skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A well established company with a nice product but no revenue generating business model partners with a bunch of hotshot entrepreneurs looking for a startup idea (or pivot) - I wonder if Quora is going to provide a kind of Q&A based platform which creative startups can leverage, almost like a Quora branded YC mini-batch.

The startups would have immediate access to Quora's user base and a space to focus on (Q&A value added services). Quora gets an infusion of fresh ideas without have to take the risk themselves. Quora could develop some fee based structure for its platform and look at acquiring the most promising startups.
Currently, its based on esformatter[0]. Most of the work so far has gone into search and replace and we don't yet expose many of the properties provided by esformatter[1].

[0] https://github.com/millermedeiros/esformatter
[1] https://github.com/millermedeiros/esformatter/blob/master/li...
For people interested in these things - another patient that I love reading about is Henry Molaison (HM). A coworker (a neuroscientist) told me a bit about the man and his condition, very interesting case.
I use AnkiDroid every day. Bit buggy but free and best on Android in my experience.
ME ROCK BOTTOM. Now 1 YEAR LATER
PLEASE, I KNOW IT'S LONG, BUT PLEASE WATCH THIS, IT IS MY FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER AND I HOPE IT WILL REACH PEOPLE AND SEND A GOOD MESSAGE. PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE.. IT GETS VERY INTENSE TOWARDS THE END.
"others preferred to stuff the bird with a series of increasingly smaller birds"

Dynamic eating!
Example:
x = {'foo':34,'bar':[1,2,3],'baz':'quux'}

The headers alone for STL maps are hundreds of LOC.
Veterans' Benefits Live On Long After Bullets Stop
I was alluding to F#'s handling:

> let myd = dict [ "a", 1; "the", 2; "train", 3 ];;
val myd : System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<string,int>

> let myd = dict [ "a", System.String.IsNullOrEmpty ];;
val myd : System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<string,(string -> bool)>

If C# had tuples, then you might be able to do something like:

var myd = createdict(new[] { {"a", 1} , { "the", 2} ...})

The tuples should get a type inferred, then the array, then that can pass the type to createdict and all good. And the array could be removed if there was some other sort of list-like literal. This might be really difficult to implement in the C# compiler, for all I know.

More likely, they'll graft in yet another special rule in the compiler (not accessible to user code!), just as they did with other collections, foreach, async, etc. I find it ugly that the compiler is happy to use static duck typing when convenient, but such a feature isn't exposed in the language.
I find it interesting that "according to my preferences" is pretty much exactly what you've trained. It _should_ be better according to your preferences, since you're not training it with actual contrast differences, but whatever it is that you prefer.
More like FCC chair dismisses net neutrality backlash.
Haven't used it but doesn't AWS have something for this? Curious why that doesn't fit the bill if so.
For me, I turn it into motivation. I check out the code that dazzled me with it's brilliance, I go through every line, stop to understand everything, then I ask questions. After that I normally create a home brew project that incorporates the lessons learns and drives them home, and, sometimes, improving on them.

Obviously not quite from a design perspective, but it may still be useful.
As long as it doesn't mention domestic surveillance or the iffy state of an economy propped up on QE, it's a perfectly cromulent HN topic.
That is a really awesome point. I don't know how you could even begin to cost effectively get the price of designing your own circuit geometries into peoples hands ala kickstarter. Not to mention how to simulate the physics of those devices prior to fabrication.
Would it be unsafe for an American to go to Moscow right now?
Reminds me of Porterhouse Blue, the 1970s satirical novel about life in the fictitious Porterhouse college at Cambridge, where swans were served at massive feasts and "porterhouse blue" became another name for a stroke caused by excessive consumption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterhouse_Blue
Here is the deal: You cannot "grandfather" a newly created privilege to a select population--a population that never received the privilege before--if for no other reason than the privilege did not exist in the past. The grandfather bit is not only a connection to the origin of the term but also a hint about proper usage: people in the past (grandma could not vote) must have been able to and did enjoy the privilege at some point in the past.

