skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I add to the list of hard problems that make a difference:

- Local / sustainable food systems

I have been working on an application for the past year involving connecting local producers with local customers. It is a different kind of application than typical e-commerce because it revolves around a scheduling component so that farmers can drop off food at the food hub and customers can pick it up their or have it delivered.

There are many others working on similar systems such as http://openfoodfoundation.org/project/open-food-network

There are hundreds of these 'food hubs' in the United States ( definition: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/foodhubs ).

As far as I observed, each food hub seems to operate quite differently thus making it difficult to facilitate each food hub's needs in one application. There doesn't seem to be a "market leader" software. This is a very grass roots sector and I suspect many food hubs are operating using excel spreadsheets or homebrew solutions.

Anyways, there is a lot of opportunity to make a big difference in the world around you. It has been a very rewarding and challenging thing for me to be involved in. Let me tell you, UI for farmers is quite difficult! :)
Perspectives on wearables
Shurely, it's already sounds awesome!
Would be nice to have an independent volume control
I saw two elephants. I'm afraid I may be a misanthropist. :(
While the caricature is entertaining, I have never worked in a corporation that works at all like what's described.
At companies I've worked at, if you're checked out, you do not last.
At companies I've worked at, some prodigies have very high positions at 30; some maintenance steady goers may find a good pace in the middle into senior age.
A successful corporation lets every employee both contribute, and stretch.
And working with experienced people who know what they are doing is the best way to learn real skills that can't be learned from reading an open source project wiki.
The first photo of the new CRN M/Y 134 55 MT Superyacht – luxury-today.com
Alarm suppose to have the hardware always ON, sorry
Does CAP_SYS_ADMIN still leak out of containers? I know at some point running with that meant you were root on the host...
Hi, the creator here. The locators are NOT federated. This is by design if you want to have a completely private network. Also, I haven't had time to implement federation. If this is something that interests you, you can help implement it if you want. The locator is less than 300 lines of code, so it should be easy to understand. My long term plan is to use a protocol like telehash instead of my own hand rolled one. However, you can have as many locators in your client as you want. So this way, you can have redundancy.
You should really look into not including your site development posts within the Tags feature on the right of the screen. I clicked them expecting to be legitimate AMAs related to that tag (e.g. 'Google' tag being a Google employee), but it's just a moderator explaining a new feature which is frustrating to the user.
If you need static export, I wrote a project a while back that converts markdown to static output with Ghost theme support: https://github.com/mixu/ghost-render
I have no idea what I’m buying
Even if the answers to each of those falls on the side you consider negative, it is still beneficial to customers in an area for a new ISP to enter the market.
timer + volume is coming
It's an interesting port, but things don't just work. There's a lot of fiddling around when parts of the system expect gnu utilities that aren't available on FreeBSD, and the BSD utilities work differently. Ifconfig for example does the same job, but in different ways, so stories won't work, etc.
Only if they're getting the chain for the first time. Git becomes... fairly wrothful if someone rewrites the history on a remote branch.
Algorithmic composition is a decently-sized field. Here's a textbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Composition-Paradigms-Auto...

And some more examples:

http://algorithmiccomposition.org/
Second Reality code review
Thanks! I'll have to remember that.
What professions are oversaturated?
I note that "programmer" and various related or adjacent fields are nominated by no one.
Gosh, I used to love The Banner. I can't believe this thread is seriously happening on Hacker News but it's amazing.

I was at this show with Shai Hulud (all time favorite status) at ABC No Rio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52HtykF1gs.
If you are just starting with redis, beware that the entire dataset is held in memory, and memory is much more precious than disk. Don't just throw everything you can at it just because it's fast.
I was looking into making a similar application a while ago and was really interested in OTR. Not only does it provide encryption and authentication, it also provides deniability. Have you guys looked into using it? If you have and rejected it, what were the reasons?
http://www.piano-e-competition.com/midi_2009.asp
It's probably insecure, because you don't want to do 75,850,000 sequential evaluations over a network. It would take over a week for a single track with even just 10ms response time.
It's an ISP willing to enter markets with current broadband providers. This is rare in the US, and incredibly beneficial to customers.

