skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that might be enlightening: taking an mucokinetic—a drug that increases and dilutes mucus, e.g. guaifenesin—increases cracking. Presumably sinovial fluid qualifies as "mucus."
Totally agree with the post. It's like all data and we need platforms to derive information from the stream. Probably something like http://summly.com/ for your lists?
Cool, Microsoft is a beast when focused. Wonder how long it will last.
Fun with ML, Stream Analytics and PowerBI – Observing Virality in Real Time
darn it doubled my age no matter what photo i used, oh well guess i gotta get used to being 42 then.
I'm still working through Ulysses and it's definitely tough but manageable. Finnegan's Wake though just seems too difficult right now. I'll need to take a break from Joyce and return later to attempt it.
Blue Origin Officially Now in the Commercial Space Game
I'd rather have them be different identifiers but with a compiler warning if they're found in the same file.
There's a mute button in the bottom left corner. For some reason it defaults to being muted on Firefox/Conkeror.
Spiky cells breakup the larger cells. I guess similar to the government breaking up monopolies. A bit of a stretch though.
I just installed Chrome, now it works. Safari didn't even load the graphics.
As important as how quickly your website responds to request for content is how quickly your organization responds to requests for information and assistance, whether for a new sale or to support an existing customer. It does not do much good to get a form fill "thank you page" 100ms faster if the inquiry takes a day or more to get a response.
Yes. While you can perhaps forgive any single individual for thinking a law might not violate the Constitution when it actually does, the deterrent effect should be that laws of questionable constitutionality should deter anyone who suspects such unconstitutionality that it would bar them from voting on it.

If the law doesn't get enough votes to be passed, then nobody gets in trouble.

I honestly don't know that it solves the problem of laws living up to the letter of the Constitution while failing to live up to the spirit, but it'd be a start.
How to use TypeScript Definition manager
Not sure you're now talking to news media or distracted with something else, but you need to engage with your HN audience as soon as you're available. We'd like to hear your feedback. Thanks.
> 4. D: 710 KB, same as Rust
> 5. Nim: 970 KB, statically linked
> Nim wins, by a large margin.

970 KB > 710 KB.
Interesting, though my preference is to use xclip on Linux (MacOSX has similar tools) and paste text via middle mouse.
Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft) Has a Far-Out Vision
Cling a C++11 interpreter – Solarian Programmer
They do conversion tracking and retargeting with tracking pixels as well, right?

They're pretty much an ads platform like Google Search or Facebook.
I would love to see this with orbital mechanics. As your mass increases, So does your gravitational pull.
What's up with the statement about ad-blocking? Are ads part of the game or are you just trying to convince users to expose their browser to global malware and exploit delivery?
What a strange post: "If its service is inherently cognitively stressful, it can’t possibly persuade new users to sign up."

How do new users know that until they use it? The problem this article discusses would seem to have nothing to do with getting new users (the problem discussed here) and everything about people stopping use of the service (churn) once they hit a tipping point of following too many people and getting tweet overload.
Interesting they don't ship paper maps over a certain size, just laminated ones.
Trying to read this from the UK I get the cryptic message:

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes."

...which doesn't in any way explain why I'm not allowed to see it. Well done BBC, well done.
Bubble theory: bubble collapses (hole was there, hole stops being there after collapse).

Hole theory: hole appears, (no hole before cracking, hole forms after cracking).

However, "hole" is usually used when the empty space goes entirely through the object, whereas a cavity means that there is an end/depth to it. For example, digging a hole in a sand is really also (more accurately) digging a cavity.
David Krakauer again. A fascinating researcher.
At what stage should a startup hire an evangelist?
this started for me at 14 :(
i feel old
> Would AWS certification include all the knowledge needed to 'operate' in those clouds?
I believe yes. You mostly have similar features with different service providers. It's just the differing terminology. Also, once you are done with the certification, you can dive further into current trends in the area of virtualization (for ex. containers)
Sorry, but $3M for a founder is not FU money. You can use it to buy a half-decent home in the bay area and a nice dinner...and well, that's it.
Show HN: A story about meat
I know there isn't anything to worry about, thanks to that one guy popping his knuckles in one hand for 60 years (quick google: http://geekologie.com/2015/03/taking-one-for-the-team-man-cr...) but the description in this article made me not want to pop mine anymore. :(
This announcement is from Github, not Microsoft.
Are you serious? Quick, write me a grep regexp that will catch all equivalently valid forms of a nim_Identifier (or nimidentifier or nImID_entif_iEr, but not NimIdentifier).
Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS – Part 2: Automated Maven Build
Or just insert into a new table then change the name in a transaction?
The article points out that the new versions of Finnegans Wake, the web annotations, graphic novel, twitter version, and so forth are all possible because the book has gone out of EU copyright. This is a good example of why limited-duration copyrights are a good thing, and why arbitrary extensions of copyright harm society.