I did not want to come off like a strict scrutiny word maven (synonym: dickhead) when I wrote my first comment because it would obscure the larger point: "grandfathered clauses" have negative connotations for new/potential customers. My goal was to be helpful and not to strut my lexicographic tail feathers.
They left out an important interesting fact about asparagus...

It is a fern.
How Mozilla Amazon EC2 Usage Got 15X Cheaper in 8 Months
A nigger in the classic sense doesn't understand a million a billion or a trillion. One nigger woman filed a lawsuit for a trillion dollars.

Psychologists have the lowest SAT scores. Phyiscs, top. Engineering just below.

A psychologist is a nigger. If you tell them "microsecond". It means nothing.

Find and engineer and ask him what would happen if you had multitasking and printed "i" when you pressed a key?...

int i;

void Thread()
{
while (TRUE)
i++;
}

Ask the engineer if a neuron could syncronize to the counter and control the key. Ask if a robot hand could do it, with all the switch delays of the mouse.

Every single electrical engineer will tell you... you need a phase-locked-loop to syncronize clocks. He will tell you that a brain has way too much jitter. He will laugh if you tell him it must plan a sequence of presses. A neuron is 10Hz. A nerve impulse is one meter in a millisecond. You are just like the nigger woman not understanding what a trillion is.
And the easiest way to leverage that effort is to use CL as an implementation platform. Whatever you think of CL as a language to program in directly, it really shines as a language to implement dynamic languages in. You get a lot of useful pieces, including native-code compilation, some very powerful control-flow operators, multithreading (in most implementations), and of course garbage collection, for free.

There's a more subtle benefit as well. Because compilability was a key goal in the design of CL, using it as a translation target while you're designing a new dynamic language will help you make sure your language is also efficiently compilable.

EDITED to add: in CL, the whole tagged-pointer thing has been taken care of for you, so you don't have to think about it (cf. [0]). This means you get fixnums (unboxed immediate integers), with automatic overflow to bignums (arbitrary-precision integers), for free. In fact there's the whole CL numeric tower, including ratios and complex numbers. Other goodies: multiple inheritance. Multimethods (multiple dispatch). Class creation and redefinition at runtime.

It baffles me that anyone would want to reimplement all that stuff, or even part of it.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04614...
But this leads to the question of "why don't they sell it at the market"?

And the answer to that might be because people wouldn't buy it. Or if they did, only once because it tastes like an old glove that was left in the parrot cage.
this should be NSFW (Not Safe For Wife).
second tweet was a semi-naked girl
+ Developing on iOS directly.

- https://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=define+integrated+dev...
==> IDE usually means it is standalone. This project is a wrapper for remote Xcode.

Kudos on the work. I was TOTALLY misled thinking I could dev right on the device (see Terminal IDE on Android...). $10 for a remote wrapper is too rich for my blood.
They are made by javaBin, the norwegian Java User Group who are the organizers behind JavaZone: http://java.no

The production of the videos are done by the norwegian producer company Seefood: http://www.seefood.no
No, Java's semantics for == are entirely sane and straightforward: It compares primitives by value, and objects by identity in memory.

The true problem is that newbies who haven't grasped the difference see that x==y in a sample program and then leap to all sorts of conclusions, overgeneralizing what they observed because they don't understand how it happened.
DuckDuckGo Next
Dildo generator
Mesos, imo.
You mean, like the actions of repeatedly adopting pro-neutrality regulation?

Of course, unless supposedly pro-neutrality protestors create enough confusion to actually convince the FCC not to move forward with its current proposal (which there's some sign they might have done, since neutrality has been 3-2 with the FCC for a while, and least one of the usually pro- votes has already moved to a "delay" position on publicly releasing anything -- which would, at a minimum, leave no regulation in even the direction of neutrality in place for a longer period of time, and might scuttle the whole thing entirely) we'll actually have a concrete proposal to discuss and comment on soon rather than rumors and speculation.

