skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see this before I replied to your earlier post. I see no evidence of Minecraft being a platform, so we have a fundamental disagreement there.
I agree that a device which can do all these is an excellent choice for students. As an engineering student, I used all of the above versatility on my HP TX2510US, and dealt with the burns that the poor heat management gave me :-)

I haven't played with the SP3, but I'm sure there are a multitude of other options as well which are well-suited to student use.
Yo is a hack, over 100k Anroid downloads. They built their audience, now they can turn it into something usable.

Oh, and they have your social graph based on cell numbers.
I assume that is where Google Apps comes in.
"His contention is that soccer, more than most other sports, is a poisson machine. He goes into the math."

No he doesn't. He shows that the final score of a soccer game can be modeled by a Poisson distribution. He doesn't look at the distribution of final scores and other sports and compare them.
A first step on a sinking ship doesn't count.
I don't know about that. I registered one through Blogger, went to renew it later and they were no longer offering that service from Google.
Just as an aside, the startup I work at provides these services with Google Apps included. We handle automatic domain registration, DNS setup, automate the process of verifying your Google Apps account, allow Single Sign-On to GMail, and more. I'm guessing the tech crowd would particularly find the automated google verification interesting.

The other best part is we match the pricing of a Google Apps for Business account and offer a 15 day free trial with no credit card required.

We partner with the likes of Startup Weekend and .CO since our goal is to help you get your ideas online fast.

For those of you interested in checking it out, I'd love feedback:

https://pop.co
I really wish I could provide some A/B testing statistics, I really would. But in the timeframe of the Worldcup, a relatively small user base and doing this a side project only this seems a bit challenging. However you make a very good point.
It sounds like you're looking for Google Apps (http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/index.html). Although since they'll let you forward to a free gmail account, it seems you're pretty covered.
Georgia Tech Online Master in CS
Ask HN: Should developers be writing technical documentation?
Not to be confused with the question: "Should developers document their code?". I have no problem with developers working on internal documentation. Should developers be writing external documentation for their code that customers will be using? This includes installation, terminology, how and when to use APIs, etc.

The company I work for has developers writing customer facing technical documentation and this has always felt off to me. Proper documentation takes a different level of skill, and I don't feel that writing the code automatically makes me qualified to correctly express how the code should be used. This often results on poor customer facing documentation.

I personally feel that technical documentation takes a different level of skill and developers should be focused on developing. Am I just griping too much? Do other companies do this?
I'm wary about a lot of these SASS/PASS/IASS services. The "don't put all your eggs in one basket" cliche comes to mind.
Wow, this just makes me love America's Test Kitchen even harder.

Edit: and it's served from a statically-generated jekyll blog that is on their github page. Did I mention they have a github account. Very random and awesome.
Isnt the compiler written in java? I think that's the heart of the problem, you aint gona get the javascript community behind that tool if it's not written in js,or at least something that cant be easily packaged with npm.Time to write a Java2Js transpiler,in javascript...
Google Begins Testing Domain Registrations
Brings new meaning to the "The Quantified Self"
Comparison of salaries for 820 US jobs
>The scanning policy used to be more aggressive and didn't exclude content that was unshared or only shared to a small set of people.

>Last year

No conflict.
Makes sense. I actually stumbled upon 99dresses the other day after looking at Polenizer(I'm a Brisbanite). Hoping to grow a startup here, not because of some strict nationalism, just too lazy to go through the visa process =D
It doesn't mean the industry has a problem, it means the people who put the $1 million into the company have a problem.
I disagree, strongly.

If you've architected for IAAS you have sufficient redundancy and a plan for graceful degradation. I'd rather be dealing with an outage after lunch than at 4am.
Take a look at Elastic Beanstalk too. We use eb with docker containers and it has been pretty decent. Handles auto scaling, load balancing, fault recovery, deployment itself, and Docker provides great flexibility.
Lotus::Model apparently depends on https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel , which has been widely used in production similarly to DataMapper.
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I think obese and many overweight people are aware that they consume more food than the average person. What is the obese person going to do at 6pm when they've received the notification that they've consumed too many calories?

There are much larger issues than calorie counting that cause 2/3 of the U.S to be overweight. Agricultural corn subsidies for starters, a defunct FDA, poor education, lack of strong culinary traditions and a lack of preventative healthcare all play into a massive amount of people being overweight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJSQq494oV4
Perhaps not in the valley, but ~$105k is not ballpark absurd for senior dev in the US.

