skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that you are a developer, I would first of all make an estimate of how much work it would need to create an MVP - meaning minimal useful features, but polished. Then I would try to understand how long it would take to create that MVP in your free time - realistically.

Then I would double the estimated time, and decide if I'm comfortable with the idea of working very very hard for that long before getting any tangible result. If the answer is yes, I would try the solo/MVP way. Otherwise, I would try to create a good presentation and see how relevant people (possible customers + possible investors) react to it.
That and cost. No one is willing to pay for supersonic flight, and the sonic boom makes it obnoxious over land.
I think you're being a little too optimistic here. There is no shortage of web-IDE or foo-Touch on any platform. They're all poping up for all the platforms at the same time, this is not some edge Windows 8 has over other platforms. (If there is any edge at all, it's probably Visual Basic 5.0 or later)

Windows 8 will succeed not because it has a web-based toy for making toy apps, but because people still want to run Windows95 applications.
Degrees are useless. It's turned into a piece of paper that everybody has to have.

These days having a degree doesn't mean you actually know anything about the field that you have studied in. It just means that you have a degree thus you are allowed to get a job that doesn't require manual labor. This isn't just America, it's everywhere.
Spotify is obviously still in the land grab phase. I pay $5 a month for it, and would easily pay at least 6 times that, maybe more.

Furthermore, the vast majority of its users are still freeloaders. I think a sizeable percentage would convert to paying customers if Spotify started to throttle back the free accounts or play more ads. Its an incredible service at a great value, especially when you cough up a tiny bit of money to get rid of the ads.
The effect of electrolyte imbalance or dehydration would occur way before caffeine "toxicity". I speak from experience.
How to not suck at hiring designers
I expect us (UK) to withdraw from the EU in the next few years, so hopefully it'll become irrelevant.
Apple SSDs and the fusion drive ripoff
Small detour; logic is a funny thing because it can be countered by insufficient measures of extent and intent even when it is expressed in the form of presentable proof. So assuming a counter point of view would also be acceptable by your own process of reasoning if an anedoctal could express it. That tells me you recognize your own confirmation bias and so should I recognize mine.

Had the poster said "the majority" instead of "almost all" it would have been much more agreeable to my own impression and my own limited anedoctal experience wich makes up the extent.

But I do take your response in the same good candid nature that you meant it. Still, a cross referenced data set on this you proposed would be amazing.
Yep, this started as an app on WP7 from MSR. You could download and share various scripts/apps. The app was a little clunky but neat.
I'm guessing that's Android only?
I wonder if it would have any effect adding a statoreactor tube to the end of a rocket engine ( as a kind of postcombustion chamber) to take advantage of all that heat. Maybe adding some fuel to that part to make use of atmosferic oxigen to increase power. Above 30km you may drop it.
I don't think it would be too heavy as it doesn't have moving parts. The question is if it would generate power enough to be worth all the trouble.
Bloggers who want engagement often make the request for comments appear very cliched. It's a key spot for improvement in many blogs, and your point "tell the story of why comments would enhance [this] content" seems like a good direction to give to bloggers.

Do you have an example of this done well?
This isn't one of the fancy liquid fluoride thorium reactors that people immediately think of. It's a scheme for incorporating thorium into the fuel mix in existing reactors. Still very cool.
Based on my experience, most startup ideas get their MVPs done as a side projects, since rarely anyone can afford just to drop everything and pursue it.

