skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"loosing some" is the whole point :) That's the beauty of lisps, they make "the simplest possible way of doing something" just pop out, and once you see it, you just have to do it this way! You then show the middle finger to both 'powerful type systemy abstractions' and forget you ever learned them, and then the other middle finger to 'powerfully optimized down to metal programming', and you go hunting for real world problems that you can solve using 'the simplest possible ways' thinking ...until you realize that using simple and elegant tools, you ended up building a ...type system :) (http://typedclojure.org/)
For all those mentioning scrapy, would it be a good fit for authenticated scraping with parameters (log in to different banks and get recent transactions)?
Introducing boomcatch
Sounds like a really easy way to launder bitcoin.
Would like to know more and connect with you on this. How to contact you?
I once attended a meeting where a manager said "We won't be doing agile, but we will work with more agility", which basically translated to we won't be changing our existing process.

Agile to me is real: it has not been diluted as I know exactly how I will implement an agile process (scrum in my instance). I don't care if others misuse or misunderstand the term. For me it's concrete.
> My anecdotic experience

HN has to stop complaining about people's experiences that they don't like by crying "anectdotes", or "anectdata is not data". If someone says that it is their experience then that's it, take it for what it is rather than demanding that they should start peer-reviewing their life.

Same goes for apologizing for sharing one's experiences...
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My little side project http://GREP101.com has been on ice for the last few months, but I've now taken the plunge and shuttered the "monetization" side and freed the content.

The hosted course "drip fed" the lessons one per day by email. I still like that approach, but it looks as if an ebook or online course will be a more practical form for the course going forward, but I'm asking for some help to make this happen.
Mmm... The bar stalls right in the middle. Latest stable Firefox (27.0.1).
Maybe the author of bitcoin used the name Satoshi Nakamoto because he knew that journalists would find Dorian Nakamoto?
Nicely done. Best quip I've read on HN today.
Is this the most upvoted most in HN?
Maybe HN wants the number of votes to be 2048 :)
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Bread's even more extreme: I caught my own wild sourdough a few times. (You can catch your own wild yeasts for beer too, but that's more hit and miss, I believe?)
This. Also applies in small team and freelance situations.

If your client just views you as the person who writes a code function they need, it's pretty easy to outsource you. If your client views you as a trusted person who can take their requirements, work with them in a pleasant way to clear up any vagueness, and then recommend and deliver a technology solution that just fixes their problem ... your gold.
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Ask HN: Validating an ad supported business?
I'm considering an idea for a content business which would be ad supported. There's an awful lot of advice out there on avoiding this kind of business in favour of something where people pay you directly, but let's say I want to consider an ad supported website as a business - how would I model / validate it?

My thinking so far is that it's a bit like the marketplace problem. On one side of the marketplace you have users of your site, and you can validate their interest by making some kind of MVP and looking at traction. On the other you have advertisers, and while you can estimate some kind of industry standard eCPM as a clearing price, the real money to be made with individual deals which aren't really on the table until you have a certain size of user base.

Anyone have pointers on this from past experience? Anyone think it should be avoided at all costs?
I did it that way for years—It's perfectly acceptable. But the triple click is just so much better for me. It's one of those little things that makes way more of a difference than you'd initially think. I'd encourage you to try it, even if it seems dumb.
Won with 21056, after about one billion failed games. Man, that game is the ultimate procrastination machine: rids you of absolutely all of your time and gives you the feeling that you actually accomplished something.
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Sliverlight would be a great example of that.
Right. It's not like the story was War and Peace. Not even the Cliff's Notes of War and Peace. It took about a minute for me to read, including time looking at the pictures.
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This is an incredibly exciting project -- congrats to the Prakash lab. One of the most exciting advances in global health and science education I've seen in a long time.

Given where some of their funding is from (Gates Foundation, NIH Fogarty Institute Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) Fellowship, other global health foundations), I really hope they open source this design under an appropriate open source license. The benefits to the developing world of having this design available to the public under an open source license are tremendous.

The only details I can find for licensing don't look too promising (hopefully I'm wrong):
http://techfinder.stanford.edu/technology_detail.php?ID=2922...

Edit: Is the CAD file public?
This recently posted YouTube video by UNSW Professor Norman J. Wildberger discusses the discovery of the quaternions by Hamilton and the subsequent discovery of the octonians. It's 59 minutes, 30 seconds long, and it was published on March 5, 2014:

MathHistory18: Hypercomplex numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6bpPldp2A [video]
I, too, was sure it was going to be Wolfram - I was going to comment to that effect, too, because it's faintly amusing that it's not Wolfram doing "a new kind of <thing>".
The aircraft would also have had to fly through Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese airspaces, twice in Vietnamese's case, before getting into Chinese airspace.

