skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly related to mind/happiness/consciousness.

+ Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion - Sam Harris

+ Free Will - Sam Harris

+ Mindfulness in Plain English - Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
I wonder if this is still true after the switch from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
I did not say that Uber doesn't have issues to address, I said that the Indian government has underlying issues, and can't scapegoat forever.

Not every situation in life has clear sides of "good guys" and "bad guys" or who's "to blame." Cause is a moving bar, and has different value depending what we are talking about causing.

Uber causes it's passengers to be in danger by not ensuring the people behind the wheel.

India on the other hand has a history of not punishing rapists. The guy gets acquitted of rape, because rape is too hard to prove under Indian law and because the juries are biased. edit: updated spelling
Caesar's Commentaries, by Julius Gaius Caesar

Teaches that while technology will change and political systems will be distinct and nuanced, the human animal is just about the same.

When I see something that people did then that they still do today, I find that I can predict what a group of people is likely to do in a given situation in the future.

This both blows my mind as things "click" and makes me sad. In either case, I'm better prepared.
If the guy died from the tasering, he was evidently just trying to avoid having to pay for the cost of the taser charge. His family should receive an appropriate invoice shortly.
I can't find a decent link ATM, but I've also seen smoking claimed as a major cause of death among the military.

Soldiers and veterans tend to smoke much more than civilians, which doesn't do wonders for their life expectancy.
As I said, it depends. Right now I'm young and eager to go work at a big company or a startup. Maybe 30 years from now I'll just want to come back and rest, who knows?
- Create a set of puzzles

- Use each ad spot to advertise a website link

- Each website has a puzzle

- You need to solve each puzzle to get the the final answer

- The winner is the first person to fill in their details, and maybe upload a photo or video

- The last advertising spot shows that video/photo
I am, yes.

I'll check HN as we restore service and update will now go out on our status page every 20 minutes.

My apologies once again for the inconvenience this causes.
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business-e...
If these were sample statistics, no, but these are population numbers. They aren't sampling 100K people and seeing how many commit suicide, they know how many suicides are reported in the entire population.
The valley one, but odds are it'd burn through the cash faster.
Angry Birds came out in what, 2010? At some point it seemed like every device imaginable had an Angry Birds port.
The article mentions Webvan, but didn't note that its early rival, Peapod, is still around. Peapod managed to survive by strategically retreating to the markets where it was working - a useful counterpoint to the ever-present "grow, grow, GROW!" mentality. Webvan overextended itself, and paid the price.
Congestion is a similar issue. Pricing the congestion, like parts of London have done, on a dynamic basis allows for optimum efficiency. It has the same rationale that Uber does for using surge pricing.
This seems potentially very shortsighted, as difficult as it must be to measure exactly how much of their success on mobile was due to the free advertising on Armor Games, in and out of game.
Data structures and algorithms are still the fundamental part. The rest is just API and a way of communicating those ideas. Rarely the problem is learning the language/editor/environment but learning how to think. The discomfort with language/editor/environment... is just your brain learning something new.

I guess it comes back to not blaming the tools.
Production budgets for AAA content are higher than ever, and the "webcam and a youtube account" segment has been supplementing rather than competing with those AAA products.
Getting the police to do their job would be great. How do you do it? Before answering that, ask yourself "why aren't they currently doing it?"

Currently three fourths of the rapists get away scot free.

Unless I'm failing to understand something, this statistic is almost unknowable. Can you explain?
The Operating System for Offices: Inside the Tech Stack of Managed by Q
Hey thanks a lot. You wouldn't happen to have a link or anything? All I could find was a slide deck.
Dice's 2014 gift guide is the geekiest
I think people do dismiss the many-worlds interpretation because it's intuitively weirder than the Copenhagen one, even though it makes a lot more mathematical sense. (It still fails to explain the Born rule, but that's a much smaller lacuna than the collapse mechanism required by the Copenhagen interpretation).
I'd rather get informed after getting owned than be unaware of an infection, at least you then know to bin your system and start fresh.

However, I'd also run EMET to make it a bit harder for an exploit getting past NoScript to operate correctly.
lateral thinking - edward de bono http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/829616.Lateral_Thinking
This looks like a lesson in avoiding non portable technologies. Something like SDL + OpenGL could help preventing a lot of such problems.
Not all done by Rovio, however. Eg, Angry Birds for Windows Mobile was ported and maintained by Microsoft.
Google is a tech company, tech is seemingly outdated as soon as it arrives. They push the tech line of thinking everywhere they go, even if it doesn't belong.
> If they settled on Unity, why not make a PC version?

