skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is almost exactly the same system as Interac in Canada. Will work well until the fraudsters figure out they can steal with it then limits will happen. Wonder what the merchant fees are and if they seize accounts for receiving an arbitrary amount of payments
>Why do you feel that way?

Because it is a very old OS that lacks new features, stability and security improvements. I am just curious, is there a reason why you haven't upgraded to Windows 7? If it is the feel and look, there are themes you can use to revert it back and if it is compatibility, Windows 7 is backward compatible for most XP apps.
Haven't seen on yet. Did you send one?
It still baffles me that no one uses wire transfer in the US.
Makes me sad because I don't have much control over living in the same city as them.

I have a theory that much of the high rates of depression and unhappiness in the US can be attributed to the large size of the country combined with our mobility within it. Childhood friends always move far away, families separate, your schoolmates drift away. You need 2-5 hour flights to see anyone. Take for example a Brit or a German. The people you grow up with and your families might move to another city, but they are always just a reasonable train ride or drive away. It's quite isolating when you realize everyone you're close with is spread across a continent.
On one hand, it's a great article. On the other hand, it's really misleading! Lots of commenters in here would agree with "levels," but that's only because they are like-minded.

You can easily live on 500-600 euros per month, stay in beach bungalows, rented houses, or amazing bamboo houses where the owners bring you fruit every morning, and that includes unlimited 3G internet, the wireless internet they already have on site, and your bus and plane tickets around Asia.

No offense, but it's a little bit of a shame to accidentally mislead people on how much the costs are (a pool??!?!?!), and it's also a shame that the author didn't check out Malaysia, which is far less touristy, has almost no sex tourism, and has some really incredible places (with internet).

Shop at the markets. Eat at night markets, food stalls, and normal thai restaurants (but proper restos... not all stalls)... we went out with some local friends in Bangkok, ate famously, and the bill came to like 8 dollars (three different restos). Look for places like Chiang Mai... but also, move about yo! We did 3 weeks at a time in each place, moving down through sukhothai, ahyuthaya, etc., worked with laser focus, and spent way, way less money.

Really not much need for an incubator if you're confident in what you're doing.
To quote myself (see my profile for source):

"""
The pressure of working full-out as a freelancer can lead to burnout quicker than you might imagine. You may find your conscience won't allow the kind of Friday-afternoon messing around/slack time that many enjoy as a staffer, for instance. (Although hopefully you still get [compiling time](http://xkcd.com/303/) or its equivalent.) Similarly, it's easy to end up over-subscribed, which is exhausting.

So, allow yourself time for vacations, holidays, anniversary celebrations and the like. Work is important in life, but it isn't life, after all. Also, it's unlikely that client projects will always fall into your lap with the perfect timing to allow for a proper summer/winter vacation, for instance. So make sure you set aside enough time for yourself, and don't (sometimes accidentally) promise all of your time to your clients - it's an easy mistake to make.

### Arranging time off
* Give your clients a decent amount of notice (at least four weeks is good) and they'll generally be fine with that.
* If possible, try to avoid taking time off when you know it'll cause a genuine headache for the client (and therefore you), such as launch deadline dates. But don't let any non-critical grumbling put you off your hard-earned R&R.
* Let your clients know if and how you'll be contactable while away, and in what circumstances (unless you're going off on a honeymoon or something similarly significant, it's worth leaving some kind of channel open, even if it's simply "I'll be checking my email once every two days"). Whatever ground rules you set your client, respect them yourself, too.
* Let your clients know when you'll be back.
* Remember to set up an out-of-office (before you're on the airbridge at the airport).

### Holiday money
It's worth bearing in mind the invisible cost of holiday time when working out your annual income (which is something you'll need or want to do quite often as a self-employed individual). If you conjure up your expected earnings based on billing a client for every one of the 250 or so working days a year, one of three things can happen:

1. You'll refuse to take holiday, because you'll be “earning less”.
2. You'll fall into the trap of negatively pricing your time off ("Sitting on this beach is costing me £X, dammit!").
3. You'll take the holiday (well done!) but you'll be (falsely) annoyed with yourself for missing your targets.

So, remember to keep the cost of holiday time in your mindset from the start and treat it as a necessary dip in your potential earnings. It's not being slack, it's being human.
"""
Oh man, this would be perfect if it tied into my Hue lights!
there are almost certainly rare earth metals in the speakers, for example, although the mass would be relatively cheap compared to what you would need for a motor.

Does the tesla have regenerative braking system, and I wonder if there are rare earth metals there?
Induction Versus DC Brushless Motors
How VC Funds Work
Similar. Live your dreams
http://liveconsciously.me/
I'm 32 and live in a different province from my family and I only see them for a week or so a year (this past year I got to see them three times :). Seeing 28.5 show up on there was painful.

