skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one could also say that a good server would come by and inform you that the your meal is taking a little longer then usual to cook because of some reason. If I am told that, I know that the server is at least trying. If the server is just absent for 30 minutes, then we have a problem.
Wow. There isn't even a space boom yet, and there's already a bubble for it.
Sexual harassment is against the law, but it isn't a crime (at least in California). A DA wouldn't be involved unless it went well past sexual harassment into assault or stalking.
What, no kickstarter page?
She writes remarkably well for a nine year-old, quite witty. I may have smirked a couple times.
Maybe NASDAQ is at fault for the errors last Friday, but Facebook's stock price has slid nearly 20% in the last two days of trading.
Remote Malware Deployment and a Lil' AV Bypass
I was under the impression that we walk primarily by applying friction?
Boards and Advisory Boards: Different Animals
Fantastic interactive demo you guys have - very intuitive.
"Facebook is Down" Now Has New Meaning
Don't Expect Anyone to Understand Your Vision
Beat me to it. Agreed. There's no way we'd put up with that kind of insolence over here.
Can't help but wonder how the school will retaliate.
Continuing both themes, I'd rather spend the money to make us us Borg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29
Activecollab 3 is out
Kleiner Perkins Hit With Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
I can't believe that none of them commented on the giant laser in the front.
I became vegetarian when I went to University and had my very own Baby Belling.

My school dinners in the UK were cooked in a kitchen in the school by cooks my Mum knew, the veg and meat were bought locally and there was always meat and two veg except Fridays when there was fish. I quite liked them. I have fond memories of those chocolate brick puddings with the minty custard served from metallic effect jugs (60s we are talking).

The trouble started in the UK when they outsourced catering so the cook was not a school employee and did not live over the road. You began to get meals served from a central kitchen and produced as cheaply as possible using frozen veg/mechanically recovered meat. Budgets were low.

Enter Jamie.

Good for this wain. You can get yourself excluded from a UK school for writing things on the Web, but school meals are a 'safe' area of dissent.
Ask HN: How to consider startup offer
I'm thinking of joining the startup and have got an offer. Now I would like to better understand the financial part of it, putting aside startup culture, fun, idea etc.

I do know what I will be missing in terms of cash if I change jobs. How can I approach evaluating the equity? If I'm getting 0.X% of stocks of the company, how can I decide if this is worth it? What are some common mistakes I can make here?
There is speculation that one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Ramanujan, died because of just that-- a lack of vegetarian food in England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Illness_and...
everytime I try the link I get a timeout request!
Yes, Dickens would seem to describe how the school views the children. "Please, sir, I want some more" is all that they should be saying.
Personally I don't see us achieving anything close to pop-sci space exploration fantasies when four fifths of our species are still struggling to survive day by day.
I don't mean to be a downer, but this just isn't going to work. Insurance companies are very covetous of their models and I don't think Leaky really has much to offer to suppliers.

I realize that admitted carrier information is publicly available, but I'm not sure how Leaky could ever be profitable. The commission on an auto policy is almost nil (the common mantra is "If you touch it, you lose money."). Insureds will gain, but trying to create a race to the bottom with suppliers is a recipe for disaster in the insurance industry. Being a broker is about providing a service to insureds and suppliers, not merely one or the other.

What's the end goal, besides potentially disrupting the auto insurance industry in the short term?
Love the idea. One minor quibble so far - the email field on your main page should b html5 email so mobile browsers can ignore initial caps and show an email oriented keyboard.
It's difficult to figure out what the hell this is from their announcement, but from what I've gathered, it's a social learning initiative to teach people web development centered around volunteer-run teaching events.
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The private business community made up by the YC members group is what makes the program so amazing.

By adding more people to the community, you are not substracting resources, but adding to it.

I get your point, and agree.

Off topic -

Could you provide me an email address to contact you?

After reading your blog, I'd like to share something with you.

