skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add one more similar story to this.

My friend, who is a serial entrepreneur/CTO/founder, was on his first big company back in the late 90s. He was brought in by a friend/consulting partner and was very jazzed to be working on an exciting predictive analytics application to detect churn in mobile subscribers.

So much so, that he lived the company. He ate poorly, didn't exercise, was grossly overweight, drank excessively and worked obsessively. His gallbladder couldn't take it and nearly burst. It was so swollen by the time he went to the doctor, they were scared it would go any minute.

He had emergency surgery and could have easily died. That was as big as wakeup call as they get. He got the message loud and clear, lost weight, started exercising, ate better. Got much healthier and recovered shortly thereafter.

Living for the startup is stupid. As byrne said, "Dead entrepreneurs make no products".
Charging a 300mile electric car in 5-10 minutes is not going to happen any time soon, and it's not because of battery technology:

The model S uses 85kWh to go 300 miles (at 55 mph, remember which is way slower than you'll go on the freeway in California). 10 minutes is 1/6 of an hour so:

85kWh * 6/h = 510kW. Do you really think we are going to have 1/2 MW charging cables? Obviously this is not going to happen with home charging. Can you think of a way of even getting 1/2MW to a commercial charging station in a populated area? What about on e.g. labor day when large numbers of people want demand. If 10 people want to do a 10 minute charge in the same city at the same time, thats 10MW, which is a lot of coal we are burning to supply that (or if you want green power, about 100 acres of photovoltaics)[1].

I'm all for electrics, but I know the power grid is going to need an overhaul if more than about 1/8 the population adopts them, and on top of that current trends indicate that most of the new capacity is going to come from coal plants, which largely negates the environmental advantages of electrics.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Solar_Power_Plant
We are currently bootstrapping our startup with some consulting work in iOS and Rails. This is the process that we follow:

1) We discuss the project with the client stating our hourly rates clearly from the beginning and that we also work in our startup so we won't be a "full-time" developer
2) We then make a clear estimation of time and deliverables for the project + time for testing/debugging/QA + time for calls + time to prepare for publication to the App Store.
3) If they accept we make a clear contract with several payments and deliverables.
4) We ask for 20% to 40% upfront payment and then the rest divided by time and deliverable completion.
5) The last payment is conditioned to App Store approval (in case it is iOS)
6) We only give the source code after the last payment is done
7) We keep sending weekly updates usually via TestFlight (when iOS) and use a Google Doc for any observations that they have
8) We have discovered that some clients also want time spent so we always use toggl as time tracking tool.

I know there are still risks but at least with the upfront payment and deliverable payments you always keep healthy cashflow, the clients feel they are protected and you feel protected too.

This way it's also easier to detect a red flag, in that case you can just stop your development until the payment is done (We actually did that once now and it worked really well).
Funny, when I looked at the specs, I thought 160 miles on a charge was more than enough for me. I think a tesla, or electric car in general, fits nicely into the second car of a two-car family model. Now we just need more renewable energy to power these things.
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My oldest is 4 so I can't answer your question directly but I would like to share my thoughts on it.

First, do they have the prerequisites? Can they read sentences and understand flow of words on paper by themselves? Know numbers, addition and subtraction and some multiplication? Type on keyboard and/or use the mouse to navigate WIMP UI?

If they don't know all of those things yet, you could still play with things like Scratch[1] and then move into LOGO[2] soon after.

I think you can focus on those prereqs now and supplement with "programming-like" activities: Legos, calculators and an old laptop for figuring things out on their own. On a side note I finally found a use for the old OLPC[3] I impulsively bought a few years back :-)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1
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Wikipedia claims this, but their reference no longer exists on Tesla Motor's website. Searching everywhere in the OP yields nothing about this.
Death Throes, or a Broadcaster finally "getting it"?
I have to disagree with you on that. 140 characters forces one to be brief and to the point (I'd almost say creatively brief). Links can be sent through URL shorteners, and if you really need to write a long message, then Twitter isn't the proper medium anyways.

There's nothing "fragmented" about exchanges on Twitter for quite a while now. If you click on an @message, you can see the entire conversation chain in the sidebar.
You're right. It's coming next week!
IANAL, but having been previously affiliated with a company that did this, my understanding as far as general US law goes is that while it's illegal for collectors to name names, the original creditor can name and shame all he wants as long as he doesn't disclose truly private information ("This is the jerk's SSN!") and sticks to facts he can prove if a libel suit arises.
I am used to looking for punctuation on the right hand side because I am a native reader of the English language. So, I don't think I've ever had to exert myself or do any extra scanning to see right-hand side punctuation in Javascript or English.

