skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't answer for anonymity- to me that's a separate question. I'm referring to the spreading of information that I've trusted one seller with. For instance, I'll give the NYT my true name and email, but I don't want them to give that information to real-estate developers in FL because they've profiled me to be an old fart.
"marveling at how different non-technical and technical folks look at the world"

I've felt that way before, too. There are times I show someone something that is technically simple (to me) but, when I try to show it to someone, I see a glaze go over their eyes.

Part of the problem is that what I think is technically simple, really isn't because it requires background knowledge that I forget they don't have. Even if it's a basic technical knowledge that's lacking, it's still one more thing they need to learn before they learn this "simple" task I'm trying to show them.

Another issue is disinterest. If they really aren't interested in the solution, they won't give it much effort. In your case, people seem to be comfortable paying for the Times subscription, so they're probably not interested in learning about how to get around it.
Stick with it. After your first year, if you're any good (and you should be if University level stuff was easy and you did well) some interesting work should start to come your way.

I'd go with some consulting. I personally found that working with developers all day doesn't do it for me (I did it for 3 1/2 years).

Of the people that I really enjoyed working with the most, a common theme emerged. They all had a background in customer facing consulting type roles. So I gave it a try... real customers with real problems that my programming/software design/architecture skills can solve, that's working for me right now. Sure, I still work with developers daily, and at some points in the project, I work as a developer. Mostly though I all sorts!
Astrology is not effective. A double-blind test from 1985.
"to be successful, one must portray an image of being successful", good marketing strategy imo but yeah probably bogus lol
A repository named 'mojombo/fakkkkkke', with commits from another user account. Just a standard test repository, nothing amazing. Turns out the user was a family member.
agreeing with both comments here - using Sexting as the single use case is a bit over dramatic / sensational.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but a podiatrist does have to go to medical school.
Who is a GREAT Entrepreneur?
Landing page design looks great. How far are you from a working prototype?
I don't really want to pledge for a game I might not be able to play. Unfortunately, the fact that it's a stretch goal rather than part of the main goal means that I lose out on Kickstarter's escrow, so there's a real risk of that.
He is really forgetting about Stockholm.
There was an article on HN before talking about this:
http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/20/why-tiny-stockholm-has-the-...
I'm fascinated by your goal and the way you accomplished it. Aside from writing 1,000 words a day, there are so many other things that must have gone into your books and sites that I am left wondering how you found the motivation for it all.

Did you really make all of the graphics and layouts (perfectly I might add), create a book landing page, tweak your blog to promote the book, maintain your Twitter following, deal with miscellaneous tasks (server configurations, etc), conduct interviews, do the copyediting and review process, all while writing 1,000 words a day, in the same timespan?

Did you have a life? Did you ever take time to watch a TV show or switch off your computer or phone? Really inspiring stuff man, great work!
Help small scale farmer market and sell their produce at better prices than the brokers at farm-gate. And give them market information on their produce through sms.
>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.

That's even better than a tax break. Who can turn down free money?
From joezydeco's follow-up comment from a few hours ago, it sounds like there was a window of concern for several hours before boarding the flight. At any rate, there was no mention of this being sudden onset. Just encouraging people on this site who don't have a medical background to understand that there are indeed emergencies due to hyperglycemia/hypoinsulinemia.
Out of curiosity, what makes actually digging this data up difficult?
yup, came here to say this and also - wonder - why haven't they done this already?
> "lifting weights is much more efficient than cardio"

That's news to me. Not saying it is wrong, but if it is a fact, it's one even reasonably informed people doesn't know. Studies (http://jap.physiology.org/content/102/4/1439.long and http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311123639.ht...) suggest that High-intensity interval training is an incredibly time efficient way to get in shape.
Stanford Students And Professors Are Bridging The CS Gender Gap
iOS has had the ability to share keychain items between apps from the same developer using 'keychain-access-groups' since iOS3. Google could use a single login for all their iOS apps, but they probably have a host of reasons why they do not.
You just proved OP's point. What's "Eastern Europe"? I'm guessing you'd consider anything east of Germany/Austria/Italy to be "Eastern", right? Well, in Poland and the Czech Republic people consider themselves "Central Europe", which makes sense given that geographically Europe extends to the Ural mountains.

Don't generalize.
What criminals do with stolen passwords
I assume this won't last long, much like how the address book got locked down after it was demonstrated to being abused.
Well, we know there's a lot of bloggers on HN, many of which use WP as their platform. That makes them our target market.
Yes, that's what I meant by poor. The sensor noise makes it a difficult instrument when in motion.

