skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree with the sentiment, but "properly cited" suggests a bit more than a one line comment from a username with barely a handful of posts (generally pertaining to bitcoin and intermediate level networking certifications) on an anonymous website.

Isn't the purpose of citing claims precisely so others can effectively verify or discount their validity?

Citation: a post from an anonymous Internet user who claims to have a graduate degree. Take it for what it is. What's wrong with that?

> I have to disagree. At least a random blog post presents the potential for useful information or a fully articulated opinion. What we here is 4 words and an unsubstantiated appeal to authority.

Conversely, it is far easier to engage in vigorous debate on HN than a random blog. I call it a wash.
For most people the early start only has to be done because we are stuck in bad working structures. Sure some people need to be in at a certain time to collaborate but for many it is just arbitrary and they aren't achieving any more by being in at 8 instead of 10.
>Yes, saying that "thou" is a word that has survived for hundreds of centuries is a bit odd to me.

Well, for linguists "thou" and "you" is the same word.

Not just in that they mean the same, but in the same sense that in evolution X1 is said to be an ancestor species to X2.

"Thou" and "You", is the same word passed through a process of changes in pronunciation and spelling during the years. Linguists keep track of those kinds of things.
Why this comment is down-voted? He tells the truth.

Please look at this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi_al-Harati

He is the commander of the terrorists in Syria. These people are crazy islamists and all they believe is that they'll save Syria by killing people.

Please see the truth. The Al Jazeera analysis linked above is really good.
I don't think you can point at management as the source of the problems. I think the real source is the nature of enterprise itself: a small number of large customers. When each individual customer provides enough revenue to subsidize the development of their own pet feature requests, it's a plausible business decision to accommodate, or at least entertain, those requests. Blaming that on management seems to me to be shooting the messenger.

And the vendors that don't accommodate feature requests, lose business to the vendors that do. Survival of the fittest is a cruel master.
I am probably the only one around here, who was hoping Bill Gross were actually THE Bill Gross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gross
I have read the beta release of the book in its entirety. I do not know the book's authors personally, so I can give an unbiased assessment of the book and answer specific questions about the book.

The Crux of the Matter:

Coming from Node.js/Backbone.js/Express.js, I was pleasantly shocked and surprisingly inspired by how pleasurable and productive it is to develop with Meteor. I am not sure I feel this way about any other web-dev technology besides jQuery. Meteor is so awesome that it makes the book easy to get through and fun to learn from (the book is a web app, a book, and a tutorial in one; it is more than just a book, hence my use of the word “use” instead of “read”).

The book covers most of the big Meteor concepts with example code and it guides you along as you build the Microscope web app—a "real world" application you can deploy and actually use. You will learn so much and get through the book so quickly that you will want to develop your own web app with Meteor in an instant. Be warned: You will be giddy with excitement at how easy it is to get stuff done with Meteor. Using Meteor is analogous to using an iPhone for the first time after using one of those "smartphones" [1] that were available prior to the launch of the iPhone.

The alternative to using this book is to learn Meteor by painstakingly browsing and reading the thorough (but not necessarily logically organized for structured learning) Meteor docs. Forget finding a proper "Getting Started with Meteor" tutorial; they are outdated and lack depth. The book summarizes some of the important Meteor concepts in a logical, succinct, and exemplary manner, with hands-on implementation.

There are some specific Meteor core concepts that the book either doesn't cover or only discusses briefly, like eJSON, Deps, Custom Reactivity, and cursor.observe (similar to Backbone's model.on events). But fortunately, Chris Maher does an excellent job covering these topics in depth on EventedMind.com [2]. Therefore, I highly recommend the book along with frequent visits to EventedMind.com to get a thorough understanding of Meteor.js, so you can confidently start building Meteor apps straightaway.

It is worth noting that the book's format (a web app with comments, videos, frequent updates, and the main Microscope tutorial, in addition to PDF and eBook copies of the book) is groundbreaking and must be celebrated. Every book on any web development topic should be published in this manner. Authors take note.

