skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great that you're adding user profiles, thank you!
15 leaderboards definitely isn't over the top, especially not for an app where improving your score is so essential. You could even add a 16th, 17th and 18th leaderboard for total time across the modes on each difficulty (that would be great, IMO). I own multiple games with 25 leaderboards (one for each level on speedrunners, one for each song for music games, etc), and on gaming forums people moan that that is the maximum number allowed on Game Center because they would prefer more.
No, more like 16,500 (about 10x LEO if you consider leo to be 100 - 200 per NASA's definition). View of debris from GEO which also includes the GPS orbits : http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives/GEO1...

[1] Fun GIF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ConstellationGPS.gif
I am actualy a single founder and I dont regret my decision. Although I can see why it is not considered a good idea but I really like to keep the decision making to myself. It results in self fulfilment such that even if I fail, I would know I did it myself and wont have someone else to blame. I guess it's a personal preference thing. I simply can't see myself working with a cofounder.
This is Krassimir the Peerbelt founder - The difference is in the privacy implications. Archify stores your data online associating it with an account, while Peerbelt is a client app storing data and running on you local device.

It took some time building client app for both Mac and Windows. At this point with competition like Archify or Seen Before popping up, I begin to wonder if the time is well invested and whether privacy matters anymore.

You are are correct about the name. A collaboration service is due soon with total control over the anonymously contributed to the index information.
Twitter account shared by developers and artists all over the world.
I hadn't heard that term before - thanks!
You can look at the results at different saturation levels for the iPhone 5 and see that all the intermediate saturations are almost spot on. It's not too saturated (which the Galaxy 3 appears to be), but accurately saturated where what you see on the screen accurately reflects what is in the source content.
I really want to like this, but I can't get behind Sprockets when RequireJS and Browserify exist. Code in comments, obtuse file extensions, `require_tree`, etc. make code modularization an inelegant kludge.
Guildsmanship: Battle-Scapes - http://www.guildsmanship.com.
As complete an implementation as can be of the Open Game License SRD in a tactical team battle system.
According to another study I read runner's high is caused by endocannabinoids.

http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/biology/faculty/gerdeman.php

Edit: Oops wrong link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120510-runne...
Unfortunately no, that's probably the biggest downside in my opinion. There is a search function but it only does a good job at turning up the first match in the entire map or subsection that you're searching in. Meaning that if you really want to find one out of ten different places where one thing was mentioned, you pretty much have to open up the .mm file in a text editor and then find it that way. (And then go back into FreeMind, and search using some specific phrase that only shows up in the node you're looking for.)

Fortunately because the whole point is to make it easy to find stuff without search it is only rarely an issue, but it is really annoying when you need it.
Sorry - in politics, the worst possible thing one American can do to another is to imply that they're not really American. I'm a liberal from Indiana - that may or may not mean anything to you - but somebody identifying me as a not-quite-American based on something I say that maybe sounds too posh really raises my hackles, even as I realize, full well, that it's a really stupid reaction.

Even then, I didn't really notice it until I'd read three things I say that an American wouldn't. Dammit. It's like the time that chick in Germany tried to tell me I don't speak English, just American. I may not know everything, but by God and St. George I am the utter master of my dialect and precisely how and when it differs from whatever we Anglophones deem "standard".
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It looks like it'd be pretty easy to continue that practice -- just verify more than one email address, and pick the correct one when signing into each site.
Try it here: http://myfavoritebeer.org/

Also, there are Mailinator-like services:
https://mockmyid.com/
Am I entirely missing something, but once a password is selected, is there no way to change it?
Let me add my understanding. Please correct me if it is wrong.

Actual user case if everything is in place:

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. Give your email address (superuser123@gmail.com or superuser123@yahoo.com)

3.it prompts for your password - gmail password or yahoo password

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as superuser123@gmail.com/superuser123@yahoo.com - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, end user doesn't need to create a new userid & password for using the website, as long as he knows his emailuserd/emailpassword

Present use case - since few things are missing

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. since gmail & yahoo as email providers not implemented browserid/persona protocol, you will asked to create an account in persona.org with any of your existing email address.(gmail / yahoo).

persona.org will send you a verification link to check if you really own your email address. Click on the verification link and you are verified to use persona.org account in all the places where browserid is supported

3.in the login page - it prompts for a new password if you are a new user or existing password if you are a returning user - this is the password for the email address used in persona.org registration.

