skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't understand why they didn't actually show the product until the very end.
:%s/US/Canada/g ?
Frankly, I'd be more interested in "How a developer learned to forge metal."
What would cause drag besides the atmosphere?
I have been thinking about this a lot recently and here are a few theories I have struck upon:

Climate in Europe and most of Western Civilization during the industrial revolution

When the industrial revolution happened in Europe, the political climate was very intense, these countries were constantly at war with each other and any advantage, however miniscule, was seeked out at any length. War has been made unprofitable with the advent of nuclear weopons, therefore there no more competition from cultures to one-up each other after India gained Independence.

Nehru + Gandhis and Socialism

Nehru and the Gandhi family's socialist mentality ensured that India did not benefit from the Industrial boom after the World War II and ensured decades of inefficient central planning guided the Indian economy. Thankfully, this is changing since the 1991 liberalization, globalization and privatisation push.

Country founded by lawyers and not scientists

While countries like USA were founded by prominent scientists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, India was founded by philosophers and lawyers. This means that crictical thinking and scientific enquiry is not prized. This is compounded by the fact that the education system is inherited from the British colonial perid which was designed to train law ranking officers from the population to govern the colony.

Diverse nature of India

More than 2000 etnic groups, all major religions, more than a score languages spoken means, it is hard to effect any change that can sweep throughout. How to effect change must be studied for each group and implemented.

Post-colonialism

People thinking that oppression is a way of life is problematic when Prisoner's Dilemma type of situations arise.

To end on a postive note, India is projected to have a very low dependency ratio in future and there is work underway to modernise the infrastructure. Many people are working on improving things and in my conversation with older people I think things have gotten better.
Patent #5,074,437. Can be found here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Ask HN: YC rejected. Now an acquisition scenario came up. Help?
Anyone out there that can help me?

So I found out the unfortunate news that I didn't get the interview for YC W'14. However, yesterday, I received an inbound inquiry on my startup from a global player asking if we want to sit down for a potential acquisition discussion.

Quick Background: - my company is in public beta and haven't even launched yet! No crazy traction, proprietary technologies, some revenue (nothing meaningful). - we're going to start our angel fundraising efforts soon - player is the largest in the space (I'm not even sure if I can disclose details/name that's why I'm not disclosing specifics). - they specifically said that their senior M&A team and C-level execs have been thinking about building a product similar to ours and would want to discuss potential for team/product acquisition.

There's a million scenarios/questions going through my head from fundraising to why I didn't even get a YC interview.

Anyone who can opine on the best way to approach this would be greatly appreciated.
everybody is learning howto code but when will people learn how to solve hard problems. I would rather see people learning complex math and physics before learning how to code. creating various crud applications is not really that hard.
My company (in fact client company) is using bluecoat filter. This is insane crap that block randomly many sites. Hopefully, the company does not block ssh. Bluecoat filter is so much annoying that I have installed a proxy on my home computer. When a site is blocked, I have to fully close Chrome, to launch ssh with a tunnel (two clicks) and to relaunch Chrome using this proxy (one click). I wonder when companies will understand that excessive or bad filtering have opposite consequences. PortableApps.com is awesome (notably xampp). Congrats
I really liked skipping class. Once I made that decision to skip and go back to sleep, it was the greatest sleep I could possibly have.

It definitely wasn't a good decision though. I wasted a lot of money and probably missed an opportunity to major in something valuable rather than something that would just get me by.
>it is absolutely the case that every Intellectual Ventures, Lodsys, and Rockstar thinks of themselves as being innovative inventors like Lonnie Johnson.

How sure are you about that? If they acquire patents, how could they possibly believe that?
Bitcoin Doesn't Have a Deflation Problem
> but what's the bright line between what he does and what a patent troll does?

He actually does something with his patents, he develops profucts and then licenses the manufacturing.

Patents trolls don't do anything useful. They buy the patents (most of which are trivial and obvious), and then they wait for somebody to implement said trivial and obvious.
I don't know and I can't tell that, so you may be totally right. However, it left a bad aftertaste on me, when I heard that prominent hackers were busted, because their VPN provider outed them.
The patents were not just transferred in? Maybe the solution is to stop treating patents as some kind of business asset you can willy-nilly transfer and sell. Keep it with the original company, if theres no legal successor, the patents are gone.
Seems like the YouTube Video widget doesn't work - dragging it to the page doesn't do anything. And I can add "social media" buttons but it's not clear how one edits what they link to or which ones show up.
I kind of like the way the article skirts the topic of the Fed. No, bitcoin isn't motivated by the Fed, because it's unstable in value. Uh huh..