Background: I am the dude blogging at http://javascriptissexy.com/ and I am a Frontend Developer (JavaScript Guru). Incidentally, I will likely write a detailed blog post about Meteor ("How to Learn Meteor Properly," perhaps) in a few weeks, after I develop my first Meteor app.

[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/sanyo-katana-6600-black/...

[2] http://www.eventedmind.com/
I don't think the Google ngram viewer is an appropriate tool for something that mostly belongs to the spoken language, and even more that of pour illiterate blacks and southerners.
At 1st I thought that this video was just going to be another example of the wadsworth constant‎.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_y...

But then I checked and saw that I was already about 75% of the way through the video.

Finally at about 90% there was 2 screenshots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMrUlNANPkQ&t=1m6s
homonym(synonym(FIFO)) is hiring
Thanks for the warning. I'll take Pocket Casts off my list.
Instead of having the client brute-force everything, run this script server-side once a day/week, assume the list of taken domains stay taken, and just have the client double-check the available names.
The mobile apps work. You put your phone under the covers or mattress so it can't fall. My only issue is that you have set wake up in 8 hours, but insomnia leads me to take several hours to get to sleep, meaning I don't in fact get 8 hours.

It's a shame 42floors didn't offer any real solutions..
Viddy returns $18M of its $30M Series B
Gold is a value store. It's valuable because it can be traded for other stuff. It's the same as money - a stack of $100 bills is useless except to buy other stuff.

The things you listed are valuable because they have direct utilitarian value for drinking, eating, defense, etc. Gold is valuable because it can be traded for things with utilitarian value.
It's highly unlikely that high-profile Bitcoin busts will require meaningful advances in cryptography: they're far, far more likely to be appsec work -- perhaps inspired appsec work -- of the kind routinely conducted by intermediate programmers with weeks of specialized training.

Let me put some round numbers on the cost of various attacks:

Major result in cryptography: $X0 million to $X00 million+ (nation-state adversary)

Subtle bug in the Satoshi client C code: $100,000 (trivially within the reach of organized crime or a single highly motivated attacker)

Bust any Bitcoin-using Ruby on Rails (&tc) application: $20k probably, upper bounded by $100k where you'd produce (as an industrial biproduct) a RCE on any arbitrary Rails site

Compromise the security of a non-trivial number of Bitcoin users via spearphishing / targeted malware / etc: $1,000

If you're a thief who doesn't have access to any computer skills or the above sums of money, have no fear, it is likely that the Bitcoin economy still has multiple options for you to get in on the ground floor of exciting new ways to steal things.

[P.S. I'm routinely pessimistic about Bitcoins for a lot of reasons, but the software security angle keeps coming back to me because it's so easy to explain. If you think I'm overly pessimistic, consider the track record on HN of "people who know what the threat environment banks operate in looks like" versus "Bitcoin advocates" has been in predicting observable future outcomes of e.g. Bitcoin bucket shops in advance.]
The past month I've been up at 6am, rather than ~9am. As an experiment rather than for any good reason.

What you say about light and stimulation sounds convincing, but for me it was about habit. I was in the habit of ignoring my alarm. I was in the habit of getting up when I needed to, and no earlier.

