skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
200 MB is nothing...
I have a prepaid T-Mobile "Mobile Hotspot" and it's $50 for 5 GB which runs out in 2 months from the date of purchase. I was spending $100 a month and it was a burn.
I stopped using it because it appeared that my connection was being throttled, as when I first got the device I was getting download speeds of nearly 1 MB/s, but after awhile (2 weeks?) I noticed that I rarely saw download speeds greater than 100 KBytes/s.
When I complained to customer care they said some BS about "Backhaul" (NSA Back Hall?) and that my area was a fringe coverage zone, which I doubt due to my initial assessment of speeds.

I also had a Sprint PCS phone on an "Unlimited Talk Text & Web" prepaid plan ($45 monthly) which I would tether to my netbook. (against ToU)
Sprint cut me off after they noticed that I used 20+ GB data in less than 3 weeks, but it took them awhile to notice that I was tethering.
Social Network Based on Dubai, UAE.
It is valid to ask, if we could do better. I think we can. For example in computer science: Less funding for big projects, but more smaller proposals. Do not consider past publications (aka authority) so much for funding decisions.

Similar thoughts: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/05/22/creating-incentive...
Too Much Cash Causes Pirate Admin to Quit
Henri Lamiraux, iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves Apple after 23 years
Windows 8 Is a Failure: This Radical New Device Proves It
I really like testyourvocab.com. I use it from time to time to check my progress.
You can also add this line to .inputrc which will give you vim keybindings in everything that uses the readline library (for instance, ghci, ipython or gdb). However, I found that it breaks a few things in gdb though.
Bennett Park, in the Washington Heights neighborhood in north Manhattan, occupies the highest point of land in Manhattan, 265.05 feet above sea level.

Fun fact: I used to play there as a kid.
Thought this very interesting and potentially useful.

I added a suggestion under 'person going through a divorce,' e.g:
''Acknowledge it's going to be a difficult process and transition period, but give them hope they may be happier after''

When I posted my suggestion immediately had 7--8 thumbs-ups & downs. The second it was added to your site...

Let me suggest you either fix your impossible-to-not-notice bug on up/down-voting, __or__ immediately remove your "just add a few numbers..." code which makes it look like your new site has more engagement than it actually does. Since if the point of your site is to let users optimize advice for difficult situations it strikes me as wrong you'd be randomly adding numbers into that equation for the sake of making it look more useful / validated / engaged than it really is. Your 'bug' or whatever else (really) rubs me the wrong way. Fix this bs and good luck.
It's easy to find work as a software engineer in France, but it's typically in contracting agencies or large companies. There is a dearth of tech startups for sure.
NYT Special Section On New Tech Books
I can't select any of the menu options on my phone.
I guess that getting this started just means getting up at 6am on the next first of the month and posting a thread. Or is there a special account or person that is responsible for those threads?
Throwaway since I don't want to out myself as having ADHD.

Pomodoro technique is one of the 3 critical pieces for my actually surviving life. My current favorite tool for it is

http://www.marinaratimer.com

It's free, it allows you to either use "pure" pomodoro, or in my case when I started with my coach, we used much shorter pomodoros of 15 minutes to train myself to get started.

Like many people here, I soon found myself frustrated with the break in flow, so I often start with a 15 minute pomodoro, then a 25, and then move to 40 minutes. After four pomodoros one takes a 15 min break and that's good for emails, etc.

During the 5 minute breaks I try not to do anything on the computer. I stand up, stretch, breathe, write anything down that came up. Look out a window to rest my eyes. Hit the restroom. (I also keep a pad of paper and a pen handy for "stray" thoughts that come up while working. )

in short, I highly recommend this method, because if it helps someone with ADHD, it's got help anyone who's feeling distracted. Don't feel like it has to be so rigid, adapt it for your cognitive style.
Why you must allow time for individual thinking in brainstorming sessions
Ask HN: PHP vs. Node.js vs. Go for a new startup?
I am coming back to the IT industry after about 6 years of being involved in something completely unrelated. My partner and I are starting a startup that’s going to make a online blogging application for a niche market. If we are successful, the application would need to be able to scale to handle a lot of users (100k visitor per day if we are successful, nothing like FB levels or something). Because it’s going to be a blogging platform with a business model similar to squarespace.com, the load will be distributed over many different domains, making it easier to scale.

