skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this thread idea, had been considering posting one myself.

- Tablets for seniors: when the elderly population sees an iPad ad, they're not captivated or entranced; they're intimidated and disappointed that they're left behind by technology. I envision the "jitterbug for tablets" -- built on Android with big, tactile buttons; a 'never get lost, take me home' feature; remotely controlled functionality (IE turn on/off apps); etc. They wouldn't use much bandwidth, so you could build 3G right into the device and charge a significant monthly premium -- after all, it's a dramatic quality-of-life improvement for someone sitting in a retirement home.

GE and a few other companies are doing similar projects, but no one is really executing all that well IMO. Problems: would be super hard to get off the ground / defend, and the market is becoming increasingly obsolete.
Full disclosure, I'm a HashiCorp employee, but another system to look at is Consul: http://www.consul.io. It is compared to ZooKeeper more extensively here: http://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html.

At a high level, ZooKeeper gives you a low-level distributed primitives. While these are all you need to build leader election, service discovery, monitoring, etc, it does require you to actually build that all yourself.

Consul goes the route of providing high-level features instead of low-level primitives (although they are all there, and usable via an HTTP API). It makes it easy as an operations person to deploy, and just as easy as an app developer to integrate and use.
Look at your old code
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Nevada and Lithium:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Peak,_Nevada

If the goal is to reduce the cost of production, nevada has a terrific 'local' source of lithium, which probably counted for something.
Speaking of intelligence and Berkson's paradox, it looks like Berkson's paradox may be responsible in a very similar way for why the personality trait Conscientiousness seems to correlate negatively in some studies with intelligence - the studies were using selected samples while more representative population samples show the expected independence:
"How are conscientiousness and cognitive ability related to one another? A re-examination of the intelligence compensation hypothesis", Murray et al 2014 (https://pdf.yt/d/Dfl1N6pbR-4vYaKk ; excerpts: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/aQ51UnLC... )
I work more on the enterprise side of things, doing information analysis harrumphitywhatnot. My data tends to look a lot like the example in those slides, my performance drags look a lot like what those slides warned about, and a lot of the tricks I've come up with for keeping performance up look a lot like what was shown in the slides.

Far from concluding that this doesn't apply to me because I don't work in C++ and I'm not a game developer, I think I need to take some more time to read the game development literature to see what else I can learn.
It seems to be related to Minecraft servers. http://wiki.bukkit.org/Main_Page

There's not a lot of context in the take-down notice... does anyone know the actual story? http://dl.bukkit.org/dmca/notification.txt
To clarify, are you coming from the technical side (and so you're new to management), or from the management side (and so you're new to tech)?

Also, are there any methodologies in place in the team that you'll need to work around / with (for example, if it's a Scrum or XP team, etc)? I ask because there are methodology-specific books that are really useful/practical, but only if your team is using those paradigms.
Yes, it would probably be hard to get off the ground before all your potential customers died.
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Something a bit like Pocket app, except where the content is automatically summarized for you.

I've made a naive summarizer that seems to get the job done for the summaries part: http://breue.com/summarizer

I'm just not sure what the final product would look like or if there would be enough of a reason for people to prefer it over Pocket.
If it's really urgent, I'm sure Tesla could commandeer Musk's Dassault Falcon 900.
A more accurate title might be something along the lines of "Optimizing Bottlenecks Improves Performance".
Intex sells 15,000 Firefox Cloud FX smartphones in 3 days
I started a site just for ideas like this, mostly for hackathons: http://www.freeideas.co
I don't get it. I thought the main selling point of an iPad is that it's even easier than a Mac. I mean, how much easier could a tablet be?
"Quasi-satellite" already has a different astromechanical meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-satellite
Already exists (in SF at least). Roost, StowThat.
Bukkit was a modding API built on top of Minecraft, using CraftBukkit as a bridge between the Minecraft server JAR and the Bukkit API.
This is why the Internet of Things terrifies me. You think these clowns wanna be responsible for promptly releasing security updates for the lifetime of every piece of hardware they've ever shipped?
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2014/08/20/startup-spotlight-roos...
Someone should do it; i like it
Makespace is doing this, at least in NYC. They have all my stuff that I'm almost ready to get rid of.
Its kind of an inverted version of Kosmo.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com

Kozmo promised to delivery anything anywhere within an hour whereas Shyp promises to pick up anything within an hour. Lets hope it doesn't go the same way as Kosmo.
> The red/green highlight is enough.