OTOH, it will be ironic if the protests over the rumors of an insufficiently strong Open Internet proposal actually manage to completely derail any regulatory effort toward neutrality.
Are geese adventurous? Where I’m from (north-eastern Bavaria) roasted goose breast with potato dumplings are a a common Sunday dinner meal (duck breast is less common, at least in restaurants, but my grandparents and parents often made it). Pork is obviously the standard thing to roast and consequently more common overall, but I would argue that at least where I’m from this roasted geese breast is a bigger deal than chicken based meals. Especially if it’s a Sunday dinner.

Goose is also popular for Christmas, turkey not really. Actually, goose is probably the thing to make for Christmas where I’m from.

Goose is obviously not chicken or turkey, but I really love it with very fatty gravy, a crispy, salty crust, and quite dry meat. I love fried chicken, too, I think everyone does, plus turkey, but that’s not what I’m looking for when eating roasted goose breast.
Also: "Dringend lets you build and run your application wherever you are in the world" should be starred: "Dringend lets you build and run your application wherever you are in the world * " * Network connectivity required.

I'm pretty sure a jerk would jump in a Faraday cage and cite how they couldn't use the app.
The one quote in the article about the taste was positive...
The filesystem sounds similar to what Homebrew for OS X does.
If you want even more - here's an interview with Karpathy where he talks about ConvNet.js, Machine Learning and JavaScript => http://www.datascienceweekly.org/blog/14-training-deep-learn...
A Synthetic Biology Conference Lures an Intriguing Audience
How much time Quora founders are going to spend at YC headquarter during the program ?
For one thing, you'll need a larger than normal oven. The largest turkeys at the neighborhood turkey farm are about 30 lbs., the size of a small swan, and, while you might be able to physically stuff a bird that big into a newer oven that has maximal cooking volume, it won't cook very well. Turkeys are lean, but if you tried to roast a swan, your roasting pan might overflow with fat and if that catches fire it will burn like a gallon of liquefied paraffin. That's a pretty good way to burn down the house.
The post says they're "participating in Quora's most recent investment round". The normal meaning of that would be that they're buying at the same price/valuation as that Series C round, so if it's anything like YC's usual size of investment it would be a very small stake.

(Ex-Quora employee, but I have no inside information.)
Wow, thanks for posting. Bringing the topic back to startups/tech, I'd love to integrate these performances with my interactive sheet music player, Soundslice (http://www.soundslice.com/). It would be amazing.
Game is a taste not all people like, but this is not about individual preference. A lot of people eat game. Wild boar, wild duck, deer, and many other "gamey" meats are enjoyed in many countries. Why not swan? Especially if, as the quoted chef claims, it's only lightly gamey.
That's a massive tree and the fact that you noticed an error with Latvian reminds me of this: http://www.worldgolf.com/wglibrary/ross/ross14.html

But, seriously, I'm impressed with your very knowledgeable answer. It's very interesting.
Gofix does the work, but it is only feasible because gofmt exists.
Buy it and come over, I'll cook it.
Canada Geese just about anywhere could use a good thinning.
Do you have any comparison charts between Firefox OS usage and iOS/Android in South America ?
7% of Quora for $120k, sounds like a steal. just kidding. there is no way they get the same term
Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to easily get, for example, a Django app (nginx + uwsgi + postgres + redis) running on CoreOS with Docker? I'm afraid all these parts of the stack are too many to wrap one's head around without being familiar with each layer.
Judge orders chip maker Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon $1.54B in patent case
[...]The accused product is Android, a software platform
that was designed for mobile devices and competes with
Java in that market.[...]

How does Android compete with Java? Wasn't it supposed to be a good thing for the whole language to have Android out there especially in times when many other languages emerged that have been touted as "the new Java" or "the next C++"?
Apple's Auto-Update Helps, but No Silver Bullet
I totally agree, if I were to work on this I would really want it to be open source.
How would it be different? JS and PHP are near identical to C.
There are 20 million programmers in the world, that is the maximum S.O. can get. There are billions of people looking for just the type of answers you find on Quora.

