skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion based having always been a multidisciplinary generalist spanning hardware, software and mechanical design forever:

While launching or validating, being a generalist (or having a small team of generalists) can be a huge advantage. Massive. However, you are going nowhere fast with generalization. You need to divest yourself of subject area responsibilities as quickly as practical by bringing in a team of specialists. An accomplished generalist can be very effective at managing such a team due to having a good understanding of each of the pieces.

You need people who will give specific areas of your business a focused approach full time as opposed to time-slicing your business.

Scenario: You can code, assemble electronics, test, develop the website, sell, run quickbooks and ship. Great! You should not run the business this way for too long. Maybe while you are in the garage. Almost anyone will agree that getting a real accountant ASAP is a no-brainer. As the business grows you should replace yourself for each of the above tasks by hiring specialists. Either you pick one area to focus on or take on a supervisory position running the operation. Nothing else will allow you to scale.

In general terms, I don't see teams of generalists being a good thing at all. For a rapid product development or launch, yeah, sure. To run and grow a company for ten years or more? No way. Bad idea.
The post does link to Learn You Some Erlang, but does so with what looks like an associate/affiliate link to amazon. I do prefer people to go to the home page, http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ which also contains the entire thing visible for free online.
That's awesome. Playing a card from the psychology deck and making it embarrassing if you don't get up in time. :)

+1 for having Back in Black on vinyl.
Fedora 19 ''Schrödinger's Cat'' Now in Beta Release
Body clock. I am up at 6 everyday and go to bed at around 10pm or so. I then proceed to my favorite activity - bug the wife till she wakes up :p.

It's interesting now that I think about it because I used to be totally a night person not too long ago.
It is serverside (most web app vulnerabilities are). I'm suggesting serversides are worth much less than clientsides.
How would you sell the exploit? Your buyer would want to verify it works before buying, but then you've already given it away. It's not like you could enforce a contract on this.
You could equally argue that the type is "toy" as it's a toy box. The value of the type is what the different toy is. eg:

toybox = []string{"car", "dinosaur", "robot", "action man"}

Though the real problem is that you're an adult trying to rationalize an analogy designed for kids - which is never going to work.
Scenes are processed as you request them. Once they are processed they are available for immediate download by anyone.

Check out the FAQs on the landsat site: http://landsat.usgs.gov/search_and_order_Landsat_scenes.php

Also check out WELD. I don't think it has Landsat 8 data yet but it may meet your needs: http://landsat.usgs.gov/WELD.php
So, for larger screens, there would be many requests for a single image?

The demo page doesn't seem to work that way. In fact, if you resize the window gradually, it won't load new images at all. You have to wait for a second after resizing for it to bother loading the new image.
The French prison system is severely underfunded leading to very poor living conditions, but there is none of this attitude that it's OK for people to be raped if they're criminals. The statistics for rape in US prisons are absolutely appalling; I have never seen such data for French prisons, but I would guess, or at least hope, that it is much less common.
I like the way it's done in Clojure, where Leiningen projects declare Clojure itself as a dependency, with an explicit version.
They might look tacky in first place, but I assume they are related to the dollar signs in the stacktraces of code with threading and anonymous functions. :)

...
at com.company.IdentityVerifier$$anonfun$go$2$$anonfun$apply$2.apply$mcII$sp(IdentityVerifier.scala:19)
...
at com.company.UserCreatorMain$1.run(UserCreatorMain.java:37)
...
Very good, it's great to see Elixir is aligned with what Joe's vision of good practice and how things should evolve. This can be the start of something that will help both sides, we will follow what will happen.
then maybe the app should pay you, complement you, then tell you a joke? :)
And suddenly old game compatibility was much iffier. Good thing DOSBox stepped up.
But still no netflix support. Strange.
But that's precisely how the new Chrome mobile top bar works, which makes this extra bar very annoying.
I don't use an alarm clock, I just go to bed early and wake up in time...

