skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seriously?

organized sports were nothing like that for me during the late 80s / early 90s, nor are they like that now for my 7yo and 5yo boys. baseball is the same now (in california) as it was for me growing up on the east coast. soccer is a little different, but that seems more b/c of it's sheer popularity in these parts.

only difference i really note is that they're a little more strict about parents not helping out as assistant coaches unless they fill out a background check and attend a single training session for tips on coaching children of that age group. i don't object to either.

my boys love the sports they play.

note: they play at the recreational level, not competitive.
That's Trello Platinum, coming soon. Somebody pays $5 to add stickers to your board, then you pay $5 more to take them away.
Is the original email accessible somewhere after I create my edited version?
Anyone interested in this stuff should definitely watch the lectures from the Stats 110 class from Harvard that's up on iTunes U (and perhaps other places).

Lecture 6 talks about this paradox and if I recall correctly he might even talk about this exact case:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/statistics-110-probabilit...
Why aren't you suggesting voluntary euthenasia once the horrible dying process has begun? You've said that death isn't horrible at all, but the process of dying is, so if you truly believe those things, why wouldn't you want to cut the awfulness short? You don't seem terribly interested in the length of life, as such, so cutting it a little bit shorter should seem like no great loss.
Ash HN: anyone that did constraint programming in Ruby?
I need to do that for a project of mine and, apart from reviewing the theory from uni slides, I'm wondering if there is any nice library to work with constraint programming in Ruby.

Thanks
blackberry phones are much cheaper than iphones, thats the market
I'll ping you tomorrow.
CyanogenMod's quality has gone down in the past few months. I'm running CM 10.1 on a Nexus 4. The home screen crashes occasionally and, after the most recent update, my ringer doesn't ring. Community QA is a tough problem.
Here's Consumer Reports complaining about this in 2008:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/aboutus/mission/viewpoint...
I really wish tech companies would stop naming themselves after things that already exist. It just pollutes the search space, and there are plenty of nonce words out there that sound cool.
I think the problem with your phrasing is that most humans will interpret it to mean "oh, I can just find something that looks good on any one of these metrics, and then it'll be ethical."

This is why animal welfare-ists exist, and why people think that there is such a thing as "happy meat."
There is Drawbridge, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/, which follows the idea of having the whole OS as a library with a pico hypervisor.

Then you have all the language runtimes that run directly on the hardware, like Erlang on Xen, MirageOS and so on.
> It would be Medicare not Medicaid

The two are, most assuredly, not mutually exclusive.
I know the VC has to show faith in the company, but that is a very strong statement. Although I guess "one of the" is quite subjective.
It's the same for every messaging solution. Here, locally, it's WhatsApp right now that is even more annoying and therefor worse than Facebook (the number 2).

Depending on your social graph, the 'What? You're not on <insertServiceHere>?' question is what drives a large number of people to use otherwise utterly crappy services (Hey, WhatsApp!). BBM seems to be another niche here.
Who are you quoting? Certainly wasn't me!
That's a very simple thing to answer. If your sole goal is to transmit knowledge, then you don't know how to teach to create knowledge. And that would be the end of "innovation".
I'm optimistic enough to believe in a few wild cards trying to do good science. A whole bunch of the rest have to put a little bit of effort into competing with them.

It occurred to me a while after my other comment that a belief in the ability of people that test as health conscious to actually do things that improve their health might not be especially justified. I mean, lots of people are quite happy with whatever quackery, maybe it really does all come out in the wash.
Great application!

One bug I noticed is that when I mark a message as unread, the subject line / summary text goes back to what it used to be.

