skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there have always been people who run hosting services on a shoestring.

It's pretty easy to do if you are (1) doing everything yourself (meaning not paying people who know less than you and don't work as hard as you) and (2) you don't think about capital investments the way a 'real' business does.

(Some people, with $X in their pocket, will spend it on servers and so long as the cash flow stays positive after that they aren't going to be concerned about getting what they 'deserve' for their investment.)

I was the "technical cofounder" for Brazil's #1 chat service back around 2000, and the nontechnical guy was always finding the cheap hosting service of the week. (We were always hosting in the U.S. because this was cheaper and it would have been hard for the Brazillians to stop us from running a competitor to the state phone company)

We got some incredible deals, maybe 50% or 1/3 the price of "normal" web hosting, but there were some times when we had the move the site in a hurry, even once restore it from backup.
Transaction fees are for miners, but every full node in the network has to store the whole blockchain forever. There are thin clients using SPV, but we need full nodes for the network to function properly and currently there is zero incentive for it.
I was making a parallel between using a word within a community when that word has a different meaning from outside the community. The exclusion that comes from using the word is the only point I was trying to make. I was hoping that the history and origin of the word would not create some kind of epithet of racism.

The discussion of something related to race is not racism in and of itself just the same as the discussion of feminism is not misogynistic.
Check out http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/4434aa18b36eacfa897c909f9f36c28.... The non-first multisig's public keys form a deflated blog post ;)
I think that this sentence, from Play 8 "Choose a modern technology stack," could have far reaching significance:

"In particular, digital services teams should consider using open source, cloud based, and commodity solutions across the technology stack, as these solutions have seen widespread adoption and support by the most successful private-sector consumer and enterprise software technology companies."

Note "open source." I doubt that companies like Microsoft and Oracle are very pleased to be reading this directive.

If the directive is taken seriously by government agencies, especially by DoD, the benefits could be very large, I daresay even transformational for the open-source ecosystem and the companies built upon it.
I assumed he was talking about fees. You could make the output zero-valued.
The name reminded me of http://www.cappuccino-project.org/ but it's not really the same thing; Cappuccino adds Objective-C-like method dispatch to javascript (they call it Objective-J) and lets you use Interface Builder to create your UI.
Hey, that's my hometown! Never thought I'd see it mentioned here, and about food, no less! Chengdu is almost regarded as synonymous with awesome food, and laid-back vibe in China. Oh and Pandas.

I'm going back there next week after two years, and I can't wait to get me some delicious, delicious Szechuan cuisine.
One obvious need is for a build system that makes ebook files out of the git-managed source. And what should our source be, anyway?
Conway's game of life implemented in Dwarf Fortress (2010)
Microwave... Just a wild idea off the top of my head: coupled with hardware hacks, like, some sort of IR pyrometer it could actually adapt output to maintain the food heated at specified level or just turn off when a certain temperature is reached.
I mean when you register

terra.creatureFactory.register({type: 'firstCreature'});

this is stored in the global `terra` variable... Would be better IMO

var terra = new Terra();terra.creatureFactory.register({type: 'firstCreature'});
Thanks a lot! The video I posted is fairly dated, and we'll be releasing a new one this week to discuss how Code Connect deals with interfaces and inheritance. Adding bubbles is an issue we haven't solved yet. We've tried a few different approaches, but nothing feels quite right yet.

Like you said the user experience is key with a tool like this, so we're constantly working to refine it.

The biggest thing we're looking for right now is feedback, so I'll definitely keep you updated on our progress, videos and alpha release date.
Speaking of unpredictable fashion and color, how about http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normcore :)
The plural of anecdote is data, so FWIW I'm exactly the opposite: not just for textbooks, but even for hardcover literature books I have right there in my bookshelf, I often end up digging up some PDF or Google Books version regardless. I guess I miss the scrolling/zooming, plus all the meta-textual, cross-referencing stuff like having multiple copies of the book in different sections side by side, easy access to references and definitions, etc.

What one finds 'classical' is highly relative: remember Socrates famously despised books as a degrading and pernicious medium, for one [1].

[1] http://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/
Yes, it is especially useful as they are vary approachable. That said they are also as deep as any 3 semester course in physics you're likely to take so at some point you will need the math skills to keep up.
I understand what you mean now. Are you able to make a pull request (or an issue) at https://github.com/rileyjshaw/terra? Pretty busy for the next few days but I'll try to get to it
I discussed this with one of the Git maintainers; it seems that the main work needed is a modification of the way text is chunked (into lines), and this chunking is already suitable factored.
There's no need to downvote someone just because you disagree with them.

