skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe what you you need to do is ad retargeting.
See this post on how to spend money effectively on this http://okdork.com/2014/05/21/how-to-spend-your-first-100-on-...
Handmade Car Explores the Abandoned Railroads of Mexico
Yes, that's a much better question than how to get them interested in computer science. If there are nurses, it's because they're interested in doctors.
Excerpts from Davies 1962: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/3AZannVS...

This is interesting because of what we observe right now: even as the global economy continues steadily growing and places like Africa have never been better off, we still observe a great deal of unrest and civil revolution. The Davies paradigm suggests that we observe the unrest because of the growth, and also explain why hellholes like North Korea can persist for so long, which is a bit of a mystery if mere misery & tyranny were why revolutions happened. (The Davies paradigm also undercuts a lot of the moralizing around events like the American & French revolution.)
In C++ I can write a generic vector math routine that operates on any scalar type and still simd specialize it for particular scalar types.
And vacuum, at least comparatively soft vacuum, isn't a big deal either. I've got functional vacuum tubes around here older than I am.
Spitballing here, but let's imagine a common impaired driving situation- being very sleepy and needing to get somewhere on a time-schedule.

I don't know if you've ever been in that situation, but it's possible to fall all the way asleep while driving. It's such a common thing that they carve rumble strips into the sides of highways.

Being so sleepy is a tricky thing. You can fall asleep even with the radio going full blast. I can't imagine any alarm system that would stop someone being lulled to sleep by the engine and movement of a car doing 90% of the driving.
She hardly comes off as the type of person that wants affirmative action. I'm not being a white knight here but that comment is kinda insulting to her.
Does a macbook has touchscreen at any price-point ? At least with the windows machine if you have trouble with trackpad, touchscreen will come to rescue. Its insane how people get hung up one thing and talk as if that is central. When Apple released Retina branded hi-res, its all about resolution, now that Macbooks are not hi-res than their competition somehow its not that important anymore.

Dude, its just a tool - use it if you can. Your reality or competence of usage of a tool is always subjective, so lets all chill and pick the marbles we like respectively.
It was created here, although it has long since transcended its origins.
The US. Well, I work in an open office and there are frequently guests. It's possible the cameras are for the guests.
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> smart enough not to invest in adding to that overhang

This is interesting... new housing and old housing affect each others' prices, but aren't quite fungible. I'm surprised some developers aren't just confidently outcompeting existing stock with better quality newer homes.

Are newer homes absorbing an equal or larger share of the vacancies than older homes?

Is there some class of home that is absorbing a disproportionate share of the vacancies?
I think that this: "I like the vanilla iOS address book as it is" makes a big difference on the tenor of the comment. Thanks for adding it.
The site is still up and you have a core group of people who love it. Can't you just keep it and the app running for now? The costs for the servers can't be that high.
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As recommended by JB Queru, former lead of AOSP (Android Open Source): https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts
+1 to this response.
I'll just add specific questions to ask when you're interviewing specific people about their problems that you believe you will solve. Note that this is not about your solution at all at this point - its about learning whether there is a problem even worth solving.

In this interview you are specifically looking to answer the following questions:

A. Customer Segments: Who has the pain?
• How to identify early-adopters?
Ask some introductory questions to collect basic demographics that you believe will drive how you segment and qualify your early adopters.

B. Problem: What are you solving? List (up to) the top 3 problem you believe you are solving
• How does the interviewee rank the top 3 problems?
• What is their pain level for all of these problems: must-have, nice-to-have, don’t-need?
• How do customers solve these problems today? – This is generally the heart of the interview as they do a lot of talking and you ask follow up questions based on their responses.

You are done when you have interviewed at least 10 people and
• can identify the demographics of an early adopter,
• have a must-have problem and
• can describe how customers solve this problem today

If you want to learn more about all of this I suggest picking up Ash Maurya's Running Lean - its the most actionable framework on the Lean Startup methodology that will walk you through step by step from validating your problem to actually having a viable business.

Hope that helps.
Is this in cambridge/somerville? Big companies moving into Kendall Sq are pushing up rents like mad.
Privacy concerns are one of the reasons I went for the Garmin Vivofit -- it only powers up the radio when you activate sync by holding the button (necessary to achieve the one year battery life).
How Marissa Mayer fell asleep and kept ad executives waiting for hours
Find your public IP address from the command line
I find caffeine really doesn't help all that much although I do generally drink a partial cup of coffee or a diet soda sometime in the morning.

Too much and I get strung out and too wired to work efficiently. And.... it makes me tired not long afterwords. A little tiny bit in one or two doses a day isn't bad but much more and it becomes counterproductive.