Yes I looked at the visualization. Very cool. I wasn't trying to be negative just wondering about how it differs from data sets currently available and what kind of value I could add on top of it. Thanks for info, it is kind of exciting. What lept into my head was some way of getting a measure of wind speed in addition to pressure but I don't see how that would work with the hardware we have.
Updated: D3 Reusable Component Pattern
Why You Shouldn’t Buy a TV This Year. Again
Make some time daily to think about interactions that you've had that day. Don't necessarily draw conclusions. If you take up a natural interest in the chain of events of human behavior, you'll start identifying various events and how they correspond to emotions/etc in context.

Also, observe what other people do, decide if you want to act that way, and then try it yourself.

IMO the best you'll get is a distribution of probabilities for what a particular event means, so don't expect hard and fast rules, but sometimes that's enough.
> underinvestment in wind

estimated electricity production for Germany in 2012:

* Wind: 45 Billion kwh
* Solar: 28,5 Billion kWh
On your second point, that is like saying that the 3 years and 80 million dollars spent developing a game should be ignored because it made 90 million in the first 24 hours.
Would not they check the passenger list for Dr's first? I remember being told that this was an occupational hazard for Phd's that you might be assumed to be a MD Dr.
Right, exactly. Google could do this, if they shared a TeamID UUID. What they couldn't do is replace the built in Apple apps (Safari, Mail, Messages), which is a shame. Apple should document the data/API ins and outs of these apps so replacements could work in the same way. Power users should be able to replace Safari with Chrome, etc.
Yup. Instead of being an Apple problem, it's a Google one. I wonder if users would even notice that they didn't have to log in multiple times, and more worrisome, if that would bother them that they didn't.
If you pick up other specialties, enjoy hardware and enjoy the larger view, go for systems engineering.
Yes, but it's just an ad, the reader can't try it out.
You missed a sheet reference on this page: http://www.howacarworks.com/articles/lubricating-hinges-peda...
And that's exactly the reason Linux never took off on the desktop. It's very difficult to gain new users if you're constantly dismissing them and asking them to put up or shut up with code.
I don't think he was baiting users so much as apologizing in advance.
What They Don't Tell You About Promotions
Wow and they seriously used the word "Hacked"? Whoever submitted this is an idiot, this is basic GitHub functionality.
Some numbers of this in action:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/us-usa-retail-ecom...

"292 of Macy's 800 stores have been doing double-duty as mini-fulfillment centers that assemble, pack and ship online orders"

"since 40 percent of bestbuy.com orders are now picked up."
"your skills will erode as you crank out an endless stream of cheap WordPress sites".

That is so right on the spot. That's exactly how I feel right now and I'm pretty sick of it. I decided to just stop freelancing (I'm still a student so I never really had a full-time job). Most cheap clients only want simple websites that take zero skill to make.
Sure. If you're building a traditional web app. The sort of web app Rails is good at. But if you are constructing an api, you can use ligher and alternate technologies that will get the job done faster and better.
True. Local has a different define in a rural or stable area than it does in a rapidly growing area.
Why does Rails do anything related to git anyway? What if I use some other version control system?
>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.

Wind power requires more territory per watt than solar and German population is dense just enough that wind power is on the edge of pay-off.

Source:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_ren...
" I can assure you that there are no ambivalent feelings against 'entrepreneurs'. "

quite often this is believed to be true: start-up == entrepreneurship

Well, I disagree here and it looks like you are mixing up 'entrepreneurs' and the "Mittelstand" you mentioned. I don't know if this is generally true, but i'm under the impression that there is some negative sentiment towards 'entrepreneurship' as it is connected with "making money fast" on the internet and/or "just" doing things to make money. That is in contrast to the "Mittelstand" which is seen as creating actual sustainable business aka Old-Economy.

This is obviously NOT true for all 'entrepreneurs' and all "Mittlerstand" businesses.

Sometimes the concepts of start-up, entrepreneurship and "Mittlerstand" get mixed up. I don't think many ppl bother to differentiate those in as much detail as paul graham does ;)
Many home burglaries involve drug addicts who need immediate access to cash. So for those they'll first look for the empty home and then back into what to expect should they meet someone from there.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933656
Both at once is a difficult feat. Fitness is a long play though. Get stronger, then get leaner (caloric deficit), then get stronger, then get leaner... It works pretty well over time.
Looks like retailers who kept complaining about Amazon's sales tax advantage got what they were asking for - local nexus.
I think the point was this is a Github staff member (with 9,000+ followers) so a "random" repository turning up (in public, with no indication it's to do with the github staff member) seems odd.
I bet people doing some javascript aint going to install java just to minify their script, nor ant to manage tasks , nor maven to fetch packages when you get everything with node+npm. If you do testing , and you should , you need node to run tests.
America is NOT a continent. North America and South America are the two continents.

