skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why 'Bleeding Edge' abandoned the iPhone
"Where are your studies that show that black children that grow up in actual middle class homes in non-impoverished communities do substantially worse than their white counter parts? By your position they should be as illiterate as those in deep poverty.

This is a key point. You are completely dismissing environmental factors.

You're just a racist"

I'm going to stop quoting right there because you are mistaken. Only in your own absurd caricature of me that you've created do I completely discount environmental factors. Of course children of any race, all things being equal, will statistically thrive better in a stable environment. That doesn't discount hereditary factors though which are also very important. There are lots of rigorous scientific studies that support the existence of hereditary intelligence and that it is typically lower in blacks. I realize there is a certain amount of "controversy" among psychometrists in the area of white vs black intellect but a great deal of it is political and manufactured. People like you that scream "racist blah blah" are the ones that stunt science and progress but go on and make me out to be your boogeyman and twist my words how you want so that you don't have to consider what I'm saying. Whatever makes you feel better, buddy.
This was a surprisingly interesting article.

The 2-and-20 structure is well known, but the management company details were fresh for me.
431 words without the word "probability" or "likelihood". And his examples of getting rich as an employee are ... ballmer and marissa mayer. I can't believe he forgot the employees at Instagram -- they're good examples too!

I'm stupider for having read that drivel.
Why? Yahoo CEOs both male and female have failed before her. Female CEOs have succeeded and failed elsewhere. Surely you can't consider Carol Bartz at Autodesk, Meg Whitman at eBay, or Diane Greene at VMware to be "failures."
Must remember to stash a spare cellphone charger under the doormat!
I read the article - the whole thing. But I guess I missed that.

They should test her to see if the adaptation is genetic, and does it affect her as well.
No it does not unfold like you predict. The show is completely unpredictable. That's why it's so awesome. It doesn't follow convention, cliche or typical character arcs at all.
Heck, we're still finding strange things on the Moon:

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/277-Natural...
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How do you define rich? Receiving a windfall of cash? A high salary? Financial independence via constant cash flow that provides you time/flexibility?
Not to be snarky, but that kind of knowhow requires a bit more proof, especially if you're

1) Up against Google Glasses and

2) Asking for people's money up front.

What sort of background do you guys bring to such a steep industrial engineering endeavor?
White background, top padding, larger line-height, max-width. Did I miss something?

It's nice, though the change is very subtle on a 1024x768 screen like the iPad.
Fab raises $105M
Thanks for pointing out that first comment. It is a new low for any I've seen on HN thus far.
Woot. Score one for the good guys. Still don't have the guts to wear the t-shirt with 'f u TSA' in lead paint letters under my regular clothes.
It's slow, non-native, and resultantly slightly obtuse and frustrating to use.
Do you have any documentation on the rest API at this point? Interested in rolling our own client library.
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> Today, the people I spend time with are just 2 people. Joel and Tom.

That is really, really sad.
Looks like they have been reading Elon Musk's mail. I really hope the Chinese get to the moon, it will be a game changer.
War Games like visualization

http://www.visualnews.com/2011/05/06/visualized-nuclear-expl...
Then how would you properly incentivize someone to come in to take a company out of such dire circumstances?

Someone with the talent to take a 500M loss and reduce it to 10M certainly would command the same salary with more upside at a solvent company.
Basicly they have to make a public retraction for saying something that has been proven not to be true. Now Apple could do a public retraction along the lines of "Were so sorry Samsung for saying you copied the iPad, we know that is not so as yours is just not as cool as ours" or something like that. Probably wouldn;t be the best of moves but still viable.
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I couldn't disagree more. I wish I could disagree more, tough. Your comment shows a complete disregard for User Experience and User Interface, and this disregard is the reason why so much stuff simply "sucks" nowadays.
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"Amazing" Camera Tracks High Speed Objects [video]
This looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.)

