skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm, I actually have no idea!

Chisel has a google group that you can post any comments or questions you have (chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu). If you wait a week, we should have something similar up at (riscv.org) too.

Chisel has an occasional "boot-camp" where you can come and learn how to use it, and RISC-V will have something similar too I believe in January.
I've actually been looking for a small crypto library for javascript, I'm in the process of building a desktop cross-platform app using node-webkit, and this seems quite interesting!
I used to live there for some years in the '90s and still visit semi-regularly because family live there, and in my own experience (which may not to apply to all neighborhoods), nobody cares about this market in Houston, because everyone drives their private cars. So it's kind of a meh, do what you want. There is a very small public-transit system, and a smallish number of taxi drivers who mainly serve business travelers (there's a fairly big convention business, and a lot of oil & gas business travel). I never once took a taxi in 4+ years living there, and nobody else I knew did either. I rarely even saw a taxi, much less contemplated something as New-Yorkian as trying to hail one on the street. So I think the average Houstonian has basically no opinion on "disrupting the taxi market", because the Houston taxi market is not a major player in Houstonians' lives. I'm sure the taxi drivers do care about this kind of thing, because the business-travel market is non-negligible, but that's more of a back-room lobbying kind of discussion; the average Houstonian doesn't take taxis and won't take Uber.
We started a small review site for funding. Would be amazing if you added your experiences to share with others.

https://vc.techendo.com/
Ask HN: Best, simple to use WYSIWYG website builder?
Hi all. We are doing research on best WYSIWYG website builders out there - the easiest ones to use for regular web user.

We would like to hear from Hacker News community about their personal choices, possibly new startups that recently are doing this, personal experiences and possible problems you see with those platforms.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring full stack devs
Streak.com (YC S11) is hiring full time engineers. We’re a small and nimble company working on email for businesses.

We're growing fast (our user engagement has been doubling every 4 months).

We’re trying to make email better for business users by adding a layer of metadata and UI to existing email systems.We’re built on top of Gmail and we help business manage all their processes (sales, hiring, fundraising, etc.) inside of Gmail.

At Streak, you’ll be able to:

- work on incredibly challenging front end infrastructure. We’re a sophisticated web app built on top of the most sophisticated web app out there - Gmail. We’re also planning on exposing our Gmail infrastructure to 3rd parties so you can help build a platform to build apps on top of Gmail.
- work on a product that people use everyday for 28% of their day.
- work on iOS and Android apps for email that are integrated into apps people already use or by building our own

Obviously:

- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)
- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing
- We’re well funded by elite silicon valley investors

Our requirements:

- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally
- you are intellectually curious

We’d love to hear from you at jobs@streak.com, please send us samples of anything you’ve built.
Codezero is correct - "need" is the issue.

Foursquare isn't paying me (or exchanging something of significant value) for that constant stream of location data.

THAT is the issue I have with it
Fdlp.gov hacked
Certainly if you write about it first and can therefore demonstrate that it was a considered act of the same with plans to publish.
Programming is not a profession.

"It would be great if programming were a proper profession, but it isn’t. A profession has a structured model for advancing through levels of skill and ability, be it studying for a law degree and articles (working for a legal practise) or the years of undergraduate and medical training a doctor undertakes before specialising. The latter has clearly-delineated ranks, from junior doctor, via a brutal regime of 80-hour weeks, to consultant."
http://dannorth.net/2011/01/11/programming-is-not-a-craft/
Does anyone know what this site was?
What is the best font for Word documents?
Not programming, just general documentation. So tired of Arial Size 12
Marketability is not at issue. That just means that no one wants to own something more than the person that already has it. It is entirely possible to own something that literally no one else in the universe wants. There is no marketability, but there is still ownership. There is always the possibility that someone might change preferences and offer a trade.

The photographer did not push the image capture button. But the macaque didn't accidentally post-process the best images and sell them for publication, either. The human did all the work necessary to make the image valuable to other humans.

If the macaque painted a masterwork with oils on canvas, and left it in the jungle, the human that finds it owns it, and the copyright for it. In the same vein, the person who finds a piece of driftwood with an uncanny resemblance to Cthulhu owns it. It does not matter if it was constructed or found. The value lies in separating what is appealing to other humans from what is not.

Suppose that J.D. Salinger wrote a book and kept it locked in a vault, with orders that it be burned on his death. A thief sneaks in, cracks the lock, copies the manuscript, and publishes it under his own name. He owns the copyright. I guess J.D. should have shared his creation with other humans by publishing. Like patent, the monopoly privilege of copyright is predicated on bringing the product to the marketplace, even if no one wants to buy or no one can raise the sale price.
What is hypothes.is?
It's definitely a hypothesis I'd like to see tested, because I do belive the increasing shallowness and leaning on technology as a crutch is a real phenomenon in Western society.

