skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting production numbers. The model S is now outselling the Chevrolet Corvette, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_(redirect)#P...
"Oh ho ho, what a clever ruse, pretending to confuse Bush with Obama."

Firstly, I actually did. Bush went through my mind as I was typing. I realized as I was typing. I was about to delete back, but I thought it was quite interesting to leave the typo. Also, I often do leave typos. Sometimes they say more than what I intended. No, not a normal thing to do and perhaps confusing to the reader, agreed. And yes, it makes me weird.

Next... from a UK perspective, Bush and Obama are both "far" (not trying to align US "right" with the fascist notion of "far right") right in comparison to the main UK right wing party. From my POV, Bush and Obama are(1) essentially the same. From my perspective the US simply does not have a "left". Just "far" right and even more right. Its an extreme right wing country. The US has no left of center political party at all, let alone socialist, and heaven forbid, communist.

Understand, I make no value judgement there. The US being an extreme capitalist right country is required to balance with extreme left countries like Russian and China.

You final part is sadly mere childish ignorant assumptive insult. I'll leave you to that.

(1)BTW, see that word "are"? I slipped and typed "asre" by mistake. Nearly "arse". Had that been mis-typed as "arse" I might well have left it in. See how my insanity works? See the mystical power of the typo? Definitely something Freudian going on there, right?
Any reason why you guys went rambo building on top of werkzeug instead of, say, django or flask?

Serious questions. I love the project.
That's pretty trivial to do with nginx though, isn't it? I have a server that can run php on certain subdomains AND folders, node.js on others and I suppose ruby would be pretty easy too.

In fact, on one domain nginx sends part of the traffice /static/ directly to that actual directory, and anything else gets picked up by node.js.

Or is what I'm doing really stupid? I'm not currently running anything significant on my servers, and this is not my primary domain of interest, so I've never checked how risky my setup is. Maybe you could tell me if that's the case?
Nvm, just loaded. Very slick. Awesome site. I like it a lot.
I want to know one thing about this phone that the page did not mention.

Can I `gcc-arm -o MyApp main.c` on my PC and run MyApp on any Ubuntu Edge phone, without having to unlock them or enable them for dev or any other nonsense? Or is development restricted to QML and HTML5?
> "meta" work that only affected the product in passing

UX is basically a continuation of the project manager role (depending on what a given shop interprets that as). It is meant to steer the entire product design (and I don't mean PSD files) from the ground up, so it's not really "in passing".

Also, most UX people I know do have a decent skill at PS, so I guess they are listening to that concern.
I don't get a crap ton of recruiter mail. (Yay?) I'm in a good gig now, so I don't really respond to the ones that I do get. Sometimes, if I feel that they're not too slimy, I'll respond by saying "I'm OK now, I'll keep you in mind down the road if I ever need anything," and file away their contact info in the event my current gig goes south. My life is busy enough that I'd probably be annoyed at the presumption I've got time to deal with a work sample test on top of dealing with the spam in the first place. However...

I'm definitely one of those people described in XKCD's nerd sniping strip.[0] If the sample problem actually flicked that little nerve in my brain, you might get a response from me just because I couldn't help myself. But here's the kicker. You'd only get my solution as long as I could email it directly to you instead of the recruiter. At that point, even if I'm not interested in working for you now the sample problem you wrote has sparked some interest. Now, I'm interested in striking up a relationship with that might not amount to much at the moment, but may prove fruitful in the future. If we've gotten this far, I'm not interested in dealing with the recruiter any more.

[0] http://xkcd.com/356/
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Bizarrely, the US decided to flex its muscle to ground Evo Morales' plane, on the suspicion that Snowden may be on it.

Actions speak louder than words. This is obviously a much bigger issue to the Obama administration than they are saying.
> It is a starkly totalitarian measure that is unparalleled in human history.

Really...? Come on now, that's totally unbacked by any analysis of history. I agree with you on the immorality, but hyperbole like that doesn't advance your case very well.
Because it's basically a desktop computer.
The people of the US know we're considered a "bully" and intentionally elect people to federal government so as to maintain that status.

A label you use derisively is a point of pride in the American psyche.
Uruguayan here. We have had multiple dictatorships in our short history.
We know what the government is capable of, not in theory, but in our bones.

We root for Snowden, because we share his pain.
great job! very well-designed and it runs real smoothly on wp8.

i created a tile for it using webapps [1] and it really feels like a native experience (looks good on my start screen too [2]..)

would be great if you ever get round to submitting a wrapped version to the wp store as well. its unfortunately lacking in quality hn apps..

[1] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/webapps/49e97b4c...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/ak32KWb.png
Why not redirect the old domain?
> Why would someone get the phone at $695 when it could go down more?

