skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exact same thing happened to me - startup, acquihire, quitting the acquirer, and joining a less sexy company, though in my case I got the bonus of moving to Switzerland.

You mention the desire and the ability to do great things, but not having the opportunity to follow through because of circumstances. It was the exact same feeling that led me to leave Silicon Valley, and I struggled for a long time with it before coming to a simple conclusion. Here's what I decided:

Greatness is a consequence, not an aim.

Have you ever read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl? If not, read it now. It will convince you immediately that the same is true of happiness. You cannot simply wake up one morning, say "I want to be happy," and become happy through the mere force of your desire. You need to be living correctly; acting rightly; communicating and connecting well.

Likewise, naked ambition will not make you great. You have to shape that ambition with goals and methods and plans. Only once you are fully engaged in something you believe in will you be able to achieve the result you desire.

In other words, pursuing your will to greatness directly will only depress you, and won't make you any more successful. The way to greatness is developing your interests to the fullest, and working hard to gain expertise. Eventually, you will find an opportunity that you can seize, and your success will be a natural consequence of becoming fully engaged in the creative process.

Until then, know that you will eventually find your castle in the sky, after and because you have built the foundations under it.
When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model
Rocket 88 for the win!
There is no mention of efficiency either; the efficiency of hydrolysis is often around 50% which means that almost anywhere you live it would be better from a CO2 standpoint to just put gas in your car.
Knowing the people who have left Google, who collected a lot of that data, who we trusted, who are now gone, I wonder what other non-public data is being used, and how is it being used, and for only good purposes, or for nefarious purposes?
Source code escrow is something that has been debated for many years; some people want it while others think source code is mostly useless without the people who wrote it.

Root access: never. What would be the use case?
That he just uses the term 'blacks' does give the article a more disturbing undertone than it should have.

Also I would like to hear an argument for this so called 'universal morality'.
right, but using a AAA battery which is already storing energy doesn't serve any purpose.

But I agree with you, efficient-cheap catalyst is needed indeed. I'd like to know the efficiency of the system though...
Almost no benefits?
The good parts of Docker adds on top of plain LXC:

- Layered file system for containers, commiting
- Images, easily transferable
- Remote API
- Network interfaces
- Linking containers
- Nice build system, one Dockerfile and you are almost good to go

I really wonder what is the real work you want to do, that you cannot do with Docker, and Docker becomes a cumbersome.
In this case two neutron stars were orbiting each other. Relativity predicts they orbit would be unstable due to energy loss caused by gravity waves. Observation confirmed decaying orbit, we have not actually observed the gravity waves them selfs.
2014 is shaping up as a record year in security breaches
Yea, i really thought that this stuff should be out of dockerland. Not that i dislike the feature, just that it seems to overlap with established tools that excel at doing one thing well.
I read this right after yesterday's article about Chris Knight, "The Last True Hermit". In particular, this part makes an interesting contrast with the quantified self movement.

> "But you must have thought about things," I said. "About your life, about the human condition."

> Chris became surprisingly introspective. "I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here's the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn't even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."
The Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts Just Deleted Decades of Cases from PACER
The whole reason why this "innovation" is possible is because taxi regulations put strict limits on price discrimination.

For example, in NYC the peak weekday surcharge (analogue of surge pricing) is $1 per trip. source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rate.shtm...

If taxi cab companies were not regulated, we probably would have seen more price discrimination by now
Although the image recognition software is cool, it's almost surely cheaper to just set up Mechanical Turk HITs, compared to however many programmer-hours were spent on the image recognition.
Show HN: My First iOS Game
I can't imagine that a dynamic pricing algorithm is terribly innovative. They're essentially adjusting price to control demand so that their service remains consistent. I have a hard time believing that's novel. It's the sum of all the parts that gives Uber its value.

This paragraph disappoints me:

>The company itself should take no money during surge periods (it now takes 20 percent of every fare), so all the money goes to the drivers. Or it should cap prices to consumers but pay the higher price to drivers, essentially subsidizing people’s rides in surge periods. Or when prices rise really sharply, Uber should donate its take to charity.

They're providing the solution that gives customers a consistent experience even during surges. Why should they not be allowed to profit from that? Or why should they not be allowed to use those increased prices during surges to provide even lower prices during lower demand periods? It's really disappointing to hear people give such short-sighted opinions.
It is possible to earn a degree in Web Development. You can also earn various levels of 'certification' by attending different bachelors and/or courses in various universities/colleges both in the US and abroad.

http://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/web-develop...

