skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it very frustrating to use the habit/goal tracker apps from the app store. The main reason was they didn’t remind me to do the goal or habit I was working on at specific times. They would mainly just remind me to enter in information once a day and by the time it finally reminded me, it was already too late to do the task.

Goalie makes it easy to set multiple reminders for goals or tasks on the specific day of week and time you want. The reminders repeat forever, or until you complete the task. For example, I have it remind me to make my bed at 8:30 am, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and at 7:50 am Tuesday and Thursday.
Pardon my stupidity, but how would one go about getting an IP address for a server installed at home? Is it a static IP address provided by my ISP, or something else ?
I think the biggest difference is that Growth Hackers aim to hit much less saturated verticals that are completely disjoint from traditional search engine optimization and marketing.
They're Nokia maps so presumably you could just look at http://here.net/
Better hardware would be an HP Microserver (which should win the contest for "worst URL ever"):

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-42...

Has ECC RAM support. Takes 4 3.5" hard disks, and runs very quiet and cool.
Now dominating the state legislature?

The Dems have dominated the state legislature since 1959 except for 69 to 71 when the Republicans took control of both houses and a brief period from 94-96 when the Republicans controlled the Assembly.

The Democrats can pretty much take credit for everything good and bad.
Looks like only Canadian / US / Irish customers can sign up for this one....

(Edit): the French site seem to take everyone, and has lower VAT percentage
Yeah. So why pay $270?
"...being locked to IIS as a Web server (or dependent on crippled Windows ports of better Web servers) means you'll be playing in the bush leagues. IIS is found running many huge and powerful websites in the world, but it's rarely selected in a vacuum..."

I sense a little bit of bias.

As a multiplatform developer I can think of a number of reasons why someone might opt to go the Windows Server route. ASP.NET MVC 4 is a first class framework and many prefer it over other popular alternatives on other platforms such as Django, Rails, and Cake. In addition, Visual Studio is arguably the best IDE available and publishing to an IIS server is dead simple.

As for cost, full versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server can both be obtained for free through the DreamSpark program for college students and through the similar BizSpark program for startups and small businesses.
Yes, a 90L pack is quite big, and the thing about backpacking is you almost always fill whatever size bag you use. I have a 50L bag that is perfect. In my younger days I did 6 weeks with a 30L (include an SLR), but it really wasn't worth the hassle of packing it so full. The zipper actually broke towards the end of the trip.
jStat: a JavaScript statistical library
Plodding and Bursting
Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Home Automation
I have been working on a prototype home automation system which will run on a raspberry pi and be fed commands from Arduino sensors. I have started working on a new design and need feed back and ideas. Conceptually its very simple and made to be quite distributed and although I currently only plan to implement this as a C application I eventually want to provide language bindings to make configuration a breeze.

There will be 4 main components, Triggers, a listener and marshallers.
The triggers are things like temperature sensors, bluetooth scanners, etc.
A Listener converts Triggers into Actions.
A Marshaller tells the right device to preform an Action.

A typical use case would be a single RPi running a Listener Server with configured Marshallers, a bluetooth scanner on an Arduino board and a motor attached to the Paspborry Pi GPIO. A plugin which is capable of controlling the motor would register its type and UUID with the Marshaller on load and the commands it can receive (up, down).

The bluetooth scanner would tell all listeners on the network when it encounters a device which it has been paired by triggering a "bluetooth.device_found" event. This would then be converted into a "door.unlock" action by the listener and added to a queue (Redis or Darner seem like a good option). The marshaller would would then issue an "up" action to the plugin.

If you are keen on helping out let me know, all feedback is welcome as well!

I plan on using:
www.c-pluff.org
libev.schmorp.de
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/
https://github.com/wavii/darner
So, let's address it explicitly: predominately, I would say that these changes have made his positions more relevant, but I am not confident that I'm not missing things. A lot has changed in highly pertinent areas.
I don't do it all the time, but when I do it's usually to increase contrast, or to mark my place in long text that I'll need to come back to.

I also do it to find the mouse cursor. The text cursor is thin and not always easy to find amongst a large wall of text, so I'll click and start dragging and look to where the page is highlighted in order to find it.
#nitpick

> grammer or spelling nitpicks

grammar
Via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/jstat-javascript-stati...

