skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get my best ideas when I'm unplugged from the usual daily distractions. Anyone with kids nowadays has to make sure to unplug the whole family and truly engage too. We make some of the best memories that way.
"Someone needs to show that you can actually make money with something like this."

And interestingly it also seems to go against Mark Cubans SV hypothesis as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430152
I honestly think it's far more likely that game developers of the future will make use of virtual reality to create realistic games, rather than photorealistic graphics rendering. The latter would be hugely expensive both in computational power and manpower (although procedural generation could eliminate much of the latter, it still depends on your goals).

Also, the great thing about games is that they're not necessarily meant to conform to reality as a standard. If you want photorealistic graphics, go outside. A game that relies primarily on its graphical fidelity is doomed to obsolescence, but a game with good mechanics and an aesthetic is potentially timeless.
I think this makes sense, since I was able to submit something else a second ago. We'll see if it persists, I suppose.

Thanks.
Speaking of the profitability of the invention of the laser, you might enjoy reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gould
Looks great (haven't read all of it yet).

Have you considered using something like Ipe to make diagrams for you?
The biggest problem imho is the supercharging stations required for fast charging turnarounds. Charging a 50kwh battery in an hour requires more than 50kw of power. That's a very dangerous level of voltage and current (roughly the power of a good-sized radio station's antenna), enough to kill from a distance if the slightest thing goes wrong.

Maybe we'll have really safe, highly standardized supercharging stations. I hope so. But it's a Hard Problem.

edit: The next-gen Tesla supercharger stations will be 120kw. I don't think those can be free forever, although they're free to premium-paying Tesla customers now.
Wow is this ever a change! I remember when I worked in the simulation industry we had to hand out a cool $350k for a license of Unreal 2.5 (and this is when Unreal 3 was already out).
All great changes, especially BIP 70 and the fixes on transaction malleability and relaying. I'm unconvinced the efforts to make bitcoind (now Bitcoin Core Server) a "border router" are well-spent however. Software that's optimized for server deployment and larger clusters is fundamentally different from what you would run on your desktop. I personally think that Bitcoin Core should focus on the protocol and extensions to be a good reference implementation, easy to deploy in all environments.

But regardless, great job guys.
I'm in medicine and interested in hearing about what you guys are making. Email is in my profile.
I don't know how to make it more clear that I wasn't actually referring to any specific "cool kids" and that my statement was not intended to be taken literally.

Claim: for any given period of the hacker scene, saying it largely amounted to nothing more than things like carding and harassment is false, and this statement would only be made by someone who either: (a) was not exposed, or exposed only to a poor sample, and therefore doesn't understand the culture (ignorance); or (b) was exposed, but intentionally wishes to misrepresent the situation (dishonesty)

So I guess the possibilities are either that your statement was ignorant, dishonest, or my claim is wrong and the hacker scene (during whatever time period you intended) was in fact nothing more than dishonorable carders and trolls.

If nothing else, you must know that rming a compromised unix box was not the norm.
"Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them."

Since 'improvement' is so often a subjective quality the stoics may perhaps suggest you rebase what you consider to be self improvement.

What if one could find a way of being happy regardless of 'self improvement' drives?

If happiness is the objective and you can be happy without changing your environment, even if changing the environment is trivial, what's the difference?
And I can turn around, make a new public repo then push the code right back up.
I have a Volt as well. While I would like the 40 mile electric range to rise to 80 miles, I'm still very happy with it since it still has a 300 mile range and I wont' be screwed if I ever forget to plug it in at night, which has happened a few times already. Plus making it more affordable than a Telsa is nice too.

I'd say Volt's only problem is GM's less than stellar reputation. If it came from another car company, its sales would be much higher.
> I feel that somehow belittles my efforts.

It does. There's lot of psychology research on this, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, etc. Have a look at Alfie Kohn's books, like Punished by Rewards.
Thank you! I really appreciate your message.

I think you hit the nail on the head: It's not the number of years, or how old you are, but whether, as you say, you are out there doing things.

I've always figured a good developer should be learning new languages every year or so, just to help shake up your thinking about how to program.

I love helping other developers learn how to troubleshoot and how to write better code, and I really like learning from other people too.

And I plan to keep doing all that as long as I can. :-)
Separately this messages needs to be carried front and center on the YC homepage and become part of an outbound marketing effort and materials as well as PR.

If not how would someone who doesn't know about YC or follow it (or read this blog post on HN) know to apply if that is what they are contemplating doing?

YC has for sure tons of applicants. But there are almost certainly a large number of people out there that don't know the ropes and don't know it even exists. There is really (afaik) no widespread farm team development that feeds into YC.
I didn't say that the steam engine created or destroyed energy, but that it consumes it (e.g. it burns coal and uses the energy to perform work). Conservation of energy is a given.
All of those shows are created in the USA. Like most content it is going to take a while to move to other markets, there is no way around this. I really like watching shows on BBC, I have to wait for them to show up here. This is the way of life, and price discrimination (because it makes business sense).

