skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very nice and heartwarming piece -- especially the part where the OP can't board the helicopter and has to drive hundreds of miles alone, into the night, not knowing what might happen to his wife and their (yet unborn) daughter. Must have been a very long drive.

Like many others however I was a little surprised, and, yes, disappointed with the "God" part at the end. Is this what it was all about?

What does "God" has to do with any of this? Can't one love their children, their partners, their siblings, with all their hearts, and leave it at that...?

What is "the personification of all that is Good"? What is Good? (Good for you may be bad for someone else; absolute good is hard; historically, Gods have not been known to be good: they were jealous, mean creatures). And even admitting there would be some "absolute good", why would it need to be "personified"?

The finale reads a little like this: Gods other people believe in are "false Gods", and guess what? the God I believe in / custom built to my specs is the One True God.

This, for me, I'm sorry to say, ruined a perfect moment.
C programmer here, mostly traditional server-side stuff with an emphasis on high performance and security.

Not working for start-ups either, unless you consider my freelancing/contracting company a startup, which I suppose it is because I only started it this year. Its only product is me though.

--edit--
You may still be the only one that never learned javascript! I did a web-frontend project earlier this year.
Sparky.js - A Client-Side Application Scaffold For Organized App Structure
for those of your jumping ship, here's three tools that can help you grab your instagram photos as a ZIP or migrate them to another service:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/12/18/export-ins...
1. The argument is "how about we have less children dying". Which every other comparable country manages.

2. The problem is "being are being murdered with guns in astonishing numbers". You say mental health is the root cause, which may be correct. But the root cause is effectively unsolvable, and other countries show that the _problem_ can be fixed by addressing contributory causes, like the widespread availability of bullets.
Don't wait for Apple to update your app: Arc on iOS
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/sparkyjs-client-side-applica...

It's not an MVC framework, rather a boilerplate for bulding web apps with structure.

Look interesting enough.
i just finished my masters in cs, thinking about phd, job, or startup...
i've learned a little javascript in the past, looking at haskell for applications to the combinatorics of graph theory to cfg's
I've been toying with the idea of making a simple service like that. You can download file X for free, only by leaving your email address. Then, after a few days/weeks/months, depending on what the author wanted, the service emails you and asks you to pay for the thing you downloaded, and gives you a link to easily pay.

I've found that I'll definitely pay for things after I've tried them, but I'm more hesitant to do it before.
CERN programmer/devops here, but it involves lots of startup-y stuff like Rails to be honest. I share your impression of HN but there are quite a few nuggets of knowledge that I take away from reading this everyday.
What's the deal with these reshippers? It seems like the weak point in the scam, Amazon should either blacklist their addresses or coordinate with them to authenticate where the package is actually going.
So, this "decree" has no meaning even if fought in a German legal court?
I've been recruiting mostly for web companies lately, but recently I started working a company that makes a SAN/NAS appliance. It's a nice change of pace to talk to people doing stuff with kernels and file systems. I suppose you could build a storage appliance running Node.js, but I'm not sure you'd want to.

By the way, you left Redis off your list.
Google VP Bradley Horowitz (in a Google+ post on January 24, 2012) announced that Google is updating its policy "to broaden support for established pseudonyms [1].

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/SM5RjubbM...
I have a hybrid device that I love ... it's an iPad and a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard.
A karma 3 account.

Where are the Perl-hating trolls coming from on HN?

(I thought Guido said that it was time to stop trolling, so it isn't Python people now?)
Interesting approach to modelling data that lives elsewhere, in fact quite similar to SQLAlchemy's.
I do open source hardware development and open source desktop software. I don't enjoy doing web stuff (but I can bruteforce my way through it when necessary).
Never replicate the code in the comment, then the comment won't be lying when the code changes.

This is a poor example to work off of. You'd probably have something like RECIPE_TEMPERATURE = 350, which you could then tweak to 375 if you needed to...

A more effective example would be

oven.Temp = RECIPE_TEMPERATURE

// we have to wait for the oven to preheat

thread.sleep(time.Minutes * 5)

oven.contents += cookies

Could you make that second line of code into a function preheatOven()? Sure. And your code would be less readable, because you have to break context to go see what the function does... only to find it's one stupid line.

Method names are not comments. They are hints at what the code does. They should not explain why the code is doing it (because the why almost always requires a lot more space than you can fit into a reasonably sized method name).
That particular font is a copy of Tolkein's personal handwriting, but you can find similar font design in any of a dozen Gaelic fonts. (Or probably find a font that's a copy of his handwriting, too; I don't know.)
We manage infrastructure for a number of companies, some of whom are web-based startups.

BTW, we're hiring: http://www.bashton.com/jobs/
I'm an embedded software engineer. I used to design x86 chips.

