skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you have not yet heard that HN's comment system is switching to Google+?
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
In the FAQ: http://bokeh.pydata.org/faq.html

"""
Q: Why did you start writing a new plotting library, instead of just extending e.g. Matplotlib?

A: There are a number of reasons why we wrote a new Python library, but they all hinge on maximizing flexibility for exploring new design spaces for achieving our long-term visualization goals. (Please see Technical Vision[1] for details about those.)
"""

[1] http://bokeh.pydata.org/index.html#technicalvision
Project 64 is pretty good nowadays: http://www.pj64-emu.com/
Don't forget the biblic one:

* Jesus dies, but gets better.
You totally forget about hash salting - this way a hacker can't use rainbow tables or precomputed hashes for common passwords.
Get on the phone
Just got it running with the D-Reliction skin using Wine in Ubuntu. Then the first song it picks on shuffle is all, "numa numa yey"...haha, man, I'll bet they've had so many downloads today. lol
You didn't actually clean up the data that you have tho.

Another flaw of your analysis is that you didn't look at where the founders went to school for their undergraduate/graduate(this probably doesn't matter).

I opened up the CSV and searched for "Urbana"(UIUC, where I went to school for) and counted 28 founders. In fact, some "University of Illinois" should match to UIUC too but I ignored those (for example, ZocDoc CTO).
This isn't borne out, though, by actual experience.

Plenty of economic goods are not secured by codified property rights, defined and enforced from above. Communities are able to self-organize to define a reasonable set of behavioral norms. Local knowledge can be leveraged to generate better outcomes, and locality allows different communities to experiment with what actually works best, making the system as a whole more fault tolerant.

See the work of Elinor Ostrom for several deeply investigated examples of this kind of organizing.
I'm a big fan of Digital Ocean; great value and good quality.

If I had any complaint, it's that occasionally I get a droplet with a wonky IP address that seems to be shared with another host (like, the SSH host key wobbles between one and the other between invocations of ssh).

There was also some flakiness with NYC2 a couple of weeks ago, which caused some sadness and grief.

All in all, they're saving me multiple thousands of dollars.
Cool! Thanks!

Let us know if you ever have any problems with it.
Check out: http://vps1.dnts.net/tlds/ -- this is the timing on most of the domains.
After running some numbers I am coming up with even less. Using 28GB of formatted storage (see link below as to why) I get 28/12.8 = 2.1875* . While this is way lower compared to my original estimate of 2.5, that is still higher than factor of 2 which is what we would expect from simply doubling storage.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-57404587-243/why-my-new...

* This number heavily depends on what you count as required app, for my iPhone for example GPS is a must which chews into storage fast.
Is it just me, or does this article (and the people it talks about) get fixated on the technology?

"I almost think it’s passé at this point ... Ender’s Game is happening. It’s already done."

The technology is not what I remembered Ender's Game for.
It could be because there is a disappearing middle, with little gradation between super rich and fucked.
How a former drug dealer became stop-and-frisks's fiercest foe
Tom Claney. In 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
It will probably happen, as Android and Windows tablets become commodities and are forced to compete on the same rotting-vegetables pricing basis as PC hardware. Once they go, Apple will quickly follow suit. But make hay while the sun shines, and enjoy the prisoner's dilemma while it's still profitable for everyone.

"Scandal" my butt. This is just market forces waiting to happen. There's a lot of money to be made in the relative slowness of the invisible hand.
...an official remote access client and the ability to join a domain (file browser). They have a huge opportunity to make this the phone of business but they are so intent on playing catch-up to Android and iOS. I just can't figure it out.
I've had coding interviews via phone/Skype + browser since I started applying a couple of years ago. I'm not sure why anyone would be depressed.

It seems like a lot of posters here just don't like being interviewed on any terms except their own. It's a very snooty position to take, but I suppose there's enough room for those types of people as well.

