skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://chat.echoplex.us

I'm the primary developer of this. I feel like it fulfills a lot of the points that you argue, please feel free to take a look :)
Good point - I hadn't considered the userbase. But don't they lose the userbase if they crap on the product after it's been acquired?
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Yeah, I had a hard time with my street address: 5987 O'Drop Table users; Go
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This is impressive. They may want to work on being a little more secretive about it. Or else we will hear of a group of extremist Norwegian terrorists forming a scary group that will kill Americans, hate god, hurt children, etc etc. which will of coarse force the US to invade.

I kid, I kid, but no really, I am glad someone is getting it right.
Good luck with that. Overstock and Coinbase both link to this weusecoins YouTube video to explain the currency, which says "bitcoins" about a million times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo
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People constantly talk about the industrial applications of gold.

If we end up in a place where world governments have fallen to the point where we no longer trust their money, and have switched back to gold, what industry is going to still be around using gold?

I just don't see this.
>They recorded mothers talking to their 3-year-olds about six past events, such as zoo visits or first day at pre-school. The researchers then re-established contact with the same families at different points in the future. Some of the children were quizzed again by a researcher when aged 5, others at age 6 or 7, 8 or 9. This way the researchers were able to chart differences in amounts of forgetting through childhood. //

They did, but why?

In order to isolate the mothers influence and make the study capable of providing scientific results one would need to rule out the major external factors - the primary one in my view is paternal interactions.

If they chose only mothers to assess - and the presence of only mothers in the other studies suggests they did - then this seems notable. Why? Did they already have a result showing paternal interactions had no effect? Are they trying to demonstrate a theory in which only maternal interactions are valid for stimulating recall? Or what? Just seems like a big old hole that would warrant a mention somewhere in such an article.
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I like the recruiters that tell you nothing other than a bit of the technology, and even that does nothing to distinguish it. "I have a great Java opportunity in (your area); call me if you're available and interested". Yeah, I don't think so.

It's like they're trying to prevent you from going straight to the company, to where they won't get their finder's fee, but all it does is ensure they only get responses from people who are desperate.
I'm a political enemy of anybody who habitually doesn't pay their taxes, and thus by extension, raises mine.
Anecdote:
A good friend of mine from my PhD program emigrated to Norway. He took his technical PhD and got a job at Google. He then moved to ARM. He's now working for a Norwegian company.

He loves it.
Unemployment, at least in the US, refers to people who are able to work and who are also actively looking for employment. Unemployment rates don't factor in people who have completely given up on finding a job.

I don't know if this is the same in Norway, but if it is, it might help explain the discrepancy.
> Google Hangouts and ooVoo don't work for group chat.

Really? I use Google Hangouts pretty regularly among browsers/Androids/iOS devices in groups of up to 8 and rarely have issues.
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Yes, very much so. Good researchers aren't scared of looking stupid, and will tell their colleagues, "I don't get that. Explain it again, but slower."
This is a Chrome bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=236298
(4) Many apps request new, intrusive, permissions for every update. I don't want to review the permission list all the time so any time an app requests something new i default to not update it. If the app worked good before without the permission why would it need more now?
Allowed:

>Listings that offer physical items, downloadable items, or services (such as home improvement services)

The winner gets the source code (downloadable) and one week of consulting (service)
That's even legal among close friends and within your family – at least in most European countries (private or personal use). And I consider it an absolute necessity since printed books can be easily shared and in a family, it's simply not feasible to buy the same content a few times.
This seem to be purely a function of volume. By 2012 there were all sorts of other subreddits that people frequented.
You don't need to connect to recruiters, per se. But yes, having a LinkedIn profile will ensure you get a constant trickle of recruiters. Any time you touch your profile, expect the number to increase; LinkedIn's algorithm seems to promote newly updated profiles, likely due from the assumption that touching your LinkedIn profile is like updating your resume; you're more probable to be looking for a job than someone who has left it sitting there untouched for two years.
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I wish there was a better way to discover subreddits I might like.

