skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "stack" has been used to indicate the server OS, database and programming language for a while (i.e. LAMP). With client side code having really exploded from a few years ago I had just assumed, in the context of web development, "full stack" to mean somebody who can do both. It's probably only relevant recently when you could choose to be a "front end" developer that only does the browser code. A few years ago the browser code was just something we all did - which is why sites were often ugly!

Obviously we're dealing with stacks upon stacks if you want consider all aspects of computing. I would not think it was very common to find anybody who is truly skilled all the way from chip design up to the graphic design of a web page. Well, at least, I would not expect somebody to be great at every layer. Some of these areas are a career's worth of dedication to master and then also keep up.
“Accounts merged and now my files are gone”
Nice post. Despite what others said, there's a place for a quick overview of Jekyll. The Jekyll wiki (which, have they updated it recently? It seems more useful than I remember it), while comprehensive, covers far more information than you need to get up and running. A quickstart guide would have been handy when I was starting.

A couple things that might have been helpful would be to mention how to create new posts (since they have a specific format) and perhaps linking to a barebones deployment of Jekyll that followed along with your post (though you did link to your site, so kudos for that).

Keep on writing. A Jekyll plugin tutorial (as mentioned by ElongatedTowel) would indeed be a useful resource.
Read so many bad "articles" on medium this month that I'm gonna stop clicking them.
What's worse? Wasting your time by consuming the news, or posting pointless comments on it?
"but if I want intellectual stimulation"

G+ is in that general direction. The social network for hobbys. Connect to granny on facebook, but connect to the guys in your ham radio club and/or photographers and/or podcasters on G+...
I see, I'll try to narrow myself down to a niche that I can do rather well, but I'll do so by trying a wide array of projects that I may find interesting.
Communication is always key, and I will also go for the smaller companies as well as the tech giants we are all familiar with.
I will definitely look into going to California (as well as New York) in order to get a feel for the environment that may best suit me. Thank you for the tips and locations!
What you're basically saying to prospective new users is this:

"I don't trust you enough to spend bandwidth and server-resources on you without getting your ID and credit card info. On the other hand, I expect you trust me with your personal identification and credit card information right off the bat."

I've had to deal with credit-card fraud in the past, so I simply don't deal with companies that do this. I suppose the question is whether or not you're saving enough on costs to offset losing clients who are cautious with their CC and ID info.
F.A.I.L entrepreneurship
Nutrition... I wonder what the core data looks like for what you need to consume, and how agreed upon it is.

I've always read differing and greatly conflicting views on what a person should have as intake, obviously because it's very subjective and so many factors are being balanced (who's saying it, why, motives, height, age, activity levels, etc).

The greatest part of this experiment that interests me is less about providing the product and more to do with determining the exact mix for someone.
It all depends on who you get asking questions.
I think there are two lessons:

1) Use Incognito when using other machines, or

2) Don't trust Google with precious things.
While I have always thought of social media as a waste of time, I dont actually see it going away anytime soon..
The big success of social applications and the entire modern web is accessibility to new users. And I don't mean the UX term accessibility, I mean content. 2000 - Content is generally not interesting to non-tech users. 2013 - Content is generally boring to tech-users, but the overall user base has grown i.e. my grand-mother now gets it..

See you all after the collapse!
A consultant. ;)
:) Build my portfolio I will try to do!

Thank you for the comment, I will check into "Ask the Headhunter". At the moment I am actually job hunting for the summer, and at the very least the reading may help with this as well.
Bell Labs Invents Lensless Camera
Twist isn't solving a fake problem anymore the many services trying to solve the problem of hailing a cab.

That said, sometimes I think it would be nice if a lot of these micro solutions could be aggregated into macro solutions ;)
typical sensational link bait.

medium.com is spamming hacker news with a lot of articles with no real content. ev's probably A/B test optimizing link baits
Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the world
Language Shawa, I get your anger (well, I don't but I think some people do), but I don't see the need for such profanity and name calling as it brings you down to the level of those you're targetting.
If I remember right, another successful company which pivoted away from building wireless networks in developing countries was Meraki.

Poor developing countries. I hope they get their ubiquitous wireless soon. (Alternately, I wonder what this project will pivot into: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1776324009/brck-your-bac... ).
Most kids do have this issue, and I only find that they make one or two projects from school and that's about it. I already have a school project made up, but plan to also work on other projects (hopefully with other people).
I'm fairly good with Java and Python, but I regularly try challenges on websites to improve my language design, readability, and uses to fix a specific problem.
I have no issue with using perceptrons as a learning tool. But they have clung to this model for far too long. The main problem I see is the biogical learning mechanism comes from some feedback mechanism that causes the neurons to grown new connections.

