skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I got my first IBM PC in early 1982, IBM only offered single sided single density floppy drives with 160KB each.

But double sided drives were already available on the market. The only problem was that the PC BIOS and DOS didn't support the second side.

So I bought a PC with no floppy drives and picked up a couple of double sided drives at a local distributor for $300 each.

As I'd hoped, they worked fine as single sided drives too, so I was able to boot DOS. Then I got to work on supporting the other side.

It seemed a bit complicated to try to merge the two sides into a single FAT filesystem, so I wrote a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident program) that mapped the other two sides onto additional drive letters.

That turned out to be surprisingly easy. So the four sides on my two floppy drives were A:, B:, C:, and D: drives.

Later I got an awesome Tallgrass 10MB hard drive for only $5000, and that became my E: drive.

Now I knew my storage problems were over: I would never run out of space with that thing!
Here's what really puzzles me. John Carmack was a legend by the time of the Mitzi incident. Instead of dumping the poor creature at the animal shelter like he did, he could have auctioned off "John Carmack's frickin' cat" to his legion of admirers, giving it a new home.

Or he could have taken it to a vet and probably found out it had bladder stones which could have been removed by a ~$1,000 procedure, but I digress.

And that I think is part of why I'm not rich like he is...
I'm trying to figure out what the problem is, and I can't see how the compatibility list would force Google into such a legacy mode:

<domain docMode="EmulateIE10" versionVector="10" uaString="10" featureSwitch="overrideXUACompatible:false">google.com</domain>

It seems to read as: render and present as IE10, and if there is a `<meta` tag specifying x-ua-compatibility, don't ignore it.

There's another section that overrides the backwards/forwards cache setting for google.com:

<BFCache>
...
<domain exclude="true">google.com</domain>

But I've no clue how that would affect rendering so much.

I've disabled both settings (commented out) and will report back if commenting them out fixes Google.
Interactive LaTeX in HTML5
Anyone know of a service like this with good Pager Duty integration? I've previously used Pingdom (which doesn't), and I'd happily make the switch.
I work in risk analytics and think this comment is dead on. Tools such as Splunk can wrap metadata facilitating analysis around arbitrary input data (e.g. admin logs, vulnerability scan results, etc). I expect that such tools will reduce the need for some of the work currently done by data scientists.

With that said, there is still a need for human driven analysis of risk data in order to compose models that prioritize and collate incoming signals in ways to assist in risk management decisions. These models are highly domain specific (e.g. a model for evaluating IT infrastructure assets' risk across a global banking business) and are nontrivial to design.

I suspect that data scientists will be useful in bridging the gap between automated risk analytics collection tools and corporate risk management by assisting in coming up with risk models based on the volumes of incoming data.

Edit: or maybe "quants", not "data scientists" will fill this role. Regardless of the naming convention, it's an interesting and complex space to watch.
oooh, somebody should get this to work with ncmpcpp!
> I was at a job forum a couple weeks ago, and whenever I would bring up my incoming doctorate, company reps would be like "Oh, well our stuff must be pretty boring to you, then." I really wanted to say, "If I'm talking to you, it means what you're doing is interesting to me!"

Yes! There is an absolute myth in industry that if someone who has a PhD shows interest, then you're best looking elsewhere, because they're likely to not find the work challenging enough and jump ship easily as a result.

I'm on the verge of completing my PhD thesis, so I can easily relate to what you're saying. I've pretty much perfected the art of starting with "I'm getting my PhD, but don't assume that I'm not interested in more "mundane" things". Pretty much, I think there's a challenge to be had in any tech job, and I think the main characteristics to convey to a possible future employer is that beyond having a great tech skill set, you know how to manage a project (HUGE skill I've gained from managing my PhD), you know how to perservere in the face of adversity (any PhD candidate that hasn't faced this hasn't done their PhD the "right" way in my opinion), and you're creative right down to your core.
You just described my morning. Opened HN right after this:

Tracing route to debian.org [128.31.0.51]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 42 ms 28 ms 28 ms cpe-74-73-128-1.nyc.res.rr.com [74.73.128.1]
3 14 ms 13 ms 12 ms gig-0-2-0-3-nycmnya-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.98.1]
4 12 ms 15 ms 15 ms 184.152.112.105
5 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-3-0.cr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.76]
6 13 ms 12 ms 15 ms 107.14.17.169
7 15 ms 12 ms 13 ms xe-4-2-0.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net [4.68.63.121]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
Just speaking in terms of "quantum size" (and not computing power, which is not understood yet), it depends on the graph of possible entanglements among the qubits. If it were a complete graph (allowing arbitrary entanglement) then the size of the relevant Hilbert space would exactly double with each additional qubit (i.e. one would need twice as many complex numbers to describe any particular wave function in the space). But the D-Wave chips operate with a fixed topology that (I think) is far from fully-connected (e.g. the 128-bit chip used a "Chimera graph", which they describe in blog posts and publications). The growth would only be truly exponential with sufficient connectivity (e.g. a planar graph would mean sub-exponential growth).
I also think a safer (for the smartphone) and simpler interface to the FlyKly would be a killer feature. A battery indicator and an assist-level switch on the wheel itself would be gravy.
"P.S. your history should probably mention the time in the 1970s when South Florida was the cocaine-smuggling capital of the US."

