skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate? I specifically have a couple USB devices I need to work with and thought I would have to write a device driver for them :)
I'm interested in helping out, and sent you a message via your site's contact form. Personally, really having fun with Node.JS, Socket.IO, and MongoDB :)
Hmm. Now i understand the reactions better. But isn't it a little akin to going on to ubuntu/ any linux forum and asking(demanding??) for new features. As far as i can see, they haven't been able to convert the diaspora work into profit-making. So from their view point it does make sense to try something new.
What is this SEO spam garbage? Every single link including the reference goes to junk pages and the article itself is cut & pasted all over the internet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=T.+L.+Freeman+discusses+the+...
Hughes was pretty normal until his later years. That may have been garden-variety senility.
You don't even need to use the Builder directly, just use the structure's "of" method:

ImmutableSet<Foo> foos = ImmutableSet.of(a, few, elements);
ImmutableMap<Key, Value> map = ImmutableMap.of(k1, v1, k2, v2);
Sad story. Back in the 90's I used to eat with friends at an Unamas! mexican restaurant which had a jar where you could drop your business card for a chance to win a free lunch. I asked them what they did with the cards, they didn't know. So I asked them how could I collect my free lunch if I won? They said "You will get a coupon which you can bring in for a lunch." I said "When does the winner get picked?" and they said "Every Friday, someone comes by to get the cards, they pick the winner over the weekend. So on Friday I went over at 5:30 and waited for the cards to be picked up. In comes a well dressed lady with another jar, same labelling, drops it off and picks up the one with cards. I intercept her on the way out, and ask what she is doing with the cards.

As it turns out, she was the receptionist for a recruiter in the valley, they took all of the business cards, added these people to the list of people who they told their clients were 'looking for jobs' and then tried to move them from one job to another. I pointed out that Calfornia state law required all of that information to be available at the point where you entered the 'contest.' She said she would pass it on.

On Wednesday when I went in the jar was gone.
Ah yes, the goatse operator.
Wait, we have a hacking scene in St Louis? Crazy.
It's the Standard Library now. STL is the SGI precursor. People insist on calling it STL for whatever reason, maybe because it's the STandard Library.

Or it could be St. Louis? Or Seattle?
I've begun using a Trello board to keep track of the skills I want to pick-up and things I want to learn.

I have the lists "Heard about it", "Read about it", "Learning it", "Done with it". Today, for example, I added: "Learn about using Git bisect to trace bugs" to the Read about it board. Will probably play with it next weekend.

This is a new workflow for me, but so far it's working well.
Nope, each page is a tutorial. You can have as many tool tips as you want per-tutorial!
Reprocessing some kinds of nuclear waste actually reduces long-term radiation levels. TRUEX, from Argonne National Laboratory, can remove (and then burn up) transuranic alpha emitters, and basically you end up with short-lived high activity isotopes (safely stored above ground for decades in fuel ponds on-site) and long-lived low-activity isotopes (fairly similar to the natural ores, and could be stored underground long-term, or in subduction zones in the mantle). The problem is that doing this has a proliferation risk, but I have zero fear of the Japanese developing a nuclear weapon, and as far as the US, UK, FR, CN, RU doing so, well, that ship sailed in the middle of last century.
Doesn't use a version control system?

I'm pretty much a cowboy, but I like version control. Although, actually, most people seem to view version control as some kind of Golden Stamp Process, instead of a "let me check-in regularly so I can go back to something if I screw up" tool.
Yeah, agreed. First custom css, then perhaps some templates to choose from.
Current Ratio: A Misunderstood Liquidity Analysis Metric
The first sentence doesn't change colors on my iPad.
Hey, Guys, Remember When You Used To Care About Flash?
It sounds more passive-aggressive to me.
That's a stunningly ignorant risk assessment.

Unit 4 has significant structural damage, and contains the most (and most recently used) fuel rods, stored outside the containment wall. Another 7.5 earthquake could cause a collapse triggering a fuel rod fire that could not be put out. TEPCO's plan states that they cannot begin removing fuel rods until 2013, or possibly 2014. [1]. "There is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's."

All that is required for a catastrophic release of radiation across the northern hemisphere is a significant seismic event.

Fukushima is now classed alongside Chernobyl as a category 7 reactor event, the area surrounding Fukushima will take decades to clean up, and the Japanese Government has admitted major human error within regulatory bodies, and within TEPCO and credulous government acceptance of the Nuclear industry's unfounded safety claims. [2]

And Muller claims that "Fukushima passed the test". You can't make this stuff up. But you can call it what it is, historical revisionism by an ardent supporter of the nuclear industry.

