skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like it's only practical when you know you want to edit things in the first place, as opposed to "it doesn't work, let's restart the service in my existing SSH session and have have a look of the log" sysadmin-style-workflow.
I listen to,

http://www.democracynow.org/podcasting

BBC Global news ( update twice a day)

Motley Fool (updates once a week)

Mixergy

NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
Ahh, apparently there is a small town called Middletown right next to the city Middleton.
The best headline i've seen in a while. No SEO terms in there. Not counting lizard sex.
Used Fogbugz at my second real job in the world. Read a ton of this guys blogs.

Good on ya man!
The question about medical records is a red herring since the problem is mostly solved already. You treat the records as private, which is only unlocked to other doctors who has a recorded valid reason for accessing it. This is how many journal system operate today at hospitals and police station, and except for the occasional bad monitoring of it, it seems to operate quite well.

Researcher should be forced to follow ethical guidelines in order to prevent data mining that try to unearth facts written between the lines, like sexual orientation. Patients should also be asked if the journal can be shared with researchers, in similar fashion as asking patients if they will accept to have an intern in the room. Last, there need to be some liability if journals get leaked. It is very important to create economic incentives for functional security, which experts are paid to regularly verify and test.

This has of course nothing to do with keeping large databases about people and selling it as a service or product. Nothing at all about Google business model.
Punchline to bad Leno joke, the beginning of the end of the dominance of the human species... time will tell.
Look for information you would want to see in your available media -- find a dataset and build it into a useful app to be filtered and queried in different ways. Map data points to physical locations. Correlate those things. At some point it all starts to look like a population density heat map, but sometimes you find good stuff in there. And people want to see it. They need more tangible access to all the real world data we have been collecting. Otherwise, what's the point?

I worked for a year at a newspaper and built apps and stuff like that -- it was the most fulfilling work I've ever done and I wish the situation had been able to work out. If I ever get a chance to do real news apps again, I would jump on it. Enjoy your opportunity, Anders, and be prepared to show your work.

Sometimes, the phrase "if you build it, they will come" is applicable. If you build something that shows you CAN build something, show it to the right people and you will attract attention.

Some inspiration:
http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/
http://blog.apps.npr.org/
https://source.opennews.org/en-US/
http://flowingdata.com/
Did anyone else have to re-read the title a few times?
Vim defenders will also tell you to use search. Also, why would even Emacs fans recommended corded combos over single keypresses? Give my pinky a break man!
Hey justaman!

Thanks for the link to Madison! I just checked it quickly (will go through it more later); it looks like a really interesting concept. I had a similar idea a while ago to move Danish legislation work to GitHub, since (imho) it increases transparency. I'll keep Madison on my radar! :-)
This looks pretty cool, but it seems to me it has hardly more than a sprinkling of "functional taste". Promises are much more functional in the modern sense of preserving composability outside the abstraction by creating values that represent asynchronous computations, which can be composed flexibly with a then method.
Currently there is a big argument between us UAS hobbyists and the fed over our rights to fly our model aircraft. Search and Rescue has been deemed by the FAA to be commercial use and disallowed unless the pilot and aircraft are certified which is nearly impossible and very expensive. Just recently a judge has ruled that the FAA does not have enforcement powers over this use but it continues to go after such use throwing it's weight around, possibly at the cost of human life.
At this point in time Product Hunt is only really known to a very small community of people
I need help as web developer
So,

how much do i have to charge?
Do i have to host the website for him?
if yes what is a good hosting website?
I thought I was just one of the lucky ones to get such an obscene message for a capture... way to spoil my excitement :P
> The only reason contra isn't published as λ directly is to make it easier for you to type.

I don't understand this. Do you mean "so you don't need to use the λ character"?
Esc is also C-[, and if you've mapped Control to the home row (eg, swapped with CapsLock) then it's not so bad either.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-alr...

We have 20 states here that passed laws banning the choice for cities, counties, etc.

And I'm not talking about National Broadband. I'm talking about city-level investment. I don't think we should have a whole Nationwide network built out. We already have that with plenty of competition. Its the FTTH that is the issue and that is something a city can do or ignore, at their option.
Emacs does a great job at that, too. (In fact, it contains a complete Javascript parser, which is invaluable to me since that's the language around which my professional life revolves.)

It also does a great job managing child processes and SSHing. (Or FTPing, or speaking whatever other protocol you need to use to access remote files.) I can't speak to it as a visual Git interface, but I don't doubt it's at least reasonably good at that, too.

