skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, that is the origin of the word "digital":

>1650s, "pertaining to fingers," from Latin digitalis, from digitus (see digit). Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers after c.1945; in reference to recording or broadcasting, from 1960.

Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=digital
It's not hideous, it's vintage! Not as vintage as trackers though :)
Breast tissue is very sensitive, not sure electronics "permanently" being there is a great idea. And please don't downvote me just because you don't believe this could lead to higher rates of cancer - it's still not fully known and should be considered a valid concern. EDIT: A number of spiteful and/or lazy people on HN eh?
Cool but it's very heavy on the numbers and light on the labels as to what the numbers actually mean. I'd rather see BIG or very clear explanatory labels and little numbers. One way to do this would be a big label with fine print explanation under it. Or (worse) tooltips visible on hover, but show the label, not just a big decontextualized number.

Edit: OK, I'm an idiot. Every number on there essentially just means "uptime" so.. forget what I said. I misinterpreted the site as being something beyond just server uptime.
Go on, I'm interested. What kind of changes do you have in mind?
Ask HN: How did you go from self taught coder to professional developer?
It's not just ads, but anything that visually sets itself apart from the rest of the content on the page. This includes sidebars next to articles and even headings at the top of the screen, if they look too different. It's called banner blindness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness I had to deal with it in a product where the current location was shown in a purple tab at the top of the screen. Users would consistently get lost because, even when looking for location cues, they never read the text.
Graph databases and Python
3 lines?

What about the lines of code in order to control the feature? Code to charge customers who use the feature? Running analysis to test different shades of the color and how well they perform? What about time spent on the phone and sending emails answering questions from prospective and current customers?
Yeah, loderunner is one of its far inspirations, but honestly you have no idea the depth of play of Spelunky. Game designer Derek Yu made an all-time-classic only a few years ago in Gamemaker. It's a platformer-roguelike with permadeath, level generation, and a profoundly tuned sense of difficulty that rewards repeat play. There's also lots of surprises and secrets for a determined player.
That is awesome. I feel that kids today are expected to be successful but not really learn; at least here the US. Though, in my daughter's school they are learning simple circuits in the 4th grade.
Try inoreader, it keeps a full history[1] and has full-text search.

[1] http://forum.inoreader.com/index.php?/topic/27-inoreader-mai...

BTW, Google Reader kept 300,000 items per feed, not 30 days worth. Are you thinking of unread status instead? inoreader has the same limitation.
My impression is certainly that IDEs are aimed at beginners and users of more 'complex' languages like Java. (Case in point: Java has DrJava and other beginner IDEs, as well as IDEs for professionals like IntelliJ.)Indeed, I was referring to the the claim of the OP that "you don't need to mess with setting things up", which, to me, seemed to imply that it was a significant hurdle to get started with Haskell using an editor and ghci.

Syntax highlighting is part of any editor that is aimed at programmers, the interpreter does a great job highlighting errors, version control is done with git, and there is plethora of documentation on Haskell available too. Normally, ghci satisfies that need as well.
For an interesting take on "Modern Bash" I came across this a few months ago, from the deliciously twisted genius that is Ingy döt Net: https://github.com/ingydotnet/bpan-bash
It's really hard to tell what the circle thing means at a glance. So much guesswork is required from the user.
I am so glad to see there are people in the world that actually understand how US works.
At this point, it's much easier to figure out how to pay for it than it is to revamp the entire system and stop some powerful players from making as much money as they do. It's much better to have this than to work towards fixing a societal problem for decades and get no where while doing so.
Circular charts are overrated. They are very hard to read.
When I first tried this, years ago, I found it too awkward. I eventually settled on using my thumbs for five, and my fingers for single digits (like a Japanese abacus).

This feels reasonably comfortable to me, is easy to use, and covers a sufficient range of numbers for my needs.
I think you missed the point. The point is that although it's technically very easy to 'highlight some job postings on the list, that simple upsell can generate hundreds of dollars a month.

This was not intended to be a literal guide on how to make $800 in 3 lines of code.
Ask HN: What is the easiest point of entry in robotics?
Do you know any successful robotics startups? What is the easiest way to enter robotics?
Or 69!
That article indicates a 90% cure rate.

$84k for a 90% cure to Hep-C is peanuts when compared to the alternative of liver transplant and chronic hospitalizations.
>We've seen this before in science, with antibiotics. A few major, early wins followed by the long silence of failure, due to second-order adaptation by cells.

I would hardly call antibiotics a "long silence of failure" - they are still pretty goddamn effective, even if they aren't quite as effective as they once were.
Got a super low paid almost intern-type job at a very respected institution. Once that was on my resume, people didn't care (and I sure didn't go out of my way to tell them... I would if they asked, but they never asked) how low level the job was... they just saw the respected institution name and I was golden for the next step.

