skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little OT, but I find the Ludum Dare challenge to be just...awesome. I first heard about it when viewing Lucas Pope's homepage (the creator of Papers, Please), and seeing the astonishing work he made in 48 hours (here: http://dukope.com/play.php?g=six as well as this game, which he did for practice but which I think is the best game ever made about newspapers: http://dukope.com/play.php?g=trt). During some idle time today I started reading the Haxe docs...I got into programming because I wanted to make video games and haven't done any game code since college because the games industry didn't seem fun to work in. But seeing the kind of inspired one-offs at Ludum (as well as Pope's Papers, Please) has really sparked an interest in me to create something memorable that is not a web app.
Are buckyballs big enough to hit with their laser?
As someone who works as a admin at a hosting company, I must say its inexcusable to disconnect a customer without first calling them.
If real GDP growth stops or even becomes negative

Given that return on invested capital has been decreasing 1965-2009, and I've seen similar charts for GDP, we're on track for that. How our banking/finance system resolves that situation will be ... interesting

http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Insights/Browse-by-Con...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/01/25/shift-in...

I still don't see an argument that the real interest rate is decreased by long-term stable inflation.

I need to think this over a bit more. I'm not sure there is a stable long-term relationship here -- the financial system is part of the internal control and feedback system of the economy, growth is ultimately dependent on exogenous factors (notably resources). So it's fair to say that the real interest rate is determined by the nominal rate and the inflation rate. And the nominal interest rate is strongly influenced by the real rate of return on investment. See Shift Index above.

Though I'm trying to reconcile that with the low interest rates of the late 1960s / early 1970s and high interest of 1979-1982 or so.
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My mom is your target demographic so let me know if you want to add a sassy, energetic 73 (going on 37) year old to your beta test group once you are also live on the Android platform.

In answer to your question, here are a couple ideas:

(1) Contact active senior living communities. They are springing up everywhere and the seniors opting for these communities are going to tend to be energetic, into new things and more financially well off. Most, if not all, of these communities have e-mail lists and calendars of events and activities that they send out to the residents every week or month because one of their selling points is that they offer fun and unique things to keep the residents active and having fun. See if you can get them to feature your games in their e-mails or newsletters. These are all over the country. Just google "active senior living communities" and similar key phrases. (Note: These are different from "nursing homes" so emphasis on "active.")

(2) This is probably tougher if you're not really into marketing and "selling yourself," but, do PR. From the local to national level there are great opportunities. Thousands of local newspapers still print everyday or every week and might find a feature about your game apps cool. But you'd have to craft it into a story that is enticing and verifiable (e.g. "A growing trend you wouldn't expect: Senior gamers"). On this page you can find local newspapers by state and start contacting them – or hire a PR rep – to pitch your story: http://www.usnpl.com. Even at the national level there are great opportunities. For example, Hoda Kotb and Kathy Lee Gifford do the last hour of the Today show on NBC and they are always featuring apps that make like easier or more fun. Plus, Kathy Lee is your target demographic (she just turned 60 and they celebrated on the show) so see if you can pitch the producers. Try CNN too – especially on weekends their demographic skews to 50+. And, of course, pitch AARP. ;-)

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Panning around in Google's app is laggy on my iPhone 4S, perhaps it is better on the iPhone 5. Interesting about the data, obviously that is going to depend on locality. In the beginning, Apple's data was embarrassingly wrong around here (Oregon). Not sure about now, though I suppose they are "working on it".
Actually, a piece of paper is great because I do not need to awkwardly unlock my screen to get the boarding pass display; I do not need to worry about an accidental key press switching to somewhere else; if an official needs to actually handle the boarding pass I can hand it over; if the airline rep needs it to change my flight they can do it without having a scanner on every computer. The list is endless.
I recently just bailed on Linkedin. I was getting zero utility from it, and didn't see any possible future where I would. I ache to pull the trigger on Facebook as well, but the longer I wait the more entrenched it becomes for my family.

EDIT: removed superfluous "the".
An idea like this seems risky because it relies on the game getting some considerable attention from the get-go or it's literally all over within seconds. Also, doing this means basically foregoing the normal voting process which is taking place over the next 3 weeks.

I don't think most LD devs could've pulled this off, PR-wise.

