skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are any of HTML5 Dev Conf sessions available in video/text?
I would dearly love to be hearing what's being discussed by these people, but currently reside on the other side of the planet.
Packet Pig - Big Data meets Network Security Monitoring
In your vimrc(it's a single line):
" <Leader>W -> Blog mode. Allows for using vim to write long sentences and paragraphs

nnoremap <leader>W :set colorcolumn=0<cr>:set syntax=markdown<cr>:nnoremap j gj<cr>:nnoremap k gk<cr>
It is not that hard to recognize symptoms of mental illness. You certainly don't need to be a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist. You don't even need to be a LCSW or a LPC.

It would be, at most, a single course in an undergraduate or a graduate program. It could probably be rolled in to existing curricula just as a chapter or an exam as a component of a related class.

We're not talking about diagnosis, just recognition of symptoms to the point where a referral can be made.
Come be the first Sales Rep at Chartio
I wrote a script which generates iOS tab bar icon-sized sprites from the Font Awesome icon font: https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome
Doesn't anyone else feel that the solution should be enforcing equal pay and removing loopholes that allow the cost difference to exist rather than reducing or controlling H1-B visas?

That would automatically make it (or at least bring it closer to) a merit based system rather than a cost benefit.
Maybe, but it would also cause complete havoc, because the "standard GUI" keybindings conflict with enormous swathes of Emacs standard keybindings (remember, some of them conflict with Emacs key prefixes...), and Emacs has a lot of keybindings. Once you've started to move stuff around, the conflicts cascade, and there's simply no easy way to recover, especially as many keybindings are made in 3rd-party packages, over which there's little control.

Given that there's actually a rather small number of "standard GUI" keybindings, it actually seems much more tractable to simply ask people to relearn those. It simply isn't a huge burden compared to the alternative...

The sort of people who would be completely loathe to relearn the few "standard GUI" bindings will probably use the mouse/menus instead anyway (and I've observed many newbies happily using Emacs without ever touching the keyboard except when entering text!).
Loyalty is Underrated
Just one person's anecdote, but I am close with a person who is schizophrenic. Marijuana use significantly contributed to episode occurrence. After their psychologist told them that it can make things worse, they stopped, and it improved their situation considerably.

I think it's related to the whole paranoia side of things.
I don't think he's saying we should all hire some slappers. Rather, if we incorporate the right kind of social component to our workflow, we can improve productivity a lot. The slapping is an attention-getter for sure, but I think it's a creative way to make a point.
But, were you just saying?
Why does so much innovation come from America? Because it sucks.
That’s right, you are not going to get any one cheaper to change your adult diapers. HA!
They are human beings though, so if they chose not to accept help or medication you can't force it on them. You lose a lot more taking away individual freedoms over what you deem abnormal or mentally ill than you do from the suffering making potentially poor life choices.
Really? What sort of margins are you getting for her per hour?
Chase that 5-HTP with some L-Tryptophan. Something about the two getting metabolized into serotonin. It really kicks it up a notch!
Personally I think you should both focus on marketing.

What you think may be awesome features could turn out to simply just be waste. Market and get your initial users to tell you what else they need.
Nobody brought this up (what?) but how is this relevant to.. hacker news? I get that someone on here might be schizophrenic, but is this really on topic with startups, software, etc? If I want to get sad over incurable mental illness I'll go read r/politics or atheism (oioioi).
A picture is worth 1000 pictures!
There are middle grounds between unsafe manual memory management and full garbage collection other than atomic reference counting. Region systems (like in Cyclone and Rust), for example.
There are useful diagnostic criteria and well-understood risk factors for all sorts of mental illnesses. Schizophrenia is a particularly vexing case, but that does not mean that one cannot recognize that someone is at-risk for or already dealing with a mental health problem.
Looks good! Only criticism is that you should keep it all manual to create a consistent look between each frame (manually set ISO, shutter speed and aperture).
Just one more, okay?
Mind Reference: Python Fastest Web Framework
Wasn't MDMA (ecstasy) once considered for schizophrenic patients? It was supposed to not affect the patient as much. I never head the results.
Go is certainly meant for the server-side of web development, but I guess the phrase web-dev is often intended to mean client-side only.
Is grepped a better choice? You can crawl in memory from a repository, or "crawl" across the net.
This is something that will ultimately be dependent on your servers, right? Seems handy, but I'd worry about sending internal application state to a third party server.
He says that he was an intern back in '11. I'm guessing he's full-time now. Not very clear.
SecondMarket Has Partnered with AngelList to Offer Startup Investments
What is this sentence saying? I've read it five times and it makes no sense to me:

"The median percentage for companies showing up as customers of companies making foreign-workers-only advertisements was 1 percent"
It seems like a good way to legitimize a bike market place is to require listings to prominently feature bike serial numbers to search for their bike, thus reducing the revenue potential for flipping stolen bikes (and playing into the market theory in the linked article).
For About $20, Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says
I spilled my breakfast.... the video's funny because it's so true.
Interesting. I'm curious about the legality of a company putting all or most prospective employees through a 'trial run' as an independent contractor before hiring them. Ignoring feasibility of attracting talent in such a system, are there laws in place to prevent such practices being used to circumvent anti discrimination laws?
Mandelbrot pushed his discoveries as methods for modeling real-world objects, including things like what you describe. so, the impetus for his popularization of fractals was this practical reason. at least, that's how Mandelbrot promoted fractals
That would definitely be extreme programming. And when your tests fail, someone from QA can slap you, too.
> It seems you can only ever build the same kind of boring city in Sim City, one fundamentally built around streets and cars

Ugh. Well, designed by a American company, so ... :(

I want sim-subways, sim-pedestrian areas, sim-giant-hub-rail-stations, and sim-congestion-pricing....!
@fourk I imagine that if a "trial run" candidate who outperformed his/her peers was denied employment, he or she would have grounds to sue for discrimination.
Show HN: DRUNK-SAPN -- A live, drunken, debate transcript
Cheaper bike is not the solution. I rode on a bike worth 50 pounds for two years. Replaced the rear tyre after a puncture with a 15 quid replacement and it was stolen the very next day. From outside the British transport police station at Victoria
I'm not sure if "housecleaning for the masses" is the ideal message. I'm willing to bet that most people either value time (already have cleaner) or money (clean their own house). You normally need a pretty big price drop to create a new segment - even 2x is not enough in my opinion.

My message would be "a better housecleaning experience, at a better price".
No framework. As Sutto said, we used SASS and Compass to make cross browser attributes faster to write, but that's about it.
"Fun" with C++ Templates
http://moobs.arelikefacebook.com/
Ah I didn't have a chance to test the site on Linux -- once the Rails Rumble comp is over I'll be sure to see what I can do to fix it. :)
Now that we know how to detect exoplanets by their effect on the star's wavelength, what are the implications to the Drake equation? [1]

Originally, we estimated that habitable planets were very rare. Then we discovered exoplanets, and soon after, habitable exoplanets.

Drake also started by looking for radio signs of intelligent life. Now we humans use frequency-hopping burst digital transmissions and the power level is much lower, so detecting another planet by its radio signature seems a lot less likely.

Since earth has been habitable for at least 3 billion years [2], what is the probability that intelligent life (in our galaxy) is aware of this planet and wants to look at it? My back-of-napkin estimate is that we are out on a limb of the galaxy and therefore very visible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
Just CSS3 3d transforms. Should be hardware accelerated on most browsers / platforms.
Android 4.1.2 update available for Nexus S
I would also like to know this question.
What about using elastic map reduce with spot instances instead of a custom job queue. Hadoop seems to do this for us and supports the arc format as an inputformat.
Hi, thank you for the feedback.