My favorite drugs? A good light meal, fresh air and a nice long walk in the sunshine.
Reminds me of how the windows phone people hub works (which I think is a good thing).
I will add that the article was clearly a parody on an Onion-affiliated website. I thought that was obvious.
Actual technology leaders. Not self proclaimed experts.

One thing that would be great is to have a poll of who users would like to book and perhaps reach out to them.
Repost of a Salon article.

Original submission: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/30/amazon_is_killing_my_sex_lif...

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826628
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Perhaps a good approach in this type of circumstance is to explicitly leave it unanswered. (eg. "both left for reasons that are not the point of this post")
Are you doing anything interesting with DNSSEC?
WillYouHack.Me?
Isn't this old, i know i have heard of it several years ago.
I work at an Brazilian mobile ad network running on Amazon AWS and our traffic is really intense. There are 13 developers in total in the team and none of them are DevOPS, which make me conclude that most often than not, you don't need a person specialized into server maintenance and infrastructure.

Like some people said before, Heroku is great for prototyping but just not a good deal in the long run. Too expensive, way to risky/unreliable for serious stuff
I read somewhere that when you're starting up, 3 aspects of your life are in play: Your health, your startup and your family/relationships.
You can pick 2.
I've found this to be entirely true.
The only thing that saves family and relationships in my experience is
a) setting expectations early and often as to what the final goal is.
b) communicating progress towards getting that goal & what the plan is when things are not going as they should

So as with everything, the bottom line is over-communicating.
If she doesn't know as much as you about what's actually going on then you're relationship is not likely to make it based on the information provided.

Your only other option is to sacrifice the relationship for the sake of your startup if you are so passionate about it. Nobody said starting up was easy - it always exacts some price (health or relationships).
The question is what matters to you more.
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Typical bullshit. How is it related to Hacker News?
You are correct. Look up RegisterFly for an example of a registrar going under. GoDaddy took over their customers.
Kind of sounds like http://www.terminal.com but Mathematica-specific
“The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be a socially awkward, emotionally stunted, sheltered, strangely entitled, and/or a misogynistic individual,” she wrote in an email.

I'm impressed by the lack of self-awareness displayed in that statement. There's a saying that if everyone around you looks like an asshole, then it's probably you who is the asshole. I feel as though it applies here.
Not to mention a culture that encourages people to spend money on things that allow them to live a sedentary lifestyle.

If you drive to work, take the elevator, sit in front of a computer all day and then watch television to relax... then; duh. You're gonna be chubby, even if you only eat organic salads from Whole Paycheck.

If you walk or bike for local trips, stand or take frequent stretch breaks while at work, always take the stairs and garden in the evenings you're going to much more fit even if taquitos are a food group as far as you're concerned.

Habits are the key. Figure out how to shift your default behaviours and you will effect change.
Do you even know what a protection racket is? Only one party to this affair goes around threatening people unless they pay up and its not Monkey Parking. edit nor ParkModo
Not in the slightest insulting. All I see in this girl is that she is following the fairly normal path that non-Zuckerbergian founders go through. She's smart and motivated and getting some good experience under her belt early. If she is not supported to rapidly pick herself up and dust herseld off then she might not be back in the game for years. A failed venture can take years to recover from financially etc. The lack of women co founders is a constant issue now in the industry so when we find good ones then they deserve some extra help.
A few months ago, I heard a couple people talk about this topic at the Office Optional conference.
http://officeoptional.co/program/
As you will see in the link, the people I'm referring to are
a) Cass Phillipps @webwallflower
b) Christina Lucey @christinaluce

It would be worth reaching out to them to get specific advice as they've dealt with the specific issue of working across timezones.
You can even tell them that you found out about them via the Office Optional program.

Hope that helps.
I just got into fitness 3 weeks ago.
Fitbit seems interesting.
There is a ton of info on http://reddit.com/r/fitness
Also http://stronglifts.com
Tons of youtube videos on fitness, for example by pendlay
Myfitnesspal is very useful also for free.
I have already lost 3 lbs and am actually eating more than when I was a couch potato. I am also trying to apply discipline I am learning for fitness in my work and home life also. Love it.
"For example, the mean free path of electrons in air under normal atmospheric pressure is about 200 nanometers, which on the scale of today’s transistors is pretty large."

It doesn't require helium; helium is just a bit better.
Thanks David—
I understand that the iOS address book is functional and that you're probably used to using it already.
Literally, the best thing I read today. Well thought out and written. Keep rocking Nikki!
A thousand times this.

The worse case scenario is much, much worse for non-technical cofounders.

