skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can humans eat jellyfish? Maybe part of the solution is to shift overfishing to the jellyfish population.
> I wish the voters would get aware.

Many of the bureaucratic rules that increase costs are the direct results of the voters getting aware of costs and demanding that something be done to constrain them.

If you want the voters to get a deep understanding of what specifically drives costs in IT (or other particular domains of concerns), that's a nice wish, but its not particularly realistic.
This is great! We actually built something very similar to this for the 2011 Node Knockout, we called it Rapminder (as a nod to Gapminder, and serendipity had it that I met Hans Rosling just outside our office the day before the hackathon).

We mined the lyrics from OHHLA [1], matched the metadata from Discogs [2], built a word structure in Redis and drew the graphs with D3. We built it with an eye to Rap Genius, but sadly we haven't kept it online after the Knockout. I'll look into setting it up again.

[1] http://ohhla.com/
[2] http://discogs.com/
How to get set up to develop in Scala on Android
I'm still a student, but I pulled through something similar (trying to get into college), and I thought harder work would get me there. After a couple of months of sleeping 4 hours a day, and way too much coffee and ramen (some cram nights, I'd down 4 cans of nescafé,2 starbucks mocha's and 4 redbulls just to stay working, along with a bowl of cheap ramen to top it off), I started getting frequent colds, eye infections, you name it. I started dozing off and not waking up. I felt giddy in my skin. It was downright terrible.

And the irony of it? After totaling my body, I totaled my grades. Bye,bye Ivy's, it was nice :).

So I don't entirely agree with the author that lack of hard work should be the usual suspect, and that burnouts are an euphemism for slackerism.
It looks like they are at $450m for the past 12 months (ending june 30), and are on track to pass $500m this year, even assuming no further revenue growth for the rest of the year.
Ask HN: Experience in marketing a niche product with customization work?
I have a product which requires a server and monitor.
Also, i need to do customization work for each client (they have different devices i have to connect to).

I do this in my part-time.

What success did you have in marketing a similar product (let's say i have 20 potential customers in Belgium).. Or what advice in marketing strategy would you give me?

Because of the low client %, i want to get it right from the first time... :)

Extra info:
I can look up my clients, get their addresses, website, ... So i can find out who they are :).
>organisms that are simple and adaptable

I would be careful with the word simple. Adaptable is the important component, and that seems to be related more to being small and not particularly specialized. Simple sounds like a description of the amount of genetic data the species contains. It has been a while since I took biology, but if I recall correctly, even small and adaptable species have a lot of genetic data. When a mass extinction event happens, once the environment stabilizes, the doors are open for large animals again, and the small ones already have the genetic complexity needed to fill those niches relatively quickly.
What's wrong with solar powered floaties to do that job? We could make them in the shape of yellow rubber duckies!
I like this idea, but I don't know how it would handle multiple conflicting goals. Hansen gives a sample goal of improving the economy, but what if you also want to protect the environment, take care of your old and sick, maintain a strong defense, educate your children, etc?

I suppose you could weight them by importance (based on score voting maybe), have people bet on each policy's effect on every goal, and apply an optimization algorithm to the whole thing to get policy decisions, but not many people would understand and trust the system.
They were surveilling him were before the IRS charges. Not normal in a standard tax evasion matter.
HN attracts some highly intelligent and resourceful people who do things that are radical and can change the way all other people do things. And I think these are the very people who can help to fix these sorts of real world problems.
Make an academic webpage! Mention all of your interests, past and current work! Put the URL in your HN profile!

That exclamation points are because I care. I just spent ten minutes googling around to find your work. Computer science is nice in that researchers can get jobs in industry, and not just academia. But you have to be discoverable first.
Someone posted this link to an explanation a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6492366 It looks like that blogger will be writing more on Urbit soon. At the very least the comments on that blog post are informative & opinionated: look for the one by "StephenH".

Basically, Urbit's thesis is that "the internet is broken"---that it's a square peg document delivery system hammered viciously into a round distributed applications hole---and that UNIX is overpowered / for sysadmins. Urbit's goal is to replace your C-based OS and your HTML-based web with a unified, typed functional, VM-ish "thing". (Source: what I remember from the presentation video.)

To summarize: fix broken web, fix broken OS, create the developer's idea of a decent functional language. I think he knows he's being quixotic, but his morale is good and he's having a nice time of it.

Anybody at all please go ahead and correct me if I got anything wrong---I'm absolutely not an expert on any of this.
...not sure if you've mistaken me for someone else. I have no part in this discussion except making the procedural point.
Gee, I wonder if they're sluggish on fixing these flaws because certain 3-letter agencies enjoy the ability to easily push malware to our phones.
This system suffers from the same political economy problems that democracies have. For example, if I am a corn producer in the USA, I have a strong incentive to spend lots of money lobbying and contributing to political campaigns to ensure a strong protectionist policy for sugar. It ensures that my corn is purchased and used for corn syrup, and that Brazilian sugar cane doesn't destroy my market.

