skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Objective was mainly to experiment with the Web Audio API, specially its analyser. Once you plug that into a 2d/3d canvas theres really a lot of room for creativity.
Glad you liked it!
It is not an optimization, it is a different evaluation semantic. If a semantic property of the language is not guaranteed then it should not be relied upon. Thus, it forces you to alter your code to fit the broken semantics.
I'm convinced children are one of those things that one is never "ready" for. I was an only child with very limited access to young children even into my 20's. I always was averse growing up to other people's kids, never wanted to touch or hold them and was convinced I didn't want them either. It wasn't until I obliged my wife that we had them. There are plenty of times it is a struggle but I echo the sentiment that until you've experienced that unconditional love, you haven't fully lived. That isn't a judgement on those who choose not too, because, I too was one of those people looking at the crying kid on the airplane with disdain, but, no question, kids changes your whole outlook of the world.
Virtually everything he complains about - the broad range of choice, unfamiliar items, long periods of time spent without electronic distractions, semi-forced interactions with people - are what most would consider positive aspects of fine dining. As others have said, there are other establishments that show you pictures of a limited range of familiar items and that slam them out in a short period of time - they're called "fast food."

Suggested followups: "Nightclubs: they suck because they're loud, dark and full of drunken horny young people" and "Concerts: how MP3 players could disrupt live music by playing every piece consistently without the bother of having to go to a live music venue".
I have a 9 month old and just released the first app I've done completely on my own (design, develop, market) since his birth. My wife and I both work full-time so we are constantly on the go. I woke up earlier than everyone else. I stayed at my computer during lunch. I went to bed later than everyone else. It was tough but it was worth it and I'll do it again soon.
This article is hilarious and goes well with HN's recent flood of "first-world problems" stories.

Menus suck? Hardly! They:
- are resistant to damage by children, spills, being thrown on the floor, etc. (when laminated)
- are cheap to reproduce
- are cheap to change in countless ways
- are lightweight and easy-to-hold
- can pack a large amount of information into a small space

I can't believe I'm having to point this out. We don't need more complexity where less is more than sufficient. We don't need complexity for complexity's sake. Oh, and I wish startups would stop considering an idea's value from only the consumer's perspective. That's just one side of the coin.
As a parent to a toddler and a hacker with numerous personal projects, AND a very busy work schedule. One way I keep myself sane is to not feel as though I must work on my personal projects during every free hour I have. I find I enjoy it more when I don't put myself under pressure to be delivering. It's working well in keeping me motivated over the long-term and avoiding [further?] burn-out.
Yeah, what's with this 'Cloudflare is terrible and will make your pages slower !!11!!' stuff around HN lately?

I pass at least a few million req/day through their service and only every once in a good while are there hiccups.
I think this is a very accurate reflection of life as a young parent. I find myself in the very same situation. I'm still figuring it out myself but one way that I've been able to pursue hobbies and side-projects is to keep my expectations in check. Taking projects in bite-size chunks has helped to keep me motivated and allowed me to enjoy some sense of accomplishment (outside of parenting) without becoming overwhelmed.
I've just discovered that you can use the same technique for script and style tags too (though I'd rather not have to).

It sounds like Jeff has tracked down the specific issue in your case, so things are looking up :)
I loved it, and I voted for you. Best of luck. You've inspired me.
I absolutely agree with you here. Also I would like to note that having a single tablet for let's say 4-6 guests is impractical and will take lot more time to order vs having a paper menu for each of them.
I also have a toddler and I have no ideas for you. I love my daughter more than anything in the world but my free time has all but disappeared. I thought it was difficult when I was in my 20s and had nothing to my name, but this is by far the hardest time of my life. At least then I had spare time to learn things and be creative. I know it will pass but...damn.

EDIT: I just read over my post after a minute and it seems really pessimistic. I should qualify it by saying that I would not change anything even if I could. When my daughter gets scared at night and calls for me, I come and save her. It's those times when it is all worth it.
Haha I know, I lived in South Dakota for a while... its amazing how many of my friends parents were disappointed with them for not being married with children shortly after school.
You wouldn't, which is entirely the point. Demurrage currency incentives people to only hold what they need for cashflow purposes, and to re-investing the rest into real capital. It's the distinction between money as store-of-value and medium-of-exchange. Traditional money tries to be both and creates problems in the process. Freicoin is designed to be a medium-of-exchange only, and converted into other assets (treasury bonds, stocks, etc.) for long-term storage of wealth.
Few (inconsistent) thoughts on this. As usual I think DMC is right on most of this, however I wonder if the average Joe is keen on logging in to a restaurant for the benefit of customized menus. I like that idea, personally, but then I don't have a shit-fit every time something happens on Facebook that brings the privacy folks out - I understand the trade-off I make for free goods. Jury's out though on how many folks will do this, and therefore how much benefit it is to the restaurant compared to how much overhead/effort is involved.

