skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money Talks: Learning the language of finance by John Lanchester (The Danger of Financial Jargon)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/money-talks-6
Lytro Illum Camera Focuses on Everything
This has been said multiple times here, but Trello.
It's what happens when companies get big. Same thing happened at Microsoft.
Did you learn iOS at college? Was it your first programming language you learned? I like concept of the game (downloaded it). Pretty good for your first game (even though it took 1.5 yrs).
How will the taxi unions feel when someone combines uber/lyft with self driving cars?
It is most likely, that the state systems as we know them today will break down in many areas of the world.

It all depends, how the survivors will behave. I think it is much likely, that living together will change its form very much -- up to the possibility that people will fight for the last resources or a return to Middle Ages state (but, when I see what is happening in our democracies, they might also do without nuclear destruction).
Was there to watch, had a chat with you afterwards and can't wait to read it again!
You need the source code of the extension and not the .crx to be able to load it and use it as a developer.
It is good at recognizing machine-generated text - hit the blue arrow - and not that good at human-scribbled text with a mouse, I find.

I assume you were testing hand-written text?
Hi! Practicing roboticist here.

So, there are _lots_ of different parts of robotics you could get involved in. I suppose the first question to answer is "what is your background?" How are your maths (linear algebra, matrix systems, machine learning, etc)? What part of robotics are you interested in? Some examples include perception, mechatronics, motion control, planning, object recognition, system design, and more.

The answers to those questions are necessary to answer the "getting in part" as well as the "easy transition" part.

Software engineers at a robotics firm generally fall into two areas: motion control/industrial programmers and research-like programmers. As you can imagine, the types of tasks motion control/industrial programmers do revolve around getting big industrial robot systems/production systems to dance to their tune, while research-like programmers are generally implementing research-level algorithms on new hardware/firmware/software systems.

I've worked for a few robotics firms in my time and will likely continue to do so. Now is an exciting time to be involved in robotics, especially given the falling cost of hardware.

If you have any more questions or want a follow up conversation, please don't hesitate to hit me up. My email is my profile link.
The one we used was called "Road to Hana GPS Driving Tour," but it looks like there's a long list of them under the GPS Tour Guide name.
Agreed, but reading between the lines of these ads, there's a world of difference between an ad which is "we're looking for a great developer who will use <language X> to do [...]" and "we're looking for a <language X> Developer".

In my experience, the latter presentation tends to actively drive away the best candidates, and communicates a lack of understanding of the job to be done. This is not an absolute; sometimes you really do need a specific skillset. For example, one great company I worked at almost universally hired solid developers regardless of particular checkbox skills. We knew that the good ones would come up to speed, and we'd often benefit greatly from cross-pollination from differing backgrounds. However, there were definite instances where we needed a true specialist, e.g. in a specific, deep platform UI framework. Then we sought and found solid developers who were also top of their game in the needed skills.

In the latter ad copy above, a "<language X> Developer" often has the connotation not of a targeted specialist hire, e.g. "expert in <language X>". Instead it comes across as lazy recruiting: "warm body who checks off this box".
And also when the card reader in the store here in Denmark says "Use the magnetic stripe!" for some reason.
If you install via "load unpacked extension" you can get around it.

On recent versions of Chrome you cannot install any non webstore CRX, developer mode or not.
A kindle costs <50$ - load it up with free PDFs downloaded via Torrents or other means and the notion : "book readers owning an e-reader is probably older and more wealthy than the average movie pirate" falls flat.

I dont have numbers to back it up - but plenty of anecdotal evidence and just common sense too. I myself have borrowed that malcolm gladwell book or the other - because the cheapest I could buy it was 20$ - and while I was interested in reading it - not enough to spend that much. Had it been 10$ - it would be worth it for me to just buy it rather than ask around friends if someone had a copy I could borrow. (You can also "borrow" books from friends on Kindle)
Ask HN: What framework is the quickest to get a polished web app up and running?
Is Our Universe Like Oil and Vinegar or Homogenized Milk?
Some more context: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264

Overall, the FOSS arena is a crazy place
Point taken, but Perl has a (very) long history of being the glue the holds websites (and everything else) together. I think perl files in cgi-bin is the first time I ever connected a database to a web page.
Can someone explain what this is, exactly? Is it a fee-free way for people to accept Bitcoin on their site/shop?
I think it goes off the rails in step 2. Private organizations are not bound by the 4th amendment. For the most part, the constitution defines the powers and limitations of the federal government (and to some extent the state governments). The government is the entity bound by the 4th amendment, not private companies.

