skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually having both is a pretty nice. The reason is that it can be intimidating to someone in getting started. The notion of IDE via the web server is also useful for keeping the required software down on a machine you may not control. I was helping kids learn programming at a high school but the school would not give us permission to install putty[1] on the machines, using a browser based dev kit works well in this case.

Once you get someone past the basics and into the 'advanced' mode setting them up with ssh, vim, and screen is a great way to be productive on a linux machine.

[1] Putty in this case being the terminal emulator for PC's which can also talk to serial ports.
Good stuff. I like telescope. Largely the reason we rolled our own is for us to easily integrate it with our auth. We use a bunch of internal tools, and having them integrated with our Treehouse auth is really nice. Not having a separate user database for each tool is great for getting people to use it, and managing new employees and the employees who leave the company.

Telescope was my favorite of the choices I saw. Great work.
According to the story the person literally cleared the market out and then re-listed it at a new price.

Standard deviation won't help you when there is no deviation at all.
Perhaps we are being shielded.

Perhaps aliens don't indiscriminately broadcast signals.

Perhaps they do but they are too weak to penetrate the noise by the time they get to us.

Perhaps they are encoded to match background radiation to all but those with the right cipher.

Perhaps there is some sort of sub-space that messages can be transmitted on that we have yet to discover.
I hate to say it, but remember the giant outrage and making fun of Microsoft everyone did over Surface Tablets with over half their HD taken up by the OS? Less than a year later now it's quite noticeable in Android space... :/ Either we need to really rip into Samsung or maybe we need to be less hard on MS on this particular topic...
Google's Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB per SECOND.
> We have a few 'well-regulated' militias in the United States. The Coast Guard, the Army Reserves,

When I was growing up, I understood the Coast Guard to be one of the 4 branches of service.

> Army Reserves,

I would allow that the reserves and guards (state and national) would fit a meaningful definition of "well regulated militia."

> and the rest of us.

10 USC chapter 13 defines the militia as, basically, all able-bodied men aged 17-45

Uh, yeah. This makes as much sense as defining all left handed people between the ages of 22 and 27 1/2 as "pinch-hitters." A definition doesn't make it so. I could see how this might be seen as a hot-button for politics, but the 2nd amendment says that arms are necessary for a militia, not that militias are necessary for ownership of arms, though I would say that this is true from a practical perspective, as opposed to a rights context.

Ever since Sandy Hook, I've been watching videos and reading articles from all sides of this issue. One thing I've taken away from some pro-gun videos is that there are a lot of dangerously untrained and ignorant gun owners out there. Yes, you read that correctly: from watching pro-gun videos. You can find lots of references to kooky things people say at gun shops and dangerous things people do at such shops and gun ranges. I say again: what we have in the US overall is a consumerist culture. To be fair, there are organizations that do a proper job of creating a culture of respect and knowledge for such weapons, but it seems to me that we don't have enough of this.

Another thing I've discovered is that lots of gun legislation is just as wacky and ill conceived as legislation covering reverse engineering, hacking, and the internet. (SOPA, CISPA, DMCA...) In both cases it's formulated by politicians who don't properly know the subject matter as a response to a demagogic hot-button issue, or at the behest of corporate interests.

To me, "gun_owners = bad" is just as much of a problem as "democrats = socialists".
So you work for $3/hr as a cleaner, but while at the shop where you clean you pick up other skills. I.e. helping guys doing other jobs when it gets crazy busy. You noticed how at work everybody usually wants everybody's help. Once you're done cleaning Mrs. A will want you to help her with putting merchandise on the shelves (and she will have to tell you how to do it), Mr. Z will ask you for help with some mechnical stuff he's doing, etc, etc. After 6 months you're worth more than $3/hr because now you have real world experience from a job. You move on to putting merchandise on the shelves, and this can be 5usd/hr. So on, so on. The worst thing that could happen to young guy out of school with basic education would be not to be allowed to work at all. And that's unfortunately what the minimal wage put through by the Unions does to them. Again the unemployment rate among young unskilled workers is 30-40% in the EU on average! You say that's better than letting them find actual job and work even for $3/hr ? Remember that's temporary, nobody sane stays at McDonald's at the cash register all their life. You learn new skills and move on.
I'm not sure why the comments are so negative. There are definitely huge problems that can crop up when using animated icons. I don't think the author is advocating that anyone animate every icon on their site like they did on this example landing page.

That being said, the problem I have with this is that a lot of the animations aren't very good. For example the "user" icon animates by the user's head barely moving. That doesn't mean anything. It's just pure distraction. It's animating for the sake of animating, not for the sake of explaining.
Let's not forget that if everyone started their own business, we wouldn't have anybody to staff the large companies that create the things we actually use day-to-day.

