skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropping a comment here because of all the down votes. I agree with them. I come to HN for interesting and thought provoking articles, or for interesting news. Pen-and-paper mining is awesome and is totally in the spirit of HN, but single word jokes about "organic" and "fair trade" Bitcoins are clever, but HN is just the wrong place for that. I'd much rather read comments about attempts of other types of cryptography on paper, or perhaps some history about paper based crypto, or anything that adds factual or newsworthy value to the article. Jokes are neiter factual or newsworthy, and I feel are out of place here on HN.

Thanks for understanding.
You understand the difference between being right and being popular?

Because you like fancy numbers, let's assume you probably rate a 7 on being butthurt.
Assuming you're running in your lane and not weaving, I mean "I am overtaking on your left".
I think he was saying in his own words what the Blue Ocean Strategy people have been pushing for a while. In short, work on creating new markets so you don't get caught up in a race to the bottom (commoditized markets).

http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/
I just realized the latest SSF emulator can play the Saturn version deinterlaced in "high" resolution... it's about as close as we'll ever get to the real Hi-Ten game, but it looks absolutely stunning on my HDTV.
Working with Exchange Server Using Web Service (EWS)
I think it's one of the best business books I've ever read. I'd rank it about second, right below The Four Steps To The Epiphany. I picked it up off a shelf at Barnes & Noble the day after it came out, sat down in the cafe, and nearly read the entire book in one sitting. Went home, finished it, and then promptly started reading it a second time the next day. After that, I read it a third time. I plan to read it again.

Yeah, it's that good.

Now, that said, I am an unabashed Peter Thiel fanboy, so you may think that this is just my bias showing through. But I don't think so. I think Thiel hits on some very profound and significant insights in this book. It's not a manual or anything close to a TFSTTE style "paint by numbers" guide, but the seven questions that he presents in the chapter on Cleantech make a very solid framework for evaluating your own ventures, IMO.

The only caveat I'll offer is this: I don't presume to disagree with Thiel about anything, and there's nothing in the book where I'd say I think he's wrong in any objective sense. But I do think there are places where he glosses over some nuance and opts for the more hyperbolic presentation of an idea, in a way that can make certain bits seem self-contradictory.

He also comes off a slightly dismissive of the "lean startup" approach, seemingly because he sees evolutionary processes as only capable of creating incremental advances, as opposed to significant new creations. This is as close as I get to disagreeing with him, as I don't think there's anything about being a "lean startup" or doing Customer Development that mandates only working in the realm of incremental improvements. Now, as Steve Blank says, if you're inventing a cure for cancer, you don't need Customer Development. But there's some middle ground between "minor improvement in sharing cat pictures" and "a cure for cancer". This is where I think his more hyperbolic presentation and disregard of a certain level of nuance hurt the book a bit.

Another point to pay attention to is that Thiel may use definitions in a way that doesn't fit your pre-existing mindset, or he may make certain assumptions. Probably the main place this stands out to me is in how he seems to equate "competition" with "perfect competition", again ignoring the middle-ground. There's a similar issue with the way he uses "monopoly" where he clearly doesn't (necessarily) mean "the absolute only supplier for X" but is rather referring to a company that has achieved a level of dominance that allows it to profit in a radically significant way (beyond other related players, for example).

Overall, read it as a catalog of a number of Really Good Ideas for creating great startups, and I think you'll find it valuable. Don't assume any one thing he says is The Absolute Truth, but think about the gray area in between the poles. Don't take the hyperbole at face value, but read with a certain air of skepticism, and infer the in-between stuff.

That was my take anyway. Maybe after I read it for a fourth time my opinion will change. :-)
Hasn't there been speculation that this has changed since?
Sounds similar to work by Dan Nocera at MIT: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/technology/the-artificial-...
You can also change the color of your headline bar at around 200 karma, I think. Note that the downvote threshold only allows downvotes on comments, not stories.
D.C. is definitely more green than NYC. I think statistics might toss out the Mall and the Ellipse, which basically function as parks. Or they make other mistakes in counting, something like 90% of D.C.'s parks are controlled by some other group than the city park service.

