skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initiative is good because they have, at least, the objective of doing something about it. There is in fact a lot of startup accelerators and incubators being created in Europe based on Y COMBINATOR & TECHSTARS models. There are just not mature enough yet, but this will come. The problem is that, besides London, there is nowhere to go in Europe. The population is generally "old school" and is quite pessimistic, they are simply uninterested. In Europe, people want to work less and earn more while in USA, poeple will do just anything to succeed. It's no miracle that America is the best place for startups, Europe has a different cultures due to different lifestyles. Mentality changes with initiatives so I welcome this one and will wait to see the results before bearing a judgement. After all, when there's no evolution, there is a revolution! It's the moto of the french revolution and France is in Europe so let's be optimistic for this one ;)
I actually have a domain like that too. I just like mailinator because I know I'm never going to want their email so I don't even have to put in a rule to block out.

On a related note, some spammers have really done a number on me. First they impersonated thousands of addresses at my domain in the form of xxxxxx@mydomain.com where x is a hex digit. This is despite me having DomainKeys and SPF enabled. So not only did I get a lot of bounced spam to my catch-all, the spam that went through ended up in places that other spammers picked it up as a valid address so now I am getting spam sent to those randomized addresses.

At first I figured I could put together a rule to block all hexadecimal address of six digits but it turns out that at least another round of spammers started using the full alphabet and variable lengths.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to need to include a cookie in the addresses I use - so instead of dropdox@mydomain.com and amazon@mydomain.com it will be something like DOQ.dropdox@mydomain.com and DOQ.amazon@mydomain.com - addresses without the cookie get binned. But that's not going to help with all the addresses I've used over the last 15 years, and haven't kept track of.
Maybe you can have both a Li Ion and one of these, and you only sue the LiIon after the graphene one is depleted. That way, you can recharge quickly to a fraction of total power, and optionally wait longer for a full charge.
In my experience, the reason people are obssessed with battery life is that when it runs out (which it does), then you are pretty much screwed until you can plug it in for the night.

I think that vendors could easily sell devices with a smaller capacity if they can charge in seconds. This seems like a benefit that is very clear, easy to explain, and understandable to a typical consumer, and it provides a near perfect solution to one of the major inconveniences of current phones. And, that inconvenience happens to be what people currently look to long battery life to mitigate.
Placebos are becoming more effective over time (graph)
Have you tried Udacity Web Develoment [1]? You won't learn jquery or javascript but it's quite a good introduction to App Engine

[1]https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253
Right, but the sense of the two usages of the word is different (hence punning). Every property right is a monopoly. But when we talk about monopolies in the sense of cartels, there has to be some control over non-fungible supply. E.g. Every oil producing country has a monopoly over its own oil. That's the monopoly inherent in a property right. But that's not what makes them cartels. What makes them cartels is that together they control 70% of world supply, of a good for which there is no easy substitute.
Pixel‐parity rem
Sad to see brainfuck missing :/
Quiz about C# and object equality.
I think this is an instance where HN's rigid title policy is a negative. It took me a minute to realize why this page, ostensibly a syllabus page for a university course, is relevant to a general tech audience. You have to scroll down past three subsections to "Resources" to realize that all of the lecture slides and problem sets, as well as videos of the lectures, are available for free. I just hope people aren't missing out on this great resource because the title can't be editorialized.
Start here: http://www.globalutmaning.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Davo...

Then follow up on things that picque your interest. Like social trust and Nordic social contract.
The EC is the executive branch of the EU:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
Except regular prescription glasses will still be available. And I don't think you'll be able to convince any cop that the only pair of glasses you have available is one that costs $1,000+.
I'd take Rich. I hate that I would, but I would.

I'd make that call not so I can quit working full-time. I'm only 29. I'd take it so I can start working full-time. So I can guarantee that I focus on real work for the rest of my active life. Liberate the cognitive 1% from subordination, and creation (real work) happens. (Humility is not a virtue in people like me. If we don't raise up our confidence to overwhelm Authority's much more toxic arrogance, with the intent of the latter's decisive and irreversible demolition, the world loses.) It'd be selfish for me not to take Rich, with that option. Then I could go off and be as King as I want.

That said, I think this selfish mentality (Rich > King) is, on the whole, really bad for startups. Rational people will close out lifestyle businesses (and walk away, wealthy) because they aren't likely to get another one if a competitor takes theirs down. That's a shame. The build-to-flip mentality has created a VC-istan ecosystem no longer worth caring about.

