skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's essentially just a search engine + mathematica at this point.

Yeah and that integration is more than just 1+1. You'd actually think Google's search engine is entirely sentient code. I'd say half of the stuff we build is nothing more than some regex in the bottom and some string matching. You actually think WA is really just a system that understands some NLP and then sends the NLP strings to some Mathematica APIs?

> It isn't anything that hasn't been done before. It is just more of the same from WA - Hype and bullshit.

And half of the shit we see on HN has been done before. Quit your job because there is no innovation there. 90% of the security tool people build are nothing more than some stupid string comparison with some strings in the database. Very few is doing real sentient code.

I see nothing innovating about the way we browse website, the way we interact with technology or the way we build software today. We are still using browser. We are not automating the way we would like to be. Where are all the talking Siri integrated into our home?

WA is very different from Google search.

And if WA is good at dealing mathematical models, just wait and see what one could do with those APIs. You can't do this with Google easily.
The thing that people don't realize is that exploitation is the foundational structure of capitalism, and 'civilized' wage work is only removed from the examples in this story by a matter of degrees. The current capitalistic structure is only a moderate change from the old-fashioned slavery it came from directly.

We clearly need to apply science and technology directly to human needs rather than relying entirely on outdated systems like money that primarily enforce hierarchies. In previous eras where the only means to an end was raw human labor, perhaps this type of system made sense. In our contemporary society with our technological capability it is absurd. Too bad that people can only see that when it involves the most extreme cases.
This is a really good book for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails. But, in my opinion, what makes it stand out compared to a lot of other books on this topic is the following:

I'm using Rails for a few years now and I still have problems to figure out where to start when I have to explain it to somebody who doesn't know anything about it.

Many books just throw their readers into a topic. This causes a lot of confusion early on, which will (hopefully) be reduced while reading the book. I don't like that approach very much.

I think, this book here does it the right way: It first explains the web and by which technologies it is driven. Then it tells how Rails fits into the picture.

What I also really like are the short explanations of user stories, software development methodologies and agile methodologies. I think it is important that new developers have at least heard about those topics even though they may not know how to use them in the beginning.

Good work!
heh. that's cute. i knew karl back in the day.

you could also say that it's the colour of the microwave background, which dominates the radiation in the universe (it's the "glow" left over from the big bang), however that's cooled so much that it's effectively black.

i'm not sure how they defined average to avoid coming out with black from that. would be worth checking the paper...
Eight things you can live without
Because it's different in different countries and hints that USA is extraction economics like all the world before XIX century and modern dictatorships where elite is more interested in redistribution of existing wealth than creating new.
There is nothing that says the same isn't true of expensive clothing (and for that matter, online services). They may still cut the costs in the most unethical manner possible. They'll just have a higher profit margin at the same time.
It's such a good feeling to read a post like yours. Thanks for caring so deeply about others.
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Almost 90% of the sports jerseys are produced from Southern part of India where the situations and characters mentioned in the article are still alive.

Multinational garment companies like Adidas, Nike, Puma etc. should have stricter vigilance towards exploitation of employees. Young girls are prone towards exploitation and they are willing to undergo this as they are desperate for money.

And, blame parents too!
Yes, it will be open-source, and we will host it at https://github.com/proofpeer .

We will start coding full-time on it around February 2014.

If you want to collaborate, send an email to contact@proofpeer.net, or just follow us on Github.
Same "capitalist" problem with using technology too; for example, a textile weaving machine requires an upfront cost and then it has maintenance, depreciation, repairs, higher electricity bills and so forth - some one somewhere somehow worked out it's still cheaper to just employ more people and still generate a better return short and long term vs implementing modern tech.
Scala/akka Actors are just a convenient way for implementing asynchronous message passing, which frees your from thinking about synchronisation. I'm not sure if there's that much to learn, at least at the beginner level.
The end user might like a device that is not as interconnected with Google.
I am a strong supporter of using the singular pronoun 'they' where the gender of the subject is unknown. People who say it is improper english are completely idiotic. It has been widely used in this way for a very long time and specifically as a direct substitute for the opposing trend for at least 30 years now.

