skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really sure how to scale it except to have different people making a few extra bucks writing letters around the country - crowdsourcing type of thing w/o any specialized knowledge.
I'm still looking for more blog entries about the Y Combinator interview experience for my site:
http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php

If anybody has links to such articles, please forward me the links.
I'd prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this after breaking the web application cache for homescreen items in iOS 4.2 is a disturbing trend.
That doesn't mean Apple should get 30% of all money that flows by their devices like Apple seems to think, enforced via DRM.

That'll be a bit like the ARPA/Vint Cerf asking 30% of all e-commerce revenue that flows over the net and Tim Berners Lee for all things over HTTP traffic. After all, they invented it, right?

Comcast spent the money to wire through the last mile, they feel they deserve some of the money that Google, Amazon, Netflix are making, net neutrality notwithstanding. Do you agree?
It's called a lifetime extension. When you build something expensive, you make a conservative estimation for how long it will be operational at minimum, so you can write off your investment in a responsible fashion. Then, at the end of that period, you see if your plant can keep working in a safe and profitable manner, and if it can (gasp) you let it. Of course the "greens" (scare-quotes, since, after all, we're both adults) are against this kind of, hmm, we could call it "re-cycling".
Right but many of those people will not want a computer that doesn't have Solitaire or MS Word.
Yeah, I hear you. Reminds me of Keith Ferrazzi's Holiday card fiasco. Someone got three different holiday cards from him and they all had different signatures, lol. (From Never Eat Alone)
Offline Marketing Efforts Work with SEO
PEG for Lua is pretty easy to use and experiment with: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
Ridiculous. How can a realtor possibly be as culpable as say, the people who were bundling the mortgages and selling them off as securities that were just known time-bombs?

You just jumped on the OP's use of everyone, baited them with your realtors comment and somehow conclude that "he only wanted to punish a few high profile scapegoats" which is exactly what happens all the time anyways (remember Bernie Madoff?)

Please watch "Inside Job" it shows how no one responsible for the financial disaster has been punished or even pursued. It's ridiculous. We just had the biggest financial crisis and everyone responsible got away with it. What is truly annoying is you're more concerned with the OP's use of "everyone" instead of focusing on the more important issues.
Instead of using our extra CPU power to parse with less efficient algorithms, I think we should use our extra CPU power to integrate parsing more deeply into our editors/IDEs. With a fast parsing algorithm, you could parse as a programmer types, unlike the current syntax highlighting editors which use only rough pattern matching instead of having a real parse tree.

Don't Eclipse/Visual Studio/Emacs Semantic/etc. already do this? The struct trick you mention would be new to me, but unless I'm missing something, seeing syntax errors the moment you type them and getting context-sensitive completion are features that have been available since before I started programming (in 2002).
You don't need a shuttle to repair a Hubble. Hubble's orbit was limited to what a shuttle could reach and the cost of repairing it compounded by the operational costs of the shuttle.

You could send a repair crew on an expendable vehicle or, even better, launch a tow that could bring the satellite being serviced to the ISS and reinsert it into any desired orbit. The Hubble service missions greatly extended its useful life. I doubt Herschel will last as long.
Cool. I was thinking about subleasing in the Mission. I'll have to check it out.
The new adulthood: Extended parental support as a safety net
Besides simply asserting the OP is wrong, perhaps you could explain what differences (aside from aesthetics) there are between

/rdio/api/1/artist/1/tracks/2

and

/rdio?api=1&artist=1&tracks=2

Routing code on the server can treat them as identical; is there anything about these two URL formats that would trip up a client?

Does it change how caching might work?
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Here are some tips on how to use REST:
http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/
http://architects.dzone.com/news/common-rest-design-pattern
But you are right about Three-Mile Island.

He's not right about TMI, either. The results of TMI are debated to this day with some studies claiming minimal or no adverse health affects and some studies claiming significant adverse health affects.
Those are not restrictions to REST, since REST doesn't make any specific claims about how to use things like filtering, sorting etc.

Google created GData2 as an extension to AtomPub format, which only specifies a common envelope for resources (Atom Syndication Format) and how to talk about collections of resources (AtomPub itself).

There is another notable extension to AtomPub format from Microsoft called OData.
Babuta and other "neo-minimalists" are more dedicated to hyping up their personality cults than actually minimizing. The TLDR by SkyMarshal demonstrates this well.

The system to rid himself of email is more complex than optimizing his email setup.
Amazing! Rian Hunter from Dropbox mentioned his vision about apps in this style in his talk at PyCon, that is very interesting in general: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878722/
Interesting product. Doing a quick google search I have seen prices under $100. Unfortunately, it looks like it only has serial out.