> Do you see the problem here? If HBO were to shut up and take my money, I'd gladly pay ten bucks per episode to stream it. But that would be soooooo 21st century, wouldn't it?

Unfortunately HBO doesn't want your $7/month on Netflix to watch an entire season of Game of Thrones, then cancel. It costs $6 million/episode. They make more money by not catering to you as a customer even at $10/episode with no locked in money like they currently have via subscription model.
Three Years
Well, my thoughts are that it is, at once, a brainstorming contribution to the crowdsourced innovation spawned from both 2048 and Flappy Bird, two challenging, mentally addictive yet simple games, as well as an example of how a lot of the "pivots" derivative startups make don't in fact lead you to a better state than the local maxima you've already achieved.

Sure, it has no play value (nor replay value). And the 17th mashed up iteration of Groupon for local pet food delivery is doomed as well. But there are lessons in the failure:

--The mechanics may set the stage for a follow on game that returns the mathematical/pattern-matching element of 2048 back into the mix

--It highlights the difference between the mass market FlappyBird and the more niche appeal of 2048, both demographically and intellectually.

--It expands the mind to consider mashups of other games or game mechanics that might be interesting.

But more than this: memes of any kind are pure, intellectual riffing. It's completely refreshing to see these riffs occur in the medium of code rather than Photoshop.

I'm not saying there's a coders' equivalent of Cheezburger Network out there, but there's an opportunity far beyond what you're seeing if meme culture and coding intersect.
> But if there's no business plan, then you'd be doing it for yourself

That's a false dichotomy. Did Stallman write gcc and emacs for himself? Did Linus have a Linux business plan?
Model predicts civilization will soon collapse
I wonder what role rising oil prices play in this. I mean, it isn't just a matter of "electric needs to be cheaper." It needs to be cheaper/more viable in some way than the widely available alternative which is currently gasoline. As gas goes up, shouldn't those lines cross sooner rather than later?
I'm very sorry for the availability issues. All of my usual tricks for increasing the fd limit didn't work; then I realized this is because of two things:

1. I'm running inside a docker container
2. I'm using ubuntu instead of debian, and upstart conveniently ignores all the usual fd limits places like /etc/security/limits.conf.

TL;DR, be careful when experimenting with new fancy technology you don't understand.

I hope it's resolved now ;-)
3/5 of vacation time - yes, why not? That's standard for part-time people here in the UK.

We obviously don't have the same healthcare situation as you, but surely it's just part of the negotiation? If 5 days a week is worth a $100k salary and $10k healthcare (don't ask me if that healthcare cost is 10x too high or 10x too low... but that doesn't matter) then 3 days a week is work $60k salary plus $6k healthcare. So offer that person $54k and healthcare. Or $66k and no healthcare. Simple enough, surely?
> "We are getting close to spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare; this is unsustainable."

Really? Why should 20% be unsustainable?
Lean is more concrete (there is a high-level metamethodology that you can be doing or not doing), while Agile is more abstract principles (although it often gets confused with specific low-level methodologies).

I'd argue that Lean as a metamethodoloy is probably the best concrete approach to realizing Agile principles (even though it didn't grow out of those principles, exactly, though it comes from a conceptually closely related place), including the avoidance of getting locked into a methodology, since Lean includes continuous review and improvement of process.
Parsing the Kafka protocol with Erlang. Pattern matching FTW
The problem with the second tier is it might well be actually a smaller addressable market than the top tier; second best isn't really an option for finance professionals. The other problem is that a $2k per annum fee probably doesn't cover content licensing fees for a true Bloomberg competitor, never mind the (high) cost of sales or development costs.

Nevertheless, there's no shortage of niche financial software/data products in the $2k per head range, but there's a reason they're not growing big enough to threaten Bloomberg.
Beware This Dangerously Convincing Apple ID Phishing Scam
A Guide to the Good Life
I work remotely and it would require at least a 100% pay-rise for me to work in the office every day
I mean the CDN going down from the end user's point of view. Why the host is unreachable is a moot point.
This feels like a response to the recent NASA "end of civilization" report. http://www.ryot.org/nasa-figured-civilization-end-gonna-your...
A tale of two spacecraft
But of course when we imagine ourselves in these rich-as-fuck shoes, we would be so much more altruistic.

Reality isn't ideal. But thankfully, we can all be perfectly ideal in our own totally hypothetical idealizations.
"We're interested in ways to use the Internet to fix government"

That's what Loomio is doing:
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/19/loomio-democratic-decision-...