A good test might be how people fare when stripped of their technology and conveniences, for some definitions of faring and technology. Testing this ethically might be tough, though.
Bunch of z-machine games here:
http://ifiction.org/
Anyone know the IRRs on Andreessen Horowitz's funds?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7464896
I thought that about their keyboard too but they just opened it up in iOS8. I believe things are changing.
Is anyone else building a ton of police stations but still getting the notification "Crime Very High"?
Does the music sound Russian or is it just me?
Not really the reason to do the effort. People are offended that somebody is questioning their nectar... of hypothyroidism!
Japan to set up space monitoring force by 2019 'to track debris'
I think it does: https://github.com/Weebly/TableSchemer/wiki/Creating-Custom-...
This doesn't work in a CI between multiple machines.

See the discussion around this in drone
https://github.com/drone/drone/issues/147
These sort of comparisons are often trotted out in voting arguments, but they are a misapplication of probability because a vote is not something that happens to you, it is something you do. And because votes are fungible, there is no way to pick out one vote and say that it mattered more than any other.

The issue is not chance, it is apportionment: to what degree can you claim responsibility for the final outcome of an election? And what you're saying is that in elections where your portion is very small, you don't think it's worth participating.

To me this seems like a rather self-centered approach to civic engagement, essentially saying "I won't participate in any process that does not sufficiently validate my importance."

And is there a value at which you would think it is worth participating? That would imply that the smaller and less consequential the election, the more likely it is that you would participate. That seems like a weird way to set priorities.

And it's worth noting that no matter how small each portion may be, it will still be larger than the portion of those who did not vote at all.

The argument from small apportionment also assumes that everyone else still votes (that's why the portion is so small, after all). So it can't work as a general argument against the utility of voting. In fact if everyone tried to follow that strategy, any defector would wield enormous power, as one of few people bothering to vote.
You can't deduct donations to random people on your taxes. You can deduct a business expense like a book about design or typography (presuming you're in that field).

I rarely ever donate to anything that's not a charity, but am happy to buy ebooks/small things like that in order to support an author. It's hard to explain, but 'donation' seems...wrong, from a personal perspective.
I've thought for quite some time now (last 5+ years, which as a 23yro seems like a long time) as the internet as an extension of my brain. I've joked to friends that I simply keep a small "cache" of "pointers" in my brain to the internet where I know I can find the information if I need it but I have little use to memorize the details.

I fully understand that if the internet were to disappear tomorrow that I would be very lost but it's not something worth preparing for IMHO. While I agree with preparing for the future I do not think preparing for the fall of humanity/technology to be a good use of my time. Call me naive or stupid (or lazy), you may be right, but I find little advantage in remembering large swatches of information when it can be called up (from either local copy or the internet) at will. It's one reason I vehemently opposed the C++ exams I took in college that required me to know the boilerplate of a C++ program as there would never be a time in my life that I could imagine I would be without an IDE or the internet to generate/fetch it for me.

I'm not saying that I think this is a "more advanced" way of living/existing but just that it is the way I live/exist. I have friends who have expressed similar feelings but I'd be very interested in what both people older and younger and I think/feel about this issue.
Remember that you can often vote for or against officials running for re-election, in which case you can vote based on their actual record of work. Many challengers have records of work by which to judge them as well.
> The report recommends that MIT explore more modular approaches to teaching — both online and on-campus. Data from the first 17 MITx and HarvardX courses indicate that only about 5 percent of registrants earn a certificate of completion.

I am suspicious of this claim because I recently did an analysis of this data: http://minimaxir.com/2014/07/online-class-charts/

The average amount of students who complete classes that they've registered for is about 3.4%, much lower than they indicate: http://minimaxir.com/img/online-class-charts/class-attendanc...
Amazon's next Kindle could have a hybrid grayscale/color screen
A newly filed patent has revealed that Liquavista, the screen tech company that Amazon bought last year, has a design for a display that layers a color screen on top of a grayscale screen, giving users the option of having color or a high res grayscale screen.
> in theory, you just need time, shelter, and access to a cheap computer to become genuinely prosperous

AND the desire...i think that's what a lot of evangelists seem to leave out of the equation.

personally, I think learning code is almost identical to learning to play a musical instrument. It is a very solitary development and THAT'S what is the biggest barrier to entry.

a lot of people just don't like working alone on things...imo
Used it today. Sadly, not much to report -- my driver was as curious as I was ("Looks cool!") but we didn't get routed to anyone along the way, so I just had a normal Lyft experience (but free).

