skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
T-mobile has been doing a lot of interesting things. They don't default to 2 year contracts anymore, they offer 200 mb free data per month for tablets, and their phones are SIM unlocked.

It appears that most of these things aren't actually necessary and T-mobile is pulling back the curtain to show what ATT/Verizon are doing.
I'm doing the same using this service. http://domains4good.org/

Now, developers.lv redirects to awesome page instead of doing nothing.
I've used the Cooler Master Quickfire at my old job which made me fall in love with mechanical keyboards. After leaving the job (and the keyboard) behind, I decided to spend more time looking a keyboard that would fit my needs. The options are certainly plentiful but I ultimately ended up buying a Ducky Shine 3 with Cherry MX Blue switches.

I absolutely love this keyboard, and if you look past the tacky gamer/marketing features of the keyboard (various backlighting modes, like a "snake" that goes back and forth between your keys) it's a fantastic keyboard.

It works great on a Mac, the include a replacement spacebar which is way better looking than the ugly "backlight dragon" that advertise with the keyboard. It came in at just about $140.

Mechanicalkeyboards(.com) usually has the harder to find mechanical keyboards in stock.
Inspirational Speech by Anthony Robbins
Vmfarms.com is pretty good.
I would expect a stronger argument than a generic appeal to irrationality, before introducing a law that would force an employer to hire someone convicted of a violent crime.

How do you know that people's decisions are highly irrational, and that forcing people to behave another way would be more rational?

And it seems like the bar for government intervention is pretty high in this case as the government intervention may not only cost people money, but interferes with people's ability to protect themselves from harm.
Not to be unappreciative of this cool demo, but here's a snake game I wrote a while ago that clocks in at 41 "commented lines" of code, and minifies to under 1KB of code whilst including setting up the DOM and CSS (which is counted separately here), and features such as pausing and aging food:

http://chengsun.github.io/snake.html
This is incorrect. Background checks are much more difficult to perform for criminal convictions, and tend to be incomplete.
I'm definitely interested in picking up a PS3, now that the PS4 is out. Do you think it'll be cheaper to buy one during Black Friday or to get a used one after Christmas, when a lot of people are (presumably) going to be selling their PS3s because they got a PS4?
I wish and I would. But I am co-located with facilities I cannot choose. (Yes, I am a student). Also housing is too difficult to be able to move out.
7 συμβουλές για να δημιουργήσετε μια τεράστια λίστα
I completely agree with you, but I don't control US monetary policy shrugs

Too many people believe growth is a requirement, vs a steady-state economy.
The same reason you have to jump through hoops with third party tools to download apps from Google Play without using a Google-approved device. They want everyone to be fully immersed in the Google experience.
IMO, this is a tax policy problem. You can go to a city where 80% of the buildings are vacant, but the property owners want insane rents.

Real estate developers have an incentive to hold on to property to let it rot, because they can use the losses (real and imagined) to avoid taxation. The carrying costs for the property are often largely driven by taxes, and assessed value is usually driven by rental income.
If you don't use a contract you're asking for trouble. Be like James Bond in The World Is Not Enough- don't hesitate in jumping into bed with Elektra King (the client), but don't overlook the possibility that she's been brainwashed by an evil sociopathic genius.
I'm sure someone has written a TL;DR for the book...

I also believe quite a few of the college stops have been recorded, but here's the entire tour schedule (the events are nearly all open to the public) http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates
It would be interesting to find out if it generates any undefined constructs. My betting is it does.
Last time I checked it was almost every class of conviction that Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be "affected" by.

But if the effect is only via the conviction, I don't see how this qualifies as racial bias, any more than requiring a high school diploma would qualify as racial bias.
A way needs to be found to scale the network to a size that can't be interfered with by a nation state(s) before a nation state(s) interferes with it. (e.g. if btc network gains serious traction yet is small enough a nation state can interfere/control the network, a nation state will eventually interfere/control the network)
I really like your 8-Bit graphics approach! But I am a little bit disappointed, that you did not include Bootstrap somewhere.
I wonder if these people still got credibility as analysts? I mean if that's your day job, shouldn't something as bad as predicting iPad or iPhone to fail be a huge hit?

