skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hardest part is probably going to be power. A lot of the rest is just wiring up a bunch of components, which is complicated but not electronics-heavy. Datasheets are your friend.

My first suggestion is to get a microcontroller like a PIC and design a circuit board for something simple. Something like the SpiffChorder (http://chorder.cs.vassar.edu/spiffchorder/hardware), which acts as a USB chording keyboard with about a dozen components, might be a good start. Eagle is free for small boards.

The biggest hurdle here is probably getting your boards made--it'll be expensive and slow compared to everything else you're doing.
I added two more questions while you where writing this reply probably.
To someone from the UK, 'Tealeaf Academy' implies that it's a school for thieves.

Tealeaf being Cockney rhyming slang for 'thief'.
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There may be an old TV in the garage which can take input from the on-board composite video output. Otherwise, it'll be $10 at Goodwill.
If you want the world to have a free book about Django, feel free to write one and make it public.
It makes me angry when privileged people don't demonstrate compassion.

OK, but where do you see a lack of compassion? I think you read too much into the "zombie" reference.
Already? The movie only just came out! Nice work.
No government pleases everyone and no government is perfect. However, from someone who has been a citizen of both Austin, San Francisco, and other cities, Texas/Austin, despite some shortcomings, is to me clearly the less dysfunctional government. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has been citizens of both cities and honestly thinks otherwise.

I'm not saying Austin is better than San Francisco or anything super subjective like that, but only the mildly subjective assertion that the government is less dysfunctional in Austin, compared to SF.
That's the approach Hiccups took, it goes as far as generating most of the html at compile time as well.
I didn't run benchmarks but I would guess it is faster than crate in some situations (huge fragments, older browsers etc).

Another plus is nodejs compatibilty (if you care about that, but I guess you might :)).

https://github.com/teropa/hiccups
By the time I was done interviewing someone, they weren't a nothing to me any more — I had an idea of who they were. The whole point of an interview is to cease being a nothing and gain the respect and interest of the interviewers; if you're interviewing people as though they're nothings, you may notice that a lot of your best candidates turn you down. Finally, everyone is interviewing the company; if the interviewee isn't willing to turn down an offer, someone will take advantage of them.
you just forgot to read the part that says:

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Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.

First, if you can't afford to buy the book, then do as we asked on http://django.2scoops.org. Email us and we'll send you a copy. Money should never be in the way of education.

Second, this book took hundreds of hours to write. For weeks we've put in 12-14+ hour days putting it together. We did it instead of working in an office or doing consulting. If we don't charge then we can't put this sort of thing together and maintain it.

Unless, of course, you want to sponsor us to do this sort of work. ;-)
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The next logical step is to write a viewer for these videos that works with the Oculus Rift headset! You wouldn't be able to use stereo 3D, but even in 2D the head tracking abilities of the headset would make for a very interesting playback experience nonetheless.
Gasland has a giant hoax in it. Let's talk about the iconic scene in this "documentary": the lighting of the water coming out of the pipe. It is blamed on natural gas and the scene takes place in Pennsylvania.

The problem with the scene, beyond the allegations it was faked[1], is that methane is naturally occurring in the water supply of Pennsylvania[2]. In fact, long before fracking, George Washington and Thomas Paine did a bit of of an experiment involving it[3].

Add to this the fun fact the fracking is occurring at 6,000 and 10,000 feet and aquifers are about 500 feet down. Meaning that the gas released would still have to find a way up through a lot of rock.

There are some environmental concerns with fracking, but this isn't one of them.

1) http://reason.com/archives/2011/05/19/plentiful-fuel

2) http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/tag/methane-migratio...

3) search Writings of Thomas Paine - available from google books among others
Kayak has also done something similar at http://kayak.com/explore since 2010.
Power hard - how? It gets regulated 5V via Micro USB.
The BLS figures you cite only include full-time hourly and salaried workers. These are the upper crust of employment in America.

My figure comes from payrolls reported to the Social Security Administration:
http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2011

"By definition, 50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage, which is estimated to be $26,965.43 for 2011."

28k was a peak value from a graph that adjusted old dollar values to present dollars. (The SSA data is unadjusted for inflation.)
Why hasn't Google made a client for Linux yet? It's been almost a year.
Nope - San Francisco is not much bigger. San Francisco has 800K people. Vancouver has 600K.