Driver brought up a great point though -- there doesn't seem to be support for specifying how many people you've got to travel (or is it designed just for a single person?). He said he could foresee stopping to pickup a second passenger only to find out there were 4 people in the group (and not enough space.)
I'm naive. What makes this comparable to - or better than - D3 js, Easel js, Three js, Raphael js, Kinetic js, Paper js, Famo.us js, Impact js... and boy I'm sure I can think of many more. I realize they don't all share the same feature sets... but I'm not understanding what makes this new or exciting.

Edit:
Maybe I don't get the "processing" part... isn't this about creating interactive experiences? The examples demonstrate so and I didn't see examples of processing complex data sets or anything. Would love to hear some elaboration on it.

I noticed the statement "p5.dom lets you interact with HTML5 objects beyond the canvas, including video, audio, webcam, input, and text." This is interesting. Perhaps the point here is P5 manages more interactive components without the developer having to mash different tools together?
Yes, phrases therein such as "Parametric polymorphism allows a function or a data type to be written generically, so that it can handle values identically without depending on their type." and "A function that can evaluate to or be applied to values of different types is known as a polymorphic function." further reinforce my point that a language can support parametric polymorphism without being statically typed.

I don't see why this is not self-evident to you. Any program written in Scheme + static types is a valid program in plain Scheme. The addition of a typing system to the language does not necessarily imbue it with new capabilities, nor (as I showed above) does it necessarily alter the output of the compiler.

(Note: I distinguish "typing system" from "type constructors". Obviously adding type constructors adds capability to the language. But typing systems and type constructors exist independently of each other: Prolog has no formal type system, but has type constructors; SQL has a formal type system but no type constructors.)
That's probably your best bet. I know with Abaqus, you could potentially do that with the python scripting, but a lot of the stuff I've done creates a model with a python script, writes a dummy input file with nodes, element connectivity and set definitions, then I read that into MATLAB and write out a reorganized/more readable input deck from there. If I refine the mesh, I just rerun the MATLAB script and it spits out the new input file. If your model is complicated, another way you could do it is create multiple node/surface/element sets for each boundary condition and then just update the BC keyword section with the proper set and constraint. The benefit there is that you can manually tweak and remesh the model in the GUI and then set it off running with the shell script, but without needing to explicitly track node numbers since they're store d in the sets. That might be a bit overcomplicated though if your model is simple enough or the node numbering is consistent enough to keep track of.
At the very least, the Guardian have paid for it.
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A new way to model cancer
New material structures bend like microscopic hair
I'm one of those people who registers for several online classes but never finish them, or many times never participate at all.

It would be helpful if they offered a "degree" of some kind for completing groups of classes. Mixing it with the concept of gamification like Khan Academy does might also help with participation.
it's a shame I couldn't download it when you were demoing it :)
> economic policy successes of the current government

Russia is likely to face crippling international economic sanctions for some time. Propping up annexed Crimea will be a massive financial drain. Foreign investment has all but fled. This is not what "economic policy success" looks like.
I don't think that it is really a 'debate'. There are different species concepts that are used depending on the needs of the situation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Other_species_concepts). A single definition cannot be found for less divergent groups because speciation is really a continuous process. Also the mechanisms and course of the process differs between taxonomic groups and, in some cases, may never be 'complete'.
The case of horizontal gene transfer mentioned below occurs in eukaryotes as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#Eukary...).
Speaking as someone who who lived in Houston for the last two years, I disagree about Houstonians not wanting Uber/taxis. Yes, we all have cars, but I can't tell you how many times I would have preferred not to drive on Friday/Saturday nights (as a 20/almost 30-something). We wind up driving because, as you say, taxis were rare, and when they were around they were all pretty awful. Not living there now, but I'm very much looking forward to visiting Uber/Lyft.

Also, as an aside, I knew someone in Houston who was in city government, and it's amazing how some of these dynamics work. Basically, this change was blocked by the yellow cab lobby for the last two years, and only for the price of about $5,000 of campaign contributions per city council seat. Local politics are insane.
Whats worse is the poor quality of the course content compared to the real thing. MOOCs are something else, they should be in the same category as a YouTube video.
How exactly did Wikipedia confirm the photo was taken by a monkey?
Exactly. The only reason the image is worth anything is the monkey took the photo. The owner of the photographic gear seems to be arguing both that it is his photo and not his photo.
I started cold brewing for everyone at work. It's very simple, takes about 3 minutes a day.

You just need a jar, a burr grinder, and freshly roasted coffee. Grind the coffee rather roughly, put it in the jar with cold water, screw the jar shut, shake it up, and leave it overnight. Then run the solution through a standard paper filter into a second jar and serve over ice. If you're really intense about it you can also pour the same solution into your ice cube tray to make cold brew ice cubes, to avoid diluting your precious concoction.
Probably not a lot of 'allowing' going on - don't want to get between a Macaque and its toy.

