skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important thing to do with your gap year is to really thing about what you actually want to do with the next few years of your life. Chances are you've never really thought about it.

Certainly I just assumed that since I did really well in high school, enjoyed physics and got into a good school then studying Physics at University must be the right thing do. Since this matched up with all social expectations and since everybody around me told me that this was a really good idea, I never really questioned it. To cut a long story short, it probably wasn't the right thing to do then, and I ended up miserable and crashing out.

So whatever you do end up doing with your time, take the luxury to throw out any pre-conceived notions of what you should do and really reflect over what you want to do.
GifLine is the fastest way to put GIFs in your emails. Install the chrome extension and write in any place of the gmail compose box the command line "::gif me thegifyouneed" and done!

What you thoughts about the idea of command lines in textareas in the web?
LinkedIn pays $1.5B for online educator lynda.com in its biggest acquisition yet
Wasn't there something posted on HN like 1-2 years ago which basically did the same thing ... it was counting down to zero and someone had to press it to keep it going?
To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)
Apple iOS 8.3: Has 3 Great Secret Features
Nostalgia to a simpler, different time.

The rather surprising thing, I think, is that most of the techniques they are using were known on the C64 at the time when CGA was popular. They weren't perfected yet, but they were already in use - but no one took them seriously on the PC:

Cycle counting was incompatible with the variety of hardware; CRTC games did not work on all monitors.. Almost no one even looked there. I remember being very proud getting 16 colors on the CGA's 320x200x4-color mode back in '87, only to see that it didn't work on my friend's shining new EGA.

In other words, I'm getting old .....
Hehe yeah, I know what's TTL and how it works :) hence why I was pointing out (as politely as I could) that the previous comment was wrong.

But I tend to agree with your conclusion. Damn statisticians! :)
let me know if you need some help to set it up.
On Mediocre Programmers (Pycon 2015 Keynote)
At the Goonhilly Earth Station visitor centre (currently closed), there are two sound mirrors set up at opposite ends of the centre indoors, allowing people to communicate across the whole room. The effect is really quite weird.
Which is very, very easily worked around by including another version of the original setTimeout in your console code.

The only real way to detect this is through usage pattern analysis and detection on the web socket side, because if you can write something in JS that catches people, someone can make minor modifications to their code to make it work again.
I never understood why he's considered noteworthy but apparently many people thought what he did was important. RIP.
Not that I disagree with what you say but I wanted to bring attention to other thing. We are really bad at telling what the reasons of our feeling are. For instance, you could feel bad; believe that is due to your “failings” or your life. Then, you take a weekend in the woods and you feel that nothing is wrong.

My point is that many times we are not aware what is it that makes us feel bad and we just build a narrative that could or couldn’t have anything to do with our feelings. A good advice is, I think, when feeling bad; try to change how you spend your time and you can be surprised. Don’t trust too much in introspection.
wow...separate search engine for sdks..COOL
One thing I always wanted out of the Kindle (not the Fire / Tablets) is a web browser that actually works. Maybe not every page would work, but at least some would, the internet has a bad habit of not being backwards compatible so maybe there is this at fault sadly. A guy can dream I suppose.
Techcrunch is somewhat behind the curve here, ever since IBM started undercutting RedHat on support and stealing their customers open source companies have stepped away from having consultancy as their only form of revenue.

Modern open source based business tend to be about network effect and building ecosystem business (Android, Github, Docker).

(I wrote a blog post on this a while back http://blog.imranghory.org/open-source-business-models)
Ask HN: How did you find meaning?
A few hours ago, an interesting thread (and a even more insightful comment section) popped up on HN: Fatal silence: Why do so many fortysomething men kill themselves? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9366219

I'd like to ask you: how did you find your own meaning? What core values or practice let you get rid of doubts and hollowness?
Literacy rate does not mean anything - the criteria is too low to account for the fact that most kids do not understand the words well nor master their own native language and obviously have a very hard time writing correct sentences on their own. It's not just about making kids fail indeed, but that's one factor that goes with everything else, i.e. evaluating the students less and less and making the programs lighter and lighter in order to accommodate the dropping overall level of students.
What does he mean by "extension"? How can you extend validity of an SSL certificate? Or is that the point, he's just making stuff up?
I was just now watching this graph instead of the reddit page (its a little more intriguing for some reason) and I just about flipped out of my chair when out of the corner of my eye I started noticing an orange, then red, then blue bar .. did your backend server lose the websocket, or something, just now? Because frankly that was one of the most exciting things that has happened to me on the Internet in the last 24 hours .. ;)
Where did you find that information?
>men are also generally more capable of violent acts

Do you have a citation for that claim?

