skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, this post:
http://blog.zackshapiro.com/want-to-learn-to-code-start-here
gives a good foundation of troubles you should expect, although point #1 is more than a little impractical for most people.

You should also be aware that the only way to learn to code is to actually do it.

Try going with a book tutorial, such as
http://eloquentjavascript.net/

You can click on the buttons next to code entries to try stuff out.

Learn how to develop code outside of a browser. Pick a text editor and learn it. Sublime text (http://www.sublimetext.com/) is a great choice for beginners. Learn how to use the command line.

After you have an OK foundation, check out the problems at
http://projecteuler.net/
working your way through them sequentially (apparently, most people don't go beyond ten problems)

Create a GitHub account. Learn basic git, and start putting your code out there.

Come up with something you want to make and start a project to actually do it. Be sure to start small, since a lot of software development skills only come with practice.
Agreed. But it is a functional battery more than it is "only a design"
That's exactly what we're building at https://degoo.com
Show HN: Ybot-0.3.3 erlang chat robot released 
Now with web interface and mnesia backend storage
For those like me who didn't understand the feathers reference, the analogy of the sage is that gathering up those feathers is the equivalent of taking back what you said. Once it has been said, it is out there forever, the damage has been done.
It works (and will be updated across the website once Go1.1 is released).

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
Do you have any examples of how you're populating Firebase from the SFMuni APIs?
To be clear, this is the ExtremeTech blog, all of their commentary leans heavily toward wishful thinking.

For context a number of surface area improvements in Lithium-Ion anodes have failed at scale due to the creation of lithium dendrites (metal 'wires' that grow during recharge) which have either rendered large sections of the anode worthless and reduced the capacity of the battery, or created rapid exothermic reactions (aka fires) in the battery.
I confess to being strangely comforted that no one in Arizona has shot a Sikh yet.
> brew install gfortran

gulp. fortran?
Would love to see this as well.
New fun on whytheluckystiff.net
Exec and Homejoy service a few more cities.
This is some really cool software. I have just finished my first boards with eagle and open sourced them.
Alas I absolutely hated Eagle, but getting mercy for Linux users is a miracle in of itself ;(

If anyone gives a shit my boards are here.
https://bitbucket.org/TheLegace/yurt_motordrive-hardware
At some level, it doesn't make too much sense to go that much higher in the power (which I'm assuming is the same as discharge rate, since voltage is fixed). Current lipoly batteries are rated at 30C (Amps per watt*hour). Essentially this means that the battery can be fully discharged in a minimum of two minutes. It doesn't seem like there are that many applications that require higher power output.
On this topic, what's a good Google voice alternative? Something for business that will ring my cell phone. Preferably a 1-800 # with answering ability and phone tree capability.
The appeal is the same as angular and other frameworks with bound data. I choose ember because of its focus on urls. Watch the last video, and if that doesn't look interesting to you then ember is not for you :)

http://ember101.com/videos/004-master-detail-router-outlet-l...
The implementation is really simple. Buy 1 BTC at current prices. Wait a year. Now your 1 BTC is either worth 1000x as much (with low probability) or nothing (with high probability). Instant lottery!
hey ripb, you are exactly right - innovation is fast-moving and lots of improvements are NEW but obvious (in the sense that any small group of devs with a little bit of time could have done it).
Because they don't wish to contribute to the benchmarks game, they wish to see something different -- and that's fine with me.
Have you guys seen this: http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA
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I would love to hear suggestions.
I've gotten to where I am by being honest about my shortcomings and sharing my most embarrassing stories. Unimportant people are always shocked and the quiet people that make decisions have always seemed to appreciate it... even if it made them upset at first.

I believe it is the eve of being well-known that we are all our own spokespersons and that our branding and image is just as much a puff piece as a coke commercial.

I do agree this falls apart when the stories involve other people, at least non-anonymous people. No one likes a snitch.
Won't this just allow the incumbents to threaten others with their crappy software patents, while making it harder for new entrants to acquire enough of their own crappy software patents to defend themselves?

A pretty good argument has been made that we should just legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.[1] Why not just do that?

[1] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...
Insert mandatory caveat here about fictitious self-employment.
First of all, I think political views are part of your public persona, especially when you've donated a huge chunk of money towards them. I don't think I could have a professional relationship with someone who was actively campaigning to make my life miserable.

If my boss were donating money to groups trying to strip civil rights from people with Irish ancestry, which I happen to have, could you really fault me for not wanting to work with them?

