skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It’s a unique combination of breaking rules and being smart that helps you become an entrepreneur"

This seems like the key point - you have to be experimental, non-risk-averse, and a little stubborn. Plus both activities are tons of fun!
I'm building a reactive issue tracker with Meteor. I've been very impressed with the framework, and with the community. I struggled with Angular and Ember for a while - just could not get their conceptual models to load in my head. Meteor is simple to understand, and that's really important if you need to build something quickly.

Can't wait to get 0.6.5 running tonight!
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Massive, first-of-its-kind cat DNA database helps convict killer in the U.K.
I perfectly understand your sentiment. When it comes to embedded systems nothing would beat C in near future especially those systems where safety matters.

The lab I am working with explores different ways to code robotic and embedded systems. From MIT's SCRATCH to Erlang we have used them all. One of the area that we have been exploring is of using functional programming languages to program embedded systems. (For example we coded a robosoccer using Erlang).

Being a Javascript enthusiast I always wanted to be able to write small JS programs that I could use to control hardware. Given that JS has good support for Functional programming languages as well, I wanted to try that as well.

There is no doubt that people are expecting too much from Javascript but I do believe this is a very novel attempt that I see a point in supporting. I do not think JS is a language that will find application in say automotive systems but it can certainly be used to program robosoccer in my lab.
Fix meteor after upgrading from 0.6.4.1 to 0.6.5
ICloud Beta
"Inside the Dropbox" attack to hijack Dropbox accounts
Not sure what you mean by "adding noise".
I had the brilliant idea Microsoft was being punished for its theft and dishonesty.

I think that's childish. God can just pick the right numbers.

My Dad might make money on His portfolio, Mom might ask which stocks it came from and how much. Kinda childish, perhaps.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

ion.
But in our sugar colonies, the price of sugar bears no such proportion
to that of the produce of a rice or corn field either in Europe or
America. It is commonly said that a sugar planter expects that the rum
and the molasses should defray the whole expense of his cultivation,
and that his sugar should be all clear profit. If this be true, for I
pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray
the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that
the grain

----

Fucken hilarious if retard nigger tries to sabotage other programmers. What a total fucken nigger who doesn't know the world is perfectly just.

What's on the television, today? Divine comedy hour. ROFLMAO
The Shanghai maglev has no security at all... or at least not last time I went on it. Neither do any of the European HSR systems I've been on.

Remember a big part of TSA isn't to protect the people on the planes, but to protect other people from the planes themselves. It's pretty hard to weaponize a vehicle that's stuck inside a tube or on rails.
I've only watched this one clip [1] from "The Pentagon Wars", but it's a good one. (It was referenced in a software engineering article I read once.)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyakI9GeYRs
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but this is probably a reference to reddit's r/trees subreddit's way of noting how high the user is. It's a 0-10 scale, 0 being entirely sober. In this context he would be saying that it's mindblowing, despite not being high.
I'm sober like 9 years in a row. I was not able work so hard and so long hours (often about 80 a week) when i was drinking.
Also it is a rip off paying for that Quick and effective relief form booze. stay sober a year and start drinking, you'll learn what I'm saying.
That seems exactly right to me. Cisco seems weirdly pessimistic and conservative, like grandpa stockpiling money and guns 'cause he's sure the gummint is coming for him.
Thanks for the critique! I'm currently putting up a new media player that will allow me to do that. I'll add the header/navbar and do ab testing on it.
I'm not sure it's possible to not use a mnemonic device. Our brains record information by association, which, by definition, is a mnemonic device.

I highly recommend reading Moonwalking with Einstein. It's about a journalist who got interested in memory competitions and, with a lot of practice, ended up winning the US memory championship. Anyone can do it.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Rememberi...
I think this a misguided practice. I think...

a) our systems and operations ought to be prepared for and recoverable from outages at any time of day

b) our developers and operations are best prepared to do their best work when they are most alert -- early in their work day

I see no technical reasons why maintenance can't be performed at all hours of a day, without interrupting normal business. Perhaps a misnomer, but maintenance does not always mean an outage or disruption of services, just like an outage should not be titled a maintenance (Re: Apple Dev Center -maintenance- outage).
Only old people read obituaries? What about real estate agents? Auctioneers? I'm sure people said no money existed in free classifieds. Except for Craig.
OK, I'm not the only person what wondered why this didn't wordwrap.
C rules the embedded systems world. By embedded system I refer to the serious applications such as automotive systems and so on and not some funky new toy project done using Arduino.

There are some very good reasons why C can not be replaced by any other programming language when it comes to safety critical embedded systems. That is what separates men from boys.
50% of the headlines are funny but the writing is terrible. Please do not compare this to the onion with years of award winning writing. Also the CSS is terrible.
I have two anecdotes to share from my time on the program as a flight test engineer regarding access to data and aircraft.

