skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have looked all over. I see tons of free courses and some fairly expensive courses ($2,000 range). I know there are some good online community college class for $500- $1,000. It's not my money, but I want to treat it like it is.

Thanks!
My main quibble with this article is that a lot of the "revolutionary data" is already known and used. Farmers know the yield others are getting. Elevators are reporting what they are taking in to big companies doing investing. Satellite pictures and some aircraft pictures are already used.

The image of the farmer as a simple, non-tech person is pretty pathetic. The current generation of farmers are pretty sophisticated. You cannot make it this far without being that. The amount of data a farmer wants is pretty impressive.

The JD thing in the article is the newest and I'm not sure its going to be a ongoing proposition if the farmers don't benefit financially from their data. A lot of farmers run their combines all harvest by starting them in the south and working their way north as the harvest progresses. You have to pay for a vehicle that makes most high-end sports cars look cheap. They also aren't the cheapest thing to maintain. That harvest run of data is know to the farmer and would be worth some cash.
You can fork the registry code [1]. We work in a regulated industry (healthcare) and need excellent access controls and auditing/logging. Forking the registry and rolling our own is possible, but not something we want to spend time on. So we looked around for private registries. We went with Quay [2] and have been really happy. They're responsive, performant, and on top of enterprise-level requirements.

[1] http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/how-to-use-your-own-registry/
[2] https://quay.io/
very nice, thanks. just a note - for some reason when I'm using it (safari OS X), the map keeps rendering on the bottom of the controls so you can't adjust the parameters and see the map at the same time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6902641
The hidden premise of that, of course, is that we're done studying physics. Or the brain.
Don't aim so low. How about the "Top 4,000 over 40"?
HTML5stac provides the complete backend, including the models and REST APIs to go with it. And it's full-stack JavaScript too, both on the client and server.

The demo app does in fact using Backbone+Bootstrap.

What HTML5stac makes dead simple for you is mapping your backend data models to Backbone Collections. In addition, we have responsive images, and adaptive templates, built into the framework.
Twitter's Open Source Code of Conduct
Why Linux is badass : because it must be.
One second everyone, someone's DOSing us... we'll be up again shortly.
I'll take a look at that, thanks.
BCC is pretty close to the social dynamics of in-person conversations that sound like: "Don't tell <person> I told you but FYI ...".
Yoga at its epitome is a lifestyle, a way of life - a philosophy of how to live. Business politics and yoga a lot of the time don't mix - that's the simple answer. Lots of business-minded people run businesses ... I'd imagine most do or are in charge of them. There can be issues though when heart or compassion isn't included in it. Example: Do you make money by hurting people or allowing people to get hurt? Is that a good business to be in or a bad one? What kind of people do you think would make money in that type of business? People with heart and empathy or more on the business-minded-lacking-empathy side?
> Why do I care if there is a "constant, learnable latency", as long as each latency is reasonable?

Because people would rather have slower and more predictable than faster and less predictable. Especially when it comes to user interface actions where things get pushed down into muscle memory.
The problem isn't that the "busy person" is too busy to respond, it's that the "busy person" did not request to be involved and should be forced to be the bearer of the bad news.
I found the first parts of your comment interesting.

Writing for myself, I'm definitely antagonistic about feminism because I feel antagonized by it, e.g. being subjected to shaming for 'being a tool of The Patriarchy'.
Earth at Night (2012)
On what do you base your assumption when you say nobody would recommend Scala as a replacement for Java? Scala has actually taken great pains to maintain seemless Java interop for this very reason.

It IS an improvement on/replacement for Java in most situations.
As far as scams go, this isn't the worst idea, but I think the amount of 0.05 (although clearly meant to attract as many buyers as possible) is too low to be plausible. We're talking around 10,000$ here.

Also, 11.73268271 BTC is suspiciously precise. I wonder, if you lost the password to a wallet, can you easily know the amount in it?
I get the feeling that people have repeated the phrase "corporate farm" so often and don't really get what that stats you pointed out mean. It has the word "corporate" so it is bad, but you would have to be stupid beyond belief not to incorporate a modern farm even if it is a hobby farm. You sell something, you incorporate.
It is and it isn't. Here in Vancouver (Canada) I occasionally see meetups at GrowLab (our off-brand Canadian Y Combinator) for e.g. 'innovators under 30'. Presumably there is at least one such event being held elsewhere in the world, meaning it's not local to the Canadian tech scene. Moreover, if it's sculpting your networking opportunities, it's definitely more than a 'hook'.

