skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I don't have that experience; TP worked well for me and I created quite substantial commercial projects which made me a 'wealthy' student in university. Especially when they introduced overlays we were able to use all those kilobytes :) I have good experiences with it and I still have all the sources of the software I wrote then (a lot of it is still sold and a lot I ported to Delphi after that and is still sold). Do you have concrete examples of what you are referring to? I used structures, but never too complex as I came from assembler (Z80/68k) and didn't (and don't) really see the use of very complex structures. Reasonable worked fine.
I had an occasion to participate in project of a museum app which allowed people to use NFC-enabled phones as kind of interactive guides. There were NFC tags placed beside artworks and visitors with app installed on their phone could bring their device close to the tag and phone would launch the app to show more detailed informations about given exhibit. All data could be downloaded before going to the museum or during visit (there was free wi-fi inside museum building). It was launched in National Museum in Kraków and as far as I know worked quite well.

I've also heard of ideas like configuring devices over NFC, e.g. touch a tag with your phone and it will be configured to use local wi-fi network. You can use NFC in similar manner to transfer a link to a website, which I believe would be much more convenient that scanning QR code.
Excellent post. Would have left a comment on the original article but I'm not about to give permissions to a new app just to leave a comment. Please consider an alternate comment system.
Nobody uses that sort of "dumb tag" RFID for building access purposes. For instance, the HID access cards use a challenge/response authentication with nonces. [0]

[0]: http://static.usenix.org/event/woot11/tech/final_files/Garci...
In Poland they couldn't take any money for subscription, because all online transactions are done with instant wire transfer, not with credit cards. Buyer has to approve all transactions with sms code. You can define periodic transfers, but not by accident, and you can always stop them.

There are companies (like pobieraczek.pl) that tried this scam but they had to take money through courts, and courts decided it was scam and buyers didn't have to pay.
So many issues with this post:

-The title implies that the city of NY is going to build an underground park; in reality, an architecture firm has written a proposal for such a park. Wether or not this will ever happen is yet undetermined.

-Where in the Lower East Side is the proposed site for this park? The author didn't think to include this little detail?

I propose we start using SA;LH = shitty article; linkbait headline.
I never appreciated design until I sat down with one of my graphic designer friends. He would spend hours on what I thought were simple things such as typography and placement of objects. Graphic design is under-appreciated and usually goes unnoticed unless it's bad enough to be noticeable.
But we're not talking about news-pushers, the problem is some kind of overzealous mod/bot on HN that has a grudge against customized story titles.
I think you may have misread:

we've come much closer to blowing ourselves up then we ever
have to space colonies

This isn't to say that (currently) we are at the edge of nuclear war, but rather that we've at some time between then and now been much better prepared for war than colonization.

Considering the vast number of ICBMs and nuclear devices prepared by the US and USSR during that time period, compared to the number of colony ships and slowboats that made it into production, I think that's a fair point.
So it's essentially like sailing, except in a glider/aircraft.

That's pretty cool. Are there any directions that you would essentially end up "in irons" like with sailing?
I think that I should start to wear a balaclava while I'm reversing code.
The Rose Reading Room is beautiful, but the wooden chairs are a bit uncomfortable if you plan on being there for a few hours.

I suggest the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) on 34th and Madison (http://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl). They have a big room full of about 150 workspaces to work from your notebook with power, Wifi and Aeron chairs. I've been there several times and did not run into any issues with finding an open seat.
Thanks! It's a great intro. Have any suggestions for online resources to use to go from newbie to novice designer?
> It kept me wonder why a company with very questionable (I will try to avoid using the word "fraudulent") business model was able to raise big money

You called them a scam company in the title and the body, so I am curious why the reluctance to use the word fraudulent too. What is the subtle distinction that I'm missing?
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I almost wish now that I hadn't cut this footnote from Startup = Growth:

Failure to distinguish between startups and ordinary
companies is the source of the news stories we see
every six months or so announcing the discovery that,
contrary to popular belief, most entrepreneurs are in
their forties.
Seagate has demoed HAMR a tech which might allow them to get to 60TB and may start showing up in 6TB consumer drives within a few years. Other research is being done on adding sodium chloride to platters and IBM is researching magnetic storage at the atomic level. So long as magnetic storage can stay ahead of semiconductor fabrication then it will have it's place.

