skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pythonic scheduler here - https://github.com/dbader/schedule

you could also use cron
> Ubuntu devs haven't made what would be a nice gesture toward their upstream distro.

They make nice gestures toward their upstream distro all the time, just not this one, for which they have said that code contributions are welcome. 3913 nice gestures (in the form of patches) are logged at http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_usertag.cgi, for example.

> OTOH SUSE provides resources for building packages for several unrelated distros.

Sure, and Ubuntu has chosen to focus contributions in other areas. I think that's perfectly reasonable.

One issue here is that the build infrastructure around Launchpad is (presumably) designed around securely building packages for a single distribution. To support other distributions, it seems to me that it would need some mechanism for users to supply their own chroots, or some other way of maintaining those chroots. This is quite different from the Debian builder model, which is designed around third party build contributions. I imagine (I don't know) that this affects the amount of effort required to make this all work on Launchpad. Remember that PPA support was added in later, not present from the start (http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/personal-package-archives-for-... looks like the original announcement).

On the other hand, as far as I understand SUSE designed their system to be able to handle several unrelated distros from the beginning. That presumably made it easier for them to do it.

I don't think it's fair to complain that X won't expend resources on something but Y will, when the amount of resource required by X and Y may differ quite considerably.
his point is that his business isn't ranked as high on google as he thinks it should be.
The iPad’s inventor is now leading hardware at Misfit Wearables
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Low-Power Sensing and Autonomy With Nvidia  Jetson TK1
Hey. I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say.

The docs: Well, they were in a mess for a while when I started and I agree that they're really neat now.

Declining community help: I was referring to a specific ml thread that I stumbled upon when I was unhappy with the (previous!) state of documentation, wherein someone asked whether you (both the company and you as a person) would consider putting the site in git / opening it for community improvements. You declined. That doesn't mean that I judge you for that decision, it just seemed like a wasted potential at that time to me (Given: "Site in disarray" and "Free help offered"). Nowhere did I state that you don't accept community support per se.

Template: Well, the big problem might be Github's support for this 'feature'. If I want to file a new ticket [1] there's nothing helpful here. Yes, there's a rather bland "Review the guidelines.." link, but frankly I didn't click that. Why? I know how to use Github to file tickets. It doesn't say "Please read this or your tickets will be closed" or even better, just embeds the template you require in the new ticket form. While I certainly understand that you want/need some structure, the user experience is currently Not That Good.

Lag in GH response: That .. wasn't actually my point. My (random, sample) ticket was promptly active, nice people discussed it. I don't even care too much about the fact that it isn't solved after six month. I was mostly trying to point out that Ansible, for me and in my personal use cases, seemed a little unreliable and incomplete. This is one of the reasons I _need_ to use shell: or I cannot have a playbook that starts postgresql or dovecot, period. Is it important for Ansible Inc or the world? Probably not, but workarounds like these are the reason I don't like looking at my playbook anymore.

I rejected Dockerfiles because a random list of shell commands isn't what I wanted. My Ansible files are now a mix of clean/official modules and some of the very same random shell commands, and not by choice.

Let's close with:

- I appreciate your project/product. It helped me a lot (see first sentence in the gp post)

- I'm sure Ansible works great for scenarios of various sizes. I don't claim my experience is to be expected for everyone (but note that some people at least have expressed similar feelings about the 'yml files turn to shell scripts' idea)

1: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new
> I think that moto doesn't fit Dart at all, I use Dart and I have to make some workarounds that I just shouldn't be doing, but I have to because the language doesn't have the functionality that other languajes already have.

Could that be explained because of not used to type safe languages? Type safe languages have a well-known clunkiness to dynamic type creation as well as other things. You get correctness in return, which is often worth it. It is also precisely the point of Dart's type system.

> In this case, I would be easy for them to add JSON serialization to objects, you know, but they didn't, why? polictics, apathy, whatever, but not technical problems.

