skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's it going Elliot, I'm Bissoon. I've been programming in Houston for a while and interested in starting a developer co op. I'm hoping to find a few fellow developers to meet up with, swap notes/issues/code and maybe collaborate on projects with.
Since there are no details, we can only speculate. There are only a few practical implementations. At the top of the list is an evacuated tube.

The linked article says it's desirable to do this without requiring a right-of-way or moving people out of their homes. So that puts the tube below ground level -- well below.

Let's say an evacuated tube, below ground level, in California, between San Francisco and Los Angeles. This really isn't going to work, because (all other considerations aside) the route crosses any number of known geological faults that are in constant relative motion -- some creep past each other, some wait and then periodically move all at once in an earthquake. You can't build a subsurface tube that crosses geological faults.

I don't think this is a practical idea. But it's a nice one in principle.
Programmers don’t need a union. We need a profession.
There seems to be some minimum age requirement before the reply link shows up.

The linked article goes into the sausage making that got the BritRuby guys in trouble. I encourage you to read it fully because it's a really good read on how these things happen without malice or conscious racism or sexism on anyone's part. Short version is that they drew up a list of 15 initial invitees who were white males, without ever contacting prominent Rubyists in the area who weren't white or male, who would have been happy to attend and speak, and who were certainly of a stature to deserve to be invited. It's a classic example of systemic bias.
Hmm, yes I see what you mean. I suppose maybe I am giving him too much credit by doubting his sanity/reasoning skills.
Not if you attach a "grasshopper" to the projectile :)
Using Vagrant to provision a Riak cluster for development environment
What are some good resources for learning how to handle corp to corp paperwork (contracts, billing, insurance, etc)? It's very easy to land contracts through agencies, who handle all of that stuff for you, but billing these kind of rates through them is not possible, since they are going to take a large cut for themselves.
Given how much of the programming community is made up of white men (especially in Britain), I don't see a 100% white male speaker lineup as being too far-fetched, barring some form of affirmative action. Given the situation, the selection process should have undergone some level of scrutiny to make sure there's no discrimination, but I don't think it's worth cancelling the whole conference over.
Have you noticed that the entire twitter conversation is between white people?

White people invented cultural Marxism (i.e. respectable left-wing racism)
I came here to say exactly the same thing. My thought was they were going to be collecting WiFi info. Anyone know if that is even possible (I guess everything is possible, since they created the platform)? Hadn't thought of the pedestrian info angle. Also love JulianMorrison's comment that takes it to the meta-level: automated game generation based on the Gplex's needs.

Also how long until players must visit Brand X store as part of the game. Probably won't be so obvious, but say a target is right next to Brand X store, and then gameplay pauses for 15 minutes.
PCIP is only an option if you've been uninsured for more than 6 months and have been denied insurance (or been offered a very high premium rate).
Looks like we will need to do some dry cleaning.
I don´t think is a vacuum tube, it seems more like a tube with railgun like propulsion(elevated via towers, like power lines, even using the same power lines routes), but the guiding is maybe based on aerodinamics. There must be some kind of sound contention because he says it is supersonic.

He also said that it would be energetically independent so he may be using the external part of the tube to install solar cells, and the tube itself may be used for accumulation (capacitation maybe?).It doesn´t need to be air tight, just somehow sound insulated. The steering or "levitation" inside the tube may be obtained via shock waves (note his actual experience with high energy aerodinamics due to the development in spaceX).

He surely is taking advantage of the knowledge gained in the R&D of SpaceX, Tesla and Solar city.
Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation
> And i could not understand why they are even trying with mRuby. ( I mean have they not heard of a thing called Lua and LuaJIT? )

LuaJIT is pretty much impossible in a language with as complex semantics as Ruby (it's probably impossible in Python already, and Ruby is significantly more complex)
MyModule.camelize doesn't support polymorphism (you could even call it procedural programming in a OOP shell), but something like Camelizable.new(my_string).camelize does. I'm still convinced that what Ruby needs is more object composition (and maybe a way to override default literal construction), and that refinements are a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
read it again:

"I woke Amy, the 17 year old with whom I was living, and calmly told her to get dressed – that the GSU was invading the property. Amy is a tough young woman. She said nothing, got up, got dressed and sat calmly on the edge of the bed."

