skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the OP, I think the big publishers are going down in flames soon. They just don't provide enough value in the value chain.

Unlike the OP, however, I think the publishing industry is on the verge of a great renewal. The only people that matter are authors and readers, and eBooks and print-on-demand can make this connection happen, without the need to pay any middlemen. More on this here http://minireference.com/blog/techzing-interview/#opportunit...
Go, REST APIs, and Pointers
Scientific GPU Computing with Google’s Go Language
Other cities have similar characters, I'm sure.

Memphis has Prince Mongo [http://www.1045theriver.com/pages/7337724.php?]

I grew up in Memphis. Prince Mongo had a nightclub that was the place to go for high school kids. They apparently never checked for ID's... it was known for serving to high schoolers.
Titanium is free for building/distributed apps and hosting data using their mobile backend (ACS). The paid components are related to Appcelerator Platform, which is a suite of testing, performance, analytics, data and integration modules. If you're a hobbyist, you likely don't need the enterprise suite.

If you go with Phonegap / Cordova, I recommend looking into Appgyver's implementation which offers great tooling (cli), tight codebase (Angular) and an extended feature set for native components. They also have a great support for data integration and provide a nice visual editor (Composer).

Fwiw, I have been using Titanium since 2009 and have worked with many clients over the years as a consultant and trainer. I primarily use Titanium (Alloy) for rapid development and write native modules to extend the framework as needed. Expect about 85% cross-platform code coverage (business logic) and about 95% coverage for views/styles.
The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler and Information Rules by Hal Varian are good. Both are a bit dated though. If you know of any contemporary works to those, I'm all ears.
One Woman’s Meditation: Weightlifting
Get Started With Lambda Expressions in Java 8
Absolutely! A Growth Hacking path is on our wish list. Know anyone awesome who could help us build it?
Is the whole 'ninja' trend even still a thing outside of a few random web design shops?
>does look like a homepage of a product of years of advanced research

it looks likes a homepage of a product of years of advanced research, and a homepage which was made years ago.

trendy and pretty matter a lot for first impressions, and making a first impression is very important.

The current Haskell website, while it may have a lot of nice and useful information for informed and commmitted haskellers, does not do a good job of making the language look approachable, easy to learn, and interesting.

Sidenote: having a Programming Language website that requires javascript shouldn't be a problem nowadays, when most consumer websites require javascript.
You're right that two probably isn't enough for a significant result - though it might be, if the effect size is large enough. How large was the rest of your sample, and how big was the difference? I won't stoop to insults the way you did, but are you really not even curious about these kind of differences?
Decisions under uncertainty
Suggest engaging directly with your potential buyers, ask them "what are you using for Lead Gen now? What do you like/dislike about the quality?" Those conversations will yield insights.
Interesting point. Not exactly how I read it, but this makes sense as well.

For the progressive consumption tax, to make it really meaningful and fair, you have to have very reliable data on what price range for given type of good is excessive. Alternatively, you could just tax classes of goods, such as luxury cars, etc.

The one problem with such a tax is that it enables people to save a lot more instead of spending it. If the money sits in the banking system, it at least does some work, but if the saving happens in the form of physical goods of perceived high value (such as gold or jewelry), it doesn't actually help the economy beyond the initial purchase.

That said, I would love to not have to pay income tax :)
Thanks, added to the list!
Stephen Hawking unveils formulae for England World Cup success
Is there really a cloud price war?
Lead Qualification Is Surpassing VC Deal Sourcing as Top Use of Mattermark
I would recommend developing your code base using Qt, which will export to Android and iOS. I think Windows Phone will be supported in the future, but has not been fully released yet. Qt is open source and free to use under LGPL.
MH370 search goes cold in area where ‘pings’ were heard
Italian police get a brand new Lamborghini
Separation of concerns? Why would I ever want to implement business logic in an http server configuration file?
Ask HN: What's wrong with HN's Sorting Algo on p2?
News stories are randomly dis-similar in age/upvotes on page 2 (31-60)

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From Poverty to Prosperity: A conversation with Bill Gates [pdf] [scribd] (aei.org)
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Ask HN: What server setups should I test my new self-hosted app on?
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Broaden the way people interact with handheld devices (fuffr.com)
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Ask HN: Would you sign up for a sales bootcamp?
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Ask HN: Any companies looking for developers for expat positions?
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Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity (2013) [pdf] [scribd] (hbs.edu)
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Ask HN: Save my dying company. Android dev team for hire.
3 points by threethirty 47 minutes ago | flag | discuss
Loudie – feedback needed
We built a social concert discovery app that allows you to watch videos from concerts you missed while also letting you explore upcoming ones. We'd love to know what you think.

Thanks,

Team Loudie
lance@loudie.com

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loudie/id427978091?mt=8&ls=1
The missing thing here is editors.

