skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest doing what curt said: find some startups you are interested in and send the CEO an email. Most startups are small enough that they will love to speak to you via email - if not to hire immediately, then at least to build a relationship with you for the future (when that funding comes through!)

Maybe spend some time trying to find a job before you visit, during your visit, and after you go back. That way you will hopefully have a job lined up when your house sells (might be a while :P)

Good luck kirbman - feel free to email me too if you'd like (though I'm not in SF)
Our local utility company just hooked up our new solar setup to their grid yesterday afternoon. In exchange for a hefty rebate on the installation, we had to agree to be hooked up to their grid for 10 years.

What this means is: power we generate goes to a very nearby facility and we buy back power. Our setup allows me in real time see how much power we are generating, how much we are selling back to the utility vs. how much we are using. For most of today, it looked like we were generating about 800 watts more than our house was using. The installer looked at our historic electricity bills and installed enough panels so that we would get paid back some money every year, but not a lot. So, I expect maybe a "negative" electricity bill of about $400 a year, instead of a yearly "positive" bill of about $1000.

With the rebate and state and federal tax savings, our break even point is supposed to be in 5 or 6 years. I think it may be sooner than that because the contractor did not account for rising electricity costs.

Anyway, this is fun - part of the value.
It's really poor journalistic work. It works better as a demonstration of pseudo-psychology than anything else. Every comment from the author about Jobs is riddled with a-priori, specious extrapolations and non-sequiturs.

It's interesting nonetheless.
Yes but as GP points out that promise is a part of the reason why there will ever be a 2.0 in the first place. People over paid for V1 because they were buying a v1-v2 package. People who would have passed on V1 were willing to buy it because of the promise of polished V2 for no cost. Without the promise he wouldn't have done nearly so well and perhaps would have folded before V2 became a reality.

If anything V2 should have been reduced in scope and shipped sooner because of the promise, not drawn out so that you kill revenue giving free upgrades.
Home Business Success Qualities
The JS can't break out of it's frame, so that doesn't really matter. The cookie comes with the request (image, html or JS, it doesn't matter).
This was a nice bit of sleuthing to get an insight into some of SpaceX's plans. The described vehicle, 1 engine at 122,000 lbs thrust, F9 fuel tank, sounds a bit under powered until you multiply the thrust by 6. Which is to say if you operated it where there was 1/6th Earths gravity you could put down, and return, some decent payload.

I'm thinking Moonshot here.
This is one of the funniest articles I have ever read. Anyone who believes in this article clearly lives in an alternate reality. Every single point the author makes is either invalid, a personal preference, or just silly. Besides, anyone running cukes runs them in parallel with auto generated "second testing environment(s)"
Also, if it is an "Ask" entry (or any non-external url entry), pull down the contents with the result set and just show it inline, or query out for the item and show inside your app, instead of launching hn in a separate browser.
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I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a reply.
Since people are posting suggestions, how about Bloxes? http://bloxes.com/ They ship flat, you just fold them up and build structures out of them.
I don't know about CPT/OPT, but I would suggest at least contacting an immigration attorney.
You don 't just use the bookmarklet?
You got good at Vim because you used it for over 6 months, not because it had any plugins turned off.

A distro like https://github.com/carlhuda/janus provides sensible training wheels.
I am increasingly interested in Riak, in part because a very vocal minority on HN seems to think it is the One True NoSQL solution.

However, I still don't quite get it. What is Riak? It seems to be some sort of Dynamo implementation (like the ironically ill fated Cassandra), but apparently it has a workflow engine? What do people use it for? What is it best at?

Right now we're using PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3. PostgreSQL gives us ACID, Redis gives us fast in-memory access, and S3 gives us an infinite KV store. Is there some reason to use Riak? Would Riak just replace S3?
Personally, I don't understand the hype of rubyenv. I really love rvm. I'm not sure why the author called rvm a "mess of bash scripts". I guess because rvm has a lot of features? If I did not care for gemsets and all of the other niceties that rvm has, I guess I would be on the market for another ruby manager. The fact that the author of this article was rubbed the wrong way by Wayne and rvm, rubbed me the wrong way.
A simple solution to this problem - for existing users, allow them to choose their own price for the upgrade. Some people feel like they deserve a free version (maybe they just bought Textmate recently), while others have been using it for years and feel like Allen deserves to be paid for version 2.
But it is different from what a single site can do. Why do you muddy the issue? Was Google under discussion? No. So why turn this into a tribal identification game?
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the best part of this example is how simple and accessible it makes the business, if you are familiar with it or not.
If you use chrome, you can use an incognito window (ctrl+shift+n). You can also disable third-party cookies (just remember to delete current facebook cookies). Since iOS devices block third party cookies, most sites that wouldn't work with them enabled now do. If you use chrome, you can also disable them from being read (in about:flags). Chrome will also show an icon in the urlbar if a site wants to set third party cookies, so you can enable them for specific sites (it also has the same behaviour for blocked javascript and plugins).

