skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides predictions on financial products I don't think Intrade was illegal but it didn't do that well except for presidential elections.
I think the limited rollout was actually a good thing.

Remember: Facebook was developed in a world with existing and mature social networks. What gave FB a marked edge wasn't its openness but the fact that it was exclusive: Harvard, Ivies, selective edus, all edus, general world.

For the first few years of its life, Facebook was the place that outiders viewed as more selective and attractive than any other option. This was a powerful growth hack.

My own feeling was that Google had a solid initial nucleating community, mostly technical types but also some creatives (largely designers). Unfortunately, by opening the floodgates early, one of the larger adopter communities were SEO and marketing types -- not, shall we say, the most engaging party animals. The turn came early.

I also feel that G+ really didn't start getting its feet under it until ~February/March 2013. Search had been incorporated, there was a growing wealth of content that could be found. I made several posts aimed largely at G+ staff about the value of search-driven and directed navigation rather than streams (I've deleted those along with most of my content).

Unfortunately subsequent changes (the May, 2013 UI redesign) negated many positive effects. One telling post a month or so later from Circlescope showed a marked drop in engagement following that release. I continued to fight for it but watching increasingly passive-aggressive demands for my personal information (phone number, integrated YouTube account) were just pumping up the creep-out factor.

Overall I do agree with you on UI/UX -- G+ is pretty awful in that regard.
The Google Play app translation he mentions isn't done automatically. Look at the announcement:
> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/11/app-translati...

"purchase professional app translations through the Google Play Developer Console"
"select a professional translation vendor"

That said, translation vendors tend to just translate automatically first and then have a human clean it up.
I think this is the right answer

Of course, you can't feed context in the public tool

It's probably the same one, tuned for the specific issues (not translating the name, "fixed" genders and terms/translations for specific words, context clues, etc)

If I'm not mistaken Google uses translations as well when matching content on your site to serve AdSense content.
Which is better then, making your systems an obvious target or making them a harder to identify target?
SweetLabs Picks Up HP As Its Fourth OEM Partner
The nearest I come to knowing anything about this is having used a waterproof camera-on-a-cable hooked up with fishing gear.

(However good friend of mine has worked on support vessels in the North Sea and had some amazing stories, complete w/pictures of big angler fish, Lophius piscatorius I think, caught with high end ROVs.)
Sure, and when Youtube decides to change their policies, and Dropbox goes bankrupt, then she has.... nothing. Hard drives are cheap. Run a backup service and you have no worries.
I think he was referring to the descriptions in the Play (and Chrome) stores, which are now automatically translated if translations aren't provided by the developer: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
> In the off chance you're not trolling, I'll bite.

If you want to know something on internet, just say something wrong and someone will come up to explain.
EDIT: Ignore this.

I tried doing this for x = sqrt(2) and it quickly approaches infinity. What is the actual solution for x?
Most everyone has forgotten the 2000 dot com crash, when all the computer jobs disappeared. This "learn to code" is just how it was then.

I would bet money that in less than five years, a lot of software people will be unemployed -- again. (If I win, good. If not, good. :-) )
That's really helpful. Thanks.
Sounds like we'll have to check this issue in details.
All of them are well within the realm of possibility.

A friend of mine is an animator and a whole team of his was employed working on an educational cartoon. Two weeks before the close of the project, the client said "God told me in a dream not to do this project anymore." The client ended up not paying for any of the months of work already completed on the project and the team ended up sacked by the studio.

On the East Coast, being paid 6 months after completion of a project or not at all is almost the rule.
Online professional profiles do not have to be boring
Gov Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
To be a doctor you need to study for like 10 years as well.
I was so ready to be frustrated at yet another creepy/misogynistic PUA article, but this is really not that bad.

Lines like:

> He's found results by giving girls genuine compliments,

> has finally internalized the notion that women like sex too.

> helping women by training men to be better communicators.