A lot of books, regardless of format, would be a lot less enjoyable without a good editor to make sure the story is consistent, well-paced, etc. A number of authors thank their editors in the afterword.

That said, there's still room to disrupt the industry a bit.
OpsGenie has a free tier as well. They recently added a unique feature that routes calls to a support number to the engineers on duty (can record a message and attack it to the incident). Outside of the butt-ugly UI (which they assured me are working to modernize), OpsGenie beats PagerDuty in many aspects, it's cheaper, but not as popular. They've had an Android app and push notifications way before PagerDuty and are cheaper.
Loved it. Though got struck in Lvl4 and 6. But lvl4 was really a smart question.
I hope this isn't a spoiler, but remember there are other ways to load resources without an external request. You can pass that stage without any requests to external servers.
Google's diversity post makes no mention of age
I think is more because who is running A/B testing are not knowledgeable in stats, there are many other pitfalls that people fall into (in my personable experience) much worst than not using Bayesian rule, like sampling
And how to most people get to the open web? Google. By a huge margin. I see numbers ranging from 66% to 90% depending on how you measure it.
Are UK salaries even worse than Canadian ones? I've looked at analytics related positions in the UK and was shocked at how bad the average pay seemed to be given what the cost of living was.

It seemed to be the same for software developers.

Given what patio11 says about salaries in Japan, that country also sounds absolutely terrible.
I would prefer to have all my behavior be in my codebase.

Also, restarting Apache after adding a route would get tedious during development.
rebase is not the same as avoiding merge problems.

what does it help you if you and other dev have their, often rebased or not, branches for a long time? the first one will be fine, second will have merge hell.

honestly, you are only comfortable with that setup because you probably work alone on a small team.

edit: and dont get me wrong, if that is the case, you are using the right tool for the job. i would love to be able to not rely on regular atomic commits in my huge dysfunctional group.
I recently restored an ADDS Regent 25 terminal; it has an 8085 inside, so I'll claim it as an 8-bit system font :-)

Sorry I don't have a better picture:

http://i.imgur.com/4jR8izX.jpg

Its close to the 'Speccy' font included in cathode:

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
There is not a systemic problem in Silicon Valley so much as there is a systemic problem in all of society. The leaving behind of women, latinos and african-americans starts as early as elementary school (if not even earlier like pre-school for women at least, since my impression is that gender-typed toys generally promote different play styles).

Blaming this on Silicon Valley absolves the rest of society from their responsibilities here.
What is wrong with piping `ls`?
If you read much of his blog, I think it is fair to say that he sees much of his writing as product.
JavaScript Victorious – Three Obstacles
Thanks for your concern, I would try to implement features you have said, Its still under development mode and needs much polish.
To me abstraction above the hardware is like condoms. Some people say "Use three condoms, its better".

I don't want a literal C64 -- just the complete open simple access... but 64-bit and 3Ghz and multicored.

I don't want it to run on a 386, just x86_64.
Thanks! We'll try to add a full CS&E curriculum.

The closest thing we have is a beginners' web development path (not the same thing at all, I realize, but sharing if helpful) http://www.mysliderule.com/courses/learning-paths/web-develo...
Dont forget µ which is totally a legit router

https://github.com/lastguest/mu
You can use SEO4Ajax [1] to crawl your SPA and generate an up to date sitemap dynamically.

[1] http://www.seo4ajax.com/
Looks like everyone and their grandma has written their own PHP router.

Here's mine:

https://github.com/erming/route

Code: https://github.com/erming/route/blob/master/route.php

~80 LOC
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Broaden the way people interact with handheld devices (fuffr.com) 9 points by klintcho 2 days ago | 2 comments

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Google Wallet scrapes transaction memos for "Bitcoin", states violation of ToS
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Do below average developers ever turn into average developers?
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Ask HN: Would you sign up for a sales bootcamp?
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Ask HN: Any companies looking for developers for expat positions?
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Ask HN: Can we consider the web safe now?
5 points by mikemoka 48 days ago | 1 comment
[edit] I wrote a thing about transportation, but I didn't realize you were criticizing Wright's plan, so nevermind; I've actually never found a reason to admire Wright and the article didn't really do anything for that.
Thanks for your concern, this router is a result out of a effort to learn about routing. I will try to add benchmarks soon.
Grove Labs: Aquaponics Startup
I guess you are asking why not just use the filesystem one-one like mapping url to file?

A benefit of routing is that you can have a single point of contact in your app: a front controller. And you can place your route config in one place.

