skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homebrew, rbenv, rvm, to name a few. Never understood it either. If you could get ahold of a domain write a malicious script at /some-script.sh, you could do a lot of damage.
nathenharvey is doing an awesome job w/ his on-the-spot conference interviews. I really enjoyed listening to these.

disclaimer: i founded the foodfightshow podcast and co-host the regular bi-weekly episodes with him
And maybe they can call it Shapeways.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition
We know as a fact this is not followed. Code in a hackathon is usually proof of concept for an idea, not launch ready code. Who needs a kernel/proof-of-concept math book with all the existing content out there? Do more harm than good IMO.
Big plus point for the collaboration effort though, which probably would not have happened otherwise.
No. I will agree that a distributed power system may provide overall reliability but this condition must be true:

There is still a grid. If my power source goes out, I want backup to come from other nearby sources - the timeline of power restoration from the current delivery system is on the order of minutes or hours for over 80% of outages, and on the order of a couple weeks for over 99% of the rest of outages. If my power plant breaks, I need restoration numbers that meet that. (additionally, I need plant repair bills to be lower than however much money having the backyard plant would save me. TCO considerations again).

Further, these two assumptions are built into your "better" assessment:

* It is cheaper to have a power plant in my back yard than buying it from the grid.

* The backyard source can be made safe.

Combining these two assumptions is a big deal. If both are true, I will agree that it is a good option (with the caveat listed above). However, there is a HUGE amount of R&D to get there, including a massive set of efficient production runs for parts to build all the systems to make it happen. The economics of this points to it not being likely that everyone has a backyard fusion plant.

It is far more likely to see big fusion plants in greater number scattered around the power grid to provide higher reliability in the cases of line loss etc. Further, with energy now being much, much cheaper to produce, you'll likely start seeing more reliable distribution channels for electrical power. Overhead lines would be reasonable to replace with underground ones, which are less efficient, but are also more reliable as they are less likely to be damaged in weather events. You'll also probably see a reduction in star-topology distribution - more redundancy in distribution paths, at the cost of some efficiency, because the complex equipment will be cheaper to manufacture (you know, because energy to do so will not factor into costs anymore).
Generally good advice but be advised fees and setup will vary state to state. In California, the process can take several months and you'll be on the hook for a minimum $800 franchise tax each year the LLC is in operation.
I've done quite a bit of python development. One of the things that really bugs me about python is how they keep breaking older stuff. Other languages have been much more careful about maintaining backwards compatibility and I think that is a big factor in the retention of users.

Having to re-do any part of your code from one release of a language to another became a real deal breaker for me.

For an interpreted language that problem is even worse because you don't know you have a problem until that bit of code gets hit.
I'm getting a 500. Anyone have a mirror?
Because politicians run the country. Not economists.
Similar earlier stories:

Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother's heart: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21185-fetus-donates-st...

Baby/mother cell exchange:
http://kottke.org/12/01/babymother-cell-exchange
Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?
It looks like you need to pay for the Owncloud mobile apps. Little confused about the free software claim.
I am nothing against paying for a good software.
I actually think he spelled it correctly. It's hard to tell from the picture, but that letter looks more like the other A's than the E's.
a "liability" is a very strong word to use when describing someone in a company. Reading that bit made me grimace.
You're underestimating how familiar someone's email address is versus an OpenID URL whose significance the user doesn't know and whose use she can't grasp.
We currently have a lot of technology to spot objects in space. As cli already pointed out there is the heat signature of any ship. Combined with radar it should be easy to detect ships from far away. In open space there is (probably) also no stable debris you could use. Asteroid belts are actual nothing like in the movies. There is a much bigger distance between each asteroid in the belt. http://www.scienceadviser.net/2009/09/asteroid-belt-not-as-d...

Maybe the ring of a planet would work. But then the ship is at risk of being damaged by the ice and other things in the ring. And of course there are only few planetary rings compared to the rest of space.
Is there stable support for this architecture in GCC and related projects? That is, is there a standard-conforming open toolchain?

Otherwise I wouldn't even bother.
We think that stinks and is unfair to contributors. We can understand giving a license to use, but complete ownership is unfair and unreasonable.
They like to do this. They stand firm. They hold out and insist that they probably have a better idea. 5 years later... everyone laughs at the browser that is only used by people that either have no choice, or are too old to really understand what they're using. Go ahead Microsoft. Keep making dumb choices. I doubt anyone with a brain even notices.
Off the top I wonder if an idea might be to do the following, keeping in mind that the registrar would charge extra but ultimately it would be to the registrants benefit and less disruptive if the normal ways (that have no cost) were interupted:

- Send postal notice (some do this already)
- Send express or certified letter (charging up front to be notified this way)
- Make phone call
- Send email to any contact addresses on the website

I would like to point out also that this is a reason also why "privacy" on whois is a bad idea in some cases. In this case it is fairly easy for a third party to get in touch with the joyent contact (someone might know him or have an alternative means of contacting him - even by phone if not the whois phone number). If contact info is protected by privacy that becomes a different issue (you would have to have more specific knowledge).
Interesting, I didn't know the apps were closed. (edit: seems they're not, source code is here: https://gitorious.org/owncloud/android-main)

My point was not price though, but freedom. If people are looking to move out of the cloud and take things home, I suspect this is at least in part driven by an urge to take control of their data and become more independent.

