skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read it again– I'm not saying F.lux is the source of my sleep issues, just that it's made the exacerbation of said issues occur less noticeably (to me, of course).

Before I started using F.lux there was an obvious taxing period around 1-2am where my eyes might have started to get blurry or headache would set in, assuming I had woken up and started working by ~8am. From there I would either go to bed or brute force the next few hours, despite being aware of the time in general. Now, I don't get that feeling until much later– either at 22hrs when the sun has come up and F.lux begins fading out, or a little later if I'm not paying attention until after the sun has come up and the screen's been blue for a while. (At that point, I either notice the sun through the trees or get a splitting headache).

To further describe where I work: shaded area, floor to ceiling books, no clock, no phones. I do graphic work during the day and by early evening I'm in the command line until whenever. I can usually get out during the day, but sometimes I just don't. I think the proper advice here would be to stop working at home while living in the city, but that's enough OT– I was simply pointing out my experience using F.lux!
My god, look at the execution here. The CEO, David Thompson, is a visionary. Is there nothing he cannot do? Truly, I worship the ground he walks on.
Although I think the project that builds on it has been dormant for many years, the original Homeworld's code was released as a part of the Relic Developers Network. I wonder if that license grant is still valid now that ownership has changed hands.

http://www.homeworldsdl.org/

https://github.com/timdetering/HomeworldSDL/blob/master/LICE...

EDIT: It looks like there were already serious problems with the license which mean no one can distribute the code http://homesource.nekomimicon.net/sourceforum/viewtopic.php?...
When you're God you can just send a flood and say "well I hope that person built a boat".

(i.e that the person should have a copy of their data).
Hey, White Liberals: Bos. Bombings, Suffering Of White Kids, Erosion of Empathy
The real question is: why did Americans drive so much? Was it to have larger houses+grounds? Was it to be further from poor neighborhoods? Was it about signaling?
Microsoft gets a lot of beating for changes to Windows, simply because of widespread use; an OS with 0.5% market share will not be messing with so many people. By being banned by Google you lose your email, youtube, adsense, adwords, docs...your financial life could be destroyed, even if the 'violation' is for an unrelated offense (example: posting copyrighted material on Youtube and getting adsense disabled)
There isn't always a long term, I don't think. For example, I am an engineering PhD student. I am currently writing a small application to automate some simulation tasks through the COM interface and output the results to a database. I don't really intend to share the code with anyone, and I only need it to be good enough so that I can add small features without too much trouble.

I started with some really ugly C# code, learned some more about OO, and tried again. Now I just have some bad C# code, but its doing what I need. I'm definitely a better programmer now than I am when I started, and maybe if I find myself a free week sometime later, I'll rewrite the whole thing again.
Another point that might be US centric is cutting driver's education from the school curriculum. Both my parents had driver's education provided to them by their school while it wasn't even offered at mine.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was clicking everything for a couple of minutes at least.
Isn't this similar to how VCR's, DVDs and BluRays were chosen by the porn industry?
New Nanoscale Router Converts and Directs Subwavelenght Signals
For me, it's really just boredom. I lived about twenty miles from Boston until a month or so ago and since moving to the South Shore the only times I've driven my car was to go to Target the first week I was here and once more to keep it happy.

Driving occupies my attention for no real benefit. If I'm sitting on the train I can read, I can write some code, I look out the window without having to worry about drifting off the road. The train is eighteen bucks a week (or $70 a month, but I don't go into Boston every week so I do a weekly pass) and I live in a place where I can walk to the grocery store--why would I hop in the car for anything?
" In some cases these companies will win if they have a superior product or an unfair advantage in distribution (think Microsoft bundling browsers with their OS)."

Do you mean to imply that you believe Microsoft bundling a web browser in their OS was an unfair competitive advantage for the company? I can see an argument for it increasing market share of Internet Explorer, but definitely not as an unfair competitive advantage for Windows.

I am also not clear on your definition of an idea. As I see it, the idea of Dropbox is fundamentally different from the other online storage solutions provided of the time. To call it another implementation of the idea of storage seems a rather large generalization.
I have the feeling cash for clunkers may also have contributed quite a bit. Young people are much more likely to buy used cars, so by destroying the stock of used/cheap cars, you are pricing the car away from them.
Grand Theft Auto V - Teasers from Rockstar
This thread reminds me of one of my minor pet peeves with HN: a lot of people here repeatedly speak of SF and NYC salaries as if they were universal across the country and nobody would ever want to work anywhere else.