For my money, the best remote I ever used was the original TiVo. There's something a lot more haptic about a physical remote with real buttons. And I have yet to see a Chromecast remote app that's very good. Where's the dedicated "skip back 9 seconds" button? Or "turn close captioning on"? These are things I do all the time while watching shows.
I used to feel the same way.

Then, I gave away my Apple TV and bought a Chromecast. Searching for content.. jumping between content sources.. it's all easier on the phone.
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Yea, right... You can't apply math to public policy - only stories and soft science. Math is absolutely useless because it's abstract and ... "fictional".
as an alternative to plex like the other guy mentioned, i'm using videostream to watch the new godzilla film on my chromecast right now http://www.getvideostream.com/
Pages look ok in Firefox, borderline unreadable in Chrome. I wonder what that's about.
Funny thing was, about a year behind Seth, I thought up "Project Gitenhub" made a few repos, found GITenberg, and decided to direct my meager efforts in that direction. For sure the pun was a huge motivator!
Compared to what? The big thing I like about phones as remotes is that its the same device. I don't need a tv remote / dvd etc
Python is my usual go-to language for technical computing, bit Julia is a lot of fun! I'd be curious to hear more from folks who have made use of it in "production" (sort of a tricky label in scientific programmiong) code.
The utility is a company: But humans actually need clean water for basic life.

Not everyone possess the resources to pay everything, for various reasons. This isn't an excuse to deny people life, though. There are solutions that do not involve being cruel to people or make them grovel multiple places just to get water - but it seems that as soon as anyone suggests those, they label it communist or socialist and try to make it go away.

I'd happily allow charities to fill in the gaps, but at this time, either there aren't enough charities or money in those to provide the resources - the one in detroit delivering bottled water won't be able to last forever, plus bottled water is inefficient. It is cheaper than catching up past bills.

Do you have a solution that doesn't put people at the risk of water borne disease, allows people to be clean an sanitary, and most importantly, does not mean people are dying of starvation?
35 dollars for an android device that can now be turned into an XBMC device with netflix.... I think I may give the chromecast a second swing...
For me, it's a modified home screen.

If I get around to it I am going to port a dashboard I built for the chromecast to act as the normal home screen.

The problem with how it works now is you would manually have to re-cast the dashboard when you turn it on, or after you were done casting anything else. I did that for the first day, but after that it just didn't really seem to be as worthwhile.
Nitpick, but the income tax rate has been legally capped at 50% for some time now, notwithstanding any other legislation, so you can never actually hit something like 60%, even if a combination of other taxes would theoretically produce that in certain cases.
My First Experience with Plated
A Collection of Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations
Just a thought, do you have google two factor auth turned on? Maybe you need to generate an application password and use that to get access.
The article is a bit light on reasons for why India's economic problems would be similar to the Great Depression. It shouldn't be enough to point out that both economies did very badly, one should also point out the reasons behind that. There is one sentence that sort of does that:

>But in India, internal regulations and underdevelopment, combined with British colonial depredations, prevented Indian resources from being redeployed productively.

It is difficult to understate how much history, and human suffering, is hidden behind the words "British colonial depredations".

> It was once an unthinkable question, but we’ve arrived at the scary point where it needs to be asked: What if American median income over the next 15 years keeps stagnating — or maybe even falls?

Hasn't it already? http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N
And what's so outlandish about assuming it will keep doing what it's doing now?

> Our Social Security system, whose receipts are based on wage taxation, could then prove to be a bigger fiscal problem than Medicare.

Oh, and having a political axe to grind doesn't help the article either.
It's an optional Youtube setting.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084?hl=en
I remember this deal from when I was a hedge fund manager at a similar company, seemed very off indeed so refused to be a part.

Some very odd African mineral companies on AIM, very few I felt comfortable investing in (did turn down joining OZ a bit after too for a lower paying role elsewhere, Michael was an interesting chap).

Doubt anyone will go to jail, seen much worse than this somehow slide (from institutional asset managers as well as hedge funds)
Thanks for your kind words, I recently researched the topic and thought someone might benefit from it.

I fail to realize how this could be useful for GITenberg though. Do you intend to publish the books or automate the publishing perhaps? If so, as far as I can tell GITenberg files are not structured, and won't lend themselves easily to automated publishing.