One sentence did raise an alert in my head: stealth mode. No startup should ever be in a stealth mode - ever. Stealth mode to me means you're hiding you project from prospective customers which is a really bad idea and a common point of failure for many startups. You should un-stealth and show/discuss your product to everyone. You'd be amazed by the amount of good feedback you get. Stealth is a no-no.
Rent everything
I don't think a "corridor" ever forks, so it's not really a labyrinth where there are decisions to be made about which way to go, it's just a bunch of disjoint long, twisty hallways.
I guess the bitbucket's UI is a ripoff... the same way that OpenOffice's UI is ripoff of MS Word. This argument has been pulled so many times before and it's not relevant in this topic which is github's often downtimes.
Post processing requires the GPS to store much more data than just a lat/lon pair. It may need more power not less to store the extra data.
They covered their own story.
The one-line shell command python version ended up being surprisingly painful:

echo "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\\nfrom random import choice\\nwhile(True):\\n print(choice(\"╱╲\"), end='')" | python3

or

python3 -c 'exec("from random import choice\nwhile(True):\n print(choice(\"╱╲\"), end='"''"')")'

(Oh, the fun of deeply nested quote escaping!)

The exec/echo thing being required since we need multiple lines, because while ';' is the statement separator python barfs on "import foo; while (True): pass". Bug or spec?
Interesting, but I'd like a second opinion on this. Not that I don't believe Apple isn't fully capable of ripping off its customers, but the general tone of the article (That’s OK, though – those repair costs and inflated hardware upgrades go directly to feeding hungry Apple technicians, and buying Jony Ive’s next custom-designed Italian sports car., really?) makes me question its objectivity.
While currently Über is better for consumers, if they ignore regulations, they could go downhill quickly.

Also, what about the next Internet taxi startup, and the one after that? Ending up with many tiny Internet companies would end us up in the same situation as unregulated taxis, where people end up getting badly ripped off?
Why the fuck does he use the work "fuck" only to censor it afterwards? You either use it completely or not at all.
Do you mean Empori? I think those guys failed because their business model was also in online retailing itself ...
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/08/empori-original-amazon-loc...
In 0.4, ccv talks HTTP
You missed it:

1. bs was already included in the post (FWIW the shorthand is '1M' in Linux, and that's 1048576 :-))

2. I was referring to the use of disk vs rdisk (i.e buffered vs unbuffered/raw, see details[0]), which IIRC is a BSD-ism.

Using rdisk gives a tenfold increase in speed here. Without it you're nowhere near USB2 speeds.

[0]: http://lists.apple.com/archives/filesystem-dev/2012/Feb/msg0...
The TARP money wasn't a gift, nor is the money borrowed from the Fed.

It's not easy to know how much BofA actually lost on the deal because much of the reported losses at the time result from marking down assets according to market prices. I have no idea what they are worth now.
I've never heard of anyone referring to consuming caffeine as getting "high." That sounds melodramatic.
Thank you for the link. I am curious and will try to find an hour to watch the video.
Do you mind if I contact you by email (already googled it) to ask some questions about your error tracking? It seems that you do not use window.onerror so I wonder how exactly you track unhandled errors. Your experience may help me with my project.
That was 4 years ago. Things change way too fast for your sampling to remain relevant for this long.
Of course it is.

It's not just "putting ads" it's linking with 3rd party ad libraries that can do whatever the hell they want under the umbrella of this dev's app. How is this even remotely better than letting some other 3rd party gather app's usage data? It's absolutely the same shit, only sideways. If he had a problem with latter, recognizing a problem with former should've been a no-brainer. Except if there wasn't some money involved.
It's possible it was uncensored in the original message, then censored when it was published to a broader audience.
My first encounter with git was in about 2009 on windows, and I don't recall it being unusable.
awww, i got all excited :(
You are right in principle but the outcome of the interview is a combination of two factors: the baseline of real skill and the "noise" of your preparedness, mood on the particular day, judgement of the interviewer and so on. You can't change that, therefore it makes sense to put effort into improving the part of the noise that you can control.

And also: a good preparation actually increases your real skill baseline.
I enjoy the aesthetic of Windows 8 and was really excited to start messing around with app development as a new hobby project. The WinRT API, though... it's very bare.

Perhaps I was naive thinking the WinRT API would be similar to .NET, but Microsoft could have made it much, much simpler for current .NET developers to start working with WinRT.

