skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=sahara&hl=en&ll=23.94...
Since when is Hacker News a programming news site? AFAICT it's mainly a startup news/self-promotion vehicle, with a few programming articles thrown in to satisfy the technical cofounders.
Why is it that every time I read about emails from PG they're always described as curt, snappy, rude, or something similar? It's puzzling because he otherwise seems like a nice guy.
A similar 'thing' done using SMS (by Hilary Mason in 2010), code included http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/sms-to-e-mail-gateway-the-sm...
Weekend Recap: Popular Startup Articles Around The Web
With coursera I think it depends on the area.

There's an algorithms I and an algorithms II course, for example.

I'm starting Crytography I next week, and expect that to have a follow up as well, and Analytic Combinatorics, Part I is in a couple of months.

The logic course that finishes up in a week or so though, that one seems to come out of nowhere and not have much of a stated follow on to it. Despite, of course, being useful for all manner of computer science.

But as for the groundings for these courses. I don't know what the answer is. I don't think the providers need to provide a basics level, especially if they are getting sign up numbers into the 50k per course. But providing basics courses or self-study pre-courses would be a good move, considering the number of people in the logic course who, unfortunately, didn't have the knowledge base the course requires.

There are some pain points coursera could smooth over, and having a better course search and course reference system is one of them.

I think, because it seems that a number of these courses are on line equivalents of off line courses, the thought hasn't been put into making the course abstracts stand on their own, but instead are just rewordings of the standard course descriptions.
Depends how "alternative" those candidates are -- it might convince more people that they can vote for their actual favorite instead of issuing a strategic vote for whichever of the two major-party candidates they find less objectionable than the other.
We haven't had to worry about scalability yet, but admittedly, we could't offer 100 people funding and mentorship in the same manner that we currently do. To address this problem, we anticipate hiring someone (experienced tech entrepreneur) to own this moving forward.
I too do all these things listed by James, skipping articles and comparisons. But that's because I am now an expert: I've read far too much about dynamic vs. static to have the patient to fully read the good old opinions about this subject.

The same about comparisons, I know it's 10% better than last year's because last year I actually read an article, and it was 10%-15% better than 2010, which was 10% better than 2009.

Two things helped: I stopped doing the engineering dance, dueling trivia with others. I don't care if the new iPhone does 5 times less network requests on maps when not on wi-fi but gets less POIs because the map provider is pulverized, on China is X while on Iceland is Y, but on San Francisco bla bla bla. Frankly, talking to a Wikipedia is boring.

The other thing that helped is that I gave up trying to live on the bleeding edge of anything. I don't sleep on the line to buy an iPad mini, I wait three days if and when I have the free time. I don't know what's the current best SSD, I google it when I am actually about to buy it. Slowing down is one of the best things I ever did. I have lots of friends that complain about being too "anxious" (all properly self-diagnosed). Just don't do something if you know you'll be complaining about it later.
The Nexus 7 is creating a real market for genuine Android tablets; in the medium term this will greatly benefit all non-Apple OEM, because they will have a big market to compete on.
>> No one comes close to Google's reliability and ability to scale.

Absolutely not true. Google AppEngine (one of the core technologies the link refers to) has issues almost every week, not even close to the stability and reliability of AWS, for example.
You can install Google's Android stock version on your phone and have your preferred OS experience. Something like this http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-sensation-install-stock-...
If you set your phone type as "Home" in your Google Voice settings instead of "Mobile", you can attach it to another Google Voice number. I currently do this with my front door callbox, and it works like a charm. I think the limit may be two Google Voice numbers to "Home" real-world phone number, though.

One caveat: Text messages will only be sent to phones listed as "Mobile". But I just get my text messages via the Google Voice app anyway, so this is actually a benefit to me (no duplicated texts).
Last time that I decided to shell out more money investing in the "aluminium factory" I bought an mp3 player and found out rather quickly that they break as any other cheap player.

I also found out that the sustainable model of the "aluminium factory" is to make me pay almost the same price of a new player to replace a shattered display.

In the end I was lucky enough to find on ebay some companies madly working against the sustainability of the free market that sold me a replacement display for 20£.

I ever since bought only cheap, plastic players. They still even let you change batteries...
Too bad, thanks for the heads up. They were great gizmos, and the original company was cool. I had (and still use) all generations of the squeezeboxes. They have been quite reliable.
Shared buildings explicitly forbid this sort of remote-unlock functionality, for obvious reasons.
Please, if you are British or live here, you know there are not cameras "everywhere". If you are not British and don't live here, please know that "they have cameras everywhere" is a lie.
The Celluloid Ecosystem
So, no "say you're sorry"?

Americans fetishise free speech beyond all reason. Yes, freedom of speech is important, but it's one right amongst many. Does Apple's right to free speech trump Samsung's right to pursue their legitimate business without being harassed?
Super interesting hack!

