skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me pessimistic, but I suspect that the 'Maker Revolution' could bring us a level of legal madness that is far beyond what we have seen in copyright over the past 20 years.

Plans for 3D printing are not only copyrightable, they are subject to patent law. That, and the potential for creation of contraband with 3D printers may lead to online clearing houses for designs that you make and print at home, or strict legislation controlling the use of home printers and sale of items from them.

Beyond that, it is likely that there will be a secondary effect. Right now, you can make just about any item you want to in your wood shop, hobby shop or on your kitchen table, and use it at home or sell it to neighbors or friends. 3D printers may bring much more legal scrutiny to things that pass under the radar as craft today even if printers aren't used.

I want a better future than that, so I hope that people take the initiative to support early safe harbor legislation and exemptions for home projects.
Of course! I really appreciate the time you all put in this book and I keep finding huge changes I can make in my code (ch.2 on db and ch.3 on layout -a very difficult topic to research a few months ago) I'm at webpowerlabs.com for reference. Thanks again and great job!
It's relieving to read pieces like this. That last paragraph was spot on. The top comments got me laughing at "Those poor old bosses need all the help they can get".
Mortgage interest deduction, corporate subsidies and tax breaks to large companies that employ that web designer, governmental subsidized infrastructure
You always start with a schematic. Rip apart an existing schematic for a SoC system like a BeagleBoard or SABRE Lite. Then when you're ready, you feed this netlist into a board layout tool.

You'll find that most of these newer boards are a single massive chip that contains the CPU/GPU and all related I/O. There isn't much hardware to design anymore.

The rest of the board is either I/O connectors and their related parts (filter caps, pullups, etc), or support chips (eMMC, DRAM, Ethernet transceivers, etc).

Note that these SoC parts are usually highly dense ball-grid array (BGA) devices. This is pretty exotic stuff if you're just getting started with board layout, and we won't even get into RAM timing and trace impedance matching yet.

Pandaboard references (TI OMAP): http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/references

SABRE Lite (Freescale i.MX): http://boundarydevices.com/products/sabre-lite-imx6-sbc/

RPi Schematics (Broadcom SoC): http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Raspbe...
Not so great, most deals listed are lowest price, which is always Spirit Airlines, this is not the real price you pay most of the time, and after experience flying with them, honestly I wouldn't use them ever again.
If they can filter them out, this would be interesting service.
One of the few Show HNs that are actually pleasing to the eye. Nice little app!
It seems more likely that this was an Obama campaign advantage, rather than a Democratic party advantage.

Judging from the emails I'm getting, Obama would like to turn it from a campaign advantage to a governing advantage (here are all of my current policy issues, please put pressure on Congress to do X, Y and Z), and if he succeeds in that he will undoubtably try to turn it into a party advantage in the future.

So yes, the organization is fluid and can evaporate. The database of possibly politically active people is much less fluid, and may prove to be a more durable advantage.
The "well funded start up" bit is demonstrably not true. (who is it you imagine they're funded by? to what end?)

They've benefitted from some extremely skilled people donating a lot of their time and Broadcom selling their SoC to the project at cost for some free publicity/goodwill. There's nothing mysterious about it.
Having moved from SF to Seattle, I just want to say that Seattle is terrible, and you should warn everybody you know to stay away.

;)
Instagram has 90 million Monthly Active Users
If you're looking for education watch something else. If you could use some inspiration, this is awesome.
>Still undecided about in-flight wi-fi though — it’s one of the very few chunks of time we have left where we can truly disconnect and go offline nowadays.

Wow, this guy and I have very different flying experiences. I have yet to have anything close to a zen like experience with the child behind me kicking my seat, the baby in front crying, and the fat guy next to me sweating profusely.