I'm also not sure inertial guidance will direct the aircraft off course enough to sink in the East China Sea.

This article also doesn't explain why a Vietnamese military radar had detected it to be U-turning just before it had to enter its airspace. This article is bunk.
Its sad. But the solution seems to not marry at all.
"getting the right people in and let them organize themselves"

That's a large part of what agility was/is about. The rest also matches up pretty well.
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21304 on my second try after reading your advice. (Probably 8th play or so overall.) Good advice. :)

http://imgur.com/uAZYb1s
I like to buy mp3s from Amazon because the metadata is correct. That's not as common as I'd like with peer-to-peer mp3s.

In a similar vein, sometimes the pirate provides you with malware. Free malware isn't exactly a bargain over cheap content.
Nice to see memory safe languages gaining a stronghold on big game development studios, even if mostly tooling related.
What a fucking game! Seriously, best game I've played in ages, and I only made it to 512. I don't think I'm gonna get much done today...
Have we decided if this is a good pattern or an anti-pattern, yet?
Some formats support embedded subtitles (e.g. MKV), meaning no separate subtitle download necessary. Some torrents will have subtitles distributed in this way (pretty common for anime releases).
Can someone pirate the article on a decent platform. The genius there made something that it is now impossible to scroll on Android 2.3

Not even joking with the irony
AAA game studios are mostly Windows based, specially given the way gaming culture works, so most probably no one ever tried anything on Mono.

Additionally, the readme also has references to DirectX dependencies.
And they think it is expensive here in the UK! That works out to £66.39 here. That's insane.
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Earlier prototypes:

https://pictures.lytro.com/barry.allard/albums/47077
Are you conscious of the fact that you've just lost $10 or $20 while writing this comment?
Oh, _now_ you tell me not to get addicted! >:( You should've made that a splash page to the site, not an edit to a comment on the submission link.

But seriously, well done. :) Completely destroyed my productivity.
My solution is legal but unpopular: no MPAA movies, no RIAA recordings.
Exactly!

I was doing research at a large European bank that has a lot of development outsourced. The project management primarily located at their HQ in Europe while the development is mostly in India.

They have had to resort to moving over a fair few people from India to their HQ as the communication just doesn't work as well otherwise. There is simply no replacing face-to-face communication.

The Communication has the be incredibly specific when outsourcing, not to mention the time difference which carries another set of issues. Both contribute to communication issues, at which point it may simply be better to do it locally, or at least move contractors over from outsourcing location to your HQ.

Remote work is popular right now but the value of just being able to walk over to a colleague to discuss a problem should not be underestimated.
2732 just by spamming keys for 10 seconds.
Since this is related to tools surrounding games there probably isn't much point to make it really cross-platform. If your designers and developers are using Windows anyway investing resources in a Linux version doesn't help anyone. The games themselves run on other platforms anyway and don't care where the levels were designed.

A few things that won't run on Mono are pointed out in the readme as well: »You must have Windows 7 or later to run the circuit, FSM, statechart, and timeline editors, due to their use of Direct2D.«
How did she get on running it on modern systems? It runs horribly for me on XP as I recall, so I attempted it under Wine on Linux with mixed results.

What do you recommend? Grim Fandango is a brilliant game. I bought mine on ebay :-)
"I value my time" - and yet you waste it on games and hn
It's so hard to tell sometimes but I'd hypothesise a few reasons:

1. It's really simple-looking and uncluttered

2. It's an easy game to understand the rules of

3. You can get a real sense of achievement early in the game

4. It's hard to finish the game on the first go
One thing I learned from the experience of losing a family member to cancer is that doctors aren't all that smart or careful oftentimes. I encourage you and your friend to learn as much as possible, and get a variety of opinions. Stay away from pseudoscience, but don't assume doctors have thought of everything or are up to date on the science. Wikipedia and Google Scholar are good places to start.
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Isn't honey crazy expensive as compared to grain and hops? Anyone with mead-making experience?
> Not many of them had success.

Can give some more details, why did most of them fail?
Ironically enough it's Steam that sometimes region locks games. Take the recent Thief 4 release that was region locked in Europe much to the dismay of fans who we're artificially prevented from even playing pre-order copies while the US Steam had no such restriction.
Back up that bus without running people over... I've used them IRL and seen micro-scopic features, so your assessment seems to lack evidence.

Anyhow, crazy awesome clinical, education and novelty value. There are plenty of situations where donating lab equipment is as cruel as giving someone a white elephant, but this is the polar opposite.

