skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA advanced the science of software development.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

The shuttles were home to a number of successful scientific experiments. The shuttles launched and then repaired the Hubble Space Telescope, which helped reshape our view of the cosmos. That went well.

The shuttle, back in 1983, saw the first US woman in space, inspiring a generation of girls (to perhaps take more of an interest in science, math, and physics).

The shuttles deployed scores and scores of communication, military, and experimental satellites.

And then there are all the improvements in our quality of life due to technologies made possible by the creation and maintenance of the space shuttles (not to mention the prolonged study of objects in zero gravity).

If by "doomed" you mean had a 30 year life span and by "nothing well" you mean were wildly successful and inspirational from 1981 to 2011, then you are correct.

Yes, there were problems, as summarized by Feynman who said "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Like the Apollo missions, the shuttle team had to work with the technology available to them at the time. Could they have done better? Quite likely. Did the shuttles work well? Well enough for over 130 successful launches.
At the very bottom of the post:

"We got contacted by a Google employee.
They informed us that, surprisingly, the questionable page is indeed the official Google form to request Google Voice account transfer. They also told us to remove all references to the form in this blog post. But I'm afraid we can't do that."
Huh? Entrepreneurs deal with lots of very difficult challenges. Haters are unpleasant, but not really a "challenge".
There is only ONE rule you need to follow.
- Speak to people how they would like to be spoken to.

I get so annoyed with all this email rules BS. 5 sentences max, Twitter-style "body in subject", dot points only etc etc. All a load of crap.

You don't need rules. You need to learn some simple etiquette.

If someone always writes to you starting with "Hi Alan", then you better be sure you reply with "Hi Bob". If someone (important) takes the time to write you a well thought out, detailed email, you bloody well take the time to reply in kind. If someone writes to you in dot points, then and only then is it ok to reply in dot points.

Being curt with someone who appreciates detail is just as bad as being verbose with someone who appreciate brevity.
This is one of the better "hire me" micro-sites I've seen... and it still made me cringe.
"Billion dollar business" typically refers to revenue, not valuation.
The article compared the processing power of the human brain to 1 transistor per neuron. No idea where you get the strawman from, since that's exactly what I was commenting on in that paragraph.
Yep, I understand how it came to the erroneous conclusion, I just thought it was amusing.
How to get a great demo video cheap for your startup
I'm delighted that two unicode characters smushed together ('∞³') strikes you as a fancy logo. If you're patient enough, you'll probably like the other design choices that are coming, too.
I see it. I tried this: flights from nyc to seattle
> It simply means, openness and freedom won the software/internet game.

Except... it didn't. The far majority of programmers still write closed source non-free code. The far majority of software is still closed source and non-free. The far majority of humans browse non-free websites on non-free web browsers running on non-free operating systems.
warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic
or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience.”

That might be what they're saying, but what I'm hearing is stay away from any Twitter integration.
just search "SFO to NYC"
is it stored as plain-text in the database?
"On HN we've been seeing a bunch of these hyper-targeted reverse resumes in the past year because I suspect people have gotten tired of submitting waves of resumes and hearing nothing back within a reasonable timeframe"

Perhaps. But another point of view is that "standard" job application / resume submission techniques are fine for ordinary people, but that extraordinary people will always find a better, or at least different way. I strongly get the impression that Loren wouldn't be happy/satisfied at the sort of marginally creative middle management job that you land by using American Typewriter instead of Times New ROman for the heading font on your Microsoft Word template #3 reume to "stand out"...
What is the sense of gNewSense?
> shiny, whizzy, attention-getting things aren't scalable. If everyone did this, it wouldn't work. It would just raise the noise level.

Unclear. In many ways, this is simply a logical extension of the well written cover letter, and if those work, why can't these?
They are interested in keeping them running as long as possible because that is where their pay checks come from. Every additional day they run increases the risk of catastrophic failure, that is the point I am making. I don't see them as a valid or viable enterprise. The cost/revenue model of accounting is really stretched when it comes to dealing with the timelines necessary for proper nuclear disposal. I see what you are saying about how it is a tiny cost over that huge 30000 year period. Taking that period as given, do you agree that the years where the plant is operational are the most risky?
How does standing you up for multiple meetings equate "hustler" instead of "flake"?
This kind of thing is negotiable. Don't be too harsh --- they are just trying to protect themselves, and went about it in a rather evil way. But good people can accidentally make mistakes that turn out to be evil.

