skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always loved SoundCloud.

I remember how it was difficult for people like me to upload their music on the web in order to share it. The only viable option was the MySpace music section (which required a different MySpace account). Even renowned artists used it. But the music player was just a single feature among the whole MySpace package, and the resulting experience for both the uploader and the viewer was unconvincing.

SoundCloud filled a need: upload your music easily, and doing just that. The uploading experience is fluid. The player is great, easy to share, with a nice sound quality.

This startup idea should have been obvious for some, but the real key was to implement a perfect UI for a great UX and SoundCloud achieved it for me.
I've found that experimenting with the various git diff algorithms helps out. IIRC there is an "-x patience" flag you can pass to git-diff and tools which use that, which spends more time to get "better" diffs.
Going to need another cup of coffee now, thanks franco!
3% flat tax (UK) - A proposal
Toy gendering is neither stupid nor inane: indeed it's almost universal amongst animals who play with things identifiable as 'toys', e.g.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921
Christian Tech Entrepreneurs Find Funds, Support Among The Faithful
Very cool use of materials. I could totally see this mass produced for children learning how to ride bikes and even cities testing out the "share-a-bike" program.
Fluent mirror methods
Great list of some amazing startups!
> "Lego Friends" sets don't appear particularly gendered:

> The fundamental difference between Friends and the rest of lego seems to be that Friends is about people, whereas the rest of lego is about building stuff.

You can't say that Lego Friends marketing isn't seriously targeted at girls.

http://friends.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx
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Hijinks Square Say: Threaten ‘Hits’ On Your Friends
I used to jam those little castle Lego swords and spears into the stitching of the braided area rug in my bedroom, to create that authentic medieval battlefield look.

When my dad tromped on one of those things after coming off the evening shift, it was a learning experience for both of us.
Same for GTK+ C code (where it is used as a gesture toward C++ compatibility, at least for the headers).
Industrialists vs. the rest of us
37signals Affiliate Program Shuts Down Today
So boys and girls do not exist, only kids? Because kids gendering is also stupid and inane?
And later we will have only persons, not men and women?
It is sad to see how people fail to see the difference between racism and merely acknowledging the race, the difference between sexism and acknowledging the gender.
Or did I miss some new research which shows that we are all indeed unixes creatures with minor differences in dangling parts?
Equality does not mean uniformity.
But the costs are also vastly larger, and the payoffs likely smaller.

And prestige? 1/3 of the Earth's land surface is covered by desert. If you could suddenly transform that from a life-hostile to a life-flourishing environment, you'd win as many Nobel Peace Prizes as they can possibly stamp out.
HIV Midley | Another educational site
I am no longer at CERN, but you can get some information here

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/616089

A more up to date link is available here,
http://atlas-proj-hltdaqdcs-tdr.web.cern.ch/atlas-proj-hltda...

ROBins are the special purpose network cards.
Compared to the caltrops like device that is a standard UK power plug a mere lego brick is hardly likely to cause much harm.
I think you're being a little protective here. How much time do you expect the average user is going to give you? I can promise you it's not 10 minutes. You're being somewhat childish, IMO, by not recognizing that this guy took 10 frigging minutes out of his time to check out your site. Thank him, take note of the feedback, and move on. You will get feedback all the time from people you don't agree with but that's not a reason to be so quick to act this way. I hardly think a 10 minute website look is a "snap judgement".

You might want to check out this post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/judging-websites.ht...
Wow, really unnecessarily harsh people in here. Maybe someone should start a community for people who are interested in start-ups and tech projects so these people aren't burdened by posts like this.. oh wait.
You can already find real bikes for $20 in parts of the world like China. Since the article doesn't say so, I guess that this bike has to be quite a bit cheaper to make than $20 for it to be worthwhile, but then it'll be the labor costs that outweigh the material costs by far.
Business Plans are a Historical Artifact
IOS v Android: app revenues, downloads and country breakdowns
What this post is talking about and what is in the video are somewhat different issues. The video is about whether what we choose to do with our life, vocationally, should be driven by money while the post seems to be more about doing software for free. However, it's not really an RMS style argument. I always wonder why so many programmers act like we are all just drug dealers or gun runners, immorally making money from software we write. Do you think carpenters feel this way? It's one thing if you hold to RMS moral decision, whether it's an infantile one or not is another matter, but even if his view was the morally correct view, I think I'd choose the life of the gun runner anyway. :)
CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines
I would have clicked this list had Techcrunch not been the benchmark it was measured against.

Techcrunch and Arrington is a hole of drama and self-obsession and best ignored.
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The point is that if your contribution ends at "this sucks," then you're not helping anyone out.

What I took from this is to either provide helpful, constructive criticism, or be quiet and let the people actually doing something instead of complaining on Twitter do it.
It's not even that, it's the maximum height for a tower of 2x2 bricks.

