skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware of/able to find the travel agents, so I paid the finder's fee but never actually booked tickets. It was too intimidating for me and I was too worried about ending up with half of the tickets and the other half becoming unavailable and ending up holding expensive partials.

Anyway, I'd be happy to pay for someone to handle it -- I'd even pay going rates -- but the whole process of me having to take the itinerary to someone else (that I have to find via Yelp or some other vehicle) or spend time on the phone with a couple of airlines is just too much for me. I'm super busy, and my expertise lies in tech -- not travel. :(
There is something reassuring about looking back and seeing how much you have improved over time. I think it is in our nature to keep optimising and trying new ideas. My coding style is constantly changing over time. I hope I never stop improving because in a way that is what drives me to keep programming.

As for finding bad code, I wrote something today I was not proud of (doing it right would be a large rewrite of a common component... too big a job for today) and knew if I look back on it in the future I would be embarrassed about it, so I wrote myself an apology in the comments.
Does anyone know the timelines for non-flash cross browser webcam access?
Is the Voynich manuscript in fact just gibberish?
FTA: "About a dozen start-ups have flocked to a single neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan., alone after Google Fiber installed its first ultrafast Internet connection there last week."

Wow, I had no idea that fiber would have such an effect.

Now, I'm surprised that all of the cities/countries that are spending millions and want to establish their own silicon x don't do do this simple move.
You might want to get that checked out.
I have kept all my code from when I first started coding. Plenty of nostalgia there. I'm surprised I haven't lost it yet!

Even over the course of 12 months I can see improvements in my approaches problem solving, code structure, and where I got lazy, haha.
I totally agree with this.
There is no bigger disservice to your team or company than being the guy in charge whose knowledge is 10 years out of date.

That doesn't just apply to technical things either. It's an easy example to talk about the project manager who cut his teeth writing procedural code in QBASIC and has an unrealistic grounding. It also applies to the store manager in a fast food restaurant who hasn't made a cheeseburger.
In my case on Flightfox, the person was clearly just using some software. The time investment was probably minutes.

The value for me is that this person knows all of the rules -- cheap legs, good days to fly, how to get X or Y, fare codes, etc. Plus they have the underlying software that powers ticket searching, they don't have to use ridiculously terrible web portals like us normal folk.

In my case, Flightfox took what was a simple round trip "I am flying to Sydney for a conference" for $2400 and turned it into:

* Fly to Sydney
* Return via Manila, stop for a week
* Return via Hong Kong, stop for a few days
* Return to San Francisco

They teased out my layovers into full-fledged stops, and brought the total cost down to $2100. They found a way to get way more value out of this trip than I would have otherwise.

Of course -- then they gave me a pile of fare codes and letters and said "call the airline, good luck!" I haven't actually booked the tickets. :(
> I think it is in our nature to keep optimising and trying new ideas.

I wish there were more people in my office who thought like you and I.
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Or, you know, Unix.

Edit: Which came from Multics, I know.
The way I addressed your "standards" issue is to just reference the book "Code Complete (2nd edition)" http://www.cc2e.com/ and tell developers to follow all of those guidelines. It's a long book but well worth reading, and generally applicable to most any procedural or OO language.

For Java specifically our "standards" also incorporate the book "Effective Java (2nd edition)" http://www.informit.com/store/effective-java-9780321356680 .
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Your open Google doc is what persuaded me. I've always felt uncomfortable donating to charities - knowing well that my money may never go towards the cause they're touting, but on TV ads, expense accounts, PR Campaigns etc. While some argue it's operation costs but it's just not transparent enough.

Your easy to access and understand table really lifts the veil, as well as your clear separation of Donations going to the patients vs. Donations to the operating costs. I think people are definitely more willing to open their wallets knowing that 100% of the money go towards directly helping the patient.

Definitely suggest setting up a recurring payment option - while some people would love to help out continuously, they may not have the time to read each case (and then having to decide who to help) and come back once in a while(paradox of choice) - just take $100 bucks each month out of my account and let me know how that $100 was spent. Also give the option of deciding a % of the donation go towards operation and a % go towards the patient (like a slider style) so people don't have to feel compelled and work to donate in 2 flows.

And knowing that you guys may have a challenge of getting operation donations, offset it by giving us easy to add social widgets or just a simple graphic to add to our blogs and sites. I have no problem showing it next to my Dribbble and LinkedIn icons knowing that you guys have a really tight budget and may not have PR money. (I think free social advertising works better than those in your face PETA campaigns anyway. Makes us feel like we're directly helping out by displaying it on our sites :D)
...but if we're going to dismiss inconvenient constraints, "Mach I without a vacuum" seems like a good place to start.

OK, let's discuss Mach 1 without a vacuum. A condition that I had not through, but which actually makes surprising sense as a design limit with the system that I am suggesting.

