skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, a girl asked me what I've done. We were at a hackerspace.

All I could think is that I've built corporate sites and worked on great teams. I mean, I have a github repo with stuff and junk, but those are just ideas. -- "Hey babe, well, check out this 2KB grid system I can build."

Still: so?

Is that the problem? That socialism gives you no speed dating swag? Really?

Explain what you've written, code or not.

Leave evolution to its mutations.
> The verbiage directly called the kettle black on the supposed "FISA Reform Bill," reminding politicians that the powder is dry if head too far off course. And that (IMHO) makes a big statement.

An incomprehensible statement, more like. Would you mind replacing the cliché slaw with something more closely resembling what you are actually trying to say?
Google Glass evangelist: It's not worth the headache
No, I'm right here, I've just been too busy to bother with my personal site. :-) (And, every time I look at it now, I go, "yuk.")
He wasn't making a point about vertical integration, but rather about monopoly power. Perdue and Tyson are vertically integrated. They own feed mills, hatcheries, grow farms, packing plants, and distribution. No one cares because you can always just pick the package of chicken that costs $3.29 instead of $3.59.

I also don't see how Samsung is vertically integrated. They don't make the OS, the App store, or have content/DRM. They have in-house manufacturing, but Apple doesn't. The two companies are vertically integrated in totally different ways, thus vertical integration is a weak argument for their success.
I agree. When you have to rate something from 1-10, the results will probably be skewed. Better/Worse than yesterday makes it extremely easy to get a "real" value.
Cable TV also seems like a natural monopoly for the same reason as cable Internet — the cost of running the cable itself. Even before cable modems, most places only had one cable company. And my understanding is that cable franchise agreements were written with that assumption. Maybe I don't understand your argument, though.
It's called monetizing.

Eventually all the free services do it.
Been here lately? There are over five million square feet of commercial space actively underconstruction, 20000 housing units actively under construction, and 50000 housing units permitted and in some stage of development planning.
...but there are links to Pinterest and Instagram.
Ever seen a grown man naked?
>You don't see airline pilots or doctors yelling at each other for making the occaional honest mistake

Whoa, whoa whoa. I don't know about pilots but speaking as someone whose significant other is in medicine, those people are FIERCE. Yelling, crying, and having massive holier-than-thou outbursts is so common that I'm surprised anyone puts up with it.
My two cents is to point to an analogy with the economies of under developed countries: The more debt you have, the more difficult it is to get rid of it, and in the end it may lead to defaulting and bankruptcy.

So, you can't just "borrow" everywhere, and think that you are able to repay. It is important to refactor and downpay immediately, when you realize that you are going to depended on the debt elsewhere, or you'll get accummulated debt when you'll have to downpay the dependencies as well.

I'll coin that as the "future value of money syndrome". :)
I work for a company called Stackify and we have some similar features for remote management and access. Along with server monitoring and much more. If anyone is looking for this type of functionality in a commercial product check us out. http://Stackify.com
I am confused about the unemployed comment. The employed/not-employed distinction was merely pointing out that lay people do not (and often are unable to) look under the hood of things they do not understand. The implicit thesis was that I disagreed with the author's concept that programmers are special and that there is something unique about outsider's appreciation of programming. (There is an air of elitism to "grocery clerk" example that I was not comfortable with replicating.)

I am an adult with a child-like curiosity about the world and I am hardly very well employed. To be honest I think an interest-in/knowledge-of a wide range of fields complicates career choices.
TorqueBox 3.0.2 (enterprise-scalable JRuby app subsystems)
US senator sues President Obama to stop NSA metadata dragnet
JP Morgan: Bitcoin is “vastly inferior” to traditional, fiat currency
Apple TV is already on gen 3. Perhaps you mean the next generation.
Show me how Comcast and Time Warner Compete? They have 100% non-overlapping service areas.

If anything, I'd expect prices to stay the same, because they have far greater leverage over the other media companies.
In the wild: Phony SSL certificates impersonating Google, Facebook, and iTunes
Next time it might be a good idea to not spare the Patent Office...
Trying to foster? No. Fostering? Yes. What Apple intends to achieve with their policies is an interesting but academic discussion. Policies, laws, and features can have all have plenty of bizarre side effects.

