skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who said the point of the workout was weight loss?

He is probably American. Americans are obsessed with losing weight and consider gyms as places "one goes to loose weight". Heard this over and over from relatives and others. "Gotta hit the gym after the holidays/after eating cake/etc". I tried telling some of them how unproductive it is to run on the treadmill for 2 hours then eat a large BigMac but it just doesn't register.

Weight and health are not necessarily strictly and linearly related. One can be thin as a stick figure and be very sick or can be overweight and relatively healthy. Why should one go to the gym? There are many reasons, feel better, get stronger, get more nimble, improve dexterity, improve mobility, meet people, and yes loose weight too but is just one of the reasons.
The Firefox team has huge initiative to fix memory issue called MemShrink[1]. One of the devs blogs regularly about it[2].

I don't know much about this Health Report and memory leaks, but one the blogs on MemShrink said that to fix memory issues (leaks and memory bloat), they needed to measure what and how Firefox is using memory. There is now an about:memory page the gives a great breakdown, though it is very dev oriented and easy to copy/paste into bugs.

One of the big items that caused memory leaks is plugins. With FF15[3], made a change to find a very common type of leak with plugins that and free that memory.

If you haven't tried seriously FF in the past year, then give it another go. It is much better.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/07/19/firefox-15-p...
Google Glass crowdsources its Internet connection thanks to Open Garden hack
I can relate to this very much as I've learned and relearned a lot of the basics by tutoring other kids and now my own.

However, there are things that are more teachable than others. Math, science and basic school curriculums are teachable but a lot of management and marketing is not. Over the years I've seen so much damage done to my company through consultants that teach things that should never have seen the light of day. Perhaps some of them are poor teachers but I think the bigger problem is the assumptions that what worked in one situation will work in most others.
You need to understand that that will take time. Get in touch with the users directly and get talking.
System requirements for web apps
Ubuntu: Bumblebee, Optimus and Multi-Monitor Support
Then don't run `go get` to update your local packages.
I have mixed feelings about seeing this. On the one hand, I do understand why she would make such a choice and I am cool with her using her fame to try to promote awareness and discussion. On the other, I am not happy with the way so much of modern medicine mutilates people instead of making them genuinely healthy and her example helps encourage people to feel that is okay.
Doesn't that apply to ordinary pens too, though?
True, my argument was against welfare, I misread your original comment.

Basic income still has the problem that people get my money who do not deserve it in my opinion.
You just used the word you're so offended by. Can we all stop pretending that grownups don't use swear words? It seems like there's been a deluge of language concern trolls lately.
I think BB will pull a SEGA.
Yeah, StackOverflow is an incredible way to learn things. It's basically how I went from knowing nothing about functional programming to being obsessed with Haskell and category theory. In a pretty short time, at that.

I now want to try teaching people more directly, but it's somewhat difficult. My university is unfortunately really biased against functional programming (much less the interesting theory stuff). There are some cool meetups around, and I'll probably give some talks there in the near future--after summer--but it would have been cool to TA a class to. One day.

This is also why I think that having a good culture of education, both on the learning side but also on the teaching side--is so important for a company. That's one of the main things I'm looking for now when I consider where I would like to work.
The Hue lightbulb makes some connected friends and gets new skills
Crossroads GPS claims public policy advocacy, which is certainly allowed under 501(c)(4) (compare to the NRA's lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative action, also a 501(c)(4), albeit not partisan, see again Republican ex-Senator Lugar spending more time with his family), and fits into the broad category of "social welfare".

"Rove's group pays no taxes..." because it is a non-profit. Contributions for political activity are taxed. And claims that it's a "slush fund", with all the connotations that implies, need more than just a bald accusation.

Look, this corruption of the political process is worse than Watergate, because it was successful in suppressing a lot of election year political activity, compared to the latter getting caught early and therefore not going very far. It calls into question the very legitimacy of Obama's reelection, as pointed out by e.g. James Tatarnto: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732371630457848... A lot of people including myself were wondering where the "Tea Party" was in the 2012 election ... well, now we know part of the answer: getting stomped upon by the IRS, or avoiding that and staying too small to matter.

You can stop your ears up and say "La, la, la" all you want, but we on the other side are not buying it. And your side should think really hard about the ultimate long term consequences of illegally suppressing the loyal opposition, if we're pushed out of the political process, that doesn't leave us with any palatable options.
I got my ass kicked several times by a goddess. ;-) Each time, I saw a lot of things about myself I didn't want to see. I got inundated with feelings I didn't want to feel. I've felt what love feels like, and I know it's there even in the most painful and horrible places. I know we're never truly alone or abandoned; I've wept for the people still wandering lost, not knowing what they seek is right there with them. I've learned how to meditate and have been practicing it for a while. This is all still an ongoing transformation. Feel free to email if you want details.
Part of this is somewhat similar to how Windows 8 measures "Start-up impact" of applications that auto-start, and allows you to disable them with two clicks. (In task manager)
How old are you? I used to have the same existential feelings as well when I moved in SF, but over time you just get used to it and don't care anymore. It is part of the maturation process and realize that the world is not a fair place, and no not everybody is equal and will live equally.

