skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so sad, because the Wright Brothers really were innovative. Not just the control system of planes, but the system of discovering that: they realized that building and testing a whole aircraft was too time consuming (not to mention risky), so they made a wind tunnel, and ran years of tests on models.

The first successful man-powered aircraft (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor) also found ways to iterate more quickly.

But, as a creator, I can really empathise with Wilbur Wright's feeling, tragic and short-sighted though it is: they thought of it; they put all their blood, sweat and tears into it, for years and years; they were the first to climb this mountain; therefore, it's their's.

Though it seems more artistic ego than "greed" to me.
I don't understand all the fuzz about Markdown. Doesn't people realize that it exists other much more powerful lightweight markup languages like AsciiDoc?
You are right. We actually have all the resources needed to overcome this problem and we've fabbed our own chips in our garages. Some of us play with sparcs, vaxen, arms, weird mips based toys and other such things to stay inspired and maintain sanity.
Glad I read HN. Why isn't this checked by default?
How do I keep my resume competitive while working on legacy systems?
I'm starting my first job after college soon. Its working on a mid scale (10-100k users) server side application written in C++....running on the openVMS OS, an OS that almost nobody uses.

My ambition is to get a job doing distributed systems at google or amazon. How do I keep my resume competitive for these kinds of openings given that I'll be working on tech that nobody cares about?
A great deal of performance differentiation in hardware comes from the drivers themselves, not the underlying hardware. This is evidenced in things like differing performance in similar situations using different OSes, such as a game in Windows vs. the same game in Linux (assuming they both us OpenGL).

The techniques that companies use to improve performance on their hardware are almost as complex and important as the hardware itself. This isn't to say that there isn't a benefit in open-sourcing drivers, just that companies are justified in being weary of open-sourcing their drivers.
That means the WRT1900AC is not one of your choices yet, right?

Also, I'm personally very bummed by the fact it has Marvell WiFi. They tend to be really mediocre and buggy, both in Windows, Linux and embedded applications.
Joe Six Pack already pays a basic charge for his access to the grid.

The issue seems to be that PoCos have decided to mix all the infrastructure costs into the variable price of the energy you consume. When your solar power makes you a net producer of energy, that scheme no longer works. But I don't see why we have to institute a new tax to fix their broken pricing model.
Yup. I thought it was part if the joke (that in a few generations, we might pronounce old language names differently).
Substance – Towards open digital publishing
Email Marketing Inspiration: Awesome examples of Standout Emails
Man, this is really weird.
Just a few hours ago I came up with what I think is an awesome for a tax-related service.
I was reading HN, as I do daily, before I decided to start Googling for possible competitors. Imagine my surprise when Google brought me back to HN, to a post from just a few hours ago that I somehow managed to miss.
Workflowy Journal
In a very long piece of writing, I describe my workflow which is the digitalise version of Bullet Journal implemented on Workflowy! I call it Workflowy Journal.
Show HN: Repeeet – making tweet repeating super simple
Tplink MR3020 is the cheapest in India, do try it you can create lot of application with this router
Same goes for Chromium 34.0.1847.116 on Arch.
Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library
This is actually how you say it in Russian. Try Google Translate.
This has been flagged because it is off-topic for HN.
Almost looks like Slate Docs[1].

1. https://github.com/tripit/slate
Custom bindings which generate DOM get you some of the way, but not quite the whole way. One of the disadvantages with custom bindings is that they are rather tightly bound to how the view model looks. If your binding expects something which isn't directly in your view model (at the right level) and perhaps requires a little transformation of your view model, you sometimes end up adding "synthetic" computed observables just to transform from your real view model to the view model that the custom binding expects. This is not really encapsulated very well. (I hope that makes sense, it's kind of hard for me to explain.)

In React it's just simple JS which you write exactly where you need it, namely where you instantiate your component -- it doesn't even have to escape the scope (vs. KO where it "pollutes" the view model in the "owning" component so to speak).

EDIT: A little addendum: It's been a while since I've used KO in any serious way, but another issue is that of embedding arbitrary components inside another. One thing is generating DOM from whole cloth, but if I have a component which just takes other components as input then the KO model breaks down.
Not a fortuneteller but my guess is they're giving up way too early. One of the few mass-market, non-tech companies that actually had a shot in wearables.
LPLC – low power, low cost PIC18 development board
> No, your customer will not get angry if you don't implement all their suggestions.