As far as someone making a decision to build a factory for commodity hardware manufacturing, that same issue occurs with NAND which is quickly seeing profit margins plummet. E.g. a 50nm NAND plant 4 years ago is no longer competitive today. This is probably why Intel jettisoned their NAND manufacturing.
"venture capitalists and the tech media began to debate whether there is an optimal age for an entrepreneur to start a company .... The pundits proposed the mid-20s as the optimal age to start a company"

May I point out that this is the best age -FOR- venture capitalists to fund and -FOR- the tech media to write about but not for entrepreneurship in general. VC and the tech media focus on the same thing... businesses that are in essence experimental rocketships. Most will implode fantastically but there will always be a few that go to the moon. Thats only one form of venture - even in tech.
That's a very interesting detail (sorry taking discussion a bit off track), but as UAV technology compresses and shifts to commodity scale, Police could potentially have a robot "follow" you around without warrant. It would seem that the original intent of the provision limiting surveillance gets circumvented.
I just moved to Brooklyn a month ago and spent about a week looking for great coffee places to get some work done. I came across this one place called The Tea Lounge on 7th Ave and Union St. I've kept it secret from those around me because I don't want the place anymore crowded than it is, so just keep this between me and you.
It's a link aggregator, what do you expect? HN titles add little to (and frequently detract from) the article's content...
That seems like a ridiculous tax against one of the only growing industries for young people to participate in….
This comment on Reddit describes it better than I can:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10pivx/pirate_ba...
This is great feedback, thanks. I updated the docs.
It depends on how you do it, you could definitely use mail laws about unsolicited mail to get a package you didn't solicit delivered to your door. If you can do this then you can keep the goods.

The law like anything else is a system, justfab is exploiting it for fun and profit.
At a hackathon we developed an NFC app that can scan food packaging and give you the instructions and a kitchen timer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ92FMl1qcE (I know, its blurry...)

After hacking with it, I have to say it is much more reliable than QR code scanning / barcode scanning. No problems with low light, shaking device etc. Replacing QR codes is probably not a very exciting use case, but I could see it happening.
Another Python feature that makes upgrades hard is monkeypatching

Although possible, it's my understanding that monkey patching is greatly frowner upon in the python community. I've been programming python on and off for a decade and can only think one time when I've monkey patched something, and I felt really bad about it. The only library that I know of that uses monkey patching is gevent, and it doesn't do it by default but only if you've explicitly told it to.
They'll argue you checked the checkbox. You'll argue you didn't. It's their word against yours and they will lose, because they can't prove you actually checked the checkbox.
Letters: The tiny debugging library for Ruby
I really hope it's the improved mindset that's helping them, not literally following the guides.
Albatrosses have for years been known to use the flight pattern of leeward dives, windward climbs to move around, which is what this paper describes. Those two movements are the only things you need to gain energy when there is wind shear, so I don't see any reason that this isn't an evolutionary adaption. Birds using this technique use less energy when moving around, which is a clear benefit.
Think Coffee is a great spot, decent amount of room in the back that is pretty empty during the day and clears out again after rush hour
The flight planning aspect can be done. In ways it has been done by gliders. The real difficulty is convincing a very conservative industry to change.

The mechanical/aerodynamic aspect is much more difficult, but some people are making real progress here (see the synergy homebuilt). Still, we don't have a cost effective way to change the shape of a wing like a bird does. So we're stuck making some (though not as much as is currently standard) tradeoffs. As mentioned int he article, the albatross has a L/D of 20, which is certainly achievable with current technology

Again, the big trouble is convincing a conservative industry to change. They're still not catching up with canard wing designs from the 1970's.

EDIT: As marvin points out gliders use different techniques. As you might expect you'll get the best results using an ensemble technique - take advantage of thermals when possible, use wind where possible, plan for most fuel efficient altitude/temperatures, etc.
Authentication, synchronization, ticketing, etc. I'd think something like requiring you to unlock your NFC device in order to "swipe" in would be pretty nifty 2-factor auth.

I'd suggest taking a look at the wikipedia page, it has a list of potential uses.
Inside the Delancey Station (next to the Williamsburg Bridge - Manhattan Side) there is a huge underground open area which served as a small train yard up until the 60's/70s. This place has leaks, garbage, graffiti and rats. It would cost significantly more money to convert this area into a park than was spent on the highline.
>proper password storage practices mean your passwords are far less likely to be compromised //

Indeed and considering I'm using 20 char mixed passkeys if they're hashed with md5 then they'll take zillions of times longer to reveal than plaintext ... oh wait, no they won't because plaintext is about as bad as plaintext - and you appear to believe that is from any perspective ...

So go on, 3 days must be plenty of time to read something that's about as bad as plaintext at remaining unread.

>You assume much, but know little. //

There is nothing certain, not even this. However pyrhonic absolutism gives sway to pragmatism in general conversation.

So, what, never post on HN, create a new account for each thread, enter comments direct to the db using a morse key ... what? I'd hardly call the assumption that you had an account that you used in the normal way to be massive.
Well, Cook is definitely coming out more approachable. Even if you look at iPhone5 innards, it is actually the most repairable iPhone since iPhone 3G. Does it look like Cook is willing to be more open to customers and take their inputs? At least it looks like that to me....
That Sun workstation probably had multiple megabytes of RAM and cost 4x more than a fully loaded PC. The 68k had a flat 32-bit address space and even virtual memory.