Further, there are more than one United States. Ever consider how the people of the United States of Mexico feel when you ignore them like that?
To add a little nuance,

If you're not getting enough money, that's a symptom of a deeper problem. Maybe no one gives a shit about your company's product. Maybe your boss undervalues you and pays you accordingly. Digging in and finding the actual root of the problem is occasionally worth it and usually not.
Not really. There are monthly tech meetups (Wetware wednesday, which this month is held on a friday in a sort of local company showcase: http://wetwarewednesday.eventbrite.com/). There's not much of a startup scene because there are almost no startups. There's really not that much tech at all other than government/military. It kinda sucks, but hey, you're living in paradise :)
Integrating solar panels into rooftops seems to be a big opportunity in the future:

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/building-integrated-solar-panels...
Yes and I'm old enough to remember when a small but vocal % of people refused to put out automated out of office email replies because who knew who would receive them (anyone who emailed you) and what they could do to you knowing that you were away. Seems funny now but people at the time were certain it was a ticket to be robbed or worse.
Does Amazon auto add referral codes if you're logged in? I just popped over to their site, searched for the book and copied the URL. I won't turn away a commission but it wasn't intentional.
They mean residents of the USA. Note that there are two nations that are "United States of _____" in the western hemisphere.
That's exactly what's happening in some places in Vermont. (I know, not the first place you think of when you hear 'solar.') People can buy shares of a solar co-op and get credited on their power bill for their portion of any electricity generated. It will be interesting to see how that model works in the long run.
Why would somebody want to do your company's work for them?
Do they have AEDs on planes?
When did the standard for packaging Linux source code become .tar.gz?
If we had defeated the Taliban with indiscriminate use of fuel-air explosives or WMDs that destroyed entire villages full of noncombatants, would you still be riding your high horse?
The exclusion of Indians from "Asians" isn't a people thing. It's a very American thing, I suspect.

EDIT: Formatting
There are much nicer ways of calling someone out without belittling them in public space. That said, he's never been one to mind that. I have much respect for Linus and all he's accomplished but damn...
Reading between the lines just a little bit, I got the feeling based on the doc's description of his patient's behavior earlier in the flight that he suspected she was just being a drama queen and that this was more of a "psychiatric issue." Perhaps he wanted to test that hypothesis?
Three more games added to Humble Indie Bundle 7
There may be advantages if you are using it to run an air conditioner somewhere sunny. Peak output will sync up to peak usage, and you won't need to take the losses stepping it up and down for distribution.

There might be a bit of conspicuous environmentalism, but it's probably mostly about permitting and property rights issues. No one would lease you the roof for $50/month so that you can install panels over them, but they'll happily install their own.
To be precise, having an optional secure boot is required for the Windows logo certification. If it cannot be disabled, no logo certification.

See "Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems" [1], requirement "System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot", items 17 and 18.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj1...
This article mentions a lot the sparkles: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/22/hard-choices-the-...
(part 1 has an explanation for this effect)
In the UK, energy used in homes accounts for more than a quarter of all national energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. Space heating consumes the largest amount of energy for most households. An alternative to solar panels is simply better insulation for housing. This can dramatically cut energy consumption.

BTW, Germany has been a pioneer in this regard too as it developed the PassivHaus standard for energy efficiency in buildings. The standard is over a decade old and it's been demonstrated that existing or older housing stock can also be retrofitted to meet the standard (although it can be expensive).

But even without the rigour of the PassiveHaus standard, there are many other techniques to substantially improve the insulation of existing buildings so their energy costs shrink. To me, it seems sensible to think about reducing our energy consumption as well as finding alternative, cleaner (greener) technologies.
What else is your roof doing during the day if it is not raining? In the hotter areas of the US, covering your roof in solar panels not only generates electricity, but reduces attic temps and the need for A/C.
Trends to watch in 2013
I'm kinda bummed I didn't get in on the Kickstarter to get one of these. I have emailed them and found out that I could purchase one for $800, but I simply can't afford that right now. It's a longshot, but if anyone out there is getting a dev console and has changed their mind or just doesn't envision having time to play with it, I'd be happy to buy it off of you... get in touch :)
Who recommends a shotgun for home defense? Its a poor choice as it is less maneuverable, ranges are very short and gives the attacker a lot of leverage to pull it away from you. Of course, people selling shotguns might recommend them...
The part that struck me most was

"We’ve prioritized fixing the on-boarding problem and it’ll get sorted out in a quick 2-week iteration by one of our Designers."

