skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbh i am pretty surprised we arent' already further along in this realm. I think the integration of apps in the medical world could have served some serious purpose a long time ago if health care professionals were more educated in tech world. They need to get with the times. It's costing money and lives!
Reimplementing libvirt, badly ...
Because if you don"t learn from other people's mistakes, you are the other people.
Good to hear this. I had several issues with Virtual Box in the past on OS X(Lion, Mountain Lion) and it even produced 3-4 times a kernel crash on my MacBook. I switched to VMWare Fusion then and all the complains were gone.
I quite like it. Had a look at the SEO tag and I was pleasantly surprised that on first look there were some useful articles in there rather than it being stuffed to the gills with spammy links. Same goes for the python tag.

I think the title is a bit wrong. This is more like a better quality tutorials link site to me, rather than Reddit. I was going to say more like HN but then I realised that a big part of HN is the commentary, which this site doesn't appear to have.
This is, because you can't Java. How you will find out, where you use

first_names = [p.first_name for p in people]

? More verbose, but right way in Java is like (you can do this better with enums and/or guava, it's just example):

class PersonTransformer implements Transformer {
public Object transform(Object o) {
return ((Person)o).getFirstName();
}
}

and then:

Collection<String> firstNames = CollectionUtils.collect(people, new PersonTransformer());

You can reuse it and, more important, you can search for it. Same for second example.
How did/do entrepreneurs measure their productivity? Did they write down goals?
Sometimes when I go to bed I kind of feel like I'm judging myself harshly on whether I did enough, or not enough. I once read that you shouldn't measure "being busy" with "being productive", and it seems like I'm living in panic-mode most of my time thinking about whether what I'm doing is productive.

So here is what I'm looking for....

I'm looking for techniques that past-entrepreneurs have used to track their success? Basically I want to know, what did they write down? How big were their goals for the day/week/month? How did they know if it was big or not big enough?

Also, did they have any advice on their time? In other words, did they spend 18 hours straight each day on business, if they took a break (say 1 hour each day) to watch tv/play video games, or even eating dinner with their families, how did they get over the "gee, am I being productive by doing THIS right now?" mentality?
Norway's national oil fund value updates several times a second on its website
Norways' oil fund is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. That ticker is its value updated several times a second - there is nothing close to that level of transparency for a portfolio that size anywhere else in the world. I used to work at a large investment bank as a trader - most banks don't know the value of their consolidated book until the end of the day and even that tends to be an estimate of estimates.
Wouldn't be more easy to solve sender identity with PGP keys? Just a random idea.
I'd like to see this as well. It would be like a mechanic's and programmer's version of "Wacky Races".
KVM is a full virtualization solution, Zones is a container (same kernel). Maybe you mean lxc, the Linux container system?
Living in the first world also helps.
Understanding how to drive vs building a car is the same thing as understanding how to use a program vs building the program. Once again the point is that if you want to learn how to program in a specific language, you need to understand it's concepts and patterns. It's akin to the fact that if you want to learn how to build a car, you need to understand it's mechanics. You can easily take whatever you find in the internet and build a program. Or you could tweak an example to do something else without another care in the world. Guess what? You still don't understand what's happening or why, and because of that the end product will most probably be defective in some way. You still don't know what the point is, you only know that it works. That's OK if you need a quick solution for a small problem, but it's not when your goal in itself is to learn how to program (in Ruby)...

Go ahead and read Zed's article again, only this time do so slowly and with care. Come back and realize two very important things you seem to be missing:

A) This is Zed's opinion about TEACHING a programming language. TEACHING being the keyword. If you want to learn a programming language, you inherently need to understand it. As a small aside, he did write "Learn Python The Hard Way" which was pretty much a success, but don't believe me... he's probably a troll as you say.

B) The discussion is basically that a form of writing a specific block of code is easier to explain than another, although the latter is more widely used and considered the correct. Readability, though important, has little to do with choosing the correct construct to teach as to provide a good balance of the time and effort you need to put into learning.

You want to keep going with the analogies? You shouldn't drive a manual transmission car if you've only driven automatics, the same way you shouldn't deploy code to your clients that you've figured out will give you the results you want when you've never understood what the program is doing on the first place because you made assumptions when you started.
The guy is onto something big. If you think about it, all tech ideas can be grouped into one of three categories:

1. Someone is doing exactly this.

Response: "How is this different from (someone already doing it)? Even if it's better, what keeps the biggest guys from doing the same thing?"

