skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! The first batch will be produced in either V-Neck or Crew-Neck. When we launch our kickstarter, we will see which one is more popular. But If we exceed our initial funding goal, we will offer both options.

As for the musty smell, that's a problem I personally face and I've validated that problem with a lot of my friends, peers, and customers. It doesn't happen on cotton but it happens mostly on the 100% polyester athletic clothing (which is the majority of all sportswear).

You're right though. Not everyone has this problem and maybe wrong detergent choice or washing habits play a part in that phenomenon. We just wanted to make sure we have the best anti-odor performance and the silver technology is the best in the industry. If you end up getting a shirt from us though, what you'll find to be the best feature is the feel and performance of the material we developed with the anti-stink part being the cherry on the top. That has been the case with 100% of our users so far.
Germany's industrial power is concentrated in the central and southern parts of ex-West Germany. Berlin just doesn't manufacture enough cars. :P

(Now I'm wondering if this is like the PRC, where Beijing has the rich history of a capital but bland areas like Shenzhen are where the money is made.)

The jokes about Berlin would be mostly about its horrendously mismanaged prestige project - the new airport.
Let me tell you how that turns out ... first hand (from a real experience).

An entity in Australia called DSTO started thrusting women into management positions back in the early 90s - so they could say they had 50% (or as close to 50%) of women in management roles. I had the misfortune of working with a few of the bad ones.

The ones that were capable (ie. competent) were great to work with, but there were some that were REALLY, REALLY bad. People laughed (or cringed) when the bad ones did their job - and it was obvious they were inept. It was so bad that I would consider these few women to be the worst I have -ever- seen (in 20+ years of a working career).

After a period of time, these women cracked and left because they could not cope with the situation. If anything, I blame the management for putting the wrong people in these roles and emphasising their inability. If anything, it may have backfired and created a perception that women just can't do the job (which is far from the truth). I remember them being away frequently on training, so there was no apparent lack of support that I could see.

Unfortunately, that's what you get when you play numbers games. You should NEVER, EVER promote anyone because of their race, religion, colour or gender... Nor should you discriminate against someone for those reasons.
Nothing surprising at all my parents are perfectly at ease with Ubuntu.
Mobile App Intelligence Engine
How does it compare to Deluge? http://deluge-torrent.org/
Undoubtedly many of you know of it already, but Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/) is an amazing, lightweight Bittorrent client which includes a web interface and things like scheduling. It's included by default in many Linux distros.
An to add to this meta-comment: Remember that someone might have read your post and replied, even if you haven't seen it yet, because you hit "reply" - saw that you needed to do an obvious edit (because there is no preview).

It's sometimes frustrating when you've just realized that you've made a bit of a fool of yourself in the heat of the moment (or in your non-idomatic use of English, and come off as more of an ass-hole (or just more rude) than you might have intended, as might be the case for those of us whose native language isn't English...) -- and then having to explicitly acknowledge in a "edit: whoops, didn't mean to be offensive, sorry"-comment that you did in fact post something a little foolish, rude or just silly.

But, with the high rate of view/replies to some hn-threads, it's better to be safe than sorry, and add a small "edit:"-comment whenever you edit -- even if it's just formatting, grammar or spelling.
Thank you for a great writeup! Your examples are excellent, I can see a direct reason why using IPython Notebooks would improve my workflow, AND I am already convinced that pandas could make some of my tasks (e.g. writing Excel reports) easier.
Blogger Parody of Macklemore's Thrift Shop
Thrift Shop: Blogger Style - Ashley Jacobs raps a remake of Thrift Shop live at #FinCon13.
My mom's 81. Ubuntu's been her primary OS for 3+ years. Started with Windows on a low-end Dell laptop. When any of her 19 grandkids played on it, they'd leave new toolbars and malware behind. The machine got so slow, she was happy to see her email and browser on Linux.
Apropos of nothing at the time I took it the title was 'Modern Physics' which basically was the senior physics class and covered a mix of things from some cosmology, relativity, quantum mechanics, and various papers that had come out the summer before.
Except to, uh, the NSA
It's hard to be short and comprehensive. This is shorter than a book, longer than a magazine article. (55 pages: OK, maybe a short book.) "Short" is relative. :)

His coverage of debugging, and how it's critical to overcome fear of breaking things, and of asking the right questions of how things might fail in this way, is a great explanation.
The author may not fully appreciate the long game Bezos has been uniquely blessed to play: the sooner Bezos can effectively expand what's working, without over-expanding, it's bootstrapping on a massive scale: buying speed without diluting ownership to even more money sooner. It's not deficit spending (until it is), it's reinvesting profit to grow assets that are the body of the money monster. (For Starcraft fans out there: It's like being broke because of focusing on building SCVs.)

