skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'm more interested in the "affordable brain recording kits". But +1 internets to the marketing department. This is genius.
Is EVERYTHING made in China?
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As someone who works remotely most of the time, I agree.

I've also started several companies that were mostly or partially distributed. Getting funding for those is sometimes awkward depending on the investors. Most VCs in particular are pretty skeptical of remote work, especially if any of the founders are remote. Even VCs who have funded well known distributed companies tend to be a little hesitant.

Another issue is that later rounds of investment are really difficult if you don't have traction as the VCs will scrutinize everything you do that doesn't look normal, and distribution of people is apparently pretty off the charts.

YC is itself a good example. Everyone must co-locate to San Francisco at the same time. 500startups is the same way. At least in the case of incubators, the centralization is temporary, but I have no idea if there is pressure to co-locate post-YC. Perhaps someone who is post-YC can offer some similar experiences.
Given how many of these middle school Students are probably devouring the ultra-violent "Hunger Games" trilogy in anticipation for the film, I find this complaint/decision odd.
In my opinion, it really depends on the subject matter. For an encyclopedia, inline arguments are surely the wrong thing. But in that case, you're really using a wiki-like system as a more user-friendly, accessible content management system.

And for things like c2, I'd consider the lack of threading an advantage. For lots of technical discussions, this leads to clarifications that are hidden somewhere deep in that thread pile and would require an editor to factor those out in the main article. Which works fine with something that has a huge user base or paid people to work on it (i.e. Wikipedia or corp "wikis"), but not for everything.
Sure, but getting lead to orbit is hugely expensive.

A better solution is water. You need to carry it anyways.
It certainly matters to geeks like us, but I also take a certain amount of comfort in knowing normal users are looking at something great, even if they don't quite understand why it's good. Certainly better than pushing junk on ignorant consumers. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I can't think of too many other companies that would go to these lengths for a consumer product--
Me too! How strange. Sadly, SouthBeach/Breakers/3015 is no longer around.
Hi hn! I'm so happy to get this finished and out the door that I'm giving away some free exports. Use the promo code HACKERNEWS on the products page (after login) to get a free export. It's good for the first 25 people that use it.

Please let me know your feedback. I'm hoping this is a useful tool that will provide some value for people. If it proves to be popular, it could then be expanded to other services, etc...
Practically it really hasn't. Polyethylene is being tested in NASA's Radiation Shielding Program but I don't believe it's been put into service for a manned mission. There are also tests being conducted with adjustable "magnetic bubbles" that can in theory shield a spacecraft from radiation, but the last I heard they were done on a much smaller scale and would require a huge amount of power.

NASA has been making progress in making astronauts less susceptible to radiation damage through diet and vitamins. There's also this paper which talks about a vaccine that's being tested to counteract some of the body's responses to radiation exposure (PDF):

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2007002...
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Crypto-based voting systems are not designed to work for real-world elections. They work fine for contrived academic studies.

They all rely on one's vote being lost within a herd of votes. So if your ballot is one of a million, and the ballots are simple with a few races/issues, it's easy to have a secure one-way hash with collisions. (The collisions make it impossible to work backwards to infer how each person voted.)

Alas, real-world elections in the USA are administered at the precinct level. In my state, that's between 0 and 1000 registered voters.

Further, a general election (November) ballot will have dozens of issues and races.

So it's more than likely that any single ballot will be utterly unique. So with the voting systems I studied, it's trivial to infer how everyone voted.

I could imagine crypto-based voting systems working for certain applications. Like corporate shareholder meetings. Or maybe Australian and British style parliamentary elections. (Don't hold me to the last guess, I only have cursory knowledge of their election systems.)

Edit: I discussed these practical issues with one of the grad student authors of a crypto-based voting system. Being completely ignorant of real elections, he had NO IDEA what I was talking about. He denigrated my input; saying our elections should be easily tailored to accommodate crypto. (Good luck with that.)

Maybe it's just me, but I'm of the opinion that people setting out to solve a problem should probably make some token effort to first understand the problem. YMMV.
A big warning for anyone trying this out, don't use it in places where exact placement is required. Browsers (and operating systems) render fonts VERY differently. Just changing the cleartype-settings in windows can make the text placement completely off. Especially after a few letters as the error propagates the more characters you accumulate over one row. Might not be an issue if you only place one letter/icon, which is probably the use case here, but keep this in mind.
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Or you can buy the tmux book for $11 which tells pretty much the same: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
Water works better. Heavy elements like lead splatter when hit by high energy particles and generate secondary radiation.

