skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very much doubt that only 5% of poor children don't get enough to eat. citation?
Roger that, thank you for the response, and best of luck in this project. Getting both younger and underrepresented people familiar with computers/coding, even if they do not go on to be developers, is important (Alan Kay says we don't teach kids math/science/music just so that they can all become mathematician/scientists/musicians).
I wonder whether this analysis supports the assertion that these were photoshopped?

http://kotaku.com/blame-photoshop-for-koreas-beauty-queen-cl...
If you insist, because I really want the months of debugging work we've spent on hibernate to pay dividends, I really really want the technical debt we've accumulated capitulating to the abstractions limitations in our design to be paid, and I really really really want to believe that we haven't wasted our time on an silver bullet that fits only trivial cases. I want to believe that serialization, caching, and constraint enforcement are far bigger nightmares than the one I'm going through.

I just don't think that will happen.
Wow, thanks for the idea! Didn't think of it as Netflix is not available in my country.
Chrome only? No thanks. I'm not supporting the webkit monoculture.
Review the copy on your blog page explaining the project. You have a sentence with "use have" in it, and one sentence begins "Bring," where I think you meant "Bing." =)
High on emotions. Low on facts and ideas.
You are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Even if he had $0 in investment gains he would of been able to do this at 33-35 instead of 30.
Obesity is a direct product of gluttony (i.e. eating more than you need). If the poor were really financially constrained, they would eat a smaller quantity of high caloric density foods.

(There is one exception to this - tall muscular people. This is a known problem with BMI.)
This is so horribly wrong.

Firstly, when clang warns you of an error, it tells you the switch it uses to highlight that error, the disabling flag is then "-Wno-$switch" (or simply use a clang pragma to disable the warning: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7017281/performselector-m...)

Secondly, the errors reported by -Wall and -Wextra are likely to be program bugs / bugs further down the line.

Thirdly: I upgraded my compiler on my CI system, I'd damn well want to know about new errors!
I don't write much. If you have concrete feedback, I'd appreciate the commentary!
Teaching &gt; Spending
It was definitely lol'd at but was the only film I can remember that showed how overzealous and paranoid the feds were cracking down on kids just looking for information.

A friend of mine was arrested then for owning the cellular hackers bible which was considered forbidden knowledge. Crazy how far we've come now, you now longer have to go through an elaborate scam to social engineer a telecom employee just to get some basic information on how a POTS works.
Cool project! Love it!
I used to think this way, to a certain extent. These thoughts go away once you realize why other variables besides skill have strong effects on the success equation. Most are related to emotional intelligence: your ability to convince others, to make them feel comfortable following your lead. Sadly what gets you ahead the most are the soft skills many of HN users lack (stereotypically at least). Remember not everyone has the same perspective: most of your interactions occur with a computer - a machine without emotions. People are different, they have kids, problems, and most importantly, feelings.

I agree, these things are important only because people aren't rational, most times I just call them stupid. There's nothing you can do to change that. You can only learn how to play the game and make sure you promote meritocratic ideals through your work and any initiative under your responsibility. Create a company and engrain these ideals in its culture. Try to be objective. Teach others how to do this.

The most important actionable I think is this: polish your managerial skills. Learn how to deal with people and you will become orders of magnitude more resourceful. Managing people allows you to reap the benefits of becoming specialised in several fields without having to spend the time needed to benefit from such diverse proficiency. Im not saying you dont need a core competence, my claim is that this is the only way to benefit from having 'several' core competencies without acquiring them.
New Web Domain Names: Should You Pass?
And http://lorempixel.com/
"I read posts about people who completely abandon their projects the moment they fail to get into YC or [name incubator]. As if these fellas are legitimate gate holders."

Shows you the brainwashing going on in the community just like any community actually. [1] But they are gate holders for that dream. Look people try to get into good colleges also. But they don't abandon going to college if they don't get accepted to "A" schools.

"I would posit that my experience is light-years ahead of people who are my age."

Anecdotally, I agree after reading your post.

[1] Wedding singers, wedding photographers probably feel the same way. Entertainment and creative pyramid simply doesn't give much respect to people who don't volunteer for suicide missions. Taking the bullet is viewed as being honorable, not stupid.
Many thanks for your kind words! I'm afraid it's too clean as it's almost vanilla Bootstrap. :)
I find these interesting:

#archlinux
#rvm
#wordpress
#jquery
#rubyonrails
#ruby

Lastly,
don't venture in #cakephp. you will get trolled or be called a n00b for not knowing some silly cake specific stuff.
It's the same citation I added to my original post. You'd know this if you bothered to read the post you just responded to.

http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html
Thanks for the additional links. Also great stuff, I'd love to see an update in the Make article for a broader range of these boards.
Inspecting the shaders of Rage
It's a good thing Chrome is moving to Blink, then.

