skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think hard, then build fast. Nobody said you can't do both. There's a balance though: think too much, and your "perfect" system never gets built. Hack too fast and you're going to have to rebuild when you realize you did it completely wrong.

I think it can be personal too. I tend to be more slow and thoughtful. Once I get a really great idea, my fingers start flying, but until I get to that point, it's a lot of slow prototyping and trying to think of better ways to do it (to a point).

Find what balance works for you.
Keep dropping, TSLA! Another $50 or so and I'll start buying back in...
I love beer, but I also enjoy learning things :)
Have you seen the new Corvette?
Why isn't there more information like a list of languages/compilers etc? The site needs to say more than "contact us" or try an interview to figure out what you can do with it.
Yup. In the management of technology there are certain sectors where women handily outnumber men. I was referring, though vaguely, to that.
Hmm interesting. I eat a few dozen eggs per month, mostly because they're the cheapest source of protein.

I may have to consider chicken or something else.
Would be awesome to get some screenshots of it.
Given that you're converting this to dollars, I assume you're in America? (or Canada?)

If so, comparing the price of this delivered beer in the uk to the price in America is meaningless.
I assume you make the same useless comment, in reverse, for every US only start up?
You don't think biofuels could take up an appreciable portion of that slack? I'd expect that buying up grain in bulk at surplus prices, and converting it into ethanol to be pretty profitable.
I hate parentheses that touch.
Math is essential for this field, anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about. You can hack together something quick and dirty without understanding the underlying math, and you certainly can use existing libraries and tools to do some basic stuff, but you won't get very far.

Machine learning is easy only if you know your linear algebra, calculus, probability and stats, etc. I think this classic paper is a good way to test if you have the right math background to dive deeper into the field: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiNgJordan2003.pd...
Interesante.com: Demo Day at Google And What The Slides Don’t Tell You.
There is a very wide range of low-carb sources of food that are well-rounded and excellent -- avocados, tomatoes, almonds/almond milk, spinach, cheeses, high-fat yoghurt, tofu, blueberries, raspberries.

And obviously many meats.

This is a thorough list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ah8MbmZepQxWdGo4...

Initially, it's definitely challenging, and switching to a wholly low-carb diet is not without an unpleasant transition period.
Finally an original app stock photo.

Instead of (wooden desk, mac air, moleskine, coffee) it's (wooden desk, mac air, moleskine, beer).

In all seriousness, I really wish I lived in London. For stuff like this and also it seems to have a pretty big indie game dev scene.
> and your font color to greed.

Not sure if this is an unintentional typo or a suggestion for those working in the financial industry.
The whole patent extortion against Android and Linux is incredible. I'd very surprised the tactics they're using are not actually considered real extortion. Signing an NDA before showing you the patents they're threatening you with?
XRX (web application architecture)
My presentation at Google for demo day. What do you think?
From her biography

> She has won numerous journalism awards and held fellowships with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the East West Center, the Knight-Wallace Fellows of the University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School and the University of Maryland.

She isn't an MD or PhD, but when it comes to medical journalism, that's a pretty impressive list.
I'm interested in a proportional font, but not times new roman.
Are We on the Brink of a Green Revolution?
You know, D3 is the typical project I hate to love.

I _know_ I should use it, but every time I try to, I lose myself in it, and end up using Flot instead :(
Good God, yes. I've worked on too many older projects where all the old business logic lived in the database, and all the new business logic lived in the application, and keeping them sorted out was a nightmarish pain. The defense for using horrible database-specific procedural languages for all that business code was that it meant we could have one back-end for all the front-ends. I've seen this pattern so many times, and it's pure agony.
> What if the performance changes? What if you decide to migrate to a different db at a later time?

Couldn't agree more.

Unless you're at the point where preventing the DB from performing a length check on data it receives is going to provide a tangible benefit this article is awful advice.
Priced too low. You can get nice used cars at the price. Any Toyota or Honda engine should run to 200-250k miles. I doubt this thing will make it to 100k.