(It is true that there are much more people in Bay Area versus the greater Vancouver area.)

I've lived in both cities. Vancouver is basically the San Francisco of Canada. But it lacks the defiantly weird spirit of San Francisco. The insane wealth that's pumped through the city from nearby tech zillionaires does play a role, because it gives 20-year-olds really high incomes, even though they spend a lot of it on rent. But in NYC or Toronto people would be spending that money on status possessions, not constructing snail-cars that shoot fire.

And everyone having an iPhone? That was 2007 in the Bay Area.

Vancouver does have virtues of its own. The OP talks about SF's culture of fitness, but I did not notice that so much -- it's nothing compared to Vancouver. People in Vancouver have excellent work-life balance. They put in a decent effort at work, more or less 9-5, but do two different sports in their spare time. People in Vancouver look like they're 25 when they're 35. People in SF stay mentally young for longer, but the job stress tends to wear down on them. When I moved from Vancouver to SF I noticed how tired everybody looked.
EC2 console is not working properly
It is returning

<html><body><b>Http/1.1 Service Unavailable</b></body> </html>

Does it also happen to you? I am requesting data about my instances on us-east1.
If you look further down the page it says that they are happy to send free copies to people that can't afford it. Which shows you didn't even bother to read their website before complaining.

Tell me. Do you donate all your time to sharing knowledge for free, or do you work a nine to five job like most people?

Have you written a book yourself that you subsequently released for free, or you just trying to dictate what other people should do with their hard work?

Clarification: The info about getting free copies is on http://django.2scoops.org/ rather than the blog post
A quick search for "google drive fuse" reveals a better approach to this...

https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/

https://github.com/jcline/fuse-google-drive

Didn't get much attention when it was posted here 267 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3887308
do415.com is also a solid site for finding stuff to do.
Well, knowing the O performance of some sorting algorithms, is not what IMHO can be defined as "we want to know how you think". Or implement, in a very short amount of time, tree algorithms.

I mean, they are not totally 'aha!' things, but they are the kind of things that you could nail one day, and be completely stuck another. And quite irrelevant to your work (as is highly unlikely that you'll ever implement it)

On the other hand, questions about how and why to use this data structure or another, are totally relevant and interesting. And shows way more that you have been using them and know what are the differences.

Again, is just my opinion (and Google can do their interview process as they like, they are obviously doing fine in getting a great team!), but my impression is that gives a lot to chance or inspiration in some interviews, and giving their process, one mistake could be all you need to be out.
As a chess outsider, this sentence gave me pause until I noticed the capitalization:

"Though he was Black, Ivanov achieved a slight edge after 11 moves"
How many ducks are you dealing with in a day?
Ask HN: Accounting for a SaaS business
Just wondering if anyone operating a SaaS business had some pointers about how they manage the accounting side of their business.

Things of interest would be accounting software, invoicing process, treatment of late payment/debtors etc.
When will the media learn their lesson?
After getting fooled by the Te'o hoax, they include another hoax in their report on the first hoax. When will the madness end?
I once spent a year limiting my use of sight on and off by using a blindfold. One of the things I quickly discovered is how useless many of the built in accessibility tools were. Using a web-browser was impossible, as was the window manager in general.

Over the course of the year I built tools that made accomplishing tasks when blindfolded possible or easier. Using the command line and Unix friendly programs (programs that work with text streams) worked best. Emacs already had some accessibility projects out there and extending them was easy enough. With a set of rules and inbetween scripts I was able to get the text to speech to speak "C" and added audio cues to aid navigation. A similar set of scripts and rules in addition to audio cues made debugging with GDB possible.

After my experiment was done I went back to using my normal setup full time but I learned quite a bit.
Google CEO Larry Page says Facebook is doing 'a really bad job'
For the record, I don't think the situation is a good one by any means. I just don't think the people who are least empowered to do anything about it should be referred to pejoratively, and a big part of that is because it isn't going to help the situation. For that matter I don't think anyone should be referred to pejoratively on the basis of class membership, rich or poor.

It just seems to me that replacing the pejorative terms with neutral language makes the whole post more compassionate. And then the question you end up asking is, "This is bad, what should we do about it?" - because obviously zombies outside your four star hotel is a sign of badness - as opposed to, "Fucking crackheads, how do they work?"