In general CS degrees vary in the curricula depending on the emphasis' offered by the institution. That being said, in general a CS degree doesn't specialize in teaching you how to design, program, and deploy a consumer facing web application. They might touch on the subject, but seldom do they spend much effort to educate you on the ups and downs.

A traditional degree generally teaches things like operating systems, algorithms at various difficulty levels, networking, and a bunch of other topics that are in broad terms skipped when teaching about design and development of web applications. Have in mind Computer Science as a whole is comprised of various topics and skill-sets that are more "traditional" and change or mutate at a much slower rate in comparison to the tools and skill-sets required for Web Development. "The next big thing" and segmentation of tools and tech is a reality of life when developing web applications, much more so than in traditional Computer Science jobs.

Now to answer your last question. I don't think a Web Dev degree is worth it. Web Development itself is easy in the grand scheme of things. I dropped out of school because I found it extremely boring (CS, don't think I would have lasted more than a few months in a Web Dev bachelors) and wanted to do things with the knowledge I had collected since I was 12 years old. The reality is that neither a Web Dev or CS course will get you half as ready for the real world requirements. That being said a CS degree will prepare you for a plethora of different roles, including Web Dev, and in MY OPINION is totally worth it, specially if you go for a Masters after. Get a traditional CS degree, or even better get a business degree, and get the experience and knowledge of building web apps on your own. That's what I wish I had done instead of just taking the plunge without a degree.
I think you misunderstood the question? FlashEarth[1] appears to just be a Bing Maps imagery viewer.

[1] http://www.flashearth.com/
A fascinating insight. I imagine my data would show similar trends as my children were born. Magical times indeed.

One of the things I've struggled with (and my brother too) is that it is incredibly hard to resist the urge to share personal information on the internet concerning your children, whether that be their names, experiences, videos or photos.

My brother and I came to the conclusion that we should not leak information that could diminish our children's privacy, as they have no power to say anything for or against it.

Rather we would refrain completely from divulging any personal data about them, full stop. It is hard though to resist the temptation. You want to shout from the rooftops about the day your child started to walk, or the first time they said 'Papa', or share a video of their first steps.

However, our conclusion was that if we put ourselves in their shoes, we would be disappointed that we did not have the opportunity to have our say on the matter. We have their trust, even though they don't realise it yet.

So, with the inclusion of social networks like Facebook, we have not shared any information about our children. I don't know if it is the right decision, but I can only hope that not doing something is better than doing something and not being able to take it back.

We live in a world that is vastly different from the one our parents grew up in. Privacy today is like gold dust. I hope the next generation can turn the tables on the all seeing eyes, but I fear we have done too little too late.
It's a funny concept, not something you are actually supposed to use.
"No one imagined nickel would work as a water-splitting electrocatalyst."

Not true. It has been known since the 1950s (and likely earlier) that Ni oxides can function as water splitting catalysts (both for hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution half reactions).
This doesn't surprise me.

I've met Jim Greer a few times, having done Clicker Heroes and Cloudstone with Kongregate.

He's one of the very few tech leaders who is clearly an honest, genuine, down-to-earth good guy. He obviously wants to do good for the world with this company, and I'm glad for it.
I was specifically talking about GPU/SoCs on the Rift rather than connecting it to a PC.
Check Flocker
https://github.com/ClusterHQ/flocker
Pulsar will always slow down, thanks to magnetosphere interacting with interstellar environments.
I think it is very interesting the kind of crew that he assembled around him to solve this problem - game developers, spam bot algorithm designers.. It is definitely a team with a skillset "outside" of the establishment.

I met Jim Greer about 7-8 years ago when Kongregate was first starting up. He definitely understands marketing and media - so I have no doubt his line of thinking will be well suited into solving this issue.

I'm sure they will "iterate" their message multiple times as they grow and see what works. As much as I dislike Grover Norquist, one can't deny that he proved the power of "pledges." Dark money is just one of many problems in Washington, so I'm glad these guys are taking it on.
Being active combatants with numerous enemies, they still need to consider operational security.

The Donetsk separatists are more like a political party than a combat force.
Invest in People, Not Ideas
Would you be able to throw hardware at it? You could render in high-detail not just the area that your eye can see well, but also the area around it which it could be pointing at if it moved during your measurement latency. (Can your eye look anywhere in your image within 20ms? I honestly have no idea.)
Using SCHED_FIFO in Docker Containers on RHEL
Wait, so is the "new construction" around the tower the training camp? The article doesn't seem to say explicitly. Or is this more finding where they do training marches?
What I find truly remarkable about polymaths is that they don't seem to be crippled in other regards. There is no trade-off. Actually, abilities seem to positivly correlate rather than displace each other.

It seems like there's a free lunch somewhere. Which is unusual for living beings, for evolution to miss it.
Any examples of their tech savvy?
The modern language that comes to mind, is of course, Haskell. And "in between" we have Standard ML. And I think one could argue that the Dylan revival project and Rust are various extensions on the idea of invent(academically)-implement(pragmatically). And the Racket ball is still rolling, of course.

So, I don't think it's right to say that things are all different now. Might be that the maturation of computer science into a "science" field feels a bit like it's taking the joy out of things. But I think if you look at stuff that was published earlier, there's a divide between rather conservative work founded in logic and discrete mathematics, and more exploratory work in what would now be considered "computer science". I'm not convinced all of that would really be considered "published research" though (as in qualifying for a ph.d etc).

It's not like you'd be able to publish a study in medicine on the benefit of washing your hands before you deliver a baby, after you've done an autopsy -- we've already figured out a lot of the elegantly simple stuff.
"CL went through a spike of interest in the mid-2000s; where did those people go . . ."

I don't know about others, but I was part of that spike and I went . . . far away from Common Lisp.

Learning Lisp absolutely blew my mind. I felt like every page of Peter Siebel's Practical Common Lisp was some new kind of glorious revelation. I was going to write everything in Common Lisp.

I did write some fairly serious things in CL, but in the end, it came down to what felt like a broken, barely documented, half-assed ecosystem for doing most of the things that ordinary working programmers want to do.

I realize that sounds harsh and unfair (though I'm hardly the first person to put it in those terms), but the problem is relative. It's not a total disaster as such, but if you're used to the ecosystems of languages like Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript -- almost anything else (including, in recent years, Haskell) -- you'll probably find yourself frustrated with CL. I did, anyway.

So what did I do? I abandoned CL and took my knowledge over to languages like JavaScript (cum Underscore) and Clojure.

The OP ends that quote above by asking "What can we learn from that?" I don't know. I don't know how a group of brilliant programmers working in one of the most brilliant languages of all time end up turning enthusiastic newbs into people who feel frustrated and disappointed. But I'll say it: It for damn sure ain't the language or the skills of the people who work with it.
If by "cool" you mean "little chunks of text separated by a requirement for the user to keep clicking and clicking and clicking...", then yeah, this site is awesome.

That was sarcasm. That site blows, for reasons better outlined by other comments in this topic than my single complaint. I got a couple of clicks in and lost interest.
tptacek is a karma bully. Let that be known.
Gravitational waves have not been directly detected by laboratory instruments here on Earth. The LIGO and VIRGO collaborations are looking for gravitational waves by using large laser interferometers, but haven't detected any yet.

The article is referring to the first indirect detection of gravitational waves. Binary stars emit gravitational waves which carry energy away from the system. The loss of energy causes the two stars to spiral into a closer orbit until eventually they merge. Using general relativity, you can predict how the semi-major axis will change as a function of time [1]. Hulse & Taylor measured the change in semi-major axis in a binary pulsar and found that it matched the predictions of general relativity.

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1964PhRv..136.1224P
A framework independent CLI for managing databases, written in Bash
The difference is that was just a project to show off, but now they have a domain and what seems to be plans to market this.
Apart from Russel's book, Will Durant's _The Story of Philosophy_ provides a fun light introduction. If you'd rather read primary texts there are many choices - the history of philosophy can seem like a summit conference between dazzlingly brilliant but at the same time really dense, almost obtuse masterworks. I'd recommend starting with Plato's _Republic_, skipping forward to Descartes' _Meditations_ and then directly on to Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_ for a whirlwind tour of the subject with three of the sharpest people you'll ever meet. If you finish these three, I would bet that you'll continue to read on your own and will forever remain a student of philosophy.
If they do/pay their own satellite launches that would explain some of the budget.
"John von Neumann invented the digital computer"

Mauchly and Eckert did but Neumann came and stole the fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mauchly#EDVAC

Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer, Scott McCartney

http://www.2think.org/eniac.shtml
I don't know about ignorance, but basically, the energy you get from splitting the water molecule (in the form of H2 and O2) is lower than the energy consumed to make the split.
For storage you will also have to deeply freeze the gases unless you want to have huge tanks for storage