As one of the lucky few living in a city with three competing broadband providers, I greatly appreciate the effects of competitive ISPs.
That's intersting. I know in Blacksburg, if this was to come to town, people would switch en masse. Other than internet on campus, the quality is terrible.
I haven't written go in a while, but I recall being rather dissatisfied with the so-called 'if-hell'. I've been wondering lately - is there any reason why you couldn't/shouldn't use monads for this? Nothing obvious popping out of Google.

"gonads" would be my choice of name for this library.
No, he got it right. You don't know this famous quote?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Google Exec Dan Fredinburg Killed in Nepal Earthquake
Apple is phenomenally profitable but only dominates the market in wealthy sub markets.
Audi to Test Plan to Deliver Amazon Packages to Drivers’ Trunks
The definition of "stable" for Debian means that the version number of every piece of software is frozen. Only security fixes (through security uploads) and critical fixes (through point releases) can get into the distribution if they are backported to work with the version currently in Debian. You don't get the latest software but you are ensured that an upgrade won't break anything.

Since the freeze is around 6 months, this means you get 6 months old software when Debian is released. There are some exceptions, like browsers that are too difficult to maintain at the same version.

We believe most people like this definition. This can be frustrating when you need the latest version of nginx but you are happy that upgrading some basic stuff won't break anything on your system: no deprecated configuration option in X, no command-line flag that doesn't exist anymore in Y. All should work exactly as before, with fewer security holes and bugs at each upgrade.

However, if you really want to have the latest version of a selected set of software, have a look at the official Debian backports. This is a great strength of Debian over Ubuntu (where backports are almost inexistant with the notable exception of the kernels): there are many backported packages. For example, if you need a more recent version of nginx and you are running Debian Wheezy, you'll get nginx 1.2.1. If you need something more recent (because you want to get SPDY), you can get nginx 1.6.2 through backports. See here: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nginx.

Backports are packaged from the versions that will be in the next Debian release. So, they should keep the same quality than the packages which are currently in Debian. This is a great strength over random PPA. Some of them are maintained by skillful people, some others are not. If you trust Debian for its packages, the backports are made by Debian Developers too.

For nginx, there is no 1.8 because backports are taken from the next release. As this next release is currently frozen, the version proposed in backports is still 1.6.2.

Using a Debian Stable with backports should allow you to get what you want: stability for most packages but latest releases (and latest bugs/changes) for a selection of packages.
I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice.

For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F

(Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)
Most inventions are imagined or prototyped by many people far in advance of a few time points when all the ingredients are ripe for large-scale execution.
True, but this could be a feature of the mobile app.

Nevertheless, I guess many of us (at least here on HN) leave their computers on all night, so this is not a problem.
Interesting, but they seem to be keeping the floorspace constant on purpose there. With such a narrow tower you could fit four on that plot!
I love this article. It aims to show the political spectrum through a detailed study of a microcosm. While certain issues might be very specific to this constituency, through the piece it details the wider picture such as the battle between the hard left and the hard right for the same voters, and the issues they hold in common. I love it. I wonder how true this is of other countries or whether it is specific to the UK. Greece has had a similar situation with Golden Dawn and Syriza, although to a much larger scale as it is unlikely that UKIP or a socialist alliance/Greens could ever take power given the first past the post system.
Dr. Oz and the Pathology of 'Open-Mindedness'
Ah, I see, I misunderstood Availability, I assumed that returning an error would count.
OTR is definately an inspiration here. I need to add the HMAC signing and key ratcheting. When I started there was no good OTR implementation that I could find.I was also concerned with performance. I am looking to use telehash now. What is your opinion of telehash vs stock OTR?
iPod!
Yeah, its good to directly donate but crowdfunding just makes it easier for people abroad to donate.
Hmm.. just installed Blender through Steam
I don't see how this could work without a large base community. Reddit has tens of millions of users, which makes the AMA concept work (win/win for both sides). However, Reddit AMAs aren't that mainstream though, and there could be a way to extend this concept into the reach of Facebook's billion+ users. So, I think the only way to make this work would be tight integration into Facebook, and possibly a mobile app. Monetization strategy could be to make the AMA hosts pay depending on the size of the reached audience.
That or your an idealist. And those prodigies have token seniority as described.
Cool discrete 1-forms!
Can't wait to see this in more cities.
Code is at https://bitbucket.org/mrexodia/titanhide with detailed installing instruction.
Replying to self because I learned something new about PowerShell today :)

