skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Radical but Possible Plan to Connect African Nations with Cargo Drones
>There are some fields I know a great deal about. Whenever I see a news story about one of those fields, they're almost always pathetically wrong.

I have come to accept that the general media cannot talk about any subject that requires domain knowledge coherently.
> I'm not working for that company now , I moved to Barcelona.
> i live in Barcelona and have a great life

In both cases living in Barcelona is positioned as the contrary of working -for that company-, so I'm confused. Are you working? Is it a security-related position?
Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors: America's Long-Term Energy Future?
The Real Reason Why Y Combinator Is Dominating the World of Startups
They pissed off the wrong people.
It might not be written down, but the law is there.
Stuff like this deeply fascinates me. However, I can't help but feel like a lot of it could be improved with the help of some automation tooling.

Is there anything out there for like a "language" of sorts (or API, etc) that can automate some of the debugging things required? Like I imagine very "active" debugging and code modification like "When we are at this location, and the past few instructions exected were X, Y, and Z at addresses A, B, and C, pop this item off the stack and push this hard coded value on the stack" Things that would take forever to do manually, especially when called in a loop, but would be fairly trivial to formalize into a programming language
The PayPal Mafia: Where are Silicon Valley's richest group of men now?
What was Qualcomm's anti-competitive behavior?
One year a swarm of bees moved into the chimney in our house. My bed was right next to the boarded up fireplace, it was great to wake up to the sound of bees at work every morning in the summer.
TechCrunch: On-The-Go Freelancers Get a New Mobile Business Tool
I wrote a wrapper service around youtube-dl: https://github.com/bertique/node-yt-to-mp3
Thanks - I am aware of Percona and have been following their advice for a while. Sadly my budget doesn't allow for Percona.

I inherited this software and while I have optimized the code a lot, I have hit a wall and need affordable expertise (is that an unicorn?) :)
How to use R, H2O, and Domino for a Kaggle competition
Until you start getting sloppy. I went to a beekeeping lecture (/ honey tasting), and the long-time beekeeper said he usually doesn't deal with all the gear, sometimes gets stung but at this point it doesn't bother him much.
Dropped you some digitalocean credit for being awesome.

Totally great read! :)
Out of interest then, how do people hear about your SaaS? Word of mouth and Google searches only?
If it's unreasonable to expect that of people, it's unreasonable of people to expect security.
Is Colony Collapse Disorder largely affecting only domesticated beehives?
> I have come to accept that the general media cannot talk about any subject that requires domain knowledge coherently.

Not that you're wrong, but every subject requires domain knowledge; the depth required and specific domain differ, of course.
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> I raise my children based on my own judgments of what's best for them. And I use my own God-given intelligence and experience to form those judgments.

So you refuse to acknowledge that you might be lacking in knowledge and experience in some critical aspects of your childrens' education. And/or you refuse to accept that the conclusions you reach with your limited knowledge, alone, one single human out of billions, might be erroneous and cause harm to your children. And/or you refuse to accept that there might be others out there with more knowledge and experience than you on certain topics. And/or you think God will make everything okay just because you have faith, and the fact that people get raped and killed every day despite their faith does not sway you.

I think that, right there, is the source of your problems.

I pity your children for having you for a parent. For having someone like you be in control of their lives.
There are reg dump tools on Linux. It will make a huge text file which you can dig through. On Windows I regularly dump HKCU for just such an occasion
This is really cool. Makes me feel productive. I have been working on ambient music that allows me to work and stay focused. Just released some of my first tunes here: http://www.vpena.com
You don't need to be better than anyone, just good enough to get stuff done. If you want to go this route, just spend a few hours every day building on Rails knowledge -- there are junior positions in the US -- I have to believe there are some in India as well.