On the contrary, you could probably write a function that estimates the value of bitcoin that included public-trust-of-Fed indicators.
So basically it was more how to market yourself and get a job to "learn how to code".
Yep my thoughts exactly. I would suggest making a demo page on webbify, and putting screenshots of different devices of that page (and even a link to it).
Central Iowa has a growing tech / startup sector that is home to many new tech companies. Cost of living is insanely low. I live in Ames, Iowa and work for a medium-sized tech company founded in 2008. Salaries here are comparable to what you'd find in Minneapolis or Kansas City, but with an even lower cost of living. If you're going to bootstrap a startup, Central Iowa is the place to be. Lots of talent and super low costs.
Facebook was so much fun in its university exclusive days, because it was like a quasi-private campus community. With groups, it was even a good way to meet new people.

As far as I can tell, all of that is long dead. And 99.9% of Facebook's growth came after that era, certainly. But I still think that the future of "social networks" is going to look a lot more like early Facebook than current Facebook.
There is another important possibility; you only just became a programmer and are inherently "late to the party" when it comes to Github.

I don't see how anyone could use a join date as a measurement of someone's skill as a programmer, it reflects nothing.

However in context they may be right. If you're talking about visibility then having only just joined may result in your exposure on the site being smaller due to having had less time to produce work that would attract attention.
> We don't have tests. - Get out

Maybe it's an opportunity to introduce automated testing.

I've worked at many companies where my managers wouldn't allot any time to develop automated tests and change the deployment to accommodate them.

Many companies are just not aware, because they never hired the people who are familiar with automated testing.
Dallas, Austin, Miami. No income tax, cheap real estate and especially in Dallas plenty of 9-5 corporate jobs in case you need a cash infusion.
Could you see the Hövding be hacked to provide protection in other situations such as professional football, where there is a higher profit margin?
http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/, http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/G...:

This morning GOCE was at an altitude of around 160 km. As expected, the drag levels have increased very much, with the average now around 90 mN (milliNewton).

Re-entry of GOCE into Earth’s atmosphere is predicted to occur during the night between Sunday and Monday, 10/11 November. Break-up of the spacecraft will occur at an altitude of approximately 80 km.

Q: Do we expect any of these to reach the surface?

HK: Most of these fragments will completely burn up. A small fraction of the initial spacecraft mass – about 20% or 200kg – is expected to reach ground, distributed across dozens of fragments, spread over a sizable re-entry ground swath.

Q: Is there any risk to anyone on ground?

HK: The risk to the population on ground will be minute. Statistically speaking, it is 250,000 times more probable to win the jackpot in the German Lotto than to get hit by a GOCE fragment. In 56 years of space flight, no man-made space objects that have re-entered into Earth’s atmosphere have ever caused injury to humans.
Thanks for the inspiration. After reading your post, I'm now on a current streak of 30 days and am using the "don't break the chain" philosophy for things other than coding.
Here's a fourth. Just understand that Austin's cheaper than the Bay Area. Just not cheap. (Try finding a decent apartment.)
Apparently without TCO :(

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As someone who just wrote a universal international date/time conversion/comparison app for our portal...I FREAKIN concur.
Play more KSP. You learn pretty quick "just because it's going up, doesn't mean it's going to stay there."
Was Yahoo Mail Hacked?
When I went to login to my Yahoo Mail account, I was forced to change my password "due to unusual activity" on my account. I'm currently visiting family in a different state, so I figured it had something to do with the location I was signing in from. I mentioned it to my family and my uncle said that he too was forced to change his Yahoo account passwords. Anyone have any information on a system wide password change requirement or was Yahoo hacked?
You learn to solve hard problems just like you learn to do anything else: by working on them. The problem is that there isn't a "List of Hard Problems" posted anywhere. Aside from a few well-publicized ones (e.g. cure for cancer), being able to recognize a Hard Problem requires years if not decades of domain expertise, which most programmers don't have (since software engineering is a relatively young profession).
You're right, but making CRUD apps pays a lot better (and more quickly) than complex math/physics.
Social media sites have a distinct finite lifespan. I've seen many come and go, all peaking with the same sense of "this is taking over and will last forever". Facebook is showing the exact same cycle, facing total burnout within 5 years. This is a good time to cash out, and a good time to build the next virtual venue.
Ten or fifteen years ago one of the fastest make or break questions I would ask was "what version control system do you use?" (and of course, whether they were using nothing(!) or ClearCase or VSS or CVS would immediately say a lot about the culture there); version control is ubiquitous now even in lousy companies, so I think "what is your code review process?" is my new favorite question to get some indicators of the development culture at a company.
If reasoning about explicit order of resources is too much for you, just enable the new resource ordering feature: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.h...