In VC-istan, we have an array of dumb ideas and shitty cultures, and no one cares for shit about the future. We have a lot of well-connected VC-funded Founders who are just glorified PMs with the mentalities of dinosaur executives that "startups" were supposed to kill off.

We need to bring back the lifestyle business and make it a viable lifestyle and career (even if individual business shall fail, which is inevitable). A Fleet of 50,000+ small companies doing interesting things and working toward Real Technology. We won't get there as things are now. There needs to be a reliable path for technical minds to find safety and capital. Given that there's no real source of capital for small, lifestyle businesses-- at least, not yet-- it doesn't exist yet. But the world fucking needs it.
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Thanks, I'm glad to hear that!
Something I haven't seen anyone mention in these threads is that KDE is an open source project - therefore they have hundreds (if not thousands) of backups.

Even if all the official repos where destroyed, all they'd have to do is ask the last person who'd pulled to give them a copy of their clone.

No doubt it would be a pain to do, but no data should have been lost.

As Linus said: "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it"
It's as enforceable as the texting-while-driving ban in effect in some states and Canada.
Some cars already project information onto the windshield. Are they going to ban those too?
I don't believe there is anything "missing" to prevent it from starting up. It simply takes work, time, and money to get it off the ground.

I can see this tech being widely used in place of current capacitor technology in a shortish timeframe- maybe 2 to 4 years. It'll also be used in novel technologies as battery replacements, especially for high discharge rate applications, within a similar time scale.
I wonder how long it will be before other companies start doing this.

At his confirmation hearing, when Alan Greenspan was asked why Townsend-Greenspan employed so many women (> 50%, compared to about 5% in finance at the time), he replied that since he valued women as much as men, but other firms didn't, he could get more work for the same amount money by hiring women. Now, of course, the difference has mostly been arbitraged away, but it took decades to get to this point.

At the time, people gave many reasons sexism couldn't possibly exist in finance; naturally, more men went into finance because women just didn't like finance, and more men had senior positions because simply didn't want senior positions, and so on and so forth (oddly enough, those same reasons are given today, in discussions of sexism in CS and engineering).

In 1987, Townsend-Greenspan shut down, after thirty successful years, because Greenspan became chairman of the Fed. Now, twenty-six years later, the gender gap among MBAs is much smaller than it used to be, but it hasn't disappeared. I hope it doesn't take fifty-six years from the founding of Etsy for someone to be able to make a comment like this about programmers.

I'm afraid it might be a while, though. In discussions about the topic here on HN, the top comment is often something along the lines of how there obviously isn't any sexism in the field, or if there is any, it's rare, and certainly not a systematic problem, and how it's simply impossible that the highly skewed male:female ratio in the field is due to sexism. That's usually followed by a paragraph on how any attempts to address the issue are an insidious cause of reverse sexism.

The top comment in the previous thread on this topic was a comment about how everything Etsy is doing applies equally to all people, not just women, despite a large body of research indicating that, on average, women are treated differently in the workplace [1], and how some simple changes can neutralize many serious problems [2].

[1] Perhaps someone else can supply a reference to a well-known study that I can't seem to look up. When men react with anger, or act authoritatively, that's seen neutrally or positively, but when women do the same, it's seen negatively.

[2] http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18511
I'm sure Samsung wishes that, but you haven't even seen Tizen as a consumer product and you've already decided a winner? That seems like a big overreach. We've seen mobile operating systems that actually looked or worked better than Android or even iOS before, and yet they still failed miserably.
This is an excellent point and could also highlight why Europe is relatively slagging behind when it comes to high value startups. Europeans are often much older than in the US when founding a company (mid 30s). This could explain an increased risk-aversity.

A while back I was attending a talk by Thiel, and his point was that Europeans should stop exiting $10m companies when they could have build those up to a $1b valuation. He framed this quite interestingly, somewhat as a duty to society, as only with this kind of capital it is possible to built a futile start-up environment for following entrepreneurs.
I was reading recently about the origami condom.[1] It certainly seems to fix the problem mentioned about male condoms, i.e. reduced pleasure. Plus other benefits like speed etc.
I'm not sure whether the female condom in their range would fit the "easier to put on" requirement however.

[1]http://www.origamicondoms.com/
No demand. Our university education is not based on liberal arts, which makes the likes of Latin effectively vanity subjects.

Also not having any Catholic tradition lessens the appreciation of Latin.
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Not sure how that would be better. Now you'd get condom spray all over the place.
I live in the EU in an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity (yes, despite the current dip) and the freedom to live and work anywhere from Lithuania in the former Soviet-Union to the south of Spain.

