skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always see the best way to develop will power towards doing something is to try and take the smallest step possible in doing it. I've had tremendous success with it. Can't stay awake till 3 AM in the morning to code? Try doing it till 22:00, then try pushing until 22:15, then till 22:30. In short your objective should be not giving up for the next 15 minutes, and when that is over; the next 15, and when that is over; 15 minutes after than... till you get to where you were aiming.

Chances are you will break, but with time and patience you can only get better.

I had this challenge once with a friend. He told me being a nerd I had the worst fitness ever; after a good debate why workout doesn't matter he told me I wouldn't last 5 minutes on a thread mill- The very next day I ran(more like walking very fast) for 45 minutes. Of course I was nearly collapsing after that. By my point was never to run 45 minutes. It was to run the next 3 minutes without giving up, slow down when its overwhelming and keep going at a steady speed and aim to not give up for the next immediate 3 minutes.

I've tried everything else. Drinking sugar cane juice, eating a snack, sipping tea. Nothing has worked apart for that 'Don't give up in the next x minutes' strategy. I'm lead to believe this is common in sports too, Test cricket for that matter is believed that, can be excelled by players who can play from a session to session. Just focus on playing this session well.
Offering shares to US citizens would have subjected the Royal Mail IPO to US laws and regulations, and opened the company up to the risk of spurious lawsuits by greedy lawyers or over-zealous regulators and public prosecutors seeking a high-profile scalp so they can get their face in the newspapers and on TV to kickstart their election campaign.

After the "British Petroleum" debacle, what sane company would voluntarily expose itself to such risks unless it had to?
gTLDs: Verisign Publishes. The US Government Authorizes.
This is what happens when you give too much power to one company. And what is the appeal process? Asking for help on Twitter as the founder of a huge project like PHP? https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/393258264034422785
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and probably not worthy of promotion on Hacker News. Consider the counterfactual: if Merc hadn't used these open source libraries, they would have had to roll their own implementations of PNG, ZIP, an XML parser... now that would be a story!

Similar hilariously long lists can be found on many web-connected devices, from BMWs to iPhones.

(Pages 3 to 6 are the interesting ones though -- it shows that a majority of these libraries/codebases apply to the brand new S-Class. And the most noteworthy inclusion is AOSP, i.e. Android.)
Meet Nexmo, The Telecom API Firm On Track For $40M In 2013 Revenue
The most interesting aspect that the article raises is the hand-over from automated driving mode to human controlled mode and potential difficulty for humans to shift their attention. What a fascinating problem that is going to play a part in every AI assisted job in the future.

Imagine reading HN from a mobile phone and then suddenly shifting to driving mode: it's obvious that you will be very disoriented for a few seconds. Thus, we need to constraint the consumption setting: projecting a screen to the front window is likely to shave a couple of seconds off from the disorientation phase. initially both mobile phones and sleeping are banned while driving self-driving cars. Constantly projecting extra peripheral sensory information to the screen is also needed. This would be immensely useful already today without self-driving cars.

However, it's obvious that the shift of attention will take a couple of seconds thus the car can't change the control mode in dangerous situations. It's likely that there will be self-driving zones like highways and the
control is changed mostly at borders of these
Its good to be aware that he does have a connection, but there are unaffiliated people that do like the Surface Pro.

Its a dud with consumers because the price is high and the implementation is lacking.

When the day finally arrives where someone absolutely nails the implementation of a hybrid device that's light enough to function as a tablet, as powerful and long-lasting as an ultrabook, capable of transforming from one to role to the other, while remaining competitively priced, pretty much everyone is going to want one.

I think that we are nearing the time when such a device is possible. Unfortunately, it hasn't been designed yet, so here we are discussing the failures of another half-hearted attempt at making convergence a reality.

There are bound to be people that say "Not everyone wants that", but if you could have a device that's equally well-suited to each role, without paying more, why wouldn't you?
New happy hunting ground for scams, phishing, typosquatting, etc.
I'm honestly not sure how you can equivocate a haunted conscience with death.
But in all seriousness, php is not the bad guy here, bad coders are.
I'm not surprised they use OS. Some of the libraries come as a surprise to me:

* gcc
* libpcap
* strace
* netcat

I also found it slightly amusing that liboil is used in a car (and is completely unrelated to "oil")
I recently took a .co for a new brand I'm launching. The .com was taken by a golf course - - in my first few weeks I've found that people who are active on the Internet don't miss a beat.

As some have noted, .com isn't as critical as it used to be. It all depends on your key demographic, but if it's for a more technical crowd, an io, co or something that has been adopted outside of its home country should be fine. There are a lot of variables to consider though.

Edit: looks like most of us said the same thing. The nice thing about co are some of the offers that go along with it. They're making a conscious effort to build a community around it.