Then assign classes like:
class{'ntp':}->
class{'ssh':}->
class{'other_stuff':}

problem solved?
In doing that, you throw off the calibration and put people who aren't your friends at a relative disadvantage. Is this what you want?
Swedes Develop Invisible Bike Helmet
Globalist policies really are the core of the issue.

If we agree that free flow of commerce benefits us as a society and trade protectionism is harmful, then the debate is between state-sanctioned liberalism (free-trade through policy and partnership agreements) vs actual liberalism (free-trade by removing trade barriers and tariffs).

The Trans-pacific agreement goes well beyond reducing tariffs, it would establish a complex array of new barriers and policies as well:

> [TPP] is a comprehensive free trade agreement, affecting trade in goods, rules of origin, trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, trade in services, intellectual property, government procurement and competition policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

Large corporations acting out of self-interest would prefer to exploit a heavily state-controlled trade policy to gain advantages over smaller companies who can't afford the lawyers and politicians to navigate the complex legal and political process.

A purely liberal approach is not in the interest of big corps, despite the common perception that big-corp CEOs are all free-market libertarians. They want free-markets for participants, but with strong limitations in place on who can become a market participant.

One could argue that the barriers are necessary to protect consumer interests, but when the barriers (especially during instantiation via secret meetings and later during enforcement) are only navigable by large powerful companies, than the intended protections become significantly weakened. Primarily because - by side effect - the laws become easily influenced/tailored to existing companies, and therefore counter-act any long-term benefit by removing the additional consumer protections that would naturally occur via competition.

I only touched on the corporate perspective, the same sentiment applies to countries within and outside of the agreements.
It works fine for me. You need to drag it on the green lines. The problem is now getting rid of that video :/ can't drag it to trash.
Just leave a damn tip net time you cheapskate
Facebook solves the problem that teens haven't yet had to confront - how do you catch up with your friends when you don't seem them several times a week?

Twitter. Every teen I know, though admittedly a small sample, says that facebook is for old people and twitter is the way they communicate with each other. Constantly.

Until then, my money would be on teens gravitating back to Facebook as they get older...knowing that all of your friends are contactable on Facebook. No they won't be. The ones in their social circle will be on twitter or something like that that replaces it. Facebook will gray out; even the older people I know that haven't deleted their profile yet are getting tired of it.
Plus it tends to reward established networks of "friends" who assign each other as coauthors on papers rather than individuals doing the hard part of the work.
Columbus, Ohio. It very much is a big city with a small town feel. You can get a place in or around the city for less that $1k easily. We have a thriving art and music scene, a couple professional sports teams (NHL & MLS). We have the third largest university campus in the US (OSU) so they're a lot of young, smart people around. We may not have the largest startup scene, but it's definitely growing with people doing interesting things.
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I also want to be an informed citizen, and "how much does it really cost" is an obvious question that anybody might be inclined to ask. In my view, knowing the magnitude of the numbers should help provide a reference point for political debate.

From one of the comments, below
True enough, but I'm not sure I see the relevance to the point of the article?
When I first got access to the Internet (and Usenet) in the early 90s, it was generally advised that one should not post anything on Usenet that you wouldn't want to appear the next day on the front page of a major newspaper.
I hope it helps him build his JTEC thingy - http://www.parc.com/event/713/high-efficiency-solid-state-en...
Intellectual Ventures actually does create the patents. We think they're for obvious, trivial ideas, but they definitely create them. (I guess they don't actually sue other companies directly, either.)

My understanding was that it's likely that some of the people who work at Rockstar are the inventors of some of the held patents. Maybe not the key patents, but it's a company holding a lot of patents and employing a bunch of engineers, there's almost certainly some overlap.

I agree that the transfer of ownership of patents is a potential aspect of a dividing line, that seems to be a common theme. But it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult for a patent troll to skirt this by "employing" an inventor, or somehow wedging the name of one of their employees into the inventors list for every patent.
I'd think there'd be somewhat of a chance that parts could break off during reentry which might have a much greater chance of hitting a lower terminal velocity and therefore not burn up, can anyone explain why this doesn't seem to be the case? Is it that the high velocity in the upper atmosphere causes much greater heat and destruction than if it was falling through a more dense atmosphere?
Findings, November 2013
It hasn't an aerodinamic shape that behaves in a predictable way. Also it can and will break in different pieces, that will fall in different places due to their different weight and shape. Look at the Columbia debris pattern. It was scattered through half the USA.
I don't think that the wind could do more than a docen miles of difference in the impact point. It will spend too little time at the lower atmosphere.
Good to see another Iowan here. We really are a growing tech area. With both Facebook and Google data centers we'll continue gain more talent
I was just about to suggest an AMA with him, but then I realized .. HN doesn't do that. Or does it? (Haven't noticed)

