skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another serious problem with news is its schedule. A daily paper must publish something every day, even if nothing important has happened. An hourly newscast is worse.

Totally agree. OTOH many e-newspapers have unlimited capacity of producing news like "man eaten by alligator", "bus crash in Bolivia" etc., every hour, updating their homepage and moving all the articles down the list (including the important ones). Here the newness is taken to its extremes. Some solution is the "most read" list, however it also often consists of the sensationalist stories.

A good e-newspaper which updates just once a day would be a great thing.
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"If you have cable companies, landline broadband, wifi, and other broadband providers fighting for your service, this is a much less big deal. It's stupid scare mongering"

I live in a suburban area. Not too far from metropolitan. and close to (5miles) to a major ivy league university. Lets see my options:
verizon dsl (3mbs to 6mbs) - 54$
optimum - (15mbs but I barely get 1mbps at peak) 54$ soon to be 60$
wifi - sprint (4g/3g speeds, can say I get around 1 to 2 mbps)- 54$ for 4GB.

dslextreme (3mbs) for 24.99$

For me the best value for my money is dslextreme. If that option is taken away, then I don't really have much chioce because very one else is colluded and price is fixed in some private inter company meetings.
So you are the one without any real facts just discrediting the real issues the article points out.
I wanted to try it using my Github account, but it is asking for very broad permissions. Why does it need those? For example: it wants permission to write my private email addresses.
http://www.cpap.com/productpage/disposable-white-filters-res...

http://www.cpap.com/productpage/probasics-zzz-mask-sg-full-f...
I think the parent is saying that without the ability to offer better service, via better photography than the competition, the benefits do not out way the cost for his use case.
> There is nothing inherently evil in surveillance. In and of itself it's a neutral thing. It's what you do with it that is evil or good.

This is incorrect, surveillance (observation) is inherently participatory. It is not a neutral act.
Yeah Mint has so many flaws and warts but without the backend integrations it would be very tough to create a competitor.

There was a good article a couple of years back about why Wesabe lost to Mint[1], written by one of the Wesabe co-founders. The biggest issue according to him was that they chose to write their own integrations instead of partnering with Yodlee.

Since that time, Mint has left the Yodlee platform, but it gave them a first-mover advantage that no one has been able to overcome.

[1] http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint/
Only about half of those who registered for a course ever viewed a lecture. If this were a physical class were only 50% ever attended a lecture and only 4% cleared the class, it would be a disaster scenario.

The key issue I feel is improving the benefits of completing a course and the way the course is delivered. A physical class in a college or private course for entrance tests like Gmat see a significantly higher degree of engagement and follow through because of very clear benefits. They are a mean to an end - be it getting a job on completing college or getting admission into a college after taking Gmat. With the MOOCs, there is no recognized benefit which would really matter for the larger audience. Most of them sign up because its available for free. Having said that I have also heard of the gym subscription syndrome in case of paid online courses - paid the fee but rarely saw a video/performed a task or didn't utilize the service completely.

The second and a more bigger problem is the way the courses are conducted. Learning is a very social experience. Most of us done all our learning in group settings in schools, colleges, and even at work place. The best lectures/classes were usually highly entertaining/engaging and generated high degree of student interaction. MOOCs fail in most of them with no scope for the mentors/instructors to scope the students and improv on their presentation. Additionally, there is hardly any student interaction. The biggest benefit of any offline class were the networking and relationship building opportunities. Its very difficult and superficial in cases of MOOCs.

I guess some form of middle path (combination of online/offline classes) will lead to larger interest levels.
Love it. Keeping JavaScript libraries up to date in Rails can be a real pain and the sprockets solution just isn't all that great. I like how you have approached this with a dead simple approach to implementation and integrating with the existing tooling (bundler/Gemfile). Good work!
I totally agree. It would be even better to just toggle between altcoins.
HOLY SHIT - The Macbook charger double wrap
All these years and I never knew about the double wrap!? I feel so stupid.
So the proper solution is to sit in the middle of a multi-screen panopticon and use multiple cameras on the telepresence device. People looking at the front of you would "see" you face left to look at something to the left, for example. You'd still have to turn the machine to face people properly if you wanted to make "eye contact".

Headphones would probably be a big help though.
I replied same time as you did, but I didn't even notice that they were asking for that. Once I saw "Read and Write private repos" I closed the tab.
Hipsters drive AMC Pacers these days? How not surprising:

http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1...
The maker/producer/distributor should provide advertising materials and they usually do. The system where every little shop selling the same thing takes its own photos of the product is terribly inefficient.
> She's a woman and the CEO of a major website

No, she's the CEO of a significant corporation.
This patent is ridiculous for sure.

