skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I know the author.

butwhy, I understand the confusion, but I believe the intent of this suggestion is to not burn time trying to get people who have not been exposed to version control systems up to speed with git. Recently I've been working with people who are not professional developers and realized that even with a good front end like GitHub, VCS is a rather large concept to absorb.

While the benefits of VCS far outweigh the work to grok the ideas, the rate of return may not be high on the small timescale of a day or afternoon at a hackathon that is aimed at interested but relatively green individuals.
For a select few, this will be an awesome branding opportunity (hoover.sucks, dyson.sucks).

Ultimately, this is not a matter of free speech, which has always been a negative right: if you're not facing criminal charges or government harassment, your free speech rights are intact.

Rather, this racket highlights why the web deserves a decentralized naming protocol, rather than an institution that combines the worst elements of arbitrary federal beauracracy and predatory, rent-seeking capitalism.
I've done creative sprints like these a couple times. And while they're fun, and while they're entertaining and creative and inspiring, they've left me kinda dry.

Why? Because I found them unsustainable, for commercial processes or otherwise. It felt like a big dose of clinical Mania. Again, this is only my own experience. I found that I could crank out the work, but without a framework (business model, group project, customers, etc...) I just ended up with a pile of semi-interesting work.

Now, if this whole thing were couched in a mentorship framework where you signed up for a specific skill and had some master in that skill to bother for 5-15 minutes a day. Or all the projects were of a single type like 24 hour comics or LudlumDare. Then I'd be more enthusiastic for it.

As it is now I'm pretty satisfied with what I crank out, creatively. I'm sure there's lots of people that aren't. And I am glad that people are doing this kind of thing. I wish creativity was as enshrined in culture as much as sports fanship is.
So glad to see this on the front-page of HN! Arch is a great distro but, like Linux in general, is struggling for support and promotion.

Now, I'm no believer in "Linux on the Desktop" any time soon (will it finally be 2015? :P), but I'm a firm believer in Linux as a multi-purpose tool that any hacker worth his/her salt should not only have in their toolbox, but also be proficient on. And not just for server usage, which is a bit more common, but on the desktop. I learned a LOT about computers from running distros like Gentoo and Arch, where you have to make decisions and learn the process and components that make things tick.

I highly recommend Arch. It's a super flexible and clean distro, that requires a bit more upfront investment to get installed, but I find it easier to maintain, with the biggest and friendliest support community, and very customizable.
In defence of the author, I think he means take some short cuts if time is short to show your business logic. It makes more sense in pitch-a-thons where the pitch is central and the demo is usually only given a short window of time.
The German Heise News had an article:

Arduino against Arduino: Founder argue about the company

English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

German: http://www.heise.de/make/meldung/Arduino-gegen-Arduino-Gruen...
It is a visualizer for point cloud data. It is rendering 3D points as particles along with the annotation layers in close to real time. The purpose of the tool is to examine the infrastructure and make business decisions (ex. is the Sag in the electrical wire too much)

BTW, what's the spec of your computer and your available bandwidth?
Future technology is here now and we are just to get it all for free
That's not at all the point he was arguing, tho. His entire article is about BIG GOVERNMENT and how low flow toilets and showerheads are categorically inferior, which is very different than 'stuff today is cheap and poorly made.'
This article sounds like the state has embraced a do kill policy:

http://tbo.com/news/florida-wont-repeat-public-python-hunt-n...
What a great list. My favourite:

> Facebook is the Facebook for X

The one point I would elaborate on is listening to customers. This deserves more attention because listening to what customers _say_ can be a disaster. People will tell you all sorts of things about what they think they want and need. A lot of the time they're wrong. This can be worse than just building things you want or think are important.

Listening to customers really means measuring what they respond to. Or, to put it another way, ignore what they say, see what they do.
I love hearing mathematicians talk about picking problems. You think hackers have it hard about seeing other peoples accomplishments and feeling powerless? Try being a mathematician and hearing about how Gauss or Euler were better than you at the age of 15! And mathematicians devote their whole [professional] life to solving problems.

One advice I hear often is: if you're not the quickest, just don't try to race anyone else for solving a problem (there are many people you could legitimately call 'genius' working on certain problems!). Work on things you know no one else is working with -- if you fail, it's only because the results aren't very useful (but for most things it's really hard to tell when they'll be useful anyway). I call this "work orthogonalization".

And there's my favorite, and probably most often said: be guided by beauty. If you feel what you're solving is "just right", it most likely will work and will work well.

