skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can get a km out of an ordinary router with a directional can antennae

With a line-of-sight and some careful positioning, maybe.

There are numerous examples of people using traditional radios to coordinate disaster response [1] (actually why ham licenses are issued IIRC), this seems like a more complicated, error prone, cool-kid-hackerspace solution. What advantages does a mesh network have over traditional radios (which have bands allocated for this) for disaster response? How well will a mesh network hold up if half (or more) of the nodes fail due to power loss, flooding etc?

Mesh networks are cool, and I'm all for decentralizing communication, but their usefulness for disaster preparedness seems very dubious to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_emergency_communi...
Just because it's hard for you, doesn't mean it's hard for everyone. Lots of people seem to be using it just fine.
== Dying Skills, Lost Tech ==

I knew a chap who could roof a home with Cotswold stone. He knew how the stone was quarried (but he didn't do that bit) and how it was made into roof tiles (but he didn't do that bit very often) and he knew how to roof a house using those tiles. There are not that many people who can do that anymore.

There's a meme about the NASA Saturn V rockets that says we've lost the paperwork and thus re-making them would be cery hard, and could involve rediscovering technology.

The Domesday project is sometimes used as an example of digital obselesance http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project

And here's an example of someone looking for Cray software and code and documentation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464546

So, this would be a site that interviews people (using crowdsourced interviews) to glean information about how they do or did things, and why, with video if possible of them demonstrating the techniques and equipment and methods.

This would be a teeny bit like the Endangered Language Project. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/about/

There would need to be some way to control for truth and accuracy[1] and also some suggestions for what is a good interview.

[1] my dad used to tell quite a few lies. One of these (well, one set) was about his diabetes diagnosis and treatment. He claimed he had been diagnosed as a child while still at school, and that he had to sharpen his syringe on the stone floor. Utter cobblers, but somehow it found its way to an academic site. I sent them a polite email and they made their disclaimers about uncorroborated etc a bit clearer.
False dichotomy, it's not a choice between nuclear and coal. Cheap solar is here, yes, cheaper than coal even:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/rising-sun

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/opinion/krugman-salvation-...

Not to mention any number of other renewables (wind, wave, tidal, thermal, etc...)
I hope AirBnb's other communications aren't as ugly as that heap of sentence fragments.
Judging from the 74C logic and 2716 this was designed more than 20 years ago. In today's situation only expensive component in this thing is the 2716 (or just about any (E)PROM) and I believe that even few years ago this thing would be in single quantities cheaper than using microcontroller (although not significantly).
Yes, and in fact there are multiple kinds of iterators even for arrays. ".mut_iter()" and ".move_iter()" are very common.
The timeless: 64K demo [video]
"Growth Hacking" is officially mainstream: Jonas Brother tweet
That all makes it a one instruction set CPU (and since there is only one possible instruction it need not be stored in the program).

But the 1 bit is a reference to memory, it has an address space os 2^1 (Q1 and Q2 on the 4099 output register file) and a word size of 1, which as you point out allows you to store only a binary state.
Do you know of any providers that would charge a monthly fee instead of setting it up from scratch? Maybe I've misjudged, but this (searching data added in by users) is something common that a web service out there would already offer.
Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)
Travel Assistant
While travelling I like to keep family and friends involved up to date about my travel plans - itinerary changes, delayed flights, boarded flight, landed flight, etc. Instead of a pushing updates by texting 3-4 different people, I want to be able to provide an update in one place, say, on the Travel Assistant app, and my family can receive appropriate updates.
Are you kidding? Of course it was! Simply searching for "уэллс сталин" in google would reveal it. Here, http://www.situation.ru/app/j_art_1202.htm

But, anyway, I'm interested which one should be considered closer to the original one. Obviously Wells published it the first time in English. But AFAIK Stalin didn't speak English and I can't find if Wells actually spoke Russian. And in some places of the interview I was actually interested in how exactly Stalin phrased it.
I remember some of these, which were reprinted in magazines like Odyssey (and maybe even Omni?) in the 70s and 80s. The images, along with colony/exploration books by Larry Niven, Ben Bova, and James P. Hogan, really had the power to set one's imagination on fire.
This reads like one of those cheesy pickup line / how to pick up women "tutorials".

"Peter, with his crazy profile, has a strategic opening message that he claims to be successful with more than 80 percent of the time. I call it 'The Neg And Reverse.'”

I mean come on!
I published details of a separate issue on my personal blog (linked in the first paragraph of this article). This is delayed publication of a second set of issues.
Japan radiation poisoning America?
1) daily email that highlights the top 10 posts on HN (by points or by most comments)

2) simple way to share sensitive financial details with others (e.g., credit card payments, pay stubs, paypal history, bank transactions)
Culture is, to a degree, about harmony, and therefore to an extent also about making people happy, in providing a sense of belonging to and identification with a group and a purpose greater than oneself.