I have been looking for a small single board linux computer (preferably open source) to use as a gateway and/or web server for embedded projects. I would like something in between an Arduino and Beagleboard.

Arduino is great for running simple web servers, but it would be nice to have a Linux OS with some familiar tools to be able to build more complex web apps. Products like the Beagleboard fill this need, but they are complex and expensive if you decide to bundle it with your product.

If you don't mind external hosting you can always send your data to the cloud, but I like the simplicity of a self contained product.

The closest I have found to these requirement is at Dangerous Prototypes (sill in development).

Web Platform v2
- 210MHz ARM926 - 2x SPI
- Hopefully 2 layers! - Linux
- 4x USART - 2x 10 bit a/d
- ethernet - < $100?

Forum:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&...

Wiki:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Robert:_AT91SAM9260_Linu...
No, I'm relying on the linked article to conclude that the headline linking to that article doesn't accurate reflect the content of the article, in fact it editorializes it. Both are contrary to HN guidelines.

The fact that you agree with the editorializing is irrelevant.
Well that changes everything! Users can now received files not only over multople computers bit over multiple devices! From a web form to your computer to your iPad! Brilliant!
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Management 101:
If you don't have a stated mission statement then you can't have a strategy to accomplish your mission.

And if you don't have a strategy, then you don't have a way to EFFECTIVELY and EFFICIENTLY allocate resources. "Effective" is doing the right things. "Efficient" is doing things the right away.

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
YC could probably take 20-30%. I'm guessing most founders would still do it. But if you took out the top 5% of start-ups from YC, it would be a far less interesting company. So making it a no-brainer for founders is probably a good strategy.
Just put your phone into airplane mode when you aren't using it.

It has the benefit of making the batteries last extra long (because the cell and wifi radios are turned off).
I'm glad you like LyX, and I encourage other people who haven't found a TeX editor they like to try it out.

Personally, I don't want my editor to do anything with my source code except color code it, like turning the source code into into manipulable objects (or whatever you call that).
I can see it both ways.

APIv2 is not the same resource as APIv1, so why send it to the same location? Similarly, APIv1/user/1 may very well not contain the same information as APIv2/user/1, so are they really the same resource? They likely refer to the same semantic resource, but if user/1 != user/1, they're not the same from a data standpoint, which is what APIs are generally used for.
I can't be bothered to read this article, I'll get too angry.

I have no clue about this particular case, but I've been involved in other municipal fiber projects, and big telcos (plural, not just one) routinely tried to stop or sabotage these projects, often surreptitiously. As far as they're concerned, you're encroaching on their territory. It's complete crap. It happens all over the country.

A commenter below mentions that they thought the headline was editorialized heavily or plain wrong. Again, I have no clue about this particular case, but these corporations work in underhanded ways.
Slide 87 of the pdf has the best summary, but the main thing w/r/r REST is that get/put of entire resources can be too heavy.

1. custom methods let you get/put specific fields, without having to transfer the whole thing or split resources up as you add new methods.

2. custom methods avoid needing to implement complex or heavy state mutations on the client. the example was rotating an image 90 degrees; you wouldn't want to download an entire full-res image to your wimpy battery-powered phone, rotate it, and re-upload it when you can just do that on the server.

(... of course this should just update some orientation metadata instead of resampling the image -- it's just an example)
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Meditation on Hacker News: What are you guys experience with meditation?
When did apple start caring about security?
And anyone who is likely to be tracked is going to know this, and will not trust phone communications.

The more you have to hide, the more protections you must take. You cannot rely on technology. In extreme cases, it means eschewing technology entirely, living in caves, and living in Afghanistan and Sudan.

You cannot rely on that which you do not control, including free software.
Japan Quake Impacts Global Technology Supply Chain
The dissociation of water only happens when you put water on something that's very hot. But the fuel rods need to be cooled somehow, so it's probably the least bad scenario is to take some hydrogen production to get the fuel rods down to a safe temperature where this doesn't happen. The alternative is to not cool them at all, which will lead to a meltdown.

I don't think the moderation aspect is important currently. The reactor is shut down, and the neutron flux is already very low.
This link is simply wrong. Japan is indeed facing the release of a large cloud of highly radioactive steam carrying radioactive particles that were once part of the core. Right now both the cores of several reactors and the spent fuel rods that are stored on site face the possibility of turning entirely molten and ending up in the atmosphere. The reactors are fail-unsafe. If everybody walked away now, a disaster worse than Chernobyl would result. And as the situation at some of the reactors deteriorates, it becomes increasingly likely that workers are going to have to depart the area. Remember, Chernobyl was actually better off than Fukushima in many ways - while one reactor was screwed, the others at the same plant were undamaged and could continue operating normally - cooling systems could continue to run, and so on. The other 3 reactors were never in any danger at Chernobyl. That is not true at Fukushima.

