skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the bank presumably knew your real age, address, and personal details? I was interpreting the bank to act as an age-verifier in some way rather than the mere possession of a card.

Upon reflection there are privacy concerns that would make me leery of seeing this implemented in practice, but that has rarely stopped people before.
Betteridge's Law applies to this post.
I don't really see the point in Growl, and it is now a payed app, so you could skip it, unless your workflow requires you to be notified of something immediately.

Media player: I prefer mplayerx to VLC. mplayerx is on the app store.

Text: macvim and sublime text 2.
thoughtbot laptop script
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
Apps that I install immediately upon re-installation or a new Mac:

* 1Password - Password facilitator (http://www.agilebits.com, buy the Mac App Store version)

* OmniFocus - GTD/Todo list (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus)

* OmniOutliner - Best list makinga pp ever (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner)

* OmniGraffle - Great for development purposes (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle)

* Acorn - Quick image editing (http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn)

* VoodooPad - Personal Wiki (http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad)

* Byword - Markdown editor (http://bywordapp.com/)

* Dropbox - Duh (http://www.dropbox.com)

* Fantastical - Calendar app (http://flexibits.com/)

* Launchbar - Launcher (http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/)

* Reeder - Google Reader client (http://reederapp.com/)

* Transmit - SFTP (http://panic.com/transmit/)

* VLC - Video (http://www.videolan.org)

Along with iA Writer, Writeroom, Sublime Text, etc etc... there are a lot of great apps. The above is my favorites.
I look at the devices and think of the HP12B calculator or 37 Signals. Sometimes, a piece of hardware is just suitable for its purpose. Sometimes, less features is better design. Its a small step down a slippery slope between adding Bluetooth and requiring it to access device features.

There's a legitimate philosophy behind not treating medical devices as electronic gadgets.
But then there's the fact that our code would reveal the secrets of our hardware.

To whom? Certainly not your competitors.

Also what's wrong with releasing specs under NDA?
Wow, that's a really smart policy on several levels. Besides not stifling competition regarding individual drugs, it encourages companies to develop new methods of synthesis, which has potential side benefits like making the market less fragile against shortages of raw ingredients.
"-HTML5 video which Mozilla implemented first"

I worked on the Mozilla HTML video implementation. Opera came up with the original proposal and presented a first experimental implementation. We started implementing this to be compatible.

Apple then presented their much more complicated proposal which was integrated with the Opera one and became HTML 5 video, along with feedback from other implementers, including Mozilla.

So it's a bit more complicated than "Mozilla implemented first".
A few years ago, I used to work for a large local newspaper/TV media holding company with about 70 web properties.

In the 1.5 years I was there, they had about 6 CMS in action. IPS(i think?), ExpressionEngine, Day CQ, Wordpress and Ellington.

Smaller TV affiliates and publications are moving to Wordpress because of its price and how easy it is to find support/developers with experience.

If I remember correctly, the company I was previously with left Ellington to develop their own CMS features on top of Django.
Hello oschrenk i often use this website http://uk.authenticjobs.com/ but mostly i search on google by UK companies and send then the CV.

jdietrich it is good to know about those things, actually i have been struggling to find news about this but i think is just a general sentiment and not a guideline..

ig1, and jacknews you both are right for sure, i've got this feeling from the companies, they are really looking for exceptional skills and not hiring anyone who can be replaced by a local talent.

thanks for clarifying even if it's a almost no hope effort.
I'd deny that mathematics is at all related to philosophy except to about the same level physics, for example, is. Mathematics is a wonderful intellectual game that occasionally (and unpredictably) has results useful for science and engineering.
They're not blocking the signal from their own cars, but from their employer's. And possibly using it to cheat on their taxes as well.

They could probably put a stop to this by making jammer detectors and inspecting for them at weigh stations and then checking the logs on the GPS for anomalies. If the cops have a jammer detector, they can start pulling people over for having them.

If a few people lose their CDL, they should fall out of favor. These aren't very easy to hide, given that they have to broadcast to work. And if this pushes them to invent some other way to tamper with their GPS monitors, so much the better: it wouldn't cause nearly as much harm as these.
>Now I wait 5 seconds but we still have blood sugar strips with +-20% accuracy

This is the part that still both sickens and baffles me. I had onset at about 20, despite not looking like a typical diabetic (5-foot-8, 140lbs). 11-years ago, my endocrinologist made sure to drill into my head this margin of error, and that the margin of error was highest in situations where I would be hypoglycemic or suffering from an insulin reaction. As a diabetic himself (and for the record, having a diabetic endocrinologist is the best thing you can hope for), he was all too aware and frustrated with the limitations.