This assertion is simply false. Adding arbitrary object creation support to a mostly statically typed language is not trivial at all [1]. What's more is that adding it will only give the guise of type safety when it's really not there.

[1]: See Jackson's source code, a popular Java (de)serialization library: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core
A friend of mine used ozforex.au while he was living in France, working for an American company, and wanted income to show up in his Australian bank account. He said it was quite painless.
I'm not convinced that it would - is there a qualitative difference between page 2-3 or even pages 1-10 of Google results and the first results on page 1? A random mix of the first 10 pages of results say I'd say would be more interesting than their current mostly static and gamed results, which are basically pay to play.

The most valuable thing about this idea is that it is immune to gaming because of the mixing. Just as an example relevant to the point of the original article, here is a search for hotels in Devon on google:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=hotels%20in%20devon

First half of the page are links to Google places entries - so advertising for Google. Are these paid for? I'm not sure what the situation is there but this is partly a manual intervention from Google to try to save their results... After that on page 1 we have lots of aggregator/review sites like laterooms, tripadvisor, stayindevon etc (your results may vary). by the second page of results we have some real hotels, by the third, we have more real hotels, etc, up to page 9, which is still real hotels in devon.

So I'd say the first 10 pages are pretty much equally useful, and some mixing of results would do wonders for ranking and allow good results to surface instead of languishing unless they make an entry on a google property, or on one of the portals.
+1 for Amber. Much of the rest of Zelazny is good, too. I actually like Lord Of Light better, though it's a bit less approachable (in the specific sense that I picked it up and put it down a few times before getting into it).
It's difficult to "opt out" of GS pay scales, and even then if you do you then have to follow different recruiting patterns and are subject to fairly strict guidelines. They do have special scales for special positions, but from what I understand that takes awhile to establish and still has strict guidelines. (http://apps.opm.gov/SpecialRates/2014/index.aspx)

Federal recruiting can be quite a minefield, which is a significant problem in fast-moving professions. According to this article the NSA don't opt out of the GS scale, but that's not to say they don't offer temporary positions with slightly different criteria: http://work.chron.com/nsa-pay-scale-16399.html

I'm unsure if it's different on the military side but typically that pay / Basic allowance for housing / etc is also clearly defined in advance.
So, about that shithole…
Sensible summarisation.
Periodically someone will ask me if I've read any of the Song of Ice and Fire books. My answer is always no.

Then I launch into a rant about the Wheel of Time series. I got sucked into that series on book one and chewed through it all the way to book 7. At book seven I had caught up to the author and the fact that he hadn't written the next book in the series yet gave me an opportunity to take stock. I realized that the books had been getting less satisfying and more work to read than before. I also realized that Robert Jordan didn't know how to finish the series. He hadn't met a plot line he didn't like. I was sure he would die before Wheel of Time was finished. Right then and there I decided I was done and would no longer give my money to the series or any other series that showed signs of the same problem.
I totally called the Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan died and they had to bring in Brian Sanderson to finish. Brian definitely knows how to finish. But for me the magic had already gone.

It's not out of a sense of entititlement. I just don't enjoy unfinished stories. It bugs the crap out of me. George R. R. Martin strikes me as an author with different symptoms but a similar problem. I'm not sure he knows how to finish it. I won't spend my money until he proves it.
> if(iserror(formula), 0, formula)

The IFERROR function was designed for this pattern:

IFERROR(formula, 0)
New place to post freelancer jobs apparently. Looks like a decent community, and if they're paying me to try it, why not?
Hey Anandish,
Thanks man will do :)
Learning is the ML-equivalent of what statisticians would call fitting a model. It usually involves optimizing a criterium such as the likelihood function of the data, the expected MSE under the posterior (Bayesian) or the margin of a linear classifier (SVM).
Very neat. I queried for a line I remembered as "a story Englishmen tell when they're down in the mouth", and it corrected this "Englishmen tell it [etc.]", identifying the movie as Beat the Devil.
Putin the (Not So) Great
"There is however one area of Google’s vast and growing empire that gives rise for serious concern and this is its foundation, “Google Search”, the most used and admired search engine on planet Earth and in fact, our solar system, unless Jupiter’s moons are hiding a quantum search tool."

