skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Altered States: Self-experiments in chemistry (2012)
Also, Yelp has this pretty much cornered. (4sq as well maybe?)
As far as functional languages go, it's a nice compromise between the absolute purity of something like Haskell and the day-to-day practicalities necessitated by building practical, scalable things quickly (core.async, nice Java integration, runs on the JVM).

As far as looking like a parenthesis layer cake, that's part of the Lisp "tradition", really. One can look at is as the price you pay for true homoiconicity and powerful macros.
I'm sure you are right, but the PACER system is a mess and certainly feels neglected. Like the article mentions, it is not a unified system. Each district, and each court, can have their own version of the system. Some courts are on the same version but with custom modifications.

This tells me that the system has no real architect. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Migrating old data? The people in charge don't know how to do it, and don't much care.

There's a lot of opportunity to fix this service.
Hard working might pay off in the future. But laziness pays off NOW.
I'm not saying that you should have X amount of money in order to have kids. The statement is "you should have enough money to enable you to take care of your kids into adulthood, because doing so otherwise is negligent". It's not a matter of money, but about lack of negligence and burden.
It's also like the past. It blows my mind that the dystopian future we read about is always the UK - and that so much dystopian fiction comes out of Britain as well.
Walking or cycling to work improves well-being
How to become a drone entrepreneur
I think "community organizer" is a better term.
Show HN: Style – A very small, responsive style sheet
It does start to beg the question of whether or not we can trust TOR. Personally, I'm far more interested in meshnets, and other encrypted networks now.
The article actually suggests that the opposite is true
There is more to music than just portable players.

My car supports only MP3s, and only up to ID3v1 tags (will not play files with ID3v2 tags). That's the reason, why I convert everything into MP3. I'm not going to change my car or it's audio system for few more years.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. What is your argument, exactly?
I think it's funny how HN likes to think of themselves as free-minded, creative individuals and yet there's a persistent cult of personality around here.

With all due respect, I don't find it particularly relevant what one guy said 6 years ago. I don't care whether he created HN or not. He's no longer an active participant.
Code duplication is definitely a programmer problem, not a machine problem. It's also a major problem. Code duplication increases the probability of programming errors, and makes maintenance harder. Any modern language with poor tools for keeping duplication at bay is suspect.
Apple coaxes advanced features from Bluetooth and WiFi
Wow. Click the prices link. That site is extremely annoying.
Did you ban legos as well ?
[insert typical libertarian talking points about government being criminals]
In modern times, it's unnecessarily being slaves to bosses, whose commands wageslaves obey all day. We were born in a goofy time.
It could be that this man is news worthy because his enormous company is about to make its initial public offering.
Dead Simple Human Powered Airplane (2013)
"14 years lost."

14 years lost how? Do you not have the house/item that you spent 14 years paying off? Or was it credit-card debt?
Handling complex JSON documents is not easy with traditional sql databases like postgres and mysql. My team just got done building a large site with AngularJS, and using MongoDB (or any document store) allowed us an easy way of saving denormalized JSON documents. If you have a JSON object that contains an array of other objects, and each of those objects has arrays of other data, so you have a complex document that is 4 dimensions deep, with MongoDB (or any other document store) you simply put the document in the document store, but with MySQL or PostGre you would break that document up and store it in normal form, which means breaking it up into at least 4 database tables, maybe more. That is a lot more work and, crucially, that is much more likely to be impossible to automate. The code can not automatically know what deeply nested array of objects maps to some database table. The requirements for automatic normalization go beyond the features of your normal ORM.

There has been an explosion of these systems lately that automate the synchronization of frontend and backend. As far as I know, they all rely on document stores such as MongoDB.
> You don't bribe someone for information unless you have dirt on them

That's not a bribe.

Learn the difference between strong-arm tactics such as blackmail and bribes. Two completely different approaches.
Friends had to pull together party gear from lots of independent sources for that birthday theme. I wonder if Microsoft will be unable to build a merchandising empire thanks to the trademark not being defended enough.
Everyone has their own priorities and processes. For me, being able to throw half a dozen pages into a document feeder and get a small, good-quality PDF in my email a minute later is a big step up from the effort I used to put into assembling image files into multi-page online resources for my students.

What do you do to minimize irritants like uneven margins and wonky viewing angles? (Every time I've photographed printed pages, I've wound up feeling stuck with a bunch of work to make the output actually look reasonable.)
http://gizmodo.com/5586694/the-12th-russian-spy-worked-at-mi...
I also have this printer and would highly recommend it. It's cheap and it works great.
It should be noted that generic code is harder to break. It is, by definition, less entangled with its callers. There are also fewer operations you can do with generic parameters, so there are fewer ways to screw up.
Reminds me of the sadly-defunct It Plays Doom site https://web.archive.org/web/20070320131602/http://www.itplay...
Between 980px and 1024px the layout took up 100% of the window width.

http://i.imgur.com/wo0KsU0.png

In my perspective spacing is the number one principle to respect when doing responsive layouts. Responsive design has to be balanced between spacing and utilizing white-space.
You're performing some monumental gymnastics if your take away from his post is that he intends to intentionally go waste his time creating bad things.