But in periods when I've really had trouble with getting up, the core problem hasn't been physically awakening my brain, it's been that as soon as I woke up I knew there was just boring miserable shit all day to look forward to, so I was likely to just snooze.

In those periods, I discovered that the only effective way to get my brain going enough to understand the rational course of action (getting up & showered), was to have something fun within reach -- my computer, usually.

So I'd wake up at the first ring of my phone alarm, then flip up my laptop and read some Reddit or whatever.

If I really needed an exceptionally effective alarm clock, I'd want something that maybe starts talking for five minutes about something interesting, or prompts me with some captivating question, or shows me a gallery of cool pictures, or something.
The frequency and depth of archive combined with non-visible spectrum records mean Landsat is great for monitoring changes over time over large areas. One of the best uses I"ve seen is monitoring forest clearing and burning in the Amazon.
Less money = less incentive = fewer disclosures = less secure.

Facebook is abusing the good will of white hats by offering such trivial sums, and they're reducing the security of their platform in the process. They have how many $100k+ engineers who couldn't find this? And how much does the average security breach cost per record, $100-$200? This exploit alone could have exposed them to millions in losses at that cost.

This is what turns white hats into black hats, and I wouldn't blame the guy for selling his next exploit rather than disclosing it. A famous guy once said "we create our own demons". And then the guy in Iron Man 3 said it. And now I'm saying it.
Let me give you another tiny sample group for the study. Indians! I started learning Hindi, English and Bengali when I was four. Most of my fellow citizens(middle class) were in the same boat because there are 22 official languages here in India. After college I moved to South India, where there is another myriad family of completely different languages. I can barely keep up with them. Does it improve or harms my ability to learn new programming languages? Personally, no. Generally, well the answer to that question lies in the high quality programming services provided by Indians well recorded by thousands of forums across the web :). So, no I don't think the comparison has any merit.
Edit: The no. of official languages is now 22.
I didn't know that the laws so clearly stated that black people are singled out to be tortured.

Can you provide at least one reference to this atrocity?

[I'm guessing you can't]
Because it's not about the coffee, that's not what you're paying for. It's either about the convenience of getting a cup of coffee right now when I'm not at home, or about the experience of relaxing in a nice environment.
Testing stuff. I'm writing a stream processing server for monitoring distributed applications and I use a few pi's to send me streams of random/semi-random/garbage event messages and stuff.
What's weird about it though is that I've never seen these comparisons as belittling other products. They're merely using an easily-understandable point of comparison.
Maybe, but I'm not convinced. It doesn't matter if you're flying or not, if you're traveling at supersonic speeds and you run into anything, even if you hit the ground from a height of 10cm, it's going to be a bad time. Also, if you're traveling that fast it is magnificently easy to gain a dangerous amount of altitude quickly just by having your vehicle rotate and hit a favorable angle of attack. Just look at how dangerous and dramatic crashes in formula 1 or nascar are, and those vehicles are on the ground, and traveling at maybe 1/5th as fast as a hyperloop vehicle would (and with 1/25th as much kinetic energy).

I'm convinced there either must be some other factor at play or Musk must have worded his statements stronger than is warranted.
I think it's interesting that so many comments on here are about setting up a scenario where you'll be embarrassed or fined if you don't get up.

I guess it comes down to trying to plan logically the day before vs. being too tired to care when the alarm goes off. Reminds me of the extreme where your alarm starts sending money to a political party you don't like if you hit snooze. :)
"Master" is a bit of a baroque moniker. Can we agree that a "master" ought to be much further along than a "specialist?" i.e. the Java master should understand byte code and personally know folks of the original Sun Java team?

Otherwise it just sounds like I can become a Javascript Master in a few months.
Followup: Yeah... I even found links to my site from porn sites... Guess we have to spend weeks with the disavow tool.. In hopes that google will take te penalty down. What tool have you used to discover the backlinks? I will need it...

