skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Navigating through this morass for finding the 1% of posts that are actually insightful is an exercise in frustration and usually a waste of time. The big risk is that you'll find a comment which you vehemently disagree with and fall prey to spending ten precious minutes composing a reply ("Look Mom! Somebody is wrong on the internet!") which will lead to a comment tree of arguments.

>For reference, look at this very discussion, it will be very similar to what I just stated.

Sadly, you couldn't be more right.
I have both Steve Blank's previous book, "Four Steps..." and Blank's and Bob Dorf's new one. (Got it on March 5th - the flyleaf says it was printed in March 2012 - you can still smell printing press oil on this one) Though I haven't read it through (and don't plan to - the first thing the authors say is don't read it straight through, and don't read too much at one sitting - this is more like a car repair manual, to be consulted as needed for specific problems), from reading bits and pieces I'd say it's not a rehash of FSTTE. It's better because (1) the layout is easier on the eye and mind; FSTTE's dense text, with modifiers dangling shamelessly all over the place, had a kind of geek charm, but it encouraged the reader to sit down and study it, cogitate over it, and ponder over it. The Startup Manual's design is biased towards action. The authors' car repair manual image rings true. (2) This book provides advice on "physical object"i.e. non web-based startups.
With its bullet point summaries interspersed throughout the text and countless vignettes that bespeak years of experience, this reminds me of, and is as good as, Richard White's The Entrepreneur's Manual.
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Incidentally, I highly recommend reading about early industrialists. It's useful to anyone as a corrective to the mostly political history one gets taught in school. But I recommend it particularly to startup founders. The first thing you notice is how much is still the same. And the lessons may be clearer when they're seen from a distance.
I was disappointed to check out the salt surf site, and attempt to checkout and it'd didn't keep my page responsive...
If you look in the settings of applications like Pages you'll see a section named Contributions, they list opensource projects they use even for those whose license does not require to be mentioned.

While I'm agree with you that credits must be given where it is due, stretching it to the fact that this behavior would be in their DNA seems not backed up by facts in my point of view.
Yes, you can get soldering irons with hollow tips and vacuum pumps especially for rework work.

(http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/soldering-stations/0165396/)

For a small quantity of items you can get "solder suckers" which are spring loaded pumps with a high temp nozzle. You have that in one with the iron in the other hand. You'd clean the pads with solder wick afterwards.
Jealous..
> I repeat: You do not need to be physically unfit to be smart, and fitness will often make you more productive!

While this is true, it's probably worth noting that you don't need to be fit to be smart or productive either. I really think the old stereotype is still the driving force behind the "get nerds to exercise" movement. Maybe my sample size just hasn't been large enough, but I don't see massive unfitness in the nerd-sphere on the same scale that I see massive unfitness in the general-populace-sphere. My conservative perspective is that the ratios are about the same rather than nerds being more fit in general, and that unfitness is decently location-dependent, but if someone has collected the data I'd like to see it.
Give ‘em the how and the why
And? Even not-so-smart people don't exercise.

And I'd assume that a smart student has more challenging work and higher expectations for their own academic performance, which causes them to lose sight of the benefits of exercise. In other words, a smart person will often prioritize intellectual endeavors above exercise, which is acceptable (that's much better than prioritizing TV or video games above exercise!), but I truly appreciate MIT making a statement about the importance of physical activity. It's a personal choice what you want to prioritize, but I appreciate that MIT as an institution wants to prioritize the health of its students in conjunction with academic excellence.

It's a way of saying, "If you want to be an MIT student, you should also have healthy habits."
The Necessity Of Exceptions
One of the pingbacks on that article[1] shows that Apple's tiles have features (like lanes in a parking lot) that is only in OSM data, and that Apple is mis-rendering it.

[1] http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-app...
by default CouchDB gives everyone in the world admin access to your instance, it also doesnt listen on an external interface.

There isnt any confusion over 'sensible defaults' because sensible defaults dont really exist, the way people use CouchDB is very varied, if you are going to expose any data to the world you need to know what that entails, in this case I believe it was done to help people run their own npm instance and couch introduced new functionality in order to handle that case in a more secure way.

tl;dr I dont believe this is a couch issue in the slightest, purely an issue with how npm was built
The law that allows them to do this is the body of laws around contracts. You sign a contract of treatment that says you'll pay what they decide you owe. If you don't sign it, they won't treat you.

>If they don't tell you the price beforehand, and they don't publicly post the prices, legally, how do you ever owe them any money?

