skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! We often hold on to our "past success" - unfortunately it doesn't really matter what you've done. It's all about what you're doing now, and what you're going to do.
This Guy Left Google To Do A Startup ... And Now He's Up To His Ears In Debt
I run an SRO Hotel[1] in SF; my rooms are comparable in size to the thousands of other SRO units throughout the City and are as small or smaller than the units in the article. The only difference with these new units is that it won't be poor people who live in them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
Yes, but by being himself he makes Google seem much less extreme and more centrist.

See http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/
The fault of most modern politics is that politicians are taking action on issues they have no idea about, and the only words they hear about such problems are those paid for with the largest pocketbooks.
New SMS/Call Replacement App 'Libon' Stores Passwords in Plaintext
I have had a similar journey. Over the last decade, I've moved from a "MIT License" stance to a "AGPL3 License" stance. Stallman has been too right about too much for me not to change.
Debunking the Social Proof myth
Fortunately, Linus won't insult me for preferring a different pronunciation. I'll use his pronunciation if I ever have the opportunity to speak to (or around) him.
Maybe focus more on the viable and less on the minimum? Seems a bit long winded when the tl;dr is "We had a few bugs that turned out to be kind of show stoppers so MVPs suck."

The real meaning behind "MVP" is to redefine done as "An executable critical path, and whatever else required for that critical path."

If you build a bridge without handrails, people will still use it if it means they can cross that terrifying chasm that was bothering them before.

If a few planks are using, will they still use it? Some of them will, some of them wont.

If one of the beams is missing, will they still use it? Likely not.

The bridge is different for every company, every userbase, and every industry. But if you're trying to sell people on the bridge, you should be an expert on your bridge. It sounds like the guys at ThingShare weren't.
Probability versus likelihood
Startup Concept for Sale: Locazy
I was paying 900 CHF for a 60ish square meter apartment in Lausanne about 5 years ago. Today I pay 8000 RMB for a 200 square meter apartment in Beijing, much better, but still pricey by American standards.
A company may disappear but the lessons stick with you.

That's what I think a lot of people miss. Most young professionals lose tens of thousands of dollars and spend several of the most productive years of their lives learning these lessons. Except they refer to the experience as "college," not "entrepreneurship."

Either way, education costs money, and the only question we all have to ask ourselves is, how much do we want to learn? We go to "school," then we graduate and move on.
Those include creating key components of the free software system that he calls GNU/Linux (and many others call simply Linux)

I've always savored the irony of Stallman's fight to have content creators relinquish control of their creations while steadfastly refusing to let people just call Linux by the name they choose... while also attempting to steal top billing.
I don't understand. As pointed out, the whole idea is that you're doing everything that code would do, maybe even better. The only possible disadvantage is the speed of handling requests. Why would customers be disappointed with that?
Which means they are necessary to preserve status-quo profit margins. And the people with the microphone who control the hand of law are those who really like their status-quo.
Practically any alternative interface is going to be better than the default site. Great site, but it adheres to minimalist principles to a fault.

Browsing with a desktop browser is annoying, while browsing with a mobile browser is infuriating.
A Passenger Landed A 747 After The Real Pilot Got Sick
What's the ongoing work? Don't you post a design and then keep getting the revenue, or do you have to continue promoting it and making new designs to stay relevant?
yeah, i had an "!" in the title at one point and it got modded out. Guess they didn't look into it enough to realize that's the name of the app (and as you noted is important)
Argh, fat fingered the downvote button - Android browser's hit area guessing can be infuriating at times.

So I'll just have to say in a comment that your comment about DU ballast made me grin :)
How to build a "Distribution-first" startup
Great points! The lateral g load could be reduced by banking the capsule - but you still raise an important limit that even with banking would still cause an unreasonable curve radius.

Launch loops are interesting. They seem to be even more difficult than tether-based space elevators, which have themselves been unable to work due to material strength:weight constraints on the tether. I'd expect the belt supporting a launch loop to have similar constraints, and the dynamic bending of the belt would raise fatigue concerns.

