skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at the Zencoder (YC W10) API: http://zencoder.com/en/

It's since been acquired by Brightcove. [Disclaimer: I work there.]
90% of founders would as well. He wants access to the other 10%. Or whatever ratio you want to give, he wants access to the best YC startups.
The original Tomb Raider is now available on iOS for $1
Here here and right on.
Yeah, I threw together this module intending to supplement NER on a text classification project I'm currently working on, not as a replacement for NER.
The example in the article was taken directly from the Scala documentation for [Option](http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Optio...). The map is implicit if you use Scala's for notation. From the linked docs:

val upper = for {
name <- request getParameter "name"
trimmed <- Some(name.trim)
upper <- Some(trimmed.toUpperCase) if trimmed.length != 0
} yield upper
println(upper getOrElse "")

In Scala, an implementation of flatMap (bind), map, and filter allows you to use for expressions like the above. Objects that support these operations are not strictly monads, but they're close enough for most practical uses. Haskell is great, but give Scala a little credit.
$94 11 minute Uber rides...

This is why regulation of industry is not always an attempt to hold back the unbridled forces of "progress."
I think it's just a default Google thing. Basically, it notices you're logged in but you haven't entered your password for a while, so it prompts you to login again.

Instead, I just clicked 'Log out and log in as a different user', closed the tab, and clicked the link again on HN, and it worked just fine.

So in short, it doesn't require you to be logged in, unless you are, at which point you have to log in again.

Bizarre.
That's ridiculous. It's not even funny.

It's also null and void in my country (.cz), and probably in many other European countries.
Not at all related to the post and/or content, but that domain name is awesome.
I think that's an interesting observation about changes in the past few decades in how how corporations see their responsibilities to stakeholders.

I think it's true that 30-40 years ago, compared to now, corporations more often were guided by things other than simply maximizing share prices. It's not unique to AT&T, and has nothing to do with AT&T not being a publicly traded corporation, which of course it was.
This is really cool, and surprisingly similar to the way some software systems are designed. Probably because I have been researching it a lot, but this reminds me of a data replication system, where data builds and builds during active periods of the day, and then at night when activity slows, the back logs are processed and cleared by morning.
It's a supply and demand thing - there's a choice -- Some people get cabs at sub-market rate, and some stand on the corner for an hour trying to get a cab -- or -- Some people pay more for a cab, while others balk at the price and find an alternative method of transportation.

I've stood outside for an hour on a cold, snowy, windy New Year's eve/morn in Boston trying to get a cab... I'll take the price hike vs. the jockeying for sidewalk position, fights over who gets what cab, and other silliness. I think the drivers would too.
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I like my code to do what it says. You can pretty much do that in Haskell. If you allow me to add a definition first:

mfilter' :: MonadPlus m => (a -> Bool) -> a -> m a
mfilter' f = mfilter f . return

Then it's just:

toUpperCase <=< mfilter' (\x -> length x /= 0) . trim

Which is pretty close. No need to change the language.
Crowdfunded Iron Man Suit Project Seeking 5K Pre-Orders For Production Run
This is by far the easiest way to buy lotto tickets. I once bought a ticket from a bodega that won a few numbers and I lost it. This way I will never lose a ticket again.
Out of context though but the same story was submitted to HN 4 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238053, yet today it clicked.
Reminds me of http://blog.ploki.info/what-if-successful-posts-on-hackernew...
You shouldn't be hardcoding CSS/JS into the template files - look into wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script.

Could use a better directory structure, too. Assets should be in a different folder, things like the walker should be in a lib/includes folder.

Being a starter theme, it doesn't make sense to just reference the Bootstrap CSS from a CDN. Shouldn't you have the LESS files so people can easily make changes without having to do overrides in their CSS?

ps. It's "WordPress", not "Wordpress" (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dang...)

Disclaimer: I made Roots (http://roots.io), a Bootstrap starter theme that's been around for a while
Not just inefficient. It's literally "the bystander effect" and "division of responsibility" principles writ large.

Bottom line: if everyone is responsible, then no one is responsible. No amount of pithy sound bites or quotes from Austrians will change that. If anything it's a wonder charities have been as successful as they have.

At least with a liberal government system, there is a single point of ultimate responsibility for issues like this: the government itself, as the legal embodiment of "the people" at large.
>> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle.
>Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't.
I was driving a point using the analogy previously used. I think trying to write a php app is like trying to drive a beetle, when you could be using a transformer- It's a robot when you need it to be a robot, and it's a car when you need it to be a car.

> Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. >The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki.

If you're gonna say that about youtube, the same should be said about Facebook. With python, at least we have Django, Pyramid, Bottle, Flask. All of which are good open-source platforms that allows you to quickly get a web project going(not just a wiki), and which do a lot to drive Python adoption.

