skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really caught up in this story and the effort involved until ... "I wonder if these techniques caught on, could this reduce or eliminate US war for oil?" and then "If I wrote this article 20 years ago might we have never gone to war with Iraq?".

Iraq was _not_, repeat, NOT, N O T, about oil. Iraq was about stability, about a nut case leader who terrorized and killed his own people, who let his sons terrorize people. It was about all the terrorists caught who had evaded worldwide, WORLDWIDE authorities for decades in many cases, found hiding out in ... Iraq.

Hussein disregarded Bush elder, Clinton and Bush junior, covering 3 US Presidencies, both major US political parties. He shot missiles at the very ally planes charged with making him keep his army at bay.

He plotted to kill the very US President (Bush elder) who forced him to back out of Kuwait:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/tim...
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It's also a clever way for Google to get people to improve their pedestrian directions (and possibly their WiFi AP location database) for free.

Seriously, I was really impressed when I realized that they had gamified collecting GPS data.
> $12 for access to one app/website? How is this even any kind of deal? I pay $32 for the whole Internet on a T-Mobile plan that is unlimited (OK capped at 5GB).

I pay $10, also with T-Mobile, however, I only get 3GB of data. I want to note this, because I think 3 GB/month would satisfy a lot of people's needs: I tether daily on my commute, and have never breached 3GB¹. Most of the rest of my time (and, I suspect, most people's) is at work or home, both of which data is covered by WiFi.

I also want to point out that T-Mobile isn't exactly clean either: they're currently heavily promoting that you get "free" data to certain music providers (e.g., Pandora), which also very anti-net-neutral in my opinion.

¹Also, should I actually use that much, T-mobile just slows data down to 2G speeds.
I'd like to believe it's more because some sites have made their mobile-specific versions more and more complicated and loaded with Javascript.

Simple HTML sites still load quickly.
Hard to prove anything in a blackbox. But domain registration length is something most people think is considered. Take a look at http://www.searchenginejournal.com/infographic-googles-200-r...
> let's not pretend everyone is capable of everything if they just practiced more

From the article:

Her next step is to find out what factors contribute to being an expert on an instrument, playing field, in the classroom or at work. She hopes to investigate such factors as basic abilities, age when starting to learn the skill, confidence, positive or negative feedback, self-motivation and the ability to take risks.

A great practice musician could freeze up in front of an audience, she said. Yet someone less skilled but with more confidence could shine.
Not necessarily - if gridlock is too bad then owning a car isn't worthwhile. In theory, an auction system and good planning ought to keep permit levels at the point where selling another permit would push down the value of all the permits to a a net loss.

In practice, it's going to be a lot clumsier than that (say, take last year's number and add 3%), but auctions and long-term planning can still rein in sales.
Optimistic: its often repeated that everyone has some real gifts. Just not true. The vast majority of people are average. That's the meaning of the work 'average' - most people are like that.

An average person has one real chance: work their butt off at something they actually like doing (so they don't get discouraged so fast) and get better than average. So I call it good advice to follow your dream. Beats following someone else's dream anyway.
I like it too, it's clean. But reality is that PHP will have to be backwards compatible.

Which means you will see old function based implementations and new object based implementations.

Image dealing with both implementations within the same code base? Eek.
It is a community pool so I pay someone to maintain. I would rather not mow the grass if I didn't but it is extra exercise. And I am not bothered enough by it to outsource it. I do enjoy taking care of the flowers and watching them grow.

Pool is used pretty often by the family (so far).
Three ladies at my company campaigned heavily for those heated keyboards a few years ago. One shorted out within the first month and the other two stopped functioning within a year.
It doesn't confirm that at all. The original study was that practice counted for much more in fields where the rules and values were stable (like musical instruments or games) and much less where the basic ground rules couldn't even be described (like business or war).

That part makes a lot of sense: practice and correcting errors only matters when you will be doing something basically the same next time and you have a fixed target of what "good" looks like to shoot for. It also explains a big question I had with the original study: what constitutes a "field"? Does 10,000 hours get me mastery of "software software", or "frontend software engineering", or "web-based frontend software engineering", or "web-based frontend software engineering using Angular.js"?

