skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would love to have seen a pic of you (don't take that the wrong way - i am sure you are cute as a button, but really i am curious about what you were wearing in the rain; was it warm? otherwise i can't imagine how you survived...).
Not a bad idea. The design needs work. I can tell you right now that I'll never use your service though. I'm a pretty big bro, but honestly your entire tone is incredibly condescending. Just because I wear polos and was in a fraternity doesn't mean that I deserve to be talked to or treated like a child.
The problem is that there are so many standards for what characters 128-255 stand for.
you touched on several of the problems i forsee. angular parses templates client side, which is expensive IMO, smaller better optimised code with proper dead code elimination leads to a faster experience. as for mobile, i use it as the final use case, where the bad decisions which you make get amplified the most.
Couldn't healthcare tourism to India solve some of this problem? It's already happening on a smaller scale in Mexico.
I don't think it's worth talking on a blog post or in a technical forum just for social reasons (e.g. I don't think reddit's meme or pun threads would be valuable on hn for their social effect), but I agree with you because I don't think a comment has to add to The Sum Total of Human Knowledge™ for it to be valuable. It just needs to be an interesting thought that the readers aren't likely to have had on their own.
Still loving it after 20+ years.

> I personally don’t know a programmer who successfully survived the boredom, disrespect and disregard that comes with age and experience.

I think to some extent, you get what you give.
I'm a long-time Textmate user trying out Sublime Text 2. The Command Palette (Shift + Command + P) is really useful. I didn't know about it until this post. Thank you!
Badass, nicely done. I bet you're getting a ton of stars on github
Anyone else find that cartoon a bit odd - I tend to start the day a bit grumpy and generally find that my productivity (and mood) improves almost linearly throughout the day...
It's a known issue in Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435
When I joined my most recent company, one of the people on the team was a badass, grey bearded developer who used to work at Sun. He is basically a Tech Lead or Architect now, and is AWESOME. He has tons of experience and taught me quite a bit just by pairing with him. I'm glad he kept up the programming career!
I like buying my own clothes and I don't feel like I'd use a service like this, not once, not ever. Does that make me less a man? I think not.

Your idea is sexist/stereotypical. Why not use your "innovation" and your will-power to create a shop that work for anyone at all, dispite the gender?

The site is also really confusing, feels like you've just thrown together some nice UI elements that a designer made for you. Did the funding for the UX/UI guy run out?
The free market is good at giving people what they want.

But sometimes, people getting what they want is a horrible thing.
"In real life, the range would be limited depending on the antennas used (if going directly for the plane), or global (if misusing one of the two big ACARS players such as SITA or ARINC)"

It seems to me that the article has a lot of "in real life" caveats. Theres a lot of elements that have to be in place in order for an attack like this to work, beginning with the fact that the attacker would need a powerful, very specific transmitter for the ACARS frequencies.

The way I see it this look more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
The people who advocate "balls to the wall" practices and "not making it home for dinner every night" scare me.

When it's all said and done, and you're ready to leave this world, what are you going to think about? Who are you going to want by your side? What are you going to care about?

If it's all the amazing startups you created, or the enormous sums of money you made, or the years of never making it home for dinner to see your wife/husband/kids/dog/whoever, then you're on the right track.

But if at the end of the day, life means more to you than ferociously competing to see who can work more hours in a week, why the hell are you doing this?
The Economics of Toilet Paper
I'm not sure it's such a great network, when you look at the ability of one service (SatoshiDice) to effectively overload it to the point some people started leaving their transactions out of their blockchain calculations.

As a consumer I also actually like the chargeback and other protections afforded to me by paypal and credit cards.

--edit-- I'll add that technically I think it's a fantastic achievement, and as an amateur crypto-geek it's fascinating. The people who came up with the scheme and have coded it have done a great job (though there are the aforementioned scalability problems), but I disagree with almost all the design decisions that went into the vision of the thing.
I love the polite, hoity-toity tone of the euphemisms used for some of the more horrible functions: "Please go here", "Visit ground", "Kiss off", "Be punckish"
A vision for River of News
That sounded really cool. So I opened up chrome, navigated to YouTube, opened the dev-tools, turned on CSS Selector Profiles, and chrome immediately crashed.

:( awwwww.
I'm 38. The difference in what I know, can do, and can do quickly, now vs. 10 years ago is staggering. I can't wait to see where I'll be in 5 years.

It makes me confused about the "young founder" trope. Maybe some wunderkind can pick up a lifetime of learning before they are 22, but if so, I'd love to know how, and how this could be a common scenario. It just seems far-fetched to me. So much of what I know came from experience, but without that experience, I'm not sure how one would learn these things...
See-through brain
Python __dunder__ Functions [video]
>In the mean time most people in Western Europe suffer far less from the economic crisis than most Americans

I was with you until this. Europe is suffering because of their austerity choices. Unemployment reached, like, 25% in Spain, FAR worse than the US. But I agree, "collapse" is ridiculous. Europe will chug along, albeit at a lower rate of growth.