I believe there's a fundamental difference, however, between culture as an emergent property, subject to its members' needs and changeable by its desires, and 'culture' as a set of metaphysical properties determined by a company's founders, to which one must either conform or find themselves terminated. A culture which you have no influence over isn't really a culture to which you can belong.
They should make the dock act exactly like Windows 7, put it in the bottom, remove the top panel.
There is still no good way to solve this problem using technology at the moment. Or maybe I'm bitter because I lost at the tinder game.
You probably hadn't seen one. When my parents retired and began wintering in Arizona, they couldn't help noticing that their neighbours were fascinated by this strange something like a hot pot, but just for water thing they brought with them. It was just like a kettle, but you plugged it in! That was only twenty years ago. So at the very least, there were regions of the US in which the electric kettle was virtually unknown, while here in Canada one was at least as likely to have an electric kettle as, say, a pair of shoes.
> Sometimes it's not a good idea to give too much feedback, if any at all.

Sure. But a form letter from the HR person saying you are not a good fit is way better than your application has been rejected blah blah blah. Tech, especially Data Science is a small fucking place. Making enemies is incredibly bad. I know that I would go out of my way to strongly recommend that any of my friends who are ever rarely in the job market to not look at that company, or the tech lead.

Also, to look at it from other point of you. I once interviewed at another startup where the guy gave me cold harsh feedback as to why I was not the right fit. I still respect him for doing that. It was not the right fit for me. But, I would heartily recommend the place to anyone else who I think would be the right fit.
Analysis of the contributions made to the OpenSSL Git Repository
"Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture."

Having meetings about culture and "core values" is a sure sign your culture's fucked. The fact that he thinks having a meeting about culture might in some way help fix some culture issue indicates to me he's really not the person to impart pearls of wisdom when it comes to company culture.

tl;dr that's mba-speak, bro.
I agree with try. To me, cold-brew coffee generally tastes a lot like "semi-instant" machine coffee (made from paste/syrup -- probably essentially cold brew+added hot water) -- and it is absolutely different from other kinds of brewing methods. I think it tastes rather awful -- but whatever one prefers...
[Preface: My assumption is that Altman is thinking about greater employee equity as something which will create value in YC's portfolio companies. I take it as a given that YC now has sufficient data points to perform regression analysis on this sort of thing among their portfolio companies (and perhaps others outside their portfolio), and that Altman's attention has been drawn by some trend in YC's data and the possibility of increasing YC's rates of return.]

I doubt Altman is trying to make life easier for VC's like Wilson. My sense is that YC's business model is oriented to disrupt the traditional VC model and more closely align the interests of investors with those of people at the company. Pretty much every financial innovation YC has made has had the effect of pushing the transfer of power from the people working at the company to those providing capital further and further down the road - from YC's taking common stock, to connecting companies with Angels, to convertible note financing, each move has been toward getting capital into companies without payment always being made in board seats.

YC's stated goal is to invest in people over ideas, while founders may be the first order investment, the employees of the companies they fund are still a critical part of that bet. Thinking on the bigger horizon, more equity for employees favors founders whose ability to get things done is less dependent on total control, which almost certainly correlates with the sort of leadership that benefits big companies - and big companies are the outliers that YC is looking for.

To put it another way, a CEO who has experience building consensus among principle and minority shareholders is better prepared to deal with the diverse and competing ownership interests that exist after a company has taken VC.

At least that's my theory of the day.
an actual own in-house rocket would have been more ground breaking

Huh? As Wikipedia says:

"In order to control quality and costs, SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of its components in-house ..."
Their rocket designs are in house -- unlike competitors (like Orbital or Lockheed Martin who use refurbed Soviet Era engines). The vast majority of SpaceX's equipment is designed, built and tested all in house.
I didn't intend to spread FUD when I posted this - I wasn't aware the equality check was also fixed. I use Laravel in a lot of projects and only saw it posted elsewhere today.

re the downvotes: fair enough I guess.
In all sincerity, it would probably be worth 15-20 minutes of your day to go review:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(rocket_family)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine)

What SpaceX and their sub contractors have accomplished in the last 12 years is nothing short of amazing.
Cheap solar is here, but it's enough only for a small part of our energy needs.

http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml
Here are the steps to Tinder, as I understand it (never used it personally, since I'm married, but I have friends who do):

1. Be reasonably attractive.
1.1. Have a reasonably good picture of yourself.
2. Use the app for a few minutes a day.

There is no step three. At this point you will be busy dating.