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as superuser123@gmail.com/superuser123@yahoo.com - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, two things will change in future - no login window from persona.org & no need to create account in persona.org
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Category names no longer work in App Store search on the device.
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NASA Rover finds evidence of streambed on Mars.
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From my perspective, the issue with selling a phone that is over-saturated versus one that is accurate is that in one case a company is just shipping something that meets the standard, and in another case they are making that subjective choice about what looks better for you.

With monitors and displays this isn't as big of a deal, as you can adjust it yourself to what you want, but with smartphones and tablets there are few or no adjustments available so if you receive a display that is purposely over-saturated, you are stuck with that. Perhaps it catches eyeballs in the store and gets you more sales, but it also means you are stuck with it. If a company isn't going to provide a way to adjust the display (such as including presets that are calibrated, vivid, and so on) then I'd prefer they just ship something that tries to conform to the standards that exist (sRGB or AdobeRGB in these cases).
This is an interesting example of the positive effects peer pressure can have. In high-school a friend and I decided to hit the weight room every morning before school. He was on the football team, and I'd joined the wrestling team (with no prior experience). He was more dedicated than I, and would roust me from bed every morning. When I told him I wasn't up for it one morning, he threatened to start ringing the doorbell which would wake my parents, something I didn't really care to have pinned on me. It worked, and I was more consistent because of him. Moral of the story: Find a workout buddy.
I don't get why this was so strongly spun into an anti-apple piece. They're selling Lightning<->USB cables for $20 on apple.com. That's a fair price point, manufacturing challenges or no.
According to TFA, you get one NFC card with a pack of plain-paper cards, so that you can give paper to someone without NFC and lend the NFC card to someone with a supporting phone.
Because that's how it was with iPods.

iOS5 changes it more over to the iOS device though
Congrats, it looks great. I'll definitely be recommending this to a few store owners I know.

About Shopify, we've been doing integrations for every ecommerce platform for our pricing engine and Shopify's integration was an order of magnitude easier to work with.

Long live webhooks.
Spar itself requires no knowledge of Ruby, that was one of the design goals. It happens to use Ruby tech under-the-hood, but no user of Spar would ever be exposed to those choices.
I bought a VW Jetta instead of any of the above mentioned. Jettas aren't more reliable than any of them, and they certainly come with a fairly hefty price tag when I need them serviced.

But my car isn't just a tool for me. It's a source of enjoyment. I love driving. And I love driving my car. Really, I love it. I would buy an Audi A4 in a second if I could afford it. If you're only judging based on one axis (reliability), you miss a lot of what goes into the purchase a vehicle. Just because it's your most important criteria, it's not mine.
First and foremost, these are not "lesser known". Most of these have been discussed ad naseum since at least MMM and Peopleware. Second, as others have mentioned, at least the one about some programmers being 20-100 times more productive is far from "truth"; it's highly debatable with data for and against, and if anything is "true", it's that the data is inconclusive.
There's a lot of personal (anecdotal) accounts that it's real. I don't care if it's placebo or something more sciencey. It works for many people, and it works for me.
Because it is like the MacBook line. Of the so-called "luxury" laptops, Apple has, for years, owned 9 out of every 10 "luxury" laptop purchase. 9/10 of the most expensive laptops consumers can buy have an Apple on their lid.

So they'll probably try to do the same thing with iPad. They aren't racing to the bottom.
I personally feel the pain point of password/identity management across different websites, and I'm using LastPass to help. While LastPass's browser integration is great, its UX is... lacking. Mozilla's strategy to associate Firefox browser with identity is IMO awesome and the first sign that it's pioneering vs reacting to Chrome (before this news, I've always viewed Firefox as Chrome's successful but still little brother in terms of features, polish, performance, support, etc.).

BUT (and this is a big "but" I feel), this is contingent with their execution of browser integration. W/O rock solid browser integration with fluid UX, this would just add noise to identity services and cause more consumer confusion.

Ultimately, I'm rooting them on because a) I'm concerned about my security and b) I have too many passwords and c) I'm hella lazy.
I did check out the list of features, and it sounds very cool. I like the first-class support for contracts and testing. But it's like, if I have to learn new language quirks and find new libraries to do everything and so on, I could also spend time learning rpython, or go, or any number of other very cool projects with more established ecosystems. Cobra syntax looks so close to Python syntax that it might as well be a superset of Python and be able to run Python programs and take advantage of the Python ecosystem ... except it can't, because there are (what look to be, forgive me if I'm wrong) extremely minor incompatibilities like missing colons or alternate list comprehension syntax. That makes it ten times as annoying to pick up as a new tool, and just strategically, I question whether the gain from the incompatibilities was worth it.
Apparently you can by going to http://persona.org
Great use of a marketing opportunity. This actually runs very smoothly. Well done!
What disappoints me most about this article, though, is that it failed to point out why this is happening. More than any time in history, people using different dialects of English are in regular, day-to-day contact on the Internet. We may not share time zones (especially those crazy Aussies) but it's telling that we turn out to like each other a lot, and trade our favorite words and insults.

