skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. It's way basic, and not terribly useful other than as a novelty site. But it was fun to make. So that's good.
Really useful reply - thank you.
Turla: Spying tool targets governments and diplomats
One of the neat aspects of retrofuturism is you can imagine worlds where the personal computer was never invented (for example). So it wasn't necessarily "wrong" retrofuturism.
Deallocation chains can cause pauses in reference-counted systems.
Jeezers. I'll take a look at that, I guess. Thanks for the feedback!
I hope you have the courage and conviction to stay true to your principles and see them through. Hopefully your startup peers (or at least the CEO) brought you on board for not just your technical expertise, but your leadership and management style.

Being a leader means implementing policies in good faith while trying to tweak them to the specific startup's culture.

Max Schireson (ex-CEO of MongoDB) recently stepped down for precisely this reason. He wrote a great blog post about attempting to manage the balance between work and family responsibilities that you may find helpful.

http://maxschireson.com/2014/08/05/1137/
Spending the last month swapping between Swift and Clojure, there's still a very large safety difference between ARC & a memory-safe VM.

The problem is, compiler magic gives the illusion of safety, and then you segfault and remember that you're in a non-memory safe language. Swift is a big improvement, but it's still basically a DSL on top of objC, with all of the downsides that implies.
Technically it does, but only for handling reference cycles where the reference counter falls apart.
omg I just submitted it only to be led here.

well, the game was so fun to play. like I finished the game.
I don't think a CTO is expected to work at a burnout pace, but I do think they set the tone for the rest of the engineering team. That is, I would expect a lower-level engineer to see your pace and do ~maybe~ 75% of it. So in effect, yes, I think you'll often be the last person in the office, because others will pace off of you.
I prefer C# + average pattern matching + first-class IDE support to F# + first-class pattern matching + basic IDE support. C# without pattern matching is not an option :).
They owe a lot of success to craigslist. They had been sending emails to users who had been posting the rentals on craigslist. I had read this in some initial success story.
It would be awesome if they finally got to the bottom and discovered a pile of "E.T." cartridges for the Atari 2600.
Facebook Marketing – Black Hole
looks like you shoot rays around from the player
I have used the add-on "Self-Destructing Cookies"* to handle normal cookies, with only a few non-tracker web sites on my whitelist. It has been surprisingly non-intrusive. It works by removing all cookies from domains that have not been visited for (by default) ten seconds, resulting in very few cookies lying around. I am not aware of an equivalent add-on for non-Firefox browsers.

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
From the Wikipedia article:

"This approach differs from the scientific method, which begins with thoroughly defining all the parameters of the problem in order to create a solution. Design thinking starts without preconceived problem definitions and solutions, in order to discover hidden parameters and alternate optimized paths to the goal."

Airbnb experimented with a different approach by going out and taking better pictures themselves, rather than the using the preconceived notion that startups should never do things that do not scale.
> They say in the link that it's similar
> to how CT scans are done.

I didn't see that - thanks. The replies suggest that it really is "just" how CT scans are done, but with more uncertainty on the input, and therefore more processing to do to get the results. I've put this in my "should read more and work to understand" pile.

Cheers.
I attended a workshop on Design Thinking, the tl;dr version is here (a PDF which I recommend especially for startups):

http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Bootc...

even better, try to get into the Stanford course (they give open, 4-hour workshops, the last one was full)

http://dschool.stanford.edu/

Edit: they also have a virtual "crash-course":

http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/

I was shown some of the materials students made (in full Stanford courses, not in the 4-hour introductory workshop :) ), and they were amazing.

I observed that one thing Americans have over students in my home country/culture is, they're way more likely to learn how to make awesome presentations :) .
IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does
Anyone else reminded by this NYT Magazine article about a legal team suing on behalf of a chimpanzee for his freedom?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man...

http://www.nonhumanrightsproject.org

Maybe after Lessig is done with the Mayday PAC he can opine on non-human IP rights?
This is about as close as I could get in Haskell so far. It uses a slight twist on (x -> a -> x) called a Fold (which has a lot of great properties—it's a profunctor, an applicative, and a comonad).

Nicely, this construction lets us write `take` purely!