Regards,

RM
Wow. Fantastic result for a young blogger. However I don't think the new meal looks that much better, apart from the sprinkle of salad.

Before: Pizza, Corn, Potato Chip, Cupcake

After: Pasta, Potato, Cake, Salad
i deal with both carpal tunnel (diagnosed) and tendonitis. an ergonomic keyboard is a must (i use a kinesis freestyle). one of the most important equipment changes for me is to never use an actual mouse, and to never click a trackpad. instead i use a magic trackpad on my desktop mac, built in trackpad on my mbp, and a logitech trackpad on my pc desktops. all are configured with full gesture capability so i can use the tap features instead of clicking. also, no click-drag. instead i use the double tap to lock feature.

i also mix it up by using my ipad. for browsing, for short emails, etc. the ipad requires different muscles so changes the patterns of use (a good thing).

for exercises, i highly recommend this short youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUyMNyrOHJQ. i think this was perhaps the best thing for me. it got me out of the worst of it, and keeps me from slipping back to my worst.

i wear wrist splints in bed. this might not be for everyone, but my doc suggested it. a lot of people bend their wrists at night, stressing the muscles and tendons. i was definitely one who did. it helps.

finally, ice. i use ice packs to cool off the arms when i'm hurting. walgreens sells a nice inexpensive pack with a built in cover that works really well. i have 10 of them :)

best of luck.
Fantastic final post:

"Sci fi fans taking on NASA engineers is too funny, but also a waste of time. We deal with real hardware here. Locked."

Bingo. The project is to build a very poorly designed spacecraft to perform a mission it's not well suited to for a ridiculously large sum of money. If we're going to build a spacecraft to journey to Mars, we shouldn't force it to conform to a 1960s fantasy hull design.
Ah, hehe, yeah. That comes from comments I've heard from some of their employees about how well they've done against their competitors given their 'relatively smaller' resources/teams/ad spend.
That depends largely on your audience, too.

I bet the Reddit crowd are almost all up-to-date with whatever browser they are running. A stodgy enterprise or gov't office might mandate a certain outdated version for internal apps. I'd bet that a small slice of the vast number of websites out there actually target the average user. The ones that do are likely generic portal ("start page") sites, stores with broad appeal (Amazon, Target, B&N), or public services that everybody would access.
Create Your Own Windows7 Theme Without Any Software
Yes, plus a rather bad bacterial infection, probably as a result of a low resistance.

That was in the 1930s. Things have changed (I can walk down the road and get a reasonable South Indian curry in a cafe where UK Indian people go).
Facebook has lost $40 Billion in value since going public
Wordpress will do that to you when your site gets any type of traffic.
Indeed. If you ever read Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near, that's what we'll end up as at some point in the near future.

It starts with google goggles, proceeds to more integration and then becomes us.

I wouldn't say no to assimilation when I think about it.
Staying in America, No Thanks to Congress
I think that will only excite scientists. Who cares about a bunch of water? Bring back some high-grade Armalcolite ore, and you might spark some interest.
Exactly. The bar should be set a LOT higher.
I'm sort of confused. How does a vps differ from a regular server in terms of FTP usage?
> You need a ship that can safely and reliably take people to Earth orbit and back at a price normal people can afford.

That's what needs to be actually built, but it's not how human imagination works. To capture imagination, you make people watch this:

http://youtu.be/_yijcWsLda8?hd=1&t=9s

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DEw70LVWs

You need to touch the heart, connect with people's desires, emotions and dreams they already have. And be it or not, Star Trek, et al. is something that is closer to general audience than another rocket. I'm not saying "let's build the Enterprise", but we shouldn't ignore the popular culture vision of space, because it's mostly Hollywood, not NASA, who drive the dreams. Let's find a way to connect to that.

BTW., to remind everyone, the very first Space Shuttle was named "Enterprise" for a reason.
I had to double check that I wasn't reading The Onion after I read that quote.
Apple Releases Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.13
Suppose you expect Facebook to grow at 50% per year. How long until you run out of internet users?