So in closing, the authors of the article are a bunch of wankers.
The part I liked was when the author complained that there were too many jobs.
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The ability to program is simply the ability to talk on the same level as an ignorant, autistic, childish, forgetful, narcissistic asshole.

Namely, the computer.
Randy was a fixture in our S11 batch and had as much of an insight into YC as the people in the program. He sat in on and experienced private meetings, office hours, social events, dinners, Demo Day, and fundraising so he is as qualified to write about YC as anyone. I just wrapped up the advance copy of The Launch Pad, and highly recommend it to anyone who wants an inside look at what life is like in YC.
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I don't log anything, and I also don't wander around chatting. I show up, push myself hard, and then leave. But the types of workouts I do are guided, for example I did taekwondo for four years, and recently switched to doing "boot camp" workouts. I find it is much easier to exercise when an instructor is telling me what to do than if I just show up to a gym full of equipment and then have to motivate myself to do something with it. If your workouts are self guided then it makes sense to log what you are doing so you can keep yourself on track.
It was released today, which is probably why this is making the rounds again.

I wonder how many YC alumni bought it for their parents/family?
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2:30 is an eternity away from 2:03:38.

I am not thinking of dabblers; many people will do marathons after having barely trained. The goal for these people is just to finish.

I think 2:30 is achievable for a healthy, moderately talented man who is not merely dabbling: someone who is training correctly and has put in a few years of sustained, injury-free effort.

2:30 is still very much an amateur time. For example, I think that even though 2:15 or faster is professional-caliber it is still nowhere near being competitive.
Monkeywrench: brilliant people are 100 times more productive than average people?

My thought is that programming sees similar dynamics as the rest of the world. There are amazing people out there who build companies or change governments or move the world forward in a way that is beyond most individuals' mental capacity. Why would engineering be any different?

It is strange that the idea that "A good programmer is ten times more productive than an average programmer" is almost always taken out of the context of the human race as a whole.
This looks really great. Only problem I see is the lack of support for IE 6 and 7, and it seems they won't be in the future. Anybody knows why that is?
Persona, the protocol, doesn't actually rely on your email account's password. It uses the domain from your email account to figure out how to authenticate you; if you want to use some other way than via your email, that's fine.
It wouldn't be ideal because there would only be a limited number of people who ever took advantage of it. The model for Persona is different than Facebook. Facebook requires this data on account creation and so do we... so we just present the user with a lock out until they give it to us.
Which strikes me as somewhat funny if the review is true.

Ivy league isn't about what you know, but where you went and who you know. Isn't Y Combinator turning into Ivy League? People want to get in even without an idea? You want to network with people already in YC or those associated with it?

YC served a great purpose; to show how you can bootstrap your startup. Get an idea, refine it, sell it, profit.

I feel as if YC will become less relevant as time goes on, but the lessons and knowledge its aggregated will go on as "startup common sense".

EDIT: This is not to say that YCombinator hasn't served a great purpose. It has. Now that the idea has taken off, its bigger than a single organization: http://startupweekend.org/incubators/
> Now, an IDE that generates a training text like that on the fly and allows you to fill in the values without actually storing the training text would be nice. Something like intellisence popups, but inline and expanded.

That's the best idea i've heard in a long time. The IDE already has the information but hovering every function call with the mouse to get parameter information is a PITA and breaks the flow of reading. A hotkey to inline them on all your code at once would be brilliant.
I pre-ordered this book and I'm excited to see how it is.

I tend to be instantly turned off by phrasing such as "American Idol for budding entrepreneurs" but then I think back to everything I've learned about pitching and understand the value of these types of phrases as well as the target audience (which is obviously not people who already know about y comb).

I'm hoping I'll enjoy it in the same way I enjoyed Steve Job's biography: an interesting behind-the-scenes look at events that have been happening in my periphery, where I've heard stories here and there, and am finally able to put all the pieces together.
And you didn't even use an affiliate link!