Commas first cause more noise on the left side; they distract me because I'm used to reading English and I'm used to reading code that's written in English based programming languages where people generally agree that punctuation belongs on the right side.

Honestly though, I care more about comments than coding style, something that the Joyent guys don't seem too fond of despite the complexity of the Node.js code. I just don't get it.
Thank you! I've been using Twitter Bootstrap since it first came out, so I'm trying to utilize all of elements it provides.
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From the submitted article: "The major flaw in how Android has been declared the victor is the misconception that the hardware manufacturers and carriers that support Android act as a unified front."

This fits my experience as a user. I have had an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S 4G on the T-Mobile network) since June 2011). It has been frustrating to realize that my "Android" user experience is not the same as someone else's user experience, because both the handset manufacturer and the network carrier have modified the phone so that it doesn't behave just like other people's Android phones. I have been on the same network for more than a decade, having brought a GSM phone into the United States from my last foreign residence, and I never felt I had any reason to shop for a different network, on multiple trips to other parts of the country, until I got my Android phone. And my wife has a Samsung feature phone that she likes very well, so I was initially inclined to trust the Samsung brand (I had previously used Motorola handsets, as that is the brand I started with overseas).

My experience with Android, which I tell all of my friends about, is that I can't count on usability, I can't count on features that worked well on my last handset working on my Android handset, I can't count on battery life at all, I can't count on speedy Android upgrades (Gingerbread came quite late to this model on this network), high-speed data connections get consumed rapidly by the phone unless I shut down useless app notifications, and I just generally don't enjoy my "smart" phone as much as I enjoyed my first "dumb" phone.

Here on HN, other participants report good experiences with Android phones, some by installing the Cyanogen mod and others by choosing the Google-branded handsets. I'd be happy to hear more stories about what Android trade-offs are the most helpful and pleasant for the user. But for the moment, I am SERIOUSLY considering making my next mobile phone upgrade a switch to a new network and purchase of an iPhone. I don't hear about as much hassle from the many iPhone owners I know as I do from my fellow Android users. If the user experience isn't plainly superior, the Android ecosystem can't count on keeping users.

What do all of you think? Would I be a chump to switch to the iPhone, or a chump to stick with Android? When I buy consumer products, I like to feel like I'm enjoying some consumer surplus, not like I'm being a chump.
Any answer other than "setting up your own SMTP server" would be wrong.
This list of startup resources was posted to HN not too long ago:

http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage

HN Story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077206
You should be looking elsewhere for mobile app distribution
This is a really fantastic idea. Especially for people who have issues with eating, I would love to sit down and use this site with them and show them how to get the proper amount of food.

(1) It needs tweaking for vegetarians/vegans.
(2) My 'breakfast' for 1400 calories had 6 eggs and 1 apple, that's a whole lot of eggs for one meal.

Love the idea. Please keep working on it.
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I wish the people in the Media in Canada did more for Tech.
I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem to be any significantly better than a k-d tree, does it? I might be missing something. I find academic papers hard to parse.
Time to prototype has definitely gotten cheaper.

C is still necessary for a lot of people at scale.
Category error, no? Android is an OS, iPhone is a phone.

So: Android is on more phone units sold than iOS, but the iPhones are the most successful phones in the market.

Meanwhile in tablets... iPad and iOS are both wiping the floor with the competition. We'll see if that continues when the competition gets its act together. (Really: Amazon is the undisputed number two, not a Dell nor a Nokia in sight.)
I loved the Paleo button. Made it a lot easier to get started!
There's a few good stories in there, but most of the site seems to consist of jerks making fun of people for their lack of knowledge. Making fun of somebody's lack of knowledge is a sure sign that you know little about the area yourself, since the deeper you go into a field, the more you learn how much it is that you don't know....
Well, to quote Gaston:

"When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large"
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Your argument is irrational and incoherent.

You write "This is sensationalism" but you don't bother to say why. boyd is a researcher who focuses on issues such as the effect online social services have on teen social pressures. In what sense is her question invalid? Why is this not a valid topic for further research?