On the challenge github page dfinke used irm (Invoke-RestMethod) instead of iwr (Invoke-WebRequest).

It turns out that irm actually looks at the content type of the response and converts from json to objects implicitly if the content type indicates json.

Thanks to dfinke.

The above PowerShell one-liner can thus be written shorter (omitting the explicit ConvertFrom-Json invokation):

(irm https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jorin-vogel/7f19ce95a9a842956358/raw/e319340c2f6691f9cc8d8cc57ed532b5093e3619/data.json) |
? creditcard |
select name,creditcard |
epcsv ('{0:yyyyMMdd}.csv' -f (Get-Date)) -not
The majority of the buildings that fell are historic sites and world heritage sites (source: cnn broadcast audio, so no link). They were built before we had such knowledge.
It is often cheaper to travel that sit at home in your western apt. If you can sublet or give up your place, costs are not exorbitant.

1) Find an itinerary using http://www.airtreks.com/ they are amazing. Seattle -> New Zealand -> Australia -> Malaysia -> Nepal -> Turkey was about 3300 USD.

2) Get a nice place for when you land, like 3 days. Use that time to find lower cost habitation.

3) Don't over plan. Don't over spend. Talk to everyone. Read people, find good people and befriend them. Be nice. Not everyone is out to hustle you, locals often live on $5 a day. Don't flaunt your western wealth.

Total cost for 9 month trip, including the above flight and the crazy expensive flight home, 15k. I should have done this 20 years ago, experience would have been very different, more raw. As you age, the senses dull, our wealth bludgeons any immediacy and hardship (both good and bad). You are shaped by what you see and do, so see and do early.
Getting a cup of coffee from your local café should not require its point of sale to require communication with a central server (unless you're doing money/account balance transactions).

I don't see why the PoS's can't accumulate transaction logs locally and transfer them later.
You can buy non-Lenovo laptops with pointing sticks. It's offered on the Toshiba Tecra series, HP Elitebooks (as an option), others.
His sister posted this on his Instagram page.

> This is Dans little sister Megan. I regret to inform all who loved him that during the avalanche on Everest early this morning our Dan suffered from a major head injury and didn't make it. We appreciate all of the love that has been sent our way thus far and know his soul and his spirit will live on in so many of us. All our love and thanks to those who shared this life with our favorite hilarious strong willed man. He was and is everything to us. Thank you.

https://instagram.com/p/16G9prRFsR/?taken-by=danfredinburg
Sarah Polley has grown up to be a great actress and a filmmaker in her own right. Her documentary THE STORIES WE TELL is very insightful and subtle where it could have been exploitative and self-indulgent. In a way, it's thematically related to this exchange- Family, the way people remember things, the way our stories of our lives may not match reality and how that may not matter in terms of our own experience.

It's interesting she doesn't blame Gilliam for her experience, at least not now. I tend to agree to some extent, though I also think he has some responsibility. She's right to place some blame at her parents' feet. In the end, protecting her is 100% their job.

