skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be curious to know if you're working from there in a stable manner, and what the experience is like.
I thought about mentioning APL, but sometimes the correctness of an argument is best served by inexactitude.

I already compromised by adding "today" and "almost all" as qualifiers.
It's interesting how they call it texting rather than messaging. I almost thought for a second they really meant SMS.
Yes, this is the point exactly.
TSA’s got 94 signs to ID terrorists, but they’re unproven by science
That's exactly what it is. See presentation here: http://www.heco.com/vcmcontent/StaticFiles/pdf/LVM/LVMMECOPu...

It appears that there are neighborhoods in Hawaii where the PV generation capacity is approaching the max load of the circuit.
This was an amazing talk, thank-you for putting it together Steli.
Why not just use Uber via http://m.uber.com, or via SMS? (see http://support.uber.com/entries/22340336-Requesting-a-Ride )
I still don't have the down vote option :(

And the reason why I point these critics out is that they are simply not reasonable if you know what is happening there.
Perhaps having a top level comment like this may actually encourage them to think twice or try to learn before commenting?

But you know, maybe this is just a mirror to what happens almost daily in companies where there are non-technical people making decisions. Imagine this "excel-like app" being presented by the author to his boss, a non-technical person, as something extra that he built and is all excited about. There is a good chance that his boss will make the bad comments that it is lacking a lot of features. That is probably why these people make such comments: they don't have a clue of what is going on.
Why, where are tons of cool Clojurescript with core.async?)
How big is your S&P 500 index short?
strong troll?
someone just broke everything hahaha
This is very cool. It should be a lot easier to design new tools like git-flow if you have hard data on how people use Git.

It'd also be interesting to compare how Git is typically used compared to, say, Mercurial or even Subversion, in order to quantify criticisms people might have of other tools.
NUS Alumni received million dollar investment to expand Carousell mobile app
The first 8 (or so) episodes of the podcast "The history of Rome" will shed some light on this exact question...
None of those propositions make sense.

If I'm a renter, I don't have property to lay driveway on, and yet I have a need for highways. Combat is a job for trained soldiers; if a country needs to mobilize irregulars from the streets it has probably lost the war.

And the police generally advise that you do not confront intruders, but instead find a protected area and call 911. Apprehending criminals is the job of the police, regardless of whether they're in your home. Confronting them yourself is a great way to turn a burglary into a murder.

In a representative government, there is a legislative process required to authorize government action. It is neither necessary nor desirable to perform some small-scale imitation of a policy you would like to see enacted before advocating for that policy.
Pop quiz: How long have they been working on this?
The Instagram Scam That Tricked 100,000 Users Into Giving Away Passwords
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is more than just messaging and might include SMS. From the Play store description, "Not just for Facebook friends: Now you can message people in your phone book. And it's easy to add new contacts—just enter a phone number.". The android app also requires permission to edit/create SMS messages and make phone calls.

If so, does this mean we can be able to send an SMS from facebook now or just from our phones?

It's worth noting that the screenshot from the android phone also shows you missed calls.
Not Firebase, but you might enjoy: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs/
Type scale tool
Magnetic fields help smokers quit
I use NX / Nomachine quite a bit, and while it generally works, the latency is still annoying.

It'd be nice if there was a better way to transparently synchronize an entire VM and run things locally, since CPU and storage are so cheap.
I'm loving it so far. It's not "stable" in the traditional sense, but no distractions and I can get a ton done. Internet is easy to find, places are pretty nice and affordable, and it's quiet. I came down here to finish a startup I've been talking about for ages but never finished due to the distractions in SF.

AirBnb has some great finds, especially if you go with a few friends. Nice places, good internet and not too expensive.

(Oh, and hi Simone! You submitted my startup notes site to HN a few weeks ago)
When I lived there I relied mainly on 3G. You can get a prepaid SIM for ~$6, and you pay around $0.50 per day for unlimited data. It is fairly slow at 1 Mbps up/down, but its enough to make Skype calls and the like.
Average isn't relevant in this case. What you want is percent of Attempts over 7 yards (which is more akin to median).

