skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The market will not get any better without the investment of employers.

I won't know anything about how the market will get better, but please don't count on your employers for your personal growth. If the employer does that for you, that's an added advantage. Also, the way your employer shapes you very rarely aligns with your optimal growth. An ideal employer is a facilitator viz. RailsConf will be paid by the company, buy whatever books you want etc.

> but I have a wonderfully firm basis that will help me build an amazing career I never dreamed of.

It will help you eventually, but unless Hackbright has arranged interviews for you, be prepared for not hearing back from the employers. People who have formal education for at least 4 years in computer science secure an interview once in a while, and a desirable job takes many such secured interviews. From the employers perspective, if many such formally educated people turn out below par, a 10 week training program doesn't really excite anyone.

My unsolicited advice is start building things - small tractable things which you can build in less than 3 weeks. Build it and put it on github. It might not work for big companies, but small companies are more likely to give you a chance if they can see your code and verify that you can build things.
Or they just assume that global warming is a given. I think more interesting questions is whether or not the current "debate"[1] about the role of religion as government that is going on in the middle east will escalate into a world wide conflict.

[1] Generally watching the Arab spring is like watching a referendum vote on the principle of separating church and state. But done with guns, bombs, and civilian casualties rather than a voting box.
Is anyone ever actually happy with database performance? I have never met a customer that wouldn't welcome better performance for so little outlay.

The failure rate of drives shouldn't be a huge concern, data is kept in redundant drives and replacing them is just a matter of routine maintenance. The data is typically worth considerably more than the drives it sits on, but several orders of magnitude.
Going on 11 years here with no real issues.
Why Stripe doesn't have product managers.
4 Benefits of Unmoderated User Testing
Interestingly the bug links to 163267, which is marked private (i.e. a security issue). I've had more downtime out of Google in the past few years than I ever did out of my Yahoo mailbox.
Really good point. s/Apple/everyone/, of course -- Google suffers from the same issue, but it's less worrisome thanks to two-factor.
I have nightmares about neural implants being available but out of my ability to pay for them. And I am fortunate enough to be able to afford food and shelter. Poverty is a serious problem that should be solved. Food, shelter, healthcare, and neural implants should be available to everyone.
While this massive bit of speculation is exciting, this is not the case. It is a compiler error indicating that the poster somehow compiled an Elm file without any content in it. I suspect my servers are having a bad time right now, so the file may have been only partially read for some reason.

I am trying to scale my servers up now!
Gmail crashed, Chrome didn't, on two of my machines, Version 23.0.1271.95 m, and 23.0.1271.91 m
And that's exactly the reason why intellectual "property" is actually the opposite of real property. It's a restriction on the ways you can use your things, a limitation of your freedoms. Every patent granted, one more thing you can't do even if you rediscovered by yourself, one bit of liberty chipped away.

Maybe one can be OK with this, but it's time to call things by their name or we'll never sort out this mess.

So maybe after all there isn't so much difference between software and hardware patents. I think it's just that few people have a factory to get bitten by hardware patents, but everyone has a computer so it's much easier both to churn out soft patents and to feel the pain from them.
If you enjoy these kind of brain modification technologies, check out the book The Brain That Changes Itself, which discusses neural plasticity http://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers/dp.... This is the science that led to the cochlear implant and may lead to other brain-interface devices.

Also, the part about biohacks and bio-weapons, reminded me of the movie Prometheus.
Yes, but in Sandy many of those generators failed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sandy+generators+hospital

I don't dispute that they wouldn't receive government help as quickly as possible, but playing the loss of electricity as having zero impact is also unreasonable.

Further, there's an economic impact to businesses. A terrorist attack need not take lives, just damage something.
Can anyone comment on how hard it will be to drive the LCD over TFT with an ATmega?
As a designer/front end developer I might have a few reviews for critcue.com...
> escalating inequality

Worldwide poverty has been declining for decades. Costs of technology is declining at an ever rapid pace.

Income equality between the top bracket and the bottom != less access to technology for everyone
A number of folks have argued that if it so easy to do this level of damage with a cyber attack why hasn't a terrorist done so in the last 10 years? Its not like you have to 'sneak' into the country or get pass the security theatre at the airport to mount such an attack. Hacking toolkits and websites are at least as easy to find as bomb making web sites.
Ask HN: How would you monetize HN?
If you were hired to monetize HN, how would you go about it? Innovatively or traditionally.
As a similarly biased person, I'd also like to see a real control group instead of just "violent" vs. "non-violent" games. Also, 70 people doesn't seem like a very large sample size.

If anything, this study seems purposely built to gain headlines and media attention.
How is that similar? I didn't see any opportunity to compare websites on criticue.
How many nice apps do you have to make to be considered a startup?
I've been using http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky as a search engine in chrome.
"Nor am I clinging to any assumptions."