It is entirely possible - even likely at this point - that the fuel rods in at least 3 of Fukushima's reactors going to end up significantly spread over the Japanese countryside. Overreaction is not really possible at this point.
Because coal pollution isn't listed as a cause of death (just like all pollution). It raises the incidence of many other diseases, and those diseases are listed as the cause of death. Coal also has additional direct deaths in e.g., mining accidents.

The numbers are nice round numbers because, well, there are somewhat imprecise. Looking up actual studies that came up with them would give methodology & margins of error.

Compare to, for example, smoking. The cause of death will be e.g., lung cancer. But had he not smoked for 30 years, he probably would have lived longer.
Hack more, and find team members. Create some working prototypes. Try a minimum viable product. An idea is cool but it often changes a TON when you implement and start iterating.
I think the biggest problem is simply that Leo's making other people do more work.

When you adopt a workflow that's out of the norm, you are forcing the people who want to work with you to make a decision: 1) Make an exception in THEIR workflow to deal with your quirks, or 2) Don't work with you.
Running Lean Community MVP
The blog post by that 'MIT PhD' seems to be a case of Siemens astroturfing:
http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...
The alternative is to save energy. There is still much to gain with advanced technology. For example we drive all day with vehicels that have an overall efficiency factor of 3%. Huge waste is going on. It's a shame.
He means it's extreme for the IP czar to make streaming a felony, and it would be less unreasonable to jail financiers.
More like 4-12 hours per day depending on the age of the farm (startups take work), the quality of the land and the crop season. More hours during planting and harvesting, and almost nothing during the winter. The number didn't really depend on technology past a certain point of desperation (passed well before recorded history.) For example, the gothic cultures farmed before they borrowed the plow from the Romans. Post-plow they became richer instead of cutting back hours. No different than today.

There were many provisions for crop failure, including crop variety, raising animals, preserving food, fishing and trading with luckier regions. Like today.

Pro-agrarian looking to set the record straight. I'm also in favor of nuclear power!
I think you should apply. In case your application will be accepted you'll have a unique YC experience. As a Canadian you shouldn't have any visa problems to come to US for 3 months.

In case you won't be accepted... At least you have tried.
I lost all respect for RMS when I saw him speak at WordCamp San Francisco 2010 - he spoke, and acted like a total child. I'd point you to the video of it, but he made them shut down the live stream before he started (after he was late, which he blamed on Google Maps).
"Drop the 'wheresyour'. Just 'duckbeen'. It's cleaner." - JT
"Requires OS X 10.5+ Intel"

Unless you make it run everywhere Dropbox runs this is gonna be "The Dropbox + Mac powered social network".

I'd like to try it and give some more constructive feedback but I'm running Ubuntu.
> I often think that, via REST APIs and content negotiations, API can become browseable and self-descriptive but I've yet to see any example of such a thing.

It should be trivial with AtomPub/GData/OData APIs. REST itself is not specific enough for that.
awesome.
so long Diaspora
finally a fully distributed online/offline platform is easily available to everyone. Man, Dropbox is the new Internet pipe.
Ask HN: Viral potential of my startups trailer (joinbox.com)?
Hey there,

we are close to private beta release of joinbox, a sweet website that unites social actions, emails and online news. I have made a trailer which gets insight into the service: http://joinbox.com

We are now considering how we could promote it. Do you think, it has viral potential? If so, does it make any sense to give it a small spin with something like (chargeable) buzzfeed boost?
3 Steps to the Developer Heart
I'm not saying the iPad browsers window management scheme is better than tabs, I'm just saying most people probably don't use them. I have no definite numbers, but from experience in watching people browse, they have a bunch of windows open and use the Google search bar to type in "facebook".
I dislike the medidiots who conflated a hydrogen explosion with a nuclear explosion. There is however one risk here that neither folks in the media, nor have I seen yet on HN, and that is the danger of old fuel meltdowns.

There are reports now [1] that the pond where expended fuel rods are stored is boiling. While fuel is removed from a reactor because it is 'spent' that doesn't mean that it cannot still reach criticality, that is why it is stored in a pond where the water provides the moderation. Normally this wouldn't even be considered but given the challenge of getting water into the reactors, the use of sea water and venting the steam (which makes the room around the reactor temporarily dangerous), it seems the ponds are warming up and not getting the attention they need. It would be unfortunate to have the pond evaporate. Note that in some cases this pond is the holding area for new fuel as well (during a refueling operation) but there is no information available on the quantity, and current composition, of fuel rods in these ponds.

