skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software development jobs in Antarctica
Mother of god!!! drools
Awesome! For years I have had a desire to see "life" on a penrose tiling. Are there more examples out there?
If you can't take an hour out of each day to do an intensive physical activity (as in actually raising your heart rate, not just building up arbitrary points by moving around more), you're doing it wrong.

Taking regular time out for physical activity gives you fitness (real fitness) and focus (which helps you do your job more efficiently). These "fuel bands" are basically expensive ways to fool yourself.
Every Woman Should Travel Alone
Cool project.

Agree on that you could give a bit more before asking for a email though.

I actually like how lean the design is, just good enough to be serviceable and leaves you time for feedback.

Kudos.
http://VentingPost.com
and
http://Nurdology.com
and
http://QuasiPreneur.com

Gotta spend more time and energy into Nurdology.

And I have more but.. realizing.... stupid me.. I'm spreading myself too thin...quantity != quality! :(
Google, Facebook, eBay, and Amazon to form political lobbying association
reading this made me sad for you
Its actually in the redis-server package on Ubuntu.
I've always heard it's the only way to go, but I've never gotten a job through personal or professional connections. I believe my last two jobs have been through either StackOverflow careers or HN.
Show HN: sh-todo, my take on the minimalist todo list (Posix shell)
Facebook Posts Loss, But In Line; Slowed growth; Shares Down
How big is your cloud's carbon footprint?
Fitbit is another option as well. I've had that for about 3 months now and love it. I don't wear it when I sleep though, but for all other times. It helps me gauge days when I need to get more exercise in. http://www.fitbit.com
Memory available to the browser was limited, sub-pixel rendering was impractical. There is a commercial product 'MathType' that uses TeX to render beautiful mathematics on web pages but I don't know if they have a WebGL version or not.

If you read Don Knuth's book on TeX you can probably figure out how to make it run.
Am I reading correctly that you shouldn't expect to hook one of these things up to a MacBook?
http://linkthing.co

A delicious replacement that uses twitter syntax to organize stuff - i.e.: hashtags and @people. App integrates with twitter for both tweeting bookmarks that you add, and importing links you've tweeted previously as bookmarks.

Not at all complete (both features and fixes to be done), but solid enough that I use it every day for myself to organize links that I use for references, collect things that I'm researching, to create a "to-read" list, and so on.

It was learning foray into bootstrap and jquery, and has gone pretty well.

Right now, its sign in through Twitter only. I'll add native account creation at some point, but you're more than welcome to try it out in the meantime.

Edit: Screengrab of Linkthing in action
http://imgur.com/Rrr0g
284 More Password Hashes Dumped
Ask HN: A QR code generator that allowed you to edit the image inside it.
Could someone possibly link me to it then bury the topic? Sorry if this isn't appropriate, I need it for an event I'm helping to organise.
Holy shit, I want this.
I've lived in Kansas City and can tell you that worrying about a tornado knocking out my internet or any sort of service was never an issue.

Is the Wizard of Oz your reference for weather in KC? ;)
I chose the fuelband because I know people who already have one. The social element is minor, but still somewhat helpful. The iOS app is really useful, and the device itself is really 'cool'. People swear by Fitbit or jawbone Up too. There are also some iOS apps that track a couple of those metrics on a budget. For my money, nike was the way to go.
This has been handling my todo-list needs for well over a year now. I recently added support for categories, because the way I used the tool changed over time. I know there are loads of these sort of tools already, but of course sh-todo has features that are important to me but others seem not to prioritise. From my perspective, to be competitive with pen and paper you need to replicate the joy of crossing something off your todo list. That means that it retains its position, and you get to see the list of tasks you've done alongside those which are outstanding (until you get tired of it).
Or not having fire departments at all; speakers in your home for your home automation system (with Siri and Google Now plugged) would be used to put the fire out from the inside.

Your home is going to be like a deck on the Enterprise sooner than you think.
Oh yeah, if you do try it, there's a "Delete Account Data" option under the account name dropdown so you can clear your stuff if you decide not to stay.
Who cares about the trademark? The WebKit project is what I'm talking about. KHTML would not have gone on to become an incredibly popular cross-platform, cross-device, cross-company framework for web rendering if Apple hadn't started the WebKit project. It would have remained nothing more than a web rendering engine for KDE.

Code may be important, but it's not the only thing that matters. You could write the most beautiful, efficient, useful code in the world and it wouldn't matter if nobody ever saw it.

