skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes! Just looked at the pricing:

http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/

Talk about high TCO! (yes, you still need the hardware to run this service). With office going online now, I'm wondering what their strategy is. This is really not what I was expecting.
You might want to take into account backers' context. I believe projects related to video games attract wealthier backers who are ready to put more money. As you say it yourself, Veronica Mars raised less money than OUYA but had more backers. Therefore the backers' social and financial context could be another potential explanation of why games raise so much money on Kickstarter. An analysis of who the backers are in each category would make this blog post more relevant.
I wouldn't focus on "math" so much as logic at that age. This link may be useful to you - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/ages-stages-helpi... (my source: my wife, who is a Reading Corps member that also assists in teaching math to 4 year olds)
Would it be fair use to put the script of every movie and TV show online?
Whenever I see websites like this, I always ask myself questions like "How much does it cost?" and "How does it make money?" and "Who's running this site?".

The fact that none of this information is shown scares the heck out of me. It's a shame - I like the concept.
Can anyone here recommend a good resource for learning discrete/computer math?
I'm a self taught developer doing well in the CRUD/Enterprise arena. But whenever I try to delve into books about things like algorithm analysis I usually have to tap out after the first few chapters, which are usually heavy with mathematical explanations and proofs. I need to dedicate some time into learning the basic comp sci math foundation.
If he wanted to do the right thing, he should have gone to his Congressman, or the oversight arm of the NSA (it does exist, regardless of how inefficient it seems to be).

I'm stuck in the odd position of thinking both Snowden and the government are wrong, which seems to piss both sets of hardliners off. I'm not arguing that the NSA is right to slurp our data, and I'm not trying to defend that - I think it's reprehensible. However, I also think that Snowden did not exhaust all his legal options before deciding to play secret agent and scarper off to Hong Kong. I think if it truly wasn't about him, he wouldn't have gone to the press first thing. If he'd been shutdown after going through those channels? Sure, leak everything. He chose instead to play the hero.
Of course if you are A/B testing something which doubles conversions from 25% to 50% (100% improvement) you'll know quickly. However, if you're looking at something which is better by something more realistic like taking conversions from 5% to 5.5%, you're looking at around 10000 visits each for 90% confidence.
With the nice tuning and code standards you don't need the gigabytes of variable lifetime objects. Of course the whole environment needs to be available in the right way, but for example it's not uncommon in erlang to see thousands of processes that have the memory size adjusted enough to never GC and finish quickly. Then you collect the whole process, rather than separate objects. Immutability also helps here.

Not many languages can afford doing that and of course there may be lots of features that prevent similar behaviour.
It's worth noting that Facebook's SnapChat "competitor" Poke, which was rumored to have been created after the $1B offer was rejected, was released almost a year ago: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/facebook-poke-app/

I suppose waiting the year added another $2 billion.
True, but that is still tens of thousands of people.
The best tool I've ever used for cleaning up large datasets, CSV or otherwise, is Google Refine[1]

It takes some time to get used to the workflow, but it's very powerful and does a great job making messy data usable.

[1]https://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-S305-Bluetooth-Headset-Microp...

I've been using these daily for over three years straight. They're comfortable for 3-5 hours at a time, and they pair effortlessly with most smartphones. I wouldn't really recommend them for 40 hours a week, but if you just need something cheap and versatile, they're great.
I have been researching this for a couple of years and can recommend a couple of books that I thought were particularly good:

* Good questions for math teaching (http://amzn.com/0941355519)

* Young Mathematicians at Work (http://amzn.com/032500353X)

* Number Sense Routines (http://amzn.com/1571107908)

* Dr Wright's Kitchen Table Math book (there are three) - http://amzn.com/0982921128

I haven't finished these next two, but they look promising:

* Fostering Geometric Thinking (http://amzn.com/0325011486)

* Fostering Algebraic Thinking (http://amzn.com/0325001545)

I also like the approach of the Art of Problem Solving curriculum, though it doesn't currently have elementary school material. I haven't used it on my own kids yet because they're still too young, but I did buy the set and I think it looks good. If you read "Good Questions for Math Teaching" you will probably modify the way the problems are presented to make them more open-ended, but I like that topics are introduced with a problem that is later explained, instead of explaining then drilling.