(I'm in London at the moment and I do acknowledge that this place is fucking fabulously expensive).
What’s next for the winning Watson developers?
Elsewhere in the thread, Cruise's co-founder indicates that they're using the old-school mechanical automation method: actuators on the brake, wheel, and throttle.

Most cars with active cruise control don't comply with any standard - while the commands to accelerate, decelerate, or steer may be available over a CANbus which is exposed on the OBD-II port, there's no standard like there is for OBD-II diagnostic information and the protocols are often obfuscated or encrypted (either for "security" or manufacturer protectionism).
Not to defend Wolfram, but to understand this you'll have to understand that "The Wolfram Language" is not like the traditional "programming languages". Traditional programming languages consist of a set of grammar, essential built-in libraries and a few development tools. The Wolfram Language is more than that. It includes the Mathematica language, a very rich set of libraries/algorithms, rich bodies of knowledge encoded in curated datasets in various kinds of physical and social sciences.

It might be best to compare the Wolfram Language to natural languages like English instead of programming language. The English language is not just a set of grammar, but also a rich collection of vocabularies that need to be compiled and maintained, and perhaps a rich collection of literature that need to be maintained and expanded to help learners understand the language.

Wolfram spent quite some time and resources to collect data for his Wolfram Alpha, and his new "language". It makes sense to charge money for such efforts.
I've started to realize that in this exploration. I think I might just need at most a simple dashboard.
Yes, I remember quite distinctly when that happened to GMail as well.
All your family jewels in one place? Accessible from a common front-panel? Abso-f-ing-lutely NO offline backups that count? Like I said, they had it coming.

Seriously, if you don't have the code-and-data backup that will enable you to switch service providers, even with a downtime penalty, then you and your SAAS truly have it coming. If these guys had any real backups, they could have let the clusterfuck at AWS play out the way it did and still be able to upload everything to DigitalOcean or a colo or whatever and still come back alive a month later. Now that 99.999999999999999 (ad nauseaum) ain't worth squat, is it?

I mean, basic (Dev)-Ops-(Sec), real basic. But, then again, I'm just another armchair, after-the-fact, analyst-dude on the internet.
Or a free Gmail account for incoming mail. The only missing part of the jigsaw would be an SMTP server - otherwise your email appears to others with something like 'sent on behalf of' or similar (depending on the mail client).
Do you want to start working night shifts? The people who know how do this stuff command six-figure salaries and are highly in demand.

Every startup is looking for the design/dev/ops unicorn. You want to start trying to find nocturnal unicorns?
That is a curious choice. Why not use existing sensors on the vehicle?
Beware of those who would control your access to information, for in their hearts they dream themselves your master.
I understand the frustration and outright sadness at a startup dying. Its your baby while its there, and sometimes, you wake one day and its not. But that is the nature of startups. Like you said - the odds are against you from day zero. But we do it regardless for that 10% chance of "not dying" and the even more anorexic chance of "making it big". I think ultimately we're doing it for the ride. And I think every person going into a startup should be given a little laminated fact sheet explaining that he's joining an enterprise which will try to fight this statistic and nothing is guaranteed in this rollercoaster. Same way the banks have to warn you before you invest in a portfolio, that your investment might be buggered to hell, people should be aware the same applies to tech startups. If nothing else, that might cut down on the disappointment of letting your staff know its over.

Keep at it Nikki. Well done for your first round. Level up now and go at it again.
Good. No matter how actively US tech companies are collaborating with the NSA and other security services, they deserve distrust until they actively protect their users' privacy with open, verifiable strong encryption tools.
NodeBB's engine supports both cold-loads from server-side and ajax-loaded pages. So if you browse NodeBB via JS-disabled browser for example, it will still work (read-only)
Stopped reading after the fourth misspelling of "it's".
I don't understand - why not "introducing" - it seemed to be an introductory level article on the topic of "vacuum transistors"?
That explains why I automatically type "sychdb" instead of "syncdb" every time I want to update my Django app.
>I would far rather deal with Google than GoDaddy

Would you rather deal with Google as opposed to Namecheap? A great company with superb support that specializes in nothing but domain names and dedicated hosting?

I wouldn't.
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And in what way, exactly, is that a virus? Epidemic, at a stretch.