Journalistic hooks are a lot like API hooks. They point the ways to power.
Jason Fried: 37signals Will Be Simplifying Its Product Line in 2014
You already understand there are different kinds. Some people shut down under fairly minimal pressure/stress, especially if their lives are already busy. I'm with you, but I've come to realize the importance of following such rules in order to keep things smooth ultimately for myself.
>Unfortunately, they never seem to provide proof that X exists, or is true

I think we can forgive Deutsch for this, because he's claiming that creativity is part of an unsolved philosophical problem. Which means we don't know how to think about it yet. We'll know when when we do know how to think about it because there'll suddenly arise answerable questions, proofs, definitions, and whatnot.

Unfortunately the Turing Test can't cut through the philosophical wrangling because, for example, imitating a human being successfully is not the same thing as evidence of thinking. Without an explanatory theory we wouldn't even know how to interpret the relevant evidence
Using "feminism" is a poor choice; I suspect that it was deliberately chosen because it's a loaded word.
There is an interesting Kaggle competition based on Conway's Game of Life going on at the moment: "Reverse the arrow of time in the Game of Life" http://www.kaggle.com/c/conway-s-reverse-game-of-life
It's an offhand line but the point stands - people who have the resources to overcome the barrier have tried and the phones don't sell in great numbers.

Once they get used to a good soft key board like you get on the iPhone or most Android phones people either don't want (or don't feel they need I suspect) physical keyboards.
Your story is in past tense, have you since quit this job or is the manager and hero gone?

You needed code reviews and design documents. If your group was too busy for this, then it needed this "hero" to keep pushing code out the door instead of dwelling on design choices.
It's actually a fork of luckycoin-qt, which is a fork of litecoin-qt.
N.S.A. leaders split on giving amnesty to Snowden
Robots So Realistic They Can Deny They're Bots
I don't know Derik, however I imagine he must have found value in yoga to start a business in it - to at least see the potential and value it has for others - and as a viable way to make money. Nothing wrong with that. Though patenting something is fear-driven (or it's for protective purposes, though they sent out cease & desist orders already AFAIK), or it's purposely repressive in forcing someone else to not be able to express themselves in a certain way. If it's fear-driven, I don't blame him - our capitalistic system is designed so that if you fail at earning enough money to pay yourself, then you can't survive - and that's a lot of pressure and reason for fear. If it's to purposely repress people from expressing themselves in a certain way - which I highly doubt it is - then I would have a problem with that.
Except that between the two, only the JVM is truly cross platform, Mono notwithstanding.
It will be interesting if we can get more people to flip their HW over to the 'open' side of things.
RAW-only photo backup. We are develop app not like everpix, dropbox, 500px, flickr, etc. We are long term backup for huge sizes. We use Amazon Glacier for RAW formats and S3 for previews/sharing. Close to first private release, can't wait for it :)
Loophole in Safari
Crap, I was thinking of Zero Dark Thirty actually. I haven't seen Argo.

Thanks for the info, though. I have read about it before, and it's definitely an example of truth being stranger than fiction.
Safari Stores Previous Secure Browsing Session Data Unencrypted
american exceptionalism generally refers to the state and its machine not the people.
I hate non-zoomable sites, even when "mobile friendly" sometimes the fonts on my phone are too small, even in mobile, or I'd like to zoom in on an image a bit.. I'd rather have the delay... (actually I'd rather nuke double-tap to zoom)
That and enterprise software. As productive as I am with functional programming, I still find it works better to expose object-oriented interfaces to the world at large.

Some of that's admittedly just down to the window dressing. Object-oriented abstraction mechanisms such as interface tend to have a measure of self-documentation built in, to the extent that all the members are named, right down to method parameters. There's no reason you couldn't do something similar with FP, it's just that as far as I can tell nobody's ever made a point of doing so.
I agree that Java is widely adopted (thus my 'ubiquitous' comment). The fact that the commenter followed-up immediately with "some of its most painful points have been addressed in Java 8" led me to believe it was referring to being liked and not necessarily to being adopted.
The origins of bcc from back in the days of carbon paper (and after that the xerox, dot matrix printer and laser printer) was strictly as a way to give a copy of a particular correspondence to someone without the actual recipient knowing that you were doing so.

The current use of bcc more or less contradicts that and has taken on a whole new meaning.
As someone whose goal it is to have viable startup next year, this is pure gold. Thank you Patrick!
RubyMotionQuery: JQuery like iOS development using RubyMotion
You’ll still need something bloated to open DOCX files other people send you. (Or is there an antiword for DOCX already?)
A Very Simple Network Connection with Node.js
6. Knowing how to farm the federal government is just as important as knowing how to farm the ground. Perhaps more.
Check out Datalog the query language used to interact with Datomic, www.learndatalogtoday.org

William Byrd & Daniel Friedman wrote a book called the Reasoned Schemer, which walks through the implementation of a Prolog like logic language called MiniKanren, check out a recent presentation they gave where they show quite a few interesting examples and uses, http://2013.flatmap.no/danwill.html

I know this is not a definitive answer, but having a look at those resources may highlight some of the areas where logic programming can be very useful.
Current version of Scala.JS is an alpha release, don't expect miracles.
Darkness Ray Beams Invisibility From A Distance
But how would comparing programming languages made by men versus ones made by women provide any useful info about what a 'feminist programming paradigm' is, might be, could be, etc.?