The guy who did the assessment said that he felt other shaped/sized bricks would be more or less able to deal with the pressure.

All on the BBC More or Less Podcast.
And then there's the FIRST LEGO League competition [1], which takes middle- and junior high-level teams and these sets of MINDSTORMS and has them work together to build a robot for competitive play, teaching STEM principles on the way. There are thousands of teams all over the world, and it's a wonderful experience. The program is also a funnel into the high school-level FIRST Robotics Competition [2], which graduates into actual machining, CADing, programming, and so on, as well as community outreach and business skills from raising funds and structuring a sustainable team.

[1] http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll

[2] http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc
I wonder how much research the marketing team did on setting up their brand with that name, considering their consumers are parents and young children.
I've used South on at least 20 projects, some of which were very large (1yr+ of development, 100+ migrations, incl data migrations and raw SQL execution) and generally had Good Times throughout (aside from the coordination of migration on multiple developers' branches that is less of a South problem and more of a workflow one).

Caveat/qualifier: every project was on Postgres.
Don't Fake it Maque it
As a UI developer I find it frustrating having to bend/bow or beg our API engineers to hurry up and build the API so we can finish our UI app layer. However, I found Maque which allows us to quickly mock up the Data APIs and build/test our UI against it internal HTTP server while the APIs are being developed in parellel. Check it out! http://maqueapp.com/
I'd love to see more analysis of how big open source projects stay funded. Blender 3D is a great example of an amazing app that rivals thousand-dollar software packages and regularly produces open movies. I think I saw Google was one of their sponsors on the last open movie. I dream of working full-time on something like that (with a sustainable level of income of course ;).
Bikini isn't a brand that became a generic word

It is. The fact that the brand name itself was derived from an existing proper noun doesn't change that fact.

And speaking of language abuse, I feel that some day the verb 'steal' will be synonymous with every possible offense. How does one steal an island name?
In Some Places, Facebook Opens Message Service to the Facebookless
I'd give half an upvote for the external noise part but I don't need the central dashboard part :D

In all seriousness, I think many of us struggle with noise - both external and internal.
Same here. I am positive that it was Lego that influenced me to become an engineer. Ever since I was a small kid I just loved building stuff. Making something out of almost nothing, with most of your creation backed by the power of your intellect is something that is very special. After I outgrew Lego, I started building cities in Sim City... and shortly after that I started coding. It's a logical progression, isn't it?

Plus, for me there literally was something magical in Lego. Every new set would bring such an unparalleled amount of joy and happiness that is hard for me to verbalize now, but I can still vividly remember that feeling of getting a new set and just feeling ecstatic about it... ah, the childhood.
You can get postcode/easting/northing for free using Ordnance Survey's Code-Point Open product [1]. That'll let you check a postcode exists, but it doesn't help with address auto-completion, as it doesn't give you a street name.

[1] http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/code-poin...
I don't feel charging money for services or software is in any way immoral. But all other things being equal, I would rather work on a free, open source project than proprietary software. It just feels better to provide something useful to a wider audience at no cost than to produce something for a single client or a selective group of paying customers.
37 Signals Ends Affiliate Program - Refuses to Pay Less than $100
This is the email they sent me today http://cl.ly/image/2Z0g1x0u1A3V

Notice that they also sent this announcement with less than 12 hours notice. How nice.
Trying to find out which browsers support what audio features I found this site: http://caniuse.com/audio

It links to a sound file-format test, where I see Firefox plays only ogg and wav. That made me wonder if one could do mp3 decoding on the browser. It's possible: http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ but it sounds totally broken on Firefox on my Ubuntu.

So no Flashless SoundCloud on my Firefox yet, but it may soon change: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799318
Do you have a recommended workflow for multiple contributors using Git? Also do you ever intend to fix the django permissions bug that requires a syncdb --all?

Not really HN discussion points I guess but I have recently started using South on a project and the lack of clear direction here confused me. This bug has been known for quite a while but I couldn't find any best practise recommendations for either situation.
Hmmm, I think the moon might still be easier.

On the moon, you'd have to run pretty much ecological "closed system", perhaps with oxygen and water supplemented by industrial processes. However, rapid resupply is possible, and non-fatal mistakes correctable.

On mars you could get away with a lossier system (seems to me, easier access to outside air, water, nutrients), but resupply is so much harder...
He may be important, but that doesn't make him right. He makes interesting programs, but there are plenty of dissenting views.
You don't need to spawn N awks,

<domains.txt while read line; do
host $line | head -n1 &
done | awk '{print $1 " -> " $4}'
There are fan made patches (nyerguds) for C&C95 and RA that help with this, as well as a DirectDraw driver for graphics and CnCNet for multiplayer.

