skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in Silicon Valley and I use Caltrain and Light Rail a lot

I live in Houston and I just walk to work.

There are also some very walkable and hip places like Midtown and Montrose--lots of restaurants, bars, theaters, etc., all in walking distance of one another.

If you do the whole commuter suburb thing, though, then Houston could be a bad deal. Solution: don't do that.

When I do need to drive, it's never rush hour and it's not a problem.

> Yes and your kids will go to shitty schools.

There are many fantastic schools in Houston. And as far as colleges go, Rice is ranked nationally alongside Cornell. In this sense, Houston actually has better schools than San Francisco.

> There are reasons why businesses continue to stay in "high-wage" "high-cost" places like New York and California: High-value employees are there.

Houston has a major talent pool coming out of Rice that local companies are doing a poor job of exploiting. In all honesty, this talent is completely on par with that coming from Stanford, which fuels so much of the Silicon Valley start-up scene.
One potential pitfall of SQLite is that datatypes declared in your CREATE TABLE statements have purely indicative value. You can in effect store strings or booleans in an integer column. I'd welcome a 'strict mode' which would do away with weak typing and behave more like traditional SQL databases.
THIS.

Bitbucket is free for personal use. Unlimited private repos.
Edu accounts have unlimited collaborators... FOREVER.

and they're super responsive to support requests, support importing code from more sources, and support mercurial and git both.

Also the ticket trackers let you attach arbitrary files, not just those animated gifs :)
Flickr seems to be down at the moment.
Abstract Beauty
Google Poetics
You misread it - it says a rare disease is a condition affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States., not 1 in 200,000 or fewer.
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I'm hoping one day to live in detroit. I keep hearing cool things going on there (even in other fields such as urban ag) so that potential mixed in with the actually livable real estate (It's sickening up here in NYC just listening to friends talk about how much rent is for what they are getting), and I wouldn't call myself a contrarian but I definitely one to try to find even if that means if I'm taking pieces here and there of others ways.

Eh, first things first… un jour…
No, it's not.

There are trends and a lot of designers follow them, because that's what's currently in demand. It doesn't mean they aren't creative or execute poorly, which would've been indeed an insult.
Nothing says we live in a local universe.
Hi Guia, nope that is rendering correctly. What we've build is simple, but more than what you've seen so far. It's a page for collecting email addresses and showing how many people have signed up ahead of you and behind you. It also allows you to immediately skip ahead in line by sharing on Facebook and Twitter, something we haven't seen before on other pages like this.

Nope, there is not info on the actual product we are building yet accept for the email that is sent out when you sign up. We wanted to keep some mystery, but based on others' comments it sounds like we should be give at least some info about the product.
Climbing Mount Improbable
I think angersock is going to be right about this one. Looks like nothing more than a dropbox with hooks into camera and image viewing apps. Ultimately resulting in TBs of scruffy selfies.
The Psychology of a Bug
Perhaps the only permanent fix for such things might be to email the magazine's editor?
> That's why he is in jail for the time he is,

No. It's pretty much entirely because he and his group spoke loudly about what a horrible job AT&T was doing.

Because other than that they scraped a website and sent a list of email addresses to journalists.

> Person who doesn't want to be in jail says "Your honor, [...]

Sure, and a photographer who'd just taken an incriminating picture of the police but who didn't want to go to jail would say "Yes, sir, here's the card."

> But he's no Ghandi, he's a douchebag

Your main reason for thinking that he's no Ghandi is that he's a douchebag. Circular reasoning always justifies itself.

You'd probably be one of the many standing around watching, lecturing, about how the smelly hippy should have given the police the memory card if he didn't want to be beaten, without asking why the police are trying to confiscate photographs.

> So my sympathy for him is very minimal.

That's good. Conserve your sympathy. Wait for the moment, then unleash it when they least expect!

> repeated proclamations from his supporters

Who, me? Doubtful. I'd likely find him to be a douchebag. No, seriously. I don't know him.

And what's a proclamation then? If it's cold and I say it's cold, have I proclaimed it or complained about it?

> in the vein of "oh, he's treated so badly, he'll burn you all to the ground once he's out" is not helping either.

Gosh no. Not in the vein of - exactly like.

But I don't mean him. He's done here because he's too visible. Weev's final troll is going to be costing $80k a day forever for a team of secret-service to follow him around making sure he never tweets anything in violation of his parole.

I mean the next person who for their own reasons stumbles onto a vulnerability and realizes what the company is like to other hackers - douchebags or not.

> Threatening is usually not the best way to gain sympathy.

You misread my intent again. It's not to win sympathy for weev, it's to point out that they've made an enemy of their own choosing.

