skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that might be the direction that you were moving in, and I think that is a really good idea for your particular students to get used to a source code repository and version control quickly.

One thing I have not looked at yet but may do in the future is git-annex [1] and the associated GUI [2]. I'm hoping I can use git-annex to sync folders between laptops just using an external drive.

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/
[2] http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

That will allow music/video/images to be synced as well as text.
> One problem I have with this approach is that people begin to personify machines, excusing their behavior.

Does that hold with all themes? My first employer named computers after aircraft parts; easy to remember, made it clear that people were talking about a computer rather than anything else, but it never seemed to lead us to personify them.

> I'd argue that you shouldn't care about specific machines unless they're a problem

True once you've scaled up to the point that all your services are distributed, but before then it's worth having an awareness of what runs on what box. Memorable names help with that.

One other downside you've missed with location-based is that it makes it harder to move a machine.
Ask HN: I am not able to reply to comments
Hi,

It seems that I am not able to reply to comments (I lost the "reply" button on HN). I can however downvote or upvote comments. Did I do something bad to deserve it, or is this just a bug on HN?
LAX rental was no picnic for me. Visited for a week last month and pre-paid for a rental car from Dollar. We were in the queue to pick up the car for almost 3 hours (a Sunday night). The situation looked very similar when I returned it, but thankfully the returns process was extremely quick.
I think it depends mainly on the stakeholders. If we're talking about physical machines, I suggest location/hardware based naming. For virtual machines, I'd choose function/role based naming. Though, this depends on type and size of engineering staff that needs to work with it. For end users, I'd add service based names, possibly as cnames. And I'd plan to change the naming scheme as the requirements change.
Has anyone a naming scheme that lasted more than ten years?
Although it's great that you shared this article so more people know about the history of QWERTY, I don't think it should be the top voted comment; what QWERTY was or wasn't designed for is interesting, but what matters is what it is like to use it in practice now. I am more interested in a discussion about whether or not this Workman layout works as advertised and is worth the effort of switching to.
I've certainly seen in the past the founder give it a year or two, leave, take anyone worth taking with them and then start over doing the same thing again. Successfully too.
Oh, because ANT+ lets you connect to multiple devices simultaneously. BTLE doesn't let you do that, and it's a pretty big problem.

For example, if you do triathlons ANT+ lets you use a 910XT for the swim & run, and an Edge 500 for the ride without having to re-pair the devices.

This isn't just a theoretical problem: according to a very recent DCRainmaker survey[1] 29% of people use this exact scenario[2].

iOS is bit issue of course, but there are ANT+ dongles and BTLE->ANT+ retransmitters (in the form of a heart rate monitor band). It's worth noting that the Stages power meter does do the dual BTLE and ANT+ transmission thing.

I think ANT+ is going to hang around a lot longer than people think, especially in the field above casual fitness.

[1] http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/09/curiositysurvey-different...

[2] http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/10/symposium-keynote-present...
Google Nexus 5 Hands On (7:10)
> In fact, rushing to ship / meet deadlines is probably responsible for most of the vulnerabilities in software.

I think the unspoken secret here is the probability*loss for security issues is far less than the cost of missing features / delays.
I don't agree. BMI accounts for height by its own definition and for health/body types by leaving large margins for the definitions of normal/overweight/obese.

It might not be a precise measure for some individuals (athletic, heavy muscled males) but what percentage are those in the context of a whole country ?

As an average/indicator over a large sample is perfectly acceptable, in my opinion.
There is a reply cool down. Just wait for a bit.

[EDIT] Try visiting this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=6541950
Technical co-founder / team member needed
I have developed an interesting idea and do not have the technical skills to develop the web/mobile application. It has got enormous potential, when done right. A right execution needs a right team, and I am building one. Would you join me?

I am looking for a technical co-founder or early technical team member to join me.

The plan is the following:
- get the web application beta out with personal investment + technical partner
- with first user traction, raise financing

I did not look for financing, but have good connections and avenues to access financing.

The ideal partner or team member would be a talented and experienced developer who is primarily motivated and excited to work on creative solutions for the community. With strong commitment, part-time engagement with long term view is welcome. I am located in Western Europe, current location of yours will be less relevant at the beginning.

Also looking for valuable connections with designers/developers/advisers.
Brilliant! I especially like how it would work with any of these keyboard layouts and requires minimal retraining.
An interesting tidbit; the list is compiled by Greg Ercolano, author of the render queue software Rush[1], for which he received an Academy Award in 2011[2].

It's a great piece of software for the VFX/post-production industry, and he's by far the best software vendor I've
ever worked with.