(I'm not typically this pedantic... I just think viruses have particularly interesting information dynamics and it's really weird to me when applied as a metaphor outside of where that would make sense.)
North Metro Atlanta. I think people there tend to prefer country clubs over neighborhood pools/tennis courts, but I'm really just guessing since North isn't that specific.
This is not a new problem, the Federal government has had programs subsidizing the construction of rental housing via HUD financing and block grants of Low Income Housing Tax Credits to the states for more than 20 years.

The current scarcity of affordable rental housing -- and when we talk about a shortage of any kind of real-estate, we're always qualified by 'affordable' -- is greater because of two trends.

The first was Hope 6 from the 1990's in which large public housing projects were torn down and replaced with much smaller and prettier public housing projects and by which the stock of public housing in the US was greatly reduced. Displaced tenants were expected to find housing in the private market using various vouchers, such as Section 8. This increased demand raised rents and removed surplus from the affordable housing market.

The second trend however, effected the rental housing market more broadly. In the housing boom of the early 2000's, a large percentage of the existing rental housing units in the US were converted to condominium ownership and the units were taken out of the primary rental market. Because of the way condominium insurance is written, many condominium deeds restrict rentals of units in order effort to limit association fees. This makes it less likely for former rental units to return to secondary rental markets after a property has gone condominium.

The issue is quite simply that rents don't cover development costs in much of the US for large demographic segments of the population. In part this is because the minimal cost of development is lower bounded, and not primarily by government controls but by land and construction costs established by the free market.

In the extreme for illustration, even if you get the land for free in Detroit, you cannot charge enough rent to cover construction if you build for the economic segment where most of the demand exists, and in the segments where the numbers work out, there is limited demand and every other developer is targeting that segment.

One last piece of rental housing development is also worth bearing in mind, the upfront costs tend to be higher and the payback longer than with owner occupied housing development. There's no deposits or presales to fund partial development or create an initial income stream. There's no revenue until the rent checks arrive so projects get built in a single phase. That means a bigger loan and an emphasis on faster construction times versus a slower more variable pace tailored to sales velocity.

Addendum: Another factor which may be coming into play is that rental housing has traditionally attracted institutional investors. To the degree that startups offer an attractive alternative the pool of potential investors for rental housing development might be reduced.
I don't doubt the community myopia, but better bike lanes are relevant to not just "single 20-something males in Silicon Valley", but rather HN readers 20-50, any gender or relationship status, in New York, London, Berlin, etc. It's not everyone but it's not that narrow either.
This is exactly the "developer-centric" mindset that is, frankly, misguided.

Sure, I would rather deal with an outage during business hours, but that means that many of my Customers are also dealing with an outage. If the outage were at 4 AM, most of my Customers would be asleep, and wouldn't even notice the outage.
Call me back when it can sync more than one file per second.
Over time I've started to frame my current phase of 'funemployment' as I a form of hitchhiking; I do set goals, but I try to make sure they're relatively meaningless. Along the way, better goals often present themselves. With hitchhiking I did this by picking a random city to hitchhike toward.

On the one hand, having these goals during my funemployment keep me from the utterly depressing and maddening nothingness I've experienced when I left things completely open (I have a personal post titled 'Why do I get up in the morning?' from such a period that hurts to read).

On the other hand, it keeps me from pursuing, as others here have pointed out, the should-do goals that are really mostly left-overs from my hard-work-to-succeed days. I feel now that these goals were not as essential to my short- or long-term happiness as I thought initially.

Perhaps others are better at this, though. My brain just seems to implode or create problems for the sake of it when it is not almost obsessively occupied with something, however pointless it may be, and I've been this way since I was a child. It's possible I have ADHD or some form of OCD.
Hash without salt, you're at fault; use a nonce, you're not a dunce.
Good to see someone taking up competition against Google/MS.

If only they'd move their servers to Iceland (they already have backups there).
Yep. When I was a kid I had to type my games in from an Usbourne book. It was, in the long run, a hell of a lot better than a console and cartridges would have been.
Re: the "what is appropriate on HN" see http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The basic idea is to share things that satisfy one's intellectual curiosity. If you share links like that, or contribute comments that help others intellectual curiosity you will find lots of fellow souls.

And that is I guess the answer to your second part - if you want to build the next Google you need fellow souls - talented people who also fit in with your brain. You can find them here, and even discuss the finer points of arranging servers or compensation

What I would avoid doing is shouting "who wants to join my startup?"

Got an idea? Great - make a prototype and a bazillion of us will tear it down for free to help make it better. One or two might jump on board. apart from that you will just make a few friends, gain some respect and have us cheering you on from the sidelines.