Also had published some software that got me the first couple jobs. Publishing some software (open source, or an app in an app store) is a great way to get the credibility you need.

If these are not an option, you could work for a friend, long enough to get something you can point to as yours.
I take that as an indication that I am correct. There are the examples of General Relativity and Grigory Perelman's solution of the Poincare Conjecture, not to mention recent advances on the twin prime conjecture.
Matches, Bonfires, and the Disposability of Startups
13/14 - HTML/CSS - Angelfire - This turned quickly into BASIC for TI graphing calculators. Wasn't until 17ish that I started learning VB, Java, and PHP. Now I focus mostly on Ruby & JS.

Programming was always fun for me because I could build useful things that people use. It was great to write helpful formula apps for the calculator and give them away to friends. Same went for helping people with simple web sites and eventually applications.
Austerity! Thats a good joke if I ever saw one! The governments before Abe have been endlessly building airports, dams, roads, train lines just like in the old days. And explain me how you end up with 350 percents of GDP of debt if you have a policy of austerity. Japan s budget has been out of balance for 20 years. If you want to support Keynes you will need to find something a lot more convincing.
I thought the article was just trying to make a point about charging based on how much work it takes vs charging what people will pay.
Does anyone here have any good guides/articles about the structure of the artificial network? At university I solved simple problems in a course with ANs, but the structure of my network (hidden layers, how they were connected etc.) were basically just try/fail until I achieved ok results.
Thank goodness for HN to keep us abreast of these developments.
I like how this submission filters itself
Pervert? You may be projecting your nerd hate a bit.

Howard is the only pervert.
OclHashcat v1.00
I think Doug Engelbart deserves credit for introducing the chord keyboard, which he demonstrated in "The Mother of All Demos", not a fictional book written by that homophobic anti-American bigoted foaming at the mouth lunatic Mormon cult member who sits on the board of directors of the National Organization for Marriage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs http://americablog.com/2009/04/mormon-leader-of-nom-appears-...

I own an original Enbelbart chord keyboard and mouse set. It was given to me by a friend who worked at SRI, who maintained Doug's PDP-10 that he used to give demos of his work. Some day I hope to hook them up to an Arduino, so I can use them on a more portable computer that a PDP-10!
AD is a string of junior high puns and callbacks/inside-jokes. Smart jokes on a teenager scale, I suppose.
>stretching things beyond their limits.

There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.
Being able to join documents in a query would be very useful in mongo. That is promising to hear that ArangoDB had that feature.
Open Garden already does this. Plug and chug. Pretty straight forward.
Are you saying that antibiotics were a failure?

While anti-retroviral therapy for HIV/AID does not cure the disease, it has transformed a diagnosis that would otherwise have been a death sentence into a manageable illness.

If a "first order" treatment for cancer only extends lives by a few years or even decades, how is that not progress?
Congrats on shipping! Have you considered adding your list of examples above to the README as well?
Eratosthenes calculates Earth's circumference [video]
"I completely agree that this generation does the same peer comparisons, it's just that our metric is influence and "disrupting" the status quo rather than accumulation of wealth (though its often tough to divorce those things)."

Sure but is that the case because you all actually organically think that way or because the peer group exhibits those tendencies and make you think that way? Further perhaps you (I mean the group not the individual where ymmv) grew up with more so they aren't as hungry or needing material goods?

When we were growing up with got like 2 toys per year. Birthday and holiday. Or close to it. And we were middle class not poor. And there weren't many toys to begin with. Parents in general were more strict and didn't spoil kids. And you didn't go out to eat practically ever (weren't that many restaurants like today) and tv was black and white and not much entertainment. So there weren't as many distractions. So money was a way to have more fun. Oh and another thing was you needed money because you were raised where your parents controlled everything and weren't your friend or someone you would hang with.

Want to make it clear that of course there were individual exceptions to anything that I've said above. But things were different and that difference meant you ended up having different needs and values.

When I was a kid my dad payed for 1/2 of the money to buy me a tty that I could use to dial up to the time share. The fact that he even agreed to do that was a big deal. I had to work and make 1/2 the money but felt lucky that he was willing to help me out. By comparison I just bought my daughter a macbook air and didn't even think twice about it. Even got her the extra memory and larger flash drive.
Thanks! Nothing special just an Ajax call to the rotten tomatoes API.
Type safe refactoring is a big reason to use an ide over just an editor.
And anything remade in pure CSS3.
Rogue Android Gaming app that steals WhatsApp conversations
My dad taught me how to count like this when I was a child. Only he taught me to use my thumb as the 16 place, which makes it easier to count quickly in my opinion.
Okay. So now it sounds like you believe it's not extralegal because if it was extralegal something would have been done about it already.