Because everybody that paid more is being refunded. See the notes on each of the events. It won't go down anymore, but even if that happened, you'd not be screwed for supporting the campaign earlier.

> the scale of the goal and the precedent it could set for people doing very capital-intensive projects with crowdfunding was what motivated me to back it.

I'd also support it just on that basis alone, but I'm also looking forward to have a well supported and familiar Linux distribution on a phone.
Just an FYI, the link to "tutorial" on the main landing page of paintfont.com is broken.
> you don't believe in something does not make it false.

What makes things false are empirical studies.

I'm cool with people catering to that market, but I think there's a fine line to walk between selling stuff that's maybe not really that useful, but makes people feel good about themselves, and snake oil. Yoga is probably beneficial for people; 'alternative healing', maybe not so much, in many cases.

I guess you can make the argument that people are going to buy that stuff in any case, but that's kind of going against the idea that you're making the world better, which was a very nice statement in the actual article.
Thanks for the tips. Will definitely investigate.

A buddy of mind wrote HandPlot for AutoCAD (way back in the day). It'd jitter the HPGL/2 output to mimic a drafter's pen drawn technique. The visual "draft" effect encouraged dialog, whereas the precision of normal plots shutdown discussion. (Looks like it's now a built in feature called Visual Styles, hmmm).

I've always wanted to do the same for hand lettering. Any one who's done drafting on the boards knows what I'm talking about. People used to take great pride in their unique lettering. Somehow parlaying that into one's design/contract drawings would be awesome.

I looked at PostScript and TrueType, but couldn't figure out how to randomize the letter forms. I never looked at OpenType.
I think one of the most valuable aspects of face-to-face time is that the mentor can challenge you, or lead you in directions it might have taken you longer to get there or you might not have even thought of. Cf the Socratic method, which I think far too many classrooms eschew (I can't count the number of times I've fallen asleep in dry fact presenting lectures).

That being said, sometimes hands on guidance (especially for more corporeal pursuits, such as playing a musical instrument or weight training), can save not just wasted practice time, but correct bad form before it does possible physical damage.
A new portfolio - Sacha Greif
You think all developers should have already updated their apps to work with the latest iOS beta release, quite literally the day they (and all the non-tech-savvy people who have been conditioned by Gmail et al. to think of "Beta" as "Latest and greatest") get their hands on that version of the OS for the first time?
I recommend the news and tour section, to learn more about project. Especially the participation in Google Summer of Code and GNOME Outreach Program for Women program, references to PRISM - and decentralizing the web, donation campaign where they raised 45K are interesting. It uses python, postgresql, and they were/are looking for women contributors and/or students.

PS: ..I am not part of the team.

Edit: See also the talk at Pycon US. http://pyvideo.org/video/725/40-media-goblin-the-road-to-fed...

Edit2: Everyone may run their own instances and The 'federation' idea suggests to me that independent instances will be able to enable social interactions. http://pyvideo.org/video/725/40-mediagoblin-the-road-to-fede.... See also this checklist. http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-1.0-checklist.html
> Thing is, past the first N years of your career, your CV / resume doesn't (or shouldn't) matter much.

I completely agree with this.

I remember one of the most shocking things one of my professors said was "If you're sending out a resume past the age of 30, you've done something wrong."

This might seem a bit arrogant but I think his point that at some point your achievements and network should be sufficient to stand alone.
How'd that defunding work out?
Oh don't be naive.. When was the last time a standing American President canceled a meeting with the standing Russian president?
Spot on. They should have found an existing model with good but not out of the ordinary specs (something like a 5" HD display, 2Gb RAM, etc.), appealing design, reasonably cheap (as in Nexus 4 cheap), and promised quick delivery. There's plenty of Chinese OEM or second-tier brands able to produce such phones here and now, and having owned a few most of them are good, sound devices hardware wise.

Then started working like mad on getting out a nice, user friendly, hackable OS to early adopters.

It's all in the OS, especially since nobody knows how the specs of the planned phone will compare to next year's models.
This is great for any one like me that believe/think in GNU goals that such a project exists and is viable alternative to private systems. Also it's good opportunity for Python people to contribute to GNU. Moreover, MediaGoblin is the only project in this vein I know of, there's not much free 2.0 services available in Python.
Anyone looking for non-technical co-founder in NYC, SF, or Boston? 
I am looking to join a technical person or a team to work on a start-up. I had two startups before and they both failed. I have learned so much from each one of them. I know about the ins and outs of Sales, Marketing, and project management.

It would be ideal to work with someone smart, someone who desperately wants to succeed, someone has read all of PG’s essays, and someone well versed with lean methodologies.

