represent the
> same states to have distinct identities, even if
> compare-by-value claims they're equal.

You can do this in languages that offer only compare-by-value by attaching a unique ID to every object. Of course, you may have to write your own equality relation if you want compare-by-value semantics in addition to compare-by-identity semantics.
Ask HN: English dev visting San Fran for the first time. What to see?
Would love some local advice of (tech-related?) things to do and see in San Francisco, visiting the first week of September. Thanks!
I was learning Java in my first programming course and making nothing worthwhile in TI basic around that age.
Its far from role playing. As I said they were putting anarchist principles in practice. You say they need a leader, they showed they did not need a leader.

I did not see them being hijacked by anything but the police force. They had a message, they communicated that message, everyone heard the message. That the people were unwilling to support them more vocally, but instead were successfully divided by the media, was not a failure on the part of occupy, but an example that propaganda is very, very effective against the masses.
While many have seemed to point out the issues with the work here, the more subtle implication in the article is that temporary staffing agencies and the way they facilitate transactional labor are a more serious part of the problem. The Amazon employees have shares, equity, and incentives but the temporary labor does not, and cannot miss a shift. The 4AM Army article in Time also addresses this, and there may be a better middle ground for temporary labor than what is provided:
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/27/the-4-am-army/
we pay well over minimum wage because of the nature of the work

The article indicates the basic wage is one penny over minimum wage.
The Promise of F# Language Type Providers
If they allow the client to display the image, they allow the client to do anything with the image. Of course they stop serving images on a particular schedule. (I sort of doubt they stick with that same schedule in deleting from their central storage, but whatever.) Since Snaphax is completely client-side, however, their server policies are irrelevant.
We'll there is some merit to his comment(Despite the sarcasm). We have seen so many of these types of petitions/movements recently, only to be totally ignored by the gubment.
What disturbs me about this issue the most is how it's rationalized because the previous administration also did the same thing. It's like we can't seem to see Obama for who he is because he's always compared to GWB. It's like saying a Pinto is a great car, because it's not a Yugo. People can't think straight because they've been blinded by partisanship. We can't even talk about the issues clearly, let alone determine the right course of action. I wish we could fix that.
All the robbery nowadays happens in the central banks and is called "QE".
Open DevOps comes to OpenStack: CloudMunch shows some OSCON love
Lemon Wallet Introduces Lemon SDK to Connect Merchants and Users
S.F. plane crash has some fliers wanting more information on pilots
This looks great - especially as a tool to get some initial page styling down before moving on to integrating more advanced functionality. I see from the video that there is a degree of user control over the css / class names etc which is nice although I'm just wondering how much using Macaw will sacrifice in terms of personal preferences towards CSS structure or methodologies such as BEM or OOCSS?
MEAP: Elasticsearch in Action released.
Bright lights can give you sunburns. Ask a welder. Caution and common sense should be applied whenever in the presence of bright lights that shine right through us. (eg X-rays)
There are two related but subtly different uses here. A word like 'he' is a default, which can lead to problematic implications. A word like 'guy', to some people, is a true neutral, implying gender no more than the word 'somebody'.

Even if we were talking about 'he', your link would be out of place. Calling out the use of a gendered default as bad is not in fact another point of view on whether it is the default.
The article isn't very clear, but I think this SJSU/EdX collaboration was an attempt by SJSU administrators to save money by doing a "flipped classroom" with MIT educational materials. Maybe it's not politically correct to say so, but an average failing grade by SJSU students on MIT curricula does not surprise me at all. SJSU only has a 47% six year graduation rate.
This is an old Marxist trope called "heighten the contradictions". I get the impression it hasn't historically led to better outcomes than working for improvement, though that's uh less than authoritative from me.
Software Carpentry: 15 Years of teaching Computing to Researchers
Bad habit, I agree, but probably due to certain companies' very-effective marketing. For example, in some areas of the country, people used to commonly refer to carbonated beverages as "Coke".
The PPI is about 113 in the 39" model. That's not bad.
Theres no shortage of anecdotal reports by college professors complaining that higher than normal numbers of students fail/drop out of online courses. Heck, my own anecdotal experience of distance learning in college recently bears that out.
Why? Persons who are not US citizens who are not on US territory aren't given protections under our constitution. What's the reasoning behind this? Surveillance serves a national interest for the US, and while there ought to be limitations for domestic surveillance, I don't see why those ought to exist for foreigners in other countries.
Extension to open markdown files in Chrome
The format of a document is relevant to the recipient. Not every text editor will open a Word document.

