skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being from Belfast that last line makes me pretty sad. For what it's worth there are plenty of good people and somewhat frequent meetups/tech talks etc. Usually organised through various groups like ruby users.
There's also Laverys..
It would make me very very happy, if that's a good reason to do it. :-) The user experience with encrypted email frankly sucks right now, and if you improve it, I think you'll be getting a lot of existing GPG users as well as newbies. But we all have keys already...
This is a two-year-old post about a dead issue that doesn't even have historical interest.
An Electronically Controlled/BT Automatic Shifting Bicycle (video)
Great start. Wish it were set up to be collaborative so we could suggest some of the missing elements.
"And yet, the internet is still having a hard time adopting. Startups slave for months meticulously designing their new marketing site and are completely oblivious that, to people on a Retina display, it looks like a jumbled pixelated mess."

Or maybe they don't care enough about a tiny fraction of their market to create assets at dramatically higher resolution just to prevent customers from feeling a slight amount of buyer's remorse when they look at their display with a magnifying glass?

Maybe they'd rather have pages load faster for all their customers, instead of serving up needlessly huge image assets to every user? It's not like the WHATWG and W3C have solved this problem yet, they're still bickering over whatever the latest solution is (I don't even know whose fault that is at this point, what a mess)

I still find it incredibly hilarious that owners of Retina macs bitch at content creators because their content looks 'pixelated' when Apple is still too lazy to even run a bilinear filter when upscaling the framebuffer. What is this, 1993? Windows has been able to do this since desktop composition was introduced in Vista.
How much does it cost? I assume this is going to be fee-based on the employer side? I'd feel more comfortable participating if the nature of the transaction were more transparent.
I think Patrick's point is that his friends are not some kind of transient scam artists.
Spend some time on the RSC website and a little more time learning about the RSC's history. The RSC exists specifically to perpetuate hard-right conservatism in the GOP. They're practically the embodiment of every cliche you've ever heard about Republican ideology: to create jobs, introduce a flat tax code! to reform entitlements, replace them with block grants to states! Now that those proposals are announced, score every piece of proposed legislation for conformance to our ideology!

Yes, Khanna's memo does indicate disorganization at the RSC. To wit: someone was hired at the RSC not understanding what the job of the RSC is, or, alternatively, the RSC failed to predict that someone working for the RSC might go rogue and announce a policy objective that doesn't promote hard-right conservatism. Khanna says "my memo was reviewed the same way all policy memos at RSC are reviewed". My guess is he's right, and that no policy memo at the RSC receives scrutiny, because everyone already knows what to expect from any RSC policy ever. Cut taxes. Slash spending. Delegate power to the states. Eliminate regulations. Bash the Administration. Drill ANWR. Repeal EPA climate change regulations.

Just repeating the RSC's policy positions makes me sound like a DailyKos commenter. I'm not caricaturing them. The RSC really is everything every HN'er believes they hate about the whole GOP.

The idea that the RSC was seriously going to be the host for sweeping copyright reform is fanciful. What really probably happened is, Khanna is a smart guy, his role at RSC writing little memos saying "this bill does not increase the scope of the federal government" "this bill does increase the scope of the federal government" "this bill does not increase the scope of the federal government" "this bill does not increase the scope of the federal government" "this bill does not increase the scope of the federal government" was a dead end, and he staged a huge PR coup to find his next gig. More power to him. But let's stop pretending this is some signal of a sea change in US government.
Do young folk even care about "small government"?

Yes. I'm not one of those people, but I promise you that a lot of them exist. Your GOP "innovation" platform sounds like a big winner because you like the idea and you surround yourself with people you agree with- as everyone does, don't get me wrong.