One thing you realize is that a lot of the people on the streets have major mental conditions (usually schizophrenia, and major drug addictions or chronic alcoholism), and there is almost no way to just rehab them, and put them in a place that they can take care of themselves. Some of them are beyond the point of return and some need so much care, then only loving family can provide. Externally, you can't do much.

Other countries have both better mental care provided from the state, and especially a social net. Usually family will take care of their ill.

Be happy with what you got, do a good job, and make sure to be close to your family and have close friends. You will realize that is part of life, and once and a while you will have a need for support from closed ones, but as long as you an handle yourself well most of the time and try to live a good life you wont have to worry.
I'd be interested to know how many companies were started in each of those sectors and be able to see the "success" rate rather than just the absolute numbers.
I wasn't drinking a gallon of milk a day, as recommended by Rippletoe, although I was eating more. It gave me a big belly, gastrointestinal problems and gained about 10 lbs, which was another issue, too.

I could have eaten even more though. But I don't get the whole eat until your stuffed mantra either. It seems so unnatural and unhealthy.
I've tried to figure out a way to say what you've said in this post since I've gotten here, and every time, it's sounded like an indictment on the poor.

Brilliant post, and it's criminal that an area so full of brilliant people can be so detached from the most actual problems facing the world, when they're right on the proverbial doorstep.
I have been using the "tap to pay" feature on my credit card here in Canada increasingly. So convenient versus inserting the card, typing the PIN, etc.
You gotta start failing and learning early on. A business does not have to be huge, just sell something. Whatever.
Call Me Maybe: simulating network partitions in DBs (PDF slides)
Code: https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen
There is only a slim chance that this type of idea will work. That's better than nothing, and many successful startups were given low chances initially. But the vast majority of stone-soup ideas where the users add all the content fail. You should set criteria for success (such as 20% of academics online in 3 months) and be ready to move on to another idea if you don't meet them.
> Microsoft complies with all governments' legal requests, as it should.

For governments from the set of countries that Microsoft has a presence in, or just from governments in general? I can't imagine they respond to DPRK requests, nor should they.
"As a technology nerd, of course I want the freedom to modify and develop stuff, without restrictions, on my devices."

My point was that our representatives did not have a concept of anyone doing that unless it was part of their job (with a corporation). The idea of some kid hacking out the next big thing in their dorm room was (and likely remains) foreign to most of our politicians.

"So at least for me, I am willing to give up some control, if it means that I don't have to be plagued by technical support calls from my non-technical family members."

Except that you'll still be plagued by your less-technically-literate friends and family members. A few months ago, my mother called to ask me how she could copy a movie from a DVD to her new, locked-down tablet. I also received calls for help when she got a new cable TV receiver that would not work with her 720p TV because of HDCP. Such is the reality of the world of built-in restrictions and computers that are designed to fight their users.
CSS3 Pong: Insane Things to Do with CSS
Hire Me GitHub
Someone can fill the thing with diesel at the gas station. You'll get full-service pumps outside of Oregon and New Jersey! (Another industry that requires regulation to avoid firing unnecessary people).
Google Images Doodle - Atari Breakout
No, giving my e-mail address is just that - giving an email address; it does not come with permission to send automated daily emails. For example, I login to facebook with my email address, but I have explicitly withdrawn any permission for facebook to send me any notifications by email in all the opt-out settings.

Subscribing to messages should be explicitly opt-in, and in a bunch of countries is legally required to be opt-in. If I miss an opt-out checkbox, and you send a marketing email - that is spam by definition, if gmail decides to filter you out, then by all means it was the right thing to do; and if it was a local business, they would be fined for that.
Dreamhost. Probably there are better options now, but I have the account.
Nvidia Shield retails at $349, pre-orders start May 20th
Yes, but it would have to be done on every system that I use to access my server. Also, not all systems use the standard openssh unix client, or they may not allow access to the user configuration files. So changing the port is just an annoyance, and it doesn't really accomplish anything. My real account is safe, and having a few failed login attempts for admin and root in my log file doesn't really bother me.

I am not advising against changing the port; it just has no value for me as I currently use SSH.
Sure! Actually the line on the ball had nothing to do with the Ikaruga element, it was purely to observe spin. I think we probably originally put it in so that when playtesting we could tell if spin was working properly but it stayed in because it looked neat and was helpful.