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/curriculum.php

Finally, I thought that this online course was a nice introduction to the approach. It's a pretty short course, but I just put the audio on an mp3 player so I could listen while working on other things and there were only a couple of places where I couldn't tell what was happening in the video.

* https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/EDUC115N/How_to...

For a more general book about early childhood education, I really liked

* "Engaging Children's Minds - the Project Approach" (http://amzn.com/1567505015)

* Making Thinking Visible (http://amzn.com/047091551X)

* Learning Intelligence: Cognitive acceleration...(http://amzn.com/0335211364)

Sadly, most of these books are pretty pricey for the page count, but the material I thought was quite good. If you were to get only two, I'd say go with "Young Mathematicians at Work" and "Good Questions for Math Teaching" because they will probably give you the quickest jump start, especially if you can get the "How to Learn Math" course.

If you're interested in where my evidence for the approach outlined here comes from, my main sources are the following books:

* Effectiveness In Learning (cognitive load theory) http://amzn.com/0787977284

* Visible Learning (synthesis of 800 meta-analyses) - http://amzn.com/0415476186

Edited because I put some of them in the wrong spots and forgot links...
So she's not "bad at math", she has dyscalculia. Like someone who's wheelchair-bound with a development disability isn't "bad at walking".
Sorry to be the jerk. Small error in an opening paragraph (probably from a last-minute edit):

> Your users can access the applications, documents, and intranet resources that they need to __get their done__, all from the comfort of their desktop computer, laptop, iPad, or Android tablet.

Otherwise, thank you for the detailed write up... I almost never watch launch/demo videos
Siggraph 2013 Papers
Over 3,000 US prisoners serving life without parole for non-violent crimes
no; yes.
Well, yes I am a dick, but I also think the situation is more nuanced than 'rah rah free Snowden'.
App For Heart Charity
I want to create an app, as a fundraising driver for a charity, to help parents of babies with heart defects. Any suggestions?
Wouldn't that only make the buyers happy, and the sellers upset? ;)
but whats that progress for? median income that hasnt changed perceptibly for a decade? a gini like the usa?
I created this to save important HN posts, which I define as link that made it to the top 3. You can access only the latest 20 entries though, but past links are in my postgres database :-). And there is RSS feed too. http://www.tophnnews.com
The move from IE6 to IE8 has (pretty much universally in the investment banking industry in the UK) only been over the last year or so.

They are still pretty much all on XP, but new laptops are generally Windows 7 (with IE8) and I suspect Win7 will be rolling out to older standard builds (both desktop and laptop, machines old enough to not be Win7 compatible having been replaced already) as the first thing the relevant TS departments do after the Christmas/NewYear non-emergency-work freezes.
This leads me to the question: How you get networked with people that know investors, when your startup is in a non-hub place? (like, not in United States or Europe)
My first question was "can I add my own items to the bundle" (and the answer is yes although that info should be more prominent.)

My second thought is the price point is to high but obviously that will come down (However by having a high price point you will invite competition.)

I'd like to use this just to be able to use the vsphere
app which runs only under windows. So from a mac I have to connect to a windows box by screen sharing. I could use this. But the $35 price point is way to high for doing that.
Prospecting
Try re-reading it without the parenthetical: "The 4.5-inch display outperforms the iPhone 5s according to Motorola."
> So legitimate question, is the CLR better than the JVM at cross language support and if so what makes it better?

Yes in the early days, because JVM was initially designed just for Java and many bytecodes are directly related to Java semantics.