Considering the still perilous situation, it is a breathtakingly irresponsible and insensitive article to write. Truly astonishing.

[1] http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-daiichi-truth-an...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disas...
Because you get slower.
The quality of companies in this batch of YC is mind blowing. I know PG says the quality increases with each batch, but from what I've seen thus far, YC S12 seems noticeably more impressive.
Because that would require people to be PAID to go around, cleaning up the sleepboxes, which may or may not actually be profitable, when you consider the cost of the sleepbox on top of it.

The entire POINT of it is that it's automated enough that you don't have to deal with that crap.
"A MySQL compatibility mode for PostgeSQL would be awesome!"

I think it can be good to offer a few conveniences to make it easier to switch, but I think they should be limited in scope.

Postgresql is not trying to be mysql -- that need is already filled by MariaDB and others. Trying to pretend that postgres is mysql would just make users frustrated and disappointed.

Think about it like moving to a foreign country. The residents try to be as friendly and accommodating as they can when it comes to food, shelter, transportation, directions, etc. There are often even multi-lingual people in the critical places. But eventually the goal is to adapt to the local culture and bring a hint of your previous culture into the mix; not completely recreate your culture in a new place.
I'm doing the same. Don't know many people who're interested in doing a startup for the right reasons, so I'm just focusing on building the MVP and keeping things going while I keep an eye out for a potential co-founder.
I'm not going to be an alarmist and say "ID cards lead to totalitarian states".

However, it's interesting how a number of totalitarian states have used information about their citizens to control them. After the North Vietnamese took over South Vietnam, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) had to fill out forms that described the various roles they and their families had over their lifetime. Kids would fill out these forms at schools. Did your father work for the Americans? Well great, he can no longer get a job and his kids can no longer go to college (yes, I'm simplifying what actually happened).

You didn't have to torture, throw in prison or exile the majority of your political opponents, you simply denied the means the carry out everyday tasks (sending kids to school, finding a job, getting enough food to eat, etc). It's really ingenious if you think about it. Someone who fights everyday to get the basic necessities of life usually doesn't have much time to oppose you politically.
You think that just because someone can buy first class, they aren't the very embodiment of Loki?
> And beating expectations buoys our mood. All else being equal, people who wait less than they anticipated leave happier than those who wait longer than expected.

The same philosophy which underlies the familiar "under promise and over deliver". Guess this also explains the enormous amount of outrage that comes out of schedule slips, even in cases where schedule is of little consequence.
I read that as "why not just pay the premiums of sex by selling a recording of them going at it, as amateur porn?".
Long sleeves, pants, and blousing pants into boots. Also, hat with wide brim. (and, personally, shaving my head, but that might be excessive).

My clothing is treated with Permethrin (it's standard for military uniforms, and available for outdoor clothing as a cream or spray). You have to be a little careful with laundering (avoiding dry cleaning).

DEET (and sunscreen) for skin and near edges of clothing.
I'm working to do stuff that we aren't sure whether it is possible to do or not. Sometimes showing a working demo is more than 2-3 weeks, especially when I have to integrate into 3rd party components and such. I'm no sure how to work with "sprints"
I find a wiki that is less markdown based, but more ms word like seems to do well. Fogbugz is one example. You give up some and get some other stuff that just makes it a functional linker of docs
Power plants that burn coal produce more than 90 times as much sulfur dioxide, five times as much nitrogen oxide and twice as much carbon dioxide as those that run on natural gas, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Sulfur dioxide causes acid rain and nitrogen oxides lead to smog.

You know, the more I read about it, the more I think fracking gets an undeserved bad rap. Certainly there are some concerns over the environmental impact drilling has, but the rewards seem to make perfecting the technology a no-brainer: cheap, abundant, clean fuel that will at least slow global warming down (if not cure it completely). Plus, we have enough of the stuff that we could extract and refine it in the US.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379769
The issue of course is that both the clever way and the 'normal' way are not exactly pleasant compared to most other modern languages.
If you've read more of Derek's (excellent) posts, you'll know that his complete hands-off style led to the company almost collapsing.