To start off with, I used an alarm app that wouldn't deactivate until my phone touched my credit card, left in the shower. 'Sleep as a Droid', Strong recommend.
Google voice is the main reason why I refuse to use an iPhone even though I am a big fan of Apple and all my other products are Apple. I hate having a number that ties me to a phone company, Google Voice made it possible for me to have a number that is independent from the phone companies. Since it integrates well with Android I would not even consider switching to iPhone. If they kill Google Voice, I will be extremely disappointed and I might as well switch to iPhone. Without Google Voice, there is no killer Android feature to keep me there.
You talk about go PC first, but not about how better was this in terms of $$$ or anything else...
Should everybody learn to code? A media mashup of opinions
All I'm stating is that the double dime speed limit was enforced as a measure to reduce fuel consumption. Read this: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-signs-natio...
Here is one explanation, but perhaps not the one you were looking for: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131430755/a-chemis...
An Open Letter to the Harvard Community
John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell
Nab isn't necessarily sneaky, it could just imply haste, as in they got the investor attention ahead of other competitors.
Maybe subcutaneous micro-sd card, with some sort of medical-grade coating? It would be a serious bitch to get out (any doctor or veterinarian could probably help you there) but once you did you wouldn't have any trouble reading it.
But what is wrong with going the SLR route? The point of those systems are the modularity. What if you want, in future, to expand your lens setup? Or keep your lenses and upgrade your body? Or you want a body without an AA filter? Or infrared filter? Or that shoots great video?

The argument is flawed.
Worth it.

Edit: This one too.
Touché--I mistook your use of the term "illegal" to mean "criminal" but obviously overlooked the civil implications.
> Ironically, App Store distribution is becoming nearly as difficult and cost prohibitive as pre-internet game retailing.

The only reason that this is true is that game development is essentially a game of madlibs. As soon as I say "rail shooter" or "turn-based strategy" you instantly know how to play, because it is exactly the same as the last four games of that type you played with different artwork.

I don't play a lot of games these days, but the last game I played that was mildly innovative was Portal. Big-box success, right? No. It was a student design project that had actual dead-tree mainstream press coverage[1] before it got bought by Valve.

Imagine for a moment if all the spreadsheet software that was written were Excel clones with slightly different menus. Success would all come down to the marketing lottery, no? But take a look at the world that we actually live in [2] [3] [4] [5]. It is easy to stand out if you are doing something legitimately different than the other entrants in the space.

And there are plenty of people making innovative games. I've compiled this list in five minutes: LiquidSketch, Fez, Amnesia, Monaco, Gish, Darwinia... I don't see these guys worried about standing out in the App Store.

I played the game in TFA and it is literally 1 drag and tap per game. During the two games I played, I got four different upsells and confused the ads with the user interface at least twice. If there is any innovation in this title, it revolves around delivering the least amount of game per ad/upsell than anything I have ever played before.

[1] http://www.jeepbarnett.com/gallery2/v/scrapbook/narbaculardr...

[2] http://getpermanent.com

[3] http://grid.binarythumb.com

[4] http://www.lumina.com/uploads/technology/Whats%20wrong%20wit...

[5] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glimpse/id423562777?mt=8
Those two aren't original terms, they're merely more formal terms. (e.g. mother and father rather than ma and pa).

Cantonese sounds more similar to Classical Chinese than Mandarin does.

According to Cantonese wikipedia for "ba"[1] and "ma"[2], in ancient times the word "父" sounds close to the modern day cantonese "爸" (ba) and likewise for "母" and "媽" (ma).

[1] http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿爸

[2] https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/阿媽

I doubt it can be explained away as merely Western influence. Perhaps it's English that received some Chinese influence? ;) I heard the word "kowtow" originated from China, too.
A proof of concept is something that shows the product is viable. That the solution you're attempting is tractable. An MVP is the minimal product where people will pay you for your solution.
Great post. I definitely see this as a wake up call to people who think the cloud is the solution to everything. Speed for the price of control over your data....
The Risk Pool (2006)
> I hate having a number that ties me to a phone company

Can't you just keep your number when changing phone companies?
Gold is a good high value density financial medium. Regardless of the objective value, it always has been and always will be in demand. It's best for carrying value from one side of an economic crisis to the other, and taking advantage of some good deals that crop up in the meantime. If anything the high value density makes it hard for anything but large transactions.

Guns? Well, ammo really. Guns are plentiful in the USA and are extremely durable. Ammo is more suitable to currency type usage, being handy during the crisis, comes in small units comparable to coins, and the value of each is around a dollar making it convenient for smaller commonplace transactions.
Been there.