The phrase "disagree politically" sounds very civilized and sterile. But in practical terms you are asking me to ignore the fact that my boss views me as an inferior being, and holds this feeling so strongly that it's worth spending $1000 to punish me and others like me by legally stripping away my rights.
(I do ops at 37signals...) We have two top of the line ("high end") load balancers at each site. They malfunctioned. When they both malfunction at once, it doesn't matter whether it's active/active or active/passive or anything like that.
I have dropped the fees to help early adopters. If you are interested in how this works, send me an email: prefinem@gmail.com
They should have just called the article "Old Computers in use at companies where managment is to stupid to see how much money they are wasting and how much risk they are introducing"

The chemical company in Texas is a prime example: "They use it because its a known entity."

Wow.
The truest statement I have read in these comments so far is that we don't yet know the best way or ways to do software development. There might be one or more best ways, but we don't know.

The article is valuable in pointing out that most purported "best ways" are dogmas, and, despite claims of being scientific, they tend to veer off into pseudoscience.

And yet, if you don't have a plan, if you don't apply the best available tools, and if you don't have expertise and experience, you're going to have a bad time.

That leaves software development as something less than engineering, and more like a craft. You can't make it happen, or manage it, without expertise, creativity, and intellect.

Attempts to stuff it into a contained, measurable space almost always result in perverse incentives and efficiency comparable to a Soviet 5 year plan.

But that doesn't mean that a best way doesn't exist, or that it will never be found.
How about a color change if it's on time or late?
Someone already made a pull request to add this. I <3 Open Source! https://github.com/firebase/firebus/pull/1
This guy used such a service and tells about it in his blog.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/1cfuk3/making_55_of_som...
My Treatise On Social Media and Why I Left it
Just merged in a pull request from @templaedhel on GitHub—take a look now. Thanks for the feedback!
Burgeoning IT sector aims to reverse Palestinian economic rot
Bitmaker Labs is determined to turn Toronto into the next Silicon Valley.
Building one in the lab likely does not give you the ability to build a million of them at a decent price in a factory.

Yield probably is low, and the current process will likely be way too labour intensive.
For people having trouble interpreting the graph, the legend from the actual paper says:

"The energy and power density of our microbattery cells (A–H) at low to high C rates, along with previous microbattery cells having 3D electrodes (MB1 through MB3). The plot also includes the performance range of conventional power technologies and commercial batteries from A123 (high power) and Sony (high energy)."

Where C rates stand for charge rates, with 1C being able to charge the full capacity of the battery in 1 hour.

The key take away for the new design's performance isn't the one quoted in the title (of the submission or the article), but rather "Compared with conventional supercapacitors, our microbattery delivers 10 × the power of a supercapacitor at comparable energy density, delivers 10 × the energy of a supercapacitor at comparable power density or has 10 × smaller volume than a supercapacitor at comparable performance".

Just by glancing at the graph, you can see that the design is orders of magnitudes less energy dense than today's lithium-ion batteries. This advancement will make high-power applications more feasible, but will probably not do very much to increase your phone/laptop's battery life.
be careful when you elevate "development" to "engineering". Any self-respecting man can put together a study desk for his son. That's development. But now if you want to build and sell desks to the public in such a way that we have to follow regulations and make a profit. Then that is engineering.
I can't see the history now, but if someone has a maximum bid above yours, it can look at first glance like you are only bidding against yourself.
Big Data Crunching
I suggest keeping the dog and adding it all your advertising. Make it your mascot.

That's exactly what I imagined when I saw the title; a startup testing/comparing the conversion rates of a dog mascot/logo. It goes hand-in-hand with establishing a memorable brand. I'd be really curious to see how the conversion rates are affected by a complete website/brand overhaul containing a dog mascot.
cars, for one, especially if high power output correlates with high power input for charging.
They may not want there to be any headlines about "Google Glass costs $50,000" out there.
Agreed. I would argue that many (most?) higher power applications would be better served by ultracapacitors anyway...
This doesn't seem to work well on my MBP. I can't rotate with my trackpad...
> How can you be fairly confident?

Come on. It's a puppy. A puppy!
Not to mention the "other side of the world" factor. If a bomb went off on your doorstep and killed your cat, for instance, that would be a much bigger deal to you than the Boston Marathon incident. Let alone terrorist strikes in Iraq...
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Just accepted a pull request to make this way cleaner.
Well, it's worth noting that while we're interested in the general science of puppies and conversions, our end goal with this test was not to determine the exact value of the puppy picture, but just generally finding the best way to get people to click our call to action button...
Yes, yes it is. The question remains as to whether there is a small number of stock puppy photos that will end up being used by the majority :)
I'm wondering how the red and green indicators look to someone who is color blind. Yes, the page looks nice, but I think Apple's status page is better simply because the indicator icons are (I'm assuming) better for people with color blindness.

