skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talked to them before releasing something to the public. I'll share their response here:

"Hi Christoph,

Thanks for taking the time to ask.

I don't see a problem with this, as it's data that anyone could easily mine out of the public database dumps that we release. The Careers 2.0 candidate search is an entirely different thing, and goes way beyond being able to show you developers from (area) that might know something about (technology).

When we used to facilitate (and later switched to just encouraging) periodic world-wide meetups with fellow Stack Exchange users in your area, Our SEDE and DB dumps were what people used to see if there might be an interest in any given area. Given that we don't facilitate any way for users to be contacted through the site unless they make their contact information available on their profile, I don't think this would annoy anyone at all.

Not required, but I'd love to take a look at what you've built once you have it ready and somewhere public :) Nothing official, I'm just curious.

Regards,
- Stack Exchange Team"
No documentation, one letter per button? Worst UI I've ever seen
Nanomotors Are Controlled, for the First Time, Inside Living Cells
I disagree that it's really even that hard to start with. It's like any library or framework. You have to learn it initially, but then it's just not that hard. I've been using RequireJS for a couple years as well as node.js and none of the complaints really resonated with me.

I would go so far as saying that the author has probably been using them wrong. If you follow the right patterns and write good code it should be a non-issue.
You should find people with such problems on Digital Point, Flippa and obviously here.
> Squats, bench, and dead lifts

Those plus overhead press and some rows (the Stronglifts 5x5 and Madcow 5x5 methods) will increase your strength dramatically in just a few months. Try it once and you'll never look back.
This App Lets You Crowdsource Dating Advice... While You're On Dates
I like the slideshow. Did you use a library for that? And is there a slideshow -> single page converter JS tool?
Sun Primer: Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths
Prove it. Measure it.

Demonstrate with data that moving that button 3px to the left will increase sales by X% or customer retention by Y% or whatever our business metrics are.

There's a difference between "obsessing over the details" and "tweaking for tweaking's sake". Make sure you're really doing the former and that the particular details you're obsessing over matter measurably.
Where architecture is concerned this is normally true, but the exceptions are interesting/illustrative. When Frank Gehry was designing the Guggenheim Bilbao, he took stiff cloth and folded it into the final shape. Actually, y'know, making the building was someone else's problem.
I think the reasoning is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
Thank you! By far one of the most helpful posts I've seen on HN :)
Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site
Eh… Goog is smaller than Aapl wrt. both market cap and cash. So if Google can, so can Apple ;-)
iTravel and iFeelGood :D
Digital Point is a great lead, thanks!

Why do you think Flippa? I imagine people looking to get rid of their property for money are less likely to pay to monitor its analytics? Then again, it could be a good audience for people who own multiple properties.
I've worked with Braden (the author) and he can indeed code - he built a mean prototype for some user testing we were doing. You can see in the second half of the article that he also makes the argument for pragmatism and working what is provided by the platform.

Obviously you have strong designers and weak designers. The strong designers are focused on the user experience and providing a consistent interface that has a high degree of fit and finish.

Users have a low tolerance for mistakes and seeing a couple things off by a pixel or two can make a product look immature and can take way from all the hard work that was spent building it.
True that. It's definitely not easy or quick, but I think it is time well spent.

To use an investment analogy, any investment you do in learning math is guaranteed to succeed: it will never depreciate in value, and "owning math stock" will get you invited to some good clubs.
Finding a good problem to work on is the hard part
just to be clear, this was about a week ago

obviously the CEO is watching this thread now so he should be quick to grab people now as well, I imagine
Let's be serious about System Administration (2013)
looks like it could be useful down the line. thanks!

-bowerbird
You do realize that the user does not think in CPU cycles or FPS, right? Just as the goal of lowering CPU usage or increasing FPS is to improve the emotional experience the product user, so is making sure that the visual elements are properly aligned.

As the engineer, you have been staring at the product for hours at a time and are comfortable with it, perhaps even one with it. The consumer on the other hand is likely going to spend at most a few minutes before making a purchasing decision about it, or simply hitting the back button. Thus, it is important to enchant the user from the get go.
I don't agree with his point #2 in two ways. For one of our internal applications, we had so much <script> tags embedded into our single-page-app index.html that it was very hard to keep track of dependencies. If you have a straight dependency order, sure it won't matter, but if you start refactoring things out and one module has a bunch of dependencies that also has dependencies, this essentially degrades into rolling out a manual topological sort of the javascript files you include. On top of this more than one engineer works on the application, and different engineers inserting <script> tags at the same time caused a few headaches.