I prefer this over some companies who (seriously) have a great phone-only interview with me, only to reject me after looking at my GitHub. I also don't blame them for not dropping a lot of money to fly me out to meet them when they wouldn't even know if I'm qualified or not. This is a pretty good medium, I think. This is only second to my preference for being given a project and a few days to do it, but I wouldn't fault a company for whatever method they chose, unless it was downright asinine.
Sad. Years ago I found WinAmp and its programmable visualizer an indispensable tool when teaching Mathematics. Graphing sine waves is so much fun when combined with a good beat.
Of course they are. Look at theire final paragraph tying OWS with terrorism. This person is a shill who's rewriting history.

The IWW and other mass union labour movements engaged in war with business elite, which was backed/run by the government. The concessions we were given were temporary, but amazing in terms of prosperity.

But they are right. Collections of Working Class people didn't die as heroes who ushered in an era of labour laws and minimum wages, but are rather terrorists who had ZERO effect on the world... /s
For when is the 0.4 release planned? I would be really interested by this, having to visualize terabytes of data in the browser.
Maybe it's just me, but this app seems to ignore basically all of Microsoft's Metro UI guidelines except for "make things flat." Looks more like an iOS7 or Android app to me than something truly thoughtfully designed for the WP platform.
12 year-old Programmer Works For Google
It's more prisoner's dilemma than cartel. And like the prisoner's dilemma, it won't last.
I was a little disappointed to learn that NameCoin domains are so cheap (0.001 NMC), and therefore rampant with squatters. I suppose there will always be an incentive to create a market and seek rents no matter what the domain system. Nonetheless, I hope NameCoin or something like it gains greater traction.

I found myself wondering the other day how long it will be before we see an attempted disruption of Google by a search crypto-currency.
I think it acknowledges a failure in explanation -- you start with, "The talks failed because...", but there is no easy reason why the talks failed. So you just put a word in there. "Politics." It's an aborted attempt at explanation. It implies extensive context and a truly complex or even incomprehensible explanation.

The grammatical failure is the kind that would happen in speech, when the speaker suddenly realizes he's bit off more than he can chew, and truncates his explanation with a pause, a word, a shrug, and a rueful smile. "because, you know... politics."
didn't they have planted questions too?
Crossbar.io application router
No, I would argue the holocaust and more are confusing cultural disagreements with racial stereotyping which have more to do with (surprise!) culture than race. I think it's much more believable that a large group of people grew angry with a culture of racial inclusion in financial matters leading toward the ease of hatred of a racial stereotype than the actual genes involved. Race is the identifier, not the cause.

If it wasn't race, it would family names or family colors/flags, gender, buck-teeth or what-have-you, as shown throughout history. Bickering and bigotry aren't reason for arbitrarily changing things.
Social democracy isn't the same as socialism[1].

It's an interesting problem to grapple with: can you have a dynamic economy with a vibrant entrepreneurial sector, that encourages innovation and growth, and yet have a social floor below which no citizen will fall, therefore avoiding extreme inequality with people living in poverty?

"...when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low" [2]

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_democracy

[2] PG in his essay Hackers and Painters, referring to big companies being conservative in designing products http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
The classical frequentist interpretation of a confidence interval doesn't require invoking Fisherian hypothesis-testing. It's simply an interval estimate for a population parameter rather than a point estimate, which is semantics close to what he means here. A 95% confidence interval is an interval estimate with 95% coverage probability for the true population parameter, which in the frequentist sense means that it includes the true population parameter in 95% of long-run experiment repetitions. (One can get different kinds of frequentist coverage with a prediction or a tolerance interval, which vary what's being covered and what's being repeated.)
I love what I've seen so far. The biggest problem is probably the age. Googling for "go martini json" will not yield results until more users start to talk about it.
Ask HN: How to find a 1-3 days job for the next week in London?
I'm visiting London next week (25.11-01.12) and I have the following dilemma: I have the tickets but almost no money to live the week through (100-120 EUR). Background: I work in Germany as a designer/web designer (6 years+, graphic portfolio: http://www.coroflot.com/QutePixels)