Now, a few days ago it was pointed out that the margin of error for test strips in a medical facility is much lower. The one thing I've been waiting for is to get that level of accuracy. If there's one thing I want, it's that. More than anything. I couldn't give a rat's ass about anything else.

Getting that number consistent could've sped up the timeline in which it took to get my blood sugar levels to be consistent. I'm not terribly methodical, but at the end of the day my endocrinologist doesn't complain when my HA1C results are consistently between 6.2 and 6.6, and have been for the past 6 years, despite relying only on subcutaneous injections(1) and continued dietary changes and experimentation. However, I bet I could keep it at 6 on the nose -- while "cheating" a bit more -- if I knew that a reading was nearly dead-nuts on every time.

(1) Not a fan of pumps. My mother was and still is on TPN. After seeing the joys of dealing with infections, I prefer the very rare dermatitis.
This is my current setup. The real essentials are Dropbox, ST2 and Homebrew, but these are all amazing pieces of software:

- Sublime Text 2 editor (even has a vim mode) (http://www.sublimetext.com/2)

- Sparrow, but you might be happy with the native Mail app (http://sparrowmailapp.com/)

- Media: iTunes and Quicktime do a good job, VLC occasionally.

- Handbrake for encoding (http://handbrake.fr)

- Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/)

- Dropbox (http://getdropbox.com)

- Cloud app: instant, easy uploads (http://getcloudapp.com)

- Twitter's official client (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998)

- CSS: uh? There is Coda/TopStyle/Espresso, but ST2 is enough

- Github for Mac (http://mac.github.com)

- Versions for SVN (http://versionsapp.com)

- Sequel Pro (http://www.sequelpro.com/)

- Homebrew package manager (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)

- ImageOptim (http://imageoptim.com/)

- CodeKit or LESS.app for LESS/Coffee compiling (http://incident57.com/codekit/)

- MS Office: yeah (it's much better than the windows version). Just hide the cruft away (MSN etc) after installing.

- Wunderlist to-do app (http://wunderlist.com)

Nice to have / superfluous:

- Mou markdown editor (http://mouapp.com/)

- Cathode: vintage terminal emulator (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/)

- Lidpop: make noises when you close/open your lid (https://shinyplasticbag.com/lidpop/)
fsm (from SGI---you can see it in action in the movie "Jurassic Park") was an interesting filesystem viewer. It presented the filesystem in 3D on an infinite plane. Directories were squat boxes, while files were tall and skinny boxes sitting on directories. The size of the boxes reflected the size of the directory/file (huge files literally stood out). Color was used to indicate age---the older the file, the cooler and darker the color.
The sounds are extremely loud and some of them are recurring. Impossible for a fish to cause something like that. The explanation is probably quite prosaic, like ice creeping over Antartica, yet the sounds do carry some significance.
Agreed, ZFS rocks.

I started using OpenSolaris fileservers at home in 2007. I went through multiple upgrades since ten: 5x500GB, 7x750GB, and currently 7x1.5TB (all raidz).

I am just about to upgrade to my 4th server with 6x3TB in raidz2, which will be running FreeBSD this time.

Due to the sheer number of drives and continuous 24/7 operation, I experienced 4 drive failures over the years. Everytime ZFS has handled the failure gracefully, and I was able to swap the drive and rebuild the array without a hitch.

I take daily rotating snapshots - incredibly useful when you accidentally stuff.

I also run weekly scrubs, which have allowed me to witness 2 or 3 silent data corruptions which were automatically self-healed by ZFS (CKSUM column in zpool status).

I mostly use the file server to share videos & photos via NFS, and to store encrypted backups of my laptop. It has become so useful and practical that I started to use it as an iSCSI server as well to boot some diskless Windows test machines for GPU projects.

All in all, ZFS deserves all the praise you hear.
Try out ZSH if you want to try something slightly different to Bash
Package Manager: Homebrew - https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
Terminal/Emulator: iTerm2 - http://www.iterm2.com/
Vim running in iTerm2 via Homebrew
Chat Client: Adium - http://adium.im/
MySQL DB GUI: Sequel Pro - http://www.sequelpro.com/
Mail: Sparrow - http://sparrowmailapp.com/
Git GUI: GitX (L) - http://gitx.laullon.com/
Window "manager" : Shiftit - https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
General productivity: I love QuickSilver, however it's been crashing
quite frequently on me since I installed Lion, so I'm giving Alfred a try at the moment.