The Chapman–Jouguet condition says that a supersonic shock wave travels at the speed of sound in the air behind it. The ideal gas law says that this speed is almost entirely determined by temperature, not pressure. If you were to go anywhere above Mach 1, the temperature behind the shock wave gets hotter than room temperature very, very quickly. At Mach 1 exactly you should be able to maintain a thin (~0.2 micrometers is quoted by Wikipedia as the measured value) bow shock.

That shock can trap a huge pressure differential behind it, which could allow an open container to maintain normal air pressure while moving through a much lower density of air. If you are moving below that speed, the pressure differential that you maintain is much less than if you speed it up. Therefore for efficiency you'd want the vehicles to be moving at Mach 1 relative to the gas. Assuming that the gas is dragged along, this would let you actually go slightly faster than Mach 1. But if we assume that we have a lot of tunnel and occasional objects, the air would move much closer to the speed of the tunnel than the objects moving through, and therefore the top speed would be approximately Mach 1.

The exact relationship between the air pressure of the tube and the air pressure behind that flap is very complex. But with the flap design that I suggested, at pressures above 1 atmosphere there would be leakage and an opportunity to remove air. If the pressure fell below 1 atmosphere, that opportunity would disappear. Therefore the flap system that I suggested would do a good job of letting air leak out of the tunnel at about the necessary rate to maintain 1 atmosphere inside of the open containers as the speed of the whole system increases and air leaves the tunnel. (It should not be hard to design ways to bring air into the tunnel...)

This reinforces the point that the tunnel need not be evacuated, and explains why Elon said it would run at the speed that he predicted.
I don't think that's how it works, but I'm loving the image of the following:

We need to <%= state.color == 'red' ? "bomb" : "negotiate with" %> Iran.
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Stick it to Big Publishing - Donate to Charity - Become a Pro Chef - Que???
It's not so much that most of our field of vision should be light or dark as that we have a bias for light=detail/important, dark=background/unimportant.

This has a slightly perverse effect when a computer monitor is placed in a real environment; looking around my environment (sitting in my cubicle at work) my laptop draws my attention like little else because it's so damn bright.

Maybe websites bias towards light backgrounds because it discourages users from getting up and doing something other than browsing.
We aren't equipped to see perfectly in light or dark, we have a range. Everyday is sunny here and people wear sunglasses. I'm not disagreeing with you though - I think the difference is that monitors are backlit and things in nature that create light you tend to not look directly at for 8 hours a day.
"I'm sorry that the way I articulated this perspective offends you. I probably wrote it carelessly and offensively. But it is the right perspective."

No. It isn't.

Please don't confuse your ennui with other people's need to actually communicate their pain when they're in pain.

Even if they're people you're jealous of.

It does not matter if other people are better or worse off. This isn't a race.

Nobody is helped by your foot-stomping here. This is ego salvation.
I'm a big fan of the app. Highly recommend to ALL not just commuter.
Can't wait to see the federal government run healthcare as well
Formlabs 'by promoting the Form 1 printer had caused "immediate and irreparable injury and damage to 3D Systems".'

Conveniently both Formlabs and 3D Systems have a 3D printer that might be able to replace that damage.
no, i'm saying that only a small fraction of the incident air will touch the surface. most will flow around - probably laminar flow containing a stagnant area of higher pressure directly in front of the obstacle.

you are calculating the swept volume. but only a small fraction of the swept volume "makes contact" (ie is roughly within the mean free path of a water molecule) with the collecting surface (which appears to be necessary here for water to be extracted).

with netting your argument is closer to being correct. but this is an impervious bottle, not a net.

if you implemented the tube you suggest (and i understand that was simply an illustration to explain swept volume) then pressure would increase in the tube slowing flow and/or flow would be predominantly around the edges, with, again, a stagnant higher pressure region in the centre.
I disagree that corporate tax is double taxation: It is the premium you pay for limited liability. You can run things personally, thus avoiding the higher ("double") taxation, but then if you are successfully sued, you can lose everything you ever earned.

Whereas a corporate structure shields you from personal liability (theoretically, not including criminal liability - but in practice, it's quite effective for criminal liability as well).
That video was lovely!

I see your point. I assumed Iowa was similar to what I saw about Southern VA. My apologies. I don't know anything about Iowa.

I still maintain that many anti-intellectual areas exist, and that they have the effects I mentioned earlier. If Iowa isn't one of them, then I'm happy for them.
Definitely will be checking it out.

I've got to guess that the "125k people in the US commute to work" is a typo?

Edit for clarity - 125k seems very low to me.
I like using nextly.com for the same reason.
Radio programming is almost always local to and customized for the department or agency or location, and the channel names and tags seemingly always vary.

