skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use paper file folders to organize "deals" that I am working on. Complete with labels and several file carts.

However I rigged up a shell routine that grabs the lp printer file on my mac in a way that I can then use spotlight (osx) [1] to instantly find and bring up the pdf so I can also find what I need that way. (And I even have a "fake" printer setup in case I don't want to have an actual paper printout for some reason.

[1] So the shell routine looks at the file and determines if it's text file, a .ps (postscript) file, or already .pdf and appends the right suffix so it can be open by clicking and spotlight can search it.
Aerial 3D capture of Apple campus construction
NASA Pushes the Limits of 3D Printing Technology
I mostly agree with the meat of your post, but agree with mseebach that it is needlessly hostile.
I'd be curious to see how all the sensors hold up after a couple months of regular cleaning. I have an older model Roomba and am blown away by how durable it is. The sensors are extremely primitive and it doesn't have any capabilities to map rooms like newer robotic vacuums, but it manages to do a great job without any dust getting in after months of use.

Granted, I haven't had an opportunity to tear apart newer models, but I'd be really surprised if the more advanced sensors would be much more prone error after a bit of dust gets stuck to them.
You can pass it back into Go for dereferencing, at which point you can use the uintptr => unsafe.Pointer map, and it will be correct since the moving GC will have preserved the unsafe.Pointer address at the right location.

The pattern is useful. It just doesn't handle the most common case, which is passing a buffer or a simple output parameter into a C function.
It is interpreted as a dogmatic claim but it wasn't intended to be one. After all, the very essence of the Agile Manifesto is to always be thinking.
Ruby is included in most major distros.
Hasjob[0] job board is built entirely on Flask.. Available in Github [1]

[0]https://hasjob.co/
[1]https://github.com/hasgeek/hasjob
Why can't you make promises?
Ask HN: Doing startup on the side, IP ownership and investibility?
I have a startup idea that I might want to pursue as a side project, and if it gains traction, I can then quit my job to pursue it full time. The startup is entirely unrelated to my day job, and I understand that in California, any IP you create on your own time using your own resources, belongs to you.

My question is when I go to raise a seed or VC round, will the burden of proof be on me to prove that all IP belongs to the startup and not to the Big Co that I worked at while doing the startup on the side? Would such a startup automatically become uninvestable by angels or VC?

I am looking for practical advice from entrepreneurs who started working on their startup on the side, and were later able to go full time and raise funding. If you are an investor, what kind of proof of IP ownership do you like to see in such cases. What kind of record keeping can I do to make this concern go away?

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses to the above questions.
How are cows any more or less renewable than trees?
It's funny, beyond a few points in the first paragraph, I didn't get that at all. Reading the entire way through, it's a pretty good review of the Finnish school system and the way they view education in the country. Absolutely nothing to do with Qatar or even how prestigious a school is, other than a little background into the author's frame of mind going into the school, it's all about the Finnish education system.
This is awesome - lot of fun to play with.

This is the best pattern I've been able to come up with so far:

http://demoseen.com/langton/#..rr@<>@!!@@
I usually experience this with Firefox and it has to do with forms having focus set to true/default.
Anyone with decision-making authority will be beset by lobbyists/lawyers. Is industry the only source of talent for industry regulation, or are there academics who have law, policy _and_ domain expertise?

Technolgy is rarely neutral, all techies are at least inadvertent politicans. What is the best vehicle for training techies to be civil servants -- lobbying jobs, venture capital, government contracting, academic residency, technical career in government service?
Although I've had good luck with HP Printers mysef (still own several 4250's higher speed and do plenty of output with high quality) sounds like similar comments I've read about recent HP products.
You can diss Mongo all you want, but you can't say Node.js is slower than PHP[1] or Rails[2] -- it's way faster.

[1] http://www.prahladyeri.com/2014/06/php-vs-node-js-real-stati...

[2] http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blogs/node-js-versus-rails-s...
> Moreover, how relevant is the pre-1980's POTS infrastructure to this whole debate?

Very

> How many Netflix customers are on DSL that hasn't been rebuilt since the breakup?

Even if its been rebuilt since the property rights were acquired, the fact that the property rights were acquired when the provider had a monopoly and government backing (and the same thing applies to the cable cos that are ISPs as to the telcos) is a substantial advantage over any new entrant.
>In Finland, students aren’t subjected to standardized tests

This is incorrect, but seems to be repeated in most of these articles about the Finnish education system.