" I have found that strengthening the body first and then re-exposing myself is a way to get healthier."

This is certainly a falsifiable assumption.
But the usecase that the op refers to (installing free/cheap apps) doesn't require entering a password in the Play Store.
Onion's headlines can be really chilling - one example "Sudanese 14-Year-Old Has Midlife Crisis"
+1 for LSN: back in '04 a friend of mine and I must have spent at least 50 hours playing nothing but the hotseat multiplayer of that game.

FS is also a lot of fun, but it just isn't as deep or complex as LSN. Fewer enemy types, less variety in level design. On the flip side, though, this means that most matches are over much quicker than LSN (a one-sided match often took 20-30 minutes, and hotseat games back in the day often took us an hour to finish!)
I'm sure it's correlated to artists/albums that get featured in major review publications, since Metacritic is about aggregating the results of those reviews.
Actually, this brings up an interesting idea - why not allow people the option of disabling the password entirely if their phone is locked with a passcode? Apple already does this with the Find iPhone and Find Friends apps, they could easily extend this to free/small purchases, etc.
I was honestly curious as I didn't catch the sarcasm :/

And,.. I'm getting down-voted.
My friends and family were effected much more by the satire

should be

My friends and family were affected much more by the satire

There were many effects of the movie - one was to make the watchers cry, the other was to make dinosaurs explode onscreen.
They were affected by the movie.
I have affected the deal - pray that I do not affect it further.

Affect is always a verb. Effect is always a noun, except when it's a verb. In that case you rely on a subject/object agreement thing, and English should really drop both words and use ffect instead.
I wonder if you could fish for sharks with a fake floating duck (or pelican or whatever).
Of course, separation of concerns can lead to swear words if not well thought out.
Please tell me someone fat fingered(the comment above is in gray), and this relevant, non-rude comment isn't really getting downvoted.
When the singularity happens, some douche will already have a patent on it and ruin it for everyone.
Chrome it is not crashing for me - on Ubuntu64 12.10 - Germany

Chat seems to be offline - mail works
For developers, we have an API (http://swiftype.com/documentation/quickstart) that is not much different than setting up Solr or ElasticSearch. However, you no longer need to manage the search servers. We handle reliablity and scaling. On top of that, we offer client libraries (like SwiftypeTouch), search analytics, and a management dashboard (think: you write the search, the business people take over managing the results).

For less technical users, we have a web crawler with automates the creation of search engines. Combined with our crawler controls and meta tags (http://swiftype.com/documentation/meta_tags) you can build a really powerful site search engine with little effort.
http://sidebar.io

It's also a social news website, but works different than HN. It uses telesc.pe which is kinda cool :)
Nanoparticles in your food
I really doubt you ever used a XiaoMi phone, or been in China. First of all, you mentioned you saw XiaoMi 'everywhere in China'. Where did you see XiaoMi advertisements? Here in Shanghai, I do see Samsung and even ZTE ads very often and I still fail to remember I had ever come across of any XiaoMi ads in Puxi. If they are 'everywhere', the Metro must be covered somehow, right? Sorry, no luck, I didn't see any. XiaoMi does do marketing, but mainly on Weibo, which is the China version of Twitter. Second, XiaoMi has fallen so far in supplying enough phones that people have been waiting for weeks (A lot of people this is XiaoMi's starvation campaign, well, it makes sense a few months ago, but not likely now since competition has been so fierce). So, up until now, if you wanna buy a smart phone in China, XiaoMi is usually not available at the counter, and you may be amazed to know Samsung has really invested in marketing and channel development in Greater China these days ;)
It is an observation after the act, not an assumption. I did not go around intentionally exposing myself to anything. My focus was on removing things and eating better.
Malware Analysis Communities?
Since my senior year of college, I have been interested in IT Security, specifically Malware analysis and defense. However, I have not been able to find any sort of website or forum where I can ask questions and pursue discussions relating to malware analysis. Does anybody know of any communities that have sections for various malware-related topics including analysis, Anti-forensics, capture, etc?
I suspect it ensures you authorized the app to be on your phone should any liability, or other legal issues arrise. Buddy downloads OKCupid onto your phone, Wife sees OKCupid and files for divorce and takes everything thanks to pre-nup. Man sues Apple for allowing app to be added to device without his consent.
Charge to add features. With a relatively simple baseline experience, there are always people looking to customize what they see on the site. Just look at the number of add-ons for browsers and alternatives/aggregators which exist.
"The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, requires you to type in a search term, click on a download button, and wait a little while"

This is basically how it works at my local library, I search on their website, click "Request to my local branch", wait a while, and then it's there for me to pickup. I can't imagine the NY Public library is much worse.
I'm not sure what you mean - are you arguing that all information should be put into the public domain as a matter of course? If so, I wouldn't agree with that, no.

