skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With somewhat different results, though. Japan blockade - Japan starts a war to secure the natural resources it needs. Iraq blockade - Iraq poses no threat and gets invaded anyway.
While I don't want to take an unfunny joke I made in the Hacker News comments too far and am sorry for hurting any British people's feelings, "drunk driving" does make sense as a literal description of an act, unlike "drink driving". "Drunk" is an adjective which modifies "driving" (which is used as a noun in this case).
This isn't exactly the same as a one time "box" but monthly subscription services for "boxes" of different items have been taking off lately.

I currently subscribe to Barkbox[0], a monthly subscription to receive dog treats, toys and accessories every month. A few months ago they had over 20,000 subscribers. They based their model off Birchbox[1], which provides a monthly subscription of hand picked beauty products.

I've been trying to think of other niches that would be a good fit for this box model.

[0] http://barkbox.com

[1] http://www.birchbox.com/
Stunt driver flips car 360 degrees
Same. I was super excited but then when I saw that no email or anything was sent I felt like a complete fool. I'd still be super excited if this was even halfway legit.
Yahoo! needs to regain credibility after Bartz ran it into the ground amid claims of overcompensation. Having someone like Mayer as a public leader with accountability will be a positive thing.
I/O is handled through EventMachine, not the normal Ruby I/O calls, and can therefore scale arbitrarily.
Python vs. PHP: Supply-side question
Considering moving to Python for a new project. In listing plusses in minuses one that came-up was "good programmer supply".

I know that there are tons of PHP programmers out there. Good programmers is a different matter. I have no clue as to what the scenario might be like in the Python world. If it matters, I'm in Los Angeles, although I am completely open to working with a remote team.

Any thoughts?
This is pretty cool. Makes stuff much more manageable.
Did you sign a non-compete?
Well, it happens :). I was a passionate XP user, Vista made me switch to Ubuntu. 7 and 8 are good alternatives to Ubuntu (from my point of view). Currently I use mostly OS X.

I think a programmer should be OS agnostic, he can have a preferred OS, of course, but he should be able to do his work on all major OSes.
Fixed, thanks for letting me know.

Edit: parent comment was deleted; I'll look to update the template when I'm at a desk to make it easier to read.
Broken argument; flash is way too slow compared to the current version of Canvas; recently I made a full conversion of flash to canvas (was painful but) the performance is outstanding and the ability to interact natively and play nice with the DOM is invaluable.
How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams
Adoption. That is one of the main reasons why most people won't mind paying for whatsapp ; almost everyone on their contacts list already uses the app and frankly most people don't know or care much about whatsapp's security measures.
It's like human will become the typical "wall-e" movie humans consuming content, becoming fat and no time for interaction at all. I dread the future where no one talks to anyone by looking into eye , since their eyes are already preoccupied with "glass".
There's a nonzero chance that this is real and that they actually have a roadmap for completion.

That said, I'm very surprised they don't have an automated system like the USACO submission system (where you upload code and they compile and run it against input data).
Wow. That's really awesome for a short short. Very well done, feels like a possible and plausible future scenario.
I find tiling window managers to alleviate the pain of GUI windows. I use XMonad, and I love it!
It's easy. It doesn't require having a merchant account. It has an simple interface for configuring items and lets transactions be paperless. That sounds disruptive.
Agreed. In fact, it's changing in 2 ways. Apple, where life is simple or Google, where you live in san francisco and hang out in coffee shops. Devices are supposed to aid you in your lifestyle, but it also seems like they're providing a better reason to conform to theirs.
Interesting, maybe you should put an email in your about so ppl can contact you next time they're in Kunming :)
If they could look just like hipster glasses, you'd have lots of adopters right there.
This is good although I think it has a little to much magic for me. Everything seems to happen just by using different arguments to the 'd' function, even the settings. I think its a good idea though! It would be awesome if Django had a built in way of doing single file apps.

Simon Willison (one of the Django core devs) made a Django micro framework a few years ago, I don't think its been developed much recently though.

http://simonwillison.net/2009/May/19/djng/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615891

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EDIT:

Simons website seems to be down, an overview of Djing is here: https://github.com/simonw/djng
> What do people actually use SimpleHTTPServer for?

I've used it as a half-baked and very short-lived file-sharing mechanism before, similar to what you describe above. I haven't noticed the DSL-like transfer rates because my broadband ISP gives me dialup-like upload speeds.
There are plenty of companies doing this already, Square is pretty slow to the table.

Caveat: I work for one such company (GoPago).
PG's submarine essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(In case others are like me, and didn't have it memorized. :))
Twitter Engineers are Foolish
Twitter has many foolish bugs still in it made by its engineers or developers.. Its all accounts are vulnerable. So all the tities of twities, be SAFE. And the beauty is its simple to get into , ,
I don't know you or your background but I'm going to guess you may not be part of that younger generation (late high school, early college years) who was literally born with a computer in their crib and came into their teen years with with a smart phone in their hand.

