skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what also needs to be done form a CEO CTO perspective is have a succession plan in place - this is where I feel Rand fell down here it should not be be "o noes what if x leaves" it should be if x leaves can y (x's deputy) do his job.
> - Write and distribute apps easily. If something's missing from your console, just go ahead and write it. Hopefully they follow Google's model here - low registration fee, no reviews.

This fantasy that customers will write all the software that's missing from a product and end up canceling out criticism of a lacking software library simply never comes true.
Seemed more that he was giving an example of how Turkey was a country that was pulling the Eurozone down from within... illustrating the depth of his understanding of the geography and economy of the region...
Don't forget the two big hyperglycemic emergencies: diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state.
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Well, if you're willing to just follow the graphs and the argument the first time around, you can definitely get some use from it. I learned about classification, cross-validation and the bias-variance tradeoff from the first time I read it, and it significantly spurred me to deepen my understanding of the relevant mathematics.
Nope. Just confirmed with mojombo that it's legit. He's just showing GitHub off to family :)
I'm fascinated with and profoundly envious of people who can accrue huge sums of money in such short periods of time.

1. 26k is not a huge amount of money.

2. He didn't make the money in 24 hours. There was a lot of work involved in the writing and making of the book.
Weather prediction is pretty miserable right now. If you turn on the TV or go to a website to get a weather forecast, you will be told that "it might rain later, somewhere near you, maybe". I think that's unfortunate. For many people, that's much worse than unfortunate, it's terrible. An extreme example would be farmers in places that are being affected by changing weather patterns due to climate change. Knowing with high accuracy on a local scale when it will rain could be very very useful.

I'll address some of your points.

> Atmospheric pressure doesn't change that much. It's pretty much the same where I am as it is 20 miles away at my nearest airport.

Well, yes. The changes are subtle. But that just means I have a tough job ahead of me. Small changes != useless data. Also, is the weather the same at the airport 20 miles away as it as your house right now? It might be. Is it always the same? Most definitely not.

> Also isn't the accuracy of the barometer really, really poor when it is in motion?

The accuracy is very high. The barometers are very sensitive, so sensitive that if you move your phone from your feet to your head you will see the change in pressure due to the change in altitude. This adds noise to the data, lots of noise in fact, but it's something that we are working to overcome. In building the visualization tool, we've found that at larger scales the network makes it obvious which changes are weather-related and which are noise. At smaller scales, we must do some work to filter it out.

> I thought they just used it to get a rough sense of altitude and speed when GPS was too costly/unavailable?

That's why they are included in the devices, yes. But I think there are many greater uses for them, such as building a global network of barometers. Did you click through to the actual visualization tool, at http://pndv.cumulonimbus.ca? You will see that we have collected some really incredible data that nobody else seems to have.

--

The main point here is that this is an experiment. I think it is very likely that having higher resolution data will increase the accuracy of small scale, short-term, local weather prediction. I'm working some some atmospheric scientists (Cliff Mass, for one) who are very excited about the project. We'll see where it goes!
If you read the post you can see the number comparison (further down the page). Or you can read my summary of the first launch here: http://nathanbarry.com/learned-selling-6000-ebook-today/

I sold about $12,000 in the first 24 hours for my first book.
Apple and Intel reportedly building a Bluetooth smart watch for H1 2013 debutA
This would make rather more sense if you replied to the comment you were commenting on...
"Screenshot-looking" appears to mean "the same size as the screen." Stenography would be significantly more complex.

https://github.com/clayallsopp/ShotBlocker/blob/master/ShotB...
On Windows the higher the resolution the smaller the text and the more eye-strain. Windows only supports 125% text size without breaking stuff. "Large" (150%) is totally broken in most applications.

So if you go high resolution in Windows then expect to be manually altering the size of the text in every program you use (Chrome, Visual Studio, Word, etc).

In my personal opinion LED causes less eye-strain than LCD (less "flicker" with LED). I haven't noticed an improvement between IPS and TN panels, but I also look at the screen straight on (and most of IPS's perks are in things that don't help text anyway).

I strongly recommend that whatever you wind up getting turn the brightness down. I took mine from 100% (default) to 25%. The default brightnesses are for displaying them in stores (in the "brightness wars") and have no place being that high when in use.

If you're using a Mac then you're fortunate as Apple support 2560×1600 displayed as 1280x800 which means much higher resolution fonts and no need to mess with the sizes of things (ala Windows).
If you want a specific class, I would say creative writing.

If you're looking for skills in life, mine is being able to let go. Especially at work.