> There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many.
That was just an example of apps written in python. The comprehensive list is much, much larger (though I thought that was implied).
Please help ppk
Language is a reflection of the idea being presented. If your audience perceives IT to be desktop support, then using IT to mean desktop support is absolutely correct and does reflect reality. This is my interpretation of tptacek's comment, and from his posts afterwards it seems I am right. Other comments here are saying the same thing, that IT is a "computer janitor".

This might be different in other English-speaking markets, but at least in this thread, that is what is being expressed. It doesn't matter what term is being used, that is what the parent was trying to get across. Don't become "the IT guy". The definition of IT guy he was using is "computer janitor".
I don't understand why deadpool is better than acquihire. You would return at least the same amount of money to your investors, but also you could put this as an exit on your resume and get a significant amount of money personally.
Sorry... Pixar did not invent a time travel machine just to get a character reference. (NCIS LA came five years after.)
Rosenfeld's book is an interesting discussion point WRT the claim that when newspapers finish dying, so will investigative journalism. Yes, I know he works (worked?) for the Chronicle, but if enough people buy his book, he can keep doing his thing. Which is good. And yes, I bought his book and you should too.
If you aren't willing to pay more during peak times, you have to deal with the scarcity. This is problematic for things like food, water, and shelter during emergencies...not so much for luxury car rides across town.
That's because the sexy story here is 'politicians spending money on glamour projects', and not something dull like 'out of capacity rail line desperately needs relief'.

Nobody mentions the rationale, because it's practically impossible to intelligently argue against. It's like the world's greatest strawman.
Windows has DEP and ASLR. They are actually pretty much on par with each other from a TLA standpoint.

There are configuration issues that affect security that should be taken into account if you have high security needs. Its not a capabilities issue.
There's a great interview with Mike Munger on Econtalk about the price mechanism during an emergency:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/munger_on_john.html
Sometimes a precipitous event happens and we can say that event was for certain the cause of something going up or down on price.

Most of the time I think there are just too many variables to so confidently point to one as the cause.

So when I hear on the radio that the Dow went down because of xyz I just chuckle. If we were really so good at pinpointing cause and effect in the markets, the people doing so would shut up and make money.
Does anyone have any experience using this technology? I'd assume it works best for post processing or pseudo real time data feeds( ie within a couple of seconds as opposed to sub 20 millisecond reactions).

Where do people usually store the processed data from this system?

I can see something like this being useful for things like post trade analytics or post day analyzing the efficiency of an given algo.

We use an inhouse CEP to do this sort of work currently but I'd rather rent than buy servers for this offline processing.

By the way, if anyone is in the Toronto area and interested in working for a hedge fund my contact info is in my profile
Only technically infeasible in the current infrastructure. Say a new continent opened up and there was a chance to build the rail system from scratch. Such a facility could be planned for. Maybe this is how travel will work on Mars? (With redundant self contained power, for safety.)
Wrong, the authors do have a choice.

Many choices, in fact. Including & not limited to: raising awareness of Elsevier's reprehensible practices, writing blogs, commenting on online forums. Lobbying various institutions. Not signing an explicit contract with Elsevier? Definitely a choice.

"Society made me do it" is always a pathetic excuse.
You are right. They are acting economically rationally, but that does not mean that they are playing fair. That is why I am so viscerally opposed to the Byzantine nature of the US tax code and the inability of our lawmakers to level the playing field.
I think he means per day
Wow. I am not the only one that felt like this.

That was such a horribly designed UI. I had no idea what I am looking at and why. Google used to all about simplicity. I remember in prior years these kind of posts always had graphs and considerable text explaining trends. Its like someone there realized they are JS experts.
Worth pointing out that £14.4b of that is earmarked as contingency. Actual 'budget' is more like £35b. And I believe (but would have to check) that includes spending money on new trains, which we're going to do anyway.
The goal of regulation is to discourage traffic jams, fights, and the like on the side of the street caused by negotiation over price. With Uber you have the opportunity to see the price before pressing the button. Ideally, there are multiple Uber-like systems which will hold prices down, with a Kayak-like service to choose between them.
> "... the internet is already a system of decentralized networks and services. You can just hook in your own services into the network at any point therein and maintain them yourself."

Sure, but I'd argue we should be making it easier for developers to build more decentralised systems. Very few people seem to be working on tools and OSS products at that level and that's because the problems are challenging (of the kind that a startup wouldn't/shouldn't attempt - hence an active area of work in university [1]). There are plenty of things that require centralisation but I'd argue that just as many don't need to be centralised but just end up that way by default.

[1] http://nymote.org (I'm working on these tools with others)
I'm not a MS employee or even a stockholder. I just get tired of the group think around here. It doesn't do anybody any good to let some of these "everybody knows" style truisms pass unquestioned.