For people who can see red and green.
Foundation by Zurb is probably the biggest head-on competitor.

On the lighter side (codebase wise) getskeleton.com is useful. It handles the responsive stuff without adding much other styling.

Google recently put out Web Starter kit as well: developers.google.com/web/starter-kit/
Agreed, but the example is talking about managers. Not every manager is working on features that are going to have an easy-to-measure market outcome, but work that isn't purely strategic should have some identifiable metric of success beyond whether or not it exists.
one of the things that really can be resolved by technology here is re-fueling in air. You don't need solar panels and batteries if your drone hanging at 20km can be automatically supplied by refueling missions of another drone.

Say 40kg of batteries would contain 14KWh, ie. equivalent of 1.5 liter of gas or with adjustment for the thermodynamic efficiency of a gas turbine - 4 liter. Thus
30kg (lets allocate 10kg for the gas turbine and other stuff) of gasoline is a 10 day supply of fuel. Thus your re-fueling drone would need to make 1 trip/week.
Hm, are you sure? It has a jumper to change it to "PCI" instead of "LAN", which I guess would expose directly a PPP interface, but I can't seem to find any documentation on that feature.

Edit: well, you were right. It seems to be a full blown Linux-based router, just with a weird form factor: http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/Embedded/Infineon/Danube/ADSL2...
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Please yes. I had hopes for Lava (1) but haven't heard much about it since I first read that page. The author might still be in the space? (2)

1. http://raintown.org/lava/
2. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~singhsu/
Re RPG Games:

I have heard Roll20 is pretty popular and fun to use. I have never done it myself but it seems like a really cool way to play.

http://roll20.net/
To frame the situation as 'cars vs gadgets' is missing the bigger picture, and completely ignoring some fundamental reasons for the shift away from car culture.

We are a generation of people who grew up in car world. Car world is a boring, homogenous, safe, segregated, sterile, humanless place. In car world, serendipitous engagement with one's community is impossible. In car world, engagement with other humans is always a car drive away. In car world, we spend 20% of our after-tax income just to move around our environment. In car world, every place is the same as every other place--Target, Starbucks, gad stations, same strip malls, same subdivisions..

We grew up watching 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld' on tv. When we have travelled, we've seen places that seemed more interesting, more human, more exciting than the nowhere-vile isolating housing divisions we spent out childhood in. And we want to go to those places, or create them in our own towns.

And that's why I don't care about whatever car you're trying to sell me--gadget dock or not. It doesn't deliver on its promise of "freedom". It perpetuates the banality that we grew up in.
A higher-level language like BlueSpec's [1], or something more specific?

[1] http://www.bluespec.com/high-level-synthesis-tools.html
"why not give all Americans the same tax benefits which are currently enjoyed by those with employer-sponsored health benefits?"

Because large companies have a hugely skewed amount of political power due to campaign finance and lobbying and while I don't think they (large corps) engineered the current system purposefully, I do believe they recognize that it is beneficial for them to maintain it as it helps to keep the wage slaves in line.
No. I will never respond at ZDNet itself. Ever.
I remember someone in the philly startup scene who was trying this a couple years ago. I forget what name they had.
The problem that I see with that is it makes editing a table very difficult. Sure, if you know exactly what you're going to put in a table, then it might be worth it to draw all of those lines, but as soon as you need to go and edit the content of a cell, or remove a column or something, you might have to go and edit unrelated parts to maintain your formatting. It also seems like it'd be a real pain to parse. I'm not sure I know of a better solution, except to suggest that markdown might not really be suited for tables, and it's better to just use HTML for that part.
I always thought it was illegal (in the US) to use antibiotics in chicken. At least that's what the packaging says.
It's less like he's saying they're wrong and more like he's saying they're rude.
Incentivizing any behavior is likely to end in ruin: http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm
Sorry about that, I sure hope we're not just dropping applicants on the floor. If you email me directly with your name and position you applied for, I'll personally ask and get back to you about where you are in the process.
I wonder if this could be used to boost resolution of SEM and similar devices with electrons instead of photons. It'd make imaging non-metallic objects a lot easier since you won't have to bombard it with as many electrons, potentially destroying the object you want to examine.
No, read the notice. It's not from Mojang.
You forgot to plug your game, http://deeproute.com/ :)
But if you can build a drone that can stay up nearly indefinitely, why bother refueling it?