It's not a big deal because most of the arguments here are relative and not dependent on specific numbers but rather differences. I also understand HN began as a place to discuss Silicon Valley startups. But still I think it would be nice if HN were generally more cognizant of salary variations across location.
Self provide your own email on your own email server.

I think there's a case to be made for self-providing your own dial tone as well, given how simple and cheap that has become, but I can't push that as I haven't even done it myself...
Like others have said, this is why I moved away from hourly rates and into project pricing. Taking the Clock off the table and being realistic about expectations has allowed for more freedom and experimentation.

*edit for a sloppy typo
I have two ASD sons. Neither drives. They are in their twenties. The last figure I saw suggested that autism is now about 1 in 150 kids. I wonder how much that factors in.

Edit: Dead reply indicates a more recent figure is 1 in 88. (Just trying to share with the folks not wearing their "I see dead people" goggles cuz I used to not wear them either.)
I'm pretty sure increased urbanization accounts for a lot of it. Also, more exposure to international communities where not driving is normal.

At least, that's my justification for never learning to drive.
Because they can't afford it anymore.
> I'm looking forward eagerly to the era of self-driving cars, when I can ride but not drive

Yes. Yes please. As I said in a sibling comment to yours, I take the train instead of driving because driving is boring and requires me to concentrate on it. A self-driving car makes the five-hour trip to go see my parents a lot more pleasant...
Interesting discussion on reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ayxbr/simulati...
This post inspired me to write about our platform, which addresses this exact issue. If you're fed up with facebook platform, you might enjoy the read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5593216
> The blatant use of beautiful people wearing it doing fun and exciting things leads me to believe they understand they have a uphill battle on this front and basically need to convince the public that it is cool. This is a bad sign.

If cigarette companies managed to use marketing and product placement to make smoking be cool and fashionable, I bet it can be used to make Glass look cool. Not sure if they are doing the right campaign, but they are on the right track.
Ditto that (though I'm not young, I am also not that old).
Peer pressure in this case is useless. Google, more or less, is bound by law not to pay taxes that can be avoided.

Say Google handed UK a check for $100 million in 'extra' taxes. is that enough? Why not pay $500 million?
US to keep restriction on small knives on planes for now
In most places, there are plenty of used cars out there if you're looking.
Plus I can only imagine the positive effect on the traffic fatality rate as a result of driver error/intoxication.
Best reason to close a bug - No excuses required.
Who cares? Can't we just be grateful? Cars do extreme, measurable harm to society and we're all better off without them.
At least they were honest. link:
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3521224
Or maybe it's because driving sucks and more people are realizing there's alternatives. I can afford a car, but I choose to live close to work and spend my time and money on other things.
I think this is really it. There has no question been a very marked migration to urban centers by younger folks. We're all watching eagerly to see if they'll stay in the cities once they reach their family years.
May be a more, er, modern browser may do the trick?
> When it comes to donations, people will take boxes of used clothing.

People including the Pirate Bay?
4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592371
Langref: A cross-language reference
I live in Melbourne, Australia -- where it's pretty easy to live without a car (I don't have a car). The anecdotal reasons I see here are:

- Definitely the preference for (usually inner-city) higher density areas, which already have good, accessible transit. However, the root cause is these areas are cool, rather than (just) specifically public transport.

- Congestion means getting around the inner-city is a real drag in a car. Parking is worse. This makes public transport an easier option. More often than not, people are opting for bikes. I live in the CBD and commute to the inner city. Bike is by far the quickest, public transport next and car a distant third.

- Explosion in the availability and convenience of car sharing.

- Cost is an issue, but a lot of people I speak to just say it's a "hassle" owning a car, rather than specifically the expense. Sustainable and environmental issues crop up too.

- An ongoing and persistent crack-down on drink-driving over the last 2 decades. Young people want to drink & are happy to take public transport to do so.
The point I'm making is that by introducing the iPhone, Apple didn't lose out by cannibalising iPod sales.

Whereas if HBO changes models, it will cannibalise the existing business model at a net loss to the business overall.