If Honda made a semi-enclosed three wheeler for the "damn it I'm riding no matter the weather" audience, they would have a chance. They could also sell it for at least $10k and still sell a lot of them. The Elio is a solution to no particular problem.
Ask fewer questions. The number you have asked is bordering on hostile.
Free housing for talented hackers
Hi everyone, I'm offering free housing for talented hackers in the bay area that would be interested in helping out / getting involved with my project in exchange. A little about me: I'm a Thiel fellow - paid $100,000 by paypal founder / first Facebook investor peter thiel to drop out of college (http://www.thielfellowship.org/).
Right now, we're looking for hackers preferably with experience in some combination of the following:

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We have a beautiful house in a great location and an awesome startup atmosphere.

We need to make sure that you have the right qualifications of course, but if you're interested, please leave us with your email address and we'll get back to you with more info.
My strategy is to install Columns UI (http://yuo.be/columns.php) and ignore the power options to the best of my ability. So far it's working.
Yeah, the criminals will become bankers.
I've done it.
Finally, after months of programming and failing all of my classes, I have done it. The mythical "it," which has been staring Linux programmers in the face for years, has been accomplished. I present Cr/OS, the world's first cross-compatible operating system, without all the wrappers and crappy performance. Just straight, kernel-layer support for apps from the three most commonly used operating systems. Using a modified GNU system and a heavily modified Linux kernel, I have made Cr/OS capable of running Mac OSX and (some) Windows applications. More support will be added for Windows once I finish adding support for .NET and DirectX. As of today (11/20/13), Cr/OS can run simple Windows text editors and most Mac Apps (some must be re-compiled, there is no current way around it, however no changes in coding are required. Just re-compile and you're done). The beta should be out by the middle/end of December, and the full version should be out no later than June of 2014 (however I hope to have it done sooner than then. More will be known as we draw closer to the end of this year).
Both PrimeSense and Microsoft developed their own separate skeletal tracking systems. PrimeSense released theirs in binary form with OpenNI.
Everpix: life and death inside the worlds best photo startup
I remember having to rip cds to wav files on my x4 CD burner (the fastest at the time) and then using winamp to convert them to mp3 before winamp had the add-in that did it all in one step.
The comment is the only thing that looks super legible on that screenshot.
Microsoft follows Oracle's approach and uses NVARCHAR to describe their infernal 2-byte format that might be UCS2-wrongendian or it might be UTF-16 depending on their mood and the tool you're using at the moment. Naked VARCHAR means you have to pick an 8-bit character-set like a savage.
Tangled in Ropes
When the two wheels are in the front it behaves completely different from asian scooters which have two wheels in the back.
Eh, some French banks have had similar doors to go in and out of the banks --presumably so that a robber couldn't just "run away" after a heist. You have to close the door behind you before you can open the door in front of you --kind of like an air lock.

But yeah, at an airport this is strange. Altho I also see similar hand/palm print activated doors at data centers for access control.
"The Door to Hell" - giant hole has been on fire for more than 40 years
Amazon and Apple Business Models
In their dog days they are now giving away the pro version of Winamp, which does CD ripping, removes ads and has a few other features. i.e. the link to the Free version is now the Pro version.

I was another pretty recent convert to Winamp after using it in the 90s then switching to Linux, but it still does the job _fast_ if you still keep a big hard drive of MP3s.
That looks right, as I don't see how they could possibly have legal lights or the silly federally mandated 2.5mph bumper.

However, I think even though they don't meet the bizarre federal "safety" requirements they could still have the IIHS crash test it anyway, and hence get a star rating.

