skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only released one (not too successful) project so far; with another in progress.

I still have my day job and realised that I need to pick my battles right now with which projects I work on.

I personally need to find the right balance between:
1) A good project idea to work on
2) Something doable in a shorter amount of time (short being a month or two?) versus longer projects that may be better, but I wouldn't expect to finish in after hours work

That may not help you too much right now though!

When this happens to me, its usually because I am not sure how to proceed, or I am distracted with what part to work on, or the part I am working on is boring.

Try taking a walk around the block, clear your head, and have a think about what you need to do to ship your product as version 1.0 (MVP / Minimum Viable Product)?

Put together a short list of steps you need to follow to get this done, then start at the first one.

Having a plan of action should give you some energy to work on your project.
I'm in Office and we currently use Source Depot, which is a modified version of Perforce. We have so many tools that interoperate with it (and everyone knows how it works) that I don't see us moving away from SD anytime soon.

We use Team Foundation for a few other things related to project management (personally, I'm not a fan), but not for source control.
It's obvious to me that as time goes by, governments are going to want to shut down more and more internet services for whatever reason.

It seems to me that the thing that is needed most is an even-more distributed internet system, so that things like DNS and ISPs cannot be controlled by governments.

A peer-to-peer DNS system and someway of easily setting yourself up as an ISP would mean that this type of intervention would be impossible.
Sigh, again, modern news gone bad. Computers in the same base and area as the control computers had a virus, but it could not affect the software used to control the planes.
DI is useful in the situation where you'd like to mock 3rd-party web-service (that usually don't have test environment themselves).

e.g.: Integration with Twitter. If you don't mocked Twitter client API, you won't be able to write unit-test (or someone will make a lot of excuses of how hard to write unit-tests).

You can work-around DI with having a factory/template method that you'd override or whatnot but that situation won't work 100% in all situations. You may end up writing more code.

YMMV. Use it when you absolutely need it.
Thanks a ton, I am setting up a github as we speak.
Okay.

If Evernote had found a way to make money by paying customers, I would think they would indeed be very deserving of the title, "Company of the year."
This too: http://www.esphoneblog.com/2011/04/20/apple-vs-samsung-menu-...
Wow, I feel like this is the most interesting thing on HN right now by far.
Selling dirt to China really skews these numbers....and as a Canadian I should know.
It’s (Probably) Okay Not To Have Any Ambition.
Microsoft has a history of screwing over with their 'help': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

I believe he's referring to this with scaring people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Mi...

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
By "bootstrapping issues" you mean that the people in power aren't in a hurry to give it up, right? Obviously they're not and that's why I used the term "fantasizing". :)
I should clarify, I am currently sending my applications/website (with intro) to jobs I find on craigslist. While this isn't the seeking out you suggest, I am not waiting for jobs to fall into my lap.
All companies should work like this. Good on Jawbone.
I have been doing this, some never get back to me, some do but in the end don't work out.
One of the wisest moves I have seen by a bunch of politicians in the world was the introduction of the superannuation system in Australia. I have lived in a number of countries around the world and I don't understand why more countries don't adopt a similar system.
"Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along."

It might have been a largely Russian operation using the Iranians as a proxy.
Thanks for pointing that out. It was more about not being another GroupMeLyO.IO clone
That people even had the idea that a "C replacement" doesn't need a way to define its own data structure is frightening.
Why not? As far as I know, it's been at least somewhat successful in some other fields already. The other surprising thing is how different the sites can be while still having the same structure and UI.

I think StackExchange is sufficiently flexible to be useful to people who aren't programmers--it just needs time to branch out. Remember that StackOverflow was not only the first site, but also had a big head start in the form of Spolsky and Atwood's blog audiences. Growing a different, non-programmer audience organically is naturally going to take some effort and time.
Ask HN: What are you favorite things that your teacher(s) did?
I'm knee deep designing an 8-week curriculum for devbootcamp.com and I want it to be amazing.

I keep thinking back to my favorite teachers, how they used humor, expected the best of me...etc.

What are some of your fondest memories of your teachers? What techniques/attitudes/strategies did they use that really worked for you, and helped you learn?
P2P DNS exists. One implementation is Namecoin. I've heard of ideas of making a large mesh network with people's Wi-Fi routers, but there are many technical hurdles to overcome there, though it should be workable, if excruciatingly slow.
Doing a quick [...] is VERY convenient.

