skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame that we get this reaction. Emergency workers, truck drivers, and couriers all use our app and find it really helpful because they have to spend all day driving and want a safe way to communicate. (My favorite is a group of patrol officers in Kentucky who have Android phones attached to docks in their squad cars and use our app.)

Somehow even though it's risky and illegal, one third of drivers choose to text and drive. It's hard to get solid numbers, but around a few thousand people die every year in the US because of this, as well as causing hundreds of thousands of injuries[1]. Any way we can make driving safer overall is a net win.

http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/Resources/Documents/NSC%20...
Cool! FlightAware for boat traffic.
There are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
This is a difficult question. If the number of C++ developers is growing, but at a slower rate than the number of total developers, is that a decline?
Pinterest Brings More Referral Traffic to Websites Than Twitter
Agreed. Apple generally hides tech specs, so when they do talk techie it's for a very specific reason.
Sorry it's giving you so much trouble! We're using Google's default voice recognition engine. It does allow for different accents, but we haven't turned this ability on in the app. If it's getting names wrong, you can also try spelling the contact name one letter at a time, that usually works for people.
The other way to do it is to use a hot air gun or infrared to melt the solder on all pins simultaneously, and just lift the part out. Easy! Vacuum up the excess solder, with a hollow tip or hot air, and mount the new component as per normal.
Looking at iPhoto "Journal", Apple probably decided they couldn't redistribute Google maps so switched to OSM. Just a shame they didn't do it within the parameters of OSM's license.

Hopefully this was a mistake rather than Apple thinking they either didn't need to adhere to a license or that they could just bully their way to what they want.
> Please remove the sentence "They cannot."

Nobody asked you.
The protocol between client and server is dead simple, and the server is currently about 400 lines of code. The only reason the server is still in nodejs is because it's quite neat to be able to write transactions on the server-side too and by being in JS, I can just use the same client code as in the browser to do that, with very few changes. Writing just the txn engine in other languages would be very simple too. Next week I'm hoping to write some documentation for the protocol. But it's really just abstract addresses and version numbers and such. No rocket science at all - especially given that Node is single-threaded!
Facebook "acquires the team" means the startup has failed and all the founders and engineers are going to work for Facebook?
The scope and scale of this data is breathtaking! However... it strikes me that the best that he could do with this data was plot it and say "oh, I remember those events". I wouldn't feel like all of that effort was worth it, if I were him. What did it DO for him? Apparently very little.
When you have a peering contract, you offer your own network. Every bit not used is so valuable for cable providers, we consumers forget that because we all have flatrates.
Badonkatrunc, a jQuery plugin for dynamic text layout and truncation
Somehow it's one of these things that everyone does but nobody admits to. Any way we can make driving safer is a win.
Some states have had good luck with referendums (ND), but I am not sure a federal version would be all that good. I'm one of those that thinks the 17th Amendment made it harder for the federal government to be accountable to the will of the people in the states. It seems like Senators are not as responsive. I don't think repealing it would help these days since people expect to directly vote for office holders (electoral college aside).

It would be interesting, since travel distances are not really the issue, if each state was represented in the Senate not by 2 Senators but by that state's Governor. Seems like you would get a much better response.
Journalism has been called the fourth pillar of the government.

Its job is not to prop up the establishment, but rather to keep it responsible.
Agree. I would have preferred he kept politics out of the argument and actually reviewed the language.
Here is a basic summary of the economic sense behind floating storage:

http://oil-price.net/en/articles/the-case-for-floating-oil-s...
The Myth of the Free-Market American Health Care System
Oooo the next xkcd. I'd like to see that.
"some people use C" does not excludes "some people think C sucks"

One might think C sucks and still use it. You might think it sucks, but it's still less bad than everything else. Using something doesn't necessarily makes you blind towards its drawbacks. I think a lot of the things I use everyday sucks. But I still use them because there's nothing better... yet.

All those programs written in C that everyone is posting about (quake, linux, gimp etc). Were written before Go existed. So it's very plausible that the authors could agree that C sucks if they had the option to write in Go. Which is the point of the article.
Favor the machines over a pat-down. They would actually _prefere_ neither.
I didn't realize there was confusion. He was pretty clear about quad core graphics and the iPad site on Apple is pretty clear about quad core graphics but a dual core cpu.
Loved this article. 100 % agree with the point that the technology doesn't matter, what matters is what you do with it. Simple and evergreen advice :)
More than API for an API, to me, this service sounds very valuable for businesses for their SMS communications/marketing needs.
Now that is interesting. I'm trying to imagine how you would apply machine learning to biology. Related to DNA sequences probably?
Brogrammer Beer Pong: Array, Binary Tree, Linked List
It's retail door shutters:

http://www.kone.com/countries/en_GB/Products/PedestrianDoors...
This is Hacker News. You have to have a conclusion or command in your title to get upvotes. "Why the cloud is wrong for your business." "Why your language sucks." "SaaS-de-jour, we have a problem."
Sorry, it's not the smoothest! We're still working on improving that part of the UI.
Path will protect private user data with 'hashing' in next release
Great site by the way. It seems like you have a lot of data already up there. Is there a way you can leverage it to make it more valuable?
Your target audience is really 2 bases: fans and bands.
For the fans: maybe track which band or what venue gets the most clicks?
For the bands: maybe provide a resource on how to tour for bands... like a google maps plot of previous tours of other bands... which venues treat bands the best (sort of like yelp)?
Cassovary: A Big Graph-Processing Library
Which iPad should I get?
Anesthesia causes ADHD and learning disabilities in kids.
DNSChanger trojan — the scam
Twitter is slow for me too, but I don't see what this has to do with the discussion here. It seems like you're implying SPDY must be at fault, which doesn't seem likely.

Also if you want to take advantage of SPDY, only Firefox 13 and Chrome/Chromium have it enabled by default.
Glad you like it! We'll definitely move to email and chat once we get texting down perfectly. We still have a ways to go.
I don't think there is a way to "bump" threads... but no one can help? Maybe I phrased my question wrong.
By contrast, the Register is reporting Microsoft is talking to OnLive and is 'striking a conciliatory note.' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/08/microsoft_office_ipa...
3D printed shells for hermit crabs
Reporters travel a lot. Severe abuses of the opaque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List have long been alleged, and I certainly wouldn't put it past them to retaliate that way.
The case for floating oil storage
Doesn't this sounds like 1998 all over again? I hear all the common refrains about "this time is different! we're not in a bubble!".

Yes, this time is somewhat different (huge number of people on the net - entire generation has grown up wired, etc), but the same irrationality about first movers capturing markets and money coming later that we saw in 1998 seems to be happening again.
It's definitely plausible that you are right and that deregulating biotech research is the way to minimize existential risk.

I'm not sure I've seen any statement from the Future of Humanity Institute on this issue, except for this blog post by research associate Robin Hanson which would appear to support your point of view:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/tiptoe-or-dash-to-futu...
1) No I could actually write the same thing with the same quality in most any language I know, baring a few esoteric ones like brainfuck. One language may take me longer than others, but the error rate would not be higher or lower usually.

2) This is more what I'm saying.
Man, I wish I had your focus when I was in high school! I chose a different career path, then chose another, only to roll in the tech scene by accident. But you know what: I don't regret the choices I made, they all taught me valuable things, insights, ideas. I believe it was John Lennon who said 'life is what happens to you while you're making plans for it', so don't worry about your future path too much.

As for advices:
University: in my opinion, universities build networks, not knowledge. If you get in a good uni, by all means go for it. If you don't, there are other ways to build a network.
How to move to a big city: easy. Just do it. Don't obsess about the details, just go with the flow.
How to get an interesting job: all jobs are interesting at first, especially your first job. No matter where you'll end up for your first job, I guarantee you you'll learn more in the first two months than four years in uni. Not just knowledge, but stuff they don't teach you in school. Like coffee-machine politics, interhuman relations, understanding how a business works.
How to start a company: start-fail-repeat.

As for success: that word means something different to anyone. To me, it's not about money, the car you drive or the size of your company. To me, success means freedom, doing stuff I love to do, caring for my family.

So go on, work your way through college, participate in extracurricular activities (tech and non-tech), keep an open mind but most of all: enjoy the ride.
It takes a long time to become a truly awesome developer. And working more than 9-5 tends to burn people out over time. Which is why I suspect most of the top programmers in the world are much closer to 9-5'er than most people on HN are willing to admit.

PS: One of my favorite stories of such a person goes something like this. Coder X was fired after failing to get a 6 month project finished after a full year. Greg, took two 40 hour weeks to read the documentation and slap something together to keep the project from slipping, but made a simple mistake which ended up causing significant problems in production a few days later. After fixing the problem he asked the QA people why they put it into production that quickly while missing such a basic issue was not discovered. Their response, we stopped testing your code a few years ago and this is the first problem that's showed up. The most interesting part of this story is if Programmer X had got his code to work after say 11 month he would no have been fired. Which means the company would employ someone that's 3% as effective as this guy.
How to Break into Mobile Development
It was for stealth. This does not absolve them of their legal and ethical responsibility to give credit where it's due, but it explains their actions above "they're dicks".

