skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Yes, it is definitely not easy, a lot of edge cases to take care of too. Luckily we are not trying to directly compete with any of the big guys out there, which makes us able to keep the price low and the output high.

We'll update the FAQ links, thanks!
Thanks. It was essentially my son's idea (age 5 at the time), and it was about a month after I designed the icon that I realized the "third eye" connection, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye which made me love it even more.
The top half of the results page will be ads if you searched for something so generic that there essentially are no good organic results. Certainly if you search for something specific, it won't be like that.

For instance, I recently watched a terrible movie, and I'm trying to remember what it's called so I can warn people off of it. Searching for that is a specific piece of information, not a generic "noun"-type thing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+was+the+movie+with+the+...
> It said existing open-source operating systems pose security risks

And by security they probably mean ability to insert their own backdoors.
Don't know these guys personally but I like the idea of using a small amount of money to separate motivated beta users from non ones.

That said their argument saying that it's a good method not to attract "Tyre Kickers" only doesn't stand so much. As a competitor I would specially be interested to pay 30$ to access a product from a potential competitor.
>> "Beats are EQ'd to increase the volume of the high and low end frequencies."

It depends which model you buy. Their 'Pro' model is marketed towards sound engineers so I doubt they mess with the EQ on those. They also claim they are "The Headphones Used To Mix In Every Major Studio." which I seriously doubt. AFAIK it's always recommended to mix with monitors, not headphones.
Is this the "Daisy" project?
If you are interested in economic modelling have a look at Minsky.[1][2] It isn't that pretty and it is in (C++ and Tcl/Tk) rather than Python but Steve Keen's Minsky project looks like an interesting take on macroeconomic modelling (rather than microeconomic simulation). It was Kickstarter funded (at least partially).

Steve Keen was predicting a big debt triggered crash before 2008 and believes in economic models that at least have the possibility of crisis and disequilibrium being the normal state (which is regarded as unorthodox in economics).

Minsky can model chaotic system (even outside of economics)[3].

[1] http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/minsky/

[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/home/Home/

[3] http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2013/09/10/famous-models-...
That was the first thing I noticed. My random German drives a

1996 Buick Roadmaster

which is about as likely as him riding around on a Unicorn.
No, it wasn't. 2000 was the successor to NT in the business line the same way that Me was to 98 in the consumer line. And, while it was more usable for consumer purposes than NT, because it was a different code base and not marketed as a consumer OS and much consumer software was written to quirks of the 95/98 line, it wasn't as consumer usable as XP was (which IIRC had more backwards compatibility features, but more importantly was the target against which new consumer software was written and tested once it was released.
Near the end of the app, there is a cross-eyed stereo viewing mode that works pretty well, although it can be headache inducing for some people.
Yep. And it's not over for the people who made this either, I'd wager... This was certainly not much of an apology.
My desktop and laptop have Windows 7 installed on them and my wife's laptop has Windows 8 on it. As someone who spends 8-10 hours a day on their computer programming/debugging/everything users on this site do, I'm not sure I could handle working in Windows 8 all that time. I feel like Windows 7 got so much right for power users of Windows, and that Windows 8 is for casual users of their computer.
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thank you!
‘The USA knows that for us spying is a crime’
I really like the look of your API. I work a lot with location-based apps, I'll probably be giving this a go :)
Really? Why Safari in particular?
The current "Rude-Goldberg mechanism" has one significant advantage over anything that could replace it: it has been reviewed by experts.
Interesting. I had always avoided Hitachi Deskstars after having heard they were nicknamed "Deathstars" for a reason. Perhaps that was once true, but clearly it's not anymore.
Nothing against you specifically astral303, but this is exactly why I will probably never build a stand-alone mobile app.
Microsoft? Meetings are work man!
I think I'll start applying for trademark on all the dictionary words now.

It seems to be the next domain name rush.

On a more serious note WTF?

I seriously see app store collapsing if they let this kind of thing slide.

Either that or all the apps will have weird name so the don't infringe on anybody.

I feel sorry for the developers that need to come up with a name for their apps.
Selection, UI, and curation/recommendation all are very good. I hope this creates some competition for Spotify, because I think they need a fire lit under their product plans. (It's 2014 and I still can't save a collection of music outside of playlists)

But is it just me, or can you not fast forward / seek in Beats Music?
You have funny definitions. As far as a hiring manager goes, sure, he should care about the persons ability. But this wasn't an interview -- he was commenting on an article about someone living in the real world.

In the US, there are still significant racial and gender issues. Ignoring them because you are "color blind" is not a commendable trait. It isn't racist; it is ignoring racism.
I think the analogy to MSFT shareholder is more apt and if the OpenBSD foundation is a foundation that has to report to some government bureau somewhere, there will be a report of some kind that the donors can use.
Probably good advice -- I was mostly mentioning that I'd file the complaint afterwards rather than meaning "TELL the guy I'll be filing a complaint afterwards."
A bit of both, actually.

