skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been through this transition as well. I actually moved from a big city in the U.S to small city in the middle of Europe. I am just about to emerge on the other side with a new venture with funding already lined up. I have been where you are; making multiple adjustments and feeling like it's all temporary. Anyway here is my advice. Embrace your new position as a new adventure and put as much as you can into doing the best work you can. Doing good work is a positive feedback loop that sneaks into other areas of your life that maybe lacked attention during your extreme focus on your start up. This time is a gift to your life as a human being. Additionally, unplug from the start up scene. One, it's not going anywhere and when you are ready you will find your place in the market. Also at the moment it can only cause you confusion about your current position or choices and perhaps pain or envy. However don't mistake that advise with not reflecting. Please do take time to reflect on your past venture and the mistakes that were under your control and accept the learning from them. Hell you paid for them already, right? Especially key in on the moments or decisions when you let your instincts be overruled due to doubt, lack of knowledge, board members, co-founder, etc. This helped me find my "signpost" internally and led me out of the fog an into my best self again. If you withstood the pressure of a start up then you can push though this phase of your life and into the new. Good Luck!
Who cares about the efficiency when solar panels weigh over 50 kg per kW? Even at SpaceX prices, the cost of launching a solar panel into space is hundreds of times the cost of the panel. If your alternatives are "buy 500 panels and put them on the ground" and "buy one panel and put it in space," why the hell is anyone even remotely considering the second option?
The article suggest that use case (Live hangouts that are going to be published to Youtube) will be the first to see this rolled out.
Ya, the government then wonders why "rumors" are so quickly transmitted on wechat and no one trusts the official press.

I prefer the nytimes, any newspaper that gets blocked by the great firewall of china must be doing something right. The article about Xi Jinping's family using their family relationships to get rich was spot on, but then that story could be applied to any official's family. They have actual standards and refuse to be intimidated by the CCP. The BBC is too harmonious in comparison, useless to me when I need real news about the country I'm living in.
It was to me.
The receipt check is generally there to catch crooked cashiers not crooked customers. Without it a cashier could fake scan items and their accomplices walk out undetected. The check means at least two employees have to collaborate to steal.
Custom Elements: Defining new elements in HTML
I don't think the original patent idea was bad, only the recent years mutated it into an abomination.

A long time ago this model made sense. Inventors would invent and would be protected to benefit exclusively for a very short period of time (e.g. one year). After the grace period, it would be a free for all again, and people would move on.

Having patent durations of >1 year is obviously ridiculous, particularly 100+years protections etc.
Looks great.

I signed up and tried to create a new deck to study as a test, but that doesn't seem to work yet?
We read scientific studies and extract a profile from them.

About adapting your profile, after now 40+ interviews it seems it would only work for really specific segment (like fitness addict) as it implies to much daily inputs.
Managing Relationship with Parents with Borderline Personality Disorder
I could not find a job for months on any of these. If you are ok with 15/hour, then may be you can try, otherwise - do not waste your time.
I think you read it wrong.

Its ..

>>The median employee tenure at Google is just more than one year, according to the payroll consultancy PayScale.
I am still not sure how useful Docker is but we have created a simple example how to run Docker on Vortex which is sort of Vagrant alternative. https://github.com/websecurify/node-vortex/tree/master/doc/e...
Out Of Ideas And In Debt, Spain Sets Sights On Taxing The Sun
Nike air jordan retro
Belles chaussures et agréable Fit. Rien ne vaut une paire de Air Jordan si jean ou un short usure, ces valent le prix et ils regardent et se sentir bien.
As an >30 russian I can confirm. "Руководство по эксплуатации" is the standart term in USSR for any type of the end user manuals. Now user manuals just the "user" manuals (Руководство пользователя).
Seems like a hack for iPad. Look at that tip. It's definitely still a capacitive stylus, it's just that this one has 2048 levels of sensitivity. But I think precision is a lot more important, and you won't get that on an iPad (unless Apple decides to support active digitizers in future iPads, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that one).
Android App Development - Business and Industries Opting For
It's not the editing of the header that's the problem, it's doing the edit correctly so that the program still builds.
I call it include hell.

