skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to give major props to http://750words.com/

Simple enough, write 750 words a day. But what gets me going is the depth of analytics that just gets thrown in as a bonus after you finish each entry. Emotional state, preoccupations, etc. tracked through time.

You'll have an idea of it if you try and write one.
How Open Source Projects Must be Bigger than the Languages They’re Written In
I love it too. I love the design and how simple it is.

Some of my stuff is in workflowy as well. I use it as an intermediary app for select projects.
For Consumers, an ‘Open Data’ Society Is a Misnomer
I had to mention this just because we're talking about ads etc...

Facebook iOS install ads - ridiculously good conversions on installs, and then active users. Better than any other ad platform that I've tested with.
No, that's not what she meant by "Gotta get down on Friday".
Grit - Object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby
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Somebody posted this link here on HN some time before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
My server (https://serveur.clauzel.eu/) have been connected using spdy on IPv6 for more than a year, and I didn't notice any problems.

Google crawls it daily : « 2001:4860:4801:2:aa00:6006:1300:b075 - - [20/May/2013:11:54:32 +0200] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 4109 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) »
How to run Google Glass on your Android device 
No matter how you view Google Glass, you can’t help but be a little curious about how it all works. What is the user-interface (UI) like? How do you navigate from app to app, from page to page? Thanks to this post in the Glass Explorers Google+ page, I found a way for Android users to run what amounts to the Google Glass OS on their Android devices...
>how do you fantasies about self-defense?

Seriously? Go visit some gun forums or any generic conservative forums. Fantasising about how some criminals "picked the wrong guy to mess with" and "weren't ready for my $massive_gun" is commonplace. It's so common that it's a well established meme: http://i.imgur.com/TJUNFCg.jpg

As for your dismissal of a scientific article just based on worlds you don't like the look of and findings you don't agree with, well I think that speaks for itself.
I want to relate two experiences. Do with them what you will.

The first experience is of being rich. I'm not actually rich, mind you, but I've experienced what it's like to be rich because in early 2009 my good friend opened up an IT school in Ghana and I stayed there for a month to teach a database design course. There's a range of emotions and situations that arose that contribute to the fact that "I now know what it's like to be rich" but one situation really stands out and is, I think, pertinent to your post.

I had been hanging out with a guy and he showed me around a little. When I was leaving he wanted me to buy him a laptop. He thought that getting a laptop would somehow improve his situation. He had seen people with laptops achieve success (somehow) and wanted the same, so he asked me for one. Of course I had the means to provide it, but I knew for a fact it would change nothing. I didn't get him one.

Secondly I was in #startups a couple of years ago and some guy came in talking about his idea for a startup. It was a wikipedia for everything or something ridiculous and he was really excited about it. I've been through this before so I wanted to maybe talk some sense into him about the realities of business and the tech startup world that I wish someone had relayed to me when I was young and stupid.

In a private chat, he said that he just needed $800/month to build this thing, for 6 months. During our discussions I had mentioned I run a software consultancy and do some online marketing for folks and he said "I don't have a consultancy behind me" like as in "I don't have that luxury". I actually laughed out loud. As if I were the model of carefree success. Like I was so blessed to have this thing "behind" me (nevermind I'm in debt up to my eyeballs and only managed to actually start making some money after like 7 years of fumbling about failing left, right and centre).

It was preposterous to me, but seemed perfectly logical to him. I was somehow in a position of advantage, and all he needed was a big break. Again, I was perfectly capable of providing him with everything he thought he needed, but declined.
I wasn't familiar with Better Place, but the headline reads as though it would be an article outlining WHERE one should file for bankruptcy for strategic reasons.
Are you pretending he used the word "imagine" as "hope" rather than "expect"?
The Spark takes 20 minutes to recharge apparently.
asyncore is almost certainly the worst module in the standard library.
Webmaster Tools told me that all crawl is good (even improved), no error messages, still the impressions disappeared.

Any tools you'd recommend checking out whether the config is good?

I'm on an IPv4-only network, unfortunately cannot check out your site...
Many parts of "first world" countries are in a similar situation. The US is large.
Are there enough simple ruby hosts for Discourse to catch on? In the same way that there were simple php hosts that helped PHPBB catch on.
Why not? The same applies to running an HTTP or email server, which many businesses do.
I guess standardization worked pretty good for automobiles, trains, planes, telephone, electric power, radio, heck even the internet.

For instance an industry charging standard could take off easily. I think Better Place just guessed wrong.
Your community sucks in this regard. Bankruptcy is not like that in the US.
My understanding if git fetch is that the remote. Hangers are stored out if the way, ready to be merged to a branch. git pull is just a convinence function.

Now a git pull -r, that's interesting. Does this just fetch the commits and then do a rebase instead of a merge?
You don't have to move anywhere.