The accusations of being a shill are also pretty annoying...but hey...
Ask HN: Friend is blind and programming genius, wants to learn math
I have a (visually challenged) friend who has an uncanny talent for programming but he's completely self-taught. He can build any desktop/web app (he's a full stack dev), but he wants to go deeper – into AI/ML and stuff like that.

However, due to lack of any significant math education during childhood, he’s lacking foundation into things like linear algebra/calculus/statistics ETC which are basic necessities for AI/ML.

On my recommendation, he has recently started following Khan videos and is picking up things (so far) fast. But obviously that is not the best format for a person challenged with sight. As per my discussions with him, it seems the ideal way to learn for him is by eBooks. But he doesn’t know which one to pick.

So what I want to do to help him with the help of HN: find eBook(s) that can build a kind of math curriculum to cover topics like linear algebra, calculus, the same way a good programming book covers topics starting from introduction to the programming language up to using the standard library.
Here’s the catch: the book must be accessible which means it doesn’t excessively use diagrams to explain concepts and if it uses any graphical symbols, it should provide explanations of those somewhere – say in the appendix.

Edit: Inspired by this recent post – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6854663
nice use of meteor! :)
This definitely looks very interesting. I think I'll give it a try later this week. It would be awesome to do some coding in Obj-c for HTTP services for a change. Also, the name works out perfectly (Objective-C)loud, hah.
Having met Slava a couple years ago (which seems like a long time ago) in our office, he is one of wicked smart folks around. Congratulations! Looking forward to the evolution of RethinkDB.
Great topic! More female CTOs! More CTOs knowing about their code!
are there any samples of client work you've done? really interested to see. thanks.

if you can share the app names in public that is..
> We never discovered demand in the way that VC-backed startups need to. (We now no longer believe the market exists in the US, but of course, perhaps we just couldn’t find it.)

Could you please tell us more about your opinions on the ride-sharing market? Were there any surprise difficulties or discoveries? Or is the "half a million rides per year on Craigslist" * expected revenue per ride just too small to be worth pursuing as VC-funded startup?
Constant Chrome/cast/book and Nexus tablet ads. I've seen this one far too much:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LysTmwDan8
As I understand it, Uber's prices are listed prior to contracting for a ride. Uber's market is clearly the middle to upper income brackets. If it's understood that the price is time and conditions-variant, I fail to see how their pricing method is unethical.
Unfortunately, I've become sadly apathetic to online privacy concerns. There are always going to be people willing to pay those with the skills to spy. In the past, PI's are HUMINT were really the only ways to get "private" information. The internet makes it easier, and allows it to scale massively (the same characteristics that caused the internet to generate the massive economic gains of the last 20 years). I've just shifted to assume that anything that can be spied on is (semi) public. It's suboptimal, and sad, but I've made the choice of trading privacy for convenience, since I'll never stop using Google or Facebook or Twitter or Amazon. Or storing my credit cards and using online banking. Until someone designs a better option (which I expect will fight a constant battle against surveillance).
It's more _energy_ efficient, but also much more expensive to maintain. Partly because it's held to more serious safety standards, and partly because it's so much harder to route around difficulties. Signalling is a major maintenance money sink: a distributed safety system that must be completely reliable.

(Parking is rarely heavily taxed and often "free" - where were you thinking of?)
Here is a little editing on one of the ones I like this better then the three in a row.
.spinner {
margin: 100px auto 0;
width: 70px;
text-align: center;
}

.spinner > div {
width: 22px;
height: 18px;
background-color: #333;

border-radius: 100%;
display: inline-block;
-webkit-animation: bouncedelay 1.4s infinite ease-in-out;
animation: bouncedelay 1.4s infinite ease-in-out;

}

.spinner .bounce1 {
-webkit-animation-delay: -0.32s;
animation-delay: -0.32s;
}

.spinner .bounce2 {
-webkit-animation-delay: -0.16s;
animation-delay: -0.16s;
}

@-webkit-keyframes bouncedelay {
0%, 80%, 100% { -webkit-transform: scale(0.0) }
40% { -webkit-transform: scale(1.0) }
}

@keyframes bouncedelay {
0%, 80%, 100% { transform: scale(0.0) }
40% { transform: scale(1.0) }
}
Doesn't seem like you failed out right, it seems you had real traction so I am a bit baffled that you didn't try harder to make it work (at least it seems that way from your post).

I am thinking you could have worked something out with CL or found a way around that?

Could this just be a matter of not having enough passion for the idea/product/service itself?
There is no legal requirement that contracting parties give equal value in exchange. What you're referring to is commonly referred to as the "consideration" required for a valid contract, but it is easily satisfied. It does not require equal value, it requires merely that "something" be given by both sides. E.g., if the author of an article desires to have it published, a publisher's mere promise to publish could serve as consideration for the author's transfer of copyright. "We'll promise to publish this if you transfer copyright to us." That would be a perfectly valid agreement.