If this is how he always writes then no wonder his stuff isn't ranked higher. Eschew obfuscation!
I'm living in the UK and am paid in USD in the US. My wife and I investigated a bunch of options on how to bring the money to the UK as cheaply as possible and this was the best one we've found so far.
> With AR, if this is the worst case where you write some
> raw SQL, what's the alternative? The alternative seems
> far more painful pragmatically speaking and this, while
> being a little ugly, seems to work just fine without
> impacting productivity or performance.

Do you know if other ORMs allow this kind of relatively painless use of "raw SQL?"

I've only used ActiveRecord and some of the .NET "micro ORMs" like Dapper and PetaPOCO.

Dapper and PetaPOCO definitely support raw SQL. That's kind of their main focus - they take a row of SQL results and map those database columns to your class's properties, and by design they don't do a whole lot else.

But I don't know about other big/popular ORMs like Hibernate...
Why not just use a forex broker instead? Better rates, lower spreads, and higher liquidity. I would personally recommend Interactive Brokers.
I would say that the biggest risk with mysqldump is restore time.

If a significant portion of the buffer pool is in memory, it may actually dump quite fast. MySQL 5.5 and above also have a modified LRU algorithm so that tablescans (i.e. mysqldump) can only evict up to 3/8ths of the cache contents.
love the idea and I know I'd use it extensively but there's no way I'm giving such broad FB profile/activity access. Eliminate that and you have a winner.
I've been using Xoom for money transfer to India. For amounts larger than 1000$, there is no fee.
This blog post has become so famous I just assumed the title was "GRRM is not your bitch."
Not the person you asked the question of, but we’re building AMIs (and VMware images) using packer.io (via the masterless puppet provisioner). It works nicely and with a minimum of fuss.
I thought it might be at first, but I didn't see anything else in the body of the article that tied back to it. It wouldn't make much sense if it was intentional, because it undermines the very lengthy point he was making in the rest of the article.
Should an (empty) autonomous car be able to drive around by itself?
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

We have a position listed on usajobs.gov[1] (which is not the easiest site to search) for software development here. The listing says "internship" for the hiring program, but this is really a full-time permanent position in the agency.

Hard requirements are 1) U.S. Citizenship, and 2) that you be within 2 years of graduation (pre or post) from a degree-seeking program (undergraduate or graduate).

There is no specific language for this position (though Python + scipy + numpy is probably a big plus), the preference instead is on strong general CS fundamentals and interest in solving interesting problems. Broadly speaking, the responsibilities will be to provide assistance to a variety of different research and engineering projects through software development, as need arises.

This may sound a bit vague, but I'd be happy to describe some examples in more detail if anyone would like.

I am not technically on the hiring committee, but have agreed to help staff the position. PM me if you have any questions!

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/376181600
What's to say you couldn't use multiple plugs (granted that's linear growth when you need 10x)?
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BMO has American dollar accounts[1]. That way, you can convert only what you need. Or, when you feel is the best time due to rate fluctuations and so on.

Additionally, if you ever travel and spend money in the US, you can spend in US currency, again avoiding exchange rates.

[1]: http://www.bmo.com/home/personal/banking/bank-accounts/us-do...
Lord of Light is brilliant. It is also very strong stuff - dense, metaphorical, and poetic. It should probably not be the first Zelazny of anyone who's just branching out from GRRM.
Reminds me of some neighborhoods in inland California.
Have you tried asking your bank manager?

