skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Website contributor here. Super basic website that still needs a lot of work to showcase the city, startups, and job opportunities but it's a start. Inspired to post when I saw the Started in Seattle website trend earlier today.
Building a business is very hard work. Some people can pull it off working few hours a week, but the majority will tend towards the 60-80 hours and be able to eventually taper that if they're lucky.
World's first 'invisible' tower
I think if the sender and recipient in your described scenario are consenting then they should not be charged with these laws. That is not the intent of those laws. Even if the recipient is not consenting, the sender should also be charged with some other sort of harassment. But if the recipient forwards or shares the image in any way then they probably should receive the severe distribution charge.
He previously out-sourced the work, in the traditional way (I'm unfortunate to have 12 crowns done by him). This is much, much better - the machining took 30 minutes, and he worked on other patients in the mean-time. He indicated his profit margins per crown were higher, while the price to me was lower. As I was heading out to Europe the next week, having permanent crowns made my life much more enjoyable. =)

I think the big drawback was that he had to pay for the machines and software - he indicated that he would have them paid off in a year or two.
How to sell free software

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
I'm pretty sure Malbolge would take a lot of time to become comfortable with. :)
Blame it on the "iGods" if you want, but your ridiculous all-caps whinging is what earned this a down-vote from me.

Did your device get bricked? That sucks, it's never fun. Did you take it in to get it unbricked? Everyone I know that's had hardware trouble like that has had their phone either fixed or, surprisingly, replaced. If the OS is designed to run on your phone and it doesn't, that's a defect, and you're entitled to a fix.
If we're considering esoteric languages, Brainfuck would probably win. :)

"Hello World" in Brainfuck:

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
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I'll dismiss anything outright that is being used by moronic business-school twits that are using EI as a way to bolster their non-skills and nonsense MBA programs.
The term "startup" doesn't intrinsically say anything about a business other than that it's new. But the discussion about "startups" on HN and in the popular press assumes it means
1) long hours
2) a bunch of young guys
3) aiming at extremely rapid growth (often measured by users, regardless of revenue)

It's probably a losing battle trying to and change that use. If the shoe fits, call it a startup, otherwise just use consulting business, small-business, or whatever other term describes it. It's not like you're losing out on something by not calling a web development shop a startup.
So basically a (non-Fire) Kindle in a smaller form and with more apps?
I understand this works for sticky headers. Footers, too?

e.g. You have a table and you want the header row(s) to be fixed, but _also_ footer row(s) with totals.
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Yeh, I can imagine it was exactly like a scene from Dumpster Anal Teens
yep. Twitter, followed by Kickstarter. Lately when I have one of those gut reaction aversions to a new product I check myself and re-examine.
I second Brainfuck
Which is an enormous racket and close to impossible to comply with economically for small manufacturers in some countries.

As an example, in Germany, if you are a small electronics manufacturer and sign up to the system, you get entered into a lottery weighted by the amount of devices (measured by weight) you ship, and whenever a container of e-waste gets filled, a randomly selected unlucky participant has to take possession of said container, no matter where it happens to be or what it's full of, and find some way to dispose of it. It's absolutely insane. In addition, you have to pay a fee to get to participate, and also you are subject to random inspections by an entity with absolutely no oversight that is legally prevented from having competitors. You have to pay for the inspections yourself too, to the same entity, which also runs said lottery.

There's no option to only accept your own devices for recycling, and also no option to contribute to a shared fund that takes care of it all. There's a small industry that will sell you INSURANCE against winning the shit lottery.
The landing page looks like a minefield of legal issues. Marketing everything explicitly with the references to Siri is asking for a law suit from Apple.
This is a pretty insightful statement. I would modify that a little bit from 'success' to advancement. In academia you non-academic duties increase as you advance. I've seen a handful of people pull things off such that they have a small lab and don't put in for promotion (they stay associate or instructor). They trade pay for less management duties.
This is what I took from it as well: simple solutions can work really well. We shouldn't always try to tack on the fashionable and new pieces of tech to make something work when we could keep it simple.

On top of that, I learned how to make metal spheres with physics,some history and saw a bunch of pretty pictures of old towers. All in all time well spent.
No, but a startup is a company designed to grow into something much larger very quickly — that (historically) requires a massive amount of work. Small businesses can require 80 hours a week too, but they traditionally serve a much smaller segment of the population.
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Work now requires more education. A PhD student is not less mature than a bachelors student just because he's in school for more years. He doesn't lose the right to make decisions for himself.