I see somebody hosts a “Duck Duck Go + Google Suggest” plugin and proxy server at http://nfriedly.com:81/. If there isn’t already a search plugin like I’m looking for, I think the easiest way to make it would be to just change the search URL (and name and icon) for that plugin. Does anyone know how to do that?
8gb+ files? I found a way but you have to use a JAVA FTP Applet. I tested these two here:
http://jupload.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.jfileupload.com/

Dragged and dropped an 8gb+ file and left it on for 5 hours. Worked perfectly. No time outs, no errors, and I'm on a shared hosting account at 1and1.

My problem with them is that it wasn't possible to hide the FTP username and password, they were always in javascript files. I whined, I complained, I bitched, and there was nothing they could do about it. :( So you basically had to password protect the whole directory with .htaccess and be very careful with whom you shared the credentials.

If you don't want people to download and install software just stick with JAVA FTP Applets.
Erick's background is 3D graphics, especially procedural geometry. He made the muscle and skin system that is Venom in Spiderman 3 and Sonny in I, Robot, he made the waves in Surf's Up, and much more. Scroll to the bottom of his youtube channel and you can see a lot of his work that's appeared at SIGGRAPH and in film: http://www.youtube.com/user/erickmiller/videos He also has a global MBA from UCLA & NUS, and has managed teams of 20+ engineers while still coding hands-on every day.

I just finished the CS honors program at Stanford (invented a more realistic 3D display, partially mentored by a founder of Lytro). My background is robotics, EE, AI, and a tad of mech and bio. Some of my work, including a link to the thesis: http://www.quora.com/Academia/What-does-it-feel-like-to-leav... Some previous projects include putting self-evolving code in a walking robot to make it constantly learn to walk faster in adaptation to hardware injury, developing a long-range body-tracking sensor system for search and rescue robots, genetically engineering a coliphage virus, creating part of a compiler for DNA, writing an app for our glasses that uses facial identity recognition to get the Facebook profile of the person you are looking at, and assembling a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation brain booster that Erick and I use to be smarter.

Our PCB engineer designed the rocket controller for the SpaceX Falcon 9.

Our augmented reality expert has built and architected AR systems for 13 years, since before the term "augmented reality" existed, back when military were the only users, lugging around huge backpack computers and helmets.
Oregon law is pretty clear about public nudity. Nudity is protected free speech as long as there is no sexual intent. There's large naked bike rides in Portland.

In this case, it is clearly political speech, with no intent to arouse. There's no way this guy was going to get convicted. The DA is wasting public money by trying to get a conviction that just won't happen.
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The rumour of a Majid Jamali Fashi Wikileaks link seems to have been debunked [1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/16/wikilea...
I really don't understand why more people don't use Scientific Linux instead of CentOS. Mostly just name recognition I wager.
Minecraft Creeper Cocktail (created by 88 year old)
Typo?

- EFF is today releasing FBI-redacted briefing from a major new ongoing case
+ EFF is today releasing an FBI-redacted briefing from a major new ongoing case
We'll be working on it tomorrow. Please drop us a line at team@dattss.com so that we can come back to you when it's ready.

In the meantime please have a look at http://github.com/teleportd/dattss-sdk to see how the nodeJS client works!

Cheers
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Which is to say, they're counting the air passing through the gaps for purposes of volume but not mass in the density calculation.

So, could I claim to have the lightest material if I made a hollow, porous, giant hairball?
The advice in this article seems to be much the opposite of "work-life balance". It's suggesting that you stop spending so much time with your kids, your elderly parents, your sister with a mental illness, and so on -- or, rather, that if you spend time with such people, you'll be less "successful" or "accomplished".