I'm curious as to why you think people posting on Hacker News should wish for information to be free. The vast majority of start ups benefit from withholding information from competitors, for example their source code or client list. In general, I would say most people like to be given the opportunity to choose which information is free and which is not.

Just because the internet makes that difficult to enforce doesn't fundamentally change this in my view. As long as we still have a concept of wealth, at least.
Be honest. Let him know its not working out and you need to move on.
Felicia Day on Acting, Gaming, and Reddit Haters
Great idea! I would love to review sites while waiting a review on mine. Please make this possible.
Grishin Robotics Pours $250,000 into RobotAppStore
"Additionally, I make use of bits and pieces of info and advice I hear from people whom I consider "in the know" -- mostly moms who have found what works for a difficult kid that the medical community has written off."

Sounds like a sincere version of the "one quick tip that moms found to..." ads.
Is anyone ever actually happy with database performance?

It depends on your access patterns and how large your active data set grows. Just because your entire DB is 5 TB doesn't mean anything. You could be running a forum where only the most recent 2 GB of posts are read by humans, most people are reading and not contributing, and the rest is trawled through by indexing bots.

I'm perfectly happy with all DB performance when the write load is reasonable, indexes are doing the right thing, and the working data fits into memory (which these days can be multi hundred GBs -- just pray to the gods of uptime you don't have to failover to a cold secondary server).
Because accountswu is spamming this thread and most of the top level comments are his. I wish there was a way to report him. Looking at his history he isn't exactly what I'd want a fellow HN contributor to be. Anyways it isn't the first comment for me, so hopefully it will sink even further soon.
Why not use multiple IDs? one very simple passworded for purchasing apps, one complicated password for master syncing, phone deleting functions?
We must work in similar industries. We had, and scrapped, a project do to nearly exactly what you are describing. It felt like this was the next logical step for us: we had experience in hardware, embedded linux, android and have good relationship with prominent distributors.

However, it was still a big big task and we'd never get close to competing on price/quality. Also, we discovered the same thing when talking with schools, they were letting students manage their own and adopting new policies to regulate their use.

We're focusing on software now.
Russia Gears Up To Enter The Patent Race With New IP Reforms
Agreed, Apple's authentication system is obnoxious. Compounding this is the fact that they force you to reset your password if you enter it wrong more than once, ensuring that you're never going to remember it. I basically have to answer my security questions and pick a new 8-char password with upper and lowercase letters and numbers every time I want to download a new app.
Ada Lovelace, world's first programmer, honoured by Google
Well, you can't actually drive a TFT with an ATmega. Speeds don't add up.

What they are talking about is connecting a TFT over SPI, which is to say a display that has a very high-level chip on it that does the actual driving and that you can talk to over a protocol to do various things like draw lines or set a pixel.
I thought it was moneterised - in a discreet and subtle manner.

I am also sure it brings pleasure to its creator - which is not to be undervalued.
So long as there's an option available that doesn't require a smart phone (or worse, a specific OS), I agree completely. As a quick example, Blizzard has had an inexpensive device [1] in addition to phone apps.

[1]
http://us.blizzard.com/store/search.xml?q=authenticator
Deze originele kerst cadeaus doen het altijd
Largely true, with the exception of the banks lucky enough to be a Primary dealer for the Federal Reserve, for whom the Fed is indeed your magic money pool.

In regards to investing, nearly everyone is best off just investing in an index fund of the entire market.
Did anyone else notice from the screenshot that this one is kinda cute? http://pinterest.com/pin/74239093829161560/
Note that the article/video is from last March. http://www.theonion.com/search/?q=google+gmail
Is Dreamjb Another Fake iOS 6.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak?
No, of course you didn't say anything about it being less evil; but that is what Richard Stallman is talking about. So your position is that this is a usability issue with the "feature"? Your comment is baffling to me now.
As soon as Yahoo shows me my inbox instead of an ad when I sign in, I'd consider going back. Until then, all the wasted time clicking away from the ad cancels any extra uptime. Luckily I've heard Marissa is actually pushing for this change :)
The star rating seems almost unnecessary, compared to the rich feedback you get from the comments. I notice my time incrementing, but what does that mean to me?
Overall, nicely done. LOVE the on-boarding process.
I would have to see the remote controller before I can say for sure but that seems feasible.

Most often joysticks in controllers use potentiometers (variable resistors). You can simulate the effect of a potentiometer using PWM, or you can buy a digital to analog converter.
Those details are probably in the paper. This seems to be it: http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-33947714.... It'd be nice to get access to it.
You are right that there is some randomness but they're not that random. There are warnings about hurricanes. Floods hit low-lying areas. Earthquake risk varies a lot based on region, soil structure, and so on. Some structures are relatively safe and others aren't.