On a more serious note, I don't think the fact that it's webkit has anything to do with his decision to go Chrome-only. Might be some new HTML5 spec Chrome implemented first.
Osaka Station fountain displays time, art in water
I would vote for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512. The SHA512 part makes it a little harder to do in GPU as key lengths are 64-bit vs 32-bit for sha256.

Pbkdf2 has been recommended by NIST, while the main crypto algorithm for bcrypt hasn't seen as much attention (though it has been around for a while and is probably safe).

Edit: Though, it looks like PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 is not FIPS compliant.
Start Ugly Things
"then giving away equity (and control!) should be an absolute last resort"

You are focusing on the down side and not the upside of taking money.

As well as the upside to having to not give up any control or equity vs. the downside to trying to do it without that money. And totally underestimating what you can do with a shit load of money vs. what you can't do.
Randomly making a small test case out of a big one
I actually listen to music far more often than anyone I know and your friend's explanation gels with my experience. For me, it ranges from that tunnel-vision-inducing type background noise to distracting to active listening (ex: analyzing a technically proficient musician).
Cool, I've found the same when managing my community. There are certain bugs or features I say might not get addressed because we're rebuilding the site and prioritizing that over constant changes to the current site -- people are always appreciative with good communication. If a company makes a mistake, winning them over with customer service often creates an even stronger user/customer.
It feels like this is the quintessential "feature, not product" startup. The goal of these should be either:

A. to acquire a huge customer base and then pivot into satisfying them with a larger "suite" offering which includes your original service as a feature,

or B. to be acquired by another company with a huge customer base... and then integrate your feature into their suite. :)

I could see, for example, Github buying this (and other things like it) and launching a featureful, language-agnostic online IDE that compiles against Travis-CI.
Remote control your iOS app
> Obesity is a direct product of gluttony

It's also a product of low exercise (common if you're scraping by with two minimum-wage jobs), depression (common when you're poor), eating (cheap) junk food instead of fruits and vegetables, etc.
Unfortunately this is where most companies kernel pushes end (just the tarball w/ nothing else).
It's really not that difficult. I live on basically the same budget (also a student in Germany), as do many others I know. I have a washing mashine which is over ten years old, but still works fine. Got it from somebody who bought a new one for free. My tv is really old, I got it from a friend who got it some years before that from their grandmother.
About once a year I buy a new jeans and 1-2 tshirts.
My Broca's and Wernicke's areas often go on and on about how good a job they would do with sudo privileges. And they say their arguments are well formed.
Exactly. I never said banks.
Actually I meant have it generate a meme image from the text you provided. Like all the other meme generators out there, but much more simple.
From Degrading to De-Grading
Your lexer emits buffer positions which you then put into error/diagnostic messages. Afaict, this tool makes it easier to visualize cursor positions in buffers. Personally, I'm not sure about its approach but it's not an unreasonable goal.
Startup Failure Insight: Industry Projections Until 2017 [Infographic]
the new beaglebone(esp. the new one) has two more advantages over the raspberry pi which haven't been mentioned:

1.It can run single precision floating point at 16-24 times faster than the raspberry pi.

2.It has two fast(200MHZ) microcontrollers inside called PRU. Those are great when you want to have stuff running fast , with precise timing. They only work in assembler though.

I think a compiler for them would be useful for the maker crowd.
Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
That didn't seem to work. Have you tried throwing a temper tantrum?
How are you dealing with the copyright of the images?
Oui, ceci n'est pas un chat:

http://mebe.co/Cat.jpg?100
Previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099861

I would be interested in knowing the downsides of using Elixir and its comparison with Go-lang.
Awesome...thanks. Went ahead and bought a copy in anticipation of the fix ;-)
Note that I said "lifestyle business", not "startup." I can't think of anything outweighing the downside of losing the ability to have my business as an extension of my own life, perfectly meshing into my own desires. If I had fuck-you money[1], all I'd do with it is... start this business.

I hope to still be running it in 40 years--and imagining someone having the power to force me to do something I don't want to do with my own company, even after I've put in 40 years of effort into it... well. This is why I would recommend just taking on loans/debt first: when your company grows, you'll pay off debts (and when your company fails bankruptcy/liquidation will still make them go away), but equity is a loan that gets harder and harder to pay out the bigger your company gets.

