skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about the valuation problem for a little bit when my company finished raising its Series B, and I came to the conclusion of not worrying about the valuation independent of hearing the quotes, as an engineer. Here's the important point - the valuation means little until an exit. Any valuation beforehand is only a step in that direction. All work needs to be done to maximize the value of the company in preparation for that day - anything along the way is a distraction from that end goal.

Granted, it is a necessary distraction for many of these companies, since they require VC funding in order to expand operations.
POP App Transforms Your App Ideas into Working Prototypes
That is an impressive feat of stupidity. I mean, the law itself is plenty of stupid already, but removing a monument to someone who is not gay because someone else who later filled the same position is gay? Suppose one tsar turned out to be gay, would discussion of all tsars be banned?

And then there's that quote about Ebola. WTF?
for people who can't load the linked article:

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…though in this case, “the hammer” is a bowling ball. In this [excellent clip]{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs} from the BBC’s [Human Universe: Episode 4]{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0276q28}, Professor Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio, home of the [world’s biggest vacuum chamber]{http://facilities.grc.nasa.gov/spf/#}, to test Galileo Galilei‘s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, circa 1589:

[If you drop a brick and a feather at the same time]{http://www.planetseed.com/laboratory/galileo-drops-ball-virt...} the brick will probably hit the ground first. But this is because of differences in the amount of friction between these objects and the air around them, not because their masses are different. If there were no air…

What happens? How does a hammer, brick, or bowling ball move in comparison to the feathers when you remove any air resistance? Watch.

Then watch this next: Apollo 15 Commander David Scott famously conducts this [same experiment in 1971… on the moon]{http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/31056368331}.
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Google’s Quest to Write the Rulebook for Interactive Design
I've found the one that works best for random IMAP e-mail account is CloudMagic.
A Quick Review of Google Inbox
Oh that's interesting, why not just use tags though? One bookmark gets any number of tags, and then you just have to be somewhat consistent about your tag choices. The first few hundred bookmarks are usually tagged poorly, and then after that you get into a consistent naming pattern.

https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch
Perhaps something like a Talk page on a MediaWiki platform? It would be out of the way but directly connected to the page you are on, a second set of comments accessible by a MetaTalk filter.
'The key is that you first accept that making accurate long-term estimates is fundamentally impossible.'

My life has been much better since I accepted this. Thanks for the reminder.
Yes, this is basically all descriptive of me :( the relationships thing hits the nail on the head and has been a recurring problem.
Taylor Swift Dumps Spotify, Igniting Turf War Between Spotify and Apple
Tesco slashes prices of unfortunately named ISIS TVs
Slightly confused: doesn't realloc() grow existing memory by n, avoiding the new/copy/free cycle?
I'm a libertarian living in Pennsylvania + We have an electoral college in the country = My vote makes no difference.
Sure. We will can you add your feedbacks here? https://interbot.uservoice.com/admin/forums/271962-general
The Advantages of Product Intelligence for Your Company
The Internet Arcade: And Where Are You?
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5596578
Unmeasurable? Those votes for X were each the one vote that made X win. If any single one of those votes had not been cast, it would have been a tie. Those votes all mattered as much as a vote can possibly matter.

When you win by 1000000 to 1, then all the winning votes mattered for an unmeasurable amount.
Anonymous Releases Warning Message to ISIS Terrorists
I've been doing research for a facial detection/facial information API since Face.com was mothballed by Facebook.

Not loving the idea of relying on third-party APIs for the above reason makes this project is very useful.

Thanks.
Maybe I'm not as interested in this after reading the review, but it's still worth a go. The task management options seem like a good way to plan your day.
Thanks for neatly explaining my scepticism of laboratory analogues and trying to draw conclusions from them. They're basically poor-man's computational simulations, with more errors because you've gone through another layer of model approximation:

physical system -> theoretical description -> physical system

instead of

physical system -> theoretical description

followed by solving it with a computer.