Meaning any language that targets the JVM has to adapt their semantics to Java semantics at the bytecode level, hence the tricks mapping closures to anonymous classes as one example from many.

This got better with the introduction of new bytecodes in Java 7 and the upcoming Java 8, but it is still a Java VM at heart.

The CLR was designed as language agnostic, meaning its design had to support a good implementation of VB, C# and C++ on day one, alongside other languages from Microsoft partners like Eiffel and COBOL as two possible examples.

There is inclusive a .NET ABI for interoperability between languages, CLS (Common Language Specification).

So the bytecode is much more generic and more low level than the JVM bytecode is.

Then thanks to the work done on IronPython and IronRuby, it got the DLR part with allows for better performance of dynamic languages implementations. Since initially CLR was mostly targeted for strong typed languages.

Nowadays both platforms are quite similar in terms of language support.
IPython notebooks are very much inspired by Mathematica. And will probably be used by more people in the future due to the cost of Mathematica.
Wait, there are useful ones?
I'm surprised there aren't any graphs, though. (of the actual data)
Well, I'm biased since I'm paid to build those systems (we are OpenERP partners), but if it works for you, I won't argue ;)
One of the YC App questions involves detailing a story of a real life hack. I know he didn't fill out the app, but I certainly hope that figuring out public transportation falls above the bar.
There is a general, Europe-wide restriction on exporting personal data outside of the EEA to somewhere that doesn't provide an acceptable level of protection (which by default the United States does not).

There is also a Safe Harbor scheme that is intended to overcome this problem so working with US businesses is still possible if they provide additional safeguards. However, it's now clear that no business operating in the United States can actually offer the required guarantees, no matter how sincerely they might wish to. It is therefore unclear whether a European business relying on Safe Harbor to cover its rear would actually have much of a case in court if one of its customers were actually damaged as a result.

I've seen a lot of businesses at least considering pulling out of US services, cloud or otherwise, for this reason in recent months. Some are sticking with it, on the grounds that there is safety in numbers: no government regulator really wants to damage global trade by making examples of businesses who are just trying to do their work and acting in good faith, and if you're dealing with a similarly honest business from the US then the odds of an actual customer complaint are probably low enough that it might be considered an acceptable business risk. Others seem to have lawyers who are more wary and fear the penalties of something like a mass leak across the pond that would come back to bite their clients back home.

In addition, some nations in Europe are a lot more concerned about privacy both legally and culturally than the US, for obvious historical reasons if nothing else, and they may have stronger laws still.
Dropbox hits 200M users, unveils new "for business" client
Some people are very good at chess. Similar idea. Are these people also good at math?

"One thing that worked well for my wife was a series of games from Nintendo called Fire Emblem."

So are you trying to make a scientific claim? This is starting to seem like an anecdote supporting brain training games.
This is unfortunate. Trying to figure out what it would take to keep the site alive, because I do think it serves a useful purpose and the costs of keeping it alive are likely minimal.
> It's not difficult to reach 90% confidence with very a small sample size:

I think the difficulty in reaching 90% confidence is in designing a challenger that is THAT much better the original (i.e. 10 vs 5). Most split tests are shots in the dark. You'll basically need a design or copy that is doing pretty bad and an a challenger that is a lot better (but not obviously good enough that you use it in the first place).
Ubuntu Gnome needs help
My favorite ubuntu based distro needs some help.
EU Passports for 650,000 Euros: Citizenship for Sale in Malta
Is that your only gripe? In Norway civilians outgun the government 16:1. It's a lot more complicated than simple possession.
ASP.NET MVC, the Entity Framework, Web API, Web Pages, the Razor view engine, and SignalR are under this license: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/eula/aspnetcomponent_rtw_...

