skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beat Google at Big Data? OK, great sneaky way to put "Beat Google at X" in a headline.. too bad Google's business isn't primarily about providing tools in X (and if it is, it's probably < 0.01% of their focus/revenue).
3D-printed Aerospike Rocket Engine
I did the same. I am several versions behind due to the requests for increased permissions, but this gave me the impetus to finally purge a bunch of applications with updates wanting additional, seemingly unnecessary, permissions. Though it was slow, I liked Bandsintown until a recent update wanted to read my contacts.

Facebook is now wrapped by Tinfoil-Facebook and Twitter is now relegated to the browser.
AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100
I'm not sure that's true. By the same argument, you might say that free vaccines would encourage overpopulation, but (according to Bill Gates at least) the data shows the opposite:

"In society after society, he saw, when the mortality rate falls—specifically, below 10 deaths per 1,000 people—the birth rate follows, and population growth stabilizes." (http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-sec...)
You can add one more to that list, I'm currently waiting for my RMA replacement to arrive. I do love having it when it works, but I'm a bit disappointed with the hardware issues. Reminds me of the old RRoD issue on the old Xbox360s.
Thanks for pointing out litcoffee.
People say that to me so often, just because I have many small projects that I am using to teach myself things.

It feels like the other is saying that I don't have much weighing me down and I am of paradoxically of less quality even though they see great quality in my projects.
> Yet it's still difficult for people working low wage jobs to afford food,

Food is dirt cheap compared to housing, especially if you shop smart.
I hate app tours with a passion, I wish devs would only use this if a user explicitly wants a hand-held introduction, otherwise it feels like it just gets in the way.
Such a great answer, thanks so much!
Years ago I was involved in some work on clocks that needed very high performance at low cost. We ended up with OCXOs GPS-disciplined over some of their frequency and atomic clock disciplined (cesium, IIRC) over another part of the range.

Telling the time is hard.
On a related note, I found this online game to be somewhat enlightening in terms of pointing out various costs and difficulties faced by those at the bottom end of the socioeconomic scale:

http://playspent.org/playspent.html
What's a good example of software made by dicks, such that not using it will kill your business? I'm just interested in one example to think about this.
On points 2 and 3 (Coffee with a stranger/Talk to a random girl), Pick up Artists (PUA's) get a lot of flak for being douches or just trying to sleep with a bunch of women but one thing they push that will help anyone in life is things that most introverts types just do not do, like how to chat with random strangers, pushing the envelope in all types of interactions and not being attached to outcomes. This has helped me out immensely in my personal and professional life. I like the guys from http://www.rsdnation.com/ as they give lots of free advice.
Show HN: Codecabulary – an "urban dictionary" for tech terms
This.

I have an AppleTV and a ChromeCast. I have a bunch of (legal) rips of the Simpsons.

On the ChromeCast I have to load a single video in the Chrometab every time. The playback isn't always smooth.

On the AppleTV, I drag VNC to the display, hit full screen and watch all day. The playback is smooth and hassle free.

The ChromeCast is more portable, but not by much. If the AppleTV was USB powered I would consider traveling with it.
I meant normal as in "common", not Gaussian - sorry!
Wow. So having servants and being a douchebag are the same things, that you straight away conclude since they have servants they are heartless? Do you use services of carpet cleaners? Car cleaners? Two men and a truck? Professional Lawn mowing services? Do you get your oil changed, tire rotated by servicemen and pay them money? Servants services in India are not much different than that - there are just professional cooks, professional dish cleaners, or professional house cleaners - just like the cheap Mexican house cleaning services your people use. Some of them in India live in (and of course charge more) - and eat with the family. of course in the western countries they are blown up saying Indians are heartless. It is claimed these servants are cruelly made to work more than 40 hours, but no one realizes it's a developing country, resources are scarce - even those middle class 'owners' of those servants are working for more than 60 hours a week. Why wouldn't their servants work that much voluntarily to earn a living? Sure, you haven't seen poverty. In India it's still about survival, in US of A it's not.

I hope people in India can conclude the same about all Americans on one isolated incidence of Steve Jobs being an asshole (much more than this Khosla is). Or one Monsanto Corp. ready to compromise global health and life for money.

Yes, sir, you are not 'being' a dick, you are a dick.
Do you agree with the statement "Food is at least as expensive in America in 2014 as it was in 1974"? If so I have some really great news for you, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.
Awesome stuff!!!!
Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? (1987)
I respect the fact that you wrote this response. Maybe Curtis did things to alienate a key audience, but this thread has been full of such hubris.
It's also included by default in Play Framework.

