skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the package managers should add links to donate to projects. So I open up Synaptic to install GPG and in the description see that I can donate and they're only at 25% of their funding goal.

Another key would be to add a real commercial justification to pay for projects instead of just donating. Often for tax and regulatory purposes businesses can't just spend money on fun, frivolous things unless they want to make a mess of their accounting. Maybe something like for each $50 you spend you get to ask one question on a mailing list or message board.
Math and the Genius Myth
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I don't know the exact amount but when we got the deed, I was able to find it on an island selling website.

Now the page is down but it was archived:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140820193302/http://www.vladi-...

I don't know if they actually paid 200 000$ but I doubt they paid more considering their budget.
Uh, hundred years from now, I mean.
Is It Ethical for This Atheist to Make a Ton of Money Selling a Bible App?
I worked for an optical company building complete objective lenses and illuminator optics for steppers using G-line, I-line, and ArF and KrF laser sources. "Solarization" and ablation of the lens coatings was an ongoing problem, especially for UV sources. A stepper objective has 20+ lens elements. Lenses were refurbished by replacing elements as their transmission fell.
tl;dr version:

> Although Goodenough will not spell out his precise new idea, he thinks he is on to something
The Nervous Giraffe
When Bad Software Kills
I'm surprised you would discount Infobitt and Inside.com as being "vaguely in the news space" -- they compete almost directly with what you are doing. In its previous form Grasswire seemed to attempt the same thing as Infobitt. Both products have the same idea (repeated on your splash page): filter and fact check breaking news. But perhaps I have missed something?
I've found twitter is a terrible company for this - I get booted to a twitter login screen for way too many Twitter links online on my phone. Ironically I actually use the twitter app, I'm just not logged in in the web browser.
First time stumbling across Beaker Notebook. Looks great! Recently heard about Jupyter[1][2], which is a project to generalize the IPython backend to be language agnostic. Are the various Two Sigma financial services entities using Beaker internally? Seems like a natural fit for the highly mathematical nature of the work Two Sigma staff and entities are engaged in.

Interesting tweet from one of the IPython/Jupyter devs[3] last year about Beaker. Jupyter and Beaker state similar missions, although Beaker seems to have focused more on "multiple languages within a single notebook" leveraging the IPython backend. Sounds like the two projects can both co-exist due to the slightly different emphasis influencing each project's trajectory.

[1] http://jupyter.org/

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter

[3] https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264
I went with OneDrive for all pics. On Mac I import all pics into a folder per year/yyyy-mm-dd. This makes it available in my Android phone too. On phone use OD to upload phone pics to Camera Roll folder, which I rotate into separate Dir every year. The OD web interface is good enough and I like the simple folder hierarchy. I also move and delete a lot of files around. The OD syncs this quickly to web and phone. Lastly I like the recycle bin on web interface because I can see good size thumbnail of deleted file and also metadata to make sure it wasn't something I deleted by mistake. This is a huge plus for me over DB and GD. Only downside of OD for me is no Linux client, so limit picture management to OSX.
I have used essential oils for nearly everything including internal consumption, external issues, cleaning everything(alternative to bleach, etc), veterinary and can say they work. However, there are a lot of claims out there regarding essential oils that aren't true, so make sure you check a reliable source before you proceed.

Quality is very important, all essential oils are not the same.

It takes a lot of self education to take care of your own health but well worth it in the end.
Why just being the 'idea guy' in a startup does not work
logic, not hubris.
Look into the "Knowledge Problem". It's all very strange, and the naive first blush is that you'd be right. Turns out not to be true.

One version of the theory states that price information is just that - information - and you can't replace that with even excellent planning.