So I remain confident they will be able to get the reactors cooled off without causing them to be 'abandoned in place'. I'm cautiously watching reports about the ponds.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20043127-503543.html
I agree with this - especially relating to lite or free games I have downloaded on my iPhone and my MT4G phones.

The one game I have been playing incessantly, though is RoboDefense on android. Great game.

Other apps I find take too much time for me to accomplish what I wanted, Path Instagram and others required FAR too many clicks or too long to use (iPhone 3g) for me to upload my pic to make it an instant use app.
At Fukushima, the core reaction is shut down, all activity since seconds after the quake are secondary. This is bad enough, but it's fundamentally different from Chernobyl, where the core melted down with the control rods only 1/3 inserted.
Electricity itself is hard to move over large distances due to resistive losses. However, energy-intensive industry will move, accomplishing a similar thing.
Added an email to the profile. Hoping it helps.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Japan Nuke Plants: "Unlearned Lessons"
Time Warner is probably the worst cable service provider I've ever used in my life. I was so happy to move to Florida and get Verizon at 30/30 for the same price I paid for Time Warner's poor quality and consistently dropped service.

As for the bill itself - I don't see why any regulatory body or bill should tell a business how much they can charge, government or otherwise.
I'm really glad I could convince a good part of my family to contact me via email. I'd rather ditch the telephone in favor of email than the other way around.
Echelon (signals intelligence)
He's trying to give a point of view in the mind of a visionary. I completely agree with the tone, and the idea behind what he's trying to imply.

How many times have I worked on a project and people constantly come in with personal excuses. "I am sorry my grandmother died" (yea you said that last month). "I am sorry my wife had woman problems and I had to go to the doctor with her" (nooo idea why you need to tell me that). "I am sorry my kid was sick all night and I couldnt sleep or get any work done." "I am sorry I have health issues and I couldn't work on it" (yea you said that 6 months ago when the project started).

In the words of my boss "I dont give a fuck what happens outside of work, just get it done. You dont need to tell me why you couldnt do it, the fact is you didn't. Just do your work, if you are unable to, let me know and I will get someone else to do it. DO YOUR JOB." Everyone hated him.

He was one of the best boss I've ever had. It's great to be on a project that finishes on time, and meets stakeholder's expectations. It's awesome being given gifts and thrown parties by clients because they had no hope it would get done, but you got it done.

Everyone knows, within a team, there are the few that make your project a hell. Visionaries know those people and make sure they understand their place.
First of all, IE9 is still years behind Webkit, Firefox and Opera in HTML5 and CSS support. Second, we'll see how quickly they can actually trim it into something usable on a mobile ARM platform; closeness is relative.
The cost differences may be due to required safety features or alternatively due to labor costs. Its a major construction project, after all.
Depending on how determined you are, 900mhz is unlicensed and can punch a wireless signal through trees. Equipment can be expensive, but there's surplus stuff out there, esp. among hams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33-centimeter_band
Please don't post links to a PDF reader site when the document is available as HTML from its original author:

http://beej.us/guide/bgc/output/html/multipage/index.html

Your title is wrong, too... this is a guide to C, not C++.

Edit: Judging from your other submissions and the similarity of your user name to the one on examville.com, it seems you are trying to attract attention to free content that you have uploaded behind a download-paywall. Please don't do that, either.
Um, 'scapegoats' suggests people who are taking a big fall for limited involvement. Sending senior executives of major financial companies to jail may constitute a big fall, but it wouldn't be for limited involvement.
Can you just use a callchain?

function getData() {
return processData(validateData(fetchDataFromSource()));
}
Should point out that I have already developed a minimum viable product. Its in version 1, I'm working on a set of updates to make it better.
Indeed. Talk about throwing away the baby with the bath water.
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I like the video and the service looks cool but I don't think it is the kind of video that "goes viral".
Nuclear power may statistically be safe, but that's not much comfort for those who are taking what appears to be quite significant radiation levels right now.

Other energy production methods may be less safe, but that's very difficult to determine as the worst case nuclear scenario is so much worse than what can happen with other methods. It makes it a "black swan", in that it's very difficult to determine the actual risk of a severe accident but if it happens it would dominate the statistical signal of "nuclear danger". Textbook black swan case.

I feel like those that are saying that nuclear power is safe are kind of in the same situation as those that said that new methods in mathematical finance had made the financial system more safe. They may be right, but that's more a hope than a quantitative statement, as it's pretty much impossible to quantify these extreme events.