If you ever go to an actual hospital, you'll see how absurd this question is. First, there are never any prices posted. Second, good luck even getting an answer about how much anything costs. A friend had to try three different facilities (thankfully a non-urgent matter) before he could even find a facility where they could quote a price.
> The event is free, but since more programmers may want to attend than we have room for, we're asking would-be attendees to apply by submitting a resume. Founders of the companies that will be there will read them and decide who to invite.

Is this event really only for programmers? The language seems particularly exclusive.
FAA wants public feedback on unmanned aircraft test sites
I'm trying to quantify some of the second-order effects with a poll here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680400 (FWIW, as I write this, the number of 37signals customers claimed by the respondents to the poll already exceeds the number of signups the SvN post states came from HN).
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"The iPad total package, hardware and software and price, represents the absolute best tablet you can buy."

"I have not yet had a chance to judge the new display myself."
I'm not sure most businesses are required by law to post prices. There may be some that are, but by and large a business in the US is not required to post prices anywhere.
Citation(s) needed. Who said this? When? Where?
This is such a good article in two ways.

First this is an internal dialogue that is a natural offshoot of 'imposter syndrome'. And for me it actually becomes more frequent as I progress further in my career as a dev. This is because it becomes more apparent to me how much I don't know, and I begin to wonder if I'll ever be good enough to attain the level of expertise that I aspire to.

What makes it more poignant for me is that I've pursued something like this before (sports career) and didn't quite make it (understatement), and I'm currently trying to reconcile myself with all the time and effort I invested in the process and how to ramp down from something that was my overriding ambition for so long. The good thing is that I've learned a lot of lessons from the experience and the main takeaway for me was ... if it isn't working, get out ... life is too short and there are many many other things to try your hand at.

The second thing that I liked about it was how it shows exactly why we should have empathy for other developers. I loved this section

For every dude I dismiss, every footnote in a roundup post, every guy deemed worthy of mere shrugs or raised eyebrows — all of whom are well-compensated for their work, no doubt — there is someone far away on the other end of the phone coaching him or advising him or loving him who wants desperately for him to succeed and be happy

because one of the things I try to live by is this

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle --- Plato

I've had endured a few insults in my life as a dev ("You'll never be an engineer son, maybe a scripter or something, but never an engineer"), by people who thought I'd never make it as a programmer. Many years, later, here I am ... doing a pretty decent job at it, and I'll never forget all the kind people who encouraged me, took a time out to explain something to me ... again, just like I'll never forget the couple of times someone was a complete dick to me, because they thought I had no prospects as a developer.

I guess what I'm saying is, whenever you feel the need to dismiss someone who has no skills ... maybe take a step back and see if what they need is encouragement, coaching and a little bit of direction instead.
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But security across multiple sites _has_ to be fixed on the person end, because it can't be fixed on the system end. If you use the same password for 10,000 sites, there's no fix on the 'system' end to make them all secure, because they're all run by different people. It only takes one of them to fuck up.
Ah, thanks -- I missed the (outside the US) bit.
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Also worth noting: By default, CouchDB is setup so that the entire instance gives every HTTP user global administration rights.
Think You Can’t Go Viral? Bull****
Making the title in HN different than the actual article title is misleading. One could argue that it is link baiting. I've watch that dudes video. If the article's real title had been presented on HN, I would not have clicked it since I didn't need to see it again. I don't think the TSA's "response" in the article is even a response and certainly not worthy of a headline... I imagine if it was headline worthy, BGR would have used THAT in their title. Shame.
When they finally meet the ninjas from Harvard, the battle will be epic indeed.
Yobongo Acquired by Mixbook
Your comment reads like that is a Bootstap version/"upgrade" of the Ajax Control Toolkit's picker. However it looks to be a completely separate project.
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The Cost of Cracking
And bullshit on implying this is in any way due to malice.

What exactly is your idea of Apple's grand scheme? That nobody would notice they used data from OSM? That they wouldn't be called up on it?

And what would the exact benefit be of Apple taking credit for the maps? That people would go "OMG, Apple made their own maps, they are so awesome"? Apple gives credit to tons of stuff they use from Open Source projects, and contributes to many projects with people, from LLVM and Clang to MacRuby, to Webkit, to standard user-land stuff.

Here's what happened, from my 10+ year experience with following Apple. Apple used the data and didn't provide any attribution yet, but will do so in the near future, and will collaborate and improve OSM data. The reason they didn't say anything yet, is the standard veil of secrecy they use. They couldn't go ahead and talk with OSM stuff about it, probably they weren't even let to add an attribution to the iOS beta versions, so they just shipped it as it is.
Thank you creamyhorror. State elections are next step - right now constrained by resources. Also regarding the weight, there is a "How important is this issue to you?" selection under each question, right now default to 5/10. I guess it might need to be made more intuitive.
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My oscar chemoinformatics parser: Please don't break it.
As others have noted, Apple seem to be generating their own tiles from OSM data. ArsTechnica has a good screenshot here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/apple-begins-using...
10K? Wow. My last child was delivered 4 years ago, standard exit method with no complications, and the tab was $26K (before discounts, of course).

