skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are two interesting statements from A Perfect Man, a biography of Eugen Sandow. Unfortunately, the author does not cite a source for these statements and doesn't appear to be familiar with yoga himself. (Also, the author strikes me as a little too eager to establish Sandow's influence on the modern world.) With those caveats in mind:

Sandow's ideas were taken up enthusiastically [in India after Sandow's visit there.] There were many who saw physical fitness as the first step on the road to independence and political power. These included Swami Vivekenanda, the Hindu nationalist leader (and exponent of the three Bs: beef, biceps, and the Bhagavad-Gita.)

Later, speaking about the physical practice of yoga that became popular in the west:

According to some historians, this modern posture-based yoga owes more to Western physical culture (including Sandow's) than it does to Indian tradition.

Sandow himself made many grandiose statements about the power of his physical exercise program to cure almost any bodily ailment. No one takes his claims seriously nowadays because he presented them as material facts, but if he had cloaked them in a bunch of mystical bullshit and attributed his ideas to an exotic ancient tradition, he might still have followers today instead of being a mostly forgotten Victorian curiosity.

EDIT: Here's an example of a westerner who did exactly that(quoted from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/books/review/Mishra-t.html...):

As Pierre Bernard, one of the first of many indefatigable charlatans who popularized yoga, or at least its physical-training aspect, hatha yoga, in the United States, put it, “The purpose of yoga is to prepare us from getting cheated; to enable us to make better bargains, and to get what we go after!” Fabulous sex was high on Bernard’s menu even in the strait-laced 1910s. Robert Love’s entertaining ­biography, “The Great Oom,” depicts a bold and successful liar who could tell his gullible disciples with a straight face that oral sex, punishable in 1915 by up to 20 years in prison, was a sacred practice in India and produced orgasms 10 times longer than ordinary intercourse.

Can I have a Sham-Wow with that?
'LET MY DREAM COME TRUE' Not being a sprite and having to load made me cringe too.
Aw man - I'm building IAP auto-renewable support right now so I feel your pain - I've invested enough in it that I'm going to try and push it through.

Did they ask you to remove the ability to let users subscribe from the website, or did they let that stay after you built IAP.
Tired of incendiary, link baiting articles like these. They all follow the same pattern: Why I hate (Ruby, Rails, OOP, Functional Programming, Programming Quizzes in Interviews, Startups, Enterprises, Google, Apple, Microsoft, whatever) and then the article never impresses.

I still feel compelled to click due to the headline though, so props for that.
Spotify’s gotten big in the US, but serious free users will have to start paying
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it.
I am doing free education in China, and I fund myself. Right action has its own reward.
You mean, basically, the SSH way of doing things.

No one bothers signing the public key of the SSH server you're trying to connect to by a CA; your client just says "this is the first time you're connecting to xxxx, do you accept?" but the next time you try to connect and you get a mismatch, all kinds of warnings and hell break loose if the key doesn't match the one in the cache.

Makes sense to me.
Instapaper offers an optional $1/month subscription. It's a voluntary way to support future development.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/instapaper-subscriptions/
Building codes regulate construction. They do not regulate existing structures. That is why there are property maintenance codes (as well as fire codes).
Mike Maples Interview - Focus on Spotting Industry Waves -
Because the properties are probably the cheapest around meaning that the people who live there would have to move up, not sideways. Not everyone can afford that.
clean,thank u
Thanks. This is a big part of it. We'd love it if the end result was that we had put a few more good hackers out into the market.
Great design, however having your text as images makes me want to cry.

In terms of design, very attractive (minus the cleavage. that's considered trashy over here) and engaging. I read from top to bottom. Copy is nice despite being broken english.

Only gripe really is you should use some kind of @font-face (check fontsquirrel.com to make your own) so that 1. your text is well, actually text 2. highlight-able, click-able & copyable 3. your load time will increase dramatically 4. SEO!

Great idea. Great execution as a designer. Wishing you the best of luck.

ALSO: Even if you don't get recruited, you still have a bright future ahead of you. Don't get discouraged and keep trying. =)
Not to be too harsh, but why would xyz cool startup hire you when they can hire someone from the usa with a degree?
Man, don't spend your whole life like you just walked out of a re-education camp.
The original visitor.js identified my city correctly; this only put me in the USA.

Is there a free reliable precise geolocation service that can take as many hits as a script like this could throw at it?
He's to be commended for making SOPA's "unintended" consequences easy to understand for the masses. He essentially came up with the best argument as to why SOPA should not be passed (i.e. internet censorship in Tunis and Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring).
To expand on Dave's comment above a bit:

While we're very much not about launching startups or products, we already do much of what you suggest. We encourage people to write useful code and build or contribute to open source projects. Hacker Schoolers frequently collaborate and pair. Everyone puts their code on Github. We emphasize code quality and writing clean, maintainable code you're proud of.
Geeks vs Nerds
This is just an initial spike. The conversation started here: https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module/issues/35.
CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D also gets you into Diagnostics mode.