Also, you probably wouldn't look at someone funny for requesting a kleenex. All the things you mentioned have pretty strong brand-name recognition, such that e.g. even non-PowerPoint slide decks are called PowerPoints.
Energy Imbalance Market
Please no. Universe deserves something better than humans everywhere.
Hollywood hacking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
Hollywood enhancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
They're essentially giving the public what they want.

Is it what the public wants, or is it what the public that still regularly watches MSM news wants?
How many SJSU students can afford to go to 4 years of college full time?
The only advice I can give is to share my story.

I started my son at five with MIT's Scratch [1] followed up by Lego Mindstorms [2].

I then created a text adventure engine [3] that could run adventures written in a very simple Lua based DSL so he could make a simple text game [4]. Mom helped with spelling and grammar and I suggested a puzzle but he wrote the adventure himself.

Then I transitioned him to Lua on the iPad with Codea [5] and he (with a little help from me) made a game called StarFighter [6].

I choose Lua because it is a great intro language. Very simple with minimalistic syntax, few concepts, few primitives, few keywords, dynamically-typed / garbage collected, variable arity, no real gotchas, good tool support, great speed, the ability to access a key in a hash either using bracket or dotted notation, and one of the best programming books for any language (PiL).

But it also scales well; closures, first-class / true anonymous functions, metatables / metamethods, nice simple API for talking between script and C, tail-call optimization, coroutines, short circuiting operators.

And, the path from Lua to JavaScript is very straightforward. In fact I'd say that mastery of Lua would make you a mid-level JS programmer right out of the box...

The next step was JavaScript and ImpactJS [7]. I got him two books [8][9] and he loved them.

He is now doing HTML/CSS/JS and is in the middle of a fantastic book called Pro Javascript [10]. Once he is done with that book I am going to consider him on his own...

But just to give you an idea; he is 11 now and I am learning Scala for work. He's been watching videos with me and I paused it and ask questions and then I asked him where he thinks the presenter is going to go. He ran to his Ubuntu desktop and apt-get'ed Scala and cranked up a REPL session and showed me; he was correct!

----

[1]: http://scratch.mit.edu/

[2]: http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx

[3]: https://github.com/shawndumas/adventure.lua

[4]: https://github.com/shawndumas/adventure.lua/blob/master/theT...

[5]: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

[6]: https://gist.github.com/shawndumas/2762088

[7]: http://impactjs.com/

[8]: http://www.amazon.com/HTML5-Game-Development-ImpactJS-Cielen...

[9]: http://www.amazon.com/Building-HTML5-Games-ImpactJS-Introduc...

[10]: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Wro...
I think the reasons for this are: (1) People buy fewer used items in physical stores, i.e. fewer people buy stuff at pawn shops etc and a typical thief will never go through the effort of building up a decent eBay seller reputation. This makes it harder to monetize stolen property. (2) It's a self-perpetuating statistic, in that less crime means more resources/attention is given to the remaining crime (by the police and by the vigilance of citizens) which leads to even lower crime.
Clear and Present Danger: Interview with GEN Alexander (DIRNSA) [video]
Solar panels help keep buildings cool, reducing A/C needs
At least one was at my apartment. Macbook Pro =(
Because it makes you depend on urls instead of abstract name/version requirements. easy_install does provide some tooling to get around it but in general it shouldn't be used.
I think this article is interesting in that it mostly talks about experiments that are aiming to capture hard correlations in incredibly complex systems. The scientific method is an amazing tool that we've been using over the last 350 years to pretend that the world is a machine and thus glen incredibly insightful information. In the end though it probably isn't a machine and as systems become more and more complex they can become even harder to machinify. (Christopher Alexander has a lot more to say on the issue: http://www.katarxis3.com/Alexander.htm)
Talking About the Things We Love: An Interview with Myke Hurley
Actually you aren't powerless. You phone still works and you can call a senator. I don't know the legal ramifications of neglecting to mention that you aren't a member of the voting citizenry.
If caching was set up on the webserver I might be able to read the article.
Some ideas:

Isolate, abstract, interface.