Both my partner and I have good knowledge of PHP. However, due to the complexity of the project, we will have to find additional developers anyway. From what I read online Node.js and Go are the in thing right now, and scale much better than PHP. My question is, should we stick with the “Devil we know,” PHP, or dive into learning and developing in Node.js or Go. Should we consider another programing language / platform?

What are your thoughts. This are honest questions, we are just looking for some feedback. Thank you for your help.
You're wrong. Expedia has no longer Voyages-SNCF.com parts since this "alliance" was condamned by French Autorité de la Concurrence (anti-trust autority).

Nowadays, the only Voyages-SNCF.com shareholder is Groupe SNCF.
> 1) Write a little, one-off initialization script (I forget what it did -- probably copied a few files from point A to point B). Expect this task to take about five minutes.

The number of users who run legacy installers and expect them to work exceeds the number of users who write "little, one-off installation scripts" by several orders of magnitude.
Why I like development on Firefox OS
On my 2-3yr old laptop w/ a 8600GT, I agree that for 2D only X11 apps, Nouveau drivers seem to have less issues with tearing and drawing than the proprietary drivers. But once you want to need power management to run on battery, play games, or watch HD videos, the Nouveau are buggy, glitchy, and useless.

I have an extensive Steam library and while most of the Linux games work fine with proprietary, they are unplayable with Nouveau. I really hope Valve's commitment to Linux motivates Nvidia to put some resources into their open source drivers like AMD and Intel have done. If Nouveau was my only option under Linux, I'd switch to Windows.

Even for non-gammers, how can you seriously recommend laptop drivers that don't offer critical features like power management and video out?
Um maybe you shouldn't bundle viruses as extra software?
> Therefore they need some way to filter people quickly.

This really depends on whether they chose particular people to contact directly or whether those applicants contacted the company.

Sure, the 1000s of applications these companies get every month must be filtered quickly, but if someone was selected for a "cold call" by the employer (presumably based on some research), then handing him menial tasks upfront is a terrible idea and unacceptable for the probably more skilled people typically contacted this way.
Pills, bills and bellyaches: a peek behind the scenes at a GP surgery
FYI, your domain is listed as a spam domain in the Spamhaus DBL (I couldn't access it from work).

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=lookup&host=betact...

http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Spamhaus%20DBL#291
This was a huge fuck up. I'm really really sorry that this offended you and I totally understand how it could. I didn't realize it was going to get content which is stupid of me. I'm sorry and I'm fixing it now.
So, how do surgeons train? The commentary in the videos reminds me of martial arts training. It takes years to become fluent in most martial arts and the requirements are quite similar - a steady hand, economy of motion, spatial awareness, etc. But a good art has a curriculum where those skills can be trained independently of situations where you might injure yourself or others.
Another possibility is - perhaps some people just don't have the knack for it and won't develop it. Is anything done to weed them out at the start of their training?
I'm pushing it to heroku now. I made it so its by default 0. It was really just for our presentation. Again, I'm really sorry.
Shoppers' faces to be scanned in advertising push at Tesco petrol stations
As I remember, when an x86-64 chip is running in 64 bit mode, it can run 32 bit code, but the option necessary to run in 16 bit mode was removed. To run DOS they'd basically have to have a full emulator for a 286, like a limited version of bochs.
Good feedback. I think its made to be serious.
The Driverless Car Revolution Should Not Begin with Cars
Good feedback. What model would you suggest? We got the feedback that experts could be useful.
The other, and more important in critical circumstances, is "judgement".