I hope we both get to surpass these numbers :)
Check it on - http://liveconsciously.me/
good digging. upboats!

i'm impressed with someone's ability to ask for someone else to do research, and then be snooty when someone finds it for them. I thought that the effects of blue light on circadian rhythms was clear-cut, popular knowledge.
Excuse my negativity here but I feel like the title should be clear: "My friend wants to become an Olympian". This title is as powerful as the current one. I will probably be interested in reading too if that title was used instead.

I am a guy interested in security and I am sensitive to the word "hacking". And I bet most of the HNers are interested in security too.

Given the whole PRISM thing about different government was intercepting communication during the London Olympic game, calling out "Hacking Olympic" would ring the bell. This is a sensitive title to me.

I had to read the text three times before I realized there was no hacking involved other than "being creative".

I will wish him best but please, OP, please, don't ever do this again. If I had to sound harsher, this is a marketing strategy. You have captured everyone's attention, but to me it's a bad attention.

Imagine everyone doing something "creative" and starts making a post starting with "Hacking...".

Sorry to be harsh, but this is how I feel.
Nudoq - Enjoyable dotNet API Documentation
Doesn't look like there's a whole lot of coding in that coding interview. Apparently the article assumes that "coding interview" involves a whiteboard, rather than a keyboard.

We segment our interviewing into different sections. One person will do a specific functional competency evaluation which consists of writing code in an IDE to see whether you can write code. This portion of the interview is not about analytical thinking skills, people skills, or "tell me about a problem you've solved". It's about writing code. The interviewer is looking to see how many hints you need to get at working code, how well your solution is structured, and getting an overall feel for how you program.
Introducing the Idea of an Open-Source Suite for Municipal Governments
When he says he's using a phaser, he means that updates happen in lockstep. Each update still happens on multiple cores, but each fiber will not move on to the next update until all of the other fibers have finished the current update.

So it's not synchronous in the sense that it's running everything sequentially.
Alleged Silk Road Creator's New Lawyer Defended Guantanamo Detainee, NSA Target
Facebook Ads Guide
currently not the case, as the US has spun up rare earth metal mines (molycorp, e.g.) also the environmental concerns are less (not to say they are nonexistent) when the US does it because we tend to care about the environment more than china does, especially in california.

Also don't be decieved by the term, rare earth metals aren't really all that rare. If anything their expense comes from the difficulty in extracting them selectively from their ores - because rare earths are chemically similar (has to do with the f electron shell being physically "buried" under the d and s shells) they tend to ore together, and then become tricky to separate.
Letter to my brother: Things I learned in my first 3 years out of college
That's missing the point though. Broadly speaking, when people talk about languages with automatic storage management being "safer" they are not talking about a correctness proof of their memory handling. In fact some languages, perl among them, fail to be safe from leaks in all cases, yet no one flips out about it.

The point is practical: is the language as typically used subject to routine "accidental" memory leaks? That's surely true for C, and remains true for most C++ idioms used up until the last few years or so.

It's not true of the kind of RAII style being talked about in the linked article. In that style it's routine to write large projects that literally never call operator delete, and need to resort to an operator new only in rare circumstances (often for compatibility with older APIs).

Modern C++ when used at this level[1] really does have the same kind of casual robustness against leaks and free-memory issues that you expect to see from garbage collected environments. And it's not even hard.

[1] Which is not to say that all contemporary C++ can be written in this model. Obviously if you're doing syscall-level code you'll need to be touching memory (and probably the heap) directly. But that's sort of the point.
Ask HN: print shops with APIs (UK-based)
Hi, I'm looking for a decent web-to-print API for a personal project where users will be printing business-card/playing-card-sized cards via a webapp. (eg, webapp generates PDF, punts to print shop's API, print shop sends real things to the user)

I'm a big fan of MOO, and I know it has a decent API, but the print costs might make it a no-go for my end users (they won't necessarily be happy to pay for the MOO paper stock quality etc).

Is there anyone else, ideally based in the UK (or which can reasonably cheaply ship to the UK) that I should consider?

Cheers, S
Cupertino council clears huge Apple 'spaceship' campus for liftoff
I have to put a number greater then 0... That number (and the statistics they are likely collecting) should even be lower.
Lua Workshop 2013 Talks Announced
I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor, one of the schools that this article is about.

> I also think good programming is a journey, not something that can be consumed and digested in a compacted 12-week course.

I am in emphatic agreement -- we tell our students that the point of our school is to get to a spot where you can get paid to learn the rest, and we hold classes for alums to encourage ongoing education.

> Personally I'm against charging to teach others how to code.

Sounds like a fine personal philosophy. Our students faced a decision of self-instruction vs Hack Reactor, and they choose to pay the instructors at my school (who took pay cuts when we hired them away from Twitter, Adobe, Google, etc but are nonetheless pretty pricey). I summarized my perception of why in this quora post: http://www.quora.com/Programming-Bootcamps/Self-study-vs-Boo...