Prolonging the socially defined period of childhood didn't magically rewire brain chemistry.
The sentence they're given might be unduly harsh in your opinion, but they chose to hack into Vodafone's systems and take a copy of the information. It's pretty well publicised how harsh sentences are for hacking, so they would have known in advance the risks they were taking.

With this in mind, why should anyone feel sorry for someone being punished for a crime they committed?
"Enterprise" 4TB disks don't have orders of magnitude more IOPs than consumer versions.
Does it use https://www.hnsearch.com/api ?
It's a table, for the intent of displaying tabular data. Headers are an essential component of reading a table. If the headers do not remain visible after scrolling down, the table is not displaying useful information.

It is a broken experience, and a defect in the HTML concept of a "table".

Honestly, we have to stop defending these terrible web technologies we're saddled with. We use them because they're the only universal-standard client application engine.

Not because they're good.
Ask HN: Any interest in a monthly health/med hacker meetup in NYC?
I've been thinking about starting a monthly health/med meetup here in NYC for hackers. There's nothing, from what I've found, like a homebrew computer club for health, where geeks get together to show off what they've been working on, to just sit around a table, drink a beer, throw ideas around. And with all the new sensor technologies being developed, it's only a matter of time before hackers start to tinker around to create some pretty fascinating concepts.

So I'm seeing if there'd be any interest out there for what I just described. It'd be a monthly event. But I'll need to know roughly how many would make it so that I can set up the appropriate venue.

I ask that you please vote yes only if you're in NYC and would be able to attend, given your availability.

If anyone wants to help out, you can email me at kyro@kyrobeshay.com

EDIT: I've set up a a Meetup group http://www.meetup.com/HackerMed/
Nice idea - though it's a pity that it's so web dev centered.
People will probably take you more seriously if you stop using words like "bankster."
Just last week I string to think how I'd make ball bearings and this strategy came to mind. Neat to see that it's actually feasible.
This is what happens when Mozilla stopped giving shit about their XUL platform.
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Phonebloks - open source phone hardware
Apparently this really is a problem: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-17/local/38616662...

It is a fine line though and it sounds like a lot of states are trying to solve this.
Well ... that is what you get when MS starts to hit on ARM.

Unless Intel have partnership with software giant they will have hard time selling outside of the datacenter.

On the other hand Google produces one of the most used OSs in the world and Intel don't minds seeing some new androids using x86 chips. And Chromebooks are a safe middle ground on the road to mobile and hedging a bet against MS.

The Windows 8/RT fiasco will unfold for a long time. A historic analogy will be the refusal to renew The Reinsurance Treaty from the Germans in 1890.
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I can't find a tall tower anywhere near your marker though.
First off, [1999].

Second, Why was this submitted? Was it an attempt to draw comparisons with Putin's plea for us not to bomb Syria?
Right. If I worked for a startup that went south, I'd be homeless.
operators like +, -, /, %, ^, ... read much better once you learn their meanings and how to use them.

it's okay to learn things.
Wouldn't that bind the functionality to user interaction beyond just scrolling?

Analytics shows us that this minor issue with iPads is of little concern. But at least I now have a suggestion for a solution if someone decides it's a big enough deal. Thanks for the tip.
> "what problem does this actually solve?"

This solves a customer's problem.

> "Phones exist as they are as a sealed unit, so if something fails or you want something new, you buy it from the manufacturer or network."

This is the problem that it solves. It's obviously a great feature from the manufacturer's point of view.

> "Networks or manufacturers wouldn't want this kind of thing because it would affect their profits, so what's in it for them? What solution is it offering them?"

This attitude makes them prime candidates to be disrupted. If someone can provide a better experience for the customer that solves the same problem that you solve, then you're at risk of being eliminated.

> "That's before we even get into the engineering flaws..."

This is my biggest concern with this project. Still, good on them for trying. A lot of disruptive technology comes from technologies written off as too-difficult or too-complex to make work.
Side (but on-topic) note: I don't necessarily agree that building a 49 m tower to make tiny shot balls is "a very effective solution".
For the robot I'm working on, we're using http://wiki.ros.org/wire to make probabilistic world models.
When the API would not only return a confidence score for one possible interpretation, it would be interesting to get multiple interpretations with varying confidence scores, so you can somehow determine one that makes the most sense given your world model.
Wasn't the Moto X supposed to be super configurable like this? It got me excited from the rumors and the hype. At the end it turned out to be just some colors that can be picked.

http://www.talkandroid.com/154586-rumor-upcoming-motorola-x-...