I would like to see these posts. Could you link them?
It appears to be a subset of libc that depends on libc and is slower than libc in almost all respects. I'm not sure what the author was going for here, but it would be advisable to use libc instead of Refu in all instances where one might think to use Refu
there's 'cognitive friction' if you implement things in obtuse ways. fortunately web application development has a clean and easy way to accomplish these sorts of things: it's called javascript.
The Fat Man with a red shirt and blue pants...
So where do customers and early adopters fit into this whole thing?
I think most of the industrialized world will go through this inevitably, but it's important to remember that liberty is a long term strategy that requires education and diligence. In a way, India is about to prove why biometric data on every citizen is a bad idea. We need to see how such data can be abused to fully understand how dangerous such data is in the wrong hands. Sure tptacek might come on down and tell us how such regulation should be thanked, but we're about to witness a controlled experiment that proves the contrary. My money is on a more controlled extortion apparatus ;)
Ruby help on Jailbroken iOS
I'm having issues with Ruby on iOS. Any gem command fails. If I try to gem update:

mobile$ gem update

Updating installed gems
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __OSSwapInt16 Referenced from: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/arm-darwin9/socket.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: __OSSwapInt16
Referenced from: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/arm-darwin9/socket.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap: 5

What's interesting is ruby -v shows 1.9.2:

mobile$ ruby -v

ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [arm-darwin9]
Any ideas on how to fix? I've tried removing Ruby package via Cydia and reinstalling but it's the same.
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Are there any statistics on the average delivery time for email? Meaning delivery to the mailserver, not final retrieval by the client. While email tends to be used more asynchronously (ie, most people don't constantly check it), is it really much more inherently latent than Twitter?
The existence of two separate implementations of bubblesort (one for char, one for uint16_t), in and of it self, says everything that needs to be said about this. This was written by someone who refuses to use even the meager facilities C offers programmers, and doesn't know enough about them to even NIH things well. Moreover, he seems to like overtly complex, specialized code over simple, generic code.

(if the author of this library is reading this: qsort is a libc function that can sort an array of any type, in any way, and does so much more efficiently than bubblesort could ever dream, while not being very complex.)
Let me tell you what it is trying to solve.

If I'm a poor and illiterate in India, I neither know what special programs or subsidies the government has for me (I'm illiterate and the news does not reach me).

The middle men already has forged my identities and the amount that the Government sent me is already shared by them in the middle.

This is what the government is trying to solve. To make sure that what is being sent is received by the correct person.

It may not solve it entirely. But at the very least it will make it difficult for the middle men to forge the identities now. Or at the worst case, the middle men will have to share a portion of what they receive with the end user (the poor me).

When you look at it from a first world perspective, then your freedom and government control seems to be the main concern.

But when you have had no food for the last week and you don't have your own house and have no way to feed your family, then the freedom to shout against my government is my last priority.
I haven't been here in quite awhile, and immediately I see meta-threads about how this site operates...

But the latter half of your comment intrigues me...
"MySQL lost a ton of momentum because of Oracle"

Aside: why, oh why, did 3 mysql forks appear when MySQL AB was bought? Couldn't they coalesce around one alternative?

Ordinarily, I'm not against a little healthy competition. I think forks and trying new ideas is great. But the timing just makes no sense to me from any rational point of view.

"I suspect keeping up with it does not require as much effort as it did getting to where it is now... maybe... it will continue evolving."

True, but I'd hate to see the bar set that low.
Good post. For me the first 3 tips, about having management backing, the right culture and the right people made me smile a bit. An analogy would be like "Here are 3 tips for being successful in business: Have a lot of capital, have a great idea, and execute it perfectly".

Normally getting management backing, developing the right culture, and having the right people are huge, difficult topics in themselves that are much larger and more fundamental than how a team decides to develop software.

If anything it goes the other way around. In order to get management support the team should first start doing agile and proving that it works. Having the right culture is a long term thing. Agile software development is a mere step in that direction as far as developing software goes. If anything agile software development helps the right culture emerge rather than the right culture being a prerequisite for agile software development.

And if you truly have the right people you don't need to to worry about agile, you are already doing so well that agile will only slow you down. Agile is probably ideal for larger organisations who unfortunately don't have the "right" people and need a framework or something to help them along. Once people get competent enough, "agile" just starts to feel dogmatic and restrictive. I mean they will still do the practices that make sense, but they aren't going to appreciate other aspects of buying into a whole "agile" approach.

