skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tutorial on python.org is by far the best
If you are looking to start from the very basics, http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm explains with very easy examples
yes, general aviation tools have to account for ICAO, IATA and abbreviation lookups. (many times the 'K' prefix from the ICAO gets dropped in communications)

FMI see:

http://skyvector.com/ (see text box, upper left)

http://charternation.com/airports/

http://www.airnav.com/airports/
The thing that sets Jawbone apart from other health wearables companies is how much Jawbone has embraced the idea of providing insights to its customers.

The next iteration of these devices (Basis Peak, Jawbone up3, whatever fitbit comes up with) will no longer be just about quantifying your physical life. With more data comes an increased ability to make inferences about your behavioral patterns, and that's going to be the killer feature of the future.

The first company that actively tries to answer how to instigate real behavioral change in its users through notifications, insights, and other motivational tools will be the first to make fitness wearables ubiquitous devices.

Of course, the band has to be actually _wearable_, too.

Jawbone is doing both of these things, faster than the competition.

Basis is _just_ starting to try and do insight work, after years of perfecting their sensor infrastructure. Fitbit is a toy in comparison, and afaik they haven't even touched doing inference work on small individual user data.

The insights I get from Jawbone now suck, but they're doing those with _just my steps and sleep_. Who knows what will become apparent with my heart rate and automatic activity identification.
Unfortunately it does not take acute accents. Such as the sentence: Ceci n'est pas écriture humaine.
There is no plausible context in which saying "did you get that bruise from your boyfriend beating you?" to your colleague is appropriate.

My wife was once asked by her manager about a bruise on her arm [1], inquiring whether I had something to do with it.

Domestic violence is just as much a hot button today as diversity. Family doctors are expected to spot signs and counsel, for example. While an awkward situation, and one that I wish wasn't pushed on us, I don't find it surprising to hear that this occurred - and it could well be independent of any racial connection.

[1] Believe it or not, the bruise was from table tennis. At competitive levels, a ping-pong ball actually leaves a bruise, and my wife used to be ranked 30th best woman table tennis player in the country.
Minborg's Java Pot: Compute factorials using Java 8 streams
I don't think it's random at all. From a would-be user's perspective it makes complete sense to me that this post took off and yours didn't get too far. I want to explain why, not to be a dick, but because I feel like all hackers (myself included) have a hard time seeing things from the user's perspective.

First, the title of your submission:
> Show HN: Search HN by keywords, user, score, Read online, on mobile or RSS

It's completely unclear what your product is. Honestly it sounds like you packaged up HN with some more CSS and an RSS reader or something? I don't really know. "Read online?" How else would I read HN? "Search HN?" I don't really have anyting to search for, and if I did I would just use Google.

The reason film42's post took off is because people were interested in following. Yours didn't even mention following.

Now let's look at film42's title:

> Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN

My first reaction? "Oh cool, I have a lot of friends who use HN, I wonder what they've been saying."

Then perhaps the best part of film42's app is that he used HN's styling in a way that almost felt like you hadn't left HN. It is completely familiar, and, as others have pointed out, it feels like something that should have been part of HN already. The friction of onboarding was completely eliminated - I didn't have to sign up for or download anything, but I could use it and wanted more. The missing auth is probably a mistake in the long-run, but missing that feature probably reduced some friction getting started.

At the end of the day, you have 5 seconds to impress me or I'm gone. It's quite possible, when your app doesn't take off, that the only thing you did wrong was not use those 5 seconds.
How is this different from reflux? https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs
Overview of the Verticals in the European Fintech Startup Ecosystem
Fun fact: only real up votes give you points to your total karma. Up votes from suspected sock puppet accounts don't count.

This can be a good way of detecting accounts who use sockpuppet accounts for vote rigging, if total submission + comment karma >> profile karma. (With both numbers being relatively small, of course)
See, you arrived to this conclusion yourself.

Most of the Western Europe is ruled by Social Democrats or Socialists of various kinds. While it might be less pronounced in Netherlands or Germany, you could take a look at Denmark, or Sweden, or France, or find out what were the slogans of the latest campaigns in Spain.

According to the dictionary definition of socialism, it requires 'socialization of means of means of production' or 'social ownership'. In the current crop of Western Socialism, this is done via governmental regulations of business and large redistribution of wealth via taxes.

Note that Socialism is not Communism. It can rather well coexist with a market economy, as long as both are somehow constrained, and the economy is strong enough (like in Germany or France, unlike in Spain).
I'm pretty new to front end development, and a few months ago I started learning Javascript by experimenting with a few front end frameworks. When I got to Angular, I dropped it the moment I saw string-based expressions. How is that even remotely acceptable? I can't even imagine the bugs I would be embedding everywhere.
Onyx – Wearable Group Communications
This article the bad parts: all of it.
Can Facebook Skew Elections?
Let's build an open-source Firebase with Couchbase
Firebase is an awesome service. But if you want to build your products around Firebase and their API, you need reliability and guaranteed support for the future.