Amy != Sam
Are you in California or another state? I don't know about other states, but if you're in CA, your CPA is quite wrong. If you go on COBRA and use up both the 18 months of federal COBRA and the additional 18 months of CAL-COBRA, then you are entitled to a HIPAA guaranteed issue plan if you are declined for an underwritten plan. In fact you can apply for both simultaneously, and it's wise and customary to do just that.

I posted a couple of ca.gov links elsewhere in the comments with more information.
Python Mock Gotchas
>At the top of the list is an evacuated tube.

Except for the small problem that Elon said it's not an evacuated tube: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/224406502188916739
I would try to send out cold emails to startups/small companies that you would like to work for and tell them what you WANT to work on. You are much more likely to get their attention and open yourself up to opportunities to work remotely than just applying to job boards/etc.
I didn't realize we had to engage in nose-counting when evaluating the value of a conference on a technical topic.
> He was not accused of a crime! The police wanted to question him as a "person of interest" - big difference!

It's a procedural difference, but "person of interest" is really just a bureaucratic euphemism for "suspect we don't officially designate as a suspect yet".
I was thinking the same thing, even down to the sign-up form for the newsletter. Not that there's anything wrong with that, shoemoney has done quite well and his posts are usually quite good.
Techcrunch is by far the most overrated event in the life of a startup. For the life of me, I don't understand why founders don't spend more time getting quality publicity from more mainstream media sources instead.
Or is it just the case, that those willing to infuse brake through thinking into society are more frequantly not fitting the conventional definitions of sanity?
The math looks off on the 50% vol 30 day option. No way a $50-strike option on a stock at $25 would be pricing at $20. Unless you mean 50% non-annualized vol, which would not be very conventional.
>On the other hand, complaining about the alert box the Flash Player popped up struck me as particularly funny- of course that wouldn't have appeared on an iPad. It doesn't have Flash.

I think that's kind of the point. Using the iPad is just a cleaner, nicer experience because it's not bogged down with a lot of the desktop cruft.
Open API is exciting. Gradual increase in brightness exciting if it is bright enough to really wake me up. I wonder how it compares to, say, a 15w bedside lamp.

I am not one to get excited about docks but this certainly has my curiosity piqued. Wish these guys the best if for no other reason to continue to push the envelope on these type of projects. Love the fact I would not be charged until product ships--that to me is one of the biggest non-starters for KS projects that are clearly just pre-sales.
> Something better might look like: https://gist.github.com/4113718

Looks quite similar to how SQLAlchemy does it, although it doesn't use a block: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/orm/tutorial.html#comm...

> Custom percent-expressions would be a more elegant solution I think, allowing you to embed truly distinct mini-languages in Ruby: %date(5 days ago). Or %time(-12 hours), etc.

The issue there being that 1. it's going to become a pain to parse fast and 2. it starts looking a lot like genuine text, and thus people will want it localizable, thus bringing more of 1
I imagine those premiums are for Tier 1 customers (in good health without pre-existing conditions). Insurance companies also offer plans at higher cost for various pre-existing conditions. Once you apply they evaluate your medical information and place you in a rate tier. Blue Shield for example has tier 1 through tier 6 (plus a special tier 7 for minors).

