skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, thinking over https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617720 I almost wonder why Musk hasn't set an interim step to Mars that involves space habitats. Right now SpaceX is probably the closest to making an economy based on

http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/

and http://www.planetaryresources.com/

working. If they get the 1st stage reusable it brings the bootstrap costs down significantly.
It's of course a tragedy if their datacenter cought fire, but it's nevertheless bad engineering if a lot of their products seem to require access to "samsung.com" for a lot of unrelated tasks (as some other site mentioned: Netflix cannot be accessed if a certain XML file cannot be fetched from www.samsung.com).
Also their argument is Twitter does not pay Turkey taxes?

I, International community, Twitter, Turkish Government (or it equals Tayyip Erdoğan) all know what is at stake. It's never about the law or the taxes. It's just about shutting down whistle-blowers or political rivals.
1. The OP stated that he is interested in what theoretical solutions there are + is it required to reach escape velocity.

2. You stated:
>Yes, escape velocity is required. Mere position won't do it.

> Remember that velocity is what carries a spacecraft away from Earth's gravitational field. Anything less than escape velocity and the spacecraft is pulled back into the atmosphere.

Which is wrong, regardless of the context. And you agreed to it after I pointed out the first result from a google search. And let's not even start with this statement:

> Remember that velocity is what carries a spacecraft away from Earth's gravitational field. Anything less than escape velocity and the spacecraft is pulled back into the atmosphere.

This is ... you guessed it ... wrong. I am not sure if I should explain you why.
Lets just say that an object can have no velocity (a.k.a. not moving at all) and still not be "pulled back into the atmosphere".

You are one hell of a troll for a space shuttle engineer :)
No, really. Here are a few articles. There are more:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021179/secrets-of-running-a-six-...

http://mashable.com/2013/11/04/bought-apartment-rent-airbnb/

http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Does-it-make-financial-sense-to-...

The $billion$ numbers don't make me think it is anything otherwise. Compare with the 'Youth Hostel' movement of a foregone age and how that broke even as a charity (no tax), with well meaning folk leaving property to them (no debt) and the 'youths' doing their own cleaning with bedding they brought. AirBnb stinks of speculative bubble money and it is only a matter of time before the rentseekers of the buy-to-let market get their fat arses into it.
Preview the upcoming Maynard desktop (Raspberry Pi OS)
AirBnB's culture is to do whatever it takes to get (er, "hack") what you want, rules and agreements be damned, so they certainly should only make rules for the purpose of giving people practice bending them.
The world has changed. Every time someone wants automatic updates on Windows without forced 15 min restarts, they're told to open `gedit.msc`. It's funny. We all expected that the world would go the other way with less CLI work in Linux, but never considered that a common thing that nearly everyone complains about would require more CLI work in Windows.

Funny.
People like to feel like they got a deal. They want to be able to go back to their boss and tell how they talked you down from $250/hr to $200/hr. Why not pad your pricing to begin with and let them feel like they won? This is particularly important for dealing with people for big corporations where buyers are evaluated on their ability to squeeze vendors. In the end, you'll still get the price you need but you can leave them with that warm fuzzy feeling that you gave them special treatment because you value their business so much.
Court has declared they can't block Twitter, so it was unblocked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/middleeast/turkey-tw...

This was not an issue. Anyway, after Twitter's former lawyer, the one who was fighting for civil rights issue suddenly left, I knew it's all downhill from there for Twitter in terms of fighting for civil rights of their users.

Can't wait for Twister to be mature enough.

http://twister.net.co/
Implicit? Tribes invented religions (over and over again) with complex rituals governing every aspect of daily, yearly, and generational life.
I'm in Canada and most people I know have an electric kettle (anecdotal, but still).
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For geofenced commenting, how would you deal with the "BILLY IS A FAG" problem?
Typical, no.

But it's not unusual for engineers with leverage to negotiate higher equity grants.
We have seen haramzadeler switch accounts from @haramzadereler1 to @haramzadeler333 and many numbers in between beforehand. So they will just switch accounts hence it's a matter of time before twitter bows and creates a special api for AKP government just to deny any account they want.
I am reminded of the bits of Reamde that talk about recombinant cooking - people take two existing prepared food items and mix them to get something else. EG: a can of mushroom soup, a can of tuna and a pack of ramen noodles. (Sounds revolting).

But I like the idea. Perhaps a twist could be to prepare a weeks worth of meals using the least ingredients - people are allowed a small set of regular items for the pantry (plain flour, milk, granulated sugar, salt) but have to use or reuse a limited set of ingredients to create a tasty nurritious menu for a week on a tight budget.
I just thought of this so I haven't exactly vetted it out yet or checked if anyone else is doing this.