Just take a moment to consider. I am sure startups are mind-bogglingly amazing, but did a startup make your car? Your computer? Did a startup pave the roads you drive on?

Startups are good. Big companies are good. We need both.
Why do people have to adjust to the economy?

Shouldn't it be the other way around in an ideal world?

Why has the economy been created in the first place? As an end in itself? Or was it to make life easier for everybody?

In my opinion, if the system fails to enable a fullfilled life for the majority of the people, the system needs to be changed.

It's easy to say people should not acquire worthless Film & TV degrees, when you yourself have a C.S. degree, only because computers have been your passion since the age of 8.

I would not want to spend the majority of my precious time on earth with something I do not like to do. And of course I think other people shouldn't either.
Huh? As you note, these are not constant gains, but per worker. So they will just scale with added demand.
They can be a lot of fun. Great for lucid dreaming experiences as well. And don't worry, the chance of you transforming into something else[1] is vanishingly small.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/
Certainly, that experiment didn't last more than a tenth of a second. Lighting a 3L bottle produces about 20kJ if my calculation is correct, so if you bury the bottle in sand or other loose soil I can see how it can move that, but well then most of the hole is because you dug it. If you have a bottle full you can safely light that with the cap off while holding the bottle in your hand, though I wouldn't advise doing the same with the cap on (you certainly won't lose your hand or anything, but it may be painful).

For the people wondering, here is a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmcaC0vxaSo
I am still toting around a Nexus One, and finally going to get a new phone. I've been looking at both the HTC One and the Samsung S4.

The S4 has the huge advantages of having an SDcard slot (up to 64GB) and a replaceable battery. The HTC One has neither. I wonder how much of the internal flash on the HTC One is available.

The argument of the 16GB model not having a lot of internal flash space is pretty weak when you can get a 32GB SDcard for $20 (or less).

The HCT One does feel kind of nice with its weight and aluminum body, but I'm not sure it would do any better than the S4 in a drop test.

Speaking of drop tests, I've replaced the digitize on my Nexus One twice now, because I like to drop it. The S4 is difficult to replace the front glass, but it is not impossible. I do not know how the HTC One fairs in repairability.

On the CPU side, the S4 is faster, but they are the same CPU in both units as far as I know.

The HTC has a better screen color profile, and the camera does much better low-light/night shots. I have heard the the S4 camera does not do well in low-light conditions, which is really shameful.

HTC has a deal going on right now where they will give you a $100 debit card rebate. That could turn the tide in their direction if you are buying on price alone.

The top concern I have, though, is modability and community support, since I know that neither HTC nor Samsung will support that device once they have my money. I will immediately root it and install something like Cyanogen.

Both phones will likely have pretty good support from the Cyanogenmod project, but I am going to wait until the end of May and then go see what the community says. Whichever hardware has better support in the Cyanogen community will be the one I buy.
The improvement in the monthly payment is achieved by stretching out the loan period to be greater than five years. How much greater than five years, they don't say. Seven years? Ten years? How much extra interest does one pay on such a loan?

As I've written elsewhere, they can't offer a real lease because they don't have the money to finance their customers, and no bank is willing to place a bet on the resale value of the car in three years (the end of typical lease periods). Tesla and Elon's guaranteed resale value is apparently not good enough for the bankers, leaving no choice but to offer more expensive financing options--real loans. For a variety of reasons, a loan is less risky for a bank than a lease.
The energy required to reach escape velocity generally precludes a planet from generating enough force to fling an object outside its gravity well.

The energy required to sustain life generally precludes large lifeforms from surviving for long periods in space on a spacerock. Anything that evolved into a complex organism probably required a stable source of energy for billions of years. Ours is the sun, and at a very specific distance range.
Oh no.

Oh god, no.
If your firewall flags up the word "porn", won't it also flag up HN for having "porn" in the title of a listed article?
But that's a different argument. You're arguing that there is some line that can't be crossed, like perhaps manufacturers can be up to 10% off in their advertised storage space. That's a reasonable argument in itself (although where to draw that line is tricky), but it's a much different argument than "all manufacturers should advertise only the available storage space."
It's interesting to see many local government websites now have a section of their website called "do it online" with sub-headings of "pay it online", "report it online", "request it online". It all seems a bit weird to me but there's obviously some communication channel.
Solar Impulse live stream
If a phone call or face-to-face meeting with the client doesn't solve the problem, you should take your contract to a lawyer and figure out your options.

Depending on the amount you're owed, it might not be worth the legal fees or time to fight it.
I strongly disagree. Its much better that kids do this during school, than trying to sneak around some kids backyard when the parents are out.

Say that all our fears come to true and something do go wrong and a kid get caught in the blast. If its in school, there are adults in ear shot with knowledge and tools to try handle the situation, and the kid won't just lay there and bleed out while his friends freak out while thinking about the consequences.