Also, you say "The authors pay Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish using their brand names. This necessarily includes granting a license to Elsevier to copy and distribute the author's work." Well, transfer of copyright by author could be seen as simply part of the payment to Elsevier to coordinate peer review and publish the article. Consideration need not be, and very frequently is not, in the form of money. In fact, even in contracts where one party provides consideration in the form of money, the other party usually provides its consideration by promising to perform a service, or to transfer goods other than money.

There is a doctrine wherein otherwise valid contracts can be voided because of "unconscionability". Although the term is thrown about a lot, contracts -- even very one-sided contracts -- are almost never voided for unconscionability. The whole idea of contracts is that two private parties agree to terms to apply between themselves. Courts are thus very hesitant to intrude, unless there is a specific legal reason to do so, not just a general charge of 'unconscionability'.
RethinkdDB
Agreed. Rework is a great book. Fried's new book "Remote" is out, by the way.
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You're saying it's a 0 or a 1?
JSON/BSON parsing for one, you use the field name to walk the tree, then the node contains a function pointer for what to do with the member.

Any scenario where you decode {k,v} pairs benefits from this.
I don't know. They were definitely at odds, but there was a mutual benefit to working together. Keep your enemies close comes to mind, as both he and his employer benefit from close contact with their opponents.
C++ creator: “OO is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient."
Microsoft's Windows 8 Is The Perfect OS That Nobody Wants
In my Uber/Lyft-less city we had a snowstorm last week and I needed to get to the airport. I spent 15 minutes letting my phone fruitlessly ring to various cab companies before giving up and digging my car out to drive and park for probably $90+ for the course of my trip.

It's a curious human psychological tic that people think this is a better situation for me than looking at my phone's Uber app and deciding whether $90 for this particular ride would be worth it or not. And not just thinking that the latter is better for me, but that I need to be sheltered by law from encountering the former situation.
I'm sure Uber would tell you that's exactly how it's supposed to work. The price increase drives some people to seek alternate modes of transport, which keeps the supply stable so it's still possible to get a ride if you're willing to pay the higher fare.
"company statistics suggest they route roughly five percent of global web requests"

What is CloudFlare's request rate, and how did they arrive at the five percent estimate?
The UK network prioritises passengers over freight in almost all circumstances. Much of the freight is "bulk" that can tolerate delay quite happily.

You don't see a lot of freight going past while waiting on a passenger platform or at a level crossing. There are some freight-only lines mostly for coal to power stations.
This is something you shouldn't be worrying about. Seriously. Pick what you're most comfortable with, which sounds to be Java.
A slightly less cynical view: They were in the dark about who else was involved and didn't fancy picking a fight with USG alone (and with an unknown amount of public support). Now that things became public and they know who else is involved, they can at least co-ordinate, knowing that at least one segment of the public cares.
Chrome on Windows 7 bug report: back button doesn't work, mouse wheel doesn't work (scrolls at infinitesimal speed), touch-screen style controls which don't work well with a mouse (click&drag, besides not being intuitive with a mouse, is also broken because it navigates to the selected item on mouse button release)
Don't acquihires typically require a 3 year commitment? That could be one reason.
Perl 6 advent: Day 17 – Of a new contributor
Yup, works as advertised. My phone is playing Jingle Bells right now.
I love TED. Not all of the talks are perfect but in general they are inspiring and wonderful. Some people just like being negative, this author moves me not at all.
I don't watch very many Ted talks because the topics usually don't interest me. But the ones I do watch are the show and tell kind. The "I did something cool, check it out."

So I have no idea what the author is talking about.
I always thought the target demographic for magical girl shows were the so-called "grass eater" or herbivore men. There's a reason why Akihabara is very popular, and I'd imagine most of the toy sales come from adult men rather than girls.
Poorly chosen Ruby gem names
The actual data is so boring (hint: Miley Cyrus) that it's purely an exercise in wasteful over-engineering.
Prefixing the application's name has usually helped in my searches. For example, "round down in apple numbers". Smaller scale applications I've had more trouble with though: almost any search for help with Sketch returns a ton of results for SketchUp.
I thought it was to protect the consumer from things like... "price gouging."

I agree with your "ideal" situation being ideal, though I guess I expect that service pricing will be "protected business data."
Are auctions unethical?
Can't help but think about how this site about failing will likely fail... so thanks!
It's hard to pinpoint the causes of trends across an index, but it's easy to pinpoint the cause of a commodity's price changing.
does this mean anything for NodeJS programmers that rely on an existing promise library (eg Q)?
It really shouldn't have been downvoted.