Ask HN: I need a 1-3 days paid job. Do You have ideas on where and how should I search/ask for such work?
I can speculate on two reasons why things are the way they are:

1) Companies generally set aside a certain percentage of their common stock for employee compensation. I imagine much of this is allocated towards C-level hires, and anyone else is getting the scraps. I've also heard (but not confirmed firsthand so take with a grain of salt) that VCs don't like overly large employee stock pools. I have no clue why - VC stock is preferred and employee stock is common so it's not they're offering any competition. It might have something to do with founders getting discouraged by additional dilution, which in turn limits the kinds of deals that founder is willing to participate in.

2) Paying out more cash to engineers makes it more difficult for your company to achieve a positive (or break-even) EBITDA. Negative EBITDA makes you a much less attractive acquisition target unless you're either trendy or have some ungodly large number of "eyeballs" that haven't been monetized yet (They're paying for the upside). An entrepreneur contemplating offering market-clearing salaries could talk themselves out of it by concluding "I can probably just hire the same engineer for less if I just wait longer and work harder at screening" -- effectively trading time to save money. Not always a smart move, but not necessarily a stupid one either.

Again, just speculation.
A great method for spotting (or at least suspecting) fake data is to see if it follows Benford's law. (So remember to fit your fake data to conform!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

> Benford's Law, also called the First-Digit Law, refers to the frequency distribution of digits in many (but not all) real-life sources of data. In this distribution, the number 1 occurs as the leading digit about 30% of the time, while larger numbers occur in that position less frequently: 9 as the first digit less than 5% of the time. Benford's Law also concerns the expected distribution for digits beyond the first, which approach a uniform distribution.

As one might imagine:

> A test of regression coefficients in published papers showed agreement with Benford's law. As a comparison group subjects were asked to fabricate statistical estimates. The fabricated results failed to obey Benford's law.

So keep that in mind, data fabricators!
Internet history dieing.
google doesn't need to play greedy mining games, they get paid in straight up USD
Which is also linked in the blog :)
Doesn't that mean a rollback of the entire database, as opposed to just a single operation?
Machine learning is easier than it looks
Photography: The Early Days
Nice interface, but what does groovebasin offer that mpd doesn't?
Did this just blow straight past ad hominem to character assassination?!! This is the first time a post on HN has turned my stomach.
Well, MapQuest probably isn't worse (although obviously it has been overtaken by Google Maps in popularity). MapQuest Open ( http://open.mapquest.com/ ) is actually a pretty good interface to OpenStreetMap; it does search, directions, and a good job of tile rendering.
10 Ways to Fail
how does it work then, you have to transfer money into google wallet? i was under the impression it WAS a card unifier but yeah if it's not blech why bother when you already have credit/debit cards set up elsewhere (except i guess their physical card may unify rewards cards for you?)
you're only making the case for improvements to cloud data providers, not making the case that physical media is still worth using.

physical media has enormous problems for anything besides long term archival use.
Wtf, The Instagram windows phone app launched without in-app camera support
Do you guys all work for Continuum? Need more hands? ;)
That's a really intriguing idea. How do you imagine it working?
Flight - an event-driven web framework, from Twitter
Winamp to Be Discontinued on December 20, 2013
This is badass. I wish there were something like this or Seaborn [1] for Matlab. Anyone know of anything similar that can make the ugly default Matlab plots turn into beauties like these?

[1] http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/index.html
This is the correct way to access ivars. Though it makes a lot of indents so I usually do a return. I also use __strong to be explicit to the reader.