Agree with your speed estimations and that supersonic or near- speeds have very high drag costs and complicated analysis.
So we should be talking about GNU/Linux and Android/Linux?
This is really bothersome that they're trying to monitor activity on these sites. Paypal has absolutely no place doing that.
Senate Bill allows Gov't warrantless reading of your email
Other Links:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
Why would you switch to legacy BIOS mode? Linux support UEFI just fine afaik.
The statement isn't nuts if Microsoft intends to play patent troll themselves, which they have done against Android. They have at various times gotten a fraction of smartphone sales running certain versions of Androids because they hold the patents on various trivial design decisions and algorithms.
Actually, I'd say the beginning of The Simpsons' theme is the most famous example of an augmented fourth nowadays.
Yeah, we all knew that 3 years ago when it first became an issue.
Say, for office users is open office the predominant office application suite used by these books, or to they virtual machine m$ office? I ask because i am currently a student
You don't find it a problem (read: annoying) that you need to run a bookmarklet on every single page load?
I wish I could pay say, $300, and have it come with a higher resolution screen.
I can't agree with this hard enough. There is an anti-smarts culture in parts of the US (in passing, this may not be about geography, but about social circles you/we exist in), and if you demonstrate your smarts, you are... other & alien. Things like having hobbies outside of a particular circumscribed area (sports, cars, $current_music, etc.) are the province of the "others". And when you drink from the cup of knowledge in an area, it simply becomes hard to stay in that place.

So we leave. We seek out the company of others in our particular in-group and revel in not having to be untruthful about ourselves. I'm reasonably sure this holds true about things besides intellectualism, but my readings in sociology are not close to deep enough to recite citations.
Just for others' reference, the metropolitan area of Stockholm[0] is the whole of the Stockholm county.

Just looking at the map, a slightly better/more conventional measure of Stockholm might be Stockholm municipality[1] + Huddinge, Sundbyberg and Solna, which gives an area of 350 km2 and a population of about 1.1 million.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Municipality
"The secret behind this skills gap is that it’s not a skills gap at all. I spoke to several other factory managers who also confessed that they had a hard time recruiting in-demand workers for $10-an-hour jobs. “It’s hard not to break out laughing,” says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, referring to manufacturers complaining about the shortage of skilled workers. “If there’s a skill shortage, there has to be rises in wages,” he says. “It’s basic economics.” After all, according to supply and demand, a shortage of workers with valuable skills should push wages up. Yet according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of skilled jobs has fallen and so have their wages."

This is true in other fields as well. Take the "shortage" of Phd's. I believe the average fresh Phd is probably doing post doc work at a college for little pay.
Myspace sneaking into Google search results? 
I was doing some research on the music website Bandcamp and decided to search for information on how many users it had. Upon searching for "Bandcamp million users" a funny thing happened... Every single result was one for Myspace, and none even mentioned Bandcamp. What's going on here??

https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=3&tok=Q888851u8rs5UZpBz8fSiQ&cp=22&gs_id=2e&xhr=t&q=bandcamp+million+users&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=bandcamp+million+users&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d68bae7275fecda7&bpcl=38897761&biw=1345&bih=1314
Enom.com domainregistrar is down
Even with the default Android browser, or Chrome mobile, I have the same issues. I have to zoom 5x's just to click an up arrow (or many of the other links), and some of the text is just as bad.
Microsoft Office, Ultraedit, xplorer2, My Life Organized, Visual Studio 2010, LinqPad, Snagit, HackerNode (most excellen HN reader for my iPhone)
> You mean the movies made about people who were unwavering in real life? Gandhi, MLK, Lincoln are a few high-profile figures that spring to mind, [...]

Gandhi actually has some interesting quotes on this topic, e.g. http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap07.htm

Some picks:

"I have sacrificed no principle to gain a political advantage."

"All my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom."

"Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory."

"My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth."

I read him as saying that you can be uncompromising on your core principles while still being neither uncompromising nor adamant in your opinion.
In particular, I think that "On basically all political issues, unwavering is a good attribute" is a common and dangerous perception, in that it denies you the opportunity of admitting that you were wrong. If you change your stance after learning more, or even after the underlying situation has changed, you will be accused of flip-flopping and inconsistency.
If you are interested in how the construction of F1 car is an equilibrium between technological advances and hard limits set by the FIA just go through the "Technical Regulations" section on the right hand side at http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules_and_regulations/tech..., "approved by the FIA" is a very common phrase.

Software-related excerpt from "Electrical systems":

"The electrical and software systems of all cars are inspected by the FIA at the start of the season and the teams must notify them in advance of any subsequent changes. All teams must use the same FIA-specification Electronic Control Unit (ECU) for controlling engine and gearbox.

All software must be registered with the FIA, who check all the programmable systems on the cars prior to each event to ensure that the correct software versions are being used. Electronic systems which can automatically detect the race start signal are forbidden."