The cost is mostly in the bead. The tricky part is holding it a precision distance from the focusing plane, which the paper contraption accomplishes (clearly it's been simplified). The other neat aspect of the prototypes was that one part can be sanded down more on one side than another, where sliding a part allow very fine focus.
How much of _your_ one on one time can you promise to a founder if her startup get accepted to YC?
It is an interesting point. I am happy to pay for Amazon / Lovefilm (including discs because their online choice appears to be bad B-movies or horror films) but I had never considered paying a rental for music. I still buy CDs and rip them; inconvenient I know but I like the sleeve notes

Has anyone tried the Google musicy thing? I seem to be stuck on the "owning" the physical disc and music bit still.
How about using A* algorithm?
For those on XBMC (aka who want to use their TV), I've been working on an extension for the last 6 months called XBMCtorrent that does that:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736

It's based on libtorrent (C++), Golang, and Python.

The major difference is that since it's based on libtorrent, it has good performance (even on low end CPUs like the RPi) and tries _very_ hard not to weaken the swarm too much (even though it uses sequential downloading).

So this means it runs on Mac, Linux, Windows and even Android and Raspberry Pi (OpenELEC).
NDRC LaunchPad.
> Study: most victims of violent rapes are men (prison)

But that's just funny! "Don't drop the soap!" haha...
As someone who knew Haskell first and then learned Clojure, I can tell you that this assumption is incorrect. It's so completely philosophically opposite from Haskell in so many ways that it's a very good mental exercise to really grok them both. It will make you appreciate how much you're paying for that fantastic type system. Understanding this cost will allow you to make better decisions in the future about which technologies are a better fit for a given project.
Maybe I'm just a bit too cynical (negative?), but I find it rather sad that, lets say to improve a movie recommendation algorithm we have a $1M bounty (Netflix price), while to improve an algorithm to detect the possible destruction of earth we have a bounty of $35K.
Our daily work as web developpers. Time to open our eyes... And cry.
Thank you for posting this. I'd just like to also add that the "best possible candidate regardless of gender" clause does not run orthogonal to having ratio targets.

Firstly, they act to overcome the biases mentioned in the OP. Secondly, rarely do employees operate in a vacuum, and the benefits brought to teamwork by having mixed genders is important and valuable. The office I work in is infinitely richer for having moved towards having more equal (albeit still terribly inequal) gender balance by recruiting female Engineers. This shines through in group work where a diverse range of perspectives is important at achieving a robust outcome, e.g.: risk assessments, etc.
Not sure if I can do that. Wouldn't it be unethical and unfair to the other developers?
.. Soit's easier to find what you want in the sea of fake/wrong uploads that is the piratebay than to get the cut you want paying for it?

Seems to agree with everything in this thread, unfortunately.
As a Kiwi expat, prices for internet, and mobile services are amazingly cheaper here in the UK than back in NZ.

There's much more competition here, I'm amazed that I can get unlimited internet on my phone for £12 per month (giffgaff).

Back in NZ my monthly home internet cost the equivalent of £25 with no phoneline (cable - which is rare in NZ), and was capped at 10GB per month. Compared to other services, this was really cheap!
This is true! I bought XMen Origins: Wolverine and it showed a happy family laughing and in ecstasy watching their legitimate DVD in their well-illuminated room compared to the glum-looking spotty dirty nerd in a poorly-illuminated room (more like a toilet). After this vision of deep joy, I felt satisfaction that I had bought the DVD and would soon be enjoying the DVD in my well illuminated room, laughing and frolicking around with my family at sheer delight at the film. I could barely see the DVD player with the tears of joy smearing my vision, running down my chubby cheeks to plop onto the legitimate plastic box that housed the DVD with a satisfying thud.

It didn't play on my DVD player. The copy protection upset it and the DVD player refused to play my legitimate DVD that I had purchased. I could watch the introduction video showing me the deep joy from purchasing the DVD (why do that on the DVD that I had bought???) but not the actual film.

It made me angry. But not angry enough to pirate films. I have never pirated a film. If I can't afford the cinema, I'll just wait until it appears on Lovefilm or ordinary TV. I don't need to rush to see a film. It's not like they're going to go out of circulation or will not be in the bargain DVD bin in 3 years time.
Saying that it's technology that tracks our every move IMO is a little disingenuous, too. ‘Technology’ does what people use it for.

If people in charge were really determined to track every commercial aircraft in the air, could this have been implemented with currently available means? I would believe so.
> how these have largely slipped under the radar

Your single example sells this more effectively than the entire OP. cf. http://bost.ocks.org/mike/example/
Fun and humor, in a sad world :-)
You're right, but it doesn't look like running away is an option. OP emphasizes that they need him, and is specifically asking for help on how to handle this.
It's much less dominant than the Apple store (which really is a monopoly on the iOS platform). If there is an anti-monopoly case it will be there first.
Show HN: Check WebRTC connectivity a NodeKO Spin-off
Working professionally with WebRTC and WebSockets can reveal you a world of wonders that you weren't previously accustomed to using plain web technologies. That dreadful moment when the boss tells you:

- It doesn't work

And you need to scramble to figure out what's wrong, what's the vector? Is it WebRTC? Is it WebSockets? Is it the mobile device? The Network they are on? Enough is enough so during the NodeKO hackathon weekend i implemented www.check-connectivity.com a website that will reliably report connectivity and the browser's information. Hell it can even determine if you are behind a NAT!