Maybe you guys could have an empty repo on GitHub to keep track of bugs?
Brand differentiation is important, but there are more ways to achieve that than, say, "shovel a crappy skin over ASOP"; "timely upgrades to new versions of Android" would be a good one (most vendors fail", minimising crapware (one point I give Sony), and "form factors and hardware features I like" (with two young kids, the waterproof Sony phones have a leg up here for me).
Wall Street Journal premiers NGHBRS "Instagram music video"
I do this with Thunderbird (IMAP access to gmail) and the Header Tools Lite plugin. Works for me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/header-to...
Ask HN: I want to quit my job. What am I doing?
Hey HN. Using a throwaway because I don't want to upset anybody.

I'm a developer (generalist), living in London, UK and working for a reasonably successful software company, in a reasonably successful position. I've been there for over 2yrs and it was my second job out of Uni, and where I've learned the majority of my skills. I'm 25, male.

For a few months now I've been considering quitting - I even tried once - because my heart isn't in it anymore. I'd planned to hand in my notice tomorrow. I've been fortunate and careful, and can afford to live off of savings for 2 or 3 months and still have left overs.

The trouble is, people are going to ask me, "So what's your plan next?" and the best answer I can think of is, "I'm not sure. I have a few ideas in the backlog."

I want to improve my skills, I want to work on some ideas I've had floating around, and I think if I'm "free" from employment I might be able to see a clearer path of what I want to do with my time. Ultimately, I'd like to be self-employed, but for now the most important thing to me is that I'm working on something where I'm learning a lot, being challenged, earning a modest salary and most of all, enjoying what I'm working on.

Given how indecisive I am about what I want to do, I'm afraid I'll just end up seeming like an entitled, waste-of-time person. That's not what I want.

I know there are many different paths to take in life, and I know I'm young so the world is my oyster. I'm kinda scared of what the future will hold if I do this, but I think if I stay at my job I'll be miserable.

I know there are folks out there who've been through similar things. I can't shake this feeling, it's been going on for months. Any advice?
I'm not sure this is actually true though. I have younger siblings (as in, much younger) and they seem to have to deal with a lot of stupid shit from their peers.
Surprising that they are not supporting pre-Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices.
The problem is not kids hovering over their iPads. I was pestered by parents to go outside instead of playing computer games all the time (in the 80ies). But I know how important computer games where to me, so I'll fight to allow my kid to play games (most parents are actually afraid their kids get brain damage if they are exposed to computers - certainly nobody was interested in having a computer at the kindergarden of my son).

The issue is that kids don't have much spare time to do whatever they want. Their time is filled up with scheduled activities.
I upvoted you but I disagree. When designers do unsolicited "spec" redesigns of big brands, I don't think they are representing the customer.

You can't represent the customer without doing some real research with real customers. I can't remember ever seeing those sorts of results in a spec redesign post.

Instead, I think they are using the brand as a canvas to show off their own abilities. And they always pick a big popular brand, because then they can leverage that popularity to promote their work.
We tried experimenting with having it always be on auto-edit mode (assumed most people don't heavily rely on shortcuts) so we definitely understand that this will interrupt your flow as a power gmail user. We will be pushing the feature to disable auto-edit in the next few days and I'd be more than happy to comment here when it's out :)
When one of your last advantages is from lock-in, giving up that lock-in seems… risky, at the very least.

Edit: Not that hanging onto it would help them either.
Controversial film shot at Disneyland without permission
Show HN: A nodeJS JSON powered Portfolio
Anxiety is one kind of mental illness.
It isn't that though, you are giving permission here quite clearly so if someone stumbles across this thread then they know some of the intention, however if they found the code without knowing the provenance, then they may not know that it is considered open to use, given the society in which we live.

Now I am not suggesting that you strap boilerplate to it, however a note that reassures people of their freedom to use the code without fear of reprisal is a polite consideration.

It is not because of wishing to be protected by the law, but rather trying to avoid being bashed over the head with it at some unspecified future time.

To expect complete strangers to trust that they understand your motives and opinions on the matter of whether they can use your work without worrying about it, would seem to be a stretch, at least in the general case unless it is made reasonably explicit, because a lot of the time society does not act that way and so it is useful to have some form of social signalling to let people know what the score is, which is all that licences are anyway, when you get right down to it.