I can't imagine the bill if it was a c-section or if neonatal was involved. It would easily double and go up from there.

The funny thing is that the obstetrician gave us a fixed price for the entire pregnancy. All checkups and the standard delivery was one price. It was the hospital (and the randomly-chosen anesthesiologist) that ran up the price.
One tweet is more like 670 KB, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 Most numbers in that article are way off.
It doesn't matter what the ratio is. There is a simple fact: if you get smart people to be healthy, they will be alive longer, and even if they don't get any productivity boost, they will still be productive for longer.

That applies to everyone, sure. But MIT is doing what is best for their students, and I support that decision. MIT is a powerful institution, and it has the ability to influence the lives of some of the smartest students in the world. It'd be awesome if we can keep them healthy and fit so they can be smarter for longer. Even if the smart kids are just as fit as any other kids, that doesn't mean we should accept the average as the standard and move on.
I was just looking for something like this! The tagging of contributors feature is really neat too. Anyhow, it'd be really nice if I can edit the order of the projects listed.
I agree. I just hope we can have panels which weigh diseases impartially. The UK did this for a while via their National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, measuring the cost per QALY, but now the politicians have stepped in and decided that cancer treatments are "special" and should be funded up to a higher limit -- which is really saying that they're willing to kill two people who don't have cancer to save the life of one person who has cancer.
You can see it working with something as simple as "water"

or with more complex operations:

"To a solution of 3-bromobenzophenone (1.00 g, 4 mmol) in MeOH (15 mL) was added sodium borohydride (0.3 mL, 8 mmol) portionwise at rt and the suspension was stirred at rt for 1-24 h. The reaction was diluted slowly with water and extracted with CH2Cl2. The organic layer was washed successively with water, brine, dried over Na2SO4, and concentrated to give the title compound as oil (0.8 g, 79%), which was used in the next reaction without further purification. MS (ESI, pos. ion) m/z: 247.1 (M-OH)."
I've been spoiled rotten by the magnificent BeautifulSoup library for Python.
Yobongo aquired by Mixbook
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Yes, I love this. I store my 1Password file in Dropbox, so in a pinch, I can log into Dropbox on someone else's computer and grab any password I might need.
Agreed. Apple adopting OSM could be huge for them.

And think about it, everyone who they'd want to know that it is OSM, now knows :-P
Yah the first level you encounter them should be tweaked so you are less likely to die. The first time you encounter a new bad guy you should be scared, but not in danger. It makes it more fun.
Yeah, I don't really know how to deal with your hyperbole. Who is passing along this myth that Apple invented the personal computer from scratch? Maybe you should add in that Woz invented electricity while you're spinning a tale?
Did you look where (s)he indicated or at the right place? Settings-General-About lists (zillions) of licenses for projects used in iOS itself. If I understand this correctly, this is about the new iPhoto app. The Numbers and Pages apps have an 'Acknowledgements' page in the Settings app. Is that where you looked?
Well, the license (CC-By-SA) requires that "The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be implemented in any reasonable manner;". So it doesn't need to be in the footer of the map, when there is no footer at all ("at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing authors"), but I think the EULA/about not reasonable.

But other people might disagree. There are even people that think the whole license is invalid and that it can be used as Public Domain, because the license is for creative work and not meant to be used for databases. This is the major reason OSM is changing to a different license right now (ODbL).

Edit: See here http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Un...
FYI - I just signed up with these guys to try them out. Here's how it went:

1. Account setup was pretty smooth. I was able to create an account without giving my billing details (unlike Linode). However, when I attempted to pay my invoice via their credit card form, authentication failed (maybe because it was an international payment and my bank freaked?). So I tried again Paypal (yuck), and it worked.

2. I received a some welcome emails, one of which had my intovps account password in plain text. Big warning sign that they might not be hashing passwords in their DB.

3. I opened a ticket about #2, and within minutes got this response:

"We don't store any of the passwords as plain text.
Since we've received this complaints before I will talk to my colleagues to no longer send the password as plain text."

So a little more encouraging.

I'll try to post updates as I try out their service.
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My reccommendation is to use "nonce + domain name" for all of the sites you need passwords for and then hash it.

