skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new express busses are faster, but not by enough. Getting crosstown is still a hassle. I walk from 2nd Ave to 7th Ave every day for work, and find that it's generally nearly as fast to make it a brisk walk -- healthier and cheaper, too.

That said, taxis aren't the problem. At least they're always on the move and always picking up passengers. The parking lanes on the major streets should absolutely be turned into dedicated bus lanes -- but it's not taxis that are using that parking.
We're in the current cycle and I'm personally willing to help with applications, but only those who are hyper motivated and are willing to help themselves. Couldn't say enough good things about people behind YC. We feel lucky to be a part of such a wonderful community. Our startup is health focused and I feel that's the area I can help with the most.
Pretty much. Empirically, most startups with more than 3 founders collapse due to intra-founder strife.

(Obviously there are exceptions. I am a co-founder of one of those exceptions, since Justin.tv has 4 founders. But it's a good rule.)
I'm thinking of adding an option to Bring Your Own Markdown. This has a few implications that I need to code for though.
Ginzametrics Partners with SEOmoz for Site Intelligence API
The meme of "The meme of ... needs to die" needs to die.
Somehow it looks like discussing the basic foundation of our industrial structure is not interesting to HNers...
Adidas adizero f50 - interactive shoe mesh visualization
;Here is my version in Common Lisp
;Supply your own flatten function
;or borrow one from let-over-lambda or something
;http://letoverlambda.com/lol.lisp

(defun long-div (dividend divisor depth)
(cond
((> depth 0)
(flatten (list
(truncate (/ dividend divisor))
(long-div (* 10 (mod dividend divisor))
divisor (- depth 1)))))
(t ())))
I used to work for a company that did about $35M/year turnover, had cash flow problems, and the CEO was yanking money for himself wherever he could, so we had endless 'we need to tighten our belts' speeches. The Service Manager left, tired of being a punching bag, and he wasn't replaced because 'we don't have the money' (CEO's pet project had nine developers on it...). The reasoning was that he doesn't do much more than a support engineer, and we're handling the load fine. The braindead reasoning, that is. It was the Service Manager who organised and chased up the support contracts, worth over $600k in our neck of the woods. We were a medical device company, so we had to keep supporting our gear, and we had customers ringing up begging to pay contracts because they didn't want to be left out in the cold, but there was no-one to prepare them.

Eventually, a year later, the overtaxed sales staff were punted the job. The sales guys were fantastic at sales and very personable, but there's a direct conflict of interest between sales and support contracts, especially when they don't understand the cost of supplying it.

All because the only things the CEO could see were his pet project, the projected sales figure, and any possible way to vacuum money into his pocket (he owned 2/3rds the company, so its long term health was actually in his interest...)
Beginning Ember.js on Rails: Part 2
This. Becoming the regional, local, or global expert in a tightly defined niche is a great way to lock in high margin revenues.
I do this. See my HN profile or http://lion.co.uk.
Thanks, really happy to get your feedback.

So, if i understand correctly you don't need the collaboration part

About the transfer part: We often use our iPad on the go and
we thought that it's more likely that you have your tablet on the go (compared to a notebook). However, it's always good to know if other people do have an iPad on the go too.

Thanks
An incubator for grownups…
Is there a European tech incubator bubble?
Forrester: Apple successfully infiltrating the office, executive washroom
An interesting idea, but to pull yet more parallels from Ender's Game: what about emotional trauma when they see something they invented / inspired used to kill people? Can they sue the government? Will there be any repercussions?

As much as I'd like to believe they won't be working on projects like that, I think it's quite literally impossible to make that claim. A better armor idea may become a more-penetrating bullet idea. Is there such a thing as a purely-defensive technology?
Lingual: Use Siri to Translate Foreign Languages
Founders need to sleep. Here is why
A Ballot Push to Legalize Marijuana, With Alcohol as the Role Model
Thanks man. Sometimes I over think things, or am too cautious. Out of 600 or so buys that I made this past year I would have probably been better off being a little more aggressive and taking a few more risks.

I've learned more this past year of grinding it out than from all my years of school. (and some college) Thanks for the comment!
Does fail2ban work against brute force distributed attacks?

I've noticed a few attacks that seem to be orchestrated from the same people but using different IPs.
>as it now has a high-quality, curated job board.

