skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background check sites are the lowest of the low. Worse than Steve Yegge's "cat picture" sites.

EDIT: My only reason for saying the above is that I can only imagine these sites being used for borderline nefarious purposes.
Building your own Arduino clone is pretty straightforward - it's half a dozen components, under ten bucks. Once you get the hang of it you can prototype your design using an actual Arduino board, then simply integrate the components into your actual project and continue using the same firmware. I've done this many times.
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the only feature i'd like to see is the ability to plug in functionality, like the ability to create your own front- or back-end plugins or an app store type of thing similar to shopify.

of course, i know that this isn't a simple request or even a likely one, as it causes all kinds of issues, but i'd start using this immediately if it were provided.
There are plenty of image threads that are not porn. Especially if you forego /b/ for the work-safe topical boards.
Why? The vast majority of developers never touch the kernel. If you believe a BSD kernel would get you better compatibility with other OSes, I suggest you look at the subsystem model in NT.

There's absolutely no reason for Windows to switch kernels.
Great video, thank you for sharing that link.
<spoilers>

I cheated with grep:

grep "^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$" /usr/share/dict/words

for yours, bean, chef, diet, dine
Are you planning to have a market where designers can buy and sell themes/templates or even components?
I saw a demo of a Netduino a .NET developers group in Raleigh, and was very impressed. It was extremely cool to see someone step through C# code in Visual Studio that was running on the board.

IIRC, the SDK runs on the Express (free) version of Visual Studio as well, so you really can get started for $35.
You're right about the port. Here's a link to the Harbor Island map (in Seattle, WA where we get lots of shipments from Asia), note proximity of rail lines:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harbor+island,+Seattle,+WA&...

I don't know much about it, but the machinery at the port looks really impressive. It seems to lift cargo from the ships onto the trains.
The Importance of Precision
Yeah it interesting. I work Tech Support, and often get angry customers, when I deal with them I have to try and remember where they are coming from, how they feel and think, otherwise I end up angry myself and it makes it a lot harder to deal with them.
Microsoft Almost Delivers On A Bill Gates Promise, 5 Years Late
I have a boatload of ideas that I would gladly give up for a 10% equity stake.
No, but I'd want to see a better methodology than the one that can only check 1e-9 of the available search space every few decades.
One problem is that your prospective union members are actually competitors who make money by grabbing a slice of the customer market, not the 30% that Apple takes off the top of the whole market. There is no manager/employee relationship. I think you're thinking of a trade association or federation that lobbies for change rather than a union model.
MinWin is not so much a product as it is a continual effort starting with Vista to untangle dependencies and move unnecessary cruft out. It's still the NT kernel, only progressively cleaner with each additional release of Windows.
Private Equity is an asset class focusing on equity in non-public companies. Technically, even Venture Capital is a part of PE. But people have started using the term PE for investing in mid to late stage companies, and the term VC for investing in early stage companies. In other words, PE invests in growth, makes leveraged buyouts or buys distressed assets. Recently VCs are also getting into the growth stage, making the distinction between PE and VC difficult.

A lot of MBA students in top business schools dream of getting into PE firms after MBA. But only those who have some finance background (Investment Banking, for example) have a realistic shot of getting in.
Second the Wordplay recommendation. I believe that's where he stated that his favorite crossword clue ever was "It might turn into a different story" for the word SPIRALSTAIRCASE.
You can also modify Yahoo!'s information on your account as well:

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/
Lowering Expectations: Startups need to STFU and aim higher
E-commerce in India is getting big funding
You're correct. If a waiter does not meet minimum wage with tips, the employer is required to pay the difference. I am not sure how often this is actually used though. It would seem easy to brush off and ignore.
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- No role or tech ruts: Extend your role or create your own. Work across the entire stack (presentation, middleware, web services & backend) or specialize in an area of interest to you.

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- Copious Awards: Rally was named the Best Company to Work For In Colorado (where our HQ is) for the last four years running and ranked in the top ten Best Places to Work in the U.S. from Outside Magazine. We opened our North Carolina office in 2009 and are looking to aggressively grow it. Our product has won numerous awards and was recently recognized by industry analyst Forester Research as offering “the best combination of capability and strategy of Agile ALM tools".