He clearly states that he isn't comfortable with the responsibilities that come bundled with being part of the operations of a marvelously popular product. His love lies with creating, tinkering and exploring. And with the sale, he has finally extricated himself from the part of his life he disliked so that he can spend his time doing things he enjoys. If any of his side creations wind up blowing up again, he now knows to just leave them behind instead of going through the process of hurting himself, doing things he doesn't like to do.

I don't think it's exactly great that he feels the need to abandon his creations, but I'm happy that his experiences with Minecraft may lead him to make some different decisions in the future to keep himself sane, and enjoy life a bit more.
Not sure what you mean by nested code, but im just gone assjme something.

One the problems is that you probebly only see the more outthere post about clonure on HN, its selection bias. Most things in clojure are lije in any other FP language.

The reason many people like it is because it brings all the niceness of lisp and FP to a modern production ready VM (JVM).

Other then that the design philosphy of focusing in data and smaller composable languges seams hit a cord with many people. Also I at this point have to mention that the community is quite friendly and the maintainers do a good job at pushing the language foreward.

Also, and this is the reason it pops up on HN, the community does a good job on addopting relativly 'weird' stuff and make it practical like logic programmi g (core.match), reducers, transducers and CPS.
You're confusing audience with quality. You don't have to look very far to see that they are quite disjoint.

You've already won the lottery of life. If you are one of the lucky few who can afford to spend time on this forum, you can count yourself lucky. At the end of the day, it really comes down to perspective and that, unfortunately, takes quite a bit of time to acquire, if ever.
I would like to ask if you have any hard data or studies that prove your first point, or you just feel that this is indeed the case?
The reality is that there is no "we", there is no "economy" that pushes something - there are specific people and groups of people, like governments and corporations. Everyone is "allowed" to live and thrive if you have the means to do it. And being in poverty now has much more benefits to it than being relatively rich 200 years ago.
Machine Learning and Big Data: What You Need to Know
DerbyJS is a full-stack framework for writing modern web applications
> And one drink is probably much smaller than people realise: 125 ml wine at 8% ABV is one drink.

What is your source for this? The NIH defines a standard drink of wine as 5 oz or about 150ml at 12%. I agree that many people pour more than that since it's less than a cup of wine (about 250ml).

I agree with the general sentiment that you should be aware of how much you're drinking, but as the article points out, mortality rate from "alcohol-augmented conditions" is barely a blip until you hit 4-5 drinks daily. It is a U-shaped curve with the most deadly conditions being abstinence and seriously heavy drinking. Given that, I think just being roughly aware of your intake goes a long way.

I would love to know how the delta in mortality between 1 daily drink (the optimal) and 5 stacks up against mortality from other common behaviors. I'd hazard a guess that an extra 4 drinks a day is actually less dangerous than obesity or lack of exercise. And yet many people seem a lot more afraid of the effects of having two beers a day than they are of skipping the gym!
I'm glad that you're so up-to-date on the terms of Notch's contracts with Mojang that you can tell us with certainty that at any point he could have altered that relationship and had the public stop associating him with Minecraft's stewardship. It's good to have people in-the-know around.
No he didn't, he was very specific on why he didn't like the deal: http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
You banned it because it's popular and teaches kids to code?
D3.js Step by Step: A series of posts to get you started
You should think carefully before calling for risk-averse behavior on a site closely affiliated with ycombinator.
It's easy for the hollywood copyright holders to just load the .torrent/magnet link into a bittorrent client and look at the list of peers.

Now of course, you can make it difficult to join the torrents - for example, by using private trackers - but that makes it as difficult for me as for the hollywood copyright holders.

Then just IP address -> Court order -> ISP -> Your home address and send the threatening letter.
Yes, that is correct. Long before he was known for his views on Peak Oil (which I'm not really in agreement with), he was known for his work in fusion. I find it interesting that his wikipedia page shows little detail about his early career.

Here are some references:
http://www.aero.umd.edu/html/sedwick/presentations/S9P1_Robe...

http://www.issues.org/13.4/hirsch.htm

http://fire.pppl.gov/fusion_critic_response_stacey.pdf (section V)
I understand the frustration in hearing constant chatter about Minecraft. The amount of energy my kids devote to it is incredible and at times overwhelming.

