skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadoway is one of the world's leading geniuses in this field.
What confuses you most about CentUp?
IRobot Files Patent for Robotic Fabricator: a 3D Printer that Needs No Humans
Cant really comment much on the product itself, but can see the value it provides and have already suggested it to a few friends to look into more.

Wanted to just give a couple suggestions for changes you could test. First, I think it would be helpful to emphasize both the 14-day free trial and also the 1 free month with annual billing. The trial is barely mentioned and I think it is a huge selling point, especially when everybody who has used the product seems to immediately fall in love with it, so it is important to get as many people to try it [risk free] as you can.

Second, as was already shown in the comments, you may want to consider re-recording the video using a windows computer and display that for those who show up with windows. It may seem obvious to you that SaaS will run on any major OS, but it may not be so clear to customers. Further, even if a customer recognizes that they can use it on windows, it still helps to limit any potential "dividing" factors.
That's a very smart model, particularly for programming.
have you been talking to your customers? Use the customer development process to determine what is worth building.
I haven't played EVE in years, but I always love reading these reports to reminisce. It took a huge time investment but it was a lot of fun. Reading that CFC apparently has hundreds of titans and lost 3 just in this battle is crazy. I was playing when the first Titan was built, and I remember distinctly when the first one was destroyed.
A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
And so far from satisfaction

-joni
>>but so far at least no plane has crashed as a result. I think Boeing's engineers should get some credit for that?

There are a grand total of 49 planes total that have been produced and the plane has been in service for little over a year. The fact that no plane has crashed tells you nothing statistically about the safety record of the design.

The fact that aviation has a great safety record is MORE reason to worry about any issue, not less. Modern commercial planes are expected to fly for decades over tens of thousands of flights. Even a small issue that is incredibly unlikely is too dangerous when compared to the great safety record of existing airplanes.
http://www.chatplode.com - Simple image uploader that allows you to chat with others about your image in real time. Also set a time for the page to self-destruct. Thinking about allowing youtube and vine links to be chatted about too.
I went to school with their relative in Russia.

CSB
yes in a Petrol car there is a problem with smoke = fire. My whole point is that smoke in a petrol engine usually means something as either caught fire etc. Smoke in a Battery compartment may or may not.

Is it a safety issue? Probably, but not definitely. Do the general public have a problem with smoke on a plane? Hell yes.

Our experience with traditional cars and planes is that where there is smoke there is fire. That may or may not be true with the batteries, I dont know but I do know that Boeing do a LOT of testing, so would be suprised to see a plane go down due to these problems.

I believe the cars you were talking about were completely submerged in sea water and then caught fire. Presumably any car or plane submerged in sea water will get written off which is probably why they dont worry too much about it.
The method signature is the low-hanging fruit. Try the method body.

ADD: Do you accept that programming has its basis in mathematics and logic? If so, how is making computer languages resemble human languages a more direct way to improve comprehension than learning some math? Walking up a mountain path is difficult, but not nearly so difficult as moving the mountain until it lies beneath one's feet.
He did offer his help initially, although that may have been a political move as well.
Netflix: 'The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us'
This is neat. I'm interested to see where you go with this. Good job. :)
Which is the reason I can't stand SQL
1. http://www.flipmeme.com - Reddit + Imgur viewer built for myself and as a side project.

2. 320 average uniques per day, so not really.

Cheers! :)
I haven't done the math but I'm guessing that with a popular game the costs of hardware and hiring someone to do server management would be wiped out by EC2 costs pretty quickly.

Not sure how spikey game traffic is, but it would seem unlikely that your game is super popular for a day and then drops right off the next as would be the case for many websites.

For example if your game business model is charging some nominal fee per month (say $10) you might find that heavy players can burn through way more than $10 worth of EC2 traffic in a month.

Anyone know if any popular games are hosted on EC2?
Thanks! I've been debating doing something like this on one of my app pages. So I've gone and done it now: http://awesomeputioapp.com

Feedback: I didn't like that there isn't a nice way to put all of the Phosphorous code in a subfolder (warning my HTML isn't amazing, I do iOS.) without a find & replace and hunting for the things to change. Overall I'm a happy customer though! Good work guys.
Nice!

A question to the creators if they are listening. What is this medium.com you say have inspired you? I followed the link but it asks permission to access to the list of my followers on twitter even before I can have the slightest idea of what it is. I checked the read more thing, but after an empty tagline it starts telling the story of guys I don't know, and I have no time reading their stories.
I've always been fascinated by what people could mean when they say this. I believe many people mean 'the part of me that thinks' or 'the part of me that makes decisions' when they say souls... but what could it mean for that part of you to be stolen? An inability to think or make decisions? Or something about vanity and getting wrapped up in images of yourself? Or fascination with a device that looks like a big eyeball?