But let's not bash Yogaglo; it could be a defensive patent for all we know. In a land where ridiculous patent grants are the norm, businesses have an incentive to file patents to protect themselves from patent trolls.

What deserves our ire is the patent system.

Edit: Thanks for the correction pizza234. The article was not accessible (server HNed I guess). And I assumed that the patent was granted recently enough that benefit of doubt can be given to Yogaglo.
Yes, so the question is: if Valve is creating an Ubuntu derivative will they stay with X11 when Ubuntu switches to Mir?

As it is now, Steam is easy to install on Ubuntu, and possible, but maybe a bit of a pain for other distros, depending on which one. It would be sad if Steam eventually only worked well on SteamOS, because of fragmentation in the graphics stack. If I wanted to choose my OS solely on the basis of what works well for gaming, I would be running Windows.

Then again maybe Intel and Valve will sort of bring some adult supervision to the distros by putting some pressure on everyone to pick one graphics stack and live with it. I'm not sure whether I think this is a good thing or not.
"A good engineer can PM his own work..."

Except that PM is about hell of a lot more than PMing the work of an engineer. It is called "Product" management for a reason. Dealing with engineers is just 1 aspect of it.
Read the economist a lot while I was studying for my undergrad. Never felt more informed, and have never found a more balanced presentation of things, imho.

Nowadays I read the guardian website and watch RT sometimes. But I think I'll go back to the economist soon.
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Instagram announces Instagram Direct
I suppose I just can't imagine being content at being ignorant of the world. By that principle surely it's also worthless to learn about world history?
Theresa, is that you?!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
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Yeah but the internet has also made it easier to filter out news you don't like. Back in the day, your local newspaper had to appeal to a general audience, and contained editorials from people with many perspectives. Now a days, you can chose to only consume news you agree with. If you're a conservative, you can read Drudge Report and Fox News Online without ever having to encounter a liberal viewpoint (except as the target of mockery). Liberals can get all their news from Daily Koz and MSNBC.com in the same fashion.
Why TV News is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars - by C.P.P. Grey

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-...
Not all coins are so dependent on mining, proof of work is an option, it's not the only only option. Proof of stake exists as well.
I don't think this will impact SnapChat at all.

I think people use SnapChat because it's a silo disconnected from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
You're ecosystem could be bigger, people will create plugins faster...

Your site will always be referenced as the source.. You could even make money % on plugin sales :)

But you have to get popular first. That's main problem #1 :)
Former Google Exec Appointed Deputy Director of the USPTO
Agreed, if anything, this seems to "compete" more with Kik Messaging.
Seems like they pursued the wrong kind of IP protection; the patent office should have denied the application and referred them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress .
The mainstream media is a tool for controlling us. As a random example, a tragic school shooting happens, and the media will be chock-full of people demanding more gun control, with maybe a couple of voices of moderation in between.

It only takes a moment's thought to realize that guns don't actually kill people - people do, so why are they whipping people into a gun control frenzy? I believe there was something about a militia in the Constitution..
How to not waste money on retargeting ads for your SaaS product.
Sir Ian, nice try, but we know it's you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Lobban
Instagram Introduces Private Messaging
Thank you for pointing this out. Obviously we do not need such broad permissions.

You can always use fox/codebrag and 2 other user/pass combinations listed on the login page. They do not require GitHub at all.
Great explanation. I would add that a written-off defaulted loan does destroy money. Hence the need for the fed to create money when the private banks destroy it.

MZM from St. Louis FRED: research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=MZMNS&log_scales=Left
It's fine if it doesn't resonate with you, but that's evidently because your perspective is limited by your relatively good fortune.

"Dystopia" wouldn't seem so contrived to residents of East Germany under the Stasi. We're not speaking in hypotheticals. There is precedent for societies using the available technology to erode privacy as much as possible.

"Enemies trying to ruin lives" wouldn't seem so contrived to some people who've had abusive, stalker exes. Read about some of the things people do for personal vendettas. It may not have happened to you, but it probably happened to somebody you know.

"I think what the author is trying to say is that if you live an open life with few secrets, then your life will be less stressful." Until someone unexpectedly uses your personal information to materially harm your well-being. Then your life becomes much more stressful.
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It looks like this is a self-hosted solution like ReviewBoard. I was curious to know the installation requirements, specifically what language it was written in. I didn't see that on your site, and I didn't want to download it to find out. That'd be a nice thing to add to the faq.