The first airline that offers adults only (weight limit apply) on select flights will get ALL my business.
How is rent control like that legal?
> 2.6% of the raw carbon (-> CO2)

It seems barely anybody is concerned by this. Sure if it's 2.6%, 97.4% will be released in some form at some point, but those 2.6% are lost with a utility/greenhouse ratio of effectively zero. That's 150 million cubic feet per day flared into heat+CO2 for naught. I don't know how this stacks up against other means of getting oil.

FWIW, France could economically benefit from fracking, but it has been decided at the political level to ban the practice until it can be made provably safe and sound.
Why not do something other than Sudoku?

The market is telling you that there's no need for another Sudoku game. It's possible that this is because of some missing element in the game design - or it's possible that other people already find the other 1000 alternatives fun, or think they have nice design. Either way, though, wouldn't it be easier to find a less crowded niche where people have real needs that are being poorly met by the existing apps?
For me, allocation, period. For all the investment made by Google in hiring me, and all the personal debt I accrued in leaving my previous employer and renting an apartment in Mountain View, it all came down to getting hosed by Google's version of the Hogwarts selection hat.

All attempts to address this were blocked by mid-level management, leaving me no other options other than continuing a job I hated or leaving. Even engineers within google who had worked with me in the past and vouched for me couldn't make a difference.

Google's allocation process is akin to Russian roulette and I got the chamber with a bullet in it.

So I left.

Now there is hope. Just like Jamba Juice lets you order off-menu smoothies, Google will let you pick what you want to do if you can find a team that will accept you. They just don't talk about it. Insist on it and I suspect you'll be fine. I wish I'd known that bit before I went there.
http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html from Fogus is also a good starting point to have an overview of how to do things and what is possible.
Next stop: modern-cljs as mentioned by pchristensen.
I college I worked at exxonmobil in their lease accounting department so I do know something about this. It would be highly unusual for ANY lease to have language like this, oil companies have entire departments that pay out money for damage done to surface property owners.
I know there was one guy who's prize bull would ALWAYS die from drinking saltwater from the oil well every year in April and demand $5,000 which was paid without a peep. Everyone was pretty sure that there was no bull, but it wasn't worth fighting for $5,000.
Also if the lease did have language prohibiting civil action state mineral laws would make that a contract term that is void, except Louisiana you can never be sure about law there.
The dood nails it. If you're considering moving to the Bay Area, read this, every word of it. Very well done.
This is actually more interesting then hipmunk, but kind of not as easy to use as their service. Maybe you could just do a simple page like they did to query your service.
And filter god-damn Spirit, they should not be called an airline!
Just bought the book, congrats!

I've written about using Sphinx to write technical books, you may find it useful:
http://pedrokroger.net/2012/10/using-sphinx-to-write-books/

I see you used Pages to write the book. AFAIK Pages can export to ePub automatically (but I don't know if the result is any good). Maybe you could consider to export the ePub and distribute it with the PDF even if the ePub is a "beta" version. I think it could be useful for a lot of people.
Great comment. There are a lot of those questions that are repeated over and over and over...
Your cohort was pretty active, and I think a lot of it had to do with the reply-by-email functionality. For example, I was able to just reply while on my cell without fumbling with mobile Safari. You should've seen earlier cohorts, a lot less discussion (sorry guys, if any of you are reading this!).
Apple raises age limit for “violent” NRA target practice game
Why, it's almost like you should have programmers program during an interview.

A previous company I worked for did that. Build a small ad-hoc team of 3-4 people (with 1-2 existing employees, as knowledge repositories), and let the candidates work on a sort-of real problem for pretty much a day.

Every team member occasionally came in and watched for a while, every team member looked at the repo for the end results, and the "embedded" people gave feedback on how it felt to work with the candidates.

Yes, it's expensive. But so is a mishire, and it sure did work well to filter people out.
Uhh... you went of in some weird orthogonal direction. The Stross reference were about the minimum number of people needed for a technological civilization.

(Didn't you read it? Are you defending some belief system as an excuse for being religious? We're just talking past each others?)

