skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think $25 is a bit too much for me, unless people start raving about it. You can price it however you want, you wrote it, but I'd give it a shot if it were half the price, considering you're self-published and without reviews. I'm not trying to devalue your work, but just keep in mind that you may actually make up in quantity sold what you lose in price per item.

Also, is this your final product? Knowing that it's going to increase in refinement over time would add to the value proposition for me.

Anyway, congrats on writing a book! It's a great accomplishment.
and if you do need a dynamic pattern, this is what preg_quote() is for.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php
Obviously you won't get a 1:1 correlation with legacy desktop apps. ReBirth is an example of an app arguably not worth porting to ipad. Unsurprisingly, the ipad does better in areas where it innovates and sometimes exceeds desktop capabilities - for example apps like Konkreet Performer, Traktor, Reactable, Samplr, Lemur, Impaktor, Electrify, all the Korg and Moog apps. There are a ton of DAWs to choose from but they are among the less interesting things out there.
No way. Broadcast.com for $4.5b? AOL/Netscape (which actually destroyed the company, in addition to being a lot of money?) Pets.com (due to the puppet). Etc. nothing going on today could hold a candle to the 1998-2001 bubble.
Good! While I don't necessarily find what Aereo's doing attractive as a service I think how they're doing it is fantastic. They've followed the law to the T and prevailed, multiple times. It's nice to see the Judiciary preventing the troublesome "new guy" from getting bullied.
Hey, that's great that you understand this to the extent of articulating why metadata gathering is a problem - but I assure you that the "metadata isn't data" rhetoric GP mentions is, in fact, the tactic I see most often in the wild.

So calling it "technical jargon" is pretty accurate - people encounter this confusing word "metadata" and have no idea what it means or how to reason about it.
HIPAA (privacy portion) covers more than just your data, so I could see the same thing here. What if "your" medical data was private, but all the metadata about where you are treated could be recorded.
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Sorry for the delay of this answer.

I'm still at the very beginning with this project and have no interesting results yet :(

There is a model relationship between artificial neural networks and sets of sentences in a formal language. One idea is to track sets of sentences during the training of a network and see if something interesting can be found.
Intuitive is just a synonym for "similar to previous experiences." Anyone who has regularly exercised or played a sport or even a musical instrument and then stopped knows about use it or lose it we even have a term for it, "being a little rusty."
An abridged list of organizations using Kenneth Reitz's python requests package:

Her Majesty’s Government,

Amazon,

Google,

Twilio,

Mozilla,

Heroku,

PayPal,

NPR,

Obama for America,

Transifex,

Native Instruments,

The Washington Post,

Twitter,

SoundCloud,

Kippt,

Readability,

and Federal US Institutions.

People generate millions of dollars of value through open source software. It's only fair that the people making that software are incentivized to keep doing so.
Their website loads so slow, I'd almost consider it to be down... Besides that, looks pretty great. I very much like the notification options on the status page!
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Thanks! Hope it works well!
Mozilla and others have done some verification. They verified that the CNNIC root does belong to the chinese government.[1] In light of that verification do you want to allow CNNIC to attest to the validity of the certificate for your favorite vendor/webmail/employer?

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/#CNN...
UK earmarks £60m for super-fast space rocket engine
Highlights nicely that the hardware is a good but the omnipresent backend its plugged into isnt necessarily so.
This kind of supports parent's point. If the creator of CoffeeScript, Backbone.js and Underscore.js only gets 806$/year, us unknown developers will probably get the equivalent of a cup of coffee per year. That being said, I do hope Gittip becomes more popular.
I used to recommend either Ubuntu, or Mint for someone that wanted/needed Linux but just didn't know or need to know anything technical.

Now I only recommend Mint, and I use Lubuntu.
Agreed. An Acer desktop like a AXC600-UR13 for $400 is full fledged Windows box with an HDMI out.
Think your perspective is a bit off there if you think this should be causing a stock meltdown or a mass exodus. Most people, rightly or wrongly, probably aren't all that interested in Microsoft's involvement, but more concerned about where Snowden is and whether he's leaking our classified information to other nations. Yes, there are people upset at the tech companies and the NSA, but I don't think it's nearly as widespread as it is in the tech echo chamber.

EDIT: To clarify, maybe this SHOULD cause a mass exodus in an ideal world. But I don't think that matches up with reality, and therefore I don't think a mass exodus/stock meltdown is really an expected outcome.
On the other hand, I don't think Linux can ever reach the masses just through techie recommendations. Even though hardware support has got much better, putting it on any old hardware usually leaves you with some problem, often involving graphics drivers.