It'd really be great to know what people mean when they say that.
As I explained elsewhere, the problem is when 3rd parties track users across completely different websites.

Your point regarding how the web works makes sense on an individual request basis, but imagine something like Scroogle over Tor... sure my actions would be known, but 'which my' would not.
I was a TA as CS undergrad in Australia, as were many of my friends. I am obviously biased, but I think we were at least as good as half a grad student, if not a full one.
The White House speaks on Immigration
Silver Lake LLC -- were they not the people who also screwed over the Skype folks during that acquisition?
The hydraulics are controlled exactly the same as any other fly by wire aircraft like the 777 or a modern airbus. The computer takes the pilot inputs and combines them with a flight computer that controls electric motors which move the flight surfaces with hydraulics.

The big increase in electrical supply (4x over the 777 i believe) is the result of the bleedless air architecture that boeing chose. There was a big push by boeing to make the system work as it was a selling point for the public and carriers. I think that decision didn't receive the scrutiny that it probably should have.
Really hoping EmberJS gets this feature as well. It's possible now (with some fancy hacks), but I've read they plan to bake it into the framework (along with tight rails integration). Basically it just comes down to generating the initial view HTML on the server (by running the initial api call and render), then subsequent calls would be handled by the client.

Doesn't have to be 100% Node.js front to back (you can still write your APIs in another language), but Node provides that handy bridge to get the server side rendering of client code.
Thanks for the interesting thoughts.
Harvard is seeing a very similar trend. Our intro to CS course, CS 50 [1], had an enrollment of over 600 this Fall (up about 20%), making it one of the largest classes at the College [2]. Even its teaching staff, which numbers over 100, is bigger than most classes (and most of them are undergraduates) [3].

The data isn't in for this term yet, but pre-term planning data suggests that enrollment in CS 51 (our second-term CS course) will go up by about 40% (it experienced similar growth last year), and CS 181, a machine learning class, might nearly triple in size since it was last offered [4].

For smaller departments like Harvard's (and Yale's, which is even smaller still), there just aren't enough professors to go around, and with the enormous influx of students, I think the quality and variety of the courses offered has suffered. Many courses are only offered sporadically--especially systems courses--since there simply aren't enough professors to teach them all.

And that's to say nothing of the (undergraduate) teaching assistants, which bear much of the brunt of this trend. I TFed Harvard's algorithms course (which doubled in size over the two years I taught it), and am TFing our operating systems class this term (which if today's turnout was any guide looks like it might nearly triple in size). The workload was considerable, and I'm sorry to say that the feedback and individual attention I was able to provide students has gotten worse and more tardy because of this.

I don't think Harvard (and Yale, etc.) can cope with this sort of explosive growth for too much longer.

[1]: https://www.cs50.net

[2]: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/13/cs-greatest-grow...

[3]: https://www.cs50.net/staff/

[4]: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/17/ptp-data-obtain...
Love all of these case studies. People run around talking about "growth hack this" and "growth hack that" and then talk about SEO and Facebook. It's nice to see some actual examples where companies gain some deep understanding or glean some unique insight that totally changes the way they think in order to gain an edge.
Generally speaking, you don't want creative processes for the construction of overpasses, highways, and building construction. You want something that is structurally sound, safe for the application in question, and of a design suitable to being bid on by multiple contractors.
Can anyone spot the site on HERE or Google maps?
Vast majority, yes. But I've seen failure modes where it was dangerous on more than one occasion.
Fun fact: Dell's current market cap is 23B. They spent more than 39B over the past 16 years on stock buybacks.

It's the posterchild for stock buybacks gone wrong.
That's utterly fair. I don't expect Bob the programmer to adopt inconvenient things. I think having static assurances of the like you were asking for will probably never quite be in Bob's purview either, though.

To clarify, I don't think Haskell is the ultimately useful embedding of many of these concepts. I just also don't think there's that much hand holding possible. You start to run up against the limits of inference and decidability in this space. Until Bob the programmer start to meaningfully think about the way to build the effects of his language around different contexts then there's a limit to how many guarantees a compiler is going to be able to make.
Call your Congressperson and urge them to pass Aaron's Law.

Sorry but no. I am going to contact my Congress critters and urge them for justice system reform. At best "Aaron's Law" will help one small demographic when the problem is much, much larger.
Interesting thing to note: The Yale CS department has been hiring peer tutors and undergraduate course graders, which should definitely help alleviate things.

The idea that Scaz is working with 25 students on projects is a bit concerning. How can you give the necessary attention to any student, your own work, and any classes you teach when spreading yourself that thin?
Unfortunately, this problem that you are trying to solve has been tried numerous times and resulted in failure.