Actually, they probably will... and then either they'll go find a better replacement for your product, or implement it themselves/find someone to (this happens with various proprietary web apps I'm forced to use. :)
About Those Slangs…
for the curious, here's the bill itself: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20ENR/SB/SB...
To clarify your point - From the HN guidelines:

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I'd have thought the rubber tire was easier on the axe if you miss.
> A downside to PostScript is that it is a Turing-complete programming language

I could be guessing, but why exactly do you say it's a downside?
I'm pretty sure that in the UK, participants in tax avoidance schemes are required to log details of them with HMRC under the DOTAS (Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes) rules. There are a variety of tests which determine whether or not a particular arrangement is disclosable.
Based on the issues Hawaii has had, this may not be as stupid as the Yahoo writer makes it sound:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solar-boom-so-su...
I have been sticking to TP-LINK products lately. They and Buffalo seem pretty open and reasonably priced. Just a personal preference though. Lots of people I know are happy with Asus, Linksys, etc.

Also, from what I understand Microtik routers are a great alternative to OpenWRT, though I have not used them myself.
I've never heard of AsciiDoc, but I'd say the biggest advantage that Markdown has is its ubiquity. It's used by GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit, and even Tumblr has an option for it.
Likely a portion of the refund.
Knowing this, can anyone enlighten me on why you'd buy this router over the Netgear R7000? It seems to be a worse router from the reviews I've seen, albeit with better storage performance.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/323...
stop making wearable hardware

...including shoes?
Total market / large number of players = unsustainable business.
To continue your point, often companies tier their products by their firmware to save development/manufacturing costs. If anyone can change the firmware, they may be able to make a $99 router perform like a $599 router (if I recall this was one of the big pulls for open-wrt or dd-wrt on the linksys 54g).
Highly unlikely, the big UAVs tend to contain top secret avionics and we don't always want the world to know the capabilities of their payloads. It might be possible, but it would be a lot easier to call IAI or Northrop and ask if they would rent it to you.
Client hasn't paid and is avoiding contact, what to do?
Cheers guys!

Bare in mind, I have a contract in place as well - so if he refuses to pay the last instalment there could be a legal conflict there as well.

I should note that he's paid the prior payments, although, this is the last/final payment and I haven't heard from him in over a week. I've sent him text messages, Skype messages, and even called him on his mobile with no response.

I'm getting a little concerned at this point - so, what is the best course of action? I'm not opposed to taking legal action but ideally would like that to be my last resort, of course.

Any and all advice is welcome!!

Thanks!
Jim Waters
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...

Articles on the front page receive roughly 700 page views per hour.

Obviously, depends very much on time of day, attractiveness of the title etc.
Commodore C64 [1982]
"While many of his claims are a bit outlandish or bold, few, if any, are demonstrably false."

I really like the way this website is written. (=
The metaphor doesn't seem to be helping.

History doesn't build software. That takes people using a process and embedded in a culture. If there's some sort of long-lasting Yahoo-ness, it's embodied in that.

I think the other guy's plan is crazy. But Yahoo has spent a lot of years being a has-been coasting on the strengths of former glory. I think reasonable people can say that the enormous inertia you describe is too much to overcome, and that you might as well not bother trying to turn it. That would involve just letting it coast slowly to wherever it's going, squeezing out profits as long as you can.

Yahoo probably won't do that on its own, but that's exactly what a sufficiently large corporate raider might do with it.
Revision 2014 live coding round one
Now you just need to design a balanced ternary computer which uses lambda calculus instead of Boolean logic and you will be a quarter of the way to getting rid of the gunk left over from the birth of computers when people were arguing if relays or vacuum tubes were the way of the future.

The one thing I have noticed all the people with "philosophical" objections to bloat have in common is that they are largely ignorant of the real hardware and software they are coding on. This was brought nowhere better to the front than in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv9L-WIu0s where they showed that the tools written because gnu tools were too big when measured in a running computer take up just as many resources.
> I don't believe it's possible to tell whether a document is well formed.

http://json-schema.org/
I did not say Jimmy Carr admitted criminal wrongdoing.

I am well aware of the distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion, but in many jurisdictions (including the UK) there is legislation that also renders tax avoidance schemes illegal if the arrangements are sufficiently artificial or abusive.

Since the Carr affair, HMRC have implemented the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR). Although it has not, to my knowledge, been tested at a tax tribunal, I am fairly confident the arrangement Carr entered into would be deemed abusive under this new legislation.
Superlens beyond the diffraction limit
I'm seeing this from the bottom up in other areas. The general question being asked is "Isn't this actually just an app? Do we really need the device too?" And very often the answer is it's just an app.

