skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, and I hope it catches on. Despite its flaws and quirks I think HN has something nice going on in terms of the overall submission and discussion quality, and I don't think it should be restricted to just 'hackers' (or startup founders, software engineers, enthusiasts, etc). Just like how there's a whole ecosystem of Stack Exchange sites for a variety of interests, maybe there should be more HN-like sites as well, fulfilling a cultural role that (e.g.) subreddits alone can't. Plus, the software (minus some of the ranking algorithms) is out there already for anyone to use.
Well, you know, as long as we no longer care about matching punishment with crimes, why not have him publicly flogged?
I just attended a meet-up this evening with Slava Rubin, Indiegogo's CEO, and that was one of the topics he covered during his talk. The psychology of crowdsourced projects is fascinating.

Basically the analogy is that if you want to raise 100, you set your goal to 50, and will probably end up with 120. Now if you set your goal to 100, you may end up with 20 and a failed campaign. Same project, same pitch, same perks.

Of course this is not exact science, but you got the idea. The special advice is to figure out the number that you need (versus what you want), and make sure you can cross the 1/3 of the funding early on.

Lots of things come into play: initial inertia, exposure, acceleration as you get closer to your goal, resistance around 1/3, etc.
It hurts just thinking about it:

You will spend a large percentage of your energy on stuff
that will eventually be thrown away.
Would you truly prefer to go to a bank branch/human teller over an ATM for cash?
Thanks so much for posting that link. I saw the streak picture from another commenter, and wondered if there was a high-res version.

It's so beautiful that I would have it on my wall, but I doubt it would print out nearly as nicely as it appears on-screen.
True, but thats also because your target market has dynamics very different from your average hacker and even your early adopters behave differently.

It always comes down to community.
Sticky Sessions is not something bad. It's bit difficult to handle. This suites very well for Meteor's usecase.
I don't think minimum wage is really in important issue. If a person is really worth less than the minimum wage, there are plenty of ways to get around the restriction.

Just as raising the minimum wage isn't the silver bullet that it's proponents claim, neither is lowering or eliminating it.
Seems excessive. A verbal warning or, at most, a trespass notice or injunction would suffice.

I'm also surprised that the police can prosecute this without a complaint from the school. Is this specific to Georgia or is it the same in other states?
Pierre Omidyar - WikiLeaks, Press Freedom and Free Expression
What I don't get is what I do with this presciption medicine I take that comes in a 4oz bottle if I remember correctly. It's a schedule 3 controlled substance sold by only one pharmacy in the whole country. Taking it in any container but the original would be suspect since it's also a known street drug.
Yes I guess the question I'm asking is "why isn't there enough processing power?". Is it that we need more body scanners? More humans ushering people? More xray machines or get people to pick up their bags and put their shoes on faster? What's limiting us.
The scarcity of comments is explained away by the fact that the website has been made public only very recently.
But thank you, yours is a good suggestion
love love love the name. not sure why the domain name (which is the one I like so much) does not align with the title tag?
The police shouldn't have wasted all this time and money on what isn't really a crime.

Say it's not a car, and the driver recharged his phone, because it was dead. By the same logic, he should be arrested, but it would seem a bit silly to do so.

What about filling up a water bottle with an outside water faucet?

It's pretty reasonable to not want people to charge their devices using your external outlets, but I don't think it's a crime.

As plug-in vehicles become more prevalent, buildings will start to figure out the right way to handle this.
Thanks. It's pretty brutal. I've lost 25 lbs in 7 days already from it.
No problem -- and yeah, Angular is pretty awesome with databinding (I'm personally more of a Knockoutjs fan, but Angular is more of a whole-package deal), congratulations on building an awesome, useful project!
I know Chipotle uses immersion circulators, but the scale of their use is a far cry from "almost every restaurant." Taco Bell most certainly does not use immersion circulators.
Die, selfish gene, die
I highly suggest you curate the quality of your posts, users and comments. Perhaps, even at the expense of potential users. I think reddit is a prime example of how badly quality can deteriorate. I know there's no metric for 'good' vs 'bad' comments we can appeal to but I think we can all understand that all the 'true' subreddits[1] denote the fact that once you get far enough on the adoption curve[2] quality will start to suffer as I contend occurred on slashdot, followed by digg, subsequently reddit, and now HN. It will deteriorate into Eternal September[3] -- filled with one line quips and memes. I don't want to make any value judgments on this specific community but I'd like to say I miss the edw519s.

Good examples of communities that have managed to maintain quality well are /r/askhistorians and lobste.rs. Ask Historians managed to do it by ruling with an iron fist. Lobste.rs by heavily curating which members are able to join. Another interesting example of retaining long term quality is visible in private torrent sites- many of which employ both an invite system and strict rules.

