skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Linux advocate and user, but this looks closer to flag than upvote. The results are simply out of whack with any number of real world data sources, from distributions own statistics to google trends.
Wow, I thought everybody had heard of ATM card skinners by now. Be very careful at any ATM you use, don't think you are safe because you avoid that cafe's. And cover your hand when you enter a pin.
In addition, I advise most people not to run in concrete. I used to pound the pavement (literally) on a daily basis and I am pretty sure my knees are in worse shape for it.

If you want to run, find a nice track (that isn't asphalt) or a nice grassy or dirt trail. It's a bit dirtier, but it feels way better.
Ghost USB Honeypot: Interview with Project Leader Sebastian Poeplau
What counts as failure for an investor can be a big win for a founder.

Suppose a founder is in a dead-end job, but doing a startup for a year and a half leads to a much better job with more pay. That's a BIG win.
An interesting corollary to "Move your feet", instead of overanalyzing, is that you can't get good at something without doing it repeatedly. When you do something over and over again the analyzing mind starts noticing things that often turn out to be useful. The problem with the mind is that it does not really seem to know when it has enough information. As in the running case, the best thing would be to go out running (not too often at first, to avoid injuries), and gather information about running. But the mind does not mind to just analyze and analyze the same insufficient information available.
That's why we write papers. Plain English can be more coherent than a pile of code.
If you take the bible literally and assume that God is the father then is the fact Jesus has a Y chromosome proof that God is a man?
Let's come back to this thread in a few months, shall we?
I agree 100%. More if I could - the best way is to just get stuck into it and get some momentum. Though I think reasonably early on you step back and check you're doing things optimally.

One day I started running, just like the OP: I put on some shoes and ran. Eventually I followed a co-worker into a 5k race, 10k, half marathon, and eventually full marathon.

Much later I started a new job where one of my co-workers was an ex-pro runner. We went running one day and had to stop me right at the beginning: my running style was awful - I mean I got from point A to point B, but even with 1000s of kilometers under my belt I hadn't gotten good at it! It took me ages to unlearn and relearn to run.
> >They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards.

> No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions.

"Need blind" doesn't imply "legacy blind" or "blind to the political connections of the applicant's family". Harvard may not distinguish between someone who can pay and someone who can't, but I would be surprised if they didn't distinguish between someone who can pay for tuition and someone who can pay for a new wing of the library.
Nintendo lost almost a billion dollars last year.

Kinect Adventures was a pack-in game, so that doesn't really count.

So far, there have been only 7 Kinect-required titles in 2012, and except for 1, all are either movie tie-ins or rhythm games.

The one exception is Steel Battalion, which managed a whopping 90,000 sales, and a 35/100 Metacritic score.

In fact, only 2 Kinect titles have even managed to break an 80 on Metacritic, both music games.
Agreed, I enjoyed "Believe You Can Change" when it was posted on HN and was happy to find out this article was next in line in his "Raw Nerve" series. Thanks and can't wait for the next one
" First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me."

I remember the days in witch patenting software or business methods was unthinkable, but now it is the "New normal". It was hard to believe at the time but is happening now.
NASA building satellites with Android phones inside
ASK PG, Why U No Have Startup School 2012?
Weren't a lot of those interactions developed in academia before the iPhone came out? e.g. Jeff Han's TED talk, 2006: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_tou...

It's kind of bs that Apple can sue for people copying their gestures when they clearly were inspired by previous research on the topic..

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/if-android-is-a-s...

By they have "patents," so what should Universities do, should Universities spend all their time and resources patenting every little idea they come up with just in case some company decides to come along and copy them? Or maybe, just maybe, patent law juries should be required to actually properly review prior art, as the jurists in this case have admitted to ignoring?*

* http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl... "It was bogging us down."

I mean, honestly, if juries won't consider prior art because there is TOO MUCH OF IT, how can we expect to take patent law seriously?
> Apple's restrictions are all about controlling device owners to make Apple more money. (Otherwise they would be "suggestions".)

It's worth pointing out that Apple allows free (beer and speech) apps in the iOS App Store, and in fact most of the apps are free (as in beer). They are not making any money on those--to the contrary, they are an expense that Apple incurs.

Now, it's true that to get a free app into the App Store, a developer must pay their $99 to get their app signed. But--that still does not make Apple any money from device owners.

Code signing is a well understood security for verifying the integrity of end-user software; this is a plausible explanation for the app distribution lockdown of iOS, especially since that is Apple's own explanation.

And of course the App Store on the Mac (and code signing in general) remains optional.
If you'd prefer the material in print, Doug has written The Python Standard Library by Example.

http://www.doughellmann.com/books/byexample/
Elon Musk is without doubt one the best entrepreneurs around - far less celebrated than many of the other 'uber' entrepreneurs around but with such ridiculously awesome companies.