Even in a system that's been architected with specific channel layouts, there's almost always some weirdness somewhere, and some differences, and some number of radios always seems to arrive mis-programmed and needs a trip back to the radio shop, and this if the folks receiving the batch of radios are paying attention and can afford the reprogramming. Not all do, or can, either.

Not all radio shops pay attention to what they're doing here, and even the good shops can be using radio service software most charitably described as atrocious.

And yes, anyone that thinks you can have everybody on one of the mutual aid frequencies is headed for trouble. The pile-ups are always massive. Add in encryption and tone squelch (CTCSS, PL) and you might be stomping on the other agencies without knowing it.

In a typical organization, you'd want your dispatcher(s) or communications officer(s) or (if not delegated) one of the senior officers on the shared channels.

Modern radios can be surprisingly complex tools, and the FCC migration to trunked radios and digital trunked radios, and adding inter-operations features (gazillions of channels, etc) and digital communications and deadspots, and the over-the-air rekeying and reprogramming, emergency button(s), and the seemingly obligatory remote kill can all combine to makes your average high-end radios hairy.

Certainly various radio users don't regularly train with and aren't familiar with the "odd-ball" channels; the "national" and mutual aide frequencies can have different names, or weird local oddities, and many of the end-user folks are often trained to stay off the other channels.

Training is certainly part of this, and of using the radios correctly. Conversely, you're probably not expecting the folks to be picking random channels. In the newer radio systems, you can be told (by dispatch or by your supervisor) which channel to use, or dispatch can reprogram your radio and your talk group(s) on the fly.

And as for training, every emergency services department I'm familiar with has been chafing under the political and technical and documentation requirements arriving from outside entities; blanket mandates requiring time and thought and budget for stuff that's probably never going to happen to a given individual or agency, but the obligatory training and documentation requirements pull the folks away from the stuff that they can and will be dealing with. Like dealing with their radios. And delivering whatever service the folks hired on to provide.

Yes, modern radios can be far more complex than it should be. So is the rest of the mess.

Startup ideas here? Sure. The two-way radio version of a ruggedized iPhone; a radio with a "modern" UI.
Yup. Mind, color is _really_ complicated. The math to calculate color spaces is completely non-obvious, the eye's reactions to colors is subtle, and the brain seems to interpret colors in interesting ways. (I remember at work, we needed to figure out why a thing was getting _more_ red as we shifted it into the blue spectrum... turns out that's why they call it ultraviolet.)

I'll refer to a cool demonstration of this in action:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891753

It's not scientific, but it's certainly telling.

TL;DR: Green is the color we see well.
I don't get the point of your comment, nor how it got to the top of the page.

The article gives an evidence-based assessment of the effect of colors on user engagement according to their mindset.

The default color of Netscape 2 has nothing to do with it.

And your eyes suck at blue: http://nfggames.com/games/ntsc/visual.shtm
I saw this too. Jumped out to me. (Apparently it's 125 million.)

Edit: From the comments
"Just a quick editorial note, there are close to 125MM commuters per week. Most of those are by car. A smaller percentage take public transportation or walk. As for digital voices vs. human voices and reading of content, we at iHear Network believe that TTS technology will continue to improve and provides a much more robust means of tackling the amount of text created daily online. "
Carter had a very folksy friendly persona in '76. Very upbeat. Johnson had his own way of being charismatic, and he only beat Goldwater. Nixon wasn't as charmless as his reputation would have you believe, and he had Humphrey and McGovern as opponents, so it's all relative.

Bush Sr. is the weakest point of the theory. He's pretty flat however you look at him. But Dukakis wasn't exactly Marlon Brando or anything. I don't think the theory could have won either way with those two.
Keeping mass in orbit about a point requires absolutely no energy. That is because energy is force times distance (with times being a dot product), and the force you apply is always at right angles to the motion.

It is a good thing that this is true, else the Earth could not manage to go around the Sun indefinitely!

Therefore the energy to keep a system like this going is entirely what is needed to replace various incidental losses like friction. With maglev technology there some electromagnetic drag, but the bulk of losses are air friction.

There is no way to keep a train like you describe going against air friction at 1200 mph. If you eliminated air friction, it would be very doable.
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16bit RGB graphics modes allocate an extra bit to the green channel, so I think you're right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monochrome_and_RGB_pale...
I heard about this, I wonder what really happened. This guy seems very interesting to follow.
Great quality! Articles are read by professional voice actors, so none of that Siri stuff.
Im going to try to not be overly negative here... but arent there numerous other forms of media that already do this in a pretty crowded market? NPR, radio, podcasts, etc? I guess I dont really get why I would use this in that the audio forms of news that I have to choose from are pretty vast and high quality.
About a month ago I was thinking about having an app that would read stuff from your phone to you so that you wouldn't have to look at it while driving or doing something else. Glad they already came up with it.
You very much seem to be, while talking about how privileged he is and how much worse everyone else has it. Sometimes people who are offended genuinely don't realize it, and need to be told by dozens or hundreds of people saying "dude, you're lashing out, cool it."