While there are certain demographic trends that come with generational shifts (decades ago it was racial segregation, now it's gay marriage) concepts like "small government" don't. But when you're living in liberal metropolises you tend not to hear much about them.
Actually, here is another good link of when Techcrunch toured Atlanta, Raleigh/Durham, Savannah, and Greenville, SC.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/southeast-meetup-tour-wrap-...
At first, I was a bit "meh" about this article, right about until I read about the bytecode hacking, very awesome, the ex-demoscener in me rejoiced :)
Some of my best friends are monolingual
This isn't just for those people running Retina MacBook Pros. iPhone 4 and up, iPad 3 and up and certain Android devices would benefit from Retina assets.

It's not a tiny fraction of the market.
Right now, I think we'll be most useful to grad students. I think we'll also be a good tool for lit review, less cohesive fields, or interdisciplinary work. We've found your anecdote to be true time and again, though the effect varies by field.

I spoke to two CS professors who had interesting views. The first told me he "knew everyone", and that the tool wasn't worth his time- the second said that he "thought he knew everyone", but had a great use regardless. He wanted his students and peers to try it so that they could learn the movers in his part of computer science, and take over the conference he'd been organizing.
I think they're mostly elaborating because the call-to-action is less immediately relevant if you're male. They could add equal text to exhort women to buy the product, but it would just state what's already implied, "Buy some pepper spray to defend yourself against attackers".

In a culture where men have more authority and power than women, part of the responsibility for giving women back control of their lives and bodies rests with the men who currently wield social status. I think encouraging men to support their female friends and relatives is arguably more important and effective than the actual pepper spray, because that's what will create positive social change.
Chris, you've jumped from Zoosk, to Formspring, to Amazon, to Etsy all in the period of two to three years. Maybe you've proven yourself resourceful enough at this point to not need the value it gives?

(also, hi, former coworker!)
John Resig article circa jQuery 1.4.4 but still relevant: http://ejohn.org/blog/learning-from-twitter/
There is only 1 time acceptable - the ISO-8601 or equivalent time of publication in UTC, under the highest resolution you can get. Format to whatever you need on display. Give an option to the user to adjust the timezone in which the user agrees with, by default the user's timezone, if you know it a priori.

All your servers should use the same time server to sync time.
Link is legit. It's not working right now because every single online community is linking to this page.
Inasmuch as plus has actually caused Google to better-integrate some of its services [1] it can be quite convenient.

Unfortunately, that convenience is often paired with bad default privacy options and seemingly-impossible-to-stop annoyances. [2]

[1] Compare youtube integration vs the various clumsy half-measures they've taken since the acquisition. Or consider chrome/google+ bookmark sync'ing vs the various iGoogle bookmark situation and plugins and half-measures.

[2] a.) the emails google continues to send me, recommending people i may want to add to my circles. b.) the nonsense 'popular' post crap they inserted into my google+ 'timeline'-thing, back when i was actively trying to use it. I turned that off, at least once. But after a few weeks, it just magicked itself back on. c.) the nonsense 'popular' post crap they email to me every few months.
Does it take you out of the app or bring up a part of the other app which you use to share and then dismiss and you are back exactly where you were before you attempted to share?
As a developer, I love the concept - obviously, a tool that filters for great jobs and pitches them to developers is really appealing. However I'm curious about a few things:

1) It sounds like companies are hand picked. On the other side: How do you filter for great developers? I'm sure you can't assume every prospective employee signup is a top-tier developer. Do you have some algorithmic, human, or other process?

2) As someone about to graduate and transition to a PHD program after the summer, I'm looking at technically challenging summer internships. I'm sure there are other prospective interns. Do you have any plans to support matching summer internships?

3) Assuming a github profile is the only "resume" your site accepts (implied by another comment here), where do developers list journal and conference publications? (Apologies in advance if this assumption is wrong -- I haven't signed up due to reasons mentioned in question #2.)

Thanks!
If you control both the client and the server you can have quite long URLs.

I don't agree that a long URLs necessarily indicates a broken design. I've done it and configure my web server (Tomcat) to accept longer GET requests (so +1 to 'asiermarques' here, who pointed out that it depends on how the web server is configured too).