(And you're wrong, anyway. without technology and science, we'd still have little time, get sick and die early -- living under tyranny. Not much chance of contentment and happiness when you e.g. see your kids die; it was ~ 30% child mortality before technology/science, depending on where you lived. The point is, industrialisation is a prereq for fulfilling existential needs for most of the population.)
> Why should I invest in a company that does IPO only for some people to do exits?

Exactly. Companies that are making money hand over fist, with amazing growth potential are rarely looking for people to share their wealth with.

Much of the two tech bubbles would have been avoided if buyers had thought through what is going on the other side of the table.
Most mineral lease are exactly that, you get upfront cash and a percentage of the production value. If the company doesn't drill in a period of time, or if there is a nearby well the option becomes worthless. A big problem for companies right now is that they have a lot of drill it or lose it lease which has them pumping up production in a period of very low prices.
Typically there are 3 use cases for email services - transactional emails, campaign emails and receiving emails. You have the most options with it comes to sending transactional emails. But pay attention to some of the lower priced providers because they only help you to "send" emails, but not putting much effort that the emails are actually delivered - it is hard engineering with all the email provider's spam rules etc. The ones I recommend in this area are Mailgun and Postmark. Both have good reputation doing this well.

Then you have inbounding emails, which is newer and less providers do that. Both Mailgun and Postmark have it, and there are some newer players like cloudmailin, which I haven't used.

On the campaigning side, the biggest player is MailChimp with good reputation. I have used their service, but it feels like it's mostly built for marketers - Nice UI, a lot of templating choices, and your workflow is mostly in the browser. If that's your use case, they should serve you well.

As for as I know, Mailgun is the only email provider that has all 3, plus Mailing Lists and Storage (you can create mail boxes.. or basically build your own version of GMail on top of Mailgun).. For Tealeaf Academy (http://www.gotealeaf.com), we use delivering, receiving, mailing lists and campaigning, so Mailgun is what we picked. It also has a "closer to the metal" feel with their lower level APIs, which we like a lot.

I'd also recommend Postmark, if your app focuses on delivering and receiving transactional emails, and their pricing makes sense to you - I have seen some of their developer's posts and they know this stuff very well too.

I'd avoid some of the cheaper options, especially on transactional email delivery - it's a big deal (sending people receipts, notify credit card expiration, resetting password etc) and you want to stick with people who know how to do this.. don't cheap out
Employers say that about candidates all the time. Why should it be a one-way thing?
Work with people in a freelance capacity first. It's kind of tricky because it can be perceived as dishonest. But as long as you're open and serious about it, and convey that to the candidate, it can work.
Man, text sucks for conveying meaning

(3) I find it strange that there is such poverty next to such wealth and that people consider it acceptable. I feel as though I've woken up in a zombie movie, but everyone else is just carrying on with their day, like no big deal.
Does it bother anyone else that anyone who thought they would "only sell 1,000" had to be exceptionally dense? A blindness to the marketability of a $35 linux computer stuns me, whoever that person is keep them them the hell away from the strategy sessions :-)

When they announced it I, and every single 'senior' engineer I talked to said exactly the same thing, "If they can pull this off they will sell millions of these." Granted the engineers designing the Pi were in diapers when the Apple II came out but a bit of history will show you that if you get a 10x jump in price/performance on anything the impact is large and profound. You can use it as an iron clad variation of the mouse trap quote "If you can build a mouse trap that is either 10x more effective, or 10x cheaper than the current solution, you will capture a significant portion of the mousetrap market."

1,000 ? Really? Did they even think about the Commodor VIC20 which was a crap machine but met the mousetrap rule and sold several million units?

I'm glad they've pulled it off, I've got 15 Raspberry Pi boards (5 of the 256M ones and 10 of the 512M ones) I have every reason to believe I can build any of a number of products out of them that would sell in the range of 10,000 a month. So they were just clueless. Now they know.