If you fail step one, it's probably time to get in shape, since that can make almost anyone a lot more attractive. If you're in shape and unattractive, that is hard, and I wish you the best of luck. :-/
While this was a good article, it was written from the point of view of management. From the employee's point of view, accepting a counteroffer is fraught with danger. You've just told your company that you were unhappy enough to want to leave - they can perceive that as a lack of "loyalty". They also know that whatever enticed you to leave this year could also entice you to leave a year from now (especially if it's a problem with the corporate culture that's hard to fix). So here's how the scenario could unfold:

You may not be easy to replace in the short term, so management, in their desperation to keep the company going, makes you a very sweet offer to get you to stay. But they may think the offer is too expensive in the long term, so they'll start looking for your replacement (or making sure that someone who is already in the company starts picking up the knowledge and skills that made you indispensable). And as soon as your replacement is up to speed, they'll fire you.

And after that, you'll be unlikely to ever get another offer from the company that you were originally going to move to, since you screwed them by backing out after you had already signed their job offer. Word of this could also spread to other companies in the field, making you a less-desirable hire in other places.

So before accepting a counteroffer, you need to be really, really sure that you can trust your manager's (and their managers') sincerity.
Comparing an e-commerce site to what you want is like trying to compare a tarantula's fangs to the rudders on a speed boat.

I'm not trying to bust your chops but I'd be curious as to what makes you think your idea is less technical than an e-commerce site. What basis did you use to make that conclusion?
Samsung Smart TVs have a dubious track record on security/privacy issues, too:

http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/samsung-smart-tv-hack/
Not completely "visual programming" as you say, but I found it a fast and easy tool for making and tweaking the UI. The IDE's integration of UI widgets and event-handling procedures was pretty slick too.
LTS is supported for 5 years
I know a loss adjuster who has many years experience with insurance claims who would have exactly the expertise needed to find the right people in all the areas you describe. Largely his skills are used to benefit the insurance company (that he works for) but they could just as easily apply in the customer's favor. I'd recommend targeting prospective employees with that kind of experience.
It's a fine sentiment but glosses over the details...

Interesting, I've observed the opposite...

I think it's disingenuous to say...

In my experience, this is the first sign that [X] about to be fucked up...

I hope [company X's] other communications aren't as ugly as that heap of sentence fragments....

___________

These are the first 1-5 comment's on HN. Is this the work some 4chan Meme propogation software?
Maintaining open source projects is hard
Patterns for research in machine learning
I lost at tinder because it "failed to send the sms" message. No response from their "support".
Isn't Delphi currently hosted only on Windows? I would love to use a tool like Delphi on OSX to make apps for OSX.
People are irrational beings, and so are customers. We will rather buy something that's on sale from 100 to 80 than the pretty much same item that's selling for the regular price of 70. Stores artificially raise prices and then offer discounts, why shouldn't freelancers?
Router Manufacturers Secretly added TCP 32764 Backdoor Vulnerability Again
Even if it is turned off the router can still be vulnerable.
Reaver use to be the go to script for this but now bully has taken over.[1]

[1]https://github.com/bdpurcell/bully
There are services which would charge for hosting, and provide a general purpose UI for a database backend. You could check out Wordpress' hosted service or Adobe's Business Catalyst, maybe, but if you're looking for a turnkey solution which won't require any real effort to pull off, you're not going to find it. Unless you want what basically amounts to a blog and some static pages, someone's going to have to build it from some value of "scratch."
Everyone wants a discount. The first thing I do when I see "fixed pricing" is ask for a discount. If I don't get one I move on to the next supplier.
This comment cannot be repeated enough. You can graduate with a high GPA from a respected CS program and still be able to do next to nothing. You have to choose to learn and being in college does not do that for you.

Note: my hindsight is 20/20
For Twitter, they preferred complying with the law. If there would not be large interest groups on this event and only known individuals would be acting, I would symphatise. But sorry IMHO this case is too dodgy to call "whistle blowing".
Yeah, OS X is great.

What, fonts looks like shit when you attach your non-retina external monitor to your shiny retina MacBook Pro? No biggie, just open Terminal or iTerm and type:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

You're upset because in Mavericks sleep and display off times are lumped together? The solution is just a few keystrokes away:

sudo pmset -b sleep 10 # sleep after 10 minutes on battery; use System Preferences to set display off times

Want to see Library folder in Finder?

chflags nohidden /Users/[username]/Library/

Don't see the point of Dashboard? Terminal-fu to the rescue:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock

... etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, my home server runs on Debian, and boy it was an adventure sometimes to install non-blessed packages (read: something less than two years old), but unless you're using an appliance (read: iOS device), every OS have it's share of weird incarnations if you want to do anything, well, advanced.
This was not a style that originated with Rogue necessarily.