"notify them in advance of any subsequent changes", right...
A textbook instance of begging the question. Who is saying that email is dead?
A combination of 2 and 3, would be my guess.
I actually had to go an look up the various web/javascript smalltalks -- it looks like a few of them are live and well -- but more importantly the Lively Kernel does offer a parts bin with basic shapes, and a right click halo that allows for modification -- but lively kernel could be made to look prettier by borrowing from here...:

http://www.lively-kernel.org/

Note Lively isn't Smalltalk... but with OMeta[1] it sort of is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2dyLKP_xJc

[1] http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/

If you find [1] interesting you might also like:

http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Main_Page
It would be enough for me. I've got an assortment of dev stuff installed under Ubuntu 12.10 right now and I'm clocking in at 5.6 GB.
>Choosing between a functional language and an OO language is not like choosing between a hammer and a screwdriver to pound in a nail, it's more like choosing between different types of hammer

Take it one step further and ditch the terrible "tool" analogy altogether. It isn't like choosing between two hammers. Nothing we do is like driving a nail. We can't mix and match the way a carpenter can, taking hammer A for pounding these big nails, hammer B for the small ones, 4 different saws, a lathe, planer, etc. You can't use java's classes and perl's regexes and haskell's laziness. You have to pick the whole toolbox together, and take it as it is.
Your argument hinges on the statement "The field will be used anyway." As people are not binary in their decision making. The arguments of others that partial demining will increase the likely hood of use and thus increase the risk of harm is completely valid.
Why We Can’t Wait For Real Software Patent Reform
A year? So even with an actual accusation of disloyalty it didn't affect your employment.
I'm located in the north of England, I can't speak for the parent. And yeah, I'm sick to death of the "don't be late thing", my bus comes at an awkward time and it's hit or miss if it's late to be honest (it normally is). Most mornings I have to run to the office.
Honestly I think most of what you wrote is just completely wrong, and I've lived here for six years. What are you referring to with "transportation nightmares"? I drove from Oakland to San Francisco everyday this week and it never took more than 15 minutes. I can get basically anywhere if you combine BART, Muni and Caltrain, so what are you actually referring to?
I use the HackerNode iPhone app and find it to be a fantastic way to read HN from my phone. Not free though but I would definitely recommend it.
Anyone have any suggestions for an Android HN app?

I have this one currently:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Just curious what else you guys might be using.
>It's not some god given rule that cities HAVE to keep growing ad infinitum, especially ones that have limited land. Most San Franciscans are happy with the size of the city as it is.

If the population of the country is growing then those people have to go somewhere. You can either suburbanize the wilderness or you can let more people into existing cities, and while I can understand the desire of the people living in San Fransisco not to share the nice things they have I can't say I sympathize.
A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal
Unwavering means not constantly changing the weight you give to specific pros and cons which ultimately results in changing your mind about the main issue in question. It is the opposite of indecisive.

You are confusing unwavering with stubborn. A stubborn person would not react to new evidence that invalidates their beliefs. An unwavering person would.
There is a thing that happens with 120Hz TVs where they fill in the intermediate frames that the source doesn't have. It's this filling in that is the culprit, since it's interpolating motion in a way that may not be accurate or realistic, or perhaps that the eye is just not used to, ie. too smooth, or perhaps too averaged.
Well, maybe this will motivate BitCoin payment methods on these sites. I need to change providers anyway, I'm not happy with mine. Last time I looked, I had only found one provider that accepted BitCoin and they were considerably more expensive (more than the BitCoin markup I was ready to pay even).
Nice post, tons of great advice. However, I have to say that the title is wrong. There's nothing django specific about any of those approaches.

I've tried django-compress and it was a nightmare, the old style synccompress was actually easier to setup and get working for some reason.. Was hoping for a better rolled solution.

Also, the part about cloudfront isn't written very clearly. I had to stop for a moment and think about what it meant. Great idea nonetheless. S3's gzip support sucks. For some odd reason (I don't support IE6..) the gzip from S3 was breaking on IE9. Worked fine on 8 and 10. Broke on 9. =/
Well, you can roll the dice. Depending on what OS you're on, that dice may be weighted differently...
Ask HN: Bringing Lean Thinking to traditional industries?
So I decided to do a food startup, and lined up a small pilot trial for a MVP of a snack product I've been working on since July. It's low tech. I've gone out and talked to a bunch of people who have loads of experience in the food industry - I certainly don't. They have ALL said to me that I'm mad to go ahead and do this pilot trial. They state reasons such as "you will confuse your customers" when you start/tweaking the product and labeling or that I should really be making final versions of labeling instead of just going with the first iteration... no point in doing the work twice. The thing is that they just don't get the whole MVP concept AT ALL, not that I tried to explain it to them. It's strange though, because I would have thought that if there's one industry that MVP is suitable for, it would be food. I had been a little put off by these experts comments, although now I think that perhaps I'm slightly ahead of the curve. Just wondering if anyone has experience of bringing MVP / Lean Thinking to other industries?
First Tesla victory over Car Dealers
I expect he would think that it was the unwritten part called "strong-arming" by various interested parties.
I don't like it. Pages seem to load slower than in Safari, it seems to think that people will read articles before the HN comments (target area is way larger), I find the text layout worse (it wouldn't change my opinion, but can't the "Show WebView of comments" toggle stick?) and there is no "Reader" functionality on web pages.
HP Takes a Big Hit on Autonomy Deal
I agree, but it's a rallying cry and a starting point for the community to cling to, if only momentarily. As a region evolves, the tech, talent, and culture will rise above the name.
One of my biggest frustrations with Gimp on OSX has been the windows it draws. Clicking in the save window (to select a directory or change file formats) can translate to brush data behind the window. So wherever the "Save" button pops up, if I've got airbrush selected before I go to save, I get a dot on my file.