I used it for a while, on a large project, and eventually came to hate it. I try to write as clean code as ppossible but still found the resulting mess of words, commas and arrows floating around at differing indentation levels to be much harder to read.

To me, even though javascripts syntax can be annoying, it's parentheses provide a certain amount of structure to the code.
Nah, navigation? hyperlinks.

Master index? What for?

Chronological display of posts? Tags? You have so much content you need so much stuff to organize it?

Don't need menus, headers, consistent style. Use plain html.

Comments? God no. You'll have spam, you'll have to manage it. What you want is a contact page with your email address and your phone number. Everyone knows how to use those.

Search? This means you have too much stuff. Trim, keep the good stuff only.

Analytics? Server logs.
Take some time to decompress. The winding down period is stressful and it seems you're already feeling the effects.

As many have mentioned you've only enriched your resume with this experience. Use it to find yourself work, your incubator network should be full of people looking to hire.

I've gone through this and it's stressful as all hell but you'll make it through. With your nose right up against it the problems seem much more formidable than they are in reality. Employees come first in terms of settling debts. Deal with vendors after that.

One point I'd really stress is that you should talk to people about it. Feel free to reach out (p@trickod.com)
The paragraph after is even more telling:

This was a common theme when I spoke to people about Martin: he didn’t network in the normal way; instead, he was ruthlessly selective about who he wanted to befriend and charm. Soon enough, Dave and Martin were friends; on one occasion, Dave had just arrived at an SEO conference in San Jose and got a call from Martin at 2 AM: “Am I okay to sleep on your floor? So you can get me a free pass? Free bedroom?”—he expected a lot from his friends and in return he “was loyal – like no one else”.

Also, the fact that he apparently made his fortune through SEO should if nothing else make people suspicious of him.
You may have somehow responded to a comment that I deleted?
How can knocking out a certain gene (for all cells in your body) kill a cancer cell? For instance, for many cancer cells with a defect in 'P53' (a gene which can induce cell death), knocking out this defective gene would not help - would it?

Or would you need a two step process, like a molecule which connects to the marker and then use a second step to knock-out a gene essential for cell survival? Or can this technique be used to repair a certain gene?
Perhaps now would be a good time to read or youtube about The Venus Project, (and perhaps also about money as debt), to get some perspective.
Qualified stock dividends are taxed at a special capital gains rate. Unqualified dividends are taxed at the recipient's regular rate. See http://www.dividend.com/dividend-education/qualified-vs-unqu....
What does %% do? The documentation says: a %% b is the same as (a % b + b) % b, but what is the difference between "true mathematical modulo" and the standard modulo?
I lived on the island of Hawaii for years and around the western side of the southern tip, there's a large area of lava fields, with sparse development and larger land-holders, presumably speculating that hotels will eventually want to buy big tracts of coastal property. There are still a number of beautiful, mostly deserted beaches along that coast and great fishing spots, accessible only by boat or across rough ground-down lava tracts. Property owners would put up large iron gates blocking the paths every once in a while, and without fail, a few days later you'd drive down the path past the gate flung off to the side after someone brought down an Oxy-fuel setup and just cut it to pieces. It is well understood, ocean access is primary, no one will wait for court battles and fines to mount. Just cut it down and get to the ocean. Whether it's NJ towns that charge a fee to even be on the beach or states that allow exclusive ownership or allow owners to block public access, there's nothing by the people, for the people in any of it. It's a stain on our notion of a democratic-self. If a regulation exists that's clearly against the interest of 99+% of the people, then there's clearly something inherently wrong with the system that allows it.

bonus - one of my favourites: http://goo.gl/maps/wqe8t
Nothing about vim forces you not to type jjjjk, or better yet use motions or whatever fits your brain. But keep up the good emacs-vs-vim-troll fight
Sadly, the big problem with inequality is not "feelings of inadequacy". The problem is that wealth buys power and influence, both socially and politically. Thus increasing inequality means political power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few; and that usually leads to policies that will enhance and protect the lives of those few at the expense of everyone else.
> * Are you going to get ridiculed for failing? Obviously,
you're not an HN reader. You'd have gotten ridiculed for succeeding. Ridicule is the air we breathe. Why do you care?