The idea is good, most mars plans include a shelter with a water or rocket fuel shield.
Would you please expand on your four characterizations, explaining what this quality is, what it makes someone good at, and maybe an example persona that exemplifies it?

The four adjectives don't immediately create images in my mind of what qualities they represent.
Could you explain how this is related?

The original article in the Aiken Standard (linked to from from the OP's Forbes article above) mentions three "books," and specifically mentions Card's Ender's Game as being one of them. That Standard article in turn points to a press release from the previous day, also mentions three books and "swear words."

Nothing in either article seems to hint at the explicit, graphic sexual content in your link above, dated ten days before the press release in the Standard, and describing material as "pornographic material, from the Internet," not "three books."
I've known and enjoyed Louis CK since he first broke on late night TV. Also know less well Jim Gaffican but I've seen a few of his specials. Even seen Foxworthy's 'drinking buddy' Ron White live.

Am I the only one here who has never even heard of Aziz?
The article doesn't make this analogy, that was my point. It doesn't really delve into immutable data structures at all, and just discusses FP in broad strokes. This isn't really a bad thing, since I don't think it was meant to be a deeply technical article.
We work at Microsoft and we use node.js
I'll add an additional question to this one: are there any good sources of small, "real world" app examples available? I realize I could look at, say, the HN codebase, but I'm curious if there are smaller examples available, too.
You can always remove it in the inspector. Perhaps this kind of nonsense merits a bookmarklet? I wonder whether this would fix many websites (I'm thinking AllRecipes?).

Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll("*"), function(x){if (getComputedStyle(x).position === "fixed") x.parentNode.removeChild(x);})
We're aiming for a subscription model ideally; we've seen a good number of complaints about how a lot of ad-supported news often has link-bait titles, excessive internal linking, is sensational/poorly researched and so on, none of which is surprising given their primary objective is to increase pageviews.

On the flip side, we don't want to lock the majority of content behind paywalls, which seems to be the way a lot of better news sources seem to be going today.

We'd like to have all our content be accessible for free, and subscribers would get various additional benefits: no ads, the ability to manipulate charts and graphs more directly (perhaps a way to adjust the scope beyond what we display, make projections and share with friends), mobile app with nice interface that requires subbed account, etc.

As for the market - we think it might be possible to serve as a secondary news source for people that want hard info on an issue/event, or the background/context to get up to speed on something (hopefully the range of people interested in this would cross party lines and even into groups that don't have the time or interest to keep up with politics on a daily basis).
Yeah, according to the complain... I can even stretch ender's game to be about prostitution... But i can't fit in the bukake part.

Assuming the complain was true in the first place
It's because a lot of comedians are writer/producer/director/editor of their content--a one man act. They aren't usually signing seven album contracts to a label or answering to a network. Usually they have an agent or manager who gets a cut for promoting them.
Hey, crazy idea: why don't more employers give workers a choice? As a quick read of this thread will show, some people like quiet so they can concentrate, while others like the interaction and "energy" of being with others. That's fine. Live and let live. A startup might have to choose one kind of space, but you don't have to get all that large before it becomes possible to have separate areas/floors for different work styles. It seems like such a no-brainer, but I've only ever seen companies do "one size fits all" or segregation by status. Any employer who let me choose whether to work in a private office or a 2-5 person office or a big open area would definitely get some extra points from me.
How does it compare to www.collective2.com ?
> GNU Emacs is self-documenting.

Sure, if you're extremely comfortable reading emacs lisp spread across many files.

Just like Spanish doesn't need a dictionary, since it's self-defining once you move to Spain, and spend three months learning it via the total immersion method.
Taking a day off is much harder than doing something in particular that's fun. I rarely "take a day off" -- frankly, it's boring. But doing something in particular is much easier. He's your friend, so you probably know what he likes -- suggest something. An all-day hike, paintball, star-trek marathon, you could even toss around romantic ideas he could do with his wife. Give him something specific to do that's compelling, and I bet he'll be more likely to do it than "take time off."
Developing a Mobile Wallet That Does More Than Help You Spend Money
Basically, responding to Github issues and pull requests gives access to a whole wealth of people who use Github to communicate and collaborate.
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New Visual Editor for Creating Slick CSS3+JavaScript Presentations in Impress.js
Our open office / team room is 4 people and it works out great. If one of us needs to zone out, we all have headphones for that. We're able joke around or shoot at the Nerf hoop. The only downside is phone calls, especially when we have more than one going on.

Going from this to a cube farm or an isolated office seems depressing in comparison.
> This is a form of passing the buck, saddling someone else with your problems, etc.