There are services out there, like Google Charts if I'm not mistaken (but I may be mistaking it with something else) which, by the way they work, forces you to create quite long URLs. It generates a graph on the fly and nothing is modified on the server, so a GET is used, not a POST (which, IMHO, makes sense).

From the thread I seem to understand that the Data URI scheme implies that company should start to upgrade or replace their broken load balancer that "mysteriously" truncate URLs and cause all manner of weird bugs ; )
I suspect that there's not much difference between what you're saying and what I believe: I also suspect I didn't phrase my original meaning clearly enough, because I think we're speaking at cross purposes. No disagreement with what you're saying, but I was attempting to talk about who Patrick is likely to know given A, not how difficult or easy it is to achieve A if you commit to going down that route.
One particularly large issue that I've had with making retina compatible websites is Mobile Safari. It renders SVG a little strangely at times, and even the simplest of the can reliably crash the browser when zoomed in on.
2013: The year Gigabit Wi-Fi arrives
It doesn't matter how big the tech sector is. The influence that Hollywood yields is much greater.

The apple orchard might bring in more revenue than selling newspapers...but the newspaper has more influence over the population.
Figures I see floating around for worldwide Hollywood Movie Studio revenue for 2012 are around 90 billion dollars (or about twice Google's revenue).
I have a sublist of that, that I built over the last ~year of hacking on web projects. One of my biggest to dos in each project is automate stuff like validating. I still haven't really found a good way so I either go to w3c and check everything once in a while or I just don't. Usually I just don't.

This to me is like a checklist of things to automate. Is there any "build" system for the web?
shortwave recordings of numbers stations from across the globe. (The Conet project - http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/)

Also, lush from Soma.fm
Depends. I have a whole pile of various Pandora stations I've created, that I listen to sometimes. Most of those are rock/metal centric, but there is one focused on gangster rap stuff.

Other times, I like to listen to trance / electronic music / europop stuff, and for that I tend to just find a shoutcast station and tune into that. Same for the times when I'm in the mood for classical music.

Always, however, the Prime Directive remains "ABC" - Anything But Country.
If not Sergey it would probably be an old timer like Urs. Vic is pretty new and probably well down the totem pole.
Another, more advanced robot building system (great for high schoolers) at around this price point is VEX Robotics. It has a great community, with friendly competition.

http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex
As a hiring manager, I also like to verify people's resumes against their Linkedin profiles. I generally find some kind of useful context (something they left out), recommendation or discrepancy on about 1 out of 10 resumes.
I'm not looking, but, to tag along, the position of Growth Hacker/Analytic Marketer is also quite popular and valuable (sometimes).
I think I answered this question on the other comment, but more concretely you can

* browse the citation and co-authorship graphs without jumping between PDFs.

* find authors relevant to your searches- when we do our job right, serendipitously.

I think many of our future features are going to hew closely to "there's power in people".
Are you honestly suggesting that it's worth doubling the size of all your assets over the wire, making pages load even slower on mobile, just to make them look high-DPI for people on retina devices?

Again, if it were easy to feature-detect reliably and only serve the bigger assets up to people on retina devices, I might agree with you.

I've got a high-DPI device and I prefer fast-loading pages every day. If I want things to look incredibly crisp I'll zoom out. Text still looks great!
A little sketched out about putting my real name on here.. how do I know my current employer won't see it?
The 181,354 most annoying people on the internet
Awesome, any plans for designers?
Price is one of two reasons why I chose to give my kids Arduino's instead of Mindstorms; the other being they're going to learn more about electronics and robotics than they will from Mindstorms.
1KB of GET data is ~25 UUIDs. That doesn't seem excessive.
This is a huge problem, which is the poor handling of SVG by even 'current' browsers. I keep hoping the 'retina revolution' will force this issue for browser makers.
/s/link to think/like to think

What's your experience or background with finding jobs for other people? What you have is an idealistic approach to recruiting, which is great, but may not that easy to pull off, if possible at all. There are not just spammy recruiters, but also b/s applicants either with bloated self assessment, unrealistic expectations or just simply unpleasant and unprofessional people to deal with. What's your plan for handling such people? After all, the pool of sensible skilled developers with honest resumes and reasonable expectations is very limited. If you ever put a developer job positing out there, you probably saw that 95% of all inbound applications are worthy only of going straight to the shredder.