"Do one thing well" is a good start, sure. But why not aspire to more?
Yup. I'm done. If that's a hint of what's coming today (and I haven't even started my coffee) best if I just go home.
Our backup plan to restore life on Earth after a catastrophe?
The reason the backup-directory in emacs is an association list instead of a simple string is that some people might want some backups in some dirs and other backups other places. More powerful → more complex.

Turn on line numbers everywhere by putting this in ~/.emacs.d/init.el:

(global-linum-mode)

(Yeah, EmacsWiki is a mess, but that's not emacs' fault.)
Sit down with your smaller cities and find out their needs. In many cases they have 1-2 IT staff and don't have time to automate process X.
As far as science fiction villains go space faring lizards descended from a failed science experiment rank pretty high.
Remember that most of us are web devs. It's web stuff, it's very simple and minimalist, it's easy to look at it and go "yeah, cool".

Compare to someone writing a 3d software renderer, not so many people can relate to it, as they can to things related to web.
Working on code that only makes sense against production data... our current "small" dataset is 20TB, our real one is going to land about 150TB. These datasets are a pain to get locally, and a pain to maintain. Way easier to just have an account on an attached box you can use from anywhere.

Another perk of it is using tmux and having a consistent environment you can tap into from work, home, the road, etc.
Bullshit.

We have rural coops delivering $70 gigabit service :/
Latency and concurrency. Mainframes still have an advantage vs. the more big data or multiple task friendly cluster.
Never get stuck in a hotel with crappy Wi-Fi again
IBM probably deserves it, but they have already stopped being relevant to most of us.
Lusty Explorer may well satisfy your first two requirements. I don't believe it searches tag files at present, but the capability shouldn't be too hard to add; for files and buffers, I've used it for some years, and find it quite nice.
My intent was not to say that the child "deserved it." I was commenting on the indirect implication that the phone company deserved it. By taking the money from the child because they "don't deserve it" and giving it to the phone company, he's implicitly stating that the phone company deserves it.
Unlike most technologies which promise it, Varnish is magical webscale sauce. It's awesome.
The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful
I've seen this before! The interface/usability have definitely improved since the last time I tried this, but it still has a bug where audio cuts off if you switch to a different tab in Chrome.
The local authorities don't really provide roadblocks in many, many cities. Its FUD. I linked to a tiny ISP lower that provides gigabit to like 200 city blocks.

The problem is lack of desire to invest because its expensive and incumbents exist.

http://fiber.usinternet.com/coverage-areas/ <- this company for instance
I think this might be an R rated Pixar movie.
That's be great for when you only want computers to be able to solve it!
Configuring and Deploying MCollective with Puppet on CentOS 6
Wow do you have a citation for that? Because that's utterly terrifying.
Ansible 1.6.9 should already handle any quote issues you may have (other than duplicate arg detection, which is intentionally there). Parsers! How do they work? :)
When I spent a few weeks learning Emacs -- I had to filter out EmacsWiki because it lied to me so many times. :(
First of all, Cringely is right on the first part. IBM, and many other companies, are taking advantage of the low rate environment to borrow money and buy back stock. This is capital structure optimization, and many companies do it. He is tongue is cheek about the problems being the Fed's fault.

There are impacts to this policy. By borrowing to buy back equity, you are increasing the chance of distress. You don't increase your cash position, but you do increase the amount of interest payments you have to it. (Albeit less due to the low rate environment) This means it is more difficult to bet on anything that isn't a sure thing.

That said, perhaps this is the best way for shareholders to wind down a company that can no longer innovate. At some point, large companies can cease to be innovative, and cease to profitably handle acquisitions. Then what? Especially if you're too big to be bought out yourself.

There are two options... One - Split yourself up and sell the parts to the highest bidders. Two - Buy back the shares. Shrinking the outstanding shareholder base will increase the per-share value even if the total corporate value is flat. Rather than waste money on innovation (if you can't) or M&A (if you overpay and underintegrate) better to give it back to the shareholders and let them invest capital in companies that can grow.

Borrowing to buy back shares is just taking case #2 to the extreme, and ultimately passing the buck to the long term bond holders.
Will the data that it sends still be useful? How much science is jeopardized by not being able to send commands to it?
How about ALDI?
The solution is more late-mergers: if the other lane were already full, you wouldn't be "cheating" by passing all the cars who are "waiting patiently." You would just be waiting in a line the same as everyone else in your lane and the other lane.

I may be overly optimistic, but I think a sign saying "use both lanes and zipper merge at end" would do a lot.
If that were really true, the migration instructions would be more along the lines of "change the endpoint URL to your new provider", or "push this one button and authenticate", instead of https://www.orchardup.com/docs/moving

That said, kudos to the Orchard team for making it as easy as they did, I'll just stress again that the fear that migrating would be even more involved was what stopped me from trying their service in the first place.