If you work for someone else, you HAVE to remember that your work needs to satisfy someone else. So throw away your ego, and listen (and pay attention) to criticism. You should never be afraid to speak your mind and take a stance but at the end of the day, you need to be a team player.
well its the tax breaks of course silly. In the UK the grants for solar used to guarantee around a 8% return - this is a tax break for the Upper middle classes who can spend $20k or so.

This is a result of the silly panic over fukishima in Germany and the greens being brought off to keep Adrea Merkal in power.
Is there any major migration from Linux to Mac OSX on the desktop? Did you see any statistics?
What can't compound interest teach us....
He absolutely deserved to have an AED hooked up to him, and CPR in the time it took to hook up the AED. If he was pulseless because of, say, Vfib, the AED could very well have saved his life.

If he had pulseless electrical activity, then there is an algorithm for that, too. Some would say that you aren't dead with PEA until you've got a needle in the second intercostal spaces bilaterally and one penetrating the pericardium.
Also, it'd be super awesome if you could report this stuff to us too. Email support@github.com or tweet something mentioning "@github".

HN cred is amazing, but so is GitHub cred :)

https://help.github.com/articles/responsible-disclosure-of-s...
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'During Thanksgiving, I spent the week in St. Louis, working from Jared’s parents’ kitchen counter for a few days.'

I think this is the worst aspect of working 'future style'. Since you can work anywhere, there is no longer anyway to get away from work. Celebrating the holidays with the family - perfect time to get some work done!
>The reason DHH is getting loud complaints is because people feel that they carry a legitimate grievance but also feel no way to voice that opinion (or are trolls). Douchetastic talking down to them like exemplified in this post won't help (and will encourage trolls).

I don't see anything bad (sorry, I guess we're saying "douchetastic" these days) about the post.

"My pet theory is that it feels like meaningful activism in the moment. They haven't really paid much attention to how things are run on a day-to-day basis, but here's an opportunity to paint some signs and get on the barricades. Yeah, I've done my part! I've taken a stand! Down with.. uhm.. Turbolinks? Or was it CoffeeScript we're protesting this week? Or Bundler? Oh fuck it, down with SOMETHING! YEAH!!!"

I mean, you really don't see this as douchey or talking down? How? To me it actually seems impossible to read that and say "Sounds like a legitimate complaint from the creator of a popular framework" unless you already had your mind made up DHH was right no matter what.
I don't need hardware, but if you've got it, then you could do the work and I could assist you. I don't need access to hardware, but I'd sure like to know that MOAI is running smoothly with the Ouya ODK as soon as possible .. ;) (I'm working on a number of MOAI titles that I'd like to ship on Ouya one day..)

The way I see it maybe working is, you could build MOAI from sources, install a test app on the Ouya, and any incompatabilities/problems encountered, we could work out together .. for example, adding hardware game controller support is probably a bit of an issue, but since I know my way around that, I could help you get it implemented, or even just implement it and .. as long as you were willing .. you could test against the real hardware.

Sure, I could just use the ODK. But I'd be a little more motivated to solve any issues if I knew someone who actually had the device in front of them to test with ..

Anyway, just an idea. If you get the interest, let me know and we can get cracking! :)

EDIT: sorry, I assumed you have the hardware already. All of the above goes for anyone who actually does have it - just contact me.
You don't necessarily have to replicate validation on the client side. You have just have server form responses / validation errors come through AJAX responses and display them client side.
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I think it is fascinating that (a) this guy dropped knowledge that was WAAAY ahead of his time, so much so that we're just now understanding some of it, and (b) he sincerely believed he obtained some of this knowledge via divine revelation.

That doesn't mean that I believe it was divine revelation. But I have to admit, those 2 facts certainly make the situation interesting.
Use a RUM tool - Google Analytics is the easiest one but up the sample rate - Torbit, LogNormal and others are available.

Use WebPageTest.org to carry out spot tests.
This post is the missing part that Brennan Dunn and patio11 ignore. How do you bootstrap from zero clients? How do you build a reputation?
Sounds like you should just start with some consulting with someone with some bizdev/marketing chops and work with some cool companies. From there you can always stumble onto a good idea.
This type of situation is exactly the reason AEDs are now found all over in public places. Sure, CPR for several hours does not yield positive outcomes. But if this guy is slumped because of a shockable rhythm, that AED in the field is not at all useless - it will likely save his life, and minimize the deficits he experiences afterward. Especially on a plane, where the person was likely noticed down minutes after his problem started.
And, on the flip side, Germany has massive tax subsidies for solar power. It's a lot easier to convince someone to get solar panels installed on their roof if you can show them a tax benefit for doing so.