There are over 2000 entries on LD27, and Spiegel calls the next morning? Either I'm way too cynical right now or this is the luckiest entry ever. It's hard getting noticed on Ludum Dare and there are a lot of neat concepts floating around.
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Thanks, that script is really neat. Installed now.
My company just changed their expense policy where we need to keep the boarding cards as part of the expense receipt process.

Unfortunately, paper passes will need to be around a bit longer.
I do something similar, though I use git-annex / assistant to manage the files. It can have remote data repositories using rsync with transparent encryption (using GPG keys).

I also have a bigger drive at home mounted on a raspberry, which stores both the important files (as a second backup) and a lot of unimportant crap.
You just blew my mind. I had never considered that. Now that I think about it, this must be how endorsements are being used in the LinkedIn backend.
For one I don't think that's a meme, but I think he was more referencing specific instances that had been in the news somewhat recently of this happening in the south.
The SELF guys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%29
had the same dream, but used a different strategy. They wanted to replace underlying components by a rewrite in SELF, one component at a time. Until the only thing left was a SELF system.
Sounds like Elizer + speech synthesizer could work well here.
Siege engine:

http://ozarkmedievalfortress.com/images/95.jpg
I am just completing my first internship at Intuit as a software development intern working on turbotaxonline, after only 2 years in the Cal Poly SLO computer science program. Before college I had no experience in programming at all, and before the summer I had no experience in web dev. So it doesn't take all that much experience to be able to function in an internship, you just have to be driven to learn and teach yourself.
It's unfortunate that it ended so soon due to a hosting company being garbage.

I would have loved to see this really blow up and get billions of visitors and see it running a year from now because it's an interesting concept for a game.
"I also wouldn't be surprised if many of the tests contain an element of uncorrected racial/cultural bias, and the psychometric industry has been exploiting the inability of the government to enforce the law (Employment Equity Act), which makes discriminatory testing illegal."

Why would the psychometric industry want to exploit such a lack of enforcement by vending a discriminatory test? Do you think their customers are interested in using tests that give bogus results?
I suspect that it is a geographical-cultural thing, not an age-culture thing.

edit: for clarity
Actually, if the rear / aisle iconography yields faster boarding then the time saved standing on the ground might be worth it. Airlines spend tens of millions on researching faster boarding processes.
At thirty bundles to date over a roughly three-year history, they've been averaging about one a month.
Won't syncing an encrypted file store result in a lot of sync churning each time you modify a file inside, because deltas won't work?
I know this is an unpopular opinion but I actually prefer Apple Maps over Google Maps for some usecases.

I have a great spatial memory, but a poor name memory. Usually I can immediately remember _where_ a place is located, but not it's name. If I need to find more details about a place I pop open the Maps app and pan to its location to find it.

Apple Maps has more business icons at a higher zoom level compared to Google Maps. This makes my visual search easier.

Also, sometimes I like to browse around my location to find something to do (usually looking for a restaurant). Apple Maps' higher information density is again useful here.

However when it comes to actual turn by turn navigation I will usually use Google Maps. (Apple Maps has a road going through the middle of my apartment complex!)

Side Note: I don't care if it is a gimmick, the 3d model of my city (including both my apartment and office building) is incredibly cool. When I first discovered it I spent a good while just flying around. I would absolutely love to fly around my city using a HMD like Occulus.
Great ideas - thanks! :-)
If Tinder And Snapchat Shacked Up And Had A Baby, It Would Be Called Swipe
23:59 as the default format for times,
for clarity, and the rest of the world.
Show both formats for departures.
Sure, but this is true for any product, and has nothing to do with it being mathematically impossible to go bankrupt on Humble Bundle.

If you haven't covered your fixed/dev costs, and if you misjudge the market quantity demanded at each price points, you could easily drive yourself to bankruptcy by running a Humble Bundle.

The only way Humble Bundle makes it "mathematically impossible" to go bankrupt (which was the claim I was disputing) is if they present you with a perfect demand schedule and then somehow align the price each person pays to that demand schedule, without letting anyone pay above or below their reservation price. Whoever figures this out is probably not going to just use it for independent pay what you want gaming sales.
Re: Are you self-handicapping? Probably not. You've got a real disadvantage. BUT that doesn't mean you should hold yourself to any lower of a standard. I find that a useful heuristic is to automatically answer "yes" to this question. In other words, if I told you authoritatively, "YES, YOU ARE SELF-HANDICAPPING - SNAP OUT OF IT" what would you do differently? Usually, whether it's true or not, those are the right decisions.