If you explain to them your concerns, they will probably change the agreement for you. My friend had similar concerns about the company he was applying to, but after they talked about it the company cut the offending part from his agreement. I know my friend would've regretted not taking the job, if he knew what he was missing out on. It's apparently a fun place to work.
Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc. If Google can link this to actual bookings then they are on to something huge, especially if they tie it into their other services (think - book flight, have it appear in your calendar with maps in the entry etc.). More or less like TripIt but more integrated and convenient.
Reply to email in JSON/Structured format
I have been trying this at work, and though it started out a geek-fun it seems to really keep things clear and short.
eg:

status: 200,
priority: 5
message: [
@all: 'this message is for everyone on the list',
@user1: 'something special for user1 only'
],
links: [
{
url: 'http://www.brightcove.com/en/why-brightcove', message: 'updated version'
}
]

What does everyone think? Does this really work in general or do I work with a uber-geeky crowd?
One thing I noticed was that your bolding (e.g., in real/airbnb/traveling/entrepreneur/challenges) was hard to see. (I prefer my bolds to be, well, bold, or to stand out in some way.) However, I am not at all a UI guy, so YMMV.

In any case, that's just a minor nitpick, the site looks beautiful! (And far, far better than the other directed resumes I've seen on HN.)
You're saying that ...

No, you're putting words in my mouth. I'm arguing the scientific facts of the matter, and I believe I did a good job of making my personal beliefs and opinions separately.

It's especially important to note that my treatment of the term "consciousness" was predicated on the given assumption that it is not a scientific entity. At the moment the term has a handful of scientific meanings, but none are what people are after. My argument is that you can't argue meaningfully about it until you can define it meaningfully.

P.S. What do you mean by "zombie" -? Traditionally it means something different than what I think you mean by it.
Actually, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines say:

"The best way to make sure your product meets the needs of your target audience is to expose your designs to the scrutiny of your users. Doing this during every phase of the design process can help reveal which features of your product work well and which need improvement."

http://bit.ly/aAOuwQ
In case you're wondering what "this API will be temporarily namespaced" means, see http://bugzil.la/659324. Before Firefox 6 is pushed to the release channel, the constructor will will be changed to "new MozWebSocket()". Once the JavaScript API is stabilized, it will be changed back to "new WebSocket()".
> The shuttles were home to a number of successful scientific experiments. The shuttles launched and then repaired the Hubble Space Telescope, which helped reshape our view of the cosmos. That went well.

An unmanned vehicle could have launched the Hubble for less money and without risk for human life. Of course, a vehicle should have taken humans up to repair the Hubble, but it could be a much smaller vehicle than a shuttle.

> The shuttle, back in 1983, saw the first US woman in space, inspiring a generation of girls (to perhaps take more of an interest in science, math, and physics).

I am quite sure a woman can fly a smaller spacecraft.

> The shuttles deployed scores and scores of communication, military, and experimental satellites.

For more money than unmanned rockets would.

> And then there are all the improvements in our quality of life due to technologies made possible by the creation and maintenance of the space shuttles (not to mention the prolonged study of objects in zero gravity).

All of them would be developed just the same, perhaps faster because there would be more money for more launches without relying exclusively on shuttles.

> If "doomed" you mean had a 30 year life span and by "nothing well" you mean were wildly successful and inspirational from 1981 to 2011, then you are correct.

Keeping them operational was a huge effort in denying its costs and the existence and/or preventing the development of more appropriate technologies for every role a shuttle can perform. The shuttle was doomed, from the start, to be a complex, fragile, dangerous and expensive vehicle.

> Yes, there were problems, as summarized by Feynman who said "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Indeed. I routinely have to quote him.

> Like the Apollo missions, the shuttle team had to work with the technology available to them at the time. Could they have done better? Quite likely. Did the shuttles work well? Well enough for over 130 successful launches.

The shuttle team worked miracles with the technology they were limited to. I do not question their competence. I question the rationality of keeping the shuttle fleet flying when it consistently proved to be suboptimal for various roles they were required to perform. The only reason to have a shuttle is to bring down a bus-sized object from space. Every other role can be performed by either unmanned cargo ships or expendable small capsules. The money spent on an unneeded fleet drained resources from other projects. Instead of a fleet of modular vehicles that could be tailored to the mission at hand, we ended up with a fleet of 70-ton reusable cargo holder.

