skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you consider a good way, but getting a decent sized panel, and use it to charge a lead acid battery would be the way i'd expect. Then run the pi off of a 12v usb adapter (usually find them for cars). That'll give you a number of advantages, it'd let you have a battery to deal with cloudy periods where you won't have enough juice to run the pi, and let you run for a while after the sun goes down. if you then want to add hardware to let you shut off when the panel voltage drops for too long it'd also be possible with just a diode before the battery (also not that hard to get) or with a sense line on the charging hardware you use.

take a look at stuff like [1], that should work fine for the pi, as long as you aren't trying to power huge amounts more.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Instapark%C2%AE-Black-Mono-crystalline...
RIP, the Middle Class, 1946-2013
First, government agencies aren't the only ones we should be worried about, even if government abuses are on the front page of HN every day. There are other concerns, and these are questions that Apple should answer.

Second, how do you know Franken isn't sending letters to his colleagues? Just because you're losing on one front doesn't mean you shouldn't try to fight on another.
This seems specific to image-based fingerprint sensors? Apple's version does not appear to work this way...
Google Is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking
I think the key here is "If you're not prepared..." in a high speed traffic accident you're very likely not to be prepared.
"Reasonable person" standard.
Certainly. And pigs may fly. But why do you think your conjecture has any basis in reality, much less is more believable than the report from the aforementioned council?
What’s new in Play 2.2
Where is knockout.js, SignalR, ASP.NET MVC, Azure?

Call it "hipsterbentobox.io".

PS: I am on BitBucket, I know it's not as hip as GitHub - sorry.
At the end of the hour they perform a stable matching algorithm to pair up bids and asks

"A stable matching algorithm" is the real trick here.

Incidentally, the fundamental problem of zero sum behavior here is caused by the subpenny rule. Speed would be a non-issue if you were allowed to bid $10.031 in order to beat the faster guy who bid $10.03. Right now you can only bid $10.04, which is often too high.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/subpenny_rule_respons...
I just might have to buy the steambox
Java and Microsoft .NET?
Good point! I will change that.
I don't think our presentation skills got us funded. But I do think our ability to persuade investors, recruits, partners etc to work with us -- even though we had no relevant experience -- was critical to our success. To do that, you have to communicate with your audience in a compelling way. Everyone has their own style and way of doing it. I'm just sharing what worked for me.
You suggested that it couldn't be done for games, so I gave you a link showing you that it can and has been done. There are number of reasons why that isn't a popular way to play games, but it's not primarily a technical issue.

You certainly could pull off this architecture in a setting with a good LAN connection. Though I'm not really arguing that it's necessarily a great way to go.
Judging people for judging people is the last acceptable judgementalism!

I don't think it is bad though.
Sometimes people misrepresent themselves in a presentation. The explanation wasn't clear or they've described themselves as something that they're not. That can turn anyone away if the alternate interpretation is something that the investor has seen many times and have known not to work.

This, coupled with the fact that almost all ideas are either iteration, combination or derivation of other ideas makes it quite a frequent occurrence if not careful.
I think we are in agreement. Although I'll comment that I think the brain is purely physical, but that the mind is an abstract entity that we don't have a good understanding of. It extends beyond the brain, not in a supernatural sense, but in a causal one.
People won't get that same sense trying it now. FreeBSD has gone so far towards the random bloated complexity of linux distros that you really don't feel much of a difference at all. To get that feeling now someone would need to try out one of the other BSDs.
Account Hijacking with Third-Party Login
That's nearly impossible to do well. The second you decide you want to use a library that relies on GC, you need to turn on GC for your whole app.

There's no way to make that a local decision that I know of.
Exactly.. I was thinking of Rust as a compromise between performance and safety/productivity.
It appears that Sequoia's new Grove system doesn't allow user commenting. Which is somewhat of a shame, as it makes the posts very one-sided and unopen to debate, which is what appears to be happening here in the HN comments.
That's a really good point. Certainly the product vendors had the same motivations. But at the time I was often disappointed when I listened to the conversations of developers I worked with, because I rarely heard anyone draw parallels between the two. It was frustrating to work on projects where we'd be six months in and people would be surprised that the ORBs - er, I mean web service platforms - had difficulties talking to one another.
It's still nowhere near as stable as a car with 4 wheels and all that metal close to the road.
I heard as well that teachers are moving to a more sane method to teach multiplication.

The best part about MSB math, to me, is that at least you get a close approximation to the answer quickly. It's like successive approximations, the errors from making a mistake go down as you move along if you don't need a precise result.

For instance, what's pi * e? Good luck calculating that from the LSB... ;-)

But with MSB, you know it's about 9 because pi is on the low end of 3-4 and e is on the high end of 2-3.