As with any commercial provider, you don't have any guarantee here. This may be even more so now that Google has acquired Firebase.

Maybe you build an awesome app with Firebase, and in 12 months, Google decides that it just wanted the technology and the team, and shuts down Firebase as an independent service. What will you do?

As far as I can see, the Couchbase project offers similar features and all pieces of the stack are open-source.

How does this help? We can just re-use Couchbase Server and Couchbase SyncGateway. And on top of Couchbase Mobile and their other client libraries (iOS, Android, .NET), one can build a "shim" that maps Firebase's API to the Couchbase API.

The result will be a drop-in replacement for Firebase that is 100% open-source.

Maybe it will be most efficient to continue using Firebase even then. But it's always good to have a safe replacement up your sleeve.
My parents bought me the books from Getty and Dubay when I was a kid to improve my handwriting. I had a terrible time with legibility in 1st and 2nd grade, and they were adamant I improve. I haven't kept up with it as I should have, and this post is a reminder to myself to do so, but even today my signature and printing style are heavily influenced by italics.

I recommend Write Now also.
In many cases, the restrictions come down to the underlying file-system and how it works. Not saying it is right or wrong, only that the reasons can be very fundamental.
There seem to be a preponderance of founders under the illusion that a) this is practical in their circumstance and b) that this is desirable in their circumstance. While it was true for Zuckerberg, it is hardly true for most.
A near-perfect email from Airbnb
No easy way exists like in Ubuntus' steady progress of alliteration through the alphabet.

https://www.debian.org/releases/ lists the releases by codename and version number all the way back to 2.0/hamm.

At least you don't use Toy Story for your work computer naming scheme like my company.
I've been seeing this project since around 1999 or something. It was listed on a page of emulators and open source OSes that I visited frequently. Glad to see that it's still alive.
Let's build a browser engine, part 7: Intro to Painting
It's not randomness of "marketing." It's randomness of HN. I wouldn't take it personally.
The term "capitalism" was coined by socialists in the context of criticism of the dominant 19th century system of the developed world, which had all the features of cronyism, etc., that you are trying to exclude here.

The idea that capitalism was ever anything else was an attempt by defenders of that system to whitewash it, distract from the cronyism inherent in it, and discredit critics. But its part of what "capitalism" has meant from day one -- and part of what every actual capitalist system in practice has featured prominently.
This HN item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544911 was about how to do this for neural nets.
From my last experience with CrashPlan, it'd take me a year to upload my photos.
I'm currently working full time on building a funding platform for FLO works at Snowdrift.coop

The backend is Haskell using Yesod. The front-end is not very interesting so far - we're sticking with progressive enhancement for a host of reasons, and haven't focused much on enhancing yet.

We don't get a tremendous amount of traffic yet, as we're not launched. There's a lot of writing and discussion on the site, though. Been working on it - mostly part time - for about two years now, with deep involvement of one non-technical co-founder, and on-and-off involvement of varying depth from others.

We're aiming to be launched by the end of the year.
Just today I lost half an hour figuring out why my ng-show worked for all other strings except for "f" and "F". AngularJS definitely has it's own traps..
Show HN: Got Ballz? Play and beat top scorers in this new game Ballz Eye
It's always amused me that San Carlos airport (which is very, very close to Oracle's HQ) has the FAA airport code SQL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_Airport_(California)
I'm the creator of Current, and I'm happy to answer any questions here!
Named Entities in Kendrick Lamar's M.A.A.d City with JavaScript
We only really live about 6 and a half years longer than we
would prior to the industrial revolution on average. This
relatively modest number is obscured somewhat by overall
life expectancy averages which are buoyed by drastically
reduced infant mortality.

I haven't heard this before - where are you getting your data?
Quit complaining, it simplifies a lot.
If I had to cope with a bullshit jobs that required only physical capabilities, I should try to advance in my start-up or whatever high thinking I am doing. Newton created his gravitation law when the university was shut-down because the pest. Doing something really nasty make you enjoy a lot your mental work in your real passion.

Also, having your mind free but your arms working is a good way of thinking deeply.

Edit1: I should add I don't like bullshit jobs!

Edit2: Addendum For example you should try to learn and read a lot at night but just some core points, and the next day while working physically you should echo mentally all those material, discussing, analysing all in your head.