Common sense stuff, so it has exceptions of course. Engineering for instance has a whole extra layer where we have to deal with physics, resource constraints and follow more closely the needs and demands of our users.
I disagree. The physics of flying the plane are the same regardless of who is flying it, and we can have as much training data as we want. Unlike with early aviation, you know have a base metric to measure against (human pilots), and so you can detect and analyze when the automated pilot decides differently and why, all in a simulated environment.
People don't steal ideas. Tell as many people as possible. Never ask someone to sign an NDA before hearing your idea, you'll instantly lose all credibility

I find this hard to believe and can see why experienced people would keep startup ideas close to their chest.
Really great list. #61 can not be overemphasized and includes blogging. I got one of my blog posts in a phd thesis last year (tried so hard to hire that kid!).
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The story as described by the GP is shortened for clarity, but apparently there was no bad blood between the teams when "Arduino Srl" was registered and it was believed one individual held that italian trademark on behalf of the team on good faith. It was only much later that Arduino Srl started the whole imitation game
So, there's nothing except a subscription page? I'd love to comment on the concept, but I couldn't find anything.
I recently had to reinstall my arch and was pleased to find this repo. It is much easier than installing everything from AUR and trying to keep it consistent. And my fonts look even better now.
They both launched in the same browser version of a major browser?

Updated measurement methodology gave them both a boost?
The post title should be updated with this information.
Bountysource has a browser extension which does this:

https://www.bountysource.com/extension
Ask HN: Repaying signing bonus to join a startup?
I've been working as an engineer at one of the big brand name tech companies in Silicon Valley since completing my Masters in Computer Science two years ago. They gave me a cash signing bonus of $150K paid over three years. I've now been employed here for 18 months and have been paid 2/3 of that. The contract state's that if I voluntarily leave the company prior to completing a year, I have to repay that year's bonus. So if I left today, I'd have to repay the second year's bonus but I get to keep the first part.

I was just offered a job at a six person startup that raised a seed round of capital and I'm thrilled about the opportunity. However, if I accepted not only would I be taking a large salary cut, they would be unable to make up for the bonus that I'd have to repay bigco. It's a substantial sum of money($50K), and I've already used that bonus (after tax) and my salary to pay off a big chunk of grad school debt, and only have about $15K to my name.

Has anyone been in a situation like this? Will bigCo enforce the contract and make me repay the $50K? Will they demand I pay it immediately or will I have time to pay it back? Would you advise going for the startup or waiting six more months and hoping the job is still there?

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.
This was an engineering leadership class at MIT. The advise specifically was first an anecdote about working in Japan and going out to get piss-drunk on sale after work and then a generalization of that to drinking as a means to networking in general. My generalization to other drugs is my own. Since there is no moral difference between alcohol and marijuana and there soon won't be a legal one.

The reason why alcohol culture frustrates me is that in high school, I had an older friend who started going to AA and brought me along for moral support sometimes. I've since grown up, developed a fondness for craft cider, and realized that I personally don't have much to worry about from addiction. But for the same reason I think startup events should be expected to be wheelchair-accessible, I think folks should be cool with teetotalers.
Has the time come to kill the password?
From my own experience, I'd say that the right amount of salt is highly dependent on your diet. For example, when I restrict my carb intake I notice I need to add more salt to my food or I will get cramps and feel generally dehydrated. Drinking more water doesn't help, I just go to the bathroom more often. Adding more salt to my food works, however.

Unfortunately, I can find absolutely no scientific evidence to back this theory up. I just try to listen to the signals from my body, and it works for me.
One cube of sugar weighs about 3g - so 24g that's 8 cubes of sugar. Unbelievable isn't it.
this mislead me. I thought there was some kind of new jquery release.
Nothing too specific, but I usually have flash disabled on the browser I use the most and had to view the website in a basic Chrome install instead (which I do have installed for this kind of cases). ;)

I thought, honestly, that html5 api was able to provide the same capability as flash, as far as file/clipboard was concerned.
As someone who doesn't follow TextSecure or anything else, how does this work? How do my messages get encrypted, yet the people I'm texting don't need to install anything to read them? What am I missing here.
> Personally, I think zero rating is a good thing, especially as it operates in the Australian environment (or, at least, how it has operated previously).

> "Zero rating isn't great for consumers, as it has the potential to distort consumer choice in favour of choices selected by an ISP," Netflix spokesman Cliff Edwards says. "We'll push back against such efforts, but we won't put our service or our members at a disadvantage."

I think you just don't see the problems it creates.

> It has largely been consumer positive, allowing premium tier ISPs to differentiate themselves by making the effort to peer with service providers, and consumers benefit from the free quota.

They already have the incentive of the fact if they don't peer with service providers, they won't actually be able to connect you to the rest of the internet at a reasonable speed. Australia's market for the internet is worse than the US because of things like this distorting it + the distance from the rest of the world.