Unfortunately, this just doesn't appear to be the case unless you're in one of the "top locations" on the left. As a job-seeker, there doesn't appear to be any way for me to search for jobs in, say, Vancouver. I'd love to be able to see who's hiring in Vancouver, but AngelList just doesn't seem to cut it.
Your comment is now at the top of this page because you posted something others agree with but offered no suggestion as to combating ACTA or raising awareness. I don't know if I'm more annoyed by your comment or by the voters.
Sad that they are requiring invitation and also sad that they aren't selling mobile games yet.
A digital watercooler: using Facebook groups in company
Applied Neuroscience, the Six-String Method
Or the people that understand REST don't write about it.
This looks like a pretty interesting change. I agree with the author in that the long game play of the original version can be a detraction. (As I get older with family commitments etc, finding 4 hours to sit down for a game of risk becomes harder and harder).

I have also noticed the style of game play of me and my friends has become more risk-averse. No body wants to make the first major attack as it's better to sit and wait and beat on a weakened enemy. This leads to everyone sitting and waiting for someone else to make the first move which can make for even long game play!

I'm not sure about the value of a $NZ100 game that needs to be turfed after 15 games, but as one of the comments said, if you amortize that out over 15 games and 5 players, it's pretty cheap entertainment.
That's the exact way the market looked to Salesforce.com when Seibel system only went after large markets and told their salesforce to "run" not "walk" away from smaller customers. Salesforce.com definitely killed Seibel in the enterprise space after building a better product with feedback from smaller sales forces.
can you share a link to the project?
I'm sure they respect all the competition, but I don't get why they would feel specially threatened by Wunderkit. I've tried it and it's feels so cluttered compared to 37signals products.

Seems more like this iteration has been going forever, and they're just ready to launch.
ORDR.in: Why mobile is THE breakthrough for restaurants - with David Bloom
I hope this works.

As a lot of other posters have noted - hospital level deployments, where good data practices and IT are arguably the most needed due to the mission critical nature and the larger volumes of data generated, is hobbled by entrenched interests, IT policy dominated by insurance revenue concerns rather than driven by patient or practitioner needs, and being swallowed up by a oligopoly (soon to be monopoly) consisting of Cerner, McKesson and Epic.

All of these companies use antiquated databases (MUMPS forms the basis of the products of these companies for the most part, a data language invented in the basement of Massachusetts General that predates FORTRAN and COBOL). The UI/UX design is nonexistent (all of them would crush any of the Daring Fireball interfaces of shame posts).

More ominously - these companies protect their business AND their data formats ferociously. Epic is famous for lock ins - once you pay the $50-100 million contract for them to take over your IT, your data will not interface with any other system again, ever. They are good at generating numbers for Medicare and insurance billing revenue that make hospital CEO's giggle with glee (ignoring user experience and good data practices for the doctors, nurses, and patients on the line - which translates into lousy care administered to patients). Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic, is known for having much of the Wisconsin Congressional delegation in that company's back pocket, such that she sits on some congressionally mandated committee for EHR's promoting closed, proprietary systems as a means for "patient privacy" (lolwut).

The system I work in actually has a reasonable setup. Not nearly as sexy as some of the advanced hadoop/linkedin/facebook/netflix setups - it was build on an Oracle back end running MS IIS and ASP. But at least it's on the web and the database isn't creaking along on a system that looks like this: http://thedailywtf.com/comments/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx?pg=...

Yet swayed by whatever koolaid Epic fed them, they forked over the millions in contract to go 40 years back in time.

I think this industry is so so so ripe for disruption. Focus on the doctor/nurse/patient user experience, make EHR software that does what every facebook/google+/linkedin, heck even blogger user takes for granted, get the adoption rates up, and kill these greedy as sons of bitches at their own game.
Getting Started w/Toura Mulberry Open-Source Hybrid-Mobile App Dev Framework
Parse is looking for a Designer/Frontend Engineer
Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. We write backend code so that mobile developers don’t have to. We are platform company built by developers for developers.

We are looking for our first Designer / Frontend Engineer to come and build elegant interfaces that mobile developers will use on a daily basis. In this role, you will own large responsibilities across every piece of the website. You will be the principle frontend guru at the company.

At some platform companies, design is an afterthought. At Parse, we believe that designing wonderful developer experiences is key.

About Parse:

- We move fast. We launched our private beta a little over two months after starting the company. Since then we've signed up over 7,000 developers. We iterate quickly on designs and take a highly analytical approach to testing.

- We build products for other passionate developers, and we’re obsessed with making mobile development easier.

- All of the founders are very technical engineers who have been early employees or founders at successful startups.

About you:

- You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing new features, pages, and interfaces on the website. You should be passionate about creating beautiful tools for other developers to use.

- You should be an expert at HTML5, CSS, Javascript, cross browser issues, Ruby, Rails, and Photoshop (or some other equivalent design software). You should also have a keen sense of design and take great pride in creating pixel perfect designs.

- You should be able to go from ideation to mockups to implementation of a design without blinking.

- You should understand best practices for designing landing pages, A/B tests, and increasing conversion rates.

