skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of what made Hypercard so useful was that it made it really easy to make one specific kind of application, which at the time was 90% of what any single person could be expected to do by themselves. Most of the "multimedia experiences" people were making and buying were basically interactive slideshows, roughly as complex as a DVD menu. Hypercard made this easy, and you knew before you started whether or not it would be a good fit for your project. Under the covers, it was a Turning-complete language, but I'd imagine trying to make anything more complicated than Myst would be really painful. I suspect the developers of Myst probably ran into its limitations before they were done.

I think the main obstacle nowadays is deployment. Back in the day, you'd have Hypercard export a native application, and then copy it onto a disk that you passed around. Nowadays, the expectation is that people can run it in a browser, or download it from an app store. Web-based deployment means you have to embed it in a website using Javascript, while app stores require setting up a developer account, and building with complicated toolchains.

This isn't to say it definitively can't be done, just an explanation of why it hasn't yet.
Thanks for pointing that out, we're working on fixing it.

As compared to gofundme, our terms are similar in that there are no penalties for missed deadlines and the fundraiser gets to keep any amount they raise. It didn't seem right to reject donations just because the goal wasn't met. If a fundraiser can raise any amount, then it makes their future debt much more manageable.

We've been tossing around the idea of removing the deadline, but because of the gap of time between acceptance and your first tuition payment, we inserted a deadline to focus donations in our limited timeframe. In the future, we can encourage applicants to create campaigns as quickly as possible, in order to maximize the amount of time before the first tuition payment. In theory, fundraisers can continue their campaigns until their full tuition is covered, where a portion of the total is sent directly to the school in order to cover that particular payment period. At the very least, it will buy fundraisers more time to cover the total cost of their needs.
I woke up with swollen eyelids one morning a few years back and was diagnosed with blepharitis later that day. I now use Sterilid 1-2 times a day since it contains tea tree oil which supposedly is effective in treatment against Demodex. I occasionally still get flareups/complications but they've definitely seemed rarer since using the product:

http://www.theratears.com/sterilid.php
Well said. That's the distinction that causes so much tension between programmers and users - it's why we have this rift between unixy software which is wonderfully composable but infuriating to use and windows/mac software which is easy to use on the common path but refuses to talk to anything else.
Love is not enough
Agreed. There is a sense in which almost all meaningful and social tasks are "sales". Scare quotes are used there, not because the same skill sets don't apply, but because you typically aren't actually transacting over the results of the conversation.
Hard to say, honestly. I do know the moto g is impressive. Though, I have to confess I actually prefer the kindle software.
I've been meaning to finish my LendingClub machine learning underwriter. There's a lot of data to train on since all historical loan data is available.

The exact model to use is tricky though. You could train a classifier to detect whether a loan will default or not, but this doesn't weigh the chance of default with the interest rate. I then thought of doing a regression on the expected return, which would properly balance between interest rate and default rate. At some point, though, you need to make the binary decision of whether to invest in the loan or not, again classification.

Another complication is that since LendingClub has been growing exponentially, the majority of the loans they've issued haven't matured yet. Utilizing this partially complete data is even more tricky. You could ignore non-mature loans, but that would reduce your training data significantly and make your data at least 3 years old.
It's still terrifying, but according to your link $15k is the average indebted household credit card debt. The average credit card debt is about half that because only half of households have any credit card debt.
Maybe you should go see an optometrician. France did indeed contribute to my Ph.D: mistreatement and exploitation. FYI, like most of the "immigrants", I have done research for free (yes, free with no scholarship), paid more taxes than you are probably doing now and contributed to your retirement (not mentioning the contributed research). So please, don't spill what you've just heard from your far right politicians who have nothing to do than bashing anything that relates to africans: Like bashing the French education minister because her parents are north-african immigrants.
I have similar thoughts concerning the coolest (and I am an American). My conclusion was that its appeal is inherently different than the Ouya or Pebble, and that my conceptions of what should and shouldn't be a wildly successful kickstarter are constrained by my tech-oriented mindset.

I'm assuming their product appeals to a different (and larger crowd) than the early adopters of wearables or a new gaming system, in which case their success, though unpredictable, seems much more reasonable.
try that in Sumerian. May be more effective.
The reason why it isn't available on Amazon is that it's published by Hachette.

I looked up the book on Barnes and Noble, and the publisher is listed as Grand Central Publishing.

A Google Search for "Grand Central Publishing" reveals that it's part of Hachette (http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/publishers/grand-central-pu...).
Speak up
I learned a great phrase over the weekend that perfectly applies to #2, "Chesterton's fence"[1]:

"[the] intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

In other words, that feeling when you realize that a thing you've rebuilt because you didn't like it was built that way for a reason.

