skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents live in a really shitty neighbourhood in Melbourne Australia (40 kms from downtown). I sold my car $50k car and bought a $2000 Corolla that would stall if it was too cold in the morning. Believe me it wasn't easy :).
Great, let's post troll bait to HN.
true, working mostly with unix, this possibility did not occur to me. Still it's pretty obvious ... Maybe Dalton should rename app.net in metro ;)
No, not really.

1) never forget Indian ingenuity to break systems. Jugaad is the proper term.

2) the data itself is being faked already. In this thread there is a first hand account of people going to villages and making duplicate UID cards. 2 separate cards for each hand.

3) data has already been lost and stolen

4)overlaps. The current system already has some thing like 1 million to .1 million overlaps from one set of calculations I recall. On top of that you have overlap everytime a new generation gets added to the database.

Do you want to be the person with a faulty card in india? Do you want to see what happens to poor people who have no access to the net?
As I read the article, it's not about raising money---it's about the exchange/the transaction. By offering "rewards" on KS, you're making a sale.
Second that. As long as I've got my trusty electronic device with me, any wait below 2 hours is nothing to me. With the charger and internet connection, make that 2 days ;)

Of course, if you don't have such an electronic device, some people say a thing where entertaining or illuminating texts are permanently fixed to a pieces of processed plants, also known as "book", often helps. I've used that remedy many times too, and can vouch for its effectiveness.
About 15 years ago (that long already? ;)) I saw a documentary state that scientists had done studies showing that time perception could be manipulated by changing their temperature.
The warmer it was, the more slowly time seemed to pass. The colder it was, the faster it seemed to pass.
They hypothesized that since people's core body temperature dropped as they age, that it could be a factor in why time seemed to pass faster as we age.
For some reason I've always favored this solution.
If he also puts in a few million dollars, you might consider it. But otherwise, no.
I think you guys should sit down together and write down a list of what you will be contributing to the company. Im sure it will become very clear as to how you should break up the company. In my opinion after reading your post it doesnt look sound like you should be splitting the company 50/50
Will your work somehow integrate/interface with the work these guys are doing: http://hypothes.is

Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNrAS979MfA
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A quote from the article: "Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University, who was widely criticized for his 2008 comment about women’s lack of natural aptitude for science and math, ..."

It's false -- Summers said no such thing. Summer's remarks were widely misinterpreted and led to his resignation from Harvard, but his point was simple and has been made by many: there is a theory that both genders have exactly the same mean I.Q., but for evolutionary reasons men's sigma (standard deviation) is wider -- meaning men are more likely to be outliers than women, both smarter and dumber. So, on average, and contrary to the claim in the article, Summers said men and women have the same aptitude for math and science.

In other respects the article is constructive -- if women cannot control their own fertility, they can't control anything. This makes free access to reproductive methods and rights, and education, a top priority.
The kudos widget is a direct ripoff. The notable differences like the charicature are probably deviations from the WordPress theme.
The only time I remember caring about flash was when i was uninstalling it so I could avoid all the crappy uses of flash in the web.

For me Flash has always been an often over/misused solution like Java applets often were - a simpler wayto develop something flashy rather than a good way.

However, I wouldn't want to imagine a history without DTD so flash has a place in my heart for games :)
I thought it was pretty clear that the great-grandparent post was referring to being asked out, not being raped. In fact, the latter interpretation didn't even cross my mind until I read comments like yours, although I see now how the post is textually ambiguous.

But which seems likelier to you: that the poster is reflecting on women playing hard to get--something that most straight guys experience frequently--or that he at best finds rape funny and at worst is advocating it?
The resulting video is one trillion frames per second which the title is referring to.

This video shows 10,000 fps video camera which seems to be on a commercially sold camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQ37OfknJ
Unlike the minority of scientists that don't believe in climate change.

They certainly couldn't be financially motivated by the big oil and coal companies.
You're repeating an assertion by the industry that fracking, and natural gas is "greener" and helps lower greenhouse gas emissions. It's (unsurprisingly) false, or at least challenged by independent science.

A study was released late last year by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) [1] which found that a switch to natural gas would increase warming over the next few decades, as outlined in NCAR's report [2].

It acknowledges something the shale gas industry studiously avoids in calculating figures for its green credentials pitches: fugitive emissions. A significant amount of methane leakage occurs in the fracking process and piping of gases.

When you add in the input-intensive activity of multiple well constructions, fracking, pipeline construction, and fugitive emissions the 'green' story of shale gas doesn't add up.

