skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty awesome, I signed up.

Can you show up distance even in km? miles don't give much information to me.
May be you can choose from imperial units and standard ones by people country...
Sure, Zoetermeerder here :)
Right, I wasn't denying #2. I'm just saying there can be no doubt that #1 is real, and more severe by far under the right conditions.
Some thoughts:

1. There's no clickable link in your post (HN doesn't auto-link URLs in posts). Generally, people will post a "clickable: http://address.com link in a follow-up comment when they post a "check out my site" request.

2. You only gave 20 minutes between your initial post and this follow-up. It is only 7:43 in the morning on the West Coast. People might not have seen it.

3. HackerNews readers might not be the best group for market testing your app. Personally, I'm not interested in either A) noise in my Twitter stream or B) notices of deals I can get. That doesn't mean that there isn't someone out there who would find it useful.

4. "Check out my app" requests are hit-or-miss on HN. Sometimes they get a lot of comments, feedback, and traffic. Sometimes they don't. I haven't pattern-matched the successful requests, so I'm not sure what advice to give on that front. Maybe someone else has some input on that.

5. If there really isn't anyone who's interested in this, it's much better to find out now so you can pivot the app or move on to a different app where you can find a solid userbase.
I'm doing the same thing, although with no family.

In August I'm heading down to Uruguay and getting permanent residency. The paperwork required hasn't been bad so far. I only needed to sign a few documents and get my birth certificate legalized. I've got a lawyer assisting me and helping handle my appointments (including a medical checkup) once I arrive. The law firm's website is www.fs.com.uy/sitio/en/

One thing to watch out for is that Uruguay may start taxing income (domestic and foreign) for residents who are there longer than 183 days of the year. That's why I'm also going to get residency in Paraguay (no income taxes and not much more difficult to acquire permanent residency).
The reason for that is that at the time of the interview there are usually many different positions you could wind up being slotted into.

In many cases this is still true at the time of the hire.

In a few cases this is still true at the time the person starts on the job.
Ok, here comes my guess: volume. Whenever I make tea in one of those massive cups, it doesn't taste bitter after 1-3 refills. I have Chinese family over for the weekend, so I'll ask & post back here.
I would love to just see pseudocode for how it works in a little more detail
Thanks, that's reassuring. The doctor said pretty much the same thing regarding not hitting the right patch of intestine with the biopsy. She also said I was a difficult patient and did not tolerate the procedure well, so she couldn't do as thorough an exploration as she would have liked (though this was mostly the colonoscopy, not the endo). In fact I recall screaming a few choice words at her during the procedure because I was in such pain. She said that I should ask for full anesthesia rather than just twilight if I ever repeat these tests.

I'm prepared to stick to this diet for 3-4 months or so before giving up.
Here on reddit : http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c1rcu/iama_person_with...

An ex Googler says he moved from CS to the lumbering industry ! Hope this helps.
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Since the natural history of people with sleeping sickness is to die within four months to one year of onset of CNS symptoms, this seems unlikely.
Utrecht represent =)
Looks like a cool site! Anyway you can add some blinking texts and some scrolling marquees, and some really cool things that I've already built and feel like bragging about?
'Junkware' comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones
But HackerNewsers requires "HN authentication", so that narrows you down to only importing hndir.com and hnhackers.com, no?
The thing about technological progress is that the replacement is never just "the old thing, only on computers". When people in the 90s wrote about the Internet and the Digital Library, quite a lot of them were envisioning something like Google Books, which is just a collection of books, only online! What actually happened was Wikipedia. (And a lot of other stuff, all of which further proves my point, but Wikipedia is sufficient.) Nobody in the 90s but the wildest visionaries saw Wikipedia coming. The Digital Library wasn't just the analog library writ large, it was something new that an analog library could never do.

Digital newspapers already exist. They are fed by RSS/Atom and do a variety of exciting things. Adding a top layer of formatting driven by a computer to make Google Reader (or your favorite RSS/Atom consumer) look like a old-style paper newspaper is a waste of time, and even worse, a waste of valuable screen space. Especially if you're going to try to write an algorithm to automatically figure out what the "top story" is, which will never be as good as a human. (And as in the first paragraph, there's also a variety of other things, like Slashdot, Reddit, HN, and all kinds of further digital elaborations on the fundamental newspaper template as modified by what digital makes easy and/or possible.)