Going back to the book, has anyone read it and found it worthwhile? I never managed to get through more than a few pages and suspect that it's not worth the time and effort to me. I found Ulysses was worth the effort, but I'm not so sure about Finnegans Wake - any dissenting views?
ΜQseven COM Aims Allwinner A31 SoC at Industrial Apps
I've done enough functional-esque coding in ruby/python/js/java8 that I can generally figure out a functional solution to lots of problems. I have not actually attempted to build any real software with Haskell yet, however; I'm mostly at the toy-program stage.
The Gavagai Living Lexicon
Good to know. One day I looked for the bust must plus flyer so I could leave some copies at the office printer, but I couldn't find it.
This is the poison in the open source world. If you have something that works "well enough" but never evolves, it holds everyone back. The barrier to entry is fairly high for an application like this, so I'm not saying this is an easy thing to fix, but it's worth fixing.

Linux in particular is filled with "well enough" solutions that should be striving to be better. Although there's misfires when controversial things like systemd happen, there has been steady improvement in other areas. Imagine if Nginx had never happened, if NCSA httpd was "good enough"?

The Windows user base deserves better than PuTTY.
Create a RESTful API complete with beautiful docs in 30 seconds
Interesting approach to helping students find work. From an employers point of view, I'd think most college students are interchangeable for entry-level work and student demand would outstrip employer supply, what's the incentive for employers to pay and use the platform?
Moore’s Law Milestones
I'm excited. How far along is it?
The article is reporting about a scientific study (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399090) that specifically talks about "future banned users" without asking why these users would be banned; The rest of the economist article is journalistic speculation.

The study authors do report that there's a propensity for polarization, i.e., that "we find a community bias against FBUs: posts written later in an FBU’s life are more likely to be deleted, regardless of whether they are actually worse".
> 2. Ocean thermal energy conversion - Is a big tower that sits in the ocean and grabs energy from the differences in water temp. This was on the cover of one of those kid's future science books. It hasn't been built that I know of.

There are demonstration units in existence, but other forms of energy are still too cheap for now.

> 3. Robotic crop harvesting - I don't think these are here yet

There are tech school programs for GPS controlled combines in the Midwest. Its been around for about 10 years.

> 4. Bipedal robots - I think we are almost there but again, there are more practical designs for military purposes.

Boston dynamics has this nailed down. Google acquired them last year, along with 9 other major robotics firms, and are slowly discontinuing certain military contracts if I understand correctly.

> 5. Robotic surgery, tele-presence surgery - not sure if this is a thing yet.

This already exists. In fact, there was a TED talk in 2013 regarding a telesurgical robot that gave haptic feedback with approximate pressures of that area. Can't recall the presenter's name.
Thank you for fixing it!!! I'm really starting to like you guys again!!!!
The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins
Given where you are in your career, you're inevitably a high-risk person to hire for contract work. That means that at least one of the following will be true:

* you'll be ignored by good clients that can afford to avoid that risk

* you'll be score low pay to compensate for the risk

* you'll be hired for "good" pay by bad clients because they don't know what they're in for.

* Nobody will hire you and you'll watch the months go by without making money or developing a portfolio.

None of these are especially great for you!

For now, you'll learn more and make more if you look for a job for a bit first. If circumstances or preference make that impossible, you have two options:

* reach out for opportunity through your networks - friends, family, local events

* list and/or bid your services through markets like elance, odesk, or Craigslist
OpenVr – Valve's Open Source VR API
$3 / mo is too expensive? Or did they change their pricing after your comment?
Ask HN: Elitist or reasonable concerns on state of front end development?
My freelancing to date has largely consisted of ML, stream processing, data integrations, microservices, and other backend work. However, more recently I've shifted to include frontend work with react/reflux/react-native/electron and I have run into a high number of issues with development practices. I find myself declining most work for obvious lapses in development practices and, on occasion, "duped" into accepting a client that sounds good on paper but isn't.

