skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I have spent absolutely no time in the bay area. Have you spent any time outside of it?

If you're so completely against online debate, stop wasting your time on people like me and find a point to make. If you want to be offended, find a better reason, and then actually do something about it.
I guess it depends on what you do or don't think is innovative.

With stuff kinect, leap motion, glass, Oculus rift, tons of UAV platforms, bitcoin mining asics (just kidding :), software defined radio, home robotics... I think the consumer hardware space is more interesting than ever.

Applications are always "incremental" in the sense that you are generally finding marketable uses of existing sensors and technologies. But then again I don't see what I would call "truly innovative" software that often either...
Lawmaker apologizes for bashing bicycles and all their pollution

http://now.msn.com/ed-orcutt-washington-rep-apologizes-for-b...
I find that very hard to believe. When I bike, I really don't eat that much more than when I don't. Yeah, my appetite increases a little, but I can usually supplement my diet with some pretty cheap calories, or a lot of time just finishing more of what's put in front of me. American portions are fairly large, I usually have a calorie surplus.

And even when I do buy more, a few dollars a day isn't all that much. Now, gas for my commute also wouldn't cost much; at 10 miles a day, that's less than $2 a day. But gas isn't the only cost of owning a car. There's the price of the car itself, and depreciation, maintenance, insurance, taxes, parking. Heck, at my last job, it would have cost $200 a month just for parking alone. My bike has maybe had $1000 put into it for original cost, accessories, maintenance over the past 5 years I've had it, and I've had to put none of those other costs in.
I've been using the retina MBP 15" heavily since its release. I noticed the fan for the first time last week when I was booted into Windows.

There are other issues with the machine—notably the screen flicker and ghosting that others have had issues with—but I wouldn't worry about this.
I thought that was a good joke.
On the same day, jetpacks and flying cars will be released. With a half-price introductory offer.
The 2012 15" rMBP had considerable bugs in the SMC and UEFI that took half a dozen firmware updates, several dozen OS X seeds, and the better part of a year to resolve. I had a particularly nasty bug where any time I unplugged my Mac from the charger, 5 seconds later it would go to sleep though it was still open and I was actively using it. You'd have to shut the lid and re-open it for it to wake again.

I also had the infamous ghosting issues, though my LG panel was decent enough that I put up with it for a few months. Luckily, when I took it in to get the entire upper clamshell replaced, there was a new part number in stock literally the day before that had apparently resolved the problem.

I've purchased a dozen or so MacBooks since the original Unibody and countless iPhones, iPads and other minor Apple products — it is my opinion that engineering quality has gone down over the past two years considerably.

As for the issue TFA refers to - it does not plague my 2012 rMBP and I'm sure Apple will, sooner or later, issue a patch to fix it. It's just a question of whether you believe they still have their shit together or not.

(awesome song, btw!)
No

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
Didn't DHS reconfirm their position on this recently?
Even if not technically-required, I would advise centenarians to roll back their reported age a few decades, anywhere it may be used to target ads. The "meet other 100+ singles!" ads are really obnoxious.
I would imagine that the average watts per hour would be around 175 for most reasonably healthy people.
Magic Dress UK A-Line Dress
Things I've learned about producing an interview series
I'm amused that the author chooses Amazon and Apple, of all companies, as one that doesn't rely on structural barriers.
Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin
A comet headed for Mars
But have they fixed the problems with the previous generation? I have a couple issues with my 2012 retina MBP. These are all corroborated by others on Apple's support community:

* LG panel ghosting

* Graphical glitches in Safari

* Audio clicks, pops and stutters when using Intel graphics

* Power manager issues: Sometimes it'll drop to sleep when I unplug the magsafe, even though the laptop is in use. Sometimes it has trouble waking from regular ("closed lid") sleep - maybe every other week I have to go as far as holding down the power button to force a power off to get it back.

I haven't been to an Apple store because I can't be without my machine for a week or however long it'll take to fix, and it sounds from the discussions forum that many of these problems have no fix, or it's random if you'll get a new part that works right or not.
I don't pretend to know such a thing. I cite the sample group I have and if you can't figure that out it's your own failure.
Startup Idea : Clean my Download folder 
I guess it's quite strange that in 2013 wh have all this evolved and super "fancy" technology but yet our download folders are a mess.

It burns me from the inside, each time I must jump into my Download/ folder and I realize how much chaos lies in this tiny but infinitely deep folder ...

Please tidy our Download folders, I need it, you need it, we all need it :)
I know, it's not a "button" if you don't feel that you can _press_ it. Check what I mean in this image (mod using box-shadow): http://i.imgur.com/ZyiH7AJ.jpg , a few visual clues can help a lot to the user.
You're scared that one model has a bug where you play a specific song in a specific media player, the fans spin more than they should? and it can be fixed with a firmware update?