To mitigate this, we introduced RequireJS to our internal app, and now the dependency is declared at module definition so you don't have to sift through a list of <script> tags. You don't fear breaking dependencies of each script files because you put one on top of the other. IMHO it is much better to declare the dependencies to your module explicitly than implicitly through a very carefully topologically sorted series of <script> tags.
Ebook Empreendedorismo
Ebook de Empreendedorismo - Sonho Grande
Why I still enrolled on an MBA
The OP might be the author and thus will see this comment. In any case, it can be useful for other people.
Why JSR-310 Isn't Joda-Time
The Web was supposed to offer various modest improvements over Gopher, for the internal use of CERN.

This is very much worth keeping in mind...
I wonder if the inflated (or not, in this case) price of MtGox is a good indicator for bitcoin trends. One could argue 99% of the time it's prices were reached in 2013.
Perhaps more interesting is the existance of https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/ where you can trade bitcoins outside of gox for bitcoins inside at different rates.
Yea, I used Bespoke.js (http://markdalgleish.com/projects/bespoke.js/). Bespoke has a really nice Yeoman generator (https://github.com/markdalgleish/generator-bespoke) that makes it easy to get started and to deploy to Github Pages.

In terms of the converting to PDF (to upload to Speaker Deck), it is recommended to just save the webpage to PDF in chrome or another browser that supports this feature (you can do this by beginning the print process and then changing to 'Save as PDF')

Bespoke has a print stylesheet, which is why the styles are still kept.
yes, yes(though a view is not necessary) and yes.
I tried many options to get to our first 100 users.

Tech Blogs (they thought we were to boring to cover)

HN (no interest)

Reddit (no interest)

Ad Words (I think I sucked at it)

So I shrugged and kept improving then one day out of the blue, a big Mommy blog covered us for ways to keep up to date on coupons.

This one coverage leads to our first 200 users, and then another blog (MakeUseOf) covered us, which then lead to other industry specific blogs to cover us. Now we are getting 70+ new accounts a day and have over 120k users.

My advice (if the OP is asking) would be to target industry specific blogs/sites that would find your product useful and covers news that relates to your websites offerings, that is what I do now.
Apple will buy Tesla – rumor
Those sentences don't make any sense. This whole thing looks like it comes out of some kind of vaporware start-up generator.
MMO 2D Competitive Space Action Clone of Cosmic Rift
I've created a clone of 'Cosmic Rift' called 'Astral Rift'. It is played in the browser and made with Javascript, NodeJS and JoyJS.

The codebase and the gameplay instructions are here https://github.com/esuen/AstralRift.

The game is playable here http://www.astralrift.com.

Please try it out and give me feedback.
Simulator sickness is different from motion sickness. That is, there may be low simulator sickness, but it turns out that pulling 9G turns or rocket jumping while running backwards at 40MPH, while not a problem on regular computer screens will get most people motion sick in real life, and hence in VR.

From personal experience and in watching a number of people in my office try out the DK1, I can definitely confirm that there are a number of things that are quite different when strapping on the Rift - relative scale of objects becomes much more important, world detail (books in bookshelves etc) takes on a much more interesting quality, and movement speed is definitely something that seems to scale down - feeling comfortable moving at walking/realistic speeds vs getting sick at traditional video game character speeds.
The US gov't is much bigger than all these corps combined. And they have multiple police forces. Oh, whats that? You don't like our service? Too bad, because there's no other game in town. And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government.
The problem with amphetamine is, when they do work, the crash is horrible. When the crash goes away, it no longer does anything. So you have to up the dose and the cycle starts again. Some people use NMDA antagonist to reverse tolerance, but lets just say that they do a lot more than reverse your tolerance.

In the end, most user end up with a permanent tolerance that no amount of drug vacation will lower.

I'm not even mentioning here the whole issue of amphetamine disrupting vesicle pH gradient, causing dopamine leakage. Dopamine is very prone is auto-oxidation to quinone when they float free around in the cytosol.
Unless you've encrypted your phone, passwords and pattern unlocks only protect from casual attempts to break in. I see this in the same vein - sure, it's not going to protect you if someone steals both your watch and phone, but nor would pattern unlock, and nor would password unlock without the phone being encrypted.
At a company I worked at few years ago in Vancouver, the ratio of project managers to developers was 4 to 1, on average a designer or a developer was dealing with 4 different project managers at a time, sometimes more, switching back and forth between projects with impossible deadlines. This led to people working on the weekends, often leaving after hours (because people think it's selfish to leave on time and leave others behind with more work).

What's even worse is when the executives started to delegate tasks outside of one's job description because they were undermanned. That's where I drew the line, call them out on it, and got canned. What's even more funny was being outcasted where a typical company lunch or gathering would always be about who has done the most hour of work or have become "heros" by saving the project by working beyond the work hours.

At one point the vice president called me at 1 AM (after leaving work at 10 pm) on the commute back home as I walked him through logging into the company backend used to power mobile applications.