I'm often reminded of the divide between them and my generation (born in the mid 70's) when I visit friends who have children that age, or even in public places where they hang out in groups. I virtually see each of them holding a smart phone, maybe not always using it but definitely at the ready no matter what the circumstances (middle of a conversation with a human being, shopping for clothes, driving, etc...).
Even if they don't look at it for more a moment as you say, it's always present and slowly but surely encroaching on real human interactions.

That generation will be entering the world of grown-ups very soon and your argument will rapidly be invalidated.
Took the comment right out of my brain. Looks cool and very novel, bound to be an incredibly leaky abstraction though. Doesn't take away from the novelty/coolness though.
Siri was amazing in the commercials so I don't won't to be overly excited. However it looks like one of the requirements for the glass is to have an amazing day to day life.
Bluetooth headsets used to be cool. Now they just seem obnoxious when worn all the time. I wonder if Google Glass will ever reach the obnoxious level. A curved-screen watch device would be more subtle, and is probably the better all-around device.
And it was the most amazing GitHub hack I saw in my life.

In 1000 years your Bender issue will finally be opened.
Multi-national organisation unable to sell Google Nexus 4/10 in Ireland, where they have their European HQ. Like if they cared about multinational, except to reroute taxes...
I've increased the contrast in the hope that it will be easier to read.
Python-lovers sling 'death threats' at UK ISP in trademark row
Why don't they just do away with the bulky cash register too.
Critical Feedback and User Testing are Required for App Store Success
I think a blank page is the new noscript.
Evolution is, of course, a form of genetic engineering.

Suppose that a child is born who was genetically engineered. What then? Retroactive abortion?
But does it have a CLI?
i wonder why that Chinese restaurant went out of business...
Anonymous Hacks U.S. State Department
Now if we could just get a JS version of the Johnny Castaway screensaver, reliving my youth would be quite possible.
Also GoPago Live: http://www.gopago.com/

$99/month, no startup costs, competitive credit-processing. Also has a much more robust featureset than Square. It also makes your storefront work on GoPago's mobile app, which is something that no other modern POS system does out of the box.

Disclosure: I work at GoPago.
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There's an awful lot of work involved in graceful degradation, which I'm sure you know. Will a noscript tag that tells you have JavaScript disabled and that you're missing out on a richer web experience really convert you?

The problem here is that "many people" is < 1.6% as of 2010; I'm guessing the number's only dropped since.

Noscript is really only useful for telling people that they need JavaScript enabled to use the site in case they don't realize they've accidentally disabled its use.
This confuses the need for a more subtle kind of prose expression on one hand, with the available plain-text punctuation marks on the other.

Rather than inventing a new punctuation mark, I recommend the alternative of choosing different words, or (in many environments) exploiting the existence of different text rendering styles, instead of requiring a new character to add to the vast number of available characters in the Unicode universe. For example, why not use italics for emphasis, for something that doesn't quite merit an exclamation mark?

Or as a last resort, one can use the inverted exclamation mark (¡), which has the advantage of already existing (it's in the extended ASCII character set, hex location a1). This might lead to expressions like "I can't decide how I feel about this!¡!¡".

> The obvious need ...

I beg to differ -- it's not an obvious need.
> Periodic reminder to the Linux and free software community of the damage they made with their ideology wars against the Mono environment

What damage, exactly? I don't think Linux adoption is in any way harmed by the removal of all Mono packages from the default installs of several distros.

> Mono is now the most popular game and one of the most popular app development environments

I find that a bit hard to believe unless you are talking about cross-platform mobile game development.
I was wondering about this. Are they planning to keep some part open source? I feel like they ditched that entire idea...
Which is fine... except this system is pretty unsuitable for even small restaurants (coffee shops, OK maybe :)).

The target market for this is very squarely (heh!) high end indie shops.
>In 1000 years your Bender issue will finally be opened.

lol, i don't wanna die until that :(
Any new sensors/hardware not on a typical smartphone?
Is the big advantage essentially a pervasive screen?

I ask because a common way to think of mobile app innovation is in terms of hardware advances:
Mobile Data: Blackberry Email
GPS: Maps, Local Services (Foursquare)
iPhone 4 Camera Upgrade: Instagram
The list goes on...

What's the key hardware advancement here?
The top of the screen is around eyebrow level. The glass is below.
Can you add any arbitrary OpenSocial app to the My Yahoo thing?
Show HN: Live editing for native iOS and Android
Spyder - Scientific python development environment
What about sound? Location tracking?

It would be safe to assume that a lot more than just visual information is captured and recorded I think.
Social media teams caught napping during their "Oreo" moment
I'm not sure what you mean by "we maintain extra repositories on a staging server for deployment". What exactly are you doing, why is that necessary, and what extra steps does it involve?

The "extra steps" (the index, remote branches, etc.) are there for a reason, and that reason is to give you the tools to be careful with your codebase.

I always use `git fetch`, for example, because unless I've been doing something reeeeally weird, `git fetch` will never touch my local work. At all.

The index allows me to make sure I know exactly what I'm committing, and the extra step gives me the chance to look over it once again before I commit. (`git add -p` and `git commit -v` help a ton here, even though it feels like they "slow things down"). I never have "Oops, I didn't mean to commit that" moments anymore.

And the merging model (yes, with those opaque commit-hashes and mutable history and 3 kinds of branches) allows me to fix things when I screw up (or one of my coworkers does). Which still happens all the time, because we're human.

I think you could get a lot more out of git if you were willing to invest the time to learn more about its branching model (which really is elegant once you understand it), and to configure it properly. Otherwise, you may have a look at Mercurial, which has a more svn-like experience.
5 Things I Learned About Startup Board Meetings (YC S10)
I am positive those 10,000 fall into two groups:

1) People who understand this is impossible, and are interested to see what they are actually going to do.

2) People who don't realise this is impossible.
Sublime costs $70 whereas Notepad++ is free.

They also seem to take a different philosophy in terms of the UI. Notepad++ is full of dialog boxes with tons of options whereas sublime seems to rely more on plugins and keyboard shortcuts etc for most of it's functionality.

Took me a while of using it to find out how powerful ST2 is.
You can send a URL in a message body. Most clients including Google's will make the URL clickable.
the resulting view ends up looking at lot like it would in flask [1]. I would be worried about the number of moving parts that are in play.

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
A HUD is transparent.
I bought a used HP MDS 600 on EBay for less $2000 shipped.
It doesn't have a computer built in, but unlike the Backblaze it has four power supplies, two redundant and four fans and two SAS interfaces. It also holds 70 drives. I've thought of building a Backblaze before, but if you want to meet your storage needs with a single enclosure, there are better solutions for the money. The Storage Pod is really for when you have enough of them to consider any single one redundant.
as someone who will soon move to a foreign country the "say delicious in thai" was really nice!
"... way back in 2006 but it wasn’t exciting to me on those times. Those were the days people were rocking dial up connections"

Really? Pretty sure almost everyone I know had at least a basic DSL connection by then.
They say part way down the page "We will provide an interface that will allow you to submit your solution for grading closer to the due date. Instructions will be made available on the main course site.". Although that's the only reference to a due date that I can find.
Once you try it you will never want to take it off. Trust me.
I think the biggest application for Glasses is hands-free, head-up, relatively inconspicuous outdoor on-foot turn-by-turn navigation. That is the nearest thing you can get on-foot to the pleasure of in-car turn-by-turn navigation, with no need to walk around holding a mobile phone screen in front of your face. (The same kind of navigation indoors would be almost as wonderfully useful - especially for finding your way to the bloody airport departure gate! - but I assume that neither airport interiors nor v1 Google Glasses are ready to provide that today.) Combine that with the secondary application of convenient, hands-free, heads-up, relatively inconspicuous first-person photo and video recording and I think you have two pretty attractive and non-niche uses for Glasses to add to the long tail of more specialised applications. I'd say that the things most likely to hold back Glasses are price, privacy concerns (the wearer's and others'), possible social stigma, and fear of being mugged.

(You could do a decent poor-man's approximation to Glasses' turn-by-turn navigation if you had a Bluetooth handset that did head tracking and the right software for your smartphone: you'd have the audio navigation directions in your ear, plus a turn-by-turn map display on the phone screen to glance at when you wanted to. I haven't heard of any such system though.)
Facebook image loading error-bug
Mojang Humble Bundle
Announcing the Twitter Ads API
> People won't be comfortable always thinking they're on camera.

People (at least USAians who work in an office and live or work in something larger than a village) are on camera way, way more than they realize.
You're 20, and the best phone people had in your high school was a RAZR? I'm 30, and I would've claimed the same thing... What the hell?
"It is not enough to return a string - you must return the correct string, and that is not normally not something a type can solve for you."

It can, however, ensure that you have returned a legally-formatted email address instead of someone's first name, with proper use of the type system. You'd probably be surprised what you can do with a real type system, based on what you're saying here. It is not a proof of correctness, but there's a great deal more possible than in Java.