Haha, so true. Failure is lauded; success is criticized and mocked mercilessly.
I wrote a comment here about how the IRS is actually not that unreasonable when it comes to owing more than you can pay (been there, too!), but then reread DC's comment and saw that he's talking about withholdings for employees. Yeah, don't fuck around with that.
As someone who watches a lot of people use Vim, I think many would be better off with a little judicious mouse use. Yes, you very busily slam keys, but it seems to take a pretty damn long time and a lot of keystrokes to actually accomplish the monumentally complex task of shifting the cursor 30 lines down and 10 characters over.

My trackball is all of 4 inches from my right hand, and I always know where it is because it doesn't move around. Now, you can try and overplay the difficulty of grabbing the pointer ("I have to instruct my arm muscles to tense and pivot at both the elbow and shoulder while causing my fingers to curl into the appropriate shape" and so on) but I'd wager I could get the cursor to a given semi-distant point on a screen of code faster than even the most frantic of vim key-pounders.
I'm with you on this. In my eyes it's the "Experts Exchange" of our time.
Buyer beware: the hidden costs of budget air travel – Lonely Planet
It's important to note that over time, wealth always gathers itself into a few hands. Money will flow to the rich because they're good at getting it to flow to them. That's why they're rich, duh. As they grow rich, any sensible person looking to sell something will try and sell it to the rich, because they have discretionary income. The problem is that the rich are good at making money flow to them (remember---that's why they're rich), and so most of what they buy are investments of some kind. Which means they make more money, etc.

In the past this has been mitigated by crazy amounts of philanthropy a la Carnegie or Rockefeller. I get the impression this is less so now, for two reasons. The first is that we're a more global culture, so philanthropy efforts go toward the third world rather than the third precinct. The second is that I suspect some of the rich feel persecuted by all this talk about the rich, and aren't kindly disposed towards donating their money to people who hate them. I'd love to hear recordings of Bill Gates's phone calls gone bad.

As for solutions: I don't know. One that I've been working on is better financial software for the common man (to run on a phone, rather than a PC); perhaps that will at least stop him from being suckered by predatory lending.
Medium sends out an e-mail with hand selected stories every week though and I find myself reading a couple quite often though. That's much less likely to happen with your own blog.
We all know the one true editor is the Chrome console anyway.
It depends heavily on the exact usage: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quantum?s=t

The salient feature here is that quanta are discrete and a transition from one to another is a jump rather than a smooth or continuous shift.
Yes. In fact in my local Waterstones, where supposedly pay a little more so that the knowledgeable staff can help you, I recently saw a sign for books: "C, C+, C++".
The author does specifically point out that his advice is for people starting with machine learning. I think your bulletin board example wouldn't have worked out as well if you hadn't used any online bulletin boards before building your own.
...it also seems to compile a bit faster. for my project...

1.6.3 real 0m2.287s
1.7.0 real 0m1.655s
That it was pro-EU while going through the process of getting the treaty ready, but to snub it at the last minute for Putins favour is very very pro-Russian, if you will. Far more so than doing some paperwork, anyway.
Not to be that guy, but Merriam-Webster is pretty clear on the definition: `a sudden large change, development, or improvement`[1]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantum%20leap
What I really like about this approach is that people don't review a location, like they do on sites like Yelp, and instead "endorse" places they really like.

What this effectively means is that while browsing, I no longer need to mentally balance the positives with the negatives of a place. Instead, I can quickly see which places have received more endorsements, which in my mind, loosely forms a hierarchy of best to worst.

Plus, I don't care what Cindy from the Mission says about a spot. If my buddies all like it, good enough for me to at least check it out.

Side note: If possible, I think a ratio of endorsements to check-ins would be hugely awesome.
Just as a follow up, I tried this with no -march flag and it compiled just fine.

This is with gcc 4.6.3.
I'm surprised this is on HN, probably the lack of downvote buttons. It's just banal and generic advice, there's zero useful information for any mildly experienced programmer there.

1. Don't put machine learning on a pedestal. – Do programmers really do this mistake? And what exactly does that mean?

2. Don't write machine learning code. – A classic programming principle, not specific to machine learning at all.

3. Don't do things manually. – Oh really? Thanks, I didn't know that.

4. Don't reinvent solutions to common problems. – Obviously, the same principle as 2.

5. Don't ignore the math. – Ok, good point, but if you want to get serious with ML, it's difficult to avoid maths.
This is one of my first rails apps to go out into the wild. Would love any advice you may have on how to make it more useful!
Absolutely. Basic economics: you suppress the price of a good, and there'll be a shortage.

