skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be useful to those not familiar with it, but this blogpost was written using IPython Notebooks - you can code, plot and then render to HTML all in the browser. Most of my data science work is done using this format. If Python isn't your language of choice, there are lots of plugins for Python Notebook to let you effectively do in-browser REPL with plotting and documentation: http://ipython.org/notebook.html

It's changed the way I work (and blog)
Here's an optimization that one of the maintainers of rails is doing (has already done?) on #find

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/02/19/adequaterecord-pro-li...
My grandparents own 5000 acres, of which they used to farm around 3000 acres of that actively. And we managed all of that with my grandfather, a hired hand, and myself in the summer, and just my grandfather and the hired hand during the winter. We did a 2000 acre wheat harvest, and 4 cuttings of hay at a 1000 acres a cutting in the summer from June through September.

I worked 12 hour days during the summer from the time I was 12 until I was 17.
Composable and Compilable Macros – You Want It When? (2002) [pdf]
Not necessarily. A lot of our trash is in complex molecules. If the binding energy of those molecules is higher than the binding energy of the simpler elements/compounds that we get out then, in theory, the process would also be energy positive.
> "using a dinosaur scanner (which someone will need to invent)."

I'm not sure I understand you fully. What is this portion of your comment analogous to?
I don't think the parent meant 'mega farms that are owned by families' to be the same thing as 'family farms'.
It is the same with antibiotics, people that naturally would not be able to reproduce, will, so the global genetic outcome will change, and possibly something making a given person susceptible to a given infection will be passed to the next generation. But nobody, fortunately, pretends that it is a bad idea to give antibiotics to patients.
The Great Moon Hoax and the Christian Philosopher
A tax credit is not the same thing as a deduction (write off). A credit goes dollar-for-dollar against taxes owed. A deduction reduces the amount to which the tax percentage is applied.
I don't know if this would work in your specific business sector but when I read your description I thought: Take a page from the Pivotal Labs playbook. They did, and do, exceptionally nerdy things. But they steer their clients with a very deep Extreme Programming, Agile methodology. All of their engineers are also project people. All of their engineers can also talk to clients. But they do so in a very specific way. They plan projects the same way. They write documentation the same way. They interact with clients the same way. They have the "Pivotal Way" and they stick to it.

When they came into a project that I was working on they took two hours to look at what we were doing. They took another two hours to map our a plan to get us where we were going using an XP style story map. They spent an hour getting it into Tracker and having a planning meeting with us. Then they started working. Using Agile Principles they were able to keep up with the scoping, the docs, and the communication in about half an hour a day every day. This was no small project. I can't say how much we paid them for those few months, but imagine a number with seven digits. So, this was not a small project.

I have used this same methodology myself and it has been extremely beneficial and lucrative. We get a lot of work done, we make clients very happy, and we live according to principles we really believe in. It's amazing for business.

At any rate, hopefully this will help you a bit. To answer your question more directly, hire another engineer. Change the parts of your business that aren't effective for your style of work to something that is effective. Good luck!
>Why do it if it feels wrong ?

I may well be mistaken but I don't believe this was the intended meaning in the quote. Do what feels right, that's not being disputed... but what feels right to someone who "sees the code" behind things in life is often very different from what feels right to the average/normal human at this point in time. Like how everyone loves a good comedian but if you ask any good comedian they almost all say you have to be kinda fucked up to embrace that life... I agree with you though, I don't thing it's wrong or fucked up, I think it's just different from the lives that most people believe to be everyone's status quo.

Amish people freak me out. I can't understand why you'd want to limit yourself to that set of strange ideals (roofers with cell phones who play angry birds on lunch break but they have to higher a driver because it's against their weird rules?) but I don't believe they are fucked up or wrong... they're just a quark of this strange existence... I don't want to believe it but I might be just like them if I'd grown up indoctrinated into that life. There is some beauty in every path if you choose to see it.
Is there a list of specific answers? I don't even know of all the ways one could organize a project. I suspect that might generally be the case for a lot of people, too. Publishing and promoting a project is a completely different skill set from developing it. It feels like the majority of developers default to thinking of "release open source" or even just "release" as meaning "publish on Github with the MIT license" plus maybe "post one link on Hacker News". That is a way, but is it actually the way that is in their best interests?

I have a library project right now that I provide dual-licensed under GPLv3 and a paid, proprietary license. It's not typical to release libraries under the GPL rather than, say, the LGPL or MIT. My reasoning is "code or coin, you gotta give something." I have no idea if it will actually work (and I'm not banking on it working, I wrote the thing for my own use first and foremost), but I am starting to think that I would rather nobody use my code than everyone if it meant I didn't get anything out of it past an 'at-a-boy.

