skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly came across people(so far, universally my bosses- lead developers who I didn't directly report to so far haven't been like this at all) who certainly had the "don't dare question me" attitude. It made it a lot more difficult to go to them when I was genuinely stuck too, because in general you always feel like you're getting in their way.
"they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing"

Does this describe me, with Google at my fingertips? I hope not.
replied to comment, but yeah this app would appeal to people who will wear anything
@allantyoung there are a few ways Facebook can compile this data :
(1) They could make calls to app url schemes that are publicly known (i.e. http://handleopenurl.com/) to check for a response
(2) Facebook will become the largest data set of app url schemes as more apps register their url schema with Facebook when enabling deep-linking
(3) Facebook bought Parse, and over 100,000 apps use Parse and many of those apps use FB connect, so Facebook knows which apps those users have
For what it's worth, if you didn't already know: Uber doesn't serve Austin, or didn't just a few months ago when I was out there last. It's not like Austin is pulling the rug out from under Uber. It's kind of irritating to me that Uber would pretend to serve Austin during SXSW. If you're going to serve a municipality, put your chips on the table and slug it out for real.
Because the market value of the currency would probably drop if it were forked for very long.
Green skin and red eye Baby Born in India did u watched?
What technical skills did you end up teaching yourself (if you don't mind answering)?

I was reading the about page, fast skimming, and thought for a moment you flew the FA-18. Nope, just your awesome wife!

In looking over your site, it might be valuable to add a blog, where you write about the needs of small businesses regarding hosting (what's new, what's coming, etc). Can be a great way to build some extra traffic, and authority.
> while a chess player can't

Neither can an airline pilot, and they work in situations where both making the decision correctly and arriving at the decision quickly is extremely important - and here it's not just the fate of a chess game, but the lives of several hundred people.
> I understand relation to FP. I even think of having lazy-evaluated infinite sequences in my system :)

Nice!
Windows 8 on the desktop, while presenting some intriguing evolutionary possibilities, seems like an unstable transitional form. I do not use touch or tablet platform and consequently, I have not seen any compelling reasons for upgrading my fleet of Thinkpads from Windows 7.

My experience managing Windows servers is rapidly improving. More and more servers are running Core and I'm performing ever more administration remotely by command line using PowerShell.

I bring up Windows Server because, on that platform, Microsoft is clearly articulating a change in their philosophy of system administration. The interactive or scripted command-line is the future of Microsoft server administration. It exposes the underlying management and instrumenting capabilities of Windows in highly useful ways and allows consistent workflows for managing traditional deployments and virtual/cloud systems. They have been clear about this direction for years, and they have facilitated a long transition by continuing to provide the option to use full graphical installs, and by providing management consoles for their major products that simply execute PowerShell commands in the background.

Maybe I just haven't seen it because I don't follow the consumer facing groups at Microsoft very closely, but I wish Microsoft would take a similarly approach for the desktop.

Whenever I read these articles, I am thankful I am not an ISV developing for the Windows desktop.
Thanks for sharing - this is awesome. I've had an incredibly hard time finding good hosting service reviews.
Chinese officials: why China can’t make a soap opera as good as South Korea’s?
O. M. G.

That is so awesome....
(Yes, so this probably counts as the kind of "+1" post that should be downvoted. But check out the link and if you don't think it's the most amazing quaternion explanation, then I will humbly accept your downvote.)
What we know is that two apparent passengers were on board with stolen or forged passports. Obviously they meant mischief, since you don't travel internationally on a stolen passport if everything is above board.

But when you think about it the sorts of mischief that could be involved are quite many and varied. One can't rule out terrorism, but it's one possibility among sufficiently many that this is not where I personally would start. Far more likely you are dealing with organized criminals doing more typical organized criminal things (like smuggling stuff).

Additionally usually if the plane is intentionally downed, someone will want to take credit/responsibility. That this hasn't happened is an indication, particularly absent patterns of attacks here in the past, that this is just criminal business as usual and not related to the accident.

Finally there are early unconfirmed reports that the Vietnamese navy may have spotted smoke columns yesterday. if that turns out to be the case, it would be a strong indication that the plane exploded on impact with the water, not in the air.

At present I am so far from being able to endorse the T-word explanation that it doesn't seem worth looking further into at this point.
I don't know of any brand of jeans that sells for $40-80 that fits well and looks good. (I'd say Flint & Tinder is the closest and they come in at $105)

I know HN's not the place for fashion advice but shop at Uniqlo. High quality affordable Japanese denim with free hemming on-site.
Just launched Pinegrow Web Designer (http://pinegrow.com) two months ago. The company is actually run by my wife and me, but I do all the work with Pinegrow while she is taking care of our other projects.