There are two types of F-35 test aircraft: flight sciences jets, which don't have the full avionics suite, but are instrumented for testing things like flutter, flight qualities, weapons testing, etc. -- and mission systems aircraft, which have the full suite of avionics and are thus more encumbered with restrictions. Foreign persons aren't allowed around the mission systems aircraft without an escort, and aren't supposed to even see the panoramic display in the cockpit. But what do you do when it's a night shift and the only flight systems engineer on duty who is officially qualified to perform certain operations is from the UK? You get a piece of foam, cut it to the size and shape of the display, and write "BRIT BLOCKER" on it in sharpie, and use it whenever the Brits are around.

Further absurdity kicked in when some of the first jets built specifically for the UK were tested. Those jets had the full avionics systems, of course, which meant that foreigners couldn't work on them. So the UK engineers weren't even allowed to be around the jets that were to ultimately be owned and operated by the UK.
You know, with a link title like that, I was really hoping to see a food processor powered by a steam engine.
In the current gold rush, there are so many hokey startups with buzzwordy derivative missions ("we're the Airbnb for Big Data ROI!") that a great satire site could be made from copying their mission statements and change a few words around. FakeValley kind of tries too hard

also: I don't think you should promote yourself as a satire site. That's kind of like going around telling everyone you're a hilarious and witty comedian.
I never thought to look but it turns out that Craigslist doesn't have obituaries (maybe not surprising to others). I figured there would be something in one of those other boxes that I never even look at, which is basically everything except the for sale and gigs sections. Are people against posting obituaries on the same page that can take you to "casual encounters"? Does CL find it a tad too morbid to include? It may not be their aspiration but hell, if CL had crossword puzzles, obituaries, and a "print digest" feature my grandmother would take to it in a second (she already uses it to shop for autos and whatnot, primarily as a supplement to the local paper).
I wonder why Mailman doesn't ship a better GUI by default :/
It's a shame it's called "fake valley". Was looking forward to the other news agencies ripping off the stories and thinking they're real (http://www.npr.org/2012/12/01/166293306/the-onion-so-funny-i...).
Agreed. It would be a great followup to Top Gear's V8-powered blender and their occasional obsession with steam trains.
Do you know any 30x500 alumni who "think about what they can sell instead of what problems they can solve"? Or was that just a general statement about "any course that teaches someone how to make money on the internet?" (In which case I wouldn't disagree. I was just surprised to see 30x500 thrown in the mix there, had to add my two cents.)
An amazing actual coincidence is that the sun and moon appear almost the same size as each other from the surface. The opportunity for such perfect total solar eclipses (with naked-eye visible Baily's Beads) is not common in the universe.

There is at least one short story (the title escapes me) that suggests that our #1 tourist attraction for visiting aliens would be total solar eclipses.

edit: Found it, maybe. This does not sound like the one I read.

> Illegal Alien, by Robert J. Sawyer (1997). An alien visits Earth, supposedly for "research purposes", and observes a total solar eclipse. He then speculates that Earth may be the only planet in the entire Universe whose moon covers its sun perfectly (with only transits or occultations occurring on other planets).
The positives are almost always cultural. Then you just have to ask yourself if you want society to dictate how you live your life.
The goal is seamless integration between physical hardware and a web application without the need for a server on the device. Sounds pretty awesome to me.
I love the Clojure collection types: basing a whole language around persistent data structures is an unbelievable win.

There is a library for Julia that adds collection types similar to Clojure's[1]. My understanding is it's not very thoroughly optimized right now, but it could be a promising place to look if lack of persistent data structures is keeping you away from Julia.

[1] https://github.com/zachallaun/FunctionalCollections.jl
I agree with you in many respects, but it also made me think about the flip side, which is not getting drunk because you want to talk to other people, but getting drunk because you want to talk to yourself.

There is a bit of writing in the wonderfully titled "Modern Drunkard" magazine that puts it well, "The Zen of Drinking Alone" - http://www.drunkard.com/issues/03_03/03-03_zen_drinking_alon...

I would say that drinking early does not on the whole make someone a social retard, given the patterns of alcohol consumption among the communities generally deemed to be sociable, but two of the most useful things I ever learned was how to have a good night in a pub while sober and how to have a good night on my own while drunk.
Clay carving for 3d printing
Why is this "artificial"? Living in a big city and long commuting in/out is perfectly normal.
Ask HN: how to disable gmail new compose?
is there a way?
I don't like the new one and worst, to be forced to use that one; old one was pretty comfortable for me.
Actually Bill Gates is on record saying that if he had 'one wish' it would be for an awesome low emissions energy source.

