skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, project planning docs with hard numbers, for better or worse, would be particularly valuable for others to learn from. Though I suspect that the difference is that the BOM he built early estimates on was composed of optimistic guesses, and the later BOM was compiled and padded by his consultant.

It's not exactly two parts. You've also got the pad for the buttons, perhaps the window over the display, and there appear to be three different body variations, for a total of maybe 8 pieces. Still, $50K is high for Chinese molds.

If you don't understand manufacturing well, you won't be able to effectively design a low-cost product - that's knowledge that should inform your early decisions. For starters, I wouldn't have made several modules - that's essentially making several products at once. Start with the minimum useful product and add modules after you've shipped.
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Unreal. The lack of concern of her and her staff to accountability, transparency, and security is telling. Certainly, her use of outside services must have attracted the attention of someone on her team. Did they tell her and get rebuffed? Were they afraid to tell her because of her leadership style? Did they willfully play along with this as part of an intentional plan to thwart transparency? Mrs. Clinton is a likely presidential contender--these are serious questions that need to be asked.
Eh, the experience with interviewing can also pay dividends...
Thanks for a great review of both.

I am confused, so is Unreal unable to do 60 Hz?

Do you have any experience with the UI system or know about any projects using it? I wonder what Gotchas or limitations may exist.
Only thing I hope is that this company will die out before shelling out another billion at the next big social thing and kill it like they know so well how to do.
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> Meanwhile I'm sure someone is scoffing at my plebian mainstream Blue Bottle preferences...

Haha. That person would be me. Gotta roast your own bro :) (Plus, $5 a cup??)
At some point, you have to decide if the $8.25/mo is worth the added security, I suppose.
I'm curious as to why they are choosing to start their pilot program in the Bay Area - they're not a software startup, so why choose one of the most expensive areas in the world to rent/purchase land? There's a lot of land out there with easier avenues to self-sufficiency that are just a plane ride away at the most, I cant imagine them needing to be close to an urban area at all actually.
This is really wonderful. Wish that I had had this when I was in learning these in college. I just did some work with image convolution and, after these essays, things are making more sense!
From my understanding they essentially start as a "co-housing network"- which makes a lot of sense in SF/Bay
Local produce usually costs more in transport, not less. Which is why it's more expensive: To pay for that.

If I find local that's actually cheaper then I know it traveled less.
I post it here, reddit, quora and warriorforum.
I wonder if they'll choose to make a whole diverse city or just a "monoculture" of 20 somethign roommates. ? I dont imagine seniors are usually attracted to Campus' main market (see the communities on their website). But cities usually have all sorts of demographics.
I'd love the crazy theories to come out about those white spots. Anyone?

At first glance, it looks linked to the center of that massive crater. Could it be an active volcano of sorts?
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Socialserve.com -- Charlotte, NC, USA

We are seeking a top-notch senior systems administrator who is ready to help us with all our IT needs, everything from desktop support to server provisioning to helping plan our long-term IT strategy.

Socialserve.com is a technology-driven non-profit in Charlotte, NC providing hosted web applications for users and organizations all over the USA. We use OS X on our desktops and Linux on our servers. We rely on and love to use open source software, including Python, Git, PostgreSQL, and Asterisk.

We're looking for someone who:

* Is looking for a full-time, on-site staff position in Charlotte, NC

* Is a friendly person and a good communicator

* Excels at planning and independent problem solving

* Is willing to wear a number of hats in a small business

* Will take responsibility for IT projects big and small

* Loves to automate his/her job and has the ability to do it, including mastery of shell scripting and at least intermediate experience with some other programming language(s)

* Has extensive experience with Linux administration including configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance

* Has a firm grasp of TCP/IP networking

In return we offer you an easy-going, productive environment at a non-profit with a minimal amount of bureaucracy and friendly, interesting coworkers. You'll have a lot of freedom to solve our problems your own way, which will give you plenty of opportunities to learn new technologies and expand your skills. We want to give you what you need to succeed and get out of your way.

If this sounds good to you, let's talk! Please send your résumé to employment@socialserve.com, or read more at http://www.socialserve.com/jobs/.