This article claims that 96% of residents live within 1/2 mile of a park.

http://dcist.com/2013/06/dc_rated_as_nations_sixth-best_city...

Here's a review of percentages

http://cloud.tpl.org/pubs/ccpe_Acreage_and_Employees_Data_20...

It turns out D.C. and NYC have almost exactly the same percentage of parks (19.4% and 19.5% respectively).

However, if you look at cities with lower densities, Albuquerque, San Diego and Virginia Beach all handily beat D.C. and NYC as cities with a high percentage of parks.

And later down you can see other interesting figures, like Acres per 1,000 residents (Oakland and D.C. come out on top while NYC comes out much lower (and not surprisingly the parks in NYC are packed full of people on nice days).
Wow! Considering that Mixpanel charges $2000 for 20MM data points, this is awesome. Love how the cost of starting up just keeps getting lower and lower. :)

Also, I understand that Amazon includes 'System Events' in their free tier. Even with this included, at an average of 15 custom events + 5 system events, you can have 5MM sessions a month for FREE. This is more than enough for bootstrapped companies/projects to start and grow with.

I'm not sure who the customers for these analytics companies are (small projects that grow with them vs big projects that join them) but if it is the latter, well Amazon is def. the better choice. Although they do not offer any complex funnels/segmentation, I am sure this and other features will be added in the future.

Thinking about Peter Thiel's monopoly vs competition eating profits (Zero to One, awesome book!), I wonder if and how players in this space will be able to differentiate themselves enough to really have a competitive advantage over one another.
No Linux distribution uses github. Same for FreeBSD/OpenBSD

The Linux Kernel is there but development is not done there, it's merely a mirror.

Gnome (https://git.gnome.org/browse/), KDE, XFCE (http://git.xfce.org/) are not there.

Nginx? Uses Mercurial http://nginx.org/en/download.html
Apache? Not there as well

Gcc? LLvm? http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout

But the latest fad.js is in github so that's what people use, right?
Regarding your point about the percentages, the OP states that between 10-90% of positive or negative posts are removed, depending on the group. Looking at just the positive posts for a moment, if around 50% of the posts in the news feed are classified as positive (46.8%), surely removing 10% of those is precisely the 5% of posts you claim is different. Note that the percentage removal is based on the uid, so the range of posts removed would be between about 5 and 45%, depending on the poster. The 4.68% quoted is for a user on the extreme low end of the removal range, and is percentage of total posts, not positive posts.

I don't see how this is different from the claimed 10-90% of positive posts. Similarly for negative posts. Am I misunderstanding something?
I think the 3 'perks' are:
- flag posts at 20 points;
- create a poll at 200 points;
- downvote at 500 points
This is great especially considering the REST API meaning this can be adapted to other environments other than mobile...
Read between the lines. I was suggesting a plausible backstory for burying the Perl 6 fiasco, and refocusing attention back onto the Perl 5.x line.
Been there, done that! Apart from this contributing to my grade, I still miss the point of the usability nowadays. I wouldn't say this gives you a real knowledge on how modern ooerating systems work. On the other side in the OS/C and C++ modules (the link is below) you can find good entry points for kernel programming, which has proven useful few times.
He means these: http://computercraft.info/wiki/Turtle
If I were going to steal stuff from my office, I'd probably grab a couple of the 16-core workstations before disassembling the wall to get a $100 e-ink conference room schedule.
I'm glad she has no remorse over her actions. Rightfully so. Media companies associated with organizations like the MPAA/RIAA that have ruined lives both by civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution face an impossible battle. Perhaps they're just now realizing that their means are ineffective and trying to promote legal means to content acquisition, but the damage has been done. As someone who used to be a customer of many of these companies, I find it immoral to purchase anything from them if avoidable. They have essentially shot themselves (and the artists/producers they work with) in the foot and absolutely nothing they can do at this point will change my mind. While I doubt many people think about this when they're downloading movies/music, I have no doubt that for the people that consider this moral decision, the past actions of the MPAA/RIAA make it extremely easy to justify any and all piracy. It's just too bad that the hardworking artists are the ones caught in the crossfire. Then again, there is little pity there, as even in such services as Spotify, apparently artists are the ones who lose out. Perhaps artists/producers of content need to learn the lesson most of all about transitioning to new media distribution channels and finally leave the companies that do little to nothing for them in an Internet world.
Beauty of Testing
Math: fuck yeah!
For those interested he's currently doing an AMA on reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hpje1/im_the_person_w...
Meteor.js – Isomorphic Fullstack Development
* I think lots of people don't keep a great track record of how they've done