I've got a few domains that use the cctld to complete a word - - this usually leaves people more confused than anything.
12 Years Ago: 'Apple's iPod Spurs Mixed Reactions'
That may be so, but the problem with that avenue is that often people think they've made a logical argument when it is full of value judgements. In this case the comment in question was full of value judgements and assumptions based on incomplete information (they may be true, but they may also not be), and the final appeal to emotion was nothing more than a strong emotional restatement of an argument that did not rest on logic to begin with.
Yes. It is a cartel selling internet plumbing to technologists (bigco IT departments) and clue-challenged business-types as if this were some kind of perfect marketing strategy.

Best spend the money (USD 500K+) on SEO, or on simply improving the content and freshness of your existing site.
Ask HN: Are the 2013 Startup School videos available anywhere?
I've been searching around but I can't seem to find any videos of the 2013 Startup School. Have the videos/interviews been uploaded somewhere after being live-streamed?
I would be interested to see how many contracts and licences they have for their other technology. OS Software licences are just particularly visible.
Perhaps the people voting up this article think that it qualifies for the "intellectually gratifying" in the guidelines. In that case, one can only wonder where in their bodies their "intellects" are located.
Norwegian Town's Bright Idea Is A Shining Example Of Ingenuity
We've had equity crowdfunding in the UK for a while now. The two platforms I hear about most often are Seedrs ($3.2m invested) and Crowdcube ($23.3m).

For example, PixelPin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366343 - raised $240k at a $2.4m valation: https://www.seedrs.com/post_investment/9385#1976
Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars.

You might have missed the part where it says that automated cars would allow much more cars to drive on the roads with less traffic congestion...

So in the end automated cars would more likely mean that owning is more convenient than it currently is.
Just today, I was thinking to my self, my life isn't long enough to get fully comfortable with emacs or vi (and I am sure I am going to get hate mail for even saying that :)) So, it makes me happy to see a new, from the looks of it, powerful, text editor for the terminal!

I don't get why people are so pissed that this guy is refusing to fix bugs in his code or add features. I get it that Open Source is often massy because of this kind of attitude, but then again, you get MORE than you pay for it, don't you. If this proves to be a popular project, I am sure a community can organize around it. Not to mention that this kind of editor would primarily be used by programmers and coders, it's only fair that at least some of the people who use the software for free would get to contribute to it as well.
Learning entrepreneurship by watching and interacting with a real startup
According to their website:

"We have funding secured and a team of highly experienced entrepreneurs ready to build an undefined web-based product.

Basically, we are going to build a start-up from scratch, bring it to fruition, and provide a unique learning experience for new entrepreneurs."

They promise a live viewing experience compared to reality TV.

It's worth having a look:

http://www.thestartuplp.com/
Searx - a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
If you want the .com and it is available then I would suggest getting it while you can, otherwise some low life company will acquire and squat on it wanting about $1000.
A Structured approach to Utilizing Social Media
The LIDAR is expensive because it's not a commodity product. Once you take that LIDAR unit and spread the development costs over millions, embed all the digital electronics into one chip and start churning them out the cost will fall significantly. It might still be 5 figures, but it'll be at the low end.
if this puts things into perspective, after some negotiation the asking price is $7500
I am not actually sure that it takes as long as people think. The fact is it isn't just individual genes, but selection for combinations of them. If you look at random mutations, I think that is likely dwarfed by random permutations. This is why the resistance bell curve shifts over time. You aren't just selecting for a single gene, but for a function, which could be carried out any number of different ways, and which any number of different gene combinations could do it.
Binary JSON with bson4jackson
You're not the friendliest person around. Do you delight in making me feel bad?
My guess is it's a lot easier to add a bunch of licenses into the documentation than it is to exclude diagnostic tools from production builds.
It's only opt-in for the end user. If it were really opt-in, it would be opt-in for the domain owners and/or the email providers. Come to think of it, I wouldn't have an issue with this, and it might be worth it for recruiters who use LinkedIn for everything (and in my opinion are doing it wrong).
It would be interesting to see how RWD replaces native applications on mobile platforms. This is something what we do at http://codedose.com to make our corporate intranet web applications accessible from smaller factor devices without charging clients for native app development.
It's pretty simple. There will be low-paying jobs as long as people are willing to work there. McDonald's knows there is more than enough job candidates, so there is no reason for them to raise wages.
Walmart does this too. And don't even whisper the word "union" in walmart, they have an emergency legal team that flys into any location where there is even a hint of a union forming.

This is why people should not fight against a decent minimum wage, because otherwise all taxpayers are subsidizing the below-standard income.

Yes, your items might cost a penny more in the store.
I can confirm the article's introduction: willpower behave somehow like a muscle. Or, at least, you can act as if it was so.