This is an FTE position only. Sorry, we will only consider candidates with a legal right to work in the United States who are able to work on-site in our office in Charlotte, NC, USA. No contractors, no recruiters, please.
I've tried modafinil (to counteract lethargy from an antidepressant). It's a strong and long-acting stimulant, but for me there were definitely side effects (and stronger ones than from caffeine wearing off) - bruxism, jaw clenching, headaches, tension. I was only on it for a short period before deciding to get off due to side effects and concern about taking it regularly.
The webOS UI design and interaction model was something pretty damned amazing for its time, and still unparalleled in certain aspects. No doubts there.
I switched to nothing. In the future i'd like to enable something, but Powerline was always a bit messy and performance intensive (using it in both vim and tmux). I just got a bit tired of it.

I'd like something, but i'm in no rush to find it.
> All three "just worked" with absolutely no surprises

Jeez. That's pretty incredible. As someone who absolutely hates dealing with build configuration it's almost tempting enough to take a closer look at go, despite the fact it's garbage collected and I'd never be able to use it (or, if we're being completely honest, want to).
It doesn't, we do things very different.
Here's a pie chart of how the money was spent: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/02/triggertrap-has-failed-after...
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SEEKING WORK

Location: Victoria, B.C.

Remote: Yes, onsite: Within B.C., expenses paid.

Fulltime: No.

I'm a quantitative researcher/developer. I've built security/surveillence systems for the US military (USMC/DIA), increased receivables for collections agencies (30-290%), hacked on the Linux kernel and more.

If you have a tricky problem you need to solve, get in touch with me (email in profile) and I'll see if I can help you with it.

Particular interests right now are Machine Learning, quantitative finance and physical real world applications of machine learning - in shipping, logistics, energy, etc.

Currently I'm taking on short term contracts in order to fund my startup.
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Instead, get a part-time contracting position doing software development. I did this while I was building my startup. I worked around 20 hours per week and had the rest of the week to do what I wanted. I quit contracting about 9 months ago.

It worked pretty well.

The problem is that the only jobs that aren't mentally or physically demanding will be low-paid and most likely boring to you.
Great work.

I wish something like this had been available 4 years back, when I was learning discrete maths for my cs grad degree.

I really wanted to go deep in DCT and DFT
Hopefully they're not selling the Athlon XP series. While they seem like perfectly-capable x86 CPUs at first glance, they're no longer compatible with software that requires SSE2, like Chrome and Flash.
At second glance, you seem correct - I seem to have misunderstood the nature of this venture. I was under the impression they were building distributed urban settlements in strategic but unpopulated areas (which would require large amounts of capital and/or land).
I live in one of their houses. It has beautiful shared spaces and nice kitchens — but it is very expensive. Great place to live when you first arrive in a new city, but most people move on after ~6 months.

A nice thing is that the effective land lords (campus employees) are my age — which helps.

Previous versions of this vision statement described colonies on Mars ... so they've scaled it back a bit lol
This reminds me of the Downtown Las Vegas Project spearheaded by Tony Hsieh's. Definitely interesting to see the "hacker" mentality applied to city development.
Unfortunately that demo is outdated. They dropped a lot of that GI tech because it was never made performant for medium spec machines.
Most houses are a monoculture of 20 somethings
>At the risk of falling into "ad hominem" territory, ...

I wouldn't worry, you and the parent already have solid footing in "appeal to authority" territory.
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Does it have to do something with Chrome-Firefox and Android-Firefox OS rivalry?
I don't know the numbers, though it seems easier to find potential renters more easily in the city. It's about $1.4k with no long-term lease (using the cheapest room for Lower Pac Heights) which is about the same you would find for a single in SoCal (albeit with a contract lease).

So, potential residents have the benefits of like-minded roommates, tech-driven area, and no-contract housing.

Other cities could have better profit for the landowner to rent out, but it would only really share the no-contract perk.
I'm certainly blaming Yahoo. Paying browser hijackers isn't exactly the hallmark of a resurgent and reputable internet company.
I learned about this pattern a few months ago from a couple of helpful Germans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get

Works great.
how does an article rife with political bias make it to the front page of hacker news?
That sounds nice but when the security administrators have total control, and the management beuracracy of different organizations realizes that they have that power, you lose the "general" part of general computer every time. It's really this beurocratic control of the machines that hackers have been rebelling against for decades and is a big part of why the computer revolution has been as egalitarian as it has. Security=control for the powerful=no room for dissent.
I'm curious too, so I was glad to read that the probe will get about 10x closer, and of course being there permanently means there should be some benefit from cumulative observations until such time as the power/equipement runs down.

Edit: it's entertaining to think about what results would create a scramble for a follow-up mission to exploit it.
Well, on the flipside you have the NSA's recent "Equasion" firmware flasher. Assuming the various hard drive companies weren't collaborating (and I'd assume they weren't considering it was distributed with a virus and not baked-in), signed firmware would have prevented this.