I gather that you are mostly worried about the unintended consequences of her words. To the extent that I can find a coherent line of reasoning in your words, it amounts to fear, and a desire to shut boyd up. The gist of your fear could be summed up as "boyd should shut up or her words might be used by the enemies of the LBGT community". You don't seem to consider that perhaps she has a loyalty to the truth that goes beyond her desire to give support to policies endorsed by some LBGT non-profits, and also, and more importantly, her research might ultimately do good for the LBGT community by pointing out that some of those policies currently being pursued by various levels of government and also NGOs (It Gets Better) might be doing harm.

In other words, you are criticizing her without ever considering the possibility that what she writes might be true.

You then try to make a point using the Westboro Baptist Church as an example. Your point amounts to "boyd should lie or otherwise the Westboro Baptist Church might misuse her research."

Your argument is ridiculous.
You say that, but multiple people with intent to commit a school shooting/bombing have been caught because they revealed their intentions online.

Monitoring doesn't have to be done to catch the stereotypical "terrorist", but can also catch people with psychological issues that are disgruntled.

Now, is it worth it and does it work? I don't know, but there is precedent for people to post their intentions online.
Thanks for sharing this Chaz. Could you say which of these do you use on a daily basis?
Because Coffescript doesn't work in the browser, JavaScript does.
You're confused.

It's the job of the TSA (or security guards at foreign airports) to search and clear you and your possessions for flying. They are preventing short-term threats, this is the last line of defense.

This story is about US Customs and Border Patrol, who are responsible for a lot of things at airports as well as border crossings, including:

1) Making sure you are permitted to enter the country (checking or issuing visas).

2) Making sure you are not bringing anything illegal into the country.

3) Making sure you are not a "threat" to the US. You're a criminal, or associated with activist/terroris organizations which are hostile to the US, or are likely to commit a crime during your stay.

Customs wasn't worried that this guy was going to blow up the next plane he got on. They were (stupidly) worried that he would (probably) cause trouble after he entered based on something somebody (might have) told them. So they played it safe and denied him entry.

The evidence they used was dumb, but at the border there is something between "we have evidence that you're a criminal and we're arresting you" and "you seem like trouble so we're not letting you be our guest".
"One principle of development is D.R.Y., also known as don’t repeat yourself. Within CSS this principle can speak volumes as it is easy to continually write the same styles over and over again. Don’t. CSS was designed in a way to allow you to cascade styles and use classes so that you easily apply and inherent styles."

This is wonderful, useful advice to beginners and seasoned developers alike. In fact, anyone who works with CSS, regardless of how they write it (raw, sass, less), should be force fed this advice. At the end of the day, CSS is a declarative cascading language, and you must leverage it as such in order to optimize code reuse, performance, maintainability, etc.

Aside from this tutorial being beautifully designed, the notes about semantics and best practices are enough to make me feel good about recommending it to anyone who wants to learn more about HTML & CSS.
How is this even relevant to hacker news visitors? I thought we were all leet.
Asus Padfone + 10" inch touchscreen + Mobile Dock? Tegra 3 quadcore + companion core.

http://event.asus.com/mobile/padfone/

http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_Prime_TF...
Most of these low-end phones end up running an older version of Android (2.2), two major phone releases behind now that 4.0 has been released (not including 3.0, as that was tablets only). From what I have seen, one of the problems with running newer versions is ram and memory sizes; low-end phones simply don't have enough to run the newer versions of Android.

I've got a Nexus S, one of the more powerful phones before the dual-core generation started. If you compare its specifications to the galaxy ace, one of the current generation low-end phones, they are actually quite similar. When you consider the Nexus S can even run 4.0 (officially too), something might be changing. Although, the galaxy ace probably lacks in the gpu area.
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Surely that is not the official position, since it doesn't matter how thoroughly somebody on the "do not fly" list lets themselves be searched.
You can repurpose Docco as a running commentary for library usage or for examples. This combines the readability of Docco with the awesome usefulness of usage examples.

It also allows you to easily run your example code as part of your test suite. Nothing more frustrating than broken example code.

e.g. http://dev.groupdock.com/kin/
Pretty funny take on the 37signals rip
That's the kind of statistics I'm interested in. I wish there was a good source for browser statistics from a well balanced audience.
I'm missing two upper teeth [0], which resulted in my having enough room in my mouth for my upper wisdom teeth to fit comfortably. It's evidently of genetic origin in my case, as I have relatives who are missing the same teeth, which I think from that source are called the upper lateral incisors. Were I not missing those teeth I expect I'd have needed the upper wisdom teeth removed to make room.