Finally, what made Hacker News so good ~4 years ago was it was originally populated by people within the industry with decades of experience. You yourself said this was for the financial industry-- trying to pick up early adopters here makes about as much sense as trying to pick up adopters for a medical industry community on an economist forum.

[1] /r/trueaskreddit, /r/truereddit/, /r/truerreddit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The State of Tech Recruiting in 2013
There is a comment above explaining that union and contractor agreements would hamper the major incumbents.

I'm wondering if UPS etc. would be interested in partnering with or investing in Luna instead.
Cost to the taxpayers isn't a mitigating circumstance when choosing whether to arrest someone for committing a crime.

I should note, that I don't think this was a crime.
if it does, it should be called antidote.
Bandcamp has an app for streaming music you've purchased

http://blog.bandcamp.com/2013/10/25/its-over/
> Any other use of the fingerprints constitutes misuse and a gross privacy violation

And just how do you expect that to be honored? Last time someone revealed that the government lied about this stuff was...well, Snowden.
gets has no right to exist. But sprintf does. It's a workaround for some old embedded C compilers that lack the safe string copy functions (strcpy_s, strlcpy.)

char dst[5];
sprintf(dst, "%.*s", (int)sizeof(dst)-1, "Hello!");

Copies a null-terminated string to dst, truncating if necessary to avoid overflow.

Just don't forget the "." or the "-1".
I'm not familiar with Georgia law, but wouldn't this be a misdemeanor and easily handled by a simple citation? (Personally, I think a warning would have been sufficient). The cost of arresting him and holding him in jail for 15 hours, plus prosecution, etc, would be far more expensive than the 5 cents worth of electricity. A simple warning would probably have been more than enough to prevent him from doing it without permission again.
Where's the counter, inspiring epilogue?
Why? Who owns hackernews.com?
That's what exactly happened and @jjamz was helping me on the editing.

(anyway, I really welcome the english errors you raised, but I've done a lot of articles with my bad english. I hope most of Meteor user's got something out from them. That's the the point I think we should consider)
I'm curiuos what pg thinks about this or if he cares at all.
Boredom brings me to HN and boredom makes me wanna learn new things. I think it is a great name.

Plus broad audience, I have only met a few bankers that are not bored with their jobs...

Has links to some nice articles btw
What Disposable Computers Mean Going Forward
As you build and explore, you find patterns, see repetitive code, or get frustrated at the hassle it takes to add a new feature.

This is when you refactor. It's that moment of realization when coding and you say to yourself "ah, if I had a compositional object model instead of a god object inheritance nightmare I could introduce new objects so much faster and without destroying the interface of CEntity."

You quickly also realize this means re-writing your inheritance tree, decomposing all of your object classes and reconstructing each one as a bundle of components like renderable, effects, behavior, physical (position), that communicate and interact through messages.

You finally have the flexible buildable adaptable object system to meet your building and maintenance needs. But you had to rewrite 30 classes to get there.

My take is badasses in that moment take the 20 hours and do it right. Many like Notch simply didn't bother. Everyone pays for it later.

"But it's not necessary" they say. What's necessary about being great? Nothing, but being great is Awesome. That said, one would need that attitude to bite into 20 hours of extra unnecessary work with a smile. But it's the starting recipe for a great programmer.
Depending on which features of PyCharm you use the most, you actually may benefit from the recent open-sourcing of PyCharm Community Edition. Now you can use (and theoretically fix bugs in) the master builds which track IJ development very closely.
Breakouts: Helping you choose a JavaScript game engine
board banker, as in a typo. I think he's implying people will misspell it a lot.
Medical liquids can be brought through in any necessary quantity. Sai (link: http://s.ai/tsa/ ) tried this with juice but found that agents were not particularly willing to play nicely since juice doesn't seem like a medical liquid...whatever that means. I expect that yours should be a bit more obvious. In theory.
Your argument is indeed completely wrong.

Let me construct a new positive even number as follows. Take the first positive even number, then add the second positive even number, then add the third positive even number, etc.

The set of even number is infinite. And this is a divergent sum, it's infinite, not an even number.
This is probably true at the averages, but at the topside of the scale for both populations, I wonder if it still applies.

Do the Peter Druckers and Clayton M Christensens of the world really not know more than the Steve Jobs and Bill Campbell types? I choose those names rather than Bill Gates or Larry Page because those guys have done multiple companies, which seems to be an important criteria for doing "consistently well". I find it difficult to believe that such prolific thinkers as Drucker or Christensen would get circles run around themselves.