There was a piece recently on another atmospheric scientist coming to the same conclusion. She uncovered significant underestimation of fugitive emissions of methane (speculating that it is at least double the official figures) and concluded that they are also underestimating release of other chemicals. [3]

[1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/b430681263425q64/?MUD=MP

[2] https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/5292/switching-coal-nat...

[3] http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/151545578/frackings-methane-tr...
The important thing is this has nothing to do with technology. It's more about psychology--what type of assumptions people make when using these technologies.
Newer to HN. How should I go about getting feedback for my site about to launch?
Hello everyone! I am part of a startup company that is launching very soon, and I would love the opportunity to get some good quality feedback from the Hacker News community. (intentionally left out the name to avoid giving off a self-promotion impression) The truth is I feel this community is the most relevant group of critics for what we have and would really value what everyone on here has to say.

Our website focuses on discovery and curation of educational resources for career advancement and life enrichment. We accomplish this by organizing online courses from 200+ providers with over 50,000 courses. We supplement this search engine with quality comparisons and reviews of the best courses for each unique learning style and budget.'

My question for you all is how should I go about posting our site on HN once it's live in order to generate some good quality feedback? I am hoping to go about it in a way that will elicit a lot of engagement and hopefully get a good thread going of constructive feedback (postive or negative)

Thank you in advance for any advice!
I remember a similar thing happening when Apple introduced the iMac with no 3.5" floppy drive. People thought that was crazy. Also, to a lesser extent, when they introduced the Air with no CD-ROM. When was the last time you used your CD-ROM? Moral of the story: technology changes.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? Personally, I declared MySQL doomed (if not immediately dead) as soon as Oracle took over. I know this isn't proof of its death, but really. This was a long time coming.
Stock tickers are decentralised. Trading houses 'subscribe' to ticker 'feeds' from many different exchanges and receive updates in 'real time'.
>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.

Wow, never would have guessed that. Could you elaborate?
Don't worry. Its probably going to get get excruciatingly long at the end.

Seriously, its the thinking too much about the past and the future that lead to this perception.

You probably just thought about it a lot less when you were young.
Unless the library got renamed, in which case you'll get a 404 with no indication whatever that anything had ever existed at that URL.
As someone who has worked with flash extensively in the past, my take is similar. There's no need for Flash for animations, ads, etc. However, I still think when it comes to building in depth games, Flash is king by far. It's also still the best for some other things, such as webcam apps, microphone apps, etc.
Interesting idea. Out of curiosity - are you printing and mailing all these by hand or is there some cunning automation there?
> It will be interesting to see if the "global warming" trend continues despite lower carbon dioxide levels

CO2 levels might be going down in the US but throughout the developing world they are rising dramatically.

So if there is a link between CO2 and 'global warming', which I suspect there is, then global warming it is here to stay.
I dread the day I go to an art gallery and have to jockey for postion amongst a bunch of iPads on segways.
HTML5 and H.264.

next question.
That is 1 server for every 50 users.

Seems a bit excessive at first think but that is the price of resilience.
Thank you for the mental image of that.

Edit: I thought you were joking until I clicked the title..
If anyone is interested, I took the time to download all the MP4 files, and made a torrent: http://cl.ly/3v3R2G111u1X/download/Everything%20I%20Know.tor... I'll seed when I get time (including overnight), so please seed if you find it valuable :)

I have not watched them all, but they all seem to be working. There is a gap in the numbers in part 11, but that's consistent with the site.
At least from my point of view in writing the article, strong -> power to move; stubborn -> refusing to move.

I don't think anyone should be die-hard anything, because there's always a lot of grey area, and, as you said, you can rarely work in such an ideal environment. But having an idea of the tradeoffs you're making is extremely useful.
I still run into a LOT of sites that lose a lot of value on mobile devices due to lack of Flash.

I actually think the situation is marginally better than two years ago, but I think we've just accepted that there won't be a great mobile flash implementation.
A guy at work has a Nexus 7 which has no SD card slot and no removable battery. I remember when the Android people used those features as a differentiator.
I've been to restaurants where you get a random word instead of a number, and it solves that problem nicely.
But that's not what it's being used for. UID compulsory for gas? UID being used for all sorts Of things other than assistance to the poor.

UID data being compromised already - first hand account in this thread.