If Reddit did to subreddits what Pandora and Netflix did to music and movies (analyze and recommend,) it would pay off for them.
Seems like these companies are rushing into this without fully understanding how the technology works or where it's going.
There were some larger violations/extraordinary effects possible, but you could get caught by logs then.
More likely it's because it won't be using in situations that require sub-1 second answers which might make more modest hardware acceptable.
That's why I always have to laugh when I hear about such-and-such a company "now accepting bitcoin!". They don't get bitcoin, they get USD, so they don't care. Want to buy something from Overstock? Take your USD, buy some bitcoin, put it into your Coinbase account, Coinbase sends USD to Overstock. It's like buying an Amazon giftcard for yourself--just an extraneous step between your original USD and the USD that go to the merchant's account.
I was terribly wrong, sorry for that!
I think that actually, most of the submissions there come from the front page of HN.
Thanks for this reply. I thought the "bizarre blind spot" comment was some sort of (absurd) thought that numpy users were unaware that C was being used under the hood.

> it eventually will catch up and surpass two-language systems for scientific computing.

Assuming that, like hardware engineers, scientists have a fair bit of general-purpose scripting to do, Julia will itself be part of a different kind of two-language solution unless it is up-to-snuff w.r.t. said general-purpose scripting. This implies libraries and good interaction with OS utilities. Any thoughts on whether or not this will be an issue with Julia?
When http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2012/02/17x17-proble... was written, 12x21 was still open (so "17x17, 17x18, and 18x18 were the last remaining cases" is not true). Do you know if this has changed (that article is ~2 years old)?
Aw, the data is a year old. I wonder how much more of the site has transformed into video/picture content.
"Unemployment rate" is usually defined as (number of people looking for employment) / (number of people employed or looking for employment). So if you're not in the labor force (student, have given up looking for work, on disability, stay-at-home parent, etc), then the calculation ignores you--you count toward neither the numerator nor denominator.

This came up the recent US recession because at the beginning of the "recovery," a significant portion of the drop in official unemployment rate came from people who had stopped looking for employment and resigned themselves to being out of the labor force for the time being.
I use Gmail (as a part of Google Apps for Business) all the time but I did not notice that autocomplete had become available … sorry for that!
Run don't walk. There are currently more jobs then people in our field. You will run into this type of company again but in the future you will know to tell them to fuck off. Especially when you see how easy it is to get another job.
If I were that guy I would be very happy that someone informed me about the vulnerability of my wallet. I would definitely thank them and invite them for tea. Reporting them to police would be the last thing on my mind.
Synopsis: We can perform more surveillance than ever before, because the power and speed of technology has increased.
Durrrrr.
AT&T hasn't unlocked any of my iPhone's... and still won't even after my contract with them was ended in good standing.
Guess it can be a good idea.. The unemployment rate is low, but there are far less jobs for people who don's speak Norwegian. Wages for programmers is lower than the U.S I believe, and it's an expensive country.

In exchange for a lower pay (and higher taxes?) you get vacation, great job security and a lot of benefits.

Before relocating, check if your skills are sought after :)
Will people stop writing crap "on" HTTP please and use TCP like you're supposed too! :)

Websockets is a great transport protocol for bi-direction realtime persistent connections. And it's very easy to write your own application protocol or just use WAMP from http://wamp.ws.
He's a libertarian for certain strange senses of libertarian. For example he thinks naked short-selling should be banned, which seems more like a pro-regulatory position (not just a randomly chosen position... the campaign against naked short-selling has been his #1 political passion for years). Mostly I think he just dislikes the finance industry.
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A reasonable amount, I thought. Is there some aspect of it you think I'm mistaken about?
Good idea! I couldn't resist: http://jsfiddle.net/HB7LU/1625/
It's very similiar to the d3 solution, ng-repeat works very well on this data.
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There doesn't need to be a cabal. But then I suppose that means "run," "use" and "machine" were pretty poor word choices.

"There exists a System, in which we are all but cogs" doesn't seem a very useful way of analysing the world, however correct we might suspect it is. Maybe I should try harder.
Saying this just made something snap into place for me. Right now, we have things like Adobe Air and node-webkit, that basically just ship an address-bar-less browser, which can be used to make a webapp look like a real app (e.g. Light Table.) And we have Tor. But no one, as yet, has thought to combine the two--for example, by making an app that has an automatic-updating mechanism that updates from an .onion source, so nobody knows who the developer is.