The other thought I have with this is that it's typical of a lot of problems startups are tackling right now where the information (menus) is the type of information that needs to be free and everywhere, but the startups' monetization strategies are based on locking in that information in order to lock the customer into paying.

Anecdote signifying nothing: had coffee the other day with someone at a place that served food by having people log in on ipads, choose their item, order, pay then it was ready for them at the counter. I just wanted to look up, see a board with items on it, tell a polite person behind the counter my order and wait with my coffee for food. I didn't order.
Any suggestions for more info on this? Books, how-to's, longer "this is what I did stories"? I could just start calling rural real estate lawyers and asking nosy questions, but maybe there's a quicker way. :)
I'd agree with this completely, also having a child has given me patience with myself. If I can learn how to keep a little person alive and well, I can conquer any bug or feature request that comes my way :D
I hate to point this out, but you just asked "Why do people hate the greatest weakness question?" after scrolling through a long and and very reasonable list of reasons why people hate this question.

You also said people who don't answer the question directly are lazy and dishonest. Now I must ask, do you list a glaring disinterest in the perspectives of others among your own weaknesses? If not, does that make you lazy and dishonest?
I have an 8 month old and feel your pain. I haven't really gotten any side projects started, let alone done in that time (and before when the wife was pregnant). I barely scrape together 3-4 hours a week for exercise.
Essentially all outages in the last few years have been EBS related.

S3 doesn't have an EBS dependency, and has been pretty rock-solid for half a decade now.
I agree completely when it comes to enterprise, and your QA team is likely large enough and developed enough to have most of the required infrastructure set up before the product even begins. However, the article seems to be dealing with smaller teams, but in particular it has the product manager actually working with QA to specify the QA plan from the outset himself.

Your point about building up a fairly generic testing system right from the start like that seems like a very good idea. Most QA I've worked with hasn't been anywhere near that farsighted and probably where I got that opinion from - seeing QA throw out their hacked together models and hacking up a new model (and stringing together hacked up models...) From experience, I think most companies take the hacked-together route for QA and put their junior recruits in QA. This is probably different in a Fortune 50 company? I've yet to work at one of those...
>Since when does being a feminist automatically diqualify your study or paper?

I think what he was trying to point out was that there might be a conflict of interest with the researcher wanting to over-report rape. Still a bit of a stretch, but possible.
They gave their personal, seemingly heartfelt opinion. How does that make them a prick? Further, I don't see invented false dichotomies helping the discussion: Many people remarkably manage to accomplish both professional and intellectual success and to raise children.
Web Caching For Beginners
Ah, exactly! I posted this same question yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4976441
Not much I can think of, other than Startup Weekends which are held here about twice a year. Speaking of which, most of the people there are business-minded folk so there is probably an opportunity for entrepreneurship meetups.

http://techhui.com is probably the best online community for tech-related stuff here. You might want to explore around there and ask the same question.

(Edit: I didn't really answer your question about business meetups beyond startups; But I wouldn't know much about that anyway since I'm just a developer)
Except if Ferraris were also really slow in addition to having bad gas mileage.
I linked to what GoogleBot thinks of Cloudflare. http://x-pose.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/topiama-googleb...

Cloudflare response times to the far left and PageSpeed response times to the far right. I'm not sure what else to say.
Kernel Approximations for Efficient SVMs (and other feature extraction methods)
"Things in XML are just strings."

XML and JSON are representations -- so they are all just bits. It's meaningless to say that, however.

The metadata and surrounding standards are what give those bits more meaning. So compare what the standards have to offer.

(Aside: I don't like XML and I think JSON is way over-hyped and under-delivers.)
The data is already available: http://datamine.mta.info/
Still confused. How does a currency that overtly disincentivizes its own use solve the problem of the hoarding of other currencies?
quick question: how are you able to let users render sharp lines on the canvas elem?

when we allow people to draw freehand on a HTML5 canvas, the lines invariably come out fuzzy at the edges -- not nearly as sharp as drawing lines on a native app. it's not terrible, but it is noticeable.

here is some sample code: http://jsfiddle.net/NWBV4/10/

would you mind sharing how you overcame this issue?

thanks!
Haha doh. That would be what I meant.
The best data I would suggest looking at is American news. Correlate Egypt with African news and then again correlate Egypt with Middle Eastern news. American news will tend to display stories related to Egypt's interactions with countries such as Israel, Iran, Iraq, and other Asian countries lumped together under 'middle east'. The next most common news grouping for Egypt would be Mediterranean, dealing with with countries such Libya politically and then in vacation destinations around the sea itself. Very little broadcast news in America is about countries outside of the Mediterranean and Middle East influence. You don't hear much about Egypt's and Sudan's relationships unless you tend to go looking for it. Contrast that to Egyptian and Israeli relationships.