Just curios.
Thanks, wf! I didn't want to waste anyone's time with the book and I write like I speak -- that is, conversationally -- so you can get the info you need and get back to changing the world!
Not necessarily. An article of mine ("Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big") was changed by moderators to be less ranty ("Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big").
Yeah, that's annoying. Sorry, I'm sure you can find it somewhere....
In the long run, it must become something "your mom" and "your grandfather" use. Notice the use of quotes, speaking in metaphors/stereotypes by intent. Essentially it needs to become understandable enough, and perceived as safe enough, for the least sophisticated and/or most conservative or more financially fragile.
After googling for alternative arm credit card boards I'm now looking into not too old [thin]m-itx atom ones. I wonder what's the cheapest out there.
This sounds like an incorrect compiler.
Which optimizing compiler does this? PyPy?
Ask Twitch.tv: Why do you allow partners to stream under the wrong game?
Towelie is the best example. He constantly streams random games under World of Warcraft. A lot of other partners do this too (and WoW is one of the most popular games to do it under). You're allowing two things to happen: Making a game look more popular than it actually is, and making it unfair for streamers who are actually streaming the game.

Please moderate this.
i've begun one technical effort to help mitigate against that
Just bought it and played a round by myself (wife promised to play a game with me later). Seems simple, but fun. I can immediately see it would be even more fun with 3 or 4 players rather than 2.

I haven't deeply explored the game yet, but having an AI and the possibility of unlocking additional weapons/upgrades would be exciting. Also, I'd love to have online multiplayer or team play (me and a friend could get online and play against another two-player team).
General tech nerds seem to look at the raw profits of mobile games and assume that console and PC games must surely be dead, without actually looking into the details of the market.

It's not a zero sum game, and it's not an either/or. There's no meaningful segment of the gaming industry that's declining in absolute numbers (most are growing at varying rates), it's just that the industry has been exploding over the past 15+ years, and each segment is now a smaller slice of a much bigger pie.
FED/Fiat collapse. Which maybe sooner rather than later given their inability to ween QE and ZIRP.
And Kindle doesn't acknowledge them as "books" but as "docs". Subsequently they are also ignored by the Kindle app.

At least the Apple iTunes ecosystem acknowledges my mp3's as music and generally as first class citizens for everything but iCloud.

What Amazon does is childish and annoying.

Calibre can't properly integrate with Amazon's proprietary ecosystem, so you're stuck with 2 separate ways of managing your books, and a are pretty much encouraged to rip out the DRM. (Okay, so I would have done the latter anyway without the encouragement.)

And then you still have a reader that says "na na na na na, those aren't really books!"

Pathetic.

Nice reader though.
36 g (the difference in weight between the paperwhite and the older Kindle) is about two DVDs without cases.
"Like any service, we will eventually charge our users."

More like: "Like any PAID service, we will eventually charge our users."
I've been looking for a good introduction to Ansible -- this may be it!
If you are looking for how this works:

A classic pump-and-dump(PnD) is when a large amount of an instrument (security/commodity/shares/etc.) are bought by a few entities (people/institutions/early investors/etc). Thus creating a scarcity of the instrument which when executed well will be followed by enough hype, as the common people usually see the "meteoric growth" as proof of a good investment and "a large number" of people believing in its future, rather than the reality of a handful.

This creates a situation where a lot of these novice/late investors start buying the security, usually using market orders (i.e. accepting the sellers offered price). Now since a handful of entities own a large number of the instrument and they offer few shares incrementally at higher levels, and keep selling more and more as the hype/momentum/# of small investors increases.