You could call China a hybrid of a planned/free economy, but as it's moved more to something akin to free markets, wealth has gone up, especially for the poorest there. This may be as close to an experiment as we can get in economics. Chinese Communism was never quite Soviet style Communism, but the results begin to look suspiciously like data.
ExMplayer for Fedora(rpm package) will be available soon
Since most sinus infections are viral, antibiotics probably did nothing at all.
Time to ditch iCloud. This private cloud device is safer, faster and cheaper
I have started using Impala/Parquet in combination with Solr for real-time/batch analytics. Impala is very fast - it basically bypasses the entire Hadoop stack to perform its own distributed processing and IO, and Parquet is a great data-at-rest format. I have found the best way to update data holdings is by landing data in Avro format (which is a great streaming format as it carries its schema around with it), referencing it as an external table, then scheduling an Impala query to convert the current Avro bucket into Parquet. I am also looking at using Spark Streaming for real-time map/reduce style processing to value add to the data flowing into Solr/Impala. Even with a moderate sized cluster I feel like I have a lot of processing power at my fingertips, and it all just works. Hadoop is really starting to shine.
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I remember looking at his work when I was a grad. student. Some of it was amazing. For example, I remember once he set up an apparatus to grow crystals using chemical vapor transport. To know when it was finished, he sealed wires to inside the quartz tube (as an open circuit) and connected them to a battery and a light bulb. When the crystal (which was conducting) grew large enough between the leads, the light bulb would turn on. It was elegant and simple. (Usually this type of synthesis occurs in a furnace where you can't tell the progress and just have to guess and take it out). We still refer to the "Goodenough-Kannamori" rules of thumb when we're trying to use heuristics to guess how an oxide will order magnetically. He's had a truly impressive career...
I'm confused. Is this the same Mailbox that I've been using on my iPhone for like two years? Why is this news?
It may be dated, but some writers and economists hold that people aren't even consciously aware of their own preferences. So even if you could gather the data from what people way they want, there would still be error.

One of the most colorful examples of this comes not from economics, but a strange book on advertising called "The Hidden Persuaders". It also talks about erotic images airbrushed into the ice cubes of whiskey ads :) When I'd first heard of "Mad Men", I'd hoped it would be about that, but it wasn't.
I wouldn't bet a dollar that it is tempest safe.

ps: for the ignorants, like I was two minutes ago, http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/Tempest.html tempest is about reading devices electromagnetic radiations to intercept data.
Look, man. Until one gets a sample size that's a fair bit larger than two, one cannot know whether the person professing confusion or the person professing clarity represents the more common case.

Chill.
Could the unreviewed code be a liability?
I've had this happen with Clojurescript. If I recall correctly, runtime errors refer to the generated code, rather than to the source. So it can be hard to diagnose what exactly is going wrong.

This may have changed since I was last working with Clojurescript.
What Is Subprime Auto Loan
Mamoon Hamid from S23P reveals secrets to SaaS investing
I'm skeptical of any x-to-JS compiler as usually I end up debugging 2 different codes, where the second one is machine generated. After that you try to work around on the first to make the generated one do what you want.

I can't speak to any other x-to-JS transpiler but I've been writing ClojureScript almost every day for close to two years and this has never been an issue. At the very least this has to be dependent on which 'x' we're talking about.
I totally agree on your assessment of the weird politics around farmers. But I also thought that the article was a good illustration of the general issues around DRM. Sometimes it takes a compelling example to illustrate a general principle. Until now I wasn't particularly opposed to DRM (at least when it used technical, rather than legal, mechanisms). But this article shows how locking people out of equipment they own has a tendency to be used in an economically inefficient way. In this case, milking people for repair costs that they don't fully consider when judging the purchase price.