Take a look at this: https://rubysteps.com

It was created for exactly your situation.
A general rule: as a technologist if you find yourself blaming the user, you are doing it wrong.
+1 for Knoppix used it to recover some design plans from a coworkers computer. The hdd was doing "the click of death" and Knoppix was still able to recover 90% of the data and 100% of the important stuff. Needless to say his backups are now in triplicates.
Programming is not magic
The Truth About Abs: How to Make $1M per Month with Digital Products
Unfortunately no stores in UK
The people who made Bioshock (which, it should be noted, a lot of them also made System Shock 2) claim BioShock is like System Shock 2[1]. I don't think it's crazy to use it to either refute or reinforce the author's argument -- it's clear the games share some of the same DNA, but there are clearly changes as time and technology marches on. I do think it's kinda weird just to ignore them, though.

1) http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/bioshock/707256p1.html
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> Solitaire. You can't measure my probability of winning against you.

This applies to any single player game. The discussion was about FPS and RTS.

The rest you wrote makes sense, I agree.
Fuck New Jersey.
I carry a Moto E daily. Out of the box it is indeed reasonably snappy, but as soon as you have a few apps running it really starts chugging. Great device for the target user, but if you actually load a bunch of apps then you start seeing the limits of it.

Mind you I'm not a game player or anything, this is just the normal stuff of having a podcast app, spotify, HN and a few others daily used apps. Great phone, but it can't compare with a flagship. (I carried a Nexus 5 before)
Show HN: Anchor: Free Client Management and Invoicing App for Freelancers
Was wondering the same thing, the only thing I could find (and its vague) was:

"Officials claimed that Rubin’s project, which allowed people to replace advertisements on websites with Bitcoin mining capabilities, had the potential to breach computer security through unauthorized access and possibly violated the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act."

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/09/22/mit-stude...
Stinging insects in general are remarkably unaggressive when you are not directly threatening their hive. I've a hornet nest in my woodpile that I discovered after being stung after moving a piece of wood, and since then I've stayed 2-4 feet away and they haven't attacked again.

Likewise, you don't need to be garbed for most of your beekeeping activities. You can change out feeders or pop open the top for a quick peek without being bothered. Many beekeepers have found that they can pull frames or shuffle boxes if they are gentle and don't rile up the bees.
Countries without paid maternity leave
A lot of debuggers and disassemblers do exactly that. They're getting smarter every day, but they still take some knowledge of assembly and lower-level computer science concepts.

IDA Pro [0] is a good example of an excellent debugger with plentiful features and productive disassembling tools.

[0]: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
This SLA printer is actually pretty good for ~$2k https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fsl/pegasus-touch-laser...
That's too vague, unfortunately.
Offering comfort to the disorganized and distracted
I am unsure if it is common, but it could be, for access to a specific app. Until today I was unaware I would be using an outlook email account to log onto my windows PC, and I am in the industry.

I accept responsibility for not writing down the creds, but the protocol of throwaway account creation for access to small tools and sites I believe is ingrained in a large percentage of internet users. I could be wrong.

I personally will spend more time taking care of new credentials now I have seen how they can be quickly linked to other aspects of my devices.
I think Yahtzee Croshaw said it best: Bioshock was a great game, but it lacked System Shock 2's depth.
How Localization Unlocks Business Growth Potential
The western heavy industry bubble happened in the 1840s. And before, and after. A financial bubble looks a lot like the "hype cycle" for new tech - it's hyped up somewhere beyond its actual value, then crashes to below its "true" value, then recovers and becomes something actually useful. It happens to every new industry, or when circumstances change.

There are signs the financial industry is running out of targets though (equities trading was pretty much commoditized decades ago, corporate bonds happened in the '80s, we've just seen the boom and bust for sovereign bonds and asset-backed securities. There's a little bit of interesting stuff going on in commodities and forex, but by and large all this money is sloshing around with nowhere to really go for returns), and the industry itself is shrinking. If anything we may have seen a finance bubble too.
Rockefeller Heirs to Divest $50B from Fossil Fuels
Using return on marketing investment (ROMI) to strategically prioritize
I don't have an Oculus, but the desktop experience consisted of wandering around a 3D-rendered farm looking for icons. Is the Oculus experience any different?
Gnod News: Search Hacker News and Reddit Comments
Ask HN: Best method to build an interactive questionnaire?
Hi HN,

I think I'm having a slow thinking day for some reason as I'm a bit stumped on a problem.