I learned from living through this crisis (my first as an adult) that people over react like crazy in these situations. So much doomspeak, still.
But people should totally try it themselves in a color terminal
Some comments:

- When I click on "getbrandid.com" take me to getbrandid.com and not http://building.getbrandid.com/getbrandid-com/ . There's no useful information on that page. I expect to be taken to your product. This is a major oversight.

- The all caps COMMENTS is bothering me, it's not that important of an element. Maybe it's just me.

- I can't reach the footer easily because of the tweets that keep loading. Seriously, what's the point of having a footer if I have to keep scrolling to get there?? There's a "load more" button but it keeps loading without clicking it (heck I'm not even able to click it).

- This URL structure: https://www.getbrandid.com/#/keep/calm/wearepros

Is stupid. Semantics? Oh no! Additionally the back button doesn't work on that page.

A question:

Do the girls get paid a cut? I actually think this is a pretty nice concept. You're essentially paying an agent to do what they love to do (shopping) by letting another agent pay for the service to connect you to that agent. That's neat. And focusing this on men – at least in the early stage – is not stupid. I would reckon that most people who dislike shopping are men.* I'm not sure whether your brand positioning should be so explicit. Consider the income of the target audience and then consider whether they want to feel like they're being targeted by an offshoot of the Axe brand. I think you can find PLENTY of guys who don't need the whole "hurr durr I'm a man durr" and who would be willing to spend a lot more money having someone else buy this stuff for them. This way you may be missing out on those people and instead attracting less affluent/lower income males who are not the optimal target audience.

* I'm not one of them btw, men who dislike shopping that is.
Apple, Google Not Interested in Settlement, Judge Says
This does seem to be the idea behind HN (solving the quality discussion problem), so is not a bad place for it, but I think people would frown on every blogger auto-submitting every post, creating a blank discussion that can be linked to from the original. (Ie, using HN like Disqus, without the embed-ability.) It also feels like a reinvention of Usenet to flip every URL into a named-discussion (group).
Back in the day, when the boomers were 40, they called this the "midlife crisis"

It affects accountants and carpenters and all sorts of people.

That said, I definitely recognize some of the feelings he's having.
Sorry if I came off that way, but I am definitely not trying to nor do I see it from many people as explicitly as you stated.
NEW: A bitcoin podcast for the practical enthusiast - Plan B
Nice post. In USA employers pay the medical bills through insurance companies. In india either government pays the bill or the patient. So, they cannot afford $70,000 bill. So the government takes the decision that is beneficial to itself and patients. In US the pharma companies and insurance companies decide what is the price.
Like your regular XSRF, it relies on the user already being logged in some browser tab.

It probabley has a keylogger too.
Tenure is often not a prize that offers the solid reward you mention. In many departments, even tenured professors must receive grant awards equivalent to large percentages (or even exceeding) their salary. So, your freedom to pursue what you wish holds only when what you wish to work on is funded.

I completely agree that the odds are low for most people pursuing PhDs obtaining a tenure track position.

I'm somewhat hopeful that PhD study will become a sane and respectable choice for people who don't have a tenure track career goal in mind. But for this to happen, the nature of PhD study needs to embrace the idea of a "terminal" PhD. And in all honesty, I suspect that a terminal MS with an appropriate thesis tacked on is more than sufficient to satisfy that itch.
Establishing credibility with a trust badge increases conversion rate by 72.05%
A Better Soylent - Designing a Simple, "Optimal" Nutrition Shake
This. Automobiles are maybe the major source of air and especially noise pollution in cities.
How to turn your icons into a web font
RubyMotion Success Story: Basecamp for iPhone
I'm sorry. None of this is legitimate, validated science of any kind. Not even close to that. This falls into the domain of homeopathy, conspiracy theories, and old-wives tales.

Science doesn't work by conspiracy theories, nor without data, nor by opinions. The data points to this "idea" being absolutely wrong.

Unlike politics or art, opinions don't count.

Please, let's engage with the real science that has been done, studying the mechanisms by which cell growth control goes awry and chemotherapy targets proliferative growth. Yes, let's talk about how chemotherapy is poorly targeted, and ways we can improve it to really only kill cancer cells.

But let's stay away from pseudoscience. We can do better.
Maybe, but it could also mean they're too bright.

People whose brains are good at generalizing from data eventually realize that the vast majority of "new technology" in computers is really 40 (or more) year old technology with a new paint job. Once you realize that it's very hard to get excited about these things.

