skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. It's sad to say but there are coders (like me) who will write our own half-assed muck in order to half-assedly follow good procedure...or even worse, just skip procedure all together. So any well-implemented, graceful simplication can be more valuable than the library and its seemingly few lines of code at face value. Thank you for putting this together and I hope you keep improving it
I see NFC as a way to essentially enable interactions between physical objects
Do you have examples of lack of foresight?
Working fine here: "Your Browser's Age: 6 days old" for Google Chrome 22.0.1229.79.
This was my future. What went wrong?
Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think!

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those novels. They seem to have fallen out of fashion a little, which is a shame.
I hate to stick up for Simon Cowell but with his successful TV show (X Factor) throughout the world and his record label I think he knows a bit about entrepreneurship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syco
Ah, still fun :) Thanks!
Park Ave, upper 40's
Same here. On Opera, 0 days. weird.
Torchlight II Development Visualization
Had been meaning to write something like this for awhile. Finally found some time to knock it out. I didn't really want to use any of the numerous shady web apps for this.
AHhhh ya fooled me
Ah, I see what you're saying now. That makes quite a bit of sense, especially if it applied only to drugs and medical devices.
And there's another soul who doesn't grasp the definition of misogyny.
why is the volatility a factor ? My intuition say that you with high volatility is a lot easier to pick the wrong equities. Is that correct ?
Wouldn't this technically be gliding rather than flying? I had thought that by definition it was only flight if you could produce enough thrust to maintain velocity and altitude in still air.
Strong (hardware PKI based) authentication for mobile banking (user and transaction auth by touching phone to bank card).
Sadly, I don't know what else to discuss about this article.
WVC is the new MVC
I'd suggest creating a more original hacker news law. I'm sure some of us are willing to work it into their TedX presentations, and whoop de doo we have our own annoying reference.
this gives a route for AME on STM in CPython via the LLVM. it assumes (afaict - it took me a while to grok the article and i'm still not sure i have it right) that the CPython GIL will be removed. but we already have a failed attempt to remove the GIL via LLVM (unladen swallow). so the obvious question is - how meaningful is that failure? does it mean that removing the GIL via LLVM is hard? how hard? because without removing the GIL, AME and STM are pointless, right?

[edit: ok, thanks for the reply. it turns out it was dropped from the roadmap for unladen swallow because the garbage collection library they thought would help turned out not to - see https://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#G... - so i guess this question is much less interesting. sorry.]

unrelated note / question. this is the first time i've heard that HTM is restricted to the cache(s) (although it makes a lot of sense in retrospect). how serious a limitation is that for other languages? is haskell planning to use it? what about clojure (JVM - guess not)? and what happens to HTM if the cache overflows?

AME: automatic mutual exclusion,
STM: software transactional memory,
HTM: hardware transactional memory,
LLVM: itself [fixed, thanks],
GIL: global interpreter lock,
JVM: java virtual machine,
uff.
Firefox Nightly "18.0a1 (2012-09-30)", also 25 days old.

Seems, I think, that it's seeing Firefox and getting the latest stable release, which was 15.0.1 released on September 6th (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/15.0.1/releasenotes/)
cmd ctrl and ;
Key quote:

> "24 hours earlier, I had made an instant booking for this accommodation on AirBnB. You know, the one where I don’t have to wait for a confirmation from the host. As soon as the booking is made, you can pack your bags and go as AirBnB sends you the address"

Key question: is that actually how it works? If Airbnb says you can go directly to the address as soon as the booking is made, and expect to be let in, the author has a valid complaint. If not, well, not.

I don't know how Airbnb works, but my hunch is that an "instant booking" just means you get instant confirmation that you have, in fact, successfully reserved a room for a given set of nights. I would be surprised if it also meant that you have a right to expect the host to let you into the house immediately. If I reserve an Airbnb room at midnight, and show up at the address at 2 am, surely I don't have a right to expect to be let in on the spot.
geuis, I would suggest you limit submitting articles which base their argument entirely on exponential extrapolation without regard to physics or other factors. If you do believe what the author wrote, or it spoke to you in some way, share with us as an additional comment after submission what you found compelling about the article.

Edit: and this comment "That’s pretty positive news. As Kurzweil notes, “We are awash in sunlight.” Just 1/10,000 of the sunlight falling on the Earth’s surface can satisfy humanity’s energy requirements. And that doesn’t imply a landscape littered with panels—in fact, an area equal to just a few percent of the Earth’s unused deserts would suffice."

Has been thoroughly debunked several times by the fact that you can't actually transmit all of the worlds power from an 'unused desert' to its consumers. When we have super conductors tracing through the planet more densely than we currently have networking cables, then we can start talking about putting all the power generation in a 'couple' of places.
Ironically I wrote my first my first web cgi app in turbo pascal in 1995.
Can you elaborate on what is not performing well?
Ask HN: An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers?
1. I'm a sole bootstrapping startup developer in Novosibirsk, Russia. (LiveReload app, if you heard of it.)

