skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the question is unanswered but someone took the time to express their displeasure that it was asked...

Very telling. And I think I now have my answer.
Innovation and Policy-Making Should Be Regulated. But Not By Who You Think.
Yes, and since everything is triangulated too early (it seems) there's no level-of-detail. The scan in the video looks like puke. The scan that plays in the background when you load the page first looks much better.
Here's the follow-up, Glenn:

http://www.seer.ws/innovation-and-policy-making-should-be-re...
Lian-Li announces awesome computer cases that are also desks
Yes, I am pretty sure this article is just rehashing the Twitter grants (I believe there were only 6 to 8 rewards), rather than announcing full open data to any researchers (thereby making the title misleading).
Using Django with IBM's BlueMix
It'd be difficult for me to justify a service like this over Mandrill. I saw where you compare them, but I don't find myself writing much "mailer code" (assuming this means what I think it means?) and I certainly don't have to make code changes just to change a template.

They also allow scheduled sending, though changing this would require a code change (minor, but honestly, this seems like the kind of thing I'd like to have in version control).

As far as email, it sounds like you're mostly providing what Mandrill is, but with a bit more abstraction. I'm really interested in seeing what you do with push/SMS though, because having all of that integrated into one platform sounds like a real value add.

I'd enjoy discussing this in depth with you if you'd like, email's in my profile.
Have you tried Pocket?
Paywall. See the text of the article here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/26izfk/the_whole_...
I've heard that before.

* Library of Congress: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archi...

* Twitter Data grants: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitter-data-grant...

I'll admit, I haven't applied for access through either one, but neither have I seen any papers cite access through those venues—and I read quite a few NLP + Twitter papers.
How many people are paying for Scientific American?
Three Steps to Clone a DVD
From the perspective of both efficiency and economics, what is the best way to backup your DVD collections which cost you quite a sum of your sweat earned money? The best and economical way is to clone them as ISO image files. On one hand, the ISO image files can be easily stored onto your local hard disc drives, external storage devices and even networked storage utilities, in which way saving you a lot of money buying expensive blank media’s, on the other hand, clone a DVD as an ISO image file does not require a DVD writer either. Last but certainly not least, the ISO image file can be easily mounted by a virtual drive and played from a piece of media player software, and there are many free virtual drives and media player software’s online. In one word, one stone, three birds. Why not? You can see more info about the guide at: http://www.dvdfab.cn/dvd-copy/Three-Steps-to-Clone-a-DVD.htm?ad=hcj
Why doesn't anyone seem to think the full number tower in python 3 is great? It seems to always be left out of discussions like this ... but I think it is a great and very "pythonic" thing to add to the language.

[edit: because the numeric tower wrt integers wasn't new in python3, just other parts of the number hierarchy... see below]

In that light I think unicode also makes more sense: text is text and numbers are numbers. Done. No need to think about it.

Yes, it does break with python2 -- but python2 isn't going anywhere.

As for the GIL -- is it really such a big deal any more? I know that forking processes on Windows used to be hopelessly slow -- maybe it still is? But it's been pretty lightweight on Linux for the longest time -- and as we're getting more and more (logical and physical) cores -- with all the cache-coherency issues that come with it -- isn't multiprocess a pretty sane programming model?

Yes, a solid actor framework would be nice -- but that would also mandate some form of change to python.

If there's something I'd like to see, it's a clean interface between rust and python (rather than having to fall back to c for high performance code).

But I don't understand the people that hold up Go as the terrible threat to python -- sure there are a lot of people that will move from one to the other -- but the languages are so different that the comparison really doesn't make any sense. The one thing they do have in common is a strong vision and focus on simplicity -- but they articulate that vision and focus quite differently.

For those that want "faster" python -- why not use nimrod? If you want something "faster" and "more embeddable" why not use lua? I can't see a good pythonX that is better at either of these two in the areas where they excel. If you want actors, why not use Elexir?

