skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point; I was thinking of variance between countries, but countries aren't monolithic either. There might even be interesting variation city-to-city, or between urban/suburban/rural areas, or different socioeconomic areas.

I have the opposite second-hand report, though: a friend from California tried introducing himself to his new neighbors in Boston and basically got no response, as if introducing yourself to your neighbors was a weird thing to do. His general impression is that Bostonians tend to socialize, but grouped along very specific location/class lines, where you're a "foreigner" if you're from even as far as Somerville, let alone California.
Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.
reminds me of outrun :)
Ronald Wayne: On Co-founding Apple and Working With Steve Jobs (2013)
That's also the first thing that the ng prefix made me think of.
That's a great hypothesis. Also, I often enjoy having short conversations on the BART if someone strikes them up with me, but I'm not so sure I want to spend the whole ride talking.

This happens often enough if you read because people often remark on the book you're reading. It's okay to then have a short conversation that starts off from that so long as it's occasional.

If every single time I got on the train someone wanted to talk to me, I might wear sunglasses and plug earphones in.
When I was in college I heard a story on NPR about a journalist named the Georgia Rambler. He would journey throughout Georgia on a whim, stopping to talk to strangers. [0]

Being a journalism student in the South at the time, I thought, "Hey, that sounds like a fun experiment." A group of friends and I started an informal club called Map Dart. The premise was to toss a dart at a map, travel to wherever it landed and talk to strangers in the city or town to capture their stories.

We received a lot of negative feedback from people who weren't interested in journalism. Mostly, they seemed to predisposed to think that the strangers in rural Georgia and northern Florida would shoe us away from their properties. Some even joked that we would be shot.

The truth was something much different. Sure, the trips were initially awkward. We would arrive at a small-town diner, look around, sigh and think, "Okay, who's going to break the ice..." But once we got talking, the strangers were always welcoming. The owners of a tobacco farm and a turpentine factory even showed us around their properties. [1]

For me, the experiences of MapDart validate the research in this story. The unpleasantness of interacting with strangers almost always has to do with that initial "ice breaking" moment. It's relatively smooth sailing once the ice is broken.

[0] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/413/g...
[1] http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/the-secret-to-growing-older/
As the article mentions most image hosts simply don't scale to the reddit user base and once an image gets too popular they either pull it or break down under the load. And more importantly many other image hosts add aggressive advertisement and don't allow direct linking. (Imgur recently started to redirect direct image links to the normal image view which has ads for referrals not from reddit though.)

I think the other image hoster which is similar is http://minus.com/. (And min.us, unlike imgur, does not downscale images or force convert PNG to JPEG or increases JPEG compression. Although I think you can prevent imgur from doing this with a "premium account".)

edit: Someone also mentioned https://mediacru.sh/ which is open source.
I'd like to propose a Problem Thursday's, in addition to Idea Sunday.

Topic: What problems are you experiencing that you want solved? IMO this is more conducive to creation of solutions and idea generation than Idea Sunday.

1) Sharing of problems doesn't impose any constraints on the solution, allowing readers to identify their own solutions (and thus feel more attached to the potential solution). To explain another way, my hypothesis is that people would rather come up with their own idea (aka solution) to a stated problem, than build out someone else's idea of a solution. (Even if the leap from problem -> solution is one cognitive cycle and nothing revolutionary).

2) I'd rather see people solving problems

All that said, the Idea Sunday thread is great, too.
Pff easy.
Yes, computation is done in memory and is reasonably fast, with some clever caching. Right now the backend server is overloaded - I am working on it and you will be able to try it with custom addresses very soon.
I've been working on something similar, it's a lightweight HTML5 Canvas library, easily add/remove objects on the canvas. It also has event handling for the objects. http://vladakilov.github.io/imagine/
Nice! Any plans for a Linode version as well?
LottoLane / http://www.lottolane.com

Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself.

Screenshot of a lottery drawing page:

http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png

Screenshot of sending emails to users:

http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png
Well, if you're willing to throw yourself into the role, somebody has to deal with marketing, PR, strategy, sales, business development, bookkeeping, regulatory compliance, making coffee, taking out the trash, etc.