> And finally— the mysterious device(s) will be completely customizable by allowing the device’s color, RAM and internal storage to be completely configurable.
Since it's already a giant hack job, and it still doesn't do what we want with all its plethora of existing hacks, you may as well add one more hack. It's not like there's some conceptual purity of CSS that's worth saving - it's piss-poor at doing its job of laying out complete pages. We suffer it because of the universality of HTML+CSS across every platform.
Color (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs). The idea behind the app was flawed (as in "why would anyone need this?"), and they made no attempt to hide the fact that the underlying idea was datamining/advertisement.
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For awhile, it was Twitter. Then someone came out with the idea of a Twitter you pay for (App.net), and since then it's been at the top of my list. Even when they're both making billions, I'll still believe they're stupid.
Regarding the medical profession, the same goes for Norway. Granted, you have to make sure your degree conforms to Norway's requirements, and you have to pass a test showing a basic level of Norwegian proficiency (and, I believe, another test for medical terms), but they're definitely hurting for people here.
What about the phones that come without sd card support?
I believe so, and it did so superbly.
Chechnya is a republic of Russia. Seems legit for him to exercise some authority over it and try to keep peace there and in other parts of his own country.

I assume this has been posted to highlight some contradictory stance he is taking on Syria which is a sovereign country. Chechnya to Russia is not the the same as Syria to the USA.
"In the mean-time, the community will be wasting time and effort in trying to solve ARM 64-bit issues which Apple has already solved."

Yep, Release them as early as possible so Samsung could copy and sit there does nothing? And Solving 64bit issues of what? The whole thing surprise the industry because Absolutely NO one was expecting an ARMv8 64bit chip on market until late 2014!

[1] Apple try to open it as standard, and they got sued by Patents Trolls. And are still battling it in court.
Do it and find out but it would be great.
Yes I would. Entrepreneur is, imho, anyone who doesn't get a paycheck from somebody else. Freelancer, startup founder, small business owner, artist selling stuff on etsy -> entrepreneurs the lot of 'em.
> A person with insider knowledge stole data including names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account information, the world’s second-biggest mobile-phone carrier said in a statement today.

Am I correct in understanding that the data stolen is Vodafone's customer payment details (ex: for auto payments)? At first read I thought that Vodafone had gotten into banking but I don't think that makes sense.

> The hacker had no access to credit-card information, passwords, PIN numbers or mobile-phone numbers, Vodafone said.

Credit card numbers and passwords I can understand as not being accessible (both can be either escrowed or hashed) but I don't see how it's possible to not have access to mobile phone numbers. If Vodafone is anything like US carriers then your phone number is basically your account number (sometimes a couple extra digits, ususally nothing though). Does anyone really think they have a separate account # per customer with the just the above data referenced to it?
Students with random access to alcohol. You drink what you have ... though it's still a poor excuse to mix vodka with cola.
Good resource. I remember a similar list of real world data structures represented in a relational database table schemas. I can't seem to find it, if anyone knows what I'm talking about please post it!
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But they are more expensive, so for comparison to be right one needs to take that under consideration.
That's an important issue.
And you'll also need an industrial revolution to provide manufacturing jobs.
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No, but it's a good start.
What's all this gunk about "startups aren't for everyone, they're HARD WORK"?? A big-company job is hard work too, if you're a driven person.
I really feel for this guy.

I'm a linux sysadmin in a 24/7 data processing/medical environment. Last november, I fell off my bike, without a helmet on. (I was on paved paths on a college campus during a football game; if I had been playing in traffic or moving quickly, I would've been wearing a helmet. However, I was moving at walking pace and SOMEHOW went over my handlebars. I have no memory of the accident.) I received a closed head injury, cervical spine injury, and had bleeding on the brain, and was borderline for concussion. I spent the night in the critical care unit and they wouldn't let me sleep. It was a pretty serious injury and I was on painkillers due to migraines for years.

For several months, I tried my hardest to do my job. But I didn't "grok" things. I couldn't code in the languages I'd known since the late 90s. I couldn't learn new things -- learning Ruby, even with the help of codecademy, was epic fail. I'd go through the classes and put any old thing in to make it work (thinking it wouldn't), and get 100% without understanding WHY it worked. I couldn't keep up with technology and wasn't reading HN and the other news sources I normally keep up with.

Eight months after the injury, I suddenly understood my first languages again. Another month after that, I could learn new things, and picked up Ruby and Chef inside of a week.

