skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry for the ambiguity, I was replying to #guard-of-terra who was replying to #randunel who was complaining that eastern europe is a lot like africa in the sense that there are frequent electricity blackouts and bad internet, which to me is difficult to believe (he's was very unlucky).
We had a prototype, but it might take a while to do this right. So: maybe... but first, there's a lot of other things to do...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representat...

My understanding that it wasn't the amount of tax - which was actually quite low, but the fact that they did not (and arguably, could never have) any meaningful representation within the power structures that raised these taxes.
Thought money could buy an American election? You ain't seen nothin' yet
This looks really cool :D
New Transportation And Energy Accelerator To Run In Berlin And SF
People think to create an AirBnb or Twitter, they have to be really smart. However, you really don't need to be that smart to build a massive company. You need a certain IQ of around 110-120 to understand science or how markets work, but after that it's only a matter of how much you believe in yourself/how bold you allow yourself to be.

Being smarter might actually be harmful as the human brain isn't good at filtering all the impressions that the person feels with a higher IQs. For instance, a high IQ often comes with social anxiety, autism and other mental restrictions that lessen the person's capability.

For IQs above 140, people become more specialized from what I've seen. They might be very useful to solve specific problems such as curing cancer/inventing the theory of relativity, but they have a hard time executing a bigger vision involving hundreds of employees and knowledge across numerous fields as one needs to create a startup.

I believe the sweet spot, where a human being can have the biggest impact on the world is somewhere between 130-140. This is an IQ, where a person can understand pretty much everything, but isn't overwhelmed by all the input it gets.
There's a Last.fm app inside Spotify, maybe that would make it easier / more likely for you to check it regularly.
Ask HN: Difficulties with dev remote jobs?
Hi,

As experienced Ruby/Rails developer see many interesting remote jobs listings from US startups... but I don't have experience with this work methodology. Someone has experience of this type to share? Not native English speakers in particular, you have had problems to communicate?
The first factor I would look at is the market you're targeting. What type of similar products are they using and what type of pricing models are they used to?

I know how you feel about getting the 'ripped off' feeling from tiered pricing. I think as developers we're getting used to the AWS model of paying exactly what you get.

But at the same time, you might be in a market where customers might think that in a PAYG model they're being nickel-and-dimed for every little thing. It all depends on their expectations.

So in the end I'd figure out what your customers are accustomed to. I'd also read, if you haven't yet, Patrick's feedback on Tarsnap's PAYG model: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ He brings up some good points I hadn't considered.
Ok - what complicated tradeoff do we make for things to count as "not rigged"? Please be specific.
As I read the article, what you claim happens "sometimes" is rather "most of the time, let us say 99.999999% of the time", which is not so acceptable because it almost always (i.e. always) benefits HF traders.

So, I had rather it would be designed in a different way which does not benefit the people with more money. For example, sacrificing latency so that there is no partition. This way, everybody has the same information at the same time, which is the basic tenet of an equal market.

Also, having different routes for different actors (as per the graphs) does not look like a road map to equality.

BTW: I do not get why you have been downvoted although in some sense your comment might be seen as a misunderstanding of the text. But I am surprised.
Before 1989 the United States required a copyright symbol and year of publishing on every work. After 1989, i don't know of any country that still does this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Copyright_notices_in...
Looks interesting. I certainly wouldn't buy before trying though. I'd strongly suggest a crippled version that lets people platy with it - disable saving, or watermark or ... you get the idea.
I won't pay $20 without trying it first, otherwise it's like throwing money out of the window… Is there any plan for a downloadable trial version?
I'm an American with only the vaguest idea of what goes on in a baseball game. That has no effect at all on the language you're spuriously complaining about; it reads as "Can the guy who applied for [a position] play [a different position] instead? What about [a third position]?" No analogy is being drawn to the actual requirements of baseball positions -- those are just names. To understand the sentence as written, the only requirement is that you recognize that "pitcher" is a different word than "first base".

Perhaps you just like feeling indignant?
I think the best part is :
"Robotnikinin: A potential inhibitor of the Hedgehog signaling pathway has been found and dubbed 'Robotnikinin', in honor of Sonic the Hedgehog's nemesis, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik."
When I was looking for a place to live in SF, I started from the webpass coverage list, and then looked for properties at those addresses. It does restrict you to fairly large, fairly upscale condo/apartment buildings, though.
Why not just subscribe to the podcast with a podcast player of your choice? You may have your reasons but I can't see how email would beat an established concept like podcasts/rss feeds when it comes to being notified about new episodes.
Wait, doesn't Bitcoin already have a scripting language baked in?

And it is disabled on most clients to avoid trolling and DoS attacks.