There's just too many inconsistencies in the way browsers allow loading of Javascript. Something that looks to a scanner as malevolent can actually turn up in the browser as something that ends up running.

So, unless you're somehow able to sandbox everything and able to stop causing the Javascript to poke out, it is incredibly difficult to scan for JS issues such as this one, especially when you're handling user-created HTML.

In fact, this is exactly the sort of problem why I created a Markdown no-nonsense editor instead (http://www.nimblenot.es/).
They should switch to LiFePo4 chemistry which will not burn.

My bike battery is made of that.
Gasoline isn't dangerous? It's ten times as easy to light up a gas tank than a battery pack, and the energy release is instant.
Ask HN: Should we pivot our idea? 
This was before foursquare started their explore feature and it's more About on checkins.

We've started a small start up that helps people finding places to eat dine near You, get directions and uper reviews about the locations.

Now that foursquare is allowing exploring and helping people to explore near by we feel like it's hard to keep up with foursquare and we feel like pivoting the startup in to more on event or trip organising.

Shoul we pivot to a trip or event organising using the location data that we have? If we pivot what should we pivot in to? Or should we not pivot?
This is exactly what I've been waiting for. I can't wait til this is open-sourced! Was just thinking about trying out Angular because Backbone just wasn't cutting it, but this is going to make me hold out.

Random piece of feedback: it's weird to use data-model_id (instead of data-model-id). I assume you're trying to match some pre-existing naming convention (but JS tends towards camelCase anyways...), but I think it would be better to go with dashes as that is HTML attribute standard. That was the only part that looked sloppy to me.

Another thought: Did you guys experiment with event-based logic for postRender instead of pre-defined method hooks? I find the pre-defined method approach hacky feeling.
University of Virginia does this, too, although they often just work under the professor that teaches the class. It's a great experience, all told, since you get really fluent in the class material, and great at debugging if you're in a lower class where the TAs help with that. The pay is comparable to most other on campus jobs, but it's much more engaging than working a gym desk.

However, even that hasn't completely met the needs of the current enrollment deluge: I'm glad I got my requirements out of the way early on, because there are an absurd number of CS enrollments. They recently capped one of the major tracks (the BA) because there were simply too many students.

Edit: Undergraduate at UVA. Also, I think undergrads are possibly a better option than grad students: since we have actually taken the course, unlike most grad students.
Latest report in the Russian news. Non-speakers will have to use the crappy English cc. She's still out there and seems to be doing well. She now has a neighbor whom she visits once a week to listen to the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQv0mg9TEaY&feature=yout...
Thanks for the information... It's a topic I've only briefly read about on a few occasions, so my knowledge clearly isn't too in depth.
forkthelaw.org dev here. What you're seeing now is a weekend prototype using banged-together open-source projects, focused on a UI experience for people more on the tech-law end of the spectrum (the Jennifer Granicks and Cathy Elliott Joneses of the world -- in fact, Cathy's helping us out with alpha testing). It's also specifically focused on the CFAA for timing reasons: in just under three weeks, I and a whole bunch of my infosec colleagues will be in DC for ShmooCon, so we can all go visit our representatives while we're in the area anyway.

Over the next few days we'll be building out the site with more information about the upcoming ShmooCon lobbying trip as well as our feature roadmap. The short version is that we'll be pulling the entire United States Code into darcs, updating it via GovTrack's APIs, and providing a UI to select and fork specific sections of the law for people to collaboratively work on.

The site's going to change quickly in the coming weeks as we add more functionality. Maybe we shouldn't have launched quite this early, but there is a bit of a time crunch.

Edit: IAC, if you're interested in more DVCS-like, offline/command-line functionality, I'm totally down to support that. Tell me more about how you'd expect to interact with that?
That's a really good point; I think it deserves to be echoed. However, the idea of paying for YouTube and getting ads and still having the cesspool of racism that are YouTube comments, seems not so attractive.
Looks clean, like that calling is in it, how do I get my cell line in it?
2,277 Private Tech Companies Were Acquired For Over $46.8B in 2012
Jashkenas, do you have any plans to venture into this area?

I was just talking today about how I am tempted to try some of the other libraries that are going this direction. But that whenever I look at their code I'm envious of how clean Backbone is. Seriously the biggest turn-off to Angular is reading the code and seeing that people aren't as nit-picky, pseudo-OCD, whatever you want to call it as you are. Just curious.
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Medium is a neat blogging platform with a focus on good quality content, although it is currently in its early stages and invite only.