It's been a while since NodeKO and i've been hard at work integrating the API to our support forums so with each new ticket a full report of the connectivity and browser status is attached. Today i'd like to share this invaluable tool with you and hopefully get some feedback on how this tool can help you... Enjoy:

http://www.check-connectivity.com
Actually I disagree. The large part (possibly not the intent) was about building a consulting empire around something utterly vague with multiple religious opinions about the best way to perform these manifesto actions.

A vehicle for rats.
The most amazing thing to me about this is that it took that much time to get to this software.
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> “We don’t expect legal issues,”

Really? This seems somewhat naive to me...

> “We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money.

That has not posed a problem for those going after others in the past.

As soon as a large enough entity takes notice they'll run, either because there is a case to answer or because they can't afford the legal team required to prove there is not a case to answer.
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Right. The basic tenets of OO are (1) identity and (2) encapsulation. Many would also throw in messaging.
Perhaps lack of cost pressure.

I see that Europeans are now increasingly outsourcing more: likely driven by cost pressures.
Well that was interesting.

The cost is indeed in the paint (the lagging top-left quadrant redraws the whole map svg).

The difference in the tl and other quadrants is that the other quadrants were causing a synchronous layout because they were asking for the highlight's size to position the tooltip. And this was _faster_, because the different sequencing of layout and paint resulted in a less expensive (partial) paint.

BTW, if you actually want to make this kind of tooltips for complex SVG I recommend having the continuously updated part to be in its own HTML element with styling to make it hardware-accelerated ('div style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(...)'). That way only the changed parts are repainted and the compositing is done by the GPU.

(Well, actually modern IEs are very good at optimizing the SVG changes, but Webkit isn't).
Exactly. And archive those images. The diagnosis may be mechanical-turked off somewhere else or kept for EMR/EHR.
I understand what he says, but from a grammar perspective, he's wrong. He complains that Agile, which started out as an adjective, has been turned into a noun. He wants it to be an adverb instead, so he introduces agility, which already is a noun. And then he says it's not a noun. (I'm sorry, but I just couldn't not point that out.)

But other than that, I agree. What should be making our work easier has been turned into something complex by itself. Though in a sense, maybe that's unavoidable. Not everybody truly groks agility, so they have to be taught, which means training and certification. Although personally I think if you don't innately understand it, you can't learn it in a workshop either. Maybe you need to discover it through experience, and I know people who never will.

So where does that leave us? Only the people who grok agility should work this way, and those who don't should stick to something else? What about the companies who want the hip new buzzword, but also want to have some handle on the process they're using?

An agile process like Scrum definitely fills a need, but I've also learned that Scrum in one place can be totally different from Scrum in another place. Nobody completely follows all the ideas of Scrum, but maybe that's as it should be: adapt what you do to what you need. And there may be a limit to the amount of agility some companies can deal with.
>Every time I boot Dropbox thrashes my disk for 10 minutes while the system is almost completely unresponsive.

I seriously doubt that any usermode program could overwhelm the OS scheduler like that. What are your use case parameters?
Weak game to be honest, it's tedium and meaningless for 10 minutes then the actual game begins for the next 2
Take a look into the sherry making process if you can find a good resource. The (highly generalised) idea is to use several batches created yearly say, so that by the time you have made seven batches for example, the first batch is fully matured. You siphon off half of the first batch and this is your starter - it tells you the character of the finished product, but only really hints at what you'll get. Now you take each batch and tow it down the line, taking half the second batch and topping up the first and so on until you are left to top up your most immature batch. By the time you've got this working as a production line the consistency of the final product will be pretty solid. Personally I can't stand sherry, though.

I'm at work and don't have access to my brewing books so I can't be any more specific than this but I found it an interesting solution to the problem of consistency.
That's kind of a circular argument. How did you get the rental income?

In the end, everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. It's no different for bitcoin as for anything else
because the grass is greener on the other side?
thats the main issue they don't use LXC but want LXC kind of functionality and re-inventing the wheels with libcontainer. Indeed it would have been better to keep the docker core as small as possible and move LXC driver code as module. Indeed instead of using LXC userspace tools they might have focused on rebuilding the driver using lxc-go. This would have helped LXC project as well and docker team then can focus on incorporating production quality changes from LXC into Docker like unpriviledged containers.

This is really an issue abandoning a production quality LXC 1.0 code and re-writing it from scratch. This is NIH syndrome.