Perl6 as an language is remarkably complete. http://perl6.org/compilers/features

Its performance has been absolutely terrible though. They've been (rightly) focused on features first.

But note that Perl6 on JVM is doing very well. I believe the effort is about a year old, and they've been performance optimizing it for a fraction of that time. And that's with nearly all of the 'remarkably complete' features.

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo

Last time I did a benchmark a few months ago, Perl6 on JVM was very roughly 2x slower than Perl5. With Perl6's native but optional typing, I fully expect that Perl6 on JVM will get even faster than Perl5.

This year, I need to evaluate a 'scripting' language to run inside of big Java processes, and I'm going to give Perl6 a very close look.
Easier (legally) for NSA folk or other bad actors to hack yes. But when did that stop them?

But if your data never crosses a US border (E.g. a Norwegian person using jottacloud), then the NSA cable taps have no effect. If your server is not in a US server farm or in a US Company, then it can't be subverted at destination the way that lavabit was going to go (and the other major companies have already gone).

I'm really suspicious of this "safer in the USA" stuff right now.
Team Groupon talks about dismantling Rails & starting to use Node. [Podcast]
Maybe too many clever ideas, but in the real world we evaluate a language for how is to use when you follow the coding standards etc. There really might be an initial extra cost of some work days, but unlike most people on HN I don't really know... :-)

Anyway, you can make a good argument for Perl with the best OO (Moose) of the scripting languages, CPAN (+ Testers, so it works), etc.

But please, no more of these language wars, it makes for really boring reading to e.g. see the same arguments whenever Perl is mentioned.
Yea I felt like this was sort of a: Hey we acted too quickly, but we understand you like this. It's still not what we want you doing, and you found away around our policies. So we are probably just gonna take it all down and not give you any information.
This is not economic model in any usual sense of the word 'economic'. At best it's a discrete diffusion simulation -- purposely obfuscated with loaded words like wealth and transactions.

Its a nice exposition of using python for a simulation, but it has little bearing on economics.
For the same reason they drone strike villages and weddings. Because they can.
At the moment I only have a source of passive income, which is through mining Litecoin with a couple miners I have.
It depends. At least before finally building your executables, you might want to concat & minify your assets and so on, since this will heavily increase the startup time of your app if you don't. (been there, done that, ... :D)

To generate the final executables, you'll end up hacking together some shell scripts or the like, at least if you do this on a regular basis.

Both points together: an automated asset pipeline and an easy-to-use build tool is included.

+1 for the data storage part, i'd love to hear some deeper thoughts in the github issues part...

about the chosen technologies: these are my preferences. After spreading my app skeleton idea I expect similar stuff to emerge for other personal preferences. But finally: one of my main goals of spreading the word here is to bring the idea of node-webkit to the folks, since this is an awesome open source project and could use some more helping hands.
Kanye West, Startup Idol
Interesting to see that kind of a difference between hitachi and western digital, given that WD owns HGST. Are hitachi drives marketed as higher reliability drives, or was the acquisition by WD simply too recent for the quality of the two brands to "equalize"?
> lots of other funny things

Let's not get carried away here. We've been talking about wireless transmission of electrical power for a while now: http://blogs.intel.com/intellabs/2008/10/02/rattner_the_prom....
I have been running a simple career site for Marines for the last 2 years, and have now slowly grown to capture about half the Marine Corps monthly. It slowly drags in $400 a month and has been creeping up to the 5k mailing list mark. I work on it about a day a month, if that.
You could probably turn that around rather easily by paying a good designer or graphic artist to produce some professional looking assets and reskinning the game.
At least you could block flash.
Currently 5. They should have decent output even after they paid for themselves.
The ability to understant how the input was parsed is an interesting feature, but i think it'd better be optional.

Most of the times users will only care about the results, so you'll be sending useless data
Raindancing for Ideas
It uses non-USA cars for the USA. We don't have the Chevrolet Matiz or Holden Senator here.
A website promoting ebooks about seduction : http://www.ebookseduction.com/ (in french, english version coming soon)
It's not a big business but it is good pocket money considering it takes me few hours of work per month.
You and I might have quickly picked up on the fact that Beats headphones are trash, but the vast majority of consumers have no idea. I see Beats everywhere these days. A lot of seemingly intelligent people I know are using Beats.

And you can't even tell them that Beats sucks, as I learned the hard way. It's not socially acceptable to inform someone that they wasted several hundred dollars, especially when they identify with the brand so closely.
> I even find reading the Perl 6 synopsis (http://perlcabal.org/syn/) entertaining.