But I think they're a good example of things that we can't always prepare for as individuals - it requires a group effort and that involves politics. There is a lot of resistance against, for example, attempts to stop rebuilding in known flood zones.

I would say that plane crashes are a good example. We can talk about the odds of being in a plane crash but they're not really random - there are always reasons. Also, there is a reason why commercial flights are considerably safer than driving. It's not because flying is inherently safer, but because as a society we put a lot of effort into making them that way.
I am surprised to see someone on hacker news saying that information should not be free.

Using the word "information" in this context is rather disingenuous. We don't play music on our information players, we don't buy books at the local information store, and we don't see movies at the information theater. If we are going to have a good discussion, let's call things what they are.

It seems ridiculous that we should ignore the power of the internet for content distribution forever because it doesn't pay the bills now.

Fiat money is ridiculous in exactly the same way. Would you say that it seems ridiculous to ignore the power of Xerox because it doesn't pay the bills for sellers of physical goods?
Image: Google Maps car runs red light in Detroit
Interesting. Odd that I should be downvoted for asking this question, but whatever.

I get the benefits of cloud based search hosting, but am surprised that analytics and a crawler is enough of a reason to pay money though. Crawler's are flawed because there's always a latency. if you already own the data, it's much better to push content than wait for a crawler to pick it up at some arbitrary future time.

For someone that wants no hassle search there's always site: from google, but I wish these guys luck and find it interesting how a little feature like analytics can make a business.
I would prefer a possibility to enable a PIN code to work as the default password for all stuff on my iOS devices. After three invalid PINs, ask for the regular password. Simple.
That's not a hint, it's a conceit, born in the kind of fantasy world that drinks whatever folks like Bob Martin are selling and loves names like SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory and functions no more than five lines long.

In the real world, software architecture is the servant of many masters, often including multiple kinds of testing, and sometimes you can't do everything that each of them would like all at the same time. For a start, they can be objectively contradictory: every time you add a dedicated test hook or introduce inversion of control to support unit testing, for example, you have also created additional cases that need to be considered during a code review.

However, it's important to remember that all these testing methods and design techniques are merely means to an end. They are valuable precisely to the extent that they help us build software to do useful things, and no more. If they sometimes conflict, that's OK, as long as we favour the one that most helps us to get the job done. However, things tend to go wrong if we start nerfing one aspect just because dogma says we must not compromise on another.
Stone cold operators huh?
I upvoted this comment because I agree that threats of cyberwarfare are mostly fear mongering, but Estonia was attacked in 2007. Whether or not the attackers were "terrorists" is another issue.

[1] http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_est...
It's unfair to paid apps. I think during iOS 6 beta they tried no-password-asking-for-free-apps policy, paid app developers didn't enjoy.
How to choose the right tool for the job
This is an example of what's commonly known as a no-brainer.
- I've run my home server. They would crash randomly and usually when something else in the house like a water heater had broken.

- I've run pay servers in the cloud. Then they magically disappear because the expiration date on my credit card updated and the best way for GoDaddy to tell me was to wipe it and then send me an email.

- I've tried free servers. I got what I paid for.

Whatever problems GMail has (and it does have problems), it's not those. Absolutely everything else has left a taste of ashes in my mouth.
Nike announces Nike+ Accelerator
"Apple i-phone."
Yes, it needs to be pointed out that the corporate income tax is basically regressive. Large corporations with enough scale can afford to implement advanced tax avoidance strategies along with armies of accountants, lawyers, and shell companies.

Your average small business and even larger private companies can't afford to do this at all. Yes, they have the S-corp option available, but a C-corp paying 3% effective tax rate on its profits and its shareholders only paying a dividend tax is superior to being an S-corp and paying payroll taxes on your paycheck to yourself (required) and then personal income taxes on the rest.

39% corporate tax rate is really mind boggling IMO.
I like the "date someone with similar interests" idea, but I'd rather see an app to make new friends.

Give your Twitter/FB/IMDb/last.fm usernames, and you'd see the list of people with common interests around you. You could disable this "social mode" when you don't want people bothering you.

The app would provide the perfect conversation opener, eg a recent news item about something you both like.
In app purchases require a password anyway. I really dont see the need for passwords for free actions. Android hasn't needed a password in those cases.
I'm still waiting for my jetpack and flying car.
"It is an observation after the act, not an assumption."

You are unsatisfied with the "assumptions" of medical science's model, so you are offering your own interpretation of reality. Why should your assumptions about behavior and causal relationships be judged any less harshly than you judge the dominant model?
Thank you very much for the feedback. :)

I've added wind speed and humidity as well. Also, the source code is available on github. Always contributing to open source community!