My biggest gripe is that WinRT seems to be 100% focused on mobile/tablet platforms. My laptop has Windows 8 and I spend all of my time in the desktop, away from apps. Why? Because there's a lack of "real" applications in the Windows 8 Store. Writing system utilities for a more technical audience is almost impossible. They replaced the excellent System.IO namespace with the Windows.Storage namespace, which doesn't give you access to much of the computer's actual storage [1].

Hopefully I'm wrong and someone posts a reply with an easy way to search through the computer's files and folders, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows...
You are specifically allowing the iframe to communicate with the parent window by specifying allow-same-origin in the sandbox attribute. Isolating code is a solved problem if you use a separate domain and allow the browser's cross domain policies to do their job.

Calling this Sandbox.js is pretty irresponsible. The term is well defined and well understood. You can't just use the name because it sounds nice.
After reading the article, I was really hoping the comments would be full of ports, glad to see this thread! Here's a version for the Inferno shell, because I couldn't resist:

wm/sh -c 'load std mpexpr;while{}{unicode -t ${expr 2571 1 rand +}}'
I know MBAs get shit on a lot around here (and I am not one, but close) this really is a simple expected value proposition. Something an MBA is introduced to early.

On the one hand he can sell his start up for a thus undisclosed amount of money, on the other he can continue on and have some expected payout (could be 0 could be a lot). If `expected sell amount` < `continue amount when sold`, continue, else sell. Certainly you have to consider time value of money, the future opportunities of having financial security.

Given the stats presented (2% of comp sell for > 2 million) we could deduce a lower threshold for what he sold for assuming the above behavior... but really he did what was best given the circumstances...

Congrats
I think you misread my post. Rejecting 99% of interview candidates would provide a result of hiring the top 10% of coders, because 90% of the interview candidates cannot write code. Hiring the top 1% requires rejecting 99.9% of candidates.

You're assuming that other levels of screening (resumes, phone screens) must not be working properly if there are so many bad interview candidates, but really they're working very well. A large company will receive millions of applications for any position, and needs to winnow that down to a few hundred interview candidates. How many nines of rejection do you expect out of a phone screen?
This seems like a permanent issue and should be reported as a bug rather than an IM.
Grab a cup of coffee, and read the source of these libs till you know what's going on:

underscore - http://underscorejs.org/
backbone - http://backbonejs.org/
dojo - http://dojotoolkit.org/

They all have great comments in the dev versions and the code is very well written IMO. If you really want to become an advanced js programmer I think reading and understanding source code is basically the only way to go.

good luck :)
You should be careful with subdomains. document.domain (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Same_origin_policy_...) allows a page strip the subdomain. So pages on your supposedly safe third-party-code.example.com can act as though their domain is plain old example.com.
Vertica is a great product, probably the only thing I like about HP at the moment.
Ask HN: Theoretically how should one go about setting up from scratch in LA
So after several years of struggling, I will finally be able to move to the states to start a company. My destination is Los Angeles, thinking about setting up the office in Long Beach and take advantage of designated economic zones for the city.

So here are the fuzzy steps that's in my mind about what I will be taking.

1. Use airbnb to scout out 1 week of stay
2. Land in LA
3. Find long term rental place for one person for 6 months. ( how can I find a good place as Canadian without credit history or employment history in US?)
4. Check out the 4 co-working space I've scouted out and decide on one with an office.
5. 2 months in this office to find employee #1 while getting the finances established.
6. Find warehouse and permanent office location by month 6
7. Hire employee #2
8. Find new rental near permanent location.
9. Haven't thought this far yet.