Put another way, if I were Ryan Dahl, having gotten Node.js started off on my own, and I still had to work for a living, I'd be pretty freaking pissed. (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/hfajgpvGTLY) Maybe the actual Ryan Dahl doesn't care (and maybe he chooses to work, I don't know the exact details), but it would seriously bother me.
A lot of my grand dad's implements were from the 50's - 70's. I never knew him to take any of them anywhere to be fixed. He could to it all with a relatively small collection of tools.

Heck, when a tread linkage broke on his D9 Caterpillar we managed to get a new one and get it installed right in the field.
I'm very happy that it worked well for you.

Those with different data access patterns may not be as fortunate.
Just don't try to do TCP over tapes on a station wagon.
Twitter’s User Growth Continues to Disappoint, Revenue Surges
That's pretty fascinating actually. Its like the alumni have formed a close-knit network that provides both capital and expertise. I didn't know endowments worked that way...I was suspecting they would be mostly invested in "Safe" stocks and bonds.
I saw a presentation on this last month, and found myself wanting to invent a problem just so that I could solve it with this type of scaling. Great presentation and great product.
This is so cool:

Other research, from a 2011 issue of BMC Proceedings, showed that adding a combination of plant extracts—from oregano, cinnamon, and chili peppers—actually changed the gene expression of treated chickens, resulting in weight gain as well as protection against an injected intestinal infection.

I have used all three of those as part of my treatment for my health issues, rooted in a genetic disorder. This is just so, so cool.
Naturally this is just a single experiment, but it does offer some statistically significant results for combinations of antibiotics and lavender, peppermint, and cinnamon oils:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537749
I started using Impala this summer on AWS Elastic Mapreduce. Previously I'd been using Hive. We had at least a 100x speedup in most of the work we do because of it. Things that would have been impossible before (near realtime classification) are now feasible with mini-batches. My only (major) gripe is that AWS only supports several versions back. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot problems and find documentation. That said, the benefits far far outweight the cost.
What would be the ramifications of a positive result?
Uber Will Add Panic Button and Location/Journey Sharing in India on February 11
Cylon.js – A JavaScript Framework for Robotics
This is like saying that all computer programmers are responsible for enriching themselves for hacking target and home depot. It is crazy that you are so easily dismissing an entire academic discipline.
A little more info about the bankruptcy filing here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-...
That is almost exactly how I view it. I can buy two super cheap cars for less than one very reliable one, and when it's something that I can't fix cheaply or quickly enough I sell off the car and go buy another.

I also stick to the one pay check rule for cars, in that no car I buy should cost more than one paycheck, although I did make an exception for the van we use to haul the younguns around in.
I think you're misreading the article. The poll wasn't "attached" to any news story, a portion of the polling was conducted after the story broke.

It is also completely possible to carry out representative polling over the internet; this poll executed by Reuters and a prominent market research firm, it wasn't a sidebar in a CNN Online post.
That was the preparation for bankruptcy. This is the official filing, which is a different thing. (I have a relative who leases a building to Radio Shack, so I'm watching this closely.)
Android Wear: tutorials
What commercial products are you using that you don't do multilayer boards? Nothing that involves RF, or fast buses.
Yep. Discipline is the principle at work in making any craftsman better...whether it be a carpenter or a programmer. The nice thing about programming though is that there is so much technology and knowledge easily accessible for programmers to become better at their profession; I'm not so sure about other professions.
Contractor.
... and nothing of value was lost.

Seriously, I went down to Radio Shack about 6 months ago looking for a decent soldering iron, and came up empty handed at both of the local stores.
>Like you said, it only includes feasible combinations which is determined by our universe

What do you think I was arguing? The OP argued "Even though the universe is (probably) infinite, this does of course not mean that it is infinitely repetitive". 'Repetitive' by definition means a feasible combination of atoms.
In 10 years time, the NSA will be able to decrypt anything that is encrypted with 2015 encryption.

Will they? The standard ten years ago was AES-128/256. Are they able to decrypt it now?
AWS SDK for Ruby – Version 2
It would help hugely if we all become Vegans or at least vastly reduced our meat/fish consumption. Producing meat and animal products is very inefficient in terms of land and resources and encourages the use of antibiotics.

