skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the links got truncated by Quora, so here's the same list (modulo intervening wiki edits) with full URLs:

http://usgovxml.com
http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
http://databib.org
http://datacite.org
http://figshare.com
http://linkeddata.org
http://reddit.com/r/datasets
http://thedatahub.org
http://ckan.net
http://quandl.com
http://www.growmeme.com/overview
http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html
http://enigma.io
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
http://crawdad.org/
http://data.austintexas.gov
http://data.cityofchicago.org
http://data.govloop.com
http://data.gov.uk/
http://data.medicare.gov
http://data.seattle.gov
http://data.sfgov.org
http://data.sunlightlabs.com
https://datamarket.azure.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/
http://econ.worldbank.org/datasets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet
http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/
http://gettingpastgo.socrata.com
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
http://books.google.com/ngrams/
http://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr
http://public.resource.org/
http://rechercheisidore.fr
http://snap.stanford.edu/data/index.html
http://timetric.com/public-data/
https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/tools/online-databases.html
http://www.bls.gov/
http://www.crunchbase.com/
http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/
http://www.data.gov/
http://www.datakc.org
http://dbpedia.org
http://www.delicious.com/jbaldwinconnect/DataSets
http://www.faa.gov/data_research/
http://www.factual.com/
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
http://www.freebase.com/
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
http://www.infochimps.com
http://www.kaggle.com/
http://build.kiva.org/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm
http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/home/home.shtml
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
http://www.philwhln.com/how-to-get-experience-working-with-large-datasets
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
http://imat-relpred.yandex.ru/en/datasets
http://www.dados.gov.pt/pt/catalogodados/catalogodados.aspx
http://knoema.com
http://daten.berlin.de/
http://www.qunb.com
http://databib.org/
http://datacite.org/
http://data.reegle.info/
http://data.wien.gv.at/
http://data.gov.bc.ca
https://pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu/
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/CPES/
Well, I own http://tease.red/ and http://teaser.link/ redirected to TextTeaser. tease.red may correspond to some porn cams because of tease. But I want it because I want it to be read as "teasered".

Like the text was teasered after it was summarized by TextTeaser.

I also own jolo.sexy. Just for fun though.
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
The compiler is always right... except when it isn't.

Really, the compiler is usually right. Fair enough. But I've run into compiler bugs, and that's just in internships! (And I'm not even counting the compiler I helped write...)

And sometimes the issue isn't even a bug but a design deficiency. Those are hard to deal with because they're real problems, but also exist for real reasons. I ran into one of these when compiling OCaml to JavaScript and getting stack overflows—turns out the compiler couldn't handle mutual recursion properly. And that's because it's a hard problem! And yet, it also meant the compiler was wrong.

Thinking about it, perhaps the title could be read as "the compiler is always right, even when it's wrong". Just like the ultimate arbiter in a car crash is momentum, not the rules of traffic, if you hit a compiler bug, "fixing" your program is probably much easier than fixing the compiler—even if you're in the right! That's what we ended up doing with js_of_ocaml, by choosing a different backend for our parser generator that didn't create mutually recursive code.
I'm the tech lead on the team that runs http://police.uk, the UK Police crime mapping website, and our data is available to download and through an API at http://data.police.uk. The dataset isn't nearly as big as some of the ones in this list (~40MM rows), but it's nice that the Home Office are open with their data.

People have built some cool apps with it which are showcased[1] on the site, there's even a Pebble watch app[2] which is due to be added to that list shortly.

We also have an open-source Python client[3] for the API, which I'm planning to post here once the documentation is finished.

[1]: http://www.police.uk/apps/

[2]: https://git.bengcooper.co.uk/bengcooper/pebble-crimewatch/wi...