EDIT: It is addressed on the white paper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...
Why is the domain name HelpMeHelpYou... but the site is headed Help You Help Me?
Don't forget Thoreau's quote that he could learn from everyone. I think the problem is thinking of people in terms of rankings. Some are better at some things than others but that should not translate into being better than others. It's a hard distinction to make because the the latter is shorter and more convenient to grasp.
It's a high-end ERP system (the jargon is "Tier 1" - this has nothing to do with how the software is structured) - so an SAP competitor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Edwards
I have a lot of hesitation about plopping down $20 without being able to try it first (which is why I generally dislike buying apps on Mac App Store). Too many unanswered questions. How does it handle text overflow? Is this going to go away it two months? Are new features coming (maybe export to PPT)?

I'm going to give it a try anyway, since it would be pretty damn useful to be able to whip up a presentation in a text file. I really hate arranging things in Keynote/Powerpoint. It takes forever. It's definitely struck a chord with me - so if I buy this, I hope that it gains more functionality.
A famous writer is in the shared-house? And he/she will make an article about our product on TC Japan? Sounds great.
fwiw, here's a rather relevant post: http://unhandledexpression.com/2014/04/07/revisiting-zookos-...
On the other hand, wearing a clown costume when working as one might be a good idea. Not all documents that contain text are "job interviews".
I tend to tie my shoes once and then just leave them tied until the shoe falls apart and needs to be replaced. I wouldn't consider "tying own shoes" a major requirement for anything outside of maybe an acting career. ;p
$60 server, watch it crash and burn (fun with my ODroid U3)
HulloMail does this for your voicemail.
or they could offer a 24 hour or 7-day full refund?
This is a question I've had myself lately too. If I wanted typing, I think F# is my "first choice" language (assuming Mono support was good). So thanks for asking!

The other thing I'd investigate is the viability of clojure.typed, Haskell, or OCaml. They are very much like F# in a lot of ways, and maybe one of those would fill the need if you weren't comfortable with the state of F#.MONO?
One out of ten for me - I loathe Comic Sans, but item 1-9 don't fit me at all.
There is some potential to create the weirdest partner look.
The audiobook for the LotR trilogy: "Lord of the Rings: unabridged audiobook." I couldn't find a decent info page, so here's a direct magnet link (554.8 MB):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:dbf280a187744045f68d64b9fdc2c581fee5b24e&dn=J.R.R.+Tolkien+-+The+Lord+of+the+Rings+Unabridged+Audiobook&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

In any case, if you search for "Lord of the Rings unabridged audiobook" you'll find results.
Tarsnap's an interesting model, with their PAYG and 12 dp billing values - it's the ultimate 'for-techies' model. But it's not particularly friendly to everyone else.
> it doesn't offer things like transactions and ACID compliance: this is well-known thing

Evidently not. Which is why people are still using it for financial based systems.
Compilr is now part of online education platform Lynda.com
Is Google crippling Firefox?
Scanning and skimming is a problem caused by UI. The way we scroll text on computers and other devices destroys reading flow.

I built an extension / bookmarklet that allows you to scroll websites in a different way and goes a long way to solving this problem on desktop browsers. I hope no one minds me reposting it, it was very popular on hn a while ago.

http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html
> A lot of the Internet is going over unreliable wireless
> technologies. So your beautiful REST calls are now riddled
> with exception handling, because there are so many ways of
> things going wrong.

Let me get this straight, you want do to representational state transfer (REST[1]), that is, keep all long-lived state on the server, and all (single) state changes confined to a single request - and you're worried about your clients intermittent internet connection?

You might have a problem with your architecture, but your architecture doesn't appear to be a REST architecture.

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
I've seen c#, Ruby, and the odd PhP with a decent salary up North.

C and C++ also has a calling up here, but more specialized to the particular company (think Ubisoft).

Recently saw a posting for a Linux kernel dev.

I haven't really seen calling for more niche languages, but I'm also only looking at the postings that come into my email.

Re the comment about management salary, I have been given that as a reason during salary negotiation as to why they can't pay what I'm asking.

The salaries I've been seeing have risen quite a bit in the past 2 years (after dropping suddenly, recession and all).
oops! just fixed it, thanks!
And with this identity it is easier to track you.
CloudHQ (not affiliated, never used it) makes it seem pretty easy[1]. Not two clicks, but that's mostly due to authentication.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/cloudHQ/backup-gmail-to-dropbox
De blauwe smurfen verwelkomen je in Bobbejaanland
Simple, templated Scripts are allowed in Bitcoin, but most of the functionality is disabled for security reasons. It is also not Turing-complete
Yes, his articles are refered to by lots of Japanese entrepreneurs and techies. So if you would be interested in Japanese market, and Asian Market to expand into, then I believe staying in our house is good deal for you.
Its a complex topic, or at least, the themes it inevitably raises are. To stop writing an essay, i'll just leave some dot-points on my perspective:

- Intellectual property doesn't make any sense to me. It seems more like a cultural practice rather than intellectual one, and just comes across as absurd. So someone trying to justify things based on it might as well be telling me what some god I don't believe in thinks about my sins...