No, you still have to fix it yourself. But at least there is a feedback element.
I currently use fckeditor for all client projects and I really want an alternative, so this looks perfect. I know it's probably not on top of your features list but inserting images would be a great add-on, most of my clients need it.
Modularization rediscovered.
Selling to girls
The audio from the SXSW panel discussion can be found here:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/sxsw-interactive/spgqq/
Here's a screenshot with my browser open at the size I'm comfortably browsing the rest of the web with. When I went back to check I could in fact expand the page and push that off to the left, which is less annoying, but still not great.

http://d.pr/5IyI
Well done guys! Your web site looks pretty great and I'll be trying it out in a sec. I wondered myself if submitting early is a wise decision. I submitted our application a month before the due date but then we changed our idea entirely. I would hope the guys didn't read the original one and moved on.

Edit: I also think that YC should not be what decides whether you create your startup or not. It is great to see you guys kept going. The people that decide to change ideas or abandon their startup because of not getting into YC tell me that they are pretty good at picking people that aren't serious about creating a successful business.
I don't think it would be. Also, if you're constructing purpose-built javascript the best solution might be to merge that information into the url scheme so that you can cache the results.
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Take any project (open source is easiest) and fix something, get it closer to that 100%. Do enough of this and you'll start to get a feel for it similar to the kind of rush you get when you're starting, only it is then associated with getting closer to the finish line instead of how far you got from the starting line.

It helps to pick small projects in the beginning to not lose sight of the goal.
It looks like the beginning of a very nice project!

I had a similar itch to scratch a few weeks ago when I wanted a nice simple editor for a project and modified the pagedown editor (the markdown editor from stackoverflow) to use bootstrap. Its here: https://github.com/samwillis/pagedown-bootstrap

You can see a demo here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2690345/pagedown-bootstrap-demo/demo...
FWIW I am too on Firefox and I am not seeing any weird behavior. (Beautifully done, by the way. Great job.)
And here's to thinking that the media companies were scared of MIDI files 'sounding' like the copyrighted tunes they have.
Mach is not OS X's kernel, XNU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnu) is. It contains a modified version of Mach 3.0, but it's not the same kernel. But regardless, the kernel is not particularly important when discussing the operating system's unixness.
No they aren't. No they won't. Look at North Korea: so much for sanctions.

The only weapon against oppressive regime is economic and cultural freedom and influence. Exchange wares, exchange ideas, and eventually there would be a market for democracy, so to speak.

I know a very few countries that are both prosperous and non-democratic. And you won't mind all of those: they don't have to do bad things since they've got money.
A great read. Just a couple of things that jumped out at me:

“In functional languages automatic analysis of functions and finding good candidates for concurrent execution is as trivial as automatic inlining!”

It isn’t exactly trivial. If you can evaluate anything concurrently, then you still have to figure out what’s worth the overhead of spinning up a thread to run concurrently. And many operations are inherently sequential even if they aren’t imperative or side-effectful—parsing, for example. Still, the gist is that concurrency is easiest in a pure language and a functional style, and I have no bones to pick with that.

“…infinite data structures, something that's much more complicated in a strict language.”

Infinite structures are still pretty easy to construct in strict languages. For example, you can use ranges of the sort in D’s std.range library, as described in Alexandrescu’s “Iterators Must Go!” talk.
The teacher should just read the Old Testament to them. The students then get the "religion" their parents want and all the nudity, sex and violence they crave. Win-win!
>"It’s a tiny bit violent"

A child kills several other children barehanded.

Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form - Card's view on this is pretty apparent in the first two sequals; Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide.

It's always surprising how non-analytical we can be when it comes to violence - an entire planet is destroyed and millions of people screams are heard across the galaxy in A New Hope. Yet, the movie so ingrained in children's culture, it was an uphill battle to prevent my son from watching it when he was three [I felt like it was a victory that he didn't see it until he was five].

That said, Ender's Game is appropriate reading for 14 year olds, and the idea of it as pornographic is asinine. Same could be said of Bloom's Forever of my youth.
The profanity in the order form was refreshing as well:

"Confirm email (Don't Fuck This Up)"

I'm guessing they didn't AB Test profane and clean copy on the forms.
"Ironically, I was at the same company when we switched from a 3 person team room to an open floor plan to cut costs. The productivity hit was enormous."

So you had the inertia effect AND a less productive work environment. I wonder if there is anything out there about the productivity lost during a move.
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From my experience as an enterprise coder I saw a management that didn't understand that there were bugs. Everything was supposedly done with Scrum, so at the end of each two-week sprint there were supposed to be no more bugs left on that feature. As far as the schedule was concerned (and we were scheduled over a year in advance) bugs didn't exist.