It's not surprising that when you set out to simulate a black hole you end up with a black hole! The main reason I could accept them being useful for is when some emergent aspect of the theory is very expensive to simulate.
No, that is actually not the way most compilers/transpilers work.

Using a regex for parsing a whole language is something I've never seen done, in 25+ years of writing and reading compilers as a hobby.

Using a regex for tokenization or parsing simple sub-expressions is sometimes done, but that too is fairly rare outside of toy parsers.

Doing the translation step through replace on the basis of a regex is also not going to work for anything but the simplest translations, not least because the resulting monstrous regex would be nearly impossible for a human to reason about.

But the thing that terrified me about it was the thought of someone lifting something lie that out of the browser sandbox and running it server side: The combination of a near undecipherable regex for parsing/translation coupled with eval() to run the result would be a near certain security nightmare.
I might be cynical, but I think they were putting on a show a bit. They already had some sort of apparatus set up to do the simultaneous drops.

My guess is that it's a standard demonstration for visiting dignitaries and the like.
You are being taking for a ride, literally. Midtown to LGA is ~$30-$40 before tip. And flat rates are JFK only.
Sure, thanks for your feedback!
4 Performance Testing Tips That Generate Traction for Mobile Apps
Indeed, but the show is on primetime BBC2, not CBBC or CBeebies.

Ah, I guess anything that brings more viewers to science content is good. I just miss the old days of Horizon.
This kind of long blacklists seems so fitting for Tries. I should grep *nix kernels (I wish I had windows >Xp source too) I guess.

Linux (well, glibc, from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81979/how-does-etc-h...):

http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/blob/HEAD:/nss/nss_files/files...

Windows :

#tbd
Is this supposed to be "Hubot, but usable without hiring a developer?" There are lots of non-software companies that could benefit from chat-ops-like automation.
Hyperlink Helper package for the Atom editor
Seen like that my reaction was a bit too simplistic :)
Pirate Bay co-founder 'TiAMO' arrested in Thailand
It's much more likely, based on their behavior and activities that they've been caught doing, that they have no intention of genuinely using these powers for fighting terrorists, and instead intend to suppress domestic dissent and enhance policing powers.

It's just that they're counting on people like you to routinely show up when people point out their criminal actions and go "But what about the terrorists?"

Terrorists over the last decade (let's call it 15 years, to include 9/11) have killed fewer Americans than the lies of the president backed by secretive intelligence agencies fabricating evidence to shape politics.

They've also killed fewer Americans than trigger happy police officers.

They've killed fewer Americans - by two orders of magnitude! - than car crashes. In fact, in 2001, about an order of magnitude more people died in car crashes than in the 9/11 attacks.

The danger to the US is not terrorists, because they have a very limited capacity to cause actual harm. Instead, they rely on cowards who can't deal with being hurt without flying in to a blind panic/rage harming themselves as an after effect.

People making the arguments that you raise here do vastly more harm to the nation than terrorists ever directly could, and in fact, were a key portion of Osama bin Laden's plan to dismantle the United States - a feat he could never have hoped to accomplish directly, but which he seems to have made substantial progress at through the combination of public panic, the arguments raised by you here, and the short-sighted power grab of politicians.

Congratulations: you're raising an argument that's part of a trio of forces destroying the US at the behest of a terrorist. Far from your line of thinking stopping terrorists, you're enabling them to win, something that they could never have hoped to accomplish without assistance.
Taking Hometown Off Resume Paves Israeli Arabs Way to Tech
When they weren't established authors, they signed deals for the next X books to be with said publisher. Another is that an established author may sell X copies at 15.00/copy, or Y copies at 25.00/copy (but only take 7.00 of the 25). If I'm an author, and my passion is writing, not marketing, if X15 < y7, or even anywhere close to equal, then it makes sense to go with the publisher, so you can spend more time writing
I don't think the average consumer understands or appreciate how Tesla is different. I often talk with family members about Musk and Tesla and most don't really get what's so different than say another all-electric car. For example this:

"During a chat with Musk at the P85D's introduction, he mentioned that on average, Tesla implements about 20 modifications to the car per week. Not software, mind you, but actual hard parts. Per week."