If you meet some other qualifications (in particular have had coverage for 18 months and have used up any COBRA options you have), you are entitled to a guaranteed issue plan in CA if you are declined for an underwritten plan:

http://www.hmohelp.ca.gov/dmhc_consumer/hp/hp_cobra.aspx

http://www.hmohelp.ca.gov/dmhc_consumer/hp/hp_hipaacp.aspx
Show HN: Amazing Pre-Screened Temps for Startups
Is this cool?
I felt that the inconsistency this post talks about was a good way to emphasize the difference between the "launch an app" icons and the "perform an operation" icons.
How To Develop Customers Before Writing A Single Line Of Product Code
Thank you for pointing that out. It seems he has multiple young women around him. I thought there was only one.
How to Increase Your Carbon Footprint in 4 Easy Steps
Writing Command Line Applications With Ruby [video]
I recently gave a presentation to the Route 9 Ruby Group on how to write comand line applications with Ruby.
Indeed, YYYY/MM/DD is convenient because lexicographical sort is the same as sort-by-date.
Tesla Motors is revolutionizing the auto market in a lot of ways - full electric cars, not those made for transition hybrids, free charging, and selling direct to consumers (where hopefully they'll win the lawsuit).

Too bad US doesn't have the tax incentive system EU has for less-pollutant cars. It would help speed up the adoption of electric cars like the ones from Tesla Motors. Even better if the Government stops subsidizing an industry that makes billions in profit. Does a century old industry really need subsidies? I can understand subsidies for nascent industries like the solar panel one, but only for a few years until the businesses can sustain themselves. After that I don't think it makes sense at all to keep subsidizing large corporations.
It is related to your claim, because it provides an alternative explanation.

Observation: Various measures of societal health are correlated with lack of religion.

Explanation #1: Religion is bad for society.

Explanation #2: Bad society is good for religion.

Both explanations are at least somewhat plausible (religion is bad for society because believing falsehoods is morally corrosive, or because religions are full of ideas founded in old moral systems that we no longer endorse, or whatever; societal ill-health is good for religion because people in difficult situations will turn to anything that seems to offer comfort, or because when things are really hard the gods really do help, or whatever). In particular, the plausibility of explanation #2 means you can't just leap from the observation to explanation #1.

For the avoidance of doubt, I am not claiming any particular benefits for religion. I'm an uncompromising atheist myself. I just don't like plausible but unsound arguments, and "The Scandinavian countries are great places and also very irreligious, therefore religion isn't good for you" is, I think, a plausible but unsound argument: it could equally be that their irreligiousness is an effect, not a cause, of their education, good health, low crime, etc.

(On the other hand, "The Scandinavian countries are great places and also very irreligious, therefore religion isn't vital for a healthy society as some religious people claim it is" is a perfectly good argument, and one I've used myself.)

[EDITED to add, on the subject of that putative consensus: see e.g. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/paul07/paul07_index.html, a single article but one written by two of the biggest names in the field, Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman. "To put it starkly, the level of popular religion is not a spiritual matter, it is actually the result of social, political and especially economic conditions [...] Mass rejection of the gods invariably blossoms in the context of the equally distributed prosperity and education found in almost all 1st world democracies. [...] Mass faith prospers solely in the context of the comparatively primitive social, economic and educational disparities and poverty still characteristic of the 2nd and 3rd worlds and the US." I should perhaps emphasize that GP and PZ here are talking about the origins of large-scale popular religiosity; individuals' decisions are, well, more individual and it certainly isn't true that all religious people are that way because their messed-up societies make them look for supernatural aid.]
So, it's KDE 4.0, except you pay for it.
Yeah, not a vac tube: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/224406502188916739

Think "cheap". The cheapest vacuum is right above us: at 35 km up there's only 1% the air pressure at the surface. It takes some energy to get there, but if you're on a rail you can recoup it on the way down.
Thank you for the input.

The video quality will be much better in the final version, so there won't be a need for offline rendering. But, you will be able to save the capture data for use in another program.

Currently, there can be two people simultaneously.
God says...

C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

Sancho; "for I have heard say that the Moors are
mostly great lovers of berengenas."