Note: all of the above are at least free (lite), if not completely free. I was thrown completely in the deep-end with terminal vim and just took to it as part of my "getting used to Mac" steps, which I think benefited me with respect to getting down with the nitty gritty of it and not complaining it was different to my Notepad++ experience prior on Windows.
Interesting - I haven't actually reviewed my Mac's config in a while - I might pick up a few goodies in those lists myself. For what it's worth, this is what I would automatically install on any new Mac:

- iStat Menus: RAM, network and CPU usage right in your menu bar. Ridiculously useful.

- Video player: VLC

- FTP: CyberDuck. Desperately slow to launch and not a big fan of the UI but it's free, it works and I use FTP rarely enough to never have bothered looking for something better.

- gfxCardStatus - not necessarily a must-have but quite handy to see which app is causing your Mac to switch to the battery-sucking discrete GPU.

- Email: MailPlane (gmail / google apps only). I have to say that I've never found what I would consider to be a great email client for my taste on either Mac or Windows. So these days, I stick with Gmail's web interface (which I'm not a big fan of either but there's no native app that I find any better).

- Text Editor: TextWrangler. I still prefer Notepad++ though (in part because TextWrangler, like so many apps on Mac OS X, is so slow to launch).

- DaisyDisk - for later when you'll inevitably run out of disk space.

- Parallels Desktop for Windows + Remote Desktop Connection to manage Windows servers. I wish there was a better RDP client and a decent SSMS-like SQL Server client.

- Apps that used to be must-have but that I no longer use: HandBrake (DVD ripping), LiquidCD (CD / DVD burning), NetNewsWire (RSS)

That's about it. Random stuff that you might or might not need: Acorn (simple, cheap image editor), CoconutBattery, Hues (standalone color picker), iStumbler (Max OS X's NetStumbler), MacHg (Mercurial client). You can try Sparrow for email too.

That's it - have surprisingly few apps actually.
Its because we have had peace for so long, we fear we might loose it, so the dominant emotion is not hope of getting better, though that exists, but fear of getting worse.

Past civilizations mainly were in war with each other, so their dominant emotion was probably hope that things will get better, thus they dreamed.

We dream too, but fear a bit also. ha
The Retina MacBook Pro and the sound of repairability
Slow motion effects with a high speed robot arm
Why the young should welcome austerity
I personally prefer WinDirStat: http://windirstat.info/

is there a definitive "best" treeviewer? In terms of how fast it's able to scan your drive contents?
Reminiscent a little of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQf8Mns_sK8
Looks like it:

"In May, 1996 the array was successfully deployed in the eastern equatorial Pacific to begin long-term monitoring of the East Pacific Rise between 20N and 20S."

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/haru_system.html
> There is a newer "advanced" guide: http://www.sirc.org/publik/advanced_flirting.shtml

Note that the "advanced" guide almost doesn't have any of the HOWTO advice from the OP link, however I've read and would recommend to read both: the "advanced" guide helps put things in perspective.

Also, I think the following quote from the "advanced" version is brilliant:

The human species is addicted to rule-making. Every human
activity, without exception, including natural biological
functions such as eating and sex, is hedged about with
complex sets of rules and regulations, dictating where, when, with whom and what manner the activity may be performed. Animals just do these things; humans make an almighty song and dance about it: this is known as 'culture' or 'civilization'.
I understand the list but I don't know how this stuff gets frontpaged so often in so many places. "Bloop"

"Bloop"

Wow. Maybe it was the loch ness monster on vacation. Or maybe...a bubble. I mean, come on.
Half-Life 2 Performance: Mac vs PC
Why did Stripe choose to use Ruby for its backend language?
Carrying on professor's passion: power for the poor
Institutions that call themselves meritocratic are actually less meritocratic than institutions that admit to the prejudices they display: http://www.women2.com/debunking-the-myth-of-meritocracy-in-b...