So you can do

3.14 * 2.72
33 + .143 - .28*3 - something small
(idea here is that the cross term is small, three sig figs)
9 + .4ish - .9ish
8.5ish

Actual result is 8.5397.

So you can get a few sig figs by saying "eh, these digits are too small to matter" and ignoring cross multiplication of the LSBs for problems that aren't for the purpose of arithmetic.

I use this often in engineering estimation on the fly, because so many constants are only known to 1 sig-fig anyway that it's really hardly worth worrying about more accuracy. Particularly when you're building in a safety factor anyway.
I'd love to chat with you. jeff.larson@propublica.org, PGP Key: https://s3.amazonaws.com/thejefflarson/pubkey.asc
Google revamps logo and search page
I don't know much about Rust, but they do promise "optional task-local GC, safe pointer types with region analysis".
"Stole" is a pretty heightened word for something we leave on literally everything we touch
I think they are to support lightweight virtualisation like that used by Docker.io. This allows multiple processes to act as though they own a particular filesystem, which in fact in shared.
I agree that C is rock solid. There's a reason it's the language of choice for large open source projects. There's no substitute for good programming.

Comparing Python and C is unfair, though. There's a right tool for every job.
descriptions about why I would want to learn each one would be helpful.
No this isn't "how can you worry about iphones while children are starving in Africa". If he had written a letter that only addressed the issues of whether Apple was exposing customers to security problems or future impersonation, then your criticism would be valid. Half his questions are about domestic spying and how the fingerprint reader impacts it. You can read the actual letter here: http://www.franken.senate.gov/files/documents/130919AppleTou...
The thing I was most interested in was backbone, and it just links to the original site. I mean the colors are nice but this is pretty much useless.
Thank you. (I agree)
Take a look at Quantrix, it might suit you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrix
Flagged on the grounds that there is currently no content to speak of here.
Programmer gives entire talk as a Pirate
I've always been looking for something like this to send to friends wanting to learn to code. A couple of recommended

This step by step guide to learning Github:
http://www.thinkful.com/learn/a-guide-to-using-github-pages/

My first [hilarious] exposure to Ruby
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...

Eloquent Javascript [built in console with examples]:
https://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html

If anyone's interested in some front-end web development sources:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-sources-to-learn-web-...
[You won't need to make an account with this url]
[1st answer has the skills you'll need to learn with documentation and 2nd has a great collection of resources for newbies]
> ...who is not to be insulted with petty questions pertaining to his ability to do the job.

So when was the last time your preferred language's sort function magically disappeared and you had to come up with your own?

The interviewing process is criticized so frequently because companies focus on petty questions that are unrelated to a candidate's ability to do the job.
Solid advice. It's taken me years of bouncing around just like that, but it's finally sinking in. =)
I'm not sure exactly. I just follow John on Twitter and get updates via that. There are lots of unanswered questions that I think we'll be getting answers to over the next few weeks.
The Sequoia Guide to Pricing
Great stuff :)

Shameless plug for more of the same: http://pineapple.io/tags/all
Same here. Nashville, Tennessee.
An "identifier, tied to users of its Chrome browser on a specific device, that advertisers would use to target ads"

Isn't that the most common definition of a cookie now? What's the difference between this and a cookie?
>Programs were thought to be mere mathematical algorithms, and mathematical algorithms, as laws of nature, were not patentable.

And thats the way it should be now. I dont think you should be able to patent math, dna or the air we breathe
Google interprets 'Linux' as 'Lenovo' in this query
Good presentation == good communication. If you can't communicate your idea simply and succinctly, you'll have a tough time raising rounds.

This is precisely why YC only allots 10 minutes per interview. It forces founders to hone their message and prep with quick fire answers to important questions regarding viability and scalability.
Scala is running on top of JVM (right now).

It is used in production by Twitter, Netflix, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Simple, HealthExpense, Klout, 47 Degrees, Box and a long list of other companies [1].

[1] http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-startups-or-tech-companie...
Can someone tell me how this compares to something like StickNFind?
https://www.sticknfind.com/
How Desirable is Unavailable?
A better solution is to allow subpenny trading. It shifts the focus away from latency and towards price accuracy which is beneficial to society.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.html
If technical competency has already been established, then there should be no problem with asking these kinds of subjective questions since it's meant to screen for a subjective area (team/culture fit).
Apple Finally Dons Big Boy Business Pants With iOS 7
This is going to become less true when/if power costs go up
None of them come with the GNU coreutils installed. You have to install them if you want them. I'd recommend learning basic unix commands instead though, it doesn't take very long at all.
The Top 3 Trends About to Put You Out of Business
I think buyers and sellers both having perfect information is a prerequisite and a much larger barrier than rationality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
So if it is on paper it's not an invention, but if you apply it on a piece of metal it suddenly is? A piece of code in C is applied math, but a mechanism with cranks and pulleys is not?
Republic of Texas. It's a win-win.
Grove: Founders Helping Founders
I agree, in the games industry we use C++ for a few reasons:

* Performance

* Portability

* Direct API access (D3D, OpenGL, console specific APIs)

* Large legacy codebases

* Control over memory management

Go doesn't really address all these areas adequately at the moment from what I've seen. For me personally, for those problem domains where the above are not a concern I find other languages more compelling than Go - Haskell, F#, even C#.
I have been using ZFS on Linux[1] for about six months now, on both Debian and Ubuntu. Installation is trivial and it seems to work quite well, though I do not stress it very much.

[1] http://zfsonlinux.org/
You know, there's a lot of these interview articles. Where whiteboarding doesn't work. Or whiteboarding works but filters out a vast majority of applicants. Give homework problems instead. No, applicants can easily cheat or resort to copy pasting code when given time away from the interviewer. The future is GitHub repos to see candidates' prior work. No, open-source code is not verifiable and easily falsifiable.
What about determining if an applicant has solid fundamentals, not overthinking it, and having him or her learn on the job? Whatever happened to providing training? Is there really no room for apprentices or novices in modern tech companies?
It seems these are very upper middle class issues. Compare this to Chicago... http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/03/one-week-in-safe-pass...
This is very cool! I've sometimes wondered about doing that.

An obvious question is whether this suffices to show Turing completeness. I think the answer is no: because Excel has a finite number of cells, there are programs that this Turing machine won't have enough cells for. To get around that, you'd have to do something clever with iterative calcs (i.e. circular references) that effectively reuse the same cells behind the scenes. VBA is out of the question, of course. :)
"All over the country, physical education programs are being cut to make way for more instruction on native Americans,..."

[[Citation Needed]]
"unconstitutional laws still on the books against electing atheists"

Point to any recent cases where that's been used to actually prevent an election. Every state has stupid laws on the books, seldom enforced.

As for the school and medical boards, while there are some mistakes that get made, coverage like this makes it more likely, not less, that things will get fixed.

"cultural problem in the whole state" is painting in really, really broad strokes, and inaccurate ones at that.
I love CM. It is much better than the HTC Sense Androidish that shipped on my HTC One. I really hope CM doesn't jump the shark. I was worried about that after the recent announcement, but now, I am very worried about it after this.
Turn your Dropbox images into prototypes. No coding required.
Browser-Based Modeler 3DTin Acquired by Lagoa in 3D Printing Consolidation
Just because perfect efficiency is not attainable, that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to get as close to perfect efficiency as we can.

There are issues with regulating markets (serious ones given the imbalance of resources between regulator and banks you point out), but it is not impossible.
Secure MySQL Backup with BitTorrent Sync
It's amazing how much of the world financial system is built on the back of Excel too. Probably the other extreme there - a little too much VBA where bigger and better tools would work.
"You have only ten of them."

Did anybody think of using toes yet?
You should be able to host on Heroku pretty easily: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-n...

I've used it with a Hubot instance for our Hipchat room at the office and it works great.
> One programmer costs ~ 300 cores. [...] If your code consumes less [than 300 cores], you should care about productivity. Adding cores is easy while adding programmers is hard. [...] Do not make performance-productivity tradeoffs below [1000 cores].

Computing time is cheap these days, but this kind of math doesn't make any more sense than comparing feet to miles per hour. Programming time saved is a one-time gain, whereas the performance loss in continuous. Let's say you write code for a single core, you spend 10 hours instead of 20 by accepting a 50% slowdown, and manage to compensate by adding an extra core. Depending on how long this code runs, there will be a point at which the ongoing costs of an extra core surpass the one-time saving of 10 hours' programming.

If all you need is a working prototype then sure, performance shortcuts may be worthwhile. (Although you can't calculate trade-offs as suggested). But for long-term production systems they will always start hurting at some point.
I just glanced at the FAQ on the services website, and it sounds like the offers pop up from time to time, so you might not be able to watch one video after the other, you have to wait for them to come in. My guess is that the $0.60 day that they quoted is an average of sorts, with some days a bit higher and some lower. Regardless, that is not a lot of money, could take you two weeks of work to buy one pizza.
If somebody thinks that a language with GC could fill the same niche as C++, then well, they must work at Google.

Ohh... huh...
If a company is making a profit, they owe more to you than you to them....
Your comment is similar to saying "to program on windows, you have to write assembly".
You can write for the web in Java, C, C++, and a bunch of other languages that all compile to JS.
It's amazing how many things we take for granted that likely wouldn't exist if it had been possible for companies to acquire software patents in the 70's and 80's. I wonder how much of the Free & Open Source software that the internet is built on would never have even been written (or written but not made public) for fear of infringement.