With the advent of the Internet changing the way we view and seek out news our will change our generalizations of geography greatly over time. But to understand the generalizations we have now in the 30's and up age group, replaying the 'Nightly News with Tom Brokaw' would lead to great insight.
Great writing, the story was somewhat interesting but the writing was great.
Yeah, sorry about the verbosity.
This is where I'm at now.

My wife and I were married when I was 25 and she was 23. I just turned 30, and while back then I was all about having children, I'd like to put it off as I still have a lot of places to visit, things to do, etc.

She, on the other hand, is ready to have children. Now. Since she's 28, she has a plan to have X kids, spaced X years apart.

The next 6-12 months of our relationship will be interesting.
FWIW, I had to make a change to my D&B number (LLC, address, business codes), and it took just a couple business days to finish (I believe I remember receiving a phone call from them to "verify" some of it). (I already had a D&B number that they must have assigned to me at some point as I have been doing business for years.)

I was then able to register for an Apple iOS Enterprise account (in addition to a normal Business account) in a little over a week (and it only took that long because I missed an e-mail from them where they asked me to call them and finish the process: I probably would have had it done in four days).

Was there something particularly onerous or even simply "out of the ordinary" about the kinds of changes you were making? There seem to be a lot of horror stories posted here about this process, but that isn't everyone's experience, so I'm hoping to find out if it is just "they are highly variable, so it's like hitting the lottery" or if there are specific things people might hit that are hopefully-avoidable landmines in the process.

(BTW, I highly recommend, totally unrelated to this thread, jonhendry's comment below[1] re the goal of D&B.)

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979182
Why is flash automatically seen as bad? When done right it is a seamless experience that only the most technical could possibly take issue with. I, for one, enjoy papa john's interactive pizza order menu.
I'm a single dad, like really single. Mom isn't really in the picture and besides from my wonderful girlfriend don't have much help at all. It's getting easier as my daughter gets older (almost 9 now) but wow I really don't want any more kids. I like the idea of it but I think I'm done. I don't begrudge anyone if they love having kids and think it's the best, nor if they never want any kids ever because they're terrible little monsters. On most days I feel both ways. I'll be in my early 40s when I lock my kid out of the house for the last time after I shoo her off to college (or whatever). I don't want to be parenting into my 50s or 60s. I'm done.
Whenever I see these fancy "HTML5" multimedia demos, I get a little sad that others are impressed by the fact that they were made with web technologies. I know that, practically speaking, we're stuck with the current web tech for a while, but they are, quite frankly, shit for the types of tasks that we demand from them. After decades of studying & practicing computer animation in film and games, we're barely scratching the surface on the web.
My first thought: Nice, well done, very clean, but compared to the stuff that was being done in Flash in 2001, the bar has been lowered so substantially it's as though Flash had never existed and no one has learned anything. The Anti-Flash bias tears down memory quite easily.

But since we ARE dealing with a JavaScript and CSS3 world....

I'm really impressed with what's being done here and the possibilities that it will bring forth:

http://radiapp.com/ (this looks very promising)

http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/

http://www.greensock.com/css3/

http://www.greensock.com/js/speed.html

The performance is so good! Check out the Mountain Dew site to see it in action: http://mountaindew.com/

(You can tell the developers who worked on the site used to be Flash Developers; it has that sort of polished flair.)

Also this: http://www.createjs.com/#!/CreateJS

And a bit of self promotion, built for the above: https://github.com/damassi/Backbone.Create
As a new parent who is unexpectedly a parent earlier than I thought I would be...

I can see why people choose not to have kids. They're expensive, they're noisy, and they really limit your ability to be spontaneous.

That being said, it seems to have become fairly popular to rag on having kids, and I think at least some of the angst is derived from buying into certain cultural expectations about having kids despite rejecting the general cultural expectation to have kids.

American culture makes parenting out to be a lot harder than it is. If you're a mom who doesn't stay at home with her kids, bake cookies for the PTA, send them to a dozen after school activities, etc, you're a bad parent and your kids will grow up to be unsuccessful degenerates.

I think that's overstated. Right now, I'm in New York working while my wife is with my parents in DC taking care of our newborn while she finishes final exams for law school. Out of 5 weeks of the baby's life, I've missed half. And you know what? She'll never remember it. American culture creates this huge conflict between careers and raising young children that doesn't need to be so big. We say "these are the best years, you shouldn't miss them" but that's for us, not the kids. I miss my daughter terribly. She has no idea that I (or anything else) continue to exist when she can't see me. My dad travelled internationally 50% of the time while my brother and I were small children. How was it affected us? Not at all--I don't even remember anything before 5 or 6 or so.