Also you go to S.O. to find a specific answer than move on, on Q you stick around and read other stuff, go back for discovery.

I am not saying which one is more valuable, perhaps S.O. is more monetizable.
Berkeley Apple Store glass entrance is latest to be smashed by car [video]
she also has a hilarious cat face detection lib / trained network http://harthur.github.io/kittydar/

i opened this issue 2 years ago: https://github.com/harthur/kittydar/issues/3 ;)
Facebook is at least partially down
> Honeybees aren't native to the US; I'm not sure if I heard this right, but it may be that none of the social bees are.

Sort of - native American bees are generally less social than true honeybees and generally produce some but less honey than true honeybees.
I had forgotten about Magnatune!
I used to buy all sorts of stuff from them. I always loved their approach, and its great to see that they still exist.

Thanks for reminding me that they still exist.
Woo! Great news! One of benefits of having cheap devices is that it significantly lowers the barrier to entry for the developer community. It becomes super encouraging to pick up a phone just to fiddle.

However, one of the biggest problems the community ran into for the ZTE Open was that hardly any Mozilla devs had one. So even though it was the most easily obtainable phone for the dev community, it received very little Mozilla support.

As these low-end devices push the limits the most for Firefox OS, will the Mozilla team start to work with them more?
Working perfectly well here (in SF, already logged in)
It's funny I never thought twice about registering for stack overflow but I can never bring myself to register for quora. And I always feel bummed I can't see all the answers.
Somebody else said similar but I'm not convinced.

I went back and looked and the guy was a professional chef. And probably some sort of esoteric gourmet of the kind that might drink civet poop coffee.

I have to believe if swans were really good people would have started eating them in large numbers a long time ago and they would commercially raise them.
I do wonder how much this would compare to google compute engine, now that it is becoming a serious ec2 competitor
at least 6 months out, a little bird told me.
What do you mean?! You can't have a custom kernel on a DO VPS?
Great seeing this again. I remember in its day Cray was like a mythical beast we only heard of since Gov was the only one with enough money to buy one.

The C configuration with hard wrapped wires were awesome. Hard wrapping was the fastest path for electrons from point A to B.
Singapore is running on a new backend code base which supports this we are working on a migration pathway for the rest of the cloud so it is in the works. But as I mentioned in another area of this thread regarding product roadmap announcements we are working on being more realistic with our timelines so that we do not upset our customers. Just wanted to share that we are working on this issue and making progress, really depends on the migration and how that goes to see when we can get this rolled out.

Thanks,
Moisey
Cofounder DigitalOcean
We'll agree to disagree about geese, I guess.
Not to beat a useless discussion to death but I really think you answered your own question...

Why not swan when they eat boar, ducks and deer?

I see one and only one very obvious answer. And I'm sticking with it... downvotes be damned!
From the "choosing an interpreter" section:

> Also use Python 2.7.x if you’re starting to work on a new Python module.

Is this a generally accepted guideline? I'd have thought Python 3 would have caught on by now.
Not working in Bangalore, India
For the truly paranoid, this immediately cuts the power on a Linux system when a chosen USB key is yanked out:

http://git.zx2c4.com/knock-knock-token/tree/knock-knock-toke...
Agreed that the hardware was on par or slightly lower than other $80 smartphones. However, phones with that hardware can only run Android 2.3, which severely limits your html5 capabilities. The presentation I linked above was comparing the svg performance between Firefox OS and Android.
Per the article it sounds like he worked with a malaria expert at the University he attended before going to MIT.

