skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are economists always so hung up on the concept of saving vs. spending, as though one is inherently better than the other?

Because effecting changes in aggregate saving vs spending is one main thing that policymakers use for regulating the economy (to counter overheating or depression).
yeah blocking . (a dot, decimal numbers should be allowed) is a bit too restrictive although it works really well.
I'm unwilling to trust a company to provide me with a binary that touches unencrypted data/keys AND also host all my data. It's just too easy to slip in a special backdoor on update (and failing to update = big security risk, too, and generally unworkable for general purpose products for features/OS reasons.)

What I want is a trustworthy client, ideally written to an open published standard, which can either backend with a service (with ideally several providers), or with a self-hosted binary (or appliance).
There is more. The dependency injection implementation is based on reflection, using the https://github.com/codegangsta/inject package.

See e.g

https://github.com/codegangsta/martini/blob/master/martini.g...

https://github.com/codegangsta/martini/blob/master/martini.g...

Still, the end result is a nice API.
Bad move. I am willing to bet that Snapchat will never earn more than 3 billion in profits or get a better acquisition offer. The only concievable opportunity would be an IPO where its market cap could concievably be higher for a limited time.
I have been working with EKG on and off for ten years. I helped with this briefly: http://www.neozap.com/freeECG.htm I would love it if someone could produce a more 'rounded' piece of software.

I really love my 12-lead ECG machine I got for £10. It prints using thermal paper, and has an audio output that I put into the laptop mic input. It's not dangerous at all so you shouldn't be afraid. Sticky electrodes can be had for very little on ebay.

Happy to help others with their experiments.
From what you are describing, phonegap would work really well. Easier to maintain that ways. You would need to get into more specifics to work out what features you may miss, but for a CRUD, it should work out well.
What really happens when you exchange business cards
This times 100.

I've been trying to 'create' a syllabus for teaching myself math but it is a pain to be able to get this info and then find the courses for it. I go to MIT and 1/2 of the classes are available on video, then I try to search for the ones that aren't in other Unis but they have different names which makes it all the more confusing.

I actually ended up just going to my old uni syllabus and just buy the required reading books and try from there, but having this compiled would be such a great help
> And around ~2012, a bunch of researchers have reported you don't even need 2nd-derivative information. You just have to initialize the neural net properly.

This sounds very interesting. How do you property initialize the weights? Do you have a link to a paper about this?
Dr House should be both delighted and worried by this. We are seeing the flowering of an age where sophisticated medical diagnosis is just a (well regulated and tested) app / dongle away. From on chip chemical analysis to home brew EEG the things that say a child born today in Africa will see connected to them will astound you and I.

I hope it it makes the difference between the infrastructure it has taken to build to get care within our reach and the less infrastructure available / needed in different corners of the world.
Why the Moto G is more important than either the Nexus 5 or Moto X
A .csv list of Gins and Tonic Waters on GitHub
I think all they want to say to advertisers is "we have the most active social platform". They can figure out, given enough time and assuming they have patience, how to effectively monetize the snapchat users.
Having seen the picture, I can assure you it wasn't decapitation. I can also say I regretted looking at it, and strongly advise against it.
Wow, readers, please do yourselves a favor and watch the linked video in that article! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t41avFuCc] though it's slightly WTf-y, it's definitely cool. I'm just wondering - Are heli's better at carrying my Canon DSLR or would the triquad work better for this?? Anyone with experience, please suggest, as I am SO gonna build this tri quad (and integrate it with my Raspberry Pi) :D
http://images.retecool.com/uploads/reet-And_its_gone_origina...
> All sorts of ill-effects can result from people who sincerely believe they're doing the right thing but who have failed to fully appreciate the consequences of their actions.

Or to put it another way: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Yes! They spend less (as they have less to spend!) :-)
A fork of "Frosted glass effect with CSS & SVG" (http://codepen.io/Matori/pen/JFzok) with blur increased and color darkened to simulate iOS 7-style effects. Orig HN post by hemezh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730916
The previews for this product are stunning: this is not the first company providing this king of service, but well.. it's Amazon. Even though the cost will be initially a little high, its very likely that's worth it. Amazon has an undeniably powerful infrastructure, and AppStream could give a boost to app development. I love especially the multi platform support features, which are a tremendous relief for developers.
With $3 billion, you could put a rocketship on Mars, do serious research into gene-modifying medicine, start new cities on the ocean, make automated laboratories that shrink the cost of medical research - you know, sci fi shit. I'd trade a teen messaging startup for that any day.
This is how to make "liquid smoke flavor" aka "bacon flavor", sriracha's only rival.
Yes and maybe. Yes, just like there was a bubble when it broke $200 in April 2013 and it came back down. Maybe, just like there was a bubble when it broke $200 in April 2013, came back down and continued rising beyond the $200 point.
> The way it allows you to stack up Handlers is neat too.

