skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How in the hell is this a start-up? It's a website.
Ask HN: Idea Sunday is awesome... but now what? Let's build something.
Since "Idea Sunday" started a few weeks ago, I look forward to reading through the comments every Sunday. But HN is better than just ideas...let's execute on one each week and create some real value by making it into a reality.

We've got every kind of hacker on here (eng, biz, data, mkt...). Let's start a project and collaborate.

We can wrap up Idea Sunday with a poll of the top 10 ideas (via comments in Idea Sunday thread) and all vote on one project to build as a community each week.

Who's in.
I like this.

One thing not mentioned that I've found over the years is that sometimes asking for the higher rate from the start increases the clients perceived value of you.

This was put succinctly by an old boss of mine "serious people charge serious money".

He was full of these another that stuck with me is "Don't charge what you think you are worth, charge what they think you are worth", on one system I built I went in with a price I thought was really high, got the job and then found out afterward I was still significantly cheaper than the other company that had bid on the contract though sometimes that is just the way it goes.
The torus design really makes it so that it's uphill both ways. That would change the "Back in my day" jokes forever.
as social media is pretty much anywhere people chat or gather on the internet wouldnt this site be part of a social media strategy? in some cases posting to hacker news just hoping on a wish and a prayer it gets picked up is some startups strategys.
so in short. yes its a very valid strategy.
This should now no longer be the case. There are links to both a FAQ to the "Current course" materials on the website.
A tablet (iPad or Android) game which is designed to be used while exercising.

Use ANT or Bluetooth 4.0LE to tie into a treadmill, bike, or other exercise equipment to get output measurements (speed); ideally, find some devices which allow two way commands (not common at all right now).

Networked games against other people, or vs. computer or past personal performance. The interesting part is a "use while running" interface for the touchscreen, requiring inputs (using gross motor skills, not fine control) to do things in-game while retaining performance. Or maybe use audio output for instructions (i.e. "press the blue button, then the red, then the green" while keeping heart BPM above 130, and targets moving on screen.
for pure motivation, having the money go to a nemesis would be hard to beat.
People, please keep in mind that "contributing" is not just limited to pull requests. I would consider filing bug reports, answer SO questions, and participate in IRC to be contributing.
That might actually be the same original project I was referring to.
I think https://www.beeminder.com/ have been doing that for years, although with a cut going to charity.
Entrepreneur or Unemployed?
Disclaimer: I'm not very experienced with CG, but I think your intuition is correct on CG, for lots of 'boilerplate' game or photoshop programming.

However, I do think you can find plenty of examples in academia. For example, applying PCA

http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~hlavac/TeachPresEn/11ImageProc/15PC...

(Perhaps this is just the result of crossover between CG and ML/Statistics here).

Not a good sell, but perhaps someone with more experience can chime in.
I think the distros shared a lot of blame for the ntp ddos attacks. The defaults were ridiculous. I want to scream every time I see `restrict default kod blah blah` without `limited`. Somewhere someone threw up that terrible restrict statement and it got copied everywhere. KOD without `limited` is useless and a good indicator the maintainer never read the docs: "If the kod flag is used in a restriction which does not have the limited flag, no KoD responses will result." As far as alternatives to the ntp reference implementation go I like Miroslav's chrony, especially for things like laptops with intermittent connectivity and power saving concerns.
Ask HN: Need of a much better GitHub/Gitlab?
Github [1] has become slow and the hosted solution (enterprise version) is too costly, so we have been using Gitlab which is a Github like repository hosting platform that also has issue tracking and merge/pull request based workflow and integration with its CI (gitlab-ci project).

In the past couple of months, we've been facing a lot of problems for example -- Gitlab has broken our development workflow (due to bugs in it), the web hooks would stop working, the merge request diffs would be too slow to load, sometimes the ruby based backend would blow up and give us 500 etc. So, we've started working on a single page webapp based on Go and AngularJS that just does minimalistic things that we need. We wanted a tool that is easy to manage and install so we chose Go (single binary) and we wanted to keep the frontend easy to implement and use so we chose AngularJS (single page app).

What are the pain points you've faced while using these tools, and what features etc. you want in it and will you fund development of such an opensource project that solves these problems. What other opensource or cheaper hosted git etc. solutions do you use? Our team of three is planning to work on this project full-time but want to survey if crowd funded money would be enough to support us for at least a year till we figure out other ways to sustain while giving all our time and energy to the product.

[1] http://github.com
[2] http://gitlab.org
If you read the article, you would know that your exposure is a small fractional increment over normal backgroud radiation exposure.
Those "real" painted pictures give me always a kind of warm feeling compared to the sharp digital paintings.