2. I want to virtually hang out with other folks busy building a product business on their own.

3. The goal would be to cross-boost motivation, share tiny successes, get feedback etc (NOT idle sharing of opinions), and generally to get more of a ‘team feeling’.

Anyone knows a place or interested in starting one?

UPDATE: I've created https://plus.google.com/events/c40a48hviivngqaj3r6a3k4jhug; please hop in if interested!
Hasn't Amazon implemented their own?
Rc gliders do it behind a ridge, taking advantage of big wind speed differences caused by the ridge. It's pretty fantastic to see in a video or in real life.

But I'm not sure whether it translates to generalized flying at high altitude - is there enough windshear without a close-by hill for this to work? Can it work in any direction?
This seems to have nothing to do with Airbnb. Wouldn't common sense tell you that even though it's "instantly confirmed" to get some other kind of confirmation before taking your whole family to Italy without speaking Italian?
Um... it looks like it's open source :)

https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge
Knowing the author's other writing (which is, by the way, very recommended), I would think he isn't trying to say "look how wrong we went, lets make things smaller again" but instead "look how fun that was, but come on, those days are over. Now that we have comparably infinite resources, lets focus on what can be made with them."

tl;dr The Author would probably agree with you more than you think
If you want to see [all of] the source code you should click the link at the bottom of the page to be taken to https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge
Are emotionally damaged people not supposed to have sex?
How loud is it there? The stone walls and tile floors make me think it's very live, acoustically speaking. Are people quiet enough that it's not a problem?
I think I saw your juggling talk at FOTSN in Shepherd's Bush, very entertaining! But you were up against the tough competition of a Lego clock.
Google Map: "Places to Work in NYC" that I created from the suggestions in this thread so far: http://goo.gl/maps/ujdjY
Given the amount of text and lack of time we have, I think there is an opportunity to evolve content and that is what we are trying to do. We tried text + images format but found it too limiting. The doodle style is comparatively more readable, share-able and easily consumable in short period of time.
By all means do your heavy startup/entrepreneur stuff when you're as young as possible. In your 20's you can work hard and play hard. Most people have little or nothing to lose at that age. It's easy to end up in an ordinary job with a boss that's just as demanding anyway. In a startup, with hard work and a healthy dose of luck, later (which will arrive sooner than you think) by the time you have children you'll be set up well enough financially to do less intensive work and be able to be present and be a successful spouse/parent. You really can't ace both a career and family at the same time. Starting in your 40's sounds like the worst possible time to me.
Betteridge say's no and I agree - by this point it's not that it's hard to make a blog and push content to it - the sheer number of Tumblr and Posterous blogs attests to that, it's that blogging is, well, work. I'd argue that the hard part is no longer the publishing part but the actual sitting down, writing, editing, proofreading, reviewing, fact-checking, link-checking part.
Aren't there restrictions on switching companies once your GC application has been filed?
Final Goals & Final Schedule
From Darwinius to GMOs: Journalists Should Not Let Themselves Be Played
5 years is unrealistic unless you have a graduate degree and do not come from India or China.
"Every blog has yours own API which allow a user to 'get connected' to it (to the user point of view, it'll be only a button to get connected, every technical detail will be hidden)"

How is that different from RSS?
So he takes two little kids to a country where he doesn't speak the language, with no directions, no confirmed place to stay, unreliable internet connectivity and somehow he isn't the one to blame?
I'm surprised to see Singularity Hub of all people spend so much time arguing that even though the rate of growth is right on track, the absolute size is still too small to care.

The tldr quotes seem to eventually come down to "The last 20 years have shown exponential growth in solar power—and rising sustainable energy subsidies in parallel." and "For example, last year’s solar capacity growth set records because firms expected dramatic cuts in government incentives, thus pulling future demand into the present."
The NDAA And Obama’s Secret ‘Kill List’—Are You On It?
I would agree, except having witnessed all of this firsthand, the burnout part tends to affect your outlook on life. The money becomes rather meaningless, if you can believe it.
I think some expansion of this statement is in order. As far as settled SCOTUS cases go, the only reason why police need a warrant to attach a GPS to your car is because they must "sieze" the car (for however brief a time) in order to attach the device. As you alude to, it has nothing to do with the surveillance itself. However this is far from a settled issue. At least 4 out of the 9 SCOTUS justices support a new Fourth Amendment theory called the "mosaic theory", introduced by Alito in US v. Jones (2012). Under this theory, courts would evaluate the actions by government in aggregate to determine if the actions constituted a search. Under such a doctrine, 24 hour GPS surveillance on public roadways may well be illegal without a warrant. This theory has been criticized by some academics as too difficult of an analysis for the courts to handle. Yet it does show that the justices are indeed considering the scope of surveillance and some of them are trying to figure out a way to limit the scope using Fourth Amendment analysis. Alito in particular seems worried about it and he has found support for at least some of his ideas from Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor
Indeed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
There is definitely room for innovation in the blog tools/publishing/server space, the big question for you to be comfortable with is whether or not the space is big enough for another player.

