skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This provides a really nice intro, but I feel that what many projects are missing is this++ (or ++this), and by that I mean a nice summarized dashboard with a roadmap, links to bug reports, new features, discussions etc.

The problem as I see it is I can click through a few buttons and then I get to the last "Tell me More" and it points me to a wiki page, with lots of missing sections, half paragraphs, unfinished bullet points etc. Then there is a link to a bugtracker, on a different domain, with no introduction text, then contributing to the source code is on a different site, with yet another profile to fill in (Once you have gone through the Wiki, Bug Tracker ++ !)

Actually I guess my main problem is lack of concise, consistent "Getting Started" documentation (Not just Mozilla, nearly every project - in fact Mozilla is far better than many!). Yes, I could read through pages and pages of wiki but, let's be honest, it's ugly and in some cases badly organized - it just gets the job done (let's somebody who is interested in getting involved in that project find some information they need to bootstrap themselves), rather than lure in new developers.

I know many, many excellent developers who would love to try their hand at open source, but simply are not going to spend the hours/days necessary to trek through wiki articles to find what they need, especially on projects they barely know about (Mozilla's Build and Automation tools for example - not public facing, but many many devs have an interest in this area and would love to work on something like that)

In an attempt not to just complain, I will offer a few ideas, please steal, iterate and implement!

A Dashboard - What are people working on, talking about, planning to do now? What are their blockers? I see so many projects with a Project Website, Wiki, Development Wiki, Bug Tracker, Source Code, Road Map, Discussion Forums etc. All with different branding, not linked together and without actually finding the default page you become lost.

Digging further, who are these people, what parts have they worked on? Who can I ask about a certain section of code (git annotate?)

Bring developers, testers, writers, artists, support etc. together in one place. When a new feature is being planned, be able to co-ordinate, form a mini strike team and go!

Build a style and a community. I see far too many default Bugzilla themes in open source projects. Which is great and fine when you are small and starting out and need to keep track, for someone new wondering around your docs suddenly faced with a blank bugzilla theme with zero branding information anywhere.

To summarize: Bigger projects need to do the follow to their on boarding new contributors documentation:

Have It. Brand It. Simplify It.

(And yes I know, the problem is time and money! But one can dream...)

(PS, If there are any projects that would like a C++ programmer with a passion for documentation, give me a shout!)
One simple suggestion to prevent this from happening in the future : require each deletion to be approved by another Wikipedia representative in a DIFFERENT COUNTRY.
i donated $10 on indiegogo and left a comment with my donation telling her to reach out if she wanted me to introduce her to my corner of the nyc tech scene. she responded pretty quickly. her github account[1] has her contact information listed, i'd imagine if you reached out to her she would be receptive to more tangible contributions

[1]: https://github.com/NjeriChelimo
The Don Eyles link above contains an interesting anecdote on communication/management in a consequential decisionmaking environment. We wrestle with similar trouble in the avalanche avoidance world; the wisdom of the group is more reliably accurate than the individual.

Interesting thoughtfood - thank you!
This is what I was thinking. There are dumbbell adaptations of most barbell exercises. I've been doing dumbbell deadlifts and the one-legged variant, as well as lunges.

They are certainly different and have a different emphasis and limitations, but for a lot of training goals they can do the job very well. And even the mini-gyms found in hotels and apartments tend to have some dumbbells, while the same access isn't there with barbells.
Watched him live coding August 2011 -- it was incredible. I know there are better programmers, especially on a systems level, but it's still just... wow.

http://www.twitch.tv/notch
It shouldn't run into problems with changing hardware. I keep an Ubuntu install on a thumbdrive, and am able to boot into it on every computer I have tried, without noticing any issues.
> However an employee is far more likely sustain an injury by using the stairs compared to riding in an elevator, and particularly as they were encouraged by the employer to do so, they would have a pretty clear worker's compensation claim.

With or without encouragement by their employer, they would have a pretty clear worker's comp claim, as the injury is "in the course of employment."

Also, I would imagine that the company promoting usage of stairs has had an actuary do the cost-benefit analysis of the potential health-care savings versus the potential worker's-comp payouts.
My suggestions:

- Support grabbing passwords automatically for rooted phones, like InstaWifi (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jessechen....). Or maybe hire the developer and get the superior app name as a bonus? ;-)

- Initially, access to public encrypted networks is going to be the most important use case for users. Good idea to circumvent the chicken-and-egg problem this way! I think you should put more emphasis on this feature in the video and on the site.

- Is it possible to hide the phone number verification SMS? I think the WhatsApp setup flow does it.
Startup marketers to watch
Ask HN: My startup has a crush on two designers, how do I show them?
They have at least a few opportunities as they are very well respected. We're in the process of raising our seed round (150k of 550k in) so we can't compete on salary or benefits.