Yes, there'll be fees, and it's not as interesting as bitcoin. But it's not a hard thing to do.
I've used a cubemap approach to render procedurally generated asteroid geometry and it works pretty well. I start by generating the heightmap using 3D simplex noise, Then when rendering I use a domain shader to offset the vertices of an icosphere along the normal vector according the the height in the heightmap.

http://imgur.com/rpKalpk

I've got a bunch of other procedural content generation blog entries over at http://www.junkship.net, including this entry http://www.junkship.net/News/2011/11/13/building-steam-with-... which covers a lot of similar ground to the parent article.
I use three ways for Germany <--> US transfer:

1. Charles Schwab

I didn't know that before signing up, but my US Charles Schwab account has Banks all over the world that I can just wire money to, use my US account number as the "subject" of the transaction and it will magically appear in my US account. No fees, good exchange rate. That way I can get the Money from Germany to the US

2. Currencyfair(.com)

They have great exchange rates. You basically send money from Country A to one of their bank accounts in the country A area (e.g. SEPA) and then buy the foreign currency on their site (quick or marketplace) and transfer it out.
Very minimal fees, great rates.

3. Debit Cards

My German credit card and my US debit cards (among them: Schwab) allow me to deduct money from ATMs for free. Both of them don't charge any fees (no cash advance for the German ones) and allow me to do so internationally.

I'd say just get a US Bank account from Charles Schwab the next time you're over there. I got mine 4 years ago without having a SSN or a work visa, just using my passport. I guess this is just possible if you do it "in branch" though.
Quite remarkably, it supports Windows too (via cross-compilation). The Julia WinRPM tool [1] automatically downloads dependencies for various Julia packages from OBS - including some very interdependent, complex libraries like Glib and Gtk.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/WinRPM.jl
Replace your proprietary BiOS with Libreboot
Patients Seeking Cheaper Care Are Soliciting Bids From Doctors Online
RAVN Systems launch new website
Google doesn't owe you traffic.
Interesting read. I wonder how universal that is. Some years ago I told a bunch of friends that my new year's resolution was quitting smoking and if they were to see me smoke they were allowed to call me an idiot. It worked pretty well for me.
Besides the huge hole here, what I found ugly about their implementation is both how cumbersome it is to set up (can only use one 2FA method) and how cumbersome it is to use. I stopped making payments with Paypal recently because of how annoying it was to finally auth a payment.
Bitcoins. I live in Argentina (yep, right) and work for an UK based company.
I recently set on buying bitcoins in Europe (using localbitcoins.com) and them selling them to Argentinian buyers on the same site.

There's a huge gap between the regulated dollar rate and the street price, so the loss is negligible (I used to just extract the money from an ATM)
He goes a little further: he's objecting to the fact that Google is not acting as a "leveling" force to break up incumbent industries and change society. He appears to want them to act as a far-left government.

I don't really feel a need to rebut this desire, beyond saying "no".
And salt will even output the command results for you in JSON. There's massive potential there for using salt for monitoring not just deployment.
Is this constrained to Fantasy? I have a lot of Science Fiction recommendations too, but here's a small list:

Riftwar Cycle (several series) by Raymond E. Feist. - high magic, great overarching themes, enjoyable all around. Most of the characters are exceedingly interesting and many are extremely high powered.

Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross - More of the multiworld thing, but a great twist, also what would you do if you could introduce technology into a medieval world.

Deverry Cycle by Katherine Kerr - Rebirth cycles, immortal main character watches and guides several characters through multiple lifetimes.

Dark Tower series by Stephen King - Great story, ties into almost all of SK's books at some point.

Earthsea by Ursula le Guin - A classic story, epic for sure.

Scavenger Trilogy by K.J Parker - Dark and mysterious. Main character might be good, might be bad, but doesn't remember anything.

- -

A couple good series I ran across on Kindle Unlimited are:

Wayward Pines Series by Blake Crouch. - Like a post-apocolyptic Twin peaks, at least at first. A bit dark, the story bothered me near the end, but still worth the read.