They're kicking a hornets' nest. If they stopped, it'd stop spewing hornets. Then maybe they'd discover it was honey-bees after all.
What do I install on Ubuntu 10.04?
Well that is annoying.
This was fascinating. Awesome visualizations. Thanks for posting.
Did you just email them?
>Don't assume you're safe because you're not near a high point

Yet again human intuition proves counter-intuitive. It's easier for us to visualize that being at a high point is more dangerous than a lower place. If there were a method to use FFT and convert land from a height map to the resistance/conductivity domain, I'm sure there will be very very surprising results.
I love how at the end of all these physics articles there is always some guy who is like "O HELL YEA WE CAN USE THIS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS!"
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and thus we learn that RethinkDB is an elaborate scheme to get programmers to learn Higher Order Abstract Syntax techniques, not just have a neat db :)

Hoas, and its sibling PHOAS, are great ways of embedding a mini language inside another language, they're especially powerful in language like Haskell, Scala, Idris, and the like.
Relevant article from the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578389-despite-ranco...

"Two lawmakers are trying to reform the code: Dave Camp, a Republican, and Max Baucus, a Democrat. Mr Obama should lend his weight to their efforts. Ideally, they would start afresh with no loopholes and much lower rates. Republicans should love this: if Congress were to scrap all loopholes and deductions, it could nearly halve income-tax rates and still raise the same amount of money. Democrats should like it, too: a more efficient tax system would let them pay for the same amount of government with less drag on growth. The snag is that voters define “loopholes” as other people’s tax breaks. Their own, they rather like. Getting rid of particular boondoggles such as the mortgage-interest deduction may prove impossible. But capping the overall amount of deductions any individual can take should not be, so long as both parties have their fingerprints on the bill, thus sharing the credit and the blame."
If you want to make it easy for them to replace you, automate and document as much as you can? That way, if you want to leave, you can just hand over the job with only a few days guiding the new person around.
It is depressing that 'the solution' to finding clients was basically to send spam (highly targeted spam, but nevertheless it was commercial e-mail sent to large numbers of people without prior consent of the recipient - where I live, that would be illegal, and I understand it is also illegal in California where the author of the article is based).

The other options for finding freelancing clients are not very good - I've tried advertising on Google, and found that I pay a high CPC, get a low click-through rate, and despite my ad being clearly worded about providing services, most of the people come through on searches looking for jobs themselves, so it hasn't proved profitable (i.e. my cost to acquire a customer seems to be extremely high through that method).

I have had success with ODesk but it is hard to get clients without spending a lot of time first, even with the highest possible rating, and so effective rates there are very low, and ODesk demands a 10% cut, with contractual terms that mean that you can't do any work for the client without going through ODesk unless you wait two years without doing any work.

It is unfortunate that it is so hard for non-spammy consultants to get in touch with potential clients.

Perhaps cold calling companies might prove to be a more cost effective strategy to acquire customers.
Can you recommend some companies where you can work remotely? Maybe even abroad? (I'm living in Germany.)

I'm searching for a part-time job somewhen in the future.
They have not made any changes to Google Voice or GV integration since the rollout of Hangouts. Period.
> And a valuable cost-saving measure!

Hospitals make a lot of money from unpaid bills http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Shocker. Protocol issues. Time for another extension! Or to just shoot X.org in the head and quell the FUD surrounding Wayland.
I'm half sorry, but this article is great example why eugenics is wrong and why empathy and weird mutations trump it every day.
> Bothers me to no end that Apple does this same shit with FaceTime, presumably to appease the carriers. They already bypass SMS when both are iMessage users - why the hell are they not doing video calls by default when both have cameras?

Because, first, most people don't prefer video calls in many circumstances (leaving aside cost issues), and second because of cost/performance issues, since voice calls use voice minutes and video calls would use data, and most users are more likely to face data overages (or, if on quasi-unlimited plans, hit the point of data slowdowns) than they are to run out of plan voice minutes.
I hope you're right, but to my knowledge, this has never been done with Skype

It was done, but Skype has a rule about this which they apply quickly: Press the cease and desist button.

I've been using IM clients with support for skype, only to see it get dropped. Which makes it doubleplus sad that MSN (which was fairly interoptable) got ditched for Skype and not the other way around.

The only "supported" way for third party IM clients to access Skype's network without risk of lawsuits is piggybacking on its COM API and have the user download and log into the official client, and have that handle all the actual communication.

You probably think "He's gotta be kidding", but sadly I'm not.

TLDR: Skype does not only not care for or provide an open-source implementation, but they are actively fighting it.
Everest, an app that helps unlock human potential
I read the article using the Dolphin Browser on Android, and I did not see any popup...
I'd love for this to be open-source, with attribution back to you all, its awesome
A fascinating, excellently written article; a prime example of high-quality, long-form writing I enjoy reading.

A very human story that includes one of the most intriguing forms of "hacking" I know of--working to understand and manipulate our complex biology to improve human life.