In addition changing a header file can at times trigger a lengthy build.

Visual Studio and ctags based 'IDE' style features allow you to go to definitions or declarations fairly easily.

Unless I'm mistaken I think the eclipse CDT for c++ can change/refactor file and header as you wish for. [1] [2]

[1] http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.use...

[2] http://r2.ifs.hsr.ch/cdtrefactoring

I'm unaware of anything that can change function prototypes correctly, but maybe eclipse CDT can do it.
Australian Startups Outraged by Apple’s Startup Trademark
Came here to say this.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...

$59 and truly functional
99tests - Crowdsourced Software Testing - Pay As You Go
Nike air jordan ireland
I've always loved these shoes especially in all white, they were priced a little high though. These are one of a kind.
I think beaming the energy down is the wrong approach, instead that solar energy needs to be converted to antimatter.
linkedin guys are either spammers or they just don't know how to build the "email notification preference" thingy. I suspect they keep this feature broken by design...
It's crazy once you really have to start multitask. Great idea.
VIPTrace
Indeed, from that shot it seems like the rumoured iPhone 5C (the C is rumoured to stand for "China") is copying the highly succesful Chinese brand Xiaomi, not the other way round.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/budget-iphone-5c-release-...
yes, and shuttling antimatter batteries back to earth.
This bug has been reported to Apple already and it's been fixed in Mavericks.

I also believe it's been fixed in iOS7 because they did a lot of changes to the text rendering libraries.
This is seriously awesome, great idea!
reading other comments I think Aldi in the UK is run as a completely different operation from the rest of Europe. I also have only positive experiences for Aldi. Fresh, good food at excellent prices.

... or maybe we in the UK are just used to much worse ...
I think it's great! Although I haven't used a flash card app before, so I'm not sure how qualified a judge I am.

My only comment is that on screen widths between about 780px and 1200px, the text and fields in the two side widgets of the main flash card view overflow from their white backgrounds.
In fact, I think the Visual Studio team once said that it's so excruciatingly hard to build C++ refactorings that won't destroy code in unhappy circumstances that they won't bother shipping such things.
“According to his calculation, one such satellite is able to supply a third of total energy needed by humans.”

I'm just commenting on what they wrote and I see nothing about a farm of satellites in the article. Perhaps the original source is more clear about it. Or maybe this technology doesn't scale down well and that's the reason they're writing about one powerful satellite?
Why Microsoft .Net failed
People have been doing covert channels over DNS in the wild since <2001. Fast forward 12 years, and this is the new 'my first socket app'.
My problem with "natural rights" is that they're a way to take one set of arbitrary priorities and elevate them to some sort of law of nature, without having to justify them on utilitarian grounds. You have a right to property but not a right to education. Why? Because the former is a "natural right." Its no different from resorting to "because the Bible says so." Its also used to undermine democratic consensus in the same way as resorting to theology. Oh, everyone thinks there is a right to education? Wrong! Because the Bible says so... Err... Because its not a natural right, just some creation of government.
Why would you put solar panels up there? Why couldn't you just focus the energy into a beam and point it towards earth like space based mirrors for one of these solar power stations[0] where sunlight is focused on a 'boiler' which generates steam for a conventional turbine. I've no idea if the physics works out but i'd be interested to hear from someone who does. [0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS20_solar_power_tower
Recursos Hídricos em Simpósio no Brasil
I once lost a website, no backup or anything. There is a saying that "Real men don't do backups, they cry", well I guess I learned my lesson.

I had to crawl the search engine to restore some of the pages, which led to the free service www.recovermywebsite.com.