- Its good, if you've got the resources to do so, to try to support people financially who produce things you like/use. The easiest way to do this is buying their stuff/sending them money.

- Its bad in general to be parasitical on the work of another, or dishonest about how/what you've done...

- The market/distribution of resources amongst society/law is not a moral authority, so the fact that a person has ownership over something, or that a certain product is for sale in a certain market for a certain price with certain barriers/conditions, doesn't imply anything universally, for or against. It is relatively easy to think of scenarios where i think its justified to participate in, or ignore, or fight against, any of those things.

So the long and short of it is that if you've got the money and you can support the author/creator of something that you like/use, you should find a way to get some of your money to them. You should REALLY do it if you're using it to make money yourself.

But i'm not going to lose sleep if a pimply teenager somewhere plays a game they didn't buy, people lend books, people copy software amongst their computers, use pirated software for their own education but don't make money from it, or people pirate where a market fails them in their ability to provide money to the creator/author at reasonable terms/price.

I'm not going to pretend I have a prescriptive solution for all of society. I think my rule of financially support the creators/authors of things you use if you can is a good personal rule of thumb, but i'd never seriously consider chasing up people copying my own work as long as they weren't trying to literally take credit for it and making substantial money via its use...
>So for all the conspiracy theorists out there, here is the fundamental question: which two should be provided for the markets not to be "rigged"?

There is no need to make any complicated tradeoff. For it to count as non-rigged, you simply need a system where:

* You cannot pay to gain privileged access.

* Abuse of the system (e.g. quote stuffing) gets you punished.

I find it amusing that you call us 'conspiracy theorists'. These aren't allegations of a government cover-up of alien UFOs - it's mundane criminal behavior with a very minor twist.
Thanks for sharing info...
Yeah, that seems like a terrible "license structure". If he added irrevocable I think it would be sufficient for use, but as is I can't understand how you could currently feel safe using it?
In NYC there is a sort of similar startup: Makespace. You ask them for storage boxes and they bring those for free. You fill them and make an appointent to fetch them from your house. They then bring it to their storage facility. Fee per box. http://makespace.com/invite/4dA/
Show HN: My language learning startup in 78 symbols
I heard you liked startups so I created one for you guys in 78 symbols.

Add to .zshrc
git(){[[ "$@" = commit\ -m* ]]&&termit en es ${${@:$#}//./} -t;command git $@}

And gem install termit
googling the hash for mentions of the expected downloaded file is a pretty clever trick!
I expected this to be about the strengthening of interpersonal bonds by accomplishing unfamiliar tasks together. I've built IKEA or similar furniture with quite a number of people, from my own family to friends, acquaintances, and potential mates. It was always a good time, even when a part went missing or we assembled something backward early on and had to redo half our work.

Many people have essentially lost touch with their manual abilities: from chopping vegetables (pre-chopped salad packs are virtually absurd) to changing flat tires (people think I'm weird when I tell them I can do it and they don't need to wait for a service to come). Even handwriting is all but lost in some places.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I find it soothing to work with my hands on small, simple objects which obey the rules of physics in a tangible way. Not Excel workbooks, not online shopping, not driving a car using cruise control with a camera that automatically keeps its distance from the car in front of you, freeing your feet to do, well, nothing.

Making things is therapy. It's no surprise that the things we make are imbued with positive emotions.
This looks absolutely great. I, however, would like to chime in for a downloadable test version, just to see the workflow of how to actually build a presentation.
Actually it doesn't. The "hard" problem here isn't telling the client to come back later, it is providing the client with a way to get the actual results later. So providing a request identifier that gets populated in a database when the task is complete may be one way to do that.
Looks very interesting, but unless I can host it myself it's a no-go for me.
Sorry, I misunderstood it. :( I browsed too fast.
Facebook of the Dead
> Statistics are bordering on pointless in establishing the validity of the video and claim.

Hi Kristian.

I hope you are well.

I’m wondering what was your intention when responding to me that what took me 20 minutes of my free time was pointless. Someone asked if such a calculation was doable; I illustrated how.

Taking about things that might be pointless: no one explored or even mentioned the scenario of someone throwing a rock without saying how difficult and dangerous it would be -- whose concerns are you trying to respond to?
Brendan Eich has the right to fight gay rights, but not to be Mozilla's CEO
Ask HN: What should be the content of wedontneedno.education?
It isn't about notification nor SLA. It is about making your customers feel at ease, giving your team less work and lowering your costs.