Looks like this book is going to do pretty well for the author. I've seen it pop up at least 3-4 times on sites I visit frequently this week. Heck, it convinced me to buy a copy.
I started using mindmaps (freemind) to organize complexity and to have "cheat sheets" to new technologies (rather than googling again and again). By itself this was worth the effort of constructing the mindmaps, the big payoff came when I started sharing them with the team.
Give it a shot, nowdays I pretty much take all my notes in some sort of mindmap.
I like to use something called Codebox instead. It's just a quick note taking and search tool that's geared towards programming: http://www.shpakovski.com/codebox/
> Apple doesn't remotely "own" the high end of the PC laptop business.

Hm? Apple went over 90% share of the $1k+ PC market way back in 2009: http://betanews.com/2009/07/22/apple-has-91-of-market-for-1-...
Does anyone know of a program like this runs on a hotkey that I could call up while still looking at another program. I don't like the idea of leaving what i'm doing to explore my mind map. I just want it there to call up, without a whole separate app to context-switch into.
While this is an absolutely heart breaking and terrible story, there is a part of this that makes me cringe:

Freddie Mac won't take any responsibility for misleading us about the safety of our home, and attorneys just tell us that we should've read the fine print.

Buying a home, or making any significant purchase is always going to come with "fine print." Make sure you read your contracts, always. If you are buying a home that seems to good to be true, it probably is and you should hire a reputable inspector to find out why. If you don't feel you're up to the task, hire someone to check the fine print for you. I'd be interested to know what fine print they ignored before deciding to make their decision.
I think a slew of strategic screenshots would help. Too bad that browser history inspection hack is a thing of the past, building a database of examples that rotate based on the web apps they use would be crazy useful.
After spending a couple of years exercising on and off and never really getting these gains, I have finally gotten into a routine where I exercise at least 3 times a week. I've been doing this for more than a year. Here's what I've learned from that experience:

1. Start small. It's much easier to talk yourself into exercising for 10 minutes 3 days a week.

2. Exercise at home. I hated going to a gym so I never did it.

3. Do something fun.

All of these made it much easier to exercise consistently, which was my goal. I stopped running and weight lifting and started doing yoga, cycling, rock climbing and boxing instead. I'm not ripped or anything but I have plenty of functional strength and more energy and happiness than I've ever felt before. I'd say yoga and biking give me the most long-lasting pleasure, whereas rock climbing and boxing give me a quick intense flood when I'm done with them. It's really great feeling like this...most days I feel ready to do something crazy and fun like bike to wine country for wine tasting, or spend time in a wood shop, or go to another country on a whim. Last year I felt like I peaked at going out to dinner with friends a couple times a week (and I barely had energy for that). I also don't miss the mid-afternoon lazy slump or the weeks where I'd feel like my thinking was foggy and there was no way to clear it.
Can I cname my own domain to a provider or something similar?
It's actually more likely to be a holdover from very old British English influence - the Irish and Scots press-ganged white slaves who fled into the hills of Virginia and became the rednecks of coal country. I know that's where I get most of my dialect, even though I grew up in Indiana (so I also get a Blues-Brothersish Chicagoan avoidance of theta, to end up with that unique Hoosier accent that non-obsessives don't notice).

London doesn't have a monopoly on glottal stops.
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That is how all webcams should work, but of course there is nothing forcing manufactures to be sensible.
As in Codd's 12 rules above.
For the folks that care about power consumption, there is already DDR3L and DDR3U today that use lower voltages than standard DDR3. Intel's Ivy Bridge chipsets can support DDR3 and DDR3L and I'm using the latter in my laptop.
Continuing my thought pattern... I'd take 1 Tim Cook or Henry Ford over all the operations consultants and hackers and people in the world. That doesn't make average ops people worthless, nor does it mean that tactics that Cook or Ford have taken in the past can't be employed by almost anyone.

I think it really comes down to the ability to find a problem and invent a solution, a rare gift indeed.
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> This item cannot be installed in your device's country.

I'm sure I'll enjoy it in a few years.
No, it's probably actually a negative, because that new 30% is almost certainly taxed at a higher rate than your current salary.
Freemind rocks.

Mapping complex concepts in a similar way as I store them on my brain is a big productivity buster for an old brain. Being able to share these maps with other is a super productivity booster for the whole team.
I wish this provided a bit more information on the case at hand. I'm guessing that no one suspected a meth lab had been there and thus no testing was ever done. After all, the family did buy the house and so it must have at least looked safe/appealing.
This will be neat together with Project Glass.
I can't tell you how many times I had to read this in college. It was the first text we read in at least 5 of my courses my junior year.

Both classic and ahead of his time.