P.S. Functionn contains a whole lot more of awesome resources like jStat. There only a fraction of them I can post here at a time. Take a look if you're interested, and subscribe:

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Interview tips from a long time MS dev manager
As of the latest elections, Democrats have a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature, allowing them to do anything they want (including raise taxes) without Republican approval. Until now, many of California's problems have been blamed by the Democrats on Republican obstructionism. The last time any party had such a supermajority was in 1933, when it was the Republicans. The last time the Democrats did was in 1883.
The ratio of people that does this is something that you could accurately measure if you have a somewhat popular website. (The reason why not so much, of course. I doubt many people have a conscious reason for this behaviour anyway. I don't.)
Yes, to track my reading point and sometimes to increase contrast.
Join the Lay Heterogeny
:)

To add to the irony, it didn't work for me on Chrome v23. True, not the first time I see Chrome struggling to read fancy HTML5 sites (Google's Exquisite Forest was another one, and some areas on Chrome Web Lab are definitely better experienced with Firefox).

And yeah, I had to install flash in order to run the videos on this site...
That's interesting. How can one do that and still claim that "we are hiring the best 1% of engineers"?
A surplus of $1 billion means nothing for California's $100+ billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. We would need a billion surplus every year for hundreds of years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/california-debt-higher-...
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/california_state_spendin...
Buy this! It will expand your mind and your toolset. Excellent writing, love the github site.
If you typed a stray ! in a GMail window, it would mark a conversation as spam.
I often "hit" this feature by mistake because I "mark" the text I am reading. Personally I find it annoying and if I could I would disable it... any help apreciated.
I think that says more about the validation tool rather than the sites failing it.
Web and Mobile Revenue Models
Do those versions let you use the products on production web servers though?
If you have a dynamic IP, Dyn offers DNS services[0] that let you tie a domain to it through them. I believe it requires you to install something on your machine that monitors your IP and reports it back.

Otherwise, you just use your IP and make sure to edit the DNS yourself when it changes.

[0]: http://dyn.com/dns/
Another vote for Hetzner, really their pricing makes anything stateside seem almost extortionate. You have to ask yourself if the extra 250ms ping from the States is worth it though. Game servers are right out.
By your ISP. Some plans come with a static IP by default, but many providers make you pay extra (or go onto a business plan if you tell them you want to run servers)
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The start-ups are about to start
The messages that your computer sends to the internet include an IP address which the internet uses to send responses back to your computer. The problem is that these addresses are unstable -- your ISP reserves the right to change it, basically.

If you want to host a server from home, you have a few choices:

a) Obtain a static IP address from your ISP.

b) Obtain a domain name from a dynamic DNS provider and map that to your current IP address. Update the mapping as necessary.

c) Just use your existing IP address -- this is how P2P or Skype works, for example.
I guess it depends on what you mean. If you mean data sent from the server -> client, then no, subscriptions[1] are a lot more powerful than simple RPC calls for data.

If you are referring to data sent from the client -> server, then yes, everything is an RPC call. But it's a bit disingenuous to say "basically meteor is just an RPC", when meteor does a lot of work to set up (and secure) the RPC calls you'll do most commonly: CRUD operations on the database.[2]

That is to say, calling `posts.insert({title: 'A new post'})` in your client side JS _does_ end up calling a method called `posts/insert`; but that method is wired up for you, including checking the allow/deny rules you've specified and tracking the user who is doing the inserting for you with no plumbing work required on your part.

I wouldn't say that's something most frameworks do.

[1] http://docs.meteor.com/#publishandsubscribe
[2] http://docs.meteor.com/#collections
All chef and puppet give you is a tool to setup 100 insecure and outdated servers, they don't help at all with the initial security decisions.
I also didn't find any references in the minified code, but clearly this was done by WeAreHive, a small boutique agency in London.

From their website:

"We were brought in by adam&eveDDB to work on interactive pop-up book designed to showcase the talent and innovation of Google’s Creative Sandbox Gallery, and built entirely in HTML5 and CSS3."

Correction: HTML5, CSS3 and.. Flash.
I have two problems with that statement. First off, in practice very few people actually do vote based on their own selfish interests unless you're using a really broad and unusual definition of selfish. People largely vote as a form of signaling - they vote to send a message about how much they care about stuff and to have something in common with their group. (see also: _The Myth of the Rational Voter_)

The bigger problem is that there's a logical disconnect between your two clauses. The fact that people vote based on their own selfish interests does NOT actually guarantee the winner will serve their interests. It only would do so if people were really good judges of character and politicians were bad at lying and there were some reliable way to hold politicians to account for what they do.

Politicians lie about what they want to do, and we vote for them because we like the lies they tell. When everyone votes for the liar who promises to help everyone's own selfish interest, we get an unusually good liar who actually pursues his own interests when elected.

In the Bush v. Gore debate, Bush claimed to be firmly opposed to "nation-building". People who voted for Bush on that basis did NOT get a winner who was serving their interests.
Ohloh analysis shows Javascript, Python, C# growth trend
What he probably means is that California requires a supermajority to raise taxes. After the last election, the Democrats have that in both houses now.
That is a truly frightening URL, makes me wonder what kind of CMS they are running that generates 100 character long URI (Vignette?).
Any other tools or resources you'd recommend to a newbie web server admin? I've checked out a few books but it's hard to know what's being used in industry.
Software patent booster to step down as head of patent office
Beautiful pictures!