(edit) Not to put you down by any means. I would love to see this work, I'm just having trouble seeing how it would.
IOS Native - Unity App Bridge (GitHub Link)
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> A lifestyle business is one that you build to improve peoples' lifestyles (including your own) rather than to make billions.

Nope, you're mostly just concerned with your own lifestyle. That's fine, of course. But there's no need to try and make it sound any more noble than it actually is.
I'd argue this is correct. If a is nil, it's not comparable. The alternative would be to throw an exception, which is pretty simple to emulate by checking.

Also, nils aren't allowed in the collection classes, so sorting with compare: will simply never encounter this case.
NFC Sucks, obviously
Oh! certainly! We're a small startup, and don't quite have the manpower for an API yet- but if we keep moving, we'll get there.

I really like what Mendeley has done so far. I've chatted a bit with them about integrating with their API, ourselves- it's a rich data source, and I think we could do some great things.
If by brilliant you mean "less incompetent" then, yeah.

Any site, such as Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc. with a large number of users and multiple properties that touch social network features like posting (images, videos, blog entries), comments, followers/friends/groups, etc. could have grown a social network the way Google is doing.

Google tried to do it as a standalone product, with Orkut, and failed, and then they correctly realized that by integrating the concepts of "posting" and "circle" into all their properties that have similar characteristics, they would succeed.

Yahoo tried this half-heartedly and failed. I'm sure others went halfway, without discipline that enforced implementation in multiple Web properties, and failed. Google is integrating more systematically than these failures.
- The relevance of the images does improve as you read more of the article. You did a good job of front-loading the interesting hoverboard image, which drew me in, but the stock photo of the guy with the mohawk stuck out as particularly weird and distracting.

- I realize now that you didn't submit this yourself, and you likely weren't expecting this level of traffic right now. I look forward to seeing the new site.

- Proof-reading is always good. God knows I make a ton of mistakes, and I can't even speak a second language.

Sorry if I came across as overly negative, congrats on hitting the front page :)
I knew as soon as I made the observation that someone was going to mention buggy whips. The guys who set up the lighting and sound on motion picture sets have not been "obsoleted" by Reddit.

The only reason this particular economic model needs "propping up" is that people have decided that they have an intrinsic right to content produced at great expense by other people on their own terms, and, despite the fact that the law prohibiting them from ignoring the terms of the content producers is clear as glass, have chosen to establish huge anonymous conspiracies to collectively ignore the law.

Forgive me if I don't see this as a case of progress being held back by entrenched interests.
This is a great project and team. I talked with them a few weeks ago, and have a lot of confidence they'll make the right choices. It's an uphill battle to get something like this deployed widely, but I have a lot of confidence in them.
Ask HN: Like Hacker School/App Academy?
I am very interested in programs with a focus on learn by doing rather than lecture based instruction. Hacker School and App Academy are the only institutions I have been able to find thus far with such a structure.

What other programs should I look into?
Totally agree.

Also, while we're at it, can we stop referring to these high-density displays by the idiotic marketing term, "Retina"?
well Ive never once seen it in my batteryplus stats, you sure its google now ? and not something else ?
> Would it sound absurd for someone to announce that they quit hammers tomorrow?

If hammers were a very recent invention that had become a cornerstone of the modern workplace, then yes, it would be interesting to read a well-argued post about why someone was "quitting hammers."
Loading a page with normal assets and then replacing them with double-resolution ones with JavaScript doesn't seem ridiculously bad to me.