Controlling the tools is, by many, considered to be an important part of that.
Probably a joke. One of the few words where it is funny to intentionally misspell it.
That's advice that is applicable only to a limited subset of the startup class, the ones without a product and without cashflow.

If you're going to do b2b you'll never be forced, it's just that nobody will be doing business with you and your circle of friends.

VC's and angels don't like it when you incorporate early because that means that you've probably done a whole bunch of homework already and thus are a tougher negotiator.

Not incorporating when running a company is a great way to get into a lot of trouble. Fixing a bad incorporation at a later state is costly (but it can be done).

As soon as you start dealing with money and responsibilities to outsiders you should incorporate.
And 80x is apparently actually an understatement, at least for a few cases. Some numbers recently posted to python-dev show up to a 124X improvement:

Precision: 9 decimal digits

float:
result: 3.1415926535897927
time: 0.113188s

cdecimal:
result: 3.14159265
time: 0.158313s

decimal:
result: 3.14159265
time: 18.671457s

Precision: 19 decimal digits

float:
result: 3.1415926535897927
time: 0.112874s

cdecimal:
result: 3.141592653589793236
time: 0.348100s

decimal:
result: 3.141592653589793236
time: 43.241220s
"eNom does all kinds of shady shenanigans with domain renewals."

This wasn't done by enom. It was done by the reseller, namecheap. Their DNS is in the record (and it points to a page controlled by namecheap).
The cells are presumed to have migrated into the women from a male fetus previously carried (perhaps not to term) by the subjects, as indicated by the 1st paragraph definition of microchimerism ("the harboring of genetic material and cells that were exchanged between fetus and mother during pregnancy") and the start of the 3rd paragraph:

Chan said the study is the first description of male microchimerism in the female human brain. The findings support the likelihood that fetal cells frequently cross the human blood-brain barrier and that microchimerism in the brain is relatively common. Until this study, it was not known whether these cells could cross the barrier in humans.

I think it's only the strong proof that such cells reach and persist in the mother's brain that's new about this study; that persistent cells are exchanged in both directions between mother and fetus has been known for a while. See for example this 2005 NYTimes story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/health/10bloo.html?pagewan...

Another route to chimerism is through the cells that routinely pass from a mother to fetus and remain there for life.

Dr. Ann Reed, chairwoman of rheumatology research at the Mayo Clinic, who uses sensitive DNA tests to look for chimerism, finds that about 50 to 70 percent of healthy people are chimeras. The more scientists look for chimerism, the more they find it.

The most famous cases are those where a child turns out to match a (possibly 'vanished' while in womb) 'aunt' moreso than the birth mother. But I suspect at some point there will be a proven case where a child is found to be, genetically, the direct offspring of their matarnal grandmother's primary genome -- if the mother's egg cell was descended from a persistent grandmother cell rather than the usual mixed maternal-grandfather/matrernal-grandmother cell. (Or even in suitably rare situations, great-grandmother, etc.)
Arduino is just an AVR processor nicely wrapped. They offer their own IDE so you don't have to bother with the difficulties in getting your code on your device.

Atmel maintains an AVR port of the GNU toolchain and provides their own IDE based on Visual Studio.
Are hackers heroes?
I don't know if this is a standard, but on the few registrars I've used, they don't allow you to use an email address on the domain itself -- so if you register X.com because you want bob@X.com to be your primary identity, it's pretty easy to forget about the bob@gmail.com address you used to register with...
I agree that it feels insecure, but is there really a difference between this and downloading and running files from a .tar.gz or installing a .deb for example?
he's suggesting we as tech startup entrepreneur type guys go out and imagine the actual solutions that can work across a number of problems based on the examples he's provided.

I'm absolutely so surprised by the lack of imagination here at HN. This is startup ideas gold right here, and none of you seem to have the mental capabilities to dig it out and do something with it. You all want to find something wrong with it.

Ever since I've been tracking Bret Victor, my head has been spinning with tons of practical ideas we can implement today to make us more productive at programming. Light Table is a fantastic start. What's the problem here, guys! You guys just don't want to admit the way you've been coding thus far will soon be obsolete and you've been wasting your time. Yes, your skills will eventually be worthless.
> All three engines on the L-1011 failed due to an incorrect maintenance procedure.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the maintenance procedure. It was simply not executed properly.
I think the idea comes from observing Microsoft's own behavior:

- They foist the Metro UI on you by starting your "desktop" OS directly to that new UI as if to say "not only is this new UI not going away, but we're going to force you to look at it."