(Would provide links but can't at the moment. Google should find them easily)
This is my side project but it's a simple app.

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ideya-App/534278166588750

Twitter:https://twitter.com/ideyaapp

iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ideya/id578536295?ls=1&m...
on CleanCoder: I know $1 is just $1... but putting a sample video that I can just click to see would help a lot
2. Take system to Mars.
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It appears that you don't have much carbon, though (see 'Lunar regolith' on Wikipedia). So once you've got your oxygen generator set up, you may have to fly coal up there to burn for CO2. Once you're set up, though, you should be able to keep the carbon in a closed loop between humans, the encapsulated air and the plants.
So I take this is just a dump of a month worth of Betalist with TC features excluded?

And what's up with all this astroturfing in the comments? Have some decency not hype your own startups, gentlemen.
Good point -- I remembered the article from October and found it to link it, but didn't re-read it.
Minimum Pubs for a PhD in CS?
I was aiming for it to be more of a meta, general viewpoint - "do you aim for happiness over cash in everything that you do, including software?" And I'm not saying it's immoral by any means, there is value in paid for services just like there is value in open source. Gun running is another issue :P
Half of these are coming soon pages, the author of the article doesn't sound like he's tried any of the services in private beta, he's just made a list of what might be cool.

Also is the eye-drop app a startup or a side-project?
Nice to see Auctionful on it!
We make a LEGO-compatible case for iPhone 4, 4S and 5 (and the 4th-gen iPod Touch). (I'm sure that one admission will drive my karma into the basement.)

Shortly after we began shipping, LEGO called. They were very gracious, and only had a couple of TM-related issues they wanted fixed. Nothing unreasonable, really.

When were were done, I offered to send the attorney on the other end of the call a BrickCase. He declined, as he already had one on his phone.

So it's not just kids that they have a great interface with.
Perl 5 was released in October 1994, so it's impressive in its own right that a) there is boilerplate you can add at all to get good Unicode support and b) that you can extend the language to support it using just boilerplate.

As the other comment mentioned, improvements by "default" to Unicode support do get included into later Perl 5 releases, but you have to let the compiler/interpreter know that you're buying into that so that it can reduce the boilerplate for you.
Email announcement received this morning: http://cl.ly/image/2Z0g1x0u1A3V
The Family CTO
There are 18 on Amazon? Did he not check there?
Yes, but would be science. The submission is art.
HopStop hits 100 major metropolitan markets in the US
And that is where the line to tread is, between being happy and not being broke. Happiness coupled with money would be the ideal :)
I agree with point three but that could be partially mitigated by throttling, could it not? I recall a good post about making a good API that developers enjoy using and query throttling was a an important point.
I propose an experiment to return to this page at various points in the future and comment on the status of these startups/websites.

I realise that I may be adding to the background noise, but this is ridiculous: http://imgur.com/F7wkO
You can gather data with G-Mon on Android. Iirc it "only" gives you an estimated location and strength of each wifi radio though. Still fun to map.
A reconfigurable miniature robot
New Mac espionage trojan targets Dalai Lama supporters
Yeah, I've met carpenters who feel that way.
I always saw Go as a replacement for Java.

I have no idea what Rust is. (Trying to be.)
As far as I know LEGO actually has a vault with a couple sets of all their products. Which of course means some body has the job description of official LEGO librarian.
I'll downvote you for not linking to your product on Amazon with your referral code! (j/k, :P, etc.)

Based on what I've learned here, it's my understanding that shameless self promotion is a spectacular way for individuals to provide for their own needs and for people important to them. It is foolish to begrudge anyone this when they are contributing value to the conversation.
You should be able to get your database info by running

heroku pg:credentials DATABASE_URL

And then you can just set it up as the database of a different install. Probably better to deploy the code before migrating though. Use maintenance mode to keep people out while you do.
The father's email was hardly ferocious. When children are young, we express disappointment when they do something they should not do and express encouragement when they do something they should.

" People don’t behave badly because they lack information about their shortcomings. They behave badly because they’ve fallen into patterns of destructive behavior from which they’re unable to escape."

The behavior described by the father could hardly be genetic or environmental shortcomings. If lack of information is not the cause, then why do we say that problem youth need more and more education with superman-like teachers and fewer kids per class?

"Human behavior flows from hidden springs and calls for constant and crafty prodding more than blunt hectoring. The way to get someone out of a negative cascade is not with a ferocious e-mail trying to attack their bad behavior. It’s to go on offense and try to maximize some alternative good behavior. There’s a trove of research suggesting that it’s best to tackle negative behaviors obliquely, by redirecting attention toward different, positive ones."