What are you referring to? I'm Finnish and I don't recall doing any standardized tests (except the very final one, the high school graduation exam).
Microsoft says it will mass produce super-sized touchscreens
As someone who has been through basic training (Army, not AF) and public HS within the US I have to say you must have gone to a really, really bad school system. I don't see how a 2 month course where the main focus is on mental toughness is the equivalent amount of learning as a year of HS coursework.
wow, glad you make sense of that!
Please note that the details aren't defined yet, and Ian indicates in a comment in this HN thread that some sort of pinning may exist. I also expect that to happen, given that a strict rule would break a lot of packages and turn what is today trivial into boring and slow code.
And run like every other industrial egg farm in the US.
Have you looked at the Julia language? http://julialang.org/

It has semantics very similar to Ruby or Python, but it has strong built-in language-level support for parallel computing: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computin...
I think the takeaway here is not "he didn't change much" but "the new deputy CTO for the US uses Github and knows enough about coding to adjust scripts to his liking".
It's about taking our main tool as developers and making sure it works for us.
For me there was only 2 or 3 sets of standardized tests during 12 years of school.

'No failing grades' isn't really considered a valuable aspect of the system. It's more like a side effect.

Finnish teachers are paid better (relative to other jobs) compared to US. They also have a ridiculous long summer vacation. There is no shortage of highly qualified teachers. But doctors they are not.
Really? I think it would have been nice if someone would have told them that healthcare.gov was a giant mess. Of course the CTO has to be competent enough to give good advice.
Thanks! This is exactly what I want, though it's for chrome only.
The Impact of Symmetry in Online Marketing
American Horror, Ivy League Edition
That's really cool -- I love 'lattice' type patterns. This is my current favorite, because it seems to terminate (stabilize) and then does one last little bit. Runs for a good while before it 'terminates', as well. http://demoseen.com/langton/#.$!~PF!!!!.
So 10 characters max. Actually 11 because I think you could have 123a

You should never have to specify more than 1 number. If you have to say flat 1, number 12 the post office needs to assign you a new number (e.g. 12a).

Still beats the hell out of MARAMUT-GACIRA, especially as post codes give a lot of information (I know instantly whether a postcode is in or outside London, and if inside roughly where)
Full free to submit a pull request. The idea is to make sure the tools and practices make it so a developer is happy writing good, performant code with a good user experience. If the code is ugly and hard, people won't do it.
Amazing presentation!
Phantom FC40 used in military (recon) capacity by ISIS terrorists
This is a really neat application! Since seeing the fourier image analysis on HN a couple days ago, I've been looking into in-browser DSP.

On my laptop it felt pretty responsive, but I notice that you have a disclaimer not to sing a note faster than 80bpm. Is that a limitation of browser processing power?

Also, I'm curious what you thought of VexFlow? Were there any drawbacks you noted when using it to render notes, and did it play well with angular?
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Biz Analyst

Your work will be central to our functional organization and you'll collaborate with Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, Finance and Campus Operations to help us build high performing products as we scale.

Some of the challenges you'll help us tackle include:

* Analyzing Course Hero's structured and unstructured data platforms to understand attributes of the customers, engagement with the products, and performance aspects of the digital services business.

* Estimating the value of different product alternatives - from changes to the site experience to the website funnel.

* Managing research, development and delivery of analytical models for product strategy, development and A/B testing.

* Creating dashboards to keep track of key business KPI's.

* Working with Product Management and Engineering to generalize, scale and productize analytical approaches within and across the company.

* Planning, staffing and prioritizing analytical deliverables with Product Management and Engineering teams.

http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/790/applications/new
The reliability problems and limited speed is a big concern. Do you know if CNS runs the network itself or if it out-sources the technical operation?

As far as the cable service goes, though, what you describe is what we have with Comcast. At least it was the last time we looked at it. Now we have Netflix and cut the cord with Comcast. That's the beauty of network neutrality - buy best of breed services from a focused provider. All I want from my cable company is a dumb, fast pipe.
It does similar things, and started off from Hydra's code-base. But it's design and architecture is so different that it's now a completely different app. Many Hydra modules can be ported, but they're not completely 1:1 compatible.
Validation is often oversimplified.

Driving traffic to a landing page validate's that you're good at marketing; signups validate interest from consumers; feedback provides insight for product development. However, none of these actions validate your idea.

Product demo videos provide people the context they require to properly assess the value of your idea. The best demo videos quickly describe the value of the product and then provide a use case which creates context for the audience. Finally, they end with a QUICK walk-through.

Drew Houston launched Dropbox with a product demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE. Try to think of validation as an ongoing process and product demos as the next step.
Samsung Dives into the World of Virtual Reality with Samsung Gear VR
AngularJS and Web Starter Kit Seed Project
Same. That was a very attention-grabbing title until I saw the reality of it...:)
Congrats on the release!

I've enjoyed a few of your other projects, and am currently happily using Phoenix. I look forward to trying Mjolnir in the near future.

