skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly agree with this. Travelling the world, doing an ambitious programming project, learning a new language or starting a hard weight lifting program is a whole lot of work. It's moving your ambitions away from one type of work that society says you should do, and moving it into another type of work that society says you should do.

The moral of this story is: Have the guts to take a step back from your goal systems for a few months. Don't worry. Be happy. Chill out. Relax. Have sex or whatever. Complete Portal 2 in one sitting. Eat more chocolate than you should.

Way too many of us have been overachievers our whole lives, and keep overachieving even when we have the opportunity to refrain from doing so. This article, which I found brilliant, says that you should try to stop doing this for a while, and see how it makes you feel. If you can feel the existential angst come on full bore, you might want to take a step back and think about what that means.
Ferrari F1 run In TRAFFIC
Ferrari F1 run In TRAFFIC
As someone who was left even farther behind with Opera 10.11 (last version for Solaris), I'll never use Opera again:

http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=solaris-intel&list=all

But more seriously, even if I could get past that, I see no obvious, compelling reason to use Opera when I already have FireFox 29+ available to me.
Sandy Springs – The Town that Privatized Everything
The power of disagreement
Small startup "Cruise" plans to sell modification kits for highway driving
Yes and no. Saving cash makes little sense in the current financial environment, once you have your rainy day fund of 3 months living expenses. Buy an apartment or a house and put the extra cash into overpayments, you can't retire after 15 years but you could own your home free and clear.
Yes, but anyone with a camera in their hat or a microphone in their clothes would be labeled creepy real quick. (Which is the point.) It's not like people who hate Glass are fine with spy cams.

And the irony about "live and let live" is that Glass is recording other people. Nobody cares about what people do to themselves.
How to Control a Servo Motor from a BeagleBone Black on Linux
Maybe it's worth worrying about because AIs might eventually become orders of magnitude more powerful than humans.
>> That’s why turning Detroit into a commercial Drone Valley could draw the innovative people who in turn want to be near other innovative people around that domain.

Detroit was built the automobile. It's a bad comparison to drones. Every househould in America isn't going to own 2.2 drones. Drones aren't so incredible complicated where countless other companies will pop up, making tires and seats and radios and spark plugs and bearings.

Let's assume a successful drone-building company sets up shop and ends up providing 2,000 jobs. That's a great gain for Detroit, but you're still looking to fill a huge void in a town that used to have 10,000 workers in a single plant.
Moreover, adding more functionality to an application increases the surface area for attack. Adding it by default increases the risk for everyone.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902282, but we won't bury it because (a) the current article is a bit longer and (b) the title of the earlier submission was Detroit-specific, which caused the discussion to be.
Of course, SafeTrek is intended to contact the police. The "Panic Button" app seems to be intended for those for whom the police may be the people they need to be rescued from.
That Time When People Thought Playing Chess Would Make You Violent
The problem isn't people who don't feel strongly, the problem is people who support it.

Techies tend to think that the US government is off the chain, rampaging on an innocent populace who doesn't like it but can't bring themselves to fight it. Techies tend to hang out with other techies and that's how we mostly feel, so it's easy to conclude that this is how everybody feels.

But a lot of people support this stuff, and that is the real source of the problems we've been seeing since 9/11 (and before, but not as visibly).

Why is the TSA still probing everybody even though we all hate it? Because we don't all hate it. A lot of people really, really like having the TSA around and doing what they do. Why are police getting more militarized and less forgiving even though we all want them to back off and calm down and integrate better with the community? Same answer. Why hasn't the NSA's ubiquitous surveillance been brought to a halt now that everybody knows about it and wants it to stop? Again, same answer.

The American populace is, for the most part, terrified. Look at the incredible reactions to the prospect of bringing Guantanamo prisoners to the US as an example. People lose their minds at the idea. They think that bringing these people into the country, despite the fact that they've been locked up for a decade and would be held in maximum security facilities, would be extremely risky.