Whether I die because the surgeon was clumsy and nicked my aorta or because the surgeon exercised poor judgement by not counting sponges routinely so he left one that caused a fatal blood clot would be irrelevant to me because I would be dead.

All that matters are outcomes based upon an apples to apples comparison of similar patient contexts.
Of course Totally ignoring Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Von Neumann, Turing, Shannon, Backus, Hopper, Flowers and many other giants.

And (this might be herasy) C ins't even a particularly good language when compared to better designed ones like Fortran and Pl1/G.

And i think McCracken is a better language intro than K&R
No 1's to compare against upper case "I" and lower case "l."
No 0's to compare against upper case "O."

I don't see any differences.
UX Weekly, Take 2
That's all my sources, plus an extra news article[1].

Click reactions are interesting.

What's the point of this ? first, it's offering places with lack of solid access to medicines and materials a good source.

Second, it has similar motivations to any 3d printer as a research tool : easy copying and sharing and faster innovation.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/21/chemputer-tha...
Here's some of my reasoning for the newsletter, and what's going to happen in the future:

http://piranhabay.co.uk/post/65912038650/ux-weekly-take-2
I'd argue that this post in itself violates the "shallow" prohibition on Hacker News. It's like a religious or political debate.

But for the record, once one starts generalizing an entire class of people, it's a slippery slope:
I hate MBAS -> I hate Marketers --> I hate women.

see: https://medium.com/about-work/aa49dffc975d

There are shitty devs just like there are shitty MBAs. And that's where I'll leave it.
If you're on Linux, you might already have the Ubuntu font, and if so will get better results using it. In addition, Ubuntu is likely a decent font, where this will drive the most improvements is in fonts of single weights designed for a fixed size and not easily resized from body text to headline or display to body.
we do not put any malware or virus in it.
Awesome, be neat to know how many lives were saved this way overall! I also registered because of you!

I still have this great idea that NBMR/marrow.org should partner with 23andme.com, but I didn't get anywhere trying to contact someone at marrow.org about it (though I wrote you to ask for your contact there and sent an email, thanks for quick reply!). Still think it could be awesome and save a ton more lives (gist of the idea was they both need to run DNA sequencing, and 23andme could offer a discount or something to anyone who also agrees to register for marrow donors list), but someone told me the sequencing needs may be different for each of their needs, and perhaps they already considered the idea themselves... but in case you know anyone else to talk to about it, would be awesome to get more people off the sidelines with a small 'bribe' :-)
Then that's a horribly designed city. That's the whole point of this article.
Group cohesion often benefits from choosing a nemesis and creating a straw boogeyman--a rallying cry for the group to fight against.

Rubyists hate Java with all of its J2EE and XML configuration (never mind that Rails is at least as complicated, and Java moved on a long time ago). Certain religious groups hate gay people, with their immoral acts in the streets and the corrupting of the young (I hope I don't have to explain why this is BS).

And startup people have their boogeyman: the clueless MBA asshole stereotype.

Learn to see beyond this. There is always some fragment of truth in stereotypes, but it's more useful to understand why these articles are written.
This should be the top comment. I wish I could have articulated my thoughts the way you did.
like Google sidecar which got sent to googley heaven a while back i seem to recall
I was heading down this road with my project till I realized that 5+ years in it was time to cut my losses.

But, I did find a nicely detailed build report from a lab who converted an Epson piezoelectric printhead to use for step-wise oligonucleotide array synthesis - 1 "color" for each DNA base (I think they used a 5-ink head but I can't remember what the 5th was for).

This was all off the shell stuff, with the addition of a laser photogate to detect droplet formation (which can fail). Very cool.
There is. For example, the free market - to the extent it has been allowed to exist - has done a lot to move China forward in very short amount of time (and particularly given the disaster their country was coming out Mao's reign).

Several former Soviet countries that were exceptionally poor have made good progress after the fall of the USSR. Hong Kong was practically a banana republic at one time, and quantum leaped forward very fast courtesy of Capitalism. Singapore used to be an irrelevant back-water nation.