[1] http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
The Invention of the Snapshot
Hey can I pay you to not listen to incredibly loud music through your terrible headphones as well? Or snore? Or any other minor discrepancy you perform against another human.

Idiot
This makes absolutely no sense to me. DNSSEC is a forklift upgrade of a key piece of the architecture of the Internet. We should incur that cost so that all of the most popular sites on the Internet will end up with the USG as their CA? And that's "orders of magnitude" better than what we have now?
So, the answer for all those trying to figure out how to get it on Kindle is to wait until it is released, and then it should be available on Amazon (and hopefully Kindle).
This Man 3D Printed an Entire Castle
For what it's worth, I agree that a graph of stateful objects referencing each other is much easier to express in an OO language than in a pure functional language. There are many functional solutions, but none of them are very nice IMO. Maybe that's one reason to use an impure functional language like ML, which I consider an overall better language than Haskell.
People use 4D to go through walls all the time, when those walls take the form of sliding doors. They stand in one place in space, in front of the door, while naturally moving forward in the fourth dimension (time) to arrive to a slice of space-time in which the door isn't there. In this range of space-time they traverse space by a small distance (a meter or two), and also slip forward in time by a several seconds (which is not long enough to leave this special range of space-time). By so doing, they reach a point in space on the other side of where the door was. Then they slip forward in time again, to a time when the door is there again, at which time they smugly find themselves on the other side of the door.
Twitter Now Lets Anyone Check How Many People Saw Their Tweets
Most attempts at radical change will fail, does that mean it's not worth trying? Sometimes it does work, and the world becomes much better as a result.
Holy moly. The ColdFire. You may have had one if you had an iRiver H320 or H340 MP3 player. The Rockbox [1] guys did some amazing things with that device (and that chip).

[1]: http://rockbox.org and http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-iriverh300....
There's an obvious solution to this: have friendly-c compilers accept some declaration silently in a source file:

!dialect friendly-c

Now, c code can compile as friendly-c code, but explicitly-declared friendly-c code will fail if passed to a normal C compiler.
Critics, pranksters, and culture-jammers, hurry:

howgoogleREALLYworks[.net|.com|.org]

...are all still available!
if you're in Seattle: http://metrixcreatespace.com
I am surprised they didn't address the perverse incentives this may create. Surely, if trying to help people out of poverty, you shouldn't make their help _contingent on them continuing to use thatched roofs_. Worth noting, because if the program is successful, it will change which communities are most in need of help, so you can't just run the algorithm once and forget about it.
Actually, I put a c++ project template together to solve this exact problem. It uses cmake to generate a makefile (including IDE projects that just work), and google mock for testing. You still have to add libraries like boost to the CMakeLists.txt if you want to use it, but it's really easy. Just follow the examples in the project.

Github: https://github.com/film42/cpp-starter-template/
> 6% returns in a ZIRP environment are actually quite fantastic.

You can find yields substantially higher than 6%. There are mortgage REITs that have yields well above 10%, and there are plenty of closed end funds and MLPs that yield better than 6%. Ditto for preferred shares.

Really want yield? MORL, a leveraged ETN that tracks the Market Vectors Global Mortgage REITs Index, has a current yield of around 20%, and CEFL, a leveraged ETN that tracks the ISE High Income Index, sports a similar yield.

Investors today are not challenged by a lack of yield but rather appropriately priced risk. In most cases, today's yields do not adequately compensate for risk. The "6% returns in a ZIRP environment are actually quite fantastic" mentality is going to cause a lot of investors a lot of pain. Chasing yield and ignoring risk is a game very few people win.
duh

http://www.businessinsider.com/attractive-people-are-more-su...
Thought I'd leave a link here for a company based in the bay area and grew out of the Noisebridge hackerspace:

http://www.typeamachines.com/

They have a small office in Techshop though they are in the process of getting more space. Their machines are awesome and a lot of the guys who work on it are in the bay (which means you can hit them up and ask questions easily). Also the driver code is opensource.
That doesn't give them anything they didn't already have. Right now, they can go to your phone carrier and tell them to shut down your service.

That's probably easier than trying to use a kill switch, since the phone carrier is the one actually providing phone service.

Also, note that nothing in the law requires the phone maker to implement the kill switch in a way that makes it possible for the government to use it. As far as I can see, they are free to implement it in a secure (for the owner) way if they want.
The marginal cost is close to zero. So it's not an issue who pays it.

It's not even about reciprocity of used bandwidth (that is used to be taken as the basis for free peering), but the provided value from the traffic flows.