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These are just words so my answer also doesn't pop-out. I believe the answer is bean. Although I don't know the meaning of confectionery.
You could ask the same thing about neurosurgery ... I mean, it should be easy and cheap to excise a brain tumor right?
Whoops, thanks for the heads up. Fixed!
Google A/B Testing
When your Google rankings take a drastic drop, take a breath. Google might just be doing some A/B testing.
I think a lot of people who have ideas for Apps never move beyond the "vague elevator pitch" idea of what it should actually do. It takes more work than people realize just to specify an App's behavior, completely independently of writing any code.
How does Weebly make money? I guess this Designers platform is the first step?
The Problem with All-Star Teams
"First came the temple, then the city." Profound words.

What I find interesting is that home sapiens sapiens has existed for atleast 200 000 years yet our oldest constructions aren't older than 12 000 years. Why did it take so long for us to start building? Our bodies didn't change much during this time so we had the capability. Also, why is it that we suddenly start seeing so much activity around 4000 BC [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in...
Show HN: Twinkle - Growl like notifications for Java Swing
2 months ago I was looking for something like Growl for Java. I didn't found anything that I liked and since I really like Swing I set out to create my first startup that creates unique and great Swing components.

My first product is Twinkle. Basically it is Growl for Java.

http://blog.swingfx.ch/twinkle-100

I've been a long time HN lurker and all the "Show HN" posts inspired me to try it my self and launch a product. So I'd like to thank HN for being a great source of inspiration!

I’m curious what you guys think of my product.
Clickable: http://blog.swingfx.ch/twinkle-100
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I actually agree with this, and feel that any sort of official site should link out to others as quickly as possible (rather than be a monolithic resource). Having some sort of official site is useful, however, since there are lot of people who aren't familiar with the modern ways and who will be looking at the official site for guidance. Currently those people are getting told RubyForge is the greatest thing since sliced bread..
And you think a firm/dev worth their salt would take up his project at short notice, go from start to finish (including testing and debugging) in 2 weeks and it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg?
Around the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul) you get a lot of people in SUVs not taking into account the size and maneuvering of trucks. I have seen a couple try to pass from 3 cars back when the truck has already signaled a lane change. Then they get mad at the truck (lots of honking, cussing, etc.). It is especially annoying when you see the "look for motorcycles / bikes" bumper sticker on the vehicle acting like an idiot.

You are so right about the headlight flash, help the truck driver quite a bit.
The prices he quotes are WAY outsized. Low to Mid 5 figures will do a huge proportion of apps that "People have an idea about" using US or Canadian programmers. Some will go into 6 figures, but millions? Really? Not for most ideas.

(This is what I do for a living, 3rd party app development).
I don't know anyone outside of geeks and friends/family that geeks have set up that have Bookmark sync, let alone people in large businesses where their desktops are run by the IS department.
Yeah, I noticed that PSF is trying to support local communities as much as they can as I did their recent survey for the local communities. The survey questionnaires are focused toward "How can PSF help you to grow your community".

Great stuff. PSF is expanding with a vision/goal!
Source?

The Economist claims that the US has the best freight rail infrastructure in the world:

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101

The "fundamental problem" is probably that America is a really big country, and there are lots of livable places in the US that are far from other population centers.
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Also, there was something about articles related to social stuff / basic rights, but I can't see it anymore (weird).

So yeah, maybe it is because I used to watch Friends, Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City :D

I know, I know, especially that last one; I got in the habit because of my wife and for some weird reason, I began liking that show.
I've never met a class I didn't want to inherit.
Every truck drivers sister has just died moments ago? That's sad.
Agreed. Money is not really the thing in shortage, the ability to execute is. And the ability to implement the product, and by extension, understand what and how much resources are needed to implement a product, is a big part of that.
I have updated the post to reflect that my criticisms were aimed at the main, English language version of the site, and have apologized to those running well maintained localized, foreign language sub-sites who may have felt they were included in my analysis.
THIS is my beef.
There is NO EXCUSE for putting others in danger on the road

The sky is not falling, it is not as bad as you think.

