skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently I am using Elastic Beanstalk because it means I don't have to worry about machines or scaling. Using the configuration (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/custom...) files I am able to install any extra packages I need or run commands. After I am more confident that out EC2 config will not change I will create an AMI to launch new instances from so that I don't have to wait for the server to install the packages I need.

I run 2 environments in my app (develop and production) my production branch is master and I work on a "develop" branch and push those changes to EB to test before merging and committing them in the master branch.
The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. "When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing."

It's interesting how isolation does to a spoken language in only one generation. I'm guessing they had nobody but themselves to talk to, so any mispronunciation would be greatly exaggerated.
You can type quite fast and accurately on the Air keyboard.
I had recently visited an elementary school (private) where they were actively using 3D printers and Arduino boards.

That said, they are certainly not the common case, and I fear that your cynicism is well-placed.

What might be better for many such schools is to give the boards as a reward to the "top science" or "top math" student for a given grade level. I suspect it would get a lot more use.
This is hands down the nicest and most polished RDBMS client I have used on any platform. Cheers to Rowan and his team.

Unfortunately, SequelPro's support for more advanced (if once can call it like that) features like views, stored procedures, triggers is not so great.

If only I had a working knowledge of Obj-C, I'd try and lend a had to those guys :/
> "[Mayer] said she wants Yahoo, [...] to become a force in mobile-device software for consumers and to provide "customized" content for people based on their interests, background and location."

I know that's vague, but isn't that the bundle of buzzwords every clueless Fortune 500 company wants to use 2013? No doubt Mayer can execute it better than most, but I'm wondering what Yahoo's advantage is over anyone else. What do they bring to the table?
I find this interesting for several reasons:

1. They're not seeking equity. They're open to investing in a company, or becoming a customer. They say they're doing this as an experiment, and I believe them.

2. The NY Times is, I think, the most technology progressive entity of old media. I think their webpage is the best online newspaper (granted, that is America-centric). They consistently have excellent interactive visuals, their recent avalanche feature was amazing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950054), and their iPhone app is actually good.

3. Getting access to the experience and data at the NY Times could be enormously helpful for startups in media.

4. I actually pay for an NY Times subscription, so I'm hopeful that they'll end up doing something that will benefit them, and in turn, me as a reader.
This is a more general trend in computing. iOS and similar are much too popular with "normal" people for anyone to still care about having a real general purpose machine.

It worries me.
Myself use Pocket for reading articles but was interested in the link you provided. However, doesn't seems as it's working. Can't even access the domain nyud.net.
Hey! Heard about external monitor, keyboard and mouse? I use 2011 MacBook Air, has actually used a MacBook Air since the first one. Had a Mac Pro for some time, but now I only use a MacBook Air. Depends on what you do, but works grate for me and I am a "power" user, linux VM and Windows VM running at the same time, MAMP, Photoshop etc.
I'm glad one person appreciates my main sin is ban punnery, with a minor in forgetting floating point gotchas.

I feel like someone who just told an anecdote about a time they slipped over whilst running and now everyone assumes they never knew how to walk.
Wolves and dogs can't do this over nearly the same distance humans can — they shed body heat through panting and can only keep up a run for 3-6 miles[0]. Humans can run marathons.

[0]: I don't remember my source for this, sorry. But this is interesting for similar reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

Edit: I should say, wolves/dogs can run for long distances too, at a slower gait. But they can only out-pace human marathon-distance runners for a few miles before overheating.

Edit 2: Found a source[1]: "Dogs can gallop for only about 10 to 15 minutes before reverting to a trot, and so their distance-running speed tops out at about 3.8 meters per second." As commenters below have pointed out, yes, if it's cold enough, this doesn't matter ;-).

[1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/06/long...
Mega crashing Chrome during large uploads?
Two things about MEGA:

1) Attempting to upload a file of around 2 GB to MEGA appears to work fine for the first 99%. The final percent brings up an "Aw, snap!" in the tab. I'm in Win 7 64 and Chrome. I moved to Firefox, but MEGA warned me to use Chrome, as it is better supported. Is there an official cap on file sizes, or are things just breaking under the hood?

2) I cannot find MEGA's support forums. Do they exist? The help page is just a FAQ. The latest blog thanks the community for all the feedback, but I'm not sure where this community is, or how it's actually getting any messages through.
This isn't a problem with loans so much as a problem with people understanding finances. The problem is we don't tech our children the value of understanding finances, credit, loans, and other important real-world matters when they're still in elementary/high school.
That's an interesting tip. I'm going to try that.
I question why equity is on a bar chart as it's not a directly comparable attribute. 1% of a 100,000 units is incrementally different from 1% of 10,000 units.