For instance, I'll bet ya that allowing people to share their moods on Facebook leads to measurably different and likely less accurate mood graphs.
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Been there, had that response. I got the same rejection last year and basically stopped fine tuning my app as I refused to add stuff that it didn't need.
So with this example, are you arguing that Apple should be more selective, or let any and all comers into App store?
This is what happens when you pay lip service to customer support but keep them at the bottom of the food chain. You must employ good CS managers and empower them to communicate. You must then ensure that any variance in service good or bad is communicated either by your social networking presence or to your key customers. Sadly most places I've worked are run egocentric idiots who are so insecure they couldn't possibly allow autonomy on the front lines.
I must talk to all my libertarian friends now. I need to get explanation what free market means when right now my only options for network would be one ISP.
Ask HN: What's a good machine learning independent study project?
My school doesn't offer very many CS electives, and the ones they do offer aren't interesting to me.

So, I m going to propose an independent study around machine learning - which I know nothing about right now. The highest level math classes I've taken are multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Other CS courses I've taken are data structures, OO design, OS & networks, web design, database fundamentals. Coming up I'm taking: languages & computation, and algorithms analysis.

I was thinking about making an AI that learns to play chess over time, but I don't know if that's too much work for an 11 week quarter.

What other projects would fit within the scope of 11 weeks?
Founder of https://commando.io here. Cockpit looks nice, but we take a little different approach. We are a web-based interface to manage servers via SSH. You write "recipes" which are simply scripts in shell, bash, perl, python, ruby, go, or node.js and choose a server or group of servers to execute recipes on. The complete output (stdout and stderr) is then stored and logged providing a nice audit trail of who executed what, when, where, and why. We are currently in free open beta.
Mozilla Will Put Advertising in Firefox
> Your numbers struck me as surprisingly high. It seems hard to believe that running a ferry across the bay with 100 passengers can cost $10,000.

I still found it hard to believe. So I took sfgate's numbers, and did the math.

100,000 riders a year? That's only ~270 riders per day. For an assumption of 8AM to 10PM, it isn't a hundred passengers going across the bay in per hour – it's a grand total of 19.

And for that, they built a $26M ferry terminal?

No wonder it costs so much.
You'll get your stores raided if you control and gouge something like food and water though, possibly ending with a head in a grocery cart. Police might even help.

Cable has a bit more leeway with the crowd I'd imagine, though there'd still definitely be consequences. Just not as dramatic consequences. I'd hope people protest gouged cable prices peacefully.
Perhaps so. But on the flip side, I can't see how Mozilla would be burning through a third of a billion dollars a year. I'd hope/assume that some of that was being banked so they don't have to preemptively introduce advertising. But, y'know, the taste of money is addictive.
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Facebook is also building a company village near campus to house their people in...
The purpose of university is to weed out the mentally weak and the incompetent. I don't grasp how they kick this kid out of school but provide lighter course loads to problem students. Should it not be the other way around, help the suicidal and remove the loafers?
My DogeCoin price app was too simple too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1wmmk9/my_dogecoin...
note that Netflix runs on Amazon
It's pretty genius. Go after vendors, don't go through the front door.

The mindset to defend effectively has to treat everything entering or leaving managed network as hostile DMZ. Further, internal networks should be reasonably viewed as hostile as well (NSA fail). It make securing APIs, data transfers, enterprise-IoT and everything inside or outside a real PITA but it's necessary because of the potential losses. Finally, least privilege balanced with usability should be reinforced on a continual basis.
When I find that my standard coding is not giving me the happiness and appreciation that I need, then I take a break from whatever I'm working on and do something else.

For example, I might build a new tool that better automates a part of our deployment process. Or I'll automate document generation and updates for our company wiki. I find that these tasks typically don't require a ton of work, but receive a lot of appreciation from the dev teams working with me.
Do we know whether Chris regularly wears glasses or not?
Presumably they went nuclear on Android because they felt betrayed when a close partner of their came out with a clone of their product, something Apple had a history with that nearly killed it.
If that's true then they're already violating anti-trust
I'm not arguing either of those things.

I'm remarking that it's hard to me to take seriously a claim that Apple has these mystical standards that must be met and that they're just trying to "cultivate a quality ecosystem".

Seriously, download some of those apps. At least two have -very low- quality images (they look like obviously massively resized, highly pixellated images) that get a weird red glow that's more akin to image corruption than a 'highlight' when you touch the screen to generate a highly unrealistic fart noise (in the singular - just one simple noise, not even a range).
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I was wearing Glass every day, all day long; I would wear it to Starbucks; I would wear it to the mall; I would wear it driving, and I would wear it at my office. There wasn't a minute I didn't have it on.

Maybe that's the problem? I wear mine in moderation and I've never had any pain problems with it on.
The amount of spoon feeding women in tech require is staggering.
I got in, but it's just a forum.