> I'd like to hear back from bootcamp graduates on their experiences both in the program and in the real world.

http://www.quora.com/Reviews-of-Hack-Reactor
http://www.yelp.com/biz/hack-reactor-san-francisco

> ...good enough so that you're able to build a shitty web app, and then they hopefully place you in a job needing a code monkey...

I'm not a fan of the tone of this article, but it's also aggravating that the content is incorrect. Student projects include 3d space shooters (http://satellite-game.com/), bittorrent clients (https://github.com/rtjoseph11/nTorrent), music visualizers (http://arcanegl.jit.su/), a reddit-focused machine learning / dataviz mashup (http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/17/reddit-insight-interview-ha...), distributed computing platforms (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/43651/), etc.
Interesting, I've never had people on the phone not understand it. If anything I sometimes get the opposite, they start talking faster and treating me with less of the "yet another moron on the phone" attitude that I'm sure you can't help developing working a call centre.

I always thought it was a shibboleth, like the tech support reaction I'm sure people here get occasionally where you can hear them realize they aren't going to have to explain how to click on a menu entry to you and switch scripts after you correctly use a technical phrase. Come to think of it, maybe they assume I was/am in the military. That never occurred to me before.
Typesafe continues to show that they understand the needs of the scala development community. I couldn't be more impressed with their work. Furthermore, their great work basically makes it impossible to work with anything not supported by typesafe, because everything else will eventually become unsupported.
It would be really interesting to compare this to private sector jobs (where applicable) taking into consideration pension, benefits, etc.
f.lux has a suspend for an hour function for when you're doing color sensitive work. You can also turn it off entirely if you'd like. I don't do photo editing or anything majorly graphical with it on.
This reminds me of Philip Boit.

In 1996, Nike decided on a sports experiment / PR stunt - it would pay for two Kenyan long distance runners, Philip Kimely Boit and Henry Bitok, to train in cross-country skiing for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The two Kenyans have never skiied before in their lives - heck, they've never even seen snow until they arrived in Finland to train.

Bitok never qualified for the race, but Boit did. He cross-country skiied in the 10-kilometer classic in Nagano ... and came in dead last. The awards ceremony for the race had to be delayed because the winner, Norwegian cross-country skier and legend in the sport Bjørn Dæhlie, insisted on waiting 20 minutes for Boit to cross the finish line so he could cheer Boit on!
F# has static types, but it feels pretty light for doing scripting. It's got a REPL and a script mode to execute things without an explicit compile phase. Perhaps "doesn't require heavy type annotations" is a better criteria than no static typing.
SIM, SIM, One More SIM, and Many More SIMs
I had fantasies there would be videotape with legible audio of the first encounter in the parking lot and pics of the second encounter at the access road next to the parking lot. There were no cameras trained on either the parking lot or the access road. The camera in the stairwell had no audio and I kind of want to say it took stills every couple of seconds or something, not video, but I do not really recall. Regardless, I was shocked. The cameras everywhere and ID bagdes, etc, turned out to be far less Big Brother Is Watching You than I had believed prio to that incident.

As far as privacy in the future, I think one thing that will happen will be cultural adaptation. I think that is already occurring. I often discuss "personal" things online with acquaintances and strangers that I rarely discuss in person with acquaintances or strangers. This has nothing to do with being shy and everything to do with opportunity to have a meatier discussion online. If I need to give a lot of background info, I can do that online in ways I cannot do in person. For example, I can give links that give additional info for those that need it.

So I think new technology is already redefining what kinds of info are socially acceptable to divulge and changing how people react to knowledge about things that were previously much more deeply secret. As technology continues to evolve, we will face new questions about situations that never existed before. These days, people routinely wrestle with questions about handling social media, online privacy, etc. Those were questions that did not exist when I was growing up. No one has outlawed FaceBook even though, for example, people have been fired for things they said there.
True, but its not like the current versions of Chrome on XP are terrible or insecure.

I know one person out of hundreds who use XP...but market share states that it is in the 33% mark? Where are these people?
indium's not a rare earth metal.
We strive for simple explanation - as the OP says, the "root cause" - but there can't be a simple explanation for such big phenomena, encompassing hundreds of years and hundreds of millions of people.
Check out Southern California. I've recently moved down from Bay Area (cashed out on rising real estate prices, which makes my previous years of living there rent-free), and there's a good mix of technology companies competing for talent with Bay Area outfits, so reasonably similar salary/equity ranges, with much better array of public services (decent parks with playgrounds, roads that are actually paved, number of people defecating on city streets close to zero, etc.)