Anyway the idea is, the requirement for copyright is "developed independently by the author" and "some creativity involved". It was not 'by the author. And is it creativity if its an incident totally out of the control of the author? Debatable.
I have a project/cape that I want to move from BB to BBB, and it's the stuff you describe that makes me put it off. Thankfully there's no rush.
Does the FBSD tcp/ip stack really rival Linux's? Look at virtually all of the network vendors (Intel, Mellanox, solarflare, Broadcom, etc). They al develop primarily or exclusively on Linux. Some super advanced features like tx and receive side steering I'm pretty sure don't exist in FBSD and there is a lot of academic research into bufferbloat or tcp congestion algorithms. This mostly exclusively happens on Linux. FreeBSD is fantastic, as is OpenBSD, but the development on Linux simply dwarfs everything.
But much more expensive to adapt to a biological unit. The robot's drill can share the robot's power unit. Mine has to be plugged in; has to have its own motor; has to be shielded and safe.
EveryoneAPI – New Phone API Service
This will crash your firefox instance
There's plenty of reasons why there would be such a state of affairs. Probably the biggest is that there is no clear winner in this space. D3 is shoring up, but it is quite a bit more complex for non-devs IMHO than what this looks to be. Frankly this is a pretty lazy comment. You could just look at the link's "Start" page for <5 minutes and see for yourself why it's different enough to warrant existence and could legitimately be in the running with the X other JS frameworks that have overlap in canvas drawing.

I mean it's in beta, clearly, and people are in here harping about the accessibility of one of the presentations on the site and comparing it to relatively mature (eg D3 is on v3) frameworks. That isn't very fair.
Please tell me AirBnb is still far being legal.
This might seem rather silly, but what if toilets were connected?

I don't mean just stall availability, but rather for a health reason. Japan, about 5-7 years ago or so, made some smart toilet that could tell what your diet is from the stool. What if with similar technology, individuals could be warned for slow or immediate changes based on similarly obtained data points?

Individuals with certain diseases can have immediate preventative care and also prevent transmission of those diseases.
Thanks for the link. His work is inspiring.
I live out in TN and not many firms/companies will even allow part-time. I've tried the usual job sites (monster, career builders, dice, and careeriverflow) with little luck.
I don't think it's taxis being rare that's the problem. You could always call a taxi or a car service, and occasionally I'd see people do that from bars. Which seems to be the basic model here too, call a vehicle to a location and wait for it to arrive. And business travelers already take car/limo services to the airport when they're being reimbursed. But most people avoid taxis/cars because it's expensive, and because you've always got your own car anyway (and parking is easy/free). Maybe in a smallish area around Montrose or Rice Village it'd work, but I don't see people taking Uber/Lyft to most of the city, unless they really cut the prices (which doesn't seem to be their strategy). If you're going downtown and live in Clear Lake or Bellaire, you could today avoid driving and pay ~$100 in round-trip taxi/limo fare. But nobody does. Or, you could in the future pay ~$100 to Uber/Lyft for the same thing. Will this entice more people? My guess is not many.
I use JavaScript daily and it is not immediately apparent to me what the advantage of this framework is over console logging and the Chrome Inspector tools. Perhaps showing the benefits of using the framework in your README file would really help elucidate the reasons why your tool is awesome. Good luck!
Sounds about what you'd expect. Try building parks and industrial.
Seriously. I try to not get overly annoyed at people finding out common facts: everyone has to learn it once, right? But this is an awfully obvious one. Besides, there's really no justification for linking to Ezra and Matty's Mouth-Breathers-r-Us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Depository_Library_Prog...
Being in academic research currently, this is hilarious.
What happens if another client adds an ignored file and the current one tries to sync? I guess Dropbox will try to create it and fail repeatedly?

Neat trick!
The trick I've found with the Aeropress is to disregard the manufacturer instructions and add a lot more water than they suggest. If you look at the Aeropress championship winners, they all fill up the Aeropress with water rather than putting in just a bit of water like the directions suggest (and then diluting later).

In my experience, Aeropress yields a great cup of coffee much faster than any of the pour over techniques and drippers.
Since we are linking are favorite "idle" games, I have to recommend A Dark Room: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
If only there was some kind of "save game" feature
I wonder how much IQ I gain from the web. Anybody done that experiment? Take an IQ test with and without access to the web.
Obama told people they shouldn't just use an app, they should build one. I've taken plenty of web dev and programming courses (including a couple of university courses), but still have doubts about my ability to build something production-ready on my own.

Encouraging people to play with code and telling them they're going to help fulfill a shortage of software developers are two different things.