I guess the great thing about GITenberg is anyone could do their own structured .md version and request a pull. Would be cool with some automation to generate and release cool PDFs if .md file is available.
Thank you, great advices. I regularly read both Nathan and Patrick. I love tehm. I think I'm already ready for the launch. On thursday ( -/+ 1 day) I'm going to post a Show HN post. I'm excited :)
9 questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict
Thank you for your great write-up
"Download", as used in practice on the internet when referring to documents generally means copying the whole thing to your computer such that it can be used there without further internet access.

It generally does not include temporary transfer of small parts of the document for immediate reading, except when the focus of the discussion is about the underlying mechanics of the transfer.
oh yous guys! When are you three gonna come back to nyc ;)
This thing looks like it could really turn the tide in our fight against Cobra.
There's only one reasonable behavior for a negative length to memcpy: raise an error. That would catch exactly this kind of error. I feel like it proves my point rather than contradicting it – if the argument to memcpy is unsigned, you have no way of detecting this programming error; your only option is taking that very large value as literal – which leads to a different and far less helpful error (in the best case).
> I personally think it is against the spirit of the GPL to copy code that is GPLed, though.

Why? I assume that you don't mean literatim copying, which is obviously the whole point of OSS, but rather copying with modification; but, even then, a quick read suggests that http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html#section5 explicitly permits this activity, as long as you meet certain conditions. Maybe I should have understood an implicit insertion "to copy, without acknowledgement, code that is GPLed"?
For what it's worth, I tried and failed to convert my team of scientists/programmers (heavy on the science; not so much on the programming) to Julia from MATLAB/IDL/C++ for a project we were kicking off ca. 1 year ago.

It's a really, really nice language that I find more consistent and easier to grok than MATLAB, but the deciding factor was the lack of the equivalent of MATLB toolboxes with all of their pre-rolled code that made our development as fast as it was.

Edit: I should have mentioned: the Julia add-on packages are multiplying quickly, and are starting to look mature! http://pkg.julialang.org/ I'm looking forward to them overtaking Mathworks on this front too.
Creating your own tools are easier than exploring existing tool's documentation...
Agreed – hardware assistance would be a huge boon.
I lived in Amsterdam for the most part of last year. And dev meetups are rare and it's usually web stuff or startups.

There are only two types of meetings that happen almost every day:

1. The Appsterdam hub meetings. And they aren't for software engineers. It's mostly random startup people networking in the hopes of finding something.

2. The expat meetings. And it's mostly random expats networking in the hopes of finding something. Or at least trying to have a good time.

If you know any software engineering meetings, post them here so everybody who is interested can save some time. But I agree with Berlin and London. You can have more success there. Bigger cities with a lot more companies and communities.
No it's not. Read the guidelines. Half the garbage he writes is just fanboyism and doesn't even meet the "interesting" criteria. In fact, similar fawning crap by other writers are even autokilled, but because Gruber writes about Apple his stuff lives on.
You can find them even cheaper (~$30).

Hackability is just icing on the cake.
Show HN: Project Pingback – Find and convert potential customers on Twitter
For those who don't know (as I didn't) XBMC[1] is an open-source media center/entertainment application that supports a variety of OSes, including Android. And, apparently, the project is going to be renamed "Kodi" in the near future.

[1] http://xbmc.org/about/
Aside from helping the network, there is no incentive to run a full Bitcoin node. But it doesn't take much in the way of resources: a few tens of gigabytes of disk space and a few tens of kilobits/sec of bandwidth. (Don't forget to open a port on your router!) I do it for the same reason I give over an extra SSID to openwireless.org, or run a TOR exit node, or seed any file I got from BitTorrent for a while afterwards: it helps the network.
xbmc is terrible on a Raspberri Pi, it's way too slow.
Yeah too bad these stealth designs work like ass against WWII era long wave radar. Sure, you can't use long wave for targeting, but something this big sitting so high out of the water seems easy to hit with a shoulder fired rocket. It seems like these super high tech ships and aircraft exist mostly to create jobs in various congressional districts. Then the get sold on the mythology of a cold war nightmare scenario that never happened.

oh well. at least we're safe from COBRA.
Oh, Ok!
this is great, I hope the authors keep a .pdf version available for dl once its done
I've got the LockedUSB device. A bit clumsy, but it works as described.

I have several PortaPow devices too, and they work great (except for creaky connectors and plastic), so if I hadn't already the LockedUSB I wouldn't have a second thought buying their USB Fast Charge device since it's smaller and cheaper.

