skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you guys! This is another example of a product that I would never have thought of producing.

How spread out is your business? It seems to me that a lot of larger conferences in the US are held in the LA or Vegas areas. Might you try to locate a US partner near those centers? Or is your business more spread out than that?
Would that I could offer you a job, but I'm curious, how did you "fail?" Did you just have trouble finding another job in London to keep you afloat?
Except for how Apple doesn't get in excess of 90% of their income from Google.
It closes for me fine. Just tested it to be sure.
> Thanks to people like the author, the average person thinks you and I are criminals.

This hardly seems like a reasonable characterization. The author got a technical detail wrong. How does that connect him to people who vilify "hackers"? He didn't even use that term.
France is part of the Euro, and it's pretty much the Germans who decide when new Euros get printed. They haven't proven sympathetic to the idea of printing many recently.
Its an awesome store of value.

Bitcoin, like gold, is it's own counterparty. If you own bitcoin, you own it irrevocably unless you choose to give it to someone else.

Combine that with the fact that it is globally accessible, globally transferrable, and incredibly low cost to keep secure and you've got something
which disrupts 5000 years of financial history.
Help me teach recruiters how to code a website
I run coding workshops in London.

I'll be running a session ONLY for tech recruiters, teaching them HTML, CSS and some Ruby.

How can you help me? Send an email to the last recruiter that got in touch with you, including this link:

http://coderwave.com/courses/coding-for-technology-recruiters
Then companies that frac will not mind publishing the chemicals used in frac'ing. Oh yeah, they don't want to do that.
I would very much be interested in the source describing this media-politics marriage dynamic that you mention.

>> Not surprising, there is no free speech in France.

I don't see this as a free speech thing. I could argue there's no free speech in X. This kind of thing happens everywhere. People with money has power.
Dropbox is a point of failure. Will you support other back-ends?
Wait, so he wasn't being sarcastic? I wouldn't think someone at that level would be so insecure.
> My best guess is that it was something of a gimmick for Google I/O. They never seemed well-supported by Google.

I would agree. I created the Handbag for Android project (http://handbagdevices.com/) which was initially based on the ADK so I've spent a lot of time with it. In the ADK 2.0 release Google itself even moved away from having the physical USB link in favour of using Bluetooth.

When 2.0 was released I started converting Handbag to have the option of Bluetooth/WiFi/USB but the ADK stuff was so unreliable (and the debugging was ridiculous due to different issues on each Android version available at the time (2.x/3.x/4.x)) that it seemed like a waste of time to continue.

The goal of Handbag was to enable an Arduino sketch to create an Android UI and have bi-directional communication between the two devices. It could be interesting to adapt that aspect to run with the linked project.
Why does that matter? They switched to bing, do you honestly think microsoft is paying less than google to be the default search for iOS?
Is this as staggeringly naive as it looks?

Some of the people responding are steering the discussion to a layout language with a preview window. I don't know if they are doing it because they prefer to work in such a user-hostile mode (I did this for a book, in Eclipse. Ugh.), or if they think this is a more sane goal.

WYSIWYG has its own issues. most users of word processors have no idea that paragraphs are objects in an object model, but the command structure only becomes clear when you realize that. Most users just hack at a document it until it looks right enough. At the really diabolical end of the spectrum I could show you an Ericsson documentation template that manages to manifest dozens of bugs in Word, laying in wait to eat your previous hour's work. I'm sure you have inherited documents like that.

It's all more or less a kludge, and WYSIWYG never is quite, nor is it real direct manipulation. At best it is something like "moderately friendly visual document CAD, if you get the trick behind the slick appearance."
Kudos to Wolfram for this.

I do wonder how much pressure they're feeling from the likes of IPython these days and if that was a motivating factor.

The other part is I don't think I've met a regular Mathematica user that actually likes it, so this may turn out to be a bad idea!
Right now our clients range from small church meetup to big tech conferences and they are spread all across the US.