There are still things to get excited about : machine learning, AI, etc but they tend to be orders of magnitude more difficult to understand than the technology stuff you've spent a couple of decades working with.
Today my accountant gulped half his down in seconds. I took it as a sign.

It's early April. In the U.S., this is about 1.5 weeks before the largest tax deadline of the year. An accountant here with spare time for a leisurely coffee is a sign that I better start looking for a new accountant.
For non-mathematical explanations I liked this video, which uses a paint mixing analogy to explain the one way functions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk
Looks cool.

The CSS is messed up on the site. Maybe performance issue?
Worst way to stop a crash.
Best way to manipulate the market.
Isn't it weird how whenever there's a massive selloff of Bitcoin, Mt. Gox 'experiences a DDoS attack' and closes trading???
I appreciate the gesture of being a devil's advocate to the work-life balance posts but the hyperbole of "9am-5am" is hurting your case, you're giving others a straw man to argue against.

A 70 hour work week is not actually that unreasonable. You wake up at 8AM, get to work by 9AM, work until 7PM, and then head out with another 5 hours still before you need to go to sleep and still get a solid 8 hours of rest. Do that 7 days a week and you have 70 hours. As long as you're actively fighting burnout by using those 5 hours to exercise, hang out with friends, or otherwise get your head out of your startup, it can be a healthy lifestyle.

I think it's important that we get rid of this false dichotomy between working hard and having a work/life balance. I think the author is right that the only way you can increase your odds of success is to consistently work harder, that formula has never failed me my entire life. But burnout prevents you from doing that consistently so balance is needed even in a 70 hour work week, and if you sanitize the hyperbole you'll find that's pretty doable.
Do you have examples of other critical software incorporating their own monitoring solutions, such as Apache, PostgreSQL, even Linux?

How would you monitor memory, disk and load usage?

Sure - Nagios has its issues, but there are quite a few alternatives that can do the same thing, all of which can interface with your database for monitoring.
Consider that when you are making a statement to tens of thousands of people that it would be best to provide supporting evidence so that exercise of "googling" doesn't have to repeated by everyone.
Rendering PCM with simulated phosphor persistence
Ask HN: Advice on browsing habit problem?
I've noticed that when I get stressed I tend to do a lot of web browsing. Initially I thought this was ok as I felt my learning/education level was going through the roof and improving my life, but recently that feeling has gone away. I figured that would translate into doing other/more productive things only instead I find myself still browsing as a stress management technique (even though its not that enjoyable/informative). It seems I've created a really bad habit which has me contemplating turning the computer off completely in an attempt to ditch the habit. Unfortunately this also means I would take a really big break from programming and reduce my income.

Have any of you dealt with the same issue? Have you done the same thing? Is it worth it? Am I going overboard?

Thanks, in advance, for any thoughts you can contribute.
Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years.

Now, you know that there have been hundreds of flashes in the pan (or things that should have been flashes in the pan), and it's usually much easier to keep a high-level overview of a field and only dive into it when you need it, which usually takes a matter of days because you have worked with similar things anyway.

But they don't know that you know that.
China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world
Two Centuries Of Energy In America, In Four Graphs
With the attitude that one person's trash is another person's gold, then almost anything is trash - recently a supermarket chain in the UK saw a 5% drop in profits so rushed out a "here is what we are doing to fix it" - including firing 700 people that had been employed in their headquarters - to count the money from the tills. They are being replaced with some cash counting machines. You know like the ones in supermarkets that give you vouchers for coins.
As a curious but uninvolved Bitcoin observer, a question: Why haven't any alternate exchanges popped up? Seems that MtGox is still the go-to place to trade, and I keep hearing about their constantly being behind the 8 Ball when it comes to capacity, etc.

Or are there other exchanges out there and MtGox just gets all the press because they keep breaking :)
Someone made the good point that this is probably in response to the precipitous drop, as Americans are getting up in the morning.

https://twitter.com/Brown_Moses/status/322351273045278720
Bitcoin Crash Spurs Race to Create New Exchanges
April 10/11 Brazillian Windows 7 update make computers don't boot
I wonder how well this would defeat microsoft asirra
http://research.microsoft.com/asirra
I'd have to look up the reference you kindly shared, but I sure hope Ravitch had help with her mathematics in that analysis, as she is the person who doubts the general usefulness of even beginning algebra as a high school graduation requirement. (Her higher education was in history, not any quantitative subject as Hanushek's was.)
> The hard part will be convincing people that their batteries do not need to be full all of the time...

This is the hard part not because people are stupid, but because their needs and wants, in aggregate, are complex.