I learned both of these from Day[9], of all people.
Reminds me of the kind of analysis in http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog/insider...
Filip: You need to rewrite the copy; some of the English is severely broken and you are using hyphens where there shouldn't be any.

If you need help, email me and I'll help you as much as I can (I'm an English Lit. major and native speaker).
Doesn't one need a 4 year college degree (or equivalent work experience) for H1-B visa?
I think you can get XMonad working on OS x; I know a couple of people who were using it. I also think the "productivity enhancing features" broadly overrated and better in Linux, but that's neither here nor there.
Lifelike Steve Jobs Collectible Now Available : iSteve
In Icons, a company that seems to adjust their gears to follow the urge of people, recently announced that they are in the process of marketing an immensely lifelike 1-foot Steve Jobs figurine. The “doll” is supposedly so lifelike that it actually looks like you’re looking at a real miniature Steve Jobs. I guess this thing is aimed at the hardcore fans of Steve (and there a lot of them out there), and it is meant to sit (or stand) on your desk like a surveying mentor to keep you aggressively focused on making a change..
http://www.newtechie.com/2012/01/lifelike-steve-jobs-collectible-now.html
I thought the same thing as I read this. I understand the point Spolsky was making and wouldn't want to argue with it, but my dad used Excel formulas, every salesperson I've ever worked with used basic formulas, the marketing teams I worked with made basic formulas...

Also, surely one of the reasons so many people used it to make lists was that it was the tool Office shipped with that had gridlines (Word has them too, but they're clunky). If you bundle a spreadsheet along with the world's most popular word processor, it's no wonder it gets used for pedestrian tasks in addition to the ones Bricklin thought about.

This is a point Spolsky danced around in a much earlier blog post: 80% of users want just 20% of the features of a program, but they're not the same 20%.
You can always sell them your process once it works ;)
We have immensely powerful systems today, but it would seem the levels of abstraction and libraries add overhead (just how much? I don't know). I wonder how things like BareMetal (http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html) would shake things up? Strip away those layers, and get back to damn near bare metal. Seems to be the magic here: they skipped all the abstraction, and are allowing direct access to the storage (I have to imagine, it's massively parallel as well).
Worked fine with me, here in Brazil.
As opposed to just listen to copyrighted material [for which they have no license to distribute]?
Emails. Goog docs. Our own app. Team viewer.
Rumor This occassion Elin Nordegrens home wrecker
Rumor This occassion Elin Nordegrens home wrecker
Following Elin Nordegren eliminated which often lyin cheatin horndog Padraig harrington.
Student loans would be a huge help but no one is going to get standard student loans unless Hacker School becomes an accredited institution which would be a huge amount of work and bureaucracy.
Okay, maybe they wouldn't take down Youtube. But the chances of someone uploading a copyrighted video to Justin.tv? Or a thousand other small video hosting sites? Very high.

Right now, someone files a notice, and Justin.tv says "oh crap! Lets take that down." and they do and everyone is happy.

In the future, someone might file a notice, and then Justin Kan shows up at work one day and finds that his entire business has been taken offline by the government.
For some people the whole experience is just more fun and interesting if you have someone else with you to share it with.
Because this kid obviously has drive, ambition, and talent. Caring enough about his dream to put together a site and posting it to HN demonstrates that he's paying attention and he wants to connect with other driven people. Also that he spent 4 days on it when he could have been out partying shows a good deal more vision than a lot of 19-year olds.

He also is willing to make sacrifices and go halfway across the globe to join a team. Doubt you'll see his manager worrying if he's spending too much time on reddit.

It's also a big deal to leave your country and go somewhere where you have little base.

So in a nutshell, because he has the classic immigrants ambition, and won't rest on his laurels like perhaps someone who was born here would.
A founders perspective on this:

I think such negotiation tips are great because they helps engineers, many of whom are not the best negotiators, get the fair market value they deserve. This is a real concern when recruiters are involved, or its a big company, or even a large startup (e.g. 50+ people).

However, as a technical founder for a smaller team, its not really in my interest to mis-align employee incentives, especially engineers.

The people we hire are at the top of their game. If they're are not treated fairly, they will eventually find out, and someone will feel bad or be de-motivated or eventually leave. Every instance of lack of transparency or apparent "unfairness" will breed resentment and impact the net productivity of a team that's trying to run at its 110%. Even if/when we do get things wrong occasionally, quarterly/annual reviews are a great way to correct for decisions made with limited initial data.

Tl;Dr : Founders don't get rich by cutting corners on someone's salary/benefits.
Jim McKelvey, Co-fonder of Square Interview - Craftsmanship
I've seen that, but that hypothetical game isn't even close to a good model for the typical real life negotiation. Basically, it models a negotiation that stops at the first disagreement!