I wonder if its be more flexible to try integration into something like Wordpress instead with Cloudflare running on top. This would get the flexibility of Wordpress for the data storage and utilizing Cloudflare for their CDN.
thanks for sharing . I really didn't even thought about copying unix. Anyhow,i think if you're learning domain specific language then it is not good to implement unix . Consider php,it came up for web . so it would be nice if we solve challenges or do stuff which matters.
I use to check stackoverflow question and try to learn it .
Anyway i will mind your advise .
thanks
The advantage to using Bitcoin is that there are no payment processing fees. What we're able to cut with BitcoinStore is that 1-10% fee that Visa, PayPal, et al. charge especially when dealing with products that have a high chargeback risks. So the products that sell best when using Bitcoin have high chargeback risks associated with them.
Products vary in pricing. We don't undercut them on every product, but the fact that we're able to undercut them severely on a good percentage of our products is amazing!
They've still got the deliberate line break between "do not" and "infringe". That trick is designed to blunt the impact of the message:

do not</span> <span class="nowrap">infringe
We're adding the option soon. For now we just wanted to get the site out there so people could see the savings they can receive if they use Bitcoin. Having the prices set in USD helps consumers compare across sites much easier.
And I think Megaupload is based in New Zealand.
Both the minimum order and extra international shipping costs will go away as we move forward. They were unfortunate hurdles we had to place in order to get the site public on schedule.
This make no sense to me. "Hardware without software is a brick." So? Software without hardware is... what? At least you you can use a brick as a crude tool.
You're not implying that a Romney win would falsify his model, are you?
I think it's funny that there's a noticeable bump in births around nine months after wintertime (Nov/Dec).
>Since the US Federal government doesn't follow the law, there's pretty much no limit to what they can do.

Other than rulings by the judge, of course.
I think you need a better domain name. QuestionsThree is a fun name, but it conveys no information. How about something like this:

* openmydooor.com
* buzzmein.com
* apartmentbuzzer.com

etc
Gains have been and continue to be steady. I quietly smile and take it with a grain of salt when someone longs for "the good old days". People have quite selective memories of their favorite decades.
Yeah, it's between countries. The same same small group of people owns the majority share in the Fed and controls almost all central banks worldwide. The independent central banks are disappearing one by one - Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan.

You can as well say that flat currencies and fractional reserve banking are modern day pyramid scheme, that disproportionally rewards those participants that have a banking license.
Android *really* doesn't like broken IPv6 networks
More precisely, the executive branch. That is why there are the three branches in the first place!
Given those two choices, I don't know. We don't know enough about their views across a wide range of topics outside of technology.

You might want to go back and research presidents before television and the internet. Some of the most effective ones had pretty shitty personalities and habits. Today they'd never make it.

My only argument is that we are probably keeping a lot of really good candidates from participating in the process because the focus is on whether or not you look great and do well in a talk show and give it to the other guy in a debate rather than what really matters.

Here's an imperfect analogy. I've been sailing since, well, forever. I'll go out in almost any weather because I have confidence in my abilities. As long as the boat is in good shape and can handle it, I can. I am also pretty good at sailing when there's almost no wind, when you really have to optimize things to generate propulsion with almost no power available.

I see lots of people at the marina who come out with the latest gear. They look good. No, they look great. Beautiful shirts, and marine coats and boots and brand new lines on the boat, perfect new sails and all the gear sparkles. But they can't sail worth a damn. They motor out of the marina, put up the sails, go around and around a few times and motor back in. All show and no go. Don't even ask them to go sailing at night. They'll piss in their Gucci pants.

These people show well, talk the talk and seem to walk the walk but are worthless as far as sailing is concerned. I know this all too well, I did an island crossing one time with one of these folks and it nearly cost me my life as I was hanging on to the boom while reefing in a storm 'cause the idiot didn't know how to keep the thing into the wind.

My point is that the system we have in place today gives zero room to those with real expertise. Look at Obama as one example: Not one company would have hired him to even run a cookie baking operation in 2008. Yet, he got the country to run. Are we morons or what? And how about little-Bush? Do I even need to get into how moronic it was for someone like that to be on a ticket? And, Sarah Palin? Really? Are we all a bunch of lobotomized robots or is it the system?

My admittedly flawed ideas straight from utopia seek to change things up so that other people, those who can really sail, might have a chance to get the helm. It should not cost a billion dollars to run for president. We should use the Internet to allow lots of people to participate in the contest and let voters engage in a fact-based search that takes a whole year. It's almost like these dating services that don't let you meet in person or see pictures of each other until successful and valuable interaction has taken place over a period of time.