A major pain I've noticed is event planning. If you are doing it solo you must call a ton of different individuals. You have to call for a place for the event, a caterer or someone to supply food, decorations, and finally invite all the people you want to come.

My idea is kind of a cross between airbnb and eventbrite. We create a service that works with only local locations and food vendors. This service allows them to post times they are available and food availability in a central location. Individuals who are planning an event can come to this web site and select what they want and where they want there event.

This service acts as the middleman easing the pain of event planning in a one stop web site and also benefits the local small businesses by connecting them with people looking for vendors for an event.

Let me know if anyone sees any problems with this or ways it could be improved.
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Original meaning of "microcontroller", that is "microprogrammed controller", is circuit similar to what is described in article. There were even chips containing bunch of PROM and latch designed for this kind of uses and original PICs are only more involved implementation of same idea. Circuitry in microcoded CISC CPUs that drives all the control signals according to microcode is also essentially the same thing.
It’s a weird statement. Culture being whatever people make together rules and formal processes themselves are culture. The Austrian-Hungarian empire had a legendary bureaucracy, but one would be hard-pressed to call fin-de-siècle Vienna a place of ‘weak culture’.
Free food is not culture.
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Data or it didn't happen.

Also i think some of this advice is plain wrong. Pictures of you alongside a female friend attract more attention, and "being original" doesn't really cut it, attraction is moments and being your average self is sometimes not enough to initiate the spark.
This practice turns off honest customers who just want good work at a good rate. Those customers will just not call you, or go to a competitor who has lower no-bullshit face pricing
Slow-mo technical video of first seconds of space shuttle engines firing
I commented a few weeks ago I got a huge boost in performance in regular desktop use with a laptop running an Intel HD4000.
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How is "x hours to learn" measured? If I search for logistic regression, I get this page: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/logistic_regressio... stating 1.7 hours - is that the estimated time to work through "Core resources", the "read" time + video length or something else?

Really exciting project, and very useful to me personally.

This is what wikiveristy should've been.

Good job guys.
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My own anecdata suggests that while there may be a lot of back-and-forth, it's very free-form, rather than strictly codified and formalized. I assumed this was what was meant.
> It's neat, but I'd be worried about market size. This is a problem that not a lot of people have. Sorry, but for most people, it's not a big deal to call a plumber, and the vast, vast majority of people (at least in the US) clean their own homes.

I think it would do pretty well throughout West LA. It's not a big deal to call a plumber, but it is a big deal to find a good plumber that you can trust.

Likewise, it's a non-trivial task to simply be aware of the maintenance that should be done around the house, let alone finding time to do it (or, again, finding someone you trust).
You're comparing someone single to someone in a relationship. Two people need "process" to get along, whereas a person on their own does not.

An analogy fitting to OP's point is comparing two people from Hollywood and Ethiopia living in the same apartment versus one of the cohabiting couples you're talking about. In one case, you'll need expressed rules for each to abide by since they're culturally quite different. Comparatively the other case will have very few rules, because of the cultural similarity. The cohabiting couple will more naturally work towards similar goals without painstakingly negotiating them and laying them out.
It's about AES key recovery, even from different cores.
Those ancient platforms/architectures run OpenBSD, though, not the original OS. Nobody in their right mind should run those dead OSes on the public internet; why bother supporting them in the latest OpenSSL release?
Is there a single company that has primarily positive Glassdoor reviews? I've only ever heard of companies having lots of negative reviews, and I think it might just be the same as apartment buildings, where nobody actually bothers to go on Glassdoor to write a review unless they're unhappy and looking for another job.
I'm still a little confused at why you are complaining about Odesk? It's like if posted a "help wanted" ad in a newspaper and then complained that the newspaper was horrible because you are poor at choosing job candidates. Honestly..stop whining, do your research, and select the best candidate for the job - otherwise hire a trusted development team with a proven background.
3D-printed cast could speed up healing
As usual, HN only cares about PHP when there's some FUD to spread.

This is an old bug that was made public and fixed over a year ago [0].

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2332gq/laravel_cookie_f...
One bit refers to it having exactly one bit of what could be called "architecture state" or "datapath", that is the second channel of lower 74C374 going from input to A0 of program store. "Instruction" has two phases and result of first phase determines what will happen next by means of this one bit (by changing which pointer to next instruction will be read from memory).
do you think a wired keyboard might emit tappable rf? Should users take care to not have coils in their wires? Do solenoided keyboards (with the flexy chord coils) also pose a transmission risk?
Culture obsession is a little silly. If you hire smart individuals then the culture will work itself out as will pretty much everything else. Plus, whenever anyone mentions culture they either can't define it or it ends up being the definition of the hive mind, i.e. it is all around you and within you but you can't really know what it is until you are part of it. In other words I have learned literally zero things from this post other than Peter Thiel invested in Airbnb and told them to not fuck things up. Which I guess you can do when you give someone $150 million.
The statement "don't require much process" is a relative statement. It's relative to interactions/relationships "where culture is weak". If you ask two people from different countries to build a house together, then ask two people from the same family, the people in the same family will have less process.
"I've never heard of any problems relating to people going thirsty or becoming ill from the supply."

