skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are mailing list clients that will (try to) thread conversations for you. The Google Groups based ones display that way, you can (generally) read them without signing up. And doesn't Gmail attempt to thread conversations? Nothing says you have to use one mailbox for everything ... I use three, a main Fastmail one, a backup Hotmail one that gets one type of traffic that tended to not get through Fastmail or whatever vendor I used before them, and another Hotmail one for a thinly disguised nom de guerre.

Serious newsgroups of the sort you'd be interested in should be covered by http://gmane.org/ , and when I last subscribed to a professional newsgroup service, they and the general netnews community were good about blocking most spam. Look at this one I just picked mostly at random: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi

Don't know about forums, but presumably there might be some out there. Spend some quality time with gmane and you might find links to some.

Also look for bloggers who have quality comment communities. And of course you'll be able to engage some of them in their comments sections.

Good luck!
Snowden: A Manifesto for the Truth
Show HN: A partial and lazy Python "sorted" function
I'll also note that the (excellent) film was based on the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Censored_Roger_Rabbit%3F
, but the streetcar/ highway plot elements are invented for the movie completely absent in the book.
A laptop is even better for them. 200mb of LTE would be gone in an instant with a laptop. "Did you just like the sample of T-Mobiles LTE service? Buy more here."
No. I'll stick to the RPGs that I enjoy, thank you very much.
A magical place to create your own photo contests.
Love it. This is brilliant fun.
Hi hershel,

thanks for your links/lit.

I was not trying to to stomp down any intiative towards employing 3D printers in chemistry - on the contrary, I find these are very interesting tools that I was watching with envy in my final years of university life. I just wanted to point out some of the problems that can not be solved easily by just making use of a 3D printer:

1. control of reaction
2. purification
3. analytics

are as important as choosing the recipe of the reaction because side-reactions can be found most of the time with synthesis e.g. due to imperfect reaction conditions, reactant aging, nature of reaction (kinetic vs thermodynamic control), steric factors, solvent, many factors that are difficult to control etc. Quite unfortunate, I know.

Not sure what the current resolution of the printers is - I was following this exciting idea for some time, but until now I could not figure out a concept that would allow to bootstrap a 3D printing system that provides some interest value proposition to a specific customer segment. I guess we will see many more projects with 3D printers in the respective journals.

As for medicine, I would not gulp any stuff that has been made by a 3D printing system - quality control is the one of the things the pharmaceutical does right. It costs a lot of $ but is necessary in order to be confident enough that the compounds you are making are really the compounds you wanted to create.
Education App "Super" Secures Tens of Millions Yuans From Sequioa
Ah, never mind - I hadn't typed the book's url correctly. Source code available here: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/
In politics, getting anything done from scratch in 4 years is pretty hard.

That said, this is hardly some half-hearted promise. He ran on this promise and worked hard on pushing it through. In fact, when I moved I made sure I was in a coverage area because it's supposed to be become available in Q1 2014:

http://gigabitseattle.com/areas/

http://gigabitseattle.com/faqs/customer-faqs/#faq-425

He didn't quite get it done in 4 years but if it does come out in Q1 it'll have been 4.25 years which isn't bad considering the scale of the project and how many entrenched interests you have to fight.
>Long haul trucking has far more things to go wrong than a short jaunt from two packed urban spots to another.

Some road side service response personnel could alleviate that. I personally think automating long haul would be a great thing, I've seen a lot of hair raising driving by truckers on I-84 and if we can't expand rail transport or zone commercial/industrial near rail access then I see this as the next best thing. Of course truckers would be quite vocal about any sort of change...
Intimidation doesn't work like that.
If the trucks are small, they're no longer compatible with standard-sized shipping containers, which would throw up a significant barrier to adoption.
I had 14 years writing code, running development teams etc. before I did my MBA.

At the time I was technical director for a online service so already pretty business aware.

It helped me to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge but most of all it taught me how to think - how to hold two opposing ideas in my head and work out possible solutions, it really helps to pick ideas and arguments apart and look at the alternatives.

Nearly ten years on from my MBA, I'm still doing hands on technical work and enjoying it but I also can talk to anyone from development, ops etc. right through to board level execs in their own language and that works wonders.
HP Executive: "We have great support"
The Seven Deadly Startup Sins
Sounds like more of a story of "he's retiring" (with a massive pile of money from riding AAPL stock to the top) than any sort of story of internal turmoil or schisms in the iOS dev team.
There is also http://www.awsnow.info/, now with RESTful access to pricing.
That's a good point. Though keys we use were generated back before Symantec bought PGP - is it more reasonable to expect that files encrypted with Symantec's version might be tamper-able, rather than keys generated might be?
I was thinking more like Gilt since I believe there were some articles a year or two ago about how they were sitting on a ton of unsold inventory. Although Fab did come to mind, does Fab not take any inventory risk on their products? Or would you not include either of those in that category since they don't do the actual delivery to the customers as WebVan did?
I suspect a mile of highway has fewer hazards than a mile of Manhattan.

