skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term comes from people who would shamefully post their content, posing as someone else unassociated with their product/idea/etc.
I'm not sure if others have experienced this, but my brain doesn't function very well in tropical heat and humidity. It just seems to slow down, and mental games don't seem as interesting. It may be that I've been conditioned by many episodes of tropical vacations growing up, but whatever the reason, I can't (and indeed, don't really want to) code below about 30 degrees latitude.
(I worked on Dabble DB)

I don't think it's so much that there's no market for it as that the market is very hard to reach and we had no good channel. Intuit's Quickbase is a very healthy business, because they have a channel to millions of SMBs. We didn't, and didn't know how to build one, so we grew much more slowly (though I should say that by most sane, non-valley standards we were doing just fine, thanks ;)

I learned a lot of things at Dabble, but I think the biggest lesson was that the three most important things in B2B software are distribution, distribution, and distribution.
Looks like it's a unicode problem, because, if I manually fix the URL to eliminate the accented character, it works:

http://www.congressbuddies.com/?name=Raul%20Labrador
Are we seeing more quality of life decisions being a bigger and bigger factor in startups? I've met with at least 3 nyc startups that are moving to Miami in the last few weeks because their runway is twice as long here. Although I know they aren't going to stay here permanently, I do like the idea that new blood is coming into the area. New blood equals new ideas which in turn leads to even more new startups.
The heat makes me lethargic
On Leanpub, the author gets 90% royalties minus 50 cents per copy. So, on a $10 book, the author gets $8.50 (85%) royalty, and on a $20 book, the author gets $17.50 (87.5%).

Just because publishers have historically paid 10% royalties does not mean it has to be that way in the future.

So, questions of copyright should be a debate about what is fair based on a range of arrangements. Personally, I'm in favour of 14 year copyright, not the "author's death + 70 years" madness that exists now...
I will continue to say the article "Hacking the Olympic" is not informative and misleading. It is by far the worst title I have ever seen on HN. That title does not convey the story, only to capture people's attention and read the actual story. This is an example moderation must take place. Such practice is almost like a crime.

I hate to be an opposition, but I am making a valid, legitimate criticism here and I think the mass here should think about that more often than just go ahead and say "good job and good luck!"
I find staying inside where there is A/C and commuting in my car helps manage the heat.
This is an example of people searching for things to complain about. If the yc folks spent the energy to address this problem, the same people would find something else to gripe about. The only difference made by not addressing the problem is that they didn't waste their time.
I've seen a few cases of people posting their own projects on HN without a disclaimer and receiving some really rude comments. Saying "disclaimer: I made this" instead of "shameless plug" sounds better IMO, but that doesn't seem to make people respond in a better way.

All of this seems a little funny and counterintuitive. We are a community of people who love coding for fun and developing these types of side projects, yet in comments, where the majority of us are heard, sharing your own relevant projects isn't exactly welcomed.

Yes, there are "ShowHN" posts, which are great, but it's more difficult to be heard through this avenue unless you're lucky enough to make it to the front page.
I signed up, but it would be still nice to know who the writer is and what kind of credentials/experience he or she has.
A/C doesn't follow you outside.
Moved to San Francisco and spent time with people smarter than myself.
This places some of our greatest resources into a closed box not available to the general public.
I'll be using it. I always have Emacs open anyways.
Would you pay $2,000 for a GIF?
Ask HN: Any students who are part-time freelancers?
Would love to hear from some students who are doing part-time freelancing work and how they started off.
How many frames of delay do we get then. About 8 to 9. Not really useful with realtime games.
Winston Salem, per chance?
God's algorithm
Don't worry, OP will surely reply.
Thanks, I appreciate you being straight up. Would love to know how the articles and writers stand up in your mind.
I'm curious why you are not using a corporation as your entity. You have just met with the first of a number of difficulties of an LLC as a business and startup entity.
Oracle machine
outside AC? The next billion dollar startup?
This is some pretty horrible advertising for StartLogic.

I assume the site was taken down because of the traffic spike. Apparently Totally Reliable Web Hosting and Unlimited Bandwidth can only go so far.
I'm sure most start ups in Miami have A/C, so I'm not sure what your concern is. Most apartments too.

Anyway, I live in an area that reaches 43c in the summer and -6c in the winter. When I first moved here it definitely threw me off, but I got acclimated to it quickly.
You might find this surprising, but it's kind of nice to actually be able to go "outside".
The APIs are re-implemented from scratch, from the OpenStack docs. The docs are pretty good, and the OpenStack community has been pretty good about improving them where there were gaps as well.