You scare easily.
If you measure historically, access to fire is a miracle.

That's not really relevant, though.
What a terrible article. It starts out OK, but quickly goes wrong.

Yes, the 5 Forces model is the most overused piece of analysis since the 'pro and con' list. But to wholesale throw it out because the company went bankrupt, well, this just looks like dancing on the grave of another.

I don't see anything wrong at all with finding a business that has natural protections from competition. Any decent startup strategy should have conversations about switching costs, customer lock-in and looking for niches where competition is less fierce, or at least favourable to early-movers. If you read Warren Buffets strategies he appears to spend a lot of time concentrating on companies with natural resistance to competition, which gives them pricing power and longevity.

The whole article reeks of academic paybacks and profit is evil thinking, and I didn't bother finishing it.
The author is silly to conclude that strategy is useless because Monitor failed. Sustainable advantages are absolutely real (think any network effects business: Dropbox, Airbnb, Craigslist, eBay). But they're also rare, and baked-in from the beginning.

Monitor's actual flaws:

(a) a consulting business can't capture the value of a successful strategy, they collect only fees, and

(b) the sorts of customers who are willing to pay for big ticket consulting projects are big sprawling businesses for whom it's far too late to identify an effective strategy.
It might help to think of it like a spectrum.

Naturally, everybody struggles with focus at times. Some more than others. One one end of the spectrum you have people who rarely struggle with focus, and on the other end you have people that struggle with it so much that it begins to cause them problems.

So it's less an sudden epidemic than a growing recognition that this is an issue that many people struggle with, and that people struggling with it can really benefit from treatment.

That treatment can include medication, though it doesn't have to. My personal experience is that proper sleep, diet, exercise, and environment are super-important as well.

Yes, it's perhaps over-diagnosed/mis-diagnosed. Yes, some people probably use an ADHD diagnosis as a crutch or excuse.

However, surely you can agree that focus is an issue that many people clearly struggle with, can't you?
I just spent 1 hour today at the Apple store and talking to Apple care getting my brand new (2 days old) 15 Retina MBP replaced. It kernel panicked on me and bricked itself. The only sign of life is a slight hum of a fan when I try to power it on.

It's the first Apple product I've bought but I can't shake the feeling that this frequency of bad hardware is becoming normal.
That's nice if I know exactly when I want to leave and return.
I think the limitation is only on older versions, so they would probably only do the hack if it was pre Gingerbread. They mention that ICS works as expected, so I would be more than a bit mortified if they did this hack for new working versions too.
I have a 2012 model with the 256 hd - I just downloaded and played the song and no fans came on.

Did have a dead pixel show up in my display but apple fixed that for free. Also it does get too hot for lap usage sometimes.

Other than that this is the best computer I've ever used. Pretty much every other computer I've use now seems slow and pixelated.
Rubbish! ITA's matrix site is probably the best air search site there is and is just a demo of their api. Yes ITA is expensive but you are paying for search, they don't do booking. But the search is awesome because unlike the collective GDS, they are purely a search company. Whereas GDS are reservation systems and they make their money via fees paid to the GDS by the airlines. Search as an api business is a secondary concern/revenue stream to them.

And why are they inherently unprofitable?Sites like Kayak, Skyscanner, Adioso are meta search sites only that make money by sending the user to another site to make a booking. They then make a small affiliate commission if the user then books their flight. Airlines actually really like good meta search sites because they acquire customers cheaply and avoid GDS fees altogether so are more likely to pay commission including your example of Qatar Airlines who pay 2% per booked flight to affiliates see http://www.qatarairways.com/ae/en/affiliates.page and not ZERO as you say. So they have zero need for the GDS unless an airline has no direct connect api in which case the GDS is that api source usually for availability (if you have implemented the schedules and fares locally) if not then a dumb search to the GDS is possible but a crap, slow, expensive way to include an airline in your site and no use to Adioso who need fast local graphed, cached data for expansive NLP searches.
>Is this meant to be ironic or am I totally missing something?

I think if you note the claim that a homemade PB&J sandwich costs $3, as well as the reference to "extra bicycle fuel", you will have your answer.
Excellent link. For anyone who has read Moby Dick, remember Queequeg's "mark" is not a symbol in any alphabet or grapheme system.
Sure: http://paulsamways.com/projects/upublish
That would have been my assessment as well. However, given the ridiculous reactions to my posts here, I have to reconsider that assumption.
Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for the third year in a row
How many companies are 100% distributed?
shameless plug : I've been working on a document management system with an epub content type for some time and I'm releasing this quarter, follow me @keefe and check it out...

generally though, if you want to use something yourself you can use an arbitrary content management system like drupal, verify it has an output to txt and then look into epub builders, epub is a relatively simple format.
My former company was about 50% distributed - sales, finance, professional services were all in different areas except for development & testing. We were stuck working in the office. Then again we were only a 10 person company so I'm not sure how well that applies. Besides Automattic I haven't heard of any other companies doing this.
Mine froze when I entered the castle garden looking for the bride. :(

Using Opera 12.14, exception traceback: http://pastebin.com/DJXrkae5
Yup - the 9th to 11th - look forward to saying hello!
Thanks! Only there's a small problem - I'm not a drinker. Perhaps I will try cafes.
Twitter-like 100% visibility

When facebook added this as a secondary stream in the right-hand column, users were really unhappy.
So is there a way to use the source maps with node.js stacktraces?

Specifically, I tried this test.coffee:

throw new Error("Test")

Now running it with

coffee test.coffee

still reports the wrong line number in the stack trace.

There's supposedly node-source-map-support (https://github.com/evanw/node-source-map-support), but even installing that and adding "require 'source-map-support'" won't help.
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."

- Postel's Law
I guess that's probably the reason... Thanks
Well as i learnt in my strategy class, EverY business should have a strategy, whether its consulting, or even a small one person web dev shop
And for the sake of preventing further confusion, it's probably best to promptly convert that into a sensible unit: 1 Calorie = 4184 Joules.
Edward Jung's Risk-Transfer Innovation Model
Also theres people who will avoid the moshers unless specifically behind 'border guards' - in this simulation everyone essentially acts as border guards; the grey dots dont try to avoid the red just hold their ground.

Really cool app though!
No doubt there are Russian spy-sat pix available with incredible resolution for sale somewhere online for $5 ... without the hour-long wait and the interrogation.
You are correct, if you are talking only about pure efficiency. Your parent was talking about (ironically or not) cost. At current market rates, peanut butter is inarguably a more expensive fuel per Calorie than gasoline.
I bike 15,000+ km per annum and my premium ice cream and imported chocolate budgets alone would easily make several car payments.
You forgot to consider the production process of the SUV versus the bike.
Except that you have to assume the person driving the SUV eats too.
Results are buggy. "San Antonio to Caribbean for two weeks in July" displayed plenty of results, including Georgetown, except it was Georgetown TEXAS. My next search was for "San Antonio to anywhere in July for under $200". I get many results; however the price range is way over $200 on most of them. If I hit the back button I lose my search (can't see what I last typed to fix it). Also I keep almost clicking the giant PLAY button in the center of the page to start my search, probably because my search string ends right about where the big play button is. My eyes have to scan far right to see the actual search icon, which is somewhat obfuscated because it has no contrast with the search bar. I guess I can just hit Enter to search ;)
The Porter model also sounds like it would help you develop myopia regarding disruptive innovations, because it would make you too focused on how to fight against direct competitors and gain incremental advantages against them.
Downtown Vancouver disagrees with you:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=downtown%...
Just sort your downloads by type or whatever suits your needs and remove the unnecessary files that you no longer need... How difficult can that be?
Ok, you'll have to run it through the compiler first with the -m option:

test.coffee:

require 'source-map-support'
throw new Error("Test")

Now do:

npm install source-map-support
coffee -c -m test.coffee
node test.js

This gets you the correct line numbers.
I remember signing up to websites in the late 90s that hadn't quite grokked internationalization. "Select your country (required)" , "United Kingdom" , "select your state (required)".

Apparently there is such a thing as Alabama , England. Who knew?
> But the results are the same. They're
> the same for ADHD folks, they're the
> same for non-ADHD folks...

It's certainly worth talking about, but I'm not at all sure that's true. Our understanding of Adderall's mechanism is incomplete but our current understanding is that, in those with ADHD, appropriate doses of stimulants can boost some functions to where it would be in a non-ADHD brain.

It's kind of like saying that platform shoes make everybody taller. Yes, they do, but some people need platform shoes just to reach an "average" height.
Apple’s Reality Distortion Field Relocates to Wall Street
If you find this sort of thing interesting, you may enjoy A=B by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert Wilf, and Doron Zeilberger. (Wilf was mentioned in the article.)

It's available for download at http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html
The single-most decorated U.S. Army combat brigade during WWII was composed of Nisei Japanese-Americans. Even for the persons who actually immigrated from Japan, why else would they have come over if not because they saw something better? They can't all have been fifth columnists sent to blow up planes in hangars.

However a simpler response is to point out that we did not inter German-Americans, Italian-Americans, immigrants from Bulgaria or Romania, etc., despite there being a much less clear reasoning for war with the European Nazi powers.
You'd have to bike at a resting heartrate to come anywhere close to not needing any more food.
Tagging has been requested here multiple times, is controversial, and has never been implemented.