So the analogy with Apple's introduction of the iPhone is not relevant.
Netflix to add "family" streaming plan with four simultaneous streams
It's so little code, blows me away.
Building a Roguelike in Javascript - Part 5a: Populating the Cave
A very interesting post. However, it is making some strong claims without really backing them up. It would be nice to see some citations.
Is Stallman stalled? (1994)
Curing your Clown-Like Car Habit
One in 50 American kids has autism: What the latest figures tell us
Recent statistics on autism released by the CDC show an increase from the previous estimate of 1 in 88. Even allowing for more frequent diagnoses, 'a true increase in the number of people with an ASD cannot be ruled out,' the CDC said.
Shows up fine in FF19 here.
Has anybody used Founder Dating, especially not in the Bay Area? It seems like an interesting concept, and something I might be interested in, but not if its network is poor or doesn't serve the rest of the country.
Driving sucks, seriously.

I lived in downtown Atlanta for most of my adult life, and had a daily 23 mile commute. Anywhere I needed to go, except the bar across the street, involved a car trip.

Now I live in the New York suburbs, with a wife and baby, and I drive maybe once a month between Metro North and the subway. My wife doesn't even have a license anymore. It's incredibly liberating. I went to visit my parents last month and got stuck in the never-ending D.C. traffic, and I seriously wanted to kill people. I never realized how much aggression traffic created in me until I didn't have to sit in it any more. I can get as drunk as I want without worrying about driving home (drunk driving is epidemic in car-dependent places like Atlanta). On weekends, I have a happy baby in a stroller instead of a cranky baby in a car seat. Just this weekend we rode the train in from the suburbs, had coffee with my brother on the east side, went shopping near Penn Station, and had drinks and dinner with an old high-school buddy on the west side. At no point did we ever have to take the baby out of her stroller. In D.C., merely going out to lunch is an exercise in traffic and frustration every time the car stops and the baby starts screaming. I realize now that sitting in a car going nowhere is frustrating for everyone, not just the baby--it's just that the baby lacks coping mechanisms to deal with it...
Again, San Francisco lags behind the big trend-setting cities in the US.
protip: don't make the cloth considerably larger :(
This is not so much constructive, but more a comment on my Netflix viewing habits and opinions on three shows which they've created:

I really enjoyed House of Cards. Lilyhammer was pleasantly surprising and I'm looking forward to future seasons. I recently tried watching Hemlock Grove and that was awful. I'm sceptical of Arrested Development: I loved the original, but it's been a long time and I feel like it's time to move on.

Otherwise, I find Netflix to be attractive in cycles. Every now and then, I will discover a bunch of new things (be it movies or TV shows) and binge watch them, and then I feel like there nothing left on Netflix. I keep paying on "down periods" because I like there is a sense of security because I have a high quality / stable streaming service available to me. Then, after a few weeks, I eventually return to Netflix for more binge viewing.
I tried Xdmx a few months ago. It failed pretty badly for me, so I blogged about it ( http://idupree.dreamwidth.org/2151.html ; choice quote: "Xdmx is broken in various different ways for various different people on the Web. Xdmx isn't very well maintained. It doesn't support XInput2 [1], it relies on Xinerama which is somewhat maintained but whose architecture needs improvement [2], it may be incompatible with Composite [3], it just plain segfaults for a lot of people [4], and is generally unloved [5]." — citations in blog post.)
The same story was submitted to /., and the person who wrote the database answered several questions about it there. See http://search.slashdot.org/story/13/04/22/2225240/harvardmit... for more.
You can pay for many years in advance, and you can register for auto-renewal.

Paying to keep your identity is far better than borrowing it from someone who has made no promises to you.
Doh, ok next idea then
Given that you're looking at a number of 1 in 150 kids and we're looking at a drop of of ~35 per 150 miles... I'd say ... prrrrrroooobably not a big part of that number.
This is very true, however it's a problem with your schema/ db types design/ caching. My main argument is using a random data blob is suicidal.
Note I said -refactor-, not -rewrite-. I am not a fan of rewriting apps: developers always underestimate the complexity involved, and then business rules change along the way, and it's just a mess.

Refactoring is when you rework a specific section of code, usually that you're about to work on, or just worked on, to be cleaner. It's a long-term approach, and it's how large applications stay maintainable over the long term. For your specific example, you'd leave your app alone. You wouldn't rewrite it, or touch it, until you find a bug, or need to add a new feature, and then you'd rework anything you need to to add the feature cleanly.