My wife is an extremely efficient commuter. She grew up on a farm where they had a "bi-weekly trip-into-town". As a consequence, she doesn't go anywhere without having her route figured out and optimized, traveling salesman style. But she's the exception. The rule is people who spontaneously change their minds about where they want to go in their cars in the next 6 hours.

The reason gasoline wins is not because it's more efficient, but because it augments people's behaviors instead of trying to alter them.

That being said, electric vehicles are certainly able, today, to positively augment the driving habits of people who are near charging infrastructure or who regularly drive less than 50 miles/day.
There were similar techniques for pirated games.

Konami for example saw that pirates usually erased their logo from the boot sequence so what they did is insert some code that detected when this happened and modified the game accordingly.

One case was the TMNT game for the NES which when pirated set itself in a ultra-hard mode that was impossible to beat since the final boss keep replenishing its energy.
Exactly. Programmers are not some magical subset of people that go through life differently than anyone else. It's an incredibly arrogant mindset that is rife throughout HN and technologists in general.

It's a midlife crises. Go buy a Corvette or something!

Source: None, because I'm 26. But I'm looking forward to that Corvette in a few decades.
I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
I would like to see Kestrel (and Darner) in this benchmark. My personal experience with Darner is that it handles extreme loads. Granted, the MQ is not distributed and it is difficult to do "topics" in the JMS sense.
bitcoins were not stolen from a local wallet, rather they were withdrawn from his mtgox account to the thief's address.
So, basically, this achieved bugger all.

"As far as I know, no one ever did copy the ROM in a commercial project, so it wasn't really necessary"

Not to belittle the work, but this is exactly the sort of response I expected of Jobs.

As you say "It was tricky enough to be a fun project" so kudos to all but, really, this smacks of paranoia.
LOLarious.
47 here , getting paid to develop since I was 16 and still it is fun and games. I really don't understand burnout concept and self imposed stress some people have. Must be just my luck.
Planning to do this as long as I can type :-)
So it's the same story as before, just with different names....
Interesting. are you guys manually updating the dashboard? How frequently?
Judge chastises Apple, Google over patent litigation
Facebook's Zuckerberg launches political group
Bitcoin really needs a more distributed approach to exchanges. I don't know if that means a peer-to-peer exchange solution like Ripple, or just a loosely decentralized collection of exchanges.

A production quality open source exchange with focus on performance and security would be awesome.
Clipboard API and events Draft Published
Mad respect dude ... now I feel lame for not going to the gym this morning just because I was tired.
New bat genus discovered in South Sudan
It's just this kind of nay-saying that probably partially spurred him on to do it.
For me the best feature of the 2.0.9 release is that the documentation builds again! I tried compiling 2.0.7 and got some weird errors from texinfo. I couldn't figure out how to fix them quickly so I just installed without documentation. But 2.0.9 builds fine, including documentation, on my system.
MtGox was the one of (or the) first, but there are plenty of others. As I said in another thread earlier, Bitcoin24 [0] is a good, EUR focused, alternative.

[0] https://bitcoin-24.com/
Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
Microsoft did something similar in BASIC, and for the same reason: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43 The link contains the asm code and explains the obfuscation.
The following quotation alone should get this book by any user of OpenBSD -

"The definitive book on OpenBSD gets a long-overdue refresh."
—Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD Founder
Bitcoin trading in mtgox has stopped
Who cares? Mobile phones must be turned off during the flight.
As he said, it may also mean that they made their career in a poor place, and maybe that's more to do with luck than with brightness. My Dad, for instance, has been very frustrated lately as an aging engineer, but it's more because he's had some really crummy managers than anything to do with his ability.
These days if you graduate at 21 and want to work until 65, the encouraged retirement age in much of the world, that's about 44 years of work. They're trying to slide things up to 72 now, and who knows, by the time anyone starting out today gets there we may live much longer or even forever.

My point is, expect to work a LONG TIME. It's not about pulling a few all-nighters for finals, collecting a piece of paper, and waving goodbye. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Do what you gotta do to keep it interesting, because no one else is going to do that for you and the "end" is so far in the future it's not even worth thinking about. Take vacation time, take on new challenges, go back to school and start a new career, stop and smell the roses once in a while. It's your life, choose it.
"And now, the results (processing time measured in seconds: the lower the better)."
there are literally hundreds of codepages http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/
As a consumer I also actually like the chargeback and other protections afforded to me by paypal and credit cards.

The flip side is higher price charged by merchants due to higher processing fees. Not to mention that paypal will close down your accounts whenever they feel that you are too suspicious.

Of course, with bitcoin, merchants will charge lower fees since they no longer have to worry about chargebacks. Nobody also can't prevent you from spending bitcoin as you like(as long it's your personal wallet).