I guess they are too exhausted at this point. Even with Unity there are bugs specific to each platform and supporting that takes time.
As an anecdotal data point, I own the last few versions of the Kingdom Rush game on iOS, and I'd never even realized that they had a flash version until I read this post.
I wouldn't want someone to either not marry me or not be my co-founder because of unproven gossip, rumor, allegations, or charges.
RoboVM 1.0 Beta released – Debugger and Junit support
Nice, I always compile it myself anyway… I will give it a try… At the moment I keep an old 10.6 machine just for that because under that version Valgrind was running fine.
Two Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past
Samsung Gear VR Launches Today
The model sounds like it might be inspired by git. If it truly is, that would be wonderful. (Example git extension: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/04/extending-git/ )

The idea of supplying a convenient set of low-level primitives and then letting you compose them, in any language, and become a first-class citizen (at least in cli exposure) is wonderful.

I could see a world where docker plugins simply work by "docker XYZ" doing a "docker run XYZ" and bind-mounting the docker.sock in as well as providing a few additional convenience sockets / functions / potentially container links.

Making docker plugins also docker containers sounds really appealing to me and if anyone has more information on the actual details being considered I'd love to hear.
I looked into 2D engines for iOS a couple of years ago and I remember reading on one of their websites that I shouldn't worry about porting to other platforms before the game has reached popularity. The context was probably Android and not PC, but still, this seems to be exactly what was going wrong here. If they would have chosen Unity (or any other cross-platform engine for that matter, e.g., Cocos2D-X) over Cocos2D-iPhone, there would be a PC version today.

This seems to be a bit of a recurring thing where we evaluate technologies wrong very early and punish ourselves in the long run. The fact that Twitter once was a Rails app comes to mind.

I can't recommend enough to write software for the best case scenario. You shouldn't have to replace your entire toolchain once the thing you dreamt about happening actually happens.
So these are actually commits from the C language? Or are they spoofed?

Obviously there wasn't Git back then, but did they use some sort of version control when developing C?
Weird. They should be sitting now on a wealth of experience to allow them to write the next version in a more-or-less portable fashion.

My guess would be that the actual reason might be the lack of reliable distribution channels and/or rampant piracy. Though there is Steam, which seems to work just fine for a lot of game devs...
> You can turn stemming on and off, but you can't, for example, lowercase text, strip out html characters, handle special cases for tokenization (camel cased or delimited text, etc). You can write your own tokenizer, but it has to be as a C extension.

Of course this can be done without messing with C, you just massage your data on a trigger before updating the FTS index.
Focus particularly on things that aren't available elsewhere.

If you spread the functionality all over the place you won't get anything done.
Unfortunately, you are incorrect about him giving nothing. He gave away millions.

As for his poor choice regarding his health, it's a bit unclear how that will wrongly influence people. He eventually realized he was wrong and had the operation. The delay may have cost him his life. If anything, he's the poster child on the dangers of waiting too long for treatment.
I'm sure. But as the potential partner of such a person, wouldn't it be wise to give a pass to someone with a blot on their record? Especially if there is no lack of candidates for the position or partner? Clearly that would improve their odds of finding an acceptable mate.
There doesn't seem to be any sort of information about their network, is it multicast? Geo distributed across the world? They mention "Access distributed nameservers across the UK and United States.", does that mean they have 1 VPS in each country serving DNS and that's it?

Seems like they have a nice UI but the lack of technical details would make me a bit wary of it.
Why Crowdfunding Success Doesn't Equal Long Term Success
Origins is another Kingdom Rush and being made with the same base mobile engine we allways used, not Unity. It will be released for iOS and Android probably at the same time [0]

They wrote Kingdom Rush first in flash, then ported it to iOS, then ported it to their own proprietary mobile engine that's portable across iOS and Android. Earlier this year, they also ported it to Unity.

This blog post is talking about their newest title, Kingdom Rush: Origins, which isn't built on Unity but still on their own proprietary mobile engine.

[0] http://www.ironhidegames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5950...
There is another side to your market -- the job board whose customers are not the unemployed but rather the companies who want to hire them. You could charge companies or recruitment agencies for "premium listings" while allowing them to post basic want ads for free.

