skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting Q&A:

- Why is marijuana ilegal?

- Marijuana is illegal because it makes us think to much, the gov is trying to make us think what they tell us and not think for our selves, according to marijuana.com
But, considering this research is tax-funded (that includes my taxes), shouldn't I, a funder of this research, be allowed to access the raw results?
I've messed around with Rust a little and I love what I see! The documentation is still poor (understandable given how quickly the target is moving) but that seems to be changing. This is a really exciting, multi-paradigm language and I wish Mozilla all the best in developing it further!
"while the Journals make money off it they do provide some level of editorial standards"

Quite a few journals have volunteer editors and volunteer reviewers; publishers are contributing almost nothing to the quality of papers or of research.
I agree. Starting with "Finally" seems like a bit of a stretch. Solution in need of a problem?
This is pretty early stage. Minimum viable product for a search engine is a big task. Minimum viable product for a system that mines unstructured data is even bigger. But I think we have a good start.
See also: Satellite imaging test patterns[1]

[1] http://www.clui.org/newsletter/winter-2013/photo-calibration...
They used to be. But the market and IPOs are much different today.
> How could it be re-used?

To somewhat over-simplify, concrete is made from three things: Cement, large aggregate (big rocks), and small aggregate (little rocks). Broken up concrete works pretty well as large aggregate.
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love it. its fun and get the info I wanna know. thanks!
(disclaimer - I'm a former NASA contractor and current federal employee, though not at NASA)

Yes - and, in fact, the Administration released a memo on this topic earlier this year ("Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research" - http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...). However, each agency is responsible for developing their own individual plan on how to carry this out, and I don't believe NASA's has been published yet.
Talent is a commodity and is pretty fungible. But you can't replicate the pre-existing ecosystem of companies, nor the funding apparatuses that are present in major tech hubs.
I disagree with you on the first line, but the rest is reasonable. No manager (at least not me) wants to measure hours, but when an employee's production is waning, that's one of the things you CAN measure to see if that's part of the problem.

But if I find someone constantly looking at the clock when the hand strikes 5, I know they've already checked out, and that's not the kind of person I want on my team.
I've got exactly the same first reaction. Trying to read something useful and/or noble into this effort though – I do have friends who don't own a "proper computer", and manage all their non-work internet on their phones. I do find it hard to make a jump from "I don't have a computer, but I've got an idea that other people might fund on something like Kickstarter" to "I know, I'll download an app and run my Kickstarter from my iPhone".
Very good!. It's impressive how much work you take out of the people that want to develop new Applications/Websites/Services! This is really nice!
What if that person paid you a premium for it?
This app is more geared towards casual/everyday use cases and lowers the barrier to make those things happen. This isn't necessarily for large scale crowdfunding projects.
Another unfortunate example of the necessities of contributor agreements.
Interesting findings re. the paxos bugs. Dare I ask how reliable cass's sharded paxos is (in theory, at least) while you're adding/removing nodes from the cluster? How do all clients see consistent membership?
Yeah I did delete them after I realized people like you weren't interested in having a discussion, but instead were looking to start a flame war.

Why would you expect to read an article about this? If your comments are any indication, I am not in the minority on this subject.

Edit: This is exactly why I deleted the comments. I can't even explain myself without getting downvoted. If anyone wants to have a debate about it, I'm happy to do that, but I'm not going to engage in a poo flinging contest.
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How about splitting a bill at dinner? Or contributing to a campaign on the go before it sells out?
I think this is pretty incredible. Some of the questions I asked were;

Why is the sky blue?
The sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. 0. 4 years ago, according to chacha.com

why are conspiracy theories so popular?
Conspiracy theories are so popular because they are unable to be proven false, and many people love to be in the know, to have information that no one else has, according to popsci.com

why is obama popular?
Mr. Obama is popular because he is a historic figure, has an attractive personality, has passed key legislation, and receives adoring press coverage, according to online.wsj.com

What didn't work :-(
why is beer delicious
Why is my poop green
why is yawning contagious

Cheers, keep up the good work.
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Stealing was good for the majority of people in the financial services business who didn't get caught and go to jail.

The financial services industry, according to 2011 statistics, employed roughly 5.5 million people (and this is surely lower than the pre-2007 statistic). Do you honestly think that the majority of these people are thieves?

I could give one random person a million dollars and that would prove that people can escape poverty?

That's not how people escape poverty. People who rise up have to work to achieve it.
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I'm not that hard to find.
That's funny. The Github page (https://github.com/petewarden/openheatmap) says it was disabled due to "excessive use of resources, in violation of our Terms of Service."