The Google coming in factor is not to be underestimated, however, what appears to be going on there is Google effectively ensuring no one (except Apple) gets to make money on wearable hardware. Apple will steal the premium sector, again, (mix of iOS compatibility, prestige branding and likely a couple of out there features) but because Google seem to view it as a way to attach Google Now to your wrist first and potentially profitable app ecosystem very distant second they'll drive the price of the hardware down to the point Nike's decision here looks very wise indeed.

The ad/search business is to Google what Windows is to Microsoft, and in order to create new profit centres they really need to forget it.
You can also write curl after the pipe

cat <<REQUEST_BODY | curl http://localhost -d @-
{
"from" : 0,
"size" : 40
}
REQUEST_BODY
A very relevant line from this article:

"Unless you very quickly demonstrate that you know your own value by successfully negotiating more money and/or power, you are marked out as an exploitable clueless Loser."

If you are working long hours and aren't rapidly negotiating your way up and into serious equity then you are marking yourself as a sucker. Don't be surprised if they continue to exploit you.
I love their writing.

http://phabricator.org:

Review Code or just stare at it
Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted.

...

• Shows text in several different colors.

...

Have terrible software? Keep track of all the defects and problems with
your awful code using Maniphest.

• Keeps track of bugs.
• You can assign them to people.
• Maybe you could fix them eventually. (optional)

...

The arcanist command line tool gives you CLI access to most of Phabricator's
functionality.

• Many cryptic commands.
• ...

http://phacility.com/:

Phabricator, except you pay money for it.
Unfortunately, this requires MySQL. I guess it would be okay if you're already running that but I'd rather not introduce a third database daemon (after Postgres and Redis) to my servers.
Nice list here:
http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

I've so far done a 6 month part time course in computer programming, which has made self-learning a lot less intimidating.

For the last few days I've been learning C and Lisp with www.buildyourownlisp.com after that I plan to learn all about computers from logic gate up with www.nand2tetris.org, then algorithms on Coursera. There is so much to learn! But it's easy to be motivated in such a huge and interesting field.
Using 34.0.1847.120

It's checked by default, just looked.
Washing machine for men
I wish it had more than 4MB flash, but it is an awesome little box! The 4MB of flash just means you pretty much need to roll your own OpenWRT image if you want to change anything. A friend has one, and I have an MR3040 (3020 + 2000mAh battery) arriving today to hack around on to make it the perfect travel router for me.
Thanks to so many sharing their experience here.

I am considering using React but am stuck supporting IE7(!). Can anyone share their practical experience using React with clunky browsers?
With the iPhone having the M7 built-in is there any need for the Nike FuelBand? I find data from the M7 to be quite accurate. Seems like they can just create the software and let Apple (and eventually Android device makers) build the hardware.
> Startup-bucks are even worse than a lottery ticket, because of tax complications and money required to cover strike price.

There is also a major information asymmetry. They know the ins-and-outs of the stock types and likely acquisition scenarios. It is not likely you are going to go over the company financials and corporate documents during the interview process. You just have to hope they treat you fairly.
Synchronising isn't really an issue. You need to do a dc-ac conversion in any case, so you take the incoming mains feed and make that the reference for the ac modulator.
I wish Cloudflare or Google would get into the CA game; they'd be more than capable of doing OCSP checks on every use, and could issue very short lived certificates otherwise (weekly?)
> I think the real answer is compulsory licensing of patents.

The trouble with compulsory licensing is that it doesn't solve one of the most fundamental problems with software patents, which is how do you set the price? An iPhone is probably covered by some tens of thousand of patents. How much of the value of the iPhone should be attributed to each patent? There are too many patents to spend any real resources evaluating each individual patent; the lawyers fees would surpass the royalties. On the other hand, not looking closely creates a powerful market incentive (which is what has been happening) to file for thousands of low-quality patents, and thwarts the patent incentive to make significant inventions because high-quality patents requiring significant R&D are awarded no additional royalties over the crap.

On top of that, circumstances change quickly, and how do you respond to that? If you establish royalties for specific patents one year and the next year the new model comes out which is covered by all the old patents plus thousands of new ones, do the old patent holders get less money for the same patents until the royalties from a patent fall below the cost of filing for one, or does the price of a phone keep going up until they each cost $100,000 and everyone is forced to go back to pen and paper? And what do we do about free software -- percentage of zero and no money for the patent holder or fixed fee and free software ceases to exist?

Compulsory licensing can't fix software patents. They probably can't be fixed. The patent system was never designed to apply to products with zero marginal cost and a combinatorial explosion of patent liability.
Delphi was one of the greatest development environment ever created when you just "needed to get shit done".
Guiding user attention trough faces
Glad you've taken an introductory critical thinking course. This isn't ad-hominem. Raising doubts of the validity of someone's statement based on inherent conflict of interest is a valid line of argument.
I think the disruption the parent is talking about is the emotional anguish and existential soul-searching that occurs in empathetic individuals when their leader is taken from them. No, I don't think the disruption caused by traffic at all compares [1].