I agree! If you do this a lot then you might be interested in GNU parallel. It's super handy!

seq 1 15 | parallel ssh www{}.website.com reboot

http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
We're encountered this issue when dealing with ETF tickers. We use Linux but a 3rd-party redistributor was on Windows; the reports we created had file names in the form <TICKER>.pdf and, what would you know, PRN.pdf caused all sorts of trouble for them...
Probably just wondering whether it was being squatted or if there was a legit business on there.
This has been discussed so many times now! It's not news! In a world where content is consumed on different devices with different "views" I think this is a necessity.
See here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/insurgents-intercept...
Move Content to Left, Sidebar to Right on New Twitter
Yup. Posh ended my habit of installing cygwin, and now I cringe when I have to do it the "old-fashioned" way on a Linux box.

Powershell is more verbose, but much more expressive.
Same here, I went to our state science fair in 8th grade (late 90s) I really felt that most of the experiments there far outstripped the abilities of an 8th grader.

In fact one of the biggest disparities was in price, I had maybe $100 budget, and that was after I upgraded my project for the state level. Many of the experiments there looked to be at least 10x more expensive.
Jamming the GPS signal is much different than spoofing 3+ GPS satellites. You can buy a 5 watt Russian GPS jammer for fairly cheap, but spoofing GPS, getting it all right is not available on anything publicly for sale. Pretend Iran could get that math right at the same time as jamming the plane (from above btw!!) to block the real GPS satellites. I'm sure one of the many http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gps+anti-jam defense contractors would happily sell the military something that might resolve that issue.
Twitter currently forces you to express your entire thought in 140 characters. Or, at most, in some small multiple of 140-character posts. Usually the friction of splitting something out like that caps people at around 3 posts.

Your "self post" style idea with hidden "embedded text" would only really force people to be concise with what effectively become the "titles" of their rambling, hidden, posts. It does nothing to solve any of the problems created when you lift the arbitrary conciseness limit; the manner in which people express ideas gets flabby when they have infinite space in which to express them.

I don't want a timeline full of titles to posts I'm rarely going to click into. That's a big decrease in the value Twitter is providing to me.
This is a case where someone has recorded the entire exchange in publicly accessible video for you!

This isn't the 80s where your chicken-scratches made on the spot are the best you've got. This is an age where we have voice recorders, events are routinely recorded with easy-to-access video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02iJn5Ypio#t=41m12s
We're not discussing Lift nor his design skills.

We're talking about his level of expertise in Scala, which is probably one of the highest in the community.
A similar tool: http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
>Sigh, again, modern news gone bad. Computers in the same base and area as the control computers had a virus, but it could not affect the software used to control the planes.

so, operator behind windows machine can issue a command to the drone using keyboard/joystick/mouse attached to that machine, yet virus residing in the same machine can't? How come? Does the drone recognize received commands as issued by virus vs. issued by operator ? By smell or a smily at the end or the word "Please" at the start of the command :)
I found the advice from Leo Babauta of zenhabits.net helped me quite a lot - particularly his book "The Power of Less". Basically, he advocates reducing other commitments and focussing all of your energy on a small number of projects (e.g. 3) and only starting something new when they are ALL finished. Easier said that done, of course, but I do finish things more frequently now...
[1] is a link to a story about Google being sued by Skyhook, not Google suing anybody.
(Do you generally do, or would you be willing to do, consulting on matters like this, paid or otherwise? If so, I would love to talk to you for a bit and get some opinions. -- saurik@saurik.com)
The Transformer Prime does look great.

As an aside, I can't decide whether its website is cool or not: http://eee.asus.com/en/eeepad/transformer-prime/features
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Over the years, I've had plenty of offers for my three letter cool sounding word .com domain, unfortunately most have been in that "insult" category. I wouldn't call $20k an insult but at ten percent of my asking price I'm not sure I'd bother responding.
"I like how HN is often first to criticize, but sometimes you're just missing the point."

Welcome to the internet. Not sure how long you've been here but anything posted publicly will get criticized and torn apart regardless of where it's posted.
Apple loses China iPad trademark case
Who says it doesn't?
So having more money in the bank means I'm more entitled to that than someone else?

What if I have a vested interest in the outcome? You don't see this going down a black hole of game theory?
IDC: Windows 8 will be 'largely irrelevant' when it comes to tablets - even PCs
Use mulitple github accounts on one computer
I believe the study you're thinking of is "Lifetime maintenance of high-school mathematics content" (Journal of Experimental Psychology). I read about it in Why Don't Children Like School, perhaps you did too?
I imagine PDMI came about because it's frankly a pretty good connector. I love me some USB, but USB aside it is one of the most feature-ful and reasonable portable device connectors I've known.

As for the shape of Samsung's plug, form follows function. USB plugs all mostly look the same too.
It always amazes me how quickly abuses of power seem to occur once such power is enabled. I always expect that at first the recipients of the power will be very cautious, bound by the social norms and expectations set by the previous situation, and it will take many years or even decades for the abuses we complain about to actually happen. However it doesn't seem to work like that. Abuses seem to happen almost immediately the minute it is possible for them to occur.