I don't see what's interesting or thought-provoking about this.
Nice article, it says basically that a 140 seat Ferry is $8M. The compares to about $300K for 60 seat bus, or at most $900K for equivalent seats. I could not track down a solid dataset for operating cost per mile for a large vessel. I know that in general it is quite high because it takes much more energy to push through the water than it does to roll on freeways (and even less to roll on rails). Further there are weather systems that would keep a boat at the dock but a bus or train could drive through. Of all the transportation modes trains are the most economical to operate on a marginal cost basis but have the high startup and operating costs from the essentially dedicated infratstructure.

It would be interesting to see if they could build a floating train somehow (trust me, this is the kind of project that gets you promoted at Google :-) basically float a monorail track between up and down the bay such that you got the energy/operating costs benefits of rail setup without the huge land/tax/easement costs of a land locked rail line.
Netflix partnering with, or potentially acquired by, Amazon to take on other platforms makes sense. There needs to be consolidation and I think Bezos could do a better job bringing in bigger licensing deals.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commi...

Well, this might be one way it goes through.
> Python as a language is uninteresting. It has no novel or exciting ideas other than its readability.

Python as a language is 23 years old -- older than quite a few people who program it. And while it has changed through the years (adding things like generators, comprehensions, dropping explicit member access control, etc.) it is still mostly the same language.

The fact you find nothing novel in it is mostly a reflection of your history, not Python's history; if I had to sum up Python's history, its novelty lies with distilling concepts into more limited but easily understandable, practical constructs - e.g., list comprehensions, generators, significant whitespace.
Placeholdem
I think if you do web or mobile stuff, you can easily amaze people as well if you have some interesting projects, considering how everyone has a smartphone nowadays - you can just be like "hey check out this side project I've been working on lately"
Might be an idea to allow you to share your score to your timeline - a great way of doing this is via a screenshot, you'll need to write some code in Unity to actually take the screenshot, but the Unity SDK handles the upload of it natively.

You can see an example of this on our game (http://apps.facebook.com/uberstrike) pushing B at any time will post a screenshot to a specially created Facebook photo album and depending on how Facebook's algorithms are feeling will usually create a feed story about it too. (We were lucky enough to be on the early beta for the Facebook/Unity SDK)

EDIT: Also worth a look is the scores API on Facebook, it's incredibly straightforward to use https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/scores/
If anyone here is interested in improving their home roasting, check out our services for Quality Control and Flavor Profiling [1].

I'd be happy to set you up a free account as a home roaster,
and I think feedback from the HN community would be really helpful!

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That's painful, but those users will be even worse off if they can't use the app at all. If the creator's goal is to serve his users, and not his pride, then he'll have to swallow it and play by the rules.
I wish google was less opaque about procuring a google glass. I did their begging/twitter spam but was not one of the chosen few. They do not even release projections on when they will release more. They never email me even though I signed up for their list. Oh well....
Wow, comcast is a monopoly in this current state, after this it would be a super monopoly.
They only commute to and from work, with a total of 280 seats (two 140 seat ferries), figure two trips south, and two trips north, so 4 trips a day, a carrying capacity of 560 commuters, getting 279 would be a utilization of about 50% (that seems a bit optimistic)
Don't make any of those categories/icons rounded rects with a label though. I just got rejected for that and had to remove the rounded rect part. I had been using them in a manner similar to Panic's Status Board app to handle configuration of a photo sales app[0].

0: http://studioproapp.com
Regardless, I think the result was very positive. 70,000 phone calls is amazing especially for a first go at it. The Canadian openmedia.ca also had a campaign which is how I participated, so I'm sure the numbers are even higher globally. Experiment, analyze, tweak, repeat.
Ma bell of internet (TV's just about dead, and they depend on partnering with Verizon for mobile)

In other areas, AT&T dominates horizontally and vertically.
Seems like the cheapest way to get noticed in the App Store is for your app to get rejected.
I'm still on the fence about ordering my Glass. I wear glasses right now and I'm worried that a new prescription (I'm due) + Glass will cause headaches for me. How often do you wear yours?
I think this problem is fixable with technology. Or sometimes it can just happen to a small number of people, just like 3D glasses.
I think one of their explicit goals is "techies get out" -- if everyone moved to San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and SF tax base dropped, it'd be self-correcting.

The problem is the Peninsula actually is boring, at least for single people who don't drive. I'd rather see SFBA tech contribute $10-20b on making the Peninsula an awesome place to live, rather than trying to fix SF's infrastructure and politics. Plus, there's money to be made doing it.
I did see a proposal for a hovercraft that was pretty effective, it got around the "how do I get on it" issue by having it come inland a bit in the south bay. But you are essentially correct that from a time of commute standpoint ferries almost always lose if any other powered transportation is available.
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Writing "proper" javadoc takes time. It has tons of keywords and annotation to make it look consistent like any other "professional and good looking" javadoc out there.