They often don't have a deep, specialized skill that is easily used by other companies.
That's like, three logical fallacies tied together.

You've made an argument to authority with your lead-off sentence of "that's not how businessses are run" and a no true scotsman argument with "no sane person running a business", and then tied it up with an absurdo ad reductum analogy about security guards.

There are plenty of shops that I've personally worked with, and many more that I've read about here on HN that do daytime maintenance / make potentially breaking changes to production. I'd be willing to bet Heroku does a mix of day and night time scheduled maintenances, with scheduling determined by a reasoned analysis of the risks and potential for an outage.

If you think a 1 AM maintenance window helps anything, I'd bet you've never seen the sunlight come up as you staggered out of a datacenter 10 hours after your "midnight maintenance" went south, and no one with an optical light meter to help you trace down a dodgy fiber run was awakee at your transit provider, so you had to wait until the first shops opened to buy your own...

...ok, maybe I'm a little bitter. What I'm getting at is, a 1 PM outage - although more customer facing than a 1 AM outage - will almost definitely be resolved faster, because resources outside of the engineers performing the maintenance are in abundance at 1 PM and not 1 AM.

Bonus points: your engineers will not be zombies for the next three days, and that's important both for post-outage work and to make sure everyone stays sharp for the potential "bounce outage" (e.g. your first outage was the core router dying, the second will hit the same week when your new replacement core router's slightly upgraded IOS version causes a BGP flap under certain conditions that don't arise until a good 48 hours after you mail out your customer outage report....)

That might sound trivial, but at scale - if you have tons of engineers and are doing tons of maintenance all the time - it's actually really important, at least IMHO.

(Quick, take a guess - how many Heroku daytime maintenances do you think went off without a hitch that you've never heard of?)

P.S. what time zone are you in? I assume your time zone's 1 AM is the important one, so someone else on the other side of the country is going to either have a late evening or early morning maintenance window..... ;)
That's a facile argument. There's money to be made in a wide variety of pointless or even deleterious services. You can get rich hydrofracking or producing TV shows about how aliens built the pyramids. You woukd get paid relatively little and certainly get no ownership stake working for a government program like the NHS or Medicare. Doesn't mean people don't need them.
The whole rationale of outsourced hosting is to have someone else take care of things, so it's a little comical to see the complaints when the pendulum swings the other way. What do people expect?
Not sure what the terms for Domains are, but for App Engine they will give you at least one year, IIRC. They introduced the policy when they started charging for the platform.
I didn't do any of that. Read closer.
The App does somewhat offer a solution to getting users to switch to new platforms through notifying you when your contacts are engaging in a new service, ie. "Joe, Matt, and 4 others just added Yo to their profile."

That sort of notification AFAIK is not offered by anything else at this time. Accounts actively markets new services you may have heard of by notifying you when your friends actually start using them
There are all sorts of odd legacy housing policies in this country, some of which contribute to major social problems, like inequalities in education.

This American Life touched on this in 512, "House Rules":
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/h... (audio)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/t... (transcript)

TAL brings in Nikole Hannah-Jones, from Pro Publica. Her full article is here:
http://www.propublica.org/article/living-apart-how-the-gover...

It's a really interesting tour through the political history of US housing law, highlighting some of its nonsensical impacts

More of a snowfall version:
http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-the-resegr...
Considering on-topic is "anything hackers find interesting," a complaint that something is not interesting is a complaint that something isn't appropriate for the site.
https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/06/23/static-checking...
Sorry, by "these quantities" I meant "at computer-chip quantities" in general; gold we pretty much use by area, and not much of that, either. The numbers I gave were purposely quite generous for volume. After all, I did say they were probably 3 or 4 orders of magnitude too generous. Per reitzensteinm's post, looks like you can recover another 1.5 or so out of my chip-height estimate, too.
I saw a demo awhile back of an app that would try to estimate calories based on pictures of food. It was wildly inaccurate. For people who are determined to make it work, counting calories requires an obsessive mindset that will weigh a handful of nuts before eating them.

This is one of the few use cases where Soylent ( the pseudo food ) may be superior. Because you can guarantee that you are eating x calories per day and only x calories per day.

But then, you'd be living on soylent...
Oh wow! This looks absolutely awesome. I'd love to take a trip on some old railroads. The only thing is... what if they get to a section where the rails have been ripped up or something?
This is generally not true in areas that are desirable to live in. Lots of slack capacity has been removed from the market.
Also interesting is that he knew those stats in order to make the quote. He was known for remembering every little slight, stat, etc... in order to use as motivation. I picture a little piece of paper with 25 written on it, and him thinking he does not want to write 26.
Embarrassed to work in an industry that can welcome and support founders solving problems as profound as enery/cleantech, health, transportation and food, but also diverse enough to address real frustrations and economic problems faced by women?