Also, what distinguishes a "violent" method of killing oneself from a "nonviolent" one?
There's another side: IF the company does a great job, the OSS project becomes much more fruitful, however, if it doesn't do much of a great job, well you end up with MariaDB vs. MySQL and LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice (not sure they haven't bothered to merge).

At least the GNU does what it was intended to do, stop companies from hijacking / buying out a software product and getting rid of it entirely.
SDKS.IO crawls the web, not for existing SDKs, but for API descriptions, and generates SDKs automatically. So if an API does not have any SDKs, but has its description in Swagger/API Blueprint/RAML etc posted on Github, the SDKs will be automatically generated for it. If you google for these SDKs, you won't find them :)
He didn't work for the STASI, he volunteered for the Waffen SS.

> Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In May 1945, after service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass
I learned something new from that article: "The cost of battery storage, a vital part of a solar-powered future, has fallen by 60% since 2005..."
What kind of style?
So the next question is, if this is true, why is that? Seems strange.
My timeframes are all minimum numbers - I.E. the dates by which I would give you 10 to 1 odds that they won't be beat. I don't have any insight into the maximum time frames - but anybody who spends a lot of time watching the growth curve in robotics would agree that we aren't advancing very quickly in optical/visual feedback dexterity See: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/fingertip-sensor-gives-robot-... for what is considered to be state of the art.

The dates regarding generalized cleaning, come from having done a n analysis of the higher-level thinking that takes place when cleaning a room - its very, very impressive the level of analysis that needs to take place for anything but the most straightforward cleanup job.

What's interesting of course, is that anybody can make pretty good predictions as to what dates won't be beat, but it's hard to guess when they will be. Whats awesome to think about, is once we have technology to do things like clean up a room, the vast majority of other robotic tasks, are going to fall very quickly.
It might be offensive, but is it untrue? Note that we're not saying things about people as individuals. We're talking about national cultures, stereotypes and statistical averages.

"Where trust is high, crime and corruption are low". http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/04/15/where-trust-is-high-crim...

Regarding trust, below is one source for how people see it. Look at the European map. There's a bit of north/south divide (with Italy being somewhat north). http://www.jdsurvey.net/jds/jdsurveyActualidad.jsp?Idioma=I&...

This is not the same as amount of corruption (note how high China and Saudi Arabia are in the "most people can be trusted" index, while they don't rate as well in corruption indexes). Here's the Transparency's Corruption index map: https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results

Crime maps are many but what I can find quickly are not incompatible with this generalisation either: http://www.numbeo.com/crime/gmaps_rankings_country.jsp
I think many of them just don't "believe" in chemistry. So a process where the body excretes various things that break food down into smaller molecules and then those smaller molecules are selectively absorbed sounds like overly reductive magic.

http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/an...
You will lose as soon as your web socket breaks.
The parent is, basically, disagreeing with the practice of making founders vest their shares when a VC comes on board.

They're saying that VCs use that approach as an additional means to control the company in case things aren't going the way they want.

The parent's position is that the founder shouldn't have to vest their shares like that, because they built the company and their shares should be regarded as fully vested since the founders put in sweat equity to start it all (essentially saying that the shares are fully paid up from the process of starting the business, and that vesting the shares takes those shares back from the founder, sort of like taking away that sweat equity effort).
I'm hardly qualified to comment on any specifics. I'll only go as far as saying that Grass wasn't well-known for his love of snack food, and I interpret the poem as referring to his being argumentative, even beyond his lifetime. Maybe someone else can chime in.
Here's another story from manjaro last week: https://manjaro.github.io/expired_SSL_certificate/

They have suggested users to adjust their computer time a couple of days before the expiration to use the site.

They should really start reading about how the SSL works.
Use to be a Systems Librarian in a Academic Library. Libraries throughout the country are still running SPARC servers for applications that are still in production. Linux wasn't an option till just 8 eight years ago and libraries pay tens of thousands of dollars a year (About $.50 a book) for the content management systems.
Not being an expert on the subject, I think the trend is to have a progressive increase rate in suicides along the age. I don't know where this 40s figure comes from.

http://goo.gl/j7pOgc -- this is a study about suicide in Portugal and Spain. If you look at "Figura 13" (suicide by age on men) and "Figura 14" (suicide by age for women), that pattern is clear (they even explicitly mention it on the text as a classical pattern).