I am willing to work my ass off including weeknights, weekends, or whatever it takes. Looking for someone who wants to build something that people will use.

I am currently in NYC but would be willing to move to Boston or SF if it’s the right team or person. I have enough money to survive without a job or 3 years.

Here is a little about me:

-I graduated from one of the top undergraduate business schools in America (currently in the top five of the Business Week’s top undergraduate business school ranking list)

-I have worked at Google and Salesforce in San Francisco for about a year and a half prior to moving to NYC. I am 24 years old male.

-I am really good at people's skills, presenting, networking, and business development.

-I can SELL! I am also well-read. I love selling and I love talking to people.

-I am a go-getter, and do not need to be told to do things. I literally can do everything that does not involve coding so the product people can really focus on building and refining the product.

-I believe in the mantra “Code and talk to users.”

I am looking to join people who love coding and who are extremely dedicated and are willing work their asses off to make a successful startup. If you are action-oriented, a hacker, and are looking for a non-technical co-founder that fits the description above then please contact me at matt.gerboth@gmail.com
Yes, that happened. Was anything else going on in the world, perhaps more irreversible? One of the American internees later captained USS Excelsior, after all.
My biggest critique is I don't understand what it really offers, I mean as far as distributed hosting of my files, isn't that just a web server? The commenting posting CMS stuff seems like a competitor to wordpress... so i am guessing its like a blogging engine focused on media instead of text?
I find biking in NYC pretty calm as long as I'm not running red lights. To me it feels safer than biking in San Francisco did. There is a significant set of protected bike lanes and there are a fair amount of bikers on the road. Drivers not signaling is certainly a problem and it is important to not follow traffic laws when it's safer.
On points 1 and 3 especially, I highly recommend Bike Snob NYC's new book "Bike Snob Abroad." [1] He writes about the viability and acceptability of everyday cycling in New York City (his home), and then does the same while travelling to London and Amsterdam. One of his observations is that infrastructure isn't everything-- cycling is still a "special" thing to do in Portland, the Bay Area, or New York City, after all. Rather, in a place like the Netherlands, cycling is just a normal thing to do that doesn't require specialized, expensive gear, lycra, or even (gasp) helmets.

I don't think there's a simple way to get to that point anywhere in America. His hunch, one I agree with, is that people in this country have to make things The Biggest and The Fastest and The Best, which is why we are at the forefront of bike technology & craftsmanship but are so
pisspoor when it comes to cycling as a safe, simple means of transportation.

[1] http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/a-bike-snob-abroad.html
nice works. The first of this type that I liked, but I'd like to see the actual page of the news.
Except that, as the article indicates, this particular straw does not in fact carry any weight, apart from Russia's unwillingness to break their own and international laws for the sole purpose of pleasing the US.
I think it's somebody who doesn't like GPL and does like BSD using too many words. With BSD, you can incorporate it into your closed source code or add closed source code to it. It becomes free as in beer.
That's a good way of putting it. I would add that someone, a UX role perhaps, also has to have researched/figured out the answers to "A cake for who?"
"What is the occasion?"
"How big does this cake have to scale?"
"Do we know if this certain bride has any certain preferences"
"Wait how did we determine this is a wedding cake?"
"My bad, it's a birthday party. But this was a pretty dope wedding cake we built don't you think? Tastes great!"
"But it was for a 6 year old boy's birthday"
"Look we don't have time to muck about with look and feel. It's a cake. It's a birthday, just fucking ship it." =D
"Atari Breakout" Google image search will play the game
When you said "you're ridiculous" you attacked the poster rather than the opinion, which made that part of your comment ad-hominem. That statement, juxtaposed with your complaint immediately following about being subject to the same sort of attack was indeed rather humorous.
uhhh, Isn't this TCL?
Sounds all a bit "USA, USA, USA", rather than any sort of intelligent logic. I think the article this thread is based on pretty much explains that.

Any US folk considered how hard it is for the rest of the planet to reconcile US political and international posturing with normal international relations and the idea of the rule of law?
The name is the best part of it. People like globins.
Using the Unix Chainsaw: Named Pipes and Process Substitution
That's not exactly "backtracking." Also, there's something strained about the structure of the article, like they were trying really hard to put as much negative spin in before they had to say "Tesla is doing well." They could have out and said: Tesla's doing well, but GAAP...etc, and left out 3 paragraphs.
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You hit the nail on the head. That is a major promise of Docker, and the reason we are emphasizing Dockerfiles so much. It makes the act of building your code 100% automated and discoverable, and the resulting build should be usable, unchanged, all the way from development to production.
link to full stack description http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.3.3/devel/codebase....
You're right on the details, and I agree with your analysis, but the moral question still stands. Do we as a society and nation have any right to do this? Why does our desire for security trump the rights of people at home and abroad? And why does having a conversation on this topic have to be so damn difficult -- all the details are kept secret, down to the interpretation of the laws that apparently allow for programs like these. There's something fundamentally messed up about all this.
Dedicated Server vs. own server, suggestions?
Ok, our company is growing in users fast!!!, we use a dedicated server service provided by a well known company, but their service sucks, their technical support is a joke, sometimes connection fails, the price is also excessive, upgrading memory on our rental server isn’t really an option, memory upgrade would nearly double our monthly fee. So, we’re looking at buying our own server, the initial up front cost would be high, but we will save some money in the long run.
What are your thoughts on rent vs. buy
Can anyone explain why there is no open hardware phone at this point? During a recent trip to Shenzhen, it was clear that all the components are readily available.