The other option is to totally disable platform apps, in the privacy, applications menu. This will mean you can never log into an external site, but it also means that you can't have any applications. I would do it myself if I didn't use a third-party android application, that requires a facebook app for interaction
Don't know about the rest, but the german chancelor did fight all the last days _for_ the EFSF expansion and currently it looks rather like it will get through. There's been a few politicians (around 25) in the ruling coalition which were against it, but even the opposition already agreed to support it.
I really couldn't get over how many moving parts Capistrano seemed to have and have switched to Fabric, which I love.
Trent Doesn't Like Phones
Vanilla Ruby to script SSH.
I would agree with a lot of HN posts here, but I have a few additions.

You say your job is in such a niche market - is there something missing from this market? Maybe use your specialty knowledge in your favor by coming up with a good startup idea.

A lot of people don't like him, but maybe read a little bit of James Altucher - he has large sections about happiness and quiting if you are not happy. Now, this job might not be the cause of your sadness/depression/burnout, but I doubt it is helping.

If you want to email me to bounce some ideas off - feel free. Whatever you decide to do, best of luck. I hope you find what you're looking for.
> Firefox downloads a ~15MB update

It depends on what you're updating. If you're updating from 3.6 to 4.0, across 18 months of work, then yes.

If you're updating from Firefox 6 to Firefox 7, say, then the update for Firefox on Windows is 6.5MB. The Mac updates are bit bigger because they're updating fat binaries. You can see for yourself at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases... -- the partial.mar is the update from 6.0.2 to 7.0.

> Chrome downloads a assembly diff on the order of a few
> kilobytes

As of 2009, Chrome Courgette updates were about 80KB (compared to Chrome bsdiff updates of 700KB; bsdiff is what Firefox uses). This was for a total download of about 10MB.

At this point the total Chrome download size is a lot bigger; they have a lot more code; I would be surprised if their updates are smaller than 200KB. Or do you have data indicating otherwise?

One more thing. Courgette (Google's update tool) only works on x86 code last I checked. That may be one of the reasons they're not shipping a 64-bit Chrome even in environments where that's expected, like recent MacOS. And we'll see what happens when they port Chrome to ARM...

bsdiff, for all its faults, does not have those problems.
Now 200KB is still a good bit smaller than 6MB. And I agree that for users on slow connections this can be a problem. That problem is becoming pretty rare in the US, Europe, an East Asia, though.
For all I care, the paper log need not even be human readable just so long as it is a physical and non-changeable log. I would like the log to be multi-format, both human readable and machine readable so the logs could be quickly scanned to validate accuracy with the electronic record.
One of the side benefits of having Ashton Kutcher as an investor
The interesting thing here is that one of Skype's most noted weaknesses is actually its core strength: calls tend to be scheduled (or at least negotiated first via IM).
Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET)
Unionized Programmers?
Programmers in the US Postal Service have union representation. This union also represents accountants. Members have the option to join the union or not join the union. Either way, the union negotiates wages/benefits for programmers and accountants.

I understand the benefit for unions that represent lower skilled workers and skill tradesmen. However, it seems absurd there is a union that represents programmers or accountants.

We can discuss the problems in the news section if there's interest.

But for now does anyone else know of other unions in IT?
I started out as a Netscape for Mac user. I stayed that way until there was a viable alternative, and that alternative was never IE, no matter how much Steve Jobs stood on stage and said he loved it.
Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine
Yes, that's the one. There are more than one available. I'm not going to spam the name of mine.
It's a service I wanted myself as an early adopter of handheld computers, outgoing SMTP is one of those things where the ISP does everything it can to make you use user@mobileisp.com and even when it is plain, remembering the settings if your phone gets wiped, is it mail.example.isp.com or smtp.example.isp.com. Hopefully it is a bit easier to remember the smtp service one uses.
Piwik,open source analytics, a great alternative to Google Analytics
Hey that's pretty neat. They'd make a fun addition to the site!
"Watch any folder" would greatly clutter the beautiful ui and conceptual model.
Yes, as mentioned on the site, the whole idea behind this is to publish the results. Otherwise there's no value! Can't blame you one bit :).
Yeah, that's a good question. It's hard to disentangle the effects given the available aggregate numbers. We'll see how things look going forward.
The hard part is not to make higher efficiency solar cells (within limits), the hard part seems to be to make them cheap enough so they're commercially viable.

For instance, these 35+ % efficient cells have been available for two years now:

http://gizmodo.com/5388795/sharp-triple-layer-solar-cell-set...

But you wouldn't be putting them on your roof unless you wanted to achieve a specific number of Watts on a small surface.