Trucking from the suburbs of a port city to the suburbs of another city could be 98% highway. Not many toddlers will be walking into traffic they way they might on a residential street.
> Mediocre Javascript developers are easy to find

FTFY.

In all seriousness, though, I'm the lead developer on a web applications team at a medium-sized client services company and my experience has been that competent JavaScript developers are among the hardest kind of developer to find right now.
There was a post about this a couple weeks ago about why incremental change might actually be less safe than a "revolution". Basically, if a car can handle 90% of the scenarios it faces, the human driver would zone out and have difficulty responding to the remaining 10%, especially if there's little to no warning of when that 10% will happen.
There's a lot of cost in the mechanics of the truck and the fuel which make full-sized trucks more economical. Not to mention the convenience of not having to load and unload lots of small deliveries. I would be very surprised if self-driving mini-trucks were anywhere near economically competitive with human-driven semis.
Maybe they'll get it right.

Tablets were a chronic flop until the iPad came around.
The major benefit of self-driving isn't saving the costs of a driver's salary, it's reducing accidents. Commercial truck drivers are skilled and alert, so it's hard to be safer than them. Average commuters are distracted and accident-prone, so you can reduce accidents with near-future technology.
Walt Mossberg To MSFT "You need to focus on your audience, not every audience"
I remember you criticized on twitter this point of Node some time ago and the response of some leaders of Node community was like "Sorry, this isn't Erlang" and "Erlang is better but it's harder"
I co-founder is a strong word (akin to "spouse") and the best co-founders are people you have worked or studied with before. That is why I created DoerHub - so you can post your projects or see open projects and contribute to the stuff you are interested in in little or big ways (pick up a task, refer someone, join the team, etc). You don't have to be technical but you can check out and help on projects by technical people to demonstrate you can contribute with value. You can also see who is drawn to your project and how you can work together before pop-ing the Cf question. The site is http://www.doerhub.com ( "A humanized GitHub, so everyone, including non-hackers can collaborate on projects.").

Don't be yet another "business person" with an idea looking for a "technical co-founder". There are way too many of those out there.
19201200 is good for everyday use. 28801800 is usable in the short-term, when lots of real estate is needed and no external monitor is available.

1440*900, imho, shouldn't be allowed on such a screen. It seems like a huge waste.
That link filters it to the frameworks tested on EC2/Amazon, not showing Go and such. Main (i7) tests:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7
So if they aren't apparently trying to maximize their personal profits as measured in dollars, then they are failures. That's quite a harsh generalization.
Great post, was laughing throughout.
No, I explicitly assumed peak loads about 10 times the average, 100 reqs/s instead of 12 reqs/s..
>the best start is short-haul intermodal

bingo. In container ports, long-distance drivers will generally dump their trailer to be shunted and loaded internally, and pick up another one. Separate cabs are attached to move things around within the port.

These could relatively easily become driverless. It's a highly controlled and automated environment. Every moment a ship is in the port costs money, so there's a big reward for improving reliability and shaving seconds off (un)load times. It might make financial sense even in Asian ports with low wage costs for drivers.

Same with mining or heavy industry. Where companies might now build their own railways, in the future they could build a road and run driverless trucks along it. Being outside of public road systems makes the legal situation easier, and you can always have a human jump in to drive the last mile.
The way this is written makes it sound like in American fantasy football it's not tied to the real games, is that right?

I don't follow football (the British kind) but for the first time this year I'm playing fantasy football. It started as a very clever marketing hack my business partner came up with. See, in ff there are league tables so you can see how you're doing against other people you know. The industry we're breaking into all play this game so they see our names and our company name every week while checking the scores. It also provides an instant talking point - "bit of banter".

Aside from that I've been enjoying playing. It's a game of chance and there is advantage to be had from knowing about the teams / players. There's stack loads of data though. More then you can handle. Everything about every player is tracked. The performance of each player in real life each week determines the points they win you.

There's a whole other aspect too - a market for players. Based on demand the cost of a player changes each day. So you can play the markets to build team value so you can afford more expensive players.

There's a lot going on and even those of us who have no interest in football itself (I'm yet to watch a game) can find plenty to enjoy in the fantasy side of the game.
Show HN: I'm open sourcing my startup - Forking Recipes: Github for Recipes
Well here is my journey.
A few months ago, I built a vertical jobs board platform, free for developers and paid by companies announcing their job offers (yes another one).

The numbers:

I launched during summer and have made around $200.