$ echo password@$(echo nonce+hackernews.com|md5sum|tr [[:lower:]] [[:upper:]])

password@FB85C2F638706D4BE4192391387C2879

The above format gives you lower, upper, digit and special character.
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I wish browsers could use SRV records in dns so we didn't have to run everything on 80/443. Stupid magic numbers.
How many of their customers buy on someone else's recommendation? Sure they only get $300 a month directly from the readers of HN.

But I get asked several times a month to recommend solutions and though I've personally never used more than the free version of Basecamp I've probably sold a dozen subscriptions for them. By targetting the readers of HN they're really just going after the influencers.
No, actually it's not. That's a different issue.
Because they aren't distributing OSM data or a renderer, just images created from OSM data.
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Good point. When I saw his email volume, I wondered how I would feel looking about at an entire decade and seeing how much time I spent on emails. I'd probably feel a lot of regret. But like you're saying the point of QS shouldn't be regret (or novelty), but identifying a 'problem' and fixing it asap.
Great docs - looks super simple to get started, will definitely try this out. Do you support CORS out of interest?
Technology and Filmmaking: An Interview With Roger Sewhcomar
If this sort of thing interests you, check out Kevin Kelly's Quantified Self collaborative project.

http://quantifiedself.com/
Wait, so it's middleware / hosting on top of Twilio? Am I reading that right?
So while C may be as lightweight as it can get, it's not really suitable for projects with more than 10k LOC.

I believe John Carmack would have something to say about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_3
When I interviewed for Columbia University, the guy told me one of the more farfetched theories was that it was required in case students had to evacuate the island and swim to New Jersey. Georgia Tech used to (still?) have a swim test... I wonder where they're going...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964
That's a very similar idea to our startup. Except we're not using brute force evolution algorithms. Which I think is a bad idea, for the same reason researchers have found neural networks to be generally a bad approach to machine learning. The problem is the same, while it might be mathematically viable to code a system that will brute force it's way to learn if a great game is. That takes too long to most commercial applications. Specially when it's so easy to "cheat" and pre-input some values you already learned yourself.

In short, why would you write a code that takes 10 years to learn something that you could teach it yourself in a few minutes?

Brute force evolution algorithms are a fun and interesting thing to do research on. But that's it. The only practical application for it, is to research the algorithms itself to better understand how they work! But I'm sure the author of Angelina knows this, as his main goal does seem to be better understand how the algorithms work. That's fine, just don't expect many awesome commercially viable games from it. If that was the goal, I'd recommend "cheating" your own knowledge and the knowledge of other players to train your machine learning algorithms, similar to a recommendation algorithm. That's what we're hoping to achieve ourselves.
As I recall the story, it's because some large donor many years ago demanded it as a condition of a donation. (And of course so that students don't die if they fall in the Charles.)
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It sounds like you're comfortable as a loner then. That gives you immense possibility, but also makes it harder to choose.

My advice: Just pick something interesting and go with it. If it doesn't work out, pick something else. Fear of failure is worst in people who haven't failed yet, and that fear will impede you far more than actual failure ever could (I've had a few spectacular failures in my lifetime, to the point of being reduced to the clothes on my back, and each failure made me more fearless).

You don't need the respect of others when you're making your own path.
I know enough to conclude that it hasn't gotten more expensive to ship bits in the past ten years.

Are you kidding me?

We went from simple networks to 3G to 4G --which requires new infrastructure deployments every few years.

We went from the mobile web being almost nothing to hundreds of millions of very capable mobile web devices in the past ten years (iPhone/iPad/Android...).

Network usage increased exponentially with the newer, more useful devices. People were buying "unlimited" plans and used 100-300MB per month, not they can easily go to over several GBs.

It's like you have a "unlimited free refills" soda fountain. When everyone has 2-3 drinks it's ok. When everyone starts having 10-20 sodas, well, you start putting some limit to those "unlimited refills".
Isnt Apple sourcing their data from OSM to start with? http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/
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Yes, that's what I want to do. My main goal redesigning the buffer was to 1) fix memory fragmentation, 2) make unlimited scrollback possible. I offered to find some time on a weekend to add a caching layer, a compression layer, and an encryption layer. But the author of that report was more interested in getting publicity I guess, so ignored my offer and made it look like I said I won't fix this. Well, NOW it's harder to justify taking time off my personal life to work on this...
I, for one, will get nothing out of Cameron traveling to the bottom of the ocean that drop cameras have not already produced. I feel the same way about sending humans to Mars.

Of course, I'm also the guy who went to the Grand Canyon and thought to myself, "meh, that's about what it looked like on my TV."
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