That being said, I think it is perfectly reasonably to reject pull requests that only change the wording in a couple of comments and don't have any impact on the implementation /or/ the clarity. They should have added something else of value at the same time imo.
Unless bare metal changes to something which matches the functional approach better. Or just simply changes and higher level concepts protect you because you are not tied to implementation details.
C is indeed close to hardware. 1970s hardware that is. That being said, the rule of thumb for Haskell,OCaml,... is that in terms of performance they are somewhere between 2 times slower and 2 times faster, depending on details, strategy, etc.
In this particular case, it seems that the runs might be too short to see a significant difference. btw, try -O3 iso -O2. it makes a difference...
What are the advantages of this (or `grunt') over `make'? Being JavaScript-based makes it more accessible than `make' but also ties it to just one language. What am I missing?
I read that differently to you - the words "a quarter of $105" instantly tells me $25.20 because it's such an easy calculation, whereas telling me an extra stat like what that is per day is something I hadn't already worked out myself.
http://www.last.fm/robots.txt
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> If MOOC's carried a fraction of the "academic credibility" that college degrees did, Udacity would be a home run already.

It is unclear to me that any educational system that passes such a small percentage of students in Elem Stats would ever have a hope of gaining academic credibility. That's the playing field.

What an instructor at SJSU would do that Thrun is not going to do is lots of office hours, question-answering, and mentoring/being there. That's what it seems to require.

Personally I think it took a great deal of courage for Thrun to recognize that this is a game he is unlikely to win.
That is what this article claims: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732399860... (2013)
Epitome of Father-Child relationship. Moved to tears. Thanks for sharing.
Why do I rank higher on Bing than Google?
... and to be honest, this might not be such a bad thing. For simple articles, G+ is about a billion times better than blogger, and would make a pretty good replacement for many people.

Indeed, ideally as part of such a move, they'd enhance G+ a bit[1] to cover the areas where it's currently weaker than blogger. Then everybody would win...

[1] E.g. better support for formatting articles; curently it only supports a rather pathetic subset of markdown.
The main takeaway here is that Haskell's stream fusion library is very nice. You can write code in the "naive" modular style that generates intermediate lists, and they get automagically fused away.

There's a little work on that in Lispland as well. Some discussion, a prototype, and a link to the older SERIES package: http://pvk.ca/Blog/Lisp/Pipes/
I did email it pretty much straight away, but I guess it didn't get through.
Is your product of use to companies as well as individuals? If so you may be able to produce a "company" account at a much higher price point, offering the same functionality but with extras such as multiple logins, Google Apps integration (which provides SSO for free for companies that use Google Apps) more logging, usage reports and more.

Also consider patio11's favourite trick of offering people a 10% discount if they pay for 12 months up front - this can massively increase your cash flow.
Re the spherical bomb: an example from 1946: Tom & Jerry, Trap Happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59

In 1922, Buster Keaton's "Cops" features a bomb-throwing anarchist:
http://images.greencine.com/images/article/keaton-bomb-2.jpg
(Buster unknowingly lights his cigarette with it)

And 1919, a 'Red Scare' cartoon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest....

But this has got to be older, as this type of throwing bomb was obsolete in the early 1900s. There's the Haymarket affair (1886):
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/just...

I'm guessing that's the incident that ties this bomb to political activists. But the design is a lot older; the badge of Napoleon's grenadier guards is an image of this type of bomb, but the round throwing bomb is way, way older:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ming_Dynasty_fragmentatio...

Recognisably the same bomb, from the 14th century.
I was in the train, I tested it on Safari iOS 7, works great! I love it.
This movie is quite good and it might still be available on Netflix, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE4lqYzS2m0
Are you sure about the IP history? That doesn't make much sense to me. I work in a building with a shared internet collection with other offices. It may appear to Facebook that all traffic for that building comes from the same IP. Would Facebook then suggest every person that uses the building to me as a friend?

There is a possibility that if you have multiple Facebook accounts and use the same browser for each, a cookie could be used to link the two. Just because two people use the same computer and the same browser to login to Facebook does not mean they are friends. You might be using a public terminal.

Facebook could match a specific browser session with user visits to other sites that have Facebook features. Your digital fingerprint could be determined through your browsing habits. You don't need to be logged in for that. That would be pretty insidious of Facebook. I'm not a fan of 3rd party JS scripts in that respect.

I've seen friend suggestions that are linked to my email account that I've signed up with. I think this is an email address book leak. Perhaps it's possible to discover someone's work contacts say by just signing up with that someones email address (say a work address). I'm not sure if the email needs to be verified before this information is leaked.
Decoding the Summer of Snowden: A summary of the Snowden revelations
Bitcoins stolen from the users of Sheep Market Place?
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You get 5,000 if you complete the design phase, not the qualification phase. For that you need to complete the qualification phase AND be selected to go there.
I can't help but read this and wonder whether "Aruna" actually exists, and, if she does, whether all the details about her are as described. That's the legacy that Mike Daisey has left us with.
I have reimplemented the function in Julia and it took 16.51 seconds to run, compared to 0.19 seconds when running C version.

