skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, this device could run into the same legal issues the segway did. Since it's a motorized vehicle it is technically not allowed on sidewalks in many jurisdictions. But I also wouldn't feel nearly as safe riding this on the side of a busy street as I would on a bike. Hopefully forward thinking cities will come up with a legal solution because it's definitely a more practical mode of transportation than the segway.
Fats are a slower source of energy, but not less efficient. At 9 calories per gram vs 4 for carbs, it's no wonder that our bodies choose to store fat as a fuel reserve. Yes, carbs are also stored, but only a very small amount that can be diminished quickly.

Also, there is a difference between your goals and the goals of the OP. He clearly wants to lose weight while you sound content with maintaining. He could certainly transition to a less strict diet once his goals are met.
Who exactly is this for? If you are looking for beginners, why even ask for a github profile?
Curiously enough there was another startup this batch that did the converse: used Segway-like balancing technology in what will probably turn out to be a better way: http://doublerobotics.com
Exactly.

"information is easily accessible on LinkedIn". Unless LinkedIn has some psychic abilities, LinkedIn only knows what I voluntarily add. My LinkedIn profile contains only company names, dates, and titles. No descriptions. No StackOverflow. Github is used to share code with those I know, not some vanity site.

I work with an amazing team, but you won't find us online (except for mailing lists or slides from talks).
Have you checked Whirlpool?

http://whirlpool.net.au/
Whole dollar amounts only? More often than not, a transaction is not a whole dollar amount.
> Creating links is easy. Just change the Product Title and Price.

I like the concept, but allowing price to be changed in the URL is a horrible idea. It would be better if you could create products with a defined price on your homepage and get a tokenized URL in return.
During the last HA round I noticed that LivingSocial has Portland offices, as do a few of the companies that App Academy works with (vmware springs to mind, was just there yesterday).

My problem is there is no way I can leave for a couple months to participate, it's just not possible in my situation. I truly believe that the immersive programs offered by these companies would work best for me - in ways that school or self-study don't - but location is a huge mitigating factor.
Yes; some employers are flying in from across the country for interview day!
This is a bit different, I believe. Segways just do not look cool, and you would be kind of embarrassed riding one, unless you really don't give a fuck what the world thinks. These on the other hand are cool enough that you are ride them without looking like a clown.
Spore saved its creatures in their portrait pictures: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200806/spore_creature_creator_...
Correlate the cancers in which the US is ahead of 2 out of 3 of France, Germany, and the UK, to the cancers that kill the most people (incidence and mortality). Pull out lung cancer, for which there is a clear causal explanation.

Now compare that result to life expectancy rankings. That's the point I'm making.
IPhone 5 could boost GDP 0.5 percent, JP Morgan says
This is awesome too, if a lot shorter: clojurekoans.herokuapp.com
The electronics will be somewhat water resistant, but we don't recommend riding in the rain. A big reason for that is the wheels (from standard longboards) are slicks and are somewhat dangerous in wet weather.

It is very capable at uphill climbing and downhill braking. Our ability to stay standing on it is usually the limiting factor.

As for why you would choose this over others, it's the lightest, has way more power than most, and has a fantastic design and riding experience.
Creating Universal Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Kendo UI
Like all technology it will get cheaper. Even now it seems empirically to be a good deal if you can afford it, judging from the reactions of the three YC partners that bought one.
The post seems rendered from markdown client-side.

I fail to see how this even remotely makes sense, though.
I love the concept and I've been trying to use it for over a year now. I see two issues:

1. No native Android application.
They try to sell themselves as a replacement for both SMS and email combined, which would be great, but if I'm limited to IMAP, there's no way it can replace email.

2. Yet another email address.
Sometimes someone does need to send me a long email, and I do need to read it. The process needs to be possible but mildly painful (to discourage them from doing it). Quarantining/bouncing the email (their current solutions) aren't quite right. But they're on the right track.

However, I'm holding out hopes for one reason: they're implementing this as an open protocol - ie, within the extant email headers, so the functionality isn't limited to Shortmail-hosted email.
Ask HN: my GF is a graphic designer - how should she find work?
My GF is a graphic designer (HTML, CSS, AJAX, PHP, Wordpress, Illustrator - that sort of thing). Her current employer is cutting her hours back, and she's asked me how to get work (ideally contract work). As a self-employed software engineer, I have no idea. So, HN: your advice, please. How should a graphic designer look for work (gigs, ideally, but perhaps a real job)? Craigslist? Whatever the designer equivalent of boston.rb is? Cold calling?
Well, I don't know where you worked, but routers being misconfigured never took down any of my networks for longer than a couple hours. I've always had backups of my configurations that I could restore at a moment's notice.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-m...

Not sure if those tweets were actually from before it happened.
Are these boards common in America or elsewhere. Here in Dublin, Ireland I have seen perhaps one long board in my life.

