skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slidebelt ($28). I recently bought one and it's superior to any belt I've ever owned. It instantly tightens if I want to run, and with only slightly less effort loosens. It's exactly the right tightness, no holes. If you're losing weight and the belt is sticking out too far, just take it out of the buckle, cut, replace it within the buckle. And since the makers don't have to worry about variable belt lengths, they can make it up for it by offering a variety of buckle designs and belt colors.

It is Correctly Designed and a joy to use.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-SlideBelts-Mens-Genuine-Lea...
Generic Y Combinator in Java 8 using lambdas
Windows has supported this for ~14 years too.
Just bought this HP 27" 2560x1440 IPS LED one for $450, and it's changed my life! It has much higher contrast than my last monitor, as well as every other monitor I've seen. Note they also have it used for $350.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/828572-REG/HP_Hewlett_...
Not if they are a strawberry :)
It is similar because of how it happened. There are lots of people using the code for various reasons and many of them participate in the community or contribute patches.

No one else that I know of has engaged in a conversation and then refused to reply to any further correspondence while at the same time asking questions to the community under pseudonyms.

Like the OP what the other company did was probably legal. That doesn't make something okay or right. Likewise (as I admitted) this other company didn't break any laws. But that wasn't the point.

You know what would have been okay? If they said, "look, we have some engineers that are going to have a go with the code - let's keep in touch" or "we are going to fork the code but will submit patches back". That is the spirit of the MIT license. Be civil.

Hope that doesn't come off as negative either :).
Implicit in your question is that the company will be registered in the USA. Why?

A couple of pros:

- You want to raise big money from a VC, and it will be easier if your company is a Delaware (http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_002.html)

- You will employ people in the USA, and think it might make the paperwork for that easier

One potential con to consider:

- You might pay more tax if you are set up in the USA (vs. e.g. Cayman Islands)
Great story! Thanks for sharing.

Alcohol is the lesser of the available evils. My PhD has driven my significant other and myself to regular drinking. The only way to numb the pain of bashing your head against a brick wall for 8+ hours at a time. Lucky for her, she works in the "Real World" (TM), but listening to my woes is enough to reach for the vodka.
A Fitbit Flex. I was a bit overweight when I got mine, and it got me within the normal BMI range within 3 months. It's a very simple product (essentially just a Bluetooth enabled pedometer) but the lifestyle improvements (if you are motivated by the goals) are massive.
Anti-Games Senator Accused Of Being A Grand Theft Auto Character
You're missing the joke. He understands the two have no way to be causally connected, but drawing the connection is hilarious.
I have a Vortex KBC Poker II with PBT keycaps, probably one of the best purchases I've made in recent years. I blew off buying one for a couple of years because it was "just like any other keyboard" - not true. They switches (I have Cherry MX Reds) make it a joy to type on!

I should have added that I got mine for about $120, including shipping.
+1 I have the same issue with alt+tab and have stopped using Gnome shell.
Good to know. Does it work for everything that's an fd in Linux? I know you've got to treat sockets and files differently in some cases (or at least did once)...
http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers

That author has some interesting thoughts on 4k in general as well as the Seiki brand.
An excellent suggestion.

I have had Zalman ZM-K500 mechanical keyboard since September and I can honestly say that I love it. It is also substantially less than $100 (£37) [0]. The quality is not quite as nice as some of the more expensive mech keyboards out (the labels on my meta keys are rubbing off extraordinarily quickly...) there but it is leagues ahead of any of the membrane based keyboards I have tried.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zalman-ZM-K500-USB-Mechanical-Keyboa...
These are all great reasons to stick with Scala. However, to survive Scala must also attract new developers; I think a better Java will lessen that influx.
I'm not necessarily pro-bitcoin, but there's a difference between bitcoin:the protocol and bitcoin: services offered around this.

I think this is more another case of pretty incompetent people going into this (probably linked to the fact that a lot of proponents of bitcoin are in it for the ponzi-scheme like qualities of the current environment). Maybe we'll get some people who've taken an accounting class and a concurrency class(necessary but not sufficient conditions) to implement these exchanges one day.