So here's how the Ikaruga element worked: each player had three controls 'up', 'down', and 'change bat colour'. The bats could be either black or white, and so could the ball. If you tried to return a shot but your bat wasn't the same colour as the ball then you'd lose the point. The beauty of it was that if you were holding down the 'change colour' button when you returned the ball then the colour of the ball would change. So let's say you have two players who are getting into a heated rally both with white bats and a white ball. They're concentrating on trying to catch the other one with good shots rather than the colour when, suddenly, one player presses change colour to change their bat to black, then again to change it back to white, but they keep it held down. They return the next shot and now the ball is black. Their opponent has to change their bat colour quickly in response otherwise they'll lose the point. Pretty soon the mindgames set in - changing your bat colour twice but not holding down the button to trick your opponent into thinking the ball is going to change colour, or my personal favourite always changing the ball colour and then suddenly not doing so out of the blue. We could have made a fourth button for the change ball colour instead of doubling up the functionality of the change bat colour button, but the way it telegraphed possible intention was kinda cool. That was the Ikaruga dimension of the game.

There was another nifty element I remember too which was that the ball was returned faster the closer to the centre of the bat it was struck, or slower nearer the edges, with a few pixels of sweet spot in the exact centre which would give a mega shot.

It was one of those games you make quickly and then spend hours ahem "testing" multiplayer in between adding new features. It was really fun because of five main things to be thinking about while playing: simply returning the ball (!), having the right colour bat (the most basic Ikaruga element), putting tricky spin on the ball (made all the more fun by the rotation of red diameter line showing exactly how much spin you'd put on it), hitting near the centre to make a fast hard-to-return shot (with a satisfying "whoomph" sound and particle trail effect for the mega shots), and finally the cheeky ball colour switch mindgames.

I'll have to dig it up, check it all still works, and put it somewhere for people to download. Or at the very least make a youtube video to show how it works (on reflection, that would have probably been less effort than the above write up!). Cheers :)
on a somewhat related topic, the author of this has some issues he/she needs to work out.

NSFW
http://fucksheep.org/~sd/mspaint/
Since you work at Stripe, hopefully you see this.

I have Stripe Connect users with my website. I need them to sign up for the UK, but would rather not want them to go through the hassle of waiting for a Beta Code setup.

Just thought I would point that out.
Oh, of course. x exp. 0 == 1. I got that he was using powers but my brain didn't equate 2 exp. 0 with how he explained it for some reason.
I apologise if a simple search should find this and I just such at searching, but I'm intrigued after your comment. There seems to be little information about the Manitoba experiment and what Alaska calls "Basic Income" doesn't seem consistent with what is being discussed. Where else in North America have people experimented with this?
It seems it doesn't go into a lot of detail as to the call-chain for each running goroutine, but this example may just not be very suitable to properly test it. Either way, here is the same deal with a bunch of running goroutines.

http://play.golang.org/p/GQxdXpWdZD
When I say "recreational" I mean that there is no need for parents to have children, other than the fact that they are biologically motivated to. We have more people than resources in this world. That is a problem, and the only way to fix it is to encourage people to be realistic about the potential for their children to have happy, productive lives in a society that almost certainly has no use for them.
The problem I'm worried about is precisely what you're warning against: I'm confident that I can successfully launch in one city (with my own funds) but I'm afraid that this will be considered post-launch and pre-traction when I solicit investors.
Entrepreneurship fluff. These posts seem to forget the reality of life. What about health care? House payments? The cost of raising children? The social network job will allow for those. The business? Good luck with that. Oh, but you might get some funding, you say? Try explaining to a VC how you are using their money to pay for your children. Many of them don't even want you to have base salary.
Arguable, but let's assume that is true.

It still doesn't tell me the purpose of this site. Are they trying to raise awareness? Affect change? Is it a feeler probe to test a niche website? Are they religious fundamentalists who want to decry science in the name of god?

I don't know, so I asked.
You might be driving abroad on a valid license, just not a license from the country you're driving in. In which case it's perfectly possible the signs wouldn't be in your native language.
I've been using recently launched http://fjords.cc . Fjords paired with DNSimple.com has been a dream setup compared to what I previously used (Amazon S3 with Godaddy for domains).
> They don't choose to be on the streets, specifically. Instead, they make terrible choices that lead to being on the streets due to things like addiction and mental illness.

Except perhaps in the case of trauma-induced mental illness resulting from a trauma that is a forseeable consequence of a choice made prior to the existence of the illness (and even in that case it may be a problematic position), I am having trouble seeing even a remote argument that "being on the streets due to [...] mental illness" as the result of "terrible choices".
"...where matter is defined as the company (relatively) promptly going from founding to $100 million in revenues."