Would it make more sense to perpetually spend money on fuel (and the fuel it takes to launch the fuel), or to spend more money up front to design a robust HARP that only comes down in case of severe fault, and is cheap enough that it's easier to just replace it?
Maybe your packaging. Definitely not our packaging (http://wegmans.com/).
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This has wide ramifications for quite a lot of projects that have implemented parts of the Bukkit API that this guy has contributed code towards. CraftBukkit and Spigot are used on most servers but it also affects a lot of mods like Tekkit, MCP etc

I hope they sort it out.
A secondary market in sports bets.
But wont that always be an issue because vendors will have to disable features selectively. I see the merits of a standard from a developer standpoint but I don't think hat solves the problem you are describing.
etcd looks very nice, but it's obvious that it's still under heavy development; for the latest release they deprecated the very useful high-level primitives (locking and election, the former which is buggy):

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/mod...
That works if you are the application, or a framework that is in control of all thread creation.

If you are just trying to be a thread-safe library though, you aren't at liberty to do that. For example, say someone wrote a thread-safe stack, like the article author. As the user of that thread-safe, lock-free stack, you don't want to put it in charge of all your threading, it's just one little library you're using.
SNAP in many cases isn't enough for the whole month already. Adding restaurant and delivery fees into the mix would really just cause more problems for people running short and going hungry at the tail end of the month.
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How does this research project help us today?
So, from reading the notice and looking at commits:

This guy, whoever he is, has been making fixes/adding features to his fork of Bukkit, and some (most?) of them have been getting merged to trunk. Bukkit's repo is apparently GPL.

Now he's pissed off for some reason so he issues a DMCA to take down software he participated in the development of because it violates the GPL by depending on the closed-source Minecraft server software? Super confusing. I don't understand how you would be a developer on this project without knowing that it depends on closed-source software to function (and yes, is basically incompatible with the GPL as a result).

The end result of this appears to be that nobody can use the software he works on other than developers able to do the build locally and violate the GPL by hand themselves. Bizarre.
http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/chi...

> All chicken is “antibiotic-free” in the sense that no antibiotic residues are present in the meat due to the withdrawal periods and other precautions required by the government and observed by the chicken companies.
Just move to Australia and watch ABC for Kids. Entertaining, educational shows for kids and no ads: http://www.abc.net.au/children/shows/guide/
Good article. The irony is that the excessive charges levied against people who can't afford it continue to fund the cycle. http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-fe...
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There's Chisel (Scala based) the LowRisc team from Berkeley are using[1]. It can output Verilog and also compiles to cycle accurate simulators.

There's also PSHDL from Karsten Becker[2] at TUHH. It's immature and seems to be focused on teaching at the moment.

[1] https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
[2] http://blog.pshdl.org/
This discussion is taking place in the context of trying to speed up our build bots. We already have slow mac minis.
http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/2fd0rt/multiplay...
This would be awesome. God I hate VHDL, I don't have enough time to hate it.
A lot. My parents and I recently bought my 93 yo Grandfather an iPad, and even though he's smart and has owned a desktop mac for 15 years he still struggles with things like email and photos on the iPad. Senior-oriented features/ui, and maybe family remote control help, would be neat. It's also possible that 93 is just too old for some people to learn new technology.

Tangentially relevant: watching a nontechnical senior citizen use an app I worked on was a humbling experience. Things that seemed obvious to me were disorienting and discouraging, even after patient explanation that could never be offered in production.
"Assuming they have some kind of beta, do whatever it takes to figure out sales by yourself....After YC, we brought on a VP of Sales, but he couldn’t sell the product."

I agree, the founding team should be intimately involved with the sales process early on. CEOs as sales reps is a common theme amongst start-up success stories.

It's also really important to understand the difference b/t start-up vs. corporate sales people. It sounds like they hired a corporate sales person i.e. someone who can't deal with the uncertainties of selling a new product.

Mark Suster explains the difference much better than I can.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/04/03/helping-startu...
Either someone's really fast, or I'm guessing this is autotraders that pick up on keywords.
See betfair (UK only).
Hmm, an un-crewed airplane for remote sensing applications:

http://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov

https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft/SIERRA
The first thing is to be brave. Understand that the market is currently in your favor. If you leave then you will make new friends and form new relationships. And if you leave then management will likely be very nice to you for two reasons: 1) to build their own network and 2) it kills morale if others see you being treated poorly.

