skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also consider having a limit of 1 or 2 private projects and make all the others public.

If you give public mockups a publicly accessible page and create a base representation that is indexable by Google, it might be an interesting source of additional incoming traffic (and leaves you open to become something like SpeakerDeck for Mockups.)
Since the GDP contains all government spendings and debt, it is obvious that debt and spendings only increase "economic growth". But if you call a spade a spade and realize that 100% of government spendings is taken from products of the market, then the real GDP (RP) will be defined like this: RP = "Official GDP" - 2 * (gov debt and expenditures).
No, but I might if it included a drop-ship service.
hivemind!
> What concerns me is that the would have been perfectly happy to sweep most of this under the rug if Ryan hadn't forced their hand.

That's a rather cynical thing to say. There's no proof that without Ryan's chat log, Linode wouldn't have told us anything.
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I have no problem at all with SSH (SSH-ing from Poland to us-east EC2 machines), so it probably varies by country/ISP.
It doesn't matter what the majority of people think. That is ultimately what we are, and the tragedy of being killed by a bomb reinforces it.
How do you plan on monetizing Function Space?
it would be great if the news organizations that are capitalizing on advertisements on boston bombing articles, would donate those proceeds to victims.
I love the idea that a hackathon is a more supportive environment for learning than the typical school or even home. However, I urge those who are learning to code at hackathons to take the time afterwards to more comprehensively understand the concepts you picked up in the rushed environment of a hackathon. Rushed learning can result in some serious deficiencies and gaps in knowledge that will be an impediment to future productivity.
Most of government dept is owed to domestic creditors. And the creditors will either spend the interest or invest it. ( It is really hard to freeze money, essentially you need to bury cash in your backyard.) So the money simply stays in the economy.
This reminds me of this project: http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/
I'm not the parent poster, but I'd basically say: are there any examples at all? Even if we're really loose with what qualifies as "lean startup" are there any examples anyone would be willing to share?

I don't mean to imply that there aren't any, but I just haven't heard of any.
Ask HN: Hosted wiki for developer documentation?
Started a new job. Charged with starting to document development and work flow. What are some options? Any dedicated tools better than a vanilla mediaWiki install?
If you reinvested your household's profit into the company that pays your salaries, it might?
Great writing Daniel and such a shame it comes off the back of a harrowing experience. I think it must have changed you, probably in ways much less obvious than just prompting you to (a year later) start your own business.

I've met a couple of people who did "look to the right", so to speak, and your decision not to look should be right up there with the best decisions you've ever made.
Yes. I'm in the process of finishing up a touch enabled web app for a client and we're all very pleased with the result. Since Dart is in development and has been changing, I've stuck to a small subset of features, basically easy DOM manipulation with classes. The resulting JavaScript from Dart2js has worked flawlessly across browsers (Chrome/FF/Safari on Win/Mac/iOS.) I believe there will come a time when clients specify Dart because it saves them time, money and maintenance problems.
> Starting rate is $15/hr commensurate with experience, plus bonuses.

This project sounds interesting. Did you happen to accidentally leave off a zero in the hourly rate? If so I'd be interested in following up further.
Google and Facebook both have facial recognition technology and the infrastructure to handle this amount of data easily, one of them should step up. It would probably be good PR.
Vaclav Havel: What Communism Still Teaches Us
This seems likely. Once a month, run a script, type in the complex passphrase, and all the billing gets done at once.
I would love to see something like that built on piece of a bit better technology, like FreeBSD Jails. I've tried to use LXC but it seems to be heavily fragmented (works a bit differently on Ubuntu, Debian and other distros), less secure (issues with remountability filesystems of root from inside of the container, and others) and in addition to that FreeBSD has some other neat things, like ZFS and CARP.
Check out the TRIPS/EDGE architecture: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/overview.html

It uses dataflow to efficiently execute individual instructions while atomically committing groups of instructions to preserve understandable semantics. While tiled architectures are common now, most of them have one core per tile. TRIPS built a large, high-performance core out of simple tiles so it can run different types of code efficiently.
This is one of those quintessentially Hacker News exchanges that I have begun calling "Hacker News moments".
I have read this a couple of times. Very powerful.

If you have yet to read this, I thoroughly recommend you do.
Trying to get new people to come to hackathons is why we started CodeDay.

It's actually an extremely effective way to give new people a wide basing in computer science and, more importantly, get them excited.

I'd love to see more marketing to new people in regards to hackathons.
thinly veiled marketing...
This (and the rest of the thread dangling underneath it) is a false dilemma; "either Reinhart-Rogoff must be correct or Keynesianism must be correct".
"Freelance work" is an extremely broad term, so it's hard to answer. Taxes are 100%-country dependent, so you'll need to research it on country-per-country basis. For example, in Poland I pay 9% on everything up to ~$28k, then 14% on the next $17k and 25% on everything above that. For that, I receive the free (state-provided) health care. On the other hand, I imagine that countries such as Germany or especially France would take much more of your pay.
In regards to your analogy: let's say you aren't salaried, but are self employed. Now you take on a a big mortgage, and spend you income on paying your mortgage instead of investing it in growing your business.