Four zero yard plays + Four five yard plays + two 25 yard plays = 7 yards per attempt, but a 20% success rate.
My intent was to put $20MM or so in perspective: yes, prudent investment could put such an amount to good, long-term use, but it is not so much money that it would be challenging to spend it all within a decade or so. $1Bn is something else entirely, and would require a very concerted effort to squander quickly.
>'say it better with stickers'

Can't believe how much money is to be had from selling stickers in messaging apps
Motherboards provide drivers in ACPI bytecode for things like sleeping, waking, changing processor speed, changing backlight, etc.
I've seen a similar service launching post on HN about a year ago.

CourseTalk: Reviews for Udacity, Coursera, and edX (coursetalk.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4640735

I'm using coursetalk when I pick up a class. Some of reviewers are giving really valuable feedbacks.
> Six days before the interview, my laptop crashed and we lost our entire demo.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the qualities of the poster as a software engineer. You'd think that for a project that might change the rest of your life, you'd spend some time reading up about back ups or source control.
It's far more than just a random phrase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
> I hit a wall in college where math just stopped being something I intuitively "got".

That's the college experience. Everyone that goes to that school is smart. Since the professors go to this level, all that remains is hard work. They understand that everyone there is smart.
uh, pretty sure 10-20 million is in fact "do whatever you want for the rest of your life" money. Certainly do anything normal that you want. perhaps you can't buy a jet. damn.

10million * 3% dividend stocks = 300k per year just having it sit there. Maybe not entirely risk free, but not too risky either.
Adobe Breach Compromised 234,379 Military and Government Accounts
Yeah, this makes me sad. I hope that someone takes a hard look at the bytecode and repairs the situation. Transactions as programs is kinda brilliant.
Yep. But that's why we've unified the family plan levels to be the same as the personal ones.

So the only difference now is it's $5/y extra to have the family "container", which lets you create accounts in your own domain rather than having an @fastmail.fm account and aliases. Having that container then also lets you setup multiple accounts, manage them, share folders between users, etc. If you only have 1 account, then yes, it's a bit annoying, but I don't think $5/y is too onerous.
Alpha is free to "diddle" with, but you can't do anything of substance with it, unless you pay for that privilege.
This service really doesn't strike me as something the average consumer would use, at least not directly. This seems to be targeted at businesses, which are much more likely to care about potential NSA or other similar snooping.
> Hmmm I was rejected this past April and then sent a reply back saying something like your loss.

Not exactly an attitude that will impress VC's, and you'd be surprised at how small a world high tech is.
Are you the dude who did the "we're going to make it so nobody's going to fuck with our customers" line at demo day? Cause that was awesome. :)
For "articles", nearly none;
I save a copy of about 80% of
articles I actually read
and save essentially none for
reading later.

Of some high end, long PDF files,
say, of books, I glance at good
descriptions and save a copy if
the content looks good. For the
famous CLRS, I read through it
quickly, saw a lot of poorly done
material, but did keep a copy.

For such PDF files, my intention is
to have them for reference later if
needed; otherwise rarely do I have
any intention of actually reading
them.

For high quality books I haven't read
but would like to, I have a big but
old stack. But mostly those books
were to help my career, and my career
has taken another path. For that path,
I have essentially nothing collected
but yet to read.
One principle of negotiation is that you don't offer exactly what you think something is worth, you offer less.

Facebook made an offer of $3B, all that implies is they think Snapchat is worth more than $3B.
> Attempts to divine—or calculate—how fiscal decisions affect the economy rest on the “marginal propensity to consume,” the likelihood that if you put a dollar in someone’s hand, he will spend rather than save it.

Why are economists always so hung up on the concept of saving vs. spending, as though one is inherently better than the other?