If they treat you poorly then no one from your network will ever work for them. And if you take the story to the Internets then it gets even worse. Trust me, the company has more to lose than you do if the relationship sours.

Even though you have most of the leverage, approach your manager with respect and graciousness. Thank them and talk about how much you enjoy working here. Then tell them your pay is compressed and ask for a raise. You can google this part. Some approaches suggest being straightforward and others say build a list of your accomplishments.

Most companies even have your comp-a ratio on file, they already know you are underpaid.

If they say yes then congratulations.

If they say no (I can't make this decision. I need the VP's approval. We don't have the budget. blah blah) then work on finding a new job. Which sounds daunting but really isn't that bad.

Anyway good luck!

EDIT: Shitty story time. I have had managers say "What we can do to change your mind?" I love that...but the last time I asked for a raise my boss gave me a lecture on how there are more important things in life. People who make over 250k a year are not allowed to tell me money is not important. What a jackass.
Today? Not at all, unless you have some connections at Microsoft Research. But it would seem to be just the thing to address some of the concerns in the Windows section of the OP.
What is a 'faible'?
Neptune.io are starting to provide this
My position (and what I see others taking) is not a problem with formalizing Markdown, which many see as a good thing, but the name.

If they made this an called it StackMark it would be fine.

But this feels more like a power play. Like when Microsoft came and made Visual J++ in an attempt to take control of Java from Sun. It seems oddly and unnecessarily mean spirited and hostile. The name seems designed to either engender confusion or as a slight against the original.
It appears to me that this is a blatant violation of Markdown's license.

https://github.com/jgm/stmd/issues/19
In Seattle, Stash (https://angel.co/stash-4) is doing this.
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Here is a thread titled "Standard Markdown Formal Grammar":
http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/standard-markdown-formal-...
I'm curious, there are a lot of online communities for fitness. What do you think could be done to cater to tech folks that isn't currently offered?
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An online-only bank (with ATM support of course) that lets you have as many "virtual" accounts as you want, and lets you set up programmatic rules for transferring money in between accounts on certain days/times, or triggered by events ("transfer $100 from B to A if account A goes below $100, and notify me by email"; "on overdraft from A, withdraw from B instead"). Then have a debit card that you can use to charge to any of your accounts, and an app that lets you configure which account it's drawing from.

This would make "budgeting" very easy. Have a "food" account, an "entertainment" account, etc. Do weekly or monthly budgets by transferring money into your mini-accounts, and denying transactions for each account when it goes over budget. (Or let the transaction go through from a backup account, but notify you that you went over budget.)

Also, have an API that anyone can write apps for.

Of course, I'll never do this because starting a bank is really hard.
I use it too. Has been super convenient while traveling/moving.
Amsterdam Coffee shops, but franchised... This could be massive in the USA. Like the idea...
Order while you wait infrastructure at restaurants. Basically pull up the menu via wifi while waiting for your table to clear. Take the order, and maybe even pay ahead. Orchestrate the order so that the food is available shortly after you sit down.

This lets the restaurant increase their profits by serving more parties through their tables at peak times - maybe 10-15 min per table that uses the order system.

Some variant of this might also work for busy bars too.
Fitocracy?
In the end the clowns will only ship the hardware. That is Internet of Things IMHO will go through the same evolution as the PC industry.
Totally agree. I have a Sony but I'm also happy I've bought a cheap Chromecast which really makes the TV "smart"(er). Best (and cheapest) thing I bought for my TV.
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The problem is that to simplify an interface further after a certain point, you need to remove features. But the features you remove will be inessential to some people but absolutely essential to others. Even if you've reduced your target market to "the elderly who want to use email to send and receive pictures", you've still got a huge pile of features that you'll never reduce far enough to make it simple for everyone.
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The restaurant chain Chili's does something close to this at least where I live. There's a wireless device at each table where you can order as soon as you sit down. You can pay your check also so there's no waiting for the waiter to bring a paper check and you never have to give up posession of your credit card.

They don't do while you wait ordering AFAIK. Well maybe they do if you "wait" in the bar!
Google famously did it many years ago. Microsoft did it a few years ago. Every engineer got a 10% raise.
Reminds me a bit of this hack, http://rbtying.github.io/whencantimeet/
Or be able to tell left from right.
Wait...you co-own pfSense...
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In Github-flavored markdown, the spacing is optional. So it's actually easier to edit than an HTML table. Though a WYSIWYG editor is still beneficial for these kind of things.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#ta...
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