I have observed a severe lacking in areas like:

- Testing (i.e. usually none, which is often spun like an odd pro that they are so "fast")
- Devops (e.g. lack of repeatable/automatic deployments, things must be hand-touched, no continuous integration)
- Project management (e.g. no tracking of bugs, features, etc via issues, no milestone usage, no documentation)
- Git/Github basics (e.g. don't break the branch when doing PRs, create useful commit messages)
- Understanding of CSS/HTML basics (e.g. best practices, standards, anti-patterns)
- Understanding of React/Flux basics (e.g. child keys, anti-patterns, bastardizing with some weird approach)
- Understanding of functional programming basics (e.g. immutablity, HOFs, pure functions)
- Understanding of computer science basics (e.g. weird custom approaches that poorly mimic trees, no big-o concerns that hurt perf, memory leaks)
- Separation of concerns (e.g. making UI components know about and concerned with the data persistence layer)
- Security (e.g. secure credentials committed, pretty much an afterthought)

Are these issues simply the norm for frontend development and something I just need to get used to OR is perhaps my frontend network itself poor and something I just need to work on building up to more "solid" clients? I understand few companies are perfect and I am not asking for it all, but coming across clients with lapses in all these areas is what concerns me.
No one I know who is younger than 50 looks like Ray Kurzweil...
RethinkDB works really well with Angular and lets you build realtime experiences very easily. Check out this screencast -- http://knowthen.com/episode-10-building-realtime-application....
Maybe you don't need performance, but you like laziness; by being compiled and statically checked, nim can catch many bugs automatically with default tools.
But I don't think mine is best, I think it is merely good enough.

From this end, it would strike me as a hypocrisy: "I don't care which religion you follow, so long as you believe the one you follow is the best and you can rationalize that to yourself."

That doesn't really tell you much. It's like if you are interviewing a philosopher and say "where is your toga and beard? How you choose your toga and beard style is important to evaluating what kind of philosopher you are." What are you basing that on? Why do you think source control selection is relevant to the work you are trying to do?

It seems to me like a totally pointless question, except for the fact that it is a question and it will fill the time and require someone to talk.
I love changelogs. I choose programs based on how good their changelogs are. If someone made a program that just generated random changelogs, I'd probably use it.
Yea they are, although I have been on the wrong end of it. :)
But 970 KB < 710 KB + larger dependencies. Both Rust and D have dependencies, as mentioned by the parent comment.

You can argue whether or not the dependencies should be included in an executables size, but I think the comment is trying to show that Nim can create a complete program (with no dependencies) with less space.
Check out the blog: http://truecraft.io

It's got:

- Multiplayer support

- Entities (items, sand, gravel)

- World and player data persistence

- Crafting

- Farming

- Procedural terrain generation

About 10% of the world logic (i.e. the movement of water, growth of plants, behavior of doors) is implemented. Notably missing: mobs, combat, redstone, smelting.
> I think more and more programmers are realizing that the functional approach is almost always superior.

Only for a very limited definition of "almost always". It's almost always superior if you don't hit performance constraints, and if your problem isn't dominated by sequencing, and if your team can handle the functional approach, and if...

Why is it superior? It controls the state space explosion, and therefore makes it easier to understand and reason about your program.

Why could performance be a problem? Think about a functional quicksort algorithm. It doesn't do mutation, so at each stage, it has to return a new sorted list rather than sorting the list in place. As the list gets longer, the performance gets worse compared to an imperative quicksort.

Now, quicksort would actually be implemented as a library, and would be tuned for speed. But the same issue comes up in other ways. If you have to transform data structures, imperative can be more efficient than functional, and the difference grows as the size of the structure increases. (I could have called this area "scaling" instead of "performance".)

When could your problem be dominated by sequencing? It often is in embedded systems, where you're sequencing external hardware to get it to do real-world things. I mean, yes, you could write all that in a monad, but if that's the dominant thing you need to control, what does it gain you?

All that said, making any individual function pure (in the FP sense) is always at least a local win, because that function becomes simpler to understand, debug, and test.
Especially for front-end or full-stack developers, for whom the portfolio itself (i.e. a custom site) is a key portfolio piece.
You clearly didn't understand the article. The powerset construction you implemented turns a set into all subsets. The construction in the article turns one type of regular expression engine into another.
I took three pics of myself with Photo Booth just now, and depending on the lighting and position of my chin got 20, 34, and 47. I'll take the average?
Great design. I have been in gaming for a very long time and I can tell you that it is very very hard to raise money for games in Europe. Investors simply do not like game companies. Games are not predictable and often it is only luck that makes the difference between a smash hit and a failure. A few things you should try:
- talk to the guys at London Venture Partners. They are the only VC that solely focusses on games.
- talk to the European Games Group EGG. They are very open minded and can help with publishing and provide modest funding
- talk to the guys at Spil Games. Spil operates the largest European online games sites. You might be able to get prepayment from them if you give them an exclusive.