If my VPS is down and my hosting provider do not aknowledge it, it is only logical that I will have myself to create a ticket. As a customer I get both anxious and lose time. On the provider's end, now they have an open ticket that they have to read, possibly connect with another employee than the one that provides 1st level support and give me a proper answer.
An automated ticket that would probably be semi-automatically closed too is best for both of us.

For notification purposes there are excellent services (uptimerobot, pingdom, monitor.us). SLA would be nice to have but most good lower cost VPS providers usually are over 99.9%, which is nice except the occasional outlier.
I do this because I don't want to spend too much time reading crap or second-rate writing. Essentially stuff someone decided to blog because they're bloggers or had a "cool" idea. If something takes 30 minutes to write, I probably want to spend about 30 seconds reading it.

But on great works which an author has spent years thinking about before even committing it to writing; or have gone through several revisions of it, I will devote my time to slow-reading and understanding.
> Disagree with a few things, the title 'static is better', is hyperbole, its a different environment.

This.

I feel I might fall under the hn banhammer soon, but I really wish people would actually read Fieldings thesis (introducing REST) -- it's a really good overview of the different architectures one might use for a client-server system. It' not just REST, REST is a natural conclusion drawn from the alternatives when the goal is a highly performing system for hypermedia:

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_arch...

But it's worth noting that fat-client styles are also in there, and the trade-offs mentioned are worth keeping in mind (no, there is no silver bullet -- you actually should choose an architecture that fits your problem domain. Shocking, isn't it?).
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I haven't yet given it a spin but it won't be fair to call it just syntactic sugar. The value it provides, besides a little easier to write syntax is abstracting kernel level code. You don't need to specify block/grid size, move memories around CPU/GPU but I doubt if it can match the performance of hand-written OpenCL/CUDA kernels when it becomes to bleeding-edge Imaging performance.
Maybe the answer for 'a few bits over 64' is __int128_t that gcc and clang support. Emulated but probably as fast or faster than an arbitrary precision lib. Easier to try, too.
I'm not sure if you've ever worked with Oracle, but they have a long history of making it hard for customers since a good proportion of their income comes from consultants.

Quite honestly, they're one of the worst anti-user companies ever.
Is everyone at a Meetup really who they say they are?
>(not to mention that that "liquidity" and "efficiency" arguments fall flat -- the types of HFT schemes being described here work only by creating artificial illiquidity, and I don't know of any rigorous argument that creating more middlemen improves efficiency)

A lot of HFT is market-makers competing for positions in the book. They're simply providing liquidity and literally the more trades they make the more money they make. Market-making is socially valuable (decreases the cost of trading aka the spread) in a similar way that arbitrage is, and as I understand it this is why people are so hesitant to regulate HFT, despite some of the problems it causes. As far as preferential treatment, consider that exchange fee schedules prefer these kinds of traders for a reason.

Exchanges are for-profit and their liquidity providers don't execute trades for the fun of it, there has to be incentive, even if the incentives are at times perverse
The same thing exists for the R programming language in Slidify [0]. I found Slidify + Google's io2012 framework an efficient way to generate good-looking presentations [1] so I can see the appeal in extending this to non-programmers.

[0] http://slidify.org/

[1] http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/slidify-prese... — disclaimer: my blog
To avoid payment for access, presumably access would need to be free. Who would pay for it, then? Should we have state-sponsored exchanges? The networks and rack space required to let people trade in near-time are not cheap (and using the internet doesn't really work because people would go right back to paying for lower latency, higher throughput, and/or better reliability).

We could make the markets go super-slowly, but you know what will happen then? Correlated securities in other countries will trade at high frequency and dominate the price discovery process for "our" listings. That won't help our economy, it won't help reliability, and it won't help us assess taxes.
It's not stated or implied that such candidates were considered unfit to hire, merely less-than-ideal - I took it as an indication that in this place, pretty much all applications are from less-than-ideal candidates, some of which turn out to be very promising (Gloria), while others are impolite and entitled, or don't even show up.
Slightly off-topic, but can someone recommend a good book about typography? I mean more about the history of typography, less about how to design new fonts.
http://wedontneedno.education
You don't also need to specify the block size in OpenCL either. It's just extremely useful to do that.
If your aim is to be friendly to people with dyslexia there are better fonts than Comic Sans though.
It's not so much that it's one file (although that makes for fun times if the underlying filesystem doesn't support proper write locks), after all most databases also use just one file -- it's more the fact that individual messages are only recognized by lines starting with "From: " -- which presents some obvious challenges with escaping (that some programs manage to get wrong). I also imagine it'd be challenging to maintain an effective index as mails are deleted...
AFAIK in USA at least, until 1976 that was the deal. From that year on, everything is copyright by default.

This change was because The Night of the Living Dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyri...