skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your nice take on the situation, no "let's-stone-the-bitch-and-lynch-her" or any other holier-than-thou comments.

I had a discussion just some hours ago about the same kind of person in France (my frog says hi) and Entertainment. A young woman called Zahia Dehar, who went from underage (17) escort-girl for national soccer players to the Princess of her very own fairytale, working for Karl Lagerfeld, working with renowned brands, getting a documentary about her coming soon,... And of course, with all our morals and stuff, we'll be quick to judge her as "she's just a whore, why care?", and still, she's now more popular than most of us.

"Don't hate the player, play the game."

Be it Zahia, Kim Kardashian, Shirley Hornstein,...aren't they just the female versions of Frank Abagnale, or even a twisted (as in "I do stuff for me, not for curiosity's sake") version our very own Kevin Mitnick? Like it or not, these persons are "hacking" their way to fame. Do they use the right methods? We're enclined to think "no" but it's a matter of personal view.

These three girls never stole anything. They cheated they way, yes: they used the system, the system WE built. One used fake credentials and network because some people value "who-you-know" more than "what-you-can-do", one went on to have a show about her to get simple minds addicted to her private life and the last one sold her body to make more money in her prime than most of us will do in a lifetime.

Now what about us, are we accomplishing anything by wasting time here bitching about it or are we just complaining that we didn't take those "opportunities" ourselves?
You should disable it on your router , not your desktop (unless you are using a Win 7 computer as your router for some weird reason).
I second all of the above. The Art of Electronics was my first non-required textbook purchase, and the 4th edition of Microelectronic Circuits was my textbook for two semesters of electronics and came in handy for multiple other classes.

To that list I would add the student manual that goes along with The Art of Electronics, as well as the Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits series from McGraw-Hill. Both those choices are more on the practical side of circuit construction. The Encyclopedia in particular has an abundance of circuit designs with varying levels of explanation that make good starting points for learning about or experimenting with particular circuit functions.
Your GPS data stays locally. I might, in the future, implement a "past route" feature, so you can see how you performed, but that's in a future version.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to make it more clear how I'm using the data.
I'm sure those exist... it's just that that statement means nothing to me, or to most other people who live in a large city (i.e., the majority of Americans).
Anyone know if dd-wrt is vulnerable to this?

I would happily disable UPnP but it would break a ton of stuff including online games etc.
Thanks a lot for sharing, I am moving my first steps into this technology and this really helped :)
There aren't many achievements that are truly solo efforts - there is usually someone keeping the home fires burning at the very least.
The span !important font-family css rule is overriding the gist monospace css though. Reading code snippets in proxima-nova is .. a little tricky.

That said, very interesting article.

I wonder.. Has anyone tried rendering a page, and then bootstraping your initial Backbone models pulling data from the HTML?
Then there's that small matter of his founding an electric car company that uses Lithium Ion batteries. Oh and the rocket company. I can't imagine many people more qualified to talk about LiIon and aerospace.
There's also videos covering that book from some fast-moving lectures that Pierce gave at the Oregon PL Summer School: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Research/summerschool/summer12/cur...
I haven't read about SCT, but in the wikipedia article about social constructionism I read: "When we say that something is socially constructed, we are focusing on its dependence on contingent variables of our social selves rather than any inherent quality that it possesses in itself." You said: "on top of those there is a whole conflicting mess of different desirable appearances which depend upon the period, culture, and person, driven by all the complexities of interacting human beings." At first I thought are "the period, culture, and person" not "contingent variables of our social selves"? But you went on to say "those factors can be boiled down to some fairly simple drives which have all emerged for one reason: to maximise reproductive success." In other words, you're saying those factors can be boiled down to something that is an inherent quality that we possess in ourselves, which is we maximise reproductive success.

Does this make sense? I dislike SCT too now but I wasn't trying to imply the perfect image society creates is socially constructed when I said "personifying what society has deemed as the perfect image." I meant regardless of whether society is socially constructed or not, this system that I'm referring to as "society" creates an ideal image of what a human being should look like. If society is not socially constructed, and is in fact defined by our biology, then that would mean this ideal image also originates from our biology. Regardless of all this, there is a perfect image we strive for.

I feel like we're on the same page, and I totally relate to your view that, and I'm going to paraphrase you: "it is in our nature to be highly responsive to our nurture." Our nurture is not an individual entity from the system, our nurture is grounded by our biology.
pg's "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp" are both great. Your question was about Clojure, but the material in those books is easily transferable to other lisp dialects.
It could if there were some level of AI behind it.
Ask HN: Feedback on startup website
I am curious if I could get some feedback on the website http://www.confusinghomework.com

Thanks!
You can use this link http://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=<your ip> to get your IP unbanned. I think it only works once though.
Poll: How would you eliminate the desire for piracy?
NB: This question is not how you'd eliminate piracy itself, but rather how you'd entice people to convert from piracy first. I'm looking for some feedback, which of these options would you use? Which do you think is the most important?