50% for the next several years is not an outrageous expectation given their 25x sales multiple. I haven't done the math because I'm both busy and lazy, but I suspect it is actually a good bit lower than what is implied by such massive multiples.

They are indeed running out of people to sign up. On the planet. That is amazing. So amazing, I would argue, that one could imagine governments getting nervous. When's the last time you saw that in a prospectus?
Someone Is Asking The USPTO To Invalidate Zuckerberg's News Feed Patent...
First, it depends on your risk aversion. If you have kids to support, you usually can't afford take as much risk - so the "startup salary" might not even be an option.

But assuming you can afford the risk: Make a guesstimate about the expected value of an exit, add some risk premium, and compare. e.g.

If you assume $1B exit with prob. 3% (and no other outcomes), the expected value of the company is $30M. If you are offered 2% of the company over 4 years, that amounts to $600K or $150K/year at most (probably less, given tax considerations, exercise price, etc -- but let's assume the maximum).

Now the risk premium: you can be fired at any point, you are 97% likely to only be left with salary, and there's the opportunity cost (if something good comes your way, you'll have to choose and essentially forgo the equity). Altogether in my book, that's a 75% risk premium. It's down to ~$40K/year for the equity value.

So, in this case, I'd value e.g. $120K "no equity" with $80K "with equity".

Now, if you think the company is going to top out at $100M at 3%, I'd value $120K "no equity" as $116K "with equity".

When you look at it this way, it is clear that in the vast majority of cases, you should treat options/RSUs as lottery tickets or potential bonuses, but not much more.

Unless you happened to be an early Microsoft, Google or Facebook employee (what's the probability of that?), you're almost surely better off with high salary.
School lunches were never great, but they've gone down hill stupendously since I was younger.

Making my son's lunch for him every morning might be the single greatest favor I do for him on a day to day basis.
love the easy deployment to a PaaS of my choice.
>>“Knowing what’s happening in our economy is so desperately important to keeping our economy functioning smoothly,” said Maurine Haver, the chief executive and founder of Haver Analytics, a data analysis company. “The reason the Great Recession did not become another Great Depression is because of the more current economic data we have today that we didn’t have in the 1930s.”

Dr. Haver's "data analysis" company benefits enormously from the free availability of ACS data, freeing her & her clients from having to gather these data on their own. She is not exactly an impartial voice in this debate.
Feedback:

I'm not sure if it's british english but recollection looks to be spelled wrong.

It looks like wonderfully designed software. I'm excited for that. I think for me the confusion is from the perspective of "doing by hand". Do I need to do everything manually? It wasn't obviously clear to me. If everything needs to be done manually I think this is a major step backwards no matter how pretty it is.
Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find legitimate web host reviews?
Seems like any Google search I make inevitably ends in a bunch of SEO-soaked noise. Even CNET's page seems to have trivially little information.
> "Ice Cream Sandwich" has been available for months.

And only about 5% of phones have it.

Devs have to prioritize. Obviously, power-users are going to be up-to-date, but the vast majority of customers are probably not affected. I would imagine the customers of The Economist on Android are less likely to fit the power-user profile than other apps.
Wow. This has been deeply thought through. I don't think the final design will mimic the fictional one, but certainty have to admire the passion. Hopefully some people with the money and the brains can get behind this.
I would like some pod racers from Star Wars first.
More like 'Introducing the PR for "Mozilla Webmaker."'

I don't see a product or tool here. Just a newsletter signup form.
It would almost be funny if it wasn't sickening, how things only get done when publicity and TV celebrities get involved.

How come fruits and salads are suddenly possible now when they were not before?
I'd suggest the cheapest Dell desktop box. Or even the cheapest Dell server.

It will be a magnitude order more costly though, both in acquisition price and electricity.
Possible securities fraud? I predict no one is punished and bonuses all around!
I'm using a beaglebone running Ubuntu, it's a brilliant little box, cost £55.

