skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Startup Trying to Replace Congress With Software Is Running Two Candidates"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960110
A malloc implementation: https://github.com/andrewf/scarymalloc . The idea was to have a simple, low overhead implementation that still has the potential to be performant, not that I've gotten around to benchmarking it. I'm working on a leaner system of headers where the free-list pointers are stored in the payloads of free blocks instead of the bodies, and the footer of one block is the header for the next (if there is one).
Django is just old-fashioned, frankly. It's stuck somewhere around 2005 or so. Pyramid allows you to use current best-of-breed in the Python ecosystem (SQLAlchemy, etc)
A Stronger Programming Culture For India
This approach tried in the past multiple times:

- Mesa

- Cedar

- Smalltalk

- Lisp based OS (Interlisp, Lisp Machines)

- Oberon and derivatives

So I think at least for home systems it could work.
Android Auto in cars is just a dumb screencast, like iOS CarPlay.
Commute Does Not Compute
Nah, bro. Unless you want help on how to lose money on the market and also give more commission to your broker. If you're in the right area, they have Algo Trading meetup's or regular trading meetup's where some peeps maybe do algo-trading. e.g.,

You may find this helpful for what you're trying to do for equity trading,

http://blog.quantopian.com/gary-chan-on-pairs-trading-presen...

http://www.godotfinance.com/workingpapers/
praise God, then randomly open a book, preferably the Bible.

The effort you put into praise will correspond to the response. Snowmen, sand castles, soap bubbles, popcorn.... pick something good to praise Him for. The love you put towards God is what He gives back.
TDD IRL
While i believe in the underlying vision that drove Swartz to his actions, the person that killed Swartz was Swartz himself.

Prosecutors overcharge and bend the law all the time, still we don't see mass suicides from the "victims". Swartz obviously had some other unrelated issues that drove him to this extreme.
It's also a misconception to equate huge-reservoir hydro with all hydro. The Norwegians have incredibly high head, phenomenally efficient hydro in the mountains with minimal environmental impact. We have run of river hydroelectric in the states that diverts some water via penstock, as well as canal-based systems and those that utilize Army Corp dams. In fact, there is significant non-powered dam resource available: http://nhaap.ornl.gov/content/non-powered-dam-potential

I'm actually working on national-level hydro assessments at a national lab. We don't really predict more huge reservoir installments, but there is plenty of capacity out there. These set-ups (particularly non-powered dams) are also generally pretty cheap per kWh generated over their lifetimes (which in some cases reaches 70+ years).
Those numbers multiply, they don't add. Also, some of your numbers are wrong if you look at her post, and others are pretty high: Danielle was a known quantity for VCs from her Twilio days and you can expect she raised her rounds at a premium.

I do the numbers as: .93 (YC) * .95 (500S) * .85 (option pool) * 0.83 (seed1) * .92 (seed2) * 0.86 (seed3) = 0.49

This doesn't account for the Referly->mattermark pivot, which may have led to some restructuring.
Currently working on: http://www.peeky.co
We're working on Typefonts (http://typefonts.org), a font discovery platform that allows designers to find beautiful typefaces quickly and easily.

Already have hundreds of beta signups waiting.
generally the math wouldn't look exactly like that.
the initial investors (e.g. YC) would also get diluted in the subsequent fund-raises.
Any sites talking about small startup stories?
Big and successful startup stories are too far realistic for me. I would like to listen to small stories.
The math might not be quite right here. Depending on how earlier investors are diluted by later investors, if at all, the 4 groups could own as little as 49% of the company.
The covariates for which one is able to control are necessarily limited, so we're left to speculate. I will speculate that if you could add a covariate such as "Used to drink lightly but stopped entirely because of a health problem" you will find the answer.

This study did create a variable which is the number of health problems and symptoms a person has. However, people can have one bad health problem/symptom (e.g., COPD on 3L home O2) which affects them more than 10 minor health problems might affect someone else.

