skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thing will explode. Get ready to monetize or shut it down :) Easy thing you could do is rate limit transfers by default and offer higher bandwidth with a small bitcoin payment.
Your footnote misses the point. This sort of thing does happen, but not because people would want "perfect or nothing." It happens because people want to close down the homeless shelter.
MapQuest is hiring. We're working on a variety of things besides getting people directions from A to B, and we are trying to do that with a minimum of drama and a maximum of excitement. Our headquarters is in downtown Denver, CO, but we have people working in NYC, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and even England as well. We're #2 in the maps and directions industry behind Google, and are amidst a pivot out of maps and directions and into travel. We try to combine a startup's level of passion and creativity with bigco backing and an audience of 40M UV's monthly. You can see products we've released recently at http://discover.mapquest.com and http://travelblogs.mapquest.com, and there is more coming soon.

We have open reqs for Javascript developers, Rails developers and Mobile developers (Android, iOS and Windows). While experienced engineers are certainly welcome, we have a strong pairing culture in Denver and have had outstanding success with entry-level engineers over the past six months. If you've got some talent with web development, have a github profile and don't mind booger jokes, we'd love to talk. We have an online coding test at http://www.interviewzen.com/apply/3QPLHn that shouldn't take much more than 10 minutes.

I could post the official reqs here, but essentially, we're looking for people who are smart and comfortable doing a variety of things. We have web-based products written in Scala, Node.js, Rails, Java and even some C out there, and while we don't expect anyone to be fluent in all of them, we look for people who are willing to be flexible and excited at the chance to stretch themselves.

If you're interested, please give me a buzz - my e-mail is in my profile. I'd love to chat.
And .bat, .scr, .pif, .com? And .zip, .tar, .gz, .rar?

And then a shit load of file extensions that potentially run arbitrary code if you have the tool installed.

Seems kind of pointless.
Sorry about that. I should've checked before posting. Any chance you include SHA1 hashes of the files/objects?
A newcomer's angry guide to data types in R
It took just under 20 years for someone to re-create the core value of AOL to teenagers from the early/mid nineties.
I wonder what those fungus lived on? This was in the era before fungus could metabolize cellulose. Maybe, unlike modern fungus, they just grew bit by bit? The fact that dead wood couldn't easily be digested is part of the reason the Earth's O2 level was so high back in the day, and why you could get coal or oil deposits even without anoxic conditions.

EDIT: All interesting information above from friends who know way more about the subject than me, who I told about the article. Any mistakes are probably mine.
This is the future of law enforcement in this field, and possibly others. The marginal cost of setting up virtual honeypots is now so low that the obvious strategy is to simply swamp the market with them.
> Why should I care?

If you're a white heterosexual male with no disabilities you don't care. carry on, business as usual. If you're not white, or not straight, or not male, or if you have some kind of disability, or etc etc you care because you don't want some fucking arsehole denying you a job purely because of that difference.
Awesome! Good luck with the launch. Looks like it could be very useful.
Most of us are willing to sacrifice time for sometimes even small amount of money. For example, I used to wait in line on Black Fridays for cheap deals on electronics. After I got a decent job I stopped doing that kind of things but I would probably still wait in line for a couple hours if I can save a thousand dollars. For someone like Bill Gates, he would probably easily PAY $1000 to save an hour of time, so the relative value between money/time is different for everyone.

For a billionaire like Gates, he effectively only has one currency left to worry about, since time is the only thing that's important and worthy of consideration for him. That is why I said time is more important to him than it is to rest of us, since he is unlikely to trade his time for anything other than what he truly desires.
Stanford's iTunes U App Development Course Updated for iOS 7
The hovering map seems to be behaving oddly (Chrome/Mac OS) for me and blocks off a large section of the top left with a beige colored background when I click on "More Map".

Otherwise, very surprising to me that this was the winner. Did you see similar results across all browsers and form factors (especially interested in desktop vs. tablet).
Npm appears to be down
Contamination and substition in North American herbal products
I saw this puzzle when I was kid, in a Martin Gardner book. Back then it was an inch worm instead of an ant. When I saw the answer, it blew my mind at first. Later I understood how it was related to the fact that the harmonic series diverges, and it became less mind blowing, but it's still a little mind blowing—because it's still a little mind blowing that the harmonic series diverges.

It became one of my favorite puzzles, and I tried it on friends and family. I certainly never thought it could have "real-world" applications.

But then it occurred to me, people were solving this puzzle every day.

Think of an ordinary loan. Each month, you make a payment that's part interest and part principal. At first it's mostly interest, then the ratio shifts over time, the final payments being nearly all principal.

You normally start with a loan amount (principal), an interest rate, and a loan duration (typically 180 or 360 months). From these parameters, you figure the monthly payment, a process called amortization. Part of the payment goes towards interest, part towards the principal.