Of course, this is all assuming you're taking investment from someone whose utility function doesn't match your own (usually in that you care more about the business, and they care more about the money.) I would gladly put in with some people--but those are cofounders, not investors.

---

[1] But really, I don't think I need fuck-you money--I've planned the business in stages (pre-set pivots), where each stage targets a market of appropriate size and entrenchment to fund the next stage (tackle B2B when small, B2C when huge, basically.) In effect, I'm just planning to be my own investor. :)
Good: The top left logo on your blog links to your website.

Bad: The first and last mention of Debuggex in the body text should be a link to your product.
Are tech companies that store a fair amount of personally identifying information on millions of people ever subject to security audits? Not saying it would help, but it seems like as attacks get more prevalent and old security practices become obsolete that users might be able sue companies for negligence by not using optimal data encryption. Of course the tech company would counter sue for stupid passwords. And even if they want to restrict users from dictionary passwords with symbol replacements, hey, it's patented.
I commented on the OP's article, but do this for the pk:

create_table(:users, id: :uuid) do |t|
t.string 'name'
end

And to make sure the extension is enabled, (in your migrations) do:

enable_extension 'uuid-ossp'

For now, make sure to use SQL schema dumping. I don't think Ruby schema files will work (as I haven't written a test for it yet).

EDIT: I forgot to mention, you can enable hstore by using "enable_extension('hstore')"
Prototypes... that blurs the subject a bit don't you think?
Interested to read about the better algorithms if you have some good resources.
I've always disliked the perception that poor people necessarily eat poorly. Rice, wheat, barley, oats, beans, and root vegetables are grown in abundance in developed countries and so are inexpensive; they do not spoil quickly; and are very healthy. Most vegetables will keep for weeks in a refrigerator and months in a freezer. Sardines (fresh) and eggs provide much better protein than meat.

I think the cost of "healthy food" is mostly rooted in ignorance and a taste for simple sugars:

"For a Brit, there can be no greater comfort food than a custard cream."

There's your problem.
Sorry about that. This is just an index of links to IMDB pages. Link to Pulp Fiction page was mentioned 2 times but both times more than 1 year ago. I do not show such entries to make TOP items a little bit more varied and current.
Interestingly, it seems like a lot of this is essentially a generalization of the advantages of B2B.
JPQL: The Basics of the Java Persistence Query Language
Care to elaborate on that? I'm a little confused on the wording.
I wonder why password tables are readable at all. An application only needs to call a stored procedure that compares the computed hash value against the stored. This stored procedure needs the rights to read the data. No application, no administrator should to be able to read that data.
I dunno.. if I were using a urinal and someone grabbed the flipped-up glasses on my head, I would be in no position to either chase them or even get a description of their face.
So... like even in the of-course-it-is-what-are-you-completely-naive photoshopped press photos, they don't really look that similar?
You are mistaking about filtering an annotation.

> Model.objects.annotate(Count('foos')).filter(foos__lt=10)

The only reason this doesn't work is because the property annotate creates isn't called `foos` by default. You just need to do this:

Model.objects.annotate(foos=Count('foos')).filter(foos__lt=10)

and Django now knows to add a `HAVING COUNT(foos) < 10` clause.
AFAIK the glasses crippleware (as in TiVo), so it doesn't realy matter if free or not.
LoL is a PC game, thus the community is more mature. But I don't think that's the reason the Tribunal is working.

If you take a look at it, it's really well made. It uses gamification, it rewards you with riot points (that you usually have to spend real coins to get!) and is apart from the game.
By that I mean that when you're in the Tribunal, it has nothing to do with the game. It's like another game where the goal is to be wise and good.

Also many players have to decide whether or not the player is getting a ban. And as someone else said here, you rarely see players complaining when they don't deserve it.

> I personally am not a huge fan of the player community being in charge of this stuff.

It's either that or robots that would do it. The playerbase is way too big to pay people to do this job.
Low exercise doesn't cause obesity. Low exercise combined with high caloric intake does. I.e., eating more than you need.

I successfully maintain a healthy bodyweight through periods of low exercise (typically resulting from injury). Right now I put in the effort to eat 4500 (reasonably clean) cals/day. When I'm unable to train, I cut it to 3000.

People suffering depression may choose gluttony at a rate higher than others, but that doesn't mean depression causes obesity. Gluttony does.

