skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Anki for a hybrid approach to learn for some university courses, learning with the Android app during commute and physical paper cards at home.
shameless plug: I wrote a small tool to export Anki decks to PDF: https://github.com/nordicway/a2pdf
Only works for simple cards though.
Can anyone explain to me how displaying those sites on demand is not copyright infringement? I'm seriously curious, I don't know much about copyright laws.
Great! A Haskell tutorial for JS or PHP programmers would be awesome.
And with Chrome soon hiding the urls, we will have hard time doing it too.
I really miss being able to search comments or code in Metrowerks Codewarrior. I wish there was a plugin for that in Xcode (a formatter would also be nice, its copy and paste is a little wonky for things like blocks and literals shorthand).
Heh, sorry for the overlap :)
South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
In the past, the upper class in England would eat swans.
NodeSa prototype UI
Demo/prototype of NodeSa's UI and functionality.
What policy does "grandfathered customers" refer to?
That doesn't typically stop us. Cows (especially young ones) are incredibly cute. Lamb are the quintessence of cuteness. Rabbits are cute as well.
How TV Ads Influence Online Shopping [Academic paper]
There is a weird hivemind effect on display here and in other various Silicon Valley discussion circles where there is an unstated but very solid agreement that certain companies are "cool" and thus receive the most charitable interpretation of their plans and financial situations, but others which do essentially the same thing are run out of town on a rail, so to speak.

Take for example the story from today about Apple supposedly buying Beats. When the subject of Apple trying to compete in the music streaming space came up, everyone only talked about Spotify. Pandora, which has more than 3x the user base and is still growing? Not a mention. IHeartRadio, which was founded two years after Spotify and has more than double the number of paying subscribers that Spotify does? Never heard of them! It's as though Spotify is the only streaming music service that ever existed. In reality, they are near the lower end of the scale when it comes to customer traction, but they have mindshare on HN that is completely out of whack with that.
What do you think about app builders?
I am thinking about creating an alpha version of an app to test if it generates traction at any level.

Given that I am not an iOS engineer (I just hustle code from time to time), I am wondering what real iOS engineers think about appmakr.com, ibuildapp.com or similar.

The app will give users several options and ask them to chose among them based on geolocation, the mechanics do not seem complicated, initially.

Would you (iOS eng) be able to take the code and improve it if a serious app needs to be built after alpha is proven to create traction? Or it'd be so bad that you'd suggest to start all over again at that point?

Would you recommend any of those services above the other? Any one of those is your preferred one?
Has there been any High Scalability articles on their infrastructure? We have a similar need: storing a large volume of text-based content over a period of time, with versioning as well. On top of it we have various metadata. We're currently storing everything in MySQL -- a lightweight metadata row and a separate table for the large (~400KB on average) BLOB fields in a compressed table.

We're looking at ways to improve our architecture: simply bigger+faster hardware? Riak with LevelDB as a backend? Filesystem storing with database for the metadata? We even considered using version control such as git or hg but that proved to be far too slow for reads compared to a PK database row lookup.

Any HN'ers have suggestions?
Vibram to settle over false health claims
Thank you so much for this link.

Centuries after all of us are dust people will still be discovering and falling in love with Bach.

Life is good today.
Because they do not sell it at the market.

Ive found all sorts of meat (22 types from my specialty butcher), yet swan isn't there. Perhaps it's "too beautiful" to eat, or perhaps it has a more visceral "horse meat" kind of feeling to it.

I don't know. And the article is lacking in detail. So, the answer is "it's not sold".
> Since you've done some work on it, I'll assume you understand the architecture well.

Alas, no :) My work was basically a few surgical strikes in which I learned a lot about a few small corners, but my overall understanding of the code base is pretty weak.

I recommend filing a new issue here: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/new
Le Sigh.

Now PG and his team of suits will use their persuasion to convince a bigger fool to buy Quora, and let all the investors off the hook. And so it goes.. in Silicon Valley.
There are generally two types of electronic conversations in this world: conversations that are meant to be in the moment, like text messages, FB chats, HN, or Twitter, and conversations that you want to come back to long into the future, like a mailing list, or email, or Stack Overflow.

I don't think anything that was said on HN a few days ago (or months or years) has any value to me. The world moves too fast to try to keep track of it.

My 2 cents.
Update on my comment: After reading this article over at Daily Dot there are maybe some flaws in my assumptions.[1]

1. Apple might actually need to acquire a team to do better licensing deals with the music (and TV/movie?) industry. Beats, I didn't realize, has some incredible people involved and has a lot of industry buy-in. That sets it apart from Spotify, etc. even though it has no subscribers.