Obviously I don't know anything about this system, but where I work a 2-week iteration is not quick. This sounds like the sort of problem we would fix in an afternoon.
this is awesome - I'm curious though - aren't you theoretically violating the copyright of the actual author?
yes back when I helped organize a medium sized (1200-11300) camping event we always had plenty of sugar and mars bars to cater for diabetics that went out of balance this is in addition to what the on site St Johns team had.

Only had one close shave where some one diabetic had become and unconscious and thrown up in there sleeping bag - let me tell you seeing someone being carried towards you on a stretcher certainly gets rid of the hangover quick - this was pre mobile phones so i had to sprint to the public call box to call 999 (911)
How much domain knowledge do you have in your problem space?

If none then you'd better align yourself with people who do - key 'early adopter' customers, partners, advisors.

Otherwise, you won't know what people want/need/desire.
If I may take artistic license to reinterpret the comment, what I get from the comment is that given the very short term nature of the sales, no one really had time to read the content and then publicize their opinions to yield this sales curve. Basically, there is no word-of-mouth or social proof effect evident in this sales curve. Indeed, we see the opposite - more people bought the book before others subsequently purchased it. Sales were due to pent up demand versus waiting for others to verify quality or value.

Basically, the moment it was offered for sale, the product was purchased practically sight unseen (altho the article mentions that he in effect pre-released portions of the text to his newsletter subscribers).

Given this, the book could have been low quality and it wouldn't have impacted this sales curve. In which case, the OP could have spent 5 minutes, 5 hours, 5 days, or 5 months writing the book and the sales curve would look similar.

What I gleaned from this article was not that it took substantial effort to write a book to evoke this sort of sales curve, but rather there was a process of building expectation and an audience which would result in substantial sales for a book, regardless of its level of quality. The level of quality became assumed and did not require prior evidence. Thus, labor / effort in writing was not proportional to sales.
The do all have different legal environments.
You aren't bored from coding. You're bored from what you are (or aren't) making with code. You're not seeing accomplishments from the time you're investing, so your brain is moving on. I'm the same way.

You need to find a project that lights your fire. Code is just a tool, and it alone will not keep you going. I don't know anyone who likes to code for the sake of writing code. Find something that you can use your tools on that are exciting to you. Find purpose.
The people 150km to the south from here speak Sorbisch [1]. They have their own culture, their own schools even though they're mostly german national. Still, they get german TV and mix with "regular" germans on a daily basis. However, the people 200km to the east all speak polish and don't get any german tv. Which group is more likely to have some common ground with me?

The question is not if there are enclaves of other cultures and languages within a larger body of uniform people since on a small enough scale you will always find enclaves: Chinatown, Little Italy, or Kreuzberg in Berlin[2] but how uniform the population is. No population is truly uniform and I don't think anyone pretends that West-Coast Americans and East-Cost Americans are the same as Texan, but I dare to postulate that a common overarching government and a common official language leads to a greater degree of uniformness than 20+ official languages and a loosely knit set of contracts. A norwegian is most likely more different from a greek than a New Yorker from a Californian.

[1] The Sorbs are one of a couple recognized german minorities which explains their special status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs
[2] Strong turkish/arab minority
If BeiDou happens to be more advanced than GPS in the future, I bet more people would say, China must have stolen GPS technologies from US, there's no way that the Chinese could ever do something great, just the way as YE SHIWEN won gold medal in London Olympics, the first reaction was not congratulations, but suspecting she must have taken drugs! They didn't find any evidence in exhaustive testings, they claimed that, she had been genetically changed by Chinese government!
Comparing the distance you can swim may be a bit misleading as a very large component of skilled swimming is doing it efficiently. As you improve your stroke you become much more hydrodynamic and it takes far less effort (and time) to swim a given lap.

For an extreme example, put someone who doesn't know how to swim at all into a pool. As they thrash about wildly they'll get a rather serious workout even though they'll scarcely make a lap.
What about when people need to take a screen shot of something sent to them for evidence of a crime committed against them?

Also this all hearkens back to the "How do I prevent right clicking on my website with jQuery?" days.
To be clear. This is bad behavior.

This is a brilliant developer openly insulting and belittling another developer, contributor and fellow human being, even though he is making the right point.

It is wrong and you as a developer should never ever do this, and you should never tolerate it in your workplace, no matter how brilliant you are.

As a community, we've embraced this ideal that its okay to be an asshole as long as you're right and/or smart. Its time for that to stop, and it only stops if you decide to not accept it.

I'll get off my soap box now.
1. Is Vala type-safe? Ie, can I exploit stack overflows in this?

2. Does it support S/MIME or PGP?

3. Can I configure it to view and respond only in plaintext?

3a. When not in plaintext mode, what this guy asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974983