The Operators page (http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html) scares me O.O
Hmm, I probably should send my cv there...
I make about $400 a month quite passively by selling software with Envato. Just the occasional comment and email which takes 5 - 10 minutes a day at most.
I also sell a beginners book on creating and selling WordPress plugins which only sells one or two a week.

I have a bunch of cool stuff out there but my biggest weakness is marketing. I can never seem to drive enough targeted traffic to my projects.
The occupations do seem the most likely to cause suspicion. Some of them are trades where you have to be licensed or registered to have that occupation, so a quick search would prove the person does not exist, or at least is lying about their job.

Then there's the automobile, which could also raise red flags. A Fiat Tempra driven in the USA would probably be suspicious to anyone who knows that Fiats probably weren't sold in the US in 1994, for example. And it might be weird for a clerk to be driving a 2010 Infinity...

Back in the BBS days there used to be programs written to auto-generate identities in bulk, for reasons i'm not aware of. They were designed to minimize scrutiny because there might be humans actually looking at the data you used, since there was less automation in terms of processing accounts back then.
One of the things I hate most about AWS is their refusal to give monthly pricing for EC2 instances like Digital Ocean. Instead I have to use a web form to estimate my monthly/quarterly costs. One of the reasons I might move to DO is that I can do back of the envelope calculations so easily when projecting my costs. And bandwidth costs.
http://www.killfoot.com

Also what kind of map-making are you working on in the travel space?
It is bloated. Saying "I am cool with how bloated it is" does not change that.
On first glance, the whole thing looked very shady to me, since the web pages it generates look like this:

BakingBrokers.com

but it seems they are all non-registered domains, so it is indeed not a scam (and Baking is not quite Banking).

Would be a funny trick, though. Get a lot of people to use your identity generator in order to produce some backlinks.
oh hot. Thanks a lot. Sounds like another win for eigenvectors :p
Come now, Citizen! "Rule of Law"? How old-fashioned of you!

Snark aside, what I don't understand is this: If it means so damned much to Snowden that he should expose all these supposedly horrible supposed abuses, then why isn't he willing to suffer the consequences of his treasonous actions?

The original article is so hot to compare Snowden with Dr. King, but what everyone seems to ignore is that Dr. King did not seek to escape the consequences of his actions. Indeed, he turned those consequences into a cornerstone of his arguments, and they were in large part what drove his movement to eventual victory.

Dr. King and his confederates in the Civil Rights movement, put simply, possessed the courage of their convictions. Edward Snowden, by comparison, has shown nothing but cowardice; having stolen the secret documents on which Glenn Greenwald is turning such a tidy reputational profit, Snowden fled like the thief he is and begged asylum from nations which, while not belligerent enemies of the United States, certainly have no reason to wish us well.

In short, the man is no lion, but a weasel; no hero, but an arrant coward. Have we, in a few short decades, become so debased, so degraded, that no one can any longer tell the difference?
Difficulty growth seems to be sort of correlated and lag a bit exponential growth of bitcoin price.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/419/is-there-empi...
At norvig.com/ipython where the file is hosted it says it's from 18-Apr-2013.
They are not marketed to engineers. They are marketed to people who think they need headphones as good as those used by engineers.

In reality of course, engineers typically use headphones that sound as boring and "lifeless" as possible, for obvious reasons.

Ironically, they often also buy (relatively) cheap ones, as they get used to destruction.
If you've never tried good headphones you can never tell what bad headphones are. Most people have never tried good headphones.
They both pull in Tiger data + other sources (so the expected outcome would be that they are more complete in some areas).
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Why would you do this, though? It's your personal account. When I had to connect to a business account, I set up a second account.
FWIU, inductive coupling uses magnetic fields to transmit power. We use magnets all the time and I don't recall anything harmful coming of it. Can you point us in a direction that would challenge that statement?
It is per US policy to kill innocent people in weddings and villages? Interesting.
I own a pair (got them as a present) and didn't sell them just to make people listen to them and compare them to my other headphones (I'm not joking). I hate them (because of the false marketing first, and the low quality product second) and also most people realize at the 10th second of the music that they're not good at all. But for some, in a strange way, they sound excellent. I just don't get it. Maybe humans developed two different hearing mechanisms and we're still not aware of our differences =)
I would say that there is no contradiction with bottom-up approach, and it was popularized before PG by SICP lectures with image manipulation DSL for making these beautiful recursive image patterns.

Your each iteration in a bottom-up process could be based on a small insight after thinking about a subproblem. Later one just re-uses ones own realizations and adapts them to new requirements.

Also I think that it should be not just linear bottom-up process, but recursive one, when you regularly "call yourself" with the old problem, but a "new you, evolved with experience". Starting from the bottom, from basic building blocks is crucial. The only "addition" is that nothing will be set in stone and you should come back to "simplify" and refactor even what is at the very bottom.

I also never advocated Knuth's idea or that whole programs should be printed as books (while some procedures such as map or append are worth to be printed and framed).