It of course can not ensure you returned the correct email address, but often that's a much less pressing problem, because the thing returning the address may very well have had only one address in hand to chose from, in which case it can't be wrong. There's a lot of logic like that you can deploy in Haskell, when scopes and inputs to functions are much more carefully controlled than a traditional language.
13 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing for the Web
Agreed, but bear in mind that the author is already having to learn a bunch of new software packages to replace many other things from his previous experience.

Being able to delay a few new learning experiences for later makes for smoother switching.

By the time he's ready to tackle that one, he might be ready to skip past ST and go straight to Vim. ;)
I think it should use ECC memory and an i3-CPU that supports it. Random memory bit flips in are going to corrupt data at a steady pace.

Intel i3 processors that support ECC: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&FamilyText=2nd...

Also, it'd be interesting to hear why Backblaze doesn't use SuperMicro SAS-boards instead with a SAS-expander, like HP SAS Expander.
On private property you will need the owner's permission to record video; in malls you can be forbidden if signs are posted. Given the unease that some people feel being recorded, I wonder how soon it will be before these are banned in shopping malls and in businesses, like Segways were on many city sidewalks.
> That would also be a terrible argument. To name just one example, shaken baby syndrome still exists.

(Just to play devil's advocate)
Yes, but one can surmise an evolutionary reason for that - a colicky child is more likely to be the victim in that scenario; likewise, a colicky child is less likely to be healthy.

A better argument may be that prior to 'modern' medicine, bassinets (or an analog) were spontaneously popularized in various cultures -- (if that's true).

> all the experts are wrong and all the studies that are being done on the issue are defective.

Many doctor's groups positions, when confronted with inconclusive evidence, tend to (rightfully) stand on the side of caution. A great example is caffeiene (as well as many other foods) in pregnancy. Little evidence for harm, but its possible. So its a little less harsh than all experts being dead wrong and studies defective; more likely all experts playing it safe and studies inconclusive (if that is the case).

(/devils advocate)
I don't think it can be emphasized enough how eye-opening that essay is. It totally changed the way I consume media. Reading about the "submarines" should be mandatory reading for anyone in school because it's that important.
Eh? What makes you think it doesn't already?
"Our monthly cost for a full rack of Storage Pods with 3 TB drives is $0.63 per TB, while a full rack of Storage Pods with 4 TB drives is $0.47 per TB. "

Interesting coincidence, 180TB of Google Storage comes out at $8560 per month which is $47.55 per TB. Almost exactly x100.

https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/pricingandterms

And that does not include the network cost.
Ask HN: What you think of the domain name I choose?
[rabiscaria.org]

I'm launching a SaaS oriented for writers. What you think of the domain name I choose for it?

I'm asking it here on HN because, in Brazil, it makes total sense and is a pretty cool name but, as my target market is the world, I'm not sure how it will do.

So, what are your thoughts? Would you use a service wich the name you don't understand. Should I really use [.org]? Any constructive advise?
My windows xp runs smoothly ib the vm, and boots in seconds. So whenever I need PhotoShop i fire up the vm. Ubuntu has evolved so much that my mom has no problem using it.
For an in depth look at quite how bad this has become, see the excellent book Flat Earth News by Nick Davies.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distor...

It makes it very hard to mourn the passing of the newspaper industry.

EDIT: before someone chips in about how the PR industry is so powerful because journos are pressured by the 'net - the rot had already started back in the 80s, and it's because of corporate owners squeezing the numbers. Primarily murdoch.
When starting out with mobile apps i always wonder if it pays off to invest heavily in something like this (i love C#) or put my money on web-tech based apps especially if looking at it mid/long term.
I know web-tech isnt there yet, but its not far off. What do you think ?
I agree with you, but I think the use case is "that small, 3-template page I want as a quick interface", and this fits the use case perfectly. It usually takes quite a bit of time to set up a Django project (with all the boilerplate), and something like this makes it much, much faster.

Two thumbs up, from me.
Who even says who the best engineering team is? I'm pretty confident they aren't in a startup.
There is zero chance anyone will actually complete this in a reasonable time-frame (except for those small number of people who have already done it, and I suspect even they would fail to accomplish it).
Hey, I am the author of the module, as well as that of smarturls and fhurl mentioned there.

I understand the concern about magic, and moving parts. I guess the right answer to that concern would be unittests, that I am in the process or writing.

I hope you enjoy the module as much as I do :-)
When some guy on the subway with a camera attached to his face starts staring at me .. my desire is going to be to rip them off his face and stomp on them.

enjoy your intellectual leashes
Especially when you already have Virtualbox set up for your MS Office
I guess he means Unity which uses Mono. But there are others as well like MonoGame which is the de facto XNA successor (and its natural evolution) and Playstation Mobile that uses Mono.

edit: Would be quite awesome if they somehow incorporated the Mono runtime on the new Playstation as well for indie development. Here's for wishful thinking!