I want to build a simple interactive risk questionnaire whichs bring people to different content depending on how they answer the questions. E.g "Do you lock your doors at night?" If they answer "Yes" they get brought to the next question, if they answer "No" they get brought to a page or something giving them advice on proper door security.

It will probably involve a number of steps like this. Can anyone recommend a good way of doing this? (Ideally simple, available online etc)

Thanks,
SF
They want source code for a client side javascript miner that they saw on a website. Was their right mouse button broken?
All the irresponsible things Marissa Mayer could do with Yahoo’s $9B windfall
Highly relevant in tech, too, in terms of interpreting user feedback: "A culture that believes its citizens are not reliably competent thinkers will treat those citizens differently to one that respects their reflective autonomy. Which kind of culture do we want to be? And we do have a choice. Because it turns out that the modern vision of compromised rationality is more open to challenge than many of its followers accept."
Game developers are exploiting game mechanics and human behavior to raise funds, market, and capitalize on their investments.

Other mediums have had their brush with economy too. Painters once had to labor under the patronage of certain religious institutions in order to earn their keep and try to make their art on the side. Writers have always had to suffer in some level of Dante's hell, specially crafted for writers, in order to make bread. The poets never made any money and were free.

Can a commercial game developer produce a work of art? Perhaps. We hang those works of religious patronage in the most esteemed museums in the world today. Publishers have capitalized on literature before. Music has tried to make it into a machine. Significant works have been produced even when money has been involved.

Have video games produced a significant work of art yet? In my opinion, no. A significant work of art is a psychic program that mutates the human brain that interprets it. The less variation in the outcome of that mutation amongst a significant population of individuals the closer it is to expressing some universal truth of our condition. You can point to a work of Van Gogh, Kafka, or Mozart and explain its significance. Anyone who has experienced that art may have some personal interpretation of the experience but the significance of it remains much the same amongst a very large population of individuals. I haven't played a video game which has communicated such an idea through my interaction with it.

Many games have borrowed or stolen ideas from other media in order to express their authors' intent or idea: but that isn't novel or new to video games as a medium.

Will video games produce a movement? I think we're seeing some of that. We're seeing examples of games that show indications that we're developing a vocabulary capable of expressing ideas and emotions through interaction and interplay of strategy, choice, and value. However I don't think we've seen our Mozart or our Kafka -- yet.

Until then... grind on. We just need to keep making them and experimenting. And I don't think it's valuable to point out that a game is AAA or indie. We still consider The Last Supper to be a great work of art even though it was essentially commissioned by the church at the time. The new religion is Capitalism. In time we may view some of these games today as beautiful.

Though for now it seems like they're mere amusements.
How Apple's Innovative Design Became Boring Design
Titanium isn't horribly slow, but it isn't some cross-platform panacea either. Building an app that supports iOS and Android well is still a big task. You don't just build one app and get the second platform for free. Lots of the APIs, methods and properties are platform specific or function quite differently platform to platform. Most of this is documented but some of it isn't. I don't want to be overly critical of Titanium as I think it has its place but I think your post was a bit optimistic.

BTW, the OP's original rant reminds me of a similar rant for Titanium: http://usingimho.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/why-you-should-sta...
That rant is a few years old and Titanium has made a lot of progress since then. However, some of the points still hold true.
I run a low-budget (<$1000/mo) PPC and retargeting ad campaign which is where most of the first customers came from. Today, at least 80% of new signups are either referrals (word-of-mouth, or articles/blogs/tweets written by current and past customers) or from organic search. The #1 keyword in my paid PPC campaign is just the brand name.
You can run the benchmarks yourself!