Here is the code, perhaps someone else would know how to optimize it.

CODE:

function main(max_a0)
longest = max_len = len = a = 0
for a0 in 1:max_a0
a = a0
len = 0
while a != 1
len += 1
a = ((a%2==0) ? a : 3*a+1)/2
end
if len > max_len
max_len = len
longest = a0
end
end
println("($max_len, $longest)")
end

@time main(1000000)

CMD:

$ julia collatz.jl
(329, 837799)
elapsed time: 16.436623922 seconds (4206873264 bytes allocated)

$ julia --version
julia version 0.3.0-prerelease+143
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I wouldn't want to buy goods made by children, primarily because children lack an eye for quality. But I also imagine that refusing to buy such goods would do no good to said children.
Capitalism is the only system that has a proven track record of bringing people out of poverty. Many industrial nations had a garment industry phase and graduated from it.

We have had experiments with other systems than Capitalsm, and some of them are still running. Korea is split in North and South, the southern part is capitalist, was in garment manufacturing and now has an exceptional level of wealth, while the northern part is communist and has become one big concentration camp.

I hope you won't bother pulling a No True Scotsman here, because the list goes on.
One thing to remember is that you must start somewhere. Overall, it's way better than not doing anything.
The question people should be asking is not whose income grows and who gains the most. To me, the only relevant question is: did this person stole the money or made it honestly? If he stole it, then he should be in jail. If he didn't, then it's none of anyone else's business how much he has and what he spends it for. And by honestly I mean he didn't force people to pay him and he didn't coerce anyone to pay him. If one can't convince a rich person who made his money honestly to share or help the poor or invest in a project that would supposedly create more jobs, then maybe it's that person's problem that he can't convince.
Still, there are significant holes in the parsing engine - once you learn its quirks you can get around it, but it's a long way from natural. It can do, for example:

"estimated number of atoms in a liter of water" - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+ato...

and

"volume of a cup of coffee" http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+cup+of+coff...

but not:

"estimated number of atoms in a cup of coffee"
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+ato...

What you're looking for is: "estimated number of atoms in 1 cup of water".

Similarly "distance to moon in terms of bill gates' height" does NOT work, while "distance to moon / bill gates' height" does work.
If a product is so disruptive, how can it possibly fail within two years?

Running out of money tends to have that effect.

The problem with VC is that the VCs (in consumer web) aren't really into technology per se. They're trying to take advantage of the short-term, emerging natural monopolies that technology creates. This means they force fast growth whether it makes sense for the company or not, and even if it's a sound business, it will have to ask for money in 18 months regardless-- because it's been forced to grow headcount and scope so dramatically.

It really is a rigged game. The more traditional approach to business (10 to 30 percent growth, getting rich slowly) isn't allowed.
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Ask HN: Anyone using IronPython?
I did a lot of C#/.NET dev a few years ago while working for an IB. Started my own SaaS business recently which is mostly built in Python. As my product is quite heavily related to the Microsoft world .NET was the best fit for my backend workers so I ended up doing a lot of stuff in IronPython. I know it's still actively being developed by a few volunteers after MS dropped it back in 2010 but it feels like it's a very small community. Any other IronPython guys here on HN and what do you use it for?
Well, not that easy. A quarter of 105 is 26.25.
Check the code, search through the wiki and then you can create an issue. Claiming something without even knowing the facts is really convenient, isn't it?
Some of the dating sites do worse than just steal pics. They hire cheap labor (3rd world) and using fake accounts send fake replies to guys (paying members). All under a ToS saying it is for entertainment purposes only.

Match will just claim it was spammers and scammers, not done by match.com's in house team.

There are companies set up out there that will populate a dating site with fake profiles. (I don't know their urls, but seen them before)

I think there was also a UK documentary on scammy UK dating sites, on tv a little while ago. All using fake profiles of course.
Because the fat imperialist says capitalism is the best we have to keep it for all time until our star goes supernova? Our rooted first world lifestyle is the strong mechanism enabling these sweat shops.
But is it fair?
Available area which you can cover with the panels.
Just one thought... please use persona. No password anymore. Anyway, thanks for the hard work.
It's intended for people that are building web stuff with node. So they're already writing everything in Javascript and already have a dependency on node, so using node for their build process eliminates a dependency on Make or whatever.

The incumbent in this niche is Grunt. Grunt has a rich ecosystem of plugins, but it's complex, difficult to configure and difficult to debug. Gulp is meant to be simpler and therefor easier to use.

