skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They've got their own culture running it now and there is a history of paying dues and lot's of unwritten traditions about how you can grow and evolve a career.

There are also a lot of unwritten traditions on such basic matters as how to write and format a scientific paper. The standards are quite meticulous, and in many fields, nobody has actually bothered to write them down or teach them explicitly as course material to students.
Ask HN: Marijuana startups?
Clearly marijuana is on the horizon. If not recreationally, then at the very least - medicinally.

This seems like an easy market for tech companies in terms of low-hanging fruit. Is anyone working on something interesting in this?
It'll be a few minutes. They said they'll show video of the landing on the stream if it is successful so it's worth sticking around until the stream is done.

Edit: hmmm, maybe that was wrong info, looks like they'll tell us about the landing on twitter. Probably time to head to bed I guess then.
SpaceX has said that they will announce the status of the first stage as soon as they know on the webcast. And if successful (and they have a good link to the barge), they'll also play a replay of the landing.

EDIT: Or not. Looks like they wound down the SpaceX broadcast. NASA TV is still broadcasting the launch though.
The golden rule is hard to change - he with the gold makes the rules.
It won't take long to reach the surface but I don't think we'll get the news of whether it was successful or not for some time...
I wish they provided a bit more narration with this. Would love to know more about what I'm looking at and know what is going on with Stage 1 recovery.
Little OT: The list of blocked resources for this page is impressive (ScriptSafe, µBlock).
For a few minutes we could see bubbles of liquid (water?) floating around in zero gravity in some kind of container, the whole scene being lit with pink lighting. Any idea what this is?
Anyone just see that piece of debris float away from the Dragon capsule? Is that normal?

At about t+ 00:12:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7x-SumbynI&t=1975
XPath for JSON? Who would have thought of that! Now add namespaces and you reinvented XML 10 years later
That's a camera from inside the fuel tank. The droplets started floating once you had engine cut-off, i.e.: it wasn't accelerating and therefore had no 'gravity' pushing the fuel to the bottom any more.
It looks like you write your own tests, in the folder ~/t/ and this is a wrapper for running them all.

"Now it’s time to fill your t/ folder with tests, you can start with a simple one: t/01_compile_scripts.t. It checks that every Perl script in the bin/ folder compiles. It has the following content. "

and

"Every test you will add in your ~/t folder will run every hour. App::Prove remembers failed tests, using ~/.prove file, and after login you will run only failed tests, so you will know which problems are going on."
Look at the Diary section.

It is damn near impossible to get even very good, well-researched articles posted to the front page. However the diaries are often very good.

From time to time a new member shows up, attempts to publish an article, and gets run out of town on a rail by the moderators.

I myself spend far more time at K5 than I do at HN.
Anonymous revenge declaration for Charlie Hebdo incident
Is this a GUI for jq?
Looked like normal ice buildup.
From the Reddit post:

[T + 15:45] Jon - Mission success. We have data but not good enough to put on the live stream yet (poor connection). Updates here as they come!

Sounds good?
Until we as a society face the fact that doing something about climate change required compensating the owners of fossil fuels for not letting them extract them then we are going to get nowhere.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553855109114101760

Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553855109114101760

"Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho."
Wikipedia page views – mobile
"Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553855109114101760
Dragon launch went flawlessly, looks like the first stage landing was close but not quite good enough:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553855109114101760

"Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho."

In any event, a great, very smooth launch. And folks at NASA must be breathing a sigh of relief since this is the first US resupply mission since the Antares launch failure.
Wow, I think those are a bit more than I bargained for. :) I would still like to stay in the OS X family; the hardware/software combination is just too good to pass up. Thanks for the alternative view though.
The origin of “Je suis Charlie”
Ori File System
Read the newspapers in Washington State, Oregon and Colorado:

http://www.oregonlive.com/

http://www.columbian.com/

A significant problem is that banks will not permit accounts to marijuana businesses, because banks are federally regulated. That leads to MJ shops having huge stacks of currency lying around, as well as being unable to accept credit or debit cards, or checks.

I understand Colorado set up its own bank for that specific purpose.

Rather than starting up your own maryjane shop - which everyone and their brother is doing these days - consider instead supporting the business in some way. For example a friend of mine makes a tidy income by pointing out to Medical Marijuana shops that their web sites suck, then offering them redesigns.

As the proprietors tend to be poorly-informed as to market rates for technical services, he is generally able to make a lot more as a web designer for marijuana dispensaries than were he to ply the trade for other kinds of web sites.

Alternatively you could do SEO or Search Marketing for them. While I expect MJ shop proprietors know what Google AdSense is, quite likely they don't know how to place AdWords ads, they don't have the time to, or - as I when I first tried AdSense - don't know how to advertise effectively, so that the sales that result from advertising brings in more money than the cost of the ads.