But it may have been caused by all that SciFi covers I've seen as a child.
These titles annoy me too, it's kind of expected that the new release is better than than the previous one.
I don't think a tethered balloon would be an ideal platform for such a directional antenna in any vaguely windy location, you need a lot of stability for it to be useful. I'm having difficult imagining any way to make that work which isn't essentially a stayed vertical support with the balloon ... probably not at net helping.
One thing I did after being smashed with visitors from Facebook was building a feature switch were I can turn off the most intense functions of the site. It have worked well.

Loadtesting helps to determinate this features is and how your site will react under load.

Caching is probably the first step if you're not already doing that.
Just do not watch gravity movie tonight. on a serious note, it's friggi' amazing and makes me feel proud of our race every single day.
Just a fun fact. Both Dart and Go support MIPS.
What's next - cell phones should only call people and nothing else? Watches should only tell us the time?
Ignore the "waste" element of the title and understand that they're saying that if you're living in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, and everything operates ideally, you'll undergo less radiation than near a coal plant. Which is quite reasonable.

Yet the waste of nuclear plant isn't the harmless water vapours coming out of cooling towers -- which is what this article bizarrely focuses on -- but instead the used fuel that will need to be contained and managed for tens of thousands of years. Further the fear of the nuclear industry isn't ideal situations, which is manageable, but situations like Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi: The "super promise 100x never going to happen triple safeguard" sort. A single major incident suddenly undoes much of that good many times over.
I hate cgit's log view, they should at least be honest and call it shortlog. Most importantly the link you provide displays everything from src, I could just browse the source-changes list if I wanted to see everything. The freshbsd and rampage links allow you to see just the libssl changes.
Germany is definitely not a tea country, yet everyone I know has an electric kettle.
People keep bringing up that they'd like the service more if it gave the funds to a friend or a charity. Reminder: The mission of the site is to make you want to do the thing rather than pay money. Giving to a good cause would be a disincentive, or reason not to "just fucking do it".

Heck, if the site really wants to maximize it's value to users for the stated goal, it should probably donate the majority (or a token amount) to the Church of Scientology.
As I understand it, you wouldn't need to reach escape velocity in a space elevator.

Think about it this way, if instead of an elevator, you have a space ladder, in theory (if you have unlimited energy) you could climb to whatever height you want, without reaching escape velocity.

AFAIK escape velocity is the minimum required to "throw" something away from earth such as it would never come back because of gravity.
After 3 scrubs most of our non-critical colleagues left the cape, but the view of our payloads in the trunk after 2nd stage sep made it all worthwhile. It's amazing what SpaceX has been able to accomplish and reinvent in a business this risk-averse and I can't wait to see what's next.
I don't agree. An LTS release is not the place to introduce such an huge change. An LTS is a stable release, and should include only stable, well-tested software.

I, for one, hope they'll introduce Mir in the "right" way (to be honest, I hope they'll just drop it and switch to Wayland, but that's another story), which mean a release with only X and alongside a Developer Preview with Mir, then a release with both X and Mir installed, but with X the default and an easy way to switch for the user, and then a release with Mir by default (but X still available). After that, we can talk about an LTS with Mir.

And, even assuming Mir is ready for the desktop (it isn't), the support everywhere is missing. No toolkit has official Mir support, there are only some downstream patch by Canonical for Qt (and maybe Gtk3? I'm not sure). There is pretty much no driver support for Mir (I think only the Intel driver has what they consider stable support, and even there is all downstream).

What's the point of shipping with Mir if it mean using XMir for every single application (and XMir is not ready for the desktop as well), a subpar experience for users since it's not well tested, and it would have to failback to X for most configurations anyway.
I'm surprised that no one has brought up that this is also solved at the protocol level with SPDY and eventually HTTP 2 (and by HTTP pipelining, which is sadly never going to happen). Not a silver bullet, but a bit more sane than unzipping a set of images in JS.
"most of the growth in startups was propelled by 35- to 44-year-olds, followed by people 55 to 64."

Well, since those people need money too, and the industry is hesitant to hire them, what else should have happened?
When you actually use it, WiFi cracking will be the last thing you're suspected of. Clever!
They're trying to take some of the heat off of Dorian Nakamoto, maybe.
If you are customizing the UI then you are already in "power user" territory. The only alternative would be to go the KDE route and use hundreds of checkboxes and select boxes for changing every little thing in the UI.
A Look at the Zendesk S-1 (IPO)
> a lot more electrical sensors than today (maybe 16 to 256, something on that order)

And you will basically have brain-controlled port. Then emulating normal(-ish) human hand becomes kinda boring thing to do. Because you can use a “different” hand. Or plug in into music synthesiser. Endless possibilities.