The argument also implicitly depends on several dubious assumptions:

-- that the odds of the company choosing L is only 50% when going first;

-- that I will accept an L offer (not the case if I'm currently employed, then I just want to go for H or bust);

-- or that I value H significantly more than L (not the case when I'm unemployed, then I just want to increase the chance of getting the job), etc.
families are the future of society.
if warrior.feel.empty?
warrior.walk! :forward
else
warrior.attack!
end

Edit: if you're new to ruby syntax, then it's probably worth pointing out that the ? and ! on the end of the method names has no special function (they're both valid characters for using in method names). By convention, methods that return a boolean end in ? and methods that modify the object end in !. For example, Array has two sort methods - sort and sort!. some_array.sort will return a sorted copy of some_array but leave the original unsorted. some_array.sort!, however, will sort aome_array
Agree. The independent documentary "The Devil's Miner" about teenage Bolivian miners ranks up there too.

http://www.thedevilsminer.com/hauptmovie.html
From the SEC filing linked to in the Geekwire post, this is classified as a Venture Capital investment. I think this probably simplifies the accounting and reporting a lot compared to a co-op with outside investors.

Disclosure: I'm a Limited Partner in this fund.
Was thinking exactly the same thing, because this is exactly what I think when candidates say "I'm in the X's but looking to improve that". Well, yeah, of course you're looking to improve X. You still set the floor, saving me the trouble of guessing it too high.
The only people that really need to worry about SOPA are the little guys with personal connections/local businesses in the USA. If the USA kills their golden goose then it is their own damn fault and business will move elsewhere.

To access the internet all you have to do is get swissvpn or a proxy and you're set. If the .gov makes VPNs/proxies illegal then the USA suddenly is more oppressive than china/saudi Arabia.
I had some customers who used it (Anheuser-Busch has some weird licensing partnership that their distributors get it for free-ish). So you CAN get it, if you have the money.
Whoa! Super impressed you turned this out so quickly. You should post it as a 'Show HN' story!

Also, props for renaming it to session.js (I think it's unfair to use their name)

This might spur the visitor.js guys to release part of their codebase as open source and continue to provide a paid service with extra support and features etc.
You do, unless the company happens to be pretty well connected (think Google, Apple). Then they can get you a visa which might not be H1-B but you get the same "benefits".
The Nurse in Your Pocket
I'm pretty sure he actually meant to put all arguments about legality aside. Any service, no matter how legal, that enables you to easily download high quality label music, no matter how illegal that process is, will be intolerable.
if the machine is capable of surviving on its own or in groups then it has right to live. doesn't matter how "intelligent" or "self aware" it is.
From reading the title, I imagined a fix for Google's habit of telling me to get off the highway in the middle of the downtown of certain cities around here. I always think "no, Google, that is definitely NEVER the fastest route, no matter WHAT the speed limit supposedly is."

This is just for pedestrians, though.
> all it ever means is that the US wants to screw the rest of the world out of the deal.

Do you seriously think that? Is that really what you've gleaned from all of this?

The laws around licensing and ownership of content are different in every country. Different people even tend to OWN the same song in different countries. This is very complicated. Just because a company figures out a way to stream in the United States under the provisions of the DMCA and other laws does not mean they know how to stream that content legally in your country.

If no solutions exist for what you want in your country, and the market is lucrative enough to support one, why don't you start one?
I'm also 19, I'm currently leaving a 6-figure a year development job to enter college. It's not tough if you try hard.
I tried to pitch Trello to a company I know that I think could have really made good use of it, but their objection was the same, uncomfortable with not having their development tasking and customer issues stored "in house."
My name is James Dennis and I was in batch[0]. I'm the guy with the red headphones on http://www.hackerschool.com/.

I originally met Dave and Nick through the outgoing hacker community in NYC. I say outgoing because the community here self-selects into people looking to bond over programming. Sure enough, Dave, Nick and Sonali were part of it. I met Sonali during Hacker School.

I was somewhat aware of Hackruiter and felt they were really smart. They always asked lots of questions and helped me reinforce my understanding of things.

Dave and I went out for dinner and he told me the idea was to have a bunch of smart people in a room and see what happens when they all also like coding. I had been working on a few frameworks one the side, Brubeck and DictShield, and thought it'd be great to work with a bunch of other people.

We all introduced ourselves at Hacker School's first day and talked about what we intended to work on. All of us had that slight impatience like when we want to get working. We also all had that same curiosity where you want to know what you can learn and share with other people.

Everyone had really awesome ideas. Everyone completed lots of awesome ideas. We talked about programming, heard talks from awesome guests, discussed concurrency, functional programming, distributed systems, python, ruby, erlang, c, javascript, node.js, brubeck, zeromq, nginx... the list just keeps going on because the group knew when to talk and share ideas and when to just put the headphones on and hack.