Of course this is a pipe dream and barring a world extinction threat, is never going to happen.
source for manuka honey healing? what does it heal?
great stuff! nice to real businesses submitted to HN. I know from my sisters and family members and my travails in the appstore that collage makers are in serious demand, and the option to order prints is a good business.

you really are 'solving a problem' (i hate that phrase!) for normal people who'll have no problem logging in with Facebook, unlike HN users
This feels like "WorldVision" for programmers. The wealthy pouring support on the forgotten, decrying the unjust conditions, only to forget about them and return to their normal lives.

Unlike the poor children of the world - Koch's decisions are wholly responsible for his current predicament.

The "market" doesn't care about individuals like Koch, and he chose to continue despite his efforts not being reciprocated/acknowledged.

I'd like to say that Koch should have abandoned the project, and if the market saw that maintenance/development of GPG was important, it would have happened.

However, it's not a perfect world - and there are probably plenty of pieces of critical software installed on our systems that are no longer maintained.

Would GPG have become one of these unmaintained codebases had Koch acted in his own self interest?

Or, would have another organisation/individual funded someone else to maintain and develop it?
Dimensioned: Compile-time checking of arbitrary units of measure in Rust
Gasoline manages 12kWh/kg, and I'm sure I've heard people talking about batteries at least approaching that density before, even if only on a theoretical basis.

Leaving aside how safe I'd feel with a supercap of that density under the hood, are you sure about the 800Wh/kg limit? I'd be very interested in seeing a reference.
I use SleepingSpider.
I have a professor who worked there for 6 months. He said it was one of the most unorganized positions he's worked at. There's no focus, and during the media blitz from TED, he got way too much money, and didn't know how to spend it effectively.
4% of crop land is outside of family farms any they produced 13% of crop value? That suggests family farms on average suck.

However the definition of "family farm" tends to get stretched a lot. 50,000+ accre "Family Farms" are hardly what most people think of as family farms.

Eighty-three percent of cropland was on farms that were larger than the mean size, and 71 percent was on farms that were more than twice (1,100 being the meadean).

Also of note, a lot of "Farms" are really only farms in name only. Hay production for example qualifies even if you outsource harvesting to someone else. Happen to own a large field well it's easy to make some money on the side even if someone else does all the work and it barely covers taxes.
Do you keep your money in a bank? I get worries about storing things on Facebook, but I feel the implicit contract about iCloud is that it's a personal drive (unless you explicitly make something public).

I understand some people might be really good at automated backup and whatnot, but for me this solution means not losing photos. (probability losing photos) * pain is much greater for me than (probability having photos public) * pain (at least my impression of it)
Where I work now, I'm basically paid to break into this stuff for a living. Its nothing but a mountain of 10-20 year old "protected" protocols. All of which are now unsupported, obsolete, or completely forgotten by long out of business companies.

If the farmers think its bad now, just wait a few years. DRM hurts everyone. Its like toxic waste. A huge externalized cost that lets a company eke out a small short term extra profit at the expense of society at large. We need "clean air act" level legislation to fix it. We've actively done the opposite.
When I was in driver's training, the instructor (and the book) called it "the ideal parking spot".
I like it. But, I do think you can't fully embrace your strengths until you've admitted your weaknesses. Maybe it's my own biases but I'm afraid of people ending up at a dead end, an unsolvable problem, and not having an outlet because they haven't been forced to lead a somewhat normal life like the people surrounding them. That's an awfully dark place to be in. I think it's important not to let someone get too inside their own world, you still have to try and "integrate" them into "society" but I certainly agree there are better ways it could be done than holding everyone to the same strict/lacking standards across the board.
Nice. How much direct typo traffic do you get from ww.com?
Any more clues? :)
Stop time right now. You now have an static, unchanging, universe. This universe is infinite in size, and roughly equally dense with matter and radiation across this infinity. You really want to make the argument that there isn't another Earth out there?
That doesn't work either (i'm sure you know that already though but just communicating)
Inheritance generally has jack to do with IQ points.
considering this is for iDevice and Mac users, it's far from free.

Besides, Dropbox has way more coverage and is offering 16 gigs.

Apple has $150 billion in cash, so it's not an infrastructure issue.

The core is probably that they don't "need" to offer more, so don't. But that doesn't mean we can't ding them for their behaviour
> It raises more questions than it answers (not in the "false flag!!!" sense, but in the "so who was actually behind this???" sense).

Out of curiosity, what exactly would you need to believe that it was a false flag attack? Given the facts that:

- On the morning of 9/11, the two folks the Bush administration chose to lead the investigation were watching the attacks over breakfast with the guy who ordered 100k to be wired to the lead hijacker to pay for the attacks.