And as far as trust goes, this is not a binary proposition, the middle ground is vast and has jungles in it.
I think it is generally agreed that monogamy drives people insane.
As a parent of an 8-year old, I don't think this is it at all. I think it's a couple things.

1. Cutbacks of "scheduled creativity" time at school. This is a HUGE one. In the 70's, my school had an art class, music class, plenty of PE. Now, that's hugely, hugely cut. If I want my kid to do art? music? sports? (she wants to, after all). After-school scheduled activity time!

2. 2 working parents. We're pretty free range, don't need to hover over playing kids, but we need to be within walking distance (at home down the street, or whatever). Juggling that "freely" as opposed to strictly-set activities? Much harder. Even if you get 1 afternoon free a week, there aren't other parents to trade off with.

3. Basically, chicken-and-egg. If my kid doesn't have anyone to play with because they're all off at activities, better to have them doing these activities with their peers than sitting at home bored and idle (not that some down/idle time isn't good, but there can be too much).

Can't think of ANYONE in my peer group who's worried about college for their kids yet. Maybe in a couple years.
Anecdotal definitely. Cell phone markets change lots depending on country, and no one has lived everywhere. As someone upthread said, they are used a lot by kids in the UK, for example.

FWIW, in my social circle and outer circles phone ownership is probably 70% android, 10% windows, 5% apple and 15% dumb phone, so yeah, different strokes for different folks.
Why rand.Int63(), not UInt64, in Go ("golang")?
This is really awesome. I'm also curious to know where you got your data from.
BBM is hugely popular in emerging markets, especially in Africa for instance.
Not sure if you are implying there will be 28% more rentals available in 18 months than there currently is, but thats totally untrue. There is about 135k current apartments in SF.

About 8,000 new apartments, mostly in mid-rise and high-rise buildings, will come on line between now and 2015. Thats around a 6% increase.

However, remember that we also have population gains in SF right now from incoming tech workers. Prices in rent are very unlikely to go down, however they will most likely stabilize.

You may be saying that more properties are going to be available around SF, but that has never changed value in SF before (oakland boom, for instance) and instead just made those surrounding areas go up.
Interesting. As a nitpick, this:

Specifically, we looked at high-tech companies which had raised a Seed or
Series A round AND which had exited and where an exit valuation was available.

skews things, because startups that exit for less than the amount of funding received are less likely to have their acquisition price reported publicly. It eliminates points from the bottom right of the graph, which could be responsible for the apparent positive correlation. Perhaps Fred would be right if those data points weren't excluded (and he does have access to those data points for his own companies).
I'll never forget organized sports in my childhood.... ever. And the year I quit for good. Things got worse and worse each year, until finally there was the year where the coach's son repeatedly made graphic death threats against me (explaining exactly where his dad's gun was hidden in the house and how he'd carry it out) as punishment for his perception of 'fuck ups' I made.

And -- I didn't even have involvement with any of the sports where the parents start fighting on the field and all get arrested for assault etc.
Levitate Exploit Development Platform - Node.JS - Scala
I developed a module for Node.JS and Scala(on his way). It is an exploit development platform and I am waiting for you contributions.

http://levitateplatform.org
True, but what puzzles me is that few people seem to object to that state of affairs. Maybe it is just that TV is that good at soothing emotions, or people are already used to being worker drones from their childhood?
I believe SS benefits are indexed to earnings; if she had spent 2.5 decades earning $25k per annum her ss benefits may have been quite low

it's worth noting that $25k pretax (and note $25k seems to have been a high), even at a modest tax rate, could easily fall (post income, fica, etc) to $18k post tax. Or $1500/mo.

medicare should start shortly after the 65th birthday, but people still have to buy Part B and either part C or D. afaik part B requires a typical 20% contribution; this can be quite painful if you're living / attempting to maintain a house on $1500/month

old age is no picnic, particularly in the usa, and that goes double for people who don't have significant savings
You'd think so, but from when they said 'Trello Gold is for individuals' it sounds like it won't even be available to business accounts.
Blizzard shutting down Diablo 3 real money and gold in-game auction houses
Two words: compound interest.
> In high pressure situations, like sales or fund raising, it can be excruciating. The elevated pulse, the sweat, blurred vision -- it's fight or flight response the entire way.