Which I commented on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727423

At best, they are under a free commercial license. They are not available under FOSS licenses.
I think the additional $2 billion in value was created by showing they have a strong enough brand that a competitor can't throw together a clone quickly and take away their market share.
Also, what are your thoughts on the implications of this tendency of VCs as it pertains to teams outside the Bay Area or outside the US, who may have just as much talent and hustle but are forced to work that much harder and longer to get the same intros and connections (at the opportunity cost of spending more time on product & customers)?

Is there a way to bridge that gap and make the process more equitable in different geographies and networks?

EDIT: Removed the first part of my original two-part question because it was less relevant to the OP.
Why Western criticism of India's Mars mission is blatant racism
The all-new 'Dropbox for Business'
to the... moon?
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
a bit off track perhaps. singapore was supposedly working towards achieving a "swiss standard of living".. now that the swiss are considering a citien's income scheme..i wonder if singapore would follow...ahahhahahahhha...
eu-west-1 is hosted in Dublin.
Machines Learn To Detect Breast Cancer
FM Stream: broadcasting local radio to the internet
Welcome to the real world, where most enterprises routinely lag MS's release schedule.
Speaking candidly here -- perhaps this is one of many (MANY) reasons why I will never be a billionaire entrepreneur, but I can wholeheartedly say that if Facebook came to my startup, no matter how popular, and said "here's 3bn, please give us your users" -- I would without question sign on the dotted line as fast as possible (and probably for A LOT less earlier in the game). And to be honest, I probably wouldn't care how badly they may maul my creation, I'm either:

a) sitting on a beach in Costa Rica

b) giving a completely different project a shot with my new found riches

Maybe I just completely lack vision, but what happens in two years when Snapchat likely isn't cool anymore and all the kids are onto the next thing. Where will the money be?
I own my own business and jokes aside (which it was) I won't be putting anything I don't have to into the cloud and in the mid/long term I'll be moving stuff back in house (Google apps for email was convenient but not essential etc).

As I'm in the UK pulling stuff out the US seems vaguely ridiculous if I move to another cloud provider anywhere as GCHQ has shown to be remarkably (frighteningly in fact) efficient (there has to be some humour in their about the government been more efficient at monitoring people than at just about anything else...) so back in house is pretty much the way to go.

I don't have anything that would interest anyone I don't think (We are a small company developing software for the renewables industry) but its not really about the nothing to hide mantra so much as restoring some of the balance and if that costs me a bit extra so be it.
Summary of FAA plans' impact on drone-based journalism
I would argue other wise, on two counts. What I said was that I have no sympathy for him biting the hand that feeds.

Second, I think that the situation has been vastly over complicated by attempts to colour matters as some sort of grand moral crusade. Snowden is not a white knight, nor is he a traitor. He's a man who did what he thought was right. I disagree with his methods, and think that his actions (leaking to journalists rather than going through the appropriate oversight channels (or even just dropping a USB drive off at his Congressman's office, with a break down of what it all means)) negates any sort of 'moral right' that the community has been ascribing to Snowden.

The moral crusade is against the NSA, not for Snowden. There's a distinct difference between the two.
Apple under investigation in Italy for alleged tax fraud
>> wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!"

Usually "obviously", "trivial" and such are used to point out that: "this should be obvious/trivial by now", if not: you are getting behind/need to study more/be better prepared before class/....
It seems very similarly specced to the htc first, the "facebook" phone, which is just about the best deal as far as used handsets go. I got mine for $140 shipped from gazelle's ebay store, and it has been a delight to use.
Great suggestion! Just for fun and a share: my parents didn't allow me to have a video game system as a kid, but they did allow me to have computer games for my Commodore 64.(!)

My personal favorite was "Algebra Dragon" in which you slayed dragons by solving equations.To this day I'm convinced it helped my mindset towards math.
I'd take 1% of that even.
I think the author is making an excellent point about needing better math in journalism. An article in the NY Times yesterday about online shopping China had this line (pulled from a press release) "Tmall.com, one of Alibaba’s shopping sites, said Chinese bought...two million pairs of underpants, which if linked together would stretch 1,800 miles..." Why should I believe the rest of the article when the author is quoting someone saying that underpants are 57 inches wide?
I used to think I was 'bad at spelling', I realize now it is the same.