There are several ways of addressing that fear:

1. Be so big that you know the service is unlikely to be shut down or acquired (that just leaves the usual lock-in concerns over future price hikes and the like, which isn't going to happen until the market stops growing).

2. Ensure that a fluid marketplace of drop-in replacement competitors exists (an Open Source release of the backend helps with this)

3. Document how easy it is to switch away from the get go, not just when you're shutting down: see https://web.archive.org/web/20140209113413/https://orchardup... and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
Come on. Who can't see how this one will end?

Way to go Russia. Thanks for killing off the human species.
> (Of course, ICFP is always a cool challenge and is always set up by good people :)

I agree in general. Only that car engine / fuel challenge a few years ago was really obtuse. (And when I met the guys who set it up, they were so happy about it. ;o)

Lambda the Ultimate and the satelites were really cool!
Only if you've eliminated various PaaS offerings from consideration as an alternative for avoiding administration costs.
Perhaps a Stupid Question: If Ebola is a virus, does that mean this man is permanently inoculated against it if he happens to survive?
Contemplating the vast expansion of NATO in tranches four and five is indeed interesting, if not daunting. Would the US really come to the aid of a former Soviet Union nation if Russia were hell-bent of taking it back?
Well, I learned that at school. It still didn't answer what the hell logarithms are good for. Everyone was left wondering why we were learning something that can be replaced by calculators.

Seeing some modern application of lagarithms would be great. Even just making a log-log graph at some point would answer every question. But those are not at the official curriculum.
Note that this is the "lizard sex" satellite, not the "lizards being exposed to experimental forms of gamma radiation" satellite. As far as we know, Russia still has that one safely under control.

For now...
I don't even remember how I got to follow them. Maybe through reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bngvp/the_icfp...

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2blpt6/icfp_contest...
I tried Evil for about a month, and couldn't stand it. Some parts didn't work the same (ctags word boundaries), and the need to move back and forth between Evil mode and normal emacs mode when using other emacs plugins (it never worked quite right in plugins like magit) negated much of the benefit of having Evil mode in the first place.

I'll probably be sticking with boring old Vim and the command line.
Cutting costs isn't IBM's strategy to get out of the recession. Cutting costs is IBM's strategy. I interned there in 2003, and it was already apparent that they preferred to hire people overseas and let attrition reduce the ranks of folks locally in order to reduce costs. From all the complaints, it was clear at the time that was causing serious problems with R&D.

The joke around the office was that we'd replace one person locally with three people overseas, losing the output of two people, since the three overseas people were so clueless they'd need a local person holding their hands full-time. I was doing microprocessor design at the time, and the community is small enough that everyone know that Intel was getting good folks overseas. But even at the reduced wages outside the U.S., IBM was cutting corners and not hiring the best people.

Even locally, they try to reduce costs. A friend of mine who stuck around long enough to make it into management told me that they try to keep salaries at about the 40%-ile to save costs. On finding that out (as well as a few other gems), he left. Until I heard that, I couldn't figure why brilliant friends of mine often got raises that didn't even cover inflation. Don't they know that people are going to leave because of that? They know, and that's their strategy.

The thing about Bernanke comes out of left field. IBM didn't use low interest rates to invest therefore "the companies that were expected to spend us back to better economic health didn’t do so" therefore low interest rates didn't make the recession less severe than it otherwise would have been? No comment on whether or not those last two statements are actually true (I'm not an economist and haven't studied the issue), but Cringley certainly doesn't make a case for them.
Well I for one welcome our future space gecko overlords.
It isn't just going to come from cloud/distributed systems.

You can scale up to a huge extent just with average x86 servers now and these are competing with what used to be done on a mainframe. So even many companies who don't or can't use distributed systems don't need to use IBM any more.
Building A PhoneGap App In 36 Seconds Using Nothing But A Browser
I find your emphasis of building intuition very important.

Personal anecdote related to Pythagorean theorem/euclidean distance.

When in ninth grade, I asked my math teacher to explain why why the the standard deviation is like it is and why the square root and not something else. He could not explain that to me satisfactorily.

I spend few hours looking at the formula myself and plotting and drawing different datasets until I made the following association: if dataset is like N dimensional vector and its values x1, x2, .. xN are coordinates, then I'm looking at euclidean distance from mean plus adjusting for the number of dimensions. I think this single moment of cryptic formula making sense changed my attitude towards statistics and math. Dataset ~ vector and data-point ~ vector-coordinate association helps to understand statistics using geometrical intuition.
Kalid - First of all, your site kicks ass! Keep doing what you're doing. You probably can't even imagine the 2nd and 3rd order impacts of the benefits you provide. Someone gets one insight from your site, that makes something they learn in school more comprehensible, and then it explains it to someone else, who then can learn more quickly....