The list looks spartan on details in my mind. I think I am missing a lot of details.
If this was a social network, I'd understand your frustration. It's a developer tool tho — not sure what you expect.
I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting, but it sounds like some form of ram afterburner?
This may have been true when you were at college, but the Ivy I went to operated (and still operates) on a need-blind basis for scholarships. This effectively means you pay what you/your family can afford, and this college also operates a 'no debt' policy. For some students (particularly international ones, where the majority of US colleges don't offer need-blind aid) an Ivy League school can actually be cheaper than other respected colleges.
You Can't Refund an Experience
...or switch to high-quality green tea, which has trace amounts of caffeine— enough to maintain sufficient alertness in the morning, I've found.
Still a step closer.

I'm not a genuine nuke geek, but hopefully there are a few around who can shed some light into what sort of impact the commercial use of thorium as a fuel is on the viability of the fuel in the long-run.
UltraREPL - A JavaScript Development Environment Within JavaScript
Air-frame heat is definitely an issue, but it's solvable. According to a BBC documentary that's on youtube, the Skylon design uses the same concept as the SR-71, which is a corrugated skin that allows a great deal of thermal expansion and limits conduction of heat from the skin to the air-frame. They also apparently have a novel composite material, which could be a big advantage since machining titanium alloys like the SR71 used is a serious pain in the ass.
Via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/ultrarepl-javascript-d...

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

http://functionn.blogspot.com
They'll probably never let humans travel by air at hypersonic speeds, its far to dangerous.

They'll simply use Evacuated tube maglev(Elon Musk's HYPERLOOP) for long distances, same hypersonic speed.

Looking forward to breakfast in San Fransisco, Lunch in LA, and Dinner in Washinton DC.
Sure if you look at the demos, and quickly read the docs all is fine and dandy. But did you try at least to code something with that junk? I did, and wasn't pretty. JS as currently stands is not mature enough to support something complex as an UI kit. Let's see if the next iteration takes us there, and then maybe Enyo can live up to our expectations.
They are not comparable. Its good info and context, but you're overselling it as a comp. "worst corporate deal ever" is shorthand for executive decision. ML was too policy infected to be considered a "real deal" with other options on the table. If you take the "choice" away from the transaction, you are no longer takling about a "deal" in the common sense of the term, IMHO.
That only works if you explicitly set document.domain = "example.com" from the pages on example.com, as well as from the pages on the subdomain. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/document.domain
Sure, send me an email. We might be missing out on some errors, appreciate any kind of feedback, and maybe can give some advice too.
Skylon could fly high enough to moot sonic boom issues, but I think you're right about lack of market demand for transportation. I think aerospace folks may underestimate how continued advances in communication networks will erode demand for travel of all forms, let alone prompt travel.

Of course the military will always be giddy about dropping bombs on whatever poor soul they want as promptly as possible...
While germany is getting out of nuclear power altogether... their "Energiewende" plan is very ambitious but i wonder if its not better to invest into nuclear power to make it saver instead of getting rid of it completely. I dont know much about it though, what do experts think?
Whoops! Up-something, anyway. ;)
Feature wish: when pressing enter, indent the new line as deep as the previous line.
The 'tit for tat' of Indian Hacker Ap3x Predator - MauriHackers
Pepsi Philippines Hacked And Defaced - MauriHackers
A good starting point is Bill Gates TED Talk Innovating to Zero. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I
Sheldon Cooper, is that you?
Yea I remember that! Was it a utility or something off a bbs? I remember a hex editor!
I like the goofiness! I feel a little embarrassed for the people who will not or cannot recognize it as such.

The downvotes, well, those are, strictly speaking, justified. :)
> [...] students share online tips about “blow off” classes (those which can be avoided with no damage to grades) and which teachers are the easiest-going.

Do they really think this is a new phenomenon? I can't imagine nobody spread the word about what classes were easy before the Internet.
I'd don't have any particular love for public schools but k-12 is covered by government in the US. There's no reason that it couldn't or shouldn't extend down. In my view, education gets harder the older the students are. Regardless of how many years of school the public decides to fund, I think we should start as early as possible. There's a compounding effect to education; put in the time, effort, and money early and you make the future a lot easier.