Government debt slows growth because you have to pay it back. The currency (you savings/income) may end up being devalued, or your taxes may have to go up.
I think the biggest bottleneck by far in this space is getting people inspired to learn. More than it being rushed learning or comprehensive learning, the biggest benefit hackathons have is to get people learning to begin with :)

not to mention the great community that springs up out of it!
> You can generally count on built-in formulas to be correct, which might have to be recreated in a different language;

This is wishful thinking at best. Excel numerics have all sorts of undocumented corner cases that attempt to make answers that “look right” instead of a predictable and documented numerics model.

It’s been years since I’ve used Excel, but for example, you can construct values A and B that satisfy any subset of the the following conditions: (1) A == B is true (2) A - B is zero (3) A and B display the same value under any formatting.

These tiny differences usually don’t matter, but eventually someone tries to do an unstable computation, and the tiny differences are blown up into great big differences.
That's crazy talk you socialist. </sarcasm>
That makes two of us. All the best!
There is only negative - neutral - positive on eBay (in the overall rating, not the specific shipping/as advertised etc. categories).

So it now comes down to expectations and how to match expectations to + 0 and -. I for one absolutely expect items to be as advertises and delivered within the timespan indicated. For that, sellers get a 0. If they deliver faster and/or a better item, they might get a +. If they fail to meet my basic expectations, they get a -. Hence, by these standards, the - was perfectly justified.
Agreed. Hackathons are a great supplement to accelerate learning, but anyone who wants to build decent products needs to learn things the right way at some point.
With MHacks, one of our main focuses was to bring in students who had never been to a hackathon before. There's honestly not a better vehicle that I've seen for getting students pumped about CS.
+1 for this. Also, I18n with nib files is a pain, the CLI tool that xcode provide for translating nib files is a joke really... Also, if you have custom UI or a custom font, you're nib file will look like shit anyway...
Great tool. Any plans for a browser plugin that lets people see what others have highlighted on a given page?
Oh, so at least we get a rejection e-mail if we don't get through right?

EDIT: So apparently, they do. Looking forward to that e-mail tonight. All the best to everyone.
Did you actually expect to raise funds for a kickstarter-competitor on Kickstarter?
If you go to the police or FBI and offer help I am pretty sure they will say no. Except in very controlled situations they are unlikely to share any of their evidence. It is just not their culture.

However I wonder what you could achieve without their cooperation. Could you "crowdsolve" a crime? Say a website where people post what they know and any evidence they have.
> I’ve never used Lish, but if you have, consider those passwords permanently compromised.

Even if you haven't used Lish, consider it compromised, because according to Linode support all Linodes are assigned a random Lish password by default. The same is also true for API tokens (maybe - Linode support doesn't seem to know). See this thread for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5553694
Git isn't a spoof of get, Linus named it because he's a git. Or at least that's what he said once.
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Carry Conceal Position for Handguns
This interactive article on "Carry Conceal Position for Handguns". Shows the basic locations of where you can comfortably & functionally wear your concealed weapon(handgun). This article doesn't cover all the conceal position, but only the practical one. Its interactive in terms of putting your cursor over a text which then display a highlight image of the content.
These are in bits & pieces. Pretty cool, but the main image should have been centered on the article.
It's a great read. Though you can only relate to it when bombs are like a once in a lifetime thing.

Living in Peshawar, where bomb blasts are a regular occurrence, you slowly get immune to it. To such an extent that even the media doesn't care (we just had a blast only 2 miles away from my home killing 16 today).

You get to a stage that you just start living in fear. Worrying about your family whenever they go out.
We spend about $190 billion a year paying interest on our debt, out of $2.45 trillion in revenue. That's about 7.8%, which is not an unsustainable large number by any stretch of the imagination. To use the ever-dubious household analogy, it's like a programmer ($150k/year salary) having a $650 car payment. Maybe the ideal car payment for someone bringing home around $8000/month is more like $500 or below, but it's not exactly the height of fiscal irresponsibility.
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Max wants to know what to do
Well, we were all born into a political system based on the whims of politicians and bureaucrats...and not people like engineers who respect strong data.