It's quite interesting because they got funded 6 million dollars but they couldn't afford to hire more staff and they insisted on breaking even when it clearly was not scaling.

What I realized about the tech market in BC is that a lot of it is huff piece by local media and the continued image of "grass is greener over here" where none of it highlights the exploitative work environment for highly skilled technical engineers in the software/web industry. With the rising real estate prices and people basically living check to check to keep a roof over their heads, I wouldn't be surprised if Vancouver turns to a resort town with people leaving for tech jobs outside of BC to where the cost of living and wages are justified. Already many of the engineers at the company I worked for have left for United States.

I'm not alone with this story there are many many horror stories I hear from other local engineers and designers. In fact the only people I hear that are happy are freelancers charging higher wage.
Not all of the world's software is consumer-oriented. Programmers could still work on contract, writing software for business customers who wouldn't really bother with piracy. For a concrete example, there are plenty of companies right now paying developers to work on LLVM (which is UIUC-licensed, so practically free for everyone); those people still get paid well. As long as you write single-user software (or server-side software), you don't need copyright as much. Arguably, we're moving away from the shrink-wrapped copyrighted software model (with the exception of App Stores).

Education might be regulated by government, but does that really have a positive impact? A MIT degree isn't valuable because government says so, it's valuable because it's from MIT (which is a private university with a lot of great professors and students). The value of education is not granted by government.
>There's little evolutionary need another generation beyond them, so you'd expect mortality to increase rapidly after 60

That's exactly my point. Hunter-gatherer diet didn't need to work very well against cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's and hence we shouldn't expect it to promote what we consider longevity today.

But I think you're overestimating the value of grandparents for breast feeding toddlers. Population growth wasn't very rapid back then because most kids died at birth or very soon after. So there weren't actually that many kids around I think.
very bad at what? i lost you.
This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to someone talking down on "big government".

The choice between "big government" and "big business" is a false dichotomy, if that's what you're getting at.
Actually for us it was pretty long (which I don't recommend). I think what you suggested is a much better strategy.

I think it was around 3 months so it wasn't as fresh but what I did was go through email addresses one by one, picked out the companies that sounded the most promising and opened up a dialogue to get those guys in early.

Then kept the other guys informed to try and keep them excited. Although if I would have done it just before launching I would have saved a lot of effort.
To me, a designer sits astride form and function, melding them both. If you're not doing form, then you're an artist, not a designer.
"Veni, vidi, vici."
I only noticed this yesterday. They even mute the sound by default so it's not really intrusive. Hopefully people move away from gifs soon, even if it means autoplay videos everywhere.
Well of course the Surface Pro isn't a laptop. Just like the iPad isn't a laptop. The form factor of both devices just doesn't make it a competitor to a laptop.

However, the Surface Pro is the only tablet that can do everything you can do on your laptop. That's the important distinction. It just can't do it well (form factor again).

I've personally found that the Surface Pro is great to bring to class and with an external monitor/keyboard/mouse, it makes a great daily computing device. However, I am thinking about buying a ThinkPad Yoga to replace both my Surface and Laptop. I need something where I can take notes (going paperless rocks), but also something I can write code on.
Exactly, I guess a solid number of Flippa users own multiple websites for profit, so they should be interested in tight control of stats. You may also e.g. post a sell offer for your web app and a) a number of your target clients will see your pitch, b) you may end with a nice exit at an early stage, so only good things may happen! ;)
Oh, never mind, there was a "public request" option in the login page
Actually, strictly speaking I do live in France at the moment, so your bizarre implication is actually true - but I did just move here 7 days ago.

Anyway, yes people do complain about the NHS in general, for all sorts of reasons, but I'd wager that most people don't complain about the fact that we have the NHS, and realise that it's actually really great compared to the situations in countries which don't have universal healthcare. Just a clarification, really.
Thank you Christoph and best of luck to you and your projects.
You just blew past the whole industrial revolution process and the marginalization of wage workers.

Working on the farm with labor intensive work is totally different from the mentally taxing and stressful tech work environment. That's a whole different topic.
I believe the author of this piece is keenly aware of the issues inherent to study designs such as this, which is why he discusses the methodological issues in this post. He has discussed methodological issues at length in previous posts (he is a psychiatry resident, and one who frequently goes back and addresses the primary literature) and that is taken as context to his regular readers, explaining why he doesn't devote more time to disclaimers.