If you carry a USB cable around you might as well carry one of these. (But then again, you might as well carry a charger too, so I'm not entirely conviced -- but I did have use for mine once or twice so I can't really regret it.)
Why is "deep learning" so hype nowadays? They seem like just another AI tool that will be prone to over-fitting datasets and provide an analysis that is difficult to mathematically characterize and understand in a reliable way.

Not here to be cynical/negative -- they might be of great value, this is not my expertise. Can someone explain why deep learning articles are receiving attention rather than, say, Support Vector Machines / kernel-based methods of pattern analysis? Or other nonlinear analysis? Are they related?
Can you clarify? I don't know what you mean.
It's greatly improved with XBMC 13.0+, which included a bunch of optimizations to make XBMC on the RPi more bearable. Go through the XBMC Raspberry Pi wiki page to turn off things that waste CPU (like the RSS ticker). It also helps to use rpi-config and select the modest overclocking option (the one that doesn't change any voltages). XBMC is very smooth after doing those things.

The only issue I still have is that the wifi dongle I attached to the RPi can only pull 10Mb/s. I hear this is due to lack of power provided by the RPi to its USB ports and that it can be mitigated by using a powered USB hub, but I haven't tried that yet. 10Mb/s is enough to stream SD and some HD, but not all HD. I've tweaked the buffering settings to make this a little more bearable but honestly I usually end up transcoding a lower-bitrate version for the RPi to stream, which is a pain without a UPnP server to do that transparently.
I'm not arguing conventional wisdom is evidence that sugar causes diabetes.

The GP said he or she had never seen sugar implicated as a cause, like that was something he'd never heard of--when in fact it was and is a common belief. Whether that belief is true isn't something I'm arguing.
A week ago, I had my phone forcefully smashed into a floor. The screen ended up completely dead, but fortunately, the phone worked, and the remote debugging option was on, so I was able to pull all the data on it via ADB.

But if the motherboard or some other vital had component died, I would've beem locked out of my data. It's at times like this I'm glad that Google Keep syncs my notes to their servers, and that Viber stores my contacts' phone numbers remotely. If it hadn't been for them and my phone, say, fell in water and completely broke, I'd have lost all of that. Same argument for a hard drive death. In 2004 or so, we were expected to live with that risk. But I don't think we should have to now. Witnessing the explosion of the "cloud" buzzword everywhere, you'd think everyone in the world has convenient access to their own private space "in the cloud" (or, as those soooo-2000s people would say, "on the Internet"). And we do have access to such space, but for the most part, not quite so for the "private" thing.

Of course, ideally, I'd like to generate random keys, keep safe local backups of them and then sync encrypted data to remote servers. But I don't think the companies are eager to accept that as they probably owe a lot of their statistics and targeted advertising opportunities to big-scale mining of that plaintext data we provide them in exchange for convenience.
This supposed duality is nonsense. A change of cache settings in your browser amounts to the same result. There's no such thing as a "temporary transfer", and I think we should not entertain the notion.
Why I love my Leica
Do a search for "Facedancer". The USB hardware can be attacked as well as the host operating system over the USB interface. All of the same kinds of bounds-checking and parsing errors that can happen in the network stack can also happen in device drivers.
This project is awesome. Why? Because, if it succeeds, it means that a huge amount of open-source, hackable JavaScript written for the open web has another way[1] into a proprietary runtime. Depending on how the cross compilation occurs, it could avoid a lot of the inevitable performance degradation PhoneGap imposes.

My enthusiasm is muted, however, with the knowledge of how young this project is. There's a lot of work to do - implementing javascript platform methods (e.g. String.subtr(), etc) alone will be a lot of work.

I'd also be curious to know how the author will be able to deal with meta-programming in general, and eval() in particular.

[1] The other way is via WebView and/or something like PhoneGap[2]

[2] http://phonegap.com/
Sorry, my point is more that the study would be basically the same anyway.

That is, if this singles out some food as more likely to cause overeating/fat gain, that will still be an incomplete explanation. Which is where the psychology aspect would step up.

Right?
Just wondering, what distro are you using? Did you set up XBMC on Raspbian yourself or are you using something pre-packaged like OpenELEC or Raspbmc?
I'd be interested to know how it goes with different types of plastic as well.

I'd expect ETFE to perform a lot better (and last longer) than PTFE, for instance.