Bithive123 - I found that practicing Project Euler has helped my understanding a lot. Part of it was that it made math a joy again, and I tied it to learning new programming languages.
It's great to aspire to more, and that's why my system has more than one binary in $PATH. If a project wants to release an awesome $thing_doer in addition to their main tool's function, it should be a separate tool. That way I can use esshhelper and egitbrowser and eftp separately from emacs (yes, I know the names are contrived).
okay, we can make it more modern... But democracy is not only voting, there were no professional politicians in Athens's democracy (during 200 years).
Why not add MariaDB to that also?
There's no reason to assume it's fake or a parody in my opinion.

Psychosis/Schizophrenia is very real and affects many people, who can function very normally but think slightly weird thoughts and have the urge to express them and tell people.
As you say, there is a lot of room between "drive 10mph stop and go next to the backed up lane even though everything is wide open in front of you" and "drive 65mph next to the lane going 10mph."

Your speed should not be more than 20mph different from the lane next to you. That's probably at or even past the limit of a safe speed differential.
And in all of the examples on the github page. Why not just get rid of the λ variable and use `contra` directly? I guarantee this will confuse/frustrate people otherwise.
There is also https://kore.io/.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the "images" section: http://www.geee.net/easter141.htm
I mean, he's speaking openly about his morals here. Which is undoubtedly a good thing.

Obviously, he's a liar to his business partners, his customers, and his employees. But right now, he isn't a liar to us quite yet.
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Can you give an example?

> A lot of keywords; too many to remember

Well, I think number of keywords and stuff like grammar size are pointless indicators, but Scala is pretty much at the bottom when you compare it to mainstream languages like Java or C#.
X64_dbg An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows
We're already working on open source tracker similar to trello called Restya Board. Will be available around end of August at http://restya.com/ May join for updates on info at domain
Not necessarily stock prices, but exponential growth. Not all stocks grow exponantially.
Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?
I'm mainly trying to think of something to do for my undergraduate thesis, but I'm also curious about the projects you would work on that aren't academic.
Hey Jacob!

Thanks a bunch for sharing your insights, it's really helpful to me. Your newspaper experience is very motivating too :-)

In Aarhus, we do have an open data collection called ODAA (http://www.odaa.dk/) that might be an avenue to pursue. A few developer friends and I have played around with it once, but we quickly discovered that despite it being relatively easy to just "make something", it's much harder to "make something useful to others" and we'd love to have had a government representative in the same room to guide our skills in the right direction.

I completely agree with you on what's the point of all this data if we don't turn it into something people can understand and use in a meaningful way. What I'm missing is that person / people saying "Hey, can someone turn THIS heatmap data into X thing, that would really help!".

A newspaper sounds like a great place to learn deeply about different local issues / problems that could be solved. I have a few journalist friends I could try and contact, see if they have encountered something.

Also, thanks a bunch for those inspirational links. They are bookmarked for sure! If / when I do create something, might I throw it your way for feedback?

- Anders
Just wait for the Jim Morrison Lizard King jokes to roll in...
The Typical Statistic Lie
The statistics are inflated like the first post said. Not all Android phones are from the same carrier/maker. All iPhones are from Apple though. This means in the android statistics the companies like Kyocera and Motorola who have underperformed in the past will bring down the value of “All Android phones”.

Post is informative though and would give a decent overview of depreciation. I would like to see Priceonomics come back with Apple vs Samsung, Moto, Sony ect. That would be accurate and interesting to see.

Otherwise, do not listen to this forum. The market is driving the price of these iPhones, not the Specs of the phones or the quality of hardware.

Bottom Line: Do your research! Don’t let a fancy commercial, like someone dancing around with white headphones or Justin Long wearing a sweater vest giving you his opinion on technology, reel you into the one trick pony show of Apple’s Iphone production.
> I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly.

The lives of those that suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are well 'documented' in popular culture. One such item you may be interested in is the film 'A Beautiful Mind'. It is based on the life of John Nash, but keep in mind it is a dramatisation rather than a documentary.

There are also a number of 'simulations' on Youtube that may exemplify the horrendous nature of the condition, if you are so inclined to experience them. One such video is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok .

I hope I have not taken your portrayed interest too literally!
I believe http://codeforamerica.org/ exists for exactly this purpose. It matches techies with their local governments to improve things.
This is what it's like in Scotland!! People here get SO angry, thinking that you have "skipped" all the other patiently waiting people... And then they don't let you merge! And it makes absolutely no sense to me, because they cause one reallllyyyy long traffic jam then...
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