2. Maybe Apple does want to buy a brand. The Beats brand has a lot of pull with communities where Apple doesn't, especially African-Americans. They may see it as an opportunity to upsell them from Android to Apple products.

3. Maybe Apple does need a cross-platform service to do the deals it needs. Like they did with iTunes on Windows back in the day. They get that, without any awkward "iTunes for Android"

4. Beats' headphones business is totally not Apple's approach.. yet? Right now it's more like Monster Cable, commodity product dressed up with sales & marketing & cachet. But what's to stop Apple from improving the quality of the brand? Apple-designed Beats headphones could be something very special. (But that is the weirdest part of this.. Monster is the antithesis of Apple and Apple's never done sub-brands. Maybe they literally bought them just for the preceding reasons.)

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/technology/apple-beats-jimmy-iovine-...
I'm not sure what I can say about Dart adoption internal to Google, so I'll be conservative and say that it's going well in my opinion. I hope we can speak more about it at some point. Language adoption is a very gradual thing at first, so I'm not at all surprised that momentum isn't that apparent yet. The community is very active though (join the email lists or G+ if you're not already).

Rest assured, we're very committed to Dart.
well I created http://www.startupbets.com/ for fun at the last TC disrupt hackathon, but requires me to create the questions

http://startupbets.com/bet/4
Sure, it's important, but it's like buying a pretty car that doesn't have a gas peddle attached to anything. It is THE key feature of the product.

SRS is really THAT important to flash cards.
If you're looking to donate, they take bitcoin too!
https://archive.org/donate/index.php
Because the Queen owns them all except St John's Oxford swans who have permission
Perhaps you didn't, but I learned much from the article. I didn't know that swans are crown property in England [1], that only the royal family and the fellows of St. John’s College of Cambridge (!) are allowed to eat them, or that they have become pests in Michigan (which of course is relevant; the post is not about a region, but about swans). I didn't even realize that there was a taboo against eating swans, though it seems obvious now.

1. The article contains an interesting link to "An Act Concerning Swans" (1482): http://www.theswansanctuary.org.uk/images/an%20act%20concern...
YC has always been experimental, it worked out well for non-profits. The more experiments you do the better you can make it work.
We changed the title (from "Why don't we eat swans?") in an attempt to ward off bikeshed arguments about it.
This technique might be helpful for the extremely basics, but what is something meaningful you would put on a card for something like hope or dignity that wouldn't be easily confused? I find pictures helpful but usually I use them to illustrate the example sentence and not the word itself.

I agree your original language is a crutch but what I've found has made get better faster is native language translations of the word. It takes a while to get comfortable doing that, but once you start doing it often enough it works very well.
'Fed Up' asks, are all calories equal?
It's still very worth it. It's the one app I'll never uninstall.
i avoid logging in / registering by avoiding quora. There's plenty of sites out there that don't engage in scummy growth tactics and try to harvest my personal information unnecessarily, i'll visit them instead.
FCC-Proposed Internet Fast Lane
The pdf graveyards can only expect an increase in their undead populations
It's free, you can thank our investors :)
I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet. What's that thought process like?

Fighting malaria is something I'm interested in pursuing, but my background is heavily in the computer science arena. How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? (And I don't mean merely writing a check to the Anti Malaria Foundation or whatever.)
Direction probably. Quora has floundered for nearly 5 years, burned millions of dollars and still has a questionable product.

Meanwhile Stack Exchange has been around only a year longer, a fraction of the funding, and pretty well owns the entire question-answer niche.
The stores contain the data, but they also include the logic for updating that data. For example, a store of all the comments would also subscribe to events for new comments and add them into the comment thread at the correct location. We've found it more maintainable to keep the application logic for a set of data and the data itself in one place rather than having a model that external pieces can modify.
Unable to reproduce on a 2.6GHz Core i7. It's slower than the viewer in Chrome, to be sure, but not to the degree you describe.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ne3vac3uJuOTB0Y2owLVN3MzQ
Speedtest: http://ipv6.speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com/

Of course you need to be on IPv6 to reach that page :)
Hope JesusChristSiliconValley has something to say about this. http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/48962035819/...
That kind of info (4 invites on average per user, 25% conversion rate) is THE critical information. If you want to talk about virality at all, the fact it's not in your presentation is a serious defect you should correct.
I saw that and wondered what it meant... hopefully they aren't going to try and charge customers for IPv6 addresses. Most hosts give those out for free.
Website where you can see every note of a song
> I see the "invention" of the browser tab as a totally obvious

Anyone could have done it but nobody did except that guy.
Thanks for including us!
Total energy in the system is radiation received from the sun minus that emitted from the earth's surface back into space. Both of these things are pretty well understood and fairly simple to calculate.