268 Miles (or slightly less according to the article) is just amazing - less C02, less environmental impact wrapped in a high performance car which - will no doubt - have some detractors as a first iteration against well establish models (comparing it to BMW and Mercedes who have been around for almost 90+ years is a big ask!)

None the less - it's ridiculously exciting at what's been achieved and what will be achieved in the next few years in this space. I give it no more than 3-4 years until these cars will be doing 400-500 miles or more.
Google already supports the schema.org formats for this exact info.
(e.g. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... and surrounding info)

Please don't take this the wrong way, since I think it's great that you are thinking about these problems, but :

It's not clear what advantage your format offers.
On the other hand, it has some pretty clear disadvantages, including generating massive amounts of possibly useless web traffic, not just on the server side, but on the crawling side, since now getting business info takes two requests, instead of one (when it is embedded in a schema.org format on the page).

Additionally, without some tag that tells you whether business.txt would exist, you get to check for every website.
This will slow down crawlers.

Given at least most of the companies on the crawling side of this want to support/support the schema.org markup version, ISTM you would be better off spending your time making simple generators for it or adding support for it to wordpress/et al.

FWIW: I have no comment on whether text formats are better than schema.org or anything like that, but to a large degree, it's irrelevant, because getting a large number of folks to support something they believe is already a solved problem is very very difficult.
I think the biggest challenge of this is finding friends that will tell you when you are wrong. And no wonder, it's really hard.

A friend of mine sent me a short story that they wrote not to long ago, and it was not very good. But I could not bring my self to say that, instead I made some little criticism and did not comment on the writing as a whole.

Anyone have tips on how to do this better?
Suggestion: use FreeDOS to avoid MS copyright issues.
I think there are some difference with the physics.
It's Just X Through Y While Z
Neal Armstrong memorial cartoon from NYT
Or scratch that and go barefoot. Let your feet do what they were meant to do by themselves: running!
Wanna improve your running? Start doing squats. The way to build up speed is to increase the force each step has against the ground. Moving your feet is fine, but if you train your body to push off the ground with more muscle you will certainly go faster.

Computer programming/rails learning is a lot of the same. Not sure what you mean by going right into the mastery of the language. In most compsci/programming stuff there are a lot of fundamental similarities between languages and really the differences can be challenging at first but are easy adaptable after a few examples and maybe a seg fault or two.

I guess my point is that every art form has a proper way of preparation. Move your feet, sure you will get better, but if you only follow this montra you are sure to run into a wall.
Samsung Staff React to US Court Ruling
As a counterexample, right now, I'm trapped in a job I don't want, because I signed a large rent (yes, I was dumb, but there weren't any good alternatives, there's a housing bubble in my country too).

I can't quit my job because of the rent. If I were an owner, I'd be able to quit. So, I exchanged one freedom for the other.
No.

This post should be titled "My 10 favorite colorschemes" because:

1. we don't need any colorscheme beside the default ones.

2. those are just your favorites, which nobody should care about.

Please tell me what plugins and settings I need: I'm too dumb and lazy to find them on my own.
Rethink Robotics Release Imminent
Ask HN: Are there any sites like LPTHW for Java?
As title says, I'm looking for a tutorial that's similar to LPTHW.
Any help would be fantasitc

Cheers
Yes, these files are the essential part of a boot disk. Did MS forbid people transfer boot disks when they were still selling DOS?

The emulator only runs on ARM cpu(at present works only for jailbroken iPad/iPhone). You can download it (free) at www.aemula.net/download.html

This is much less than DOSBox in terms of features, but when it runs, it runs fast.
But it's much cheaper, so why is it a problem? Why do you need to earn a salary to pay for a E4.50 coffee if you buy it for E0.50? It's only a problem if you earn much less than other countries but your expenses are the same, right? I mean Lisbon is expensive compared to other cities in PT, but wages are also higher to compensate. They are not 'high enough' (with the '' to say ofcourse they are never 'high enough', but you know what I mean?)?

We decided not to go to Lisbon because of the sheer amount of 'jumpers' (I don't know the proper term): people who will go to another company for E100/month more (probably because there is so much choice there). It's too hard to filter them out and we don't want them. We tried it for a bit but people coming to interviews with proposal letters from other companies in hand to get you to outbid is just not what we want. It's like cheating; you'll know they'll do it again.
I haven't actually seen a Factory Factory in a while. I think Dependency Injection has pretty much killed that anti-pattern.
> This is why the best programmers are in startups -- I do not believe you can be good at people and computers at the same time. And it is much more profitable to be involved in people, sadly.