For example: if one is deprecating a method, there are a bunch of proper JavaDoc ways to do this (starting with the @deprecated annotation, not to be confused with another @Deprecated annotation, don't forget to state since which version this method is deprecated, etc etc).

It requires a high level of discipline and knowledge of the javadoc idioms.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/...

Occasionally, one have to insert HTML too...

I know C# support similar thing.
I was very disappointed with my Google Glass experience. Incredibly difficult to setup - it never synced properly with my Android devices, couldn't get it to scan my wifi network, and baffling controls.

Add to all of that I never found a single compelling use case. It was an interesting, but frustrating, novelty.
you can port it over to android then
For a prescription glasses users, aren't they counted on to wear it all the time? (not saying the author is one, I don't know).
THIS!!! I hope this happens!!
It happened to me once. My QBasic instructor guessed that I probably have taken a FORTRAN class (and I did...).
I looked at this a lot because my GF works in Brisbane, CA and we live in Oakland. It takes 1.5h to commute by land public transit (and is crowded); going via ferry takes a similar amount of time (but, no flexibility on time), but SSF to anywhere is hard. There's a shuttle for Genentech at the ferry, but going the 2 miles from the ferry to Brisbane is kind of a pain still. The easiest thing is actually still to drive through SF traffic across the bridge in the morning, even as a non-HOV, which is a pretty clear failure of transit (most of the fault is Brisbane, which is just a horrible place in general).

BART and then Uber from 16th st or something seems like the only semi-viable non-self-drive option. Pretty expensive, though.
I often wear mine for days at a time with absolutely no problem. People are different; saying "never had any problems" really doesn't mean anything in this sort of situation. What's fine for you and I might well not be for others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
Geography. The north bay has a long history of ferries. This is because there is lots of development close to the water. The north bay is also an outlet for the Sacramento River so the water is deep and some of the surrounding land quite picturesque. The south bay is a huge network of sloughs that have been turned in to major industrial salt production historically, though this is waning. Beyond salt, there has been very little water side development up in till recently. Most of the places you would want to go in the south bay are at least a mile from the water. A ferry to Facebook actually works as they took over the old Sun campus which is one of the rare tech centers that jut out in to the bay. There are a few, but nothing compared to inland...
No, it's called being viral. Monetizing is when you get spam from people you're not connected to (a.k.a. InMail)...
> play normal for a while so you can bath in normal interactions

We all have common ground with others, all it takes is figuring out that common ground and restricting oneself to it, despite what else you have to offer and how much it means to you, for the sake of what you can share with that other person.

People do it all the time, usually even in friendships and relationships, and average people aren't ultimately less alone just because they're surrounded by other average people. I'd say not being alone is being in touch with yourself and with others; and if the average person has that, they hide it mighty well. I'd rather say "normal" people are simply alone and isolated in groups and in sanctioned ways, instead of as individuals. And even "normal" people have to "play normal" all the time.

> The Guinness book of records is full of isolated, lonely, deeply depressed misanthropes.

This may be true, I have no idea, but I don't think that all gifted people have to end up isolated and depressed. Do you think the average person is happy just for being average? Nah, everybody hurts. Yes, people love to discriminate against others who are different, and being smart can be depressing, just for seeing through a lot of the crap so much time and energy and lives are wasted on -- but it takes two to make it a full-blown gap, half of that equation is always in your hands. Here's two quotes I like, I think they go well together:

"I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves. Indeed every man, in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions." -- William Ellery Channing

"Is it only when the flowers are in full bloom and when the moon is shining in spotless perfection that we ought to gaze at them?" -- Kenko Yoshida
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Send it to the bloggers that be as "The app Apple doesn't want you to see" and use it to your advantage.
FYI, according to recent news[0], The lunar rover is recovered now. Sorry that I did not find a source in English.

0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/02/140213_yutu...
Sure. Having a government backed monopoly is usually the better business model.
Right, by design, which is the reason I have crap internet service and no real choices. It's collusion, pure and simple, I don't know why it has been allowed to go on for so long.
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If you're willing to shut the train down during 100 year storms, I wonder if you could just build a regular monorail along the bayfront. It's not very deep; there's a bunch of marsh/slough crap on the coast. Other than a few areas, the bay view is pretty ugly already. An electric elevated monorail should have minimal environmental impact (just pylons; not sure how much during construction).
See his second paragraph about owning NBC.
In non-technical terms, ten heads in a row is sufficient to start wondering about a coin. Try a coin flipping experiment and see if you agree. :)