I guess the counterargument is that DRM protects people from themselves (in this case, making repairs that would be better done by a professional). But the article made a good case for a lot farmers really wanting to be able to repair their own equipment.
Hopefully his career will continue and he comes up with a new breakthrough battery.
I would love to start a hardware startup (I even have an idea!) but I have no idea how to assess the feasibility of my idea, or how to hire h/w engineers. And it's not a billion dollar idea, so maybe it's not in the YC wheelhouse, but I sure as hell think it'd be fun.
Where the 'real' Silicon Valley is
Chairman Greenspan thought that banks would behave rationally, and that is a portion in EMH theory.
Then you might enjoy example 7 on page 18 of this document:

UNIQUE ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

By Walter Maner

http://faculty.usfsp.edu/gkearns/articles_fraud/computer_eth...
Writing Linux Test Project Test Cases
A few countries already do this around the EU - Latvia, Czech Republic: http://www.ica.cz/Get-ZEP-package
Among the Subway’s Millions of Riders, a Study Finds Many Mystery Microbes
I personally managed to follow the series without difficulty, though I can sympathize with the parent's sentiment because I felt a brief moment of confusion when the page first loaded. Excellent write up though! Looking forward to going through the rest of the content after work today.
There's a break-down of the sales on the author/atheist/ex-Mormon's blog:

> My 2nd year net revenue increased to $100,134, again after Apple’s cut.

http://www.trevormckendrick.com/My-2nd-Year-in-the-App-Store...
I'm not sure this is a bad thing. The criticism of C and its counterparts is valid in some respects, but I think the dogmatic views of FP proponents overstep the bounds of what is justified in many situations. Often a more procedural solution maps better to the problem at hand than a recursive or functional one would.

Just to clarify: I'm not anti-FP in any way. I've implemented some fairly large projects in OCaml and like the language a lot, however, I don't think FP supersedes more traditional programming styles in all (or even many) cases.

I expect some people to disagree with me and I'd love to hear why! I put my viewpoints forward not to say that they're the absolute truth but more to get responses from other people. I'd be more than happy to chance my opinions if given compelling evidence.
I'm interested in a productive dialog; I'm not trying to engage in an attack here.

Doesn't your suggestion harm the UX for the person who has spent the minute or two required to figure out how to operate the site?

Even from my very first visit earlier today, I found great value in being able to read the annotated code and the annotation simultaneously.
Is this replacing iPhoto? I can't imagine iPhoto and Photos would make sense existing alongside each other.
I'll second this. I took a course using this textbook and it was one of my favorites.
What a horrible thing to do. OK, Coke is not being altruistic here but trying to leverage people's feelings to sell more flavored sugar water, but Gawker ended up outdoing the white Nationalists rather than calling them out or mocking them - and I think neo-Nazis are probably a bigger cancer on society than the Coca-cola corporation, notwithstanding my feelings about diabetes and tooth decay.
No surprise, but no one has handed me my private keys. An interesting aside is that my library also happens to provide an excellent framework for performing timing attacks. It is intentionally easy to walk through, and I encourage anyone with constructive actual criticism of my implementation to step up.
Oh, my mistake. You may be right about Maps data being more expensive, if so then it does make sense for apple to make a Web search engine.
Yes, it's serious. But I'm sure I'll get more downvotes for saying that too...whatever.
Worst case, I bet someone will make a chrome plugin to purge twitter results from search.
Ask HN: Where do you save code snippets or cli commands
Hi, where do you guys save code snippets and/or cli commands that you have just learned before you memorize them?
> Accuracy is over-rated for breaking news.

I don't even know what to say to that.

The notion of accuracy being "overrated" in any aspect of news is very troubling to me. Wars are fought, people are killed, and lives are destroyed as a result of inaccurate news.

For some news events up to 30% of the content being shared (and going viral) across social networks is verifiably false. That sways beliefs and opinions and affect lives. To conclude otherwise is completely irresponsible and incredibly dangerous. That's dangerous for society, dangerous for democracy, and... I can't believe I'm actually arguing that inaccurate information being shared as if it were accurate is dangerous.
What happens when you wire the money and get no domain?

Might be worth mentioning Escrow.com/Sedo upfront.
Make kids study and learn in exchange for Internet access
Dear Hackers,

I am trying to recruit participants for a free, open source project. The project is called AutoTeach, and is a way to supplement video game time with constructive educational activity. I have developed a simple, open source credit-meter/router using a Raspberry-Pi running Gentoo Linux which solves the micro-management issues that arise when trying to supplement ones' childrens' education.