Eurostats data ( http://goo.gl/UyTqtE ) features a similar pattern, although it seems they lack a few age groups!
He worked for the Stasi? I think you have this completely wrong: the Stasi observed him.
Maybe you mean that he was briefly a member of the Waffen-SS at the end of the war?
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I could never convince my US colleagues that you don't have to tip taxi drivers in Singapore 20%. They were actually incapable of not tipping, so ingrained was the habit in the US.
You know, that's what we always do : fill our lives with meaningless stuff to occupy ourselves until it's over.
Dr Nick said I'm suffering from Chronic Skin Failure, and I'm very sensitive about it thank you very much.
St Paul's has the Whispering Gallery which demonstrates a similar principle - http://www.sonicwonders.org/whispering-galleries/
I think you're mixing some things up here. He never worked for the Stasi, on the contrary, he was under their observation since 1961.[1]

He was, however, a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS in his youth, though he claims to never have fired a shot. The fact that he chose to make this public only very late in his life (and many years after he had receiced the Nobel prize) is what is really problematic, in my opinion.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass#Beobachtung_d... (the English article doesn't mention it, hence the German version)
French surveillance bill draws criticism
Undergrad time in college is the perfect chance to explore and figure out what you want to do. I would recommend starting school, and taking a lighter course load including some things you might not take otherwise. I was a mechanical engineering major in college, but I wish I had taken more CS classes. If you have the means then plan to spend 4.5-5 years finishing school, or save your money so that you have more options after you finish college.

I took about half a year off before grad school, and I loved it. For me that was much more valuable than if I had done something similar before undergrad. If you are interested, I spent my time off on a road trip across the US. My wife and I camped the entire time except for a few days with friends and 3 nights in hotels when we need some recovery time. It included a lot of hiking including up to 15 days straight on the trail.
How do you has words so that polynomial hashes to the same value as pollinomial?
Microsoft and Miele team up to cook up an IoT revolution
That was traditionally the view in parts of Europe as well, although nowadays many people will be happy to accept a tip, especially since there are so many foreign tourists willing to offer one. Some people used to perceive it as an implication that you were in need of charity, i.e. that the reason you'd offer a tip to a waiter but not to an architect for rendering good service is that you didn't respect the waiter as a professional in the same sense that you respected the architect.

Sometimes it's contextual, e.g. in Greece the traditional norms were that tipping young people working at a restaurant as employees was fine, but tipping an owner-operator of a family-run restaurant could offend them, being taken as an implication that you thought they couldn't manage as an independent businessman, and needed a gift. Instead if you particularly liked their service, the socially acceptable way to show it was to either order more things, or return for another meal later; that way you gave them more money but in the form of more business, rather than an outright gift. (Nowadays this is only really an issue if you're Greek, especially a Greek from the same town, where tips, especially large ones, might be taken as having some kind of odd social implication. If you're a foreigner, tips aren't going to offend anyone, and are perceived basically the way North Americans would expect, as a thank-you for particularly good service.)
3 out of 4 candidate website do not support winxp. Wonder if this finally means that winxp compatibility is no longer worth the extra trouble from a business perspective.
His poem "What Must Be Said" is a wonderful commentary on Israel and the threat it poses to world peace. He talks about how the West has turned a blind eye to Israel's development of nuclear weapons because of its collective guilt. He argues that this must stop.

Here it is (translated): https://kugelmass.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/a-legitimate-tran...
I am not sure why businesses paying the data charges of their customers is a violation of net neutrality? It might be anti-competitive and an abuse of market power, but unless the traffic was prioritized over other traffic how is this a violation of net neutrality?
Cool Idea. :)
There's also an example in Techniquest, Cardiff (UK) www.techniquest.org.
The current official version is that he volunteered for submarine service, was rejected there, then drafted into Waffen SS.
A absolutely agree and that is an important point.

There's some interesting discussion going on about antidepressants, which is somewhat similar to discussions about add medication for kids. 2 points: (1) Psychiatric diagnosis is often like the BMI, true at a population level but not necessarily true at a personal level. (2) Pathological is relative to the environment to need to live in. If school requires an 8 year old to pay attention in a class with forty 8 year olds for seven hours a day, inability to do so is often the trigger for medication.

With depression, I think it's uncontroversial the environments can play a large role. If the first course of treatment was living better, and medicinal treatment was layered on top of that as needed we would have better results with fewer side effects. OTOH, there are limits to what a doctor can do.

