skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extremely well designed (in my opinion). The app design is not as nice. I had to scan for a sec to figure out exactly the pitch but even then details are scarce so I would try to emphasize the quick overview easier like "Free Tutoring" or something and expand from there.

I thought the subjects below were clickable to expand into each but weren't. Would be nice to know what is covered since its there. Also who is the target, high school, college, or both?

Some questions off the top of my head is why is it free, what's the catch. FAQ for this would be nice. The current FAW doesn't address this. If I had to guess, some book sale/rental referral or maybe a freemium service, but that's blindly guessing.

Overall, pretty nice. The hard part is whether or not students will engage.
Fantastic. This kind of thing, and Meteor, is really what Node is made for. Till recently, Node web frameworks mostly been "let's do RoR or Sinatra, but look it's in JS! #Neat". Sure, there's some benefit in terms of developer skill set and avoiding schizophrenic context-switching; but still, the great promise of SSJS is running the same actual code on both sides.
I find this post particularly interesting, since what described (outside of doing it at a VM level), somewhat reflect how some Telecom providers build their equipment. Telecoms in North America are properly crazy when it comes to recovering from failure with minimal visible impact to customers.

Usually on the Telecom equipment, the backup / state transfer is done at a process level, not at a VM level as suggested, but it's quite common practice.

The best equipment I've seen, does this by spawning many equivalent processes, and distributing them among the available blades in the chassis. If you have process mgr1, you get a backup1 process on another blade. As mgr1 processes you're call state, it checkpoints all critical data to the backup1 process. If the mgr1 process itself crashes, or the entire blade fails, all the processes are simply re-spawned, contact their corresponding backup process, and transfer all the state information back, and simply resume. Most end users won't even notice. Using this method, I've seen equipment recover well over 30,000 subscriber sessions in under 5 seconds, most of which probably wouldn't even notice, and even if you did it wouldn't be enough to drop you're data connection (VPN, video streaming, or whatever you're doing). We also don't lose you're bill for the usage either ;)

The challenges with applying this to the game environment, is in telecom each user session is independent, and doesn't really interact with other sessions, so we don't have an issue of a single process becoming overloaded and needing to free up resources to handle it. However, it would be properly easy to do within this model, since failure is expect to occur and be recovered from.

As a programmer, you have to be properly diligent in the software design, what get's check pointed, when does it occur. I couldn't even imagine trying to retroactively apply this type of design to "legacy" software, that wasn't build from the ground up with this model in mind.
I like this a lot and might even use it myself. That said, the link generated is much too long for sharing, esp on Twitter, but probably anywhere. I'm guessing its a known issue though.
I'm curious if a "blind" comment system would be useful, where you could comment on an article for a period of time, but not read comments.

After the elapsed time, commenting would be disabled and become visible. This way people could only comment on the article and not each other.

Obviously not applicable to discussion sites.
If Your Website Or Search Isn't As Fast As Google, It's Too Slow
As of 2 years ago it was, so your's might be depending on the version, and the ticket doesn't look like it went anywhere so it might still be open:

http://svn.dd-wrt.com/ticket/1909

If you're concerned and can't merely disable the service, you should scan it from another system with something like Nessus.

Edit: UPnP uses UDP port 1900 and TCP port 2869, so you should be able to add something like the following (untested; assumes WAN interface = vlan1) to the startup script (Administration>Commands), atleast for IPv4 (and unless they clobber additional rules somehow during the course of normal operation):

iptables -I INPUT 1 -i vlan1 -p tcp --dport 2869 -j DROP

iptables -I INPUT 1 -i vlan1 -p udp --dport 1900 -j DROP
These systems replaced hydraulics for surface control, right? On a weight advantage? Making good on a decision like that is exactly what confirmation bias is all about.
The deadline to apply is the 7th of February (that is so we can get back to everyone on the 8th). Although I always liked the YC let people apply late model, We Expect it to be a full house so I do not know if we can be able to except late submissions.

It would be great if you submitted it earlier so that We can get some sleep the night of the 7th ;)

The expected output is CAD files (Schematic, PCB, mechanical) and maybe software (not all of them, just what applies to your project. There will be some people that bring hardware to prototype and show it off at the end of the event. But this not required.
Not going to lie, the numbers for Amazon's stock suggest that the stock price is absurdly north of earnings. While I'd love to buy into Amazon (one of the best services online imo), it'll need to break into some major new markets to start "justifying" that price to me.
Thanks! Yeah, the iPhone is tough. I sit on the edge of my seat with baited breath every time a new iOS device is announced. No luck so far, but I think it'll happen eventually.
I hate that I turn every debate into "it depends on where you draw the line" but it really does. There is a continuum between my-first-open-source-project and Apple. It would be absurd to suggest to someone that they shouldn't make fun of Windows 8 because Steve Ballmer might get his feelings hurt. It would also be absurd to suggest that every kid who proudly uploads his/her first program to github deserves to be slammed for its shortcomings. It's a continuum.