I think that people even have to live on the street at all in the richest nation in the world is a travesty. It's almost like they're there to motivate people to work harder.
Perhaps sort of like Mozilla are masquerading as a charity?
"This makes me wonder whether your senses have been dulled by taking too much of that standard practice for granted." Yes, that is totally fair. I have been thinking hard recently about the role of gradual change vs. radical change.

I agree about "taste" too. I'd never have said anything, but there comes a point in the popularization of a case where truth starts to be important.
Find an example that shows using a timeout channel along with another async activity on another channel, and then switching on that. Then you will start to see some elegance versus the Java way. (Sorry, in a hurry otherwise I'd provide the link myself :(
Haven't seen that. But this is the third in a string of entertaining mayors we've had.

Previous mayor got into a fight about hours worked with the council, and then after passing a resolution, the council had a lawyer look at it and decide that they couldn't do what they just did.

Previous to that, the mayor used the word 'poopyhead' on a local internet forum, which was disbanded later due to the excessive flaming over land use regulations.

Small towns are lovely, except for the talent pool for leading them.
The best question was asked by Steve Jobs: "How do you re-invent the phone?"

All of you smartasses hiring with your riddle questions couldn't answer that.
Ubuntu especially are now focusing on blingy desktops that somehow require really new cards and hardware only, and yet are also trying to throw away the traditional desktop to cram themselves onto a phone.

Bling is so much less work than games that even a low-end GPU can drive Unity's bling. The only problem is when you have no working 3D driver at all.

Phones actually have better 3D drivers than desktop PCs, because Linux is the dominant kernel for phones. Every phone SoC has working GLES 2.0 Linux drivers. (The drivers are proprietary but that doesn't bother Ubuntu.)
Most of the bay area is chaparral. The Central Valley is generally ten to twenty degrees hotter than the coastal areas during the summer. The hot air literally sucks the cold wet marine air inland right across SF during most summer days.

That is why the best SF weather is early spring and late fall when the temperature difference between the Central Valley and the SF Bay Area is minimal, and their is much less fog.

When the summer sun goes down, the fog evaporates in the dry air and the temperature drops.
They are injecting the water 6,000 and 10,000 feet and aquifers are about 500 feet down. They had to get the exception according to current law even if they were somehow injecting directly into the earth's core. The exception was given because the water cannot get into the aquifer.
You know what's sad? I got genuinely excited because I thought this thread title said "Marker Revolution."

To be fair, look... I'm left-handed. I'd be pretty excited about a new kind of smear-proof marker that didn't leave my hand and the drawing surface looking like unintentional abstract art if I wasn't careful.
>the whole point of civil disobedience is to break a law, and get caught, punished and make (to a certain extent) a martyr of yourself to draw attention to your cause.

This is assuming that his intent was actually civil disobedience -- what if he didn't think what he was doing was even illegal? His lawyers apparently didn't. And he wasn't even charged with copyright infringement, which is ostensibly the law he would have opposed.
This is indeed quite weak of them. Perhaps their developers don't really believe in the product?
Between the Joel.is posts and this latest "Buffer" blog posting I have to say the majority of material coming out of these folks just reeks of "Quick-Fix" (Steven Covey term) superficiality and marketing spam. It's highly individualized reflection that gets generalized back into principles and platitudes for success and looks great on the surface, but there's no depth.

They spout off a few "lessons" -- really just post-success reflections/rationalizations -- all of which may or may not truly be principles that lead to success, and then slather their posts with some filler remarks. Top it off with a few random EXTRA-BOLD / italicized points to pass it off as "fact" and then slap a ton of social media, newsletters, etc. around it.

I can just imagine the folks at Buffer discovering the words of Jesus...

"Here at Buffer, we like to love your neighbor as yourself, for in loving others we spread compassion and grace. Our phenomenal work in spreading compassion to one man, who we found nearly dead at the side of the road, has helped us all understand love better. The key is this: if you want to love, you need to stop on the side of the road for all people. Also, get BufferApp. PS, sign up for our newsletter. Buffer."
Agreed. I just moved here from Tucson, and there's virtually no way I'd be here if not for the fact that I'm living with a medical resident in an apartment subsidized by her hospital.