On a broader note, I don't get why we think it's a good thing for Germany to have this much solar energy. Unlike, say, Spain, the German climate is not especially well suited to solar power. It's too far north, as a country, and climatically, Germany has a lot of cloudy days, which means that solar panels are not really running at peak efficiency most of the time. Germany would be much better served by wind power, because of its advantageous position on the North European Plain. In a free market, that is exactly what would have happened. Instead, German government subsidies have unfairly advantaged solar energy, leading to an inefficiently high number of solar panels and underinvestment in wind.
I see very mixed results from people using CloudFlare
When I was about your age I went through a similar conundrum. I quit coding, and started to learn graphic design to become somewhat successful at this new endeavor. Would I do it again if I had the chance? Hell no! Sure I love to have had a visual education, but that wasn't enough to keep me from getting bored. What did I do? I've started to code again. But this time, instead of doing boring business coding as I did before, I went to do graphics programming. Now I have much more fun. What should you do? In my experience don't be blind and quit coding to do something else. I guess my advice is this: don't take myopic decisions; instead, take what you know, and mix it with what you like to reinvent yourself. Just learn a new craft and try to merge that to programming.
I have never understood residential solar. Seems like a gimmick. Why would I want these panels on my roof? It seems like hosting a server in your basement. It is appealing in theory, but silly in practice. If I just hosted my panels at a site where other people hosted their solar panels, you could probably install it for less than $1.00 per watt.
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It's just an impression from my own life. 3-5 years ago, lots of people around me used Linux. Many of these same people now use Macs. Not exactly scientific, I know.
I don't understand why more people haven't taken them up on this offer. If it really guarantees you cheaper power and you don't have to put any money in, what's the downside?
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I personally think its completely stupid to add a hiring CTA mainly because it takes away from your main CTA which is to convert the visitor into a customer. But if it doesn't hurt your funnel then there's no harm of adding it.
Curious how you got it. Send me an email: nathan@thinklegend.com
Depends on your definition of "a local" - I may have lived in a particular city for 30 years, doesn't make me "a local". In fact, I can think of places (I grew up in one) where being "a local" required multiple generations.
I worked with many people who have terrible technical skills, but impeccable people skills. Those people are the ones who are by and large most successful.

If I could trade in all of my technical know-how for the same amount of people skills, I would in a heartbeat.
The vast majority of users don't care if they use Apple of Google apps most of the time. Even maps which was a big deal among us techies, most of my regular friends couldn't care less which apps they use. And for many, facebook has largely replaced email anyway.
In USA, how many hours by car do you need to find a local that doesn't speak your language?

I don't have to drive. Last week, I walked to a local deli and heard the following languages on the street within a few minutes: english, spanish, russian, chinese, polish(maybe, not sure) and arabic.
How do I pay without providing my True Name? Unless anonymous digital payment becomes commonplace and widely understood, paywalls are one of the biggest threats to privacy. At least with the dead tree edition, they didn't know exactly which articles most interested any subscriber.
How is "because it is a initializer" a response to the point? The fact that it is implemented as Ruby code has nothing to do with whether or not it should be stored in a source code directory. Clearly it should not. Yet it is. That's a framework bug.
The beautiful thing is that with 4 more or less independent global navigation satellite systems in play (GPS, Galileo, Compass/Beidou, and GLONASS), there will be more than 70+ satellites in orbit providing ultra-reliable, ultra-accurate navigation and positioning and you won't necessarily have to trust any one of those networks individually.
KDE has the same thing, but it's not smart at all. It will pick the wrong resolution for the wrong screen, if I disconnect a screen the windows that were on it become inaccessible, it never remembers my setup when I re-dock the laptop, and so on.
"DNS Prefetch - Link" turned red, everything else stayed grey.
I'd guess that the problem was excessive sedation due to the antihistamine, rather than acute liver injury from acetaminophen toxicity.
No it’s not, silly. There aren’t any tax breaks for solar installations in Germany. There are guaranteed prices energy companies have to pay for solar energy from small private installations.

And besides, this is about the cost of the installation. You did read the article?
1. Over 25% of households in the country live on less than 26k/year. You have obviously succumbed to some sort of upper-class myopia. Not everyone is rich. 26k is quite a bit of money.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...)

Even if that weren't true, it's still an inordinately large amount of money to earn in a single day. When is the last time you made 26k in a day?

2. The amount of time spent making the product has nothing to do with the amount of time in which the sales were made. What you're saying is just incoherent. Within a 24 hour period, he earned 26k. The assertion that the time put into making the product also qualifies as time over which he earned money just isn't logical.