I'm sure traditional car makers tweak hardware as well, but it seems Tesla's focus on software-esque hardware iteration is unique. Their willingness to push updates constantly breaks from the "mid-cycle" refresh and small year-over-year iterations commonplace amongst all established automakers.

And this:

"Lift the front trunk's lid (the frunk, they call it), and you're struck by how much all of this was anticipated back when the Model S was penned. What was a recessed cavity near the firewall becomes the new forward engine room with enough left to swallow a duffle bag and retain its terrific 5-star frontal crash performance."

This is not just a scrappy startup car maker just getting by with an acceptable but not brilliant first generation product. You get the feeling that Tesla is always three steps ahead yet are confident enough to reveal them one-at-a-time.
Ask HN: Which are the best sources to learn Swift?
I'm interested to know which are the best online sources to learn Swift. I have some html, css and javascript experience.

Thanks!
I love this kind of service, but extensibility is probably the most important feature and unless I'm wrong, your platform is not open (yet). We developers all use different services.

Hubot is extremely simple (based on regular expressions to match commands) and quite successful because it's so easy to write and use your own module [1]. Hubot being free and open source, what is your differentiation plan? I'm sure there is room for different players.

[1] http://hubot-script-catalog.herokuapp.com/
Most people on a computer. Most people type kana on their phone.
I have some experience with computer vision [1]. It is non-trivial and requires real processing power to do it at scale. So I suspect they'll be charging soon unless they have a huge amount of funding. Other than that potential issue, this looks like a fairly usable, credible API.

[1] I wrote software to scan Facebook profile photos for overweight people. We store their ID's for targeting through FB ads.
Server logs will track all requests from crawlers, accelerators, and cancelled navigations. An AJAX callback will only happen for real human visitors that actually view the page.
>Brian Cox, the presenter and avowed scientist,

I think you mean "Brian Cox: Professor of High-energy Particle Physics, member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (who also presents popular science programmes in the UK)"

I think his career as a scientist deserves a little more recognition than "avowed".

And, as for his career in popular science he has been awarded both a Faraday and a Kelvin prize.
^, explosive decompression in space also isn't as explosive as coming up from a few meters underwater in one go (it's from 1 to 0 atmospheres, instead of 100 to 1).

Not that I advocate explosive decompression in any circumstance, mind you.
12 Important Lessons I Learned After Losing 101,569 Tweets
Every car maker tests models in cold weather climates. Even car makers with electric models. In fact I've seen video footage of a Tesla driving around in frozen conditions...it was boring, but that was the point- it just worked.

I do think cold weather operation has some trade-offs, but I don't think it's enough to impede sales in cold climates.
Fortunately you beat me to it. I was going to post the later sequence at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs&feature=youtu.be...

But on closer viewing that is a disastrous montage: the first few seconds (before cut away) show the feathers fluttering and the bowling ball starting to accelerate away; the slow-motion segue is under vacuum conditions though. The film editor's intention is that the two shots appear contiguous. We can speculate why they might have done this (no close up shot taken under vacuum conditions?) but it really tramples the whole point of the article :(
There may be better books but this was fairly pragmatic and I learned a lot: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Processors-Java-I...
Not behind paywalls, I agree. Free of advertising... it would be interesting to have stats at hand, but I'm not so sure.

Anyway, thank you for reminding me I'm old enough to remember how the web started :D
That's such a generic list of "symptoms" I'm sure the majority of the population could have "ADD" by that logic.