As an aside, it is curious that this study did not replicate the repeatedly-observed finding of an association between obesity and mortality (OR = 1.00 in this study).

I will also add that this study is looking at older adults (aged 55-65 at the outset of a 20-year study, so they ended up dead or 75-85), which is different from the people discussed in the original thread (working age adults).
Frosted Blur Transparent Modal Popup with CSS + JS
Oberon and derivatives:

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/

Mesa/Cedar at Xerox Parc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_%28programming_language%29

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcteCedarProgra...

Smalltalk

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/34...
Funny running into you here! I use your Bootstrap date range picker for many of my projects and I think I tweeted you a while back. Really happy with the BS3 update and good to see you in the HN melting pot, thanks again.
Which was part of the original Windows NT design actually.
What is the suicide rate for people facing felony prosecution?

What is their typical socio-economic status? Is that a factor?

My bet is, you don't know the answer to either of those questions, so the "obviously" in your statement is misplaced.
Oh, right, forgot about IE. This is only distinguishing Webkit and non-Webkit...
Yes, I've never understood why

dostuff(x)

is considered so much more readable than

(dostuff x)
I heard about it from people working on that project, it was hour long presentation but this single anecdote is all I remember from it after 9(?) years...
It's also worth noting that this is not (contrary to Andreessen's disingenuous tweet) a case of a website accidentally tripping over scientific-ethics norms through its normal course of operations, unaware that what they're doing might be considered a psychology study.

This was explicitly a psychology study, performed by professional psychologists, for the purpose of collecting data publishable in a journal! The lead author (and the Facebook employee on the project), A.D.I. Kramer, has a PhD in social psychology. I think it's perfectly reasonable in that setting to expect the researchers to be following the norms of scientific ethics.
When I was in Budapest, I had a metro station, a bus stop, two tram stops and a public bike sharing station within a block from my apartment. The trams run every 4-5 minutes during off-peak, and if they ever stop during the night, we didn't notice, despite arriving at 5am and being awake until 3am.

That's a public transportation system!
Cgroup on JVM. https://github.com/haosdent/jcgroup You could use this library to limit the CPU shares, Disk I/O speed, Network bandwidth and etc of a thread.
I've been working on a web-based remote management system for controlling and monitoring industrial systems such as plant rooms, cold storage, orchard irrigation and dairy farms. We're based in New Zealand and very near being approached by a multinational for inclusion within their products (farm solutions). Things like turning pumps on and off, getting SMS alerts, user management etc.

I used Bootstrap 3 to take away the load of developing a native app for each platform and as of this weekend I've been working on a replication scheme which should get our command delays down to within a few seconds. The next process will hopefully be to eliminate PLCs and get Arduinos or similar hardware involved.

A similar face in this thread is dangrossman, who created the awesome Bootstrap date range picker that's plastered all over our graphs and historical reports.

Unfortunately it's still very much in beta and I have contractual obligations so I can't you a full tour but the marketing page (WIP) can be found here: http://concar.co.nz/services/rms/
I asked just two questions and they were answered in a really great way by people much more involved in the topic than I expected. But I am speaking as someone who grows a slight addiction to Quora. I think the trick is that you have to engage with the community then you can promote your question with credits.

* http://www.quora.com/Linguistics/Is-there-a-theory-of-how-ca...
torrents feel like they should be part of the browser. It seems odd we rely on ISPs to do local level caching, when we could actually do a lot of it ourselves. (Think how many streams of the world cup are floating around on the internet right now...)
I'm puzzled about the outrage.

As I understand it, the American scholarly tradition uses a 'bright line' definition of human experimentation that stresses getting ethical review board approval for pretty much everything involving humans other than the experimenter. Doing anything that needs review board approval without getting review board approval is seen as highly unethical, even if approval would clearly be granted were it requested.