Besides, this is straying further and further from the point that Apple ships and maintains a web rendering engine as a core component of the system. It's so firmly embedded that it actually powers most text rendering on iOS. In light of this, saying Apple should discontinue their browser which is built upon this engine is preposterous.
This makes it sound like the world would be better off if there was less shoddy software. I don't agree. I like a world where lots of people try lots of different things. Many of those people aren't ever going to produce things that rise above "shoddy." But every now and then somebody in the "shoddy" camp is going to do something brilliant. More power to 'em.
The fact that the points are arbitrary I think prevents someone from finding ways to hack or optimize it. If it counted calories, then you would look online for the best ways to burn calories. If it measured heart bpm, then you would find ways to cheat that.
iMovie comes bundled with any new mac for free.

So, your customers are users with very specific editing needs, willing to pay for something they already have (disregarding performance), and/or that need to edit DivX or weird codecs. That sounds like a pretty tiny market compared to users who want a step up from iMovie; building a quality app for your own needs doesn't guarantee a market for it. That's just my point of view, you have the numbers.
You said to describe the product from the perspective of the user, not the developer, but then you preferred the developer description of Java (language, library, VM) over the user description (play games, chat with people, view images in 3D). It does seem like your average person landing on the Java page cares more about the second list. I mean, what the hell is a virtual machine anyway?
No, I did it just fine. Check my comment history.
debian installs it as "ack-grep".
"Wait here. After I get in I'll find the event organizer and clear this up."

Am I missing something? Why did you not do this?
IMHO, they'll keep the door open to publishing tweets - i.e.: they want people to be able to tweet from their iphones, from websites, etc. But... they'll close of (1) social network type stuff (your follower and following lists), and (2) close out third party's ability to consume tweets - i.e.: viewing my tweets, or other's, somewhere other than Twitter.

i.e.: the API will be for publishing to Twitter, not consuming from.
Yelp.com is blocked from my home Comcast connection in San Francisco (76.126.140.7). I just get "403 Forbidden". I assume somebody else in my neighborhood on Comcast tried to crawl the site and they denied access for the entire IP block.

I tried e-mailing them, no response.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you patch SSH instead of just using something like pam_mysql and nscd?
And here I thought a stock was a tiny piece of the company. And if you had all the stock, then you had all the company...

The preferred example would be futures, and oddly enough, something I also think is a scam.
In my free time I'm writing an alternative firmware for chumby devices (and possibly similar devices, if I ever get my hands on a Raspberry Pi or alike) that focuses solely on streaming radio services (ones which have usable open APIs) with no dependence on the chumby backend servers.

All of the app layer is written in Go with a custom widget set and pure Go rendering right out to an mmaped /dev/fb (the rest of the firmware is a lightly customized openembedded build).

This won't make any money but it is teaching me a lot of Go.
Gotcha, thanks! I forgot about __future__.
Do You Have a Listening Strategy?
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Just about every single person who uses the internet in any way is in Google's positive column. They might not be a positive for the Fiber division alone, but given where the vast majority of Google's income comes from, Fiber will have a lot of pressure to keep customers happy.
> When your bank gives you a mortgage, do you deem that a "success"?

Whithout a doubt! No one is saying it's an end game! It's a milestone on the road to large scale success.

Enron and Worldcom were wildly profitable. Is that your point?

Your sentiment is exactly what I'm talking about. If you're going to follow startups or have an interest in business-building, at least learn the basics that funding is necessary and raising it is an accomplishment.
Google wanted to lose that bid - that was a gamble to get free whitespace access and have verizon pay enough money for it. You can read more of the details in this book:http://www.amazon.com/In-The-Plex-Google-Thinks/dp/141659658...

Additionally Google did try to disrupt the cellular companies a little by selling their phones unlocked through their own webstore, but the American market didn't buy them. Yes there really is only one network that gave you a deal if you did this (T-Mobile), but Americans seem to prefer subsidized phones with absurd monthly plans rather than paying for the phone up front and being free to choose the network.
I'm not risking Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass-Prison over getting a few gamblers to spend money in my game. Someone at Betable claims they have really good protections in place for this but I don't think U.S. devs should go near it.

Over in the UK its legal, but what is Betable going to do when there's an FBI sting on your studio for violating U.S. gambling laws? These are serious issues that need to be considered.