And since there's an asymmetry in value (the request data from Comcast's customers is much more valuable for Netflix than for Comcast, and with the added local monopoly of Comcast, there's no real value for Comcast in those reverse flows, because it doesn't help its business position, market share, and just means net upkeep costs) both Netflix and the end-user ends up playing more to Comcast than what'd be reasonable in competitive market.
I implemented my own UI framework once on top of WPF:

http://bling.codeplex.com/

But I did something different: rather than wrap high-level APIs in even more higher-level APIs, I instead focused on making it "simple to express the math." So for a table, you could use data binding to simply express some constraints on cell width, height, adjacency, and so on. So I never bother using what WPF calls a table (or list or whatever); I would just use canvas and organize the cells using a few lines of math. That is quite liberating!

It is not always the case that GUI toolkit goes in the direction of increasingly more abstraction.
It's also ridiculous—outright intellectual fraud, that they've located the subjects in different cities, as if the internet connection would make it more of a breakthrough.
I may as well plug my little program, which takes numbers read line-by-line in standard input and outputs a live-updating histogram (and some summary statistics) in the console!

https://github.com/bmsherman/LiveHistogram

It's useful if you want to, say, get a quick feeling of the distribution of numbers in some column of text.
Could be, I remember reading an article about how using Array.proto.slice on arguments will not get optimised by V8.

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
Define "a uni."

I think the parent argument is very flawed because he is comparing a specific entity to universities (which varies in quality really a LOT)
Wildcard Pattern Search for Words and Phrases
8 Ways to Influence Users to Download Your Mobile App
That's also my view, in part because paying someone else to manufacture parts also retains significantly more flexibility about which processes to use, depending on the part/application/volume. I can get some things CNC-milled, other things 3d-printed using Material A, another thing 3d-printed using Material B, something else injection-molded, etc. It's not clear to me that there's currently a single process that's best for everything, and I don't have the space, capital, or knowledge to own and operate three or four machines.
What irks me is computing and comparing W/Mips for vastly different processors like 45W Intel and 5W ARM chips. That just isn't reasonable, as performance increase is very sublinear in power.
Build Your Own Enigma Machine
Looks pretty useful. Is it opensource ?
Ya, well, my languages include their own development environments (I see no different from language and IDE, actually). Smalltalk was great in this regard also, to the chagrin of many developers who wanted to use vim.
Also, running the i7 in 32bit mode can't possibly be showing the intel chip from its best side?
Mozilla Security: Update on data practices and development database disclosure
don't forget the

.business

.computer

.consulting

.education

.engineer[ing]

.expert

.guide

.guru

.industries

.marketing

.technology

or to use a domain hack:

howgooglereally.works!
Open page,

ctrl + f: 'creative' = 6 results.
ctrl + f: 'engineer' = 0 results.

Oh I see, you creatives now.

I guess it's time to revise some history and let the world know that you weren't just a bunch of super smart engineers... you were creatives along!

So, do I still need to take that code test? Or can I give you that link to my portfolio page?
Didn't seem to work on Safari either.
As Coolant Is Phased Out, Smugglers Reap Large Profits (2012)
dat DOS aesthetic :)
Bringing Digital Analytics to Main Street
How I built my first iOS app
Nvidia's Optix is built on top of their general purpose library, CUDA and it massively accelerates ray casts. People have been using this for gpu accelerates path tracers.

http://heart-touching-graphics.blogspot.com/2012/02/bidirect...
The biggest unaddressed problem I see with Ethereum is the potential of the blockchain growing very large. There has been some discussion of this (on the Ethereum blog and elsewhere), but these discussions focus on showing that the blockchain will remain secure at very large sizes.

I'm more interested in the operational mechanics of having to deal with a very large block chain. The figure of 100 TB was used in one blog post, and that is a challenging amount of data to deal with for anyone.

What I haven't seen is any progress on any proposals to either provide incentives to limit the size, or ideas around splitting the chain.
The Moon Smells: Apollo Astronauts Describe Lunar Aroma
I wonder how many times this has been tried.

There is Korean website I've known about for the past 10+ years - MissyUSA

It is a Alexa ~ 35,000 global site:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/missyusa.com

So it is not all that large. They have had a women only policy and focus on Koreans in the US - it is pretty active and is has a political impact:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2013/05/390_1357...
Expect Labs’ voice-powered smarts heads to online shopping
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We know what the prime age employment rate is, though. I don't know what more information this 'unemployment rate' is supposed to add to it.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/08/male-and-female-prime-...

Why try to guess whether people are truly expressing their desires?
I disagree that higher-order functions are "complicated necessarily". I believe this is actually a side effect of people usually learning to program using languages that don't support them. Weren't there success stories posted here on HN about novices learning to program with functional languages without difficulty?