Perceptrons have no way to mimic this and instead resort to sending an error from the output units back toward the input units duringing the learning phase. But when we go to use them, the information only flows forward. So you can never produce a dynamic learning system with these Legos. No matter how much super-glue you use, this rockets never going to make it into space. Yet many of these new deep learning neural nets continue to use back propagation for their learning phase.

I never said we needed EXACT models. And, I know perceptrons are simple to model mathematically and have 40 years of research and tools backing them. But after 40 years, isn't it time we try just a little harder to make something that is a little closer to how biological neurons really work?
Haha. Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for your help.

I see two slightly overlapping trends:

1. Alice is intrigued by all the fuss about Vim and tries her best to wrap her head around it by reading online material and "The Fucking Manual" and getting her hands dirty. Because she knows that she can't be as productive as with her previous editor in an afternoon, she learns Vim on the side. Another benefit of that method (and one she doesn't know about at the moment) is that her commitment can be very light at the beginning: when she'll finally decide that Vim is not for her she won't lost anything. If she likes it her commitment will grow with time, as well as her ROI.

2. Bob is a lot into Twitter, blogs, Reddit and HN and he noticed a serious slant of what he perceives as the elite toward Vim (and the screenshots are pretty) so he decides to follow the herd, however weird Vim might be He installs Janus/SPF13/YADR because he has to be a part of the elite right now, no time to setup all those plugins and stuff. After a couple of coderwall posts listing his favorite plugins, Bob will notice that the elite is moving toward Sublime Text, persuade himself and try to persuade others that Vim is too old and, finally, switch.

The two trends are slightly overlapping because a few Bobs are going to turn into Alices along the way. Thankfully, because who wants Bobs in his community?

For the record, I'm a Bob turned Alice.
There has been a lot of criticism around here about this Soylent thing, and it's understandable: it's dangerous to trust your health to some guys without any medical or nutritional background.

But I am really happy to hear they are getting YC support and funding, now they will be able to develop it further with good input from specialists. This could become something really big.
Why doesn't soylent just pivot to being a giant blender as a service company. Then you can just select what you want to eat: like a three-course meal, everything from soup to desert. Then they just blend all that up just-in-time and ship it out to you as one disgusting mush.
Re #4: The Logan Act makes it a felony for a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority.
Hehe, hey, I was gonna say that!
Yes, but I haven't seen any great Sublime extensions yet - there isn't even a good Git integration.
Well, if you are around for a couple hundred years in a red brick building I will take you up on your offer :).
Kitty doesn't want to go in the tub
or use a language/environment that allows for trailing commas...
Apply for a patent. The office will be too lazy to actually consider what you are doing and give you a license to file abroad which you can show to the feebs to prove you are not doing anything illegal.
Blood must be shed.
a.k.a Kızılejder
Your post on begs the question: If having decent content in Facebook requires as much customization (work) as email, why not use email instead? With email I get none of the privacy blunders of Facebook, none of the advertising, I get a federated service and asymmetrical connections.

People expect that Facebook provides the automatic content customization/filtering. And rightfully so, I may add. It's a shame that Facebook is little more than a walled-garden email service with photo storage.
I understood the meaning. Perhaps I am wrong, as english is not my first tongue, but is there anywhere to rise that is not up?
Its interesting that I didn't see a compare and contrast analysis. My "news.google.com" is semi personalized, I've got a couple relevant keywords, and there's nothing to see most of the time. My hometown newspaper fired most of their reporters a couple years ago and has gone full on tabloid with stuff like "Latinos hope 'soap' about diabetes hits home" and "Gatherings: Menu explores new territory with veggies and ice cream", seriously, that's what passes for local news.

You can skim off the customers of the local news merely by rising above that low level, you don't need perfection. That is the mistake in the original article of complaining about only 4 relevant stories in 30. OK, well, if that is bad, what is good? Local news is profitable with less than 1 in 30, so what's the problem with 4 in 30?
Design: Seeing Without Thinking
This really is the sensible solution.
Atul's response is much classier and gives a lot more background info: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/45791.html?thread=165855#t1658...
Startup Task #0: Get out of bed ready to work.
I use sublime mainly for Haskell development. Haskell sublime is the best editor support for Haskell.
People started gathering in front of a mainstream media outlet. They started broadcasting about the riots.
By this logic, someone who likes to exercise a lot will have people who tell them them are too athletic. Some people don't like to exercise at all, and others will tell them they are too lazy.

You better pick which side you are on so you can shrug off the people laughing at you.