Devices, memory, file-systems, processes.

fork, malloc, open, read, write.
> two orders or magnitude speed difference right now

1. I think you meant "of".

2. log(781250 / 877) is closer to 3 than 2.
(I'm the founder and now CTO of dotCloud)

For those of you who wondered how I found the time to run dotCloud in addition to maintaining Docker [1] and answering questions on HN all day... This is the answer :)

[1] http://docker.io
More details on the main site: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/#np-855

Self-taught computer scientists should also note:

Formal admission into the OMS CS program will require a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from an accredited institution, or a related Bachelor of Science degree with a possible need to take and pass remedial courses
Customer Reviews
I'm sure it's happened in real life before, but I strongly feel that this particular story was just an exercise in creative writing. Just pay closer attention to the writing style vs other personal accounts.
Before github, we had sourceforge, berlios, savannah, and before that, I used freshmeat to keep track of a lot of opensource projects I was interested on. Each of them having their own repo / ftp.
> In Chicago, where crime has been slower to fall than elsewhere, local politicians this year thanked hotspot methods for the lowest murder rate in half a century.

What year are they talking about? 2012 was the highest in something like 10 years, and 2013 is on pace with 2011.
I wouldn't say there is a canonical baseline model but your example would be a reasonable place to start. Weighted average by sample size is a straightforward modification. Just using the most recent reliable poll would also be interesting.

I think most of the extra value you could add would be from analyzing the poll data to get a sense of which polls were unreliable.
Very much so. For us, raids are mostly time we can use to move all the important data off of that raid. It might be drastic, but it's safe and our data isn't too big.
Though I haven't read it (I'm a programmer myself), I've always liked the idea of this book: https://leanpub.com/scrapingforjournalists
After having read so many startups stories here: no.
I actually spent some time walking around the streets with a neodymium magnet stuck to my finger with a piece of duct tape. What I realized after few hours is that the sensations I had were not coming from magnetic fields - I could just feel my own pulse. i.e. it worked equally well with a similarly-shaped piece of metal instead of a magnet.

(Not questioning the implanted magnets; I just want to point out that one has to be careful when doing the non-implant version of this experiment with jumping to conclusions about what one feels.)
Findings force scientists to rethink rules of neuroimaging
Boston’s Got Startup Marketing Talent…Mostly
Fantastic job. The darkest of albums.

http://colorhits.com/album/407270/This+Is+Spinal+Tap
In some areas of the country, people still commonly refer to carbonated beverages as "Coke".
>You can ask ~90% computer users if you don't believe me.

The point of the article is that there are a lot of common misconceptions made by average people.

Also, there is no magic filetype detection that makes the Word icon appear, just a setting which is pretty easy for a novice to bodge-up, incidentally.

If you were being sarcastic, I just missed it.
As I've already posted above, who cares if your main goals are to not be bored and to do something constructive at the same time.
Or China is censoring all the news. After all, Big Brother has increased the chocolate ratio to 20 grammes per week!
Just installed it and think it's superb. I hope HN takes some influence from your extension.
The financial sector
The proof given is fascinating, but...translucent.

Can we get a simple, and correct, "yes" or "no" here?
15 miles is a hike, but it wont tear you up after you do it for a weeek or 2. It only feels like a lot because many office drones expecation of amount of walking a day is anchored at "sit at desk all day." Appalachian Trail hikers start at 8-10 miles a day and work up to around 15 miles a day on a dirt trail over mountains while carrying 1/3 of their body weight! And they do that every single day.

15 miles a day is no big deal, to say nothing of 7 miles a day.