The other way to profit, I suppose, is to use the knowledge and data gained from the app and leverage it into some kind of personal income. For example, maybe you run an employment agency of your own, and draw on the site's database for leads. The app continues to be free, and you are just cherry picking the best from it.
There's not a lot of theoretical background beyond the basics of pattern recognition to get started understanding this stuff. Of course, pattern recognition requires some knowledge of probability, statistics, linear algebra, and vector calculus. There are books on pattern recognition that are rather friendly towards this prerequisite knowledge, though.
The Great Bridge is a phenomenal engineering story (and so much more). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was chilling but I'd read it again. Simply fascinating, written by a western reporter who was actually there.
Thanks! I may use those as templates to improve this:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/ansib...
Why not both? Search is really easy if you have a corpus of static information. Search is very hard when you have a huge amount of information that changes, many people are looking for the newest information, and outside influences want to bias search in their favor for profit too.
It might be worth pointing out that Alupis (OP), and Shykes (Docker creator), have had somewhat of a flame war on HN since Rocket was announced.
I wonder why CoreOS weren't in that meeting. They provide a ton of stuff that could be seen as a docker plugin (flannel being the most obvious imo)
??? Does the author understand ANY motivations for rocket? They're asking for exactly what rocket has set out not to be.

Rocket doesn't contain an orchestration platform, become rocket knows it's a tool to be composed into an orchestration system.

It will work excellently with Kubernetes.
> Why? Interesting question. Some days I think this is just a pure coincidence and some days I think that the low implied burn rate for the founders and generally low opportunity costs makes it easier for the business to hit both pro-forma profitability and "successfully outcompetes best available alternatives on the local labor market" profitability.

I've always thought that when I was ready to bootstrap my own startup, I'd do it from a rural farm property. You can fly to meet whomever you need to face to face for networking, and with extremely low costs of living, your run rate is close (but not quite) to zero.

Thanks for confirming my thought!
> When laws don't work, it's the job of a company to recognize when and how that failure occurs, and manage that risk.

OK, we can agree to disagree. Companies (and most other institutions) care much more about publicity and their reputation than about justice; the recent UVA "rape culture" scandal shows that pretty clearly that mob "justice" very often has nothing to do with actual justice.
Such a great article. The subject of connecting with an audience is really key. Connecting and building a relationship with one's audience is a lot of hard work, and once you've released something - maintaining that momentum can be a serious challenge. This has been my own experience.

In terms of marketing, it's my understanding that two metrics really matter on the success-side: engagement and the gold-standard - participation. Motivating players to buy the game is one thing, however - I think platforms that have inbuilt participation by design - really create a lot of free and ongoing marketing value (e.g. Minecraft, iOS, Little Big Planet etc.) Content creators have to promote the platform in lock-step with their own content. In my opinion, inbuilt participation mechanisms make things so much easier in terms of marketing. You can switch from "I've created something cool" to "look at the cool stuff others have made." Shared aspiration is very powerful.

Interestingly, this concept is something that anyone in the dot com, web 2.0, or whatever we're calling the tech scene these days knows. It's almost like the game industry is an island separated from mainstream startup tech (or perhaps I don't read enough).

What do you guys/gals think?
I'd actually like to point out that staying together with someone you don't like because you are obligated to (due to social norms or religious reasons or whatever) is not only bad for you, it's also bad for your children.

Parental divorce, especially if it happened in mutual agreement, is far better than a having parents constantly fight and being raised in an environment full of micro-aggressions and hostility.

Blaming failed marriages on divorce is blaming the symptoms for the disease. Social acceptance of divorce isn't making married couples fall out, failed relationships are. Pretending everything is fine won't make it so.

(insert obligatory comparison to drug decriminalization here)
New Dating App Faiit in Dev
Faiit offers new daily fun games and tracks game playing data and uses it to profile players personalities, then matches similar and compatible people toegether. Faiit dating app. www.faiit.com
>I would just like to point out, that the crimes aren't necessarily under-reported (i.e. 706 reported)

They were saying it is a generally under-reported crime. Saying that there was 706 reported cases doesn't change anything.

https://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-r...

Overall, your "feel" about a large number of reported cases being skewed are nothing but a feel. Proves nothing.
Delhi police is now saying that the certificate is forged.
Python Asteroids Clone in the Browser
I have to point out that:

1) Traditionally, HN has been about startups: what works, what doesn't work

2) This entire comment thread is reading like a tourism forum

At some point, maybe 2-4 years ago, HN sublty starting moving from a board about how to make your startup to folks trying to pitch other folks on stuff to buy for your startup. It's the old thing about during the gold rush the gold miners didn't make all the money -- the guys selling pickaxes did.

I don't say that to discount these folks. Hell if I know. Probably best place in the world for a startup. It's just every now and then HN gets especially bad about this. And it needs to be pointed out.
Let me refer you to part of my post you seem to have missed:

> The google scholar results aren't helpful because the relevant literature is too old to be indexed, the trail of scientific discovery is too difficult to quickly and correctly follow, and/or it's in german (with shit OCR so google translate doesn't work).