Basically research found that when people think they are part of a meritocracy they believe they are justified in making decisions based on biased subjective opinions.
The sample is at 16x the original speed. And was heard over 5000km. In other words, not a bubble. Or if it was, it was a bubble worthy of its own wiki page.
I met a 50ish solo programmer a few months ago. His application handles an issue for a specific subset of nonprofit org (I'm probably not giving away too much if I say, churches). The app is not web enabled, it's not social, it doesn't run on ios android or mac. From our conversation I inferred he spends hardly any time on marketing it because he doesn't need more users. Yet he makes a comfortable living solely from the licenses, doesn't touch the app for weeks at a time, and adds new features on his own schedule.
I prefer Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) over Quicksilver.

Recommending:

1. https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

2. https://github.com/revans/bash-it

3. https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive, https://github.com/tpope/surround

4. The https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

5. http://bywordapp.com/

6. http://bbt2.drikin.com/

7. http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/

8. https://gist.github.com/2260182 (OS X for Hackers)

9. Cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/, for shits and giggles)

10. DiffMerge (http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/)

11. Electric Sheep (http://www.electricsheep.org/)

12. Gridwars (http://gridwars.marune.de/)

13. Integrity (http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/)

14. httrack (http://www.httrack.com/)

15. iSoul (http://code.google.com/p/isoul/)

16. LittleIpsum (http://littleipsum.com/)

17. KeyCastr (https://github.com/sdeken/keycastr, more shits)

18. LiveReload (http://livereload.com/)

19. Mactracker (http://mactracker.ca/)

20. Onyx and/or Maintenance (http://www.titanium.free.fr/)

21. MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/)

22. MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/)

23. Patterns (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id4294...)

24. Mou (http://mouapp.com/)

25. mutt (http://www.mutt.org/)

26. Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com/)

27. ProCSSor (http://procssor.com/)

28. Reeder (http://reederapp.com/)

29. Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/)

30. Slammer (http://ringce.com/slammer)

31. Q (http://www.kju-app.org/)

32. svnX (http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/sv...)

33. SSHTunnel (https://github.com/primalmotion/sshtunnel)

34. localtunnel (http://progrium.com/localtunnel/)

35. The Unarchiver (http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html)

36. Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)

37. VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org)

38. Compass/SASS/LESS (http://compass-style.org/install/, http://sass-lang.com/, http://lesscss.org/)

39. Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/)

40. http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
Right, because 4chan and the like care so much about evidence and proof before they start sending around rape threats and changing Wikipedia pages to porn.

Part of the point is imagining what the world would look like if women stopped holding themselves to a higher standard than men do. I find it funny that some men seem terrified by the idea: now you know how we feel all the time
BTW, I hope that you upgraded the RAM in the Air to 8GB if you intend to run a VM on it. Trying to work on both Mac OS X and a VM on 4GB is quickly going to get very painful.

TBH, if I was going to buy a new Mac today, I'd go for the new MacBook Pro, purely for being able to have 16GB of RAM. Even with 8GB, my Mac still regularly struggles to keep going when I've got my VM up together with a web browser and XCode (and let's not even talk about Photoshop) on the Mac side.
A bright idea to help bike riders be seen and not harmed
That's not a Korean word.
You don't need a funny language:

import zlib;exec zlib.decompress("x\x9cmQ\xb1n\xc20\x10\xdd\xfd\x15\xd7t\x80HuB;\xa2\x90\xa9\xea\xd6v\xa8:!\x14\xb9\xe4\x82-\x92\xb3e\x9bP$>\xbe1&\xa5Ex\xf1\xbb{\xef\x9e\xee\xe9\xee\xef \xdf9\x9b\x7f)\xca\x91z0\x07/5\xb1$I\xdeD/Zx\x11\x1e3\xc6>\x9d\xd8\xe0\x9c\x01P\xe8V\xcd\xd0\x05'\x95\x01\xc2=\x14$:,\xb3,\xbb\xc1G\x0e:\xdd#\x14\xdf%\x14\x87\x12\x96\x9c;\x83X/\x8a-\x95\xab\x1bCNj\xedG\xf9\x7f\xbeS\x840u\xe8\x8f\x16\x83i\xfa\xd7\xb5\xd3\xdab}\xe4\xbc\xb6\xaa\xf1\x8a6W\xe6\\\xc2\x118\x97\xd8\x9a+\x82\xf7h\x9d\x1a\x82\xb3w\xe3\x87\xdf\x85\xac\x83<\x8a!\xbc\x0f\xa9\xf7\xe0\xa5r\xe0\xd6\x16\x91B\xda\xdf\xb9\x8b\xe2\xdc\x88\xec%\xe6\xc0\x06\x0c\x8a`K\xda;X\xd6\xd8\x88]\xeb\xe7\xf08[Eu\\\xffd\x05\xaf\x11O\x05\xade@\xe9)y\xd4\x8d\xe9\x82\xeey\xc4\x91\x0e\x87c\x8d\xd5\x1d\xd4z\xad\x8d\x07\xd5\x19m\xfd\xb9b\xccXEc5\xad\xaa\x01T\xd5\xc3\xb8\xf3br\xb99<e\xb3I\xfa\x03y\x8e\xad\x94")