My partner and I squeezed in a 10 day Mediterranean cruise during our 3 month backpacking trip. It was a great way to get back on budget (cost about $40/person/day for room and board + 3 meals) and it was pleasantly fun to get dumped at a new port every morning.
Here's another reason / hybrid of a couple. I noticed when reading this thread, I selected your comment and then scrolled whilst reading. Allows multitasking and faster scanning - I'm reading the text as the page scroll and the highlight makes it easier, whilst getting ready for the next section below.
Show HN: UpShot, Open Source Screenshot Sharing via Dropbox on OS X
Perhaps you need storage in terabytes for something. 12TB on your own machine is relatively cheap. On AWS, not so much. Read speed is another factor.
Java zero-day exploit sold in underground Market - Hacker News
Slamdunk.
We've all heard about the multitasking-induced attention problems. I tend to select and deselect text frequently as something to keep the ADD part of my brain busy.
The connection to the page thing makes the most sense to me. I used to do this all the time, but since Apple's magic trackpad, I've lost the habit for the most part.
I find the trackpad on an Macbook encourages it as well. Something to do with the sensitivity makes it possible.
Your brain, the Internet and the Universe
Offering 1:1 office hours in return for charity donations
Well, I don't know California's interest rate on those loans, but if it's lower than inflation, you'll inevitably win. Also, if the economy keeps growing, 100 billion in a hundred years will be a lot easier to come up with than it is today. Think of Dr Evil asking for 1 million dollars.

edit

Just looked it up. Just shy of a 2 trillion dollar Gross State Product? 100 billion is a big number, but 5% debt is not that bad. (the state) Going into debt during the good times is stupid, going into debt in recession is probably smart.
It really depends on the ISP. A static IP generally has to be requested, and at a cost. Additionally, some ISP's like to be restrictive blocking inbound low ports such as 25, 80, 443 - so hosting a web server off your home connection might be a problem depending on the ISP.
Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview: God. Family. Yahoo.
The link explains more - I'm raising money to fight cancer (the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, http://www.lls.org/) and offering up 1:1 hangout office hours in return for charitable donations.

The office hours are primarily to focus on product questions or issues you might have, since I'm a fulltime PM and former startup founder, but I have a few other areas of expertise that I am happy to deploy in your direction if you wish (from teaching introductory programming to planning out Paleo meals for a month!).
No mention of Disney's role in shooting stars off into oblivion? They find talent, use it up, then push it off on its own where it very often ends in rehab. It could be a coincidence as many other stars that didn't start in Disney ended in rehab, but there is a definite tie between kid/teen stars and rehab, and Disney basically has cornered the market when it comes to getting them in early.
Its strange to me that entrepeneurs have time to do this when self promotion is so ripe for the taking these days. A entrepeneur who wants to succeed has to do it with a grin, failure after failure.
Patent troll hits Apple for using headphones
Also known as RAS Syndrome
http://interserver.net

$40 per month for an Atom based server (which is surprisingly capable). They have an advertised traffic quota, but in my experience they don't check how much traffic you've used. I used to run a file host on boxes from Interserver - I used to push about 60TB per month over 3 boxes.
The HP Blog URLs are scary as well..
I know the story behind your name change, and I can't complement you enough on the way you handled it. But the new name is not engaging, it's off. It doesn't even connect to the imagery you have on your Kickstarter's page, and it feels like a rushed decision.

Also, I think you might have your priorities wrong. There certainly should be an emptional connection, but it should be that of your customers rather than yourselves. In the end it's not you who's going to be buying your shirts.
This is non-formal flatware and you can buy it in every department store in Germany: http://www.wmf.de/shop/de_de/besteck/neuheiten/besteck-set-3...

It’s also a bit more than $10 per piece. It’s not even necessary to talk about sterling silver flatware ($200 per piece).
I lived in San Diego for about five years before moving to the Bay Area.

San Diego is home to a number of big name tech companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit, and Teradata. There are also a lot of defense and biomedical companies as well.

I'm not too familiar with the startup scene, but there definitely is one. I've seen some familiar names at many of the events (like Flud) and people routinely try to hold hackathons and other competitions like Startup Weekend.

One of the biggest differences I noticed was how fast and often people in the Bay Area switched jobs. I knew one person who left after a year at this company, and the makeup of my whole team actually has changed significantly over the past year. This probably has to due with how many tech companies and startups there are in the Valley, but in San Diego you'll find most people will stay with a job for a number of years before even considering about moving.
And so the fragmentation of mobile platforms accelerates along the services axis. [1]

Amazon attempts to ease the pain by offering "interface parity" with the Google Maps API, but there are significant functional differences.