Pages still load as they normally would, and then become progressively clearer. Set a cookie, and all subsequent loads can be sent with only retina quality images.

A little fragile, but it works.
Large Scale Machine Learning at NYU (Videos will be online)
Nobody ever tell me what small government is. Does that mean no roads and schools? Smaller police departments? No libraries? I have no idea.

To me those words (small government) mean "shady politician". How about a definition?
I don't remember integrating Buzz into my Google+ page but I've never had issues over-sharing on Google+ - it's one of the things Google+ makes extremely simple.
What baffles me a bit is how horrendously buggy some OS X apps are with Retina displays. I'm running an rMBP and Thunderbolt displays, and I've had no end of pain with Chrome; Flash videos fullscreen at 2x or 1/2x resolution (seems to be no logic as to which that will be), pages will randomly go white while the elements are still there with logic running, text will overrun controls (e.g. the "add comment" button on HN -- text is 2x bigger than the button), etc. It's generally not a dealbreaker, but it absolutely isn't a great user experience.
This remains an interesting problem that attracts a lot of startup activity. A few players in this space worth checking out:
- ConnectedHQ (acquired by LinkedIn)
- Mingly
- Xobni
- Rexter
- Contactually
I'm sure there are others, but if you're inclined to report back, I'd be interested to know what you decide on and why.
Sounds like all kinds of fun (and late nights) can be had.

Thanks to all the answers in this subthread for the current info.
I think the best solution would be to only use CSS. You can do pretty much everything with CSS so that would be the best way to ensure the perfect resolution for everyone... but there will always be exceptions
> So my fear is that I'd end up wandering aimlessly, missing the good bits for the obvious ones, not getting a whole lot out of it, and wondering what I'm doing.

> Is this a legitimate fear?

Perfectly legitimate fear. But none that cannot be overcome. Yes it takes some time to get into it, but the only way to get there is to jump into the cold water and get out of your comfort zone. Realize the fear but have the courage to just try it.

When relocating somwhere without knowing anyone, i usually start off by just checking wikitravel (now probably wikivoyage) and check the "Sleep Budget" section. Pick the Hostel that sounds nice (kitchen, wifi, artisanias, friendly personnel) and head there. Plan nothing more (well maybe just checkout some stuff you want to see eventually, while you're around the area.).

When doing so, the most important thing is to have confidence, that a flexible schedule and your freedom to move whenever and wherever you want will help you get where you want (wherever that shall be). Unplanned and spontaneous trips have been way better and fulfilling than any planned stuff. That's something you can only learn by experiencing it yourself.
And in case you really end up somewhere without finding contacts or get bored, just relocate :) Pick another stop and do it over again, don't ever get frustrated and keep in mind that there are tons of people doing the same as you and are happy to connect and share good experiences with you.

E.g.: At some point i was in peru and planning to visit bolivia. Looked up a really nice guy on couchsurfing (who ended up hosting me for a week). In his respond to my CS request he recommended a festival at lake titicaca that was going to happen soon. Went to the festival alone and immediately met incredibly nice and interesting people (with whom i spent a lot of time in bolivia and peru afterwards). This one clueless couchsurfing request ended in 3-4 weeks of fun and many new friends that i'm looking forward to meeting again at some point.

Another time i met a guy who was travelling with his '94 chevy van from the states down to SA since 2 years. We ended up crossing the salar de uyuni and the bolivian andes towards chile together in his van (and lost the muffler along the way on the rocky mountainpaths...).

So my advice is: Just plan the first step, be open for things to come and then spontaneously choose what looks best. Freeing yourself from the idea that you _need_ plans for a good time will give you the freedom to be open to what comes and lays the way for unexpected adventures :) The people you meet (travelers and locals) are probably the best "tour-guides" you'll find.

I've never had a lonely planet on the whole trip, so dunno how useful they are for this kind of travelling. Found the reviews on wikitravel/wikivoyage to be reliable enough, so far.