The figure to monitor is $/Watt, and that's where any gains will come from. Any decrease in the price per Watt is real, immediate gain. Increases in efficiency are only good if they lead to a lower price per Watt.
USB-Rechargable AA Batteries is amazing idea! http://www.inventables.com/technologies/usb-rechargeable-bat...
> Virtually every con in the book is based on a get-rick-quick scheme.

This is something people like to believe because it makes them think they're immune to being scammed. It is not really the case: For example, look at fake charities, which are based on generosity, or the grandparent scam, which is based on generosity and love.

If scammers can find an emotion, the can get rich from it.
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This is somewhat OT but I've used EditPlus under Windows for almost eight years and have paid $35 twice -- v2 and v3. Same with FileZilla.

When it's worth it, it's worth it. a lot of people feel the same way about TextMate.
Awesome. SublimeText2 users should also check out:

https://github.com/SublimeText

https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel

https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeLinter
If your values are very small Riak is probably a good replacement for S3. If your values are large then S3 is probably better than Riak.
I've heard NYC startups are more interested in making money/generating revenue while SV startups are more disruptive.

I imagine the public transport will be better in any case....good luck

Another tip - combine your office and apartment unless you need a brick and mortar place for sales. Just because you have funding doesn't mean you need to spend it.
I agree that I wasn't really being fair to Gladwell. I posted this comment to support Krylez's more general assertion about Gladwell's style.

But I'll come out and say what I hinted at elsewhere in this thread: I really wish Gladwell had bothered to tie together the threads between PARC, Alan Kay, Smalltalk, Objective-C, the iPad, the Scratch app being banned and Apple's vision of app-store-based-computing. It seems to me that he really missed out on a exactly the kind of cherry-picking and narrative forming he's good at, and in this case I think there might be a pretty interesting story buried in there. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the history to know if there really is, and it's likely it wouldn't have really worked in the New Yorker.
Code samples?
People aren't remarking about the elegance of the design; they're pointing out that he's lucky the design hasn't killed him already.
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Dammit man, get me a panda board!
Let's Play: Battlefield 3 beta (Xbox360)
so I just downloaded it at work and had a quick look - immediate impression is "wow", it's really really nice, I need to put some mileage into it. I have some faith that the first impression was the right one
"Code is not always released to users on the same day as the branch migration. The release to users may be a few days later, to allow for manual testing and sign-off."

I think this is confusing. Either you synch the switch (i.e. when you release the "release" version to users you release the "beta" too), or it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I didn't even know that there was a 5 and 6 :-(

(still on 3.6 at home and at work for reasons of inertia -- not broke, won't fix, yet)
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Os pacotes promocionais da Bancorbras são os mais variados possíveis, indo desde destinos internacionais consagrados como Orlando e Nova York até paraísos tropicais nacionais como Salvador e o Rio de Janeiro.
Suggestionss: check all option (for those with fat wallets) and weird tools like lock pick kits.

That's a really neat collection and I'm going to have to put your site on the blacklist to make sure we have food here.
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Tiffany Man's Jewelry The Symbol Of High Taste
For Windows 7 users, the path to install it to is C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages

(Presumably, for Windows XP users, it would then be
"C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Sublime Text 2\Packages" but I can't double-check that at the moment.)
Having thought about this a bit, I don't see how you do electronic voting without giving the voter a receipt that contains a sequence number, timestamp, and current status of the machine. All encrypted, of course. That way the paper trail can be reassembled if necessary to see if it matches the end state. Hope that was explanatory enough. It also partially distributes oversight authority to all the voters instead of having it all at the poll.
The ecosystem of Sublime Text 2 is fantastic, new plugins are popping out at an impressive rate. I am switching from Textmate to ST2 and very happy with it.
3 Easy Ways to Reduce Personal Insurance Costs
I agree. Just look at the way Google slowed down the incrementally increasing storage of Gmail. It's been some time but it's still lagging after they did a major "bump" some years back. There might be a lot of applause at the beginning but being able to knock Dropbox out of the game will take serious effort.

I think GDrive will help DropBox more by offloading their freeriders to Google. People seeking a better premium experience (and less risk of say losing all their GDrive contents because their Google+ got suspended) will likely find DropBox appealing once they realize the convenience of a service like this.
I have tried using a lot of other text editors over the past year or so—trying to find a viable replacement for TextMate. Each time someone in HN mentions Sublime or MacVim or new hotness text editor X, I give it a shot, use it for a couple of days to see if it sticks. I even tried going back to BBEdit—the editor I used for years and years before TextMate. To me, nothing compares. I'm not sure exactly what it is about it, but it just feels right to me. I even use only maybe 2% of what it's capable of. Still, there's something 'correct' about it.