I started writing the book on the weekend, and have tried to include details about the main concept and format (it's going to be split into three books). As it's early days I've only really touched on what will actually be included, but my thoughts so far are along these lines:

An introduction to Object Oriented Programming |
Ruby basics |
-why ruby |
-datatypes |
-variables |
-classes |
-etc |
An introduction to Rails and the MVC architecture |
-why rails etc |
A Ruby on Rails tutorial - building your first app! |
-1 |
-2 |
-3 |
-4 |
-etc |
Using Gems |
Using Git |
Deploying |
An introduction to Test Driven Development |
-------? |
-------? |
-------? |

Originally I sought feedback from my friends, and as that's been very positive I thought it wise to get opinions from a wider audience, such as on HN.

Thanks for the link to the Sacha Greif book - I will definitely check it out!
Thanks for recommendation for RescueTime - just installed, lets see what happens.
Contributing to open source projects, particularly well-known ones with strong communities, is another way to get resume experience and network with people.
Zurb, when will you stop being so awesome? Yes, I'm a fanboy.

But seriously, using the Compass/SCSS version of Foundation saved me countless hours of work. Thank You!
Mac OS X has gone through a large number of major releases without making binary incompatible changes to APIs. That may be one definition of "major release", but it's certainly not universal. In any case, I don't understand this discussion centered around whether OpenSSL is justified in doing this or that. It doesn't matter! Apple needs binary compatibility, OpenSSL does not provide it, Apple doesn't expose OpenSSl. That's it. The reasons why OpenSSL doesn't provide it, whether they're right or wrong or just sideways, simply do not matter.
http://ostriches.arelikefacebook.com/
My definition is from the DSM and while it is true that there's always edge cases, in practice the gray area is pretty small. Especially when we're talking about serious things like schizophrenia.
Sure thing, yes I had an MVP but I'm pivoting pretty majorly. Our business model is still being tweaked. Also, I'm a solo founder which completely killed me.
Great info, I could also do contract work to hold me over.
Just sent it!
Which online video lectures are you following?
If you can patent a rectangle with rounded corners today surely then the less trivial manifold with ornamentation that is a dress deserves at least as much protection...
So true, for a long time I didn't think I needed to be in the Valley. My current location is lacking resources, funding, etc. Being in San Fran would put me at a tremendous advantage.
> I went to college and graduated in the US on a J1 visa, I paid my fees and when I worked I paid my federal, state taxes + my social security contributions. After graduation I left the US as obviously it makes sense to take my money, teach me skills and then tell me to leave?

I think the US should encourage smart people stay in the country by fast-tracking the citizenship process for graduates with J1 visas. H1Bs might be good for short-term corporate profits, but increasing the number of smart people who have roots in the US is good for the country's long-term health. Reverse brain drain with more brains. :)
3 Days of Geocoded Tweets in New York City, Animated (made with processing)
You know what will be popular? whatever runs reasonably fast and helps you import and clean data quickly from a variety of sources.

Because the analysis is often the quickest part of being a data scientist. Coursera, as I recall, apparently cleans it's data, and also lets you easily import it.

In real life, data is messy, and messed up. You looking at birthdays from some website? expect a spike for whatever the default is... but that doesn't mean you can eliminate that data completely, because some people were presumably born Jan 1st.

You looking at birth years? I recall dealing with them in SAS... remember if it's four digit that you check for births occurring in the current and past century.

And hey... do you have two or more elements of data for an individual? 2% to 5% will probably be missing some element, and some will have wrong data. a zip code off by one, an address not in the city you are looking to geocode for, whatever. If you are lucky, it will be obvious stuff like that.

The life if the data scientist is mostly cleaning, formatting, and transferring data, with the occasional sweeeet analysis. Of course your analysis will probably give you nothing useful, because despite several thousand usable records, it's not clear if any element has a significant effect on the dependent variable you are looking at. If you are smart, maybe you can finagle an analysis based on a non parametric distribution or logistic regression.