So yeah.. there are a LOT of places for a non-technical co-founder to add value. Since most techies aren't very marketing-savvy, I'd suggest you go buy every marketing book you can get your hands on, and do a deep dive.

OK, maybe not literally every marketing book. But if you're interested, here are a few items I'd recommend to a budding would-be marketer.

Permission Marketing - Seth Godin

All Marketers Are Liars - Seth Godin

Purple Cow - Seth Godin

Unleashing The Ideavirus - Seth Godin

Positioning - Jack Trout and Al Ries

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries

Repositioning - Jack Trout

Marketing Warfare - Al Ries

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding - Al Ries and Laura Ries

The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Trust Me, I'm Lying - Confessions of a Media Manipulator - Ryan Holiday

Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore

If this is a B2B play, I'd read Steve Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany first though. Otherwise, I'd suggest starting with The Discipline of Market Leaders and then go to All Marketers Are Liars.

What kind of duties would you be doing in a role like this? Writing web copy; writing press releases; writing whitepapers; writing blog posts; recording screencasts & demo videos; setting up mailing lists; running the Web, Twitter, Facebook, G+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Youtube, etc., presence; talking to potential customers and soliciting feedback; developing a marketing strategy, PR strategy, etc; working with your cofounders to choose a "value discipline" (See The Discipline of Market Leaders) and putting an operating model in place to fulfill that discipline; possibly talking to potential investors; talking to potential partners, doing business development; and SOOOOOOO very much more.
Bake

Making to-do lists better.

http://arsln.co/VCsx
One of my favorite programming tutorials is "Write Yourself A Scheme." It's not "Here's the language, here's the API, etc" it's "Let's accomplish this task. Here's some documentation. Here's a breakdown of what you need to do. Figure out how to do it." There's no answer key to the exercises, either your solution worked or you need to redo it.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...
Can you dodge behind the barrels/rocks/cacti to let the rockets blow them up instead of you?

Also - wasn't really sure what the condition is to get to the next level -- survive for so long?
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This is nothing like turning SA off. SA was the intentional injection of pseudorandom data to degrade GPS accuracy in order to deny enemies accurate positioning data. This is a system of satellites launched to augment GPS signals in a certain area of the globe for advanced civilian positioning applications.
Take a look at one of those phone power pack batteries. These already have clean USB 5.0V output, and can charge while it is in use.
http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equal...
sales, investor relations, project and product management, marketing, PR, content creation, recruiting and hiring, CRM. There's plenty to do.
I hear this all the time, yet when I was in Denmark and Iceland I found that folks never seemed to be weirded out if I started a conversation with them (when ordering food, waiting for a bus, or out in a bar for example) in fact they'd often happily chat and even sometimes invite me along to where they were going next if they were out partying/drinking. Danes and Icelanders struck me as an incredibly friendly bunch. I've even had several people strike up conversations with me in both countries.

That being said when I was in Copenhagen I did notice that this openness didn't seem to be nearly as present amongst the Swedes who came over from Malmö. Come to think of it during my travels in Denmark and Iceland the only time Finns or Swedes ever struck up conversation with me was when they were drunk.
Exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-...

I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre.

This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).
gittribute (http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/)

Gittribute saves your time on getting help on your open-source project. Need help on your project? All you need is to add one line on your Github project's README.md & click your link there, and then everyone in the world will see you need help and they will find you.

It is under MIT license here: https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute

I want to post a screenshot, but currently there is only one project listed on the website, so may be it is better if those interested care to check the website itself:
http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/
Nice - I've been looking for something exactly like this lately. I have some weekend hack to do now!
For me, the game is more about the increasing complexity of life and the difficulty in managing it. As a toddler, all you had tow worry about was play and learn.

Pretty soon, you add in jobs, worries, lovers, heartbreaks, friendships, losing friends, money, self esteem, etc. And the more you try to optimize one area, the more you neglect the other areas, and the game becomes increasingly difficult to balance, just like life itself.

What a beautiful piece of art.
> When I was in college I heard a story on NPR about a journalist named the Georgia Rambler. He would journey throughout Georgia on a whim, stopping to talk to strangers.