> empowers men like Seth by helping them understand what they have to offer women.

I wish more of the awkward guys in the bay area (or even NYC) would follow this advice.
So-called ocean "Acidification" appears to be 100% propoganda.

"scientists do not think the seas will become truly acidic (with a pH less than 7.0), but rather less alkaline"

So, it is not "acid" that is eating away anything. If these shells were in "pure water" with ph 7.0, the deterioration woud be worse.
A student of mine (Graphic Design major) made his master thesis on this topic. He devised a pictograhic signage system, developed a “disaster kit”, all items consistently “branded”, wrote and designed a survival manual. All well-thought and scrupulously executed. Cum laude.

- http://cargocollective.com/sjaakboessen/NOODPAKKET
- http://sjaakboessen.blogspot.be/2013/
Thanks for playing, everyone! While my little server didn't stand a chance against the deluge of new players, I was able to fix a lot of bugs and scale things up quite a bit. I'm going to keep working on it and put out a more polished final version soon.
I was a junior manager, manager, senior manager, chief operating officer, and hated it.

I even have a Master's of Management, which I enjoyed.

But I love being a senior analyst. I want to be a senior analyst forever. It's enthralling to me. I decline management job offers. It's not worth a few extra bucks for me.

I'm putting my savings toward a tech angel fund for when I'm too old to program. I'm working on side projects that might blow up big time one day. There are other options besides management.
imagine all that money they spent on lawsuits to be spent on research and charity?
Partly agree. For now it seems to be keeping them afloat into 2050 or something provided they don't come up with something really stupid before that. After that they have the worlds 3rd largest Thorium reserve.

One good thing I think is at least they are not spending it as they extract it, rather investing it globally.
Kings tend to buy houses not rent flats. Ljubljana seems nice though.
I don't believe all the comments pointing out that x^(x^...) converges only in a certain range are the best way to understand what's going on here. The way I see it, the "solve for x" puzzle really just serves to obscure the true reasoning used:

if y=sqrt(2)^y and z=sqrt(2)^z, then y=z.

When put like this, we can see that this is clearly false: solutions to the equation need not be equal any more than all zeros of a polynomial need be equal.
It seems the gps data lies SWW of the map view.
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>"It's the most obvious thing"

Why wasn't it implemented before if it is indeed as obvious as you are making out?

Not one of the the modern things that you describe are examples of prior art.

>"These are all obvious since this are so incredibly analogous to other use cases."

Analogous to what?

You are confusing mechanism with method. What you describe is a textbook example of creeping determinism (hindsight bias).
Fortunately it's not all resource extraction, there is also significant amounts of mobile tech, ref: http://memkite.com/2014/04/28/trondheim-the-unknown-mobile-t...
I always assumed Google has two kinds of translations - the online we know from the web, which is fast though simple, and an offline, that is much more realistic but slow. Other companies achieved very good offline translations (often by employing professional translations that translated sentences between languages and building databases for automated translation) and I see no reason why Google wouldn't be able to create/license a similar one.
This strange behaviour whether its creatures dying and filling up the ocean floor 98 percent or this snail thing is related to the fuku shima radiation which is reaching the west coast. No other explanation can possible explain these which has never happened in history.
This is a non-issue and I don't mean that in a small way.

Github has produced a near monopoly on hosting for popular open source projects because it is so liked (as OP himself admits). Soon enough something better will come along that makes Github look like SourceForge and then we will all migrate our projects over there.
I think this is true (from memory)

Unity was already C# before phones and paid Mono to port it to the iPhone. That kicked off Mono realizing that these new platforms could be a source of revenue, and charged for support. Their approach has been: Mono is free for free OS's and for pay for proprietary ones.

Another driving force is that C#/VB.NET is very popular in the enterprise for Desktop apps. This pool of developers need something for phones/tablets and there's Mono just ready for them.