My first instinct would be to find a partner near a FedEx airport hub.
Microsoft wasn't interested in paying anything near that much, nor was Yahoo, that's why talks collapsed during the negotiations.

Google does consider the search engine placement valuable but it is probably also funding Mozilla as a hedge against anti-trust lawsuits.
So all I need for a free mathematica install is to spin a virtual machine with Raspbian?
[Icomoon](http://icomoon.io/) could easily convert svg into web font icons.
I think SageMath might be closer in spirit to Mathematica, but SageMath uses IPython a bit under the hood.
I think the better answer is to not reply at all or ever acknowledge receipt of said 'nasty shit'. Make every step a challenge for the opponent, it's a war of attrition. And never get mad at the lawyer, s/he usually bills by the hour and they are delighted to send out useless letters all day long. Informing the bank that this is a waste of time is bad for job security.
While Mish isn't as well known as Drudge, he isn't a little blogger. Just because he doesn't write about growth hacking his angular startup into YC doesn't mean he has no reach.
Woah, I bet you're great fun at parties.
While the situation in TFA is spectacularly ridiculous and shameful for me as a french I don't think it warrants this kind of gratuitous french bashing. Unless of course you want to explain to us what the french taxation laws have to do with this particular court decision.

Also it's 75%, not 80%. That might not be very significant overall but it makes me doubt you really know what you're talking about.
TFS/Visual Studio Online is down
My peeps can't check in code. Appears the login service is down, which pretty much means TFS is down.
FWIW, Fischer was also famous for this chameleon-like quality. Maybe it's something to do with reaching that level while still young.
Since when does french-bashing need to be factually correct ?
I think it makes sense for publications that get a significant chunk of sales from magazine stands as they will appear "fresh" longer that way. Not sure what the breakdown of sales for Consumer Reports is like but I'd assume they're subscription heavy.
Two people using Crocker's Rules should be able to communicate all relevant information in the minimum amount of time, without paraphrasing or social formatting.

While I like the idea of that in theory, I have to say I think it's operating on the somewhat flawed premise that tone and other flourishes offer no informational benefit. I view tone as a "hint" for the context of the surrounding statements, and as such, it can alter the interpretation of them. This is useful for efficient communication.

I think Crocker's Rules will help people will communicate the correct information efficiently, but I don't think it's necessarily in the minimum amount of time, just a better average case time. It's probably very useful in situations where the shared social context of the communicating parties are distinct enough that the hinting provided by tone is misinterpreted, which can be common on the internet, where disparate cultures clash and there's no visual channel to additionally help communication.
I was on vacation last year and I was talking to an older gentlemen who was involved in the oil&gas industry. I brought up fracking and he openly said that the chemicals used are pretty bad. I never bothered to do any research afterwards but I'm still curious if it is real problem. 20 years from now will we have created another expensive or deadly problem that we will need to fix? Personally, what I like to see is an article with real data, and not use words like a little, most, or a lot.
I think a better argument is that Mozilla needs to diversify its revenue sources. Chrome is taking away marketshare from Firefox thanks to advertising and paying a lot to be bundled with Java, Flash, Acrobat etc. updates or just being shipped as default by the PC OEMs. It makes sense for Google because then they needn't pay out so much to Mozilla. For many non tech folks where I had replaced IE with Firefox, I now see them using Chrome, and when I asked if they installed it, they usually have no idea how it got on their computer. This is a real danger that Firefox and Mozilla face.

Not sure what's the state now but a few years ago the CEO was being paid ~400K/yr to run Mozilla Corp. For that kind of money, one would expect that Mozilla would have more diverse revenue than being a one-trick pony.
I tried the recent Mozilla font in the hopes I'd found an Inconsolata substitute. No such luck.
I like writelatex.com lately.
Why I Turned Down $5 Million in VC Funding
Very very poor and biased article that resorts to appeal by authority fallacy.

I have no idea if fracking is bad for the environment or not. I really want to know, but the internet is full of crap like this. I haven't found any good scientific articles about the subject, only very poorly written FUD (on both sides). Admittedly, I haven't searched too much; probably all the info is there, but you have to dive really deep into garbage to find it.
You're saying the iPod in 2002 wasn't a mass produced disposable widget? The iPod was never about exclusivity or membership, it was always "for everyone."

In fact I think the primary factor for its enduring success (and that of the new Apple era as a whole) is that they managed to be "cool" and popular at the same time. They had the marketing that told you it was cool (dancing silhouettes, etc), and everyone from hip indie kids to grandmas said "yeah, that is cool."
A Goodbye Email from a Hardcore Programmer
Nasty Shit Sender would be an interesting job title.
Note that this stupidity from a French independent administration didn't end up in droning a whole family and in the end everybody is good for a laugh and life carries on. This case has absolutely no chance of passing any legal test.
> a Principal Engineer at Microsoft relies on Microsof[t] because it provides 90% of his income

I would not exactly call this hypothetical person completely independent. Sure, they can go off and find somebody else to rely on anytime they want, but they are currently relying on one company in particular.
So how many Pis can you cluster together to equal the performance of a standard i3/5/7 laptop (for non-GPU bound calculations)?
I do not understand your remark : enterprise market is traditionally viewed as very lucrative.

RedHat, Jboss , SpringFramework folks are doing remarkably well in the enterprise market though they had roots in free and opensource software movement.
Chromecast is kind of annoying because you have to worry about what software it works with. Can I just share my 1080p screen at 60hz on a Chromecast? That's the main benefit I see with this device.
A todo app you can run from the browser's address bar
Not bad. One of the better price tickers I've seen.
wnevets' comment didn't mention money.
Why does the percent of income matter? Whether its 1% or 100% Microsoft had zero problem paying to take Google's place as the default search.
Given today's level of obsession required to become #1 in any professional sport, I wonder what kind will be needed to be #1 in, say, 25 years. Have we reached some sort of pinnacle? I doubt it, but we probably thought these kind of athletes 30 years ago were already as perfectionists as they could be.
P.S. I mean obsession in regards to hours devoted to training, practicing, building etc, not as a description of their personality, although it probably is present there in varying quantities.
on reddit, this would be reported as spam
Buster Brenson from Twitter talks about transparency
Building a browser is pretty complex, but on the other hand, the OpenBSD developers are building an operating system without funding from anyone but their users.

I wonder if Mozilla could survive solely on funds from their users or if it's two different worlds.
Along the line of "you won't have time to edit eveything" is you should have some form of legacy rendering, so that your old images/assets can look "decent" in the new layouts/containers without actually updating everything. This might be as simple as providing alternative layouts for old image sizes, etc...
That'd be a fun experiment. If only I had disposable income :).

I wonder how much heat these things produce? Could they be used to make an efficient, small cluster?
I wish I could find a "market share over time" chart but I can't. Anyways, IIRC I don't believe Chrome is still taking (much) aware from Firefox. They did for a long time but then flattened. Recently Chrome has dipped a little and Firefox is up: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/01/ie11-takes-1-49-mar...
I don't understand how these emails disappear... isn't it still present on the recipients POP/IMAP?
Google isn't backing them with $300M/year because Mozilla is pumping out good open source software. They are doing it to maintain their dominance in search and keep Bing, DDG, Blekko at bay. For example, they have a similar deal with the closed source(till recently) Opera browser.

I wish Mozilla would stick to its principles and switch the default to a privacy conscious search engine like DuckDuckGo and give it a much needed boost in keyword relevance data.
And it's the marginal tax rate (beyond 1 million €).
Isn't it obvious to assume that of course he thought through the complications, but that there was just apparent escape?

I can understand being frustrated by that question. Reporters for a chess championship should be more understanding of what it's like to play a tough match.
Bit hard when they are recorded deliveries.