Your exhortation that he should spend more time on basic understanding of statistics is misplaced, because he understands these issues, but he has different philosophical views than you on how information should be gathered and processed. Specifically, it seems to be your view that information received with noise and bias should be given (literally) zero weight, that information should be ignored unless it comes in the form of peer-reviewed, random controlled clinical trials. His philosophical view is that all information should be given some appropriate weight, and that the costs to acquire information are relevant. Random, controlled clinical trials are costly, and so we will never have them on a variety of topics of interest to us. To account for this finiteness of resources, and to suggest which areas could be more fruitful for future formal trials, it seems wise to acquire that information which can be cheaply had. This is an attempt to gather that information.
Why is the assumption I didn't read the article?
What's even more curious is that not only do you start with the assumption that I did not read the article, you also go ahead and question yourself wether or not you fully understood me.

Which is funny, because you STARTED with questioning if I had read the article.

Regardless - you get all the starters in Yellow + Pikachu.
And assuming things aren't fully random, I wanted to see what the hive mind wanted to go with.
People don't sign up for random generic lists anymore.
I already don't care. Amazing!
The point of the story is that more hours is not increased productivity.

Look at Germany's working hours for the average salary man. They work less than British salary man and are far more productive.
Seems to be targeted as a replacement for InnoDB, slides with actual "meat" on them => https://portland2013.drupal.org/sites/default/files/slides/B...
Of course. This example is about protecting the environment, not freedom. I'm just saying the mechanisms are similar.
Only one way ... higher profits.
Yeah, if internet commenting has taught me anything, it's that concretely fixing things is for the birds.
What would you take as objective and verifiable information?
It would also bloat the PostgreSQL codebase which crappy syntaxes which they may have to support for many years in the future.

The PostgreSQL team already merges features which are not yet perfect (see materialized views in 9.3, JSON in 9.2, and replication in 9.0 for examples), but they will not do that if they think they will have to break the API in a near future.
The accelerometer in the pebble is pretty sensitive (more than the wiimote). I wouldn't be surprised if they're using a really hacky algorithm to find gestures.
reading this made me blow mountain dew through my nose into my ramen
Wow, I did not expect this to end up here! I learned the Battle of Manassas not too long ago, and it was a lot of fun! The innovations Tom Wiggins introduced in that piece predated a number of twentieth century composers by nearly a century! Among them, the use of whistling and other sounds from the pianist (cf. a composer like Crumb), liberal use of quotations (cf. Ives), and the use of tone clusters (cf. a lot of twentieth century composers). It was actually the reason I learned how to whistle. :-) (I'm still not very good.)

Edit: You can hear the Battle of Manassas with the sheet music here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ef5tAIlLo
I could, if I was given the opportunity and the time.
The barrier is too small to protect London now.
If PostgreSQL goes with an implementation of MERGE like that then it would not be a replacement for UPSERT. With UPSERT you can make sure to never get any constraint violations.
I was really surprised at the effect of aniracetam also. Usually most of these nootropics either do nothing or they jack up your heart-rate like any other stimulants. It's interesting to note that aniracetam is considered an ampakine, which lowers the threshold required for long-term potentiation.

When I was taking aniracetam, the anxiolytic effect was too strong to be placebo. Almost as strong as alcohol. I was genuinely surprised. It makes activities like staring at leaves fluttering almost magical.
Eventually I gave it up because this effect wore off and it was too expensive.
I wonder how difficult it would be to import/integrate this data with OpenStreetMap.
It's dumb that YouTube has muted the audio track of the ENTIRE EVENT because a few seconds/maybe a minute of copyrighted music was played.
Perhaps it'll be the new flappy thing.
hence the word 'illusion'?
I always see these kinds of posts, and since I've been doing iOS dev for awhile, I wanted to gather as many iOS dev resources in one place as I could. So I've created this site for that:

http://program247365.github.io/iosengineerlist/

Many more resources to come. Lot of great stuff out there for iOS devs. I welcome contributions (project is a jekyll site on github).
> (Personally I spend 1-3 days a week in London, have done for years, absolutely love it but wouldn't want to live there.)

London and Vegas share that view in my mind. I love Vegas and London, but want to spend no more than 72 hours in each place at a time.
I wish that I could have a breakthrough this year, at the age of 27 my life's mission was to make it before turning 30 and times running out and I'm super anxious that I have not had much success.
Well, here's somewhat of a counterpoint:

Forgot to say one thing at Tesla annual shareholders meeting: just as my money was the first in, it will be the last out.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statuses/342107352041922560
I think you're missing some context here. The survey was only supposed to be better than the anecdotes that were accumulating previously. Solicited head to head anecdotes are better than unsolicited anecdotes without comparisons.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/1xglcg/a_survey_...

This wasn't meant to convince anyone to take nootropics.
You can find bulk powder but I find the taste unbearable. Rx aniracetam is far too expensive. I'm just waiting for the day when cortex gets their high-impact ampakine onto the market.
Not too far into their paper, they posit "tunnel nodes" that connect isolated mesh clusters through the normal Internet.

As the network grows, they imagine that tunnelling through the Internet will become rarer.