[3]: https://github.com/rkhleics/police-api-client-python/
A trait shared with the other languages mentioned here. It will be hard to beat Fortran, although Scala might be closer than the alternatives.
Making a cardboard tank part 3 – Remote control
All well and nice but:

What is the current Thinkpad worth its once trustworthy brand? The way to drive and keep the profits seams to be to lure customers who trusted a brand for years into buying quite frankly ridiculously manufactured surrogate products with the brand-label in the right place... well maybe turned 180 for the new coolness factor ;)
Yoga pro 2 is great if you don't need a good trackpad. If you don't want to carry around a mouse, there is no other choice but the fruit.
First FirefoxOS smartphone on sale for $99
> Google intentionally chose not to comply with the OpenJDK license, and claimed that the APIs aren't copyrightable

Perhaps Google didn't comply with OpenJDK license because it didn't exist when Google used Java Apache Harmony implementation.
No comments on the Google situation but a few on the idea itself...

1. Facebook reminds me of people's birthday already via its site as well as email reminders.

2. Google Calendar allows alerts of said events (so does iCal). This also integrates with my Google Contacts already.

3. Integrated apps like EasilyDo and many others also display these reminders if needed I believe.

I'm not sure I understand the value proposition of paying for something like this, particularly if I have to manually punch all those birthdays in when there are so many free solutions all over the place.
I have friend in Czech republic. Local hospital (or butchery as she called it) screw up routine procedure, so she gave birth in 7th month and can not have more babies.

On damages she would get around $10.000, perhaps 5x more if she is celebrity with connections. That is not much money even in here, house costs usually around $100.000.

I think US will have to give up right to sue in medical care. If you count expenses customers will still get better care. The amount you save on lawyers could go towards better care. And if doctors screws up, you will have good medical system to fix most damages, rather then going to court with some theoretical chances.

And what could prevent bad doctors? Make gross neglect minor criminal offense. Doctor could go to jail for couple of weeks and loose its license. If enforced this would filter out bad doctors pretty quickly. And it could also force real safety practices such as recording procedures and operation check lists.
yeah it was an oversight to lock it into US-based numbers! We'll release a version soon that has more support for international numbers
Excessive expectations
That site just made me realise that my surname (kitchen) has now become a .gtld

Someone else clearly figured this out before me though and firstname.surname has gone already.

What would I have done with it though? I've already discovered through having a .cc domain that there are many companies, websites and forms that simply don't accept unexpected domains.

For example, in the past I've spent several days on the phone with a business insurance company trying to get the policy emailed to the company email address and failing because somewhere in their system emails only get routed to 'valid' addresses where 'valid' includes known domain names. The only solution was buying a .com as well to use in such circumstances.
At the very least it has a practical use for marketing anti-constipation medicines...
The compiler is mostly right for tested configurations. If you are using less frequently used configurations, all bets are off.

For example, unusual target architectures, using optimize options not enabled by default, using non-default modes of compilation such as PGO and LTO, etc.
we only have evernote / csv support at the moment, but we hope to integrate CRM systems soon like Salesforce and Basecamp!
Plus this was effectively the situation for several centuries. So we know perfectly well what happens. It is decidedly different from equality for all.

But it goes back to the basic motivation for everything. People are motivated by one of two things : political goals (promoting something, can be themselves, but that just makes it a small goal, not non-political), or economic goals.

The problem is that today, the economy, if left 100% to it's own devices would probably kill somewhere north of 50% of the human population for being an economic net-negative.

The problem with political motivations ... we all know that one.
Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview
I wrote my first program before seeing my first Lego block, a toy which I never got in to. I realize this might sound unlikely, but it was cheaper to program than to buy Legos, in a manner which made a difference for my family at the time.
Corelate and infer from the data. If you can't distinguish between similarly named films, you still have the director and cast and years when they are active, along with country, production studio and countless other attributes. A single data source is never effective anyway.

Along with data sources you will also need a production process and streamlined workflow. It's a holistic, iterative exercise.
Some of these are awesome: literally.guitars and crap.gift would make awesome e-commerce names !
1) the majority of the population would just sit at home, either in front of the TV or on drugs. For one of two reasons : disappointment in their own abilities or because they just don't aspire to anything else.