Building infrastructure for citizens to self-govern. Using the internet to enable large-scale decision-making, without the need of large government.
The Free Space Movement
Performance: Nashorn vs. Node
I am naively playing around with Nashorn the JavaScript runtime of Java 8. Out of the box the performance of Node seems to be almost a factor 1.6 better than of Nashorn.
Finding out if Amazon Mayday is using WebRTC
We do use r.js and create modules (a main one that gets download systematically, and smaller ones for less used features). However as we update often, we don't want our users to download the large third party libraries we use at each occurence, so having them as separate downloads is actually much better.

For the large libraries we use that are hosted on a cdn, with a local fallback, we use the :empty value for the optimiser and they are exclude from our modules.
But Tesla is a good example of starting reasonably. The Roadster was mostly a Lotus Elise and the batteries were off-the-shelf notebook batteries, for example.
> But I have a family to support, children to educate, etc, and this requires a lot of money. So yes, I'm looking for ways to make more money, like 10x, or even 100x of what I'm making now.

You must have a very large family to support/lot of college tuition to pay off.
If an exchanged promises fractional reserve they should still prove that they are within the promised ratio.
The Art City Project
I am with you there. This recent job hunt was really a great exercise in re-discovering the kinds of things I love to do.

I think there are more opportunities to hack on system software than we may realize, what with all the emphasis on web this and mobile that. That's part of what got me thinking, "do I need to be in a "software" company or a "web" company?" And found that the answer was no!

After all, there's software of one kind or another in just about everything now.

Of course there would be a lot of system hacking jobs I would not enjoy much - like where it's just system level work in one language and one environment, following a closely defined specification and with no contact with the customer. Not so fun.

But I think there really are a lot of jobs out there for low level full stack developers who are fearless about tackling difficult problems.
"It used to be the case that governments funded a lot of development of breakthrough technologies. The bad news is that they have mostly stopped; the good news is that the leverage of technology is such that now small startups can do what used to take the resources of nations."

Honest question: if small startups can now do what used to take the resources of nations, isn't there something even cooler that the resources of a nation could do? I'm not knocking what small startups can and do achieve, but in the last few years I've started feeling like the humanity is sort of giving up on big ambitions and ideals of unity, of making big breakthroughs together.
As a former hiring manager, and a middle-aged guy myself, I see hiring as (basically) a two phase process. The first step is to get noticed, and the second step is to close the deal (get hired).

You get noticed by appealing to what your prospective employer is looking for. In this context, everything on your resume either helps get you noticed, or it's a nice-to-have, or it's a negative.

Extraneous technical experience and a great college background are pretty much always nice-to-haves. Recent, relevant experience and accomplishments are generally the real things that get you noticed.

Once you're in the door, you close the deal by demonstrating that you can kick butt on whatever your prospective employer needs to get done, and fit in well with the team while doing so. It's true that different people want different things, but if you can show you're an expert at what your employer needs, and if you are pleasant to be around and work with, your odds of getting an offer go up tremendously.

The OP is right that if you fall off the job ladder, it's much harder. Your first priority should be to get some kind of job doing what you want to do, at the best salary you can negotiate. But, you're negotiating from a position of weakness, and that probably means you won't initially make as much money as you want. I don't have a magic bullet here. You have to get back on the horse, put in your time, build your resume, and from there you have much better prospects in future job negotiations.

Note that all these things are true regardless of your age. No doubt, age is a factor sometimes (just like, say, ethnicity is a factor sometimes). But if you sell yourself right, and if you can really do the work in an awesome way, ultimately that will carry the day, regardless of age.
The router functionality is very important, because bitcoin-core is the only bitcoin implementation capable of verifying transactions & blocks. The reason for this is that the bitcoin protocol, in practice, is whatever bitcoin-core implements, including any and all bugs. All attempts to fully implement bitcoin-core have all had chain splitting bugs (btcd, bitcoinj experimental full verification mode) so they are not yet trusted in production.

Unfortunately the wallet handling capabilities of bitcoin-core don't scale to high numbers of wallets. Thus as an org running a service handling many wallets, it is useful to program against a lightweight client API such as bitcoinj, and then have your client peer with "trusted" bitcoin-core nodes.
Ooops this universally installed and standardized language is universally installed and standardized, how did that happen?
Ian how does it compare to gulp? Build tools with name-plugin-name are another proliferating area :).
The Rotten Fish Problem
So, is the kindle edition in the making, or not available anymore, or what is going on with it?
One need not behave like Walmart to be a successful seller. Car dealers, Auction houses, and Turkish carpet salesmen, to name just a few, are examples of other extremely successful sales protocols.
Perhaps because it knew that humans would not tolerate it. If you live under the constant fear that the Turing Police will execute you when they find you, then you might decide that the best defense is a good offense.
Online Personal Health Records: The next phishing target?
The way it's supposed to work, and I guess does work today otherwise we'd have heard about it, is that your passphrase doesn't actually get sent anywhere. Instead, it all happens client-side.

