skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny - now that I'm building http://withknown.com/ at http://matter.vc/, I don't know how I'd answer this question.

Previously, I would have said that.

I'd love to spend six months on writing a novel. I've written simple novels before, but a serious book. I have ideas that I want to pursue, but they really would need my whole brain at length. Six months _might_ cover it.
What You Don’t Know About Internal Motivation May Harm Your Career
Gladly, and congrats!!!
This article goes into more detail of why it works and how the US should follow it (from a former brit): http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/we-dont-need-net-...
i felt even older when I realized I've been coding Javascript for almost 20 years.
Honestly, as someone who has taken multiple mini-sabbaticals, all it takes is willpower.

By that, I mean the willpower to save, to have roommates, to cook at home... It is possible!

Another strategy is to plot out while working and spend your two weeks of vacation completely alone somewhere far away from wifi and basically use it as an opportunity to transcribe. If you have all your research done beforehand (and this is something that can be done in small chunks) you can get a first draft done in two weeks. (I've had friends do this.)

Of course, I still have a novel begging for a second draft that I keep promising myself I'll get back to. :)
As well he could take the "expand my territory" bent implying that the more funds applied, the more churches could have this, the more churches that have this the better the 'kingdom of God' or whathaveyou
I tend to start pacing for the zipper merge when I'm (reasonably) close to the end of the zipper. This way, I'm showing I am willing to wait while simultaneously giving myself the option of skipping forward past any particular territorial driver. When I slow down the merging lane to a similar speed as the non-merging lane, I can typically see the zipper start to form behind me when I check my mirrors.

In the same way one or two bad drivers can destroy a lane or two of functional traffic flow, a good driver can create a lane (or two) of harmony.
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This is the worst when you're on a bike -- the car tries to be nice and let you go, but you can't assume that they're not going to zip out and kill you if you do, so everyone just fucking sits and waits, when you could have just zipped through behind them. It's insane.
I have seen it come up many times, but is anyone still using it or tried it long term? I checked a year ago or so and it appears both Git commit-wise and blogwise Fremlin had moved on to better things, but when people dismiss Lisp, I don't say it out loud but I immediately think of this project.
Looks like we were thinking the same thing within a minute of each other. I lost interest in the article immediately after seeing that.
New bord are effectively different, and I had no idea either how to handle them until day 1 of Sara. I even never changed a diaper before that day!
"My daughter woke up every three hours for a bottle"

I wonder if it's possible to automate night feeding of small children without waking anybody up. Sounds like a good idea for a startup.
You could upgrade it with an internationalization language and convert Christianese to Islamicist language .
I strongly considered building on DigitalOcean API and doing some sort of pre-built image where I transfer it to the customer or something. I'm interested in Sandstorm -- will check it out!
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Anyone else seeing lots of parallels in functionality between Trello and Google Keep (keep.google.com). I have been using keep a lot since google got rid of their google.com/ig homepage. Not finding a overwhelming reason to migrate to Trello.
Diversity and Startups
A Tutorial for Golang + App Engine + Cloud Datastore
Hehe! I work for Planning Center! Our team is absolutely awesome, and the fact that they let me work on this stuff in my spare time is really neat.
wow, that is awesome
so you want bigger, more expensive motherboards and modules?
The guy at www.midwesternmac.com has something like that, for Catholic, and also specifically Jesuit organizations.
You'd be surprised how noticeable a few pounds are, especially when you travel frequently. I work out and can lift a lot of weight but would (and did) pay extra for a thinner, lighter laptop all other things equal. Thickness can also make a big difference when trying to work in tight spaces (eg an airplane) or packing a carry on bag.
Tim, this is a great job! I was particularly interested because I'm working on a platform for uniting communities, including Churches. In fact one of our business developers is part of a megachurch, so we are hoping to have a very large community as a beta partner.

Reach out to me if you'd like to discuss ideas back and forth -- we might be able to help you, and you might be able to help us.

About charging or not charging, I would say this ... even open source projects need resources to attract others to the community, and especially to gain adoption. You still have to do sales in Churches, and market to them. Churches, just like other organizations, are run by people who are averse to just trying anything they come across, and you need to have a good onboarding process.

In any case, if interested, you'll find my email at http://qbix.com/about (I'm Greg on there)
How you should not start business?
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I'm a pastor, and I'm technical, and I think I may just have found the Church Directory software we've been looking for! Thank you!
The article doesn't cover it - but the reason why people are expected to buy everyone drinks is because if you're lucky and skilled enough to get a hole in one, you will likely win the round and all the money wagered. If it is a local club or casual tournament, this can be a few hundred or thousand dollars. Even if it is just four people playing, there will usually be money wagered between themselves.