Spending is good because it stimulates the economy -- if 1000 instances of Joe buy some new clothes then the clothing retailers can hire some new sales staff. Investing is good because it stimulates the economy -- if 1000 instances of Joe buy a share of stock then the availability of capital to create new small businesses increases and new small businesses create jobs.

It isn't about spending vs. saving, it's about whether the money goes to something productive or efficient or it goes to something harmful or inefficient. If a rich person gets more money and invests in small businesses, that's good. If a rich person gets more money and uses it to hoard precious metals, that's bad. If a poor person gets more money and uses it to buy books and go to college, that's good. If a poor person gets more money and uses it to buy cigarettes or to secure credit to buy an inefficient luxury SUV, that's bad.

It's not about saving vs. consumption. Unless someone is just stuffing cash into a mattress (which is bad and also stupid), "saving" is just consumption of investments, which is consumption by proxy when the invested-in entity spends the money. The question is whether the thing ultimately consumed is more beneficial than the alternative -- which is a question I can certainly see why economists like to avoid, because you practically can't answer it in the aggregate.

Here's a great example. The hypothesis is that rich people spend differently than poor people because they're rich, right? The fact that they have money allows them to act rationally because they can afford to make long-term investments. So, if the hypothesis is correct, lottery winners should behave like rich people, because their newfound wealth allows them to plan for the long term and stop making short term decisions just to keep food on the table. Reality? A majority of lottery winners go on to declare bankruptcy.

Because it's not about rich vs. poor. It's about what types of economic activity produce beneficial results. But economists and governments are preposterously bad at predicting what those things will be.

Which means I'm going to be back in here beating the drum on the basic income. It provides the poor with a baseline level of consumption which they can choose of their own free will. The problem with need-based programs is that the government is deciding what people need, and they're terrible at it -- and then they create an enormous marginal tax rate on the poor by withdrawing the benefits from anyone who dares to live the life of luxury that exists just above the poverty line.

Let the people themselves decide what they need. People in the aggregate are smarter than legislators.
I think we are getting a bit pedantic here. You can get by just fine on 500k a year, even if taxed at top rates.
I guess you could start Safari while offline to prevent the page from loading and change back your default page to something sane?
I'm happier in the US where the dream of owning BMW or Porsche may easily become reality vs. just stay a dream forever.
We just gave up living on the beach in the nicoya peninsula (samara) after 4 months. Bad internet access was a major part of that. The only options there were 3G and DSL. Max speeds were 3Mbs and the connection was unreliable. They are rolling out fiber in 2014 though so it should get better.

Cost of living was only slightly cheaper than Utah, where we are from. I'm sure it is less than California, but not nearly as cheap as we thought. We did hire a nanny and cook for a very good rate. Cars and US goods were very expensive.

Amazing and beautiful place though. I'll go again, just not to live.
Goglogo, googlogo search engine
I assume (but don't know!) that the "find people by entering their phone number" feature simply tries to find Facebook users with lax enough privacy settings such that (a) they expose their phone numbers to maybe friends or friends and (b) they allow non-friends to message them. Otherwise I feel like they would phrase it as "message people who aren't on Facebook!"

What Android screenshot are you looking at that makes you think it shows missed calls? I see two icons: a sort of bolt and a facebook "f". I think that the bolt means the user is using "Messenger" (i.e. fb on mobile) whereas the fb "f" means facebook.com.
I just prefer to use the FB app it self. When I was using the Messenger app, I would get a notification from Messenger and the FB app, it got rather annoying.
very well said!
Glad to hear it! As another much more minor note, the header logo on the registration page seems to be shrunken a good 75%. It's not a problem but it does look comically small.

See: img.logo width and max-width attributes.
It's kind of like eating your vegetables and exercising. You know you ought to. But most people don't.

