skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I've never had a drink in my 40 years as well. I just never got around to it. I'm not that interested in the culture, either. That said, it does kind of suck to be the sober guy at 3am in Vegas. Always.
Hands up who else read the post before coming to the comments, saw this and cursed themselves.
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Attacking an AWACS is very much on the table, it's just hard. It's like being a battleship captain saying "well, if we sink the bloody carrier then the problem's solved, right?"--you're not wrong but you're vastly underestimating the difficulty. AWACS radar is so strong they can be (and should!) very very very far away from anything that could possibly reach out and touch them, and actually attacking an AWACS will draw so much attention and fire that the attack is probably doomed to failure unless the air force in question is enormously overextended (very possible). I suppose you could use it to divert attention while you did something else, but it'll be a costly diversion.

Now if you did get close to one, considering that the popular ones are visibly repurposed airliners they would probably go down pretty easy. But that's a little like saying "I can sink your aircraft carrier with my 16" gun" without the proviso that "... as long as you let me get way too close first".
For team/internal chats we use a combination of Skype & https://www.hipchat.com/
The old "lets get rid of 5% by next n months" creates a piss poor environment for everyone. I encountered this at one of the first companies I worked for ... I was (tech-wise) young hot stuff. Older people I liked were freaked out. This got me so negative that I left myself after the layoffs. This was around the Y2K tech implosion.

When I told my wife about the Cisco layoffs she remarked .. 'oh ... it is like 2000 again'. This got me thinking. Things are surely different today and I'd say a lot better for capable people. For one, entrepreneurship is much more accessible today due to the lower start up capital needed. Another similarity is that around the Y2K meltdown, anyone who knew HTML was calling themselves a web programmer. I see a bit of that these days. But not to the same extent. And I don't see large corporations hiring such people to the same extent that web startups hired. As another commenter mentioned ... these people may not have had the right skills. My guess is that the older workers will bear the brunt of the axe. This reinforces my belief that knowledge capital is very ephemeral in tech.

A final note: I feel very bad for the people losing their jobs. I think rationalizing it based on economics or that the company has fiduciary responsibilities to its shareholders is foobar. I truly believe the HN community contains the next set of leaders in the tech industry. It makes me sad how insensitive comments are to Cisco employees. Sure, many will find jobs soon. Many will also have sleepless nights. The tech industry is renowned for meritocracy and our professionals are perhaps the least organized of all. We need to be compassionate.
How Apportable turned Android Spaceward Ho from "Never, Ever" to "You Bet"
Personally it worries me because people can build whatever they want and call themselves "programmers". It encourages a state in the industry when knowing about data structures, hardware, turing machines or the other fundamentals of computer science are considered unecessary. Perhaps they are, from a business standpoint. However, it will eventually inhibit growth of the discipline as a whole.

A common rebuttal to that is "it allows people to get into programming more easily". I personally think this is horseshit. There are a multitude of ways to get started with programming, and javascript is in many ways the one that teaches the worst practices and patterns of them all.
I was a member from the first day.. and then cancelled after about 6 months because after trying to force myself to 'get it' I still didn't know what I was meant to be doing with it
"The F-35 is succeeding brilliantly in its mission, though, which is to funnel taxpayer money to a nice fat cross section of the military-industrial complex."

And in one of its secondary missions, which is to generate hundreds of thousands of votes for many Reps. and Senators, spread across many Congressional districts and states - and both parties.
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I even stopped, "Wait a second, this has nothing to do with blenders powered by steam", realized the context, and still continued on scrolling back and forth.
Above a certain speed wheels present huge issues, which means you need to change your drive mechanism and suspension mechanism.

Also, drag is a huge killer of efficiency and hence overall economics. Even at 500kph the drag on a train at sea level is enormous. At 1000kph it's 4 times bigger again, and you've got the sound barrier to worry about. Trying to do the same with multiple small capacity trains is astronomically worse. So, better to have reduced drag... and by now you've basically got the hyperloop.
Thanks, will do. Also just noticed some issues with the categories, will fix those as well.
I feel the same way. The headline should say:

Technical progress and competition have cost U.S. newspapers $5 billion since 2000, researchers say
This doesn't mean Canada won't decide to buy F-35's in the future unfortunately. It just means the government is open to forming a committee to consider the concept of possibly examining alternatives at an undisclosed point in the future.
It seems strange that steam would want to put blender in steam. Wouldn't they just work on integrating with blender if they wanted blender?

I suppose the strategy is to get the devs currently working on blender to look closer at making blender more compatable with the formats DOTA 2 is using, and putting a little more focus on the UX for that.