Also talk to other publishers. When setting up my own game company I managed to get pre payments from publishers. These guys do not take any shares of your company but they will take a large chunk of your future earnings. But publisher prepay coupled with their power to market your game is a good thing.
Anyone know what sort of auth or security provisions are involved? It seems great for developers, but if I were a user, I would worry about giving someone a remote session at my browser's javascript console.
It's BSD licensed, and there's also an announcement post here:

http://steamcommunity.com/steamvr
I don't have much interest in Minecraft, but it's interesting to see that you can now use Visual Studio to write Java.
Any idea why the compiler doesn't hoist the constant single-character regexp automatically?
Risky click of the day after seeing Goatse mentioned above. It was actually a pretty good read, thanks for sharing!
Did you actually read the article? That's a different powerset.
The Cost of Best Practices on the Web
There are electric drag racers with even more power. Example: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1091975_2000-horsepower-e...

It's not a problem of keeping the tires on the ground in this case, but from components shattering when all that power is applied. The torque on those wheels is absolutely insane.

Combustion engines need to be significantly larger to produce more power. Electric motors don't necessarily need more size, they just need to be able to handle more current, so the limitation is how fast you can get the power out of the battery and into the wheels.
I used two photos of me both taken the same day (corporate headshots that both appear on wedsites and in social media with my name), and it returned different answers. Both answers were significantly off.
Screwing with Microsoft’s age guessing machine is frickin’ hilarious
You should probably go read David Simon's take on it. It is brilliant and depressing and might provide you with some of the nuance you are evidently lacking. - http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/david-simon-talks-about-where...
I'm just getting started freelancing, so take this with a grain of salt.

How about subcontracting for an existing agency? You could do development work for a design shop, or overflow work for a development shop. Once you convince them, they'll be the ones finding clients. On the flip side, you'll just be a cog in the machine -- just coding to spec, rather than participating in and contributing to the client's success, which seems to be the agreed-upon recipe for freelance success around here.

The one thing I'm sure of: don't work for free or rock-bottom rates. If you're trying to pad out your portfolio with the goal of attracting future clients, you might as well just make a project for yourself. I made a couple sites for free for people who had hobbies, as opposed to businesses. They never got around to filling in the site content, so they didn't make for very compelling marketing. Or put another way, the "exposure" was worth very little.
Can you explain why you don't recommend LearnYouAHaskell? I'm genuinely curious.
Lean Canvas Creator
Reddit doesn't prevent more people from joining your sub. If you want a sub of 10K users, and 10M people join, too bad. Secondly, it doesn't filter users based on location. If I wanted to talk to the nearest 100 people, too bad. I have to make a new sub, find those people, and convince them to join.

So really, all of the two things that I suggested are things that reddit doesn't do.
This looks like solid execution on a simple but brilliant idea. I like the embeddable views as much as the instant API/docs.
Show HN: User Persona Creator
Unfortunate timing for myself, as well. This last week I've been meaning to get back to Haskell.

Sad news.
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"Cavity" literally means "an empty space". Bones are hollow but filled with marrow. To create a cavity, you have to stretch the bone so that there isn't enough marrow to fill it up.
Whatever strikes your fancy. If you're pursuing startup culture at your age, and you aren't trying to become a developer/engineer yourself -- you have all the freedom in the world.

You've probably got more honed skills to contribute actively, and you won't have opportunity to make especially useful contributions programming in anything that's widespread. So you can dable in something popular to be able to read it better, explore something esoteric to have something novel in your toolkit, or just pursue something that's personally practical like the systems scripting and web stuff you've already been toying with.

Don't overthink it. Just find the one that gets you excited and spend whatever time on it you'd like.
Chinese shopping for global robotics ventures
I altered the price as an experiment, it was previously $12/m.
It was $12/month when I first checked.
I'm sure Microsoft had some part in making this happen.
Apple says tattoos can cause watch problems
I've witnessed the death of a language with my own eyes. My father still speaks the local dialect but I don't and nobody of my age does. I just know a few words of it. It's really sad to see the death of a language, when a language dies, everything dies with it, the spirit of a culture dies. And most of these languages are not even recorded anywhere, there is just no trace of it. (that's also the case of the dialect I'm talking about).

However, a language rarely dies completely. Even if the next generations are not speaking it anymore, some words remains when the concept the word is describing does not exist in the new language, some traces are still there.
Hiring, training, and managing an internal sales team is very capital-intensive, especially in NYC. My guess (based upon the article) is that a large portion of the funds will go towards building their sales team. It seems as though they've found a profitable business model, and are attempting to pour gasoline on the fire.