I don't have much time to develop this further, so if anyone are interested in buying it, contact me at support@recovermywebsite.com.
>solar panel is on-orbit, you get twice the solar energy - assuming that it is out of Earth's shadow

Not quite. When compared to stationary panels (which beat trackers economically, so they should be the baseline), space-based power harvests π (yes, pi) times as much sunlight due to lack of cosine loss, plus there's the bonus of reduced reflective loss. Atmospheric and weather loss is avoided entirely. I would estimate 4-5x the energy.

The big advantage of space-based solar imo is the ability to create giant collection areas defined by minutely pressurized helium structures. A giant parabolic mirror on Earth needs to fight gravity, winds, and the Earth's rotation (tracking). Similar concept: https://tec.grc.nasa.gov/past-projects/solar-concentrators/a...

Launch a 30,000 m^2 concentrating collector in a single launch? It's only 12 MW, but it's constant (unlike ground-based solar at ~18% capacity factor), and it's deliverable anywhere in the world, or even to other satellites. What if microsatellites could summon extra power by POSTing an ephemeris to an endpoint? Is there a market there?

It's an interesting niche tech, but spaceflight is just so expensive that I doubt it'll ever be viable.
It looks well done. How was it with deploying Meteor on Heroku?
I made a multiplayer platformer with node.js, websockets, and box2D: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
I wouldn't care to redesign the paper boarding pass. It will be killed in <5yr.

You better design a good mobile e-ticket with something more than a damn QR code, which is what I mostly find with the airlines I fly... At the moment the only acceptable solution I've found is the one provided by Passbook,
I can give some insider perspective on Xiaomi as a Chinese guy(Xiaomi user, but not fanboy). Xiaomi was recently evaluated at ten billion dollars. They are THE HOTTEST series of smartphones that young Chinese people and recently their parents are trying to get. Since 2011, it has brought several competitive phones to market, usually priced 300 dollars, selling millions within minutes online. And the quad-core 4.7 inch RED-MI which was partnered with Tencent sells for about 150 dollars, which is winning over the lower end market in China. It has this beautifully polished MIUI OS, which is much better than the original Android, and most other distributions(there are places better than iOS). At the same price, most Chinese made phones, incl. Lenovo, Huawei, Coolpad, have mediocre hardware and software. Xiaomi is often sold at 10% the price online at Taobao, since you need tremendous luck to buy one online (The first batch of Red-MI was sold in 90 seconds, 7 million users were waiting for it, only 10 thousand got one). So to say, Xiaomi is a company creates pretty good smartphones at a fraction of the of ip5 and S4 that mostly everyone in China wants, while mostly everyone outside China has never heard of it. I guess Hugo Barra would be a boon for the internationalization of Xiaomi smartphones.
What a solid article.

The number that caught my eye is Revenue/Total Employees. That brings home some realities of markets. Total revenue in the market is the amount consumers spend on groceries. Thats more or less constant. Wall Mart's low revenue/employee ($211k vs $620k) means they employ more people for every dollar of market share they have. This is an enormous difference. It implies that every time Costco win $1m in market share from Wal Mart, total employment drops by 3.1 people.

Aldi (and its slightly upmarket cousin, Liddel) serve a similar market segment to Wal Mart in Europe. Is suspect they do it with even higher revenue per employee. These store are all about labour efficiency.

This might be a "be careful what you wish for" scenario for retail workers and people concerned with wages at the lower rungs. Employers might be able to afford higher wages, but demand for those wages will go down. In that case, its hard to imagine wages really improving in the long term. Even if they did, total employment would be much lower and that would hit the lowest skill workers hardest. When you pay better wages, you can be choosier.

This may be taking it a little far but.. I think what we see running through this scenario is an example of how improved efficiency breeds wage inequality.
Programming language/frame work popularity at Y Combinator
What was the actual go app doing in the example? was it a web app?
15 Handy Tips for Getting into the Back to School Routine
I suppose clang is the great white hope for C++:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuIOGfcOH0k

link taken from here:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/13840863
I'm building a business process modelling and workflow automation tool.
https://flowplane.com

I tell my wife I'm obsessed with models.
It's a small example web application (API) that returns some JSON. The app also comes along with a unit test.
Apple's new technology will allow government to control your iPhone remotely
Maximilian Lambda Caster, an experimental bullet hell: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Use the enemies you shoot to create lambda functions that manipulate the battlefield.