Ha! This is true for me, I only realize how much I've lost when I see those negative numbers in TurboTax before filing my tax return.
FWIW, that is the argument that people living in bubbles of ignorance use to justify their positions. Everyone else is just wrong.

Be sure to log into your alt now. I have a feeling you go through accounts to evade hellbannings.
This article doesn't actually tell us anything. It's just a mini-bio of Wheeler. Still it's good that the NYT is net neutrality in the news. We've got to keep the pressure on these people.

If you have had a terrible experience with Comcast another operator lately, especially if they're denying you service, file a complaint with the FCC.

http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
Microsoft is making inroads performance wise (and have been for a while).

RyuJIT seems to deliver a nice, practical boost to performance.

.NET Native lets you sidestep (with several caveats) the JIT and start executing your code much more quickly.

And every other major release they seem to tune the GC to be harder/better/faster/stronger etc.
Chain your solutions with Underscore
Can you share a few anonymized stories?
Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Mixpanel

This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us. Google Analytics gives away their product for free - by that measure this is expensive!

Though biased, I wanted to point out a few things since this isn't as amazing as one might think -- it comes with several gotchas (and please correct me if I am wrong):

- Systems events will take up a LARGE portion of this free tier and the paid tiers. Start and End events are going to put reasonably sized apps into the billions.

- If you manage to get rid of said system events, big parts of the dashboard are likely to be rendered useless like DAU, MAU, retention, etc.

- You cannot deeply segment any of this information so you will have a lot of questions remaining even just the next day

- It will be difficult to offer funnel analysis (which doesn't exist) that is retroactive at that scale. That means you will get the same kind of funnel that people hate with Google Analytics' goals.

- Generally speaking: complexity of analysis will mean higher prices

While Mixpanel pricing may seem expensive by comparison, the products are not comparable. You get what you pay for in the level of sophisticated analysis.

Given that, over time it is our plan to lower prices relative to the rate that hardware and infrastructure becomes less expensive. We think that's fair. And if we can improve our technology to become more efficient we most certainly want to make our software and products more accessible.

We are very open to your thoughts so please be harsh and candid (as I know HN can be). We deeply care about our startup customers who made and pushed us into who we are today.
There's a great deal to performance which is more intellectual than motor, and I'd be very surprised if there were no spacing effect for either aspect.

My experience is that this kind of spaced repetition is dramatically effective. I'm working on an app (http://pianopracticeassistant.com/) to manage it, since I found that Anki is a poor fit for the real structure of practice. I started it to help me learn a pretty huge piece (The People United Will Never Be Defeated) with very limited practice time. I've made way more progress in the last six months managing my spacing/interleaving this way than in the six months before that with equally sparing practice.

Like gwern says, there's not a lot of direct evidence on music. I'm not aware of any studies in a laboratory setting that were equipped to directly show realistic spacing effects, as opposed to "non-musicians who played a fifteen-note passage once per day remembered it better." (Gwern links the Stambaugh 2009 study in his overview, which is a good one but which I interpret as more about interleaving than spacing.) But even though there aren't good lab studies, there are good expert case studies (The Practice of Practising has a good set [1]).