I think a more likely scenario is that we end up with a court ruling that says something along the lines of: "In order to preserve the customer's 4th amendment rights, the company hosting the e-mail mustn't be using it for business purposes." So, Google wouldn't be able to simultaneously mine your e-mails and guarantee that your e-mails are protected under the 4th amendment.
What version of Chrome? I'm using 36.0.1985.125 and it worked just fine.
Uber/Lyft will be the ones who make this combination. Why would they let someone else do it?
Networking in Android
What is the workaround?
To expand a bit:
I would like (out of the box)

* Authentication
Polished look and feel
Easily configured REST API
Large set of extensions / plugins / etc.
Admin / CRUD operations easily configured for data
That's a big constant performance hit to take, even at scale. However, this would be great for a) untrusted code and b) another level of portability for writing c programs.
Rant: blogs lacking links to the company's web site (towards the top) are annoying.
I believe the videos will be available in the next day or so.
Most of the traits that make good Perl code are the same traits that make good anything code: concise but readable, sensible naming conventions, useful comments, sensible logical structure that's not too complicated.

There are certainly a lot of things about Perl that are unique, but some time with the camel book and a few weeks of practice should sort that out for anybody with several years of production experience in another language.
"Sure but the money you save by reselling a book is probably less than what you save by buying the ebook"

This is what I had hoped for when Kindle came around and Amazon started pushing Ebooks - but unfortunately it just isnt true. The difference between ebook and paperback is currently low enough that if you maintain your paperbacks well - you'll still end up spending less (net) on the book - in quite a few cases. (Heck you can even resell the paperbacks using Amazon ;))
It won't work because Gmail users have agreed to what Google is doing.

(Also, as I understand it, Google works hard to limit access to email, but I don't think they have anything you would want to describe as a master key. It would be "Google deletes all customer data", not "Google blinds itself to customer data".)
The idea that there is some under-appreciated, reliable technology that's already solved a lot of problems people are trying to address today is compelling to me. In fact, I've learned that I almost need to actively ignore short pieces of advocacy in order to keep them in perspective.

"Modern Perl" is an improvement on the coding styles that earned statements like "write once, read never". However, I think it is relevant to read "The Mid-Career of the Perl Programmer"[1] written by chromatic, who wrote the book on Modern Perl.

Realistically, the audience for this article will probably be people who are starting out with programming in addition to their primary job skills. Someone else further along probably isn't likely to choose one programming language for a career specialty.

While you can use Perl for automation, scripting, and data analysis as easily as you could in the past, there are additional tools available now. I feel that choosing Python, R, or Julia, depending on the task, maybe even VB.net is going to get people up and running faster, and also end up being a better starting point for doing more later if people get inspired.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373038
Is this rent price for an apartment in the center that you can find within one week? Most european cities' centers are significantly more expensive than suburbs/country side.

$250 is suspiciously cheap
>'The stigma against seeking help for mental health exists and is real, whether you think it's absurd or not.'

Absolutely true.

Not just stigma, but plain discrimination. Good luck getting an interview if you list Haloperidol [1] under 'Current Medications'.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloperidol
Organizations which truly support Bitcoin would choose to spend it, not hoard it.
No, it's time and memory inefficient. When you add something to immutable data structure, a new structure is created but internally it shares the data with a structure it was derived from.
Lytro Illum review: this is the camera of the future
Pleasanton the town center? That's a fantastic spot and works very much as a small town. The issue is that bulk of the residents live in suburban (well really exurban) subdivisions well away from it. Their day-to-day is very much just a standard suburban experience, even if there is a lot to love n the actual town center.

People tend to think of "urban" as "City of San Francisco (Manhattan, Chicago, etc...)" To me urban is much of a characteristic. Many suburbs have a relatively urban component at their core. If you live on an actual city grid (no windy streets) with strong mixed uses (that you can walk to) throughout your neighborhood then you're living an urban existence in my book. Or at least non-suburban.

I can definitely identify with people living in central Pleasanton, but you don't have to get far outside the center city before it falls off the rails.
What's it been, 20 years?
mmmmm... even if I don't like paywall, I don't think that it's a good idea: when journalists aren't paid, they aren't working... and then, only advertisers will deliver the news. And I'm not sure that it would be a good thing...
The minimum price for a physical book from Amazon is $4.00 plus sales tax. ($.01 for the book, $3.99 shipping)
I'm not sure what book it was (I'm thinking it was something by OSC), but I've read a scifi story in which some mad scientists were intentionally "resetting" civilization to no-tech chapter one. They had no problems slaughtering billions of people, burning their possessions, and brainwashing their descendants. The major issue was removing all those convenient alloys from the reach of future metallurgists. They eventually settled on some nano-tech devices that melted everything into giant blobs and then sank the blobs thousands of feet into the Earth. There was a quip at the end about geology in future being doomed to failure, based as it would be on some harebrained explanation for the natural formation of convenient blobs of alloy.