For the bottom of both populations, I'd even venture to guess that the professors of business are more knowledgeable than the startup founders. Come on, you've met some pretty bad startup founders, and you know it. Although I suppose it also depends on how one defines the criteria because it's always easy to cull the population to suit one's conclusions.
Products like this have existed for a while now but have never sold well.
If enough people join the pre-check program - won't we have the same issue that we currently do? It seems the more people that join this service, the less valuable it is.
The feature comparison is also nice: http://city41.github.io/breakouts/featureComparison.html So many javascript game engines and this is a common game used in all to compare.
Sounds scary. You know what sounds beautiful though? The idea of you working your ass off and completing it. That part is on you though :)
Uh, yeah, I already figured that out :)
However I usually am dragging along a wife and child and that adds 50% more time to everything.
On the contrary - this fits right in with all the other dreadful presentations of math - it takes so long to load it appears as though the site is off line. It's almost as if the author was at pains to confirm the trope that technical people have no social skills and are hopeless at presenting information to others.
Great perspective!

"So its not a judgement on the resources of the attacker that matters, it is the expected consequences of the breach - the expected value of damage."

I nodded at this when I mentioned resiliency and recovery, but I still think resources of the attacker matters. A determined attacker could doubtless breach your front door with a battering ram or axe and enough time. Part of the reason you don't worry about this, I assert, is that it's not likely because the costs to the attacker (in terms of chances of getting caught and penalties if they are) are too high. Part of it, as you say, is that we have some amount of resiliency against the threats posed. And probably part of it is that most of us are not terribly inclined to do damage to each other without provocation and there are many possible targets for the few who are - I'm not really sure the degree to which we should legitimately consider that bit a part of "security" but it certainly merits weight in calculating risks.
You might want to check out Telescope: http://telesc.pe
Cantor is wrong, yes, but you won't prove that to contemporary mathematicians who believe his ideas because this is an epistemological issue and can't be resolve with mathematical arguments.

This is really an age-old philosophic dispute that the mystics won decades ago. As David Hubert described it "No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created." It is the "paradise" of deuces wild for the mathematicians and it rests on an equivocation of the meaning of "infinity". Cantor's idea of a "completed infinity" is a self contradiction if you grasp what the concept of infinity actually means and keep it tied to reality. It is the error of treating infinity as a real thing and not an abstraction. A similar error, for similar reasons, is made in the history of the philosophy by the mystics of nihil who wanted to treat nothingness as on par with existence via the Reification of Zero.
Exposure: Beautiful Photo Narratives
So if I run out of gas it's ok for me to siphon some off another persons car? Does the amount of gas siphoned matter, or is it the act that primarily punished?
The same is true for memcpy ya know... that's what memmove is for. Perhaps you should make sure you know what you're talking about before bashing others ("others" who are probably far more experienced than yourself).
I can't wait until I spend my entire life submerged in a cocoon-like vat of pink translucent goo, permanently sedated, and fed through an umbilical.

JUST HOOK IT TO ME VEINNNNNNNNNNNNNSSS!!!
The new string has to be placed in the assumed list of Reals. If you place it anywhere, you have to recast the Reals.

It's not just that it's new by algorithm, but it does not have a deterministic place within the assumed list of Reals.

It's a new "Cantor's Paradise" every time you place that new number. And it does not come into existence by the same procedure used to START generating the list. It's a metanumber -- exception to rule. This is why one has to have a metaphysics of number before one accepts the proof. Why Hilbert et al accept the proof on aesthetic grounds, and a whole class of mathematics on aesthetic grounds. The appropriate response is: That's just another real number.

Naturals, etc START somewhere but you are not forced to reindex with each new number.
Ask HN: Any low cost laser metal engraving machines out there?
I figured HN was the best group to ask about this sort of thing.

A google search for "laser engraving machines" is awash with B2B websites.

Are there any laser engravers (capable of engraving stainless steel) that are affordable ($5k max) for the typical hacker available yet?

I noticed kickstarter had a fulfilled laser engraving project here but I doubt the units are still available seeing as it ended over a year ago: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fsl/affordable-20x12-laser-cutter-engraver-assembled-i
I can't find the right word. I meant "strong" as in "not mozzarella, american cheese etc", the more bitter the better :)
I am working on a StackExchange style of subject oriented news communities with Digg like content curation but I am having trouble thinking what will be substantially new in my idea that will differentiate it from (sub)reddit.
I've put in my time.

I've already noted several of the problems I've encountered (non-intellectual motivations / tactical stupidity). The other is the sheer volume of crap most Libertarian's I've run into believe (or at least profess). As I said, I may (and likely will) address it in written form. But it's akin to dealing with climate denialists, creationists, flat-earthers, and others who are vested in an illogical and counterfactual belief system. Very simply not worth the effort.
Maybe so, or else it might be like the highway toll transceivers (EZ Pass etc.) -- lots of people get them, and then they can zip right through, yet even today there are always really long lines piled up in the cash-only lanes.