It's almost comforting in a way - at least truly terrible laws don't just slip in unnoticed and get established without us noticing. Their bad effects get manifested almost straight away.
Not sure if it's part of these changes but I'm glad that everyone you've ever emailed no longer gets added to your contacts list. That was a pain whenever I synced with my Android phone, all of a sudden my phonebook was full of useless email addresses that I'd emailed once off. So glad that's fixed!
Mass transit mostly fails to avoid all the same things you mentioned...

But... so what? This isn't about private cars vs. mass transit. This is about unthinkingly exaggerating the virtues of private cars. We all do it, all the time.

...half the problems you mentioned go away with driverless cars.

That's what was claimed about parkways, thruways, expressways, and later about the interstate freeways, and none of those problems have in fact gone away at all.
You may have missed the bit about electric cars.

They can turn off their motors without losing any efficiency (which is why hybrids do so well on efficiency in city traffic). Depending on how slowly the traffic moves there will be a point where it is cheaper to stay in traffic (with the motor off x% of the time) compared to paying for parking.
Generic domains are overrated.
Where does one converse in English while in a foreign country?

Here: http://www.colingo.com/

Colingo is shaping up to be an amazing product for language learning, and luckily for you, they're focusing on English speaking fluency at first. Disclaimer: I've briefly worked with the guys behind Colingo.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/iran-releases-images-downe...
It all seems so obvious, yet it's crazy how many people I meet that work absurdly hard on something they hate - like finance at Goldman Sachs - just because "it's a great way to learn the skills and then [they]'ll quit and do what they really love".

Bullshit. Be happy now, not tomorrow.
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How about the MILLIONS of apple USB cables out there by iphone and ipad and ipod users where these same users may buy a samsung device and still be able to use their cables.

I have ~10 apple USB cables. I keep 1 in my backpack, 1 in the car, 1 in the bedroom, I have a 6' long one I bought from deal extreme and several others in various places.

I have an iPad - but I'm open to other devices and I hate it when I cant usethe cables I have.

(I have about 8 dell power adapters for the same reasons)
It occurs to me there is a strong incentive to use a PDMI interface- many cars, devices and accessories that interface with the iPod use that interface. Is it IP theft to hook into devices that normally hook into the iPod?
It is amazing how many major medical breakthroughs come through physicians experimenting on themselves. For instance, 2 doctors shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for proving that ulcers were caused by bacteria by first infecting themselves with bacteria and curing it with an antibiotic.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/20...
Non-interactive and unmaintained, unfortunately.
I would put the limitations in the other direction; in fact, I would say that one reasonably obvious place to draw the line is that in order to contribute money to a political campaign, you have to be a registered voter. That would immediately shut down corporate contributions completely. If a group of individuals all want to contribute to the same politician's campaign, great! They can each make their individual contributions. But it seems to me that the biggest source of corruption in the whole process is the idea that any entities other than individual voters can be part of the process. Government is supposed to represent actual human beings, not legal fictions.
Google Currents is Nice, But I'm Keeping Flipboard in My iPad's Dock
Sunday Night Is Most Popular Time to Download Android Apps
Interesting analysis. Everyone focuses on technology, but Win8 has a lot of unanswered business questions. The premise of the article is essentially, if MS sells Win8 tablets as a tablet (i.e., iPad), how can it continue to charge desktop prices for Windows and Office in Win8? Especially since MS repeatedly touted the "dual use" tablet/desktop scenario at BUILD. Both of these products are basically free on WP and their equivalent products are cheap on iOS and Android.

The options, as I see it are:

1. Continue to make Office desktop only (does not work in Metro)
2. Create a tablet-only SKU for Office (does not work in Desktop)
3. Create a dual use SKU for Office (tablet + desktop). Ultimate? Sounds expensive.
4. Switch to subscription pricing for Office

None of these sound ideal. I think MS will ultimately go with #4. They've been planning to do so for half a decade now.
Some sleight of hand there- they try and play down the government debt because it's low, but omitted the fact that 4 years ago it used to be zero and now is growing faster than Ireland did before it went bust. This is happening because of a spending/taxes deficit that is at 2.5% and growing - all while in the middle of a cyclical boom underpinned by a chinese credit bubble that has skyrocketed demand for iron ore and metallurgical coal.

Not many people know this, but Australia is basically the Saudi Arabia of high-grade coal and high grade Iron Ore.

They also omitted the fact that personal debt - ie debt owed by people rather than the government is also one of the highest in the world.

