skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really a matter of personal preference. I haven't been able to find much on the Moto 360 (they seem to be keeping a bunch under wraps(I could be looking in the wrong places though)). But I assume it has a LCD screen. Which is potentially hell for battery life. The Pebble has around a 4-5 day battery life for me. This isn't constant text messages though.

Another thing you might want to keep in mind: Moto 360 will only work on Android. This isn't a negative for most people, except for those that might want to get an iPhone in the future. Pebble works with both (for the most part (from what I've heard, I have only actually experienced the Android side)).
Superstatic by Divshot, a new web server for one-page apps
After reading a lot of the discussion about Facebook's Hack I can see why this is necessary. I agree with a lot of the concerns here though. Particularly, commenting on older posts will never elicit an endorsement. I'm also concerned about how many qualified folks will actively endorse comments. This can be quite a job endorsing every good comment on the site. It might require following a comment feed covering the entire site, but who would want to do that? Will there be any sort of reward for endorsing comments? I'd be afraid to endorse the wrong comments and lose my ability to endorse. In any event, I'm very curious to see how this pans out.
You should use https://habitrpg.com/

Take everything you want to do every day, cut the time in half, then cut the time in half again, and add it as a "Daily."

* [x] 1 hour of music

* [x] 30m of CodeAcademy Python

* [x] 20m exercise

The key is to keep is so absurdly short that you will have no trouble doing them in a day. BUT, by doing them every day, you will accomplish much more than if you had overcommitted.

Using HabitRPG instead of a daily to-do list ads a gaming aspect to it. Skip enough days, and your character dies and loses a level. It's a lot of fun.

I'm currently using it to get myself to do a little Duolingo for spanish, floss every day, and try to stop drinking soda (habits section).
Open data and data sharing is one of the key components of the reproducible science movement. Some teams have even gone so far as to share their entire virtual image with data, code, and associated libraries (when data size is small). Docker would be a great choice for this, and some teams have moved to that as well from what I hear.

This is definitely NOT the majority, but I think the people who take the extra effort to help other researchers "stand on their shoulders" should be commended. However, in the era of "big data research", it is not always possible to share the data openly due to public file server size limitations.
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At first glance, I'm not a fan, but after thinking about it, I'm thinking it might help new users gain karma quicker if they are good citizens, which would help deal with some of my concerns.

Those with greater than 1000 karma will now have more of a reason to upvote comments, whereas before, they might have mildly found a comment not awful but not upvoted it because there was no reason to.

We'll see what happens.
A million upvotes for snacks. I work primarily from home now and they absolutely destroy you. Make sure you get out and do some exercise too!
Would be interesting to have a new url:

https://news.ycombinator.com/endorsablecomments

and a way for 1000+ users to view comments scores as reward for good endorsements
The real engines of growth h
Maybe they're after the comments that require several hours of research and multiple drafts. Anybody who can make a couple comments over a short period of time isn't putting in a whole lot of thought and effort into their comments. I get the feeling they're looking for comments that resemble blog posts rather than the conversational type of comments.
Honestly, I believe the pricing model deployed by most Sass product is broken. I know they do experiment and that best clients are the ones willing to pay a premium, and that they are indeed the ones to be taken care of.

However, does it not look more like, get the most from the few?

I don't run or own any Sass Products, so I may be utterly wrong, but won't it not be that there is a gradual increase in price along with multiple options instead of the typical (i) free for the not-so-usable one instance (ii) ~$20 for barely yourself (iii) ~100 for cool and hip but (iv) we're keeping the best for the last at ~$500 (v) of course, the mega corps can email us for to talk about their 10,000th employee.

What about a dynamic pricing where I'm not fleeced at $19 per user per month but more of - it starts with $19 but then to support the next user is rather simple and cost-effective, let is be just $4.99?

As I said, just my thought, I'm yet to experiment with pricing and see them for myself.

As for the questions, I run few side projects and a UI/UX Consulting Service and I'm within $100 per month - from invoicing, to hosting to project management to version control.
Real engines of growth have nothing to do with growth hacking
i don't think it is a good idea, remember what happend in russia last year? i tend to believe that putin tried first :)
Follow the five-rule plan:

1. No more zero days - do something towards whatever goal or want. (e.g. make time to study/research/learn/design/develop/create/build/launch)

2. Be grateful to the 3 You's - The Past You, The Present You, and the Future You.

3. Exercise - when you exercise, you are doing your future self a huge favor.

4. Read Daily - almost everything we've ever thought of, or gone through, or wanted, or wanted to know how to do or whatever has been already figured out by someone else. Reading will help you better understand.

5. Have faith and follow through with action.
Is this really a problem that HN has, though? I mean, yeah, occasionally, you'll see stuff like that. But anecdotally, I'd say it's definitely the exception.