Ruby/Python are not as good for desktop apps (more on servers) and phones, Macs, and tablets are not likely servers.
concurrent.futures is nice but it's a real shame that ThreodPoolExecutor doesn't take an initializer argument like multiprocessing.Pool does; e.g., if you want a bunch of processes to work on a big data file, it's convenient to have all workers load that file at initialization. See https://code.google.com/p/pythonfutures/issues/detail?id=11
Thanks, good point. I'm trying to fathom someone downvoting someone asking for an explanation without a sock puppet being involved.

I'm disappointed though--if he or she really is an expert, I wanted to know why they thought that.
We don't really like that kind of advertisement in our workplace.

He brought it there just to share the WTF moments. PCSoft never ceases to amaze us. A very bad language and an even worse marketing strategy, but the company still works...
> I don't think he really understands what twitter is for

I can't really hold that against anyone since I can't figure out what it's for ether.

> she didn't understand that the sidewalk wasn't even necessarily meant for her. ... homeless persons use to panhandle, ... and every once in a while some lune is up there with a sign expressing their view.

She probably fully knew this and this was exactly what she was trying to prevent.

Basically, just like this from elsewhere in the comments -

> I would pay for Twitter as well. Though it would be a huge backlash, I think it would clean things up quite a bit.
Vandenberg Air Force Base is, what, 150 miles to the NW? Would LAX's radars see polar orbit launches?

I also find it difficult to imagine a SR-71 didn't mosey on by its radars, especially since the Skunk Works were in Burbank during the Cold War.
just a data point: for our enterprise customers, 800GB intel datacenter 3500 series flash drives (the penultimate model good for most write-heavy applications) are already basically the same price as 600GB 15k SAS drives and actually cost less if you drop the raid controller which isn't that great with ssd (in our experience).
A) That's not what the post above says, and b) it's not accurate.

Blue collar refers to jobs that involve physical labor. The term arose when people on the factory floor would wear blue coveralls, and people that worked in the offices off the floor would wear white button down shirts.

Why exactly every job needs to have a clear path to CEO or be considered a dead end or blue collar job is a mystery to me.
tl;dr of this my comment: G+ never died, it leveled out and waited. Now that users are looking for real alternatives to FB, those of my generation plus-or-minus one are heading to G+. Expect G+ to grow over the next while as FB declines.

Skipping past the HN echo chamber of agreeement that Google+ is indeed dead....

I've not used G+ much as I find it too Pinterest-y in style, just too hard for my linear, "tell me what's new" mind to navigate. Lately, I've been far too busy to use FB, which, with SocialFixer installed, is a reasonable platform for seeing what's new in my social circles.

Most of the time, should I have have something to post, I post it to FB; if it is particularly geeky, I also post it to G+.

This morning, after quite some time away from both, the number of friends, business associates, and acquaintances awaiting me on G+ was staggering. More and more people from my most of social circles are joining G+, except those who are either social-network-impaired or facebook-diehard.

My guess is that they are wondering what social network might be for them, now that FB has changed one too many times and made it all that much more evident that we the users are there to be consumed.

Most of my generation plus-or-minus-one won't head to Instagram, etc., these are for the young folk. Expect to see more of us middle agers on G+.
http://i.imgur.com/QS3R4sP.png

My day job is at a boutique financial services firm (9 full-time employees) with a lot of people out of the office at times. Most of us take on many roles and over time I found that I was keeping track of a lot of operational/hr type of things in a lot of different places. I created StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com) to put all of it in one place. The key thing for me is that I get one email every morning that includes anything that needs my attention. Hopefully should be ready to launch publicly in a month or so.
Luis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada accessories are commodities by definition.

From wiki:
>In economics, a commodity is a marketable item produced to satisfy wants or needs. Economic commodities comprise goods and services.

Are you suggesting that Apple products are not marketable items, thereby being goods? Or that their cloud products are not services?