I myself once scored a $30,000.00 contract as a result of the second of two ten-cent AdWords clicks, for a total of twenty cents. By contrast, bidding on "software consulting" and "software consultant" set me back $300.00 per month for several months, yet resulted in nary an inquiry, let alone any signed contracts.
Awesome to see Ember doing so well - it would be fantastic to see the barriers to entry for this approach reduce.

We've been doing this with React for a little while now, using an approach like the one for this example app: https://github.com/Dakuan/nattr

server: https://github.com/Dakuan/nattr/blob/master/app/server/route...

client: https://github.com/Dakuan/nattr/blob/master/app/client/app.j...

Although recently using React-router has helped clean things up a bit so they look a bit more like:

https://gist.github.com/Dakuan/a08ce668e6f7b25d9eec

I did a quick talk on the benefits of taking server rendering a bit further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklXL5100Cs#t=1m
I really want to see video of that! How hard? Explosion hard? Broken strut hard? Hole in the drone-ship hard?

Sorry, my KSP avatar took over there...

EDIT: I just used the term "drone-ship" legitimately in a sentence. We are living in the future.
Well you're right. It was a source of enormous knowledge from real market. Not just idealistic theories.
From Reddit:

[10:05 UTC/5:05 EST] Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho. Aww, better luck next time.
"Ship itself is fine. Some of the support equipment on the deck will need to be replaced..."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553856479590359040
Indeed, I am missing said point. Version control snafus aren't really an issue outside of my project, so it all comes to the endless repetition of "bikeshedding".

All kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw…
Texas Sets New Record – Wind Power Generation
http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
Why is the median utility a better point estimate of scientific effectiveness than the expected value?
Don't military pilots say a carrier landing is much more difficult than landing on solid ground? Because the area is small, and not stable.

It seems like SpaceX have had to start out by attempting the most difficult possible landing scenario (for good safety reasons).

So they did OK, considering the difficulty.
Extraordinary gene transfer between cells observed
Wow, this was a hugely entertaining read. I can hardly believe it was written in 1980. Really lost it, laughing out loud at this part (and several other parts):

> There is nothing like going home to the parents house and sitting there at the dinner table trying to explain what an amazing set of conversations you had today on the computer. They’re like, what? It can take an entire dinner conversation to try to explain what pnotes and TERM-talk are, and then you realize by the end of dinner, you have gotten nowhere, and they still simply Do. Not. Get. It. It’s frustrating. Some day, everyone will use these kinds of tools and we won’t be having these pointless hour-long conversations at the dinner table or anywhere else, trying to explain The Future, which for some weird reason you, lucky bastard, are already IN, while they’re still stuck in the past. I look forward to when this stuff is all mainstream and people can just talk about the online mail and chats they had today and nobody bats an eye. It will come. Question is, how long?
Build on Gmail – Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring Front End Devs
definitely SUVs

trucks/vans you are still going to be hurting the tradesmen that actually need those vehicles for their job
Wow that site still exists! :) I did one when I was 17 (I'm 28 now), I first modelised everything in 1) an optics simulator 2) Solidworks, and then assembled it with a wooden case: http://forum.allinbox.com/aspectgeek/Projetsencours/9/projec...

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-5733989050076975%3A...
A free and personal cloud storage in the browser
The world's most expensive lava lamp.

It was cool.
"Didn't get good landing/impact video. Pitch dark and foggy. Will piece it together from telemetry and ... actual pieces."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553857574005915648
Bastards! I foolishly just assumed that it was going to launch at the same time as the earlier attempt last week (although 1 seconds thought would have made me realize that this was highly improbable...)
Of course, but that's easier said than done.
Both languages (being bastard children of C) often run into exactly the same problems, where the syntax doesn't differ greatly. If you e.g. are accustomed to having indentation without tabs, margins within function calls or prefer non-tabular variable declarations, you can have that in C, Perl, Pike, Java, etc..
I wrote this in response to the commonly-stated requirements in job board posts, as well as emailed inquiries from recruiters, that demand specific numbers of years for the technologies that are expected to be applied to the given job.

Rather more important than having five years experience with Java, say, is to know how to write Java code that works well, that implements products your users enjoy, that gets good reviews from the trade press, that sells well, and is maintainable not just by those who come after you, but by you yourself, at a later time.

In my own experience it is quite uncommon for not just interviewers, but actual hiring managers, to ask me what I have actually accomplished. They seem to assume that anyone with a certain number of years with a technology, will be good enough to get the job done.

I myself have no problem shipping products using technologies that I have no clue about when hired.