It'll go over people's heads so I'll have no chance of ranking very high. Which is why I'd rather have comments from a handful of people saying they "get it" than hundreds of bad ratings from people who try it for 10 seconds (heh) and give up.

Nonetheless I enjoy doing esoteric games in game jams, questioning assumptions in game design. I feel like it's a waste of time to do "just a platformer" when you're in an environment where creativity flows.

Edit: I see OP's now going around tagging people on the site as "Hacker Newser", please don't do that. I'd rather not be labeled as a HN user.
You can't catch psychopaths using tests like these. The whole point of being a psychopaths is that you can change the perception of your personality at will.

So what your letting in is a subgroup of people who pass, and psychopaths.
http://www.fret1.com

A tool for seeing the relationship between chord & scales on the guitar. I built this a few years back to sharpen my Silverlight skills. (stop chuckling). Just rewrote it in HTML & JS, with help from teoria.js.
Please please please someone endorse me for "nunchuck skills"
Half an Apple: developer creates tiny, working version of original Macintosh
Maybe you can post it on http://www.sideprojectors.com/
I'm wondering if it still contains data, if it's working.
You are missing the step where mining activity will frantically respond to the commodity price. That is, if gold were trading at $100 an ounce, no one would be working $1200 mines.

The consumptive demand for gold could be met for some absurdly long time using the gold sitting in repositories, there is no actual need to produce it, it doesn't particularly have a production cost.
In fact, a little known feature of Costco's business model is their ability to sell all their stock well before their suppliers require payment for goods (Net 30)? This means they have an effectively _negative_ cash conversion cycle, or in other words, their suppliers are paying to stock their products.

AFAIK most supermarkets run this model; when I was in school in Ireland in the 90s, this model was explained to me with reference to the main Irish chains. They end up with a big chunk of free cash that they invest.
> I'm building general-purpose spaced-repetition (flashcard) software for the browser:

Me too!
But I'm at pre-alpha.
I'm using asp.net mvc & knockout.js
Think of a place like Tiger's Nest Monastery[1] or some remote place on a hill in India/China/Vietnam/Cambodia.

A monastery like environment, complete with places like dojos where there would be practice and sparring sessions, prayer and contemplation halls where the young and old from various schools of thoughts (Mac/*nix/MS, anything) mingle and discuss their ideas. A place where rank/wealth/ethnicity/gender doesn't matter; and where judgements would be of the work and not of people. A truly jedi-esque order of programmers, helping younger and able programmers realise their true potentials. The place would have volunteers who teach for free and those who truly want to learn. The Internet bandwidth, though limited, would be used judiciously. The gates of the monastery would be open for all those who wish to learn. And not just for programmers. The place would be open for the curious from any background.

Wouldn't such a thing be wonderful!

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_Taktsang
Anti-aging research I have to agree.

But according to Givewell (http://www.givewell.org/) who do research into cost effective use of charity money, mosquito nets are very effective. Their #1 recommendation is the Against Malaria Foundation who "provides long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (for protection against malaria) in bulk to other organizations, which then distribute them in developing countries."

"AMF is a recommended organization because of its:

- focus on a program with a strong track record and excellent cost-effectiveness (more).
- standout transparency and accountability - it publishes photographs and reports from each of its distributions and requires that organizations that distribute its nets monitor the usage and condition of nets in the years following the distribution and track and provide monthly malaria case rate data (more).
- room for more funding - AMF has told us that it can use additional funding to expand its core program and has committed to reporting on how additional funds are used and what results are achieved."