Re: Exceptional. I'm sure you are. Exceptional is a vague term and that can lead to big ego swings. We can all find evidence that we're "exceptional" and "non-exceptional" every day. The trick is to realize that assuming that your exceptional innate abilities will lead you to success without work is a myth. Just keep hustling. Excellence is a habit, not a trait.
While I agree that they could've called us before shutting the site down, I think one should note that impetus ran on a shared server and the hosting-TOS likely state that they'll get rid of too much load.

We just didn't expect our little project to get that much attention.
Do you think that people just all of a sudden decided that standing might kind of be a cool thing for their circulation or whatever? If it's a "hip" thing, it's probably because it's inspired by stuff like this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404815/

Which states that sitting a lot is bad, even if you are an individual who exercises. And this does not imply that people want to replace standing with exercising, which is a false dichotomy proposed in the article.
Thanks man, really appreciate it. If you want any help building out (if that is the right thing to do) your highlight experiment, please let me know - I'd be glad to help.
Package managers are okay mechanisms for installing software, but really limited for configuration management. For example:

- I need to configure 50 virtual hosts, each containing a different set of web content - should I make 50 separate packages? or make one meta package?

- I need to install a java web application, and configure a database.properties file with a JDBC URL that might vary based on environment

- I have a set of cron jobs that I need to be configured based on the application sets that I have installed, but a different set that I need to be consistent across all systems. Now I need to build logic that figures out whether any of the cron jobs configured match jobs that already exist, or run the risk of them running more than once.

- I need to install tomcat 15 times with slightly varied configurations.

Now, you can say that some of these things are not relevant in development environments, or that you can do some of them with packages, and so on. But there's real advantages to use a config management tool to build your dev environment, and then when you're ready to move to production, use teh same config management model to build that environment.

It's not that you can't make packages do most or many of the things you want. It's about using the right tool for the right job.
Firemacs is decent, but still has a few hangups:

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Firemacs

It's the closest thing to a real editor on the I've been able to find.
Well now you have to tell us about the really scary ones!
What do you mean by rotate (sprint for one minute and walk for 30 seconds?), and by a few more times (10 minutes, 15 minutes)?
Can you kindly explain how even a UV laser, with a wavelength of about 200 nm, can apply enough torque on a buckyball about 1.1 nm across?

My first thought was that the EM field would be essentially uniform, so what you propose wouldn't be possible. What am I missing?
I know it may seem pure luck to get press coverage from Der Spiegel, but I think this is a good example to consider the value of specialization. A good PR professional could get this kind of press coverage consistently. He would probably have to contribute to the project from early, to add the kind of hooks he knows would make journalists interested.

I know the Impetus creator probably did not benefit from the help of a PR person, so more power to him :)
I presume the reason they don't print this "additional" information is because a) it's subject to change and often does and b) travelers may sue when this information is completely false also c) some of that information may make the traveler or the airline look bad.
Did you make your riches by making unsolicited phone calls to sell people stuff? I can't see why this would annoy you otherwise.
In this case, eating seconds is not a self-destructive act but an example of cognitive dissonance. Maybe it's not true for everyone, but most have the feeling that they're doing something wrong/unhealthy when they indulge in too much dessert, but they have the temptation to do it anyways.

That's cognitive dissonance. Self-destructive behavior is just one example of a weird way we deal with that tension (in this example, maybe that's the person who says "I have bad genetics, so it doesn't even matter anyways!" before stuffing their face).
of course. thanks. I'm not sure why my mind was convinced it was a typo. I misread the context i guess.
90% of my calls are robo calls where its just silence on the other end. Whats stopping me from answering the phone when one of the bots calls and never hanging up?
That's exactly what I meant, I did get the feeling that this story is PR-powered. Odds are this doesn't just happen. There are literally hundreds of comparably interesting entries (not to take away from this one, it's a great idea).

With stories like this often the suggestion is "we did this very unique thing, went to bed, and woke up on a morning talk show" - that's simply not how it works and people are on average well advised to be wary of stories like this. Stuff like this happens to people who are either well-known, well-connected, or actively engage in PR. More power to them, though!
The linked http://strlen.com/java-style-classes-in-c was both horrifying and tantalizing. I'd expected a preprocessor that generates appropriate .hpp/.cpp, but instead I learned about yet another corner of C++ I hadn't exactly induced from experience.
> One vote and a comment if they are especially lucky.