Similarly, there are some technologies that I have lots of experience with, that continue to stymie me, such as regular expressions.
Yup.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-15-LCD-Screen-Display-For-Macboo...
Nice! I did something pretty much exactly like this 3 years ago. If you are curious, the code is at Github:

http://unliker.prealfa.com/
https://github.com/adlpz/The-Unliker

Of course, please mind that it was years ago and maybe I wasn't, uhm, so _proficient_ back then ;).
It seems OP uses the arc lamp for its almost-point-source qualities. Halfway down the first page he simulates a led source, it will create a less sharp focal point.
Similar is planned for Nürnberg with an 1.8km tunnel with green roof:

http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/soer/frankenschnellwegplaen...

The plans are currently lying at court because of some opponents.
That's not what I'm told by native German speakers. They tell me that using the wrong gender makes me sound illiterate.

However I readily agree that the emphasis placed on genders by American schoolteachers is misplaced. The problem is that I myself devoted far more effort to getting the genders right than to anything else.

In four years of junior high and high school study, we were never once so much as requested to practice extended conversations, however we often had written tests that we would fail were we to provide the wrong genders in our solutions.

The very first time in my life I ever had a conversation of any sort in German, was a ten minute chat with a German immigrant to the US, when he interviewed me for my MIT application.
Indeed. Some live telemetry data to put on your second screen would also be cool.

NASA TV showed essentialy the same footage with a few more comments (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html).
Graphics rendering and loading a UI is inherently linked to a platform. Some platforms you can just write to the hardware, but if you want crossplatform graphics you need to pick a library.
Remember to remove this application[1] from accessing your information after you're done.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
Some people know all about computers. That's why they choose not to use them - that Sheriff's Deputy for example.

I myself am quite a good automobile driver. I have no problem at all driving quite safely at one-hundred miles per hour. I'm also handy with tools, so I have no problem maintaining a car all on my own.

Even so, I prefer public transportation for many good reasons. It's not like I don't know what I could do with a car. It's that I like riding trains.
"So in most of the 1980s and into the 1990s, I couldn't really effectively answer the "how did you meet" question because that wasn't yet a thing yet."

But Jumpin' Jack Flash came out in 1986!
It really reminds me of "Johnny Got His Gun" [1].

> He is a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to reason, but his wounds render him a prisoner in his own body.

Parts of this movie, btw, are included in the famous Metallica - One song.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)
Could a B2B company have a growth team?
"Best" always depends on your criteria. Very often, the standard library is a "good but not best" solution from a pure performance or features point of view. However, it often wins for ease of deployment (nothing to install), ease of maintenance (the project is not likely to be abandoned), documentation, and standardization.

IMHO, C++ in an example where the standard library (and its laboratory, boost) is often a very good solution for the few things it covers. It's standardized, well-documented, and not that bad from a performance point of view (of course, it's not perfect).

In addition, you expect your newly hired developers to know the standard library, but not every small libraries from github...
This makes me thinking, since world of coding has already reached the point of using zero-configuration fully automated code formatting tools on save/commit, why not make the final logical step — enforce coding style by language syntax, and be done with almost all extra burden of coding conventions.

Right now almost every company and even separate teams develop their own coding conventions document and configure their tools and infrastructure for it. But if all programmers agree that "coding style does not matter as long as it's consistent" and every one is willing to accept a project's coding style when joining that project, why not pick one style for all and put it into programming languages themselves. I imagine a lot of paperwork and human time would be saved.
Liquid oxygen! Beautiful blue color, even more so when floating around in microgravity. I love that they light up the interior purely for our benefit. It's Elon's art piece.
We're not there yet, because technology keeps advancing and some people (stereotypically older) don't keep up, but the baseline of assumed knowledge does keep rising.

At this point, the ideas of what a computer does and what the Internet does (not so much what they are, but the basic role they play) are assumed knowledge for everyone still active in the economy. The stereotypical image now is less "Old man picks up a computer mouse like a TV remote control and tries to change the channel on the monitor" and more "Old man has one inch of usable browser window due to the vast encrustation of spyware toolbars", which implies enough basic technical knowledge to even get those toolbars.

It really wasn't too long ago when the comic stereotype of "really out-of-it old man" involved a horse and a plow and a Franklin stove, and I think that's pretty amazing.
Your post contains two unfair criticisms. The article was making a cheap shot at economists. Clearly economists don't claim to be experts at predicting "demand" in every possible markets, only at understanding the general principles.

Your own criticism is unfair because you think finding any link, no matter tenuous, between a source of funding and some kind of bias, is sufficient to show Economists (but not their critics) are biased.