The type of comment you're talking about ("This.") feels like an invented boogeyman used to justify overly harsh censorship by the Party (the HN karma elite).

I'm not saying HN is perfect as it is now - it's not - but personally, I feel the a greater problem lies with the quality of submissions rather than the quality of comments. Frankly, I'd rather see Pending Submissions instead of Pending Comments.
Less Doing, More Living (Ari Meisel's new book – Chapter 1 free)
Other NoSQL solutions were not marketed as a replacement for relational databases.
MongoDB might be better now,but you cant take managers for idiots an expect them to buy into your product again. Right now MongoDB only lives because of javascript and nodejs ,since nodejs sucks big time with anything that is not MongoDB,library and driver wise.
It is not necesssary to execute JavaScript on the server-side, or to use React.js at all (although it is a pretty neat tool.) For instance in Backbone, you can call setElement() on any view to replace its on-screen element with one that you've pre-rendered. If you're clever about templates this means that you can have views that both know how to build themselves up from zero, and can also attach to existing views on screen so you can save yourself that rendering time when you visit the page.

This could result in code duplication, but the end result is the same: a complete state of the application can be rendered server-side and then can evolve independently on the client side.
I had one on for several days and then never wore it. Charging it is annoying and just using it for a phone notification pusher does not do much for me. Maybe it is the problem on me to expect 'the future is here' on a watch that is nicely executed but nowhere near future is near type. I hope there can be some great apps as they released ios/android appstore. I might change my mind and put it on again if there are some great apps along the way.

But I very much admire Pepple's hard working in its involvement with tech related events. Saw them talking and trying to let hackers write apps for them in many hackathons, and that is great. And I know they were/are talking to universities to offer discount, and that is great, too. To me that is a great example of a YC company not satisfying with its current success and keep pushing forward with determination. Way to go, pebble.
I think you should not club the two points together. Your first point makes a lot of sense because even if you say that the Indian government officials were "tad computer illiterate", LibreOffice is still not an acceptable replacement majorly due the UI and the loss of basic features.
I think I'm missing what you're saying, can you expound on this? There are records of mercantile law going back to Hammurabi; there's been paper fiat currency in China since the 7th century or so. Coinage and trade has plenty of historical record in Phoenician and Roman era.
Rhapsody and Napster to split from The Echo Nest
One million new records a month is less than one new record a second. Ten million new records a month is almost four new records a second (slightly more than four if the month is February!). That is not a challenging level of performance for any database, relational or otherwise.

It is indeed the millions-per-hour order of magnitude where things get interesting.
[Psychology] Johari Window – Why being more transparent about ourselves is good
>So why are less companies devoting resources to working on facets of networking, optimizing computer architecture, writing more efficient compilers and operating systems?

I can think of a couple reasons:

1) Because hardware/microarchitecture companies do devote effort to architecture and compilers.

2) Because low-level software/OS companies do devote effort to networking, compilers, and operating systems.

3) Because network effects mean that only a very few mutually incompatible languages and OS's can survive on the open market, with a larger but still fairly small variety surviving on open-source volunteer efforts.

>Not being able to effectively cure cancer isn't the issue Silicon Valley is facing.

Oh really? Aren't there some computational problems we could work on that have cancer-cure-level impacts?
Scott, I think it is fantastic you are working on this. I've been thinking this concept for a while now: https://www.stackmonkey.com/blog/. Taking a slightly different spin on it...
Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction
I think "inflammatory" is often situational, individual.

I'm not personally worried. I'm seen as an insider. As Louis CK says, "How many advantages can one person have?" [1]

But people who aren't part of the HN tribe already think they're treated unfairly here, and from what I read on Twitter, they're confident that this change will only increase the level of groupthink by making sure their comments never get even seen.

Personally, I think that comments that incite and inflame are often useful. I agree that there's plenty of pure dickishness here, and I'd love to see that go. But sometimes comments are upsetting because they contain uncomfortable truth. Sometimes we skate on by the polite statement when a passionate outburst will force to see things through someone else's eyes.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
This behavior has hit me many times because on a laptop accidentally touching the trackpad can lose focus from a text field very easily, so while I am typing a comment/whatever if my thumb or palm drops a bit to touch the trackpad just before I hit the delete key, the browser is suddenly making me angry. Even if no text is lost, focus on doing whatever I was doing is lost.
Actually no I thought the term might have been coined by British physicists after spending too much time around us Americans...
HN Lists: Most Karma, Active Discussions, Best Comments, and Noobs
No offense but your argument is quite similar to UK's internet censorship law. Hey you don't want CP (in your case "trendy catch phrase"), so we should have a level of censorship (moderated comments). And in no time the system becomes the oppressor of free speech and flow of information.