If you were going to be convinced to start renting movies from a different platform other than Netflix or Blockbuster, which of these options (or some other option) would appeal to you the most to influence your decision?
Design a system for entirely online rentals and purchases, similar to Steam, but for movies and television.
Eliminate DRM (Digital Rights Management) and allow greater freedom of ownership.
Make entertainment media available in a greater variety of formats.
Lower the costs of media, such as DVDs and Blu-Ray. Entice consumers with lower prices.
Incorporate a social network into entertainment media, to make renting and purchasing sociable and fun.
CSS tricks - New(?) way to center elements vertically
Quick, get ahold of the engineers at Boeing! Tell them to switch to whatever they used on their older planes! Surely they haven't considered that idea yet!

Have you ever been in a situation where a manager proposes a technical solution that everyone else has already dismissed as preposterous? Now you know how it feels to be on the other side of that.

With that mockery out of the way, I'll give my understanding of the situation: The lithium ion batteries on the 787 are much smaller and lighter than their predecessors. They also take up less space and require different input and output voltages and currents. They have different charging profiles. Swapping them out with an older battery technology is infeasible. It would require redesigning other components to make room, building new transformers and voltage regulators, and writing new software to charge the batteries safely. It would also reduce the range, capacity, and/or efficiency of the 787.

I do apologize if I went overboard with the mockery. Please don't take it personally; it's fun to write.
I think you can't use subjective measures like 'enjoyment' when doing this sort of calculation.

I feel the best way to split equity is to make the standard salary "swappable" with equity. let me give an example:

say 1 founder, 1 early employee. At the start, there is $100k in the bank that the founder put in (or otherwise managed to get). Founder has 100% equity, so each 1% equity is "worth" $1000;

first year, lets say the employee worked and produced $100k worth of value. Lets further say the normal rate is $100k for that employee. So the company has $200k worth of value, even tho there is only $100k in the bank. The employee could take 0% equity, and $100k in money. Or, 50% equity, and $0 money (and all scale variation in between).
The batteries actually went up in flames though, it wasn't just smoke (I'm recalling the the adage about where there's smoke there's fire). The new flagship plane from Boeing wasn't grounded worldwide because there was no threat to safety.
There's so much potential information there, and some very neat things you can do with it. But for me at least, their new API policies completely turned me off of making cool things with it. Not that the API isn't still powerful.
That's interesting - why are the batteries onboard and not ground equipment? Obviously restarting a stalled engine would be handy, but is this something that actually happens?
And if it is, couldn't the running jets provide the power somehow? I seem to remember that some old WW2 prop aircraft had ground equipment requirements to start them from cold (power or warmed air or something?) Obviously this isn't an area I know about but I am curious about it. Thanks.
Do you know if there's anything unique about the electrical system that would cause a greater load than a comparable aircraft?

I'm thinking high-tech radar, wifi, photon torpedoes, etc.
Three years after Sun gobble, what hath Ellison wrought - a better Big Blue?
"Tesla's /cells/ are also "fundamentally unsafe", but they make the /batteries/ as safe as possible."

While it's certainly true that the Li-ion chemistry used in the Tesla's batteries are flammable, keep in mind the current common alternative to those potentially burning cells is carrying round a metal or plastic tank with 10 or more gallons of gasoline in it. If there weren't a 100+ year history of people doing just that and getting away with it most of the time, you surely wouldn't be allowed to do it in today's safety-conscious society.
Lot of shipping companies won't even handle Lithium batteries (over a certain size or quantity) on their flights.

FedEx's shipping guide, as an example: http://www.fedex.com/downloads/shared/packagingtips/battery_...
Compare to

http://www.jottit.com/

(a project of the late Aaron Swartz)
Good link. One would hope that had nothing to do with it, but....
I shouldn't be surprised if there aren't several people within Boeing with exactly the right expertise. Whether they were identified and listened to by management is a separate question.

If Musk is right (IANA Battery Guy), I would presume there are cost / design trade-offs involved. And some exec had to evaluate those against safety issues. Those are engineering decisions, they're also business decisions. If the execs deciding that didn't have the proper background to make an engineering evaluation himself, they are left trying to decide which engineers to trust. It isn't at all hard to see someone getting that wrong.
Click the link icon in the upper left
Urban Compass. Heard of it?
Facebook Graph Search, an Analysis to its New Pillar
Script that composes poems out of random tweets
Go look up Ed Fredkin or Amory Lovins.
Pattern Matching: A Skill That Could Make A Difference
Are you trying to get me divorced! So tempting though...
JS runs on the links abundantly. You are not sanitizing your inputs, and this is why contenteditables are bad (click on the "this is not a bad idea at all" to see an alert box).