Personally I'd probably enjoy a Smalltalk/Strongtalk that had a slightly more complicated syntax than traditional Smalltalk -- borrowing from python (say indentation for blocks, some way to define infix messages/operations) -- but I'm not under any illusion that such a language would be a better python.
OT is not so much an algorithm as an approach: a way of thinking about sensibly merging parallel sequences of change operations against a data model of some kind.

It’s a really interesting field, going back a long way: the canonical paper that the Google Wave (RIP) people referenced is nearly 20 years old (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=215585.215706). This is another, more recent, good paper: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/13/97/04/PDF/OsterIC....

In fact, Basis does use an OT approach in the delta merge algorithm: it breaks the deltas down into a canonical series of “micro operations”, merges them piecewise, then generates a new delta.

Thanks for the kudos!
Come To Work Happy – Malaysian Innovation Foundation
Malaysian Innovation Foundation did an internal campaign "Come to Work Happy" showcasing their staff dancing to Pharell William Sons's Happy and some of their scouted innovative grassroots products.
This is a good point. The light switches in my grandmother's house (two-button affairs from the 1920s) still work in 2014. My 1950s gas oven still works. Simplicity and longevity are valuable attributes in a piece of hardware (a house) with a 50-year design life. (I replaced most of my X-10 switches with photocells and manual dimmers after seeing the light on this one.)
Perl 5.20.0 released
I'll gladly agree with you.

But that is not this case. This was severe mental illness, not misogyny. More to the point, to those who said "he killed men because he couldn't kill the sorority" miss the fact that he stabbed two men to death first.

This case was someone who was very very sick, and decided to lash out at the world, and innocent people paid the price. Those who attempt to paint it as "MRA's are dangerous" (which they are, there is a brand new petition on WhiteHouse.gov saying exactly that) or anything other than it actually is confuse the hell out of me.
Keep it simple: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2007/09/psa-backups/
As someone with a degree in Philosophy, I would humbly suggest to PG that the fact that many philosophical puzzles are entirely about what the words actually mean is something that Philosophy as a discipline has been aware of for at least centuries.
Believe me, the last thing I ever thought to see on HN was pallets! Glad to have the conversation!
From the article:

Rhinehart is well aware of the fact that Soylent
isn’t the first beverage designed to replace meals.
He considered using Ensure for his initial no-eating
experiment, but found it much too expensive, too sugary,
too unpalatable, and sub-optimal in its ingredient
make-up.

The differentiating factor seems to be in the intended
purpose. Meal-replacement shakes have never been
presented as a food — something that you could (or
might want to) live on for an extended period.
I am skeptical about this device becoming a game changer in tennis. I played tennis for a while and what really helped me then was video analysis. While data is helpful, it's not as helpful as video. If the wearable could depict my form and technique from data, that'll be a game changer. For game improvement, we don't lack knowledge. After playing any game for a while, we'll know our limitations - but to tide over those limitations you need hours and hours of practice along with a coach. During those rigorous practice hours, your mind gives up and you just want to quit, but your coach won't let you do that :).
I would absolutely have paid for this with my last startup, especially if I could specify which blogs/reddits etc to pull content from. I had a manual process that involved checking 5 blogs and 2 subreddits every day to pick out the top 3-4 interesting posts to link to.
Yeah, I'll grant that. Serial killers throughout history often hid their broken-ness for years while getting away with it all... but this isn't a common occurrence. This isn't something that should factor into a persons risk-assessment while going about their daily life. This is a sad, messed up situation, but the reason it's so news-worthy is because this doesn't happen that often (thank <insert deity>)
I'm not sure people will want to live on Soylent, at least the first batch seems to be targeted at people who are intrigued by the idea and want to experiment with it. If that experiment pans out, then maybe there will be a question about why people want to live on it.
DigitalOcean ($5/mo)
Gandi.net ($200/yr)
Tarsnap ($3/mo)
CrashPlan ($6/mo)
Ask HN: Alternative to MixPanel?
Am wondering if there any free/cheap mature alternatives to MixPanel? Basically an event based analytics software will do.
It doesn't look ready for consumers. The scans looks like lumps of clay. Shouldn't it look exactly like the spaces it scans ? Thats what scanners do. When I scan a document, it gives me pretty sharp copy. I wouldn't pay for scanner that give me very fuzzy copy of a document, at least i would not try to sell it until i perfect it.
Trigger warning.
The age of the article is evident:

> "The performance of this chip --which worked the first time-- was undoubtedly..."