The good from this policy is concentrated on the corn producers, and the harm is spread diffusely across all people who consume sweets. If I am an average consumer of sweets, I see little benefit fighting this policy today, since it will only change the price of a soda by a few cents.

Under a "Futarchy", the corn lobby can spend lots of money to "predict" that a sugar tariff will make the country better. They might even believe it, but I will have little incentive to vote with my wallet against such a policy, since the harm will be diffuse and extremely difficult to conclusively pick out from the noise using econometric techniques. Result: a strong tariff, which almost all economists agree is a bad policy. [1]

Just because Futarchy is vulnerable to some of the same problems as democracy as practiced in the USA doesn't mean it is a bad system, but I fail to see how it is functionally different than a plutocracy. [2]

The problem with prediction markets is that they are only accurate in so much as one's incentive to "waste" money producing an incorrect prediction is smaller than the amount of money to be made by having that incorrect prediction.

Hanging all law off of the results of prediction markets creates HUGE incentives for me to game the prediction markets, then extract rents elsewhere in the economy to more than recoup my investment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

(Edited for grammar, citations).
Thank you for reminding me to think before I start complaining.
A quick note (since I'm on my phone) until someone posts a better reply: ev/fcf is a financial ratio you can use to compare how much you are paying for various companies (idea being that similar companies should sell for roughly similar ratios). DCF takes all the cash a company will ever make and tells you how much you should pay for that now. Basically, there are a lot of ways to value a company and some methods are better suited for a given stage in a company's life than others (for example, many methods fall apart when a company has no earnings or has negative cash flows).
An investor buying 5% of the company doesn't cause a lot of dilution. Earlier rounds were certainly more dilutive.
There's too much of this ignorance being couched as sound financial analysis here time and time again. Twitter's revenue's are exploding: $28,278,000: revenue generated in 2010, $106,313,000: revenue generated in 2011, $316,933,000: revenue generated in 2012 $253,635,000: revenue generated in the first half of 2013. They could easily be profitable if they cared to. They don't. They shouldn't. They have this fantastic opportunity to build a platform that touches everyone's lives. They have easy access to capital. Seize the day! They don't need to run Twitter like you run a corner store.
Google mobile search is getting faster
Sorry, most of those are ticker symbols (AMZN, FB, CRM, TSLA, F, GM, ARMH, and QCOM).

Other than that, QE is quantitative easing; EV/FCF is enterprise value divided by free cash flow, which can be a useful ratio sometimes (company has a lot of cash/equivalents or lots of non-cash charges lowering earnings); and DCF is discounted cash flow, which the sibling comment explains well.
This is just an ordinary use of supervised learning; they just used Mechanical Turk instead of undergrads. The point of the human classification was to generate the labeled data for model training.

The talk they gave, "Deep learning for NLP (without magic)" was pretty good: http://techtalks.tv/events/312/573/
Google didn't really go full on expansive product company until after their IPO.

Maybe twitter will do the same.
Mozilla Summit 2013
Mozilla Celebrating Release of New Firefox OS, going to be one of the largest summit ever organised.
Just another reason for me to continue to despise Adobe. Thankfully I bought my version of Acrobat Pro on Amazon so they did not have my credit card, but still Adobe handed all my other information over to the hackers due to poor security practices. Thankfully I also had used Lastpass to generate a unique password for their site.
> Why does this belong on Hacker News?

You may want to re-read the guidelines.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> I have no problem with interesting articles being upvoted

What topics do you think should be on HN?
The Exchange isn't just a technology stack.
I like this a lot. Seems genuinely useful.

A simple version might be something that beeps like a seatbelt-detector if there is weight in back seat but not in front.
Chuck Goldman Ready To Lead the Next Revolution in Boston Mobile Tech
Personally, I love jellyfish salad (a common chinese dish).
Some jellyfish.
It's rare I've been so ticked of at an article.

First off, this guy has no conception of burn out.

I work as a consultant. Just the last 12 months in my tiny part of the woods, I've seen several people break down at work and go home crying, two under-30 founders getting hospitalized for heart conditions(!) and the worst: A 40 year-old managing director falling dead from a simple flu infection. Family said the doctors explanation was a severely compromised immune system, most likely due to overwork.

This is not isolated cases, I'd bet most people with just a modicum of perception and commercial experience, will have seen this time and time again.

This guy says that when he wastes 2-3 hours on surfing the net, he feels more burnt out. And it's really just a mental attitude. Your little ups and downs during the working day/week, has nothing what so ever to do with stress and burn out.