Then again, steam is basically a content distribution system, and windows doesn't have one of those (or at least doesn't have one that anyone wants to use. I'M SORRY http://chocolatey.org/ I LOVE YOU, DON'T BE MAD)
For those not familiar with Avro and the Arrow, it was ages ahead of it's time and many of the top engineers went to NASA.

Here is actually a link to a video of the plane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8lTGTPQlDE, note the old Canadian flag at the beginning, the Canadian flag we all know was created in '65.
Yes but a far lower risk of casual use ending up with you charged with something. It would be hard to argue that people smoke marijuana because it is less likely to have a negative effect on their lives.
This doesn't mean we disagree on whether it should be legal but until it is I'm going to keep my use down to infrequent trips to Amsterdam.
"Failure to innovate damages industry Dinosaurs"
> I quite like the npm way of adding --save or --save-dev when installing a package to add it to the package.json file automatically. Composer does not do that, in any way that I could find at least.

You can install individual packages using the `require` command:

composer require monolog/monolog:*

http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#require
Funny, this is exactly how I started Folyo (http://folyo.me) as well (which is the same thing but for freelance designers).

The only difference is that I used Posterous as well to get an online archive of each project (you could post directly form Wufoo to Posterous if I remember correctly).

Edit: from reading the post I thought they catered only to app developers. After taking a look at the site, it seems that they do designers, so they're a direct competitor.

Others include:

http://onsite.co

http://juiiicy.com

http://workingnotworking.com/
The great thing about the hyperloop, and other vactrain systems, is that you're at sea level... you're just not in atmosphere. The atmosphere can be restored in seconds. Sure, it'll stop the entire system and be a TOTAL pain in the arse because you'll have to restore the vacuum, but that's acceptable as long as it doesn't happen often.
My convertible notebook backwards keyboard setup - quite functional
Is an interesting proposal, some of the early day blender games + the blender browser plugin really did show the potential of having the browser be the delivery system for games... some day, and with webgl, someday sooner!

I'd really love to see this, but only if it comes with a character narrated walk through of the blender ui... it would do a lot for the future blender userbase.
Thank you @j_baker. I will bear your feedback in mind and try my best to make you not need me for some core questions like this next time. :D
The US is already doing something similar for potential terrorists - - they essentially handhold people they believe to have the potential to carry out a terrorist plot. This American Life had an episode called The Convert [1] and Rolling Stones had a similar article [2]

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/t...

[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...
It would be interesting to know a little deeper. For example, the "Gatekeeper", once features are rolled out, are they permanently "on"? Does the feature to disabled them get removed? Or does their control panel look like Firefox settings?
Also: peripheral muxing, interrupts in input mode, connecting a timer as PWM output to a pin (which is basically what blink is probably doing). In input mode it might also have schmitt triggering.

Where's the blink getting the timer from? What happens if I update the main PLLs? I'll refrain from making assumptions however until I can see their driver libraries. I'm hopeful, but having played around with the 1830 it's not a simple chip.
damn, and I thought that ICMPv6 made us impervious to DoS attacks.
There may be legal requirements for posting death notices - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obituaries
Just a heads up, if you're thinking about what it's like to give the booze a rest for a while there is a community of people who take on a 3 month or 12 month sobriety challenge and blog about their experiences. It makes for super interesting reading, and the passion in the community really reflects how big the drinking issue is in people's lives.

http://hellosundaymorning.org

Full disclosure: My team built the tech. But you'll want to get involved for the community.
I am not sure where you are getting that it will be more expensive to maintain pilot training in the f-35 from but from everything I have read it is expected to cost less to maintain training as the simulators for the f-35 are so much more advanced than any other simulators that a large portion of training will be moved from live flight to the simulator.
If Clojure is acceptable, there is Incanter (http://incanter.org/).
That's a pretty sweet app. Congrats!
I wish these projects would just switch to MinGW. VLC and FFmpeg already use MinGW to target Windows. It's fast, stable and it lets them use nice C99 features like designated initalizers.
My comments are arrogant? You clearly know nothing about neither the company nor the product, yet you assume the allure of it comes from the "cool" stimuli? Maybe you and I have different definitions of "cool," because Palantir's offices certainly aren't "cool" in any "stereotypical young male" type of way. The entire company is filled to the brim with nerdy Tolkein references - not "cool". One of their product lines is versioned by Carebears for god's sake - not "cool".

What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems (and create some, sure) instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists. Also for me as a designer, I like their product development structure and cycle.

I guess it would take more than a Forbes article-worth of exposure for you to see something appreciable.
"He says it's not worth doing in general."

He did not. It's you who read that in and became indignant at it.

"There's no qualifier."

Certainly there is—the title of the post. Plus its whole context, which is obviously that of a classic Silicon Valley venture-funded startup.