I think a better explanation is that practice is indeed the key to mastery - of fixed, seldom-changing skills where the goalposts are known and widely agreed upon. But most "fields" rely on combinations of many individual skills, along with a good number of exogenous factors. I may be a master at Chrome Javascript & rendering performance because I've spent a lot of team with the Chrome team understanding exactly how the rendering engine works. This makes me great at building a weekend-long demo or acing an interview, but is only a small component of being an effective frontend engineer. And then when I scale that up from "being an effective frontend engineer" to "founding a successful business", there's also all sorts of luck involved, like who I meet, what industry I target, how popular my initial customers are, what the rest of the technology industry does, etc.
All the places I have lived built before 1940 had thick enough walls that I never ever heard my neighbors through them. The materials make all the difference.
See Dan Gilbert & Detroit. It's essentially what he is doing though it's reliant on existing architecture.
Great article, I feel like way more people need to be saying "I don't know." People appreciate honesty. I learn something new everyday. A lot of people call it "impostor syndrome" which has such a bad connotation, I prefer to call it the "Google / Stack Overflow Developer." You have a great concept of where to start, but theres a lot of stuff you don't know. And for that, there is Google & SO.

My coding beginning was actually when I started a business picking up dog poop (no joke) when I was 9 years old to buy an N64. I convinced my dad that I needed a website if I was going to be a "real" business, and he taught me my first HTML.
You need have a specific target, otherwise you're just shooting in the dark and you'll get bored easily.

But if you say, "I want to make a web site that does ABC", or "I want to make an app that does XYZ", you won't just be - as mkremer90 said - shooting in the dark at a whole bunch of different technologies
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Algorithms.

Yes boring old pure data and programming algorithms. This skill is more useful then learning a dozen frameworks. In interviews you'll have people asking you dozens of questions that will all boil down to, "Do you know algorithms?" And not to mention that toolset is applicable over nearly every development domain. You'll very very rarely find software teams who will scoff at somebody who knows their algorithms. You'll rarely find times in your developer life time where you'll think, "Jeeze I wish I didn't know how trees, bloom filters, hash based indexing, etc. works this has been such a determent to my career!"

Most fields of development end up needing to use algorithms at some time or another. How does your data analysis work, How is machine learning done? What are databases doing to make 10,000 queries per second? What are the pros and cons? Are you entering data in inefficient ways to slow this down? Are you or the tool the problem?

When you learn algorithms you can answer these questions. Then apply those answers to your job! Impress your friends and enemies! Demonstrate counting sort running circles around their quick sort implementations because your data is highly specialized.

Yes it isn't sexy. Its not a buzz word. Its horn rim glasses, dnd nerd boring stuff. But at the same time it isn't. Rock-stars learn music theory one way or another, how are you gonna audition for the rolling stones if you don't know what an G cord is?
Ask HN: Can we have a YC Application sandbox?
I think it'd be beneficial for the fund and founders in general if you could fill out the latest version of the YC app anytime. It seems you already have draft functionality, why not keep this open and allow users to create draft applications throughout the year?

I personally use the application as a way to test out my understanding and boiling down communication of ideas. I understand and have copied all the questions to a doc and use that regularly, but theres something about filling out the application on YC that makes it different.

If you allowed founders to use this application as a sandbox for all their ideas, this data would be insanely valuable. Seeing multiple draft applications from someone would give indicators about thought process and more importantly progression. Not to mention a wider understanding of markets that entrepreneurs are thinking about.

Product of not being able to fill out the application for a side project, headed back to github.
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" 1) learn how to properly clean mold problems"

That was one of the parts that made me go %O most - when you live in a house where the internal climate is such that it will let mold grow, it's downright unhealthy to live there. It's like saying 'yeah driving while drunk is dangerous, you'd better have a box of band aid laying around in your car for when you get into an accident'. Uh no, don't drive while drunk, eh?
It takes hours to walk 5 miles. Walking speed is something like 2 mph; fast walking is 3 mph. No way can I spend 2 hours walking every day. Much rather be biking :)
If we believe in evolution as expression of genetic traits,
And we believe that intellectual capacity has evolved,
Then we believe that intellectual capacity is a generic trait.

(Remains to determine whether intellectual capacity genetic trait varies like "has two arms," or like "height," and of course to try to pin down how to measure it, and count how many "its" there may be.)
That might not be that far off.

The D800 is 36 megapixels, if we ever hit 50 megapixels then it might be very possible for a Lytro camera to be 15MP or so. That's perfectly acceptable, resolution-wise. The current DoF of the lens is limited by the fact that it's a superzoom, which trades off aperture for focal length. Considering that they capture the entire light field, a traditional 24-70mm might very well be effectively faster than the f/2 superzoom they currently have, giving us a f/1.4 DoF and brightness.
That number is active Chrome+Firefox extension users, but Rapportive says they serve over 25 req per second from those users:

https://success.heroku.com/rapportive
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These weren't just contributors, they were github collaborators and the project's active maintainers, including the person TJ himself put in charge of the project, Doug Wilson.