The demo looks very nice. Slick UI, and I like the ansi/8-bit art motif! Congrats on 1.0.
Kleiner Perkins debuts Founder Education Program ProductWorks
Yes. Audio Edition is a word-for-word reading of the print edition. Economist Radio looks like it has the random other audio things they do (there's also a podcast on iTunes with those sorts of things)
Keynude is a naked theme for Apple Keynote. 
Grey shapes, flat charts, no yucky fills.
Your description of 'naked shorting' isn't accurate. Options are derivatives based on an underlying (BTC in this case). Short selling is the process of borrowing the assets you would like to short (for a fee) from another party and selling the them effectively leaving you with a negative position. If you decide to cover your position or if the lender demands you return the loaned instruments, you will have to buy back the assets. This is the standard process of shorting and you will usually not wait to cover until you get a margin call from your broker, but do it if the trade doesn't work out. 'Naked' short selling is the same process, except you never borrow the assets in the first place. You effectively sell something that you don't have. This is possible if don't have to deliver the sold assets immediately, but it will eventually lead to a 'failure to deliver'. This practice is usually illegal and your broker won't let you engage in it.
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How do I spinoff my startup?
My division of the company I work for is currently working and acting like a separate entity of the parent company. I'd like to fully spinoff, own, and run with it. What questions do I need to start answering to figure out what my next step is? Thanks.
Just updated, and I was able to send posts to users without the update. I believe it queues messages for when they update.
I personally prefer Ribbon (http://ribbon.co), but this will probably be interesting
Twitter DM vs Instagram Direct...
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I think that the left/right distinction is silly myself.

You're right, it's totally ridiculous. The whole thing is rooted in shit that dates back to before the French Revolution[1], and there's no real connection whatsoever between the "left" and "right" of the French Assembly and modern political views.

How absurd is it? Just read this:

There is general consensus that the Left includes progressives, communists, social-liberals, greens, social-democrats, socialists, democratic-socialists, civil-libertarians (as in "social-libertarians"; not to be confused with the right's "economic-libertarians"), secularists, and anarchists, and that the Right includes conservatives, reactionaries, neoconservatives, capitalists, neoliberals, economic-libertarians (not to be confused with the left's "civil-libertarians"), social-authoritarians, monarchists, theocrats, nationalists, Nazis (including neo-Nazis) and fascists.

It takes anybody with even half a brain about .0002 seconds to realize that any sort of ontology that lumps "neoconservatives" and "economic libertarians" (which basically corresponds with "US style libertarianism") in the same bin, or that lumps "anarchists" with "democratic socialists", or that lumps pretty much any kind of "libertarian" along with "monarchists" and "theocrats", is totally useless.

In modern terms, there is no "right" and there is no "left". There are just people haphazardly throwing around archaic labels because they either A. have a vague notion that the label confers some sort of appealing "vibe" and want to leverage it to advance their cause, or B. have a vague notion that the label will be seen as a pejorative and want to use it to put their opposition in a bad light.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_politics
You can always take out a bitcoin loan for a standard short. That has no counter-party risk (on your end). Also, Coinsetter is an US startup that will allow shorting and has a lower amount of counter-party risk, IMO.
Does anyone else have the problem of teaching SQL to business people who aren't necessarily that technical but still need to run reports?

I have found direct access to run queries is a very powerful tool but teaching SQL is tough to people who are not that technical.
You can think of it like that. It's a Python -> Machine Code compiler based on LLVM, and it uses Numpy types (and Blaze types) to do type inference on numerical and data transformation functions.

http://numba.pydata.org/
Not the move I expected. POS integration has always been a huge challenge so I guess they're saying their online experience is good enough to shift focus away? It will be interesting to see how this move pans out.
EY: 'Bitcoin has the potential to be a game-changer'
Good work Ville, let me know when you post those slides/writeup. :-)
>> It allows the UK to monitor "in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom" which seems a little broad!

You're right, that is a bit broad. "In the interests of the UK's ruling class" would be more accurate.
You're running into the fact that Postgres doesn't automatically cast ints to floats - so 1/50 = 0. Try using 1.0/50.0 instead.
Where did you even see the date ... It's not apparent on my phone but I remember reading about this here on HN as well.
I don't think so this idea is in Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985). A must read.
News is terrible for me at least. For stress related reasons I decided at the beginning of 2013 that I would try and avoid daily contact with news (outside of anything important enough to percolate up HN, reddit and FB). I'm much more relaxed and less stressed and find that in casual conversation I'm about as up-to-date on important events as most people I know.

Recently I was looking for information on something and ended up on CNN.com and was awestruck at how much just absolutely unnewsworthy garbage filled the pages. Curious I looked around at other new sites to see if they were all worse than I remember and yes, pretty much they were full of gossip, misinformation and obvious fear mongering.

No thanks, I like this new system better.
Mini-Heroku for $5/Month and many hours of update the system, find errors, analyse logs, ...