This might blow your mind or it might not, but there's a medicine called Propanolol that can basically eliminate the elevated pulse/shaking/sweats. Performers sometimes use it to combat stage fright. It's nonaddictive and doesn't affect your cognitive skills.

We sometimes get into a feedback loop of: fight-or-flight kicks in, brain freaks out which pushes fight-or-flight further, which freaks out our brain even further, etc. Propanolol short circuits the physiological side, so you're only battling your brain (instead of your brain and your body feeding off each other).

I had a bout of anxiety last year sparked by an unpleasant situation, and therapy helped but the fight-or-flight responses were absolutely crippling. My MD and therapist both suggested the medicine, so I gave it a shot and it's wonderful. I liken it to an armor on my body's responses. My mind may get freaked out but when my body doesn't react in kind, it's easy now with practice to settle down.

Anyway, sounds like you may have figured out your own solution, but I'm leaving this here for you or anyone else who might find it useful. Cheers.
Everyone here should demand an explanation from Rev. Walsh. You can e-mail him at: walshd@duq.edu
Why do small businesses raise money from friends and family?
Excellent idea! We just created one: https://github.com/TrySignal/Support
Twitter drops Ruby - The Bullshit
> It's a part of the lifecycle.

Because something is natural (part of the lifecycle) doesn't make it good or bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
What is misleading? Was there a different title at some point?
By that logic, we should never have eradicated smallpox.

We eradicated smallpox for everyone, without distinction between rulers and ruled. That's the difference!

a rising tide lifts all boats.

"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
Four minutes between the post below and this. Nice work!
the difference lies in quality of living. dying of cancer is a shitty way to go.

having a massive stroke/heart attack/aneurisma? at least you pop and you're gone. going through chemo/radio for months/years to slowly, painfully wither away is bullshit.

same is true for all those diseases, parkinsons, alzheimers, etc.

fuck them all. they are the bane of our existance, literally. pure evil.
Apple Releases Chrome and Firefox Extensions to Support iCloud Bookmark Sync
Seriously? You are way too naive.
You have to understand first the context and that is the biased view that Fred has based on the companies he / Union Square Ventures invests in - and for where he'll see the most data from.

Also, you have to define success - and success for who? If you take a larger Series A, that likely means founders are diluting more - and possibly previous investors. The idea being that if you can take as little as possible and find other means to grow and continue to develop product - other than throwing more money at it - then you'll be more 'successful' - whatever success means to you.

If how much you sell a company for is your what you care about, and not how much equity you have out of it - then cool - but 40% of something worth $100 million, is better than 10% of something worth $300 million.
I'm no longer jealous of all those american dev that makes 100k+ in that area.

Damn... 3000$ to rent... for a MONTH?!

I could get one hell of a house here at that price...
Most of this sounds absolutely useless. I mean, we could spend all day coming up with statistical hypotheses like:

"People who drink Folgers' coffee are more likely to be psychopaths"

"People who drive red cars are more likely to be psychopaths"

"People who eat out every 3rd Sunday of the month on leap years are more likely to be psychopaths"

...and we wouldn't be any smarter for it. Aren't there any more useful ways to show off your analytics platform?
Nginx Vs Apache in AWS – Updated
This is a fantastic concept, but I will never use it because I don't use Chrome and I don't like the idea of my inbox being different on each device I use.

I'll just wait for Google to either ripoff the idea or (hopefully) acquihire the company and integrate it into Gmail itself.