[1] http://seriss.com/rush/

[2] http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2011/20110107.html
While that is more likely the correct answer to the question posed in the headline, the article itself is more about what the students learn and how it affects them. Putting The Analects into practice is pretty remarkable, but a more honest headline would not be as "clicky".
Well programmers should offer different version of their apps, or allow to disable those memory hungry features.

And honestly I'm not really sure that a feature that is memory hungry is really useful anyways, especially at that scale. At that point I feel it's all about the planned obsolescence, they just make algorithms that require to buy more hardware.

In that case software performance would only apply because of bigger hardware, not better programming. I'm sorry but with the computers of today, I really doubt programmers can invent resource hungry features that are really useful, maybe they can just do sloppy programming that requires more memory.
Re: apartments, that's simply not true. A 1-br apartments in Bangkok is not $1300 - 2000 per month. You might be paying foreigner/expat prices and getting heavily scammed. I found a 1-br apartment 5 mins away from the BTS (public transport) for $300-$500. That's with a pool. And not uncommon. Same with the food, you might have been paying foreigner prices there too. I'd pay $7 for a table full of sushi for one person. And that would be a very very luxurious place. I' always check the prices before entering a restaurant, like any place in the world really. Many foreigners simply go to the non-local places in tourist traps and end up paying too much. Bangkok doesn't help as it's already expensive relative to the rest of the country. Just like any big metropolitan city really. That's why I wrote, stay out of Bangkok. Yet even then if you want, you can live cheaply in Bangkok too if you're smart about it. Thai do it on $500/m in Bangkok.

Re: western food, I think it's obvious that if you're looking for Western products, you're going to pay more than in the West. You're not in the West after all! It's a bit spoiled to expect Western food to be the same price as in your home country. However, if you can assimilate, live, eat and drink like a local, you can live very cheap.

That's why I stayed in Chiang Mai. It has low rent, low cost of living, abundant nature and countless of coffee places to work from.

Re: sex workers, I don't know if you're in my age group (I am 27) so YMMV, but if you go clubbing in Bangkok or Chiang Mai, you will run into prostitutes. Everywhere.
Remember this next time you're to writing code you ain't gonna need.
if you create an account on infoq, you're able to download the slides.
I think a number of my comments were somewhat regrettable. I stand by most of them, but I could do better.
I think you're absurdly underestimating people. A diff is a bunch of lines removed, and lines added. That's a pretty damn natural representation.

As for git's complexity, it's all in its completely opaque display of its internal state. A chain of deltas - diffs - isn't complicated. It's all git's (perverse) desire to follow the exact-same command-line interface as cat and awk, when neither contain persistent state.
As a former wallflower who now routinely gets mistaken for an extrovert, I just want to encourage us introverts out there that being social is a skill, just like marketing, programming, or reading. As with any skill, some people are born naturals and others have to work at it a bit more, but you CAN improve if you set your mind to it. The frustrating thing is that often us nerds spent all of high school learning advanced chemistry and how to code in 3 different languages while everybody else spent it improving their social skills (parties!)—so we have to catch up with everybody else.

But you CAN catch up. And it's worth the attempt. Some of my best clients are people I introduced myself to; some of my best friends I met by just throwing myself out there in a large group.

3 years ago nthj was afraid he was wired this way and could never change. If he had just known that eventually he would, I think the struggle would have been a lot easier.
If you are going to learn Workman layout, check my app Type Fu: http://type-fu.com. It has full support for Dvorak and Colemak layouts as well.
... while pushing the W3C to endorse DRM in HTML5. They might have good customer service, but trying to break the WWW more than makes up for it.
It sounds like all of these layouts are just people taking guesses and reporting on their anecdotal experience.

Has anyone ever tried determining a fitness function (travel distance, priority finger use, sequential characters on nearby fingers) and running random layouts through a genetic algorithm?

For sample data use english, romance languages, open source code, etc, for a good general purpose layout.

If you're going to relearn a layout it might as well be the optimum one.
What I find curious is the presence of countries like Mexico, Lybia, Egypt in the same tier as the US.

Apparently wealth and the culture of abundance are not the only factors affecting obesity.
Take a look at programmer's dvorak [1]. It treats numbers as second class citizens in favour of symbols. It comes pre-installed on some linux distros, but it won't solve your querty problem.

[1]: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
I think there were some people trying to apply machine learning and genetic algorithms to it.
What is this backdoor for?
Malala Is Fake: The real story (with evidence)
I don't think it does have a technical use. You certainly couldn't use this technique to generate new primes, since the fractions have been deliberately chosen based on the primes they will generate.