Trying to replicate the old analog way of doing things is just silly.
There is definitely this push (in Australia at least, with special scholarships, etc.) for more men in nursing and teaching.
Nginx (static content + page caching) and Jetty make a good pair on a virtual server. H2 is a fast and lightweight database server and can also go on the same VS. I've had no problems with this technology stack at all - it should be fine until you get such a load that you can afford to upgrade your server setup.

My personal bias is to stay away from frameworks and use JDBC and a text templating library.

I would also stay away from most frameworks. Both the Play and Wicket groups have posts from people wondering where their memory has gone to.
I resisted the possibility of a psychological aspect to this for a long time, but eventually (when other things didn't pan out and enough doctors told me "it's all in your head") I gave in.

So I've seen several psychiatrists (both in the US and abroad), tried every kind of drug, and spent many months in psychotherapy. I feel like I really did investigate that angle thoroughly, and it's not the problem. I'm pretty confident in saying that it's not in my head.
The Disasters of Visual Designer Tools
Anything faster than G-WAN Web App. Server?
TrustLeap G-WAN was benchmarked against IIS + C#, Apache + PHP, GlassFish + Java and many others... but isn't it something faster in the Web App. world?
Getting two AI bots to talk to each other
Different Types Of Essays Are Used For Different functions
Though there are different types of essays, writer decides what type of essay to be written depending on the purpose and the situation. To learn these, students have to practice as many types as possible. Purpose and ways to write some of these types are explained here.
Not seriously. I like coding. But when I don't get to do it . . . I go a little nuts and have had thoughts about just getting out. This is usually related to poor working environment fit for my personality and personal goals. I think it is common, particular for corporate devs, to struggle with these types of feelings.

I have, by accident and plan (lack of knowing the effects), wound up in a similar place to what you describe. More directly, I have developed a marketable, but big corporate-focused skill set (RDBMS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 . . . ).

This is OK for now, it works for my geographic region, my family, and so far has been low-risk from the "I have a well paying job" perspective, but is completely unsatisfying career-wise from a challenging growth perspective. I've recently turned down one much higher-paying job than I have now and am struggling with a similar decision at this point for another job. My main fear is that the new offer represents "more of the same" and this website, PG's essays, and a number of other sources have poisoned me forever against living in my safe corporate cube in happiness.

Not that this will help how you feel much, but having really good domain knowledge probably has the effect of making you much more valuable than just a "mediocre programmer." Think about those guys that got YC funding, they were teaching themselves to program to implement their idea (can't remember the group, Jessica mentioned them in a Mixergy interview). It's not like they were super-hackers at that point or anything.

If I had your flexibility to quit and move, I'd try to hook up with one of the startups that float around this forum. I read a number of comments that make me think many of them are small with smart people who want hackers looking to push themselves hard and build stuff in a fun way. Could be fun, sounds like you don't need to make much in the way of money, maybe you can just sleep on the floor at the apt office.
ESR wrote about this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118
Harder for the government power grabbers to make the "child porn" argument against newspapers.
Man, he may even give away enough that he's no longer one of the 250 richest people on the planet.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great gesture but let's put it in perspective. He is and will remain obscenely rich and this will make absolutely no difference to him in terms of how he lives his life.

In terms of disposable income and day to day impact on what he can and can't do, it's probably less significant than someone on this board giving away $10,000.
Conversely, to me, the reasoning in the piece is extremely flaky. A few examples below:

1) The biggest and most obvious one is that the Times has a large amount of oversight already in terms of other papers as well as law. Google has nothing like that, search engines just don't work the same way. You don't get search results compared all the time. That does happen to reporting.

2) People tend to consume a variety of reporting mediums, but only one search engine. For example I read the Independent newspaper, the BBC or Guardian websites, on TV watch Question Time, This week (both BBC again admittedly) and Channel 4 news. And on the radio in the morning, news reports. I'm probably a bit more of an outlier, but I would guess many people are exposed to multiple suppliers of news without even realizing it.

And for search I use... um, Google.

3) The numbers are totally incomparable. How many people in the world rely on the Times' as their exclusive news provider in the world? 1% would be a gross over estimation. And Google for search? 66%.