Have 1125 developers subscribed to daily alerts

Have processed around 1500 applications for 81 jobs posted (most of them through 100% discount tickets given away)

The idea was not very well thought, but something simple to start with.
I used it to start gaining experience and also to start building a reusable code base (mailing, billing, etc) that would let me move faster with future products, not expecting to make any money at all from it.
As a single founder/developer/designer/sysadmin/marketer/support guy etc, I found it very hard to accomplish, but very rewarding once it was launched.

I built a few sites:

for django jobs: http://djangojobbers.com

for ruby on rails jobs: http://railsjobbers.com

I also have boards for javascript, php, java, android or ios, but with not a lot of subscribers, so they are free for publishers for now. The links are http://php.jobbersnet.com, http://ios.jobbersnet.com, etc

Now I am getting ready to launch a new thing (identee.com) to help low level users increase their security by storing their usernames & passwords encrypted in the cloud.
In my nerd-office we've started getting serious about https://www.fanduel.com/ - think normal fantasy football, but each league only lasts a week long. It means you can put much less effort into a long draft, and you can quickly iterate & recover strategies.
yes yes, this is exactly what I'd want the T-Mobile sales rep to think.
As long as you are able to create and set goals for the entity (AI), goals that it must obey and cannot override, then this should never be a problem.

The three laws of robotics would be a good place to start. My greatest fear is it's code landing in the hands of someone with ill intentions. Imagine it, a machine with the combined knowledge of almost everyone who ever lived, capable of working 24/7, full speed, without any breaks. Given enough time it would be able to answer ANY question you could ask it, it could build anything you desired and it could cure every sickness known to man.

But it could also create unimaginably powerful weapons of mass destruction, it could create a pathogen capable of annihilating the entire human race and yes, if asked, it could create a robot army unlike any depicted by sci-fi before.
Our fear should not be that of the AI itself, but rather the man behind the computer screen. For it was neither the maker nor the carrier of LittleBoy that was responsible for the annihilation of Nagasaki, but rather the President whom sent it on it's way.

I just pray that the creator of the first AI, is a kind one. For he shall poses both the greatest weapon known to mankind, And the greatest blessing ever to be bestowed upon us.
> My phone has 200MB data and I can barely use up every month even though I read HN like at least 2-3 times a week.

Meanwhile mine has 2GB and I generally use 80~90% of it.
The history lesson is good context, but the "pampered Westerner" reference seems unnecessary, particularly when the article is discussing young Latvians rather than the war generation.
So in the author's words, deceive your co-workers and troll them. Because they're sports fans. Got it.
DIY heater for dialysis fluids using arduino
Because strikes have never been used as political tools by organized labor groups…
The proper solution for users who want to modify their devices is an unlocked bootloader, not skipping the implementation of useful security features! I'm as annoyed by unrooted devices as anyone else, but blaming the security implementation is insane, sorry. The blame falls on the manufacturers and what they permit. Google (the ones making android "anti-consumer"...) ships an unlockable bootloader on all their devices.
The current bubble isn't that malignant as 2000 bubble. However, it's still a bubble.
Fair point, let me take a stab at refuting each of the points:

Supply and demand: He says there are more MBA's chasing jobs than there are suitable jobs. That's fine: lower your salary or raise the hiring bar - it doesn't make any individual be worth less.

Entitlement: As an MBA, I'll agree with this peer pressure but I might argue that it can be a good thing being pushed to be more successful. How that plays out in team dynamics depends on the individual, some MBA's are team oriented some are not (like some developers!) - select in the hiring based on the role you need.

Misguided thinking: this one is totally wrong. Strategy should always come before implementation. Lean is a strategy, so if you are doing lean then it just means you've chosen that as your strategy. My MBA taught me strategy was on ongoing process, exactly as you describe above, not a rigid fixed powerpoint. An MBA teaches you tools to run this process (allowing you to see opportunities beyond lean for instance)

Selection bias: I agree with this point, but again it depends what you are looking for. Understand the person and their motivations, and make sure they fit with your team. True as much for an MBA as for any other role.

Limited usefulness: More than anything an MBA teaches you a way of looking at the world, more than facts and figures. It does mean you can read a term sheet and plenty of other things. Could you learn more online or by doing? Maybe, but the skills are valuable especially if you get a company to the point where it can scale with product market fit (I'd agree it doesn't help much getting to that point).

Opportunity cost: For me a career is a long time, two years at the beginning doesn't matter much. Could a CS masters or design masters be more useful - for the first phase, getting to product market fit yes - but not longer term.
i used go,php and nodejs.

let's say you want to create a bloging plateform like Wordpress.
Wordpress code is horrible,but Wordpress has loads of features (and plugins).

1/PHP
- horrible language with very good libraries. Just look at the Symfony library, there is everything one's need to build a blogging plateform the sane way. And if you want to distribute your project as open source, you'll find more user with PHP that any other language.