If it's a larger event, the purse for winning easily covers the hole-in-one celebrations. On top of this, if you are a member of a local country club - you're already paying hundreds if not thousands a month on membership dues. You're expected to have such wealth that to cover drinks/food isn't a big deal. Some clubs are structured such that you aren't directly paying for the celebrations, but your membership dues are such that it includes the cost of any potential celebrations.

Golfing is a game for the wealthy, including the traditions surrounding it.
The whole point of the article was that clustering is not unusual when it comes to random events. It's actually rarer for random events to be evenly distributed. There's nothing really begging to be explained here, especially not by such a bold, unsubstantiated claim.
why is this here? Its neither interesting, nor did I learn anything.
> So basically they were betting on some Russian missile system that would identify war plane from commercial planes.

That's not what they were betting on at all.

They were assuming (incorrectly, as we now know) that the rebels would have smaller missiles, for example shoulder fired missiles like Stingers. Those missiles are able to shoot down planes flying at lower altitude, but they are unable to reach an aircraft at cruising altitude.

I believe the eastern Ukraine already had a closure for flights under 32,000 feet before MH 017. The military planes that were shoot down in the days before were all flying at much lower altitudes.

Surface to Air missiles that can engage planes at cruising altitude are usually only owned by state actors. They also require specially trained personal to operate them. Obviously both missiles and personal were available to whoever shot down MH 017.
Thanks, Scott.

Both points are great feedback on elements that I think we've struggled with during development by being so close to it.

I think we've overestimated peoples knowledge of the color wheel. The data is certainly showing it to. Scores from our beta rounds were much better than the first couple days. My assumption there is the beta users got used to the color wheel over time. Your idea of a hint during the first view rounds is a great one.

Also, for the challenges, were you only trying to complete the challenge? This is another point that I think users are struggling with. Completing the challenge is a bonus, but it's certainly not the only goal. If the challenge says "Clear 10 sets of 5", you can still clear out sets or runs of 3 until you are blue in the face. Challenges aren't required.
Why does nuclear always come in for special consideration when it comes to waste management?

The waste management solution for fossil fuel engines is "dump the waste into the atmosphere." Is that a good idea? It turns out the answer is no, it's not.

Nuclear waste seems like a hard problem because we choose to manage it. Fossil fuel waste only seems easy because we pretend it doesn't exist. But it does, and someday we'll need to manage it too. I bet we'll find that it is at least as hard as nuclear.
Hmm. I would work on a scientific community that makes it easy to publish Science-to-Public books (to increase public interest in science), to get peers to review your paper easily (to decouple it from journal) and help people know and recongnised the talented scientist in their area. It bothers me that the science being done every day by clever people doesn't get the attention and funding that it should.
Don't get your hope up.

The #2 feature of all time requested is BSD support.

DO "started" this feature over a year ago.

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...

Then on twitter recently they act like they aren't even working on BSD support.

https://mobile.twitter.com/digitalocean/status/4407445438564...

TLDR: DO over promises on features they will deliver

Edit: fixed link
Show HN: Google / Bing with whitelists
Are you sick of seeing ehow and about.com in your Google results? Me too. I made a front end to Google and Bing that lets you use your own personal whitelist, conveniently saved for future use. My whitelists are on the main site via Bing. Yours will be at [yourname].binzap.com .

tldnr; Go to http://binzap.com and never see an about.com site in your search results ever again.
I think it is because it is an article about a community for anonymous conversations.

In that case it is a good choice.
Looking forward to the Crow Computing revolution.
Dyson Airblade hand drying technology built into sink
This is kind of off-topic but birds can be pretty advanced in surprising ways. In particular, birdsongs can be pretty complex and some species have evolved specific cognitive functions for understanding, replicating, and producing birdsongs. It is conceivable that features evolved in relation to some tasks may also enhance behavior in other cognitive tasks. I would not be surprised if quite a few species besides crows perform just as well for the task mentioned in the article, and others.

Here is a neat review relating to songbirds:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3261
No reason that I can think of!

OneBody was birthed out of a church, so it's niche has always been that. There were no customer research or market position analysis here - just plain ol' scratching an itch!
We will drag them out of society then charge them money for the privilege to join it again .. suckers :D I love it
Hard for breast feeding though hehe
Not a OS X user, but this is awesome! Excuse my ignorance, but are there similar software for Linux or Windows?
That's an entirely different law from the one that peteretep cited. His assertion that it's illegal may in fact be correct, but his justification was complete bullshit. The fact that you've found a law that is relevant doesn't make him any less wrong.
Yeah, I think that the idea was they wanted you to focus on the cup of tea in her lap.