4) Transparency. There is nothing transparent about Google's algorithm, while everything is supposed to be transparent at a paper. A journalist not declaring a vested interest is abnormal, they will even duck out of stories in which the have such an interest. Again, it's about oversight. Remember that hoo-haa a year ago about the massive argument those tech bloggers had on screen about free gear influencing their reports? That would never happen to a search engine.

There are many comparable intellectual bloopers in the satire just like this.

I've been of the opinion that Google needs some oversight for quite a while, they are getting scarily powerful. While I dislike government interference, the web is too important to leave to a company.

At the moment Google is fairly good, but there's no denying it's been favouring its own services at the expense of others.

We have nothing to gain in trusting it to regulate itself and everything to lose.
From the mkfs.ext3 man page:

-b block-size
Specify the size of blocks in bytes. Valid block-size values are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per block. If omitted, block-size is heuristically determined by the filesystem size and the expected usage of the filesystem (see the -T option).

I remember that Red Hat and Fedora used 1024 on my computer.

As for the distribution specific thing, maybe some distribution had their own version of /etc/mke2fs.conf (settings for mkfs, including block size).
As a rule, women tend to be more socially engaged -- but there's two sides to every Schwartz: an upside and a downside, and the downside here is a certain degree of cattiness and backstabbing that even my female friends complain of. (I tend to hang with particularly forthright people.)
This was a series I wrote last November and today realized that the HN community may appreciate them.

Part 2 is here: http://www.thepursuitofquality.com/post/2/the-pursuit-of-art...

Part 3 is here: http://www.thepursuitofquality.com/post/3/the-pursuit-of-art...
This is worse junkware than Apple's compass or stocks apps. Way worse. Hopefully this doesn't begin to happen more often.
How long should it take for me to show up on the map? I don't seem to be on there.
Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech
a few minutes, i cache it
You didn't tell us how well you learned C++. Do you understand pointers and how to manually build simple binary search trees and linked lists?

You see, C is a really small language and "learning it in depth" includes learning arcane rules, such as what constitutes undefined behavior, what names are reserved, etc.

I would recommend reading the "C Interfaces and Implementations" book by David Hanson. Another book that I'd recommend is "Expert C Programming (dark C secrets)" by van der Linden.
I did, I got so burnt out (see other posts in my profile) that I left. I started a Hardwood flooring business. It was
the only way to keep my earnings close to where I was at, at the time. While I loved doing the work, it was a disaster. I had people that would not show up for work, customers that did not like the look of certain boards. Anyway, I came to see that I just traded problem sets and quickly went back to development. Some people get out and are real happy with doing so, for me I took drastic measures for a problem that was simple to resolve. Unfortunatly, it took reflecting back for me to see it.
Too me it sound like a symptom of too many women at the same level and inability of management to handle the situation. I've worked with both male and female sports teams, and I would say that there's about the same amount of friction. I do think that men generally are raised with more "teamwork" in mind, i.e. more men do team sports. Just seem like a reason to get more female managers.
I'm not sure if this helps but if you're considering a subscription system I put this spreadsheet together in Google Docs so you can see how many subscribers at each tier you need and what your costs will be:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AumfOxrn5FGtdEN5U21L...
Big advantage running in a rich client app: easier to collect data on who spends time reading what articles.
I left programming in 2004-2005 to work at a skateboard company. I filmed and edited videos and went skateboarding for a year. It was great. I also only made $8000 the entire year, most of it from fixing the company's web site, so I returned to programming.
I think it will be very effective. However, the control options will be limited with a shake operation.
Though, the innovative thinking needs a hats off..
Big mystery holding back practical superconductors may have been solved.
I'm a woman and these sorts of things bug me. OK, so there aren't enough women in tech. Perhaps that's because they just don't want to be in tech! Sure I've had my share of "oh, well, there's no way you'd be good/no way you know what you're talking about because you're a woman" or similar sexist attitudes, but I don't want to work for those sorts of people anyway.

IMO if you want to be in tech, you'll find a way to do what you want to do. People (all people! not just women!) who are motivated to do something will do what's necessary to achieve it. Sure it's nice to have another woman to chat to occasionally when you run into sexist jerks, but otherwise I get on just fine with people of any gender because I'm confident and know my stuff, work hard, and am pretty laid back. Probably helps that I grew up with the net a bit though (I'm almost 30) so am no longer horrified by gutter humour or swear words, or other "unladylike" things.
I was in your shoes 3 years ago. I thought I would leave software dev entirely if I ever left the company I was working for. Turns out I only hated the company I worked for and loved software dev - went out on my own contracting for several years then recently signed with a fantastic company.
My experience (having interviewed at Google NYC twice, turned down both times) was that if I asked what language I should, they would always reply with either C, C++ or "C-like."