Eventually taking it to a point where a large amount(still not the majority) of the instrument is now owned by a large number of small investors hoping to make 10x-1000x like the early investors did. At which point they have a few choices/combination of choices(all :
1) Offer a large amount at a price point where the gen. public will not find it valuable, thus leaving only one direction for prices to go
2) Create a small sell-off by selling large quantities through a market order, thus making smaller investors panic
3) Wait it out to let the news, govts or some other external source to present a good opportunity for people to panic, and do one of the above
4) If they are big enough they can actually create #3

A well executed would further buy back the instrument while it crashes for a round of rinse-and-repeat.

There are a lot of examples of pump-and-dumps, a lot of them are legitimate, most are well established and usually don't intend losses for the later investors. The "dump" can just be profit taking, reducing risk, being satisfied with the earning etc. All companies that have raised financing can technically be classified as PnD

ex 1(legitimate):
(i) 2 individuals + 2 computers + 1 idea (100% share) [$10,000 valuation/opportunity cost.] => (ii) YC give 3-8% of share for $20k [25x to 67x profit on equity given] => ... so on ..

ex 2(classic PnD - There are plenty worth mentioning):
Crude oil futures rally from mid '08 - to its subsequent crash in early '09. I can write a thesis on this one. It was great fun, good times.

ex 3(currently playing out): Bitcoin :
This does not undermine the quality of the idea or its execution. Just the fact that a small number of early miners control a large quantity of the instrument. Prices are being driven up by mostly small order-sizes being executed on the sell side (not to be confused with [0]). There is a higher probability that these bitcoin's are being sold by early adopters.

It may be a few weeks early to say if it is a classic pump-and-dump. If it is I would expect to see <$250 possibly even <$100 prices in the next 3-12 weeks. The rational for this is too lengthy for this reply, might just be cognitive dissonance on my part.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sell_side
[1] http://raszl.com/blog/bitcoin-benefits-and-risks
> It may come -- but probably from an entrepreneurial start-up somewhere. How about phones with fewer gadgets but better at making calls? Or with never-ending batteries? Or chargers that don't weigh three times as much as the phone?

The funny thing is that there's a huge market for all of these things, but the profit margins are much thinner than on smartphones. 6 years later this article seems completely off-base, it would be interesting to revisit it in 20.
It's basically a service object specifically built for scopes with its own DSL. I like it :)

Correct me if I am wrong.
It is improving. GT Startup Exchange went from nonexistent to a pretty big organization in a year.

-GT Student
>My understanding is that office space is a function of the number of white collar workers in the economy.

Telecommuting makes this rule obsolete.
It's been shown that while blacks have similar rates of drug use, blacks have a much higher rate of arrest, conviction, and higher sentencing. I think this is the point that was being made: the criminal justice system itself is racially biased, thus eliminating past convictions as a factor is in the spirit of eliminating racial bias.
Spoiler: anything that ends up being successful is going to involve a non trivial amount of luck.

It seems like you realized this by the end of your comment but it didn't dissuade you from hitting 'reply.'
Fun with iso-8859 and utf-8 character encodings
For those living in the UK wanting to move to the Bay Area, this worked for me (and was one of the best career decisions I've made): http://siliconvalleyinternship.com
Amazon bares its computers
Mail servers are made to attempt redelivery if a mail is undeliverable. Most mail servers will attempt redelivery for multiple days before disposing of it so it shouldn't be an issue.
Clearing a Few Things Up
Who are the top "explainer" video production houses? Why?
37, when I was 13 I wrote an equation solver for the C64. It was a simple program, but had a nice GUI and a catchy name: Determinator.

I sent it to a German computer magazine and they paid me 200 bucks.
It was the first money I earned with programing and it made me really proud.

Almost a quarter of a century I accidentally found that Determinator is still alive: http://plus4world.powweb.com/news/710
Personally speaking, I'd see it as evidence of entrepreneurial spirit and experience ;) I'd also hope that anyone knocking you back on those grounds weren't themselves users, because that would be rank hypocrisy.

However you weren't asking about me :)

Firstly, lawyer up. Get a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing and ask him or her what to do.

Secondly, try to see this from a risk management perspective, which is most likely how your prospective employers will approach it.