There's the pandaboard too, which is more powerful with hdmi output
You know. I can read the arrogance in your statement, and I think that's exactly how the school would respond, with exactly that tone. I think that was your point.

It's terrible that we would respond in such a way, rather than fixing our ways and feeding children a healthy lunch when they get the assisted lunch plan (this is often given to kids that honestly cannot afford other food, and may be their only real meal of the day).
Today we were the victim of a malicious social engineering attack.
OK, I figured it out. :) The problem was, we only support HTML pages at this point. The targetUrl you specified did not return a valid HTML page (it's JSON), and the application just returned 404 HTTP status code (since it couldn't find any HTML content), which was by design. (Note that this API is supposed to be used by a program not from a Web browser.) Anyways, it had been a while I actually looked at the code, and it was "fun" to look at the code again. :) I have yet to find a "bug". grin
The engines on this one use ion engines at about 1.5 GW total. They would be powered by 3 nuclear reactors producing a maximum of 2.5 GW. http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/engines and http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/nuclear-reactors
"Much as I love Panic, I’ve never used Coda"

Just stop reading the article after this because whatever is said doesn't matter. If you aren't the audience for Coda and have never used it, then you aren't going to want their updates.

"Although Coda 2 looks like it has some great new features...it still feels like it continues this trend of catering to developers from five years ago."

Who says software (most especially code editors) should appeal to every single kind of developer? Look, it may not fit your work flow, but it sure as hell does mine and all of my coworkers. I know I'm not alone on this either.

Steven Frank of Panic, responds to Jeff in the comments:
"There’s no way we could be a perfect fit for everyone’s workflow, so we concentrated on what we perceived to be the most common workflows, and those that would the most generally adaptable."

Bingo.
hate to say it but i'm sorta cheering facebook on this time. get one over the street.
Just in case people have missed the link at the bottom of the page:

http://minimal.be/lab/fluGL/index80000.html
75% of top 10k websites served by open source software
Nope, nope, and nope, but yes on the TV shows.

To elaborate: I've been gambling many times, but have never felt the same compulsion as I get when I drawn into a good video game. Heck, I have trouble sitting at a blackjack table for more than half an hour.

Ditto board games. I've done some all-night Risk games with friends in the past, but those were out of sheer machismo, and no food/bathroom breaks were missed.

On the other hand, for really strongly arced TV shows I do find it hard to tear away. When I discovered the West Wing last week (how did it take me this long to find this show?!) I ended up marathoning the first season over two days, entirely unintentionally.

I might have an addictive personality...
Only if you are 12 and don't have to call the coastguard.
I'm shocked at the disdain people on HN have for certain tools. I was always taught that it's not the tool, it's how you use it. I think Panic is a perfect example of that axiom. Their website (at least the older versions) has been emulated by web developers many times over. They were one of the first sites I know that enabled drag and drop icons to download files; they nailed scrolling content with tab browsing, and everyone quickly copied it. I assume they use their own tools, so while it may not sound like a cutting edge tool, they are certainly able to produce cutting edge results.
Infogram launches beautiful infographics webapp
Add wi-fi, remove vga and ethernet, drop the usb towers and make it flatter, make an aluminum case and sell it for $99.

You'll sell a million just the first couple of months.
Ask HN: What would you do with this outsourcing situation?
Founder x has a business idea and hires an outsourcing company. they agree on the price and scope of the project and signed a contract.

The outsourcing company missed every deadline and after months of work, they haven't a working product. They blame the founder that the requirements are vague and changed often.

At the other side, after I analysed a couple of things I came to the conclusion that:

1. The outsourcing company just doesn't have experience and knowledge to deliver such software

2. The founder has high expectations and underestimates technical complexity

At this moment there are 2 choices:

a) Demand the delivery of working software (with the risk that it will take months and will be of very low quality and maybe not working at all).

b) Quit the relationship and begin again (with the risk that it will take months and hit against the wall again).

