skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I am looking for confirmation that users like the idea and that the concept will work as I imagined. Basically I would like to know if I am on the right track.
I agree, I have added it to my todos.
Sydney's harbour tunnel was built to relieve congestion on the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge, and both the bridge and tunnel follow very similar paths.

This tunnel doesn't need to accommodate every vehicle size as there's a perfectly serviceable bridge right above you.
Joy. This is going to be a big issue if the major distributions don't have a fixed kernel out in the next day or so (and then lazy admins don't remember to install it).

I would guess anyone with an active php shell they haven't discovered before is going to have a Bad Time.

Also, for any Redhat/CentOS users, here is bugzilla for this issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792
I'm also surprised that the drivers or their company failed to check a truck atlas when planning the route. I imagine the company has just as much incentive to prevent incidents.
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What's that? Whatsapp?
The "matter" framing is borrowed from the paper, which has a nuanced defense of the criteria http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/DownLoadableResources/...
I don't think BBM has the same influence of BB users that once did thanks to WhatsApp and other cross-platform messengers. I think at this point it's to BB's advantage to make it easier for their users to communicate with non-BB phones via BBM.
What inspired me to start my startups?
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Take a peek at the meaning of "the Plague", something which happened in Europe way long ago. Those people were much worse than any of us and any homeless you can think of. They are quite probably ancestors of yours if you are a "standard" American.

You are judging them all as bad. It seems funny.
>I think you're smearing missionaries a bit - they haven't ALL engaged in forcible conversion of natives. Quite often it is a voluntary decision.

I would disagree on this point, Sure not all were "forced." There are invisible points that cause native nations to collapse. The missionaries didn't have to force them to come, there presence alone had enough effect on the region to force them to move to the missions. Especially in the Bay Area: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Little-Choice-Disintegration-Anth...
Classic science was conducted to gain knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Modern 'science' is conducted to serve an economic purpose. Classic science is on the decline in favor of result-driven studies.
It's actually kind of surprising to me that as many as 200 companies founded in any year will go on to reach $100 million in annual revenue. I suppose it shouldn't be--I wonder how many new companies are founded each year?
http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/homelessness-fa...

"A mixture of street counts and estimates indicated 557 people slept rough on any one night in London
5,678 different people slept rough over a year in London (April 1 2011-March 31 2012)"

"According to SFGov, the total number of homeless individuals and families in San Francisco for 2011 was 6,455."

There are definitely more homeless as percentage of population in San Francisco though.
Around the same time you posted this comment, I just edited my post to clarify that we were already planning on removing many of the annoying emails, including the "Your website misses you" and the "It’s been 8 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds…" emails, among others.

I also just edited "we were emailing a bit too often" because it was more than a bit, it was straight up too often.

If there's something I'm still not seeing, I'd love to hear your feedback.
I'd started my own company at one point, and utterly failed at it... didn't enjoy it at all, and it wasn't at all freeing.. in fact I never felt more constrained.

I also spent 8 months in a Director level position, managing several teams and several projects. Also much more constrained. Though, I did learn that there is far more mediocrity in the majority of programmers than greatness at that time.

Now, I'm much more about putting in my time, making the projects I work on better when I leave than when I start. I enjoy contract work as I get to learn new things constantly (domain knowledge in diverse cultures), which to me is a lot of fun. Right now, I'm working for an internal development operations group, which means creating services for other development groups... It's interesting for the moment, though I'm enjoying the slower pace so far.

I spent the last year and a half before where I am working on changing the environment of a set of very stale projects that had become maintenance nightmares, and bringing them into more current structures. Enhancing the UI as well as simplifying other systems. It really depends.
Clients can be rewarding or a nightmare. I have dealt with both. There are good and bad clients you deal with just as there are "arsehats" in the consumer facing businesses.
I think Patrick picked the numbers quite intentionally and in light of that the comparison to spam doesn't hold water. Bob is said to be the 1 annoyed user out of 100. In other words, 99% of people are finding the emails useful. That's the argument at least.

Spam, on the other hand, is far to the other extreme. Way more than 99% of recipients don't find those emails useful (not to mention they were unsolicited emails).

e.g. "After 26 days, and almost 350 million e-mail messages, only 28 sales resulted" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)#Cost-benefit...
Be an adult: if you signed up for something, take the time to try and unsubscribe first.

I have a hard time keeping track of which companies I actually want emails from and how many companies tricked me into signing up for email by defaulting the "Spam me with marketing" somewhere on the page I used to sign up. Especially if a company is inconsistent with emails (no emails for a year, then 5 in a week).