Puts somewhat of a new spin on the debate about it today.
I hear you on visualization. A lot of big data is just, "I have a billion row, hundred column table that I want to join with 5 or 6 other tables, and do some time series math." It's computationally intense linking of tables, but not necessarily visualization.
>we often assume the role of victim and feel hard done by whilst forgetting people who are far worse off than us

That is not what the bastiat quote means. The bastiat quote says that people will line up at the government trough and claim that what they are doing is for the "common good". The benefit of doing things privately is much like linus' law: that you have a million eyes reviewing and making the choice to contribute or not; versus a bureaucrat, who is of limited accountability to a narcissistic executive (or legislator) who doesn't give a rats butt about taking care of the people and is only held accountable by polarizing issues like abortion rights or gun control (in the US; but in every country you make compromises when you pick whom you elect).

Why do you suppose that government is any better at allocating money for charity? Do you really think that politicians are our betters? Why? In a democracy, politics is always a popularity contest - would you look back at the kids who were popular in high school, and say, "gee, these are the kids I'd trust to take care of the poor?". What about the kids that did stuff like class government or model UN? Or, in a country that's a lawyerocracy (like the US), the kids that did mock trial or debate club?

The effects of authority also should be examined. Consider that in any government you will disproporionately wind up attracting authoritarians to positions all over the chain of authority; and at the lower levels, the people who are directly dealing with the poor - are going to be the least accountable and have the lowest skill set. Is that really who you want taking care of the poor? Making low-level decisions that are affecting people's lives in very serious ways with few if any consequences for messing up? At least a private charity runs the risk of losing their donations if there's a publicized flub up.

I happen to think that to support the worst off you don't need the full cooperation of the entire society. You maybe need 1-5% or so fully committed, and 20% willing to give more than a modest amount, and 30 or so % willing to give small amounts.
Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience
Are you SURE about that?

Well, for shitty games maybe it is true, shovelware aplenty on iOS anyway.

But for the part of the market that actually has a profit (not just revenue) C# is not that dominant.

In terms of profit, the most profitable games probably still rely on C++.

Also most engines (including Unity) are made in C or C++, they sorta abstract the memory management for the game author, but they still do a lot of manual fiddling themselves, XNA for example (that allow you to write C# games directly to the hardware without a C++ engine) is notorious for bigger games having memory issues.

Also 2D "retina" games use so much absurd amounts of memory, that they are almost impossible to do purely in high-level languages, you need some C or C++ somewhere to handle them, at least texture loading, otherwise you end with loading times so big that people want to suicide.
I think its everyones dream to walk into a store, type what you're looking for into your phone and see how far it is away from you.

How cheap would these have to be in order to make them cost effective to put into every day product packaging?

And would too many of these near each other cause too much interference?

This would be a great way to cut the store out of the solution and just go straight from product -> customer?
I agree. It's kind of like interviewing a candidate. Typically you know in the first five minutes if they're going to work out or not. Put your good stuff up front. I'm not convinced most investors are necessarily going to be able to "tease out" that your company is great.

Of course, take this with a grain of salt, as I haven't raised a round yet (we haven't yet started). Even when I do, a sampling size of one is hardly empirical evidence either way.
> C++ is a legacy language.

Based on which criteria? Citation needed.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/education/even-as-schools-....
> and think that sports can be great for learning teamwork and hard work

I agree that they develop hard work and commitment, but I've always been sceptical about the teamwork aspects.

Teamwork should enable a group of people to achieve more than the individual. Most sports are not like that: practically, it makes no difference if each football team has one player or 11. The objective ( score against the opposition ) would still be achieved. Perhaps to a lesser magnitude, but still achieved.

Real teamwork development requires tasks that are physically impossible for a single person.
>Unless they get a handle on things, after enough borrowing, the dollar will simply collapse. The poor will be hardest hit by this.

Yeah, we have historically low tax rates for the modern era. Raising taxes instead of lowering spending does the same thing to the balance sheet

>4. Any entitlement programs reduces the incentive to work and become self-sufficient. As much as this makes you cringe, it is true nevertheless.

This isn't necessarily true. Having the ability to eat reliably is quite useful when shifts may be irregular. This allows you to take higher paying, but more irregular work, providing a more dynamic labor force. This reason alone makes me suspect basic income instead of SS and SSDI and welfare and wic and foodstamps may be a good model for the 21st century.
"You've come up with a brilliant idea, you spent time and money to implement it, and you want to make sure you receive the credit for it."

Hint: the marketplace is the way to get that credit.