"Thou must have mistaken the surname of this 'Cide'--which means in
Arabic 'Lord'--Sancho," observed Don Quixote.

"Very likely," replied Sancho, "but if your worship wishes me to fetch
the bachelor I will go for him in a twinkling."

"Thou wilt do me a great pleasure, my friend," said Don Quixote, "for
what thou hast told me has amazed me, and I shall not eat a morsel that
will agree with me until I have hear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudologia_fantastica
No, it makes you look intelligent and human. Apologizing at the end of an article like this only shows that there are higher powers at play trying to shush you up.
Open up the AMLogic box
ShowHN:Battery, display battery percentage on tmux/terminal under OS X
Elixir 0.7.1 — A meta-programmable language built on the Erlang VM [video]
And here I've been trying to get my Schadenfreude under control ...
Yes, I noticed since I wrote the original, but that might be smoke. It's not obvious how the system would work without some sort of dedicated pathway that remains the same day after day. The word "tube" leaps to mind. :)
These folks don't appear to understand the health insurance market: if you have ongoing medical conditions, basically none of these options will be available to you at these premium levels.

Insurers underwrite applicants in the individual market, meaning that for someone with preexisting medical conditions, these options will either:

1. Simply not be offered (they will deny you coverage)

2. Offer coverage, but exclude coverage of any preexisting conditions (usually for at least 6 months)

3. Charge a much higher premium rate than those shown here

Not to be harsh, but this analysis is dangerously misleading. Do they have domain knowledge of this area?
A "finger-pressed-to-lips" icon is shown at the very end of the article. As much as some HN denizens like to obsess over detail and polish (especially in iconography), how can everybody not have noticed that the hand is facing the "wrong" way?

Nobody shushes by putting their own hand in front of their own mouth like that, they turn it 90 degrees. The only time the pictured arrangement happens is when you put your finger on another person's lips, a very intimate and unmistakable gesture.
How can you NOT upvote this. This is incredible. Lol
Its probably NSFW but items 18, 31, 32, 33, 44, 45, 47, 49, 81, 98, 100 are pretty enlightening about the behavior of Bill Nguyen (I guess I should add 'if true')... very sad.
This is a really interesting insight. What do you think would be a good way of levelling the playing field for articles which take 30 minutes to read?
We'll see whether or not (and how much) desktop apps and their developers become second-class citizens in the coming months and years. I'm betting it will happen. The lure of taking such a significant cut from every app sold has to be weighing heavily on a company that is rapidly running out of ways to make more money besides planned obsolescence.
Yours is a constructive response to constructive criticism. So thank you.
As a part-time member of the National Guard, I pay $54 (fifty-four) a month for private health insurance. The family rate is $192. It's subsidized by the taxpayer (thank you).

The Guard is not for everyone, but it has been great for me, on so many different levels. It has never substantially interfered with the three start-ups I've been in.

The inexpensive health insurance is a huge comfort for the periods where I work independently or before we get funding: it's like a massive drop in burn rate!

There are cyber opportunities (variable by geography), so talk to your local recruiter.
GitHub debuts a new header and footer
Actually, the problem is that someone will immediately acquire patents on trivial upgrades and logically-related extensions of the idea. The publication of the idea itself would be prior art.
You're still asking for an email address before showing me anything about your site. This is really mindblowing. Why would I hand over a real email address to a site I know nothing about? Why won't you just let me skip and take a look?
We found very similar results. In our experience (Zaarly) tech press has yielded very little long-term value, especially from a user growth perspective. The retention rate of users from article traffic is very, very low. An article on TC, VentureBeat, Pando, etc yielded us very little beyond your standard insular chatter amongst the tech community.