I suspect that not a lot of people will fork over the $85, either because it sounds expensive or just on general principles. I would pay, but I imagine a lot won't.
I love how the the HTML source generated by news.arc sets it apart. It has no boilerplate. It's literally: HTML tag, news.css, favicon, upvote JavaScript, title, humongous table.
Definitely the case. The great programmer, the moment they realize that modding is the future, make their next release to get the modding interface done right. They don't decide "eh, I'll just add a bunch of items I've been thinking about instead."
Sorry, misspoke there. Not recirculators but retherm baths.

If you remember Taco Bells from the 1970s, the beef was cooked in large open vats by store employees. Now it's cooked in a central kitchen and shipped refrigerated to stores where it's held at serving temperature in a water bath.

Changing to this technique eliminated a huge amount of employee accidents (burns, slips) and boosted their health inspection ratings, not to mention product consistency.
how about an app and a drone that dips a fry into ketchup and drops it into your mouth.
It's cool to see so many people excited about this launch. Just wanted to remind people that we have a lot of software job openings right now. People are often surprised to learn that SpaceX is hiring web developers -http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3890. There are some interesting internal tools projects that are critical parts of each mission. We have embedded developer, PM, and test roles open as well.
It'll be interesting to see what the court does with this. I wonder what statute he's being charged under?

From the Georgia Code:

> A person commits the offense of theft by taking when he unlawfully takes or, being in lawful possession thereof, unlawfully appropriates any property of another with the intention of depriving him of the property, regardless of the manner in which the property is taken or appropriated.

If he's being charged with theft, it will be interesting to see whether energy is "property of another" in this case. What he took from the school was electrical potential energy. Is that property? If there's a waterfall on public property and I temporarily place a water wheel under it, is that also theft? What about holding a solar cell over top of a solar cell on public property?

> A person commits the offense of theft of services when by deception and with the intent to avoid payment he knowingly obtains services, accommodations, entertainment, or the use of personal property which is available only for compensation.

This seems to be a poor fit; it's not obvious that electrical charging at a school is a service "available only for compensation", especially if the school permits other people to charge things gratis. The mens rea bit also seems to be a bit of a stretch.

Most of the case law seems to be about people bypassing mechanisms the power company uses to bill for the provision of electricity, which fits nicely into the theft of services statute.

Either way, should make for interesting case law.
I'd love to know what tools he used!
What about janitors? I'm sure I could clean up the poop!

I think I'm the reverse of (Gattaca) Ethan Hawke in this situation.
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Yeah... if only I could get an OCaml compiler for my micro...
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Step 3: Post customer support chat transcripts
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit
Its interesting that you mention their ad breaks. For 6 months, I had no idea that spotify operated a premium service whatsoever, until they imposed the 2.5hr limit per week on my account and hit me with more ads. I subscribed immediately.
I have recommended this site to my friends on a specialized Facebook group for discussion of interesting popular topics in mathematics. But I had to pass on the warning about load times. The author should use part of his mathematical acumen to figure out how to improve the page-loading on his site, and could well use some other tips on usability.
I'm curious about the APUs handling of heavy floating point work. I do a lot of scientific/statistical computing work, and the FX series does have new extensions for just this type of work.

Of course, the best of that series also comes with a 220W TDP.
Starting a company, 4 months in.
I'm probably naive but that doesn't sound true. I've seen that kind of thing at McDonalds, et Al, but not "fast casual" like the subjects of this thread.
I'd also like to add that Orbital Sciences is another great space launch company that's often forgotten about. They're HQ is also on "Warp Dr.".
You don't need to push your changes to a staging server. Just have your computer and iPhone on the same wifi network. Then direct the iPhone's browser to your computer's IP address:port

e.g. 192.168:56:65:4000
Too bad. I recently built a PC and chose the 8-core AMD FX-8320 over the 4-core Intel i5. When it comes to multi-tasking, and even medium gaming, I definitely haven't regretted the purchase.
My favorite fast food ordering innovation was routing all drive through orders to a call center in Utah or somewhere.
As someone who's tried starting a new HN for business news (forlue.com, now defunct) after New Mogul left us I found the most difficult thing was getting a niche community to consistently submit stories.

If you know of a small group of people (ideally in the financial/money industry) who'd be interested in this, get them to use it amongst each other to trade stories during the day.

I still believe there's a market for this. It just needs to start in the hands of small group of people who'll constantly use it throughout the day to communicate with each other about business-related stories.

If you get people to consistently submit good stories, readers will follow, and then some time after, albeit slowly, commenters.
When you can pay more ("Preferred Access") to get into shorter security lines and get through security more quickly, that just serves to underscore how little actual 'security' is really present. And I say this as someone who has stood in both the slow line and the fast line - this isn't me being grumpy because "those people" go through the line faster while I'm stuck.

And now "Pre-Check" is letting us get back to the level of actual security we had pre-911: reasonably effective and not in the way. Only now it's a privilege that must be applied for and paid for.

Quite the racket.