I hope Mjolnir will be around for a while. I like your work, but redoing my setup each time is getting annoying. :)
$26B gone: Gravity hits Apple at $100 a share
One of the (many) great features of the Amiga was ARexx. Most non-trial productivity applications had an ARexx port (API), allowing workflows to be scripted, tasks to be automated, and functionality to be extended.

True preemptive multitasking probably also helped.

AppleScript doesn't come close, and on Windows sketchup is the only app I know of with anything similar, which happens to be Ruby. But you can't create great workflows in an ecosystem of 1, and I expect that ship has long since sailed.
Not sure, I believe HN has choked the site? Trying to register and hangs.
It's Official: America Has a New CTO
er, which consistent funnel is that?
> So fuck you and your shitty rtfm answer

Nothing of this on Hacker News, please, regardless of how unhelpful someone else's comment may have been.
I've used Moz. It's worth it if you have time and resources to follow the advice that they give. It's not one of those tools that is a fire and forget, because you still have to make the effort when it comes to content marketing or linkbuilding.
CSS Rendering bug in landscape mode of mobile Safari?
San Francisco Is America's Snobbiest City
Agreed. Even if it's one of the richest economies or the most developed Middle Eastern country, they're still Wahhabi, they still ban alcohol for Muslims (but allow it for tourists, because money), gay men can be imprisoned for five years and/or flogged, religions other than Islam are discouraged, there's no freedom of speech, slavery is legal and accepted, and women tourists have to be reminded that shorts, leggings, short skirts, and tight clothing is not acceptable to wear in public.

Sounds like a great place to raise your daughters. Even a great education system can't overcome the oppression they will likely see in the streets on a daily basis.
I agree that it doesn't collapse the distribution, but from a Bayesian perspective it should probably shift the likelihood towards male. Certainly enough that using a slashy pronoun (he/she, etc.) isn't strictly necessary for a HN comment.
Having briefly met with Megan a couple years ago, I'm pleased with this appointment. She asked good questions and seemed to think through the consequences of rough conceptual ideas diligently.
Why are you just picking sentences which go against your opinion instead of actually writing down your knowledge of the subject?
"simple HTTP signalling channel" ... seriously?
Thanks!

Mjolnir is not quite the same as Hydra/Phoenix/Zephyros. Those were "window managers" and that's really all they do. Mjolnir is for general automation, although window managing can be part of that.

So if Phoenix is working for you, stick with it :)
Cluster Management at Google (via MesosCon 2014)
Gordon Murray is 68. It's more likely about what he is used to than paper being more effective than CAD. Drafting on paper sounds ridiculous to me.
Out of all the really excellent reasons given relating to how someone can still discover new things and/or contribute to society, nobody actually challenged the premise with the actual reason most people do math, or anything else: for themselves, because they enjoy it.

Thinking that the only reason to do something is if you have a chance of doing someone nobody else has done, or to give a lasting and historical contribution to society, is to deprive yourself of the ability to enjoy what you do, which in turn is demotivating and ironically reduces the probability of achieving those goals.

Math is worth doing because its fun to do, regardless of whether you are traveling on well-worn roads or exploring unknown places.
I would like to see HN start to kill these posts. The previous one was near the top of the front page, linked directly to the product, and was submitted four hours before this causing a large discussion. I guess it's a time consuming thing to police but this article seems to contain nothing more substantial than the original submission - it just causes a fragmented discussion.
What strikes me about this article and your story is that the cost of operating a car safely and legally can be much greater than the bare minimum cost of just operating a car in general. But enforcement of that extra cost is random, leading a lot of people who can't really afford a car (like in your case) to keep operating one anyway, because they really need it.

Seems like the problem needs to be attacked from both ends. First, better enforcement to make it clear that you can't keep driving around without a registration, rather than making it look like a gamble each time. Second, better public transportation so that a car is less of a necessity, to give options to those who can't afford to operate one safely.

As it is, we're putting people in a situation where they need a car to survive, can't afford to operate one safely and legally, and then randomly and capriciously punish them for it.
The Happiness Manifesto? Happiness-driven developers? Enough, already. This is an interesting time for computer programming and computer science in general. We're witnessing the coming of age of a very important profession. We owe it to ourselves to advance this profession by developing a body of knowledge based on scientific, mathematical, and engineering principles, as well as empirical observation of what has worked and what hasn't. What we don't need is cultural manifestos and middle-management buzzwords.
The United States is one of the few countries in the world that's actually reforesting -- we plant about 1000 more acres of trees each year than we cut down: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/United_St...
The one recurring problem with meritocracy is that there is a strong danger of misdefining the measure of merit.