Anyone who's color blind want to weigh in?

http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. Only feedback would be to bring on more video! ;-)
Wouldn't that just increase latency, rather than induce failure, though?
If you are an entrepreneur starting a business, you should already know that the odds are against you. This is simply a statistical fact.

Then the best way to succeed is not to understand that the odds are against you, it's to change those odds. If investors won't invest, find out why and change those odds. If no one wants to join you, find out why and change those odds. If customers don't buy, find out why and change those odds. If things don't work, find out why and change those odds.

Not only that, but most successes rely on countless variables, and most of these variables are out of your control.

Then find a way to work in a world defined by less-than-countless variables, most of which are within your control. You can't control what others will think or do, but there are things you can determine that will affect you plan of action.

By deduction, most successes are lucky ones.

Remove the words "By deduction" and your sentence is generally true. Keep those words and get a chuckle from those who know how to alter their landscape to remove luck from the equation.
This is great, thank you so much for responding. I only made my point because I had literally never seen an examiner post anywhere :)
Since I don't take the sacrament of Keynesian multipliers, it will not go anywhere.
Yep. Fear can be healthy as long as you understand what you're afraid of and why; it doesn't have to stop you from doing certain things, but it can lead you to at least consider either not doing them or approaching them very carefully.

While I agree that we -- at least the two of us, anyway -- lead lifestyles that don't support high-stakes gambling, trust fund babies and other independently-wealthy people can afford that attitude, at least to a point.

The only difference is where that point is. For some people it's high enough that dropping everything and throwing a Hail Mary just isn't a big deal. For most of us that's a very poor decision. Discovering or deciding where that point is in your current situation should be the first step for anyone in deciding just how afraid they should be of failure depending on the investment they're considering.
Bootstrapping to 140,000 users with Twitter
Right? I'm not sure what the allure of desktop email clients is. I could understand maybe if you found yourself offline a lot but what could you really accomplish without internet anyway? No new mail is coming in. You could compose messages but they wouldn't be sent. Just type up your message in text file and paste it into gmail once your connectivity is restored.

I guess I've just really missed the point of email clients or something cause people still make them and people still use them.
The lead designer at Mailchimp wrote a really good book on this subject (designing for emotion): http://www.abookapart.com/products/designing-for-emotion
Element Queries
This makes it easier to target enemies.
there is one problem. you usually cant run a lottery, unless you are government, or a government affiliated company
Wow... so first you choose "the family life", then proceed to outsource every last tiny aspect of (used-to-be) "normal" day-to-day ops? You guys must be very, very busy indeed!
Installing Arch Linux on my CR-48 Chromebook
I opened up the console and saw the site is built with Ember. Nice to see some dog-fooding.
I think this is these are his data sources:

agency list: http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...

route list: http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...

vehic location : http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...

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Check out line 37: https://github.com/firebase/firebus/blob/gh-pages/nextbus/fi...
I think it also means that gossip spreads really far and you never know where all those feathers end up. Even if you could take back what you say, it's hard to find where the gossip has spread to.

I'm reminded of the Friends episode where Ross sleeps with the copy girl.
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http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/11722/a-lottery-...
Silent SMS: How I know where you were yesterday night
Well because that's the first time I'd ever heard that and I've followed it off and on since he first issued the press release.

I don't doubt he might have though, as he's a fucking idiot. But if you're actually going to do that you're not exactly issuing press releases about the loss.

Kind of an odd thing to suggest as a heinous crime anyway, since 50x that much data is being passed around about all those people on that list between the fortune 500 under thge guise of privacy policies and partners.
There is pretty clearly a line between those two moral choices.

The abortion debate is basically a balancing act between two undesirable outcomes. No one likes abortions, but no one (by simple definition) wants unwanted children, either. Choosing either outcome is very much a moral gray area; how do you know you've made the correct decision? I don't think anyone has the right to make that decision for someone else, but I completely understand where the other side is coming from.

On the other hand, there is no such balancing act in same sex marriage. It is an entirely positive, beneficial expression of love between two individuals. There is no choosing a lesser evil, it's simply a good thing. Why would any reasonable person choose to prevent a good thing for absolutely no reason at all? I can't understand the other side at all, because they aren't using any sort of logic to arrive at their conclusion.

Frankly, very few issues these days are as stark right-and-wrong as same sex marriage is. I think it's entirely reasonable to shun and openly shame homophobes in 2013. Perhaps you have the patience to sit down and try to talk with these lunatics, but I don't have that kind of patience. Just like racists, homophobes deserve nothing but derision, and just like slavers, they deserve to ultimately be nothing more than a chapter in a civil rights history text. I won't have them in my life, and I am missing nothing by their exclusion.
While the advice here is good, I think it approaches the issue from the wrong angle. You can't reasonably expect to just up and change what people think or how they react. You can change what you do or how you present it. What changes is not the reaction to, and it's most certainly not the odds of, the exact thing you're currently doing succeeding.