The next step will be more interesting. Looking for another ARM manufacturer to take the bet, whether its Samsung or TI or maybe Applied Micro. Will be interesting to see.
Congratulations! If I may suggest a few things:

- How about adding a sample in the web page?

- You may to consider using PayPal in addition to Gumroad. Gumroad is awesome, but some people may only be able to use PayPal (e.g. no International Credit Card) or prefer it. I use both for my book and I sell way more copies on PayPal.
Cue's hookshot: hacking the iOS runtime for fun and profiles
Another vote for mobi/epub, even if the code blocks are unreadable.

I understand the aversion to negative reviews. Maybe you can offer this with a disclaimer for those who bought the PDF.
Shameless plug, but I'll do it anyway since it's a direct answer to the question: I'm the (co)author of ClojureScript: Up and Running from O'Reilly.

If anyone wants, email me at the address in my profile and I'll get you a discount code.
IT Hiccups of the Week: BATS Global Long-hidden Programming Errors
Google's Matt Cutts & Bing's On "Search Police" Panel At SMX West
Yeah, I jumped to conclusions. Thanks for taking the high road. I don't know why I get so upset about the plight of homeless people. I think I also hate the zombie meme. And, I used to call people crackheads too, so maybe I'm just annoyed with myself for that.

When I was in Toronto, I found Jane & Finch to be a bit of a shock because suddenly there were all these pejorative pejoratives pejorativing.
Search of DNA Sequences Reveals Full Identities
The Republicans are caught in their own gerrymander here.

As a party they absolutely need to find new issues, stop alienating Latinos, etc. However the national political lights in the party are mostly in Congress, and the vast majority of them are only going to face political challenges from their own right wing, and so have every reason to double down on current Republican policies even though it is not where the party as a whole needs to go.

I don't expect this dynamic to shift until after the Republican brand has so damaged itself that it stops being nationally viable. This will create soul searching, and cause them to pivot. What happens next will depend on how they pivot.

However I do not expect to see a serious discussion within the Republican party about their dilemma until they have pushed themselves to crisis. Which they have not done yet.
(It is true that there are much more people in Bay Area versus the greater Vancouver area.)

Yeah, it's bigger. People don't stay within local municipal boundaries. Don't be ridiculous. Nobody in their right mind would argue that Vancouver and SF are the same size.

I've lived in both cities.

Great, but have you lived out east? Because that is what I'm comparing. I recognize there are differences between each city. Of course there are. What I'm saying is that there is a definite "vibe" that is shared by each of the cities on the coast, (even Portland and San Deigo have it) that is simply different from the average each coast city.
You leftists make environmentalism a religion.

A big FUCK YOU to you leftists who stop progress at every opportunity.
That's it exactly. She's taken stuff from her photo portfolio and warped it to match the Maps aerial photography. It's brilliant! But it probably has more impact for me since it's where I'm living and I've seen many of these buildings quite recently.
Anybody know what the North Bay is like? Is it very expensive?
the dom is a mutable data structure and the native (fast) dom apis expose mutable interfaces. so dynamic sites (you know, single page html5 apps doing all sorts of client-side dom manipulation) are either going to be slow, or are going to have an imperative core, which is where you need functional programming the most ;(

maybe HTML6 will have native functional dom manipulation and we can rewrite all our favorite javascript libraries to expose functional interfaces. one can dream.
Update 2: Blip just refunded last months money: Blip Networks, Inc. just sent you a refund (Paypal) how nice! I dont need the $8 I'd love my webinar video's
When it comes to Google, HN often exhibits a surprising amount of tolerance for vendor lock in.
Throwback Thursday: my blog sites through time
I've lived for several years in Silicon Valley and Austin, and would have to agree that Austin has more attractive young women. The University of Texas probably has a lot do with it. It also helps that that Austin has 10-11 months of warm weather (January is our winter), so you're seeing more skin here, to put it bluntly. :)

And yes, Austinites are healthy and in shape. Take any survey like this with a grain of salt, but Austin was recently rated the most health conscious city in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/08/most-health-conscio...
The discussion noted all the specialities needed in education. The point I was trying to make is that a maker revolution has a potential to drastically cut down the number of specialized people needed; consider just e.g. logistics. (Not talking about the first stages.)
> I once had a company give me a problem that was essentially to build a page that displays products from an API endpoint, and have that page infinitely scroll.