So what makes a hydrogen exposed freezing tank better suited for transport and storage than a chemical battery?
Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ divine madness will no longer disrupt the sadness
Can e-commerce be reinvented? $1.9M in sales says yes
Error Logging and Application Metrics APIs Now in NuGet
+1 I never worked with Jim but almost did and networked a number of times. Your description matches my read exactly.
Elegant and intuitive personalized workout app (iOS)
My first iOS app. Exertit is an iOS to help organize and create personalized workout to-do lists.
Let me know what you like and don't like about this app. Also, what features do you think is important.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exertit/id908885162?mt=8
AN Whitehead, ladies and gentlemen.
Should You Return Your Tent After Burning Man?
Anonymous speech means the speakers compete on message. Banning anonymous speech means if you lose on message, and you have power, you can attack your opponent on other aspects - threaten their livelihood by attacking their employer, harass their relatives, alienate their friends and peers, in short - make their life a living hell without even bothering to actually address their message. This is especially an option when an independent citizen tries to take on a corrupt and well-entrenched opponent, possessing the use of a vast governmental machine. Of course, you can not run in elections anonymously - but you can support a courageous individual who does, without fear of retaliation for the entrenched power, if your privacy is respected. If it is not, it is very easy to cut down an upstart candidate by an entrenched incumbent by just attacking their supporters and intimidating them before the challenger even becomes a threat.

Now, tell me please, how that would be a good thing?

US has a long standing tradition of anonymous political speech, starting with the Federalist Papers. The consequences of getting rid of this tradition may be much worse than the rosy picture the proponents paint.
Of course you're right. I meant that no one thought nickel oxides would be practical compared to noble metal catalysts. I haven't read the article, but I assume they're using some kind of novel nanostructuring to increase the catalytic activity.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/1373/
Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility – A Webinar
Makes one wonder what the NSA have been doing since the 80s. They're supposed to be the biggest employer of mathematicians, and since the 90s they've had their very own "war budget". Maybe in 2050 we'll say -- oh wow, look at all the great stuff that came out of the islamophobic-fuelled war on the middle east that the US spearheaded. Shame about the future ruined for half a billion people, but boy did they come up with some crazy stuff at the NSA!
Daddy DevOps
Mapbox Studio – vector tile driven map design
Interesting, thanks! FWIW, ambassadord has consul integration and that's something I've wanted.
Orchestrating Docker containers in production using Fig
DevOps Blogs We Wish Would Post More Often
The first example that comes to my mind resulted from the Murphy Folding Bed Co. suing the Original Murphy Bed Co. because it wasn't the original. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-17/news/vw-929_1_murphy-...
I singled out GUIs, because it seems to be so pervasive nowadays, as if the coders couldn't do better.
Hi everyone, I'm the guy behind Silent Teacher. I just had the surprise to see my work on HN, in fact a colleague of mine published it without me knowing, I didn't have the chance to really explain the goal.

This is a side project, and the goal is not to teach how to code. I agree with several comments here, it's sometime confusing, it's short and minimalistic.
The real goal is far less ambitious. I just wanted people to catch a glimpse of what is coding. It's like stepping into un unknown world for a few minutes.
And it's not aimed at everybody. Some people are driven away by written explanations, or can feel patronized very quick, and I wanted to address that. Here, the first questions make you feel confident, then with tries and errors, by yourself (or apparently so) you understand a bit how this works.

The story behind this is : I was never able to explain how code works to my wife. She is math-o-phobic and she never gave me the chance to explain... just the fact of explaining something like this scares her away.
But one day, sitting next to her on the train, I opened my JavaScript console and began typing 3 + 4, then without a word I pointed the keyboard and screen to her... 20 minutes later we were doing functions and variables, without even a word.
This is how this project was born.

Sorry for those who where mislead by the title of this HN post. We have other tools currently in development to address code teaching (one more focused on code reading, one more focused on creativity, one more focus on JavaScript ...), and only when 3 or 4 of these will be published will we be able to teach properly to a larger audience.

Thanks for all the feedback today, I really appreciate it.
Surcharging a surcharge for return for calculating it sounds like the worst sort of rent seeking, but YMoralityMV.
the turtle looks like logo language.
Ask HN: Any non-acquihire, less than $1M app/startup exits?
He didn't write as much?
Read the paper. It's not what you think it is.
Funny enough, click to continue works 100% of the time on my Windows Phone.

I don't get any indication that I can even scroll though (nor does attempting to pan down do anything).
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Given the two options, I would say go with Swift. As others have stated, lately Apple has been dumping some resources into improving their gaming SDK. With iOS7, SpriteKit was introduced making it a bit easier to do 2d gaming. Now there's Metal coming out with iOS8. However, if you are truly looking to do mobile gaming, it's probably best to invest your time into learning Unity.
Rollybot: The rolling cam robot with Wi-Fi control
Illinois Department of Corrections Unveils New Open-Plan Prison [#satire]
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isi...
Note: beware the speaker volume for the 'takeover' button.

I've had an idea for a brick and mortar advertising network for small businesses, but its difficult to track conversion for ads in the physical world. Groupon, whats your angle?