On the other side of the gorge of eternal peril: Cash is king, and should not be underestimated. Or those with the war-chests may try to puke all over Bezos' cake by mistaking lack of current reserves for an actual weakness. I'm sure Bezos is fully aware the ridge-line he's walking on. He probably has aces up both sleeves to clobber anyone that tries to make a move.

Long term, I'd say walmart continues to cash in on the greater unwashed that don't know any better for b&m impulse buys while amzn goes after suppliers and logistics, maybe even an Ali Baba and/or Kickstarter to bring in more product pipes.
Oh I didn't know they acted on that.
This is one of the few apps I really miss now that I'm on Windows rather than Mac OS.
Real quick: I wrote a little json-in-json-out app for working on webapps before the backend is done (first node (express)). Then, later rewrote it in clojure (compojure). They're both on heroku and perform about the same. This is by no means a real benchmark, but does show that node can keep up with the JVM for ridiculously simple apps.

Node version: http://json-mirror.herokuapp.com/
Clojure version: http://mirror-clojure.herokuapp.com/

Also, ClojureScript is super interesting because a lot of clojure libraries will work (provided they're not a Java wrapper library) automatically. Draw backs though? Speed. ClojureScript uses Google Closure to optimize, which brings it close to pure JS speeds, but according to Conrad Barski, the webfui creator, it's not quite there. Check out his presentation though here if you're interested (demos and speed explanations included): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeI5-D7SQe8

CRAP: Should have replied to parent comment, but it's fine here as well.
from my perspective, from the usability perspective it is much better than draftin.com
s/included by default/available in the repositories/
There is a Windows port, but it was a bit buggy the last time I checked (about a year ago).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/
Suboxone still works through the same receptors as morphine or heroin (see the wiki link).

One important difference is that it's a partial agonist at the mu receptors rather than a full agonist. That makes the effects someone self limiting.
Wonder if you could do it with OpenStack?
Note that in the latest version (1.8), the gtk-redshift launcher has been renamed to redshift-gtk.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, but I am... my OS X Mavericks system not only has no built in gopher client, but there are zero results for "gopher" in the Mac App Store.
The economics of interstellar flight: Starship enterprises
I disagree. I think it is only very narrowly applicable, in particular to companies that are technology-centric (i.e. that have as a primary product something that is technology related, such as a software product), and even then it only applies to a fraction.

In most companies, technology-centered or not, the non-engineers have a large amount of power to "create and sustain" something far more important than code or systems: institutional political power. I don't care how good a programmer one is, in such organizations institutional politics almost always wins. The old addage, "It's not what you know but who", applies here, as in any other industry. Talent is only good to carry a person so far, within the confines of somebody else's business.
DocsBlogger (http://www.docsblogger.com/) -- blog from Google Drive.

Because:
* Google Docs is the best WYSIWYG on the internet;
* blogging can be just about writing on a cool interface, without having to setup blog platforms AND go on their messy interface to write;
* regular people can use this;
* the written content stays on Google Drive, so you can delete your blog and keep everything without dealing with strange database backups;
* almost-compatible with Jekyll-Octopress themes (some changes on the code have to be made, and for now only I can add themes to the pool of themes, but we will see what happens);
* custom CSS (tomorrow javascript) files (automatically fetches from Google Drive) embedding.
Thanks! I'll take a look!
Cool! I was experimenting on something similar with BeagleBoneBlack and libVLC. However, the 3.8 kernel doesn't have drivers for onboard SGX GPU; and I couldn't get decent resolution with software decoding.

Are you using OMX libs on Pi? With hardware decoding?
Google WiFi Passport
yes. they meet at Fort Meade.
> It doesn't make it any less real, but it does make it more cowardly.

I strongly object to the last few wars both Europe and the US has been involved in, to our foreign policy and to a lot of the policies that surround these conflicts. I still think a comment about "cowardly" tactics and strategies are unwarranted. Bravery is indeed a virtue, but in deadly conflict there isn't really such a thing as "fighting cowardly". There's cautious, callous, heinous, smart and stupid -- but not really cowardly.

It's a little like a front page story a few years back in Norway, when some Norwegian troops stationed in Afghanistan were interviewed, and called the insurgents IED-tactics "cowardly". Said with a straight face by someone that had the latest equipment, aerial and satellite surveillance, areal and modern artillery support, sniper support, body armour, armoured vehicles, night vision and all other trappings of modern warfare -- fighting poorly equipped peasants that are subject to night raids where parts of entire families are boxed up and shipped across half the world never to be heard from again.