From their perspective, it's probably (but see 'lawyer up' above) immaterial to them on a daily basis if you're no longer dealing, and not going to turn up to work stoned or have a shootout with another dealer in the company carpark. But imagine the fallout if you did. Imagine being the guy or girl who signed off on your hiring.

That's what's going through their heads when considering your application, & that's what you need to mitigate.
Well that will surely stop them.
29 here. Also I think there are a lot of age statistics on hn regulars somewhere.

I really first started coding in 2009 ever. But I Know I took a few courses in 2002 but never really got into it. As well as a little dabble in mid late 90s. I was a late bloomer into programming. But now I'm in grad school for computer science and am doing quite well and absolutely love programming.
I had the same thought, except this would be a parody of /g/ as well given how much Model M's are popular there.
When my office was moving, my friends (other coops) and I found a STASH of model M keyboard. It was amazing. We each got one, a few us sold them for $300+, but we spent a day or two after work cleaning them all out. Disgusting after 20 years of work but so satisfying once they looked brand new.

http://imgur.com/a/o4Gtw
Yeah it's not like I'd use a threat like "I'll disconnect all your accounts!" but if they have some EC2 instance they don't understand how to operate it does give you some leverage since they will be needing some admin done at some point in the near future. I really doubt they can sue you for refusing to perform maintenance on their systems since we as programmers do not become indentured servants simply from having done business with them in the past. Tons of high-end engineers leave big projects all the time with the attitude of "well, you should've realized I might not be around forever" and it hurts projects but that's capitalism, it's one of the few rights that give employees an edge in the market.

If we never had an agreement for me to document all my work (extremely common) then the best they can do is say "hand over the keys" but they can't make you drive. If they're willing to invest in a new engineer's learning curve, the problems must be way deeper than 1 bill & you should've seen it coming, enough to write out a formal contract for that last bit. In hostile workplaces contracts should be the norm, sure, but I just try to avoid those situations to begin with.

Good advice on the email bit, but I kindof just assume that those count as written records. Either courts acknowledge them or they don't I'm not sure that explicitly saying they do really changes much.

Also, you say "there is a contract when you agree to exchange services for money" but if they don't pay you... didn't they already break that contract? Why would you have to do due diligence (maintenance) for someone who refuses to acknowledge your initial agreement?
I understand how unsafe and unsettled that must make you feel, and I hope that you are able to continue enjoying YouTube without endangering and/or outing yourself. Good luck.
I live in Poland and had a white one RROD after about 11 months. Everybody told me: it'll take weeks. So I sent it in and went out and got myself one of the slim ones. Five or six days after a courier came to pick it up, another one came to drop it off. It'd go to Germany, been fixed and sent back to the Poland in under a week.
That's just not true. We saw a big bump the week after digg v4 (which more than a few of us saw coming) http://alexisohanian.com/an-open-letter-to-kevin-rose but it was not a doubling of pageviews.

reddit's traffic has consistently doubled every year for the last 6 years.
I don't know why, but when I was reading this, I had in my mind that submission from earlier today, what 4chan thinks about HN, especially this bit:

"How I stopped [perfectly fine activity]... And why you should, too."
If you live in isolation or aren't a member of a group that is perceived negatively by a significant number of people, it's very easy to NOT care. It's a lot harder when how people feel about you affects you - every day - in your ability to get/maintain a job, get promoted at that job, buy/rent a dwelling, finance a business, enter a restaurant/elevator/bus without causing a ripple. . .
Wow that is awful what you made. What?
Liquidity is the most important thing.

The thing that holds back bitcoin is that I can't buy my groceries with it. Once a currency can be used it is more valuable.

To overcome this, a company like Amazon would need to accept bitcoin or make some kind of passthrough system, where merchants can accept Bitcoin and Amazon takes their cut in bitcoins.

Once more companies accept it, it will be a prime candidate for the hold currency because no government can artificially inflate it's value. Right now the issue with having the USD, the Yuan or the Swiss Franc as the hold currency is that the currency becomes more valuable which makes items in that country more expensive for everyone outside of the country causing a decrease in exports.