Just bill at least $625/day (cheap!) and take multiple projects. Working in django, it is fairly easy to deliver sufficient value to two clients per week at this rate. Very often they need the same things anyway.
You lot crack me up. I'm the author of the video, and it's clear to me that you didn't watch much of it. You'll find your Tree at 6.15. Indeed, the external interface of this whole thing consists of "Tree", "insert" and "delete". Is that clear enough for you?

And also bear in mind that this is a screencast, so you can't ask me to scroll around the code while I'm building it in front of you. You can either have descriptive identifiers, or you can have more than 10% of the implementation visible at a time. Not both. And frankly, it's my video, which I spent over 200 hours writing and producing, so I think I get to make that choice.
Advanced biological computer developed
Can you be more specific as to your grievances, especially with Automattic?
It's your current employer's job to retain you. It is not your job to be loyal to them.
Just as a data point I've been using these for nearly six years and I have never had a problem with earwax or build quality.
"Plenty of people are happy never to lift a finger, either for themselves or anyone else, and a culture of entitlement has blossomed."

Nothing we can do about that. They will continue to do so no matter what the system is. So, we can either keep going as we are, or we can have a basic income.

Keep going as we are; these people who won't lift a finger continue to do so. All the people who would use a basic income to better themselves and thus improve society are also still screwed. Society does not benefit.

Have basic income; these people who won't lift a finger continue to do so. All the people who would use a basic income to better themselves and thus improve society do so. Society benefits.

Is it fair? No. Given the choice between more fair, or less fair and a better society (by which I mean an actual opportunity for people to build themselves better lives, because no matter what propaganda we hear about "American dream" the evidence clearly indicates it's just that - a dream), which should we pick? That's a personal choice, but I know which I'd go for.
Honestly, I think you're too bitter/pessimistic, even if more than sufficiently technically competent, to be an effective EIR (or VC/angel, or founder of a VC-funded company), at least now. But you probably recognize that :)

But yes, a less-bitter version of you might be a good EIR, although I think it usually comes from "founder of a company funded by the firm has a midsize exit", not out of the blue.

Three of my friends were EIRs, and two are now founders of great companies (although not hardcore tech companies). The other has run off to Spain for a while, after ~15 years of doing startups, for something of a sabbatical. They're all at the "code for days straight", graduated from top engineering programs (in contexts like being in India or ~20 years ago where that mattered, unlike the US today), etc.

The whole point of EIR is that it's revolving door -- you do it for a year or two, then go back to startups. It's both a way to take a break, and get exposed to new stuff. You still use some of your tech skills, and often end up working on side projects, so I don't think a year off is going to kill your technical competence.

As for the quality of portfolio company review/advice: one top one sent me to do an interview/etc. with probably the best operating executive in the security industry, one of their portfolio companies. I learned a lot, and decided we should hold off on raising as a result (this was ~2 years ago, about a month after I finished YC).

Being an actual full-time VC probably does hurt your technical skills, and I don't think having just fairly narrow programming or programming tech skills is a useful background for a VC, although "ability to pick winning teams" is essentially the definition of a successful accelerator or seed stage investor (but, on more axes than just "can program well"). Something a bit broader and maybe less deep is good, although in cleantech having postdoc level expertise might make sense. I think I have more than enough security industry experience to be an effective security vc, but not enough in the programming tools space, and somewhere in the middle on deployment/automation/networking tools.

I've talked to VC Principals/Venture Partners who are what I'd consider top-50 domain experts in specific things (payment regulations), and some Partners who are top-500 on networking or certain parts of security.

The other thing is it's usually better to have domain expertise in the founding team than implementation perfection, so at seed, a PHP hacked together piece of crap that works is probably fine, as long as what they're doing 1) has a market 2) is possible. At Series A, they should probably have some competence in the team, and after, sure.
Predicting the future by looking across space and time
Correct. You want the right writers, though, and Tumblr has attracted an interesting set. You don't want too much garbage/noise on Tumblr, and so far (at least for me) this is the case. FB and Twitter have a lot of noise.

I respect Adam Rifkin's opinions a lot, partially because he's a great person and partially because he's the best-networked person in the world. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/tag/adam-rifkin/
I may be wrong, but I feel like the second title qualifies him to maybe see things that others don't.
It certainly could fall under a state's "right of publicity" laws.
Ask HN: What are some beneficial Government apps?
Your feedback about the best Government mobile apps for a case study
A good idea might be to offer hosted Discourse instances to people who want to get up and running easily.
My boss used to say that he felt like he could have shot off a gun behind my head and I wouldn't notice with those Shures in.
Something in between $50,250 and $60,000. Loans earn interest. Investments 2-5x because they take a percentage of the upside of the company; loans don't do that.