Isn't it still the cocaine-smuggling capital of the US? California and Texas picked up a lot of the marijuana routes when the center of gravity shifted from Colombian to Mexican cartels. But boat traffic from Haiti and other parts of the area is a huge cocaine route.

Anecdotally speaking: back when I worked in the entertainment business, I'd fly out to Miami for a lot of annual conferences. Maybe it's just the nature of that crowd, but man, they basically dusted the streets in coke. I could almost swear I got some as part of my check-in basket at the Fontainebleau.

I thought cocaine was everywhere in LA -- but in Miami I'm pretty sure you can buy it over the counter at a McDonald's, and no one would bat an eyelash.
Do you have any advice on how a Java developer without public profile could try to get 700pd in the City?
I'm one of the co-founders at Binpress (http://www.binpress.com), which is marketplace for commercial open-source projects. Unlike Codecanyon, which someone else mentioned in this thread, our focus is on professional development and components that are more than simple scripts. Cocoacontrols (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/) is another good example, with some of their commercial components doing very well.

We have several developers making SV comparable salaries from publishing on our platform (in the 100k$ range annually). I believe this can be a huge market - if you look at companies selling licenses to code or SDK binaries, there's quite a few who built very profitable businesses around it.

Very well known examples of companies selling code licenses include MySQL and Magento (through their enterprise versions), though they provide complete solutions and not components. Gravity Forms (http://www.gravityforms.com/) a wordpress plug-in, is another good example - it generated millions in revenue if you trust their installation counter.
> It's not that readable if you didn't realize I actually fixed your extra }. I expected you to nitpick about it! :P

Yes, I did it on purpose.

> PS: spaces obviously.

Well there we happen to agree. :)
OSX and Windows seems to be the targeted platforms according to their Kickstarter FAQ.

> We have no plans to bring Macaw to Linux at this time. Once the Mac and Windows versions are released we will look into Linux.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/macaw/macaw-the-code-sav...
Off topic: Where can I buy cheap certificate?
Thanks. I only saw the app store mention when you watch the preview video and thought it was OSX only.
We lost telecom for almost all of Thursday and our provider told us there was a major metro fiber cut somewhere. Related?
Back in My Day when people had POTS modems [0], I once downloaded the ~20 disks of the b'a'se and 'n'etwork slackware disk series in windows 95 and rebooted to install, hoping that none of the disks were bad.

It turned out that all of those disks were fine, so I continued downloading the other disks in the series by minicom'ing to my ISP's shell account, ftping them to the remote disk, and zmodem'ing them to my local disk. I played nethack on another virtual terminal while this was working.

Well, I switched back about 5 minutes later to check on the progress and it was just crawling, like 4KB every few seconds. I moved the mouse to hit the 'cancel' button on the zmodem transfer window, and the transfer rate shot up just then. I thought "well, okay..." and went back to nethack.

A few minutes later same thing happened. Move mouse, transfer speed goes up. I didn't understand IRQs at the time but I grasped apparent causality. I decided I'd try moving the modem to a different IRQ but that required a reboot. I wanted to finish the current disk set, so I sat there with a book in one hand, twirling the mouse in little circles with the other.

That's my hand-crank modem story.

To this day, whenever the network is slow, I twirl the mouse in little circles subconsciously.

[0] like these ( http://az413224.vo.msecnd.net/img/40934/m_40934_1.jpg ) not these ( http://images.yourdictionary.com/images/computer/_ACUPLER.GI... ).
The headline should replace "code" with "markup" for clarity.
Sorry but we Canadians are even worse.
I recall recording software onto audio tape from radio broadcasts, I think it was a regular BBC radio show. (If anyone remembers I'd love a reminder of the details.)
"Stop writing the mark-up for your designs by hand, let us do it" more like. Perhaps this is an example of where the original title is misleading and requires editorialising.
"bitcoin is a medium of exchange but not a unit of account."
Very true,however from an economic point of view it is a terrible medium of exchange,you have large spread costs,a difficulty sourcing and transferring product,issues of divisibility and and a massive level of price instability relative to the currency being exchanged.