90% of my programming is in C, 5% in assembly (ARM, mostly), and 5% in Python for test automation and general scripting.

I've worked for companies with 100000 people and 60 people, and a couple in-between; all are in the chip business.

I've done a bit of web stuff on the side, mainly to see what I'm missing in my day job.
Forms Authentication with NancyFX
Slightly self-promotion, but you can get a variety of old perl sources at http://www.etla.org/retroperl/ (collected by someone non-me, I can't remember who though)

I had thought someone had done a perl 1 release that built on modern systems, but on a quick hunt I can't find it.
compiler/os dev (etc) for a large japanese semiconductor company
Public relations. It's obviously an investment in PR to generate public goodwill towards Google and at $5m, much cheaper than a TV advertising campaign.
Cairo-dock 3.0
Github has a new Design
PhD in microscopy image analysis here, full academia.

Mainly prototyping with MATLAB/Python, I'm trying not to let my C/C++ skills rust too much by having a few side projects (rewriting old commodore/amiga games now, I love you Pang!)
Pagekite - The fast, reliable localhost tunneling solution
I actually thought the idea of the "hybrid" device might work, and may be the future of both tablets and PC's. You can use it as a PC when you need it, and as a tablet, when you don't. Best of both worlds, right? Wrong.

Replace "PC" with "Android-powered netbook" and that works out pretty nicely for me and my Asus Transformer. It's my favourite hack-pad these days.

Not saying the rest of your post is wrong, but it's the OS (Windows) which is the problem and not the transformation of form-factor.
I agree... that is how you create news where it does not deserve one... I don't think Instagram would like paying billions of dollar in privacy suits for a 10$ photo.

this is just an anguished news writer probably snubbed by Facebook...
A Creative Year: Distinctive Web Designs of 2012
That assumes that there are no other forces. Your solution doesn't handle momentum changes (throwing an object, or taking a bullet, or being close to an explosion) while in the air, and it assumes that there's no maximum or terminal velocity in the game. It also becomes trickier to compute when your objects hit other objects.

You say that "you will need to update the initial [state vector] whenever the jump is interrupted or modified" - that's exactly what numerical integration does. So your solution seems like it would use a closed-form solution for some cases, and numerical integration for others, which would make the dynamics code easily twice as complicated.

While switching from Euler to leapfrog integration is a couple of lines of change, for a better approximation.
wireless infrastructure, more specifically epc-core.
NASA's definitely hampered both by organizational and political issues that SpaceX isn't, but as other posters have pointed out NASA has also managed to do some amazing things on a comparative shoestring budget in recent years and -- unlike SpaceX -- these are things no-one has ever done before with relatively few failures.
Ah, right! I didn't even look at the URL before I flagged it. Bad flagger, I am. :)
I think people in both places are fond of anecdotes, sweeping generalisations and recognising in my caustic sarcasm a burning jealousy of those fortunate enough to live in either place.
... but you can't use numpy operations efficiently on SQLAlchemy data
I make art installations, performances, and new musical interfaces using tools like Max/MSP/Jitter, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Processing and openFrameworks coupled with some hardware hacking, but it's difficult to make money doing this before you reach a certain level of notoriety in the community, so I have a day-job as a web programmer.

A short-term goal is to become an expert in real-time/multimedia technology for the web (video, WebAudio, WebRTC).

(If anybody has a startup working with this kind of stuff, please shoot me an email.)
Having a second stylesheet is not the same as re-writing the entire app from scratch.
Tech lead in a software company, we build VRP&AVL systems on top of a custom map engine. The core algorithms are built in C++, and the different clients(gui) are built in a broad range of technologies: Java, Delphi, C++, C#, javascript and so on.
Actually, it says clearly on the article that the next version is HTML 5.1. Here's the draft of it: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html51-20121217/
So why you moved to Python?
Finance - C, Python, bash, R.

I do a little javascript for our home brew monitoring tools and screens, but that's for in-house only. We're not building a product out of them - the "product" is trading faster and smarter than other people.
I just found out about http://i-am-cc.org/ They propose releasing your Instagram images as CC. What I don't understand is what effect, if any, will that have on Instagram using your images for creating ads or for other uses. How would a CC license affect in this situation?
When these fraudsters use mail forwarding services, do they have the address registered with the credit card company, and do you guys check that?

I ask because I live overseas and use a forwarding service quite a bit, but several smaller shops do flat refuse to ship to me, meaning I have to ship to my dad's and have him send it to my forwarding service, which ups the price a bit. And it's kinda frustrating, as I do have the address registered with my banks.