Actual real-world effective practice, as done by experts, seems to combine long-term spacing of practice between sessions with massed focused work on subsections within practice sessions. You also see interleaving patterns of section-by-section and integrative practice ("work and runs") in both the long- and short-term. Amateurs on the other hand tend to practice mostly in runs (playing things all the way through), and I'm not sure how much spacing alone can help otherwise ineffective practice.

[1]: The Practice of Practising, a figure showing "work and runs": http://books.google.com/books?id=IW9wKssw2hsC&lpg=PA9&ots=zg...
John Draper aka “Cap’n Crunch”'s Reddit AMA
Confirmed: Windows 9 to be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users
Streaming JSON
Actually it is mentioned. "For one thing, it only lasts a few hours before the solar cell performance quickly drops off."

Interestingly there is a class of water splitting enzymes that also use nickel and iron... Oxidative inactivation by oxygen is a big part of their loss of activity. NiFe hydrogenases are odd beasts too, their nickels are attached to sufurs and their irons are attached to carbon monoxides, although CO prefers nickels and S prefers iron.
CompuServe Ad, Someday (1982)
I assume he meant broadcasting current location. I don't think that's the actual application here anyway, but it's a real concern that thieves exploit via FB/Twitter announcements all the time.

For the office, though, not really a concern.
Do work, track time, earn Bitcoins
that's a good summary, the figures you quote are accurate

the question is, then, what are the salary possibilities for a person with similar experience, stature in their chosen field of work, in the private sector?

my guess is there is a large range but I wouldn't be surprised (from what I've heard from friends and colleagues) if the answer is, integer multiples of academic salaries (if not 10x)

for example in Law, the equivalent of a tenured Full Professor at a large research-based university, might be a partner in a top law firm in the city they live in (a large city).

or in medicine, a specialist at a major hospital

or in engineering, a principle at a large engineering firm

etc.
Infinite Functional Entertainment at 60 FPS! [video]
I guess 7 is way too low. :-)
There have been plenty of source compatibility issues since 2.7. Just ask anyone that works at Twitter how long it takes to upgrade between Scala versions.
Oh, ok. Thanks. I guess that's why we try to avoid unnecessary naming in Haskell, and if we can, just chain our functions like eg

bigFunction = someFunction callBack . otherFunction arg1 callBack2
Source code for the demonstrated Get Bonus game engine:

https://github.com/get-bonus/get-bonus
The manager and the moron (1967)
Artificial intelligence meets the C-suite
There is a couple more ports out there that require it for run, but the numbers are quite low considering the amount of software that is available in the ports tree:

http://www.freshports.org/shells/bash
Good idea. I'll probably start with a longer static list (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.). Thanks for the feedback!
I guess that has advantages protecting against the elements, but then I wonder if you lose a lot of the charm of open air streets? Al fresco dining (areas near İstiklâl Caddesi in Istanbul), getting lost in windy residential alleys (Kotor in Montenegro), narrow Parisian streets, the lost hutongs in Beijing, etc.

Toronto has PATH - 29km of underground pedestrian tunnels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(Toronto)

I do think working vertically is a solution, whichever way it's approached. Just needs to be a little more organised than areas with urban monorails like Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur where your walking is constantly interrupted with stairs to cross streets, or vistas are blocked by raised train lines.
>NYC != Manhattan.

Right, but even if you go to the outer boroughs there is still almost no green space. I would like to see a map of where they are polling from.
Gee, I wonder how it will all go down. I mean, all those people supported comcast by _not_ sending comments to the FCC, right?
I think the outcome of this will be super interesting. HK is now a part of China and I'm sure that the CCP is concerned that these protests will spread to the mainland.

My guess is that they will handle this in a very non-public way (no surprise there!) working through the HK authorities. It will be brutal, but the CCP knows what a heavy hand will get them (Tiananmen Square).
How mcuban can start the inequality revolution
via @medium : http://bit.ly/1xt7qOF
It's too bad they do an arithmetic version. If you do it by hand, going the geometric route is much more fun.