(In the case of discussions of the tech industry, a common error of this type is the equation of "success in the environment as it exists" with "merit", which makes the claim of meritocracy neatly circular, but its not the only way this can go wrong.)
Worse, it might be collected then as the collector might think it is no longer in use.
My assumption is that a skilled attacker targeting me in particular will be able to compromise my access to services. Easiest vector is probably compromising email and doing password resets.

IMO the security controls that I have in place for my vault files are strong enough to make it too expensive for a general attack on files in Dropbox to be cost effective.
Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Ago
Too bad the preservation killed the possibility of genetic sequencing; phylogenetics seems a lot more useful and accurate to me than morphological taxonomy. But in 1986 I guess genetic sequencing wasn't much of a thing (though the history of phylogentics goes back surprisingly far.)
Megan Smith is a complete package. Hyper brilliant. Very excited to see her make a substantial impact!
If your job duties are expected to have any overlap at all, I think it's reasonable and uncontroversial to veto the hiring of someone you know you aren't going to be able to work with productively. So that's a starting point.

But if there's no expected overlap in duties and you just don't like the idea of her being in the same office, it seems to me that that's not really a professional issue anymore. It's a personal problem. (There's nothing wrong with having personal problems, everyone's got some.)

It is a little unethical to negatively impact someone's career due to a personal problem you have with them, I'd say. But if changing your feelings isn't an option, it's hard to see that you have a choice other than telling your employer about your problem and suggesting a no-hire.
Hey Nick, cool to see one of your projects pop-up! I've been wondering what you've been up to.

A bit of feedback—Unfortunately, it appears that the site is continuously loading. I'm sure its because you're on the front page.

Also, having the user manually add callbacks for Twitter seems odd.
Why use a new domain name? – gTLD.club
> is there a plugin sorting the comments based on time? I'd like to make one if not

You could port it to Firefox :)
I'm sorry, a hello world benchmark is meaningless.
Practically anyone coming from a private tech company would have their own potential conflicts of interest.

Personally, I'm far less worried about this revolving door than others.
Nobody else can help you with this.

What do you value more, your happiness or your sister's happiness? That's what it really boils down to. Nobody can answer that for you, and nobody else should.

If she is actually professional and good at what she does I'd be more inclined to let it go and see if they hire her. If she starts acting unprofessionally after she starts then I'd raise that like you would any other employee.
All I can think of this idea is, just like internet time.
It's still a Sony one. No idea which.
It'd be awesome if there were a brew cask formula for install/setup.
Show HN: Reddit.tv android app
We're talking about a community where some of the brightest minds already don't come from a traditional background. Several well-known Rubyists have degrees in Theatre and Music. The community is where all the value is-that's where the innovation is coming from. People build products, so culture is essential.
San Francisco, CA - Storenvy - WE'RE ON A MISSION TO MAKE COMMERCE MORE HUMAN.

Hiring a FT Full Stack RoR Engineer

You'll share major technical responsibility on our products such as the Storenvy Marketplace, our API or backend support for the Storenvy iOS app.

Truth be told, most of us are full-stack engineers, but if you'd like to specialize in a particular area we're open to it. As a member of this core team you'll make important technical decisions, collaborate with other engineers, and ensure the scalability and performance of our applications through performant code and solid architecture.

http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/773/applications/new
The rule was never entirely clear, but there was definitely support towards allowing Go pointers to be visible in C code, as long as they were held referenced inside Go code somewhere. See this thread, for example:

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6397#c11

That said, the rule is clearly changing now, and it is not even clear to what it is changing yet (see Ian's comment in this HN thread).
> when the government starts rolling out Internet service, major ISPs lobby for laws to prevent it

Yes, this is true, and I should have mentioned it in addition to mentioning the lawsuits they file. I think something like 20 states now have laws prohibiting local municipalities from installing their own networks, passed due to ISP lobbying.
Knuckle dragging, likely down voted...but dear god, online equivalent of powerpoint...whatever happened to writing a paper to describe your idea? Yes you can download as a pptx or a pdf, but slides really don't always convey the whole message.

This is a general rant around this rather popular method of sharing presentations.
> somehow magically acquire more competition

Hard to do when anything and everything involving telecom is decidedly not free market. Just some larger obstructions:

* Zoning permits

* Getting permission to lay wire, even through private property

* Wireless Spectrum Ownership

* Zoning permits on broadcast towers

* Anti-competitive pressure through corrupt state institutions by incumbents against potential competition

* Absurdity of having a half dozen ISPs all running their own fiber lines under roads
Found in a 2 minute google search. Your position is false, that no one was against HFT until recently. Large participants have been actively against it for a very long time, further pointing out how incorrect your position is on regulatory capture.

You have an ax to grind and an incomplete understanding of how the market and HFT work. It makes you look foolish.