I would also caution against "passing the change baton to higher ups". I have seen all the hard work undone when a fairly agile software development department decided to combine with the product department and include them in the change management process. The idea was to spread agility outwards, but because the product department had mostly more extroverted, managerial types they took control of the decision making (I was surprised how easily the software developers ceded control and retreated into a yes boss mentality) and their command and control culture swamped over any agility we had in the dev department.
My grandfather, who died last year at 93, used to say that when you were 2 going on 3, that was 33% of your life. At 49 going on 50, though, that's 2% of your life. 33% goes a lot farther than 2%.
He's right, New Zealand is gorgeous. I am fortunate enough to live here and I really appreciate it.
As a New Zealander who grew up in Australia and now lives in the US, let me start by saying what I love about New Zealand:

1) The culture is for the most part pretty awesome. Friendly people, love of sport, lots of folks with gumption and can-do attitude, appreciation of nature, etc etc.

2) One of the most beautiful countries in the world.

3) Politically well-centred, and doesn't brown-nose the way Australia does.

Now let me enumerate my issues with New Zealand:

1) Not the paradise this article would have you believe. I feel a lot safer in California than I ever did when I was living in New Zealand.

2) A bit of a backwater - so far from anything, very socially isolated, living in a small pond basically.

3) A negative/tall-poppy attitude. Lots of complaining, "make sure you know your place" feeling.

The entrepreneurs I've worked with from NZ were all amazing people, but being there was holding them back.

Overall - there's no way I can imagine moving back there anytime soon, but I do love it as a country.
I want to slap a Kinect on it and turn it into a poor-man's (well, relatively) Ava: http://www.irobot.com/ava/
The teenage girl who is allergic to water
My smartphone has changed the way I feel about waiting. Instead of dismay I now can look forward to a lengthy pause. It never really feels like waiting for me anymore.

Unless it's in my car and I can't use my smartphone. Another exception is when I am with people and it is socially unacceptable for me to focus on my phone. If we have nothing interesting to talk about, the wait is as painful as ever, perhaps even worse if I am jonesing for my phone.

Standing up a long time can cause physical pain, so that part doesn't go away even if I have a phone.

Also I wonder if smartphones have decreased impulse buys of candy and that other stuff in supermarket lines.
My instinct is to immediately close paginated articles upon finding their "next page" button.

Might be related to the topic at hand.
N165, the rock Curiosity is analyzing on Mars, has its own Twitter account
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Hold on, people can see if you have a profile or not, but it is not like they can see any of the information you have marked as not-public or friends only.

I don't see how this is a privacy issue. People can just google a name and get straight to someones public profile as well.
Yes you have to install it separately for MySQL but it's enabled by default in MariaDB so their work has in fact made it into MariaDB.
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Ask HN: How would you split ownership in this scenario?
My friend, who is the CEO of a company in this industry that this startup will be in, and I came up with a great idea and we're going to pursue it. However, he wants to split it 50/50 but I'm not comfortable with that because

* I don't have a job so I have more to risk

* I will be the one developing the product (he is non-technical)

* He is already running another company, there's only so much time he can invest in this one

What he brings to the table is strong connections within the industry. He'll be able to get a lot of customers on board initially. Do you guys think 50/50 is fair in this scenario?
This seems pretty obvious. If you're raising money and you're not a non-profit, then you're going to owe taxes.
This seems to add more complexity than what it's worth. Non-final requirement and the equals problem, i'd rather ignore it all together!
Well that's optimism, and it is naive. The govt clauses for residence proof are ostensibly to track Terror. To know where a user of a suspected phone number lives, or who used which cyber cafe.

Further you are in a minority, but your needs are servable. Further your needs and requirements are completely and utterly contravening the original purpose the system was sold under.

The original was supposed to be to help the poor avail of public services.

Your use cases are all servable by the private sector. Hardly the reason for yet another ID system.

Especially when your primary aim of not having recursive paper work is un touched. So how is this better?
First time I hear about this startup -- sorry if it's been mentioned a lot before here.

It seems like they designed their product well to counter known cognitive biases. I'll be giving it a try with some things I'd like to do more of and form habits around.
Absence of observed order and provable fairness due to sequential order will inevitably lead to many people suspecting injustice and developing all kinds of theories, from flawed randomness generators (in last 10 numbers only 4 were even, the system is clearly broken!) to conspiracy theories (they hate me so they gave me a special number that gets called an hour later!)

Best medicine for that is a linear observable order, which is easily controlled and obviously hard to subvert - if you see you're number 42 you know you're going after 41 and everybody knows that, and if somebody doubts it you can just show your number and prove it's fair.
From looking at the page, they don't seem to have the "including death" part anymore. Although Google did seem to have cached in its search results.