The same thing is true for activities when the child is older. Suburban parents spend enormous amounts of time just driving around, from ballet class to soccer practice, etc. But nobody on their death bed has ever lamented they didn't do ballet as a child instead of just running around in the back yard with friends. Suburbia itself creates huge artificial roadblocks. Commutes that suck away time, big houses that get filled with toys, etc. All that is unnecessary. Entire generations of kids grew up in the city where they could be ditched with the neighbor on short notice if necessary. Those cities still exist. It's still possible to walk from work to your apartment, picking up the kid and some dinner on the way.

All this is not to say that having kids doesn't create real challenges. Infancy is going to be a rough deal for you if you're not good at sleeping in 3 hour blocks. When you go to work, you have to find somewhere to put them for 8-10 hours a day, preferably somewhere they won't get killed. But there is a middle ground between not having kids and having kids then abandoning your career, hobbies, etc, and moving to the sururbs and joining the PTA.
It's not a bug, but it is a problem. Aptitude's resolver is pickier. Debian has finally embraced multiarch systems and restructured x86 packages. It can still lead to weird dependency issues (but they're just that—issues with dependencies), but they're far less common and this strategy seems to have given them the confidence to include a lot more x86 library coverage than there once was.
nice! looks legit - great music choices too :D
If you have an aversion to children, you must get your head checked immediately because of any unresolved childhood trauma you might be at the effect of. If it's not trauma related, then maybe start looking toward God for answers on why one would have an 'aversion' toward children.
Often when I go to a new restaurant for the food (vs. for a meeting, or because it's a convenient, etc.) I google the restaurant, which usually takes me to a Yelp page, with reviews written by some smart people and some utter morons with axes to grind, and then I end up trying to pick dishes based on that.
Time-preference (and therefore a non-zero interest rate) is an inherent feature of being a human being, for the simple reason that we all have a limited amount of time to live.

Present goods really are worth more than future goods, and interest is just a reflection of that difference.

Anybody who really "value[s] present and future holdings equally" is advised to try eating next year's crops this year.
The demurrage encourages it's own use as a medium of exchange - use it or lose it. Hoarding of other currencies is not a problem.

I recommend reading David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". IIRC it has a good chapter on demurrage, as well as covering many historical currencies which by accident of design were similar to modern demurrage currency in operation.
Protip: have or not have kids.
Ignoring the exact percentage you discuss below (I don't care if it's 1-in-4 or 1-in-50 - it's still too damn much!) do you happen to know a) what are the long term trends worldwide for this statistic and b) where in the world this number is the lowest (and maybe: why, but I don't think this has an easy answer)?
To me it depends a lot on the stage.

A fresh-minted MBA can't, by virtue of their degree, do anything useful for a small outfit. (They may have useful skills as well from a previous life, but if so they're not, for the purposes of this discussion, an MBA; they're a developer or a designer or a product manager or a VP of engineering who happens to have gone and gotten a degree.)

I can see a 30-100 person shop taking on an especially bright and unusually humble fresh-minted MBA as a junior product manager or something. Because at that size, you can afford a person who won't pull their weight for a while while they're learning. And it can be great to have somebody who doesn't have to unlearn the bad habits gained elsewhere.

This guy, though, wouldn't be at the top of my list. A 25-year-old with circa 2 years of work experience? One who's blogging about how MBAs are the new black? He doesn't really seem to have the "humility and willingness to learn" that Ben Horowitz was talking about.
Preventing deaths on the NYC subway
What works to give a lot of variety is in a place like most chinese restaurants, where there are N things prepared M ways and you can get any of NxM dishes.
It's easy to write a PEP, it's less easy to configure every editor in existence to use exactly 4 spaces, especially when normal humans prefer hitting tab once instead of hitting space 4 times.
Wait, now Quora is now syndicating answers as blog posts to publications? Do users know this? Does Quora ask permission? Do users get a rev share? Looks exactly like what Instagram was trying to do.

Update: Answered my own question. Looks like Quora does ask permission. At least that's what the announcement of the partnership said: http://www.quora.com/blog/Quora-Partners-with-Slate
What's strange (sad?) is that I am most definitely adult age but, being someone who lives in NYC and works at a startup, my mindset was "I wonder what I'll do when I'm at that age?"...I guess I'm qualified to answered: for me, not having kids now is not different than not having kids in college. Not enough philosophically about my life (marital status ir probably the key one) has changed since then. Very few of my friends, the same age or older in NYC, have children either. And my guess is that this state of affairs could exist for years to come until suddenly I'm thinking, "I wonder if I should've tried to have children?"
It wasn't tablets, it was 20-inch LCD monitors with sensors. That were in your face. To the point where if you wanted to talk to your lunch buddy, both of you had to lean to see each other's faces.

Check out Siam Fine Dining in Palo Alto that runs E La Carte tablets on their tables. Very quiet and refined experience.