Star Trek was written in 1971 and looks pretty similar as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)
On this syntactic readability level I find the semicolons, in terms of both the fact that they are usually necessary and that the final semicolon in a statement group has meaning based on whether or not it's present, much worse than any terse keywords.

If anything the terseness of keywords seems almost necessary because rust expressions seem to tend towards the wordy whenever type annotations come into play, and I'm just glad it didn't devolve into haskell-style symbolics for everything.
"In the Beginning  was the Command Line" (1999)
My personal experience is the opposite. I feel like dysfunctional couples need a lot more talking and planning and negotiating than more functional couples.

"Hey, do you mind helping me clean the kitchen?" "Sure."

Also, my favorite working environments have been similar to a family of peers.

"Hey, do you mind pushing your changes this morning?" "Sure."
Although there is some solid advice and insight in here, there's also a lot of really questionable stuff. Following a lot of this advice, particularly around self-promotion and navigating within a company, could be very limiting in terms of personal and professional growth.

The author's attitude really doesn't make it easy to get on board with him either.
Seeking Relationship with Tech Entrepreneur
Well, it seems that a shopper would search for different characteristics of a product and be given search results, much like I want a user to be able to do. They could then calculate shipping, which is analogous to calculating distances between two points. A user could enter product data, much like I want users to do, and site registration could keep data from different users separate.

I'm actually thinking of using an e-commerce site and just not putting product data in, rather each "farm" would be a product and have tags associated with it and when you narrow down the tags you get the farms as a result. Seems like the cheapest option at the moment given the other answers in this thread.
On your first and last points, my general rule is that I either work for my full rate or for free. I find it much simpler and less stressful to make a clean divide between things I'm doing because I believe in them, and things I'm doing because I want to make a comfortable living and advance my business.

In the middle territory, no one wins. You'll have expectations placed on you because you're being paid something, but it won't be enough for you to put in a professional level of focus.

When you do these kinds of projects for free instead, you get a lot of goodwill in return and you aren't burdened by unrealistic expectations that can add stress and interfere with your bottom line. It also forces you to decide if it's really something you believe in, or just a sub-par arrangement that you're getting pressured into.
Dang, just wanted to say thanks for this and I'd like to see more and similar. There's a lot to process (the piece is probably too long for ready assimilation here), and this post is old enough that the HN conversation is dead, but I'm planning to continue the conversation at http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius

Briefly:

• Another path in economic thought between market fundamentalists, Libertarians, and Marxists.

• A strong influence on many economic philosophers I've been impressed by, including Galbraith, Stiglitz, and Daly.

• Questioning the value and ubiquity of the free market. The observation that "Primitive economies were built on social obligations. Modern commercial society depended on “deliberate State action” by and for elites" sounds very similar to what David Graeber describes in Debt: The First 5000 Years. See also Jonathn Nitzan and his "creorder" concept.
There's too much "we don't know but it could be scary" in that posting.

It mentions a PNAS author, Nicholas Fisher. The relevant journal article is at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/30/1221834110 , titled "Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood." It includes:

> We showed that doses in all cases were dominated by the naturally occurring alpha-emitter 210Po and that Fukushima-derived doses were three to four orders of magnitude below 210Po-derived doses. ... Although uncertainties remain regarding the assessment of cancer risk at low doses of ionizing radiation to humans, the dose received from [Pacific bluefin tuna] consumption by subsistence fishermen can be estimated to result in two additional fatal cancer cases per 10,000,000 similarly exposed people.

There's a transcript of a conversation with the author at http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/nicholasFisherPodcastTranscrip... :

> We found that, at least for the bluefin tuna, whether they were in Japan or migrated to California, the radioactivity was well below the safety limits set by Japan, which is considerably stricter than that set by other countries such as the US. Now, it’s not to say that all fish in Japanese waters are safe. They’re not. There are some fish in Japanese waters — bottom-dwelling fish — that do exceed safety limits, and might be of concern. So I’m not going to say that all fish in all places are safe. But, just because we can measure radioactivity, using very sensitive instrumentation, doesn’t mean that there’s a likely detectable increase in cancers that will result from consumption of that food.

Yet you'll notice that the wnd.com link never reports the amount of radioactivity detected, nor compares it to other natural sources of radioactivity that people are exposed to every day. That's a sign of an article which spreads fear and worry, not of reporting the issue.
If you look on the left, the learning plan shows that it would take 22 hours to complete from the bottom up. Logistic regression page just assumes you know all prior knowledge.