2/ NODE
Node is here to write servers. NodeJS is new,so dont expect libs to be as mature as php ones.

3/ GO
i think go can be compared to nodejs but better. The way go deals with concurrency is better, the language itself it better than javascript. But same problem , new stuff, a lot of code needs to be written.

PHP has an interesting thing coming,Zephir that will allow you to write php native C extensions with a language close to PHP/Java but statically typed. so you could distribute your blog engine as a native extension.
I have an MBA as well. My background is similar to yours - a developer with an MBA, but certainly a developer first - and I would have agreed with your comment if Dalton had said that startups should never hire MBAs.

However, he merely said that it is a negative hiring signal, and on this point I must agree with him. For a good majority of MBAs I know, the degree is either a way to move into a business-oriented role, or a way to get out of their current field and into something else (usually from tech, into banking or consulting). There is nothing wrong with that, but it's not exactly an entrepreneurial mindset, which is what you want at a startup.

If a company doesn't hire me just because I have an MBA, but am a great fit otherwise, I would consider it their loss. If they consider my MBA a negative signal that turns out to be insignificant once they get to know me better, I would certainly understand their initial mindset.
If you are running Google's code in your application and you don't even know what it does, you probably want to remove that code from your application. There's a reason that banks don't link in stuff like GA.
I thought this was interesting so I googled it. "Oh, that's cool", I thought, "I don't understand anything in the titles of the first 10 results."

https://www.google.com/search?q=sphere+subset+isometric
If it must be one of those 3 options, I'd probably go with TypeScript running in Node.

Scala is another option you might want to look into.

For scaling, see: http://12factor.net/
All the points you get come from the real games that happen - it's pretty much the same as Fantasy Premier League, but about American Football.
If you're looking at fantasy sports as a way for "geeks" to play a part in the social interactions which revolve around sports, I think baseball is the one to focus on. We're talking about a game that is seemingly designed for stats nerds and which understanding of basic statistics concepts actually gives you a huge competitive edge.

The rise of sabermetrics (defined as "empirical analysis of baseball" by wikipedia) has been pretty amazing given that its just math, and it has gotten to the point where TV/Radio commentators talk about this stuff every game.
It's ok as system programing language for the bits you dont code in assembly but for a General purpose language you have to do to much heavy lifting with C and its derivatives for my liking YMMV.

Oh and I agree with you on ALGOL BTW
Government is "generally hugely understaffed"? Sure, in the sense that Google is hugely understaffed as long as they still aren't as big and powerful as they want to be. Googlers consistently claim that there isn't enough important work to justify all the talent they already have, yet Google keeps adding headcount. Apparently, they just want to be bigger and more powerful, and the reason they need such power is...well, the reason is they want to be bigger and more powerful. They have the resources to do it, so they will, and finding ways to use that power is secondary. Fine. It's their own money.

The percentage of the population whose job is to "govern" us grows relentlessly every decade, yet some people think we are in a permanent, desperate state of not being governed enough. Just because government claims that they need to be much bigger and more powerful in order to be as big and powerful as they want to be doesn't mean that they are "hugely understaffed."
To clarify:

The hypothesis on the table is that you can only measure by poverty by income. That is, if you gave a person making 0 per year 30K per year they would suddenly have an apartment, healthcare, transportation, and all those other things that most other people who make 30K per year have. A certain amount of money over a certain amount of time is the thing to be adjusted (maximized?)

To test this, use a substantial amount of money and a non-trivial time period. 15K and six months come to mind because the sum of money is large enough to do quite a few things and the time period is long enough to allow various random things in life to occur. I'd think you could also test at greater income levels. In fact, to do it right you'd use 15K, 30K, and 45K and time periods of 6, 9, and 12 months.

So when you come back, you're not looking for poverty to be "solved", whatever that means. You're looking on the previous time period to see if that person lived the same as somebody who was making a similar amount from a job. Did they have access to shelter? Food? Did the money last? And so on.

I'm by no means suggesting that poor people are going to blow it all on booze and cocaine (of course, some will), but that you're measuring the wrong thing. This is a classic example of managing to whatever the metrics are, instead of the underlying condition. Put a different way, we shouldn't care how much money anybody makes, but whether they live a comfortable, happy life and have access to opportunity. But whatever my personal bias, an experiment like this would put in sharp relief whether or not the hypothesis had legs or not.
by the time you're crazy enough to step out in front of any sort of semi in hopes it will stop, so you can rob it, i don't think you're doing risk calculations in a rational way.
isn't the South functionality there out of the box in rails? I've only ever written one rails app in my life, and I now use (non-Django) python all the time, but needing a 3rd party library to handle db migrations sounds like madness, and makes me want to re-learn ruby rather than use Django.