I wrote a lot of code for Brubeck and DictShield. I also built a link sharing example site called ListSurf. Then I built it in a more elaborate way and called that Readify. I got a lot of stuff done.

I reached out to my friends to find those that had that same values and creative drive as the first group and I'm happy to say a bunch of them went and really enjoyed it.

The second batch, batch[1], was just as awesome. Two of my friends from the Dumbo Tech Breakfast were there. A friend from NYCPython was there. New friends came from law school, ran a beef jerky shop, have built music sites, have taught programming classes and managed libraries.

I have met some of my favorite people through Hacker School. That's an amazing gift to receive for free. I spent every Saturday with Hacker School during batch[1], even though I was in batch[0].

Never graduate.
"So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear. I'll fix it up there, then I'll bring it back here."
The only thing that would make this better is to have it in coffeescript... :) which I might do for you if you don't.
Does malaria have a right to live? Are we wrong to try to eradicate it?
I think it will take quite some time for humans to accept robots as entities with rights. There's a lot of fear surrounding the idea of intelligent machines, and most deeply religious people (who I know, family included) consider robots/A.I. to be (somewhat) evil. We mostly have Hollywood to thank for that.

When the majority of the human population understands technology and its ever-changing limits, the fear and stigma towards artificial intelligence comparable to our own will subside and only then will sentient robots be accepted.

It's human nature to fear the unknown. It's gotten us to where we are today. But I think there comes a point in our timeline where we overcome all fear with our ability to understand and predict. Ironically enough, this will probably require the advancement of (and potentially cooperation with) A.I.
I'm super impressed you turned this out so quickly. I think that really sums up the spirit in the HN community...

When you look at something that seems overpriced (or wrongly-priced) and you say "hey, I bet I could do this"

I still see value in potentially paying for a service like this when it's a big enough pain-point. But I really think they'd have had more traction with a open-source-to-paid model, where anyone can use the client-side code for free, but the extra stats and support provided are worth paying for.
I am not sure this is exactly it (or perhaps I am misunderstanding your post). With present technology you simply cannot replace RAM with flash. Flash is still much slower to write than RAM. They have achieved very high throughput by using mass parallelism but I am sure that each individual cell writes just as slowly as it used to before.

I think their innovation is not to replace RAM with flash but to have flash automatically mirror a range of RAM. Thus, using their software you can designate an area of RAM to be mirrored or backed up if you will, and what ever you do with that area of RAM, the fusion IO software will save it and try to have an area of flash that is the exact mirror of your area of RAM.

Thus, when you are doing programming you can simply work in RAM without having to worry about saving your data, or writing to a file, etc. The fusion IO will make sure it saves your state so that if you lose power your program can restart from the latest RAM snapshot that was saved in flash.

It will probably work, but it seems like something that would be mostly useful in very expensive systems with very high failure resiliency requirements (such as stock exchange systems). If you do not need super high failure resiliency, it might be cheaper to just get one of those motherboards with an on board 12V back up battery (i.e., the ones used by Google). I doubt this would be very relevant for Apple.
These guys did a plugin for IE and a few mobile apps to validate DNSSEC...

http://cs.mty.itesm.mx/dnssecmx/
Could you please differentiate between an error in the code and the player dying?

I just spent ages trying to figure out what the error ("Oops, looks like we found 1 error in your code") was and it wasn't until after some amount of frustration that I realised there was more information below the fold showing the problem was my player was dying and not my syntax
In order to go higher, you must enclose a larger volume of lifting gas. Eventually, the weight of your envelope will exceed the amount of lift you're able to generate with the enclosed volume.

The Japanese currently hold the world altitude record (among all professional and amateur balloons), IIRC. Their balloon was 3.4 micrometers thick, 60,000 m^3 of helium. They reached 53 km.
Well, we certainly don't do that with animals. Only after a certain threshold of intelligence we don't want to hurt/eat them, or if they are "wild life", which we generally want to preserve, although it's only in recent history that this has happened.

If aliens existed, and came here, I wonder if they would treat us the same depending on whether they are only 2x, 10x or 1000x more intelligent than we are. Of course it's also possible that the more intelligent they get, the more they will want to preserve any kind of life, and will try to get their resources from something else to survive.

It should get interesting if we ever develop human brain-like artificial intelligence, and then we amplify it by 1000x following Moore's law for a couple of decades. Kill switches would become useless. We'd just have to teach them to value life more than anything, before it's too late.
What stops SaaS providers from co-publishing a newsletter or publication so they fall within the guidelines of this rule, and therefore become "Publishers sending out periodical apps."

Up to Apple to make the judgement call, but the line gets grey with something like TheStreet.com, which has a lot of services, and also a newsletter.