Even if you don't accept Givewell's research, I think there is enough evidence here to doubt the statement that you wouldn't be "crazy" to think their were more effective use of money than mosquito nets.
Not a big fan of the name to be honest :(
The Legend of Epikouros - a Zelda-like Relay Marathon

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

I made this in 30-ish hours for the compo. Client is made with Unity, and server with node.js.

It was very fun to come up with something original on the "10 seconds" theme: instead of the quite evident idea of having a very small-scale game you can play for only 10 seconds, I explored the idea of having a huge game but being able to play only 10 seconds of it. The result turned out - IMHO - quite interesting, related to the way we - humans - relate with time (warning: playing it might induce some feelings of impatience, nostalgia, emptiness or regret, depending on your view on life...).
No surprise here. The most popular hypothesis of Moon formation says, that it used to be a piece of Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis).
I know it’s scary, but to sell is your job too
ROR, Django and J2EE are not programming languages
Excellent, I have been looking for this. I might use it for www.recovermywebsite.com
Hardware Instancing and Frustum Culling using SlimDX and Direct3D 11
I've been using wercker to test and auto deploy a few sideproject go apps and the process has been really smooth. I'm about to switch one over to their new ssh deploy stuff and will write a blog post about it.

Using them as a plain CI/badge system for libraries is really nice too: I'm using them on https://github.com/joho/godotenv for that and have been really happy with that.

Two thumbs up from me for the service all round.
Are you using a VPN to do something illegal, then that's one thing. If you want to encrypt your web traffic out of one country and into another then a VPN is perfect. Being totally anonymous on the internet isn't very easy, a VPN can help to some extent but it's not the only tool you need to use.
I seriously doubt it. He was not on the engineering side of the Android project.
Watsi are very transparent about their operations. From their site you can get to the google docs accounts that show where all the money is - progress with each of the different cases.

As you say, it's still built on trust but I'd imagine pg is keeping a watchful eye.
Some of these are not correct, for example:

M-s	center-line	Center the current line.
C-x 5	split-windws-vertically	Divide the current window vertically in two.
I've built Authic with a friend (http://authic.com). Authic is a SASS User Authentication, Management, Plans and Payments. Our aim is to make as service that is as easy to integrate with as Facebook Connect, but will allow you to authenticate your users, reset their passwords, configure payment plans and setup recurring billing with ease.

We really want this tool to make it much easier/quicker to let devs release and launch their own SAAS products, concentrating on their unique functionality and not waste their time with the boring stuff.
Why did Ubuntu choose Indiegogo over Kickstarter?
I'm starting to really wish that Heroku was just another Docker PaaS, so that I could take all the Docker containers I've already made and deploy them there, or vice-versa. I wonder if it'll ever happen?
A number that is skewed by the fast rate of hiring by top-tier companies. When companies are hiring at the rate of Google, Facebook, Apple, etc then even an infinitesimal departure rate of old-timers would set the median at that level.
Scroll down after the comment textarea:

"If you are happy to be contacted by a BBC journalist please leave a telephone number that we can contact you on."

Leave your pay phone number ;)
Article is content free; here's the paper: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/716070main_Mankins_2011_PhI_SPS_Alph...

11,800 tonnes in GEO for 500 MW. At Proton-M prices, that's $295/watt for the launch. Not great…
We had a whole spate of these in Ireland recently. A large % of mobile users on a particular network woke up to missed calls: http://www.thejournal.ie/mobile-phone-scam-slovenian-number-...
Interactive 3D Scenes with C#
Another Go article currently also on the front page uses heroku as the deployment platform:

Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6294921)
Are there some engineering secrets? I thought Android was kind of Open Source...
Thanks, very handy.
These days, it's not.
We have a service in the UK called TPS which is voluntary to adhere to. Companies use it as a telephone directory here too.
So many redesigns of boarding passes. So very pointless apart from being nice practices in information hierarchy. There is a weird kind of prestige attached to them, I think that's why designers love doing them. Makes you feel important.