On the other hand, I think tech press can be useful if the goal is not solely user acquisition. For example, if you're simply trying to raise awareness of your brand and product within the tech community, especially amongst investors, I think tech press has some value. Other than that, YMMV.
Ugh, can we please mention this was authored by MG Siegler in the title so I know not to click it? I find his work awful and do my part by not visiting his site or reading his published articles, but it's hard to do when you don't know it's his work being linked.
I hope people read the article before debating the title, because I have a specific meaning of "profession" here.
Like the idea, and love that you're going minimal but Google Doc powered forms might be a little too minimal. Also, might want to change the auto answer message on whatever telephony provider you're using. Props to getting on the HN homepage page with pretty much nothing though.
This is exactly correct. I work in a midwest city which I'd consider small/medium sized, and my entry level salary five years ago was only around $20/hr (which, as a single guy with a low cost of living, seemed like a lot). The most I've heard of a developer making here was somewhere on the order of $65/hr, and that was considered very high. If I went to Chicago, that wouldn't be high at all, but my costs of living would also probably triple.
I can't stand Seigler, but completely agree with you, this is a piece for people who want his opinion, I see nothing wrong with how he wrote it.
Just one point. You don't need motivation to speak at this particular conference. You, and anyone else who aren't in a small group of white males, were not given the opportunity to speak.
Nintendo's handling of purchased digital goods is a disaster. I just wish I had the will power to stop throwing money at them.

I'm hoping I don't have similar issues transferring my (relatively meager) Virtual Console library to the Wii U - though it seems I'll have this same problem if a new Nintendo comes out in the future.
This discussion may get you started: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4806350

TL;DR Build a rail with a high-velocity rotor inside that inertially supports it above the atmosphere. Essentially it's a space fountain with two base stations instead of one.

So yes there's a pathway, but since it's not on the ground it requires no right-of-way.
This is exactly why we started Codedose[1] as a bunch of Java developers with origins in the banking/consulting industry: to stay with our families and friends in the beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland, and keep our margin on the attractive level working remotely with UK companies. Getting on a plane to London is actually faster and more convenient than travelling to Warsaw by train.

[1] http://www.codedose.com
How does tooltip and hover work on an iphone/ipad app?
All due respect, how do you know this C&D is real? What law firm claims to have issued it? What mailserver sent the headers? Is it an SPF match?

This sounds like something /b/ would do as a prank.
Only if we assume that the "host" universe's computers are discrete, an assumption for which there is exactly no basis. We can't even speculate about the physical laws of the outer universe, much less what kind of computers it has, if "computers" as we know them even a valid concept.
Take them to small claims court. They will respond almost instantly with a generous settlement and a NDA to protect their corrupt DRM house of cards.
Musk's divorce from his first wife, Justine, was a major drama (his divorce from his second wife was quieter). He also teetered on the brink of insolvency (cash flow) at least in part due to the contentious first divorce.

Ref:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-07-08/tech/30035685...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-p...
What kind of projects are you working on?

My email address is elliotmgreen@gmail.com.

Please email me.
This is inspiring, you should write a book.
"This is the entire justification for credible journals in the first place."
Care to elaborate? I'm not sure I'm getting your point.

Re: You can't wish... You are absolutely correct, it's something that takes an active effort. I'm optimistic that we can lower the impact of poor science that is published in those journals with open communications in science.
There is a segway-esque secrecy around it. However if there is one person I would give the benefit of the doubt, that person would be Elon Musk, and he said they'll open source the project.
Brilliant purchase there, Apple. The concept of meritocracy is well and alive.

I can't imagine why they would break-even the VCs that had so clearly failed in fulfilling their role as board members. They could probably have easily snagged all the engineers, given the dysfunctional work environment and well ... failure.
This post is a few days old, but I think it would have really limited the amount of criticism if you'd also noted that you work at DIY (a company that is promoting kids and teens to make all sorts of things - programming or otherwise) in the post somewhere (even though technically people can see the name in the URL). It makes a lot more sense to note his age when the company he's working for is specifically trying to help younger generations.

Great work regardless, I love everything DIY is doing and it's fantastic they have their target audience in the office!