Given a choice among SF, NYC, and Seattle, and I'd choose Seattle: It has much of what makes the first two desirable, but at 60% of the cost.

BTW, to the extent that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in The Rent is Too Damn High and Ryan Avent writes in The Gated City. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!
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This. The press release simply stated the maximum penalty for the charges. A "threat" would have been a statement by the prosecutor saying what they intended to press for. Example - if someone were to state "I have a gun that could shoot you, leading to injury or death" that is a statement of fact, whereas if they said "I have a gun and I intend/will shoot you, leading to your injury or death" then they are making a threat. In this case the statement of fact was "If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison..." the use of "IF" is very important.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....

Legal jargon is very specific and it may seem overly analytic to draw such a fine line, but that is exactly how law works and such specific distinctions must be drawn in order to understand exactly what is being said.
is it google maps or is it what buildings do when you're not looking?
ePub is important to me as well. Mostly because it's the format that http://readmill.com supports.

(I'm aware I can convert it to ePub myself)
Just finished the first chapter and I'm probably not putting it down again (after I write this comment). This feels like something Django really needed (or I needed for Django), despite its extensive documentation. I find analogies are very helpful for my understanding and the ice cream one is perfect. The fact that "Each Chapter Stands On It's Own" is the great too!
My answer was sarcastic, but there were real issues behind. Call it "informed sarcasm". Having used ssh since 1995 (on systems like SunOS 4.2 and UNICOS) I felt entitled to a bit of sarcasm.

I thought it would be obvious to most readers how a tty environment is easier to control than a browser (really, just consider the number and pace of updates to your kernel/windowing system/terminal and your web browser), so I did not bother with lengthy explanations.
If the gas is simply being flared, wouldn't it be more profitable to bring in some large gas turbines (converted 747 engines would work) and generate power to sell to the grid and neighboring states until pipelines are ready?

If transport is likely to be a recurring problem, it seems obvious that an entrepreneur could step in and arbitrage the price gap between energy and the glut of natural gas in the region by generating power and upgrading power lines.

Even when more natural gas production goes to pipelines, those power lines could later be used to transport North Dakota's wind power.
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This is the guy who wanted to use a small RTOS on the iPhone rather than the full OS X. And thankfully lost that battle.
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Go spend a winter in NY and then complain about the SF weather.
I forgot about that part, I was thinking back to my experiences at a hardware startup. The battery circuitry was only a small portion of the board, but it was the most complicated electrically.
I used to live in San Francisco for about 4 years (1998 to 2002) and for a few months over those 4 years I lived south and north of the city. I say this very literally, that I rather be homeless in San Francisco than live anywhere around it. Its an amazing city that has given me a lot (and taken a lot in a fair trade). The most amazing aspect of this city, in my opinion, is that its where all the American 'rejects' end up in. In those years the start up scene was different than today and not everybody around you was in a start up. But most of those who were not native and not in a start up were those that didn't quite fit in in their home state and though they'd find acceptance in San Francisco. Most of them did. Its probably one of the most tolerant city in the States where most people there have a passport and are well travelled. Yes its expensive, but you do get what you pay for. The same applies to any big city like London, New York, Tel Aviv etc.

Although I'm no longer a local, here are a few culinary pro tips: if you are a sushi lover, you must visit Ebisu in the Sunset (http://www.ebisusushi.com). If you fancy a good pint of Guinness, Oreily's pub in North Beach is a must (and they make a beef and Guinness soup that is just insane).
Very cool. It'd be awesome to see something like this for MongoDB.
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What makes you think the FUSE approach is better?
> You are asking a lot of the slide authors to minor facilitate secondary usage at the expense of primary usage.

I'm in a desktop browser, and I find this incredibly annoying to navigate.

If that's not "primary usage" for viewing slides posted online, I don't know what is.
> I think you are getting a bit too aggressive

That's a joke right?

> You are asking

I'm not really asking anything, I merely replied to "4ad"'s insulting dismissal of concerns voiced by two other people as to the usability of the deck, then replied to his dishonesty and goalpost-moving antics.

> minor facilitate secondary usage

Making it actually possible to see the deck you officially posted online is neither facilitation or minor.

> at the expense of primary usage.

"Primary usage" is clicking a "run" button? Really?

> It could be a lot worse

That is a troubling qualifier, how is inaccessible information better than accessible worthless information?