It does at least "set a bar", so I could potentially say "well on average 1% of the company for a developer is average."
How did WordPerfect Go Wrong?
I've used HAML for 4 years now, my take on it is that HAML gets the computer to do work it can dependably do (writing out closing tags) and reducing substantially how much I have to type. Less typing means less code to maintain but also easier to see the purpose of the code.
This is why you test from the outside in: You first write an acceptance test where you just specify what goes in and what should come out. The error/failure messages you get when running this test drive your design and tell you which components you should write next.

The RSpec book is a pretty good introduction to this topic.
Maybe it is an extrovert/introvert split?

e.g.: Extroverts use Facebook to enhance relationships while introverts rely on Facebook too much instead of interacting with people.
D3 scatter chart of AngelList Salaries & Equity
Apple's product design philosophy is getting diluted:

http://nextbigwhat.com/forum/discussion/1677/apple039s-produ...
Social Hacker? Help us end loneliness
Actually improve lives.

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Solve harder problems.

Getting people together offline is a hard problem. Matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, a real-time CRM. Web scale is boring. Offline scale is uncharted terrain.

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Have more fun.

Grouper is about having fun and making life more interesting. And we practice what we preach. We all go on Groupers, have epic happy hours and events, and generally enjoy the real world. After all, that is what we're all about.

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We're a tiny engineering team trying to keep up with explosive growth. We're led by 2 technical co-founders who graduated from MIT and Yale, but actually got their educations at previous startups.

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What do you think is misleading about the linked LJ post? The abstract you've quoted here seems to back up every word in it.
Sent a mail your way with more detailed impressions and thoughts.
My only question is, Who is still stupid enough to be a Goldman client? What more can they do to demonstrate they are more than willing to screw over their clients in order to increase their profits.
"recruit" is kind of a loaded word. sounds like she is asking for help with physical tasks she can't manage any more
What mystifies me is back in the 80s there was a relatively successful amount of programming at school using mainly Logo but also BBC Basic (which doesn't suck nearly as much as other basics). The real tragedy is Logo fell out of favour so quickly for no particular reason.
No, it's because JS doesn't expose (or at least didn't used to before ES5) it's prototype system, but instead provides a pseudo class-based overlay.

The proper way to do inheritance in JS is

// Foo extends Bar
Foo.prototype = Object.create(Bar.prototype);
function Foo() {
Bar.call(this);
}

Before the introduction of Object.create, you either had to roll your own version, assigned a dummy instance of Bar to Foo.prototype (which is horribly wrong) or transferred methods manually from Bar.prototype to Foo.prototype, which is arguably more 'in the spirit' of JS1.0.

That's not how it's done in 'real' prototypal languages like Self or Io.
NYC, mobile developers, most jobs are in the 70-80k range with 1-3% equity. That is a low salary at a small amount of equity for someone with a relatively in-demand skillset.

Please check my maths: in the best case scenario, if you get 3% equity and assume 33% dilution on that equity after an A-round and the company has a 10% chance of a medium 25MM exit, the EV is around $50k. If you assume the same developer could have made a $120k salary with no equity elsewhere that company would have to exit within 1.25yrs for it to be +EV which is probably not feasible.

Someone please check my maths as I am looking at exit values from a 2006 study: http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-77bb58e10c69517534aaac1...
I don't find that insanely confusing at all. The flow chart asks simple questions like "Do you have a job opportunity?" and "Do you have a family member in the US?" Sure the process might take a long time but many of those steps can be navigated just by reading the questions and following the yes/no paths to the next question. It looks complicated because of the many boxes in succession but most of those boxes are just informational and could have been combined into one single box of information. I don't know if the creators of this flow chart had an agenda to make it look really complicated to push reform or what.
Interesting, but not sure how useful the chart is. It might have more utility with some aggregation in there.
Sounds like a good school! Good to hear, even if it is private. My comment only stands for state schools. State school usually have swathes of kit (mine had CNC lathes, mills and other nice stuff) but it is never used other than to show off at parents evenings.

As an ex-top math and top science student, we probably already would have one. Back in my day I had the equivalent - a BBC master, a Casio FX-7000G and a well stocked cupboard of desoldered electronic components :)
What's the matter with Mail.app? I've used it quite successfully in various office settings with no problems.
>> That Obama is christian is not a "fact" to people who believe that he's secretly a muslim.

fact /fakt/ Noun -
A thing that is indisputably the case.

Being separated from reality does not mean you get your own facts. facts are facts.

While I will agree that you can't prove a negative, you can prove that he is not a muslim, which is really the crux of the statement.