You'll find that in most of the worst countries today, there are structural impediments that make it nearly impossible for the free market to reach the poorest. Often it's extreme levels of corruption, backed with violence; other times it's very protracted regional warfare (eg in central Africa); and other times it's a mixture of cultural and bureaucratic as in parts of India.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/africas_for...
it bothers me that they wouldn't just make the website usable , which reduces pressure for needing an app (I've had to cancel many tickets at the last minute through voyages-sncf on my really old android with a small screen)
I would be happy if someone offered me the advice in that formula. Because they would have told me clearly that their judgment is not to be trusted, and that is good information to have about someone.
I desire many things due to external influences which aren't harmful to me. A doll with a 18 inch waste and impossibly large breasts doesn't fall under this category.
>> At what point does one really need an MBA to further their business development, and why did you believe you had reached that point?

You don't need an MBA to further your business development. It helps, but you can simply surround yourself with experienced people (and learn from them).

You will only get out of the MBA what you put in. Where it can be valuable is being exposed to other professionals who are taking the MBA who will share their own experiences related to whatever you're learning. For example, if you're learning about contracts, you'll hear what other people in the program have gone through and get more context of how things apply in varying industries.

But keep in mind, an MBA isn't some mandatory thing to succeed in business. I had a few key valuable takeaways from my MBA program, but I also don't think that made me any better in business, but it really depends on your exposure to things like accounting, business law, etc. from your work experience or prior education.
Serverification of molecular engineering tools
I like the idea of tying it to the CMB value. Determine the rate of change, factor in the observed rate of universe expansion, etc.

The real problem is that we need a point of reference that is external to our own frame of reference. Luckily, we have one.

Light.

Light moves at the same speed no matter what your frame of reference is. It's theorized that the early universe was dark for a very long time because any emitted photons were absorbed by other matter, because things were so dense. After a while, matter got ionized and expansion kicked in and the universe cleared up. This was the time of the first stars.

So, we need realllly good telescopes. Fortunately they're being built. The idea is that you have to find the light from the first stars. Measure the redshift and find some type 1a supernovas from the period to give you distance. (Standard candles.) Then you have a base measurement of time.

One problem is the redshift. There was a recent paper talking about how the earliest galaxies are so redshifted by now that their light is getting lost in the CMB.
Some Canadian dental schools require passing a dexterity test. This is not a requirement in the u.s.
The major point here is the selection bias. What does it say if someone has a Stanford MBA and is applying for a subordinate role (with sub-5% equity) at your startup, instead of private equity jobs? If you aren't making $500k per year (including bonus, and with carried interest) two years after graduating from Harvard or Stanford business school, you're considered a failure-- unless you're founding a wildly successful startup. In the MBA crowd, startups attract people who failed to get a toehold in the more traditional business world, and are looking for second chances. Yes, you'll have to fly commercial for a few years, but you might become a billionaire.

The Columbia MBA who becomes the VP/Finance of your dopey startup (instead of going directly into the smoke-filled rooms and half-million salaries) is going to have a gigantic chip on her shoulder, guaranteed, because she had to be in the bottom 5% of her class to be there.

If you want to be an attractive candidate for startups, and you have an MBA, first you need to succeed on the MBA track for a good 5-10 years, then you need to make a credible case that you've genuinely decided (after a few wins) that you want to take your life -- and that you're not just some carpetbagger who failed out of "real business" and is using the startup world to get a second chance.

Also, I have to agree that business people in startupland massively overvalue themselves. I'm a Tech 8, which means that if I'm looking for a CEO co-founder, I'm looking for a Business 8 (or 9; but since they generally have better negotiation skills, that match is almost impossible for now). I'm not going to take a subordinate role (and 2% equity) to a Business 6. If you're not coming to me with the resources in hand (funding and first clients already lined up) and you're not on a first-name basis with the top names of Sand Hill Road, you're not a Business 8. A Biz 7 comes with resources in hand and can get any article put into credible press; a Biz 8 can make any introduction in the world happen.