It is fascinating the ways in which studying rare diseases leads to discovering more information about how our bodies work under normal conditions--discovery that may not have been realized otherwise.
I think this auto meme that "open standards" = "unable to innovate" is complete and utter hogwash.

Reminds of a project posted to HN a while back that had taken someone a month. I replicated it in the evening using all open source, open protocol components instead of being stubborn and falling prey to NIH syndrome.
Google easter egg troll. That's awesome.
I applied, didn't get the job. Awwwkward.
> Or to just shoot X.org in the head and quell the FUD surrounding Wayland.

Yes, we should stop being so critical and automatically embrace everything new as much better than what came before it, due to being developed by agile superstar developers.
If your socket has a ground fault interrupter, no. In every other case, yes.
Where oh where oh where did you get that idea?
Love how they use a white iPad and black Asus on a white background here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8...

Makes the iPad's bezel blend into the background and makes the VivoTab look larger.
Well, what financial incentive does Google have for creating a completely open and free communication standard?

If their goal is having users on the network, creating more viable options for getting onto the network can't be a bad thing.
Turn your iPhone into a Batman signal light with 3D printed Lightclip
For anyone interested, a link to photos of Harry Eastlack's skeleton:

http://raregeneticdisorder.blogspot.com/2012/09/fop-skeleton...

Wonderful article, as expected from Carl Zimmer, who does such a great job of exploring biological mysteries like this.
> They have not made any changes to Google Voice or GV integration since the rollout of Hangouts.

If you have upgraded from Talk to Hangouts, outbound calling via Gmail no longer works (there is no longer even an icon for it) since the introduction of Hangouts. So that's a change (though, a reversible one, since you can switch back to the old GTalk Chat interface in Gmail.)

Google's stated that they intend to fully integrate outbound calling via Hangouts (in fact, it sounds like their intent is to replace the entire distinct Voice functionality, including the UI, by integrating Voice fully as a subfeature of Hangouts), but they haven't done it yet.
The real origins of Tumblr
A slightly hackish proof of concept IDE I built called Turbo Impress is built off the same technologies that Light Table is using.

https://github.com/philipbjorge/Turbo-Impress

Specifically, I use the Node Webkit project which is an app runtime built on top of Chromium and Node.js. A pretty neat way to get effectively free cross-platform support on Windows, OSX, and Linux.

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

I'm not sure how Sublime is getting their cross platform support. I've been interested in it for a while though, so I hope someone chimes in.
The sad thing is, no one has noticed that Hangouts is invoking a WebRTC plugin in my PulseAudio container, leading me to believe that they're already experimenting with WebRTC.

With WebRTC, a proper signaling protocol (they're probably using Jingle anyway, give the RTC history and the fact that RTC relies and builds on Jingle), and a relay server, there's not much to need to do to interoperate if they wanted to enable it.

This whole notion that they "can't" make it interoperable or that it will "slow them down", is complete and utter shit. Slow them down on what? All I've seen so far is more merging of GoogleTalk+GooglePlus and a rebranding effort. Basically no new feature, no integration with Google Voice, no seamless integration with SMS.
You've bought into the startup porn a little too much. YC is a startup mill -- they make a TINY investment, and it doesn't matter if most of them fail. The failed founders make a HUGE investment, and its on their head that the majority of the cost of failure sits.

YC floats on a bubble of spit and polish and politics. They want people like you to buy into it, because they need to take advantage of people like you.
Are you kidding me? Or do you just make assumptions and accusations about technologies you don't know about?

"Super star agile developers"? That's the best FUD you can put in my mouth? By the way, you might look up the "superstar" developers behind Wayland: Ctrl+F "The developers": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoco... ..... Huh, that's sure interesting.

Nowhere did I imply that Wayland was better than X simply because it was newer. That's the exact kind of FUD I'm talking about from the X.org crowd that fears Mir and Wayland because they don't understand: the current technologies, the future technologies, the evolution of Wayland, the DEVELOPERS behind Wayland AND the HUGE list of flaws in X.

Stop spreading uninformed FUD, do not put words in my mouth and don't accuse me of being a hipster.
NZ Hacker builds own motorcycle, with wifi penetration tool for mobile cracking
It's not my monthly budget, so much as my guilt complex that people in full-time employment are paid to do 8 hours work each day. I don't quite 'get' how they can be employed in that and have a clean conscience if they then procrastinate or use it for restroom breaks - and I do know that office workers waste a lot of time.

You're right though about the hours; 30 seems sensible to aim for, especially being newly-married where working late every evening isn't a Good Idea (TM).
> Or just click on the "Call Phone" button next to the "Start Hangout" button in Gmail? That's still there for me, is it not for other people?