The second point is from factcheck.org, not from truth teller. It actually is a counter argument.
The more important point about the Big 5 is that Introversion and Extroversion aren't opposing qualities - so "ambivert" no longer means you sit in the middle of some bipolar scale - more likely you just score high in extroversion and conscientiousness.
I'd be really curious to know which libraries, frameworks, or engines they intend to employ. Just yesterday I started learning the melonJS canvas game engine and it's been a lot of fun so far!
Hey! They didn't even mention Long Bets! That's the site that registered the bet and is holding the money.

http://longbets.org/

Which I am going to pimp shamelessly here, as I wrote the code for it a decade ago. We have bets that go out many years. There's one that won't be decided until 2150. There's even one about how the universe will end.

If you would like to make a similar long-term bet, either use the site or let me know; I'm glad to facilitate. As long as the bet is more than 2 years out and the stakes are more than $200 each, you're golden.

We'd love to see the site used more to call out people making bold/crazy predictions. E.g., is somebody saying that NoSQL databases will rule the earth in 10 years? Do you think they're wrong? Tell them to put up or shut up! We'll put you both on record.
Just noticed the design change on Udacity. Interesting, but I preferred the old one.
I have certainly not had a bug that so plainly highlights this before. If it had been a bug about a more complex calculation than ( 4.0 * 0.1 ) / 0.1 I wouldn't have thought it worth mentioning. The fact that calc generally does result in a number that casts to 4 made it more interesting to me that in at least one case it didn't. I guess it was some state of the FPU (possibly) that gave a different result when there was sufficient time between the mult and the div. I will probably never know.
It's probably an issue on their end.

support@mega.co.nz
You can make a bigger fire, or heat rocks in the fire and sit in front of the rocks, or burn the wood to charcoal under a big pile of dirt before using it for your fire, or pipe water through the fire and run it through a radiator, or insulate your tent, or build big thick adobe walls with enough thermal mass to keep your temperature reasonable, or use careful passive solar design to keep your entire house at a comfortable temperature all year round.

There are options that don't involve smelling like a campfire.
Simple urine test to detect pancreatic cancer and more.
Good to know, this is a very wide range
He says the platform is going downhill and becoming entertainment only, then mentions a bunch of stuff that is either a new addition or media-related. E.g. iTunes doesn't suck any more now than it ever has, nor does the Finder.

Relative to OS X 10.2, 10.8 has:
1) full screen support, which is a huge advantage to coding on a constrained laptop screen; the newest Emacs supports it, so you can easily swipe between your editor, your browser, etc.
2) much better and more complete POSIX support;
3) an entirely new tool-chain in Clang/LLVM; XCode sucks, but it has always sucked;
4) fleshing out of little low-level features (improved Obj-C runtime, thread local storage, etc)

I just don't see anything non-trivial that OS X 10.8 can't do that say 10.2 could do, and a lot that's the opposite.
There are degrees. ThinkPad keyboards are fantastic, the Air is a mess. I have a Vaio Z which a keyboard even worse.

It's true, though, that for serious long term use you really don't want to be using a laptop at all. My Vaio goes on a stand at work and I use an external keyboard (Microsoft Arc, which I was surprised to like very much). Hunching over a laptop to type is just a terrible state to be in.
Amen brother.

To me, the key is right here:
"My hunch is that the people who quoted much lower estimates and timeframes were shooting for the development work."

Firms/individuals/groups that quote dirt cheap prices are probably either a) desperate for the work (which makes ya wonder why) and/or b) not caring about the work they do at all (therefore producing a sub par final product).

A big mission of my new startup matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) is to filter out these clients for freelance developers, so they only deal with those who aren't looking for 30 lbs in 30 days.

We're not 100% there yet but we're working damn hard at it.
The danger you face on a bicycle is from motorized vehicles. You're not going to get mugged on a bike during the daytime unless you are very unwise. Ride a bike that isn't obviously valuable, don't wear fluorescent colors, don't stop to sightsee, don't stop for conversations, and don't expect your lock to help you if leave your bike unattended. In poor areas riding a bike is an indicator that you are poor or that you have lost your driver's license (which is another indicator that you are poor). As long as you don't contradict that impression you'll be fine.

For instance, when I lived near LA I would regularly bike all over, including through areas such as Compton.
What's the value of ZFS on a client platform on an SSD?
Just to clarify: in Brazil, those "uncontacted" tribes include many (probably a majority) that have had contact with the outside world in the past. However, they currently have no ongoing contact, and the Brazilian authorities don't have enough data about them from the previous attempt at contact.