Pinegrow has been paying most of our bills since launch and I have a lot of expansions in the pipeline: full support for Foundation alongside Bootstrap, developer edition that'll work with templates, a similar app for designing emails...
I don't know whether HN is the right place to ask this question. The crowd for this frequents either http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm or http://academy.micropreneur.com

There's also a number of podcasts (notably "Startups for the Rest of Us" and "Bootstrapped With Kids")
That's another case of the automation paradox though, is it not? The engineers are suddenly inundated with all kinds of information and it isn't clear what the actual cause is. When you look at AF447, part of the problem was that the pilots appear to have been unaware that all the errors they were seeing were caused solely by loss of airspeed indicators.

So most of the time you aren't looking at stuff, then suddenly something happens and you get tons of information on what exactly isn't working right now, all of which may or may not be useful in determining what the real problem is. And in this case humans have to step in quickly and react flawlessly based on perfect knowledge of the failure.
Looks like the same one used in Telescope, the Meteor app: http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/a05eba73-cdd9-4d64-933d-2586ffc5...
Hey there. /raises hand.

https://www.improvely.com and https://www.w3counter.com

Five figures a month, just me, I've written about my solo business a couple times in other Ask HN threads. Ten years ago (almost to the day), in my college dorm, I was looking at the Webalizer web stats report my web host provided for my blog, and thought "I could do something much cooler than this". So I did. I had built a few educational sites and threw some ads on them for a couple years before that, but W3Counter was the first service I actually charged a subscription for, and now I make a living building and selling this stuff.
I think there's some cross-browser optimizations to be done here, because it completely destroyed Safari for me, and that's on a pretty serious machine (2.7 i7, 16GB RAM).
YES @ math in pen! I decided to do that on my own, and it was always seen as just a weird quirk by anyone who ever saw it. Awesome to hear a math teacher endorse it!
> “not well regarded _by the FSF_”,

This is a slight misrepresentation. FSF explicit says that there's no reason to avoid software released under ISC license, but recommend developers to use the very similar Expat License and FreeBSD License in order to make University of Washington argument moot (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC).

If FSF intended to call it "dangerous", they would have written that instead. see for example the section about Utah Public License.

> In response to the noise made by the FSF, the ISC changed the “and” to “and/or,” though of course that didn’t change the FSF’s mind at all.

I think you got your history wrong there. Before accepting the license as a free software license, the Free Software Foundation asked for clarification of the text. In July 2007, as a result, "and distribute" was changed to "and/or distribute", after which the license was accepted (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license).
This is it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-your-product...
I'm at SXSW and realized they're only serving trips when you're in downtown, so yes, Uber already works here now.
IOS Daylight Savings Time Offset Bug
In some sense, he is right.

With writing, people did not develop memories as powerful as they did when traditions were oral -- there was no need. How many people can recite epic poems or plays from memory, let alone the Odyssey? Extremely few could these days, relatively few could 1000 years ago, and many more could 2000+ years ago. And you can bet that those who
developed powerful memories in the time of Socrates would be among the most wise and cultured, so his complaint is not an unreasonable one to make. Besides, Socrates was perennially the devil's advocate and its not impossible if you had caught him on a different day he would've argued the opposite case.

Taking it further, his quote applies equally to the advent of the internet, especially search engines. Many people outsource their memory to Google -- they will even look up things on their phone in the middle of a conversation because they've forgotten its name.
Not my business, but www.DuckDuckGo.com (Gabriel Weinberg) is a good example.
Compare this with the world of advertising, where you have three major holding companies controlling most of the market, but each company runs dozens - if not hundreds - of independent agencies.
I am 37,I am fat and I am not programmer and I have been bullied for 20 years.I just became CEO of my own software firm finally and it doesnt do that well but I am fine,I feel life is far more easier and simpler, no more bullying.

I have few recommendations:
1.Never lower your selfesteem, no matter what the idea of bullying is to kill selfesteem and watch you crumble.
2.No matter what anybody says including your own mind never ever feel down,life is beautiful as it is...you are this remarkable human(all humans) who functions with 1 billion neurons ....
3.Its just a thought to give up and its just another thought to see how remarkable life is....these bullies of today or failures of tommorrow.
5.I can show you countless examples how bullying created a false confidence in them and then when life started to really hitback the bullies just didnt know to deal with they became utter failures, we who are bullied are prepared for life either ways,I think I am much more stronger and much better prepared on a positive side.Also I tend to go and support anybody who needs help.