If a person were truly financially constrained, they couldn't engage in gluttony if they wanted to.
It's pretty melodramatic to tell someone that their posts are "destroying HN", not to mention rude. Why not just politely cite your evidence instead of tearing someone down?
A similar service (actually a bit smarter) http://speakthroughimages.herokuapp.com/generate.jsp?query=[ your keyword]

(without the square brackets)
This was somewhat intentional. I had a larger plug at the beginning initially. I decided it did not seem genuine enough, and would take away from the content.
Interesting perspective. And regarding debuggex.com itself... Awesome. I'll be using it in the future. Nice work.
Everyone should be salting and hashing correctly - it's trivially easy to implement and the cost is trivial. However, once the user database is stolen in its entirety, there are other factors that become as important:

- Did the user use a common passwords? If they did, then it will quick to brute-force.

- Did the user reuse the same credentials on other sites? If they did then the value of recovering the password becomes worth plowing through well-salted scrypt.

The real problem is that far too many people use the same credentials for LivingSocial and their Gmail.
US BRAIN DEAD,99%
Google Glass: How it Feels (video)
Is it really that bad to demonstrate a feature that's only available in one browser?
In defense of wonk journalism — Future of News
I'm in the same boat - building something I really want to build and use myself, not really caring much about product-market fit or any of that other stuff.
Interesting. I have a lot of respect for Bruce Eckel, and it's a well considered article.

I'm a pretty avid mac user, and OSX has treated me well since I switched, but I fully support using the best tool for the job - and it seems that is windows, in his case.
Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter, Obvious and now Jelly. I don't consider Biz Stone to be a founder of Medium as it operates independently of Obvious.

Obvious have invested/incubated Medium, Branch, Jelly, Lift, Beyond Meat, Good Fit and Neighborland. (There may be more but I'm pretty sure that's all of them)

Medium, Branch and Jelly are what the Obvious founders are now focusing on (although they sit on some of those other startups boards):

Ev - Medium, Branch - Jason and Jelly - Biz
> Having “fn,” “control,” “alt,” “option,” “command,” and whatever the last one is, I call it “flower” but I think in the past it might have been open-apple

How did this fellow spend six years using a Mac without ever realizing that "command" is that flower-looking thing? And, of course, "alt" and "option" are the same thing.

Sounds like he never really adjusted to the Mac and remained a Windows user at heart, and is now going back to what he knows. Nothing wrong with that! And he presents it as "what I had trouble with", not "what's wrong with the Mac", which is commendable.
Google+ has a very specific niche at the moment: Groups of specialized hobbyists who want a platform that's a hybrid between a microblog service and a message board. I know that it's currently the center of the indie tabletop RPG world, for instance, and I think the same is true of at least some other similar communities.

I don't think it'll ever replace Facebook, but it could certainly make phpBB obsolete.
Hope someone can clarify, I'm new at this.

Does this mean that you can take this kernel source, modify it and/or add extensions, and then deploy it on your google glass?
Erlang syntax takes about a day to get accustomed to. It's not that bad.
The idea is that it accounts for variations in things like string length for labels, image sizes and proportions -- things not always known at compile time.

But, for layouts where that's not the case, a compile time constraint builder would indeed be nice.
Good points, but I can't help but feel like these issues should be considered and addressed during the early development of a service.

You're right, you can get into some serious trouble putting the cart before the horse. But, what gets me in this particular instance, is that 42floors is a service that's been on the market for well over a year. Their core competency, hell, core business, is search, and they still haven't implemented any form of caching.

I can't shake the feeling that caching search results, especially in this scenario, should have been a huge priority.

It seems like too many developers hear the mantra of avoiding "premature optimization" and interpret it as "unnecessary optimization."

Then they end up over a year into their business without having addressed something that should already be an integral part of their architecture.
New app reveals painting's past with a swipe
Yes, in the end the VC with the winner is going to win, but that's beside the point even if there is a single winner in the world (which in reality is obviously not true, there are not dozens but hundreds of huge ROI winners). The point is that you don't know the winner beforehand. A VC who is getting 2*x% equity for $y is expected to perform twice as good as one that is getting x% for $y. The arguments that are being made here are incredibly vague. I'd love to see an argument based on solid logic why valuation doesn't matter much. I'm sure PG is right, but I'd like to understand why.
Have you seen this?

https://github.com/laktek/extract-values
It's fairly self-evident that some places are cheaper to travel (SE Asia, South America) than others (Western Europe, Japan).

Most 20-something backpackers choose to travel to places like SE Asia precisely because it is cheaper.

It's nice to be able to do a mix of both though, there are definitely interesting and worthwhile places to visit that are also unfortunately more expensive (Japan comes to mind!).