(On a tangent, there's a great article [1] about how bulldogs have been bread to have massive jaws and a very short face and that results in all kinds of breathing difficulties.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodontia
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/can-the-bulldog-b...
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I second Diigo. Been using this service for years and as a technologist having the ability to do a keyword search of your bookmarks as awesome, especially when you can upload to Diigo's repository.
Indeed, something like that would be awesome.. reminders in general! :)
> I was eager that the service would let me search for the client names and get reviews on them quickly.

That's what I was expecting -- I tried to search for "Martinez" and "Padbury"; two of the names prominently featured in the front page stories right now, and got a "0 results" page for both terms.
I disagree, tight cohesion is important for any position in the military. When you are in a combat situation where you are responsible for the life of yourself and the lives of others then it doesn't matter what unit you are in. You could be the cook and you are in the same situation as the SEALS right next to you.

That's what military training is all about, right from basic training. You learn to think and act as one so that everyone is on the same page in any given situation. Special forces just gets a lot more of this type of training and it's more intense. Regular units are the punch clockers of the military, the special forces are more like the startups.
+1 for actually giving me a couple reasons to try zsh. Of course I'd be surprised if many of these features aren't already hacked into some bash guru's dotfiles but, that said, more autocompletions without writing them myself is always nice.
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ZenCash is new startup that is solving the problem the right way. It can connect with your invoicing service (FreshBooks, Harvest, Blinksale) and then they will contact the client when the refuse to pay. They work with a collection agency so now we the lone web developer can actually force someone to pay.

http://www.zencash.com/
For the past year I've been using an LG Optimus V on Virgin Mobile. The phone cost $150 and was bought contract free. The service for me is $25 a month. That includes 300 minutes of talk time and unlimited data (which has really been unlimited for me. They did recently institute a 2.5 gigabyte limit beyond which you get throttled down to 256Kbps, but for the price I'm paying that seems more than fair). The unlimited data is effectively unlimited talk time since I have my phone set up to use my Google Voice number via SIP to handle inbound and outbound calls and I'm not that big on talking on the phone all the time in any case.

The Optimus V is hardly the top of the line when it comes to Android phones but it gives me everything I want out of an Android smartphone -- the full Google Nav turn by turn GPS functionality (killer feature #1 for a smartphone for me, and the reason I wouldn't trade Android for an iPhone even if the prices were identical -- and I used to be an iPhone user, I used the iPhone 3G for 2 years), tethering of my laptop and/or ASUS Transformer tablet/netbook (killer feature #2) and Google Voice (killer feature #3).

Everything else the phone does is gravy after that.

YMMV and your prices may vary since the $25 rate is grandfathered in (even though, as I mentioned, I wasn't under any contract -- which is pretty cool), I think the rate for new users is $35. But I've been very happy with Virgin Mobile and the Optimus V.
I've always heard "correlation is not causation" which makes the title less clever. Understood the phrase to mean that while it does imply causation, fact is not necessarily so.

The article's great. Appreciate the 'Problems for the author' highlighting gaps for thought.
Examples of alternatives? Glad to. Blambot(1) makes a range of great ones, especially Giant Sized Spectacular, and I'm personally partial to Loose(2).

(1) http://www.blambot.com/fonts_design.shtml
(2) http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/zeptonn/loose/
After my smartphone was stolen, I switched back to a dumbphone and realized it was exactly what I needed, for the reasons mentioned above. I don't think I'll buy a smartphone ever again.
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* RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com) - time/productivity tracking

* Mint.com (http://www.mint.com) - personal finance/budgets

* Blueleaf (http://www.blueleaf.com) - tracking the performance of my investments

* Fitocracy (http://www.fitocracy.com) - personal fitness and weight lifting logs, also integrates with other apps like RunKeeper

* Producteev (http://www.producteev.com) - tasks management

* Quora

* Google Reader

* Google Music

* Gmail

* Dropbox
Thanks for sharing but this doesn't really answer the question. This is more of a comprehensive list rather than a list you can't live without.
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I use Pingdom, but wish they could monitor more frequently for exactly the reasons you mention. In theory my site can be unavailable for several seconds each minute, without showing downtime in the stats. I signed up for your service, but looks like it is invite only right now?
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I know exactly this bad feeling when going to a website with great content and terrible design.

I am pretty sure you know about these, but just in case.

To address this problem I used readability from arc90.
Now I use a solarized[^1] version of readable[^2].

Cheers :)

[^1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
[^2]: http://goo.gl/jISPf => will go to http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ with solarized theme (my tiny contribution).