I'd probably have the same reaction to that as you did to the reverse-GOL. Sounds dreadfully boring, if that's the sort of stuff they do every day. I don't want to re-use old techniques over and over and over; I want to continuously discover new ones.
Actually the natural gas burn offs are very consistent, natural gas is a coproduct of the oil but there isn't the pipeline/infrastructure to actually do anything with it.
No. The rent on new leases is going up, due to low supply and high demand, but also extremely low turnover. So people generally look for rooms, not full apartments.

In this way, housing is regulated in SF through social factors on the low end (i.e. whether your personality and your interests bring something positive to a household), and price on the high end.

I pay $680 a month for my room in the heart of the Mission, mainly because I'm an open-minded guy, and my roommates needed someone tolerant, willing to abide by certain rules (in my case, no meat in the house) and conscientious about shared space, which is more rare than you'd think.

If you're single and you feel the need to rent your own apartment, I just can't relate to you. I don't get it. I feel like living down the peninsula is a better option for people who feel like they need that much personal space.
USA requested the extradition of a young student[1] from UK over copyright laws, for sharing links. UK Home Secretary approved the order and the outrage ran the world. Without the attention the story got that young student would be in an American jail today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer
I don't think there was any cynicism in the creation of the percent tool, it was a way to see how fast the company was growing. Although when you thought about it you could draw interesting insights from the data, for one if you used it on yourself you would see the number of people hired after you growing fairly rapidly, more rapidly in fact than the total number of employees was growing. From that piece of information you could ascertain the 'stick' rate of hires, which is how many people stayed around for 3months, 6months, a year, 2 years, 4 years. All the usual peaks and valleys.
Than you on both accounts!
What makes you think that a tablet is the answer to everything?
Indeed, I might go home and dork around with this later, and throw it up on my github page.
I think they mean something like:

c = make(chan bool)
go doSomeWork(c)
select {
case b := <- c:
# do something here if something happened on the channel
case <- time.After(5 * time.Second):
# timed out :-(
}
One-click PHP dev environment for Mac released on app store
Your phone number can be harvested and associated with account info on Facebook
I will purchase your book as well, but with a hope that there will be an ePub version released in the future. I have a junky Sony e-Reader that is not so great at touch controls for things like zooming and panning (necessary with most PDFs) and an ePub would reflow the text as needed based on font size.
looking good guys! it's possible to use Tapstream with our own url shortener right?
Dream Big (Rubik's Cube Art)
You can ssh into a raspberrypi running debian on your local network, or even over unencrypted wifi.

Use ConnectBot (ssh) and hacker's keyboard, and you're all set.
If you're wondering how Google generates these Street View images from the individual photographs and approximate camera position/orientation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_adjustment http://lear.inrialpes.fr/pubs/2000/TMHF00/Triggs-va99.pdf
Good to know there's now a ThinkPad flavour but it's a shame about the chiclet keyboard. Seems to be a trend at Lenovo. They might look better but that doesn't mean they are any easier to type on. The keyboard on my x220 is one of the best things about the laptop. Molded keys are so much more responsive but if I remember rightly they went chiclet-style on the x230 too. If it ain't broke...
If that's the case, I find it counter intuitive: he barely moves the upper part of the mechanism while the lower part spins like crazy.
> Hardware needs pre-funding more than anything.

If you can demonstrate demand, funding will become a second order problem.
In use the single tap was too easy to fire when you inked near it, and got in the way of the pull a little.

Tip: Shake opens the action sheet too. You might find that nicer.
Just what pydanny said above, only that I noticed it a little late.