This ignores the point that the optimal spot on the spectrum is somewhere in the middle, or left of/right of center depending on the situation. This post ignores the fact that a starving artist should be proud of their ways when someone says they are not focusing on money enough. I prefer critically analyzing the substance of the cretique instead of just sticking to my position, and treating their mockery as always non-constructive.
so, let me get this straight: the backers bought a powder substance from a random guy on the internet, consumed it for a week, excitingly report less sleep, more energy, better mood, and come back asking for more...
Forbidden Technologies - Wimbledon, London, UK

We're looking for an R&D manager to take over the technical lead and management of a growing team working on developing FORscene, the market leading professional cloud-based video editing system.

Technology is a combination of C/C++ for video compression and processing, Java for editing interfaces (Web applet and Android), and python for everything else.

Wimbledon has good transport links, and ideal for anybody based in the South-West of London and not wanting to commute into the city. Competitive salary and share options (we're a listed company - FBT on AIM).

See http://www.forbidden.co.uk/company/jobs/ for more details.
Top 7 Reasons Why You Would Be Mad Not To Have An ISA
My grades would have been better if I would have stick more to the books and learned more.
That sounds like a dystopia to me.

EDIT: I have to concede that while the Soylent team's lack of health/nutrition expertise is worrying, the promise of their business is so important on a global scale that they deserve to get funded and further research their ideas. Very rarely do you see a startup operate in this space, even more rare one that could end up fighting world hunger.
Yes, it was a Slackware CD that came with every copy of the PCQuest mag back in the 1995-1996 time frame. My first taste of Linux and more importantly, it satiated a thirst for hacking and knowledge. I still look back and recall fondly all the neat things I learned hacking Slackware. R.I.P. Atul.
Seriously! Every language should support this. Not just for arrays but in argument lists too! Python does a good job here but I can't think of anything else which does.
This is a terrific resource, especially the "Device-W" column. Thank you.

For the tablets though, I'm finding the table's usability diminished by the inconsistent width/height relationships. For most of the devices width is smaller than height, but for a number of them it's the opposite. Why is this? Is this how the manufacturers report the #'s?

Edit: I realize now that it's because different tablets have different default orientations. Yet another challenge in designing for mobile.
Concurrent queues are important, but weren't the data structures I was talking about. I was referring to persistent data structures (like Clojure's) that rely on versioning (and used in MVCC, for example). The old version is collected when there are no more references. These immutable data structures don't require ownership anyway.

Circular references are a big problem, because even if you have a single circular reference, a significant portion of your object graph may leak. (Say A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> ..., and also B -> A. A tiny problem like this has just caused your entire object graph to leak).
I don't believe that all Afghan students hooligans and this looks like an isolated incidence (unless you provide data).

This is hacker news and a balanced and non partisan report would've been better.
ASUS Transformer Book Trio: hybrid laptop running Windows and Android
You only have to edit one line to add an element to the list!!!

Who says you have to add your elements at the end? If OP is going to be so rude and absolutist, he should really pick a stronger argument.
Pinterest and Instagram grew out from the base of early smartphone adopters. These is as techy a group as you can find...
Your understanding was my understanding. I wouldn't call someone that just does web development full stack, unless they also wrote the browser.
How to create a Grid - Introduction to Kendo UI
While I appreciate the efficiency of this, I will happily stay a relic of the olden days, when we ate food not only for being able to hack the next day, but also took pleasure out of every meal.

I am happy to spend a considerable part of my budget to procure groceries that have been grown in a sustainable way and meat from animals that were not industrially produced.

I am also happy to spend considerable time preparing these ingredients into Dishes that are not only nutritious but also a good enjoyment for all senses.

For people that otherwise get their food from budget Walmart microwave dishes or McDonalds and the likes, Soylent might be a good alternative. It is probably easy to add all kinds of spices to create the illusion of variation that is very important for most human taste buds.
"Full stack" is just a re-fusion of the "front-end" and "back-end" web developer separation that was already tired. Something about "the geeks" not having aesthetic sense and "the backend" being too "hard" for "the designers".
These numbers are amazing, both platforms have done much to improve access to information
What did you use to create those charts?
Someone I know has had similar issues to this (for different reasons), and by his experience I'd recommend you see a doctor right away.

Depending on the cause, they may be able to do something simple to fix things, but if there's something more serious going on, you'll be glad they found out now. In my friend's case, the fact that they didn't intervene when he was younger has made treatment more complicated.

In any case, I definitely would not take medical advice from anyone here (or on the web), or delay seeing a professional.
Someone who knows VHDL (and computer architecture), kernel development, application development, VM environment, server configuration, Ruby, Rails, HTML, javascript and network administration.

Anyone else is just a very snub, but not full stack, developer.
Searching the real world in real time
Facebook isn't broken, I'm just not interesting
I mostly come to HN for the comments and the articles secondary. Sometimes I want to flag a link bait or potentially bad article, but I decide against it because while the article might be sub-par, the comments that will follow on HN will be much more insightful and interesting.
Completely agree. Idea sites like firespotting and halfbakery just turn into a really good way to waste your time. If you have a reasonable idea, do some research on it. If it turns out to be feasible, do some customer development and start building it out to really test it.