The other half of the system are the educational activities. For these there is a website built to accommodate open source, GPL-v3'd contributions from developers. All software in the project is GPL-v3 licensed. Activities are developed in JavaScript with no dependencies, except jQuery (optional). There is no lock-in. All software activities can lead a completely free and independent life outside the platform.

The project also involves a new economic model whereby parent-subscribers pay a modest subscription fee, which they have the option to distribute among develpers of their choice. This scheme maintains engagement between the user and developer communities, which is something that is often lacking. The ongoing engagement and compensation of developers is expected to accelerate and advance the overall state of open source education software.

The system is built and functioning with 3 prototype activities. I am looking for more early adopters, developers, and participants in general, so that we may reach the critical mass at which the system can self-sustains in true synergistic symbiosis.

Anyone intrigued by this is encouraged to consider becoming involved via our Kickstarter campaign, which goal is to recruit early adopters by providing the AutoTeach credit-meter at cost. In addition to Kickstarter you are invited to join the forums or connect in any other way. Please note that the project webpages, including Kickstarter, are currently undergoing simplification and clean-up.

http://www.asymptopia.org/autoteach

Charles Cossé
Yup, Fanout.io is basically a hosted Pushpin service, among other things (like Webhooks, Bayeux, etc).
Yes, it's sad. It's as if dimensions/units don't matter. There was a story about this quack on NPR that thought he could prove Einstein wrong. Turned out the guy couldn't differentiate (or wouldn't?) between momentum and energy. All his units were mixed up. He didn't even see the flaw in that.
A bit off topic, but if you have an AVIC NEX series, there's a software hack for that involving pushing a few times on the screen. See avic411.com. OTOH, if you're informed enough to wire a relay bypass, you're probably informed enough to know this already and know it doesn't apply to your model. :-)

Even more off topic, I was going to email this to you but your addy isn't in your profile, despite stating in your profile to email about employment opportunities. :-)
I've been following OSE casually for several years - it was an intriguing proposition. The online presence gives the impression that it has collapsed. I think Marcin has squandered the energy and we'll not be seeing anything more from it.

A disheartening article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilizatio...
Farm boys have been taking their lives into their own hands since time began by fixing their own equipment. Somehow, I doubt that those (completely plausible) reasons are enough to justify curtailing a basic freedom of owning one's own capital.
What is self in Python?
Le jeu mobile Epic War TD 2 adapté pour Android
As much as I love Mailbox's flow for handling my email, I can't get over the performance issues and random crashes with the app. After a few weeks of usage the app slows down on launch and becomes a chore to use.

In contrast, Outlook (previously Acompli) is very stable. It may require more taps to do something like move an email to a specific label, but at least the app performs well and hasn't crashed on me once.
that name is confusing.
Right? Me too. Then it dawned on me: "Software Developer" is just the new "Secretary". Instead of guarding filing cabinets, you are managing a db. Instead of manning the front desk, you maintain the website.
Do what you love the most, and get exposed to a bunch of tech companies at once
String theory was supposed to simplify everything by replacing all the vertex factors with the free space propagator for a string. But then it turned out that string theory wasn't that simple and actually made things even more complicated...

I think that's something any software engineer can relate to.

(please correct if my summary of string theory is incorrect, I only have a vague understanding of it)
i considered paying 5k+ for a domain once. instead I just found another one that was unregged. very happy with my decision.
The trend of compounded growth since 1820 has been 4%, really until some time from the 1990s to now. Many suspect the natural rate of growth still to be 4% but somehow, our policy or behavior suppresses it.

The transition to the lower rate of growth is a lot covered by Tyler Cowen under the rubric " The Great Stagnation".

We're roughly 2096 ( exp(1.04,195) ) times wealthier on aggregate than in 1820. This happens very slowly. Since 1960, the ratio is 8.6:1 - you and I are 8.6 times as wealthy as the people most like us from 1960.