In some cases, they might have had a less than pleasant experience when they were first contacted by explorers or loggers. Nowadays, while they'd be in danger should they meet illegal loggers and the like, it shouldn't be dangerous for them to contact the authorities. However, their memory from the initial encounter might have been passed on for generations.

Also, as you say, the Brazilian agency in charge of documenting and protecting the Indians has a policy of not forcing contact. So those tribes can remain uncontacted indefinitely.

The page below has more info. Use your favorite translator.

http://mundoestranho.abril.com.br/materia/ainda-existem-trib...
It isn't really fully baked yet. I have been using it for myself to see the clusters of salary vs equity for certain keywords and roles. I need to move the backend to the web.
Maria Pitallano and I, Erin Fong, are industrial designers who teamed up in our last year at California College of the Arts to design two products to help those with food allergies, which is a growing epidemic that can take someone's life within minutes. Allergies affect people socially, mentally, and physically and it is a fear that nobody should have to live with. We are trying to tackle this problem with two new designs for the epinephrine injector that we are trying make into a real product. Please visit our project at www.indiegogo.com/epiinject.
It sounds like you're familiar with the author previously, and know them to be a polymath. What is their background?
You can’t create a button
I came to the country illegally with my mother, as she fled the effects of the Nicaraguan civil war (Iran/Contra related), when I was 3 years old.

We jumped back and forth between Texas and Mexico 3 times. I like to say I'm 4 times illegal (Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, USA) and then kept doing it afterward.

In the early 2000's we were granted amnesty as part of a larger Nicaraguan-focused program. We'd been here for ~20 years. No way to proceed other than living in the shadows.

Anything to help people better themselves, I'm all for it!
Well logo didn't really have much potential other than for drawing stuff with a turtle. This wasn't because it wasn't capable of glorious things (which it was) but more that it was hard for the staff to understand compared to BBC BASIC.
It is temperature dependent. Try keeping up with the dogs running the Iditarod in Alaska :)
On the other hand: I'm a full-time author, but not because I feel any sort of compulsion to write. Writing books just happens to be one of the best ways to turn what I do feel compelled to do (reading/research) into something that benefits other people, and allows me to use what I'm good at doing in a way that supports my family.

Left to my own devices, I wouldn't write very much at all aside from note-taking. Turning random thoughts into readable long-form prose requires a ton of effort. It's worth it, but the work is difficult on the best of days.

I agree that blog posts, short essays, or private journaling are better tools for using writing for thinking. You don't have to worry so much about structure or the potential for misinterpretation, and most topics don't require hundreds of pages to explore.
I don't see how the ergonomics of the Air would be significantly different than other laptops. It has slightly less pixels on screen, but the screen height and keyboard size remains similar to all other laptops. The only way to fix ergonomics on any laptop would be to raise the screen to eye level and use an external keyboard at arm level.
I paid for Sublime Text 2 with the expectation of continued support of the quality we had during beta, but instead we have waited months for bug fixes which have never arrived.

Rationally, as a software guy, this seems somehow unfair. After all, even as it was launched and without any further changes, ST2 is a good product at a low price.

But the reality is that I feel the same way as radiac. When I chose to spend real money on a text editor -- not exactly a field where the free competition is lacking -- I did so because I wanted to support and encourage a project that did seem to have a lot of nice little touches and did seem to keep coming out with them. The obvious and abrupt end of the stream of incremental updates the moment ST2 went final does irritate me.

Unfortunately, contrary to the post I just read about how stable ST2 is, I have seen irritating crashes that stopped me using it for some work, and I haven't seen a bug fix even for that, nor any other improvement since I sent the money. I probably won't pay for ST3 at this point, because at least now I've figured out what does crash ST2 and how to avoid it, and fairly or otherwise, the assumption in the back of my mind is going to be that ST3 might make a few minor improvements of the kind we used to get anyway, but if it has any sort of crash or data loss bugs they won't get fixed.
I have a feeling the first question will be "why couldn't they give us an xbox instead?"

It will be interesting to see how these are used in schools though. When I was in school the ethos around IT and computers was very much "don't do anything we haven't asked you to do" which seems to be the opposite of how the pi is intended to be used.
OTOH, full screen works worse on large monitors, spaces is worse, save as was removed, etc.
Think about it as a transformation.
Do not delve into death as some sort of full stop for entity.

Everyone will extinct at some point, to avoid it, stop fighting it.
Copycattery (and why it won't serve you)
You're right, bad example. A better example is that I spent a decade on VC++ 6.0 without upgrading and could still build software and use SDK's for and from future versions of Windows.

On OS X it started with wanting to test an iOS 6 feature, which required the new simulator, which required the new SDK, which required the new XCode, and before I knew it I was upgrading the entire operating system.