I've definitely heard of people becoming ill from the supply of water in the UK. The story of the map that showed cholera to be water borne (not airborne as previously believed) is a fascinating anecdote in the history of epidemiology. Of course, that was in 1854, so not terribly relevant to current conditions (I hope!)...
You need surplus to establish a hierarchy. A migratory hunter-gatherer band has no surplus - people collect enough food to feed themselves, their children, and perhaps some older people, and that's it.

Once there is a hierarchy with taxes and such you no longer have a migratory hunter-gatherer band. So you're talking about what happened during the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago. I am talking about what happened before that.
Yeah I agree. It's pretty disgusting for some company to make a product and then expect some kind of compensation for it.
I like the Henrik Kniberg definition of culture, 'culture is the stuff people do without thinking about it'. E.g. you could codify most things as processes (which is basically the entire point of things like value stream maps), but a company culture is infuses the kind of things you don't need to make explicit, because they become self-evident.

Think Netflix travel policy ("be responsible") vs more traditional companies with rules and travel agents for implicit vs explicit, or cultural vs process driven.
That makes a lot of sense then, and I'll bet the software industry has changed more since 1999 than I could know. I worked in the DC area from 2006 until last year, and running into another programmer under 30 on the job during that time was the exception rather than the rule. Almost all of the programmers I worked with were 35+ at a bunch of different jobs, ones where I was hired to use "new" technologies like Ruby, Python and PHP. The largest shop I worked at, most of the developers were at least 50!
UK drinks manufacturer Robinson's have just released Squash'd[1], similar to your first idea

[1]http://www.robinsonssquashd.co.uk/
"of course the vast reams of learning material available for free on the internet (access to which is provided in public libraries)."

While there's doubtless more information available on the internet these days, I just want to drop in this reminder that there is also learning material in the books housed in most of those libraries.
Not always. It comes down to knowing your audience. I'm guessing you've never negotiated with a buyer from a fortune 500 company.
Nice! This is the first time I've seen the dependency graph implemented in e-learning! Actually I started a programming site in spanish a while ago with the same idea (there is a dependency graph underlying the content). If you are curious: http://www.minidosis.org.
Needs to pull out all that extra cable wrapped around the barrel. It's not helping the noise figure any.
If openssl has no tests, what is it doing when you run "make test"?
Tesla Model S REST API
Unofficial API to monitor/control your Model S remotely. Can return charge state, turn on HVAC, flash the lights, open the roof.
This feels like a good time to repost my article on why you should never use a CAPTCHA:

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/02/why-you-should-never-...
It should be said that maintaining a corporate culture that brought success isn't always sufficient for continued success, and sometimes isn't even compatible with it. HP and DEC both had a strong and much-admired culture and way of doing business and then wallop.
Let's look at Square that is very similar to Airbnb for example.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Square-Reviews-E422050.htm

It seems that good companies really have good reviews in general.
Indeed and there is a new edition of the Design and Implementation updated for FreeBSD 10/11 http://www.freebsdnews.net/2014/04/02/design-implementation-...

NetBSD is pretty approachable too. With the rump kernel you can run drivers in userspace, so you can use a normal debugger and so on, and not crash the OS you are running.
Was that disclosed by MWR? It might just be delayed publication on their blog.
> If you hire smart individuals then the culture will work itself out as will pretty much everything else

Culture is about people getting along, being motivated towards the same goals, and working in the type of environment that they enjoy. Not all smart individuals have the same culture desires. Google is the posterboy for culture discussions, and they are very open and blunt about denying some extremely smart interviewees. They very carefully prune for cultural fit, and it has a large impact. Google's culture is a multiplying factor on the productivity.

A bad culture fit for an employee or employer is an < 1 multiplier to productivity.
No, Jon Cave first disclosed it on his personal blog.
I agree that company culture's are organic (changing) and highly dependent on the people that make it.

Having said that, the people that are there are determined by the culture. If the culture of a company is well known, articulated and understood, there's a self-selection process that happens. A given culture attracts certain kinds of people -- so it becomes self-reenforcing.