The public ledger in particular could be used to establish a good amount of trust with an exchange (publicly-auditable). The only problem being that many bitcoin proponents buy into the myth that bitcoin allows you to remain anonymous, and that the exchanges should be built in the same way as money laundering services.

We'll probably see a lot of this so long as the current environment is based around bitcoin being some sort of investment vehicle like gold. Maybe if enough people actually start wanting to use it as a currency, the quality of these services will go up, and we can trust them a bit more. Maybe actually having exchanges bail each other out (see Japanese banks in the 80s/90s) and supplying safety nets would increase trust.
Some people find that they're able to get more things done when they don't have the distraction of a smartphone in their lives.
This type of belt is really popular almost the standard in Asia.
Google is still outrunning their 'don't be evil' motto from years ago - and the relationship between Google and my data is murkier, or 'feels' so, because Google just started out with search, then added all this other 'stuff' and the associated privacy difficulties thereof.

With Facebook, from day one, I knew what my relationship with them was, I knew they were out to make a buck with my data, and I needed to be careful what I let loose into their platform.

With Apple, the relationship is even clearer, I buy things from them, they sell me a device, and some minimal services with it, for a fixed price, and the relationship doesnt generally change over the term of me owning that device.
You can do both in gnome without any tweaking.
Data storage – then and now
For a two bedroom apartment. Which implies at least two residents.
> warn people to be very careful with bitcoin.

s/bitcoin/mtgox

I withdrew everything I had in Feb '13, the writing had been on the wall for a while even at that point.
Crossing the Bitcoin Chasm
How exactly did it make you lose weight ? What goals/things does it do to promote a healthy lifestyle?
And at minimum wage, as the article points out, that’s 4 full-time jobs, so such employees had better get used to bunk beds. :(
Chief Administrative Officer http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_administrative_officer

That position existed at my company several years ago before being acquired. Rumor was it used to be a more popular position back in the day. The company was over 100 years old.
San Francisco is insanely expensive, and despite SF having a minimum wage that's $3 higher than the federal minimum, minimum wage isn't meant to pay for a two bedroom apartment in any major city. It never has been, and unfortunately can't ever be.

Studio apartments, roommates, spouse, living outside the city limits, living in a smaller apartment, aid (for single/low income parents), etc -- there's a lot of options, and it's disingenuous to frame it like this.

Even if we did raise minimum wage to $30 (and for the record, I'm for raising minimum wage to keep pace with inflation.. just not to $30), what does that solve? Techies will just get a raise, too (why be a programmer when you can make the same at a dead end job?), and we'll be back where we started.
A Raspberry Pi. A tiny computer running on 5v. Many possible uses, something for everyone.
Two bedrooms does not imply two residents, and certainly not "at least two." Perhaps the title could be improved (by stating "to afford a two-bedroom apartment").

One cool thing about putting it in $/hour like this is that we can easily say what two people would have to make to afford the same apartment. They would each need to make about $16/hour. It's feasible, but there are a lot of careers that don't pay that or that would cut it close.
Ask HN: How do I sell my bootstrapped business?
I have 6 year old web app, with 600k users, 40k unique visits per day, gross around 120k per year, and net around 70k. It's bootstrapped, I'm the only employee, and I own 100% of the company. It takes very little work to keep it going, and it's a sweet gig.

However, I'd like to eventually exit if I could. Honestly, I enjoy starting businesses, but my interest wanes, and I'd like to be emotionally freed up to work on other projects and not feel guilty for neglecting my golden-goose.

Ideally I'd like to sell in the next year or two for $3-4 million in cash. Is that ridiculously optimistic or might it be possible?

The only thing I know to do is cold contact my competitors and pitch the acquisition to them, but I hate the idea of giving them confidential information about my business if they actually have no interest, or no means to purchase.

I suppose I could also cold contact lateral businesses that my app might compliment. But does cold contacting in this case work?