- You should have years of experience building production quality web apps.

- you should have a degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

- Bonus points if you have experience developing mobile applications.

We offer significant equity, market salary, health insurance, and your choice of equipment. We're based in San Francisco (right at the Embarcadero BART station) and at the moment we'd like people who can work in the office with us.

Please get in touch - email jobs@parse.com telling us about why you think you’re the best fit for this role. Also include a portfolio of design, products you’ve built, and code.
Ah, I see. I'd probably take the route of allowing ClojureScript to be run as normal Clojure, but I guess the problem is that you don't have access to the browser environment. Debugging browser-based apps can be tricky because of that.
Google+ Demographics Report - 90 million broken down
Ah, thank you. I'm not looking so much for bullet hell stuff, there were less bullets than this, but I remember ground vehicles you could destroy, nice graphics (maybe on the Neo Geo?), powerups, things like that. It was a military installation-themed thing...
We don't have a lot of listings in Vancouver because our jobs section is so new... and we need to improve our search UI. In the meantime you can see the jobs we do have here: http://angel.co/jobs/in/vancouver
Occupy Hacker News?
Sorry for the indirection. I've posted this twice on HN and have gotten virtually no input. Disconcerting because this is very much on-topic for HN. So I figured I have to "SEO" the thing and see if I can get the right eyeballs on the post:

After twenty years working as a hardware/software engineer in various fields I am thinking about completing a degree. I never finished mine. I originally went for a EE. Took most of the science, math, physics and a couple of programming courses. Got bored.

By the time I was done with my second semester in college I had designed and built my own robots (as in: machine the parts and assemble, no kits) and all of the computers and electronics to drive them. I implemented all of the low-level code in FORTH (which I wrote from scratch) and wrote the high level operating software to run on a PC. This project became the subject of a paper I presented at an international conference on the subject. Again, school was like being in a slow-motion scene in a movie. I had to move faster.

I was designing and programming my own computers from scratch. By that I mean, wire-wrapping chips and writing the BIOS in assembler, implementing FORTH from scratch, designing my own floppy disk controllers from scratch and implementing drivers, etc. School felt very slow and painful, I was learning and doing interesting things at a much faster pace on my own.

Later-on I got in to FPGA's and went on to design boards to do real-time image processing in hardware. Again, I did the hardware (high-speed design, signal integrity, DDR memory, GHZ-range I/O), all the firmware (Verilog) and real-time OS for an embedded micro (8051 derivative) that ran the whole thing.

In all I accumulated experience programming in Assembler (various), C, C++, Forth, Lisp, Visual Basic, Objective-C, PHP, Javascript/jQuery, Verilog and probably a few more languages.

Now, years later, I am thinking about the idea of completing a bachelors in CS degree online. The motivations are many. From personal accomplishment to the idea of going further and opening the doors to get into research in a field I love, robotics. I am fascinated by humanoid robotics and want to contribute, but, despite my accomplishments, the lack of degrees stands in the way of participating in that field.

I'm wondering what HN members think about the various programs now available. I've looked at University of Illinois and a few others. Not sure how they all rank.

I am also very interested in the possibility of receiving credit for some of what I've done over the years. I mean, I could probably teach some of these courses with some prep. I wonder if these programs allow one to take a test and bypass the class altogether.

BTW, most programs start in Feb/March, hence my hurry in getting some feedback in order to make a decision. Thanks!
It doesn't specifically target distributed attacks, but I'm not really sure how something like that could know whether incoming requests are part of a botnet or ligitimate logins.
The traveler network looks awesome, but tough to use. What cities does Boston attract vastly more than it draws Bostonians there? What cities do San Franciscans go to significantly more than any other urbanites?

I tried a similar thing at TripAdvisor, using data from the Cities I've Visited(tm) FB app. One of the interesting results was that folks who visited Yellowstone disproportionately visited Zanzibar, compared to everyone else. Both off-the-beaten-path parks, but still, it was fascinating to see data backing up the hunch.
Apparently these Clojurescript guys really love parenthesis...
s/wouldn't have happened/would've been much less likely/
Agreed. I think iteration is one of the secrets to doing any kind of creative work well, especially design. Too many people get discouraged by their early attempts at a design, because they assume (incorrectly) that being good means getting things right the first time.
Clickable link: http://osod.im

Nice job! I love self-tracking. This is very similar to http://280daily.com/

I've been using 280daily for quite awhile now. It's really awesome to look back at random days months ago and recall what you did or didn't do.
Visual directory of useful websites for entrepreneurs
What have you been smoking?

Poland is far from poor. Actually, these days it's quite a stretch to call it a "developing" economy.