Its not there for me, and Google has acknowledged that the outbound call functionality is missing with Hangouts and that that is why the legacy Talk interface is still available and you can freely switch between them, saying that they will retain that interface until the calling features have been integrated into Hangouts. [1] So I don't know why you're special.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/20/4348256/hangouts-is-future...
I haven't seen the movie, but weren't all the items in your list pretty standard fare for dreamers 30-40 years ago? I mean, the Star Trek TOS series introduced most of those ideas, and the series that followed expanded on them, philosophically or aesthetically.

It's difficult to deny, IMO, that human imagination as far as the future is concerned has not dreamed up anything beyond what was conceived by the early grandmasters of science fiction literature and television.
IMAP in gmail next
But only 5 collaborators which isn't good when you have a class of 30-60!
Yes, you can.

I'd use Google Voice if it was available in Australia.
> Do you know of any really good tutorials emphasizing Angular's $resource service?

Not really. I just used the official documentation. The egghead.io tutorials may touch on $resource. I also found this helpful: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2433-Using-RESTful-Controllers-...

Some Googling turned this up: https://github.com/dalcib/angular-phonecat-mongodb-rest. It may help you.
reminds me of this french film: Tanguy (2001) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274155/
Let's bring Mir and Wayland already.
In most cases you are correct, an exception is a lightning strike. Random Google coughed up this result "CPR usually has a success rate of 10% or less. In cases of lightning injury, CPR can have success rates of up to 90%. As such, normal rules of triage do not apply. If you find someone without a pulse or respirations after a lightning strike, begin CPR immediately." [1]
[1]http://www.wildernessutah.com/learn/lightning.html
I think of "hacking" as breaking things, taking them apart, and learning how they work; and "programming" as creating and building new things. As much as I am in awe of the amazing technical power of elite black hat hackers, there is something really special about creating something new and transporting it from your imagination into the real world.
> What's new about this? Prior to Hangouts, calls to my Google Voice number always was routed to my cell phones and Google Talk.

As I understand, both inbound and outbound calling via the Gmail interface were nonfunctional initially for users who upgraded to Hangouts, so the "new" thing is that the inbound call functionality was restored; outbound is still pending (and it sounds like they are planning, ultimately, much deeper integration than just restoring what the old Gmail Talk interface had.)
Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads
Yeah, I think the concept of sticking a JVM in the middle of the process of generating browser scripts is very strange. Clojure has a lot of JVM specific quirks that don't make sense in the context of Javascript at all. And if you're coming from another Lisp/Scheme dialect, Clojure is definitely nontrivial to learn.

Wisp looks like Javascript was supposed to look before they bolted C syntax onto it. People say that Javascript is like Scheme with C syntax. So Wisp is like Javascript with Scheme syntax. I think this is something I would actually use.

I didn't know about LispyScript either, though. I would have to compare/contrast the two.
Thanks for posting this. I'm going to be learning Go for a little side project and couldn't quite remember this mechanism.
Being a freelancer does not necessarily equate to being an entrepreneur.
Charging by repository count, rather than some saner metric more indicative of actual usage (like number of users) is a deal breaker.

Got tired of waiting for Github to stop excluding my team because of the repo count nonsense, went to Bitbucket, never looked back.

Would gladly have paid Github a reasonable amount of money, but according to their silly metric, my little team required a Platinum account.

$20 a month for our sized team at Bitbucket and we have unlimited everything. For $25 a month at Github, we'd already be out of repositories just versioning our dotfiles.
A person posted a comment on Reddit claiming to have done so: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ewszk/att_just_...

I have no first hand experience myself but just happened to read that comment earlier today.
I'm afraid breathable air does cost you the energy required to operate the lungs. This energy is mostly generated from digesting organic matter such as vegetables and meat which can vary in price. Free cannot exist since we live in a universe with entropy. In other words in any given system some energy (cost) is lost.
Yea i really enjoyed the story, I wouldn't worry about it; they seem really reactionary.
8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami
Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education
Google abandoning open standards is nothing new.

It seems they'll use open standards only as long as it serves them, but when they've grown big enough to dominate the competition, they'll turn around in a heartbeat and exploit that.

Just look at what they did to the open web with Chrome.

First they said "Web standards are important, so here is a good, fast and web-standards compliant browser. Feel free to try it". After a while that was not enough, and on every single web-page they had they had a big "Use Chrome!" ad for every visitor not using it already.

Once they had gained enough dominance, suddenly Google started using non-W3C HTML in their production web-sites. HTML which had not been fully drafted or ratified and which was only available as they saw fit in web-kit.

And then all the other non-Google browsers were suddenly "slow" on "adopting new HTML standards". Basically through its internet dominance, and now its browser, Google pushed through its own implementation of proprietary HTML features as standards other browsers had to implement, without any discussion, feedback or other input.

Google just decided that they alone should dictate how the HTML-standard is from now on.

After seeing that happen, I lost all belief in Google as a company which I will rely on for anything more than I strictly need to.