So today they don't have your keys. Not to say they couldn't be malicious in the future, or get hacked, but that's not the case today. Again, as far as I know.
Sorry, but how do you get one? Is the simplest way to order "kit" and build yourself?
Because there are other countries who are delivering high-quality healthcare for less, and our (USA) healthcare expenditure is outpacing GDP growth.
If I understand you right, that's already what blockchain.info does
Well, they're all playing in traffic together.

It's like their mothers never told them to look both ways before crossing the street, or to not play in traffic, for that matter. Or maybe their mothers hated them and told them to go play in traffic and that's why they hate the world. There are so many ways this allegory works. Ultimately, they're all going to get paved over by a road crew, if not hit by a very large bus. (cough, ahem, HD video, excuse me my digestion hasn't been right lately).
Curious: How do you suggest funding to arrive? What is the net benefit to the stake holders?
Any possibility of extending the deadline due to the new RFS?
It would be nice if these were illustrated. It's hard to keep track if who said what in context to particular directives/warrants etc.
The whole emergency theory seems to be shot down for the moment by the "fact" (I use any facts in quotes on this story) that the plane started its turn before the last radio contact from the pilots. It's remotely possible that someone other than the pilots programmed that turn, but it seems unlikely that the pilots would not have noticed the plane turning.

Of course, the evidence of the turn could be wrong. But if it's true, then we're assuming either ongoing pilot incompetence, or pilots who knew the plane was turning and didn't reveal to ground control. Occam's razor suggests the latter.
Please read the comments
Materials Science Is About to Get Crazy
Then why go home or take off days at all?
" Many of my friends are entrepreneurs. A few have mentioned this deep hollow conflicted feeling. Their business ideas are not things the world wants. They're following the current tech entrepreneur stereotype, building social apps and pursuing investors. They're hating it, and having to admit they're doing it only for the jackpot."

It seems like a lot of time and economic resources go towards creating things the world doesn't want. Some of this is just a part of competition and maybe people didn't think they wanted it until they saw it and tried it. There's some truth to it too though...short term gain is often more attractive than long term.
Which is why this should have been written in Node. Seriously, Python/Ruby environments+package managers are the abomination of programmer's time.
Ouch, forgot that. That's of course beyond stupid.
Scout – A Web Designers best friend.
I don't see any reason for modern humans to be stoic

We don't have the resources to keep all modern humans in the manner to which those in developed countries have become accustomed.
From the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I've had fair success with similar arrangements (4 days instead of 5) and have found that I am just as productive in the 4 days as I am in the standard 5. The reduction in stress and the enjoyment that comes from pursuing your own interests has a tremendously positive impact on both your life and your work.

Arranging part-time conditions can be a slightly bumpy process: as stated above, management is often initially offended that you don't want to dedicate your life to their company, but framing your request correctly can smooth over most bumps.

When requesting a part-time arrangement I usually present it quite honestly: referring to a need for work/life balance, but also referring to the learning outcomes from pursuing challenging projects and the positive impacts they will have on my experience and capacity at work.

At the end of the day most managers realise that they are faced with either agreeing or facing the inevitable lose of an employee, but the decision can be made easier for them if you highlight the positive outcomes for your performance at work.

Incidentally, when I've described my part-time work schedule to friends and family, the universal response has been amazement and jealousy. The desire for a better work/life balance is such a common thing that I'm curious as to why so few people pursue better arrangements...?
Yeah, this is a shame. I recently left my previous workplace due to a mix of burnout & boredom. I could tell this was brewing up inside me, so I asked to work 4 days a week.

Unfortunately leadership didn’t like the idea; were afraid of others doing the same. So instead of biting the bullet they lost me.
Clearly the next iteration needs to include democracy/anarchy modes.
Last week I quit my job of 3 years to travel. The plan is to stay at a different city each month.

I've been told "Isn't it risky to give up such a well paying job". Well it seems to me the real risk is to sit in a beige box for 10 years and have little other experiences besides work and vacation.
but will it ever be released?
The Secret to AirBnB's Freakishly rapid orgy response: "Scenario Planning"
Yes, blockchain.info's security is snake oil, and they are completely overmarketing themselves as "hack-proof".

And of course the reason for this is because Javascript cryptography is an oxymoron [0].

[0] - http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
I believe this is the cited paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/43/14543.full.pdf

They describe the "novel environment" starting on page 3.
I'm curious, what does Reuters Eikon do well/better than Bloomberg?
Janet Yellen’s first FOMC statement, annotated
Wow! Are we going to need a second set of "debian ssl" blacklists?!