You'll never lose money betting on aggregate laziness and lack of foresight.
Facebook's Brilliant, Boring Master Plan
Search functionality isn't very good: http://www.coursebuffet.com/s/machine%20learning/0/0/0

The direct matches from the front page are much better, though those miss courses that aren't so clearly named ('Learning from Data')
Well, snapchat thinks delete=rename with .nomedia extension, it turns out.
You get what you pay for. Good quality headphones come with strain relief, replaceable cables etc. I don't break headphones at all, but if you're rough on yours then invest in a more robust pair.

Also, why you have the cord running down by your feet where you can kick it? Buy a $5 extension cable at Radioshack and plug your headphones into that, you silly person..
yeah, but for every Facebook there are 1000's of other companies who should have taken the money. Like myspace perhaps. snapchat also doesn't have the depth that facebook has. I could see snapchat being omgpop just as easily as the next facebook or twitter. 3 billion? take the money man.
This Is Sony's Playstation 4 Before The Day One Patch
You can still derive usefulness from voting even if you think your individual vote is useless and the system is flawed. Understanding processes in general can be useful, understanding the emotions of the people at the polling station can be useful, understanding how voting makes you feel is useful.

It's not just about trying to get someone elected, it's about being part of a community and part of a participating body even if the majority of them are sheep.
oh to have "high" $400 rent.
It's true, but I didn't have the data. Regardless, it decreases if they convert, which might double the break even point, but it still wouldn't be unreasonable.
Perhaps Facebook sees value in mining the network of people for connections. Also, there's money to be had selling all that data to the NSA it seems.
Similarly, in basketball, the pick and roll is pretty much a flaw in the game. Teams should just pick and roll every single time, but they don't, because coaches get bored too.
IronPython is dead?
right. i guess cheap is in the eye of the beholder? perhaps compared to new york or san fran.
JPMorgan epic Twitter fail
The REAL issue is that they're poisoning everyone. It's hard for your organs to ignore that.
Can anyone confirm or deny? I no longer have a facebook account and don't want one so I can't check.

The first android screenshot on the linked page, shows that there is 1 missed call from Mac Tyler. Just worth noting, not sure if it means anything but it is interesting.
Wow just found out we were posted about on HN.
(we were hoping to be a little more ready for this then we are now)

So what are we doing? Well there are many sites that aggregate courses out there. That is easy. What we are aiming to do is create a simple standard. You can see what a course would roughly be if you took them at a US university.

The US doesn't have a set standard but most universities classify their courses with similar numbering. For example business students would take Introduction to Financial Accounting then Introduction to Managerial Accounting. Both would usually be 200 level (2nd year) courses.

This standard also allows user to make apples to apples comparisons between courses.

There are few errors on CourseBuffet, we are working on them. Thoughts, criticism, comments, please share! thanks!
As a fan of rugby, I've often wondered why football coaches don't try some other radically different strategies. For example, why not use a lateral pass more? Usually football fans explain it by saying it's too risky. But in Rugby they do it all the time, it's a skill that can be practiced and be almost guaranteed of success if done correctly.
Looks like Spiegel didn't pay attention at the bullish attitude Andrew Mason had this early on turning down crazy acquisition offers with Groupon, and we know how that ended.
Lets say you want to get into automotive racing. Assuming you want to race in professional series such as ALMS or similar you could easily burn 5M a year.

20M is plenty to live a very well off life, but its not "do anything you want for the rest of your life" money. Look at how many professional athletes/musicians manage to blow many multiples of that amount.
Developments like this just make my day. The implementation is extremely small at the current stage but with exposure like this to a large audience it really opens a ton of doors. I'm all for getting younger people into programming and a nontrivial exercise such as this really allows someone to get a kid interested and have them run with it and get into some interesting territory. Javascript may not be the best language on the universe, but with the ability for application with things such as this for Mindstorms and Arduino really can open the doors for a whole new generation of hackers-to-be. Can't wait to toy with this stuff with my nephew when I travel home for Christmas.
"It is no longer producing many physical goods."

LOLWUT, as they say on the internet. The US currently enjoys more industrial production than at any time in its history. It is still the largest producer of manufactured goods in the world.