From my own (little and personal) experience, I've found it usefull to get into the habit of flexing it whenever I can, if possible in public. Just something like "ok, I'll go with you eating there, I'll just take a salad if you don't mind". Sometime people don't take the opportunity to discuss it further, but when they do it's an easy way to play the role of the guy who's aim in life is to improve his willpower. Incarning a role is, from what I've found so far, the best path to really become that person you want to be.

With time, I've found that there's a pattern that occurs when I'm placed in front of a bad looking choice, and it seems more easy to counter that pattern when it pops to mind, along with the memory of previous "willpower workout".
It doesn’t take 10,000 hours to learn a new skill. It takes 20.
Yes, there is: range on a string works on runes by decoding UTF-8.
it is not surprised
I do the same. I don't eat chocolate or any other sugar sh*t when I have mangoes, apples, oranges or any other delicious fruit.

In Spain we have a selection of fantastic food, like "jamon" or cheese or fish or nuts(don't eat Californias's ones, they don't taste at all, the best nuts are the ugliest and dirty in the outside ones) so I prepare mini dishes in the refrigerator so five times a day I open it and there is something delicious and healthy. No need for pizzas or hamburgers(nothing wrong about good pizzas, the Italian ones or good hamburgers from time to time).

Eating well gives you energy along the day that nothing is going to give.

Exercise is also not a problem in sunny Madrid, but when I travel to Europe or Boston or Illinois I find it super hard to exercise while is freezing cold out there and cloudy, even going to the gym is so much work.
why not edit it? it's open source.
> and a code point is still not a user-perceived character

How about indexing, measuring and slicing operations based on user-perceived characters, then?
People say this a lot, but I honestly don't think it does. Code written using monads, whether the IO monad or a custom monad stack provided by a web framework, tends not to play too nicely with other Haskell code. It kind of demands everything be on its own terms and isn't as simple, clear, and transparent as the best Haskell code can be.

Don't get me wrong, I love Haskell, but I don't think it's very good at imperative programming, and I think there are much better solutions to be found to problems such as I/O.
Are drivers of the S-Class bound by the terms of the JSON license and so better be careful not to do anything Evil lest they anger Crockford?
Oops, I clicked "Linux" before noticing the "Web" option (I build web apps which run on Linux).
Module - a library for large-scale JavaScript applications
This line has caught my attention "If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network, get a life" under Netcat License
YES!! I don't think ideas need to be protected if you can back it with great execution. Ideas aren't unique, can never be. As René Girard said, all desires (and hence ideas) are mimetic! So, I don't buy into the philosophy that ideas need to be guarded. It curtails innovation.

A couple of years ago when I was building a product, our board convinced us to apply for a patent. After a provisional application and following it up with a proper submission, we finally had an offer that granted us the patent. Never pursued it. I know, it makes sense to protect your ideas; but we had Whatsapp, Pinger and other apps kicking ass in the space.
US envoy summoned over Merkel row
why? see sources of project php.net for this site
Customers Sharing Their Personal Data Should Be Cared For - Infographic
Two things

1) Those are esoteric. People don't do them. However the dotcom boom shows us that they will fund bullshit stock issues.

2) MPT is bullshit. Systems fail in a cascade fashion, not independently. Furthermore investors do not diversify.
If you do it for the money, ignore German startups. The chance for an exit is 1% and usually employees don't get equity. The pay is low and you're forced to burn out. You will not work for the next Facebook, Twitter etc.

Instead join Siemens, Allianz or other blue chip companies to easily earn 60-90k with all benefits you can imagine.

Berlin is even more desperate as most of the German "tech" scene is. No money, no users, bad execution except the successful copycat-business of the Samwer brothers.
An example: it should be almost trivial to offer an ARM build of Sublime Text but the author refuses to do that even though there are 1300+ requests for that:

http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/100806-armv7-or-armv6-...

If ST were open source, someone would already have built the binaries. But no...
I like the idea that NPE can only make a certain percentage of revenue on "trolling". What if, for example, only 25% of a company's revenue can be made off these "trolling" escapades? I think it would clean things up quite a bit.
Why does the government issue food stamps to people who have jobs?
Most people don't
Yeah I got around a 50% success rate, maybe I'm just more robot than man these days :(
I wouldn't say it replaces them. It's like saying that Toyota replaces Mercedes - just different quality/price niches.
If someone managed to compromise something like the PHP binaries they could cause a lot of damage.
People still take the plane, and most commercial planes are almost entirely flown by auto-pilots.

Making self-driving cars safe isn't an unsolvable problem: we do this already for planes.
Announcing Search Explorer
Example search here: http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/search-explorer?q=matt+cu...
I'd think, if you are building the server side components you can click Linux and if you're doing frontend (HTML, JS, CSS) you'd click Web...
You've misunderstood. Automation allows greater throughput given a set road real-estate, but that does not directly transfer into more total cars owned.