The drawback is car-centric culture. I hate driving, but didn't realize how much I hate it, until I moved down here.
Hum, I think between you, nl, and nwg, point 1 is looking very shabby... I think I'll revise it shortly.
The whole thing is javascript, front and back (node + angular). It turned out to be a great choice.

The scrapers are hand written.
I get that this is cool because it doesn't require an app or anything to work. But I just don't see this replacing venmo for me. Albeit venmo requires a bit of set up (so does this) and an app, but once that's in place sending money is quicker and easier and I don't have to remember to cc anyone. Thoughts?
I see what you are saying. I was initially thinking about using dynamic programming, and surely I could illustrate my chops (or not) in that regard. But what if I do have that 'aha' moment, or I just remember that trick? Now you are not measuring my ability to think about these things on my feet, but either get no info (if I just regurgitate the answer), or get to evaluate my acting skills if I decide to pretend to 'figure it out'. And still, none of those, whichever way it goes, really answer how I do in production. I have come across plenty of really 'puzzle' clever people that cannot really pull together working code for a complex problem, and those (like me) who are just terrible at them, but really deliver (ignore that I'm patting myself on the back here, that's not the point, it's just a data point I know well). For example, I am terrible at chess. I'll move a piece into a lane where they can be attacked with impunity. The same goes with computers. Plenty of times I'll miss something obvious, for a short time (like the length of an interview). But I compensate for that with things like unit tests, thinking in the shower and then coding at work, and so on. Take it on faith that it works and I produce.

For example, let's say I need to hire somebody to do a lot of low level optimizations. I can ask them some specific problem, and keep saying 'make it faster'. Or, I could start talking to them about cache misses, and see if we can just talk about it. Anyone that can actually do the work will be bringing up the pipelines, out of order instruction executions, the costs of going off chip, how to organize data and programs to minimize cache misses, well, the whole ball of wax. In that context I can start feeling out if they are original thinkers, or just plodding followers of some rules they read on HN or somewhere. If they don't have experience in this, but I think they might be good at it, I can talk about their debugging skills, or some other engineering/optimization problem that they have solved. I'll admit that this all presupposes an existing career - I do find it harder to interview and evaluate recent grads because it is all speculation at that point. Heck, if all you have done is CRUD apps I can see if you have thought about the good/clean code vs put it together to get it out the door to get market share issues. There is no one, clear, obvious answer, and a good mind will see that, and be able to free associate about it. A mediocre mind will repeat whatever HN quote resonated with them when they read it. If you can think about that clearly, you can learn the micro-architecture and then use the same style of thinking to optimize code.

So, all of that is why I don't like 'aha' questions, or even reverse the string questions. I don't think it has any predictive value. Certainly, Google, which asks tough algorithmic questions, admits that with all their collected data they see no correlation between interviews and performance, except for the situational type interview stuff I write about (and that the OP wrote about).
Making Asana, a JavaScript-heavy app, work in Internet Explorer
As a first order simplification, motors are all about pairs of magnetic fields attracting / repelling each other. Often, one side of the pair is a permanent magnet. If instead the magnetism is induced (implying no magnet involved, as the other side must be switchable / controllable / varying, thus not a permanent magnet), you have an induction motor.

At low power levels, permanent magnet motors (specifically brushless motors) tend to have higher efficiency than induction motors, additionally, they don't require complicated control systems to operate efficiently at varying speeds. Thus you are unlikely to see an induction motor in an RC model anytime soon.
My parents are divorced. I cannot fill this form properly.
Heres why the iphone 5s accelerometer is so screwed up
These Yelp reviews mean very little to be honest. What kind of an idiot would write a bad review when

1. Writing bad review of the code training you got basically admits to others that your skills as a programmer is poor.

2. You risk souring interpersonal relationship you might have built going to the program. When you say the code training you got at X is bad, you are actually telling potential employers that people who got training from X are also bad. Who writes in their grad school application that they got trained in Kaplan?

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edited point 2
Ask HN: Why doesn't GMail support some kind of "@ reply", as Google Drive does?
Group email threads often contain callouts to individual members for specific action items, while some on the thread get caught up in a thread that sometimes veers off in a direction that doesn't concern them. Seems like an @ reply function that highlights the callout (supported by Google Drive) would completely solve that problem. What am I missing?
So it's not an idiom and the word "pithy" isn't in there, so it isn't quite as recursive as TLA.
I tried .5 (say if you visit once in 2 years )and it worked.
FizzBuzz Reloaded
Ketopacks
I've already contacted the Koch brothers for money to bribe HN members, just in case this happens. :)
There are no fees by the looks of it; it's completely free.
How RethinkDB Works – 7pm tonight at SF Data Engineering
Exactly. Nocturne, for instance, from the guy behind QuickSilver, was doing the same before Flux. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/
This is a great example of how even the simplest programming projects can inspire people by tapping into emotion and being aware of their audience.