"U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective"
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42135.pdf

US Census Bureau - New Manufacturing Orders
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d2p7r4l1574rh_&c...
A good place to start looking was allowing unlimited campaign contributions.

No democracy functions that way.
> This is improving, however – see e.g. http://www.igvita.com/2013/10/24/optimizing-tls-record-size-...

That's interesting (and I'll try to apply it where i'm running SSL), but what I'm more worried about is the very beginning of the connection. http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch04.htm... SSL adds two extra round trips, which doubles the latency of a small request. This is really unfortunate when you're in a high latency environment already.
I'm not sure this always works …
Invest in municipal bonds. Interest is not subject to federal income tax.
It's getting late but I will be digging in tomorrow. I have a month off coming up and fully plan on indulging, and the timing of the release on this couldn't be better. Do you have an official email to send bugs and the like towards with in-depth descriptions of how to replicate and such?

Thanks a ton for doing this! It's wonderful :)
Is there any e-commerce MOOC out there?
Now you can message people in your phone book

Doesn't this mean FB will be hacking your phone book? Nice backdoor...
Reminds me of this horrific and epic Rolling Stone article about pig farms. It's long, but worth reading:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/boss-hog-the-dark-s...
<h1>Alabama</h1>
<p>Please call 205-XXX-XXXX for more information.</p>
<h1>Alaska</h1>
<p>Please call 907-XXX-XXXX for more information.</p>
<h1>Arizona</h1>
<p>Please call 480-XXX-XXXX for more information.</p>
<h1>Arkansas</h1>
<p>Please call 479-XXX-XXXX for more information.</p>
...

Who needs doctypes, titles, or bodies...
An NFL coach will never risk his job by trying something so bold and untested. If he tried it for just one game, and it failed, he could lose his job. New, creative schemes always come up from minor leagues like high school and college before gaining general acceptance in the pros.

The only way it happens is if the directive or permission comes down from the owner[1]: "I will allow you to never punt for two seasons or until we have an adequate sample size to judge this method."

[1] Thinking about all the fun things I could do with billions of dollars, like buy an NFL team and run experiments like this, make me question the sanity of people who turn down $3 billion to continue working on their photo sharing app.
And because I just find this really fascinating, here's a more direct implementation of `fact`

data Stream a = Stream a (Stream a)
deriving Functor

tabulate :: (Int -> a) -> Stream a
tabulate f = go 0 where
go n = Stream (f n) (go (succ n))

index :: Stream a -> (Int -> a)
index (Stream a _) 0 = a
index (Stream a st) n = index st (pred n)

-- btw: tabulate . index == id
-- and index . tabulate == id

fact :: Int -> Int
fact n = index (loeb facts) n where
facts :: Stream (Stream Int -> Int)
facts = tabulate $ \i stream -> i * index stream (i-1)
100k comic book project? Man I'd be happy with a 10k comic book project. Although personally I designed my latest campaign to avoid digging into the pockets of a few whales - I built it around "moving more books". Promising a ton of extra junk you have to fulfill, and promising more of them to push stretch goals, is a huge trap IMHO.

YMMV, obviously. I think there's a lot more to consider about Kickstarter than "how much money can I raise".
That will just throw a frame error because of the X-Frame-Options header, which is caught quickly.

Browsers tend to have more problem with =while(1){}
The iOS release notes (on https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-messenger/id4546384...) say:

"Not just for Facebook friends: Now you can message people in your phone book. And it's easy to add new contacts—just enter a phone number."

so perhaps it does include an SMS bridge.
"The researchers explained that the standard "control" quadrotor had an optimized design, while the triquad was not optimized at all (because its design was constrained to keep it as similar as possible to the control quadrotor). This gave the control aircraft an advantage in power of about 9 percent."

I wonder what the optimized "triquad" would have looked like?
Wouldn't a country lose by placing restrictions on BTC if BTC became widely used in a global setting?