This router also has RESTful routing, detecting HTTP methods upfront that correspond to a predictable method name in a named class.
Why Can’t Doctors Identify Killers?
Yeah I don't understand the use of statics here. I'm going to guess it's just so they can use the "nicer" syntax without having to instantiate a new object, which would honestly make more sense to me. That way you can inject a Link instance into your controller/views and just call `$link->route('namedRoute')`.
How does this compare with something like Slim?

+1 for being lightweight and readable.
Not much different than CS classes where you're learning methodology and showing that you can regurgitate it on a test, really.
I think what jawns is getting at is precisely because you can't price-discriminate on the payment method, you might as well increase prices for everything in order to cover transaction fees (operating under the assumption that most customers will pay with credit card), which effectively means that cash-paying customers get stuck with those fees.
Congrats, it was a great app. I hope you rerelease it. :)
Maybe I haven't read enough, but I got more of an impression that the industry in which a successfully writer of fiction is embedded views the writer's output as product.

And it is a product to the industry around it - works of fiction are advertised, printed, stocked, sold, shipped and consumed. Of course it's not just a product, but still that is the industry's main view of it. Much like how the music industry regards songs as "content" not "works of art". "How many copies can we sell?" is a more relevant question than "what is the piece's artistic merit?"
A woman's path to data science
Which begs the question, how on earth do you choose one?

Edit: as in, which router do you pick and how do you pick one? Choice can lead to decision paralysis.
Slim is a whole (micro)frameork that includes routing. This is just a request router.
Having built apps with apps with phonegap my advice is don't. Pick a single platform and build natively unless you have a very very good reason you have to be cross-platform.
Bridging the gap between lean startup in theory and in practice
So, your working hypothesis based on that comment is that they're an otherwise friendly and fair-minded person, but when they see that a woman wrote a blog about programming they feel the need to go out of their way to write a comment telling them to stfu?

Anything's possible, I guess. But, based on my particular lifetime of experience with people, jerks are usually jerks in multiple aspects of their life.
None. Standing on their own, they're just meaningless buzzwords.
The site has a lot of other articles that are darn interesting.
I love the idea of expert-curated learning paths - this is so much needed with the proliferation of all the competing MOOCs. Thank you for putting this together.

I've noticed that there's a growing demand for performance and reliability engineering types of roles in the tech. Can that become a learning path? The courses for that could be:
1. OS
2. Computer Networks
3. Distributed Systems
4. Intro to Algorithms
5. Intro to Statistics
6. <Some course on best practices of general systems-level troubleshooting?>
7. <Some course on best practices of software debugging?>

I know it sounds almost like a full-fledged MS program in CS. But this could be a great opportunity for those who are not enrolled in those programs but love systems in general and would like to make a career out of it. Apologies if this type of "learning path" makes no sense to most of the industry insiders.
I mean, sure, of course. But they are still being sexist.
Graffiti Artists Use Moral Rights to Prevent Building Demolition
"All this adds up to a criticism that has been levied at high-profile Kickstarter campaigns before: Crowdfunding is theoretically supposed to bolster charities, start-ups, independent artists, small-business owners and other projects that actually need the financial support of the masses to succeed. It’s not supposed to be co-opted by companies with profit motives and private investors of their own … which, despite Burton’s charisma, is exactly what the Rainbow reboot is."

Says who?

Look, it's a consensual relationship between backers and people looking for crowdfunding. Obviously outright fraud is wrong, but the article isn't alleging that this is anywhere close to that -- everyone agrees that they're asking for money for what they say they want money for. (And corporations with profit motives and outside investors are, oddly enough, a hedge against the biggest problem with crowdfunding -- the risk that the product won't be delivered upon. "[C]harities, start-ups, independent artists, small-business owners" are more likely to fail to deliver than an otherwise successful business that turns to crowdfunding to support a project.)
Implicit in these threads is the assumption that Amazon would never provide editor services. If Amazon dealt directly with authors, without going through a traditional publisher, I don't see any fundamental reason why they wouldn't.

After all, better books => more profits.

And, of course, there's no particular reason why editors cannot contract out their services to authors. I know some authors, and they review/edit each others' books.
Show HN: Funnel Analysis Event for Hackers and Founders
Piketty responds in depth to the FT
Google's blog post about diversity stats doesn't say anything about age, they diversity website does (but not with age stats.)

Of course, there are lots of possible diversity axes for which they don't have stats, including, among others, veterans status and sexual orientation (which, also, though they aren't in the stats, are addressed on the diversity web page.)

Its even weirder that the blog post complains that Google's federally mandated EEO-1 report includes only the information that prescribed in the federal mandate.
Nice set of articles: flagged as toread.

One quick note: with the visual6502 project (http://www.visual6502.org/), and the c-implementation (https://github.com/mist64/perfect6502), a fun way to test your emulator timing is to run it in parallel with the gate-level simulation, and compare them. For example, I do this with my golang 6502 emulator: https://github.com/zellyn/go6502/blob/master/tests/compare_t...
Situations like this have always left me wondering why we don't have the school and city equivalent of the Navy Seals.