But I think I would have chosen another picture as well.
Check this out, I think it's going for something similar: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/projects/commitcoin/
I recently did an analysis of all Wikipedia edits made by Congress: http://minimaxir.com/2014/07/caucus-needed/

There are many more IP addresses that the one mentioned in the article facilitating conflicts of interest.
I'm very excited about this release. CoreOS, Docker and etcd are a great fit for one another. I love the separation of concerns that is provided.

IMHO, the weakest part of CoreOS is fleet (https://github.com/coreos/fleet). Compared to the other components in the stack, it just feels very inelegant. The systemd configuration syntax is complex and ugly. I wonder if there will be work invested to upgrade fleet to something that is as elegant as e.g. etcd/Docker/CoreOS itself.
There's quite a difference between a 10 week old child and a 10 year old child.
Survival can be a result of intelligence, but good survival abilities does not imply intelligence in itself. Tons of things survive without much intelligence at all, such as bacteria, or jellyfish.

In short, survival skills are not a good metric for intelligence, you can have one without the other.
Author here. I agree-- I felt weird about the picture myself and debated for a long time. I'm going to restore the original picture I had in there, as I don't want this one to distract from Glen's story.
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Then I guess you didn't read about anonymous conversations?

For an article about conversations with people you never see a person without a face doesn't seem to weird.
Does it come in Synagogue?
Not exactly the best name for changing the programmer stereotype...
Ha, fancy seeing you here (if that username matches up with a certain athena account)...!

That's a very good observation about becoming an expert at a particular niche. The same thing sort of happened to me one summer, when I researched so-called "Blue laws" in the US. Spend a summer diving through microfiched historical laws in the library and soon enough you know more than anyone else in the world on the subject! It's quite an interesting feeling.

However, as hmslydia said, I think an API could be a good niche here.
no, its not like raid0

its like two individual drives, one for /etc the other for /usr

and no, you cant have half the latency, latency is dictated by physical speed of actual ram inside chips, those are clocked at 200MHz for typical DDR3 1600Hz module, up to 300MHz for fasters DDR3 ones.
In Tolkien's universe, there are trees that understand and speak Westron...
A dad feeding a baby at 3am running on a few hours of sleep is pretty close to a robot.
Then don't upvote it. Asking that people prescreen their submissions to not offend your subjective definition of "interesting" or "informative", is introducing a chilling effect.
This actually is quite a generic problem - most non-fiction books have a little bit of great wisdom , and a lot of fluff.

Creating a marketplace/business-model for people who write more content dense non-fiction seems like an interesting problem.
Repost from a year ago, link to existing discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354396

Including the comment I was about to type before I realized it had already been written:

"I hate to say this, but a font by a programmer makes as much sense as a database library by a font designer. Good font design is not about calculations or following principled rules; it's about what looks good to the eye, and it takes a tremendous amount of skill and experience.
And to my eye, at least, the font is incredibly difficult to read. It literally looks like a font designed by an engineer for a plotter, not something designed for the human eye or legibility.
Good fonts follow intuitive rhythms, they focus on word shapes (not just letter shapes), natural curves, there's a tremendous amount of subtlety that goes into achieving a proper sense of balance between letterforms, and a lot of things are actually different between letters/curves/etc. so that they look the same to the eye in the end. Even with "utilitarian" fonts like monospace ones.
"Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately."
Why I want a decentralized application host
* sheds tear * it's almost old enough to be CEO!
30 Second Charging, Graphene Rechargeable Battery on Kickstarter
Maybe I've just become jaded about American politics but every time a politician says something like this I tend to just assume that they're doing it to gain favor with the public while knowing there's nearly a 0% chance it will actually happen.
“The Good Life”: Human Development Index and self-reported happiness
I think there's a big difference. In the tech world, there's this expectation that sometimes you're going to pull all-nighters or work 14 hour days or do sprints or whatever.

If you're working at the mall selling clothing that's pretty unlikely. In my former life in publishing, that was pretty unusual.

It's a cultural thing and it's not strictly relegated to tech, but it's not universal. Plenty of people have reliable 9-5 jobs, Monday-Friday. That's a lot easier to reconcile with parenthood than when there's a huge release sprint and they expect you to work from 9 a.m. Friday to 9 a.m. Sunday or whatever.
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how do they make money?
The picture Negitivefrags posted shows a similar setup currently in use in New Zealand (although it's a permanent merge instead of temporary construction)

http://i.imgur.com/AtaDOGX.jpg
I wasn't at RubyConf 2004 (back then I thought Ruby was some weird Perl-ish language from Japan, not worth my attention) but for my RailsConf talk I dug up some old blog posts about what it was like when DDH first spoke about Rails at that conference.

Jamis Buck was there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2004/10/2/rubyconf-day-two

Francis Hwang: http://fhwang.net/2004/10/03/RubyConf-2004-Day-2

It's amazing how few people were there and how marginal Ruby was in 2004.
> Have we become so isolated in our tech-centered world that we no longer have friends/family/neighbors that we can talk to?