Also please note that the earlier system had upvotes/downvotes for comments. Through votes the community can decide the type of contribution it deems valid.
Firefox follows conventions of the various platforms, even for things like menus. In Linux, "Options" is under the "Preferences" menu, while on Windows it's under "Tools".
It's important to recognize that PLOS' new data sharing policy is only about data directly tied to the publication of a traditional journal article. So while PLOS authors are being forced to share their data, it's only done in the context of a published article, which will accrue citations, recognition, and attribution in the standard way.

So any data shared by this policy WILL absolutely be tied to the traditional methods of scientific credit, via the linked journal article. To me, requiring that reasonable data is published and archived alongside scientific literature doesn't seem absurd at all.

> Journals try to enforce data sharing because they want to maintain their position as arbiters of academic affairs.

Is there any evidence behind this claim? PLOS seems to behave in exactly the opposite way. It's true that SOME journals use extreme selectivity or control over copyright to maintain their position as arbiters of science. But PLOS, whose largest journal PLOS One is both open access and makes no judgment on the impact of the science it publishes, seems to be actively reducing the amount of control it exerts over academic activities.
I am reminded of Jackson's First and Second Rules of Program Optimisation:

1. Don’t do it

2. [for experts only] Don’t do it yet
Phil Spencer on Valve, Titanfall and Xbox One
Not really. Money is an abstraction. The freedom is not in money. The freedom is in what you make that you bring to market. Whether you barter or trade for money is really a secondary concern.
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Flash will be dead when web game companies (e.g. Zynga) stop using it.

It's still years away.
I will post another comment.

This is the problem with centralization. A service that is centralized in the hands of the person or organization hosting it leaves all the power in their hands to change the rules on a whim. We are lucky that pg is reasonable and cares about feedback. Remember what happened with the facebok newsfeed? Also, democracies don't mitigate all the problems of centralization. Facebook even attempted to have a vote on the new privacy features, heavily promoted it, but had a ridiculously low turnout. Most people don't spend their time on sites trying to govern them, but simply use the tool.

Compare this to decentralized systems like git or the web. Any particular publisher's decision is mitigated by the fact that the audience is small. Even if this while site disappeared tomorrow, the web would continue to exist. Can such a principle be implemented for communities in general?

Yes. But it requires open source software to be installed and published by many people, and clients could interact with publicly signed versions of servers (or their plugins). The key question here is who is trying to protect whom and why.

When a small group forms (such as the discussion thread) the participants are the most interested party, and if the host changes something from what they expected they should be able to fork the discussion and easily continue it somewhere else.

On the other hand, a publisher who is interested in trying out a new (version of a) plugin can install it and see people's reactions. If they like it, they may start more discussions hosted by this publisher.

But the key to a "free market" in improvements is the switching cost. People should be able to easily move the entire discussion somewhere else in case the particular installation has been sabotaged.

Ideally such distributed software could be a bitcoin agent.
As a newbie to the node.js world, there seems to be a lot of talk about the MEAN stack (http://mean.io).

What do you (or others) suggest as a good replacement for MongoDB in that stack?
PlaceHolder, save your locations and go back there later in a second
I also spent around 50 cents / month on tarsnap, at this rate my account credit will last another 7.5 years! Colin your service is great, I would pay orders of magnitude more for it, please increase your price so that I don't have to worry about it going away!
I find it somewhat depressing that the first comments on any post about MongoDB generally seem to be short, disparaging and dismissive without offering much if any substance

There's just not much to say tho'. If this were an aviation site and people kept posting about how piston engines were the future because jets "don't scale to large aircraft" and "were never designed for long journeys" how would you argue against that? There would just be no point.

I'll say this tho': in 1969 IBM released a NoSQL product called IMS, which was designed to handle the BOM for the Saturn project. IMS has been continuously developed since then. Have a look at it and what it can do, then look again at MongoDB, which is - genuinely - about 40 years behind the state-of-the-art. Then understand why experienced database guys* can't be bothered to debunk it any more.

* my own stats: 50+Tb in Oracle with 800G changes/day, replicated to 2 other identical databases over WAN links. 2+Tb in MySQL. 10,000 commits/sec + 50,000 reads/sec on Oracle. 99.99% uptime on all of this. When people tell me "SQL databases" don't scale or aren't reliable, I laugh. And then ignore them.
Somebody could be just as money-hungry and have no illusions of fighting death. Their goal might be to leave family well-off, for instance.
The Short, Serendipitous Life
When scanning the comments, I always make sure to read the grayed-out ones. They-re not usually great, but they tell me important information about HN audience's biases.