2.a. Nobody has done this.

Response: "There are a lot of very smart engineers out there. Wouldn't one of them be doing this if it worked? Even if you get it to work, what keeps them from just executing on the same thing, better."

2.b. People have tried and failed.

"A lot of people have tried this. They failed. What makes you think you will succeed?"

--

Now let's work through some concrete examples. First, take Google. When it launched as a search engine in Stanford, there were loads of other search engines. This puts it firmly in category "1". There was nothing Google could do that another company couldn't.

Next let's take eBay. When it launched as "a perfect market" based on auctions, nobody had done that. Firmly 2.a. category.

Finally let's take Dropbox. A lot of people had this idea. They failed. Firmly 2.b. category.

Basically, there is not an idea that I could name that doesn't fall into one of these three categories. You can dismiss everything.

I am personally working on a massive project that involves fundamental innovation and falls firmly in 2.a. It is really hard. Progress is very slow. As a break I've started a bit of a side project. This one falls firmly in 2.b. In the nineties and even before, this second project got loads of attention, huge amounts of research (I can find publications up the wazoo) and never took off. People tried to do it and failed.

What separates me from the opinion just expressed by David Sacks is: Fuck you, David Sacks. That's what.
Thanks! As I mentioned before, I didn't really choose the title. According to the last 50 tweets on twitter however it seems my site has been coined 'the reddit of ___' .. ha. I dont mind though, I appreciate the encouragement from everyone.

Theres actually comments and discussion but I think it's in it's early stages still as far as finding it's flow as far as commenting, userbase, etc.

We also rule the site with an iron first for quality.
They are right now in the stages of removing proprietary code towards a modular architecture. I think it's more likely they could implement libvert as a plugin. The focus isn't to make a pluggable architecture for vm emulators(libvert). But to make vagrant itself more robust, by removing it's ties to virtualbox with a plugin system.
Due to the heavy competition, mining BTC on a standard machine is no longer worth it. Unless you have access to "free" electricity, you're better off buying one.
hi, i just wanted to say: awesome!

i'm currently working on making getUsereMedia useable and really simple with introduction high level abstractions like getUserVideo and getUsereAudio (you can take a sneak peak here https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/Sinne). if i hook it up with whammy then we have a 100% client side (saveable) video recorder.
I've always liked what vagrant did for the other systems (re: non-linux). However, with this change, it seems they are indeed going in this direction and, well, that is a shame. I might be missing something but it seems they would do much better to build on other tech.

The best I've seen is Ubuntu and how it does it (using libvirt among others, KVM etc - http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/virtualisation). Would be awesome if they were all playing well together. And, perhaps, vagrant is going to actually do that in the future.
"FBI members were present" at an operation undertaken by NZ officials, using NZ-owned equipment. I'm failing to see where the US performed a tactical strike on Kim Dotcom.

The parent post to mine implies that the arrest of Kim Dotcom was akin to the assassination of Osama bin Laden (i.e. the US flew a US-owned helicopter manned by US Navy Seals into a foreign country to assault the compound of a foreign national).
I have no inside knowledge into OnLive, but you're correct, you could certainly context switch for games. I would assume that the limiting factor would likely be texture bandwidth if you were switching between too many different scenes (on the same or multiple VMs). It might be that some of OnLive's IP is smartly managing resources in n->1 VM->GPU configurations (and maybe why games IIRC require some adaptation).
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This is cool, but I was surprised: why is interframe compression basically impossible here?
Ask HN: How do you get your team to start unit testing/TDD?
maybe tapping into the functionality of the "conceal" feature? http://demonastery.org/2012/07/lambda-conceal-in-vim/
hmm so who own the best hardware win the game? what if Google decided to join!?
I understand where the author is coming from and where he wants to take us to.

But these things are not as black and white as people show them to be. When you chose something over the other, you are just making a trade off. You need to be happy with that trade off or you should not make it. If you feel you will be happy taking hours off and doing something else, then you should be happy for that and not worry about lost money you could have otherwise make if you had worked instead.

Now this is OK for a day or two. If you do this for years, you will lose substantial money compared to your peers. Enough to make that distinction apparent. It will show in everything. The house you live, the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the vacations you take, the food you eat, your hobbies, your lifestyle. There will hardly be anything in your life which won't be affected by this. You should be happy with all this.