It's not surprising you can do a lot with a programming language that doesn't support HOFs (though, of course, there wouldn't be much point in calling it functional) -- you can in fact do everything without them. The key issue here is whether HOFs are a useful tool that, once learned, will help make the complexity of the problem you're attempting to solve more manageable. I believe they are, by helping with modularity and composability.

Even if learning to use more powerful tools is more "complex" (that is, it's "easier" or "takes less time to get used to"), once you master them, presumably you're equipped to deal with the tasks you want to accomplish.

Maybe some power tools can be made easier to handle. This is a valuable goal. But if your goal is to never make a tool that requires the user to be trained, you're severely limiting yourself.
Presumably Audible as well
NASA commits to $7B mega rocket, 2018 debut
From the page: "Who are these smart creatives? They’re the product-minded people who combine technical knowledge, business expertise, and creativity."

That doesn't seem like revising history as much as trying to sell a book. If you have the The Solution (tm), you likely have fancy non-traditional terms.
Step 1: Include the brain wave scanner in future Oculus VR devices.

Step 2: Use virtual reality as the interface for brain-to-computer, brain-to-internet, and brain-to-brain communication.

Step 3: Considering the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook, make these types of communication available on Facebook.
I made a long list of some of the difficulties one encounters in trying to use industrial-grade tools to solve home-repair-grade problems: http://www.lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/

It's not just programming that is hard, it's editing, debugging, compiling, version control, packaging, deploying, upgrading etc. Existing tools give you a huge amount of flexibility and power (that most end-user tasks don't need) at the expense of a brutal learning curve. They make complex things possible but easy things tiresome. Consider how long it takes for the average CS undergrad to reach a point where they could build, deploy and maintain the simple webapp I described in that post.

There is definitely room for a simplified set of tools that lets end-users build simple applications with a pay-as-you-go approach to complexity and learning curve.
One of the axes introduced by the fourth dimension. There are 3 in 3D, 6 in 4D. XYZ space has axes perpenicular to the planes xy, xz, yz. WXYZ space has axes perpendicular to the planes xy, xz, xw, yz, yw, zw.
Coolest Cooler sets new Kickstarter funding record
Worth noting that Yo did a similar marketing stunt last week...which had absolutely no impact: http://valleywag.gawker.com/gimmick-app-yo-offered-gimmick-c...

My theory is that Yo is milking its $1.5M seed money for counterintuitive marketing deals. The problem is that negotiating and completing marketing campaigns takes time, and Yo's 15 minutes of fame expired before then.
Forget the 'really'.

The .org is still available. Occupy Google could snatch up howgoogleworks.org, copy the .net content and do a quick and dirty parody site.
> Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks.

Yup. There are the Texas (Republican) versions which are skeptical of evolution, and the California (sane) versions.
Maybe you simply hit ctrl-+? I noticed no difference here.

Try ctrl-0 see if that restores it to the old size.
If you're serious, would you like to explain why?

Surely this kind of thing is exactly the sweet spot for Python. Uncluttered syntax, readable.

If you're not serious then I'm still curious what point you were trying to make.
I don't intend to diminish the hard work you put into this. It looks clean and useable. Congratulations.

If you (people in general) are using d3 for simple charts you are doing it wrong.

d3 is a visualization library. It excels at helping you make non-trivial things. For the trivial there are some great chart libraries such as Highcharts. I build visualizations at work and for those I use d3. Whenever I need something as simple as a stacked area chart I simply use Excel or Highcharts. Everytime I've tried to use Highcharts for a complex viz, or d3 for a simple chart, it's been a waste of time. I've used NVD3 as well as some other D3 based charting packages. None of them are as simple as Excel or Highcharts IMHO.
The article provide interesting information on the process for calculating the unemployment rate.

But it also misleads in saying "real US unemployment rate."

Dr. Deming would say "there is no true value" of any measured process. The results depend on the process which includes the operation definitions.

http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2009/11/05/deming-there...

Over time the value of a measure (as a proxy measure for some condition you care to monitor) can change.

http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2004/08/29/dangers-of-forgetting-proxy-nature-of-data/

It is important to update measures to avoid using proxies that lose value.

The unemployment rate certainly has proxy issues. But there is no "true unemployment rate." There are ways to change the process to focus on different things (make the proxy better matched to certain issues). But also it seems to me, unemployment rate needs to have other related measures that are considered in concert with the unemployment rate (such as the labor force participation rate, perhaps some measure of under-employment etc.).

Those paying much attention do use other measures in concert but the last few years I read lots of different people complaining that the unemployment rate doesn't capture various aspects of how the job market is poor (and often claiming the unemployment rate was "inaccurate" as though there was a platonic form of the actual rate divorced from the measure process.
The standard differentiates between "undefined" and "implementation defined".