Gilliam has some responsibility, it is after all his set. But the film industry is aware that directors can't always be trusted to balance their conflicting goals the way they should, and the 1st Assistant Director on a set is explicitly in charge of set safety. They're there to rein in a director who may be going too far. Tough job, but it's only one of the ways a 1st AD has to steer directors sometimes. And ultimately, the producers are responsible for everything, period. There's a reason the producers are the ones who accept Best Picture Oscars, and their ultimate responsibility for a film and everything that happens in the course of it is why.

In the recent MIDNIGHT RIDER case, where a film crew member was killed by a train while shooting a stupidly dangerous scene while trespassing, the director, 1st AD, and the producer were all charged with manslaughter. The director and 1st AD have pled guilty, the producer had charges dropped. Looking into it now, I see the producer was the director's wife, and the court may have dropped her charges in consideration of their children, as long as the director agreed to plead guilty.
Diana Serra Cary, who was a famous child star of the silent era, is still around, living in Merced, CA. She's written several books about her experiences. She wasn't that bothered by working in Hollywood; it was her controlling father she remembers as the problem. She writes: "But, as for my memories of those times, my theory is that most children live such a sedentary life that every day is the same. A lot of my memories, in many cases, concern life and death situations. You're being asked to do things that are really a stretch for a three-year old or a two-year old. Also, I did most of my own stunts. I was my own stand-in. Everything was new. I took in everything, and I really have a terrific memory of most of those early days because they were so intense, you know." She grew up in a cowboy family, was on a horse as soon as she could walk, and was around people who had risky jobs. So she saw the risk as normal.

It was an unusual life. She writes in one of her books of seeing some children playing and asking "why aren't they working"?
I stopped brining my macbooks too. I get a better result if I soak them in buttermilk instead.
Brief History of a Small Office
> I saw 2 dwarves high-fiving.

I see two bears high-fiving. Clearly this demonstrates that anyone not seeing a high five is crazy... right.
Here is what I always wonder about Redis:

Since it writes everything to disk, is it really faster than a SQL DB with adequate cache RAM?
I haven't noticed much abuse. I lived in Nepal for a couple years and have a lot of friends still there. It was nice to see all of them marking themselves as safe versus the random display of facebook status updates saying they were ok. Dont know whose update I saw or didn't see.
Facebook Safety Check: Connect with friends and loved ones during a disaster
I remember seeing purple ones at one point, and I don't think any manufacturer used that color as standard, so it must have been an option at some point.
A piano made of Clojure, Arduino, and bananas
bower (or was it NPM?) required over 256MB of RAM to compile dependencies on ubuntu. So I was not able to run it on a small VPS I had.

At any rate, once everything is setup Node only takes about +3x the memory to run so it's not near as bad as Ruby/PHP.

Like C++, you could run go on a router it's so small and fast.
You would be surprised to know that, considering all bonus and malus, even with a very low pay compared to what I would get in US the quality of my life is far better here in EU that there. And I mean FAR FAR better. Just considering main reasons: social security, free universal healt care, almost not-existent costs for top universities, types of contracts, not enforceable anti competition agreements, food quality, air quality, full social support to make a family, etc.
Should I continue?
I'm a recently converted, multi-decade, trackpoing evangelist as well. I loved it on my Dell laptop from a decade ago, that I insisted on a ThinkPad when I started my current job. However, that one bit the dust, and modern ThinkPads just aren't up to my modern standards.

I just got a Dell M3800, and, while it doesn't have a trackpoint, it does have one of the finest trackpads I've ever used. Almost as good as a Mac trackpad, and just as good as my Logitech T650.