Is there a certain terrain or area which suits these boards or are they good for any urban street type scenario.

At that price, I can see no advantage over a bike or even a small motorbike. Wondering is this something that people think will do very well in the market they are targeting?
Cut your own nano SIM for the iPhone 5
It's difficult to group this directly with the segway. The segway had to adapt it's users to a new form of transportation, the boosted boards already have a large consumer base to dip into. It's a great enhancement.
There's an interesting disconnect between the public perception of email transmission and the reality, even from technically savvy observers.

The view you're espousing of the 'basic' nature of email can usually be summed up as : "It's just sending a bunch of ascii from machineA to machineB"

The reality of the complexity of email transmission is that it's an ad-hoc communications network built around an evolution of RFC standards, amended to accommodate i18n, combined with myriad third-party solutions and walled-garden 'standards' to combat a combination of real and perceived threats such as SPAM, DDoS, backscatter, spoofing, joe-jobbing, image encoding...

The main question around your proposed Auto-Updated system is what combination of these solutions are you using, how much are you paying for someone to maintain this, and do you care about the ability to customize for the inevitable false-positives caused by the necessary filters in place.

For large organizations there are solutions - Exchange being one - but they still require large amounts of custom work. The reality of Business A's needs still differ greatly from Business B, even though we're essentially just talking about sending 150Kb of ascii from machineA to machineB.
What Sushi Can Teach About Entrepreneurship
Yes, wasn't criticizing, just enjoying.
And sign an NDA,before he could tell you his suuuuuper awesome idea.
We actually found that essay after working on this project for almost a year, and I believe after applying to YC. The parallels are undeniable, though.
Nice work. Keep it up. As long as you're eating enough nutrients, your body will adjust to a healthy weight. Like others have said, try adding more healthy fats to your diet. They will help provide energy as well as satiety. What you're doing is sustainable. Visit marksdailyapple.com to see how thousands of others live like this.
I would love to hear your ideas and comments on the article! http://jonkhaykin.com/jiro-entrep/

Thanks!
Looks like a good concept, I've wondered why there isn't better time series databases that are open source
Agreed, Erlang is a total weirdo.

As a language is "bad weird", but as a platform is "good weird". Projects like Elixir are way exciting for this reason.
I had these exact same questions: riding in Seattle/SF and Cleveland.

I don't think there's any way to make a safe powerful brake system for skateboards unless you're ready to do the stale fish maneuver, i.e. hit the brake button and grab the board, which, if there's a kiteboard-style handle, seems plausible

OTW, you have to learn power slides to make drastic decelerations, or bail off the front and kick the board behind you, but I almost got run over a few times in SF doing that. This also only works if you're not going faster than you can run. I found that out empirically too

Not really relevant, but i saw somebody a couple years ago ride a shopping cart full of bottles (probably weighed a couple hundred pounds) down the steep hill on Haight st from Baker to Divis. He's my hero
What we're being told internally matches the public response. Reading between the lines, it sounds like there may have been human error involved, but that's just speculation.

Our interim CEO confirmed that affected users are receiving a full month refund.
I do wish I had caught that before it was deleted.
We struggled to really explain the value prop in a 2 minute video, for sure.

The concept of proactive (as it exists in our beta) is more in the sense of "fix their problem before they have to ask you to fix it". But our goal is absolutely to help you to "fix their problem before they know they have a problem".

We've been able to do that to a certain extent with FolioHD customers manually by seeing patterns in their usage where we can suggest an optimization.

For instance:

We see a user uploading images one by one and can shoot them a message saying: "hey john, did you know that you can select all your images at once when you're uploading? save some time!"

or, we see someone uploading custom images to use for their homepage slideshow that are branded with logos that don't look great in their portfolio proper, so we can reach out and say "hey jamie - did you know you can create a separate gallery for your homepage features and then hide it so it doesn't show up inside your portfolio?"

So this is what we mean when we say "proactive". When we see one or two people having problems, we can help them out to best use our product. And if we see a lot of people missing key features, we know that we need some UX work.

It's been pretty great, and that's why we figured we should polish it up and release it for other people to use.
Primarily because the Web is a Pull medium, whereas email is Push. To get my eyeballs on the web you first have to trick me into going to your location. To get my eyeballs on Email you just have to know my easy-to-guess personal address.
How To: Right-sizing The Datatypes Currently In The Buffer Pool
Show HN: Dicely, a webapp to make decisions on where to eat
Use these stickers when you see a product that looks remarkably Apple-esque.
I'm a nerd through and through too. Being a nerd doesn't mean that you can't have an appreciation for some kinds of humanities, though, especially if you take a very analytical approach to it. E.g., Psychology at MIT is rather scientific, and Philosophy is rather logical. And for creative writing, I, of course, wrote Science Fiction.
I think it's a give and take. You might have some users try and change the price.. but I don't really think a user would expect to change the price and get away with it. After all, you have a record of each transaction in your Stripe account. Presumably you would verify each transaction before providing the product or service.