I, for one, am very much in favor of it. I'd love to be able to filter out topics I don't find interesting. It would also effectively address a lot of griping about supposedly off-topic submissions.
I really can't fathom how, Facebook (the mobile / client app) could be made up of 3 million methods. That's an enormous amount of code -- none of it adds up.
I really like this kit. To me eye, it's very stylish and smooth. I feel like there are tons of "safe & technical" developers on HN, to the point where a UI has to be done by the "rules" for it to be acceptable.

Thanks for the kit it's awesome.
Looks like they're using BitPay https://bitpay.com

edit:
I just tried it. The workflow works well, but this brings me back to my biggest reservation about the usability of BitCoin for regular transactions: The long period (hours) to confirm a transaction.
Can you play it without being constantly connected online?
In OS X, I use Hazel to do just this.

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
Isn't this the same White House that signed the law making unlocking cell phones illegal?
Saw someone post this log from #wayland on reddit. An cursory reading seems to indicate ubuntu folks don't fully understand wayland, and at the very least didn't even bother discussing their perceived gripes with the wayland team.

edit: forgot the link! http://pastebin.com/KjRm3be1
The long working hours of many law firms existed before the widespread availability of adderall. Drugs have absolutely zero to do with it. They are merely a symptom of the underlying workaholic culture.
Don't worry, I'm not stupid. I know that's a possibility, but that itself is actually an issue (you have to do it manually).

I certainly don't think a big startup could come out of this, but there's definitely an issue with our Download folders.

One of the issue with the Download folder is that most of us use it as a temporary folder, by that I meen, we download a file, open it once and then leave it to rot their for eternity.

The app could simply do things like detecting duplicates (a lot of non tech savy people download the same file multiple times) (just fingerprinting each file and then removing all versions except one), removing files which haven't be accessed for a certain amount of time (unused files), and also moving files to different folders depending on their type or source ...

I think it's just a very simple issue but something that is universally painful for every computer user tech savy or not.
200 Cal/$? Maybe if you are eating out a lot, or you eat a lot of cheese and meat? My food comes in closer to 500-1000 Cal/$, depending on how hard I'm trying.
Yes, the most interesting thing about moshpit behavior is how it expands and contracts. There's not a constant level of activity either, things will often calm down during a verse to reignite during the chorus.
Computers are used in (some parts of) math for exploration, but not so much when it comes to conjectures and proofs. In fact, I would argue that making conjectures is a distinctly human activity: it requires you to decide if something is 'interesting' or not.

On the proving side, there is some software such as Coq or Agda that provide heuristics, but you won't find the typical mathematician using them. In many proofs, things are said to be 'obvious' or 'follow clearly' from a previous statement. A mathematician (trained in the relevant area of math) can fill in those parts with their intuition, but a computer can't. That often makes a computer-readable proof prohibitively long compared to a human-readable one.

That's not to say mathematicians shouldn't learn to use that sort of software. The only way to fill in those 'obvious' or 'follows clearly' parts is to build a large library of arguments that can fill them in.
It's sort of obvious? I can't see any other reason Apple would have for it, other than making compilers researchers have slightly easier lives. It'd certainly make sense after they were forced to open source the frontend for Objective-C.
Introducing Art Talks on Google+
Schadenfreude?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
I'm loving this Bitcoin ramp up over the past few weeks. Namecheap should be applauded for their general endorsement of "what's good for the internet". Of course it's in their best interest, but you don't see GoDaddy doing the same.

I think back to the "So, that's the end of Bitcoin"[1] article by Forbes and chuckle to myself. Hopefully one day we can look back at that article in the same way we look back at Ballmer laughing at the iPhone [2]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/20/so-thats-...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
But that tax is not specific to bikes only. People who buy cars also pay sales taxes. But they pay other taxes in addition to the initial sales tax. They also pay fuel taxes, which is an indirect tax.

Not that I'm against those taxes. I would wish we'd tax fuel more (and in the future, the source of energy for transportation when cars start using more alternate energy sources) as a way to incentivize people toward more shared resources. But I'm not for trying to paint equivalence on the tax front. At the same time, I think this needs to be phased in. I think about the people in rural areas who need cars to get to civilization --keeping in mind the story of an acquaintance who said would sell pints of blood to buy fuel to get to and from work when money was low --ie getting to work before the next paycheck provided more money.)
Politicians don't do science well, and they don't listen to people who do. The prognosis is bad.
This hack is specific to ancient versions of Android, and is not used on current or future versions. So there is no need to deal with it in any codebase that isn't completely dead.
Pandora Gems and Silver Green NUKEtals YTIKE Charms - Cheap Pandora 2013
Re: heat. My problem is that when the fans of my 2012 rMBP are whirring, the heat emanates from the keyboard which is.... odd. It's not something I'm used to, and irks me to no end.