Don't go down to a state where you have to tell yourself and people around- 'Even I could have been like the person Y had I worked for X more extra hours, I would have everything he has'
> Showing 122 changed files with 4,156 additions and 2,915 deletions.

Wow, that's a lot of code for a tool which is doing little more than creating, starting, stopping, deleting, and zipping-up VMs. Looking at this diff, all I can say is: Holy Java-ish Ruby, Batman!

Most of these classes contain two non-helper methods: init and call. That's not a class; that's a function! I'm reminded of this talk, titled "Stop Writing Classes": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717715

I've used Vagrant before, but it always felt like overkill. When I had an issue with it, I cracked open the code and was quickly deterred from digging deeper. I hacked my VM back to working by hand and decided to avoid mucking with Vagrant.

The next time I need automated development VM provisioning, I plan to write a very small shell script. Here's an example of getting a box up and running with 7ish commands: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7673/ For a complete development environment, you only need to additionally mount a shared filesystem and write an entry into your ssh config.

All that said, I do think that there is value in having a command line tool which abstracts various machine provisioning APIs. I know that such a thing exists for cloud providers, but I suspect local VMs have some unique concerns. Regardless, it seems like a task that a shell script is best suited for.
It's more of a restructuring?
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This seems like a great idea, there's just one thing I don't understand - the project owners are not onboard (as far as I can tell), so whoever decides to fulfill a bounty is not necessarily connected to the projects and might not have commit privileges. How does that work?
You read this too fast.

> My main issue is that I view the physical keyboard as a crutch

(emphasis mine)

Later:

> I’m sure I could get used to the software keyboard — in fact, I see people from time to time who seem faster typing on it than a real one

I have witnessed it myself. Everyone witnessed the same argument a few years ago "oh but you can't possibly type faster on the iPhone soft keyboard than on a real hardware Android/BlackBerry keyboard!". And it turned out, oh yes you can (some people reach in the 80+ WPM).

Now I can hear someone over there who says 'but you can't touch type! you can't possibly be faster!', to which I anwser:

1. how many people really know how to touch type?
2. how many people have a proper keyboard for touch-typing?

The answer is already scarce even among the developer/hacker crowd, when you extend to the myriad of computer users around the world, the answer is hardly any. For a point of reference, the average user types at 33 WPM. I was typing faster than that (~45 WPM) on the iPad on day one.

There are a number of studies comparatively evaluating typing efficiency. This study[0] shows 43 WPM for touchscreen vs 61 WPM for netbook. Excerpt from the conclusion:

These results were not surprising given the familiarity of the
participants with physical keyboards. [...]
Performance on both iPad keyboards was impressive for first-time users.
Some participants said that they thought they would enjoy using
the keyboard on the iPad more if they had additional time to practice.

Please note, I'm not telling laptops are going anywhere (the same way desktops did not go anywhere when laptops came around). They are undoubtedly power houses by all metrics compared to tablets. I'm not telling the current touchscreen keyboards are perfect either: I wish more symbol keys were readily available, and some form of haptic feedback would be nice (via EM fields or whatever). Remember this has only been a few years since (real) tablets have been around. The first laptops were similarly craptastic compared to their desktop siblings.

[0] Keyboard Performance: iPad versus Netbook: http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/122/ipadtyping.asp
Have a private message system which mods can use to send warnings and such to obnoxious users.
There is unfortunately still a long way to go in cost reduction. The 360 degree LIDAR (Velodyne) that Google uses (the rotating thing on the top of the car) is the most essential sensor, but costs about $80000. Other autonomous cars also use quite expensive technology like laser scanners and so on. Unfortunately it is not as simple as only IR sensors :)
A company like Google could probably hijack the bitcoin network. However, no matter how much hardware you throw at it, you will never make more than 300 BTC per hour. So it would be unlikely to be economically feasible to throw a giant server farm behind calculating bitcoins.

Perhaps it would become a sensible concern if a country would adopt BTC as their currency and another country would decide to attack that country by destroying their currency.
Unless there's some caveat that says 'if you got a discounted meal on the same receipt as a fully paid for meal then this specific receipt doesn't count towards the 8 receipts' then I don't really see how he's 'being difficult.'

Don't advertise something you don't plan on honoring, and you don't have 'difficult customers.'
As a somewhat pudgy software engineer who hasn't been in so much as a scuffle since primary school, knowing that I can "use my fists" against a street hardened, violent thug does not exactly leave me feeling empowered.