Really the idea that the message preview is the FIRST two lines is comically absurd, especially for a company like Google. It's actually amazing to me nobody has done this yet.
On viability: what's the state of the tunnel thermal expansion issue?

(Last I heard, it seemed like there might not be easy workarounds)
Edward Snowden's Leaks Were Masked By Job Duties
Vim does all of these. And it comes with a GUI, gvim, although the job of a text editor is so non-GUI that it seems ridiculous to describe a text editor for source code as a "graphical editor". Before you dismiss Vim, have a look at Cream http://cream.sourceforge.net/ which is just Vim with a better default config. Also look at Vim as Your IDE http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html

Most people who want a GUI end up with Eclipse or IntelliJ or Netbeans
Good catch ... this is eliminating an adequate amount of the relevant data.
I see. That was a bit obscure, though.
It's a very pleasant 96*F today!
Of course! Once you edit the email you can click on the 'Restore' button (visible inside the email) to display the original and toggle to your changes again by clicking 'Revert'
Take Two's GTA V posts $800 million in first-day sales
The burger pager
Working like a Hubber
Great, I'm sure they'll have a lot in common with their peers and a wide familiarity with their generation's culture when it comes time for them to interact with people whose lives you don't control.

As someone who also was forbidden to engage with popular culture (for vastly different reasons but essentially the same effects), I think it's great for children to grow up alienated and unable to connect with their peer group. This forces them to develop as individuals rather than as cogs in the machine of society.
Where's the HATEOAS?
Apparently, someone misses Makefiles
> > Apache and nginx => C > Tomcat, Jetty => Java
> Okay, if you are going to throw in Tomcat & Jetty, you should also throw in the likes of lighttpd, mongrel2, etc., all of which are written in C. Pretty much all the load balancers/reverse proxies are written in C too. Hmm.... is it maybe possible that it isn't always better to use C++ instead of C?

No, they were developed by open source Linux guys that only care about C in what concerns compiled languages.

C++ was always badly received by the Linux community, in contrast with commercial UNIXes.

> IIS => C++/C#
> Yup, the one outlier no doubt owes about 0% of its success to its tech stack. In general, if you don't work at Google and want a C++ web server on anything other than Windows, you are looking at a C++ server framework that has an embedded HTTP stack (tntnet, Wt, etc.).

Yes, nothing like contributing to have more insecure servers around.

>> That is my hope, after all we only need a few generations of developers and then the issue is taken care of by itself.

> I think you missed my point. ;-)

I surely got your point, but it is not about Darwin of languages, rather of developers.
> Two words: compound interest.

Compound interest works intergenerationally as well as within a lifetime, so that doesn't seem to be much of an argument.
I remember I was the lead developer at a small software company, and we had an annual user conference with some training sessions. As the "big picture" software person, I didn't have to lead "how to use the software" sessions, but I did have to give sessions on things like platform direction.

I remember one time... it might have been the second of these presentations I ever gave, I think? I was just really nervous at the beginning of the presentation. I don't know why it happened then as opposed to the first time or the third time, but for whatever reason, that's when it happened. And I could tell my voice was quavering in a way that had to be obvious to everyone, so it was like the sort of public speaking moment that people who are scared of public speaking are afraid of. It was pretty nerve wracking.

So basically all I did was force myself to keep going, quavering and all. The audience was completely sympathetic -- they were at the conference to learn about our software, so they wanted me to succeed at telling them about it. So even if it started out rocky, they were paying attention. And after a couple of minutes of not getting booed out of the room, I managed to settle down, get my voice under control, and make everything go more smoothly the rest of the way.

Now that I know what can happen if public speaking goes badly, and know that it's almost certainly going to be ok even if it does, I don't let it stress me as much. I still get nervous, but it's never any sort of paralyzing fear or anything. I know if I just find a way to keep going, I can probably make it work out ok.

That's actually true of an awful lot of things in life.
I stopped reading the article when I saw the image of the Intercom product architecture. Who needs shitty documentation like that?