He made a lot of money in a short time based on notoriety and marketing. What is so hard to accept about that?
Actually I'm not that excited about Ouya. I'm more excited about controllers (like Moga) you can use with any Android device, so you can play on a TV box or a tablet.
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This post essentially says nothing. The tl;dr is, use LinkedIn to network and build a client base.
>>> from heapq import merge
>>> def kmerge(*lists):
... return merge(*map(sorted, lists))
...
>>> list(kmerge([1,2,3],[6,5,4],[2,2]))
[1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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Sure, but DKA and HHNK aren't generally sudden onset sorts of things. Usually there's been a few hours worth of symptoms leading up to them.
I'm the author of the blog. Using the model that I wrote about, you "downshift" from a full-time job that has you on the front line, doing billable work to someplace where you're supporting internal business operations. This frees of you of conflict of interest problems and allows you the bandwidth to build up a side business, helping many of the same people you met previously in your career. The only difference is that it's in smaller chunks and time-shifted to evenings and weekends.
There aren’t any tax subsidies in Germany for solar installations. There are subsidies, find out for yourself how that works, it’s not that hard. This ignorance about what is actually going on makes me very angry!
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404, now. What did we miss?
If you want to spur private investments it seems to me smarter to target the middle class than those closer to the welfare benefit system.

Home owners are a lot more willing to put money into their property today, i.e. invest money today for the vage promise of the government paying it back over the next 20 years. This seems a much more value creation oriented idea than just to stimulate short term consumption.
If anything, the first book is a better indicator of pure marketing-based success, considering that you didn't have a following at that point.

For the record, I'm not asserting that it's bad that you made so much money based on theses factors. I don't expect you not to market you products. If anything, I was commenting on the importance of marketing to initial success.
Stick with coding. Reasons being:

- Most jobs are boring, especially after the first couple of years.

- Don't underestimate the importance of good pay.

- It doesn't sound like you have anything better in mind to do instead.
The Linux kernel is one of those top open-source projects, big, old, well oiled and with lots of contributions, both from companies and individuals.

So Linus must be doing something right.
She didn't say she worked on Thanksgiving - she said she stayed in St Louis longer than would be normally possible on a holiday.
If I can work eight hour days at my in-law's house rather than having to rush back across the country to be in the office, then I get to stay longer. Best of both worlds.
More like:

grumble grumble I hate Linux. <anecdote about a poor user experience>. No one at all should ever use Linux for any reason whatsoever!
Well for one, in some parts of the country residential solar means a $0/mo electric bills and in somes cases you spin the meter in reverse and build a credit. The panels themselves are maintenance-free, have 20-30 year warranties and (personally) just look plain cool.

I have a family member who has a large array on his roof and he runs his entire house and charges his Tesla all off the grid. He's still connected, but in most cases he runs a $0 bill.
> they had everything....ACLS drugs, defibrillator, suction, a complete mini-pharmacy, and what looked like a few plastic-7 wound and/or trauma kits at the least.

That's very reassuring. Any intubation equipment (or at least airway adjuncts (LMA, King, etc))? BVM?
This is a free software mail client written for GNOME, so the point of discussing it is largely political. I don't think their goal was to compete with Gmail on technical merit.
You can use otherwise unused space - that's the theory. Now if you install solar heating panels on your roof you can actually heat your house and warm your water with that, even in winter. They're fairly efficient. Nobody does that in germany though, since it's more economical to sell the power generated by solar panels.
Fentanyl is reasonably commonly used.
>It's all about scale. That is the point that almost everyone else is missing! The differences between New York and rural Idaho, in all, are smaller than the differences between Greece and Norway.

You'd be surprised.

Rural Idaho and New York have very little in common in buying preferences, business opportunities, employment opportunities, cost of living, potential market and such.

And New York and parts of Mississippi or South Dakota have even less. Would you base an startup on Holly Ridge or Indianola?

Heck, there are parts of South Dakota (the Indian reservations) that have a life expectancy of 48 years -- a third world like number.
He mentioned watching a movie, so that's what I replied with. Escape time can be a lot of different things, but the common thread is the "escape" (from work and obligations) part.
Linus: "If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel"
LinkedIn is a pretty insignificant part of the article. I mentioned using it as a proxy to gauge the size of your professional network, and to find local interest groups. Overall, LinkedIn hasn't really helped my business all that much, other than increasing my web presence for credibility searches.

I'm rather surprised that you felt that there wasn't much content. I spent around seven hours writing and editing the post and it draws on several years of in-the-trenches experience.
If you are doing a purely software startup, then you should be able to create your prototype/first version at no cost (e.g. using heroku's free offering), and find customers along the way to validate you are building something people want.

When you reach a point when you have proven customers, and a product that works, but are only limited by money to grow up (e.g. development offering doesn't work anymore), then you can start looking for investors (e.g. friends, family, incubator). It will much easier to convince them to invest in you at that point.
Google could do this now across their suite of apps by using iOS's keychain APIs.