For example, I once saw a British student e-mail out surveys about newspaper-buying habits; one was sent to an American academic, who replied to the student's supervisor saying the student should be thrown out of university for performing experiments on humans without ethical review board approval.
Hmm - I get an average of 1000 messages a day, mostly spam, and I have - good grief - 4000 seperate email addresses in my inbox - and it just took 0.001 s to decode a txt file

So that's 4000 seconds to prove a message is spam

I'm not loving this idea

That can't be right ...
It also does some shady things to increase engagement. I sent a Quora link to a friend, she created an account to be able to read it and the next day I got an email from Quora that she followed me (it also said that she is already following four other people). In reality, she did nothing. She just read the article, didn't follow anyone.
كيفية غلق مؤشر الفأرة بكلمة مرور في الويندوز
M.I.T. Living Wage Calculator
I just use Facebook to bookmark youporn at this point
A friend and I worked on a typical weekend project lately. A Font Awesome to PNG online generator (http://fa2png.io). I was great fun. It took us about 24h total from concept to live deployment. It's a flask app deployed to digital ocean.

We were on HN in 2nd place for about half a day. Got about 17.000 unique visits in the first two days, a couple of twitter mentions and now about 200-300 visits a day.

It was an awesome experience. Very satisfying because it felt kind of complete when we launched. That's not typical for a web app. Although there are always more features to add. We felt like the app is exactly doing what we planned it should.

I wrote about it in more detail here http://jannikweyrich.com/blog/2014/05/26/weekend-project-fon...
See, i don't even know how i could use glass to do anything related to electricity...
Last mile bandwidth tends to be a lot more expensive than more centralized data center bandwidth— moving traffic out to the edge is just not very attractive in general.
Targeting schools could bring a big change in the programming culture. At schools, the level of programming is very low, failing to develop interest in students. If we can improve that, they will develop an interest in programming at a very early age and can significantly contribute as they grow older.
> He was not threatened with several decades in prison.

Is there any way we can avoid rehashing this discussion every time anything related to Aaron Swartz is posted to HN?

The problem seems to be that the conduct of the prosecutors was just on the cusp of being reasonable to describe them as comic book super-villains. So you get one contingent of posters demanding they be locked in Arkham Asylum and the other contingent insisting that is an exaggeration and they're only regular ordinary villains, and it just goes back and forth like that indefinitely and derails any hope of a productive discussion about what can be done about it.
Nice project!

5 minute grumpy feedback:

I don't like "flat design", maybe add some subtle color changes at least? For example highlight the text "Go" (I would suggest "Search" or "Locate" rather) to make clear it is clickable. The text in the search box first made me thing it was active, not sure how to solve that, a lighter color might be too light.

I am on a small screen, the map is limited to a rectangle in the middle: http://i.imgur.com/TJJ1zfx.png

There is a non-desript slider in the bottom left (opacity).
The list of maps only appeared after I clicked on a different timeframe. I expected the timeframe to switch, but instead it was added to the previous one.

What does the eye mean? What does green mean? What does the + button do? If I hover it, it says "Visible". When I click it I get a (too transparent and subtle) popup saying it was added to my cart. I see no mention of a cart anywhere. If I click the eye, nothing happens.

Browser is Opera 12 something and I pretended to be need hand-holding. :)
Even Germany has a fairly collectivist economy by American standards, the famous "social market economy". The idea is that the economy should be largely market-based, but tempered by a social aspect: a strong safety net, state-provided basic services (health, transit, university, housing, etc.), and a fairly high level of income redistribution.

West Germany also traditionally (though this is weakening post-reunification due to "internal outsourcing" to the East) had a corporatist industrial-relations system similar to the Nordic one, which is based on consensus-finding between multiple stakeholders (industry, unions, governments), so things like pay and working conditions are agreed upon jointly in sector negotiations.
I need this basically everyday. I develop iOS apps and need pngs for icons all the time, and I'm just not that handy with photoshop yet. Please don't let this app die anytime soon!
What is an API product manager?
http://play.freeciv.org - took just 5 years.
As a friendly reminder to other Tor entry node operators: this firewall evasion only works if you have your tor node running on port 80/443. Please consider doing so.
> CD Projekt Red has announced that The Witcher 3 will be available for SteamOS (and therefore Linux)

This is incorrect. CD Projekt Red never announced such thing. These false news are caused by one banner which appeared on Steam front page. It was quickly pulled though (so it most probably was some prank), and GOG / CDPR commented that no such thing was announced by them.