If it weren't for his extremely condescending tone and know-it-all attitude, I'd have given him a pass as some young, social media wannabe.

But to go out and exclaim "just power through, it's all in your head" is not just uninformed or stupid advice. It's downright dangerous, and it has to be addressed. I hope anybody, especially young, reading this piece of garbage, thinks twice before they adapt the "rah rah" attitude of this strongly opinionated but completely narrow minded programmer.

For his other point about the "hard workers" toiling away at the same things for years on end, always surpassing more fickle personalities in the end. Well, I think anybody who's worked at big corp will know a whole bunch of lifers, soon-to-be-retired greybeards / middle managers who, despite 40 years at the helm, still only have a third of the influence, autonomy and income of the young and driven business consultant.

Yeah hard work is a requirement to go somewhere. But unless you just want to climb a ladder that others have put in front of you, don't let anybody call you a lazy, entitled brat for not buckling down for 5-10 years at a time.
> The problem is that we would like to continue living in an environment similar to what we evolved in, and we would like to continue to have large amounts of bio-diversity and biological services available on a timeline that is useful to us.

I'm adept of the view that the environment influences the organisms as much as organisms influence their environment, or rather that there isn't a clear distinction between environment and the organisms in it [1].

It should be an unrealistic notion to have living human beings and expect the environment to stay the same as before humans [2]. Events like increased CO2 levels in the ocean should be seen as the way things are, rather than one-off catastrophes. These events are what push back on our species, and we are expected to either adapt (be it consciously, with counter-measures, or by accident) or die altogether.

> An interesting corollary to this is the idea that the natural environment is itself unsustainable. (...) Thankfully, we humans have averted this catastrophe by finding a way to recycle the formerly lost carbon and return it to the environment.

This is indeed an interesting perspective, which I subscribe too, and aligns well with the Gaia theory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Interesting history, makes sense. (I thought your name was familiar: you are the author of the cgroups.txt kernel documentation! Do you still get to work on this stuff much? What is your take on the apparent popularization of container-based virt? What are the kernel features you would like to see in the area that do not yet exist?)

Was there a reason you guys didn't open source this many years ago?
Here you go:

http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/Pages/FinancialReports.aspx

Looks like $120 million for the 4 call centers, $100 million for outreach and advertising, $50 million "other", and $30 million "eligibility and enrollment". Maybe the enrollment system is in that $30 million?
At the same time I feel both excited and a bit sceptical.
This seems great because it opens a lot of possibilities.

But also has the potential to turn into another "Please download and install Adobe Flash player and refresh the page in order to view this content" thing.

It would be brilliant if browsers supported this natively (but then, I doubt IE ever would).
Well 2-3 weeks ain't that bad. It's quite better than average for the industry.
> If I say "He may be tall, but he's ugly"[1] his height is not in question.

The idiom may, depending on context, imply acceptance of the proposition that is preceded by "may", but more generally (whether or not that is the case) it means that that proposition's truth is irrelevant, and that the important thing is the subsequent proposition.
> architecture astronauts

That's an awesome term for something I never quite had a word for.
Good project. The same way we can run Java Virtual Machine applications in browser, we could run Linux Virtual Machine applications.
Gives a different meaning to "Hacker News". But seriously: a very engaging, honest story.
For those of you into the Arduino stuff, what are you making with these boards (the ones in the article, the Beagle* boards, even the Pi)? I've read a bunch of the "Build an 'x' with your RPi!" articles but I'm interested in hearing about some "real-world" things others have built.
I used to pay for Photoshop and Illustrator too, until I realized Adobe was more interested in adding clutter-ware (Adobe Updater, anyone?) than trimming down and speeding up their monstrosity of a code base.

After a while on Inkscape I am now running with:

- Sketch (http://www.bohemiancoding.com) as a replacement to Illustrator (vector drawing).

- Acorn (http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/) as an alternative to Photoshop for bitmap design (though it now supports vector drawing, much like Photoshop).

I am not affiliated in any way.
What will make things really bad, but for many less people.

Confirming the GP's argument, that Nature wins in the end. Winning is easier when you are not fighting anything.
How power turbines work [video]
That's a one bedroom or studio. As the number of bedrooms goes up, the price per room goes down.
Is that absolutely clear to you? Because it isn't to me.

From the "big announcement" earlier today:

During an investigation into several Lavabit user accounts, the federal government demanded both unfettered access to all user communications and a copy of the Lavabit encryption keys used to secure web, instant message and email traffic.
Also completely perplexed by this. The author seems to rush to put up a defense fund websites for high profile tech cases. The same author started a Manning Defense fund quickly after the story broke.
Grain of salt? There isn't enough Sodium on this planet I can read Reddit with.