Your example of buyer and seller also makes that point indirectly unless the bit coins are instantly convertible to dollars someone is going to loose out in any price move.

The cheapest way to pay someone in dollars is to actually pay them in dollars.
I don't really get the whole aversion to taxes. "Just being aware of a state that doesn't have a 0% state income tax makes me quiver". Really? I use the roads, I like public parks, I enjoy cheap public transportation, what's wrong with taxes? I'll happily contribute if it means better communal life in my city/state. As someone else mentioned further down, some EU countries pay up to 65% taxes. This guy quivers at the thought of >0%?
I've used PositiveSSL certificates from Namecheap[1] successfully in the past. I think $7.95/yr is pretty cheap.

[1] http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl...
As a Webflow user, this seems to handle a lot of the things that annoy me about Webflow and gives the author more freedom. All around, it seems like a better product. Super keen on giving this a go when it's ready. Oh and no monthly subscription charge, it would appear. Fantastic.
Advanced Rails 4 Authorization with Pundit.
It might be interesting for someone.
You can get your SSL certificate signed for free from http://www.startssl.com/ whose CA is included by default in all major browsers.

You just have to be able to receive email to webmaster@yourdomain.tld for that to work.
Actually yes, and they have been for a decade or more. They're called "quants" tho'. Someone who calls him or herself a "data scientist" is demonstrating a stunning lack of industry awareness - enough to rule them out for any job.
Who says they use IE for googling? :-)
Well, there is lg.level3.net but it's down too!
The correlation is that toxins make you sleepy. No wonder I'm always napping. ;p
One angle is selling plugins to popular creative software. Not quite "the old way", since they are standardized components and sold somewhat more like apps are, but it's a way of selling software components. Photoshop plugins, VST plugins for audio applications, and plugins for the Unity game engine are three fairly active markets I know of.

Another strategy, though from what I can tell with declining popularity, is to write a GPL-licensed open-source library, and then sell proprietary licenses to companies who prefer those terms. Two random examples: http://www.juce.com/documentation/commercial-licensing http://www.cgal.org/license.html
Odd price, $3. He could have doubled his price to $6, doubled his income, and lost no sales. Anyone who would consider buying a component online would surely not blink at the difference if it saves them a half-a-day of effort.
I am reminded of http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html.
No, it would be a waste of time. When you have the money you can hire a programmer to do it better and faster than you can ever do it. Programming is a skill that takes many years to become really good at.
Does this count? http://www.mikeperham.com/2013/10/01/how-to-make-100k-in-oss...
Sign up worked here (Firefox 24)
This intrigues me. I'm fascinated by storytelling and the psychological impact of it, and data science/analytics is what I'm doing for a startup. I had never really considered the intersection of the two, I'm curious where your interest lies there. Analyzing successful stories to find out why they're successful? Finding ways in which stories can be improved?

I think step zero for any kind of "story analysis" would be extracting structured data from the raw text--pulling out things like emotions, foreshadowing, revelations, and so on. This is pretty interesting because I don't know that I've ever heard of this type of thing--for the most part text analysis focuses on things like sentiment, topic extraction and so on. There may be some fertile ground here for new types of analyses based on how stories work.

Curious to hear your thoughts... feel free to drop me a line as well to chat more, jason [at] applieddatalabs [dot] com
Auston, what is it about your blog that it won't pinch-zoom on my iPad in either Chrome or Safari? Is there an HTML5 directive that can turn off pinch-zoom? I tried "request desktop site" but it didn't make any difference. It resizes fine on desktop Chrome.

Regarding Florida... a vast, beautiful and diverse region with massive immigration that has propelled it to #4 in population (and closing in on #3 New York). I fell in love with the place when my family visited cousins in Ft. Lauderdale.

Interesting to read about Silicon Valley and SF versus New York versus Miami and other urban centers. I wonder whether it's still advantageous in this day and age to spend the extra bucks and be in a hotspot of entrepreneurial activity. The online networking forums dwarf the old computer clubs and networking gatherings of yore. Granted, there's still nothing like face to face for getting "chemistry" about someone, but is it worth spending an extra $200,000 for a house and an extra $25,000 a year in taxes? (actually these numbers are probably understated, depending on where you are)

Your blog describes the lifestyle preferences of a young, single person. Having a family changes everything and suddenly schools and stability of neighborhoods become much more important than diversity of cuisine (and once you have a kid, your restaurant fund is diverted to diapers anyway). From that perspective, I would think that southern Florida wins hands down over, say, San Francisco or Manhattan which are prohibitively expensive for raising families. I mean, people do it, but damn. It's not like when my mother was growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s and millions of families lived in the City, and millions of families bought modest homes all up and down the California coast. And Miami was a quiet city you went for two weeks in the wintertime.
I think the comment was that the Uptime Robot website itself isn't served over HTTPS, not that it can't check HTTPS sites.
Floppy DUO Imperial March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
Ewwww, it has poor people there now? I'll pass.
This pretty much sums up how that would go down.