PS. why can't I just BE A CODER! :(
A libc qsort(3) shootout of sorts
> They bring the idea, about 6 months spent validating
> and refining and designing it, the initial investment
> in the MVP, and a sales and marketing team.
> We bring everything on the tech side. At the moment,
> sales is done 100% over the phone by their team.

Is there a particular reason that they aren't seeking investors, and then just hiring your firm for the work they need, or hiring their own employees?

(edit: This seems like a good question to ask on http://answers.onstartups.com)
Big Commerce?
It looks like the cool part of this is not serving or making the images, but in the JS to request a specific pre-made image. imgix seems to be more about making new images that fit a page or device exactly. You could probably use them together: zurb would request a specific image size and imgix would generate and serve the image on the fly. But imgix seems to have code for that already, and it's more fine-grained since you don't have to specify your sizes ahead of time.
The OP confused the argument. It isn't either-or. Most folks can have both!
Also not sure I like the idea of ​​having it for the. Besides the extra work of maintaining it may imply, I believe that leaving it in the hands of the isolation system dependencies over worked.
I don't see it a much different from the fire chef telling you how many people can occupy your building. FAA inspecting aircraft matence schedules, FDA inspecting a slughterhouse, the fed keeping track of a banks balancesheets or thousands of other areas where private companies interests are not aligned with the public.
Soviets used better algorithms
There's two glaring problems for me: generalists and ops is a route to pain, you just may not know it yet; and every generalist solves a problem differently, and may not understand the short-term vs. long-term tradeoffs that they're making.

From a sysadmin troubleshooting angle...

Say, you discover a memory leak in your application which sits on top of Apache httpd and mod_php/mod_wsgi.

Do you:

a) set up a cron to restart the web server every X minutes?

b) change httpd from the default of MaxRequestsPerChild 0 to some non-zero number?

c) ask Slicehost/Rackspace/etc. to increase the amount of memory for your VM (or in EC2, migrate to a larger instance)?

d) increase the number of application instances, and add them to the load balancer?

e) write a script that frequently polls the application server, and when a failure is detected, bounce the server (or remove it from the load balancing pool, and re-add it later?)

f) do some combination of all of the above, and add this question to your list of interview questions, while posting an opening on StackOverflow Careers for a sysadmin/techops/devops candidate?

g) sit down with a staging instance, valgrind/gdb/memprof/rbtrace/etc., a method of generating traffic, and the top 20 URLs from affected production instances?

If you picked G, how many people on your team are actually proficient with those tools? How many other team members would have picked the same option as you?

While still on this option, how many people actually start working on the problem? One person, or divvied up amongst multiple people? What do you do when that person hits a wall? What happens to the rest of your deadlines?

After all of that, are you still a generalist?
I see! So maybe it decides which media-query it should be using and then makes the one necessary request?
reminds me of this guy who uses two alarms; one set to go off quietly a few minutes before the loud alarm.

http://veenix.blogspot.com/2005/10/alarm-clocks-are-bad-how-...
Because HN is very SF centric and I know the London comunity will really benefit. Quite simply really. Not trying to create a $B company just something good for the area
Both dwm and xfce have worked just fine on my chromebook pixel. This is on debian 7. The only two applications that have given me issues are ones that do their own custom rendering - Chromium and Sublime text. Both of them have some UI text that cannot be resized and does not appear to respect system dpi settings.
Prison is society's recourse for anti-social behavior. Does it have to be a violent and horrible place? No. The residents tend to make it that. In addition, I am against pampering in anyway, with my tax dollars, people whom I've had to remove from proper society...for anti-social behavior.

Prison is supposed to be a deterrent. My biggest gripe is that I have to pay for it at all. I support banishment or death.
So you didn't outsource the work/component, but you outsourced the learning it sounds like.
> Police are expected to complete the request at their own cost.

This is NOT true, of course. It will be done at tax-payers expense. And Chief of Police is probably happy -- next financial year most people will forget about this raid and he has a good reason to ask for more money, because, you know, capturing criminals gets more expensive...