While I see your perspective, I think it's going to get pretty boring around here if we have to walk on eggshells for fear that somebody who probably isn't even paying attention might be offended at a jovial (if accurate) characterization of one of their shortcomings.
Some of the great minds in history have accepted this fact and viewed death as a very real possibility by adopting views deemed radical by society.

But they saw a strong enough morality in what they were doing to perceiver.

This dates as far back in human history lore such as in the bible. And probably well before that.

Human societies always seems to be well structured to suppress radical thought. I'm curious if the internet is changing that.
It didn't take me three months to realize that the touch cover made for a shitty keyboard, the touchpad was microscopic, and the kickstand made the whole thing unusable for a lot of "precariously perched" use cases (seated on the couch, seated on the train or subway).

If it's a good computer, you'll like it immediately in the store. If it takes three months to get used to the weird form factor, Microsoft will never sell any of them.
Image loading events can trigger JS without interaction.

http://www.zenpen.io/index.html#4+IEgojgYAA=#4+LiBAKbAjsum8z...
AWS has lower upfront cost, doesn't require hardware management, and it's easier to provision consistent servers during growth or temporary peaks. Ideal for an unstable clustered system being run by a startup.

I'm mainly talking about EC2, since some other offerings aren't suitable for responsive games. I tried a SimpleDB backend to be hip a couple years back, but it has latency and designed failure rates that are impossible.
Yes, Trello does this pretty well. Not "switch to the buffer in vim" well :-) but its a great tool. An iPad version would be cool.
Nice, it's a shame this isn't supported in the GitHub web interface.
something like hulu, but without the limitations. advert sponsored or reasonably priced subscription for payment.
>>>I don't believe that everyone derives benefit equivalent to the cost (both to themselves, and the public cost) of college tuition

The "everyone" that you are referring to consists of the vast majority of university majors, which happen to be non-vocational. I would say that STEM majors are generally pretty close to vocational, but as you say lots of people can get the degree without actually learning anything useful to any specific employer.

Which is what vocational schools are for. The biggest pity is that vocational schools aren't held up as great opportunities - lots of them are intellectually challenging - can you name and describe the function of all of the moving and non moving parts in your car? Also vocational schools are just as social as long as they are encompassed in a normal junior college. Oh and JOBS that pay MONEY.

The funniest part of the tragedy is that (on average) someone going to vocational school for a law certificate is going to make less money than someone going to vocational school for an electrician or plumbing or automotive repair certificate. Have we mentioned debt and compound interest?
It really shouldn't matter too much. FDA approved indications matter for getting insurance to pay for a drug. Insurance generally doesn't pay for erectile dysfunction drugs or weight loss drugs. The only indication for Viagra (or Revatio, rather, which is the same drug with a different brand name and different indications) that insurance pays for is pulmonary arterial hypertension. Revatio is already generic in the US.

The sensible thing to do would be to just use generic Revatio whenever you want sildenafil (generic name of Viagra and Revatio), regardless of the reason you want it.
Demand Progress posted this [1] and sent it out to all its subscribers today, to urge the government to stop stonewalling on the Ortiz issue.

[1] http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wh_ortiz/?akid=1973.22538...
Until opentable can actually get reservations right, it sounds pretty irrelevant to me. EVERY time I've tried to get reservations on opentable, they're either not available for 2+ hours, or not available at all. Then when I call, they invariably have tables for every time slot. Basic functionality is missing here...
Except the MacBook Air is a much worse deal by not having a touch screen, by not having a digitizer pen, and by not including the equivalent of a free iPad.

You don't in fact get as much capability even if you buy both a MacBook Air and an iPad for much more money. Especially after you've paid for Parallels and a copy of Windows 7 as well ;-)

As for the people who haven't quite figured out that you can keep a lot of your files in the cloud (and create them using Microsoft Office in the cloud), the cheap solution to the "storage problem" is as simple as a microSD card and a bit of copying.

Yes,it would be much nicer to have a 512GB Flash drive built in, but very few people would be willing to pay the price.
Google's Amit Singhal on the Future of Search
Entrepreneurs: Questions for Angels
I read a bunch of Aaron Swartz obituary articles and blog posts, both professional and amateur, yet this is the first time I've encountered the actual name of the script he ran to download the JSTOR documents: keepgrabbing.py
Naval Architecture, that's fascinating! That's Naval Architecture as in ship hulls or decks, not harbors etc?