Now, I'm not saying that it wouldn't feel cowardly when one of these peasants injured or killed someone with a sneakily placed IED -- but it's just good tactics, it isn't really cowardly. I mean, there wouldn't be any more wars in these areas if the local people tried to fight "fair" whatever that is supposed to mean.
That's really interesting to me because it claims the opposite of what most people are arguing re: the detachment of drone pilots. Thanks for sharing that article.
> Remember, you will be addicted to another drug

True, but there is a ceiling to the effects, so your dose can't escalate endlessly. It also blocks other opiates, by binding very tightly to the receptor.
I agree 10 to 1 is heinous, but it's far from unheard of in warfare w/o drones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Yeah, it's kind of a bummer how rare Gopher clients are becoming. Since all the major browsers dropped Gopher support (and I think they all have, by now), it appears that ELinks[1] is the best Gopher client remaining, for *nix systems. And Android has Overbite. Not sure about iOS.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks
Among the first things I wanted to find when I bought and paid for (yes) Windows NT ... over 15 years ago now. I'd heard it was all multi-user and powerful like Unix.

The terminal _sucked_. It was the same crappy DOS box I'd seen since, well, DOS days and Win3.1.

That lead me on an exploration of MKS, UWIN, Cygwin, and finally, Red Hat, over the course of a few months. And I realized Linux Didn't Suck.

Another few months and I wiped NT off my hardrives and repartitioned with RH. Never looked back.
Deluge has the killer feature of being able to run in client-server mode. You can leave a persistent instance running on one machine and connect to it in adhoc fashion from say your laptop.

To accomplish this with baretorrent or other simple gui client, you have to run it in some vm or make it accessible with remote desktop/X windows. Even then, there is no facility (which Deluge does provide) to click a torrent link in your local browser and have it initiate a download on your remote server-instance.

For a real barebones non-gui option, rtorrent tui client with tmux detachable text session is quite workable even though it too lacks the advanced features provided by Deluge.

EDIT: Baretorrent does offer an extension that allows you to remotely add a torrent, but doesn't give you a full local client as Deluge does.
Croydon is really improving and there's actually a pretty cool surging tech scene there. As they have a lot of fibre, cheap commercial property, support from council and transport links. Not that I'm saying people should work in Croydon just yet as there aren't enough tech companies but there are quite a few medium sized ones and some startups.
As I'm reading through the comments I see only two types of users:

- the hackernews audience
- 60+ low level users (no offence)

The former group has enough experience and knowlegde to get the system (linux) adapted to their needs.

The latter are only using it for either browsing, checking email or watching movies.

I think we're forgetting the important 'middle' group: the ones that aren't in IT but are working with a PC daily for their work. Linux is getting no real traction there (yet!) because of the poor native support of tools that are pretty common the in corporate world.

Think:
- vpn software
- voip tools
- login procedures
- custom software
- etc etc

I'm not seeing this fixed in the near future...
I think it will just become easier to hash out ideas with html5 apps, but I don't think there will ever be a point where we can do 100% html5. I mean, obviously if you're doing game dev, or require other system intensive tasks, you're probably gonna want to stick with native. Really though, this reminds me a lot of ruby on rails.. meaning, easily solves most problems, but doesn't solve all problems.
We're trying to fix urban parking with Spot (starting in San Francisco), connecting homeowners with parkers when they're not using their spot.

They can drag to set their schedule or set it based on days and we let them start earning morning and do all of the legwork. Our parkers can open up the app and book a spot on an hourly basis instantly.

http://parkwithspot.com
I didn't say that it targets different receptors. I said it targets them (i.e. the same receptors) differently. I failed to go into the details of how it targets them differently (wasn't sure if that LOD was called for, or in good taste, considering that this is not a site about pharmacology or neurochemistry). I did see the wiki link... (I wouldn't have posted it if I hadn't.) Thank you for clarifying though! (BTW, I think that you meant somewhat not someone in your final sentence.)
Craigslist doesn't have any patents as far as I know and numerous companies from Microsoft (with Live.com expo) and Ebay (with Kijiji) as well as others (olx) have tried to de-thrown it and failed hilariously.

Patents are not the only weapon businesses can use, there's always design, community, emotion, and the good ol fashion network effect.
I guess all that above ground nuclear testing wasn't all that great an idea...
My math and CS classes usually had a lot of non-white students and some female students, and they seemed to do just fine. Some even appeared to be in the top of the class. It didn't seem that Math was "harder for them".

I think you should check your assumptions.
Yes but it removes the entire discussion about when a particular algorithm becomes viable to break brute force.
As a visitor: Show me a sample post, or a video walkthrough so it entices me into clicking the sign in button.
What about pull to refresh! But seriously, I know a few guys that worked there and helped build out Twitters distributed system platform and I think it's something they could have patented if they didn't open source it. Now that I think about it, they have a few cool technical products under the hood but the creators have all left Twitter gone their separate ways.
> It's just a small motivational line with no agenda behind it.

Just because you don't see the agenda doesn't mean it's not there. How do you explain that half of the comments in this thread are not about the content of the article but about the mysogyny of its author?
I was there in June, and I have to say that riding around on a bike there really changed my perspective. Riding there was a joy. The "Share the Road" programs here in Utah are a joke.