The government is partly at fault for this. The government's reaction to 9/11 was basically, "Be afraid! Be really afraid! Holy shit, you guys, you need fear!" Basically the opposite of FDR's approach. "The only thing we have to fear is everything everywhere." But the populace accepted it, and it feeds back on itself to where we're seriously stuck with it. Only if we can change this will we see any progress on all the problems it causes.
Actually they are allowed.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915#
Here's something similar for the US with a gallery of wind activities during the past (like Hurricane Sandy)

http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/
You have bigger problems then how to run "Web IDE"... Why are you running Firefox nighties on Windows XP? You trying to have the most unstable and insecure box possible?
Apologies, but I read that as, "How to enrage users?" What a difference a letter makes and probably another good question for Ask HN!
I'm all for new frameworks that emphasize different ideas and philosophies. If nobody ever tried experimenting with a new approach, we wouldn't have Rails in the first place. So kudos to Luca and his fine work in developing Lotus. I like much of what I see.

That being said, I feel like YARWF (Yet Another Ruby Web Framework) is not the most pressing matter in the web space today, and I take exception to the notion that this is a complete web framework. It's not. A complete web framework has client-side components that facilitate two-way communication to/from the server, data binding, HTML5 history state-based page/view swapping, etc. In other words, the type of stuff being addressed by Angular, etc. At this point I wouldn't even characterize Rails itself as a "complete web framework"...it's proven itself to be incomplete and needs something more to be added to it for this kind of stuff.

What's the solution? Well, most people in the Ruby world do the typical route of a Ruby + Rails/whatever backend and a JS-based (or CoffeeScript-based) frontend. But I don't like it. I want one language that works on both sides and in fact allows OOP code sharing between the two.

That's why I'm so bullish on Opal (http://opalrb.org) -- Ruby-to-JS compiler. It may not be perfect, but it's usable and it's here now. What we need is a framework built on top of Opal that is to the client what Rails, or Lotus, is to the server. Then I think we can safely say that we have a complete web framework solution for Ruby. Until then...not quite.
>> what will it take to create the next Detroit (circa 1950)?

It's happening in India and China right now.
The incompatibility with websites on old Opera was enough for me to temporarily switch to Chrome. Now I'm making freaking extensions which bring some Presto features to it so it's more usable until Opera makes some significant changes to the new browser...
As much as some people might despise this guy, one of the hardest things for anybody to do is to change their mind and admit they're wrong. So, whatever you think of Glenn Beck, give him credit for doing that.
Trying to attract investors to your city is how you get a gold rush.
If they fix their synching issues, I'm in.
I lost 35 lbs my wife lost more but she would not want me to say the number!

After Hurricane Sandy we had to walk up and down 36 flights of stairs because our building lost power. We made 36 flights very quickly and my heart rate (Heart Rate iPhone app) returned to normal very quickly. (Sorry not going to share too much here lol). If we had tried this before we would have been DOA half the way. We made several trips up and down over the course of a couple days and we had to walk from downtown to mid-town for many things because so much of the area was without power.
It doesn't. It's only the base, but a well constructed base.
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Last year a friend couple uploaded photos of their one-year son (I understand it were those "bathtub photos" parents like taking to embarrass the children when they grow up) just to get their paid account blocked. They panicked because they used Skydrive to "securely" store lot of pictures, including their travels, honeymoon, etc. The husband was a bit tech-savvy, but I failed to convince him to always PGP-encrypt the files and rename them to non-significative names before uploading. At least, I made them never trust these services again.

I, personally, never use these file storage services to hold anything but encrypted data assuming that such data can disappear overnight without any warning.
I have Glass and one reason I don't wear it outside is discomfort from having strangers point or ask to try them on. I haven't encountered any threats so far (thankfully), but I try my best to be polite. I hoped the novelty would have worn out by now but it hasn't. I regret the purchase :(
Show HN: Find people nearby to Yo
DevOps Rock Star Dinner
Making our country select box a little smarter
We value freedom, and therefore we think that people rebel when their freedom is sufficiently curtailed.