What would you do? Give an other chance or rewrite it with other people?
Slightly off topic, but Dickens is a fantastic writer, I haven't read anyone as good as him (or even close) at writing engaging stories. Shakespeare is better with languages, but Dickens writes better.

And if you want to read him, gutenberg has him (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/730).

Highly recommended.
Money.

Most affiliate programs pay $100 and upwards for new signups, even for $4.95 a month accounts. Web Hosting is also one of the most expensive PPC keywords.

I find asking a few developers is a much better way. Personally like Westhost (for non critical sites), linode for stuff that needs to stay up, be super fast etc.
I have heard the argument that with a fully private healthcare system there is no financial benefit to lobbying/pushing for a healthier society as the healthcare sector can only make money off people who are ill - therefore it comes down to who can afford to shout the loudest at those in charge. I guess until there is a way to profit off prevention rather than cure there will always be this sort of conflict of interests.

This is of course a mute point for this child as Scotland (for now, lets see how the independence referendum goes) is NHS (national health service) based.

And I agree, Jamie's Food Revolution has highlighted this issue very well. The poor attitude toward health seems universal however as one of the most poignant scenes in any of his shows is the one of UK parents passing deep fried fish and chips through the school fence at lunch time!
I am torn between wanting transparency and simplicity.

Transparency - I want to know what expenses make up the final price I pay.

Simplicity - I just want to pay one single figure.

This may explain the anger over airfares. People complained airfares cost too much. Then companies like Ryan Air broke down the costs. Then people got angry that the individual costs were unfair.

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't?
Dell makes ARM machines? Do tell. I already have headless build bots for x86 (new Mac Mini) and PowerPC (old Mac Mini), which are perfect in form factor for this. I specifically want an ARM machine to add to them.
I agree, but credit where credit is due: for immediate short-term changes that won't break the tight budget it's not a bad start.
This was absolutely expected. The Nasdaq delays probably had about zero impact on the IPO results but you know how it goes...someone lost money on Facebook paper and they're bound to make it back speculating on the courts...
> "I don't get humans sometimes."

We pick on people that are different - not people that are better or worse. The quality of the food your children have is not why they're singled out.
Does it make sense to build for iOS or Android first?
If you're releasing a mobile app, what are the pros/cons of releasing on iOS before Android? A lot of popular apps are released on iOS first - any Android proponents out there?
interesting about the trackpad, my assumption was that the mouse was the best, but I've been using the trackpad recently and not using the actual click feature helps a bunch (click drags are a killer!) Thanks for the complete response.
Stop making it so hard for me to give you my money
Which is a very good reason that his argument doesn't make sense. Naturalism is silly, as is separating things as "human-created" or "man-made" versus "natural". It all comes out of the same matter of the universe.

I really don't understand the allure this professor feels for his luddite ideals.

> "It's always around the same theme of, This system is irreconcilable, it has to be ended," Skrbina says. "How can we make this clear? How can we convince people that technology is the root cause of the problem? It's not bad government. It's not the capitalists. It's not minorities. It's not illegal immigrants. He really wants to get away from blaming anything else or anybody else."

Maybe he has difficulty convincing anyone of that because it's not a particularly compelling argument?
Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA
And this is in Scotland. Can you imagine what it is like in the poorest countries in the world? This is why we need a permanent, open Internet on all nations, because as soon as the truth comes out, someone does something about it.
Summary: Malicious user managed to answer all the security questions of WHMCS's webhost in order to reset the password and gain access to the server. Apparently credit card details are at risk.

An email was sent out earlier to all licensees with the following content: https://gist.github.com/2771537

This is a nightmare situation for WHMCS, and it's even worse when your product is this popular - i can only hope there's no backdoors hidden in the ioncube'd PHP, since that could be disastrous for all their hundreds of thousands of licensees (of which my company is one..)