April 2010 is around when they would have started working on the maps back-end. Attribution would have meant dev releases would have indicated Apple using non-Google Maps data. They probably wanted to avoid that.
You're right, the real way to be an asshole and have people love you for it is to say:

"im too tough for the rest of the world, tha hell with them"

Because being smart and confident is just uppity, but being tough and confident is baller yo.
For those that are not aware, this is crowd sourced aggregation of data received by AIS (Automatic Identification System) VHF receivers which are hosted by volunteers who put up a receiver, antenna, and send the data received from the ships to this site.
>People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect.

I guess it just wouldn't be a Zed post without a little light trolling.
Any physical/liquid damage isn't covered by warranty. Pretty good of Apple to do that, all of the network operators i've worked with charge.
Surface JS library for single-page applications
Let me know when you can tell a Fashion designer you hate their dress by writing on the back of some girl wearing it. Oh, and doing that without software.
Extract, Inject, Kill: Breaking hierarchies (part 1)
Sorry, this is wishful (I share your wish). The reality is, the polls aren't posing the either/or question. Respondents can favor the imaging machines and reject the pat-downs. Here's a sample question:

The Transportation Security Administration is increasing its use of so-called
'full-body' digital x-ray machines to screen passengers in airport security lines.
(Supporters say these machines improve the ability to spot hidden weapons and
explosives, and reduce the need for physical searches.) (Opponents say these machines
invade privacy by producing x-ray images of a passenger’s naked body that security
officials can see, and don’t provide enough added security to justify this.) Which
comes closer to your own view – do you support or oppose using these scanners in
airport security lines?

You would find the actual breakdown of responses equally dispiriting.

Americans think the imaging machines are a good idea. Americans are unreasonably scared of threats to airplanes. That shouldn't surprise you, since Americans are also unreasonably scared of airplanes.

In any case, if this is a "failure of democracy", it is not a failure of the kind imagined by the root comment on this thread.
And now i want some crewmen wi' long beards an' a frigate...
ARRRRL
This isn't true in Canada. http://www.lmlaw.ca/copyright_raw_data.pdf

"...the selection or arrangement of data only results in a protected compilation if the end result qualifies as an original intellectual creation."

(This actually saved me in university when the school wanted to charge me with copyright violation after I scraped their job database to make it easier to work with.)
while I know this is a joke I would argue that this is in no way hackerish, this is an asshole version. Basically a middle finger to anyone who wants to work with your code. Also anything but pythonic. (please note this not meant to be an insult to the parent commenter)
I just did this recently. It works great except when the pages you're scraping have JS errors on them.
Charles Stross came to a similar conclusion. This was on HN awhile back.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-...
I wouldn't worry about it. This part of my book seems to get fairly polarize results or simple meandering talks about each person's own life and decisions so it most likely has nothing to do with your comment.
You say "troll", I say "honest".
To be honest, a large chunk of kindle books on amazon.com don't have DRM enabled. Try converting your kindle library with calibre and be surprised that some of your paid books don't have drm. Calibre will fail on books with drm enabled unless you install a 3rd party plugin.

For me, I choose to keep on using amazon.com not because of DRM switching costs, but the connivence, library breadth and syncing services on many devices. Doing it manually with calibre and a nook is just a pain.
This is raw gold & diamond.
Thanks for the compliments.

Along with @anigbrowl in the comment above there are really three main types of audience: bands, fans and venues/promoters.

One of the possibilities is to charge for stats, how many visits, where are they coming from etc. But I think this is only possible with a larger visitor base (i.e. more unique visitors/hits).

I really like your idea for resources for touring, this could be a good thing to go for, especially as it is all about helping the artists (which is primarily what the blog focuses on). The yelp idea is great as well, and fits in nicely.

But again it's how to make a return on these resource, is advertising the only way?

Edit: after going through anigbrowl's comment above and thinking some more, these resources will be a great way to help promote a band and build up a fan base. Then hopefully we have some value here to the venues by helping them find bands that will bring in the public. This is good stuff. Thanks
Re 1: You have not heard that saying from Sequoia?

Re 2: Linked elsewhere, but again here wrt negative IRRs

http://www.matrixpartners.com/site/press_detail/63/
And the lawsuit ISTR that resulted from that article:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9917

Re 3: Please let us know the carry and take numbers.
Oh, I disagree with you now, sorry. You're saying that there's a way that women are and a way that men are that isn't dictated by society, but dictates it, and any deviation is unnatural. I'm saying that women are restricted to certain manners of expression to conform to norms, so they sometimes behave in peculiar ways in order to express themselves yet not be punished. Your argument can be used to justify any form of prejudice that has ever existed, and doesn't rest on any evidence other than your own stereotypes.