I could see STEM immigration issues being debated on different merits, but not on the topic of a shortage. It really takes a lot of gall and dishonesty for certain Silicon Valley CEO's to, on the one hand, suppress wages, and on the other, say that the resulting shortage is because of immigration problems, when they themselves know the they're to blame.
Thanks for the link. What a fascinating man.
No. Basic incomes, by definition, do not taper off. That's what makes them so compelling to economists: schemes that do taper off create steep marginal disincentives to work. Tapering off is the type of thing that sounds appealing--why give multimillionaires a regular check?--but it's a bad idea.

(The name for the policies that do include that tapering off is a guaranteed minimum income, not a basic income.)
Let's say a large portion of people do think that it is unfair that they do not have the same amount of wealth as other, smaller group of people. Would you consider it to be acceptable for the larger group to appropriate smaller group's wealth using that premise?
2nd that - my parents lost their business. Before they did, their idiotic "accountant" lied to my dad about having paid withholdings. They went into receivership actually owing a great deal in taxes that they could have paid (they paid other creditors first). My parents lost everything and are still in deep trouble w/ the IRS. Pay your taxes before anything else.
The most interesting part of the above tool is not its ability to knock out a specific gene, but its ability to knock out a specific gene. The key word is 'specificity'. Knocking out is just the easiest proof of principle thing you can do once you find a sequence. Finding it with specificity in a live organism is the magnificent part.

There is an entire field dedicated to editing genetic code - and it's getting really good. The issue is targeting it to the right spot in a live organism (and conversely, not targeting your editing machinery to the wrong spot). If you can get to it, there's lots you can do besides knocking out a gene. If we call the p53 gene the judge or head executioner in our scheme above, it's finding him that's the problem. If you can pinpoint the corrupt judge, you can easily (relative to finding him) install a replacement. What you don't want to do is accidentally replace your police force or your teachers with judges/executioners (even if they're good ones) - and that ability to target is the greatest issue with engineering the genetics of live cells currently.

(As a side note, this is EXACTLY what the HPV virus does - it runs around assassinating that judge with relentless precision - and thus is a prime cause for allowing cancer to run rampant. The vaccine against HPV prevents these assassinations.)

Further, and only slightly more in the future, once you have access to the genetics, you can start to run logic programs inside the cells. You can start to release the (genetically encoded) tools IFF the cell is $cancerous, where $cancerous is defined as a further set of genetic conditions within the cell. In this way you could surveill the entire society while only targeting the bad guys.
Actually, a minor league baseball team is considered a much better investment (plus they're cheaper).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/06/08/billionair...
I don't see how you can reconcile "always" with the fact that the US had a top marginal tax rate of 92% in 1952.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...

You're leaving out the role of social upheaval.
The Solow Paradox: IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
When I first decided I was going to learn to code, I saved some money and organized my life so that I could quit my job and tackle the challenge full time. I knew being fully immersed in learning would help me get through the rough patches and discouragement.

I spent about 8 hours a day, every day working on YumHacker, with the occasional day off or half day around the holidays. Things were kind of slow going at first because I was still doing a lot of learning and I wanted to get a better understanding of what I was doing. After I got the hang of things, the pace picked up and I started producing much faster.

The crazy schedule I've been keeping this past year has definitely cut into my social life. Weekends are my favorite days to work because the office is quiet and I get my best work done then. My friends have gotten used to me carrying a monitor around on trips.

The thing that works for me is to make a habit and do whatever it takes to stick to it. I bit the bullet and got a desk in a co-working space which means I eat more ramen noodles but allows me stay super focused and productive. I tend to stay up really late working but then I let myself sleep in so I can come back fully charged the next day. Finding a personal groove is crucial.
Oops -- yes, not sure how that happened.
The discourse around inequality in this article and elsewhere is frustrating to me, because it advances the idea that inequality is fundamentally unjust, using the lives of the poor as the example.

To me this misses the point. The problem is not inequality, the problem is poverty. If everyone had enough that their basic needs were met and they were not struggling to survive, the fact that some people can afford Lamborghinis and some cannot would not be unjust in my opinion.

Without inequality, there are no Elon Musks. Bootstrapping SpaceX and Tesla required more than 1/6,000,000,000'th of the world's resources. Big results require investment, and it's not practical to crowdfund a multi-million dollar investment. So who should we entrust to make big bets? Doesn't it only make sense that the people who have already been the most successful in creating wealth should have the freedom to take that wealth to try out new ideas?

Inequality is not the problem. Poverty is the problem. Lack of access to education is the problem. We should strive to see that everyone can focus on improving their life and doing interesting things without struggling to survive. And if the most successful people take their spoils and build a 150-foot yacht, or take a ride into space, or invest in the next big company, more power to them.