So you're subscribing to the idea that carrying a knife or gun is going to help? But more importantly, note this part of your quote: "hasn't been in so much as a scuffle since primary school". What, exactly, do you feel you need to defend yourself against? You want to bring sidearms into a nation to protect yourself from 'not so much as a scuffle since primary school'? The US has major problems with handguns and crime, but the genie is out of the bottle there.

The incidents of random, senseless, violent attacks against innocent bystanders by violent youths and thugs - usually without any other motive such as theft - is a bewildering common occurrence in Australia, and a well-known and widely talked about issue in contemporary Australian culture

I might be wrong here, but the 'random, senseless attacks' were a large part of NYC until the very recent efforts in making the city much safer. It's not something that is peculiar to the Australian psyche.

But yes, around nightclub districts there is a problem. Even your linked article it's talking about the heart of a nightclub district at 2:30am. But in reality street crime is no worse here than anywhere else. I think you're falling into the trap that Australians so like to fall into, claiming that the country is always going downhill and is worse than anywhere. It's like the people that claim our country is the most racist in the world. Sure, we have some problems with racism, but what countries don't? Whenever we have these discussions, there's almost never any actual comparison to contemporary countries - it's habit for us just to assume we're the worst (because like the US, we like to think we're #1, it seems :)

It's actually really hard to accurately compare crime directly between countries (excluding homicide). A punch-on between a couple of guys can end up with five charges being laid in Australia (ascending charges, one of them will stick), and is listed as 5 charges in the stats. NZ does this as well, but not many other places do. In contrast the US doesn't even bother publishing those stats, they'll generally only publish aggravated assaults, which are with either a weapon or resulting in severe injury.
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I kinda liked it actually. It's a linear sequence of simple operations, and there is an explicit connection between each successive operation (i.e. subsequent operatons are performed on the return value of the last operation).

That's what I personally love about method chaining anyhow.. Functional composition with a structure that's not completely ad hoc is kinda nice.
They aren't really comparable, you'd use each for different purposes. An NTR is an incremental design, you can use it in a more or less conventional rocket design, with massive improvements in payload and/or delta V capability.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is something different entirely. It has vastly higher exhaust velocity and vastly more thrust but has very different design requirements than NTRs. With it you could put enormous payloads into orbit (think battleships and aircraft carriers) if you were ok with the fallout, or you could intercept dangerous asteroids or comets with very short warning times, or you could launch payloads to neighboring stars at truly enormous speeds.
The BMW Track Trainer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Track_Trainer) can already beat most of the drivers. I think the difficult part is to beat the best ones. I doubt it will happen in the next 3 years, but I like the idea of Formula 0 very much :)
Those 'single transactions' start to be a lot more important the closer you get to your bill deadlines! People tend to be a lot more generous after the 1st of the month has past :-)
It's like Windows - Windows 7 OEM is about $100 and is tied to your mobo, while a retail Windows 7 can be used on a different machine. The retail version probably has a lower TCO.
Uranium or Plutonium isn't that dangerous, it's fission byproducts that are super dangerous, and they only build up over time.
This is really great news. Vagrant has really made my life easier as a developer, thanks Mitchell! I prefer VMware so this is awesome!

I personally think vagrant needs a UI manager of some sorts (I 'm thinking about doing this when I have more free time). I have about 10-15 vagrant boxes now and it can be a pain to manage. Having to go into each project directory and manually up'ing each vagrant box can be tedious.
One of the best ways to take advantage of an NTR is to use it as an upper stage where it will only ever operate outside of the atmosphere.
Yeah, looking forward to Thunderhill in my BRZ. Infineon is fine in a supercapable car like an R8 but something with less grip is probably scary. (I got all wheels off in the R8 anyway)
So the App and s SMS confirmation both told him about the extra charge and he waited until a driver came to confirm it?

Sounds like Uber were in the clear here and they are also correct that he wouldnt have got a Taxi at the time.
People of all religions tend to think that members of their religions are happier than non-members. It's a major part of the self delusion. There is nothing special about Christianity in this regard.
The sound of BitStant reminds me of "stunt" like a trick, or stunted like stunted growth. Either way not words i'd like associated with my brand were I a credit card company.
Well RPGs are cheap and easy to get, the stuff you mentioned isn't.