I have had one person suggest that it was the cost of FCC approval that was the holdup and not the technology. Any company that could afford the approval process would not want to open their design. I am not technically versed enough to know if this is correct, however.

Does anyone else have a clear perspective on the issue?
How do you go about looking for such documents? Simple google "military instruction document"? Is there a term for those things? I know enough about the military that everything that can be put into an acronym is.
Two reasons actually: its flat, and small (dense). Wherever you want to go, it isn't unrealistic to do so by bicycle.

A huge flat country with large sprawling cities wouldn't have as many bikes.
IF you set a master password... But how many people do that? By the way, you can set up user profiles in Chrome.
Well, the 2nd is responsive even if the author doesn't know it. MIT is a genuinely expensive place: the last time I knew the numbers, it spent about half your tuition on you in your freshman year and quite a bit more on average for the 3 remaining years. STEM subjects are expensive, all have lab work, and one of the reasons MIT is MIT is that with the rare exception that proves the rule, all courses are taught by tenure track or tenured professors.

You can't get tenure without being an adequate teacher and the vast, vast majority I knew really cared about teaching undergraduates. The school also constantly makes sure the professors are doing an adequate job (I once both read all the student evaluations for a disaster (only one was not negative and she was a special case), and then overheard the department head tell the professor, who's name you probably know, that he'd never be allowed to teach that particular course again), and e.g. has no hesitation about taking a course away from a professor who violates the rules like what can be asked for at the end of the term.

MIT is also in a very expensive location, the cost of living is very high. That's also true for many of the Ivies, Harvard up chuck river from it, Columbia in NYC, Princeton in NJ, etc.

3rd doesn't apply so much to MIT, although, yeah, it has too large a bureaucracy like pretty much every other institution of higher education. Just not one grossly out of wack with the rest of the school.

4th, no, MIT's independence is unquestionably one reason it's so good and continues to be. Go to 100% government spending and it would regress to the mean as government bureaucrats enforces their own irrelevant fantasies on it (even more than they do now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove_City_College_v._Bell).
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Creds: I'm Austen's cofounder/ we met in Ukraine.

This is very true, and I do see a lot of missionaries return and jump into summer sales and do quite well. But there's that side where you just gotta keep going, always that has really proven valuable while working on our startup.
What is the recommended workflow for using docker?

Say I have:

* a base Ubuntu container with a few utilities installed like htop and my user account
* a base Python web container with Nginx and libxml, libjpeg, etc
* a specific Python web app

If I update my app should I save the container state and push it to all my web servers or use something like fabric to update the app on all my app servers?

If Nginx has a security release and I update my base Python web container, do I now need to rebuild all my Python web containers or is there some way to merge?

When the next LTS release of Ubuntu comes out and I upgrade, do I have to manually apply that to every container or just the base?
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How is this backtracking? Nothing has changed. He made it very clear from the beginning that this is an idea of his that he wants to release to the public, not work on it himself.

Somebody then had the audacity to pester him with Hyperloop on the earnings call for Tesla. It's like asking the president about his veggie garden while hes giving a press conference on the war on (whistleblowers|drugs|terror).
In Denmark (which is tied for 1st place with Netherlands) the car tax is 180%

Cycling is popular in Denmark for pretty much the same reasons. There are seperate bike paths everywhere.
Behind the interface you have a normal Linux distribution, with packaging, apt-get, and all, so yes you can.
Why I Changed My Mind On Weed
Yes, that's true. Multiple tools does pose that problem. It's a tough choice between separate tools that are just good enough and one tool that tries to do everything. Everyone probably has a slightly different way of attacking this eternal problem. It seems that we all need a personal assistant as a second brain with a perfect memory and can anticipate our needs. Wouldn't that be nice if task management software could eventually do that?
Can you give more information on the FCC approval process? What requires approval exactly? If people designed open-source hardware plans, then made the hardware, then shipped it, at what point is FCC approval necessary?