To tell the truth, though, Business 8 startup founders are exceedingly rare. They're usually venture capitalists.
Hrm. Maybe I misunderstood the proposal, which I consider radical, and took a wrong turn.

I'm working back from median household income in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Median_US_household_incom...

I think the proposal's underpinnings are "lets pay everyone enough to live on, shrink all the complexity down to one number so we can all understand and impact what that one number is, and hope that those who produce for love of the game do so to an extent that allows us to keep the system running". Basically communism with a uber-capitalist kicker (slogan proposal: "Musk's gonna Musk").

From your comments, it sounds like you'd think that if we put 30k more per person on the table, the incentive to work would go away, and the poor are needed to work so it would break the system. Well, I believe we've already crossed this line with current entitlements and programs and there's already an advantage to not working.

This is a far right alt source so read it carefully and do your own thinking (could say the same for CNBC though!):

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/entitlement-america-head-ho...

In conclusion:

1. 3k is just another entitlement added onto a haze of entitlements.

2. The value would be a single number. We're giving it away inefficiently now, why not clean that part up and hope democracy/the light of day will bring a moderation to it. Likely not, but better than what is.

3. 30k would be a better number if all other entitlement of any kind were truly going away and we were going to truly play it strait up.

4. If I'm wrong on this and the number after cutting everything else off is really 8k or 10k or whatever, I'm still fairly skeptical we could pay for it.

5. I've focused a lot of my life on not being poor-ish like we were when I was a kid. I think I'm pretty disconnected from what that word really means, and intentionally so, but thanks for the reality check anyway. If you'd go into more detail, I'd read it. Specifically, say you were poor but wanted to make something, would the amount of money you'd need increase and by how much?
Jumper Cables for the Mind
Pick what you know the best. You will waste time in learning something new instead of working on your product.

When time comes, you can always optimize it(writing performance critical parts in c), or pay guys who are better than you to "translate" your app to another language.

God knows i'm not following this advice, but please do not fall into a "premature optimization" trap.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, provided that you've actually looked.

However, it's often not very good evidence, and far from proof. But it's definitely evidence.
Mental State of the Poor
This is one of the best descriptions I've read of the concept.
> perhaps the most successful in France

Mh, I really don't want to undermine their work, but what about Dailymotion, or Deezer for instance? That's just two web-companies. If I broaden to development teams, France have several companies with teams who develop the lead product in their field worldwide.
You've also got to figure that the Cellular data is basically a backup, really.

I'm not generally that mobile with my iPad, but even if I were, I'd have a hard time imagining less than 99% usage on WiFi vs. Cellular.

Of course, YMMV, but it seems like they're basically giving away 'emergency data' as a sales pitch, and yes, likely for the opportunity to upsell a real plan.
It's the Haskell Platform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Platform) -> GHC(i).
A useful counterpoint from Ben Horowitz: http://bhorowitz.com/2012/05/18/is-now-the-time-to-hire-mbas...
Not sure if you meant that to be a criticism, but... exactly.

I look at it as a good thing since the alternative to letting quality seek compensation advantages is to accept a general malaise of mediocrity like we have in public education.
This is made up. The design of NT was such that you could plug in "subsystems" such as Windows, POSIX, OS/2 etc. The Windows subsystem has had the most development, sure, but there is no "DOS" in the kernel.
Interesting question, as an paranoid, I'd comment out all Google related snippets.
And yet I find that his work is not the thing I need most of the time. And even when I want some Bach, I mostly resort to the excellent "jazzy" interpretations of Jaques Loussier[1].

Gangnam Style is brilliant. You can watch it dozens of times, always discovering something new. It also spawned a large number of extremely entertaining spoofs.

It would indeed be a sad world if we had peaked culturally at Bach. Fortunately, we haven't.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x6jzKpqeuw