I would never setup a server in Australia because of the ISPs. I would stand them up on the west coast of the US instead precisely because of their behavior. I think you don't really understand how much the ISPs of Australia have made the entire Australian market completely uncompetitive with the rest of the world.

Here is a random example of a company that operates in Australia and abroad.

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

> Bandwidth quotas listed are for North American and European locations. Overage is priced at $0.02/GB in North America, $0.02/GB in Europe, $0.05/GB in Tokyo and $0.10/GB in Australia. Full plan details are listed on the customer portal.

Why do you think Australia costs $.10/GB while the rest of the world [outside of Tokyo] costs $.02/GB?

> All in all, I think the CRTC has taken a pretty good approach. Perhaps the third-party only rule should be extended to refusing exclusivity arrangements, but a complete ban is over the top in my opinion - it discourages passing on savings made by peering with companies to consumers.

It has the opposite effect. It makes things more expensive. The only reason it appears "cheaper" in the Australian market is because they decided to screw not-consumers in the Australian market even harder.
How I won over $150k in Cash, Investments, and Prizes at Hackathons
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I'm not talking about Internet only. Public transport is woeful, too.
As someone with a lot of combat experience, all of those things you listed are a subset of same purpose as "kill people". You seriously just wrote "liberate conquered people" with a straight face implying that it doesn't involve killing people. These are tools of force specific to the physical and psychological domination of an opponent. You're reducing this to semantics, and you know I'm right.
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I completely agree. Arch is one of the more "technical" distributions to get to a desktop. Particularly when compared with Ubuntu and such like. But once the desktop is running, Arch is one of the easiest distros to maintain.

For example:

1) despite the many criticisms levelled at a rolling release model, I've found it to be more reliable and generally less painful than upgrading between Debian / Ubuntu (for example) releases.

2) pacman is, in my personal opinion, a nicer command line tool than apt-get / apt-cache / aptitude / etc. I do quite like some of the RPM-based tools though (yum, zypper, etc).

3) Adding 3rd party repos in Arch is probably on a par with PPAs, however yaourt (AUR) almost makes it completely unnecessary to ever look for another 3rd party repo again.

That's not to say everything is perfect though: Occasionally updates need to be applied manually; being bleeding edge can be a double edged sword sometimes; and I really did prefer the old BSD-inspired rc.conf over the new system of various files scattered around /etc and the much debated systemd. But each to their own on that one.
Cargo planes? Really? There is some innate arrogance that seems to deny the prospects of the true dangerous nature of human flight.

Let me put it this way: How about frame the comment around UAVs / drones - once the genuis-level programmers and designers can get a drone carry a raw chicken egg from Atlanta to Boston without breaking it, then we can talk about what long-view implications might be.

I mean, there have been decades of development trying to advance safety. People are already trying. It's not being a Luddite to put forward that the human brain is still a better pilot than a program.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886...
Sorry but some website disable the frame integration...

=> Refused to display 'https://news.ycombinator.com/newest' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'DENY'.
DENY : The page cannot be displayed in a frame, regardless of the site attempting to do so.
also http://youmightnotnotneedjquery.com/
He hadn't yet learned how to talk like a politician. That quote is out of context.
But the original post isn't interacting either, it's just an integration with gravity, that happens to be rendered by WebGL.
> Sometimes ideas are indeed stupid, and one of the things I don't love about HN is the echo chamber effect.

However, Hacker News is one of the surprisingly few communities that will tell you if your idea is terrible, which is one of the reasons for the recent "gratuitous negativity" controversies.
how do you do decentralized naming properly? bitcoin-like mechanism (where if you use more computing power, you get to own more names - on the average anyway)?
I've seen start up projects that I could've done solo in a couple of months that took a small team a couple of years.

Perhaps speaking to the net result of the product, you maybe could have done that in a couple months... But there is far more to building product and a company than one developer coding in a room. I highly doubt that you as an individual can create a solution that matches a good team with domain knogwledge, in fractions of the time it took them.

This makes me think of 2048 the game, where the Dev took some time to build it, released it, and in hours there were clones in the App Store. Sure anyone can reverse engineer anything. Especially web sites where you are given their code. But thinking through, debating features and functionality, truly solving a hard problem takes time.
Yeah, they usually have some % of potassium chloride, and potassium comes with its own set of problems.
It's supposed to be for code snippets.

But yes, I always manually add the line breaks when quoting text. It's annoying and it would be nice if there were a real quote feature.
Averages mean something on a well defined graph, like a bell curve, especially with some extra numbers like std deviation.

I find it nearly impossible to find a percentile graph of something like hours viewed along Y-axis and percentile population along the X. An excellent startup idea would be the very hard task of a search engine that can find graphs of a given X vs Y.