Like everything else in life, nobody is forcing you to buy the product or join/invest in the company.

But to sneer at its right to exist is both short-sighted and mean.
So, where can we get an invite?
Hey, I see small sites go down left right and centre here, have you written anywhere about how your 256MB Linode instance stays up?
I can't be the only one who likes using different businesses for different services? It's bad enough to use Google for email, calendar, docs. I wouldn't buy with / transfer my business domains to them.

http://gandi.net and http://dnsimple.com are both great options in this space.
+1. Postage in Australia is a very rough deal for many businesses. On top of internal pricing, companies overseas can often ship to here more cheaply than we can even ship internally. It's crippling and will remain so without either drastic overhaul or something like autonomous couriers years down the track.

Wine is big business in Australia, but where wineries in California seem to have < $10 shipping nation-wide, an Australian winery will cop $30+ to post a dozen to an interstate capital.

(I'm an Australian with one physical product which would be easier to sell if the shipping weren't so expensive.)
Meh, one would think the solution to one's dating problems would be to change their approach, not expect an entire city & gender to accomodate them...

If one is looking for artists one might want to check out art parties rather than software created by the people their looking to avoid. (OkCupid).

The article is as horrible as every other article written by men about women complaining about how they can't get the woman of their dreams.

Stop whining, be positive, and go find the people you're looking for. If one can't find one artist/musician to date in SF or Seattle I really don't know what to tell you...
Softbank in Japan did release a phone with a Geiger counter, so it's probably not that far off...

[1] http://www.softbank.jp/mobile/product/smartphone/107sh/featu...
http://turbogrill.blogspot.com/2014/06/doom-on-zpu.html
Writing an essay to the security folks justifying using Python in a corporate environment?
Its great to have ideas but sadly they have to be profitable.

So... drop the girlfriend or get some profits or get some gainful employment. It really is that simple. Don't give up good ideas that have legs but don't fall into the trap of deceiving yourself about the future value of your ideas either. You can't eat pipe dreams.
Again, read closer. I did not complain that it wasn't interesting. I said I wasn't interested [in considering] such advice. The use of the same root word is only interesting (uh oh) to those in the business of equivocation fallacies.
Thanks for the response.

I have heard that pick 2 statement before, never thought I would be on that side of choosing.

I will take your advice and try to keep her updated on the progress, as there has been much. Hopefully that will help put her at ease.
>Actually for airbags its federal law

And I said:

>>(though now they're mandatory in the US, IIRC)

You also say:

>liability issues there are handled by the federal government

Considering law firms exist that specialize in suing car companies over airbag accidents [1], I'm going to say [Citation Needed].

>Frankly, I think considering all the issues like weather, accidents, etc the self-driving car might be our generation's jetpack. Sure, sounds great on paper, but in reality its horrifying.

Cars with some of these features already exist, and are already on the road. Specifically auto-breaking collision avoidance, as well as auto-follow-distance cruise control (not to mention auto-parking).

These features are not only not horrifying, but they're starting to be standard on high-end cars. People will get used to them, and when the next innovation becomes commonplace, they will get used to it as well.

It's not only unlike jet-packs, it's almost inevitable at this point.

[1] http://airbag-law.com/
>Kinetic scrolling on Firefox for Android is broken. Do not fiddle with scrolling when doing web development, ever. I guarantee that you will fail.

What do you mean? I've tried on Firefox (Beta) and Chrome on my Nexus 5 and it seems to work fine for me.
"Just use the parts you need". (sounds prosaic, but actually well put).

I've used C++ over the years off-and-on (depending on what the clients required). You don't really need to use every 'exotic' feature in order to be productive. If you need something low-level with great compilers and a lot of great lib support, it's actually a nice language. All these new languages are nice, but Go and Rust just chisel off the 'ugly' in favor of some different 'ugly', IMO.
I think the author should be glad that she lives in a country where her biggest issue is that all the wealthy and intelligent men she meets don't have artistic hobbies.

That is a fantastically first world / middle class problem to have.
Look for the "_Generic" keyword.

On that topic, it is possible to do cool things with macros with GCC extensions. A simple example of generic macros was discussed about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896280
It's called _Generic (which should be easier to Google), but the fact that you have to modify the macro wherever you want to use it with a new type severely limits its usefulness.
If you are not interested in it, then you find it not interesting. If you found it interesting, you'd be interested in it.

This is the least interesting conversation I've ever had.