I don't buy it. IMO one of the major factors that encourages success is having a reason for your goals -- often, wanting to provide a good life for your family. In my current household, the five of us (who spend most of our time with each other) have primary ambitions of "make a solid career", "keep the household running smoothly", "recover from severe illness", "learn to poop in the toilet", and "learn to talk". Part of what makes us successful at the first two is the motivation to support the other three.
Love this. I love writing markdown and I love the ease of creating gists. I've actually used gists for writing too. (http://gist.io/2483505)

I've noticed that some authors will create a public repo like "thoughts" and add markdown files to it (rather than writing gists).
Funny I visited #1 "Meteor Crater" or Barringer Crater last year with my wife.. It's hard to understand the scale of this thing until you're on the ground walking around it. Makes you feel very small in the grand scheme of things.. :)
I see it more as an appeal from the ACM to authors to keep the ACM in the loop. Personally, I see it as a hassle, so no thanks.

If the ACM removed the paywall, I would link directly to the proper page for each of my papers - there's excellent meta information on those pages, like who we cite and who cites us. As well as author links which link to other papers written by those authors.

I really want to somehow lobby the ACM and IEEE to remove their paywalls (I am a member of both), but I have neither the time nor the knowledge of how to be most effective.
This is essentially the birchbox or other "xxxbox" model...shipping irrelevant stuff and hoping to get some relevance, only except for the fact that you could not return
Criticism is easy and I don't want to rain on your parade. After all, what do I know. Keep doing your thing, don't stop. But here's a few things that came to mind:

The name reminded me of eatlime http://www.techsnack.net/eatlime-free-online-private-file-sh... which now pivoted to twitvid. And the scrolling image snippet looks better here: http://freshdesk.com/ because of a splash of background color.

The lime part of your logo is too blurry. You can get a better logo font from here: http://www.myfonts.com/ And I'd make your footnotes lighter grey in smaller print. Also try to do with less text on the invite box. For an example scroll to this order section here: http://sachagreif.com/ebook/

More design inspiration here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/26696517701/design-a...

All in all, great that you've done a landing page. It's the first step of many, and I'll be looking forward to seeing more. Best wishes!
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Making contact should't feel like an alien abduction
Fairy nuff, I thought transistors might have been used in 1957 but I guess not.
Bitcoin price soars 40% in the last month
Needed to be said.
Very interesting.

But this:

"First, the Chief Partner cannot be fired without his/her consent. Every other partner at a VC firm can be, including the ones who have worked hard to earn pieces of the management company. So, a partner at a venture firm is usually an employee-at-will. They can be fired at any time."

and this:

"I want to point out that this type of ownership structure is usually the norm in other asset classes."

But then they do it this way (edit: pitched as "why we are better for you"):

"when Eric joined the management company, he received his shares for free. So, we are equal partners and equal owners."

What is lacking here is some data highlighting how typical the practice is of partners being able to be fired "at will" edit: and how many firms deviate from the practice of "every other partner can be fired". How often does that happen? The OP points out that they don't do it that way (at least not with the two partners mentioned). So what percentage of VC firms operate in a similar way?

Also, how typical is it even if it is this way for a partner to get fired because business is bad? If you were from Mars and learned about speed limits you would think you get a ticket for going 56 mph in a 55 zone. But of course that is accepted to be a rare event.
Related: is it possible to edit gists (anonymous or otherwise?) If not, that seems like a functionality that could be implemented here, with a bit of trickery.
Incredible tracking capability - Only if the pingpong ball wasn't inked :)
Lessons Learned from My First Tech Lead Assignment
Doesn't matter too much if you're just using Dropbox as a storage backend for a more complex service. If your box is full of encrypted 2MB segments backing a pseudo-filesystem you can upload files as big as you like and not have to worry about broken connections.

The best part is that you can use other services with similar APIs for pseudo-RAID or just a union-mount. Sharing is more difficult than vanilla Dropbox, of course, but I'm working on it...
Its signup and invite is enabled in a short while
http://serpfox.com for SERP tracking.
No, not FUD...not really. Solaris is a complicated tale.