What we can compete on is:

- Titles

- Significant equity

- Creative control

- Flexible hours & plenty of work from home

- Badass team with a successful exit and a huge opportunity

I know nobody can speak for an individual but I'm wondering: What other things I could do or offer to show a great designer that nobody will treat them better or value them more than us?

I've got a ton of experience hiring rock star engineers, it's easier because I am a strong engineer myself. They tend to be convinced of my earnest with a Macbook Pro and a Das Keyboard. What sends the same message to a rockstar designer? I'm willing to go pretty far out of my way here to let these dudes know how much we <3 them.
Curious to hear more about why VMware is a pain. I go back and myself.
How to earn money with Google Sniper?
I would like to tell everybody about my success with the program "Google Sniper". Read more inside.
That's a rather old paper though, it's 8 years old and I could have sworn that it was shown to not be effective in detecting current TOR traffic. From what I understand, you have to have massive traffic shaping capabilities to even begin to "chip away", just not a viable nor efficient solution as it takes huge resources. They're not going to devote that amount of time and money just to shut down a few nefarious drug resellers or other places.
One example, there are many:

These guys certainly knew their stuff, and they also had a system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
The kicker is 56% of US Internet users have not been on an airplane this past year.
The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
In his case retire and enjoy life might be the exact same as what he's doing now. Programming minecraft :D
What starting points have you identified for a practical solution?

EDIT-

To simplify what I had here before (and make it hopefully less argumenative):

What system would be verifiable and trustworthy? How would that differ from what we have now?
Keep in mind that these entertainment computers may be plugged in to living room TVs, which will often not be used with a keyboard and mouse, but perhaps with a game pad or remote.
One of the biggest griefs for developers I've seen is based on the stigma that they only do code, not "business" or "strategy".

It seems developers are increasingly vocal about the products they build, and often from a constructive rather than a cynical perspective.

Ignoring wisdom or ideas based on the source is another way to lose a developer who could've been so much more.
It's Tor not TOR.

"Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong."

From the Tor FAQ.
I feel like it'd be cheaper for manufacturers to write better QoS drivers specifically for tomato, or wrt, than whole new firmwares, surely?
I find it interesting that the article uses the term "TOR" even though the Tor FAQ clearly states the following:

Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong.
How A Tool For Perfect Human Vision Grew From One Of NASA's Greatest Blunders
It would be elegant and pleasing if we could resolve both mysteries with one stone, but I don't see how it's supposed to work. How does a Romney anomaly lead to $700k embezzled and Intrade suing 2 different parties for $3m+?
or perhaps the silent majority of the "HN community at large" mostly agrees with me, but a small, entrenched, vocal minority successfully bullies its way to impose its own view of what is and is not "inspiring" on everybody else. "Gimme money" Nigerian letters are not inspiring, not even when done by a Kenyan who allegedly knows (or wants to learn?) how to program.
Survival in Space Unprotected is Possible
Then you should probably flag half the stories on the front page because that's is what most of them are. We aren't doing research studies here, we are talking about how chaotic telecom is and expecting everyone to provide all the pieces is just not going to happen.
They're just not doing it right, that's all. Few are. Nothing interesting about it.
The GA was based on an open loop simulation. I tuned a digital canvas / painting simulation by hand and then evolved the paintings in simulation. After evolving the painting I would execute the painting with a robotic arm. I did some preliminary work on closing the loop: using the actual output of the painting to tune the simulation but didn't get too far. A paper on my methods / simulation and results: http://carlos.ag/GA2008paper.pdf
Or perhaps this thread is full of obscene generalizations that are untrue. Hell, it even started off on the wrong foot by invoking "real world". All that term means is that you think your work is somehow relevant while the work of others, in this case PhDs, is not relevant.

Parts of this community have a real problem with ego and unsubstantiated generalizations.
This helps me track my gf while she is working hah! I love this. Do you know the delay on this one? I heard there needs to be a delay of a few minutes when tracking aircrafts? Are you able to confirm? Beautiful work.

And beautiful work to the UK's underground rail tracking as well.
Probably. It's funny how small groups tend to do great telecom service and large companies don't. Kinda relates to a startup mentality.
Seconding this recommendation. In addition to being super powerful they have great potential as a research platform.
But that's what gives the movie everlasting value to us now! :)

Love watching the movie while drinking somewhat heavily with friends.
In my concept of the future there will be no "Save", but instead any input/document will be passively cached locally in volatile storage, and archived incrementally on a non-volatile medium... without any active user input. In which case you'd only need an icon for "New", "Open" and "Delete".