My earlier comment is more about 'why 40 year old men' not 'why depression.' The latter is almost certainly the more important and actionable question though.
... and why do we have to follow? The sooner the world moves away from oil the better.
Its not about the instance, its about the datacenter. They share routers, and somebody somewhere needed the bandwidth at the same time you did. So random latency.

We run office collaboration software in the cloud but not on Amazon. Rackspace has better latency guarantees, or at least better average latency.
My older sister was murdered in 2000:

http://www.leoweekly.com/2008/11/deadly-delay/

She was a truly amazing young woman, with limitless potential- especially as a writer. The years following her death were hard for me and my family, but seeing how her life could be so easily snuffed out, and seeing how the local government fought tooth and nail from admitting any guilt on its part, compelled me to accept the inherent absurdity that is life.

Once I stopped taking the world seriously, stopped taking myself seriously, I suddenly found all metaphorical walls removed.

I would not recommend tragedy for everyone though, obviously. But perspective really is everything. We all really are just specks of dust floating in the aether.
Agreed. We don't and shouldn't follow. We should continue with developing currently existing and new technologies to loosen the worlds dependency on oil.
I should clarify - I am speaking about the 60Hz LCDs found ~everywhere. Unfortunately, I cannot afford one of the newer fancier >60Hz models, and so I have little experience with them.

Once of the sources of multiple-frames of latency was the scaling/resampling stage that was needed to be compatible with non-native resolutions. Some of those algorithms are very slow. A friend of mine that makes FPGAs used in some LCDs has suggested that this slowness may be because the company making the monitor is too cheap to buy parts that were fast enough. That was a few years ago, though, so maybe these newer 144Hz monitors improved the situation.
Well, I am taking some time off to work on my education startup magako (www.magako.com) in the field of maths education. It's something I am passionate about, both in the making of the product and the goal - improving maths education; but I am having troubles getting users :(
I know this does not apply to all situations, but if your circumstances allow (and spouse is on board) - delay having children until you have these answers. Or at least understand that you don't have all the answers (and may never) early as possible. That way it does not sneak up on you. Think stoically about the future and be mindful of the present.
Mathias has done some really interesting things with the BitTorrent protocol and Node.js and friends. I just saw his talk from JSConfEU last year and found it pretty fascinating (http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/mathias-buus-madsen-javascrip...). The applicability for this type of technology does seem a lot greater than what it's traditionally been used for.
Open Core is the New ShareWare (2009)
He may have a point but I can think of less controversial figures than Grass to make it.
This article wasn't really so much about it's headline, but someone in the same industry saying "we are not also in bad shape".

I suspect to answer the actual headline "The Real Reason Open Source Startups Fail", is pretty much why all companies may fail - PLUS the possibility that their paid component is not sufficiently compelling or that while their open source piece is compelling, they have trouble competing iwth their open source component or are becoming too services heavy, which can cut into margins.

It seems the article tries to claim Nebula wasn't "operatioanlly excellent", which is something a competitor would naturally say, but Nebula was trying to make a proprietary "appliance" approach to wrapping OpenStack (apologies if I've mistranslated this) - which I think might have just been too weird.

And that's a reason any company can crash - the product idea was perhaps not something the market wanted.

OpenStack, increasingly, is one of those things large companies are interested in, and if you have a large team of people to wrangle OpenStack, you likely need more flexibility, and want to put the components together yourself.

So were they making OpenStack for the little guy? Probably not, and OpenStack for the little guy is a bit of an oxymoron. It's pretty hands on. I can see where they'd have problems, and I also think it's likely is that there aren't a lot of OpenStack customers - but there are some very very large ones, so it's a huge fight to get someone to pay you - and not someone else - for something.

But most of the time, there's nothing particularly interesting in OSS business models except finding the right line of how much you are going to give away. In fact, I'd say you have an advantage out of the gate in getting people to be interested in what you do, that makes some parts easier.

I still think SaaS models (.com's, websites), etc, may be more easier though, to avoid the need to maintain that balance. But can you do that in systems software? Not so much, with a few exceptions for hosted monitoring.

Anyway, it's possible to build a good product company on OSS bits - and a services company can be something a lot of companies don't want to build. You just have to find the right line, but I think this was really about product/market fit, and not about open source business model failure, per se.
That already exists with public toilets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette

Not sure if the levels of cleanliness it gets to are up to hotel standards, though; people's standards for a public toilet are much lower.