In fact, I often think to myself, "Self, if TextMate 2 never came to be and you 'had' to use your current dusty version for the rest of your life, you'd be a.o.k. fine and dandy. Maybe by the time you stopped using a computer (and therefore TextMate 1.x), you'd have learned to type a little faster and maybe learned to use another 2% of the available features. Maybe, if TextMate 2 came out, you'd still prefer what you're using now." I totally agree with myself, then move along—happily coding away for yet another day in TextMate current.

So, when TextMate 2 comes out, I'll download it and give it a shot—just like all the others. If it sticks, and helps me enjoy my work a little bit more, then, just like everything else that does, I'll purchase it so I can keep using it.

The makers of TextMate will decide to do whatever they think is best for them regarding the price & past promises of free software, but I'm with the Marco.org fella in seeing (and paying money in exchange for) value in well crafted tools.
Who cares how viable it is? The fact that he built it, and it sorta works, is awesome.

If you said this came out of DARPA instead of some guy in China, I doubt you'd get the same critical comments.
I think the best link to folkore.org related to this article is http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
I don't really own a Mac nor do I use TextMate but over the years, I have heard about its greatness. I am just dying to ask this but why not put an optional paid upgrade? That way, if someone feels like paying for it, you'd know :)

Sublime Text 2 (which is my TextMate :) on Windows) uses something like this - keep using it and pay when you feel like model and I absolutely love it!
Gotcha. Interesting.

Thanks to both of you!
Of course, in C, arrays are just funny looking pointers anyway, so I guess an address can be both a pointer and an ordered set of array indices.
Motorola Defy, CM7.

Edit: here is a nice explanation http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-is-my-lis...
Thanks for the suggestions. The weird tools idea is a good angle.
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The Dismal Science of Code Metrics
Yeah, I think the article should have a code sample.
Thanks. Good feedback. Re: store/delete SD card: I need storage for image caching and also for the Save feature. You can save stories and then read later. Definitely will add preferences- good idea
If someone already paid for TextMate, I think it's fair to assume that they own an Apple computer.
Maybe he should use the "pay what you want" pricing concept for upgrades. Anyone who wants his free upgrade can't complain. But he'll end up getting paid some, too.
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The sharp and entertaining comments Cobo Borda full of questioning and critical power will enable the reader to examine a number of books,
Engineers can build a low-carbon world if we let them
Interesting. I can probably handle all HN content within the app itself
> It looks fantastic today

Unless the local mosquito populations are resistant to it, as a lot of them are. That's why it's barely used now. Seems a bit rude to point that out, given how enthusiastic some people are for the substance.
I'm a bit pessimistic; if the hardware is old and rushed, why would the software or overall experience be any better?

I suspect Lab126 is cooking up something much better--but, unfortunately, it's not yet ready for prime time.
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Same here, got my install finished just a month ago. The inverters we used aggregates the data (to warn us of problem) which I have made public http://enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/public/systems/TTAL25069 We also expect a payback of around five years (in MA). After running the numbers it was pretty clear in MA that solar is a very decent (300% return in ~10 years)* and safe investment. Just too bad that you can only really invest ~15K before you produce more than you need.

Edit:

*
100% return in SREC + no electric bill in 3-5 years
Several more years of SRECS,
easily 50% of the original investment
The longer you stick in the house, the no electric
bill once again pays back (With no tax!) the initial
investment 100% after ~15-20 years
100+% back when you sell the house (as they are
depreciated on the initial 30K+ install cost, not
your post tax incentive cost and probably still
worth in the 20's) and solar seems to be causing
houses to sell quicker to boot.

If I was going to retire soon and needed to start moving investments to a more predictive safe place to put some cash getting panels seems a win all around and removes one more unknown bill from my life. But again it is only ~10-20K of a retirement fund, but hey every bit helps.
Neat! I didn't even know about the Pandaboard until just now. I'll add it in an update.
So in a few years from now, you'll be supporting one version of Chrome, one version of Firefox, one of Opera, (probably) one of Safari, and ten versions of IE.

I think the nightmare scenario couldn't possibly play out this way. We've all seen what really happens when there are too many browsers to support; web developers drop all pretense of supporting the least popular browsers, which would in a case like this be Opera, Safari, and maybe Chrome. And sites put up banners telling users to upgrade to the latest version of IE.
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When I ask "How much is a website?" what I mean is, more or less, "What's the average price of the last 100 websites you did, weighted a bit by where you are in the price curve? If you could toss in the stdev, that'd be awesome."

Thinking that a person asking for a price concept has no idea that there may be variables is pretty pessimistic. Some are probably not worth talking to, but others are interested in basically getting a verbal sense of what the curves in the original article look like.

I asked a friend of mine who is a professional animator recently how much animation costs to produce per minute. He didn't come out with a meaningless answer like "From 10 cents to 10 million dollars." He gave me about a 30-second sense of what an average simple and high-end studio looks like and what it ends up costing to run them. That's a good answer, not a dodge.