As for the ice age business, climate modeling from 40 years ago is an entirely separate thing compared with today's climate modeling. The advances we've made in model resolution and understanding the physics is quite compelling.
This is true in the UK. Here's the source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_College,_Cambridge#Ea...

I have no doubt this influence culinary attitudes in all of England's former colonies as well.
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if you're serious about this I'd like to help :)
Not a lawyer, but I guess this probably falls under fair use, which includes (from the Wikipedia article) both search engine use, and library archiving of content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
SJC is at Cambridge
jelly app is kinda like that. Except with a focus on pics and maps.
ClearScript: library to add scripting to .NET applications
Display newest Bitcoin transactions using "matrix-rain-style"
I thought that font support was among the few changes which have been made in the past decade, though the most recent update affecting fonts was 11 May, 2005, adding gsfonts-x11.

I'm not enough of a dev to know what would be required, but pitching this to the developer(s) might be helpful.
My tweets are public. As are my posts here. From both, I am easily contactable. But if you are doing it in bulk to push your product, it is spam.
whoops, meant to say "gangly looking HIDDEN objects" instead of "static" objects
Swans are kind of assholes in my experience and the "mute swan"(the one most people think of) has become a massive pest among the fisheries/parks/etc crowd.

I'm generally a pretty adventurous cook/eater and did a goose for christmas last year(geese are a hella pest but somehow the dead one I bought was $70 or something) and probably wouldn't do a swan if it's similar. Geese are almost "beefy"
The Archive is also legally a library, which allows them to get away with a lot of things that companies cannot.
Brain.js Demo – Train a neural network to recognize color contrast
I'm reading this as implying that a potential benefit to Quora is using YC as a hiring filter, presumably from failed startups.

Seems like there could be some potentially misaligned incentives for YC founders there...
Grandfathered users are our early adopter customers.

When we do large rollouts we usually release new features to them first in a limited public beta test so we can collect feedback. They have been extremely helpful in helping us to find and resolve bugs before we move a feature to general release.

Thanks,
Moisey
Cofounder DigitalOcean
NLP and APIs for analysing the lyrics of the 500 greatest songs of all time
Like russell_h said, the email includes just a teaser snippet so you have to click through - and I've never encountered the BWoD (Blurry Wall of Death) after clicking through.
You can run it on a server and use it over http.
To my knowledge, there are only (unofficial) clients for Android.
How many carbs are good to be healthy?
Ive not used Quora, what is their struture like? SE is fairly fragemented now, is Quora similiar?
Gobo Linux – redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy
Thanks for this. :)

Indeed, I think I actually mostly agree with you. See my longer comment / explication of Descartes' argument (if it's an argument) above: I personally (also) think that "I think" already presupposes too much. What one might be able to argue is a lesser version of the thing, though:

thinking, therefore, existing. ("thought exists" (whatever that actually means!))

> So it seems like he is already assuming something is true ("I" exist/am), on the left side of the sentence, what he is trying to prove ("I am"), on the right side of the sentence.

..so yeah, I think that the only safe thing for him to say at that point would have been "thoughts exist." Maybe this does sound lame, but in the context of Descartes' Meditations, it's about discovering that even though you can doubt everything, this does require (the process of ) doubting as such.

Or: I can be deceived about everything there is in the world (so e.g. in actuality, there is no world as such); but who is being deceived? At the very least, there is (some kind of) thought happening. One might say that doubting requires an agent, etc., but really, this is already debatable.

But in short: you're right, if one were to establish "I exist" (with an "I" having certain desirable properties), one could then say "I think", and that would have been less murky, indeed!

Problem is, poor Descartes is not sure that he "exists":

indeed, for him (and this is partly to do with the whole mentality present in Rationalism, and with the start of Modern philosophy (many people hold him to be the father of it)) thinking comes before existing. You will find many parallels of the latter around, scattered in various places; cf. "god thinks itself into being", etc.

He kind of articulates one of the foundations of Rationalism as in the epistemology: thought shall be the ultimate and primary criterion for truth.

But again, I agree, however, I would say that he could have stated a lesser version of his point (while not reversing the logical implication arrow): "thoughts exist."

However, to go from that to re-establishment of certainty about the whole wide world would have been even more tough (and he was already having a hard time!) In summary, I think I understand where he's coming from, but one could say that his project (a kind foundationalist epistemology) had been doomed from the very beginning!