I think you'll agree this is undesirable, so how would you prevent it ?

2) Look at a few rich kids in college/university who are doing this now. There's two problems :

a) what they find important is worthless (e.g. nobody will ever design, say, an xbox, or a tesla in a society like this. But we'll know a hell of a lot more about theoretical matrix multiplication. No implementations whatsoever, of course)

b) the few that do have worthwhile pursuits don't get any more funding than the worthless ones (e.g. kiva systems got started as a university project, but they couldn't even build a single robot. In a society like the one you're describing that would have been it. Yet from this perspective they made inventory management less human-intensive, which from this perspective would be really good)

3) what about the jobs that need doing, but nobody wants to do. Garbage collection is the poster-child here, but it's not alone. Mining. Sailing cargo ships across oceans. Crew members on ships. Oil drilling. Calling library patrons threatening them into returning books.

How and why would these jobs get done ?
1) Then change to "a great majority of developers" instead of all developers

2) This is not what the OP tried to explain.
How much do things like this get sold for? Dollars or equity? 5, 6, 7 or 8 figures?
Games are a way to play. Life without play is = devoid of joy. You can get play from lots of different things (work/music/improv etc), but it's human nature to want to play.

Games are a part of culture, just like music is. Music serves no intrinsic utilitarian purpose. You wouldn't want to cut a person of culture any less you would want a person to never listen to music.

Of course, anything in excess tends to be bad. And some games are engineered in diabolical ways and only live to make money. But games in an of itself are a natural and important part of a normal human beings life. And in this generation, computer games are.
>Maybe people should try parenting instead of letting their kids play games? Or giving them cell phones?

I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but this seems like a strange false dilemma. Kids shouldn't only play games, but there's nothing wrong with letting your kids play them in moderation. It certainly doesn't make you a bad parent, quite the opposite. Many games can improve critical thinking ability. I discovered programming as a kid out a desire to make games. If I hadn't been allowed to play them, I wouldn't be where I am today. Good parents should let their kids play games.
I think this violates the 3rd Amendment too. The government wants to (among other things) be able to secretly monitor laptop cameras of people never suspected of wrongdoing. That's basically an electronic-age version of this 3rd Amendment case: http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/04/a-real-live-third-amendment...
I have to question whether this is actually true though. Yes, they have deviated somewhat from the design of older Thinkpads, but I think it's debatable whether they're objectively worse, for the most part. I will say that things like the capacitive F key row on the X1 Carbon are pretty clearly a bad idea, but other minor changes to keyboard layout and even the clickpad thing I would argue could be considered better if you take someone who has never used either version and train them to use both and ask which they prefer. I personally have a T440s and it's a great machine, and I exclusively use the trackpoint. Because the clickpad actually depresses like normal buttons, it's still pretty natural to use it like a more standard trackpoint with buttons.

I mean, you can't say whether if IBM still owned Thinkpad they would not be making similar design decisions in order to appeal to mass market tastes. I feel like there's a sense in the Thinkpad community that the new Thinkpads are getting steadily worse but I would argue that that's more due to ingrained preferences rather than objective facts. It's just that because Lenovo is a Chinese company it's easy to blame the perceived downfall of Thinkpad as Lenovo driving costs down.
I used to have a debit card that never had more than about $300 on it that I used for final testing of ecommerce sites. I wish I still had it for giving out to scammers.

I'm wondering if it would stand up in court if one were to get a limited debit card, tell the police that you were keeping it purely for a honeypot card, and then hand over those valid, useable, but limited CC details to any would-be scammer while telling the police to start tracking transactions.
Really? They introduce their setup with "If you're going to wean yourself off Gmail, then you need usable webmail" and a few paragraphs down they're talking about SquirrelMail?