It's the product/service/approach/target audience/etc. that needs to change. The "odds" are an output, something you can only change by altering your inputs.
"2000 times more powerful, recharges 1000 times faster " - so it will still take twice as long to charge it fully then?
Let's say I make a website called the Prettiest Person Game, and I throw up some professional crazy-awesome shots of myself and my buddies, and I also put up all igouy's old driver's license photos, and then create a whole bunch of different ways we can compare these photos and see who's prettier.

And let's say this site becomes really popular. And people start posting articles like, "wow, dilap is like 10x prettier than igouy in ever single way!"

And then igouy's friends go, "whoaaaa, hold on a minute, those are terrible photo's of ioguy! he can really look much better than that!"

And then I'm like, "Hey, I ain't got time for this -- I told you already these are not the only photos in the world. Go take your own photos if you want a different comparison!"

That's what you're saying.
This is a great effort to make a public repository of due diligence:
http://patents.stackexchange.com/

I wonder to what degree examiners use this before granting a patent.
Did cocaine use by bankers cause the global financial crisis?
Thanks! I missed that on the first pass
Hmm. I also took from it that the man should just go spend time doing something other than gossiping. Say a task that would take a long time, like gathering the feathers.

(ie. you can be less transparent by spending your time doing rather than talking.)
Where's that xkcd chart when I need it for every announcement like this...

Ah here we go: http://xkcd.com/678/
Visualising London, Brighton and the UK using Geo-Tweets
How common is color blindness? I'm not saying it shouldn't be a consideration, I've just heard it mentioned a lot and I'm curious if it's much more common than I had originally though (low single-digit percentages, higher among males)?
I didn't say you couldn't do better, I just pointed out the likely source of the problem.

GGP says

> copy the article's title, do not invent your own.

Unfortunately you can't always do that. Dropping words is one technique to shorten the title, rewriting it is another, both techniques are employed.
If I could prove the fairness (paying out to the winner) without compromising anything, I would. If you know of a way, I would be more than willing to do so.
First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling
>It's one thing to say that he ... has openly said harmful, awful things in public. But neither of those things are true of Brendan Eich.

Yes, it is. Look up Prop 8 supporter commercials. Brendan Eich paid for those.
This reminds me of Windows Bob but I don't think it worked very well for Microsoft putting that dog there. Initially people (women and children) were impressed with how cute it was but five minutes later they were trying to kill that annoying yellow dog.
Why are startup failures so bad for the founders? I haven't heard that before.
It depends on your perception. For some people the land of Mars can be greener. The knowledge we would get back from that is huge and can be a huge opportunity. I agree that most people doesn't think about everything they will quit but I think we can find people that are ready to do it.
Newsblur also employs a puppy on the sales page: http://grab.by/lIYE
Wooow. I was just curious. I wasn't intending to throw FUD around or anything of the sort. I didn't think it was privacy violating. I think it's great, in fact. Calm down :)
I genuinely think that it's objectively correct that some minority must not be banned from being able to marry. I really don't think you can spin that into fascism.

To put it more drastically, just because someone dares to stand up to their oppressors, they are not immediately oppressing anyone themselves.
It's easy to make a live map of Muni busses because they are hardly ever moving.
I've gotten to where I am by being honest about my shortcomings and sharing my most embarrassing stories.

I live in New York. Most people expect perfect career histories, even in startups. Even minor blemishes put you out forever. It's that competitive.

When I was at Google, I put together a strategy that would have saved Google+ Games (there was a G+ Games, you ask? My point exactly) and no one took it seriously because my previous startup (at which I was an engineer, not CEO) had failed. Had that startup become a success, people would have taken the suggestion seriously and Google would be worth at least tens of millions more.

I'm 29 and already deal with age discrimination and the "job hopper" stigma from having made a couple bad calls and having a story that looks more like freelancing than the "company man" fantasy (which is dead, and people who still believe in it and hold "job hopping" against people should be evaluated for dementia).

I also get an unbelievable amount of shit about leaving Google and, on a job interview, you can't exactly say, "Oh, their reputation as a great place to work is completely fraudulent because in 2009 they hired a bunch of transplant execs who turned the company into Enron, and now it's impossible to move to a better project." It's the truth, but I can't say it.

Maybe it's magically different in the Valley. I don't live there; I don't know.
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Running Ruby in Your Browser
So all you've told us is it didn't work very well. Is there anything else you liked about it?