Which is why I personally put more trust in the irrationality of markets and business over the irrationality of elected lawyers who gain power via rhetoric (and not production).
there is a reddit thread already attempting to do this, but it's meeting some resistance.

source: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...
A CPU can do anything. Silicon is turing complete. The question is whether it can do it more efficiently than some rather well-tuned, if suboptimally-architected, processors. It's a high bar to leap, despite substantial rhetoric to the contrary. (I believe it to be leapable, but it's not easy.)
Build your own Google
I do understand your typo - Count me in, but I will do it for $145.00 USD an hour.
The National Institute for Literacy is a federal agency that was established by the National Literacy Act in 1991 and reauthorized in 1998 by the Workforce Investment Act. There's nothing wrong with their methodology. Their measurements are consistent with other studies, but theirs are the most recent and are done nationally so are likely the most reliable. Feel free to cite other studies if you prefer, I notice that your post contained no references, just smug dismissals of data with citations.
This is something I was wondering about as well. Would evidence gathered in this way be admissible in court?

I worry that once the general public gets ahold of it, it would simply become a "middle-eastern-looking person finder".
American Airlines stops all flights after computer system fails
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One country that did it right was Norway. After shooting and bombing in 2011, this is what the prime minister's reaction was:

> Stoltenberg further vowed that the attack would not hurt Norwegian democracy, and said the proper answer to the violence was "more democracy, more openness, but not naivety".

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks#Domestic

Please, can we have such a sensible reaction everywhere?
I'm surprised Cyprus's bailout plan isn't mentioned in this article. As part of it's bailout package, Cyprus was forced to liquidate it's gold stores. While this amount (~14 tons) is negligible to the world gold balance- the amount of gold that other troubled European nations have (Italy, Spain, Portugal) is massive. If they are forced to go through similar plans, the flooding of the world gold market would greatly increase the supply.
I'm pretty sure the military families and your parents drawing social security might say otherwise:

"Fully two-thirds of the national debt is owed to the U.S. government, American investors and future retirees, through the Social Security Trust Fund and pension plans for civil service workers and military personnel. China, it turns out, holds less than 8 percent of the money our government has borrowed over the years."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/04/who-do-owe-most-t...
Http://www.zdnet.com/windows-its-over-7000013964/
Bitcoin's agent Smith problem.
David Tran continues to be really good at PR. See http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5266906.

I do love me some sriracha, though.
It's from the pastebin'd IRC log: http://pastebin.com/7WXRDyAg
Data in CPython
> It’s up to you whether you’re confident enough in the passphrase’s complexity to continue trusting any credit-card numbers you’ve used with Linode.

I trust Linode's security and their password complexity is almost certainly sufficient to keep the key secure; I cycled my credit card number regardless. It's a minor inconvenience to reduce the risk of a bigger inconvenience.

Any time there's a compromise of this nature, I assume that they got the keys to the castle and any data involved I consider to be in the hands of attackers. The cost of that paranoia is fairly low in the grand scheme of things, even if it its a bit overboard.
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The need to reinvent Economics
Computer glitch: AA grounds all flights
Thank you for posting this.

Along with cuddle services, this is the weirdest thing I've seen today lol

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/09/popular-cuddle-services...
That's at the current interest rate (which is close to zero), the problem gets worse when interest rates go up due to inflation concerns.
Hey! I've been playing with docker for a few weeks now for this project. I started working on my project using LXC & AUFS, but then switched to Docker when it was released. Frankly it made my life much easier because getting LXC and AUFS to do what you want can be pretty hardcore.
Annual raises are not analogous to GDP. Spending is. If interest payments grow faster than income then spending will go down.

Also, if a household's interest payments are rising faster than its income then it will not be able to invest, say, in the education of the kids. So if you count the kids as part of that household over their lifetime, annual raises will indeed be smaller because better educated folks get bigger raises.
I was thinking that same thing this morning. I've seen people on reddit find where people live just from a photo out of their front window. I've seen people track down stuffed animals that were made 20 years ago. The human hivemind and it's capabilities has to be put to a valid use occasionally.

Anyhow...
What specific goals would you be trying to reach? Identify every individual who was there? Try to find photos from before the incident of people with suspicious objects?
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I wouldn't say it's explicitly inappropriate, just a very unusual and curious question. Given this is a paid internship, I would look into your local job regulations and determine how to proceed. My first reaction was an arched eyebrow, but if it's known by the candidate that they will only be working for three months (i.e. you put it in the job ad), then it's possible they're asking because of some upcoming event they've been planning. Find out what their motivation is.

2. Unless you spot something on the resume that sticks out, stays in your mind and demands you call the person in, yes. You obviously are deriving some sort of value and introspection into your candidates by asking them these questions; it also shows basic reading comprehension and ability to follow directions.
Ask HN: Can anyone describe their experience using Xamarin for mobile apps?
I'm interested in getting a license for Xamarin and I heard about the tool a while back. It looks very powerful and it appeals to me since I have some experience in C#.