Belial Series by R.D Brady - didn't know what to make of this one at first, "alternate history" (aliens and pyramids type), but it turns out pretty good. involves "Angels" though maybe not in the conventional sense.

Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer - two books, both very good, highly recommend.

Travelers Gate series by Will Wight (surprisingly good)

Silo Saga by Hugh Howey - currently reading, but great writing, IMO.

There are even more Science Fiction books/series I'd highly recommend, but if you aren't into it, I won't bother you with em.
- The notation for that is IxTP.
- Introversion doesn't reveal the preference between the two values of the second letter because it measures the first letter. :)
Ask HN: Is anyone interested in Node.js based alternative to Magento?
Magento is based on PHP which makes it need more infrastructure to serve more users. People also use Wordpress, Joomla for setting up ecommerce sites. Are there developers or customers who might be interested in having access to open source Node.js ecommerce solution along the lines of Magento, but also updated in terms of functionality for today's world where buyers lurk on apps like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
Of course you have to comparison shop, I have no doubt some of the big banks will take advantage of the uninformed.

That said, it's much easier to convert USD to CAD in Canada, then CAD to USD in the US. I had an account at a small regional bank and if you were converting less than $100 of CAD, you'd be lucky if you got 2/3rds of the actual exchange rate.
A spambot became the second most powerful member of an Italian social network
I was trained in debate and logic long before Wikipedia existed, actually, long before the web existed. I'd rather you appeal to people against serving up logical fallacy up as substantive material for discussion.
Crafting The Endless Cosmos Of No Man's Sky
Seems like it would be a better reason to increase the physical separation between motorized and non-motorized traffic. I'd wager that more pedestrians would survive near 40 mph traffic if there were more energy-absorbing materials between them and the cars. The signs are probably just up to cut down on lawsuits directed toward the city.

The goal of improving roads is to increase the throughput of traffic. If it seems as though a problem could be solved by slowing down traffic, that's like solving a problem with a circuit by throwing a resistor into it. It may solve the immediate problem, but it will also reduce the overall efficiency of the circuit by converting energy into heat rather than usable work.

They could also put up signs that say 100% of the people who drive 40 mph reach their destinations 33% faster than those who drive 30 mph. It's just a distraction from the fact that solving the problem in a better way is more expensive than just blaming drivers and letting insurance handle the fallout.
How about automatically giving you a repl context at the exception and letting you move up and down the call stack.

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/debug/#using-the-debugger
I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
May not be immediately obvious, after rolling, click and drag and it will roll again using your drag to generate the vector along which the dice are rolled.
Brain algorithm for dealing with noisy input
tl;dr how to get started with MongoSoup (a German MongoDB-aaS provider) and Heroku
With all due respect, are you sure you're doing it right? The entire raison d'etre of Transferwise is cutting their bank-run international wire transfers out of the loop.
Show HN: React.js pure-SVG Line Chart component
When I was with a smallish Credit Union (Langley Federal Credit Union) they would just have me write the note out, scan it and email it to them. Then I would call them about an hour later and it was authorized. They did charge a flat $12 fee.
If I recall my Sandman, I think Gaiman would also recommend anything (or at least some things) written by Roger Zelazny.
There is a typo with 'ZooKeeper', an awesome framework.
I used to have a similar stance, and I agree on most points. Long series tend to become less and less interesting, and weirder as they go along (Dune, Gormenghast, Hyperion, ...) Maybe it is the novelty that wears off, the author has used his most powerful ideas first, or the last book is written because of children's college tuition. Moreover, even if I enjoy reading, I think that if the author hasn't managed to enclose a proper story in 500-1000 pages, there is probably something that is off.

However, I have recanted my previous position because if every series tend to go downwards, why not reading the first few books? I'd rather enjoy the journey even if the final destination is a bit underwhelming. In the worst case, if the latter books are absolutely atrocious, I can live with reading a quick summary on Wikipedia.