If you actually want such port to be made, vote for it:
https://secure.gog.com/wishlist/games/to_cd_projekt_red_brin...
A quick Google search gives the solution:

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libmpg123-dev libncurses-dev
Ask HN: Good (read: cheap) CDN for static site hosting?
Hey all. I've got a Jekyll + Backbone app with a Golang backend that I've been working on. What are some options for deploying the compiled jekyll app? CloudFront, CloudFlare, etc. are a bit spendy (especially considering I'd like to include SSL). Custom domain would be a big +1.

Any suggestions, or am I dreamin'?
Just read some of the sample, I think I'll buy it. Nice simulations, too!
What if I actually like using threads instead of that fancy single threaded event loop?
Python 3 Features
Often what people quote is the median real wage, across the whole economy. There are other measures as well, but it's one fairly simple one that gives a trend for whether the middle portion of the workforce is seeing wage growth. Rather than looking at wage changes within sectors, shifts between sectors, etc., it just looks at the aggregate end result: do all these changes add up to the the 50th-percentile American wage earner getting more or less money?
A multi-color image search engine for streetwear in my spare time.

http://www.inthatstyle.com/
Apart from SteamOS itself, I feel like OS X's rise in marketshare has helped as well; Once you've ported your engine to OpenGL, supporting Linux as well as OS X isn't much harder in my experience (as long as you've got a decent abstraction layer).

What else has driven it? iOS/Android? I doubt those, other than perhaps making AAA developers consider OpenGL at all for various projects. The latest consoles, while x86, aren't OpenGL at all, so that can't be it. It's a really interesting state of affairs; I'd never thought I'd see the day where AAA games that weren't made by id were released on Linux!
I agree - this sort of thing makes a big difference to the minimum viable production run. Especially FCC and CE approval.

If people had to get regulatory approval to ship software 90% of it would not exist. Apple store approval is annoying enough.
Simple solution for compiling jade templates into vanilla JS functions
Taxi/bus company rate comparisons. Most transit companies provide fare information on their website, as well as a search function which rarely includes a CAPTCHA, so getting updates is easy.
Sure, that link says "Once the street sweeping truck has swept the curbside, you may park your vehicle there, even if the posted sweeping hours have not expired," but I've heard enough differing anecdotes from street parkers to consider that thoroughly debunked (the colloquial plural of 'anecdote' is 'data', after all)

The recourse is taking a picture, noting the time, going to court, and hoping you win. Most people don't even begin to try all that.
Last year I made my first iOS app as a fun side project that solved a problem I had - waking up on time. http://spinmealarm.com

I spent most of my reading week making the app, and then another 2-3 weeks polishing it. A few months later I decided to post it on Hacker News as a "Show HN". It only got a few upvotes but a TechCrunch journalist somehow saw it and decided to write a post on it. It's done pretty well in the App Store, reaching #1 in its category at one point. Nowadays it hovers in the Top 100 Utilities category.
Thank you, I'll look into it. I haven't studied Rust.
It's used in residual-vm (the scummvm sister project for grim Fandango, monkey island 4 etc). I believe they have a local fork.
I haven't created one personally, but if you're in a maker desert (where there isn't great access to spaces/people/tools to build and hack things), consider starting a maker space.