Are you suggesting that a Luis Vuitton handbag is not a marketable item produced to satisfy consumer wants?
"Men categorize women in one of four ways: Mothers. Virgins. Sluts. and Bitches. Of course none of the above is suitable for the modern business woman. But, you can create your own image by selecting pieces of each archetype suitable for you. For example, the sexual attractiveness of the slut. The wisdom of the mother. The integrity of the virgin. The independence of the bitch. This leaves men confused and unable to pigeonhole you. They are forced instead, to take you seriously."

From "Syrup" (2013), Amber Heard, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8jBcL0oAQ

Not saying this is the solution. You should get respected no matter what.

But... if everybody you meet is a shallow asshole, why not start manipulating them?
I don't see what you're doing to make it approach infinity. Let r0=sqrt(2) and r(i+1)=sqrt(2)^r(i). Then

r0 = 1.4142135624
r1 = 1.6325269194
r2 = 1.7608395559
r3 = 1.8409108693
r4 = 1.8927126968
r5 = 1.9269997018
r6 = 1.9500347738
r7 = 1.9656648865

...

This is clearly approaching 2. Not sure what you were doing.

Edit: Ah! I see - you've got the association the wrong way round. The convention is that a^b^c is a^(b^c). This is because (a^b)^c can just as easily be expressed as a^(bc), so you get more expressive power.
>> Here’s another thing holding back the future of news: the notion that “objectivity” is the only model worth pursuing. The practice of gathering all sides of an issue, and keeping an editorial voice out of it, is still relevant for some, but the broad journalism opportunity includes many variations of subjectivity.

Grantland, to me, has figured this out better than anyone else (at least of the largest journalism endeavors). It helps that Bill Simmons is a pioneer of open subjectivity as a modern journalist, but most of their staff blends some level of subjectivity into their work (even Zach Lowe, who Simmons calls Spock in a reference to his rationality, and who admits to losing his personal team fandom after working as a journalist, has a weekly piece called "10 Things I Like and Don't Like). It also is probably worth noting that, being an ESPN website, they don't really need to worry about breaking news, as they just work closely with the traditional "reporters" of ESPN (although even then, guys like Marc Stein still inject their subjective views a bit).

There's a place for old fashioned, unbiased reporting. However, it may be the case that this style of journalism becomes a supplement, existing on Twitter and in interviews, to Andreesen's proposed "marketplace of ideas." The decentralized nature of the internet makes this much more realistic than it was when television and newspapers controlled access to information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
Stranger in a Strange Land: “Big Data” programmer meets HPC community
Yur app will automatically not bring up the software keyboard.

The main issue is that they don't make keyboard shortcuts for things you need to tap on. I don't know of a single app that does that, so you have to type-type, tap-tap, type. I hate the mouse, so I REALLY hate this.

I bet Win8 apps make more shortcuts -- Windows has always been better at this.
Could you do this in the form of a smartphone app too? Open the unwhiteboard app, take a whiteboard photo and the filter is to process the image in to sharp text on the white background. I guess combining it with Evernote in some way would make the image content searchable with OCR.

You could use the domain as a good landing page to showcase the app. I think making it an e-mail service makes it harder to monetize.

Alternatively could you go from image to editable text straight away so students can add to / amend and the words. e.g to save copying down what the lecturer has written, they snap it and it is usable text immediately.

FYI Your landing page looks good but you need to show the end result without having to click on a link. Also you need to use the word 'legible' not 'eligible' in your headline.
One of the nice things about Github and Bitbucket is that they both use Git. You can push to both of them and enjoy the best of both worlds.

git remote add bitbucket git@bitbucket.org:username/reponame.git
git remote add github git@github.com:username/reponame.git

You could even add another Git repository you control fully as well.
This talk literally changed my life. I owe my academic career to it.
The resource curse seems to be mitigated the more the local population is involved in the engineering and science of the various resource exploratin/extraction processes. Norway having a tech-sector to "tilt" towards resource extraction is itself highly unusual.
Watch out, you might lose all your karma for interrupting the Bay Area self flagellation. Honestly, it is expensive, but not enough to offset the insane salaries, at least for devs. If you're going to feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for everyone else who lives here.
Python threads, aren't they just single threaded execution?!
Use this all the time to update READMEs and documentation