TP was heroic for what it could do in the 16-bit segemented x86 architecture in well under 640k of RAM. It was the first high level language implementation that made "real" developers consider using something other than hand-coded asm.
LinkedIn would be an obvious choice to find people
Everybody's going to get lucky some of the time, especially when PUA methods encourage hitting up as many women as you can see.

What I find amazing is when some of the more hardcore PUAs declare that hookups without the sleazy tactics "don't count", as part of the cultish nature of the community.

Edit: fwr, yes, the real benefits come from a bit of confidence, and it is often enough to overcome the ridiculous tactics.
But if they don't work, why are they called (and respected as) PUAs? Is it some kind of jedi mind trick on redditors?
I think Lisp and C are the important languages to learn as a basis for understanding other languages, and programming in general. C is a low level language and gets you thinking about things like memory, memory addresses, and pointers. Lisp, on the other end, is a high level language with powerful tools for abstraction, like using macros to create new syntax.

However, I wouldn't recommend either language as your first. I recommend starting with Python. It's an easy language to learn, but also powerful. It's closer to the languages that are used in industry, has a lot of libraries, and you'll be able to quickly develop useful applications in it, which will make programming fun.

After a few months of Python, learn Lisp and C. Like others here, I also recommend learning Scheme, which is a clean dialect of Lisp.
Sounds more like the guy just managed to get over his ex and "get back out there".

How much of that was due to the fact the girl liked him already (Women don't generally invite single guys over on their own unless they have at least some interest in them, or are already good friends) and how much was due to his "swagger", "DHV", "negs" and "kino" is up in the air.
Realtors and maybe insurance agents are usually easy to target. You can get free lists easily and they often include direct phone numbers.
Nothing new... there already is a similar show: Shark Tank/Dragons Den. Also, Cowell and will.i.am are good in show business. Tech business... I doubt it. But, I'm gonna watch the premiere and let them prove me wrong.
Some people would call it stalking, some would call it "research" and plain being careful who you are dating (or trying to).

Lets be honest, %99 of normal people would be looking online somebody that they are interested on. Either what they do, what friends you might have in common, etc. Normal fare.

If you are not, then it is weird. You either not interested, too busy, or just careless.
If you want a summary history for a unified object, the revchron presentation is natural and minimally abusive. (Though, we may yet find better standard presentations for hiding info that is attention-grabbing but lower-value.)

Mixing unrelated things, and making this mixed-history the default view, and optimizing it relentlessly for impressions/engagement -- those are all thiings that trend towards abusing people's attention. People will become more aware and less tolerant of such 'false excitement' UX over time, presenting more opportunities for designs and businesses that respect rather than squander our mental cycles.
Why not?

And it's 332 lines by the way.
'"What’d be cooler would be if you just pulled into the parking spot and walked away."'

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/irreducible/
Introduction to libuv [video]
I'll never forget the conversation I overheard where someone who was utterly and completely miserable (at arguably the quintessential Wall Street investment bank) described how miserable he was, but also that they pay him so much money, at age 34, that he'd "lost the ability to complain."

The hours, lifestyle, verbal abuse, sociopaths and general disregard for virtually everything except making more money, will eventually wear you out. As an influential managing director at an investment bank once told me in a moment of honesty, "This business brings out the worst in everyone."
I'll be grateful for decent Techmeme alternative :) However I'm already worried if it'll live long enough (read business model). Good luck then!
Good article, thanks. I just want to make a caveat.

In my job, if I worked as efficiently and quickly as possible, I would not be able to go out to lunch with coworkers, chat with people around the office about if we're getting iphone 5, etc,, or take time to go to the tap room on Thursday afternoons for a quick beer break and chat with coworkers. So I would essentially be more boring than the computer I sit at. When I first started working, I would eat at my desk, bringing all my food from home, not go out for coffee breaks, so that I could have time to go the gym after work, talk to my family, etc. When my friend called me a monk I started to reconsider the value of being social and "wasting time."

I guess all I'm saying is that if working insanely long hours is partly due to comraderie-building or "messing around," boosting morale for all, laughing, than I think that sort of activity is worth it.
Which is easier to sell folks on?

"You'll be able to lie about in the terraformed Martian soil/space station garden/ship farm and gaze at the stars!"

or

"We'll flay the skin from you and replace it with a polymer and wiring. In fact, we may just decide to crack open your skull and yank your brain, and shove it into a box, where electrodes will provide stimulus and try to present a mapping of sensory inputs you aren't evolved to process."