- It's all they can talk about, within the realm of UI tech.

- When Microsoft finds a new thing to talk about, they stop talking about the old things and the old things simply die off or at the very least, receive very little new development.

So, the idea that Windows 8 only contains the desktop to give developers time to convert their apps to work on metro may not be very far from the truth.
This is Lean Startup taken to an impractical extreme. I know, I know, those two hours you spend on LegalZoom filing as a Delaware C are hours you're not spending outside the building talking to customers blah blah blah, but not everything that doesn't involve "learning" is waste.
Maybe the creators didn't expect node to live this long? :P
Thank you for the feedback! I will defiantly change some of those things.
debs are authenticated.
Bad phrasing on my part - I mean to say that I don't know of any similar way to configure a private Mac app store. I feel like the concept could be a great way to manage distribution.
Looks similar to [Divvy](http://mizage.com/divvy/), which I bought a while ago and now use about every 30 seconds ;)
this sounds like a very steampunk idea
Key Exchange explained simply in the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
While I'm worried about this happening eventually, I think Gatekeeper is a sign of the opposite. If Apples intentions were to make it like iOS, they wouldn't have bothered introducing that, they would have pushed everyone into the App Store instead.
And if it had been a 4 engine plane the same issue would have been present (or even a 24 engine plane).

Sadly I can't find the article any more but did read one about how each new generation of commercial aircraft is increasingly aerodynamically efficient. The side effect of that is how much further they can glide from the same starting point (less drag). Its hard to find numbers that aren't speculation but it seems like 1980s era designs (eg 767) are around 15:1 and current generation are around 20:1.

Wikipedia even has a page about flights that required gliding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_flights_that_re...
This is primarily why I hope win8 fails
They think that the only reason to create something is to make money. The more money the better. They're not wrong.

Arrgh... no. There are lots of reasons to create things. The biggest being personal gratification. The only reason to fund some creation is that long ago someone noticed a correlation between giving people money to do their thing and turning the results into profit.
> Windows isn't going to be a closed platform - if anything Metro makes Windows more accessible to a larger number of developers.

If I have to go through Microsoft to get a Metro app onto Windows, then at the very least...the platform is partially closed.

Besides that, I think that many, many people already consider Windows a closed platform (I certainly do), so I guess it depends on your definition of "closed".
Link is broken.
Corrected version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb8_IReoms8
Europe provides more of a safety net for poor and lower middle-class people than more dynamic economies.

It's all a matter of choice: do you want REALLY good conditions for the top 10% or decent conditions for everyone?

Economies like China, the USA or Canada favor the former, lots of European countries the latter.
Is this a 2x -> 3x gripe, or is there something specific in this release that breaks compatibility?
Incorporating as an LLC makes it harder and more expensive to do properly later as a C-corp. I believe it can add >10k to the total costs vs. doing a C-corp from the start.
As clarified by others, I missed the reference to the album because I never really listened to Van Halen and I apologise for my harshness. But we are on the same boat.

P.S. I need to listen to 5150 now!
Yes.

apt-get:

$ ls -l /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

Source Installation:

$ wget http://nmap.org/dist/sigs/nmap-6.01.tgz.asc
$ wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.01.tgz
$ gpg nmap-6.01.tgz.asc
Catching up to what? Catalyst was first released early 2005.
You're not exactly describing the difference. I would say that:

1. We have statistical evidence from large numbers of SIMILAR people with similar tumors. Economic events tend to be highly dissimilar in terms of context (Great Depression? 1988 Savings and Loans Crisis? 1997 Asian Financial Crisis? 2008 Global Financial Crisis?), and only to be similar in terms of before-and-after on some narrow set of parameters. This makes prediction and counter-factual history for economic stuff really hard.

2. We also understand some of the mechanisms of how tumors work and affect physiology. These are founded upon a large body of knowledge of causation and empirics in medicine, chemistry, and biology. Economics lack a comparably reliable and large body of knowledge because of 1.
It probably depends on the task, but from the videos I've seen Baxter seems an order of magnitude slower than a human worker. It looks like Baxter takes several seconds to manipulate an object, but the workers sorting fruit in this video, for example, are doing several manipulations per second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6dKf8MZ-RM&feature=playe...
Thiel on Dream Founding Team: Cults, Nerds, Athletes and Consultants
I use SizeUp http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
port search shiftit

ShiftIt @1.5 (aqua)
Managing windows size and position in OS X
This is important.

However, most web videos today are not associated with captions and made us ignore this from the initial release.
> how are higher level officers going to coordinate with their American counterparts?