Nothing can replace good parents but there's only so much that can be done to improve the general quality of parents. Given that society has a vested interest in the future of every child, I don't think it's unreasonable for government to try to do better. That doesn't necessarily mean the public school system; it could be vouchers, various incentives, etc. But just saying parents need to do it is a cop out, shortsighted, and unrealistic.
IMUs [1] have been used in planes for a while now,
I am not sure whether it is the future or the ancestor of GPS.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit
I had the same bug (no pun intended), but in JavaScript. It does produce some interesting effects after making a few laps.

http://chengsun.github.com/walk.html

I still am a "kid", and it amuses me that I'm making the same stuff on modern platforms that have already been done on DOS machines by kids like me.
Except that it does. Regardless of the ethos of a scientist, when a scientist sets out to research with a certain goal, "the positive effects of drinking coffee", the only case in which the result would be unfavourable to coffee would be when coffee has no positive effects whatsoever. This is as shown obviously not the case.

When you research "the effects of drinking coffee" it seems as though you are more neutral, but in fact there is still room for bias. Will you find every single effect of drinking coffee? How will you decide wether they are positive or negative? how will you decide the importance of these effects? Which effects will you research in more detail?

This weighing and ordering depends in part on the researcher, who will have a bias.

Ofcourse this is not a problem when there are lots of researchers all with their own biases, together they will paint a full picture. But if you only fund those researchers who have the kind of bias you like, then that full picture might be skewed (this is called publication bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias).

In this case people worry if the coffee research institute has hired biased researchers, rewards only the researchers who publish good things about coffee or even publishes selectively.

So it is a good thing to point out. And the argument is an attack on the reliability of the fundament for the argument, not necessarily on the researcher.
If you receive a book from Amazon via snail mail, do you expect the entire book to be in Courier 10pt with no use of images, color, or other fonts, even for the cover? Do you expect ASCII illustrations in the book? Why would you expect something different for email then?
Well, yes. But at that point it's no longer an email address.
CSS rules that I should know by now.
I missed the original post about this competition and so now the deadline has been extended, I thought I would share it.

Looks like there are some really fun projects!
Another big chapter from web 1.0 is over
I also always thought Eulogy was supposed to be about Bill Hicks but it always confused me that it sounded so critical. Thanks for the correction.
Symmetry and the Fourth Dimension (Part 8)
I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but I expect a baseline phone screen session to reject someone who cannot FizzBuzz.

Is that so hard to accomplish without inviting someone in for an interview ? I cannot answer in the affirmative as I do not work in HR.
Microsoft's competition isn't just Apple, in fact I would say that their real competition is Google/Samsung which seems to be replacing what was Microsoft/Intel.

Also while easy to make apps is a great idea, sadly it may not be a game changer. If you look back at HyperCard it was a cool product, but it didn't save Apple from almost going under by the mid-90s.
Ballmer: Hardware Key To Microsoft's Future
The argument was for well-paid employees. Those greeters certainly don't fall in that category.
Secure Boot bootloader for Linux distributions available now
ESA.Int Subdomain hacked by SlixMe
https://twitter.com/SlixMe/status/274797542179500034
the problem here is that CSS is _not_ a good abstraction for laying out application. Its good for styling (and i would argue, styling static content too). But css isn't very modular, and has very very high coupling with the structure of the DOM - something that isn't easily discernable at the time of modifying the css.

Like you, i can't think of a good solution - a lot of UI frameworks either just has really heavy restrictions, or it doesn't actually provide enough abstraction to actually help with the problem. Sigh...
This is not the first time Norway has been interested in Thorium, already in the sixties they had plans to exploit their rather large Thorium deposit. India also has large deposits and also has a trial reactor scheme going similar to the one in Norway with Thorium-Plutonium MOX fuel.

There is a lot of information about Thorium on this site:
http://energyfromthorium.com/