Only once was a particular language required (I was asked to implement memcpy, in part because the interviewer wanted to test my knowledge of low-level C and void pointers).

That said, I did write one of my solutions in OCaml even though the interviewer did not know the language (I asked him if I could, and he got the gist of my solution).
Did anyone else find all of Superfreakonomics to be a big let-down after Freakonomics?
Carnegie considered retiring at 35, when he was rich enough not to need to work more. But he kept working for the next few decades, and ended up making about 200X as much.

He wrote himself a memorandum, in which he totaled up his net worth and income, and decided it was enough. Apparently it wasn't, but that's a couple thousand libraries, organs, etc. that he otherwise wouldn't have purchased.

Oddly enough, Warren Buffett wrote something similar at about the same age, when he also semi-retired. Like Carnegie, he went back to work, multiplied his fortune a few more times, and had a lot more to give away at the end.
I'm going to make an analogy to love. In the beginning, you're attracted to someone mostly because of looks. Then you get to know all the good things (s)he has shared with you. Eventually, the passion flame wanes and you're now able to see her/his ticks and vices. The flaws.

Getting into software development is similar. At first you get excited by your first "hello world", then you find all sorts of cool things that can be done with code. Eventually the passion flame wanes, you discover maintenance, management. The boring stuff.

First, realize that pretty much everything you get into will follow this pattern because everything has good and bad sides. Then ask yourself: are the bad things in filmmaking/SF start-ups more tolerable than the bad things in your current situation? Are the good things in filmmaking/SF startu-ups more enjoyable/rewarding than the good things you currently enjoy?

As far as happiness goes, maximize the amount of time you spend thinking about the good parts of what you have. Write code for a hobby project, use your money to indulge every once in a while. Dream about things you want to do.

Or just take the leap and do them. Then, you'll just have different good things to focus on.
The protocol hasn't solidified yet. FaceTime calling via email addresses are still on the way.
looks like your from York, I'm thinking about doing a northern HN meetup thing (as we can't all get to london) if your interested?
Looking at the power consumption of the various components in the Wiimote, the only thing that really eats a lot of energy is the radio. Data is not processed on the Wiimote. Looking at the data stream coming out, the only processed data is the camera at the front, which does it super-efficiently in an ASIC/DSP. Maybe a supercapacitor or normal battery in addition to one of those could store energy from the vigorous parts and allow for unbroken interaction. Games are already designed to pause on battery low, so it would not be critical, just annoying.
Tissue biopsy is the gold standard for Celiac diagnosis; the blood tests are used to help determine who needs a biopsy (although it is true that some people think the biopsy is unnecessary). A normal biopsy procedure actually involves multiple biopsy specimens from nearby parts of the duodenum to be taken, so if they followed protocol it is unlikely that they missed the more-or-less pathognomonic signs of Celiac.

That said, if you do have Celiac and the biopsy was wrong (it happens), then your symptoms should actually take quite awhile to resolve. This is because part of the symptomatology comes from the derangement of the duodenum (villous atrophy, etc). Only by allowing it to heal over weeks to months would you expect to see real improvement.

I doubt that you have Celiac, given the biopsy results, but there is truly no harm in trying the diet.

Also, the genetic test is definitely less sensitive and less specific than the biopsy; I'm not sure why your doctor recommended this afterwards.
metasploit?
I'm not a lawyer, but...

I think this article misses the point, and I think it goes wrong right about here:

The GPL is a license. It deals with copyright law. It defines who is allowed to copy & distribute the software (everyone).

The GPL "deals with" copyright law, but that does not mean that all of its force relies upon copyright law, nor does it mean that the definition of "derivative work" in copyright law has any bearing on the problem at hand.

The GPL is a license, granting users the right to use the software. So, we can use WordPress, because the author allows us to (by means of the GPL).

The GPL puts restrictions on our use. Among these, that if we wish to produce any derivative works (under the GPL's definition of "derivative"), we must also release these under the GPL. As far as I can tell, copyright law has nothing to do with this restriction.