Australian also homes usually take out the top spots in the 'most unaffordable' list.

They also omitted the fact that the workforce has gone from being one of the most free back to a much higher regulated workforce, and as a result productivity has dropped precariously and strike action has exploded.

There is no mention in the article of what is termed 'the two speed economy' where manufacturing firms are struggling and retail businesses are closing their doors, mostly because of the high debt load servicing the unaffordable property market and because of diffculty competing against international imports (ie Amazon et al) caused by a strong currency and a very regulated labor market which drives up the cost of keeping stores open.

Yes, the economy has been strong as a result of being underpinned by selling resources to fast-growing nations like China and India.

So I agree with the central thesis that there is much to be proud of, but this type of preening article is a warning that people might start to get complacent and over-prescribe success to perfect management rather than being at the right point in the cyclical trend. The truth is the country is starting to behave like a 3rd generation family who inherets the hard work of the 1st and 2nd generation but isn't prepared to make the sacrifices that made it so.

Crikey is a partisan website - not sure of the US equivalent but it's pretty hard left. It's where you go to confirm your beliefs rather than to get a balanced view.
Depends on the product.
Which was strictly the video feed from the first generation predator drones. If you look into the linked USAF docs, you'll see the actual telemetry and control channels are encrypted.

Wired is about as reliable about security reporting as Fox News is about the DNC. They know their audience, and want to sell eyeballs.
I was using the laptop of a friend recently. He had only Internet Explorer, and when I ran it about 1/3 of the browser window was taken up by toolbar on top of toolbar. Google, Yahoo, Bing, basically anybody that made a toolbar. I asked him if he wanted them, and said he wasn't sure, but didn't want the browser to stop working if he got rid of them.

I got rid of them for him, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it happens again.
Hardly; agriculture and mining _combined_ make up 10% of GDP. 68% of Australian GDP comes from the services sector. These figures courtesy of the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the year 2006. Agriculture and mining do make up 57% of exports however, thus keeping the trade balance on keel.
What exactly is ridiculous? That's also my understanding of what happened.
We did it here in New Zealand as well in the 1970's, one of our previous Prime Minister's portrayed it as "reds under the bed" etc etc, destroyed it, and now we're paying for it dearly. Stupidest move in NZ's economic history as far as I'm concerned. According to current studies, we would've had one of the largest soverign wealth funds in the world if we'd kept up with it since its inception.

Policy blunders like this are par for the course here though, Normally committed by the right-wing/conservative (as in economically, not religious, we don't really give them much space in our national discourse) National Party.
It was a corporation previosly
Dan Meyer often talks about this so-called "pseudocontext": http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?cat=89
Just like that? Easier said than done. You're leaving out the most important part. The traditional way usually involves getting that lucky connection, getting funded, making a huge PR push using that funding and then make lots of money (or at least be in a position to). Otherwise there could be people out there who have products far better than what's around but can't rocket to the center of the universe because of the way things work now. It's like there's this bubble that you either live inside of or outside of which is created by tech rags like TechCrunch. If you're outside the bubble then good luck getting noticed. And for all the talk about how all these sexy new startups are being so innovative we sure do see a ton of me-too apps, networks, and SaaSes. What's an outsider to do? It's like getting mega rich. There's an unspoken truth that your position in life is governed by the class you we born in. Moving up a class is a true rarity. It's a myth in the style of The American Dream.
Goldman Sachs whistleblower threatened with the sack
Video of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone looking undamaged from Iranian TV:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562
Everyone besides me probably already knew, but "Wall has been trademarked by Facebook" ? Wow.
Decouple the drivetrain from the cabin. The drivetrain is automated, and has standard connection types for the personal cabin. So you can have a mobile space that is "yours". Still has all the benefits listed in the article, and handles a few of the problems that "community car sharing" would create.

If a bunch of people are all going the same direction you can pack them into a 10 cabin bus, or a 100 cabin train. When their paths diverge you can have single cabin drivesets routed in advance to the destination. Tailor the drivesets for their intended use/range; short range electrics for small commutes, long range diesels, catenary powered on high traffic areas, perhaps a large multicabin driveset with wings?
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Indeed and they take it very seriously.
I will be attending, sounds like everything I need under one roof !!
Thanks for your support. Well it was check mate. The client was on track to bankruptcy and was hoping to screw me to solve his problem. I had a quiet chat with his lawyers and enlightened them to the fact that he wasn't in a position to pay his legal fees. So ... guess what? ... they declined him as a client.
yep. why make it complicated when one could, for example, the admin can simply overwrite the motd from /etc/rc.local, instead of this symlink + motd.tail + regenerate at login/boot?
Update: Blueseed Project moving ahead with maritine startup incubator