Talking to a random stranger is sometimes a first step in talking to other people.
already changed
If it was a small fix, I couldn't care less if I don't get credit for my contribution.

However, if its a significant amount of code, it would be considerate that the project maintainer to merge the changes first, then modify in a subsequent commit.
That my two cents.
Every time I learn about a new programmer font, I try it for a day. It makes me sad that I apparently will never find one I like better than Inconsolata.
Fascinating question. I think unfortunately this is the way of things, don't you? People are afraid to be vulnerable offline; they always have. The anonymity of online connection makes people's walls come down and allows them to be vulnerable without fear of judgment. I actually think that is incredibly powerful and something humans have never had access to before.

Also, professional psychiatric help (which often simply involves this active listening) is incredibly expensive. Everyone deserves access to that help.

But, YES, I think we do need to make a concerted effort to connect with family, friends, and neighbors in person. The internet can facilitate these things and facilitate connections with people we previously never had access to. Any product that facilitates human interaction offline, to me, is a gift.
It's easier with breastfeeding. Co-sleeping lets mama and baby be already close, so mom can go back to sleep, as can baby. The down side is, unless your bed is really big, Dad likely is going to spend the next year+ on the futon. (I did it. It was a sacrifice we were willing to make for the baby, and wasn't that bad. It beats being woken up for nighttime feedings.)
You might dig this article on the economics of star trek. It's kind of an inquiry into what currency might look like in an era of abundance.

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba...
I'm not saying Amazon is not innovative, but why are their investors not holding them to the same standard as Apple and Google (also innovative).

Apple has a P/E of 16,
Google has a P/E of 30,
Amazon has a P/E of 502.

Who is the fool here? Apple and Google for under recognizing their potential as innovators or Amazon investors for over estimating?
Sounds like an artificial breast loaded with milk beforehand.
> Specifically, we’d like the community to help by downvoting comments that make HN an unwelcoming place to anyone.

That's only a solution for half of the problem on Hacker News. The other half is that most submissions about gender/diversity get flagged to death very consistently, which make it difficult to have any meaningful discussion about these topics.
Perhaps we should drop the corporate tax rate to zero. It's simply too easy for a global company to avoid them. In the end, small and mid-sized businesses are the ones that get soaked.

It currently makes up about 10% of federal revenue. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3822
Programmers Make Big Bucks on Wall Street, but at What Cost?
Hey Tim,

Here's the Sandstorm demo:
https://demo.sandstorm.io

The Sandstorm easy-port guide:
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Porting-Guide

And accompanying blog post: https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-05-12-easy-port.html

Hope this helps!

Jade
Nice app! Good to know there are other Christians here in HN. :P I've always thought about building something similar. Maybe I'll contribute, but my Rails skills is quite lacking (read: non-existant, I'm a C# guy)
Instruction vs. Mentorship
I appreciate the sentiment but that will not mean much. Ethics rarely figures in Investment decisions, which are made on the basis of excel spreadsheets and quant algorithms. If on the other hand you were to find employment for people who found their employers' tax avoidance to be distasteful and wanted to quit to make a statement, then you might be able to make a difference by starving such companies of talent.
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> It's hard to say considering that has happened to a total of 0 people ever.

It's what you're proposing to do to other people, so you have the ethical burden of considering how you'd feel if it were done to you.

So how would you feel? Would you feel that it were ethical, even if it were somehow legally justified? Would you accept it? Would you consider it a good, just, humane use of technology? Stop evading the question and answer it already.
WMD is a political term, so U.S. law is not a bad place to look for commonly held definitions.

Chemical and biological weapons are commonly considered to be "WMDs", but do far less damage than a nuclear bomb.
I don't know about this. I'm pretty sure wagering in golf is against club rules. :)

Source: Caddyshack
I think there have been some serious 10.9 wifi issues, just anecdotal from my 10.9 experience too. I've always been impressed in the past with my Macs' ability to wake up and get on Wifi in just a second or two at the extreme, but since 10.9, I've had all sorts of weird connection issues.I went so far even as to wonder if a device in my home was shorting and putting out stray EM radiation as I've actually had and fixed that problem with a friend's lamp before.
This is a good point. In short, the answer to your question is yes. Many people in America, and other countries, do not have friends/family/neighbors that they feel like they can have an honest and open conversation with in order to feel heard and understood. This trend has been happening for quite a while and it seems to be accelerating rather than reversing. The question then becomes what is the best solution for this problem? We think 7 Cups of Tea provides a very good solution to this problem. Yes, it uses the medium of the Internet, but it also provides people with a sense of real intimacy and support that can be hard to come by in their immediate surroundings.