Telling banks and other financial institutions to fuck off was just an operating cost for the company in question. It was in the budget.

That's how I learned how the finance system worked in the UK. Assholes lobbing grenades at each other whilst the rest of the companies just get on with it.
Yes, I guess it could be problematic to find disinterested experts in any hot new business area, since most experts are getting their paycheck from it.

I have no deep knowledge about the issue and I hope that someone can point me wrong.
11% growth of Euro M1 in two years begs to differ...

The world is awash in printed money, not just the Eurozone and not just France is taking advantage of it.
Github: thekarangoel is now karan
I don't know about the first, but the methane contamination is pure FUD. Those claims in gasland have been debunked:

http://energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Debunkin...
Who rates MP3 files?
Extracting relevant images from XXX galleries using text clustering
You can brush up PHP in a week or less. Don't go the waiter/shop assistant route. Just start interviewing for every and any position you see until you get one. Unless you are absolutely broke with zero money. Then take the first job you can, but make sure you take something that allows you time to be able to go for interviews.
Take a look at http://fontawesome.io/ as well. :-)
These stupid short-sighted governments are going to ruin the Internet for the rest of us through their greed for money (like in this case) and power (NSA mass surveillance).
Keep calm while we steal your data (don't get scroogled)
Aural Cryptography
It's a brave new world folks. I was able to snag my most-wanted username on my favorite website.

A tip - if your desired username is taken, check the person's profile. If it's inactive, report it and GH will delete it.
>Hydraulic fracturing is not contaminating drinking water. These fractures are being created about 6,000 feet below the surface. That’s four Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other between the aquifer and the hydraulic fracture. If anything is going to risk the integrity of the drinking water, point the figure at the construction of the well, the steel and concrete barrier that is built to isolate that aquifer from a flowing well.

Don't the companies doing the fracking usually build these barriers? How is it not their fault if they don't hold.
Which is not going to be fast at all.
Also noise creeps in. Social communication has redundancy that can serve to error-correct.
Twitter Tests Cleaner Web Client Design
I would imagine you'd need an ARM-based virtual machine. Perhaps QEMU could do it.
Eh, I bought TSLA back at $32 a share a year ago thinking that it was undervalued and that it would end up as a serious carmaker in the future. I was expecting the price to go up to $60 or so. A valuation of $200, which it was at recently, means that you expect it to become the largest carmaker in the world. I don't think it's unreasonable for the market to think that Tesla will end up Honda or BMW sized instead of Toyota or GM sized. Becoming the next BMW totally counts as a success!
I don't think that you can really call a professor with a PhD 'Joe Average'.
I guess the engineer is saying we should address coconut trees because of falling coconuts, but the physical and geological effects of fracking don't matter because they're below the ground.

Considering the logical breadth and wiseness of the statement, I think the logical conclusion is to grant this engineer his own fleet of fracking equipment and a company to run it. Because then he'd make money and money is more money than no money. Everyone likes money but nobody likes a coconut to the head.

Drill on!
As a hirer I can tell you, if you can code in any language just create a cover letter and resume that proves you can code. Do not be intimidated by laundry list of acronyms you find in job listings, but acknowledge them and talk about your confidence in your ability to get up to speed. hth.
Week 1 in the best Software bootcamp around
What are their ELO rating estimates?

I was a high school player and used to mess around with Rybka, but I haven't looked into computer chess in years.
So did the article, for that matter.
Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack
> Not surprising, there is no free speech in France.

There is, with some restrictions like in most countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Fr...
In that case, it should be Memphis TN. Large FedEx hub, and maybe you could partner with the Memphis College of Arts. I know around where I live certain trade type schools (Is an Arts school a trade school?) are all over having partnerships with companies so that their students can get real world experience.
The comments here are atrocious. I expected more from HN than senseless French-bashing and 'Murica flag-waving.

A few informations for context:

- Two bloggers were fined, one French, and the American one for quoting the French.