All in all I think for the average user (who doesn't even know what firmware is), signed images are a good thing.
You are almost certainly seeing increasing numbers of CSS flyover, pop-up, modal, and other tricks, however.

I've been tweaking my default CSS to kill those, though with considerable collateral damage.

Hint to Web designers: do not use any of those names for elements you actually want people to see. And don't hide stuff under legit-sounding elements either.
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It's a cool idea, but it is really just TaaS (Tanzania as a Service), or maybe South-east Africa as a service (decent submarine cable connections). From what I've heard bandwidth remains prohibitively expensive in places like Namibia and Botswana, while it is increasingly cheap in South Africa, where I was able to smoothly stream ''House of Cards'' from Netflix (via proxy) using an uncapped connection.

TlDR: Africa is not a country
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I often wonder why neither Pivotal nor Pivotal Labs have sued the other over use of the name.
My theory is that the main difference between acceptance of sex and violence in the media is the "corruption of youth" principle. Look at the history of censorship in America and time and time again there have been crackdowns on movies, pulp magazines, comic books and video games justified by "what about the children?" arguments.

Why? Because while excessive violence might inspire violent acts in real life, those acts are already regulated and punished by law. On the other hand, sexual content and (consensual) sex acts depicted in a movie or video game could (oh, my gosh) inspire "immoral" conduct by our youth with no law to hold it in check. That's the fear.

The best example of this skewing of violence vs. sex is the teenage slasher movie cliche where the horny couple sneaking off to do their thing is almost guaranteed to be the next ones meeting the sharp end of a rusty implement.

Face it, we're a society that almost fetishizes innocence (moral, physical and mental) and the protection of it. Look at adamant reactions to "free range" kids, teaching of evolution or safe sex, and fear of vaccinations.

To be clear, as a parent I believe in protecting my kids' innocence as long as possible. I also strive to protect them from ugly or gratuitous depictions of any of the traditional sins including greed, gluttony, etc. But, when inevitably reality intersects their growing ability to handle it, I may cringe or cry a little but look forward to the day their innocence is no longer imposed on them but is something they value and choose.
Nice, having just completed our path at 500Startups and with a few mentors in my current startup and in my previous business experiences I think I can add something useful from the point of view of the "mentored":

1 - Do no try to mentor too many startups

Useless - I saw this at 500Startups. Too many people are mentoring too many startups. For the entrepreneur or the team you are mentoring the most important thing is bringing your experience to the table. Your specific experience in a specific field, most of the time. There are exceptions, but try to be the mentor of a few set of startups (2 to 4) and focus on them with clear goals also on your side.

2 - Real examples (don't be vague)

Many times after a mentor meeting, as an entrepreneur, you will feel totally lost. You have different mentors and everyone is just telling you different things. You are the one taking the final decision. In this case I usually rely on examples and experiences from those mentors: when you are trying to suggest an option, a specific path or a solution, bring a real example in your conversation. That will create trust and differentiate your opinion from thousands of other comments.

3 - Mentorship is a long path

The best mentors I had were "following" me. That's not having a conversation for an hour or just asking for a couple of suggestions and that's also why, as a mentor, you should be super clear on what you expect in return - it's just the best way to start that relationship.

Just another note.
Most of the people that used to be my mentors became very close friends. In most cases we used to do business together and the fact I was younger helped me getting the best out of that relationships. If you are doing a startup you should try to work with other entrepreneurs that love to be mentors or at least with people that have been in your position before - that will make all the difference.
its a shame. We all can benefit from more community. I think we can also benefit from diversity of ages etc, wisdom passed down/up etc.
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If so it would be some sort of ice volcano. I didn't find where it said what the spectrum was for the camera, infra-red? visible? something else? One theory for it is that it is a dust covered ice ball, a large enough impact could uncover the ice (although I would expect there to me a sublimation cloud at that point.)

If the core is nickle iron it could be a chunk that melted and reformed after impact.