Could this also be one of the _biggest_ reasons why startup fails? Lack of people skill and focusing on technical problems for the sake of technical? Not to mention lack of communication to know the intend of the code seems to be the biggest time sink on programmer's productivity.

Of course on the flip side you can always hire the smarter and smarter developers than the previous guy since you kind of need them to navigate the previous legacy code base. This seems to be the pattern in our industry.
> "Innovative startups that try to disrupt anything" will be safe, IMHO...

And you expect people to invest in business in the hopes that your "Humble Opinion" holds true?

I'm sure most startups are safe from being sued by Apple... as long as they don't become a threat to their business.

And of course, no startup is safe from IV and other patent trolls that are feeding this patent insanity.
>I find it thoroughly creepy that we define success through growth in a finite world. //

The current capitalist system revolves around rich people making more money because they are rich - that only works if they invest in companies that can return a [quick] profit.

It is very sad.
Consumers don't want to do this on desktop systems (how many people ever change OS from whatever their hardware came with? 2%? 4%?). Imagine dealing with hardware drivers, etc on your mobile device, plus the risk of bricking it if you try to flash the wrong build.
One of the most valuable assets of a service based company is there reputation, Rolodex and their phone number. Someone calls a plumber to come out and the guy at the other end says, "we changed our name to X" most people don't hang up and they don't actually care they just don't want to look for another plumber.
I suppose it depends on what you want out of the startup. If you want to change the world, an acqui-hire is a failure. If you want to make money, it can sometimes be a success.
What about blaming the insane counterproductive patent system instead?
Great engineers ship. It's helpful to remember that no matter what you write, someone will be able to criticize it. It's a lot easier to write code that does its job than it is to write code that's going to be critically evaluated by a huge panel of theoretical, hyper-critical programming gods.

A good thing to do when you find yourself paralyzed in a rut is to tell yourself you're going to write the first one as a throw-away prototype, whose purpose in life is to explore the solution space and learn what you need to do it right. Give yourself the freedom to do whatever on that first version. The learning is always the most valuable part of any deliverable anyway.
Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe
Native vs HTML5 – Why Facebook’s native app does not mean ‘native is better’
Check out: http://programming-motherfucker.com/

By the Zed who does LPTHW
Complete authentication app based on Clojure, Noir and MongoDB
These posts have been reminding me of Malcom Gladwell, in the unfortunate way: an collection of interesting anecdotes that together would make an interesting story instead are blown up into a broader statement that doesn't seem to follow.
I don't think border crossings are really a daily occurrence for most in Europe. More common than in the US? Sure. But still not anything like a majority of users do this often, and I'm sure almost none of them are happy with having to do so.
This version is more readable, so the PDF conversion was badly done.
Defining your startup's brand
Cancer Detection Neural Network wins Top Prize at Google Fair
For example: a lot of Detroit, Michigan.
Almost all my friends come over make a beeline for my library and start poking around.

Sometimes, I look at a person and pick out a book that they need. Maybe it is because I am gushing over book X and pressing it into their hands.

If you don't have friends poking around in your library, it's probably best to drop it into the cloud. Those collections get heavy. That's why I am thinking of up designs to draw people into the virtual library.
Andyhd/asteroids
UK’s Internet video regulator is here to stay
I believe he fantasized himself. Does anyone know of post 1990s a case where the small guy won in patent litigation against BigCo (I'm genuinely curious)? If it was his patent, I think he would want to defend it, but I doubt he could.
A lot of Acqui-hires are a choice between 98% chance of total failure vs. x% of their initial investment back. It's not a goal it's simply a way to cut their losses when the company is on their last legs.
Memory-wise & fast trie for Python (may use 50x-100x less memory than dict)
Yeay, now I can have a really secure login to my insecure files?
" you should not be able to just close your credit card account and be able to walk away from a contractual recurring payment agreement into which you entered."

Of course you should. What if the other party fails to uphold their side of the contract, rendering it invalid? You are suggesting that the cardholder must pay regardless of the contract terms. In reality, either party may violate the terms of their contract in incalculable ways. Singling out consumer payments is extremely myopic.

I understand you're playing devil's advocate here, but this position is extremely flawed.
> and the latter aren't in it for the money.