Obnoxious.
yeah, It's starting hyperlocal because that seems the easiest route. That would be good and I'll look into it
"I mean, worse than Iran? Worse than China? South Africa? Are Americans really that bad?"

You should be ashamed of your prejudices (obviously I'm not commenting on US justice system here).
4) The linux ideology - nowhere to be seen.

I think you're confusing Linux with the Free Software movement. Linux, the kernel, is all about open source producing high quality software - at least from Linus Torvalds' point of view.
Dynamic languages have jumped the shark
The Paucity of Elites Online
Because it's a tradeoff between the hassle and the price of the equipment. To make good coffee yourself, you need to either pay a lot for a good machine, or have to use equipment that's more of a hassle to use and clean. Coffee from a shop, even the big chains, is good (not exceptional, but far from offensive), constant and there's no cleanup or setup.
Yep, I could only fit about five sentences on the screen at once. I ended up zooming out to about 70% to make it more comfortable to read.
New Flickr: 1TB of space, all photos preserve their original size
It's not paying for email, it's paying for a particular kind of privacy: you're basically paying to prevent software from reading your email to better match ads. To me that is not worth much. I don't care if software reads my email, and I don't care if my email interface contains a few text ads.

As far as I can tell, paying for your email does not get you any real increase in privacy. Rackspace staff can read your email just as easily as Google staff can read Gmail (it's strictly against company policy in both places, but still technically possible). If the FBI issues a subpoena for your email, both Rackspace and Google will be legally compelled to give it up.
Or see the movie with Hoffman and McQueen. Amazing.
While I disagree with the parent, this is not a solid argument. It's entirely plausible, without further data introduced into the conversation, that (say) Americans have a higher penchant for crime, and so our prisons need to be correspondingly harsher, and simply aren't harsher enough.
Design principles for news apps
My screen is 166dpi (1920x1080, 13"), I run Ubuntu and have minor problem only with Intellij. They use their own font scaling, and it interferes with button placement on some windows.
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YATTRSSC: compile the project on iOS and Android
Adam Horner asks me:

Can you write a post on how to build the app from the resources you have put on github please?

The application was built with PhoneGap, a framework that allows the development of mobile apps using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.
Ahh! On Android that's called the launcher. The part where you can put widgets and shortcuts is the home screen and where your apps are listed is the app drawer (it literally used to be a drawer.)
On iOS it's SpringBoard or home screen.

I can only speak about the former, but If it rotated it would screw up the layout pretty badly as normally the screen is taller than it is wide, so widgets would be truncated and icons wouldn't fit either.
Streaming TV and movies has got to be the most boring thing you can do with a Raspberry Pi, at least after letting it sit in the box in a drawer.
Sorry, for the lack of replies. I was too busy.

I'll email you all individually.
I think many of the comments are just saying 'do not work for free. if you work for free, do not expect big rewards'. I have to agree with that. So, OP don't take it personally. All good work on your part but do not expect too much for free work. That's the way the world rolls.
Coffee or another stimulant would have a similar result. No argument there. 5-hour energy just has the advantage of being so concentrated and so fast acting. It's very different from drinking a cup of coffee (unless you can mainline your coffee somehow, which I've never tried).
I agree on the branding (doesn't sound like its about London startups) but having seen this site for a couple of weeks now there is a nice little community there. It makes sense to create a subreddit or site for London startups as there's a big community that doesn't really have a (non-facebook) forum to communicate and share.
Every university I've worked at has wanted a comprehensive scanner of some sorts. Most resort to half-implementing their own.

It needs to not only check links, but also
* Check 301 redirects and such
* Check spelling if possible
* Probably the thing they'd pay for the most: a solid scan of WCAG AA or other standard with respect to section 508
One other thing I forgot to mention is that the ultra-wealthy typically earn most of their money from investments, not income. This is why Mitt Romney pays a net lower tax rate than you or I and another reason why even progressive income taxes are fairly regressive.
Sidenote because I agree with the main thrust of your argument, but:

> A very Hobbesian view of society, I see.