As it stands, it's just a fun mathematical curiosity.
Perhaps he means used these systems through upgrade/transfer installs via a firewire system transfer or similar
I was touch typing QWERTY before I switched to Dvorak and then to Programmer Dvorak and I agree that old habits are hardest part while you are learning new layout. I think that Programmer Dvorak is really useful for developers. I don't have any regrets. I don't have any pain in my hands any more. I'm more productive. And I think that at least everyone should try something different. QWERTY is good enough but isn't perfect IMHO.
The QWERTY layout has been around for so long that it is difficult to just change to something else. People are used to the well-known keyboard interface to the computer/smartphone/tablet/... and actually expect it that way, no matter how inefficient it may be.

Of course, you may switch personally to an alternative layout, but the overall design used by everyone else will not change. It's just a burden for yourself to be able to type two different layouts with comparable speed as you cannot change the layout everywhere you use computers.
I disagree. A 182cm (6ft) person can weigh only 82 kg (~180lbs) to be not considered overweight. If you have any amount of muscle and don't have a single digit bodyfat percentage, you're easily overweight according to BMI. And it only gets worse when you get taller. Similarly, short people can be seriously fat and not be considered overweight according to BMI. The exponent in the BMI formula should be larger than 2.
tl:dr from the final part of the article:

—DISCLAIMER: The above article is a work of satire and fiction and in no way attempts to depict events in real life.
I think it might be because if you write something like $PARAM_INT_sometypo that variable would be undefined, and it is easy to catch. But if you are using constants PARAM_INT_typo becomes a string[1]. That way you would have to do more validation about that, too.

But without more context it's not that easy to tell.

[1]: http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.syntax.php (search for "undefined constant")
Did you actually read the OP?

He actually did do quite a lot of research of exactly this.

Also you should check out the carpalx project.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?
From the article: """Cummings sets out what appears to be an end point to the first wave of Gove's reforms, saying: "Hopefully, it will push the English system towards one in which the state provides a generous amount of funding per pupil, which parents can spend in any school they wish, breaking down the barrier between private-state school"""

It's interesting to think about systems of providing education over time:

1. Since the mind of man can remember: your son grows up to do what you do, because that's what you teach him how to do.

2. Quite far back: for a fairly hefty fee, you can have your son apprenticed to a tradesman. He'll provide unpaid labor for several years while picking up the beginnings of the trade.

3. Rather recent: your son can attend a formal school, which will provide him the background of the correct social class. The last two systems were more focused on providing a living for the child; this one much less so. As with apprenticeship, this is expensive.

4. The government will pay for your child to attend a formal school, because it wants all citizens to have a certain shared viewpoint.

5. The government will now require your child to attend a formal school, though you can substitute a school of your own.

It sounds like this guy wants to head back to stage 3, but expand government payments to cover it.

It's also interesting to me that while there's a fairly coherent reform viewpoint in the US on the state of pre-college education and where we'd like it to go ("public school sucks, although not mine specifically; we should just dismantle the system and give everyone vouchers that they can spend at the school of their choice"), there are many wildly different views on what college should be. We see people vilifying colleges that advertise your ability to get a job post-graduation ("that's not what scholarship is about"); we do not see condemnation of the public schools (several are extremely prestigious); we see people saying that colleges organized as a for-profit corporation are inherently untrustworthy (somehow this idea doesn't apply to elementary schools?); we see people touting the job-placement benefits of university education... but we don't see much push for free tuition at public universities, or vouchers for them.
There is no real strategic buying here, i mean , why buy an url shortener in 2013? or Summly? or even Tumblr (which was not in a good shape).One cant buy relevancy.

What i see are massive layoffs at yahoo in 1 year. and the CIO out in 2 years... Mayer did not answer yahoo's identity crisis.

Yahoo mail cant still provide basic features (like using a 3rd party client for free) yet they think they are still relevant?

As for "passionate founders" , some are just serial entrepreneurs hoping their project du jour will be VCed, no passion here.
This is silly - the poor are not unemployed, structurally or otherwise. To be unemployed one must be looking for work, which most American poor are not.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2011.pdf

Your source [2] also disagrees with you. When Florida implemented drug testing, they spent $46k to identify 108 drug users (presumably taking them off the welfare rolls). Unless welfare costs less than $425/person, that's a net savings. Further, according to the article linked to by [2] (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story...), the actual number in Florida is closer to 2000 people since 2000 people withdrew their welfare applications when they reached the drug testing stage.

(The comparable number in Utah was $2000/person, if we assume Utah's program had no deterrent effect whatsoever. Arizona's program seems less effective, likely because the drug tests were easy to avoid - just don't tell the welfare clerk you do drugs and you can skip the test.)
The Dark Web, and TOR as explained by Washington Post
If your first reaction when someone talks about security flaws in payments is 'will it make my business fail' rather than 'is this going to fuck my customers' you need to re-evaluate your priorities.
New Devices Mind Pets While Owners Are Away
I guess this this much more about cultural adaptation. Of course, when I referred to cheapness of food, I really mean the local food that you get just about everywhere on the street (which will usually be something with rice. That something could be a variation of hundreds or local side dishes so repetition shouldn't be a concern if you know how to order.) If you are looking for international cuisines then you will be paying high prices. Locals do not eat these daily and usually reserve them to Friday night outings or once a month kind of affair.
Morally they're equivalent, but practically they're not.