Constant feature creep. Every single person who has such positive hopes needs to take a good long look at its real implementation, it's reall failings and it's drawbacks. Without looking at potential possible positives.
Every employee is a representative of the company. That includes the legal and marketing departments. And it is indeed, as another commenter calls it, lame for persons outside those departments to use them as an excuse. It's their responsibility to communicate with their colleagues and present a consistent face of the company. I know little about Teralogix, but from reading of this little stunt I am not sure I want to. Extremely unprofessional.
Tip: On Favilous lighten up the black just a little bit. It's unnaturally dark and is constantly drawing my attention thus preventing me from focusing on the text on the page.
I have a feeling that everyone in this particular branch of the thread seems to criticize me based on their disagreement with the definition of terms I used.

I understand it can be confusing because I used these terms interchangeably as well as in more loose context, and I apologize for being incoherent. I tried to elaborate my logic throughout the rest of this thread here and there, so if you have time, please read through them.

Trust me. I do know a thing or two about the technologies I mentioned in the post.
Ahh..you're awesome. Thanks for this great reply!
Here is my take on the question...

1. Kids are bored too often so time seems to take forever.

2. Career life and building a family is so busy that time flies by.

3. Retirement and empty nesting seems to go by fast because you think more about your pending demise and also have nothing to show for your life day after day (career goals ETC.)
It can also make UI code much more readable, but it also comes with the cost of making the bytecode much larger (each use of the double-brace initialization creates a new class).
Haven't iPhones always supported HTML5 video with H.264? People still complained about the lack of flash.
I've come to expect this sort of shit (garbage isn't strong enough) from TC, but not HN.
One of the major takeaway from E-Myth is that i learnt the importance of business automation, e.g. creating organization charts, business operations manuals, financial reports, business metrics, etc.
It is true that quality is more important than quantity. But somehow in many cases people do use that as an excuse to slack off, and on the contrary, people delivering the best quality also those that do not skimp on quantity. If somebody knows how to do his thing in an excellent way, he'd probably also stay after 3pm on Friday to finish his thing. If his mind turns off at 3pm, then maybe he wasn't turned on too much even at 2pm. At least where it concerns professions which require personal engagement, if you just dig holes 9 to 5 (to 3 on Friday) then it's different of course.
"the Android people". We're still thinking like this?
Didn't log in (like others have mentioned, I hate using FB login without knowing exactly what it does).
But - I did go to the "about" page, and you really should get a native English speaker to go over the text.

Good luck!
I have never heard Auckland described as walkable. It's easily the worst city I have been to in that regard, unless you have a car, you're pretty much stuck.
It's a pretty flattering article about home I'd say.
This seemed pretty dumb until I watched the video. The highlighted art gallery use-case is very, very weak and contrived in my opinion.

Definitely a killer product though. There are lots of very serious potential uses for something like this and it looks to be executed very well.
Making things emits carbon.

Making big, expensive things emits lots of carbon.

Making too many of the most expensive thing most people ever own emits massive of carbon.

That's what the housing bubble was. And its collapse caused much fewer big things being made. And much less carbon to be emitted.
HN is probably the most reactionary and negative tech community i've seen. Pretty much every announcement of anything new that doesn't have [YC S12] after it is met with fear or anger.
I've dreamed about sleeping in a little cocoon module for most of my life

Hammock?
This is nice, especially how it encourages using the in-browser development environment. I think it should more strongly direct people to use Chrome so it can be one set of instructions and go deeper.
The article is from February of 2008. Is there any reason to post this?
agree. GitHub: A Social Network for Programmers (2008) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/github_a_social_network...
I feel incredibly lucky to have started learning to code with resources like Github, Stack Overflow and Railscasts. It has made the process so much easier. Thank you, Github.
Seriously? Sending things is an interesting strategy if it's your business, but bribes are counterproductive. Unless premature desperation is a trait YC seek.
I'd venture to say that there were many more flash sites then now. Web site developers had 2 years to move away from Flash.
I maybe wrong but I don't think there is an easy way to integrate ads into HTML5 videos. Isn't it why Hulu or Youtube still prefer flash?
In the US, there are no more lockers in airports post-9/11.
I use a chrome extension called disconnect, that blocks tracking from facebook, google, twitter, etc.

When I open hipset it looks like this: http://imgur.com/9hEX5

Nada, nothing.

When I allow facebook I can see the site.