Not at all. The central argument in Hobbes' Leviathan is that most people are basically decent and reasonable, but that we need a strong, consistent rule of law in which to relax our guard and build personal, civic and business relationships with each other in a positive sum game where everyone benefits.

It is the fear of violence and death in the absence of the rule of law that leads to the Hobbesian trap: a tragic situation in which someone who doesn't want trouble ends up pre-emptively raiding someone else who also doesn't want trouble, simply because they have no way to trust one other.
If you want to get technical. A TLD is the subdomain of the root.

It really is .br. but the last . is left of for convenience.
(a) They were financially incentivized to repay early.

(b) They got the sweetheart-deal to end all sweetheart-deals: a gigantic cash infusion structured as a loan with a market-beating interest rate, rather than as equity which would have entitled the government to a share of the upside.
Show HN: git core library (libgit2) compiled to js using emscripten
Also, the notary is a person, and needs to consume food, which also takes energy to produce and transport.
The video is pretty impressive, but after seeing all that I wonder whether it is really worth it to fix a Nokia feature phone rather than just replacing it. I suppose it must be, but I wonder by how much?
Of course, your whole philosophy assumes everyone looks at the world in terms of Good Guys and Bad Guys, and has the same idea about who they are that you do.
Face blindness (prosopagnosia) and the stone-recognition analogy
Yes but when your internet is down, you can't search for this trick :(
Javascript Templating Engine Chooser
Ugh, I use mine as a paper-weight with a 64gb mem card that makes me feel guilty every time I see it because I'm not using it
I think the link is broken, but I am interested in reading about this.
I loved Flickr back in 2005 but ever since the takeover by Yahoo! the experience has gone down hill. The new UI, modified membership plans, and increased storage limits isn't enough to win back my business.
For the past couple months I've made it a point to read the news when I get up to get the gears turning.

On one level it's great, but at the same time it's often distracting relative to sitting down and being productive.
I have two Pi's. One runs xbian and plays tv, movies and music. The other I use for random projects. The one running xbian gets used every day. The other one gets used every now and then. I love them both equally :)
There's two ways of seeing it; what else can I get out of 2 pounds, or what do I need to do to make 2 pounds.
Beer-pouring robot programmed to anticipate human actions
I liked this. It reminded of poking around in a dos prompt trying to figure out how to play sierra online games. It stuff like this that got me into computers.

I got stuck at the Lying part. I was able to figure out both of them were lying to me. But still failed to complete the task. I wonder though how "difficult" these challenges are? I still consider myself a beginning programmer even though I can build web sites, and small basic python and javascript programs. Someone once told me I suffer from imposter syndrome. I never though so until using your application. I couldn't help but think "I don't belong here". With that said, I still found it fun, challenging, and frustrating at the same time.
I prefer the phrase "experienced in x". In my opinion specialist and master should have the same weight. Calling someone "specialist" can be a misnomer for a master if the scale for measurement is not agreed upon.
Interesting that you spend your hard-capped time freely, but are thrifty with your uncapped money.

Maybe you should be more careful about how you invest your time, and choose the best content for your maximal enjoyment.
IANAL, but saying "pay me because I have a 0day exploit against your business" is often construed as extortion. You can end up in jail for that. Consult your lawyer before negotiating like this.
Create a private account, and get the other person to run the exploit?
This argument originated in the charity space, where it still works quite well. Yeah your $2 morning coffee makes you happy...imagine how happy $2 worth of food or clean water or medicine will make a little kid in Rwanda.

I agree that it's kind of a silly argument to use for Netflix. High-tech services need to market themselves by their inherent value, not by comparison to a commodity.
On the other hand, I feel significantly more secure on facebook than on paypal.