TJ's last commit was on February 19th, 2014 (6b05f60b), and it was simply a version bump on a dependency. Since then there has been one major release (Express 4), six minor releases and 13 patch releases. 167 files changed, 6003 insertions, 1958 deletions.

Of the 581 commits made in the last 12 months, the top five contributors were:

303 Douglas Christopher Wilson
84 Jonathan Ong
66 Roman Shtylman
49 TJ Holowaychuk
5 Fernando Silveira

This is just on master and does not include the work Doug has been doing on the 5.0 branch, or the VOLUMES of work all three had done in the tertiary repos on the ExpressJS organization. StrongLoop hasn't contributed anything.

It stopped being TJ's project a long time ago.
Any recommended books or resources? I'm out of university but feel I need to brush up on algorithms.
I cannot be sure, but I think he as arguing about it at societal level. This is my interpretation:

Given the technological improvements, privacy is unsustainable. If everyone realizes this and accepts it, we can reap the benefits of transparency. In a society that does not hold bad actions against those who already paid their due fine (or served the due time). Neither does that future society discriminate against people who are different. In that society, privacy will probably be beneficial only to the dishonest.

Now, I personally don't think if we can reach that stage of maturity, not anytime soon at least. But I think we are moving towards it faster than before and we are doing that because of the easy access to information especially the kind of information that we would otherwise keep private.
But you can't power a computer on PV. I don't think anyone who knows something about energy efficient heating suggests PV to warm a house electrically, it's too inefficient.
I've always thought about doing this in an area within commuting distance of a city with a good job market, to help bootstrap itself. There are some smaller cities on the east coast that have some large sized areas with very cheap properties.
It's interesting that a second article from this site has made it to the HN front page. I've been digging into this concept a lot since the first article was linked from here.

I think traditional, walkable cities are a great idea whose time is more than overdue in North America. Places like Quebec City are a good example, but what really fascinates me is Tokyo, a behemoth of a city with so much that is walkable with one-way streets and wide sidewalk areas, and you can get to anywhere easily via buses and rail links. All these simple one-way streets, connecting to arterial roads with 1 lane in each direction, connecting to highways, create an absolutely massively distributed road system.

If you think i'm exaggerating, pull up Tokyo in Google Maps and pick a spot at random in the surrounding metro area and go to Street View, you will always always land on a one-way road, often with people walking on it.
Any hackers struggling with a compulsive porn habit?
Here are some examples of some of the heatmaps that were generated today from people looking at my portfolio page. In the first two you can definitely see specific things that the viewer was looking at - again based on cursor movement:
http://i.imgur.com/sa0r3hG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/698ia8K.jpg

That said, there were also a lot of users who simply scrolled quickly down the page. It's a lot more difficult to tell where these users paid attention to. In this specific case, they probably didn't really read anything in particular and just quickly scrolled down to see what was there:
http://i.imgur.com/61nkjNz.jpg
Over engineering? How so? Self driving cars would be amazing for improving our lives. Simply eliminating wasted time in my commute would be killer. I could spend that time doing whatever I wanted. Napping, reading, or by simply spending 90 minutes of my 8 hour work day on a laptop in an autonomous vehicle with LTE.

Blaming cars for people being lazy and fat is itself incredibly lazy.
Boston is actually a great example of construction happening in the city. Most of Cambridge around Kendall is a giant construction site, especially just north of Broadway and around 3rd street, and the space between Kendall and Central. The Seaport district has many active construction sites around the "Innovation district", and a lot of that whole area is brand new, centering around the desire for large companies to move closer to cities.
That was part it. I grew up in an apartment building with solid concrete walls (so sound proofing for certain frequencies was good) but top neighbours have flooded us a few times. Public transportation was so-so. And getting places wasn't convenient always. Shopping for food involved walking more than we wanted (especially in cold or rain). It wasn't terrible and I can see benefits to it, but it was also not that great either. I had a choice and made the choice to live in the suburbs, and it was rather hypocritical, because I could easily see myself nodding and agreeing with most of the criticisms about the suburban life.
Your theory is absolutely correct. The federal highway system did two things: 1.) subsidized once inaccessible land for cheap trac home development 2.) kill off efficient private transportation (trains, etc).
I'm sure the point is for you to "engage with brands" via Twitter. If no human is looking at the ads, Twitter has no reason to subsidize your access.
So do scarred ex-PHP-developers.