- The fine emanated from the Commission des Sanctions (sanction committee) of the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers), the French stock market regulator.

- It's supposed to be independent, but they are notoriously in bed with banks, with most members of the commission being former higher executives of major banks. Therefore, it's no surprise that they will do this kind of stunts in order to protect their interests.

- It's been talked about in several (right-wing) publications like Atlantico or Les Échos, where journalists have pointed out that this is one more action that proves the absence of credibility of the AMF.
Their description is entirely accurate, which makes your insults doubly inappropriate.
It made me wonder what's free-er about an ordinary phone call.

You can use any phone that you like to place a call. You can even build your own phone. (Depending on your choice of phone you might have to rely on non-free parts like GSM voice codecs.)

You have the freedom of choosing between multiple service providers, all of which are interoperable. If you want, you can even get access to the underlying SS7 phone network and be your own provider.
If _one_ of the parties. In this case, the bank.
This is very good advice. Except that I would brush up on .NET (in a week or less) instead. He would make more money.
Baremetrics - $0 to $1300/mo in 30 days
> If a crime was committed in france they can ask for extradition.

But it wasn't "committed in France". This is getting ridiculous, not to mention extremely dangerous. A few more cases of these from the "democracies" of the world, and soon China will start demanding the same thing.

"You said something bad about China online? We're just going to fine you, or ask for your extradition and arrest."
No Common Lisp, no deal.

But agreed, we cannot settle on Javascript as the forever language.
IBM would like to have a word with you.
Yeah, the library has some common functions with "itertools" Python's module [1]. fun.range syntax was even copied from Python's range. What is more, you can also take a look on Haskell's Data.List [2] or StandardML's List [3] packages.

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.6.0.1/docs/Data-Li...
[3] http://www.standardml.org/Basis/list.html
Does this count? http://gs.statcounter.com/
Sono: Noise Cancellation For Your Windows
To make it truly interesting (from the algorithmic point of view), these competitions should be limited to a standard machine with no connectivity. Otherwise it's an arms race.
What does "serious" mean in this context? Is it another way of saying high load? Enterprise? Is scientific computing serious? How can you say that one platform is used for "much more serious stuff" when you almost certainly have no idea what 99.9% of all python (or Scala) installations are being used for.
Monkey w/ screwdriver Versus Macbook [video]
Not currently. There are not so many alternatives for free that supports both iOS and OS X, btw.
An alternative backend could be bittorrent sync, but the API are very young and tailored to web app, not desktop ones. Of course, the app will work not using dropbox (and without syncing devices).

That said, I'm open to suggestions. :)
I'm an experienced poker player however I'm an absolute chess novice. Aside from the obvious "just practice" advice, what are the best resources to fall back on in terms of books, videos etc if I wanted to learn the game in significant depth?
VAT applies to BTC<->GBP, so that really dampens adoption in the UK.
Create a Simple Music Streaming App with Flask
It's perfectly fine to get mad at the lawyer for abusing their skill doing such people-hostile work. They can choose a more honorable line of lawyering.
This is something good to know! Thanks.
Well, I think the main reason we can't yet compare him to Kasparov is that Garry become world champion at a similar age, but then held the title for many years (a decade and a half depending on which title you count after the Fide/PCA thing). Carlsen will win the title, but let's see how long he holds it for. If, for some unfortunate reason (I hope not of course) he feels too much pressure, gets tired, has some breakdown, and loses the title in 2 or 4 years, then no one will compare him to Kasparov, except as being in very early 20s when winning the World Title.
It's hard to say precisely because top players don't really play top computers competitively, but the best computer engines appear to be well above 3000 by now. The estimates on the TCEC page put Stockfish and Komodo both at around 3100.
Mozilla cares a lot more about happy users than about your principles. They're not going to switch to dramatically worse search results just to appease the tin hat crowd.
Sure! All skilled folks that leave France, don't want to go back. That's the point.