On a related note, Refactoring by Martin Fowler is a great book, and I'd recommend everybody pick up a copy. It's a beautiful hardcover and looks great on a shelf, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-...
Did you cross reference his passport name with the news item? Then the guards will come to take him away.
I'm with you. The language didn't seem fitting, and if I remember correctly, it was a bit incestuous.
I agree with you. That said, to quote the article, "this is true even for young Americans who are financially well off." I have no money problems, but I never got a license and I eat limited meat, with environmental reasons as a major factor in both. At least for me, the two are correlated.
Ask HN: Cross platform build testing?
Does anyone know of a good cross-platform build testing service? Ideally I'd like to be able to upload a source tarball and have tar -xf and make run on different versions of {FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Slackware, AIX, GNU/Hurd, IRIX, Minix, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin} running on {i386, amd64, powerpc, sparc, arm, mips}, using different versions of {gcc, clang/llvm, icc}.

Obviously I'd be satisfied with far less than this, but I can't find anything which is even remotely close. I'm finding lots of "build farms" which individual open source projects have set up for themselves, but nothing available to the open source community at large.

Can anyone help me out here?
What does this even mean? There is no mention of SF at all in the article.
I always feel sleepy between 2:30 and 3:00pm each day. Unfortunately my job (and my coworker's desire to flood my calendar) don't allow for midday naps.

Trust me, I've tried.
Ask HN: How successful is NimbleBits?
With some recent articles about how there is still money in ios and android apps. There are a lot of successful companies with successful apps.

You dont always hear a lot about how successful they are.

Example: Nimblebits. They have a number of titles. Tiny Tower, Sky Burger, Nimble Quest, Pocket Planes, etc

How successful are they? I have to wonder if they were super successful why have they not been bought?
Being sincerely complimentary... or at least addressing points you might want to bring up in a delicate manner... requires a shift in the way people relate to others. It seems to me that taking a handful of generic compliments and sprinkling them among your real message will start to induce people to skim read it as a high noise to signal ratio.
Ever mail client written since ~1990 is capable of downloading your Gmail.
Your domain name isn't your identity, it's your identifier. So is your telephone number, and you pay for that.
I can see that. I just look at the NZ market and see competition working. :)

You're right, $1.20 feels expensive and we all grumble about it. Even so, I did some math and found out it was cheaper to stream video at $1.20/GB than it was to pay for cable tv, so I cut the cable and upped my data bundle. :) It's all relative.

I'd argue that it's only when there's a single monopoly provider does pricing start to stifle innovation. The NZ ISP market is split into wholesale/retail, with an unbundled local loop and a regulated wholesale price. ISPs can purchase DSL connections from the wholesaler, or pay for access to the cabinet to install their own equipment.

Even when NZ was analog they had innovation. The biggest one was the creation of "Free" ISPs, where they lived off of the termination fees that they were able to charge the originating carrier - much the same as free conference calling and international long distance services out of Ohio. That lasted about as long too. :)

NZ has tried unmetered service several times, with really bad results. Throttling, low bandwidth, ugly. High traffic users would shift to the unmetered plan and overwhelm the provisioning ratios. You ended up with a service that only bulk users (low throughput, high volume) would want to use.

However, since unbundling (2006), we've had pretty vibrant retail ISP competition, which goes through ebbs and flows of price competition. The shift to fiber is currently causing lots of competition. :) We've got 3 mobile carriers and 7 major ISPs. The ISPs all offer fixed phone service as well, some on their own equipment, some from the wholesaler.

The carriers have learned that the market isn't going to pay extra for fiber, but it is expecting more service and bundled data. Some are currently grumbling about that, but their competitors are jumping on the treadmill so everyone has to. We're starting to see fiber accounts with 1TB for US$115, which is US$0.12c/GB, a much better price.

I look at my connection and I've got a 100/10 link, and I can pull 30-50mbps of international traffic out of it during busy hour. I can get the full 100mbps to the ISP's servers - the local Steam mirror can be wicked fast. I attribute this to the carrier perceiving me as a source of revenue to be encouraged instead of a cost to be driven out.
I started working primarily at home a few years ago and now work exclusively from home. I can't express how much it means to me to be able to hear the "post-school" info dump that my kids bring home, especially as my wife has started to pursue her nursing career.

I screwed up and put too much time in the office and traveling when my kids were younger. Sure, I got to see the world, but I think it came at too great of a cost. If I could do it again, I'd do it very differently.

And now, as my kids are starting to leave the home, I'm beginning to find time and attention to work on my own things in those extra hours instead of building someone else's coffers. But I will still trade an evening at a MLS game with my son over finishing another user story any day (such as tonight :)!
This whole situation makes me think: is there a static analysis tool for excel? Seems like missing a few rows in an excel calculation could be flagable.
Not the same as every other cloud provider. Not every other cloud provider makes it a point of pride to deliberately make it quite impossible to ever reach any sort of customer service representative.