Any advice on how I could sell my business? Should I find a broker to help me, or something?
With Safari on my iPhone, the site loads but is unreadable due to are and a screwed up layout.
for all that trouble why don't they(makers of these apps) just buy a pc with a pair of reasonable ati cards?
Have you ever dealt with shin splints if so, how?
Parent comment should be at the top of this submission. The response from MLB about "our CI creating randomly generated GA codes" is kind of ridiculous, when the truth is someone there did an excessive cut and paste from someone else's JS.
It's still stupid. Mobile devices are orders of magnitudes worse than PCs at the integer arithmetic required for cryptocurrency mining.
monthly_wage_to_break_even_by_article = $37.62 * work_hours_per_day * weekdays_per_week * weeks_per_month = $37.62 * 9 * 5 * (52 / 12) = $7335.9. Let assume the tax is 35% of wage. monthly_rent_by_article = $7335.9 * (1 - 35%) = $4768.335

Wow... that is prohibiting. So you have to earn $7335.9 * 12 / 2 = $88030.8 / 2 = $44015.4 a year to break even if you are sharing a 2br apartment... Are rent price in some less urban area of SF much cheaper (say 20 minutes drive from Pacific Heights)?

Could a solution to rising rent price be some brave enough founders migrating tech startups to a new growing area, say rtp? Just like what Eventbrite did when hot startups were all in valley but Eventbrtie chose SF at then.
If you could accurately enough define all of the terms in your questions to the point that any imaginable evidence would answer them, I might be interested in the answers.

Unfortunately there don't exist definitions that concrete yet, which means that you haven't even asked a real question. That's why you're being downvoted.
Interesting project. It would be cool to see the heartbeat contextualized with what you were doing at the moment.
Two words. "Build Up". San Francisco needs high rise apartments.
I have a third-generation Kindle 3G (edit: [2]), and I'm happy with it - since I never used a cover I got a few broken "pixels" on the display, but these are not very annoying, they look more like ink smudges. I'll probably get the new Paperwhite next (and definitely with a cover!).

For software I use Calibre, I have never used Amazon's own thing. If I buy from Amazon I use the USB cable and Calibre to transfer it, the WLAN/whispernet is always off. That way battery lasts for about a month and I don't get any "unexpected surprises" from Amazon [1]

I have held the Kobo in store and it's pretty much identical in terms of dimensions/clarity/weight. Not sure about the rest.

[1] Like this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...

[2] Here's one on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazon-Kindle-3rd-Generation-WI-FI-w...
I like the idea but I'd want one that keeps the data locally. Is there such thing?
Someone should implement this in Go :)
Regexr Redesign
> Without oxygen the brain can only survive for about 5 minutes before the damage is irreversible.
>
> However, at lower temperatures, cells need less oxygen because all chemical reactions slow down.

While it may imply you can "restart" a body, it isn't what the article is saying. Simply the brain is running in a state where oxygen utilisation is so low, that it can survive without an external supply for periods of more than an hour (but definitely not for long periods). And, by replacing the blood, patients can be brought to this state much faster than other techniques.
With that resolution have you had any problems with text being too small and with adjusting DPI settings?
Not when it is in a high risk zone with respect to earthquakes.
I'm not familiar with Rails, but the code looks simple enough. Is it easy for me to install and run it? I mean, can I just do the following?

- (Install ruby and rails)

- git clone https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

- bundle

- rails server
The Inside Story of How Facebook Got Oculus VR
> I think we can say for certainty that HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Sure, but maybe their relevance will change?
https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
Seconded. Plus, steel frames are super durable, and have a nice amount of give to them.
Linux Cheatsheets
I see a discrepancy between the listing of the 10 most populous nations, and the counter...

http://i.imgur.com/Jm9uQSF.png 3. United States	318,892,103

But the counter for the USA (as I write this) says: 317,760,552.
What's FMR?

"Housing wage for two bedroom FMR"

Also what does this all mean? What percentage of their income is this representing to afford this house?