Those were the "bad old days" ("good old days"?) when millions could be
spent developing an IC and when it was manufactured, it wouldn't work.
In 1985, we really didn't have EDA verification and synthesis tools,
and tons of stuff was still done by hand.
Is the RCU patent really still an issue?
May I ask what tool you are using to do this now? Or are you still doing it manually.
World's Most Expensive Hard Drive Teardown [video]
Skateboarding is illegal in San Francisco, and nearly every other US city.

For example, San Francisco Transportation Code Sec. 7.2.13:
Illegal to ride on the sidewalk, Illegal to ride on the roadway
If you're a Java aficionado GWT has a similar stack of widgets mGWT http://mobilegwt.appspot.com/showcase/ which actually are tuned to produce optimal repaints/scrolls in WebKit/Chrome with minimal DOMs. Combine with gwt-phonegap to produce native deployable apps for AppStore and Play.
I agree -- no magic.

One of my duties as an IT manager in a big enterprise a few years back was running an install group. 7-10 FTEs, two trucks and lots of budget for rental vehicles and expenses. Most of their job was installing servers in the field and arguing with landlords about specific requirements we had (ie, 30 amp electric service, a/c in the closet, certain types of locks, etc)

Today? The office's admin calls whomever the preferred telco partners are and gathers quotes for internet service. That group is gone.

Also, never underestimate the cost of bureaucratic waste. In the place I work in now, I can probably jot down 6-10 names whose main work functions could be replaced by pull down menus on a webpage. When you outsource parts of your business, those functions tend to go away.
I am not very familiar with pyc, but IMHO, if pycs compiled from both versions are compatible, the migration process should not be that painful. Syntax can change, but given stable ABI, librariescan be shared without pain. Why has no one done that?
Cry laugh feel love peace panic
A release for journalists would be nice too...
If you have the skills, build your own. It's dirt cheap, again, given the right skills.
It is the price of a quality tennis racquet and comparable to running GPS watches which perform a similar function (though with different hardware and a different sport). Not to mention tennis is a pretty pricy sport. Frankly $200 sounds cheap to me.
Show HN : My New Math Game in iOS 7
When i'm losing focus and i can make the bad mistakes with the very simple calculations. So i made this game to improve my skill to focus and calculate faster.
Yep. I was just a couple years too late for a lot of tech. In high school, they retired the card punch and card reader the year before. In college there were still card decks being run and bins of printouts but everything new was being done on glass TTYs. We had teletypes in a few labs but only once did I ever see one used when we got one working again to play with.

I wonder if the kids a few years behind me say things like "they stopped using floppies right before I started" or "I never did see a dot-matrix printer actually print".

I also wish there was a simple micro out there. I still have an old senior design project sitting in a drawer at Tampa Hackerspace. It's a Jeopardy style quiz show buzzer system built from a Z80 (old even when we used it), I think a 8255 (because I had a pile of them), a little TTL glue, a EPROM with a few hundred lines of hand-assembled code, no RAM, and a 555 timer for a clock. The clock is so slow that we also used it for the audio for the buzzer. It's been a fun board to haul out and throw on a logic analyzer to show people. Can't probe the address bus on an ARM or Atmel. But kids today probably look at that like I used to look at tube testers.
I've been enjoying my first week of Soylent. I eat "regular" dinner, but the rest of the day I drink a cup of soylent every couple hours. The best part about Soylent is it's hackable. I'm looking to gain weight, so I use whole milk instead of water, and add 4 eggs and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream which also dramatically improves the taste (for me at least).