Ditto. I especially like that it's fully compatible with the existing http.HandlerFunc interface, which is a big deal. This means you can just write "regular" handlers as middleware (or bring them over from existing code) without having to reinvent the wheel.

I also very much like the way it leaves sessions up to you. A few other Go frameworks leverage http.Cookie, instead of letting you use something like gorilla/sessions. I'm a big proponent of server-side sessions (wherever possible) given how simple gorilla/sessions + Redis can be to set up.

I'm a little tempted to use this myself (I've been going mostly naked so far) for my weekend (read: also weeknight) project, given that all the "real" logic (middleware, DB queries, etc.) can be dropped in alongside it.
Or http://erlang.org
Being able to email money to people. Somehow.
Then again, I'm not sure this is a very meaningful answer - the variance in startup valuation is huge, so it could just as easily be $8 billion today, just through randomness.
They use a webkit CSS extension: "-webkit-filter:blur(5px)"
Wasn't really sure what to write. I think I know you btw.
I would suggest you simply ask the user for the information you need in order to give them something, then offer facebook as a simpler way to give them that.

I mean, if you are getting access to their FB accounts to see what they like, why not put 5 input boxes down the left side with something like "Name your 5 most favourite things" with a submit button.

On the right have something like:
"Or sign in with facebook and save some time!"

If they like what they get with the inputs on the left, they are more likely to give you access to their facebook data to enjoy the experience more.
So -- actually not "the same" at all then ;)
Here's a small criticism: "uploaded to internet" is not cromulent
Disclaimer: below opinions based solely on personal experience

As a "freelancer who knows how to deliver and maintain software" I easily find clients who understand prototyping, prioritization, shipping features incrementally.

As soon as I try to market myself as "software company", every conversation seems to start with – excuse my language – estimating and budgets. What's more, they ask to estimate something vague, "oh and here we do some reports, maybe with charts".

I prefer estimating only small bits to inform decision at hand: do we refine the design so that it looks less "Bootstrapy" (2 days) or add referrals feature (3 days). And in my experience clients who embrace this style of work seek "freelancers".
It's not capitalism per se but technology is increasing at an arguably exponential rate. The problems we have and worry about now simply might not be relevant to the future. Someone develops a really efficient battery next year allowing for effective electric cars, and suddenly we are laughing at the people who thought global warming would be an issue.

And capitalism isn't that bad. If a resource is running out, people can predict that decades in advance and have strong incentive to conserve it or invest in replacements. The price gradually rises over many years giving the world time to adapt, it doesn't just disappear overnight.
Until I see enterprise customers doing RFP for Dart, it will be JavaScript for me.
Learning a new language isn't that hard.
Dart is very similar to languages like C# or Java.
Dart isn't that groundbreaking different. It's an IMHO new approach to what many think should have been done a long time ago and just a few steps further than already existing technologies.
Usually it's much harder to learn how to work with the provided libraries and frameworks.
Those who are used to web development can easily reuse most of their knowledge and just add a little bit more each day to benefit from the new opportunities as most are used to anyway.
Could be good for practising meditation - learning to not be influenced by auditory influences. I love my old jumble sale £10 ecg machine. I would love it if someone made a more 'rounded' software. Something useful for medical diagnostics.

Free ECG software: http://www.neozap.com/freeECG.htm

Neuralfeedback training: http://vimeo.com/69318799
The text is mangled for me both in firefox and chrome. For some reason it looks okay in chrome incognito mode. It appears like this even with all extensions disabled.

"100_hours_of_videos_are_uploded_to_youtube_every_minute!
which_one_would_you_atch?"
Mark Cuban also sold his first company for 7 figures (I think) figuring it would be enough before starting broadcast.com .

He is a great(and rather rare) example of bootstrapping your money upwards. Most people only get lucky/good once.
I don't think the OP meant 'looking as if there are more people' vs 'being up-front about being one guy', but more 'looking as if you're a solutions provider' vs 'presenting yourself as a programming guy'. Having had a few experiences recently that opened my eyes to the differences, I wholeheartedly agree. 'Solution provider' = profit center, 'programming guy' = cost center. I've send quotes for being a 'solution provider' accepted without as much as an eyelash batted that I thought, when I send them, would have them running away screaming; and I've had quotes for being a 'programming guy' rejected as 'too expensive' where I would most likely have worked below minimum wage on that project.