If I can found a company that provides financial security to myself and one or more employees, that matters... at least to me. $100 million in revenues is great, but it doesn't necessarily matter to me.
This happens when you install toolbars as well, you think a URL is private, then all of a sudden private URL's are getting hits from googlebot/etc. Its not a big leap to assume that this happens in anything else...
Work with Gmail without even opening it with Checker Plus
With the title of this article I was ready to roll my eyes at some cheeky advice, but I was surprised that I have found this to be spot on. When your work requires any level of creativity pushing through it can often take triple or quadruple as long to finish it. Taking a walk or making dinner is often the best/fastest solution- hell most of my ideas hit me while cooking or jogging anyway. When I push through, that is when I do boring work that I throw away anyway.
I don't think either removing clickable links nor fixing "OS that will silently install software just because you clicked on a blue link" should only be possible by allowing themselves to eavesdrop.
Unless you have a citation that says otherwise, anything I've seen seems to suggest that there is little difference in the high percentage of mentally ill/substance abusers between chronic/non-chronic homeless.
Whenever I see the "You don't need Mongo DB, use an SQL database" and then in the flaming back and forth, I never see my key problem mentioned:

MongoDB makes it easy to scale out (replica sets and sharding), where is the "easy to setup replicated and sharded open source SQL database?"

I mean, I know that Postgres has replication (via Slony? honestly, it's been awhile since I looked at their solutions) but I don't recall it being as dead simple to set up.

For me, setting up replication needs to be easy because we redistribute the store as part of our product and we need scalability (both replication for redundancy and sharding for scaling).

So I'm honestly asking here, where is the easy to use sharded and replicated open source SQL store that I've been missing?
That's a good tip, I should really start contacting users to see what they think of the site.
Webfaction++
Don't say "using email is bad" then in the next paragraph "as easy as email"
I think it would be a really cool idea if you asked different CS professors if you could make a guest presentation one class to talk about functional programming languages. Some of them would probably be thrilled with the idea.
That's sort of what it looks like at this point. They have missed the boat so many times now I really don't see any other way for them to hold onto something.
Nothing worth having is easy. Anything easy isn't worth having

Getting fit is hard work. If it was easy everyone would look like a Greek God / Goddess!

No Pain, No Gain
Yes, it does. They can't possibly know if they are bothering you or not, if you won't even click that link.

If I ask you every five minutes if I'm bothering you and you don't say anything, then later you write a blog post about how I won't stop talking, who acted passive-aggressive?
New Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (35 mins)
Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. A talk about a new approach to creating data graphics. (35 min)
To teach is to learn. -- Japanese Proverb

To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert

I taught CS to high school students for ten years. I found the most welcome questions were always the ones I had not considered. Especially if it meant admitting you did not know. There is something in that admission that builds student confidence. Preparing an explanation and going over it with the class awards a tacit accolade to them all that tends to inspire more questions.
Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz
> Microsoft complies with all governments' legal requests, as it should.

Microsoft can make such requests pointless if they choose to do so, by not having unencrypted data of people's private conversations in the first place.
Everblog.me
Be serious, it's not a rebranded Hotmail. And at least it doesn't have a crappy compose window...
Homelessness isn't primarily (if at all) a (financial) poverty problem. Mental disorders and drug addiction are large factors, and neither are fixable with cash.
careful with that stuff, and GNC in general. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/business/death-after-use-o...
There's no need for the animosity. I didn't mean it was only designed for touch screens, just that desktop features had been deprecated in favor of touchscreens.

And that's true. Look at the hot corners you can't disable, or the Metro dialogs for settings.

It's Victor Frankenstein's OS, not a desktop computer's.
Well not sure a poor Algerian kid in the banlieues would totaly agree with you on that unfortunately or a Roma in eastern Europe for that matter.
Meteor is one vision for the future of CRUD applications, I think.
I wonder how many of these new companies come from large companies that are just rearranging themselves? So that first year's revenue is based on pre-existing revenue or assets?
Same for Mexico.
Ask HN: What do you use for test tracking?
We've got all kinds of automated tests. They're great. But we still have humans test our application before each release. Right now I use spreadsheets to manage lists of things to test. It's cumbersome and there has to be a better way!

Ideally there's an easy to use hosted solution.
A New Type of Educational Content
Video: The Road to Node.js v1.0 w/ Isaac, Ben and Bert
Immediately reminded me of #stillnotsignificant:

http://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-signific...

(see also the hashtag on Twitter)
This is NOT being upfront. Without coming into the comments I would not have known you'd try to poach my candidates.