If you're talking about representing a change of state (volatile to non-volatile), then borrow from Chemistry where a change from liquid to gas is represented by an arrow up, and a change from liquid to solid is represented by an arrow down. You could use the Unicode character U+21DF, a symbol that's already on every computer. Inversely you could use U+21DE to indicate "Load".
Testing in only one city would be silly.
I really don't think I would want my money back. Good luck to her.
stats and formal logic.
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I'm 19. I started when I was 14 by hosting and modifying a private server (in Java) for a popular mmorpg.
Ironic, since doing something analogous with scenes from this White House Down movie in a few years will probably get us a DMCA takedown.
It's linked from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/#coding which kind of makes it officialish
Facebook wasn't the first social network.
I tweaked the settings. It's a little better than with the default settings. Just give try :)
The blog post had some decent information but I think it was a bit scattered to me.

Here are the key principles to gaining muscle with the least resistance (in my opinion):

1. Lift heavy as possible - you'll have a difficult time stimulating lots of muscle growth with light weights which I've personally tried.

2. Use proper form - tons of people get injured on heavy resistance exercises because of improper form or lifting too much without a spotter.

3. Go to muscular failure - the final rep where you can't lift the weight no more is the most important. It contributes the most to kick starting your muscle growth mechanism.

4. Don't overtrain - you need to give your body ample rest and recovery for your muscles to grow the most. (Personally I'm training once every 3 days and currently this is working well for me).

5. Train the full body - building stronger/bigger legs will help build mass everywhere in your body. Don't think you're get strong just doing push-ups. You need to work all the major muscles in some way - quads, hamstring, glutes, calves, pecs, lats, delts, triceps, biceps, etc.

6. You only need to spend 25 minutes 2-3 times a week. Tip: look into High Intensity Training principles from Arthur Jones, Mentzer, Darden and others. They promoted short, intense workouts (usually one set to failure per exercise) that stimulated arguably more muscle growth than longer workouts.
Exactly, there's nothing really useful in this article.

For 900 EUR, however, you can buy yourself a copy of their tool.
Radar shows U.S. border security gaps
Wonder how this compares to SPF13, which I've been using lately. https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim
Google's early success was much about the supportive environment for founding a company, not the academics: networking with investors and early hires, getting recommendations from influential professors, than it was about the "PhD project" of PageRank. It was a standard graph algorithm executed on the Internet, not a ground-breaking academic project. (Obviously -- they left school before they did much any work on PageRank)

If PageRank were a new idea now, Google.com could have come up through YC.
"WMFR has no control over Wikipedia servers, and no more control over Wikipedia content than any other volunteer editor."

Fixed that for the GP.
The whole point is for people who want to switch from ST to Vim or for people who used to use VIM, but loves ST. There are still cases that should be handled trough. But I will add an entry to the FAQ, that explains the target user. This is IMO not for everybody.
You are right, if there is no reward for authentic looking fake stuff ,why bother.. I should stop trying to make sense out of television hackers code.
Good call, I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hey GuiA! I like you're thoughts! Especially on the laptop! The Acer Aspire One netbook I bout with my savings when I started learning is making me go bananas ;). I'd totally appreciate that contribution! Feel free to contact me -> @NjeriChelimo on twitter. :)

About that kickass startup, it coming in much less than 10 years! #WatchThisGeekSpace ;)

Thanks for your support!
It's fascinating to see how some of the main constructs that help define a city ie. major roads, intersections, are still highly visible and intact over 100 years later.

Would recommend "The City in History" by Lewis Mumford. Great read about how cities have formed, died, and some renewed throughout history.
But how many places are there that do that? You have google, Microsoft, maybe intel, a few companies in the valley. PhDs are very specialized, and so they really can be at the mercy of their hot skill.

And even google...might tell you to go work on ads with your hot VM/compiler skills. Disclosure: I'm a PL PhD who got out of the vm/compiler area to focus on PL design, which is even more esoteric.
No, we don't say that drunks are evil when they get drunk and then drive their car over someone. We do still throw them in prison though.
Note that there are a lot of ruby and rails devs on mac, for ruby/rails you might actually have less friction on a mac.

Screencasts using textpad, Notifications using growl, etc.
> Photoshop isn't perfect, but it knocks Fireworks' socks off in every aspect: automation, formats, shortcuts, UI, precision, etc.

Automation? Not really. The scripting Apis for both are similar. Plus symbols and styles are way more useful for UI design than smart objects. Plus you can find and replace colours. Woot.

Formats? Who cares. Fireworks does the ones that matter for web/app design.

Shortcuts? Subjective. Can customise pretty much anything.

UI I might give you. Fireworks is a bit odd in some ways.

Precision - not a chance..fireworks lets you type in the exact size of stuff you want oh so easily..

You should try fireworks sometime, it's pretty awesome.