Most people value wealth and security, and they only rebel when those are threatened. And not just a little bit: they have to be threatened to the extent that it looks like a worthwhile tradeoff to risk pain, privation, and death just to improve your lot. They really couldn't care less about freedom as long as their lack of freedom doesn't impact their wealth and security too much.
Pangu Untethered Jailbreak iOS 7.1.1 released
Using Strong Types in PHP
I didn't mention C.
Ask HN: Freelancers/Contractors, how do you deal with taxes?
I'm about to start a large 1099 gig full time, and I'm trying to wrap my head around all the various tax implications. I know that as a 1099 contractor, I'm responsible for ALL the Social Security and Medicare taxes that my employer would usually split with me if I were a traditional W2 employee, along with the full burden of the Federal Income tax. Easy peasy, right?

My question is: What is the best way to go about this so I can keep the most amount of my money as possible, and not run into any surprises come tax time?

I know that there may be benefits to forming an LLC or S-Corp, but I'm not exactly sure which (if either) would be for me. Anyone have experiences with one/both that they can share? I've read that there are some great tax benefits to running an S-Corp, in terms of paying myself a wage through the company and then paying dividends on any profits it makes (which is taxed to a lesser extent). Are there any caveats or gotchas that I should know about?

Any other tips about saving for tax time? How much? How often should I (or how often am I required to) pay taxes as someone who's self employed? I've heard that some people pay quarterly, while others don't. How about recommendations for a tool that'll help track business expenses/deductions?

Any and all helpful advice is welcome. Or tax horror stories, cautionary tales, anecdotes, etc :)

And I'll end this by saying that obviously I'm going to talk to a tax professional about this all very soon, but I wanted to see what the community has to say about it as well.
The page as seen from the UK: http://i.imgur.com/3vI6Xpv.jpg
Ouroboros – After Effects Preset – Sander van Dijk
Once we start seeing reliable metrics for other common vitals, I'm optimistic we'll see massive benefits from data insights. With a large enough sample size and the right vitals, I'm hopeful we can find highly correlated early predictors of some massive events: e.g., does 20 minutes before a heart attack have a reliable signature?

Is there any boilerplate legalese for open sourcing that kind of data?
Search R packages and functions from CRAN, GitHub and Bioconductor in one place
Why would you need to wait for opposition? As long as you have direct line of sight to Mars, that is good enough. Granted, the latency is only going to increase when not in opposition, but they already have ways to deal with that, such as IPN. [1]

Conjunction, of course, would be a much tougher feat without some sort of relay system. I'm sure that wouldn't be insurmountable though, and I think they built that into IPN as well, just like how the internet can route around problem areas.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
Looking at the armchair post-mortems on HN, they had it coming, one way or another. Putting your only backups the same place you host your full product? Priceless foolhardiness!
"We have infinite combinations. Small components have enormous advantadges in terms of reusability."

Typo: advantages.

Just a nit, but it does stand out since it's in the first bolded sentence on the page.
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I can't live without ProductHunt!!!
It's amazing how one's opinions change when a different president is in office.
Keeping it cash? No. Putting it in a 401K, IRA, or market based account certainly does have much greater benefits. And of course, once that grows you can most certainly retire after 15 years. Or at least be financially independent and choose your working environment.
Some of the smallest thinking I've seen recently.
My feeling is the same.
> What actual benefits have you seen? For example, weight loss, increased muscle strength, blood pressure, heart rate?

This is the bit I'd be interested in. Some data to correlate the improved "fitness"[1] (or at least increased activity) with improvements in other metrics.