All those numbers are the encoded Python solution... Do I win? :P

Never used much of the docopt module, maybe I should spend a couple hours with it. Last time I saw it, it didn't appealed to me for some reason...
I am a very happy customer of Orrick. They helped me tremendously with my incorporation (c-corp Delaware) and I attend their seminars frequently. These documents are great, but I recommend you go directly to Orrick: http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/.... They also have some wizards that help you prefill documents, like the term sheet generator (https://tsc.orrick.com/)

Also, the Founder Institute advisory template (http://fi.co/contents/fast) was created with the help of my lawyer at Orrick.

BTW no I do not get paid to post this!
Same timezone as you then, I actually find them cool :P Some give me chills as well.
It belongs in the same category "unidentified signals". I for one find it pretty interesting.
The Growl developers really messed up on this. Growl is now actually something that developers include in their applications, you don't need to install it at all.

You only need to install the app for backwards compatibility with apps that haven't upgraded. Since it was open-source, there is a fork that you can install for free:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41038/growl-fork
I liked her point that fan_wank was one of these spaces already, and it's why I submitted the article. I think it can be hard to recognize nerdy activity when it doesn't happen in our own spaces, and it's cool to note how many places nerds exist.

Plus, there are probably a half-dozen good ideas for a company in there. I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of enforced-anonymous github, for example...
Interest in others, especially customers and clients, is extremely valuable.

#semi-off-topic rant:

Why are we still taking advice from Dale Carnegie in 2012?
Our salesman culture is at its end. Value cannot be created by convincing others of its existence.
True hackers cringe at any Carnegie quote, IMHO.
andover grad here :) Nicely written!
This may be a bit off topic, but when I get into looking at this type of (mysterious, interesting) of Wikipedia article, I usually end up back at my favorite of the category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Why our food is making us fat
Is that really compatible with FOSS?
Nice try, but efficiency aside, it breaks.

$ sed '$G;1h;1!H;$!d' <<<foo | hd
00000000 66 6f 6f 0a 0a |foo..|
00000005
$
Isn't Electric Sheep taxing on bandwidth? Running that + Cathode + Transmission should drain your battery in a couple hours...
> Right, because 4chan and the like care so much about evidence and proof before they start sending around rape threats and changing Wikipedia pages to porn.

But 4chan isn't a site deliberately set up to 'name and shame', nor does it redefine the scope of rape to include sexual harrassment, which is not the same thing. If a site is set up to name and shame rapists, it needs to have some weight to back it up otherwise it'll be crushed in libel suits, not to mention that it'll be abused as a tool to destroy people's lives, both men and women.

> Part of the point is imagining what the world would look like if women stopped holding themselves to a higher standard than men do.

I wasn't aware that women were holding themselves to a higher standard than men. I wasn't aware that anyone was holding themselves to any standard at all. Please, do tell me what this standard is that women hold them to that is so much higher than the one men hold themselves to. If you could point me to a copy of the male standard I'd love to see it, so that I can make sure that I meet it.

> I find it funny that some men seem terrified by the idea: now you know how we feel all the time

As for some men seeming terrified by the idea, I honestly can't say (as unlike you, I can't claim to speak for all, or indeed some my gender on this matter). I can say that I'm not terrified by the idea, I just think that as the author proposed it, it's a terrible idea. I will ask my wife if she feels terrified all the time, but I think aside from occasional concerns about spiders (and to be fair the spiders have more to fear than her) the answer will be no.
FlyBoard - Fly like a bird and swim like a fish at the same time
An extended counter-argument emerges from these blog posts:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/think-of-the-chi...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/doing-their-best...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/insane-in-spain/
Will back up Scott here -- while not an olympian, I rowed for 4 years on the pump and have biked x-country w/ it.

I seriously doubt if I would've been up to doing either while managing injections instead of button presses.