As for poetry, well, I thing almost every youth wrote some in his late teens or early twenties, and yes, I told it wrong, not a whole poem emerges in ones mind, but a few central passages, the main scheme, to which some ornaments could be added later.
How much time did that take to build and maintain?
The worst service and hard drives I have ever had were from seagate. I had 3 separate hard drives RMA'ed _twice_ and all three failed within 3 months twice over, to this day I will not buy seagate.
Good point, we might want add that as an optional parameter. Also note that our address address parsing API endpoint is free and doesn't count towards the usage statistics and billing :)
Dropbox is a ycombinator-funded company
The Observable Universe (accurately scaled zoom out from Earth)
Damn, I used this a ton back in the day, and still use it occasionally now.
I would love to have SSD-based EBS?
I run Arch Linux for ARM on my Pis (headless via WiFi and ssh). What benefit might I get from using FreeBSD? I'm genuinely curious as I'm not very familiar with BSD/Unix (although I am comfortable with Linux)
But, I am not actually appealing to common sense here -- that would make me no better than the "no infinite growth in finite world" people. So, are you suggesting that people will no longer be able to be of any value to others at some point in the future? Or that, despite them being able to produce such value, there would be no demand for their time? Why?

I've seen that link btw. For some reason people in physics are particularly susceptible to thinking that they can understand economics better than economists do. They are quite wrong about that :)
A colleague of mine is working on simulating the banking system according to the real Basel regulatory framework rules.

http://www.iiim.is/2012/10/threadneedle/
Life Above and Beyond the Fold
"Per company policy you have been denied access to the URL:
http://fakenamegenerator.com/

Reason: Not allowed to browse Questionable category"

Now I'm REALLY curious!
Excellent post on finding out if an idea has wings. Very tied to the base of CS183 Peter Thiel's Startup Engineering.
I'm nearly a power user of Windows 8.1 (using it both coding, designing, using VirtualBox, Photoshop, AfterFX, Office etc), and when you just minimize the icons in the Start screen to the smallest possible tile size, it is not different from Windows 7 at all. The thing I miss most is feeling of depth, which is lost in this flat area. But other than that, I don't understand the hype. Every single application in Windows 7 is available in Windows 8. You don't ever have to use Metro apps. I just remove them from my start menu, since I don't use my laptop as a tablet. I didn't like it first, but I get used to it and I use it faster than my previous Windows 7 installation.
A good solid understanding of NVC would beneficial as well. Don't allow them to make blaming statements or think for you.
Apple Sued For Collecting & Selling Customers’ Personal Info
Whenever these cases come up, we tend to look at it with a status-quo bias - assuming that of course this data exists, and it's a question of whether it should be "free" (whatever your interpretation of that term). But in reality, things like YBB+ can impact the existence of the data in the first place - in this particular case, the evaluations existing in as comprehensive a form as they do depends on Yale's explicit sponsorship (having professors hand out the eval forms, etc.)

I'm not sure what the policy implication is - there's no easy rule here. But it's worthwhile to keep in mind that "information wants to be free, Yale can't decide how it's used" (an attitude that's a bit of a straw-man, but not too far from what some have argued here) ignores the reality that the next time the Yale faculty debate whether or not to collect and collate evaluations (or whether to have a numeric score component), they may well decide not to. (Which, of course, is a principle that applies to other cases of data collection - sometimes it's best not to collect it, just because you don't know how it'll be [mis-]used...)
Iterating on your company culture
It went through a couple iterations, and settled on this one. Technically it only took a couple hours to make, and I spend about 2 hours a month actually providing the service. But, as with any side project I tinker with it a couple times a month.
As a power user and after discovering "win+x" on windows 8, I can't come back to windows 7 but it is a matter of taste I guess
ARM is pretty new as a remotely high-performance thing. x86 is used a bit; the Hubble space telescope has a radiation hardened 486, for instance (originally a 386). A good few spacecraft use radiation hardened PowerPCs, M68Ks, and other common designs. Even that ESA chip isn't anything hugely custom; it's a SPARC-V8 variant.
Fancy starting a search engine? Here's what you can learn from previous mistakes
In another comment OP says the source is US Census Bureau.
What advanced features from Windows 7 would you miss on Windows 8.1? Because they are most likely still there.
I use both and in terms of desktop i don't have any productivity issues. The only issue i have with Windows 8 is with USB 3 driver support but i'm not sure if it's microsoft or intel's fault.
Agree..I am skeptical given that it is basically an industry play...The guys behind it are music industry veterans (Dre et al) and bad habits die hard.

Unless they show that they actually know what they are doing and not just trying to use technology to gain more control over music consumers, I'll have to wait this one out.
most of the comments relate more to residual income not passive income. I think passive income is mostly a fallacy and the only thing that comes to mind is saving accounts and bonds.