You can't prevent children from sometimes having a horrible judgement. You can however give them a safe place.
I agree. There are complex organisms on Earth that can froze and defroze themselves and continue to live.

What if one of those evolve to inteligence on a low gravity planet. It would be much easier to travel through space.
Great comment! I'm similarly situated in life and know plenty of people my age who aren't so well situated. While my anecdotes tend to differ from yours in that I don't see a general lack of motivation, you've already handled that argument; perhaps I just know people who are highly driven rule-exceptions.

Having said that, I do believe there was a time in this country when going to college meant you were a motivated person who could expect a high likelihood of success finding a good job after graduating. This seems to be different now. More people go to college now, which could either represent an increase in the number of people who are motivated or a decrease in the proportion of people who go to college despite being unmotivated. A smaller proportion of college graduates are successful in finding a good job, which could either mean that it has changed in lock-step with the diminishing level of student motivation or that there are motivated students who now have more trouble finding good jobs.

My anecdotal sense of both of these things is that increasing college attendance is a sign of more young people being more motivated than ever rather than a sign of unmotivated people increasingly attending college, and that the market for good jobs for college graduates has lagged behind the number of motivated graduates competing for them. I think there was a time that people with humanities degrees from good schools were widely thought by businesses to be highly intelligent, hard-working, and imminently employable. Now I see people scoff at such degrees as the useless outcome of bad decision-making. Perhaps the new reality is that far more people need to be motivated to develop the passion and drive required to succeed in a business of their own making, but I personally think it's a shame that there seems to be far less room these days for people who just want to work hard for someone else.
It is quite amazing. It compares favorably to some of the higher-level psychedelics, but unlike those, it's safe.

The only downside is that it's generally expensive (60-80/hour in the northeast) to find a tank if you aren't set up to install one in your house, and most apartments aren't.
Woah, what? 3GB on apps that aren't games? That is incredibly poor.
There is actually lamernews: http://lamernews.com/ .

I have only vague memories of why this website appeared, but as far as I remember it has something to do with moderation.
The NeXT hardware wasn't just priced out of competition with PCs and Macs, NeXT wasn't allowed to compete head on with Apple, as part of the agreements that allowed Steve Jobs to leave Apple and start a new company. The workstation market was the only one NeXT wouldn't have to litigate their way into.
Exactly. The easiest question to answer is this: Was the first cell phone locked to its infrastructure?

I wasn't alive back then but I'd venture to say, "of course", how else could it have existed?
My chemistry teacher did this with hydrogen and oxygen inside of the classroom. It was one of those "desk waste basket" trash bags rather than a proper 50-galloner but even so it was so loud I was surprised the windows didn't blow out. I think she stuck with party balloons for that demonstration from then on.
> The official unemployment rate for 25- to 34-year-old college graduates remains just 3.3 percent.

So this article should be titled: "Why are Uneducated Young Americans Jobless."
The number of people who have sold more than $100M in options (as opposed to founders' stock) is likely quite small, no? The poll is now up to 38.
Unfortunately, the majority of jobs in the United States are run with this kind of degrading treatment. Many even require you to randomly pee into a cup on short notice, to make sure you didn't do any drugs recently. Some of them also monitor your Facebook accounts (as far as permissions allow) to see what you're up to there. A few require you to hand over your Facebook passwords (!) to the boss to make that easier. The corporate world is weird and scary, but not always easy to avoid.
Injection molded plastic case, just like a plastic kiddie toy, lol. This might be great for a $10 speaker, but not for a $150 to $250 speaker!

I'm amazed at the stupid stuff that people fund on Kickstarter! Some things are very unique and worth it, but other things like these speakers suck compared to what is currently on the market. This proves there are too many morons with money in this world!
Who said anything about corporations? Hiring people to do work has been a basic part of the human experience for thousands of years. Unless you can run your entire business on your own you're going to need help, and so you give someone else money to do what you can't. Many people are fine with this, they don't necessarily have the desire to start their own ventures for whatever reason. This tends to work out because the people who do want to start their own companies are eventually going to need to hire another employee if they're at all successful.

I'll accept increasing amounts of automation and efficiency as a reason for the reduced number of open positions but the idea that this generation is somehow more lazy than any other is ludicrous.

And finally the idea of "contributing to society" is so nebulous I don't know where to begin. Is someone who makes a really good latte contributing to society? Is an investment banker contributing? Kim Kardashian? Zynga?
Any alien species that is capable of coming here, and curious enough to want to learn about our form of life, is probably more than capable of doing so without alerting us to their presence.
I run a website/app where I drive traffic to ecommerce companies(Mostly fashion companies). I am looking at various affiliate networks now. Are you saying that I am most likely not going to make much money unless I do a couponing website?
Good call about it not being arbitrage.