I also didn't find anything here: https://github.com/github/dmca
Perhaps DOS wouldn't have restarted on that keyboard interrupt if it had been a single button?
What years did you attend? College costs have risen sharply, especially as states cut funding to state institutions.
>not because they have the latest in hipster underwear.

Lol
A mobile dev at Crowdtilt told me a few weeks ago that the app was meant for small-scale situations such as splitting a dinner bill between friends.

I doubt any large-scale public campaign would be started from a phone.
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My problem with the online course idea (aside from the fact that this is pretty much already available) is that it lacks interactivity. The only reason I went to half of my lectures as an undergrad was because I could ask questions and get an near instant, expert response.

And sure, it's possible to pause a video lecture and look something up, but in my experience, it's just not the same. If I'm trying to understand something for the first time, and a part of the lecture just doesn't quite make sense, I want the transaction cost of clarifying a point to be as low as possible.
They can demand it but they better be paying/equitizing me appropriately.
Why not BitBucket then? Github is nice, but it's not the end-all of hosting solutions.
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More customers, possibly, but I'm sure less money. HBO isn't foolish, they've got accountants and actuaries figuring out exactly when and if they should switch to digital subscriptions.

The other important thing to remember is all of the advertising and sales the cable providers give. Its a racket they're all in together and its still working well for them.
these are great - also good for starting campfires
Just a few cases for the app other (as of 50 minutes since post time) commenters aren't appreciating:

-I want to split a bill at dinner with friends

-I want to contribute to a charity fundraiser while at the event they are holding

-I want to snag tickets to an event that might sell out while out and about and don't want to wait till I get back to my computer to do it

-I want to snag tickets to an event while at the entrance to that event
That's been my feeling exactly, and why I was delighted that Rust didn't have HTTP support yet.

That follows through to many other aspects of e.g. web frameworks; there's a lot there where string typing is used. When rust-http is stable enough, I'll be getting on to my dream framework which will be astonishingly safe and bamboozlingly quick (to start and to run, if not quite to compile), incorporating and extending various ideas at present only present in Haskell frameworks and a couple of other similar language-frameworks (e.g. Ur/Web). It'll be fun!

I've been mostly a Python developer hitherto, but I'd never have tried something like this in Python—it simply wouldn't work. You need a type system like Rust's before it can work, but then it really works.
1) It shows all events and assignments. So the assignments you follow and events you accept are here. Colored dots are color coded by class. If anyone else is attending the event it'll show their name below the event.

2) Classes are more like groups. You can't send a message to a peer yet. But thats absolutely something we are doing for the next iteration. Communication is key, I think.

3) Feed w/ comments. If you post to a class, it'll show up here. Comments for events/assignments are coming.

Ahh, ok. Class is just adding a class like you would in a homework planner. Work was "supposed" to be either a test or assignment.

Invite friends is an invite to the app. Perhaps this can be changed to "Share Peers with a friend"

This is probably the best feedback we have received. We wanted to make things as simple as possible so that we can see how people use it and follow to what students use most.

I agree that a demo video would be good. And, alot of the things you pointed out are obviously not clear. Every iteration I think we get better and better at this. So v1.0.3 will hopefully make even more sense.

I can't thank you enough for the feedback. We're trying to pull negative feedback from people and make a product that serves students. THANKS AGAIN!
Tell it to the hour-demanders. I've worked for them, I'm pretty sure they don't listen to reason, and they're worse than a crazy girlfriend.
So people with occupational aspirations and a desire to be happy are somehow unworthy of working for your company?
No. As long as they don't expect to clock an exact 40 every week. If we just finished a sprint and things are going well, I'm happy to tell people to go home or take a break.

If we're in a sprint, or shit hits the fan, or revenue is down, or anything else that requires hands on deck, I expect people to complete the task, even if it means more than 40 hours.
Ive been making it my mission to improve the docs, especially as the language settles down.

Any suggestions welcome, here or via email.
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Keep in mind, though, that sticker price at an elite private university is often a lot more than you will actually pay if you are not from a wealthy family.

For example, according to Harvard:

During the 2012-2013 academic year, students from
families with incomes below $65,000, and with assets
typical for that income level, will generally pay
nothing toward the cost of attending Harvard College.
Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000
will contribute from 0 to 10 percent of income,
depending on individual circumstances. Significant
financial aid also is available for families above
those income ranges. [1]

Things are similar at other major elite private universities.