It's almost like drinking melted ice cream, to be honest.
Not working on consumer-facing stuff anymore, so I'm not using anything. What are you using to find and pick out the best stories?
Swiss group to allow assisted dying for elderly who are not terminally ill
My bet is on smart tags, NFC and iBeacon.

Bring it on.
Why I use the MIT License
No matter how fast the OS can spin up another process, you still have to contend with the overhead of Python initialization itself.

And I don't quite understand what you mean by the "full number tower".
True, but doesn't Twitter already provide an API for access to a fraction of the firehose? Surely that would be enough data. If Twitter doesn't have a good API, Reddit allows full access to all comments through their API (although Reddit has orders of magnitude less data).
The NSA is recording every single phone call from Afghanistan
Senior consultant or even principal consultant.
As Richard Branson said, the easiest way to become a millionaire is to start with a billion and buy an airline.
On that note:

The site you linked links to https://history.google.com/history/lookup , where you can see all of the searches Google associates to your account (if you have web history enabled).

For me, this goes all the way back to 2006.
I think many programmers (myself included), use more than one language at the same time. At the moment I use VB, python, flex and java, for different environments and different problems within those environments. If I want to quickly do something, for instance manipulating a CSV file, Python is my goto tool. And this is the reason Python will be popular for many because it can do certain things very fast and with minimum of fuss. Therefore I think Python will be around for awhile.
Today was an issue related to the new Masternodes in the Darkcoin protocol. It was tested for a month on testnet and nothing of the sort happened. Real conditions were different and caused forks. The developer issued a quick fix and everything is back on track for the moment. You can't always get it right the first time that's for sure.
I hope that the companies making the existing Soylent-like products (though I have yet to find one that is unflavored and isn't targeted to dieting people or to bodybuilders...) take the hype around Soylent as a cue to market their stuff this way. I trust their nutritionists more than I trust the Soylent guys' knowledge, which (as I think I read somewhere) comes from just reading some nutrition textbooks.
Can't disagree much. I think itd be nice if python become all that. easier for programmers to transition to it than to, say, go.
Yeah, that's true. But are we talking eyeballs within the same age group, or like teens vs. old people?
I'm guessing he was/is on drugs. He's openly talked about using vyvanse and adderall, so he might have been on those and/or other substances. I've generally assumed he was high any time I hear about the dumb shit he does or says.
Very cool - I don't really maintain any social media pages, but if I did I can see how this would save a tonne of time. Landing page is simply and easy to understand, nice work.
I can think of one guy who would definitely want this. Update your HN profile to show your email so I can try to introduce you to him; or you can email me with more details.
Join Wit.AI (YC W14) to reinvent human-machine dialog (Palo Alto, San Francisco)
Where do you think they go? Do you really think that a 20 something with no experience programming is more valuable than a 43 year old with 20 years of experience? Maybe in some SF based start-up where culture is more important that productivity... but in the real world people hire guys that can do the job. Most real tech is done by guys over 30.
Not at all, I can live without it, was only less thing to type when debugging.
Yea, the cancellation of "Mariner" was unfortunate.
You might want to check out http://beatrixapp.com/
The cost is totally prohibitive, even for the early adopter market. Boosted - I was working on this problem (far less successfully than you - hat tip) and came to the conclusion that you have to give people a low starting cost and the ability to upgrade over time. Give me brushed motors, NiMH batteries and cheap trucks to start with for closer to $600USD. Once you've hooked me on the product (and I'm confident you will) offer me upgrades to LiFEPO4 batteries, better bearings, brushless motors, RadiKS wheels, etc. Up-front pricing will not win this market!
I wish I knew about this earlier! Thanks for explaining it to me though. :-)
Currently they have employed an on-staff nutritionist. That part is unfortunately not very well known...
Soylent bars sound like a cool idea. No dishes to do, no groceries to shop, no time spent in the kitchen.