With no terms whatsoever, the obligation is probably just $50,000.
To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API

See, this makes no sense to me. The truth of this statement holds if I substitute s/remote/local/.

The fact is, Wayland manages a shared resource via a well-known API. This is the very definition of client/server architecture. There's no additional technical hurdle to be crossed to support network transparency.
Aside from the huge money lost the investors have, my heart goes to the ~1000 car owners that are now stuck. I hope that there will be some money left to compensate them for being true early adopters and believers.
None of this changes anything. A loan is a loan, an investment is an investment. If you expected a gigantic payback from your initial infusion of cash, you should have had terms locking that in.

As you probably know, you also can't "call in" your investment, either; it will remain illiquid until they agree to purchase the equity back or have an exit.
They've done a lot of innovations with respect to JavaScript optimizations, asm.js, and Emscripten. Even V8 running hand-written JavaScript can't approach the near-native speeds of Emscripten-emitted asm.js. A year or two ago I would have agreed with you but Mozilla has stepped up its game. Now if they could just fix their browser's UI.
More likely it's just Hinton having fun with all the computational power he now has access to.
> How do we define a language that's not parseable?

You can read up on that.

> Does it only mean that you can't know what the program will do until you run it?

No.
I've used all 3 over the last several years. My favorite is Linux, but the app support just isn't there. Using free alternatives to apps like Photoshop (face it, Gimp sucks) and Office (LibreOffice sucks) was way too painful for me. Also, no Google Drive client (yes, Insync also sucks and constantly crashed/failed to work properly).

So to me, OSX was the only clear alternative to have a native *nix OS with all of the app support.

I would go back to Linux in a heartbeat if I had the app support. And wine isn't an option either, I don't want to spend countless hours configuring crap and having apps crash on me.

One thing I never did was experiment more with windows and Cygwin.
Laika - Full featured testing framework for meteor
This will help us a lot at deviantART in the Community Relations team, we organise many chat events etc. for a global community and if we can embed this in our announcements that would be extremely helpful. I'll share it with the rest of the team, thank you!

Small question about your UI, why is the image link so tiny? Isn't it the main point of the page to get that link?

It might also be easier for many people to get direct image HTML instead of the URL that they'll have to figure out to use.
Lots of awesome radio stuff happened in the 1990s. (UWB, RFID/NFC, etc.), and optics/optoelectronics.

Low power high performance seems to be the focus of mainstream chip design right now. Display tech is finally getting awesome again (IZGO, IPS-on-reasonable-devices, etc.)

CCD/CMOS, very proper. I mean, cheap 30MP cameras?

Lots of great stuff in virtualization (sw and hw features), cloud, and SDN. Arista alone makes up for approximtely 2000-2008.

HSMs, smartcards, tamper resistance, etc. have kind of stagnated :(
8 Reasons All Angel Investor Money May Not Be Equal
It's not sleazy and not particularly clever. You're too early along in your business journey to appreciate it. Once you do, you'll make more money.
Capital gains are taxed lower, but depending on the structure of the arrangement, it might all count as short-term capital gains, i.e. - income.
Seems a bit ridiculous that you waited so long to renew. I know from experience that they send that email far enough in advance that, if you did experience problems, there would've been time to fix. Also, you posted a "Tell HN" headline that's pretty linkbait/scandalous. It's misleading in that, the way it is written is intentionally designed to be shocking and make someone click your link. The details could really be boiled down to, "Developer waits until the last day to try to renew, a problem occurs during checkout, and Apple support is not open during the weekend. Developer must wait until Tuesday since Monday is a US holiday." If you'd posted an "Ask HN:" that's one thing but a "Tell HN:" is another. You aren't new here - you know the difference between the two. The Ask is for help, the Tell is for rants or, well, telling about something {good|bad|hacks|exploits|flaws|etc}.

Sorry for your trouble, but unless you tell us otherwise, this just seems to be the result of your procrastination, not "Apple pulled my apps and I did nothing wrong!"
Does prerendering execute JavaScript or only load assets?
Great Application Design Comes Before the Pixels
My hope is that people will choose self-hosted forums over services offered by facebook or google. However the host providers do it they need to make it very easy.
http://www.chevrolet.com/spark-ev-electric-vehicle.html says 7 hours
When a 21st-century paper's abstract starts off by talking about the medieval four humors theory of medicine, and it doesn't even acknowledge how wrong that is, you know you can safely stop reading.
The screenshots and website are polished and look really interesting, however without a "free" trial upon registration a working demo is lacking. Am I missing it?
Such research could also be of immense value to sighted people - automatic, continous object recognition will be very useful for augmented reality applications in a Glass-like device.
E-Gold round 47, I guess?