6.If ever you need help in counseling and getting back into confidence, I am always open,I am part time motivational speaker:).
Uniqlo is awesome. I meant nothing that you can buy at wholesale (where you actually can make margin on the sale) that sells for less than $90.
Teleglitch, although not as random as other games it's a fine survival horror/exploratory game; and very atmospheric. However it turns pretty fast in a grind game, because no matter how far you reach you incur a high penalty starting the games from later levels. As such you always start from the first level, and after a dozen deaths, that ruins the game (for me at least). Also I've never finished the game, nor do I think I will; but it was a good experience for its price.

Rogue Legacy, as with Teleglitch; tempting at first, but even more so it turns out into a grind dungeons for money type of experience. My take on it.

Tower of Guns, while I haven't had the chance to play this game (since it runs only on Windows), I loved what I saw from the gameplay reviewers. Check out Northernlion's video on it.
From 2004:

<a href="aim:GoIm?screenname=myscreenname&message=hello">x</a>
Sounds like an amazing journey. Congrats on all the hard work.
Numpy in pypy – update
When will APD do something about those slow, dangerous, absurd pedicabs?
Because who DOESNT enjoy flying on tiny little razor blades?
I heard Michael buble will do a private concert for you if you hire an Uber driver. But I mc don't know if that's true or not.
The text seems old, it mentions posterous and didn't that shut down a while back?
I hear the term a lot when PhD students are hunting for faculty jobs (i.e. trying to get a job lined up before defending their dissertation with the hope that they do so before their start date.)
It's fine to have a strong opinion about those two types of people -- I have an opinion about it, too -- but the words aren't used consistently which is the lame joke I was making that you totally missed.
If you've got a good story - like this one - hacking government bureaucracy requires only one thing: getting your local elected representative involved.

Not because they're particularly dedicated to helping out constituents, although many are, but because it's great for re-election. A good congressional district staffer could take this, write up a few letters "from" the Congressperson to whoever's in charge of the person in charge of JPAC, send a release to the local cable channel, and get a pretty good local firestorm going on the issue to shame the DoD into some action. This may not get the investigation going, but it will get some progress...which will be good for the petitioner (since they got some official attention they wouldn't otherwise have), and good for the Congressperson (since they'll be able to highlight this in their newsletters and when they're running for re-election as someone who "gets results"). District staffers live for things like this; take advantage of it.

Pro tip if you have something where you're going to use this strategy: make it as easy and as obvious as possible what you'd like your representative to do. Want them to send a letter to a particular official? Attach a copy of the letter you've already sent that official. Want them to make a call? Include all the information you have about the person you tried to call, their supervisor's information, and the talking points you would have used had you been able to make it. Keep your issue morally black-and-white, and make it very easy to understand how doing X will result in something concrete and simple that the representative can consider an accomplishment. You're competing with a whole host of other interests who want some of this representative's district time, so make it very clear why what you want is easy to do, morally right (according to the morals of the majority of your district), and simple to understand & be convinced of.
Here's a really great SF story about the effects of technology on memory (ancient and modern):

http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...
Thank you!

It totally was, and it continues to be. I built the beta in my free time when I came off missions on my last 12-month deployment to Afghanistan (returned April 2013). When I deployed in April 2012 I didn't know anything about tech. I listened to podcasts (I downloaded hundreds before deploying, mostly Mixergy) when I worked out (still do) and read a lot of business books.

I feel like I still have a lot to learn, but I've come a long way in the last two years. It's been one hell of a ride, I'm just happy I'm still enjoying it. Don't tell my customers, but I'd do this for free I love it so much haha.
I am actively against Windows 8 in a Domain environment as the system has severe permissions issues for workstations with multiple users. It seems that the first user to install items, create directories, etc. becomes the overall master of them and this makes even basic SysPrep difficult. I am tearing my hair out trying to get terminal servers and cloning projects done, stuff that was a breeze on Windows 7 in comparison. I wish Microsoft was smart enough to differentiate between their home consumers and their business consumers.
"Still sound like incompetence? Does a name like "Elaine Yellow Horse" seem real or fake?"

The name seems pretty real to me. Could you please explain what about it would indicate it was fake?

Yes, using fancy methods to get a wrong result is still wrong. Let's also remember we are talking about a company that indexes the web. Perhaps they could use that data to test.
Windows 8 on the desktop has failed for me twice; the home OS build had issues so was changed to Mint Linux and the work/personal laptop Windows 8.1 build broke during normal use. I have chosen to Install Ubuntu on this computer and have a Windows 7 under VMWare Workstation. That has become the greatest OS(s) for me, installing Windows 7 in the background with VMWare for the Enterprise Software and keeping Linux forefront for the rest.