Anyhow, it will never happen. Politicians have too much invested in keeping their sweet rides going. I swear that some of these people would be selling used cars if they didn't have an opening into politics.
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Source, please. Are you thinking of Liberty Dollars? If so, don't you think having quotes like this[2] on their website, "I simply hand them the currency as payment. 95% of the businesses accept it" make it sound a lot like they were encouraging counterfeiting?

If you think I'm making too strong of a claim, read the "Works Just Like US Dollars" section of the website. I could be misinterpreting it, but it seems really fishy.

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

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20090627011653/http://www.liberty...
> Because he's 14 and super stoked about accomplishing something that many people twice his age couldn't do
So what? Why does age matter so much? A 28 year old may have less programming experience and help from sites like MakeGamesWithUs and still complete similar projects. Why is it so important that he's 14? He obviously isn't the only 14 year old coding and completing a project, it's not even that rare anymore. Probably not as rare as a woman making iPhone app, at least. With today's technology, everybody over the age of 12 can learn programming, build apps and complete university classes.

I post my projects to HN too, I have only once reached the front page. I never mention my young age, and I won't do it here, because it doesn't matter and it's not relevant.
MG Siegler's iPad Mini review
MRF using MCMC for inference...nothing new algorithmically, but their approach is very interesting, most stuff i've seen with facebook/twitter/google+ data uses random graphs - as opposed to probabilistic
I do this, and I find it's invaluable. If it's the end of the day, and I have a writing or coding task to do that is small in scope and I'm looking forward to doing, I put it off to the next day.

I think of it as leaving work "hooks" for myself to pull me into work the next day. Work hooks are small in scope, and satisfying to accomplish. The next day, not only do I know exactly what I'm going to do, I'm looking forward to it.
Hong Kong, actually. Kim DotCom just resided in New Zealand
Thanks for reply. I've already read The Lean Startup. The reason why I say 99% I'm sure that it'll be successful, is I talk to 23 of my potential costumers and 22 of them said Yes I would definitely buy your product, I like it and I need it. One of them said, mmm I must see the software now I can't tell anything. It's related to medicine, and because me too have this kind of problem and all other my doctor friends, I think it will work.

Some time ago I've tried to learn Ruby on Rails but in my first week I saw that it's not that easy. I've learned how to make a website, blog etc., but making complex softwares are too hard for me. I need some time, which I don't have. Every workday I must be at the clinic and I have too many patients, I come home very tired, even though I work on my startup.

One thing I don't understand, why should one learn to code, if he has enough money to hire someone to code? I always see everywhere that founders must learn to code. Why? I understand that it will save money and you can do whatever you want, you'll have freedom by coding. But is it worth it? To be able to code as an average hacker you should spend at least 3 month to learn to code.
"Weight loss" is not the same as "fitness improvement."
"I'm seriously skeptical that anyone would actually choose an Android tablet instead of an iPad because of this particular incident."

Why? One of the world's largest corporations acted like a snotty brat in a court mandated statement. Dedicated most of it's space to show it's entire public facing self is entirely disconnected with the court's wishes, and a good portion of the world.

Why would I support them in this by buying their goods?
Given the sales numbers and profits, I'm not convinced that Apple isn't already producing the products people want at the price those people are willing to pay.

Race to the bottom affected the PC market. Look at how Dell, HP, and others are doing.

Yes, there is a large number of consumers that are very price sensitive. When they get subsidized devices (like the Kindle with ads), some portion of that group complains about the ads.

The best thing that could happen is for people to become more educated about the tradeoffs and make decisions accordingly.
A less radical approach is to use multiple screens/desktops, but all under one account. Under OSX, they're called "Spaces," and I can't remember what the Linux term is. I'm not sure if Windows has them.
Why should Fox be excluded?
Speaking of which, does anyone know of any good USPS address sanitizer / matching software?
What you described is Thread Sanitizer (clang toolchain). The corresponding valgrind-based tools would be Helgrind and DRD.

ASan can only catch memory errors in C/C++ programs. A memory error is an access outside the allocated memory of an object, e.g. due to incorrect pointer arithmetics. Such errors would otherwise go undetected but can cause all kinds of errors in the program, like corrupted data, crashes etc.
> The ugly environment in my house doesn't appears to deter me from getting things done, though.

The article is not very good at expressing its own point, unfortunately. This wasn't it.

Take periodic task A, such as making dinner or sitting down to work. You do this task on a mostly regular basis. Doing this task creates waste: a dirty sink, an unclean workspace, and so on. When you complete the task, it often seems like yet another task (B) to accomplish when tired to do the cleaning. Thus your workspace starts to degrade. The next time you need to do task A, you have to do task B first. You're psyched and ready to do task A, but you can't, because task B wasn't done. And task B is not what you're psyched for.

All the article is pointing out is that you need to do task B as soon as you're done with task A. That way, when you come back the next day to go for task A, you don't have a preliminary step to go through before you can really get started.