Not difficult to predict which route I'm taking now...
Possession is more important in football, I agree. But I'm saying I suspect the risk of a lateral pass can be much lower than generally accepted because you can almost guarantee a pass completion by doing it right. In rugby, in open play, it's also very risky to loose the ball when attempting a lateral pass. The opponents can then gain possession and attack while your defensive line is not in place properly. So dropping the lateral pass is also very risky. But rugby solves that risk by making sure lateral passes are dropped very seldom (watch a top level game and see. Around 5 turnovers per team are because of a lateral pass that's dropped, if that much).
Well I'm in the Netherlands too (although I consult for international clients mostly), and my experience is opposite from yours and very much in line with the OP's :)
Haskell Communities and Activities Report
> Dart is new, yet familiar

Yes, but most people who write web apps don't like Java syntax. Publicising Dart without changing that won't stop the low adoption Dart's had for the last two years.

Edit: a reminder that that was the biggest piece of feedback from Dart announcement 776 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=oEG20axbbQ4CeS0NXvabbv
Dont forget dilution! That 10% could and be less 10% if more funding is found.
The Complex World of the Simple, Tiny, Insignificant Progress Bar
well

voxels = {x,y,z}
flowers = {x,y}
Exactly - this is not a radical new language. This is a language that in my opinion takes the best of JavaScript and Java, and puts them together. If you're familiar with either, Dart will take you a few hours to get into. Developers, even novices, should not be afraid to give it a spin. It will be VERY familiar.
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The Bulls teams of the 90's used the full court press to destroy teams in the third quarter. I agree that it would cause too much wear and tear to run it all the time.
Is this what HN has become? Almost the whole lot of comments concentrated on the lack of backup, and how he should have used dropbox or a USB Stick etc.

Come on folks, one or two comments are probably enough. Lets move on.
If you provide a phone number for emergencies, it will be used for non-emergencies by the most irritating kind of customer (`every problem of mine is an emergency!').
MapQuest Updates With Improved Cartography to take On Google & Apple Maps
Modern Malware For Dummies (EBook)
Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?
A few more examples:

- OS/400 user space is also bytecode based, JIT compiled on first run or installation time.

- Inferno userspace applications coded in Lingo

- Native Oberon has implementations with the kernel modules were AOT and the remaining modules are JITed on load

- Lillith (Modula-2 workstation)
Posted yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728650
I can't think of any language other than Go that had relatively high adoption pre-1.0 . Of course I'm sure someone will point out a few examples... but I digress: Last I checked Java was the #1 or #2 top programming language in the world. Perhaps Dart makes it easier for a Java developer to do front-end web development while using a familiar paradigm.
Do you have Time Warner? I'm pretty sure South America is getting a faster connection than I have.
It's battery powered, see the battery around 4:25
I dunno, the payload capacity of these things is shocking until you get to Trex 600 size or above, even at that point it's only "ok", definitely not "good".

At that point (& cost) there are cheaper, more effective (what a cold term) and just down right more terrifying ways, to induce terror.

The small UAVs are destined mainly for aerial photography; they are awesome at that, no question.
Why, are we running out of lazy and ignorant people? I beg to differ, there are a lot of us.
Mythbusters folded it 11 times, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE
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As an adult you're not beholden to anyone to justify your decisions. It's more courteous to explain yourself, but it is not a requirement. I am sure the two of them have discussed it in detail since, but in the moment the important thing was that he was sure.
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It failed because we chose a 1 to 1 relationship between the window object and the document object. There should instead be a 1 to many relationship.
I was just wondering given that 75% of US currency is tainted by drug traces we can safely assume it was used in illegal transactions.

So if we compare this to "dirty" bit-coins how do you determine if a coin is dirty. How recent does this transaction have to be for the legitimate organization to refuse it because if a bit-coin is considered dirty forever after being involved in a dirty transaction that wouldn't work.

I'm probably missing some intricacies of how the block-chain works since you can do transactions of any size not necessarily 1 bit-coin.
wow it's alive
I really fail to see the point of Dart, especially since awesome client side frameworks like Angular already exist.

Why doesn't Google throw more resources at them instead of creating something from scratch that has a very high possibility of being abandoned in the next 2-3 years.
The moment of inertia for a uniform rod pivoting on end is (1/3)ML^2 where M is mass and L is length.

Assuming mass scales with length, inertia should be proportional to the third power. Where am I wrong?
Before Modula and Oberon there was UCSD Pascal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal) (1978) which had its own p-code machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine) to which all the code was compiled.

Microsoft also used p-code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_P-Code) to reduce the code footprint in order to fit more of the big applications in the RAM which was limited then.

When we're still at Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability "the underlying architecture of such files is from a previous era, and includes features which allow actual code to be executed whenever a WMF file opens. The original purpose of this was mainly to handle the cancellation of print jobs during spooling"
Javascript. You have to know it for a web app, so start there. Build the front-end in it. Once you get decent at the front end, you'll know a lot more about programming so you then make a much more informed decision regarding a backend language and framework that works for you. Could be ruby, python, php, clojure, scala, etc. or even more javascript. Delay the decision of which back end to learn to the last responsible moment.
I usually prefer just venting the air of the rooms attacked until the boarders reach my medbay, where my guys have an advante. If you have rockmen, you can also try to fight on rooms on fire (since they are immune they have an advantage).
How does this perform cross wind compared to a traditional micro quad?