Have to say, I poked around at a number of PE certification links first and found a lot of state PE offices linked with Land Surveying. Other sources like wikipedia note that PE certs in the US exempt many interstate industries such as Mechanical, Chemical, and Aerospace Engineering.
Are there any guidelines about what may the team design on an upfront basis (if anything) vs. during the hackathon?
Yeah you're spot on. I'm trying to think of a way to solve this... but really trying to avoid having a back end/storing anything at all, though I'm not sure what else to do, if not through url's

If the url is less than 2000 characters, goo.gl (google's url shortner) will work, and that makes it much more sharable... but for bigger writings, I'm at a loss.

An export function would help here, but in the end, sharing from ZenPen.io would be preferable.

Open to any suggestions :)
I don't know. I could see it getting to a less tech savvy media outlet and become Founder of Tesla openly admits batteries in their cars are fundamentally unsafe.
I was looking for information on this too, because last I heard, TEST and Goons were closely-allied buddies, and here they are fighting each other in a relatively large way. Then again, I think Pandemic Legion and Goons used to work together against BoB, but then seemingly broke ties (and now PL+TEST, as part of HBC, have clashed with Goons). This article clarified things for me somewhat:

http://themittani.com/features/why-didnt-hbc-and-cfc-go-war

As far as I understand the article, the CFC and HBC are the two biggest coalitions in the galaxy, and war between them is a risky bet for either in the current conditions. There's not enough incentive for them to do it just yet, and old ties come into play. (Some commenters mentioned technetium moons as an underlying factor - very profitable sources of income which PL stands to lose in a war.)

From my outsider point of view, the political situation in the EVE galaxy has matured: the Allies (CFC) beat the Axis (BoB), some residual fighting has gone on, and everyone's trending either towards a Cold War or a United Nations. The ethos of EVE predisposes alliances to conflict, but there's a lot of territory and months of sleepness nights at stake when supercoalitions decide to go to war. And these supercoalitions used to be (at least in part) allied to each other against older enemies.

The pendulum might swing again, but this time it won't end as easily as BoB crushed ASCN in 3 months.
> If I am ever in a position to hire (and affect through it entirely and only my own economic well being) I wouldn't mind having people I enjoy company of and can relate to. Genuinely awesome people are a plus point, but even in that category if I am able to find people who share the same background as mine, is it really that bad a decision?

Yes, it's the opposite of a meritocracy, which i'm not sure if there's a specific word for. Very close to cronyism.
Vrapper for eclipse is a good one too. Mostly what I've tried is whatever people have put out for emacs. Viper or something like that.
Fahrenheit just gets more and more confusing
To be honest, Meteor is nice and a very ambitious project but the fact that you are writing an application with it means you are probably wedded to it.

That's why I've been using Express for my middleware, npm modules as needed, and mongoose as my db wrapper (or if I want to switch it out for redis, I can do so easily). Not sure how easily I can port my "meteor app" to a different framework that comes along.
It depends on how introspective they are. Some people with horrible personalities are able to think critically about things after the fact. It doesn't take a stubborn ego to have a bad personality. You could, for example, have a bunch of people insensitive about one another's ego (but secure enough not to care about their own).
Apple Made Square: The democratization of payments
Interesting I could see that as a possibility, but I think we're comparing two different fictional people. Of course if you could double your salary moving to SF it usually makes sense, but I think its often more of a 25-50% difference.

And also, I don't believe it scales 1:1. The developers I know well here, 5 to 7 years out of school, nearly everyone in Atlanta is making close to 100k (almost all +/- 10k). Developers with similar positions and experience aren't making 180-220 are they?

Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe SF really is the promised land, but the numbers have never worked out on any positions I've looked at. YMMV of course.
The killer features that led me to TextMate and Sublime Text is that they open instantly and they render fonts nicely. I need the features you named a lot less than I need those two.
Eliminate copyright.
Yes. And my wife and I have found that a large number of people don't like being photographed. We always ask, we buy something from the person if we can, and many shake their heads or otherwise communicate no to us when we indicate we would like to take a photograph. I have had other tourists photographing past us while we ask. We respect what people ask - I'd be pretty unhappy having someone come up to me at home or work and try to take my photograph.
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Chinese entrepreneur sells cans of fresh mountain air to Beijing residents.
Thanks, I thought I was going crazy for a second there. Agreed that no one is being intentionally sexist- I think it's just a side effect of phrases and colloquialisms that have been in our culture for a long time.
I was just thinking about this today. The web devs I'm working with are talking about ditching Rails entirely in favor of in-browser template rendering by JS. With a backend also in JS, it seems to clearly be a winning development environment for new projects today. Just the diminished learning curve would be enough for me to look closely at this. This is coming from a very non-front end guy, though, so I might be a little starry-eyed.
Sounds like you may need to revise your screening process... these people should not get this far.
instagram sold for a billion.
Following this to its logical endpoint, this would probably be incredibly difficult to monetize, would it not?
In general they were mistrustful of outsiders and didn't want anything to do with them. Most of them weren't happy about the new roads (these would have been very basic dirt forest-service style roads at the time). They lived in very simple shacks, and of course had no electricity or running water.