> Although how one could test the idea proposed in the blog is unclear to me.

Take any such pair of tasks and measure the time it takes to get started on the task pair over the course of a decent period of time, such as a month. Try to have a balance of which task is performed first. By "time it takes to get started", I mean the the delta between the time you say, "I should do task A", and the time you actually start doing either task.

Of course, that's subject to the observer effect: noting down the time at which you say you should do it will probably in itself incentivize you. Thus, it may be helpful to regularly schedule a task pair and note the offset from the scheduled time.
I find it hard to get from, "Food, water, and energy shortages, exacerbated by climate change, could lead to instability and violence and the forced migration of hundreds of millions of people in the future" to, “Yet the probability of a more peaceful world is increasing." Food and water (and to some extent, now, energy) are base needs, and if those end up in short supply, it doesn't matter if we're "winning" or "gaining" in other areas. Fundamentally, a sustainable supply of food and water trumps everything else on that list, and if we end up losing at that, we've lost at everything... just worth keeping in mind.
You are the only person who went there. Just saying.
Making Rocket Fuel on Mars
Gas Lines Are For Morons: A Homebrew Emergency Gasoline Recipe
How to make a quick and dirty auto fuel/gasoline substitute that'll run your car just fine with stuff you can buy readily at Home Depot.
The late Flip video camera would be perfect for this sort of activity.
Tip: do not start a career in Russian Roulette. Let's say you can 'win' by playing it 100 times. Then, if enough people do not give up, success is inevitable. However, there is no guarantee that you will be the one that is successful.
Couldn't find a primer on this event. What is it?
Their acquisition was a big part of their loss, but they run their business with very thin margins and still would have lost money without the acquisition.
I had this idea to demo basic python concepts.
Here's an implementation of ls with links to further info:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/talks/python/ls.py.html
> Why are so many HNers being dismissive of this young fella?

I feel like I should explain my reasons:

He acts as if his age is very important in his accomplishment. Why is it in the title? Why does it matter so much that he is 14? Maybe he has been programming for much longer than the 30 year old who released a website yesterday. Nowdays, anybody over the age of 12 can take online university classes, publish apps (especially when they get the art from sites like MakeGamesWithUs) and learn programming much more easily than 10 or even 2 years ago. 14 year old programmers aren't that uncommon anymore.

I've posted some of my projects to HN a few times. I only got to the frontpage once. I never mentioned my young age, because it's not relevant. I've probably sat in front of a computer many more hours than the Average Joe. If anything, I'm under accomplished. The success/experience ratio matters more than the success/age ratio in my opinion.

But the game is cool indeed, and it's always nice to see somebody complete their first project.
But you're still looking at an 8 billion dollar difference. Hard to argue against Apple's strategy
Upvoted for not being in a bathroom duck-facing
High chargeback risk makes sense; the 1-3% fee otherwise doesn't really make a business, given how widespread credit cards are, etc., IMO.

So, selling prepaid cards online would be a particular niche, maybe, or other things which are cash-equivalent.
Very cool, I've been using Google Voice for this exact reason over the last 2 years. Was thinking of making something like this using Twilio but you beat me to it...well done!
Google invented the internet?
I once heard the phrase "When the New York times is reporting on something then it's already old news". But that aside: Good, I always hoped this would happen. The internet is not just games, movies, pornography, social networking and sending PDF files. It's predestined to be a medium for learning.
So if it's the same as the status quo (only less flexible, usable, stable and secure) then which should I or anybody else care ?

And this idea that governments couldn't control Bitcoin is just laughable. They could get into the mining business and distort the currency beyond repair. They could setup Bitcoin->USD/JP/etc exchanges to track people. They could simply unite together and declare it illegal internationally. Plenty of things.

Point is that it's going nowhere. I do want an alternate way of paying for things and sending money. But I want security, identity and fairness built into it.
For the 1-3% fee businesses, it does actually make sense. Especially with really low-margin sites. Think of your local grocery store offering a cash discount because of credit card fees, those businesses really do exist on the margin.
Hopefully it has good security.

Any chance this will become the norm for all states?
Management/owners have no motivation on their own to install this. They have already satisfied their insurance company by having a locked gate, any kind of locked gate. It's a plus that they can put in their consumer ads. And that's it. They have no pain.

Individuals have the pain.

Total guess, if you can get enough individuals to like it for free or cheap, then the hue and cry may motivate a manager somewhere to subscribe for $WORTHWHILE.

Or you might sell it to the lock companies.
"SUPPOSED TO BE DRY MARTIAN DUST? HOW COME IT STICKS TO DRY WHEELS THEN?" etc etc.
The Vanishing Battleground
Well, that's more a political and organizational problem than anything else. The US alone produces enough grain to feed well over a billion people (though most isn't consumed directly).
You can actually see footsteps on the left.