When you consider the growth in air travel, and the fuel options for air travel, the Hyperloop IS effectively a low emission energy source. I suspect he's more than interested.
Me too, but then I looked at the URL :D
Online video will soon be better quality than digital television.
Not to speak of education, or gasp preventing famine. The military budget of the US alone ($+1trillion [1]) would eradicate world hunger ($44 billion [2]) more than 20 times over and still have money left to build them housing. I know it's not a realistic example but it's purpose is simply to add some perspectives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
[2] http://www.deliveringdata.com/2010/11/how-much-money-is-need... (UN-FAO)
For the non-native US-english speakers on HN, "playing hooky" means not showing up to class :)
Another fascinating French-speaking sub-population in the US is the French Canadian American communities of Maine and Vermont, where many families still speak French at home after all these years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Canadian_American
Doesn't that then just sound like they're bored? Being an entrepreneur/founder will never leave you bored - always things to do..
Alex (my co-founder) had this exact problem except in both ears, and he uses our app every day for the same reason - hearing aids just don't play well with earbuds or headphones.

Thanks for signing up whbk, it's always great to get more beta testers to validate the changes to the sound processing as we keep improving it.
Also better felons. If you only count the successful ones, you get this sort of thing.
His point was that we have different planes for standoff air superiority against serious hostile fighter jets, and (implicitly) than the F-35 can be "good enough" for air-to-air while optimizing for it's air-to-ground mission.
Come on, planes are only part of the equation. Weapons, radar, air-to-air refueling, C4I, logistics, aircraft carriers...they will all make a big difference.

The idea that a war is going to come down to a single F-35 vs a Sukhoi without any other support factors is a bit fanciful.

The F-35 is looking a bit expensive for what you get though.
I opened up the dev console and added white-space: pre-wrap; I guess they assume emails to be hard wrapped.
Haitian immigrants?
Sure, but I think few people buy obituaries to help out real estate agents. If those people want obituaries, then perhaps they can pay newspapers to run them for others for free.
> It's a nervous system depressant. This does not mean it makes you emotionally depressed.

Depressants usually have calming effects (hence the colloquialism "downers"); relaxation and removal of inhibitions are common effects (see also the OP about using drinks to wind down from stress). I don't see how that is at odds with what I wrote.

> It is extrememly unlikely alcohol is involved in the majority of car accidents. Please post a source.

You're correct, I misremembered that. The study (a) looked at drivers killed in accidents, and (b) it was alcohol or drugs. Alcohol was involved in only 40.2% of these fatalities.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012....
Wait, we can just make statements that we've found to be true without any evidence or argument on HN now?

I've really got to find a new place to keep up with tech news.
Do you think it possible to make smartphones into body temperature thermometers?

I currently have an iOS app that measures heart rate with the light/flash while you put your finger over the camera. The camera measures your pulse by reading the difference in "color" or "density" of your blood reflecting into the camera as your Harry beats.

It's not medical grade in accuracy but holds up well in comparison with the heart rate testers at the local grocery store or manual pulse counting.

My rough estimate is this method is accurate to a few percentage points of a real medical device.

For those iOS and Android developers — would it be possible to detect body temperature to accuracy levels of that of a thermometer ( +/- 0.1 degrees ) using this battery method they are using for the weather?

It would be nice to check your temperature without the need for external hardware. Though even external hardware could be a great device, checking pulse, pressure, temp, and storing all data for historical analytics. Add in that you could compare that data worldwide and flu estimations may become possible. At least outbreak areas should be able to be narrowed somewhat. There's a ton of other data that could be gathered too. Just mapping outbreaks would be interesting to see how seasonal ailments migrate. Even allergies could be mapped.

Thoughts?
Joel gives a better answer than I do; note that his plan gives 4 developers 2.5% of the company each, but 1%-5% seems like a typical range. The commenter says they were only able to improve their salary by ~20% by taking a BigCo job, so the rest of comp doesn't seem to be too far off the market.

I don't think it's an amazing offer, but then, amazing offers can be red flags too.

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
I haven't looked into Racket-math, but this post:
http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-January/0560...
makes me wonder if Racket is really up for non-toy numerics.

In contrast, SBCL uses tagless float arrays, so that array operations tend to be cache friendly. With adequate declarations, numerical code in SBCL tends to very fast (~1-3x C speed). I assume one can do the same with Bigloo and Chicken scheme as well.
But why a dedicated device? Why not just a JS -> ARM/AVR/whatever compiler? Then you can run it on microcontrollers that you can actually build up from. One of the best things about arduino is that it's based upon the ATMega platform. Once you've got the hang of the arduino language, you can progress to embedded C (on the same device), then onto assembly if you really want.