It's unclear how predictive the raid on Mt Gox (which appears to be FinCEN MSB registration related, but possibly with more behind it) and LR (which appears to be due to the use of LR by child porn and other illegal activities, ultimately) are for future USG vs. Bitcoin exchangers and other market participants.

(also, sigh, he's getting DoSed; using Prolexic, who are usually pretty decent at mitigating these attacks, but it takes a long time to load.)
If they don't have influence, they don't have any real power to assert their "open web" philosophy

A philosophy does not assert itself by having power, it reveals its value (or lack thereof) to the honest thinker, and has that value regardless of the existence of such thinkers.
Simple:

`git pull` = `git fetch` + `git merge`

`git fetch` much more often used by those who use the rebase workflow (vs. the merge workflow).
No, that's not the definition of a bounce. From Google Analytics' own documentayion [1]:

> Bounce rate is the percentage of visits that go only one page before exiting a site.

That's all. That's all it can be, because computers cannot, by definition, know if a user read a page. One can compute a probability, based on things like scrolling speed and visible page elements, but that's hard to standarize under a single umbrella term.

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009409?hl=en-GB
Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:krebson...
Agreed, this seems like some kind of strange competition/point of pride between javascript libraries. The smallest slightest advantage in the quality of your application instantly offsets whatever extra time you spent on loading 100k extra javascript.

The only advantage I see is in moving away the ember style. It's ridiculous how frameworks get a free pass from violating single-resposibility by claiming to be "opinionated".
I'm surprised they managed to skirt the law for so long when they actively promoted very shady HYIP programs.
My opinion on e-currency is evolving the more I see how it's actually working in the real world.

Ignoring the fact that bad people many times use e-currency for repulsive things like child slavery, the lesson over the past month or two seems very clear: any form of e-currency is a huge tool for governments to monitor and control economic activity.

We think of e-currency as being much easier to move around than printed currency, but it's actually much easier to track and control than printed currency. Yes, it begins as an anonymous and cryptographically-secure form of value representation, but once government adds just a little enforcement tweaking (many times without even having to pass a law) it becomes a big lead weight around the owner's neck. Best-case, it's all tracked down to the penny. Worst-case, you lose all your value.

I remain a skeptical fan, though. Here's hoping the community works through these issues.
Maybe cleaning toilets should pay better than Wall Street.
Mirror: http://archive.is/heI1J
Curiosity on last layer (the cube game)
I like the video, but even the description in the submitted page is only a copy of the description of the video in Youtube. Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVi2klX_feE
Well, then setup a consultancy that charges that amount, and hire most of the people in the GPU driver reversing projects like Nouveau, Freedreno, Lima, etc. and pocket the difference (GPUs are the most complex hardware out there, so you should be covered skill-wise).

I guess most of those guys would be content with a 100-200k$ wage (or possibly much less), so you can pocket the other 200k$+.

I'm not sure who is even paying anything at all for reversing drivers/hardware (esp. on a temporary basis), but if you know...
Google Drive does that as well.
> Edit: I just ran it a again to check. The bzfilelist process does an lstat on every file in the system one by one.

Wow, so it doesn't even listen for fsevents? What a terrible design, I understand running a full scan every now and then to ensure you haven't missed anything while the filesystem has been offline (in case it's mounted on another machine), but holy crap.
I agree with what everyone here said, but I also must give a counter-point.

Being at a company for less than a year (or even less than two years) can ultimately cause you issues. When I thought I had a job secured, and was at it for half a year, I was "let go". Now, to my resume, I had to add "Company X — 0.5 years".

My track record thus far had been between 0.5 and 1.5 years at companies, either as a contractor or full-time employee. When it came time to interview at places, I actually had interviewers flat-out say "you are a risk to us" because I didn't keep a position at any company for 3 or more years, and their rationale is that I wouldn't hold a position with them much longer than anywhere else.

I know for at least one position, where I went through the grueling interview process and did well, I was rejected, solely based off of this fact.

So before you start hopping companies, keep in mind what it will look like on your resume and how a future employer might interpret it, especially if things don't happen to work out at the company you might get an offer from.

Lastly, I might note and you might already know this, that just because a recruiter contacts you doesn't mean a company is very keen to hire you from the get-go. They are looking for "talent", and thought you were worthy of a try. I've had both recruiters and VCs approach me as technical recruiters, and most of their efforts ended up being fruitless in actually landing some offers (95% of the time it was because I was just not a good fit for the position—my interests and experiences did not match up—and the other 5% was because I didn't meet some set of qualifications, such as a particular degree, prior experience, etc.).
That's $1.584M in today's dollars, for those wondering.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000000+1994+dollars+to...
> Ignoring the fact that bad people many times use e-currency for repulsive things like child slavery

Source?