Megan McArdle talks about the "Little House On The Prairie" Ingalls family not being able to afford a modest tin cup for the third daughter for a long time - apparently something noted in the books. Yet they were "middle class"
by the standards of the times.
> When most people get their news from Reddit, and when techies get their news from HN

"Most people" have never heard of Reddit or HN.

The difference isn't 60 seconds vs. 20 minutes; it's <=20 minutes vs 6 hours. Do a Google News search for a breaking news event and for a few hours you only find yesterday's articles.
It's essentially a hybrid of Aperture and iPhoto. Similar to what they did with Final Cut Pro and iMovie. Basically they remove all the really powerful features and replace them with an interface a 4 year old could use. It'll probably be a win for iPhoto users who are looking to step up their photo game a bit, but it's a bit of a kick in the teeth for Aperture users who probably now need to look at Lightroom.
Apache Phoenix: http://phoenix.apache.org/ is another SQL engine on top of Hbase/Hadoop. If you have an existing HBase cluster, Phoenix is a much easier way to put a SQL layer on top by simply mapping existing hbase tables to Phoenix tables. The icing is the ability to use JDBC tooling to query the system (Squirrel, DbVisualizer).
Economics describes emergent phenomena. And widely-held beliefs about economics affects the behavior of the thing being studied. This is self-referential interaction highly amplified.
Understanding the Linux CPU Scheduler[pdf](2005)
I've tried using Infobitt a dozen times, and I'm still not sure what its goal is. I think I get it, but I'm trying to understand how it would be useful. No offense to Larry, he's a great guy, I just don't get it yet..

Inside sums up reports from other news sites. It's a content portal, but I don't consider it news per se. That being said, I consider every news site ever a competitor (as is technically every website and app). I just don't preoccupy myself with what they're doing, because (as I hope you'll see in a couple weeks), we're doing something completely different. It's apples and oranges at the end of the day. We're either decidedly different and better or we're dead. The waters are much too muddy for yet-another-news-app.
A Sneak Peak at NASA's New Satellite That Has Been 16 Years in the Making
When I interview places, and the interviewer gives me a single question, I hit them with something almost no one expects ("If you could change one thing without veto, what would it be?")

I will remember this one. That's a great question for interviews.
Thanks.

Beaker has autotranslation for communicating among languages, and you can have multiple languages in one notebook.

Four months ago someone asked for compare and contrast:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245

Since then we have fixed a ton of bugs and fleshed out the concept. The reflection API and JS scriptability are about to be released, along with a bunch of UI polish, performance, and all kinds of fixes.

There are only 2-3 of us working for 2 years so far. The project is still young and developing, and in fact we are hiring! Especially we need a Javascript Engineer, Angular experience a plus: http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html
Ask HN: Senior devs applying for junior position?
Hi,

I recently placed an ad looking for a junior developer for a project paying a very junior rate and yet have received a high percentage of senior developer resumes.

As a senior developer, I am curious about why that is. I am also wondering whether I should move forward with those candidates who are, according to their resumes, capable of commanding a rate several multiples of the one I am offering.

Your thoughts?
Only for as long as the DRM key-holders allow it to be
This is fantastic! Thank you :)

For my use case, each client needs a separate channel which is short lived (they are generating a report which is unique and takes some time). Would pushpin have any problems with such a setup?
Yes, cellphones and routers are not affected, but this is only because they use BusyBox etc not glibc.
Yea that's pretty well hidden in the UI. My attention span didn't last to the end of the video.
Hey, you might sell running shoes and be a couch potato. Why is this even a question?
When did Caltech join the Ivy League?
bbcp is a supported protocol at rsync.net.

Just saying.
I will try and reproduce it. All I can remember is that after adding Realm to my build, and without calling it/invoking it in any way, my app crashed as soon as deployed to the emulator.
“Geometry and Experience” by Albert Einstein (1921)
Two keys to a failed CS education