I think it needs either OEMs shipping Linux preinstalled with a known-good set of hardware, or better collaboration with hardware manufacturers so it really will work flawlessly on almost any machine. And I see Canonical pushing in both of those directions.
Well, it's certainly up to him to decide for himself, but I think third parties are quite free to form their own opinions about his credibility or integrity (which I rate at something like 6/10, in case you were wondering).
Thanks! Let us know if you sign up in the future and we can be helpful at all. Will have some more features coming down the pipe built around Public Metrics as well.
The granting employees the $5 tip a week idea is pretty good. There are a lot of businesses out there that see the value of open source but don't currently fund development. There are certainly companies out there where the reason for not funding is more logistical than financial. Giving employees the ability to send money to where they see it can do the most good would be a great way to target worthy projects.

With sufficient freedom, I can see groups of employees organise themselves to coordinate development of features that are specifically important to their work.
I use this exact method to get around VPN restrictions. Works great running a VM Windows 8 within another instance of Windows 8. On an SSD the VM seems to be as fast as the actual machine.
> Does leadership, from a corporation either private or government (NSA, CIA, FTC, etc) ever end up going to jail though?

Yes. E.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
I'd like to see more studies on the effects of having a cell phone in your pocket all day long because:

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2013/05/16/131324.htm

Plant sprouts won't germinate when placed near a wireless router. Also sleeping with a cell phone next to your head apparently affects concentration the next day.
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This is an old discussion around the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891885
I think there are a few things that are awesome about the Gittip model and a few things that are flawed:

Awesome things (1) fills a huge need (2) we should be in the habit of giving back (3) promotes long-term thinking

Bad things (1) dependent on CC processing (2) weekly only (3) A bit too much Github lockin.
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I can't think of a better reply (from Gittip's point of view) to yesterday's "Money and Open Source": https://medium.com/open-source-life/d44a1953749c. Thank you, jeresig and Khan Academy, for the huge vote of confidence, investing in open-source via Gittip! :D
Good. The bill will likely not pass, but it will force the current representatives to go on record as either for or against these. At the moment, they can pretend to be one or the other.
What ever happened to NASA's ANTS (Autonomous Nanotechnological Swarm)?
I was googling around searching for whether this idea for asteroid detection systems I had (inspired by the recent "crowdsourcing" efforts NASA and the White House have been running to generate ideas for this stuff) - The idea I had basically is a swarm of tiny satellites that fly away from the earth spiraling outward and communicating with one another about position, in an effort to detect and then "swarm" around and study asteroids. Just like all my ideas, this too has already been thought of, documented, and posted to the web - by NASA... but like - in 2005 - and reading it, it seems like such a do-able awesome plan. Why are the pages not maintained anymore? Why is noone pursuing this?

http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/ants_nasa/ants_pam.php
In my opinion, in the start up world, patents are just another way of "cashing in". I.e, your product might fail but your patent might prevail.
> "Salaries are arbitrary and 2 weeks of vacation is total bullshit"

Could you expand more on what you mean by the vacation stuff? Do you mean like it's total bullshit that you only get 2 weeks? I was not sure how literal to take that.
This wasn't made by a doctor or a biochemist.
I definitely understand the benefit. I also understand the very serious drawbacks of not hosting content that you own. Compared to an initial load time that borders on completely negligible, I'd rather guarantee safety of user information and not having downtime coincide with the shared cdn.
Marijuana. Seriously?

WSJ desperately trying to suggest multiple causes to sidestep blaming the obesity epidemic. Reading between the lines that sounds a lot more correlated with the trend than what I would assume is pretty consistent pot usage over the last, say, 50 years.

EDIT: remember, the idea isn't to figure out what causes reduced male fertility, it's to see which of those causes correlates best with the observation.

EDIT 2: of course by the same logic, sugar intake is what's causing the obesity epidemic (the fatty foods comment in the article is unimpressive)

EDIT 3: DanBC, excellent point about THC concentration. I didn't think of it. I can't find any data about consumption, nor am I committed enough to the subject to dig for it :)
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I think especially in light of recent events, it'd be foolish to give them the benefit of the doubt.

You don't see evidence because these programs are hidden from the populous. Maybe you're right - we don't know.
This is exactly how people rationalize the story of how they became "trapped." And learning politics is nothing to be proud of or to seek out.
> You also need feedstocks.

You can use wood, coal, or CO2 from the air. The carbon from all the stuff we burned didn't go away, it's all still here. Most of it is in the ocean or in plants.