It's for the latter. We certainly need money to survive, and the more money we have such that we don't have to show up to work on someone else's for-profit idea, the more time we have to give to our projects.
The Lean Startup of Me [blog]
Expensive launch encourages expensive satellites. Expensive satellites encourage expensive launch. It's a vicious cycle.
Ah well, not saying you shouldn't use that. Just saying i wouldn't ;)
The jurors blatantly disregarded the court's instructions. They were to be thorough, unbiased and apply the law, not send a message. Good chance for a mistrial.
Maybe you didn't read the same link? Arment did not mention that text in some apps looks worse on the rMBP than on a non-retina screen, which is true regardless of the chosen resolution on the rMBP and is a pretty big issue right now if you use one of those apps frequently -- stopped me dead in my tracks when I saw it at the Apple store. He was using the lower resolutions to avoid the lagginess problem. Eventually this will be sorted out -- although Microsoft's early signals and Mac track record indicate it might be a long wait. But it's relevant information that many potential buyers would want to know.
Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit
Sure there is. If you cut out protein, and eat chips or cookies whenever you are hungry, you will eat a lot more calories total, because you will feel less full.
Sad to read this. I recognised his name, having seen the same domain name for years as really the primary effort towards making JavaScript graphic-friendly before the APIs were designed to make it do so.

It's a pity to think there's still no effective mechanism in place to prevent sites like this disappearing. But it also shows the importance of Wayback Machine.
I think they'll still add you to places/directories you don't want your site to be in.

Building good links yourself can take time but it's really worth it. Aim for 5 a day for a few weeks.

You care the most about the success of your site. No SEO service will take the time & trouble to do it properly.

If you'd like help specific to your website, my email is in my profile.
What was your radiation testing like? My understanding is that there's a lot of skepticism that this thing will run for very long. NASA uses hardened processors to make sure radiation from outside the atmosphere doesn't affect electronics and using an off-the-shelf SoC built on a tight whatever nm processes has never been done before for fears of early mortality.

The only exception I can think of is laptops on the ISS and on the space shuttle, but those were within the shielding of the craft. On top of that, those laptops are hardened against radiation. I believe they took off the shelf Lenovo Thinkpads and added some shielding.
This anecdote, holy crap.
How to use Zapier to view your foretaster e-mails within Google Calendar
When the jury indicate that they didn't read the jury instructions and consequently did things that they were not meant to do, it's completely fair for them to be criticised.

Hell, if anyone else in the courtroom did something of a similar nature, it'd be a mistrial, so how is that an overlookable offense?
Yes, you need to consciously maintain your good diet to avoid overeating when you exercise to make yourself hungry.
The Entrepreneur's View from Chile
I think Elon Musk is over celebrated...

He was fired from Pay-Pal
He didn't start Tesla Motors (that was Martin Eberhard)
He didn't start spaceX

He is good at marketing though...
Ask.com buys About.com for $300M
There is actually an XML version of TeX: http://getfo.org/texml/
What's wrong with Markdown links [1]? I'd have a hard time coming up with a better syntax than this:

[Google][]
[google]: http://www.google.com/
[Google][1]
[1]: http://www.google.com/
[Google](http://www.google.com)

I'm not sure what you mean about double-spacing either. Line breaks (<br />) are made by adding two spaces to the end of a line. If you don't like that, try GitHub-flavored Markdown [2].

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#links
[2]: http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
At around 51:30, there is an off-topic question from the audience, which leads to an great answer:

Q: What can you say about making a living writing things. Will you advise it?

A: If you want to make a living writing things I would advise you to stop trying, because that is a bit like saying “I want to make a living buying lottery tickets”. Sounds like a If you don’t have a plan B for earning a living, you have the wrong career. Writing is a very very high-risk entrepreneurial venture that almost everyone who tries it fails at. Some people have succeeded using CC and some fraction without using CC, but they are rounding errors against all the people who try to earn a living with writing.

Ouch! As a founder of a textbook startup it makes me wonder on this Monday morning. I guess he is talking specifically about writing fiction. Textbooks must be OK, Right?
If your neighbor can make money siphoning gas out of your tank and selling it to strangers, why can't you?
Overloading the request method using URL paramaters, as the author mentions is a bad idea. What is accepted behavior, is overloading the request method using hidden form data in a POST request.

The later is what Rails actually does - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html section 2.4

"There are two noncontroversial uses for overloaded POST. The first is to simulate HTTP's uniform interface for clients like web browsers that don't support PUT or DELETE" - RESTful Web Services, Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby.
Actual author of the article here. Was really excited to see my own blog post on Hacker News, because I didn't even submit it here.

I appreciate any kind of feedback, not only for the code or the explanations but also for my blog in general, style, etc. I'm rather new to blogging. Also, feel free to ask me anything.
Please don't use 'whom' gratuitously.
Give a free app, but make em pay.
"IAP only works if you nag or tell each user about it by locking them out of what they want."

You can't be nice about free apps, you have to make it a pain point for the user or else they won't upgrade and you won't make any money.
"Take the patent system away"

You can? Why don't you.
The only way the Internet is supposed to work is by routing packages to the machines with the right IP address.
The meat you'll find at a McDonalds, e.g.
I've found HAML (http://haml.info/) to be my ideal reduced HTML syntax, strange not to see it mentioned here.