Android App Store's zero delay publishing is really attractive.
i can't reply directly to your post, but if you were to try guessing, well, there are ~ 52^30 possibilities.
this is a big number :)
our sun will be long dead before you can derive the private key
It doesn't work at all in my depressingly inadequate onboard Intel, although the Windows version runs (with low resolution graphics) relatively well.
I find the "See the packages" button to be confusing. I clicked on it just to see what would happen. As a newcomer to the page, I had no idea that you'd be selling the book in "packages" and assumed that "packages" was referring to software packages (i.e. libraries, etc.). My first reaction was literally "how do I get the book?" or "how do I find out more about the book?".
I had the option of iron when replacing my lost ring through the Toronto chapter a few years ago. Original from Waterloo in 2002 was steel.
No, they're deployed as regular speed cameras too. The M25 cameras are linked to a variable speed limit system to dynamically manage traffic flow; not sure if that fits in your definition of temporary (the cameras are permanent but the threshold speed changes) but there are also many instances of fixed speed cameras both on the trunk road network (eg the A14 near Cambridge) and even in villages (eg in Nottinghamshire)
I had pretty much identical problems to yours. I've been using melatonin that way for about 4 or 5 years now, and haven't noticed any real side effects.

* It does make me very thirsty a little bit after taking it; now I just make sure to drink plenty of water along with it. (I normally take pills without water, so I probably noticed this more than most people.)

* I think subjectively I end up sleeping for longer if I don't actually need to get up. But it doesn't prevent me from waking up if it's something important (like work).

I do mostly follow the suggestion to go a week without it every few months.

The only change in its behavior I've noticed is that it no longer gives me the vivid dreams it did for the first couple months.
AngularJS + DreamFactory tutorial screencast
Corbett's talks on ecosystem thinking are great too- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keI1D31bXvQ. It looks like a full compilation of his videos can be found at http://pinterest.com/corbett3000/videos-of-peter-corbett/.

Curious how well known he is outside of Washington DC. Any insight?
It is especially great if you are moving around internationally. You don't have to keep track of some old stand-by contract or recharge a prepaid calling card but just can keep your number. I really hope they don't kill that thing.
LinkedIn add Channels and updates LinkedIn Today
Musician Jack Conte and his crowdfunding idea
Musician Jack Conte (I just head about him through /r/listen to this) has a new take on crowdfunding. Basically, you support content creators by donating a small amount when they make something new. Watch the video for a full rundown. I love this idea.
You might also want to take a look at Pyramid. There's pros and cons for each.
Yes but that requires extra work. With google voice all I need is get a sim card, and I am done, I don't even know or care to know what number is associated with that sim card, my number is my google voice. Also if someone is texting me and I'm in front of a computer I can reply from the chrome extension. Plus I can send anonymous callers to spam. I would hate to go back to the old style phone number!
3rd rate teachers and education system in India - what do you expect.
Would you still get fired if you honored your commitments? What makes you think you'd be fired at all?

Seems to me like your situation isn't applicable to everyone. I, for one, fit the OP's description to a tee, and I'm pretty sure there are a handful of people I work with who assume I'm lazy etc. In practice it doesn't end up mattering because I still ship and honor my commitments, and I haven't been fired.

I only feel guilty for "oversleeping" if I promised to be somewhere in the morning and I break that promise. Otherwise it's not oversleeping, it's just sleeping.
The philosophy behind this looks similar to a library created by a co-worker of mine that we use extensively internally:

https://github.com/bruth/restlib2
The future of creative work online - Welcome to the new Scoutzie (YC S12)
Tech oriented indeed. You know, all of the Open source IRC channels on Freenode are a good start.

IRC is nothing like you've described, at least to me.
Guns, Cigarettes, and Everclear should all be fairly value dense in that scenario. Gold should do well too - the value that people assign to it due to life-long indoctrination plus its immutability as a valuable substance through history should help it do much better in those scenarios than fiat currencies whose backers have obviously disintegrated.