The thing that gets me is the constant upgrading of Microsoft products with exuberant costs with little room to upgrade, migrate, rollback, repair or anything for that without either spending more money and/or finding ways to fix yourself. At least with Linux, the community is trying to help you out and not forced to use a script on what to discuss or share as a fix. As long as Microsoft is not listening to the community, they will go down these odd paths and continue to keep those who support them lost, trying to keep up; before finally giving up. It sucks that they along with Apple are allowed to squeeze open source of technology and not even making good use of all these patents, partnerships and agreements. Maybe these f the world guys are onto something.
Numpy on pypy's dot operation is now only 1.5 times slower than cpython's c version (not blas optimized)
It's mostly that the lower bound to get a PhD (at least in a non-imaginary field) is higher than to merely get an SB. If you assume a non-pessimal distribution[1], the average pHD will be smarter than the average SB.

[1] This isn't necessarily true of the smartest individuals, and you could imagine a distribution where the 120-130 IQ people stick around to get PhDs, but the SB people are 115-160 IQ, and they leave to go into other fields. Probably true of English, Political Science, etc. -- the smartest people of those undergrad programs probably go into law or finance rather than remaining as grad students and professors within the field itself.
Thanks, that really means a lot. Over the last few months I've been working hard to refine it. I feel like I'm finally getting there.
It's easy to say 'dont cruble', but your self esteem will go down if you cant find any help. I had some similar trouble in a primary school, and fortunately it ended after moving to another school, but it took a long time until i realized the problem was not in me.
I created:

http://skitrails.info/

I'm an avid cross-country skier, and traditionally daily trail reports are done by hand by the maintenance staff after they're out all night working on the trails.

I had the bright idea of putting GPS tracking devices in grooming equipment and creating the "what's been groomed" report automatically, in real-time.

It took about 4 seasons to really get it right, and there was no appreciable income for that period. Lots of lessons learned about equipment (antennas, good wiring practices in vehicles, power cleanliness in big equipment, etc), good ways to present the data, map projections, how to deal with messy data, dealing with non-technical users, cross-border shipping tarrifs, mobile-network provisioning rules, the list goes on. I did it alongside my full-time job for the first 4 years.

It's a tiny niche, and one I never expect to get all that big, but it looks like I'll be able to make it my sole income source next season.

Which is great, because it'll let me go skiing more.
Timeless Graphic Design Advice (Part 1)
sarcasm on my part ;)
It is statistically likely humans are doomed in the near future
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Actually I would imagine anyone who is not dumb or suicidally depressed would prefer their country spent that money on themselves not dying.

So to me, letting soldiers/people die because resources are instead being spent on people who passed away 50 years ago is not a minor cost.
Never was offended, just confused.
"How do I become a data scientist?"
DDG isn't a solo business, not anymore at least. They've got "11-50 employees" now.
IIRC Uber did SXSW for '13 too, but they didn't stick around; Uber had no Austin service at all back in November.
Why are American Women dying in Childbirth?
This sounds very, very cool. Would you be willing to share that somewhere on the web? I would be very interested to see that!
You can encode it in the Bitcoin blockchain.
Lots of people will not like what you've done.

You can also try to get it in some popular torrent, and have it live off with as many people as possible.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS) gets updated all the time, sometimes drastically, so in my books it's still a "fresh" (and very good) game: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/
The author seems like someone who learned about a new feature in one version of the OS and thinks others are ignorant for not seeing the change. In this case the feature actually has a downside if used all the time.
$55 isn't the minimum cost for a taxi, it's for pre booked private hire
Suggesting a sales or marketing employee operate solely on commission w/o equity in a startup isn't a great way to gauge their confidence. It's a good way to ensure good sales people run away.

With a new product (or with an old product repurposed for a new industry), it can be hard to predict the sales cycle or to develop the appropriate pricing strategy.
If the salesperson is strictly dependent on commission, they'll do anything to close-- including sell the product to the wrong people or with the wrong expectations. This will reduce the amount of useful feedback you get and waste everyone's time.

Someone recently offered me this deal at a startup I otherwise found very compelling. I didn't take it.
Ghostery blocks w3counter so it blocked pretty much everything on the actual site, maybe use a static domain that isn't blocked by ghostery. :O
Our guess is that the issues will continue to keep us on Windows 7 into the next school year. I get the sick feeling we will skip 8 like we skipped Vista.
You're running Ghostery for the purpose of blocking W3Counter and every other site like it. You can't really do that then lament the fact that it worked. I'm not going to invest time and effort into evading you; if you want to see web stats sites, you can just turn off the extension. Somehow I don't think there are any Ghostery users looking to sign up.
A powerful reminder that our society still doesn't offer adequate protection, even of their basic right to safety, to all its members.