The article was surprisingly short of this information even though it was 4 pages long.
A fountain pen.

I grew up using pencils and ballpoint pens. I swore off fountain pens after some frustrating, messy experiences. In hindsight, I think I still lacked the fine motor skills necessary to get the best out of a fountain pen.

I took an interest again when I started working on a website selling fancy $2000 models, but the one I bought was less then $10. In my downtime I retrained my hand, and learned traditional copperplate-style handwriting.

Now, the simple act of signing my name is a completely different experience -- it feels like an act of craftsmanship.

But do buy a CHEAP one first. If you're used to writing with a ballpoint you'll be putting far too much pressure on the paper, and you'll probably ruin a nib or two before you get used to it.
That's actually not true, it depends on what country you're from. By default, you need a visa to enter the US, even for short visits. However, if you're from one of the countries on this page, then the visa requirement is waived for visits < 90 days:

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-wai...
Like... say, Tokyo?
Turkish Court Overturns Gov't Ban on Twitter.
The only reason to live in San Francisco on minimum wage is if you want to break into some line of work that only exist in SF and pays minimum wage for entry level position with significant increase expected in near future. In this case you can live 2 person per room and consider it extension of college experience. Really nothing bad about it and minimum wage can pay for it.

Otherwise you are insane to continue living in one of the most expensive cities on minimum wage. Complaining about it is like complaining that minimum wage does not pay for black caviar.
Tokyo's been doing it for a while
I Googled a received a few results - I want to say the terms I used were "osx vps"
Google I/O 2014 Developer Conference and Registration Dates Announced
Most of the damage from a gunshot wound doesn't come from the hole, but rather from the cavitation the flesh is subject to as the bullet passes through it. The shock wave from a physical impact of that magnitude absolutely rends flesh.
There have been like 13 exchanges that have died and taken customers' funds with them, not just Mt. Gox.
Doesn't help if you click somewhere by accident and delete an email without noticing.
Virtual Machines as the future
It doesn't - the undo action is not a permanent option since it is only a replacement for a yes/no prompt. The implementation then could be a delayed action. Might not work for all use cases, but good enough for most, especially in a start up situation.
"@rabite, who is in solitary confinement ... isn't allowed to have books"
Hierarchy of hazard control
Stumble Uporn: removes almost all the work of watching porn
To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic (2013)
The problem, which I can't figure out a way to solve, is that any exchange can die at any time due to massive theft or failure. When this happens, customers will lose all of their funds.

People have mentioned m-of-n transactions as one possible solution, which means that the customer and the exchange both have to approve of any transaction involving the customer's funds. But this may preclude realtime trading, which is usually one of the main purposes of an exchange.

It's a tough problem, and there may be a solution. I'm continuing to think about it.
Premium membership with Fitbit ($60/year) allows for export of the data http://www.fitbit.com/premium/export

Withings Pulse has a data export function too: https://withings.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201488977-How...
That's quite understandable. But this is a question that's going to have to be answered at some point in the future, especially for legal reasons. I'm sure someone's already asked it with regards to cryogenics. I would personally prefer the procedure to death, but if it becomes widespread enough to be used for life extension, I'm not really sure.
I don't know why this was downvoted. While fanciful and far-ranging, it was asked in good faith.
Look up the 1989 earthquake. You'll see lots of photos of stick framed Victorians that failed. The highrises (which are designed to withstand earthquakes) are still here.
I pay $1750 for a 1br in San Mateo, and I feel like I have a great deal, rent is insane out here. let me frame it like this my mortgage, including taxes and insurance for a 4br house near the beach in Florida is $600/mo.
I don't think it is too far off. Recently an exoplanet with a long elliptical orbit was discovered:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16501-elliptical-orbit...

Also it could be a brown dwarf which are hard to detect but will be inline with typical binary star systems observed elsewhere. It is hardly unlikely that our own sun is an exception to the rule.