When a hurricane or earthquake hits a region of the country, we have FEMA that can come in and help stabilize the situation and get it back to where it should be.

In the case of certain types of crime, special federal police forces get involved, such as the behavioral crime unit of the FBI or the secret service when counterfeiting is involved.

However when a city is going into decay or has particular issues reversing negative trends, I don't get why we don't have an analogous task force team to come into the city and help the local government get in from of the problem from practitioners with experience addressing those same issues previously in other cities.

The same goes for schools. We have so many schools out there with the school equivalent of malignant cancer ruining the entire cultural fabric of the schools and the surrounding neighborhood, but we don't have people who are the best of the best at running schools and turning them around coming in like doctors to address the problem with specialized knowledge and greater resources than the local tax base can provide.
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We Can Do Better – Visualisation of gender disparity in engineering teams (do-better.herokuapp.com)
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Reflectionless data binding for Go's net/http (mholt.github.io)
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Ask HN: What server setups should I test my new self-hosted app on?
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Broaden the way people interact with handheld devices (fuffr.com)
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Google Wallet scrapes transaction memos for "Bitcoin", states violation of ToS
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Social. Local. Mobile. solomo lomoso moloso somolo losomo mosolo
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How to Navigate the Seed Capital Gap in India
> No legislastion authorizes that program, among many others.

No legislation forbids it either. If the NSA is legally able to search/seize a given piece of information why would you think they should not be allowed to forensically analyze it?
I chose CS after my university cancelled its computer engineering program. I chose computer engineering because it was a challenge in a way that english and history weren't. Much of my childhood was spent with my nose in a book because it was a way to avoid dealing with the religious schism in my family. As a result, my ability to read and write for an academic setting (and on standardized tests) made getting high grades a trivial matter.
Every successful business model (even consulting) builds in client acquisition costs. How is your intermediary compensated now?
No discussion of cities and reimagining them is complete without referencing Jane Jacobs.

Her approach was almost the direct opposite of Wrights (and of many urban reformers). Her focus was the street and interactions between residents, shopkeepers, and other inhabitants of the city. Her realization (mirrored well by Garrison Keillor in a biographical documentary I caught a year or so back) was that cities are collections of neighborhoods or villages. rglover her contrasts his impression of Chicago with the small towns of Ohio in which he grew up. My experience with large cities is that frequently their downtowns are impersonal (though even there I've found my niches), but it's in the neighborhood that their character really shows. Sometimes it's a character you don't much care for, but often there's a sense of place and community, even in dynamic and rapidly changing cities, which can persist for years, decades, or even generations. It does take time to appreciate and find, though.

Back to Jacobs: finding her The Life and Death of Great American Cities was a watershed for me (and I can still remember the marginalia in my uni's copy at one of her common-sense observations: "God bless you, Jane"). Cities and the Wealth of Nations and The Economy of Cities changed many of my perceptions of what economics was about and where its real centers lay (it's rarely nations or states, cities and metropolitan areas, yes).

Wright's interesting. But he's no authority on cities or urban planning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
Stop Calling Software “Enterprise-grade”
I don't agree with the blog's author (Charlie Stross) but I will attempt to interpret what he's trying to say. He's not advocating for a more efficient fiction production method. The examples he cites are slow-growth authors that don't catch fire immediately and the failure of Agile XP "pair-programming" for consistently producing fiction any faster (the 75% contributed by both writers chestnut).

If you take these premises as unchangeable, he's saying that authors require a stable industry that "nurtures" their career and a ruthless capitalist Darwinism would destroy that environment.

I guess an analogy would be trashing the tenured status of mathematics professors and let other measurements such as crowdsourced student voting and dollar amounts of incoming grants dictate whether those math professors would have jobs. Under that dog-eat-dog scenario, a Charlie Stross type of prediction says that mathematician Andrew Wiles wouldn't have had the luxury to think for years on proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

Good work by good creators (authors, mathematicians, etc) takes years to produce and unlike a tomato that can be grown from seed to fruit in 75 days, their slow intellectual output needs a commercial environment that doesn't punish them while 2 corporations negotiate their financial differences.
Michelle Obama defends new shcool lunch nutrition standards
CENTR Cam That Captures Everything Around You
I probably should be too embarrassed to ask this question, but why can't I use script tags in the second test? I don't understand what's preventing me from doing that.
3 Best Tools to Gain More Twitter Followers
I don't think the majority stop and think "How can I upset this person?" otherwise we'd see males cop it from males a lot more. I think it happens on a more instinctive level. e.g., "That person is a different gender or race to me so I must attack" and something emotional is a quick and easy thoughtless option.