When I was younger I could reason without writing, now I should need to write thing down, anyway the desire to get out of a bullshit job is a great force, the most boring the job stronger the desire to escape from that job and greater the concentration you find to center into your real passion, your real job, the one you adore.
I didn't say it was easy. Though I find it's more common for people to miss opportunities for love due to unreasonable expectations of others. There are overweight girls and single mothers out there that need love, if your pathetic, depressed and unemployed self doesn't think you are too good for them.
Glad the truth is coming out! This will save a lot of developer time and will make SPA's even better.
Spot instances bro. Current Oregon cost for GPU instance is $0.1201. All that work and you did not look at spot instances?
The ways of Microsoft controls can be interesting indeed. At one point, we had to reverse-sort phone numbers to be loaded into a VARCHAR column in SQL Server. The vendor used a Microsoft control, which would look at a couple of phone numbers, say 2025551212, conclude that they were suitable for 32-bit integers, and choke somewhere around the 404 area code.

Then there was the time another package tried to write out street addresses that were something like 3E123 or maybe it was E456. Apparently the control read them as numbers in scientific format that were just way too big.
csvtools have had a tool to do this for a while. Not directly though, it goes through sqlite.
Only the specialized economists who suggest people would ever need to have signs, surely. Also, the rare restaurant that wants to garner advocates. Then perhaps amateur entomologists. Works engineers who want to know when something erodes would surely bury fiber optics rather than a RFID or battery device with 30 year lifetime.
The author isn't asking for a place where she isn't a minority. The author is asking for a place were there isn't additional pressure on her to conform because she is a minority in a cliquish or racist work environment.

"After The Home Depot, I took a position at a lottery/parimutuel company. I returned to being the only black woman, but the team there wasn’t very close knit so everybody did their own thing, did their job, and went home."

Most of the places she has worked/lived as a minority have been cliquish and/or racist. It makes sense that to avoid that she's been happy in places where she is not a minority.

However, the problem that needs to be fixed is not the existence of minorities, the problem is the culture around how we treat those minorities. The kind of culture that leads to her being transferred to protect her overtly racist co-worker. The kind of culture that does this: "I remember asking if we could do other outings that didn’t include beer and getting voted down." The kind of culture where she is "mistaken for an administrative assistant more than once. I have been asked if I was physical security (despite security wearing very distinctive uniforms)."

I suspect you were down voted because you assumed that "The other side of diversity" was saying that more diversity was needed. The article is clearly about how more than just diversity is needed.

"I don’t need to change to fit within my industry. My industry needs to change to make everyone feel included and accepted."
You're talking about @raquo's post, not mine. I don't know raquo and they are separate projects. Mine read: "Show HN: Follow HN users and get notified when they do stuff". I deleted it when it got 2 upvotes in an hour.

I'd be interested why you think mine didn't work. Chrome extension link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/logdfcelflpgcbfebi...
This is the price of competition. It takes a lot of extra labor, over doing the stuff, to keep a competitive market going. There are a large number of items where the advertising and marketing cost exceeds the cost of production, from soft drinks to movies to pharmaceuticals. This is an overhead of capitalism, and it's a big one.

The financial system has especially bloated overhead. The US used to have a financial system with three big, independent sectors - commercial banks, savings and loan companies, and stock brokers and markets. The Glass-Stegall Act kept them separate. Trouble in one sector didn't crash another sector, because the sectors couldn't invest in each other. That ended in the 1990s. Trouble soon followed.

The whole hedge fund / "private equity" industry is a net lose. "Private equity" is really leveraged buyouts using equity-to-debt conversions to reduce taxes. It's an artifact of tax policy, not a real industry. In many cases, the money ultimately comes from low-cost borrowing by banks from the Federal Reserve.

With different tax and regulatory policies, the finance industry would be about as big as it was in the Eisenhower era, far smaller than it is now. This isn't a secret, but it's not something discussed in public much.

On the medical care side, the US spends about as much in public funds on medical care as the European nations with state-paid medical care do. But that's less than half of US medical spending. Find out what a "prescription-benefit management company" does, and how big they are.
How to Be Good (2011)
Reddit's source is available: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
Ah, I didn't see that before. So without SSH key injection, what's the current primary method of gaining access to VMS created from cloud images that have no password & ssh key? I'm eager to start using it to host a throwaway jenkins server locally. Do you manually edit in ssh key/password or is there some tool to use?
Handy.js (http://handyjs.org) - a simple template for nodejs apps

I started playing around with nodejs about 18 months ago and I decided to put all the common functionality of all my projects (user management, cron, backup, content management, etc) into one package that I could maintain separately.

It is built with

Node.js
Redis
MySQL
Probably just another bluetooth device. I'm curious what the technical specs will be.
FarmVille Co-Creators Launch Toro to Help Developers Market Apps on Facebook
Great. More evidence that Facebook is changing the way we think and act. I can't wait til the next article that says the same exact thing but at a higher degree.
I had to do a double take when I read that line. I cant believe this is really a thing.
>many prisons are run by for-profit companies.

Citation for the "Many"?