Part of the idea was not to use _any_ of the existing OpenStack code. Otherwise the temptation to copy-and-paste from OpenStack would have been too high, and copying and pasting defeats the whole purpose of doing a second implementation.

Equally, while I think there are some concepts that I hope will make it into the official OpenStack (such as a consistent Swift), there can be no copy and paste 'upstream' either because of the language barrier, which means that FathomCloud can be a true playground for experimentation.
It struck me as an oddly specific part of a large codebase to immediately jump to, but in retrospect it makes sense.

I'm all for reading code, but I think that if you can get away with not reading code, it's actually a good sign - it means all the abstractions are holding up. jgreen10 probably didn't go off and start reading the assembly code that is generated when you compile Node.js. Again, I agree with your larger point. I just want to be careful before snubbing my nose to those who don't always read up on modules they use before using them.
What about the competition from other developers that are willing to work for low rates ?
My second invention idea when I was a lad was for a jacket that was a self contained climate control device. This was after my I created sketches for my first invention, a levitating car commute system. My friend took both to his father, who at the time was an executive at a Korean auto manufacturer. Still waiting to see those 2 materialize.
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I was actually referring to the first part of my comment as a smart-ass remark.
There is definitely something to be said about the process of using hand tools. I own a #4 and a #5, along with a rabbeting plane, but I never managed to put in enough effort to learn how to properly use either one. I could get a half-decent result, but never a result that would rival my planer.

Using a drum sander to plane was easy - no different than a planer, though far slower (and safer if you ever decide to feed end-grain through it .. tip: do not attempt to feed end grain through a planer, as it may lead to disastrous results).

A band saw would be a nice addition depending on the type of work you're interested in. It's probably one of the harder power tools to replace with a hand-tool equivalent, though I've seen some very nice results with hand saws. None by myself of course :p
One of the main problems w/ Florida is you're living among Floridians.
> The argument about knowing how and when to apply formulas misses the fact that practice in applying those formulas is essential to competence.

>

I am coming late to this topic, and I wanted to make exactly this point that @kaitai made in a thread, in one of the many threads about memorisation vs. critical understanding....
This is the (moot) point that people seem to be missing here, which is surprising, because most of us here do seem to think highly about "code katas" or the "10,000 hour rule" or "immersion into code/algorithms" which is all about the above.
Unfortunately this is because ISPs throttle youtube traffic.
I just checked out your site because your "angle" sounds good. Beautiful graphics but poor credibility. You say "tell us enough to get us excited," and then say don't worry about NDAs because that's the way VCs operate. VCs are known and run on their track records. You aren't. Sorry, I've got to know more about you before exciting you.
Yep! Do you have experience with the town?
I disagree - I think making people more connected to it raises the cost of war for the people who tend to cause them, because of the political capital they have to expend on managing people who can see just how brutal it is, who have friends and relatives who are maimed or don't come home, etc.

My goal it's to End All Wars Forever! (TM), it's to raise the cost of waging wars for a society, so it's something we do less casually.
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The Wood Whisperer was one of the major reasons I got into wood working, and his end-grain boards were the first project I ever made. Makes me miss spending time on those projects :(
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Exactly, especially in the Twitch.tv and eSport era. Sponsored players flaunt their hardware, often linking to Amazon product pages or giving hardware away in their Twitch channels. These professional players have tens of thousands of viewers, and thousands of subscribers, on Twitch. There's a lot of marketing to be had.
I'm guessing the full name appears in the .json even though it isn't shown in the html? At first I thought the 'hash' key represented the password hash, but that's the photo hash.
That's the real story here. The military has control of the allowed corba implementations so they don't suffer from different runtimes, and get all the typed benefits and speed benefits.
I'm legitimately stumped. Which large bird starts with 'O'? Or is it second from the top.. so an Ibis?
Went to Wake Forest from 2001-2005 and stuck around until my wife graduated from Salem College. I can't say I share your enthusiasm (I live in Denver now and couldn't be happier), but I am glad that you enjoy the place! Please feel free to hit me up with any ?'s you may have - I spent close to 8 years there in various phases of life.
I spent a few years in Texas -- another zero income tax state, before moving back to the Midwest.

Something to consider is whether or not you've got kids. Right now my family lives in an affordable neighborhood with a tolerant culture and excellent public schools that my two kids attend. In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools. Financially, I think that I may actually come out ahead living in one of the so-called "education states."

Granted, my cultural biases show themselves in this post.
I generally prefer the curlier kinds of maple, or walnut/cherry, but I have to commend you for an excellent execution of a project!
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Probably longer than 10, but yeah, the point stands. Insightful article about the issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...
"otp" 32665
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Ostrich?
I've scraped pretty much all of the funding and company data from crunchbase and reorganized it so that it shows a number of different insights, including what you see here: for any VC Firm, who do they co-invest with most often, and on what specific deals.