If you "extended" coal by adding hydrogen then you can quintuple the energy content (since each atom of carbon gets 4 of hydrogen, for longer chain hydrocarbons the ratio is less, but at a minimum it's tripled). So instead of the estimated 100 years of coal we now have, we'd have 500 years.

And on top of that most of the coal is used for electrical production (with the rest of steel making), if we stopped doing that and used nuclear power for electricity and saved the coal to make liquid fuel we would have at least 10,000 years of coal left.

> Conventional non-breeder uranium reactors will suffer from fuel shortages if used for significant amounts of power generation well within a century. Thorium breeders offer a possible alternative, though the technology is unproven.

So don't use non-breeder and switch to breeders. I once calculated that if we used breeding reactors, plus thorium, we have enough energy in those two elements alone for 10,000 to 100,000 years! (The range is because energy consumption will inevitably go up.)

So no, energy is NOT the problem. We have enough for longer than recorded history.

> On top of that, Fischer-Tropsch plant and capital are expensive and would take a long time and vast investments (trillions of dollars) to replace the 20 million barrels of oil consumed daily in the US.

Sure. But have you seen the unbelievable size of the equipment used today for petroleum production? If there was demand for these fuels, it would get built. No problem at all. No one is expecting this to happen overnight - I think it would take 20 to 50 years.

> You're side-stepping your original statement. Producing hydrocarbons at that scale from electricity is unproven.

Of course it's proven. And you don't make it from electricity, you make it directly from heat. The only reason it's not done right now is that it's not needed. But the technology is there.

> Producing hydrogen might work

?? Why would this work if producing hydrocarbons won't? You could make hydrogen the same way - by heating water. But hydrogen is extremely hard to transport or store. It leaks right through everything, and damages most metals if stored under pressure. You need special materials to store hydrogen, and those are expensive and not plentiful. Hydrogen is not the fuel of the future - methane is.

> My point was to demonstrate that where solar powered heavier-than-air craft are only just feasible

If I'm understanding you right, your argument is that we won't be able to fly anymore because we'll run out of energy (or fuel), and your proof is that solar powered airships are only just barely workable.

You mistake is a: thinking that we'll run out of energy, and we won't. And b: that we would use solar power for an air transport, and we won't do that either.
The charges against Drake were mostly BS (he didn't leak classified information). The infractions by Snowden are clear and the penalties are severe.
http://www.contrastrebellion.com/

Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts?
To hell with them!
NEUROTOXICITY RESULTING FROM COEXPOSURE TO PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE, DEET, AND PERMETHRIN: IMPLICATIONS OF GULF WAR CHEMICAL EXPOSURES

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health; Volume 48, Issue 1, 1996

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/009841096161456
Hundreds (thousands?) of companies use jashkenas's work -- if each gave anywhere ~$1k/year then it'd easily pay for a full-time salary for him. Less prolific developers will obviously receive less, but still a significant amount, especially if many companies pitch in.
That's true - although that should be an incentive to write and release good Open Source code! Even if a single person gives you $0.25/week (the minimum amount) you'll get $13/year. We're attempting to give most developers at least $1/week - and I should emphasize that this is only from Khan Academy. Just because we're giving this amount it doesn't mean that these devs won't get money from other sources. I, personally, receive donations from a couple dozen users on Gittip with a wide variety of amounts (most being in the $0.25 range).

It's very defeatist to give up before even trying ("only" a cup of coffee). Why not aspire to more?
At the same time, it's a shame to see good potential material go undeveloped simply because it's in someone's IP warehouse, stagnating. IP protection has societal benefit when it protects innovators who are actively enhancing their works, but when things just sit, it's not particularly socially helpful. It's analogous to the sort of patent troll that sits on a patent for a specific technology that they're not bothering to exploit, but sues everyone who does.

I understand people need to protect their brands, and that it's impossible to know whether a given work might be exploited in the future, how to resolve conflicts if a derivative work offends the original author, or whatever, but I definitely believe that our current IP regime is waaay overprotective in many cases and is having a chilling effect on business, science, and the arts.
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I think you were fortunate, perhaps exceptionally so, in your experiences - few people will get to move around as much as that.
There was a time around 2008 when I thought Ubuntu could be that solid ecosystem. That me, a customer I'm supporting, a developer I'm submitting a bug report to, the author of an FAQ I'm reading, a fellow user I'm helping out in the forums, a package maintainer testing a binary release and a hardware vendor debugging their drivers might all be seeing the same things on our screens and getting the same responses to the same commands at our terminals.