Look at it this way. When people in this context say "You should go after a big market", do they mean that anyone going after a small market is an inferior person? Of course not. What they mean is that if you're going for a classic high-growth startup, you'll need a market big enough to support that. They're communicating a distilled lesson about startups, not the world in general. Same with Slava's post.
Thanks, and feel free to email me!
As someone who's working on the exact same concept for another domain (freelance designers), I've come to realize this is one of the least original business models ever (there's about 10 similar services in my space alone).

Still, it fills a need and people are ready to pay for it, which is more than you can say for a lot of startup ideas…
I love python. It's nothing like javascript really. It's more like C, but with an approachable wrapper.
Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I read this is as "Hey, can everyone do our work for us? That'd be great."
First, the article is talking about data for 2000-2007 (so the title is a bit misleading). The prime collapse in the newspaper industry began after 2007.

Second, if you ran it to 2013 it would clearly be at least several times $5b based on the spectacular collapse of the classified industry.

Third, losing the lucrative classifieds business chopped the legs out from under newspapers, the net cost to them was much wider than just the raw classified business itself.

As others have noted, Craigslist has saved people and businesses at least as much as they've cost newspapers. The efficiency gain alone of Craigslist is likely to have produced a significant net gain for the US economy.
I would re-title the article as "Entrepreneurs are more likely to be troubled teens". No where in the article it says that troubled teens are more successful entrepreneurs than non troubled teens.
The headline here on HN is completely misleading. Aside from the editorial decision to only mention the more acceptable behaviours listed in the article (alternative: 'entrepreneurs more likely to have a history of teen assault'), the article makes no claim that they are more successful founders than people who haven't got this background - just that self-employed people who have an incorporated business are more likely to have this history than salaried workers.
From the article: "Using data from the March Supplements of the U.S. Census Bureau‘s Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, they look at the cognitive, noncognitive and family traits of self-employed individuals who have incorporated businesses and compare it to the characteristics of salaried workers and the self-employed who don’t have incorporated businesses."

So the population of the study is people who have incorporated businesses. So by "Troubled Teens", it means "Troubled Teens" who did well enough to incorporate a business. But that doesn't count the many troubled teens who ended up poor and/or imprisoned...hopefully parents aren't getting the idea that it's better for their kid to get in trouble if they want to be rich later
I think this is because of different risk preferences, which make the conclusion obvious.

These teens have higher risk preferences. Entrepreneurship is a high-risk, high-reward endeavour.

Since we count only the successful ones, those who take higher risks and are successful naturally are more successful than those who take smaller risks.
Are you kidding? My father works in aerospace for firms doing subcontracting on non-black projects and every time he talks about work it would be about some new ridiculous boondoggle. I remember some idiots conducting testing managed to pick up and drop a piece of flight hardware the size of a car about six inches, which probably cost about $100K to realign and repair. The ISS went through I think three or four--or maybe five?--ground up redesigns requiring everybody throw everything they had already done completely out the window and start over. Many of us on the sidelines watching marveled quietly that it ever flew at all.

Small teams with tight deadlines can do wonders. This is why Skunkworks stuck. But it's important to note that Kelly Johnson was behind a lot of the big successes there and he was an amazing man. Absent organizational genius, you can run into trouble. The JSF is pretty much the antithesis of "small teams with tight deadlines".
I managed a bar for three years when I was in my 20s. Obviously, I got to know a lot of serious alcoholics. If you're any good at your job as a bartender, you learn to manage them and keep them from getting completely out of control. Though they're still going to get sloshed.

Anyway, we had one guy that came in 4 or 5 nights a week and drank gin and tonics til he was quite drunk. He could not drink moderately, he was an alcoholic.

Until one night, he stopped. He'd almost been fired from his job because the drinking was still affecting him the next day. He saw where his life was going, and it wasn't where he wanted to go.

He enjoyed the social life of the bar, so he still came in 4 or 5 nights a week, but now he'd just drink tonic water. We never charged him, of course, and he got preferential service because we all admired the hell out him, sitting there sipping his tonic while everyone drank around him.

Still remember that guy well, I was so proud of him.
I agree, and I suspect the kids with the same 'troubled' background but lower income families are all hourly workers now, not salaried. Shame they didn't include that group in the study.
This seems like a really interesting and awesome idea.I would love to see it complete.
I love this idea. You should consider opening up a Github repo or something so people can make requests or add to the collection.
This may very well be at the heart of his submission, especially since he is the first to point out that most of the real kinks have not been worked out.

What do most of us in the general public really know about how projects like the high speed rail get on the ballot. A lot of people have their suspicions, but we have to ask ourselves if there was a competitive bid process to determine the best solution.