Food, water, and fuel would obviously be valuable too, but they're harder to carry a lot of.
For those of you who think I was wrong to suggest that jellicle's statement was uncomfortably racist: we might have to agree to disagree, here.

The vast majority of street food is run by immigrants, and it's a perfect entry point for them to get into the local economy they have chosen to make their home in.

People who were born here are smart to use the food truck as a way to test a concept before they try it in a restaurant format. Perhaps we'll see that happening more and more. There's certainly all cultures represented in Portland.

Meanwhile, we're all immigrants here unless you come from native background. I don't think the original commenter is a racist person, but his comment comparing food trucks to parasites is uncomfortable at best and shameful at worst.

Here's a test: go ask 100 food truck operators if they think some guy on a tech forum calling food trucks "parasites" is racist, and get back to us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc
Naive review of the interactive infographic

thou

Altaic, Dravidian, Indo-European and Uralic sound similar enough

I can see how Chukchi-Kamchatkan and Kartvelian might end up where they are

And then we end up with Inuit-Yupik which sounds so dissimilar, the only thing I hear in common with the others is that it was apparently made by a human

to give

okay, I can kinda see maybe where Altaic, Inuit-Yupik and Uralic ended up where they are, but they're definitely different sounds

Dravidian and Indo-European are a bit more similar, but don't sound like they have anything in common with the others at all

hand
okay, these are sorta similar, there's a clear m-vowel-n element in most of them but Indo-European gets all "weird"

bark

Altaic and Uralic may as well be slight accents

Inuit-Yupik diverges quite a bit

and Indo-European even more.

If I squint I can kind of see some similarity with a k-vowel then some other stuff so...okay

to spit
these are the most similar to my ear, it probably doesn't hurt hat these appear to be onomatopoeia as well. Indo-European just seems to have reversed the bits somewhere along the way. If you squint "spit" in English would fit right in with these.

I always come away from these kinds of linguistic analyses scratching my head. Especially once you hear the words in the different languages.
I think that a lot has to do with the writers and readers of those articles having inherent biases that cause them to associate small and pretty with good solutions.

I happen to fall into that camp and much prefer nicely designed Saas products to legacy bloatware but I have been astonished to see time and time again that other people I work with are not of like mind.

I once tried to convert my team to Asana because I love it for personal projects and I naturally expected them to compare it to our current methods and be blown away. I was surprised when it got nothing more than a "meh" reaction and within days it was forgotten. The team actually preferred SharePoint.

This also by the way is a case in point of why it is important to talk to customers before building. Your assumptions about what is best are not necessarily accurate. Small software sells well to small businesses and in a lot of cases small teams, but company-wide (which I think is what we're talking about here) takes a whole different level of sales and influence.
"Stick that puppy in aperture priority, open it up to 1.8 and crank the ISO"

And then what? I'm not a camera expert so I'm not sure what this means. I know how to do those things or can find it but not what it accomplishes.
Ask HN: Are you an iOS developer in the Hamburg area?
Hi,

I am looking for an iOS developer in the area of Hamburg (Germany) who would help me create a tower defense game for iPad.

This would be paid freelance work. The degree of entrepreneurial involvement would solely depend on your preferences. The pay would be batchwise (after reaching defined milestones) to minimise risk for me and you.

I am a strategy consultant with a soft spot for coding in my leisure time.

Let me know if you're interested (either via comments or PM). Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sorry, I don't understand your reasoning. What is the difference of running a bitcoin app to, say, a forex site in terms of security? and what do you mean with major result in cryptography? Other cryptographic protocols can be broken too. What makes bitcoin special?
If your employer is cool with starting at 10 rather than 8, and you prefer 10, that sounds great.
I have seen many that just run off propane and keep their uncooked food on ice during the day. Running off an actual generator is something I have only begun seeing recently.