So no country really wants to be the hold currency, in fact it's why China is manipulating their currency and artificially bolstering the USD by buying up US Debt. It depresses the Yuan and keeps their export business alive.

It's why a strong dollar killed US Exports. The stronger your currency is, the worse off it is for your exports.

Bitcoin doesn't have this issue, you can create a contract in bitcoin and not have to worry if that country is going to inflate it because their exports are decreasing. This gives the currency even greater liquidity.
Too bad that miscellaneous issues prevent them from getting an Android port out -- regardless of RAM and CPU requirements, I've been trying to get a decent accelerated web view going on it since I first got one, and _nothing_ works well enough (Qt5 took forever to stabilise - and still isn't quite there yet, X11 still has no hardware acceleration, there are no browsers that take advantage of Wayland, Firefox OS is still not stable enough, and even the JavaFX preview ships without a web view).

But hey, they can play back video pretty OK, so I eventually settled on a mix of video and live streaming a desktop browser rendered on a normal PC:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/hw/RaspberryPi/Streaming

Thing is, omxplayer crashes out of the blue for no apparent reason (either halts the player process or locks up the RPi _completely_, on any hardware rev) and have an alarming tendency to corrupt SD cards, so I'm moving to the Beaglebone Black ASAP.

They do make very nice low-power servers (I have one doing AirPrint via CUPS for iOS devices), though, and of course I try out a bunch of things on mine - if it runs quickly enough on a Pi, then it's blisteringly fast on a "normal" machine.
I still remember the first iPads in 2007. I was totally one of the nay-sayers. "Who'd want this giant iPhone? This is silly, nobody wants a mini-flat-screen as a computer"

---5 years later---

smtddr cannot imagine life without his Cyanogenmod KindleFire.... and thus stopped being a nay-sayer of tech. Except, I'll tell you right now smart-watches aren't gonna make it. ;)
I would have real difficulty sending texts to several friends (yes, the real-life kind that I invite round to my house) if my phone contacts forced me to list them under "real" name (rather than "lestaki" and "delph" and "raccoon" as they currently are).
Show HN: Hacking couchsurfing.org API
It breaks unsophisticated users' conceptual model of how these things work. Admittedly, that's a low bar and a difficult problem.
I can see all kinds of reasons for Udacity to pivot. First, they have to earn money somehow at some point, and that will require some pivoting; Second, their current offering seemed a bit sub-par (IMHO - style over substance, fun videos but in the end skirting the hard/important things I wanted from the course) when compared to, say, Coursera. And changing that doesn't need 'more quality', they already can do quality stuff, but it needs a clearer direction on who and why the course is intended serve - ergo, the pivot.
Keywords wouldn't be a maintainer's problem, assuming the code works. Calling functions that are misspelled can get you into trouble fast though.
What I find interesting is his wishlist for better phone:

>> How about phones with fewer gadgets but better at making calls? Or with never-ending batteries? Or chargers that don't weigh three times as much as the phone?

It's useful while making predictions (or wishlists for the future) to understand that the fundamental way in which people use a product is likely to change (making phone calls is not the most important way to communicate via a cellphone anymore)

Or that there are things beyond the immediate annoyances (battery life, charger size) that make people passionate about their devices (like, what you can do with it).

Battery life and size of the electronics should be expected to improve as part of the natural evolution of technology. What you should wish for is a revolutionary way of using the product.
Software Prototyping: Please Throw This Away
I don't think this is true. There's no reason why it couldn't be infrastructural like high tension power lines or crude oil. I have no idea how to use either of those things, but they underpin almost everything I do.

Maybe you never use bitcoin but your landlord uses it to pay the mortgage, and your cousin uses it to send money to your grandmother in Iran for you. Even if it's only used by "pros" it can be huge.
36.

Oldest code I could find is a project on Sourceforge that I created in 2001: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edubase/