Doing these things and failing 100 times in a row will almost certainly turn out to be a better use of your time than spending even 5 minutes looking for an idea by skimming through the likes of this:

[1] "A pinterest type service where if u spot a deal.." blah blah

[2] a rotating tube house

[1] http://firespotting.com/item?id=1061

[2] http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/rotating_20tube_20house#13702...
Funny you should mention 'forcing them to':

"I'll wake up in the morning and go on Facebook just ... because," Casey says. "It's not like I want to or I don't. I just go on it. I'm, like, forced to. I don't know why. I need to. Facebook takes up my whole life."
http://kottke.org/13/05/wanting-to-be-liked
npm modules require an owner with a valid username and password for npm. This user is then identified via npm. Problem management goes through Issac, the human in charge of npm.
Well that's an interesting report; you might have a career as a journalist! Let's look at it:

> Recently, there was almost a riot in our university because of Afghan students (though Indians were also involved!)

Well, lay the blame quickly! Good start. Make the Indian involvement seem almost incidental.

> A student's car brushed slightly against an Afghan student

Ah, cars don't really brush slightly, now do they? That reads more like "he hit the student with a car" to me. Though perhaps you believe in the stereotype of the exceedingly careful Indian driver, especially the youths... ;)

> and some 10 of them beat him up.

What's "some 10"? Is that an accurate estimate? I'll take your word for it.

> Then Afghans were beaten

Interesting move to the passive voice! Compare "10 of them beat him up" to "Afghans were beaten". It almost seems like it was simply circumstance. I think Indian were more than "also involved", don't you? They beat up the Afghans after hitting one of them with a car.

> In reply, they were planning to beat down every Indian student in our hostel.

Did they put this out on Twitter or Facebook? I think you mean, "someone spread a rumour that they were planning to beat down ever Indian".

> Situation went ugly when Indian students threw stones at police.

And again, more "involvement".

> The point is that Afghan students are not that, well, behaved and cause lots of problems.

Perhaps, but your story doesn't support that.

Your tale sounds like a kid trying desperately not to lie, but bending the truth just about as far as possible to make it seem that "he started it and it's all his fault" :)
Most web servers run logic concurrently (different requests are handled in parallel). The request handlers then need to access a shared data store, and that's where you get a bottleneck (that people try to solve with all manners of eventually-consistent caches or distributed stores).
Ugh.

Honestly this is like some future nightmare scenario. Perhaps if I were piloting some advanced craft it might be neat but last I checked I certainly do not need a contraption like this to be efficient or comfortable.

Perhaps a force feedback chair would improve my productivity by whacking me with each error I commit daily, wait don't tell my boss.
Interesting, thanks. Though not having read her book, one of the critiques seem to be that pharma companies spent a disproportionate amount on marketing and sales. And that is something I have to agree with. At the moment it looks like the industry is closing research facilities all the time one of their drugs falls from the patent cliff while keeping marketing budgets untouched. Looking at the research organization and the innovation of their approaches, I must say that they are vastly behind and extremely conservative. Novartis seems to be doing it right, though.
Link is broken :/ I suppose that's task #1 for me :)

Try this instead:
http://blog.chaoscollective.org/post/51927699431/warmly-wake...
I have a better idea for a new language based on python:

and walked: "through the valley"' he's and feared: not: "evil"!
# he.and_walked("through the valley").and_feared(not("evil"))!

drop down:' criminal scum!
# criminal_scum.drop_down()!

eat: breakfast' you!
# you.eat(breakfast)!

kill: with pistol' maim: blunt object' opponent's check dead:
# opponent.maim(blunt_object).kill(with_pistol).check_dead()

print person's name's last
print person's last' name # ;)
# print person.name.last

if my's cookies's jar's empty::
print "Cookie Monster, why is the Cookie jar empty?"
why: cookie jar's empty:' cookie monster

# why cookie monster, why? :)
why: cookie jar's empty:' cookie monster's why: "?"

it's called Glas :)
Hint hint: PHP does this!
I've worked in the UK tech industry for 15 years, none of it for an investment bank, and I don't recognise your description at all.
The downside of being a generalist
I don't really understand how this process works. I use multiple accounts from the same machine every day. I'm usually signed into more than one at the same time. But there's no indication that the accounts have been "merged" to any degree, or there being a primary account.

Can someone shed some more light?
Show HN: A Rails webapp that stores health data and auto-fills medical forms
Maximize your team's efficiency as an iOS Designer
This article really rings with me. It's odd, because usually employers say that they prefer generalists who are smart and quick learners, but in the very same job ads they want e.g. "at least 5 years of Rails experience" for any somewhat senior position.