The worst part of it is that I didn't know that I was stupid. I thought I wasn't trying hard enough, and I pushed myself into feeling horrible about the whole thing.

The entire experience has given me a lot of sympathy for people who say that they can't do something because it doesn't feel understandable to them, even after they've been shown and guided through it.
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Pay figures suggest otherwise. If someone truly is a) a world-class expert and b) desperately needed, you would see H1B pay outstrip that of locals, and fair enough. But in fact you see that IT wages across the board have been stagnant since the dot-com crash, allowing for inflation. That is pretty strong evidence there is no shortage and may already be a glut.
Political, mainstream news: this is pretty much by definition something that is supposed to be off topic here.
There are numerous threads on Reddit that explain very well why this concept is not really feasible [1,2,many]

The (imho) most important ones in short:

* Mechanical modularity increases size and cost, makes it harder to create a beautiful phone, and is not in the manufacturer's commercial interests. Therefore, it would be hard to find companies/customers to build/buy this.

* Many current components are highly integrated - SoCs, sensor ICs, Display/Touchscreen, etc. Making these modular would require development of many new components (and would increase size, cost, power consumption).

* The concept assumes that all components use a common communication backplane. This is not feasible, as a variety of voltages and communication protocols are in use in a typical phone (I2C, SPI, UART, USB, various display protocols, etc.). Many components need very short connections to the CPU/GPU/whatever without crossing other PCB traces. It is not really feasible to make this work with a generic communication backplane. Proper heat dissipation for CPU/GPU is another problem.

In summary, while it is certainly feasible to build a modular phone (look at David Mellis' DIY cellphone [3]), doing so for current hardware would involve major engineering effort (== design and manufacture dozens of new chips) and would result in less stable, more expensive, and less beautiful phones requiring more power.

Nevertheless, such ideas are certainly helpful to catalyze thoughts about future hardware.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/1m6y1q/that_phonebl...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1m4pmy/el...

[many] http://www.reddit.com/r/all/search?q=phonebloks&restrict_sr=...

[3] http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182
As a 46 year old, white male with almost 20 years of IT experience, what I hear a lot of these startups saying is, "We don't really give a shit about you, your life or your time. We want to suck out a decades worth of input in 2-3 years and when you burn out, fuck you. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."

Who wants to live like that? These expectations will continue to gradually get WORSE...if you can imagine that. Until (and if) they run out of new recruits who don't know any better.

The fact that a startup founder tweeted "disappointment" about a very personal choice that a developer made makes me inclined to believe that I would run very, very, very far away from working for this person.
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“Leaf blowers for stamp collectors” great visual!
From the article: "...the chart adjusts for the cost of living in different countries, so we are looking at consistent living standards worldwide."
Nice concept, I just came back on here to let you know that I don't know what is happening on that page but I left it open about 45 minutes ago and noticed my fan kicked in a lot. It was that page I left open. Ended up taking 25% CPU, you didn't work on the iTunes software did you??

Only messing, it was taking a lot of CPU though.
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Nope, it's scraping.
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There is a difference between hard work and abuse.
I have no idea where you are located, but the English system involves a very linear path from graduation to junior doctors training in a variety of departments and a progression towards specialism.

You don't graduate and then go and compete for specialist jobs, it would be like my doing a degree in Business and expecting to be considered for senior management positions on graduation. So, I mean, are you saying that there are no jobs for Junior Doctors? That would be madness, because the first few years of work are really on the job learning without which there will be no new senior consultants.
Reminds me that webtender is still going strong.

The younguns at work were terrified of its layout and design when I showed it to them but it's a solid site.
Hey, we all started somewhere...

We do not expect miracles, but we help beginners of web development get started quickly with web apps, and we're going to see what they can achieve given time.
bankster - someone who took risks on the markets. Lost. Expects others to pay for his mistakes. Preferably tax-payers. So he can continue his lavish life-style. Embraces socialism for himself, and capitalism for everybody else.

banker - someone who took risks on the markets. Lost. Took the hit. Takes responsibility for his actions. Doesn't believe that there will be the end of the world if he goes bankrupt. Understand and embraces free market capitalism with both sides of it: risk and reward.
The mobile carriers and cell phone manufacturers.
Apparently mine, based on the number of upvotes my Show HN is getting right now ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374377
Hate to say it but Karaf does fit the bill. Use the right mvn plugins and it's mostly just boilerplate. I work with it every day and it's generally not the painful experience you think it is.