I'll be gathering such data sometime soon as, altohugh I'm reasonably active, I'm aiming for an Ironman triathlon in 2016 and I'm a long way off being in the right shape for that right now. Whilst I aim to lose the 20kg or so I need to lose I'll be gathering data including: HR (whilst exercising), weight, cycling power output (PowerTap hub).

Although my exercise regieme will vary there will be certain exercises I do every week:

* An hour of 5-a-side football (compare distance covered and average HR)

* A couple of specific training routes on the bike (time, power output, HR avg, segment times)

* Running (time, HR avg, etc)

Having the data to play with is a good motivator in itself!

1. Very hard to actually measure or even quantify.
Watch_Dogs in real life. And that's how ctOS starts.
"We have infinite combinations. Small components have enormous advantadges in terms of reusability."

Typo: "advantages".
Nitpicking, I know, but it's in the first bolded sentence on the page and it detracts from your messaging.

Cool project, good luck! :)
The correctness of the implementation is not worrying me at this point. ECDSA is not too complex to implement. We have QuickCheck tests, and many others that make us confident that the code works well, or at least that it does what it intends.

I'm more worried about more sophisticated attacks, like timing attacks, for example. But I don't see how that can be used to attack this particular application.
What's the point of being "productive" if you're just going to die and the universe is going to eventually come to an end anyway?
Google Doodles World Cup
Who generates work through staff turnover? HR

Who sets retention policies? HR
Show HN: Find people nearby to Yo 
http://yopeoplefinder.appspot.com enables you to find people to Yo. Comments and feedback welcome :)
Will the file size limit ever be upped? I got dozens of movies, ISOs, and database backups that OneDrive can't sync.
Multi-node Hadoop cluster on Docker
Show HN: App to save your [random draw] pool for the 2014 World Cup
> the computers are the very same.

What do you do when you run into a kid holding an iPad?
I think the parent's point is that the technology to secretly record people already exists, but people treat Glass as if it's the sole means by which to do such thing. And even when they do recognize other forms of secret recordings, they give them a pass while simultaneously condemning Glass. There's a huge double standard.

Case in point: Remember that Seattle restaurant that famously argued (via Facebook) with a diner it ejected for wearing Glass? That same restaurant had numerous photos of random customers posted to its Facebook page, many of which were taken without the subjects' knowledge, let alone permission.
Co-dementor seems like a great name.
I really don't think Google should be rolling out Glass more broadly, given the state it's currently in. The software's just not ready. They had a bad release in April which removed video calling, Bluetooth keyboard support, and the ability to navigate Android apps with the touchpad, and introduced frequent kernel panics. They've cut down on the crashing a little bit since then, but still not fixed it entirely, but none of the missing features have come back. Add that to the dismal battery life, general bugginess and lack of features, and absence of developer support, and they really have no business rolling it out in new markets; the only value to them is collecting bug reports, and they've got way more than they can handle.
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I thing music is one of best thing for smart home.

If there is a tool which looks at track whether, day(weekend or not), time of day and etc after this things it select best music for me?

I can like or unlike music for my mood and it also learn my listening habit?

It'll be wonderful.
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Domain knowledge is only useful if you work in the same domain year after year. That's often not the case. Atleast I've worked with three completely different domains the past year.
Yes. Burying as dupe.
Well the dev center just came back up, but now Heroku.com won't load.

They are in the middle of a maintenance period, but they assured everyone there would be no downtime.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/641