Great, clean interface
OK. I thought it was someone's idea to demonstrate how hypertext can obliterate the experience of reading a good story because you are constantly distracted by the thought that you are not clicking the links. I'm not being sarcastic. I really thought it was a very clever demonstration.
LocalBitcoins under attack
Wow. If news is only "content" that exists to sell advertising, then sure, go ahead and believe that there'd be no problem if journalism were to "tear down, or at least modify, the 'Chinese wall' between content and the business side."

But if news consists, in some significant part, of journalism -- of gathering perspectives and verifying facts and giving voice to stories and ultimately serving as an independent check on government and power -- then it is troubling to think giving up on this is the only future Andreessen sees for news.
Are Apple only the biggest if we include iPhones and/or iPads? I don't think anybody puts an HDD into a smartphone/tablet (it's surely all flash?) so it seems we'd have to limit the definition of computer to laptop/desktop to get anything interesting. Otherwise machines with an HDD are a minority already like you said.
Exactly, Google Translate is a statistical translation.
I respect Marc Andreessen's opinion a lot, but that seems like a dangerous idea to me. Further in the article, he's quoted as saying:

"There’s a reason so many newer sites are writing with verve and voice: It works."

I think that statement hinges pretty strongly on how we define "working", and I would posit that page views and ad sales should not be the metric by which we measure journalistic success. It's true that technology has made it easier for a lot of people to publish their opinions, and that's fantastic, but there's still enormous merit in having news sources which attempt to present news objectively.
Run CasperJS scripts from the browser
It seems nice, but I'd like to know more about where the UI is hosted and whether I can easily host it myself. Is there an architecture diagram somewhere?

(Ideally I'd run it on App Engine.)
http://www.boxuk.com/upload/2014/02/Relaunched-Ultimate-Webs... someone on here posted it the other day and I've used it, snagged a bunch of stuff so far.

I like the idea of what you are doing I'll be sure to keep an eye on it :), Good Luck.
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The article says Yiddish is "spoken mainly by the Jewish ultra-orthodox community that refrains from using computers." Well that's half true: (ultra-)orthodox Jews are a major part of the Yiddish speaking world, but the idea that they do not use computers is ridiculous. I wonder where this idea comes from...you can even Google it to learn that some rabbis advocate for their members to censor their internet access, which implies they do have computers. They even post on YouTube.
I remember when facebook was not accessible to anyone without a university email address. So I think it was college students, not high school students, that blew it up.
While it is true, the fact that someone can actually "follow you" and "add you to a circle" is really really weird. I may be making a hypocritical point since I am also a tumblr user and my public one is actually followed by strangers too, but something down in my guts suggests that knowing strangers is adding me to a circle is just really really weird.
"Unless you do something stupid like personal guarantees on loans or do not incorporate."

Entities lending money are not stupid. You can't just start a new business, incorporate, and then go out and have your corporation get a loan. Lenders are obviously aware that the corporation is not credit-worthy, will demand personal liability on the loan, same as they would if your business had no corporate form.
Could anyone provide screenshots? I hate to be a hater but authorizing an app to access all my private repos is little too much (not sure how GH allows OAuth scoping)
Ask HN: Why isn't D more popular?
I just recently discovered dlang accidentally, after doing a graduate course that had assignment in c, while looking for better alternatives to system programming, I heard about Rust, but D seems to be a really nice alternative to C/C++ as well. I was pretty impressed by the amount of libraries, package manager, IDE support and modern capabilities.

What would be a reason to not use D and prefer for example on Rust for system programming? Is D slower due to garbage collection?

Or in other words, why D didn't "replace" C for system programming?