"He founded DDG in Cleveland, where he earned his undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University. Lewandowski’s cofounder and former faculty adviser, Brian T. Grimberg, is an assistant professor of international health at the university’s medical school, and a specialist in malaria."
I probably didn't cook it right. But my experience with goose was not very good.
It builds software in it's own namespace so it sees /usr/include/stdio.h as a symlink to whatever version it was built for, and the symlink won't change if you update Glibc.
python-rq[1], celery[2], beanstalkd[3], or mod_gearmand[4].

For several of my production projects, I like mixing celery with redis. They are a great fit.

[1] http://python-rq.org
[2] http://www.celeryproject.org
[3] http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/
[4] http://gearman.org
It's nice that the go distribution comes with editor integrations though. It would be nice if there was a similar standard toolset for js that you could get up and running with if you were new to it.
Thank you, exactly.

And it turns out that most of the interesting and useful stuff is by its nature in the network - who I called, what cell tower took the call at what time, who was on the cell tower at the same time, who I emailed, bought a Starbucks afterwards in the queue.

The document named "My evil plan for world domination" on my hard drive is far less a signifier for my future actions than all the metadata already out there.

It is a form of pollution as Schneier says
With a proper linux box things get updated as if by magic. There is no need to manually update your software unless it is one of those rare things that does not deal with the repo manager.

Seriously, in 2014, Windows machines don't have this core functionality?
First make sure you complete what you start. Second keep it simple. Third make sure it has a market. Fourth spend some money on ads. Finally, to grow listen to your customers - put a phone number on your site and talk to people.
Not working for my account (also in SF, already logged in). Based on the TC story, it appears to be specific to a certain set of accounts.
Polling for interest here for any neural net enthusiasts:

I'm the author of an open source distributed deep learning framework called deeplearning4j.

I am doing things with it such as sentiment analysis, face recognition, voice recognition,named entity recognition,...

I was considering creating a javascript visualizer for the tool (aka: train on the platform for the heavy lifting) then export the models to javascript for rendering and even in browser prediction.

How interesting would this be if it were implemented?

Thanks!
I'm not into classical music, except from the very famous composers and everything Tchaikovsky has ever written (my sister took ballet classes since I can remember myself).

That said, what's exactly the reason Bach's work made everyone here so excited? Can't we find these compositions on YouTube?

ps. I'm listening as I write. Bach sounds really cheerful :-) Awesome music.
Batali may have weird tastes, maybe (though he's a pretty mainstream food personality not particularly known for crazy stuff), but it remains the case that we have one piece of testimony that it's tasty and none that it isn't. The fact that we don't eat them is arguably some evidence that they aren't but there are other potential explanations for that, so drawing that conclusion seems shakey.
I've followed many links to Quora but bounced every single time because of the stupid signup wall. Subsequently, I've banned them from my Google search results, same as Experts Exchange. SO and Reddit are sharing the Q&A lunch.
Here are some resources:

Podcasts:

* http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

* http://productpeople.tv/

* http://bootstrapped.fm/

* http://casjam.com/category/podcast/

* http://www.chasingproduct.com/

* http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/

* http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/podcasts/

* more here: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-104-p...

Books:

* http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-proj...

* http://www.startupbook.net/

My favorite articles and talks:

* https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-en...

* http://youtu.be/0CDXJ6bMkMY (DHH @ Startup School 2008 on making money online)

* http://vimeo.com/92087769 (Nathan Barry @ Pioneer Nation on growing his business)

My advice is to:

(1) Make it a habit to work on your small online service every day -- or one full day per week -- and stick to the schedule. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

(2) Subscribe to one or two podcasts. They're great learning/motivational tools. Listening to other people talk about building a small business will help reinforce your work habits. Don't overdo it, though! Your goal is to build something, not to continually consume and never produce. I know I gave you a huge list, just pick the one you like best!
Chris Allen / coolsunglasses maintains a great gist of a learning path for haskell: https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525

The current intro course looks really nice: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/lectures.html
If true, thanks for disclosing. Amazed commenter failed to disclose. Transparency and conflicts, people!
Correct, there's no current official support. You can kexec to your own kernel which is kind of ok as a workaround.