The short explanation is that when Oracle acquired Sun, all of the hopes and dreams of Solaris users, particularly OpenSolaris users, were dashed. Many great technologies were pushed onto the back burner. All of Sun's Open Source portfolio saw a massive shake up and very little came out the other side healthier. Pre-acquisition, Solaris/OpenSolaris was a reasonable OS choice for new server deployments, particularly in cloud environments. Post-acquisition, you'd have to be a little bit nuts to deploy Solaris. Solaris has a lot of die-hard fans, with good reason...so this was a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of folks.

Oracle is simply ham-fisted when it comes to dealing with Open Source technologies that it comes into possession of. It's a really good example of a company that doesn't "get" Open Source. It's not limited to Solaris, Solaris is just one of the most popular, and the most difficult to replace for people who are relying on it.
feature request: syntax highlighting in code snippets
No offense, but the guy who cooks meth is a clear-cut bad guy, hence why the grandparent (and me, and many others) can't stomach watching the show.
I really like how writing little tools like this in Node is so simple:

node -e require('request')('http://www.asdf.com/').pipe(process.stdout)
I think they may be using the ink for real time image analysis to probabilistically determine the future direction/rotation of the ball.
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Well first of all if you try biking through the desert southwest on a hot day you are likely to die. Imagine crossing hundreds of miles of desert in 115 degree heat. Where do you get your water?

Secondly, climbing the Rockies on a bike is beyond most people's level of fitness. I would say only experienced road riders would be able to accomplish that.

Thirdly...crossing the Alaskan tundra on bike would be nearly impossible without specialized gear. Standard bike tires would not be able to cross the snow/ice without sinking. Also the consistent freezing temperatures necessitate specialized clothing which is not conducive to riding.

I can easily see why those three landscapes might "stop people from getting around on a bicycle".
Yes, the recent HN submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240407 linked to an article https://github.com/harryf/thoughts/blob/master/mobile-killed... that was in a “thoughts” GitHub repository.
3D renderings appear at timestamp 1:55 of the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-quJ8nuis&t=1m55s

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Still smart enough to use the word drivel, so I don't feel so bad.
Hmm, the last time I tried one, bought with cash at a 7-11, I needed to go on their website. and enter a lot of information before I could use it online. Are the gift-cards something else? Maybe I am just recalling incorrectly and SSN wasn't one of the things they asked.
Quick bug report...

I made two pages. They were overlapping (Not sure if this is intended).
When dragging elements onto the top page, they went to the bottom page. When I moved them around the top page they went to the bottom page.

Chrome/OSX
Sorry to be that guy, but I don't like linkbait headlines.

If you spend a lot of work then perhaps you might be a "replacement for graphite" in about 1 year.

Today you're barely a prototype.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 without problems on my 2010 Macbook Air (with an external DVD drive). It works well and I am happy with it.

There is a minor problem where the trackpad sometimes thinks I'm double-clicking after the laptop comes out of sleep, but that's being worked on. It rarely happens, and when it does, logout+login fixes the problem. That's pretty much the only quibble I have.
Absolutely love the "show original size" feature, very cool. Tested out with my phone and it is for all intents and purposes exact.
There's a whole host of commercial tools out there (SEOMoz, SeoBook, Raven, SEMRush) which professionals use, but unless you're making revenue from your site they're probably not worth investing in.

You can however use Google Webmaster Tools that will give you basic SERP data.
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Author here.

Generally, if you have features you want, file 'em here: https://github.com/idan/gistio/issues

Stuff I'd like to do given the time:

* Add RestructuredText support

* Add a sign-in-with-github option, and turn this into a minimalist blogging platform. Comments (gist comments), index page (showing any gists of yours that have been gist.io'd), authoring (I like writing in IA writer, maybe an experience similar to that, but with auto-saving.)