The most important, and worst, example is

* Academic departments, funded via student debt.

First, academic departments are not funded solely by corporate debt. Government research grants are a major source of funding. Second, it's unfair to call it "student debt" since students are getting something of value, which they happen to pay for using borrowed money. Finally, student debt is a very minor issue in the scheme of things, and would not bias economists on other issues.

Finally, how helpful is it to apply your lens of "rational incentives" to your own side of politics? Here is how I see it from my side:

There is no incentive to support mainstream economics outside of academia, because economics is subtle, gives no easy answers, and often identifies no bad guys. It gives clear policy advice in some cases (e.g. free trade follows pretty directly from economic theory) but this advice is often unpopular with special interests. So the one poster who supports economic theory will always find themselves up against more passionate and committed arguers. Economics states that in many ways the world is as good as it can be, and there is no quick fix to improve the lot of ordinary people (apart from, perhaps, more and better redistribution of wealth, but this has limits). This is bad news, hence the term "dismal science". People like quick fixes, so they believe in anyone but mainstream economists. Ever notice that economists get the blame when the economy does badly, but not the credit when it does well?
Well, you certainly don't need all the minutiae, but some hand holding, especially on specific papers that deal with some theorems that might not be so well know would be helpful.
> "On the computer"

Oh, computer dating, where you input your statistics and the computer picks the logically perfect match. Nah, it'll never catch on.

(Remember that idea?)
Interesting way of making great tasty healthy coffee. I didn't realize how much coffee can affect your brain until now.
does it work best on local networks, or is it also good when there's high latency and lower bandwidth ?
I wonder how much of that choice is driven by fear, not so much fear that the computer would Do Bad Things, like some enraged minor deity, but fear that they really are Out Of It and can't learn new things.

If they don't try, they can't fail, and they don't have to face up to things quite yet.

Maybe I'm being uncharitable.
I wasn't quite able to grasp what this is. Is it similar to dropbox / btsync (without the bt part) in what it provides to the user? What are the usecases? Looks cool anyways, and I love that packages are already available!
It is important to make sure that kids get vaccines ASAP to reduce the risk of exposing them to these kinds of health treats. Unfortunately, some foreign governments do not give priority to providing families wiht free vaccines and whatnot.
I promise I'm not being dismissive.

My question is:

Ori is a distributed file system built for offline operation and empowers the user with control over synchronization operations and conflict resolution. We provide history through light weight snapshots and allow users to verify the history has not been tampered with. Through the use of replication instances can be resilient and recover damaged data from other nodes.

Does a user actually want to do any of these things? Not a techie user, but a user. Someone who cares about their photos, for example.

One big use case, which I often run into, is that Dropbox is very valuable because it serves your files through a website. Yes, that means Dropbox and governments have access to that data. On the other hand, it's fine for Dropbox and governments to access my "chatlog with my ISP where I complain about a late fee and ask for a refund" that I saved to Dropbox but need to pull up on my laptop which doesn't have Dropbox installed. That type of thing is where Dropbox really shines, so I'm not sure I'd want to put my docs into a system which doesn't have a web interface.

Those kinds of "casual documents" are extremely common. I'd say most of my stuff in Dropbox isn't actually sensitive, whereas a small percentage is highly sensitive. It'd be great to store the highly sensitive into a filesystem like this, since I could control it directly, but that involves quite a lot of effort to set Ori up and to understand it. And it's not entirely clear that it's more secure than, say, encrypting my Dropbox files directly.

In summary, what precisely is the value add that Ori brings to the user? I'm trying hard to see it, and I want to believe there is one.
I don't see any end-user documentation (only a short building section). Is this not a release, but the project's "work in progress" page?
This requires a huge funding from the government. But I salute the White House for this initiative. This part of the educational system really needs uplifting.
The author is overly self-congratulatory I think. An article three years ago (Even though the byline date is more recent. A database update that didn't preserve timestamps? Or sneaky SEO to make it appear more relevant?) says much the same thing with more details about how the testing is done. http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/nascar/the-secre...
Exactly the reason why the educational system needs more than a facelift! There's so much to do. Honoring teachers are great but I think the government needs to do more for the community.
TDSP Fees for Switching Disclosed
SpaceX rocket recovery test fails
how and why is Economics different from other academics disciplines in that respect?

and why is so much focus given to this one kind of bias. What about the potential for self-perpetuating bias that arises from the self-governing nature of academia? Whatever the current bias is, it gets reinforced and strengthened by academics selecting like minded people to become their peers (through tenure) publishing like minded articles in their journals, and granting funding to like minded researchers
Roc – Raise Up (Official Video)
Worked fine for me initially, but after refreshing the page, I get nothing