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html
Although I don't get anywhere near 200 tabs, I hit the same type of UI management issue. I use contextualized "sessions" using panorama in Firefox (Ctrl-Shift-E). I have 10-20 tabs per context, and somewhere between 6 and 10 contexts. Between Panorama and TreeStyle tabs (a plugin), everything is neatly organized.

Panorama is a life-saver if you have to context-switch between projects regularly.

TreeStyle, really, I use more as a means to move screen real-estate to horizontal usage on my laptop's 16:9 screen. Tab organization is a side benefit.
Looks like they wrote up a piece about how the project came together at Poynter too:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/270633/news-for...

As per usual, the analysis by the biz folks at Gannett makes no sense:

> To help gauge reader reaction, Gelman said the Register may hold town hall meetings or other events where Des Moinesers will be able to pass around headsets and experience the farm tour. He said he’s especially interested in hearing feedback on the presentation from the target demographic.

Because clearly it's Des Moinesers who are the ones curious what experiences on a farm in the midwest are like.
I was waiting for some independent battery tests and this kind of confirms what I suspected would happen. Apple is back to absolutely destroying Android on the battery front.

Some might not remember, but the drive to bigger Android screens was actually mostly driven by battery life. Android has always been subpar in this critical respect, the first devices were absolutely terrible, I suspect primarily because Dalvik is nowhere near as efficient as cross-compiled objective C and the rather more restrictive background task management on iOS.

iPhone 5's were holding their own and then some against the much larger battery Android devices, so now that they batteries are the same on the 6's there is no contest. Yes, bigger screens do eat more battery, but the ratio of battery/screen size actually favors bigger screens, ergo why tablets get incredible battery life. (and why the Note has always been a great battery performer)

I've carried a Nexus since the very first one, but I think I might jump to a 6+, the advantages are too much to ignore. I'll wait to see what the Nexus X is first as I really love Android these days, but I sure would love that battery life and camera.

Nice to see Apple put the screws down.
The CIA Used to Have a Commute-by-Canoe Club. One Member’s Memories
I'm glad to see interesting niche stuff like this that isn't either tech, Silicon Valley gossip, or a mainstream scandal.
Who said SaaS products sell themselves? Who said anything sells itself?
How does this compare with juanino
Not only to enable sales, but to also show the business problem you are fixing is important. I've been in enterprise deals where if the price tag is too low, the executive doesn't think it's important enough for him/her to fix. It can sound crazy, but once you've tried to fix big problems at that level it makes some sense.
The two phases you detailed of "Migraines with aura" match my experience precisely. Dark spots in vision are typically the first sign at which point I have about 30 minutes before tunnel vision and blindness kick in. Then I gradually get my vision back with an equal measure of pain in my head.

Interestingly, I have literally never taken prescription migraine medication. I don't have severe ones often enough to warrant needing it. The only thing I take - and I take it at the first sign of aura - is two Excedrin. The active ingredients in Excedrin (aspirin, tylenol, caffeine) are identical to the active ingredients in Excedrin Migraine so I generally take either. It seems to lessen the severity and duration of the headache.

As a neurologist once told me - there is no medication you can take that will reduce or eliminate an aura. So to your advice that it is dangerous to do so, apparently it's not effective either. So there is no upside and apparently plenty of downside to taking vasoconstrictors during aura.
> Private money doesn't (I hope) break the economy in the same way that public money can. If VCs go bust there are ramifications, but these markets are not that liquid. There aren't margin calls going off and forcing fire sales.

Too many people trying to compare today's bubble to the first bubble are making the mistake of assuming that it's being led by tech. It isn't.

The current "tech bubble" is just one of multiple bubbles being driven by an even larger bubble in public equities. When the public equities bubble bursts, Silicon Valley will this time be a victim, not the culprit. And there are going to be lots of other victims as well.