While I would like those beggars to receive money, I don't want them to be the exclusive recipients of cash aid, excluding the many poor people who don't happen to be actually begging on the street. I want an organized program that takes the available cash (donations or taxes) and distributes it in a "fair" way among the poor. What constitutes fair is difficult to answer, but I certainly don't have enough information available to make that decision right when someone asks me for money.
> Obviously most of us startup because we don't want the corporate life and we want something different.

I'm really not sure how solid that assumption is, to be honest! Sure, a lot of founders are super passionate... But others seem to enjoy the thrill, or like autonomy, and some even are just in it for the (admittedly somewhat irrational) expectation of a serious pay day. So, not necessarily a contradiction depending on the founder!
In a way, though, aren't people whose idea is to get acquired for a substantial sum of money even worse targets for an acqui-hire? At least with passionate visionaries whose current idea is unprofitable, you're presumably buying them with the idea that their rare interest in X can be redirected to offering unique insights into a somewhat-related project your internal team is working on, and the hope they'll be so enthused with that they stay beyond their earnout period.

Otherwise, you're just overpaying for commodity engineering talent, and it's engineering talent that prefers startup environments that you're overpaying for.
No, I'm pretty sure he got it right. That article's correct in saying it wasn't intentionally designed to slow typists down. It was however arranged so that letters frequently typed after one another weren't on neighbouring typebars, because that did cause jams in early typewriters.
Mexico is not a poor country. It's GDP/capita (PPP adjusted) is similar to Poland or Lithuania. Not exactly the US or UK, but there isn't any shortage of chicharrones or chimichangas.
I tend to write out an entire presentation like a script, and then try and come up with one keyword that would remind me on how to speak on that topic.

Once I have the keywords I then try and incorporate that word into the slide somehow as a memory trigger.

I never expect to recite the script, but having written it out in full allows me to make sure I've hit all the key talking points.

(This technique tends to work for me because I try and reduce the number of words on the slides I use as much as possible)
What's wrong with a PT cruiser?
From the title I expected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN (see the list of fractions at the top).
Indians flee east coast as cyclone Phailin makes landfall
Those bird of a feather tables sound like a great idea. I'd love to go to a conference with that kind of setup.
He was hiring a remote filipino worker and his dutch friend apparently.
BMI is const x weight/height^2. Volume is proportional to height^3, unless you believe tall people grow in only 2 directions. So BMI ~ height. That's why most of the NBA is obese.
Ask HN: Two friends want to meet Silion Valley
Dear HN community,

two friends from Hamburg and London are on a honeymoon trip to Silicon Valley for about two weeks from now. They have a background in bio farming, consulting and graduated from LSE recently. No startup fanboys yet, but good and humble talents I think. They would be happy to visit one or two startups (maybe YC) and see how startup life is like. Maybe just a coffee or a free guest walk - they don't want to steal your time!

Thanks for help! Msg me at christopherjk86@gmail.com
A Close Look at the Toby Jug Nebula
Your passion can turn into your job remarkably quickly. After a couple of years we ended up with a year long contract all neatly laid out which meant, a) there was no longer the fear of money running out and b) after a month all the exciting stuff was a distant dream. You find yourself thinking about the next thing. If someone came along and offered you a decent amount of money to finish what you were doing and then leave, would you take it?
Google Nexus 5 - Hands On
94M for 50 absolute "rock stars" of course. At nearly a mil a pop for a years worth of sweat, swearing, and extremely undue stress </sarcasm>.
I do have a small bit of sympathy for the obvious peons that did the bulk of the work. If the comments above regarding how this functions is any indication, these are certainly not "rock stars" but more likely intern/severely junior developers. A consulting place like this obviously can't afford to put their best and brightest on this but they sure can take the money as if they did. If they're suggesting this was their best and brightest work, they need to seriously evaluate their "ability" to handle web development of this magnitude. 650M total for yet more projects of this level of trash? Cancel the contract now while you still can and save at least some face.
I think this is science fiction at this point.
There's a lot of righteous indignation coming out. Just to let you know, I upvoted you for your honesty.
Netbeans invested a lot into dynamic languages support when the JRuby team worked for Sun.

That work has been used for JavaScript as well.
The trouble is, what is "scholarly" is a blurred line at best.