You actually think that sick men deserve contempt. And that men and women who behave identically should inspire disgust. And you insist that other people are the ones who are trying to force people into norms. Very ugly.
I feel like your comment ignores what languages are for and what people looking for a c++11 tutorial on threading already know.

You might think an equally trivial example with erlang is in order, but it totally marginalizes why anyone chooses to write with any given language in the first place.
When I make two changes to foo.c, and use "git add --patch" to apply one change but not the other to the staging area, my next commit will contain a version of foo.c that was never present out in my working copy where I could compile it.
That's so you can get started developing quickly. You're supposed to configure your users and permissions before you release to the public, and CouchDB helpfully displays a message in Futon saying, "You're in Admin Party mode!" to remind you of this.
What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?
Let me know when you can tell the Architect that his building needs improvement or contact a designer about their devices. Oh, and without programming.
Note that the C&D is from 16 months ago.
How Apple and Google are Microsofting their brands
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Curious...what throughput do I get when I use your service? Twilio limits you to 1 SMS / second unless you get a short code (30 SMSs / second) or otherwise use multiple numbers.

Do I get any benefit from you guys regarding this?
I haven't heard about Songkick before, it looks great. I wish they enabled favourite bands import from Last.fm. EDIT: And country-wide tracking, that's a bummer.
Some places have things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Offshore_Oil_Port that means the tanker doesn't have to come to a traditional port.
Actually, learning all the cool new stuff that comes out is what I like the most about programming. I love taking apart new stuff, watching communities rise and fall, and dissecting the philosophies that come out of it all.
I recommend the falling training of martial arts. It has actually saved my neck once during biking. I could have died, and I didn't. It's quite motivating to not stop training.
storytime! I want to hear more
At the end of the day this is what counts. Is it fast or not. What else are more cores for if not for more speed and performance.

I don't like that attitude calling someone not hacker-like because he doesn't cares about cores! It's all about creating something better and that has nothing to do with counting cores.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist)
With Over 1.5M Users, SavingStar Grabs $9M To Become The Groupon Of Groceries
No AIS radio volunteers there :P
No mention of this in the in-app help, in-app legalese, or the EULA as reached from the App Store page.
Not immediately. I have a year and a half to two years living expenses saved up. I hope to start generating at least some revenue in month 4-5. I won't need funding until I want to "take it to the next level" at which point I'll be an established business and could probably even get a bank loan.

The other part of being in an area that's not really in the "startup" world is that rules of thumb like needing a cofounder do not really apply. You do need to be able to find the "local money" though, the successful local businesses whose owners are looking for investments beyond the usual index funds.
I live near the "oil capital of Europe" (I hate that name too), so there's quite a lot of ships floating around nearby. Very cool.
But you have to admit that is not who they are targeting because they are using a fully-figured person to show the glass.
And that makes it OK how?
I can assure you that the process of iteration is horrible on iOS. It's awful to be in the situation having a team that is able to learn fast and develop improvements within days, but then having to wait a 7 day cycle for every new improvement or test. Plus from time to time Apple will just reject you - last weekend our update (a bug fix update!) was rejected because of a method name we were carrying for months. This is really not helping anybody, neither app developers nor users.
This is awesome. I'm really interested to see how an engineer will do as CEO
> "you're going to look stupid/spread misinformation if you do."

"And then we will send you to Gitmo for spreading misinformation."
I would have no problem with the post if it was informational and demonstrated exactly what you said above. I felt it was a little flamatory toward the HN community as a whole when in fact it is just a small minority that was complaining. Just an opinion.
Downvoted? Really? Are these statements of fact and a simple analogy too controversial?
It's a very nice design but it doesn't tell me where the conference takes place or what's the main theme. I get that it's about Rails, but what about it? I'd rather see illuminating information (conference venue, travel info, keynote topics, etc) than a giant parallax luchador.

Good example of putting style before function.
What about the Walkman or Playstation?
Not that it's massively important, but since it's fairly important in my company I feel the need to correct you: CS 1.6 since 2003! 1.3 is commonly considered the best version, though.
An in-depth look at the performance of guile's web server
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That may have been messed up, but I admit I got a laugh out of it.
This is great, and probably the way to go. We do have a number of venues who update their listings on a weekly basis, so we must be doing something right by them.

So it's sort of a three link chain:

1. help the fans to find bands they like (and help the band to promote themselves to a wider audience)
2. help venues find bands with the most fans
3. connect these bands with the venues so the bands play in front of large audience and the venue sells more beer.

Point 3 is where we get the revenue stream.

This is good stuff, and helping me see things a bit differently. Thanks