Rings pretty true to me; admittedly, I don't participate much in comments or have a recognizable name, but my past submissions certainly fit this bill.

Though, when I look at the 'newest' queue [1], there are 30 posts in the last hour and only one front page. Not everybody can make it. For my part, I'm mostly curious what does, actually, make it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
If you find this fascinating and haven't seen the TV show LOST (does such an intersection existing?) - there is a similar mechanism introduced near the end of the first season that has a big impact on the plot. I wonder if ABC ever made an ARG of this, would have been pretty fitting I imagine.
Scala was actually the first language in which I've truly appreciated object-oriented programming. It's really quite simple when you get it: Objects Are Modules. You do not want or need an object for everything (looking at you, Java!), but when you want to abstract away some combination of behavior and data, you do in fact want OOP.
Basically, yes. Used in this manner it's a lower friction version of slapping vmdk's on a web server (or 'how we used to do it')
In what way obsolete? Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be the "good" kind of obsolete where you don't have to keep track of a piece of paper. The only thing I can see now is that it turns into something of a dna/retna scan or you need to provide something biological to fly.
I usually ignore critical comments, but on deeper thought that tagline comes off a lot douchier than it did it my head. There's a better word for what I'm trying to convey than "winning" but I can't come up with it.

Now that the tagline's changed, you can go back and take some life advice ;)
tl;dr A VC thinks VC works better than equity crowdfunding ever will. As if VC is the answer to all problems.
As someone who works in another legendarily slow, computer-heavy artform (3D animation), this was a really fascinating read.

His point about metawork really hit home hard. I'm at the end of a 4-year project now, and I'd estimate 90% of what I'm doing is what he calls metawork.

The major takeaway I got from it was that I should try doing some 48-hour projects myself - or perhaps find some 48-hour film competitions to enter - and see what the results are.

And, of course, write them up as a blog entry.
I got my current start (granted not super successful, just started about a month ago) with my product paying all my bills by looking for an audience and just selling manual services that emulated the product itself. Once I saw secured actual contracts and demand, I built it.

In my case, I used a few different marketplaces, but I might also recommend competitor's forums.

Just go to where your audience frequents and sell them something, and if they pay for it, build it.

Some of this might be considered spam, but I would imagine if you did a bit of research or attempted to explain how you add value in some way: I'm sure people don't mind direct emails or direct messages (if something exists)

With that, I'd recommend stuff like linkedin/twitter etc to find relevant people in the industry you want to sell to and work from there.
I don't know that it was the company, but I do know from personal experience that this appears to be godaddy's approach. Not only that, when I contacted them after the site went down, they couldn't even explain why. Instead they told me one of our scripts had a bug that was using up too many server resources. I explained that there was no bug, even offered to show them the source code (which they refused), etc. Turns out the 'bug' was that it was getting called too much due to high traffic.
Good point about "near-surface air temperature".
Ummm, what's so new and special about Go?
Was it Bluehost? I've heard stories of them just instantly shutting down your server without notice when you generated any form of decent traffic.
In related news, the Chinese operator TenCent is offering 10TB online storage for free.
http://www.weiyun.com/act/10t.html

At least your data will be behind a strong firewall
No, but she's slightly more telegenic.
It's as if Dude from "The Big Lebowski" had LinkedIn endorsements:

[ Groovy ][ Chilled ][ Fights "The Man"]
Describing Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire as "White House staffers" is downright insulting. They're academics who happened to serve certain White House posts at points in their careers.
Like everything, competent implementation and use are key, so I'm sure you have had experiences that give you reasons to doubt their efficacy. But every field suffers from some form of that in some way or another, and the degree of transparency into the process varies greatly.

Fair enough. BTW, I'm not the one who downvoted you, FWIW.
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Do we even need an electronic boarding pass? It will not be long before all valid passports are chipped. A security agent or airline staff can just read your passport to verify you are boarding the correct flight. Gate number and flight times often change so it would be unwise to rely on your printed paper for that information. You could be told your seat number by the crew member making the final check at the door of the plane and your initials could be displayed above your sear as a reminder when you near the correct isle.
A closer look at how Ruby Object Mapper (formerly DataMapper 2) works