{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}

import Control.Arrow
import Control.Category
import qualified Prelude
import Prelude hiding (id, (.))

data Fold a r where
Fold :: (a -> x -> x) -> x -> (x -> r) -> Fold a r

data Pair a b = Pair !a !b

pfst :: Pair a b -> a
pfst (Pair a b) = a

psnd :: Pair a b -> b
psnd (Pair a b) = b

newtype (~>) a b = Arr (forall r . Fold b r -> Fold a r)

instance Category (~>) where
id = Arr id
Arr f . Arr g = Arr (g . f)

amap :: (a -> b) -> (a ~> b)
amap f = Arr (\(Fold cons nil fin) -> Fold (cons . f) nil fin)

afilter :: (a -> Bool) -> (a ~> a)
afilter p = Arr $ \(Fold cons nil fin) ->
let cons' = \a x -> if p a then cons a x else x
in Fold cons' nil fin

fold :: Fold a r -> [a] -> r
fold (Fold cons nil fin) = fin . spin where
spin [] = nil
spin (a:as) = cons a (spin as)

asequence :: (a ~> b) -> ([a] -> [b])
asequence (Arr f) = fold (f (Fold (:) [] id))

aflatmap :: (a -> [b]) -> (a ~> b)
aflatmap f = Arr $ \(Fold cons nil fin) ->
Fold (\a x -> foldr cons x (f a)) nil fin

atake :: Int -> (a ~> a)
atake n = Arr $ \(Fold cons nil fin) ->
let cons' = \a x n -> if n > 0 then cons a (x (n-1)) else x n
in Fold cons' (const nil) (\x -> fin (x n))
If the OP has specific examples of working smarter vs. harder, one hopes this can be demonstrated through concrete examples and coaching for exactly the reason that "others will pace of you."

If the OP cannot demonstrate this to his team, then unfortunately it will be an uphill battle attempting to maintain any semblance of work-life balance in this instance if the culture already demands 50-60+ hrs per week.
while reading this, I kept thinking to myself that while excavation seems an insurmountable task at this time, if things started via a tunnel excavation from the coast that was already 150' below the surface, then building up from there wouldn't necessarily have been a major endeavor at all.
I'd give anything to know what is buried there. I've been fascinated with this since I was a kid.
I think Feynman is drawing a distinction between being able to calculate an accurate prediction, and "understanding" things intuitively enough to describe with plain English.
Why would OP have taken a screenshot of the whois prior to the second auction? "brazenly been stolen "?

Come on...

If they have an explicit policy granting rights to winners of auctions, there's something, but otherwise, they are likely close enough to the bounds of any externally binding regulatory policies for it to not matter.

Did you take part in the second auction or just walk off the field in protest? You can't win if you don't play and just because they didn't explicitly describe all possible outcomes for unforeseen issues, you feel they have no ground to do as they want? Just because they didn't say this was a possibility doesn't mean it's not in their purview to do it.

Caveat emptor always for everything not explicitly granted to the emptor in the contract.
Might and Magic series also always combined fantasy with sci-fi.
Maybe I misunderstood the question, but Jquery UI has .draggable and .droppable methods http://jqueryui.com/draggable/ http://jqueryui.com/droppable/

You can further augment this with the touchpunch library (http://touchpunch.furf.com/) so that these methods work on mobile devices.
How about weebly? I've always liked it.
I laughed.

However I think the article is trying to make the point that software engineering-types are sometimes prone to otherwise obvious oversights because they tend to think of solving all of their business problems with code.
This might be an interesting anecdote to think about the value of business education. I have a number of friends at top tier business schools (HBS, Stanford's GSB, etc.). Of these people none studied business in college (though they did go to work in management, finance, or consulting post college. One worked in tech).

I asked one recently whether he thought there was any value in what he was learning in business school or whether it only served as a signal to other business school graduates that you're at least somewhat competent and have jumped through the requisite hoops. His answer was basically that the only value of business school was the relationships you made and the network you became a part of it. The actual content of what you're taught is pretty easy to learn on your own.
Is it something specialized which requires at least some base knowledge and currently in high demand and low supply, such as "angularjs development"?

Is there enough trusted positive feedback from former attendees?

Can you afford it? (20K is comparable to what I make in a year, so not a choice for me, unless I want to live out of tuna sandwiches the rest of the year. And I don't think any summer school is worth that. But if that's pocket money for you, why not?)

Have you considered an internship? Like, learning by hard work among more experienced partners and maybe even get paid for it if you prove yourself useful? Then, after you've finished, you can prove you can code by simply showing the things you've coded. Just like the school, but in a professional environment.

In many companies you just need to be willing to work hard and show a sincere great enthusiasm for the position in order to get an internship. A guy (a foreign student) just finished a 200-hour internship (about four weeks) in the company where I've just started working. He definitely has something to add to his CV, and he got paid for it. When he goes to a job interview he can say something like: "I learned how to do it with the help of my mentor and then I did this simple but useful app, all by myself. Plus I got paid for doing it, so I know my current skills are worth something".

I am not saying a coding school is a bad choice, only that there may be a few other options more suitable for you...
Check again. The two sites are on different domains. In order to log into both, at some point someone needs to convey state information to a third party. Gmail logins are managed through accounts.google.com, so either you have a third-party relationship with accounts.google.com when you are on youtube.com, or you have a third party relationship with youtube.com when you are on accounts.google.com. Either way, you pick up a third party cookie.