Total funding for different rounds and various time periods is also available on the homepage of the site. This data really interests me and I hope it can maybe help someone evaluate a VC Firm or to be used as a tool when fundraising.
semantic happy minute

scrollable has a 'non-limited' feel in my mind, continuous translation allowed , as in google maps. A stream is more a one dimensional idea, and here you get 2 streams, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, but you can't go everywhere by combining both.
Sending us emails through the contact form on our site (or just to team@codecombat.com) is a great way to get the discussion going. Eager to talk about how we can make this awesome for your son and his friends!
Author of the article here.

Ironically - that picture from the RS article is right in front of the 1Sale.com office. I feel compelled to share that it does not look like that often (maybe 1-2 days a year during hurricane season)!
You had to trim my comment to be able to make yours. As I said, "if you're going to be querying directly on sub-fields of that field. If the json document is just getting exported out to the client without any inspection of the document from the SQL side, then it's fine".

You can argue whether or not the Normal Forms are a good idea, but you can't argue that this tool--in extending the SQL syntax to be able to give access to fields within the JSON document--is not meant for violating 1NF.
In case anyone else is tempted: I tried to add the "new" page, and additional pages of the main results - however the API that drives this ( http://api.ihackernews.com/ ) has been failing to return those pages for several hours now. I'm assuming that the functionality was dropped at some point...
As someone who grew up in Milwaukee and moved to Charleston, I agree 100%. One of my largest clients is in Milwaukee now and I can say definitively that I have lost all tolerance for that bitter cold. And to all you Canadians living north of the wall... I don't know how you do it.
I'm going to go sit in the corner and cry now.

Thanks!
Beautiful piece of software! Makes writing (yet another) blogging system pretty easy. This is where WordPress is headed to anyway.
Ah, I see. I feel like I am pretty good at guessing based on the source and the poster history, but I'd have to try a controlled test to know that's not just my bias.
Except no one is simply curve fitting the data - you haven't proposed any alternative mechanism that leads to a multi-decadal warming cycle.

That's what anthropogenic climate change is - since the only effect that suitably explains warming is increased eCO2 in the atmosphere.

Absent (effective)CO2 increases, you can't explain the warming trend. There shouldn't be one as pronounced.

If you're going to say "well what if there's a long cycle" - then well, what is it exactly? Where is all this additional heat retention in the atmosphere coming from? There are no multi-decadal phenomena on Earth which can explain the temperature record.

EDIT: The data for example, does not show a 1000 year cycle. You're inferring there's a cycle, by doing what you accuse others of - pointing to a graph, and declaring that because it looks "roughly" cyclical it is.
The mongodb server is a clear example of this.
We use SFO to denote our San Francisco office, and I've seen other companies do the same.

Not necessarily contradicting you, just offering another data point.
I'm working on a web app alternative to academic papers, reports, wikis--Give me a couple of months. I'll put you on my beta list.
I was under impression that Texas does have good schools, e.g. 3 of top 20 schools in the nation according to USNews are in TX: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-r...

Also, what are the "education states" and why?
But since the primary market for this is gaming, you can't buffer up anything or you kill latency, which is even more important than smoothness.
SF could have a devastating earthquake at any moment and people are still there.

Down in LA someone is trying to build a skyscraper on an active fault line: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood-fault-mill...

A good portion of Manhattan will be under water if sea levels rise as well.

Then we all know what happened to New Orleans.

People seem to enjoy evacuating after the fact, not before.
It'd be nice if the USPS could e.g. hold mail, scan it, and let you decide whether to accept it or reject it.

However, the way I proposed it, individual mail forwarding wouldn't cost you anything; the shipper just pays the average cost to send to a PAF address.

FWIW, if you do like it and want it to happen — or if you have suggestions for improvement — please tell that to the PRC directly! See http://s.ai/paf/#formal for instructions.
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Thanks, I too wanted to point this one exactly.

Instead of threading my point, I have quoted you and hived it off as a separate reply.
I always find it interesting how a company that takes off and IPOs outside SV seems to gain almost no attention even when they have profits that would dwarf most of the hot startups. I work down the street from a startup that IPO'd a couple years ago for hundreds of millions, does double digits of daily trading on the NASDAQ, and seemingly nobody has heard of. Instagram selling for a billion is cool and all, but there are many companies like this who fly 100% under the radar. If I had to guess, it is probably a focus on B2C vs B2B. (Don't have the source, but I think I read it in Inc. this month) 80% of the startups filing for IPO this year are B2B. Food for thought.
I think there are a lot of people out there running three screens with multiple video cards driving them. The Rift could actually be cheaper, while being a more immersive experience. I was a skeptic as well until I saw the demo video of iRacing. Wow.
Why can't a display behave exactly as bit-mapped memory? That is, you set this pixel in memory, and that pixel changes on the screen, at that time.