The bike lanes there were amazing. Most roads I saw there were dark brick, the "lines" were usually white bricks, and the bike lanes were red brick and were wide where they weren't actually separate altogether.

The other best part? There were no angry SUV drivers swerving around you at 60 MPH. People were courteous.
Craigslist is making money though.
"If Twitter does deal with patent-infringement lawsuits, they don’t have too many patents to lean on to countersue. That does put Twitter at a disadvantage.”

And there's the rub.
Gruber is a fanboy. But he is a good observer and he is really good in portraying how Apple sees it's work.
gotta love agreement :-)
Excellent clojure concurrency tutorial
That's what I never got about Windows and especially Windows devs. How can you get anything done with all that clicking and no unix tools?
Can you explain how capital expenditures do not affect profits? Doesn't capitalization just mean that expenses are applied over time? They don't disappear, correct?
It sounds like the most important piece of information that you need to judge a person's ideas is the list of which protected groups they belong to.
Today we went sailing. I took ~62 higher res jpg pictures of this area.

You can see these here: http://tinyurl.com/floatingcontainers
Since you're actually commenting on this second post on the same subject, I'll repeat my observation that the author of the #badBIOS posts seems deranged.

Why is something like this which is obviously not news on HN?

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( My commentary on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620788 )

Why is this getting votes here when the same person posts things like this:

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/3reWRqDM...

"So it turns out that annoying high frequency whine in my soundsystem isn't crappy electrical noise that has been plaguing my wiring for years. It is actually high frequency ultrasonic transmissions that malware has been using to communicate to airgapped computers [...]"

This person is either mentally unbalanced or they're intentionally trying to troll the paranoid.

Case in point regarding this specific post:

"The tell is still that #badBIOS systems refuse to boot CDs (this is across all oses, including my Macs)"

Macs don't have BIOS - they have a BIOS emulation / compatibility layer. They run on EFI. Additionally, there's evidence that Macs contain a hardware Boot ROM which pre-boots before EFI and verifies the firmware cryptographic signature is valid. About the best attack that's been done so far is a malicious dongle that needs to stay connected to the machine during boot. If you'd like more information about how difficult it is to re-program Mac EFI without Apple's secret signing keys, by all means read here: http://ho.ax/De_Mysteriis_Dom_Jobsivs_Black_Hat_Paper.pdf

The only value in reading this submission is science fiction entertainment or research into the possible mental problems of the author.
If Apple offered software that was free to platforms that run on non-Apple hardware, that would actually be free. However, is it free if they

a) found a way to shave $X off the cost of their average machine sold

b) figured out that they would save $Y on support costs if more users had the same OS version and work suite installed

and then found that $X + $Y is greater than the income they receive from selling Mavericks and iWork? Mavericks and iWork are not free. Apple just found a smarter way to make their customers pay for them. If you would have bought and used them all, you just won. If you would have installed Linux, you just got hosed.
In my experience, PhDs in EECS are actually worse at day-to-day computer operation than many other people (Source: All my profs who couldn't get their laptops connected to projectors) :P

But yeah, your point is valid. I just couldn't resist the urge to poke a little fun.
Thanks for sharing. I know my comment adds little but I wanted to throw out there a nod of appreciation for a story like this.
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Nope, and (to contradict your point a little bit) I pretty much refuse to do development tasks on Windows because it's the one remaining OS on which I find it impossible to be productive. Have you ever tried working in a Windows command line compared to a UNIX terminal? Yes, I can install cygwin, but I really feel like I shouldn't have to.
Nice job. I really find the best way to grasp pandas is through these ipython notebook walkthroughs. I noticed that http://inundata.org/R_talks/meetup/images/splitapply.png has row 'a' as 2.5, but it should be 3.
I agree that the part you quoted could come off condescending, but I disagree with your prescription. We have plenty of resources for learning how to code that make no gender assumptions, and yet we still have a glaring disparity. I see little reason to believe that your suggested solution of writing dispassionately about coding while avoiding elephant in the room of the gender disparity, in a piece meant to address that, is the proper remedy.
I don't use excel in professional level so I don't know much about it. Is there a vast difference between MS Excel and Linux (OSS) equivalent, or something like Google docs?
Ok, so frequentists believe P(x) for some event x is the limit of the fraction of trials in which x happens, as we increase the number of trials to infinity.

Whereas Bayesians believe P(x) is odds at which they would gamble, so to speak, that a particular proposition x is true.

Is that it?
Yes. Pirate™ and Oil Rigger™ magazines are also looked at pretty closely :p
The UI on OSX is not pretty but decent.

There's problem with less well-known client is that private trackers may not allow them which make it useless for users who use those trackers.