It also looks like they got AAMVA to recommend that enclosed trikes not require a motorcycle license, so that's a boon for them (sorry for the spam press release link but secondary sources were even worse): http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/18/5923704/elio-motors-judicia... .
while (1) {
Think() && Build() && GetFeedback()
Exercise("1h")
Sleep("8h")
}
24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians
Yes.
I switched to Python/Pandas this Spring and haven't looked back. In my opinion, between Pandas, iPython, and Scitkit-Learn, Data Science has taken a large step toward Python as the defacto language.

If you find the Python environment a PITA, try anaconda's free distro: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/
It includes everything you'll need for 95% of data science projects in python, all with correct versions, installed correctly, etc.
Their kernels are all months out of date. And besides, I want to install updates as they are released by my distribution, rather than have to wait around for my host to get their arse in gear.
On something about half the spec of the lowest end Linode I'm not as worried about mitigating the HN effect (not something I have to worry about) as I am just getting the most I can from the instance - this means as few dynamically generated and database hitting requests as possible.

But yeah, like yourself, just pointing out that a Wordpress instance that can take a battering is eminently achievable.
I've seen comments on HN when this point was raised, that newer antbiotics are also held back for serious cases so sales turn out lower during the patented life of the drug, which provides a further disincentive for developing them.

It's also been pointed previously on HN out that vaccines are one-shot drugs that are still developed (indeed, my kids have had 6-in-1 and MMRV combination vaccines, which reduce the number of shots needed by kids-I don't know how that works out for drug companies, but I doubt it increases their volumes) .
Does pg have the concept of a clustered index? If so, for frequent inserts/updates it could actually matter.
Kanye West vs. Zappos
For some reason I can't get any of the interactivity buttons to work.

EDIT: Ok, everything but the zoom works. How do you zoom?
nReduce did that, no? Did they disappear?
This is awesome!
In the example track, you have some buzz.
Would be awesome If you set up a framework/api to add filters/equalizers/autotune
From the perspective of who wins, voting does seem pretty pointless if you disagree with all candidates who have a chance. People will often claim that to vote for a candidate who can't win is to throw away your vote. I disagree. Voting for any person that you don't want to see in office is throwing away your vote because no matter what happens, you'll be unhappy with the outcome. Not voting at all will mean politicians assume a mandate to do as they think best. They'll assume most people are content with the status-quo.

Elections are a platform for national debate and the candidate you support is your spokesperson. The winners do claim a mandate, but that mandate won't be so strong if 25% of the population votes for the candidate who runs on an anti-surveillance platform.

If your "throwaway" candidate is a good speaker and can convey their ideals effectively, supporting them is an opportunity to spread your message to people who haven't heard it in a way that they will connect with (if they've heard at all). Voting is good, but supporting the campaign financially or through volunteer work is even better. It also demonstrates to those who share your point of view that, although they may be in the minority, they aren't alone. I try not to focus on who wins the next election, instead focusing on the long term goal of sharing ideals thereby shifting public opinion.

It's most frustrating when there isn't even a decent third party candidate. I suppose at that point all you can do is run yourself or find someone more qualified and encourage them to run.
I agree completely.

That's why our P2P payments are 100% free for debit cards and bank transfer!
I think they REALLY should have put a CVT in it. I don't know why they are still in the manual / automatic mode. CVTs are great for low powered cars. They have less moving parts than automatic transmissions. They are standard on Mitsubishis and Nissans now.
I was addicted to falcon 4 only a few years ago. Its a wonderful sim that even ran great on my laptop. Learning all the radar modes really increases the feeling of realism.

Also there's a strange online community. The everyone is middle aged and some real pilots too.
Those companies were >80% chance of success at employee 50. Any of them have/had more chance of being worth $10B than less than $500M.

Wow.. that's interesting. Do you have some data to back that up?

The SV150 lists only 25 silicon valley companies that are worth over 10B[1]. Obviously that is incomplete data, but I'd be astonished to learn there are only 30 companies (ie, 25 + 20%) of Silicon Valley companies that have ever had more than 50 employees!