In particular, if totally automatic driving is legalized, then many people will have a strong incentive to use on demand car services as they'll be cheaper and more dependable than existing taxi options. In parts of the world where labor is still extremely cheap this may not be the case, but it is the most likely outcome in the developed world.
The solution proposed seems interesting, but still requires an account with a third party, in this case the feed reader (if not online, a downloaded native app).

Given the nature of self-updating browsers and devices being permanently with or around users, I suggest something else.

Let me follow whoever I want without creating an account, store these preferences in localStorage, then use it to build a news feed on the home page, just like a logged in user.

Then, unobtrusively suggest other features that can only be made available to signed up users, due to technical constraints.

(No, notifications are not such features; a browser extension that checks localStorage and raises browser notifications a la Chrome should be enough for non-logged in users).
Only if the car was built after august of this year (page 5). We'll see a lot of good being done soon! ;-)
I highly recommend this one: "Beej's Guide to Network Programming" [1].

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Because the US minimum wage is so low that many people with (probably part-time, remember) jobs can't reasonably live on it.
If they are specifically for Linux then that is a correct choice. Web is not really a platform. My PC and tablet don't run "Web", they run a proper OS with a browser on top.
> But for all its expertise in developing search technology and software, Google has zero experience building cars. To understand how autonomous driving is more likely to emerge, it is more instructive to see what some of the world’s most advanced automakers are working on...

"But for all its expertise in developing automobiles, Ford has zero experience feeding horses. To understand where the world is going, it's more instructive to interview coachmen"

Wat? How is Google not relevant or "instructive"??
I don't understand what the problem is here. McDonald's is trying to help its employees access government services to which they are entitled.

This seems like a very good thing; all the more so given that Mcdonald's disproportionately employs minorities and individuals with low levels of education -- both groups which historically encounter "paperwork challenges" in accessing government services.
Because those same people are unable to make enough money to feed themselves and their families working multiple part-time/full-time jobs paying these sorts of wages.
WebMaster Tools really need some improvements - there is no way to re-scan suspected page fast and get more info about the issue. If even Rasmus was unable to get this resolved fast, imagine regular webmasters in the same situation.
"Researchers say we humans have a limited supply of willpower" -- it's an interesting idea but worth noting there are counter-claims.

Particularly, it turns out that this may be self-fulfilling prophecy -- people who subscribe to the limited willpower hypothesis tend to run out of willpower more quickly[1]

What's interesting here, for those looking to practically increase their willpower, is that treating your willpower as delicate and fundamentally limited might be part of the problem.

Personally, I'd like to subscribe to the 'abundant willpower' hypothesis, if that turns out to be the more powerful premise. (But then, I'd also like some cake. What can you do? ;) )

[1] http://www.livescience.com/38980-willpower-is-not-a-finite-r...
Is there space for another?
A friend and I are looking at creating a web app and one thought was an event / exception logging app. When we looked at the market we noticed there is a number of companies that provide such a service.

What are peoples thoughts on producing a product which enters an already established market?

What can we do to make our product stand out against others who are all ready established?
It's far worse than that. Not on;y is it not possible to have semantic communication without a general agreement on the meaning of words, but at the same time perfect agreement is impossible. This is generally understood (and has been understood for a hundred years) to be one of the causes of linguistic drift.

Humans aren't computers.
I'm afraid the physics just don't work out for Hydro.

See the Hydro section of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by David JC MacKay:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c8/page_55.shtml

Even though the land mass of the US is larger than the UK, it's hard to see hydro being more than MacKay's 2kW per day per person...

That's two 40W light bulbs left on all day.
Ummmm bacteria do. See horizontal gene transfer.
Other => HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Wii, PSP, XBox, PS1-4, PS Vita
A snippet from the SQLite license...I wonder how the driver will comply to this one....

May you do good and not evil.

May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.

May you share freely, never taking more than you give
Off topic question: What kind of cardboard is that used in the prototype? I have been searching for such a material for some time.
Similarly, the second largest chunk of the UK welfare payouts goes to the working poor, at 20.8%. Payments to the unemployed are at 2.57%.

The government brings this constant drip-drip of poisonous rhetoric about scroungers, when what's really happening is the ultra-rich are scrounging from the middle class to subsidise their empires while keeping the poor mentally broken and unable to form a political force. I should really start some sort of PR campaign, there's an election next year.

Data: http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn13.pdf
> [A]chieving even more complete automation will probably mean using more advanced, more expensive sensors and computers.

Because? What's your argument that this isn't an algorithm and price reduction on select parts of the system sort of problem at this point?