Anyway, based on what little I can find, TV watching is absolutely not a bell curve as "young people" average only 2 or so hours per day and the elderly average over a working day per day (in excess of 8 hours per day of TV over 60 years old).

My strong suspicion is TV viewership is strongly exponential vs percentile with "people in trouble" (medical problems, hospital patients, severely handicapped, addicts, prisoners) recording 24 hours/day or at least all 18 or so waking hours as viewing time, vs the majority the population in a declining exponential graph dropping to almost zero.

Given a population distribution like that, an average is fairly meaningless when trying to draw cultural conclusions. Its like using average income or average wealth to draw economic conclusions. Or doing ergonomic design based on the average number of heads being well above one (think of Siamese twins). What cultural conclusions can you make about my typical normal lifestyle based on the average number of space qualified astronauts in my country?

It is not a completely useless statistic, if the average TV draws a kilowatt then given a billion random people the electrical load due to TVs would be about 5 billion kilowatt-hours per day (5 TWh?). But the usefulness of the numbers break down when zoomed in.
Hmm... I'm trying to think of any non-hostile forks that existed before the GitHub era.

Only one I can think of off the top of my head is egcs forking off gcc so devs have a place to put their experimental branches.
Thanks for the link. I just wished I'd known this website before as I had to resort to other means to view this interview.
He is talking about companies that enjoy monopoly profits because of superior products: "I'm not interested in illegal bullies or government favorites: By "monopoly," I mean the kind of company that is so good at what it does that no other firm can offer a close substitute."

Distinguishing between "good" and "bad" monopolies is sufficiently complex to deserve more in-depth exploration. Thiel is smart enough to realize that which is why I consider his point to be misquoted. Unfortunately, his view is oversimplified so as to be readily consumed and debated.

He lists characteristics of a monopoly in his book: proprietary tech, network effects, economies of scale, and branding. First mover advantage is mentioned as a "tactic, not a goal" - a chapter is even called "Last Mover Advantage." Google, for one, was clearly not a first mover in the search space.
How Heartbleed could've been found
I think you'd be crazy not to travel and enrich your experiences outside of programming. I would not suggest doing anything with an obligation (freelance/take a class).

If you want to program something -- do it from a cafe in Paris for a few hours a week.

EDIT: Just saw that you can't travel -- I would do anything to arrange it so you could get away for a couple of weeks. If not, well DC, Boston, Upstate NY are all pretty close -- get to a beach, hike, etc.
Both parties need to have SMSSecure installed, and a secure session started — a roundtrip of sms to exchange keys, or something (im not an expert so not sure if those are keys, or something else).

Otherwise they will only see a garbage of letters/numbers.
This is a double edged sword, and most probably the thing I like least about HN. It strikes me as elitist and encourages a particular type of groupthink That I am uncomfortable with. As an example, conservative thinking is usually rewarded and less conventional thinking is usually overlooked. In some ways, I find HN to lack diversity in its culture and what it values (which is why I rarely contribute - I definitely put myself in the "on the fringe" category who will remain that way unless some diversity in thinking creeps in, or there's a radical change). This is interesting because I am a big contributor at other sites where I feel diverse thinking is more respected .. I am absolutely happy to accept this is my own bias, however, HN is a unique experience for me in that respect (except Slashdot that I gave up on for similar reasons).
Personally, I don't pay any attention to these scores. I prefer less profile visibility, less badges, less karma and more weighting on an article or comment in isolation.
If anything, maybe encourage certain knowledge domains, eg. Science or biology. The domains themselves are less important to me at this moment (except where they are political - and I include gender politics in that: it's stifling and off putting to me, despite its current popularity), but it may diversify what I see and view at HN.
Ultimately, I don't get a lot of benefit from HN, but there are some (few) exceptional articles that I wouldn't otherwise see - which is why I visit HN. Diverse thinking is very important to me.
I am more likely to attribute HN "rigging" to encouraged groupthink than being gamed. Other than categories and less egocentric measurement, I don't have suggestions that would improve things.
I apologise if my post offends, I've felt these views since I first came to HN. It's not intended to insult, but it most probably will.
Massimo did an interview with Make that explains his side of things a bit:

http://makezine.com/2015/03/19/massimo-banzi-fighting-for-ar...
You're right, I should have mentioned drones as well.
"I wish I could automatically message them and easily collect their email/phone #s with minimal effort...probably a way but I haven't looked into it."

Have you considered asking for their email address? Could send them a private message on Facebook saying you're considering leaving Facebook but would still like to keep in touch. I imagine most people would be fine with sharing their email address if they've already linked up with you on Facebook.