Yes, majority of young people download infringing content from the web, except:

1) The same happens in many richer countries, like US or Spain (with percentages just a bit lower)

2) These very same people also buy content, when it makes sense.

All of my friends (who play PC games at all) use Steam. Nobody uses iTunes, because it was launched just a few months ago in Poland, so everyone is used to getting music by other means. (A lesson for Apple not to withhold products, because people will find their own way and render the "proper" channel obsolete.)

And saying
"Deleting Pirate Bay, Rapidshare. Youtube and Megaupload would stop most people from accessing any cultural goods: music, films, software"
is just plain insulting and retarded. I guess in your book there's been no culture to speak of in Poland before broadband Internet? ;)
> Best: SSH-key authentication with passphrase (prevents unauthorized use of private key if stolen)

It doesn't prevent unauthorized use, it just makes it more difficult to attack with brute force. Once someone gets your private key, you should always assume it has been compromised, and replace it immediately. It's only a matter of time and resources before a determined thief has cracked your passphrase.

Edit: not to say I disagree with your recommendation that it's best, just pointing out that compromised private keys should not be taken lightly.
Hmm. http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/oiv7s/cool_fraction/
Save yourself some hassle. Don't key on SSN.

1) Encryption (and then indexing) becomes harder.

2) SSN's can change, for many reasons. (eg: http://consumerist.com/2008/11/can-i-change-my-social-securi..., data entry error, etc)
Is the screen capture used in the announcement an "I didn't know I was pregnant" joke?
The Chrome Product manager said they were going to drop it on a Chromium blog post over a year ago but haven't said anything about it since.

I can't find any updates on that nor have I seen a timeline for it being dropped. While they haven't retracted the commitment, it's probably safe to continue counting Chrome as supporting h.264 since it does support it.
> I feel if you agree to an open book exam the difficulty of the exam can (and should) increase dramatically. Be careful what you wish for ;-)

Most exams at Stanford CS are open book/open notes. I much preferred this to my undergrad experience of having to memorize stuff.
Mobile Morning Coffee (01/26/12)
How much of the "road cost" can be eliminated by reducing car usage by 90% in cities?

I'm pretty sure that buses, delivery trucks, ambulances, and police cars need roads, so a significant fraction of the road cost (in cities) is required even if there isn't a single private passenger car.
Ya heh, I suppose I should actually build something instead of just talking about the shortcomings of business. I'm trying to document my jumping ship over to self employment but it's much slower going than I anticipated.
I also like the part where Ryan sought out mentors and advice from people he trusts. There is no need to tackle your problems alone. Listening is a great virtue.
Cars also grow cities - the blanket of small-to-medium cities covering the eastern half of the US is the product of having cars. Public transport needs serious population before it can start up.
Why did you specifically not want to use BDD?
It drives me crazy when we find an infected computer at work and the solution posited by both the user and the desktop team is "run the corporate AV". No. We have a backup system for a reason. If you don't use it (like the policy mandates you do), that's your fault. The machine gets completely wiped and reimaged.

AVs are a first-line and an indication that something is wrong. If you need to run the AV to clean an actual, real virus, you should be reloading the machine.
in this context it would involve some kind of media-transformation, say from paper to mockup via webcam.
Say Goodbye to the Menu Button
Philosophers are a lot like programmers. The car you drive, the clothes you wear, the food you eat - all of them are touched in some way by a computer program - even if you personally are unaware of how these computer programs design things and route people & things. Philosophy is like this - the most ardent Bible (or Quran) thumping fundamentalist makes a bevy of philosophical arguments, even if they do a poor job of it while they are unaware of it.

As with programming, the more esoteric and technical aspects of philosophy can be difficult for the layman to grasp. No policy maker would dream of de-funding computer science education because it's obtuse to the general public. Yet somehow technical difficulty is a knock against funding philosophy education in the USA....
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I actually keep it up to date, if you look at the top of the page I have a list of updates and when they were made. Everything is up to date. When something changes, I make sure to go back and update the chart. Sometimes things don't change for a while and hence the long pause in between updates.
So... he washes his hands of the whole affair after his job is done. Wouldn't it have been more effective to have exerted some influence on this process or leave it to spare his delicate moral sensibilities before it was too late?
I prefer college graduates who finished at the top of their class.

This is not because I believe they have meaningfully more domain expertise (though they sometimes do), or that they're exceptionally brilliant (though they sometimes are). It's because to graduate with high honors you have to make give dozens of people what they wanted to see; this despite the fact that sometimes you weren't interested, sometimes they were unclear about what they wanted, and sometimes they were terrible teachers.

If you graduate at the top of your class, I know you have a proven ability to identify what people want, and find a way to give it to them. And THAT is what I care about.