If there is no excuse to put others in any danger on the road, you should never, ever, take your own car on the road. Every time anyone drives, there is risk involved.

You're over reacting, chill out. You're not weighing risk rationally. A 12hr strait shot is by no means fun but its not something thats going to significantly deteriorate a driver's ability to the level your post would warrant. An experienced trucker is probably a better driver better than you in his sleep.
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Just yesterday, I had a friend get run off the road and total her car because of a careless truck driver. The driver of the semi left the scene and came back only after another truck driver stopped to help my friend and got on the radio and told the driver who caused the wreck to come back or he would make sure he lost his trucking license.

There are good and bad people regardless of the profession.
I didn't mean to imply that they are copying the open source code directly. Without a copy of their code, it's wrong to make that assumption. I'm saying that their entire rendering process, as described in the video, sounds suspiciously like what other people have released in whitepapers and source.

It probably is a completely original implementation, but I do not believe that any of the algorithms being used are original. That is where I think Notch is coming from when he calls it a "scam". It's piggybacking on other people's work, while claiming that it's their own.
Do you have any latency numbers you could share? :)
We actually have a pretty good cargo rail network in the US (compare to Europe where passenger rail is better but not cargo). The US is spread out and trucks are it. They do pay quite a bit of fuel tax, and I am not sure it is the trucks themselves that create the problem. I see a lot of non-truck drivers that cause more congestion.
The article states in the very first paragraph: "Let me tell you a little about the truck driver you just flipped off because he was passing another truck, and you had to cancel the cruise control and slow down until he completed the pass and moved back over."

The point is that the truck driver isn't doing anything wrong. He's just trying to get his job done.

Where in the article does it say he put anyone in danger or imply that he was doing anything that might warrant the police being notified?
Who flips someone off because they had to slow down?

Everyone but you.
> And the latest new direction was so bizarre that I'm tempted to make a mockumentary about the whole thing.

Care to share some dirty details?
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Actually, the zoomers are usually doing the right thing (sorta). When traffic is congested to the point where you can't do a natural "closing zipper" merge, the best way to avoid jams is for everyone to use up all available lane space, but -- and here's where the problem comes in -- leave enough room for alternate-feed merging at the end. That's what causes the stop-and-go jam: people at the merge point not letting other cars in.
Out of curiosity, I have to ask where you were in relation to the truck? They have humongous blind spots that you really should take care to stay out of and if you were in one I'm not surprised if you almost got hit. A number of relatively new drivers are still getting used to dealing with their blind spots and need to learn better, but people really need to be careful about where they are.

EDIT: Not saying you were necessarily in one, but most times I've seen cars "being run off the road" or "nearly getting hit" they've been in the wrong place so I've taken to asking.
interesting to see this area of the smartphone marketplace, as opposed to OEM or OS market share by units. apple definitely has the upper hand in that it owns the entire vertical, from the iOS software to manufacturing the phone itself. furthermore, apple, having planned extensively what will go into the phone, is able to bargain for cheaper raw material costs, thereby increasing profit. not only does apple know how to dominate market share in iphone users, but also they know how to make incredible amount of money off of that segments business.
Exactly. What really needs to happen is for some state to man up and flat out ban trucks on all state roads travelling more that say 50 or so miles.
Speed and flexibility perhaps? There are significantly more trucks than there are trains, for one. I imagine there's an incentive to fill a train to capacity whereas you can contract as many trucks as you need for a particular load.

Further, a bunch of trucks can go from one distribution point to many different unloading points a train may not be able to reach.

I imagine the explosion in consumer shipping and expectations of two-day shipping from a number of companies has changed the dynamic. A hundred Ted's ordering iphone cases isn't the same as one Bob ordering a hundred head of sheep.

Just some thoughts; I don't have any knowledge about the industry, or the state of the railways.
Monopolizing a public thoroughfare for the duration it takes one elongated vehicle to pass another with a 3MPH delta should be illegal enough to result in a fine when it impedes the free flow of traffic IMO. For as much as claims of safety are thrown about, people should spend more time looking at how congestion causes and compounds accidents.