At least reading a story like this one explains to me a bit why things are the way they are.
RF guy building RF hardware.
I'm a Computing teacher in a UK secondary school. I do web development stuff in my spare time.
Video -- HLS on a variety of platforms. I did do he YC thing, and before that wrote a bunch of software for Apple. Started out as a general Unix dogsbody for the Departments of High Energy Physics and Anthropology at my alma mater lo these 20 years ago.
I've found over the past decade or so that when I write a "perl" program I'm really writing about five lines of glue code around multiple CPAN packages. Well maybe more than 5 lines for control flow, some business-logic error handling, etc.

When I write in another language I spend a long time looking for a library like the ten I'd find in CPAN, sometimes I find one but often enough not, then a long time complaining about how if I used perl I'd have access to the perfect CPAN module and therefore already be done with the whole project, then basically reimplement the CPAN module in the smaller inferior language, then finally write glue logic to link stuff together.

I never fail to be amazed when I see pages and pages of an inadequate homemade xml parser written in an inferior language or maybe a blizzard of regex, and then hearing bragging about how in Perl the elegant alternative language code would closely resemble line noise. No, in Perl, those pages and pages of buggy code would instead closely resemble one line: "use XML::Simple;" Repeat a zillion times over.

My "perl" programs / systems actually shrink in length over time rather than expanding, which is unusual in smaller languages.
that's really cool. but really, it won't be functional in 20 years will it? and really, it's not more beautiful than a candle, is it? and really, we don't need more crap, do we?
Those sorts of uses are exactly what some more professional photographers would want to prevent. It's exactly why I never uploaded any of my tens of thousands of scenic photos to Panoramio. People can use their API to display photos on their sites.

http://www.panoramio.com/api/widget/api.html

http://www.panoramio.com/api/widget/api.html#conditions-of-u...
If you're not targeting old browsers there's no reason to use JQuery. Plain JavaScript offers you the same features.
Go watch Raiders of the Lost Ark. I can't bear the thought of someone having only seen the Crystal Skull (aka Nuke the Fridge) as their exposure to Indiana Jones.
I fully understand that with a free product, I am the product. I go into that with eyes open, and happily used Instagram assuming they would eventually start serving ads near the photos, promoting photos or similar. However, using my photos as ads seems a bit of a stretch. So, I just happily gave Flickr $25 after deleting my Instagram account. Some things are worth paying for, because sometimes I don't want to be the product.
> It's a shame how some people view .NET as a closed platform and not open source friendly

That is a shame. Because Mono has advanced so far since a few years ago, and software such as Unity prove that robust, fast code can be written for the CLR and be relatively easy to port cross-platform. Its really an amazing feat.

Diving further into the rabbit hole with WPF/WCF, which as far as I can tell hasn't been implemented in Mono, was an absolute awesome experience developing an application. I would take that over iOS/Android platforms any day of the week.
Absolutely, the only exception being that Airplay currently has a slight lag and doesn't support Retina displays.
The British inventor aiming to crack perpetual motion
Over the past year Humans Invent has interviewed some of the world’s most fascinating designers, innovators and inventors. Now meet Chris Garner, the man aiming to defy science and crack perpetual motion.

"I recognise the fact that many esteemed minds have pondered and mused over the conundrum of perpetual motion."

http://bit.ly/V1Nhqp
I must admit, I am impressed by the sophistication of your argument. Still, not being well versed in Christian mythology, I have lots of questions.

For example, isn't god supposed to be all powerful, so that he created everything, including the devil, hell, and death? Would it cost him anything to simply make you not die - contrary to a human giving a kidney to another human, which indeed would be a high price to pay. Hasn't god, in fact, also created kidney disease?
And what is the sins you are talking about? It sounds to me as if there are conditions for being granted eternal life after all, which practically amounts to coercion again.

Anyway, I really just felled compelled to reply because I thought your reasoning was not all that bad (for a religiously deluded person - sorry :-). I am willing to believe that at least you mean well.
Hate is an emotional response that humans have ... how can you tell if the comment was trolling or simply a visceral response?

I don't hate Perl (I first learned CGI programming with it), but I do think there are better ways to write maintainable, enterprise scale software. There are two main problems with Perl (as I see it): 1) The language is so permissive that it allows newbs to write bad code but still obtain results. Habits, both good and bad are learned! 2) Perl experts seem to delight in writing code that's "tricky" (for lack of a better word). It's like a contest to see who can wring the most out of one 80-character line of code and it leads to mid-to-low functioning Perl programmers being confused.
Data scientist/consultant using a blend of Python, Postgres, Mongo, d3.js, R, Hadoop and other ML goodies. I was a grad student tired of my PhD program and ended up gathering a group of fellow alums at Stanford to become a small data/analytics shop.
Obviously troll article is so obviously troll, I'm not even sure if it is a troll article.
Working for small company doing web/business intelligence/SOA work, but definitely not a startup. They are profitable though :-)
Starbucks and McDonalds are all over the place with wifi coverage ... not a perfect solution, but better than paying up for 3g
as mentioned in some other replies, probably to legitimize it. As the author mentioned, they allowed the item to be shipped to a new address. If I'm not mistaken, a dot-email would be considered a new Amazon account, thus with no address associated with it, so maybe this helps the attacker in that regard?
> How would a CC license affect in this situation?