I launched a new blogging platform in the early 2000's and despite some really cool new approaches to how things got done, it was really hard to turn these innovations into a winning business. I think there's probably enough room for 1-2 players of any size, and currently, Wordpress, Tumblr and a few others are doing a great job serving the market. Don't hear me as saying you don't have a chance, just hear me as saying that even if you do bring some compelling innovations to the market, it will be a real fight for you to win appreciable marketshare, and even then, you'll have to figure out how to make money from it.
100 tools, tips and tricks to work more efficiently online
ObjectScript: A new programming language - CodeProject
Flight is general term for "unassisted" motion through air. By unassisted I mean no support structure from surface.

So even a ball through up in air is technically in flight.

While gliding implies flight with no thrust and is the primary mode for Albatross flight, they still produce trust by flapping their wings.
I think this will be the next one, or 'chipped' ATM cards. NFC as a solution works better than the smart card standard though as the reader than do the request / challenge without having to insert the card. That said people bumping into you on the subway can too so there is protocol work to be done to insure that isn't a vulnerability.
If banks paid less, they would have to pay their shareholders more instead, which they always seem reluctant to do. Banks dont horde cash like industrial companies, or pay vastly more to the executives than the workers, so in many ways theu are model companies. The problem is the level of profits they make, and the amount to which they are subsidised by the government (especially recently).
Starbucks on Delancey still has outlets. Sometimes someone will bring a power supply strip, however one time they shut down the bathroom.
If you've got a product ready to roll that is targeted to "mass" consumers being on TV does ad value, I'd think having several million people see your idea might be fairly valauble to some, but not all, companies.
>it's artificial to give women legos to play with when they are children?

It's artificial to insist on it if they don't show interest, and it's also artificial to give them Legos based on an agenda of them adopting programming.

If you've seen kids in action, it's not like they cannot ask for Legos. They ask for what they want 24/7.
Looks like you're on Safari, caught a bug in some of the newer user agents -- fixed now.
So I don't know about other people but I find it creepy because the goal seems to be to shag as many chicks as possible.

If the goal was to have a meaningful lasting relationship with another human being then PUAs wouldn't exist, because they would have all retired from 'the game' with their SOs before they built up internet 'cred'.
6 days for me on Chrome 22. Nice. I wasn't even aware.
Funny how much lower news.ycombinator.org's average is over .com's. (I'm seeing 19 vs. 61 days, respectively)
The OS field seems to be lying. It conveniently adds up to 100% but only has entries for windows, osx, and ios. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm sure there's a lot of other Linux users here too.
My browser is "unknown days old". On my iPhone / Safari / iOS 5.
Presenting the World's Biggest Hedge Fund You Have Never Heard Of
Maybe crowdfunding will help fix the bigger problems of investing in games
Somewhat related for US companies: it's probably a good idea to file a DMCA safe harbor form if your site has user-generated content[1].

1. http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/
Today it's more about growing cyberspace than outer space.
0 days old? What does this mean anyway?
80% of HN is using Chrome? That is unexpected. I'd figure if Firefox would be popular anywhere, it would be here where I would imagine most people run the aurora builds (at least, I do).

The number has been mentioned to be wrong, and it is. I have Aurora 17.0a2 on Ubuntu 64 bit, which is 9 days old.

The OS numbers also seem off, saying 54% of HN is browsing from OSX but 0% from any Linux?

The facebook numbers seem strange. 45% are using Safari but 75% are using Windows. I really don't think 20% of those page views are from Windows users running Safari.
What is the point of having interests listed on Facebook?

It's so that people can discover things you have in common that may not have come up in your conversations.

That's why it's there at all.

Well, that and better ad targeting, but they sell it to us for the reason above.
Are you sure your app is not db or I/O bound? I would suggest giving https://github.com/mgood/flask-debugtoolbar a try and getting some numbers before making a switch.
Yeah, this sounds like poor planning to me. Most of the complaints are limitations of the traveler writing the story, not AirBnB. Plus, the author admits that a tragedy was the reason the homeowner didn't reach out. That's unfortunate for all parties involved, but it does not represent how the service generally works.
What am I missing? I looked over the API and tried to skim through the video (10 minutes in and still no demonstration of anything in the API), but I couldn't figure out why any of the Letters functions would be preferable to just jumping into a debugger session.