Anecdotally I can think of more than 5 Silicon Valley companies that made it to 50 employees and then failed.

[1] http://www.siliconvalley.com/sv150/ci_23055045/sv150-searcha...
opencompute is very innovating in datacenter technology

It's essentially open source for server design.
You seem to be under the impression that every single customer needs to generate more money via their subscription than they cost in service. That's absolutely not true. You just need enough customers that pay more than they cost such that it covers the costs on the customers that don't. And don't forget that providing an excellent deal to high-usage customers is a great way to encourage them to refer your service to people they know.
There are some on the actual homepage here: http://initialround.com/#Tour
> "When the single wheel is in the front, the vehicle is inherently unstable in a braking turn [...]

There is probably a reason that this vehicle has the single wheel in the back. While I think in principle this results in similar instability in accelerating turns as the one-in-front configuration has in braking turns, this is greatly mitigated by the fact that wheeled vehicles generally brake much more quickly than they accelerate.
Doge meme
Maybe there's a little niche they could carve out by serving the remaining 95% of the world's population.
Yeah, why the Red Stripe hate?
If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?
> "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing."

The "privacy is recent" argument ignores the nature of modern intrusions on privacy. Small town gossip has very little power to intrude compared with recording and word-spotting all your phone conversations and automating the analysis across the whole population.
Really? If you never wanted the FDA how could the government ever accomplish that feat? (which it currently isn't)

Wouldn't an extremist libertarian say something related to the market sorting it out?

I am genuinely interested in your opinion. (tragedy of the commons and all that)
Really? Everyone I know uses MATLAB. I work with engineers, so the stats I do is minimal.

Thank you for the feedback by the way!
Linux-fueled networked DVR adds second tuner
Better still, monospaced Brush Script. Because eyeball pain.
Sure.

I've done some thinking - but not (yet) experimenting with EncFS combined with S3FS to store encrypted mountable data on Amazon S3 (I'm currently useing EncFS to store data on Dropbox & GDrive and with BTSync). No good if you need fast local access to the data (you wouldn't want to run you database this way), but it would solve _some_ of those problems. For me right now - the answer is to store my own data at home, and relay access to that data when needed.
Global forest change
This reminded me of Faith No More streaming their Soundwave 2010 sets on chatroullette.

https://www.google.com/search?q=soundwave+chatroulette
Thanks! Filtering is definately in the pipeline. The buzzing can get annoying, specially when combining several tracks. Filtering that out would be awesome.
I'm extremely receptive to this argument (face detection) since adding it to an existing system "seems" easy (low marginal cost), leading to easy abuse. But I would like you to be a bit more descriptive in that "abuse". Okay, don't let the traveler out if it matches. Then what? Come and collect them with guards, I imagine? This is a glass thing in view of everyone...

Likewise, as someone else mentioned, it would be very similar to doing the same thing with revolving doors, which are just as easy to stop and trap someone in it. I am receptive to the idea that this is even easier than adding face recognition to revolving doors, as these doors are already associated with security, already in a high-security area, etc.

But these very things - the high security - mean that in practice the end result is going to be what? How is it different from scanning a crowd and sending guards out to collect someone at an airport?

Likewise, how is it different from adding this to turnstiles?

I mean, I am just not seeing how this one thing qualifies as 'detention'. I walked through double doors like this to get to high security banks (to my surprise - must have been a rough part of town). I certainly did not feel 'temporarily detained'! Any more than I do in an elevator. And I've been stuck in an elevator. That actually sucks.

I just am not seeing the exact argument you're making, you're not really being descriptive or visual enough. If face recognition is a worry, why not worry about it in every place that it could be applied, where people go through some point single-file and it's security-related? Why have a special worry reserved for this particular situation?