You'll notice that even if you never (deliberately) went to youtube and you have 3rd party cookies turned off, a cookie for "youtube.com" will show up when you sign in. I haven't looked at it carefully, but I think they just put you through a chain of redirects when you click "log in" so that you have a first party relationship with each of the domains they want to sign you in to, and that's when they give you the cookie.
Kinda exactly what I needed this week. Every time I go on HN, Reddit, really much of anywhere all I see are people bitching and moaning about the most inane things, criticizing products for not being something they were never intended to be, or tearing into decisions for being idiotic when it's pretty obvious someone's hand was forced.

The last paragraph is important. As much as I've enjoyed being on HN the past few years, and Reddit the past 8, I'm fairly close to swearing myself off of them entirely so I can focus better without rampant discouragement for the sake of the commenter's ego.
Ask HN: Are There Banks Best-Suited To SaaS Startups?
We are a US group in the process of gearing up for a launch. Obviously, we need to open a bank account with some bank somewhere to handle day-to-day cashflow and expenses. What is the most startup-friendly, business-oriented bank with a good online presence? What should we look for?
They found that a child's fate is in many ways fixed at birth — determined by family strength and the parents' financial status.

This is what is so frustrating about most of the debate in this country. Time and again it comes down to people arguing over laziness and people wanting to be takers. Until we realize the import of the above statement, we'll be trapped in a vicious cycle.
What do you like about Guru?
Start by nuking Sprockets from orbit.
It's not that easy (unfortunately). Those are sound paths.
> It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.

Neither western fiction nor western RPGs universally keep technological advanced gadgets and magic/swords "entirely separate".

> I don't know if this represents anything fundamental, or just the influence of a few people like Tolkien and Gygax and how people responded to their works initially.

Gygax (and Gygax-era TSR) actually did quite a lot of mixing of these things, perhaps the most well-known example being Dungeon Module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.
How Interrupting Your Sleep Can Silence Your Doubts and Boost Your Creativity
Not only did they poach users from Craigslist, but they also built a feature that allowed you to crosspost your listing to Craigslist.
You just described holy grail in 3D vision, AI and robotics. Being able to make sense of the world from a 2D image is one of the cornerstones for building artificial brain.
I think if it could be switched between a compile time error/warning then we'd be in a great place. I think even in Haskell you need to switch it on as a compiler option.
$10k + is a lot of money. But really there is no better investment you can make.

I attended MakerSquare in Austin when their program was 9 weeks long, not 12. A week after graduation I had 3 job offers that promised substantial returns.

Part of MakerSquare's prep is going through some prework on codeschool and codeacademy. I hated CodeSchool. The sound effects were annoying and I felt the video went too quickly for an intro. I found I rather read something, tinker with it until I understand and then move on. So why not read a whole bunch of blogs and learn stuff. Well you can but you're missing the entire point of a school. Interactions with others.

The biggest part you're missing out on is the problems and solutions other people have come across or invented. Given a problem you and I will come up with two different solutions and if we share our solutions we would come up with a even better solution. You see things differently than I do and we both will learn from the experience. Hence why a ton of people love pair programming ( which is something you will miss out on on your own ).

It is very likely that you will work with others. In fact coding is very social. Working with others in code is a valuable skill to have because it teaches you how to separate your personal feelings from your code.

Yeah you can save a bunch of money by not going to school. Yeah you can probably learn and get a job as a developer if you read a bunch of free stuff. But then ask yourself why does a society spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on free public education when really we should be spending all that money on books and tutorials.
Ha! Tweeting that Microsoft joke. Hadn't heard that before.
Interesting! Are mentally disabled people also unable to legally own things?
Weheartit is pretty fascinating actually. It isn't a household name in the states because it is a Brazilian product if I recall correctly. It's also older than pinterest, and almost the exact same model (image clipping from the web). I suspect pinterest was heavily inspired by it.

Another thing that keeps it interesting is that it was created by one guy, and is almost entirely bootstrapped. They only recently raised outside capital mid last year (http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/27/weheartit-raises-8m-for-it...). Reminds me a lot of imgur.
Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2
Yet, he did what he did to demonstrate the the US government was violating the US Constitution, which are the law also, and the US government charges him with violating the law? Who will charge the US government with violating the law? Or is the US government above the law? Is the law meaningless if it doesn't apply to the US government? Isn't the US Constitution specifically drafted to restrict the actions of the US Government? But if the US government violates the constitution with impunity, then isn't the US government illegitimate? And is an illegitimate government allowed to issued valid charges of violation of law, when it violates the law itself?