Unfortunately it seems like Canonical does not share my vision.
It's worth adding that the variation in testing is extremely high.

When my wife and I had trouble getting pregnant, I was tested twice.

In the first test, my count of live critters was under the minimum threshold. In the second test, the count was at the top of the range.

All other variables were the same (time between production/delivery, time between previous production and test production and volume).

Oh, and we're expecting our first kid in 8 weeks :)
Because Twitter's peaked in every interesting way.
Of course that's a worse acquisition, but it doesn't have the flashy $1B price tag, and did anybody really expect better from Zinga?

Instagram had strategic timing for its IPO, and nipped a potential competitor in the bud. Facebook probably was worried (and rightfully, IMO) that it has lost its cool factor among young people, and that there was a vacuum of influence in the mobile space. Instagram was spreading insanely fast among young people, was natively mobile, and was centered around Facebook's most popular functionality (sharing photos with friends). Had Instagram incorporated more of the essential social networking features, it conceivably could have become the social networking site to dethrone Facebook. Squashing that threat when they did was very, very smart.
I’m An Intern In Charge Of a $100,000 eSports Event
You do realize that almost everyone in tech companies says, thinks and believes the same thing, right?
The dangers of OpenStack “winning”
"A story with God is the better story.”

A good reason for being a creationist is that you think God (or some being) created life and the universe.

Thinking it's a better story is not a particularly good reason to call yourself that.

The fact that science and pseudo science have conflicting hypotheses and theories doesnt make creationism right either.
Very few things are as effective as telling someone to get something done and getting out of their way.
This. My first day on my first job I heard the foreman chew out a lineman for a dangerous mistake, no profanity spared. I was young and sheltered, and it scared me half to death; but fear of disappointing that foreman certainly kept me alive and fully-limbed on multiple occasions. I've seen the same dynamic with ship captains and chief engineers laying in when needed. Here's the thing: in situations like this, hurt feelings are much preferred to other possible outcomes.
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Totally agree. Another thing is people like jashkenas don't even need that kind of money while regular open source devs working on smaller project might but they only get a few cents which makes the system mostly useless for everyone. As a dev myself of a few moderately successful open source projects, I don't even bother with gittip. I just do it for me and fun and that's it.
Yes, certainly! I just think it's irrational to discredit his factual claims on the basis that he is unwilling to stand trial. The truth of the statements "Snowden is telling the truth about our spy programs" and "Snowden is accurately assessing the potential for our justice system to offer him a favorable outcome" are not closely related.
Congrats! Pretty interesting that your testing results would land at the extremes.
> In general, men produce upward of 60 million sperm per milliliter of semen. ...But below that threshold and particularly under about 20 million per ml, their ability to help conceive drops. It may take a couple longer than a year to conceive...

I can't even intuitively understand how going from 60 million to 20 million would make any difference at all. There are millions there, you know.

I can understand how dropping by 99% might affect things, but how on earth could a drop of 2/3 result in taking a year???

Does anyone know of an explanation?
Any reference on that second part? Because I'd guess that the phone wakes you up, and insufficient sleep affects concentration.

IOW, you'd need to blind the experiment.
You don't have to give bogus info, the person who makes the payment needs to enter their real details for the payment to go through, but when you submit a sample I believe that as long as you confirm on the agreement that you have consent from the person whose saliva it is then you don't need to give their actual identity.
"Young men's marijuana use is linked to decreased sperm count, but not alcohol or cigarettes."

Wow that's actually kinda nuts. I have no idea why on earth they would even bring alcohol and cigs into the mix. This is on the edge of saying smoking and drinking is absolutely OK.

I guess booze has a pretty high chance of giving you kids you never knew about...
Agreed, appreciate the heads up - looking into now
This can be dangerous for company founders, depending on how exactly it plays out. I know of at least one case where a company based on its founders' research went bust, its patents ended up sold off in bankruptcy liquidation, and the founders themselves now have a potential patent problem if they were to use their own inventions in any future endeavors. Whereas in a normal case where your startup fails, it doesn't take your ideas down with it, and you're free to try them again elsewhere.
This is awesome, and pretty creative. I'd be interested in how the "host a $100,000 event" process goes..
How does that get you around VPN restrictions? Do you then forward your traffic through some proxy?
Humbled.
Agreed on the advice for better presentation, but running WordPress for the single benefit of displaying one single landing page is overkill.
He could just get a free Bootstrap theme from http://bootswatch.com/ or buy a landing page template specifically made for books/ebooks from somewhere else.
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The issue of civil rights is judged independently of whether MLK took great risks.