I was more than a little offended by the author conflating 'feminism' with para-consistent logic. Does no one else think that the idea of 'feminist' thinking embracing 'contradictions' smack of almost ridiculously self-caricatured sexism?
brilliant final three lines.
That's a pretty rude and selfish way to approach a mailing list.

I wouldn't be surprised if such a question goes on to be ignored.
I think its more of the realization that types are actually freaking useful for determining "provability" of a system. C++ perhaps takes it too far with Const, but it allows the compiler to prove that certain functions will not attempt to modify certain variables.

There is very little in terms of "provability" that either C++ or its types give you. Proving anything really interesting (for example, the absence of race conditions in concurrent code) still seems like pretty much an arduous process in languages not explicitly designed for such things.

Compared to Python or Ruby, you're pretty much relying entirely on culture and good habits to ensure the proper rules of encapsulation. Any code may modify the private members of your objects. (Granted, C++ has "mutable", Java has the whole "Reflection" loophole as well. But you can search for those edge cases rather easily).

That didn't seem very comprehensible to me, but if you're claiming that in Ruby, you can modify member variables of someone's objects, well, you can't, unless you use reflection as well (not only that, but the access to member variables is object-based, rather than class-based, so you can't access the member variables of an object from any other object, even if they are of the same class, unlike in C++ - so much for the "objects communicate by passing messages" in C++!). More to the point, in C++, you can always cast a pointer into something that makes the raw data accessible. There's enough stuff in C++ for you to blow your whole leg off instead of just shooting yourself into the foot.
Thanks, glad to have helped.
Not exactly. At least with the original meaning.

It's more like making a tape recording of a conversation you are having with someone and playing it to someone else who wasn't part of the conversation. And without the person being recorded knowing that you did that.
I am not sure we positively know every single detail there is to know about neurons, but we know an excruciating amount of details. At the level of a single neuron, it's physiology and connections to neighbouring neurons, we know everything we need to know that it has absolutely nothing to do with QM. There are no mysterious phenomena here, nothing outside biochemistry and physiology.
I have similar feelings to you about the fiddliness of games based on life. A few years back, it inspired me to build this as an experiment in unfiddly GoL play: https://github.com/lharding/The-Automataic-Gardner

(warning: Processing. Been meaning to port it to JS forever now.)
He already did, human factors and the need for consistent performance, even if that means that the lack of speed in performance is consistently bad is in it's own way an advantage. The fact that we now have wildly inconsistent performance depending on the pages we're viewing is bad in terms of human factors. If you want precise scientific references try google but these are basic known facts.

Overall I'm not sure how I feel about this topic myself but I do understand jblow's point and somewhat agree with his rant.
Congrats Garry! Well deserved.
There's nothing particularly under-powered about para-consistent logics; they're interesting really. But the idea of para-consistent logic somehow being 'feminist' is stupid.
Wouldn't it be better to trust your own investigation - sans taking the accused party's word for it though?
"What are you going to do if nothing on the list works, and you don't actually understand the system? I'll bet you're going to try to restart the system, or reinstall it, or rebuild it, or some other blunt action that equates to a last, desperate attempt to get the thing working."

I've done this so many times. My own trivial projects, but still. I always took it as another sign of "jesus, there's so much more to learn".

Speaking of learning: any devops resources anyone would point out to people? Even if they are just to know what you don't know you don't know types of things.
I'm not really sure these two are different. How is dart2js "worse" than the Dart VM, except for speed? And even in speed, dart2js is faster than hand-written JS in many cases (see https://www.dartlang.org/performance/)

With source maps Dart is debuggable from JS AFAIK. And dart.js allows deploying Dart content in a way that works seamlessly whether or not the Dart VM is present. I'm really not seeing the difference here.
Can you share specifics of what you have found?
As other commenters have stated, the website is really well done. My only problem, is that it seems as if the Tuft & Needle team mislead (lied) to me about when the bed was manufactured.

I placed an order on 10/14/2013. On 10/18, I got an email stating that "The first stitch is in" and "we've begun crafting your bed."

Nothing about this seemed unreasonable. When I got the bed, though, I noticed the tag says "Date of manufacture: 08/13."

So...you told me that manufacturing started 4 days after it was ordered, but really it was made 2 months prior to that.

All in all, the bed IS actually pretty good. When it was made doesn't matter to me (given that the quality is good), so I don't get what you gain from lying about that.