And that in the same country were my grandparents had to hide in the basement for German bombs, and nearly starved to death in the winter.

Also, I'm married to a woman who grew up in a totalitarian communist state that is now also part of the same borderless EU.

If you don't consider that a success, you have zero perspective.
The regulatory reaction to Google Glass will be harsh. Something that can video tape everything and constantly interrupts the wearer's attention? You'd have to be looking through rose colored glasses to not see how that could be a problem. And Google, in typical tech industry fashion is not going to offer lawmakers a compelling counter narrative. They're going to do nothing to translate the nerd-delight of all of Google Glass's possibilities into terms my mom could understand if she were charged with regulating public safety. Which is why lawmakers will see banning them as all upside with no downside.
I did follow through that course and it was a wonderful one, as you said it doesn't cover javascript (looks like it plays critical role in dynamic web) nor JQuery/JSON. It is a good start but I am looking for more deeper materials to get hands on.
Online tracking I can understand, but I consider myself to be pretty on top of these types of issues and I was surprised to find out about that Facebook might be tracking offline behavior too. Even though it seems obvious in hindsight - credit card and loyalty card companies know everything you buy, and Facebook knows your personal info, so just connect the two - I don't think it's the type of thing that occurs to most people.
Weirdly many people loathe C++ for it's weird parts and complexity and all, but there's very little of C++ in that thread. I honestly expected people to run circles around templates and operator overloading.
That was a great read. Thanks for posting. It might just be your writing style but one thing I took away was Foursquare was leading and you were following. Or, to put it another way, you guys obsessed over them at the expense of your vision and they stuck to their vision. If that happens they're always going to be 1 step ahead by definition. Maybe that's what you mean by "Play by your own rules"

Great story, thanks for the post and congrats on achieving what you did.
Apple’s Big Secret: The iOS Laptop
As one of the 500 million people wants to "work less and earn more", I'd just like to point out that all Americans are gun slinging Christian fundamentalists. Oh wait, did I just make an assumption about a rich and varied culture all conforming to an exaggerated stereotype?... you know I think I did ;)
I'll have a look. When I first heard of it (last year?) I thought it was brilliant.
Or alternate approach: mandate that software must automatically disable or enter in special non-distracting mode if wearer is moving in car while sitting on driver's seat. Like TVs/players in cars usually disable video if car is moving.
The article got another equivalence wrong too - that Google is Android.

> Add all of this together and it becomes clear what Samsung is going for. The company wants to decrease its dependence on Google, and Tizen is the way they're going to do that.

He is conflating independence from Android as independence from Google. How? What will it use for Maps? Search? Email? Wifi-assisted location data? Moving off Android is about as Google-independent as moving off Chrome.
Facebook has friended Datalogix which tracks grocery purchases via loyalty cards. I would not be surprised if that's how facebook found out he bought the sauce.

http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/09/24/facebook-data-linked...

They have a bunch of disclaimers about how they don't share personally identifiable purchasing information but the entire industry has basically redefined what is "personally identifiable" to something much less inconvenient for them.

https://www.privacyassociation.org/resource_center/the_chang...
99 Bottles is a similar, if slightly more complex, thing. Brainfuck included!

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
But isn't there are huge market advantage to using the technology now, before your competitors do. If you wait until technique B, then you loose out on the first (or early) adopter benefits, and probably lost customers to your competitors that implemented the technology before you.

I suspect that the reason we are not seeing this technology in practice yet, is because of how long the design cycles take. I am not familar at all with small device manufacturing, but it seems like it would take a lot of iterations to make everything fit together so tightly, and a year may not be enough time to introduce a different battery system. Especially a battery system that your engineers have no experience with.

Having said that, batteries do seem like a pretty stand-alone component of phones, so it may be possible to design a graphine based battery that replace an existing phone battery without modification to the phone. It might involve doing more work in the battery to emulate properties of the traditional battery that the phones were designed to compensate for, but it seems like there is enough room in a battery to do that.

The other problem I can see is that standard phones would likely be incapable of charging these batteries at full speed, which would only mean the batteries need a charger external to the phone.

Again, not as good compared to designing the phones with these batteries in mind, but still useful.

The main problem I can see with pursuing these batteries is that by the time you are ready to sell them, there may not be a long enough window before they become standard for it to be worth your while.

Makers of portable phone rechargers may be the compromise to those issues.