http://www.zenpen.io/index.html#4+IEgojgYAA=#FY0xDoMwDEVncgo...
No bleed air from the engines. Pressurization, hydraulic actuators, air conditioning and accessories are all electrical. That uses 1.45MW on a 787
I don't have any dog in this fight...but Braintree isn't cloning Stripe. If anything, it is the other way around. To be fair, I think Stripe took Braintreee's concept and made it much simpler/cleaner. But to say that Braintree is cloning stripe is dishonest. Braintree was way ahead of Stripe in the tokenized payments arena.
Really cool use of technology. My only question is why doesn't my iPhone have a barometer? :(
It was 2000 a 2001 that I saw this, so things may well have changed in that time frame.
"Following Kim Dotcom stories, holding reverence for anonymous and being pro-piracy gets them page views."

A difference of opinion isn't always pandering. (I find those stories pretty interesting actually, and I've been reading them for a long time too.)
Great cop out.
Hey here's a good article from a old friend of mine about one somewhat tricky part which is the ALU / arithmetic flags (which he gets to after rambling a bit about various x86 simulation techniques)
http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx11_flags.htm
Thank you. I knew that Datomic existed, and some of the basic things you pointed out here, but I'll take a closer look. It seems like you really think it has a lot of promise.

That being said, I don't think CRA is a panacea. Databases will always have a "read, decide what to do, write" pattern (because that is what happens in the real world, and databases model the real world). If the read happens at time T, and the write happens at time T+100; then you could have a race condition if something happens at time T+50.

Postgres can detect such race conditions by using true serializability (based on a technique called Serializable Snapshot Isolation[1]). It gets tricky to apply the same technique for temporal databases, though I believe it's possible. Do you happen to know what techniques Datomic offers users to help avoid/detect/resolve race conditions?

Don't get me wrong. I think it's a very useful direction to go in. I've done a lot of work on temporal features in postgres. I'm also aware of some of the limitations, however. You still need some kind of coordination and something resembling locks or a conflict detector.

(By the way, please avoid derogatory comments about people who make different technology choices than you do. An argument could be made that postgres is CRA. And even if not, CRA versus CRUD is a small part of what is actually important to users; many of whom face a different set of trade-offs than you do.)

[1] http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
Is a Professional Engineer certification relevant here? All the PEs I've met work in the civil engineering field.
Thank you untog, that was exactly my issue with the original phrasing. It's not that she was praised for being stronger than all the men the OP knew, but that she was being praised for, essentially, being better at being a man than all the men the OP knew. A small distinction, that makes the original sentiment come off as very sexist.

I don't think the OP was being sexist on purpose, or maliciously, or even consciously. I just wanted to bring attention to it, because this is the sort of casual sexism that pervades a lot of people's thinking without them even realizing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_best_defense_is_a_good_offe...

> Generally the idea is that offensive action preoccupies the opposition and ultimately its ability to directly harm.
Maybe you just want to use it to pick off all the smaller guys. You enjoy driving it around and being the Big Man On Campus. But, you don't want to take it into a real fight, you might avoid an actual conflict with it.
How is an ad a minimum viable product? That's insane. You can't sell it - it's a marketing exercise, not a product. As a mechanism to get pre-orders, or gauge demand, maybe, but it's still not a product.

The point is that for something to be a fully-fledged product, it has to have certain features. They're expensive, so an MVP skips a lot of them in favor of getting a product up quickly. But you still have to add those features in later. They're usually not optional.

Hence, an MVP that you can't add those features to to is not an MVP - it's a prototype. You will get beaten in the market when someone else adds whatever your product is missing.

- if it will (or should) be thrown away at the end of development, it's a prototype. MVPs are not thrown away. Though from looking at wikipedia, even they confuse the two.
> It might even be just some low-paid, technically unskilled assistant tasked with attaching vaguely relevant images to articles.

The problem though is that the article is passed off with the contact author as "Matthew Panzarino"

Matthew Panzarino is the Managing Editor of TNW. Matthew
brings 20 years of computing experience and mobile tech
obsession to delivering the latest and greatest tech
news and views.

http://thenextweb.com/author/matthewpanzarino/

Now, this seems like a journalist with 20-years of computing experience making a rookie 'lazy' mistake. The "behind the scenes" may be different though.
Not exactly. The larger battery is because the APU is larger. The engines are started on APU power, not directly from battery power. You are correct that Lithium Ion batteries are significantly lighter than older NiCad batteries.
Convert github issues into pull requests
I'm an aeromechanical engineer, not an electrical one, but I suspect the fewer-cells design was chosen to save weight. Many unconventional design decisions in aerospace (everything with holes, novel materials which trickle down to cars and golf clubs) are driven by the need to reduce weight.
So, my initial impressions are:

- The concept as a whole is rock solid.
- The ability to send/receive email and phone calls is killer
- The way the software is designed fits perfectly with my bizdev flow
- They cleverly handle account support via the app itself as a customer lead that is already in place. Our rep has been very responsive and helpful.