That is, like a vector display, but using the LEDs of a flat screen. There's no electron ray scanning over the phosphors as there was in a cathode ray tube.

--

The LEDs can switch only so fast - but does this latency prevent them from being switched independently?

The LEDs need to stay on for long enough for the human visual system to perceive them (and without flickering etc) - but this could be managed in other ways.

I think the main reason, apart from inertia, is that the larger market for displays is as TVs, where the concept of updating the whole frame (frames per second) is even more entrenched - though, there's no reason why video couldn't be displayed in the same way, it's just pushing out a kind of compression to the display itself. Light from real objects is not emitted one frame at a time.
> In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools.

I have to disagree with this. I graduated from a regular public school in Texas and there was nothing sectarian about the education and it was far better than the public high school I attended in the SF Bay Area (they could actually afford things like copy paper, something my CA high school stopped buying due to budget cuts. They also dropped all advanced courses, this in a neighborhood with houses reaching $1 million).

I lived in an affluent neighborhood in Texas, yes, but the bar to afford such a neighborhood isn't very high here. ~$250k homes in that area for some of the top-ranked high schools in the nation.
From the article, it sounded like each of the systems was running on a stripped down Linux VM, so each of the stations would be logically isolated from each other, running in the same "data center".
The first result is Amazon.com. Its not an ad.

No, that's the fourth and then some since Google has added white space to make sure only ads show on mos commonly used resolutions. How many people that see only ads think that ads are normal results? About half

The next ones are local listings. And don't think they are also ads. Those are search results.

Google has a financial interest in showing them so call them ads. Why didn't they show Yelp listings, maybe they have more reviews?
I'm not sure. I also do this, but maybe something is happening, even to us, subconsciously.

Maybe the effect goes away if we walk away and remember the price as $80, though.
> Lastly, the weather in Florida is unparalleled from November to March. It's usually pretty good the rest of the year too

Lies :P I've lived in Miami. March to November, it's super-hot and super-humid. And it has hurricanes.
Thanks for pointing this out - I was under the assumption that mongodb is under dual GPL/commercial license
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It's not really any different of code, though. It's the same wrongness of CoffeeScript vs. JavaScript: there is no paradigm shift, it just adorns the same old dog chow with a slightly different set of ASCII characters. Postgres is turning into Foxpro, from the opposite direction. Foxpro was this BASIC sort of application language thing that had delusions of grandeur to be a database, too. Postgres is growing delusions of grandeur for being an applications programming language, too.
Ask HN: Managing Side Projects with Full Time Job?
Anyone here manage a side project/startup and also have a full time job? how do you divvy up the time effectively?
>Ultimately, my previous boss was bold enough to latch onto that and give it a shot - can we take this molecule that is the most potent of the group (but unfortunately cardiotoxic), delete the homologous oxygen atom and make something that still works and is less cardiotoxic?

And? Did it work?

ELI5 - how do you delete the oxygen atom? How is the new compound replicable at a scale where you have lots of it?

THanks - I am fascinated by this - but am completely ignorant. Thanks
Only one I thought of relates to baseball. Didn't think it was large.

Edit: for some reason ramchip I keep missing that one when the subject of birds comes up
media also has a hand in sanitizing war. they censor the images so stacks of mangled corpses arent stuck in your head when they should be. unbelievably my fearless leader uses a WWI memorial that reads "never again" to promote new wars every year.
I saw something about Rubik's cube on Reddit, but I didn't click the link or the comments on Reddit. Later in the day a question popped into my head: do there exist known states that are very random, very 'distant' from a solved state, such that I could keep my Rubik's cube master friend busy for a good while? I googled around, found my way here: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150895/is-there-a-mo... -- and there I found the 'God's Number is 20' link (which I've submitted here, because I found it very interesting and thought you guys would too).

There. Happy?
"to making jokes or conversation about sex"

Women talk about sex in the workplace all the time. I've worked at a few all-women companies. If I used your list as examples of sexual harassment, they would have been sued out of existence years ago.

Harassment to me is singling someone out and making them feel uncomfortable. Talking privately with my co-workers about something sexual while may be inappropriate in the workplace, should not be considered "sexual harassment".

I also have to laugh because if you asked a woman out and they are attracted to you, it suddenly becomes a date rather than sexual harassment...which in my mind invalidates it entirely. If someone continues to ask a girl out and they are not interested, it's harassment. Not sexual harassment.