Also, irony:

> You feel like you're along for the ride, not someone who got dropped into a room full of people who already know what's going on and cantankerously respond to your questions with "google it" despite the fact that your post documented the search terms which failed to produce useful results.
He's setting up a nice strawman. I didn't see anything in the Rocket proposal that implied they thought the things Docker wants to add aren't needed, just that they object to the direction and want to be able to pick and choose from components that fit their purpose better, and want guarantees of interop through open formats etc.

Who is propagating this myth of the "Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform" to begin with? Some searches did not net me any references to that other than this blog post.
This sounds similar to the argument that you should avoid black people because they are more likely to be criminals; clearly that would improve your odds of finding an acceptable mate.

Conclusions: individuals are not odds.
Depending on the country you live in and what your race/religion/sexual orientation is, a company selling your information to somebody else could also get you killed.
Sure they do. I didn't suggest otherwise.
Startup Unit Economics and basic metrics. For marketers and CEO
Prime example of anecdotal evidence not being worth much. You're subject to bias based on your income level:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/05/android-iphone-state/
I read a story in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespea... that talked about the original pronunciation of the Early Modern English in Shakespeare's plays. How hearing it in the original pronunciation brought out the puns and rhymes.

"I will never be able to do Pattern Matching in Java that'd look at least remotely sane, but in majority of cases I can also live with it."

Many of us have only experienced the Bard in a modern pronunciation and have enjoyed it greatly. We can live with it, but I cannot help but think that I am missing something. It seems very much like what you miss from using the programming language closest to your thoughts and the tools that go with it.
Do these games have a large following? I tried to play one once and found it to be a pretty typical "You've played a few levels, now you have to pay to win."
Voice Polls Becomes an Efficient Platform for Market Research Polls
You've got your conclusions backwards. Docker is the one that's trying to do things the simple way. Rocket embraces the Unix process model and philosophy. They don't have to solve this particular security problem because it's been solved over almost 40 years of Unix evolution.

The Docker simplicity is why they've had so much success. That's how it started: as a tool to make using LXC simpler.
Aspyr also do a lot of the recent Linux ports. I love Aspyr!
Developing with Pay on iOS
Work related: Inspired by Mary Cagan, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

Non-Work related: The Supreme Gift and Warrior of Light by Coelho.
Is this true? Peapod was acquired by Royal Ahold in 2001 and thus cancelled its contracts with all other grocery stores that were not Royal Ahold-owned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peapod
I have a blog post brewing in my head to the effect of "in defense of a liberal arts education". Teaching people how to think for themselves is highly underrated in the current economy, imo.
An underlying issue like the Bhopal Disaster?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/photos-bhopal...
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality - by Edward Frenkel
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465...

Such a great book for people who love math. The end of the book gets a little bit hairy with more complex subjects but it is a great story from Mr Frenkel of going from school to working on the Langlands Project - toted as the rosetta stone for math. Defiantly a must read for anyone who wants to get into mathematics as a career
Shoptiques Is Looking for #1 Senior Back-end Engineer (NYC)
Windows Internet Explorer – Script Running Slowly
Can get this message when it appears that Windows Internet Explorer (IE) seems not to be running and didn't really start it. How? Have IE running and shutdown computer without stopping IE. Then somehow on future boots, IE can restart automatically, not show a window, but occasionally give a pop-up window with the message. Fix: Use Windows Task Manager > Processes to end program iexplore.exe. Happened and worked for me. Don't end explore.exe -- that's different.
One thing I love in Rust is that it purely makes use of the existing infrastructure that everybody knows - GitHub.

Every Google project uses its own repository, issue tracker, and mailing list. Even many Mozilla projects such as SpiderMonkey require some knowledge to access their infrastructure. However, almost all development in Rust are done only using GitHub. No external dependencies. One exception that is not part of GitHub would be the build bot, though it doesn't matter much.

I know that GitHub centralization is not a good sign, but Rust's all-in-one approach really lowers the barrier to entry significantly.
First i'm going to start with the resume creator, already have few designs ready and i'm gonna let the user choose the format he wishes to export the CV in (jpg, png, pdf...) If the application was successful, i'll start adding other tools each time. It might not be much but it's my own way of helping :) Also i was a UI designer before i became a web developer so you could expect the designs and quality to be top notch
Instead of waiting for divine intervention, why not figure out what you can do about it yourself?
Programming language specialisation is completely overrated. Job listings should probably rather read "Looking for software developer" than "Looking for Rails/Python/Clojure/whatever-developer"

A good/experienced developer will pick up any language quickly.