So, sometimes I just get sick of dealing with it and start marking things as spam.

Unsubscribing has the added benefit of being more direct, in a "hey, we spammed this guy with 4 emails in three days, then he suddenly unsubscribed", instead of going "why are we being marked as spam? our lists are completely opt-in!".

The answer to both of those questions is the same.
I don't think Go could have existed in 1996. It feels like a reaction to Java, in some sense. And even if it was built, exactly as it is now, in 1996, it probably would have gone no where.

"It doesn't even have object inheritance! And what do we need all these concurrency things for? Windows has only had preemptive multitasking for a year, and multi-core is still a decade away."
Larry Page posts about his voice
I'm somewhat more impressed by this water screen than the iphone's retina display.
Meteor for what seems like a CRUD application, why?
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I don't really see how intellectual property impinges on free speech rights.

Governments support IP rights because: 1) the idea that creators have a right to control their works is more popular than the idea that the public has certain rights to access "culture"; 2) industries dependent on IP create jobs.

A senator supports the MPAA companies versus downloaders because he can easily see that the MPAA companies are a source of a large number of jobs. It's as simple as that.
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Bolting a second iPad into the system, like a Mini, might solve this problem, where it's locked into the signature mode unless doing something like advertising.
This sounds reasonable and certainly worthwhile if it really does result in adoption in "larger more critical/risky projects."

If the result was just one component out of many written in Go then the reality is it was a side-experiment and/or a poor management decision. I do hope that is not the case.

"Andy is very much missed by his former colleagues" hopefully for good reasons, not because they left him with another language and toolchain to maintain :)
That's exactly how it works. The barista puts in the items and then it goes into signature mode where you choose a tip and sign.
Indicators of Talent For Software Engineers
land invasion was not necessary, as Japan was very close to surrender any ways. using nuclear weapons was not needed to end the war.
If my math is to be believed, 5096876/90000000 or ~0.056632; roughly 1 in 20.

Edit:
Here's my program: http://pastebin.com/sBsXjPt5

Usage:
gcc primes.c -O2 -o primes; ./primes 8 | wc -l

Edit 2: Nevermind; I'm dumb. First, there are 10^8 unique 8 digit combos, not 10^8-10^7. If all combinations were legal we'd have a probability of 0.05096876. But I assume all combinations are not legal, so that answer too is wrong. Maybe later if I'm bored and have more time I'll research the Danish telephone system and get an accurate number.
By my math, if you're talking about Denmark, I don't think you're as unique as you think you are. There are a total of about 18 million valid Danish ID numbers (approximately 36.5k valid DDMMYY combinations * approximately 500 valid serials that meet the checksum), of which 204,099 are two twin primes. So I'd expect about 1% of the country to have two twin primes for their ID number.

So not only are you probably not the only one in the country to have two twin primes for an ID number, you're probably not the only Dane on Hacker News for whom that's true!
Glad to hear it worked out well; there are many times where it doesn't. Thanks for taking the time to share an overview.
Here it's known as "Paywave" (http://www.visa.ca/en/personal/visa-paywave/index.jsp)

On a credit card you have the safety of being able to appeal transactions. I wouldn't want this on a debit card.
Yes, but I also figure that anyone smart enough to effectively game the welfare system is smart enough to do substantially better than what even gamed welfare can provide.
I think blanket rules like this are a bit silly. Clearly PP (Powerpoint) has its uses. A picture is still worth 1000 words.

My suggestion would be to have a default ban, but insist that if a presenter really "needs" to use PP (s)he should have to get some sort of permission first. The reason for that is that the person wanting to use PP would then have to consider and justify its use before using it. Basically, just give them pause to think and consider.
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Wouldn't this cause inflation? The price of food, shelter, and basic needs is determined by peoples' ability to pay. I'd expect the price to rise until a percentage of people were unable to pay, again.
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.
I've already seen quite a few shops/bars using iPads as POS registers. This particular aspect is Square following with what's out there.

Not that Square isn't disruptive in other ways.
This issue is well covered in Joel Spolsky's article The Perils of JavaSchools http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...

Saying that I think it is a bit elitist to think you need a new term, who gets to say who can use that term?
Also, some customers probably can't stand touching the surface of an iPad that's been touched by a hundred people before them.
I live 4 blocks from Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, and I feel exactly the same way. US-style homeless shelters just seem to concentrate the homeless in a geographic area, without providing them with anything they need (what most of them seem to need is access to mental health services and medications). I've heard multiple formerly incarcerated people say that staying in homeless shelters is worse than prison.