When bugs were found that the engineering team had to fix, we were either supposed to do it in addition to our other tasks. And any major bug required a huge rescheduling meeting to figure out how we can still make our schedule now that we had lost 20 engineer-hours.

Also, with their focus on "individual ownership" they expected everyone to take a feature, implement it, and fix all the bugs without involving the other engineers.

What this lead to was a lot of buggy code, a lot of obvious bugs that didn't get fixed and we just crossed our fingers over, and a lot of people acting as starters even though we had and needed more finishers, debuggers, and architects.
Cooking and washing dishes work for me. My wife loves it.
Yup, banks don't like Python, but Java is OK. So you write your Java in Jython, package it up & deploy.

Here's another use case. At Repustate, we have an API to create PowerPoint presentations via an API call. We use Apache POI (Java) to create & manage PowerPoint slides, but our code base is all Python. So we have a Jython process running on Jetty, but instrument all of the Java bits with Python.

It's pretty amazing to have all of the power of the JVM at your disposal but with the grace of Python.
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I was going to counter this with "that's what 'M-x apropox <thing>' is for", then I remembered that around a third of the time that's the lead in to me diving into the source.

That said, the other 2/3 of the time Emacs does relatively well at self-documenting.
> The discussion is about best practices and the relative merits of password hashing functions. So the baseline assumption is that the server-side password database isn't perfectly secure.

That's right. So I don't see where database connection pooling is part of the issue and that's what my remark about random generated passwords was pointed at. You should use secure passwords to authenticate your app at the database. You should probably use md5 [1] or similar as password hashing scheme for the database credentials since this is where you really have a valid tradeoff between performance and security that allows any attacker to bog down your database. But this issue is not the scope of this discussion.

It's certainly a valid technical concern to not increase your password hashing work factor to a point where this it is a valid attack vector for DoS attacks, my point simply is that you can go quite far in terms of work factor until you reach that limit. Increasing the work-factor to a point where authentication takes 10ms will in many cases still leave other parts of your application more vulnerable.

And well, turning off authentication should imply denying access to data that requires authentication. This certainly is an option if the majority of your data is available for unauthenticated users. It certainly is not if you only store data worth securing.

[1] as postgres and mysql both do
I don't know about eventlet, but gevent appears to be working in pypy (for some trivial example code from the gevent page).

Have you tried your application since greenlet got built-in to pypy stable?
I upvoted you, but mostly because I hate downvotes for unpopular stances.

But please answer this question: how does using Github make you "less free"? All parts of Github (even parts of the web interface, like the wiki) can be used stand-alone. All your data can be easily dumped, most of them in a ready-to-reuse form (the git repositories, the wiki and github pages). So, from lock-in perspective, gitorious and github are quite alike. What exactly is it that makes you, as an individual, less free then using gitorious? Sure, the software is less free, but your data: not so much.
I just want to add one thing: The quality of the presentation, design, and execution is better than many Ycombinator start-ups (at launch day/ first couple of months). I haven't tried the actual product, but from outside it looks neat and well presented.

Now there are lots of pretty damn good sites that YC alumni are making from launch day; but the fact that a good number isn't, suggests that PG might want to improve his filter process a bit.
DO you want your developers taking simple tech support calls?
Am I reading this right? 10,000 users - 1,400 on free trial = 8,600 paying subscribers.

If so, congratulations! =)
Why does the entire spacecraft have to go up at once? Also, why does the entire spacecraft have to go down?
Ok - so we know there's demand from top-level talent. Who's going to make it into a platform?
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I'd never heard of Codiqa until I read this post, but I'm glad I did. Really impressive app, I'll definitely be using this to build mobile apps in the near future.
Agreed, but improving the quality of administrators is incredibly difficult to do and forcing parents to be rational about their children is pretty much impossible.

So we're left with tenure as an imperfect but practical way to limit the damage that can be done by bad administrators and crazed parents. Which is why tenure is important.
The links being clickable is a CMS issue, and one that's been on the "get to it eventually" list for a while. It's definitely something we intend to have though.
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My DVD collection includes about 3TB of data with no HD content... 60TB isn't that much.
Unfortunately, in the mind of many Americans it is.
52,000 millirem is 520 mSv, not 520Sv. This number is taken from the Brookhaven National Lab tests. The paper may be talking there about accumulated absorbed radiation, not total exposure.
Inserting images and links is next on the list. https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5 supports them all - I just need to add it to the UI
Now that I know about Gunicorn (thanks!) I might deploy with that. I was just going to use multiprocessing + wsgiref.

We don't get significant benefits from async with our current codebase and load characteristics -- like I said, the dependency was accidental.
"The finisher" sounds like a mythical creature to me...