> Once we had good data, training a neural net to do the mapping to actuators seems like a basic problem

You don't strictly need it. Human brain is pretty ok with learning all kind of weird stuff.
It was. He should have mentioned you can go to settings > security & privacy > search and disable the dash internet search results. Very easy through the GUI.
JLENS works with a variety of sensors (optical and RF) today, although I'm more familiar with the smaller systems (just a big tower with a payload on top)
Contest terms include:

4) Add a “© 1977-2014 Richard Garriott” at the beginning.
5) May include an addition of “Ported by DEVELOPER NAME”.
6) Must agree that all rights to this port remain property of Richard Garriott
> What resources does a highly migratory hunter-gatherer band actually have to take?

Food.

> how exactly would one band of hunter gatherers continually oppress another band of hunter gatherers over a period of time?

They wouldn't, they'd just kill them before the need arises. But if they really wanted to, out of greed or laziness, they'd do what humans have done for thousands of years. Establish a hierarchy based on power and violence, and extort taxes.
Can they make a better black box pinger?
...otherwise this multinational, multi-billion dollar corporation could've avoided the entire market. /s

(Shrug) They could always focus on making the best TV display they possibly can, and see how that works out for them. Nobody asked them to build the next-generation WebTV.
For some reason, I find this idea hilarious. It's a great rethinking of the recipe model. It's also a typical engineer idea; it's the kind of idea few people in my environment would come up with.
I'm currently working on a Google groups/Google plus alternative for communicating and sharing information between one another. It's very early beta stages at the moment but maybe worth you checking out https://honbu.io
I'm working on an idea that does this but is more generic than just cooking. Look out for the public beta in September.
LTS releases rarely introduce huge changes, they just focus on increasing stability and polishing features from the preceeding non-LTS releases.
It's either that or Twitter will be completely blocked in Turkey. They're playing a tough game but at least it's a game that the Turkish public can play too, as long as you're faster than the censors.

The alternative is for the government to take down the entire game field.
I may have missed something in my quick read, but isn't this a 0 bit processor?

There is only one instruction, and no No-op,

To be a one bit, shouldn't there be 2 instructions? one for 0 and one for 1.

Again I apologize if I missed something, I get a little fuzzy about what a Single operation processor should be since 1 bit has 2 states.
Xkcd: Free Speech
Volunteers: Nonprofits Really Want Their Money, Not Their Bodies
1. Combining the mio water flavoring , which gets very good reviews in his category ,into a cap of a reusable water bottle ,similar to pillid[2]

2. Pcb layout design, in the electronics industry, is somewhat similar to games like pipes. So why not gamify pcb layout[3] ?

3. Recently i read some interesting research about some electronic circuit. It would have been very useful to get access to a full diagram/layout and a module to buy and play with.

[2]http://store.nalgene.com/product-p/pillid.htm

[3]http://www.chipestimate.com/blogs/IPInsider/?p=2126
I have a Vizio "smart tv" which is about as "smart"
If ever a headline deserved to be changed from the original statement on HN, it's this one. Not only is it linkbait, it's also a lie.

Even the footnote introduced by the publisher admits the headline is, at best, misleading. Sure, it's true, in a trivial sense, that nuclear waste when stored in a manner that effectively shields it from emitting radiation into the surrounding environment emits less radiation into the surrounding environment than a relatively benign substance emitted indiscriminately into the surrounding environment. If the article were trying to claim that coal dust in itself was particularly harmful that might still be an interesting comparison. But as it is, for those of us that know that properly-functioning nuclear plants don't pump nuclear waste into the surrounding atmosphere but do create storage hazards, it's about as insulting to the intelligence as a headline claiming that shandy[1] is more likely to cause alcohol poisoning than absinthe[2]

[1]ingested [2]not ingested.
Except for that re-implementation of the registry in Gnome where ´rm .config/sthg´ doesn't work anymore but you have to:

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.rhythmbox
gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.rhythmbox.display-page-tree
gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.rhythmbox.library
(...)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/7979/how-can-i-reset-all-rhyt...

(had to do that today to unbork an ipod which rhythmbox wouln't play along anymore)
I'm not sure that "never" is a good word to use, here. There are many cases I can think of where it'd be worth your while to negotiate your freelance rate:

- The client is a non-profit or under-funded project that has little money but you can help out because you support the good they're trying to do in the world.

- The client is offering you a huge chunk of work, and the overhead they're removing from your life (finding other clients to fill the time, for example) is worth a few bucks off of your hourly rate.

- The client can offer other incentives to offset the hourly discount. Like a client that wants you to work from the office all the time might be willing to let you work from home.

- It's a project you really want to work on and that's the only way to make it work.