Or it could be a bad pixel :-) but that seems unlikely as it moves with Ceres and not with Dawn.
I'm not familiar enough with all the arguments and the studies the author cites as to come up with a careful rebuttal of "isn't necessarily better for the environment." I acknowledge the fact that local food consumption cannot scale as it is (or rather as it is in wealthy countries) to the point where it replaces the current system. The reasons are not simply farmers not investing fuel efficiency, or "[not having] the infrastructure in place like the big guys do." There are cultural aspects arising from the current food supply system that need to be overcome. I'm in a country (Panama) where most of the population resides in warm (24-32 C all year) areas. Still, except for grains and fruits, the food consumed by the not so rural population primarily comes from the temperate mountains. Sweet potatoes (widely consumed a couple generations ago) can be easily grown anywhere, they are instead mostly imported and not remotely as common as potatoes. The original article does a good job of emphasizing the cultural aspects of local food consumption. That culture still has to develop to the point where consumers expectations are not constrained by the dominant system. As long as local food has to adapt to those expectations, it will be to a considerable extent just an imitation, and indeed an inefficient one.

"Society should also consider the economic and social costs of local food systems, which could hold back the growth of developing nations." That's a statement I find particularly puzzling, and that shows the article's tendency to base its argument on effects that are not analyzed well enough within the system. The globalized food supply system, has since the Green Revolution, made poor countries become net importers of food. The "successes" have come at great social and environmental costs (ever heard of "Banana Republics").
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For the record I ran growth @ a YC S12 startup. The co is still alive and kicking, but I needed to move on.

Great team if anyone is looking for a kickass role in user acquisition...
I think that there is a huge untapped market for selling easily repairable appliances to DIYers.
Yes, but when you don't explicitly state the conditionality, and particularly so in the ad-line, then it's a version of free that one should expect to incite calls of bullshit.

Think of it this way: it's on par with false advertising which companies do get sued for. That's why companies make signs like "up to 30% off" and not just "30% off" (when only some items are 30% off). It is considered, by most, a mis-representation or false hood; a lie if you will.
Yep. Welcome to administering systems for a web site. There's always a trade-off between convenience & security. If you make it hard for people to install plugins, they're not going to use your software (or your server).

If you add "define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);" to wp-config.php, it removes the ability to install themes & plugins through WordPress itself. Then it's more like a traditional web application.
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Unless you are really wealthy and have no time, I still don't see a use for this service. All of the things described in this article, I can do myself for less money and less hassle (in the time I can send 4 or 5 text messages, I can actually go to the individual sites and order what I need).

I thought with all of the stats on unemployment and that millennials can't buy a house or a car because they aren't making as much money as their parents that they wouldn't have the expendable cash for a service like this. What happened?

It reminds me of Web Van, even though it's a different sort of service.
Whoops, no I didn't.

But that just makes this PR piece even more embarrassing.
Let me say I agree that there needs to be standards. Both on security and record retention.

I don't think those are inherently partisan issues.
Comparison of the Earth, Moon, and Ceres.

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So I don't follow the news regularly, it just so happens a lot of the brutal, animalistic actions of ISIS have made it's way into my Facebook. What spurred this post was I saw an article on ISIS to target the assassination of Jack Dorsey (Twitter) for suspending their accounts.

A maxim came across is stop complaining and solve it, so I am curious with the technology and crowd funding we have, would it be possible 1) To raise funds on a platform like kickstarter, 2) How much? / If a Private Military contracting company would take to send strike forces in. 3) Legal ramifications / barriers.

Curious what people think.
It's very clear that Hillary herself is starting a campaign for president, and therefore the press is digging as hard as they can to find new stories about her. You see similar digging around other potential candidates; see this article on Jeb Bush for example:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/documents-show-the-ex...

A reporter who writes something bad about a politician is not necessarily biased. It is the job of reporters to write bad things about politicians, if the bad things are true.
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As I mentioned the last time you tried this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045985), the fact that you were ex-YC is irrelevant and not discussed in the article, and the addition of that to the title is pure linkbait.
Thank you for the interesting read. I do get your point and I don't think I ever really was of another opinion. It's interesting to read a very concrete problem from a contemporary language.
Are you talking their averages then scaled with current averages? I thought IQ was averaged around 100. I'm on mobile with a spotty connection right now, so I can't look much up at the moment. I am doing well to reply on my fourth attempt.
> It's not "false advertising." It's a mistake.

And yet if the consumer makes a mistake it's a $100 change fee to fix the mistake.
As mentioned in some of the comments to the posted article, I want to know if getting some spectroscopy on those white spots couldn't be possible. Perhaps summed over a quite long series? (Wouldn't it be a thrill if they were metallic?)
It's not link-bait, it's proof of relevancy to this community. YC startup peeps like learning about other YC startup peeps.

Obviously the community is much larger than the YC network, but I don't see the issue with relating to them.