Some features are still lacking, but none are deal-breakers at this time. Overall, I expect we'll be using it for the whole organization in short order.
I found a Boeing technical publication that discusses the power architecture of the 787 and how the battery comes into play. Kind of interesting:

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_4...

Page 4 says this:

"The power source for APU starting may be the airplane battery, a ground power source, or an engine-driven generator. The power source for engine starting may be the APU generators, engine-driven generators on the opposite side engine, or two forward 115 VAC ground power sources. The aft external power receptacles may be used for a faster start, if desired."

So the battery seems to be very important when you're somewhere with no ground generator. The battery starts the APU, then the power from the APU starts the engines.
Heya, creator checking in. Surprised this popped up on HN so soon after release (or at all). Although this is exactly the type of feedback I'm after.

I've started looking into scanning, and stripping js/malevolence from the content ... just haven't got around to implementing anything just yet.

That said, the project is only 2 days old, if anyone is interested in contributing its all open source: https://github.com/tholman/zenpen
Always Connected: Cookoo Watch Review
Interesting, though you seem to be going for a "no coding required" approach which always ends up hitting limits pretty quickly.

Do you support an easy way to add custom JS code for logic that the in built tools cannot handle elegantly?

Also interested in how this works, do you generate JS code or do you have a JS engine which reads settings from other files?
Did You Say More PINs?
I really do not mean for this to be offensive, but I understand how it can be (and I almost expect it to be interpreted that way) but I feel obligated to tell you this.

Your excuse is pretty weak. You've "tried meeting technical founders and hackathons, but its harder than we think." That's just weak.

You have to realize that you're within a forum of people that are very passionate and good at what they do. I really don't think anybody in the HN community is looking for a non-technical co-founder who is essentially saying they can't convince hackers, in person, at hackathons to bet on you.

If your rational was that you believe in HN users more than just a guy you can meet at a hackathon (not a bad approach, by the way), then you'd have merit. But your explanation basically suggests that you've been shot down hackathons, so now you're here to pick up a co-founder.

I'm not suggesting that finding a co-founder on HN is unheard of, nor that it is a bad idea (I particularly liked Coinbase's attempt merely days before the HN application deadline). But this whole presentation sounds unimpressive.

Lastly, having played point in both the non-technical and a technical founder roles, I'd suggest that you drop "I've tried but its harder than you think" line from your lexicon. Paul Graham has a succinct essay on this, but being a good founder is about being relentlessly resourceful. While you may have tried, and it my be harder than anyone thinks it is, both points are irrelevant. You jut have to do it. And you can't, or don't, you'll just be forgotten about.

I wish you the best of luck.
I was lucky to be able to catch a preview presentation of this "Holy Grail" project at SpainJS, last summer. It's very interesting stuff. I think that one of the more important caveats to mention is that to the extent that your application is composed of rich interactions, visualizations and interactivity, and logged-in-user-only content, that stuff tends to remain on the client-side alone ... but for your basic rendering of JavaScript models to a flat HTML page, this is a great project to keep a close watch on. In particular:

* Caching of shared static HTML for fast-as-possible page loads.

* Google indexing and searchability.

* Backbone apps that feel more like a series of pages and less like a single-page app.

... are all things that are addressed quite neatly by Rendr.
Sounds like you only know people with Civil PEs, then. There are different examinations and qualifications for different disciplines.

Source: my wife is a Naval Architecture PE.
Samsung did not willfully infringe on Apple's patents, U.S. judge says
The unlimited minutes did it for me. One thing I do want however is the ability to forward calls to my cellphone, but I can wait on that.

Edit: Never mind, the enterprise plan comes with call routing. Sold!
It's assumed you'll get the Type Cover, which has a very usable real keyboard and a real touchpad. Plus, you also have a real touch screen as well.

Yes, quite expensive by Windows PC standards, but a terrific package. You should try one for three months or so.
Peak Mac?
On a large jet airliner, the engines are not started by battery power; they're started by the APU, which is basically a much smaller engine (if you look at videos of airliners, you can see it venting out the tip of the tail). The APU also provides emergency backup power and cabin pressurization in-flight if the engines fail.

The 787 is unusual in that it's a "bleedless" aircraft; it uses other systems -- some of them electrically-powered -- to supply compressed air for various purposes, rather than "bleeding" compressed air from the engines. The batteries are part of that, and have to be onboard because the plane needs compressed air while in flight.
How I Got an Awesome Job
Love this.

And the word count target is the best thing I've seen all day. Lovely.
Not on the Surface Pro which this thread is about. Only the Surface RT comes with a pre-release version of Office.