Not to mention, the 'nemesis' theory is speculated by some main-stream astronomers.
Polymer is also currently over 500 KB total. We are still a while away from Polymer being ready. It has been in alpha for almost a year now.
This has been around a long time in one form or another. I remember being fascinated by it as a kid in the early 90s when I was first introduced to the Internet. (Does anyone have a screenshot for comparison? Sadly it doesn't seem to be on archive.org.)
In this context it is probably referring to Fair Market Rent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_market_rent
That's true to a degree. That said, I think its fair to recognize that there are factors other than economic opportunity that prevent people from moving e.g. family in the area, networking, school etc. We also need to acknowledge that there will always be a need for a certain number of low-wage jobs and those people have to be somewhere accessible. Finally, there is a reasonable argument for cultural diversity and continuity. For all of those reasons, it does behoove us to think about what can be done to improve the housing situation.

It does seem like the market is responding though. Anecdotally, I'm seeing lots of new development in San Jose and they're all high-rise style buildings that should add significantly to the overall housing supply.
Yeah but MS would have made it Windows/Xbox only. No Linux/Steam OS support...
there's a lot of options, and it's disingenuous to frame it like this.

I do not think it's a disingenuous way to frame the challenge facing people who live in the area. Two-bedroom apartments should not be the privilege of those in a certain stratum of society and above. They should be something that is within reach of nearly everyone. Nor should housing in the San Jose area become the domain of a privileged minority.
Remy Daniels Co. Farm Pond [rock]
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1407357&seqN...
Ubuntu Reference
This is a huge achievement. I'm an amature 5-dan (aga) and I would not bet on myself against a 9d pro with a four stone handicap. It's amazing how far computer go has come in the last few years.
They are available. However, much like how your average Googler can't afford a two bedroom apartment on 5th Avenue in NYC, most people can't afford a two bedroom apartment in the city of San Francisco.

You unfortunately have to find a balance between location and luxury.
Pro tip. You can ballpark hourly wage to an annual income by multiplying by 2,000 (or doubling then multiplying by 1000).

So $37.62/hr works out roughly to about 75k/year, pre-tax. Not exact, just a rule of thumb. Works out to within a few % usually.
Actually San Francisco is building up; they will have thousands of new apartments coming out in the next 5-10 years. There's a ton of high rise development going on in SOMA[0] (the business/metropolitan area) along with less commercial areas like hayes valley.

The problem is that those units will probably still be ridiculously expensive. The best solution is fixing public transportation between SF and the cheaper suburbs to the south. Right now commuting to San Francisco is a nightmare just because getting in out of the city by car is a huge bottleneck. Also, the train only goes about half a mile into the most southern part of the city.. [1]

0: http://vimeo.com/70447799

1: https://www.google.com/maps/search/san+francisco+cal+train/@...
A spotify subscription, any song ever at your fingertips, all day. I just hope those guys do the same thing with movies.
Rupert Murdoch picks son, Lachlan, to head News Corp
xkcd has done something similar.

https://xkcd.com/1331/

(I probably stared at that for a good 15 minutes the first time I saw it.)
Curious.. why don't you live in Florida then? What are the reasons, tangible and intangible for living in San Mateo instead?
I have. Actually, that was the major problem I had with running until recently. This breaks the $100 rule but these shoes really made life easier for me:
http://www.zappos.com/asics-gel-kayano-19-neon-green-lightni...

Paired with some Dr. Scholl's sports gel inserts and a very slow rate of increase in distance and I was able to get to the 5K level.

I always denounced expensive shoes as heavily marked up brand mongering, but at least for athletic performance you really get what you pay for. I would recommend hitting up a real shoe store and getting fitted with the right shoes by a pro.
Hawaii resident here...

In 1996 I was making $27.95 per hour.

I'm not going to say what I earn now, but it's not that great.
>There are many parts of the world where this isn't the case.

There are even more parts of the world where the "rule of law" is what opresses people rather than criminals. Dictatorships, third world monarchies, banana republics etc. And sometimes, criminals and an opressive government go hand in hand, as in some latin american countries...
Two words. "Remote workers".