Oh, and often the speed of your analysis running is inversely correlated with how easy it is to code and enter your data. There is a reason people use SAS, and it's not because of it's amazing IDE.
Because readers of hacker news, as objective and spock-like as they like to think they are, really can't help but reverse-ad hominen when they vote. People are right because of who they are, not what they said. At the very least the bias appears as a benefit of the doubt.

PG should have, instead of removing vote totals, removed usernames. But of course that would get in the way of the ego stroking..

(I am of course no exception)
"Why do I need to be online to play this?"

There are many answers to this with varying degrees of truth. I suspect the truest answer is because by forcing you to be online to play it it becomes substantially more difficult for you to pirate it.

The status quo for "big studio" PC game developers these days is to make a game tied to online as a form of DRM and then invent reasons for it to have to be online.
It needs to work for more than one person for more than one month before its even worth a conversation.
Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker deaths
I red this article about entrepreneurs getting a job http://www.startupremarkable.com/five-reasons-why-every-entr... I have toile the decisions of I can take on more debt, it's tough entrepreneurship is my absolute passion.
Show HN: JustBeamIt v2.0 - file transfer made easier
Yep! It looks like if you hooked this up to the router with serialization function, you could embed state directly into the url without too much effort.
Moving Caret in TeX Writer
Uninstall free download of Microsoft word
I wish someone told me this before the video! ha. Makes a HUGE difference. Doing that would have saved me a ton of editing time.
Seems to me like this is reinventing parts of ember.js on top of Backbone. That's neat but when my apps need this sort of behavior I'm willing to be they will also need solutions to other common problems and I'd rather not reassemble a large framework out of disparate pieces to get that level of functionality. When do you decide that you have so many layers on top of Backbone that you have a custom stack no one else will understand?
So, the real question is Vekta or Helghan?
Anyone have any experience/thoughts on using spot instances with Hadoop? Specifically, regular instances with Hadoop installed (not via Elastic Map Reduce). The cost savings are potentially huge, but I'd hate to lose my instances 80-90% of the way through a set of long running (12-48h) jobs. I guess if I had EBS backed instances I could relaunch and resume, but I'm not sure how well that'd work in practice.
That's a pretty lame thesis.

By that logic we should see the most innovation coming out of the worst places on earth.

How's that innovation coming out of the Sudan going? Lots of things that suck there that could be fixed.

What, Greece doesn't have a load of problems that should drive innovation?

America has a culture of individualism, problem solving, and allowing those who solve problems to keep the spoils of their market victories.
Visualizing Vastness
The MIT ones taught by Strang, my new favorite professor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c
It's just easier. With a pngs you have to scale, size and filter appropriately with an image editor, and keep track of all of them. With an icon font, you just do font-size: 24px, and if that's too large, 18px. Change the colour? color: red. And you only have one file to deal with.
Hmm... Favorite is hard. Maybe Cryptonomicon Because it was funny, meditative, and the research into WWII crypto was interesting. Or Maybe Stranger in a Strange Land, for the insights into correct action, the nature of humor, love, and understanding, and for giving us 'grok'. Or Maybe the Illuminatus Trilogy, for crazy awesomeness insight into the 1970's. I've loaned out all three, and I couldn't consider a book a favorite unless I'd tried to get people to read it.
Peanut Butter Recall
Game rejected from App Store for making fun of in-app purchases
Not going to touch the link-baity thesis of the article, but I'm glad I read it if for no other reason than the mention of Larry Hillblom. A quick read of his Wikipedia article[1] was surprisingly interesting, what with the missing body, scrubbed house, and paternity saga.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hillblom
Faster Github using SSH multiplexing
Uber decides to pull the plug on its New York taxi service
Hmm, you'll have to look into the so-called "Silicon Beach" around Venice and Santa Monica.

As for the Valley, you might find some tech companies tucked into office space off the 101 as it goes North toward Ventura.

Eventually you're going to want to live near work. Traffic density in LA seems like it's following a Moore's Law style trend.

Despite the media's idea of LA, culturally, it's a lot more like NYC than Hawaii.
What kind of periodic wobble would our Sol produce from our very-many body solar system? Would it be easy to decipher, or easier to catalog as background noise?