Not at all. When you upload your photos to Instagram, you grant them a non-exclusive license to use them in accordance with their TOS. Licensing them under CC is just issuing another non-exclusive license to another party.
Biotechnology and mining.
Python and C for simulation.
This is true for a lot of apps and functionality, but you’re ignoring the large library of jQuery plugins out there. Just as a basic example I needed a slider on a recent app I built. Sure, there’s <input type="range"> but if you want it to work in IE or Firefox you’re better off dropping in a jQuery UI Slider.
Short version: paper towels (avoid rough ones) are the most hygienic, evidence for electric driers is mixed, and shaking the hands dry may leave bacteria. Friction is "a key component in hand drying for removing contamination."

This is for a hospital context.

While I didn't like antibacterial soaps for evolutionary reasons, the article makes the entirely logical statement that "Antimicrobial agents in soaps have too little contact time to have bactericidal effects during a single use or with sporadic washings."
C#/ASP.NET developer, freelance web development work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics
> Also, your comments around this whole thread have talked about how the semi-auto assault rifle was the problem

No. I said "all guns are bad" (and you replied to that comment). I advocate banning all guns...
Seems like they have a "new design" every few months now.
"I think it's absolutely great that they've donated all the proceeds to Wikipedia"

Looking at their quirky web page of comparisons, I think it would be hilarious if the wikipedia deletionist camp responded by deleting all the articles quoted on their page. I'll never donate a penny to wikipedia until that social problem is eradicated. "Here's $70K of value... whoops deleted"
But you don't even have to know what Puppet does to Google search "node puppet example" and see where the syntax was off.
With Flickr you're still the product unfortunately, although Flickr is much better than other similar services in this regard. Do you really think your measly $25/year cover for their expenses with you?

Seriously, if you don't want to be the product, organize those photos in a standard directory structure and synchronize it either with Dropbox or Google Drive or SkyDrive.

The downside of doing that is that storage is more expensive, but that's closer to the real price the service is worth and so that makes it sustainable. Also, migrating between cloud storage solutions is much easier.

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If you find an ubuntu laptop with build quality equal to a MacBook Air or Pro, I'm all ears.

Same thing with the iPhone or iPad.
Maybe more of a deal is that this is the first step in the legal battle. Now Facebook can appeal or ignore but that opens up to get a court injunction all the way up to the european courts until you get a decision on the highest level. Without a first injunction, none of that would be possible.
Actually it's pretty clear in the movies that most of the long distance air travel is by some variant of flying boat (he's seen getting on and off an Pan Am clipper), and the dotted lines in the map do not show refueling hops.

If you look at the history of Pan Am, it started out operating two flying boats: Sikorsky S-38 and S-40. The S-40 had a range of 875 miles (but can land in more places than a DC-3).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_am#Clipper_era

That said -- Chicago to Italy should definitely be easterly.
Just glancing at it, it seems the photos sold there are from users who signed up to have their photos sold there. Under the "Turn Your Instagram Photos Into a Profitable Online Business" at the bottom.
There's an ethical and an unethical way to do this.

Not being able to opt out, and changing the system wholesale overnight like this, is deeply unethical.

On the scale of things they could do that would make this better:

* Best case: opt-in only, compensate users whose photos they use.

* Present a choice to users when they sign up, default to opt-out.

* At least present a choice to existing users whether they want this or not, and allow them to continued access to the service either way.

* Notify users and only change the rights when any new photos uploaded, and keep existing photos under the old terms.

* Give existing users the opportunity to deactivate/delete their account if they don't agree, and a chance to download their photos. Or "freeze" existing accounts until they acknowledge the changes, rather than automatically assuming consent.

They seem to have picked the absolute worst option available to them, and it's troubling to say the least.
Yes, please do. Thanks.
Continuous deployment. Chrome is on version 23. IE is on version 10.
Met deze natuurlijke middelen kan je een kater voorkomen
How to send clients some Christmas cheer
The first question to ask, is do you really need to send Christmas cards to your clients and business contacts, and if so why? The answer is ‘yes’, and for very good reasons. Leaving aside ‘the spreading good cheer’ aspect, sending holiday greetings is an easy way of showing that you remember, and appreciate, the people you do and have done business with. It generates goodwill for your business by showing that their business matters to you and in turn reminds them of your contribution, or potential contribution, not just in the past but in the future.
Your point - do you have one?