That being said, the amount of positive coming from their involvement in the game is incredible. Doing any large project requires considerable planning and imagination. "Survival Mode" requires resource management. They develop these skills by doing instead of sitting in a classroom and hearing about them. They read about it because they want to, boosting their reading skills. The run through the whole social scientific process in an authentic way (as opposed to the multi-step process taught in schools). And they even use it as an anchor to discuss other things. My five year old was confused about the word "chest" being used as "things that stores", then the eight year old says, "you know, Chest, like in Minecraft!" Five year old instantly understands. Thats just one example..it happens all the time.
‘Rally Around the Flag’ Events Are Rare
I also find Go pragmatic but lacking abstraction power. The other day I needed a stack, and the best solution I could find was this:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/iwlzqNa4h3g/xCy3...

to be honest, if i need a stack, i usually implement it for the type
in question, or inline, as it's only a very small number of lines:

type stack []T
func (s *stack) push(t T) {
*s = append(*s, t)
}
func (s *stack) pop() T {
n := len(*s)
t := (*s)[n-1]
*s = (*s)[:n-1]
return t
}

And that's what I'm using...
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I can't speak for everyone but I can speak for myself: because it makes me happy to program in. I love programming in Clojure. It makes my work a joy and that lets me produce higher quality software over the long term.

More concretely, Clojure's mechanisms for abstraction are both simple and extensible. You can create interfaces (called protocols) for writing polymorphic and efficient code against both your own and existing library classes. Transducers, the topic of the article, are an incredible abstraction that allows you to write powerful transforming functions on sequences of data that are not tied to any concrete representation. This means the same transducers you write will work on lazy sequences, non-lazy collections, and even values asynchronously put on core.async channels (a library for asynchronous programming in Clojure).

I think most languages look weird when you first see them and are unfamiliar with their syntax. But if you give it a chance, the nesting that seems confusing at first might actually come to be something you appreciate.
I thought at that point you are supposed to max out as many credit cards as possible while making the next Clerks or El Mariachi.
I don't mean to be facetious here, but babies don't just pop out of nowhere. They have to be conceived through sexual intercourse (generally). Not having unprotected sex is the moral high ground, not abortion. Let's not get into that sticky topic as it's a corner case (rape, etc).

I'm not so sure that that is the sole reason they get touchy about the topic. I think somehow people view having children as some sort of inherent "right" of being a human. Sure, of course no one should stop them from doing it. All I'm saying is that it's not very moral or virtuous to bring a child into this world that you can't reasonably take care of till adulthood.
Yeah, it looks like a Python refugee's code or something. I also don't like the .cur name that you have to use everywhere. It's not descriptive enough by itself. I wonder why .value wasn't used as the obvious choice.
Microsoft tries to make nice with Chinese market with new Chinese subsidiary
A Terrifying Look Inside a Massive Hornets' Nest
Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by a face-detection algorithm
Posting this to the wrong crowd here aren't you?
Why? Care to elaborate on that?
> ‘Cloud Face’ is a collection of cloud images that are recognized as human face by a face-detection algorithm. It is a result of computer’s vision error, but they often look like faces to human eyes, too. This work attempts to examine the relation between computer vision and human vision.
SKULLY AR-1 Smart Helmet Raises $1.95M via Indiegogo
“Assembly Line” Snaps Together Complex Organic Molecules with Ease
I have two girls, 5 and 8 years old. Minecraft craze started a year ago. Just like you, I bought iPad edition first, and after that I paid for two licenses, so my daughters can play hide and seek inside Minecraft. I was amazed seeing my younger daughter, 4 years old at the time, moving flawlessly in 3D world, hiding from her sister, or building structures.

And just like you, I spent enormous amount of time learning about Minecraft mods.

BTW, I live in Serbia.
Ycombinator exists to encourage highly risky behavior. Specifically, founding a startup.
Anti-fragile web development, preventing “Black Swans”
So, no one had to obey bosses' commands in previous times?
I think people get way too bothered about downvotes (myself included). They affect nothing other than color. If someone disagrees with you, good. It means you've taken a stand on something.
Did Apple just become a big bank?
AngularJS: One Step at a Time
The Making of Tiiny
I love that lady in the background on her phone, carrying on normally. Groundbreaking technology running around on the quad at MIT. No big deal.
Careers StackOverflow also has tons of remote jobs.
For those that have a hard time reading the clojure code, i recomend this blogpost where they are explained with js.

See: http://phuu.net/2014/08/31/csp-and-transducers.html
This was the hardest line to read: "If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately."

I hope when he says "abandon" he means upload it on github with an MIT license.

Seriously though, what a horrible thing to be fearful of creating something that people might like.
I don't blame the guy and now he has plenty of money to do what he wants and not deal with the bullshit. Corporate America sucks. it is a horrible "culture".
Not everyone wants fame, fortune maybe, but not fame.
Since there is an aisle of Minecraft related merchandise in my local Target, I think the future cash will come from that. The Cars franchise has been worth billions in merchandise for Pixar/Disney. Regarding CARS "In the five years since its 2006 release, "Cars" has generated global retail sales approaching $10 billion, according to Disney. That ranks the Pixar film alongside such cinematic merchandising standouts as "Star Wars," "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter," as well as its own paean to playthings, "Toy Story," according to researcher NPD." http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/21/business/la-fi-ct-ca...