EDIT: The have issued an incident report: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/642
The recession no one talks about
Heroku maintenance takes down running applications
Scheduled maintenance in Heroku is taking websites down
I think Heroku is down...
You say "A complete web framework has client-side components", but you don't consider there are action based frameworks and component based frameworks. They follow different approaches. Lotus is action based.
We use this for our pool and it works great. Switzerland & Russia FTW!
An iPad could be a good stepping stone. For me it was Nintendo as a kid that then got me into computer games, which then got me into making my own stuff, which then made me into a programmer today heh.
Ironically, this happens the day after I finally stopped using Opera. As a long time Windows and Opera user, I finally switched to Ubuntu a few days ago, and frankly wasn't so surprised to find out that Opera is not even supported. All the things that made it good died with 12.16 and this was just the last drop in a sea of users' tears. Now, having it suddenly available again, I don't feel like going back there anymore. Goodbye, although I can't help but feel the real goodbye was said a long time ago -- what came after was just denial.
By what I've seen I like the spirit of Lotus, but I sense a movement away from complete web frameworks to pure API back-ends with the emergence of great single page JS frameworks like Ember. One ruby one that I like is https://intridea.github.io/grape/. One interesting node API framework I mean to try is http://loopback.io/.
Is soccer anything more than Poisson noise?
Shouldn't these things be easily detectable? If you can use your GPS and radio in your phone to get a list of nearby towers and one mytseriously shows up, it seems likely this would be one of these devices.
Is using npm worth it? Would it be simpler to download the dependencies yourself and put them into a vendor directory?
You are forgetting that not all people are building thick-client applications.
Same problem here.

For dynos that were up, websites were time outed. If you restart dynos, it doesn't get to the up state.
YO API client
> messaging will follow

Messaging is already here. Except it's called the Social Service API.

For example, there are two Facebook Services. You can go (right now) to the Mozilla Social Service Activations Portal, select Facebook Share, and click "Activate now":

https://activations.cdn.mozilla.net/en-US/facebook.html [Requires a Facebook account]

There used to also be a Facebook Messenger Service, but that appears to be gone for some reason:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-facebook-messe...

There's developer documentation here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/So...
This Is What Swimming Pools Will Look Like In The Future
> I want one language that works on both sides and in fact allows OOP code sharing between the two.

I think, having one language in both frontend and backend does not work in long run, regardless of your preferred language of choice.

we love ruby and yet where I work - we actively maintain Ruby, Python, Javascript and Java applications. Besides, I find it too hard to write OOP code which is reusable within same problem domain, writing OOP code that crosses the concerns between backend and frontend sounds like inviting lot of problems and lot of useless discussion on - which code goes where.

EDIT: I didn't mean business agnostic code can't be shared between frontend and backend btw. Date parsing, uri parsing etc are examples of such libraries. But overall aiming to write business code that can be shared between frontend and backend is problematic.
What's wrong with compiling elsewhere and transporting the binary there?

Also, there are builds of the compiler that one can use, you're not usually forced to compile the compiler.
So, I deleted the comment where I applaud IE yet describe the extensions you just rewrote in almost parody (edit: misread Firefox on my mobile device as IE. Good point! I love Firefox too for these reasons!). But, my point is that the metro IE doesn't have extensions. Chrome does (the metro edition) because last time I checked it's just a frozen implementation of the desktop browser but full screen. Lack of extensions is the weak point for me for any browser. And, the metro IE and better scaling overall are the only compelling benefits I see to IE. So, I usually opt for Chrome (edit: or even firefox! :) )
Since you got the fitbit or since you decided to start exercising?
With Google Transit becoming so good, probably because of Waze data, will people continue to use Waze?

If people stop using Waze, wouldn't Google Transit become worse?
Between startup fluctuations I've - practically speaking - been unemployed but financially stable.

I must say, I lose my mind not having "a project" or work. For the author, his project was pushing stop, not forming goals and playing Starcraft. Good for him!

I'd get depressed without a cognitively challenging project at least on the horizon.

For some people, keeping their minds busy and dreaming is their "junk tv" - often in the form of work.
Definitely need one person intimate with the framework or they'll be a lot of mistakes made along the way. The backend guy (if he's not working on FE) should just be building an API for the Service/HTTP calls. He should have a very easy time. There is a lot of communication between the BE dev and FE dev on Models though. We'd usually have our FE guys implement a mock model for testing and implement it in (at the time) C#.