Don't get me wrong. It's a beautiful machine. I would have loved if it were cost-effective and if it has spawned a family of reusable spaceplanes. Unfortunately, this is not what happened.
Over a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everything drops to zero - and nuclear has a pretty long timeline.
Don't take his criticism too hard. It's just part of the startup culture: Get something out there and in front of real users, as early as possible, so you can begin the virtuous cycle of success.
Why NYC is not Palo Alto cc: MikeBloomberg
HTC announcement about no more locked-down phones
I had seen he was working on projects, but that was just my impression. I know how it goes when you're focused on something that you can't take meetings and you only work on stuff for long uninterrupted periods of time. I didn't harass him about it though, I only asked twice and I think it was just bad timing. I'm sure it would have happened if I kept persisting, but even I was pretty busy myself and had forgot about it.
Seems to work only with US to US flights. "LGA to ORD" works, "FRA to SIN" and "HAM to TXL" don't.
I agree with your distinction and it is an important one. It is also important to define the function by which one becomes either a part of the working poor or impoverished. I argue it is a function of personal motivation, race, sexuality, religion, and a myriad of other factors. Indeed, pointing this out was the point of my previous exposition regarding smoking. I'm wary of those people that place too much weight on the personal motivation term in the above equation.
Re your first point, the only first hand knowledge/experience I have of this type market is from when my sister lived in Augusta Georgia. Every year for the Master's, some folks temporarily rent out their houses because the Master's (golf tournament) brings so many visitors to Augusta that the hotel market can't adequately serve it. It's a once a year event lasting about 2 weeks and the rest of the time the hotels are perfectly adequate to the needs of the city. The houses that are deemed the most desirable for this purpose are not those in the city core but those in walking distance of the golf course. The city is a madhouse during the Master's and traffic is insane (god help you if you need to make a left hand turn on the main drag that goes down to the golf course). Some residents rent out their house because you can temporarily get a premium price, enough to pay for you to go vacation elsewhere and not have to put up with this insanity. I have difficulty imagining another means to adequately meet the ridiculously high rental demand for this brief annual period.

I know it's an unusual situation, but it makes me wonder if it's really "all downside" so to speak. (And I had a goal of being a city planner at one time, so I am plenty familiar with the fact that out-of-town owners and the like can be very detrimental to a community.)
Yeah seriously, it seems like it wasn't very long ago that they were giving out beta invites to HN members.
In which I remember that PG is really good at what he does.
Noam Chomsky on Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
You haven't really given us enough information to answer your question. In fact, I suspect you haven't yet asked the question(s) you really want/need to ask. I think you need to spend some time getting familiar with the top most popular F/OSS licenses, and the implications of each of them. There's a really good book on that very topic titled Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. I recommend you read it for a good introduction:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/

For example, is building a social network or designing a template using a GPL software package a bad business plan?

Using, or not using, F/OSS isn't a business plan, it's just a detail - one element of many in a business model/plan. Whether or not it's a bad idea would depend on the other elements of said model. That said, Red Hat and others have proven the validity of selling F/OSS, if that's what you're getting at.
You can't link to GPL-incompatible code if you're going to distribute the result. If you want to maintain an exclusive right to sell out (which worked well for MySQL AB), you have to get copyright assignments from day one, not just accept GPL'd patches. Some people won't contribute to GPL projects on principle, though I don't think anyone knows how that number compares to people like me who won't contribute to BSDL projects.
Not on a comparable scale.

Excuse me? As far as I know the damage to the containment was very limited in Fukushima. And they were very worried about maintaining the cooling in the damaged buildings.

In a plane crash scenario we might be talking about no containment and no cooling at all. Instead we might be left with a pile of radioactive rubble and a kerosine fire.

After all you could be right that the scale would not be comparable...

In any case, may I remind you we're discussing a very hypothetical scenario?

Well, 9/11 did happen, and reactor walls are not built to resist a plane crash. So what exactly is hypothetical about the scenario?
I disagree, I think that history.pushState is the most important thing.
All I see is schedules of direct flights, making it orders of magnitude less useful than, say, hipmunk.

If it could plot non-nonstop routes and quote me prices for specific days, then it'd be really disruptive. But as it is, if I want to go somewhere surely I'll take the extra few seconds to check a proper travel site?
Works for international flights with one end in the US. (SFO to LHR, SFO to SYD I've tried...)
That's an impression I got from reading the post (no time to watch the video). I also thought: Well, how many times do you get to suck before they think you don't belong there? Some ideas do need time to percolate and encapsulating them in a soundbite can lead to rejection without understanding the underlying depth. [This was previously posted elsewhere minutes ago due to a mis-click.]
Get thee to a racetrack :-)

I had the same issue with not being able to enjoy sportsbikes to the limit on the road. Nowadays I'm a trackday regular and loving it. Good organisers make professional tuition available as well, which has sharpened up my riding no end.
Did you RTFA? Google's made a recent major acquisition in this field that will give them access to the data you mention, but they haven't had a chance to use it yet; this is a very preliminary product.
That's awesome Loren!

There are only four of us on the frontend team right now. We need more!

We like engineers with passion. People who get excited talking about the new frontend development frontier. Conversations like this happen all the time:

- Think Node.js would be cool for a realtime dashboard? Yes, do it.

- Maybe we could try using backbone.js and a fat client for this feature? Fork it and let's go.