I can see Roundcube being an alternative but SquirrelMail makes me just sad when i look at it..
Typing this from a Thinkpad with a trackpoint, I couldn't disagree more :) (though I'd as soon chop off my fingers as use the Dell version of the trackpoint).
Damn, with a name like that I was hoping for a game of self discovery as a young man quests to become a swashbuckling pirate.
> I've decided that my T410 will be the last Thinkpad I will own.

I own a T 430. As I have no experience with older models of Thinkpad but am entirely satisfied with this laptop, I'm curious to know what exactly you think is wrong with the current Lenovo offerings.
From some drone's^WCEO's blog:

> .com doesn’t say much these days other than ‘I got here first’. A .CEO address on the other hand adds value. It communicates power and authority. When I send people an email from my @JeremySchoemaker.CEO people know that it’s coming from ‘the top’. When people visit my .CEO identity page I know they know I’m a professional who takes himself seriously. It’s credible. To my mind no address does a better job at demonstrating thought leadership.

Man, this dotCEO business is wankery turned up to 11. I haven't cringed so hard in days.
wow.buzz is 18,480 USD
balls.pics
From: SS
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 15:29:31 -0500
Subject: The Story That Must Be Told

OK. It's time to write The Book.

You know what I'm talking about: The Unix Haters Handbook.
Publishing is not a problem. If TLA Press won't touch it, my
family owns a honest-to-god publishing company. Really.

I'm willing to edit it, and anyone else is welcome to join in.

The rules are identical to the rules for this mailing list.
You can use technical jargon and not bother to explain
it. Apologies or pragmatic suggestions (other than the
canonical choice of avoiding unix or committing suicide)
will not be tolerated.

The chapters will be:

1) The Unix Epidemic
The Abortion that Lived
2) The Shell
Playing Russian Roulette With 6 Bullets In The Chamber
3) The File System
Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is!
4) Mail
Don't Talk To Me, I'm Not A Typewriter
5) Security
Oh, I'm Sorry Sir, Go Ahead, I Didn't Realize You Were Root
6) Programming
Like Performing Rectal Surgery With a Rusty Spoon
7) Unix weenies
It Can't Be a Bug, My Makefile Depends on It
8) The Future of Open Systems
Terminal Cancer Patients Have Choices Too, You Know

If you want to write any of these, or have a new topic to
add, let me know. The first draft should be ready by July
1st, this summer, and we will go to press by November
1st. Oh yeah, we also need to get an artist who's good at
drawing miserable people. There will be at least one
illustration per chapter, preferably more. If you know
someone, let me know.

From: DW
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 18:53:19 PST
Subject: The Story That Must Be Told

I've thought a lot about such a book. It should have an
introduction by Dvorak and a forward by Pournelle. I have
lots of other ideas, let's talk offline.

From: TM
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 19:18:07 -0800
Subject: Re: The Story That Must Be Told

9) UNIX Standards
One standard is not enough

From: DW
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 15:50:02 PST
Subject: Re: New Mailing List For The Unix Haters Handbook

I had been planning to spend a month in the very near future
solely working on some sort of unix-haters book. I've been
collecting "best of" for a while now, with the creation of a
book in mind. My goal is not money, I had been thinking on
insisting that it appear in paperback for less than $10. I
was going to get permission from everyone cited. My ideas
for format differ from Silens's. It cannot be amateurishly
done, nor be merely a book of rants. It should not contain
words of the sort that get music records "warning: offensive
lyrics" labels put on them.

My goal was to produce something that would make a minor
media splash, at least in the popular technical literature.
If Cliff Stoll can get lots of press, so can this.