In my house of kids (10,7,4,1) Minecraft is more popular than Lego, and it is a point of interest shared by many kids. I have been instructed several times that a Minecraft related gift would be good for a kids birthday party. Since the kids provide the design, entertainment, etc like Lego, I think this has a long long way to go.

My kids are still playing on the Xbox, and have not learned about mods or anything else yet. I am sure it will come soon.
After the Midterms, the Diversity Gap in the House Will Be Wider Than Ever
Looks nice.

I've written something similar, which just uses curl (and no secret) rather than the DynaDNS-like system you have:

http://dhcp.io/

You seem to benefit from the use of different record types, and the short TTL (10 seconds? Nice). I benefit from simplicity and IPv6 support, although at a cost of not supporting MX, etc, because I judged the support and abuse potential to be too high.
Of course, it being a big hit is what gives him enough money that he now can live comfortably while working on whatever the hell he wants without worrying about making money.

I'm not critisizing him, I'm glad he has that opportunity, and I'm glad he's recognized what opportunity he wants (which is apparently NOT the opportunity to try and make even more money).

But it's a bit more complicated than "success is shit", success is what's allowed him to ignore success from here on out, without having to worry about a roof over his head, health care, etc.
Same. He's my type of hacker. The best type.
Hey, looks like Apple had the right idea all along! Who knew?
Data Masking, Privacy, and Security Tools
Lego had the lego creator video game long before Minecraft. Minecraft is something a bit more special.
The best use of 9V is to run a pair of them for powering opamps that need to swing +-.
How to Beat High Airfares (2011)
Are Free Speech and App Store Ratings Related?
Maybe it helps to simply notice that Clojure code is stored in a data format. Or it may help for you try to write a simple macro.

(Macros give you extra power in extending the language, in ways which a language designer couldn't foresee. Because they're not omniscient; for your domain, you can be the expert, not them. Macros let people add paradigms-as-libraries. You may never write a macro, but you can benefit from those who do.)

Now that I'm proficient, I see those parens as cute little code units. With my code editor, I operate on these code units, not just characters. In contrast, other languages seem to have lots of punctuation in all sorts of weird places. Messy.

You can also use ->>:

(reduce
(filter-reducer even?)
[]
(reduce
(map-reducer inc)
[]
(range 10)))

can be written more clearly:

(->> (range 10)
(reduce (map-reducer inc) [])
(reduce (filter-reducer even?) []))
> I would like to ask if you have any hard data or studies that prove your first point, or you just feel that this is indeed the case?

I don't think one needs to go and find hard studies to realize that we're living in times of prosperity, producing more food than needed, being able to construct a shelter for everyone and that more and more jobs are getting automated. But for citations and elaborations on that I direct you to any random HN discussion about automation and/or basic income; they seem to happen here every other month.

> The reality is that there is no "we", there is no "economy" that pushes something - there are specific people, governments and corporations.

The reality is, there are no specific people. The world at this level doesn't work like that. Human volition, randomness of individual values, all average out creating a predictable mass behaviour, following the incentive structures as surely and as predictably as water flows toward lowest points, going along the shape of underlying terrain.

This is econ 101, I don't think I need to support that with citations. There is The Economy, we can treat it as a complex system made of individual humans that still behaves in predictable ways, much in the same way we can talk about human beings and their behaviours without referencing all those cells human bodies are made of.
As a new parent and someone who has been through similar "obsessions" as a child, perhaps I can try to explain the sentiment, even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

I imagine it comes from a line of thinking where the parent worries if their kids becomes too focused on one particular thing and spends too much time either doing it, talking about it, or thinking about. The parents may worry that their child's interests are not well-rounded enough. Perhaps "Minecraft time" is taking away from outdoor time, or music time, or sports time, etc.

A total ban seems harsh, but perhaps the child's interest is bordering on addiction and this an attempt to solve that problem (again, I'm not endorsing this, just trying to reason through it).

I know my parents were very unhappy with the amount of time that I would spend playing video games. They often called it an "addiction" and from an adult's point of view they may have been right. Personally, I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with a child or adolescent immersing themselves in something for a period of time, as long as it's temporary. As an adult now, I certainly don't spend much time playing video games anymore and I see many facets of my life where that time investment as a child has paid off, but I can see where my parents' worries (even if misplaced) were coming from.
I saw this 220um thin battery in an ST update recently, thought that was pretty cool for ultra-low power apps:

http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/en/resource/techni...