Oh, I wouldn't doubt that higher level officers have a better command of English than your average rank-and-file soldier. But that's a relatively small number of people, right?

> They must being doing something right....

They're obviously doing something right in terms of being commercially successful. My whole point is that English fluency is not all that important for commercial success. For example, they could have the software engineering done overseas, with only the liaisons between the hardware and software teams fluent in English. This is all speculation. All I can say for sure is that South Korea's English education system is no better than that of Japan's.
Mozilla's "Meme-Maker"
As someone who has used PHP and the infamous php.ini, this worries me too.
Just as important, perhaps even a more noteworthy first step for up & coming startups is to establish a separate bank account!

It's true, no need to rush into incorporation. But there should be an urgency to setup a separate bank account (any kind of account, a savings would do) so you can make your bookkeeping simple. The money you spend on your startup as a sole proprietor can be tax deductable. And besides that, its a good practice to show potential investors or lenders exactly how much you have invested yourself. Having one account where you can pull that data makes these kinds of bookkeeping/accounting tasks incredibly easy.

For credit card transactions, try to get a new card just for the startup - or even use an existing card but make sure to dedicate that card exlusively to the startup so months and god forbid, years later, you're not having to go line-by-line through stacks of statements picking & deciphering what was business and what was personal (not fun).
And we have statistical evidence from large numbers of economies. It's not perfect. We make a best guess and go for it. That's my point.

Contrary to popular belief, these guys aren't winging it. As I've said, go check out the research they're doing at the Fed. That's the cutting edge of economics.
Thanks for the Info.
Every time i read such posts,i become more confident that is harder to be an employee trying to figure out what a boss(or his/her company) needs than to just start your own business and let the market decide.
Also he probably had enough influence with the publisher after the success of the first edition to pull it off with this one.
Nuclear power plants are dangerous? I thought people might be NIMBY about coal power plants which kill more people each year than do nuclear plants.
If you're talking about breakage between version 2 and 3 that is sort of what the major version number bump implies. I don't do much python work these days, but if stuff is (deliberately) breaking between minor releases I would agree that's not very nice.
I have no idea what you're trying to say - your question doesn't make any sense. Who are your "campus folks"? Ask questions about what? What are you frustrated about?
When Noah says, "everyone is replaceable", he really means it.

Yesterday, he fired half of AppSumo, despite the company is profitable and growing.

Here is Noah's m.o. with AppSumo:

1) Attract and hire people by paying them above market salary and promising equity.

2) New employees grow the company by building systems, automating inefficient processes, creating new lines of business, etc.

3) Once systems are built and operating efficiently; fire staff before equity vests.

4) Rinse, repeat, wash.

Entrepreneurs like this give startups a bad name. It's sad to see so many people celebrate him as a startup role model.

The reason he was fired from Facebook because he leaked internal features to the press and blogged about them. Yet he still seems unapologetic "I don’t think what I did was that wrong since the marketing team did not do anything to promote our new features."

Clearly this guy's moral compass points south.
This is, bar none, the best automated window manager I've used in OS X.

I cribbed these from one of the examples, but my favorite "beyond just resizing" commands are:

bind ;:cmd;ctrl throw previous

Which sends the active window to my second display, and

bind /:cmd;ctrl hint ASDFGHJKL

Which overlays all windows on screen with qwerty home row letters, so I can foreground any of them with one more keystroke.
If anything it should help, what with the u"" syntax being allowed now.
> There are good reasons for this - namely it saves you the trouble of having to write installers for three separate hardware architectures (ARM, X86, X64) and makes it comparatively low-friction to distribute your app compared to traditional desktop applications.

That is a convenience of using the app store. That is not a good reason to lock out other channels. Nothing intrinsic to either option necessitates making them mutually exclusive.
It all boils down to a population problem. Japan is ageing and software demands huge work force. Only India and may be China in the near future can bridge the gap. It is not accident that Silicon Valley has more Indian engineers than any other foreign nationality.
Maybe Shapeways can open kiosks in mall parking lots.

I'd use that service.
"model of business is the same framework as penises"

I'm not sure I get what you mean here. Could you clarify?
It's been fixed. So it might be YOU who now have the old, bad DNS entry cached.

Domain Name:NODEJS.ORG
Created On:29-Sep-2009 14:50:55 UTC
Last Updated On:29-Sep-2012 16:27:30 UTC
Expiration Date:29-Sep-2013 14:50:55 UTC
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Clearly this guy's moral compass points south.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
As a business owner with a process that has worked for X>0 years, unless there is a very compelling reason to do so, you don't want to risk disrupting your business with an upgrade of any core piece, especially the operating system.

Testing is fine and dandy, and breaks are acceptable in some circles, but in mission critical situations you can't be as frivolous.