Q:

Should return 3 for this test case

x = add(1, 2)
assert.equals(x, 3)

A:

function add(a, b){
return 3
}
you're gonna love learning this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
A plan to turn every lightbulb into an ultra fast alternative to wifi
That makes them sound like a front-end development agency.
And the "high-performance" only really matters in inner loops. There's no reason why a programming language/development platform can't offer the best of both worlds: the ability to write fast code where it matters (perhaps using type hints, etc.) and the ability to modify and redefine things at runtime. As long as you don't use those "dynamic" features in your inner loops, you are fine.
The two button ability is nice, and convenient at times.

Everyone is missing the point, though. Having 1-button as the default (as it is in OSX) forces developers to make better UI decisions. Plain and simple.

When you can hide the complicated stuff in complex right-click actions and middle-click sub-actions and various other hidden UIs, people tend to do it, because it's easy and doesn't require too much thought.

When you have to assume that the user has only the "Point" and "Click" actions, and not an ever-deepening rabbit hole of right-click, middle-click, side-click, etc. etc. then you have to think a little harder about how you design your interface. You might add things as top-level buttons, or make a more useful interface on the primary click.

You might say this leads to too much variation in the UI space, since there isn't a standard way to deal with operational complexity, but I highly disagree. It leads to UIs which are better thought out, where more of the action has to be exposed and discoverable rather than hidden. It forces developers to make some difficult decisions about the complexity itself, too, which generally leads to simpler if not just better-realized apps. Even just the fact that you have to think a little harder about your UI is enough; a second-order effect that is clearly visible in the end result and the reputation of OSX and its apps.

All of this because Steve Jobs didn't let them tack on the extra buttons. Because he kept the primary interface simple. Because he knew it wasn't just about clicking, but about the whole ecosystem of software for which the mouse API was core. It was not just a mouse, but a genesis of software UI decisions.

Think like that, and you start to understand the single button and why it's actually important. Then you still go into settings and enable right-click... because if you're reading this, you are not like the majority of users (I mean, seriously, that's day one of HCI 101).
"data scientist" sounds much more interesting and succinct than "scientist who transform and analyzes data which can only be transformed and analyzed by computational means".
Smartphone digital microscope
Does the 15000% YOY increase in "data scientist" job postings reflect an actual greater demand for data scientists, or a trendy retitling of vacancies that were previously give titles like "market analyst", "data product manager", "operational research analyst" or even "actuary" and "economist"?
Who is that? There are no google results.
Wordpress templates are just "components" that can't function alone if you think about it.
The scrolling ball needs to be regularly cleaned by turning the mouse upside down and rolling it on a clean piece of paper.

When it is dirty it will seem like it is broken and only track in one direction.
Why don't they fit hand cranks to the sound powered phones to provide for some electricity?
We sell a downloadable, self hosted CMS (http://grabaperch.com). We launched it as a side product of our consultancy business just over four years ago and by the beginning of this year we stopped taking on client work as the income from Perch has essentially replaced that of a successful consultancy, so it is possible.

We don't have recurring revenue as such, a license is a one-off purchase and includes all support, first party addons etc. However our customers tend to be web designers buying a license for each project. If we do a good job they want to use Perch for more than one project!

Growth was slow and steady, I think the toughest part was when we were 50% client work and 50% Perch, as we had customer support making it hard to get on with client projects and we really just wanted to be working on Perch!
Minor in economics. Skip on taking extra macro classes and instead take as many econometrics and micro that you can. Economics (or another quantitative social science) is often the missing ingredient for a solid data science background. Sure physicists have good quantitative skills, but you also need to understand what the important/relevant [business] questions are to ask.
The world sure doesn't need more nerds to tell it how data scientists have been around since the scientific method and it's all a bubble any way.
Some of the most brilliant people I've worked with are satisfied by the work, without needing lots of self-promotion.

"The Story of Mel" is both inspiring and humbling. A "real programmer"

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
That's true. But money in that micropayment sense might not be entirely insane (assuming the whole micropayment model isn't entirely insane to begin with). The idea (as I understand it) is that you'd get a tiny wee payment every time someone quoted your work; so why not every time someone quoted your code? In the context of some Xanadu-like system, wouldn't that make sense?
It's funny to think that only exposure folks have to floppy disks now is the look of "save" icons.
IE is sending "Trident/7.0" with "MSIE 10.0" but IE11 isn't supposed to include the "MSIE" string anymore.