If two years of community college and two years of in-state public school will provide all you want, then by all means do that. But if you would actually prefer someplace like Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, etc., it's worth actually running the numbers rather than eliminating them on the assumption that they are terrifically expensive. Most of them have online net price calculators that will let you enter details of you and your parents' incomes and assets and family situation (how many kids in college, for example), and will tell you your real cost of attending.

[1] http://www.harvard.edu/harvard-glance
:-) Any how do I report this to get fixed ? Couldn't just keep seeing this mistake!
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Quartz has some great charts showing the outstanding US Student Debt:

http://qz.com/search/student+debt
My wife is doing this, and while I agree the price is actually sane, the service can be extremely poor and horribly demoralizing, especially if you are bright and used to getting things done. Even at the flagship campuses of a community college system. The administrative functions of the school are extremely poor. Some of the instructors are OK others are downright unqualified to teach anything. When there are problems with registration (putting her in the wrong classes), or with instructors (teaching things that are wrong and grading accordingly), or advising (she has had a new advisor almost every semester and the degree requirements change about as often), there is nobody to go to (they think you are another whiner that just wants to complain your way out of the rules) and no recourse other than suck it up and suffer through.

So far she is looking likely graduate with an associates degree free after tax incentives. She is quite disillusioned with the idea now though and many areas of study she was previously very interested in she cannot stand now because it brings up memories of wretched experiences with. I'm not sure she'll be able to stand another two years in this sort of environment though, it feels like such a waste of time to the point where no piece of paper could be worth this much punishment.

The difference between her experience and my recent one in a masters program at a top tier university (largely paid by my employer or else I wouldn't have bothered) is night and day. The facilities work. The administration works. You can take the classes you want and the registration system works. Everything can be done online without standing in lines. If you actually want to talk to a person you can walk in and do it rather than setting up an appointment a month in advance. Instructors teach current knowledge and get their facts mostly correct. If you ask them questions they can usually answer them. They treat you like a human being rather than a child they are there to babysit. The other students don't think you are a god because you can show up on time and do some homework.

I don't intend to generalize to all community colleges, I am sure there are some OK ones, but at least with the ones I've had experiences with you may have to deal with an unreasonable level of BS in exchange for the discounted tuition. Because of the way the in county / in state rules work you often can't shop around too much and may be stuck with whatever school is where you live.
I'm talking about managing the complexity of the device for users, not manage internal complexity (which they clearly can do very well). I own quite a bit of samsung gear, and they're quite awful at e.g. TV menu systems.

Samsung isn't an innovative company (at least in terms of products). They're a fast follower -- a hardware microsoft if you like. Good at execution and imitation. Nothing wrong with that, the world needs Samsungs just as it needs Apples and Googles.
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Totally. But I would never ask someone to work 80 hours unless it was very short term and/or a critical situation.
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I'm constantly looking at the clock when the hand strikes 5 because I've got to pick up the kids from daycare. Sometimes if I finish whatever I was working on 10 minutes early, yeah, I'm checked out. What does it matter? You either do good work in the time you're at work or you don't. There are definitely places that want people to put in an appearance of slaving away as they don't know any other way to gauge productivity. The other thing I've seen (and done, in the past) is working 80+ hour weeks because everything's out of control, no one has a solid pulse on the business, and the job is a constant putting out of fires. Granted, some of this is endemic to start-up life, but if the shit is constantly flowing downhill, not a good sign.
Note that Windows XP 64 bit was a thing. :-)

Very few of today's apps actually benefit from having more than 3GB of address space. Nothing on my desktop PC is using more than 300MB at the moment. All else being equal, 32 bits will be more efficient, particularly on portable devices which tend to have far less memory bandwidth.
You sound interested in this: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung...

And this: http://people.mozilla.org/~roc/Samsung/MozillaRustAndServo.p...
As an emerging space power, I believe this campaign needs to get some media coverage in China.
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Your comments aren't doing you any favors. If what they're saying is bullshit, then shut up and don't give 'em the satisfaction (what do you have to prove?). If they're right, then consider what they have to say and act on it appropriately.
His crime was obtaining information he knew he shouldn't have been accessing. He didn't get out in jail because someone didn't like what he did, he got put in jail because he broke the law.
10.000? Is this affordable for people who make no money? We're talking about people aged 18-22. Do they make money? How the hell is it fair to elect people by the wealth of their families?!

Come on people! Don't you see the huge discrimination?