Maybe if they weren't over-regulated* and actually assigned the costs associated with blocking traffic, the trucking companies could come up with something as novel as a 'governor override budget'. I.e., "If you find yourself in a situation where you need to pass and it'd be best for everyone involved if you actually get it over with, you may do so. Just don't expect to spend the whole trip at the higher speeds because you only accrue so many override minutes per hour and you need to save them for complications that may arise. There are gas prices to consider, after all."

If we're going to insist on having humans behind the wheel, I assume it's because they have the capacity to reason. Ultimately, we need to incent them properly and then trust their judgement.

* Speed limits significantly below the 85th percentile of traffic == revenue. Also, penalizing motorists (who have, by definition, opted out of public transportation) by failing to build additional, needed lanes.
Is he an HNer?
Weebly has been profitable since 2008. We make money by selling Pro accounts and domain names.
Exactly the same for me!

Not surprised that they picked up on radio, it's what I do for work and I browse relevant websites a lot, but lower down the list is dogs (don't have one, no interest in them) and geology. It also thinks I live in Scotland when they know I don't based on my browser location. How strange.
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I worked remotely for close to four years. I started realizing that there was little separation between work-life and personal-life. I was at my "office" all of the time and my employers knew this. I started working more during off-hours because that's what I was used to doing at home. Also, communication through IM, Campfire, etc. got pretty tiring and my face-to-face social skills ended up deteriorating after a while.

Just my personal experience.
This is explicitly mentioned in the article:

> In theory, by running all legacy applications virtualized you'd get rid of legacy components and security issues that plague Windows OS today

(There's no mention of the 'but' that one seems to sense coming when a sentence starts with "In theory"; perhaps they just refer to the perhaps-infeasible effort it would take to implement this.)
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we are talking VM's... not multiboot. you can have many VMs(applications) open at once time. those application have access to the shared disk and other resources. have you seen parallels? the user would not change workflow _at all_. they dont know their app is now in a VM.
Have you ever looked into what it takes just to hook a trailer with a bobcat on it to your pickup and pull it as part of your business? Next time you get close to a big truck, take a look at all of the regulatory stickers plastered all over it. Every single one of those costs many thousands of dollars per year. I assure you the trucks pay their fair share and then some.

Compared to trucks, you basically use the roads for free on their dime.
Not sure if your comment is satirical, but I doubt we'll see self-driving vehicles on the road in any reasonable numbers anytime soon... we'll sooner see mass-adoption of electric vehicles before then.

Driving (with irrational human actors) is non-deterministic.
1. It took me longer than I expected to figure out what it is: a drop-in developer library to help in almost every aspect of rendering a PDF in my application. The fact that I wasn't able to recognize this in the first few seconds was an immediate turn-off.

2. Why would I need one of these? As a customer I had to think for a while to realize that this would really help if I was distributing content, like an article or magazine, converted to a digital format. I'm sure there are plenty of other use-cases. But that's not something I want to have to convince myself about. You should be the one telling me all the cool ways I can use it. A video showcasing how it works would be superb.

3. The name. You're probably already invested into it at this point, but there's a very low chance I'm going to remember it.

4. The price might be a tad high. The more important point here is: this isn't like a $0.99 app; you're probably not going to get sales in the immediate future. At this point I'd start aiming at companies that can use your product, reaching out to them and trying to do some old-fashioned salesmanship. Expecting people to come to your page blind and make a purchase of that size is a bit... much.

Best of luck, it certainly looks like a very neat piece of middleware!
Most people don't drive defensively, courteously, or safely. When they drive around big vehicles their bad habits just amplify the consequences. It's pretty typical for people to drive in a truck's blind spots by either following too close behind or driving where the mirror's don't have much coverage. Also, many drivers don't seem to understand that trucks have different limitations in driving than cars. Typically I try to avoid driving just behind a truck (even in a neighboring lane) and I try to avoid being side by side with a truck for long.

In my experience truck drivers are generally better drivers than the average non truck driver, but they certainly aren't perfect as a group.