Like the title says, can anyone describe their experience using Xamarin to develop mobile apps?
If so, was the platform successful for you and would you recommend it?
What if you take out a business loan instead of a mortgage? You're still taking on debt, but now the debt is fueling your growth and hopefully leading to higher wealth. It doesn't seem like an open and shut case to me.
Honestly after "The Cave" and "Deathspank" I'm not sure Gilbert is on my HERE TAKE MY MONEY list any more. And him saying "MI3 will be RETRO looking!" isn't making me interested; the Monkey Island games were GORGEOUS for the time, but I don't want to go wallowing in nostalgia for something made now.
The U.S. debt-spent to build most of the infrastructure we have today (highways, trains, power plants, etc), as well as to buy total U.S. military dominance in foreign affairs. It's been working pretty well for us so far.
Photosynth still around?
It's not even a corporate conspiracy... it's the markets demand for politics to be entertainment... not something based on empirical data.

See: http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Busi...
"If there is a high debt twilight zone effect as R&R claim, then we can just buy back bonds at steep discounts and send our debt-to-GDP ratio plummeting."

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/how-much-...
Netbooks projected to become EXTINCT by 2015
That sets a pretty crazy precedent for news organizations doesn't it?
So I really don't know why anyone listened to this in the first place

Maybe because this seems to be standard for research publications.

http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#flaws-in-mainstream-science-a...

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This is also good evidence for why you should release your data online, so it can be properly vetted

Reinhart and Rogoff may reach exactly the opposite conclusion, given the embarrassing publicity. For me this is an illustration of why publishing just your conclusions without data (or code, or whatever details are germane to your field) is so common.
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Very nice job man. Thank you.
Tech world wrestles with how to respond to tragedy
White House issues veto threat against CISPA
And the counter-counterpoint is the paradox of thrift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
Nope. Just an accurate representation of how to build a Hello World app in a bunch of languages.

Does it make a few of the languages look more awesome (or at least quicker/easier) than the others? Sure does. Does that make it marketing? I suppose so, in a way. Still accurate though.
Why is it nonsense? They posted it here, do they not want feedback? This isn't a free advertising site you know. Once you say something like free, you can't take it back.

In case you weren't aware it's $10 per month. Per month. Say your $20 pen lasts 5 years. Add maybe another $30 in refills. That's $50. In the same time moqups would cost you $500.

And also if you stopped paying they might take away everything you'd 'written'.

I certainly think it's worth the money for companies. Just not for individuals.
Exactly. Compare the logo in the blog post to the one in the masthead. And then go one step further and compare to the favicon (no tail there).

The small sizes don't have to convey that the tail is a tentacle, they just have to convey "GitHub".
Yes that would be unfortunate. I would like this to be a "crowdsource" tool, not a "mobsource" tool. I'm open to ideas on how to prevent that. Maybe moderation?
I tried the trial version a while ago. I couldn't get the debug to run from visual studio because of something weird with Android device images missing or not being found. Never bothered trying more. I get really turned off when I'm trying a new tool and hit errors right away.
As Jared touched on I believe all 4 companies mentioned (Uber, Lyft, Tesla, Zipcar) are all "world-dominate-y" ideas, they are just in different categories.

In addition to the "can't find a cab" problem, Uber & Lyft sell experiences. This user experiences will be their biggest asset as they expand into other cities.
> What, however, about people who develop apps for a living on their own or in their own small company, who don’t want to or think they can become Twitter or The New York Times?

If you can't build a web app usable outside of Glass on more conventional devices, find a way of charging for it if you need to make money from the whole operation, and build a free interface to Glass, you aren't going to be building compelling Glass apps anyway, given the rather limited interactivity available via Glass.

> What about people who made their hobby their job? What about your mom-and-pop dev?

They build a web-based application (paid, freemium, or whatever other business model) first, and then, if it warrants, build an auxiliary interface for Glass which has no added charge.

> When I think "great apps" I think primarily of those developers. And they will not be able to survive on Glass.

Glass isn't really (by features, independent of ToS restrictions) a suitable primary app platform. So no developers are going to be able to survive on Glass alone.
Hey Andrew. Michael from Twilio here. Yes, the short code process is tough, that's why we also sell short codes. We are able to apply for them at scale and take care of the application process. It still takes time and money, but we aim make it a lot less painless. Check it out at http://www.twilio.com/sms/shortcodes
Ask HN: how do you manage command line snippets?
I find myself working with the command line a lot, and it's a pain to remember passwords, paths and commands I use a lot. How do you manage it? Just a text file? Is there a good tool for this?
We need to be careful not to start a witch hunt though, vigilantism can be dangerous.
It surprises me that organizations like Code.org don't take advantage of hackathons to spread their message.

Why hasn't this happened yet?
my primary reference that it has always been python is this video from 2007 which was only shortly after they were acquired.

http://youtu.be/ZW5_eEKEC28?t=4m8s