Anyone care to explain?
Absolutely... Just visit Amsterdam, Copenhagen, or Paris and see all the cyclists... What a joy. Instead of helmets the US cities should try to implement cycling lanes for a change.
Kill Emails 
From http://www.orchestra.com/ team - App Store’s 2011 Productivity App of the Year. They want to KILL EMAILS!
Yep, it's not very smart yet. There's a small json dict of firefox releases that it's referencing (https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-fi...). I haven't updated past the stable releases so it's defaulting to the last known release date. Feel free to clone on github :)
Unladen Swallow never failed to remove the GIL, that goal was never even attempted before the project fizzled out.
The iPad 1
"Can Betteridge's law be applied to literally every question, even when it's a real question and not an article headline?"
I'm curious where you would put Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Google, and Apple on the startup <-> ordinary business continuum, when they started?
It's strange that you have a problem with Flask in production. What I've heard, there shouldn't be much of a problem with it. It should easily be able to handle 1,000 basic requests per second.

Have you done any performance analysis to figure out where the bottlenecks might be? Have you tried the flask-debugtoolbar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-DebugToolbar)? How many requests do you get? What's the load average of the process? Is there an un-indexed SQL query you don't know about? In the most extreme case, have you put a debugging sleep(1) call in your code which you've forgotten to remove?

Without knowing more about where your Flask app is being bogged down, it's not that worthwhile to switch to pypy.
My opinion is that the features you are working on are not really specific for a new blogging platform. If you want to test these features in the blogosphere, I would recommend building a WordPress plugin to test the waters without having to reinvent the rest. If that interest you, you can also distribute a template with the plugin included and make a demo (or use it for your own blog) to show it off.

That way, you would be able to focus on what's important to you.
A minor nitpic Drug R&D has a defacto subsidy in the tax code. see: "For purposes of section 38, the research credit determined under this section for the taxable year shall be an amount equal to the sum of" () As well as several other direct and indirect subsidies.
Do you have an amazon credit card?

As far as I know they use GE as the issuing bank, they may have other deals in place.

As far as I know - but this may very well be wrong or at least out of date - amazon does not have a banking license and the network used is VISA.

This seems to confirm that:

http://www.cardhub.com/d/amazon-credit-card-1015c/
For a moment I had thought this is like Erdos number or Bacon number, but now with PG at the center. Your number is one if you have worked with him etc.
>24 hours earlier, I had made an instant booking for this accommodation on AirBnB. You know, the one where I don’t have to wait for a confirmation from the host. As soon as the booking is made, you can pack your bags and go as AirBnB sends you the address (which later turned out to be incorrect).

If you're travelling with all of the world's luggage, two kids and your mother in law, why the hell would you book accommodation the day before? It's not a setup that can bear any risk. Or even chill out at a nearby coffeeshop for an hour or two if your host gets delayed.
Where did this site get the data from? EDIT: Especially, how did he get Facebook's or Google's stats?
I maintain a website for some short films, and as part of that I look at the access logs for the search keywords that bring people to the site.

Female actors often have a lot of searches coming from their original hometowns. Sometimes the same ip address over a period of months. I guess that might be mom back home, but I tend to think of it as a little more stalkery.

Male actors can have the same thing, but it happens much less often. Which is another argument against it being mom back home.
Completely agree. Some people may think that some of the backlash against Apple is "over-reaction", but it's exactly the response they'll get when they promise the moon for everything and then they don't deliver.

If they would've said "Our maps are pretty good", and not something like "Our maps are the best out there", maybe the backlash wouldn't have been so bad, although people still have the right to get mad at Apple for replacing a "better maps app" with a "worse maps app", without giving them any choice in the matter - other than not updating the old devices, I guess.

But yeah, my point is Apple generally overhypes anything they build - so they go on the "positive extreme". So they shouldn't be surprised that when people find out their features are not as good as they say, they go on the "negative extreme" with the backlash. Cause and effect. Maybe Apple should be more moderate and more honest with their marketing in the future. To be honest, I'm surprised there hasn't been this kind of backlash over the Siri ads, too.
I tried on Chrome and got 6 days old. I then tried it on IE9 just out of curiosity, and got 579 days old. Also, the site doesn't seem to render or work correctly on IE9. The initial table appears at the very left-hand side of the screen, and the [+] button doesn't seem to do anything. (Works fine on Chrome though).
Letters is an abstraction layer over the ways many people detect problems with code in the real world. (I see these patterns re-emerge every day.) A debugger is part of the solution. Easy profiling and object diffing are another. Detecting how vulnerable you are to XSS attacks is yet another. When you have the power to do this inline without breaking your code apart, I think you gain productivity.

In other words, these patterns are not something we should have to spend brainpower on.

I probably should not have put the screencast on the front page -- it's actually about rationale and not about code examples. You can find concrete examples at http://lettersrb.com/api