See my comment (and presumably a response from someone at Betable) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222024
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Been working on and off on http://mtransit.herokuapp.com/ -- a mobile optimized site for looking up transit schedules for the Minneapolis / St. Paul bus system. It's built with Flask and a sprinkling of JQuery. I am hoping to factor out some code into a standalone lib for others to build competitor apps with.
When you really need to script any VBA enabled application on Windows (Excel, Word, you name it) they can be scripted with ActiveState Python or ActiveState Perl which are free and moreover exist for more than a decade:

http://www.activestate.com/

But to solve the problem described in the article Excel is just not needed.
It doesn't matter, even if the bandwidth was free. It is not stated anywhere so a potential customer will see that number and be less likely to buy the plan even if it is the smallest limitation.
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Hmm - the example "24 st" doesn't return anything.
most telcos do that. the problem is usually that they are too vague to be of any use. i've called telus before and gotten the message "we are currently experiencing service intteruptions in some areas". thanks guys, that helps.
This space is officially ripe for disruption. I was against an open-source version of Twitter because I really respected the brand and its tech....but now I'm not so sure. Would love to work on a replacement.
http://research.swtch.com/qart ???
Facebook’s New Revenue Streams Will Be Assists, Not Slam Dunks
I read that Warren Buffet said he has a full-time employee whose job it is to stop him from buying any airlines.

Probably one of his pithy quotes, but funny all the same.
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Rails version 3.2.7 has been released
Previous, but still inconclusive, discussion about the same matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895072
There's an easy way, actually: Don't do publically visible things in the first place. Certainly, this limits your options in life, but if you simply can't tolerate other people speculating about you, reasonably or otherwise, you don't give yourself much choice.
Like http://identi.ca/ ?
This site uses the never-official-and-now-removed skew(x, y) rather than the correct way, skewX(x) skewY(y).
You're a mobile engineer at yelp, do you have authority to speak on this publicly? Is this Yelp's official response?
Google doesn't release mobile products for any browser except WebKit. They specifically whitelist.
I don't see the similarity, aside from the 3D perspective which is the point of the demo.
Very similar to http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/css3-web-fonts/
Choice is often not good. Consider these:

- Choice in plug type for electrical devices
- Choice in power adapter connection for cell phones
- Choice of driving on the left side or the right side of the road
- Choice of location for the brake pedal in your car.

Most anything that is used to interface two items, as is oAuth, is better with fewer choices. Choices increase complexity and cost for both sides of the connection and reduce the number of solutions that are compatible. However, for some reason this fact is often lost on technologists.
This reminds me of when I was looking for a share house in Tokyo.. I kept seeing the same ones pop up over and over, and after visiting a few it became obvious there was a reason why in each case.

In the end I made my case as a good share-ee, and a good share-er found me soon after (on mixi, a kind of Japanese only Facebook which has since been consumed). Perhaps, if you are looking for a great job, it makes sense now to make your case, make it visible to the right people, and wait.
You do realize learning is a discovery process? I think the part that set off red flags for me was the "Business book a week" policy. It's important to follow one's interests; they have a habit of leading to subjects and careers that will make you happy. Your article outlined an acceptable 4 year plan to become a very specific type of person. It's important to adapt and grow into your education, rather than set out a series of things to do beforehand. Education is a discovery process and steps this specific constitute tunnel vision.
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> I was against an open-source version of Twitter because I really respected the brand and its tech

That's a bizarre reason to be against an open-source competitor.
The U.S. merely banned foreign corporations from offering gambling to U.S. citizens. This is perfectly legal under WTO rules and treaties.

The problem was that the U.S. exempteddomestic companies from the same restriction (basically, the law exempted horse racing from remote gambling restrictions). Consequently, the entire foreign prohibition was ruled discriminatory by the WTO (and not just the portion applying to horse racing).

The gist of the WTO ruling was that it is perfectly acceptable for a country to impose restrictions on foreign corporations as long as those same restrictions apply to domestic corporations.
The GC book by Jones is the place to start to understand GC in general. He also has a new "GC Handbook," but I haven't looked through it yet to see how well it covers modern parallel and concurrent collectors, particularly for NUMA machines.

Having spent a large portion of the last five years working on a parallel concurrent collector that scales to 48-AMD and 64-Intel cores, I can say the game's totally different on NUMA architectures. Unfortunately, not much has been written yet on it (I have an MSPC paper; the Intel folks have a paper on Pillar that was at ISMM; that's about it). Feel free to ping me directly if you get to advanced material and need more pointers. Many of the systems have not yet been published, as it's shockingly difficult to publish on modern GC implementations these days.
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Raising prices a few years ago with my eCommerce site lead to an instant 30% increase in profits, so it really is powerful and is something that has the potential to do amazing things for your business. Great post, and congratulations on all your new dough!
1 Gigabit Download and Upload!

I have always believed that the internet would have been and fundamentally different place if we had fast upload from the beginning.

Rather than having everything in the cloud (i.e big corporate datacenters) people would have gotten used to running small server at home. After all was the web not originally designed to work more in this way?