That main rotor will act like an umbrella does in a gust of wind. The micro quads don't suffer the same problem.

I'm not sure of the physics involved (and if anyone knows i'd love to learn more!) but just from hands-on piloting both micro quads and larger helis, the micro quads are some of the least susceptible to cross winds i've ever flown.
I think you are missing the point. Imagine you magically added 20 billion more people to the planet overnight. They would still all be individuals with dreams and ambitions, and so on. But that wouldn't stop the fact there is no way we could support them all.

I don't think surplus population is the issue (in the present) because we do have enough resources for everyone. At least to give everyone a decent standard of living if not a first world one. And the way population growth is declining I don't think it will become a problem. Not the real problem anyways.

However yours is a terrible argument against overpopulation fears. It is possible for there to be too many people for the world to support, regardless what you think of them as individuals.
Because writing/improving yet another JavaScript client side library fails to address the fundamental flaws with JavaScript which are well laid out. ECMAScript 6 will likely correct some of these flaws, but the necessity for backward compatibility continues to be a stumbling block. Dart is a clean break and fresh slate while retaining a familiar syntax and interoperability/compatibility.

Is it a long shot that it will unseat Javascript? Sure. But, competition is good for JavaScript. Google's number one interest is in improvement across the entire client side web app infrastructure since its business is built upon it. It can push Dart while improving JavaScript in parallel.
1. It looks absolutely wrecked on Chrome with ghostery/adblock installed [ http://imgur.com/gQfalwN ].

2. Not going to sign up using facebook.
The Positive Balance of Marketing and Sales
Looks really interesting. I love Pandora and having seen this I realize I really want Pandora for video. Would be great to have more Pandora like features -- specifically, videos recommended based on likes/dislikes of other videos, and being able to view videos without any past information. You could do this, for example, by showing popular videos for people who haven't logged in, and then customizing from there.
Unfortunately I had the same experience when I evaluated it a couple of years ago. You should check Wuala: while still not perfect (the client is closed source and java) the user experience has been pretty much as smooth as Dropbox'.
Can you explain why?

Is it to do with the bulk properties of the materials not varying with scale? Or scaling with some power of length < 3?

If you tried to spec a full sized helicopter engine to make speed changes like those in the video would it tear itself apart?
I'd love to see the data here compared to voting data in national elections.
Looking for software to speed file uploads up
Reports of Java's death has been greatly exaggerated ;-)My guess is, Java8 will solve a lot of the whining about boilerplate types. The closure syntax, is in someways, more economical than JS.
> The hypothesis is that rich people spend differently than poor people because they're rich, right?

I would never have guessed that. There's a longstanding line of thought that says rich people are rich because they spend differently than poor people （obviously, I'm simplifying). A finding that rich people and poor people spend differently does nothing to reverse the form of the argument.
U.S. Tech Companies Could Go "Dark" To Regain Trust
No female militants?
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's Rejects $3 Billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg
Does dart vm use type information to optimize? I can't find a good explanation. I'd really like to use static typing to gain both speed and early error checking.
I definitely agree that JS itself could be improved, but while Dart improves some things, it makes others a lot worse. Look at the Fibonacci program on dartlang.org, and compare it to any language that's popular with web developers: Python, ruby, Coffeescript or even scala. Multiply that unnecessary overhead for every function in your app.
Would I recommend RavenDB?
Why isn't China in the TPP?
That depends on who your opponent is. Against inexperienced players, projecting confidence can sometimes make them miss the fact that you made a mistake. However, against strong experienced players they will almost always notice and take advantage of mistakes, confidence and psychology will not factor into it.

Notice, for example, how the top AI players are now pretty much unbeatable by humans. They don't make use of any psychological tricks but play purely rationally -- read up about min-max and decision/game theory for a general framework for how such AI is written.
Given that, as I understand it, lavabit deleted all of it's user data when the government won (and it will always win) - I am not sure picking such a service is a solid business idea?
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (7)
I wonder if by hedging their bets they are actually accelerating the demise.
They are not going to "fix it", it is working as intended with the deliberate tradeoff because almost no real world code is affected by it.
You mean the graphical one where they use storage, forms, and events? Let's not be misleading... Hello World in Dart is:
main() {
print("Hello World!");
}
AngularDart does now exist – http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/angular-announces-angularda..., I wonder if that is going to be the direction that Angular is taken?
>chess is a lot more about confidence & psychology than purely intellectual

Have you actually played more than a few games of chess?