Each month you're required to service the loan, which means to pay (at least) the interest. That's the cost of renting the money. Some loan arrangements allow you to pay down the principal at your own pace. If you only ever pay interest, the principal will remain unchanged, and the loan will go on forever. This is the Netflix model: they don't care how long you keep a disc—you're paying rent on it every month. Many people pay more than the monthly payment from time to time. The principal will be reduced by this extra amount.

The worm has taken out a loan. The twist is, we don't yet know the principal, nor the total amount to be paid, which corresponds to the final rope length. Instead, we know the payment: 1 yard. The interest portion varies, but the worm consistently pays down the principal 1 inch each pay period.

Some of the added yard (monthly payment) appears in front of the worm (interest portion) some behind it (principal portion). Stretching the rope uniformly has the effect of servicing the interest. At first, most of the newly added rope appears in front of the worm, but as with the ordinary loan, the back/front ratio increases over time.

That the worm will eventually reach the end of the rope is now evident. If your interest payment is taken care of, then even a small monthly pay-down of the principal will eventually pay off any size loan.
Gruesome: 'Biohacker' Implants Sensor In His Arm
Because I'm counting file size and not line numbers. That simple.
This is great news! The API looks very idiomatic, so kudos to the author. I can't wait to try this out.
Why the attack on Buffer was a wake-up call for the web
As a vague summary, it's actually not wrong. One of the main reasons that Northerners opposed the Civil War was because they had business interests in the South. And one of the main reasons that Southerners opposed the Civil War was because emancipation would wreck their economy.

But there are dozens of other ways to understand that cross-section of history.
Relevant Nature Future:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7413/full/488690a...
In your view, there should be no need to nudge or wink. Let market have as it will.

You are misrepresenting my view. The reason for the nudge nudge wink wink is that the government, in allowing polluters to pollute, is acting against the interests of the people it's supposed to represent: it is allowing something that the people, if they were able to make the decision on their own in a free market, would not allow.

In other words, in an actual free market, a potential polluter would not be able to get any special favors from the government: they would have to get explicit permission from every person who would be affected. That's how a free market works: you want to build a factory that puts toxic chemicals in my groundwater? Sorry, no sale.
3D Printing 'Encryption' App Hides Contraband Objects In Plain Sight
Learning should fit life
I agree that this is what should happen, though I suspect that you'll be disappointed in the result.
'Biohacker' Tim Cannon implants chip in his arm
... and is incredibly receptive to feedback ...

I'll take this with a grain of salt due to being slapped with WontFix multiple times in the past.
Who is John Chen, BlackBerry's new CEO?
> people want to close down the homeless shelter.

You need to study some Kafka "The Trial" to understand how extreme bureaucracy functions. There's no subversive logic to the irrationality of most of these institutions. It's mostly just apathetic failure.
The idea is to build a tool that better fits the problem domain. In this example a visual tool lifts the burden of remembering specific CSS syntax, HEX codes or browser inconsistencies. In turn it's easier for a designer to worry about more interesting stuff, like reflows or responsive layouts. I have great hopes for visual web tools, such as Macaw. I think it will really take off when we get reusable HTML/JS components.
A grain of salt: "I’m fortunate enough to be in a position where I can pursue other values in life besides dollars" - all your competitors will be much less fortunate now, going free is a kind of price dumping. I wish all the $.99 => 80/20 game/app damage was undone...
Bringing up baby bilingual
You can definitely apply to YC if you're from Germany, or any other country.
If I drove all the way across the country and heard that on my first day. My middle finger would be raised very high as I shouted profanities as I walked out the door.

But the author kept his cool and it worked out, maybe a trait I need to develop.
But before that, we will have some pretty amazing tools that will make us feel like magicians (regrettably for all too short a time though)
Oops, You Just Hired the Wrong Hitman
"color" 3D printing, i.e. using different kind of cells that make up real liver

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/24/3d-printed-li...
A few months ago, I purchased a Samsung Chromebook as an impulse buy, at $200 it was well within tolerable walking around money. And while not the greatest machine, it definitely earned its place on my coffee table as my go-to couch surfing machine -- checking HN or writing a quick answer on Stackoverflow. But it is a sluggish machine; even when using it with Nitrous.io, it didn't "feel" right. While the battery life of its ARM processor is great, it doesn't pack much of the proverbial punch.

Last month, I pre-ordered the [Acer C720](http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/acer-c720-chrom...) and have been using it for the past few weeks. For me, it has resolved almost all the issues that I had with the ARM-based Chromebook. It's a joy to use with Nitrous.io. It benefits from the better processor and more RAM, especially when running under "load", I tend to have several tabs open between nitrous, several documentation sites, and streaming audio while I work. It's still small and light, and at $250 still essentially a disposable laptop. For me, its become my ideal "walking-around-town" development machine that was my macbook pro.