Once you've got to that level you've got a whole family of related microcontrollers that you can move onto from the same principles. With this javascript device you've got no such thing. You're stuck in a dead end if/when it turns out not to have what you need, as you can't progress to "the next level".
"He proposed on a Valentine's day, although he didn't do it face to face, he did it in one of the little Valentine bits in the paper. I think he had to pay for it by the word, because it just said 'Lee love Dawn, marriage?' which you know, I like, because it's not often you get to something that's both romantic and thrifty. "
Cardiff Yoga
Szwandt Yoga is simple. There is a range of classes, inspired by established disciplines and each choreographed for a specific purpose. Clearly communicating to both veterans and inexperienced yogis, these classes aim to reach the participants’ desired outcome with optimal efficiency. (( We believe you can achieve anything with a positive mindset & self belief. We aim to enhance performance in a relaxed & non competitive atmosphere & create a sense of community & support. )) Classes are held at Becky's studio, Cardiff, UK & available worldwide, via Skype.
What's wrong with buying the Saab Gripen instead? Wouldn't Canada have really similar design requirements as Sweden?
Szwandt Yoga is simple. There is a range of classes, inspired by established disciplines and each choreographed for a specific purpose. Clearly communicating to both veterans and inexperienced yogis, these classes aim to reach the participants’ desired outcome with optimal efficiency. (( We believe you can achieve anything with a positive mindset & self belief. We aim to enhance performance in a relaxed & non competitive atmosphere & create a sense of community & support. )) Classes are held at Becky's studio, Cardiff, UK & available worldwide, via Skype.
A bit more insight to what koding.com is via Scobleizer
The difference is that people in relationships feel guilty shopping around. I know many people with jobs who keep one eye on LinkedIn in case they see a great opportunity.
Reinvent software testing
We are a team of four, founded by two YC hackers, and we're building testing as a service.

Let's address the elephant in the room; testing sucks. We agree. But reinventing testing is a serious challenge. It involves solving many complex sub-problems, and touches on practically every discipline within CS. We're taking a super-complex, multifaceted problem and making it simple.

We're looking for backend and full stack engineers who care deeply about testing, writing great code and solving real problems for people. You will be our third hire and will play a vital role in our team based in SoMa, San Francisco. Friendly debate and strongly-held opinions are the foundation of our company, and we like people who are capable of both.

Our application is written in Ruby (Rails + Postgres, + Grape) and Backbone, but smart hackers can adapt, so we're more interested in what you've built than what you've built it in.

You will be integral in shaping our company culture. We have music constantly playing in our office, we hold regular hackathons where the only rule is it can't be work, and we cycle / swim / gym every day.

If you'd like to find out more email us at letsrevolutionizetesting@gmail.com. Send whatever you think would help us understand who you are and why you're awesome. We love getting Github and Twitter links, as well as previous projects you worked on.
A news organization as important as the New York Times should have a separate, fail-safe website for when their main site goes offline. They shouldn't have to resort to publishing notes on Facebook.
And arduino is even more approachable again.
Non-string values are not valid hash keys.
- ES6 Maps

The prototype system is less powerful ..
- No. Just different.

The language will never have continuations..
- Generators help here. We use them with node --harmony

Scoping.
- Fat arrows and block scoping coming in ES6.

These features can be used today in node, by enabling the harmony flag. Otherwise wait until next year.
I wish you guys the best, but to quote a silly TV show: "Any man who must say he is king is no king".
Anything short of a nationally televised debate between representatives of the government agencies and the civil liberty/privacy groups is useless in my opinion.
It is great that they cover a lot of languages.. Except they don't cover the one I use a lot which is Chinese....I had to buy Swype so that I can switch easily from English to Chinese.
Really specifically, an affordable Tesla would (at least initially) benefit only those who were able to buy an affordable Tesla given the still significant cost and Tesla production constraints.

They both have the potential to be hugely beneficial to the entire world. Although in Tesla's case it's more of a certainty... fortunately we can have both :-)
If I am starting from zero, which is easier to lear/better to learn; Go or Node?
The onus was on the company to figure out what its "sweet spot utility" was before launch, don't you think?
On the other hand, you wouldn't get very far if you decided that no part of your life could be dictated by society. You'd die before you'd worked it all out from first principles. Unless you were some sort of magical wizard, what has magic and stuff. Then you might be ok. Though I bet you wouldn't, cos it would all have to be new magic and you would have to think of it really fast, like in three days cos you can't accept just anyone's say so about the whole water/thirst thingy and stuff. That water might be poison. So you'd have to be a really powerful wizard to make all new stuff that works without the imposition of society so that you can be truly free before you die of thirst. Though I guess if you were a really powerful wizard you might not get thirsty anyway, so it might not matter.
haha.

I too, think alcohol is a drug with a poor value proposition. At least for me. The 'high' is rubbish, and the come down is painful.

I am also part of a minority in this respect in my culture.
Standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper.
Have you searched google [1]? The first couple hits turned up a youtube video that does what you are looking for @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI32_syiSgY

[1] http://google.com
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