* Maybe some kind of means for controlling cache (right now gists are cached for one minute).
FYI, Hispanics were present at the workshops. It should be called "Minority Girls Code", but I still think this name is better and its too late to change it. If a white girl came, I doubt they would be turned away. Men definitely would, as girls demure easily with boys in the room when it comes to tech.
This mini-blog-post needs at least one example to make the point concrete.
Wait, didn't Kauffman suggest that many funds were getting most of their returns from fees? That the fee structure was encouraging the creation of huge funds so that partners could profit from those fees, despite the fact that larger funds are harder to invest well? That most funds are underperforming the market?

Kauffman's portfolio included Bessemer, Benchmark, and General Atlantic, among others. They weren't talking about shady funds.

If you really are expecting to get a giant locked-in chunk of your return from fees, than the interests of partners and the "chief partner" are not necessarily aligned.
Not yet, see my comment above (or below, whatever)
Very cool service!

Question about the architecture though: what were the reasons for using HTTP as opposed to UDP (which is typically how these stats collection servers receive data)? It looks like it's possible to keep system load manageable since you aggregate the data and space out the HTTP requests, but why do this instead of just blasting the server with UDP requests?
Could be any of those. "Rich" is able to live comfortably with no financial stress. For some that is a small home in a village somewhere off the grid spending their days fishing. For others it is millions of dollars. But generally, I think if you have a couple hundred grand in the bank you're rich.
Yeah, on my list

https://github.com/idan/gistio/issues/1
That's been possible for a long time on Dell laptops.

I've had 3 Dell laptops running Linux and I've never had a problem. Recently I've been using Mint, but before that I used Debian and before that Slackware. The biggest problem I ever had is that some of the wireless drivers had to be installed via module-assistant, which is annoying. Also, I couldn't get accelerated OpenGL on one of them, but that was due to an ancient video card that was unsupported even on Windows at that point.

I will admit they were second hand laptops, so maybe the bugs were worked out in the time between their being released and my buying them.
Agreed! We are trying to communicate on a clear vision, but at the same time we already are a replacement for statsd + graphite in PaaS (and some IaaS) environment where there is no UDP availability... So we're not entirely lying :)
It's possible that overt firing may be rare, but what would amount to constructive termination wouldn't be (I assume all you have to do to constructively terminate a VC partner is to veto their deals at partner meetings); I've talked to VCs who left larger funds to start their own, and perhaps stuff like that is why.
I think it's pretty obvious what this is.

http://imgur.com/Ei4r0
In Event Of Moon Disaster
Please please please don't require a user of some sort to submit feedback - I don't need another set of credentials for this and you don't want more friction for users who want to help you out.

Also, please add tooltips for various icons - they aren't all self-explanatory.
Since we are cloud-based, our servers are remote to our customers'... and since there's no UDP availability over WAN... Then we had to find a solution to make it work nicely with HTTP. Does it make sense?
The question is, why didn't Basho do this from the beginning?
I like Riak a lot, but I don't see why they didn't choose a carefully designed binary interface from the start. I understand the motivation behind choosing a REST http interface, but now they have to maintain two essentially feature complete interface that don't really have much in common.
These were examples of what people can do when they set their minds to it.

Of course people won't be commuting to work across hundreds of miles of desert or mountains or tundra. They don't do that in cars either.

There are, however, fairly basic ways of making normal people commutes more bearable on a bicycle: dedicated paths shaded by a tree row, evenly-spaced water fountains, hedge rows for wind-blown snow blocking, reliable snow clearing, perhaps escalator-like systems for climbing up hills along highly popular routes.
Hey lmm, can you get in touch so I can credit you with this idea in an addendum to the article?
You could at least let me look at the site with a warning that my browser is unsupported rather than blocking me.

I can understand the view that this would make you look worse, but my personal response is that I don't want to give your tool a second chance because of the annoyance (if everyone says it is the best thing since vim, of course, I'll get over myself and look :P).

If it was truly broken in Firefox I would've been curious enough to try it in Chrome. Sorry.