This would have fostered a much better culture of privacy and freedom when you have ultimate control of what you are putting online, freedom from TOS etc.
Sure there are advantages to big datacenters such as backup and fireproofing etc but is every piece of data really that precious?
I agree 100% that learning is a discovery process - the purpose of my post was to outline what I wish I learned. This doesn't apply to everyone. I began college with the goal to be in Sports Management. That lasted about a week.
Who said to do away with currency? I didn't see him say that.
Sure, but that won't help put out car fires, etc.

I do look forward to having fire-proof homes that incidentally have amazing sound systems built into the walls.
I signed up a couple of days ago where it was around $85k and it's only at $89k now. Won't be meeting the goal at this pace, some lower tiers is probably a good idea. Or maybe a terrible one.
This is one of the great reasons to use zshell. :-)

grep -in **/*txt "sometext"
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It was a joke, son
Sure, but is this project on github because of that policy? I doubt it.
It certainly is "a tiny piece of the company", at an appropriate level of abstraction. Expand it out to something more specific and you get that it's "right to cast a certain number of votes in determining who is allowed to manage (act as steward of) the company's assets and other major decisions, and to some proportion of the money paid out as dividends or when the company is bought out".

Somebody who owns their own company can be thought of as equivalently having 100% of its stock.

Don't see what's "a scam" about it, but I'd love to hear your thorough analysis on the matter.
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Being Dutch is not an excuse for saying terrible things about who should and should not have children. People are suffering. Have some respect.
You can still access the list of a person's followers through Twitter's API, and Instagram has twitter-handle to instagram-handle mappings in their DB.

Why aren't they rolling out their own "Find my twitter friends"?
Fantasy sports pools are not bets on the outcome of a contest, sports event, or game subject to chance.

The point of fantasy sports is what happens during the game, specifically, the performance of individual players. The actual outcome of the event is of no consequence. Furthermore, the players are not engaged in a contest on the stats which are used to determine the outcome of the fantasy pool (i.e., they are not formally competing to get the most 1st downs, or most catches, etc.). In some sports, the competitors are competing on the basis of stats (i.e., in boxing hits landed is one of the factors that determines the final score of the match), so fantasy pools for such sports would be illegal.

These are silly distinctions, but it is what makes fantasy sports legal and normal sports betting illegal.
Likely an oversight. Submit a pull request with a BSD-like license file.
No, you speculated that Alex's post was dishonest, since your "speculations" directly contradicted numerous things he actually said.

I concluded a few months ago that writing like yours (not yours in particular; it's an annoying HN trope) is actually more rude than a similar comment that outright called the author a liar. You not only did that, but in such a way as to imply that he lies so often it's a casual affair. "Of course", the sentiment you're expressing goes, "there's more to the story than he's telling us. Why would he tell us anything but what makes him look good?" That's what you've communicated.

Alex, I am 1000% sure, does not give a shit about what you (or I) think about his most recent career move. But comments like yours, as you can see, drive me up a fucking wall.
I pay $50 Canadian per month for a 2.1 Mbps connection :(
Unrelated to the original post.

This will come off as condescending, but I mean it with the best intentions. I see that you are relatively new in HN. Comments like these are nonconstructive and generally frowned upon here.

I'm not saying that your criticism isn't valid (or otherwise), but its preferable to include some actual notations, quotes or reason behind such statements.

Overall comment:
Such blanket statements are insulting, and usually erroneous. All programmers are capable to learn anything else as long as they are interested and willing.
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Interview with Mailgun (YC W11) CEO Ev Kontsevoy
thanks. I'm running on a 15" late 2009, hoping it works too, I'll look into the cable as well, Thanks!
I really hope they release more of these; not interested in this bundle, but I certainly would be in a different combination.
The Enthought Python Distribution[1] provides tools that can perform all of this analysis, including visualization, fairly easily and in multiple operating systems.

[1] http://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php
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Unfortunately with activestate you can't run python from within excel, you've got to somehow run the script at the "outside" (be it shell, some other program etc.)
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I think we have seen this trend for a while now. The fundamental question seems to be around how open/closed an essential part of the web experience can be. As always there is a delicate balance somewhere between crazy open and crazy closed.

Without leaning towards one side or another, it seems to open side seems to be losing over time. We have seen it with discussions about open standards like OAuth:

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4294959

It seems (maybe) like there is a ultimate trade-off between openness and ease of use/convenience and we as users usually decide with out wallet where to go. And it seems like we have voted indeed.
You wish you had read 208 business books?
I hadn't seen the rabbit mascot before, but I hope it's meant as a nod to Mr. Rabbit from Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.