Comments are garbage most of the time unless you find some super niche undeveloped subreddit unplagued by the masses, only retaining passionate users.

What happens is a community starts with people passionate about the topic of the community, and then the focus shifts from content to community preservation once the masses leak in and it devolves from there.

Because it's unmoderated for the most part (subreddit moderators don't count, most are bad at what they do, source: most subreddit content is bad), communities quickly devolve into the lowest common denominator of discussion, memes, bad unfunny overused jokes, and puns (which I really don't mind actually).

Sorry, I have a severe distaste for Reddit once I realized how "dumb" it actually is. I realized this when I saw articles posted to Reddit from HN that hit r/all and how different the comments were. Reddit for the most part seems fueled by hormones, HN is level headed.
the picture lets you see the height and width of all of them and I think both parameters tell you things about the "shape" of the code
Fair enough, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

But I'd be curious at what price you're be willing to pay for Twitter shares based on the filing.
What? It's much, much cheaper to live with other people than by oneself.
Hacker Scouts own post on this (plaintext as actual site is overloaded):

Dear Hacker Scouts Community,

We have good news and bad news. The bad news , which should always be delivered first, is that we have received another letter from the BSA refusing to compromise or consider a licensing agreement and reaffirming their demand that we change our name or they will take legal action. This disappointed us, but it gave us a very clear choice to make. Our board took this matter seriously and our lawyer, who was as compassionate and supportive as he was wise, gave us his assessments. Based on all of that, our board has decided to close this matter and change our name.

We know this will disappoint some of you. We know some of you wanted us to fight this. We don't blame you. We had those same feelings. But our job is to keep our organization focused on its mission. Our job is to make this kind of education as accessible and affordable to as many kids as we can. It came down to how does this further our goals and objectives? And it doesn't.

It has already taken large amounts of time and energy that could have been used elsewhere. Often , when we need pearls of wisdom, we ask a kid. As usual, we were not disappointed. "It doesn't matter what you call Hacker Scouts," one kid told EdD Samantha Cook. "You could call it "booger" and I would still come. This is the best thing in my week." It was just what we needed to hear to make peace with our decision, although we did not add "booger" to the short list.

So the good news is that we have a chance to reinvent ourselves in some ways with a new name, which, once it is chosen, will allow us to move forward in several other areas. Also, now more people are aware of the extraordinary powers the US government has given an organization that continues to discriminate and abuse it's position. It is our hope that regardless of our situation, that Congress will take another look at their congressional charter and amend it to reflect and abide by the same laws the rest of us must follow. The good news is also that while our name may change, the vision and commitment hasn't. We are relieved to have closure and excited to continue moving forward!

Once again, we would like to thank you for all the kind emails and posts in support of our situation. We will be announcing our new name and how we plan to transition soon. If you would like to help us move forward and be able to expand the amount of programs, activities, and badges we can offer our local and national community, we ask you to support our Kickstarter. As always, you can email us with any questions you might have.

Warmly, The Hacker Scouts Board

And the link (currently overloaded) : http://hacker-scouts.org/blog/hacker-scouts-and-bsa-decision
It's like I stepped off a time machine and I'm in 1999 reading the Yahoo Finance message boards.
You'd have to calibrate it to ignore the weight of the car seat, since people leave them in place. Seems like great idea though.
When asking about our ability to geiengineer, remember that we are the once that caused this problem in the first place, and without even trying. Having said that, releasing CO2 is a much easier problem than removing it.
As to your proposal, CO2 would decompose into C2 and O2 (with twice as many O2 molecules). Incidentally, C2 is a strong acid [1]. Additionally, breaking CO2 this way would move it to a higher energy state, and therefore require a net input of energy. (Technically, given what I know, it is possible that there is just a high activation energy to do this, but seeing as CO2 is such a common product of energy releasing reactions, including metabolism, I'm pretty sure it is just a low energy molecule). Also, it took pretty much all of our industrial force to introduce the CO2 in the first place, and there was huge economic incentive.

The more popular ideas in geo-engineering are to let nature do the hard work for us. For example, a common idea is to introduce iron to the ocean. This would increase plankton populations, and the plankton would then use solar power to remove CO2.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic_carbon
Bruce Schneier also changed his PGP key to 4096-bit short time ago when he started to deal with Snowden leaks.
His point is that it only becomes feasible when you are living with roommates. My point is that San Francisco is unique in that regard.
The biggest risk is doing nothing at all.
That is a great resource!
Also check out
http://breakpoint.io - show your side project to the world!
http://sideprojects.web3canvas.com/
Please do! I'm considering buying this. I'm curious as to which codes it will catch.
In NYC, they had to take over the private fire departments since multiple ones would show up and fight each other over who had the right to get the money from fighting the fire. It was a mess.