Divining which is which from posts is a dicey proposition.
Right, I think that too and for the most part I agree. I have issue with the lack of those advocating for social-transparency to describe where the line is. Without having the serious conversation of where privacy and transparency are reasonably balanced, we're rushing into irrational decisions that have a long and lasting impact on society.

I have yet to see a single person who advocates for full transparency post their entire browser and search history, which to me feels odd. If they're advocating for full transparency and yet won't demonstrate that they themselves believe in the ideal enough to offer their own evidence and admission, I don't think they actually believe in those ideals fully, or more likely, have not articulated/discussed/discovered an appropriate middle-ground between these 2 concepts.
Not necessarily. Constrained supply can provide for pretty good profits.
Civilizations have collapsed before from far less serious disasters. From Mayans to Mediterranean civilizations (several of them actually) to the 5 centuries of decline and stagnation of China, and probably countless more I haven't read about. And the industrial world is far less resilient. We depend on huge amounts of infrastructure and massively complex systems of trade and production.

Very likely we would return to subsistence farming. There would be little or no remaining industry, and not enough resources to support it. Generations would go by with little technological progress. Metal would rust away, buildings collapse, forests regrow, and after awhile there wouldn't be much left of our civilization. (This is of course assuming a worst case scenario where the whole world is bombed or a nuclear winter happens.)

When we did finally get around to trying to rebuild civilization, sure there would be some scattered resource deposits around the world, but not enough to do anything with. You can't build steam engines without perfecting metallurgy and abundance of cheap, strong, metal. You need to produce many tons of cheap coal, not just scattered surface deposits. The industrial revolution started when deep underground mining became possible by pumping out water, and those mines are exhausted or lost.
Having read Lisp in small pieces I can't hide that it was on my mind. But without parens smugness, right now php, python, es6 are getting closer and closer.
AMD's new 64-bit ARM board points way to x86 coexistence
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> as soon as I encounter a tricky design problem, I want to give up because I don't care about the product enough to put in the effort.

Is this really about the product or do you just not want to do the hard work?

You need to have a side project. For at least an hour a day, do something that you want to do. It doesn't need to be programming but it needs to be something you're interested in and has a goal you can see yourself moving towards.

Also, try to do your job better. Whatever you're working on, spend 30 minutes per day reading books where you can use the knowledge you learn to do your job better.

People are meant to be continuous learners. When we're not learning we get bored and don't care. So a) do some learning of your choice outside of work and b) do some learning at work to get better at what you're doing now.
+1 for Gandi. I've used and recommended them for ages. Simple clean interface, works a treat and does exactly what I need. Great prices too.
Googles' model is to allow apps without pre-screening. This model (trust but verify) lends itself to having more spammy apps submitted to it (no proof, just an educated guess). Google is providing a gateway for others to generate income.

The OP stated:
1) They had a disclaimer in multiple places.
2) They reached out explicitly because they weren't sure where the real problem existed.
3) Only one app was notified at a time when multiple apps had been following the same style and none were notified until later. Surely Google would want to investigate whether the developer posted any other apps which might be in violation?
4) Was not trying to nor had any interest in making any money off of this set of apps.

It has been said, the OP was naive and should have pulled the apps after the first notice since they were just beta. But any corporation that is providing business support services really needs to fund a customer service desk with real people. The fact that people use google for businesses like this knowing this situation is really surprising.
CFL is crap, use LED lights. Last 20x longer with 1/20th the energy use. Replacing incandescent with CFL is a wash, replacing them with LED is a no-brainer.
Your advertising is misleading :)
Very cool! And thanks for the detailed answer! I may shoot you an email to get some more thoughts.
Curious, is there an API that I can send an email string to and get all of their social profiles listed? For example, I put in mike@gmail.com and get facebook.com/mike, twitter.com/mikeguy1, etc

EDIT: Looks like FullContact does this: http://www.fullcontact.com/developer/docs/person/
Seems like they're leveraging the buzzword "full stack" to build an email list for a product that doesn't exist.
The el cheapo ones, yes. There are expected lifetimes on LED bulbs ranging from 2000 (similar to incandescent) to 50000 hours. Of course the 50k ones are (much) more expensive.
This is something I've been thinking about too. Perhaps when the SEC laws finally change...
...but the ideal structure is not supposed to exchange air with the outside particularly because of this. That is why windows and doors have seals on them. I'm no mechanical engineer, but I've worked with enough of them in my career to understand that their goal is usually keeping a structure tightly sealed when ingress/egress paths are closed (of course opening windows/doors is a choice of the occupant, which if your striving to reduce heat loss/gain... you shouldn't do)