It is like the medical equivalent of tarot card reading: Do you ever feel tired? Are you ever depressed? Does your arm itch occasionally? Definitely cancer!
"Bohmian mechanics has never been widely accepted in the mainstream of the physics community. Since it is not part of the standard physics curriculum, many physicists—probably the majority—are simply unfamiliar with the theory and how it works. Sometimes the theory is rejected without explicit discussion of reasons for rejection. One also finds objections that are based on simple misunderstandings; among these are claims that some no-go theorem, such as von Neumann's theorem, the Kochen-Specker theorem, or Bell's theorem, shows that the theory cannot work. Such objections will not be dealt with here, as the reply to them will be obvious to those who understand the theory. In what follows only objections that are not based on elementary misunderstandings will be discussed."

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#o

It's true that Bohmian mechanics has never been extended to a full QFT. But considering how little time has been spent on it, isn't it possible this is a result of observed bias against it, and not because it's fundamentally intractable?

For comparison, other theories that have ended up in more intractable places (such as string theory) seem to be considered mainstream.
The inaccuracy of your plan is equal to the amount of things you planned in the first place. It's a lot more important to focus on a goal and react according to what the journey throws at you.
Edit: Seems people don't like being faced with reality. Screw it. Let's burn this mother down, we only have one, right. YOLO
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It may not be impossible, albeit debatably frivolous, but it sure as hell is dangerous as it will increase exponentially more damaging pollution and degradation of the upper atmosphere. I don't think people quite appreciate the risk with which we really are frivolously toying. Understand, there is no fall-back, no fail-safe, no do-overs, no mulligans. Once the atmosphere is damaged, once the already engaged process of global climate change is exasperated by millionaires and billionaires who want to fly into space simply to take a looksie at the planet from high up because of their narcissistic impulse for exclusivity and domination is blind and self-destructive; there is a point of no return, where the system of a human habitable ecosystem starts collapsing. There will be no god to save us, no god to fix anything. Once it's done, it's done. Finished, Fin, Ende, Finito.... Game Over... no lives left.

Some people claim, well, we'll just populate other planets. Again, a psychopathic and narcissistic mentality. So billionaires will ruin this planet and then jet off to another planet, leaving this one do wither and die along with the billions of people who you will surely also belong to? Is that the plan?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news that pops your fantasy dream bubble. Reality is that this whole idea of space tourism and inter-planetary travel and terra-forming is really the equivalent of a cat hoarder living in a squalid shit and trash smeared shack venturing out to figure out how to take on a predatory loan to buy a nice new car. The priorities are so delusional and screwed up, it's incomprehensible to anyone with any bit of a level head.
This depends on the bank. Ex-PostBank ING clients get a TAN via SMS for every transaction (or a paper list of TANs if you really want it). Recently, they added that when you log in from a different machine/location than usual, you get a similar code via SMS (or from a different but similar paper list, I guess), called a PAC.
I think the whole problem of interpreting quantum mechanics and classical physics is that from what we can see it's counter intuitive and anti-narrative i.e. it cannot be expressed philosophically/via language in any meaningful way.

Mathematically it makes sense, experimentally it makes sense, it is as proven as classical physics are proven yet the two contradict each other.

Perhaps it is as the old zen-buddhist saying go. Wisdom lies in paradox.
I also cringed when I read that - although I don't think "social media-instant reflexes" would be an improvement.
Please only make comments that add to the conversation (not small talk or introductions). Read this to understand the kinds of comments that are welcomed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it means small changes, but there is also this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbation_theory.
Your footnote should win some kind of prize for "most terrifying inconsequential remark".
Enabling HTTPS Without Sacrificing Your Web Performance
Sorry; I have every respect for Brian Cox, unlike others on this thread. I think I'm merely using totally the wrong word.
mean.io + docs = win
What to look out for when comparing Hyper-converged solutions
First time I heard about contactless transactions I wondered if people never learned. Apparently they don't.