Only vaguely related, but after his time in the CCC, my grandfather became a pentacostal preacher, which he remained for the rest of his life. His first "church" was a brush arbor he built himself. Funny how different life was then.

Brush arbor information:
http://brusharborquarterly.com/about.html
Do you believe subscription or advertisement is necessary to sustain the platform? What about membership without a fee, based on a choice of plan or individual purchases?
The Atom Splashers
if you want to store content in url, you'll hit limits sooner or later, unless writings are highly regular and can be compressed well.
Recent Kevin McCloud series showed brain tanning in case anyone is interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClouds_Man_Made_Home
I can't help but sense this leading right back to the bad old days of PowerBuilder and Visual Basic. The whole idea behind 4GLs was, you "tell" the computer what you want it to do in high-level concepts. The problem is the 90% of the program it makes easy is was easy before, and the 10% that remains is effectively impossible for the non-programmer, and the programmer will balk at all the extra work they have to do to squeeze it in.
Yale Computer Science Dept overworked, understaffed
Recently, I switched to pre-baking AMIs and then launching those images with auto scaling groups. This has simplified and sped up our deploys substantially (and reduced our costs), we can go from code commit to deployed on production in about 90 seconds.

Netflix has talked about a similar approach. The basic process is to have volumes from existing AMIs already mounted to your buildbox. Then when you kick off a build it checks out your code, compiles and installs it on one of those volumes, runs puppet in a chroot on the volume to do any needed configuration. Finally you unmount the volume and create a fully bootable AMI. I scripted this up in python and the baking process takes around 60 seconds.
They didn't create a new civilization. The couple was born and raised in Russia. Their religion was a sort of Russian Orthodoxy. Whatever quirks they had, it's pretty fair to assume that they had an incest taboo (as do practically all human societies).

On the other hand, it's not obvious at all that resisting breaking that taboo would be as easy as not using modern technology. This was hinted in one of the book's reviews on Amazon:

> A spectra haunted this group, as well as other remote old believers - incest! Peskov never can definitely state this is the reason why the two brothers established separate dwellings six kilometers from the main housing unit, but certainly it is high on the speculation list.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TGXPO509YNC0/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
I could not imagine the engineers at Boeing slapping together a battery pack for something like the 787 project without years of work and testing.

Assuming you're right in regards to the skills of their engineers, wouldn't it only be relevant if Boeing designed the battery pack themselves?
i would not hire anyone who does not know about these sorts of basic algorithm and how/what they are used for - whether they learnt it themselves, or via tiertiary education is irrelevant. Unfortuantely, its common to use a good school as a proxy for such knowledge, but finding out later that the employee lack such knowledge could be costly. Learning what i would consider "basic" things on the job is both wrong and bad for business!

There is a line to be drawn somewhere tho - what is considered basic isn't basic to some. I would draw it where 'basic' means you could have learnt it in a 3 year undergrad CS course - essentially what is covered in the text http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ would be all i need from a grad, and domain specific stuff can be trained on the job.
Actually, the HTML5 videos do have adds (although they seem to occur less frequently than flash. Maybe becuase I right-click and 'pop-out' to get an HTML5 player). However, looking at the source, the video tag with the actual content is populated onload, and the add has its own tag, so even a naive attempt at automaticly replacing the flash player with HTML5 would accidently bypass the add.
Thanks for this. Adding ace is a great idea!
as opposed to pen.io's PenZen? Seriously
This is the best, most succinct and apt summary of the situation I've ever seen: "I contend that there is no sufficiently high level of abstraction where natural language would be more suitable."

I'm reminded of Paul Graham's remark about Prolog being more high level but not more terse, and that this had something to do with its present-day situation. Natural language is high level because it is terse and humans can supply a great deal of omitted information on their own. Teaching the computer how to supply that information is an incredibly error-prone burden. Teaching people how to use precise English seems to be worse than teaching people how to use a precise language that isn't English.
Actually, "Aaron's Law" would not have materially changed the prosecution in this case.

Yet again, a law named after a person is a hastily constructed, poorly thought-out, bad idea. Has there ever been a counterexample to that rule?