Snowden should have never been charged. Snowden is a hero, one who took his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, with all seriousness, at great personal risk, and now his good name is tarnished and his freedom is restricted, and the people who violated their oaths and broke the law are free.

Shame, shame.
When white-collar financial institutions break the law it's called the cost of doing business. When hot startups break the law it's called disruption. When poor, lower-class folks break the law it's called breaking the law.
Suppose instead of a monkey, a human stole the camera and activated the shutter. Who would own the copyright in this scenario? I assume the thief. The consequence of this assumption is that the camera owner is not the copyright owner. The monkey may not be endowed with ownership rights, but this does not mean that the camera owner receives these rights. Instead, no-one owns the copyright, and by "no-one" I mean everyone.
Also, makes one wonder about copyright ownership of the random strings and sonnets produced by those infinite monkeys typing [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
I have to admit, I thought it was just pretty standard ray-tracing as well. I'd be curious to find out how it's different. I followed the link through to the website, but didn't see much additional information on it.
People have a vested interest in thinking their success is the product of their own hard work...
It's 11600 rubles ($320 without adjustment for purchase parity) now.
Right now buttons only work with source code hosted on GitHub (although the button can be added anywhere). We want to extend that to other source code hosting services, though.
Don't come to america. It's the same crap.

(bigger TVs, though, probably)
Is there anyway I can download the models to print them in my printer?
The Flame is solid mid-range hardware and running Firefox OS 2.1 on it is pretty smooth. If you're a hacker type (presumably you are because you're reading Hacker News) and you don't have a heavy dependence on any particular app that isn't yet available for Firefox OS, it's ready or very nearly ready for you.

If you're an app hacker, the Flame is the device for you. It's globally available for $145 + $25 S&H at http://www.everbuying.com/product549652.html
Is a Bitcoin transaction truly instant?
> criticizing products for not being something they were never intended to be, or tearing into decisions for being idiotic when it's pretty obvious someone's hand was forced.

The inverse, where everything is positive and criticism is ignored, is just as bad, if not worse.

The fact that we may not be able to predict the next big thing does not give everything immunity from critique.
All the hubbub about tech workers gentrifying the bay area is just misguided and ignorant. It's not your fault that the Government has given homeowners significant incentives to try to block the construction of new housing. It's not your fault that the government has manipulated the rental market to keep people in their homes far longer than they should have been there. It's not your fault that local governments can't figure out a way to ensure that every city in the bay area has roughly the same capacity for housing as it does for jobs. And it's not your fault that there's high demand for your skills.

Rather than protesting in front of Google buses (which would have been significantly smaller if they had limited participation to only people who've never used a Google product or service), they should be protesting in front of City Hall to allow the building of new housing. The only thing that will keep them in the city is to lower the cost of housing to a level where they can afford to live there and that can't happen if there's no new development.
1. If you need to do anything native, like use the camera or GPS for something, then I recommend you trigger navigating to those screens by either using Stacker's javascript bridge or by writing a custom URL action (http://www.lokimeyburg.com/Stacker/docs/custom-actions/).

You're still going to be responsible for doing the native screens. This is by design and kind of nice because my experience with apps are that most of the screens could just be done in HTML/CSS and there's usually only one or two screens that need to be implemented natively.

2. Check out my example to see how I'm doing using a regular UITabBarController. That might give you an idea of where to start.
Good idea and nice design.

1. I'd prefer to see monthly pricing.

2. I found the scroll behavior to be quite jarring.

Good luck.
Marketing what customers want vs. marketing what you want to sell them
> I have noticed that some genuinely funny comments or puns based on the discussion get downvoted, which I disagree with. It may not add to the intellectual value, but I enjoy a good laugh as much as I enjoy learning.

I used to constantly crack jokes to one of my work colleagues, yet she hardly ever laughed at them. One day I uttered a joke which she merely scorned at, a few minutes later another colleague uttered exactly the same joke and she started giggling. At that I moment I realised that she was deeply prejudiced towards me. It would explain why she would often shout at me, insult me and even threaten me with violence.

My humour served a very serious purpose, it exposed someone as being an emotional sadist.
The article is interesting but painful to read; it's as though it was written by a near-illiterate who painstakingly reviewed every letter over and over to eliminate obvious mistakes. Then, when you've survived the pain, you meet the usual suspects: "Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?" "Look, the Knights Templar!" "It's a Freemason conspiracy!" I wasted my time here.
Shame is a terrible motivator. Instead you'll probably get even more stratification and ghettoization, while the "haves" operate in their own bubble. You have concocted a perfect setup for a cyberpunk dystopian future, and honestly it would make a pretty good plot.

I'm imagining the urchins living in identical concrete boxes that make up the under-city dwellings, lining up in droves for their government pants.