> Hope I've made my thinking :) clear.

Yeah, I think that was clear! Forgive me for my verbosity, and thanks for the explanation. I think it makes sense, and fwiw, I agree with the general gist of it.
Seymour Cray: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976) [video]
There is Raskell which lets you write and run Haskell on an iPad, using a modified version of the educational Hugs compiler (so it's more for recreative programming than serious projects): http://slidetocode.com/raskell/
No, they didn't confirm that barefoot shoes are "bullshit", only that there's not enough research to support Vibram's claims, much like there's not much research to support traditional shoes, the raised heels of which are descendants from medieval times when heels were used for stability in the stirrups of a horse, allowing the rider to shoot a bow while in motion (and in modern times, allow you to appear taller than you really are).
Haven't read this book but read this author's "Icebreaker" which has some interesting viewpoints, mainly that Stalin was the true 'evil genius' whose plans to conquer Western Europe were preempted by Hitler.

This video goes into some details here with the author presenting it himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbBnRZoTHFs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709910

The government can't build fiber with money it never had. Read the referenced PDF. Its Glen Beck-worthy, "connect the dots" bullshit.
Humans eating habits should evolve ! Go Vegetarian !
That strikes me as sociopathy, not actual kindness. Or at the very least, such an education in bullshit that they literally can no longer tell right from wrong.

People like that are rarely constrained by rules, either, because they can justify that just as well.

Also, I believe that ethics is mainly an elaboration of our moral sense, which appears to be biologically rooted. For more, I recommend the work of de Waal, and his TED talk is a great place to start: http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_moral...
Nice work on this over the years, gojomo et al.
The State of HTML5 Development in the Enterprise
It is sad state of affairs.

Mozilla used to be about open standards.
Yeah - I second that. Quora is one of the few sites that sends me weeklyish emails that I haven't unsubscribed from because the content is fantastic. I always seem to learn something from clicking through it.

It's kind of a bummer that they're needing to pivot and find a way to revenue - from a non-business, purely consumer perspective I find the site really enlightening and valuable.
hypertable (store data and metadata in different access groups, basically different files on disk but in the same table) on top of QFS for distributed file system in reed-solomon replication(for ~more efficiency)

you can keep n-versions(miscrosecond timestamps), sorted compressed data on disk for fast range reads, you can compress and group in blocks differently across access groups(access groups are just groups of columns)

it was based on bigtable, which was written to store the crawling data(like you & waybackmachine?) for google search
I am pretty much a Libertarian by default. But an economically-literate person understands when there's a commons for real and when there isn't.

This is some pretty dern well-crafted regulation - because the incentives for getting it right are with the right people and what could be done was very clear. The fish & wildlife bio. people are finestkind generally, so this works. It's also decidedly non-political.

In Japan, it's political.

This as opposed to say, banks. With banks, the incentives to build a robust and stable system are lacking; one need only compare and contrast with Canada. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Harber do this very thing in "Fragile By Design".

If all regulation worked this well, we'd all be better off. It is critical that we know why regulation that doesn't work, doesn't.
> How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem?

Read as much as you can: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=malaria
I can't tell if they are like me or not because I can't read the tweet in another language. It might be my french doppelganger also complaining about his current lack of caffeine.
An obvious mistake on a map. There is no such "language" - Latvian. Latvian is a modern mix of Latgalian and German, less than 700 yrs old (some say Kuronian also was there). Semigallian is a hoax. Bishop Albert in "Chronicles" called tribal cultures "Semigalls" - half galls! They probably spoke balto-slavic proto-language, closer to some proto-Russian, than modern Latgalian. Their rulers were actually russian counts, mentioned by the same Albert in XIII cent.
So the actual branch is Kuronian, Latgalian, Galindan, Prussian. Not sure about Selonian. Sudovian - recent Polish invention, never existed. (suudi in Latvian means sh#t). Add modern chimeroid langs as Lithuanian and Latvian and pic is complete. I suspect Indian branch has the same problems.

Edit: forgot vod people, also called krevingi, they still existed in the end of the 19th cent, few families.
AirHelp: Find flight compensation in your mail
We launched a new feature at TechCrunch Disrupt that lets you search your mail for itineraries that make you eligible for compensation. Still in Beta
How Smartphone UI Should Work
This is one of these crazy situations where companies are lobbying the crap out of politicians to keep these insecticides on the market.

These bees are fundamental to the production of most vegetable matter that we eat. The financial implications of the loss of these insects is huge compared to the 'loss' of money the insecticide companies would bear if these chemicals were banned from sale.
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