We are going to see more and more examples of this where mobile platform vendors are going to try to get developers to use their firm's web services when running on their platform. Bummer for devs who are already struggling with trying to target multiple platforms.

[1] http://www.lockergnome.com/mobile/2012/10/22/the-fragmentati...
Should I Quit?
Executives' Good Luck in Trading Own Stock
I've taken 4 gap years, where I would travel the world for a year, in the last 14 years of my career since leaving High School. It is the best thing I have ever done. I would thoroughly recommend it to everybody - after high school, between jobs, etc.

Go travel for a year, discover the world, discover yourself, discover interesting people

My only tip would be to not cross too much of the globe at the same time. Let one part of the world sink in for a good few months.

I don't like the type of tourism where you rush to one tourist destination, take a photo of said landmark, and then rush to the next. All the while you are surrounded by people who are the same as you. I prefer sinking into cities. It doesn't even have to be off the beaten track, most times the local sites are mere meters from the tourist sites (this is true in Sydney and London).

For eg. I spent 12 months in Eastern Europe and ended up getting citizenship in Bosnia (via ancestry) and got to really, really know the place - to the point of having long-term friends, paying for things as a local, voting in elections, telling people to keep quiet when the news comes on, playing cards, smoking (still got it), drinking (stopped that one) etc. There are a lot of things you don't pick up when you spend 2-3 days, or a week there.

I used that experience to travel out to the rest of East Europe, and I knew my way around much better because of it (I got out of being arrested in Hungary on visa violations by bribing my way out to a guard who could speak Serbian).

I have now done Asia, although only parts of it and lived in London for years - part of that was a 6-month gap where I travelled Western Europe. I lived in South Africa and have been through a lot of Africa. Same with North America. I would next like to go and stay in either Argentina or in China.

As for planning, I try not to plan anything. My first 'gap year' started as a one month summer holiday to visit family. I didn't return to Australia until 10 years later. The only thing you gotta get good at is opening multiple bank accounts and backups and moving money between banks and knowing how hard/easy it is between different countries. Usually you can't beat cash.
Cloudflare won't do that, they are pretty awesome about site privacy.

I remember watching a video where he did a talk about lulzsec and he had to get permission to talk about their stats, so I'm pretty sure they won't release the sites that are being targeted without prior permission.
Only select a sentence or two when I need to scroll back up and long page and get back to where I was reading quickly afterwards.
Mexico and the United States: The rise of Mexico
What I mean is that instead of calling it "safe" they should have called it "async". "safe" is the wrong terminology to use.
I believe some of the FlightFox users are travel agents, so they probably can take advantage of special deals.
50 Augmented Reality Marketing Ideas
"when you do, it moves that file to the Dropbox public directory and copies the URL to the file into your clipboard automatically"

Sold. Given the amount of prototyping I do on my workstation requiring constant review of previous revisions for collaboration, this is something that lets me get a link sent and stays as far out of the way of my workflow as possible-and it supports an application my team already uses? Yep. Sold.

I might fork this so I can add the option to define which directory in /Public, since I'm OCD like that (having stray files kills me). Thanks for this!
Me too. All sorts of weird "OCD" things like that.
Isn't that what "full versions" means?
ARM - Possible Beginning of the End for AMD? - Part 2
I don't agree that in pair programming you should succumb to your pair or take a least-common denominator philosophy. When I pair, I always use a (customized) Vi, swapping between two editors if my pair's is different. I'm intimately familiar with mine (and he with his), so we're much faster this way (and happier, to boot).
Note that the State of California's GDP is more than 6x that of Greece, while only holding roughly half the absolute amount of debt Greece does.
Quality isn’t enough: how producing a good game may have helped kill a studio
I looked at getting one of those. However, it seems like HP is sunsetting the Microserver line, which is a real shame.
That would be something like: http://dyn.com/support/clients/linux/ddclient/
Mobile commerce’s dirty little secret: it’s slow
It's specifically against residential Comcast ToS, for example, to host a publicly-accessible website.
Why iCloud Has Raised Big Data Security Concerns
Would be perfect if they add this Google Drive attachments functionality to Sparrow. Someday.
If even true, that's besides the point. How did 'faster development' get into your reasoning at all?
DRM before 1990 typically involved non-standard floppy disk formats that a home computer could not duplicate. You can read about one such scheme here:

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/210
If you've ever done a credit report, you'll recognize these questions; these sorts of questions are standard fare.

I suspect it's not Square doing them, but rather, they're just farming identity verification out to another vendor who already does this sort of thing.