I wonder if the story itself is as fucked-up as my memory of it is.
I've been working on a similar app called lamp @ http://ilikelamp.com
> If Ocaml can only handle one core and does not do SMP, how does it do in the cloud?

+1 to this question? Any one experienced enough in OCaml to answer this?
Amazon Doubles Flipkart's 1bn $ investment
Drawing Maps with D3.js and other Geographical Fun
You can extract .crx files for any extension straight away to see the source (Use 7zip). Install it to Chrome using Load unpacked extension if it doesn't work when dropped.
Seems like a reasonable perspective.
An alternative to F.lux on the Mac would be great. I'd pay for it, even if it was just a port of Redshift.

When I say alternative, I mean a program that adjusts the system color palette based on the time of day (or the light curve as captured by the webcam).

While F.lux kind of does that - barely - it's designed for something completely different: it's some kind of weird Zen sleep optimizer. What I want is to use a less harsh screen at night, whereas F.lux asserts that I shouldn't be on the computer at all during that time. Consequently, it's almost impossible to configure its behavior.
As a discussion of any programming language grows longer, the probability of a bashing against such language approaches 1.

Any similarity with Godwin's law is mere coincidence.
That occupation will disappear, save for a few high-end human driver services, IMO.

After the taxis come the trucks. I am quite certain shipping companies will be the quick ditch humans. After all, this means no more travel expenses & salaries, no more breaks, probably automatic unloading too! Goods will get cheaper, although hundreds of thousands of people will be out of work.

I am scared.
Other ereader devices exist.

Kobo devices have microSD cards. You have to unscrew the case to get at it, but still, you'd probably only have to do it once.
If you read the article you would have known this. It is literally the first three sentences they cover this.
this is theft, eh?
Show HN: A Chrome extension to get around paying for your app/service.
For the last decade or so, human learner drivers in the UK have had to pass a video "hazard perception test" based on their ability to recognise potential developing hazards (kids playing near the roads, a cyclist confronted by a line of parked cars, a vehicle approaching a junction onto your lane) at a very early point before their movements make their entry into the roadway inevitable.

This strikes me as something which is particularly difficult for an algorithm to process effectively (without generating lots of false positives, which also fails that segment of the test) especially based on the fairly low resolution video human users are presented with in normal test conditions.

Hope they're not going to waive that for the bots, even if they do have 360 degree vision and superior concentration and reaction times.
That's not uncommon for implementation-defined languages. Ruby didn't have a language specification until the community set up rubyspec as it started getting serious about alternative implementations.

Facebook is apparently getting serious about its own alternative implementation (or at least intending to be taken seriously) and are thus stepping in with a spec.
Excellent points, which I didn't think of.

However, I'll ask you this: is it constitutionally agreeable to trample the rights of others for the sake of gathering evidence? I would say no. Just like how I would say searching all personal mail coming from a certain zip code because you know of someone sending secrets would be, in my viewpoint, wrong. I can chalk up the initial issue of a warrant to the judge not understanding technology, but as soon as it was explained in a courtroom how it was tied together, he should have told the feds to seek evidence elsewhere.
"Microsoft believes you own emails stored in the cloud, and that they have the same privacy protection as paper letters sent by mail"

Clarification: Microsoft now believes this (or claims to). They had no problem handing PRISM the keys to the kingdom while it was still secret.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
If you want a more obvious example you could just look at Thailand, but I didn't really want to bring that up because it's so current and it's so hard to tell whether legal actions against erstwhile prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra were brought in good faith or pursuant to the plotting of the military coup (she was dismissed from office by the Thai constitutional Court over the transfer of a national security adviser, which the court said was to facilitate nepotism).
Work from Home (very common here since all homes have had fiber since pre-FiOS days) Car, Commuter Bus (the stop is in the neighborhood). We'll have light rail within 2 miles in a few years and have shuttles to the same rail service (but going in closer to the city). But yeah, most people drive.

Nearby towns (major nearby employment centers) are 10-30 minutes away by car and have ample free parking. Two of the bigger towns are also on the same rail line. The big city is about an hour by car outside of rush hour and you have to pay to park, rail and bus are faster and cheaper. However, all of the major tech employment in the area happens in a belt that stretches from my neighborhood into the city, there's negligible tech work actually in the city.

There's 17-23 million square feet of commercial and office space getting zoned right now that will set up a major employment center about 5 minutes away (with a world trade center and all that jazz). And I can almost but not quite see from one of the two coffee shops I'm working at today, the largest collection of new data center construction on the East Coast. Major tech employers range from aerospace to internet companies to government. So it's all fairly future proof.