I was 'good at math' but 'bad at spelling' and that was normal and natural. Except I found out it is just as much a lie as the opposite thought the author had.
Can you quote where he "claimed that this analytic framework was the end-all in terms of analyzing the policy"?
I really want to check this out but... seriously? only signup with twitter?
Yes, I think it is a lot like simulated annealing, with rounds of the following:

0. internal stresses exist = mutter "look at all these contradictions and warts"; start rethinking assumptions

1. raise temperature = get creative and start brainstorming; new possibilities and combinations present themselves

2. decrease in free energy = do a bunch of prototyping; some radical simplifications or changes of perspective present themselves

3. lower temperature = realize some details are still messy, some ideas were bad; get more conservative and start weeding out stuff

4. repeat until you have to ship
Your entire argument seems to be built around paranoid and hysteria and things you've seen in sci-fi movies.

I'm a mechanical engineer by training and a software engineer by profession--the amount of work to create a robot whose sole purpose is to open fire upon things matching the heat signature and rough shape of a person is well within the reach of even a small university research lab, much less a defense contractor.

There is no paranoia or hysteria here; the tools and methods have already been developed.

They will constantly and forever be improved.

The nature of improvement will be technical in nature ("Did it engage the designated target fast enough? Can we make it easier to manufacture? Is the precision of the weapon carried able to be increased?"); there is no reason for the rules of engagement or anything else to be improved, because it is an arbitrary decision--a decision placed, as I've suggested, in the hands of the rich and powerful and least likely to be empathetic with the intended targets.

There's only so much training you can give to someone in nine months before they're in combat.

Quite so, and a nice part of that is that it is hard to beat basic empathy and humanity out of a person--the machine, by contrast, never had it to begin with.

The soldiers, though they may make mistakes, are more likely to be able to think critically and show compassion and mercy.

And there's also the fact that machines are a helluva a lot less likely to think it's funny to piss on a Koran or to go rape some of the locals.

No, they'll just kill them instead, as per orders.

EDIT:

We already have drones that kill and injure human beings. They're called missiles and torpedoes, and the third world has plenty of them too.

Those are munitions, not drones. Most importantly, they are deployed by human beings and are controlled by same.
That's not what the proposals A and B say - only C says http:// would be cleartext. Also the followup message(s)
say the poster misrepresents the C option presented at the meeting.

See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013OctDec/...
No way this competes with real high end phones like S4, HTC One, iPhone5 or later.

What it does is compete very well against the iPhone4, 4S, S3, and older premium phones.

If you're adding a line to a family plan and want a phone that isn't basic, then this becomes very appealing as the iOS/Samsung/HTC/Nokia alternative will cost you either a 2 year subscription, or be $300 or more unlocked.

Considering people will still buy iPhones because they want something simple, the attack is really against Samsung and other manufacturers.
Bring your own device
We've completely given up on X11 and moved to NoMachine...
[pdf] Does this TLD Registrant Agreement allow the NICTL to hack my site?
I just registered a .tl domain and here's the registration agreement they're asking me to sign:
http://coccaregistry.net/TL/TL-RA-NOV-2011.pdf

In particular, the highlighted section, (V), on page 3 spooks me out a bit. It sounds like by agreeing to this I am allowing NICTL full permission to hack my site. Am I reading this right?
He's referring to the out-of-date and inferior version of Internet Explorer (hence his use of caps).

They could have installed IE10 or IE11 -- which are good. I can't think of a good reason for installing IE9, though maybe someone will come up with one...
This is anecdotal - but the salaries quoted to me by big companies ("AAA", well-known companies even) have always been lower than what startups have offered. I've always perceived this as an extra upside for the risk of being on the sidewalk in a year's time.