Honestly, I think the former is an easier sell. Also, the technology for the former is here--it just isn't distributed yet.

This singularity transhuman nonsense lacks both wonder and reason. It lacks reason because it depends on a lot of technology that hasn't been invented yet and presupposes that people will want to mutilate themselves on a whim.

Worse, it lacks wonder, because instead of attempting to change the world to suit us--perhaps the most fundamental of human drives--it instead seeks to alter what we are in attempts to make things "easier" and "more efficient".
As I said, these kinds of thank-you's are common. I just linked to the first one I found. You can conclude that either 1) people who read seddit are a bunch of idiots and don't learn anything from it or 2) it works for some of them. I'm inclined to believe #2.

A lof of PUA stuff is oversold, but there is plenty of good advice to be found as well. It definitely made a difference for me.
It can be an instinct; an innate behavior that is not learned, such as a bear preparing for hibernation, or certain birds migrating in fixed patterns. When animals display these specific behaviors even in the absence of instruction from their parents or other members of their species, then it must be genetic, even though it's probably not known how that would work specifically.

The accusation of a "just-so story" is made against a claim of how an adaptation came about. But that's not happening here, they just state that it is an evolutionary adaptation, without a theory of how it was acquired.
Actually this a well known process known as regulatory capture.

Where the regulated industry ends up in some kind of symbiosis with its regulator, encouraging it to both grow and to keep competition at bay.

The conflict between the regulators and the regulated industry is largely a farce as they know they need each other.
The problem with Jobs' confident tone is that he'd use it even for things he was clearly wrong on (of which he'd amend a year later). Sorry, but a leader confesses his wrongs and moves on. He doesn't try to weasel out of it by handing waving and pointing.
At a broad level, one mechanism that's fairly well documented is selecting more for gliding-oriented versus flapping-oriented wing and muscle structure, which may coevolve with behavior and habitat. I do agree that there are a lot of evolutionary explanations that are more like "it's plausible that it'd be this" than actually proven, though.
Thanks for the feedback, we're constantly working to improve the quality of articles on the site and we're really just getting started.

I'll definitely take your points into account and will let the author know.
Would've been ok with "less" too.
Not quite.

A patent is granted for the invention of a drug, not the testing. If the monopoly were tied to the approval process, it would be limited to the country where the approval was granted. So shepherding a drug through the FDA approval process would get you a monopoly in the US, but not other countries.

Also, you can patent drugs that haven't been approved, which makes it basically impossible for anyone else to do the clinical trials. Breaking the link between the research and the approval process would make it easier for effective drugs to get tested and approved.

Finally, sure, that scheme would be a lot like patents. But at the very least it would be specific to the drug industry, where they are (maybe) useful, and wouldn't distort other industries where patents are actively harmful.
There isn't a direct glider analogy to being "in irons" (you can always dive to gain airspeed, assuming you have any altitude to lose of course - not having any altitude would mean you are guaranteed to crash, since gliding is basically flying slightly downhill all the time).

But there are plenty of ways to get in trouble when gliding, most notably flying into an area where there aren't any sources of lift. This means you can't gain any more altitude, and you'll gradually lose your remaining altitude and probably have to land in a field or something.
Thanks for sharing that. Wouldn't it still be cheaper to implement with software (and potentially more flexible) than with an integrated circuit?
Why aren't we seeing adoption yet? Quite simply, percentage of devices that support it are too low in contrast to the effort required to get any sort of deployment - a chicken and egg problem.

Adding support for QR codes requires some software (it's out there, and free usually) and a functioning camera with good enough resolution (again, almost omnipresent). NFC brings with it another chipset, another antenna and a chassis designed to have that antenna not mess with the others. If you want to do proper crypto with it, that's a rewiring of how you connect the SIM to your baseband to facilitate NFC-WI - I hope you're getting the picture here.

Geee is right about pairing being the other advantage asides from what I think are gimmicks like "bonking" to check into Foursquare. Realistically there is only a few ways to gain greater adoption: payments actually being deployed en-masse, or the incorporation of NFC chipsets into existing baseband modems.
Surely a link aggregator like HN can do better than linking to another link aggregator? Come on.
Location/presence. It gives a reasonably strong indication that your device was probably in a location at that time (whether GPS was present, enabled, shared, etc. or not).
Create a new email account. Sign up on every form you come across on websites selling various products and services. Get ready to be spammed. When the sales guys get in touch, get them on the phone using a blocked number or a temp. While they are trying to make a sale, instead try to ask questions to get them to admit they have the problem you are solving and you can instead pitch them your solution.
Google's home page https://www.google.com/

HTML+images is about 42k in my browser.
Actually, now I've forked this myself to streamline the installation process:

git clone git://github.com/iandennismiller/selfspy.git
cd selfspy && make requirements && sudo make install
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