While, sometimes I miss being able to fire up photoshop or use sublime, it's worked out great for me...
Join the Fun - Big Bear Chase Me
Long-term the only way to avoid this war is to promote opening of spectrum (both licensing and software defined spectrum sharing).

Until then the local access duopoly has too much power, at least in the US, and both well intended and not so well intended legislation will only hamper the market.
The win for Haskell is that it wears its statefulness on its sleeve. Of course you can, with sufficient discipline, write pure code in any language, though it can be frustratingly difficult in languages where libraries make idiomatic use of mutation. And yes, you can also write impure code in Haskell, at least for some definitions of "impure".

What you can't do in Haskell is write impure code that claims to be pure (up to the customarily and idiomatically avoided `unsafePerformIO`), or write code whose degree of statefulness is ambiguous. Reliable, explicit, and statically enforced purity holds more than just theoretical benefits. I don't have to read through library code to see if it is thread-safe. I don't have to worry about whether passing a data structure to a library function will result in that structure being mutated behind my back. I don't have to trust code comments that may not be in sync with the current state of the code. Simply by virtue of the fact that a function does not mention `IO` in its type, I can have total confidence that it won't violate my assumptions about its behavior. And I don't even have to take it on faith that the author wrote the correct type for his code; if he hadn't, the compiler would have rejected it. This is the difference between "pure by convention" and "provably pure".

Every language must necessarily have an "IO monad" and interact with the inherently stateful world, or else it is useless. Haskell is different not because you can choose to avoid I/O, but because when you do so, the type system will back you up with perfect accuracy.
https://github.com/cesarbp did a fantastic job on the API, he put a lot of work into that. Glad you like the looks of it, send us feedback when you try it!
Am I just a huge anime nerd, or did anyone else immediately think of the early Miyazaki film "Nausicaa and the Valley of the Winds"?
> Announcement: Because of the high traffic we are seeing right now, the radio might take a long time to load or not work at all.

Hacker News killed the radio star.

Very cool idea. With a little faster chat (there's currently quite a delay between saying something and seeing it displayed) I can see it catching on. Hang out, share files, listen to the music together.
A Clojure JavaFX wrapper
And CodeDoor has just launched - https://www.codedoor.com/
IT intervention
Ultimate Guide to Market Your E-Commerce Store
My Love/Hate Relationship with Google Glass
Going to go off the deep end here and say you really were at fault. You can't just rewrite whole systems as a new hire on your own decision with zero buy in from other colleagues or management. While the technology is important in a startup, you kind of tossed the team out of the window there and likely just replaced code that everyone else understood (however bad it was) with code that nobody except you understood.

Basically your approach was terrible and working in a company is more than just producing code. You should have had a chat with whoever had previously been involved in the system as well as whoever in management was in charge of it and explained the issues. They might have told you that the system you had just rewritten was being discontinued in 2 months for a different system someone was making, etc.

I get the desire to just fix any code you come across and it's a great desire to have - but take 15 minutes to communicate with your team - or hell, just send an email before rewriting a whole system.
And of course... https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el for emacs folks (I use it every day...)
Have you ever been to Facebook's campus in Menlo Park?
Because you become Captain of the Starship Enterprise?

Or, because you've achieved the mission goals?
"Android turned making phones into a commodity. The only place where money can be made is by providing an ecosystem."

I agree with that. Having an ecosystem is the root of value in mobile device companies. Elop was correct to identify an ecosystem as the most important thing. Where it gets controversial is the subsequent MSFT decision, which could be interpreted as saying "Now that we have determined ecosystems are the most valuable thing a company can have, we are torching ours and outsourcing that part of the company to Microsoft"

The more logical thing would have been "now that we have determined ecosystems are the most valuable thing a company can have, we are all-in with Qt and MeeGo."

Of course, it ultimately boils down to whether Elop and Nokia's leadership had more faith in Microsoft than in themselves to build that ecosystem. In terms of execution, neither company had been firing on all cylinders for quite some time...
That would be nice, though I wonder if it would last if the even did it.

It used to be, if you searched for a map, Google would show a link to its own map (with thumbnail) + links to other mapping services (mapquest, maporama, etc). It used to be ...
I'm so jealous of your ignorance. I find it to be epidemic in startup culture all over the west coast. I am literally surrounded by it constantly.
No particular reason - hustler is just and has always been my preferred compliment for folks doing awesome stuff, whether in code, offline or anywhere else.
At a risk of being downvoted:

I am not sure "webcam sex" hurts anybody. The girl is not physically harmed in any way.
"we" hold "our" assets mostly in cash and land.

I suspect more HN readers likely hold their assets in future income and earning potential. Which is fairly immune to inflation (as it rises with prices).
> they have duties towards their fellow man, that's why!