Maybe we'll start seeing advances in telescopic technologies and analyses in the years to come -- to pick up on more complex periodic motion of the more complex solar systems.
"Pathjoy might be great" doesn't sound like a dismissal, and these TC announcements are uninteresting to me as well. The YC startups look like widgets coming off a conveyor belt.

A little personality can go a long way.
Yea, for 2 hours :/

He should write a post after 6 months of doing this.
Yeah I work in the Valley, not as glamorous as Silicon Beach or high paying but normal work hours and cheaper cost of living. I don't even bother with a car, I live by the metro orange line instead and take public transpo to go out and walk to work to save money.
Of course, education, immigration and a legal framework without a high degree of fraud are also important.

I don't think individualism would be a major factor.
http://social.networks.arelikefacebook.com/

Well this one's actually true...
I'm not really familiar with Origin (I have an account, but sadly, if this is Origin-only, I won't be playing it), but surely there is an offline mode like with Steam? So, you would have to log into Origin, and you'd require the network connection when you set it to offline, but then you're good? That's how it used to work with Steam, although now you don't even need the network connection when you set it to offline mode.

Oh, and by the way, you don't have to play multiplayer.
The Romulans took them both out as they left Vulcan.

Or maybe it was the Narn as they attacked Centaur who destroyed them...
It's the wrong typeface.
Is it really web programming if you're shipping processor-specific binary bundles that only work in one browser and don't actually interact with the web?

I think I know what you mean, though. It's nice to be able to pick a narrow target that covers most of your customers and code for that.
Bye Bye ... something something pie ...drove my something... yadda yadda... somewhere...

...the day 'Think Different' died.
Very cool idea - you might want to make it a bit clearer that the sender has to keep the window open (initially I assumed it simply wasn't loading because of technical issues).
Apple doesn't mess around
The HTML5 spec [1] covers this nicely: "[I]f the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/). This character has no effect on void elements, but on foreign elements it marks the start tag as self-closing." Furthermore, the space before the slash is only necessary for XHTML [2].

[1]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#start-tags
[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2
Was this made at the LinkedIn hack day last year? I think I remember seeing this when I was there.

EDIT: Yes http://twitter.com/JustBeamIt/status/124645928228495360
The Big Data Technology Landscape
I was excited about Dart, until I saw how many lines of code the JavaScript output was for one of its simple examples.

And then I completely lost interest when I started structuring my code well, and realised that I didn't need it as much as I thought.
Oh I would love for Google to do that!
They did a while ago:
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:arrow_functio...
They don't need anyone else to support it. Compiling to JS means Dart apps will work in other browsers, and in a Chrome-only world (the world Google wants to exist), everyone will benefit from the native Dart VM.
Cutting edge story.
The point of a 1099 trial run is to make a hiring decision. That hiring decision is very much encumbered by CA anti-discrimination law.
Yup! It was born at the first annual LinkedIn intern hackathon last summer :)
Change, including solutions, comes from an unwillingness to adapt oneself to the status quo. Innovation is abhorrent to conformity, and conformity puts a deathly pallor on creativity. A tolerance for quirkiness is essential, embracing it is better.
thanks for the suggestion! we'll put up some kind of notification to remind you to keep your browser window open
JustBeamIt is great, but why are you posting this again now?

A Lifehacker article[1] about it was posted a year ago, and you even posted it on HN[2] a year ago.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3116057

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109081
we just released an updated version and wanted to tell the world about it
You can also integrate unsafe manual memory management with a full garbage collector in environments like .NET. Use the GC for 99% of your code, manually malloc/free/pin the other 1%.
Stylus Pen for iPad
SPDYCheck: SPDY-support checker and diagnostics tool
What does it do? And what is used for?
There's a fair ammount of (necessity-inspired) innovation coming out of Africa: http://www.economist.com/node/21560912
Open source platform for dating/social network in Python