The main concept in medium thats inspired me here, is their wysiwyg style editor (https://medium.com/about/df8eac9f4a5e) over markdown... although mine is a tad more minimal, I'd be lying if I didn't say they had a big influence on ZenPen.
I believe you misread- he's saying she's writing to the church to ask someone to join her. The audience is clear- the post is on the church website for church members to read. He's not trying to say that she's doing the much harder task of recruiting someone to the church and also to live with her.

> trying to recruit church followers to live in the mountains with her
A petition for the petition.
I'd be very interested in what they are saying if --and only if-- they had access to Boeing and FAA design and test data.

You have to remember that the FAA had to approve these subsystems as well. I don't have any first-hand experience on just how detailed (or not) this certification process might be. Once again, how could anyone say anything at all without looking at data.

To make a really dumb analogy, it's like claiming to know what happened with a race horse that died clear across the country because you know race horses. Wouldn't you first have to see the veterinarian's records on that horse as well as such things as dietary and other data before really being able to say anything at all.

In other words, I am not detracting from the expert status some of these folks enjoy. Not at all. I think it is precisely because they might be domain experts at some level that they should behave with decorum and refrain from making comments without a full stack of the necessary data.
Startup Weekend: Lesson Learned (Part 1)
I'd think the use case being addressed in the article (having to share backbone views that can be rendered either on the client or server) would be the sweet spot for node.
> These three girls never stole anything.

...What are you talking about? She stole money from multiple people and companies. She took someone's credit card out of their hotel room and used it for her own purposes.

Moreover, Abagnale went to prison. As he deserved to. He was a thief.

Just like Hornstein.
I thought (and think) that and I was around the whole time. Then I set a few up, and realised that until the password situation is resolved, we're stuck with the present.
Apple should acquire Foursquare to compete at the Maps API level.

Apple Maps uses Yelp for venue and Point Of Interest search. I'm in Vancouver and Yelp is OK but not great here. I'm told it's worse in places like Europe.

On the other hand, Foursquare's venue and POI search is very good. There API is one of the best in the business. Their core API is great. They have a really good real-time & push API. The way that Aspects & Actions are designed for each of the Endpoints is very good, too.
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/

On top of this, Foursquare is a Scala/JVM shop. Apple is a Java/JVM shop. (And they may still be using the WebObjects for some older services.) Apple would get the added benefit of migrating to a modern stack and getting a really good technical team.

Modernizing their stack and modernizing their web APIs would go a long way in fixing the "Apple doesn't get web services" problem.
Lead and Crime: Why this correlation does mean causation (PDF)
The University of Chicago has begun to do this, as well. It's uncommon for UofC to fall into technological trends.
It's not about images in Indigenous Australians.

Many Australian tribes don't name the dead by first name [1, 2], as a sign of respect and because it's too painful for the family. The no-images-rule has just very recently been derived from that practice. It isn't about photography or filmography, it's about names only.

1: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/mou...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_avoidanc...
Personally speaking, I don't use Foursquare, so I don't know about their explore feature. More importantly, is this something you care about? Focus on an area where you think you can differentiate yourself, and push hard to be the best at that. It would be helpful if you also understood how that area of focus leads to revenue in the future....
sounds like a good idea. But doesn't work on my iphone. I cannot select anything.
I'm a CS major at Yale right now.

In my opinion, this whole issue has arisen because there is confusion about what "computer science" should be at a university. Theoretical computer science that professors do is a world away from the casual HTML/CSS development that many non-CS-majors want to dabble in after watching The Social Network. I think an excellent university should have instruction in both, and enough professors to strongly support the latter.

The Yale CS department, with good reason, does not want Yale to become a "Java school". (good background on the topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...). They want to focus on CS fundamentals, algorithms, and UNIX skills, which are timeless skills that can serve as a foundation for a career in computer science. This especially makes sense given the strength of the theoretical component of Yale's CS department, both now and historically. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis) (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/877/)

But the university also needs to realize that having a more casual computer science class for non-majors, like Harvard's CS50, is an essential part of offering a liberal arts education in the modern world. There's a lot of student spirit and initiative here, such as awesome student-taught web dev courses (http://hackyale.com/) and student-organized talks and hackathons, but the university itself seems to be playing catch-up.
Big congrats to any team that has an exit. Sure, I think early angels and Dave McClure probably got better returns on their money than BlueRun ventures(I'm guessing this). And most employees probably didn't get much. But food being so saturated with so many different players makes this a respectable exit. Nothing is worst than spending our valuable time on this planet on something that goes nowhere, with this exit, Foodspotting is ensured to be around as long opentable is around. Which is something any founder should be proud of.
Recruiting implies asking people to join an army. If we're talking about religion, "converting" is the more common verb.

She's recruiting (enlisting) a willing church member to a difficult task.