If you're Thomas Ptacek the security person, I wonder if you realize that people are jealous of you, too. (Yes, even though you earned what you have.)

This will be a very difficult Thanksgiving for me, while I try to keep my startup alive.

I sympathize with the guy who just lost more money than I'm likely ever to have. Even though I have it worse than he does. I don't actually want someone telling him to keep it quiet on my behalf.

Maybe the next time you're on a down streak, you'll remember sympathy.

It's easy to forget that even with privilege, failure hurts and is scary.
Is there a more complete service, like a travel agent, to help book an entire trip? e.x. I want to go to a beach in country A, B, or C, on X dates, I prefer Y type of hotel/resort, my budget is $Z, what are my options?

So far I've been using a combination of TripAdvisor, Hipmunk, etc, but it's still really painful.

I looked into using an old school travel agent, but it seems like they work on commission from the hotel, which doesn't really align incentives. I like Flightfox's model where the fee is simply based on complexity.
This caught my attention too. 125k people seems low for just the Bay area alone.
Ok, so now I know why Lisp is a powerful language. Now, what can I use Lisp to do? Where does the flexibility of Lisp truly benefit a programmer?
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When you've fired friends, feel like a failure, and are destitute, you might understand why it's so hard to look at spending several more years of your life trying again.
I love conspiracy theories because they give me the comforting illusion that someone is in charge of this mess.
It was a real joy working with your code, thanks! Pretty straightforward and I actually saw you using much the same patterns I do to guide my Meteor development--it was a breeze to get around and understand the logic within the 9 straight hours it took me get from forking to deployment. I was sure I'd get to some major hurdle but nothing actually bit me. That would probably also be a testament to the Meteor framework's simplicity and full-stackiness itself, I guess.

After the rush to deploy, I'm tempted to port it to Coffeescript but on the other hand I want to be able to pull new stuff from your repo and maybe ask for a pull request or two.
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Remember that these people will get rigorous medical screenings throughout their lives following the mission. Even if they do develop cancer later on, it would be found early enough to be treatable in most cases. With the added screenings, an astronaut may benefit from a lower mortality altogether (than a normal person exposed to background radiation back on earth).
Curious: given that you saved about $300 despite all the extra time abroad, aren't you just making up for it by spending more on accommodations and food?

I mean, I'd do it in a heartbeat, but you aren't saving that much more, I gather. If at all.
I think what Chuck meant was that the speed of sound increases with pressure, so the pressure wave in front of the capsule would cause the transition speed to supersonic to be higher. I'm not sure this is a good thing though from a drag perspective, but could be if it keeps the flow under ~0.8 Mach. Definately the complexity of the fluid dynamics at high speeds can't be neglected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)#Wave_drag_in_tra...
Who hacked the JS animated tooltips at Amazon?
The idea is that they're curating content from across the web, and reading actual articles to you. Podcasts and the like have a different style of delivery.

Think of this as text-to-speech for articles you would normally read, except done by an actual human so it doesn't sound off-putting.

I think it's a fantastic idea, but its success will be determined by the team's ability to scale across a wider gamut of content.
It's probably a typo; 125MM seems more likely

http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey...
Absolutely, yes. In my case I was annoyed that my round trip from Orbitz took me through Hong Kong for 3 hours, so I went to Flightfox to see if I could make it 3 days. They said yes -- AND made the flight cheaper!

The other option was to try to book multiple round trips or a multi-city with Orbitz/Expedia/etc and in my case it was driving the cost way up. I wasn't happy with the result, and couldn't get the price sub-$3500 to do what I want -- and then I would have had to pay food and accomodations on top of the higher price.
I half wonder if PJ has just spent so much time seeing his movies as they are being made,that he's frustrated that audiences don't see them -that way-... maybe on set is normal for him, and in order to get the audience to see "normally"...

...48FPS would nail it right on the head.
Sure, but all that took was someone making a website and the ability to draw on paper. This site is much more involved and they actually CNC'd a real product, so I assume they're somewhat serious about this, which makes it all the more bizarre to me.
Because the economy no longer demands that everybody work in fields or factories, and no longer demands that everybody spend their money on essentials.

Basically, things like this are a glimpse into a post-scarcity society, where people make and buy things "just because".
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ASk HN:  2 questions about founder's equity
When it comes to founder's equity, the general rule of thumb seems to be to vest it over 4 years and have a 1 year cliff (so if one of the founders leave before a year is up, they lose their equity. So far so good, but here are my questions:

1. What if one of the founders isn't doing much work during the first year and they refuse to leave on their own accord?

2. After the first year, what if one of the founders decides to start another company on the side without his partners? Should that company be considered part of the original startup?