The idea is; I want to make it very easy to create URLs. Think of embedding this in your invoicing software https://username.easybill.co/Invoice-{invoice_no}/{invoice_p.... Then it's just generated in the invoice template. That ease of use is what I was going for.
Having riden mine in traffic, it's actually pretty reasonable to ride in a bike lane. Cars give a wide berth and are usually paying a lot of attention because it's unusual for a skateboarder to be able to ride alongside cars at bike speeds.
Single drive reliability means nothing. In a SSD, doubly so.

ZFS won't kill the need for external backups, even in the least.
Vanity Milestones | Chris Dixon
One feature suggestion, which you've probably already thought of, is automatic braking in case you fall and the board starts rolling away.
Your assuming at the lower end of the scale are accurately diagnosed.

However, for a simple idea of how bad the US healthcare system really is look at this: http://www.cddep.org/tools/methicillin_resistant_staphylococ...
Very good point: long variable names make it harder to spot when they've been mistyped. Even worse, some long variables become other long variables when mistyped in just the right characters.

On the other hand, in long variable names, the excess of characters provides redundancy, which makes it easier to error-correct. The parent post is riddled with errors that would halt a compiler, but many humans would not even notice them.
No motorized skateboards in CA :( http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21968.htm

However, I wonder how strongly this is enforced...
Thanks for the feedback. I'm young as well and working through debt. The point isn't necessarily to venture out and start a company but to begin inculcating a founder-like outlook on how you work and approach life, even in the largest organizations. Finding opportunity, approaching work with a beginner's mind, etc. can be done in any organization, large or small.
Looking for what people think and any helpful feedback. Just made by a bunch of us who got tired of asking the question and only getting lists of choices thrown back at us instead of decisions. Thanks!
It was a surprise to me when I learned it on a motorbike safety course, but it's useful to know that an impact with a solid object at 35mph is only 50% survivable - a blow to the torso at that speed will tear the aorta. It's even worse if the object is something small in profile like a lamp or sign post.

Here's a forum post by a guy who was lucky to survive a crash at 30mph (some nasty post-op pictures - may be NSFW): http://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=253168
Though the title may imply differently, Jeff's point (to me, at least) focuses on a founder's mentality rather than actually quitting your job. None of the suggestions Jeff includes cannot be executed in a greater organization-whether it consists of 5 employees or 5,000.

Silicon Valley seems to prefer "founder," but all those traits sound close to "leader" in my book.

It is a dangerous thing to not think like a leader until you get to a position of leadership, as a) without a leader's mentality you may not even get to that position and b) once you are there you may not be as effective as you'd like (since you did not have any practice thinking that way).
Also of note: this new product is an old product originally shopped around in April 2011 [1].

The company is called Kosmaz Technologies (they own voipvoip.com) and the phone used to be called the Compufon. It was supposed to be launched in Q4 2011. It was vaporware then, it's probably vaporware now. Having it set to flex funding just makes me believe this is a cheap trick to get cash and run. No doubt he'll be back again next year with a slightly updated design.

[1] http://phandroid.com/2011/04/19/compufon-attempts-to-be-a-sm...
Ubuntu based smartphone to pc, tablet, laptop concept
Yes.

And on top of that, we've added regenerative braking, accomplished using the motors.
Thank You.

This is ideal for freelancers. I built it for myself at https://paycolin.herokuapp.com out of fear that PayPal would freeze a large transaction I had coming in.

I started building the same thing (a general service for everyone) on www.charge99.com but never finished it. If you want that domain I'll push it to you for free

For what it's worth, my plan for getting it out there was to scoop up a ton of cheap domains on namepros.com, then create individual listings with "Payment through Charge99". Namepros is a very active domainers forum where it's common to list payment types in the listings.
Twitter is Old Media
That is a good point; having some code to look at (or even copy) before writing my first ticketing application could have easily saved me a few hundred hours. Still, $65/mo seems a bit much. Best of luck, though.
Sounds like "STEED", which was announced about 11 months ago by the author of GnuPG: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gnupg/users/56053

Although I'm not aware of any implementations yet.
Sell before code
A better title would be "The Secret to Keeping Kids from Complacency"
Exactly.. a year ago today, I was right where you are.. in 3 months my loans will be completely paid off, and I'll have learned a ton in development experience. Its a breath of fresh air to not have those loans hanging overhead
I can't tell you for sure on the price difference.... Maybe not needing the extra stuff like the SSD housing and whatnot matters? Or maybe it's just arbitrary pricing? Or maybe a way to encourage people to buy retina machines? Who knows, outside Apple.

> I mean that they look crappy because they don't have
> Retina support.