Gulp is not meant to compete with Make, Maven or the like.
AKAIK Jolla is more open. Its more like a Linux distro than Android. I want something else than trying custom Android ROMs. I want to be fully in control of my device.
Spot on.

Churchill was distinctly batshit as well so you can't really actually cite him as a single reliable source.
(I'm the author of the article)

I replace my main computer (MacBook Pro) every 1-2 years with a maxed out top of the line model. I keep the one I had before around as a backup in case my laptop breaks or gets stolen.

Yes, it doesn't make too much sense tax-wise. However, it would cost me much more in productivity to wait 2-3 years longer to replace it. This thing needs to run bunches of stuff for development, like various DB servers, multiple VMs (yay 4 different versions of Internet Explorer) and should be as light as possible so I can take it everywhere easily (usually servers go down when you're mid-vacation).

So it might save a few hundred dollars by taking advantage of tax laws, or I might earn thousands more because I can develop faster and things are just more enjoyable. I know what to pick.
Yes because more laws and control really help...
I'd love that. I have some older devices sitting around and totally would install Sailfish on it and try it out!
Yes, this is an example where purity is really helpful.
Nice project!

I wonder how does this compare to the GitHub + package manager combo. Using these tools, platforms like Ruby or Node.js became massively collaborative. To me proof development is similar to software development, so it should work as well. By the way, Coq will soon get a package manager based on OPAM: http://coq.inria.fr/cocorico/CoqDevelopment/CRGTCoq20131126?...
And who's to say what's fair? People keep talking about fairness, but the problem is that it's always the other guy or some corporation who's being unfair. It's never me.

I'd say it is completely unfair that a government takes a portion of my income away from me and spends for what it considers to be important, while not giving me the slightest chance to spend it on things I consider to be an ultimate good for the world. Are people in the government somehow know the ultimate truth? Are they the ones who only do good, while taxpayers are evil?
> Capitalism is the only system that has a proven track record of bringing people out of poverty.

Citation please.

It's become apparent to me that it does that until the workforce hits equilibrium at which point it divides people slowly into two classes, the lower of which is purely exploited by the upper.

NK just skipped the first bit.
I agree.

A better argument is that free trade based on voluntary transactions is the only just and moral system of allocating resources, in theory and in practice.
That (mis)quote of Churchill doesn't really mean anything, it's a shallow apology of capitalism, just a catchy formula that superficially seems to make sense if you don't care to think about the possibilities. If you suspend thinking it works on an emotional level because it suggests that yes, the people in power are aware of capitalism's shortcomings, they feel the pain but, alas, there's nothing they could do, so stop complaining you ungrateful somebody...

Churchill and the likes are not exactly neutral observers with no interest in preserving the status quo by any means possible, starting with intellectual dishonesty.
Hah, I copied rather than calculated :( Point still stands that it's easy to see roughly what it is.
Its not very useful, eg it lists 40 sources for the data without really saying how they are used. Its kind of ok for an approximate answer.
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> I hope you won't bother pulling a No True Scotsman here, because the list goes on.

Then use another example from your list. North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship. It's not exactly clear whether its woes are the result of its economic system or its form of governance.
How to explain why a developer should not be interrupted when in the zone?
Doesn't work in the latest version of Safari on my Mac. (10.9 Mavericks, latest updates)

Update: Correction, didn't work the first time I went to the link but the second time was fine.
Most people reject this Libertarian framing of the issue. The progressive point of view is that income redistribution is justified if it leads to a "better" or "more just" society; it's not about punishing successful people. They also don't think the world is anywhere close to a meritocracy, therefore the wealth people create is at least to a very large part a function of good fortune so there is no moral issue with wealth redistribution.

The US busted unions and fought organised labor in general since the 1970s, and deregulated industry enormously. Also taxation is at a historic low. Those are the causes of the massive wealth presently accumulating at the top -- wealthy people today are not more meritocratic or harder working than wealthy people from the 1950s. But they're much, much wealthier. The reduction in real wages since the 70s has pushed regular people into debt (in an attempt to live a middle class lifestyle) with all the predictable negative consequences.

This is even terrible from a libertarian point of view. Because a country without a middle class is a country without consumers.
Clever infographic, however, in the words of Leonard Cohen:

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows that the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking

Everybody knows that the captain lied

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets

Everybody wants a box of chocolates

And a long stem rose

Everybody knows
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Yes, that's what I thought, too.

My only complaint is that my internal Python (awesome) vs. JavaScript (not so awesome but becoming standard) war gets tackled from a third side now. Another language to care about - not exactly what I needed.

Having said that: Nimrod looks beautiful and maybe it's time to hop on the bandwagon.