skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, would love to hear more details. I find it astounding that an industry that does not care about looks (tech) would have something that is evidently very prevalent.
This has already been suggested more than once on the site, which I suppose is exactly why they protected it. :P

(Even the joke answers, such as adding a "coffee bean pipe", are already covered in the stackexchange thread.)
Good catch! I have updated the photo.

There is a full-length blog post about the Kairos Society and our experience with it so far. Though, it is buried at the very bottom of the page. [1]

Thanks for the feedback!

[1] http://www.kairosfundraiser.com/blog
But your pipeline stalls as you've people waiting to use the drier, those people block sinks, flow is reduced.

1 sink and 1 dryer: first person leaves after 30s, after 60s 3 people have been served.

2 sink and dryer combos: 2 people leaves after 30s, after 60s 4 people have been served.

I think the analog is that parallel processing is better than pipelining.
The Chevy Volt has a data link and remote apps for IOS and Android. There's a web API that allows sites like Volt Stats to download from thousands of cars. The Chevy is not a $15000 car, but the prices are dropping. The Nissan Leaf can be bought for under $20k after tax rebates in California.

http://www.voltstats.net
Google Offers $3.14159 Million in Hacking Prizes
I do agree, Cygwin is a nice fallback position though. Eg I can't use a Linux VM here at work because my local PC has bugger all memory and besides, their security policy won't allow it. (Don't try and apply logic, it's a megacorp).
It offers liquid BTC exposure on a trusted platform.

There are more investors and market makers with deeper pockets on stock than Bitcoin exchanges. They prefer trading there because of there is a lower chance of one's balance vaporising at JPMorgan than at Mt Gox.
Remember the sabbath, and keep it holy?
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How is it more liquid than a mtgox account?

Edit: I see that you edited your response. I guess the selling point is the trust factor and that is certainly attractive. How much trust do you think is placed in JPM that is not due to regulatory oversight?
Why Building Your Own Corporate Facebook Will Usually Fail
Sounds like another step towards a walled garden.
I've played with the hosted service as well as hosting Sentry myself. I only played with the latter version for 20 minutes but I didn't know how to get it up and running such that I could actually use it in the same way the getsentry.com was. (this was last week, before the UI redesign)

Is there something obvious I was missing?

This all being said, I'm very impressed with exception reporting at getsentry.com!
Turn Your Browser into a Notepad With a Single Line of HTML5
Chris Crawford's famous whip speech 1989 CGDC
I think their website just got hacked...
Thanks. Lots to digest after long night coding, but i'll think about it all.
Superb feedback. Really.
Maybe this is for all interns at the firm, so companies that hire more interns for lower-paid positions end up with an average below what an engineering intern sees.
> reduces everything to pointlessness

Well then - I guess you'd really hate physics then, a field that reduces everything you see around you to a series of equations with a tad of randomness thrown in for good measure.

Now then - if you don't believe humans obey the law of physics - well then - that's your problem.
Good night ;)
how about scaling one up and making it deliver pizzas?
I generally use a Mac with something like SizeUp or Spectacle as a window manager. On a PC, there is Aero-snap. However when I am using my Chrome account somewhere I can't get these tools (like on a school computer or on a Chromebook) I always wished I had a way to snap the browser to the sides of my screen. So I made Sizer, just click to go full screen or bind to either half of the screen.

The next stable version of Chrome (currently in Beta) will include the commands API so I will be able to add keyboard commands to this extension and make it an even better productivity booster.

Anyway, I hope some of you enjoy this. The code (which is incredibly boring and simple) is up on my Github at https://github.com/hatboysam/sizer if you're interested.
So many other whats?
Pointless to quantify the amount of time until "Concentration" can be quantified.
I don't think Amazon in general is a welcome force in the Android world and I doubt many people enjoy submitting apps to both Google Play and Amazon. They are contributing to fragmentation of the platform.
Taking decision under conditions of uncertainty is really the key
Although it feels like the Aaron Swatz aftermath has received disproportionately large coverage these past weeks, this article makes a fantastic point.
We have a proper machine in the office and some people still drink ugh instant. At least with a machine like we are discussing people will drink a better standard of coffee than they otherwise would.
Make Android's sharing feature even more powerful
A New Fitness Value System
Congratulations on finishing your app. It's targeting a very very very specific user base, but it's neat all the same. I'm not sure you'll get much love on HN...

Maybe you could add some bulk with more mechanical equations for real world usage, then flesh it out into a mathematics-for-engineers application of some sort. I'm sure no one remembers all their Mechanical formulae off the top of their head!

One thing I would say is have a look at Holo UI. The cupcake/donut styles are looking a bit worse for wear nowadays.

Code on!
Absolutely. When I've seen things like this in person, the reality is often, "I worked 16 hour days for 2 months coding, and then spent another 2 months in QA fixing bugs."

People say that like I'm supposed to be impressed, but they don't seem to realize that programmers can be negatively productive. In 10 minutes of stupid, I can put in a bug that soaks up a day of somebody's time later on. But the people proud of their death marches act as if the bugs are all caused by cosmic rays, not their own previous exhausted fumblings, miscommunications, typos, and oversights.
Not everyone with parents who care ends up with a favorable environment, either.
"Function types in Go can also have methods."

Wow, blew my mind... this has never occurred to me but, of course, why not?

Not sure yet how I am going to abuse that feature, but already looking forward to it.
A regexp puzzle from MIT mystery hunt
More like:

- constant exponential climb

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#igWeeklyza1gEMAzm1g... (note the Log scale)

That minor "fall" in 2011 was an over-hyped blip. Minor boom and bust cycles are normal.
Google's Chrome-Plated Trojan Horse
Oh gawd! I hope this does not impact on the operations of Virgin Media's broadband services.

It was the largest broadband provider (now it is second largest) in the UK for good reasons: extensive infrastructure, extremely stable retail service, the fastest fixed line broadband speeds and the telecoms provider with the lowest complaints in the industry! They actually improved on the service that the old NTL used to provide, no mean feat.

It also seems the last couple of years, Virgin have been steadily moving away from anything to do with telecoms, at least across Europe.
literally 1000x more productive

Are we saying 1000x more productive than top-5-percentile engineers, or 1000x more productive than the worst engineers?
I don't get why it should make any difference if a takedown is automated, or not.

If you run an automated system that deals in any way, shape, or form with legally binding documentation and - entites, you should be liable for the consequences, period.

If you're a financial institution, which runs an automated trading system you can't really argue that this trade, which just cost you a couple gazillions, is from an automated system and should thus be considered invalid.

Any exchange and the regulating authorities will laugh you out of business.

Why should different principals apply if you automate your legal bullying?
Apart from the problem of having potentially toxic substances as part of a beverage generation device, adding extra moving parts to simulate a non-moving part is really adding unnecessary complexity, effectively trying to fight against the universe (and the idiots that it produces).
Or you could just use Bitbucket haha
Ok that was a fairly crazy experience:
#1) When I clicked the link I was apparently already "logged in" even though I've never been on your website before, so I was very confused by all of the other people's information that was thrown at me
#2) Maybe it's just the logged in view, but there needs to be some way to tell what in the world this site does.

On the plus side, the interface seems very nice and the site is fast.
We're all stuck in an infinite loop! :D

Hack posts to HN, Hacker reads HN and makes blog post, blog reader posts to HN... repeat ad infinitum.

The circle of life continues http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5135194
That liquidty seems to be largely based on the demand.
This is full of very serious answers. I thought this was a rhetorical question to highlight the tendency of software developers to mismanage risk.

I feel like no matter what the answer is, the questioner could just throw another "But what if..." on top of it.

Set a post-it note saying "Water here".
But what if a Black Hat gains access to the coffee machine and moves the sign?
Etc. You can't win unless you know what the questioner wanted to hear. I guess that makes it a good interview question.
My must-have iOS apps
Your reductionist mindset seems to be on a path of destruction, leaving many useful abstractions in its wake.

Is a car actually a car, or is it just a collection of atoms? It's both. Does the car actually drive, or is it just physics? It's both - "driving" is a subset of physics that acts on a collection of atoms known as a "car".

When people say "luck", they are usually referring to external circumstances not under the influence of the biological machine's algorithm. To say that luck is the only factor, or never a factor, is wrong. Given similar inputs, some algorithms will excel and some will fail.

You certainly can "blame" an algorithm for certain outcomes. How the algorithm formed is a red-herring.
No no, you're missing the point. Making a mistake here is not actionable -- it's totally legal to make a mistake and file for the wrong things or thinking that you have the right to the material when you actually don't. Only if you knowingly file a false claim is it an issue. That's the fundamental flaw in the DMCA's takedown construct, IMO.

Edit: To make an analogy, it's like me firing a gun in no particular direction. If I hit someone, it's at least manslaughter. But if it were like the DMCA takedown system, there would be two options: I didn't knowingly shoot at anyone in particular, so I get off with nothing, or I knowingly shot at them and was in the wrong, making it murder.
If Discourse takes off and becomes something people want, more and better Ruby hosting options will appear.

With a few killer apps, maybe Ruby will become the next available-everywhere language.
Is the 89th percentile unemployable?

Not a chance.

As an example, I've heard it said that with old warplanes dogfighting, most of the planes were up there to let the flying aces work their magic. They distract, engage, and keep the enemy busy, and make it more difficult for the enemy to find and target the great pilots.

Programming isn't exactly like dogfighting, but point being you can often leverage your non-aces to get things done to let the ace focus on other things, or even directly enhance the performance of your ace.
Even Chrome has issues. I've had one answer where it said I failed so I reloaded and it said I now passed. I changed nothing. In another case the tests failed when everything looked correct so I commented out one of the methods and then it said I passed... specifically passing the test that checked for the function that I had commented out! Seems like there is some flakiness with their system.
While I can't disagree with much of this, you need to check your glibness at the door. Especially stupid sentences like "Delusion - it is strong with this one." The whole point of commenting should be part of an attempt to inform others. When you're acting like a jerk, no one's going to take you seriously, and no one's going to learn anything from you.
I have worked with some extremely successful and famous artists and musicians, some follow the pattern outlined here, some do not. I know one musician who would work for 36 or 48 hours or more without a break of any kind including sleep, so as to complete an idea without losing the thread. The proof is in the pudding and there are many many recipes.
Microsoft Surface Pro Review
I feel fairly productive in Go, having initially decided "OK well let's just see how far I'll get without generics before giving up". Turns out the instances where I think I need generics are much rarer than I initially expected. Also, sometimes we just need a bit of template programming rather than full-blown generics. Templates let you express whatever you'd use generics for but also much more. So once you realize you won't need generics if you could just get some template programming support, the problem becomes trivial: there isn't any out-of-box support for templating but it's trivially easy to write the bit of string processing required for a pretty general reusable flexible fast poor-man's templating preprocessor, and even easier to hook that process in your build routine.

Some people use "gotgo", I rolled my own minimalist template preprocessor:

https://github.com/metaleap/go-buildrun

Now you'll see I have written some sizable amounts of Go code at https://github.com/metaleap/ and https://github.com/go3d/ yet I have only had to use that "templator" in a very few rare instances.

But then, I didn't come to Go with a functional-programming mind-set, which automatically means I somehow don't actually need to map-reduce-filter-collect-fold-etc. that often... ;-)
Congratulations on finishing. I'd agree with jonsherrard, try to upgrade to Holo UI when you get a chance. Your app will instantly look better. Also if you learn something about android graphics maybe you could provide a dynamic image of the spring that changes as you enter values so people know if they're making a mistake (sounds hard, but possible).
Rain tracked with mobile network
> When people say "luck", they are usually referring to external circumstances not under the influence of the biological machine's algorithm

Your DNA, aka the algorithm that is who you are, is given to you by the external environment - you have no control over it, and neither do you have any control over your upbringing - rich/poor/race/sex.

Your argument is, well, void.
Scientists use 3D printing to produce stem cells
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What's produced more value: Y Combinator's investments or Hacker News?
physics <> determinsm
This is a good time to remind ourselves: Facebook's API is a service and can be a single point of failure for your business. Unlike AWS, you don't even pay for it and it has a history of being problematic[1].

Allowing users to log in to your application using Facebook is quite common. It can be easier for users. It can give you access to demographic data with less work. But the API can die, change, or act generally unpredictable. And you have zero control over it.

This particular issue is impacting 9gag, Pinterest and others. Whilst many of these sites support user logins without Facebook, just as many of them don't. Imagine if tomorrow Facebook charge to connect to their API or there's some extreme exploit. How much damage would your application face?

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/facebook-wins-worst-api-in-...
Yep, that worked for me: added this in devise.rb:
config.omniauth :facebook, FB_APP_ID, FB_APP_SECRET, {:scope => '.....', :client_options => {:ssl => {.....}, :display => 'popup', :setup => true, :site => 'https://graph.facebook.com, :authorize_url => 'https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth, :token_url => '/oauth/access_token'}}
I can't directly reply to this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175163

so I'll say it here -- yes, an exchange-traded derivative of bitcoin would certainly benefit from higher liquidity. But why would its liquidity there necessarily be any different (or quicker to get your money in/out for amateurs) from the existing BTC exchanges? The interest in the BTC ETF depends on demand to trade in BTC in general, already captured on exchange sites.

Or is there some reason market makers would find it attractive to provide the liquidity?
There are all sorts of privileges that we should spread more widely. Good education. Supportive family. Great teachers. Solid role models. And yes, good values.

I didn't see a bit of accusation in the original post. Maybe you're hearing that because you brought it in with you?
Thanks a lot, as it is early in the morning here, you just made my day start better with a little laughter.
This differs from reports on HowardForums, which state that only repeated overages into the ~2.5 GB range will result in throttling. This is still an abuse of the term 'unlimited', but less bad than a brick wall at 2 GB.
The differences between a forum system designed to be implemented on someone's webpage and a big platform for "social interaction" are significant. Discourse could be used for a narrow purpose (i.e. creating a developer forum or a customer service portal), Branch can't. Just because their external appearance shows similarities doesn't mean they are the same product, or even in the same market.
How many time must this get re-posted before people get that it's a good Stack Overflow answer? Does HN really churn that many users each month?
When you mention making connections between events rather than thinking of them as standalone, the first thing that comes to mind is the way that government and media sources always portray the wars in the middle east as being isolated instances rather than as being part of a larger strategy and ongoing campaign. Its not just less information. Its misinformation oftentimes too. Such as war propaganda. Every one of these wars has a supposed explanation, which is never given as being strategic or connected to a larger campaign, always some bullshit about 'weapons of mass destruction', 'humanitarian crisis', 'freedom fighters' etc. which is always later revealed to be lies.

I mean, to me its pretty obvious that the US has a long term campaign going on. Just look at a map. We invade and occupy a country on one side of Iran, then the other. Then the Egyptian president, who just happens to have been blocking US plans to invade Libya (one of the strongest remaining Iranian allies in the area) since the 80s, is removed by way of an amazing 'spontaneous' democratic online uprising (which to me looks like propaganda, information/cyberwarfare). Then Libya is taken over by US-backed 'rebels'. And now Syria, the other Iranian ally, is being taken apart from within by more 'rebels'. All countries in the same geographic area, with the same types of prized resources, one after another, all opponents of the US.

The problem is that the mainstream media lies about the motivations for military action are always accepted by the majority. In the context of the previous lies getting us into war, they are obvious deceptions. Yet they blast the propaganda from all angles with the same bullshit over and over and it becomes the closest thing to reality that many people have.
Fears that music volume limits 'could be ignored'
Is anyone else having a problem with Google no longer acknowledging responses to false/faulty/inaccurate DMCA takedown requests?

We used to receive 3 or 4 a year, and Google was good about getting us relisted when we explained the error to them. I had two DMCAs from Google last month, and they still haven't gotten back to me about my request for relisting....
Instead of a liquid, it could be filled with solid plastic, similar to the fake glasses of liquid you see in joke shops.

And perhaps a subtle label on the surface, for someone who notices that the container does not really have sloshing-around liquid in it: "No water required"
How many individuals have the means to sustain an online conversation? I love threaded conversations because they are so easily branched. However, I do wish there were a visual indication of the flow of discussions between two individuals.

Which brings up an interesting thought: why does a discussion have to be between two individuals? If we are all reading the two current sides to a discussion, are we not all entitled to share our opinion to continue the discussion? It's then a group discussion.
It depends upon the company. If it's a young company that's growing then they might like to give you the salary but can't afford it. By giving you part of the salary as a bonus, it allows them backload the cost.
It's not just in South Korea. It happens in Romania/Europe too and in fact PCs with Windows bundled sometimes are $200 more expensive.

Microsoft may or may not have anything to do with it. It might be that these PC manufacturers provide Windows for their more expensive models as a way for differentiating them from the cheaper ones. Also not all manufacturers get the same deal.

For example I bought a Thinkpad E530 without Windows on it. The other model that was available to me had the same specs, plus an extra 16 GB SSD mSata and Windows and was $270 more expensive. I got the cheaper model and I replaced the hard-drive with a 256 GB SSD, which was a far better deal.

Personally I'm glad that this happens, because I don't run Windows and it would be pretty bad if I had to pay the Windows tax.
Cyber Security: World War III Is Already Here, and we're losing
I enjoy driving electric too. Electric motors are quiet, clean and responsive. There are 18 models of plug-in hybrid coming to the market by 2018. I think the hybrids will sell better than the pure battery vehicles as they don't cause range anxiety.

http://www.torquenews.com/1075/plug-hybrids-chevy-volt-rapid...
Off the top of my head:

You get to make money on the float (money given, virtual currency not spent yet). You can let others sell them (eg the iTunes cards in stores) as the stores would otherwise have no incentive to sell or promote your points. You can avoid tax issues since the conversion of money into points is when it matters, not later on. You get user identity information so you can market at them. You can start offering other products (eg stickers and toys). You can get participation by people without credit cards. You can do micro transactions - credit card fees kill them normally.
I've recently realised that arguing doesn't really ever convince anyone of anything - nor does it help teach the other side - everyone just doubles down and doesn't budge.

My goal with my comments is not to convince you. Neither is it to teach you. Rather it's to help me think about my own opinions by writing them down.

I'm not here to convince or teach anyone. I'm here to write.
I don't understand the reasoning behind your comment here.

First, how does physics eliminate the possibility of free will?

Second, why are you even bothering to tell us this?

How do you personally justify taking any action in life, as the pointlessness of it all clearly hasn't escaped you. Yet, from my naive perspective, I see someone determined to have their self-perceived intellectual superiority and ability to transcend it all recognized. I don't understand why, though.
Another victory for open-source drivers: Intel submits results for OpenGL ES 3.0
How to make your own cloud-synced commandline task manager
You could also say it's a nice story of how a lack of documentation caused pain for both consultant and engineers.
physics = probabilistic determinism
A little asking around will show you that at least 75-80% of engineers are in the top 1%. The rest are either modest or incompetent and personally I wouldn't take chances.