Well, more precisely they look just like they do a non-retina mbp. Which is worse than Safari or Terminal on the retina mbp, of course, but not any worse than you'd deal with if you got the non-retina machine. Or am I missing something?
There will be some time period, but it will vary from student to student. We'll discuss what makes sense for each student as part of the application process.
Looks pretty awesome, but the price tag instantly puts it out of range for a student like myself. Hopefully they attain some level of success such that they can mass manufacture them and bring the price down.

I'd love to have one.
Hopefully this will be of interest to people, as a demo of what's possible with LLVM/Clang and its JIT engine.

There's some pretty cunning tech involved in getting this working, but I've managed to build an C++ IDE with UI editor that previews your code changes in realtime, and can manipulate the code directly to perform its UI layout changes.

Everyone was impressed by Bret Victor's demo, but pah! Doing that kind of thing in javascript is easy: real programmers do it in C++ :)
This is way cool, but the company has a few challenges to face to be "serious, eco-friendly transportation devices that could replace your bike, scooter, or maybe even your car."

I live and work in manhattan and for the summer I've been skating to and from work nearly every day (40ish blocks). According to my research, skateboards are considered "play" devices. Whereas bikes and all motorized vehicles are required to be in the street, skateboarders under 14 must wear a helmet and are not allowed to ride in the street. Older skateboarders have the option, but not the requirement to ride in the street. With the narrow streets, stop and go traffic, out of control cabbies, and people not used to looking for skateboarders, I feel much safer on the sidewalk.

There is a law that prevents the reckless operation of skateboards on sidewalks (http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/ADC/19/1/3/19-176.1), and I always take care to be courteous and provide plenty of space to all pedestrians.

Where there are bike lanes available, I'll take them, as that also seems to be a legal option, but I've had more run ins with pedestrians in bike lanes than on the sidewalk.

I've been stopped by cops twice and told I could not ride on the sidewalk, yelled at by private security and pedestrians, and had pedestrians step out in front of me without looking when I had complete right of way in the bike lane--causing me to have to bail.

This said, for any company looking to use skateboards to revolutionize urban travel, education campaigns at all levels will be necessary.
Cancel button is the worst idea in the world. Not only are they confusing to users, they lower conversion. What's the good in that? I'm going to say the user is smart enough to close the browser window.
Probably the best way to learn what an evaluation context is to read the book you've linked to there. Alternatively, it's basically what the Racket reference section on the evaluation model calls a "continuation": http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html

We do try hard to make the docs understandable though, so if you have some feedback please do mention it on the mailing list so that the responsible devs can try to address it.
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You can buy one right now, made in Portland OR, for cheaper:

http://metro-board.com/low_cost_electric_skateboard_buynow.h...
Google launches open source course builder
Some context: The average electric bicycle has a 300 watt motor. These baby's have 2000 watt motors (or 2 x 1000 watt motors, I couldn't tell) that are roughly a 5th of the size of an electric bike motor. Include a battery big enough to power that motor and the fact that they're adding regenerative braking, which electric bikes don't have, and this is a seriously awesome engineering challenge.
This is awesome. Kicks the butt of the ios boilerplate project.

How does he do the project generation?
I see that you are a Texas libertarian. Me too!

CPAP.com is based on out of Houston, TX. We sell CPAP equipment for the treatment of Sleep Apnea.

We are a LAMP shop. If you'd like a one hour skills test over etherpad clone and skype, please email me at johnny.goodman@cpap.com.

Other tips:

1. Put your email in your HN profile. It'll help people interested contact you more easily.

2. How are your relational db chops? A basic understanding of SELECTs/JOINs along with a basic familiarity with any language (php, python, javascript, ruby, c, java, etc) are the raw materials to make a "should we train him" company decision go in your favor.

Welcome to HN and coding. :)
The truth is that only the Robert Scobles in this world are affected by head-aching e-mail management problems. For the rest of the 99% it simply isn't that MUCH of an issue. That's why I don't think it will catch on. But nice idea though.
This statement makes a lot of sense. I found it a bit suspicious that Anonymous Own3r twitted:
"When i do some DDOS attack i like to let it down by many days, the attack for unlimited time, it can last one hour or one month"
Which sounds like he actually has no control over what is happening and makes a statement that is impossible to disprove.
A hash isn't really the right construct for that purpose. If Blizzard just produced a salted hash of user_id & realm, it would be pretty expensive for them to reverse it, even given possession of a complete list of user ids and realms. If they didn't salt it, they could keep one big "rainbow table", but then again so could anyone else.

What you'd really want is encryption. If you chose symmetric encryption, the key would be in every client (easy to steal). If you chose asymmetric encryption, the message would suddenly get much, much bigger to the point where it's harder to reliably encode in a screenshot.
Many people who take our program have done some study on their own but now want a more immersive environment. Some already have projects that are pretty cool.