Regardless, excluding unforeseen drawbacks to this technology, I suspect we will be seeing it within 1 or 2 generations of phone.
There's a risk that the assumption is Google cares a lot about Android. I think Google just cares about there not being closed platforms that threaten their ability to drive search/advertising revenue. If Samsung drives Tizen and happily supports Google's products I'm not sure either cares.
I wondered about the etching process too. It might not be at all like a normal R/W pattern for a DVD. They could conceivably be scanning radially, or using a very slow revolution, or (is this possible?) re-tuning the beam's frequency. Not insurmountable, but might require low-level re-writing of the driver, depending.
i love how everyone wants to ban glass. Those 2000 people are going to feel so opressed. Noone is going to buy this crap.
I really like this one in C++: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2024573/710332
There's a lot of truth in this, but there's one thing I'll disagree with:

When you have a family to support, becoming great at what you do is excellent job security. Thus, doing web development has gone from being a fun thing that I do for a job, to a very important fun thing I do as my career. Now, my own personal hustle factor is at an all-time high.

This assumes that being good at your job and job security are positively correlated. Possibly above the 75th percentile and certainly above the 90th, it swings the other way, and hard.

First, when you're really good, you tend to get into conflict with intermediate players to whom you're a threat rather than an asset. Your company might benefit abstractly from you being good, but "The Company" doesn't write your performance reviews. Maybe your boss gives you shitty work so you don't develop and become a threat. Possibly, mediocre colleagues tear you down. At the 80th percentile, you'll almost never be fired for low performance but there's little overperformance risk. At the 95th, you can be a fucking lighting rod for resentment in a nasty, dysfunctional environment and, let's be honest, most work environments are pretty broken.

Second, there are all the risks you have to take to get good. To get past 1.4 or so (scale here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector... ) you need to start taking creative risks and have room to fail. Beyond 1.8, you either need managerial buy-in or extreme autonomy-- and sometimes, you gotta take it through means that aren't the most accepted. We still live in a "hacker" reality: you get good by breaking rules.

It's great that the OP seems to live in a world where things actually work and there's a positive correlation between security and technical excellence. For most people in our industry, however, the need for a regular income induces conformist mediocrity rather than moon-shot excellence.
Conway's Game of Life in APL blew me away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Doesn't `git gc` keep stuff pointed to by the last 30 days of the ref log?
In that case, you would collapse the top comment chain and be shown nothing underneath, since HN only shows X amount of total comments before requiring you to click More.

I think HN would have to increase the total number of comments per page before allowing collapsable chains.
New session of Stanford's online crypto course by Dan Boneh
You can say that as much as you would like... then go do a Google search. No one is saying to get drunk with a baby, but a glass (max) is fine.
Sorry, citation still needed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12826028

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. ... This position paper reviews the current scientific data related to key nutrients for vegetarians including protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D, riboflavin, vitamin B-12, vitamin A, n-3 fatty acids, and iodine. A vegetarian, including vegan, diet can meet current recommendations for all of these nutrients. In some cases, use of fortified foods or supplements can be helpful in meeting recommendations for individual nutrients. Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fibre, magnesium, potassium, folate, antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, and phytochemicals."
Actually, calorie for calorie is not a valid counter. Per wolfram alpha, you'd have to eat 4.0kg of broccoli per .41kg of steak (average steak size).

Apart from that, I would cede to your points about the b12 and iron, but if you want calories to sustain you, meat is definitively the most efficient way to go about it.
Another session of Dan Boneh's online crypto course starts up tomorrow.
I searched a little, but the information is confusing. The superchargers (apparently) use 90kW/480V=~190A. I want to highlight this: 190A!!!

A usual home connection can handle only up to ~10A, so 190A is a lot of current. To handle this you must use very thick wires. To charge faster you need move voltage or handle more current, probably you will need even thicker wires and to be careful with the safety measures.

Additionally, this experiment use only in a tiny lab sample. To increase the size and make a big model for a car, a lot of technical details will appear, for example how to handle all the heat that the battery produces during the charge / discharge cycles.
Definitely agree with you.
From the moment my now 2 years old daughter was born, a hidden register in my brain was activated to warn me every time i was losing time.
I mean: losing time in my programming work.
This is the main effect of having a constraint, less time, results in more efficiency.
I also agree on the unconscious problem solving function, always related to taking a break, it really seems our lives could be better lived taking the right time to pause, relax, think.
Still researching and experimenting on these things.
Cynical, not very open minded.

Bitcoin is not an "obvious scam" any more than the world is obviously flat, or fiat currencies were obviously going to fail. Remember going off the gold standard? Probably not, but lots of people considered it an "obvious scam." Perhaps it is, but it certainly has been a long game.

While early adopters surely have made an enormous profit, it is not a scam, and has a significant chance of being a major player in the world economy.