1: Los Angeles resident for ten years
My experience with unlimited time off is that it almost always still needs to be approved by your superior so whether it works or not depends on her. This is means you can have widely varied results. I like your suggestions but they inch closer to just having a set policy on PTO. So my suggestion is just be generous with PTO but have a limit. If you don't have a set limit then people who are intimidated by their superior will always ask for too little PTO. Set the social norm in your company and don't make it so up in the air.

Open vacation policies kind of feel like the theory behind offices with cubicals and open office spaces. Open offices and cubicals were originally created to encourage collaboration between employees by tearing down walls between people. Sounds good right! In practice this doesn't work because people are scared of being too loud or of interrupting other employees. I worked in an open office for a while, and it was horrible. It was such a boring place because everyone was trying to be so polite not to make noise for others.

I would love to see some numbers on whether open vacation policies encourage or discourage people to take more vacation. It may be positive now, but I have a feeling as it gets implemented by bigger companies it will turn into the cubical of our generation. Office Space 2, The Endless Vacation? You heard it hear first!
Or maybe the first wave of the next set of things becoming smart. $12 phone http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040 means maybe we get shoe-phones after all.
Yes yes yes. Delphi was amazing and still is really. I remember seeing it for the first time at a Borland conference and trying to explain what I saw to my team at the time. Just an amazing product. And super fast.
Even more amazing is that it was first reported on Secret a week ago: https://www.secret.ly/p/uxaztevdcicghcabkkczuzkpkz
Not true - there is one team in Government that could do this: the gov.uk team. http://gov.uk is hands down the best government site I've ever seen. I'd trust those guys to be able to deliver it.
A quick cursory glance on how Hawaii does energy seems to show some rather more important issues than stifling solar growth:

http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=HI#tabs-4
Ask HN: How do you plan to view family photos is 60 years?
As I change out a failing backup hard drive, I'm wondering what will happen to all of my family photos when I'm 80 years old? Or when I'm dead and gone?

Will my kids know where they are? If they're not technical, will they know how to keep moving them to fresher media? Will I remember to mention it to them once my health starts to fail? Will file formats, or disk formats, still be readable? I can't read anything on an 8" disk anymore.

Online/cloud might be an obvious answer now, but will I remember necessary password or email addresses in 40 more years? And will the photo site still exist? It will probably get bought and merged, and then the parent gets bought and merged, etc. Our industry is so young, it's hard to imagine any photo site lasting 50-100 years. IBM is probably our oldest example, and it is vastly different from who it was 30 years ago. Where would the photos be if they had had a storage service back in the 80s?

Though doing things on paper is hard to transmit and duplicate, it's pretty easy for it to survive a few hundred years.
Yeah. I work in this building and it terrifies me everyday. It does sway in the wind. You can hear the walls creek when the winds are high. Besides the complete fear that is instilled in my heart because this building was built in a flawed way it also has an absolute terrible elevator design.

The elevators are double-deckers. So the elevator actually has two rooms that move together. In the morning if you want to go to an even floor you have to enter from the basement level and if you want to go to an odd floor you have to enter from the lobby level. This results in the weird sensation that if you are going to a higher floor the elevators often stop but the doors do not open. Probably related to the weird design the elevators break down often and with or without an elevator set out of commission there are high queue times during peak hours. This is a building that could REALLY benefit from an elevator call system where you enter a floor and it assigns you which elevator to get into to. Why they haven't installed a relatively simple fix like this is beyond me.

My final gripe about this building is its sheer ugliness IMHO. The steel facade pegs it as one of those buildings that was built in a particularly time. It's not timeless like the Empire State Building or perpetually modern like the Willis Tower or One World Trade center.

I guess its only redeeming factor is the very nice public plaza it has both inside and outside, its direct access to the E and 6 trains (super convenient for me), and the fact that it has not fallen down yet.
Capitalism is a Paperclip Maximizer
I think Delphi got right the "Visual Programming" paradigm. I am surprised that we don't have something similar on newer environments. Perhaps is that multi-user RDBMS with SQL and/or the Web broke the model. I don't know, but it is an interesting question.
Last time I tried a Netgear (a model from last year I think, AC enabled), it was awful. The web interface hadn't been updated since 2008-ish (could see stuff that was in older routers, old images etc) and didn't work properly.

Netgear support denied the existence of a telnet interface [1] and I returned it after some other problems I don't remember.

1: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/telnet.console