Australia's SBS television station had a show called Front Up which did exactly this. They would randomly walk through the streets, stop and interview people. Random people, fantastic stories:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEF01EAB281F220EC
And that's why I was talking about creating a framework that use javascript/html5 to create native apps, like winJS on windowsPhone
How does this differ from a user branch in svn?
Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage...

It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh):

https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png
https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png

As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.
You are wonderful.

The good stuff is here: http://www.infinitepartitions.com/art001.html
That article basically agrees with me. Additionally -- notice how it doesn't point to explicit existing examples, but implies "future problems" -- as did the 2006 article.

"In the vast majority of cases, cloud data that is accessible by the end-user will meet discovery needs and obligations."

and

(regarding going after cloud providers) "Serving a subpoena and ensuring compliance can be challenging and potentially expensive. Whether such efforts are worth the expense and effort will depend on the specific needs of each case. Cloud providers are likely to resist compliance with a subpoena under provisions of Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, otherwise known as the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”)."

Additionally, a director at http://tsemerge.com/ is hardly an unbiased reality oriented 3rd party. The more scared you are -- and the more complex it seems -- the more likely you are to hire them.
I had a conversation about this exact thing while on a business trip with some colleagues recently. I'm from Ireland while my colleagues were from Finland, Italy and France. In Irish culture, we talk a lot and seeing strangers conversing on public transport, with the cashier at the check-out or just waiting at a bus stop is quite normal. However, my Italian and Finnish friends said that this was one of the weirdest things they had to get used to when in Ireland. In their respective countries it's just considered common courtesy to not start up conversations with strangers and just grant them their personal space.

This social experiment is very interesting, but the results would probably be very different depending on what country you're in.
> For what I've understood, the GPS doesn't need a constant feeding of data from ground stations - it's ""simply"" a bunch of satellites sending out the current time from their on-board atomic clocks.

When you get a GPS fix the very first thing your handset does is download the ephemeris data. This is broadcast at regular intervals along with the location signals. This data tells you the orbital parameters of each satellite, without it you couldn't get a precise location fix because you wouldn't know where the satellites you were getting signals from were.

The GPS satellites are incapable of calculating their own ephemeris data, it needs to be uploaded from the ground. The system cannot simply reuse the same data forever because the orbits of the satellites change over time, and because the system is sensitive to very small changes a lot of higher order effects (such as radiation pressure, the non-sphericity of the Earth's geoid, and so on) come into play which are not easily calculable. Over short periods the future ephemeris are predictable within reasonable bounds of precision, so the USAF uploads 30 days worth of ephemeris data to the GPS satellites on a regular basis.

If it were no longer possible to upload that data the system would eventually become either non-functional (depending on how the satellites and individual handsets are designed) or increasingly inaccurate until no longer useful.
What if you climb up on the mountain and it gets too dark and you can't find your way back down because you don't have a flashlight to see the trail markers. And the bears are coming to roam the woods...

Yes, I want to push myself to make the world's best next-gen GUI for a payroll or real estate database. I may be able to go to as many VC pitch meetings, strategy meetings, client sales meetings to make my GUI the best and deliver maximum shareholder value and live to write a blog post about it (with max. karma duh).

But I can't live on the top of the self-ingratiating peak forever. The higher the peak, the lower the oxygen level, alas I wish I could live on top of that mountain blasting inspirational posts to all my Twitter followers for all time.

I have to come down eventually and go home, eat, take a shit and go to sleep. Even if I make it down safely evading the bears, I wonder can I go to sleep peacefully, or would I dare "not go gentle into that good night"?
Wrong from whose perspective? It's strange that "wrong" things make it to the front page. By definition wouldn't that make them "right?"
It could potentially increase awareness of chemistry, the dangers of dihydrogen monoxyide not withstanding.
"The great thing about strangers is that we tend to put on our happy face when we meet them, reserving our crankier side for the people we know and love."

This is so true. It is such an irrational behavior on our part, yet we all seem to do this.
It seems like positive activity and reduces the pressure to try and game the 'Show HN' mechanism.
Backend is up again, sorry :) .
WOAH, this is immensely helpful and a very thorough list. Thank you!
Hmm, seems like another meeting that should never have been called. Martha could have said that over IM, email, etc.
The Business Social Graph

It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners.

http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...
Bio-inspired Helical Swimming Microrobot
"One group was asked to talk to the stranger who sat down next to them on the train that morning. Other people were told to follow standard commuter norms, keeping to themselves. By the end of the train ride, commuters who talked to a stranger reported having a more positive experience than those who had sat in solitude."