This and the facebook only login, made me instantly close the site and forget it. Btw, I work two jobs: Programmer and musician. And that site was just disappointing on all fronts.
I have lived in a country wil multi-party election system. I am not really sure you'd prefer it to US system if you saw it in action. In multi-party system, one of the "big" wins the elections and then has to bargain with smaller parties to create a ruling coalition. This bargaining usually a completely disgusting process of political horse-trading, where narrow-issue parties wield wildly unproportional influence and extract huge concessions due to their political position. This also happens sometimes on narrow votes in US system, but while in US this is more of an exception, in multi-party state this is the only way to go. What is called "pork barrel spending" in US and seen as something that should be reduced if not eliminated completely in US is the only way to spend in a good multi-party system, because without buying off smaller parties (which are not shy of outright extortion because they have enough votes to hold small but key position and do not fear to look bad because they don't have to woo independents) no law and no budget can ever pass.

I'm not saying any of the systems is best or worst in each case, but multi-party system has as many, if not more, problems than two-party system.
They're not that different. They are both SQL, it's just a small amount of extra syntax that MySQL created - useful syntax, and PostgeSQL supports those things. In a different way, sure, but the basic idea of those things is not that different.
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More about the DRM than the ads.
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Wow, the promo video is one of the nicest I've seen since Apple and Square. Would love to know who did it for you guys?

Really awesome idea. I assume the robot must be connected on WiFi to move and function?
>I'm sure you're not making stuff up, so could you provide your citation?

Sure, happy to oblige. It was on a comment in his Google+ page (around 1/5 scroll length) he said:

"no, Lenovo doesn't [still make quite decent hardware]. I have the Lenovo X1. It's bigger, plasticky, and has worse battery life".

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCY...
Oh, thanks. Now I get it. I think the problem was I missed that this was a reply to pg's acquiescence. It was several pages down by the time I read it so the joke was lost.
You may remember us from such recent Hacker News hits as... (Troy McClure voice)

http://weusethat.com -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357348

http://gmailzero.com -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4107004

Portland Seed Fund -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447641

Seriously though, excited to have you try us out! We're still pretty new and eager for feedback. We know we have a long way to go in terms of friendliness of the site.
Thankfully they surely cannot weigh that much. I wonder what they would do if people got in the habit of picking them up and moving them out of the way.
I met the double guys at an event earlier in the summer. They had just been accepted into YC and had brought one of their original prototypes to the party and were driving it around.

It was a prototype, with a rough cut aluminum skeleton and questionable balance, but it was still a goddamn iPad segway, and they were driving it around a crowded space talking to people through the camera. It was awesome.

I can't speak to how big the telepresence market is, or how the price point compares, but I wish these guys the best of luck, because while I'm sitting at my desk coding another web application, these guys are building freaking robots.
Thank you for putting this way more eloquently than I could. Sometimes HN feels like it's full of real-life Leonard Hofstadters.
My more than 2 year old DroidX works better than most latest phones. DroidX is one of the best devices of its time.
Hope they add DroidX.
The public transport has definitely improved in the last few years but I agree. Unless you live/work in the CBD you'll have a difficult time without a car.
Seems really cool but I can't ever see using a giant touchscreen all day like that. Imaging the fatigue that would ensue and the Repetitive Use Injuries (RSI) that would occur.

I really like the concept though. I would really like to see something that used similar features in a coding IDE.
Just curious, why does this bother you?
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Most if not all of these places only allow Japanese people in.
Given the huge need for engineers in SV, I'm curious as to how well one of these robots would allow someone remotely to participate in our team's day-to-day interactions. Particularly pair programming..

I'm not $2,000+ curious, but still has me wondering..
If he's CEO but not the owner, be careful about non-compete provisions in his employment contract which might create legal liability for your company in the future, especially if he brags about bringing "lot of customers" with "strong connections within the industry".
As a Yank in New Zealand, here are the things that I enjoy:

- The people are friendly. Hitchhiking works; particularly on the South Island.

- Everywhere is beautiful. I spend 5 hours in an open-pit coal mine. In NZ, even the coal mines are pretty.

Things I don't like:

- Racism. It's not hateful, but it's omnipresent.

- Sexism. There are boy jobs and girl jobs. This is, apparently, improving; and I haven't seen disparate pay for identical work.

How to come here: Use Helpx.net. Exchange 4 hours of work a day for food and accommodation. Almost any kind of work, in almost anywhere in the country. I've been helpxing for 7 months, hitchhike between hosts, and barely spend a penny.
"And now it’s gone forever... and Adobe has set its sights on Air as a capable replacement for whatever Flash was good for."

Someone should probably explain to this guy that Air is Flash.