So please, down-vote me!
You are basically out of a job.
You should read Mr. Money Mustache! http://www.mrmoneymustache.com

He's an ex-software engineer who, by living reasonably (not even at extreme levels of frugality) saved enough money in seven or eight years to retire at age 30. He's got great money advice! You'll love him!
An issue with this design is that it ensures that the current high-karma commentators maintain what they like on HN. If a really good idea shows up that they don't like and don't want to see, that is not going to survive.
>I get enough emails as it is from whacko's who think they've upturned Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, or created some perpetual motion machine. If society valued these people's output they would be financially rewarded already. There's already incentives in present society, called capitalism and competition!

If you can't differentiate between capitalism and scientific peer-review as separate processes for separating wheat and chaff, why should I take your word on the ethics underlying fundamental economics, ie: that "he who does not work deserves not to eat"?
I like the Pebble guys from what I see of them, but I can't help but feel that Pebble will go down as a textbook example of first mover advantage being short-lived.

Fundamentally there is nothing compelling about the technology or the design other than the fact that they are sort-of first to the market.

Tablets make sense to me as a post-PC device. So far I haven't seen anything that makes me understand why I'd want something on my wrist telling me about the emails in my pocket.
Exactly and better yet - don't take the money you ultimately "save" from the people in the first place.
Even if you cancel your subscription you are obligated by the original agreement to give Epic a royalty that is %5 of gross revenue.
What I meant is that no matter how the computer plays, you can always serve it a sequence of 2s and 4s that will never reach 2048. Easiest is to make sure there's exactly one 2 on the board, then spawn 4s in the corners, always picking the corner farthest away from the other tiles. From time to time spawn a 2 if you can guarantee it won't align with the other 2 in a couple of moves. Near the endgame it is trivial to have three 2 tiles which you keep always separate with careful placement of 4s. At that point the game becomes literally impossible to win.

Edit: Try to play it the other way, too. Try dropping tiles in the best most convenient pattern for the AI. Notice the amount of clutter that inevitably results when reaching higher numbers. An interesting question would be, if you control both the tile placement and movement, what is the highest number you can reach? With the constraint you can place only 2s.
Context+Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_jus...
It's not Flash that is dead, it's the whole concept of browser plugins. Too risky, too inconvenient, too often installed and then forgotten, never to receive security updates (or those that exist aren't installed because they prompt us about it far too often).
This is hardly without precedent - the old 50P was demonetised as recently as 1998. The world appears to have coped.

(And "Billions" - Wikipedia claims there's an estimated ~1.5 billion pound coins in total circulation. The overwhelming majority of those are going to be exchanged during the changeover period, and even after that banks will tend to accept them for a significant amount of time. There's no way that the amount of money written off is going to be anywhere near that)
Can you reflect the false positive / false negative rates for mods? I'd love it in the header.

That is the second most interesting aspect of reviewing YC applications, the first being the applications themselves.
Spent $15000 a year at my old job (mostly on channeladvisor)
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Seems a bit extreme. Two of the stories currently on that list made it to the front page.
At least one major component is moving off of Flash: videos.

Now, if you opt to forgo Flash on your device, the most you seem to miss are some games and annoying banner ads.
Wow, I love that sign! It has such a classic Soviet propaganda feel, it's appears to be entirely hand-painted despite the fact that it's offering computer courses (hand done sign lettering is a dying art in the West), and it has an awesome retro-futuristic robot!

Now I'm wondering what those dates on the bottom refer to.
there are a million websites with low quality, un-moderated discussion.

Personally I like the idea of pending comments.
Are you telling me that every truth you have ever recognized has been conveyed to you in the most collegial of ways?

I can recall a number of occasions where somebody told me something important and they might as well have started out with "Look, asshole". Deservedly so, because I was not just wrong but wrong in a way that was conveniently self-serving and harmful to them.

I would also like to see the dickishness taken down a notch or three here. But if it comes at the cost of making this more of an echo chamber, then it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
Good comment, dreadful article.

> The statement that RDBMs are not designed to handle huge datasets is plain wrong.

It's especially strange given Mongo's less-than-stellar scaling.
Two things:

> Its much better than giving tax breaks since you need income to begin with.

1. There is a difference between refundable and non-refundable tax credits. A big misconception is that tax breaks only help those who already have income exceeding the size of the credit, which is not necessarily true.

Second,

> Its like applying plaster to an uneven wall. The dents gets filled with plaster but the bumps stays at the same level!

In this analogy, where is the plaster coming from? It can't just come from nowhere[0].

[0] ("Just print more" isn't the answer, because that increasing the money supply doesn't actually "create" money (in the colloquial sense) - it's just a redistribution method that redistributes by changing the relative value of outstanding debt.)