So yeah, it's sprawl I guess. But it's not the mile after mile of unending prefab houses that defined suburbia from the 40s to the 90s either (though there is some of that out here as well, just not in my immediate area). From my front window I can see homes designed and built by 3 different developers and I think 8 or 9 participated in total. This isn't custom architecture, but if you get bored you can walk a block and see something that looks different at least.

Today for lunch my major conundrum was should I eat Greek, Thai, American style Chinese, Italian, Burgers, Subs or Tex-Mex within walking distance, or head out in my car for a quick 5-minute spin to get Vietnamese, Indian, Taiwanese or Korean. I decided to walk to my local pizza place, get a couple slices of pizza and then walk to one of my two local coffee shops and hang out for the rest of the day.

A slightly longer drive and I can add in Ethiopian, Bolivian, Salvadorian, Mexican, even more Korean, even more Vietnamese...and of course every kind of chain food you can imagine from Taco Bell to TGIF.
Many factors are involved here. On one hand, you're right about Dijkstra (Is $1000 an option? I never actually got my copy signed (sigh), but....) and Nancy Drew, but on the other I think it's likely that most of the money involved involves "mass market" books: thrillers, Oprah's picks, the stuff on the New York Times list. At some point it does boil down to the marginal situation of "two unknown authors" (or two approximately equivalent ones) that really are semi-commodities. Think of a reader who has read everything that has been suggested or is from their favorite authors, and is looking for something new.

Also keep in mind that the "mass" entertainment market is not competing with speciality books, but is competing with other entertainment options: Netflix, movies, drunken debauchery, etc.

Then there is the price levels we're talking about. Everyone (probably) has some price X below which they will have no problem impulse-buying. Then there's a price Y below which they're willing to take chances, with information, and then there are prices above that, which require actual consideration. And for most people, at least those buying ebooks, we are definitely arguing in this range. For my inner economist, publishers want ebook prices up in the high segment, above Y, while Amazon wants them roughly between X and Y.

"If Amazon has helpful data to add to this, why don't they open it up and let everyone, publishers included, see it to help price the books better?"

The specifics are very likely competitive trade secrets. Don't forget Amazon gets to deal with Apple, B&N, and a host of other retailers. I'm surprised they released the one number they did. On the other hand, judging by negotiations I've been in, I would not find it unplausible that Hachette is aware of those numbers.

"They are trying to squash publishers, gain control of the market and dictate prices, which they cannot currently do."

Yes, just like the publishers are trying to squash Amazon, gain control of the market, and dictate prices. Heck, this isn't even a particularly new situation: I'm sure the negotiations between publishers and distributors that led to the lovely "stripping" practice were just as entertaining.
But that's the worst month they could have chosen! June would make a lot more sense.
If anyone is interested in functional collections for Common Lisp or Java, have a look at FSet: http://www.ergy.com/FSet.html
Google the article title and use the link. Technically, using Google as referer in request headers.
Exactly, once they get these vehicles right accidents will be a pretty rare thing.

Until then it has to be a case of "tough" if you want to sue. The Victorians had the right attitude to future technology and it's something we need to get back to.
My impression from at least the google cars is that they aren't relying on map data to find signs and signals, though they might update that data from the cars so they can reduce processing time later.

I'd also expect any accident to end up worldwide news simply because it's the first ever of it's kind. Same thing happened with the first car accident in the world, it happened in 1891 in Ohio [1].

I'd imagine that #2 will take longer to take care of properly, but with the traffic and accidentent and road closure monitoring that goes on now I'm going to bet that it'll at least be kind of decent, I'm actually more worried that it won't be able to follow detours properly and cause gridlock around construction areas during the transition from human driven cars to driver-less.

[1] http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/World's_First_Automobile...
The internet's next act
This Startup Pays You to Learn How to Code
You might want to edit your login page (http://snowinseconds.com/account/login) it still has some Lorem ipsum on it!
As a landlord, I put neutral-beige paint on the walls because it's the least-offensive option. If I had put a strong color on them, even as an accent color, there will be a percentage of potential tenants that would dislike it and rent from someone else. "Oh, that was the place with the hideous apple-green wall by the stairs. I couldn't live with it there."
Is this fedora devkit the same as what Red Hat just announced as "ARM Partner Early Access Program for Partner Ecosystem"?

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/7/red-ha...
Why $10B isn’t a crazy valuation for Snapchat
There are languages that everybody hates, and then there are the languages nobody uses.
Where are the Indie iOS developers you ask?
Ah, yes, hold down a record button instead of pressing it on and off! What a grand innovation worthy of a patent!