Good luck.
I wonder when the productivity benefit to ATK employees will outweigh the $$ they spent paying you to make this.

It actually would have been very interesting to poll employees and get data on 'failed bathroom trips' per day per employee before you finished the project.

From there, you could extrapolate the (supposed) daily productivity increase and do things like plotting the $$ or minutes saved per day on the screen.
Google discontinued (presumably paid) radio and television ads a few months after starting each.

This does seem entirely like a whimsical side project for Google. If you want a reliable domain registrar, find one that doesn't do anything else.
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They can see every DNS lookup if you use their nameservers.
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Precisely. Who would have predicted that Twitter would have been used to organize people in a meaningful way during the Arab Spring?

The overthrow of tyrannical regimes is a noble cause that a startup would almost certainly never been able to focus on as a solution to a big picture problem.
I've been trying out Dokku (https://github.com/progrium/dokku) as a Heroku alternative. DigitalOcean has a nice VM template for Dokku; I think Linode has something like it too (or instructions for setting up Dokku).

So far, I like it; Dokku is pretty slick. Deployments are more or less the same as Heroku - "git push dokku master", in the case of my Rails app. But that said, assuming Heroku's security is super tight, I have a bit of work to do to secure my droplet.

I'll probably still have to scale myself (or just switch to Linode and use their load balancer), and with Dokku I've got a PostgreSQL DB in my Dokku container.

Droplets disappearing or crashing... not sure, but I sure hope DigitalOcean's backups are good :)
Oh that is pretty cool. I wonder if they have considered them as power switching devices. Something like that which had an effective Rds of nano-ohms could make electric cars more efficient.
Unfortunately, this line of criticism works equally well about all games, art, haute cuisine, movies, national parks, and about 96% of our economy.

More importantly, it also works against articles that gripe about effort wasted on apps the author doesn't care for.
We have the potential to solve the big problems. But the big problems cost a lot more than $1 million to solve and aren't likely to get funded unless the founder is already a Silicon Valley billionaire with VC connections.

So let's build apps like Yo because Silicon Valley deems them to be a prerequisite to being allowed to solve the big problems.
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I started counting calories because I find that it makes sense to fight fire with fire, in a way. The caloric density, abundance, and low price of food in western countries is only possible because of technology, and so a little bit of technology (a smartphone app with a big library of foods, barcode scanner, etc.) goes a long way to counter that.
Sure. You can't make assumptions about the base distro with buildpacks, which is why you curl/untar dependencies.

Dockerfiles are a bit better by allowing you to pick the base image (and thus distro), though there are tradeoffs with that too.
That ... doesn't seem that expensive to me, coming from someone that lives in Seattle. Then again, I tend to get the day rates, or the late-night rates, which, if memory serves me, are like $15 for the night, while only staying an hour or two for dinner.
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The "complex one" is better because it is correct.
I don't know C#, but as I read your program, I'm pretty sure it's wrong.
It seems like you just do a depth first traversal. That way you can't get breadth first numbering all the way through without further "complexity".
It's pure luck, that you get his small tree right. Try a bigger tree.
gmail completely upset the mail game, offering a product that was so outrageous that most took it as an April fools joke.

This...looks like a registrar + nameservers, and doesn't seem to really differentiate itself in any compelling way at all. Name serving + registration anywhere else, or at two separate places, isn't that different in price from the price they show in their screenshot.

Invite only for something like this is incredibly lame. I mean, whoever thought they'd pull that tactic again needs to seriously be corralled. It is amateur hour.
Well aside from the fact that most of this development was done in my free time, I can say personally it's saved my a good amount of frustration and time. Hard to really quantify though.
I'm a relatively new transplant to the city (3 years) and didn't even realize there was a time when the city was rent controlled. My cursory sleuthing indicates it was voted out narrowly in 1994.
All these companies leaving Heroku and other PaaS providers is definitely a blessing for the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmins out there.
I literally just discovered Dokku (https://github.com/progrium/dokku) yesterday - a "Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash". You can roll your own PaaS infrastructure on your own VMs.

It took a few hours, but I was able to get my Heroku-based Rails app up and running on a Dokku droplet (to be fair, the most time-consuming part was getting the SSH keys right and figuring out that I needed a domain name - e.g., couldn't just set it up with a droplet's IP address - at least not with the DigitalOcean tutorial's instructions: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...).