I find your level of faith in the justice system disturbing. Even the ability of rich corporations to rectify any sort of judicial or systematic abuse is quite limited (and God help you if you're an ordinary human being). This has been especially the case (but not exclusively the case) under our current administration: the Chrysler bankruptcy, for instance, where UAW pensions were granted seniority over bondholders in an inversion of all previous law and precedent. What are you going to do about it? Sue the government?

Moreover, there is a price to fighting back. If Apple were to seek the legal action, what's to stop them from being investigated again on trumped-up charges as a pure act of revenge?

(Next thing you'll tell me is that NSA wiretapping everyone and their dog is clearly 100% fourth-amendment legal because if it were illegal the courts would have shut it down already.)
Cache link seeing as the server appears to have been hammered by HN:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MGUqZp5...
The parent to your reply has no idea what he/she is talking about. The lost decade has nothing to do with austerity and was not, in any conceivable way, a period of austerity.

It was never claimed to be as such, and nobody has ever mistaken it as such. Original comment is just confused/misinformed.
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There is one really good point in the post: expectations.

I am naturally an owl. I prefer staying up late, I love sitting in the dark at 2 or 3am. Have no problem if I have to do some extra work and stay up to 5am.

But it sucks that if I wake up at around noon, and start working at 3pm. At 5pm, when going for lunch, and the city is full of traffic jams, I think 'damn they all are going home and I just started'. It gets harder at winter because I live in north England so I hardly get any sun light. It's harder even more, because I live with my gf in a studio and sometimes wake her up at some random time by eating or typing.

So while I naturally enjoy sitting to late, I have to get up earlier because, well, I don't live in isolation.
I think that's basically it. If you want to do a lot of work you can do somethings with cross validation (see which parameters perform the best), but that's a form of automatic try/fail
But it is for the 'business concept', and not for changing code customers are paying. Code is already written, it is just a matter for switch-on and switch-off ... which is again max. 3 minutes job.

How many times companies sell same product? They are not rewriting the code, just sending you a copy - zero effort
It's really interesting to click through the people who post these kinds of comments and see they only ever post in Bitcoin-related threads.

Aside: How much of your savings did you dump into it?
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You are right, Abid. No info shared about how much time takes to complete all the 'certification exams' present also in other workforce-on-demand platforms, that I tell, they took some considerable part of your time.

2012, working +1200 hours, was not my working best year. I sacrified a lot of my (free?)time to apply for new jobs, get new contracts, make internal research on how to improve my opportunities of having more employers interested in me. Working stituation sometimes overexceed my capacity to manage it, and I experienced an anxiety attack mainly produced by having almost no disconnection time.

Future is now and working on remote is possible and a great opportunity. Nonetheless, working on remote should not imply to low insanely your rates just for the fact that you are working from other place (and you are not consuming office supplies, office space). It's just question of learning how to deal with a new situation of selling your services to someone that is just contacting you virtually.

And no, imho, it was not sustainable to work like this. At least, not with those rates.

I'm planning to talk about this widely in the newsletter, feel free to join it.
I would say developed. Innovation demands people having some time, some money and some ambition to create new things.

Hard to know, but i think the next big thing always come from USA, Europe or Japan. The only exception is China that create their own big things.
This is hilarious! I wish I could really write code that fast.

Most of my actual coding is head-scratching and browsing documentation.
It's not fair to just remove the laugh track, you need to re edit to change the pacing to avoid the silence.
IOS App c3n play: A new way to interact with music
There is another trick, which yields 12 digits per hand.

Using your thumb, tap each of the 3 joints of your fingers as you count, starting from the base. Go from your index finger to the pinky. If you need more, just wrap around and continue counting.
If anyone is interested, I have a working neural net implementation https://github.com/btracey/nnet . I don't make any stability promises (especially on the training routines, that's a mess at the moment), but sometimes it's nice to see code. The core of the net is https://github.com/btracey/nnet/blob/master/nnet/functions.g... and https://github.com/btracey/nnet/blob/master/nnet/nnet.go
"but it is far from a failure"

CS-wise (and design-wise), it's very much a failure. It's a market success, though - just like VHS was, many years ago. ;-)
Different job applications. I know for a real and accurate a/b test, those job applications should be the same, but it was not like that.
On the stability, the point is that if you'd like to use it you should fork it.
Does anyone know if this can be applied to other cancers too? I think they only mentioned leukemia, but they seemed to imply that it would be applicable to other cancers. But would the therapy have to be for each cancer or broadly for all cancers? And I am guessing they would have to choose between this and chemo, since I think chemo hurts your immune system. And that would be a difficult choice, no?
Females, at least where I'm from, regularly keep things in their bra such as cell phones. It never ceases to amaze me when a phone suddenly materializes from seemingly nowhere. Given that I feel they would hardly be opposed to some thin embedded electronics in the bra.
Also Ousterhout with Tcl/TK. Interestingly, he was an OS researcher not a language academic, and he made the language to solve problems he had, not to be academically interesting.
Your message got cut off.
Israeli former security chief: failure to end conflict bigger threat than Iran
"Lol!"