Daniel
It's unfortunate that this requires an LED shone at the camera. I hope something similar can be done using just the variation between frames w/o needing controlled illumination.
But wait... The FBI "has cyber capability in every one of its 56 offices"... It's like terminator!
It's a cool idea but I don't know how to comprehend what I'm looking at.
There are way too many projects called Skyhook already. I'd worry about running into litigation from the geolocation company.
Looking for thoughts, ideas on a project
Hi, my old diploma project https://quatinus.info finally starts to look like something almost finished. The whole idea is to mine data from facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc., evaluates it and display it to the user. My idea was to mainly target mobile devices, hence the design kinda suck on desktop. I would appreciate any thoughts, ideas or suggestions.
Cheers.
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The word "Regards".
Even if the T430 and T230 generation changed the keyboard, the Thinkpad line only tuned sour recently IMO, with the T440 and T240. They removed the trackpoint buttons, changed the layout and made upgrading a real pain: you now have to take the machine apart to upgrade the RAM/HDD.
I always enjoyed this page (pretty old and more of a hackme featuring reverse engineering stuff):

http://3564020356.org/

The hash maze is pretty interesting.
Nice article. I very much enjoyed looking through Schlumbohm's inventions from that MoMA link. The Aeropress is mostly the modern version of the Chemex, in an innovative and affordable sense, but it's still lacking in aesthetic pleasures.
Mount&Blade. Exact same model (reduced price beta, all sales direct), before Minecraft.

As with most types of entrepreneurship, the answer is to look for niches rather than chasing massive pop culture success.
It is largely anecdotal, but you do see a lot of the same issues come up. I bought an x220, and a year later I've sworn off Thinkpads. The palmrest has cracked - a common problem for the x220, documented on forums - and Lenovo refuses to fix it. Similarly the keyboard has turned to complete mush - whereas my old X60 keyboard still feels good as new. The entire chassis has warped over time as well, which means it doesn't sit completely flat on a surface - another documented issue on thinkpad forums. And my first battery, a 9 cell Sanyo, died after about 9 months of careful use - again a well known issue on the forums.

So this is why a lot of people perceive quality has tanked at Lenovo. IBM thinkpads did have their own problems (like bad screens), but in general were built like tanks and lasted years.
Nice theory but the reality is quite different. Medical care is far from a solved problem. For example if you are a teenager who gets an aortic aneurism (literal your heart is about to explode) in a car accident only 50% will survive even with the best care. How can cardiac surgeons afford to save half of these people if they know they will probably be sued by many of the other half with Texas juries awarding millions in damages for many of these statitically unavoidable deaths? They can't and neither can their insurers.

For decades Texas juries were awarding so much money so often it became impossible for many high risk specialties, such as delivering babies (think of the downside versus upside), to get insured. In 2000 around a quarter of doctors in Texas were being sued for medical malpractice. Most insurance companies stopped writing insurance for doctors in Texas and the few remaining cooperatives faced bankruptcy. This is why both the Texas legislature and Texas voters (Prop 12) decided to limit damage awards in 2003 to what is now around an inflation adjusted $2 million per victim. Similar things happened in other states with California leading the way in the mid-1970s with a even more restrictive law (no inflation indexing - still the same $250,000 cap as 40 years ago)[1].

Remember the Texas lawyers and juries who have pretty much ruined the US patent system. I that who should an best police doctors? The Texas Medical Board seems like a pretty good approach: people with actual medical training and experience reviewing complaints about doctors. Maybe there is something better for getting rid of incompetent doctors than the Texas Medical Board (ideas pleae?) but unrestricted litigation proved unsustainable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Injury_Compensation_Ref...
I really love how mathematics takes much more sense when explained this way, with historical background. It gives the sense of a story, of people struggling with concepts and generations needed to solve them, not only the area but also how they didn't have calculus, all this parts they make easier for me to understand concepts and remember concepts. When you put 2000 years of mathematic development in front of a person and explain it like it was obvious, something brakes inside you.
I understand that from a certain point you have to study mathematics the hard way. But for kids and people starting with mathematics, it´s better a "history-story" approach.
If I sell you a harmless marshmallow heated to 10000°C and when you bite into it your face is engulfed in flames, who is being negligent?
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