For a small test system ok / or hobby project, but not for a productive usage.
I think everyone here should post a comment on their announcement telling them how absurd this is. What it means for our nation as a whole, not just yoga videos. Keep the comments clean though, no reason to go all road rage on them.

http://www.yogaglo.com/blog/2013/09/yogaglo-response-to-toda...
>But schemas are a YAGNI 99% of the time feature in those.

What? I literally have only ever written one web app that didn't use multiple schemas, and that was a simple blog. I think you are confusing "I don't bother to use X" with "X isn't very useful".
Unfortunately not:

> On September 23rd, Yoga International broke the news that they (among others) had received a cease-and-desist letter from another website which also offers yoga videos for streaming (soon revealed to be YogaGlo)

so, feel free to bash it.
I did. No TV thru high school, minimal later, culminating in full-slate cable service, then dumped it all for nothing more than an occasional DVD. Have no idea how any TV-watchers get anything done, as I'm working (home chores included) flat-out 18 hours a day and feel I can barely keep up with life.
> I can't wait for a day when we get a centralized, non-profit, publish/subscribe consumer service for all the papers that ever get published by major research universities (with a good search tool)

You probably know about this already, but if you're interested in anything biomedical in nature, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface to the MEDLINE database (also managed by the NLM) is exactly what you describe: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database that indexes all of the abstracts going back to the 1960s from literally every major (and almost all minor) journals that do anything even remotely related to biomedicine, and also include a surprising number of physics and CS journals. It features a robust and easy-to-use API, and has since the 1990s. All MEDLINE entries include obvious bibliographic metadata (titles, authors, abstracts, dates, etc.) but also include human-curated index headings, which makes searching way easier. PubMed's interface makes it easy to construct complicated and accurate queries, and the NLM offers online access to their reference librarians, as well.

Furthermore, any published research that is funded by the US National Institutes of Health has to have its full text (including figures, references, etc.) posted to PubMed Central (PMC), which is another online database that the NLM maintains. This is an actual law- if you get money from the NIH, your publications have to end up in PMC following a short embargo period- I think it's about six months post-publication?

All of the PMC content is available free of charge, and it also has an API. It is not a complete full-text mirror of MEDLINE, because not everything in MEDLINE was NIH-funded, but for research going back over the last 7-10 years or so it is often surprisingly complete.

This is one area where biomedicine is way ahead of computer science. As somebody who's worked a lot in both fields, I definitely find myself missing PubMed whenever I need to look for CS literature...

As an aside, the National Library of Medicine is truly one of the hidden jewels of the US government. Its budget is tiny, but it somehow manages to produce fabulous work and performs a vital service for the research community. And almost nobody has heard of it!
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Dan Bilzerian does not make a living playing online. His dad was a corporate raider and fraudster and owes the government over $100mm which just magically disappeared. It isn't a stretch to believe the very public major wins and losses of Dan are simply a front to launder some of that money back.

As to your question, if you live in the US, it is nearly impossible to start today and make a living because of the regulations which drove most operators out of the market.

If you don't have connections here, you could study your ads off and play small stakes on the American sites (do NOT play on lock, they are not liquid) until you can clearly sustain yourself at ramen profitability and then move abroad to access the big sites with a wider game variety.

Poker doesn't require very complex math in order to be successful, it requires discipline and deliberate practice. Pick a game that interests you, find a book that teaches the fundamentals and read that several times and take notes. Start playing and review all of your sessions once you finish. Find what you need to improve and set goals for the next session, then repeat that.

When you have a hard time finding places for improvement, sign up to one of the big video training sites and study their videos like a book and follow the same reviewing process. When that seems to run its course, hire a skilled coach that has good reviews and results. Always continue trying to improve.

If you only want to do this to become rich, then stop now. I have friends that have achieved a very high level of success and live amazing lives (one is leaving Vegas now to go to Australia for three months and then either to Macau or back to Vegas), but they are essentially outliers. For most, it never amounts to anything. For most of those that put the effort in, it can be a good supplemental income. For a few of those, it can be a job that allows for great freedom. And for a handful of those, it is a way to get rich.
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Also, America doesn't have a "loser pays" system, otherwise known as the English Rule. Both parties are responsible for their own costs whether they win or lose under the American Rule. This means that just the threat of a lawsuit is an automatic expense, and winning in court also means losing, just losing less severely. This is generally why parties are so keen to settle, even if they believe they could win in court so as to limit their losses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_%28attorney%27s_f...
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Well, it is probably just language gap. I never heard of artisan sandwiches and pizzas ;)
I don't use Google docs/sheets/gmail/... due to their terms of service. Why give Google a perpetual right to do anything they want with any content put in a Google app?
https://www.google.com/google-d-s/terms.html