I think I might work on this, if anyone is interested in using the result.
Send an anonymous email or other notification to them? I agree it's scary to be penalized for "hacking" the system (in their eyes), but I also think these things can't be left alone. It'd be cool if you found a way to let them know.
What gets me about recruiter spam is how similar to regular spam it is. I've received only a smattering of messages, but largely, they're entirely lowercase, they have almost no punctuation, and they frequently have patently obvious grammatical errors. I responded to one recruiter (she managed to contact me at a time I was looking at alternate employment), and on the phone she was well-spoken; something about sticking a keyboard between them and me apparently causes communication to devolve into a base form.
Your comment implies that access to Watson is available to medical professionals right now and has been for some time.

I don't think this is true, but if so, please contact me (details in my HN profile).
Main reason to avoid long polling is the awful scalability (compared to plain old socket programming).
> I don't think resolving compatibility issues is optional...

It is if you stay on 2 for production/qa and the bulk of new feature development in the meantime. Only CI (and any developers working on python 3 compat.) would be running 3 and only to provide reports of how compatible things are.

Only once the test suite passes would you swap QA to 3, start removing 2 compatibility code (i.e. whatever you've done to hack around handling strings) and eventually ship 3 to production.

Edit: The solution of "just switch to 3 then make it work" is exactly what they can't do because of (completely valid) business and political concerns. I think that if they were able to have a goal of some small percent of test progress on Python 3 per release - but continue to ship features - they would be able to find time to do the work if it's at all a priority, even if it took many many releases. If it's not at all a priority then maybe that's the one-sentence summary instead.
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20% seems too high, but the difference is mostly due to people that unable or "unable" to work. They are not unemployed in the sense used here.
They only leaked the most popular area codes. Do you have one of those?
He's wrong when he says that Medium uses a 22pt font. They have a 22 PIXEL font. 22px is much smaller than 22pt. (37signals' blog and Zen Habits also have a 20-something pixel font size, not 20-something points).

Otherwise, this was a pretty decent overview. A lot of programming-focused sites ignore good practices about line lengths and font size.
Poll HN: What is your personality type?
Just curious HN.
What is your personality type?
If you're not aware of the 16 personalities learn more here[1,2].
If you have not taken the test, do here[3].

Don't forget to up vote the poll to get more data.

Inspired by, http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/08/fun-friday-what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type.html

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_type
2. http://www.personalitypage.com/high-level.html
3. http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Visualize this poll: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7033047
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You must boycott a lot of corporations.
There's no currency backed by all world governments collectively, just currencies backed by particular world governments (usually individually, though the Euro is backed by a particular group). It's quite easy to imagine a failure of monetary policy by any one (or more relevantly, any two) of those central banks that would leave gold using industries in existence in the world, and gold in a better position than the relevant fiat currencies.

If there were a single global universal fiat currency, that might not be the case, but ethereal isn't one.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but family in Norway always tell me there seems to be a big demand for workers in the fields of science and tech.
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I'm not sure it's that big of a deal. I'm still looking for Bitcoin's killer app, and I don't think this is it. A killer app would take advantage of Bitcoin's unique properties and become preferred vs other payment methods. There isn't a clear reason for most consumers to go through the hassle/risk of BTC vs getting the consumer protection and rebates/rewards that credit cards offer.
i honestly dont know about operating a us company from a foreign country but if you have two owners in two states you would have a primary state where you incorporate and the other state you would set up a foreign corp (basically says one company is working in a new state) additionally you could choose a third state like delaware then have a foreign corp in each of the other states
I would argue that many Scientific Computing problems involve large amounts of data and/or computation.
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Really five go-to firms in the US that I would talk to as a startup: Cooley, Gunderson, Latham Watkins, Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick. All of them should have boilerplate agreements that they can help you with for low cost. They should also have some kind of "deal" for new startups that gives you some basic setup documents free and defers costs until you get financing.

More important question is to find the right partner/associate to work with. Your experience will depend more on who you work with than what firm. Ask for startup references from attorneys. Also, understand who will do the actual work for you -- law firms leverage associates so the chance that a partner will do work for you is low and if they do it will be super expensive.
Where's the JS?
So big that they're hard to manage.
If you read down in the comments of that post you can see it was solved. Or see http://11235813tdd.blogspot.com/2012/02/rectangle-free-grid-...
Pecan is definitely not as light weight as flask. Creating a simple hello world requires multiple files and multiple classes. Flask is super light weight in that regard. Which is why I use flask for quick hacking on personal projects.