I also disagree with the notion that a culture cannot permeate across groups. There is certainly a sub-culture that can (and does) exist within groups (this exists everywhere people of like mind or activity aggregate), but that doesn't mean there can't be an overarching culture that is shared organization wide.

I've given a lot of thought and calories to this topic. My company (HubSpot) has grown from 2 people to 800 people and like Brian (OP from AirBnB), we think about this culture thing a lot.

Just because you hit the "awkward teen" size doesn't mean you are predetermined to fail at trying to have a functional , shared culture.
I'm interested, I can help out with marketing, analytics & strategy - uk.linkedin.com/in/jameslethem/
I am skeptical of SpaceX its future endeavours. They proved they are on par with government subsidized space programmes, but haven't done anything astonishing yet. I mean, they probably bought a majority of the tech from NASA or the Soviets and just made it work. Not that it isn't impressive, just that an actual own in-house rocket would have been more ground breaking.
I believe that "Toroidal Colonies" inspired heavily the movie Elysium (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/
Nitpick: "to Joe, Nate, and I" should be "to Joe, Nate, and me."
You'd be interested in the Be File System (from BeOS / Haiku) for inspiration:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/the-be...

It has support for database-like extended file attributes, which can be custom attributes!

For example, a `person` file would have all of the normal fields you'd expect from an address book as file attributes: http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/24-scripting_the_bfs/ https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/attributes.html

Technical: http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

Though you seem to be against specific file systems due to non-portability and that is understandable.
You don't need a surplus to establish a hierarchy, you need a deficit. Deficit creates the need for structuring. If you're in a band and you can't get enough food to survive, there's going to be some tough decisions to be made. Who gets a cut and who doesn't is decided by those in power.

Besides that, I don't think it's absolutely necessary for a hunter gatherer band to be migrationary, that's only when a tribe becomes too big and exploits its territory faster than the territory can recover.
None of them have been very significant, though, compared to WWI and WWII. None of them have been more than a schoolyard rock fight in comparison. (Not taking away from the horrors experienced by those countries involved, of course, just pointing out that nothing so horrific has happened on a truly global basis.)

What has changed for the worse, though, is the duration of the wars. For the US at least, WWII was a brief engagement compared to the time spent in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Regional wars are basically hobbies for wealthy, idle nations.
Thanks for the info.

Side note, I just discovered that what I was referring to as a percolator, is actually called a Moka Pot : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
I said free or low cost. I'm not looking to low-ball anyone here or ask for free work on one of my ideas from the HN community. I'm looking for something out there that I can shoehorn my idea into at a low cost. It seems like what I'm looking for is done a lot on the web, and I was looking for ideas on who does it at a low cost. I can get a cheap e-commerce site done for practically free or for $7-$30 a month that charges cards, ships packages, calculates taxes and has stats and searches. It seems like someone, somewhere would be offering something less technical for the same price or less. So do you know of anyone?
For LTS releases, Ubuntu provides optional updates of the kernel and the graphics stack: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
It's a fine sentiment but blunders over the meaning in a rush to confirm the wisdom of the original epigram.

I don't know if this because the author of this memo doesn't understand culture analytically or felt that explaining what was meant didn't have a place in this memo, but dismissing process was a mistake. A more nuanced perspective breaks culture into multiple domains:

# Values
# Norms
# Routines

Notice I didn't say processes. That's because processes are a subset of routines. They are the routines written down. The author seems to be terribly proud that AirBnB's routines aren't written down. I was left cold by this. It doesn't matter that much.

Values are the fundamental beliefs that people cherish. The thing about values is that they are, as a result, near impossible to change quickly. Five to seven years and you'll have to change the CEO and the hiring policy to achieve it.

Norms are the units of behavioral control. Norms are group-level social pressures such as bringing a plate for morning tea or writing good commit messages. These are the real interesting pieces because they shift readily in response to incentives. (If you're ever looking for easy goals in an organisational change effort, fiddle with the norms)

Norms generally help keep routines-that-aren't-written-down (some might say "the unwritten processes") steady and reify new ones in response to externalities.

So when Thiel was saying "don't fuck up the culture" I take away two things:

* Don't bother wittering about values. You're stuck with them anyway.
* Don't fuck with the incentive structure

But contrary to a major point in the article, you can write down the routines as processes if you like, just remember to capture the why as well as the what.
Atlassian's product line suffers from the disjoint problem, which makes sense since they bought most of their products from other companies. To tackle this problem, you really have to have a unified base that all your tools are built on and it has to be flexible enough to work with any possible process and workflow.

My GitSense product is very similar to their fisheye product and due to how my system was built, I can actually integrate better with their own product line than fisheye can.