I think you're in the wrong place. Reddit is this way.
I suspect toughing out their demographic problem will prove better in the long run than opening the can of worms that comes with immigration.

And maybe they can institute a program like Israel's to encourage Japanese nationals living overseas to return to Japan.
Using whole fingers for binary is more useful on a table or when trying to remember numbers.

On the go, I find myself using the finger-bone counting method, where you use your thumb to point to each of your finger bones (3 per finger) allowing you to count 12 on a hand. This probably has a name since it's so easy. And 12 has lots of really nice factors when doing math on the go.

If you point at the joints plus the tip of each finger, you have 4 positions per finger (i.e., nibbles), which can be useful for working through power-of-2 stuff.
Forcing people to pay for health insurance they don't want to drive down the cost of healthcare seems backwards. The pressure should be on insurance companies to make insurance more appealing.
Why Omaha, and why $6000? DesMoines @startupcity with a commitment to pay 10% post tax earnings for the next two years on pay over $50k would be much better. @startupcity is looking for a new round of funding.
Hungary doesn't. I live here.
Hell itself isn't such a bad place, either. All the interesting people will be there.
The problem is we need less government intrusion not more we don't need hoops and red tape, red tape costs more, i simply purpose a guaranteed basic income so people who really need help don't feel like charity cases, charity cases act like charity cases because they have no hope for anything better.
You are missing the whole point. What they are selling is people's attention. And they have it. If I did the same thing even for free, I doubt I would get as much hits as they do. Once you have people's attention then you can try stuff like this. This is a pretty stupid post. Honestly. It lacks a point.
That's fair.

If you have any budget for marketing, I do recommend you give paid advertising another shot. Just not Reddit. Try AdWords, but do some basic reading about it first to increase the likelihood of a decent first campaign.
Moderna bash/shell language? check out Window's Power Shell [1]. The one shell scripting language what I would use and the only of its type that its syntax don't scare me...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
hyperparameter search is a solution. See http://jmlr.org/papers/v13/bergstra12a.html and http://jaberg.github.io/hyperopt/
You are correct that each variable is considered conditionally independent of the other variables given the cluster assignment. CrossCat learns additive models and correlations between continuous variables by using many clusters (the clusters don't necessarily have meaningful real-world interpretations).
Yes, I have seen this too. I'm sure they're not aware of or perhaps don't believe the studies showing that there's increased cancer around the area where heavy cellphone use it as. Sure, you can argue they're not using the phone - however phones more and more actively push and receive data.
I write scala in an IDE and I am not a beginner
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/skills-dont-pay-t...
You are positing infinite mass and energy?
It was zsh emulating csh. they messed up by not using the almquist shell like the other BSDs.
Something I've been meaning to do for a while is to write an analytic renderer that evaluates the light equation. Basically, it would be a program that takes in analytic geometric data and spits out an equation (or a system of equations) that can be evaluated in Mathematica / Maxima. The runtime complexity would be horrible, but at least it would give mathematically perfect, noiseless results. Or a hybrid approach could work, too (get the equations, do a series approximation, sample the polynomial or whatever else you end up with).

To anyone looking to get into graphics - I strongly recommend writing a toy scanline raytracer - it's a great learning experience.
I want to clarify that the students themselves never end up giving Hacker School money. If a company hires a student through Hacker School, the company pays a recruiting fee to Hacker School. Students pay nothing.
Better than your faded light text, dude. Please provide contrast! ;)
A very good source of information, and tutorials with source code is http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/contents.html
The quantum computer revolution BlackBerry founder is betting on
Study confirms sharks return to their own birthplace to give birth
It's a common misconception that a startup describing itself as x of/for y is a sign of lack of originality.

A lot of original ideas-- perhaps most good original ideas-- are initially conceived of as x of/for y. Plus it is a good tactic, which we actively encourage, for startups to describe themselves in those terms initially. It may not describe a startup perfectly, but it's the the most information you can convey in one sentence.

Airbnb itself described itself as "Ebay for space" during YC. Viaweb was "the Microsoft Word of Ecommerce." When we first thought of the idea of a web app, we thought of it (not merely described it, but thought of it) as using the browser as an xterm.

I should write an essay about this. This misconception is like some unkillable zombie idea.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/technology...