__strong MyClass *strongSelf = weakSelf;

if(!strongSelf)
return;

... Rest of block

It's also worth noting calling functions on weakSelf can in turn access ivars. Getting a strong reference to self solves both the issues. NSLog calls [self description] in your example.
I think it's just a bit too transparent of a strategy, and I end up getting the 32 GB but feeling like I got ripped off, which isn't exactly a win/win for Apple.
I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but saying that software patents are "evil" is hyperbolic.

The slave trade is evil.

Software patents are a real problem area of our law...but they don't rise to the level of "evil".
Ask HN: Why don't startups begin with an IPO?
It seems like the current process for startups is to get investments from angels or VC firms, and then the goal is to either IPO or get acquired so everyone can make a return on their investment.

This seems to be reversed from what I had learned in High School Economics. I thought the public stock market was an alternative for young companies to get financing (beginning of the lifecycle) and not a financial event for everyone involved to cash out (end of the lifecycle).

My question is this, why don't more startups go to the public for investments and IPO early, maintain control of their company, and work towards building a valuable business?
I disagree with this point, which is not supported by the facts:

"The press are now all over the OFA team and criticising their ability to procure technical solutions or web services (rightly or wrongly). But in this case, obviously we’re a third party service provider so this really has nothing to do with the President’s team’s ability to execute."

It is indeed a reflection of the President's team's ability to execute when they reach out to a vendor on a Friday for a Monday call, mangle the details so that the vendor and the audience have mis-set expectations, and, most importantly, did not do testing to determine whether or not their event will reflect well on their boss and organization.

They've done these calls before - for example, after the State of the Union: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/02/obama-doing-ofa-c... -- so dropping this order in the lap of a new vendor with 72 hours to go almost guarantees that some mistake will happen.

I understand this is OFA, not the White House, and perhaps for a seat-of-the-pants campaign style event under normal circumstances, this would be excusable.

But these are not normal circumstances.

When your boss is under fire for his rollout of the most important government tech program since the Moon landing, and you arrange a call to discuss that rollout, it is imperative that you make sure the technology works. Guaranteed. No questions asked.

If you can't guarantee that, then don't use that vendor, don't do the event as a conference call, or don't do the event.

Why? The resulting PR mess, which might not be germane to a start-up tech audience, but is very germane to the Office of The President, will come and will be costly.

The post serves to reinforce the image of a management team around the President that does not understand that making very urgent requests of technologists does not mean that the technology will automatically obey.
Ironically, after seeing the trailer, that poster, and even the comment above with the spoiler alert, your comment right here is the thing that just made me think, "Ohhh, the kids in the movie are fighting a war WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT?"

So, you know, whatever, but yeah I think it's a spoiler.
Well, I wonder how that affects mobile. Since there is a move to mobile app topology of information consumption, wonder if domain names will still be relevant 5 years from now.

On the same note why TLDs, not just have a 'name registry'. Seems like technical dictates what is not natural. Why I can't have website name for example "burger" or "pizza" I get that there are designations and control entities. But isn't it a bit contrived? I am not against dot notation but whole synthetic user facing naming system...
The thing that sticks out most to me is how poor these extensions are from a marketing & naming standpoint.
This is part of why I prefer cloud services like Dropbox that also maintain local copies and simply use the cloud for syncing and backups. Best of both worlds, that way.
22+ of the approved domains from the list of 30 are all signed to a a single startup[0] called Donuts[1]. ( http://www.donuts.co/ )

Apparently they raised $100M[2] back in 2012.

They have since agreed to distribute these domains through 19 registrars[3] (eNom, Name.com etc)...

Looking at their ICANN PIC submission[4] they have registered no fewer than 200-250 LLCs

[0] : https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...

[1] : http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Donuts

[2] : http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/05/technology/donuts-domains-fu...

[3] : http://www.donuts.co/news/donuts-adds-another-seven-generic-...

[4] : https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...
Facebook leads the pack tracking you online
This is why I really, really hate the modern, diversified corporation.