Yes, hidden springs that mysterious yet totally doable thing that, if we did it right, then we'd know we were doing it, somehow.
"that just stuff a newspaper into electronic form with the least effort possible, are doomed"

Oh, you've read the Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/

"A Media News Group web site." http://www.medianewsgroup.com/Pages/default.aspx
Wow, lifehacker's site is actually usable now without Javascript. Good job!
1 meter large 3D printer
BannerPlay aims to make banner ads as simple as Google AdWords
If i'm reading it right, you basically pay 3% tax on any unspent cash (under the non-depreciating assets) - how does that make sense?!
Karma -  pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot
Well, sure. You can do all sorts of things. But you're still looking at stacking rather a lot of bricks on top of one brick.

I mean, were it just a matter of "a brick can support 100 meters of brick on top of it", I'd say, sure, obviously we can do that in real life. It'll be hard, but we can probably do it. But you have to put another ~1.5 orders of magnitude of pressure on... this is going to be "decidedly nontrivial", to borrow the mathematician's phrase. I'm not ready to say it's absolutely impossible, but it's in the "I'll believe it when I see it" class. That is a lot of bricks you are trying to stack on with no other failures getting in you way, and when you're dealing with that sort of accumulation of brick, micrometer variations you'd normally never even consider worrying about start stacking up....
The cheapest brake pads available for bikes cost about $4.99 or roughly 25% of the cost of what he says this bike could cost. So how exactly can you build the remainder of a bike for $15.01?

It doesn’t make any sense at all.

At the end of the day, everyone would be better off if no one built cheap bikes, and they only built high quality bikes that people would resell in a used market as they got older. Riding a cheap bike is at best uncomfortable and at worst dangerous.

[Added] Bicycle frames last for 20+ years, it doesn't seem like the environment is really a factor here whatsoever.
The Double Opt-In Introduction
I've found this exact problem before with Bootstrap. I solved it, but it was perhaps 6mo ago and don't remember, otherwise I'd take care of it for you.

Congrats again on shipping a kick-ass product.
The future of Microsoft and Apple
My faith in humanity has been restored.

Lego did a really great thing here. It could impact this young man's life forever.

Also, shout out to his parents. They seem like they have done a great job in a tough situation.
Boston Ruby Community grows by 47 women in one weekend
A neat idea. I'm gently worried about how good it is to ride.

Give people a bike that rides well and they're likely to continue to ride it. Give people a bike that they don't like and they're not going to ride that bike, and will be less likely to ride any bike in future.

Still good luck to them. Some places have horrific road accident death rates so getting people out of cars, off mopeds, and onto bicycles could help.
How happiness changes with age
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The funny/sad thing is, I could write a similar e-mail to my parents explaining how disappointed I am with their live choices, inability to learn, their wrought inter-dependence they call marriage, and, to be honest, the way they raised their children (including me, of course).

I don't think there is anything wrong to be honest to each other. Family isn't as important as it has been throughout history and the Idea of Family as portrayed in our culture has become an outdated concept. On the other hand, as a family we do share a bond and a shared history together and we're connected. We can cut our physical ties to one another, just never see each other again, but we cannot free ourselves from our mental bond. We have to live with that. And I don't see how cutting physical ties would change anything about that.
I'd surmise that a miniature probe could get a free trajectory to the Sun by taking advantage of this. Not sure how low a mass it would have to be though.
Some of these start-ups look like actual start-ups with roads to profitability.

Some of them look like side-projects.

Either way, regardless of the value of these start-ups it's nice to pierce the YC bubble, if even a little bit.
What was the point of this article? I don't think it had much to do with how people actually change. It was pretty much aggregating a "viral" email and summarizing (maybe super-summarizing) some views from cognitive behavioral therapy and maybe some chapters from "The Power of Habit"

The explanation of "How people change" is superficial at best in this article.
Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus
> "How can we trust you're not going away any time soon?"

We are hosted on DotCloud(YCS10) - and thanks to generous agreement with them, we have a very large free plan and until we have issues managing demand, we don't plan to ask for donations.

Several well known sites us zippopotam.us such as TheNounProject and Pocket.

There are several alternatives to us and if don't trust us, don't use us - our intention is to serve sites that can't be bothered to download dbs and serve the codes themselves.
It's only targeted at girls if you believe that girls (but not boys) respond to female characters and themes of friendship. Similarly, regular lego is only targeted at boys if you believe boys (but not girls) respond to building stuff.

I have no trouble accepting the belief that boys and girls are different, and that building products which disproportionately provide utility to girls is beneficial. But if you disagree with this latter claim (as bonaldi seems to), then Lego is not actually targeting girls - they are merely targeting people who like friendship more than building stuff.
I immediately thought of some sort of share a bike program or better yet disposable bikes. For $20 visitors to a city could buy a bike ride it for a week or so then recycle the cardboard, assuming the cardboard is recyclable after whatever treatments it goes through.

Although I doubt the $20 estimate without a way to automate production. The video made it seem like a fairly labor intensive practice.