The end result seems to be a sort of outdoor insane asylum, with a bunch of privileged hipsters like me and my friends wandering from our high-end loft conversions to the latest trendy bars and restaurants.

I also feel that in many ways the property development companies are drawn to these dilapidated downtown areas with large homeless populations because it's "edgy" and the developments themselves are high-margin.
I am dealing with reality.
You are probably right that impoverished parents are going to have a hard time raising children, but you are also advocating a form of social Darwinism.

I agree that fewer people should procreate but disagree with measuring the necessity of a person by net worth. The vast majority of wealth being accumulated by a few persons surely skews the demand for labor as we have many Fords but not many laborers paid enough to buy Ford's cars.

I said I think fewer children would be good, I just don't know which group of people should stop having children. I guess all of them should tone it down.
Keep in mind that you can just set the port in your SSH config and you won't have to set it every time.
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I think a more sustainable way, if you want to implement a basic income, would be to have a low flat tax (say 10%) on all types of income, than divide the tax revenue across all citizens. That way everybody will cheer on the capitalists.
No its BBM, it's a messaging system created by BlackBerry that came pre-installed on their devices.
This post and the reaction to it inspired me to write a response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5706562 "Indicators of Talent (and Heuristics) For Software Engineers". I give a lot of thought to talent, image, and how we judge them quickly, and this post and the comments seem to validate some of my impressions.
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Same for India. Everyone and their mom uses WhatsApp
Something that causes the vehicles engine to stop... a shock?
It wouldn't stop the vehicle but it will decrease destructive force.

Or a trapdoor (warning this is a joke disregard it if you know you don't like jokes)
It's ironic that during a rant on the populist meaning of 'liberal' overwhelming the classic one, you do the exact same thing with 'corporatist'.

Corporatism isn't a nation with a lot of powerful business corporations, it was a proto-fascist ideological movement in the syndicalist tradition.

Ref:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/138442/corporatism
They're already fixing memory leaks. In fact, Firefox now uses less memory than Chrome.

Let me guess, you're another person who hasn't used Firefox in a few years hasn't bothered to check out the latest versions at all? :)
That must be one of the worst demos I've ever seen. I got dizzy going through it. Ugh.
Browse over to about:memory

I run nightly and I don't use addons beyond adblock and don't run flash so perhaps my experiences are different, but I haven't had problems with Firefox leaking memory in a couple years. The profiling tools at about:memory may let you see where things are breaking.
Yep the USA needs to grow up and reform its political structure into the 20th century and away from the 18th century.

I remember one us politician saying on the BBC that the unreformed House of lords was better that the US House
Thank you very much for the feedback!

- We do have more features than nudge planned.
- Incentives are a great idea, we've mostly been thinking about the negative but focusing on the positive may be better
- Yep, that's what we have built so far
- Good point, we are built on top of established processors that handle the transactions securely, that should be more apparent on the homepage
Sadly, any developer of a 99 cent app might be sued for patent infringement, with no efficient and cost-effective way to find out ahead of time. Software companies have had this issue as long as software has been patentable (according to USPTO, anyway), but business insurance can be had for a price. The iPhone's conversion of software development into a "blockbuster" business (IE a few win big, most don't make anything), has encouraged small entities to enter the market who don't have the resources for insurance.
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Most of the science you need to reach the same conclusions as Kurtz79 is high school biology and some basic physics and thermodynamics.

Calories are a measure of work (Force x mass). To burn Calories your body has to be doing work of some sort. To burn the same number of Calories in 7 minutes as 45 requires doing an equivalent amount of work.

In my case, 45 minutes running is 800 calories. 800 calories in 7 minutes is like 114 Calories/minute. I don't think even maximum anaerobic sprinting comes close to 114 kcal/min, and even if it does I certainly can't maintain that intensity for more than 15-20 seconds.

For a comparison, my 2800 lb Honda Civic burns probably 400 kcal/minute in gasoline during city driving at an average speed of 20mph.

The article is very vague about how reasonable this 7-minute set of exercises actually is. From the article:

Interval training, though, requires intervals; the extremely intense activity must be intermingled with brief periods of recovery.

How intense? It doesn't say. This should be possible to measure. To explain more though I will have to read the original paper to see exactly what sort of "benefits" they were talking about and how intense this exercise has to be.
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Even in St. Louis (Missouri, USA) there are street sweepers that basically look like this http://cityofgrandterrace.org/images/pages/N278/image002.jpg with brushes that move dirt and small items around and a (weak?) vacuum cleaner, as well as little trucks that are used to vacuum-clean things like parking lots like this http://bestservices1.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/7684... (from the name, I'd guess that it's of German manufacture). Therefore, I'm guessing that our young friend here has something else in mind.
we had a fatal bus crash at the Miami airport back in december due to the driver not heeding the signs .