Maybe to make it seem like it was hand crafted just for me?
I would love to see a web-of-trust style security review for open source code. Certain users would have a higher rank for their thumbs-up if they have a high degree of trust in the network.
1) Legislation.

Legislation is written and enforced by the government, and they're the ones we're trying to stop. I doubt you'll see this approach work.
Thanks! Hadn't seen these before.
Except that there is implicit dependency management.

It would be like saying that all SKUs need to be comprised of other SKUs and less than 2kg of screws, nuts, bolts and custom components.

In your analogy the Spring might be an entire engine, spark plugs and all, built as a single unit. Want to use your own spark plugs? Tough luck. You get the whole engine or none at all, or you could just build your own from scratch.
All you're describing is an extension of the user preference - the willing to pay for their preference. Generally speaking if people aren't willing to make a sacrifice for the preference (in the form of money), how strong a preference is it?

After all I can get a physical keyboard on the $5 electronic address book. Even understanding that that's a very cheap keyboard (though that also includes margins for retailer, manufacturer and all the other costs), you're telling me that that the cost of a physical keyboard is going to be a deal breaker on a $300+ smartphone?
if the buyer wants to claim that he didn't receive the coins, what is wrong with that?
If questioning the axioms of logical theories is practiced by men, does that mean that those men are necessarily 'feminist'? Does the fact (or not) that para-consistent logics were first discovered and studied by men exclude them from being a candidate for 'feminist' logic? Would you answer differently depending on the politics of the mathematicians? Can you understand why this seems ridiculous?
Poor Motorizon can barely afford to make those Droids... wait, no.
It would require some remodeling. But my point is that these box stores already have a clear advantage in fulfilling orders because they already have stores and distribution centers built all over the country. Amazon is still trying to figure that part out.

Competing with Best Buy and Barnes and Noble is going to be a lot easier than competing with Wal-Mart.
Java has always been a good language if you ignored the ecosystem.

You mean "no unsigned types (even though the language is essentially machine-level when it comes to integers), no compact memory layouts for aggregate data, no useful function values without jumping through hoops etc." is an approach that leads to good languages?
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Thank you for the feedback.

We're not fans of holding onto mattresses for very long, of course we're biased on this; but, no matter what the material is you will develop body impressions and compression in the mattress. Be it synthetic materials or natural materials like cotton or wool. Compression can lead to degraded pressure point relief which can lead to spinal issues and discomfort.

Regarding the 5-7 years, if you look at a mattress that has a 10-25 year warranty closely you will notice that it is pro-rated. Meaning each year you own it, they will credit you less and less. This essentially breaks even somewhere around 5 years. Not to mention they make you jump through some serious hoops to prove it is damaged. We view this as a gimmick. So what we do is just provide a clean warranty at 5 years and exchange it if there are any problems. It may very well last longer but we felt at this point in time for our startup that we should stick to 5 years and evaluate whether we can extend beyond that.

Honestly, we want to see how customers will treat us when that time comes.

Thank you again for the feedback.
> I hope they can get their act together and offer their warehouse workers better wages and better treatment

If their wages and treatment aren't enough to drive them to quit their jobs, they are sufficient.

I am glad Prime costs what it does and not more.
> For there is a good argument to the effect that if metaphysical realism is true, then global skepticism is also true, that is, it is possible that all of our referential beliefs about the world are false.

But they're not going to tell us what the argument is.

This extremely counter-intuitive claim seems to be the heart of their argument. I suspect they're using sloppy language to confuse the difference between knowledge and certainty, but since they never spell it out I don't know.
FYI, this was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6897701
thats what I do! I explicitly ask both parties before I make an intro.
C# is Java with perhaps 200% syntax improvement. The things I use most often with e.g. Ruby - monadic collection operations like map, select, etc. - is there in the form of Linq, with select, where, etc. A concise, type-inferred lambda expression goes a long, long way.

The .net ecosystem isn't as evolved as Java, for sure. But I don't think maven is a good implementation of a dependency management system either, nor is it particularly good as a build system.
The book (not freely available AFAIK): http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Paradigms map: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html

"Read CTM" may be good advice in general, but at ~900 pages probably isn't the type of answer they're looking for.
"Now, you need an introduction "

While it is harder to cold call for sure (the fact that you are referred to someone means they will at least read and/or listen to what you have to say) not being referred is not a show stopper at all.

You just have to be more creative in your approach in order to stand out.

If you don't have that skill simply practice at it with less valuable targets to start. Make your mistakes there and learn from them what works and what doesn't.

I've been cold calling from back before the internet. But one of the first things I learned from when I used to get free press by writing to reporters was to start out the email by telling them what a great article they wrote as opposed to telling them something that they could add to the story that they might have missed.

The emails where I contacted them that way almost always got a reply. So I continued with that formula and got a pretty good amount of major press writeups (NYT, WSJ etc.)