Allowing anyone to take my money without my explicit approval, even if it's only up to 20 pounds at a time, is simply begging to be abused. I don't understand how anyone could possibly have thought this was a good idea.
There's nothing wrong with that for people who choose to use it that way. But it kills discoverability (well, more accurately, there is no discoverability) for people who may hear about it without being given the direct link to this particular site or the page itself and attempt to search for it, only to find... they're not really sure what.
Evernote to change premium price as CEO says 'it was the wrong price'
The Charger is an odd comparison, but it would be fun to race an R/T AWD against one of these. I don't think the Charger would even compete but I'm curious if the financial aspect would be the same when factoring in gas/maintenance/value etc.
"Many Worlds is a theory that's cheap on assumptions but expensive on universes."
This is no longer possible with all the international trade agreements.

Lets take for example UK company selling their stuff manufactured in Asia on the Australian market - secret US blacklists still apply:

http://www.eevblog.com/2014/02/24/element-14-holding-orders-...
What bad luck for those guys.
Ask HN: What would you change about hackathons?
>Each of these images can require downloading up to 4 DVDs worth of data just to get it bootstrapped, which can take forever even on a fast pipe.

Are they really 15 GB per image?
How about integrating with a protocol instead of adding value to someone else's product?

Have we not learned our lessons from how Twitter treated developers?

Enjoy getting shut off when Slack decide they don't want customers to be adding functionality without paying their per integration rate, or want to stop getting the support tickets from people using your service and confusing it with Slack itself.
This takes the 'mobile-first' to a point where it's just 'make sure it plays on anything'. Interesting concept, for sure!
Everything he writes there makes sense. Nobody would bother with a UZI derivative on an M68k system, because you can run far more advanced OS's on them. But that's exactly why M68k would make far more sense if his OS was an "exercise in open computing".

But as a fun retro project, on the other hand, UZI / Fuzix seems like an awesome thing to play with (though I'd prefer to see a C64/C128 version...)
Excellent article... I think another point you could have gone more into is how exceptions interact with multithreaded programming. Everyone always says you can't ignore exceptions, but that's not true... only exceptions in your application's main thread will take down the process. Exceptions in any other thread will just kill that thread. Also, handling exceptions in multithreaded programs becomes much more difficult, because you can't throw across thread boundaries, so now you need some different error handling mechanism to propagate errors in that case.
Serious security flaw in OS X Yosemite
Music and Mythology: Surveillance
“Perspectives matter:Deliver value with hypermedia” from Nordic API conference
I literally LOL'd at this :) .
Why would I want iTunes on my computer? I installed it only after losing and finding my phone to restore the phone; and it is annoying. It always pops up music whenever I plug my phone into charge. It also did some nonsense Outlook integration.

I never buy media through iTunes, I always use Amazon; so iTunes provides little, if any value on an ongoing basis.
> Linus is never direct.

He was direct in the discussion with Alan Cox that this thread started with. He didn't act the way you described in this case.

It takes a lot to get Linus to the point of a rant of the kind you describe, and they are exceedingly rare compared to his usual behaviour.
Yeah with good interface when you make mistakes and very simple to add data.
OpenSUSE 13.2 released
I don't really see the appeal of this because it looks like it's only good for one-liners. I'd rather have a complete interface that allows me to write a huge description, provide screenshots, link to other bug #s or githud commits, etc. It's a solution looking for a problem in my opinion because I would be pissed if all of a sudden all my issues, tasks and bug were one-line description. Please correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I get from the first impression of looking at your app.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who finds Cox incredibly annoying.
FWIIW, the exploratorium in SF and the Boston Science Museum both have experiments of this nature. It is a cool vacuum chamber though. Reading some of the NASA early docs on building such things can be quite fun.
Porting to Emscripten
Still very interesting
The last Pirate Bay founder has finally been caught and arrested
Really interested in the resources used to learn Swift?
Woz’s take on the Apple 1’s noisy -5 volt supply