Put another way, what if the doors were always open - but spaced far enough apart that even at adult running speed, the system can do face detection fast enough to slam both of them shut. Is that just as bad as this system? Why or why not - after all, it's always open, anyone can walk through.... But logically the end-result is equivalent.

is it a psychological thing? You think it feels psychologically like preemptive detention? Let me tell you, it didn't feel that way to me...it just felt like double-doors. I imagined that in an emergency, they can all be briefly locked, and no one can just fly out there at running speed. it slows things down a bit. that's it.

I'm just not seeing it. The security nightmare you imagine can be added everywhere, there's nothing special about this system and it's practically logically equivalent to two open doors - would you call that "temporary detainment" based on the fact that they could (but don't) slam shut? That this could (but doesn't) arrest you? it doesn't feel that way and doesn't have that effect any more than any other part of the airport does.

on the other hand it can act very well as a one-way valve, making sure no one comes in past you through an exit-only door on your way out. that is not really related to detention in any way.
OJR.org: An opportunity to watch a spamblog be built in real time
Australia's Oneflare has stolen an domain name in order to boost their SEO ranking.
Video Game Creators Are Using Apps To Teach Empathy
Why do they not open source the entire package? I have to think that AOL has clean intellectual property ownership on the code base. It would be better than letting this important historical codebase slip into oblivion.
When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too

Well I guess all hope is lost then. The title isn't, "If We Lose Antibiotics" after all.

So why bring it up at all? There are no (ahem) prescriptions for fixing the problem in the article. Just a clear, terrifying outline of most of the bad things that are going to happen. And a plug for her book that presumably has the cure? I read the Amazon reviews of the book (currently 25) and there isn't much of a mention of what the purpose of reading the book is. In fact the main purpose of reading the book based on the reviews I read is that it is supposed to scare the bejesus out of you. Again, to what purpose?

Should I be advocating against livestock use of antibiotics? Should I be advocating for tighter control of prescribing antibiotics?

This could be the scariest thing in the world but honestly it seems more like sensationalist journalism and an attempt to sell a book than a call to serious action.
Can you also share insights on how/why the startup failed? Also, do you plan to keep the site operational for the free customers or completely shut it down?
It sounds like they are delivering it themselves. Here in New York City, it's quite easy to get beer delivered (as in just select it on Seamless when placing your order). I also have had wine and whiskey delivered to my apartment direct from the store. The price of DeskBeers isn't even that different than getting a beer at a bar here (possibly cheaper). Seems like it would be a perfect fit for NYC.
>"we realized that this was only a taste of what can happen when you have a really popular person using your systems. Yes, I'm talking about Lady Gaga. Made Obama look downright pedestrian.*

If you work at Mixlr I recommend you kill this comment. It's not best practice to compare your "pedestrian" customer to someone "really popular".
What is the safest time to drive?
Organizer of CascadiaJS here. Here are the most useful links for everyone:

List of speakers = http://2013.cascadiajs.com/#speakers

List of talks/videos = http://2013.cascadiajs.com/videos

List of proposed talks (for the curious) = https://github.com/cascadiajs/2013.cascadiajs.com/tree/maste...
Sad to see Winamp go and hopefully AOL won't do the same with Shoutcast. Would be nice to see AOL update the Shoutcast app more.
Even though we occassionally talk about Lua on HN, it frankly still doesn't get enough attention - nor does Mike Pall and his fantastic work on LuaJIT.

Please considering sponsoring [1] LuaJIT so that Mike can continue working on it.

Lua Fun looks like a wonderful addition to the Lua ecosystem.

[1] http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
Actually, bringing beer to work isn't that difficult. I mean, if you can get away with it. It's not something like pizza that has to be prepared and has a time window for consumption.
OJR.org: An opportunity to watch a spamblog be built in real time
So raw number of bills passed is a good proxy for effectiveness as a congressman? I wonder if you think that number of pages per law is also a good measure of success... All things equal, I prefer the government passing less laws than more.
This Infographic Is Just Wrong Enough To Sound Convincing
Do you ksplice-patch your kernels on every boot?