There are a bunch of other window annoyances too, basically amounting to it becoming a consistent pain to use.
I really like your site, skimthat.com. However, I think the summaries should be condensed even more. For example, this summary is 203 words:

http://skimthat.com/4407/ind-home-explosion-now-homicide-inv...

It could have been summarized down to something like: Rumors are circulating that a suspicious white van was parked in front of the house that blew up.

I would rather it be super short with just the important fact. If it peaks my curiosity, then I'll click to the full article.

I don't know, that's just my opinion.
That's one of it's main selling points. Your point being?
SideCar & others: All in Favour of Carsharing 
What's up with hindering services that start and push ideas of community? My personal insight on how SideCar and others have added value when I'm on the move.
Stallman is an ultimatist. Just like the NRA, ACLU, NARAL, BBV, etc.

His role is to yank the Overton Window back towards rationality. Meaning his job is to create the space for a more constructive policy debate.

Stallman is not a politician or a diplomat. Nor should he be. Trading horses and compromise is someone else's problem.
Show HN: Hey vinyl lovers, Needle launch page
Hello everybody,

wanted to officially share for the first time the launch page for the app we're working.

www.needle.me

It's a free iPhone app - coming soon - for vinyl records lovers, labels and shops. Between a social network and a marketplace. As someone said here on HN "Instagram for Vinyl Enthusiast" well, pretty close!

If you want some more info, just ask.

My only doubt for now is the Instagram field, does it looks like clearly explained how it works? There's a little disclaimer too.

Best,
Filippo

P.S. suggestion, ideas or whatever comes in your mind are highly appreciated!
What you're saying may be true of new media sites and investigative / gonzo / entertainment journalism, but old school journalism 101 says the first paragraph should be a summary for hard news stories. In fact, hard news should be written such that you can chop off paragraphs in reverse order and still have a sensible article.
So it's one of their advertisers. Main problem with 3rd party ad networks =/ Hope they sort it out.

For what it's worth, torrentfreak is pretty clean.
ESRI the top worldwide provider of GIS software is also sold on Dojo and Dijits. I agree that their digits are uglier than Android Cupcake. I have had to use Dojo on several projects now and I also agree on how abysmal their docs are. They provide tiny little code snippets but aren't even clear of the context. "Ok, fine... where do I PUT this snip... isn't this a TUTORIAL???!!??" I've been much happier with the look and feel of ExtJS but its documentation is even worse.
Interesting--I've always wondered who runs SROs, especially since they get a spectacularly bad rep. Have you considered doing an IAmA or something?

The SRO analogy immediately came to mind--I wondered what would prevent these from having the same issues residential hotels have. Is it really just the (reasonable) expectation that setting a artificially high price will drive away the poor?
I think it looks fantastically fun. I want to retire when I'm young and get one of those tiny houses that I could drive around the country. I have a lot of gadgets but otherwise live very minimally (when you move three times a year, every year for 5 years you avoid acquiring "crap").
Five counter-intuitive statistics problems
I start to believe that the real trick is not to identify MVP as actual software of minimal scope but really to try and emulate your business by running it manually. Unless you are building a strict application (like a mobile game or another CRM app) but rather providing a software-backed service just reach out to potential users and try to sell and deliver. Not only you won't have to waste any time on building any speculative software solution but you should also learn a lot talking directly to your users.

The false picture we frequently have is that the thing we sell and should focus on is software, whereas it's really the service and experience, just automated by a software component.
"NASA estimates that a return human mission to Mars would take three years. During that time astronauts might receive more than seven times the radiation dose they get during six months on the ISS."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding (I.e. the dose per unit time is 7 times greater), but the way this is phrased, it sounds like the total dose, which isn't too surprising, because 3 years is pretty close to 7 times 6 months.
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It's lose, not loose.
Are you talking square meters or square feet? : 200 square meters would be a large apartment in NYC.