"Clients obsessed with nickel and diming are pathological." This is nonsense. Clients -- just like you -- have every right to negotiate. But freelancers who are unwilling to be flexible when dealing with their clients are, to quote South Park, "going to have a bad time."
Why accept orders from Turkey and not e.g. Egypt, Iran, etc.?
Using your figures each pixel is ~1.5E9 m and the Sun's diameter is ~1.4E9 m, which would be 1 pixel with appropriate rounding; so you'd see the sun.
I'm a software developer, but I got a copy of solid works from work. I tried to design a Garmin mount dog collar and failed miserably. I then asked a mechanical engineer to do it for me and he whipped it up in a few minutes. I was humbled by how hard it is to design physical products.

If anybody wants to track their dog:
http://www.shapeways.com/model/1805713/dog-collar-garmin-mou...
1) attach filter holder & filter.
2) pour through a bit of hot water to wash it all.
3) take off the filter & filter holder.
4) put plunger in about 1 inch
5) turn it upside down, so it's sitting on the plunger.
6) put the ground coffee inside, so it's resting on the plunger rubber head.
7) pour hot water in
8) let it brew as long as you like - thus the french press type taste using larger grounds, etc.
9) attach filter & holder
10) turn upside down and place as normal onto a cup (you need to be fast!), and press as normal

This way, you get a longer brew time, but still get the benefits of finer paper filtering, easy cleaning, etc.

I often use this method for columbian light roasted coffees, I feel it works better for some reason. You can use less coffee, and a much coarser grind. For some coffees, and for "espresso"-ish things, it doesn't work so great though.

That's what's cool - you can tweak so much with how long you brew, temperature, grind, etc.
The changes were small, but there were definitely improvements to the UI. More smooth transitions including the lock screen which now uses lightdm instead of GTK. The windows are now without borders so it looks much cleaner.
I had an Irish Claddagh ring before I met my husband. It's a traditional friendship/engagement/wedding ring, all in one. Had it for years. When I got engaged, put it on the left hand with the pointing out (to show that I was engaged). When we got married, it pointed in. We spent $50 to replace the glass center with a synthetic emerald. I get more questions and comments on it than a diamond would (questions about culture, symbolism, etc). I personally don't like diamonds for various reasons, neither does my sister who got a blue sapphire or something like that. So I agree, women don't care as much about diamonds. Some want them since they are culturally programmed to, some like the storybook feeling of having a diamond, some get diamonds since that is what the men think they want.
Exactly like this (sad smile).
I find that flash one fantastic, with the stars. I'll be returning to it often.
The whole idea of using phones to "call" people is absurd, practically barbaric. No one even does that anymore, having to do your own talking, memorizing numbers... it's too much work. This so-called 'feature' should be removed from all future phones and replaced with an app which correlates the social media posts from your friends and translates them to audio using natural speech synthesis.
As a viewer of the UK "Dragon's Den" show, this is quite interesting to me. Firstly, are all people required to give the same equity? And revenue sharing is a possibility? Also, the percentages seem very low. What are the investments typically like?

On the UK version, investments are usually something like £80,000 for 30% of the business. Often it ends up with two of the Dragons sharing the investment. Candidates say they are looking for £X for Y%, and they are only allowed to take the offer if they get the full amount, but it often ends up coming at a much higher percentage share.

One thing that has been pointed out several times in UK media however is the number of contracts that fall through, and actually the often poor support that those who get funded receive from the Dragons. I'm not sure if this is part of the US show, but the advice, support, contacts etc of the Dragons is often a driving factor for people coming on the show, with money being a bit less important.
Full employment theorem [for Computer Scientists]
They have blocked twitter before, Youtube is even blocked right now. But knowing twitter is starting to bow Turkish government’s requests is not assuring anyone.

It's blocking accounts right now. But what may come afterwards is really worrisome. Also Starting with Turkish government will mean other governments will start the same tactics against Twitter.

So any non-Turkish citizen should fear about what is about to come.
Absolutely. You probably want something like CircleCI (disclaimer: I work there). Here's our doc on deploying to GAE: https://circleci.com/docs/deploy-google-app-engine.
Too late for that.

I don't live in my AirBNB's. I don't want to be friends with all of the people who stay at my places. I am running hotels where maid service is your responsibility, or you can pay an additional fee.

I have really nice places. They are cheaper than hotels, and you get way more space. I would love to stay at their equivalents in other places. But I don't want to make friends with all the people who stay at my places, or the places I might stay.

If AirBNB is going to work, it needs to be looking at ways to be more like TimeShares that you buy on a moment's notice, and less like a couch surfing site.

It needs to be mainstream, not more hippy.

Yes, it needed that hippy core to get started, but to really grow it has to transition from the hippy core to mainstream. You can't be a $10B company with a target audience that is only people who all want to be friends. That may be sad, but it is the truth of business.
I'm working on 2 of the ideas that I proposed today and a couple weeks ago. It might take a while (I have other projects, and I'm a full-time student), but yes, I'll complete those.

Also, I think polling might not be the most efficient way to chose what to work on. I'd say let people decide what they want to work on, rather than crowdsourcing the decision.