- Multiple top FBI officials have said they could have stopped the attacks but were prevented from doing so.

- The secretary of transportation said he overheard what he interpreted as Cheney giving the order to shoot down one of the planes.

- The Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laden if the U.S. presented evidence that he was involved in the attacks, and the Bush administration declined to do so.

- The Bush administration prevented an independent investigation into the attacks for over a year, and when they finally allowed one they gave it almost no money and completely stonewalled it.

- Members of the commission said they were lied to by people at every level of government but were prevented from doing anything about it.

- Large portions of the report are still classified, and IIRC 2/3rds of the notes and transcripts of the commission are still classified.

- The testimony of several whistleblowers was not included in the report, or they were not allowed to testify. Several whistleblowers were given gag orders.

- The majority of the trial testimony of the gitmo detainees has been has been classified. And that's where the government didn't prevent them from testifying on certain subjects entirely in the first place.

- One of the two main pieces of evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11 was a video tape of someone confessing under torture, which was later destroyed. The second was a video of a short fat guy the government claimed was Bin Laden confessing to supporting the attacks, even though he looked nothing like Bin Laden, and Obama then refused to release pics of Bin Laden after his death to show the public whether or not his appearance really had actually been radically altered since his younger days.

I mean short of jesus himself coming down and saying the government was involved in 9/11, I don't see what better evidence you could get. And those are only the most well verified facts, not including anything that is disputed or conspiracy-theorish, of which there are plenty more claims at varying levels of credibility. I'm not saying it's not possible that there wasn't a conspiracy, and I could see how other reasonable people could disagree, but I really don't see how anyone can look at the evidence and say that the 'conspiracy-theory' stuff is clearly nonsense.
Show HN: Schwarzenegger voiced explainer videos. Do it now!
The Baroque Cycle was a lot of heavy chewing, but it was ultimately a pretty good story, and I was sad to come to the end of it. It's also, along with Cryptonomicon, one of the more interesting explorations of the world of money and finance I've found.

You might also enjoy REAMDE which it a bit faster-paced. I happened to enjoy Anathem as well, though that was also a bit of a slog. It did have a resolution though. And protractor.
couple huge problems that come to mind immediately.

1) owner risk. you are letting a complete stranger rent your car for x days. You have no control over how good of a driver they are or how many miles they will drive. as mentioned in other comments (and a fact that my dad, who owns a brand name car rental franchise CONSTANTLY harps about) is that people who rent cars treat them like crap. Rental cars lose value almost 3 times as fast as cars driven by their owners.

2) insurance complications. My current insurance doesn't even let my girlfriend drive my car, technically. If the person that flightcar rent my car to gets in to an accident, not only am I liable, but my insurance won't cover it.

3) uber/lyft is a much less risky method of using my personal vehicle for extra income, plus I maintain control of my car. Why take on that extra risk for such little return? doesn't make sense. I'd rather be an uber/lyft driver to make the extra $$.

4) return not worth the risk. article states $15-20 parking fees per day that would be avoided. lets say i'm gone 1 day, thats $20 cost. An uber from my place to the airport is currently $10 each way, so $20 bucks total. I can either park for 1 day or take an uber for the same cost. Anything longer than a 1 day trip would be dramatically cheaper taking the uber, so I don't park there. I'm not letting a stranger rent my car to save $20.

thoughts?
I honestly don't care who did this. Can we please take public key cryptography mainstream now. The fact that basic metadata like Name, birthdate mother's maiden name and SSN are sufficient to gain access to many aspects of my life are ridiculous.

What I don't want to see is knee-jerk legislation that erodes our privacy and rights further.

Really, just mandate by an act of congress that companies need to rely on public key cryptography within 5 years for everything and you'll see user-friendly solutions appear really friggin quick.

I remember back when I was in banking when they announced some crazy retention policies on all communication (written and voice) that wasn't technically feasible at the time congress passed the laws requiring those retention policies. Within a few years, there were a bunch of vendors with solutions for the banks to implement. Necessity is the mother of invention. Invent a necessity through an act of Congress and people will invent.
Let me know when self-driving cars can handle snow and ice successfully.

I find your usage of the word "faith" wonderfully telling.
I'm not sure how you can consider Apple nickel and diming for everything when they give OS upgrades away for free. Aside from wanting free iCloud storage, please provide a list of other services/products Apple charges for that you believe should be free?