- What's SASS? Install the gem. We're using it.

Our fourth frontend engineer just started last week. We sat him down, showed him how we were doing things and we asked him, "What do you think?" and he says, "Have you guys heard of Jammit? It's used for asset packaging. It's pretty cool" -- A couple hours later he was showing us the page load speed increase and how to use it.

If you're a frontend engineer wondering what it's like to work at Airbnb, feel free to email me: harry@airbnb.com or if you prefer character limits I'm on Twitter: @hshoff.
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta
"Jabaco is completely object orientated"

That inspires confidence.
I think that in many ways, this is more like printing a resume on neon-yellow construction paper.
Man, this takes me back to 1998 when I first started seriously dabbling in Linux and the ability to compile your own kernel was the mark of a serious user. Now I cnsider myself much more serious and knowledgeable about Linux and UNIX in general, but I haven't needed or wanted to compile a Linux kernel in years, and only recently did so in OpenBSD for the first time since somewhen around 2004.

I'm not sure what that says about the progress of the platform, but I tend to think that it's a positive sign when anyone still /can/ but almost nobody outside developers even /needs/ to do so.
I imagine that could be very useful, but the code is pretty bad. Take a look at the REGISTER word in http://yxit.co.uk/source/forth/arm-asm.f. It contains 25 lines of code! And they're full of magic numbers and stack operations!
Ask HN: iOS dev on a hackintosh -- possible or not?
I've tried Googling this, but the answers range from outdated to FUD. Having invested a fair amount in building a souped up desktop, the prospect of spending more money makes me unhappy. Yes, a Macbook is relatively inexpensive, but I don't need new hardware, thanks.

With a legal copy of Lion, can I develop iOS apps that will make it into the app store? Does anyone have any experience using this route? What about if I just want to sideload PhoneGap bundles?

Any advice appreciated, thanks!
Yes. The point I was trying to get across. =) However, that begs the question then: why bother with display points at all? If they serve no purpose externally, then they don't need to be shown.
I wish I knew one.
You can compensate for a less-sexy degree by demonstrating excellent career growth. The time to act on this is now. Six years out of college, and four years in the same job - you're on the threshold of appearing stale.

Take some time to set long-term goals for yourself, determine what steps you would need to take to get there, and then execute on the steps that are feasible for you at the moment.

I have found that the career growth paths at many companies are quite immature - there are more options available when you consider changing employers versus busywaiting on the scarce promotional opportunities available in your career track at a single company. Doubly so if you are trying to overcome prejudices about your skill set, like if you are trying to make the leap from software testing to development, etc.
I guess I'm drawing the distinction here between venue and participants, much like presentation and content.
Escalation. Once everybody is doing a shiny, whizzy attention-getting thing, then folks will start competing by being more shiny, more whizzy and more attention-getting than everyone else. Instead of a nicely-designed colourful scrolling webpage people are submitting half-hour semi-interactive animated feature films in which the ghost of Ghandi rises from the grave to tell you all about the advantages of hiring so-and-so while you fight off lizard men and can-can girls.
Patentees Rejoice — But Will Therasense Stand?
no, never. sha1 encrypted with a salt.
Post of the day, maybe the week.

I have a seven year old daughter with a strong interest in hacking. Her old man just isn't quite sure how to get her going, but this summer we will try something or other.
If "this isn't available" was clear up front, it sounds like a volunteer market research panel, which is ethical iff requested openly (though I may not have been inclined to sit through it unless I also needed ideas).
Despertadores inusitados y originales
It seems about as unlikely as someone flying planes into the world trade center...

But gladly terrorism isn't that easy, right?
4 years ago weren't they still struggling with the sheer amount of tweets that were being sent? Adding images into the mix wouldn't have helped much, and may have killed off any momentum they had going?

Saying that, it would have been nice if they'd got there sooner.
Yes and no. If the entire content of the email is something like "Can you please add me to the new repository for X?", I have no problem with that being the subject line with a blank (or "Thanks!") body. I'm with you on paragraph-style subject lines though.
Hm. JFK-FRA works, JFK-SIN doesn't. SFO-(AKL|SIN|BKK|BJS) don't, JFK-WAW doesn't, DEN-MEX doesn't, JFK-YYZ doesn't. So, US-US, US-Western Europe, US-Australia. Strange dataset.
It's a fallacy to complain that Airbnb is a new idea or not. It doesn't matter if they are a new idea! It only matters how much business they are driving.
Flights from an airport:
http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+from+SFO

Flights to an airport
http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+SFO

Change SFO to airport code of your choice.
reactors are a small target that's mostly underground

Not sure where you are getting this idea, but it's not true. The reactors are usually above ground, and they aren't small at all.
At which point, understated elegance will become the new rage.