Only about 5% of prisoners are in private prisons.
Because we need to have more people using random copy-pasted code in their programs.
Another "need to know the name" one is Knoxville, Tennessee. The airport code is TYS. Which is a head-scratcher unless you know the airport's name is McGhee Tyson Airport.

Nashville is another one. BNA. The original name of the airport was Berry field. Berry Nashville Airport.
Anyenv - A simple wrapper for rbenv style environment managers
When can we get an IDE that can do this, and track copy / paste across source files :)
Posted just a bit later on HN: http://codesnippet.research.microsoft.com/
Introducing Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
Could you be more specific about what you don't like about it?
Redefine CTO
It's funny how you pick and chose parts of history to make your point.

Jobs did not found Pixar -- he bought the company (under a different name then changed to Pixar) from Lucas Film. He was not the CEO, he was chairman of the board and famously had very little to do with their day-to-day activities -- he really just let them do their thing. He almost sold Pixar multiple times because they were not the home-run company he had hope for, until Toy Story. He slowly bought shares back from employees and the actual founders until he owned almost 100% of the company (making his total investment $50 million). Then he sold the company off to Disney.

Jobs was the check book for Pixar -- he didn't make them great, they were great all along. They just had no product and no capital for a long period of time. He gave them the chance to succeed, and for that he should get credit. But he wasn't some sort of creative mastermind genius that turned Pixar into what is became.

In any regard, we've gone into the weeds. As I said multiple posts ago, I'm never going to change your mind. Apple sold products you like as a consumer, and therefore you like the person at the helm. Personally, I think there are far better businessman examples all over, some I've mentioned already, others are like the guy in Napa Valley, CA making $2 billion a year selling wine corks.
What, you're saying my 6+ years' experience in FORTE 4GL won't be relevant in the outside world???!! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL

I wish I was kidding about the FORTE4GL bit, but I do acknowledge the need to stay current, though it's sometimes hard to get the drive to do so.
This is a very good reason to never use software in the so-called "cloud". I also remember years ago when someone showed me "Track Changes" in MS Word and other programs and how you could go back and look at, say, a bid offer and see if everything was on the up and up. You could see, esp. if the document was a form letter or canned response, to which other companies were offered different terms, you name it.

I dislike revision-able software for a number of reasons. Privacy is the foremost reason. Yes, yes, "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear..." That old chestnut gets trotted out every time someone worries about security or privacy.

Since about 2000, I keep my documents in plain text only on an encrypted drive backed up several times over -- none of the backups are online, but I'm still good if my house burns down, my machines get stolen, you name it.

No, just no.
Sure you can. "Capitalism" has always been a name for a system in which governments exist, and by which governments structure property rights. Certainly, you don't think that the dominant economic system of the late nineteenth century for which socialist coined the term "capitalism" in their critique of that system (a term later adopted by defenders of that system) somehow didn't feature government as a prominent feature?
Show HN: Timely for iPhone – Scheduling and Time Tracking, Simultaneously
This is a great idea, but I can't get the website to work. I will try the IDE because this is actually pretty useful.
Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk?
I've watched many great TED talks and am wondering if there are any gems that I'm missing.

So HN, what are some of your favorite TED talks?

I'll start with mine:
(http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Hackschooling-Makes-Me-Happy-Lo)
We had four this year, but none got enough support to actually make it on the final ballot. Californian potheads generally don't feel the need as strongly as in other states because our medical marijuana laws are so very liberal.
Very cool. Just spent the day writing some integration for Google Drive, and was a bit amused when writing a single sentence in Google Doc increased the "Changes.list()" id with ~40.

But I'm curious: Can one delete these kind of revisions displayed here? Those visible in the GDocs UI are only a few, mayor revisions (which may be troublesome in itself for people not knowing about it and sharing a document).
> Until this research comes to fruition and becomes widely deployed in industry (something that's probably decades away), I would not take much comfort in assurances from industry reps that the data the companies they represent collect or release are "anonymised".

Even if the technology existed I would not rely on it being deployed and used correctly: 1) There is no incentive to do it because there is little penalty if they fail; and 2) IT security in general is completely unreliable; why would this be any different?

The only secure data is data that doesn't exist. Already there are government agencies that automatically delete internal communication (e.g., emails) within 30 days. If that's important for the security of their government data, which arguably should be open, why isn't it done with my data, which should be private?
>I haven't seen a single person who'd voluntarily scan a code (or an NFC label for that matter) in the street, anywhere in the world

Post-men do it all the time.

>Maybe the problem is that iBeacons are a bit too passive/static. But even a full BLE device that can transmit a bit more complex information is still debatble in terms of value

You are missing the point, too. I guess, the value of iBeacon is in reception, not transmission, as is also said about RFID terminals, while it still may have some other use.