Either way, Mr. Johnson certainly appears to be the kind of engineer a lot of people aspire to be .. On one end of the spectrum, a kids toy. On the other end of the spectrum: multiple successful space probes. Yikes! The guys kicks ass!
YouTube co-founder either HATES Google+ or his vid account just got HACKED
As a Canadian living in the U.S. (SF bay area), I still don't understand why American make healthcare so complicated. At beginning, HMO vs PPO vs whatever makes me very confused. Why not just move to a public national health care that works for all?
I don't think there's a much of a story to write about it, but I decided I don't want to waste a life employed in IT after all (as someone who's been coding all his life), and wanted to learn something new. Eventually I chose metal work; now I'm learning welding and machining. I'm also hoping to learn something about casting and forging and stuff.

Coding will remain a hobby so that I may focus on what I love about it, and stay true to my principles & avoid making any compromises due to commercial pressure.

It wasn't an easy decision to make and I still feel horribly uncertain about my life and all tha. On the other hand, learning something completely different is very very refreshing, and inspiring.
Did Instagram Sell Too Early?
Just curious, have you been a manager?

I only ask because when I was younger and hadn't been a manager, I would have thought the same exact thing (I remember dismissing managers as "shiny shoes").

Now that I do manage, I realize the multiple tensions and forces pulling and pushing on managers. Some of them include: making employees happy, hitting targets they've committed to, doing their own work, and interacting with peers to move the company forward.

If you have been a manager, I'd be interested to hear how you felt about "exist[ing] only to serve those above" you. Seems like a pretty tough existence.
Dear President Obama, "Mercury retrograde..."
I agree with most of the things here except for the last part of no. 9:

"Beware of "I built an internal tool that..." or "I built a flux capaciting tool that..." or "I rewrote an open source tool because...". Some developers like to jerk off to rebuilding the wheel and wasting business money on projects that strictly aren't required or useful to the business as a whole. Like I said, I like to build products. If you feel like you needed to rewrite the compiler, you're probably awful, and almost certainly wrong."

What about DevOps and people who work on improving the work flow for other developers?

Otherwise, great list.
True that. Will do.
€399 can get you a really really really nice helmet, like carbon fiber.

And I wouldn't need to worry whether my helmet actually works, and whether I forgot to charge it (their battery only lasts 18 hours).

And I wouldn't need to worry whether their patterns cover every single case when I get hit by a car or hit a curb at some weird angle.
How Code.org is extending computer science beyond ‘the lucky few’
"you only just became a programmer and are inherently "late to the party"

A good point, thank you.
> Things aren't that simple. Certain rights can certainly override others (your right to life overrides my liberty to shoot you)

Certain rights certainly can. But not human rights. That's the whole point.

(btw "liberty to shoot GP" and "ability to buy guns" are not in fact human rights. GP's "right to life", however, is.)
So far, this thread is the extent of the requests.

I'd known about dcraw from a ways back, just not the libraw fork.
The submissions with discussions were:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828134 (3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388056 (1 year ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6685798 (2 days ago)

I remember seeing this a while ago, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were more threads lost to history.
Its not a facebook app. We're just using facebook authentication to start off
Non-obviousness to someone working primarily in that field is a good start to determining the line.

We get most riled up by scan-to-email or click-here-for-full-version patents. The idea that you could independently come up with an obvious solution like clicking to upgrade and then need to pay some shitbird for the privilege of implementing it is despicable.
Are you sure you have the correct licensing for those themes? I notice a few, but won't list them all here for the sake of spam.

http://themeforest.net/item/curriculum-responsive-resume-one...

http://i.imgur.com/OLYxdF7.png

My source at Envato would argue otherwise.

Edit: after signing up, here's another:

http://themeforest.net/item/humanum-responsive-vcard-templat...

Too lazy to dig for the others. I'm sure someone else can.
Bitcoin will no monger become a means of financial exchange than wire transfer, which has been around for more than a hundred years. That is--Bitcoin may become one of many potential exchange mechanisms for transactions in which irreversibility is desirable (such as cross-border transactions) but will otherwise remain a second-class mechanism for most other transactions.

Also...Berkshire Hathaway is worth $170k+ because it owns actual, valuable, real-world assets, most of which produce income. The BH stock price reflects the value of those assets, plus the expected future value of the income that those assets will produce. Bitcoin does not own assets, nor does it otherwise generate income. Thus, a comparison to BH is entirely misplaced.
Maybe we could limit the amount of damages awarded related to how many times the patents have been transferred. Potential damages are cut in half each time they are transferred. It would keep the patents with the original innovator.
Is this healthy?
>>wow, why the downvote?

Because of this: "Never had to do my physics homework (useless busywork) because the answers were posted on the forum."