I use it almost exclusively now, and, after a few weeks to get acclimated, I'm just as productive with it. The proximity to the keyboard is perfect for me. I recommend giving it a shot, if you ever cannot get your hands on a laptop with a trackpoint.
I don't comment much here, but this is one of my favorite articles...ever.
I loved metroid as a kid. The idea that the game was deliberately leading me to a solution, while making it interesting, exciting, and rewarding is what I do with my children everyday. The fact I never noticed until now just shows how great that game was. Amazing. Makes me feel 12 again just reading it!
That GIF of the mushroom is straight up painful.
That's amazing.
I just checked steam and yes it is there. Great!
I usually don't even work 8 hours, I just stay in the office.
Innovative analogy.
(:.) haskell

no luck there
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426589
The oversubscription of a job is basically the result of perceived sexiness divided by the perceived difficulty. So find a job that's very sexy (CEO, Film Actor), or easy to start practising (pro-sports [also very sexy], service industry).

"Programmer" is a bit vague, Web Designer is sexier than Database Manager, and this is reflected in the market saturation, and hence average pay.
Do these guys actually lay down fiber? If so, isn't that crazy expensive, and how does that work since it seems there's a limited amount of conduit space that can be used in cities, towns, neighborhoods, etc.. In other words, not everybody and their brother can just lay down fiber.
I was talking about BigQuery.
I agree. I have found that I've done best in courses where the instructor post solutions to all problems, homework, practice, and exams.
I saw a CHI video demo of Ted Selker demonstrating a keyboard joystick key years ago... Ted tried and evaluated a lot of different designs before perfecting the trackpoint!

Some of his videos I linked to above might show some early prototypes.

Looks like using the key itself as a joystick is mentioned in this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5521596

>The above objects are attained by providing a generally rectangular shaped sensor assembly, including a plurality of sensors, which may be placed either directly underneath an existing key of a data entry device or in between two keys of a data entry device. When the sensor assembly is placed underneath an existing key, the key is used as the analog pointing device. When the sensor assembly is placed in between two keys, a separate joystick is used as the analog pointing device.

Here's a paper that Barrett, Selker, Rutledge and Olyha wrote about "Negative Inertia": using a dynamic force => velocity transfer function to make the trackpoint seem snappier: smoother yet less sluggish.

Negative Inertia: A Dynamic Pointing Function

R. C. Barrett, E. J. Selker, J. D. Rutledge, R. S. Olyha, IBM Almaden Research Center.

http://www.sigchi.org/chi95/proceedings/shortppr/rcb_bdy.htm

>In-keyboard isometric joysticks can give better performance than mice for mixed typing/pointing tasks. The continuing challenge is to improve such devices to the point that they are preferable even for pure pointing tasks. Previous work has improved joystick performance by considering user perception and motor skills. This paper considers the dynamics of the pointing operation. A dynamic transfer function for an isometric joystick is described which amplifies changes in the applied force to increase responsiveness without loss of control. User tests show a 7.8 +/- 3.5% performance improvement over a standard non-dynamic joystick. This feature has been incorporated into the TrackPoint III from IBM.

>[...] Figure 1 [gif file missing] illustrates the effect of the negative inertia filter. The user applies an increasing force to begin a motion, holds constant while cruising, and then reduces the force to stop. The filter causes the motion to start and stop more rapidly while not changing the cruising rate. The velocity may actually become negative at the end of the motion causing the cursor to "back up" slightly. This response causes the cursor to be more responsive without loss of control.

And this parent describes the Trackpoints special force => velocity transfer function:

Method of controlling the velocity of a cursor of a video screen

US 5764219 A

>Input force applied on a pointing device (51) having outputs (x,y) is related to the velocity of a cursor on a video screen according to a transfer function (FIG. 2) substantially described by a parabolic sigmoid function, thus resulting in adapting the force/velocity relationship to accommodate human perception and motor control limitations and task specific coordination problems.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5764219?dq=ininventor:%22Ed...
Are people serious when they say they "love the idea" of copying a binary to their server to run a blog service? It sounds very much like installing a shareware in the 90s.

In the current context (NSA, generalized spying, ...), I hope that everybody realizes it's not an ideal way to distribute software.

Please provide cryptographic signatures or at least sha sums, if you really think this is the best way to distribute software.