What about the passengers they accosted? The no talking norm on public transit isn't meant to protect the shy from having to initiate conversations, since that's easy not to do. It's to protect people from strangers who want to but in. I'm sure every loudmouth who tried to strike up a conversation seated next to me on an airplane thought it was a fine idea, but I would have been happier to be left alone.
Not right away, it will just be slightly less accurate. Ignoring all other sources of errors, for extremely high precision work you still might want to correct for the relativistic difference in time between the satellite and the surface; but in a post-apocalypse setting, I don't think you'll mind the small drifts.

There's still plenty of other maintenance, like delta-v maneuvers that need to get done or the system will eventually fail. Likely within a year.
Even better, 'crust'
Robert Kowalski: Reactive Computing as Model Generation
it's funny how many of these there have been over the years and still nothing can take down craigslist.
Is this behind a paywall for anyone else?
Evo-psych enthusiasts would probably tell us it's adaptive: you know what responses to expect from people you know. Frown at a complete stranger, and he might beat you up.
a high-profile shop taking a public stand against a guy who was filmed mercilessly beating a woman for 30 minutes and who, as far as i know, has never shown a hint of remorse. What's more, you're doing so even though you take a hit in the wallet. Kudos.
Is the idea related to bioengineering?

Once they have a rough prototype you can be the first tester and use your contacts to get a few additional users for the beta version. One very important task is to understand what the users say and translate that to something the developers can understand. Also, understand what is possible to do in the site and what would be useful for the users.
I'm surprised that Elm is not mentioned:

http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/Reactive/ZipCodes.elm

True, it's not Haskell, but it's clearly highly-influenced by Haskell. Besides, they mention Fay, which isn't Haskell, either.

If the Haskell wiki didn't require a log-in and registration that requires special, personal permission, I'd add it myself.
Really naive question: might it be possible to bridge Rust to some older language's high content, well developed library?
We used to OEM HP ProLiant DLs at my last gig. Great hardware. The new DL320e starts at $579 list, so will definitely fit within your price point:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d...

If you plan to buy a few of these, definitely give their OEM / enterprise sales guys a call - they give very good discounts off list (based on volume, of course).
I think the lesson is actually more about how do proper versioning and message serialization in higher risk distributed systems. Higher message versions should fail to deserialize and cause the message to re-queue (or go to a dead letter queue). Then you monitor queue length like a hawk and have a plan in place for rolling back not just the consumers but the producers as well
Since you are already using an API wrapper, i would highly recommend using a lib that is provider-agnostic, such as libcloud[0], which provides a pythonic abstraction layer over all the crap that various IaaS providers put into their API designs.

[0] https://libcloud.apache.org/
Martha was the best problem-solver, in that she found the problem before anyone else did. But I don't see how it follows that problem-solving == leadership.
This is cool. I work in GIS at a college and would be interested in seeing / hearing more about this... do you have a repo or a blog about it?
Hell yes I did. Whole point of Rubidium clocks is you dont have to correct them.

I was hoping GPS would stay up for at least 5-10 years - I assumed all they needed was periodic orbit corrections.

Well, there goes my GPS to the rescue Zombie survival plan :/. Time to learn how to read stars, or better yet - find android app that does it automagically from a picture :)
The market is tough and I know a real business (commodity) that can lose about a million a minute in market shifts if done really wrong (like this).

If you can lose $400M in 45 minutes, you need an actual deployment team with actual procedures and triple check code verifications.
The second one just looks like a hack. You've defined a useless function to make an interface not implementable. It would look cleaner with a keyword in the interface definition.
This is perfect! If you need any testers, let me know.
Completely agree. It's what I always use.
I really hate when people talk to me on the trains. I usually have a book I'm reading, computer to work on, etc.. Yet it's not polite to tell them I don't want to talk. Often short one word answers aren't enough to clue them in either. The article claims we should sit down and talk to strangers, but what if the stranger is similarly forced to respond and doesn't want to?