Pecan on the other hand has a lot of great features built in, such as ORM, built in templates, etc. Pecan is a popular choice over flask for large scale projects.
I did read the article, but these points don't hit the core of why Nintendo is successful, when it's successful. It's true that Nintendo tries to make games cheaper than many AAA game companies, though with the ballooning cost of AAA game development that's not saying much. It's true that it's often in new genres. And it's very true that they focused on a different, broader market than Microsoft and Sony back in the Wii's heyday. What I'm saying is that innovation alone is not enough to create success. It must be pointed in the right direction. At times they've gotten this right, at other times they haven't.

It's nonsense to imply that Nintendo games aren't polished, or that third-party AAA game developers will necessarily dominate any genre that they choose to develop for. I can't think of a 2D platformer that has ever done as well as Mario, and 2D platformers are one of gaming's oldest genres -- certainly a "mature genre".

That article was written back in 2005, just after the Wii Remote was announced, when people were still speculating about that strange new controller and what it could mean. We have the benefit of hindsight now, and the best way to understand what was going on then is to take it straight from the horse's mouth, looking back at the early days of the Wii, when Nintendo talked openly about their business strategy. Back then, they outright said that they based their new strategy on the books The Innovator's Dilemma and The Blue Ocean Strategy. (They talked about this in their shareholder meetings, which were available online but which I unfortunately can no longer find.) These books give us a framework for understanding what they were doing then -- no need to create ungainly terms like "genre king". The books talk about conceiving of the market as the "core" -- which were the people who were actively playing and buying games at the time, and which were the target market of their competitors -- and the "expanded audience" -- which were those who weren't playing games, or who used to play but had since stopped. The latter is who Nintendo chose to focus on back then. Innovation did play a part in that, but it doesn't explain it entirely: some games were innovative and succeeded, (ex. Wii Sports), some were innovative and failed, (ex. Wii Music, remember that one?) and some were not innovative but still managed to differentiate themselves by appealing to the expanded audience (ex. New Super Mario Bros.). To lump the latter category of games, which were new entries in genres with long and storied histories, together with games that were in completely new genres, is contradictory.

New Super Mario Bros., for one, effectively used none of the hardware features of the Wii to its advantage, and was still one of the strongest-selling games of the generation. Its success is attributable not to innovation but to being a game that many people, especially the expanded audience, wanted to play. It's as simple as that.
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1: A license that do not allow circumvention of property law is friendly to the business market. As such, your claim that it would prioritize "something" over "essential elements of software freedom" are wrong.

2: Not allowing circumvention of property law is neither promotion or restriction of freedom. It has the same purpose such as anti-theft laws. business markets depend on property law, and could not operate without it. However, selecting enforcement of property law can be exploited in the market, and a segregation between those who exploit and those who don't then happens.

3: anti-theft laws and "software freedom" are not directly related. This is where the confusion comes from.

> It would be more accurate to say, for what it defines as "User Products", that the GPLv3 actively encourages device renters to circumvent the property rights of devices' owners, and bars device owners from having the technical tools to prevent that.

You seem to imply that manufacturer are the device owner after they have sold the device. Here we must come to a disagreement, as I follow the classic view that a trade results in a change in ownership. The financial transaction causes the manufacturer to assign ownership of a specific device over to the buyer in exchange for money. The new owner of the device is thus no longer the manufacturer, but the person who paid money for it.

Maybe the wikipedia article, or a dictonary would help you here. Renting is not the same as a trade. I can see how you might get those two words confused, but really, they are not the same thing.

If device manufacturers want lease out devices rather then trade them, they can likely do so without having comply with the requirements in the GPLv3 license. Leasing out devices is commonly not viewed as distribution (case law lacking).
Astute observers will note that this is very similar to the credit card situation: Overstock does not accept USD, they accept Visa. (and MasterCard. etc.)

If I go to Europe and buy something with my Visa debit card, my account is denominated in USD, but they do some forex and the merchant gets Euro.

If I go to Overstock and buy something with my Coinbase wallte, my account is denominated in BTC, but they do some trading and the merchant gets USD.
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I'm a lot more inclined to seek out more information about the authors of the code I execute than I am to start using code that comes from exceedingly difficult to trace authors.

(So right now I am lazy about it but really only see things going in one direction, towards being more careful about knowing)