Pure gain.
Logo! Are you going to open source the interpreter?
Why is it patentable?
Darkcoin is closed source[0] and the creators[1] of Darkcoin show no history of working with cryptography, peer-to-peer, or any form of anonymity/security in general. One of the two founders does however have an interest in "financial markets and economics" and nearly all tweets on the official Darkcoin Twitter account[2] are about the market price. This reeks of scamcoin.

[0] http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQ#Is_DarkSend_open_source.3F

[1] https://www.darkcoin.io/meetteam.html

[2] https://twitter.com/DarkcoinCrypto
1. There are a lot of (nonessential) nutrients that you get from plants that you won't get from this drink.

2. Our idea of "everything the body needs" can change.

3. We don't know the long term effects of relying solely on it.

The author spends a lot of time on stupid counterarguments. Seriously, do your homework.
Thank you for sharing. I like his appreciation of Physics. Physicists seem to do well in many non-Physics fields (economics, financial markets, CS, etc) and I've frequently wondered if it's because you have to be smart to go into the field, or if there are special tools they learn. I like Yann's comments on the applied nature of it.
I don't have an Evolve board but I'm considering one. I'd suggest giving them a look (much longer distance on one charge). I think I'll end up with either an evolve board or a onewheel. I do wish it was possible to test them out first to see how the ride really feels but I'm sure I would end up pretty happy with anything.
Interesting concept, and I wish you luck. Picking out the "interesting"
stuff is tough, and categorizing it is even tougher.

I'm curious why your examples show sports scores categorized as
"Entertainment/Culture Education"?

There's a small typo here:

http://www.freshpost.io/

> "and would like to cancel your subscription, simple contact us within"

s/simple/simply/
Hey, would love a free account as soon as you get this working with Twitter.
You might not realize this if you have never trained for strength, but strength is very obviously measurable, especially with barbells, and when you get that feedback often enough with a program like this, it quickly becomes addictive.

You know how many reps you got with what weight the last time, you shoot for one more rep or 5 lbs. heavier, and you get it! And you know you didn't have it a week ago. You just got stronger!

So you start chasing your own progress in that "boring" lift, and it becomes far more exhilarating than any wobbleboard kettlebell juggle variation-of-the-day a personal trainer pulled out of her ass.
Looking for: Mentor

Location: Montreal, Canada

Current job: Mobile app developer (Windows Phone, Xamarin iOS and Xamarin Android). Mostly C#, Windows, Visual Studio, TFS, etc.

Interests: semantic web, knowledge representation, linguistics and constructed languages, UI/UX (bleeding edge, wearable and mobile), product design, logic/declarative/functional/reactive programming, distributed systems, smart contracts, task/project/time management and GTD, quantified-self, life-hacking (nootropics, speed reading, psychology, polyphasic sleep, diets), political science (geolibertarianism), transparency (as opposed to privacy), crypto-currencies/Ethereum, minimalism.

People that inspire me: Bret Victor, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, Albert Einstein, David Allen, Jacque Fresco, and of course Steve Jobs (haters gonna hate).

Other: I type in Dvorak. I'm an INTP. I want to change the world. I challenge you to find someone more ambitious than me. I have trouble executing my grand visions. I seek an open-minded mentor that share my vision of the world and wish to share some wisdom.
There was a way to make it suck less, which Amazon didn't do for stupid reasons.
It's possible that living on Soylent is healthier than the way the majority of people eat, maybe a large majority.
Agreed, I would find a python 4 with built in pypi, cython, and bpython analogues compelling.
Also check http://www.coinnext.com
You are right about how our service compares with Mandrill. But, there are a bunch of companies that we've spoken to, who do send a lot of emails, and they've found the abstraction we provide to be useful.

A big reason for the abstraction is to support SMS/push notifications. I'll drop you an email, but can't find it in your profile. Can you update it or drop me an email?

Thanks, Suresh