I used to live a few blocks away from one in Seattle and it was awesome. Just a couple workbenches, a 3D printer, hand tools, wifi, and some electronic components can go a long way and get people in the community stoked. :)
> These do in fact get smaller with increasing sample size, whereas an effect size that diminishes with increasing sample size is solid evidence that the effect is not real

The realness of an effect is not just judged by the effect size. If you have more confidence over the result (lower P and/or higher N). You can run most accepted psychological effects done with smaller sample sizes over a much greater sample size and expect to see a smaller effect size. If the effect size dissipates and the P increases, that's where you have the biggest problem. If your confidence grows bigger in proportion to the lowering of the effect size, you still should have greater trust in the realness of the effect.

The core of my point though is that looking at effect size and thinking it is not meaningful can be distorting things a bit here. A smaller numerical expression that involves a large data set does not capture the actual meaningfulness of the impact the effect has on a single person to person interaction.
Gwitter: Unix command-line client for Twitter written in Go
This has really got me thinking about an architecture I had not really considered before so forgive the obvious in this - it's partly aide memoire and partly a contribution to OP

- goals of the "new email" should presumably be to reduce the ability of state actors and major comms providers to collect sufficient metadata to conduct mass surveillance for tyranny or profit.

as such we can try either

- Vast citizen owned mesh networks (ie every smartphone is a ISP)

- Anonymity over traditional large ISPs / backbones

Anonymity is hard. We could encrypt entire message and then round robin decrypt each incoming message, this would cripple all metadata apart from the TO: field and mean any listener would need to own most entry points to catch the first uptake. It seems difficult - webs of trust, guessing the encryption key.

Add in other constraints - all messages in transit and at rest are encrypted - gmail becomes no more than S3 - and we see the end of free email, and weirdly a return to POP3 as the client must store all my mail.

If this does exist however, why restrict it to emails - every message format seems similar - MQ and Facebook can all go this way.

Mesh networks have even greater barriers to uptake ...
40 min through is a pretty good tribute to his life, humanity, and values. 10/10
It takes a turn a focus on prosecutorial zeal afterwards. 6/10
Article opens with an irritatingly annoying clip-photo and "We at Survata..."

Sounds like just the place to glean some top tips on originality and sensible naming!
“I would challenge you to find anyone at Google who doesn’t like Sundar or who thinks Sundar is a jerk,” ... I wonder if this is a good thing ...
It's supposed to generalize developers - so no one in particular. Seems to be someone who's got a good sense of humour and knows enough about the tech industry to produce satire -- you know, there are few things as vexatious as reading someone analyze comedy, so I'll stop here. He/she is probably popular due to a large number of people finding the content funny and/or relatable and retweeting it.
I haven't looked in a long time, but it probably works well enough. My point is that much of the "batteries included" aspect assumes a relational database. See, for example, the caveats django-norel makes with respect to the bundled admin interface (http://djangoappengine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/admin.html). I suspect there are implications for the built-in user authentication and permissions app as well.

That's not to say this isn't workable -- it's just that a lot of the Django plugins, tutorials, and documentation out there will be far less useful to you if you're starting with GAE.
> In the history of the world, economists and government planners have never been able to manage an economy better than the capitalisic model of individuals in pursuit of their own goals.

What is an example of a successful state that has chosen between these two models? The successful economies are all mixed economies, with a strong role for both government planning and private competition. Germany is perhaps the canonical example of following this mixed-economy model as an explicit theory (vs. just stumbling into it). Other successful countries mostly deviate a little to one side or the other: the Nordic countries traditionally have more planning than Germany does (especially around infrastructure, urban planning, and major industrial initiatives), while the U.S. traditionally has less. But we're talking about modest variations: the U.S. public sector is ~35-40% of GDP, Germany's is ~40-45% of GDP, and the Nordic countries are at ~50-55% of GDP. Nobody is running a successful economy with a public sector at ~5-10% of GDP.

I suspect the Chinese mixed model is also going to prove quite dominant in the 21st century. Compared to the European social market economies, it's less social, but more centrally planned, which may or may not be an advantage.
this HN's bot sniffer?
Bah! Pure humbug.