The decision of whether to continue a product line within a large corporation is very, very different from whether or not a product line could keep a small business afloat. If you're a small business, the only question is "are we making payroll?". Within a large, diversified corporation, you have to ask if a project is as valuable as your alternatives. Mom-and-pop's with a sustainable business can't and don't say, "Yeah, this is profitable, but it'd be more profitable if we dropped everything we're doing and put our resources towards a different sector entirely." But it's entirely feasible and rational for a large corporation to look at it's hundred sub-businesses, axe the ten least profitable, and put the people to work on the ten most profitable.

I'd be a lot happier if modern corporations were small, narrowly focused beasts, and not the monstrous conglomerations we have instead.
This is really cool! A few things though:

* You probably have your reasons, but requiring an email to simply test it out is too much IMO. I don't want to go through the email invitation dance, I don't want spam in the future, and I don't want to wait; so, I practically always refuse.

* In general, the ratio of marketing info to specifics is too high; in other words, more details would be nice, such as: I see it supports 16 languages; ok, great! So, what are they...? (mind you, I wouldn't be asking if there was a public demo)
The Homebrew Website Club
Show HN: Sprout - Faster, smarter, responsive websites in 7 days
It pulls from your Google Wallet balance, which can be funded when friends send you money, or you can load money on to it using a bank account or credit/debit card (2.9% fee applies)
Don't you think that .com and .info and .biz etc. already are language specific? They are just specific to the/a language you happen to speak.
What you could eat with Bitcoin
If they are motivated by the overall product line margin, why add the 128 GB model at all?
Sounds interesting. When I got an NFC-enabled phone, I was excited to use Google Wallet, until I found out that Verizon blocks it. At least with a physical card, I don't have to deal with Verizon!
This is the smart strategy. If you're that concerned about the hands you're putting your music in, then all or nothing isn't a good plan.

Instead, diversify and maintain. I use iTunes Match, Google Music and keep everything locally as well as a backup on my server. It all happens automatically when music is added to the local library. Nothing is lost, and redundant access is gained.
So basically you're agreeing with fragsworth.
How did you post that comment without a Google+ account?
That chat panel is highly distracting/annoying, it'd would be nice if there was a way to hide it.

Other than that, this is indeed cool.
To me it sounded more like they were keeping the malware quiet so that it could spread sufficiently before getting aggressive once it was plausible that it had made it into the centrifuge facility, at which point, it no longer needed to be stealthy.
Might as well just start using freetext at this point. Register your search term with Google, then forget about it.
Yet I still can't use Google Wallet on my NFC-equipped phone because AT&T are idiots.
The top 1M website homepages were downloaded and analyzed to determine the % that use Facebook, Google+, and Twitter sharing buttons. The raw html is cached and easily searchable so let me know if there are other interesting analyses that can be done.
I don't think this is a big feature, or anything more than a convienience for already active google wallet users that want to be able to use a physical card at retailers that don't support NFC transactions. It's mentioned no where on the google wallet site [1] and doesn't seem to have any tech other than a mag stripe. Also the card is issued by Bancorp, the same bank that backs Simple. [2]

[1] http://www.google.com/wallet/
[2] https://www.simple.com/faq/
I still use winamp. I have been a faithful user of winamp for the last 12 years. Everything else seems very bloated and try to do too many things at once.
.guru seems like a good one with tons of app/saas appeal
Thanks for your story and advice. I've contacted them accordingly. If I don't hear back from them soon, I am prepared to take legal action.
o my lord. discover card gives you 1% BACK!
Shameless plug for my sideproject I'm currently working on, http://hiresync.io which is aiming to do much of the same thing.
What's this about? Parent's unsername is not TheSOB88.
We do something similar at http://runnable.com/.NET
We run mono however on the back-end
The real scandal is not upping the base model to 32 GB.
Google’s Yellow “Ad” Icons Test Appears To Be Expanding
Sounded really good until I got to the part about needing to pay a subscription fee.
NASA spin-off technologies