This system is a blood sucker. Please demand a real change instead of dealing with it
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Good points, I suppose I was looking at it from my POV. Even before I started going to college I've loved learning on my own and developed an enjoyment of computers, so it doesn't matter much to me motivationally who my classmates are. Not to sound cocky, but the Intro classes I'm going through are already below my knowledge level (except some of the Math). By the time I'm hitting the higher level courses I'll be at the 4-year university.

I guess it depends on the community college, but I imagine most of the larger ones in major metro areas have extracurriculars that somewhat rival large universities. Here in Baltimore Co. there are a lot of clubs and the student newspaper is a pretty decent production[1].

Still I get what you mean about connections, especially in some of the more social disciplines like business. But for me (Comp Sci) it wouldn't be worth the extra 60k+, and I actually already have some connections into the field through family. Nepotism works for me :D

[1]http://blog.ccbcmd.edu/connection/
Perhaps 100s of TBs but 100 of GBs is not a difficult problem to solve, perhaps once you get to more than 100 TB you'd be beyond the capabilities of a single chassis.

Even a petabyte should fit in a rack or two.

I really fail to understand how a business could acquire that much data and not be able to sell it.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...

Here ya go, 180 TB for $10K in 4U, which means 10 to a rack which means 1.8 PB per rack. Who has 180 TB of database that isn't worth $10K?
GitHubber here, we'll follow up on this with Pete. We think one of our replies was missed along the line. Thanks for letting us know.
The conundrum is that unlike manual labor, under some circumstances programming can actually see increase in productivity per hour the more time per day you spend at it. (Less mental context switching? I don't know why it is)

But that's usually only if you don't factor in resulting burnout. Experienced developers recognize this and is why they're more reluctant to work for hour-demanders.
There must be a name for this syndrome - tendency of US-based developers to over-exoticize foreign places, taking at face value all official units of measure, languages, etc.
Recess; at the turn-around point of their route; between classes.
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Are you sure the device reset API did nothing? It may have spawned a thread.
I don't care if they ever change, I just think it debases us to cozy up to them.
There is a balance between accessing raw results and everyone accessing the means by which those raw results are accessed.

I say this as an Information Wants To Be Free t-shirt wearer.

No one hates someone who holds something if they know the holding of it is something everyone wants.
A sole proprietor or general partner is more credible and worth more to an investor because the person is responsible for their actions.
I'm with you. It shouldn't be illegal to ask someone to work 60hrs/week. Provided you inform them that this is desired of them UP FRONT during the hiring process. People should be free to work and hire based on their own situations.

I would also recommend paying about 1.75X "market rate" (which assumes the 40 hour week) to attract candidates worth hiring. Overtime is as overtime does.
> Is the phone app spam if I want nothing to do with it? The music app if I don't listen to music?

Yes. This is quite real of me, I assure you. If I can't make it Go Away if I have no use for it, it's spam. As it happens, I've consolidated my reading. It isn't in Newsstand. It should not trouble me if I don't want it, and having a "junk" drawer is a sad non-solution.
Consider this: I see a pothole on my street, I hate it so I take a picture and tweet about how I wish it was gone. Enter crowdtilt, instead, I take a picture and create a campaign, it gets shared on facebook and twitter and suddenly a movement to fix the pothole has started. Worst case the campaign doesn't tilt and it's the equivalent of a tweet, best case we raise money to actually fix the damn thing, talk about putting your money where your mouth is!

While this behavior may not exist yet, I see a future where this app enables people to make much stronger statements about change they would like to see and gives them a dead simple way to contribute to those changes (plus all the fun spontaneous social stuff :).
> For example, we have already observed many instances where opportunities made available this week via general solicitation are being offered at different terms compared to what institutional investors like FundersClub are buying in at or seeing privately, with no disclosure made to the public investors that they are receiving worse terms.

Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that the professionals aren't buying in to pre-revenue startup convertible note deals that offer $10 million valuation caps and 2% interest?!?

Who woulda thunk?
Yeah you're right. I was hoping to engage in a productive discussion on the topic, but it's not happening.
Same here. It's grim on the wrong side of the pond.
HBO is sort of foolish, in some of the statements their head has made. They really don't get this internet thing and still think it's going to be a passing fad.

For now it's fine of course, but it sounds like they want to be dragged kicking and screaming into new distribution. Instead of being a leader and putting themselves into a powerful position (they already create incredible content)
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Hey, sorry about that! The app just launched today, so I wanted to throw up a link.

Here's a blog post that can hopefully give you some additional clarification: http://blog.crowdtilt.com/post/61679155794/put-change-in-you...