That's exactly what he's saying. It's a company, not a person. You are not its "fellow man"--because it's not a man. It's a legal structure that exists to generate profit.
Smaller companies already do pay when they buy bandwidth. I don't see the economics working for AT&T and Verizon to charge startups. Maybe some kind of tier bandwidth general cheaper bandwidth and "network optimized" bandwidth for some additional fee.

But beyond that I see the internet playing out like cable but on a larger scale. A simple winner take all game with almost all network capacity dedicated to a few services.
That was my take as well, especially since at the end of the article he says, "No one will tell you to take more time with your family."
This sounds really cool, but socket.io.js is throwing "Unexpected response code: 502" when attempting to make a websockets connection.

I'll have to try again later, I suppose.
Hands on with Steam OS and a Steam Box prototype
Interestingly, the OS is not based on Ubuntu:

"As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom)"

I assume it's too early too be using Wayland, though it'd be nice if it is.
Yes, I was under the impression the graph was the feature. The textual description of the etymology, I thought, was already often an included part of the snippet.
Yes, that's what inspired me to look into the Propeller, which is an interesting architecture with 8 cores and no interrupts; instead of interrupts, you just dedicate one or more cores to polling for input, while the other cores continue on doing their thing with no interruption.

The GA144 basically looks like an even more extreme version of that idea. Instead of eight small cores, it has 144 really small cores. So now I'm trying to figure out which I want to start playing around with; a Propeller, a GA144, an FPGA, or something else.
So hold on, I don't understand why you're calling it extreme, seems just like what everyone else would do to get their product working.
I agree with your points, but as a quibble, webOS was not open source at the time. The decision to open-source webOS didn't come until the end of 2011.

(I should know, I was working there).
The author is the CEO of a company that sells the first (and only?) commercial Haskell IDE. I point this out because the author (from his background) clearly knows about the subject matter, while reading the content of the article would lead you to believe the author was a novice to software development and computer science.

The shallowness of the article combined with the background of the author can be reconciled if you understand the article as an advertisement.
"I can guarantee I win every time against that robot. I'd just remove the power source."

Version 3 turns off the human crew's life support if you try and remove it's power source.

Version 4 uses time travel to kill your parents.
Food delivery app Zesty cuts the grease
Why Russia’s drinkers resist AA
I'm one of the co-authors on this paper. Those of you looking for a tl;dr can check out this blog post (http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/) on the attack and its implications.
"Medical professionals were in effect told that their ethical mantra "first do no harm" did not apply, because they were not treating people who were ill."

Who among adult reasoning men or women would believe this premise? Are we all turned to geese?

Snowden for President would be a fine thing.
Who Believes That the NSA Spied on Germans? Apparently, Not Germans
You need to study some real life, and not fiction, to understand that for the irrationality of any bureaucracy is only set into motion by players in the real world, with motives of some fashion, good, bad or indifferent.

Bureaucracy and its many, many processes are the symptom, not the disease.
Interestingly, the OS is not based on Ubuntu:

"As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom)"

I assume it's too early too be using Wayland, though it'd be nice if it is.
TheSkimm raises $1M - the Anti-Bustle, female founders that know the space
what about emotional/psychological damage? I would imagine that physical rape is also mostly an emotional/psychological thing.

disclaimer: I'm not a girl, I have not been raped, I have not known of anyone close to me who has been raped, nor am I a psychologist.
How I Did the Impossible: HBO Without Cable TV
You should set alt as a meta key (in the Terminal preferences under Keyboard) if you're using Terminal.app. This also allows you to use alt+direction to move around in text.
A child (who does not legally have a capacity to consent) 'performing' for strangers?

You're going on a bit of a limb to suggest there's no possibility for physical harm here.
Social networking pioneer who took on Facebook commits suicide at age 22
Finally the the Turing Test has been passed! This does not seem as impressive as when imagined decades ago. Fooling perverts, even to the point of sending money, seems to be much, much easier than creating more generally useful artificial intelligence. But I guess it is a step forward...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

EDIT: As pointed out below only the video feed was artificial. The chat was with a live human. Impressive but very different than the classic Turing Test.
But I don't like Bach. I'm supposed to listen to what you think I should like, because you think Bach is better? Who gets to decide?

The terms arrogance and pretense were used for a reason.
Another problem is that the final (and truly brilliant) UI of the N9 didn't exist at the time Elop made the decision to kill it. At the time, the Swipe UI was not done, and was actually the 3rd "let's start over" initiative with the MeeGo UI at the time (so you can see why there was skepticism on it).

But man, they really knocked it out of the park. It was (and still is) the best smartphone UI ever made.
The Best Way to Build the Biggest Building
I saw this a few weeks ago, very cool project you're working on. I love the proto-web feeling it has. All the best!
EPIC Quest: Online Treasure Hunt for $5000