> Smaller, younger startups would be in for hard times if investment stopped coming in, but 1,000 $10m (on paper) startups going under is a just 1,000 individual failures. This is correlated in the sense that a shortage of cash would effect them all, but it's not systemic in that their failure would extend far beyond the investors, founders & employees that understand the risk.

How many people are employed by these startups? How would a glut of now-unemployed startup workers affect wage trends? How many non-tech businesses in the Bay Area are thriving on the tech funny money?

Companies like Google and Facebook aren't going anywhere, even if their stock prices become heavily depressed for some time. And despite tech's prominence, the Bay Area economy is still fairly diverse. But it's short-sighted to believe that a significant decline in the number of funded startups would be of minimal impact to anyone but investors, founders and employees.
Under that definition a lot of things are too dangerous to own. That libc you're packing? You're heading for jail for that, you potential criminal.
Yes, pixel-graphics is a different artisfic medium and I'm happy that it's not forgotten, even though hard to find outside indie and casual sector.

RE SC2, I know that the source of majority of my issues with that game is a difference in vision. Creators stated explicitly in one of the interviews that to appeal to a wider audience they wanted the game to focus less on galactic politics and explore individual characters and relationships. Which is exactly the opposite of what I wanted or expected after living through the excellent story of the first game.
#1 Problem When Hiring Engineers
I find it hilarious, I'm happy for him. He seems to be working on things he likes now.
For caloric purposes this makes no difference. Thus - again, soy protein = egg protein. Both will give you energy.

Even with fairly low levels of food consumption (i.e. not average american), as long as it is varied, we get all the essential amino acids. Please note that even people on pretty intense weight loss diets don't suffer from "essential amino acid depletion"

The bacteria in our gut can synthesize all the amino acids by the way, including essential ones, from pretty much any source of nutrients.
Yes... All that for writing java and doing CSS. Laughable.
Disagree.

We technical people instinctively know there's a fundamental difference between those 2 domains. Normal people don't. And why should they?

We (tech people) have to get the situation to a point where we don't expect normal people to have to know all these silly details.

I'm not doing anything to help achieve this, I'm hoping other people are :)
America’s richest (and poorest) states
I'd love to hear more about it! What is it exactly that the package is sensing?
I've often thought it would be interesting to record the internal buzzing of a hive, then go on observing the colonies behavior. I have found there is a subtle but noticeable shift in the sound of a hive that has gone queen less, and there is a distinct piping sound that queens will make before swarming or taking their virgin flight. https://archive.org/details/QueenBeesPiping

I've also heard rumors of old timers being able to tell when a colony is hungry just by putting an ear to the hive.
It all makes me wonder what other kinds of information we could gather by studying the buzz.
Is playing autoplay videos "unauthorized access" too?
Yeah, by that measure a computer able to compile source code into exec, should be considered weapon of mass destruction given the potential.
Could be a great meme.

"Got the job as a security software engineer, ended up writing CSS"
I know someone with a 4S and the battery really struggles now especially when using GPS.
Engineers, come get your $250K salary
Flotsam General Store
Why the Internet of Things is more than just a smart fridge
gdb actually has amazingly good python scripting built in if you're using a reasonably new version of it. Redhat lead the charge[1] with what they called 'Project Archer', which was merged into gdb mainline as the python scriptability.

[1] http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectArcher
Mission control is excellent background for playing Kerbal Space Program
Hey, great work. Listening to it now.

What toolset or DAW did you use to create these?
AdBlock is significantly worst than ABP memory usage-wise (edit: on Chromium, I didn't benchmark elsewhere). I believe this is also the case CPU-wise from observing Task Manager during benchmarks.
Where Americans Don’t Use Banks (Start with Newark, N.J.)
One thing to keep in mind is that there are only a handful of really good disassemblers and that anyone semi serious about keeping you away can throw in code that will confuse and/or crash them.