You can interpret the squaring and adding as geometric operation to be done with ruler and compass. If I'm not too lazy, I might write a blogpost about how to do it.
I have travelled a reasonable amount (30+ countries) but not yet to Japan. Definitely on my list.
> What will we do if the system can no longer create jobs?

kill the jobs using the most resources
Create a poll? Is there a special interface for it?

I have 1.8k points and nothing about polls in /submit.
I think you're right, that would need to be built into whatever job management logic you implemented before the notification was sent. This type of architecture is more suitable for a workflow or job management system rather than fanning out data processing to N workers.
You make a lot of sense. A lot of good sense. Yup,
you do a good job!

But, but, but, and you are not nearly alone, you are not Peter who did PayPal, now has the big bucks, dreams big
dreams, and gets famous, and maybe some revenue, by
writing books that mostly people at HN can find mostly
obvious and mostly improve on!

So, I ask you: Between smarts, hard work, and luck, you'd pick which one?
There's a url, it's mentioned in the faq:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Nice Rahul!
Thanks for the clarification.

I was wondering if you were also going to mention that you are VoodooAlerts' founder?

I, personally, think it is poor form to advertise features that don't exist while pretending to be a customer of VoodooAlerts.

I wish you the best of luck with VoodooAlerts!

https://twitter.com/Leesfer
Are Android devices without GPS a large enough market for you to worry about? I didn't think that anyone was actually distributing a significant amount of apps through the Amazon market.
There's no need to speculate. It's 500. Or, uh, 501: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199.
It's a perfect example of bike-shedding.

Most readers have no way of evaluating their crypto primitives, or their nuclear power plant, or a zillion other things.

But we can evaluate their source control!
I made something very similar using an Arduino Ethernet (using Power Over Ethernet). For the same reasons you mentioned, I totally recommend your way over mine; the Arduino was super expensive, and doing the HTTP myself was more work than it should be.

http://drewgottlieb.net/2014/03/02/opensource-event-display....
They were using Bee-bots with the youngest children at my son's school last week (mostly 4 year olds still).

http://www.bee-bot.us/bee-bot/bee-bot.html
On the Hunt for a Sprite on a Midsummer’s Night
I finally let go of my saturn, two multitaps, 10 controllers, and this game. The 10 player mode was a bit hard on the eyes though. 8 player was awesome. How is it in HD and what's the maximum number of controllers in windows?
What are flags for? Moderator attention? I've never clicked.
Yes, I remember reading that at some point, but what I found interesting is that they seem to be trademarking not the glyph, but the codepoint, so these fonts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#U.2BF8FF_usag... are breaking the law. Or rather, anything with the character in it, like Codhisattva's comment.
You have these equations reversed.
This seems awesome but it could really use more real time metrics and more sophisticated reports/funneling/cohorting.
Google's Material design in Twitter's Bootstrap
So, you've listed like 5-10 projects, scattered across several services. Big projects which are important, don't get me wrong--but still outnumbered by the huge number of your "fad.js" projects.

So, thanks for making my point I guess?
Thanks, looks like I should read the FAQ more often...
Hongkonger here. I help out with a number of volunteer tech groups in HK, including a few resistance groups. I'm also on the Hong Kong Python User Group committee.

We are hoping for the best but would like to prepare for the worst, so I'd like to ask fellow HNers here who have been in similar situations before: what can we expect to encounter in terms of disruptions in communications? Under those situations, how can we counter them with technology? There were rumors that cell towers in certain areas would be shut down, which I don't think happened. The cell network slowdown was more like overloaded cell towers to me. We tried Firechat yesterday and it's terrible. With 100s of people on the same room, it's impossible to follow the feed. It's also very easy to be taken over by CCP spies who just won't stop polluting the room. Is there anything you'd recommend?

Thanks HNers in advance.

Updated resources on the situations on the ground:

http://today.code4.hk/