My theory on why there were always clusters of overvalued items is that people wouldn't know what to price items at all. They'd watch the item for a couple of days and drop it there, but before they had a clear idea they'd post it at a far higher price on the complete off-chance that someone would somehow buy it.

I eventually lost most of my EQ money by forgetting a 0 when I posted an item, so it all balanced out.
By stack I mean app store stack. If Valve releases Steam for Android you will have to manually get it from them because Google will never allow it.
> The energy required to sustain life generally precludes

> Anything that evolved into a complex organism probably required

Both of those claims are based on a single data point.
Yeah those are my questions as well. I'd feel more comfortable going to my friends, but I'm not sure that would get me anywhere.
Larry, Sergey, Eric, and Tim get their news from private research departments in their own firms. They may occasionally browse HN for downtime, but I really doubt they have time to read through it in depth. Hell, I'm just a lowly engineer and I rarely have time these days to read through it in depth.

Now, many of the employees of these companies frequently browse HN, and that can sometimes filter upwards if there're relevant or interesting articles there. In general executives rely on people specifically paid to sort through information for them, though. (Though I've heard Larry, Sergey, and many Google executives are big Google Reader users...I guess they'll have to find a new RSS reader now.)
Colin said:

"I wasn't asking for support, or reporting a problem to HN, just seeing if it was a local SNAFU."

I asked how submitting a story to report a problem was different than submitting a story to see if it was a local SNAFU. And you brought up isup.me which would have been useless since the issue was related to logins?
Dry ice can be hard to acquire in some places.

Luckily liquid hydrochloric acid based drain cleaners and aluminum foil are readily available everywhere and achieve the same results.

2Al + 6HCl -> 2AlCl3 + 3H2 = Boom.

The only caveat is that it throws the unreacted acid everywhere, and it's pretty strongly exothermic, but I mean, you're building a small bomb so...yeah.
These things are not included by default. Check the box if you value your time.

I don't think you have understood what a) the superchargers are and b) what the typical charging scenario is (overnight).
Isn't the expansion of the universe way out of scope of this article and discussion? Obviously, if there are aliens that far away, they by definition cannot reach us.
I don't know about you, but people that stare at me without keeping their eye movement dynamic are freaky and intense.

The thing I think will be weird is that Glass is in the upper right, and looking up and right is associated with creativity aka lying. Not sure why they didn't go with upper left, which is more associated with memory recall.

Both these eye movements happen in normal conversation btw.
The ironic thing it that deregulating zoning laws is something that conservatives commonly argue for. Well maybe not conservatives but libertarians do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjAsM1vAhW0

The ability to defend yourself and to be sure of personal and community safety is every bit as important. Living in a free society means that individuals get to live by their own set of priorities.
answers to almost all questions are out there, we just don't know the right answer's location. If someone connects me to the right spot, to the right advice.. to stay confident in my plan A over B, if its coming from YC founders, it would be credible enough for me to pay them.
The trouble with reflecting your UI from your physical schema is that it is a horribly leaky abstraction with very close coupling.

An extreme DWTF-style example I've seen was a 'CMS' in this style. The CMS was clearly modelled on phpMyAdmin - if you wanted to create a new content type, create a new table and it would be right there in the UI. In this CMS, news articles were the main content type - and they could be linked to other news articles and other content types in the system such as celebrities and events, which was implemented as a simple drop-down for each referenced item when you were adding or editing an article. However, this drop-down for selecting referenced entities was of course reused everywhere - meaning that you had a global setting on whether the items were ordered in alphabetical or most recent.

(Obviously you could code around this particular case, but it illustrates a general problem with the approach. And god forbid you should ever want multiple pluggable storage engines or service-based data sources.)
He hasn't blogged in months, though :(
I submitted my email and got "Float does not support quirks mode. Please set a valid doctype" or something to that effect.
Isn't that what the article is saying? People are complaining. It doesn't sound like Samsung gets a pass while Microsoft doesn't. 8GB remaining isn't going to last on a phone.
I'd like to humbly suggest that, if given the opportunity, one experiment with DMT. It's the closest thing to a "nearest neighbor" argument that I can come up with, but of course I have no explanation.

This is the best write-up that I've come across on the subject: http://ewwty.com/2012/02/24/dimethyltryptamine-dmt-experienc...

And for a longer treatment I recommend reading "The Cosmic Serpent", which centers around the information gained during Shamanistic ayahuasca sessions (dmt based) which led to the discovery of many plant-based pharmaceutical precursors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Serpent
I love these stories as well and would love to read more. Is there a central place to find more? Or would someone care to drop some links my way?