As a dev, I love receiving a design in fireworks. It's almost a joy to work with when extracting all the bits I need. Photoshop is a pita (though I have written a bunch of scripts I use there to make it slightly less painful).
also http://pascalcula.blogspot.com/2011/10/setting-up-linux-on-w...
Detected but not decrypted, unless you're an exit node. TOR is still fundamentally sound, especially in the past few years.
I got my name in the Linux kernel source code, without having submitted any code..
</2 seconds of fame>
Then there was my era of "modern computing", the 80's. My favourite show back then was Bits and Bytes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaBYw3swyg
Had the author used "Tor" instead of "TOR," I wouldn't be wondering what else they may have done wrong.
packet sizes and inter-packet timings. This paper might peak your interests http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2012/cacr2012-08.pdf . It tries to obfuscate the network traffics by morphing them so they statistically look like Skype Traffic.

They even open sourced their code at http://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/software/CodeTalkerTunnel.html
Translation of Lambda Expressions in Java 8
I also found it difficult to learn the lifts from the Starting Strength book, so I bought the DVD and it was very helpful.
Well, their is always the possibility that self driving cars could get hacked.

Although, even in that respect it would be pretty difficult to do worse than current cars. [1]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/avi_rubin_all_your_devices_can_be_h...
Age could mean broader experience. You may not be able to crack out code at the rate of a 20 year old, but you will see the architecture more clearly which is a different vision. It allows you to take decisions knowing what's about to come, meaning you can be one step ahead of others even if your fingers aren't quite as quick.

The trick is not to rely too much on experience and learn very quickly when the ground has shifted, and adjust your knowledge accordingly. I've seen many a peer fall over on the insistence that their experience is the only point of view when in fact technology or techniques have moved on.
<link title="Bird's Eye View" href="plain.css" type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet">

Amazing! I've been writing CSS for the last 6 years (as my job mainly), and I've never heard of alternate stylesheets. I wonder how many of them I've missed.

The only time I provided different styles for the same web page was by adding a class to the body tag, and modifying it using JavaScript.
On my playstation 2 I had a demo disc that had a YaBasic compiler. I wrote game code with my controller. I used other people's source code to make pong and pac-man, and had little understanding of what I was doing - but still managed to change the colours. It also introduced me to manually checking the syntax of the code. http://members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/yabasic.me.uk/faq/
Zencoder removed WITHOUT any notification their 20% discount on multiple outputs
I signed up at Zencoder about 3 years ago and I've used it occasionally for some side projects, everything always worked great.

About 2 years ago Zencoder added a 20% discount on multiple outputs ( http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/03/09/lower-price-for-multiple-outputs/ ) and as I encoded in various formats I was very happy.

During the last year (when they were acquired by Brightcove) I had to shutdown those projects because they weren't growing as expected.

Now I'm in the middle of another project that uses videos and so I went back to Zencoder to see what changed, and a part some new features I've also seen that they removed from their pricing page (and any other page) the reference to that 20% discount on multiple outputs.

I don't want to criticize that choice (although I think it was a great thing for Zencoder's customers), but what I criticize is that they haven't sent any notification about that change to any of the accounts I have with them. I've checked their blog and there is no post telling about this removal. I don't know if they notified by email just active-paying customers, but I don't think it's correct even with not paying customers, as when I was paying customer I payed them few hundreds dollars each month.

If you are a startup, or a big company, please, please, please stop pissing out your users with these changes, or at least send an email saying why you do such changes..
Ya, google is sucking up many of them. But don't tell parent, he doesn't get it and doesn't need to get it.
Should your startup be a C-Corp or LLC?
>Interesting to see how Mojang/Valve's "work on what you want" policy might be Considered Harmful. Not wanting to finish a game, tune a webserver that processes your sales or freeze and document an API because it's hard.

In terms of maximizing profit, sure. Seems like they have plenty of money though and are optimizing creativity/happiness whatever.

I do wish they'd figure out how to handle an API but it looks like a really challenging problem.
Not wanting to take anything from notch, but I do concur with the parent. I've seen his live casts, and sure they are great, but let's not kid ourselves, his code is not that great. He is fast cause he knows the libraries he uses very well (which is admirable) but at the time, put me in front of DX9 and my speed was the same. Now put me in front of iOS code and I can probably match it. I think he just got to that status where people idolise him (heck, I remember when his first livecast was out, 100s of blogs doing their own 'what I learn from watching notch code' like he was some super coder, which weren't much more than typical stuff you learn in the first 2-3 years working at a company(at least in games).

And from other sources (can't verify) minecraft code is reported to be quite bad, which is the main reason many of the bugs weren't fixed very fast.

Having said that, he had a vision, executed it well and made a lot of money. My hat is off to him for that.