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/04/3126826/details-emerge...
I'd say modern science is conducted to serve a political purpose, too. The story of how the NCI got started (as told in The Emperor of All Maladies) is a good example.

Giant supercolliders and fusion tokamaks are also basically national [anatomy] measuring contests.
And wouldn't some other business step in then and undersell them? Supply and demand, man.

And yes, there would still be people who blew their GMI money on drugs and wound up homeless. And there would still be charities to help them.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to seek funding pre-launch?
I've built, and validated the need for, my app but I don't have the funds to grow it; there's a sales component to it and I need to hire some sales reps to scale. The app also requires a sizable upfront expense per major city (population > 100k) that is recouped about 10 days later.

The startup is a b2b play that has a b2c component that I'm working on too.

Are investors likely to invest assuming they like the idea, the initial execution (the building of the app), and the size of the market, with no traction (not yet launched).

Should I start looking for funding now?
Meteor allowed us to prototype very quickly. We were able to build several different versions of the interface to see what worked, and then spent the majority of our development time polishing it.

Meteor being real-time also made some cool features really easy, like new candidates showing up in the inbox without having to refresh or poll.

Overall, I'd say development in Meteor was significantly faster than any other framework I've used.
If you want to chat privately, use OTR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging, authenticate your key fingerprints, ensure that neither party's chat program is logging, and that both computers are free of malware.
It wasn't quite so idealist back in the shuttle days. Yeah, the pilot and commander and mission specialists were definitely amazingly qualified, but the payload specialists were pretty normal people.
The McDonald's Store Manager is helping feed people. What is the average postdoc doing for the world? (I say this as a postdoc)
Yeah I am aware of that, but that doesn't mean that there aren't also people who don't want to work. I would love to not work and just enjoy life while I can, but I can't because I have bought into this idea that having extra money for shelter, food and other junk makes life more enjoyable... some people haven't bought into this that are struggling to enjoy their lives outside of the crazy whirlwind of packaged desires.
Java, more specifically the JVM, was a a godsend. Develop everything in your Windows 98, then upload it to some big-iron Sun server, knowing it will run, without cross-compilation headaches.

And yes, at first, it was dog-slow, but it was the kind of dog that you could drag behind the barn when things got out of hand. Apache+PHP or (yuck) classic ASP would just bring the whole machine down on a bad day. This isn't much of an issue today, because first other languages/runtimes improved, second we have more robust monitors in place, and third the "machine" is more often already virtual and more easily recyclable.
From RFC 2616 (Fielding et al) at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

"In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe". This allows user agents to represent other methods, such as POST, PUT and DELETE, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact that a possibly unsafe action is being requested."

The document section also makes a distinction between "safe" and "idempotent" methods. That's not the same thing.
The 2007-2008 San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Report on current efforts to address homelessness - some interesting info.

http://sfcourts.org/modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=198...
True, but not always. There will always be the 1-3% of the population that can't do something right, no matter how elegant the UI or detailed the sign. These trucks fall into that bin. Some people are just going to plow through whatever you put in their path.
I made a couple of games for android. It was always a dream of mine to just make a game. For 'a game', you don't need much, only eclipse and google sdk - that's all I used. Starting from this place you would find a few tutorials guiding you about how to create and finish Activity, add a game loop, draw an image and process user input - other things are regular programming.

Before finding out technologies you may figure out what kind of a game you want to make. Your game may or may not require 3d, so you may or may not want to look at 3d engines. It would be too broad of a search to research all technologies.

The basic advice I heard for making first game, is to make sure you finish it, do not set unattainable goals.
"Parents in the US have children for recreational purposes"
Really?!? I don't know a single parent who would list or even hint that they needed "recreation" when deciding to have a child. Let's assume you were half-joking, I still don't see having kids as something anyone takes lightly no matter what country you are born in.
"child birth rates do not fluctuate with the demand for labor"
Another horrible reason to have kids. I hope this isn't your metric for deciding upon your prior statement about recreation. Just because the US doesn't need the labor, does not mean parents are having kids "recreational". Kids are not a tool of society that should be effected by labor output.

Also the numbers on net worth most likely take into account home values that have recently fallen off a cliff. While it's still accurate to say that most people have a zero or negative net worth you can't assume the value of the home/amount owed on the mortgage will always be static.
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This would make Speed interesting.