I, for one, would have voted to throw money into future technologies over current rail solutions. Mostly because I shudder to think how much current tech will be old news in ten years when the high speed rail is completed (if at all).

If we pursue the hyperloop or similar tech, and whether it can be completed or not, at least it would be a first of it's kind and on the cutting edge.
180mhz ARM Cortex-M3 LPC1830
32mb SDRAM

I'm amazed that such wimpy hardware can run modern JS satisfactorily.
Or it could be that the sales team in their biggest market is projecting flat to negative growth. Certainly part of the fallout from the US Government both over reaching on its surveillance mission and nationalistic trolling over security dangers in network equipment, is having a chilling effect on US made networking equipment abroad.

The thing about quarterly earnings reports is that usually the CEO can see stuff on the horizon (say 2 or 3 quarters away) which may be big problems. When CEOs see these things they do two things simultaneously, they prepare the markets for missed targets and they launch internal efforts to mitigate the impact. I was reading both of these in the statements made by Chambers.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-25/cisco-china-sales-v...
I'd love to read more stories on it. But editors/founders of this site need to improve UX/Design
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> Is it true that many nations could afford to provide unlimited renewable energy, but choose not to?

No. What your link suggests is that roughly $2.5 trillion would be enough to, maybe, with some optimistic assumptions, shift the amount of renewable electricity in the US from 13% to maybe 25%. Give or take.

It couldn't be further from "unlimited renewable energy"; we're talking about installing around 467 MWh/yr of solar panels in a country that consumes ten times that. (And mostly consumes that in different places and at different times than the solar panels would be functioning; a brief skim of the article indicates that they're being wildly optimistic about the actual net impact of the solar panel installation...)

The problem is that the US does not have $2.5 trillion lying around to do this with. They didn't have $2.5 trillion for the GWoT either, but the money was scrounged up anyhow. But while there was an interest in aggressively fighting terror, nobody (not voters, not Congress) has any real interest in installing a zillion solar panels. So...it's not really clear if, any any meaningful sense, the US could have "chosen" to do this.

And while we're on the subject, we're discussing spending $2.5 trillion to get 466,989 GWh/yr of clean energy. Which is...fine. But it's worth noting that one single nuclear installation in Japan generates 33,317 GWh/yr of clean energy. The last reactor built there had install costs of...um...around $3k per kW, which means the whole thing would cost maybe $23 billion to replace. Fifteen of them would cost $340 billion, and generate slightly more power than the solar panels. Or for $2.5 trillion you could build 110 of the stupid things, generating, roughly, ten times more power than the solar panels would, and roughly as much power as the US currently consumes. Even with operating and decommissioning costs, that would be pretty huge. (Let's not even start on what you could do with a similar investment in thorium power...)

TL;DR: You cannot generate unlimited energy. Spending very large amount on solar would generate a fair amount of energy. Spending similar sums on nuclear would generate a ton of energy.
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Third, I'd like to see this. Or a steam powered coffee grinder, who's with me?!
Designated initializers are (thankfully) among the subset of C99 that is actually getting added in the next MSVC release.
I have a degree in philosophy. Analytic philosophy is similar to CS, sure, but continental thought is entirely different.
Vulnerability in how Windows does ICMPv6....

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-31...
Ask HN: Trackball vs touchpad vs mouse
Hi all,

I've recently (re)discovered the joys of mechanical keyboards, and am looking at optimizing the rest of my working setup. As part of that, I'm looking to try different pointing devices.

Due to their cost, however, it's not easy to just 'try' a trackball or touchpad. What is HN's experience with the latter devices compared to a (optical, wireless) mouse? Are there any researched ergonomics benefits to any of them? Googling mainly results in 'I prefer' type forum and blog posts.

Also, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, so ideally the device of choice and its advantages should be accessible there...

Thanks!
My take is that its the facebook platform minus facebook.
I double-agree, and I think you're painting an even nicer picture than the real one.

For lower income families, 'playing hookie' is usually called 'truancy' (which when I think about it, isn't such a nice-sounding term), and usually results in a lack of a college education altogether, leading to very very low (in comparison) paying hourly (and possibly menial) jobs.

I was astounded at the amount that some companies pay interns (I don't mean google, or any of the companies on the the extremes) -- I had some jobs before college, and some entire families subsisted on similar incomes. What did I do with the money that whole families earned (I was an intern at some point)? Buy pizza and beer.
That's a bad an completely not intuitive trade-off for a language that is expected to be fast.

I've first studied Julia today, but just by knowing its niche I already expected it to use reference semantics, not value. It'd be quite confusing if the examples demonstrated otherwise.
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Not sure why one Windows bug out of thousands is front page material.